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Looking at the headlines this week, I stopped to think through how we got here. And I just need to start by saying a big thank you to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. And all of the promises made and never kept. Let's talk about culture. Joseph Backholm, “ Moloch revisited, ” October 12, 2026. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “ Secretary Rubio and the crisis of our age ,” October 12, 2026. Julie Smyth, “...

One of the most dangerous philosophies that has taken root in our generation is simply the idea that, even Christians accept just out of hand now, is this idea that every culture is equally valid. Every intellectual argument or assertion should be seriously considered. Everybody's truth has a place at the table. The problem with that is that treating every idea, as though it was equally a vali...

Roughly 100 years ago, Presbyterian minister by the name of J. Gresham Machen wrote a book called Christianity and Liberalism. In that book, he argued that there's no such thing as liberal Christianity and conservative Christianity, but rather that liberal Christianity is not Christianity at all. In fact, this is an entirely different religion. He made that argument a century ago, which is fas...

In our generation, there is an increasing scent of anti-Semitism in the air. We've seen it for years in the United Nations. We've seen it for years on the progressive left. But we're beginning to see it in the very neighborhoods of traditional support for Israel: the conservative right, both politically and theologically. Let's reexamine this... philosophy, this idea, that has take...

The president of the United States recently held a conference at the White House where he invited scientists and researchers and other experts in what we call artificial intelligence. As a result of that meeting, Donald Trump suggested that maybe moving forward, we should change our terminology and refer to this thing as supreme intelligence. Let me tell you why that's such a bad idea. Owen An...

In one of the funniest news stories to come out in a while, we have the implosion of the Women's National Basketball Association. The WNBA, the Women's National Basketball Association. As it turns out, the women who run the league, and the women who coach the league, and the women who play in the league, don't know what a woman is. You can't make this up.   Ray Hacke, “ Poison Ivy in women’s golf...

September the 11th, 2026. Twenty-five years from that horrendous day that we now, by shorthand, simply refer to as “Nine Eleven”. How have we come in just 2.5 decades from our largest city, New York City, being attacked by Muslim terrorists, to this day where New York City is now presided over by a Muslim mayor? It's a remarkable story, and we need to examine it.   Joe Rigney, “ Mosques and id...

Lindsay Clancy is a 32-year-old Massachusetts woman who is on trial this week after confessing to murdering her 3 small children in 2023. Her defense contends that she was suffering from a postpartum psychosis that was responsible for her actions. She's testified that she heard voices telling her to kill the children, and that at the time of the killings, she was suffering from extreme mental...

In 2021, Planned Parenthood published an article, arguing that abortion proponents should change their language and quit using the terms pro-choice or pro-abortion. They said the problem is that those terms seem to imply that abortion is a badthing. They seem to imply that abortion is a bad thing. Instead, they said, let's change the terminology to other more positive upbeat things, because we...

One of the fun parts about being a pastor is that when I meet somebody who then finds out what I do, I get a whole range of responses. Sometimes there's respect, sometimes there's fascination, and sometimes there's a smirk. A smirk that suggests, “Oh, you're one of those.” Gullible, backward, non-intellectual. And I love those encounters, because I love it when people underestimate me. Let's talk...

In a generation where socialism is increasingly attractive to people, it's interesting to stop and consider just how much interest the God of the Bible has and the question of property ownership. It says in both Psalm 24 and Psalm 50, that the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. In other words, from the very beginning God claims ownership for himself, for the property, that is creation....

Does it sometimes feel like the world that you live in today is more fearful, marked by outrage more than ever before. Do you realize that fear and outrage, in our generation, are more manufactured than real? Let's talk about the industry of what John Tierney calls the “merchants of bad.”

Remember just a few years ago, when many of us were arguing against the redefinition of marriage by so-called gay marriage advocates? They told us that everything that we were afraid of, everything that we were predicting, was just, uh, to be laughed off because we were crazy fearmongers. We were making up stuff, and all it was about was just letting people love whoever they wanted to love. Well,...

