Crusade with Me

If Jesus is all we need, why did He command us to be baptized? And what if Baptism isn't about what WE do for God... but about what GOD does for us? For many Christians, Baptism is a beautiful tradition, a public declaration of faith, or simply something the Church has always done. But what if we've been missing something extraordinary? In Episode 198 of Crusade With Me! , Dave and Kat explore one...

The Moment He Spoke Her Name She stood outside an empty tomb, weeping. The man she loved and followed was gone. And then someone spoke a single word. "Mary." In that moment, everything changed. What if the story of Christianity isn't about humanity desperately trying to find its way back to God, but about a God who never stopped coming after us? In this episode of Crusade With Me! , we journey fro...

What if following Jesus isn't about learning the perfect recipe for being a Christian? Forty years ago, Kat asked her mother, Betty, how to make her famous biscuits and gravy. Betty's instructions? No measurements. No written recipe. Just keep working at it until it looks right! Today, Kat makes incredible biscuits and gravy without measuring a thing. And somewhere in that simple family story lies...

What if everything you've believed about earning your way into heaven has been backward? Imagine standing before God and being asked one question: "Why should you be allowed into heaven?" Would you point to your good deeds? Your church attendance? Your baptism? Your efforts to live a Christian life? Now consider a dying criminal hanging on a cross beside Jesus. He had no opportunity to make things...

What happens when our pursuit of understanding God begins to interfere with simply trusting Him? In this deeply personal episode of Crusade With Me! , Dave makes a confession. After reflecting on recent episodes, his spiritual journey, and decades spent studying theology, Scripture, Hebrew, and Greek, he's beginning to wonder whether his relentless search for answers has sometimes made faith more...

Walking Back to Eden — Part Two What if humanity's first mistake wasn't simply eating forbidden fruit—but believing we knew better than God? And what if we're still making that same mistake today? In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had everything they needed. Purpose. Relationship. Communion with God. Then came temptation, mistrust, and a choice that changed the human story. And what happened nex...

Walking Back to Eden — Part One We have more knowledge, more technology, and more conveniences than any generation before us. So why do so many of us feel like something is missing? What if the problem isn't that we need more? What if we've forgotten who we were created to be? In this powerful opening episode of Walking Back to Eden , we explore a question that reaches into the very heart of the h...

We have more information at our fingertips than any generation in human history. So why does it sometimes feel like we know less about how to actually live? Our grandparents knew how to fix things. Grow things. Preserve food. Stretch a dollar. Sit quietly. Help a neighbor. Endure hardship. And when something broke, their first instinct wasn’t always to throw it away. That applied to more than tool...

If you really trust God to provide, why are there cans of food, stored water, and emergency supplies stacked in your house? Is preparing for hard times an act of wisdom—or an admission that we don’t actually trust God? In this episode of Crusade With Me! , we wrestle with the uncomfortable line between faith and fear, trust and responsibility, preparedness and obsession . Scripture tells us not to...

What if the breath in your lungs isn’t really yours? In Genesis, God forms Adam from the dust—but Adam doesn’t become a living being until God breathes into him the breath of life. And then God gives him something to do. That raises a question we rarely stop long enough to ask: If God gave you life… what did He give it to you for? In Episode 188 of Crusade With Me! , we follow the breath of God th...

Death is the one appointment none of us will miss. So why have we become so afraid to talk about it? In Episode 187 of Crusade With Me! , Dave and Kat step into one of the most difficult—and strangely beautiful—parts of being human: death. This isn't a conversation from a safe distance. Dave was in the room when his mother died and arrived moments after his father's death, becoming the one who gen...

Episode 186 — Would You Still Choose Me? After forty years of marriage, there’s one question you probably shouldn’t ask unless you’re prepared for the answer. So naturally, I asked Kat. “Would you still choose me?” Her answer? “No.” And that's where this episode begins. Forty years ago, two very young people stood in front of God and promised themselves to one another. Those two people don't exist...

