Blogs by Phil Ryken

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:... continue

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 Calvin's 501st anniversary? Here's a suggestion: read Joel Beeke's latest... continue

"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 infirmities;      Save us and help us, we humbly beseech... continue

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 to hinder the work entrusted to us by our infirmities... continue

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 meetings of the clergy it was his privilege to supervise... continue

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 to preach the gospel, regardless of persecution.  Here is what... continue

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 will soon launch an online series about the health of... continue

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 Christianity is to guard the term against its misuse in... continue

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 is the last line, which gives Christians more credit than... continue

In recognition of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, the Kairos Journal recently reminded its readers of the subtitle to the evolutionist's magnum opus, The Origin of the Species.  What is the book's subtitle?  The Preservation of Favored Races in... continue