In the midst of brutality, the war in Ukraine is revealing stories of courage, beauty, and human decency in the face of evil. The Polish city of Przemyśl is situated on Ukraine's western border. According to t he BBC, over 4 million Ukrainians, about 10% of the population , have fled their country since the war's beginning. Poland has received more than half of them. What makes their kindness ever more incredible and significant is that during World War II, Ukrainian nationalist groups killed ov...
Apr 18, 2022•1 min
-- www.wilberforceweekend.org -- Virginia Prodan grew up in Communist Romania. Unaware of the truth about her own family — including why her family never showed the slightest hint of love toward her — she discovered God's Truth and Love as a teenager. Virginia accepted the divine call to defend fellow followers of Christ against unjust persecution in an otherwise ungodly land as a human rights attorney. For this act of treason, she came within seconds of being executed under the orders of Ceause...
Apr 18, 2022•28 min
I'm Kathy Koch of Celebrate Kids here in Fort Worth, and I want to talk with you about how God made us good. I think God is good and God is a good Creator. And if children, teens, or adults don't know that, then it doesn't matter to them that they're created in His image. That's how my friend, Dr. Kathy Koch began her presentation at last year's Wilberforce Weekend event. In a remarkable talk, which many attendees identified as the highlight of the conference, Koch talked about something incredi...
Apr 18, 2022•4 min
Today on the BreakPoint Podcast, John Stonestreet introduces a sermon given by Chuck Colson from a Prison in Michigan in 2010. Nearly every Easter, Chuck visited a prison to give the Gospel. In this presentation we hear why, and the significance of Easter to Chuck Colson.
Apr 16, 2022•20 min
John and Maria discuss new findings in teen sadness and what it means for culture. They also discuss a recent podcast by Jen Hatmaker and what it means to misunderstand what church is and what church is for. To close, John explains the landscape of a recent BreakPoint commentary on the roots of Easter. He shares how Easter is a pivotal moment in history that changed the course of humanity. -- In-Show Mentions -- Segment 1: New York City subway shooting attack timeline Frank R. James, the 62-year...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min
One of my all-time favorite B.C. comic strips has two guys talking. "I hate the term Good Friday," says one. "Why?" says the other guy. "My Lord was hanged on a tree that day," the first guy replies. "But if you were going to be hanged on that day," his friend says, "and He volunteered to take your place, how would you feel?" "Good," the first guy replies. And there it is. Today marks the greatest act of love in the history of the universe: "he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed ...
Apr 15, 2022•1 min
Today, on Good Friday, we remember, honor, and reflect on the God who entered the world of human suffering on our behalf. "I thirst." Only John's Gospel records these words. They were uttered by Jesus, we're told, not as a guttural physical response, but with intention: "Knowing that all was now finished," Jesus said, "I thirst" in order to fulfill the Scriptures ( John 19:28 ). And yet, we ought not think these words are manufactured or insincere either. Earlier in His ministry, Jesus had, on t...
Apr 15, 2022•4 min
In the church calendar, the Thursday before Easter is called Maundy Thursday. It's set aside to remember the last supper Jesus shared with his disciples. The word "maundy" comes from the Latin word for command. At this supper. Jesus commanded His disciples to love and serve one another. And then he demonstrated what he meant by washing their feet. And let's not forget: This was the supper remembering Passover, when the Jews remember God rescuing His people from Egypt, as described in Exodus. At ...
Apr 14, 2022•1 min
"Jesus would've baked the cake." "Christians hate LGBTQ people." "You're on the wrong side of history" "Why can't you let them be 'their true selves'?" "That's just your truth, not mine." And, perhaps most painful, especially when it comes from a friend or family member: "If you love me, you'd accept me for who I am." All of the slogans that leave Christians silent or shamed today are, at root, different ways of saying the same thing – that truth and love are incompatible. For people to tell the...
