Category Archives: Devil’s Arsenal

Beating Mr. Bulver, or Suspecting the Man in the Mirror

Posted on January 15, 2020 by RC

That Bulverism is a fallacy (wherein one discredits the conclusions of another on the grounds that said conclusions benefit the concluder) does not mean that it is not also a temptation. Suppose, for instance, I were to make the argument … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- Why do we find hardship so hard?

Posted on January 13, 2020 by RC

The soft answer is because it is hard. The hard answer is because we are soft. When I feel overwhelmed, and I do, when I feel like there’s just too much tension in my life, I often go back to … Continue reading →

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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on January 7, 2020 by RC

We must stop confusing worldliness with pre-evangelism. The devil has perfected any number of ways to profane the holy. Worse still, he has perfected any number of ways of encouraging us to do the same. Our worldliness is problem enough. … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- Is there any value to the study of philosophy?

Posted on January 6, 2020 by RC

It was the church father Tertullian who asked, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” His pithy question suggests that the study of philosophy and the study of theology are utterly disconnected, that the former is bad, useless, destructive while … Continue reading →

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The Law of Grace and the Grace of Law

Posted on January 3, 2020 by RC

Some call them “Nice Nazis.” These are those stormtroopers, some professing Christians, some not, who can be counted to race to the aid of the accused. That is, if I say, “It is wrong to do X” the “Nice Nazi” … Continue reading →

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The Second World War

Posted on December 28, 2019 by RC

It is natural, though altogether wrong, to think that somehow when we turn the pages that separate the Old and New Testaments that we are entering into more gentle times, that God in the interim somehow became kinder and gentler. … Continue reading →

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Just My Imagination

Posted on December 23, 2019 by RC

It’s the fuzzy stuff around the edges that gets us. When we are aware we are facing a text from God’s Word, we tend to tread carefully. We move slowly, break out our exegetical tools, and get to work. The … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- Why is pride such a sticky sin?

Posted on December 20, 2019 by RC

The story is told that Benjamin Franklin, as a young man, took it upon himself to keep a running inventory of his moral progression. He wrote down a list of ten to twenty character traits and gave himself a score … Continue reading →

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Silencing the Devil

Posted on December 19, 2019 by RC

How easily, because of his craftiness, we confuse Satan and Santa. Their names are indeed anagrams of each other, and they both were obviously told by someone, somewhere along the way that they look good in red. We tend to … Continue reading →

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Comfortably Numb, or Just Another Day in Jersey City

Posted on December 12, 2019 by RC

By the time you are reading this the news cycle will have moved on. Indeed it already has. Yesterday, as I type, gunmen opened fire at a cemetery and kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey. The gunmen are … Continue reading →

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