Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 105)

The experience of true intimacy with God does not require perfection, but it does require that we be fully surrendered. Full surrender means that we live with an attitude of unlimited obedience. Though we may fail, refusing to become entrenched in …

Suggested New Year’s Resolutions for 2009: We might enjoy much peace, if we did not busy our minds with what others do and say, in which we have no concern. But how is it possible for that man to dwell long in peace, who continually intermeddles in th…

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Here is a little bit from a note I received on Sunday that really made me smile. This brother must have been in first service and jotted this note in-between services, a small excerpt. I praise God and pray that He will continue to speak through …

Okay, so a few words about yesterday. It was the coldest Sunday morning I can remember. Eight below on our way to church. Really. That was the real temperature. I don’t even want to know what it was with windchill. Of course I had …

Saturday morning, 10 am. I’m looking out of my office window at the church building. The parking lot is surprisingly full for a Saturday morning. You know what all those cars are doing here? Practicing for Sunday morning. Trumpets, violins, …

Yesterday it was sunny with a high of seventy-two. Last night we returned home just in time to watch the winter storm come in. Took this picture this morning standing at our barely opened front door. We were not about to go outside!

Most of us love reading the Psalms. I do. Some days, like yesterday, I start with the Psalm of the date (Psalm 16) and then jump ahead thirty each time (so I also read Psalms 46, 76, 106, and 136). This section in Psalm 106 sounded unusually loud whe…

From a letter written by Jonathan Edwards to Deborah Hatheway (1741): In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and…

You know that woman who helped you out at church today? That deacon who showed concern? That elder who opened his home and his heart for shepherding group? Your teen’s youth leader? Your Sunday School teacher? The church secretary who answer…