Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 83)

What are the hearts of most of us, but so many nests of foolish hopes and fears? These hopes and fears entertain us day and night and steal away our precious hours from us, hours that might have been laid out so gainfully upon the wise and sweet h…

So last night after supper we read a couple of passages about creation and the knowledge of God. Then we read this article: http://www.challies.com/archives/articles/9-things-i-learned-about-god-from-planet-earth.php Then we watched one of the …

The joy of living to please the Lord A few more thoughts from Richard Baxter Remember still that the pleasing of God is your business in the world, and that in pleasing him your souls may have safety, rest, and full content, though all the world sh…

On a sunny afternoon last week, I got yelled at. I mean it. I got curses and threats screamed at me. What did I do to deserve such treatment? I was getting a ball. I was retrieving a ball that had bounced off of the street and onto a yard. An…

Here is a little bit more from Richard Baxter: The Advantages of Pleasing God rather than Men 1.If you seek first to please God and are satisfied therein, you have but one to please instead of multitudes; and a multitude of masters are hardlier pleased…

The first verse of First Timothy six fascinates me on a number of levels. The more I think about it, the bigger it gets. Consider the second half of the verse – … so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. If that is t…

So yesterday, after helping with VBS in the morning, we headed out to the State Fair in the afternoon. Pig races Cream puffs Clydesdales Amazing Acrobatic show Chocolate covered bacon (?!?) The Fox Six Milwaukee news guy filmed us in the cream p…

Richard Baxter preached several messages about the fear of man to his congregation in Kidderminster around about the 1650s and 60s. When the government clamped down on true gospel preaching, he refused to conform to their edicts. Along with many ot…

John Calvin told me something scary this morning. Really scary. I was on my second cup of coffee, watching the rain cascade down, and Calvin says this… The most hurtful of all plagues in the congregation, the deadliest of all poisons in the ch…

These verses spoke to me this morning. I had Luke six open next to my waffles and coffee. I am going to be thinking about these verses all day long and longer than that. Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Give, and it will be give…