The Heart of the Cross with Phil Ryken
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Kevin welcomes Phil Ryken, President at Wheaton College, to the podcast to talk about “The Heart of the Cross,” a newly reissued book comprised of sermons from Dr. Ryken and James Montgomery Boice. But before they get to the book, Kevin and Phil talk about preaching, the challenges of higher education, Tenth Presbyterian Church, the ministry of James Boice, and a little bit about pickup basketball.
Timestamps:
Intro and Sponsor [0:00-1:39]
Guest: Phil Ryken [1:40-10:43]
The Merits of Guest Preaching [10:44-13:50]
What Makes for Good Preaching? [13:51-20:50]
Reading When Busy [20:51-22:55]
Issues with Higher Education [22:56-28:38]
Who was James M. Boice? [28:39-38:40]
The Heart of the Cross [38:41-43:32]
The Simplicity and Profundity of the Cross [43:33-52:43]
The Merits of Provocative Advertisements [52:44-56:15]
The Merits of Expository Preaching [56:16-58:41]
The Lack of True Discipleship [58:42-1:01:12]
Why Continually Focus on the Cross? [1:01:13-1:06:52]
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung, and I am joined today with our special guest, Phil Reichen. |
| 0:21.1 | I'll say more about him. |
| 0:22.2 | He probably doesn't need introduction. |
| 0:23.8 | I'll introduce him in just a moment. |
| 0:25.5 | As we get started, as always, want to thank Crossway for sponsoring the podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | And so what Crossway does at the beginning of a season is they give me a printout of books that they encourage me |
| 0:38.4 | to mention on each week that I do a podcast. And so this is just what they gave me. They said, |
| 0:45.1 | today could you mention the Lord's Prayer by Kevin D. Young. So that's what's on the list of the books. |
| 0:50.7 | So the Lord's Prayer, learning from Jesus on what, why, and how to pray. So, well, |
| 0:56.6 | that's awkward. But Kevin DeYoung, me, has a new book with Crossway. I had the Jesus storybook |
| 1:02.5 | Bible come out a couple of months ago, end of March. And then this book is a short book. |
| 1:07.8 | There's lots of books on the Lord's Prayer. So here's another one. You can always |
| 1:11.5 | use good books on the Lord's Prayer. Hopefully this is a halfway decent one, but it's about 100 pages |
| 1:17.1 | long. So if you're looking for a good resource to read in your own devotional time or maybe with a |
| 1:23.2 | small group or a group of folks in your church or in your school, you can check that out on the |
| 1:29.5 | Lord's Prayer. I've done a book with Crossway and the Ten Commandments on the Lord's Prayer |
| 1:34.0 | and Lord willing one of these years ahead, I'll complete the triumvirate and do one on the |
| 1:38.3 | Apostles' Creed. So the Lord's Prayer, you can check that out. Today we have Phil Reichen. Phil, glad to have you with us. |
| 1:47.3 | Thank you, Kevin. I've got to say I'm totally confused because you said the Lord's Prayer is by Kevin DeYoung, and I thought it was by Jesus. |
| 1:53.5 | Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. Good clarification. |
| 1:56.2 | Let me just say, though, people that are listening in, they should definitely, when they see Kevin DeYoung's |
| 2:00.9 | name on a book, they should check it out. And I really enjoy the children's story Bible that you've |
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