July 5

Washington, DC Trip

Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 10:08 am by Josh Burcham

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Years back (that seems weird to say, it really does seem like yesterday) when I was still in youth ministry we took a group of student to our Nation’s Capital and saw God work in some powerful ways in our lives and in the lives of those we served with. The recap video:

July 3

Loved Their Sin

Saturday, July 3, 2010 @ 9:53 pm by Josh Burcham

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We don’t do what we do as Christ-followers to help more people become Christians. We do it because God loves those people and we want to help them meet and experience Jesus.

May 4

You’re Missing Something If…

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 10:08 am by Josh Burcham

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You’re missing something if… you haven’t read these books. I’m not the kind of guy that just recommends books for the sake of recommending them. These are books that I have read and would encourage anyone looking to follow Christ to read. These are books that have changed my walk and my life, not just helped me walk…changed my life!

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These books taught me how to love God and love people, with the understanding that I truly can’t do one without the other. If you’re a Christian, asking God to teach you how to become a Christ-follower, these are a must read.

On another note: to you bloggers out here. This post was posted with MarsEdit from the Mac. This is my first time using the software and my hope it will help with grammar and spelling. WordPress doesn’t have a great tool for this. Any thoughts on the software?

April 24

Truth from John

Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 10:48 am by Josh Burcham

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“I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.” John 5:19-21

April 12

Make a Difference

Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 5:49 pm by Josh Burcham

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“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea! It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”

- Nolan Bushnell

March 25

In Case You Forgot

Thursday, March 25, 2010 @ 9:03 am by Josh Burcham

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In case your forgot what changed your life, what brings you hope and what gave you purpose…

Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them–yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

March 23

I’m Looking Forward to Reading

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 @ 1:01 pm by Josh Burcham

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Just think I made it all the way through high school and most of college without ever having to read a full book (I think that probably has more today with the fact I’m not an institutional learner) and yet I’m looking forward to a couple new books coming our way.

View more from the reading list here.

March 7

You Can’t Afford Not to be Blessed!

Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:02 pm by Josh Burcham

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I the Lord do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty.
“But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,” says the Lord Almighty. Malachi 3:6-11

Churches you can’t afford to not be blessed by the Lord. Your church needs to be a giving force. Preach heart change!

Those that call themselves Christ-followers. You can’t afford to not be blessed by the almighty and not be giving back 10%.

Money is never our focus, BUT giving gauges the heart!