The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Billy Graham sat at a dinner table in his 90s and got asked a simple question: if you could preach one more time to one more packed stadium, what would you preach? His answer was instant and surprisingly narrow. Not a trend, not a headline, not a personal victory lap, but Galatians 6:14, a verse that puts every kind of pride on trial and leaves us with one place to stand: the cross of Jesus Christ...

Religious effort can look holy while hiding a deeper fear: What if I have not done enough for God to accept me? We go straight at that question with Paul’s closing words in Galatians: neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but a new creation. The gospel is not behavior management. It is resurrection for the spiritually dead, a real heart change that only Jesus can do. We talk...

Billy Graham had every reason to talk about his résumé. Instead, when we asked what he’d preach if he could fill one more stadium, he didn’t hesitate: Galatians 6:14. That moment has stayed with us because it cuts through the noise of modern Christian culture and brings us back to the one thing worth boasting in the cross of Jesus Christ. We close out Galatians by reading Paul’s words and letting...

A polished religious life can hide a deeper problem: fear. In day two of The Daily Blade, we open Galatians 6:12 and let Paul expose what happens when people trade the freedom of the gospel for the pressure of performance. The Judaizers demand circumcision so they can “make a good showing in the flesh,” avoid heat for the cross, and boast in what they can control. That ancient argument still sound...

Paul closes Galatians with a line that feels almost too ordinary to matter: “See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.” We slow down and sit with that detail, because it points to something many people miss when they dismiss the Bible as myth. These are not fairy tales floating above history. They’re real letters from real leaders to real churches, written with ink, carried...

More than half of self-described evangelicals say Christian beliefs shouldn’t influence political decisions. That single claim exposes a wider problem: a crisis of discernment where the culture quietly trains us to treat faith as private and politics as neutral. We’re not buying that split, and we’re not going to outsource our thinking to slogans like “don’t talk about religion or politics.” We wa...

A lot of people claim faith while keeping the church at arm’s length, and it’s starting to look normal. When the 2025 State of Theology survey reports that 39% of self-identified evangelicals don’t think Christians are obligated to join a local church, we don’t shrug it off, we test it against Scripture and ask what discipleship is supposed to look like when nobody wants to commit.  We talk honest...

Nearly half of self-described evangelicals say God accepts the worship of all religions. If that number doesn’t stop you in your tracks, it should, because it forces one unavoidable question: do we let culture set the terms of worship, or do we let Jesus? We dig into a major discernment crisis using findings from the State of Theology 2025 survey, then hold a headline-grabbing belief up to Scriptu...

The most revealing beliefs are the ones we assume no longer need defending. Marriage has become one of those fault lines, especially after Obergefell v. Hodges reshaped the legal landscape and made honest public debate feel almost forbidden. We sit down as Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson on The Daily Blade and name what’s underneath the noise: a crisis of Christian discernment, where self-described...

Every day brings a fresh headline to fear, fight over, or doomscroll through, but we think a deeper emergency is hiding underneath all of it: a crisis of discernment. When information is endless and confusion is profitable, it gets harder to tell truth from noise and that confusion doesn’t stop at the church door. We talk about how algorithms, influence campaigns, and the rapid rise of artificial...

Money has a way of telling the truth about us. Not the truth we wish were true, but the truth that shows up in what gets our first attention, our first dollars, and our best energy. We open Galatians 6:6-10 and follow Paul’s blunt logic: God is not mocked, we reap what we sow, and generosity is not optional window dressing for a serious Christian life.  We talk about Christian generosity as worshi...

Brotherhood gets tested when a man is struggling and everyone else is tempted to stay quiet, stay polite, and keep their distance. We open Galatians 6 and talk about what Scripture actually calls us to do when a brother is caught in sin or living out of step with the gospel: restore him with gentleness, keep watch over yourself, and refuse the pride that turns accountability into a beatdown. If yo...

