Right Response Podcast

In part one of a two-part podcast on church and state, the hosts argue from 2 Kings 23:5–9 and Reformed political thought that the civil magistrate has a duty to promote true religion and suppress public blasphemy and idolatry, while remaining limited to outward matters and not usurping preaching, sacraments, or church keys. Using categories of principle versus prudential application (genus/species), they cite Reformed Christian Politics and figures and confessions including Turretin, Calvin, the pre-1778 Westminster Confession, the Belgic Confession, and Steven Wolfe to show this duty is historically Reformed. They distinguish separation of church and state from separation of Christ and state, reject ecclesiocracy while affirming God above the state, and preview applying these ideas to America, noting radical measures as theoretically permissible but presently impractical.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Genesis Gold Group*Faith-Based Gold IRA: Genesis Gold Group helps Christians protect their retirement with physical precious metals aligned with scriptural stewardship principles.https://www.RightResponseBibleGold.com*Backwards Planning Financial*Want to build a financial legacy for your family with a plan that starts at the end goal? Connect with Joe Garrisi at https://backwardsplanningfinancial.com/ to get help with a legacy-driven strategy for your future.

The episode opens with Romans 9:1–5 and argues that Satan undermines the church through persecution, doctrinal compromise, and subtle tactics like disqualification and new “heresies.” The hosts recount Presbyterian denominational history leading to the PCA’s formation in 1973 and contrast it with the PCUSA’s decline after affirming women’s ordination and homosexual unions. They then discuss the PCA’s ad interim report on Christian nationalism, reading its pastoral letter and selected “affirmations and denials” on civic engagement, speech, antisemitism/race realism/kinism, ordered loves, ethnicity, and men and women. The hosts condemn the document as intentionally ambiguous, a straw man used to target figures like Joel Webbon, criticize its stance on women in civic leadership as contrary to Calvin and Knox, warn it could be used in ordination processes, urge leaving compromised denominations, and promote sponsors, donations, and an upcoming part two.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:**Genesis Gold Group*Faith-Based Gold IRA: Genesis Gold Group helps Christians protect their retirement with physical precious metals aligned with scriptural stewardship principles.https://www.RightResponseBibleGold.com*Backwards Planning Financial*Want to build a financial legacy for your family with a plan that starts at the end goal? Connect with Joe Garrisi at https://backwardsplanningfinancial.com/ to get help with a legacy-driven strategy for your future.

In this episode Wesley Todd, Pastor Joel, and Antonio discuss the difference between biblical piety and evangelical pietism, beginning with 1 Timothy 5:1–4 and Calvin’s definition of piety as reverence joined with love for God. The hosts trace pietism’s rise after the Thirty Years’ War and how it shifted over time into an increasingly private, introspective religion that can elevate inner feelings and spiritual concerns over concrete duties, church, sacraments, and vocation. They critique examples where “spiritual” reasoning is used to neglect responsibilities, such as protecting one’s family or honoring parents, and argue that virtues must be bounded by duty and by the obligations of one’s office (father, magistrate, pastor, citizen). They also warn against treating certain callings (missionary, monk-like “super Christian” paths) as universally superior, while urging Christians to pursue sanctification and bring piety into every vocation rather than abandoning it for ambition*MINISTRY SPONSORS:*Genesis Gold GroupFaith-Based Gold IRA: Genesis Gold Group helps Christians protect their retirement with physical precious metals aligned with scriptural stewardship principles.https://www.RightResponseBibleGold.comWho Is My Neighbor?Western Front Books. Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/Backwards Planning FinancialWant to build a financial legacy for your family with a plan that starts at the end goal? Connect with Joe Garrisi at https://backwardsplanningfinancial.nm.com/ to get help with a legacy-driven strategy for your future.

This episode argues against the common evangelical claim that “all sin is equal,” using Luke 12:47–48 to emphasize that greater knowledge of God’s will brings greater culpability and stricter judgment. The hosts discuss temporal judgments in Scripture (including Sodom and Gomorrah) and contend that eternal punishment also varies in severity based on both the nature of sins committed and the degree of revelation and grace received, citing Jesus’ woes to Tyre and Sidon and the principle “to whom much is given, much is required.” They distinguish between sin equally separating the unrepentant from God and differing degrees of punishment in hell, and they compare this to differing degrees of reward in heaven. They also connect these ideas to natural revelation, civil and biblical law, the heightened judgment of teachers and deceivers, and the continuing moral relevance of God’s law for Christian sanctification.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:*Genesis Gold GroupFaith-Based Gold IRA: Genesis Gold Group helps Christians protect their retirement with physical precious metals aligned with scriptural stewardship principles.https://www.RightResponseBibleGold.comWho Is My Neighbor?Western Front Books. Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/Backwards Planning FinancialWant to build a financial legacy for your family with a plan that starts at the end goal? Connect with Joe Garrisi at https://backwardsplanningfinancial.nm.com/ to get help with a legacy-driven strategy for your future.

This episode of the Right Response Ministries podcast discusses Christian hope in bleak times, contrasting postmillennial confidence in Christ’s victory with both “black pill” cynicism and naïve “hopium.” The hosts describe economic and geopolitical pressures—AI-driven job loss, inflation, war, and political disillusionment—and argue that real hope is grounded in faith, sober realism, and God’s promises rather than elections or short-term outcomes. Drawing from Hebrews 11, 1 Corinthians 15, Psalm 1, and Peter’s renewed hope after the resurrection, they emphasize enduring “winter” by focusing on what can be controlled: faithful church life, marriage, raising children, rejecting cynicism, building tangible work, and thinking generationally. Their key strategy is that the righteous often prevail by outlasting the wicked and being ready when God brings providential opportunities for change.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:*Genesis Gold GroupFaith-Based Gold IRA: Genesis Gold Group helps Christians protect their retirement with physical precious metals aligned with scriptural stewardship principles.https://www.RightResponseBibleGold.comBackwards Planning FinancialWant to build a financial legacy for your family with a plan that starts at the end goal? Connect with Joe Garrisi at https://backwardsplanningfinancial.nm.com/ to get help with a legacy-driven strategy for your future.Who Is My Neighbor?Western Front Books. Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/

The episode opens with Luke 16:1–13 and uses Jesus’ commendation of the shrewd steward to frame a discussion of biblical prudence—being wise as serpents while innocent as doves—without endorsing sin. Wesley Todd, Pastor Joel Webbon, and Antonio Griffith trace how marriage and divorce shifted from English common law (including coverture and limited divorce) to modern no-fault divorce, arguing that today’s family courts often incentivize unjust outcomes, especially for men, through custody, alimony, and asset division. They contend Christians face “gaps” where the state abandons righteous standards, requiring practical wisdom. Against this backdrop, they explore whether prenuptial agreements can be morally permissible if structured around biblically valid grounds for divorce (adultery and abandonment), potentially deterring frivolous divorce, discouraging predatory motives, and protecting multigenerational inheritance.*MINISTRY SPONSORS:*Genesis Gold GroupFaith-Based Gold IRA: Genesis Gold Group helps Christians protect their retirement with physical precious metals aligned with scriptural stewardship principles.https://www.RightResponseBibleGold.comWho Is My Neighbor?Western Front Books. Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/Backwards Planning FinancialWant to build a financial legacy for your family with a plan that starts at the end goal? Connect with Joe Garrisi at https://backwardsplanningfinancial.nm.com/ to get help with a legacy-driven strategy for your future.