A View from the Bunker

IT’S ONE thing to proclaim Jesus Christ when it doesn’t cost anything. It’s something else again when you have to weigh the cost of our faith in dollars and cents. This week, two world-class musicians who aren’t afraid to publicly proclaim their faith, Pastor Caspar McCloud ( www.casparmccloudmusic.com ) and Tommy James (“Mony Mony,” “Crimson and Clover,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” and more— www.t...

ISLAMIC ACTIVISTS pressured the U.S. Army War College into canceling a presentation by scholar Raymond Ibrahim ( www. RaymondIbrahim.com ) last year, apparently convincing the administration that talking about documented history is somehow Islamophobic. This year, the War College followed through on its invitation over the objections of CAIR and others. Raymond discusses the reception he received,...

MOST AMERICAN Christians don’t really believe in about a quarter of the Bible—the parts that deal with end times prophecy. Brent MIller, Jr. of Ingenuity Films ( www. IngenuityFilms.com ) discusses his new documentary Before the Wrath ( www.beforethewrathc.com ), narrated by Kevin Sorbo, which explains how rediscovered evidence from the time of Christ reveals exactly how and why the Rapture must o...

OUR GUEST this week had a chance to be pop music star during the MTV era 35 years ago, but he turned it down because he wouldn’t stop writing and singing about Jesus. Pastor Caspar McCloud joins us to talk about life, his music career, and his new CD Game Changers. Click here for our previous interviews with Caspar to hear more of his life story, including his miraculous healing—literally a return...

SOUTH KOREA was hit hard by COVID-19, but aggressive containment measures have “flattened the curve,” to borrow a phrase from NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci. Joe Jordan, president and co-founder of CE4 Research Group, joins us from Daegu, South Korea to discuss the steps taken by the South Korean government to rein in SARS-CoV-2 and what we Americans can expect in the weeks ahead. —— Download ou...

GOD PROMISED to bless those who bless Israel. There is no better way to bless the people of Israel than by working to share the good news of Messiah. Ted Vanlandeghem is the Director of Partner Relations for Maoz Israel, one of the first ministries to reach out to the Jewish people in Israel with the good news of the gospel. We discuss Ted’s journey from his Jewish roots through his military servi...

JESUS TOLD stories to express transcendent truths. We Christians should encourage the artists among us who are trying to do the same—especially when they’re trying to preach outside the choir. Bryan Sawyer is an actor who’ll be featured in Half Blood, a horror series coming to Amazon Prime Video later this year, and he’s working with the writers to bring some biblical truth to the plot. Also: COVI...

T SOUNDS like something from a Hollywood film, but it’s real—and if our guest tonight has truly deciphered it, this artifact could be world-changing. Jim Barfield, director of the Copper Scroll Project ( www. CopperScrollProject.com ), one of the featured speakers at April’s Scottish Bible Prophecy Conference (ScottishBibleProphecyConference.brushfire.com), explains why the Copper Scroll is so imp...

WE’RE ALL on a battlefield, whether we know it or not. What does the spiritual battle look like to someone whose calling is to minister to those who serve on a physical battlefield as well? Col. David Giammona (US Army, Ret.) joins us to discuss his 32 years as an Army chaplain and his new calling: Ministering to men and women who are putting on the full armor of God in preparation for the final b...

IT’S SAID that history repeats itself, and it’s beginning to look as though the coronavirus outbreak is following the pattern of the Great Influenza of 1918. 400 million people in China are under quarantine—about equal to the combined populations of the US, UK, and Canada. Zach Drew, host of The Zach Drew Show, rejoins us to discuss the information coming from China (or lack thereof), why we shoul...

BEING A warrior for Christ doesn’t necessarily mean fighting. Jamie Walden, a Marine Corps veteran, former police officer, paramedic, and missionary now in full-time ministry, discusses his book Omega Dynamics and explains why a warrior spirit is not the same thing as being a soldier. Find out more about the Omega Dynamics Warrior Summit Retreat May 22-24 in High Hill, Missouri at Jamie’s website...

USING MEDIA to spread the gospel is more important today than ever. The Internet offers so many distractions that cutting through the clutter is a challenge. Zach Drew is a young man who’s been led to use video to communicate the gospel and the reality of the supernatural war in which we’re all deployed. He tells us when and how he felt this call, why he chose to study under Christian television p...

