by Billy Burns | Jan 14, 2013 | Children's Ministry, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Walk of the Spirit
For my daily devotions this year, I’ve chosen to just read through the New Testament. I’m doing this for several reasons. First, it’s not an overwhelming amount of reading each day. Like you, my life is full and extra time just isn’t in my...
by Billy Burns | Jan 7, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership
Last week, I shared some thoughts from John Wesley’s Advice to a People Called Methodist. As we begin this new year, I want to share another quote from Wesley taken from his message The More Excellent Way. Consider his observation concerning the gifts and...
by Billy Burns | Dec 31, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Walk of the Spirit
While I was still in Bible College, my homiletics teacher, Rev. Jesse K. Moon, taught us that some sermons are timely (meant to be preached for a defined, specific time) and others are timeless (preachable at any time). A few weeks ago, I downloaded to my iPad a book...
by Billy Burns | Dec 17, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Walk of the Spirit
I’ll have to admit up front that I don’t watch much television. Give me an episode or two of Wheel of Fortune and perhaps a couple of cop shows and I’ll have my quota of television for the week. Oh … if there is a good World War II or Korean...
by Billy Burns | Dec 10, 2012 | Children's Ministry
William Booth, the founder and general of the Salvation Army, is quoted as saying: “In answer to your inquiry, I consider the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness...
by Billy Burns | Dec 3, 2012 | Children's Ministry, God's Promises, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit
I love reading the nineteenth chapter of Acts. Each time that I read it, I see things that somehow or another suddenly appear in this chapter that I’ve never noticed before. I know what is happening. As I read it over and over again, the Holy Spirit turns the...
