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May 17
Share the Wealth
Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 1:03 pm by Josh Burcham
Sorry, not a wealth of money. Still a great source though and great tool. If you are trying to tackle reading the Bible in 365 days, here are a couple of tools that could help you out.
First: from Mars Hill Church in Washington. They have taken the time to write out an entire plan that can be printed and stuck in your Bible. http://bit.ly/9Zm6jq
Second: from the guys of at LifeChurch.tv and YouVersion.com. They provide great online and on phone reading plans, that are worth checking out. I’ve used them in the past with great success. YouVersion.com
Just sharing some wealth.
February 14
Jesus Didn’t Heal Crowds
Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ 12:50 pm by Josh Burcham
As you read though the Gospels for the account of Jesus’ ministry on earth. There is on thing that you’lI noticed over and over again. Jesus performed many miracles (I can’t spell, it took me eight tries before the spell check could tell I was typing “miracles”), healed the sick, raised the dead and cast out demons.
Matthew 8:5-13, is the account of a Centurion’s faith. Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him” when the centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant. The Centurion’s response I couldn’t figure out, well I couldn’t figure out why Jesus had the response He had to the Centurion.
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
The Centurion had faith that Jesus’ power was much bigger than he could see. He realized that Jesus could heal anyone at any time with them being present or not.
Now I tell you all that to tell you this: Jesus healed people, not crowds. Crowds of people were around him at all times, Jesus could of just as easily waved His hand over the crowd and heal all the people in one gesture. But He chose to care for the individual. Because He offered more than just healing, He offered life, He chose to impact people on an individual basis.
How does that affect you on a daily basis? We’re not here to just help people. We aren’t here to just love people. We are here to help people meet Jesus!
December 16
Red Letters: Why So Complicated?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 @ 1:19 pm by Josh Burcham
I’ve read these verses over and over again and have blogged about them numerous times, but as I read this section of God’s Word I noticed something interesting. And I’m guessing you might have missed it as well:
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
“Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
”When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions. Mark 12:28-34
Now these are Jewish people and sacrifices and burnt offering are the focus for forgiveness and God’s graces. They were sacred. Jesus came with the message of Love God, Love people. And it floored the people in the crowd. The end of of verse 34, “And from then on no on dared ask him any more questions.”
Matthew 22:46 puts it, “No one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.”
613 Jewish commands summed up into two. Following those commands was simple, they didn’t have to remember any longer, they just had to do. Love God, Love People.
The simpleness floored them. “No one was able to answer Him a word…”
Why do we still try to complicate Christianity? Being a Christ-follower is simple, Love God, Love People. Lets keep it simple and start living those commands.
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October 20
Three Guys Podcast: Church Participation
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 1:23 pm by Josh Burcham
With new questions now starting to make their way in, the team was able to answer the questions that dealt with church participation and even went into the topic of tithing. Can you attend one church, but serve at another? Can you tithe to a different church? Is it okay to not attend church, but watch them message online? Some good questions right there. See how the team responded and don’t forget to let us know how you would respond as well.
Sorry about the delay of the show. We had a hard drive failure this week and lost some of the audio. But we pushed through to get this episode into your hands. We want to hear your thoughts. Email us or post your comments!
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October 17
Teaching on the Hill
Saturday, October 17, 2009 @ 11:33 am by Josh Burcham
Teaching about Anger
21 “You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment.’ 22 But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell. 23 “So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, 24 leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God. 25 “When you are on the way to court with your adversary, settle your differences quickly. Otherwise, your accuser may hand you over to the judge, who will hand you over to an officer, and you will be thrown into prison. 26 And if that happens, you surely won’t be free again until you have paid the last penny.
Jesus’ teaching on anger. How is Jesus speaking to you?
October 10
Red Letters: The Bible is Pointless
Saturday, October 10, 2009 @ 10:12 am by Josh Burcham
Now that I have your attention. (Sorry, that I went to such length to get that said attention, but this is that important.) Actually, I’m not sorry. The Bible is pointless… if you don’t do what it says.
