The new Reformed Theological Seminary Ministry & Leadership magazine is out (in print and digital). Mine got to the mailbox yesterday evening. RTS friends: be on the lookout for yours. One of my favorite articles is this one: Shades of Faithfulness. Dave Veldkamp tells about the official RTS colors being named for Bob Bailey (“RTS Bailey Burgundy’), and Polly McReynolds Stone (“RTS McReynolds Stone Grey”). I got to know Amanda Bailey soon after coming to Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson in 1990. Amanda was a regular auditor of courses, and she took several…
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? 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…
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 Now, from the throng withdrawn away,They seem to breathe a different air;Composed and softened by the…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…