Rick Phillips

In answer to the question about how we should prepare for the coming years, with the mounting onslaught against Judeo-Christian values, I think the bottom line is that we need…

If I am going to think about the books that have most influenced my life as a Christian, the starting place has to be James Montgomery Boice’s 4 volume Romans…

As Phil has commented, the Christianity Today list of the 50 most important Christian books of the last fifty years shows a decided tilt towards Christian experience over Christian truth.  In…

Having been nurtured in the warmth of the doctrines of grace for my entire Christian life, I am often dismayed at charges that are leveled against Calvinism, especially those that…

The rules from C.S. Lewis are both compelling and challenging.  It reminds of one of Dr. James Boice’s maxims: speak from the Germanic and not the Latin side of the…

My beloved Boston Red Sox have been officially out of the major league baseball playoffs for a few days, but actually out of it for over a month. This has…

As Phil has noted, we enjoyed a particularly satisfying ordination service this past Sunday evening at our church, as the Rev. Andrew DiNardo was entered into the gospel ministry as…

My visit to Covenant PCA in Fayetteville, NC to speak at the “Bearing the Sword” conference provided some quite edifying conversations and incidents.  A high proportion of the church members…

While fearing that this continued discussion may start to seem, well, tortuous, I want to respond to some mail that asked for an exegetical defense of my claim that Christians…

Jason, Thanks for linking to that excellent symposium.  I attached a long comment to the original blog site that presents my full argument against torture, which readers can find here.…