UPCOMING DATES

February 5th, 2009 - Mark Driscoll

In conjunction with the 20/20 Conference, Mark Driscoll will be the featured speaker during Preview Days at Southeastern.

Mark Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Wash., which has been named one of the fastest-growing and most influential churches in America. In addition to his pastorate, Driscoll is co-founder and president of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network, president of TheResurgence.com missional theology cooperative and author of The Radical Reformission and Confessions of a Reformission Rev. Driscoll also co-authored Vintage Jesus and Death by Love, as well as contributing a chapter in the book The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, which is edited by John Piper.

He is also one of five contributors to the book Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches, which outlines the various theological streams of the emerging church on the issues of the Trinity, atonement and Scripture.

Driscoll lives in Seattle with his wife Grace and their three sons and two daughters.

April 16, 2009 - Daniel Akin

As president of Southeastern since January 2004, Daniel Akin brings expository messages to students in chapel, visits student missionaries on the field in closed areas, leads the seminary in continued growth and commitment to its mission and teaches preaching and theology during semesters.

He is a well-known speaker, particularly on the topics of marriage and a biblical view of sex. He is the author of several books including: God on Sex, a commentary on the Song of Solomon and a commentary on the Epistles of John in the New American Commentary series.

Akin also served as editor of the recently-published A Theology for the Church, the first major systematic theology textbook published by B&H Publishing Group. It will serve as a textbook in many institutions and a handbook for church leaders and all believers.

After earning his bachelor’s degree from Criswell College, Akin earned his M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington.

He is married to Charlotte, and they have four adult sons.