Who will disciple whom? How can we raise our children to be culture shapers, not conformers?

Who is discipling the next generation? Because someone is. And right now, smartphones, social media, and secular culture are shaping our kids for hours every day. How do we raise young Christians who will influence the world toward God’s truth, goodness, and beauty, who will disciple the world rather than simply be discipled by it?

Brett Kunkle, co-founder and president of MAVEN, joins us to talk about raising the next generation with a strong biblical worldview, young Christians wh...

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The Sexual Revolution didn’t just loosen society’s rules around sex. It fundamentally changed what our culture believes sex is for, what marriage and gender mean, and what children are owed.

This week, we sit down with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute, economist, and author of The Sexual State, to trace the ideas that brought us to where we are today.

Dr. Morse expertly walks us through three interconnected ideologies at the heart of the Sexual Revolution: contraception ideology, which separates sex from children; divo...

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Is public education really neutral? I think we all know the answer to that question now.

Emmy and Dove Award-winning filmmaker Nate Lundquist, creator of the documentary Off School Property, joins us to challenge the myth of neutrality in public education and reveal a path to put the Bible back in front of public school students across America.

Every education system teaches a worldview. Students are being taught answers to life’s biggest questions about truth, meaning, morality, human identity, and freedom, whether we recognize it or not.

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The Great Commission is about more than making converts; it’s about discipling entire nations. That's your purpose.

God’s plan for transforming a broken world begins with changed hearts, but it doesn’t end there. In this episode, Scott, Nelson, and Luke unpack the biblical “theory of change” behind Disciple Nations Alliance: changed hearts lead to renewed minds, transformed lives, flourishing families, healthy communities, and ultimately changed nations. They explore why evangelism is essential but incomplete without discipleship, and why Christians need a biblical worldview that shapes not only what they belie...

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You can believe God cares about your life and still live like He clocks out when you walk into the office on Monday. For many Christians, our unseen sacred-secular divide is so deeply ingrained that faith becomes something we practice at church, while work, business, and everyday life operate by a different set of rules. Dr. Bob Varney joins us to expose that divide and explore what it looks like to live with an integrated biblical worldview where discipleship reaches every part of life.

Bob brings a unique perspective as a...

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For most of us, the greatest mission field God’s calling us to isn't across the world... but right outside your front door?

Why do so many churches struggle to make a positive impact on the communities they're planted in? In this conversation, Adam Peacocke shares a biblical vision for local discipleship, community transformation, and the Church's role in bringing God's Kingdom to every neighborhood. Discover why repentance must come before strategy, why consistent presence matters more than big events, and how each Christian can begin renewing their cities one faithful st...

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What happens when most Christians have a definition of discipleship that's too small?

For many believers, discipleship means Bible studies, church programs, quiet times, or spiritual disciplines. While all of these are important, what if they're only part of the picture?

In this episode, Scott, Nelson, and Luke explore the most common definitions of discipleship, affirm what's right about each one, and explain what's missing. They argue that many Christians have unintentionally reduced discipleship to a handful of spiritual activities, leaving the Church with a fragmented vision of following...

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"Why do so many push for open borders?"

Our guest's answer: "Power. Not love. Not justice. Power. Not compassion. Not empathy. Power."

Immigration is one of the most controversial issues of our time. In this episode, Kelly Monroe Kullberg, author, speaker, and co-founder of the American Association of Evangelicals, joins Scott and Luke Allen to move beyond political talking points and ask a more important question: What does the Bible actually teach about immigration?

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Are Christians reading current events concerning Israel into the Bible? What if the biggest mistake in the Israel debate is failing to define what "Israel" even means?

Everyone has an opinion about Israel. Few begin with Scripture.

This week we're joined by Pastor Blaine Braden to cut through the noise surrounding Israel, Christian Zionism, replacement theology, Bible prophecy, and Israel's current conflicts. Instead of repeating internet talking points, we rebuild the conversation from the ground up with careful biblical interpretation from Genesis through Revelation with and a particular emphasis...

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The culture may feel like it's unraveling, but what if God's call isn't to panic, retreat, or attack, but to cultivate? In this thought-provoking conversation, theologian Owen Strachan joins us to discuss his new book, Call to Cultivate, and why Jeremiah 29 provides a compelling biblical blueprint for faithful Christian cultural engagement.

Together, we explore how followers of Christ can engage today's culture without giving in to fear, political idolatry, or end-times obsession. Owen challenges believers to plant gardens, build strong families, disciple their communities, and pursue the long-term work of cultivating...

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Is faith just wishful thinking? How should Christians think about conspiracy theories?

