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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. 21:8-11, Mk. 11:8-11, Lk 19:36-40 We want Jesus to win. We want people to love Him as much as we do and be in awe of […]

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSubscribe and listen on your Apple or Android device, or watch it on YouTube! You’re not crazy, I accidentally released these out of order. Join my monthly supporters: www.Patreon.com/OnwardintheFaith One-time donations: PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/OnwardintheFaith?locale.x=en_US Venmo https://account.venmo.com/u/Ray-Burns-6 Living for Jesus requires Christians to know what is good, but also to be aware of what is evil. Yet

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesSubscribe and listen on your Apple or Android device, or watch it on YouTube! Get caught up with the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAgDhmgBNM&list=PL5oAvNLE5030_XWDG9oWCKfB4aMbXMUbh&index=1&t=0s Join my monthly supporters: www.Patreon.com/OnwardintheFaith One-time donations: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/OnwardintheFaith Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/Ray-Burns-6 We did it! This rounds out my lengthy discussion on who Satan really is and what he can do. Although I can’t dig

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. 21:1-7, Mk. 11:1-6, Lk. 19:28-35 The life of Jesus is marked by the unexpected. For all the assumptions Israel made about their future Savior, the perfect

Approximate Reading Time: 44 minutes[Note: This article is a work in progress. I will update it as time allows, but I want to help people see that the greatest danger of Bethel Church is their false gospel, while all other issues are symptoms of that false teaching.] After looking at the broad issues surrounding churches using music from Bethel,

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesJoin my monthly supporters: www.Patreon.com/OnwardintheFaith One-time donations: PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/OnwardintheFaith?locale.x=en_US Venmo https://account.venmo.com/u/Ray-Burns-6 What a difference a word makes. 1 Peter 1:5 says that we must supply a variety of spiritual disciplines. Does that mean our spiritual maturity is a result of our personal strength? Do we need to figure out strategies to be more self-controlled or

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesWatch the full series: Understanding Satan We did it! This rounds out my lengthy discussion on who Satan really is and what he can do. Although I can’t dig deeply into every single verse, this episode will better equip you to think about Satan in a way that fits with the rest of what God’s

Approximate Reading Time: 34 minutesMusic is important to most Christians. However, most Christians spend very little time thinking about why music matters to the church. To most, corporate worship is just something that’s always done, and all that really matters is that the music somehow talks about God. However, as we’ll see in this article, there’s far more to

Approximate Reading Time: 11 minutes[An important note: There has been some confusion on the tone of this article. After the introduction, it’s intentionally written from the perspective of someone who would say using music from these churches isn’t a problem. It’s intended to present a fair and strong version of this argument. If you read this article as someone

Approximate Reading Time: 26 minutesJesus Christ forgives sins. However, a few brief words from our Savior imply that Christians, or at least Christian authorities, also have the power to forgive sins. If so, I suspect many of us aren’t fully submitting to Christ’s words. The question, of course, is whether we understand His words correctly. We see the clearest