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Covid, Judgment and Grace

There is a great divide between the city of God and the city of man. The competing armies of the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, however, have this much in common- we’re all bad. The … Continue reading

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Loving His Enemies

They are coming for us. We have reached a cultural tipping point wherein many of the convictions of Christians, things once universally held, that right and wrong are real and we are all often wrong, that men are men and … Continue reading

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Blood in the Streets

How prone we are to miss the drama. The tyranny of the urgent, the plainness of our patterns, and our propensity to look inward rather than outward all push us to find our callings, our surroundings, our own souls to … Continue reading

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A Plea For Gathering Together In Time, or, Disconnected

The rumbles have already begun, between churches and states, churches and churches, church members and other church members. There has been no Olly, Olly oxen free opening all churches of all sizes in all jurisdictions. There has been increasing impatience … Continue reading

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Why are times so tough right now?

Times are hard. As I write our pandemic has been rudely shoved to the back burner of our collective consciousness. Covid’s destructive side-kick, economic meltdown, is now flying below our radar. Instead our attention, and our fears have zeroed in … Continue reading

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The Sky Has Fallen

It probably says more about what defines our moments, the television, than the moments themselves, that we keep multiplying defining moments. For my parents’ generation, it was the death of John F. Kennedy. Everyone remembers where they first heard, or … Continue reading

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Peace in the Valley

There is not just a valley but a deep chasm that separates what we know and what we feel. David, a soul so profoundly attuned to God’s own Spirit that God called him a man after His own heart, who … Continue reading

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Was God wrong to ask for Isaac’s sacrifice?

There are any number of challenges that come from this account in Genesis. Some have used it to deny God knows the future, on the basis of God’s declaration, “Now I know that you fear God” in 12:22. Some have … Continue reading

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Carpe Diem

Because we are given to self-interest, the first place our minds tend to go when hardship comes to town is bewilderment. We can’t begin to understand how or why God would allow pain to come our way. Eventually, by His … Continue reading

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Ask RC- Why should I “go” to online church? 5 Reasons You May Be Overlooking

1. Because the Bible commands us not to forsake the gathering together of the saints (Hebrews 10:25). Before you ask if meeting online is really the gathering together of the saints you should know that such a question sounds to … Continue reading

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