Excerpt: 'In our desperate thirst, God gives us the cool water of his grace, refreshing us from his word and satisfying us in Jesus. Anytime we feel like we are dying in a spiritual desert, what we need to do—very simply—is go back to the Bible and back to Jesus in prayer, asking him to satisfy our thirsty souls. Remember what the Bible says about a person who takes his delight in the word of God, and who studies it night and day: “He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither” (Ps. 1:3).'
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Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.
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Philip Graham Ryken is 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...
