Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

No suffering is meaningless. Can you find contentment in that? But if no suffering is meaningless, what is it? It sure feels meaningless! Once we know 2 Corinthians 4:17 then we know how the heart gets contentment. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Truth, Lies and Jellyfish Christians. Did Ukraine launch a drone attack against Putin? We'll never know. You can't believe anything you hear, or even see these days. How are we to have discernment between truth and lies? I'm inspired by Nehemiah, who in 500 BC saw right through the lies of his detractors and never wavered. Let's learn from him and vow to never be "jellyfish Christians". Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What a wonderful example of how an expression that we've heard our entire lives, "Time heals all wounds" sounds right, but when you think about it, of course, it's not true. That expression comes from a Greek poet in 300 BC, it is NOT in the Bible, so what DOES heal all wounds, and what heals them not "in time" but NOW. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you found contentment because the problem that was giving you anxiety resolved itself? That's not really finding contentment. Paul says he found contentment in ANY circumstance. How can we not look for warmth from an external fire, but from a sanctified heart? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tucker Carlson said the debates in our country are between Good and Evil. But you can't say that today. In today's culture, everything is good. If you talk about evil then you're being mean. This leads to a lack of moral clarity and conviction. This has led to chaos. Let's learn from Achilles to the Puritans about when anger is righteous and when it's corrosive. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just because you're not grumbling on the outside, doesn't mean you're content on the inside. So how do you know if you're grumbling vs the more desirable lamenting? And why does lamenting turn to contentment, but grumbling does not? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rare Jewel: What is Contentment We're going to spend the week on contentment. What is it and how do I find it? But first, we need to start off with what contentment is NOT. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Second Amendment was created after the bible, but that doesn't mean it isn't supported by scripture. Mike Slater and Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America, Erich Pratt, dive into what the scripture says about firearms. Also, why have there been so many mass shootings in America recently. Slater attempts to strike the root of a tragic epidemic. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The truth, "God loves you" sounds so watered down and meaningless today. But that's because we're missing the first part of the story. When you realize what we deserve, the love is all the more unbelievable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Puritan minister John Flavel 400 years ago said we should keep a journal, but not for the reasons we keep one today. Our focus today is on the future, but God wants us to remember the past. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America's founding fathers and grandfathers had a plan for the Second Amendment. What was that plan and how does it follow natural law? That's something that Mike Slater dives into with AWR Hawkins of Breitbart News. But before that, Mike Slater answers two fundamental questions: Should Christians own guns and should Christians use guns? Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We not only want to know the end of the study, but we also want to know it now. But God wants you to wait. Dont eat the apple when it's still green. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tucker Fired From Fox News We don't know for sure why he was fired, but I have a few ideas. Either way, this moment can give us lessons on betrayal, courage and contentment. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered where the expression, "God works in mysterious ways" comes from? Of course, we misquote it, and the original is better. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the midst of suffering, we've all asked, "Why me?" Before you go far down that road, I have three other questions you should ask first. Then we talk about the tapestry of life that you can't see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a common theme when it comes to transgenderism: selfishness. Mike Slater dives into how selfishness has created a culture of people who deny God-given realities. With the root of the problem being identified, how should Christians approach this trans issue? Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Right when I think I had it all figured out...the China Virus made me realize how weak I really am. That's a good humbling. Don't get prideful in your "strengths". That's what happened to Joab, King David's once loyal commander. He was weakest in his strengths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The transgender issue has been mainstreamed for quite some time now, but the biggest example recently was when Bud Light partnered with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. Mike Slater does a full explainer of the situation and reveals why the problems are so much deeper than beer. Don't just take it from Mike either, listen to a heartbreaking story from a teenager named Chloe Cole who transitioned and de-transitioned at a very young age. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pay attention to how today's episode makes you feel. When it's over, pause for a few seconds and check-in. Listening back, I felt...queasy. Maybe it's because I'm sick, but also because I know the world won't be able to handle what we're on the brink of. But I should be hopeful, too, because I know you can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eye For An Eye, Give Him Your Cloak We are a culture obsessed with our "rights". Women's rights, gay rights, trans rights, children's rights, prisoners' rights...We've taken it too far. Enough already with our rights. Jesus is calling us higher. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eye For An Eye, Die To Self Is it any wonder that a culture that has ignored the Bible and doesn't teach the Sermon on the Mount and has forgotten Jesus' teaching on an eye for an eye, is it any wonder that this is the culture that invented...the "microaggression"? Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eye For An Eye, Focus On Me. "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" is in the Old Testament 3 times. Of course, the Pharisees got it all wrong. Jesus got us back on track, but will we do it? Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For my whole life, I didn't know this was in the Bible. And still, I thought it meant the opposite. So let's talk about what it's not before we get to what Jesus is calling us to be. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Special Episode) Where a passion for history intersects with a passion for Christ, you will find Mike Slater. This episode is devoted to the Resurrection of Jesus....the celebration of Easter. Join Mike and guests as they share evidence that He did in fact rise from the dead three days after being crucified. Not only is it written in Scripture, the living word of God, there are eyewitness accounts on the books! Be inspired...be hopeful...and pray hard...in anticipation of His return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump Derangement Is Back! I've never seen the blind rage against another human being like people have again Trump. Today we talk about where in the heart that rage comes from. And then we talk about Shimei, the man who threw rocks at King David. We're Shimei in this story, but we need to respond like David. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No matter what persecution you're facing or surely will face, "Rejoice and be glad". As Jesus said, "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.” Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The three R's when it comes to America today are revival, restoration and resurrection. What do all three need and just how desperate is America for another Great Awakening? Mike Slater dives into the works of Jonathan Edwards and gets insight from Pastor Matthew Everhard on these very important topics. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are people from Finland always ranked as the happiest people? They've stumbled upon a truth from Job 14. Why are Americans ranked as the least happy? Because we've forgotten the truth of 2 Corinthians 4. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Society has a materialism problem. We constantly go out and buy stuff, but it's never really enough. Fortunately for you, that's a tale as old as time and there are answers to help overcome it. But you have to be willing to listen. Mike Slater and Delano Squires strike the root of financial discontent in an effort to provide you perspective. Please support our sponsors... Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is one very obvious reason why you are being persecuted. And it's nothing to be depressed about. Why do we seek approval from the world? "Do not imagine that pagans will admire you or that the more holy and the more Christlike you are...“It is a very bad omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout "Well done" to the Christian man". Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is absolutely no question that this indictment against trump is a political witch hunt. I also think it will help Trump politically, and I hope it does. It can also be a learning moment for all of us. Last week we talked about the weaponization of the US government against us. Today we're talking about the weaponization of the flesh against us. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's world, no matter how victimized you are, even if your child is murdered, the persecutor will always be lifted up as "the real victim". How are we called to respond to that? Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is it possible to rejoice and be glad when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely? Well, you can't. Not on your own. It must be supernatural. But you also have to prepare for it. Jesus had a JOY set before him, the cross. And we have to have that same joy always. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump is the first president to be indicted, and it's on the silliest of charges motivated by blind rage. We explain the specific legal charges and the whole back story. Then we talk about how rage will make you do very foolish things. We'll learn that lesson from Levin and Simeon, and one day the people with TDS will realize what is actually motivating them. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesus told you to be the salt of the earth. What does that mean? We need to make sure we don't lose our saltiness. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many people in society have let money become a master of their life. However, Matthew 6:24 says that "no one can serve two masters." Mike Slater dives into what this means for America as it enters into a period of economic turmoil. Plus, some perspective from Christian economist Dave Arnott on what the bible says about money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesus told you to be the salt of the earth. What does that mean? Salt isn't just a preservative. It also provides flavor. PBF is sponsored by the Public Square app. Download the app today and connect with freedom-loving Americans that share your values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesus told you to be the salt of the earth. What does that mean? How was salt used in the ancient world and how can we be salt today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People are so quick to go to mental illness to find answers. It's sin. We need to look to the heart, not the brain. In today's episode, we talk about sin, we talk about what Hannah did with her resentment, we talk about what's in your control and we lament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The command to be Salt of the Earth is perfect in light of the school shooting in Nashville. Why would you be called to be salt and light if the world is already wonderful? It only makes sense of the world is rotten and dark. The progressive worldview is a poison. It's not true. It's obviously not true. But if you believe it's true, you'll never be salt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're going to continue our deep dive into popular Christian expressions that we've all heard, but may not fully understand. This week, Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth." What does that mean? How can I be salty, if I don't even know what he's talking about? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The heart of a true Christian longs for that blessed day when he will see his Master face to face." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If someone said something bad about your family, would you defend their honor? Of course you would. Because you love them. PBF is sponsored by the Public Square app. Download the app today and connect with freedom-loving Americans that share your values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you had a child deployed in Iraq and you haven't heard from them in months and you finally received a letter, would you read it? Of course. Because you love him. Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Basketball was created by a Christian man at the YMCA "to win men for the Master through the gym". His goal was to build character and physical health on the court that would then transfer over to spiritual health in life. We are a country of physically weak men and spiritually weak men. The creator of basketball wanted us all to take Paul's advice and "not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord”. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you didn't think about your wife for a week, could anyone accuse you of loving her? Of course not. PBF is sponsored by the Public Square app. Download the app today and connect with freedom-loving Americans that share your values. Visit https://publicsq.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some of the most terrifying words in the Bible: "Depart from me. I never knew you." Of all the questions Jesus could have asked Peter, he asked "Do you love me" three times. And it might be easy for us to say "yes", but...do you really? If you don't feel in debt to him, why would you love him at all? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In light of the second biggest bank failure in American history, this week we're going to talk about money, and how to avoid the love of it. If you are obsessed with money, you have three vultures feeding on your heart. Also, when Jesus says, "Truly, truly I tell you..." we better listen. Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In light of the second biggest bank failure in American history, this week we're going to talk about money, and how to avoid the love of it. You cannot serve two masters. Be honest: how often do you think about money each day? 10 times? 100 times? Then money is your master. Instead, let's be like the WWII orphans. PBF is sponsored by the Public Square app. Download the app today and connect with freedom-loving Americans that share your values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love Of Money, a Proper Vision In light of the second biggest bank failure in American history, this week we're going to talk about money, and how to avoid the love of it. What do you fix your eye on? If you look at materialistic things, the more spiritually blinded you become. We must watch what we look at. PBF is sponsored by the Public Square app. Download the app today and connect with freedom-loving Americans that share your values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices