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Are You Clicking with God?
Scratch an Itch
November 12, 2025
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
-2 Tim. 4:1-5 (NIV)
Lately I’m seeing more news of pastors or public Christian speakers arrested or muzzled on account of their Christian faith.
In Malaysia, Pastor Raymond Koh remains missing since 2017. His wife recently won a court case that awarded her family the equivalent of $7,377,132 USD for the abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh. The High Court ruled the pastor was abducted by police officials, the Royal Malaysian Police and the Malaysian government. The additional sad news is this pastor remains missing. The full article can be found here:
Of course, and for greater context, it’s worth considering the article mentions it’s illegal to lead ethnic Malays (considered Muslim) to Christ, where Islam is the national religion of Malaysia as indicated by article 3 of their constitution.
In the UK, street preacher John Steele was wrongfully arrested for reportedly asking a question about Islam. He was arrested and detained for a “non-crime hate incident” and afterwards was released and vindicated. Video footage showed Steele holding a banner showing verses from Acts and 1 Timothy. The full article can be found here:
https://christianconcern.com/news/christian-preacher-vindicated-after-arrest-for-questioning-quran/
In 2019 pastor David Lynn in Toronto was arrested for preaching the gospel at an LGBTQ pride event and was since released on bail. The full article can be found here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/5355366/church-wellesley-village-david-lynn-released/
And now I see surprising news about “Minister” Marc Miller, the current “Minister” of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship in Canada and a member of Parliament for the Montreal riding of Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-Ile des-Soeurs. Notice I put his title of Minister in quotations as he’s certainly not a Christian minister and is a head of a government department (the secular form of the minister title). Marc Miller has publicly declared passages in Leviticus, Romans other passages as “hate speech” towards the LGBTQ. Potentially this could one day lead to charging individuals using these biblical verses and perhaps others. Here’s one video clip summarizing the situation from a Christian perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJts_gdlJqs
This tells me increasingly, Christians are becoming public enemy #1 in the world, but that’s nothing new! Perhaps one day I may be detained in prison and if you’re a Christian reading this, you may too! Verse 3 in our reading tells us that people will gather a great number of teachers around them to say what their itching ears want to say. They want their itching ears scratched and not healed! Only Jesus and by the washing of the Holy Spirit can people be healed (1 Cor. 6:9-11). Currently much of the public in North America doesn’t like to hear anything biblical about the LGBTQ. Globally, much of the public doesn’t want to hear anything biblical about the real Jesus being the Son of God, the only Saviour of the world, God in human flesh, that he died for our sins and rose from the grave in victory, etc!
….but should that stop Christians from sharing the gospel? Absolutely not! Preach the word and be prepared! Moreover, and when we read Matthew 28:19, where does it tell us to make disciples of some people and some nations? This instruction was given to the disciples of Jesus’ time, but is now handed over to us to make disciples of ALL nations! Where in scripture does it ever tell us to stop making disciples? Where in scripture does it tell us to not be bold in our faith? I’ll borrow a line from Jon Dykeman’s last sermon when he quoted fitness expert David Goggins by saying, “Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when you’re done.” We’re not called to heaven yet and so we’re not done yet! Be encouraged and be thankful God chose you, yes YOU to evangelize and make disciples of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, because all Christians are commanded to do so! And don’t you worry about outcomes. Let God take of that and let God take care of his people as he has always done in the Old Testament, New Testament and beyond!
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It’s Not Too Late!
November 5, 2025
15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” 19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”
-John 21:15-19 (NIV)
Perhaps someone out there needs to hear this message. Perhaps you’ve been far away from Jesus and perhaps you’ve been far away for a very long time. Perhaps you’ve even rejected Jesus completely or have behaved in ways unfitting to his holy standard. Perhaps you’ve walked with Jesus at one point but find yourself in a rut where Jesus seems distant….or just maybe you’re further away from Jesus than you think.
Whatever the case may be, there’s time and it’s not too late to come back to Jesus! Whatever wrong you’ve committed, whatever failure you made, no sin is greater than the work of Jesus Christ on the cross and by his work all sins have been defeated, thereby making the work of Jesus completed (Jn. 19:30).
