Blog, Podcast, YouTube, and Books by Ray Burns
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesA consistent prayer life is a tough discipline to maintain. If you’re like me, it’s easy to pray earnestly for a day or two, then move to shorter prayers just to get through it, then go days without speaking to God for more than a moment. For people like us, the Prayer Mate app can […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesChristians are supposed to have it all together. With the Holy Spirit making us more and more like our savior, our call to “Be holy as God is holy” should be attainable. Yet the closer we get to God, the more we see how willfully we sin and how incapable we are of being holy.
Your Weakness Isn’t Failure Read More »
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.) If you believe in a deity of any sort, you are no longer considered a rational person. Your opinions are tainted by your ludicrous insistence that some magical being created everything, giving
Do Christians Need to Choose Between Science and God? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesWriters in the English-speaking world love having codified rules for writing. Those rules give us an absolute way of writing something correctly. Even if you don’t know the all the rules you can usually tell when someone is breaking them! Yet if you’re exposed to Christian writers long enough, you may notice they don’t always
Capitalizing God’s Pronouns Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesParents, let’s be honest for a moment. Our kids have some catchy music available to them, but nothing is worse than finding ourselves humming “The Wheels on the Bus” around other adults. I want to introduce you to some kids’ music that they can sing throughout the day, and it will actually help them and
Seeds Family Worship (music recommendation) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesTraditions tend to get a pass when we grow up with them. As Christians, we’re called to live in the world without being part of it (John 15:19), which often means not jumping off a bridge just because our friends are doing it. Is Easter, with its mix of Easter bunnies and a risen savior,
Is Easter a Pagan Holiday? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is our purpose in life? There are few questions that keep people awake as much as this. We wake up, we work, we enjoy what time we have left afterwards, then we prepare to do it again tomorrow. It can all feel so meaningless. Yet for the Christian, we are meant for a life
Don’t Waste Your Life (book) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 5 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 a phrase you’ll see repeated often throughout this blog. The question is one of utmost importance for each Christian to answer. It’s easy for us to say what we believe,
Why Do You Believe What You Believe? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are thousands of topics we could discuss regarding the Bible, politics, ethics, and a general Christian worldview. If God allows, we’ll do just that on this blog! But sometimes we all want a quick rundown of a topic. Rather than needing enough content to make us experts on a topic, it’s sometimes preferable to
The One Minute Apologist (YouTube) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesAs a word nerd, it’s fascinating to see how language develops over time. Our vocabulary is filled with words whose original meanings have been lost to time. Something awful would fill us with awe. Meat was a broad term for “solid food.” And for Christians, worship is fast becoming a term that means little more
Don’t (Just) Worship on Sunday Read More »