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Romans pt 4 – When Things Go Dark (Rom 13:11-14).
This Romans series is being written in tandem with a sermon series that I am teaching at Watermark Church in Tampa, where I serve.If you would like the sermon audio, click HERE.If you’d like to start from the beginning, here is PART 1, Romans 13, A Metaphor for the Church in Rome As we have […]
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Romans: pt 3 – The Women of Pauls Letter to the Romans
It is clear from the book of Romans that women were not background characters in the leading and establishing of the church; they were equals. They preached, shepherded, evangelized, and suffered in every way alongside the men. And we must begin to reconcile what we believe about the role of women in the church today with the work that women were actually doing in the early church.
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Romans: pt 2 – The Context and the Conflict.
The problems that the Roman church struggled with are hard to gather by simply looking at Paul’s letter to Romans all by itself. We need to see the historical, geographical, and political situation that they are living in so that we can better decipher the reasoning behind the letter.
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Romans: pt 1 – Meet the Christians in Rome.
This week I am beginning a sermon series at Watermark Church (where I serve as Pastor) on Pauls letter to the church in Rome. Romans is a letter that I am particularly passionate about as it was the main focus of my time at Northern Seminary where I studied the book from what has come […]
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“Whoever Loves Has Fulfilled the Law” ~ Romans 13:8b
Last week I spend some time with my German brothers and sisters at the Freakstock festival, a gathering of sub-culture Christians from across Europe and Asia. The band and I played three shows, and I also had the opportunity to teach a few workshops, one on what it means to be called The Image of […]
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The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great & the Risen Body of Christ.
I spent a couple of hours last week in the Istanbul Museum of Archeology and was able to view the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. It is enourmous and ornate. Originally it was painted in bright colors, some of which can still be seen on the sides and along the top moulding. This wasnt the […]
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The Obelisk of Theodosius and the Horseman of Revelation 6.
On my first morning out in Istanbul, we got up early to head towards the Hagio Sophia, the site of the – originally 4th century – church where a modern day mosque sits. On the path from the burrow of Taksim, Istanbul towards the mosque we came across the Hippodrome of Constantinople, an ancient horse […]
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Time for an Update
I’ve been silent for a long time. I deleted my social media accounts, and made a commitment to remove my presence from the internet in general for a year, so here I am. There has been a lot of turmoil but also a ton of growth. So as I sit here in my hotel room […]
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White Supremacy: A Spiritual Darknesses in Our Highest Places.
When we speak of Jesus being our king, we are speaking of a king who stands against spiritual darkness in high places. In our world today, one manifestation of that spiritual darkness is ‘white supremacy.’ It tells lies about my black brother and sisters, and about myself; it lies about the worth of different races […]
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The Peace-makers: War, violence, and the response of the Church Fathers. Part 4
The insinuation of many evangelicals is that the martyr has no place in the 21st-century church; that the martyr is simply a fool without a gun whose life has been cut short for lack of firearms training. There seems to be no place in the modern church for the one who utterly refuses to kill, the one who believes that there are things far worse than death…
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Tommy Preson Phillips 