News and Reads
For your weekend
We have three new Kingdom Notes online as well as another "Ask R.C." If you want to receive these, along with other news as it happens
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Kingdom Notes:
Stupid Is as Stupid Does,
For Better or For Worse,
Walking by Faith
Ask R.C.:
When does child rebellion affect qualifying for church leadership?
Knowledge Puffs Up now available.
This latest Basement Tape is now in the mail to our monthly supporters. Those supporters who requested the MP3
of this CD have already received their digital version a few days ago. If you are a monthly suppoprter and would like to get the MP3
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Kingdom Moments with R.C. Sproul Jr. — Once Upon a Time … Jacob
More Kingdom Moments here.
81. We must believe God loves us.
Love is one of the good words. Just as no one particularly labors to have words like death, or cruelty associated with themselves or
their ideas, so everyone wants to lay claim to love. The devil is quite content for all of us to love love, as long as he maintains
the power to define the term. The mainline American church follows mainstream American culture and defines love principally in
permissive terms. Love means never requiring others to say they are sorry. God's love for us, in this scheme, makes our sins
insignificant (as well as the atonement of Christ.) God winks us into heaven, because we're so valuable and lovable, and He's such
a swell guy (or girl).
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From R.C. Sproul Jr.'s new book.
Pray for our brethren in Myanmar.
Please pray for the saints in Yangon, Myanmar as they deal with the hard providence of a potent cyclone. Pray for grace, for safety, and
for opportunities to make known the glory of Christ's reign. We are still anxiously awaiting word as to the safety of our friends there.
For the weekend.
We have two more Kingdom Notes and another Ask R.C. question online for your reading pleasure. You can get these fresh off R.C.'s computer
by subscribing to our Kingdom Notes e-newsletter, along with other news and specials here at the Highlands Study Center. To subscribe,
just send us your email address to info[at]highlandsstudycenter[dot]org and ask for the Kingdom Notes.
Kingdom Notes:
Emotional Karaoke,
Slacker Nation
Ask R.C.:
Can Christians watch R-rated movies?
Last day to take advantage of this month's specials at our online store!
Today, April 30, is the last day to purchase
Basement Tapes for $3 each, and
Bound for Glory for $14, or receive it as a gift for becoming a
"You Get Everything" supporter of the Highlands Study Center.
Ask R.C. a Question
I have always been a bit puzzled by the "conflict" between Paul's "justification by faith alone" and the "justification by works"
mentioned in the book of James. Do you think these guys actually disagreed about what it took to be saved? Can you shed some light on
this subject?
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Tuesday Night Bible Study tonight.
R.C. Sproul Jr. is continuing the series Meeting Jesus tonight at 7:00PM in Bristol. The topic tonight is
The Message of Jesus. Go to the
Tuesday Night Bible Study page for all the information, as well as the topics
for the entire series.
Now introducing: Gretchen Beall Tremayne
We welcome Gretchen, the fifth covenant blessing of Dante and Samantha Tremayne, born Saturday, April 26, 2008
at 3:16PM, weighing in at 7lb. 4oz. and 20 inches long. She also sports a full head of black hair.
For your weekend enjoyment: R.C. goes to prison.
Earlier this month R.C. Sproul Jr. had the opportunity to speak to prisoners in Angola Prison, infamously known as the
bloodiest prison in America. We have a few snapshots of R.C.'s visit in our
Overflow Gallery for your perusal. Enjoy.
Kingdom Notes
Racing Home
It is my habit, each year, when I attend Ligonier's annual conference, to take with me a good handful of my own children. It is always
a delight for me, and I suspect for their grandparents. I am fairly certain the children enjoy it as well. To make this make financial
sense, however, we do suffer a minor hardship. We drive the 700 miles, rather than fly. Though it's not easy driving down there, the
hard part is the drive back. For the former we get up before daybreak, and arrive by late afternoon. For the latter, however, we leave
in the early afternoon, and arrive early the next morning. After two and a half terribly busy days, and long nights, we load up for a
twelve hour drive back home.
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Only one week left to take advantage of this great deal!
Click here for all the details
78. We must ask God for wisdom, believing He will give it.
God's promises are shocking. Our sin, in turn, is shocking. These two intersect when we in our sin refuse to believe the promises of God.
He, because He is abounding in grace, makes some kind of stunning promise. We, because we are cynics, skeptics, sophisticates, refuse to
believe Him. We may try to masquerade our unbelief as something praise worthy, arguing perhaps that contextual understanding of the Bible
diminishes what at first blush looks like an extravagant promise. Truth be told, our faith is just too anemic.
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From R.C. Sproul Jr.'s new book.
Summer 2008 Couples Camp. Now taking reservations.
Summer Couples Camp is coming the end of June, so now is the time to register.
Visit our Couples Camp page for all the details.
Every Thought Captive in the mail tomorrow.
Our goal for this issue is to communicate to our readers the depth and scope of God's love for His children, arguing that the shocking
prodigality from the parable is the overflowing love of the father, more so than the spending of the son. We want our readers to go away
encouraged, with their faith, their joy strengthened, knowing that their Father in heaven loves them with an everlasting omnipotent love.
The latest issue, Our Prodigal Father, will be in the mail on April 22. Expect it in your mailbox in a week or so.
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