Ray Burns

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: Jn. 19:31-34 For Christians, the cross is central to our entire eternity. For the soldiers at the foot of the cross, however, it was probably another day […]

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. 27:45, Mk. 15:33, Lk. 23:44 We can say much about the six hours Jesus spent on the cross. Many unique and interesting moments surrounded the most

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