Stand Up For The Truth Podcast

Mary welcomes back Israel expert and cultural observer Jim Fletcher to talk about ground-shaking election results, both in the States and in Israel. As we move toward the culmination of all things, everything temporary will be shaken, till only what is eternal will remain – the Kingdom of God. But in the meantime, we are certainly seeing a whole lot of shaking going on.  As the world rapidly becomes unmoored, untethered and uncoupled from anything resembling a Judeo/Christian worldview, by choice, we are seeing the rotting fruit of a world in which godless ideologies and brutal, violent people who wan...

Mary welcomes back financial expert David Holland to talk about the hottest financial topic imaginable: digital tokenization. What started as cryptocurrencies making their home on the blockchain has become the digitization of anything and everything. What appears to be common ownership of that anything and everything – from land, to commodities and from luxury items to that gold bar in your home – is really a way to control everything and everyone. Back before gambling became part of the fabric of every sporting event, economic movers and shakers were envisioning a future where we would “own nothing and be happy”, and that “no...

On today’s news cycle podcast, Tim and Mary look at all the things that seem to be cascading at once – American elections, Israeli election results and the current hostility toward the Jewish state; governments around the world urging people to stockpile basics, Iran, the global economy. How much more can we even watch, let alone comprehend? The world is tense – and the worldly answer to attempting to exercise a modicum of control isn’t to just let things play out, or even to trust God with it all; the answer seems to be just place your bets on anything...

[Apologies for the late posting] On Tuesday’s edition of SUFTT, Mary takes a look at what it means to “rightly divide the Word” and warns of a 90+ year old movement that is rearing its head in the church. “Mid Acts Dispensationalism”, or “hyper-dispensationalism” is causing untold doctrinal damage in the church again, and reaping confusion and false hermeneutics – and the only thing it is “rightly dividing” is the brethren. We look first of all at some definitions; what is dispensationalism? Why is it considered the best historical/grammatical approach to understanding the bible? Then we look at the finer points of the...

This week is Q Drive at Q90 FM! Tuesday (10/27/26) Crash sits down with Stand Up for the Truth hosts Mary Danielsen and Pastor Tim Danielsen to talk about why biblical truth matters more than ever. From growing threats to religious freedom and free speech to digital surveillance, Bible prophecy, and false teaching in the church, the conversation covers the issues Christians need to understand. They also share what goes into researching topics, vetting guests, and standing firm on the authority of God’s Word, regardless of the cost.

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On the first half of today’s SUFTT, Mary welcomes back Todd Nettleton of Voice of the Martyrs to remind the listener that we are approaching another International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians. We discuss the current state of the persecuted church around the world; restricted regions and active hotspots. We talk about the goal of having all churches pray for our persecuted brethren around the world and other ways we can practically help them despite being separated by long distances –  and how prayer changes things.  Then in the 2nd half, we carry the subject forward by looking at the...

Mary welcomes Autumn Christensen to discuss Her Plan – a hands-and-feet approach to being pro-life. There seems to be a disconnect in the church between being pro-life by conviction and finding opportunities to bring practical hope in real time. Christians often think the only way to show that conviction is to protest somewhere, when actually there are organizations in place to provide for the needs of women who are in dire straits with an unplanned pregnancy, combined with no support group or perhaps mired in poverty and homelessness. Important research has shown that if women had actual resources to see th...

Mary welcomes back Pastor Mike Spaulding of Calvary Chapel of Lima Ohio to talk about the changing face of an unchanging gospel. How do we navigate profound cultural changes and stay the course? And not only stay the course but exhort others to as well? Change is the one constant, it would appear. With that in mind, we discuss some weighty things with Pastor Mike, such as sound doctrine, political engagement and the church, pastors and their reputations, and how to steady the ship here in 2026. There are so many things tugging at us all, but shouldn’t church be...

The news cycle of the last several days serves to tell us that the world in its current form is becoming very unstable, especially where the West is concerned. Watching riots break our all over France is disturbing enough, but that uneasy feeling that this is only the beginning is possibly the most unsettling because of who is behind all the violence. On today’s edition of SUFTT, we look at the list of agitators who are being assembled and sufficiently agitated to burn France to the ground. Whatever narrative was originally floated to explain the riots last week wa...

Mary welcomes JB Hixson back to the podcast to talk about how Christianese often ventures into platitudes and fridge magnets, and from time to time, just absolute contextual disasters. Back in 2016, a book was published about things Jesus “never said”, followed by a raft of memes that were alternately funny and cringe-worthy. And unfortunately, even these, without discernment, are all over the doctrinal map. What’s to keep the publisher from releasing “Things Jesus Never Said: Cult Edition”? Instead, we look at some sayings that just don’t make the cut of biblical truth. Does God help those who help themsel...

