Theology Applied

A picture of Christ on the cross. Two thieves, one on His left, one on His right. A moment of cosmic significance—God Himself atoning for the sins of the world. And yet, according to Rick Warren, this is also…a metaphor for political moderation?That post, now deleted, tried to argue that Jesus died “in the middle” as a sign that Christians should reject both the Left and the Right in modern politics. But that’s not theology—it’s a desperate attempt to baptize political fence-sitting. And it’s part of a broader trend known as Evangelical Third-Wayism—a concept pushed by figures like Tim Keller and, more recently, Gavin Ortlund. The idea is simple: Christians should neither align with the Right nor the Left, but instead carve out a “distinctly biblical” third way. It sounds noble, even wise. But in practice, it functions as a convenient excuse for coddling progressives while selectively condemning the Right.Stephen Wolfe has called this out as nothing more than “sharpshooting”—strategically engaging with culture to present a morally palatable image to coastal elites while never actually challenging the underlying liberalism that dominates our institutions. He’s right. If politics is war by other means, then Third-Wayism is an attempt to negotiate a ceasefire while one side keeps advancing.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.At the end of the day, Third-Wayism is not simply a bad take. It is bad strategy, and it is unchristian. Tune in now as we explain.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Squirrelly Joes Coffee - Caffeinating The Modern Reformation*Our audience can get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping) by visiting ⁠https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse ⁠*Reece Fund⁠https://www.reecefund.com/*Dominion: Wealth Strategists* is a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm dedicated to putting more money in the hands of the church. With an education focused approach, they will help you take dominion over your finances.https://reformed.money/

Andrew Isker, a guest speaker known for his insights on Israel and covenant theology, delves into the radical unity of Jew and Gentile highlighted in Ephesians. He discusses the transformative grace of Christ and the need for reconciliation within the church. The conversation also tackles the exploitation in the temple and how Christ’s message broke down barriers. Isker critically examines Zionism, urging a deeper understanding of its impact while promoting a unity grounded in faith, challenging believers to embrace their shared identity in Christ.

It was only a matter of time before the democratization of all things came to evangelicalism. Whether it was Elon Musk buying Twitter, “entrepreneurs” getting rich off meme coins, or AI giving anyone supposed expertise in whatever field they wanted, we are experiencing a technological revolution that is as disruptive as the printing press. Information, platforms, access, and ideas have been thrown wide open to anyone with the shrewdness, tact, and ambition to wield them. I’m not saying this is a bad or a good thing, it’s just the way things are moving.No one is taking this harder than the evangelical institutions of the past. Seminaries, Universities, para-church ministries and church networks that were massively influential in the 1990s and early 2000s still have lots of land, money, and reach. But ultimately, despite their millions of dollars and decades long track record, they are rapidly losing influence. Men with no degrees, no pedigree, and minimal funds are capturing the hearts of the next generation of right wing and Christian men because they have what the institutions lack. Courage. The gatekeepers shriek and wail, but they are gatekeepers without a gate. This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at https://rightresponseministries.com/donate.Join us today with a very special guest, JD Hall of Insight to Incite and Proestia, to talk about how the populist social revival has come to evangelicalism and its once narrow doors for credibility are blown off of the hinges.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Private Family Banking*How to Connect with Private Family Banking:1. FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: ⁠https://www.canva.com/design/DAF2TQVcA10/WrG1FmoJYp9o9oUcAwKUdA/view⁠2. Send an email inquiry to ⁠chuck@privatefamilybanking.com⁠3. Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown", by going to ⁠https://www.protectyourmoneynow.net⁠4. Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call using this ⁠link: https://calendly.com/familybankingnow/30min⁠5. For a Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99, use this link for my affiliate relationship with "Seven Generations Legacy": ⁠https://themoneyadvantage.idevaffiliate.com/13.html⁠*Reece Fund⁠https://www.reecefund.com/*Dominion: Wealth Strategists* is a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm dedicated to putting more money in the hands of the church. With an education focused approach, they will help you take dominion over your finances.https://reformed.money/

What if I told you that the future of our nation depends on the strength of its young men? Not just their moral strength, but their physical, mental, and spiritual toughness. For decades, masculinity has been under attack—dismissed as “toxic,” treated as disposable, or outright vilified. And yet, when danger looms, when families need protecting, when civilizations need building, it’s strong men who answer the call.Some argue that traditional masculinity is outdated, a relic of a bygone era that needs to be reformed—tamed, softened, made more “acceptable” to modern sensibilities. But reality tells a different story. Our bodies are weaker. Our testosterone levels are plummeting. Young men are more depressed and directionless than ever before. And yet, despite this, something is stirring. A backlash is coming. Young men are waking up to the lies they’ve been told about themselves, realizing that strength isn’t something to be ashamed of—it’s something to be cultivated.Masculinity is not the problem. Weak men are the problem. And the way forward is not in suppressing the strength of young men, but in directing it toward what God designed them for: leadership, protection, provision, and dominion. The man who is strong—physically, spiritually, emotionally—is the man who builds, defends, and secures the future for his family and his nation.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at https://rightresponseministries.com/donate.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Private Family Banking*How to Connect with Private Family Banking:1. FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: ⁠https://www.canva.com/design/DAF2TQVcA10/WrG1FmoJYp9o9oUcAwKUdA/view⁠2. Send an email inquiry to ⁠chuck@privatefamilybanking.com⁠3. Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown", by going to ⁠https://www.protectyourmoneynow.net⁠4. Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call using this ⁠link: https://calendly.com/familybankingnow/30min⁠5. For a Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99, use this link for my affiliate relationship with "Seven Generations Legacy": ⁠https://themoneyadvantage.idevaffiliate.com/13.html⁠*Reece Fund⁠https://www.reecefund.com/*Dominion: Wealth Strategists* is a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm dedicated to putting more money in the hands of the church. With an education focused approach, they will help you take dominion over your finances.https://reformed.money/

This past Friday Kash Patel was sworn in as the director of the FBI. In a trend that has picked up steam, Director Patel took his oath of office not on the Bible, but on the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu scripture. While we’re big fans of Kash Patel cleaning house of the corruption that the FBI has come to embody, what exactly does it say for the future of our still majority Christian nation when our representatives and office holders pledge their allegiance to these United States under the witness of demon gods? Can a house divided stand? Now to be clear, the Constitution states in Article 6 that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” And unfortunately, the founders, for the most part, literally meant that. Thomas Jefferson, for example, celebrated an amendment in a bill to protect all religions in Virginia that explicitly removed the name of Jesus Christ and wrote that the legislators were intent on protecting “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination” from any type of discrimination. Expanded religious freedoms like this at the state level prior to ratification of the Constitution in 1788 paved the way for the vague, secular language of our constitution that we know today.So what do we do with this? Perhaps at the time, coming out of intense religious persecution, insistence on complete religious freedom was necessary to stave off the unholy union of church authority wielding the power of the state. But today, with religious pluralism and the decline of the West, what was perhaps once necessary to protect against overzealousness, is now a roadblock. Kash delightedly declared at CPAC that the American Dream is for everyone. But is it? Does the prosperity and opportunities of America belong to the world with all her various cultures and religions? Or should America be for Americans and for unapologetic exaltation of the supremacy of the Christ and the Christian Faith?This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at https://rightresponseministries.com/donate.Tune in for today’s episode where we discuss the founding fathers, the American Dream, and where to go from here.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Private Family Banking*How to Connect with Private Family Banking:1. FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: ⁠https://www.canva.com/design/DAF2TQVcA10/WrG1FmoJYp9o9oUcAwKUdA/view⁠2. Send an email inquiry to ⁠chuck@privatefamilybanking.com⁠3. Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown", by going to ⁠https://www.protectyourmoneynow.net⁠4. Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call using this ⁠link: https://calendly.com/familybankingnow/30min⁠5. For a Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99, use this link for my affiliate relationship with "Seven Generations Legacy": ⁠https://themoneyadvantage.idevaffiliate.com/13.html⁠*Reece Fund⁠https://www.reecefund.com/*Dominion: Wealth Strategists* is a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm dedicated to putting more money in the hands of the church. With an education focused approach, they will help you take dominion over your finances.https://reformed.money/

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If you've spent any time in Christian Twitter circles over the past few years, you’ve probably come across the name Patriarchy Hannah. With her bold advocacy for traditional femininity, biblical patriarchy, and the "trad-wife" lifestyle, she built a following of nearly 30,000 people and positioned herself as a voice in the online push for Christian homemaking and submission. She claimed to be a devoted wife, married to a contractor named Tony, and a mother to 14 children. Her posts were filled with strong rebukes of modern feminism, encouragements for women to embrace submission, and even some sharp critiques of other Christian women in the public sphere. But as of this past week, everything about Patriarchy Hannah has unraveled. The account has been exposed as a fabrication, run not by a married mother of 14, but by a single, childless woman named Jennifer, a 37-year-old from Arkansas. A deep dive into public records, receipts, and past online activity revealed that her husband Tony doesn’t exist, her family life was invented, and the house she claimed her husband built was actually constructed by a completely unrelated developer. Now, some are celebrating this revelation as proof that the entire online patriarchal movement is built on deception. They argue that "trad" influencers are cosplayers, and that many who follow them are ‘fetishists.’So, what does this all mean? To be sure, Patriarchy Hannah deceived many and has publicly apologized. But this does not mean that the goals of patriarchy and the trad-wife movement are illegitimate. If anything, it means that Christian women, and Christian men for that matter, need real-life discipleship in how to keep their homes, love their children, and submit to their husbands.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at https://rightresponseministries.com/donate.As we have said before, sometimes you have to LARP before you can fly. Rather than disparaging the larpers, we should continue to extol godly femininity and all women who aspire to develop it. Tune in now with special guest Eric Conn as we set the record straight and defend the lost virtue of Christian femininity.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Private Family Banking*How to Connect with Private Family Banking:1. FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: ⁠https://www.canva.com/design/DAF2TQVcA10/WrG1FmoJYp9o9oUcAwKUdA/view⁠2. Send an email inquiry to ⁠chuck@privatefamilybanking.com⁠3. Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown", by going to ⁠https://www.protectyourmoneynow.net⁠4. Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call using this ⁠link: https://calendly.com/familybankingnow/30min⁠5. For a Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99, use this link for my affiliate relationship with "Seven Generations Legacy": ⁠https://themoneyadvantage.idevaffiliate.com/13.html⁠*Reece Fund⁠https://www.reecefund.com/*Dominion: Wealth Strategists* is a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm dedicated to putting more money in the hands of the church. With an education focused approach, they will help you take dominion over your finances.https://reformed.money/

War. Disease. Famine. Worship. Prosperity. Technology. Diet. Exercise. All of these things fundamentally affect who we are, as individuals and as groups. But it affects more than psychology or experience. It affects us at a genetic level and the impact of these events and patterns is measurable for generations. Because of this, how we live matters. Living well including eating well, living in chastity, staying active, and avoiding toxins impacts not just for you, not even just for your children but for potentially untold thousands of your future descendants. God visits iniquity on those that hate him to the third and fourth generation, but shows steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those that love him AND. KEEP. HIS. COMMANDMENTS. Yes, this literally means that the wicked reap their reward for their iniquity in their own bodies, while the righteous are renewed and protected for their faithfulness.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at https://rightresponseministries.com/donate.Join us for this special episode where we dig deep on genetics, faithfulness, Godly living, and how it all matters.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Private Family Banking*How to Connect with Private Family Banking:1. FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: ⁠https://www.canva.com/design/DAF2TQVcA10/WrG1FmoJYp9o9oUcAwKUdA/view⁠2. Send an email inquiry to ⁠chuck@privatefamilybanking.com⁠3. Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown", by going to ⁠https://www.protectyourmoneynow.net⁠4. Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call using this ⁠link: https://calendly.com/familybankingnow/30min⁠5. For a Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99, use this link for my affiliate relationship with "Seven Generations Legacy": ⁠https://themoneyadvantage.idevaffiliate.com/13.html⁠*Reece Fund⁠https://www.reecefund.com/*Dominion: Wealth Strategists* is a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm dedicated to putting more money in the hands of the church. With an education focused approach, they will help you take dominion over your finances.https://reformed.money/

Join Michael Belch, an Elder at Covenant Bible Church, and Wesley Todd, a dedicated member of the same church, as they delve into the provocative topic of women's suffrage and its implications for American society. They explore the resurgence of traditional gender roles and examine how modern feminism is facing challenges from its own contradictions. The conversation reflects on the historical context of the 19th Amendment, critiques of its societal impacts, and the evolving notions of voting rights, illuminating a complex and thought-provoking discussion on gender and governance.

“He shows, by a plain remonstrance, that an outward profession of religion, however remarkable, will not bring us to heaven, unless there be a correspondent conversation. All judgment is committed to our Lord Jesus; the keys are put into his hand; he has power to prescribe new terms of life and death, and to judge men according to them.” -Matthew Henry