FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Dear Dallas Theological Seminary Family, On Friday, October 26 in my report to the Seminary Board I announced my future retirement plans as president of Dallas Theological Seminary and want to share them with you. After much prayer and discernment, I am announcing my plan to retire from the …
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Thirty-seven years ago a group of ordinary people called Gary DeSalvo to lead Temple Bible Church in Temple, Texas, straight, “fresh out of seminary, in 1981,” DeSalvo explains. He was twenty-six years old, and he and his family “fell in love with the people.” DeSalvo explains further, “There’s no other place we would rather serve …
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Dr. Larry J. Waters (PhD, 1998), professor of Bible Exposition, Editor-in-Chief for “Bibliotheca Sacra,” author, beloved friend, devoted husband, father of two, grandfather to five, and spiritual mentor to many passed away this morning, Tuesday, August 7, 2018, after suffering a stroke. Although we trust that his joy abounds in the presence of the Lord Jesus he …
In the early hours of Friday, August 3, 2018, Robert P. Lightner (ThM, 1959; ThD, 1964) went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He served as professor of Dallas Theological Seminary, author, beloved friend, devoted husband, father of three, grandfather to fifteen, grandfather-in-law to seven, a great-grandfather to six, and mentor to many. Our thoughts …
Through his ministry The Last Well, Dr. Todd Phillips (DMin, 2010) has set the ambitious goal of providing clean drinking water as well as eradicating waterborne illness for the citizens of Liberia by the year 2020. Liberia has long been noted as one of the poorest countries of the world. And with a life expectancy …
Mark Warrington (ThM, 2013) and Brady Blair (MABS, MACE, 2017) serve as the Director and Associate Director of the Baptist Student Ministry at The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, TX. BSM is a ministry of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). You can read about their work with college students at www.bsmatutdallas.org. …
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Not too far from the downtown skyscrapers of Dallas, Texas, Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church sits in the modest Oak Cliff community known as “The Bottom.” Why the name? For many years the church has lived at the bottom of a floodplain of the Trinity River. All kinds of stories still exist today about Golden …
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I work at Children’s Relief International, a non-profit based in Rockwall, Texas. We partner with national leaders (many of whom are DTS grads) to take the light of Christ to those in deep poverty. Like many non-profits, the employees wear many hats, but I serve mainly as the staff photojournalist. I travel throughout the year to …
Zack McCoy (ThM, 2012) and other DTS Alumni pastoring in Houston and Corpus Christi partnered with EFCA ReachGlobal Crisis Response and local churches to reach out to those affected by Hurricane Harvey.