The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

As Daniel Payne at Not the Bee reported yesterday, 'Al Gore is promising to use satellites and artificial intelligence to I.D. those responsible for producing greenhouse gasses so activists can "hold them responsible."' Let me be as clear as I can manage: Al Gore and the folks at the Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland want to save the planet from us , not for us.

Having spent most of our recent episodes talking about more personal matters, let us turn our attention again to the news. Three stories from yesterday and today in particular deserve special attention. First, from Chris Pandolfo at The Blaze, ' Pelosi stops mid-speech after Republican laughs at claim 'Build Back Better' bill will reduce the debt.' Second, from Jack Phillips at The Epoch Times, 'B...

The Lord has been good to us. Long overdue and for the first time ever, Lauren and I got away for three days and two nights to a cabin in the mountains to celebrate 15 years of marriage a little early, and to celebrate my 35th birthday.  We cannot thank Luke and Cait Bergman enough for holding down the fort and hanging out with our kiddos.  A big thank you too goes out to Cory and Ellen...

As reported at Not the Bee , take a look at the victory speech of Virginia's new Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears. "When I joined the Marine Corps, I was still a Jamaican. But this country had done so much for me, I was willing, willing, to die for this country. USA! There are some who want to divide us and we must not let that happen. They would like us to believe we are back in 1963 when my fa...

It looks like the state of Virginia has won the 2021 elections with Republicans taking governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general seats. MSNBC's Joy Reid says this upset is best explained with accusations of racist white parents. But the reality is that American parents of every ethnos and shade of skin do not care for being told they should butt out when it comes to what their children a...

Revisiting an episode from several weeks ago, I want to consider again the question of 'Why a Good God Would Allow for Evil and Suffering.' "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!" - Romans 11:33 Also, in other news, I recently tried out Age of Empires IV multiplayer with my three oldest sons. While fun, we have...

On Friday I celebrate my 35th birthday. To mark the occasion today, I want to delve into some interesting trivia about where and when I come from. What follows is my origin story. I was born at the Glendive Medical Center on November 5th, 1986 in Glendive, Montana to Byron Doyle Mullet, a native of Eastern Montana, and Alice Ann Mullet, maiden name Ranew, originally from Milton, Florida, near Pens...

We have for some time been known as "that family with all the kids." With six sons and one daughter, now a seventh son due at the end of January, people notice our entrance. To our amusement, it is not uncommon for people to proactively ask if we homeschool. A family of this size, people can be forgiven for guessing. But there are some ways we want to be weird, unusual, uncommon, and atypical on p...

Every year about this time, I get questions from people who have not known us as long or as well, but do know we are a large, fairly conservative homeschooling family. The questions typically go a little something like, "Do you guys do anything for Halloween?" In the interest of full disclosure on the front-end, I will say that I do not personally feel strongly about Halloween one way or another....

The story of Joseph in Genesis 37 has been on my mind a lot here lately.

"Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety." - Proverbs 11:14 (ESV)

"My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,   and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Si...

"What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." - James 2:14-17 (ESV)

President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. held a townhall with CNN this past week in which he mocked freedom and said as many as one-third of first-responders should be told to stay home or else lose their jobs if they refuse to be fully vaccinated. In other news, Dr. John Piper wrote and published another winning op-ed in which he defended all our freedom to get vaccinated because we are Christians wh...

The grass is nowhere greener than when we submit ourselves humbly and completely to the plans and purposes of Almighty God. Even just in the title of Jeremiah Burroughs 1648 work, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment , we are told that contentment for the Christian is precious and valuable, and that it is uncommon. For my part, reading through this book took five months, nearly to the day, and...

From time to time, I clear out the seven books in my audiobook queue to start fresh. When I do, I enjoy thinking about my selections strategically. Do I want to focus on a given subject, or do I want seven diverse subjects which are only related to one another in very tenuous ways? This time around, I have elected to replenish my currently reading Audible titles with a lot of history spanning the...

This coming May will mark 10-years of my working in the Oil & Gas industry. Allow me to share a few lessons learned, particularly for any young bucks thinking of jumping in to get a piece of the high wages and excitement this sector has a reputation for.

Yesterday marked the conclusion of over 250-hours of listening over probably 4-years of my going through James Clavell's 6-part historical fiction series known as 'The Asian Saga.' Spanning internally the years 1600 to 1979, and set in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Iran by turns, the stories all add up to one thing - a compare and contrast of East and West, and the beauty and horror of what hap...

With so much in flux at present, it is easy to find our understanding taxed. What has recently been, what is now, and what may soon happen - all is complicated and disputed and controversial.  Given this and other related facts, Philippians 4 is on my mind this morning, particularly the fourth to seventh verses. "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness b...

Concerning the question of the extent to which evangelical Christianity can be made palatable and respectable to mainstream American culture in our day, there is an oft-played out conflict between those on the one hand who want to winsomely get and maintain as much influence by having as little direct conflict as possible, and on the other hand those who insist we must call sinners to repentance a...

Having just finished up Martin Luther's 1525 work, 'The Bondage of the Will,' I am struck by the utter lack of concern that father of Protestantism showed for what we would consider good manners in contending for what he held to be good doctrine. Today we play more pattycake than contending, it seems. But Luther was operating in a very different context, and it is important to mark his bravery in...

Dovetailing off my last episode, #227 - 'Preparing Our Children to Defend Against Atheism,' let's read some comments left by listeners yesterday and respond to them a bit more fully.

My neighbor two houses down, JP Chavez was recently listening to a different podcast in which William Lane Craig was being reacted to.  There was a video clip of Craig – a Christian apologist with a more formally academic and philosophical type bend – being asked about the first eleven chapters of Genesis, and Craig was doubting that the first part of Genesis is to be taken as literally true....

Topical or expository - which type of preaching is better? This was among the chief topics of discussion this past week in one of the private message groups I am a part of. In the course of the discourse, from the comments of the other men engaged, and from pondering privately to myself, it seems there is some overlap.  On the one hand, every expository message has a topic - even when a sermo...

What goes into making silence awkward sometimes?