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New York Legalized Assisted Suicide — And That's Just the First Story | Under God Ep 349 Aug 14, 2026

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New York's assisted suicide law took effect August 5 — and that's only headline one.

In this episode, Pastors Stephen Martin, Nate Brown, and Daniel Hayworth work through six headlines that all trace back to one question: what is a human life actually worth? New York's assisted suicide law, Massachusetts removing late-term abortion limits, the IVF conversation most churches avoid, and a Michigan primary that reshaped a state. Perfect for the commute or the gym — a full Culture Review that connects stories most people hear separately.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why there's no sacred-secular divide for the believer

✅ Where these pastors genuinely disagree on IVF

✅ The ancient pattern behind modern assisted suicide and abortion laws

✅ Why Job's wife said "curse God and die" — and why he refused

📖 Job 1:21 · Psalm 139:13-16 · Deuteronomy 30:19 · John 1:1-5

Resources mentioned: A Great Awakening, Young Washington, Forrest Frank, New Discourses with James Lindsay.

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One Nation Under God Part 10: Faithful Presence: Why Active Christian Citizenship Matters | UGP 348 Aug 12, 2026

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Faithful presence means Christians engage the public square instead of retreating from it.

In this episode, Pastor Daniel Hayworth closes out One Nation Under God with a challenge that lands on Monday morning. Faithful presence, he argues, rejects two opposite errors: the apathy that keeps Christians silent, and the idolatry that makes heroes out of politicians. Perfect for the commute or the gym, this is faithful presence made practical.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why apathy has become one of the most dangerous postures in the American church

✅ What Jesus meant by salt and light, and why salt left in the shaker does nothing

✅ How faithful presence works in public and in private, without turning into performance

✅ Why courage is the chief virtue every other virtue is tested by

📖 Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16, Jeremiah 29:7, Esther 4:14, Matthew 25:14-30, Psalm 20:7

Resources mentioned on air: 24/6 sermon series; One Nation Under God series, Parts 1-9

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American Pastors Guild | Under God Ep 347 Aug 10, 2026

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The American Pastors Guild just launched, and it is built for pastors ready to fight.

In this episode, Pastor Daniel Hayworth sits down with Pastor Stephen Martin, Pastor Rob McCoy, and Pastor Nathan Brown to announce the American Pastors Guild and unpack what it is, who it is for, and why it exists right now. Perfect for the commute, the gym, or the drive to work.

You'll Learn:

✅ What the American Pastors Guild is and the five pillars every member unites around

✅ Why post-denominational fellowship matters more right now than tertiary theological debate

✅ Charlie Kirk's three kinds of pastors, and the fourth category these hosts say is the bigger problem

✅ Why the guild is private, self-funding, and built on relationship instead of a mailing list

✅ The World War II study that explains why men stay in a fight they could lose

📖 Proverbs 29:18, Ezekiel 37

Resources: American Pastors Guild

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Spiritual Hunger: 6 Habits That Stop Christians From Drifting | Under God Ep 346 Aug 07, 2026

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Spiritual hunger is what separates Christians who grow from Christians who drift.

In this episode, Pastor Stephen Martin closes out a men's conference by opening Psalm 1 and teaching a six-part framework for spiritual hunger that lasts. He explains why nobody drifts from God on purpose, how the pattern of walking, standing, and sitting shows up long before anyone notices, and why spiritual hunger is something Christians acquire rather than something they are handed. Perfect for the commute, the gym, or the drive home.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why the Christian life has no neutral gear

✅ How Psalm 1 maps spiritual drift before it starts

✅ The six habits that build lasting spiritual hunger

✅ Why humility starts with remembering there is a God in heaven and you are not Him

✅ How to set expectations high on God and low on people

📖 Psalm 1:1-3, Matthew 5:6, Psalm 34:8, James 4:5-8, Philippians 3:13-14, Galatians 2:20

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One Nation Under God Part 9: Diagnosis: How a Free People Lose Their Freedom | Under God Ep 345 Aug 05, 2026

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The Constitution is not a secular document, and this episode shows you why that matters.

In this episode, Pastor Stephen Martin walks through the U.S. Constitution the way its framers actually built it: on a biblical understanding of human sinfulness, distributed authority, and accountability. Drawing on his background in American history, he traces the Constitution's separation of powers to Isaiah 33:22, its checks and balances to Exodus 18:21, and its demand for impartial justice to Leviticus 19:15. Perfect for the commute or the drive home, Part 9 of One Nation Under God closes with a sobering diagnosis: a free people never lose their freedom in a single moment. They lose it slowly.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why the framers designed government around human sinfulness, not human goodness

✅ The difference between a Christian nationalist and a Christian constitutionalist

✅ Why defending the Constitution's original intent is the principle you already apply to Scripture

📖 Isaiah 33:22 · Exodus 18:21 · Deuteronomy 17:18-20

Resources mentioned: The Federalist Papers, especially Federalist No. 51

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Chad Robichaux: The Question That Saved His Life | Under God Ep 344 Aug 03, 2026

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Chad Robichaux was ranked #6 in the world and completely hopeless.