MOST AMERICAN Christians are Christians in name only. Surveys by the Barna Group reveal that upwards of three-quarters of us don’t really believe in God as He’s revealed Himself through His word. Preston and Kelly Condra, founders of Sufficient Word Ministries and authors of By Which We Are Saved, I Have Some Good News, and Papa, Let’s Talk, discuss the simplicity of the gospel—and why sharing it...

IN TODAY’S scientistic, naturalistic world, why would a serious scholar of biblical theology defend the idea that angels literally procreated with human women to produce giants? Tim Chaffey of Risen Ministries ( www. RisenMin.com ), author of Fallen: The Sons of God and the Nephilim, explains why a Christian apologist who defends the truth of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation chose to defend th...

VENERATION OF the dead is a practice that links the modern world to the earliest days of recorded human history. More than that, it’s a thread that’s woven through the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. Sharon K. Gilbert joins Derek in the Bunker for a special birthday episode to discuss their first book together, Veneration, and how she uses the research behind this book for her top-rated his...

GOD HAS called us men to serve Him as warriors and priests. How is it possible to balance what appear to be mutually exclusive roles—especially in a culture that tells us that masculinity is “toxic”? Drew Graffia, host of the Radical Christian video program and author of the new book 'The Warrior Priest Mindset: A Necessary Dichotomy for God’s Chosen Knights,' explains why turning the other cheek...

JEZEBEL GETS too much credit for the evil in the world today. Jezebel spirit? She was human, so she’s dead and her spirit is powerless. However, there were spirits behind Jezebel, and it’s them we have to be concerned with. Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Brian Godawa ( www.godawa.com ) is back to talk about his new novel, Jezebel: Harlot Queen of Israel, Book 1 in his Chronicles of the Watch...

HOW DO you reconcile soft tissue inside bones that are supposed to be 67 million years old? Joe Taylor, curator and director of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, Texas (online at www.mtblanco.com ) explains how paleontology properly understood does not contradict the Bible. You can help Joe repair the hail-damaged roof of the museum here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-mt-blanco-mu...

IT ONLY takes a few minutes of scanning your options on a channel guide for cable or satellite TV to see that Satan truly is the prince of the power of the air. How do Christians work behind enemy lines to use the power of entertaining, compelling stories to share the truth? David Heavener, longtime Hollywood producer, director, writer, and actor, is developing The Last Evangelist, a series he des...

HOW DO we broadcast our message beyond the walls of our virtual church? That’s a question that we’ve been wrestling with for a while. One way might be to engage the public through non-traditional media—video games, for example—that isn’t targeted at Christians already on board with, say, the Genesis 6 paradigm, for example. David Villanueva leads a creative team at GEN3SYS Studios in Guatemala tha...

DR. GREG REID returns this week to try to fit together the pieces of a very disturbing puzzle. Jeffrey Epstein is gone but not forgotten. ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught earlier this year on a hot mic venting her frustration at ABC News management at killing her scoop on the convicted pedophile three years ago. (She has since walked back her comments, claiming that the story didn’t meet ABC’...

YOU WOULDN’T expect to find leaders in banking and high tech taking part in pagan rituals in the desert. You would thus be surprised to find people just like that dancing around the fire alongside people you might bump into at the local supermarket. Carl Teichrib, author of the excellent book Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-enchantment, joins us to report on what he saw at this ye...

WITCHCRAFT HAS been rebranded in recent decades. Where once it was considered an evil practice inspired by the devil, now it’s generally considered harmless fun for kids at Halloween or a form of feminist spiritualism that empowers women. Dr. Judd Burton (BurtonBeyond.com), director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology (tioba.org) and author of The Nephilim Dossier and The Book of Halloween,...

CITIZENS IN the United Kingdom voted June 23, 2016 to leave the European Union. As of October 2019, the UK is still in the EU. Why? Can Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliver Brexit over the resistance of the Remainers in Parliament? And why is Parliament going against the clear wishes of the British people? Filmmaker Mark Sutherland, a keen political observer, sat down with us at the Disclosure on...

A SERPENT-SHAPED ridge about three-quarters of a mile long sits less than a quarter-mile north of Gilgal Refaim, the megalithic maze on the Golan Heights. This mound, which is three times longer and four times higher than the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, has apparently gone unnoticed—until now. Doug Van Dorn, author of Giants: Sons of the Gods, who first spotted this mound about six years ago, and...