Articles By Author - William Burnham
Burnham: Speak up with words
You may think you have nothing to offer.
Just a thought: your work matters
Do you know your work matters to God? Yes, and it matters to your employer and your co-workers.
Holy Spirit transforms
Do you show evidence of the transforming power of the Holy Spirit in your daily life? A look back at the disciples before and after photos gives us some things to look for in our own personal lives.
Just a thought: He lives within us
The world cannot know him, but we know him because he indwells us.
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Archive By Author - William Burnham
Burnham: All in your head
You have heard it said, "It's all in your head." Well, it is true. Every battle is first fought in the mind.
Burnham: We do have something to do
It is wonderful God saves us from the penalty of sin and by his victory at Calvary, he frees us from sin's power.
Just a Thought
We spend billions of dollars as a nation every year on physical health and fitness. Countless hours are committed to the cause as well. I wonder how that compares to the commitment of our spiritual health. We do know we have "two" hearts right? There is our physical heart and there is our spiritual heart. It is the second one Proverbs mentions more than 60 times. This is the heart that God looks upon (1 ...
Just a thought: Control your tongue
Oh, my aching tongue! You may never say that unless you bite your tongue. And while biting your tongue is painful and most of us avoid doing it as often as possible, it may be a something we should practice on a much more regular schedule.
Understanding and accepting others
"Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel."
The tongue is just the messenger
You have heard it said, "One of these days, your tongue is going to get you in trouble!" But it isn't the tongue's fault - the tongue is just the messenger. The real culprit is the heart! (Luke 6:45) While the tongue is neither good nor bad, it can be used for both. Again, this is an issue that begins in the heart, but, if we set our heart on speaking truth, encouragement, godly instruction, ...
What's keeping you from being great?
Solomon's humble spirit and request of the Lord resulted in God making him great (2 Chronicles 1:1, 7-12) He stood high above all others and had no peers who could compare. However, while God (and his walk with God) made him great, something happened, something that took this great man down.
Solomon's great fall
What do you do when the bottom falls out from beneath you? I don't know about you, but some people look up, others look around, and yet some jump up. By the end of Solomon's reign he was experiencing a great fall. He never does look up; he never does look around. In fact, he just keeps acting like this isn't really happening. But it did happen and it was Solomon's own fault. And at ...
Burnham: Raise your children well
Who's really raising our children? Christian psychologist James Dobson writes, "By the time the average preschooler reaches 14 years of age, he will have witnessed 18,000 murders on TV and countless hours of violence. Time magazine once wrote, the average viewer sees more than 9,000 scenes of suggested sexual intercourse or innuendo on prime time TV in one year. Most of our children have iPods loaded with music (mostly unchecked) that carry the messages of ...
Just a thought: Wisdom is available to all
The truth is, our problem is not exposure to wisdom, it is putting it into practice that's the hard part. Proverbs chapter one tells us that we not only have access to wisdom, but we often ignore it for various reasons. Verse 22 tells us the naive do this because they love simplicity. The scoffers do it because a scoffer always disagrees with anything that opposes their own ideas. And the fool does it (a ...
Burnham: say “what?”
"What?" You know you've done it; we all have. You heard what was said and answered "What?" anyway. The problem is, we do this to God more often than we would like to admit. We hear God speak, but we act like we didn't. Sometimes it isn't so much that we are rejecting what God is saying as maybe who or what he is using to say it. He may use his word, or a child. He may use a friend or a sermon.
It's impossible to run
I have never met a person who was running from God, yet who didn't feel justified in doing so. However, as justified as you may feel, it is still impossible to run away from an all present God (Psalm 139:7-12).
Burnham: Lady wisdom
"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. (Prov 31:10) How intimidating it would be to stand side by side with perfection in a room full of mirrors. Every flaw we have would be drastically exposed. I imagine it is much like a woman reading Prov. 31. So lets take a different look at this passage ladies. First, there is a difference between "perfection" and "exemplification." In other ...
Burnham: Our potential
God has created every individual with great potential. In order for one to reach that full potential, he must pursue the one who gave it to him with all his heart (Deut. 6:5), allowing God to lead, guide and direct him in the paths and through the doors of opportunity and purpose. King Uzziah in the Old Testament is a great example of this. Made a king at 16 years old, as long as he ...
Just a thought: Adoption
When we think of adoption, we sometimes think of the heartache of the child put in that situation and the joy of the parents whose lives are fulfilled through this process.
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