Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

Theology Has Consequences

Posted on April 11, 2023 by RC

Richard Weaver first made a name for himself when he published his seminal work Ideas Have Consequences, a brief book whose ideas are still bringing forth consequences. He was to the secular academic world something of a Francis Schaeffer, introducing … Continue reading →

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Good Friday

Posted on April 7, 2023 by RC

It is not a great mystery why we call this day “Good” Friday. This is the day each year that we remember the suffering and death on the cross of our Savior. Though they surely had little understanding of 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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Chilling With the Scornful

Posted on April 4, 2023 by RC

It has long been my contention that the rampant skepticism about all things supernatural among the Reformed crowd is driven more by modernist assumptions than it is exegesis. We’re in a bit of a pickle, wanting to be true to … 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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What’s Your Number?

Posted on March 30, 2023 by RC

Psychology, being something of a murky social science, has long been a source of murky attempts to diagnose not just what is wrong with us, but what we are. Pop psychology, especially seems to specialize in personality tests. We carry … Continue reading →

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Fairy Dust

Posted on March 28, 2023 by RC

It was the writer Arthur C. Clarke who posited this law- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I disagree. The technology need not be advanced at all. The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the … Continue reading →

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Right Now Counts Forever

Posted on March 24, 2023 by RC

It was Augustine who argued that every sin is a failure to love ordinately. Sin is the result of either loving something more than we ought or the result of loving something less than we ought. We are to love, … Continue reading →

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Lies, Lunacy or the Word of the Lord II

Posted on March 23, 2023 by RC

If the Bible is extraordinary in its sources, extraordinary in its message, in what sense can we rightly say that the Bible is also an ordinary book? Because the Bible is a book that speaks to us as we speak … Continue reading →

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Lies, Lunacy or the Word of the Lord I

Posted on March 21, 2023 by RC

The Bible is an extraordinary book, and it is an ordinary book. It is not, of course, the only book to cross history’s stage to come with a claim to being the very Word of God. In some instances it … Continue reading →

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