Posts with the category “truthcurrents”

Critics of the Bible often say that rather than the Word of God, the Bible is just a man-made document that is about ancient stories and has no relevance to today. And yet, over thousands of years the...  Read More

In the category of “You Just Can’t Make This Up,” last Sunday, March 31st, 2024 was both Easter Sunday for western Christianity as well as National Transgender Visibility Day. In writing the proclamat...  Read More

This week is opening day for the 2024 MLB season. We ought to be talking about the prospects for each team or how the LA Dodgers committed $1 billion this winter to are agents trying to buy a World Se...  Read More

I had a private conversation recently where I used the language, “tyrant” to refer to some decisions by our federal government. The person I was talking to said, “Pastor, that’s a little overkill. Isn...  Read More

Alistair Begg is a widely popular conservative preacher. He has a program called “Truth For Life” that is very popular. He is a speaker at conferences and events across the nation regularly. But recen...  Read More

Have you ever been right about something that you really wanted to be wrong about? Well Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court knows exactly how that feels. He was right, but he didn’t want to...  Read More

Sometimes it just feels like the end of the world when I can’t get my favorite chicken sandwich on a Sunday. At least, that’s what lawmakers in New York think because they want Chik-fil-a to have to o...  Read More

In almost any restaurant in America, Christians can pray or give thanks before their meal without any concern about retribution. They can do that because their religious liberty rights are protected b...  Read More

In this election year, voters in two separate polls, have identified immigration as the top issue they want politicians to deal with. Welcoming people across our border while disregarding our laws is ...  Read More

A few weeks ago right before Christmas, the current Pope announced a new doctrinal position for the Roman Catholic Church. He is now allowing Priests to bless same-gender marriages. And the church tel...  Read More

Presidential election season has begun and it is full speed ahead. Lots of debates about the issues that voters are concerned about. But the greatest threat to America is untrustworthy and incompetent...  Read More

The big words today are disinformation and misinformation, the idea that what you think is not correct and somebody is going to tell you what you really need to know. Maybe it’s big tech, maybe it’s t...  Read More

Christmas break has come and gone and your kids are going off to school. So, let’s talk today about education. And let’s talk about the relationship between the government and your family and how we t...  Read More

Welcome back to TruthCurrents. There’s a lot of subjects that we need to cover in days ahead, but I want to start the new year with a reminder of what TruthCurrents is and why we do it. ......  Read More

Have you heard about the most dangerous thing to happen in Washington D.C. in recent weeks? According to the mainstream media some creature from the swamp has crawled out and seized control of power i...  Read More

Is the war in Israel a sign of the End Times? What is a biblical perspective on the Last Days? How does the teaching of the return of Jesus affect our understanding of who God is? This week Pastor Mic...  Read More

Is hell a real place? Is hell a big party? Does it even matter? This week Pastor Michael has the second of three discussions with Emilio Lartigue in a joint episode with the podcast “Truth Matters.”.....  Read More

Does it matter if the opening chapters of the Bible are historical? Can we agree to disagree on the issues raised in the book of Genesis? What are the consequences individually and as a culture if we ...  Read More

“How dare you?” Have you heard that? It’s the question that is usually asked by someone who is outraged about whatever the latest taboo topic is that is not acceptable for enlightened conversation. Le...  Read More

Well, it turns out that the LGBTQ agenda is a lie. It’s based on a falsehood that homosexuals and transgendered people were born this way. Well, now we know better.Jane Coaston, “More Visible L.G.B.T....  Read More

Israel is in a state war. Let me say that again: Israel is in a state of war. The U.S. is involved in the Ukraine. We’re about to be involved in the Middle East. With our attention on the two front in...  Read More

I overheard in a coffee shop the other day two men who are obviously Christians sharing their Bibles and talking about things. One of the men said to the other, “What difference does it make if Americ...  Read More

Whatever happened to the American experiment: the idea of an independent, self-sustaining, self-governing nation where you could have liberty and justice for all? That idea has almost disappeared from...  Read More

Paul Tournier, an influential psychologist, left us with this quote that I find fascinating. He said, “The human condition requires that there are two things in life that we cannot do alone. One is to...  Read More

Are we approaching the last days of human history before the final return of Jesus Christ to the earth? The apostle Paul mentions that in approaching those final events that there will be across the e...  Read More

The most common question that I get for TruthCurrents comes from conservatives in general, but Christians in particular. They say, “How did we actually get here? How did we come to be in the place whe...  Read More

A recent survey by the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development surveyed citizens in the more developed nations around the world, what we call the “First World,” and their question was ab...  Read More

How should we expect persecution of Christians to begin in America? There won’t be stake burinings or beheadings, at least not in the beginning. The initial stage of persecution will almost certainly ...  Read More

In 1787 the deliberations of the constitutional convention were debating about what the new nation would look like. Would we have a king? Would there be some other system? Because the deliberations we...  Read More

We’re several months down the road from the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court decision that reversed the 1973 decision Roe vs. Wade, a decision which has produced approximately 60 million abortions in...  Read More

One of the most common questions I get these days is, “How in the world did we get here?” What they mean is, how did our culture come to believe such patently absurd and even insane ideas about truth ...  Read More

Can a chat bot study, prepare, and present a good, Biblical sermon? We’ve been talking about artificial intelligence for a couple of weeks and I want to spend one more episode exploring the implicatio...  Read More

Recently a number of Tech executives like Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, and Steve Wozniak, one of the cofounders of Apple, joined together to author and sign an open letter suggesting that technolo...  Read More

While social issues dominate our attention and fill the headlines, one of the things that goes less noticed in our culture is the rapid development of technology. As Christians we need to ask question...  Read More

Today is the last day of June, which means the end of another year’s pride month. Finally, this exhausting display of nonsense can be put behind us as we move forward and give our attention to somethi...  Read More

Southern Baptists met last week in New Orleans, LA for the 2023 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Maybe you’ve seen something in the media, read something, or heard something about it...  Read More

At one point being a June bride was something to aspire to. Young people would set their sights on the first full month of the summer to start their lives together. But today June has taken on a new t...  Read More

In the last decade we’ve seen a dramatic change in the dominant worldview in American cultural life. As a result of that change, we’ve seen increased attacks on Christians as people who are intolerant...  Read More

We can become so preoccupied these days in the battle that is moving our culture toward a kind of woke, secular humanism that we sometimes forget to stop and consider what’s happening on the religion ...  Read More

In a day when so many are asking the question, “what is a woman?” an equally important question is, “what is a man?” What does it take to be a man as God intended? Is all masculinity toxic? Listen in ...  Read More