Category Archives: beauty

What’s wrong with expositional preaching?

Posted on December 9, 2024 by RC

Not much. Here is yet another place where we ought both to define our terms and to put the question in context. The majority of pulpits in this nation are filled with people sharing their own personal thoughts, with sprinklings … Continue reading →

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Eight Years Bearing the Sower’s Fruit with My Bride

Posted on November 19, 2024 by RC

Jesus’ public ministry, because Jesus changes everything, changed everything. It’s hard to believe such a short time, three years of public ministry, could render such potent change. It was not long after He ascended to the right hand of the … Continue reading →

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The Blessing of Blessings- Why We Hunger for the Benediction

Posted on November 4, 2024 by RC

I, along with many others, hopped on the liturgy bandwagon back in the day. I haven’t, in fact, hopped off. I have, however, come to a more modest understanding of the relative merits of high liturgy. Having spent the better … Continue reading →

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What does the temple teach us about the church?

Posted on October 28, 2024 by RC

The New Testament is chock full of warnings against going back to the shadows, to maintaining all those elements of worship that Jesus fulfilled. Yea and amen says me. It is a mistake, however, to utterly separate Old Testament temple … Continue reading →

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Owning, and Owned By the Pearl of Great Price

Posted on October 8, 2024 by RC

There may well be many of them, but perhaps not as many as you might think. Most of the knowledge I was blessed to receive from my Father became melded together with the rest of it. I was blessed to … Continue reading →

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No Accounting- The Glory of His Law Story

Posted on September 13, 2024 by RC

There’s no accounting for taste. Or to put it another way, the taste has reasons that reason knows not of. We like what we like, and we don’t like having to explain it. Which is why postmodernism fits us so … Continue reading →

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Our Harvest; Baseball, Ray; Discipleship’s Cost and More

Posted on September 11, 2024 by RC

This week’s all new podcast, part of your complete podcast meal of the day. This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Not Worthy to Be Compared- Here to Eternity

Posted on August 29, 2024 by RC

We all know we are called to walk by faith and not by sight (II Cor. 5:7). What we often don’t know is how terrible we are at it. We tend to think of it as the ability to believe … Continue reading →

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Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound, Given To All Around

Posted on August 23, 2024 by RC

Perhaps the most subtle verbal sleights of hand are acts of equivocation. We commit equivocation when we use one word, but with two different meanings. We make the change so quickly we miss the palmed meaning, and are made fools. … Continue reading →

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What does it mean that the church is the bride of Christ?

Posted on August 12, 2024 by RC

When a writer makes an analogy he seeks to draw out truths about one thing by drawing out its similarities to the known qualities of the thing to which it is compared. If I say, “Life is like a roller-coaster” … Continue reading →

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