by Kevin Burton When I was a sort of young beep baseball player, I had a team mate who always talked about heart guards. Beep baseball is baseball for blind players. The ball is slightly bigger than a softball and depending on who made the ball, it can be quite hard. When …
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Christians Need A Zeal For Spiritual Children
by Kevin Burton The kid thing, the desire to have and raise children, is something I never, never got and don’t get. So when we look into a demand by Rachel, wife of Jacob, in Genesis chapter 30, for me it’s a study in polar opposites. “Give me children or else I …
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Has The Grinch Stolen Your Christmas?
by Dr. Jeff Schreve (Guess blogger Dr. Jeff Schreve believes that no matter how badly you may have messed up in life, God still loves you and has a wonderful plan just for you.) “And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy …
Speak Truth In Love To False Religion
by Kevin Burton We’re talking about the Christian response to false religion today with the help of Alistair Begg, speaker on the Truth For Life radio ministry. He calls on us to do our part. But before we get into his message, I want to emphasize one phrase from it. His phrase …
Paul Exhorted Others To Run A Good Race
by Kevin Burton Watching the Olympics, you can see the runners’ supreme effort etched upon their faces. If you have run track yourself, you know that moment of truth begins long before the actual race does. School is out at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB). We’re now at an after-school track practice. …
What We Build In Spiritual Shop Class
by Kevin Burton What we used to call shop class is more grandly called Industrial Arts. Once again today we go back to your school days to look at the spiritual side of a class. As inconvenient as physical blindness can be, spiritual blindness is much worse. It hides conditions that if ignored …
The Truth About Losing A Friend
by Kevin Burton There was a day in 1995 that shook me and shaped me. My best friend from fourth grade up into young adulthood had died the night before. I didn’t know it yet. We hadn’t seen each other in a long time, because I had moved out of state. …
God The Potter Has His Perfect Design
by Kevin Burton If life were a play and you could read for one of two parts, would you audition to be the potter or the clay? You have arrived not at a play, but at a second-period Ceramics class at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind. Spiritual blindness is a …
The Bible Has Plenty To Say About Money
by Kevin Burton Where is your treasure this morning? Happy Sunday and welcome back to class! Let’s not dawdle, as they say, time is money. In our Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB) we start the second semester today. We started this school because spiritual blindness is the worst, most dangerous …
A More Important Kind Of Wrestling
by Kevin Burton The end of classes for the day at our Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind does not end all activities. For an after-school extra-curricular activity we take you to wrestling practice. I was a wrestler in high school. At the time I had little or no comprehension of the …
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