Ray Burns

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:32, Mk. 15:21, Lk 23:36 Sometimes, clarifying something in the Bible has deep and meaningful consequences that forever change our understanding of God. Sometimes, that clarity […]

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:15–21, Mk. 15:6–15, Lk. 23:18-25, Jn. 18:40 Not much is known about the man who lived so Jesus Christ could die. He had a name, a

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 27:3-5 Between the trials of the Jewish and Roman courts, Judas has a moment of clarity. Whatever justification he used to betray Jesus melted away, leaving

Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes[For the sake of my posting schedule and your time, I am posting segments of Chapter 2 as I write them. If you have any suggestions or comments, reach out through my contact form. To read everything released so far, visit the Satan and Spiritual Warfare page.] Christian Gnosticism (100 – 400 AD) As dualism became a

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:47-27:32, Mk. 14:43-15:20, Lk. 22:47-23:25, Jn. 18:2-19:15 On their own, Christ’s arrest and trials are fairly straightforward. Judas carries out his betrayal, injustice is done, and

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:69–75, Mk. 14:66–72 The disciples had seen Jesus do the miraculous and impossible. They heard the Father’s voice confirm Him at the Mount of Transfiguration in

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Lk. 22:43-44 Much of what I’ve written so far has shown a deeper, more meaningful understanding of what the gospel writers recorded about the last seven days

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:42, Mk 14:35-36, Lk. 22:41-42 After supper, Jesus returns to a grove of trees called Gethsemane in the Mount of Olives. This is a difficult scene

Approximate Reading Time: 16 minutesAs in all the churches of the saints, the women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. But if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for