We are winging our way home now from Los Angeles, having completed three back-to-back conferences in Tennessee, Kentucky, and California over the last 9 days. Yesterday was the last day of the Puritan Conference that John MacArthur’s team hosted for us (that is, for Reformation Heritage Books and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary) in his Grace Community Church, Los Angeles. Their hosting on a scale of 1 to 10 was an 11. That high score is applicable for all the senior people on MacArthur’s team as well as numerous staff people and 250 volunteers. In addition to the two thousand who attended, thousands more live-streamed in on three livestream numbers (the English website: from 106 countries and all 50 states of the U.S.; the Spanish website: from 42 countries, and 38 states; the English Vimeo: from 64 countries). It was an absolutely wonderful conference (photo 1–8 of the 13 speakers).
Morning sessions yesterday included “The Need for the Puritan Mindset Today” (Dr. Ian Hamilton) and “The Puritans and Victory Over Temptation” (Dr. Geoff Thomas–photo 2). At lunch, we took a picture of the French chef who provided amazingly delicious meals (photo 3). Afternoon and evening sessions included “The Puritans on the Christian Life” (Dr. Ligon Duncan), a Q&A Interview with Dr. John Piper and Dr. John MacArthur (photo 4) and the final session was Dr. MacArthur’s address on “The Enduring Legacy of the Puritans.” I closed the conference with words of thanks to various people (photo 5).
In addition to the 23 inspiring and informative addresses, great fellowship transpired throughout the conference, and literally thousands of books by or about the Puritans were sold. Many people told me that this was the most fruitful conference they had ever attended in their lives. God is good!
