Dr. Scot McKnight explores trauma through the eyes of Jesus. Rather than minimizing pain or rushing people toward easy answers, he examines how Christ meets wounded people with dignity, presence, and restoration. With biblical depth and pastoral tenderness, Dr. McKnight offers a framework for und...

Dr. Bleeker reflects on the connection between song, story, and suffering throughout Scripture and human experience. She explores how music gives voice to grief, hope, lament, and faith when words alone fall short. Listeners are invited to consider how worship can become both an act of honesty an...

Dr. Cohick explores the difference between knowing about Jesus and truly knowing Him. Rooted in Scripture and shaped by historical and cultural insight, this session invites us into a deeper relationship with Christ that transforms both the mind and the heart. More than intellectual understanding...

In this insightful session, Dr. Craig Keener unpacks the theme of discipleship throughout the Gospel of Matthew. Drawing from the historical context, literary structure, and teachings of Jesus, this message explores what it meant to follow Christ in the first century and what faithful discipleshi...

Using Revelation 2:1-7, Dr. Joel Muddamalle examines Jesus’ words to the church in Ephesus and the warning against losing our first love. This session explores the danger of outward faithfulness without inward intimacy and challenges believers to remember, repent, and return to wholehearted devot...

Christine Caine calls believers to reject fear, complacency, and cultural exhaustion and instead live as flourishing women rooted in Christ. Weaving together Scripture, personal testimony, humor, and prophetic encouragement, this session reminds listeners that the fruit of the Spirit is still pos...

Dr. Jim Howard explores what it means to embrace the unique role God has given each believer within His Kingdom. Challenging comparison, insecurity, and the pressure to imitate someone else’s calling, he reminds listeners that God does not create understudies in His Kingdom economy. Dr. Howard in...

You are invited to explore what it truly means to live as a disciple of Jesus under His lordship. Rooted in the biblical meaning of Kyrios, Dr. Bird examines the call to surrender, obedience, allegiance, and transformation in a culture that often prefers comfort over costly discipleship. Believer...

Dr. Nicole Martin explores what happens when we come to the end of ourselves and discover our deep need for Jesus. Through biblical teaching and pastoral encouragement, she confronts self-sufficiency and invites us into a posture of dependence, surrender, and wholehearted pursuit of Christ. Rathe...

Through stories of suffering, redemption, friendship, and grace, Lisa Harper invites believers into a posture of humility and expectancy before God. This message becomes a reminder that the gospel meets us in our weakness, forms us through every season, and continually calls us deeper into the pr...

Featuring: Lisa Harper

Lisa Harper opens the 2025 Kerygma Summit with a message that reminds us that biblical hope—elpis in Greek—isn’t wishful thinking, but confidence in a God who draws close. Speaking to a room of ministry-weary saints, she delivers a vulnerable encouragement: Jesus is not on...

Featuring: Dr. Eva Bleeker

In this poetic, powerful, and theologically rich message, Dr. Eva Bleeker explores what happens when sound gives way to silence in the throne room of heaven. Using Revelation 4–8 as her scriptural canvas, she weaves together neuroscience, music theory, narrative psycho...

Featuring: Dr. Lynn Cohick

In this masterful and moving message, New Testament scholar Dr. Lynn Cohick explores the theme of Christoformity—living a life shaped like Christ—through the often-overlooked lens of women’s stories in Scripture. Focusing on silence not as absence or oppression, but as...

Featuring: Dr. Joel Muddamalle

In this powerfully practical message, Dr. Joel Muddamalle calls believers to embrace a cruciform life—one shaped by the humility of Christ. With clarity, humor, and rich biblical insight, Dr. Muddamalle walks us through the story of humanity from the dust of Eden t...

Featuring: Dr. Craig Blomberg

In this insightful message, New Testament scholar Dr. Craig Blomberg traces a theology of meals from Genesis to Revelation to show how food, fellowship, and holiness are deeply connected in the biblical story. Drawing from decades of research and his own work, Dr. B...

Featuring: Dr. Craig Keener

In a rich message, Dr. Craig Keener—one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars—invites us to hear the voice of God through the intersecting gifts of Scripture, the Holy Spirit, and the renewing of the mind. Combining profound biblical theology with personal tes...

Featuring: Dr. Scot McKnight

Theologian Dr. Scot McKnight challenges the Church to view mission not merely as preaching or teaching, but as an extension of Jesus’ holistic, compassion-driven ministry. Drawing from Matthew 4–10, McKnight shows how Jesus’ mission—to teach, proclaim the kingdom, an...

Featuring: Dr. Nicole Martin

In a message full of fire, vulnerability, laughter, and deep pastoral wisdom, Dr. Nicole Martin leads the audience through a powerful reexamination of 2 Kings 4—the story of the Shunammite woman whose long-awaited son dies in her arms. Speaking to the heart of every ...

Featuring: Dr. Dorian Coover-Cox

In this thoughtful and theologically rich message, Hebrew scholar Dr. Dorian Coover-Cox invites us to revisit the story of Jonah—not as a children’s tale, but as a deep well of God’s character, human resistance, and redemptive pursuit. With Hebrew insights, liter...

Featuring: Dr. Jim Howard

In this pastorally bold message, Dr. Jim Howard offers a sweeping and compelling case for how the Mosaic Law—often dismissed as ancient or oppressive—actually reflects the heart of a Christoform life. With stories from his time teaching seminary students in India, refle...

Featuring: Dr. Scot McKnight

Dr. Scot McKnight offers a powerful invitation to rethink what makes a church culture truly good. Drawing from his book A Church Called Tov, co-written with his daughter Laura Barringer, McKnight names seven toxic traits that too often dominate Christian institutions...

Featuring: Lisa Harper

In a tender, powerful, and deeply personal message, Lisa Harper opens Kerygma 2024 by inviting attendees to engage not just with their minds, but with their hearts. With her signature blend of humor, vulnerability, and gospel truth, Lisa reminds us that Christianity is not...

Featuring: Dr. Jim Howard

In this heartfelt, humorous, and deeply theological message, Dr. Jim Howard leads us on a journey through Scripture not as a rigid rulebook—but as a redemptive, relational invitation into the heart of God. With wisdom forged from decades of pastoral ministry, academic s...

Featuring: Dr. Lynn Cohick

With clarity, conviction, and deep historical insight, theologian Dr. Lynn Cohick delivers a powerful message answering the question: Why do we need women in spiritual leadership roles? Instead of simply defending the need, she invites us to imagine the devastating los...