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Random Reflections on 2023

In three days, we will turn the page of another calendar year. Where does the time go? Wasn’t it just October? Many are preparing to celebrate, ushering out 2023 and ringing in the New Year, which, if our calculations are correct, should be 2024. New Year’s resolutions will be made in earnest by some, though […]

The Reason for the Season

The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights) began on December 7 and will end today. It is an annual celebration of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, Israel, which took place in the second century BCE (Yes! Jews were living in the land long before 1948!). In the second century BCE, the […]

The Occulting of Culture (and the Church)

We are counting down the weeks and days leading up to the celebration of our Savior’s birth. The event, so central to Scripture and, indeed, salvation itself, seems as though it is being reduced to a “sideshow” in what is the increasing paganization of culture and even the church. Dr. Peter Jones warned about this […]

Bill Gothard on Visualization as “One of the Most Basic Aspects of Faith”

Editor’s Note: Bill Gothard’s unique and at times, unbiblical teachings have impacted churches, homeschool groups, and Christians far beyond the over two and a half million that have attended his Basic Seminar. If his teaching on authority is applied consistently, Jesus was a sinner, visualization is “one of the most basic aspects of faith,” and […]

Thanksgiving – A Holy Reflection

In many ways, our culture seems to have lost or is losing the common practice of extending public courtesies and thankfulness to others. Common courtesy is just sooooo old-fashioned. True thankfulness appears to have been replaced with a belief that we are owed whatever it is that we desire. This practice is put on exhibition […]

The WBTBS: Your Heavenly Tour Guide?

I (Don) have been to Israel twice. I was ordained in the Garden of Gethsemane the first time. Both times, it was with groups that had booked with a reputable company that handled the many details involved with travel by air and ground. Hotels and two meals a day were also arranged in our package. […]

Did They Go to Heaven? Red Flags On “After Death” Film from Angel Studios

One of our readers recently sent me a link to the newly released film from Angel Studios titled “After Death.” This is a film featuring those who claim to have had near-death experiences and gone to heaven or hell and, of course, returned (or we would not have heard these stories). One trailer is at […]

The Curse of Futile Thinking

By now, you’ve probably heard all the latest from the dire hose about students protesting Israel’s actions against Hamas. YOu’ve seen the almost one sided craziness of students who know so very little about the complexities of Israel, Gaza, and Hamas. I mean when you see a sign like this, if you know even an […]

God and Man at Yale 2.0

Aside from being “Ivy League” institutions, what is it that elite schools all share at a foundational level? Some might say, tongue-in-cheek, “education.” But what type of education was at the heart of these institutions at their original founding? Harvard was founded in 1636 by New England Puritans for the purpose of training clergy in […]

Marketing Evil

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21) Persuading others to embrace and perpetrate evil is not […]