Comparison is the quiet thief that keeps a lot of us stuck, and it’s showing up every time we pick up our phones. We open Galatians 5:25-26 and get brutally honest about how fast conceit and envy can grow when we stop keeping in step with the Spirit. The result is always the same: we either feel superior for a moment or we feel crushed, and both paths drain the joy Jesus wants for us.    We dig in...

Trying harder sounds noble, but it is a terrible plan for spiritual growth. If you have ever looked at your life and thought, “Why am I still impatient, unkind, or lacking self-control?” we take you straight to Galatians 5:22-23 to reset the whole conversation. Paul calls it the fruit of the Spirit, singular, because the traits we want most are not trophies for disciplined people. They are evidenc...

Freedom is one of the most misunderstood words in the Christian life, and Galatians 5 refuses to let us redefine it. We open with Paul’s sharp claim that Christ sets us free for freedom, then we draw a hard line between the gospel of Jesus Christ and any message that sneaks in faith plus works. Salvation is by faith in Christ alone, but that same grace never turns into a hall pass for sin. Real fr...

Are you living like every day counts in your life or are you passively surviving the ups and downs of life? Check out David Pollack’s latest book, Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. — Identity can feel like a moving target. One day you feel confident, the next day a comment, a look, or a rough moment in the mirror rewrites the whole story. We get honest abou...

Are you living like every day counts in your life or are you passively surviving the ups and downs of life? Check out David Pollack’s latest book, Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. — Prayer can feel powerful one day and painfully flat the next, especially when it turns into a rushed list of requests. We talk honestly about that transactional pattern and wha...

Are you living like every day counts in your life or are you passively surviving the ups and downs of life? Check out David Pollack’s latest book, Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. — Sports gambling is no longer something “other people” do. It’s in your phone, in your feeds, and increasingly in the lives of teenagers and young men who are still learning imp...

Are you living like every day counts in your life or are you passively surviving the ups and downs of life? Check out David Pollack’s latest book, Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. — Some Bible verses sit quietly on the page until life hits hard enough to make them speak. David Pollack shares a personal, honest reflection on Mark 15:21, the moment Simon of...

Are you living like every day counts in your life or are you passively surviving the ups and downs of life? Check out David Pollack’s latest book, Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. — The Bible gets dismissed as “someone’s truth” all the time, but what if you treated it like a serious historical claim and a daily guide for real life? Guest host David Pollock...

We name the daily fight between the flesh and the Spirit and why sheer willpower cannot change what we want. We lay out a simple path to real spiritual growth by feeding the Spirit through habits and community that reshape desire.\n\n• Galatians 5 and the conflict between flesh and Spirit\n• Mortification and vivification as the pattern for change\n• Abiding in Christ from John 15 and the role of...

We dig into Paul’s call to freedom and why maturity means refusing to use our rights as fuel for the flesh. We challenge how we handle conscience issues and how we treat other believers online so our love stays louder than our opinions.  • Christian freedom as a gift meant for service  • Maturity as asking whether freedom feeds the flesh  • Matters of conscience and different convictions  • Choosi...

We open Galatians 5 and listen to Paul’s frustration as false teachers confuse the church and soften the offense of the cross. Then we measure our own speech by Ephesians 4:29 and challenge ourselves to use words that fit the moment and give grace.  • Paul’s warning about being hindered from obeying the truth  • Why adding works to salvation removes the offense of the cross  • Paul’s toughest lang...

We dig into Galatians 5 and Paul’s blunt warning that adding anything to Jesus turns grace into a dead end. We remind ourselves why the gospel has to stay simple because it leaks out of our minds and we drift back to earning.  • Judaizers in Galatia teaching Jesus plus circumcision  • why adding any requirement implies Christ’s work is unfinished  • “severed from Christ” and the seriousness of law...

We open Galatians 5:1 and press the question of whether we’re actually living free in Christ or still trapped in a yoke of slavery. We talk about surrender, standing firm, and fighting the pull of sin, self-righteousness, and a culture that sells self-rule as freedom. • reading Galatians 5:1 and defining gospel freedom • Jesus setting us free from sin not just forgiving sin • why self-determinatio...