Tag Archives: sanctification

No Accounting

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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Perseverance of the Saints and Shifting Blame

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 11– We must practice hospitality. It is my habit, when I grow unduly discouraged with the church, to read through I Corinthians. Reading through the long list of serious problems that Paul had to address there, and suddenly the … Continue reading

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What He Says at His Feast, Jesus Meets John the Baptist and Rushing to Judgment

Today’s JCE podcast

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Grateful in the Kingdom

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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Ask RC: Does God really decide, and care who wins a football game?

I began asking this question myself long before Tim Tebow was even born. I was a little boy, deeply committed to the Pittsburgh Steelers. I remember praying that they would beat the Oakland Raiders in an upcoming playoff game. When … Continue reading

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Yesterday’s Study- Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst For Righteousness

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Where in the We Are We?

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

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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