Blog, Podcast, YouTube, and Books by Ray Burns
Approximate Reading Time: 22 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (If you just want a big idea in order to read Part 3, read the section on Terms, the two main headings about Christ, and the section about Control) In Part 1, […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 10 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) For Christians, there can be nothing more terrifying than a Jehovah’s Witness. We use the same words, learn about God from the same Bible, yet somehow we arrive at totally different conclusions.
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Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesA weekend of excitement Last week, I hit 100 likes on the blog’s Facebook page. I’m sure it doesn’t seem like much, but God is using this ministry to encourage those 100 people, and so many more, to keep moving onward in their faith toward maturity in Christ. I’m so thankful and humbled that God
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Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutesWe’ve been promised persecution and hatred from the world. Because we serve Jesus Christ, those who love sin can only naturally feel a certain amount of hostility toward us. Yet too often, Christians are hated not because they humbly proclaim the gospel, but because they use Christ as an excuse to be hateful and offensive.
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Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesOne criticism Christians often face is that we believe in fairy tales. It’s not just that we’re accused of believing the universe was created by some almighty being in the sky or that a talking snake led to the downfall of the world. Much of what we see throughout the Bible is miraculous – events
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Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Tis the season The Christmas decorations are being hung and Christmas music is already driving retail workers crazy. My family has started our Advent tradition of reading and discussing 1 chapter of Luke every day until Christmas, a tradition I’d encourage anyone to do as we spend the month not just remember the birth of
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Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutesSocial status is such a weird thing. There’s no lack of things we use to not only make ourselves fit in but also show how much more we fit in than someone else. Often, these things require some amount of foolishness on our part. Whether it’s our time, money, or health, there is always a
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Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesWe should hate sin. Our sin makes us an enemy of a holy God, and the only way our crimes could be forgiven is to believe that Christ took God’s wrath in our place. By asking Him to to save us, we ask Him to accept our punishment and give us His spotless life in
How to Be Thankful for Sin Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesFor many, each month is a paycheck-to-paycheck kind of survival. A lack of money often serves as a wonderful time to put our faith in Christ to provide what we need. We learn the value of prayer because we are in a place where we must accept that, without God, we can simply do nothing
Do You Have Enough Faith to Be Rich? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat a week… The simple task up updating the blog’s look has been a bit of a headache. After over 10 hours of work, all I did was accidentally flood everyone’s email and social media feeds with 15 demo articles and then basically break the blog itself. I’m mentally exhausted. I’m still working on getting
Coming up this week Read More »