Indigenous Faith

As Craig and LaDonna Smith move into the second part of this series on the life and times of King Ahaz, LaDonna continues her reading of 2 Kings 16, and the 20 short verses God's Word dedicates to this wicked king.   Even though his rule lasted for over 16 years, it takes only 20 verses of one Old Testament chapter to give the Smiths plenty  of things to talk about.  In these short verses are...

Welcome friends to today's edition of Indigenous Faith.   In today's program, Craig and LaDonna Smith bridge between the past seven episodes, which featured powerful  interviews with Dr. Vern Charette and Emmitt and Belen McKenzie, as they return to their series on the Kings of Israel and Judah of Old Testament times.  After providing some helpful review of the special interviews just co...

There's an old country music song whose lyrics include the saying,  We both live in a two story house...her story and my story!   And while somewhat comical a line, there's a whole lot of truth to that sentiment in that between a couple, there definitely are two different perspectives, two different ways of conveying the same story.  Such is the case today in episode three of this series...

In part two of our visit with Emmitt and Belen McKenzie, we transition from the horrific environment Emmitt grew up in, including drugs, alcohol, distribution of narcotics, gang activity, gun trafficking, and urban gang activity, to when he truly encountered Jesus Christ in a rehab center.  Emmitt shares the very important truth that coming to Christ is not just "praying the prayer", or,...

As the Smiths launch into another year of the  Indigenous Faith podcast,   they couldn't start on any stronger a note than this multi-episode series featuring Emmitt and Belen McKenzie.  Like his and our dear friend, Dr. Vern Charette, Emmitt comes from the tough inner-city environment with all it's struggles and challenges.  Emmitt's childhood and adolescent years were nothing shor...

In this final episode with Dr. Vern Charette, he and Emmitt McKenzie, along with Craig and LaDonna Smith, continue their important discussions on syncretism, current political and end time issues, and what true revival looks like.  Craig and LaDonna appreciate the depth of godly wisdom and knowledge brother Vern brings to our discussions and how he takes us all, as listeners, deeper into the Word...

What a year it has been as Craig and LaDonna Smith continue to present principles for biblical living in their  Indigenous Faith  podcast, which has taken them now into forty-four different nations and on a growing list of radio stations across Native North America!  They wrap up 2023 with another part of their visit with Dr. Vern Charette and Emmitt and Belen McKenzie as they discuss current even...

Craig and LaDonna Smith continue their visit with Dr. Vern Charette and Emmitt McKenzie on issues relating to brother Vern's recent Facebook post on Syncretism in the Sanctuary.  Emmitt McKenzie takes us into his world as an urban raised Native who came to Christ and now serves as one of the most powerful evangelists who speaks truth without compromise, and offers his comment on these importa...

Craig and LaDonna are excited to welcome back to the Indigenous Faith podcast Dr. Vern Charette (Ojibwe).  Brother Vern joined the Smiths in their international Indigenous Leader's Conference in August 2022, helping them to unpackage biblical truth on contextualization and syncretism which is now available as the updated Indigenous Faith Video Teaching Series on the tribalrescue.com website s...

Once in a while Craig and LaDonna want to take listeners back into the archives of past Indigenous Faith episodes to rebroadcast important and timely topics.  Often it's special visits with special guests, other times its revisiting key theologically based episodes tied to current affairs, etc.  In today's broadcast, the Smiths take us back to May 2022 when they were joined by Dr. Will G...

In this, the third and final episode on the study of King Manasseh, Craig and LaDonna wrap up the biblical story of this most wicked king in Israel and Judah's collective histories and present an all important analysis of what this means for us today as we seek to live biblically healthy lives in the context of our cultures and traditions.  Thankfully, Manasseh came to his senses and realized...

In this second episode in their three part series on the life of King Manasseh, Craig and LaDonna Smith take us to 2 Chronicles 33 and 2 Kings 21 to look at the life and times of this king who was described in Scripture as the wickedest king who ever reigned over Israel or Judah.  It's clear from the Word, this king's actions were dictated by a mind that was given over to total depravity...

