We are trying to get the Practical Holiness Commentary up and on site.
ACTSion has become quite large and it is hard to keep it covered and up to date - but we are trying to keep it fresh with allof the other things we are doing.

Thank you for your patience.

Paul Davidson's Hearing Heart Sermons. Here are some insights into the Word of God right from the heart of a man who lived in the Word daily. These are eleven sermons with simple themes but a depth of meaning that is rare and original.


REPENTANCE	PERFECT LOVE	REBELLION	ROOM
THE SOWER	LORD'S SUPPER	THE WORLD	HELP
TREMBLING	PLEASURE		SIN

The calling. The call to the mission field and what a missionary is according to the Bible record is explained in this frank critique of modern missions concepts. The function of a high percentage of the modern missionaries of today have nothing in common with their apostolic counterparts of the early church. Let's get back to Acts.

The Wrath of the Lamb. Prophecy
Raptured or Snatched? A peek at a few pages and topics that will be covered in our next book release, a prophecy book entitled,The Wrath of The Lamb.

Psalm 119 - New and revised)
Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Psalm 119 consists of 176 prayers revealing the proper attitude of the Christian toward God's Word. Psalm 119 makes it very clear that the Bible does not merely contain a message OF holiness, but the message of the Bible IS holiness (the moral perfection of man). A devotional commentary with light from the Word. (This book is available through the Anderson office for a donation toward the Commission Ministries.)

Grace Before, At and After the Cross (Revised)
Part I of IV Part II of IV Part III of IV Part IV of IV
God's Grace operates on three levels, or in three zones of the Christian life. If we get these confused and run them together we end up with a man-made grace. God's Word tells us to rightly divide the Word of truth. The doctrine of Grace effects every part of our Chrsitian experience. It MUST be right lest we find ourselves believing things about our salvation that is just NOT true. Everybody who has read this book by Bill Burkett expresses their enlightment.

Hermeneutics outline: A practical highly condensed outline of Hermeneutics, the study of proper methods of interpretation of ancient manuscripts, especially scriptural text. Made available for preachers, special study groups, and Bible schools who would like to have access to such information that is not always easily available on-line elsewhere. Very good outline prepared by Walter Beuttler, a dear friend and one of my Bible Institute teachers at Green Lane, Pennsaylvania in the very early 1950's.

A Biblical Treatment of the Oneness doctrine: An excellent little book that contains a list of biblical discrepencies of
this doctrine a matter of arbitrary belief apart from being supported by Scripture. A good Bible study for our churches.

Eternal Security In The Book Of Hebrews:
Part I of IV Part II of IV Part III of IV Part IV of IV
Just one of the finest things you will find to refute the teaching of Eternal Security by an old Pentostal Bible scholar.

God's Rooster, A study on the conscience:
This rooster did more than some preachers will do today - he crowed when it was needed! The Christian conscience, Paul warns, can be seared, a most dangerous conditions for any Chrsitian to get himself or herself into. God used the rooster to call the fisherman to repentance who then became the great apostle! Many principles here for Christians who want to be a part of the Bride of Christ.

Happiness God's Way: All human cnduct is carried out in pursuit of happiness. It is sought by every man woman and child. Drug addicts, thieves, businessmen, athletes, drunkards and Christians all seek happiness. BUT to most, and even some Christians, it is elusive. Here is are the seven steps to happiness on God's terms. Its so simple people pass it by to find it some other way - but there is only one way to true happiness.

Sinful Grace? High profile radio and TV preachers implying that God's love provides forgiving automatic Grace even if we continue in sin. Here we give another simple explanation of the Grace AT the cross and the Grace AFTER the cross as two different operations of Grace. Predestination people get the two confused. Grace AT the cross is conditionless! BUT Grace AFTER the cross is CONDITIONAL and they must be rightly divided when speaking on the subject of Grace.

Cremation: Christians must beware of the trend toward cremation. Here is plenty of documentation to prove where it comes from and who advocates it. Interesting collection of research material and a reference to a book on cremation that is available today at Chrsitian bookstores.

Principles of Purity:
27 brief chapters explaining such things as the dufference between a liberal and a conservative; the struggle between the two natures; the appetites; the function of sin through the appetites; saturation of the two natures; long hems and long tongues don't go together! Why blood?