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Juan Valdes to recover a biblical, evidence-based understanding of faith. We explore why faith is not a blind leap but trust in a trustworthy God, why the object of faith matters more than the amount of faith, and how damaging teachings like “you weren’t healed because you lacked faith” distort the gospel.

We also tackle the faith vs. science narrative, exposing the assumptions behind scientism and showing why the de...

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The quickest way to learn about the culture of a nation isn't to watch its politics. It's to watch how it educates its children.

In this episode, we sit down with author and classical Christian educator David Goodwin, president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, to explore why education is never neutral and how it shapes a child's worldview, character, loves, and vision of reality.

Drawing from his new book, The Forging of the American Mind, and the bestselling Battle for the American Mind (co-authored with Pete Hegseth), D...

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Can a business be both profitable and deeply purposeful?

Anton Krecic thinks so. After witnessing the funding challenges facing pregnancy resource centers, he founded Seven Weeks Coffee, a mission-driven company that has donated more than $1.8 million to support life-affirming pregnancy resource centers nationwide.

We discuss entrepreneurship, brand building, faith and work, leadership, profit, purpose, and why conviction may be one of the strongest competitive advantages in business.

Along the way, Anton shares how a season in political fundraising and a commitment to serving others shaped his vision f...

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Revival is not enough to heal this civilizational moment.

Many Christians long for spiritual renewal, but what happens after revival? How do transformed hearts lead to transformed families, institutions, communities, and nations?

In this episode, Naomi Smith joins us to discuss her new book, Occupy Till I Come, co-authored with Darrow Miller. Together, they explore why understanding our cultural moment is only the beginning. Diagnosing our culture's problems is relatively easy; cultivating renewal is where the real work begins. The Church must recover a biblical vision for cultural engagement, b...

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What if the biggest problem facing the Church isn't a lack of activity, but a lack of measurable discipleship?

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Len Munsil, President of Arizona Christian University, to explore a question most Christian institutions never ask: Are we actually forming a biblical worldview in the people we disciple? And as a reminder, “you cannot become a genuine disciple of Jesus without having a biblical worldview” (Dr. Barna).

Drawing on years of research conducted with George Barna and the Cultural Research Center, Dr. Munsi...

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What happens when a society rejects the sanctity of life and abandons a biblical worldview? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. George Grant to discuss The Last Stand, his documentary created with Seth Gruber. Together, they trace the historical roots of today's cultural battles, showing how the struggle over human dignity, the value of children, and the lordship of Christ has shaped civilizations from ancient Rome and the French Revolution to modern America.

Dr. Grant explains why the pro-life movement is ultimately a clash of worldviews, why cultural decline b...

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Gender ideology, anti-Semitism, the Woke Right, and conspiracy thinking may seem like separate issues, but according to Dr. Jeff Myers, they all flow from a deeper worldview crisis: Where do people look for identity, meaning, and salvation?

This week, we sit down with the president of Summit Ministries and author of Raising Gender-Confident Kids to discuss the growing confusion surrounding gender and identity, the cultural pressure facing parents and students, and why redefining language reshapes how young people understand reality. Myers explains why gender confusion is often downstream from a deeper i...

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In the United States and in many nations around the world, Christians make up a large percentage of the population. Yet despite our numbers, the broader culture is often shaped far more by other ideas, values, and worldviews than by a distinctly biblical vision of life.

What is missing in Christian discipleship that keeps the Gospel from shaping not only personal faith, but the broader culture?

This week, we talk with Bracey Fuenzalida of the Falls Church Fellows Program and one of the fellows, Isabelle Souza, to explore why b...

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What if we’ve been approaching poverty from the wrong angle? In this episode, I’m joined by Arturo Cuba, who has spent decades in Latin America tackling the deeper roots of poverty. Together, we rethink the idea that poverty is just a lack of money or that more generosity will fix it. We explore how mindsets, priorities, and worldviews hold people back. Arturo shares how a biblical worldview addresses poverty’s root causes and why money alone, without heart change, often makes things worse. We dive into issues like homelessness, family breakdown, and the de...

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The modern West tells a story about family that sounds normal until you measure it against Scripture: raise kids, launch them out, start over every generation, and call it success. Jeremy Pryor, co-founder of Family Teams, argues that this “nuclear family” script is recent, fragile, and negatively forming both the culture and the church more than we want to admit. So we slow down and ask a better question: what did God design the family to be?

Jeremy walks us through Genesis 1:28 as a five-part mission given to a family team: be fr...

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Churches are filling. Bibles are selling. People are searching for truth again. The question is: are Christians ready to meet the moment?

