On busy days Venice, Italy attracts more than a hundred thousand tourists. And news reports routinely state that Venetians are sick of tourists. Now, Venice is imposing an entry fee of as much as 10 Euros for day trippers, because it's [...]

You could just about imagine the awe, the wonder Hiram Bingham experienced. Went on an exhibition in Peru, he came across Machu Picchu, ruins of what was once a magnificent Inca settlement high in the Andes. Bingham was an historian, and a lecturer [...]

Pamplona in northeastern Spain is home to the annual running of the bulls. Between 6 and 10 Bulls are released into the streets of the old city, and people run in front of them, all beside them, for a little over half a mile to a bull ring. Every [...]

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most iconic structures in the world. 300 feet tall standing on a 15-acre island in New York, Harbor, it's visited by three and a half million people a year. It was dedicated in 1886, when Grover Cleveland was [...]

People from all over the world travel to Sydney, Australia to visit the Sydney Opera House. It's a Performing Arts Center, one of the most well-known buildings in the world, owing to its distinctive design. The roof is shaped to resemble the [...]

The statue known as Christ the Redeemer in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil sits atop a mountain on the outskirts of City, depicting Jesus with his arms outstretched. The 125 feet tall statue is an icon in Brazil, it's said to symbolize peace. Jesus is [...]

After the Green Bay Packers lost the NFL championship game against Philadelphia in 1960, head coach Vince Lombardi started training camp in the summer of 1961, by Going Back to Basics. Standing before the players with a football in his hand, [...]

In 1982, the unthinkable happened on a British Airways flight. As the Jumbo Jet cruised at 37.000 feet, one by one all four engines failed. After it flew through a cloud of volcanic ash, which emanated from an Indonesian volcano about a hundred [...]

The story of king Solomon is a tragic tale, but it has a happy ending, his father, David, abdicated, allowing Solomon to ascend the throne, and his early reign was distinguished by peace and prosperity. God's blessing rested on Solomon, but he [...]

When he came to the throne of Israel, Solomon couldn't have been more blessed. He was given great wisdom, Israel prospered, and the man whose God-given name, Jedediah, meant beloved of the Lord, was a model leader. So what happened that led him [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. It's one of the most celebrated of all things. Love has been called "a many-splendored thing". Songs have been sung about love: "Love Me Tender," [...]

Not everyone is called to lead a kingdom, but most everyone has been called to lead something. Parents lead a family, employers lead businesses and employees, employees have duties to carry out, and even children influence others. Solomon was called [...]

When a Mcdonald's in the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, closed for innovations, the owner realized it would be a hardship for his 90 staff, some of whom had been working for him for decades, so he continued to pay his staff as though they were [...]

There are 24 hours in a day, 1440 minutes, 86400 seconds. How much of that time do you think the average person spends thinking about God? How much time do you think about God? And by that I mean thinking, focusing on. Psalms 77:11 and 12 says, [...]

In 2020 a woman called 911, asking that an ambulance be sent to take her mother to the hospital. She told the dispatcher that if her mother didn't get to a hospital, she would die, repeating that again and again. But an ambulance was not sent, [...]

When biologists start using words like "Dread" and "Devastating" things are getting serious. The National Park Service has discovered smallmouth bass have made it south of the Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River, and to say [...]

Everyone heard the warnings. The iconic Cape Henlopen Lighthouse on the Delaware Coast was in danger as the ocean ate away the land on which the lighthouse sat. It was clear the lighthouse was on borrowed time. Some campaigned to save the [...]

When an earthquake struck, a 21-year-old Indonesian air traffic controller had a difficult decision to make, hundreds died, and many more may have, but for his bravery. When his colleagues fled from the swaying control tower as the ground split [...]

You can imagine the parent's great sadness when their teenage son went missing on his way home from school in Northern India. When a 21-year-old man showed up four and a half years later claiming to be the missing boy, the father, a wealthy [...]

When filmmaker Vikram Gandhi created a new persona as an Indian Guru, it didn't take long for him to attract followers who were convinced he had profoundly affected their lives. Even though everything he taught was fake: his character, the [...]

Here's a very pointed Bible verse, this might speak to your heart. Titus 1:16, it says, "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him". Isn't that direct? It doesn't take much to call yourself a Christian. In [...]

It was a shocking story. A man in Tempe Arizona, clearly Disturbed, climbed over a fence, made his way down an embankment, and entered a lake, saying he was going for a swim. It didn't take long for him to get into difficulty, which prompted [...]

This should not be the most surprising thing you hear today: a recent report said that marijuana users are nearly 25% more likely to need emergency care or hospitalization. A professor at the University of Toronto said, "Cannabis use is not as [...]

This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. Thanks for joining me. You might call it the midnight of American history. It's one of the most discussed, written about, and documented subjects in the whole of the American experience. It's [...]

John Bradshaw : Gayle, thanks so much for being here. I really appreciate you taking your time. Gayle Haberkam : Thank you for having me. John Bradshaw : So you're a missionary in Thailand in the jungle? Gayle Haberkam : Right. John Bradshaw : [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]