Category Archives: Ask RC

Ask RC- What makes a person a hero?

Posted on March 26, 2020 by RC

I was blessed, over the years, to teach a number of the Great Works courses at Reformation Bible College. It is my contention that we ought to cover the great books of western civilization not so we can prepare our … 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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Ask RC- How should we respond to the impact of the Coronavirus?

Posted on March 16, 2020 by RC

I have no place to speak to the question about how to avoid the virus, or how to protect assets, or whether we ought to gather for public worship, whether this side or that side is minimizing or never letting … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- What do you think about seminaries?

Posted on March 13, 2020 by RC

I confess to two things. First, I benefited greatly from my time in seminary. I look at all that I learned, all that has shaped me, and praise God. Such is all the more true given the men I was … Continue reading →

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Christian Hedonism, Jesus Meets a Pharisee and a Sinner and Why God Destroyed Canaan

Posted on March 10, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything

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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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Ask RC- What advice would you give Christians facing such rapid cultural marginalization?

Posted on March 5, 2020 by RC

What advice would you give Christians facing such rapid cultural marginalization? In the great battle that is the culture war Christians are in rapid and chaotic retreat. On issues of sexuality we are deemed backward, hateful and hypocritical. To speak … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- What causes a lack of assurance?

Posted on March 2, 2020 by RC

There are at least two different ways we struggle with assurance, two different truths we want and need to be assured of. The first is the truth of the gospel. What if the Bible is just the opinions of men? … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- How should we understand the promise Jesus makes in John 14:14, “If you ask anything in My name I will do it?”

Posted on February 28, 2020 by RC

My book, Believing God, was written with a single goal in mind, to help believers enter more fully into the promises of God. Even we who affirm that God’s Word is always true still struggle to believe that if we … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- What warnings from the Bible are we most prone to overlook?

Posted on February 26, 2020 by RC

CS Lewis, in his essay On the Reading of Old Books, affirms the obvious truth that every age is given to peculiar blind spots. When we read the Puritans we will see them. When we read Athanasius, (Lewis’ essay was … Continue reading →

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