I knew the Lord was calling me to something... and it wasn't a doctoral paper.
What happens when God interrupts your life with a calling you never expected? In this powerful episode of The UPSide Conversations, host Marion MacKenzie sits down with Dr. Lisa Burkhardt Worley—award-winning documentary filmmaker, ministry leader, and author—to explore faith, obedience, and understanding the urgent rise of antisemitism through a biblical lens. This conversation explores the supernatural moments that led to Lisa’s films, the biblical truth about Israel, and how Christians can respond to the growing global rise in antisemitism. From France to the UK, her work uncovers stories the world cannot afford to forget—revealing a deeper spiritual reality behind today’s headlines.
From the streets of Toulouse, France — where three Jewish children and a teacher were murdered at point-blank range by a radical Islamist in 2012 — to the quiet fields of Alderney in the English Channel where Holocaust graves are still being identified and preserved today, Lisa's documentaries Terror inToulouse and Their Blood Cries Out do something rare. They humanize.They refuse to let the forgotten stay forgotten. As Lisa explained to Marion,God opened every door — sometimes literally placing the exact person she needed directly in her path — confirming again and again that this work was not her idea. It was His. The result is a body of work that is as spiritually powerful as it is historically important.
But the conversation didn't stop at filmmaking. Marion and Lisa dove deep into the roots of antisemitism itself — why it has surged globally since October 7th, what replacement theology gets dangerously wrong, and why every Christian who reads their Bible should understand that loving Israel is not a political position. It's a biblical one. Lisa's insight was both clear-eyed and urgent: Satan targets what God loves, and the Jewish people are, in Scripture's own words, the apple of His eye. For anyone wrestling with these questions — or simply wanting to understand the world through a biblical lens — this conversation is essential viewing.
Dr. Lisa Burkhardt Worley is also the executive pastor of a thriving Dallas-area congregation, the founder of the curriculum website BridgeOfLove.com, and is currently producing a new documentary on campus antisemitism. Her life is proof that one yes to God — however unexpected the assignment — can open doors that change history. This episode of The UPside is one conversation you'll want to share. Forward it to someone in your life whois searching for truth, wrestling with today's headlines, or simply hungry for a perspective that goes deeper than the noise.
