Welcome to the Burns Church of Christ in Burns, TN. Thanks for stopping by our site! We hope this site will help answer questions about the church, and give you some information so you’ll know what to expect when you come visit us. Our doors and our hearts are always opened to you, as we all try to serve and love the Lord better day by day.

If you’re visiting our area (we’re near the Montgomery Bell State Park near Dickson, Tennessee), check out our “Visitors” section. You’ll find service times, driving directions, and a little more about what makes us tick.

If you’re looking for a Bible study or religious answers, so are we! Check out our “resources” section where you can find Bible study tools, sermons, and articles to make you think.

Thanks again for visiting, and come back soon! We hope you’ll join us for worship as soon as you can!

Bible Bowl is less than two weeks away! Need some last minute study help? Try out these flashcard sets over Exodus.

1. Exodus numbers
2. Exodus people
3. Exodus places
4. Exodus laws
5. Exodus plagues

Happy studying! Good luck!

Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another.  Romans 14:13

My wife recently was reading a book called The Know It All. As I understand the theme of the book it is about a fellow who read through the Encyclopedia Britannica. For most this is boring reading and most of us would only do it in research for some school project.

This man was a “Know it all” on almost any subject. I have heard people referred to as “having just enough knowledge to be dangerous”. Maybe this is what Paul is referencing in Romans 14. There have always been people who make up their minds what others should do and how they should do it and attempt to get them to get on with it.

The Message is pretty forceful when this verse is translated, “Forget about deciding what’s right for each other”. I have the annoying habit of deciding what is right for others and attempting to get them to fall in line. It may even be what is right but God never commissioned me to decide for others. If a person wanted to celebrate a certain day, that’s between him and God. We are not to make these judgments for others. Back off brother James! Verse 6 says, “He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.”

Trusting others to make good decision about questionable things is part of maturing in Christ. Some have never reached this maturity but need to move off the plateau on which they have parked. God is the judge and we are never to broach His domain. Let God be the one who leads and guides. “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. II Corinthians 1:20

It is easy for men to live inconsistently. We can say one thing and do the opposite as easy as eating melting ice cream in our hot summer temperature. Inconsistency is the one thing that will remain consistent in our lives.

There is a contrast in the verses surrounding the verse above between the humanity of the messengers – Paul, Silvanus and Timothy – and the divinity of the person who is the essence of the message. 18 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

Those who believe the message are the ones who find the “Yes” for their lives. It is never that we know everything and we are sure of all things. It is never that we are assured because we know from a human standpoint that Jesus is God’s son. We do not find security because we have understood all about the incarnation, propitiation and glorification. (Some have a hard time even saying those words must less in understanding them)

Our faith is not in our complete understanding of the gospel. Our faith is in the giver of the gospel. Our faith is in who Jesus is and what he has done. We can know the truth and the truth can set us free. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.

In and through Him the divine “Yes” has become a permanent reality because of God’s character and promises. We are sure of who we are because we know who He is. All promises of God are fulfilled in him. In him we live and move and have our very being. Because of him we walk with the Lord and find hope fulfilled in his live, death and resurrection.

We are confident in him – never in what we are or what we do. 18 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female. Mark 10:6

Language is a strange thing. We can carry old ideas in language for generations after they have lost their meaning. The way we use words can affect the way we perceive others.

The words “male” and “female” are words that have sometimes come under scrutiny. Trying to make male and female genderless has been attempted with little success. Some have even attempted to make God genderless but that has also gone the way of the hula hoop. Read more »

Try your hand at a couple of Bible Bowl review games: Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Jeopardy!

Happy studying!