Special Lectures

and Sunday School Lessons

by Vern Sheridan Poythress

Below are files from various special lectures and lessons that I have presented over the years. Some of these come from presentations in adult Sunday School.

My family and I have been worshiping for years at Lansdale Presbyterian Church, in the Presbyterian Church in America. I am a teaching elder in the East Pennsylvania Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America. (For those not familiar with the differences, the Presbyterian Church in America is a major conservative denomination, committed to the authority of the Bible. It is to be distinguished from the Presbyterian Church USA, a mainline denomination with a mixed record concerning the Bible.) In the course of time I have taught a number of adult Sunday School classes. It is intended that I will gradually add to the material below. I have also taught from time to time at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church (Anglican Mission in America).

Let me remind you that these materials are very much works in progress. They are tentative in nature, and subject to repeated alteration and improvement. Not everything in them represents settled views on my part.

Conditions

You may use all the materials under the Creative Commons license BY-SA 4.0, or under the GNU Free Documentation License. For details, you must read this license. Briefly, the license allows you to use and pass on both unaltered and altered files, provided that you give credit to the author and that you grant to others the same freedom given to you.

Lessons

Audio

Bible

The Church: In Chinese and English

The Church: In English

Creation and Genesis 1

Doctrine

Doing a Dissertation

The following files come from a special lecture for doctoral students at WTS.

Language

The following ideas are condensed from the book In the Beginning Was the Word: Language--A God-Centered Approach (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2009).

The Book of Revelation

Major themes of Revelation, chapter by chapter. For the seminary course NT 311 Revelation, see the listing under courses.

Here are major themes of Revelation, discussed in a more topical arrangement.

There is a television interview of Vern Poythress on the topic of Eschatology and the Book of Revelation, with host Paul Arthur, In Sight, The Miracle Channel, http://www.miraclechannel.ca. The download is 3.9GB, so you need a fast connection. See also Vern S. Poythress, The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2000).

Science

Most of the lessons on science are condensations from Vern S. Poythress, Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006). A few cover material not found in this book.

Below are some talks from the Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.

Below is a condensation that focuses on Christ's role as God and as man

Theft

Explanation

The Open Document formats (.odp and .odt) are preferred, for the benefit of permanent public accessibility. You can view open document files with OpenOffice or LibreOffice, which are available for free. LibreOffice will probably prove better in the long run. You can view the PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is probably already on your computer. For further discussion of the issues of accessibility, see my article on "Digital Ethics and File Formats."

Fonts

Some files use Greek and Hebrew fonts. Others use special Roman alphabet fonts.  See my base page for access to these fonts.

by Dr. Vern S. Poythress
Westminster Theological Seminary
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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