Lighthouse Daily Update – 1 January 2026..
1. Today’s Update
Family, brothers and sisters in Christ, and fellow citizens,
In my last update I shared why 2026 is not just another year, but a catalytic bridging year – the Year of the Bridge for Lighthouse and for those joined to this work.[1] That update was about naming the bridge: seeing that we are at a crossing, not just turning another page on a calendar.
Today I want to go further. I want to talk about how we walk these bridges together – theo‑Christologically, humanly, materially, and financially – in light of the deeper distinctions that have come through our work and research here at Lighthouse.
I. From “The Year of the Bridge” to “The Life of the Bridge”
When we call 2026 “the Year of the Bridge,” it is very easy to hear that as a theme or a slogan. That is not what I mean.
Through our research at Lighthouse we have been dealing with what we have called the Universal Bridging Principle – the reality that God moves people, families, churches, and even nations across real divides through concrete bridges: truth, processes, relationships, structures, and sacrifices that connect “where we are” to “where we must be.”
In this work we see that:
- Problem solving is only one lane of a much larger bridge.
- There are bridges of value, bridges of repentance, bridges of courage, bridges of finance, bridges of healing.
The update on 31st December named 2026 as a year of crossing.[1] These later distinctions show us that this cannot be just one year of enthusiasm. This has to become a life of bridging:
- A life of continually moving from indoctrinated patterns to truth‑aligned patterns.
- A life of crossing from malignant selfishness and under‑extension into redeemed, God‑centred stewardship of self and others.
- A life of building bridges for others to cross, not merely asking to be carried.
The question I am facing, and I am asking you to face with me, is this:
Will we treat 2026 as a one‑off crossing, or are we going to, in Christ, become infinite and eternal bridge builders?
II. The KOD as a “Bridge‑Killing” Civilisation
In the last update I spoke about the Kingdom of Darkness (KOD) as the system we are crossing out of: a civilisation where money and things are more important than God and humans.[1]
Since then, in our latest work, we have been seeing more clearly how the Kingdom of Darkness (KOD) operates. It is not just evil in a vague sense. It is very specific in what it does:
- It trains people never to extend themselves properly.
- It ridicules and undermines those who try to build real bridges.
- It replaces true morality and ethics with propaganda that talks morality and ethics while hiding its own immorality and lack of ethics.
In other words, the Kingdom of Darkness (KOD) is a bridge‑killing system. It keeps people:
- Under‑extended in character, skill, and responsibility.
- Dependent on institutions, welfare, and emotional crutches.
- Suspicious of anyone who actually tries to help them cross.
That is why the attacks on Lighthouse have been so severe. They are not just about a group. They are about an economy of bridges that threatens a civilisation built on dependency and deceit. When you teach people to see propaganda, selfishness, and indoctrination for what they are – and to build real bridges out – you are challenging the core machinery of the KOD establishment.[1]
This is why I have said that the attacks have been diagnostic. They are x‑rays. They show us which bridges the enemy fears most.
III. Self‑Extension, Self‑Restraint, and the Hidden War Inside Us
One of the most important distinctions that has come through our research at Lighthouse is what we have called:
- Self‑extension syndrome – the chronic refusal or failure to extend oneself where it is clearly needed.
- Self‑restraint syndrome – not healthy self‑control, but a deep lack of intelligence, training, and valuation around resourcefulness, initiative, and service.
When I look back at decades of work, I can see this everywhere.
People think of selfishness as simply “taking too much.” What we are seeing is that a huge portion of selfishness is about not extending – passivity, non‑action, withholding, non‑service – when it is easy and obvious to serve, to step up, to cross, to help someone else cross.
The KOD loves this. It breeds citizens who:
- Talk about justice but do not extend themselves to pursue it.
- Talk about love but do not extend themselves to serve.
- Talk about faith but do not extend themselves to grow in knowledge, skill, humility and obedience.
If you want to understand what 2026 demands of us, start here:
Where is my self‑extension still missing, anaemic, or crippled?
Where has “self‑restraint syndrome” been trained into me as normal?
