Jesus Can Heal Your Hurt, Even Church Hurt

by Kevin Burton    I have a friend, more of a Facebook friend really, who I wish would read these words. Chances are, you know someone is her position.    The person I am thinking of could not be any more dynamic, energetic, positive, intelligent. Some people just have that charisma that makes them stand …

More Quiz Questions About The Birth Of Jesus

by Kevin Burton    Thanks to my friend Tracy for sending the quiz questions about the birth of Jesus we ran on Page 7 yesterday and are completing today.    There are popular Christmas traditions and carols that play fast and loose with the actual truth of the birth of the Savior. It’s important to …

The Glorious Benefits Of Trusting In God

by Kevin Burton    Trusting God, trusting fully in God, brings with it a peace that just isn’t available anywhere else.    The Bible is full of both good and bad examples, people who did or did not trust in God. The stories are true and God has preserved them for your and me to …

Living Dogs And Dead Lions From Ecclesiastes

by Kevin Burton    If I say, “God knows the heart” you know just what I mean, right?  Because you know the heart, somewhat, sometimes.    Much of the time people speaking to you in the name of a corporation will lie to you outright for the sake of profit. Or, they will emphasize the …

Understanding What Forgiveness Is Not

by Dane Massey    (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.)      Last week we talked about forgiveness. Today let’s look at what forgiveness is not.    Forgiveness is not letting the other person off the hook. It is taking them off our hook …

What Does “The Lord Is My Portion” Mean?

by Kevin Burton    To watch a child with his or her parents in a grocery store is to witness yet another chapter from a long, long story.    What does the child want? Everything.    The parent has in mind limits. A limit to how much sugar a child (or adult) should eat, a …

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 Bible Speaks Of Faith In Every Sense

by Kevin Burton    As a legally blind man my mind never gets too far from vision as the five sense in general.    That is partly because people often assume and talk about hearing being more acute for blind people than for others. That’s not true. It’s just that blind people rely on hearing …

Living As Lights In A Crooked World

by Kevin Burton    It took exactly three verses for the Bible to start talking about light.    “Let there be light,” God said. And there was light.    Read backward to Genesis 1:2 and you see that “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”    …