Everyday Reformation

But what happens when even that phrase starts getting labeled, qualified, or treated as suspicious? In this episode, Nick and Pastor Brandon address the recent controversy surrounding comments by Ted Cruz and unpack the deeper issue beneath it: Who gets to define Christian language? This isn’t just about politics. This is about authority. Can truth be abandoned because it’s misused? Should Christi...

Many people say Jesus was a great moral teacher. They admire His words about love, justice, and compassion—but reject the miracles, the virgin birth, and especially the resurrection. But the Bible does not allow that version of Jesus. In this Easter episode of Everyday Reformation, we confront one of the most common distortions in modern Christianity: 👉 Can Jesus be reduced to a moral teacher? 👉...

As Holy Week approaches, many Christians reflect on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ—but few understand the deep biblical roots behind that celebration. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, we sit down with Mark Travers of Turning Hearts Ministries to explore the Passover, the Seder meal, and how these ancient practices reveal the gospel with stunning clarity. From Exodus 12 to the L...

If your household exists to fund retirement and curate experiences, it will die with you. But if it exists to build strength for your grandchildren, it will outlive you. In this final episode of The Productive Household series, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins tackle the question beneath the entire series: What happens if everything we build ends with us? Scripture does not train men for l...

What happens when households outsource the very responsibilities God assigned to them? In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins examine how modern life has hollowed out the household through dependence on outside systems for food, education, repair, childcare, and even spiritual formation. This conversation explores why excessive outsourcing does more than...

Why do churches tolerate unhealthy leadership? In 2 Corinthians 11, the Apostle Paul confronts something uncomfortable: false teachers didn’t show up looking sinister. They showed up polished, articulate, confident — and the church applauded them. “If a man enslaves you, exploits you, exalts himself, and even strikes you — and you tolerate it — the problem isn’t just him. It’s you.” In this episod...

Are you raising a child — or preparing an adult? Scripture describes children as blessings, arrows, and olive shoots. Modern culture treats them as consumers, projects, and emotional centers of the home. In this episode, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins confront the failure of child-centered parenting and recover a biblical vision of raising productive, responsible, joyful contributors wit...

The Wisest Woman Builds (Proverbs 14:1) What does Scripture actually teach about the role of a wife in the home and why does modern feminism openly resist it? In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins walk through Proverbs 14 and Proverbs 31 to recover the biblical vision of the industrious wife. This is not nostalgia. It is not role-play. It is obedience to...

Who has the right to rule? In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins walk through 2 Corinthians 10 to recover a biblical doctrine of authority in a time of cultural unrest. From the streets of Minnesota to the breakdown of leadership in homes and churches, we are witnessing the consequences of rejecting God’s design for authority. Paul’s confrontation with r...

The Productive Household | Episode 3 Men, if your wife and kids feel more secure when you’re gone—at work or out of the house—something is wrong. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Brandon Scroggins confront the modern crisis of fatherhood and recover a biblical vision of gravitas: a weighty, steady, trustworthy presence that brings peace, order, and joy into the home. Our cu...

Dominion doesn’t begin in the White House—it begins in your house. In this second episode of The Productive Household series, Nick and Brandon return to Genesis 1–2 to uncover God’s original blueprint for the family. They unpack the dominion mandate, expose the breakdown of modern households, and explore the biblical roles of husband and wife as prophet, priest, king—and home-builder. If you've ev...

What happened to the productive household? In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Pastor Brandon Scroggins and Nick Carter unpack the biblical, historical, and practical vision of the home—not as a place of consumption, but as a center of dominion, discipleship, and joyful work under Christ’s lordship. We trace how the Industrial Revolution, modern feminism, and cultural consumerism dismantled t...

Why are men leaving the church—and what does worship have to do with it? For decades, churches have watched men quietly disengage from congregational life. Not because faith demands too much—but because, in many cases, worship demands too little. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, we tackle a hard but necessary question: What kind of men does our worship form? From concert-style evangelical...

Churches don’t drift because they stop caring. They drift because they stay busy without clear direction. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter is joined by Pastor Brandon Scroggins to examine why movement is not the same as mission—and how churches, families, and men can lose their way even while remaining active, committed, and sincere. This conversation explores the difference be...

What does it mean to be a man in a culture that doesn’t even know what a woman is? In this episode, Associate Pastor Brent Madding joins Brandon and Nick to tackle one of the most urgent crises of our time: the collapse of biblical manhood and womanhood. From the created order in Genesis to the redemptive model of Christ, Brent lays out God’s design for masculinity, femininity, and dominion—starti...

The war on Christmas isn’t about trees or slogans—it’s about whether the baby in the manger is truly God. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins take listeners back to the year 325 AD, when the church stood at a crossroads. The question was simple—but explosive: Is Jesus truly God, or merely the greatest of created beings? At the Council of Nicaea, scarre...

Christians are generous. We give to churches, charities, schools, and causes that claim to do good. But far too often, our money ends up strengthening institutions that openly oppose Christ, catechize our children into the world’s values, and undermine the very civilization the church is called to build. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter sits down with Pastor Brandon Scroggins t...

In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins unpack Voddie Baucham’s powerful framework for manhood — the billfold, the ballfield, and the bedroom. They expose how the world measures men by money, performance, and pleasure — and how Christ redeems each realm for dominion, stewardship, and covenant faithfulness. Drawing from Scripture and It’s Good to Be a Man b...

As the world turns up the cheer for Christmas, many believers quietly walk through deep valleys of sadness, anxiety, and depression—especially during the winter and holiday season. In this sobering and hope-filled episode, Brandon and Nick confront the “dark secret of the church”—the unspoken reality of depression among the saints. Rooted in Psalm 42, the hosts draw from Scripture, church history,...

Every Thanksgiving we remember turkey, football, and family but behind the sanitized Hallmark version lies a covenant people who risked everything to build a Christian community under Christ’s lordship. In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick and Pastor Brandon dig into the real story of the Pilgrims, the myth of neutrality, and the modern cultural war over the term Christian Nationalist. We...

Most Christians don’t think about legacy planning until it’s too late. In this powerful episode, attorney Samuel Johnson joins Brandon Scroggins and Nick Carter to walk through biblical wealth building, estate and legacy planning, child custody, trusts, Christian business formation, and how to protect your assets for future generations. Raised on a farm in Michigan and now leading a legal practice...

What happens when the battle for truth moves from the courtroom to the womb? Attorney Ben Dupre returns to Everyday Reformation to continue our conversation on courage, conviction, and standing firm for truth in a culture at war with God’s design for life. In this second part, we move from legal battles to moral battlegrounds — tackling abortion, IVF, adoption, and personhood through a biblical le...

Attorney and former Alabama Supreme Court staffer Ben Dupre joins Everyday Reformation to share his powerful testimony — from his early Christian upbringing to standing beside Chief Justice Roy Moore during one of the most defining moments in America’s legal and spiritual history. In this first part of our conversation, we trace Ben’s journey from a Christian home in upstate New York to the frontl...

What if the most powerful act of resistance in a collapsing culture isn’t loud or public—but quietly faithful? In this Reformation Month episode, Brandon Scroggins and Nick Carter tell the astonishing story of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora—a monk and a nun who defied Rome, married, raised children, and reformed the world... starting at their kitchen table. From smuggling nuns in barrels to...

“Everywhere you look, there’s anxiety.” From war in the Middle East to unrest at home, the world trembles under fear. In this Reformation-Month episode, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins open the story of a young monk caught in a thunderstorm—and the discovery that turned fear into freedom. Together they trace Martin Luther’s storm vow, his awakening to the gospel of grace, and the courage...