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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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Mostly Modern: A Worldview on Our Worldviews

Posted on February 18, 2025 by RC

Does a fish know it’s wet? When one is born in water, goes to school in water, marries in water and raises little fish in water before dying in water, despite its ever presence, the water just isn’t noticed. So … Continue reading →

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What’s the best decision you made in the last ten years?

Posted on February 13, 2025 by RC

Responding to a message. No doubt about it. A person I had never met came to me online for counsel during a difficult time. I offered what counsel I could over the course of a few years. Then I brought … Continue reading →

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Meek and Mild? Smoldering Wicks and Cracking Whips

Posted on February 11, 2025 by RC

Jesus, like love, is something everyone wants to lay claim to. There is no organized coalition banded together by a hatred of love. So too there are precious few people who are willing to lay a charge at Jesus’ feet. … Continue reading →

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Too Easily Distracted, Too Easily Satisfied

Posted on February 7, 2025 by RC

We live in a world where work gets done tomorrow. All deadlines must be flexible, negotiable in our day, lest we have no deadlines at all. Excellence has gone the way of the dodo. We are, in the words of … Continue reading →

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These Are the Days of Our Lives; Another World

Posted on February 6, 2025 by RC

Dear Bob, What do you suppose that John means when he tells us, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit “Do not love the world, or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the … Continue reading →

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The Reformation Doctrine of A Catholic Love

Posted on February 4, 2025 by RC

“I know I have to love him, but I don’t have to like him.” There’s something to this, well, rationalization. That is, it contains both truth and rationalization. Our call to love one another doesn’t mean we can’t have some … Continue reading →

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Evangelizing, Amidst the Ruins, Our Barbarian Hordes

Posted on January 31, 2025 by RC

Our strategies are often rather far from God’s strategies. Indeed, the simple fact that we sit down to strategize may be a sure sign that we are far from God’s chosen path. We are plotters and planners, who believe that … Continue reading →

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Stubborn Hearts: Biting the Hand That Feeds Us

Posted on January 30, 2025 by RC

You know the drill. Small child asks for eggs for breakfast, scrambled, with cheese. You happily prepare just that for the child. Said child sits for a bit looking at the eggs, then gets down from the table. You ask … Continue reading →

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The Conquest of the New Promised Land, All the World

Posted on January 28, 2025 by RC

Most all of us, at one time or another, have found ourselves embarrassed by God. He Who has all perfections perfectly doesn’t always fit into our scheme of things. He doesn’t always do things the way we who are altogether … Continue reading →

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