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Register for Spring Classes: Registration for Spring classes begins January 19. Click here to see the Spring Course Schedule.
Donate Online: You can now donate to RPTS securely online!
Planned Giving Calculator: Thinking about what a charitable gift annuity or charitable trust could look like for you? Explore how a planned gift to RPTS could work for you with our new online planned giving calculator.
Bicentennial: Learn more about our 200th Anniversary in 2010, including a bicentennial video!
Professor Videos: Watch professors sharing their vision for their respective departments.
Scripture Verse: Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. -- Colossians 4:5
Quote: Where there is no faith, there is no Church, and where there is no Word, there is no faith. All holy people in every age have been begotten again through the Word. -- Martin Bucer, Commonplaces
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Volunteer with Demolition Team at New Building!
RPTS has begun volunteer demolition work of the new building across the street from its main campus on Penn Avenue, and we need your help!
Friends, staff, and even emeritus faculty have recently been tearing out ceilings and walls, smashing floors, and removing materials to ready the building for renovations. This is helping the Seminary to save money on this process.
We need general and skilled labor to help with the upcoming volunteer "demolition days":
- Friday, January 16, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturday, January 17, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Friday, January 23, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturday, January 24, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
To participate, call the Seminary at 412-731-8690 and get in touch with Paul Martin, or email him at pappaul@gmail.com.
If you'd like to see all the action of a late December volunteer demolition day and what you would be involved in, click here to watch a brief demolition day video.
RPTS Alum and Prof Speaks on Dangers of the Emerging Church at the next Reformation Society of Pittsburgh Breakfast Seminar on January 31
On Saturday, January 31, the Reformation Society of Pittsburgh will host seminars from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) at 7418 Penn Avenue in Point Breeze entitled “The Church’s Identity Crisis: Sola Scriptura and The Emerging Church”.
The seminars will address the Emerging Church movement which has created a wide-reaching conversation about how to live the Christian life with authenticity as Jesus intended; however, according to some church leaders, what the movement recommends in that conversation endangers a principle vital to the church’s living that life.
“All Christians should rejoice that this conversation is taking place and must listen very carefully to it,” says Rev. Rutledge Etheridge, Pastor of Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church in Brookline, PA, and Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology for RPTS, who will lecture at the seminars. A 2006 RPTS alum, he has recently preached and led Bible studies on the Emerging Church.
“While we should applaud and apply much of its content, we must also confront one of its key components. This refreshing stream of new excitement about Christian doctrine and service is moved along by an old philosophical wind which ever threatens to wrest Christ’s church from the foundation of her faith – the written Word of God.”
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Free Lectures on Pastoral Ministry by Dr. Scipione Now Up on the BCI Website Page
More free lectures were just put up on the Lecture page of the Biblical Counseling Institute section of the Seminary's website. The lectures on Pastoral Ministry were originally given by Dr. George Scipione at Ottawa Theological Hall. Topics are: Biblical Theology of Shepherds; Pastoral Epistles; The Pastor's Personal Life; Preaching, Teaching, and Discipleship; Weddings and Funerals; Evangelism and Community Service; and Leadership.
To listen to or download the lectures, click here.
Register Early for the RPTS International Conference on the Westminster Confession: This Year's Focus is on Christ's Priestly Office
You are invited to the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary’s major annual conference on the theology and influence of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. Join us on Friday and Saturday, June 26 and June 27, at the RPTS campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to enjoy lectures by distinguished professors from various Reformed seminaries.
This year’s conference represents the second installment of a three-year series focusing on Christ’s three offices: Prophet, Priest, and King, entitled "The Priestly Ministry of Our Lord."
Speakers Are:
- Fowler White, The Great High Priest of the Book of Hebrews
- C.J. Williams, Echoes of the Great High Priest: What We Learn About the Priesthood of Christ from the Priests of the OT
- Jeff Jue, The Reformation's Doctrine of the Priesthood of All Believers
- Dennis Prutow, The Westminster Directory of Public Worship and Prayer
- Jack Kinneer, The Priesthood of Christ and the Work of the Pastor
- Richard Gaffin, The Priestly Work of Christ and Our Justification
For more information on conference speakers, to learn about free gifts for early bird registration, and to register, visit www.westminsterconference.org.
Wish List
In-kind Donation Wish List
- Car or Van
- Weekly volunteer help in the Library
- Skilled volunteer labor for work on the new building across the road
- Theological books for the Library
- Office furniture for the new building across the street
- Weekly volunteer help in the Seminary Office and for the Biblical Counseling Institute
- Skilled volunteer labor to complete classroom downstairs
- Vacuum cleaners in good condition
- Chain saw
- Roto tiller
- Weed eater
- Laptop
- Projector
- A couple of comfortable, wing-backed chairs or some end/occasional tables for the library/counseling annex
- Microform reader-printer, which costs about $10,000 new, for the library
- Compost unit
- Portable white boards about 4' X 6'
To make an in-kind donation to RPTS, please contact Grant Van Leuven in the Development Office at gvanleuven@rpts.edu, or 412-731-8690, Ext. 108.
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