Where Are They Now? RTS Charlotte Alumna Cynthia Ruble
One of the great blessings of being a part of a seminary like RTS Charlotte is that I get to see, over the course of many years, how God uses our graduates in special ways throughout the globe. Over the past 13 years, it has not only been a joy to teach these students, but it has been a joy to watch these students become faithful laborers in the vineyard.
For this reason, I am starting a new series of blog interviews entitled Where Are They Now?, highlighting some of our alumni over the years. I will ask them a series of questions that tells us more about how … Continue reading...
Kathleen Nielson Comes to RTS Charlotte
There are many wonderful things happening at RTS Charlotte these days, but I am particularly excited about the vibrant women’s ministry happening here. Throughout the year there are a number of great events for our female students, student wives, female staff, faculty wives, and other women in the area who are a part of the RTS community. They enjoy a deep and rich fellowship.
On this note, RTS Charlotte will host its sixth annual women’s conference this coming weekend, March 7-8, with guest speaker Kathleen Nielson. Past speakers have included Nancy Guthrie, Elsie Newell, and Melissa Kruger. For the details of the conference, see here.
Kathleen not only blogs … Continue reading...
Mark Dever Giving the Harold O.J. Brown Lectures at RTS Charlotte
Two years ago we began our annual Harold O.J. Brown lecture series here at RTS Charlotte. This lecture series honors Dr. Brown not only because he was a faculty member here in Charlotte for the final decade of his career (and much loved by the students), but because of his larger and wider impact one evangelicalism in the United States. In addition to publishing many important books, Dr. Brown (along with C. Everett Koop) had a tremendous influence on the pro-life movement in the United States.
When Dr. Brown passed away in 2007, I gave an interview to Christianity Today about his career and legacy. See here for that interview … Continue reading...
Faculty Opening for Professor of Counseling at RTS Charlotte
Over the last thirteen years as a professor at RTS Charlotte, I have had the opportunity to talk to each graduating class about what they see as our strengths and weaknesses as a campus. The strengths I regularly hear are as follows: top-notch faculty, wonderful campus community, a great location, professors who are also pastors, a robust commitment to Reformed theology, a passion for proclaiming the gospel to the nations, etc.
But, there are also places we need to improve. And time and again, our graduates have offered the same suggestion: we need more biblical counseling. As our students have become pastors, they realize that they needed better … Continue reading...
The Historical Adam: Why it Really Matters
For some time now, there has been extensive debate in the church on how to understand the early chapters of Genesis. The focus has normally been on the length of the days in chapter one. Is it describing six, literal days? Or is the author just using a “literary framework”? Or is each day an age, or epoch of time?
In the midst of these debates, there lies a more core, and foundational issue, namely whether Adam was a real historical individual, created directly by God, from which all human beings descend. Aside from the length of days, this is the issue on which much theological truth depends.
Without a … Continue reading...