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.
Blog Post Forgiving Ourselves
One of my most vivid memories from childhood is being passed over for the class reading award in first grade....
Blog Post Confronting those who sin against us
On at least two occasions, in the context of speaking about forgiveness, Jesus instructs us to confront every brother or...
Blog Post Forgiveness sometimes requires getting the church involved
What do we do if we confront fellow believers who sin against us and, yet, they still don’t apologize and...
Blog Post Do we still need to forgive even if they never apologize?
In my last post, I argued that Jesus’s whole point in telling the “Parable of the Unforgiving Servant” was to...
Blog Post Experiencing Forgiveness
The reason many of us struggle so profoundly with forgiving other people is either that we have never experienced God’s forgiveness...
Blog Post Why is Forgiveness so Hard? Part 2
In my last article, I explored two potential factors that make forgiving someone who has hurt us so incredibly difficult....