Burlington Church of God

09/07/2026

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

09/06/2026

Announcements, message, communion and prayers from Sunday 9/6/26. Happy Labor Day weekend. Today we're looking at some of what the Bible says about the Garden of Eden. Scriptures include Matthew 5:16, 2 Timothy 2:23, Revelation 20:1-6, Matthew 28:19-20, Genesis 1 & 2, Isaiah 45:1-4, Daniel 1:1-2, Jeremiah 25:9, Revelation 1:1-3, Revelation 2:7, Lamentations 3:22-23, Acts 17:28, Revelation 21:9-14, Revelation 22:1-5, Luke 23:39-43, 2nd Corinthians 12:1-5, Corinthians 11:30-31, Galatians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 1:30-31, 2 Corinthians 5:1-9, Matthew 25:34-36, Matthew 25:21, Matthew 25:23. It is communion Sunday if you would like to take the sacraments at home.

09/06/2026

My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

09/05/2026

One of the recurring temptations Jesus faced was the offer of a crown without a cross. Satan offered Him the kingdoms of the world without suffering. After feeding the five thousand, the crowd tried to make Him king by force. Peter even resisted Jesus when He began speaking openly about His coming death.

Each time, Jesus refused the shortcut. He wouldn't grasp at power on the world's terms. He wouldn't build His kingdom through spectacle, coercion, or self-preservation. The path appointed by the Father ran through obedience, humiliation, suffering, and ultimately Calvary.

📖 “He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place…” (Philippians 2:8–9)

Exaltation followed obedience. There's something deeply challenging in that for us. Some temptations don't offer obviously evil destinations. They offer good things through compromised means. Recognition without faithfulness. Influence without character. Success without patience. A crown without the formation required to carry it.

Jesus refused to take by shortcut what the Father had appointed Him to receive through obedience. That same trust is required of us. Faithfulness sometimes means surrendering the outcome, resisting the urge to force what we want, and obeying God even when His path is slower and more costly than the alternative.

Jesus didn’t reach for the crown. He obeyed the Father all the way to the cross, trusting Him with the glory that would follow.

09/05/2026

Our fundamental crisis isn’t a lack of education, flawed politics, or weak willpower. It’s an relational rupture between the creature and the Creator. Scripture gives that rupture a name: sin. It isn’t a tally of moral missteps or bad behavior - it’s an existential tear at the center of our identity. We were engineered to live in constant, intimate communion with God, yet we severed this tie to run our lives on our own terms.

Trying to find peace, meaning, or stability while detached from our Maker is like cutting the roots off a tree and expecting it to bear fruit.

No amount of personal growth, moral reform, or career success can build a bridge across an infinite canyon. That’s why Jesus stepped into human history. He didn’t come as a philosopher offering a map to God, but as literally the crossing Himself.

On the cross, Christ threw Himself directly into the chasm our estrangement carved out - taking on the full weight of judgment, silence, and spiritual death, clearing the path and tearing down the barrier. The deepest ache in your chest doesn't need another political cause or a self-improvement routine. It needs reconciliation. Through Jesus, the door back into the Father's presence is wide open.

09/04/2026

Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day.

09/04/2026

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

09/03/2026

“All To Jesus” is a ...