Category Archives: assurance

Ask RC- What is the function of creeds?

Posted on April 2, 2020 by RC

To too many the creeds are a dusty vestige of a happily distant past. They were written centuries ago, born out of abstract battles whose players we can’t even name. Isn’t it just better to love each other and not … Continue reading →

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Life in the Blender- Awkward Moments and Meeting Jesus- The Transfiguration

Posted on March 30, 2020 by RC

Lisa Joins Me on Today’s JCE Podcast

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Losers ‘R’ Us, or First Church of the Base and Foolish

Posted on March 28, 2020 by RC

One of the common complaints against the doctrine of unconditional election is that it seems to make God out to be capricious. The late great John Gerstner, in trying to emphasize the sovereign grace of God in election once, with … Continue reading →

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One Giant Leap- Or, Reading Providence with Dyslexia

Posted on March 27, 2020 by RC

It is a good thing to affirm the sovereignty of God over all things. God delights in the truth and we ought to draw the deepest comfort from it. It is right and proper to understand that His sovereignty is … Continue reading →

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Looking for Love

Posted on March 25, 2020 by RC

How important it is to not allow our grasp of man’s total depravity to cause us to miss the remnants of the image of God in us. We are plenty bad. Sin touches every part of our being, and makes … Continue reading →

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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on March 24, 2020 by RC

Thesis 18 -We must practice true and undefiled religion. Christians are notorious retreatists. We would, in all the wrong circumstances, rather switch than fight. In the early part of the twentieth century those inside the church who had jettisoned the … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- What should we do in these strange days?

Posted on March 23, 2020 by RC

The story is told of the older woman who was blessed to have Martin Luther as her pastor. One Sunday, however, she determined to express her displeasure, “Why, Dr. Luther,” she asked, “do you seem to preach the same sermon … Continue reading →

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Table Fellowship, a Hero You Never Heard Of and Corona Feedback

Posted on March 16, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Ask RC- Why Does God Love Us?

Posted on March 9, 2020 by RC

It might be a sound argument as to why He ought not to love us that we find this question surprising. It is because of our sin, our pride, our egos that we think ourselves worthy of His love, as … Continue reading →

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Diffusing Deconversions

Posted on March 6, 2020 by RC

There’s a new genre in town. We still have love stories, science fiction stories, crime stories. We also still have conversion stories, testimonies about God’s grace in our lives. What is new is the yang to that yin, testimonies of … Continue reading →

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