Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

Everything Old Is New

Posted on September 19, 2019 by RC

It’s not always easy to grasp the relationship between the Old and New Testaments. The temptation among those who take a more covenantal approach is to de-emphasize the differences. My dispensational friends are wont to drive a wedge between the … Continue reading →

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The Emperor’s Girl Clothes

Posted on September 18, 2019 by RC

Quick- who was the villain in the classic story of the emperor’s new clothes? It’s not such an easy question. You could argue that all this folly could be set at the vain unshod feet of the emperor himself. You … Continue reading →

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Mirror, Mirror

Posted on September 16, 2019 by RC

We are all such moral monsters that we find it rather easy to other-ize other moral monsters. That is, because our sin blinds us to our sin, while making the sins of others bright as a thousand blazing suns, we … Continue reading →

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Sinner in the Hand of Angry Saints

Posted on September 14, 2019 by RC

One of the weaknesses that may come from communicating via social media is that we not only speak in short hand, but react in short hand. That is, our answers haven’t the time or characters to be nuanced, and so … Continue reading →

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WWJD- What Will Jesus Do?

Posted on September 13, 2019 by RC

It’s a quibble that reaches the level of pedantic. Rightly affirming the import of the question, it nevertheless gets it backwards. You have heard it said, “The most important question you will ever face is, ‘What are you going to … Continue reading →

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Castles in the Sand

Posted on September 12, 2019 by RC

There are, when we disagree, almost always two disagreements. Most of the time the smaller disagreement is the bigger one. Consider election. There are some in the church who believe that God chooses whom will believe His gospel. There are … Continue reading →

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Neither Are We Grateful

Posted on September 11, 2019 by RC

Salvation, it should go without saying, is astonishing. One minute we are looking at an eternity of just torment for our rebellion against the living God, the next we are running to our loving heavenly Father who has not only … Continue reading →

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May You Live in Interesting Times

Posted on September 7, 2019 by RC

There is a sort of application of the Observer Effect that applies to the news of the day. Sometimes confused with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which argued that at the sub-atomic level we can either discern the speed of a … Continue reading →

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Theology Has Consequences

Posted on September 6, 2019 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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Chilling With the Scornful

Posted on September 5, 2019 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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