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God’s Hammer

Sometimes, indeed often, we build and maintain our paradigms for our own comfort. Our worldview is usually less the result of careful, dispassionate, sober-minded analysis, and more the result of self-serving, special pleading, rationalization of our sin. We believe what … Continue reading

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Three Question Salute or, How to Reboot Gratitude

Ingratitude is virtually universal. Adam and Eve were ungrateful in paradise. The children of Israel were ungrateful after being delivered from slavery and while being led to a land flowing with milk and honey. Paul, in , seeking to describe … Continue reading

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Ask RC- What, if you could have only one word, would you want on your tombstone?

This “Ask RC” goes back twenty years. This question was asked of me by a friend with a preternatural gift of asking what he calls “diagnostic questions,” questions that slip into ordinary conversation that end up, before we know what … Continue reading

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The Daily Grind

We are all mirrors cracked. Man, as man, was made to reflect the glory of God. Adam and Eve were put into the Garden to reflect their Maker, to show forth His glory. In defying Him and eating of the … Continue reading

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The Culture Culture

The Bible teaches, from Genesis 3 onward, the antithesis. Antithesis is a rather fancy theological term that simply affirms that the people of God live their lives in the context of the battle between the seed of the woman and … Continue reading

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Ask RC- Why are we so awful to each other on the internet?

The internet did not invent sin. We were plenty awful to each other long before Al Gore went into his lab and wound his web around the world. That said, the internet did bring some new features to the sin … Continue reading

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Samson as type of Christ, Lisa, the Purpose Driven Wife and More…

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything

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He Gave Us Songs

He was at least an insightful man, if not a wise man, who first said, “I care not who writes a nation’s laws, as long as I write the nation’s songs.” He understood that what shapes our lives is rather … Continue reading

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Jephthah as a type of Christ and an extended interview with my pastor, Mike Drury.

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything podcast

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Jesus Changes Everything Podcast, November 8, 2019

Today’s podcast- Forgive Us Our Debts, Writing Nice and More…

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