Philip Ryken
Philip Ryken is the Bible teacher on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals' weekly radio broadcast, Every Last Word, and is a member of the Alliance Council. Dr. Ryken also serves as senior minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he has preached since 1995. He was educated at Wheaton College (IL), Westminster Theological Seminary (PA), and the University of Oxford (UK), from which he received his doctorate in historical theology. He lives with his wife, Lisa, and children, Josh, Kirsten, Jack, Kathryn, and Karoline, in Center City, Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including Written in Stone: The Ten Commandments and Today's Moral Crisis and He Speaks to Me Everywhere: Meditations on Christianity and Culture. When he is not preaching or playing with his children, Dr. Ryken likes to play basketball and ponder the relationship between Christianity and American culture.
- Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus+Nothing=Everything
- Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics--Abridged in One Volume, John Bolt (ed.)
- K. Scott Oliphint, God With Us
- Review of Tony Reinke, Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books
- John MacArthur:
- The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
- Review: Galatians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the NT)
- Against the Tide
- J.I. Packer and the Evangelical Future
- The Elder
Preaching through John's gospel, I have paused to meditate upon the person and work of John the Baptist. Here was one who came as a "witness, to bear witness about the Light" (Jn 1:6). Consistently (1:7, 14, 20) we are told that the Baptist was not the Light but a witness to the Light.
One of the amusing things I have noticed in the last twelve months or so has been a shift in the rhetoric used by members of the older generation (40 plus) surrounding what twenty- and thirty-somethings will believe. Five years...
