Spencer DeBlog (Page 78)

Truth must be necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and is therefore congenial to it. GK Chesterton Think about that one for a while… What does that one sentence says about man’s heart and Go…

Dan Miller took a small group of students up to Fort Wilderness this weekend for a service project. I love the emphasis on humility and service in our youth ministry. I love it because it is one of a few biblical priorities that God Himself speak…

This powerful word comes from Russell D. Moore of SBTS: For most conservative American evangelicals, “Reformation Day” is not a big deal. Many, if asked, might think it to be a special emphasis day for prison ministry. Most of us know the day as Hall…

Here is a little bit more from the David Powlison article. I took it home and shared it with Amy because it related to a few “discussions”* we have been having lately. She really liked it. It gave us some helpful handles to grab on t…

I asked Darien to lead Pastor’s meeting this week by bringing us something good from the biblical counseling training he has been receiving. He did not disappoint. He led us through an utterly convicting discussion of heart-idols via an article…

Here is a good word for each one of us. “It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God — but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life.” Oswald Chambers The regular guys The stay-at-home-m…

I almost showed up to the office today with forty kids! I was anticipating the look on Scott, Sharon and Linda’s face when I pulled into the parking lot followed by a caravan of a couple dozen cars filled with middle and high school students….

O Thou loving One, O Thou blessed One, Thou deservest to have my all. Thou hast paid for me ten thousand times more than I am worth. John Bunyan

Why did God work the wonders recorded in the Old Testament? Why did God save me? Why did God save us? Turn to these passages to hear Him give the answer: Psalm 106:8 Ezekiel 20:5-14; 18-22, 38-44 note vss. 9, 14, 22, 44

Crossway have just published a brand new edition of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, edited by C. J. Lovik with superb illustrations by Mike Wimmer. “If any smoothing of Bunyan’s seventeenth century language plus new colored pictures can set Pilgrim’s Pr…