Posts by RBC (Page 21)
Pray for Me!
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. I am headed to Turkey and Romania for the next twelve days. As you have already given and prayed for our missionaries in both locations, I know you will be praying for me. Here are a few specific suggestions. For me – take the verse from 2 Timothy 4 that is…
the germinant power of all His words
Alexander MacLaren’s beautiful comment on John 14:26 where Jesus says But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. There is something altogether unique in the incorruption and germinant power of all His deeds and of all His words. This Carpenter…
it’s not as scary difficult as you think it is
10 out of 24. Last night I was with a group of about 24 RBC people. “Has anybody had a chance to share Jesus with somebody recently?” was my question. About 10 people shared that they had. That’s pretty good. But I want to get to 24 out of 24. This short article shows that…
Read more – you can do it and it’s easier than you think…
If you are a slow but steady reader you can read 200 words a minute. If you read 15 minutes a day (just 15 minutes!) you will read 5,475 minutes in a year. Multiply that by 200 words a minute and you get 1,095,000 words that you will read in a year. The average book has about 360 words per page and…
whence proceeds the great stupidity of men
Psalm 90 is a great one to read in the month of January. Read it. Meditate on it. And consider how time is running out. … from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You return man to dust. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. John Calvin’s comment on Psalm 90 – We have here laid down a simple definition of our life, that it is,…
a christmas poem
Mary’s Song Blue homespun and the bend of my breast keep warm this small hot naked star fallen to my arms. (Rest … you who have had so far to come.) Now nearness satisfies the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies whose vigor hurled a universe. He sleeps whose eyelids have not closed before. His breath (so slight it seems no breath at all) once ruffled the dark deeps…
when things don’t go your way
Has it happened to you lately? It always does. Things don’t go your way. What you wanted to happen didn’t happen. What you prayed for didn’t come through. Satan loves to pounce on us when we are disappointed so that he can double down on the discouragement. Here is a solid word from the wonderful little book Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by…
why we are the way we are
John Newton, in a letter to a friend, lays out why we are the way we are — The holiness of a sinner consists chiefly of low thoughts of self, and high thoughts of the Saviour. These will always be in proportion. The lower we appear to ourselves, the more highly we shall esteem him. The more his glory strikes us, the more we shall sink in our own eyes.…
Resources on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision —
On June 26, 2015, in a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that same-sex marriage was legal in all 50 states. In the hours that have passed, Christians have been praying and wondering aloud what comes next and how we should respond. To aid our collective…
What if God loves us too much to give us success?
It is a mark of the love of God that he brings Job low; for this is where a creature ought to be. This is true for us as well. We often pray for success. And yet so often success leads to pride, and pride to self-confidence, and self-confidence to independence from God, and independence from God…