Most people admit that they lie and that's a problem because the Bible says that all liars shall have their part in the second death. So what do you do about that? Do you start with promising to never lie again? Full marks for intent, but [...]

Research on lying, conducted by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, showed that 21% of lies are told to avoid people, 20% are told as humor, 14% to protect oneself, only 2% of lies are told to hurt someone else, which is good I guess, or bad, who [...]

The advertising industry figured out long ago that website traffic is oftenly wildly exaggerated. Now that's because bots, which are computer programs automatically performing certain tasks, bots are used to falsify data online, so that a [...]

Society is very confused about adultery; everyone knows it's wrong, yet society encourages it by glamorizing it in the media, by making heroes of the immoral, by tolerating it, even promoting pornography which is damaging on a thousand levels, [...]

It's not like God really needed to spell it out: "Thou shalt not kill." Exodus 20:13. You have to wonder how a person can take the life of another. Having said that, there are more than 20,000 murders a year in the United States. We [...]

In Ephesians 6, after urging children to obey their parents, Paul says, "'Honor your father and mother,' which is the first commandment with promise". So what's that promise? Back at Sinai, God said, "that it may be [...]

God wrote in the Ten Commandments, "Honor your father and your mother". Exodus 20, verse 12. I've often been asked how you do that when your father or mother was a terrible person, not someone you would think of as deserving of honor. [...]

God gave the Sabbath for multiple reasons, among them, so people would not forget that He is the creator. Right in the Commandment it says, "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the [...]

God impressed the blessing of the Sabbath upon the minds of His people in some pretty spectacular ways. In the wilderness, God graciously gave Israel manna to eat, food in the desert. For 40 years the manna appeared six days a week, they were [...]

People used to dress up, once upon a time, to fly on a commercial aircraft; men would wear suits and ties, flying was seen as glamorous. Look at a photo of a crowd from yesteryear, you'll notice that most of the men are wearing hats, but that [...]

This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. In the well-known children's story, too hot is too hot, too cool is not warm enough, but somewhere in the middle things were just right. So why is it that in the [...]

The nation of Turkey has a fascinating history. The early Christian church made a major impact here. Three books of the New Testament were written to churches in what today we call Turkey. Ephesus, Colossae, and Galatia were all located in Turkey. [...]

This is "It Is Written". I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. The book of Revelation puzzles a lot of people. It uses a lot of symbolic language, and so you read about a beast that rises up out of the sea and another that rises [...]

Thousands of years ago, nestled among these mountains, was an ancient city, a rich and powerful city, filled with palaces and temples, monuments, and theaters. But while most of the city's wonder and majesty has been lost to time, we're [...]

Izmir, the third largest city in Turkey, Izmir is a beautiful bustling coastal city of more than 3 million people. It's a port city, and it's a tourist destination, especially as it's only 35 miles from Ephesus. But while Izmir is a [...]

Welcome to Turkey. People have been living here longer than almost anywhere else on the planet. It's played an important role throughout history. Ancient ruins dot this storied land. The Trojan War took place here. Alexander the Great conquered [...]

John Bradshaw : Joy Kauffman, thanks so much for being here. I'm thrilled you're here. Thanks for taking your time. Joy Kauffman : Oh, it's wonderful to be here. It's a great privilege. John Bradshaw : I can't wait to dig [...]

Part 1 John Bradshaw : Juliet Van Heerden, welcome to "Conversations". Van Heerden : Thank you. John Bradshaw : Great to have you... back, I should say, welcome back to "Conversations," really good to see ya. Van Heerden : [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. Success doesn't always come easy, and frequently success follows repeated failure. After working on a whaling ship, Rowland started a business with his brother in California. [...]

At Christmas time people start talking about peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's really emphasized at Christmas, and it makes me wonder: how society would look if we emphasized those things more often? What if it was Christmas every [...]

When God gave the Ten Commandments. He did so understanding the way the human mind works. If you lower your conception of God, you also lower yourself, which is why God said, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of [...]

The First Commandment, we know it, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," Exodus 20, verse 3. And it'll be easy to think that you're okay because you've got no Idols in your home, but that doesn't mean you [...]

Before He gave the Ten Commandments, God said something of enormous significance: "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage". Exodus 20, verse 2. Before "you shall have no [...]

As the Promised Land was being divided among the tribes of Israel, Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar near the Jordan River. Joshua 22:12 says, "When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the [...]

The person who tells you about the broccoli stuck in your teeth has done you a favor. Everyone needs that person in your life, not just to tell you about the broccoli, but to let you know when you're on thin ice spiritually. The friend thinking [...]

He was in his early 50s when he retired and moved to Twin Lakes, Alaska and then built the cabin he would live in for more than 30 years. He was pretty well self-sufficient, fishing, hunting, and growing, and gathering much of his food. He [...]

