Category Archives: eschatology

Me Not Me

Posted on April 25, 2023 by RC

I’m not the man I used to be. Neither am I the man I will one day be. And yet, I am the man I used to be, and will forever be that man. The passage of time experienced by … Continue reading →

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Has the world gone crazy?

Posted on April 24, 2023 by RC

Yes. We live in a world where two men or two women engaged in sexual perversion can be said to be married. A world where chemical castration, surgical assaults on private parts, and the intentional murder of the unborn are … Continue reading →

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Do all paths lead to heaven?

Posted on April 10, 2023 by RC

Yes, and no. It is a common enough analogy supporting a common enough fallacy, the idea that all religions are simply different paths that meet at the top, finding God. If it’s a fallacy, and it is, then in what … Continue reading →

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Goodness, Truth and Beauty

Posted on April 6, 2023 by RC

What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens? Much in every way. On the negative side, we would do well to remember that the citizens of God’s city, like those in the city of man, are still sinners. Though we are … Continue reading →

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Numbering The Future

Posted on March 31, 2023 by RC

Grandchildren are an awful lot like children. They ask questions. They want to know my favorite animal and my favorite food. They have even asked before what my favorite number is. Favorite number? I understand preferring one color to another, … Continue reading →

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Remembering Eternity

Posted on March 14, 2023 by RC

Though they don’t feel like such when we are in the midst of them, light and momentary, Paul tells us, are our afflictions, not worthy to be compared to the eternal weight of glory (II Corinthians 4:17). CS Lewis captured … Continue reading →

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The One-Two Punch

Posted on March 10, 2023 by RC

The one thing I want you to be certain to do is finish reading this column and brush your teeth every evening. I trust at least two things strike you about this opening sentence. First, it’s a rather odd way … Continue reading →

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God With Us

Posted on March 9, 2023 by RC

For many years I wrote a monthly column for Tabletalk magazine titled “Coram Deo.” That little Latin phrase meant a great deal to Martin Luther, who in turn means a great deal to me. It means “Before the face of … Continue reading →

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Something New Under the Sun

Posted on March 3, 2023 by RC

Imagine, if you would, that you are the most powerful person in the world. Now imagine that you are also the richest person in the world. Would your life be fundamentally different? Would everything that is now ordinary about your … Continue reading →

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The Second World War

Posted on February 24, 2023 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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