Vlad Savchuk

10/16/2026

Preaching this Sunday at HungryGen Tri-Cities (1120 N Edison St, Kennewick, WA) at 9am & 11am.

10/16/2026

Help protect children from child marriage. Here’s how you can help:

In the communities we’re helping in Tanzania, some families struggle so much to provide for their children that they arrange marriages for their young daughters. It breaks my heart that a child could lose her childhood because her family cannot afford to care for her.

We’re coming alongside a local school to help these children have food and a safe place to stay while they continue their education. More than 80 children are sleeping on concrete floors, yet they stay because they want to keep learning and have hope for a better future.

We want to give them a comfortable place to rest. Right now, we’re raising funds for more than 40 bunk beds with mattresses and pillows. Your generosity can help meet this urgent need and ease the pressure that leaves children vulnerable to early marriage.

Would you consider giving or becoming a partner with VSM Charity? You can help here: https://pastorvlad.org/charity/

Read more about the children we’re helping in Tanzania and Cuba: https://pastorvlad.org/vsm-charity-projects-helping-children-in-tanzania-and-cuba/

Explore VSM Charity projects providing meals, beds, and care for children in Tanzania and Cuba. Learn how you can help.

10/16/2026

3 Extremes in Spiritual Warfare - Pastor Vlad Savchuk

There are three main extremes when it comes to spiritual warfare. Each one contains a measure of truth, but each one also distorts the full picture. When we embrace any of these extremes, we lose our balance and clarity.

Extreme #1: The Devil Made Me Do It

This is when you blame the devil for everything.

This turns influence into causation and erases moral responsibility. It is the ancient lie that began in the garden. Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent. God accepted neither excuse.

One thing is certain: demons and Satan influence people toward evil things. But we have to keep in mind that even if Satan pushes you to do something, he is not responsible the moment you take action.

Judas and Peter both faced Satan. He planted a thought in Judas's mind, but Judas planned his actions and betrayed Jesus before taking his own life. Satan also asked to sift Peter like wheat. Though Peter denied Jesus, in the end he wept and repented.

The two men faced the same enemy but the outcomes were different.

This shows that we as humans are still responsible for our actions, not the devil.

A lot of people in spiritual warfare take no responsibility for their behavior. Satan will answer for the temptation he brought (Revelation 20:10), but every person answers for the choice made in response to it.

Extreme #2: It's All Mental

This teaching says that none of our problems are spiritual and everything has a natural explanation.

This started way back when the Greeks came in and divided the spiritual from the natural. They said the spiritual is ideal and holy while the natural is evil.

At first it seems like this is similar to what we believe, but in the Hebrew worldview, the spiritual is not considered better than the physical.

According to the Hebrew understanding, the spiritual and the natural were always unified. The physical world created by God is under sin and God seeks to redeem it. The body is not evil, and the spirit is not better than it.

Both are good and both need redemption from God.

We cannot adopt a Greek worldview when it comes to our world. The spiritual affects the natural and the natural collaborates with the spiritual. They are not disconnected.

Extreme #3: It's All Part of God's Plan

This understanding exists mainly in ultra-reformed circles. God is to blame and He allows everything for His mysterious purpose and glory. The challenge with this understanding is that it stretches God's sovereignty into something contrary to His character.

The Bible says, God cannot be tempted by evil nor does He tempt anyone (James 1:13). God is light and in Him there is no darkness (1 John 1:5).

When you read the Old Testament and see God allowing or sending an evil spirit, this is describing God's judicial permission and withdrawal of restraint. It is not God manufacturing evil.

God sets the boundaries of what evil is permitted to do, but He does not author what evil does within those boundaries.

God does not author sickness, death, or abuse. It is evidenced in Jesus’ ministry when He healed the sick and drove out demons. Jesus did not assign evil. He was at war with it.

We cannot blame the devil for our choices, nor can we reduce spiritual warfare to only mental or natural explanations.

We take responsibility for our actions. But we also remember that God is not the author of evil. He came to destroy the works of the devil.

10/16/2026

God wants to be the One you talk to all day, not just when you are drowning.

10/16/2026

Gene Editing, Brain Chips, and the Mark of the Beast

In 2018, scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA had been edited with CRISPR. The world condemned it, but human gene editing has become a reality. It moved from science fiction into real life.

So what happens when healing humanity becomes upgrading humanity?

Cultures throughout history have repeated the same story: humans encounter higher beings, receive forbidden knowledge, and become something more. Today, that longing shows up in our superhero movies, technology labs, and spiritual movements.

The message is everywhere:

- You are not enough as you are.
- You can evolve beyond humanity.
- You can become like God.

Our obsession with becoming “more than human” is not only about intelligence, strength, or power. Underneath it all is the fear of death. A culture that rejects the resurrection must search for another answer:

- Defeat aging.
- Rewrite disease.
- Merge with machines.
- Upload the mind.

If Christ did not conquer death, humanity must try to conquer it alone.

At Babel, humanity said: “Let us make a name for ourselves… and reach the heavens.” (Genesis 11:4) It was an attempt to reach greatness without God, to overcome human limitations through human achievement. Ancient Babel was built with bricks. Today’s Babel is being built with code, cells, and silicon.

How did we even reach this moment?

- 1953: We discovered DNA’s structure.
- 2003: We mapped the human genome.
- 2012: CRISPR gave us the ability to edit it.
- 2018: Gene-edited babies were born.
- 2023 onward: CRISPR therapies began treating serious diseases, while brain implants allowed people to control computers through thought.

These technologies have moved beyond theory and are now being used in the real world.

Many of these breakthroughs are genuinely good. Healing disease, restoring movement, and helping the blind see reflect compassion for human suffering. But the same technology that repairs a harmful mutation could alter a healthy embryo. The same implant that helps a paralyzed person communicate could enhance a healthy brain.

This is just speculation, not a prediction or a timeline. But Scripture repeatedly shows the same pattern:

- First comes crisis.
- Then fear.
- Then a counterfeit savior offering peace, security, and power.

The offer may not sound evil. It may sound compassionate, scientific, and necessary: “Take the upgrade, protect yourself, live longer, become more.”

Revelation describes a mark connected to worship, identity, and participation in society. What if the greatest danger is not merely something people wear, but something they willingly become?
The serpent’s promise has never changed: “You will be like God.” (Genesis 3:5)

The delivery method may evolve, but the temptation remains the same: trade dependence on God for the promise of self-made transcendence.

Technology is not the enemy. It is a tool. Glasses restore sight. Pacemakers support the heart. Medicine fights disease. The question is not simply, “Does this use technology?” The deeper question is: “Is this restoring what God designed, or attempting to replace it?”

The line will not always be obvious. That is why wisdom, discernment, Scripture, prayer, and Christian community matter. You cannot engineer your way out of death, but you can trust the One who walked out of His grave.

You are not a beta version waiting for an upgrade. You are an image-bearer of the living God.

10/15/2026

I did another interview with John Ramirez. We talked about Halloween and things that we do that give access to demons in our life. Watch on YouTube.

Ex-Satanist Reveals the Things That Give Demons Access to Your Life...

10/15/2026

What’s wrong with Christians celebrating Halloween?