Lighthouse Daily – 9th January 2026..
By Paul S. Waugh
In the following update, you will find:
- Today’s Update – What Really Is a Big Deal? Learning to See Like Christ – by Paul S. Waugh
- Daily Prayer – A Prayer on True Repentance, Forgiveness, and the Ripple Effect of Sin and Obedience
- Today’s Daily “Citizen and The Establishment Problem” Example – Lee Anderson MP Reveals The Reality Of Who The BBC Are
- Lighthouse Associates Consensus Feedback
1. Today’s Update
Good evening everyone,
In What Really Is a Big Deal? Learning to See Like Christ, Paul Waugh builds on his earlier teaching about wanting—not merely being willing—to suffer with Christ, and asks a deeper question: what truly matters to God? He exposes how modern culture trains Christians to panic over comfort, reputation, and convenience while treating obedience, faithfulness, and loyalty to Christ as secondary. From heaven’s perspective, these priorities are inverted.
Paul argues that the real “big deal” is not a believer standing with Christ in suffering—that is normal love—but a professing Christian expecting Christ and His people to take the hits while they protect their own ease. He identifies what God treats as weighty: refusing Christ’s character, shrinking from growth, justifying sin, destroying others, and abandoning believers under pressure.
By contrast, losing status, comfort, or approval for righteousness is not a crisis but normal Christian warfare. Paul warns that our spiritual “ceiling” is set by what we secretly treat as too costly, and calls readers to let Christ recalibrate what truly matters.
👉 What Really Is a Big Deal? Learning to See Like Christ by Paul S. Waugh
In Christ
Paul S. Waugh, Chris Nash, Shaun Cooper
2. Daily Prayer
Today’s Daily Prayer reflects on true repentance, forgiveness, and the far-reaching effects of both sin and obedience. It invites us to face our shortcomings honestly, embrace God’s mercy, and walk in transformative obedience that heals relationships and shapes communities. May it deepen your humility, restore brokenness, and renew your heart toward God.
👉 Paul S. Waugh’s Daily Prayer – A Prayer on True Repentance, Forgiveness, and the Ripple Effect of Sin and Obedience
3. Today’s Daily “Citizen/Christian and the Establishment Problem” Example
Lee Anderson MP Reveals The Reality Of Who The BBC Are
Lee Anderson MP for the Reform Party, on 6th January 2026 recently discussed decades of scandals at the BBC, from Jimmy Savile and other high-profile child abusers to a long history of intrusive and biased reporting on figures like Cliff Richard, Princess Diana, Donald Trump, and Gaza.
These are not isolated incidents as the BBC would have you believe. They reveal an institution that protects its own while controlling the stories the public sees, framing what is “newsworthy” and shaping the national conversation. The license fee forces everyone to pay, even if they don’t watch or trust the BBC, under threat of fines or imprisonment, which statistics show affect elderly women in particular!
Meanwhile, the BBC as the public face and mouthpiece of the Establishment, quietly and subtly manipulates public opinion, cultivates woke narratives such as transgenderism, and decides which voices are amplified and which are silenced. How else were people like Jimmy Savile able to get away with their crimes for so long. Indeed at Lighthouse we have termed this the “Savile Syndrome.” The Savile Syndrome is not about Jimmy Savile’s crimes, it is about how these crimes were kept deliberately hidden by the BBC and the Establishment. Learn more about the Savile Syndrome here.
The public cannot remain passive. We must question what we are fed, demand transparency, and insist on accountability. As Mr Anderson says, choice should exist. Funding should not be compulsory and the BBC ought to be a subscription that the public can choose to pay for if they want it. Information should not be monopolized. Media shapes power, and unchecked power over information becomes a tool of control rather than a source of truth. Learn more about our class action lawsuit against the BBC.
4. Lighthouse Associates Consensus Feedback
The following feedback was shared with Paul by our associates at Lighthouse in response to a call he had with them yesterday where he was speaking about the importance of The Lighthouse.
We are coming to see that what we encountered over these past days was not simply instruction or encouragement, but a fundamental realignment of how we understand love, faith, character, and responsibility. What has been brought to the surface is not primarily ignorance, but a deeply rooted resistance to suffering—and more profoundly, a failure to recognise suffering as inseparable from love, maturity, and standing for truth.
Across our different backgrounds, we can see how little we were taught to value suffering rightly. Many of us learned instead to avoid it, soften it, numb it, or replace it with comfort, distraction, or ego-preservation. In doing so, suffering did not disappear; it simply took quieter and more corrosive forms—addiction, anxiety, dishonesty, fear of rejection, and the slow erosion of character. Much of the pain we now carry is not from suffering too much, but from refusing the right kind of suffering for too long.
We are beginning to understand that love is not defined by intention, sentiment, or reassurance, but by sacrifice chosen in truth. To follow Christ is to accept that faithfulness involves taking real hits—relationally, emotionally, socially, and internally—without constant surprise or self-pity. Betrayal, rejection, discipline, and loss are not anomalies; they are features of a faithful life in a fallen world.
