Navigating the Digital Control Grid

Future

Our Foundations are the Future

Michael Whittle, the Founder of Pulpit A.I. and Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Subsplash, encourages local churches to embrace the evolving use of artificial intelligence.




He shares how a simple tweet announcing Pulpit A.I. sparked a significant online conversation about the Church's role in the realm of artificial intelligence. What he intended as a helpful resource became an opportunity for discussion about technology, tradition, and the future of ministry.




Watch as Michael challenges Christians to be at the forefront of digital innovation, using these tools to positively shape culture.

Can God Use A.I.?

Master craftsman Matt Impola explores the intersection of faith, creativity, and meaningful work. Matt shares why craftsmanship still matters in a world of mass production and instant gratification. He challenges us to rethink the way we approach our work—whether in wood, words, or any other craft—and to see excellence, beauty, and attention to detail as acts of worship. In a culture that often prioritizes speed and efficiency over quality, Matt reminds us to slow down, to embrace the process, and to create things that are not only functional but meaningful. 

The Future of Craftsmanship

Ryan Bangert from Alliance Defending Freedom addresses the growing trend of censorship and its threat to free speech and truth. 

Highlighting cases worldwide and in the U.S., Ryan discusses how individuals face penalties for expressing beliefs on topics like gender, religion, and politics, often under government pressure. 
He emphasized that free speech is fundamental to human dignity, truth, and divine purpose, urging resistance to censorship and false ideologies. 

Press in as Ryan calls for safeguarding free speech as essential not only to personal freedoms but also to preserving space for the Gospel and truth for future generations.

The Censorship Trend

We’re on the cusp of the largest wealth transfer in history—an estimated $100 trillion passing from Baby Boomers to Millennials and Gen Z. Investment banker and author Ken Costa shares about the challenges and opportunities that will arise from this massive shift—and it isn’t just about money. It's about the values, priorities, and influence that come with it. How will younger generations handle this inheritance? What role will faith, stewardship, and legacy play in how this wealth is managed and used? Watch as Ken describes this unprecedented transfer and its potential to reshape families, businesses, philanthropy, and the future of the global economy. 


The $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer

Mattias Desmet, author and Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University (Belgium), is recognized as the world's leading expert on the theory of mass formation as it applies to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this talk, Mattias emphasizes the impact of propaganda on an individual’s psychological state. He calls out the cultural groupthink that exists throughout society and cautions against the dangers of our current cultural landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative technologies. Watch as he describes how governments and mass media use fear, loneliness, and isolation to control, demoralize, and persuade populations to act against their own interests.

Psychology of Totalitarianism

THINQ Founder and President, Gabe Lyons, shares personal stories of his grandmother and mother’s courageous and faithful legacy. He reminds us that in Christ we have three enduring virtues: faith, hope, and love--even as the enemy is using fear, despair, and hate to move us away from our divine calling and purpose. Watch as Gabe shares how, by these virtues, we can walk with greater conviction, courage, and confidence and lead with the peace the world cannot give.

These Three Things Endure

In this last episode of Season 2, Gabe reflects on the mounting crisis in our world and how the tectonic plates of history seem to be moving. He uses the THINQ Framework to help us consider our response as Christians. Gabe encourages us to ask thoughtful questions like: Have we become too dependent on the current structures and systems? Have we lost touch with the way God has designed us to function—to create, to cultivate? The answers we come to might be uncomfortable, but necessary. Listen in and see how, no matter what, we can walk in God’s truth and create a contagious hope that ignites change in our homes and across our communities.

Enduring Hope | Season 2, Ep. 11

Within the last year in the United States, we’ve seen an alarming rise in substation attacks and cyberattacks. We’ve seen paralyzing and deadly power outages due to tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and deep freeze. We’ve even seen an intelligence-stealing Chinese spy balloon traverse the country before being shot down. It seems our country’s vulnerabilities are becoming more and more exposed, but what are we doing about it? Tune in to hear Gabe and grid-down expert William R. Forstchen tackle the gravity of this issue and what we can do as individuals and as the Church to best prepare for unexpected and unpredictable situations.

Grid Down Scenario | Season 2, Ep. 10

The practice of eugenics may cause you to conjure up the evil by-gone era of Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II, but you might be surprised to learn about a new era of eugenics currently happening in America and around the world.

