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Crusade with Me

Crusade With Me! is a journey into the questions we"re usually told not to ask.Who is God—beyond the explanations we inherited? What is a human being? Why are we here? What happens when faith collides with doubt, suffering, desire, love, sex, consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the strange mystery of simply being alive?Here, Christianity isn"t something fragile that needs to be protected from difficult questions. We dig into Scripture, the wisdom of the ancient Church, philosophy, history, human

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34:12

If You Trust God Why Are You Prepping?

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2026/10/06

If you really trust God to provide, why are there cans of food, stored water, and emergency supplies stacked in your house?Is preparing for hard times an act of wisdom—or an admission that we don’t actually trust God?In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we wrestle with the uncomfortable line between faith and fear, trust and responsibility, preparedness and obsession.Scripture tells us not to worry about tomorrow. Jesus tells us to trust our Father for our daily bread. But the Bible also gives us

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE BREATH GOD GAVE YOU?

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2026/10/02

What if the breath in your lungs isn’t really yours?In Genesis, God forms Adam from the dust—but Adam doesn’t become a living being until God breathes into him the breath of life.And then God gives him something to do.That raises a question we rarely stop long enough to ask:If God gave you life… what did He give it to you for?In Episode 188 of Crusade With Me!, we follow the breath of God through Scripture—from the creation of Adam to the valley of dry bones, to Jesus breathing on His disciples, to

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Have We Forgotten How To Die?

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2026/09/29

Death is the one appointment none of us will miss. So why have we become so afraid to talk about it?In Episode 187 of Crusade With Me!, Dave and Kat step into one of the most difficult—and strangely beautiful—parts of being human: death.This isn't a conversation from a safe distance.Dave was in the room when his mother died and arrived moments after his father's death, becoming the one who gently closed his father's eyes. Kat was driving her father to the hospital when he died. She pulled him from

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45:58

Would You Still Choose Me?

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2026/09/25

Episode 186 — Would You Still Choose Me?After forty years of marriage, there’s one question you probably shouldn’t ask unless you’re prepared for the answer.So naturally, I asked Kat.“Would you still choose me?”Her answer?“No.”And that's where this episode begins.Forty years ago, two very young people stood in front of God and promised themselves to one another. Those two people don't exist anymore. Life changed them. Children changed them. Success and failure changed them. Age, sex, faith,

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17:29

What If the Person You Love Isn't the Person You...

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2026/09/22

Episode 185 — What If the Person You Love Isn’t the Person You Married?The person you married is going to disappear. And so are you.That sounds terrifying—until you realize it may be exactly what marriage was supposed to be.This Sunday, Kat and I celebrate 40 years of marriage. And after four decades together, I can say with certainty that I'm not married to the same woman I married in 1986. She's changed.So, have I.Children change us. Success and failure change us. Death changes us. Our bodies

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38:31

What IF The Worst Thing That Happened To You......

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2026/09/18

Episode 184 — What If the Worst Thing That Happened to You… Wasn’t the Worst Thing?What if the thing you’re begging God to change today is something you’ll understand completely differently five years from now?We’ve all had moments that felt like disasters. A door slammed shut. A relationship changed. A plan fell apart. Something happened that left us wondering what the hell God was doing.But time has a strange way of changing what we can see.In Episode 184 of Crusade With Me!, Dave explores

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38:33

Why Do People Hurt You... Then Pretend Nothing Happened?

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2026/09/15

Have you ever had someone treat you like absolute crap, disappear for a few days… and then come back acting like nothing ever happened?No apology. No acknowledgment. No accountability.Just, “Hey, how’s it going?”And you’re standing there thinking: Are we seriously going to pretend that didn’t happen?In Episode 183 of Crusade With Me!, Dave and Kat wrestle with what may really be happening when people refuse to acknowledge the hurt they’ve caused.What if they’re not just trying to fool you?What if

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46:33

Why Are We Still Hiding?

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2026/09/11

What is the one thing about yourself you hope nobody ever discovers?We want to be known. We want to be understood. We want to be loved for who we really are—and then we spend enormous amounts of energy making sure nobody ever sees the whole person. We hide behind careers, success, toughness, religion, sexuality, reputation, and carefully constructed versions of ourselves.In Episode 182 of Crusade With Me!, Dave follows a question that began with Adam and Eve: Why are we still hiding?From the fig

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69:38

Crusade After Dark: Naked And Not Ashamed

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2026/09/08

What happens when you take away everything we normally use to hide?For their anniversary, Dave and Kat did something completely outside their normal world: they spent their Arizona trip at a clothing-optional resort.They expected awkwardness. They expected vulnerability. They definitely expected a story.What they didn’t expect was what the experience would reveal about shame, judgment, aging, body image, intimacy, marriage—and the masks we wear every day.In this special Crusade After Dark, Dave and

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41:05

Did God Actually Put Limits on Sex?

