Tag Archives: kingdom notes

Kids and Their Phones, or, Old Man Yelling at Clouds

Posted on January 8, 2026 by RC

There was a time when I saw every complaint about any technology as an assault on the blessings of liberty. My loyalty to free markets made me suspicious of anyone casting doubt on the marvels of new whiz bang machines. … Continue reading →

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Preaching Power: Standing On and Under the Word

Posted on January 6, 2026 by RC

That we in the church have been infected by the consumerist mindset is a given. It is a buyer’s market, with sellers of every imaginable stripe vying for our attention. In the mindset of too many churches, and too many … Continue reading →

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Happy There Is Nothing New Under the Sun Year

Posted on January 2, 2026 by RC

Imagine, if you would, that you are the most powerful person in the world. Now imagine that you are also the richest person in the world. Would your life be fundamentally different? Would everything that is now ordinary about your … Continue reading →

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Paradise Remembered: Longing for Our Home

Posted on December 30, 2025 by RC

Nostalgia has as its lightly buried foundation a longing for a place we have never been to, Eden. Home is but an echo, a shadow of our first and final home. Most of you were not blessed as I was, … Continue reading →

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Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted by the Father

Posted on December 27, 2025 by RC

It is natural, though altogether wrong, to think that when we turn from the Old to the New Testament that we are entering more gentle times, that God in the interim became kinder and gentler. We do not see in … Continue reading →

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Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak, Slow to Become Angry

Posted on December 23, 2025 by RC

Movements move, eventually, off the mark. This may be because movements require two dangerous but potent ingredients- single-mindedness and certainty. One does not give birth to a movement while spinning multiple plates. One doesn’t change the collective wisdom of the … Continue reading →

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Defending Loose Cannons, and Trump’s Loose Tongue

Posted on December 18, 2025 by RC

The charge of hypocrisy sticks. Perhaps because we are all worse than our own standard. We rebuke the other guy, only to find that we too are guilty. The only good news I can offer is that it works both … Continue reading →

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Worshipping Your Own Personal “Higher” “Power”

Posted on December 16, 2025 by RC

It is not a difficult thing to discern the nature of someone else’s god. Some people carry their religion on their sleeve, advertising their spiritual commitments on bumper stickers or t-shirts. You can tell the Amish by their clothing, even … Continue reading →

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The Word of His Power; The Power of His Word

Posted on December 11, 2025 by RC

I think we’ve got omniscience wrong. Yes, it certainly means all knowing. And yes, certainly God knows all things. It’s important to affirm as well that His knowledge overlaps with our knowledge. When we say 2+2=4 we are agreeing with … Continue reading →

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Growing Pains: Annihilating God’s Character

Posted on December 9, 2025 by RC

Our little corner of the interwebs is up in arms over actor Kirk Camerson’s recent admission that he is finding the doctrine of annihilation to be preferable to the doctrine of eternal conscious torment for those who die outside of … Continue reading →

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