Chris Burkmenn's Blog

In a world where we don't like change. A society who cringes over the word "Change." Majority of Americans prefer things to stay the way things are. I myself have the tendency to be against change. I am able to eat the same meal every night, and work at the same job for year all out of the mind of comfortability. Let us challenge and rethink this notion. I need to embrace change more. I need to get so uncomfortable that I don't even know what the usual looks like. As you all have found out by many of my past posts I am a dream chaser. Nothing about chasing a dream is comfortable. We must overcome the fear in our journey. I take on comfortable because it is easy/safe. Nothing about life is suppose to easy. When we get uncomfortable allows God's glory to get us through. Stepping forward in this new season where I am striving to get uncomfortable it can be as easy a my new haircut enough change to mix it up. If I keep going this will become easier and eas...

Exclusive cover only available here! It's not often in Pop music that you find a talent that truly steps outside of the box and provides music that has meaning and a clean message. To one of the true talents that came from American Idol, other than Kelly Clarkson the original, and Carrie Underwood. A tough feat for the males of Idol struggling to find success past alums include: Ruben Studdard with a short lived career, Taylor Hicks with a few moments of success, Kris Allen which has quality music but failed to stay on his label, and David Cook that has been commercially unsuccessful. Scotty Mccreery is an exception to this standard since he has had success in the Country genre. A breath of fresh air Phillips has been to the music scene breaking the boundaries of ordinary Pop music. Phillips had a huge success with his crowning song "Home." Now going on to bring his second single from his debut album, "The World from the Side of the Moon," "Gone, G...

Today we honor Chris Kyle, a former Navy Seal. Protecting and defending our country for the name of America. Kyle was one of America's deadliest military snipers.  The Pentagon said his skills with a rifle so terrorized Iraqi insurgents during his four tours of duty that they nicknamed him the “Devil of Ramadi” and put a bounty on his head. He returned home to become a best selling author and also mentored several other veterans.  On Saturday Kyle was turned on by Eddie Ray Routh. O fficials said that for reasons that were still unclear, Mr. Routh shot and killed both Kyle and another man(Chad Littlefield) with a semiautomatic handgun before fleeing in a pickup truck belonging to Mr. Kyle.  More information is being released on this story. For more detailed information go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/chris-kyle-american-sniper-author-reported-killed.html?_r=0 Today we honor Chris Kyle for the American Hero he was. Thank you for your sacrifice in the n...