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2026/09/04

Christians have been given plenty of rules about sex.But which of those rules actually came from God—and which came from culture, tradition, fear, or our interpretation of Scripture?In Episode 180 of Crusade With Me!, we ask a question that may make some people uncomfortable: Did God actually put limits on sex?We dig into what the Bible really says, including the often-used Greek word porneia, and wrestle with the difference between sexual desire, sexual immorality, wisdom, commitment, harm, and

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Is Desire Something to Control Or Something To...

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2026/09/01

We’ve been taught that strong desires can be dangerous—that maturity means controlling them, resisting them, or sometimes pretending they aren’t there.But what if desire itself isn’t the enemy?In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore where desire comes from, what it may be trying to tell us, and the difference between suppression, indulgence, and formation.Maybe self-control doesn’t mean killing the fire inside us. Maybe it means understanding that fire well enough to direct it toward

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Why Did God Make Sex Feel So Good?

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2026/08/28

Episode 178 — Why Did God Make Sex Feel So Good?If sex were only about reproduction, why did God make it pleasurable?Why did He create desire, attraction, intimacy, and bodies capable of experiencing such powerful pleasure?For centuries, Christians have sometimes talked about sexuality primarily in terms of temptation, rules, and restraint. But what happens when we begin with a different question:Why did God design it this way in the first place?In Episode 178 of Crusade With Me, Dave and Kat step

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36:04

Where Does The Fire Inside You Come From?

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2026/08/25

What is that fire inside you?The drive to build. The urge to create. The desire to achieve. The anger that demands action. The attraction that pulls you toward another person. The sexual energy that can feel almost impossible to ignore.Where does it all come from—and what is it for?In Episode 177 of Crusade With Me, we explore the powerful energies woven into human life: ambition, creativity, anger, attraction, desire, and eros. Are these forces something we should fear and suppress? Something we

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50:16

What Kind of God Would You Create?

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2026/08/21

If you could create God, what would He be like?Would He agree with your politics? Approve of your choices? Dislike the same people you dislike? Would He ever look at something you deeply believe and tell you, “You’re wrong”?For thousands of years, human beings have tried to understand the divine—from Zeus and Odin to the gods and philosophies of the ancient world. But maybe we never stopped creating gods. We simply gave them new names: money, success, politics, pleasure, identity…and ourselves.In

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Who Gets To Define God? Spiritual Not Religious

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2026/08/18

What does it really mean when someone says, “I’m spiritual, but not religious”?In Episode 175 of Crusade With Me, Dave and Kat explore one of the fastest-growing ways people describe their relationship with faith—and ask whether spirituality without something outside ourselves to define truth can eventually become a spirituality of our own making.This isn't an argument for religious labels or institutions. It's a conversation about truth, authority, community, surrender, and the difference between

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39:22

What If I'm Wrong?

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2026/08/14

What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the truth… is you?We all like to believe we're open-minded. But once a belief becomes part of our identity, changing our mind can feel like losing part of ourselves. Our brains defend what we already believe. Our tribes reward agreement. And sometimes questioning the accepted story can cost us relationships, reputation, or belonging.So what happens when the evidence points somewhere we don't want to go?In Episode 174 of Crusade With Me, we

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69:41

Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It?

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2026/08/11

Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It?If everyone believed something false, would that make it true? And if nobody believed something true, would it suddenly become false?In Episode 173, Dave and Kat wrestle with the difference between belief and Truth—and the uncomfortable possibility that reality doesn't need our agreement.Are good and evil real? Does reality have an order? Why are we so good at seeing other people's deception while missing our own?And perhaps the hardest question of all:Do

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80:57

Reality Always Sends The Bill

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2026/08/06

Episode 172 – Reality Always Sends the BillEvery choice has a consequence—even the ones we think no one will ever see.In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore one of life's simplest and most challenging truths: reality always keeps the score. Our habits, relationships, character, and faith are all shaped by the small decisions we make every day.Why do some choices lead to peace while others lead to regret? What if God's commands aren't arbitrary rules, but the way reality itself was designed

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46:36

The Freedom of Accountability

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2026/08/04

What if accountability isn't punishment...What if it's freedom?This week, Dave and Kathy returned home from a week at the Jasper County Fair expecting to remember horses, ribbons, and competition. Instead, they found themselves watching something far more revealing—human nature.Children accepted responsibility with remarkable humility. Adults often searched for someone else to blame.Why is it so difficult to simply say, "I was wrong?"In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore why accountability

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16:04

The Conclusion To The Matter

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2026/07/30

For six episodes we've been asking difficult questions.Why do we feel like there has to be more than this?Why can't we sit still?Why has wonder faded?Why are we more connected than ever, yet increasingly alone?Why won't our minds ever stop talking?What did ancient wisdom know that we've forgotten?Now we arrive where King Solomon finally arrived after chasing pleasure, success, wealth, wisdom, work, and every earthly pursuit imaginable."The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is this: fear

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