Philip Ryken

Presumably the blogosphere is already abuzz with warnings about The Golden Compass, a New Line Cinema production scheduled to open on December 7. The warnings are justified: the film is…

This is old news by now, but I wanted to share one more highlight from last week’s Reformation Hymn Festival. The children’s choir sang Martin Luther’s “All Glory be to God…

Kelly Kapic and our own Justin Taylor have just edited John Owen’s classic work Communion with the Triune God.  It is everything that one can hope for in theology: Trinitarian,…

. . . that I found while mining his Commentary on John for something else entirely: “Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection” (Vol.…

“Lord’s day, April 18–Retired early this morning into the woods for prayer; had the assistance of God’s Spirit, and faith in exercise, and was enabled to plead with fervency for…

Last night was the 8th annual Reformation Hymn Festival at Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church.  It was a memorable evening of praise. Westminster Seminary California’s President, Dr. Robert Godfrey, was the…

This week I received not one but two fresh new books on evangelism in the mail. One is by Rick Phillips: Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from…

New Testament scholar and Bible teacher Dan Doriani was here in Philadelphia this week for Westminster Seminary’s annual preaching conference.  Dr. Doriani, who serves as Senior Minister at Central Presbyterian…

The folks at Generous Giving (www.GenerousGiving.org) have produced an excellent resource giving biblical and practical responses to dozens of common excuses that people make for not giving to kingdom work. 

“Saturday, October 18, in my morning devotions, my soul was exceedingly melted, and I bitterly mourned over my exceeding sinfulness and vileness. I never before had felt so pungent and…