Category Archives: church

Ask RC- How should we honor our elders when they err?

Posted on February 10, 2020 by RC

By treating them honorably. It should never surprise us when we discover a beloved pastor, a respected teacher, a living hero of our faith, has feet of clay. We, after all, like they, are descendants of clay footed people. Our … Continue reading →

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Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

Posted on February 10, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Turning the Other Cheek

Posted on February 8, 2020 by RC

Craig James, former football star at SMU, was briefly a sportscaster with Fox Sports. After his convictions on the nature of marriage, the sin of sexual perversion became known to the network he was fired. Then he filed a complaint … Continue reading →

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No Accounting

Posted on February 6, 2020 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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Ask RC- Why are Christians so easily beaten in the culture wars?

Posted on February 5, 2020 by RC

Time was when the answer to that question would be grounded in a faulty eschatology. Dispensationalism for decades taught a diminished understanding of the great commission. They saw it strictly as evangelism, that our calling was to drag as many … Continue reading →

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What is Creation? Whatever is, is and David Coffin, Hero

Posted on February 5, 2020 by RC

Today’s JCE podcast

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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on February 4, 2020 by RC

Thesis 11– We must practice hospitality. It is my habit, when I grow unduly discouraged with the church, to read through I Corinthians. Reading through the long list of serious problems that Paul had to address there, and suddenly the … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 4, 2020 by RC
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Ask RC- During the sermon today, my pastor said, “We are co-creators with God.”​ That doesn’t ring true. Thoughts?

Posted on February 3, 2020 by RC

Yes, and no. First to the no. Theologians, who like to make distinctions, distinguish between God’s communicable attributes and His incommunicable attributes. The former are those which He can and does share with us, though of course in lesser degrees. … Continue reading →

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What He Says at His Feast, Jesus Meets John the Baptist and Rushing to Judgment

Posted on February 3, 2020 by RC

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