Supposing you were suddenly to find yourself among 7,000 mainly young people, singing without any band, Reginald Heber’s ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!’, and gathered to hear sermons for three days, you might well wonder where you were and what was happening. My own arrival in that situation was not entirely sudden for I had heard and read of it beforehand, but it has still left me with a degree of wonder. The place was Louisville, Kentucky, in April of this year. I had not been in a city before where I was stopped in the street,…Iain H Murray, “Thoughts on Together for the…
Supposing you were suddenly to find yourself among 7,000 mainly young people, singing without any band, Reginald Heber’s ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!’, and gathered to hear sermons for three days, you might well wonder where you were and what was happening. My own arrival in that situation was not entirely sudden for I had heard and read of it beforehand, but it has still left me with a degree of wonder. The place was Louisville, Kentucky, in April of this year. I had not been in a city before where I was stopped in the street,…
RTS Washington Professor of Church History, Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn is perhaps the world’s leading expert on the work of the Westminster Assembly. His massive five-volume work The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1653 (Oxford University Press) is the most important historical exploration of the Assembly since the nineteenth century and surpasses everything that precedes it (including Mitchell and Struthers, Warfield, and Carruthers). Dr. Van Dixhoorn is also a pastor-professor in the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition who…
My friend and former RTS Jackson student, and Ugandan missionary to Rwanda, Gerald Sseruwagi unexpectedly died yesterday. Gerald had an amazing testimony and lived his life for the Lord courageously. He was disowned by his family after becoming a Christian and as a boy grew up on the streets in Kampala, Uganda. He eventually earned two Master’s degrees at RTS Jackson and then went back to Africa to plant churches and minister to the destitute. In March of last year, Gerald and his family moved to Kigali, Rwanda where Gerald began…
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy explains how “100 yrs ago this morning an angry young man killed an Archduke in Sarajevo & broke the world. We haven’t fixed it yet”
July 16th Dr. Duncan will deliver a plenary address at the Matthew Henry Conference in Chester, England (see the full conference schedule below). The University of Chester in collaboration with the Chester Cathedral Library and the University of…