Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 40)

Not making this up. This happened to me yesterday, here at RBC, right after the sermon. One man said, “I have got to talk to you about that last point in the sermon. I have just got to tell you that it was the clearest, most …

So every now and then someone will visit RBC and ask if we are a Calvinist Church. I usually try to get them to share what they mean by their question. I have found that the same words mean vastly different things to different people… …

From my class notes this Sunday night on application and biblical preaching — The material in this concluding section on expository preaching is adapted from Ramesh Richard’s book titled, Preparing Expository Sermons A Seven Step Method …

Here are some questions to identify idols. Work through them with prayer and an open Bible. I found them very challenging. They will hurt… but they will help. Worries– What do I worry about most? Fear — What, if I failed or lost it, …

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Whenever the …

My friend Alan married Geneva in 1954. She went to Heaven last week. Her memory and mental ability started leaving about 20 years ago, when the symptoms of Alzheimer’s started to show. Since that time she depended on Alan’s constant …

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. David Powlison nails this issue with one all-encompassing question: [This verse] leaves us with that most basic question which God continually poses to each human heart. Has something…

I wish I could get every husband at RBC to hear this message. If you are a married man in leadership here (staff, elders, deacons, ABF leaders, music and worship, youth ministry, Crosswalk…) please give this a listen. It is filled with sound doctrine…

I couldn’t stop myself from sharing this post with RBC. It is by Tony Reinke at the Sovereign Grace Blog… If you are familiar with the television show American Idol you know Simon Cowell, the judge famous for his bluntness, biting crit…

Be here Sunday for the next sermon in the Know God No Idols series. If you want to do read the texts we will be turning to on Sunday ahead of time, hit up Exodus 20 and 1 John 5.