This week we sit down with Greg Koukl, founder of Stand to Reason, for a timely conversation on what it truly means to live as an ambassador for Christ and His kingdom in a confused and hostile culture.

Greg explains why effective Christian witness is not about winning arguments, but representing the King with truth, wisdom, and character. He unpacks these three essential marks of a faithful a...

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The sexual revolutionaries are trying to disciple the nations, and Africa is their mission field. Why is the West colonizing Uganda through coercive sexual ideology and political pressure? Why has our friend and guest found himself at the center of a global culture war?

This week, we sit down with Stephen Langa from Kampala to discuss the clash between Western sexual revolution ideology and Uganda’s efforts to simply protect families and children.

Stephen shares firsthand stories of what this battle looks like on the ground in Uganda, along wit...

Modern slavery doesn’t start in the shadows. It starts with demand.
And the darkest injustices in our world are often hidden behind the things that we tolerate.

Today we talk with Lance Cashion, founder of the Forge Room Foundation, about the connection between pornography, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking. We dig into the worldview behind these evils and how when sex is detached from God’s design and people are reduced to objects, exploitation follows. But this issue isn’t just “out there.” Porn use inside the church almost mirrors the culture, including among leaders, y...

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Everyone loves empathy these days. But beware! Empathy seems to be a virtue perfect for hijacking and using for evil under the banner of good. 

In this provocative episode, we sit down with theologian Joe Rigney to expose the dangerous confusion between biblical compassion and what he calls “the sin of empathy.” When compassion is untethered from truth, it can manipulate hearts, distort justice, and harm the very people it claims to help.

From gender identity and immigration to poverty, criminal justice, modern therapy culture, and almost every other social...

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Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God continually. In contrast to “church,” which is only mentioned twice, “kingdom” is mentioned over 120 times in the gospels. So why do we treat the Kingdom like it barely matters?

In this episode, we sit down with our former co-host, Dwight Vogt, to discuss his newest book, Made to Live: The Good News of the Kingdom of God. Starting in Genesis 1, Dwight shows how the Kingdom is the unifying thread of Scripture and the key to understanding both the gospel and human purpose.

We explor...

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We’ve entered a world where seeing is no longer believing.

In a culture shaped by deepfakes, viral outrage, and endless information, a deeper question emerges: how do you know what’s real? When feelings become truth, reality doesn’t disappear; it just gets ignored. And increasingly, that confusion isn’t just out there; it’s showing up inside the Church.

In this episode, we sit down with pastor and apologist Juan Valdes, author of How to Think: A Crash Course in Critical Thinking, to confront the rise of post-truth...

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Why do so many churches struggle to respond to today’s cultural challenges? The answer lies in a forgotten chapter of church history. What’s happening in the church today did not appear overnight. The roots go back more than a century.

This week we are joined by Theology Mom, Krista Bontrager, co-founder of the Center for Biblical Unity. She traces how the modernist fundamentalist controversy that started in the late 1800s ultimately set the stage for current postmodern pressures in evangelical churches and institutions. Historically speaking, this is one of the f...

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What if deconstruction isn’t a crisis of faith, but a crisis of authority?

This week, we sit down with apologist Tim Barnett from Stand to Reason, Red Pen Logic, and co-author of The Deconstruction of Christianity to unpack the ideas behind the faith deconstruction movement and learn how it's affected every one of us in more ways than we realize. 

We explore how postmodern thinking shifted authority from Scripture to the self, why that change reshapes conversations about truth, justice, and identity, and how social media is actively disc...

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What if poverty isn’t mainly an economic crisis, but a discipleship crisis?

This week, we sit down with a true expert, Ena Richards, founder of Work for a Living, to challenge the dominant narrative about poverty. Ena argues that poverty persists where destructive worldviews persist. It thrives in soils of blame, envy, entitlement, unforgiveness, addiction, fatherlessness, and victim identity.

The solution clearly isn’t more handouts, but hearts transformed. Not performative empathy, but practical love. Not Sunday-only faith, but Monday formation that produces real economic impact.

We di...

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The sexual revolution isn’t progress. It’s a regression into outright paganism. This is not an overstatement.

Today, we trace a direct line from Malthus and Darwin to Galton, Havelock Ellis, and Margaret Sanger, exposing how eugenic ideas shaped the birth control movement and continue to influence law, medicine, education, and even the Church today. Seth Gruber joins us to unpack his documentary The 1916 Project, laying out the historical evidence and connecting the dots from American academic elites to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and then back again as those same...

