Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

In this episode, we go to The Forging Table to discuss Matthew 14. Let’s get into it…Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we welcome Justin Brierley back to the show. He is the former host of the Unbelievable? radio show and podcast on Premier Christian Radio in the UK and the author of Unbelievable? Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I’m still a Christian. In this interview, we discuss the reaction that he has gotten from his 2023 book The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again, how impactful it is for prominent individuals to become Christians, what he wishes he could go back and add to his book, his upcoming projects, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we give our list of the top 10 books of 2023. Let’s get into it…Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we welcome Trevor Thompson to the show. He is a Senior Acquisitions Editor at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. He has taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School (as lecturer of Koine Greek), at Abilene Christian University, and now at Calvin University. He is the co-translator of Galen's On the Avoidance of Grief and author of over seventy encyclopedia articles. He is a co-editor of two volumes: Ephesos as a Religious Center Under the Principate and Christian Body, Christian Self: Concepts of Early Christian Personhood. His publisher, Eerdmans, is responsible for Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham and Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Keener. In this interview, we discuss why Bauckham’s book is essential to understanding the depictions of Jesus’ life in the Gospels and the first-century church, how someone can be a New Testament scholar but never come to the conclusion that Jesus is the Christ, how the doctrines of infallibility and inerrancy can cause stumbling blocks for Christians and non-Christians, how oral traditions and history is to be understood differently than written traditions and history, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we go to The Forging Table to discuss Matthew 13. Let’s get into it…Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we welcome United States Senator Markwayne Mullin back to the show. In this interview, we discuss his recent interaction with an anti-plastics activist at a Senate hearing, why funding for border security is tied in with funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, why we cannot expect Democrats to fund any border security measures without including funding for the war in Ukraine, what Americans can expect as a resolution to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, discuss Pope Francis’ recent unscripted comments urging the Catholic Church’s top theologians to “demasculinize” the Church. Also, in the Quick Hitters segment, we discuss famous gay YouTuber Shane Dawson and his “husband” becoming the latest prominent gay couple to mailorder a baby via surrogacy, the overturning of Roe v. Wade already saving tens of thousands of babies from murder, a Florida school district seeing tremendous benefits for students and teachers after banning cellphones, whiny female college athletes suing their university for not treating them like they’re special, a review of federal election donation records revealing that Christianity Today employees only contribute to Democratic political candidates, and Pastor David Platt replacing himself at his church with a black pastor that says it is difficult for him “not to just torch all white people… In particular, white evangelicals and Christians.” Let’s get into it…Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we go to The Forging Table to discuss Matthew 12. Let’s get into it…Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we welcome Dan Henderson to the show. He is a retired MMA fighter who previously fought in the UFC, Pride, and Strikeforce. He was the first fighter in MMA history to be a 2-division champion of a major MMA promotion when he simultaneously held the Pride Middleweight (205 lb) and Welterweight (183 lb) titles. He also was the last Light Heavyweight champion for Strikeforce. He has wins over the likes of Fedor Emelianenko, Wanderlei Silva, Shogun Rua, Vitor Belfort, Rich Franklin, Michael Bisping, Big Nog, Renzo Gracie, Carlos Newton, and others. He was also a 2-time Olympian, representing the United States as a member of the Greco-Roman wrestling team in 1992 (Barcelona) and 1996 (Atlanta). His fight against MMA legend Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 139 (2011) was inducted into the Fight Wing of the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018. He also just released a memoir entitled Hendo: The American Athlete. In this interview, we discuss what it was like growing up with a tough and athletic father, why he decided to wrestle, when he and his coaches realized he had what it took to become an Olympian, why he started fighting MMA while still chasing his Olympic dream, what it was like fighting in the early days of MMA where you typically had to fight multiple times in one night, when he decided to pursue MMA full time at the age of 30, his legendary fights against Wanderlei Silva, Fedor Emelianenko, and Shogun Rua, his legendary knockout of Michael Bisping, his thoughts on God and Jesus, the one fight of his he would leave for humanity, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE.Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we welcome Pastor Joby Martin back to the show. In this interview, we discuss why he gets choked up when he thinks about how God provides him with sermons every week, whether the word of God is to be understood ontologically or teleologically, if Hell is a real place where people actually suffer, if King David raped Bathsheba, whether a high level of personal doubt can cause you to be unsaved, his favorite Christian historical figure, and much more. Let’s get into it…  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices