Category Archives: grace

Ask RC- What is the function of creeds?

Posted on April 2, 2020 by RC

To too many the creeds are a dusty vestige of a happily distant past. They were written centuries ago, born out of abstract battles whose players we can’t even name. Isn’t it just better to love each other and not … Continue reading →

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Jesus’ Fools Day

Posted on April 1, 2020 by RC

It is a wise quip, albeit one built on an urban legend, that April Fool’s Day is the national holiday for atheists. The Bible tells us that the fool says in his heart that there is no God (Psalm 14:1). … Continue reading →

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Last Night’s Sermon on the Mount Study- Judge Not and Pearls Before Swine

Posted on March 31, 2020 by RC
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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on March 31, 2020 by RC

Thesis 19- We must stop being more pious than God. If we understand piety as a devotion to God and to His Word, then naturally one could never over-do it. Indeed one of the great weaknesses of the modern American … Continue reading →

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Life in the Blender- Awkward Moments and Meeting Jesus- The Transfiguration

Posted on March 30, 2020 by RC

Lisa Joins Me on Today’s JCE Podcast

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Losers ‘R’ Us, or First Church of the Base and Foolish

Posted on March 28, 2020 by RC

One of the common complaints 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 … Continue reading →

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One Giant Leap- Or, Reading Providence with Dyslexia

Posted on March 27, 2020 by RC

It is a good thing to affirm the sovereignty of God over all things. God delights in the truth and we ought to draw the deepest comfort from it. It is right and proper to understand that His sovereignty is … Continue reading →

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Ask RC- What makes a person a hero?

Posted on March 26, 2020 by RC

I was blessed, over the years, to teach a number of the Great Works courses at Reformation Bible College. It is my contention that we ought to cover the great books of western civilization not so we can prepare our … Continue reading →

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Looking for Love

Posted on March 25, 2020 by RC

How important it is to not allow our grasp of man’s total depravity to cause us to miss the remnants of the image of God in us. We are plenty bad. Sin touches every part of our being, and makes … Continue reading →

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Last Night’s Sermon on the Mount Study- Do Not Fret, But Seek His Kingdom

Posted on March 24, 2020 by RC
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