How do we respond to the world around us as it changes? How do we prepare for a future that seems like it might be very different from the past?

1. Burns Post Office (1910 – built 1866)
Pictured: Faye Chandler, Era Meek, Moody Johnson, Elec Meek, John Tidwell, Jim Johnson

2. First Car in Dickson County (c. 1910)

3. c. 1920
Far Left: Primitive Baptist
Middle: Church of Christ
Right: Methodist

4. Burns’ Station

6. Ladd’s Grocery in Burns

8. Gray’s Esso in Burns (James Walp and Harold Ashworth - 1960s

9. Painting of the 1951 Blizzard

14. 2007 Congregational Picture

15. 2010 Congregational Picture

16. 2013

20. $0.90 per day

24. What do we hold on to in an
ever-changing world?

30. Matthew 5:13-14

33. INCARNATION
and
TRANSFORMATION

34. “And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us,
and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son
from the Father, full of
grace and truth.”
(John 1:14)

35. “I do not ask that you take
them out of the world, but
that you keep them from the
evil one. They are not of the
world, just as I am not of the
world. Sanctify them in the
truth; your word is truth.”
(John 17:15-17)

36. “I wrote to you in my letter
not to associate with sexually
immoral people— not at all
meaning the sexually
immoral of this world, or the
greedy and swindlers, or
idolaters, since then you
would need to go out of the
world.”
(1 Corinthians 5:9-10)

37. “Beloved, I urge you as
sojourners and exiles to
abstain from the passions
of the flesh, which wage
war against your soul. Keep
your conduct among the
Gentiles honorable…”
(1 Peter 2:11-12)

38. We live
with the
world,
not like the
world.

39. Transformed people transform people.

41. Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
And when I am dying, how happy I’ll be,
If the lamp of my life has been burned
out for Thee”