The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

One week after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, we do well to do a brief inventory of the fallout at home and abroad. Three points to consider from reports at home and abroad over the past few days. 1. Biden Not Only Gave Afghanistan Back to the Taliban; He Also Armed Them Biden not only gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban. He also allowed them to take possession of military b...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a very real danger presented itself to the early Church. As the Apostle Paul writes to the church in Galatia, the claims of the Judaizers represented a different gospel than the one he had preached to them, by which they had come to a saving faith in Christ. Central to the controversy was the Old Testament Law, and circumcision in particular. Gentile believers in Christ had...

Woke pastors, woke churches, and woke Christianity are front and center in America. But is Wokism a primary, secondary, or even tertiary issue? Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Social Justice, charges of White Supremacy, "White-Centeredness," inequity, and America's original sin being racism. All of these and more have been picked up, embraced, and preached from pulpits and books and YouTube...

Before my wife contracted COVID recently, I planned and prepared a short sermon for the Preaching and Teaching training I have been undergoing with several men from our church in Evans, Colorado. My text for the sermon was and is 2 Timothy 3:16-17.   "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man...

Continuing on the cultural enrichment project in my home, and perhaps needing a little levity, my seven children and I sat down last night to watch 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,' the 1954 musical starring Howard Keel and Jane Powell. As my son Solomon pointed out near the end of the film, this is in part a story about Stockholm Syndrome.  But it's more than that. And we ought not to take...

As a follow-up to ' Afghanistan Reconquered by the Taliban ,' let us take a closer look at the ideas that contributed to the failure of the Afghan government to hold the country against Taliban aggression, and the failure of the U.S. government to nation-build a feudal-minded Islamist culture into the 21st century. Meanwhile, Hank Barrien at The Daily Wire reported yesterday 'Seizing on U.S. Weakn...

News reports this morning are that Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, is surrounded. The Afghan government has announced it will oversee a peaceful transition of power. The Taliban for its part has issued a statement that everyone can stay home with no need to panic. All are forgiven for their complicity and cooperation with American and allied forces over the past two decades. As reported by Paul...

Eastern Montana native and resident of Sidney, Montana - Micah Hershberger joins me on this episode to talk about discernment ministry bloggers in general, and Jordan "J.D." Hall more specifically. To what extent should we get into the personal lives of public persons in the Church, politics, and popular culture? How can we guard ourselves against self-promotion and conceitedness - in ourselves an...

A Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting made headlines Tuesday, August 10th after proposals regarding Critical Race Theory, transgender pronouns, mask mandates, and vaccines prompted fiery responses from parents and teachers. Sarah Taylor at The Blaze reported that Laura Morris, a fifth-grade teacher in Leesburg, Virginia resigned publicly stating among other things: "This summer I have st...

I have very real concerns about J.D. Hall being embraced as a partner in this campaign against Woke Christianity and radical Leftism in America – concerns that his partnership serves as a kind of poison pill for such efforts and will ultimately help rather than hinder Wokism and Leftism, both inside and outside the Church. These concerns are not merely hypothetical, but are borne of my personal in...

Both the North and the South, Union and Confederate, knew their Bibles. As President Abraham Lincoln said in his Second Inaugural Address, which was as much a sermon to the nation as it was a summary of the Civil War, men on both sides of the conflict "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." In James P. Byrd's excellent book on the subject - A Hol...

As part of a training I am going through these weeks, our class is going to be tasked with delivering three small sermons. The first will be manuscripted, the second will be outlined, and the third will be - if memory serves - extemporaneous. Merriam-Webster defines 'extemporaneous' as "composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment." What could be more dangerous? Speaking off the cuff...

Sometimes I think we have grown immune to what the acronym 'PG' in a movie rating actually signifies. What is 'parental guidance' anyway? Is it merely parents watching a film with their children, oohing and aahing and laughing along with their sons and daughters? Too often, we imagine that a movie is safe so long as it does not contain sex and violence - at least the kind of violence where blood a...

