Five hundred years have passed since the Reformation began, and yet the influence of the Roman Catholic Church remains strong. I’m not referring to the mammoth oligarchy that seeks to dictate the lives of an estimated one billion people, but rather its continuing influence upon churches outside its realm, including many that adhere to the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture.

Bible prophecy matters; it’s the key to understanding the day in which we live. We need a true Scripture-based perspective of what lies beyond this life in order to make sense of our journey through it. Without it, we would struggle to understand how a sound biblical worldview intersects with the tragedies, senseless violence, corruption, and lawlessness that are so rampant in our day. How do we piece together the chaos of a fast-changing world apart from what God’s Word reveals about the end times?

“While we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God’s Word,” Graham said. “His Word is absolute truth. God loves us, and His design for marriage is between one man and one woman. Promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin.”

Since that 1925 Scopes Trial, 100 years have passed and several generations of judicially imposed public secularism have given dominance to moral relativism, notwithstanding America’s national motto of “In God We Trust.” Shockingly, only about 5% of Americans today possess a consistently biblical worldview according to the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked citizens last week to share their experiences with so-called gender-affirming care. The inquiry, which gives people 60 days to comment, will help FTC officials determine whether “gender-affirming” medical providers are illegally coercing families and children into purchasing dangerous and irreversible transgender medical interventions.  

The most important tool of the United Nations agenda for globalism, the UN “education” agency known as UNESCO, just received a major black eye from the Trump administration this week as the U.S. government announced its withdrawal. Globalists everywhere are howling. And UNESCO’s leadership is fuming.

The Supreme Court’s decisions matter. These judicial decrees trickle down and touch our everyday lives, activities and freedoms. The decisions impact the education of our children, parental rights, freedom of speech and thought, rights of conscience, the protection of children born and preborn, and how we operate our churches, ministries, religious schools, businesses, even our livelihoods.

“Because caregivers like Jessica cannot promote Oregon’s dangerous gender ideology to young kids and take them to events like pride parades, the state considers them to be unfit parents. That is false and incredibly dangerous, needlessly depriving kids of opportunities to find a loving home. The 9th Circuit was right to remind Oregon that the foster and adoption system is supposed to serve the best interests of children, not the state’s ideological crusade.”

Clearly, instead of committing significant financial resources towards destroying Israel, it should have invested in water security.  Finally, Iran is blind to one very important detail: the sovereignty of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  The Iranian regime set themselves the goal of wiping Israel from the map.  Perhaps the lack of rain and subsequent drought signifies God’s deep displeasure with Iran.

Americans are consuming “this anti-Semitic, Nazi materials,” he stated, and “it changes their minds” to not care about Israel or the Jewish people. To make matters worse, he continued, many moderates and Democrats have been taken over by “the radical communist … woke, progressive camp.” Their influence has “turned the party into [the] Marxist, radical, insane party that it is today, and this is what destroyed it.”

President Macron of France is saying that his country will recognize a Palestinian state. Now, British Prime Minister Starmer says that if there isn’t peace by September, the UK will recognize a British state. Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to Starmer, saying, “Starmer rewards the monstrous terror of Hamas and punishes its victims.” I think the UK just needs to recognize that we stopped listening to anything they say 77 years ago with the end of the British Mandate.

In recent years, the battle lines have become clearer. Entire nations have dedicated themselves to the eradication of Israel—by which they mean the nation, the people, and the Land. Satanically inspired nations such as Iran and terrorist groups like Hamas have launched murderous attacks time after time, but their efforts will never succeed.

We live in a fallen world overflowing with sin. There are those who enter our country with ill intent to literally rape, steal, do criminal acts, misuse, and abuse the generosity of America. There are those who enter our nation illegally with the intent on destroying our nation from within. Borders are one line of defense against such things. To be a country requires borders. To ignore borders is to disobey God and destroy a nation and its citizens with all the consequent added financial and societal burdens of the mass influx of immigrants.

As the world watched Israel and the United States pound Iran’s radical Islamist regime and its nuclear threat with air strikes, Christians in the West got on their knees. In the U.S., faithful churches paused worship services to pray for peace as reminders about the signs of Christ’s return foretold in Scripture rang from many pulpits. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) issued an executive directive on Friday ordering city departments not to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and in fact to steer resources toward “families impacted by federal immigrant enforcement actions.”

The young people today who are swarming to Socialists like Mamdani, Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are a spiritually bankrupt generation who view government as God. They are also a greedy generation that pants after ‘free stuff.” The Socialists utilize the power of the State to force people to give to others through policies that result in a forced redistribution of income. And that is theft, pure and simple.

Yes, there is a price to be paid for reaching the lost. Are they worth it? Stop for a moment and think about those around you who have not made a decision for Christ. Think about your mom or dad, brother or sister, neighbor, co-worker. Tell me—are they worth it?

Song of Solomon 2:10 reads, “My beloved spoke, and said to me: ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” What deep emotion this verse conveys! But has it occurred to you that Jesus has desires, too? One of them is an intense longing to have us with Him.

Peter wrote, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8). Everyone—believer and nonbeliever—faces temptation, but not everyone handles it very well. Most people just cave to it.

If a doctor fails to follow their own advice, does that mean medicine doesn’t work? Of course not. In the same way, the failures of Christians don’t disprove the truth of Christianity.  The standard of our faith is not the behavior of its followers—it’s the person of Jesus Christ. He lived a sinless life, died for our sins, and rose again. He is the foundation of our faith—not our performance.

Josephus recorded this lament: "The scepter has departed from Judah, but Shiloh has not come." They were mourning because they thought God had broken His promise. What they didn't know was their Messiah was about to go to the Jordan River, where John the Baptist would say, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29).