Category Archives: RC Sproul

The Oxymoronic Arrogance of Reformed Folk

It’s an irony that hits close to home, so it’s one I make note of regularly. We who confess to being Reformed, Calvinistic, embracing the doctrines of grace, begin our confession of our distinctives with the doctrine of total depravity. … Continue reading

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Owning, and Owned By the Pearl of Great Price

There may well be many of them, but perhaps not as many as you might think. Most of the knowledge I was blessed to receive from my Father became melded together with the rest of it. I was blessed to … Continue reading

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Lisa and I on Perseverance; Scandal!; Devil’s Folly & More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Hard Book

There are at least two different kinds of hard sayings in the Bible. On the one hand, there are texts that are just plain terribly hard to understand— texts to which we respond, “What in the world could that mean?” … Continue reading

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Draft Days

My father and I, as far back as I can remember, loved to talk sports, especially the Pittsburgh Steelers. It is true enough that we had plenty of valuable and enjoyable conversations on knotty theological issues and subtle biblical texts. … Continue reading

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My Brother, My Father

It was 85 years ago today that a woman I never met gave birth to a boy I’ve never not known. The day I met that boy, who by then had become a man, the woman who had given birth … Continue reading

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Last Night’s Study, Romans 10, Pt. II

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An Ordinary Christian Life

It has become rather fashionable in certain circles to decry the rise in the church of what we call “the cult of personality”—and rightly so. A broader body consumed with consuming theological and biblical teaching via sundry media outlets is … Continue reading

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What’s our biggest weakness in understanding the Bible?

Logic, or a lack thereof. There are plenty of other weaknesses we have. We not only don’t come to the Bible as first century Jews but we do come as twenty-first century Americans. We are largely ignorant of the geography, … Continue reading

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Let No Man Tear Asunder

My favorite theologian of all time was wont to argue that the defining task of the theologian is to make distinctions. That’s what we do. We bring clarity through precision, precision through distinction. The man who may well have been … Continue reading

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