Category Archives: communion

Should women be allowed to serve the sacrament of communion?

Posted on February 3, 2025 by RC

Symbols can be tricky things. They are often a great help to us, communicating difficult to express truths in difficult to forget ways. They can, however, get a touch uppity from time to time. Sometimes the symbol loses all sense … Continue reading →

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What about the mega-church model of small group ministries?

Posted on January 27, 2025 by RC

I once worked in an office that was quite caught up in a then well-known book. The E-Myth was a business book, written by Michael Gerber. His thesis was that successful businesses are those that learn to franchise themselves, after … Continue reading →

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How can professed believers not go or belong to a church?

Posted on January 13, 2025 by RC

Sin. The book of Hebrews commands of us both that we not neglect the gathering together of the saints (10:25) and that we remember those who rule over us in the church (13:7). If you don’t go to church, you … Continue reading →

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Encore Podcast- Elisha and the Bears; Shannon Sproul, Hero

Posted on January 8, 2025 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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What are the three stages of church planting?

Posted on January 6, 2025 by RC

I am a veteran of church planting, having planted three churches over the past thirty years. I have as well given counsel to others planting churches. One thing I am quick to explain is that there are two difficult phases … Continue reading →

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What should I look for in finding a church?

Posted on December 16, 2024 by RC

A Church First, that it be a church. The Reformers argued that there are three distinguishing marks of the church- the Word, sacraments and discipline. That means your campus ministry isn’t the church; your podcasts are not the church; your … Continue reading →

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The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done; And You Did Too

Posted on December 10, 2024 by RC

My friend and co-author Paul Derry said it, and I’ll never forget it. We were talking about working together on a book, that book which became Call Me Barabbas. I was concerned my battered reputation might hurt his chances to … Continue reading →

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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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Why did God chose us? 1st Church of the Base and Foolish

Posted on December 2, 2024 by RC

One complaint against the doctrine of unconditional election is that it seems to make God out to be capricious. The late great John Gerstner, in trying to emphasize the sovereign grace of God in election once, with his tongue firmly … Continue reading →

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One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One Church

Posted on November 11, 2024 by RC

The Bible is organic. The Bible is true, and as such is consistent, coherent, and comprehensible. And the consistent, coherent, and comprehensible truth is, it’s not ordered as a systematics text, far less as a book of church order. It … Continue reading →

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