This is not about guilt for the sake of it. This is about diagnosis. You cannot cross bridges you are not willing to walk. You cannot help others cross divides you are still refusing to extend across yourself.
IV. Malignant vs. Redeemed Selfishness – What 2026 Requires
To reinforce another key distinction that I shared yesterday:
- Malignant selfishness – KOD‑indoctrinated, destructive, parasitic, rooted in sin, fear, and control.
- Redeemed or righteous “selfishness” – insisting rightly on God‑given rights and responsibilities, refusing exploitation and abuse, taking responsibility for your stewardship before God.
You may find that language uncomfortable, but think of it this way:
- It is not holy to let people abuse you, your family, or the vulnerable.
- It is not righteous to ignore your own need for growth
- It is not loving to stay passive when you have the capacity to act.
So, in the light of the “Year of the Bridge” update, 2026 now presses this question:
Where must I become “selfish” in the right way – insisting on the bridges God is calling me to cross – so that I can stop feeding malignant selfishness in myself and in others?
That might mean:
- Drawing clear boundaries with KOD‑shaped relationships.
- Saying a costly “no” to old comfort patterns, addictions, or pseudo‑community.
- Saying a costly “yes” to mentorship, formation, and accountability that will actually move you across the bridge.
The Year of the Bridge is not a soft, sentimental year. It is a year in which malignant selfishness is starved and righteous stewardship of self under God is fed.
V. Internal, Relational, and Organisational Bridges
In the update at the end of December I spoke about how 2026 is a bridging year both for Lighthouse as an organisation and for each of us personally.[1] I’d like to share a bit more about how these levels are intertwined:
- Internal bridges
- From fear‑based religion to love‑grounded obedience.
- From self‑pity to repentance and responsibility.
- From confusion to clarity through formation, not slogans.
- Relational bridges
- From pseudo‑community to real fellowship where truth is spoken and received.
- From transactional interactions to covenantal commitment.
- From being consumers of “support” to being co‑builders of others.
- Organisational bridges
- From surviving under attack to deploying what the attacks have tested.
- From scattered efforts to coherent structures of mentoring, discipleship, citizenship, and publication.
- From a small remnant surviving the KOD’s assault to a Global body able to serve others at scale.
We cannot build organisational bridges if there are no internal bridges in the people who make up the organisation. And we cannot sustain internal bridges if our relationships remain shallow, defensive, or KOD‑shaped.
VI. What I Am Asking of You in 2026
In the last update I asked whether you would receive 2026 as your bridging year, not just Lighthouse’s.[1] I am asking that again, but with more specificity now that these distinctions are on the table.
I am asking you to:
1. Identify one concrete bridge in each area
- Theo-Christological: A specific move in your walk with God — in Scripture, prayer, obedience, or service.
- Human: A character issue, relational pattern, or habit that must be crossed, not merely managed.
- Material: Something in your environment, health, or daily stewardship that requires a real bridge, not a wish.
- Financial: A step out of denial, fear, or magical thinking into responsible, mentored financial life.
2. Name the self-extension required
- Where are you under-extending?
- What would genuine extension look like this month, this quarter, and this year?
3. Refuse malignant selfishness; embrace righteous stewardship
- Where have you been calling passivity “sacrifice”?
- Where have you accepted exploitation as “humility”?
- Where is God telling you to stand up, not sit down?
4. Commit to be a bridge builder, not a tourist
- Tourists love metaphors and inspiration.
- Builders take responsibility for actual spans being erected and crossed.
Everything we have walked through – the years of research, the case work, the attacks, the exhaustion, the preservation of a remnant – has been for this. The bridges we talked about at the end of 2025 are now to be walked, reinforced, and multiplied.
VII. Closing
I am deeply grateful for how many of you responded to the “Year of the Bridge” update with prayer, reflection, and commitment.[1] I have read your words, your comments, your private messages. I see the hunger, the sobriety, and the fear. I also see the capacity that God has been building, often in ways you still underestimate.
