Philip Ryken

“O Lord, strengthen our infirmities, especially those which hinder our ministry beyond our control; give us nerve to overcome the shyness that fetters utterance, and ease for awkwardness of address;…

In addition to what Sean Lucas has written, there are several other points worth making about Michael Spencer’s article Tuesday in the Christian Science Monitor:

For Calvin’s 500th anniversary, you are all set: guided by the Calvin blog on Ref 21, just read daily selections of the Institutes.  But what will you do in 2010, for…

“O Lord, open thou our minds to see ourselves as thou seest us, or even as others see us and we see others; and from all unwillingness to know our…

Typically Bishop Ridding introduced his litany with words like these: “Seeing, brethren, that we are weak men but entrusted with a great office, and that we cannot but be liable…

A friend has shared with me a litany, or formal order for prayer, written by Dr. George Ridding, the first Bishop of Southwell.  The litany was designed for use at…

In one of his two sermons on Ecclesiastes 9:10 (about doing things with all your might), Charles Spurgeon refers to the imprisonment of John Bunyan, and to Bunyan’s undying commitment…

The letter “from the editor” in the spring issue of ByFaith (the official magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America, in which I serve as a pastor) reports that ByFaith…

I just received my copy of John Piper’s new book Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?  One of Piper’s reasons for making the biblical case for born-again…

Writing for National Review Online, Jay Nordlinger recounts a broadcast from Middle East Media Research Institute in which a Muslim cleric from Egypt defends no fault divorce.  What interests me…