Mary welcomes back filmmakers Mark and Amber Archer to discuss their 5th documentary film, "Principalities: Doctrines of Demons".  It examines the spiritual warfare behind the cultural, educational, political and ideological battles we are witnessing today. Through firsthand testimony, interviews, and primary-source footage, they examine competing doctrines and worldviews, particularly their influence on children, families, the Church, and society. What a lot of us in the west fail to grasp is that what we see in this world, the architecture and infrastructure of politics, fame, societal issues and culture, has as it's underpinning spiritual values; a worldview. The kingdom of Light v...

Some of our listeners might remember the intro to the black-and-white classic, "Outer Limits", in which the narrator told the viewer that what you are seeing, while bizarre, does not indicate a problem with the messenger, that big old console television "set". But rather, an outside force that exists independently from your moderated TV reality is doing things you might not understand. And truly, 60 years later, there are things going on that the average person does NOT understand. And that TV set will not help them.  Only true spiritual light from the Holy Spirit will brighten our path and our u...

Mary welcomes back Alex Newman to talk about keeping the faith when it comes to encroaching legal double standards.  First we look at the Maine court case in which a mom is being cut off from any rights to allow her daughter to be raised with biblical standards and a biblical worldview. The 13 year old daughter, who is a believer, is at the center of a case in which the father, an atheist, has forced a court decision to disallow any bible reading or church attendance when she is with her mother.  The court has been very careful to hide th...

Mary welcomes back apologist and author Chris Lawson to talk about a subject both had hoped would never come up again: the phenomenally successful The Shack. William Paul Young has done it again in publishing a sequel to his 25 million selling book that was never intended to go into the Christian book market. The new book, "Return to the Shack" must be vetted as thoroughly as the original. Problem is, the original was largely swallowed hook, line and sinker, much to the detriment of the church. The original was very much a Kodak moment in the church already. So what's...

Mary welcomes back Russ Miller to talk about what the Greco-Roman world referred to as their very own brand of professional intellectuals, logicians, and academic debaters who relied on philosophy, rhetoric, and argument to define truth. These disputers, as Paul calls them, were said to be "inquirers of truth" but many of us might wonder if they were ever, or are today, actually interested in truth! Today's conversation with Russ is a bit different, taking the perspective of the unbeliever/atheist and in looking at Romans 1 in which we learn that all men know there is a Creator, and what...

On this week's headline podcast, we talk about what is holding back the tide of evil in this overtly evil age. Did you ever stop to think about what God allows - and disallows? The dramatic events surrounding the FlyDubai flight of September 30 drove this home in that God really did do a miracle for those passengers, a full flight of Israelis, many of them flying to Israel to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles. So what kind of evil will be unleashed once the church is gone? Who is the Restrainer spoken of by Paul, and is there a connection...

Mary welcomes back Olivier Melnick on this eve the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 attacks. What has transpired in that time, what have we learned? Some of it is just so grievous, in the case of antisemitism.  Weeping for the night (Psalm 30:5) surely describes the scars on the the people over time - but joy in the morning - we often look at this through a far more temporal lens, the short view of day and night and our smaller trials but there is something much bigger in view here:  Israel's long night of struggle and the dawn of redemption. We...

Mary is back with a solo podcast taking on the late blooming fruit of the Purpose Driven/Seeker Sensitive/motivational paradigm of the corporate branding of the church. It's been over 20 years since the Evangelical Industrial Complex redefined what a church is, what preaching is, and the consumer approach to all of it. Where are we at? It's not good. Even small-to-middlin' churches have adopted the cape wearing hero style of many if not most pastors today. What is a pastor, after all? Why are so many failing to finish well? If a church isn't teaching the Bible systematically, what...

Mary welcomes Chris Quintana back to the podcast to talk about Ai - morally, physically, philosophically, scientifically.  Some of us of a certain age thought our answering machines were pretty special, because before those things showed up, we were pretty much unreachable. Then came this century. There is so much to try and parse about Ai it's mind-boggling. Today we look at how it should--or shouldn't--be applied to bible prophecy; whether it's artificial, intelligent, or just thinks it thinks. Many wishful thinkers believe that when it gets "intelligent enough" it will become conscious. Well, birds and dogs are conscious, but n...

On todays SUFTT: Headline Edition we talk about "that land". Israel, the most contested piece of real estate in the world. The American folk song, "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land" that we all sang as kids, is a catchy, soaring ode to the beauty and co-ownership, the freedom, that Americans have always had from sea to shining sea. Walk it, drive it, fly over it - it was "made for you and me." But was it, really? America, like every bit of land around the world, has been settled, unsettled and resettled many times in...