Steven Spielberg is a legendary movie director. He virtually invented the summer blockbuster in 1975 with his release of the movie Jaws. He's made a lot of profitable movies since then, but as a passion, he is personally fascinated with the topic of aliens. 
He continues that passion with the release of his latest movie about aliens. It's called Disclosure Day. Spielberg asked some very in...

As we approach the end of June, have you noticed what a quiet pride month we've had this year? There are reasons for that. And the LGBTQ agenda, they're panicked. Let's talk about it. Joseph Backholm, “ A ridiculous but revealing argument ,” June 22, 2026. Travis K. Kircher, “ Baseball team forfeits game as players refuse rainbow jerseys ,” June 18, 2026. Ray Hacke, “ Compulsory Pride ,” June 17,...

If you kill a language, you actually destroy an entire universe of meaning. C.S. Lewis coined a phrase a word “verbicide”, which he used to describe what he called the murder of a word. As a writer, you can imagine that verbicide for Lewis was considered to be a major crime. We can only imagine what C.S. Lewis would think today about the state of New York legally changing the language of their law...

In the church I pastor, we have homesteading courses, classes that teach, canning fruits and vegetables, building a pantry. The kind of skills your grandma taught you or used to teach you. Somebody recently asked me, is this church a prepper church? So, I thought about that question, and today, I want us to talk about the difference between being a prepper and being prepared. Les Sillars, “ Vision...

“Tortured fear and stupid confidence are the preferred states of mind.” That’s a remark from Screwtape, the demon, in C.S. Lewis’ book, The Screwtape Letters .He’s advising a younger demon on the mindset that they want to create for humanbeings. Either a tortured fear of the future, a sense that we’re living in Hell, or a stupid confidence that feels like we’re smart enough to create Heaven. The d...

I want to return today to the topic of artificial intelligence. I want to spend one more week looking at warnings about this technology and then next week we’ll circle back around and we’ll look at the way this technology, this burgeoning technology, can be used by Christians. We don’t need to be afraid of it; we just need to understand where the boundaries are. And so, we’ll get to how we can use...

One statement that has become so common place that no one even thinks about challenging it or giving it pushback anymore, is the statement that we hear regularly that Jesus is not a democrat or a republican. Pastors say it from the pulpit; Christians say it on social media. It’s a kind of theological curtesy that’s meant to signal that I somehow have a spiritual walk with Jesus that’s not muddied...

What is artificial intelligence? We started this conversation a week ago talking about AI and some of the dangerous aspects of this technology, but do we really understand what it is? We used to say, a generation ago, what is this thing called electronic mail? Now, email is commonplace the world over. Then we said, what is the internet? What is Google? What is a search engine? And today we say, wh...

What would you do if you received a video message from your pastor, the trusted shepherd you have great confidence in, what if he asked you to give money to meet an urgent ministry need he was dealing with? Would you help him? Would you send him money? What you should do is be skeptical that the video is even from him. Associated Press, “ The faith-based tech boom is here—chat with ‘BuddhaBot’ or...

How did Jesus know when his day was finished? There was always someone else to talk to, always someone else to heal, always more work to do, always more demands on his time. How did Jesus know when this particular day was finished? It’s a question I have asked all of my young pastors because it deals with a common problem, particularly among pastors, but also among all Christians. It is what I cal...

TruthCurrents is about learning how to think biblically about current events. Occasionally, somebody will approach me and say, “Pastor, I appreciate you helping me to learn how to think biblically, but now, what do I do? What actions follow thinking biblically about the events of our day?” Let’s talk about that. Richard Wurmbrand, “How Wide is Your Concern?” The Voice of the Martyrs, Vol. 60, No....

Chuck Colson once famously said that the way to evaluate a worldview is to answer this question: can you actually live by that worldview? Well, apparently the worldview of the radical left is becoming increasingly difficult to live by. There are some real ironic happenings in this area. Let’s talk about them. Emma Freire, “ Socialism’s Salesman, ” March 12, 2026. Nathanael Blake, “ Escape from Sea...