Office Hours: What’s Up Down Under?

R. Scott Clark

on January 22, 2018

For Americans, where the Reformed theology, piety, and practice is a fraction of the number of Christians, it is easy to overlook the presence of the Reformed faith in other parts of the world. There are Reformed Christians and churches across the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Where Are They Now? Jared Beaird

R. Scott Clark

on February 5, 2018

Students come to Westminster Seminary California from across the globe and from a wide variety of backgrounds. Even though they usually graduate affirming Reformed theology they do not always begin there. Westminster Seminary California was an important destination in the journey of . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Bringing A Living Hope to Waterdown, Ontario

R. Scott Clark

on February 19, 2018

At Westminster Seminary California, since our beginning in 1980, our primary mission has been to prepare men for pastoral ministry. We have graduated more than eleven hundred students about 70% of whom go on to pastoral ministry. Indeed, some of our earliest . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Joel Kim On Thankfulness, Humility, And Confidence

R. Scott Clark

on March 5, 2018

January 9, 2018 was a big day in the history of Westminster Seminary California. On that day the seminary welcomed distinguished visitors from across the globe as we celebrated the inauguration of the 4th president in the history of the seminary, Joel . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Joel Kim On Thankfulness, Humility, And Confidence (2)

R. Scott Clark

on March 19, 2018 | 2 Comments

Office Hours: Where Are They Now? Planting Reformed Churches In Italy

R. Scott Clark

on April 2, 2018

Westminster Seminary California has been preparing men to enter pastoral ministry since 1980. More than 1,100 students have graduated and about 70% of them are preaching the gospel across the globe, making hospital calls, doing the work of an evangelist, and a . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Where Are They Now? Preaching The Gospel To Cuba

R. Scott Clark

on April 16, 2018

Dan Warne is from Kansas and grew up on the mission field in Sinaloa, Mexico (just across the Gulf of California from Baja California, Mexico). He is also a 2017 graduate of Westminster Seminary California. Unlike most of the graduates, his ministry . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Dennis Johnson On 35 Years As A Seminary Professor

R. Scott Clark

on April 30, 2018

Teaching school is a funny thing. In many jobs people are prepared by the company to stay, to contribute to the company but in school teachers pour their lives and energy preparing students to leave. Each spring, teachers stay and students leave . . . Continue reading →

Confessional Reformed Pastor Faces Arrest For The Sake Of The Gospel

R. Scott Clark

on June 15, 2018 | 11 Comments

A 1998 graduate of Westminster Seminary California, Turkish-born Fikret Böcek moved back to his country in 2001 to plant a confessional Reformed church in Izmir – the ancient Smyrna, the persecuted city of Revelation 2:8–11, where bishop Polycarp famously died for his . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Journeys With Jesus

R. Scott Clark

on July 23, 2018

Millions of Christians gather every week to hear sermons preached, we trust, from God’s Word. Believers read and study it. Pastors and elders study it but we do not always agree about how to understand it. How often have you heard someone . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: On Romans With John Fesko

R. Scott Clark

on September 17, 2018

How many Reformed people today started out in other traditions only to be confronted by challenging passages in Romans, which made them re-think their entire theology, piety, and practice? John Fesko is one of those. Continue reading →

Office Hours: On Being Reformed

R. Scott Clark

on October 1, 2018

By the early 17th century, at the Synod of Dort in 1618–19, when the Reformed churches sent delegates from the British Isles, the German Palatinate, and the Dutch provinces to consider and respond to the challenges to Reformed theology, piety, and practice . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Echoes Of Exodus

R. Scott Clark

on October 15, 2018

Few stories in the Bible are as important to understanding the rest of Scripture as the Exodus. Throughout the Old Testament and beyond, this event came to define the nature of salvation. It was paradigmatic. Thus, in order to understand Scripture on . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: From Ryrie To Reformed

R. Scott Clark

on February 4, 2019 | 19 Comments

There are about 60 million evangelicals in North America. A good percentage of them are part of a nineteenth-century movement known as Dispensationalism, which was founded by the English clergyman John Nelson Darby (1800–82), who was ordained in the Church of Ireland . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: With Carl Trueman “And Miles To Go Before I Sleep”

R. Scott Clark

on April 1, 2019 | 8 Comments

Carl Trueman has been a university professor, seminary professor, a visiting professor at Princeton University, and a bi-vocational pastor. He is now Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College. He is also an old friend. We met in the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours On The Canons Of Dort With Herman Selderhuis

R. Scott Clark

on May 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

2018–19 is the 400th anniversary of the Synod of Dort. We have been observing this anniversary this year, which is the 10th season of Office Hours. Many people know about the so-called Five Points of Calvinism but fewer people know that those . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Jon Payne On The Gospel Reformation Network

R. Scott Clark

on June 3, 2019

The Protestant Reformation was a recovery of the biblical doctrine of salvation by God’s favor (grace) alone (sola gratia), through faith (trusting, resting, and receiving) alone (sola fide), in Christ alone and the Christian life governed by Scripture alone (sola Scriptura) as . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours Season 8 Celebrated The 500th Anniversary Of The Reformation

R. Scott Clark

on June 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

The Protestant Reformation was one of the most important theological, social, religious, and political episodes in Western history. It is reasonable to divide all Western history in two: before the Reformation and after. Nevertheless, in our time, the Reformation is not well . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Ligon Duncan On Covenant Theology and More

R. Scott Clark

on July 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

Dr J. Ligon Duncan III is Chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, where he is also the John E Richard Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He was senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Jackson, Mississippi for 17 years . . . Continue reading →

Recovering Our Reformed Past: On J. H. Heidegger With Ryan Glomsrud

R. Scott Clark

on August 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

What if I told you that there is an entire library of orthodox, careful, influential, important, Reformed books, that formed and shaped our entire history—books on Reformed theology, piety, and practice, biblical interpretation, biblical theology, covenant theology, commentaries on Scripture, the Christian . . . Continue reading →