Spencer DeBlog (Page 26)
Faith
We do not steady a ship by fixing the anchor on aught that is within the vessel. The anchorage must be without. And so of the soul, when resting, not on what it sees in itself, but on what it sees in the character of God, the certainty of His truth,…
Not what I used to be – John Newton
Yesterday’s sermon on Romans 1:1 I shared one of John Newton’s most famous sayings –
“I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace …
let it be very much your business to search
In Jonathan Edwards resolutions and personal letters he makes it abundantly evident that he loves reading, studying and meditating on the Bible:
Resolved – to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find,…
Preaching Romans at RBC
Dear Racine Bible Church,
Today marks the beginning of our journey through Romans. I am writing you today for the purpose of soliciting your prayers.
Would you pray for the preaching of the Word? Would you commit to pray, throughout th…
The Intolerance of Tolerance
D.A. Carson’s latest book hits this contemporary issue head on. An excerpt:
The sad reality is that this new, contemporary tolerance is intrinsically intolerant. It is blind to its own shortcomings because it erroneously thinks it ho…
do you love God?
The person who has eternal life loves to do the will of God. This is the logical sequence. The man who loves is the man who is anxious to please the object of his love. There is no better test of love that that, and unless you desire to please…
Our Sympathetic Savior
14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points …
So you want to study end times?
If you are looking for a resource to study end times, here it is.
This book will be released next week. Here is Nathan’s article introducing it …
… the newly released Christ’s Prophetic Plans by Moody Publishers (220 pp.) &nda…
This Slavery = True Freedom
I love, I love my Master,
I will not go out free,
For He is my Redeemer;
He paid the price for me.
I would not leave His service,
It is so sweet and blest;
And in the weariest moments
He gives the truest rest.
My Master sh…
one of the greatest works of all time
One of the greatest works of all time was published on this day in 1678. The following appreciation was posted by Fred Sanders at the Torrey Honors Institute.
Today in 1678 John Bunyan brought out the first version of the Pilgrim…