My prayer is that when we look back at 2026, we will be able to say:
- Not only that God preserved us under fire,
- But that He turned preservation into deployment,
- That we did not waste the blows, the tears, the confusion, or the miracles,
- And that we became, in however small or hidden ways, a people of bridges – out of the KOD and into the Kingdom of God, for ourselves and for many others.
With bowed head and bended knee, I thank God for you, for this work, and for the bridges already beneath our feet – some we see, some we do not. May He give us the courage and humility to walk them.
In Christ,
Paul S. Waugh
2. Daily Prayer
Today’s Daily Prayer expresses deep gratitude for God’s faithfulness, a humble heart for ongoing training in His ways, and readiness for the year ahead. It invites us to embrace discipline, open our hearts to learning, and trust God’s guidance as we step into new challenges with strength, clarity, and joy.
Here’s today’s prayer: Paul S. Waugh Daily Prayer 🔈
3. Today’s Daily Two-Tier Injustice Example
Christian Campaigner Harassed By Police for Silently Praying and Now Criminally Charged after Two Prior Unlawful Arrests
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is a Christian, whom a number of us at Lighthouse have had the pleasure of personally meeting. She is a charitable volunteer, an anti-abortion advocate and has been silently and peacefully praying near abortion clinics for over 20 years.
After two unlawful arrests where the police have had to compensate her, Ms Vaughan-Spruce was criminally charged on the 16th December 2025 under Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023.
This situation is unjust and frankly shows the extent that the authorities will go to in order to limit the freedoms of UK citizens who they subjectively think are disobeying their orders. In this case even creating new laws to expand their jurisdiction to entrap Ms Vaughan-Spruce.
Please read further here as well as watch the video below which was of another occasion where Ms Vaughan-Spruce was approached by the police when praying. Who is actually harassing here?! This is the danger that Christians and indeed many UK citizens are in – we are at grave risk of being criminalised for our thoughts. When that is the case, it is a guarantee that we no longer live in a free society.
4. Lighthouse Associates Consensus Feedback
The following feedback was shared with me by our associates at Lighthouse in response to my New Year’s Eve update yesterday, including some personal reflections.
We recognise, collectively but from very different personal angles, that what we encountered through Paulie’s leading was not a motivational image or a helpful metaphor, but a confrontation with a real governing principle: bridging is how change actually happens. For many of us this exposed how deeply limited and indoctrinated our thinking has been—how easily we reduce reality to analogy, abstraction, or wishful leaps, rather than engaging with the slow, costly, constructive work required to move from one condition to another. Seeing bridging as real has given us clarity about the past year, reframing it not as wasted suffering or delay, but as preparation, clearance, diagnosis, and foundation-laying for what lies ahead.
We are coming to see the last year as a necessary breaking-down: of misplaced trust in institutions, of internal lies, of pseudo-community, of toxic relational patterns, and of our own unexamined selfishness. For some of us this has been an internal unravelling—exposing pride, control, addictions, fear, and deep insecurity—while for others it has been an external confrontation with systems of control, injustice, and hostility that resist responsibility and truth. Across these differences, we share the conviction that none of this has been accidental or wasted. What was revealed has made visible the real chasms we must cross: spiritual, psychological, emotional, relational, material, vocational and financial.
We are united in recognising that the most urgent bridges are internal and spiritual. Many of us see clearly now how easy it is to oppose the Kingdom of Darkness in principle while remaining shaped by its mental, emotional, and behavioural architecture. The call to build bridges out of our own minds, hearts, and habits—through repentance, retraining, healing, and obedience to God’s Commandments—has landed deeply. This includes learning the difference between pathological selfishness and healthy self-interest; between false comfort-seeking and nourishment; between motivation rooted in unhealthy fear or reward and action grounded in love for God. We increasingly accept that we cannot see or fix these distortions on our own, and that enduring change requires God’s work in us, often through great discomfort, humility, repetition, and exposure.
