The transgender phenomenon is fast becoming the concern of parents worldwide, and a big problem is that those who question its validity get labeled transphobic, especially if they're a conservative Christian. The shooting in Nashville, TN has even furthered the debate, as the shooter identified as trans. The controversy has pitted supporters of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones against those who call those drugs dangerous and believe that gender is immutable. Now stepping into the fray, is...
Apr 02, 2023•35 min
Even geniuses need nurturing; people who say the right thing at the right time to a developing mind, that brings about their incredible awe-inspiring insight. So it is with the theological wisdom and intellect of Dr. Timothy Keller, one of the most well-known Christian pastors and authors in the country and some would say in the world. He's the retired senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, a congregation he founded in the late 1980's when the Big Apple was known as one ...
Mar 26, 2023•34 min
It has been well documented that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. Open Doors International has all the statistics showing how the lives of Christians in countries like North Korea, Nigeria and several Muslim majority nations are under constant threat. However, in Western countries like here in the United States, there's a different kind of persecution taking place. They're the same "spiritual forces of evil" at work, but under the guise of political, legal and cultural ...
Mar 19, 2023•39 min
When it comes to the issue of gender, how do you talk to your young children? How do you push back against the tide of wokeness and indoctrination going on in public schools? Bethany Bomberger asserts that, "We as Christians don't have the luxury of being silent." She and husband Ryan have made it easier for Christian parents to reinforce their beliefs about what it means to be male or female. Their new book, "She Is She", is an illustrated children's book tackling the difficult subject of gende...
Mar 12, 2023•40 min
No matter what your professed faith is, it has to be lived out through relationships. It's unavoidable. Faith without interaction with other image bearers will inevitably be weak. But it's in our most intimate and close relationships that we are tested and tried to our very limits. And the most intimate bond we have here on earth is marriage. But what happens when the person you promised to be with till death, reneges on so many of the assurances he or she vowed on that altar? When is divorce th...
Mar 05, 2023•31 min
You may not like Mary Eberstadt's conclusions. You may even vehemently disagree with them. But the data is solid; you can't change facts. Her thesis, drawn from various scholarly studies, shows how the sexual revolution completely changed the world; like a Pandora's Box, unleashing so many of the ills we see today in our culture: increased crime, drug abuse, sexual abuse, divorce, wokeness, cancel culture, and also deepening depression among the younger generation. She also blames it for creatin...
Feb 26, 2023•41 min
Maybe the White House Press Secretary makes fun of aliens being in our midst, but the Bible gives clear evidence that they've been operating in our world since time began. They're called angels. For decades scientists have searched the cosmos looking for life on other planets. The SETI telescopes were created for that purpose. But what if those extraterrestrials were already here? Not launched in weather balloons or in UFO's, but in the world in which we live. Astronomer and physicist Dr. Hugh R...
Feb 19, 2023•44 min
Passionate about defending the life of the unborn, Fr. Frank Pavone, who founded Priests For Life, is now the center of a controversy as the Vatican thought his actions were so heinous, he deserved to be treated like some serial sexual abuse priests. Laicizing a priest and stripping him of his clerical office is essentially like a forced divorce. These are his present circumstances. Is the Catholic Church now in favor of abortion that it would treat its most vocal opponent of it in the most seem...
Feb 12, 2023•35 min
The word 'Synodality' may make Protestant's eyes glaze over, but inside the Catholic Church it is causing lots of controversy, as bishops around the globe spar over what Pope Francis expects from this new initiative. Is it a course correction for the Catholic Church? Is it a 21st Century version of Vatican II? Or is it Pope Francis creating the Church in his image? It's easier to explain what "The Synodal Way" is not, than what it is, and that's why Australia's George Cardinal Pell, who died a f...
Feb 05, 2023•37 min
In Western North Carolina, a middle school's popular student group is called 'The Sad Club.' It's not about preventing drunk driving as in 'SADD.' It's about being sad. Young people today are facing rising incidents of depression, anxiety, and yes, suicide. Why? According to Dr. Alex McFarland, a lot of it is caused by breakdown in the family, a shunning of traditional values, and also a disparaging of the nuclear family by secular culture. He says, "Among the left, there is a real condescension...
