Philip Graham Ryken
Philip Graham Ryken (DPhil, University of Oxford) is the eighth president of Wheaton College. Formerly, he served as senior minister of Philadelphia’s historic Tenth Presbyterian Church. He has written or edited more than 40 books, including the popular title Loving the Way Jesus Loves, and has lectured and preached at universities and seminaries worldwide, and has lectured and preached at universities and seminaries worldwide.
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How Should We Respond to Beauty?
Our witness to creation always demands a personal response. This beauty that we see all around us—how should we respond? And what is our responsibility as a result?
Discontentment Says Something About You, Not Your Circumstances
Our own complaints are not caused by our outward circumstances; rather, they reveal the inward condition of our hearts. This is often the source of our discontent: thinking that our “greeds” are really our needs.
How Can Jesus Be the Only Way?
The problem with Christians is that they insist they have the only way to salvation. Sometimes they talk about being “born again.” Sometimes they tell you to “believe in Jesus.” It all boils down to the same thing: Christians think they worship the only true God. But how can Jesus be the only way? One […]
Christmas Proclamation
There is a dark side to the Christmas story. My son discovered it when he was only three years old. His mother read him a paraphrase of the Christmas story from Madeleine L’Engle’s book The Glorious Impossible. The book is beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of Giotto’s paintings of the life of Christ from the […]
Books That Still Matter: 15 Years in Print
In each issue, we’re looking at a book published during Modern Reformation’s 15-year history with a look to why this book was and still is significant. Don A. Carson first published his award-winning book The Gagging of God in 1996, the year that I was ordained to preach the gospel. I devoured the book shortly […]