In this episode, Gabe gets underneath the clever vernacular some are using to cloak a more contemporary—but no less unethical—eugenics, like “modern genetics,” “gene therapy,” and “transhumanism.” He reveals how people are essentially playing God to create a “perfect” humanity but are, instead, manipulating God’s original and perfect design.

Tune in to get informed and think well about what this means for our human flourishing.

Fighting Eugenics | Season 2, Ep. 9

You may not see it or feel it directly (yet), but food insecurity is on the rise across the world, which raises significant sourcing and sustainability questions. 

In this episode, Gabe prompts us to consider our current food systems—who’s growing our food, where they’re growing it, how they’re growing it—and our dependence on it all. 

Tune in to hear Gabe and several agricultural experts discuss what we and the local church can do to make food more accessible and affordable for our families and our communities. 

Food and Farming | Season 2, Ep. 8

How can the wisdom of the past inform the future?

In this episode, Gabe takes a closer look at what some have dismissed as the “old-fashioned” practices of the Amish community. In all our progress and modernity, he calls us to consider the lessons we can learn from the simplicity, resiliency, and sustainability of traditional Amish ways.

Listen and think well about what it takes to build a life in which big innovations and technology don’t disrupt or devalue the priorities of community and family.

Lessons from the Amish | Season 2, Ep. 7

As Christians, how do we operate with hope and wisdom in a world that's changing before our very eyes? What steps can we take to remain steadfast and faithful? Gabe reminds us of that patient endurance requires building a resilient and sustainable parallel and points us to the practical steps we can take. As the season turns towards a hopeful way forward, you’ll be encouraged to consider your role in living a countercultural life, including implementing alternative education, assessing your health and food supply chain—even consideration on what role the Church may play in any emergency situation that presents itself. Listen as Gabe outlines seven countercultural ways we can flourish and function as free-will human beings in these changing times.

Build Resilience| Season 2, Ep. 6

Are new global governance systems making us safer or simply more surveilled and controlled? Gabe shines a light on three global mechanisms seemingly designed to protect us and make our lives more convenient: Digital ID, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and the Environmental, Social, Governance Score (ESG). Learn how these mechanisms are designed and how, with full implementation, they will create more controls that could restrict your freedom to move, buy and borrow. Listen and get empowered to opt out, create friction against their full adoption, and build a sustainable parallel.

The Mechanisms | Season 2, Ep.5

In this episode, Gabe digs below the surface of three global institutions—United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Economic Forum. Listen in as he reveals how the “goals” this lockstep enterprise has set for our global wellbeing have somehow turned into self-serving policy and regulation backed by billions of dollars.

The Controllers | Season 2, Ep. 4

Global organizations are seemingly designed to coordinate action and centralize control. On the surface, that sounds ideal—even simple. But what’s really underneath the issue? What are the true effects of globalism? Does global governance create more or less freedom? Listen in as Gabe uncovers the history and nuance of the 21st century global governance enterprise and its implications for free-willed people in local communities. You’ll be encouraged to assess your reliance on these systems and to consider what opportunities exist to create alternatives. 

Global vs. Local | Season 2, Episode 3

Did you know the role of government is to be a minister? In Romans 13, Paul clearly lays out what governments are meant to do on behalf of God: punish evil and reward good. But many people today passively interpret this teaching, believing we should submit to whatever the government says. Listen in as Gabe calls us to a deeper conversation and scriptural understanding of the government and technocracy by asking critical questions: How do we operate within a government that seeks to control the people? How can Christians honor authority and yet continue to practice freedom? How can we be counter-cultural and live in patient endurance? 

Church vs. State | Season 2, Episode 2

The headlines would tell us the epic battle playing out in the U.S. is between right and left, liberal and conservative. But in this episode, Gabe gets underneath the real battle—the struggle between control and freedom. Applying the THINQ Framework, Gabe implores us as a free-willed people to pay attention and understand the times. He explains what’s required to for us to have true freedom and reminds us to consider the unique history and nuance of our unalienable rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence. For a deeper dive, tune in next week for Ep. 2: Control vs. Freedom, Pt. 2.

Control vs. Freedom | Season 2, Episode 1

For many of us, living off the grid doesn’t seem feasible. Mike Erwin has done it and found that life has been more full, rich, and filled with community. At the same time, we’ve seen ways that our dependence on outside vendors has harmed what we are able to produce and consume. In what ways can we take steps to become self-sustainable, no matter our location?