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10 Signs We’re Treating a Person/Group as Our Savior

Ray Burns / November 14, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 11 minutes Over the years, there has been a concerning trend in Christianity. Although some people still truly love and follow Christ, our culture has recently encouraged God’s people to start adopting cult-like thinking. The most dangerous part of this thinking is that it’s almost impossible for someone to see it because the thinking has become bound […]

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Why I Didn’t Talk to a Lesbian About Homosexuality

Ray Burns / November 5, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes Last year my wife shared a hospital room with a girl who was about to start detox. We got to know her pretty well over those few days, learning about what brought her to Iowa, why she was in the hospital, and even the toxic relationships she’d had with past girlfriends. When I shared the

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Arguments For (and Against) God’s Existence

Ray Burns / October 24, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 9 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) History is filled with stories of those who came to Christ after first being convinced of God’s necessary existence. Likewise, there are many who have fallen away because it made more sense

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Love Others By Staying Away From Them

Ray Burns / October 23, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes We have a unique power over sickness. We can keep a house with three children from getting the flu. A single parent can be kept healthy so they don’t have to miss a week of work. We have an incredible ability to demonstrate our love for others by keeping them safe, and all we have

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What Is “Young Earth Creationism”?

Ray Burns / October 17, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes In an age of scientific discovery, the origins of the universe seem all but certain. Though we can’t go back and see what happened, the majority of the educated world believes in some form of “big bang” start to the universe. Then there are those weird Christians who seem to stand in stark defiance to

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The Bible’s Rules for the Bedroom

Ray Burns / October 10, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) What does the Bible say about sex? Are there things that married couples aren’t allowed to do? Is sex purely for creating children or satisfying a husband’s needs, meaning that it’s sinful

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Why My Family Plays Board Games

Ray Burns / September 20, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes “Wow, you guys must like board games” is a phrase I hear any time someone enters our home for the first time. Greeting anyone entering the front door is a whole bookshelf of board games, and even more tucked in a corner next to it. Of course their suspicions are confirmed if they enter my

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Onward in the Faith – 6 Months Later

Ray Burns / September 12, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutes On March 11th, this blog’s first article was published. For the next 6 months, my entire life would slowly start to mold around producing articles that would encourage and challenge my brothers and sisters in Christ. I began to see the world through the eyes of someone always looking for inspiration, always hungry for a

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Beware the Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Ray Burns / August 29, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Android device) As Christians, we want to honor God with our decisions. However, our finite minds can easily make bad decisions without us even realizing it. Today, I’d like to talk about something that often

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What’s the “Therefore” There For?

Ray Burns / August 7, 2019

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) The title of this article is how I first realized I didn’t know how to read the Bible. I could quote it, I could tell others what I was told it said, but I

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