But the story starts a few months earlier.
On December 18, 2024, I walked away from Uber driving for the last time. I parked the van, stepped away, and let it go. No plan. No safety net. No clear idea what came next. I only knew there was a call on my life I could no longer ignore.
For months things became genuinely tight. The kind of tight that forces you to question everything.
During that season I had been listening to Charlie Kirk describe praying Isaiah 6:8:
“Here I am. Send me.”
He spoke about how that prayer changed the direction of his life.
So I prayed the same prayer.
Not fully understanding what I was asking.
Not knowing what would follow.
I simply meant it.
A short time later, the dream came.
For years I rarely remembered dreams at all. Then suddenly everything changed. Dreams began waking me in the middle of the night. Ideas, titles, impressions, warnings, concepts — I started emailing notes to myself at all hours. Something had shifted.
One particular dream took me back decades to a moment I had not thought about in years.
I was sitting across from a former employer, newly recommitted to my Christian faith, simply talking about God when something happened I have never forgotten. I came face to face with a darkness that felt unmistakably spiritual. I will never forget the emptiness in those eyes or the overwhelming sense of evil behind them.
No audible words were spoken, but the message was unmistakable:
“This one is mine.”
Twenty-two days later my first book, Dominion Over Darkness, was published on Amazon.
I did not plan that.
I did not market my way into it.
I did not “manifest” it into existence.
I surrendered — and God moved faster than I could follow.
On August 2, 2026, I will turn 70 years old.
I was raised on a farm and lost my father suddenly to a heart attack when I was only ten years old. He was 33.
Over the years I have worked in restaurants, trucking, safety management, web design, publishing, and ministry. I have seen a lot of life. I have watched good people — sincere people — absorb teachings they believed were harmless, helpful, or even biblical without ever realizing where many of those ideas originated.
I have watched:
affirmations replace prayer
self-exaltation replace surrender
visualization replace faith
prosperity teaching replace repentance
motivational philosophy quietly merge with Christian language
And I recognize it because I participated in it myself.
I bought the books.
Listened to the tapes.
Followed the gurus.
Repeated the language.
Not everything in modern self-improvement is false. That is precisely why the deception can be difficult to recognize. The danger often comes from practical truth wrapped around deeper spiritual error.
That is one of the central investigations of this platform.
I need to tell you something important.
I am not writing this from a distance.
Many years prior to building this platform, I have bought the tapes, listened to the programs and even wrote down some affirmations for myself. I shared some of this content from teachers whose philosophies carried many of the same fingerprints this investigation now examines. Something in my spirit knew certain things were off, but I ignored those warnings for a long time.
The question:
“Who Are You Worshipping Now?”
came for me first.
Eventually I stopped listening to nearly every outside voice and returned to the Bible itself with renewed seriousness. Joshua 1:7–8 struck me with unusual force:
“Do not turn from it to the right or to the left.”
Not toward self-help ideology.
Not toward human-centered success philosophy.
Not toward teachings that subtly shift dependence away from God and back onto self.
That was the turning point.
I am not an investigator standing above the deceived.
I was deceived.
I carried some of that deception to others.
That reality shapes everything about this platform.
Throughout Scripture, God evaluated the kings of Israel by one repeated question:
Did they remove the high places?
Even good kings often left them standing.
The high places were tolerated compromises — places where idol worship and divided loyalties quietly remained in the background while outward worship of God continued.
That pattern still exists today.
Modern self-improvement culture often functions as a tolerated “high place” within Christianity:
manifestation repackaged as faith
visualization repackaged as prayer
self-sovereignty repackaged as empowerment
abundance ideology wrapped in Christian terminology
guru philosophy blended into biblical teaching
The self-help book sits beside the Bible.
The language gets borrowed.
The source is rarely examined.
God is still merciful.
He still blesses His people.
But He still asks the same question:
Who are you worshipping now?
Not as condemnation.
As invitation.
Who Are You Worshipping Now? exists to investigate the spiritual roots beneath:
modern self-help culture
prosperity teaching
manifestation ideology
influencer spirituality
motivational philosophy
human-centered success systems
This platform is not about attacking people.
It is about examining ideas, language, philosophies, and spiritual influences through the lens of Scripture.
Some readers may agree with every conclusion.
Others may strongly disagree.
That is fine.
But every investigation here is intended to encourage discernment, reflection, repentance where necessary, and a deeper dependence on God rather than self.
The questions drive the investigation.
Scripture anchors the truth.
And every honest investigation eventually leads to the same question:
Where are you?
This is not:
a conspiracy platform
outrage content
personality attacks
political tribalism
fear-driven sensationalism
This is an investigative journal focused on discernment.
The goal is not to create panic.
The goal is to encourage people to examine what they are feeding their minds, hearts, and spirits.
Because deception rarely arrives looking evil.
Most often, it arrives looking helpful.
Dominion Over Darkness was only the beginning.
Since then:
33 Unique Parables of Jesus has been published
additional books continue taking shape
new investigations continue emerging
and the dreams still come
I do not have a master plan.
I simply keep saying yes.
What began as the idea of writing one book someday has turned into something I never expected. For nearly fifty years I convinced myself I had nothing worth saying.
Turns out the greatest obstacle was me.
I am simply a surrendered vessel trying to follow where God leads next.
And this platform is part of that journey.
— Donald J. Brown
Founder, Who Are You Worshipping Now?
Author of Dominion Over Darkness and 33 Unique Parables of Jesus
