by Kevin Burton There is a God-shaped vacuum inside each person’s heart, said the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and writer. Blaise Pascal. Try to fill that vacuum with something, anything other than God, and life will suck. If that seems false to you in the moment, it will prove true in the …
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Some Of History’s Best, Wittiest Responses
Some Of History’s Best, Wittiest Responses by Kevin Burton Sometimes a question is a softball, served up right into your wheelhouse, ready to be hit out of the park. But if you’re like me, you usually think of the witty, brilliant response after the fact, a day or two later. Don’t you …
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Let Your Life Story End With Rescue By Christ
by Kevin Burton What if God made baseball cards for us, but they weren’t about baseball? What if they were about our walk as a Christian? Christian cards? If you wanted to capture my childhood in a handful of images, one image would surely be of baseball cards. I still have all …
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God’s Rainbow Is A Solid Promise To Man
by Kevin Burton There is more to a rainbow than meets the eye. And there is plenty that meets the eye! Who among us, having seen the beauty of a rainbow in the sky, doesn’t call loved ones who are near to say “look, a rainbow!”? Yesterday we learned about the …
How To Help Others Through Life’s Burdens
by Dr. Charles Stanley It’s hard to watch someone you care about struggle against a heavy load, particularly when you’re not sure how to help. Maybe it’s a friend suffering from a chronic illness, a coworker in a painful family situation, or someone at church quietly struggling with loneliness—these trying circumstances can grieve …
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How To Love Others As Christ Loves Us
by Dr. Charles Stanley To love as Christ loves us is a worthy desire. And it sounds simple enough—until you’re faced with someone who’s hurt you, exhausted you, or simply rubbed you the wrong way. In those moments, selfless love can feel impossible. The Lord is very concerned about how believers live …
Reading To Mom From “The Blue Book”
by Kevin Burton We called it the Blue Book, and it was/is a gift from God, via Grand Rapids. There was a season, still very fresh in memory, when my mother, having slowly lost most of her abilities, was bedridden, periodically quite discouraged, badly in need of comfort. Toward the end of …
Open The Door To Jesus, It Opens From Within
by Kevin Burton Jesus is the all-powerful Son of God. There is no door in Heaven or on earth that he can not open. In fact, shortly after His resurrection, Jesus passed through a locked door to join a meeting of His disciples. You can read about that in John 20:19. (That’s a …
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Discernment Is Seeing Things As God Does
by Kevin Burton If you say someone is “looking through rose-colored glasses,” you’re not giving that person a compliment, are you? You’re saying they have reached the wrong conclusion due to a faulty mindset or bias. “A cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis,” is the definition of rose-colored …
Loving The Truth In An Age Of Lies
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) I’ve spent my week thinking on the love of the truth, as reflected in II Thessalonians 2:9-12. “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and …
