Spencer DeBlog (Page 18)
A sermon on Romans 5
Here are some highlights from Alexander MacLaren’s sermon on Romans 5:21.
As sin hath reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
You much mistake Paul if you take…
each man’s death diminishes me
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thi…
Look for a building with a cross on it
“Look for a building with a cross on it,” people escaping North Korea for China are told, because Christians are more likely than anyone else to help them escape the Chinese police. The police, reports Melanie Kirkpatrick, a senio…
Happily Married
God says that a Pastor or elder in the church must be a one woman man.
That’s His standard. It’s good.
God reached down into my life and made it easy.
In His marvelous mercy to me, as my faithful and generous Father, He…
Marriage, Corey Hart, & John Calvin
Three things today …
Pray for the RBC Marriage Retreat this weekend. Pray that the gospel would blossom and bloom in our marriages. Pray that husbands and wives would love and forgive as they themselves have been loved and forgiven.
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Marriage, Corey Hart, & John Calvin
Three things today …
Pray for the RBC Marriage Retreat this weekend. Pray that the gospel would blossom and bloom in our marriages. Pray that husbands and wives would love and forgive as they themselves have been loved and forgiven.
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three links
A well-written essay about Hurricane Sandy by Walter Russell Mead
While the lights went out across Manhattan tonight, and the city that calls itself the capital of the world was cut off from the mainland as flood waters thundered through i…
What I shared with the church about voting
The idea of human government is all over the Bible.
When God made the first two humans Genesis 1:28 tells us that
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.”
This is best accomp…
Consider circumstances. Meditate on God.
This really helped me recently.
I post it here so that you might be helped by it too.
Since you don’t author your own story, and since you haven’t penned the script of your own ministry, life and ministry is constantly unpredicta…
monday update
Lord willing, Brennan and Sara Uthe will arrive in town tonight. Brennan is joining our pastoral staff team. I wonder if he has any earthly idea what its like to work with Darien, Dan, Wayne & John. It is crazy fun.
My heart is full to overflowing after hearing Dan Schneider on Sunday. He gave testimony to what the Spirit of God is doing out in…