Today is an exciting day for the Indigenous Faith Podcast.  You'll want to listen to Craig and LaDonna and their breaking news about the new Indigenous Faith 2.0 Video Teaching Series that is now available for download and viewing at their tribalrescue.com website!  That's right, all the content from their August 2022 Indigenous Faith International Leader's Conference is now accessi...

In today's final episode on the life of King Hezekiah, Craig and LaDonna Smith once again let the Word of God tell the story right from the pages of the Scriptures.  What an incredible life and reign of this great King of Judah during his almost thirty years of being on the throne.  For the most part, Hezekiah was honored by the Lord for his faithfulness to lead by the principles and orders o...

In today's episode, Craig and LaDonna continue to expand on the life and times of King Hezekiah, noted as one of the most godly kings over God's Chosen People, the Children of Israel.  In ways that mirror today's challenges for Israel, they had to go to war against the Assyrian's, and their brash and prideful leaders, Sennacherib.  Before Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib ente...

As we continue looking at the godly life of King Hezekiah, we're taken into the restored Temple of God as the celebration continues by the people of God when God honoring worship was restored by the King.  It was one of the high points of Hezekiah's life and reign and is powerfully recorded for us in 2 Chronicles, chapters 29-32.  Craig and LaDonna Smith continue to unpackage the biblica...

In part two of Craig and LaDonna's journey into the life and times of King Hezekiah, we continue to see how this amazing and godly king earned such great favor with God and the people he led.  He turned the heart of God's people back to the Lord and after destroying all the places and artifacts of his syncretistic father, King Ahaz, brought God's Chosen People back into not only the...

Today begins a multi-episode journey into the life and times of King Hezekiah, who was know as one of the most godly kings of the Children of Israel in all of their recorded history.  This series begins a larger journey into the lives and times of a number of Israel's human leaders and covers both those who were regarded as good and godly leaders and those who failed miserably in the eyes of...

In today's final episode in this introduction to God and His ways in human leadership and leaders, Craig and LaDonna finish their journey into Romans 13:1-7.  Picking up where they left off last week, the Smiths continue to explain the reality that God has ordained all human leaders on all human levels to serve as rewarders of them who do good and punishers of those who do evil.  The Smiths r...

In today's episode, Craig and LaDonna continue to present character studies on biblical characters who did good, and who did evil in the sight of God.  Their focus turns to the political realm as they begin presenting biblical truth about Old Testament kings and rulers over the Children of Israel.  But before they do, the present this important series as an introduction to this new focus.  Th...

In today's final episode, Craig and LaDonna Smith bring this interesting study in the lives of Judas and Peter to a close as they walk through the biblical account of Peter's restoration by the Lord around a breakfast of grilled fish on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.  Perhaps somewhere near where Peter was originally called by Christ to follow him and become a fisher of men, He now lo...

In today's episode on the failures of Judas and Peter, the Smiths continue to unpackage the despair Judas was in which led him to take his life after selling out Christ for 30 pieces of silver.  Sadly, this sentiment runs rampant across Indigenous North America, resulting in suicide rates many times that of national averages.  We all are tempted to sin, and as LaDonna reminded us from Matthew...

In today's episode of Indigenous Faith, Craig and LaDonna Smith continue their character studies in the lives of biblical characters who were victorious in many parts of their lives, but disobedient in ways that caused great harm personally, and to the advancement of the Kingdom of God.  In today's episode, the Smiths take us to the New Testament as they study the lives of two unique men...

After two and a half years of the Indigenous Faith Podcast, Craig and LaDonna Smith have been greatly encouraged by the growth, especially recent, in the number of listeners who have joined them in this teaching ministry.  They are especially grateful to the Lord that the podcast has now been accessed by people in over forty countries around the world!  Knowing there are new listeners, the Smiths...

In this concluding episode on the series titled, To Obey is Better than Sacrifice, Craig and LaDonna Smith wrap up the story of Queen Esther as found in the Old Testament book of Esther, showing how God blessed the Queen with deliverance for not only herself and her uncle, Mordecai, but for the whole Jewish race as well.  In an incredible turn of events, wicked Haman, the Agagite, was impaled on t...