• E 230: Why Is God Hidden?
    Mar 14 2025

    Why does God reveal Himself in a certain way to some, but to others in a different way? It would be so simple if God would just appear in the sky so that we could know for certain that God is real and therefore it would be easy to believe.

    This is a question that Mark wants to explore more deeply, so join us today and let's see if we can better understand how to find God.

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  • E 229: Our Interview with Charlie...a Fulfilled Jew
    Mar 10 2025

    Today we are honored to introduce you to a good friend of ours from our Men’s group.

    Charlie is a born again, fulfilled Jew. Don't know exactly what that is? Join us as we listen and grow from Charlie's life testimony.

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  • E 228: Trumps Congressional Address and Bad Optics for the Dems
    Mar 7 2025

    "We’ve done more in 45 days that most presidents did during their entire term."

    WOW! What an address Trump gave to Congress and the world this past Wednesday!

    Within the first ten minutes, the Sergeant at Arms was called into service to remove Representative Al Green, Democrat from TX.

    According to a CBS poll, 76% said they approved of Green, being removed from the chamber after disrupting the president's speech.

    Finally. Adults are in charge of the nursery!

    Children democrats with their paddles wouldn’t stand up for ANY of the American accomplishments Trump rattled off. It’s pathetic.

    If I was a democrat watching NOT ONE of my representatives stand for many of Americas accomplishments I would leave that immature body of children. I would be embarrassed to be affiliated with them.

    Here’s what I hope democrats at home saw from the party that represents them. NOT ONE Democrat demonstrated they had an independent backbone.

    NOT ONE had the nerve to break from the herd and stand up to acknowledge the pain, loss or accomplishments of fellow Americans that were recognized as Trumps guest. Not the Laken Riley family, the Comperatore family who lost their dad in Pennsylvania, not the steel worker that has foster over 40 kids, and not even the 13 year old kid fighting brain cancer!

    Individually they couldn’t recognize these survivors…because the herd would kill them politically if they did. Proving they are only interested in personal political survival…not what’s right for the country. They say they are fighting for the democracy….but a true and healthy democracy isn’t divided like this!

    This divide proves that democrat politicians don’t work for their constituents…they can’t even recognize and applaud the kids cancer fight!!! They work for the party bosses. NOT ONE stood up nor stood out as one having a heart or a brain. Not one leader amongst them with a heart, a brain or a backbone.

    Seriously, I think the entire Democrat party needs to be fired and replaced, with progressives, moderates, liberals or even with patriotic democrats … anyone really that is FOR America, SUPPORTERS of any solutions or attempts to improve the system.

    We simply cannot continue to have a divided house or a divided congress that is this bi-partisan!

    The Bible teaches that A house divided WILL NOT stand!

    Here's a few highlights of note:

    On Social Security: Trump pointed out that over 136,000 social security recipients were over the age of 160. He looks over at RFKJ and says "I guess our country is healthier than we thought Bobby." (Lots of laughs)

    “The days of unelected bureaucrats running this country is over”

    Trump announced 1.7 Trillion new investments into American in the past few weeks. That’s not hyperbole…Trump brought the receipts!

    SoftBank committed $200B

    Oracle / AI $500B

    Apple $500 B

    Taiwan semi conductor $164B to build most powerful chips in the USA

    On the Border: Trumps said, “Democrats said we needed new legislation to close the border but it turns out we just needed a NEW President.”

    DJ, at the age of 13, was made a secret service special agent by Trump. He’s already been deputized as an honorary police officer as that was his dream.. he was diagnosed with brain cancer and given months to live but has carried on for several years…and the democrats couldn’t even stand up and celebrate this kids fight against cancer or his “make a wish” aspirations of wanting to grow up an serve his country as as a police officer!

    Jason, another young man who lost his father, a border law enforcement officer…Trump heard Jason was hoping to get into the Academy, said “Jason your Application was accepted at West Point military academy!”

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  • E 227: Trumps 3-Dimensional Chess Board Strategy
    Mar 3 2025

    Today Mark is going to shed some light on Trumps 3-Dimensional Chess Game Strategy that the media refuses to expose OR it's a strategy they simply cannot comprehend.

    The fuses have been lit on multiple fronts to keep law fare at bay and those screaming about DOGE in check.

    We'll also ask the question, is there any gold in Fort Knox?

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  • E 226: Something Significant is Missing from the Jewish and Islamic Faiths that could Bring the Peace We Seek - Part 5 Conclusions
    Feb 28 2025

    I hope you have learned a few things about the Abrahamic Religions that you didn’t know before. Today we will present our conclusions to this study.

    Christianity places, defines and holds a significant, life changing Tenet that Jews and Muslims do not acknowledge nor revere.

    That difference is the Life, Work, Teachings and Examples of Christ Jesus, for all Faiths to ponder and accept AS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS! A REDEEMER! WITHOUT A REDEEMER, none of us are worthy to enter the Kingdom of God.

    Jews nor Muslims recognize that their God sent His Son to stand in the gap for our failure to understand the core tenet of the Creator, (“Love your neighbor as yourself”).

