God's World, God's Way

In this opening episode of the new podcast season on Dominion, Nathan F. Conkey challenges a doctrine widespread in evangelical and reformed circles: the idea that Christians are exiles on the earth, just passing through on their way to heaven, with no real business in wealth, work, politics, or culture. Walking through Genesis 1–3, he argues the Bible teaches the opposite. Man was formed from the...

Israel offers Gideon the crown. He says the right thing — the Lord shall rule — and in the very next breath asks for the gold. He builds an ephod, fuses kingship with priesthood, and brings the philosophy of Midian into his own tent. And yet the land gets forty years of peace. This episode unpacks why the king-priest fusion is the defining mark of paganism, why "Christ rules my heart but men rule...

Gideon returns at sunrise — the sun in his strength, the embodiment of Deborah's blessing. He grabs a literate teenager, takes down the names of all 77 elders of Succoth, and metes out targeted, proportional, covenantal justice with thorns and briars. The tower of Penuel comes down. He stands face-to-face with the men who killed his brothers, asks his son to strike — and the boy freezes. A study i...

Gideon and 300 exhausted men cross the Jordan chasing 15,000. They ask Succoth for bread and get mocked. Penuel does the same. Two towns of unique covenantal privilege side with the enemy against the Lord's anointed deliverer. Reading Psalm 83 as inspired commentary, this episode exposes nationhood as God's post-Babel design — and asks what to do when the men in the pew and the men in the pulpit c...

You've done the hard thing. The Lord has blessed it. And the men who turn up looking for a row aren't your enemies — they're your brothers. Ephraim sat out seven years of plunder, then ambushed Gideon at the peak of victory. Gideon answers softly, magnifies their gleaning above his vintage, and the wrath goes out of them in three sentences. A covenant if-then you can use in your marriage, workplac...

Gideon stands above 135,000 warriors with 300 men and no visible swords. The Lord sends him down to overhear an enemy dream — a barley loaf tumbling into a tent — and Gideon weaponises their fear against them. Trumpets, torches, one cry, and the camp cuts itself to pieces in the dark. A study in Spirit-empowered leadership, the sword that proceeds from the mouth, and how God still topples empires...

You look around and despair. The hordes who hate your country. The influencers buckling under pressure. Pastors going soft. The whole nation drifting. What can one man do? In Judges 7, the Lord strips Gideon's army from 32,000 down to 300, deliberately, because He will not share His glory with men. He uses the few, the dogged, the faithful, the ones with no platform. And He gives us one action tod...

Your generation can't afford a house. Your peers can't keep a wife. The dew of prosperity seems to fall on every generation but yours. In Judges 6, Gideon lays out a fleece, and the Lord answers in a way that demolishes Baal forever and speaks straight to faithful men today. The Lord governs the dew. He doesn't need a good economy to bless you. He doesn't need the culture to be working in your fav...

Gideon obeyed the explicit command of God — he tore down the altar of Baal, chopped down the Asherah pole, and offered a burnt sacrifice to the Lord. By morning, the entire city wanted him dead. Not the Midianites. Not the pagans. The covenant community. The people of God were more zealous for a false god than for the true one, and they came as one body to the door of his father's house demanding...

In Judges 6:25–27, God gives Gideon his first mission, and it is not what anyone expected. Instead of marching against the Midianites, God sends him to tear down the altar of Baal in his own father's house. Nathan unpacks why God always starts reformation at home, dealing with the root before the fruit. He explores the striking parallels between Baal imagery and modern entertainment, the differenc...

Gideon asks for a sign — and unlike the Pharisees, he is right to do so. In this episode, we examine Judges 6:17–24 and explore the difference between faithless sign-seeking and the biblical duty to test the spirits. We trace the extraordinary cost of Gideon's offering — a young goat and an ephah of flour in the middle of a famine — and what it tells us about the real price of entering God's servi...

Gideon has just received a direct commission from God — "Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel" — and his immediate response is an excuse: my clan is the weakest, I am the least. This episode unpacks why that response, which sounds humble, is actually a rejection of God's sovereign selection. Drawing on David, Amos, Joseph, Cromwell, and the Boers, Nathan traces God's consistent pattern...