Apr 14, 2022•4 min
John and Shane discuss what a worldview is and if it can shelter racist sentiments. John gives a full explanation of worldview, and explains how the concept is both helpful and challenged in this cultural moment. Then Shane asks John to explain how we know Adam is a historical figure. A listener writes in because a pastor he knows presents Adam as an idea inside Scripture. To close, John explains an interesting trend in the United States where in some cases we're outpacing Europe in progressive ...
Apr 13, 2022•44 min
Quantum theory boggles the mind. As science journalist John Horgan writes , quantum theory is "science's most precise, powerful theory of reality. It has predicted countless experiments, spawned countless applications. The trouble is physicists and philosophers disagree over what it means , that is, what it says about how the world works." At the core of the disagreement is what matter consists of at the quantum, or the smallest, level . At that size, matter's properties change when we try to ob...
Apr 13, 2022•1 min
Most Christians consider Easter to be a sacred and joyous celebration of Christ's resurrection. But what about the claim that Easter and its accompanying traditions originated from a pagan spring celebration? In his treatise On the Reckoning of Time , eighth-century English monk The Venerable Bede proposed that the word Easter comes from the name of a pagan goddess: "Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated 'Paschal month', and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre,...
Apr 13, 2022•5 min
Dr. Christopher Yuan led our Time of Guided Prayer last week. He shared how the prayers of his parents, and hundreds of other believers, were used to lead him to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. For more information on our Time of Guided Prayer please visit: www.breakpoint.org/praywithme
Apr 12, 2022•29 min
Recently, Twitter banned Christian satire site The Babylon Bee from their platform. Their offending tweet "awarded" Admiral Rachel Levine, the nation's first transgender four-star admiral, with their satirical "Man of the Year Award." Clearly, big tech censorship is a problem. What should Christians do? Christians, even in comedy, will have to continue to speak truths that people will not always want to hear … It's too easy to look away, ignore controversy, and just focus on what are often calle...
Apr 12, 2022•1 min
Just a small sampling of recent headlines reveals what a disorienting cultural moment this is: Man wins a women's swimming championship , Supreme Court nominee refuses to define the word woman , Biden administration endorses gender reassignment surgery for minors . Back in 2020, theologian and historian Dr. Carl Trueman provided a full account of how something that was unthinkable a generation ago became unquestionable today. The dramatic shifts in how we think about gender and sexuality are amo...
Apr 12, 2022•5 min
The White House issued a series of documents for the "International Transgender Day of Visibility." Even more than revealing a new progressive "baseline" when it comes to politics and gender, these documents foreshadow new and real threats to religious freedom. For example, a statement from the Office of Population Affairs claimed that so-called gender-affirming treatment "improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender-diverse children and adolescents." In this case, however, gender...
Apr 11, 2022•6 min
This summer the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wad e in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization . Part of what the justices will have to consider is a legal principle called stare decisis , which means respecting precedent. If the High Court wants to respect Roe , especially its deep ideological and legal flaws, it should take into account why Roe was decided the way it was. Since then, the pro-abortion movement has insisted that abortion is a "women's rights" issue. B...
Apr 10, 2022•1 min
John and Maria visit on a number of laws that are anticipating a gutting of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey from Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health that is before the Supreme Court. Maria then explains a new law in Washington State to shroud abuses in transgender prisons from the public. To close, John explains how unique it is that archeological findings continue to support the historical occurrences in the Bible. John points out that no other worldview that highlights a spiritual expl...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Recently Kristen Waggoner, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom , was invited to join a panel at Yale Law School. Ironically, during her talk about free speech, a mob of Yale students—future lawyers, mind you—tried to shut down the conversation, yelling obscenities and pounding on the classroom walls, all because ADF defends the reality of sexual difference. Kristen wrote about the volatile situation at WORLD Opinions . An anonymous student gave her a note before the event with the wo...
Apr 08, 2022•1 min
Later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of high school football coach Joe Kennedy , who was fired from a Washington state public school for praying on the football field after games. He never forced anyone to join him, though many students and others often did, and he even agreed to pray silently by himself after the school raised concerns. That wasn't enough for school officials who demanded that if he insisted on closing his eyes in silent prayer, he had to do it somewhere ...
