Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 8:24 am by Josh Burcham

I’m sitting in the airport waiting for my flight home and looking back on this week. It was fun to hang with the whole family (or “the original four”) as we’ve called ourselves in the past. I think my dad said it at some point this weekend: we’re blessed, some families don’t like each other. We love spending time together. Here are a couple of videos from Christmas morning:

Learned a lot about my siblings yesterday when we played to truths and a lie. I thought more highly of my older siblings before that game.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 9:05 am by Josh Burcham

Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. Mark 3:4-5

Its the same today as it was 2000 years ago. When Jesus starts to move, to change hearts, to restore lives and change the world. The religious people step in and plot against it.

Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. Mark 3:6

Because it’s different, because it’s new, because it’s hard to understand, because it’s biblical and not of this world. People step in and try to quote scripture to destroy it. My Prayer is constantly that I do what He asks me to even in the times I don’t understand and I’m called crazy. Someone once told me that God gave me a brain for a reason, He did, but scripture tells me that on my best day with my best thoughts they are are still as far as the heavens are from the earths on God’s worst day with His worst thoughts.

I’ll leave you with this. Stop being religious. Stop getting in the way of God moving. If you haven’t heard from God, don’t do it. And if you’re seeking God and He seems to not be answering. There is a heart problem and it’s on your side. I would start there.

Don’t be the one Jesus says this about, “He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts.” Don’t be the one that Jesus the Son of God is angry at.

Sunday, December 14, 2008 @ 9:28 pm by Josh Burcham

I’m stoked. They should be here tomorrow!

Saturday, December 13, 2008 @ 6:34 pm by Josh Burcham

“…they don’t give out black belts for things that are stupid!” – Dwight

Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 9:15 am by Josh Burcham

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 11:46 am by Josh Burcham

I’ve been a stat whore. I’ve checked them on a daily basis and today I stop. It’s been a pride thing for me and it’s going to be a pride thing no more. What do you need to cut out of your life today to humble yourself to so God can use you?