In June 2022, gold miners in a remote region of Canada's Yukon Territory made a unique discovery. They unearthed a whole baby woolly mammoth in the Klondike permafrost, only the second time such a discovery has ever been made, and the first time in [...]

Have you ever had to wait, and by wait, I mean really wait? A child is sick, and the sickness lingers; you're out of work, you can't find a job anywhere; you're single, it seems like God isn't bringing anyone along. In John 9, we read of a man who [...]

When a retired Michiganian noticed a loophole in a state lottery game, he and his wife started buying lottery tickets like there was no tomorrow. He had figured out how to buy lottery tickets and make money, virtually guaranteed. Before long he had [...]

Americans spend somewhere between 35 and 50 billion dollars a year on vitamins and minerals, and similar substances. No doubt some vitamins are helpful, maybe even necessary, but experts say again and again that multivitamins are mostly useless and [...]

Planet Earth can be harsh. There are places in Europe and North America where it's been as cold as minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit, minus 65 Celsius. There's a town in India that averages 449 inches of rain a year, 37 and a half feet one year, a [...]

If you've traveled to England and visited the Tower of London, you've seen the crown jewels, and you've probably wondered what they're worth. But like the Mona Lisa or a copy of an original Gutenberg Bible, there's probably no real monetary value [...]

You might think the world is a tough place today, but two thousand years ago, the Bible writers thought the same thing. In Galatians 1, Paul wrote that Jesus, "Might deliver us from this present evil world (or evil age)". If you thought [...]

Reasonable people are wondering what is going on in the world? Respect for traditional values is rapidly eroding, and respectful authority, for law and a whole lot more are obviously not what they were a relatively short time ago. Some despair [...]

A few years ago, we produced an It Is Written television program in which we took a close look at rattlesnakes, fascinating creatures with a fearsome reputation, even though they're solitary animals and really only want to be left alone. In [...]

I thought it was interesting to read a report that said what most people surely already know: fitness trackers are inaccurate when it comes to calculating how many calories you've burned during exercise; it's only an approximation based on [...]

American's owe a combined 15.5 trillion dollars in personal debt. If you're stacked 15.5 trillion dollar bills, the pile would stretch to the moon and back more than 2.5 times, so it's a lot of money. Several reports say the average U.S household [...]

It's important to check as you go through life, and identify what Spirit is really guiding you. It's easy to get caught up in life in arguments, in divisions, in disputes. And your Christian profession is then overshadowed by what everyone else can [...]

This happens a lot: you dictate a text message, send it off, and then discover there's a terrible typo because the phone misunderstood you. Fortunately, I've intercepted the most egregious ones as far as I know. But I've sent a few messages that I [...]

One simple phrase, if believed, would end an enormous amount of the tragedy and heartache Society endures. It would also remove the majority of interpersonal conflict experienced on a daily basis. This is Romans 12:17, it says, "Repay no one [...]

John Bradshaw : Ramon, Shandy, thank you so much for being here. Shandy Tengkano : Thank you for having us. John Bradshaw : I appreciate you taking your time. Let's start by talking about you. Ramon Tengkano : Praise the Lord. John Bradshaw : [...]

When Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus, he was writing to people who had recently come out of heathenism, but the council he gave then still applies today. In Ephesians 4:28, he wrote, "Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him [...]

Teenaged twin sisters who stowed away on a container ship in 1997, jumped overboard after the ship's captain discovered them and told them they'd be handed over to officials. They swam for almost a day off the coast of Australia through what they [...]

Temptation is real, and after thousands of years, the devil is at the top of his game; sometimes, it can seem as though sin is just too powerful, as though temptation is on a winning streak that you can't break. Human beings are weak in the face of [...]

Siblings were gathered talking about their childhood, and a sister said to her brother, 'we remember you coming home late after playing soccer with your friends, and the spankings dad would give you because you got home so late' the brother looked [...]

In Galatians 1, Paul writes about his call to ministry; he explains his background, speaking about how he once persecuted the church; he says in verse 14, "I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more [...]

Right after Paul restored life to a young man named Uticus, the one who fell asleep while Paul preached, Paul went for a long walk while his companions traveled by ship from Troas to Assos, the Apostle opted to travel by foot. Acts 20 verse 13, [...]

In Hebrews chapter 12, the Bible writer encourages his readers to live appropriately before God, urging them not to fall short of the grace of God. And to make his case, he cites the example of someone he describes as a profane person. He's talking [...]

Every so often I've spoken to, by people who fear they've committed the unpardonable sin, I tell them right away that if they're asking me about it, then it's virtually certain they have not committed the unpardonable sin. Consider this with me, Act [...]

Students of history will recall that in the United States in the 20th century, an odd phenomenon occurred when people started buying pet rocks; a man came up with the idea after talking with friends about the perfect pet. He sold them in individual [...]

There's a heart-rending memorial in Oklahoma City; in 1995, 168 innocent people tragically lost their lives in a senseless attack on a federal building. Among the memorials on the site, today is the field of empty chairs, 168 chairs arranged to [...]

John Bradshaw : Dr. George Guthrie, thanks so much for joining me. Dr. George Guthrie : It's a pleasure. John Bradshaw : I'm looking forward to getting to the place where we talk about this new book of yours, "Eat Plants, Feel Whole". [...]

John Bradshaw : Tammy, thanks so much for being here. Tammy : Thank you for having me. John Bradshaw : I really appreciate you taking your time. So you're a midwife today? Tammy : Yes. John Bradshaw : You're a volunteer firefighter today; we're [...]

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Every so often, you'll hear an especially remarkable testimony, a murderer, or an addict, or a career criminal who was changed by God, which is fabulous, of course, but something that's no less remarkable is the life that was always lived for God. [...]

It's fascinating that the people in the parable were not condemned for what they did but for what they didn't do, and what was it they didn't do? Let's look at Matthew 25 starting in verse 41, "Then he will also say to those on the left hand, [...]

In what may be the ultimate, 'I told you it could happen,' a man diving for lobster recently off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was swallowed by a humpback whale. It was dining on fish and evidently didn't mean to swallow the man, he said it was [...]

There's a great battle between good and evil raging in the universe right now, and through it, all God is showing you that there are two sides, the side of love and that of sin and darkness, and every day you get to choose what side you want to be [...]

In Acts chapter 14, God used Paul to perform a miracle; what happened next was interesting. A man with a congenital disorder in his feet, a man who'd never walked in his life, was in Lystra, where Paul and Barnabas were ministering, about 85 miles [...]

In Ephesians 4, Paul writes that you don't want to allow anger to drag you into sin, but anger is still something you should avoid as far; as possible you should let anger go, realizing that anger brings real challenges. Look at what Paul wrote [...]