Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

No Believer Could Ever, or, Logs-in-Eyes ‘r’ Us

Posted on July 11, 2024 by RC

It’s election season again, which means I once again enter into that weird phase where my ideological friends regularly make me cringe. Sometimes it’s over the top rhetoric in favor of some guy on the red team, other times it’s … Continue reading →

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Name It Blame It, or, Pinning Failures on Failure

Posted on July 9, 2024 by RC

Some time ago I published an Ask RC podcast titled, “What’s wrong with the enneagram?” One of my (many) concerns is that as with so many other so called assessment tests, we always face the temptation to excuse our sin … Continue reading →

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Sophisticated Lady or, The Blushless Bride

Posted on July 5, 2024 by RC

We’ve all heard the horror stories. First there was the church that offered visitors a free oil change during the “service” if you would come. Then we heard of simple cash rewards. More recently a church raffled off a new … Continue reading →

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Happy Dependence Day

Posted on July 4, 2024 by RC

We all are prone to putting people we love and admire on a pedestal. We are also often prone to being skeptical, even cynical about those we don’t love and admire. We make angels out of some mere men, devils … Continue reading →

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Heresies, Damned Heresies, Goldilocks and Elisha’s Bears

Posted on July 2, 2024 by RC

Too Hard There are at least three working definitions of heresy. First is the view that all error is heresy. This view has as an advantage that it recognizes the unity of truth. Because God is one, and God is … Continue reading →

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The Dance of Life, or The Devil in the E’Gals

Posted on June 28, 2024 by RC

The fall of Adam and Eve is one of the stickiest theological wickets we encounter in the Bible. How could both of them, whom God had declared good, do bad? But there is a stickier wicket still, perhaps made so … Continue reading →

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“A Young Lady,” An Old Story of Ongoing Sin

Posted on June 27, 2024 by RC

Like so many others I find myself taken aback by the recent resignation of Robert Morris, senior pastor of the massive Gateway Church in Texas. Morris resigned his position after it was made public that when he was a young, … Continue reading →

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Evil Employees and Saintly Corporations

Posted on June 25, 2024 by RC

It is a common but dangerous business, our propensity to make ourselves the heroes of our own stories, and to see all who stand in our way as wearing the black hats. As a person with an interest in all … Continue reading →

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Got to Get Back to the Garden

Posted on June 21, 2024 by RC

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I’ll admit I got taken in the first time. As a grade school child my conception of cool included too tight silk shirts and blue jeans with more … Continue reading →

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Ten Things I Miss About Childhood Summers

Posted on June 20, 2024 by RC

I am not a fan of summer. Not at all. I don’t like hot. I don’t like bugs. I don’t like night being overrun by daylight. Every year I count down the days until summer ends. The best thing I … Continue reading →

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