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What if you reached 24 without ever hearing the gospel in a way that made sense? That’s the question at the center of Corey’s gripping story—an Alaskan childhood marked by addiction, years in juvenile detention, and a November night under bright stars that felt like a crossroads. Two surprising messengers—a man in a drug house and a grieving father—tell him the same thing: give your life to Jesus. In treatment, Romans 5:8 lands like an arrow, and the room shifts from shame to hope. Corey can’t keep quiet. He starts meeting new arrivals at the front desk, telling anyone who will listen that Christ died for people like us.

From there, the journey turns to the church itself. Corey loves the Book of Acts and longs to see its heartbeat—shared meals, Scripture, generosity, and mission—alive in real time. With a mentor’s nudge, he opens his home. What begins as ten friends around a table becomes a living-room church packed with people coming out of addiction, prison, and camps. No programs. Just worship, the Word, and names that matter. For eight years he pastors that growing community, measuring success by transformed lives rather than polish.

Then a moment in a homeless camp reframes the mission. Many faces are Alaska Native, and a woman from Unalakleet asks the clarifying question: do you want to do something? The answer points to the villages—over a hundred communities with little or no gospel presence, many accessible only by plane or river. Corey and his team embrace the challenge, honoring culture, building trust, and choosing presence over spectacle. This is frontier ministry in the truest sense: slow, relational, and relentless, aimed at bringing clear hope where it’s rarely heard.

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What if the flood didn’t solve the problem it seemed designed to wash away? We walk through Genesis 8 and discover a world drying out under God’s command while eight sinners step into sunlight with the same hearts they had before the storm. “God remembered Noah” becomes a banner for renewed action, not divine forgetfulness, and the wind over the waters invites us to hear creation’s echo: order returning at the word of the Lord.

We unpack the timelines that often blur in memory — forty days of rain, one hundred and fifty days of prevailing waters, a full year in the ark — and let Psalm 104 narrate what happened next: mountains rising, valleys sinking, boundaries set so the seas would not swallow the earth again. Along the way, we explore why the first act after the ark’s door opens is sacrifice, because new ground requires atonement, not optimism. The ark itself becomes a vivid picture of Christ: laboring through judgment’s waves, delivering a people, then resting. That rest, dated to the seventeenth day of the seventh month, draws a line toward resurrection hope and the final word spoken from the cross: “It is finished.”

This conversation stays honest about the struggle believers face. Salvation is secure, yet the battle with the flesh continues, the world beckons, and the adversary prowls. Demas’ love of the present age is a warning and a mirror. We offer practical encouragement to resist steadfastly, worship gratefully, and read the Bible’s details as invitations to trust, not trivia to file away. The God who commands the waters still draws clear boundaries around our fears and failures, and the living Word stands as our true ark when lesser boats fall apart.

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Resolutions don’t work without a decision. We open with three unforgettable transformations—a highway worker shedding 220 pounds through daily walks and a simple menu, a granddad reclaiming the floor with a six-inch plate, and a construction pro who walked in rain, sleet, and blazing sun to lose 160 pounds on keto. Each story proves the turning point isn’t a trend or gadget; it’s the choice to change, followed by small, repeatable habits that outlast motivation.

From there we get practical and candid about GLP-1 medications like semaglutide and tirzepatide. We explain who typically qualifies, how insurers think about A1C thresholds and sleep apnea, and what real patients experience with appetite suppression, steady weight loss, and reduced reliance on other diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol meds. We talk costs, access hurdles, side effects that are common versus rare, and the monitoring that keeps therapy safe. You’ll hear how one retiree called six months of treatment the best money he ever spent on his health—and how others used these tools to unlock mobility, confidence, and longevity.

We also step back to look at how culture shapes metabolism. Stories from a South Pacific island and repeated trips to Haiti reveal how shifting from local foods and daily walking to a Westernized diet drove obesity, diabetes, and GI disease within a generation. The pattern is clear: when food quality drops and movement declines, chronic illness rises. Our closing playbook is straightforward—portion control, protein-forward meals, fewer refined carbs, daily movement, restorative sleep, and an accountability partner who helps you keep promises to yourself. Use GLP-1s wisely if you need them, build habits that last, and choose the path that lets you enjoy the years ahead.

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Water has a memory for anyone who has stood near a roaring river, but Genesis 7–8 asks us to reckon with something far larger: waters that prevailed on the earth for 150 days and a world that did not look the same afterward. We open the text, trace the timeline from the first burst of the fountains of the deep to the day Noah steps onto dry ground, and walk through why the account reads like history, not metaphor. Along the way, we use vivid, real-world images of floods and ice-laden torrents to help you imagine the scale of judgment—and the mercy inside the ark.

Together we explore the details that rule out a local event: months with no land in sight, an ark grounded on high ranges, and a full year before exit. We consider the post-flood changes Scripture records—defined seasons, rainbows as covenant signs, fear between humans and animals, and a marked decline in lifespan—and why later voices like Job, David, Isaiah, Peter, and especially Jesus, treat the flood as a universal, historical reality. We then tackle the implications for geology and fossils: widespread, rapid sediment layers, abundant marine remains far from coasts, and the rarity of human fossils without rapid burial. These patterns align with a short, violent cataclysm rather than slow, uniform processes.

The heart of the episode is a choice about authority. Do we ground our confidence in shifting applause or in a word that claims to outlast grass and flowers alike? We make a clear case for trusting Scripture’s reliability, not as an escape from questions, but as a way to face them with courage. If the flood warns of judgment, the rainbow reminds of mercy. Build your understanding—and your hope—on something that holds. If this conversation strengthens or challenges you, share it with a friend, subscribe for future episodes, and leave a review with your biggest question from Genesis 7–8.