    The price he paid, as a man, as a rabbi, a prophet …IN DEATH…was not HIS PUNISHMENT for living…BUT OURS! His willingness to submit (to the will of God our Father) and suffer crucifixion, WAS TO PAY FOR ALL OF OUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SINS, NOT HIS!

    He healed and restored many during his ministry, but the Jewish leaders couldn’t accept it. They saw prophecy fulfilled but did not want to acknowledge it, and they witnessed many miracles…yet they see no need for salvation, have no concept of Original Sin (as defined in the first book of their Torah!?) They have no need for “miracles”, yet they WAIT FOR A MESSIAH to make all things right?!

    Do they not see that Jehovah has been protecting them prior to 1947? How have they survived this long? How do they describe their iron dome? Is that not a miracle in itself?

    Muslims do not believe in “Original Sin” either. They believe that no one can bear the sin of anyone else, or redeem him with his own self. The Prophet Muhammad proclaimed that redemption and damnation are individual and everyone is his own redeemer for he bears within his heart all possibilities of spiritual success or failure.

    How can “everyone be their own redeemer” IF NO ONE CAN BEAR THE SIN OF ANYONE ELSE including himself? Both statements cannot be true at the same time!

    What if I told you that Allah has already GIFTED YOU MERCY!! You can have it NOW…ahead of Paradise! It’s yours to ACCEPT or REJECT. If you accept His GIFT and follow Him, you will see Heaven. If you reject His gift, you’ve rejected Heaven.

    As a Christian, IF everything I HOLD as Scriptural…and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, and pursue it with abandon, with passion, sincerity, love and compassion for ALL PEOPLE...and in the end…we learn that my choosing to follow Christ was RIGHT…my DESTINY and ENTRY INTO PARADISE is GUARANTEED!

    Also, if I failed to understand something, something we’ve defined as “less significant things” (like a ritual or a man made law), but LOVE others as instructedI LOSE NOTHING!

    If you as a Muslim or Jew, in the end, are found to have misinterpreted the SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRIST AS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE REDEEMER…your ETERNITY will be NOTHING CLOSE TO PARADISE.

    But if a misguided Jew or Muslim is wrong…you lose EVERYTHING! No PARADISE. No PEACE. No REST. No HEAVENLY KINGDOM to come!

    That connection is through HIS SON, Jesus, who paid your DEBT and ENTRY FEE into Heaven…IN FULL at the CROSS! IT CANNOT BE EARNED or WORKED OFF! IT WAS AND REMAINS - A GIFT. A GIFT OF GOD’s initial and forever, LOVE TO YOU AND FOR YOU!

    The Creator IS LIFE not death. He offers a blessed and prosperous life NOW to those that choose Him.

    In the end, it’s not the things we differ on that matters. It’s hearing the Truth for the first time maybe and practicing the attributes and examples of CHRIST…that are WORTHY OF PURSUING! These are the things that MATTER!


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  • E 225: The Middle East Players and the Conflict between the Sunni and the Shia
    Feb 24 2025

    Today we will take a closer look into who the Sunni’s and Shia are in Islam.

    Mark and I believe, along with a host of scholars, that we are currently living in HISTORIC and BIBLICAL TIMES in 2025 and it’s important to understand who the Middle Eastern players are and what is their story, so that we can get up to speed in understanding the significance of what’s coming.

    In the Middle East, Muslims of Islam divided into territories initially by tribes. Borders were fought over and today most have settled their land, their borders and have both striving and thriving economies.

    Within the Islamic Religion, there lies another conflict that remains unresolved due to disagreements as to whom should have been Muhammad’s successor.

    Though the two main sects within Islam, Sunni and the Shities or Shia, agree on most of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam, a bitter split between the two goes back some 14 centuries. The divide originated with a dispute over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Islamic faith he introduced.

    Today, about 85 percent of the approximately 2 billion Muslims around the world are Sunni, while 15 percent are Shia.

    Shia represent the majority of the population in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain and Azerbaijan and a plurality in Lebanon.

    Sunnis are the majority in more than 40 other countries, from Morocco to Indonesia.

    Despite their differences, Sunni and Shia have lived alongside each other in relative peace for most of history. But starting in the late 20th century, the schism deepened, exploding into violence in many parts of the Middle East as extreme brands of Sunni and Shia Islam battle for both religious and political supremacy.

    “The essence of the problem is that Muhammad died without a male heir, and he never clearly stated who he would want to be his successor,” says Lesley Hazleton, author of After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Sunni-Shia Split in Islam. “This was important, because by the time he died, he had basically brought all the tribes of Arabia together into a kind of confederation that became the ummah—the people or nation of Islam.”

    Sunni-Shia divisions would fuel a long-running civil war in Syria, fighting in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere, and terrorist violence on both sides. A common thread in most of these conflicts is the ongoing battle between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran for influence in the oil-rich Middle East and surrounding regions.

