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The Cost of Conviction, or, Guarding our Garbage

Posted on July 18, 2024 by RC

Peer pressure, though we may consign it to teenagers and temptations toward teenage sins, is real and impacts all of us. It rarely comes complete with all the accoutrements, the insistent pleas from our friends, “Come on, everyone’s doing it” … Continue reading →

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Encouragement; Shot in the Dark; Satanic Folly & More

Posted on July 17, 2024 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Madness of the Method, or Losing the Lost

Posted on July 16, 2024 by RC

“You can’t turn back time.” “There’s no stopping progress.” It’s interesting the way we manipulate words. It’s certainly true, I suppose, that you can’t turn back time, and that there’s no stopping progress. But somehow these truisms have come to … Continue reading →

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What Love Is This? The World’s Hatred of the God of Love

Posted on July 12, 2024 by RC

The simplicity of God is a doctrine that provides a rather useful fence. The perfections of God are, of course, worthy of our excitement. Their infinity is, of course, staggering. But the simplicity of God is that place where these … Continue reading →

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No Believer Could Ever, or, Logs-in-Eyes ‘r’ Us

Posted on July 11, 2024 by RC

It’s election season again, which means I once again enter into that weird phase where my ideological friends regularly make me cringe. Sometimes it’s over the top rhetoric in favor of some guy on the red team, other times it’s … Continue reading →

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Former Astrologer Marcia Montenegro, Lying Media & More

Posted on July 10, 2024 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Name It Blame It, or, Pinning Failures on Failure

Posted on July 9, 2024 by RC

Some time ago I published an Ask RC podcast titled, “What’s wrong with the enneagram?” One of my (many) concerns is that as with so many other so called assessment tests, we always face the temptation to excuse our sin … Continue reading →

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Sophisticated Lady or, The Blushless Bride

Posted on July 5, 2024 by RC

We’ve all heard the horror stories. First there was the church that offered visitors a free oil change during the “service” if you would come. Then we heard of simple cash rewards. More recently a church raffled off a new … Continue reading →

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Heresies, Damned Heresies, Goldilocks and Elisha’s Bears

Posted on July 2, 2024 by RC

Too Hard There are at least three working definitions of heresy. First is the view that all error is heresy. This view has as an advantage that it recognizes the unity of truth. Because God is one, and God is … Continue reading →

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The Dance of Life, or The Devil in the E’Gals

Posted on June 28, 2024 by RC

The fall of Adam and Eve is one of the stickiest theological wickets we encounter in the Bible. How could both of them, whom God had declared good, do bad? But there is a stickier wicket still, perhaps made so … Continue reading →

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