In this episode, Pastor Stephen Martin sits down with Chad Robichaux — Force Recon Marine, professional MMA fighter, and founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation — for a raw conversation about what happens when a man achieves everything he chased and still comes up empty. Eight deployments to Afghanistan. A world-ranked fighting career. And one question from his wife that changed everything. Perfect for the commute or the gym.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why success can never fill a hole only Christ can fill

✅ Why Chad Robichaux says a man without accountability is in real danger

✅ How a year of ordinary discipleship rebuilt what nothing else could

✅ Why following Jesus makes life meaningful, not easy

Chad Robichaux is also honest about the battle he is still in today.

📖 Revelation 12:11, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Ephesians 6:10-12

Resources: Mighty Oaks Foundation. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, dial or text 988, veterans press 1.

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Why Pastors Can't Sit Out Politics: What Jesus Really Said in Matthew 16 | Under God Ep 343 Jul 31, 2026

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Jesus didn't say "church" in Matthew 16. Pastor Rob McCoy explains the word He used.

In this episode, Pastor Nate Brown and Pastor Rob McCoy set the headlines aside for a longer conversation about the calling of pastors and the question most pastors avoid: does Scripture actually permit Christians to sit out the public square? Pastor Rob goes to the Greek behind Matthew 16, the translation choice that got William Tyndale executed, and the second greatest commandment. He also shares the story of Pastor Son, jailed in South Korea for teaching his congregation to vote biblically, and the promise Charlie Kirk made to him days before his own death. Perfect for the commute, the gym, or the drive home.

You'll Learn:

✅ What the word ecclesia meant before it was ever translated "church"

✅ Why the second greatest commandment demands public engagement

✅ Why Pastor Son was imprisoned, and why he may return in September

✅ What the American Pastors Guild is and why it exists

📖 Matthew 16:18 · Matthew 22:36-40 · Jeremiah 29:7 · 1 Timothy 2:1-2

Mentioned on the show: General Matthew Ridgway's "Why We Fight" letter, and the American Pastors Guild.

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One Nation Under God Part 8: Pulpits, Sermons, and the Road to Independence | Under God Ep 342 Jul 29, 2026

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Colonial pulpits started the road to independence, not the battlefield.

In this episode, Pastor Nathan Brown walks through the colonial pulpits that shaped the American founding: the Black Robe Regiment preachers who taught Romans 13, the election sermons preached straight to governing assemblies, and a theology that treated liberty as a gift from God. Those colonial pulpits were the engine of the Revolution, not a footnote to it — what was preached in the colonial pulpits went straight into the Declaration of Independence. Perfect for the commute or the gym.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why silence is complicity, not neutrality

✅ What Romans 13 actually teaches about civil authority

✅ How the 1954 Johnson Amendment muzzled American pastors

✅ Four ways any Christian can recover the prophetic role

📖 Ezekiel 33:6-9, Acts 5:29, Romans 13:4, Isaiah 58:1, Amos 5:24

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America 250 Part 8: A Gift to the World: Case for American Exceptionalism | Under God Ep 341 Jul 27, 2026

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American exceptionalism isn't arrogance. It's a gift—and a debt.

In this episode of the Under God Podcast, Pastor Nathan Brown and Pastor Rob McCoy sit down with Texas State Rep. Nate Shatzline and ReAwaken USA founder James Owen to make the case for American exceptionalism—not flag-waving pride, but a blessing this nation received and is now called to steward. Pastor Rob McCoy describes what he believes the world looks like without America: oligarchies, tyranny, and humanity as the saddle the wealthy ride. Perfect for the commute, the gym, or the drive to work.

You'll Learn:

✅ Why "America is uniquely evil" and "all nations are equal" both collapse under scrutiny

✅ How the debate over Israel and the rise of Islam are testing American exceptionalism right now

✅ Why American exceptionalism dies the moment Christians stop participating

✅ What one honest conversation can still do

📖 Scripture: Luke 12:48, Romans 8:28, Genesis 12:3, Matthew 16:18

Resources mentioned: ReAwaken USA

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Mamdani Wants Netanyahu Arrested. Here's the Biblical Response | Under God Ep 340 Jul 24, 2026

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Tate brothers arrested. China accused of stealing 220 million voter files.

In this episode, Pastors Stephen Martin, Nathan Brown, and Daniel Hayworth walk through the week's biggest headlines and hand you a biblical framework for each one. The Tate brothers were arrested in Miami on a sex trafficking warrant, and the pastors dig into why that arrest matters far beyond the news cycle — because the Tate brothers built a brand of masculinity that millions of young men believed, and the church left the vacuum they filled. Perfect for the commute, the gym, or the drive.

You'll Learn:

✅ What separates biblical masculinity from the counterfeit the Tate brothers sold

✅ Why Trump's claim about China and 220 million voter files deserves your attention

✅ How the 10th Commandment establishes private property against socialism

✅ Why anger can be righteous and still lead you straight into sin

📖 Ephesians 4:26 · Proverbs 18:17 · Exodus 20:17 · Acts 5 · Genesis 4

Resources mentioned: Christian Constitutionalist shirt, available at the Under God Podcast website.

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