The State is the left hand of Christ; it is that final prepositional phrase — that imports so much of the meaning — that is often ignored. As Christians, the ‘political’ realm is not a realm of indifference or adiaphora — and this is particularly true for Christian men. We are not called to separate ourselves from the world (except with regard to righteous behavior), but to be engaged in the world — put another way: to be in the world but not of the world. Where Christians retreat, Satan advance...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 42
The ‘scientific’ consensus is that the Earth is some billions of years old (on the order of four-and-a-half billion years old) and that the Universe is some fourteen or so billion years old. But Scripture paints a different picture. Which may, should, or must the Christian believe? Is the contention of the so-called ‘scientific community’ even reasonable? Which is to say: Does it stand up to scrutiny? Knowledge is warranted true belief, and so it is vitally important to ask upon what warrant the...
Aug 23, 2023•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Like MLK, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a false teacher. Also like MLK, Dietrich Bonhoeffer studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Unlike MLK, Bonhoeffer is a deeply dangerous theologian, because where MLK lacked subtlety and cunning, Bonhoeffer most certainly did not. When Bonhoeffer writes or speaks, he may very well sound Christian — may very well even be Christian (in his comments) here and there in his writings —, but he uses Christian terms with anti-Christian definitions= (for ...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Whether the topic is religion, politics, or something else, a persuasive argument will always be more effective than a merely correct argument. Of course, we must make the truth our goal, but simply having the right conclusion is insufficient, at least if we are attempting to bring others around to our point of view or over to our side. Often, persuasion is a matter of time and patience, but how we go about interacting with others is a key part of whether or not we are effective in our pursuits....
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 39
The existence of one conspiracy theory is not necessarily proof of the existence of any other conspiracy theories. That we have been lied to about a great many things, does not necessarily prove that we have been lied to about all things. It is, regardless of how we may feel about it, necessary to assess truth claims, often necessarily to personally assess them. As Christians, truth is fundamental to our worldview, for our religion rests upon truth claims — verifiable truth claims. This does not...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 38
The truth does not fear examination. That which is true will hold up under scrutiny. As Christians, we are beholden to believe the truth — no matter how unpopular or unpleasant. Today, we examine one of the foundational myths (read: lies) of the modern world. Virtually all of the evils we see around us today can trace their genesis to the era covered by this episode. This episode may make you uncomfortable, but the truth is worth the cost. The truth will set you free. Subscribe to the podcast he...
Jul 26, 2023•2 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Christians must be ready — in season and out of season — to speak the truth. We are not Christians only some of the time, and Christianity, unlike Islam, has no provision for dissimulation — you may not feign to be something other than Christian for the sake of convenience or even safety. Even at risk of life or limb or honor, the Christian must boldly proclaim Christ and Him crucified. This duty to speak the truth pertains not only to matters of the Christian religion, but also to all other mat...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 36
For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last! — 1 Thessalonians 2:14b–16 (ESV) Over a course of millennia, the Jewish people have shown a pattern of behavior (one that continues to this day) th...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 35
The terms “Hebrew”, “Israelite”, and “Jew” are often conflated and they do, indeed, have overlapping meanings, but they are also distinct terms that sometimes reference diametrically opposed things. A “Jew” can be one who is religiously a Jew, ethnically a Jew, or even one who truly believes (for Scripture speaks in this way). “Israel” can mean the man, the nation, or the Church. It is incumbent on Christians to make careful and correct use of these terms, not to be incautious or sloppy. Many he...
Jun 21, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Last week, we explored the ‘theology’ of Michael ‘Martin Luther’ King; this week, we explore his politics, with a focus on the men and women with whom he surrounded himself. Birds of a feather flock together, and Michael King spent his life surrounded by truly wicked men, many of them Communists. As Christians, we must learn to avoid the trees that produce poisonous fruit, and there can be no doubt what kind of tree Michael King — and the larger ‘civil rights’ movement — was. Subscribe to the po...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Michael “Martin Luther” King, Jr., is one of the ‘saints’ of the modern world’s religion. We are told — constantly — that he was a devout Christian. Does this narrative hold up to scrutiny? With many men, there is little enough evidence of what they did or did not believe when they pass, but, in the case of Michael King, there is abundant evidence — created by King himself over a course of decades — of precisely what he did and did not believe with regard to the Christian religion. You may be su...
