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A Special Appeal from the President
We are very grateful at Westminster for the many gracious gifts of our Lord! You, to be sure, are one of those divine blessings. To know that God has given to Westminster alumni who have been taught the glorious truths of Christ and His infallible Word is a deep encouragement to me and to all of us who serve here. Included among the many good gifts of our Father to His Westminster family:
These kind providences have sustained us in the very difficult economic years through which we have just passed. Now, we are trusting that the giving of God’s people will continue to sustain the gospel ministry of Westminster in what is very possibly the most challenging giving season the Seminary has faced for decades. If I can speak with full candor, our giving this year is substantially lower at this point in our fiscal year than I have ever seen. This means that we could likely conclude this academic year having spent our hard-won reserves. For reasons of good stewardship and institutional sustainability, we must not operate the seminary from a position of indebtedness or by misuse of our scarce resources. We humbly ask that you would prayerfully consider a significant gift to the work of Westminster at this time of our great need. Your investment will enable us to continue our Christ-centered ministry that touches the world and will help preserve the positive momentum that Westminster has achieved in the last two years. Would you please pray for us? Can you please help us today with a much needed investment in our Kingdom work? Thanks so very much for your gracious and faith-filled consideration of Westminster’s needs today! Sincerely in Christ’s Service, Peter Lillback, President of Westminster Seminary Click here to donate online to the work of Westminster Theological Seminary.  E-mail John Currie, Director of Student Development and Alumni relations: jcurrie@wts.edu P.S. Sign-up and login for access to all our rich, historic audio archives. The Media Center is easily accessible for your ongoing equipping. At www.wts.edu, go to popular links on the lower right hand corner of the page. God With Us
Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God Rev. Dr. K. Scott Oliphint, professor of apologetics and systematic theology, recently published a new book, God with Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God. "For the Christian mind seeking to understand the nature of God, one fundamental paradox poses a philosophical stumbling block: how can God be both a wholly independent, eternal being yet also an interactive force in the temporal plane of creation?" |
Hospitality for Christ
Jason Pickard (MDiv '10), campus minister for RUF-International at Texas A&M University "On campus I am basically like a chaplain for international students. I seek serve internationals in any way that I can. Sometimes this means simply welcoming students and helping them to understand how things work in Aggieland (what we call College Station). "A large part of what we do, and one of RUF-International’s core values, is hospitality." Congratulations Dr. Trueman!
The Paul Woolley Chair of Church History Congratulations to Rev. Dr. Carl Trueman, who will be the first occupant of the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History! Concurrent with receiving this honor, Dr. Trueman will be retiring from his role as academic dean at the end of June 2012, to focus his attention on writing and teaching. "I am greatly honoured by this distinction and believe that it provides the perfect occasion for me once again to make my teaching and my writing a priority." The Evangelical Student
A Magazine of the League of Evangelical Students The PCA Historical Center has recently released the full PDFs from The Evangelical Student, a magazine of the League of Evangelical Students. The magazine ran from 1926-39, and its editors included former Westminster professors Paul Wooley and Ned B. Stonehouse. Other Westminster Contributors include Oswald T. Allis, R.B. Kuiper, Allan MacRae, J. Gresham Machen, John Murray, Cornelius Van Til, and E.J. Young. 29 of the 35 publications are available as downloadable PDFs here. Two New Books by Dr. Welch
Dr. Edward T. Welch, adjunct professor of practical theology Dr. Welch, who is a licensed psychologist and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF), has recently published two new books: Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness, and What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?: Answers to the Big Questions of Life. Order both of these books and many other counseling resources by CCEF faculty at the Westminster Bookstore. Class NotesFormer maintenance staff member John Gregg died on Monday, October 31st, 2011. He was 92. Click here for more information. Alumnus Bryan (Hai Joong) Chung (MDiv ’10) died on November 3rd, 2011 of a heart attack. Click here for more information.
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