Workshops

 

All European Leadership Forum participants have the opportunity to attend two workshops each day of the Forum.

Luncheon Workshops are optional and are conducted from 13.45 to 15.00.

Afternoon Workshops are conducted each day from 16.00 to 17:30.

This year we have slightly modified the process for signing up for workshops.

Step 1 – Review the Luncheon Workshops and Afternoon Workshops below.

Step 2 - Once you have decided which Luncheon Workshops and Afternoon Workshops you would like to attend, log back into your registration account using the link below ("register here"). Once you have signed back in to your account, visit the Agenda section of your account. There you will be able to select the Luncheon Workshops and Afternoon Workshops that you would like to attend.

(You will notice that the links below are a bit different than in previous years. When you click on a link in the table, it will take you to a page for that workshop speaker so that you can see all of his or her speaking topics. You will find the speaker's bio at the top of each linked page.)

In order to receive the proper materials for each workshop (outlines, notes, etc.), you will need to sign up. You will not receive these materials in your Forum binder if you do not sign up. The deadline for signing up for the workshops is Friday, 13 April.

Register here

If you have questions about this year's workshop registration process, check out this video tutorial.

 

2012 Luncheon Workshops

 

TRACK

 

DAY ONE

 

DAY TWO

 

DAY THREE

 

DAY FOUR

 

New Testament and Early Church History

 

 

Apologetics and the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

 

Dirk Jongkind

 

 

The Gospels You Do not Know: Evaluating the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Judas

Dirk Jongkind

 

 

The Influence of the African Fathers on the Early Church

 

Christopher Hall

 

 

 

The Resurrection of Jesus from the Perspective of a Historian

 

Jürgen Spieß

 

 

 

Leadership and the Local Church

 

Transformed Lives in Bold Bible Read-Throughs

 

 

Ron Frost

 

 

Apologetics in the Local Church

 

 

Christopher Brooks

 

 

Advancing the Gospel Through Family Evangelism

 

Christopher Brooks

 

Developing Elders in the Local Church

 

 

Tom Streeter

 

Leadership

 

How to Help the Poor: Eight Key Components of Christian Community Development

 

Wayne Gordon

 

Effective Gateways to Leadership: A Biblical Basis for Ministry Success

 

Ron Frost

 

Leadership in a Fallen World: Vices and Virtues of Leadership

 

Jeremy Peckham

The Struggle of the Leader with His Identity, Attitude, Position, and Condition

 

Nick Nedelchev

 

Religious Freedom and Human Rights

 

Just Justice:  Creating and Protecting Space to Speak, Hear, and Live the Gospel Truth

 

Jeffery Ventrella

 

 

 

Persecution and the Contemporary Church

 

 

Paul Marshall

 

 

Silenced: How Freedom is Threatened by New Restrictions on Blasphemy and Criticizing Islam

Paul Marshall

 

 

Responding Effectively to the Issues of Human Trafficking and Prostitution

 

Julia Doxat-Purser and Anca Bulica

 

 

Bible Teaching and Preaching

Infecting People with a Love for God’s Word

 

Peter Mead

Preaching as a Pastor

 

Jamie Rasmussen

The Four Absolutes of Teaching God’s Word

 

Peter Mead

 

 

How to Craft a Message: Teaching the Bible Faithfully and Relevantly in Today's World

 

Jamie Rasmussen

 

 

Youth Ministry: Understanding and Discipling the Next Generation

 

So That is Why They Act That Way!  How a Young Person Changes Through Stages of Development

 

Dave Patty

Intensive Care for Hurting Kids

 

Maruska Kozlejov

Adolescence and Sexuality

 

Christl Vonholdt

 

“Help! My son/daughter is gay!” How do we respond when family members take a different path?