At the same time, we are seeing that bridging is not only inward self-examination but necessarily relational and communal. Christianity itself is not merely belief but connection—Christ as the bridge between God and humanity, and the body of Christ as a network of living bridges that must be built, strengthened, and maintained. We sense both the privilege and responsibility of moving from being recipients of support to becoming builders for others: helping people cross divides they may not even realise exist, and teaching them how to build their own bridges rather than remaining dependent, isolated, or passive. This includes resisting the temptation to offer quick fixes and instead committing to long-term structures that produce character, competence, and value.
There is also a sober realism among us. There is a greater awareness not to romanticise what lies ahead. We expect bigger problems, more resistance, misunderstanding, and pressure—from within ourselves, from relationships, and from systems that benefit from division, dependency, and stagnation. Yet this awareness has not produced despair. Instead, many of us feel more grounded than we ever have entering a new year: less frantic, less idealistic, but more resolved. Endurance, rather than excitement alone, is becoming a shared value—an understanding that fruitfulness comes through sustained faithfulness, not dramatic leaps.
While our emphases differ—some of us feeling the weight of justice, others the call to service, healing, truth-telling, or capacity-building—we are aligned in committing the year ahead to God rather than our own agendas. We sense that this is not a year of arrival but of transition; not a spectacle to observe but work to enter. Whether it brings visible breakthrough, quiet construction, or intensified trial, we agree that it demands participation: choosing to build, reinforce, and cross the bridges God grants us, together.
Above all, we share a deep gratitude—for what has been exposed, for what has been preserved, for the bonds that have tightened under pressure, and for leadership from Paulie that has refused shortcuts despite immense cost to him. We enter the year ahead with clearer eyes, sobered hearts, and a growing confidence that transformation is possible—not because it is easy, but because Christ is perfectly faithful. In that confidence, we commit ourselves to be builders rather than tourists, servants rather than spectators, and a body willing to cross from darkness into light, step by step, bridge by bridge. Happy New Year and God bless us all. x x x x
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Hi everyone,
We are recognising together that what has been opened to us is not a theme or a resolution, but a fundamental re-orientation of how life in Christ is lived eternally. What we are being confronted with is bridging not as an event, but as a way of life: a continual movement from darkness into light, from passivity into responsibility, from stagnation into growth.
Across us, there is a shared relief and increasing awareness in realising that salvation and sanctification are not the same thing. We are seeing how much damage has been done by confusing the two—how easily we have interpreted the ongoing presence of sin, fear, passivity, or fragmentation as evidence that we are not truly God’s design as we are. Instead, we are beginning to understand sanctification as a lifelong, often painstaking work: often slow, surgical, merciful, and deliberate. This reframes our inner lives not as proof of failure, but as the actual terrain where God is patiently building bridges.
We are also becoming more honest about the depth of damage we carry—from family systems, indoctrination, broken relationships, and environments that have actively killed bridges or trained us not to build them. For some of us, this brings grief; for others, clarity; for all of us, a growing realism. We are seeing that not every relationship can be bridged, and that holiness sometimes requires building away from what destroys us, not endlessly trying to repair what refuses life. Stability, rootedness, and wholeness are themselves crossings we are learning to make.
A strong and confronting distinction is landing among us: that, as Paulie has made clear, selfishness is not only about taking too much, but very often about refusing to extend at all. Many of us can see how passivity, mis-trained restraint, and a desire to do the minimum have quietly governed our lives. This has left us stalled, aware of the crossing but unwilling or afraid to take the steps required. The language may be sharp, but it cuts to the root and we recognise its necessity. Love that never moves, never risks, and never acts is not love, it is malignant selfishness in action.
We are increasingly aware that the systems shaping the world—and that have shaped us—are not neutral. They are bridge-killing by design, training dependence, suspicion of genuine help, fear of responsibility, and resistance to growth. Seeing this reframes much of what we have experienced as diagnostic rather than accidental. It also explains why genuine extension, rooted in love and truth, so often provokes resistance, loss, or confrontation. Yet this clarity does not discourage us; it sharpens our understanding of the cost of truth and the seriousness of the work.
