Tag Archives: RC Sproul Jr

No JCE podcast today.

Sorry friends but as I am still recovering from cryptosporidium, I have no podcast to share today. God willing we’ll have one next week, and we will continue to post blog pieces as well. Thank you for understanding.

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Dominion- Reigning for the Glory of Our King

I’m not in the habit of citing Karl Barth favorably, but when you’re right you’re right. Counter-intuitively, but insightfully Barth considers the sin of sloth to be on par with the sin of pride. We are prone to it, and … Continue reading

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What’s missing from the contemporary church?

Sinlessness. That is, the weaknesses that plague the contemporary church aren’t, in the end, all that different from the weaknesses that plagued the historical church. The more things change and all that, after all. It is said that one Lord’s … Continue reading

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Theological Socialism and God’s Good Grace

Karl Marx himself recognized that a free economy created a great deal of stuff. Productivity wasn’t the problem, according to Marx, in the capitalist economy. Instead, the problem was the distribution of the wealth that was created. Which is what … Continue reading

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Better to Have Loved and Lost- Burying Duke

We buried Duke. We had not known him long. We didn’t have a great deal in common. His illness came on suddenly. Lisa and I had visited him, sought to comfort him, and prayed for him. When the sun rose … Continue reading

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Kamilli Vanilli; Marcia Montenegro; Sodom; Prayer & More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Resenting Grace: Parable of the Miserly Son

It is counter-intuitive, but nevertheless, there it is. We all, from time to time, take offense when grace is offered to us. We all, even more of the time, take offense when grace is offered to others. Two different circumstances, … Continue reading

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What does it mean that the church is the bride of Christ?

When a writer makes an analogy he seeks to draw out truths about one thing by drawing out its similarities to the known qualities of the thing to which it is compared. If I say, “Life is like a roller-coaster” … Continue reading

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Patience, Now or, Fools Rush In

The devil presents us with something of a paradox. On the one hand, when he is introduced we are told, “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made” (Gen. … Continue reading

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To and From, or Into Our Father’s Open Arms

It may be the most overlooked moment of deep horror in all of the Bible. Not the eating of the fruit itself. Plenty of horror there, but it’s not overlooked. Rather it was the response of our first parents to … Continue reading

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