Episode 185 — What If the Person You Love Isn’t the Person You Married? The person you married is going to disappear. And so are you. That sounds terrifying—until you realize it may be exactly what marriage was supposed to be. This Sunday, Kat and I celebrate 40 years of marriage . And after four decades together, I can say with certainty that I'm not married to the same woman I married in 1986. S...

Episode 184 — What If the Worst Thing That Happened to You… Wasn’t the Worst Thing? What if the thing you’re begging God to change today is something you’ll understand completely differently five years from now? We’ve all had moments that felt like disasters. A door slammed shut. A relationship changed. A plan fell apart. Something happened that left us wondering what the hell God was doing. But t...

Have you ever had someone treat you like absolute crap, disappear for a few days… and then come back acting like nothing ever happened? No apology. No acknowledgment. No accountability. Just, “Hey, how’s it going?” And you’re standing there thinking: Are we seriously going to pretend that didn’t happen? In Episode 183 of Crusade With Me!, Dave and Kat wrestle with what may really be happening when...

What is the one thing about yourself you hope nobody ever discovers? We want to be known. We want to be understood. We want to be loved for who we really are—and then we spend enormous amounts of energy making sure nobody ever sees the whole person. We hide behind careers, success, toughness, religion, sexuality, reputation, and carefully constructed versions of ourselves. In Episode 182 of Crusad...

What happens when you take away everything we normally use to hide? For their anniversary, Dave and Kat did something completely outside their normal world: they spent their Arizona trip at a clothing-optional resort. They expected awkwardness. They expected vulnerability. They definitely expected a story. What they didn’t expect was what the experience would reveal about shame, judgment, aging, b...

Christians have been given plenty of rules about sex. But which of those rules actually came from God—and which came from culture, tradition, fear, or our interpretation of Scripture? In Episode 180 of Crusade With Me! , we ask a question that may make some people uncomfortable: Did God actually put limits on sex? We dig into what the Bible really says, including the often-used Greek word porneia...

We’ve been taught that strong desires can be dangerous—that maturity means controlling them, resisting them, or sometimes pretending they aren’t there. But what if desire itself isn’t the enemy? In this episode of Crusade With Me! , we explore where desire comes from, what it may be trying to tell us, and the difference between suppression, indulgence, and formation . Maybe self-control doesn’t me...

Episode 178 — Why Did God Make Sex Feel So Good? If sex were only about reproduction, why did God make it pleasurable? Why did He create desire, attraction, intimacy, and bodies capable of experiencing such powerful pleasure? For centuries, Christians have sometimes talked about sexuality primarily in terms of temptation, rules, and restraint. But what happens when we begin with a different questi...

What is that fire inside you? The drive to build. The urge to create. The desire to achieve. The anger that demands action. The attraction that pulls you toward another person. The sexual energy that can feel almost impossible to ignore. Where does it all come from—and what is it for? In Episode 177 of Crusade With Me , we explore the powerful energies woven into human life: ambition, creativity,...

If you could create God, what would He be like? Would He agree with your politics? Approve of your choices? Dislike the same people you dislike? Would He ever look at something you deeply believe and tell you, “You’re wrong”? For thousands of years, human beings have tried to understand the divine—from Zeus and Odin to the gods and philosophies of the ancient world. But maybe we never stopped crea...

What does it really mean when someone says, “I’m spiritual, but not religious”? In Episode 175 of Crusade With Me , Dave and Kat explore one of the fastest-growing ways people describe their relationship with faith—and ask whether spirituality without something outside ourselves to define truth can eventually become a spirituality of our own making. This isn't an argument for religious labels or i...

What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the truth… is you? We all like to believe we're open-minded. But once a belief becomes part of our identity, changing our mind can feel like losing part of ourselves. Our brains defend what we already believe. Our tribes reward agreement. And sometimes questioning the accepted story can cost us relationships, reputation, or belonging. So what h...

Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It? If everyone believed something false, would that make it true? And if nobody believed something true, would it suddenly become false? In Episode 173, Dave and Kat wrestle with the difference between belief and Truth—and the uncomfortable possibility that reality doesn't need our agreement. Are good and evil real? Does reality have an order? Why are we...