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239: False Religions, Teachers, and Teaching - Part 1
I want to welcome you to Truth Currents. Every November, friend of mine, Emilio Lartigue, who has a podcast entitled Truth Matters, invites me to join him and…
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238: Manipulating Language For Ideology
In the middle of the 20th century, a man named George Orwell wrote a book entitled 1984. It was one of the first of the truly dystopian stories to describe the…
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237: Thanks A Lot, Sexual Revolution
Looking at the headlines this week, I stopped to think through how we got here. And I just need to start by saying a big thank you to the sexual revolution of…
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236: Intellectual Absurdity and Truth
One of the most dangerous philosophies that has taken root in our generation is simply the idea that, even Christians accept just out of hand now, is this idea…
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235: Is Liberal Christianity Biblical?
Roughly 100 years ago, Presbyterian minister by the name of J. Gresham Machen wrote a book called Christianity and Liberalism. In that book, he argued that…
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234: The Left, The Right, and Antisemitism
In our generation, there is an increasing scent of anti-Semitism in the air. We've seen it for years in the United Nations. We've seen it for years on the…
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233: Who Is Watching the Watchers?
The president of the United States recently held a conference at the White House where he invited scientists and researchers and other experts in what we call…
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232: Is Basic Biology a Difficult Subject?
In one of the funniest news stories to come out in a while, we have the implosion of the Women's National Basketball Association. The WNBA, the Women's…
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231: SEP 11, 2026, My How the World Has Changed
September the 11th, 2026. Twenty-five years from that horrendous day that we now, by shorthand, simply refer to as “Nine Eleven”. How have we come in just 2.5…
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230: Nuance, Complexity, and Social Media
Lindsay Clancy is a 32-year-old Massachusetts woman who is on trial this week after confessing to murdering her 3 small children in 2023. Her defense contends…
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229: The State of Abortion in America Today
In 2021, Planned Parenthood published an article, arguing that abortion proponents should change their language and quit using the terms pro-choice or…
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228: Intelligence and Christianity
One of the fun parts about being a pastor is that when I meet somebody who then finds out what I do, I get a whole range of responses. Sometimes there's…
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227: A Biblical View of Property Ownership
In a generation where socialism is increasingly attractive to people, it's interesting to stop and consider just how much interest the God of the Bible has and…
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226: Is Your Fear and Outrage Being Monetized?
Does it sometimes feel like the world that you live in today is more fearful, marked by outrage more than ever before. Do you realize that fear and outrage, in…
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225: The Attack on Human Exceptionalism
Remember just a few years ago, when many of us were arguing against the redefinition of marriage by so-called gay marriage advocates? They told us that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
TruthCurrents220: 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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216: Deepfakes in the Church
What would you do if you received a video message from your pastor, the trusted shepherd you have great confidence in, what if he asked you to give money to…
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215: Indispensability Syndrome
How did Jesus know when his day was finished? There was always someone else to talk to, always someone else to heal, always more work to do, always more…
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214: A Christian’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
TruthCurrents is about learning how to think biblically about current events. Occasionally, somebody will approach me and say, “Pastor, I appreciate you…
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213: Does Radical Leftism Work?
Chuck Colson once famously said that the way to evaluate a worldview is to answer this question: can you actually live by that worldview? Well, apparently the…
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212: The Darkness of Liberalism
There was book published in 2006 with the title, “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” Now at the time, people criticized the book as clickbait, a little over the…
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211: A Warning from the Watchman
If you listen to television preachers, right now you think that Christianity is at an all-time high; things are great, couldn’t be better. We are all living…
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210: Is eternal punishment in hell justice?
“Go to hell!” Have you ever heard anybody say that in anger? It’s interesting that even people who claim to not believe in hell will use that phrase. People…
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209: When Bigfoot Becomes Mainstream
What do you think about Bigfoot, or UFO’s, or aliens? These are all topics that used to be on the fringe of society, not really respectable for regular people…
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208: Where did grace and truth go?
The last couple of weeks have been interesting for those of us who try and think biblically about current events. What I’ve noticed as I’ve looked through…
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207: Who will stand for truth?
A Muslim walks into the Vatican and the Pope gives him a prayer rug. It sounds like the start of a really bad joke, but, in fact, it’s the start of a really…
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206: Increasing Persecution in the West
When we hear the word “persecution,” we usually think about people suffering and being killed in faraway places. That’s exactly what’s happening in Nigeria…
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205: Is it time to defend the Church?
