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Buckle Up

Posted on November 2, 2023 by RC

In little more than a year, unless things heat up more than even I can imagine, these United States will have an election. Every four years we’re told that this election is the one that really counts, that the future … Continue reading →

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Seeking Christ

Posted on October 31, 2023 by RC

Neil Postman, in his compelling book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, argues that we have moved as a culture from one wherein the printed word drives us, to one wherein the image drives us. With the advent of the printing press, … Continue reading →

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Let No Man Tear Asunder

Posted on October 27, 2023 by RC

My favorite theologian of all time was wont to argue that the defining task of the theologian is to make distinctions. That’s what we do. We bring clarity through precision, precision through distinction. The man who may well have been … Continue reading →

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Public People, Private Lives

Posted on October 26, 2023 by RC

There has been of late a rather embarrassing battle going on on social media between competing tribes of Bible believing Calvinists who come down on different sides of what God commands for civil governments. There are good men on both … Continue reading →

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The Lord of Darkness

Posted on October 24, 2023 by RC

I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things” (Isaiah 6b-7). It was Millenium Bug season, and many of my … Continue reading →

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Blood in the Streets

Posted on October 20, 2023 by RC

How prone we are to miss the drama. The tyranny of the urgent, the plainness of our patterns, and our propensity to look inward rather than outward all push us to regard our callings, our surroundings, and our souls as … Continue reading →

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Hear O Israel, In the School of Christ

Posted on October 19, 2023 by RC

It is not hard to complain about the government’s schools. The government, at least during every election cycle, seems less than satisfied with its own product, ever promising us that it will improve. Atheists complain about prayers before football games. … Continue reading →

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Without Ceasing

Posted on October 17, 2023 by RC

We must pray without ceasing. One of the dangers of honoring the Reformation is that we can end up dishonoring the very principles that gave rise to it. If, for instance, we were to carry around bits of bones from … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 13, 2023 by RC

There are, of course, plenty of nutty Christian numerologists. Like the Bible code that once captured the imagination of Bible lovers, so too is there a steady crowd that practice a Christian brand of kabbalah, mixing mysticism and math. On … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Colors

Posted on October 12, 2023 by RC

It’s 84 degrees. My face and my noggin are sunburned. And it’s October as I write. I live not only in the northern state of Indiana, but in the northern portion of the state. Which pushes me, as a lover … Continue reading →

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