Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry

WSC is holding the 2021 Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry on April 6-8 and will be welcoming Rev. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger as the speaker. The theme of Dr. Riddlebarger's lectures is “The Pastor as Apologist, Theologian, and Bible Scholar: How What You Learn in Seminary Can Inform Your Preaching.”

Lecture Titles

April 6: Preaching and Apologetics
April 7: Preaching and Systematic Theology
April 8: Preaching and Biblical Theology

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Rev. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger

Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is currently visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California. He was senior pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California, from 1995 until his retirement in December 2020. For over twenty-five years he was co-host of the popular White Horse Inn, a radio-internet talk show. A fourth generation Californian, Kim is a graduate of California State University Fullerton (B.A.), Simon Greenleaf University (M.A.), Westminster Seminary California (M.A.R.), and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D.) where he worked under Richard A. Muller. Kim’s doctoral dissertation is entitled The Lion of Princeton — Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield: Apologist, Polemicist, and Theologian.

Kim has served as a visiting lecturer in the graduate program in Reformation studies at Concordia University in Irvine, CA and was the chairman of the Growing Reformed Churches Conference, cosponsored by First Chino URC and Westminster Seminary California, where he served as a member of the board of trustees. Kim also served as executive vice president of Christians United for Reformation (CURE), the forerunner of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE).

Kim is an ordained minister in the United Reformed Churches (URCNA), is the author of four books: A Case For Amillennialism, (Baker Books, 2003/2013), and The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth About the Antichrist (Baker Books, 2006), First Corinthians: The Lectio Continua Expository New Testament Commentary (Tolle Lege Press, 2013); and The Lion of Princeton: B. B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian (Lexham Press, 2015).


Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry

The Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry were endowed by friends of WSC and by the den Dulks in 1993, when Bob den Dulk resigned as the second president of the Seminary.  In appreciation for the den Dulks' 30-year service to the Westminster Seminaries in Pennsylvania and California and in recognition of their passion for the preparation of pastors to preach the Word of God faithfully and powerfully, WSC designated the proceeds of this endowment to bring an experienced pastor to the campus each year to address current and future ministers of Word and Sacrament in order to encourage and offer wise counsel regarding the rigors and joys of shepherding Christ's flock.