Jun 07, 2023•2 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this episode, we go through the timeline of what has transpired since the LCMS — largely at the behest of Matthew Harrison — published the so-called “Annotated Large Catechism”. The behavior of Synod has been anything but Christian, and wicked deeds should be exposed to the light of day. Satan is on the move, and far too many men in collars are far too willing to do his bidding. Subscribe to the podcast here. Show Notes “The New Large Catechism of the LC-MS stream” “The Apostasy of Missouri” ...
May 31, 2023•3 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 31
God is both transcendent — above all things — and immanent — pervading and sustaining all things. From the grand scale of galaxies down to the microscope scale of cells, molecules, and atoms, God is involved in everything in His Universe. Contrary to this reality, Deism would argue that God created the Universe and then stepped back to let it run — like a very complex clock. Deism has crept into both our culture and the Church over time. In the Church, Deism often takes the form of a semi-Gnosti...
May 24, 2023•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 30
Curses and blessings are not always — or even usually — individual affairs. The sins of the fathers do, in fact, fall to their sons. A wicked generation can doom all those who follow, but a righteous generation can bestow blessings on children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. In this episode, we look at the nature of generations, how they are treated in Scripture, and what these things mean for us today. Subscribe to the podcast here. Show Notes See Also Bezmenov on Ideological Subversio...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 29
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Too many despair of finding solutions to the problems we face because they focus on the wrong things. We face grand problems, certainly, but those are largely not our concern, at least not our daily concern. The right focus for most men is the everyday — putting in an honest day’s work, being a good husband, and raising godly children. There is no immediate solution to every problem we face and no leader can resolve everything overnight....
May 10, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Our first listener feedback episode. It took us only six months — please calibrate your expectations accordingly. If you have more questions, submit them now to make it into the next listener feedback episode. Subscribe to the podcast here. Show Notes At Any Cost: Interracial Marriage (01 May 2023) "And so in summary, interracial marriages are not sinful per se. However, in the modern context, they are virtually always sinful per quod. And so it is right teaching for Christians to say that these...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Thou shalt have no other gods. What does this mean? We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things. In our modern context, we often gloss over the first word in that list: fear. We know that we should love and trust God, but we have come to neglect that we must also fear Him. The word “fear” appears hundreds of times in Scripture, and a great many of those instances are part of commands to fear the Lord. The fear of the Lord is not an animalistic fear or the sort of fear that one has fo...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 26
The Law is God’s eternal, unchanging, unchangeable will and all men are required to order their lives according to it — including Christians. Although Christians are no longer under the curse of the Law, this does not mean that we are not to comport our behavior with the Law. As regenerate Christians, we walk in the Law and thereby produce fruits in keeping with a living faith. Similarly, Christians are to assess, to discern, to judge. We must judge not only our own actions — assessing whether o...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 1Ep. 25
You have undoubtedly heard the phrase 'all sins are equal' at some point in your life, but you have just as assuredly not found it in Scripture — it is not there. The Word of God does not teach that all sins are equal; in fact, it teaches quite the opposite: some sins are worse than others. In this episode, we go through Scripture highlighting a number of sections that deal with degrees of sin or sinfulness. This episode serves both as a standalone episode on the topic of the supposed 'equality ...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 24
… Subscribe to the podcast here. Show Notes Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants Wider die Mordischen und Reubischen Rotten der Bawren As it turns out, I don’t have a copyright-free version of this essay from Luther in English. If anyone knows of such an English version, please let me know. See Also Feminism [Wikipedia] Elizabeth Cady Stanton [Wikipedia] Revolutions of 1848 [Wikipedia] Revolutions of 1917–1923 [Wikipedia] Further Reading “On the Nature of Woman” “Not a Shoreline, b...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 23
