Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 24)
Tell Somebody
Ever borrowed someone’s car and dented it?
I have.
Ever get a really bad grade and bring it home to your parents?
I have.
Ever have friend #1 tell you some really bad news and then tell you that you have to share it with …
Communion with God is the root
Read and discussed this chapter with the RBC Pastors this morning.
Our conversation was one of those really clarifying ones where you are able to probe past the pat answers and get down to what is going on in the heart.
Pray for John A., Joh…
A gospel hangover
I shared this in the sermon yesterday …
The morning after I had heard the gospel, however, I woke up with what felt like a hangover. Little would I know it was of the spiritual kind that accompanies the inevitable dawn of realization th…
Read Books not just Blogs
Christian, don’t let your web use shorten you reading attention span. Take the time and develop the discipline to enjoy diving deep into the best books you can find.
“Books are attention machines. In web metrics, we …
Faith
We do not steady a ship by fixing the anchor on aught that is within the vessel. The anchorage must be without. And so of the soul, when resting, not on what it sees in itself, but on what it sees in the character of God, the certainty of His truth,…
Not what I used to be – John Newton
Yesterday’s sermon on Romans 1:1 I shared one of John Newton’s most famous sayings –
“I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace …
let it be very much your business to search
In Jonathan Edwards resolutions and personal letters he makes it abundantly evident that he loves reading, studying and meditating on the Bible:
Resolved – to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find,…
Preaching Romans at RBC
Dear Racine Bible Church,
Today marks the beginning of our journey through Romans. I am writing you today for the purpose of soliciting your prayers.
Would you pray for the preaching of the Word? Would you commit to pray, throughout th…
The Intolerance of Tolerance
D.A. Carson’s latest book hits this contemporary issue head on. An excerpt:
The sad reality is that this new, contemporary tolerance is intrinsically intolerant. It is blind to its own shortcomings because it erroneously thinks it ho…
do you love God?
The person who has eternal life loves to do the will of God. This is the logical sequence. The man who loves is the man who is anxious to please the object of his love. There is no better test of love that that, and unless you desire to please…