Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 54)

I get letters. All pastors do. I got one recently that started like this… “Can I bend your ear about some things that have been happening at RBC lately…” How does that strike you? If you are a pessimist – you think the…

Do you think Calvin is cold? Do you figure that the doctrines of election and God’s sovereignty encourage human apathy and discourage vibrant compassion? Do you suspect that Calvinistic theology leads to the doctrine of the frozen chosen?…

From my Twitter: Sunday evening Shepherding Group study is titled Complaining and Contentment. We are for latter and against the former. Marquis Laughlin will be at RBC July 18, 6pm. He is doing the book of Revelation. You don’t want to m…

I wonder why it seems that these things come in waves. Have you ever been asked a question that you did not expect to be asked? And then the next day somebody else asks the same question, and then the next day someone else? Like you haven’t t…

I had the great joy recently of re-reading Martyn Lloyd Jones sermon on one of my favorite verses, Romans 6:17. It is his sermon “Mind, Heart, Will” in the book Spiritual Depression. But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves…

Picnic Top Ten The cakes were amazing. Did you see the triangle? The model of Mt. Sinai? Wayne in the dunk tank. Bob Boeck in the pie booth. Mrs. Salazar brought her green salsa fresca. She sent the rest (almost a j…

Ligonier Ministries National Conference is livestreaming today and all this weekend. Tune in to hear MacArthur, Sproul, Begg and others. http://www.christianity.com/ligonier/

If you are here this Sunday, notice the verse on the top of the order of service in the bulletin. It is Luke 15:20. And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell…

Nobody pursues purely “objective” learning. Everybody pursues “committed” and “socially located” learning. In fact, everybody’s learning is “faithbased,” and this is so no matter what his scholarl…

This is taken from Plantinga’s very thought provoking work titled Not the Way it is Supposed to Be Shalom and sin are opposites The webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight is what the Hebrew prophets…