Category Archives: repentance

Why is the church so biblically illiterate?

Because of the church’s failure to teach the Bible. It’s no great mystery. Teaching the Bible has at least two strikes against it for the church looking to prosper. First, it is not easy. The Bible is a book of … Continue reading

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Romans 11, Part Deux

I’m afraid I won’t be able to get a podcast up today, and possibly this week. To ease that pain, here is last night’s study on Romans 11. It just might surprise you.

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On Human Cruelty and Selective Application

While we we’ve been distracted by open borders and the election primaries, most of us have forgotten Gaza’s raid on Israel. Perhaps such is deemed no longer newsworthy since we are well aware that Muslims in the middle east think … Continue reading

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What would future RC say to present RC?

It is, I confess, a rather convoluted question, but the principle isn’t so hard to grasp. We often try, as a kind of thought experiment, to ask what we would tell the us of twenty-five years ago if we can … Continue reading

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Putting Bitterness and Envy to Death

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field (Genesis 3:1). Part of his craftiness is encouraging us to see sin as something that we do rather than the outworking of what we are. If we can … Continue reading

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The Quick and the Dead

There’s a reason why after we are introduced to someone new that we most often ask, “What do you do?” The truth of the matter is that our identity is, to a degree, rightly tied up in our labors. What … Continue reading

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Life Wins- On the Passing of John Barros

I’m not shy about the term hero. I have many of them, not because my standards are low. It’s not that I misapply the term, using it as a synonym for “someone I admire.” It is rather that a. I’ve … Continue reading

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Coming Up Repentance

Forgiveness of sins does not, of itself, erase the need, in some contexts, for painful, and fitting consequences. If a man robs a bank and then throws himself on the mercy of God in Christ his sin will most surely … Continue reading

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Blessed to preach Jesus at the Gates of Hell

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Us and Them

It certainly is, comparatively speaking, a subplot. But it is plenty important. As God’s Word describes the power of God’s words in creation, we ought to be astonished. God speaks, and there is light. He speaks and the whole of … Continue reading

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