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Headlines shout epidemic, but we ask a different set of questions: What does the baseline look like, who is truly at risk, and which practical steps actually matter? We dig into the meaning of “outbreak,” how population size and local conditions affect risk, and why sanitation and nutrition historically drove down mortality long before modern tools. That lens helps separate legitimate concern from manufactured panic and gives families a steadier way to respond when cases spike.

We also explore how incentives shape the story. News cycles lean toward the dramatic, and clinical systems depend on predictable revenue, which can leave listeners wondering whom to trust. Rather than picking teams, we walk through how to evaluate claims, what good evidence looks like, and how to think about adverse event reporting with nuance. Along the way, we revisit well-known outbreaks, examine the difference between infection counts and severe outcomes, and highlight the role of vitamin A status, immune suppression, and pregnancy in shaping individual risk.

Most importantly, we offer clear, calm actions for households: recognize symptoms early, reduce exposure to high-risk contacts, focus on supportive care, and verify information across multiple sources. We close with a faith-grounded reminder to refuse fear as a guide and to seek wisdom, compassion, and clarity in our choices. Plus, a preview of our upcoming conversation with Dr. Brian Hooker, co-author of Vax Unvax, for a deeper look at evidence, narratives, and what it means to make informed decisions as a family.

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A rising sea, a rising question: can we trust the plain words of Genesis when everything around us urges a softer read? We open Genesis 7:17–23 and trace the language, the logic, and the stakes of a global Flood, exploring how God’s justice, patience, and mercy meet in one world-shaping event. Along the way, we talk through the Hebrew term mabbul, the repeated claims that “all the high mountains” were covered, and the eyewitness feel of the account that describes waters prevailing, increasing, and overwhelming.

We also examine the cultural pressure points. Evolutionary uniformitarianism frames earth history as slow and steady; Genesis presents rupture and re-creation through a catastrophic deluge. Drawing on Henry Morris’s arguments, we consider what a universal Flood would mean for interpreting the fossil record, and why the credibility of Scripture in one major event can affect confidence in other core claims, including the resurrection. This isn’t about winning an argument; it’s about forming the courage to read what the text actually says and let it reshape us.

Most importantly, we connect the scope of judgment to the scope of mercy. The text insists that everything with the breath of life perished outside the ark, while Noah and those with him were preserved by God’s provision. That pattern—warning, refusal, judgment, rescue—invites us to trust the Word as inerrant and reliable and to hide it in our hearts. If you’ve wrestled with the Flood’s historicity, or with the tension between Scripture and cultural consensus, this conversation offers clarity, conviction, and hope. If it challenged you or helped you see Genesis with fresh eyes, share it with a friend, subscribe for future studies, and leave a review so others can find the show.

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Hard questions sharpen our compassion and our logic. We sit down with Dr. Matt Clark—physician, pastor, and executive director of Personhood South Carolina—to trace personhood from Genesis to the Constitution and ask what equal protection really demands before and after birth. Drawing on scripture, state law, and firsthand stories from clinic sidewalks, we examine why carving out abortion as an exception clashes with both moral clarity and legal consistency, and how misdirected compassion can actually deepen harm for women and children.

We unpack the core claim that all humans bear the image of God and explore how the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, along with South Carolina’s unborn victims statute, already recognize the life at stake. From there, we tackle the volatile idea that mothers should always be treated as victims, contrasting real cases of coercion—where defenses and conditional immunity apply—with candid admissions of intent that juries are equipped to weigh. We talk frankly about conscience, guilt, and the long tail of post-abortion pain the literature has documented, arguing that truth in love offers a path to mercy that denial cannot.

Justice and mercy meet in distinct spheres: the state’s ministry of justice restrains evil, while the church’s ministry of grace proclaims forgiveness through Christ. We clarify current bills, dispel the fear of automatic death penalties, and point to real-world sentencing patterns that leave room for mercy. Finally, we share details on the upcoming Statehouse press conference and hearing, and how long-term support—prayer, district teams, and monthly gifts—helps build a culture where both mother and child are protected.

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A single sentence in Genesis 7 changes how we think about the Flood: the fountains of the great deep burst open before the rain ever fell. We start with that order and build a clear, humble path through the text—pinpointing the stated date, probing what “calendar” might mean, and following the thread back to creation where waters above and waters below shaped an ordered world. Along the way, we open Proverbs 8 to hear wisdom speak of springs before their appearing, widening our view of how Scripture interprets Scripture.

From there, we explore what could have happened without pretending anyone alive saw it. We walk through a plausible sequence: subterranean systems heated by Earth’s interior, pressure spikes that fracture the crust, a cascade of volcanic activity, and ash seeding a collapse of a water-vapor canopy into forty days of relentless rain. We avoid sensational triggers and keep the focus on models that align with the text’s structure. The refrain throughout is intellectual honesty—both skeptics and believers lean on assumptions, so we hold theory with open hands and the Word with both.

But the center is not mechanics; it is meaning. The Flood arrives because violence and corruption filled the earth, and the ark stands as a sign of judgment and mercy intertwined. We point from Noah to Jesus, the living Word revealed by the written Word, our true ark of safety and the light of life. As we look ahead to a final renewal by fire, the story of Genesis 7 becomes a call to walk in wisdom, seek the Author, and live ready.

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