2025 TAARBC Pastors' Conference

The Texas Area Association of Reformed Baptist Churches (TAARBC) is excited to sponsor the 7th Annual TAARBC Pastors’ Conference on September 9-10, 2025, at Heritage Baptist Church in Mansfield, Texas. Even though this is a conference geared towards pastors, we welcome all attendees who are interested in the subject at hand. These lectures will no doubt encourage and edify the pastor and layman alike.

Our association has determined that the theme for our Pastors’ Conference from year to year will be to cover a chapter in the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith. Last year, we covered chapter 5 in the confession, "Of Divine Providence". This year, each of the lectures will address chapter 21, "Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience".

Our featured speakers will be Dr. James Renihan, Dr. J. Ryan Davidson, and Dr. Jason Montgomery.

Dr. Renihan is the President and Professor of Historical Theology for International Reformed Baptist Seminary. After a ministry of church planting in central Massachusetts, Dr. Renihan and his family moved to Escondido, CA in 1998 to begin serving as Dean of the newly formed Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies. He led that work for 20 years, and when it became IRBS Theological Seminary in 2018, he was appointed the first president. Dr. Renihan has served as pastor in churches in Massachusetts, New York, and California. He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (PhD), Seminary of the East (MDiv), Trinity Ministerial Academy, and Liberty Baptist College (BS). His academic work focused on the Second London Baptist Confession and the broader Puritan theological context from which it arose. Dr. Renihan is the author of numerous books including, For the Vindication of the Truth: Baptist Symbolics Volume 1 (The Founders Press), Faith and Life for Baptists: The Documents of the London Particular Baptist Assemblies, 1689-1694 and To the Judicious & Impartial Reader: Baptist Symbolics Volume 2 (The Founders Press).

Dr. Davidson has been serving as the pastor of Grace Baptist Chapel (Hampton, VA) since August of 2008. He has been married to his wife Christie for nearly two decades, and they have four children. Dr. Davidson is a graduate of Samford University (BA), The College of William & Mary (MEd) in Counseling, and Southern Seminary (ThM) in Louisville, KY, and received his PhD in Early Church History/Pastoral Theology from The Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has contributed to various academic journals and has had the opportunity to teach pastoral theology around the world. He is the author of Green Pastures: A Primer on the Ordinary Means of Grace, Thinking through Anxiety: A Brief Christian Look and Abortion, and Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online.

Dr. Montgomery is one of the pastors at Christ Covenant Church Reformed Baptist (Fort Worth, TX). He has served as pastor for Faith Community Baptist Church (now CCRBC) in Fort Worth since 1998 and has been married to his wife, Janice, since 1990. They have been blessed with seven children. Dr. Montgomery completed his graduate work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, receiving his Master of Divinity in 1997. Later, in 2018, he received his PhD in Historical Theology/ Church History with a focus in Baptist studies, focusing his dissertation on eighteenth-century Particular Baptist pastor Benjamin Beddome.

Conference Schedule

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

12:00pm-1:15pm - Registration/Check-In

1:30pm–2:30pm: (Lecture #1, James Renihan) - The Christian's Liberty Under the Gospel (2LCF 21.1)

2:30pm-3:00pm: Break, Snacks, Books

3:00pm–4:00pm: (Lecture #2, Jason Montgomery) - What is Conscience?

4:00pm–4:30pm: Break, Snacks, Books

4:30pm–5:30pm: (Lecture #3, Jason Montgomery) - Preserving Liberty of Conscience

5:45pm–6:45pm: Dinner

7:00pm–8:00pm: IRBS Convocation

Wednesday, September 10, 2024

8:30am–9:30am: (Lecture #4, Ryan Davidson) - Liberty of Conscience and the Regulative Principle

9:30am–9:45am: Break, Snacks, Books

9:45am–10:45am: (Lecture #5, Ryan Davidson) - Liberty of Conscience and Pastoral Counseling

10:45am–11:00am: Break, Snacks, Books

11:00am–12:00pm: (Lecture #6, Ryan Davidson) - Appealing to the Conscience in Preaching

12:15pm–1:15pm: Lunch

1:30pm–2:30pm: (Lecture #7, Ryan Davidson) - Liberty of Conscience and the Limits of Pastoral Authority

2:45pm–3:30pm: Session 8: (Q&A Conference Speakers)

Host or Publisher The Texas Area Association of Reformed Baptist Churches (TAARBC)