Category Archives: 10 Commandments

What Every Christian Man Should Long to Hear

I want you to read this. Not because it reflects well on me, but because it reflects well on my beloved wife. She posted this on social media, at our shared Facebook account, RC-Lisa, accompanied by video of me preaching … Continue reading

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Hear O Israel, The Lord Our God, The Lord Is One

The doctrine of the simplicity of God provides a rather useful fence. The perfections of God are, of course, worthy of our excitement. Their infinity is staggering. In God’s simplicity His infinite perfections show themselves to be one, the glorious … Continue reading

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What is the Lord’s Day Worship For? What is its Purpose?

No, in a manner of speaking. The Lord’s Day isn’t for anything, but is that which everything else is for. The Lutheran theologian Marva Dawn wisely called worship “a royal waste of time.” That provocative phrase wasn’t a denial of … Continue reading

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Pride Before the Fall: Adam, Eve and Mephistopheles

God is true and every man a liar. Liars, however, dress like their father. That is, just as the devil appears as an angel of light, so he, and his minions, appear as tellers, indeed lovers of the truth. As … Continue reading

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Knot Kneading & Not Needing to Know: Me & the Sanford Mess

One cannot step outside the system. And we are the system. As I argued last week with respect to the war in Iran, truth can be hard to come by, outside of God’s Word and His world. Because every man … Continue reading

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Sacred Marriage; Confessing His Grace and More

Lisa and I discussing the ministry of Jael. Plus, the value of being open about our past sins in celebrating His ongoing grace, and how the Last Adam, the Firstborn of the New Creation is reversing entropy. Tune in, give … Continue reading

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Muzzled Oxen: Financing the Work of the Kingdom

Trolls, I am convinced, know they are trolls. They make no pretense of making any sense. They are self-consciously jerking us around which makes them more nasty than ignorant. There are, however, some whose hostility is genuine but so powerful … Continue reading

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What is Wisdom? Better Still, Who Is Wisdom?

I’ve written before on the difference between knowledge and wisdom. The two are deeply related, but they are nonetheless distinct. You can have knowledge without wisdom, but not wisdom without knowledge. James tells us “You believe that there is one … Continue reading

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Motive Power: Doing Right, For All the Right Reasons

God, from a certain perspective, isn’t terribly particular with respect to our motives. Inside the church there are those who argue that the right and heroic thing to do is the right and heroic thing because it is right and … Continue reading

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The First Casualty: All That We Don’t Know About Iran

What I remember most about the first days of the COVID crisis was the sense that I had no idea whom to believe. I was skeptical of claims made the government because, well, they were claims made by the government. … Continue reading

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