PARoss – The Published Ministry of Phillip A. Ross

Phillip A. Ross

After forty years of ministry, I am convinced that the various crises we suffer are a result of not knowing how to read the Bible. Way too many scholars and seminaries are “tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by everyÂ windÂ ofÂ doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes” (Ephesians 4:14). These books are offered as a corrective. Lord, have mercy.

God's Great Plan

God's Great Plan for the Whole World

Phillip A. Ross
$24.99
An overview of the whole biblical story. It's not what you think it is! See the story in a whole new light.

Galatians -- Backstory/Christory

Phillip A. Ross
$14.95
Christ came to free people from bondage to the law of Moses, but not through the absolute abandonment of all law. Get real!

John's Miracles

John's Miracles -- Seeing Beyond Our Expectations

Phillip A. Ross
$14.99
John holds the humanity and divinity of Jesus in tension, and provides a different understanding of the miraculous.

Colossians

Colossians--Christos Singularis

Phillip A. Ross
$14.95
The complexity of God's singularity, the Solas Christos Singularis of God, is a way to understand the depth and texture of Paul's letter.

Arsy Varsy -- Reclaiming The Gospel in First Corinthians

Phillip A. Ross
$15.95
Paul thought, wrote and taught that some of the leaders of the Corinthian church had things backwards, and their getting things right meant that they first come to understand that they had things wrong.

Varsy Arsy -- Proclaiming The Gospel in Second Corinthians

Phillip A. Ross
$15.95
The Corinthian church had wealth, success and influence. But the false spirituality being taught was based on Greek wisdom. Paul saw through the charade and called the Corinthians back to Christ.

The Wisdom of Jesus Christ in Proverbs

Phillip A. Ross
$15.95
Here is the biblical message Proverbs in the light of Jesus Christ, from the perspective of Christianity. While Proverbs was written by King Solomon, the Christian faith is eternally consistent.

Informal Christianity

Informal Christianity--Refining Christ's Church

Phillip A. Ross
$7.95
Informal Christianity reviews the personal and informal realities involved in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that provide the foundation of Christianity.

Practically Christian -- Applying James Today

Phillip A. Ross
$7.95
Shine the light of Scripture into the darkened recesses of the contemporary church by shining the light of James into the hearts of contemporary readers.

Christ's Purpose

Peterâ€™s Vision of Christâ€™s Purpose in First Peter,

Phillip A. Ross
$14.95
Peter's vision of the progressive revelation of Christ in history fueled the scientific and technological revolutions that have already created a new world.

Peter's Vision

Peter's Vision of The End

Phillip A. Ross
$12.95
Peter was not suggesting that Godâ€™s purpose was the destruction of the world. Rather, God was working to save the world. Godâ€™s message was and is a message of hope not hate, of love not loathe.

The True Mystery of the Mystical Presence

$14.95
John Williamson Nevin (1846) & Phillip A. Ross
An expanded edition of Nevin’s book, The Mystical Presence—A Vindication of the Reformed or Calvinistic Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist.

Marking God's Word

Marking God's Word--Understanding Jesus

Phillip A. Ross
$14.95
Is confusion about the gospel of Jesus Christ new to the contemporary world? When did the confusion begin? What is the confusion about? How have people dealt with it? These are the questions that have guided this commentary on Mark.

Acts Of Faith

Acts Of Faith--Kingdom Advancement

Phillip A. Ross
$13.95
This study of Acts shows that Paul understood Jesus, and carried forward Jesus' perspective, not simply Paul's perspective. It was an old perspective because it was a biblical perspective, not a new perspective.

Ephesians -- Recovering the Vision of a Sustainable Church in Christ

Phillip A. Ross
$14.95
A biblical perspective that issues out of the wholeness of the Bible and shows the Bible’s sustainable depth and breadth for the twenty-first century

Engagement -- Establishing Relationship in Christ

Phillip A. Ross
$5.95
Engaging a relationship with Jesus Christ in the contemporary world is not what many people think it is.

The Big Ten -- The Ten Commandments

Phillip A. Ross
$14.95
Get a proper understanding of biblical Christianity that speaks to our problems and addresses issues of orthodoxy and error that plague modern society.

Rock Mountain Creed

Rock Mountain Creed--Jesus' Sermon on the Mount

Phillip A. Ross
$14.50
The ineffectiveness of the church in our world is tied to our own regurgitation of old answers. It is not that we need new Christian answers, but that we need renewed hearts and minds to engage Godâ€™s answers through regeneration.

It's About Time

It's About Time!â€”The Time Is Now

Phillip A. Ross
$free
This book is not about a mountaintop experience nor is it from a mountaintop perspective. Rather, it is from the "street," down in the valley where people actually live.

Poet Tree -- Root, Branch & Sap

Phillip A. Ross
$6.95
Conversations with God. Ross has a wry sense of humor. If humor is funny because it contrasts odd things in unexpected ways, then the best humor isn’t all that funny. The best humor is ridiculously weird.

Work At Zion

The Work At Zionâ€”A Reckoning

Phillip A. Ross
$30.00
Two volumes: This collection of sermons details a preacher's rediscovery of classic, historical, Protestant Christianity in the midst of of apathy and apostasy.

Concord Of Ages -- The Individual And Organic Harmony Of God And Man

Edward Beecher (1803-1895)
$18.55
Edited by Phillip A. Ross
With modern layout and explanatory footnotes. This book provides a solution to the biblical problem delineated in Conflict Of Ages.

The Religious History of Marietta in the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Jefferson Summers
$6.50
Written by a Congregational minister at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this history of Marietta is reproduced with footnotes and appendix regarding religious issues of that time.

Inside Out Woman -- Collected Poetry

Doris M. Ross (1927-1986)
$12.99
Doris (my mother) was both a mother and a career woman. Her poetry reflects her life story and is deeply emotional, sensitive, yet brilliant, and portrays her struggle for liberation.

Conflict of Ages

Conflict of Agesâ€”The Great Debate of the Moral Relations of God and Man,

Phillip A. Ross
$17.50
The Old Testament prophets described the conflict as between the one true God and the many false gods, or the true prophet and the false prophets.

Christ came to free people from bondage to the law of Moses, but not through the absolute abandonment of all law. Paulâ€™s training as a Pharisee made him the most biblically competent of the Apostles, which is reflected by his dominance as an author of the New Testament letters. My intention here is not to impose a foreign metanarrative upon the text, but to reveal the actual metanarrative of the Old Testament in the light of Christ as Paul presented it to the Galatians. That metanarrative was not what he had been taught as a Pharisee, nor what they had been taught by the Temple establishment. It was shockingly different, but it made undeniable sense of the Old Testament. The Temple establishment version was full of ancient mystery and symbolism that was difficult to understand, and cast the role of Israel as the hero of the story. Paulâ€™s version, on the other hand, was clear, simple, and practicalâ€”though it required the abandonment of much well-established Temple superstition. Paulâ€™s version cast the role of Jesus Christ as the hero.

While understanding the story of the Old Testament in the light of Christ is not difficult, abandoning our own false presuppositions about it requires some personal tenacity. Jesus continues to challenge our ideas about who we are and our role in history, Godâ€™s story. The story that Paul grew up with was the story about the importance and purity of the Temple. But the story that he learned from Jesus was about the corruption and failure of the Temple. Similarly, Christians today are Sunday-schooled in the importance of the institutional church, but the actual ongoing story in the light of Christ is about the corruption and failure of the church as an institution. In the following pages you will see that this story has played out over and again throughout history because of the pertinacity of sin.