Category Archives: RC Sproul JR

We Have Met the Scandalizers and They Are Us

Posted on June 19, 2025 by RC

Much has already been spoken and written since last month’s blunder by Bryan Chappell, former stated clerk of the PCA church. If you are unaware, Dr. Chappell was being interviewed by the Gospel Coalition and along the way, in order … Continue reading →

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Babes in Toyland: Youthful Folly In Our Dotage

Posted on June 17, 2025 by RC

We should expect that a given culture would follow the pattern of the riddle of the Sphinx. What begins on four legs, moves to two, and ends with three? Oedipus freely passed on his way because he recognized this as … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to say the church is apostolic?

Posted on June 16, 2025 by RC

The various competitors to the “one true church” crown, Anglo-Catholicism, Roman Catholicism and eastern Orthodoxy, all make quite a fuss about their pedigrees. Each holds to a doctrine called “apostolic succession” which affirms that the current leadership in their respective … Continue reading →

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Big Con, Little Con, Con Con and Contra Con Con

Posted on June 12, 2025 by RC

My father’s mentor used to quip, “If you want to know what a neo- anything is, just take out the e.” Thus a neo-evangelical is no evangelical. The neo-orthodox know no orthodoxy. And neo-conservatives are no conservatives. We’ve known this … Continue reading →

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The Nature of the Beast- Persecution Draws Near

Posted on June 10, 2025 by RC

How easy it is for us to find comfort in the distance between us and hardship. We know famines happen, but not here. We know political dissent is repressed, but not here. We know Christians are persecuted. But not here. … Continue reading →

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What does it mean that the church is “catholic?”

Posted on June 9, 2025 by RC

I was all of five years old. My father served on the staff of College Hill Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. The children were not typically welcome at the worship service. That may be my fault. I am told that on … Continue reading →

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At Least I’m Honest About It

Posted on June 6, 2025 by RC

Every culture and subculture has its own taboos. Not all of them are the same, however. Given that we are all human, how can we explain the divergence of cultural standards? Why does one culture find adultery to be a … Continue reading →

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Multiple Stops on the My Ways/Your Ways Highway

Posted on June 5, 2025 by RC

Right beside “Judge not, lest you be judged (Matt. 7:7), in the list of most misused texts we find this in Isaiah: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For … Continue reading →

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Grandparenting; Sigh, Ops; Pride, Prejudice & More

Posted on June 4, 2025 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Status Report: Measuring Ourselves By Ourselves

Posted on June 3, 2025 by RC

We are fools. That’s a good starting point. Every mother’s son of us was made in the image of God. We are all together by nature children of wrath. Our heavenly Father is remaking those of us who have been … Continue reading →

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