    Until non-radicalized, moderate or mainstream peacekeeping Muslims, both followers and Imams, stand up and explain their faith to the rest of us and hold their radicals to account…things will not get better.

    Is Hamas Sunni or Shia?

    Why does Iran support Hamas?

    Why does Qatar support Hamas?

    Does Egypt support Palestine?


    One Reference Source of many:

    BY: SARAH PRUITT

    Sarah Pruitt is a writer and editor based in seacoast New Hampshire. She has been a frequent contributor to History.com since 2005, and is the author of Breaking History: Vanished! (Lyons Press, 2017), which chronicles some of history's most famous disappearances.


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  • E 224: A deeper examination of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. What Should They Be Able to Agree On?
    Feb 21 2025

    I hope you have been enjoying this series. Today we’ll start tallying up our Tenets and address the questions we've been posing along the way.

    There is something Gods people, the collective children of the world, haven’t learned yet, and until we do, there will be conflict and struggle for all of us, that should NOT EXIST!!

    I would like to believe that IT IS POSSIBLE that WE ALL could agree, that the essence, the mission and purpose, for ALL walks of Faith, is the nurturing and promotion of LOVE as defined in 1 Corinthians 13, regardless of who said it.

    Look at 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

    “If I speak with the tongues of men..., but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong...; and if I have all faith..., but do not have love, I am nothing.

    Said differently, “if I have all the Faith (all the Faith my Faith teaches), but do not show love, I am nothing! If you have adopted a Faith of your culture, upbringing or individual conviction, but do not share love to others outside of your Faith, your Faith, your religion, your prophet and your conviction is WORTHLESS!

    In Summary, what can we agree on.

    1. That we all were created by an Almighty, omnipresent, omniscient, universal and transcendent CREATOR
    2. That He and HE ALONE brings life, gives instruction as to how to live a moral and upright life and hope in a life after
    3. That without a DIVINE PROVIDENCE working through each of us, a meaningful and purposeful life is impossible
    4. That IF someone believes differently than us, its NOT our job to convert them or judge them but to at least, love them
    5. That without LOVE we ARE NOTHING. Period. Our life is nothing, our land and where we live…means nothing, our believed inheritance means nothing…and our DEVOTION TO OUR FAITH means NOTHING (according to 1 Corinthians 13.)

    What then, becomes subservient to the “AGREED ON” TENETS?

    1. That eating habits or legalistic dietary laws, could be practiced or not practiced by anyone that opts in, without judgement of others
    2. That continual fighting over former inheritance claims to lands is NOT A WAY TO HEAVEN or PARADISE for believers today
    3. That any and all currently shared HOLY GROUNDS should and must remain revered and protected HOLY GROUND … SHARED by ALL
    4. That Scriptures or teachings that are unique to your Faith, must not claim dominance or superiority over other Faiths

    NONE OF US ARE BETTER THAN THE OTHER! We all fall short of the glory of God. If you believe otherwise, you should be held back.

    Judaism does not target or seek out the uncircumcised for persecution, execution or extinction. Specifically, Israel is not trying to conquer new lands or overthrow another Faith.

    “You have been severed from Christ, (God), you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. (Here we have a WARNING for all Faiths). For we through the Spirit (spirit of Yahweh, Allah, or Christ), by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.” Galatians 5:4-5

    “For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”” (All faiths should be able to accept this statement). Galatians 5:13-14

    If we can’t figure out how to LOVE our brother…it doesn’t matter which Faith you associate with. Your Faith is MEANINGLESS.

    Study References and Sources:

    Christianity in View: www.christianityinview.com/xncomparison.html

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  • E 223: The Differences and Similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam - Part 2
    Feb 17 2025

    Today, we will be digging deeper into these different Faiths, the significance of Jerusalem and what each Faith deems to be their HOLY LAND and why.

    Jewish theology is unitarian. In Judaism, the one God of Israel is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the 613 Mitzvot at Mount Sinai as described in the Torah.

    Jewish tradition claims that the Twelve Tribes of Israel are descended from Abraham through his son Isaac (Isaac first appears in the Torah, in which he is the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel.)

    In contrast, Islamic tradition claims that twelve Arab tribes known as the Ishmaelites are descended from Abraham through his son Ishmael in the Arabian Peninsula. (Ismael) was the first son of Abraham. His mother was Hagar, the handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah.)

    Jerusalem is considered Judaism's holiest city. Its origins can be dated to 1004 BCE,when according to Biblical tradition David established it as the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel, and his son, Solomon built the First Temple on Mount Moriah. Since the Hebrew Bible relates that Isaac's sacrifice took place there, Mount Moriah's importance for Jews predates even these prominent events.

    According to the New Testament, Jerusalem was the city Jesus was brought to as a child to be presented at the temple, and for the feast of the Passover. He preached and healed in Jerusalem, drove the money changers from the temple there, held the Last Supper in an "upper room" there the night before he was crucified on the cross and was arrested in Gethsemane.

    Jerusalem became holy to Muslims, after Mecca and Medina. The Al-Aqsa, which translates to "farthest mosque" in sura

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