Mary welcomes back Bub Kuns to talk about the latest in the "Debunked" video series. When it comes to topically exposing lies that enslave, no one does it visually better than Bub and the Reasons for Hope crew. Today we talk about their newest reasoning tool, "The Earth is Flat". One might wonder how in the world such a theory could gain any traction in such a scientifically rational world in which photographic and scientific evidence quickly and easily destroys such a theory. But what is behind their thinking? Quite possibly simply the word "theory" - and a deep-seated need...

Gary Kah Mary welcomes Gary Kah back to SUFTT. Gary has been a valued guest of the podcast for many years, warning, exhorting and encouraging Christians to pay attention to globalism, Islam, communism, and general church and culture issues. Today we talk about communism's rise and how it is reshaping everything about this nation. We also discuss current antisemitism statistics, up considerably since 2023. We talk about voting, and the latest Barna poll indicating that Christians really don't intend to vote this year or ever. And yet, who IS voting? Muslims, Communists, friends and neighbors without biblical worldviews - so we...

PASTOR CLAUDE STAUFFER On today's edition of SUFTT, we welcome Pastor Claude Stauffer back to the conversation to talk about the weighty topic of "judgment". When it comes to "judging" others, subjectively speaking, people have strong opinions on what that should look like. If a believer is making a discernment call about a certain movement or belief system, one that touches close to someone's heart, they sometimes lash out with "judge not!" As believers, we have no desire or authority to condemn someone eternally, in judgment that belongs to God alone. But the unbeliever doesn't, cannot, rightly divide that. We...

Tim and Mary take on the current news cycle which is dominated by chatter about the apocalyptic nature of Ai. The Chicken Little bot keeps telling us the sky is falling, but is it? Trump says Ai isn't harmful, of course on some levels it is, but on an extinction level? And Bill Gates, globalist extraordinaire, has weighed in, all while writing checks to Ai. How about another scenario? Ai extinction, midterms and globalism, oh my - are they related? Quite possible. We talk about fear mongering by you-know-who (the left) who always has to have an apocalypse at the...

Mary welcomes back the brilliant Nathaniel Jeanson, someone who has taken the origins debate and placed it ahead of the pack. In his forthcoming book, "A New Way to Win", he outlines the definitive worldview battle based on the state of America since the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. At that time, it was illegal to teach evolution in the schools, specifically in Tennessee. John Scopes ultimately lost for teaching evolution, and fined $100. But what we have lost since then is immeasurable, as the legal tactic of the defense, headed by Clarence Darrow, was one of dismantling what he considered the...

Note: APOLOGIES FOR THE LATE POST! Mary welcomes the president of Spiritual Counterfeits Project, Mark Harris, to talk about the Success Motivation movement, and how it has lasted so long, and continues to influence the church. Some listeners will remember the likes of Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller - all proponents of this positive thinking type of approach to life. But is it just thinking the right thoughts? Rick Warren has said many times that Schuller was his inspiration for The Purpose Driven Life - a self help book for the ages, selling 50 million copies. We cannot...

Mary welcomes investment expert Evan Liberman to talk about the resilience of Israel's economy under the fire of war, and under the microscope of the world. Talking with us live from Israel, we learn about why this is a golden age for Israel's economy, and how God always seems to have His hand on them. Evan immigrated to Israel 33 years ago, and in 2010, he established Wise Money Israel, the only licensed Israeli wealth management firm that is Jewish believer-staffed and owned. The firm assists individuals and organizations to partner with Israel through investing in Israeli stocks and bonds in shekels...

On this edition of SUFTT, Tim and Mary look at the fall of the Judeo/Christian worldview and what is replacing it. Having built the west with its era of personal freedoms and democracy, today's world is looking far less like what we have known and much more like pending tyranny. Islam, Marxism, climate theology and more all point to a completely new world order fit for Antichrist. In fact, Romans 1 also points to this transition clearly. We talk about Britain's massive fall; the differences in worldviews; euthanasia laws coming online in various places. In the children's nursery rhyme, "Humpty...

Mary takes on the lowly "comma" in today's podcast. A relatively minor punctuation in life that, when placed by the Holy Spirit into the Scriptures, can separate concepts, lists, thoughts - and even years and millennia. Bible prophecy, for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, has given us many things to watch for and understand and in this generation, the clarity comes from what is commonly referred to as "dispensationalism". Today we tour Isaiah 61, Zechariah 9, Isaiah 9. The church was called a "mystery" in the Scriptures, and that is a theme that really helps us understand that...

Mary welcomes back John Haller to see if we can begin to figure out the methods behind all the madness out there. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Polonius remarks to the Prince, "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." Wouldn't we all love to look behind the scenes and try to find the switch that shuts down all the insanity? Nothing makes sense anymore, except to the One to Whom it all matters: God, who knows exactly what is going on at all times. For now, we look at not just cultural madness, but geo-political - and we don't...