Can you imagine how distressed Peter must’ve felt after denying Jesus three times when he was handed over to the authorities? Let me repeat that again – Peter denied Jesus not just once, not twice, but three times and this happened after Jesus told him it would happen, and it happened after Peter told Jesus he would follow Jesus until death (Lk. 22:31-34). I can tell you it distressed Peter immensely because it says he wept bitterly (Lk. 22:62).
Now the beauty is Jesus always wants to restore, reconcile, save and bring life from death! And Jesus even restored the relationship he had with Peter or many people know this story as Peter being reinstated. Even after the terrible situation of Jesus being deserted by everyone (including Peter) leading up to Jesus being crucified, Jesus simply wanted a right relationship with Peter once again. Even after all of the pain and suffering until death on the cross that Jesus endured and after his resurrection, Jesus simply wanted a right relationship.
In response, Jesus wanted Peter’s full commitment to love him “more than these” and probably meaning more than his life of being a fisher as Peter probably went back to that lifestyle. By showing this committed love, Jesus asks Peter to feed his sheep, tend his sheep and feed his sheep once again. I think Peter eventually got it and committed because Peter even emphasized this teaching later on in 1 Peter 5:1-4.
It wasn’t enough that Jesus would be okay with Peter just being a casual friend, but that Jesus reinstated Peter to be a redeeming force in the world once again. That’s a full restoration!
Now what’s your story? You’re not too far away that Jesus can’t get a hold of your heart no matter what you’ve done! He loves you and he cares for you! It’s not too late to return back to him!
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We Reform
October 29, 2025
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:4-10 (NIV)
Reformation Day is coming and isn’t it exciting? For those that don’t know, Reformation Day was on October 31st, 1517 when Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Thesis, nailed to the Castle Church door (Roman Catholic Church) in Wittenburg, Germany. Several events led up to this monumental event for all Christians, and what came out of it was the notions of the authority of scripture, the sovereignty of God, and salvation by grace. By this, Christians “protested” against the Roman Catholic Church, thus “Protestant” Christianity was birthed, and not as a progressive movement, but as Wes Huff would describe it, “Reformation is not an attempt at New Christianity. Reformation is retrieval of true Christianity.” And under the doctrine of salvation by grace the acronym TULIP best sums up this position:
Total depravity of man - it’s impossible for man to seek God on our own and God must intervene to regenerate man. (Rom. 3:10-18, Jer. 17:9, Gen. 6:5)
Unconditional election by God (not earned) – God chooses to save a great number of people
(Rom. 8:29-30, Rom. 9:11, Eph. 1:4-6, Eph. 1:11-12)
Limited atonement - by Christ’s death on the cross, paying the price of sin as a substitutionary atonement for those whom he chose (Matt. 1:21, Jn. 10:11, Jn. 17:9, Acts 20:28, Rom. 8:32, Eph. 5:25)
Irresistible grace of God – making man desire God and overcoming man’s sinful state. (Jn. 6:37, Jn. 6:44, Jn. 10:16)
Perseverance of the saints - God will make his elect persevere over falling away, such that salvation cannot be lost. (Jn. 10:27-29, Rom. 10:29-30, Eph. 1:3-14)
The Five Solas also came out of this:
Sola Gratia (By Grace Alone) – By grace alone, by the work of Jesus we are declared right with God, made justified with God (not by our works).
Sola Fide (By Faith Alone) – Believers receive the redemption of Jesus Christ through faith alone.
Sola Scriptura (In Scripture Alone) – Only scripture alone is inspired, inerrant, infallible and sufficient as the final authority of the church.
Solus Christus (In Christ Alone) – Jesus alone is the Saviour and his saving work on the cross is sufficient
Soli Deo Gloria (To the Glory of God Alone) – God receives all the glory, and we can claim nothing.
…and of course as believing Christians, we are constantly being “reformed” repeatedly and over, and over again according to the Word of God.
