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The Founders and the Bible
“The Aitken Bible to this day represents the fact that Congress [during colonial times] said, ‘Americans need to have the Bible. We recommend it to you, and you can tell all the people that Congress is behind it being shared...
by Peter Lillback | 14 min Audio
Leadership Principles from the Life of the Apostle Peter
“God performs his work in us because we are precisely his people.” –Dr. Peter Lillback Listen to Dr. Lillback discuss how God molds followers of Jesus into competent leaders for his kingdom, examining instances of failure and success in the life...
by Peter Lillback | 27 min Audio
The Meetinghouse: 10/25/2019
“One of the most important things I think we all need to do is rediscover the importance of the ten commandments as an expression of God’s grace for us.” –Dr. Peter A. Lillback Listen to Dr. Lillback talk about Westminster’s experience...
by Peter Lillback | 1 min Audio
Foreword to Christianity & Liberalism
A fitting way for Westminster Theological Seminary to celebrate our 90th anniversary is to hark back to the work that firmly placed our founder, and former Princeton Theological Seminary professor, J. Gresham Machen, on the turbulent path to becoming the...
by Peter Lillback Text
St. Peter’s Principle #79: The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
STRATEGY FLOWS FROM AN UNFORGOTTEN MISSION AND VISION When a leader wrestles with the significance of his organization’s mission—its reason to be, and its vision, how the organization is going to get its job done—he begins to create a strategy. A...
by Peter Lillback Text
Faith in the Public Square: First Things First, Pray
On Saturday, March 16th, 2019 Drs. Peter Lillback, Harry Reeder, John Currie, and David Garner spoke at First Presbyterian Church in Bonita Springs Florida for Faith in the Public Square: First Things First, Pray. Drawing on the theme of 1...
by Peter Lillback | min Audio
The Reformation and Education
The Reformation has been an extraordinary force for global education. The Middle Ages gave birth to the first European universities that trained a select cadre of scholars. But in the Protestant Reformation, the quest for universal education was unleashed. Martin...
by Peter Lillback Text
Into the Mystic
The fourteenth century saw the blossoming of mysticism, a movement that has influenced the church to this day. Mysticism asserts the earthly possibility of a personal, immediate union of the soul with the being of God himself. It offers direct...
by Peter Lillback Text
Why Pastors Should Engage Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion is the classic Reformation handbook for understanding the theology and key teachings of Scripture. After nearly five centuries since its first appearance in 1536, it has withstood the test of...
by Peter Lillback Text
March Newsletter
We are happy to share the faculty content found in the March President’s newsletter: “Never to Die, Ever to Live” by Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn “Spirit Fueled Courage” by Rev. John Currie “The Possibility...