by Keith Burnett | Sep 21, 2018 | Christians and Culture, Marriage
Life Lessons: What Does the Bible Actually Say? This is a constant necessity: Learn what the Word really says, and not what other people say it says. Confused? Don’t be. Many people want to tell us what the Bible says, or what they think it should say, about...
by Keith Burnett | Sep 20, 2018 | Christians and Culture, Church, The Church
Events surrounding Judge Kavanaugh provide another great opportunity for learning. Pointing out the lesson is risky for me because there are none so blind as those who will not see. And that statement all too often applies to the Church. So let’s open our eyes,...
by Keith Burnett | Sep 19, 2018 | Christians and Culture
Can we handle the truth? Yesterday’s post That is a question we should pose often. The answers can be challenging and insightful. Truth 1 – What we need isn’t easy A problem in our culture is our love of the easy button. Don’t think so? You...
by Keith Burnett | Sep 18, 2018 | Blog Page, Discipleship
Simplify Life! If you heard that as a command, what would you do? Where would you begin? What would you do first? Those are the first questions we would ask. Are they the best questions? Our culture isn’t responding to a command. People all around us...
by Keith Burnett | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog Page, God-Lovers Study, Ministry
I love connecting thoughts and ideas that don’t seem to have any obvious connections. My teaching style runs along that line and I have always referred to it as connecting the dots. I was teaching a group last night and got to help them make some connections....
by Keith Burnett | Sep 14, 2018 | Blog Page, Discipleship
Simple living might seem like a mirage. Maybe it’s an unrealized desire. And it could be that we long for a simpler life but don’t know exactly how to get from chaos to simple. But whatever it really is, and however one defines it, simple living is being...
by Keith Burnett | Sep 5, 2018 | Blog Page, Missions |
Think this post isn’t for you? The mission of leadership touches almost every life. Don’t think so? If you are a parent, husband, wife, work group leader, pastor, minister, teacher, or business owner, you have a leadership mission. And leadership, like any...
by Keith Burnett | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog Page, Life Lessons
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected – Jonathan Edwards In 2 Corinthians 4, Paul speaks of our light afflictions as we minister for the Lord. Even though ministry is difficult, it’s God’s grace (God’s undeserved favor)...
by Keith Burnett | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog Page, Discipleship |
Whose faith hasn’t faltered at least a time or two? Believers aspire to truth in all things, and well they should. But what about the false fronts we erect so others will think our faith never falters? Let me say what everyone knows: we are weak and our faith...
by Keith Burnett | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog Page, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Life Lessons, Missions
Equipping Mission Volunteers The previous post was about worship as a weapon of our warfare. Worship was God’s chosen weapon to deliver Judah from destruction. There are three things we also need to know: Worship is one tool of fully equipped mission volunteers...
