#368 - Kyle Thompson // Dot dot dot. Dash dash dash. Dot dot dot.

A Navy pilot sits in front of an enemy camera, bruised, exhausted, and forced into a propaganda film. Instead of playing along, he stares straight into the lens and blinks a message in Morse code: “SOS” and “TORTURE.” That’s James Stockdale, an...

#367 - Kyle Thompson // If You Can't Walk, Crawl

A grizzly bear, a shredded back, a broken leg, and two men who steal the little he has left. Hugh Glass should have died in the Dakota wilderness in 1823, but he doesn’t. He crawls. For six weeks. Nearly 200 miles. That story isn’t here to hype...

#366 - Kyle Thompson // Between a Rock and a Hard Place

One wrong step can turn a normal morning into a fight to survive. We start with the true-to-life, gut-level story of Aaron Rawson, alone in a slot canyon in southeastern Utah when an 800-pound boulder pins his arm and leaves him with no plan, l...

#365 - Kyle Thompson // Captured by the Enemy in Shark-Infested Waters

Sharks in the water, no drinking water in the raft, and no land for a thousand miles. We start with the true story of Louis Zamparini, shot down in World War II, drifting for weeks in the Pacific, then captured and brutalized in Japanese prison...

#364 - Kyle Thompson // The Ice Should Have Claimed Them

A ruptured tendon can do more than wreck your training plan. It can expose the parts of you that only feel steady when life is easy. We start from that raw place and talk honestly about resilience when recovery is slow, pain is loud, and the fu...

#363 - Joby Martin // Pathways That Lead To Life

#362 - Joby Martin // Real Prosperity Starts When You Abide In Christ

Prosperity is a loaded word, and Psalm 1 doesn’t let us keep shallow definitions. We slow down on the image of a man who becomes like a tree planted by streams of water, steady through heat, fruitful in season, and unwithered over time. That pi...

#361 - Joby Martin // Delight In The Word

Psalm 1 doesn’t just call us to avoid bad influences, it calls us to build a life that’s actually rooted. We dig into the sharp contrast between the man who is blessed and the life that turns into chaff, and we slow down on the word that change...

#360 - Joby Martin // Cutting Out Bad Influence

The scariest kind of drift is the kind you get used to. Psalm 1 doesn’t just warn us about “bad people” it exposes a pattern: we start by walking near harmful influence, then we stand in it long enough to adopt it, and eventually we sit down an...

#359 - Joby Martin // Pray Scripture Over Your Kids

#358 - Jay Risner // When Being The Good Kid Makes You Miserable

A party is happening, the lost son is home, and one person refuses to come inside. We dig into the older brother’s anger in Luke 15 and uncover a form of spiritual danger that looks “good” on the outside but is hollow on the inside: resentment....

#357 - Jay Risner // The Prodigal Son Explained

A son blows up his family, burns through his future, and ends up feeding pigs and that’s only the opening scene. Jay Reisner (lead pastor at Faith Bible Church) fills in on The Daily Blade and takes us line by line through Luke 15:11–32 to show...

#356 - Jay Risner // Rejoicing When The Lost Come Home

A son looks his father in the eye and basically says, “I want your stuff, not you.” That’s the gut-punch at the center of Luke 15’s third parable, and it’s why this story cuts deeper than a lost sheep or a misplaced coin. I’m Jay Reisner, filli...

#355 - Jay Risner // Lost And Found

Grumbling religious leaders. A table full of sinners. And Jesus telling stories that land like a mirror. We step into Luke 15 with guest teacher Jay Reisner, lead pastor of Faith Bible Church, to explore why Jesus responds to criticism with par...

#354 - Jay Risner // Jesus Eats With Sinners

The tension that sparks Luke 15 isn’t a theological debate, it’s a meal. Some of the most rejected people in society draw near to Jesus to listen, and the religious leaders can’t stand what they see: He receives sinners and eats with them. That...

#353 - Kyle Thompson // Intercession for the Transgressors

Isaiah 53 ends in a place most people don’t expect. After describing a servant who is crushed, rejected, silent before his accusers, and killed for crimes he did not commit, the text suddenly turns and says he will “see his offspring” and “prol...

#352 - Kyle Thompson // Silence before Slaughter

Silence usually reads like surrender, especially when you’re being accused in public. We open Isaiah 53:7-9 and wrestle with a detail that still feels upside down: the suffering servant is oppressed, afflicted, and yet refuses to defend himself...

#351 - Kyle Thompson // Crushed for Our Iniquities

Isaiah 53:4–6 is one of those passages that leaves no room for vague faith. We slow down and read the words carefully: grief carried, sorrow borne, transgressions pierced, iniquities crushed, peace purchased, healing given. Then we ask the unco...

#350 - Kyle Thompson // The King No One Expected

A conquering king with an army feels like the obvious answer but Isaiah 53 says the Savior won’t look like that at all. We open the chapter and let it collide with our instincts: the servant grows like a young plant out of dry ground, with no o...

#349 - Kyle Thompson // The Long Shadow Before the Cross

We’re wired to look for a certain kind of savior: big presence, obvious strength, and a win everyone can see. Isaiah 53 starts by tearing that picture down. The servant doesn’t arrive like a towering tree or a conquering king. He comes up like ...

#348 - Joby Martin // Only The Cross

Billy Graham sat at a dinner table in his 90s and got asked a simple question: if you could preach one more time to one more packed stadium, what would you preach? His answer was instant and surprisingly narrow. Not a trend, not a headline, not...

#347 - Joby Martin // Why Grace Alone Beats Religious Checklists

Religious effort can look holy while hiding a deeper fear: What if I have not done enough for God to accept me? We go straight at that question with Paul’s closing words in Galatians: neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything,...

#346 - Joby Martin // Only The Cross

Billy Graham had every reason to talk about his résumé. Instead, when we asked what he’d preach if he could fill one more stadium, he didn’t hesitate: Galatians 6:14. That moment has stayed with us because it cuts through the noise of modern Ch...

#345 - Joby Martin // Grace Over Religion

A polished religious life can hide a deeper problem: fear. In day two of The Daily Blade, we open Galatians 6:12 and let Paul expose what happens when people trade the freedom of the gospel for the pressure of performance. The Judaizers demand ...

#344 - Joby Martin // Why You Can Trust The Bible As Real History

Paul closes Galatians with a line that feels almost too ordinary to matter: “See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.” We slow down and sit with that detail, because it points to something many people miss when they dis...