There is a growing recognition of how delusion functions as both anaesthetic and poison. The stories we tell ourselves about safety, righteousness, or being misunderstood may soothe us in the short term, but they shrink our capacity to face reality. Truth hurts upfront, but it enlarges us rather than diminishing us.
What is shifting is our default to hide behind comfort, avoidance, or good intentions. We are learning that growth, faith, and love require taking responsibility for pain—choosing it where it is right, enduring it where it is unavoidable, and refusing the fantasies that promise transformation without cost.
Many of us feel exposed and unsettled, yet a quiet resolve is forming: do it anyway. Not because we feel strong, but because avoiding it costs more. Not because suffering is the aim, but because love is—and love demands everything.
We move forward not claiming readiness or virtue, but less ignorance. And that, in itself, feels like the beginning of something real.
God bless x x x x
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Hi everyone,
We are coming to see that the distinction between being willing to suffer and actually wanting to suffer with Christ is not semantic or extreme—it is foundational. Willingness is the minimum price of entry. Wanting is the proof of love, allegiance, and maturity. We are recognising, often painfully, how foreign this is to us after being formed by a culture that treats suffering as meaningless, unfair, or something to be escaped at all costs. Yet Scripture, experience, and the cross itself all testify to the same truth: meaningful suffering is not a contradiction of love; it is one of its deepest expressions.
Across our different lives, temperaments, and battles, we are seeing how much of our pain has not come from suffering too much, but from resisting the suffering that was necessary for growth. Whether it shows up as fear, avoidance, numbing, resentment, procrastination, spiritual passivity, or a quiet wish to disappear, the same pattern runs through us: we want Christ, but rarely not always His cross. We want heaven, but hardly not always the path that leads there. We want love without cost, maturity without refinement, and transformation without the fire.
What is shifting is our understanding of what suffering actually is. We are beginning to see it not as punishment or meaningless cruelty, but as refinement. Like metal in a furnace, or a body under training, or a heart learning to love, suffering reveals what is real, burns away what is false, and forms what is strong. When suffering has no meaning, it produces bitterness and despair. When it has meaning, it produces endurance, character, hope, and a deeper likeness to Christ.
Some of us are encountering this through external battles, opposition, or long-running conflicts. Some of us are discovering it in the quiet, daily hits: getting out of bed to pray, telling the truth when it’s uncomfortable, doing the work we don’t feel like doing, staying present instead of escaping, choosing discipline over indulgence, planning instead of avoiding, or opening up instead of hiding. We are learning that the smaller, repeated sufferings are often more piercing than the dramatic ones, because they go straight for our selfishness, fear, and pride.
We are also seeing that love itself is inseparable from suffering. To love God, to love others, to be faithful in marriage, in friendship, in community, in calling, all of it requires bearing cost, discomfort, loss, and vulnerability. Christ did not suffer because He had to; He suffered because He loved. And to follow Him means learning to love the same way, not just in words, but in willingness and desire to stand with Him and with one another in what is hard.
For some of us, this has gone all the way down to the question of life itself. Choosing to stay. Choosing not to escape. Choosing not to keep a hidden exit door open. Choosing life, even when it hurts. We are beginning to understand that refusing to opt out is not cruelty, it is obedience, faith, and love. It is aligning ourselves with a God who calls us to live, to endure, and to be transformed rather than to disappear.
We are not pretending this is easy. Many of us feel how far away we still are from truly wanting the suffering that would make us whole. But something has changed: we now see that the desire itself is part of the work. Asking God to show us His suffering, to let us share in it, to let us grow through it, is already a movement away from spiritual childhood and toward maturity.
What Paulie is calling us into is not heroics or masochism, but a complete and fundamental shift of attitude, from avoiding pain to seeking truth, from preserving self to loving God, from childish entitlement to adult discipleship. We are realising that the path from selfishness to love runs straight through wanting to suffer with Christ.
And so, in different ways and at different depths, we are starting to recognise the same thing together: that we need to choose life, truth and growth. We see that we need to choose to stand with Christ, not only in comfort, but in the refining fire that makes us who we are meant to be. x x
What I am starting to experience is a shift, where suffering has been seen as abnormal, as though we are meant to live in comfort. Yet that is not logical, we are imperfect and ignorant of complete truth, so suffering is inevitable. When you speak about suffering for Christ, for truth, that is normal, and this is beginning to be realised.
With that comes relinquishing the flesh and the old infantile view of life, where I move away from selfishness. I can feel the love within the suffering. That is the ideal place to be. When I have seen challenge arising from value, embracing it and facing it has given so much more than failure or tragic outcomes ever could.
This is so powerful, Paulie. Thank you deeply.
Well said Lee Anderson…there is not a broadcaster like the BBC, one whose integrity is as shredded as the BBC’s and still has the audacity to force the citizens they betray to pay for something that subsidised and subsidises the lifestyles of the worst type of characters. The BBC is an utter disgrace!
