Personal background:
Born – July
13, 1935 in Ashland, Kentucky
Married – to
Louise Wallis of Sterling, Illinois on June 28, 1958
Children - son Robert Tillman II (TR), married to Annette, a
baby on the way (first grandson); daughter Melissa Louise
A.B.
Trevecca Nazarene University of Nashville, Tennessee 1970
M.Div.
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky 1972
M.A.
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 1973
D. Phil.
Oxford University 1977
D.D.,
Trevecca Nazarene University, 2008
Senior
Minister, Westminster Chapel, February 1, 1977 to February 1,
2002
Author of fifty books
 R
T Kendall Ministries Inc is an IRS 501© (3) non-profit organization
The board members are:
Dr. R. T. Kendall,
president
Mr. Randolph Wall,
vice-president, is also the president of Blue-Fin Construction
Co. of Key Largo, Florida
Mr. Richard Oates,
secretary, retired, former Principal of Island Community School,
Islamorada, Florida
Mr. Richard
Overfield, is the president of Keys Accounting and Tax Service,
Key Largo, Florida
Mr. Robert T.
Kendall is the director of R T Kendall Ministries
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Dear friend,
 Thank
you for turning to our website. In December 2007 we moved to
Hendersonville, Tennessee. We live on Hickory Lake, a view as lovely as
the one we had in the Florida Keys.
 We
praise God every day that doors are opening up for both a preaching and
writing ministry. Several times a year I go to a ‘Word, Spirit,
 Power’
Conference with Jack Taylor and Charles Carrin. These two men have
graciously taken me under their wings and have enabled me to be heard
where I never dreamed of being heard.
Our
premiss is this. It seems to us that there has been a ‘silent divorce’
in the church, speaking generally, between the Word and the Spirit. When
there is a divorce, some children stay with the mother, some stay with
the father.
In
this divorce, there are those on the ‘word’ side and those on the
‘Spirit’ side. What is the difference?
Take
those of us who represent the Word. Our message is this: we must
earnestly contend for the faith ‘once delivered unto the saints’ (Jude
3), we need get back to expository preaching, sound doctrine such as
justification by faith, the sovereignty of God and the internal
testimony of the Spirit as taught by men like Martin Luther, John Calvin
and Jonathan Edwards. What is wrong with this emphasis? Nothing. It is
exactly right.
Take
those whose emphasis has been on the Holy Spirit. What is the message?
We need to rediscover the power that was manifested in the Book of Acts,
there needs to be a demonstration of signs, wonders and miracles; we
need to see the gifts of the Spirit operating in the church – that the
world will once again take notice of the church so that people are left
without excuse. What is wrong with this emphasis? Nothing. It is exactly
right.
We
believe that the need of the hour is not one or the other – but both! It
is our view that this simultaneous combination will result in
spontaneous combustion! And then, but almost certainly only then, will
the world be shaken once again by the message of the church.
This
was the message I have preached over the years at Westminster Chapel
in London. This is what we are endeavoring to preach in America
and around the world.
This is not all we preach but it is certainly one of the main things we
preach alongside the need for total forgiveness and learning to be
sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit. We need your prayers. God
bless you. Thank you for taking the time to read this special
letter to you!
R.
T. Kendall
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