Who Made Your Glasses? The Necessity of Spiritual Eyesight

Posted on January 22, 2026 by ccpastormike

Buy truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Proverbs 23:23

My wife Kathy and I recently met a woman and her fifteen year-old son at a conference we attended. We had the privilege of praying with and for them both. One of the things this woman shared with us was the deteriorating vision of her son who was wearing glasses. She stated that until recently her son had 20/20 vision.

I recall that meeting now within the context of the ability to see clearly as it relates to spiritual things. The Bible has much to say about seeing things accurately, as well as having spiritual insight and vision. Continue reading →

The Berean Call Answers Questions About Anti-Semitic “Theories” – Lighthouse Trails Research Project

Posted on January 17, 2026 by ccpastormike

A Jewish family being taken by Nazis during the Holocaust.
(photo credit: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

LTRP Note: As our editors and authors have expressed clearly for 18 years, Lighthouse Trails loves the Jewish people and believes that the nation of Israel has significance in Bible prophecy. We are grateful for The Berean Call’s answer below. Over the last six years, four different sets of people (Lighthouse Trails Readers) have shown up at the Lighthouse Trails facility (from various regions of North America) who shared with us a disturbing “theory” (which is discussed below). We knew from the things they were saying it was an anti-Semitic view. One of the parties expressed outright hate for the Jews. It is hard to fathom how professing Christians would believe something that is so contrary to Scripture. We are thankful that most of the readers who contact Lighthouse Trails love the Jews and believe what the Bible says about the nation of Israel and her significance in Bible prophecy. For those who would like to know more about what Lighthouse Trails believes on this matter, read our article, “What Lighthouse Trails Believes About Israel and the Jews.”

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Leadership Lessons from the Life of King Saul – Michael K. Lake, Th.D., D.R.E.

Posted on January 3, 2026 by ccpastormike

We presently find ourselves in a unique place in prophetic history. Ministries are tearing apart other ministries daily on social media. Our news channels are filled with moral failings of those in leadership, from the political arena to that of the Church. Historical bedrock doctrines are being replaced with the shallow hyperbole (man-made doctrines) of the man-pleasing carnal mind. While these new doctrines placate the flesh, they are nothing more than cisterns that cannot hold the water of the Kingdom! Even to the casual observer, we are standing on the precipice of what the writer of the book of Hebrews wrote about in Chapter Twelve, Verse Twenty-Six through Twenty-Nine.

Hebrews 12:26–29 (ESV)

26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

How long this shaking will continue or even where we are in the process of God’s planned revealing would be speculation on my part. However, the command of Almighty God requires the Remnant warrior to ensure that he is not divided in his allegiances. The days of riding the fence and casual Christianity are over. When the dust settles in this divine intervention in the lives of men, you will either be entirely in the Kingdom or on the outside, staring in.

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