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  • 072 | A Champion for Life & Liberty (Charlie Kirk)

    072 | A Champion for Life & Liberty (Charlie Kirk)
    Sep 21 2025
    Intro Hey Dads, A man was shot while exercising his first amendment right to free speech—because someone deemed what he said to be evil. What was this man’s message, and what should our response be as believers—and especially as Christian dads? How can we fight lies not with violence, but with truthful words? - Nathan Scriptures 📖 1 Timothy 4:12 📖 Hebrews 9:27 📖 Romans 8:28 Quotes 🎵 “And though this world with devils filled should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God has willed his truth to triumph through us.” —Martin Luther, in “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” 📜 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“ —The First Amendment to the Constitution of These United States of America 🎤 “He genuinely respected and genuinely loved, in a Christian manner, the people on the other side of the table. He didn’t hate anybody…. He was trying to win the argument, but he had tremendous compassion for the people he was debating, always, and he had the right heart about it.”—Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson 🎤 “Beat the idea, not the person.”—Joseph Ching 🎤 “He knew that the free speech that we are guaranteed, both in the public square and in to practice our own religious faith as we see most fitting according to our conscience, that’s not something that most people have had throughout history…that’s something most people in the world still do not have.”—Nathan 🎤 “2A, not only chronologically but also logically, follows 1A.”—Nathan 🎤 “It’s like somebody put the Constitution up on a wall and shot the First Amendment.”—Mike Rowe, on Charlie Kirk’s assassination 🎤 “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith.”—Charlie Kirk 🎤 “He cared for people because of his Christian faith.” (speaker?) 🎤“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity.”—Charlie Kirk 🎤 “The world is evil….But our Savior. Our Lord. Our God. Не...Не is so good.”—Erika Kirk 🎤“[Charlie was] a real champion—a champion for the gospel, a champion for America, a champion for liberty, a champion for free speech. Charlie Kirk died September 10, 2025. Let’s allow his life to impact us, and let’s allow his example to stir us to do what’s right—with conviction, with courage, with compassion.”—Nathan 🎤 “We are not talking about this particular point to say let’s stir up anger and let’s go find some Leftists and return the favor. No, not at all. What I do want you to recognize is, first, that the threat is real in America today, that if you stand up for what’s true, what’s right, biblically and morally, with moral objectivity, with common sense, you paint a target on yourself and on your children. Second, recognize where the threat comes from. The threat is coming from people who reject God, who reject the Bible, who reject natural law, who reject common sense."—Nathan Resources 🖥️ The Constitution of the United States of America https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript 🖥️ Eric Metaxas Answers Hard Questions About Charlie Kirk https://www.prageru.com/videos/eric-metaxas-answers-hard-questions-about-the-murder-of-charlie-kirk?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_14963361 Books 📚 The Christian After Death, by Robert Ervin Hough 📚 Heaven: Biblical Answers to Common Questions, by Randy Alcorn 📚 God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life: The Myth of the Modern Message, by Ray Comfort (a book Charlie Kirk recommended on his podcast Main Thoughts Charlie didn’t allow his age to keep him from actively engaging people in the public marketplace of ideas.We don’t hold Charlie up as a standard of perfection, but he did live an exemplary Christian life (both for the unsaved to see what a Christian life looks like and for saved people to see how they should live).Charlie sought to beat the wrong ideas people had, while not attacking the person who held the wrong ideas.Charlie read widely, enabling himself to understand and thereby argue against the opposition. (He referred to himself as an “autodidact,” a self-educated individual.)Charlie’s impact is being multiplied since his death.Charlie was committed to free speech, because he was grounded in scripture and in our American history.We often don’t recognize the treasure we have in people until we lose them.Charlie’s passing is a great time to remember Romans 8:28.Three words stand out as we reflect on Charlie’s life—conviction...
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  • 071 | Helps for Your Daily Walk (Part 1 - Why Use Devotional Books)

    071 | Helps for Your Daily Walk (Part 1 - Why Use Devotional Books)
    Aug 19 2025

    Hey fellow dads,

    What’s the difference between doctrinal and devotional books? Why are good devotional books so helpful in our spiritual walk? Join us for today’s episode, and let’s find out.