Jan 29, 2023•39 min
No doubt you've heard of Critical Race Theory, that form of social philosophy that's become controversial in classrooms today because it tends to blame all society's problems on race. There's also Feminist Theory, Queer Theory and a whole host of what's known as 'high theories'. But Dr. Christopher Watkin, a professor of French studies and philosophy, wondered why there's never been a "Biblical Critical Theory". So, he took on the task of creating one. After all, the Bible is the most comprehens...
Jan 22, 2023•33 min
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is thankfully out of the hospital and on the road to a full recovery, hopefully. But the shock of seeing his 24-year-old, healthy body collapse on the field during a Monday Night Football game is still horrifying. And questions are still being asked, "how does a young athlete, in tip-top physical condition, go into cardiac arrest after a routine tackle?" While medical experts probe for answers, there's something else that happened in that moment that people are ...
Jan 15, 2023•36 min
It can be an existential question: What is truth? We’re not talking about facts like two plus two equals four. This is about objective reality that can be proven. But in the world today, a great many people believe there’s no such thing as truth, that each person determines what’s true or false for themselves. It sounds magnanimous, even virtuous. But in fact it’s intellectual laziness. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Dr. Jeff Myers, President of Summit Ministries, talks about his n...
Jan 08, 2023•33 min
As we say goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023, it's a good time to reflect on the whole of eternity and the Bible's clues as to when the end of the world will be. Saying farewell to a year gone by is nothing compared to looking at the entire world in the rearview mirror. It seems every generation reads Jesus' words about the end of time believing they're in the last days. But they weren't right two hundred years ago. So are our predictions any better? Are there more wars and rumors of wars? More n...
Jan 01, 2023•39 min
For Christians who staunchly believe in traditional marriage and that gender is an immutable biological reality, a case now before the Supreme Court will be of great interest. And if you don't believe in traditional marriage or that gender is a biological reality, the case is still of great importance. For the battle over religious freedom verses LGBTQ rights is the cultural civil war of our time. And so many other freedoms hang in the balance because of it. Attorney Kristen Waggoner on December...
Dec 25, 2022•32 min
The story surrounding the Jewish Festival of Lights, is filled with intrigue, fear, war, and then of course, victory. The celebration of that victory gives us the miracle now known as Hanukkah, when a one-day supply of sacred oil to light the Temple Menorah lasted eight days. And eight is significant number in the Jewish heritage because it is, as Moses directed, also the number of days old an infant must be for circumcision. It's one of many signs that nothing happens without God's knowledge or...
Dec 18, 2022•29 min
This time of year is always brings plenty of joy and hope. But it is also when the needs of those less fortunate are more keenly felt. Josiah Haken, CEO of City Relief in New York City, has a heart for the homeless... And a heart for those who have homes. Haken helps people like you and me understand that there's nothing to fear about the homeless, that they are people, made in God's image. People, who he describes as our "Neighbors With No Doors", the title of his book. On this episode of Light...
Dec 11, 2022•42 min
How much do you know about the Christmas story? There's the baby born in a manger in Bethlehem to a virgin named Mary, betrothed to a man named Joseph. There were shepherds in a field visited by angels heralding the child's birth. There's the star which led the Wisemen to the child. These are all part of the Christmas story, but there's so much more to tell. For instance, who were the wisemen? Theologian Rick Renner in his book, "Christmas: The Rest of the Story", explains that the Magi were "an...
Dec 04, 2022•31 min
Maybe you've seen the cozy Christmas TV commercial featuring two young girls and their competing hot cocoa stands. It's a feel-good moment when they learn to work together, and the message from Hobby Lobby is about the joy of Christmas. What you may not know is that David Green, founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, began the business some 50 years ago with a $600 bank loan and one principle: "God owns the business." That principle and prayer helped build the arts and crafts mom-and-pop operation into...
Nov 27, 2022•29 min
The story of Daisy Strongin's journey from normal 15-year-old to transgender male and then back to female, is a cautionary tale for Bible believing parents who hold that God created us to be male and female. The documentary "Dysconnected" tells Daisy's heart-wrenching story of gender dysphoria and how the people around her - friends, medical experts and school officials - told her the solution was to alter her body permanently through surgery. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, filmmak...
