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Diagnosing Diagnostics

Posted on January 4, 2022 by RC

When you have a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail. In like manner, when you have a wrench everything looks like a bolt. Any given tool empowers us and tempts us. It makes easier the task for which … Continue reading →

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Be Careful in Here

Posted on December 31, 2021 by RC

Is it the incessant push to have a take? Is it communications reduced to 280 characters? Is it political polarization pushed by algorithms driving us all into our respective echo chambers? How, I’m asking, do we account for our increasing … Continue reading →

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Cults ‘R’ Us

Posted on December 30, 2021 by RC

There are any number of ways that cultural confusion always walks down the aisle with relativism. Divorce, in this instance, isn’t an option. If, for instance, we all agree that there is no such thing as right and wrong, then … Continue reading →

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God is Good

Posted on December 28, 2021 by RC

I have, for more than 25 years ago we sought to help Christians live more simple, separate and deliberate lives to the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom. I learned quickly how people were apt to … Continue reading →

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Grumbling Vessels of Mercy

Posted on December 24, 2021 by RC

It is not, I would argue, only those outside the kingdom that are prone to grumble against God over His sovereign exercise of His will. Paul, in Romans 9, suggests that those clay vessels that God has prepared for destruction … Continue reading →

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Culture War Casualties

Posted on December 23, 2021 by RC

While it may be true that there are two kinds of people in the world, (those who like to divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t), there are in turn myriad places to draw these … Continue reading →

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Consorting with Whores

Posted on December 21, 2021 by RC

That there is a deep and profound chasm that separates believing in the total depravity of man and our own understanding of the depth and scope of our own sin is a potent sign of the depth and scope of … Continue reading →

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Gratitude

Posted on December 17, 2021 by RC

It’s time once again to remind you all of the RC Sproul Jr. Principle of Hermeneutics. If you already know it, I mean, really really know it, like someone who really knows something, feel free to skip to the next … Continue reading →

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Indignation Fatigue

Posted on December 16, 2021 by RC

Rocket fuel burns fast and hot, but it doesn’t burn long. The same is true of prideful, moral indignation. It burns fast because we live in a world not only of sin, but of sinners. Ignition is not a problem. … Continue reading →

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Tolkien, Moses, Law and Glory

Posted on December 14, 2021 by RC

There’s no accounting for taste. Or to put it another way, the taste has reasons that reason knows not of. We like what we like, and we don’t like having to explain it. Which is why postmodernism fits us so … Continue reading →

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