Mark Chanski on Biblical Typology

What is typology? What are some examples of types in the Bible? What are the biblical principles to guide the interpreter in discerning and expounding biblical types? Pastor Mark Chanski, professor of Hermeneutics for Reformed Baptist Seminary, addresses these and other questions in the lecture below. If you'd like to audit the entire class, click here.
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Missions from the Early Church to the Reformation - Dr Jim Adams

In the lecture below, Dr. Jim Adams surveys the history of missions from the post-apostolic era to the period of the Protestant Reformation. He demonstrates how the Kingdom of God steadily expanded from Palestine to distant locations around the globe. This lecture is part of the curriculum for Reformed Baptist Seminary's course on missions. Let us know if you'd like to take the course for credit or just audit the course (info@rbseminary.org).
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Report on "Salvation Applied" Module in Bogotá, Colombia

The next morning I was on a plane for Washington DC. Then on a plane for Houston. Then on to Bogota. (It’s a long story. I had to do it that way.) I made it onto the plane for Bogota just in time. There was an empty seat next to me and the man sitting by the window—the only one on the plane! I arrived in Bogota by 9:45. I connected with Pastor Guillermo Gomez, who speaks almost no English, and about 10:30 pm we began our almost two hour drive to the location where the module was held.
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The Hermeneutics of the Emergent Church

Pastor Mark Chanski serves as a professor of biblical studies for Reformed Baptist Seminary and teaches the seminary’s course on hermeneutics (i.e., the science of interpretation). In the spring of 2014, Mark gave a special lecture on the Hermeneutics of the Emergent Church (see below). Chanski demonstrates how earlier neo-orthodox and existential ideas that predominated the academia in the early and mid-twentieth century gave rise to post-modern thought, which in turn found its way into the church.
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2015 Summer Seminar: Man & Sin

Reformed Baptist Seminary invites you to attend our 2015 summer theological seminar on the doctrine of man and sin. Pastor Gregory G. Nichols, professor of systematics for RBS, will deliver 30 lectures that will expound such topics as the origin, identity, and constitution of man, as well as man's fall into sin, the nature and consequences of sin, and the doctrine of common grace. Additionally, Dr. Bob Gonzales will give 5 lectures on the topics of Genesis and Science, the Creation Days, and the Historicity of Adam. Grace Immanuel Reformed Baptist Church of Grand Rapids will host the seminar, which begins Saturday, August 29, and ends Friday, September 4.
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Coming Soon: Going Beyond the Five Points

Coming soon through amazon.com is a special print on demand project called Going Beyond the Five Points which will be available in soft back and e-book. The book will feature contributions from three Reformed Baptist pastor-theologians who lecture for Reformed Baptist Seminary. The burden of the anthology will be to a encourage a more comprehensive present-day reformation beyond the famous “five points" of Calvinism. Issues addressed include the abiding relevance of the Ten Commandments, God-centered worship, the masterful unfolding of God's great plan of redemption through divine covenants, the identity, nature, and work of the church, and the help that confessions of faith lend to our grasp of God’s glorious Word. For a brief look at the Table of Contents, Editor's Preface, the Forward, and some endorsements, click on the link below.
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