Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

RC’s Confessions

Several of my real sins, often liberally mixed with unreal sins, are available for your reading pleasure through the help of Google. Sadly, as effective as Google and sundry attack bloggers are, they have missed too many of my sins. … Continue reading

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Ask RC- How can we tell the difference between the accusations of the devil, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit?

Jesus, we ought to remember, was betrayed twice by His disciples. While the betrayal of Judas carried Jesus inexorably toward His passion, the betrayal of Peter was of the same dark hue. Both pushed Jesus away as the other, both … Continue reading

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Me Not Me

I’m not the man I used to be. Neither am I the man I will one day be. And yet, I am the man I used to be, and will forever be that man. The passage of time experienced by … Continue reading

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Everything Old Is New

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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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