Now to be honest, we can memorize all the stipulates, ninety-five thesis points, and doctrines that came out of the Reformation, and we can memorize many biblical verses, but memorizing these things will not save you! Satan knows about right theology, doctrine and every sentence in scripture more than we ever will and that’s a fact! What separates us and satan is being born again (Jn. 3:3) and that’s a fact! And being born again is supernatural and it is not by the will of man does it ever happen! The Greek word (anothen) for “born again” also means “born from above” meaning it is by the heavenly gift of faith (Eph. 2:8) that we are born from above, and that’s what it means to be born again. Moreover believers are saved by grace through faith alone! That and salvation belongs to our God (Rev. 7:10). This means God starts the process to regenerate us, God works to save us and gives us the gift of faith, God works to protect and persevere us no matter what life throws our way, God works to sanctify us so that we’re more Christ like every day, and God does it for his glory alone! Otherwise, we are all dead in our tracks and completely decimated by the effect of sin (death) without God and God does everything for us to counteract sin and death (save us, sanctify us, and we share in God’s glory) by his grace!
Admittedly, this will cause conflict with some. RC Sproul even acknowledges it. RC Sproul once said,
At the moment the Roman Catholic Church condemned the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone, she denied the gospel and ceased to be a legitimate church, regardless of all the rest of her affirmations of Christian orthodoxy. To embrace her as an authentic church while she continues to repudiate the biblical doctrine of salvation is a fatal attribution. We’re living in a time where theological conflict is considered politically incorrect, but to declare peace when there is no peace is to betray the heart and soul of the gospel.[1]
If some of you are offended by this, have you heard the statements from the Roman Catholic Church from the Council of Trent in response to the Reformation in 1545-1563? If you haven’t, the late Voddie Baucham has a great summary of the counter-biblical and counter gospel statements made there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yguflmhzm0M
[1] Is the Reformation over?. Ligonier Ministries. (n.d.). https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/is-the-reformation-over
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We Must be Tested
October 22, 2025
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
James 1:2-4
The end of World War II happened on September 2, 1945. Since then and for the most part, Canada and America has lived in relative peace with a few exceptions. The 1950s became known as the “golden era” for churches in North America. Historically this was a period marked with high attendance, growing membership and a surge in church construction and funding. In this decade and generally speaking I’d like to say, “In the community, everyone and their dog went to church”. William Herberg (1901-1977) was an American writer, intellectual, and scholar. On February 10, 2025, James Heidinger wrote a critique on Herberg from his blog, “The Institute on Religion & Democracy’s Blog” the following:
Church membership and Sunday school enrollment were at historically high levels, and church construction was booming. Bibles were distributed in record numbers, and he observed that 80 percent of the populace thought the Bible was the “revealed word of God.” (The 80 percent was for the “populace,” not the clergy.)[1]
Sadly, the above statement has now changed and not for the better. Just last Sunday I noticed a “Our Daily Bread Ministries” posting that stated, “Study finds younger Christians are more likely to Doubt the Bible’s Relevance and Accuracy.” And with that I will add that many Christians in North America are still unaware that we live in a post-Christendom world. Unfortunately, and for the most part, gone are the days when classrooms across the country had the teacher open with a prayer or scripture reading (or both). And seldom do you see any popular public figures share the gospel or state their Christian faith.
….but there’s something else on the horizon that many Christians globally still cannot see yet. In my mind and from my limited findings (and of course there could be disagreements, which I can value), there appears to be what some have called, “a controlled collapse” to western society (Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America). The following scenarios are happening at a global level and in my mind, it’s not by coincidence and it’s happening across the western world at the same time.
· Taxes on farmers have increased dramatically in the Netherlands resulting in many farmers forced to give-up land. (The Netherlands is the world’s second largest agricultural exporter by value).
· Mass and unlawful migration has increased like never before and from that, many western nations have allowed large religious and social groups of people holding certain ideologies to enter that contradict traditional and historical religious and cultural values of the hosting western nations.
· Government acts are now underway to introduce mandatory digital IDs (UK and Vietnam, and already happening in China). Some have said to solve the migration matter (you can’t work, get paid, purchase and report on matters without the soon fully implemented digital IDs) – The governments have created the problem and now this is their way of “solving it” if you ask me. If you think this is just unique to those places, have you forgotten about Justin Trudeau’s failed, “ArriveCAN” mobile app and website that are now under scrutiny?
· I don’t think it’s a coincidence that much of Canada, the UK, etc., are all reporting extraordinary higher crime rates.
So far from what I know, Poland and Hungary are a few exceptions to this western world trend and the Polish Prime Minister has been under scrutiny for not letting in as many Muslim migrants as some of his EU peers.
If you’re unsure, you can check multiple websites to confirm these statements I made above.