You see it everywhere these days, around necks, in cemeteries, on churches and every time, it can only mean one thing; the cross means the death of Jesus, and more really because shortly after He was taken from the cross and buried in Joseph's [...]

Have you ever been lonely? Of course you have, but do you know what real loneliness is? You wonder why I ask, because this is loneliness: thirty-three years on earth misunderstood, even by family. After you've done nothing but good things your [...]

Why did Jesus have to die? Life is only found in union with God, the life-giver. Sin separated humans from God and therefore brought death. The introduction of sin brought with it the introduction of death, but "God so loved the world, that He [...]

His losses were so great that the bank he worked for completely collapsed and he spent more than four years in prison for fraud. He cost more than a thousand people their jobs while bankrupting a 230 year old institution. One man's [...]

When you're dealing with someone who's done wrong, made mistakes, it's important that you deal with that person redemptively. You want your actions to ultimately benefit that person; especially important when you're dealing with [...]

During wartime it's often necessary to be creative for the sake of safety. During World War II many road signs around Britain were removed because, should the enemy invade, it's better if they don't know exactly where they are. In [...]

In an effort to help the national debt, Taco Bell is pleased to announce that we have agreed to purchase the Liberty Bell, one of our country's most historic treasures. That was in a newspaper ad that appeared in a number of major newspapers in [...]

It's interesting that science says all men have a common ancestor. "Y chromosome Adam" they call him. The theory is that all men descend from an original male. People who believe the Bible would agree. Now science says Y chromosome [...]

God calls you to do it. I can't do it. Why? Because I have no money. God says the silver and the gold are mine, I own the cattle on a thousand hills. Well I can't do it because I don't have the experience. Nehemiah was a butler, not a [...]

Researchers are saying there's a reason some people have a good memory while others do not. Author Dr Mark Milstein says that "super agers" as they're called, keep learning new things throughout their lives and rather than just [...]

As recently as five years ago, one in five adults in the world smoked. In most western countries, the rate of smoking has declined dramatically in recent years. Gone are the days of giving free cigarettes to soldiers or doctors prescribing tobacco [...]

We easily focus on the evil in the world; the sin society's downward spiral but good things still happen, and people are often very kind. A woman who'd moved to another country was required to undergo medical tests which discovered a large [...]

A friend of mine who traveled to Bulgaria told me about an ancient Bulgarian fortress he visited in the northwest of the country, very close to both Serbia and Romania. The fortified walls around huge natural rock formations date back to the time of [...]

If you're not any kind of scientist, science can be confusing. So when someone blinds you with science on the subject of evolution, it can be hard to know what to say, except of course much of evolutionary theory is not based on science. The [...]

Grudges are a fascinating thing. The Hatfields and McCoys feuded for almost 30 years in the late 1800s and lives were lost as a result of grudges kept. If anyone had a right to hold a grudge, it was Joseph whose brothers were going to kill him [...]

As I was approaching the cell where a church member, a murderer, was imprisoned for life, the guard turned to me and said, "So you're here to see Mr X," let's call him. I said I was, and he said, "You know that man has [...]

You'd imagine someone in his position would have been hopeless. His brothers planned at first to kill him, but then sold Joseph as a slave which might have seemed like a fate worse than death. In Egypt he did everything right, but ended up [...]

Even when things get difficult, you have your family. They'll support you, encourage you, they have your back, except of course for when they don't. Many people don't have family support; so in that respect they're just like [...]

When read this I thought I was reading about dogs; you'll know why; the lactation of Saint Bernard. What does that sound like to you? You're thinking of big dogs on the Swiss border, but no. The Lactation of Saint Bernard is a painting of [...]

Because a headstone had been placed in the wrong location, a family in Great Britain spent almost two decades visiting the wrong grave. I'm not sure why they didn't remember exactly where they buried dad, but the unfortunate mix-up [...]

While filming It Is Written programs in Ephesus, in Western Turkey, we were at the famous Celsius Library when we noticed something; cruise ships stopped nearby and so there's a steady stream, or maybe a river of tourists flowing through. Over [...]

A woman and her two adult daughters made a decision to accept Jesus as their Savior and be baptized. They told me that 40 years earlier, a kind man from a church in the nearby city, visited their family and studied the Bible with them and showed [...]

We have a battle as humans and that is that we have to fight against our humanity. Six thousand years after creation all people yield to a greater or lesser extent with selfishness it's easy to be comfortable in your own wisdom but in [...]

Stories like this are not uncommon, a man felt impressed by God to give money to a church project, not just any money he felt God wanted him to give the money he and his wife had saved for a vacation to Hawaii. She was not impressed, but she got on [...]