Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

Pleasures At Your Right Hand

Posted on July 22, 2019 by RC

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the source of that ode to frustration, “Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Salt water is the cruelest trick, looking, sounding, even feeling like that which satisfies, when in … Continue reading →

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Believing God

Posted on July 20, 2019 by RC

We live in an age of spin, propaganda. We no longer weigh careful arguments and reach our conclusions judiciously. Instead we inhabit what one cultural critic called a “sensate culture.” We do not think; we feel. We do not decide; … Continue reading →

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Slacker Nation

Posted on July 19, 2019 by RC

It is a long standing standard of my top ten reads list, that potent tiny tome, The Abolition of Man by the incomparable C.S. Lewis. Here Lewis enters into a critique of postmodernism that is prescient, gracious, and devastating. Of … Continue reading →

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Fear and Loathing in Eden

Posted on July 17, 2019 by RC

Paranoia, long before it became a psychological term, served as a fitting antonym for not just trust, peace, but love. We know this in part because the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Spirit tells us in I Corinthians … Continue reading →

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What If God Were One of Us?

Posted on July 15, 2019 by RC

  It is an old temptation, to construct images of Jesus out of celluloid. Christians have fought for it and against, and will likely do so for generations to come, until the next medium seeks to supplant the Word. We … Continue reading →

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May the Best Man Win

Posted on July 12, 2019 by RC

It begins, I suspect, with a far too small view of the fall. There is plenty we lament about that dark day in a history’s most beautiful spot. We know that sin brought division to Adam and Eve. The two … Continue reading →

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Feeling Better Every Day

Posted on July 10, 2019 by RC

One brother stands above the others, more well known, more beloved. The middle one, however, gets some love, but not like the first. The third brother, he’s all but universally forgotten. He is David out in the fields with the … Continue reading →

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Scar Light

Posted on July 5, 2019 by RC

My torso is a map of past hardships. Top left is a scar from where I had a port put in for my chemo years ago. There are more scars where various moles had to be scraped off. Then there … Continue reading →

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Words of Wisdom- Let There Be…

Posted on July 4, 2019 by RC

I think we’ve got omniscience wrong. Yes, it certainly means all knowing. And yes, certainly God knows all things. It’s important to affirm as well that His knowledge overlaps with our knowledge. When we say 2+2=4 we are agreeing with … Continue reading →

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The Devil’s Arsenal- Standing

Posted on July 2, 2019 by RC

While envy may be the green-eyed monster, pride is a chameleon. It comes in a wide swath of colors, myriad sizes and innumerable shapes. It is also, one could argue, the true mother of all sins. Pride was Lucifer’s downfall, … Continue reading →

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