Additionally, there are mass persecutions and even slaughtering of Christians globally and especially in places like Nigeria, where the Vatican news even reported over 50,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists.
The full article can be found here:
What I’m trying to say is once again, we live in a post Christendom world and we are so extremely close to Jesus’ return (in my mind). And if your Christendom worldview also includes Roman Catholicism, then I have ground-breaking news for you here, because even that’s changing! Did you know the Vatican has now allowed a space for Muslim prayer?
Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library are being accommodated with prayer spaces, its Vice Prefect has confirmed.
Fr Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Muslim academics had requested a small area in which to pray, and the library had agreed. “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them,” he said.[2]
The full article can be found here:
https://thecatholicherald.com/article/vatican-library-grants-muslim-scholars-a-prayer-room
Hello, are we awake and noticing what’s happening yet? These kinds of changes have never happened before, not all at once, and certainly not with this Vatican change.
Christians, I implore you: Keep your eyes on the prize – Jesus Christ! Keep your gaze on him and focus on your citizenship in heaven (Phil. 3:20). Now let us consider and apply James’ words in our text because indeed we are under trial. Believe it or not, it’s actually joy to go through trials. How can James claim that matter? It must fly in the face of many believers as an immediate reaction, but James substantiates that statement because he states it’s by these trials that our faith can be made “mature, complete” and “not lacking anything.” In other words, God wants us to be tested. And as crazy as it sounds, he wants us to suffer with Christ (Phil. 3:10) and let me remind you that Jesus suffered until death!
This means the call of Christians is to die! It is to die to the world but live for Christ and we can only live by faith (Rom. 1:17, Gal. 3:11, Heb. 10:38). Now admittedly, that’s not such an easy message to swallow, but if you want to live, I hope and pray we get an appetite and desire to spiritually die to the world and live for Christ each and every day. Yes, it’s not an easy pill to swallow, but to help swallow it, would downing it with apple juice help? – Probably not (that was a joke).
In either event, it at least forces us to reexamine how mature we are in our faith.
I implore you, there may be dozens of things that could potentially trip us up in our faith and many are trivial matters – Satan loves to cause this, but sometimes we need to blame ourselves. At the end of the day I’m interested in this: Are you ready and willing to die to the world in accordance with your Christian faith or are you not? And to what degree? Are you willing to be tested and to what degree?
[1] America’s 1950s religious boom: What happened? - juicy ecumenism. (n.d.). https://juicyecumenism.com/2025/02/10/americas-1950s-religious-boom/
[2] Vatican library grants Muslim scholars a prayer room. The Catholic Herald. (n.d.). https://thecatholicherald.com/article/vatican-library-grants-muslim-scholars-a-prayer-room
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Jesus is God and He Cares for You….Deeply!
October 15, 2025
54 Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. 55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
-John 8:54-58 (NIV)
Yes, I believe and confess the words of Scripture in the canonized, protestant Bible is inerrant (without error), infallible (without failure) and inspired (God breathed and the source and origin of what is recorded is from God) – 2 Tim. 3:16-17. (I won’t get into the compilation of the 66 books, the rejection of apocrypha, or the rejection of the pseudepigrapha or other books for now, but perhaps I will later). Further to that and amongst confessing Jesus is Lord and Saviour and confessing sins, a hill that I will gladly die on is confessing Jesus is God in the trinity!
By doing so, I will also gladly confess that Jesus while on earth in the New Testament had two natures: 100% fully human and 100% fully divine in the hypostatic union as understood in the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD). This is why Jesus is the God-man! In addition, I will confirm and confess Jesus is of the same divine substance as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit (homoousios) as understood in the council of Nicaea (325 AD) and reject Arianism (Jesus is a created being and subordinate to God the Father).
In my findings this is what I know of some of the other beliefs that contradict and oppose my above-mentioned confessions.
There are some that believe Jesus is a great rabbi (teacher in the case of Jews). Others believe Jesus is a prophet (one sent from Allah-god revealing a direct message from Allah-god and sent to believers, rather than messengers who are sent by Allah-god to unbelievers in the case of Muslims) – and I’m making a distinction between Allah-god and the true God in Yahweh. There are those that believe Jesus was once the Archangel Michael, wisdom personified in Prov. 8 (before his flesh existence in the New Testament gospels) and the first creation of God the Father (in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses and an offshoot of Arianism). Some people believe that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate beings (Modalism in the belief that claims God is one person but manifests in different modes as in the case of Oneness Pentecostals differing from Trinitarian Pentecostals). Some declare God the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit are separate entities altogether, but share the same purpose, and also believe scripture is not inerrant and scripture “continues” beyond the Bible (as in the case of Mormons).
