Tag Archives: apologetics

Myth Made Fact

Posted on March 14, 2020 by RC

It is a holdover from our modernist past that we consider “myth” to be synonymous with false. We also tend to think it means “old.” Now in our postmodern maturity we’ve reached the conclusion that while myth is not true, … Continue reading →

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Christian Hedonism, Jesus Meets a Pharisee and a Sinner and Why God Destroyed Canaan

Posted on March 10, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything

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Diffusing Deconversions

Posted on March 6, 2020 by RC

There’s a new genre in town. We still have love stories, science fiction stories, crime stories. We also still have conversion stories, testimonies about God’s grace in our lives. What is new is the yang to that yin, testimonies of … Continue reading →

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Plato, Total Depravity and Hell Is Not God’s Absence

Posted on March 4, 2020 by RC

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Ask RC- What causes a lack of assurance?

Posted on March 2, 2020 by RC

There are at least two different ways we struggle with assurance, two different truths we want and need to be assured of. The first is the truth of the gospel. What if the Bible is just the opinions of men? … Continue reading →

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ABCs of Theology- Sacraments; I Know a Little Greek- Plato; Half Truths- All Sins Are Equal

Posted on February 26, 2020 by RC

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Meeting Jesus- The Paralytic, Sacerdotalism and The Seat of the Scornful

Posted on February 25, 2020 by RC

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As Luck Would Have It

Posted on February 24, 2020 by RC

Though we often lose sight of this hard reality, our ideas are more tightly bound together than we might think. While we may indeed have an overstock of internal contradictions in the way we look at the world, we in … Continue reading →

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Socrates, Hero You Never Heard Of, Lyndon Azcuna and RC Sproul’s The Soul’s Quest for God

Posted on February 20, 2020 by RC

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We Do What We Are

Posted on February 19, 2020 by RC

In my Introduction to Philosophy class I had my students read through a portion of Clarence Darrow’s closing argument in the trial of Leopold and Loeb. These two young men murdered a teenage boy simply because they embraced the ethics … Continue reading →

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