Spencer DeBlog (Page 70)

I sent one middle school son, one high school son, one high school daughter, and one super-fun wife up to winter camp this weekend. Meaning I am home alone. (Not really alone if you count Judson). My mission is to make some serious progress on th…

So I’m reading Christianity Today this morning with my apple and cinnamon cheerios. A good article by Ed Stetzer on the abuse of statistics by pastors and churches. We cherry-pick data, take it out of context, and make points or application tha…

Our junior and senior high school ministry leaves for Fort Wilderness Winter Retreat Friday! Please be praying for… Dan Miller as he leads the leaders and students. The RBC youth staff who will be speaking the truth in love to our students. Our young…

Most of us made some sort of resolutions for the new year. Our six pastors are currently sharing the pulpit on six areas of resolutions. This short summation of Edwards’ resolutions is particularly powerful. I might use it on Sunday evening for our co…

I read this today. It matched up with some thinking and journaling I had already been sifting through so I really liked it. Hope you do too. “A Time To Talk,” by Robert Frost When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a m…

We are trying something different for the next couple of Sundays. It is an idea that had been brewing in my mind for a while – and the first two Sundays of the new year seemed to be the right time to try it out. We have six pastors on staff. Each o…

Please join us for the New Year’s Eve Communion Service at 7:00.

Please join us on Christmas Eve at 5:00. Our worship service will last about an hour. We will read Scripture, sing Christmas hymns and worship our Christ.

When we depend upon organization, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

I really liked Ross Douthat’s column from the New York Times. He writes about the James Cameron movie “Avatar” and makes some serious sense… It’s fitting that James Cameron’s “Avatar” arrived in theaters at Christmasti…