THE UNVEILING OF JESUS CHRIST A Chapter-by-Chapter Exposition of the Book of Revelation for Pastors, Students, and Serious Readers of Scripture “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.” — Revelation 1:3…
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The Parliament of Paralysis: The Case for Rebuilding the U.N. from the Foundation Up
A Geopolitical Assessment on the Eve of the 81st General Assembly | September 2026 ❦ ◆ ❦ Introduction: The Empty Chairs of New York This week, as the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly opens in Manhattan, the world’s premier diplomatic institution convenes beneath nearly every storm its founders pledged to prevent. The…
Elect Infants, Dying in Infancy: Predestination, Original Sin, and the Question Reformed Theology Has Never Fully Settled
The Nursery and the Decree: What Predestination Does With the Children Who Never Grew Up I. A Question Asked From the Graveside John Owen, the greatest theological mind England produced in the seventeenth century, fathered eleven children. Derek Thomas, recalling the fact in a Ligonier interview, notes that ten of them died in infancy —…
Where the Desert Comes to Life: Inside Life Time Ocotillo — Gilbert, Arizona’s New Athletic Country Club
More Than a Gym: How Life Time Ocotillo Is Redefining Wellness in the Southeast Valley ❖ ❖ ❖ There is a particular hour in the Sonoran Desert when the heat finally breaks. The sun slides west behind the San Tan Mountains, the saguaros throw long shadows across the gravel, and the whole valley exhales. For…
FROM A PUSHCART BY THE TRACKS: The Improbable Rise of Dutch Bros Coffee
A Narrative History of Brotherhood, Loss, and a Coffee Empire Built on Kindness The railroad tracks ran through downtown Grants Pass like a seam stitched into the floor of southern Oregon, and on a gray morning in 1992, two brothers wheeled a pushcart up beside them and waited to see whether anyone in the world…
The Seal That Never Was: Why Isaiah 29 Does Not Foretell the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith’s Golden Plates, and the Anatomy of a Repackaged Prophecy ❦ ❦ ❦ A Critical Theological Examination INTRODUCTION: A PROPHECY IN SEARCH OF A FULFILLMENT In the centuries since the Latter-day Saint movement first appropriated the twenty-ninth chapter of Isaiah as a foretelling of the Book of Mormon, no LDS apologist has felt obligated…
The Latest on the Mindanao Earthquake.
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck offshore Sarangani province in Mindanao, Philippines, on Monday, June 8, 2026, at 7:37 AM Philippine Standard Time (PST). The epicenter was located approximately 32 km west of Maasim, Sarangani (or roughly 8–26 km southwest/west-southwest of General Santos City), at a depth of about 33 km according to PHIVOLCS (USGS reported…
Before Jesus Was Born, The Dead Sea Scrolls Already Told Us His Name
The Ancient Fragment Called 4Q246 and What It Reveals About the Jewish World That Awaited the Messiah Imagine a young Bedouin shepherd tossing a stone into a forgotten cave on the cliffs above the Dead Sea—and hearing the crack of ancient pottery instead of bleating sheep. With that single throw in 1947, the most electrifying…
Conviction, Not Convenience: Wes Huff’s Case for Why He Remains Protestant and Not Roman Catholic
The Governing Principle: Sufficiency, Not Mere Necessity A summary and theological reflection Wesley “Wes” Huff is a Christian apologist, speaker, and scholar shaped by a global upbringing spanning Pakistan, the Middle East, and Canada. After overcoming a life-altering neurological condition at age eleven that left him temporarily paralyzed, he developed a perspective that deeply informs…
The Lion of the Quorum: Wilford Woodruff, the Chronicler-Apostle Who Bent Mormonism Toward Modernity
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — INSTALLMENT XII Restoration’s Quiet Architect: A Christian Reckoning With Wilford Woodruff A Door Opens at Benbow Farm On the cool English morning of March 5, 1840, a thin, bearded American walked up the lane to a prosperous Herefordshire estate called Hill Farm and knocked on the door. He had not slept…