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…
17. I come before you as a sinner saved by grace to be your servant and saint, so I boldly pray that you would abundantly grant me the grace to live by and to keep your instruction. 17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. 18. Your word is filled with wondrous truth, by your Spirit open my eyes to see it, understand it, believe it and obey it. 18 Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. 19. Remind me that I am a stranger and pilgrim on the earth, a traveler to a far distant home,…
9. I am prone to wander, and thus I cry out for your grace, keep me from going astray, show me from Your Word how to keep my way pure. 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10. This is my supplication: I seek for, long for you. Use your Word as your means of grace in me, that I might find you and know you. 10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 11. Move and enable me to read, mark, learn, remember, and memorize your Word in such a way that it gets into and takes a…
David Strain is starting a sermon series through Psalm 119. I thought I would post some simple sentence prayers based on the Psalm as he preaches through it.
In Herman Witsius’ justly famous inaugural lecture “On the Character of a True Theologian,” he charts out a beautiful and moving picture of what a true theologian should be. What characterizes and constitutes a true theologian?…
1. Despising the Old Testament First, let us beware of despising the Old Testament, for whatever reason. Let us never listen to those who tell us to throw it aside as an obsolete, antiquated, useless book. The religion of the Old Testament is the…
How welcome to the saints, when pressedWith six days noise, and care, and toil,Is the returning day of rest,Which hides them from the world awhile! Now, from the throng withdrawn away,They seem to breathe a different air;Composed and softened by the…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity & Liberalism. The Reformed Theological Seminary Jackson faculty is going to be reading through the book together during our faculty meetings this…
Reformed Theological Seminary was everywhere at #ETS2022. Dr. Michael J. Kruger of Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, serves on the Executive Committee as a Past President of ETS. He also gave a paper and moderated a session. Dr. Greg Lanier…
At the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) in Denver, I was invited by Dr. David Dockery (currently the interim president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) to speak on a panel about the future of Christian Higher…