Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 91)

Please pray for an important meeting I have this afternoon. It is my evaluation. I did a self-evaluation and each member of the elder board did one for me. This afternoon I meet with a smaller group of elders to discuss the f…

I’m trying to study here in my office. I’m working on the meaning of the participle “being watchful” in Ephesians 6:18. I’m unraveling how it relates to prayer and applies what has already been said about power in the …

“Sheep are to be kind to sheep. Shepherds are to be kind to sheep. But if a shepherd is kind to wolves, that is just another way to let them savage the sheep. Kindness to sheep is hostility to wolves. Kindness to wolves is hostility to sheep. A…

I included this bit from a book by Tremper Longman III in our Psalms class notes. He is explaining, crisply and effectively, the three main types of Psalms and our relation to each of them: The three most commonly occurring genres [types of psalms…

Here is the homework assignment I gave the Psalms class on Sunday night. We are having a great time growing in our ability to appreciate and use the Psalms! Homework Read five Psalms a day, Monday through Saturday. Start with the Psalm correspo…

Read this poem today and loved it. The poet is Julie Stoner, a stay at home mom who publishes poetry while homeschooling her kids. This poem speaks right to many of us here at RBC. “I did not come to call the righteous” Matthew 9:9-13 We…

This verse pulled me through today. 2 Timothy 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Be strong. Be strong in the grace. Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Be strong. I have to be strong. I need t…

The longer I live, the more I love the classics. Books, music, movies, whatever it is. Pop music can be fun, but it doesn’t bear up after repeating listening. Web pages can be fun to click through, but they are here and gone. I want to fill…

My heart is a vain heart; a vagabond and unstable heart, seeking rest, finding none. It agrees not with itself; it alters its purposes, changes its judgments, frames new thoughts, pulls down the old, then builds them up again; it wills, and wills no…

Opened the Word this morning while munching raisin bran. This verse stuck with me. Proverbs 19:11 A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense. It is wisdom that gives one patience. And it is patience that enabl…