Blog, Podcast, YouTube, and Books by Ray Burns
Approximate Reading Time: 10 minutes If living by faith is what makes us feel most alive in a world so broken by sin, then doubt can feel like a sickness threatening to pull us away from the Savior we so desperately desire. Those thoughts that constantly make us question our faith can leave us frustrated and cold. Worse, dwelling on […]
Biblical Faith vs. Modern Faith (Part 5): Why Do We Doubt? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute Progress continues on getting the website nicely designed for all of you. Over the next few days, expect some downtime as I take the site offline to do some work on it.
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Approximate Reading Time: 15 minutes (This article also includes a 2-part podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) In Part 1 we look at the basics of the Jehovah’s Witness worldview. In Part 2 we took a deeper dive into specific beliefs to see not only what they believe,
What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe? Part 3: Giving Them the Gospel Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute What a week… The simple task up updating the blog’s look has been a bit of a headache. After over 10 hours of work, all I did was accidentally flood everyone’s email and social media feeds with 15 demo articles and then basically break the blog itself. I’m mentally exhausted. I’m still working on getting
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Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m working on redesigning the blog today and imported a premade theme. Apparently that included a demo with its own articles that were pushed to all of you. I greatly apologize for flooding your inbox earlier, and please feel free to ignore anything weird you see over the next few days.
Don’t worry, I’m not hacked! Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’d like to support this ministry for the month of November, make sure you visit Patreon by October 31st. Click here to show your support! Here’s what’s coming this week Anger Begins with Idolatry What the Heart Really Is Are You on Disney’s Hit List? “Jesus Is King” – Thoughts on Kanye West and
Patreon reminder, plus this week’s articles Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes October was my first month of receiving Patreon support. If you’d like to support this ministry for the month of November, visit this link and sign up by October 31st. Not only do you help this ministry grow, but you can select articles you’d like to read about! This month my generous Patrons not only
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes Josh Harris is a former pastor best known for his book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.” Through that book the lesser-known idea of courtship, and the importance of purity, was reintroduced to the world. Yet in recent years Josh has shown a steady departure from his book, finally announcing that he has abandoned the Christian faith.
Thoughts on Josh Harris and Salvation Read More »
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 Android podcast app.) In order for abortion to be tolerable, we must dehumanize the child being aborted. We use cold language like “fetus” which, while scientifically accurate, distances us from the reality of how human an unborn
Logically Human (Is a Baby Just a Fetus? Part 2) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes I write this after an interesting experience with my 2 year old, Anna. Her older sister has a bracelet-making kit shaped like a briefcase that Anna wanted to play with, but was told not to open. I knew she would disobey, but watching her sin nature reveal itself displayed a lot about our own sinfulness.
3 Things My Toddler Taught Me About Sin Read More »