Professor Support
This page will post questions strictly by our alums for answers by our professors related to readings, current trends in theology, and other needs to support them in their ministry work.
To submit a question to be fielded to a professor and published here, email Grant Van Leuven at gvanleuven@rpts.edu. Efforts will be made to publish responses by our professors in a prompt manner. If you have not seen your question answered after several weeks, please feel free to contact Grant to check on the status of a reply. Please keep in mind that some questions or topics will require some time to give a thoughtful and adequate answer for all to find useful.
Recent Answers, Presentations, and Reviews by Professors
February 2010 Webinar with Steven Miller on "How Do We Know What Missions Is?"
This lecture outlined the main topics of: The Aim, Motive, Power, and Instrument of Missions; The Church Propagates the Church; The Nature and Extent of Church Power; and The Indigenous Church.
December '09 Webinar with Professor Steven Miller on a Critique of the Short-Term Missions Industry
RPTS Adjunct Professor of Missions shares a critique of a recent Short-Term Missions conference he attended while offering a proper Reformed view of Missions out of which a proper Short-Term Missions model should come. Thanks to our sponsor, RP Missions.
October '09 Webinar with Dr. Jack Kinneer, "A New Perspective on the New Perspective on Paul"
Adjunct Professor of New Testament Studies, shows literally why N. T. Wright's system of teaching a new concept of what Paul means in statements such as "righteousness of God" in his book What Saint Paul Really Said are wrong. Thanks to our sponsors, RP Missions!
July '09 Webinar with Dr. Scipione on the New RPTS Biblical Counseling Institute
Learn about how the new RPTS Biblical Counseling Institute is here to serve you and your church! This message was given to alums and friends of RPTS in an online webinar, and was recorded thanks to RP Missions.
Dr. George C. Scipione, Director of the RPTS Biblical Counseling Institute, responds to a question by an RPTS alum about the AA 12-step recovery program and similar Christian programs using it as a model related to nouthetic counseling.
April '09 Webinar on Handling Details with Preaching by Dr. Dennis Prutow
This is a visual and audio webinar lecture by Dr. Dennis Prutow on "Handling Details in Your Sermon". Thanks to RP Missions for sponsoring the webinars.
By David F. Wells (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 2008).
October '08 Webinar Presentation by Dr. Dennis Prutow
This presentation is the first to be recorded, so when you click through it will begin to run on its own with Dr. Prutow's lecture in audio along with it. Thanks to RP Missions' new sponsorship to make this happen! Dr. Prutow, Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, presents his preaching preparation procedure from deriving an exegetical point, to determining a homiletical point, to creating a starting homiletical outline.
July '08 Webinar Presentation Slides by Dr. Calvin Troup
Dr. Troup addressed communication pitfalls in preaching and provided helpful presentation advice in his lecture, "From the Study to the Pulpit".
March '08 Webinar Presenation slides by Dr. Kinneer on Easter Narratives. Includes questions and answers published. More webinars are being planned and will be announced.
Other RPTS Professor Resources
Word for the Week
Headed by Dr. Dennis Prutow, Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology for RPTS, Word for the Week comes to you courtesy of Westminster Evangelistic Ministries (WEM), an outreach of Sterling Reformed Presbyterian Church, Sterling Kansas and the Midwest Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. WEM produces this Word for the Week web site, Word for the Week devotional columns as a free service to newspapers, Word for the Week Radio messages, Mini-Message of the Week telephone devotionals via 800 telephone service, and audio messages on SermonAudio.com in coordination with the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. WEM also maintains a tape and CD ministry you can sample.
Echo Hills Christian Study Center
Writings and resources by Dr. Jack Kinneer, Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies for RPTS. The goal is to provide educational resources for Biblical and liturgical studies, with the motto: Let the Reader Understand! Echo Hills was founded to provide educational services to deepen and enrich the understanding of the Christian faith especially in the study of the New Testament and the history and theology of worship.