    —Nathan

    Scriptures

    📖 Matthew 12

    📖 Isaiah 42

    📖 Proverbs 11:14

    📖 Proverbs 15:22

    📖 Proverbs 24:6

    📖 Proverbs 2:20

    Books

    📚 Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth, by Charles Ryrie

    📚 Things Hard to be Understood: A Handbook of Biblical Difficulties, by David Cloud

    📚 What Every Christian Ought to Know: Essential Truths for Growing Your Faith, by Adrian Rogers

    📚 Reflections on the Gospels: Devotional Thoughts from the Pen of Vance Havner, compiled by Michael Catt

    📚 Morning and Evening, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    📚 The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, by Arthur Bennett

    Links

    ⛓️ https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional-series/the-valley-of-vision-devotional/

    Why Use Devotional Books
    1. Perhaps the most obvious—they can help us understand the Bible.
    2. A devotional book can show us what God taught other Christians as they studied the Bible and prayed.
    3. A devotional book can allow us to acquaint ourselves with men and women who thought more deeply than most of us probably do now.
    4. Reading comments and insights into scripture written in an earlier generation or different culture can help us see the Bible’s truths outside our own culture and our presuppositions, and it can help us to see that the Bible transcends cultures, speaking to people of all ages and all backgrounds.
    5. They can help us to remember that we’re not alone in our Christian walk.
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  • 070 | Only One Life…

    070 | Only One Life…
    Aug 1 2025

    Hey fellow dads,

    Only God knows how long we'll live, but He can “teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” What Scriptures and books might help us do that? Tune in today and find out!

    —Nathan

    📖 Scriptures
    • Psalm 103:2
    • Romans 16:4
    • Matthew 9:36
    • Jeremiah 3:15
    • Psalm 90
    • Genesis 1-11
    • Philippians 2
    • 1 Corinthians 15:53
    • Proverbs 13:22
    • Proverbs 20:7
    💡 Main Thoughts
    • We have only this one life to glorify God and serve our own generation.
    • How we think and live will affect our wives, our children, and future generations.
    • God only knows how long we will live.
    • God only knows the best way for us to live those days.
    • [Therefore, we should pray…] “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
    📚 Books
    • One Second After You…Die, by Mark Cahill
    • One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven, by Mark Cahill
    • The Christian After Death, by Robert Ervin Hough
    • The Triumph of John and Betty Stam, by Mrs. Howard Taylor
    • Through Gates of Splendor, by Elisabeth Elliot (not mentioned directly in this episode, but recommended)
    💬 Quotes

    “There are some books that are worth reading again.”—Nathan

    “Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”— Jim Elliot

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” — Jim Elliot

    “When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!” — Jim Elliot

    📋 Facts
    • William Tyndale translated the New Testament from Greek into English (and portions of the OT from Hebrew), and died at age forty-two.
    • John and Betty Stam, missionaries who were martyred in China in 1934, were aged twenty-seven and twenty-eight, respectively.
    • Jim Elliot, missionary martyr in Ecuador, was only twenty-eight.
    💻 Links
    • TBB Episode 58—Alaskan Adventures! (Part 2)
    • Life expectancy calculator
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  • 069 | Four Ideas for the Fourth of July

