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Does God Want Me to Be Happy? A Defense of Happiness

Posted on December 8, 2025 by RC

The Bible is replete with warnings. Those yet outside of His grace are warned of the certainty of judgment. Those weighing life and death are warned to consider the cost before taking up the cross. And those born from above … Continue reading →

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Giving Thanks in Times Like These And All Others

Posted on November 27, 2025 by RC

I will not dispute that these are not the best of times. As a nation we are drowning in red ink. Around the globe, soldiers, civilians and believers are falling by the sword. Yet, the liturgy of our year, by … Continue reading →

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For All the Saints Who From Their Labors Rest

Posted on October 17, 2025 by RC

Unity matters. However, so does diversity. Unity and diversity unite in the very nature of God. God is three persons united in one essence. The world around us fails to see how God’s creation reflects the Trinity, and it always … Continue reading →

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Lisa & I on Charlie Kirk; God’s Pride, Our Prejudice & More

Posted on September 17, 2025 by RC

This week’s all-new Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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How Do You Handle Assaults on the World Wide Web?

Posted on September 15, 2025 by RC

Turns out the world wide web didn’t become the sharing-of-ideas paradise we all once hoped it would be. This comparatively new way to communicate to a wide audience has created a comparatively new way for us to insult and belittle … Continue reading →

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Monsters ‘R’ Us: Killers and the Killers Who Kill Them

Posted on September 11, 2025 by RC

I remember it like it was yesterday. Bill Stewart was a reporter for ABC News. At a roadblock set up by government soldiers in Nicaragua he was ordered down on the ground and then shot point blank behind his ear. … Continue reading →

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Are There, Ultimately, Tragedies? or What Were You Thinking?

Posted on September 3, 2025 by RC

I got myself into a kerfluffle the past few days on the internet. I was seeking to come to the defense of my fathers. Someone posted this quote from my earthly father, “…ultimately there are no tragedies.” Someone objected by … Continue reading →

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To Be is to Be Perceived: Falling Trees in the Woods

Posted on August 1, 2025 by RC

Like Xeno’s paradox, the counter-intuitive claim of Bishop Berkeley (pronounced Bark-lee for some strange reason) that esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, is difficult to refute. The good bishop argued the world outside of us is only … Continue reading →

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Will AI Take Over the World? Ghosts in the Machine

Posted on July 21, 2025 by RC

Though he was by no means the first nor the last to make this point, my father did a great service to the church by reminding it that “chance” has no causal power. Indeed it has no power at all, … Continue reading →

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Same Circumstance, Same Savior, Same Song

Posted on June 27, 2025 by RC

Trouble comes to the people of God. If it is not here now, it will be here soon. Those who promise that the Christian life is a breezy walk through the meadow not only have not taken up their cross … Continue reading →

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