Rick Phillips

Thanks, Phil, for sharing Paul Tripp’s description of the Bible as a story with God’s annotated notes.  I think that is a good way of putting it.  But I have…

In an effort to keep up with urban church contextualization trends, I have learned that the pastoral staff at Tenth Presbyterian Church has really gotten into the Holiday Spirit.  It’s…

I have to weigh in on Phil’s side regarding Narnia.  It certainly is true that C.S. Lewis had some doctrinal problems (I find this is a fairly common thing when…

Noll’s article is an excellent topic for discussion.  I thought he hit on a number of important issues, a few of which prompt some comments from me. I particularly appreciated…

Scott Clark reports a fascinating but entirely predictable progression in the Reformed world’s theological rift these days.  The axiom holds true: one is moving either in the direction of Rome…

Okay, it wasn’t a private lunch, but there weren’t all that many of us there, either.  Gov. Romney was in Greenville yesterday and I attended a Q & A forum…

Today is All Saints Day, the super-bowl Sunday of sacred relics in the Roman Catholic Church.  Not many people realize that this is the reason why Reformation Day is the…

… the more I understand why I preach.  While there are many good and important motivations for preaching Christ which I keenly feel — the salvation of the lost, the…

Like millions of Americans, I have become thoroughly addicted to Animal Planet’s Meerkat Manor.  If you haven’t seen it, you are just missing out big time.  Meerkat Manor chronicles the…

Now, Carl, you don’t have to take the Edwardian (as in Longshanks) stance towards all non-English cultural expressions.  Your point about the commercialization of football is well taken (which is…