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 tough for accredited graduate theological education…
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 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,…
Kevin DeYoung, Al Mohler and I recently sat down to talk about the importance of inerrancy for preaching. Here’s a short clip of the video. We will be part of an Inerrancy Summit at The Shepherd’s Conference, March 3-8, 2015. For more information visit www.shepherdsconference.org and also look at the excellent resources available at www.inerrantword.com – and return regularly as the site is continuously updated. In our discussion, I made the point that since the fundamental task of the minister is to declare God’s word,…
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…
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…
“Acts of self denial and mortification are means and evidences of our sanctification, and such as we ought to abound in: but they are not the ground of our justification. It is Christ’s blood that makes the satisfaction, not our tears. Therefore we must not so remember former sins, as to put away present comforts. A life of repentance will very well consist with a life of holy cheerfulness.” – Matthew Henry, “The Communicant’s Companion”
One of the best-known and loved metrical psalms still in wide use today is this setting of Psalm 100. Metrical psalms used to be the core of what was sung in Protestant worship services (by Presbyterians, Anglicans, congregationalists and others).…
42nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Highlights, June 2014 | by Dr. David F. Coffin, Jr. 1,123 commissioners (867 Teaching Elders, 256 Ruling Elders) meeting in Houston, Texas. The theme of the Assembly was “Proclaim Christ, Disciple the Nations.” Overall the Assembly was marked by some very fine preaching in the worship services and thoughtful, charitable debate in the business sessions. The revised Assembly procedure for consideration of proposals (concisely put: “up, down or return”) continued to…
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”