No Bystanders

Run Your Race

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/fan_mail/new] This week's Moment of Truth: Hebrews 12:1 (NIV) — "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." The world did not want Jesus. It will not want you either. Not at work, not in your children's education, not at the voting booth. So, what are you going to do about it? Real faith takes courage. Not just believing the Truth — living it, even when it costs you. On Father's Day, a golfer named Wyndham Clark was heckled relentlessly by a hostile crowd at the US Open. He didn't change how he played. He stayed focused, shot by shot, and won the tournament wire to wire. Success didn't silence the fools. It never does. You serve Jesus, not the mob. Their right to be them does not give them the right to define you. Your task is to follow Christ — one interaction, one day, one decision at a time. Not theirs. Not the crowd's. Yours. When the devil whispers that you are not enough, treat him like a badly behaved spectator. Ignore him and keep running. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/support] Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ [https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/] or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today [https://courageouschristianity.today/] for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

No Bystanders

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/fan_mail/new] This week's Moment of Truth: Romans 12:9 (NIV) — "Abhor what is evil. Hold fast to what is good." On June 6, 1944, an estimated 160,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy. There were no bystanders. Everyone on this planet had a vested interest in the outcome. The fate of humanity hung in the balance. The same is true today. You cannot appease evil. Neville Chamberlain tried it with Hitler for three years while the world turned a blind eye — and 6 million of God's chosen people paid the price. Burying your head in the sand is not an option when evil is stealing the future of your children, corrupting your culture, and silencing your church. Here is what you also need to know: evil is always worse than you think it is. What you see is only a shadow of the darkness that pervades this world. And as we stay silent, it gets darker still. There are no bystanders in the clash between good and evil. Not in 1944. Not now. You have a unique place to serve on this spiritual battlefield. The only question is whether you will show up. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/support] Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ [https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/] or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today [https://courageouschristianity.today/] for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

Rock or Sand

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/fan_mail/new] This week's Moment of Truth: Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV) — "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." The rain will fall. The floods will come. The winds will blow. That is not a maybe — that is a promise. The only question is what your house is built on. If your hope is in politics, you are placing it in men. Men who were wrong yesterday and will be wrong again tomorrow. Men whose schemes created the problems they now promise to fix. But if your hope is in God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the unchanging truth of the Bible — then politics becomes what it was always meant to be: a necessary human undertaking, not the foundation of your life. Politics is downstream of culture. Culture is downstream of faith. And biblical faith — rooted in the unchanging truth of God's word — is the foundation on which everything else must be built. So what is yours built on? Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/support] Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ [https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/] or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today [https://courageouschristianity.today/] for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

Stand with Israel

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/fan_mail/new] This week's Moment of Truth: Mark 3:25 (NIV) — "If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand." On October 7, 2023, 1,200 men, women, and children were murdered, raped, and burned. And the world blamed Israel. That is not politics. That is not opinion. That is the work of a godless world that has targeted God's chosen people since the beginning — and it is happening on college campuses, in our legislatures, and on the streets of this nation right now. Jews have been attacked since day one because God declared them His chosen people. And as a Christian man, you have been adopted into that same family. So where do you stand — with the Father and His family, or with a world that hates them both? Antisemitism is an abomination. It is taught by idiots to fools. And it is up to Christian men who honor God to stand against it — with intention, with resolve, and without apology. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/support] Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ [https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/] or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today [https://courageouschristianity.today/] for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

Divided, We Fall

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/fan_mail/new] This week's Moment of Truth: Colossians 4:2 (NIV) — "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful."  Be watchful. The devil prowls like a roaring lion — and division within the family of God is exactly what he is hunting for.  The Jews are God's chosen people. Salvation came through them. Genesis 12:3 has not been replaced. God is not a liar.  Rabbi Elie Wiesel said the opposite of love is not hate — it is indifference. This week, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) confronts anti-Semitism head on — and challenges every Christian man to examine where he actually stands with the family of God.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512697/support] Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ [https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/] or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today [https://courageouschristianity.today/] for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)