Apr 08, 2022•5 min
Writing in Vox news, Luke Winkie describes a new and growing trend for health-conscious Americans: "microdosing." It consists of introducing small amounts of marijuana, magic mushrooms, ketamine, or other formerly illicit substances into a daily routine. The goal is to stay on top of mental health issues. "What the government once considered contraband is being claimed by wellness culture, one tiny dose at a time," Winkie writes; "After all, the chaos of the last few years has left so many Ameri...
Apr 07, 2022•1 min
John and Shane field a question on Matthew Sleeth's book Hope Always. They also discuss a question about working in a public school, and John helps a dad who is challenged by the world of online dating.
Apr 06, 2022•48 min
Reality TV has earned a reputation of being crazy … and Netflix's dating show Love Is Blind is no exception. Over the course of 10 days, contestants on Love Is Blind talk, mingle, and then decide whether or not to get engaged— all without seeing each other first. When Season 2 wrapped up in March, a common question was whether the "love is blind" angle delivered more substance than other shows, like The Bachelor. The consensus was don't get your hopes up . As Vox news' Alex Abad-Santos put it, "...
Apr 06, 2022•1 min
New gruesome photos of babies aborted late-term in Washington, D.C, are a reminder of what abortion really is. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stonestreet. This is BreakPoint . Last week, D.C. police collected the bodies of five babies that were reportedly aborted late-term. A pro-life activist claims the bodies were given to her by a "whistleblower" from an abortion clinic . The clinic conducts abortions until week 27, but experts contacted by Live Action News believe that one of the babies loo...
Apr 06, 2022•5 min
At the end of March, the Associates for Biblical Research published a curse. While that may seem a strange thing to do, it wasn't their curse. The curse was written in Hebrew, inscribed on a small leaden amulet (or tablet). It was found in 2019 among materials previously excavated on Israel's Mt. Ebal. It's a short curse, just 40 letters in Hebrew and only 23 words when translated to English: "Cursed, cursed, cursed—cursed by the God YHW. You will die cursed. Cursed you will surely die. Cursed b...
Apr 06, 2022•5 min
A quote attributed to Greek tragedian Aeschylus says that, "In war, truth is the first casualty." This is a particular relevant point when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As Jon Greenberg with PolitiFact reports , in Russia "it is now a crime—punishable by up to 15 years in prison—to publish 'fake' information about the all-out attack on Ukraine. The government has blocked Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and news websites aimed at Russians, such as Latvia-based Meduza. It is a crime for t...
Apr 05, 2022•1 min
If a preborn baby isn't a human person with rights, when does it become one? Some abortion advocates have drawn that line at the second trimester, while very few others point to fetal heartbeat or detectable brain activity. Harder-line activists reject any abortion restrictions and insist it's okay to kill a baby at any point right up until or even during birth. Planned Parenthood's official stance is still to the point of viability, when the baby's experience of pain during abortion is excrucia...
Apr 05, 2022•5 min
John Stonestreet explains the design of religious freedom, highlighting how it is the first freedom. John explains how this freedom is under attack in this cultural moment, and how Christians can respond to the increasing pressure to relinquish this right.
Apr 05, 2022•28 min
Thirteen years ago, satire news site The Onion aired a fake sports talk show announcing that March Madness would now allow four- thousand college basketball teams to compete. "All schools deserve to compete," said the fake announcers: "This will take March Madness all the way into June!" During this year's March Madness tournament, the NCAA, the governing body of collegiate athletics, has been running not -fake commercials openly patting themselves on the back for all the opportunities created f...
Apr 04, 2022•1 min
Fifty years ago last week, a government report lived up to the old adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. On March 27, 1972, a document known to history as the " Rockefeller Commission on Population Growth and the American Future ," called for zero population growth in America as a means to save the world. While we have no reason to doubt that those behind the document had "good intentions," history has proven this paper a high mark of state-sponsored hubris. Not only did its...
Apr 04, 2022•5 min