    069 | Four Ideas for the Fourth of July
    Jul 4 2025
    Hey fellow dads, Happy Fourth of July! As your family celebrates America’s birthday, have you thought about the ideas that formed the foundation for our nation and the first Independence Day? Join us today as we talk about a book that reveals the largely unknown true history of America’s independence and discuss how to teach our children a Christian patriotism. —Nathan Scriptures 📖 Proverbs 22:4 By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life. 📖 Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people. 📖 Psalm 33:12 Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance. 📖 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Book 📚 The Patriot’s Reference: Documents, Speeches, and Sermons that Compose the American Soul, Edited by Joel J. Miller and Kristen Parrish, published by Thomas Nelson. Not mentioned in podcast, but also helpful: 📚 The Revolution Myth by Glen Chambers and Gene Fisher. Out of print, but available from some used book sources. John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775 We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force.—The latter is our choice.—We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.—Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. Our cause is just. Our Union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable.—We gratefully acknowledge as signal instances of the Divine favor towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operations, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.—Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent States. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked armies, without any imputation, or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death. In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it— for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall' be removed, and not before, With an humble confidence in the mercies of the supreme and impartial Judge and Ruler of the Universe, we most devoutly implore his Divine goodness to protect us happily through this great conflict, to dispose our adversaries to reconciliation on reasonable terms, and thereby to relieve the empire from the calamities of civil war. As quoted by Thaddeus Allen, in An Inquiry into the Views, Services, Principles and Influences of the Leading Men in the Origination of Our Union and the Formation and Administration of our Early Government, vol. 1 (Boston: Saxton & Kelt, 1847). Four simple, practical ideas to teach our children about the 4th of July: Tell them the stories of America’s past, with the words of the founders themselves.Show them that God did hear the humble prayers of the founding ...
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  • 068 | Father’s Day Gifts—For Your Family

    068 | Father’s Day Gifts—For Your Family
    Jun 15 2025

    Hey Fellow Dads,

    What’s on your Father’s Day wishlist? It’s pretty easy to find items for ourselves . . . but what if this year we chose some gifts for our family? Here are a few suggestions—and they don’t even cost a thing!

    —Nathan

    Scriptures

    📖 Hebrews 5:1-2

    📖 Proverbs 23:26

    📖 Deuteronomy 11:19

    📖 Ecclesiastes 3:4

    📖 John 19:25-27

    📖 1 Cor. 15:3-8

    📖 Mark 7:24-30

    Books

    📚 How to Be Your Wife’s Best Friend: 365 Ways to Show Your Love, by Dan Bolin and John Trent

    📚 How to Be Your Daughter’s Daddy: 365 Ways to Show Her You Care, by Dan Bolin

    📚 How to Be Your Little Man’s Dad: 365 Things to Do With Your Son, by Dan Bolin and Ken Sutterfield

    📚 Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire, by Bret Baier

    📚 Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Mark, by J.C. Ryle

    Other Resources

    🎧 Patch the Pirate Goes to the Jungle

    🎧 Patch the Pirate and the Great American Time Machine

    🎧 The Custards’ Last Stand

    Gifts to Give Your Family

    1. Patience
    2. Presence
    3. Playfulness
    4. Priority
    5. Prayer

    Related Episodes

    Episode 25—“We Need You, Dad”

    Episode 28—“Keep Daddy (& Mommy) Times”

    Episode 54—”Role #4: Priest”

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  • 067 | D-Day’s Principles for Dads

    067 | D-Day’s Principles for Dads
    Jun 7 2025

    Hey Fellow Dads,

    Many of us enjoy reading war stories—and I’ll recommend some great ones in today’s episode—but have you ever considered what needs and roles we might have in common with the heroes of those stories? Specifically, what principles can the history of D-day teach us for our roles as dads? That’s what I’ll discuss in today’s episode. —Nathan

    Scriptures

    📖 Ecclesiastes 9:10

    📖 Proverbs 24:6

    📖 Psalm 127:4

    📖 Proverbs 13:22

    📖 Proverbs 14:15

    📖 1 Samuel 12:23

    Books

    📚 Three Days in January, by Bret Baier*

    📚 The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion, by Douglas Brinkley*

