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…
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? Witsius answers: these, these are the things which do not simply adorn, but which make the 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 germ of Christianity. The Old Testament is the Gospel in the bud; the New Testament is the Gospel in full flower. The Old Testament is the Gospel in the blade; the New Testament is the Gospel in full ear. The saints in the Old Testament saw many things through a glass darkly; but they all looked by…
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 Now, from the throng withdrawn away,They seem to breathe a different air;Composed and softened by the…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…
My mother came to Greenville, SC in the late 1950s, at the invitation of Dupre Rhame, to become a music faculty member of Furman University. For many years she sang solos in various musical productions: operas, oratorios, and the like. She had a rich…
Thank you to everyone who has been so kind to our family in the wake of the loss of our matriarch, Shirley Duncan, our beloved mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. Several of you have asked for the text of the sonnet that I quoted, written by my son, Jennings. Here it is. The sonnet is about a group of Singers singing together for the last time, and he wrote it just before his graduation from Mississippi State University, and right before his final time singing with…