Following in the Footsteps
01. December 2013
So that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord (Ps. 102:18b). As his words flowed from the open classroom door, his voice was thoughtful, ...
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The Lord’s Orchard
01. May 2013
For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from ...
RPTS Renames Its Main Building
01. November 2012
Almost immediately after the formation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, plans were set in motion to establish a denominational ...
Commencement 2012
01. June 2012
Each spring, Dr. and Mrs. O’Neill, along with Mark and Sharon Sampson, host a dessert for graduating seniors. While sampling delicious baked goods ...
Signing Up for Deep Study and Hard Work
01. November 2011
Poll all seniors in high school about their definition of summer fun, and spending three weeks in deep theological study and performing manual labor ...
New RP Students
01. November 2011
Fall is a time of change in Pennsylvania. God directs the trees to take on new hues. Some animals prepare for hibernation, while others begin long ...
RPTS Announces 2011 Graduates
01. May 2011
The board of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) is pleased to announce the graduating class of 2011. “It is interesting to note ...
RPCNA Brings Important Training to East Asia
01. May 2011
Johannes Geerhardus (J. G.) Vos was without question one of the most influential men in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America in the 20th ...
Thanking a Faithful God
01. October 2010
On June 24, the bicentennial of the Lord’s faithfulness to the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) was celebrated at the Heinz History ...
Because of the Lord That Is Faithful
01. May 2010
Before the telephone. Before the electric telegraph. Even before the Pony Express. RPTS was equipping men to herald the news—the good news of Jesus ...
‘Treason Against Heaven, Sanctioned by Law’
01. February 2010
Rev. Alexander McLeod penned the following words in a chilling cry of exhortation to his church and the nation in his 1802 work, Negro Slavery ...
Two Centuries of Sola Scriptura
01. January 2010
My task here is to offer some ruminations from the viewpoint of a historian—neither a pastor nor a theologian—about why the Reformed Presbyterian ...
Seminary’s New Willson Center Honors Five Willson Professors
01. January 2010
In summer 2009, the board of trustees of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary decided to name the new storefront building purchased across ...
RPTS: A Seminary on the Move
01. January 2010
Not unlike other older seminaries, RPTS occupied various homes in several states in its early years. This was due to the fact that the seminary would ...
TIMELINE of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
01. January 2010
1798 –Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America established 1807 –Seminary constitution adopted 1810 –Seminary courses commence ...
Get to Know Your RPTS Faculty
01. January 2010
Full-Time Faculty Richard C. Gamble: Professor of Systematic Theology since 2005. Teaching with the kind of passion that students have said ...
Faithful Hananiahs
01. January 2010
Hananiah, as we are told in the book of Nehemiah, was a faithful man and feared God above many. His name means “the Lord’s grace.” One ...
‘The Same Commit to Faithful Men’
01. January 2010
When Reformed Presbyterians prepared to begin the work of training their ministers in the church’s new seminary in May 1809, no students appeared. ...
Thy Sons and Thy Daughters Come from Afar
28. November 2009
Just as John Calvin had been the penman who systematically preserved the doctrines of the Continental Reformers, so William Symington stood at the ...
A Huge Step Forward
02. May 2009
In Nov. 2007, the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) purchased a building across the street from the main campus for its new Biblical ...