The Warrior Priest Podcast

Mayhew distinguishes between the moral duty of the Christian to submit to lawful authority and the citizen’s duty toward “lawless, unreasonable” tyranny: Those who resist a reasonable and just authority, which is agreeable to the will of God, do really resist the will of God himself; and will, therefore, be punished by him. But how does this prove, that those who resist a lawless, unreasonable pow...

The days are very dim and very dark. Satan is attempting to build hell on earth. His servants significantly outnumber God's children. They have all the world's money, power, and influence at their command. But, you have Christ, the one who has defeated sin, death, and hell. He has overcome the world.

What does training “hard but smart” mean? What can individuals, groups, and teams do to promote effective, productive training? How does personal improvement fit in to training, and how can it produce good leaders? Can an individual or team be “too busy” to train? How can you train yourself and others when time and opportunities are limited? How can you ensure training is educational and not just...

“All-too-many are born: for the superfluous the state was invented.” Everything about the modern state was corrupt: education (“they steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the sages for themselves”), the media (“they vomit their gall and call it a newspaper”), and most of all, politics. Nietzsche characterized politics as a mad rush for power, which squandered the talents of great m...

So then, how can Jesus' cross be the one thing you've waited for all your life? Can it be that in the cross God has found a way to stop you from chasing other hopes and dreams, bad lovers, little gods, and all? Has God found a way to plant you where you belong in this old, dying world? Is Christ's ugly cross the very thing that will finally get you to belt out the old blues song with Etta James: "...

Hungry, violent, lonely, godless: thus the lion-will wants itself. Free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from gods and adorations, fearless and fear-inspiring, great and lonely: such is the will of the truthful. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Second Part

God not only started and preserved the world's course by speaking, he also interrupted the world's course by speaking a new word. He does this without apology because he's angry and determined to change the course of what we've done to his creation. The interruption is decisive and final with the crucifixion of Jesus. 

The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends. One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. And why do you not want to pluck at my wreath? You revere me; but what if your reverence tumbles one day? Beware lest a statue slay you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part.

Jesus alone is Lord over fear. Fear knows him as its master. Fear gives way to him alone. So look to Christ when you're afraid. Think of Christ. Keep him before your eyes. Call upon Christ and pray to him. Believe that he is with you now, helping you. Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free. Through your faith in this strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ, you're free of fear...

If the Comanches were better known for cruelty and violence, that was because, as one of history's greatest warring peoples, they were in a position to inflict more pain than they received. - S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

Far too often, we think about eternal things only when they are thrust upon us. We are reactionary creatures. We foolishly trust that the fail-safes of our government and culture will save us. That is until we sense a real threat. Then our default reaction is to panic. Few people have the resolve to stand strong when the storms of life come. And those who try to stand without Christ are swept away...

Though no one would be able to even estimate the date of his birth until many years later, it was mostly likely in 1848, making him twenty-three that year and eight years younger than Mackenzie, who was also so young that few people in Texas, Indian or white, knew much about him at the time. Both men achieved their fame only in the final, brutal Indian wars of the mid-1870s. Quanah was exceptional...

When the nation and its people are held captive by an oppressive, morally and spiritually bankrupt government and society, then Christians and their families must push as hard against the government and society as it pushes against them. That's how a marriage and family with Christ at its center lives.

Though they did not know it at the time — the idea would have seemed preposterous — the sounding of "boots and saddle" that morning marked the beginning of the end of the Indian wars in America, of fully two hundred fifty years of bloody combat that had begun almost with the first landing of the first ship on the first fatal shore in Virginia. The final destruction of the last of the hostile tribe...

In those moments, when you want to give up, and family and friends don't show up for you, and you're sure you don't have the strength to get up again, you're going to wish, you're even going to pray, that you could be un-baptized. No more sin or Satan. No more wrestling with temptations. No more asking God, "Why have you abandoned me?"

The Church doesn’t need to search for the next, best, newest thing that will satisfy her until Jesus comes, because she is always given to by her Creator. She's given time and patience. The gifts of salvation are given to her to quiet and calm her fears. She's given life because her Savior speaks to her and serves her with absolute devotion.

For those unfamiliar with the term,  zugzwang  is when you place your opponent in positions that force them into positionally or materially worse positions, irrespective of what move they choose. Each move leaves them worse for the ware until there is nothing left but the checkmate. - Adisa Banjoko

Only in Christ does death equal victory and weakness equal strength. Long before Christ would say to his disciples, “Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 10:39), these children were already resting securely in the arms of their Savior, the infant child Jesus. 

Santa Claus. Santa Claus is a nice enough idea. A white-bearded, old man comes from the sky to reward good little children, but withholds his gifts from the naughty ones. That’s Santa in a nutshell. That’s not God, but it does describe Santa Claus. But that’s how most people envision God. They imagine that he's very much like Santa Claus. And like Santa, they also believe that God is a white-beard...

The story about Jesus' birth, the true story, just wasn’t as nice as we make it out to be in children’s Christmas pageants. For example, in his Gospel, Luke gives a hint at the shame suffered by Joseph and Mary. He writes that there was “no room for them in the inn.” Now, despite the sweet-talking and all the hoop-jumping we go through to clean-up the story, the text doesn’t say there was no room....

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." - Friedrich Nietzsche,  Beyond Good and Evil , Aphorism 146.

Every sin of every sinner. No one's sins are kept away from this Lamb who was slain but lives. And like John, you are witnesses. You are put on the stand to testify to your little corner of this world. You are witnesses to Jesus – proclaiming, preparing, focusing your preaching on pointing this dying, messed up, terrorized, sin-filled world to its Savior.

Christianity is called the religion of pity. Pity stands opposed to the tonic emotions which heighten our vitality: it has a depressing effect. We are deprived of strength when we feel pity. That loss of strength which suffering as such inflicts on life is still further increased and multiplied by pity. Pity makes suffering contagious. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

When your bones grow weak, Jesus still loves you. When the blood dries off your veins, Jesus still loves you. When your love slowly fades away from this earth and you are embraced by the dirt, Jesus still loves you. God's love is more than father, mother, friend, or anyone else could love you, even more than you are able to love yourself… because God is love and his promises to you are unbreakable...

Solzhenitsyn's audacious claim was that suffering had refined him, taught him to love. It was only there, out of the experience of intense suffering, that the prisoner began to understand the meaning of life and first began to sense the good inside himself. *** Never eat chocolate covered espresso beans after drinking espresso, before recording a podcast - Donavon