It’s a good week to rehearse the events of the last week of Jesus’ earthly ministry, leading up to the crucifixion and resurrection. Justin Taylor reminds us that: “About one-quarter to one-third of the Four Gospels are devoted to the final week of Jesus’s earthly life.” Justin, and NT scholar Andreas Köstenberger put together a book that gives you the complete text of Scripture in chronological harmony, along with commentary, charts, and maps, so you can have a day-by-day guide to the momentous events that…
In today’s Old Testament Scripture reading at First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS, we read from Psalm 143. Verses 1-2, in particular, arrested my attention. Psalm 143:2, “For in Your sight no man living is righteous,” especially, was very important to Paul and the New Testament writers, and to the Reformers, in explaining the universal human condition and predicament. 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness! 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no man living is righteous. (NASB) The late Robert Davidson, one-time Moderator of the Church of Scotland & Professor at the University of Glasgow, Trinity College Glasgow, says of this passage: “This is the only…
in relation to First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS; Belhaven College (now University); and Reformed Theological Seminary (as well as the OPC and ARP, and RUF) The Presbyterian Church in America turns 50 years old today. We are very young and relatively small in the family of theologically conservative Protestant denominations, but, by God’s grace, the PCA has had an outsized influence in the larger evangelical world from its beginning. Indeed, today the PCA is the largest Bible-believing confessional Reformed denomination in the US and…
Israel reached Sinai in the third month after a journey of at least six weeks, in the course of which they travelled about 200 miles; they stayed there nearly a year (Num. 10:11). Moses’ first stay in the Mount was probably brief. He was to remind…
There has been a marked tendency in recent years to minimize the importance of the Decalogue. To the critics, of course, who see in it merely a brief code of laws which reflects the gradual growth of moral and religious ideas and ideals in Israel, it…
The work of theological education in the confessional Protestant tradition falls in the category of sanctification—a special and specific kind of sanctification: the sanctification of the church’s present & future ministry … The entire work…
The Authority of Scripture – Grounds, Evidences, Spirit’s Witness and Supreme Authority The Doctrine of Scripture ~ David Strain & Ligon Duncan First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Miller Hall ~ September 6, 2023 (1) The Grounds of…
The Content of Scripture – Canon, Preservation, Transmission, and Translation The Doctrine of Scripture ~ David Strain & Ligon Duncan First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Miller Hall ~ August 30, 2023 (1) What is in the Bible (and…
Current Facts About RTS (as of the 2023–2024 Academic Year) RTS has eight campuses in the U.S.A. (in order of their establishment: Jackson, MS, Orlando, FL, Charlotte, NC, Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, Houston, TX, New York City, and Dallas, TX), in…