Ray Burns

I love Christ, my wife and four kids, the Oxford comma, and board games. Although saved at 18, it took 10 years for me to stop chasing idols and find true satisfaction in Christ. God's given me a passion for teaching and writing, and with that a deep burden to be my creator's instrument in giving His people a profound, unshakable relationship with their savior.

The Centrality of the Local Church (Part 3 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

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Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (This is part of an ongoing series. Check out part one and part two) In reading and listening to other commentators on this subject, *I heard an interesting point: Ravi Zacharias may […]

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The Toxic Desire for “Yes Men” (Part 2 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (This is an ongoing series. Check out part one here.) In the last decade, a number of celebrity pastors and teachers have either fallen into sin or have adopted such strange theology

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The Danger of Celebrity Culture (Part 1 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

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Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) The Christian community continues to lose prominent figures in America. As each year goes by, more men and women are compromising, sometimes even completely losing, ministries that God has used in the

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How to Glorify God With Your Time

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Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutesGlorifying God with our time looks similar to glorifying Him with our money. Like many younger adults, I lived most of my adult life without worrying about a budget. Money always seemed like a guaranteed resource that would always be around, I just had to avoid spending the ambiguous amount of “too much.” So when

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3 Ways to Use a Commentary in Your Daily Bible Reading

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Approximate Reading Time: 14 minutesOne incredible thing about being alive today is the amount of valuable material created by Christians who came before us. Those Christians who had the same Holy Spirit living inside them devoted their lives to learning, studying, and teaching the word of God. Today, we have the blessing of standing on their shoulders, building upon

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