“There are many amazing Burning Bushes around us. Will we recognize what the Creator is teaching?”
Recognizing the Burning Bushes Around Us
When Moses crossed the wilderness of Midian, he came upon a bush that burned but was not consumed. What made that moment holy was not only the fire — it was that Moses turned aside to look. God spoke only after Moses stopped to behold the wonder. That single act of turning aside has become the heartbeat of this entire series. All around us — in our culture, our sciences, our headlines, and our own hearts — God is still lighting bushes that burn without being consumed. The question is whether we will slow down long enough to notice them and ask what the Creator is saying.
I have compiled these Burning Bushes into four volumes. Volume I turned toward the spiritual realm — the supernatural world that surrounds and interpenetrates our own. Volume II explored the frontiers of science and technology, where discovery and disruption are reshaping what it means to be human. This third volume was, for me, the most difficult to write. It confronts the Burning Bushes of culture, society, and morality: the startling social and spiritual trends that are perplexing the twenty-first century and shaking what it means to be a Christian — and even what it means to be human — in the modern world.
Unprecedented Challenges to Faith
We live in a moment of profound upheaval. Age-old assumptions about family, decent behavior, and even gender are now openly questioned. Believers find themselves divided over issues the Church once held in common. In much of the Western world, faithful Christians are quietly being marginalized — treated as undesirables in the very cultures their faith helped to build. The Kingdom of God faces challenges that feel unprecedented as secular culture increasingly sets itself against biblical values and truth.
And yet I did not write this volume in despair, and I do not want you to read it that way. A bush on fire is frightening only until you realize that God may be standing within it. My aim throughout is not alarm but awakening — to help us turn aside, discern what is really happening, and respond with faith rather than fear.
Point, Counterpoint, God-Point
Across the series I return again and again to a simple discipline I call “Point, Counterpoint, God-Point.” For every cultural fire, there is a point — a legitimate concern or genuine good that the world has seized upon. There is a counterpoint — the way that good is distorted, weaponized, or severed from its source. And there is a God-Point — the higher vantage of Scripture and the in-breaking reign of Christ, which neither dismisses the concern nor surrenders to the distortion, but redeems it. I have tried to write with deliberate balance, refusing both the reflex to condemn everything and the temptation to bless everything.
The Six Burning Bushes of Volume III
1. The Burning Bush of Woke and Social Justice
Scripture commands genuine compassion for the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner — and history shows that revival and social reform have often gone hand in hand, from Charles Finney and the abolitionists to William Seymour and the racially integrated Azusa Street revival. Yet somewhere along the way came what has been called “the Great Reversal,” in which justice was severed from the gospel and recast in Marxist, critical-theory terms. The result is a Woke and Cancel Culture that is often implicitly anti-Christian. Here I call believers back to a justice that is rooted in the Word and balanced by moral purity — compassion and holiness held together, as they were always meant to be.
2. The Burning Bush of Moral Decadence
This chapter names the decay candidly while refusing to give in to hopelessness: genocide and ethnic cleansing, wars and civil wars, abortion, corruption, the erosion of the family, sexual immorality, child trafficking, and the pressures of the transgender and related agendas. These are hard subjects, and I do not treat them lightly. But naming a fire honestly is the first step toward turning aside to see what God is saying in its light.
3. The Burning Bush of the New Age
Before I came to Christ, I once dabbled in the New Age movement myself, so I write about it not as a distant critic but as someone who has walked out of it. This chapter examines its prohibited practices, its blend of Eastern mysticism, Gnosticism, and the occult, and its quiet infiltration of the Church — illustrated through the words of New Age voices and the testimonies of those, like Doreen Virtue, who have come home to Christ.
4. The Burning Bush of Secret Societies and One World Order
This Burning Bush reaches back to Nimrod and the mystery religion of Babylon and forward to modern globalist ambitions — the Great Reset and the dystopian warnings of Huxley and Orwell. In these threads I trace what I believe is the long shadow of the coming Antichrist, and I ask how believers are to remain watchful and faithful in an age enamored with centralized power.
5. The Burning Bush of Christian Hypocrisy and Apostasy
Here I turn the mirror on the Church itself. With as much personal honesty as I can muster — remembering the falls of once-trusted figures and grounding my hope in Francis Schaeffer’s exposition of Romans 6–8 — I examine hypocrisy, violence, division, scandal, deconstruction, and apostasy across the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and evangelical traditions. I never excuse the Church, but I always point back to the true spirituality of dying and rising with Christ.
6. The Burning Bush of God’s Kingdom and His Angels
After so many heavy warnings, the book lifts our eyes upward. This is my most hopeful vision: the eternal King who reigns over the seen and the unseen, the “upside-down Kingdom” that inverts the values of a fallen world, the glorious throne of God, and the reality of angels — seraphim and cherubim, Gabriel and Michael, the fallen angels, and modern angelic encounters. It closes with the promise of a renewed heaven and earth, where redeemed humanity dwells forever with God and His angelic hosts.
Not Alarm, but Awakening
Every chapter ends not in fear but in practical recommendations — a summons to awaken, to discern, and to live faithfully. Drawing on Scripture, church history, contemporary events, and my own journey, I have tried to offer a volume that is at once a sober diagnosis of our times and a confident proclamation: the answer to every cultural fire is the in-breaking reign of God. It is a beautiful revolution, and a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
Get Volume III
21st Century Burning Bushes, Volume III: Culture, Society, and Morality is the third book in the four-volume series — 384 pages, published by NYC Book Publishers. It is available now on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions. If these Burning Bushes stir something in you, I invite you to turn aside and read.