There is conviction here, but also hope. The understanding of a bridge changes everything. Growth is no longer imagined as instant perfection, but as faithful movement—sometimes slow, sometimes painful—towards Christ. Even when the crossing is hard, it is no longer meaningless. We are moving somewhere, and that somewhere is Him and His Kingdom.
Practically, we are grateful for how this vision is grounded into real domains of life. We can see where our bridges are absent, where they lead back into the same place, and where they must now be built with intention. We are being asked not for vague enthusiasm, but for clarity, strategy, and obedience—especially in places where it is already clear how to serve, to step up, and to act, yet where we have repeatedly hesitated.
Running through all of this is a shared humility: we cannot do this alone. Any real bridging—internal or external—requires the Holy Spirit as the sustaining power. Christ is not merely the destination of the crossing; He is the bridge itself. Without being in Him, none of this could be walked.
Together, we sense that this is a catalytic moment. Not sentimental but formative. We are being called to starve our malignant selfishness in order to grow into redeemed stewardship under God, and to live a life of continual movement toward truth, holiness, and love. This is demanding work, but it is meaningful work—work for our lives, for the Body, and for those still in darkness.
With healthy fear, increasing gratitude, growing resolve, strengthening hope and faith, we commit ourselves to becoming True Blue Christians who build and walk real bridges—out of darkness and into the Light. God bless us all and all in His Body for His Glory x x x x
Another epic update! If anyone hasn’t gone and read the 31st December one, I would highly recommend it. It’s so poignant to move into 2026 thinking about these crucial and all important areas of our growth and development. These aren’t just new year’s resolutions, but life resolutions to come closer to our Lord Jesus Christ and to become a bridge building, and reduce the degrees of separation between us and the Father and us and the rest of the Body. We need to come together as brothers and sisters in Christ – we have never needed each other more.
What an incredible update once again. As Mel shared below, there is so much for us to work on individually so that we can come together healthily as the body of Christ, as He intends and calls us to be in Him. There are serious truths here—truths that require humility, acknowledgement, and acceptance, and that draw us closer to Christ through that process. I pray that for all of us here.
Thank you, Paul. May God bless you and bless us all. Amen. x x
As soon as I saw the title; “Building Bridges out of Darkness and into Light”, I knew that I was going to read something that not only has lined up exactly with what I’ve been experiencing and realising, but would reinforce and build upon it. It did, so much. This is the lifelong bridge building Paulie’s talking about. It’s constant internal bridge building out of Satan’s family into God’s. And it’s constant bridge building externally of love and value.
I can’t remember how I came across this video, someone may have shared it with me a while back that captured some of the feeling of ‘invisible’ (ie emotional, mental, spiritual) bridge building and having the faith to trust Jesus to build those bridges.
https://youtu.be/1NcxqgmD_qg?si=UMeMHH21sVDLskn9
I’ve also felt very convicted about something else Paul spoke about – self extension, or lack of. I saw a video of Bryce Crawford speaking at ‘Amfest’, a recent Turning Point event, about the urgent and critical need to share the gospel with others, because time is running out. He was really hard hitting about how it’s not ok to just ‘keep Jesus’ to myself. I started thinking about all the opportunities I let slip me by; people I come across every day, why would I not share Jesus and the Gospel with them? I’m seeing the opportunity here. Not just to love God and learn what that means (by also learning to receive His love) but to be able to share this work to help people know the truth of life! The power of the Sum of All Problems is huge. This is not about setting targets or goals. This is about my relationship with God and everyone’s – this is as Paul put it, eternal bridge building – into hell or into heaven.
The distinction between selfishness as “taking too much” versus selfishness as refusing to extend landed heavily because it is highly challenging to my ego which just wants to do the minimum. Hence I appreciated the clarity around malignant versus redeemed selfishness. While the language is confronting, it feels necessary. Sharing that it is not loving to remain passive, and not righteous to ignore one’s own growth cuts through a great deal of confusion that exists in Christian culture.