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Christians make up more than half of the American population, but culture is unraveling. The future of the West will not be decided by elections, but by whether the Church rises or retreats. In this episode, we’re launching Occupy Till I Come with its author Darrow Miller and argue that the Great Commission includes discipling nations at the ground level of culture. The real crisis, Darrow contends, is the sacred/secular divide that has confined faith to Sundays and surrendered public life to rival worldviews.

Let’s recover the biblical and h...

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Almost every cultural and political battle we face eventually lands on the shoulders of children. Modern culture talks endlessly about rights but often overlooks the rights of children. If children truly have rights, then marriage cannot mean whatever adults want it to mean. In this episode, Katy Faust argues that when marriage is redefined, parenthood is rewritten, and children are the ones who lose. She shows why defending God’s design for marriage and family isn’t merely a religious conviction, but a natural law argument with profound implications for society as a whole...

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Truth is the engine of flourishing cultures. Season three of Ideas Have Consequences launches with a timely conversation with Vishal Mangalwadi on why nations collapse when truth is abandoned, and how they can be rebuilt. We explore the present reality of Christ’s kingship, the evangelical retreat from cultural reform, and why political change fails without moral and intellectual renewal. From Venezuela to Minnesota to Iran, cultures that reject truth inevitably deteriorate and fall. This episode confronts the ideas that are shaping and misshaping our world.

Vishal introduces Truthpedia, a bold res...

We’re so excited for this next season of Ideas Have Consequences. In a moment of cultural confusion and competing narratives, we invite you to join us as we seek to move from knowing biblical truth to living it.

Ideas and worldviews shape families, influence culture and public life, and ultimately determine whether societies flourish or fail. Hosted by Scott Allen, Darrow Miller, and Luke Allen, this season features a fascinating lineup of guests, including Dr. George Barna, Vishal Mangalwadi, Seth Gruber, Katy Faust, and more.

Together, we unpack topics ranging from AI and immigration to...

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Christmas isn’t just a cozy story; it’s the moment the King of Kings invaded history. Christmas marks the turning point of history where the King claims His throne. From Isaiah 9 to Revelation 19, we trace the arrival of the Lamb who was slain and the rise of the Lion of Judah who reigns. We explore how biblical hope is active, not passive, calling Christians to occupy till He comes. We’re called to live courageously and bless this world as far as the curse is found. This is a vision of Christmas that pr...

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During the “Great Awokening” in 2020 many churches cracked under the pressure. These cracks ran deeper than political talking points and cultural morays but stemmed from a divide at the level of worldview. Pastor Jon Benzinger from Redeemer Bible Church joins us to explain how social-justice ideology is still present and active. Even while the vigor of the woke movement has quieted, there remains a gospel-level conflict in the worldview of the people. We discuss how to spot the woke worldview’s lingering assumptions about sin, justice, and identity, and why changing vocabulary doesn’t always...

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Why are so many Christian leaders thinking like the culture instead of shaping it?

This week, we sit down with Dr. John West, Vice President of the Discovery Institute, to unpack his vitally important new book, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, and the subtle ways secular worldviews have infiltrated the Church. We explore why a mind-first universe matters, how cultural approval dilutes biblical truth, and what a truly holistic, biblical response to homelessness and poverty requires.

West also issues a needed challenge: Christians must develop deep discernment in an age drowning i...

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Western civilization is being washed away by a flood of corrosive ideas. In a moment such as this, we must anchor ourselves to the firm foundation from whom its flourishing grew. We need a last-ditch ‘Hail Mary,’ or more so a wholehearted “Hail Christ the King.” This week, John Stonestreet shares about the new documentary he co-hosted, Truth Rising. In this candid conversation, we cover why our cultural moment feels unmoored, why truth can’t remain a private belief, and how courageous discipleship can actually rebuild what’s been breaking.

Drawing on themes fro...

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Conversations about crime and immigration are extremely charged today, and sincere people see these issues very differently. Why? Today, Dr. Mark Moland joins us to go beyond headlines and soundbites, unpacking the worldview assumptions shaping modern criminal justice and the immigration debates. Drawing on his experience, Mark shows how our beliefs about human nature, government, and justice shape the policies we support and how we treat our neighbors, whom we are called to love.

Hear him present a compelling biblical framework that balances compassion and truth. Affirming the God-given dignity of i...

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What if revival isn’t measured by packed worship nights, but by reformed schools, honest businesses, and just cities?

Pastor Teo Hayashi joins us from Brazil to challenge the Church’s narrow vision of success and call us back to the gospel of the Kingdom.

We explore why social ills keep rising even as churches multiply, tracing how the divide between Sunday faith and Monday life has hollowed out our mission. We unpack how Christian dualism and fundamentalism’s retreat from society over the last century has left believers unsure...