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by Kevin Burton I shared this with my mom before I shared it with you. Hope you don’t mind. It’s the latest message from Alistair Begg, speaker on the Truth For Life radio ministry. I thought Mom needed to hear it. I knew I needed to hear it and I think you will …
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by Kevin Burton I caught myself in a lie last week. Christmas music, in a manner of speaking, revealed it to me. Stay with me here. I have heard people talk about when it was OK to begin playing Christmas music each year, after Thanksgiving, end of November, whatever. But I haven’t …
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) Last week we talked about forgiveness. Today let’s look at what forgiveness is not. Forgiveness is not letting the other person off the hook. It is taking them off our hook …
by Kevin Burton My mom hates the expression “wrap my mind around” usually expressed in the negative as “I can’t wrap my mind around” this or that. I’m going to invoke it here though, because I can’t wrap my mind around God’s amazing grace. Before I go there, I need to back …
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) Today I find my thoughts captivated by Joel 2:12: “Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and …
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by Kevin Burton What can I say about the morning that poets through the centuries haven’t already said, much better than I can? And what could I tell you about the morning that you don’t already hold in your innermost heart? Answer to both: nothing. With our heads, we know that …
by Kevin Burton Somebody done somebody wrong is a common song on earth. To err is human. To forgive is divine and it’s not a math equation. The apostle Peter tried to make it into one, as recorded in the book of Matthew. Peter never did things in half measures. So when …
by Kevin Burton “Access, communication, mercy.” Those are three words written in blue ink across the top of a page I look at while doing devotionals most mornings. Access, communication, mercy. The page has other words written in black ink. They were written at a different time and from a different …
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