Category Archives: persecution

Prayer Partners; Fighting Fair; Command Performance

Posted on April 16, 2025 by RC

Join us as Lisa and I continue to talk about praying for one another. Plus, I encourage us to fight fair in the culture wars. And to worship the risen Lord in Spirt and in truth. This week’s Jesus Changes … Continue reading →

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How Should the Church Prepare for Persecution?

Posted on April 14, 2025 by RC

Apologists for the world inside the church love to downplay the power plays of the powerful. They argue that since, so far, no Christians in the west are being fed to the lions we are not persecuted. Persecution, however, is … Continue reading →

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Christians Oddly Obsessed With Homosexuality?

Posted on April 8, 2025 by RC

Really? I’m not sure such is true anymore. Some, to be sure. Many professing Christians, however, are joining the world in embracing a love and let love ethic. Given the choice between being culturally marginalized or marginalizing the Bible, too … Continue reading →

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Rebels Without a Cause: Fighting the World With Its Weapons

Posted on March 25, 2025 by RC

It was Marx who argued that, rather than man shaping economic realities, it was the economic realities that shape man. Despite his manifold and manifest follies, he had something of a point here. Setting aside for a moment the chicken … Continue reading →

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Fool Me Once: None So Blind as Those Who Won’t See

Posted on March 20, 2025 by RC

Americans are not so much a forgiving people as we are a forgetting people. Great evils are not so much atoned for as they are moved on from, especially in the political sphere. The news cycle is a rinse cycle. … Continue reading →

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The Reformation Doctrine of A Catholic Love

Posted on February 4, 2025 by RC

“I know I have to love him, but I don’t have to like him.” There’s something to this, well, rationalization. That is, it contains both truth and rationalization. Our call to love one another doesn’t mean we can’t have some … Continue reading →

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Evangelizing, Amidst the Ruins, Our Barbarian Hordes

Posted on January 31, 2025 by RC

Our strategies are often rather far from God’s strategies. Indeed, the simple fact that we sit down to strategize may be a sure sign that we are far from God’s chosen path. We are plotters and planners, who believe that … Continue reading →

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The Conquest of the New Promised Land, All the World

Posted on January 28, 2025 by RC

Most all of us, at one time or another, have found ourselves embarrassed by God. He Who has all perfections perfectly doesn’t always fit into our scheme of things. He doesn’t always do things the way we who are altogether … Continue reading →

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War, War and WAR Until the Close of History

Posted on January 24, 2025 by RC

In the last seventy-five years the United States waged war in Korea, Viet Nam, Libya, Panama, Grenada, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again. These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. … Continue reading →

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Tipping Points, Peer Pressure and Public Discourse

Posted on January 23, 2025 by RC

One should not be surprised that calamity follows in the wake of post-modernism and its dogmatic truth claim that there is no truth. To deny the possibility of knowing truth is not only self-referentially absurd, but is poison to decision … Continue reading →

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