The Warrior Priest Podcast

How many of you have become indifferent about God’s love because your expectations remain unmet? How often do you become disappointed and in your disappointment, break away from God’s love for you? Be honest. Don’t you do this whenever God doesn't meet your expectations? Isn't this your response when God doesn't give you the answer you want when you want it? Don't you stop caring about God’s...

“I don’t call it humble as much as I call it a very clear definition as to what ego is. The more confident I have become, the more in control or aware I am of my ego. Because I am so well prepared for physical confrontation, my ego is less confrontational. I feel less of a need to prove myself. The ego is everywhere. It is a beautiful thing, but most people don’t talk about it enough to even under...

So listen now, before it's too late. "Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

The warrior ethos in the Lord of the Rings is about cultivating virtuous masculinity. It helps develop men who can protect, provide and procreate with an ethical, moral and competent ideological, theological and sociological ethos. The toxic kind of masculinity being lamented today is often a caricature of the worst of masculinity, unmoored from it’s virtuous center. - Eric Blauer

God gave you a hunger at your baptism into Christ so that now, every gravy smeared plate, every wine stain on the couch, every pie crumb ground into the carpet incites you to give thanks for God’s gorgeous, fatherly heart made solid.

*** Apologies. I was thinking about too many things at once and said this is the Banned Books Podcast, Midweek Debrief #89. I crossed the streams. If you're here for The Warrior Priest Podcast, you followed the right link. Enjoy!  Komaromi agrees that we have to start somewhere in our rebellion against contemporary atomization. The individual standing alone against the machine will be crushed...

You are not to allow someone else to violate your body or the body of another person. You will not allow someone to violate the body of those who are weak, needy, fatherless, poor, and oppressed. You will not allow someone to be bullied, attacked, and harmed in their body. You have a biblical mandate to steward God's temple, your body. You have a command to steward the temple that God has given to...

The tarantulas, of course, would have it otherwise. “What justice means to us is precisely that the world be filled with the storms of our revenge”—thus they speak to each other. “We shall wreak vengeance and abuse on all whose equals we are not”—thus do the tarantula-hearts vow. “And ‘will to equality’ shall henceforth be the name for virtue; and against all that has power we want to raise our cl...

"[My father] believed that he was accountable before God, not before people. It didn't matter to him when other people didn't understand why the did the things he did. He acted in the sight of God. And you know, the Bible gave him strength because it is full of stories of the prophets and others going beyond the border of what was comprehensible or understandable to people, for the sake of obeying...

The apostle Paul writes that the goal of the Christian life is: “That by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” That's your goal. That’s your Christian life. The resurrection of the dead, BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE. Might that include taking certain earthly risks? Of course! Might that include giving up on temporary things so that you might be raised bodily from the dead? Of c...

Marriage and family offers three gifts that are urgently needed for believers struggling within a totalitarian order. The first is the fruitful fellowship of love... the second gift is freedom... the third gift is the dignity of the individual within family fellowship.

But, for now, we hear the Lamb’s voice in His Word: “Take, and eat. Take, and drink.” He is here. He’s brought all of heaven with Him. All the angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven. Here, in the Lord's Supper, is our heaven on earth. That’s because Jesus gives us access by his blood to Himself and to the Father who sits on the throne.

It is up to us today to take up the challenge, to live not by lies and to speak the truth that defeats evil. How do we do this in a society built on lies? By accepting a life outside the mainstream, courageously defending the truth, and being willing to endure the consequences. These challenges are daunting, but we are blessed with examples from saints who've gone before. Vaclav Havel, The Power o...

Jesus is the true reformer, and the work of the Holy Spirit and God’s Word of forgiveness is the true Reformation, and like the Reformation of the 16th century, the work of Christ is not only a spiritual, but also a social, economic, cultural, scientific and political reformation.

We have to throw away this crippling nostalgia for the future, especially the habit we Americans, a naturally optimistic people, have of assuming that everything will ultimately work out for the best.

God's Word tells us that because we refuse to admit the truth, that we're all insane, that each of our worlds doesn't match God's reality, that our worlds don't match the reality of God and us revealed by Jesus, the truth about reality is a mystery to us.

Everybody says that they have no choice but to conform... and to accept powerlessness. But that is a lie that gives all the other lies their malign force. The ordinary man may not be able to overturn the kingdom of lies, but he can at least say that he is not going to be its loyal subject. https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399

You're a loser. But, for Jesus, that means you're just the kind of person He wants sitting with him at his wedding feast. You don't deserve to be here, and that's exactly how God's grace works.

Today's left-wing totalitarianism once again appeals to an internal hunger, specifically the hunger for a just society, one that vindicates and liberates the historical victims of oppression. It masquerades as kindness, demonizing dissenters and disfavored demographic groups to protect the feelings of "victims" in order to bring about "social justice." Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Diss...

God created you to live together, in concrete, physical relationships, serving and sacrificing for the health and well-being of the person standing in front of you. God created you for communion. You're created and planted in the world by God to produce good fruit not fairy gold. Whether you're changing diapers, serving on the front line, harvesting wheat, responding to a car accident, or comforti...

“You are not a king, my young friend. You are a conqueror.” “Observe my kingdom,” Porus explained, “governed with wisdom and justice. The people prosper and are happy. The land flourishes and yields its bounty. Men are free to speak and to exercise their ambition. Steven Pressfield's Blog: https://stevenpressfield.com/2020/12/warrior-episode-thirty-two/#transcript Virtues of War: https://www.amazo...

The forces of evil have Satan on their side. But, he only knows how to hate, threaten, and destroy what God creates. On our side, we have Jesus Christ, the Lord Almighty, the God of armies dressed for battle, who will crush the head of the ancient serpent. And, as the apostle writes, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

The unwise man thinks that he will live, if from fighting he flees; but the ails and aches of old age dog him though spears have spared him. - Havamal 16 https://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Edda-Lee-M-Hollander/dp/0292764995

Forgiveness releases to God what rightly belongs to him. Since God is “the Judge of all the earth who will do what is right,” releasing to God's judgment the one who sinned against you places the offense in the purest context of judgment. Forgiving releases the grievance and the offender to God’s all-knowing perspective and to his justice and mercy. This honors Jesus by placing matters into His na...

“None but cowards give up an undertaking once begun,” answered Siegfried. “Go back to Rhineland yourself, if you are afraid; but you must go alone. You have brought me thus far to meet the dragon of the heath, to win the hoard of the swarthy elves, and to rid the world of a terrible evil. Before the setting of another sun, the deed which you have urged me to do will be done.” Siegfried's Story: ht...