This morning (Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017), my pastor David Strain preached from 1 Timothy 3:14-16, a passage that has been a special interest to me for a number of years. It was an excellent message and brought out many things that I have missed before, and offered superb illustrations of several points that helped me grasp the significance of the text better. One of the phrases in this text that I have long pondered (and have been not a little baffled by, and uncertain of how to explain or express) is “By common confession, great is the…On “the mystery of godliness” in 1 Timothy…
This morning (Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017), my pastor David Strain preached from 1 Timothy 3:14-16, a passage that has been a special interest to me for a number of years. It was an excellent message and brought out many things that I have missed before, and offered superb illustrations of several points that helped me grasp the significance of the text better. One of the phrases in this text that I have long pondered (and have been not a little baffled by, and uncertain of how to explain or express) is “By common confession, great is the…
I want to wish you a blessed Easter from all your friends at Reformed Theological Seminary. Easter Sunday gives us opportunity to reflect on what motivates and enables us to worship the living God every Lord’s Day. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Watch Dr. Duncan’s greeting here.
RTS Global Education has made my Theology of Worship (PT526) course available online. Students or auditors may register for the full course by contacting any RTS campus registrar, check out rts.edu to find out more. This is an all video course, and explores the Theology, History, Practice, and Reasons for Worship. You can watch the first lecture, for free, here. You can also watch all the rest of the (36) lectures, for free, here. This course features lectures from the RTS Washington DC campus. For those wanting to take the course for credit,…
Dr. David B. Calhoun, longtime (and now Emeritus) Professor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary, is one of the great gifts God has given to his church in my lifetime, and also, perhaps, a too well kept secret. His writings and lectures…
My friend and colleague Dr. Don Sweeting, former President of Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando and now President of Colorado Christian University, recently wrote an important and timely article called The Pastoral Debt Crisis. It is a topic…
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, The Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley – PCA (PMV) unanimously adopted the following overture to the PCA General Assembly, entitled “Confession of the Sin of Racism, and Commitment to Christian Unity,” as…
Just after 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in French Camp, Mississippi, the The Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley – PCA (PMV) unanimously approved an overture to the PCA General Assembly “Confession of the…
Christians tend to be encouraged about their justification (if they understand it), but sometimes discouraged about their sanctification (or seeming lack thereof). Consequently, they miss out of something that is intended to be a blessing from God…