These Are The Facts Of Spiritual Life

by Kevin Burton    We’ve been through more than a dozen sessions together now at this school for the spiritually blind.  It’s high time we had – the talk.     If you are a parent you may have already faced this question, or maybe you are currently dreading it: Where do babies come from?    …

Home Ec Class For The Spiritually Blind

by Kevin Burton    Many of us recall best, our culinary mishaps from Home Economics class in high school. But there were other elements to that training.    In Home Ec your teachers tried to train you to build a safe, efficient, nourishing household for yourself, and an eventual spouse and children.     In the …

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 …

Sowing And Reaping Not Just For Farmers

by Kevin Burton    There are certain physical laws you need to understand in order to have any success navigating planet Earth.    There are spiritual laws that are even more important, for they have implications for where you spend eternity, once you leave the physical realm.    This is our second Sunday at the …

A Healthy Heart Is Filled With God’s Word

by Kevin Burton     When King David prayed “Create in me a clean heart, O God” (Psalm 51:10) he wasn’t talking about cholesterol.    David was in trouble and he knew it.  He never ignored his physical health, but in this moment of repentant prayer after being confronted with his sin with Bathsheba, he called …

Can’t See Without The Light Of The World

by Kevin Burton    Spiritual blindness comes from the lack of spiritual light. If you don’t have spiritual light, you can’t see straight.    It’s a simple concept when you boil it down.  But that notion is missing in many heated conversations about God, life on earth and the afterlife.    The Holy Bible teaches …

A School For The Spiritually Blind

By Kevin Burton    If you are a regular Page 7 reader, you have heard me talk about my days at the Ohio State School for the Blind.    I didn’t want to be there at first, but grew to where I didn’t much want to be anywhere else.    Well I now think it …