Once upon a time, "the right side of history" was the side where marriage was defined as a man and a woman committed to one another for life. Marriage was not a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. Whatever we wanted to call those alternative lifestyles, they were just that - alternatives.  But then came loud calls for affirmation and legitimizing of everything which is not marriage. The fo...

Consider with me the curious case of Doug Wilson and John Piper, prominent American evangelical pastors with large, high-profile ministries, colleges, and major platforms for preaching and teaching. From the 2000 Ligonier National Conference: Mohler, Piper, Sproul, and Wilson: Questions and Answers #1 - Ligonier Ministries - 34:25 . From the 2012 Desiring God conference for pastors: "A Pastor &amp...

In 1937, news reporter Herbert Morrison uttered a phrase which has endured for eight decades. Reacting to the Hindenburg fire, he was heard in footage of the disaster crying "Oh, the humanity!"  The largest aircraft ever constructed to-date had caught fire on its maiden voyage. A luxurious zeppelin filled with hydrogen with skin made of the same stuff matchsticks are erupted in a giant fireba...

The 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge often gets a bad wrap. Amity Shlaes makes clear in her excellently researched and written biography of the man who held the highest office in the land from 1923-1929 that there is much more to admire than we have been led to believe. Where too many conclude that "Silent Cal" was passive, I see him as Shlaes portrays him - respectfully and ci...

"Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene." When w...

My oldest son Josiah turned 14-years-old yesterday, and we celebrated in part by watching the movie Gladiator. The film opens with an epic battle between Rome and the barbarian hordes. Then secret meetings are called by the emperor.  Commodus soon casts Maximus as the rebel. Yet it is Commodus who murders his father, Marcus Aurelius, and usurped the throne. So long as everyone around affirms...

One of the consequences of being an honest non-conformist is that people who love standardization and so-called normalcy have their attention drawn to me, often with less-than-harmonious, happy effects. I am not anti-authority, per se. But being a non-conformist who comes by it honestly on both my father's and mother's side, popular and typical ways of relating to authority are a puzzle to me. Whe...

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” So says Alexander Pope, 18th century poet in his rare poetic essay, ‘An Essay on Criticism: Part 2.’ Most essays are written prosaically. Hence, our expectations so disturbed, we might fault Pope for having surprised and confused us. Transferring the embarrassment of surprise from ourselves to him has some advantages. But greater advantages are had from embra...

Remember those commercials on Saturday mornings when we were kids. The crime dog came on the screen and told us all to stay in school and not do drugs. And what was the simple strategy for how to accomplish this? "Just say 'No'" is what the crime dog taught us. Now here we are. The ability to "Just say 'No'" is as important as ever, but we may not recognize it in this form just yet. Mask mandates,...

Ten-year-old humorist and all-around charming guy, Daniel Joseph Mullet joins me on this episode of the podcast to talk about what he has learned driving a big rig in American Trucking Simulator, the state of the world today, our favorite colors and numbers, and more. Stay tuned until the end to hear Daniel's advice for cold-call sales of grass-mowing services.

What is going on with David Platt and McLean Bible Church? ChurchLeaders.com ran a story July 22, 2021 titled 'David Platt and McLean Bible Church Elders Sued After Recent Elder Vote Exposes Major Problems.' Christianity Today came out with a similar piece the same day, titled 'Platt’s McLean Bible Church Hit With Attempted Takeover, Lawsuit from Opposition.' For footage and a breakdown of what ha...

Kwon and Thompson have struck once more their hammer blows against DeYoung's review of their book. Publishing 'Distinctively Christian? An Additional Response to Reverend Kevin DeYoung' at The Front Porch, they get more into the substance of DeYoung's criticism this time. Mercifully, they are more succinct. Yet tragically, they are not more correct than they were before. Consider again the poem by...