21st Century Burning Bushes · Volume III
The strange fires of our age — and the God who is still speaking through them.
Book Three of the four-volume 21st Century Burning Bushes series by Dr. Setrag Khoshafian
Recognizing the Burning Bushes Around Us
When Moses saw a bush that blazed without burning up, God did not summon him. Moses noticed — and chose to step off his path to understand what he was seeing. That single decision changed history.
Our own century is crowded with strange fires: cultural upheavals, moral reversals, and social movements that unsettle what it once meant to be a Christian — even what it means to be human. Most people hurry past them. Volume III is an invitation to do what Moses did: to turn aside, look closely, and ask what the Creator may be teaching us through the very things that trouble us most.
Unprecedented Challenges to Faith
Long-settled convictions about family, conduct, and even gender are now open questions — and believers themselves are divided over how to respond.
In much of the West, holding to historic Christian conviction increasingly means being treated as an outsider rather than a neighbor.
A confident secular culture pushes back against biblical truth, so that faithfulness itself can feel like resistance.
Inside Volume III
Each chapter examines one subject directly and ends with practical recommendations for how to respond.
Scripture calls plainly for justice and mercy toward the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the stranger. This chapter traces how that concern was separated from the gospel and recast by the Woke movement, and why the result often works against the faith whose language it borrows.
Read Chapter 14 →
A direct look at the moral drift of the age — violence and injustice, abortion, the erosion of the family, and a sexual and gender revolution increasingly aimed at the young. The decline is named clearly, along with the case for why it is neither inevitable nor beyond repair.
Read Chapter 15 →
An examination of a movement the author once explored firsthand: its mysticism, its borrowings from Gnosticism and the occult, and its steady influence inside the Church — weighed against the accounts of those who moved through it and came back out.
Read Chapter 16 →
From the mystery religion of ancient Babylon to modern globalist ambitions and talk of a single world religion, the chapter follows a long historical thread and asks what it suggests about where the present order is heading.
Read Chapter 17 →
The hardest chapter turns the question on the Church itself — its scandals, divisions, and compromises — and answers not with excuses but with a return to the substance of the faith: dying and rising with Christ.
Read Chapter 18 →
After the weight of the earlier chapters, the book closes on the Kingdom of God — its King, its reversal of the world’s values, and the reality of its angelic hosts — the ground for the hope that holds everything else together.
Read Chapter 19 →
Where the book is going
The themes of Volume III are heavy — but the book does not leave the reader there.
It closes on the Kingdom of God: a vision of divine majesty and the celestial realm, of angels as our elder brothers, and of a renewed heaven and earth where redeemed humanity dwells forever in the manifest presence of the Ancient of Days. Every fire in these pages points, finally, toward a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
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A sober diagnosis of our times and a confident proclamation of the in-breaking reign of God.
Available in Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle · 384 pages · NYC Book Publishers
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