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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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Taxing Our Perspective: How Long Little DOGE?

Posted on February 27, 2025 by RC

There are likely hundreds of illustrations used to help people wrap their minds around the mind-numbing numbers reflected in the size of the federal government, its colossal budgets and its staggering debts. You know the ones- stack enough dollar bills … Continue reading →

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He Puts the Lonely in Families: Psalm 68:6

Posted on February 25, 2025 by RC

Most every night I gather my precious wife and our two still-at-home sons for prayer before bed. Many nights I pray in thanksgiving for God’s very specific grace in all four of our lives, that He puts the lonely in … Continue reading →

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Funny Hats, Secret Handshakes, Bread and Wine

Posted on February 21, 2025 by RC

The hard driving forces of individualism do not yet stand astride the culture like a colossus. We have divided our homes into mini-apartment complexes and our churches into age and gender- segregated shopping malls. We break the ties that bind … Continue reading →

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Your Mercies Begin Afresh Each Day O Lord

Posted on February 20, 2025 by RC

There is something both healthy and unhealthy about our propensity to see our salvation in a punctiliar, once-for-all context. Many, though not all of us can pinpoint the day when, by His grace we entered into His kingdom by faith. … Continue reading →

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