Welcome to the Suburbs of Heaven,
the website of Guy M. Richard, President and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta. Guy has served in this capacity since 2017.
He is the author of four books and many articles and is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He and his wife Jennifer have three children.
You can follow him personally or through RTS Atlanta on Facebook and Twitter.
@Tietje Thank you Ben! Grateful for your kind words. I wanted to give the best possible argument for and response to the “credo” position and to be as gracious as possible in doing so. Setting up straw men only to knock them down never helps the Church move forward!
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Blog Post Rejoicing in Suffering, Part 2
Colossians 1:24 is one of the most challenging passages in the New Testament. For many years, I struggled to understand...
Blog Post Rejoicing in Suffering
Many years ago, as part of our church’s search to find a new assistant pastor, my wife and I took...
Blog Post As Long as it is Called Today
I am convinced that all of us struggle with procrastination, at least to some degree. For many of us, it...
Blog Post Sometimes something worth doing is worth doing poorly
Many years ago when I was in seminary, I had a visit from a friend who—as soon as I opened...
Blog Post Why Another Book on Prayer?
I remember hearing a well-known minister and theologian talk about how he had once been asked to write a book...
Blog Post How should we pray? In Light of our Salvation.
Have you noticed that the pronouns “me” and “my” never occur in the Lord’s Prayer? Jesus doesn’t tell us to...