2026 CCEF National Conference (9Marks Speaker)

Join us this October 16–18 in Virginia Beach, where we’ll explore together what it means to live according to God’s beautiful, wise design and how to help others embrace it, too. We’ll learn from the person and work of Christ, who doesn’t strip away our humanity but makes us fully human again.

Jonathan Leeman will be teaching a breakout session: Human Authority | A Good & Dangerous Gift

God designed human beings to rule—to author life under his authority. Yet since Genesis 3, authority has become one of the most contested gifts we bear, used as often to wound as to bless. This session will offer a biblical framework for what good authority looks like: It creates rather than steals, submits rather than stands unaccountable, seeks wisdom, disciplines without crushing, and bears costs rather than pushing them downward. We’ll consider what this means for counselors caring for those harmed by authority and those called to exercise it.