Category Archives: kingdom

A Tale of Two Mounts: God Giving Law

It’s not by accident that Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was delivered on a mountain. “On the Mount” isn’t in the title merely to distinguish it from another sermon given on a plain. What we have instead is an intentional … Continue reading →

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May a Christian join a company that gives to Planned Parenthood?

The devil is not content to encourage us to fall off one side of the horse. He takes great pleasure in seeing us fall off both sides. We live, for instance, in what is a most permissive culture. This is … Continue reading →

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Psalm 23: The Lord My Shepherd Study

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Fear, Treasure and Eternity in Our Hearts

The Sermon on the Mount is tough to swallow all at once. Though what we have recorded for us in Matthew 5–7 is significantly shorter than the sermons most of us are used to, it is on the other hand … Continue reading →

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On the Beauty of Beauty: Stopping to Smell the Roses

It is a vestige of our modernist past that we remain so deeply committed to efficiency. We’re giddy at the utterly unfounded promise that AI is going to give us all the four hour work week. We imagine all we … Continue reading →

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Ask RC: Why was Jesus raised from the dead?

It is a good thing to enter into the pathos of the disciples during those dark days between the crucifixion and the resurrection. It is easy for us to forget that they haven’t read the rest of the story. We … Continue reading →

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What in the World? Hating the World By Wanting Its Love

I posted some years ago, on social media, the following bit of wisdom- “Too often we train our children to make their way in the world. I want to train my children to make war on the world.” In the … Continue reading →

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Lisa, Martha, Mary, Steve Lawson, Nahum, Nathan and Me

Drink deep from this week’s podcast- now available with pumpkin spice. This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Ask RC: Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?

No. The god they worship is, in reality, a demon. In terms of their own theology, however, he is a single person, transcendent. The God we worship, on the other hand, is the maker of heaven and earth. He is … Continue reading →

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When Pigs Fly: Lessons Learned from Thomas Aquinas

We Protestants tend to have something of a love/hate relationship with Thomas Aquinas. On the one hand, as Protestants, at least we who are Reformed, we value theological brilliance. We admire deeply the mind of Thomas, perhaps even dreaming that … Continue reading →

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