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A Letter to an Unbelieving Friend on How Best to Live

Posted on August 5, 2019 by RC

Dear Unbelieving Friend, My life, I am persuaded, would fall apart in a heap in a moment were I not a servant of the Lord. Though it is true that Jesus is the very font of my happiness, that is … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Without Zeal

Posted on August 2, 2019 by RC

When Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, describes the church as the body of Christ he spoke more wisely than we fools tend to hear. As is the habit of the modern evangelical church, we take the full, … Continue reading →

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Made This Way

Posted on August 1, 2019 by RC

No one should be surprised, though of course it makes no sense, when unbelievers complain about God’s judgment. Romans 1 tells us that they know God is, they know He is almighty, and they know they are in for it. … Continue reading →

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A Higher Power

Posted on July 30, 2019 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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Getting Better All the Time?

Posted on July 29, 2019 by RC

History is littered with the inhuman. That is, when we seek to take an honest look at those who have gone before us, we find what we manage to think is something different from us. We look at Nazi Germany … Continue reading →

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Be Still

Posted on July 27, 2019 by RC

The children of God are rather different from the children of men. We have been reborn by a sovereign God. They have not. We have been redeemed by a sovereign God. They have not. We are being remade by a … Continue reading →

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We Will Sing an Old Song- Crying Out to Our Redeemer

Posted on July 25, 2019 by RC

Trouble comes to the people of God. If it is not here now, it will be here soon. Those who promise that the Christian life is a breezy walk through the meadow not only have not taken up their cross … Continue reading →

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What Hath Jerusalem to do with Nineveh?

Posted on July 24, 2019 by RC

It’s a temptation I know all too well, that man-pleasing desire to have a reputation as someone not at all given to man-pleasing. The pathway there is pretty well worn, and pretty clearly marked. All you have to do is … Continue reading →

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Pleasures At Your Right Hand

Posted on July 22, 2019 by RC

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the source of that ode to frustration, “Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Salt water is the cruelest trick, looking, sounding, even feeling like that which satisfies, when in … Continue reading →

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Slacker Nation

Posted on July 19, 2019 by RC

It is a long standing standard of my top ten reads list, that potent tiny tome, The Abolition of Man by the incomparable C.S. Lewis. Here Lewis enters into a critique of postmodernism that is prescient, gracious, and devastating. Of … Continue reading →

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