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…
Dr Luder G. Whitlock, Jr is executive director of the CNL Charitable Foundation and the JMS Foundation; president of Excelsis; and minister at large for the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando. He was the second President of Reformed Theological Seminary (1978-2001). He hired me to teach at RTS back in 1989 (when I was 28 years old!). I still marvel at that. I know that many of you in the Reformed Theological Seminary family keep up with Luder and Mary Lou, and so you will be interested to know about his new book, due out next month from…
This morning (Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017), my pastor David Strain preached from 1 Timothy 3:14-16, a passage that has been a special interest to me for a number of years. It was an excellent message and brought out many things that I have missed before, and offered superb illustrations of several points that helped me grasp the significance of the text better. One of the phrases in this text that I have long pondered (and have been not a little baffled by, and uncertain of how to explain or express) is “By common confession, great is the…
RTS Global Education has made my Theology of Worship (PT526) course available online. Students or auditors may register for the full course by contacting any RTS campus registrar, check out rts.edu to find out more. This is an all video course, and explores the Theology, History, Practice, and Reasons for Worship. You can watch the first lecture, for free, here. You can also watch all the rest of the (36) lectures, for free, here. This course features lectures from the RTS Washington DC campus. For those wanting to take the course for credit,…
Dr. David B. Calhoun, longtime (and now Emeritus) Professor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary, is one of the great gifts God has given to his church in my lifetime, and also, perhaps, a too well kept secret. His writings and lectures…
My friend and colleague Dr. Don Sweeting, former President of Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando and now President of Colorado Christian University, recently wrote an important and timely article called The Pastoral Debt Crisis. It is a topic…
Suggested Resources on Race and our History for the Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley Important Online Resources: Race and Church Thabiti Anyabwile, “Jonathan Edwards, Slavery, and the Theology of African Americans,” https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/files/2012/02/Thabiti-Jonathan-Edwards-slavery-and-theological-appropriation.pdf Thabiti Anyabwile, “Bondage or Freedom? Questions in Early American Theology,” The John L. Girardeau Lectures, First Presbyterian…
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, The Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley – PCA (PMV) unanimously adopted the following overture to the PCA General Assembly, entitled “Confession of the Sin of Racism, and Commitment to Christian Unity,” as…
Just after 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in French Camp, Mississippi, the The Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley – PCA (PMV) unanimously approved an overture to the PCA General Assembly “Confession of the…
Christians tend to be encouraged about their justification (if they understand it), but sometimes discouraged about their sanctification (or seeming lack thereof). Consequently, they miss out of something that is intended to be a blessing from God…