Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 14)
If Christ is risen …
“If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen, nothing else matters.”
So spoke Jaroslav Pelikan, Professor of history at Yale University, author of some 50 books on the history of the world and the churc…
Service Friday, March 29th, at 7:00 P.M.
Please join us for a Good Friday Service Tonight at 7:00.
I will be preaching from John 11 & 12.
Prayer for the church
Here is a list of prayer requests for the church that the RBC Pastors prayed through today.
Jesus Christ would always be at the center. No ‘ism’ would ever be more important that Him.
Pride would be removed from the life of every one of our leaders.
We’d be people of prayer. Consciously and constantly relying upon the…
Links
A few links I liked …
Solid thinking on the close connection between spirituality and sexuality –
Have you noticed how the culture war flash points are all sexual? Abortion, gay marriage, gender interchangeability, sex e…
High Trees
Pride always steals peace. This is so very true and yet I forget it so easily …
The proud and arrogant person is a trouble to all that converse with him, but most of all unto himself; every thing is enough to vex him: but scarce any thi…
Gossip
How to Stop Church-Killing Gossip
Kent Hughes:
Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face.
Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or h…
Sin and Temptation
Two books I recommended in yesterday’s sermon –
Sin and Temptation, John Owen (there are many versions, this link is to my favorite which is edited by Justin…
All to hear that joyful voice from His mouth
John Flavel exhorting those who would be Pastors –
I may say to him that snatched at the ministry, as Henry IV did to his son that hastily snatched at the crown: He little knows what an heap of cares and toils he snatches at.
The…
Five quick things to pray for
We sent a crew to the biblical counseling conference in Lafayette. Pray that their training and learning would help them bring grace and truth and hope to many people back here at RBC.
Pray that I would be a better Pastor. I just had…
Old and young
http://byfaithonline.com/the-vitality-of-youth-and-the-wisdom-of-age/
Love this article about how old and young need each other.
It is my joy to see this lived out every Sunday at RBC.
http://byfaithonline.com/the-vitality-of-youth-and-…