by Kevin Burton Late last month my wife Jeannette did something to jeopardize our marriage. We were at Subway and I heard her say to the sandwich artist, “..and we want three chocolate chip cookies…” Three chocolate chip cookies. As you know, three is an uneven number. It’s quite a bit …
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Always Keep That Fire Of Prayer Burning
by Kevin Burton From the book of Leviticus and the story of Old Testament sacrifices, comes a never-outdated concept of ongoing prayer to God. This is in follow up to messages by Dane Massey the last two Sundays on Page 7 on the importance and difficulty of prayer. This week we hear from …
Just Say “No” To The Fourth Crockpot
by Kevin Burton You’ve been there I’m sure, where I was Sunday. I called it “crawl out of it” day. Perhaps you can think of a better term. The idea is part getting back into a normal routine and part creating a better routine. I felt as if I hadn’t quite recovered …
Quibbles And Bits: Shame On Starbucks?
by Kevin Burton Got some things to say. Don’t want to make a federal, 700-word case of them, just want to have my say as they say in England. Just some things I need to get off my chest. I’ll call them Quibbles And Bits. I’ll serve them up on Page 7 …
Prayer Is Essential For The Christian
by Kevin Burton It’s lunch time again at our school for the spiritually blind, time to refuel. We’re in our second set of classes, heading toward graduation. This series comes from the fact that to be spiritually blind is far worse than being physically blind. In our first semester we refueled at …
Dreaming Of Walls For The Man Cave
by Kevin Burton I may live to regret this, but I’m going to lump myself in with Les Nessman. The issue is walls. Les Nessman was the clueless radio news reporter played by actor Richard Sanders on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. That was a solid late 70s early 80s sitcom with …
True History of Mankind From The Bible
by Kevin Burton It’s back to the classroom today at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB), the school we need as humans because of our sin nature. This is a sixth-period history class. We cover, quickly, the essential details of the history of mankind, with God as the Creator. There …
Can’t Grow Unless You Feed Your Spirit
by Kevin Burton OK class, that’s lunch! We’ve been through five classes at our Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind. It’s time to refuel. Since this is ESSB we’re not talking about cheeseburgers and tater tots. We’re talking about feeding our spirit. What an outrage it would be if schools did not …
Heat Of the Moment Theology Won’t Do
by Kevin Burton The Christian recording act Phillips, Craig and Dean has a song I like called “Made Up Mind.” That song will help us on Page 7 today as we look at the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego from the book of Daniel. They had a decision to make and they …
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