Last month Pastor and Professor Greg Nichols gave thirty lectures on the Doctrine of the Church for Reformed Baptist Seminary. These lectures have been edited and are available on the RBS Virtual Campus as part of our theological curriculum. While I had the opportunity, I interviewed him on the topic of the church and on his recently published monograph entitled Covenant Theology: A Reformed and Baptistic Perspective. Some of the questions I asked him included ...

In the winter of 2011, Reformed Baptist Seminary joined with the Midwest Center for Theological Studies and the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies to co-sponsor a theological module on Polemics. Dr James White, a Reformed Baptist pastor, author, and debater, served as our featured lecturer. In seventeen lectures he addresses and critiques the views of Islam, Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, and the New Atheism.

An All-Round Ministry by Charles Spurgeon is a collection of 12 lectures-turned-essays to ministers and students preparing for the ministry. If a reader is familiar with Spurgeon, he may be reminded of his other famous work Lectures To My Students. While there are many similarities between An All-Round Ministry and Lectures To My Students, the books serve different purposes. Lectures is far more in-depth, including details on the preachers voice, anecdotes, illustrations, open-air preaching, etc. An All-Round Ministry, though very practical, is more concerned with a big-picture view of a pastors’ ministry.

I was brought to a saving knowledge of Christ in 1989. I was raised in a nominal Catholic home, having enough knowledge to fear God, but not enough to embrace Jesus. I was exposed to the simplicity of the gospel at a mid-week church gathering as a teenager. Through the preached Word, both the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s grace in Jesus seized my heart.

The terms "confessionalism" and "pietism" can refer to historical movements within Christendom. Or they may denote two opposite emphases or tendencies related to Christian doctrine and experience. Historically, "confessionalism" has been associated with Protestant denominations that place a great deal of priority on doctrinal orthodoxy and creedal subscription, as well as on proper form and ritual in liturgical practice.

Construction on a new version of our Virtual Campus is nearly completed. It not only has a new look, but it also comes with improved stability and more helpful features...