The Authority of Scripture

welcome!

In every age, there are attacks on the truth of the Bible. These often cause believers to doubt the authoritative role of the Scriptural message in our lives, the church, and the world.

This conference (23-24 June ’25 aims to encourage Christian leaders toward greater confidence in the reliability and authority of God’s Word so that we might love it, be nourished by its life-giving power, and proclaim it faithfully for the health of our churches.

We will seek to do this by providing a history of the Bible, demonstrating the reliability of the Bible both historically and theologically, and answering certain claims to the contrary.

This year’s conference is a collaboration between Tyndale Theological Seminary, Geloofstoerusting, TGC Netherlands/Flanders, Scribes & Scriptures, 9Marks and DesiringGod.

Voor onze Nederlandssprekende gasten:
Hoewel de conferentie in Nederland plaatsvindt en de meeste bezoekers Nederlands spreken, is de voertaal van de conferentie Engels.

Door geen vertaling aan te bieden, krijgen internationale sprekers meer tijd voor hun presentaties en kunnen ook gasten van buiten Nederland de conferentie volledig volgen.

Voor degenen die op zoek zijn naar Nederlandstalige conferenties, raden we Hart voor de Gemeente van harte aan.

Good news! There are still spots available.

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costs

The registration fee for this two-day conference for Preachers & Leaders (including lunches, coffee & giveaways) per person is as follows:

Standard	€ 110,-
Earlybird	€ 85,- (until 19 May)
Student	€ 65,-
1-Day	€ 55,-

hotels

We’d like to point you to this location for those looking for an overnight stay:

Corendon Village Amsterdam (link)
Ibis Airport Amsterdam (link)
Amsterdam Lake Hotel (link)
Boutique Hotel Herbergh (link)

program

Monday 23 June

08.30 – Doors Open: Arrival and Check-In

09.30 – Welcome & Introduction

10.00 – John Meade — Old Testament Canon

11.35 – John Meade — Old Testament Text

12.45 – Lunch

14.00 – Peter Gurry — William Tyndale and his English New Testament: Reflections on the Authority of Scripture at the 500th Anniversary

15.35 – Peter Gurry — New Testament Text

16.50 – Panel Discussion

17.30 – Dinner

19.15 – Mario Tafferner — The Bible and the Myths

For more information about the talks, read here.

Tuesday 24 June

9.30 – Welcome

9.45 – Henk van den Belt — The Witness of the Holy Spirit

11.20 – Peter Gurry — Apocryphal Gospels

12.45 – Lunch

14.00 – John Meade — Ancient Israelite Scribal Culture

15.25 – Panel Discussion

16.40 – Derek Bass — Holy God, Holy Word, & Holy Place: How God Creates, Rules, and Recreates through His Authoritative Word

17.30 – Closing

speakers

John Meade (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary). He will join the MBTS faculty this summer after 13 years at Phoenix Seminary. He specializes in Hebrew, Old Testament, Septuagint, and Biblical Theology, and has published extensively on topics like Origen’s Hexapla, textual criticism, and the canon of Scripture. He has presented at major scholarly conferences and enjoys reading, fitness, and traveling with his wife, Annie, and their four children.

Peter Gurry Peter Gurry (PhD, University of Cambridge) will begin serving as Associate Professor of New Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary this summer. Before that he taught courses on the New Testament and Greek at Phoenix Seminary for eight years and was the director of the Text & Canon Institute. His academic interests range across the history and formation of the Bible, Greek grammar, and the history of New Testament scholarship. He has written for popular and academic outlets and written, cowritten, or coedited four books. He and his wife have six children and one cat, and was, until recently, an elder at Whitton Avenue Bible Church in central Phoenix.

Henk van den Belt is professor of systematic theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He directs the Cornelis Graafland Centrum, coordinates the Herman Bavinck Center, and serves as book editor of Theologia Reformata. A former minister in several Reformed congregations (1995–2008), he has held a special appointment for theological education and research with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands since 2008. He also mentors the Voetius student association and sits on the board of the Stipendium Bernardinum.

Derek Bass is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Tyndale Theological Seminary in Badhoevedorp (NL). Passionate about the gospel and reaching the unreached, he trains future pastors and church leaders from Europe, Asia, and Africa to faithfully preach Christ from the whole Bible. He teaches Hebrew Exegesis, Old Testament Survey, Theology, and Biblical Theology. Derek also serves as an elder at Grace Church Amsterdam and is married to Elizabeth; they have four teenage children.

Mario Tafferner is Assistant Professor of Old Testament Literature and Language at Tyndale Theological Seminary in Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands. He studied theology in Giessen, Semitic studies in Marburg, and earned his PhD in the Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Mario also serves as an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.