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  1. hace 6 días

    224: Aliens and Jesus

    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 interesting questions in that movie. 
But spoiler alert, it doesn't provide any answers. Let's talk about the movies. Randall E. King, “Disclosing Spielberg’s god”, June 16, 2026. Collin Garbarino, “First contact, again” (podcast), June 12, 2026.

    18 min

  2. 26 jun

    223: The Tide is Turning in Our Culture

    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, 2026.

    18 min

  3. 19 jun

    222: Can the government be a good parent?

    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 code by substituting for the word mother, with the words gestating parent. Let's talk about this. R. Albert Mohler, “Mass verbicide in New York”, June 15, 2026. Joseph Backholm, “Government as super-parent”, June 5, 2026. Glenn T. Stanton, “Pushback for parental rights in Colorado”⁠, June 4, 2026.

    18 min

  4. 12 jun

    221: The difference between prepper and prepared

    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, “Visions of the Apocalypse”, September 2025.  Carolina Lumetta, “Prophetic Foreign Policy” , September 2025.  Kim Henderson, “Beans, Bullets, and Band-Aids” , January 2025.

    19 min
  5. 220: Can AI be used to advance the Kingdom of God?

    5 jun

    220: Can AI be used to advance the Kingdom of God?

    “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 devil is satisfied with either of those approaches because they’re both different from what God has for us, to walk in the moment in His presence. It seems to me that this comment from Screwtape Letters is applicable tothe whole subject of artificial intelligence. Because we live in the tension between those who tell us that it is the greatest thing ever, that we are going to revolutionize mankind verses those who say the machines are coming and the Terminator series will no longer be science fiction, it’s real. The truth is somewhere in the middle. And so we need to talk about artificial intelligence, for one more week, to answer the question, “Can it be used to advance the Kingdom of God?” Brad Littlejohn, “The right’s looming war over AI”, September 29, 2025.  Isaac Willour, “A reflexive fear of AI doesn’t serve Christ”, August 21, 2025. Matthew Branaugh, “Generative AIIs All the Rage. Handle With Care”, July 25, 2023.

    19 min

  6. 29 may

    219: Is AI safe for kids?

    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 AI and how it can be profitable to the kingdom of God. But today, let’s look at additional warnings. Juliana Chan Erikson, “Are AI toys safe for children?” December 15, 2025. Daniel R. Suhr, “AI’s newest advance: necromancy?” November 25, 2025. Brad Littlejohn, “Just say no to AI toys,” November 13, 2025. Erin Hawley, “Your teenager’s new BFF,” September 25, 2025.

    18 min

  7. 22 may

    218: Does Jesus challenge your politics?

    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 by engaging in the muck of political debate. Let me explain why that statement needs to be tossed overboard because it is 100% wrong. John G. West, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Discovery Institute, 2026. Joseph Backholm, “A Christian Democrat’s hard decision,” April 9, 2026.

    17 min

  8. 15 may

    217: The Nature of Artificial Intelligence

    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, what is AI? Well, it’s simply the next generation of the discovery of data and one of these days, it will be as commonplace and normal to us all of those other things. So, what is artificial intelligence? Lynn Vincent, “Crouching at the keyboard,” January 1, 2026. Maria Baer, “AI is not your mom,” September 23, 2025. Samuel D. James, “AI and the crisis of truth,” September 5, 2025.

    20 min
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