Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips is the Bible teacher of the God's Living Word broadcast, an Alliance Council Member, and chair of the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. Rev. Phillips is senior minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, S.C., having served previously as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Coral Springs/Margate, Florida, and as minister of preaching at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, a master of business administration degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, and a master of divinity degree at Westminster Theological Seminary. Prior to entering the ministry, he commanded tank units as an officer in the U.S. Army and later served as an assistant professor of leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Rev. Phillips is the author of numerous books, including Hebrews (part of the Reformed Expository Commentary series) and Holding Hands, Holding Hearts: Recovering a Biblical View of Christian Dating, co-written with his wife, Sharon.
The Phillipses live in Greenville, S.C., with their five children, Hannah, Matthew, Jonathan, Helen, and Lydia.
- 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...