At most churches in America, you don’t need a police escort to go to church, but that might be changing. R. Albert Mohler, “A church invaded,” January 20…
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204: Islam in 2026: Shifting Tides?
If you’ve watched the news this week, then you’re aware that right before our eyes there is a revolution unfolding in the nation of Iran. Maybe as many as…
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203: Awful Imperialism or Lawful Arrest?
Welcome back to a new season of TruthCurrents. A lot of things are happening in the world right now. Our task on TruthCurrents is not only to know what’s true…
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202: Concerning the End of All Things
Today we have the final installment of our conversation with Emilio Lartigue. His podcastis called Truth Matters. It’s a parallel to my TruthCurrents. We’re…
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201: What is Hermeneutics?
Welcome to TruthCurrents. I’m continuing my conversation today with Emilio Lartigue, a brother and a friend. We are in an extended conversation about some…
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200: What does it mean to fear God?
Every November, I sit down with Emilio Lartigue. He has served in ministry beside me for many years. He has a platform that he teaches theology and…
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199: Signs of the Antichrist
How will the rise of the Antichrist ultimately come about? The topic is usually reserved for theologians, but given recent events in our generation, the topic…
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198: Reversing Self-Evident Truths
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among…
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197: A Turning Point for America?
Our public life in America has become so morally deformed that now, a cold-blooded murder caught on camera elicits no more than a shrug, a smirk, or even all…
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196: Should Women be Pastors?
King Charles III recently approved the nomination for the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the leader of the Church of England…
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195: Truth: The Enemy of Evil
The assassination of Charlie Kirk occurred almost a month ago, and interesting story lines continue to emerge related to that event. For example, on September…
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194: Deconstructing Faith and Reality
Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that we are now in full-blown football mode. College football is underway and the NFL has kicked off…
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193: Biblical Standards for Immigration
On Saturday a week ago, thousands of Shiite Muslims marched together in a parade celebrating the Muslim holiday, Arbaeen. This holiday translates it’s title as…
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192: Are the Tides of Culture Turning?
It doesn’t take much real insight to recognize that things have changed around here. The America of 2025 is vastly different from the America of 30 or 40 years…
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191: Bumper-Sticker Theology
I call it, “Bumper-sticker Theology.” That’s my label for the kind of theology that involves no deep, contemplative, pondering or meditation of the weighty…
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190: The Rise of Witchcraft in Christianity
Maybe you’ve heard of the website, Etsy. It’s an online marketplace where people buy quaint, homemade goods: jams, jelly's, quilt, all kinds of homemade items…
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189: Time to Speak Up
A few weeks ago on May 25th, a man named Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died at the age of 96. You might recollect that the 10th president of the United States was…
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188: Where did Pride Month go?
Well, we’re halfway through the month of July and I realized the other day that I missed something. Apparently, I missed Pride Month. The month of June came…
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187: Where does religious liberty stand?
Religious liberty is a topic that is always worth the time to think about and talk about because the concept is a uniquely American contribution to the history…
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186: Update on Southern Baptists
One of the critical marks of Christianity is the willingness of God’s people to cooperate together in Kingdom endeavors. My church is a part of the Southern…
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185: Is Muscular Christianity Biblical?
I had breakfast this morning with nearly 100 men who gathered together for fellowship and spiritual warfare. I pastor a church where men are enthusiastically…
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184: Should we be scared of AI?
Artificial Intelligence is changing our world in unexpected ways and oddly enough, AI is the biggest thing that Christians are not talking about. We need to…
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183: Government Funding for Christian Schools?
Are charter schools state schools or private schools? And can they be religious schools. There’s an Oklahoma court case which has made it all the way to the…
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182: Problems in our Pulpits
Does your church have a pastor? Because if you do, you might want to hold on to him. Because if he leaves you might not be able to get another one. U.S…
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181: England defines a Woman
The United Kingdom’s top court recently issued a radical ruling. They said that a woman can be defined as someone who is born biologically female. In other…
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180: Foundations Not So Easily Shattered
Today is Good Friday. It’s the day that we celebrate and remember the cross of Jesus Christ, the sacrifice for our sins that culminates in the glorious news of…