Conferences — Providence Church

The Joyful Home
Virgil Hurt
2005

If your goal is to have a joyful home, then these childrearing talks will be of help to you. Pastor Hurt addresses the biblical basis of instilling wisdom into your children. In addition to foundational principles, he also spends time talking about some very practical ‘how to’ issues. Many Christians today want their children to obey. In a world gone mad, simple obedience is seen as a gift from heaven. But that is not necessarily the case. Mere obedience is not the goal. We want our children to be obedient, but we want much more than that. We want cheerful obedience. We want happy children. We want our children to love God and us their entire lives.

These talks are aimed at parents of small children, but parents of children of all ages will also benefit.

• The Joyful Home 01
• The Joyful Home 02
• The Joyful Home 03
• The Joyful Home 04

2006 Conference on the Home: Bringing Up Godly Children
Douglas and Nancy Wilson

Douglas and Nancy are wonderful teachers in this fundamental duty of Christian parents. Their teaching is biblical, practical, full of wisdom and it works.

Our culture, including our Christian culture, is confused about many things. Perhaps no confusion runs so deep and is so important as the confusion surrounding the duty of raising godly children.

Note: Nancy’s second talk was not recorded, so we are replacing it with two talks she gave at the 2006 Veritas Academy (Lancaster, PA) Teacher Training. Thanks to Wordmp3.com for providing these recordings.

• Douglas Wilson – The Power of Parental Example
• Douglas Wilson – Backing Your Wife
• Nancy Wilson – Loving Little Ones
• Douglas Wilson – Discipline or Punishment?
• Douglas Wilson – Fathers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters
• Nancy Wilson – Establishing Multi-Generational Patterns I
• Nancy Wilson – Establishing Multi-Generational Patterns II
• Douglas Wilson – Teens: Is Rebellion the Norm?

2007 Conference on the Home: The Covenant Family
Douglas and Nancy Wilson

The nature and idea of covenant governs every aspect of our lives, from worship, to the marriage bed, to the discipline and nurture of our children, to the glorious life of the saints in community. Come join us as we explore God’s Covenant nature and how we relate to Him and to one another through this most fundamental Christian worldview.

“If the covenant characterizes the very life of the Triune God and if it is the key to all of His relationships with man and the physical universe, then the covenant is the central and most important idea in the Christian worldview.”
-Ralph Smith, Eternal Covenant

• Douglas Wilson – First Things First: Covenant
• Douglas Wilson – Federal Husband
• Nancy Wilson – The Loyal Wife
• Douglas Wilson – Covenant and Courtship
• Douglas Wilson – Wise Fathers
• Nancy Wilson – Virtuous Mothers
• Douglas Wilson – Education and the Covenant

2010 Apologetics Conference: Unapologetic Apologetics
Douglas Wilson

A joint conference with portions sponsored by Providence Church, Rivermont Evangelical Presbyterian Church, and the Federalist Society of Liberty University School of Law.

• Debate: Christianity and Humanism – Douglas Wilson v. David Niose
• Assuming the World
• Can Reason Prove the Bible True?
• Street Level Apologetics
• Assuming the Center

Virgil Hurt
The Joyful Home
2013

Perhaps no topic brings parents more joy and more sorrow than the topic of their children. Some act as if raising children is simply a game of chance. When kids do not turn out, some Baptists blame free will, some Calvinists blame God’s will and still others are just plain confused and full of ill will towards their children and their God. But there is a better way based upon better promises. In Christ and by His Spirit, God gives promises to us and one of the great promises that He gives us is the promise that our children will love and serve Him all their days.

This seminar will study what the Bible has to say about God’s promises to us and to our children. We will then take those promises and work through very practical ways to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. As the title of the seminar proclaims, the goal is to raise up our children in the Lord in A Joyful Home.

• 01 Foundations of a Joyful Home
• 02 Christ and His Church
• 03 Brass Tacks of Wooden Spoons
• 04 Pre-Teens, Teens, and Post-Teens
• 05 Brides and Grooming

July 23 ,2014
• Rodney Chrisman - A Christian View of Law

August 7, 2014
• David Cooper - The Bible and Your Money

Dr. Gregg Strawbridge
April 2016

• 01 Music in the Bible
• 02 Music on the Radio
• 03 The Tabernacle of David
• 04 Playing By Ear workshop

Creation Science Conference
Dr. Gordon Wilson
July 23-24, 2016

• The Limits of Biological Change
• Genetic Entropy
• Scripture and the Age of the Earth

Dr. Brad Littlejohn - Stories from the English Reformation
Davenant Trust
October 23, 2016

• Peter Martyr Vermigli and Thomas Cranmer

Raising Faithful Children
Virgil Hurt
February 5, 8, 15, 22, 2017

These classes offer very practical helps from a Biblical perspective. Subjects include: When and how to discipline, dealing with attitudes, husband and wife relationships, sibling rivalries, entering the teen years.

• Week 1 – Foundations of Joy, Thou Shalt Not Seethe a Kid in His Mother’s Milk: Exodus 23:19
• Q&A

• Week 2 – A Father’s Love, Discipline in the Home: Hebrews 12:7
• Q&A

• Week 3 – The Rod, A Primer of Spanking: Proverbs 22:15
• Q&A

• Week 4 – Delightful Habits, Like the Sabbath: Isaiah 58:13-14
• Q&A

Pastor Virgil Hurt

Friday June 4, 2021
• Talk 1 - Well Pleased
Sometimes it is hard to be well pleased with your children. Maybe you have a theological problem?

• Talk 2 - The Simplicity of Parenting
Good parenting can be accomplished in just two concepts, Discipline and Paying Attention. Remember that simple and easy are not the same thing.

Saturday June 5
• Talk 3 - Parenting as Art or, Do Not Seethe a Kid in His Mother’s Milk
A joyful home takes work but it is the sort of work that is itself a joy. Do your children love what you love because what you love is lovely?

• Talk 4 - Spanking is Funny
Well, at least to the parents. God thinks so, too! Unfortunately, in these uptight days, we need a spanking apologetic, even in the church.

• Common Questions and Simple Answers

Sunday June 6
• Sermon: Duties of Fathers and Children
Ephesians 6:1-4