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Turning the Other Cheek

Posted on February 8, 2020 by RC

Craig James, former football star at SMU, was briefly a sportscaster with Fox Sports. After his convictions on the nature of marriage, the sin of sexual perversion became known to the network he was fired. Then he filed a complaint … Continue reading →

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No Accounting

Posted on February 6, 2020 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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Grateful in the Kingdom

Posted on February 1, 2020 by RC

There is, in a rather small subsection of the Reformed world, a rather curious conviction. Some otherwise sound folks take the true and sound notion that because God knows those whom He has not chosen, because it is a great … Continue reading →

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Inerrant and Impotent

Posted on January 31, 2020 by RC

The devil, who is more crafty than any beast of the field, doesn’t particularly care whether we believe in the inerrancy of the Bible. Indeed it is conceivable that he might be more frightened of person A who denies the … Continue reading →

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Two Minutes Mourn

Posted on January 29, 2020 by RC

It is, perhaps, the strangest thing in that profoundly strange book, 1984. Orwell’s world is haunted by Big Brother, by spies on every corner and by memory holes through which the past disappears. It is, however, the “Two Minutes Hate” … Continue reading →

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Where in the We Are We?

Posted on January 25, 2020 by RC

My father was a gracious man. He believed, and as per most of the time, I agree with him- a tri-partite view of man isn’t in itself a terrible thing. My father, however, was no dummy. He believed, and as … Continue reading →

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Slitherlip’s Smears and Tarnishtongue’s Tales

Posted on January 24, 2020 by RC

Dear Slitherlips, As you well know, the Enemy has a rather unfair advantage in that He can, and delights to make things out of nothing. Our powers lag well behind, being limited to perversion. He takes what is not to … Continue reading →

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A Man Has a Right to Own Her Body

Posted on January 22, 2020 by RC

You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain– . Seeking to stop the slaughter of the unborn by merely declaiming abortion is like building a bridge by starting in the middle. James reminds us that … Continue reading →

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The World and All

Posted on January 18, 2020 by RC

The Sadducees and Pharisees were no dummies. They just weren’t as smart as their enemy. As we read through the gospel accounts it seems their strategy was simple- they would put an end to Jesus by forcing him to destroy … Continue reading →

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To See the Kingdom

Posted on January 17, 2020 by RC

“Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Jesus spoke this to Nicodemus in John 3. It is, like every text, an important one. Jesus gives us a prerequisite, a sine … Continue reading →

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