To these other beliefs I will quote from Ravi Zacharias (before his downfall) and say, “An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of the truth.” For this I point to Jesus saying in our text, “before Abraham was born, I am!” This statement from Jesus in the New Testament directs the conversation straight to Exodus 3 when Moses encountered God in the burning bush (once again, I stress Exo. 3:2 describes “the angel of the LORD” was within the burning bush, and then in Exo. 3:4 it describes God was in the burning bush and at the same time it says “the LORD” as appearing to oversee all that’s going on between Moses and the burning bush figure). The only logical explanation is the angel of the LORD in the burning bush = God, and there is more than one God/LORD figure present and active at the same time. Read these verses again, slowly and carefully if you’re still confused. The train of thought then implies God the Father (mentioned in “the LORD” in Exo. 3:4 as overseeing the scene and at the same time is Jesus as God (God as the “angel of the LORD” appearing from the bush, whereby this just means he’s the messenger of God the Father, not a separate species like cherubim, seraphim, etc. – remember angel means messenger as in what it does, not what it is).
….and now in our main text in John 8:58 when Jesus says “I am”, Jesus is saying he is that one and the same God, second person of the trinity in the Son of God/”angel of the LORD” in the Old Testament). I know, it takes a lot to get to this conclusion, and this is still BRAND NEW information to many. Eureka and light bulb moment? I think so!
I once told some of this info to a pastor in the greater Moncton area recently and he was surprised to find this out. He asked, “Well, what’s the point of knowing this?” My answer is the same today as it was recently when I spoke to him about this – Jesus is God in the trinity, and he cares for you DEEPLY! It was always God’s intention to be intimate with you! He always wants to spend an eternity with you and only created you out of love! Unlike other faiths and belief systems out there, we worship a God that doesn’t just rule from heaven above (as some condescending atheists refer to as “sky daddy”), but he always came down to us to be intimate with us – think about how Adam walked with God (Gen. 3:8), how God appeared in a number of Old Testament sightings of the pre-incarnate Jesus (angel of Yahweh, angel of the LORD, angel of God) and New Testament Jesus and beyond. Cover-to-cover, all God wants to do is embrace us in his love in intimacy. And it’s an incredible privilege to be known by God and be adopted into his family of believers!
Note: To hear more about the angel of Yahweh/angel of the LORD/angel of God feel free to do a quick search on any of those terms in my blog. For more detail this is a good compilation video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mj3UsEu_yQ
Feel free to ask me more about this video later if you’re still confused or have questions.
Now here is the mind blowing eureka video to me. In every chapter in Mark, Mark is saying Jesus is God! This is proven by apologist Wes Huff here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQF-SS-O_g
Jesus is God and he cares for you deeply!
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A Different Faith is Rising
October 8, 2025
9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
-Matthew 24:9-14 (NIV)
This post may get me in hot water and into a lot of trouble, but pastors (as well as any and all Christians) should be bold in their faith. I already preached a few times quoting from Rev. 21:8 that mentions cowards in addition to a short list of others will be consigned or delivered to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. I’m also very aware 1 Peter 3:15 tells Christians to always be prepared to give the reason for the hope that we have, and with gentleness and respect.
To be clear, I definitely do respect all other faiths, so I want to lay that out right from the start. And I literally have a lifetime of great friends and conversations with various people sharing different faiths. Growing up in Toronto I had many friends of various kinds of faith and classmates from various ethnic backgrounds. My elementary and middle school photos always showed classmates from all around the world and representing different faiths. In high school, many of my closest friends had ethnicity backgrounds from the middle east (Lebanon and Afghanistan to name a few). My closer Afghanistan friends even called me Hazara referring to a large group of people primarily residing in Afghanistan with east Asian features. They meant it as a term of endearment, and we had fun adventures together in our youth. At the time I also didn’t know Hazaras faced racial discrimination and even at times reported genocide. I believe the treatment of Hazaras in Afghanistan only became worse under the rule of the Taliban.[1] What shocked me many years later was watching a controversial 2007 fictional movie called “The Kite Runner” and it had a scene depicting severe racism and violent brutality towards a Hazara boy in Afghanistan.
