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by Kevin Burton So now you know two stories involving a slingshot. And two extraordinary stories they are. Thirteen-year-old Owen Burns heard his sister screaming earlier this month, then looked out a window to see someone trying to kidnap her. Burns grabbed what he had at hand, what he was familiar with, …
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by Kevin Burton There is a right way and a wrong way to bring our concerns to God, according to a Christian social worker. Laura Kuehn, LCSW, writing on the website cornerstonesforparents.com, points to the book of Joel in drawing a distinction between grumbling and complaining. This is a passage from Joel …
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by Kevin Burton God knows I am thankful. He also knows I’m not thankful enough. My mind is on thanksgiving these days, being truly grateful to God for the things He has given me. Stopping, or at least slowing down, long enough to acknowledge that “every good gift and every perfect gift is …
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by Kevin Burton Three words leapt out at me during our regular family Bible study recently. These days we are in the book of Ezra. That book tells the story of the rebuilding of the temple after Israel’s return to Jerusalem after Babylonian captivity. Not long ago we studied the book of Nehemiah, …
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 …
by Kevin Burton “Do the math” is a favorite saying of mine. When God does the math it always comes out right. The Bible teaches that God created all things and that He did not create them willy-nilly. Welcome to the fourth-period math class at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB). …
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