Category Archives: kingdom

Ask RC- How can I be sure Jesus won’t say to me “Depart from Me” on the last day?

Posted on August 3, 2020 by RC

You can’t make that sure, which is one of the keys to understanding this text. Assurance of salvation is one of the most common pastoral challenges, and understandably so. It matters, forever. And we struggle with sin until the day … Continue reading →

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The MacArthur/Leeman Dustup and The Bible in 5 Minutes- Exodus

Posted on August 3, 2020 by RC

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

Posted on August 1, 2020 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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Literary DNA- My 23 Writers That Made Me Me

Posted on July 31, 2020 by RC

It takes one to know one. Among the realms in which this truism is true is the world of the writer. Writers know writers. While science-y things are well beyond my decidedly non-STEM minded mind I do have some skill … Continue reading →

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Lisa and I Discuss Wild Oats, Gnosticism in the Church and Seeking Partners

Posted on July 31, 2020 by RC

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Ask RC- What does 1 John 2:2 – “And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world” mean?

Posted on July 30, 2020 by RC

My hero and teacher, Dr. John Gerstner, in dealing with one of the errors of dispensationalism, its rejection of the doctrine of limited atonement, referred to this error as, “beating the ‘L’ out of TULIP.” Though we believe the five … Continue reading →

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God Wills; Randy Winton, Hero and the Catechism on Adoption

Posted on July 30, 2020 by RC

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Truth or Consequentialism

Posted on July 29, 2020 by RC

There are, in the end, essentially only two forms of ethics. One approach is pragmatic, the other principled. Pragmatism on its own, of course, is always incomplete. That is to say, we can’t answer the question of what works until … Continue reading →

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Lisa’s Purpose Driven Wife- God Gives Signs, Sin Stones, VII and The Old Man and the Sea

Posted on July 29, 2020 by RC

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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on July 28, 2020 by RC

Thesis 35 We must discipline our children in accordance with the Bible rather than psychology. Our tendency is to believe that the devil creates false worldviews for the purpose of fooling unbelievers. But the devil doesn’t score any points on … Continue reading →

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