Tag Archives: suffering

How should Christians face such rapid cultural marginalization?

Posted on June 10, 2021 by RC

In the great battle that is the culture war Christians are in rapid and chaotic retreat. On issues of sexuality we are deemed backward, hateful and hypocritical. To speak in defense of marriage is, in the minds of the world, … Continue reading →

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Pray for Matt Moore; Bible in 5 Malachi

Posted on May 24, 2021 by RC

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Nature of the Beast- Persecution Draws Near

Posted on May 14, 2021 by RC

How easy it is for us to find comfort in the distance between us and hardship. We know famines happen, but not here. We know political dissent is repressed, but not here. We know Christians are persecuted. But not here. … Continue reading →

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How should Christians to respond to persecution?

Posted on May 3, 2021 by RC

With a smile. For four very good reasons. First, it frustrates the heck out of your persecutors. Fear is their only weapon and they become very afraid indeed when it doesn’t work. When we were children we were told to … Continue reading →

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Preparing for Persecution

Posted on April 23, 2021 by RC

Apologists for the world inside the church love to downplay the power plays of the powerful. They argue that since, so far, no Christians in the west are being fed to the lions that we are not experiencing persecution. Persecution, … Continue reading →

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Pride and Persecution; Bible in 5 Minutes, Micah

Posted on April 12, 2021 by RC

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Forever Friends; Curating Movies, We Were Soldiers; Discerning the Body

Posted on April 2, 2021 by RC

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New Theses, New Reformation

Posted on March 30, 2021 by RC

Thesis 68 We must love our brothers. “I know I have to love him, but I don’t have to like him.” There’s something to this, well, rationalization. That is, there is both truth in it and rationalization in it. Our … Continue reading →

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Believing the Invisible

Posted on March 17, 2021 by RC

We are all tempted to be practical deists. The deists were the poster children for god-of-the-gaps theology. Because they wanted the universe to make sense, but didn’t want to have to answer to the living God, they posited a creator … Continue reading →

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Sacred Marriage Under Fire ix

Posted on March 15, 2021 by RC

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