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by Kevin Burton You fearful and despairing, you weary of mind and heart, comfort today from The Bible, with help from a French novelist. “The more things change, the more they are the same” is the best-known quotation of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808 –1890) a French critic, journalist, and novelist. You’ve probably heard …
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by Wayne L. Winquist (This was yesterday’s “Know Your Flocks And Herds” blog by Wayne L. Winquist on WordPress.) Fools come in all shapes and sizes. Some have advanced degrees and even teach others. Some have grown up in a home full of wisdom and chose a life of folly. Others came from …
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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by Kevin Burton Today my reading of an Alistair Begg message has me thinking about basketball? Basketball, really? Begg is the speaker on the Truth for Life radio ministry. I get an e-mail from that website every day with some kind of message – a challenge, encouragement, call to joyfulness – all …
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) Been thinking on the work of the Spirit in our lives as we “work out our salvation with fear and trembling.” “Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not …
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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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by Kevin Burton It is very much like me that I saved a fortune cookie message which reads: “share your musical talents generously, for they are a gift to others.” Saved it even though I know sayings in cookies from my favorite Chinese restaurant can be amusing, but they are not messages. …
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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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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by Kevin Burton In a nursing home there is life and there is death. Both are palpable, as ever before. But in all our salad days, we didn’t notice. We were young, we were strong, energetic and smart. We were even hip, and sophisticated – well not quite sophisticated – but surely driving …
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