by Kevin Burton You look on in despair as your children, your friends, your neighbors, rage through a Christless, graceless life, headed to the edge of a spiritual abyss. You feel helpless, but you are not. You want to shake some Biblical sense into your unsaved loved ones, but you can’t. You …
Category Archives: Prayer
Beyond Rituals: The Privilege Of Prayer
by Dane Massey The school of prayer is an apprenticeship, not a lecture. This apprenticeship requires sustained, close personal contact with the Master. As I approach the subject of prayer I’m reminded of a quote by Samuel Chadwick, a master of prayer from long ago: “Any teaching on prayer that does not …
Lean, Pray, Trust, Love, Just A Little Bit More
by Kevin Burton I needed this today and I thought some of you might need it too. This message is written on a 4-by-7 sheet of paper, not attached to anything else. I have it because I have helped my mother move three times in the last seven or eight years. Mom downsized …
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Putting Sharks And Problems In Their Place
by Kevin Burton My good friend Tracy sends out riddles and brain-teasers that challenge the mind, thoughts that make me ponder. This one made me laugh out loud. It was a trick question, under the heading “Drowning”: “Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?” …
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Truth From Bathroom Scales And God’s Scales
by Kevin Burton My bathroom scale is a talking scale. Many a time, I‘ve wished it would just shut up. It makes me want to flush the toilet and run the water faucet, maybe clear my throat once or twice to drown out the bad news. That way at least maybe my wife …
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What Is Your Spiritual Plus-Minus Today?
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 …
The Spirit’s Awesome Work Of Sanctification
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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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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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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The Apostle Paul Says “Dress For Success”
by Kevin Burton Some of us, as high school seniors, went to classes called “College Prep.,” and what an honor that was. Somebody thought we were “college material.” One of my teachers, can’t remember which one, clued me in on what might be coming just around the corner by getting creative with my …
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