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Sounding forth the Gospel in Rome through a New Church Plant

The summer months of July and August have been for ITA preparation for several of the events soon up and coming in September and the fall season.    We have more boots on the ground in Rome, and this is a good achievement! We need them for the plans that await us here.   To begin with our team […]
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Rome Church Plant

“Our ambition is to be approved workmen so that the truth is entrusted to other faithful men in Italy.” APRIL 2022 Rome Church Plant I have never considered myself a church planter. The ministry of Italian Theological Academy has over the years discussed church planting as a worthy endeavor to pursue through its students but […]
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Reaching Rome

This month at ITA we look back on September and ahead to what lies in wait!   Perhaps closest to our heart right now, and propelling our ministry drive in Rome, is the work at what we affectionately call our Roman theater house, which is actually called “T” with the T standing for acting or acTing.    In […]
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Reflecting on Recent Ministry Experience and Reaching New Churches in Rome

In recounting the month of July, ITA has chosen simply to highlight what ministry looked like from June forward to date. We promised to do this, and could not do this, in our June update, due to the more pressing need to announce the publication of MacArthur & Mayhue’s Biblical Doctrine in Italian. ITA continues […]
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The Ministry Review

Ministry on Several Fronts May in the Ministry Review, now nearing the close of the month, has experienced a variety of ministry emphases. Our training program at ITA has progressed forward with students online from several locations throughout Italy meeting regularly to study in our survey of the Bible (1st year) and Foundations (Fundamentals of the Faith and […]
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God’s Providence in Rome

In his Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 2: God and Creation, renowned theologian of the past, Herman Bavinck defines providence according to “the divine activity of preservation and governance itself” (Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 375). In accordance with God’s wonderful counsel and excellent wisdom ALL THINGS exist and happen (Ibid.).    This is a rather grand introduction to this past […]
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The Ministry Review

Our review of the ministry this month of January 2021 actually looks forward rather than back to the month’s events as we normally do. Within a very short time from this update (maybe a few days or hours depending on when you receive it), ITA’s annual church leaders’ conference called The Church (La Chiesa) will […]
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Music for the local church: A Theological and Practical Workshop

Music for the local church: A Theological and Practical Workshop Colossians 3:16-17 draws close connections between the songs we sing, our hearts’ familiarity with the truth of God, and our thankful expressions of praise to God. Yet all too often what we sing and why we sing in corporate worship are misunderstood and mis-valued in […]
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The Ministry Review

Our standard ITA update has undergone some slight modifications. Of significance is its new name: The Ministry Review. This is simply for the purpose of crystalizing its goal in, what is hoped to be, a more memorable manner (name): it strives to present a review of the ministry of Italian Theological Academy (ITA) on a […]
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The Value Of Time-Tested Partnerships

Worthy are those ministers and ministries that through the Lord’s gracious enablement preserve enduring relationships in ministry. Throughout our continued coming to maturity in Italy, not to mention numerous transitions, including the most recent, and perhaps most significant, move to Rome, the ITA is learning to be forever more appreciative of this principle, the inestimable […]
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Continued Faithfulness While Reaching New Heights

Our update this month begins with an apology for having missed out on giving you a May update! Life and ministry got busier, it seems, during the lockdown due to the pandemic than under otherwise normal circumstances.    Speaking of the coronavirus pandemic, as perhaps most now know, Italy has come out of the critical […]
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