Category Archives: wonder

Me Not Me

Posted on April 25, 2023 by RC

I’m not the man I used to be. Neither am I the man I will one day be. And yet, I am the man I used to be, and will forever be that man. The passage of time experienced by … Continue reading →

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Neither Are We Grateful

Posted on April 18, 2023 by RC

Salvation, it should go without saying, is astonishing. One minute we are looking at an eternity of just torment for our rebellion against the living God, the next we are running to our loving heavenly Father who has not only … Continue reading →

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Good Friday

Posted on April 7, 2023 by RC

It is not a great mystery why we call this day “Good” Friday. This is the day each year that we remember the suffering and death on the cross of our Savior. Though they surely had little understanding of what … Continue reading →

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Goodness, Truth and Beauty

Posted on April 6, 2023 by RC

What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens? Much in every way. On the negative side, we would do well to remember that the citizens of God’s city, like those in the city of man, are still sinners. Though we are … Continue reading →

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Chilling With the Scornful

Posted on April 4, 2023 by RC

It has long been my contention that the rampant skepticism about all things supernatural among the Reformed crowd is driven more by modernist assumptions than it is exegesis. We’re in a bit of a pickle, wanting to be true to … Continue reading →

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Fairy Dust

Posted on March 28, 2023 by RC

It was the writer Arthur C. Clarke who posited this law- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I disagree. The technology need not be advanced at all. The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the … Continue reading →

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Right Now Counts Forever

Posted on March 24, 2023 by RC

It was Augustine who argued that every sin is a failure to love ordinately. Sin is the result of either loving something more than we ought or the result of loving something less than we ought. We are to love, … Continue reading →

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Remembering Eternity

Posted on March 14, 2023 by RC

Though they don’t feel like such when we are in the midst of them, light and momentary, Paul tells us, are our afflictions, not worthy to be compared to the eternal weight of glory (II Corinthians 4:17). CS Lewis captured … Continue reading →

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God With Us

Posted on March 9, 2023 by RC

For many years I wrote a monthly column for Tabletalk magazine titled “Coram Deo.” That little Latin phrase meant a great deal to Martin Luther, who in turn means a great deal to me. It means “Before the face of … Continue reading →

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Something New Under the Sun

Posted on March 3, 2023 by RC

Imagine, if you would, that you are the most powerful person in the world. Now imagine that you are also the richest person in the world. Would your life be fundamentally different? Would everything that is now ordinary about your … Continue reading →

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