The Biblical Fatherhood Podcast

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app every weekday between 11am and 12pm eastern time for The Biblical Fatherhood Initiative Lunchtime Devotional Live on Substack . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drmikenapier.substack.com/subscribe

The Proving Ground of Loyalty In the 1% motorcycle subculture, “loyalty” isn’t a bumper sticker; it’s a blood-oath. When a man prospects, he is stripped of his ego to see if he has the “sand” to stand when things get heavy. He learns that the name on his back is greater than the man in the mirror. As a Biblical Psychologist , I see the contrast daily. We live in a “consumer” church culture where p...

Most pastors are terrified of the Book of Revelation. They treat it like a crazy uncle you lock in the attic, too messy to deal with, too controversial to touch. So they ignore it. Or worse, they outsource their theology to bad movies and fictional timelines that promise you an “ejection seat” the moment life gets hard. But I look at my congregation at Newman Swamp Southern Methodist Church in Lam...

The Asphalt Altar There’s a specific kind of solitude you can only find when you’re straddling an engine doing seventy miles per hour. Every day, I have a one-hour and fifteen-minute commute to the office. To some, that sounds like a grind. To me, it’s the most critical appointment on my calendar. That hour and fifteen minutes isn’t just travel time; it is my sanctuary. It is my prayer closet on t...

Text : Luke‬ ‭20‬:‭34‬-‭39‬ ‭(NKJV)‬‬ “ Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But even Moses showed in the b...

The Text Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV): “ Then the Lord answered me and said: ‘Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. ” I don’t fit neatly into the boxes the world likes to build. To the academic world, I’m Dr. Michael Napier, a PhD in Pastoral Psychology. To the church, I’m an Ordained Pastor holding to the historic holiness of John Wesley. But to the guys I grew up ar...

By: Dr. Mike Napier We have traveled a long road in this series. We started in the sweat and chaos of The Mosh Pit , walked through the prisons and homeless camps, sat at the kitchen table of the father-led home, and even stared up at the ceiling tiles of an ICU while death knocked at the door. Now, we arrive at the final destination of this title: The Pulpit. But let me be clear: The piece of woo...

The Polite Church vs. The Powerful Kingdom of God. If you grow up Storm Brained in the modern church like I did, you spend a lot of time apologizing. You apologize for being too loud. You apologize for asking too many hard questions in Sunday School. You apologize for fidgeting in the pew because the preacher has been droning on for 45 minutes about “stillness,” and your leg is bouncing 90 miles a...

I get asked the same question almost every week. Usually, it happens when I’m getting off my bike or walking out of a meeting. Someone sees “Southern Methodist” on my vest or my card, and they tilt their head. “Methodist? You mean like the ones with the rainbow flags? The ones splitting apart?” And every time, I have to look them in the eye and say: “No. That’s the United Methodist Church. We aren...

The Civil War in the Skull: In clinical circles, we are starting to talk more about the specific intersection of ADHD and Autism. The internet calls it “AuDHD,” but I call it “The Civil War.” I don’t like the term “scatterbrained.” It sounds flighty and weak. And if you live inside this head, you know it isn’t weak. It is powerful, exhausting, and relentless Category 5 Hurricane swirling around be...

We treat burnout like a badge of honor, but the Bible calls it bondage. Why the bravest thing you can do is hit the brakes. By Dr. Michael Napier I recently came across a post from A Slow Living Path that stopped me in my tracks. It said: “We really do need to normalise taking breaks... pausing, slowing down, even disappearing for a little while. What we’re building isn’t dependent on showing up c...

By: Dr. Mike Napier I’m sitting here on Christmas Eve, looking at the numbers, and I see something that humbles me. We just hit 100 subscribers. Now, in a world of viral algorithms, clickbait, and million-follower influencers, a hundred people might not seem like much. But I’m not a social media influencer; I’m a Pastor & Psychologist. And I know that the Kingdom of God rarely starts with a crowd;...

By: Dr. Mike Napier Pull a chair up by the fire. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We need to have a hard conversation. In Part 8, we stood facing the “Wall of Death”— that violent collision between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Self. We talked about how the culture is splitting and how we, as the Churc...

The Most Violent Mosh Pit In Episode 1, we talked about the physical mosh pit, the sweat, the collision, the endurance it takes to stay standing when the world (and the Tribulation) tries to knock you down. But if you’ve lived long enough, you know the hardest pit isn’t under flashing lights, it’s inside your own skull. I’ve seen men who can take a punch right to the face without blinking; bikers,...

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” The Holy Ghost has a way of hunting that throttle hand down, Even when the fog hangs low on the mountain curves. My grandfathers fought the devil from a saddle of hide; And I fight the devil on the sa...

The Mosh Pit to the Pulpit Part 2: A Journey of Grace, Grit, and Glory. By: Dr. Michael Napier  Sitting here by the fire, watching the smoke curl up from my old briar pipe and drift into the South Carolina air, a man gets to thinking. The quiet of Saint George, South Carolina is a long way from the roar of music venues, the feedback of amplifiers, and the rumble of V-twins that defined my 20s. Peo...

By Dr. Michael Napier We paint the devil in caricatures—a red man with a pitchfork, a grotesque beast lurking in shadows, smelling of sulfur and breathing smoke. We tell our children to watch out for the monster under the bed. But if you read the Good Book, God’s Holy Word, you find that our enemy rarely comes looking like a nightmare. Lucifer comes looking like a dream. Brothers and sisters, it’s...

Dr. Michael Napier | The Appalachian Theologian | Pastor | Psychologist | Founder of Freedom Biblical Outreach Ministry & Counseling Blood on the Walls Othniel stood at the base of Kirjath-sepher and studied the fortress like a man reading his own death warrant. The city’s name meant “City of Books” - a center of Canaanite learning, sorcery, and power. Its walls had turned back armies. Its scribes...