Church Reset | Jack Wilkie

The Star Wars Prequel trilogy has suddenly become highly relevant again, as online users have been identifying the many eye-opening parallels between the events of those movies and the world of 2026.

I decided to do a Friday night stream about the movies, examining the major characters and how we see them represented in the church and culture today.

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The Christian’s participation in Halloween has been debated for as long as I can remember. But, for some reason, it feels like the debate is a bit harsher this year.

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The Bible is one of God’s great blessings to us, as He has given it to let us know Him and how we may be reconciled to Him.

But such a weighty gift requires a weighty approach to it, and unfortunately, that approach isn’t always taken.

It’s easy to get in the habit of cherry picking Bible verses, ignoring their context so we can twist them into the meaning we want them to have. Then, because we have a Bible verse behind our argument, it looks like our words have authority.

That’s why we all have to have a vigilant spirit like the Bereans, who checked the Scriptures to verify the truth of what they were hearing (Acts 17:11).

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There’s been a bit of a controversy brewing in certain circles recently about the matter of gluttony and obesity. CREC pastor Doug Wilson fielded a question on it for his Ask Doug series, and his answer yielded no small backlash.

To be clear, this discussion is not relevant just because of Wilson.

This is a society-wide issue. According to CDC estimates, 40% of Americans are obese, and 70% are overweight. This problem plagues both men and women, both the young and the old, and people of all different races.

It’s also especially an issue for us, because the church certainly isn’t showing the world a better way. The most recent data shows that there is no measurable difference in weight management between those who attend church and those who don’t.

So, is gluttony a sin that Christians commit?

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The announcement that the Ft. Hood shooter would be executed on a publicly-available livestream has caused no small amount of debate and commentary.

I check in with the latest episode of Cultural Breakdown to discuss:

* What does the Bible have to say about such a decision

* How G.K. Chesterton saw the issue, and the wisdom in his take

* Proper balance in our response

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I always get a chuckle when I watch a football game with my kids and they ask me to skip the ads.

They’ve yet to grasp that live TV is not YouTube, and therefore not all ads become skippable. They really wouldn’t be able to get their minds around the fact that skippable ads did not even exist when I was a kid. We just sat there helpless for the entire, agonizing three minute break.

Of course, skippable ads on streams are just one of countless ways life has gotten faster and more convenient. All cooking used to be done at home, and then there were restaurants, and then there was fast food and microwave dinners from the store, and now there is DoorDash and UberEats (for anyone who likes paying $20 extra for mushy food, that is).

You could see movies at the theater or when they were played on TV, and then there was Blockbuster, then mailed Netflix DVDs, and now there are a dozen streaming services.

Believe it or not, all of this development hasn’t exactly made us more patient. That creates a rather big problem:

When something important can’t be done instantly, a lot of people want to throw their hands in the air and quit.

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Muslims and Hindus have come into the United States at increasingly rapid rates in recent years. Is it "unloving" to have a problem with it?

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With Democratic Socialism on the rise, it's important that we articulate Biblical principles of economics... even if that might not look like what we've been doing.

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As I continue my series on headship and submission, it’s important for us to take note of words, attitudes, and behaviors that can undermine the entire system. We’ve looked at plenty of those from the women’s side of the ledger, because that’s where the majority of the problem lies in our day.

However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a ditch on the other side of the road. We looked at one such pitfall when I wrote on how a lack of personal virtue will hurt a man’s authority. This time I want to look at another way men can upend the Biblical hierarchy God gave us for the home.

If a man won’t submit when the Bible tells him to submit, he shouldn’t be surprised if his wife follows his example.

Literally every human on the planet has a Biblical mandate to submit to someone. Between elected officials, employers, and church leaders, most of us have multiple people over us in various ways.

Unfortunately, some Christian men have decided they either don’t need, or don’t respect, any of the authorities placed over them.

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The following is a talk I did at the Engage Conference in Waxahachie, TX on ‘How Can Christians Know Right from Wrong.’

I give an overview of popular counterfeit versions of Christianity, along with a checklist for evaluating the teachings you hear so you can avoid getting taken in by false versions of Jesus.

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