 

Dafydd Job

 

Wayne Grudem on Christian Faith and Practice

 

Keep Your Heart with All Vigilance

(Proverbs 4:23)

 

 

 

Wayne Grudem

 

A True Solution to Poverty: Why Poor Nations are Poor and How Nations Can Create a Culture of Flourishing, Property Rights, and Personal Productivity

 

Wayne Grudem and Barry Asmus

 

 

The Importance of Truth: Why and When Leaders Need to Confront False Teaching and False Practice

 

Wayne Grudem

 

Principles of Effective Bible Translation: Advantages of an ‘Essentially Literal’ Translation Philosophy

 

Wayne Grudem

 

Tim and Darcy Kimmel on the Christian Family

 

Leading Your Family Towards True Greatness: Resisting the Lure of the Success Lie

Tim and Darcy Kimmel

 

 

Bringing the Best Out of Strong-Willed Children

 

Tim and Darcy Kimmel

 

Everyday Grace in Your Family

 

Tim and Darcy Kimmel

 

 

 

Connecting to Your Child’s Heart Through the Power of God’s Grace

 

Tim and Darcy Kimmel

 

 

The Christian Worldview in Film and Media

 

Engaging with Film as Art that Stirs People’s Souls

 

Tony Watkins

 

Engaging with Film as a Window into Life Issues

 

Carol Pollard

 

Engaging with Film as a Tool for Philosophical Debate

 

Nick Pollard

 

 

How to Lead in a Media Firestorm

 

Peter Saunders

 

 

Apologetics and the Christian Mind

 

Cutting Edge Issues in the Hard Sciences That Challenge Christianity

 

Richard Carhart

 

 

Bioethics and the Christian Mind

 

Peter Saunders

 

 

The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer

 

Bruce Little

 

How Can We Preach Sin in Today's Culture?

 

Michael Green

 

Disciple-Making and the Christian Life

 

Do Not Be Overcome By Evil, But Overcome Evil By Good

 

Noor van Haaften

 

 

The Importance of Content in Disciple-Making

 

John Musselman

 

 

The Importance of Disciple-Making Within an Organisation

 

John Musselman

 

 

The Disciple’s Cross

 

Noor van Haaften

 

 

 

Evaluating Popular Theological Movements

 

Mission, (Post-) Modernity and Apologetics: An Appraisal and Critique of Bishop Lesslie Newbigin

 

Bjorn Hinderaker

 

 

Assessing Stanley Hauerwas’s Ethics

 

R. Scott Smith

 

 

 

Theological Missteps of the Emergent Movement

 

R. Scott Smith

 

 

 

The Achilles’ Heel of Naturalism?

 

R. Scott Smith

 

 

 

 

Gregk Koukl on Apologetic Strategies

Bad Arguments Against Religion

 

Greg Koukl

Credo: The Story of Reality

 

Greg Koukl

The Intolerance of Tolerance

 

Greg Koukl

 

Ambassadors for Christ:  The Essential Skills

 

Greg Koukl

 

 

2012 Afternoon Workshops

 

 

TRACK

 

DAY ONE

 

DAY TWO

 

DAY THREE

 

DAY FOUR

Contemporary Philosophical Challenges to Christianity

 

Understanding and Evaluating Richard Dawkins

 

William Lane Craig

 

 

Apologetics and the Idea of Progress

 

Bruce Little

 

 

Understanding and Evaluating Stephen Hawking

 

William Lane Craig

 

 

Understanding and Evaluating Bart Ehrman’s Critique of the Historical Jesus

 

William Lane Craig

 

The Christian Worldview and the Arts

The Shape of Things to Come

 

Roberta Ahmanson

 

 

Authority and Epistemology

 

Ellis Potter

 

 

Music Faces Death

 

Ellis Potter

 

 

How Should We Perceive, Receive, and Do the Arts As Christians?

 

Ádám Szabados

 

 

Ministry and Strategic Best Practices

 

Has God placed international people near you? Is God calling you and your church to love the foreigner?

 

Richard Weston

 

 

The Vision and Strategy of City to City Europe

 

Al Barth

 

The God Question and a Search for Truth

 

Iain Morris

 

Principles of Intelligent Growth: Using the Internet for Evangelism

 

Henryk Krol

Ministry to Muslims

 

The New Testament and the Qur’an Compared

 

Keith Small

 

 

Assurance of Salvation - in Christianity & Islam

 

Speaker TBA

 

Understanding Radical Islam 

 

Paul Marshall

 

Scientific Miracles in the Qur'an

 

Jochen Katz

 

William Edgar on Apologetics and the Christian Mind

 

You Asked? Apologetics for Teenagers

 

William Edgar

 

 

Francis A. Schaeffer: Lessons We Can Learn From Him

 

William Edgar

 

 

Justification or Hideous Counterfeits

 

William Edgar

 

 

Globalisation and Apologetics

 

William Edgar

 

Christianity and Contemporary Debate

 

