New cities have been making headlines. Starbase, Texas is the new city designed for SpaceX’s headquarters, future rocket launches, and dwellings for on-site workers.EPIC City has also been in the news. It is a Muslim-centered planned community near Dallas, large enough for more than 1,000 homes plus
Crowds do strange things. Studies show that more than 1/3 of people will purposefully choose an answer they know to be wrong if other people in the crowd already chose that answer.[1]This is part of a phenomenon called deindividuation. In these cases, individuals in a crowd are so caught up in what
Did you know Hollywood has been making zombie movies for almost 100 years? They were first brought to the silver screen in 1932’s White Zombie.[1] We’re fascinated by stories of how the uninfected will survive in a world that has been overrun by the living dead.Often those stories begin with one ind
Would You Rather is a staple in our house. Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible? Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck? Would you rather always have bad breath or always have BO? These are hard choices kids love to wrestle with at the dinner table.I’ve got a d
I’ll say a word & you say the first word that comes to mind: Egypt.For my generation it would be King Tut. Not the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit that first arrived in the US late 1976.No, I’m talking about Steve Martin’s song & skit, King Tut, that first debuted on SNL in 1978.Born in Arizona, li
We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.I’ve been talking more about the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea.[1] They include over 900 ancient Jewish texts, dating f
In Pixar’s Onward, brothers Ian and Barley go on a great adventure, crossing rivers and mountains, facing obstacles and battles as they follow a treasure map. They finally make it to where X marks the spot, only to discover they’re back in their own town, right where the adventure started.As the fir
You’ve likely heard of the Upside Down. It is the dark parallel dimension affecting the real-world in the SyFy mega hit, Stranger Things.In Ezekiel 28 God shows us the unseen realm and how it affects the nations of the earth.The chapter divides like this:The Prince of Tyre, historically Ethbaal III,
We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.We don’t hear about it very often, but there are geographical changes happening right now in Israel that are in accordance with unfulfilled prophecies. For example, in the book of Ezekiel, we read,Ezk 47
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to establish himself as the new authority in France. He staged a coup within a coup, arriving in the legislature surrounded by soldiers.In his address to the Council of Elders he said, “No attempt should be made to look in the past for examples of what is happening
Last year, a woman in the Czech Republic went for a stroll outside her little town of 22,000 people. That day she stumbled upon a ceramic pot. Inside were more than 2,000 silver coins that had been hidden in that spot for 900 years. It’s been dubbed one of the greatest finds of the last decade.[1]We
Pixar’s classic movie The Incredibles is not really about super powers or saving the world. It’s about one man’s realization that the greatest adventure of his life is not the bad guys he overpowers or any of his feats of strength. It is his family relationships that matter most – the love he has fo
If you are still up in the air regarding your vacation plans, you might want to ask your travel agent about shopping destinations.A shopping vacation is a trip taken primarily for the purpose of (you guessed it) shopping. It’s a real thing. Rather than sightseeing, relaxing, or visiting cultural sit
We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, instantaneous global communication, and the movement to rebuild a Temple on the Temple Mount in J
In 2013, The Mark restaurant in Bakersfield was host to a gathering of civic leaders. At one table sat an assemblywoman, a state senator, and Pauline Larwood and her husband. For years Pauline had been a governmental relations consultant and was appointed to the Board of Governors of the California
Have you ever stopped to consider how many hand gestures we use on a daily basis?Thumbs up/Thumbs down… Ok… Peace… Rock On (horns)… Come here… Stay back… Hold position… Power to _______ … Fingers crossed… Hang loose… Or telephone… Shhh… Lips zipped/sealed… Live long & prosper…Depending on when & whe
We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, instantaneous global communication, and the movement to rebuild a Temple on the Temple Mount in J
What do you do when someone shows up claiming to be God? A fellow came here once and after we talked for awhile he let me know that he was both Elijah and Jesus Himself. I wasn’t too concerned – I was confident Jesus wouldn’t be actively smoking meth the way this guy was.Recently, a church in Indian
Certain songs take on new life when another artist covers them. Aretha Franklin’s Respect. Johnny Cash’s Hurt. Jimi Hendrix’s All Along The Watchtower. Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You. Ray Charles’ Georgia On My Mind. All covers.Psalm 57 is a cover in more ways than one. In the superscript
“Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” “Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”“
We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, instantaneous global communication, and the movement to rebuild a Temple on the Temple Mount in J
In 1904, Russia was at war with Japan. That October, Russia’s Baltic Fleet set sail for the far east. The warships didn’t even make it out of European waters before making a terrible mistake. In the distance, they sighted what they thought were Japanese torpedo boats. They were, in fact, simply Brit
John Bunyan left nothing to guess work in his classic book, whose full title is, The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come.Character’s names include Christian & Christiana, Obstinate, Evangelist, Hypocrisy & Charity.The pilgrimage follows the main character, Christian, travelin
We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.We are futurists. We interpret all unfulfilled prophetic passages as future events that will occur in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless co
