Category Archives: kingdom

Beggars All- Making Invitations to the Feast

Posted on September 3, 2024 by RC

For all the hardships connected to inflation none of us, I suspect, have found ourselves giving thanks for having the head of a donkey or dove droppings to eat. That, however, was the situation in Samaria when the Syrians laid … Continue reading →

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The Perseverance of the Saints, A Love Story

Posted on August 30, 2024 by RC

“And to forsake all others, till death do us part.” One would think, that with the decades-old trend in the broader culture of “personal marriage vows,” wherein husband and wife fill in the blanks and speak their own words, that … Continue reading →

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Not Worthy to Be Compared- Here to Eternity

Posted on August 29, 2024 by RC

We all know we are called to walk by faith and not by sight (II Cor. 5:7). What we often don’t know is how terrible we are at it. We tend to think of it as the ability to believe … Continue reading →

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Believers’ Loving Response to Sexual Confusion

Posted on August 27, 2024 by RC

I suspect one of the reasons that the opposition to sodomy that was once the default position of all professing Christians is in such retreat says more than we suspect. We’re now being encouraged to be silent on the issue, … Continue reading →

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Should we take up an offering during worship?

Posted on August 26, 2024 by RC

It was likely the most surreal thing I’ve ever witnessed at a worship service. Not surprisingly it happened on a Sunday morning at the Orlando Convention Center. My esteemed father was scheduled to preach at this service in conjunction with … Continue reading →

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Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound, Given To All Around

Posted on August 23, 2024 by RC

Perhaps the most subtle verbal sleights of hand are acts of equivocation. We commit equivocation when we use one word, but with two different meanings. We make the change so quickly we miss the palmed meaning, and are made fools. … Continue reading →

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Hearts, Heads and Hands, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes

Posted on August 22, 2024 by RC

Much ink has been spilled over the centuries over what constituent parts make up man. Not a man, but man. It took us until the 21st century to get confused over what a man is. What man is, on the … Continue reading →

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Dominion- Reigning for the Glory of Our King

Posted on August 20, 2024 by RC

I’m not in the habit of citing Karl Barth favorably, but when you’re right you’re right. Counter-intuitively, but insightfully Barth considers the sin of sloth to be on par with the sin of pride. We are prone to it, and … Continue reading →

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What’s missing from the contemporary church?

Posted on August 19, 2024 by RC

Sinlessness. That is, the weaknesses that plague the contemporary church aren’t, in the end, all that different from the weaknesses that plagued the historical church. The more things change and all that, after all. It is said that one Lord’s … Continue reading →

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Theological Socialism and God’s Good Grace

Posted on August 16, 2024 by RC

Karl Marx himself recognized that a free economy created a great deal of stuff. Productivity wasn’t the problem, according to Marx, in the capitalist economy. Instead, the problem was the distribution of the wealth that was created. Which is what … Continue reading →

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