WHY GOD SENDS TROUBLE OUR WAY–The 7 Ways God Uses Affliction
The Sevenfold Purpose of God in Human Affliction–Are you in the middle of a painful season, wondering if any good can possibly come from your current struggles?
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
The Sevenfold Purpose of God in Human Affliction–Are you in the middle of a painful season, wondering if any good can possibly come from your current struggles?
Every few decades, humanity rediscovers wonder, dusts it off, and calls it progress. This summer, the marketing machine will do its part with The Day of Disclosure, courtesy of Steven Spielberg—and right on cue, we’ll all be invited to stare into the sky and ask if something smarter than us is finally ready to step in and fix the mess. It’s a great story. It’s also not a new one.
There’s a comforting lie modern people like to tell themselves: we outgrew the occult. We traded candles and chants for peer review and lab reports. We’re rational now. Enlightened. Too sophisticated for ancient nonsense. Michael S. Heiser spent a good portion of his career politely—and then not so politely—blowing that idea to pieces. Heiser, who …
Worship is the way that we show reverence, respect, and love for our God. And music is one of the wonderful ways that we can worship!
In Deuteronomy 11:13-21 we learn how God wants us to teach our children, instructing them in the ways of the Lord at all times. God is faithful in return, making it so our physical lives on this earth are sustained. When we eat we will be satisfied.
Imagine waking up to headlines proclaiming, “The Vatican Confirms the Existence of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life.” With one statement, the spiritual and scientific foundations of billions would be shaken. But what would such a declaration really mean? For those who take biblical prophecy seriously, it might not be the dawn of new enlightenment—but the beginning of a global deception foretold in Scripture.
America is betwixt and between more things than you can shake a stick at. The conflict with Iran is on the front burner. Every election cycle at every level is another contest worth winning. Every institution – Government, Business, Education, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Religion, and Family is caught in the crossfire of a No Mans Lands in the Great U.S. Culture War. That’s the struggle against Cultural Marxism and it’s new, best ally – Islamist Totalitarianism.
Discover the Jewish writings between the Testaments, known as the Apocrypha, and why they still matter for Christians today. Receive The books in the Apocrypha may be a mystery to us, but when we consider that they played a role in shaping Judaism during Jesus’ time and the apostle Paul’s life and that they would …
One of the basic, underlying themes of Christianity, across all of the various denominations, is that the Bible is the word of God, given to authors who were divinely inspired by the Lord to bring his word to us mere, fallible mortals. Some Christians — former President Joe Biden, a (supposedly) devout and dedicated Catholic …
Were the good ol’ days as good as we remember them? What do we worship in a secular world? We need to find a new plumb line.
The Gospels record Christ’s ministry to the four groups of people, then and now in the world. Matthew speaks to the Jews and the deeply religious of our day. The Jews who loved the Scriptures and the prophecies of God. They would only listen to one of their own. Mark spoke to the Romans. These …
Is the G_d of the Israelites unforgiving, jealous and vengeful? In Genesis it was clear that G_d made man in his own image. G_d’s image could be described as one of vengeance, jealousy and spite. Does today’s man mirror this image? He kills many of those made in His image, including some of The Chosen People. Warmongering is evident by his orders to kill all in the promised land. Times were not easy for the Hebrews, first they were slaves to the Pharaoh only to become slaves to a vengeful, jealous and unforgiving G_d. If G-d created all persons and creatures, why would he kill his creations or order the killing of so many persons and innocent sacrificial animals? Perhaps, they are ones created by other gods?
In the silent, confusing days after the Crucifixion, the disciples wrestled with grief, fear, and doubt—yet God was already preparing the resurrection they could not yet see.
We are here because…choose your own reason. I believe there is a power, presence, province – a god – that has created the universe and that we, humans on planet earth, are merely an infinitesimally small part thereof and we are here for only an equally tiny span of time.
Because Jesus declared tetelestai—“it is finished”—we can live in the freedom of a salvation that is fully accomplished, not partially earned.
In John 19:30, Jesus cried out, “It Is Finished!” Many of us have heard these words, but what do these words really mean? What was finished?
Who was Jesus? It is a question that has echoed across centuries, whispered in quiet prayer, debated in universities, and argued in the streets. For Christians, the answer is not a simple label but a profound tension held together in Scripture: Jesus is both the Son of Man and the Son of God. And the confusion surrounding these titles is not accidental—it is the result of trying to compress a divine mystery into human categories.
By the 1980s and 1990s, the ideology had outgrown academia. It entered culture.
This is how psywar works: you don’t argue the premise—you embed it.
Film, television, and literature stopped asking whether humans were the problem and started asking how many humans were too many. Environmental messaging quietly shifted from stewardship to guilt. Children were framed as carbon footprints. Population decline was reframed as progress.
At the heart of this crisis lies the disintegration of the family. In God’s grand design, the family has been the primary institution for teaching right from wrong, instilling discipline, and modeling love and respect.
It’s Palm Sunday, or Passion Sunday, a day of celebration! But why do we celebrate the soon-to-take-place Crucifixion of our Lord?