Of course, I also had other friends from other various backgrounds including Greek, Canadian, Egyptian, Laotian, Vietnamese, Italian, Ethiopian, Salvadoran, Uruguayan, Polish, Japanese, Nicaraguan, etc. Later on and in my undergrad, most of my closest friends from school were ethnically Cantonese Chinese, Filipino and Vietnamese, but I also had classmates and friends from other all around the world as well. Naturally being exposed to all these cultures brought a good mix of various food exposure and different religious faith exposure.
Now for some reason I’ve been noticing the rise of one faith group in much of the western world (Europe, North America, UK, Australia and New Zealand) and beyond – the Muslim faith. Between 2010 and 2020, the Pew Research Center reported the Muslim faith was the fastest growing religion. Here’s the website for you to check:
Here’s some quick facts about the Muslim faith you may or may not already know. Muslims believe….
1) Their god (Allah) will not communicate with people directly (it’s even reported that many Muslims are converting to Christianity because Jesus is appearing to them in dreams – I take it that the true God (Yahweh) knows this, so he’s using a communication method they understand (through indirect dreams).
2) Jesus wasn’t crucified – This differs from most ancient middle east scholars in antiquity. Keep in mind that if he wasn’t crucified, then he cannot resurrect, and Christianity is all entirely based on the resurrection event!
3) Jesus will come back again to judge.
4) Jesus was sinless, yet merely a human prophet. Furthermore, they somehow believe the prophet Muhammad is greater, even though Jesus was sinless and Muhammad wasn’t.
5) There is only one preserved copy of the Quran (their holy book) – but few Muslims realize in history, the 3rd Caliph (chief spiritual leader), Uthman ibn Affan ordered the destruction of all other copies and fragments of the Quaran. Fact: other copies existed, and now it’s impossible to determine what was add, removed or changed from the other copies.
6) Jesus was Muslim (as reported and believed by some)
****You may also want to check my December 17, 2024 devotional posting entitled “Scripture is Authoritative & The Gospel is Good News for Everyone!” dealing with a few Quran statements in relation to Christianity.****
How is this affecting Canadians and us? – To that I would say it’s slowly affecting many aspects of regular life that you and I once knew.
Well, it’s not happening in the Greater Moncton Area yet, but already the Quebec government is proposing a ban on public prayer.
Here’s one of these reports:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11354604/quebec-public-prayer-ban-constitution/
If not mistaken, this is primarily in response to mass gatherings of Muslim faith prayer gatherings that seemingly block or impede roads, places of business, Christian churches, and general public day-to-day affairs. Of course, this ban would affect other groups such as Christians as well.
If you live in Ontario with children or grandchildren in the public school system, Juno News (an independent news source) reported that the official Ontario secondary school curriculum will now educate on Muslim jihad. Juno News reported its downplaying what jihad is and reported it’s omitting the terrorism component. You can read the article here:
https://www.junonews.com/p/ontarios-high-school-curriculum-downplays
Former devout Muslim and now Orthodox Christian (Ridvan Aydemir, known as Apostate Prophet) posted this speech from a Muslim imam explaining what Jihad actually is.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EXrEDXtS3xY
To be fair, I still have several Muslim friends and in no way am I trying to fear monger or promote hatred for other faiths. There are many things I deeply respect about the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist, Confucius and other belief systems. Remember, our struggle is not against flesh and blood (Eph. 6:12).
We are also called to love everyone including enemies (Matt. 5:43-48).
What I’m trying to say is Jesus predicted this 2000+ years ago and said there will be many false prophets from our text. The Muslim faith cannot be the one true religion because of John 14:6 amongst many other biblical passages and especially those where Jesus claims to be God in a direct or indirect manner (Matt. 9:2, Jn. 2:19, Jn. 8:58, amongst others). From our text, Jesus also instructs us to stand firm in our faith till the end (being courageous) and knowing the end is only coming when the gospel is preached to the whole world – and that hasn’t happened yet! It’s getting there and Jesus appearing in dreams to Muslims is a sign of it, but it’s not fully there yet.
