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Image: An AI- generated image from Google Gemini imagines Vladimir Putin protected in his underground bunker. Inside the Sealed Hatch How a Leaked European Dossier Cracked Open Putin’s Court An Investigative Analysis • May 2026 When the Theater Hides the Truth For four years, the defining image of Vladimir Putin’s wartime rule has been one…
A traditional Christian evaluation of LDS disciplinary practice — its origins, its mutations, its modern weaponization, and the New Testament standard it has progressively abandoned. ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Door That Used to Open Both Ways Church discipline is one of those topics that respectable Christians of every century have preferred to discuss in…
When the Most Comforting Words Jesus Ever Spoke Are Recast as the Most Harmful Introduction: The Words That Have Comforted the Church for Two Thousand Years On the night before His death, surrounded by men whose hearts were breaking and whose hopes were crumbling, Jesus of Nazareth spoke some of the most consequential words in…
How the Book of Mormon Itself Refutes the Distinctive Doctrines of Modern Mormonism A Critical Examination of the “Fullness of the Gospel” Claim From a Traditional Christian Perspective Introduction: A Promise on the Sabbath On a Sunday afternoon in late November of 1841, in the parlor of Brigham Young’s modest home in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph…
The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved The lesson opens a six-week study designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. Pastor Joey reminds the class that Scripture did not fall from the sky, leather-bound and gilt-edged — it came through divine…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:35-48 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: Setting the Stage: From Worry to Watchfulness Pastor Joey opens by connecting this sermon to the previous study on worry and anxiety from Luke 12. He reminds the congregation that while life…
How the Book of Mormon Could Have Been Written Without Plates, Without Angels, and Without Divine Intervention A Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Examination ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Question of Authorship On a March evening in 1830, the press of Egbert B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York, finished setting type on a 588-page volume bound…
TWO TIMELINES: ONE CONTINENT Comparing the Book of Mormon Narrative to the Documented History and Archaeology of the Ancient Americas Introduction: A Story That Asks to Be Believed Civilizations do not pass quietly into the earth. They leave signatures—layered, stubborn, and unmistakable—pressed into stone, clay, metal, and memory. Time erodes their monuments, but it does…
An AI-generated image imagines the old story of a scientist versus God: “Lord, we don’t need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning.” “Oh, is that so?” asks God. “Well,” says the scientist, “we…
AI-generated image: In the house of God, the highest calling is not to be feared like a gladiator but trusted like a shepherd. The pastor who gathers applause by force may win a crowd for a season, yet only the one who walks in humility, truth, and self-giving love will leave a lasting mark on…