by Billy Burns | Jan 18, 2024 | Holy Spirit Filled Believers, New Testament Christianity, Praying in Other Tongues, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit
This is a once-in-a-lifetime blog post. I’m going to share a powerful point in exactly one hundred words. As a child, I often heard my pastor, B.B. Hankins (you can tell that he was a Texan because the B.B. stood for Billy Bob) say, “If anyone should ask...
by Billy Burns | Nov 30, 2023 | Holy Spirit Filled Believers, New Testament Christianity, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit, Walk of the Spirit
Take special note. This post will be a record-breaking post for it will contain only 225 words. I double dare you to count every word to verify this claim. Have you ever paid attention to the header for the fourth book in the New Testament? In the King James Version,...
by Billy Burns | Nov 12, 2023 | Holy Spirit Filled Believers, New Testament Christianity, The Holy Spirit, Walk of the Spirit
After leading a men’s small group (FYI – it’s not a group of small men) a few weeks ago, I received a phone call on my drive back home from a phone number I didn’t recognize. While I rarely accept a call from someone not listed in my...
by Billy Burns | Oct 20, 2023 | Divine Healing, Holy Spirit Filled Believers, New Testament Christianity, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit
Got three minutes? I’m almost too embarrassed to write this post because what I am about to share is so simple. I could even add that it might be considered to be too simple. Simple or not, here it is. The three-letter word “you” is an enormously big...
by Billy Burns | Sep 9, 2023 | God's Promises, God's Supernatural Power, Holy Spirit Filled Believers, New Testament Christianity, The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit, Walk of the Spirit
Can I take just 3 or 4 minutes of your time and ask this one question? Here it is. How important was it to Jesus for His followers to be baptized with His Holy Spirit? The answer is found in this verse. “And, being assembled together with them, commanded them...
by Billy Burns | Aug 9, 2023 | Children's Ministry, Children/Youth, God's Supernatural Power, Holy Spirit Filled Believers, Leadership, New Testament Christianity, Praying in Other Tongues, The Holy Spirit, Walk of the Spirit
If you know anything at all about serving in the local church as a volunteer or even in a paid ministry position, you know that the days are long gone for individuals to pop into a classroom on a whim and join the ministry. Also, long gone are the days of seeing...
