The New Backup Plan

By Charlie Johnston When I was a younger man (that is to say middle-aged and before), when public leaders erred and made things worse they would often make excuses or try to explain why it was not their fault. Tiresome, but a common human trait. It is only with the last three holders of the […]

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What is Truth?

By Charlie Johnston I have often spoken of how, many decades ago, I came to the understanding that authentic prophecy is not so much that men may fathom the mind of God as it is that they may see the spiritual reality behind certain temporal events. That means that a solid prophecy is cause for […]

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Welcome to Armageddon

By Charlie Johnston Mt. Meeker, Colorado –  Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. – John Donne Many Christians assume that Armageddon and the Apocalypse are synonymous. Up until about 25 years ago, I was one of them. The Apocalypse is the final sequence of events leading to the […]

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The Simple Truth About Islam

By Charlie Johnston Golden, Colorado –(I first posted the following article on November 20, 2015. I caught a lot of flack for it, despite a certain delicacy in my candor. We are governed by unserious people. The media consists almost entirely of unserious people. All the institutions we once relied upon and trusted are now […]

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ARe We There Yet?

By Charlie Johnston The older I get, the more I come to appreciate the wisdom of Jesus including Judas in His initial crew of Apostles. I am certain that Judas fully believed Jesus to be the Messiah. It is the only way the whole story makes sense. He was tired of traipsing around the desert […]

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Twigs

By Charlie Johnston   “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” – old Oxford proverb A few weeks ago, a fellow promised to cut off my tie if I wore one to a dinner I was to attend. Since I was not the main speaker at the event and it was at a […]

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Trinitarian Truths

By Charlie Johnston I had a different column ready to queue up today, but last night this idea hit me powerfully… Of late, I have been bombarded with messages from atheists saying stupid things like, “I wouldn’t follow a God who would kill His own son,” or “A God who would let children suffer is […]

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Beyond the Failsafe

By Charlie Johnston (I have been pondering this piece for several weeks. I think we have entered difficult new territory in an irrevocable way. For those who asked, no, I have not been sick since getting home – just working my way through this piece. It lays out our way forward as I see it. […]

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On Target

By Charlie Johnston Sometime later today the Rocky Mountains will come into view and I will be within sight of home. Thanks be to God. It has been a very busy couple of weeks, but an incredibly productive one. I can’t wait to tell you about the amazing field day we had in Lone Rock, […]

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