Orlando Chapel

The RTS Orlando community corporately worships on Wednesdays from 10:00 - 10:55 a.m. in the Robert B. and Katherine Pamplin Chapel, and everyone is welcome.

This Year's Theme: "Seek the Lord"
This year’s chapel service will focus on nearness to God. Seminary students and graduates alike often describe how difficult it was to maintain and sense of close of communion with God while facing all of the demands of life, school and ministry. This challenge doesn’t disappear after graduation, but is often greater serving in ministry full time.

There is no way to overcome this challenge apart from a resolve to “seek the Lord” through all of the means He has given us.

The fall semester will draw from the deep well of the Psalms as a source of spiritual life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer describes the Psalms as “the great school of prayer.” He also said, "The child learns to speak because the parent speaks to the child. The child learns the language of the parent. So we learn to speak to God because God has spoken and speaks to us. In the language of the Father in heaven God’s children learn to speak with God. Repeating God’s own words, we begin to pray to God."

A full Christian life and a full Christian ministry are unimaginable apart from a deep knowledge of the Psalms and the learned practice of praying them. Praying the Psalms has great benefit for personal, family and corporate worship – a single spiritual discipline with multiple levels of benefit and use in life and ministry. In the fall chapel we will pray the Psalms corporately, individually and musically as well as hear the Gospel proclaimed through them.

The spring semester will focus upon loving God with all our being by exploring and practicing what Jesus called “the greatest commandment.” As we grow in our understanding and practice of Deuteronomy 6:4-5, we will experience and practice the many means God has given us to love Him with our whole being. 

Praying the Psalms "I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word."- Psalm 119:15-16
Date	Speaker	Title	Media
Aug 24	Dr. Don Sweeting President, James Woodrow Hassell Professor of Church History	2011 Convocation Chapel: "Seek The Lord Together" - John 5:31-40
Aug 31	Dr. Mark Futato Academic Dean, Robert L. Maclellan Professor of Old Testament	"Why Pray The Psalms?" - Psalm 1
Sept 7	Rev. Ray Cortese Pastor, Seven Rivers Presbyterian Church (Lecanto, FL)	"Courage" - Psalm 27
Sept 14	Rev. Mike Glodo Assoc. Prof. of Systematic Theology, Dean of the Chapel	"The Kingdom Construction of Reality" - Psalm 72
Sept 21	Dr. Greg Livingstone Founder, Frontiers	"The Two Most Exciting Events Yet to Occur" - Matthew 16:13-16
Sept 28	Rev. Jim Hatch Church Planter Development Director, Mission to North America (MNA)	"God Makes Things Grow" - 1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Oct 5	Dr. Bob Orner Guest Lecturer, Director of Field Education	Hope for the Hopeless - Psalm 42 & 43
Oct 12		Fall Reading Week
Oct 19	Mr. Scott Redd Asst. Prof. of Old Testament, Dean of Students	Psalms & Pilgrammage - Psalm 84
Oct 26	Dr. Scott Swain Assoc. Professor of Systematic Theology	The Faithfulness of God: Why We Pray - Psalm 36
Nov 2	Dr. Don Sweeting	"Above All, My Bible" (The Faith of William Tyndale) - 2 Timothy 4:13
Nov 9	Rev. Stephen Oharek Pastor, Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church, (Oviedo, FL)	"Prayer & Gospel Brokenness" - Psalm 39
Nov 16	TBD
Nov 23		Service of Thanksgiving
Nov 30	Dr. Reggie Kidd Professor of New Testament

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