When Israel cried out to God in their misery, He didn't send a deliverer — He sent a prophet. Before the solution came the diagnosis: His Word. In this episode, Nathan unpacks Judges 6:7–10 and asks the question that cuts to the bone — who are the false gods of our age? From the state as Baal to gender ideology as Asherah worship, the idols have changed their faces but not their nature. And for th...

Why is your generation struggling in ways your parents never did — crushed by taxation, priced out of housing, watching your nation's agriculture and infrastructure being dismantled? In Judges 6, the children of Israel faced the same thing: enemies swarming their land, devouring their produce, driving them into caves. But the Bible is clear that Midian wasn't the ultimate cause — God was. He deliv...

Why is your generation struggling in ways your parents never did — crushed by taxation, priced out of housing, watching your nation's agriculture and infrastructure being dismantled? In Judges 6, the children of Israel faced the same thing: enemies swarming their land, devouring their produce, driving them into caves. But the Bible is clear that Midian wasn't the ultimate cause — God was. He deliv...

In this episode of God’s World, God’s Way , Nathan F. Conkey delivers a strategic briefing for young men navigating the disorientation of the modern age. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 , Conkey argues that we are currently engaged in 5th Generation Warfare —a conflict where the primary battlefield is not physical territory, but the "grey matter between your ears." The episode breaks down how na...

Ever feel like you're driving with the handbrake on? You're saved. You go to church. You're trying. But something's not clicking. Nathan Conkey gets to the root of why so many good Christian men feel spiritually stuck — and it's not about trying harder. It's about thinking differently. This episode unpacks the biblical concept of metanoia , reveals who you actually are in Christ, and dismantles th...

Are you tempted to think the Church is losing, that the nations are defying God without consequence, and that the best we can do is manage decline? Micah 4:1-4 gives us a stunning corrective. In this episode, we work through one of the most hope-filled passages in the Old Testament — a prophetic vision of God's kingdom growing from a mustard seed into a mountain that fills the entire earth, not ju...

Is it sinful for a Christian man to desire greatness? Is ambition always pride? In this episode of God’s World, God’s Way, Nathan F. Conkey explores Jesus’ surprising answer in Mark 10, where James and John openly desire preeminence in the Kingdom. Christ does not rebuke their longing to be great — instead, He redirects it. The world’s path to greatness is domination, self-exaltation, and control....

Christian man, if your faith feels real but your life feels like it's going nowhere — your work hollow, your ambitions guilty, your days just treading water waiting for heaven — this episode is for you. The problem isn't your salvation. The problem is that someone separated your faith from your work, and taught you that the Bible is only about spiritual things — prayer, church, and getting your so...

Distraction isn’t trivial. It isn’t just “losing focus.” Biblically, distraction is being pulled out of the way —away from Christ, away from truth, away from life. In this episode of God’s World, God’s Way , we expose distraction for what it really is, trace it through Scripture, and show why shortcuts, algorithms, even well-meaning people can derail a God-given calling. Most importantly, we lay o...

Why are so many faithful Christians struggling—when Scripture promises that God prospers the righteous? Because there is a war against Christian prosperity, and it is fought quietly, relentlessly, and primarily in the mind. From media and schools to taxation systems and cultural storytelling, believers are conditioned to associate wealth with evil and poverty with virtue. Even worse, distorted tea...

Psalm 1 isn’t poetry for the wall—it’s a promise for real life. God guarantees prosperity to the man who rejects wicked counsel and delights in His law day and night. No shortcuts, no cheap grace—just radical obedience and unstoppable blessing. Choose counsel wisely, brother. 🌳 #Psalm1 #ChristianMen #BiblicalProsperity #GodsWorldGodsWay #FaithInAction #BuildAlegacy

Many Christian men today quietly feel the weight of needing greater provision—enough to win a wife, buy a home, and raise a family in a hostile age. Proverbs 14:23 confronts this need head-on: “In all labour there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” The message is simple but world-altering: your ability to be a wise man produces your ability to do real work, and that work—especially t...

Young men today are facing pressures far worse than anything their fathers or grandfathers experienced. Marriage rates are collapsing, home ownership is out of reach, and an entire generation is drifting toward an empty, wasted life—far from the meaning God intended through work, wife, and family. This “war on men” is real, but God has not left His sons without hope. Scripture reveals a powerful,...