Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

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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Love One Another, Because He is In Us and Them

Posted on June 18, 2024 by RC

Do we not glide happily past this command? It should, though it doesn’t, go without saying. There’s no question that the Bible teaches this. There’s no question that the Bible emphasizes this. There’s no question that we’re not very good … Continue reading →

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Joy in the Mourning at the Table of the Lord

Posted on June 14, 2024 by RC

Reformed people can be odd ducks. Too often, we are a contentious bunch, given to arguing esoterica for the sheer fun of it. We give answers to questions that few are asking and ask questions where others are certain. When … Continue reading →

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Stewarding Our Failures, Robust Dividends

Posted on June 13, 2024 by RC

When one invests his money wisely he ends up with more money. When one invests ones failures wisely he ends up with fewer failures. We don’t tend, however, to look at our failures as assets. We see them as burdens, … Continue reading →

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This Is My Body

Posted on June 11, 2024 by RC

I have some degree of sympathy with the argument because I once made it myself. I was in high school, and served faithfully as the poster child for the National Sophomoric Self-Important Blow-Hard Association. I dressed in black, listened to … Continue reading →

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The Lord Giveth, and the Lord Taketh Away

Posted on June 7, 2024 by RC

Though He is the potter and we are but clay, this does not keep us from complaining about our station. When the God of heaven and earth, the One who made all things, asks if the clay will ask of … Continue reading →

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Ode A La Mode: We All Scream for Ice Cream

Posted on June 6, 2024 by RC

It is no surprise that when Paul seeks to summarize the scope of the unregenerate man’s sinful nature that he says, “Neither were they grateful” (Rom 1:21). That failure remains an ongoing enemy of the Spirit even when we’ve been … Continue reading →

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Surviving Biden

Posted on June 4, 2024 by RC

There has to be balance. There is a fatalism that simply shrugs when Rome’s imperial army is parked outside Jerusalem’s door. The destruction of the city in 70 AD was plenty bad. On the other hand, there are those who … Continue reading →

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