Category Archives: assurance

Good News, Good News, Good News and Bad News

I’ve got great news — I just saved a bundle on my car insurance. This punchline might expose a problem in our Christian sub-culture: we don’t know what the good news is. The confusion is understandable. God is good, gracious. … Continue reading

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The Bride Wore Black: Protesting Our Pride

A week or so ago the folks at Protestia tweeted this: Better to marry a former OF model who has come to know the depths of her sin and the mercy of the Lord, than an unkissed virgin with a … Continue reading

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Lessons in the Crucible of Tyranny, in the Hand of Grace

C.S. Lewis, in his essay “On the Reading of Old Books,” which is found in the collection of essays, God in the Dock, argues that we are all by nature time bound. This frailty will, of necessity, give us a … Continue reading

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Getting Our Back Up and Forgetting Our Back Up

It is because we are saved by grace that we sinners are able to confess publicly that we are sinners. It is because we are sinners, however, that we are so quick to get defensive anytime someone accuses us of … Continue reading

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Who loves the church? And Why We Should Too

For a year now, in this space, most Mondays here at RCSproulJr.com I’ve sought to answer questions related to the nature and calling of the church. Such is driven in large part by my contention that the evangelical “church,” for … Continue reading

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Same Circumstance, Same Savior, Same Song

Trouble comes to the people of God. If it is not here now, it will be here soon. Those who promise that the Christian life is a breezy walk through the meadow not only have not taken up their cross … Continue reading

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How does the church effectively serve the believer?

For almost a year now I’ve been publishing a weekly blog piece under the Ask RC heading on the nature and calling of the church. I have been persuaded for decades that one of the great weaknesses inside the church … Continue reading

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Multiple Stops on the My Ways/Your Ways Highway

Right beside “Judge not, lest you be judged (Matt. 7:7), in the list of most misused texts we find this in Isaiah: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For … Continue reading

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Sunday Sermon, Sovereign Grace Fellowship: Conquering Kings

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What distinguishes the believer from the non-believer?

Right from the get-go we have something of an epistemological/ontological problem. There are differences that are easier to see, and differences that are more central, but harder to discern. On the ontological side the whole of the order of salvation, … Continue reading

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