Category Archives: preaching

Contextualizing Missions

Posted on December 5, 2023 by RC

It is just about the time that we begin to mock our fathers that we find ourselves slipping on the banana peels they have left behind. Consider our fathers’ failure to contextualize in missions. Generations ago great heroes went forth … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to “preach the gospel to yourself?”

Posted on November 27, 2023 by RC

One of the weaknesses of the evangelical church in our day is that we tend to look at our salvation as a process, like we’re moving down an assembly line. There are good reasons for this perspective, not the least … Continue reading →

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What should we be doing to better protect unborn babies?

Posted on November 20, 2023 by RC

For fifty years Christians have, with waxing and waning fervor, fought to see unborn children protected from parents and doctors that would take their lives. During that time we have seen sixty million babies’ lives snuffed out, on purpose, within … Continue reading →

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Can someone with dementia come to saving faith?

Posted on October 2, 2023 by RC

Of course. The same is true of those with severe mental handicaps, those who are yet within their mothers’ wombs, and the very young. Each of these people will have the same struggle everyone else does- they’re sinners. By nature … Continue reading →

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Keep Your Pants On

Posted on September 28, 2023 by RC

We’re fools, we meaning we humans. We see the destruction that flows from our foolish choices, and seek out any solution besides stopping with the foolish choices. The Bible says that sexual behavior is only for a married husband and … Continue reading →

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Holes in Our Sermons

Posted on August 31, 2023 by RC

It is easy enough to grumble about what goes on at the giant church down by the interstate. It could be that there you’ll find the prosperity gospel at its most crass. Maybe the pastor has a fleet of exotic … Continue reading →

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Rightly Dividing

Posted on August 22, 2023 by RC

Though we don’t give it its due, objectively speaking it is a rather dramatic moment. First, of course, there is the broader drama, a recreation of the temptation in the Garden of Eden, but this time taking place in a … Continue reading →

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The Son Rising in the East

Posted on August 18, 2023 by RC

The early church faced at least two distinct and competing enemies. While Jesus walked the earth and after, the great challenge to the kingdom of God was found both in the Roman Empire and in Judaism. An armed force that … Continue reading →

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Power Preaching

Posted on August 17, 2023 by RC

All those who preach want their preaching to have impact. I suspect that in all those who preach, this desire is born of a mixture of two other desires, the desire to have congregants and the kingdom blessed, and the … Continue reading →

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The Cross and the Crown, or, Jesus Changes Everything

Posted on July 20, 2023 by RC

Chattel slavery. Suttee, the practice of burning widows at their husband’s funeral. Racism. Sex trafficking. Child exposure. Hunger. Disease. Abortion. It’s a woefully partial list. These are just a few of the social evils that Christians have fought against over … Continue reading →

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