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Music and Cultural Freefall

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The lyrics of popular songs show that what is on young Americans' minds is sex, rebellion, violence, and a feeling of exclusion. This bodes ill for the future.


Check Your Culture

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

God's people living in America must prioritize God's Commandments over the U.S. Constitution and over American culture. We have a heavenly citizenship.


Cultural Manipulation

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Every new teen fashion, music, movie, and television trend is marketed and sold. Our kids are being manipulated to absorb and reflect a deviant culture.


Where Is Cancel Culture Headed?

'WorldWatch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The political and cultural Left has allied with giant tech corporations to sideline people and institutions who do not espouse the 'right' ideas and beliefs.


Countering the Culture

Article by Staff

There is no doubt that America's culture is plunging to depths many of us never imagined. Here are five steps to mitigate its influence on our lives.


Our Enervating Culture

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

If a person cannot honestly ascertain whether a thing is true or false, it will not be long before he loses his grip on reality—which truth defines.


Evaluating Culture

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Under humanistic liberalism, cultural standards exist on a sliding scale, depending on the tastes of the individual. In the end, there are no standards.


The Shallowness of Pop Culture

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Popular culture can easily become an escape from the pressing issues of life and of this world, and in this sense, it becomes a trap as problems continue.


Cultural Paradigms in Scripture

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Paul had the capability of seeing the truth from several different cultural paradigms, namely from honor-shame, power-fear, and innocence-guilt continuums.


Cancel Culture

Commentary by Ryan McClure

Offense will be common in the end times, and many will attempt to cancel those who disagree, as the Pharisees cancelled Jesus Christ by execution.


Abortion Legislation

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Recently, nine states have passed legislation to restrict abortion. An equal number of states have removed all rights of the fetus, even up to birth.


Reality Narcolepsy

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

It is an exercise in futility to play king-of-the-hill in a world so universally sinful.


American Conservatism (Part Two)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

American conservatism is judged more harshly because its tenets took root in biblical principles advanced by the Puritans.


Shifting American Values

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

American cultural and political standards, no longer fixed in Scripture, also have only a tenuous hold on the principles in the founding documents.


America's Imminent Perfect Storm

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Is there a leader in the wings who will have the fortitude to face the coming crisis? Perhaps there is, though it appears that he has not shown his face in public.


Has America Gone Crazy? (Part Three)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

Those being molded by today's education system lack the historical context to permit them to grasp how it is twisting their impressionable minds.


What Does It Say?

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

What does it say about a nation that lacks both the heart and the leadership to stop itself from committing suicide? God says we are headed for a fall.


Overcoming Hypocrisy

Sermonette by Bill Onisick

We are continually in danger of being deceived by our carnal nature, a nature which distracts us from following God, even though we go through the motions.


Humanism's Flooding Influence (Part One)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

Humanism stems from the Renaissance, a time men felt free to exalt human reason and self-realization over religion and divine authority.


Something Is Wrong

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

With the hubris that comes from money, power, and boredom, Americans are trying to outdo the ancient Romans for spectacle and perversion.


Its All the Rage

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

The mercurial fads in fashion and music have a lot to do with what the Germans refer to as Zeitgeist - or the spirit of the times or spirit of the age.


We Are the Enemy

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Ridicule of Christians and the biblical teachings they believe is on the rise. Christianity is under attack, putting those who believe the Bible in the crosshairs.


The Vulgar State of America

'WorldWatch' by Joseph B. Baity

A coarse and vulgar spirit has overtaken modern culture and its entertainments, one we must counter with personal purity.


Conspiracy Theory (Part Thirteen)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

American culture is decidedly non-Christian in its current outlook, as Satan has twisted and distorted the information taught by secular universities.


Immigration and the Kingdom of God

'Prophecy Watch' by David C. Grabbe

Unlike Europe and the United States, God ensures that all His potential citizens will conform to His culture.


Deceiving the American Public

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

Although previously cohabiting and homosexuality were viewed with repulsion, political correctness has coerced society to look upon these as normal.


Why Hebrews Was Written (Part Six)

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

American culture is in obvious decline, and it is undoubtedly linked to the fact that mainstream Christianity is bereft of moral leadership.


What Is the Prophesied 'Pure Language'? (Part One)

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

Zephaniah 3 foretells of a "pure language," by which people may call on the name of the Lord. Many believe it will be Hebrew, but the Scriptures reveal more.


It's All Relative

'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

We frequently hear our culture labeled as postmodern. What is postmodernism? How is it related to relativism? Most importantly, what does God think?


What's Happening to Deference?

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh

Deference has largely disappeared as the emerging generation has been taught by the mores of progressivism to diss their elders, showing contempt for them.


Contemporary Primitivism

CGG Weekly

Technology merely indicates material development, whitewashing over a culture's moral, ethical, or spiritual state with shiny displays and distractions.


Self-Government

Sermon/Bible Study by John W. Ritenbaugh

Submitting to a human government is a work that requires self-government. Paul thoroughly disciplined his body as he followed the example of Jesus Christ.


What Is the Prophesied 'Pure Language'? (Part Two)

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

A culture that is far from God has a debased language, but the real problem with the Jews of Isaiah's day was that they were going astray in their hearts.


The Not-A-Problem Folk

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)

We have no bold Phineases today who are unafraid of political correctness. The die has been cast for morally bankrupt America.


The Christian and the World (Part One)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The entire world is antagonistic to God because of the spirit generated by an unseen ruler. Our Christian duty is to stay awake and keep our guard up.