2023 Christianity & Culture Conference - Competing Stories: God & the World

500 4th Avenue Southwest,Spencer IA 51301

07 July, 2023

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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION (HALF OFF TICKET) price is available for the first 100 tickets sold or April 14th, with the promo code: EarlyBird2023. Truth, Beauty, & Goodness. For Our Laity, Pastors, Congregations, and Neighbors. The Evangelism Committee of Christ the King Lutheran is excited to announce the 2023 Christianity & Culture Conference featuring the Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller on July 7-8, 2023. Rev. Wolfmueller is pastor of St. Paul Lutheran and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX. As a prolific writer (Has American Christianity Failed?, A Martyr’s Faith for a Faithless World) and speaker (regular guest of Issues, Etc and host of the What-Not and Table Talk Radio podcasts and the wolfmueller1 YouTube channel), Rev. Wolfmueller has become well known in many Christian and Lutheran circles for his faithful teaching proclaiming Christ crucified. This summer, Rev. Wolfmueller will be presenting on Competing Stories: God and the World – an exploration of competing worldviews. About the speaker: Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller is pastor of St. Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX. He is the author of Take They Our Life: Martin Luther’s Theology of Martyrdom (2019), A Martyr’s Faith for a Faithless World (CPH, 2019), Has American Christianity Failed? (CPH, 2016) and Final Victory: Contemplating the Death and Funeral of a Christian (CPH, 2010). He is host of What-Not, The Podcast, posts videos on YouTube at wolfmueller1, and has a number of other theological projects that all end up on his blog, www.wolfmueller.co. Bryan is a member of the Doxology Collegium. He and his wife Keri live with their four children in Round Rock, TX. Information and photos taken from: https://wolfmueller.co/about/ Schedule (All sessions include a 60 minute presentation, a 15 minute Q&A, and close with a 15 minute break) Friday, July 7 8:00 A.M.: Check In Opens 8:30 A.M.: Matins to Open the Conference; Speaker Introduction 9:15 A.M.: Session 1 - How It All Started Synopsis: Are we all bits of cosmic shrapnel, the results of an ancient explosion? Or, are we the result of the Lord’s peaceful speaking, “Let there be…” The World and the Lord are telling two very different stories about how things got started, and, as Mary Poppins taught us, “well begun is half done.” 10:45 A.M.: Session 2 - Who Are You? Synopsis: we all bits of cosmic shrapnel, the results of an ancient explosion? Or, are we the result of the Lord’s peaceful speaking, “Let there be…” The World and the Lord are telling two very different stories about how things got started, and, as Mary Poppins taught us, “well begun is half done.” 12:15 P.M.: Lunch (Free-Will Donation) 1:30 P.M.: Session 3 - How Things Went Wrong Synopsis: What’s wrong with the world? What’s wrong with me? The Bible talks about sin, but the world talks about systemic problems and political solutions. We’ll look at the different ways different worldviews diagnose the trouble we are in. 3:00 P.M.: Session 4 - What's the Fix? Synopsis: problems require different solutions. What is the Christian solution to our problem? Do we need a Savior, or are we saving ourselves? Where do justification and self-justification come into the picture? 4:30 P.M.: Vespers to Close the First Day of the Conference Saturday, July 8 8:30 A.M.: Matins to Open the Day 9:00 A.M.: Session 5 - How It Ends Synopsis: Where are things headed? Is there reason for hope? Can things get better, or will the universe eventually die in the heat-death of thermodynamic necessity? 10:45 A.M.: Session 6 - Living in the Middle of a Cosmological Rap-Battle Synopsis: The Christian story of history is full of order, life, hope, joy, and salvation. The world would pluck us from this faith and throw us into a den of despair. What does it mean for us to hold to the Lord’s Word while we wait for His appearing? 12:30 P.M.: Midday Prayer to Close the Conference