by Kevin Burton After last week’s posts about the Food Network, we set the table once more with words about food from our friends at Merriam-Webster dictionary. I have heard the chefs on TV drop some of these words, but other words on the list sound more like Roman or Jewish names from …
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Honor God, The Creator And Designer Of Life
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) From my late teen years I have been involved in construction. Sometimes as a side job, sometimes as a means to meet and minister to people and sometimes as a means …
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Why We As Christians Should Imitate Christ
Why We As Christians Should Imitate Christ by Kevin Burton Imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery. That’s what we’re thinking of today in answering the question, “why imitate Christ?” Who besides God is worthy of imitation or flattery? “Be like Mike” was a Nike slogan years ago and …
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In God Is The Only Certainty We Have
by Kevin Burton The words of Job, speaking of our loving, caring God, lend us comfort and certainty today. We sorely need comfort and certainty in today’s troubled times. To say they are welcome is an extreme understatement. But we don’t often pluck them from the book of Job, at least I …
What Will You Do With Jesus This Easter?
by Kevin Burton The credentials of Jesus, and your response. If you boil it all down isn’t that life in a nutshell, the answer to the 60s question, “what’s it all about Alfie?” The Bible says Jesus is the son of God, that He came to earth in the form of a …
A Wichita State, Post-Season Resurrection
by Kevin Burton I printed an NIT bracket Sunday night, because I always do. I was looking for one thing, but got myself a shocker. Make that a Shocker, capital S Shocker. Just two days after Wichita State lost in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, and one day after I posted a …
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Tribulation Is Part Of God’s Plan For Believers
by Kevin Burton I just created my 32nd set of memory verses. On a good day I can recite most of the verses on the first try. But today my mind is on one I would rather forget. Acts 14:22 is the fourth verse in the set I have on index cards with …
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What To Think Of A “Check Please” Christian
by Kevin Burton God knows this, so you might as well know it too. Right now, you could call me a “check please” Christian. You get the reference, right? In American situation comedies there is this line that writers use. I’ve seen the line delivered over and over in any number of …
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Forget Self-Help, Seek God’s Heart Surgery
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) Spent this week thinking about the personal words that describe the Gospel. Words that describe what happens inwardly when one enters into the Gospel of Christ, the power of God unto …
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Weighing Philippians 1:21 “To Live Is Christ”
by Kevin Burton When people think of you, what comes first to their mind? Or asked another way, what should go into the first paragraph of your obituary? I’m asking these questions today in the context of devotion to Christ, and Phil. 1:21 where the Apostle Paul writes “For to me to live …
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