Welcome to Culture and Christianity.

This has become one of the highlights for me.

We get to sit and have a bit of a conversation about what's happening in our world and the response of God's people.

So thank you for spending a few minutes with me.

I want to start today. I have been saying for months to the local church

and beyond that God is moving in the earth. And I've said it enough times that now people are

coming back to me, both within the congregation and from across the country and beyond,

you know, saying, well, tell us about it. What's God doing? We have a hard time seeing that.

And so I thought I'd kick off today, but I want to take that phrase and see if I can frame that for you. I do believe

God is moving in the earth in some unprecedented ways, ways that will shape a future that is unlike

our immediate past. And I don't think there's any question in my heart about that. So I'm going to

tell you about it, at least on what I see, and not imagining that I'm a prophet. I work for a

nonprofit. So that should frame this to some extent. How I understand, I'm going to give you

two passages of scripture. One is pretty familiar, I suspect, if you listen to content very much.

It's Hebrews chapter 12.

And God's actually, I mean, the author of Hebrews is actually quoting from one of the Old Testament prophets from Habakkuk.

But he said that at that time God's voice shook the earth, but now he's promised once more,

I'll shake that on the earth, but the heavens, the words once more indicate removing of what can be shaken,

that is created things so that what cannot be shaken may remain. And he goes on in the next

phrase to say, since we're receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken. So God's shaking the earth.

When I say God is moving, I really think fundamentally, I mean, God is shaking

the earth. And he's doing that to make evident his eternal kingdom and to make equally evident

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