WOW, thank you so much, once again Paul for such a critical update. I look back over the years of how many times I have made New Year’s resolutions, only to break them before the end of January. What you are sharing is different, these changes, these bridges are critical for me and all of us to get out of the KOD swamp because the bridges you are taking about will build bridges out of the darkness into light, just as the title of this update clearly states.
Thank you Paul, Chris and Shaun, phenomenal update, God bless you and all of us x x
Here is a further reduced version (about 50% of the last text), keeping only the core appreciation and impact:
Thank you for this update. It didn’t just inform me—it confronted me. The clarity that the “Year of the Bridge” is a way of life, not a theme, has reshaped how I’m approaching 2026.
The distinction between self-extension and passivity was especially exposing, naming how what I’ve often called humility can actually be avoidance or under-responsibility. I’m also grateful for the clear framing of the Kingdom of Darkness as a bridge-killing system, and for the sober, Christ-centred tone that calls for responsibility without sentimentality.
Thank you for leadership that refuses shortcuts and insists that faith take form in real bridges walked and built.
God bless Isabel… as she said herself in the article… “Despite being fully vindicated multiple times after being wrongfully arrested for my thoughts, it’s unbelievable that two and a half years later, I am still being harassed by police for silently praying in that area, and yet again find myself under investigation for the same prayers I have said for twenty years”.
“Silent prayer cannot possibly be a crime – everyone has the right to freedom of thought”.
This is a clear demonstration of the establishments intentions. They test the waters with a few to serve as examples to the many. But God is not mocked and His justice will 1% prevail. I stand with you sister in Christ.
Thank you for sharing the two-tier injustice example. We met Isabel not too long ago at the Assisted Dying Bill protest outside the House of Lords—God bless her. It’s clear that we are living in end times. There was no humanity or relatability shown by the police officer there, just the rigid following of rules, as though he had no independent thought of his own. May God help him, and God bless us all.
I love how this has built on yesterday’s update about 2026 being the Year Of The Bridge. The structure and the points here help to lay out and communicate profound principles and truths in a way that’s clear, easy to understand and that hits home how crucial and vital this wisdom is to anyone wanting to grow as a human being.
It’s very sobering to look at how much we have been trained by our culture and society in the antitheses of what it takes to be ‘Life Engineers and bridge builders”. So many people, the older they get, speak about how the years tend to more and more blend from one into the next and how one year feels just like the last, or like the last 5, or 10, whatever it may be. The articles and updates here explain and put into practical context and reality why that is. We need to undo the ways we have been indoctrinated and trained to live out as life tourists rather than active protagonists, the ways which don’t serve us or the greater good. We have been steeped in self restraint rather than self extension, which if we are to serve the greater good, in ourselves and others, is what is absolutely required. As Paul so rightly says, we talk about things like justice, love and faith but don’t pursue them because of that restraint and refusal or failure to extend ourselves.
I’m grateful for and really appreciate section 6 of the update in particular, where those 4 areas help us assess and look at where we are and where we are not. To help create a clear and focused strategy and plan for the year in the 4 main areas of value; Theo-Christologoical, Human, Material and Financial. The steps of looking at where I’m not extending or under extending and being real with where I am self deceiving myself in passivity, sitting down where God wants and is calling me to stand. That’s really going to help me focus my plans and focus for the year.
Reading the latest daily update helps me to appreciate the position that I and we are in. It caused me to reflect and ask questions like, “Do I want to be a bridge builder or a bridge killer?” and “Where would I want my bridge to go, to the Kingdom or to hell?”
Whilst the answers to these questions are so clear-cut, it renders them rhetorical, the reality is that the way I and so many choose to live our lives does not reflect this. I see that because pretty much everyone fails to even ask the questions, they are taken down the path that puts their whole eternity at risk.
Again there’s thoroughness, pragmatism and maturity in the way that Paul’s presented this. He’s considered the internal, the relational and the organisational aspects of what it means to build bridges, including reflection questions. I appreciate how Paul’s also considering the secular perspective.
Presenting the roles is significant. The explanations of the self-extension and self-restraint syndromes along with malignant selfishness give me a clear idea as to what’s caused me to be a tourist rather than a builder.
