Spencer DeBlog (Page 95)

Do you remember asking your parents for something and being highly anxious about their response? We can probably all remember those feelings. As a young man beginning in ministry Oswald Chambers had the opportunity to travel to Japan. In those d…

A couple of days ago the post was a little kid’s backhanded compliment about my sermon. The post today is up on the other end of the age measure. This comes from an article by Pastor Kevin DeYoung. He is talking some serious sense about the f…

Psalms 6, 36, 66, 96, and 126 made up this morning’s readings. Two lines from Psalm 36 are going to stick in my mind all day. There is no fear of God before his eyes, For he flatters himself in his own eyes That his iniquity cannot be fo…

We had a great time of prayer with the men today. We just did Scripture prayer. Here is the method we follow: “We are going to go around the room and pray. Let’s pray Scripture prayers. All you have got to do is read a verse or two and th…

Malcolm Muggeridge was a journalist who became a Christian later in life. He died in 1990. I have an old copy of some of his writings that somebody around here gave me. As I have dipped into it a few times I find some loopy speculations (he had s…

I couldn’t make this stuff up. There are so many, many reasons that I love being Pastor to the RBC family. Real life that God gives us in relationships is sweeter and funnier than any artificial stuff we could create. This is an actual …

“Friends, do not let the weight of your sins drive you to despair…rather use them to drive you to Christ.” I scribbled that down and forgot who said it. It sounds like Spurgeon. Anyway, it needs to be said. When you confess your sin (and …

This line from a Flannery O’Connor story made me laugh out loud. O’Connor’s description of Mrs. May is just too perfect. Don’t you love stories that showcase a character that we have all known? The character Mrs. May is tha…

I admit I had to read this two times to figure it out. Okay, maybe three. But once I got it, I could not get it out of my mind. I don’t want to. There is not any thing that, in our communion with him, the Lord is more troubled with us for,…

This week had a strange start to it for me. Sunday I had a killer toothache. I had to schedule a root canal so we made an appointment for Tuesday morning. I had agreed to speak at the IFCA Wisconsin Regional meeting which convened on Monday …