Category Archives: Biblical Doctrines

Why are we so awful to people on social media?

First, because we are so awful to people. We are so awful to people because we are awful people. Technology does not create fresh wickedness in us. It can, however, invite our wickedness out to play. Social media that seems … Continue reading

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The Stinking Lesson of the Stinking Garbage Can

Experience is overrated. We often learn its lessons too late. Though once it has aged it can pack a punch. My father, about the time I entered into junior high school, impressed upon me the lesson experience taught him too … Continue reading

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This Week’s Study, Trusting Like Children

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Dinner and a Bible Study, Tonight: Trusting Like Children

We continue our weekly Monday night Bible study. We begin at 7:00. Local guests are invited for dinner at 6:15. We air the study on Facebook Live (RC-Lisa Sproul). Within a day or two we post the video of the … Continue reading

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What is the devil’s game? Lord of the Lies

We move too fast over God’s Word. I fear we skim lightly over the very voice of God, and so miss its thundering, reverberating tones. We are too hurried to allow the tension to build, the drama to heighten to … Continue reading

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The New Promised Land: Total World Conquest

Most of us, at one time or another, have found ourselves embarrassed by God. He who has all perfections perfectly doesn’t always fit into our scheme of things. The Holy One doesn’t always do things the way we who are … Continue reading

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Rebels Without a Cause: In Submission to the King

It was Marx who argued that, rather than man shaping economic realities, it was the economic realities that shape man. Despite his manifold and manifest follies, he had something of a point here. Wouldn’t hard times give rise to strong … Continue reading

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A Matter of Life and Death Now and Forever

We live in strange times. It used to be said that the only two things we could be certain of were death and taxes. Taxes you can still be pretty sure of, but death has recently become rather more cloudy. … Continue reading

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Dinner and a Bible Study, Tonight: Being Like Children

We continue our weekly Monday night Bible study. We begin at 7:00. Local guests are invited for dinner at 6:15. We air the study on Facebook Live (RC-Lisa Sproul). Within a day or two we post the video of the … Continue reading

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Where are we evangelicals “wrong” on the Bible?

The evangelical position on the Bible, that it is inspired, inerrant, and infallible, true in all that it teaches is true, from top to bottom. Our orthodoxy (right doctrine) on the Bible is orthodox. It is our orthopraxy (right practice) … Continue reading

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