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About our Pastor
Dr. Gibson is the Haddon W. Robinson Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA. He joined the faculty in 1992 and has brought with him both academic and experiential knowledge of preaching. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a pastor and interim pastor in four churches in Pennsylvania and New York since 1985: First Baptist Church, New Bethlehem, PA; Harmony Baptist Church, New Castle, PA; First Baptist Church, Clarion, PA; and First Baptist Church, Lockport, NY.
At Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Dr. Gibson directs the Center for Preaching and the A.J. Gordon Guild, the Ph.D. program in association with London School of Theology. Dr. Gibson is past president and co-founder of the Evangelical Homiletics Society and is a member of several professional and ecclesiological organizations. These include the Academy of Homiletics, the Evangelical Theological Society and the National Association of Evangelicals.
He is the author or editor of several books, including, Should We Use Someone Else’s Sermon?, Preaching for Special Occasions, The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching, Making a Difference in Preaching, Preaching the Old Testament, among others.
Pastor Gibson loves the local church and has enjoyed preaching in various churches throughout New England through the years he’s been at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
His personal interests include fishing, various sports, reading, writing, art, theater, films, antiques, books, and traveling. He and his wife, Rhonda, live in Beverly, MA.
What We Believe: Articles of Faith
- That, in the original languages, all Scripture is verbally given by inspiration of God, and is the supreme standard and authority in spiritual matters.
- In one God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
- That Christ is eternal God, that He became incarnate, was born of a virgin; that He is fully God and Fully man. We believe in His miracles,
- His death, His resurrection, His ascension to heaven; that He is now at the right hand of the Father interceding for the believers.
- That Christ is coming again in the clouds for His saints in the same resurrected body, and that He is coming to this earth with His saints to rule a thousand years.
- That the Holy Spirit is a person and is God that He descended at Pentecost, and is now operating in and through believers.
- That man was created in the image of God, and that he is fallen through his sin.
- That the only way of salvation for the fallen man is the redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ.
- That it is necessary for the natural man to be born again.
- That it is necessary for the believer to grow in grace and to advance in the life of sanctification.
- In the immortality of the soul; the bodily resurrection of saints for eternal life and bliss, and of sinners for eternal damnation.
- In the existence and personality of Satan and his evil spirits; in literal hell.