Blogs by Rick Phillips

If you don't know about the Tominthebox news network, you are wrong.  An example is this spoof about a Twitter church.  It is too funny (and just a bit scary), especially this classic comment: "We don't need to actually get... continue

I will take Carl's gratuitous appeal to Prov. 26:4 as a concession of defeat to my unimpeachable visual evidence.  (I didn't think such pitiful argumentation qualified for scholarship in England.)  Moreover, since our friends Ligon (South Carolina Scotsman) and Derek... continue

I'm sure many of our readers have seen or heard about Michael Spenser's article, picked up in the Christian Science Monitor, "The Coming Evangelical Collapse."  I strongly agree with his overall perspective, while perhaps quibbling on some details.  Michael Bell... continue

In a recent column over at 9 Marks, our good friend Mark Dever offered a list of things he can and cannot abide with in a church.  Only three items fell into Dever's "can't abide with them" category: universalism, racism,... continue

Sorry it took me so long to answer Carl's eccentric rants regarding English rugby vs. American football.  I took the liberty of posting in a couple of pictures (see extended view).  The top is a dramatic moment from a game... continue

There is so much irony wrapped up in Rick Warren's invitation to invoke God's blessing on the inauguration of Barak Obama that I am astonished that Carl Trueman has not written more about it.  The news is that the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender... continue

During our earlier discussion of Tim Keller's book The Prodigal God, I pointed out the way some have used this parable to undermine the centrality of the atonement in salvation.  I also stated that I was confident that Keller would... continue

With Veterans Day right around the corner, I did a pastor's letter this week on how to pray for our soldiers (as an old Army guy, I use "soldier" as an all-purpose military personnel term, and as a way of showing charity... continue

It's seems that our Lord's "Parable of the Prodigal Son" is highly in vogue these days.  On the surface, this is a good thing, because what more beautiful message is there than that of this Father's lavish love?  But those... continue

I have been seething in shame and indignation since the beginning of our banking/Wall Street crisis.  For one thing, it seems that the President's proposal, now made law, amounts to taking out a credit card to pay out-of-control credit card... continue