Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 69)

“I’m amazed at the amount of time people spend on the internet. I’m not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest t…

This hit me hard recently! “Sin is fundamentally antisocial, because sin causes me to love me more than anything else and to care for me more than anything else.” “If sin turns me in on myself so that all I live for is me, then sin in its essence…

If you were with us yesterday, you should remember this. I went to sleep last night dreaming about it. I awoke this morning praying that God will soon bring it to pass. The Dream Isaiah Saw Lions and oxen will slee…

Here’s what I’m up to today… Eating Junior Mints Drinking Papa Nicholas French Roast Working on Chapter Three of my doctoral project (I wanted to submit it by December 31 but I am starting to doubt that will …

Opening presents, grinning about sweaters you don’t really like, having second helpings of your aunt’s jello-salad, answering relative’s questions about school or the weather or grades or jobs in a revolving pattern over and over again, sitting on the…

Not too long ago, I had lunch with one of our RBC men. A godly man who loves the Lord and puts that love to action in this church. He told me that he is considering retirement. As soon as I heard this, I said something like “If you do that…

David Brainerd described his spiritual desires this way – “When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable, and my thirstings after holiness the more unquenchable. And the Lord will not allow me to feel as though I…

I am reading (actually skimming) Dr. Mohler’s book “Words from the Fire” subtitled “Hearing the voice of God in the Ten Commandments.” I like it a lot. I checked it out from the RBC church library. It is overdue. But I know the librarians and …

This good word on prayer comes from Kevin Deyoung: If you know you are needy and believe that God helps the needy, you will pray. Conversely, if we seldom pray, the problem goes much deeper than a lack of organization and follow through. The heart …

Read Philippians 1:3-11 with the elders this morning. So many stand-out phrases in that passage. And they are structured together in such an interesting construction which is, in itself, instructive. I can’t quit thinking about it. 3 I than…