    📚 The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi*

    📚 Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose*

    • Due to some situations and inappropriate language, these books are not recommended for children without parental censoring.
    Five Principles of D-Day
    1. The principle of seeing reality.
    2. The principle of planning.
    3. The principle of preparing.
    4. The principle of being decisive.
    5. The principle of praying.
    Links
    • Imperial War Museum website
    • President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s call to prayer

    • Gen. Eisenhower's Order of the Day

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  • 066 | Celebrate Tyndale and His Translation

    066 | Celebrate Tyndale and His Translation
    May 27 2025

    Hey Fellow Dads,

    This year marks the 500th anniversary since William Tyndale began publishing the first edition of his translation of the New Testament into English. Why should we celebrate William Tyndale and his 1525 English New Testament? In this episode, I want to pass along seven reasons we should become familiar with Tyndale, emulate his character, and appreciate his translation of the New Testament.

    —Nathan

    Why we should become familiar with William Tyndale, emulate his character, and appreciate his translation of the New Testament:
    1. Tyndale was converted to Christ through the scripture itself.
    2. His translation was the first of its kind.
    3. Tyndale worked from the purest of motives.
    4. Tyndale’s life overflowed with character qualities worth emulating.
    5. Tyndale influenced the English language itself.
    6. Tyndale sealed his testimony with his blood.
    7. Tyndale exhibited a Christ-like attitude.
    More Info
    • https://www.textusreceptusbibles.com
    • Five “sola” pillars of the Reformation
      • sola scriptura (the Bible alone is sufficient)
      • sola fide (by faith alone)
      • sola gratiae (by grace alone)
      • solus Christus (in Christ alone)
      • soli Deo gloria (glory to God alone)
    • William Tyndale was born in the early 1490s.
    • “Tyndale” rhymes with “spindle.”
    • Desiderius Erasmus published his Greek New Testament (later termed the “Textus Receptus”) in 1516.
    • Tyndale left England in 1524, never to see his homeland again.
    • In 1526, Tyndale completed the first edition of the New Testament in English.
    • In 1528, Tyndale published The Parable of the Wicked Mammon and The Obedience of a Christian Man.
    • London is located 745 miles north of New York City.
    • Tyndale was kept in the Vilvoorde Castle, in Belgium, and martyred by strangling and burning at the stake outside its walls on October 6, 1536.
    • Some words Tyndale introduce into the English language via his Translation of Scripture or other writings: Agreeing, brotherly, castaway, divider, fisherman, holy place, intercession, long-suffering, network, open door, passover, peace offering, zealous, allegorical, clear-eyed, impure, satisfactory, thanksgiving (For a fuller list, see Tyndale, by David Teems, Appendix B)
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  • 065 | Hold Your Little Ones

    065 | Hold Your Little Ones
    May 19 2025

    Hey Fellow Dads,

    What comes to your mind when you hold your baby? In this episode, I’ll share six lessons we can learn from holding our little ones.

    —Nathan

    Scriptures

    📖 Isaiah 40:11

    📖 Psalm 139:13-14

    📖 2 Peter 1:10

    📖 Ephesians 5:16

    📖 Colossians 4:5

    📖 Jude 3

    📖 Exodus 33:11

    📖 Proverbs 8:17, 34

    Books

    📖 The Holy Bible

    📚 Witness, by Whittaker Chambers

    Note: I have not read Witness, so I can’t recommend the book. I heard the quote in another book which I’m currently listening to and found the quote online. Once I finish listening to that other book, if I think it worthy of recommending, I certainly will.)

    Why hold your little ones?
    1. Holding our little ones reminds us of the Giver and miracle of life.
    2. Holding our little ones reminds us of the fragility of life.
    3. Holding our little ones reminds us of the swift passing of life.
    4. Holding our little ones reminds us of the possibilities in their life.
    5. Holding our little ones reminds us of our responsibility in this life.
    6. Holding our little ones is an opportunity that’s a very short part this life.
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