God assuredly knows the purposes for which He made His creatures, the proper ends toward which their lives should be oriented. We can order our lives according to God’s Word and God’s design, and He will bless us, or we can rebel against His Word and His design, and we will suffer. When it comes to the issue of woman and her place in creation, practically the whole of modern society has chosen the path of rebellion. Women today strive for and grasp at nearly every possible path other than the on...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 22
The modern world contends that slavery is incompatible with Christianity and that Christians must oppose slavery. Is this what Scripture teaches? The Christian must always turn to Scripture, not to the Enlightenment or to the secular oracles who proclaim newfound morality and a progressive revelation. Scripture actually deals with slavery at length and in detail. In this episode, we go through the Scriptural teaching on slavery. The world may believe whatever it likes, but the Christian must hol...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Matthew Harrison is head of the largest (supposedly) Confessional Lutheran body in the Western world — the LCMS. During his tenure, he has overseen the greatest decline in membership in the history of the LCMS, the closure of LCMS schools and congregations, and the collapse of LCMS organizations. Now, to top off his legacy, Harrison is pushing false doctrine via 'new' versions of core confessional, Lutheran documents (e.g., the Small Catechism and the Large Catechism). He is even exporting this ...
Mar 15, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Racism is not a sin. The modern-day ‘sin’ of racism was invented in the 19th century and then imported into the churches from the decadent and decaying culture. If you think that racism is a sin, then you have been misled. In this episode, we go over the history of the term “racism” — where it originated and how it entered our modern culture — and take a look at how Satan is using it to destroy the Church. This is the culmination of our series on race and the most important episode in the series...
Mar 08, 2023•2 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 19
God has given to men many attributes, and these attributes are not evenly or equally distributed. Some men are taller than others; some men are faster than others; and some men are more intelligent than others. The subject to human intelligence — IQ — makes many uncomfortable for a number of reasons, but it is no less real and no less a part of God’s good ordering of Creation than is height or any other attribute. Intelligence is largely genetic — overwhelmingly so, in fact. If your parents are ...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Race is a biological and a theological reality. The God Who created the Universe also created the races of men. The differences between and among the races of men have very real consequences for society, for neither the individual nor the average member of a given race is identical to or interchangeable with members of another race. Scripture is not silent on these matters — God is not silent on these matters. Society would simultaneously have you deny the reality of human race and focus on a (d...
Feb 22, 2023•Season 1Ep. 17
What maintains societies? What destroys them? There are many factors that contribute to whether a society flourishes or fails — natural resources, weather conditions, IQ [two weeks], et cetera —, but a fundamental, unavoidable fact is that the quality of the men and women who comprise a society is intimately and causally connected to the level and the success of that society. Human behavior is downstream from race, because race is a matter of genetics. The behavior of individuals influences soci...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 16
We are all sons of Adam — no Christian can deny this. However, we are not all sons of Japheth, nor are we all sons of Ham, and nor are we all sons of Shem. The descent of the nations (i.e., races) of man are given in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10). Nature is entirely in accord with Scripture. The nations can be seen in a number of ways — geographically, genotypically, behaviorally. In this episode, we will be covering the fundamentals of human race. In a future episode, we will cover the theo...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The enemy has a playbook. If you learn his playbook, then you can identify enemy action. In today’s episode, we review the enemy playbook, and show how it has been used to destroy the West and is currently being used to destroy the Church. Unfortunately, many pastors, teachers, and others, all of whom should know better, unwittingly follow the enemy playbook and act as agents of the enemy in the process. You are commanded to be as wise as a serpent — this episode aims to help you fulfill that du...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 14
We are Lutherans — this is not something we hide. Neither do we hide the problems in our church body (in fact, we highlight them on this very podcast). However, that we recognize there are problems does not mean that we intend to leave. We remember our Confirmation Oath and we take it seriously: Do you intend to continue steadfast in this confession and Church and to suffer all, even death, rather than fall away from it? We each answered “Yes.” to this question, at different times and in differe...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 13
