Is hell eternal torment… annihilation… or something we've misunderstood?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I engage in a great conversation with Kirk Cameron where we explore the growing theological debate around the nature of hell, the importance of intellectual hospitality inside the church and how Christians can engage culture with clarity and courage instead of caricature and cowardice.

We discuss his "Hellgate" project and why some believers are re-examining long-held assumptions about eternal conscious torment, conditional immortality and universalism. Kirk calls for us to return to a robust scriptural understanding—without turning secondary disagreements into "scriptural cage matches."

But this conversation goes deeper than doctrine.

We also talk about boldness in a culture that mocks faith, why fear silences Christians and how preparation produces courage. Kirk and I talk about the call not to abandon culture, but to redeem it through family, media and long-term faithfulness.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Do I hold my theological convictions with both confidence and humility?

• Am I preparing for boldness or hoping it shows up when pressure hits?

📌 In this episode, we discuss:

✅ The three major historical views of hell: Eternal Conscious Torment, Universalism and Conditional Immortality

✅ The difference between tradition and textual authority

✅ Intellectual hospitality and what Kirk calls "The I don't know Shelf"

✅ Why secondary doctrinal disagreements shouldn't divide the church

✅ The fear of God vs. the fear of cultural backlash

✅ Boldness as trained reflex—not belligerence

✅ The role of preparation in spiritual courage

✅ Why salvation isn't a theological pop quiz but repentance and belief

📢 TAKE ACTION:

📖 Study Scripture deeply before defending it loudly

🤝 Practice intellectual humility within Christian community

🙏 Train for courage through daily obedience

🎬 Support media that builds families and honors truth

🗣 Engage culture boldly—but never belligerently

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What does it actually mean to be a man in a culture that calls masculinity "toxic"?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I sit down with Lieutenant General (Retired) Jerry Boykin—original member of Delta Force and Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council—to confront the growing crisis of modern masculinity and reclaim a vision of Biblical Manhood rooted not in bravado, but in courage, obedience and spiritual discipline.

We talk candidly about the physical, moral and spiritual decline of men in the West, the dangers of overprotective parenting and why hardship is not cruelty—but preparation. From collapsing military readiness to declining testosterone levels to churches that have abandoned discipleship, this conversation pulls no punches.

Most importantly, Gen. Boykin explains why men don't "rise to the occasion"—they fall to their level of preparation—and why daily spiritual disciplines are essential in a world of real spiritual warfare.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Where have I confused comfort with love—especially in how I raise or mentor young men?
  
  
  
• Am I training for spiritual battle, or drifting unprepared?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ Why "toxic masculinity" is a label meant to weaken men, not refine them

✅ The shocking physical decline of American men and military readiness

✅ Why hardship builds resilience—and overprotection destroys it

✅ The difference between cultural bravado and biblical courage

✅ Moral courage as the rarest and most necessary virtue

✅ Why men don't rise to challenges—they fall to preparation

✅ The reality of spiritual warfare and the armor of God

✅ Daily Scripture and prayer as non-negotiables for manhood

✅ How hypocrisy in fathers drives young people away from the faith

✅ The role of mentorship, discipline, and brotherhood in forming men

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Reject cultural caricatures of manhood

📖 Commit to daily Scripture and prayer

💪 Embrace hardship as preparation, not punishment

👥 Seek out godly men and be one

🔥 Lead with courage, not noise

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What happens when the church becomes more focused on comfort than courage?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I sit down with Michael Easley—former president of Moody Bible Institute—to talk about why so many Christians and pastors are afraid to speak boldly in today's culture.

We explore how fear of backlash has pushed churches into consumer-driven models, how biblical literacy has collapsed and why boldness isn't something you suddenly discover in a crisis—it's something you train through daily spiritual discipline.

This conversation is a wake-up call for anyone who senses the church is drifting, accommodating, or losing its backbone in a post-truth world.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Have I confused comfort with spiritual maturity?

• Where is fear keeping me from speaking truth with clarity and love?