A Balanced Gospel: Even agape love is negative - it must be. Here is Biblical proof of the virtue of negative love. God was the first to teach "Tough Love."

Faith of Our Fathers: An incident from the life of Polycarp of the 2nd century to inspire us back to the character of the early church..

Greek Word Studies in Galatians: A study of the fruit of the Spirit and the works of the flessh in the language the apostle's wrote in. Gives an deeper meaning to the English text. Excellent for a series of studies in your mid-week Bible studies.

Part 1 The difference between the two Greek words used when referring to the holiness of the believer. Much false teaching has come out of an ignorance of these two Greek words. Many interesting explanations leaving the reader with a correct concept of holiness.

Holiness At And After the Cross: Part 2 - Giving Bible passages explaining the difference between the noun and the verb used when referring to holiness (santification). The difference between hagiasmos and hagiazo and how our translators used concordant methods to translate these words so the English (KJV) text remains faithful to the Greek text.

Identifying the Apostate Church:

Chart 1 > The Parody: Chart showing apostate and apostolic differences.

Chart 2 > The Shifting Theology of Neo-Fundamentalism:

Antithetic chart listing effect of apostate/apostolic

teaching from the Charismatic PULPIT.

Resulting in:

Chart 3 > The Shifting Values of Christian Character: Antithetic chart listing effect of apostate/apostolic
teaching on the people in the PEW.


Studies and Materials Soon To Be Added! Predestination: One of the best treatments of this subject I have seen but no longer in print. But here it is for your edification. Predestination In The Book Of Hebrews makes it clear that you can be lost after salvation. The Spirit With, In, and Upon: An excellent study on the operation of the Holy Spirit from the pen of Allen Swift, founder of Eastern Bible Institute and a lovely man of God. A History of Dualism: Distinguishing the dualism of Scripture from the dualism of the gnostic mystics of the first century who distorted the original Biblical doctrine. Why some early church Fathers denounced dualism in its distorted forms. Biblical Dualism is right when presented in its Biblically correct context! Many out of print books Being Prepared For This Site: A great library of out of print books on many good Bible subjects are being processed to go on this site. This will be material to provide our holiness preachers with the pure Pentecost of The Church of Acts!

It Seemed Good Unto Us: Church government according to the record we have in Acts 15 having nothing in common with the devised church governments of today. There is no such thing in Scripture as a pastor ruling over another pastor or over another pastor's church. Read here some of the history of how church government became corrupted.

Keeping The Pulpit Pure As goes the pulpit so goes the church. Here is what the Scripture says about what we are to do with those who depart from pure doctrine. How is the church to deal with those whose teaching tends to corrupt the beliefs and behavior of Christians?

Legislating Human Behavior: InSpanish ->Legislando La Conducta Humana
Man must be governed from within and not from without. This is the secret of Christ's kingdom and its governing principle through the new birth.

No Man Lives Unto Himself: A law of human behavior no man can escape. God has woven it into the gospel as the the very essence of the word godliness.

The Oneness Doctrine Examined: A very good study of the contrdictions that exist in the Jesus Only doctrine. Another book out of print but continues to live on the pages of the Amen.

Pentecostal But Not Charismatic:

Part I of IV Part II of IV Part III of IV Part IV of IV Probably our most sought after book. There is a BIG difference and this study covers all of the differences between a Pentecostal and a Charismatic.

Physical Contact As Worship: An UnBiblical Abomination. Touching and embracing indiscriminantly between the genders in a worship service is the first sign of a people who pay no regard to Biblical behavior.


Practical Holiness Commentary (PHC):Holiness through the Bible verse by verse from Genesis to Revelation. A study of The Moral Excellence of God and the Moral Perfection of Man. Bill Burkett's 1600 page dissertation available only here on the web site. It covers about any subject on the Christian moral. (Remember, you can use the search feature once inside the text.) OLD TESTAMENT:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Dueteronomy, Joshua, Judges.
Ruth, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job.
Psalms.
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah.
Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos.
Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.


NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew
Mark - Luke
John - Acts
Romans
Corinthian epistles
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
Thessalonians and Timothy
Titus, Philemon and James
Epistles of Peter and John
Jude - Revelation

Reasons for Suffering: The Bible helps us to understand. Remember, This world today is not the world God created in the beginning - this world we have today is the world we created after we rejected paradise.

