Does God have a plan for your life? Nope.
God has a plan for His creation and your job is to find and fulfill your place in it.
Rick Tryon
Watchdog Alert: Culture Versus Truth
The headlines keep proving the same point: America doesn’t have a noise problem—it has a truth problem.
Every day it’s something new—identity debates, speech battles, moral lines being redrawn in real time. What was obvious five years ago is now “controversial.” What was stable is now negotiable. Culture isn’t just shifting. It’s untethered.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” — Isaiah 5:20
That’s not ancient history—that’s today’s news cycle.
We’re watching a society try to function without fixed truth. And it doesn’t work. It can’t work. Because when truth becomes personal preference, reality starts breaking down. So people get louder. More aggressive. More defensive.
Because deep down, everyone knows something’s off.
Here’s the difference: culture chases approval—truth confronts reality. Our Lord didn’t adjust truth to fit the crowd. He stood on it, even when it cost Him everything.
So What?
And that’s where this lands for us. We don’t need to win arguments online. We don’t need to out-shout the culture. We need to be anchored.
Because when everything around us shifts, the only thing that keeps us standing is something that doesn’t. Truth isn’t evolving. It’s been established.
If our beliefs change with the culture, they were never built on truth to begin with.
Biblical Archaeology: Mass Children’s Grave Discovered
Mass Children’s Grave Discovered at Tel Azekah
April 13, 2026
Archaeologists uncovered a burial site containing the remains of numerous children at Tel Azekah, a strategic site mentioned in 1 Samuel 17 (the David and Goliath narrative).
From Associates for Biblical Research
“Archaeologists from Tel Azekah recently published an article in Palestine Exploration Quarterly in which they report the discovery of a mass grave of children that dates to the Persian era. The skeletal remains of between 68 and 89 children were discovered in a cistern that was dated to the fifth century BC based on the pottery and other small finds recovered nearby.”
Azekah was a fortified city in the Kingdom of Judah, and findings here help reconstruct life in the era of Saul and David.
The discovery may shed light on ancient warfare, disease, or ritual practices in Judah’s Shephelah region.
They Said It: Four Quotes On The Book Of Ecclesiastes
Here are four powerful quotes from well-known spiritual leaders and thinkers about the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Donald Miller (Christian author & speaker)
“It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.”
Mark Driscoll (Pastor & author)
“Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting somewhere only to die and fall off so that the new young stud can take his turn peddling… We would be wise to see postmodernity as simply the new guy on the old bike and not mistake cultural change for kingdom progress.”
Philip Yancey (Christian thinker & bestselling author)
“As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.”
Paulo Coelho (International spiritual writer)
“A time to be born, and a time to die… a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
Watchdog Alert: Holy Land Archaeology
Some recent archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land.
Byzantine‑Era Church Damaged by Hezbollah Rocket (Nahariya, Northern Israel)
Date: April 12, 2026 A Hezbollah rocket strike hit a protective structure covering a Byzantine‑era church in Nahariya. The church—originally destroyed by the Persians in 614 CE and restored by the Israel Antiquities Authority—suffered new damage. This incident brought renewed attention to the site’s mosaics and its long restoration history.
Jerusalem Post
Mass Infant Burial Discovered in Ancient Cistern at Tel Azekah
Date: April 1, 2026 Archaeologists uncovered a mass grave of 89 infants inside a cistern at Tel Azekah. The find includes pottery jars, beads, copper jewelry, and stone tools, offering a rare and sobering window into life—and death—in biblical‑era Judah.
Israel365 News
Sunken Ship Yields Iron Blooms Revealing Ancient Israel’s Metallurgy
Date: March 30, 2026 A shipwreck off Israel’s coast produced iron blooms—raw iron masses—providing new insight into ancient Israel’s maritime trade and metal‑production economy. The discovery helps reconstruct how iron technology spread and was transported in the region.
Israel365 News
Biblical Literacy: Lions, Wolves, And Lambs
There will be a time when, in the restored creation, a beautiful new paradigm will be the reality for God’s people, creation, and all creatures. Peace and justice will reign under the mighty hand of God and the righteous King He has set to reign forever, Jesus Christ.
But nowhere does the Bible say, “The lion shall lie down with the lamb.”
That is an often‑used phrase that paints a nice picture—but it’s just not in Scripture.
The biblical text is Isaiah 11:6, which says: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” (KJV)
Close, but no cigar.
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Churchianity And Politics
The folks who hated Jesus most, and the ones he leveled his most scathing rebukes at, were the religious leaders of his time and culture.
Followers of Yeshua the Messiah shouldn’t be surprised or discouraged by the ridicule and snarky attacks on us because of our faith, or by the tiresome and faithless virtue‑signaling and false preaching and teaching coming from the poohbahs and “leaders” of organized churchianity.
Just remember what the religious and political leaders of that time and that culture did to our Lord over 2,000 years ago, and to the faithful in subsequent generations.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
This present age is not our friend, but there is a day certain when this present age ends and the suffering Servant becomes a reigning King.
Watchdog Alert: Pope Leo XIV Wrong Again
In a recent post, I pointed out that the current Pope was wrong about God not answering prayers from those engaged in war. Today we have another example of the Pontiff making erroneous claims.
On April 16, 2026, during his peace meeting at Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV said the following:
“Jesus told us, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.’”
Jesus didn’t say that.
The only part of what the Pope claimed — “Jesus told us…” — that Jesus actually told us is “Blessed are the peacemakers.” The other stuff about “political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth”, was not something Jesus said.
In other words, the Pope is either lying about what our Lord said, intentionally trying to deceive people in order to make a political point, or he simply doesn’t know what Jesus actually said according to the Bible.
It may be a combination of all three.
The Twelfth Imam Is A Counterfeit Jesus Christ
Shia Islam has a doctrine known as Twelver Shi‘ism.
According to this doctrine, the Twelfth Imam entered ghaybah (occultation) — a state of divine concealment — in the 9th century. He is considered to be still alive and will one day return as the Mahdi, a messianic figure who will establish global justice.
There is only one man who has died and been resurrected to live forevermore — Jesus Christ.
There is only one man who will one day return as King of kings and Lord of lords to “establish global justice” — Jesus Christ.
Those making similar claims about any other person who has ever lived are dealing in counterfeit spiritual currency.