TSBC Exams and Upcoming Block Courses

It's the end of Term 2 for The Shepherd's Bible College and that means final exams and final papers. Class sessions come to a close this week and exams are set for next week. Would you please pray for all our students at this time? There can be a lot of pressure to complete all the assignments and prepare for finals at the same time as continuing in ministry, work, and family responsibilities. Also, please pray for the lecturers who have the responsibility of grading and finalising results.

Dean of Students, Phil Henderson, recently returned from Asia where he conducted pastoral training for ten days. Please continue to pray for Donald Stevenson (Lecturer in Theology and Mission) who is in Zambia for three months to support the ministry of Samfya Bible School. Donald's Africa blog can be viewed here.

During the term break, some students are completing internship experiences, others are travelling to home churches, and one is getting married, and faculty members have various preaching opportunities.

Also during the term break, two TSBC block courses are being offered:
• Christ, Holy Spirit, Angels and Satan – 2-4 July – Hastings – Phil Henderson
• 1 Kings–Esther, and OT Poetical Books – 23-25 July – Auckland – Joe Fleener

Make sure to contact our Administrator if you want to register for these courses. To check out other courses planned for the remainder of the year, please see the TSBC website.

Free Impact Audio Downloads

The MP3 recordings of all the Impact 2010 general sessions and seminar sessions are now uploaded onto our website and are available to you for free. Please make use of these as you wish – copy them, distribute them, link to them on your blogs – do whatever you can to make these resources available to as many people as you want. Here is the link to the audio downloads page of the Impact website: click here

General Sessions:
#1 - Scott Ardavanis - Understanding the Relationship of Justification and Sanctification
#2 - Ken Ramey - The Pursuit of Holiness (1 Peter 1:13-16)
#3 - Scott Ardavanis - The Purpose of our Salvation (Ephesians 1:3-4)
#4 - Ken Ramey - The New You (Ephesians 4:20-24)
#5 - Scott Ardavanis - Understanding the Deception of Sin (James 1:14-16)
#6 - Ken Ramey - Holy Habits (Ephesians 4:25-32)
#7 - Scott Ardavanis - Understanding the Doctrine of Assurance and its Relationship to Sanctification (1 John)
#8 - Ken Ramey - Sexual Sanctification (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8)
#9 - Scott Ardavanis - A Living Sacrifice (Romans 12:1-2)
#10 - Phil Henderson - A Holy Ministry (2 Cor. 6:11 - 7:4)
#11 - Russell Hohneck - The Highway of Humility (Philippians 2:5-11)
#12 - Ken Ramey - Set Apart for the Master’s Use (2 Timothy 2:20-22)
#13 - Scott Ardavanis - Rejoice in the New Life (Romans 8:34)

Seminar Sessions
Ladies Only
#A - Lisa Tatlock - Developing a Heart of Contentment
#B - Lisa Tatlock - Esther, A Woman of Faith
#C - Lisa Tatlock - Living A Life Filled with Joy

Biographical Sketches
#A - Nigel Shailer - Martin Lloyd-Jones: A Passion for the Glory of God in Expository Preaching
#B - Chuck Finster - Richard Baxter: A Passion for the Glory of God in the Believer’s Life
#C - Bryan Martin - Charles Spurgeon: A Passion for the Glory of God in Contending for the Faith

Leadership Training
#A - Peter Somervell - Sacrificial Leadership: The personal cost of shepherding
#B - Mark Tatlock - Sanctified Leadership: The implications of imitating Christ
#C - Scott Ardavanis - Spiritual Leadership: The indispensible requirement of being above reproach

Young Adults
#A - Ken Ramey - Forsaking Sin: Look at how Moses chose to forsake sin as a young man
#B - Ken Ramey - Fessing Up to Sin: Look at how David confessed his sin when he blew it big time
#C - Ken Ramey - Fighting Sin: Look at how Paul instructed us to mortify sin

Question and Answer Sessions
#1 - Scott Ardavanis, Ken Ramey, Russell Hohneck, Phil Henderson
#2 - Scott Ardavanis, Ken Ramey, Russell Hohneck, Nigel Shailer


When you get to that page, you'll see that all the sessions from Impact 2008 and 2009 are also made available to you. Enjoy!

If you prefer to order audio CDs of these recordings, please contact Gracebooks NZ at: e-mail, or call (0800) 554-722. DVDs of the general sessions are also available.

Confirmed Impact 2011 Speakers

We have now confirmed our keynote speakers for Impact 2011. They are Dr Bill Barrick and Dr Jack Hughes.

Bill served as a missionary Bible translator with ABWE in Bangladesh from 1981 to 1996. In Bangladesh, he was the exegetical consultant for Bible translation projects, theological consultant for literature ministries, director of church planting ministries in Chittagong, and an adjunct faculty member for the Bangladesh Theological Seminary.

His writing ministry includes devotional commentaries for Asians, journal articles, adult Sunday School materials, and co-authoring a commentary on Daniel in Bengali and A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. He is currently writing a book on the ministry of Bible translation, a Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Hebrew Bible, and commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Genesis.

Bill is currently professor of Old Testament and Director of Th.D. Studies at The Master’s Seminary. He was born in Colorado and raised in Wyoming. He and his wife Barbara have been married for 44 years. They have four married children and fourteen grandchildren.

Dr. Jack Hughes serves as Senior Pastor at Calvary Bible Church in Burbank, California. Prior to this he served as a pastor in Idaho and also helped to plant two churches. Jack graduated from Boise State University with a degree in electronics technology. He attended The Master's Seminary and received an M.Div. degree. Later, he earned a Doctorate of Ministry degree in expository preaching from Westminster Theological Seminary. Jack wrote a book for preachers entitled Expository Preaching with Word Pictures: with illustrations from the sermons of Thomas Watson.Jack and his wife, Lisa, have three teenage children - Leah, Nate, and Mark.

In addition, we ave also confirmed two guest seminar speakers. Lisa Hughes will lead the seminars for women and John Richard will lead the seminars for youth.

Lisa and her husband Jack have been married 26 years. They have three great kids, two of whom are in college and one still in high school. As the wife of a devoted and busy pastor Lisa’s ministry involvement has ranged from serving in the nursery to planning church picnics. But for the last twenty years her greatest joy has been to write and teach Bible studies for the ladies in her church. It is her desire to see women develop a hunger for God’s Word and then watch as the Lord transforms their lives through the study of the Scriptures. Lisa’s goal in life can be summed up in Second Corinthians 5:14-15: For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

John serves as Youth Pastor at Placerita Baptist Church in Los Angeles. He is a native of the East Coast, growing up in the Philadelphia area. He graduated from Cedarville College (now Cedarville University) in 1997 with a Bachelor's of Science in Biology and his teaching credential. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from The Master's Seminary in 2001. He ministered at Calvary Bible Church of Burbank as a youth pastor for more than three years before coming to Placerita Baptist Church in 2004.

John met his wife Jamie and was married in 2000. They have five children; Joshua, Kaylee, Ashlyn, Ellie, and Dayton.

John has preached at the Riverbend Bible Church Sports Camp and returns now to address the youth at Impact.


Watch out for more speakers to be added to the lineup.

Conference dates: Queen's Birthday Weekend, 2-6 June 2011.

Impact Bible Conference 2010

We've prepared a photo montage of Impact 2010. It showcases many of the people, events, and highlights of the conference. Enjoy!

Click here to view the Impact 2010 photo montage on YouTube