Tag Archives: kingdom notes

I Wish We’d All Been Ready

Posted on June 19, 2020 by RC

It is all too easy to play the emphasis game. Here we recognize the importance of balance on a given issue, but accuse others of being unbalanced. Consider faith and works. We all agree, I trust, that it is the … Continue reading →

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Blood in the Streets

Posted on June 17, 2020 by RC

How prone we are to miss the drama. The tyranny of the urgent, the plainness of our patterns, and our propensity to look inward rather than outward all push us to find our callings, our surroundings, our own souls to … Continue reading →

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Blessed Are the Rich In Spirit

Posted on June 13, 2020 by RC

There is real poverty in the world, more than we would care to admit. Jesus, after all, told us that the poor would always be with us. But just as all Israel are not Israel, so all the poor are … Continue reading →

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Wellness Check

Posted on June 12, 2020 by RC

How do you know you’re getting better? The answer may well be a potent clue in determining just how sick you are. A miser, for instance, judges his health precisely by how much wealth he has managed to hoard, the … Continue reading →

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A Plea For Gathering Together In Time, or, Disconnected

Posted on June 10, 2020 by RC

The rumbles have already begun, between churches and states, churches and churches, church members and other church members. There has been no Olly, Olly oxen free opening all churches of all sizes in all jurisdictions. There has been increasing impatience … Continue reading →

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The Sky Has Fallen

Posted on June 6, 2020 by RC

It probably says more about what defines our moments, the television, than the moments themselves, that we keep multiplying defining moments. For my parents’ generation, it was the death of John F. Kennedy. Everyone remembers where they first heard, or … Continue reading →

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Conquering the World

Posted on June 5, 2020 by RC

Thomas Aquinas was a great gift to the church. He stands among the greatest minds the world has ever known. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that he did not have his flaws. One of which goes to the heart of … Continue reading →

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Who is God? or, Doing Theology Proper(ly)

Posted on June 3, 2020 by RC

God bless the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Created by and during the Westminster Assembly that also gave us a Larger Catechism and the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Shorter Catechism is a monument to orthodoxy married to concision. I cut my … Continue reading →

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His Obedient Life

Posted on May 30, 2020 by RC

Everybody loves Jesus. Marxists love Jesus, because He was such a radical revolutionary. Unitarians love Jesus, because He befriended the social outcasts. Liberals love Jesus because, well, because He was liberal. Even some conservatives love Jesus, because He was so … Continue reading →

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Juggling Words

Posted on May 29, 2020 by RC

I know how to juggle. I’m no professional. Not even a gifted amateur. Just competent. I’m a better juggling teacher than I am a juggler. Because I learned this and learned it well- juggling is the art of throwing something … Continue reading →

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