📌 Featured conversations include:

✅ Michael Easley on why fear is silencing today's church

✅ The shift from discipleship to a consumer-driven church model

✅ Why biblical literacy is collapsing in modern Christianity

✅ Boldness vs. belligerence in a hostile culture

✅ The three pillars of spiritual growth: Word, Spirit, People

✅ Why pastors feel pressured to accommodate instead of equip

✅ How micro-habits turn discipline into spiritual reflex

✅ Practical tools for Bible study, prayer and maturity

📢 TAKE ACTION:

📖 Commit again to God's Word—not cultural trends

🧠 Train boldness through daily obedience, not crisis emotion

🙏 Pursue spiritual maturity through discipline and community

🗣 Speak truth with courage, clarity, and restraint

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Can biblical miracles actually be investigated like a cold case?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with Detective J. Warner Wallace—former atheist, homicide detective and author of Cold-Case Christianity—to explore how investigative methodology can be applied to the truth claims of Scripture.

We talk about what it means to follow the evidence trail of Christianity the way a detective follows the facts of a case: weighing eyewitness reliability, corroboration, motivation and consistency over time.

From the resurrection of Jesus to the historicity of Noah's Flood, Wallace argues that Christianity is not built on blind leaps, but on cumulative reasoning—"death by a thousand paper cuts"—where the weight of evidence points toward the most reasonable conclusion.

We also wrestle with why God gives enough evidence to invite belief, but not so much that He removes human freedom. Because love, surrender, and faith require the capacity to choose.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Am I willing to examine Christianity the way I'd examine any other historical claim—with honesty and intellectual humility?
  
  
  
• Where might I be resisting truth, not because of lack of evidence, but because of the cost of surrender?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ How cold case detectives evaluate events without living witnesses

✅ The four tests of eyewitness reliability: presence, consistency, corroboration, motivation

✅ Why the resurrection is the central "anchor miracle" of Christianity

✅ How Jesus' authority validates the Old Testament accounts

✅ The Genesis Flood and over 200 global flood traditions

✅ Why the Bible's ark description is technically distinct from pagan myths

✅ Faith as informed trust—not blind belief

✅ Why God gives evidence without coercion

✅ The relationship between free agency, love, and belief

✅ How Christians can engage skeptics with courage, not belligerence

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Treat Christianity as an evidential worldview, not a private fantasy

📖 Study the Scriptures with intellectual seriousness

🔍 Ask honest questions and follow the trail wherever it leads

🙏 Seek truth with humility—not independence

🗣 Speak with boldness rooted in clarity, not noise

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Is abortion really healthcare or is it the intentional ending of a patient's life?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I sit down with Dr. Bill Lile, an OBGYN and founder of ProLifeDoc.org, to examine abortion through a scientific, ethical and medical lens.

Dr. Lile argues that pregnancy is never a one-patient situation. Every time a woman is expecting, there are at least two patients — the mother and the pre-born child. And modern fetal medicine has made that reality impossible to deny.

From fetal surgery centers to the abortion pill crisis, this conversation challenges the cultural narrative that abortion is a form of "care," and instead reframes it as the deliberate termination of a life to whom a doctor owes a duty.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• If medicine exists to protect patients, what happens when one patient is treated as disposable?
  
  
  
• Are rights really determined by size, dependency or location?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ Why pregnancy always involves at least two patients

✅ How fetal surgery proves the baby is medically treated as a distinct patient

✅ The ethical contradiction of killing the same child medicine can operate on

✅ Why abortion violates the physician's duty of care

✅ The abortion pill's hidden complication rates and ER visits

✅ How mail-order chemical abortions eliminate basic medical safeguards

✅ The dangers of undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy without ultrasound

✅ The "location argument" — why inside vs. outside the womb changes nothing

✅ How science and medicine reach secular audiences more effectively than slogans

✅ Why abortion is not healthcare, but the intentional ending of human life

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Learn the medical facts — not just political talking points

👶 Defend the unborn as real patients with real dignity

🙏 Pray for courage among doctors and lawmakers

🗣 Speak clearly with truth and compassion

🏥 Support organizations protecting both mother and child

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What happens when the government demands Christians affirm what they believe is false — while culture markets a version of Jesus that avoids repentance altogether?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I explore two major modern pressures against biblical truth:

One is legal and coercive — where the state increasingly requires verbal affirmation of ideological claims, even against conscience.

The other is cultural and subtle — where our Lord is repackaged into something emotionally safe, but theologically thin.

From the federal court case involving compelled pronoun speech in public schools, to the Super Bowl's "He Gets Us" ad, this episode examines the deeper battle underneath both:

Who defines truth? Who defines humanity? And who holds ultimate authority — God or man?

