9 Marks of a Healthy Church

Conference Speakers


Mark Dever serves in a full-time capacity as the Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church. A Duke graduate, he holds a Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Master of Theology degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Cambridge University. He is the primary author and speaker for 9 Marks Ministries and is adjunct faculty both at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, AL and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. His website is www.9marks.org.

Dr. Steve Wellum teaches at The Southern Seminary. He came to Southern from Associated Canadian Theological Schools and Northwest Baptist Theological College and Seminary where he has taught theology since 1996. He has been a conference speaker at various engagements in Canada and has presented two papers at meetings of the Midwestern Section of the Evangelical Theological Society. Dr. Wellum is the author of many articles including a review of John S. Feinburg's "No One Like Him" for the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology and "God" in the Holman Bible Dictionary. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Don Whitney has just taken a position as Associate Professor of Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to that, he held a similar position at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, for ten years. He was also the pastor of Glenfield Baptist Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, for 15 years.

He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, a Doctor of Ministry degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and is currently completing a Doctor of Theology degree in Christian Spirituality at the University of South Africa. He is the author of many books including Simplify Your Spiritual Life. Don's website is www.biblicalspirituality.org