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, supporting 2,038 students, and enabling them to take…RTS 2024 Generosity Report
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, supporting 2,038 students, and enabling them to take…
This day in 1962 (July 5) the famous American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr died. He wrote an important book Christ and Culture and in his work The Kingdom of God in America he criticized liberal social gospel teaching, describing its core message as: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” Here’s a short bio: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Helmut_Richard_Niebuhr.aspx
My predecessor and friend Dr. Robert C. (Ric) Cannada, Jr., chancellor emeritus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), is spending a lot of time in Indonesia these days, expanding Christian education and fostering an amazing movement of Reformed influence. It all began when Ric received an invitation to guest-teach at a Reformed seminary in Jakarta—Indonesia’s capital city of 16 million people. He realized he could do that while visiting Jakarta for the first time, to attend the 2009 meeting of World Reformed Fellowship. In Jakarta,…
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,…
I want to commend to you the free RTS Mobile App. You can get it at Apple iTunes and it is now available on the Amazon App store for all Kindle devices! RTS Mobile, the official RTS App, is also available on Android and Windows Phones. We are…
Here’s some good pre-4th of July reading for you from Historian Thomas S. Kidd. Dr. Kidd is a professor at Baylor, an expert in early American history and is the author of a new biography of George Whitefield that is due out this autumn. Here…
Very soon, Banner of Truth Trust will be releasing a new commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith by Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington, DC Associate Professor of Church History, Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn. Here is my commendation of this…
A Prayer for Hope. For those in desperate need of it. Heavenly Father, My hope is faint today. Help me. Help me to endure when I feel no hope. Forge a hope-producing character in me. Do not let me be ashamed.
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…