Abide in Liberty

To celebrate the 4th of July, I pay my tribute to Thomas Jefferson by providing a defense for him against some of his most scathing critiques. Some of them are downright false and others are taken horribly out of context. Join me as we learn about him, the world he lived in, and his incredible contribution to freedom for countless individuals.

I can't led pride month pass without a conversation about the link between a society practiced in bridling sexual appetites and liberty. A society full of people that can't govern their sexual impulses is simply a society in decline. There is no example in history of a society who survived a wholesale acceptance of immorality.  Strangely enough, if you struggle to control basis human imp...

Trump's arraignment has been all over the news, in large part because of Biden's departure from hundreds of years of precedent of NOT using political power to go after political opponents. This is the stuff that banana republics and dictatorships are made of. In Trump's speech after the arraignment, he said the cat is out of the bag, and there's no going back. If elected presid...

This world is insane, and evil is everywhere. I don't know if Armageddon is right around the corner. But if it is, I talk what we need to have in place to be prepared for it. I also talk about how fear is the least of the feelings we should have about end-of-days tribulation because, on the other side of the hard, is Christ's coming and 1000 years of unparalleled peace. The Founder pushe...

The House just passed a spending bill in order to avoid breaching the debt ceiling. Some paint this as a great victory, others as a necessary compromise, but the truth is that Congress is absolutely out of control and the “right” path should have been obvious to Republicans and Democrats alike given the shaky economic environment we find ourselves in and the already insane amount of debt our count...

In this episode, Braeden looks at how immigration laws and policies in recent years as well as Congress' bad habit of raising the debt ceiling and passing continuing resolutions are unconstitutional and violates the rule of law. He also talks about how desperately we need to elect leaders who will do what is right, legal, and Constitutional even if it is unpopular and goes against our persona...

Politicians these days might talk about separation of powers and checks and balances, but they are more buzzwords than guiding principles. That needs to change. In this episode, I deep dive into both in preparation for next week's episode where I will explain several contemporary issues where they have been violated and ignored and what we can expect in the future if we allow that to continue...

Braeden shares a scripture about the Good Shepherd and the importance of relying on Him to keep the ravenous wolves out. He looks at different ways our society has allowed ravenous wolves to, not only enter our fold, but in many cases we've given them a place of honor. One of the biggest "wolves" we've allowed into most of our homes is the wolf of undermining families and mothe...

Braeden talks about how evil is more in your face than ever before. Or is it? Turns out, we are repeating a pattern that has been seen many times throughout history. The difference this time is, God wins and completely annihilates evil in the end. What part are we supposed to play in that? Give this episode a listen to find out. 

Part 1 (0:00) - I read a comment from YouTube from a person claiming that God is completely indiscernible and that as believers we will ourselves into belief with no evidence or real reason whatsoever. I take that argument apart and show how each person can learn for his and herself whether God is real using the scientific method. Part 2 (10:30) - Few moments during the Revolutionary War are more...

There are some things that we demand excellence in: sports, entertainment, and technology just to name a few. On the flip side, our moral center is decaying, our population and the rising generation are less and less educated each year, and faith is out of favor. We find ourselves in the dangerous position of demanding excellence in all the wrong things and settling for mediocrity in all the right...

There's been a lot of talk in the news about inflation and interest rates for at least a year now, and the financial world just got dealt another devastating blow with the failure of a couple not insignificant banks in mid March. Join me for the last of four episodes dedicated to learning the basics of macroeconomic financial policy, the role the Fed plays in that, and how they control vital...

There's been a lot of talk in the news about inflation and interest rates for at least a year now, and the financial world just got dealt another devastating blow with the failure of a couple not insignificant banks in mid March. Join me for the third of four episodes dedicated to learning the basics of macroeconomic financial policy, the role the Fed plays in that, and how they control vital...

There's been a lot of talk in the news about inflation and interest rates for at least a year now, and the financial world just got dealt another devastating blow with the failure of a couple not insignificant banks in mid March. Join me for the second of four episodes dedicated to learning the basics of macroeconomic financial policy, the role the Fed plays in that, and how they control vita...

There's been a lot of talk in the news about inflation and interest rates for at least a year now, and the financial world just got dealt another devastating blow with the failure of a couple not insignificant banks in mid March. Join me for the first of four episodes dedicated to learning the basics of macroeconomic financial policy, the role the Fed plays in that, and how they control vital...

I've been studying prophecies of the last days recently, and it hit me more than ever just how many of those prophecies we are hitting, and so many of them directly impact our liberties. Don't miss out on the second of this two part series where I take the last days' prophecies from a single chapter in scripture and talk about the modern day fulfillment of them. If you missed Part 1...

I've been studying prophecies of the last days recently, and it hit me more than ever just how many of those prophecies we are hitting, and so many of them directly impact our liberties. Don't miss out on the first of this two part series where I take the last days' prophecies from a single chapter in scripture and talk about the modern day fulfillment of them.

In this episode, I address the issue of screen usage for both adults and children. As we've been discussing the past weeks the importance of bringing everything we are to bear on helping solve the world's problems, one of the greatest hindrances to our own progress and that of our children is the hours we waste on mindless entertainment and glowing screens. Make sure to listen to gain mo...

As the information age matures, how in the world do we sift through all the information and differing points of view to determine what is real, what is true, and what God wants and expects of us. There's really only once source for truth when even our senses can be so easily deceived, and that Christ. Our relationship with him and ability to hear His will for us through the Holy Spirit is mor...

In this episode I share one of the main things that I think holds us Christians back from being a more active voice for truth, especially in a country where we are still (for the time being) in the majority. Satan has done a fantastic job of getting us to consume endless amounts of empty calorie entertainment. There is so much good, spiritually nutritious things for us to spend our time with that...

In last week's episode, I mentioned that I would love for my Christian moral code to be the adopted moral code of our country. I stand by that, but in this episode I explain how that desire is not tyrannical but democratic. We should all vote our consciences and push for what we believe to be right. In a country that is majority Christian though, how is it that there is so much evil in our co...

A common defense any time a moral issue comes up in the political sphere is that you can't legislate morality because that would somehow be violating the freedom of religion clause in the Bill of Rights. In this episode I outline the impossibility of trying to exclude morality from legislation or trying to separate morality from religion. Neither are possible. Someone's morality has to w...

My family and I recently moved to a new home and that came with a new church congregation. When we moved we were told it would be a difficult congregation to be a part of because there weren't many young families, but what I found was a glimpse of Zion. In this episode I share those observations in the hopes that we can all work on creating that same environment wherever we happen to be.

All too often, I think we place limitations on ourselves. We were given weakness, not to hamstring us, but to force us to our knees. If we humble ourselves, God can turn those weaknesses into strengths. He has some impossible things he needs each of us to do, at least they're impossible to us, but if we let our own limited view of our potential stop us from trying, we are limiting what God ca...

When President Biden signed the student loan forgiveness executive order, there was an uproar of approval on one side and disapproval on the other. Social media was inundated with petty bickering. In this episode, we try to elevate the conversation and the analysis but evaluating this executive order, not on the basis of party preferences, but on the basis of sound, timeless principles of freedom....