Category Archives: assurance

Ask RC- How can I be sure Jesus won’t say to me “Depart from Me” on the last day?

Posted on August 3, 2020 by RC

You can’t make that sure, which is one of the keys to understanding this text. Assurance of salvation is one of the most common pastoral challenges, and understandably so. It matters, forever. And we struggle with sin until the day … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- What does 1 John 2:2 – “And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world” mean?

Posted on July 30, 2020 by RC

My hero and teacher, Dr. John Gerstner, in dealing with one of the errors of dispensationalism, its rejection of the doctrine of limited atonement, referred to this error as, “beating the ‘L’ out of TULIP.” Though we believe the five … Continue reading →

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God Wills; Randy Winton, Hero and the Catechism on Adoption

Posted on July 30, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Covid, Judgment and Grace

Posted on July 25, 2020 by RC

There is a great divide between the city of God and the city of man. The competing armies of the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, however, have this much in common- we’re all bad. The … Continue reading →

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Walking Toward Perfection

Posted on July 24, 2020 by RC

I have suggested in the past that we ought, when tempted toward pride in our own spiritual maturity, take an honest look at how far we have to go, at the great gap between where we are and where we … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- How do I repent?

Posted on July 23, 2020 by RC

How do I repent? How do I know when I have repented? If repentance is a gift from God, then what is my role? If I think I have repented but then commit the same sin again, does that mean … Continue reading →

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Angels in the Architecture; God’s Wisdom; Meeting Jesus- Us

Posted on July 22, 2020 by RC

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Sacerdotalism, Presbymyopia and Giving the Spirit His Due

Posted on July 21, 2020 by RC

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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on July 14, 2020 by RC

Thesis 33- We must believe God loves us. Love is one of the good words. Just as no one particularly labors to have words like death, or cruelty associated with themselves or their ideas, so everyone wants to lay claim … Continue reading →

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Darwin on Trial, Sports and Race and More

Posted on June 24, 2020 by RC

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