Eric Burnley

Follower of Christ, Husband, Dad, web/mobile geek, worship leader @genesiseureka

[Genesis Church @genesiseureka]

We are so excited to be hosting @RonniKurtz from Midwestern Seminary for a weekend Bible conference to celebrate our 20th Anniversary as a church. Mark your calendar and join us.

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@AlbumAura No Post On Sunday

[hbcharlesjr @hbcharlesjr]

This past Sunday, the final paragraph of my sermon manuscript ended by quoting Romans 8:1. In the preaching moment, however, I felt something else should be said. An old Melvin V. Wade Sr. “run” came to my mind, and I went with it.

- There is an answer for your agony.
- There is a balm for your bruises.
- There is a cure for your calamities.
- There is deliverance from your distresss.
- There is an eraser for your errors.
- There is forgiveness for your faults.
- There is grace for your gloom.
- There is joy for your journey.
- There is mercy for your misery.

His name is Jesus!!!

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@MikeSHubbard @genesiseureka This was from B. B. Warfield’s essay The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity, mentioned by Sinclair Ferguson in a panel at the recent Ligonier Conference. I definitely didn’t come up with it.

[Midwestern Seminary @MBTS]

To celebrate the addition of Dr. @RonniKurtz to MBTS faculty, we're giving away a free e-book copy of his book "Fruitful Theology"!

Download for FREE at https://t.co/cHAGKK3JD1

[Genesis Church @genesiseureka]

Exciting weekend for our church. Grand Opening Celebration tomorrow, and then our Building Dedication Service on Sunday. God has been so faithful to us, and we are so thankful. So dig your way out and join us this weekend.

[Desiring God @desiringGod]

“The word ‘church’ never refers to a building in the New Testament — never. It is the people of the living God.” —John Piper https://t.co/7Lwa14chb3

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

I love to cook. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States, so I get to express my love for cooking and my love for people by cooking a feast for 18 in my family!

I also love to watch the Food Network. This is one of the ways that I find rest, relaxing in front of the TV and unwinding from life and ministry as gifted chefs go to work. I find it peaceful, but it’s also educational.

I have learned so much about the plants and animals that God created and have implemented much of it as I try to recreate my own beautiful, tasty, and satisfying meals.

I love that God has blessed us with such a wide variety of things to eat. The world he has created is a wonderful banquet table, which we are reminded of over Thanksgiving.

Perhaps it is my love for the culinary arts that helps me appreciate the beauty of the word pictures in Isaiah 55:

Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.

Thanksgiving, or any holiday or major banquet of a meal, is an opportunity to remind ourselves of the gospel truths found in Isaiah 55. Yes, enjoy the food and celebrate the glory and creativity of God in creation, but preach the gospel to yourself, too.

God knows that people are spiritually hungry. People are constantly looking for life and for peace and satisfaction of heart. God has wired this spiritual hunger into us, so that it would drive us to him.

This Isaiah 55 passage is a gracious invitation to the spiritually hungry and thirsty to come to the one and only place where your heart can be filled. The physical things of this earth are not designed to satisfy your spiritual hunger. The most wonderful experiences or relationships or possessions in this life will not fill your heart.

So, with a tender and compassionate heart, God says, “Come to me. I have prepared for you the one meal that will fill and satisfy that hunger in your heart. And, best of all, you don’t have to pay for the food I give you—it’s free!”

Then he asks the question of questions: “Why would you work hard for and spend money on what cannot satisfy?”

People do this every day. At great cost and with hard work, people run after and consume things that will never satisfy the hunger that drives them.

What about you? As you sit at the Thanksgiving table tomorrow, ask yourself: “At what created table do I sit, hoping that my hungry heart will be satisfied by creation, when it can only be satisfied by an intimate relationship with my Creator?”

The Lord’s invitation to you is to come to him, eat from the banquet of his grace, and live. What he offers is free, because the Son has paid the cost.

May we come again and again to the only One who has the bread that will satisfy our hearts!

[Northwestern Field Hockey @NUFHCats]

2024 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 🏆 #EarnedIt

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@drewdyck Chocolate is the only acceptable frosty.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Never thought of a benediction this way until @LigonDuncan said it in our latest episode.

Simple but profound.

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@magnatoneusa I have what I believe is a 1961 Panaramic branded 260 my Dad picked up for $27 at an auction in 1994. It sounds amazing. Love these.

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

“Man proposes, but God disposes.”
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
https://t.co/R9xsjA6xjZ

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

‘The Duck Song’ has concluded after 15 years. (2009-2024)

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@9mmsmg How is it that no one has called out his good taste in bands yet, @Gatecreeper?

[Genesis Church @genesiseureka]

A quick reminder that Sunday morning worship is a Saturday night decision. It's more than just attendance, prepare your heart to experience the glory of the One True God & the wondrous Gospel of His Son Jesus. Wake up singing, wake up praying, wake up expectant. Then be on time!

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@joethorn more metal in sermons, please @MikeSHubbard

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

Game didn’t exactly go the way we wanted, but it’s one of the best views for a game we’ve ever experienced.

[Mike Hubbard @MikeSHubbard]

Every pastor, church leader, Bible teacher needs to listen to this from @albertmohler. Thankful for how he loved his seminary students well and by extension the rest of the church following news of another fallen pastor.

[Eric Burnley @EricBurnley]

@joethorn I just realized this actually came out more than 5 years ago, but lyrically this song is fantastic and it’s not shared enough imo. We’ll be leading it again soon.
https://t.co/L2ZAn5oxUR
Also: The Lord, My God My Salvation by Immanuel Nashville