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Am I being pressured to affirm something I know isn't true?
  
  
  
• Have I accepted a version of Jesus that comforts me but never confronts me?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ The rise of compelled speech in schools and workplaces

✅ Why forced affirmation is different from restricted harmful speech

✅ The federal Polk case and the erosion of conscience protections

✅ How courts redefine ideological compliance as "professional expectations"

✅ The "He Gets Us" campaign and the soft marketing of Jesus

✅ Why emotional accessibility can become "cheap grace"

✅ The Parable of the Sower and faith that cannot survive trials

✅ The two-pronged cultural strategy: force in public, dilution in private

✅ Why biblical boldness must replace fear in modern Christianity

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Learn the difference between truth and cultural affirmation

📖 Hold fast to the full Gospel — not a softened substitute

🙏 Train courage through prayer, scripture, and daily obedience

🗣 Speak truth with clarity, not belligerence

🔥 Refuse both coercion and compromise

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Should American taxpayers be forced to fund elective abortions?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I break down the growing political battle surrounding the Hyde Amendment — a 50-year-old policy that has long prevented federal dollars from paying for elective abortion.

For decades, this principle has been a bedrock of Republican pro-life policy. But now, as Congress negotiates the extension of Obamacare subsidies, some GOP leaders are signaling "flexibility" on Hyde in order to secure bipartisan support.

I explain why that shift would be far more than political compromise — it could represent the collapse of one of the most important pro-life protections in U.S. history, with massive moral, legal and electoral consequences.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• What happens when political convenience begins to outweigh moral conviction?
  
  
  
• Is compromise still compromise when it costs millions of lives?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ What the Hyde Amendment is — and why it has mattered for 50 years

✅ How it has protected an estimated 2.6 million lives since 1976

✅ Why Hyde must be reauthorized and is constantly under threat

✅ How Obamacare was designed to sidestep Hyde through accounting loopholes

✅ The current Senate showdown and the 60-vote reality

✅ Why Democrats refuse to include Hyde protections in healthcare negotiations

✅ The political danger for Republicans if they abandon the pro-life base

✅ Polling data showing most Americans oppose taxpayer-funded abortion

✅ Why federal money is "fungible" — even pro-life states still subsidize abortion

✅ The broader call for supporting women beyond abortion prevention

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧾 Know what your tax dollars are funding

🗳 Hold elected officials accountable to moral clarity

🙏 Pray for courage among lawmakers under pressure

🏛 Speak up before decades of precedent collapse

🤝 Support ministries and centers that care for mothers and families

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What does effective missionary work actually look like in the modern world?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with John Darnell, CEO of Global Outreach International (GOI), and talk about what real long-term missions require—and why so much of what we call "missions" today often lacks depth, strategy or lasting impact.

GOI supports hundreds of career missionaries across dozens of nations, and their model is built on something surprisingly uncommon: preparation, accountability, cultural immersion and gospel clarity.

We discuss why short-term trips only matter when they serve long-term disciple-making…why language and presence come before proclamation… and how missionaries can avoid becoming nothing more than humanitarian NGOs without the message of Christ.

This conversation is a much-needed reset on what global missions were always meant to be.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Do I view missions as a lifestyle of discipleship—or as an occasional spiritual experience?
  
  
  
• Am I willing to count the cost of long-term obedience, not just short-term inspiration?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I discuss:

✅ The GOI model: 368 missionaries across 70 countries

✅ Why long-term cultural immersion matters more than short-term emotion

✅ The real purpose of short-term mission trips

✅ "Presence and proclamation" — showing and sharing the gospel together

✅ How missionaries avoid drifting into pure humanitarianism

✅ Business-as-mission and creative platforms in closed nations

✅ Why language and cultural understanding come before effective evangelism

✅ Spiritual realities on the mission field that the West often ignores

✅ The role of the local church as the biblical sender and authority

✅ How Christians can break out of comfort-zone Christianity at home

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🌍 Support long-term missionaries, not just short-term experiences

📖 Pray for gospel endurance in hard places

🏛 Encourage your church to pursue accountable, strategic missions

🔥 Ask yourself where God may be calling you beyond comfort

🤝 Show God's love—but never separate it from sharing His truth

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