Much of the confusion and questioning of today about eschatology arises from the fact that the Church did not make a distinction between passages related to (1) the “this generation” AD 70 coming of Jesus (Matt. 24:30; 26:64) and what is described (2) as a yet future second physical coming of Jesus. (See my “Slam Dunk” article). The Nicene Creed states, “And He shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead.” The Apostles’ Creed reads, “He shall come to judg...| The American Vision
Gary discusses pastors and politics and answers a Facebook commenter named “Missionary Larry.” Some have abused Jesus’ name and deeds in their attempts to bring about a “better society.” Jesus has been portrayed as a social revolutionary, the purveyor of a “liberation theology” which is little more than Karl Marx dressed in religious garb. Because of the way Christ’s redemptive message and work had been minimized by modern-day “liberationists” and previous social gospel ad...| The American Vision
The Charlie Kirk assassination has shaken the world. There have been vigils in countries like Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, and Australia. Additional ones are planned for the US. Are there any lessons? How should the church respond? Is what happened to Charlie Kirk a teaching moment? I saw this: The following quotation is from the Preface to my book God and Government. It’s attributed to Martin Luther: If Luther didn’t say it, he certainly practiced it, as did many Christ...| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary briefly discusses the Charlie Kirk assassination and goes into detail about a new book he received the day before called The Separation of Church and Hate. While Jesus is often looked upon as a positive example of why Christians should not be involved in social issues, the Pharisees are seen as a negative example for why Christians should not get involved in social issues. The general impression is “the Pharisees were the best...| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary answers a listener question about Bible prophecy. If the purpose of Revelation was to demonstrate that the events of the book were a prophetic certainty that could occur at any time, John could have been told to write, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His bond-servants the things which must take place.” This wording would have had the effect of expressing necessity without committing to any time pa...| The American Vision
The day before the murder of Charlie Kirk, I received the book Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang. His attacks are misplaced. The actual haters are on the Left, with too many examples to list here. For Fugelsang, “hate” is disagreeing with Leftist ideology and a supposed misuse of the Bible. His next book should be about how the Left puts its hatred into violent action....| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary interviews J.D. Rucker with Patriot.tv and TheLibertyDaily.com. If you want to get young people excited and motivated, teach them the whole purpose of God. Present the history of law in the world and how it has impacted the civilized world. Such things are a major part of our lives. If pastors don’t preach and teach on these topics, the people are going to go elsewhere for the information, much of which will be unreliable. Jos...| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate, said our rights come from the government. We dodged that bullet in 2016 like we did in 2024. The presidential candidates were bad enough, but their running mates were idiots. Tim Walz continues to embarrass himself, as Tim Kaine does. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Kaine said the following: The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come f...| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary recaps his recent trip to Moscow, Idaho and all of the various people he met while there. The modern church that refuses to take a stand against the evils of the day is good for nothing. In the gospels, Jesus explains it this way: “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing any more, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men” (Matt...| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 56 Gary discusses general interpretative principles about the Bible and specifically, the book of Revelation. The view of prophecy that is most popular today is dispensational premillennialism, the belief that the Bible is split up into a variety of “dispensations” and that most prophetic passages in the Bible refer to a time still in our future. Modern dispensational scholars like to a...| The American Vision
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Discussions about “dominion” have taken a wild turn based on Christian Nationalism, a designation I do not like. Dominion theology is equated to ‘Christian Nationalism.’ Here’s one example: “With a burgeoning interest in the idea of Christian Nationalism, the Christian Church in America has seen a renewed interest in modified versions of theonomy.” If “modified versions of theonomy” are in operation, it would be bes...| americanvision.org
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary interviews Doug Wilson about the how and why of worldview Christianity. When the sixteenth-century German Reformer Martin Luther “was called to defend his rejection of indulgences before the church and before the emperor, Luther, alone and in peril of his life, appealed to the authority of the Word of God. ‘Here I stand,’ he said; ‘I can do no other.| americanvision.org
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant When there’s a tragedy, you know what Democrats are going to say. “Guns are the problem,” and “thoughts and prayers” are not a solution. “Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr pinch-hit for MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour and, during the discussion on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, blamed the GOP and its embrace of gun culture for mass shootings in America.| americanvision.org
Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Reality and “truth” are being fragmented by modern political and social efforts and promulgated through the internet and social media. Science is absolutely dependent upon uniformity because without it we could not infer from past events what we can expect under like circumstances in the future. Physical science absolutely requires the ability to predict the future action of material entities.| americanvision.org