Some of you may have seen this important article over at The Gospel Coalition about the decline and relocation of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) by Collin Hansen, who is a graduate of the school. Reformed Theological Seminary has been friends with TEDS for many years. Over the years, a number of our faculty have done their studies there before coming to RTS, and a number of our graduates have gone on to do doctoral work there. We wish TEDS all the best in this new stage of their institutional life. The last twenty years have been…
The new Reformed Theological Seminary Ministry & Leadership magazine is out (in print and digital). Mine got to the mailbox yesterday evening. RTS friends: be on the lookout for yours. One of my favorite articles is this one: Shades of Faithfulness. Dave Veldkamp tells about the official RTS colors being named for Bob Bailey (“RTS Bailey Burgundy’), and Polly McReynolds Stone (“RTS McReynolds Stone Grey”). I got to know Amanda Bailey soon after coming to Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson in 1990. Amanda was a…
Many of our Reformed Theological Seminary friends and supporters have probably been receiving the RTS 2024 Generosity Report that was just recently mailed out. It is a testimony to God’s generous provision and to the faithful, sacrificial giving of thousands of our partners. We give thanks for what the Lord has supplied, what he has enabled us to do, and indeed what he has given us the privilege to do for him, for the church, this last year. Below are just a few of the highlights. In 2024, RTS donors contributed $12.9 million to RTS,…
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…
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…
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…
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…