Kerygma Summit 2025

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  • The Beauty of Christoformity

    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...

  • Emotional Wholeness: The Integration of Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy, & Orthopathy

    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...

  • Silence is Golden and other Myths about Women

    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...

  • The Incarnation: An Act of Divine Humility

    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...

  • Contagious Holiness

    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...

  • Wisdom from Women who Lead, Wait, & Worship

    Featuring: Lisa Harper, Allison Allen, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Janice Gaines, Holly Wagner, Dr. Donna Pisani, Vivian Mabuni, Kristi McLelland, Stephanie Sohnchen, Nicola Douglass, Lori Robinson, Kaylee Shae Harvey, Karen Harmon, Julie Woodruff

    In one of the most powerful and tender sessions of the...

  • The Role of Story in Healing

    Featuring: Dr. Eva Bleeker

    In this deeply moving and academically rich breakout session, chaplain and narrative theory scholar Dr. Eva Bleeker teaches how storytelling—especially when received with compassion—becomes a sacred, healing act. Building on her ongoing work in narrative identity theor...

  • A Scholar's Panel on Scripture, Story & Women In Leadership

    Featuring: Lisa Harper, Allison Allen, Dr. Lynn Cohick, Dr. Eva Bleeker, Dr. Dorian Coover-Cox, Dr. Nicole Martin, Dr. Irini Fambro, Dr. Medine Keener

    In this extraordinary gathering of some of the Church’s most trusted theological voices, the Back Porch Theology team hosts a candid, wisdom-fill...

  • Stewarding The Voice God Gave You: Silencing The Shame Monster

    Featuring: Constance Rhodes

    With creative visuals, honest storytelling, and a disarming sense of humor, Constance Rhodes leads a breakout session that dives headfirst into one of the most paralyzing barriers in Christian life and leadership: shame. But instead of approaching shame from a purely ...

  • Knowing God

    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...

  • Like Jesus...In Mission

    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...

  • An Inconvenient Promise

    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 ...

  • Getting Reacquainted with Jonah

    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...

  • Christoformity & The Mosaic Law

    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...

  • Hard Passages About Women: 1 Timothy 2 & 1 Corinthians

    Featuring: Dr. Lynn Cohick

    In this master-level breakout session, Dr. Lynn Cohick offers a comprehensive, courageous deep dive into some of the most misunderstood and contested passages in Paul’s letters—especially 1 Timothy 2. With historical scholarship, Greek exegesis, and pastoral clarity, D...