Blog, Podcast, YouTube, and Books by Ray Burns
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes (A huge thanks to Chris Lenoir for providing today’s article!) This is not another article weighing in on the validity of Kanye West’s conversion. At some point we need to move past that as Christians and move forward with the narrative. The passage of time will determine whether Kanye West’s conversion is legitimate and by […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes Would you consider yourself a good person? I think for most of us, when we are asked the above question a natural inclination to justify our goodness begins flashing through our minds. We think of our good actions and the good things we have accomplished. We think about the times we have sacrificed for the
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes You are dying. I am dying. We are dying. No matter how uncomfortable it is to think about death, the reality is that we are all dying. This is why Benjamin Franklin went on record saying, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” Even the Scriptures tell us
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Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes Death hurts. I’m not talking about the act of dying but the loss of someone you love when they die. It hurts when you lose someone. There is a swirling of emotions that we often describe as emptiness, loss, sadness, grief, etc. These feelings often impact us so much that it feels as if our
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes The Movie I Never Want to Watch Again but Encourage Everyone to Go See This past week my wife and I went to watch the new movie Unplanned. We were invited by Agape Pregnancy Center who rented out the movie theater to show it to supporters of their ministry. Unplanned is a true story about
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes Onward in the Faith. Why do we call this blog by that name? Every single one of us has a tendency to get “stuck” in our faith. We often start out burning brightly but over time the grind of the mundane slowly takes it toll on us. Each of us needs to be spurred onward
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