Category Archives: preaching

Why is the church so biblically illiterate?

Posted on November 18, 2024 by RC

Because we in the pulpits do not preach God’s Word, and we in the pews neither read nor study God’s Word. There is no great mystery. We have not because we ask not. And when we do ask, we ask … Continue reading →

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God in the Hands of Angry Sinners- A Misunderstanding

Posted on November 8, 2024 by RC

It was a strange time for me. I was attending a high school that was so nominal in its commitment to the Christian faith that the high school English teacher was an atheist. Still, his was among my favorite classes, … Continue reading →

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Cults ‘R’ Us- The Gross Error of Assertion

Posted on November 1, 2024 by RC

There are any number of ways that cultural confusion always walks down the aisle with relativism. Divorce, in this instance, isn’t an option. If, for instance, we all agree that there is no such thing as right and wrong, then … Continue reading →

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Changing the World, While Keeping the Faith

Posted on October 25, 2024 by RC

Pop culture is a sanitizing force. No, it doesn’t make the world a cleaner place. It just makes us all the more the same. We are a world awash in golden arches, swooshes, and the real thing. Because people in … Continue reading →

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The Gospel- Just A Message for the Unsaved?

Posted on October 22, 2024 by RC

It stretches credulity to suggest that anyone would answer this question in the affirmative. We know better than to say such things. It also stretches credulity, however, to deny that we in the church have a terrible time grasping the … Continue reading →

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Strange Bedfellows: Understanding My Enemy’s Enemy

Posted on October 15, 2024 by RC

All is not actually fair in love and war. And the enemy of my enemy is likely not to be a trustworthy ally. Some years ago I had the occasion to speak to a group of pro-lifers on ministering outside … Continue reading →

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The Work of the Ministry and the Ministry of Work

Posted on September 27, 2024 by RC

I give thanks for my seminary education. All that time and energy devoted to studying the Scriptures revealed, among many other things, that the Bible says not the first word about seminary. It does, however, tell us a thing or … Continue reading →

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Turning the Mirror Around, Hiding From the Ugly

Posted on September 12, 2024 by RC

Not only do we remain, in ourselves, sinners, when by His grace we are declared to be saints, but we tend to be, after being born again, repenting and being indwelt by the Spirit, the same kind of sinners we … Continue reading →

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Why is the evangelical church so full of pretense?

Posted on September 9, 2024 by RC

I’m no behaviorist, but I don’t need to be to understand this truth- that which you punish you get less of, and what you reward you get more of. We don’t like punishment, and seek to avoid it. We do … Continue reading →

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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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