Fun or Fulfilling?

October 21, 2019 by Joel Burns in devotions, money

Let your days be marked by the fulfillment that comes with purposeful endeavors and not the fleeting pleasures of distracting entertainment.

Freedom

October 16, 2019 by Joel Burns in devotions

Freedom is either being liberated from your Creator or being reconciled to Him.

Where To Find Truth

February 01, 2019 by Joel Burns in devotions

To know truth and to be set free by it, we must be willing to receive it from the right source: the Word of God. The implication is, of course, that only those who fully devote themselves to Christ and His Word will ever find the freedom that truth grants.

The Spider's Web - C.H. Spurgeon

August 08, 2018 by Joel Burns in devotions, Guest Post

Observe the spider's web and find in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite's religion.

Turn, Turn, Turn (Meditations in Ecclesiastes, Part V)

May 18, 2018 by Joel Burns in Ecclesiastes, meditations

And so we are reminded by Solomon’s observations that the whole of life does not reside only upon the positive side of the ledger of human experience. It is not all about gaining, establishing, and building. It is not all about laughter, celebration, and love.

To be truly understood, life must be viewed and experienced in its entirety, with God trusted as the sovereign ruler over it all. Everything has its place. Everything is made beautiful in its time.