Overture 37 from the 2021 PCA General Assembly (approved as amended by a substantial majority of commissioners) proposes a change to the Book of Church Order (BCO) in Chapters…
Richard Phillips
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ChurchConfessionalLeadershipMinistryTheology
A Response to the PCA “Moderators’ Letter”
May We Ask a Question?by Richard Phillips June 17, 2021During the new members class of my church, I tell the people that there is one question I will never resent them asking. The question is: “Are we being…
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ChurchMinistryWorship
Five Reasons to Practice Expository Preaching
by Richard Phillips May 29, 2020I’ve been encouraged recently by many pastors’ commitment to the expository preaching of God’s Word. By “expository preaching,” we really mean two things. First, and most important, a Bible…
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Watch Dr. Richard Phillips explain the need for the PCA to continue “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Fidelity…
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MinistrySanctification
Four Cheers for PCA Approval of the Nashville Statement
by Richard Phillips July 1, 2019Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Reformation21, you can access the original here. There have not been many times over the last twenty years in the PCA General Assembly…
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FamilyMinistryTheology
Revoice and the “Idolatry” of the Nuclear Family
by Richard Phillips October 2, 2018This article originally appeared at Reformation21. It is reposted here with permission. When the Obergefell case was argued before the US Supreme Court to establish the right to gay marriage,…
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It seems that every generation of the church sees a struggle to rightly define Christian sanctification. This happens in part because of the importance of the subject. Sanctification is…