Tag Archives: God’s love

Our Prideful Humility, or Inheriting the Wind

Posted on May 15, 2020 by RC

Tim Keller’s excellent The Prodigal God not only potently draws our attention to the oft-missed second half, the story of the elder brother, but it potently answers a question I have long struggled with. What are the implications of the … Continue reading →

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Blender Life- Goals; Meeting Jesus- The Woman

Posted on May 11, 2020 by RC

Today’s JCE podcast

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Ask RC- Why is the church so full of pretense?

Posted on May 8, 2020 by RC

I’m no behaviorist, but I don’t need to be to understand this truth- that which you punish you get less of, and what you reward you get more of. We don’t like punishment, and seek to avoid it. We do … Continue reading →

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Troop Zero, A Catechism Question, & Unashamed

Posted on May 8, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Permanent Things, Lisa on A Woman’s Scars…

Posted on May 7, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Guarding Our Feeling Life

Posted on May 4, 2020 by RC

I, though if pushed against a wall will come in as a dichotomist, have no special quarrel with trichotomists. I believe we are bodies and souls. But I get why some say we’re bodies, souls and spirits. There are times, … Continue reading →

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O For a Thousand Years To Sing

Posted on May 2, 2020 by RC

It doesn’t happen often, but it had happened. A book written for businessmen had jumped a fence and become something of a universal bestseller. Like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People before it, and Good to Great after it, … Continue reading →

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Plowing in Hope, God’s Incomprehensibility & More

Posted on April 30, 2020 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything

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People of the Feast, or, Seaing the Holiday

Posted on April 25, 2020 by RC

Dwarves, as a rule, are a rather recalcitrant lot. It was their stubborn refusal to follow directions that caused some of them to suffer the indignity of being turned into dufflepuds, in C.S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. … Continue reading →

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Should pastors preach a congregation’s sins?

Posted on April 23, 2020 by RC

Of course. And of course not. The sermon is that part of the service where God’s Word exposes our failures, and proclaims Christ’s provision. The end is not the sin, but neither can the sin be ignored. We do not … Continue reading →

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