Mary welcomes back JB Hixson to hopefully play a role in stemming the tide of rampant biblical illiteracy.  If social media has accomplished anything, it's been to pull the curtain back on all the would-be influencers and click bait addicts who think they know something about God's grand design when actually many know absolutely nothing but don't want you to know that. Today with JB we take a look at the major themes of the bible: Creation, Conflict, Covenants, Conquests, Captivities, Incarnation, the Cross, the Church and the Culmination of all things. Some might say, all that matters is that w...

On today's Headline edition of SUFTT, Tim and Mary look at the anniversary of 9/11. While some still maintain that it was an "inside job" of the US government, we find overwhelming evidence that it was an Islamic attack on the US. What is the one thing we are seeing take place in our nation among all threats? Islamic encroachment of our nation in alarming ways. This makes the conspiracy aspect null and void because, well, they are already "inside". ISLAM is the inside job. And to say that 3000 families were "in on it" is as disturbing as it gets. There...

Mary welcomes Retired Lt. Col Phill Cochran who flew the F-16 Fighting Falcon for more than 2 decades. For 23 years he also stood behind the pulpit, preaching and teaching God's Word. In God's classroom, he began to connect the dots among military service, high-performance flight, and deeper spiritual truths. Today we talk about his book, "Lessons Learned at the Speed of Sound", a book of 40 devotionals to encourage and challenge us on such important subjects as grace, repentance, perseverance, correction, joy and sorrow, temptation and hope. Seeing how God weaves our life choices together with His care and sovereignty in our...

Mary welcomes back Sheri Few, Founder and President of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), whose mission is to end the U.S. Department of Education and all federal education mandates. USPIE has established 20 state chapters and is growing rapidly amid the national outcry from parents who want to regain control of their children’s education. Today we talk about how to not sleepwalk through the school year, put it in park and just go through the motions. Getting parents engaged and alert, putting their child's education back into their own hands is a worthy goal. As the years bl...

Today's news cycle deserves some social/philosophical/matters-of-the-heart type ponderings. The reason for that is, we have all collectively paused what we were occupied with to pay attention to Lindsey Clancy, the blank-eyed premeditated murderer of 3 innocent children. And the jury is locked in what is likely a moral conversation. How can it not be? And in a nation/world that has forgotten God and thereby loosed its moral moorings, things are likely to get even more convoluted because there are no standards. People want to come to the aid and compassion of the murderer in this upside down world...

Mary welcomes new guest Marziyeh Amirizadeh to talk about the 8 months she spent in a brutal Iranian prison for her faith in Jesus. Born just before the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, the Iran of her parents and grandparents transformed virtually overnight with the rise of the clerics - and strict Sharia law. We learn her story of being arrested for sharing the love of Christ to her fellow Persians and what took place behind the walls of Evin prison, one of the most brutal in the world. Accounts of fellow inmates and the lack of basic amenities paints a...

NEW PODCAST: Mike Gallo first joined Dave Wager back in the spring of 2025 to share how cancer had affected his life and faith. Now Mike returns with more of the story. More cancer, more physical challenges, and a growing conviction that God has used these difficult seasons to change his priorities, loosen his grip on control, and open unexpected opportunities to serve and encourage a younger generation. Dave and Mike explore what happens when the truth we say we believe is tested by cancer, loss, pain, and the reality of death. They discuss the danger of allowing feelings and circumstances...

Mary chats with Debbie Wuthnow of iVoterGuide, a ministry of American Family Association, about the midterms, and the crossroads at which we Americans find ourselves. Thanks to iVoterGuide, we can have access to tremendous amounts of research on all the midterm elections - scorecards, polling places, dates and much more - because an educated electorate benefits our nation. Most people don't realize that primary elections decide the vast majority of races;  if people don’t vote on the ground level, say locally for school boards or in state and national primaries, they can’t truly complain about having lousy candidates. We ar...

Mary welcomes back Dr. Brady Blevins of Watchman Fellowship to talk about the more diverse and interesting ways our culture and the church are being transformed. Burning Man, which starts this weekend, is the most visible example of what are called "Transformational Festivals". What are they transforming? Themselves? The culture at large? Attendees seem to think they are practicing the future, a future of pagan, New Age, cosmic consciousness - a utopia of inclusiveness, earth worship, and paganism - in which adherents look within and find a god. Not THE God, of course, Who is outside of His creation. We...

Tim and Mary take on the news cycle with a bit of a twist: living large in the last days, Babylon style. We talk about the change of seasons and how that brings a reality to the times. The nature of worship today is certainly one of the changes we have waded through, but not just to add to the conversation about it, rather perhaps put a finger on the problem: subjectivity. In the pursuit of making sure the Holy Spirit shows up to our gatherings, we have all but stopped worshiping in Spirit AND in truth: with our minds...