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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!  Many of us wistfully look back to a "golden age" in our nation's past, or our personal past, when life was "simpler", and everything was just right.  But there never has been a golden age like.  The prophet Isaiah tells us, however, that one day the perfect golden age WILL come, and through the arrival of the Messiah.  Isaiah 9:1-7...

Do Christians legitimately believe that Jesus is the fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14?  Doesn't "almah" just mean "young woman", and Isaiah was talking about his wife, and not the virgin Mary some 700 years later?  Dr. J takes a look at Isaiah in the original Hebrew, and in the Greek translation done by Jewish scribes 200 years before Christ (the Septuagint), and gives an answer...

I have heard recently statements from podcasters and "journalists" and "historians" that Hitler and the Nazis were "cool" or perhaps just misunderstand.  Winston Churchill was actually the bad guy of World War II.  Really?  Listen in to this analysis of the facts of WW2, and the jargon which passes itself off as legitimate history to uninformed people these days.  

We hear a lot these days about how awful "Western Civilization" is.  Teachers in public schools and colleges are constantly bad-mouthing Western Civilization, but of course they are using their free speech which is a concept that uniquely comes from Western Civilization.  Are there any blessings or advantages of living in a culture that values the heritage of Western Civilization?  I thi...

What was it like in America on Thanksgiving 1945?  World War II had just ended, and now millions of American fighting men were coming home.  What was our society, our culture like then?  What were we as a nation thankful for?  Can we take any cues from that era and find things to be thankful for today?  

Is the popular American celebration of Thanksgiving actually a celebration about a massacre of Native Americans by the Pilgrims and Puritans?  It has become popular in the past thirty or forty years to trash America and try to show that America is actually a terrible nation founded upon slavery, slaughter, and oppression.  However, upon examination of real historical facts, it becomes clear that t...

If you are on a college campus or public school (high school or junior high), more than likely you are not being taught the history of Marxism (or much history of any economic theory or nation, for that matter).  So, to help out your education, here are short little bios about seven evil little monsters who thought it would be a great idea to seize total control, wipe out millions of innocent peop...

Since so many Americans believe that government should have the right to "soak" the "rich" (whoever has more money than we do) and then "redistribute it" to others who are deemed more worthy of that wealth that they did not earn, I thought it would be good to just ask a few questions.  Share with your socialist friends.  

The term "fascist" is bandied about quite a bit these days.  But what does the term actually mean?  Who were the fascists of the 20th century, how did they practice their ideology in their nations, and who today most closely resembles what the fascists practiced?  

We talked about godly men (something sorely lacking in our American culture these days).  What does the Bible say about godly women?  Tune in!

How can you spot a godly man?  What does it take to be a godly man?  The Bible is very clear about the characteristics that men in the ancient world, and in our world today, needed in order to build a happy and prosperous life.  

The Bible tells us that there are people who may be very intelligent, but in the end they are fools.  What makes them a fool, even though they are very intelligent and productive in several areas of their life?  And how should we deal with fools?  A few pages from the book of Proverbs will help us sort through this mess and give us a road map on how to deal with such people, and also how to avoid...

After watching numerous videos of Charlie Kirk debating people on college campuses, I've been thinking a great deal on what the Bible says about the differences between ignorance and foolishness, intelligence and wisdom.  Plenty of people are intelligent but not wise, and many are ignorant but not foolish.  Does the Bible shed any light on the differences between these ideas, and does it give...

My parents were part of the "Greatest Generation"...those Americans growing up in the Great Depression and World War II.  They instilled in me several life lessons that seem to be missing in many Americans today.  Hopefully our culture is rediscovering and valuing these eternal life lessons.  I hope you enjoy listening to this episode.  

It has been four days after Charlie Kirk's assassination.  I've wanted to let some time to go by to collect my thoughts.  Here's what I think about this darkly serious situation in our country, and the way forward for Christians.  

The conclusion of this series of the hard sayings of Jesus, I comment on some of the more popular verses that well meaning people use to "prove" that healing is the will of God for all Christians, or that Jesus is less than Almighty God, or that Christians should never "judge" anything.  I hope rather lengthy time on the air is helpful to you.  

Final podcast of the hard sayings of Jesus in the Olivet Discourse.  Is this tribulation something worldwide in the future, or just localized to a time of judgement long ago?  What did Jesus mean by "inasmuch as you did it to the least of these my brethren"?  Is the judgement He refers to at the end of the sermon a judgement that is of eternal conscious punishment, or something that will...

Was Jesus talking about just some military invasion by the Romans in AD 70, or was His prophecy on the Mount of Olives about some worldwide cataclysmic series of events?  Tune in and found out!  

Jesus said a bunch of things in Matthew 24 that are controversial.  What did He mean by "He that endureth to the end shall be saved"? And what did He mean about the "kingdom rising against kingdom" being the beginnings of "birth pangs"?  What does all this have to do with Israel and the Church and the future?  Dr J takes on some of the more cryptic sayings of Jesus in...

Jesus speaks of a sin that He says will never be forgiven:  blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.  What is this, and is it being done today?  Is it something a Christian can do?  Why is it that this warning is never repeated again in the New Testament?  It can be a very confusing and disturbing passage, so listen in to Dr. J's take on what this saying means... and doesn't mean. Hopefully Dr...

Was Jesus mean or rude to the Gentile woman who came to Him because her daughter was demon possessed?  Why did He refuse her at first?  What did He mean by the things He was saying?  

This is the first in several episodes dealing with some of the hard sayings of Jesus.  In John 6 Jesus makes several statements about eating His flesh and drinking His blood.  What in the world is He talking about?  Is this a reference to the Lord's Supper?  Or is Jesus trying to convey something else?  

These are stories you will never find in history books, but I thought it would be good to record them.  I don't think it's right that they would be lost to the ages.  Most of them are nothing spectacular, but these were my encounters with people who sacrificed in a titanic world battle of good versus evil.  

Since we are now celebrating our nation's 250th birthday, I thought it appropriate to preserve my recollections of conversations with World War 2 vets over the past many decades.  Some of these are stories I heard in my childhood, others from as a middle-aged adult talking to people I interviewed.  I don't know if their stories were ever recorded.  So, I thought I'd give you my rend...

The Bible tells us about a New Covenant that God will make (and has made) with His redeemed.  What does that Covenant look like for the future of Israel, and how is the Church a part of it today?