Nov 20, 2022•42 min
The horrific fire that almost completely destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019 became for some, almost a symbol of the state of Catholicism in the world, fighting for its life in a culture uncommitted to religion. But the students of Architecture at Catholic University of America have something much more uplifting and powerful to add to this equation. They are not only becoming part of the famed Paris Cathedral's 'resurrection' from the ashes but have also become a symbol of a new generation of...
Nov 13, 2022•28 min
Ted Talks are 18-minute videos of influential speakers. So here's a question: What would Jesus say if he gave a Ted Talk? Turns out, He already did some two-thousand years ago, and it's probably one of the most, if not thee most influential and profound speeches of all time. It's called the Sermon on the Mount, found in the book of Matthew. Many people may not know its name, but they know many of the golden nuggets of Jesus's core teachings that come from it, like The Lord's Prayer, "Our Father ...
Nov 06, 2022•29 min
As a medical resident, Dr. John Bruchalski thought that providing the best health care for women meant performing abortions, if that's what his patients wanted. He performed around sixty of them. He, like many in medical schools today, was taught that the woman is the patient, and the fetus could be considered a disease, or a problem like a tumor, that needs to be 'gotten rid of.' He explains that his Catholic upbringing was strong, but that message of the culture was stronger, and so slid into ...
Oct 30, 2022•50 min
The last few years have seen some of the most contentious politicking of the modern era, where friends and members of the same family can't talk to each other because of who they voted for, or what cause they support; even in some cases, disinviting family to weddings, or refusing to go to a family funeral, all because they can't love each other enough to say 'we agree to disagree' and to engage in meaningful discussion instead of sparring on social media and canceling each other. Enter Pastors ...
Oct 24, 2022•32 min
It's almost surreal that someone has to write a book about Christianity being a religion for all races for all time, and for women just as much as men. But considering the culture of today of Critical Race Theory, Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo era and a whole host of movements of vilifying Christianity as a tool of White male dominance, Christian apologist (meaning defender of the faith) Abdu Murray felt the need to set the record straight. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Murray, a...
Oct 16, 2022•36 min
Sixty years ago this week, on October 11, 1962, the Bishops of the Catholic Church gathered in Rome for a solemn ceremony to open what is known as Vatican II. Over four formal sessions during consecutive falls, they would discuss doctrine, and dialogue about how the Global Catholic Church should move forward. It was the most important gathering of the Holy See in half a millennium. What came out of it were sixteen documents that have had a tremendous effect on Catholicism; that Catholics would h...
Oct 09, 2022•34 min
The Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo's masterpiece of the biblical narrative detailed in color and motion adorns the walls and ceiling, is part of the tour of the Vatican Museum in Rome. Why does the Roman Catholic Church have a museum filled with works of art that include not just Christian art, but also those that are of pagan, pre-Christian and Jewish origin and more? Because the history of art and how artists interpret the world, is the history of humanity and God's relationship with His c...
Oct 02, 2022•35 min
The Vatican Observatory is located on a hill in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, the former summer residence of the popes. It's a physical reminder of the Catholic Church's commitment to science, and in particular the heavens - the universe, star formation, galaxies. Headquartered on the Apostolic Palaces fifth floor, it's roots go back to the 16th century when Pope Gregory VII reformed the calendar, aligning it more closely with the motion of the planets, giving us the much more precise Gregorian calend...
Sep 25, 2022•33 min
Let's face it, most of us are a little bit sketchy when it comes to understanding who the Holy Spirit is and what He actually does. Yes, "He." That's one of the identifiers that trips people up these days, especially in this gender-bending, Star Wars influenced worldview culture. It's much easier to think of this third member of the Holy Trinity as some ethereal spiritual force, "Let the Force be with you," than a person with power. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Pastor Max Lucado ...
Sep 18, 2022•35 min
It was one decision that made a world of difference in a plethora of lives. This is the underlying theme of the movie "Lifemark," now out in theaters, and starring Kirk Cameron. Cameron, who came to fame in the 1980's playing "Mike Seaver" on the sitcom "Growing Pains," is now producing and developing Christian based content for television and film. He's teamed up again with the Kendrick Brothers, who he first worked with on the movie "Fireproof," which is about saving a marriage. Lifemark is ab...
Sep 11, 2022•32 min