Christians, will you stand with Jesus Christ till the end no matter what happens? Will you be bold in your faith with grace and truth to emulate Jesus? (Jn. 1:14).
Do not fear what happens because God will never leave us (Heb. 13:5) and God always takes care of his children!
Pray and ask Jesus for opportunities and wisdom to share the gospel with your Muslim friends and others.
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Juno News also reported Oct. 7, 2025 that Earl Haig Secondary School in Ontario broadcasted Canada’s national anthem in Arabic. Here’s the story:
https://www.junonews.com/p/toronto-school-plays-o-canada-in
Fox2 Detroit News reported Dearborn Michigan police have now adopted badges with Arabic writing on them. Yes, you heard that right – not English or any other language. Here’s the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7308yHYHccE
CityNews reported a Montreal university student rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2025. Here’s the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhjREq0foM
666 is not from Islam. Late scholar Michael S. Heiser explains the textual criticism here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_8OBoWny3s
Christian apologist (Sam Shamoun) posted this hot take about Allah, Ba’al and satan. Believe it or don’t believe it, but it’s certainly eye opening. His style is confrontational drawing both praise and criticism so be warned. Some viewers may be triggered and offended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVQEud6EvRY&t=44s
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[1] Watch, G. (2023, August 7). Taliban oppression of women and genocide of Hazaras. genocidewatch. https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/taliban-oppression-of-women-and-genocide-of-hazaras
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Is He Really Coming?
October 1, 2025.
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
-Matthew 24:36-44 (NIV)
I really believe we are living in end times! I know I said it before that technically ever since 2,000+ years ago when Jesus resurrected from the grave and ascended to God the Father in heaven and sits on his right hand in glory, it’s since this event that everyone after lives in “end times”.
However, and even on top of this, I really believe we are currently living in the super end and the end of the end times. In fact, I honestly believe I’ll see Jesus in my own lifetime and…..THAT’S EXCITING!
How am I so convinced? Well, have you seen all the evils happening in the world? Jesus said we’ll hear wars and rumors of wars (Matt. 24:6, Mk. 13:7). Sadly, we know about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israel-Palestine/Iran/Qatar conflicts. Most people don’t know Yemen is in the midst of an ongoing civil war since 2014 between Houthi (Shiite) Muslim rebels rising up against the Sunni Muslim government. That’s not even close to all the global conflicts happening right now. Doing a quick Google Ai search, it says there’s currently 59 state-based conflicts in 2025, which is the highest number since World War II.
….And then global Christian persecutions keep uprising. On Sept. 30, 2025, CBN News covered commentary by atheist comedian Bill Mahar, speaking about a Christian genocide in Nigeria. Here’s the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzITe76zA4
I couple this with the rise of artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency technology, biotechnology advancements, digital IDs, mass disinformation (relating to 2 Tim. 4:3), global unrest with historic and mass unlawful migration patterns in western nations leading to violence and protests, etc., and the increasing of natural disasters.
Believe me, I think we all need Jesus to come back very soon, and I can’t wait till that happens! Now with regards to our text, some people may be confused. How can Jesus be one person in the holy trinity and thus being 100% God himself, and yet not know when he (the Son of Man) will come back to earth to judge the world and claim his children (Christians)? I’ll keep this post short because these two short video clips explain it well. In summary, there is a difference between given permission to talk about something vs. not knowing about something. Jesus clearly knows the time when he’ll come back when he lists the exact signs to happen first and earlier in Matt. 24, including the sun being dark, the moon not giving light, etc.
Here's the first clip:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tl7XKRuziuI
Here’s the second clip:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s9WbRYFoLGE
If you want the full GodLogic Apologetics video, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tlPhH8tvg
Isn’t Christian apologetics fun?
Jesus IS coming back and HE IS coming back SOON! Keep your eyes fixed on him, because all of the bad things in the world are going to end soon!
Context matters and Jesus IS GOD, LORD AND SAVIOUR! – AND CHRISTIANITY IS THE ONE TRUE RELIGION! You can bank on that! All that matters is Jesus! Do not be afraid about the things happening in this world, because they must happen. “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matt. 10:28). Know that in all of history, God always takes care of his children (his believing followers). It may rain temporarily, but God shines through the darkness and his light and providence will always guide us through!
“….God has said ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’” (Heb. 13:5, Deut. 31:6).
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