This is It Is Written. I’m John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. No, December the 25th is not the actual birthday of Jesus. More than likely, there were not three Wise Men who came to visit Jesus and His family. We say three Wise Men because gold, [...]

This is It Is Written. I’m John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Among the songs you hear playing at Christmas, when you’re out shopping or listening to a playlist of Christmas tunes, you’re almost certain to hear, «Have Yourself a Merry Little [...]

Did you ever look at one of those interesting pictures where you, you gaze at it long enough or in the right way and suddenly an image appears? They call them stereograms, auto-stereograms. They create the illusion of a three-dimensional scene. They [...]

Well, it doesn't look like much, does it? It's just a field. Nothing much goes on here. We're just beyond the edge of town. That road you see back there is the A421. It crosses south central England east-west. If you were driving from [...]

He's one of the great figures of modern Christianity. John Newton, born in London, the son of a ship's captain, his mother died when he was young. He became an angry young man, a drunk, a blasphemer. He even got involved in witchcraft. [...]

He was one of the architects in the ending of slavery in the British Empire, and he wrote one of the most famous and best-loved hymns ever sung, "Amazing Grace". His life story is fascinating, barely believable. He is, without [...]

This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. It was a very different age, yet society was still colored by the attitudes of another era altogether. Slavery had ended almost 80 years before. The Emancipation [...]

This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. There are not too many times in the Bible that God says, "If you do this, you will not be saved". Now, there's a place right at the very end of the [...]

John Bradshaw : Dwayne and Wendy, thanks so much for being here, I really appreciate it. Thanks for taking your time. So you're in the Philippines now. Where in the Philippines are you? Dwayne Harris : We're on the island of Mindanao, [...]

John Bradshaw : Dr. Neil Nedley, thank you so very much for joining me. I appreciate it. DR. NEIL NEDLEY: John, it's great being here. Thanks for having me. John Bradshaw : You're a physician. Has anybody ever asked you this question: Do [...]

John Bradshaw : Dr. Neil Nedley, thank you so much. I appreciate you being here. Dr. Neil Nedley : Oh, it's great being here, John. John Bradshaw : So you're a physician. You've been a physician for some years. Your specialty is [...]

Wes Peppers : Patricia asks, "I recently heard a pastor say that aliens were probably demons or fallen angels and that they abducted people. He also said that they are the sons of God or the Nephilim in Genesis 6. Do you think there is a [...]

John Bradshaw : So when you were back, were you back or did you?... Heidi Tompkins : No, I was like one foot in the church and one foot in the world still. I joined the church choir and I decided I was going to be involved in church, but because of [...]

Dr. Philip Samaan : Not everybody can play the piano. Uh, not everybody can do: can sing, for example, or preach. So we have to help our young people discover what their spiritual gifts are. I mean, everybody got some gifts. To focus on that, to [...]

So let's pray and then we'll open up the Bible together. God's about to speak through his word. Let's pray: Father in heaven, we are here tonight that you might water our soul. Speak to us. Feed us with the bread of heaven. I [...]

In Germany, people might gather together before a wedding to break objects made of porcelain. At a Jewish wedding, the groom or the bride and groom might step on a glass inside a cloth bag and smash the glass. I attended a wedding where the [...]

There's a total solar eclipse going to take place on April the 8th. It's a big deal. I'll tell you why. It ties directly to an important, to a vital prophecy found in the heart of the book of Revelation. You need to know about this, [...]

John Bradshaw : Dr. Neil Nedley, thank you so very much for joining me. I appreciate it. Dr. Neil Nedley : John, it's great being here. Thanks for having me. John Bradshaw : You're a physician. Has anybody ever asked you this question: Do [...]

John Bradshaw : Dr. Neil Nedley, thank you so much. I appreciate you being here. Dr. Neil Nedley : Oh, it's great being here, John. John Bradshaw : So you're a physician. You've been a physician for some years. Your specialty is [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. In his book "Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking," author Malcolm Gladwell shares a fascinating story. In 1985, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles spent [...]

This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Every four years our planet conducts an extravaganza, a festival in which are celebrated both sporting excellence and pharmacological ingenuity. Every Olympic Games in [...]

It's good to have the opportunity to open the Bible with you today. Let's pray as we begin: Our Father in heaven, thank You for Your Word, for the light that shines from its pages, and for Jesus, the light of the world. Let Your light [...]

I'm so glad we have this opportunity to gather around the Bible together. Before we open the Bible, we'll pray, and pray expecting God's blessing. Let's do that now: Our Father in heaven, we come to You in the name of Jesus, [...]

It's good to be with you today. We are together so that we can open up the Bible. We'll go to God's Word and flip through its pages, and ask God to speak to us and expect that we'll be blessed as He does. This is special time; [...]

I'm glad we have this opportunity to gather around the Bible together. Before we open God's Word, let's pray: Father in heaven, we are thankful that there is a God in heaven that the Bible describes as being love. We are thankful that [...]

Really good to be with you today. So glad we could spend this time together gathered around God's Word. My prayer is that you will be blessed. I'm certain I'm going to be blessed as we go to the Word of God together. Let's pray [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Justice. When I say that word, "justice," what do you think of? If I asked you for another word for justice, what would that word be? Fairness? That's what I think [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Have you ever wondered what you're actually capable of? Now, I don't mean do you have greatness within, could you complete an Ironman, could you run a Fortune 500 [...]

John Bradshaw : This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me today. Across the United States, Americans are looking forward to Veterans Day, that special day that comes around once a year, on which we honor those who serve [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. We live in a world that is plagued by war. And when you read the Bible, you make the remarkable discovery, that war actually began in heaven, where Lucifer and his angels fought [...]

John Bradshaw : This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Right about now, Americans are preparing to celebrate a national holiday. For many people, it's the best time of the year. Thanksgiving: family, sometimes [...]

John Bradshaw : This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Depression and anxiety continue to be major problems in first-world nations. Around the world, it appears, in fact, it very much is, that depression [...]

John Bradshaw : This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. For decades and decades, depression and anxiety have presented the United States and other first-world countries around the world with a major health [...]

John Bradshaw : Welcome to "Line Upon Line," brought to you by It Is Written. This is where we get to answer your Bible questions. I'm John Bradshaw, with me, Pastor Wes Peppers. Wes, ready to go? Wes Peppers : Ready to go. Good to [...]

It's a fascinating story. A millionaire lost everything he had in a stock market crash, he went to live on a remote deserted island; never a handyman, he quickly learned to become resourceful. He arrived on the island with little and not much [...]

A man in Sydney, Australia who stopped at a gas station to put fuel in his boat, put the fuel directly into the fishing rod holder, not the gas tank. 231 liters, more than 60 gallons, 536 Australian dollars worth of fuel, close to 400 US Dollars, it [...]

Right now there is someone who has no idea how God is going to get them through a trying situation, maybe that's you. God says, "Trust in me and I'll direct your paths". But there are times that you can only see a funnel cloud [...]

You could look at Christianity as rights and wrongs, after all, "Thou shalt," and, "Thou shalt not," feature pretty prominently in the Bible, but the reason Jesus came into the world was to restore in humans what sin has taken [...]

The children of Israel were miraculously freed from Egypt, they witnessed miracle after miracle, and yet spiritually, they fell apart. As we look at why that happened, you'll find guidance for your own life. Psalm 106, verse 35 says, "But [...]

What kind of person does it take to impact the world? When Gideon was chosen by God to lead Israel out from under the oppressive rule of the Midianites, his army of 32,000 was whittled all the way down to 300. Those that were left, were the right [...]

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been called the greatest living explorer in the world. In his 60's, he summited Mount Everest, at 59 he ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents, the first just a few months after bypass surgery. After [...]

The moral of the story is, check with God first. Right after the incredible victory at Jericho, scouts told Joshua it wouldn't be necessary for him to send a large army to Ai, as the people there would be a pushover. "So about three [...]

When the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar, similar to the altar used in the worship of God, their actions were misinterpreted as apostasy by the rest of Israel, and a delegation confronted them. But instead of [...]

What event from the life of King David best illustrates real strength, being gracious towards King Saul, getting a revenge on the Amalekites after they destroyed his home and captured his people, the victory over Absalom perhaps? Let me give you an [...]

It's a strange thing that God is so misunderstood. There are 66 books in the Bible that talk very openly about God, and that paint a very clear picture of just who God is and what He's like. Far from being an irrational tyrant God himself [...]

When a person completes a prison term, they're set free. The Emancipation Proclamation decreed that enslaved Americans were freed. Freedom, wonderful! Free people able to determine their own destiny to some great extent, but as good as freedom [...]

You've never met the perfect father. Imperfect dads are all through the Bible, King Saul, faithless, self-absorbed, unhinged, he tried to kill his own son, impetuous, disobedient, and he died lost. King David, often faithless, self-absorbed, [...]

King David's many failings are recorded in the Bible with painful accuracy. He was dishonorable, an adulterer, a schemer, a murderer, a terrible father, a serial marrier, he numbered Israel, and went to the Philistines for help when he was [...]

It's really nice to say nice things to people, but there's a fine line between positive reinforcement and ruining a person. God warns us about that in Proverbs 29:5 where He says, "A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his [...]

We call it "flying off the handle," "freaking out," "going off the deep end," "going nuts," "going ballistic," "going postal". We say someone "flipped," "lost it," [...]