Ed Rickard's Availability

Dr. Ed Rickard is available to conduct seminars of four or five sessions either on weekends or during the summer. A four-session seminar might include one on Friday night and three on Saturday. An additional session on Sunday morning either as a Sunday School lesson or sermon would enlarge the seminar to five sessions.

   Marriage and family
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. A Ph.D. in psychology, he has written papers on psychology and counseling, served as a Christian counselor, and authored With All Purity, published by Regular Baptist Press, which deals with standards for courtship.
Sessions
   1. Standards for courtship
   2. How to choose a mate
   3. A Biblical view of feminism
   4. A mother's role
   5. A father's responsibility

   Christian service
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. Christian service is a tradition in his family. To the best of his knowledge, his first relative in full-time ministry was a great-uncle, who was a missionary in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Others include his father, two sisters, two sons, and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews, as well as Dr. Rickard himself.
Sessions
   1. Sacrifice
   2. Risk-taking
   3. Compassion
   4. Consecration
   5. Preparation

Standards of personal separation
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. His interest in the effects of television began when he wrote his senior honor's thesis in college on mass communications. This became a professional interest when he pursued a career in social psychology, and it further became a spiritual concern when he entered Christian service. He has not had a television in his home since 1980.
Sessions
   1. Evils of television: medical and psychological effects
   2. Evils of television: harm done to the family
   3. Why total abstinence from alcohol is Biblical
   4. Modern dress and mixed bathing
   5. Worldliness as the besetting sin of Laodicea

   Signs of the times
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. He has taught the Book of Daniel on the college level and has written a full-scale commentary on the same book. He has done much writing and lecturing on the subject of prophecy.
Sessions
   1. Reconciling the Biblical doctrine of signs and the Biblical doctrine of imminence
   2. The reemergence of Israel
   3. Modern geopolitics
   4. World outreach coinciding with apostasy
   5. Conditions on the threshold of famines, pestilences, and earthquakes

   Sermon on the Mount
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. He has taught the life of Christ many times. Long study of the Sermon on the Mount has been the foundation of all his other work on questions of Christian ethics.
Sessions
   1. True righteousness
   2. Jesus' commentary on the law
   3. The second table of the law summarized
   4. The first table of the law summarized
   5. Seeking first the Kingdom

   How to study the Bible
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. His discussions of the sublime character of the Bible and of young-earth creationism reflect his experience as a teacher and writer on apologetics. Some years ago he taught undergraduate Christian evidences and graduate apologetics at Pensacola Christian College. While there, he also wrote a position paper on hermeneutics for the Bible faculty.
Sessions
   1. The sublime character of the Bible
   2. Principles and helps
   3. Rules of interpretation
   4. Young-earth creationism
   5. Dispensationalism

   Messianic prophecy
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. Messianic prophecy has been a major emphasis in all his writing and teaching on apologetics
Sessions
   1. The lineage and name of Christ
   2. The virgin birth of Christ
   3. The vicarious suffering of Christ
   4. The crucifixion of Christ
   5. The destruction of Jerusalem and the Church Age

   The sixty-nine weeks of Daniel
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. Until Parker and Dubberstein's tables for converting Babylonian dates to Julian dates were published in the 1940s and 1950s, it was impossible to show that the prophecy was exactly fulfilled. Since that time, the only proposed solution that actually works is the one Dr. Rickard discovered twenty years ago. It works without twisting words, resorting to arbitrary identifications, or fudging calculations. When he found the solution, he also found a way of validating it. Recently he has found yet a second way of validating it.
Sessions
   1. The opening event
   2. The closing event
   3. Date of the Crucifixion
   4. First confirmation
   5. Second confirmation

The Book of Daniel
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. Some years ago he taught an undergraduate course on this subject at Pensacola Christian College. Since then he has written a full commentary on the Book of Daniel.

Apologetics
Dr. Rickard's qualifications. At Pensacola Christian College he taught Christian evidences at the undergraduate level and apologetics at the graduate level. Apologetics is a main emphasis of his Web site, Bible Studies at the Moorings.

Dr. Rickard is happy to come to a church for no consideration except expenses and a love offering. Compatibility of outlook on major questions of doctrine and practice is the only requirement. See the doctrinal statement for the Moorings. Tapes of some of his lessons are available.

Please contact him by e-mail at the address, moorings@themoorings.org. Send a brief description of your church, school, or other ministry. Tell also when and in what venues you desire to use him.