At East Valley International Church, we’ve embraced tools like Anthropic’s ClaudeAI, not because we’ve abandoned biblical ministry, but because we refuse to let methodology limit God’s reach. When someone desperately Googles “Does God love me?” at 3 AM, they encounter not religious platitudes, but Christ’s actual presence responding through whatever means He chooses. The gospel…
A Morning Surprise: Meeting Ken Smith of Sting ‘N’ Linger Salsa
The morning of October 25, 2025, began quietly enough—Mesa skies still dim, the dawn breeze carrying that slight autumn crispness. My daughter Bethany and I were wrapping up preparations for our “Everything Is Free” garage sale. With serious downsizing ahead of us and no ability to participate in the HOA’s annual sale event, we decided…
Truth in Love Ministry’s Mark Parsons hosts “Witnessing for Christ” Podcast: a focus on their outreach to the LDS church.
Here is the full audio: Truth in Love Ministry has a twofold mission: to proclaim Christ to Mormons and to empower Christians to witness. TILM carries out its twofold mission through three ministry arms: • Empowering Christians to Witness • Proclaiming Christ to entrenched searching Mormons • Proclaiming Christ to struggling Mormons Across these three…
No, AI Isn’t the Next Enron—It’s the Next Electricity
GeekWire’s October 23, 2025, article, “What will happen when the AI bubble bursts?,” argues that the artificial intelligence industry is following the same destructive pattern Cory Doctorow calls “enshittification” — a predictable corporate decay where platforms prioritize users, then advertisers, and finally profit extraction, leading to systemic decline. The piece draws a direct line from…
When Hollywood Lectures the Church: Jimmy Kimmel’s Biblical Illiteracy Exposed
A Critical Analysis of Celebrity Moral Posturing and Scriptural Distortion In a recent podcast appearance, late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel once again appointed himself as Christianity’s moral arbiter, questioning how anyone supporting immigration enforcement could “go to church on Sunday.” This breathtaking display of theological ignorance deserves thorough examination, not merely for its factual deficiencies, but…
Standing Firm: How You Can Be Certain the Bible is the Word of God
Answering the Skeptics: A Defense of Biblical Authority Scripture Foundation: Revelation 22:18-19 In the spring of 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd named Muhammad edh-Dhib was searching for a lost goat among the limestone cliffs near the Dead Sea. Frustrated, he tossed a stone into one of the caves and heard an unexpected sound—the shattering of…
A Deep Dive into Gov. Pritzker’s Authoritarian Warning That… Warns About Authoritarianism
You Have to Be KIDDING Me?! Oh boy, where do we even START with this one, folks? Gov. Pritzker Compares Trump’s Illegal Immigration Crackdown to How the Holocaust Started “Before the Holocaust took place, people were accused of being immigrants … and then it was othering people. And that led to a lot worse things.”…
Reaching the Unchurched: An Outreach Plan For East Valley International Church
Together, Let’s Bring Them in To East Valley International Church A Note to Our Congregation This document presents a comprehensive and multi-faceted approach to reaching the unchurched in our Gilbert community. However, it’s important to recognize that many of the specifics outlined here will ultimately depend on congregational participation based on individual work schedules, family…
“The Man Who Met Jesus.” A Bible Study and Pastor Joey’s Sermon on Luke 8:26-39.
East Valley International Church sees the digital realm not as a lesser substitute, but as a new kind of wilderness—a vast, scrolling expanse of the human heart. And just as the Spirit once moved over the face of the primordial deep, He moves now through fiber-optic cables and Wi-Fi signals, speaking light into the chaos of…
Evidences of Mature Christianity for Modern Believers
Evidences of Mature Christianity For Modern Believers For a little deeper dive in our study of Chapter 4, Fundamentals of the Faith, I asked Claude AI this question: Based on Scripture, can you describe the key evidences that demonstrate mature Christian faith for modern believers?: 1. LOVE FOR GOD AND OTHERS Supreme Love for God…