Immediate Obedience Is The Best Course

by Kevin Burton    My wife Jeannette has a saying, a phrase she uses: “Here in a minute.”    This is recliner speak. She utters the phrase “here in a minute” from her favorite comfortable blue recliner. (We have matching blue recliners. I use mine mostly on NFL Sundays. She uses here year-round.)    “Here …

Sinner Or Saint? Darkness or Light?

by Kevin Burton    If you want to know who you are in Christ, look no further than the opening lines of Genesis.    If some doubt you, or you doubt yourself because of lingering sin within you, hear a thought from Alistair Begg, speaker on the Truth For Life ministry.    We’re looking at …

How You Doing With Spiritual Screen Time?

by Kevin Burton    Every Sunday around church time my iPhone sends me a message about screen time, how much time I have spent on the phone that week compared to other weeks.     I don’t care about the message. I didn’t ask for it and I have no use for that data.    Not …

Use The Whole Armor Of God All Of The Time

by Kevin Burton    A policeman, a hockey goalie, a beekeeper, all of them use protective equipment to do their jobs. And they don’t leave part of that protection in their locker.    Even more so, a believer can’t afford to go into battle without taking all the weapons God has prepared for us. The …

Let Your Work For Jesus Be Wholehearted

by Kevin Burton   Half-heartedness in the service of Jesus, makes Jesus sick.     The Bible says so. This is a message from Jesus to the Church at Laodicea:    “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot …

A Defense Of The Resurrection For Easter

by Pastor Warren Wiersbe    If the gospel of John were an ordinary biography, there would be no chapter 20.    I am an incurable reader of biographies, and I notice that almost all of them conclude with the death and burial of the subject. I have yet to read one that describes the subject’s …

No Such Thing As Truly Unanswered Prayer

by Kevin Burton    Parents don’t give children everything they want. They have reasons for saying no sometimes.    Your Heavenly Father is of course much wiser than earthly parents. So we shouldn’t be surprised sometimes, when even fervent prayers are met with silence.    “When we pray, we are engaging in the most precious …

Spiritual Growth Is A Lifelong Process

by Kevin Burton    Some people have little marks on their walls, measuring of the growth of their children. It’s a pleasure to mark their progress in gaining physical stature.    If your children aren’t growing that sets off serious alarm bells. You’re going to get an appointment with your doctor, without delay.    Yet …

Knock, Knock, Who’s There? Uh-Oh!

by Kevin Burton    Lois Blanchard wrote a 15-stanza poem. The first one gets her point across.    “If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two, if He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do.”    You know what this is all about.  In the physical realm, if family is coming …

The Christian Life Is All About God’s Glory

by Kevin Burton    The cares of this world are tangible, loud and insistent. With them can come a downward tug, a sapping of energy.    We know from experience that lurking where we can’t see them, around those corners in time, are surprises, ambushes of all sizes and shapes.    So what a blessing …