C.S. Lewis Versus the New Atheists

 

Peter S. Williams

 

Five Ways to Understanding Jesus

 

Peter S. Williams

 

 

Debating the New Atheists: A Workshop on Publically Engaging Skeptics

 

John Lennox

 

 

Answering Critics: A Workshop on Running Public Question and Answer Sessions

 

John Lennox

 

Fundraising and Organisational Development

Strategic Planning for Ministries

 

Jerry Twombly

 

Strategic Givers: An Introduction to Approaching Foundations, Trusts, and Wealthy Christians

 

Lee Behar

 

 

How to Build Your Ministry on a Rock

 

Jerry Twombly

 

The Rules of Development

 

Jerry Twombly

The Old and New Testament Worlds

Moral Objections to the Old Testament

 

Peter J. Williams

 

 

New Archaeological Discoveries From Biblical Times

 

Speaker to be Announced

 

Reliability of the Old Testament

 

Peter J. Williams

 

 

Fascinating Archaeological Discoveries Relating to the Time of Jesus Christ

 

Speaker to be Announced

 

Richard Winter on Christian Psychology and Counselling

 

Exploring the Hidden Power of Shame

 

Richard Winter

 

 

 

When Darkness Falls: Finding Hope in the Midst of Depression

 

Richard Winter

 

 

 

Counselling for Sexual Problems in Marriage

 

Richard Winter

 

 

 

Mindfulness, Mindsight, Meditation and the Mind of Christ

 

Richard Winter

 

 

Understanding the Times

The Causes of the Global Financial Crisis

 

Barry Asmus

 

Human Rights in the Global Age: Whose Rights, and Why So?

 

Os Guinness

 

 

Soul Freedom: A Quiet Proposal for Making the World Safer for Diversity

 

Os Guinness

 

 

 

The Journey: A Thinking Person’s Quest for Meaning

 

Os Guinness

 

 

Christianity and Culture

Conspiracy Theories, Spy Novels, and the Culture of Suspicion: Western Factors in the Erosion of Truth Claims and How it Affects Us
 

 

Mark Meynell

 

 

The Apologetic Power of a Symphony: An Evangelistic Experiment Using Brahms' 4th and Prokofiev's 7th Symphonies

 

Mark Meynell

 

 

Popologetics: Engaging Popular Culture

 

Ted Turnau

 

Media Fandom as New Religion

 

Ted Turnau

Church Planting and Evangelism

 

How to Get Your Church Plant Off the Ground: The ‘M4’ Model

 

Øivind Augland

 

 

"Lord of All, or Not Lord At All”: Jewish Evangelism and the Uniqueness of Christ

 

Avi Snyder

 

 

500 Baptisms within the Last 5-6 years: Why are the Secular Open for the Gospel?

 

Magnus Persson

 

 

How to Create a Jesus Movement of Multiplying Churches in a European Context

 

Dietrich Schindler

 

Glynn Harrison on Christian Leadership and Mentoring

 

What is it with Men and Commitment? Developing a Men’s Ministry to Encourage Growth and Maturity

 

Glynn Harrison

 

 

A Dangerous Vocation: How Christian Leaders Need to Shepherd Their Own Hearts, as Well as Those of Their Followers

 

Glynn Harrison

 

 

How to be an Effective Mentor and Develop a Church Mentoring Scheme

 

Glynn Harrison

 

 

Self-esteem and the Christian Leader: How to Stop Comparing and Judging Yourself and Embrace Your Biblical Identity

 

Glynn Harrison

 

Jim Cecy and Gregg Cantelmo on Sexual Purity

A Revival of Purity

 

Jim Cecy and Gregg Cantelmo

 

Safeguarding My Personal Purity

 

Jim Cecy and Gregg Cantelmo

 

 

 

Immorality in the Ministry: The Pitfalls of Pastoral Power

 

Jim Cecy and Gregg Cantelmo

 

Anger: The Worm in My Apple

 

Jim Cecy and Gregg Cantelmo

Jerry Root on C.S. Lewis and Spiritual Authenticity

 

C. S. Lewis and the Religions of the World

 

Jerry Root

 

 

C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Evil and Suffering

 

Jerry Root

 

 

Spiritual Formation: What does it mean to grow in Christ?

 

Jerry Root

 

 

Relationships Built on Authenticity and Humility

 

Jerry Root

 

 

 

 

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