How God Grows Us Through Parenting

“What has parenting done for your sanctification?”

TGC Council members Danny Akin (President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), Ryan Kelly (pastor for preaching at Desert Springs Church), and Colin Smith (senior pastor of The Orchard Evangelical Free Church) discuss this question in a new seven-minute roundtable (audio available here).

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Colin Smith (MPhil, London School of Theology) is President of Open the Bible and Pastor Emeritus of The Orchard church in northwest suburban Chicago. He can be heard daily on the radio broadcast, Open the Bible, and at openthebible.org. Colin is the author of many books, including: Fly Through the Bible, Hike Through the Bible, Heaven, How I Got Here, and Momentum: Pursuing God’s Blessings Through the Beatitudes. He is married to Karen, and they have two married sons and five granddaughters.

Ryan Kelly (PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is the pastor for preaching at Desert Springs Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Board member of The Gospel Coalition. Among other publications, he contributed to The Ashgate Research Companion on John Owen’s Theology. He and his wife, Sarah, have four children.

Danny Akin (PhD, University of Texas at Arlington; MDiv, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he also serves as Professor of Preaching and Theology. Dr. Akin is a Council member of The Gospel Coalition. He is the author and editor of a number of books, most recently A Theology for the Church, 2nd Edition: Revised and Expanded. He and his wife, Charlotte, have been married since 1978. They have four sons, four daughters-in-law and 15 grandchildren.