In April of 2024, Center Grove Presbyterian Church of Edwardsville, IL, and Providence Presbyterian Church of Troy, IL joined to bring you a 2-day seminar that featured guest speaker, Dr. A. Craig Troxel. Dr. Troxel is passionate about the heart--the source of our thoughts, fears, actions, and words. He shared principles and practices for orienting our hearts to a deep love and desire to obey our loving Savior.
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Dr. Troxel's Biography
A. CRAIG TROXEL professor of practical theology B.A., Anderson University; M.A.T.S., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary Dr. Troxel previously served as pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Wheaton, Illinois since 2007 and as pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Glenside, Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007. His introduction to the ministry was by itinerating in congregations of the Church of God (Anderson, In.) in Wasilla and Fairbanks, Alaska. He has taught systematic theology as an adjunct at Westminster Theological Seminary and ministerial studies at Mid-America Theological Seminary. He has also served as a faculty member for the Ministerial Training Institute of the OPC since 2002 and is presently a member of the OPC’s Committee on Christian Education. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and presently on its Ecclesiology Study Group. Dr. Troxel has published numerous articles in publications such as Westminster Theological Journal, Presbyterion, Fides et Historia, Calvin Theological Journal, Trinity Journal as well as New Horizons, Ordained Servant and Modern Reformation. He is the author of What is Man? and With All Your Heart: Orienting Your Mind, Desires, and Will Toward Christ (Crossway). His research interests include pastoral theology, Reformed spirituality, the doctrine of the church, and biblical teaching on the heart. Dr. Troxel and his wife, Carol, have five children and one grandchild.