Philip Ryken

Here is a juicy paragraph from Charles Spurgeon (“The Dying Thief in a New Light”) that couldn’t find its way into last week’s sermon but was too good not to…

There is still time to register for the Workshop on Biblical Exposition at Tenth Presbyterian Church February 6-8.  One of last year’s participants wrote: “I want to thank you again…

From Dave Shiflett, Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity: “Most people go to church to get something they cannot get elsewhere. This consuming public–people who already…

Carl, can you tell us again where to get all these provocative quotes from P. T. Forsyth?  With regard to the last quotation in your most recent post, may I…

Many thanks to Ligon for reporting Aaron Messner’s call to Covenant College.  Aaron has exercised a faithful and dynamic ministry at Tenth Church, and we expect him to make a…

Belatedly, I write to reflect further on Carl Trueman’s Counterpoint (“Close, but No Cigar”).  There Carl writes about his recent visit to a synagogue and the rabbi’s thoughtful homily on Genesis…

This is the second installment in a series of occasional selections from Dave Shiflett’s Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity.  To prove his thesis, Mr. Shiflett must…

If scoring is the criterion, then basketball is semi-Pelagian, at best.  For a truly Pelagian sport, one would have to consider the quintessentially English sport of cricket, which is much higher…

One of the most important questions we ask prospective pastoral interns at Tenth Church is: “How do people grow spiritually?”  The answer quickly reveals whether or not candidates are grace-oriented in…

Yesterday my father (Leland Ryken, Professor of English, Wheaton College) sent me a thought-provoking exchange from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden: “If a story is not about the hearer he…