Whitefield Theological Seminary

The River of Grace

I arrived here as a student fifty years ago, in 1961. When I was a boy, fifty years seemed a virtually endless period of time. I want to tell you that it’s a moment. It speeds by like a weaver’s shuttle. I praise the mercy that’s prolonged my days. The great truths I believed before I first arrived, I believe yet. Here I was given tools - methodological, academic, theological, homiletic but also affectionate tools – as well as directives and inspiration to tackle the calling which, by 1964, I knew was to be mine: to be the pastor-preacher of a church somewhere back home in the Principality of Wales. In coming to an assurance of that vocation, Ed Clowney’s counsels were particularly helpful. I returned home two days after graduation pausing to look round the New York World Fair. 'Sail on the Queen Mary ,' John Murray had exhorted me, but the boat was all booked up and I sailed from those famous moorings on the Hudson river, past the Statue of Liberty and into the Atlantic on the liner the United States travelling east 3000 miles to Wales.

Within six weeks I had married the girl who was waiting for me and who is with me today, and the following year I was called by the church I still serve to become its minister. Last Sunday I preached there in the morning on Luke 15 and in the night on Genesis 40, as I systematically expound those books, and in ten days I will preach there again, God willing. My conviction is that all Christians need to hear every part of the Bible expounded and applied to them throughout their lifetimes, because that is why God has given us the Scripture. I have preached on almost very part of the Bible, but I will never finish this calling. That will be the task of another and then he will have all the remainder of revelation before him. I have yet to preach on half the Psalms, the entire book of Proverbs and the second half of the books of the Exodus and Isaiah. But I am now preaching on the most crucial books for the second time. I also pause when I come to the great texts and we taste all they declare; 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest . . . For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God . . . What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? . . . I know that my redeemer liveth . . .' It would be a tragedy not to stop and expound such verses intensely.

The UnPreterist: Whitefield Theological Seminary Continues To ...

In October 2008 I wrote to Whitefield Theological Seminary (WTS) and to its president and founder, Kenneth Talbot concerning its relationship with then hyperpreterist leader Samuel M. Frost. Frost had long boasted that he in part arrived at his heretical position via the tools provided him by WTS and Frost had made a point of claiming he was accepted by Talbot as a Christian brother. This is confirmed by Talbot constantly calling Frost and other hyperpreterists, "brother" and validated by the FACT that Talbot was purportedly utilizing Frost to help develop the student Hebrew program for WTS. All of this while Frost was still hot and heavy into the heresy. My contention then and now is unwavering; that a Christian or a Christian institution should NEVER appear to be validating known heresy. It doesn't matter if the institution is not the Church proper, it still wears the label of "Christian" and when a known heretic can use that institution's credibility to proffer him or herself as accepted within Christianity -- perhaps even as Christian -- then that Christian institution has done a great disservice to the Faith. Well, the issue has come to the forefront again as another hyperpreterist has declared his association with WTS. Larry Siegle, long self-professed "seasoned teacher" within the hyperpreterist movement announced his application and seeming acceptance to WTS ( see here ). Now, it is interesting what Siegle says about OTHER seminaries which he investigated attending: "I have spent the past few months just doing research of the various schools that offer a variety of programs and approaches to how theology must be understood in relationship to the Cross and the events that took place with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Several institutions associated with Churches of Christ took a look at my educational portfolio and declined admission without comment. Others were willing to allow me to enter into their program of study, but with the requirement that I would sign a formal statement of compliance with their Doctrinal Statement. My response was always, "I affirm the propositions as set forth in the doctrinal statement of this institution to the extent that its views are in harmony with what I understand, in good conscience, to be written in the Scriptures.

The Congregationalism of the last three hundred years, as seen in its literature, with special reference to certain recondite, neglected, or disputed passages : in twelve lectures, delivered on the Southworth Foundation in the theological seminary at Andover, Mass., 1876-1879 : with a bibliographical appendix

Mr. G. Whitefield from the Eastern Consociation of the County of Fairfield 3183 [Conn. ... in vindication of Mr. Whitefield s Itinerancy and Conduct. ...

Coming to Grips with Genesis, Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth

David W. Hall (M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Whitefield Theological Seminary) has been a pastor for almost 30 years, presently serving as ...

Reformed Church Theological Colleges and Seminaries, Harvard Divinity School, Andhra Christian Theological College

The Princeton theological review

his trance, was lifted up with Paul of old to see and hear things that are not lawful to be uttered; and Whitefield, with whom religion was the only reality ...

Bibliotheca sacra

By Edwards A. Park, Professor in Andover Theological Seminary. ... discoursed like Latimer, Barrow, Taylor, South, Tillot- son, Whitefield, Hall, Chalmers? ...