Spencer DeBlog (Page 97)

It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your afflictions could do. Your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; you make your burden…

On a Sunday night not too long ago, one of my kids came home and said that, in Firm Foundations class that evening, they sat at a table with a couple of our seniors and enjoyed chatting with them. This means the world to me. Recently, I heard tha…

I hate to sound self-congratulatory, but I have just got to say that this is probably my best blog-post title ever! It comes from a line I ran across from George Whitefield. I love preaching the gospel. It was my joy to do so yeste…

Luther often repeated this wonderful logic in the gospel. Every time you insist that I am a sinner, just so often do you call me to remember the benefit of Christ my Redeemer, upon whose shoulders, and not upon mine, lie all my sins. So when you sa…

Here we are walking the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. I took this picture with Edinburgh Castle at my back. The big Cathedral on the right is associated with John Knox. Further down this road, about one mile, is The Kirk at Hollyrood. Andrew Bonar …

I wish you all knew my friend Jim Schneider. A true man of God. On one of my visits with Jim, he granted me permission to ransack his library books. There was treasure everywhere. Jim was kind enough to let me cart away several boxes. He is h…

This is from inside the cover on Andrew Peterson’s Resurrection Letters CD. You might hear me read this if you are here for the sermon on Easter Sunday morning. “He came back. After that brutal Friday, and that long, quiet Saturday,…

I brought a thumbdrive with pictures from our recent trip to the office today. We have staff meeting on Tuesday afternoons. I’m going to take a few minutes and show the pictures. Linda, Sharon, Patricia, Scott, John A., John M., Dan, Darie…

To receive Christ is to escape from death. John 11 To love Christ is to have an increasing desire to depart and be with Him. Philippians 1 Let this definition of spiritual maturity roll around in your mind for a minute. Spiritual maturity is to j…

What a great day yesterday. Many thanks are in order. Thank you to: Jay Seegert for a very well received presentation last night on creation, evolution, science and Scripture. I lost count last night of how many walked up to me and said, “This was s…