Military families face unique challenges—and unique opportunities for gospel mission. In this breakout from TGC's 2024 Women's Conference, Hunter Beless and Megan Brown share from their own experiences as military wives, offering insight into the needs of this often-overlooked community. Whether you're in the military or ministering near a base, this conversation will help you learn how the local church can come alongside military families to support them and partner in fulfilling the Great Commission around the world.
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A Theology of Women and Work
Christian women sometimes feel conflicted about work. Is work an aspect of what it means to be made in God’s image? Does work conflict with family responsibilities? How do we work in a way that’s aligned with God’s mission, becoming good stewards of our working hours?In this breakout session from TGC's 2024 Women's Conference, Tina Boesch, Missie Branch, and Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt grapple with questions like these in a conversation enlivened by real-life experience and illuminated by Scripture.
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Tim Keller: Gospel Ministry Challenges Idolatry
In his message at TGC's 2009 national conference, Tim Keller introduces gospel ministry through the lens of 2 Timothy, highlighting the critical but often implicit task of confronting idols.Drawing from Acts 19 and Paul’s example, Keller shows how gospel preaching challenges both personal and cultural idols—ranging from money and family to truth and morality—by disrupting the systems built around them. He emphasizes that only the gospel has the power to expose, confront, and ultimately destroy these idols, and he urges pastors and ministry leaders to apply its truth for genuine transformation.
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Empowered Together: A New Fight
In his keynote message from TGC25, David Platt unpacks Ephesians 6:10–20, urging believers to recognize the reality and intensity of spiritual warfare and highlighting how Satan attacks our emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. He exhorts the church to stand firm by putting on the full armor of God—truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Word, and prayer—and emphasizes that our strength comes not from ourselves but from Christ’s resurrection power at work in us.Platt closes with a call to pray fervently for others, worship boldly, and press forward in gospel mission, grounded in spiritual intimacy with Jesus.
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Enlightened Together: A New Ministry
In this keynote message from TGC25, Alistair Begg unpacks Ephesians 3:1–13, showing how Paul’s suffering and calling reveal the mystery of Christ—that the church is God’s new, unified, multicultural people. Begg contrasts the world’s longing for peace with God’s eternal plan to unite all things in Christ, making the church a powerful display of his wisdom. Begg urges listeners to reject isolation and individualism and instead embrace the beauty of the gospel, the church's purpose, and the hope of glory through Christ.
The Gospel Coalition Podcast features keynote and breakout sessions from our national, regional, and women's conferences. We exist to equip the next generation of believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.
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