Indeed well said. I had to relisten a couple of times to make sure, but what I found disgraceful was the cackles of laughter when Lee Anderson was going through the list of sex abusers that the BBC has employed. The fact that this is considered a laughing matter when discussed amongst MPs before a personal jibe around earnings shows why the BBC continues to exist despite the abuse. It’s tragic to see that the BBC is hanging on by a thread because of sentimentality and a few good programmes it has produced.
However the fact that people can be imprisoned for paying for something they don’t want to use is tyranny 101. Let the public decide what they want to watch and pay for. If the BBC really is as good as they say they are, then there should be no issues. However, the reality is that going to a subscription service would be a wake-up call of note!
Absolutely!
If the BBC were any other organisation, broadcaster or not, they would be shut down for the number of atrocities and crimes they have committed.
The question for Mr Anderson though is WHY are those creatures not mentioned by his peers? Why is the BBC not talked about in honesty and scrutiny? Because they are all of the same ilk, partners in lewd, decrepit behaviour, enabling and empowering one another as part of the establishment machine. You can see it by the very instance when his peer pipes up and asks him to declare his income from GB News. Trying to snipe and take a cheap shot, but it’s so bad that Mr Anderson can bat it away with a clear, honest answer.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation. – Matthew 23:14
Paul, your work on suffering with Christ, on the back of the selfishness syndrome, is urgent. It’s stopping me ahead of this year. I know I cannot walk into this year with the same attitude and spirit as I did last year, and there is so much to be broken down in me to be built up. To God be all the glory, You be glorified this year and beyond that we would repent truly and turn to you. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
This is such a powerful update—not only because of what Paul has shared, but also through the example of Lee Anderson and the honest feedback from our associates. There is a growing recognition among us of what Paulie is highlighting: just how fundamental, crucial, and vital it is to get things right where we ought to get them right—particularly when it comes to our sin and imperfection—and to continually strive to become more like Christ, made in His image.
Thank You, God, for the grace and mercy of today. And thank you all for this update.
God bless x x
Lee Anderson is hitting the nail on the head with the BBC. They are the epitome of Establishment manipulation and the Savile Syndrome needs to be shared globally so that change happens.
I value the articles that are being produced with Paul’s insight and research because they are asking questions that very few, if any, are asking. This is showing how The Lighthouse is such a needed publication in these times. Following the experience with the Daily Mail, the BBC and the rest of the British media, I now look at everything that’s being published to the masses with a level of scepticism and scrutiny that I never had before. Ironically if we hadn’t been on the receiving end of attacks from the establishment media, I would’ve likely been completely none the wiser. I have people I knew growing up who have been consistently more sceptical of the media than I was until 4-5 years ago.
However, with a growing understanding of the establishment and the spiritual warfare that drives it, I have a far broader and deeper understanding of what’s going on. The more I look, the more evidence there is for tyranny, not less. That’s damning…
This update really awakened something in me. The idea that “a big deal” isn’t measured by worldly standards but by Christ-like perception feels like a deep reset for my heart and mind. I’ve so often missed what truly matters because I was looking through the world’s lens — size, success, approval, metrics — instead of seeing with spiritual clarity.
Thank you for helping me recognise how easily I get distracted by noise and lose sight of what God is actually doing. I want to learn to see like Christ: to value what He values, to notice what He notices, and to move with compassion and truth. This is such an important reminder to reorient my eyes, thoughts, and priorities. God bless everyone. x x x x
Loyalty to God, following His word is key to ensuring a healthy and value driven life, even if the initial consequences are not comfortable and are painful. The long term peace and short term pain is preferable to the other way around!
Thank you for another great article on such a critical point and topic. The distinction that we’re being helped to make here is about looking at what is valued and most important in the eyes of God and from Heaven’s perspective, not our own. That is something I just don’t think we Christians consider with anywhere near enough weight and seriousness as we ought to. We absolutely need to look at what is Heaven’s view on our life and behaviour, what we are standing for and what we’re hiding from, what we are moving towards and what we’re moving away from and how much those things are in obedience to God. As Paul so rightly points out, this is about allegiance and to take a hard honest look in ourselves and see ourselves lacking and falling so short in our allegiance can be a hard and painful thing, but it is absolutely a necessary to see that shortfall, humble ourselves and start growing in our boldness and courage for our faith. Much to think and pray on and I really appreciate these truths being hit so head on as they need to be. God bless all.
The contrast between this Daily Update and, on the one hand, learning about truth, what it truly means to be a Christian, and getting in touch with our God-given potential, and on the other hand seeing how the BBC reports, with its distortions, falsehoods, and omissions, is striking.
Thank you for helping me understand the importance of being willing to suffer in Christ. It truly is a serious and defining matter to wrestle with what it means to be a Christian, and to recognise that this path requires real courage.
It is encouraging to hear Lee Anderson speak openly about the scandals surrounding the BBC, their manipulation, and the fact that people are being forced to pay the licence fee. The BBC is a mouthpiece for the establishment, and it is crucial to be aware of how the masses are being indoctrinated, to think critically, and to stand up for meaningful change.