As I write these next words, know that I write these to those that call themselves Christians. If you don’t believe in Jesus, this post really doesn’t apply to you. What I want you to hear is that Jesus loves you and that He died for you. Isn’t that an amazing sacrifice, that shows His love for us. He died because of the sin in our lives, the sin that keeps us from God, that sin that holds us down and doesn’t allow us to experience true freedom found in Christ. You’re life could have purpose. Forget this Christian-nonsense; just know Jesus. Email me and I’ll answer your questions.
Let me start with telling you a story:
I served as their junior high pastor awhile back and one Sunday I tried a little experiment. I present the Gospel to this group of students and left out one part.
God created us to be with Him. God wanted to be with His creation, but our sin, the things that all of us have done that went against God’s commands, has separated us from God. Those sins can’t be removed by good deeds; no matter how many good deeds we do, they will never be able to forgive us. But God in His grace and mercy gave us a gift of salvation and if we accept His gift and follow Him, we can be forgive of our sins and live with Him in eternity.
After I presented the Gospel, I then had the students yell what they thought I left out. Their guessing went on for about ten minutes; at that point I filled in the blank that was missing. JESUS! I left out JESUS. And I came to this realization: we’ve so gotten comfortable with Jesus that He has no power in our life and the Bible doesn’t either.
Our focus as Christ-followers should be Jesus… nothing more, nothing less…simply Jesus. We live in a day and age where I believe Christians have forgotten about Jesus and it breaks my heart. We worry more about ourselves and how we do things than we do about Truth that is found in the Bible. The crazy thing is we know our Bible. Most believers can quote Scripture to me till their blue in the face and tell me all about the different tribes of Israel or the stories about the first church. But yet we don’t see movements of God in our communities that change hearts. Instead we stretch to find anything that resembles it. Christian listen to me: the Bible is pointless if you forget about Jesus and not do what it says.
John 14:23-24 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
John 15:6-10 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
I write this because I believe the Bible has power, because it is God’s spoken Word to us. Hebrews 4:12-13. I believe that we can see massive movements of God in our daily lives where hearts are changed, because I’ve experience and witnessed them. I believe we have hit a plateau as Christians, because to don’t listen to God’s Word, we just read His book. We read for knowledge, not for heart change. We don’t read as if God is speaking to our souls.
When we seek after Jesus, we allow the Holy Spirit to speak to our souls and see the movements of God. We start to live the life Jesus has called us to live and start to genuinely love God and love people and understand you can’t truly do one without the other. Matthew 25:31-46.
September 21
Three Guys and a Bible: Sinful Slots?
Monday, September 21, 2009 @ 2:52 pm by Josh Burcham
Three Guys and a Bible Podcast posted their next episode in iTunes. Three Guys and a Bible Podcast is a weekly video podcast that talks truth when answering your questions and responding to your thoughts. Three guys podcast, tag line: ordinary guys, serving an extraordinary God. The three of us, John, Erik and Josh, have been meeting for the last year as we have journeyed in becoming true Christ-followers, loving God and loving people. We had the idea of bringing others into that experience of growth, but putting a camera in their bible study. This idea birthed into a podcast.
All three host our in the studio (Josh’s Living Room) for week two of the podcast and with Erik just getting back from a quick trip to Vegas with his wife of three years the on-the-spot question of “is gambling a sin?” is answered by the guys. Three guys would love to hear your thoughts on the topic.
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September 19
Rumors are True
Saturday, September 19, 2009 @ 11:48 pm by Josh Burcham
I’ve meet with a group of guys every Tuesday for the last eight months for accountability and bible study. We’ve journeyed together as we learned how a true Christ-follower’s life was too look, by loving God and loving people. We’ve read through a couple of books that helped in that process, but we came to a point where we hit a plateau and needed a change. We tired a new location, didn’t work. We meet at a different time, still no help. And then an idea hit. We would start a podcast. Share our experience that God has used in our lives over the last year through a video camera. Three Guys and a Bible Podcast was born.
We are at a point where we need to give back and share the knowledge and truth that we’ve have learned over that past couple of years. Open our hearts and let you, our listeners, see us as we are.
It hasn’t been a pretty start and we have a long was to go and a lot to learn, but we’ve start. Don’t they say that starting is the hardest part? It is raw and un-cut. What you see is what you get, problems and all.
Now here is where you come in: head over to the site and post your questions and thoughts or you can email them in at questions@threeguyspodcast.com. We need your questions, they drive our show, email away. It could be anything. Really, anything goes.
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