Culture

ANCIENT PAGANISM REBRANDED Modern American culture has for the most part shed its Christian veneer and has instead adopted a cult-like religion that resembles ancient paganism. Deuteronomy 18:9-14 list pagan practices that we are to avoid. 9 When you come into the land which the Lord your God gave you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or daughter to pass through the fire, or tha

Contemporary culture has made a virtue out of “tolerance”. If being tolerant means that you are nice to people no matter what their circumstances are or beliefs, then I agree. But I often find that the most intolerant people are those who preach this and if you don’t agree with their definition of what they think is right or wrong, they become angry and hateful. Contemporary culture also has a warped sense of what “truth” is. It embraces existentialism, which creates a bubble

A landmark decision in the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, throwing the decisions concerning abortion back to the states. Already, some states, including Michigan, are proposing legislation to make abortion a permanent right. Advocates argue that a woman has a right to her own body. However, we believe that this view comes with awful unintended consequences that oppress women rather than free them. Moreover, it allows men to pressure women to have unprotected sex withou

Utila is the smallest of the Bay Islands of Honduras in the Caribbean with a population of about 10,000. The other two islands are Roatan and Guanaja. Utila is a scuba diving destination and has beautiful beaches and a jungle overgrowth. The people of Utila are of African, English, and Dutch descent. Life in Utila is pretty laid back. There are only a few trucks on the island, a main street, and a few side streets. People get around on mo-peds, scooters, motorcycles or take a

The Green Evo-Eco Gospel and Creation Care has consequences.The elements that are not in agreement with the Bible, when they run their full course, will bring oppression to the world. Falsehood and sin and wrong worldviews always in the long run produce oppression. Here are the litmus test questions…. Are you more concerned about savings “species” than about the issue of abortion? Do you prefer to use such expressions as “Mother Nature”, “Nature knows best”, “ask Nature for

RECOGNIZING EVOSPEAK DEFT AND SUBTLE JARGON DESIGNED TO MISLEAD EVOSPEAK WORDS: ADAPTATION, ADAPTED These words merely refer to observed circumstances that exist in the present, and no substantive explanation is given for why they exist. ADVANCED An organism is advanced only in the minds of the evolutionist. ADVANTAGE Evolutionists say that if an organism exists, it has an advantage over organisms that preceded it. Begging the question. APE MEN CAVE MEN CREATION Often use

There are a myriad of places you can go that exhibits evidence of God’s creation. Over the past 40 years, there have been over 30 creation museums that have been opened, the most famous being the Creation Museum near Cincinnati and the Ark Encounter. Recently the Institute of Creation Research in Dallas has opened the Creation Discovery Museum. Other museums are the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas, the Creation Discover Center near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the Ak

UNCHAINED is a new book release by Freddy Torres that tells about life in a gang in Chicago and how he got caught up in a life of drugs and violence as a kid. God spared him many times from certain death and narrowly escaped dying when he was shot. Moving to Michigan, he found that many of his problems followed him, but he found it much more difficult to escape the consequences when he got into trouble. Finally his life was turned around when he was sent to jail boot camp and

Federal agents are trained to detect counterfeit money by studying the genuine. So should we. The more that we seek after the truth no matter how it shakes out, the better we become at identifying false spiritual fakes. Sometimes the devil tells the truth, and it is because he will want you to reject it by his association, or to corrupt it. Jesus faced this in his temptation by the devil in the wilderness. You need to consider the source and examine the life of a person makin

Slavery didn’t end when Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation or when William Wilberforce campaigned to make it illegal in England. It went underground and is still a major problem today. Human Trafficking is often the fate of immigrants, legal and illegal. Often they are brought in to work in restaurants, car washes, prostitution or organized crime, and because they are forced to work in deplorable conditions under the threat of being reported, the abuse can be

It is a mistake to tie evolutionary theory to slavery, since slavery pre-existed Lyell and Darwin. Historic slavery has been around since ancient times, and it is simply the result of mankind being cruel. Some slaveholders justified their actions believing that the white race was of the line of Adam and Eve, and that there were other races that were on the earth before that. David and Ann Harris and Merylen Pearce explore the reasons for that belief. Now evolutionary theory w

If you are on a long trip and all of a sudden you realize that you are on the wrong road, no matter how much you out of your way, you take the next exit, turn around, and go back to the spot where you got misdirected and then continue on your way. So it is with your spiritual life. There are many signposts on the reprobate road, and as you are traveling on your spiritual path and you start seeing these signs, it is time to make a decision to turn around (repent) and figure ou

Our society is obsessed with the occult: fantasy, science fiction, horror, UFOs, hypnotism, seances, ghosts, demons, super heroes, spells, paganism, satanism. Deuteronomy 18:9-22 Warnings against the Occult: Fake Supernatural 9When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets

An article posted in Snopes by a Scottish chemistry professor claims that creationism is a dangerous cult conspiracy theory. But the article is poorly written and uses ad-hominem arguments against creationists. Dr. Jerry Bergman and Kerby Rials are guests on this show. Dr. Bergman is a scientist with 9 earned degrees, and an author of 60 books and thousands of carefully researched articles. In his publications he cites hundreds of pages of scientific research that backs up th

The Darwinian influence on how we treat death is evident in our culture. The Christian worldview values life, but we are in dangerous times at the beginning of life, the end of life and throughout the course of our life due to the philosophy of the survivial of the fittest. If a person agrees to a “Do Not Resuscitate” clause in their power of attorney, this may mean that a doctor or caregiver may interpret that differently than what that person may attend. If a patient has de

Dan Janzen draws on his experience as a missionary to South Sudan to analyze the reason why some cultures thrive and flourish and others languish in poverty. South Sudan is almost entirely dependent upon charity organizations to provide basic needs, and as a result the population has become so dependent that people move to the cities to be closer to the donated supplies and abandon farms. Dan’s plan is instead to provide agricultural training, leadership training and English

Tom DeRosa is the founder of the Creation Discovery Museum in South Florida. Located in Deerfield Beach, near Fort Lauderdale, this museum features three major themes: Catastrophic Flood of Noah, the Ice Age and Dinosaurs. Many of the museum’s primary fossils come from the vast phosphate beds near Peace River near Arcata. Surprisingly for Florida, these creature are mostly assigned to the Ice Age. The museum is associated with Creation Studies Institute, Coral Ridge Presbyter

Dan and Teresa Janzen are missionaries to the country of South Sudan. In our interview with them, they talk about the extreme conditions in the country that make it difficult to help the people, and the efforts of non-government charitable organizations to bring relief are often fraught with misconceptions and political agendas that make it difficult for the aid to reach the people who need it the most. Dan and Teresa talk about Christian-based teaching that causes people to

Mike Nolan explains that atheism has been out of fashion for quite some time, and though Christians have recently been addressing the arguments of pure atheism successfully, the scenario has shifted quite a bit. The current environment is a mixture of postmodernism, paganism, cults, and other forms of rebellion against God though in many forms appearing like spirituality. Mike takes us on a discovery of the history of atheism starting with the French philosophers who were see

Writing both in French and English, Paul Gosselin is an independent researcher specializing in ideologies, belief systems and religions. He holds a Masters in Social Anthropology and is the author of the French book, Hors du ghetto (on culture and the arts). His Flight From the Absolute series involved years of investigation into Western ideologies and belief systems, in particular, postmodernism. Gosselin has been known to make his own pizza and boeuf braisé from time to tim