What Paul’s shared is very much backing up the point made about why bridge building is not an analogy or metaphor. This is very real and there’s plenty of work to be done!
Lastly I look at the example of someone like Isabel Vaughan-Spruce who’s confronting the increasing levels of anti-Christian tyranny that we’re seeing today. It’s very revealing that this case receives minimal coverage in the mainstream media because it exposes the establishment tyranny. Here’s the Daily Telegraph: ‘I’ve silently prayed outside abortion clinics for 20 years. Now, I face criminal charges’. Many people (including non-Christians) will look at how tyrannical and ridiculous this is, yet the response is pretty passive and minimal. It’s why Christian Intervention Global and Citizen Intervention Global are so needed to address and respond to such issues.
May God bless us all as we move into this catalytical, bridge building year.
God bless Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, charged AGAIN for doing nothing illegal, nothing destructive or harmful. What’s most frightening is the cyborg-esque robotic conformity and unquestioning complicity of the police officers involved. They are just going through the motions without any glimmer in their eyes that might recognise the tyranny they are enacting for an absolutely bonkers and corrupt state. The stooges, the lackey’s, the minions of the establishment! Citizens need to stand up not only to the establishment elites, but to their human drones as well.
This is beyond an update! The questions asked to set ourselves clear for the key areas of focus and bridge building this year, are some of the most profound I’ve seen. I will be working on these in prayer and with clear intention to ensure the establishment can longer impinge on my God-given potential. I have been so unaware of their influence and am so grateful to be learning this now.
If anyone wonders why we were so viciously attacked, just a handful of examples would be these brilliant pieces of work from Paul, Chris and Shaun. They are priceless and the establishment needs pliable, controllable robots which is the complete opposite of who we here at Lighthouse, have been developing to become. God will continue to bless us, sustain us and restore up right in front of our enemies. God bless everyone reading and applying this work to your lives.
Just reading this update already feels like stepping onto a bridge. It’s a clear call to leave the past behind and commit to a life of bridge-building in Christ and truth, far deeper than any New Year resolution.
This helps me to recognise that whatever problems I’m dealing with, I need to find or build the right bridges to walk over.
And yes, it requires self-extension and real work. This shows a practical way out of darkness and also towards building a closer relationship with Christ.
Reading about Isabel and her being arrested for thought crime shows the importance of standing up for basic human rights and it also shows how crucial it is to stand up for our choices and for freedom and how the establishment tries to control people.
It is wonderful to have these questions now at the start of the year to be able to shape the way ahead and plan what bridges I need to build, where and how, with who and so on.
But it’s also equally important for me to realise this is not a one off push into 2026. Bridges that last are rarely built in a day, and if the need is for a multi-lane, multi-mile highway then the foundational work already done at Lighthouse is essential.
We are recognising together that what has been opened to us is not a theme or a resolution, but a fundamental re-orientation of how life in Christ is lived. Bridging is no longer something we “do” once; it is becoming a way of life — a continual movement from darkness into light, from passivity into responsibility, from stagnation into growth.
A shared relief is settling among us as we distinguish more clearly between salvation and sanctification. We are beginning to see sanctification not as proof of failure, but as the actual terrain where God patiently works — often slowly, surgically, and mercifully — building real bridges in us over time.
One confronting clarity has landed deeply: selfishness is not only about taking too much, but very often about refusing to extend at all. Passivity, mis-trained restraint, and fear of action have quietly governed many of our lives. We are seeing that love which never moves, risks, or acts is not love at all, but malignant selfishness in disguise.
Yet there is hope. Understanding the bridge changes everything. Growth is no longer imagined as instant perfection, but as faithful movement toward Christ. Even when the crossing is costly, it is no longer meaningless. Christ is not only the destination — He is the bridge itself.
With humility and dependence on God’s grace, we are committing ourselves to becoming people who build and walk real bridges — out of darkness and into the Light — for our lives, for the Body, and for those still in need of truth and love.
God bless us all.