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Trading Deficits- Free Trade Math & Deficit Myth

Posted on April 10, 2025 by RC

Much has been made as sundry populists have rushed to the President’s side in defense of tariffs about the trade deficits the US is purportedly running with other nations. I have good news. There are no trade deficits. Never have … Continue reading →

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Christians Oddly Obsessed With Homosexuality?

Posted on April 8, 2025 by RC

Really? I’m not sure such is true anymore. Some, to be sure. Many professing Christians, however, are joining the world in embracing a love and let love ethic. Given the choice between being culturally marginalized or marginalizing the Bible, too … Continue reading →

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Kingdoms in Conflict, Enemies in Disguise

Posted on March 28, 2025 by RC

“Theological liberalism no longer announces itself with old men in big steeples but disguises itself in young men in skinny jeans and glasses.” I tweeted the above some time ago. From all appearances, based on the responses I received, theological … Continue reading →

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Rebels Without a Cause: Fighting the World With Its Weapons

Posted on March 25, 2025 by RC

It was Marx who argued that, rather than man shaping economic realities, it was the economic realities that shape man. Despite his manifold and manifest follies, he had something of a point here. Setting aside for a moment the chicken … Continue reading →

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Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places…

Posted on March 18, 2025 by RC

We must not allow our grasp of total depravity to lead us to miss in us God’s image. We are plenty bad. Sin touches every part of us. We’re unable to do anything in ourselves pleasing to God, including coming … Continue reading →

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A Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation

Posted on March 14, 2025 by RC

The serpent, more cunning than any of the beasts of the field, is a counterfeiter. His wily custom is to not merely construct an alternate realm to Christ’s realm. No, he crafts every piece of that realm as a copy … Continue reading →

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“Gender neutral” Bible translations? Boy Oh Boy

Posted on March 11, 2025 by RC

It is a holdover of our modernist past that we tend to see the work of translation as a science more than an art. We think we punch a word in from language a, and out pops the exact same … Continue reading →

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Quenching the Devil’s Fiery Arrows: Jesus the Christ

Posted on March 6, 2025 by RC

There is nothing new under the sun. In our battle with the world, the flesh and the devil there are no tactical advances, no technological upgrades. It’s the same temptations, assaults, dropped payloads as its always been. There are subtleties … Continue reading →

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The Preponderant Problem of Power Preaching Pulpits

Posted on March 4, 2025 by RC

It’s a bad fault of mine, but I suspect you suffer from it as well. My fault is that I assume that others have the same faults I do. If I struggle with pride, my guess is that those to … Continue reading →

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Christians Aren’t Perfect, Just Forgiving

Posted on February 28, 2025 by RC

“By this,” Jesus said, “all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). Here Jesus gives us an apologetic we’ve lost sight of. One of the blessings that come with God’s … Continue reading →

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