The Church Today: The Word of God Counsels our brethren in East Europe and other countries where American misdsionaries thinking themselves as missionaries do noting but peddle the American culture off on others thinking it is Christianity. Missionaries are not pass off their culture as Christinaity when they go to another country! Don't try to destroy their traditional values in the name of missions! Your Amaricanism may be materiallly superior but your spirituality is inferior! We need Russian missionaries bringing their reverence and Christian demeanor to American rather than Americans taking their sloppy and winsome not-so-spiritual message to the Russian churches. Read about it here.

The Difference Between Holiness and Righteousness: Leonard Ravenhill called this illustrated study "A masterpiece." (Charts to be added)

The Dog and the Dove: The classic truth of a parable in small book form that has been translated into five languages and reprinted by two prison ministries and still in demand. A pocket size booklet good for handing to a saved or unsaved friend that explains the dual nature of man and the effect of this nature on every person's behavior. This great principle of the teachings of Jesus very easy to understand. Give one to your psychologist!

The Dueling Natures: Dualism, distorted by gnostic teachers in the early church was censured by some church Fathers because of the abuses and distortions of this of this great Biblical truth by the gnostics. Thus Augustine denounced then embraced the doctrine. But it is a solid Bible doctrine vital to Christian victory. (The large version of The Dog and the Dove booklet above.)

The Good Old Days: They venerate their godly parents then denounce those who live holy lives today as their parents whom they venerate. Some say these are better days than in the past but honesty does not allow that to go unchallenged in a day when 1.5 millions babies are being murdered each year in abortion clinics and with AIDS raging around the world, rock music that encourages the killing of cops and drugs being hawked on our city streets.

The Gospel According to the Snake: An explanation of the Satanic methodology in man's first encounter with Satan. - Genesis 3.

Worldliness: 47 startling yet seldom mentioned facts about the deadliest and most subtle of all scourges of the man inside and outside the church - worldliness. An expose' the ugly beauty of the church's most insideous sin. Here is the greatest enemy of the church that apostate preachers will not treat honestly.

The Most Beautiful Word: Holy, Holy, Holy. A reprint from the Pentecostal Evangel by Bill Burkett when he was a pastor and Missionary Evangelist with the Assemblies of God.

What Is a Neo-Gnostic? What the Gnostics of A.D. 45 and the Charismatics today have in common.

Relativism: Christians born of God relate to God first. (2 Corinthians 5:18) Realtivism as being taught in modern Charismatic circles is a doctrine of Devils. Romans 16:17-18.

When I Consider the Heavens - What Is Man? - Walter Beuttler takes us into the infinity of space to behold the glory of God.

All That Glitters Is Not God: According to the Bible The Prosperity is doctrine is "fool's gold."

About The Christian Greeting: A word of wisdom from our departed brother, Walter Beuttler, German born and fortunate for me, one of my Bible teacher's at Eastern Bible Institute, Green Lane, PA. The "holy" kiss explained as it relates to proper Christian greeting.
Golfing Preachers: Holiness preachers now defending golf and taking the same philosophical position of those prayerless preachers who started the trends leading to the present apostasy. The new yuppy preachers know more about godliness than the godly fathers before them. They condone the sport of the rich as a legitimate kind of worldliness.

Biblical Holiness and Television: The apostate church has been hypnotized by the snake's evil eye. The soapies have popularized "affairs" and divorce making a mockery of God's laws slinging Satan's vomit all over the living room walls of the worldly.

Creatures of Choice: An interesting exposition on the weakness of the predestination doctrine by a great Bible expositor of a century ago.

Criminals Running The Church? And where are the godly? "The only thing necessary for evil to tiumph is that good men do nothing."

Please be patient with the mess you'll find as we are now in the process of re-constructing our pages. We had our web page destroyed by a "brother" but the Lord miraculously helped us recover most of the files. We know this site needs edited badly and we are now working on getting it all straightened out. We are also adding new material while trying to edit what's already on site. We now have a couple of fine brothers helping us. View what is not under construction and be assured we are working on getting the rest up and running for you. We have plans for this to be one of the most resourceful web sites on the internet! Thanks for your prayers and patience.
Bill Burkett


The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to the excellence of Christ. Anon

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