Did God Put Donald Trump Back in the White House? (11/21/24)

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This week we’re asking the question, “Did God put Donald Trump back in the White House?” In the previous episode, we talked about some things that have not changed (and will not change) since the 2024 US Presidential election. When I recorded that, we did not yet know the results of the election. Now we do, and with the reelection of President Trump, many are talking about the role that God had in putting him back in office. We’re going to talk about that today.Continue Reading

Are All Religions Paths to God? (09/26/24)

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This week we’re talking about some recent comments from the Pope in which he claimed that ALL religions are paths to God. He said that different religions are like different languages that people might speak, but they all arrive at the same God. We’re going to talk about this in our episode today.Continue Reading

“Mockers Will Come With Their Mocking”

The Last Supper (Leonardo di Vinci)

At the time of this writing, controversy recently erupted at the beginning of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, in which a group of “drag queens” appeared to represent the last supper of Jesus and His apostles. (Pictures of this are currently all over the internet, but I decided they were too vulgar to display on this website. Instead, the image above is of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting which was allegedly being parodied.) Depicting this event with the Lord and His apostles in this way makes a mockery of Christ. However, some claim that this was not the intended reference. Yet even if that were true, the entire lewd scene was an insult to Christians and anyone else who holds a Biblical view of morals and sexuality. Sadly, such a display is no longer surprising today.

As a culture becomes more and more godless, believers in Christ increasingly become the targets of ridicule, harassment, ostracism, and, in some cases, even physical violence. This has been the case in various places throughout the world. Yet now, even in places that were once tolerant of Christianity and generally embraced Biblical values, there is a growing antagonism toward God, the Lord Jesus Christ, His church, His word, and His people.

The apostle Peter warned about this back in the first century:

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation’” (2 Peter 3:3-4).

We certainly see “mockers” today who ridicule anything that pertains to faith in Christ. Let us consider a few points about this.Continue Reading

UFOs, Aliens, and What They Mean for Christians (08.03.23)

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This week we’re talking about UFOs and the possibility of alien life forms visiting earth from other planets. Recently, some military officials testified before Congress about the U.S. Government’s cover-up about UFOs and other information they had collected related to that. If it turned out to be true that aliens exist and had visited the earth, what would that mean from a spiritual standpoint? We’re going to talk about that today.Continue Reading

Answering Basic Questions (Part 9): What Is Worship?

Answering Basic Questions

Many people equate being religious with worship, and for good reason. Worship may not be all that we do in service to God, but it must be a necessary and fundamental part of it.

What is worship? Let us consider four points about this subject.Continue Reading

An Unknown but Knowable God

Paul preaching in Athens

When Paul was in Athens, Luke recorded that “his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols” (Acts 17:16). This prompted him to teach “in the synagogue” and “in the market place every day with those who happened to be present” (Acts 17:17). His message piqued the interest of the philosophers who brought him to the Areopagus so they could hear more about the “strange things” (Acts 17:20) he was teaching.

Though the people of the city were “very religious” (Acts 17:22), the God of heaven was “unknown” (Acts 17:23) to them. So Paul proceeded to teach them about the one true God.

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are His children.’ Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man” (Acts 17:24-29).

We encounter many today who are like the Athenians. They simply do not know God. How can we begin to teach them? Consider what Paul explained on this occasion to these pagan philosophers.Continue Reading

Answering Basic Questions (Part 1): Who Is God?

Answering Basic Questions

The natural world around us with its order, complexity, and continuous systems is proof of the existence of a higher power. Our universe could not have come about by mere chance, nor could it have arisen from nothingness – it came from God.

But who is God? Let us consider four points that will help us begin to answer that question.Continue Reading