Category Archives: Ask RC

How did you know that you wanted to be a writer?

Posted on January 26, 2022 by RC

My ideological awakenings did not happen in the order most would suspect. I was well taught the Reformed faith in my catechism class in junior high school, working through GI Williamson’s Shorter Catechism for Study Groups. Though I had, of … Continue reading →

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What is institutional entropy?

Posted on January 24, 2022 by RC

Institutional entropy is the idea that all institutions tend toward apostasy. I didn’t invent the phrase but took to it the first time I heard it. It describes why Harvard, created to be a bastion of faithfulness to the gospel, … Continue reading →

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Forever Friend, Tom Penning; Ask RC, What’s the Best Bible Translation?

Posted on January 20, 2022 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Why is eschatology so hard to understand?

Posted on January 19, 2022 by RC

For many years I embraced that rather common eschatological position known as panmillennialism, the view that amounts to “I don’t know how things will go, but it will all pan out in the end.” Part of the reason I embraced … Continue reading →

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Are Jewish believers and Gentile believers one body together?

Posted on January 17, 2022 by RC

Of course they are. Paul tells us in Galatians, an epistle written specifically to deal with questions related to the above, “Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham” (3:7). If you have faith and … Continue reading →

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Do James and Paul Disagree?

Posted on January 13, 2022 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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What can we learn from two years of COVID?

Posted on January 10, 2022 by RC

Far more fragile than the human immune system is the human liberty system. That is, of all the frightening things that have come our way through the pandemic years, none frightens me more than to witness great swaths not just … Continue reading →

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Why did God destroy Sodom?

Posted on January 6, 2022 by RC

There are, in our day, two principle competing views on how to answer this question. Because we live in a world where those committing sexual perversion have become a protected class, certain circles of the church have rushed to accommodate … Continue reading →

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What Happened on January 6? Plus, Forever Friend, Billy Parks

Posted on January 6, 2022 by RC

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Is a free market economy the most biblical?

Posted on January 3, 2022 by RC

It is. When we look at the establishment of the nation of Israel, that nation that received its civil law directly from God, we find that that law left the citizens of Israel free to buy and sell as they … Continue reading →

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