On September 25 Dr. Voddie Baucham died unexpectedly at the age of 56. He was an author, educator, and internationally known speaker, known for speaking into the issues that challenge a biblical worldview.

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He recently said, “You are going to hear a rumor one day that Voddie Baucham is no more. Don’t you believe it! Because though I die, I will rise with Christ.”

Dr. Baucham spoke recently on the increasing war — verbal and physical — on people of faith. Recently there was another attack on a house of worship, this time a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan. Many voices are challenging Judeo-Christian values, among them former Senator Hillary Clinton.

Dr. Baucham’s last sermon was titled “Engaging a Culture at War with God.” He presented it at New St. Andrew’s College in Moscow, Idaho, and he shared a solid theory on why there are so many attacks on people of faith:

Now we look at issues, not through the lens of our underlying philosophy, but we look at issues through our identity and our lived experience. So when someone is taking a position on political issues today, oftentimes because of this Neo Marxist ideology, this oppressor/oppressed ideology, because of the way we sort of divided the world. We look at it through that lens, and so this is not just my political opinion or position, this is my identity, and this is my lived experience. So we can’t have a debate on that. For you to have a debate on something that I have declared as my identity and my lived experience is for you to negate my identity and to negate my lived experience. And by the way, we’ve already decided that words are violent. So if your words are violence, and they are violence against my very identity, it’s reasonable that I would respond to your words with actual violence. When you believe these things, you don’t believe in a slate of positions that are debatable. You have identified yourself as a person whose very existence is violence against the identity and lived experience of others and you are not worthy to live. That’s where we are today.

Here’s the entire sermon:

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Rich Swingle has presented in 42 nations on six continents, mostly with his own one-man plays, including I Dreamed I Was Free, about John Woolman, who spoke against slavery (as Mr. Kirk did) a century before the Civil War. Rich and his bride Joyce Swingle have 41 screen children. They have developed a “singing play” about the Welsh and Asbury Revivals. The Swingles live in New York City. www.RichDrama.com. Photo Credit: Screenshot/New Saint Andrews College via YouTube.