Category Archives: wisdom

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, Slow to Become Angry

Movements move, eventually, off the mark. This may be because movements require two dangerous but potent ingredients- single-mindedness and certainty. One does not give birth to a movement while spinning multiple plates. One doesn’t change the collective wisdom of the … Continue reading

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Bible Study Tonight: To Be As Children: The Call to Maturity

Bible Study, Tonight: To Be As Children: The Call to Maturity Bible study at 7:00. Dinner at 6:15. We air the study on Facebook Live (RC-Lisa Sproul). Within a day or two we post the video of the study right … Continue reading

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Defending Loose Cannons, and Trump’s Loose Tongue

The charge of hypocrisy sticks. Perhaps because we are all worse than our own standard. We rebuke the other guy, only to find that we too are guilty. The only good news I can offer is that it works both … Continue reading

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Wisdom From My Bride; Folly from Trump’s Pen; Sovereign God

This week’s all new Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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What does Semper Reformanda, always reforming mean?

The Reformation was rife with slogans, pithy shorthand flags planted in the ground expressing Reformation distinctives. It argued, of course, that those distinctives were in fact not new, but a recovery of what had been lost over the course of … Continue reading

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Giving Thanks in Times Like These And All Others

I will not dispute that these are not the best of times. As a nation we are drowning in red ink. Around the globe, soldiers, civilians and believers are falling by the sword. Yet, the liturgy of our year, by … Continue reading

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Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver; Illegal Orders & More

This week’s all new podcast features more of Lisa’s God honoring poetry, nuance on honoring military authority and more. Check it out, a true bounty of tasty podcast goodness. This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Why are we so awful to people on social media?

First, because we are so awful to people. We are so awful to people because we are awful people. Technology does not create fresh wickedness in us. It can, however, invite our wickedness out to play. Social media that seems … Continue reading

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The Stinking Lesson of the Stinking Garbage Can

Experience is overrated. We often learn its lessons too late. Though once it has aged it can pack a punch. My father, about the time I entered into junior high school, impressed upon me the lesson experience taught him too … Continue reading

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What does it take to be a student of the Word?

All believers know that the Bible is God’s Word, that it is true in all that it teaches. We know we’re supposed to not only read it, but to be read by it. We’re to study it and to be … Continue reading

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