Ideas Have Consequences

Is the Kingdom of God something we’re still waiting for, or is Jesus actually reigning as King right now? Not as the consummated King, before whom every knee will bow, but as the King who has authority over this world. Jesus is King and that fact should change the way Christians live, work, create, and engage in this world right here, right now.
This week, Zach Dasher, co-host of the Unashamed podcast and host of Not Yet Now, joins us to explore the central theme of Jesus’ teaching: the Kingdom of God.
We unpack the “already, not yet” Kingdom, the biblical theme of God’s presence from Eden to Christ, and what it means for Christians to live as the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. We also explore how Christ’s reign eliminates the sacred-secular divide and gives meaning to our work, creativity, culture, and everyday lives.
Finally, we wrestle with the dangers of pushing the Kingdom entirely into the future, or trying to fully realize it now, and ask what it really means to live today as though Jesus is King.

Who is the Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA)? Since 1997, DNA’s mission has been to equip followers of Jesus around the globe with a biblical worldview, empowering them to build flourishing families, communities, and nations. 👉 https://disciplenations.org/

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Zach Dasher is a Christian entrepreneur, media producer, and podcaster focused on faith, culture, and storytelling. He is a co-host and producer of Unashamed with the Robertson Family and host of the Not Yet Now podcast.
Zach is also a partner in EKKL Entertainment, a new faith-and-family media platform created alongside Pure Flix co-founder Michael Scott and Willie and Korie Robertson. His work spans podcasting, film, technology, and digital media, with a particular focus on building platforms and telling stories that shape culture.
He was deeply involved in developing The Blind, the feature film telling the story of Phil and Kay Robertson, and continues to work alongside the Robertson family across media and ministry projects.

📌 Recommended Resources:  
      👉Unashamed with the Robertson Family: Listen on Apple Podcasts
     👉Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher: Listen on Apple Podcasts
     👉 EKKL – Faith- and family-friendly streaming and media platform: EKKL.com
     👉The Blind – The true story of Phil and Kay Robertson: The Blind
     👉The Temple and the Church’s Mission – G. K. Beale: View the book
     👉Made to Live: The Good News of the Kingdom of God – Dwight Vogt: Made to Live
     👉The Book That Made Your World – Vishal Mangalwadi: View the book
     👉Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World – Tom Holland: View the book
     👉How Now Shall We Live? – Charles Colson & Nancy Pearcey: View the book

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Can a free society survive when its people lose the character required to sustain freedom? And what happens when a nation forgets the very ideas that made it free in the first place?
Economist and historian Lawrence W. Reed joins us to explore the ideas that shaped the United States, the worldview behind Marxism and socialism, and why personal character may be the most important defense of liberty.
Drawing from his book Born of Ideas, Reed traces the Christian convictions behind the American founding, from the Mayflower Compact to the Bill of Rights, and explores how the Protestant Reformation shaped ideas about God-given rights, limited government, and resistance to tyranny.
Reed also takes us behind the Iron Curtain, sharing his firsthand experience supporting Poland’s resistance movement during the Cold War and witnessing the realities of communism.
We close by examining Marxism and socialism as competing worldviews and asking what they get wrong about human nature, responsibility, envy, and freedom. Ultimately, Reed argues that liberty cannot survive without character, and rebuilding a free society starts with individuals, families, and churches. If we want to bless our nation, we need to disciple our nation.

Who is the Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA)? Since 1997, DNA’s mission has been to equip followers of Jesus around the globe with a biblical worldview, empowering them to build flourishing families, communities, and nations. 👉 https://disciplenations.org/

🎙️Featured Guest: 
Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 21 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.
A champion for liberty, Reed has authored nearly 2,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. He has visited 87 countries.

📌 Recommended Resources:  
     👉 Book: Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Forged America: Reed, Lawrence
     👉 Other Books: Books — Lawrence W. Reed   
     👉 Lawrence on Socialism: Was Jesus a Socialist? | PragerU 
     👉 Other Books: Books — Lawrence W. Reed   
     👉 Scott’s Book: 10 Words to Heal Our Broken World by Scott Allen 

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The abortion debate is ultimately a worldview debate: What is a human being? Where does human value come from? Who is God? What is freedom? And is morality objectively true, or something we construct for ourselves?
In this episode, Scott talks to Scott, and the second Scott is none other than esteemed pro-life apologist Scott Klusendorf, bestselling author of The Case for Life. Together, they unpack the competing worldviews behind abortion and explore why defending unborn life is an essential part of Christian discipleship and the Great Commission.
We explore how naturalism, postmodernism, and the biblical worldview lead to radically different conclusions about human dignity, truth, morality, choice, and the right to life. We also discuss the state of the pro-life movement after Roe v. Wade, the debate between incrementalism and abortion abolitionism, the role of the Church, and how Christians can make a clear and persuasive case for life in our current cultural moment.

Who is the Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA)? Since 1997, DNA’s mission has been to equip followers of Jesus around the globe with a biblical worldview, empowering them to build flourishing families, communities, and nations. 👉 https://disciplenations.org/

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Scott Klusendorf travels throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views in the public square. He contends that the pro-life message can compete in the marketplace of ideas if properly understood and properly articulated.
Scott has debated or lectured to student groups at over 80 colleges and universities, including Stanford, USC, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Loyola Marymount Law School, West Virginia Medical School, MIT, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cal-Tech, UC Berkeley, and University of North Carolina.
Scott is a graduate of UCLA and holds a Master’s degree in Christian Apologetics from Biola University.

📌 Recommended Resources:  
     👉 Book: The Case for Life
     👉 YouTube: Scott Klusendorf - YouTube 
     👉 Pro-life training: Untitled | Training Others to Save Lives 
     👉 Website: Home - Scott Klusendorf 

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Who will disciple whom? How can we raise our children to be culture shapers, not conformers?
Who is discipling the next generation? Because someone is. And right now, smartphones, social media, and secular culture are shaping our kids for hours every day. How do we raise young Christians who will influence the world toward God’s truth, goodness, and beauty, who will disciple the world rather than simply be discipled by it?
Brett Kunkle, co-founder and president of MAVEN, joins us to talk about raising the next generation with a strong biblical worldview, young Christians who actually know what they believe and live it out.
We talk about Christian parenting, technology and social media, apologetics, why young people are leaving the church, and why discipleship can’t stop at a private faith. If Christianity is true, it should shape the way we think about every area of life and culture.
How do we prepare the next generation not just to survive a secular culture, but to faithfully influence it?

Who is the Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA)? Since 1997, DNA’s mission has been to equip followers of Jesus around the globe with a biblical worldview, empowering them to build flourishing families, communities, and nations. 👉 https://disciplenations.org/

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Brett Kunkle is the co-founder and president of MAVEN, a movement equipping the next generation to know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty. With more than 30 years of ministry experience, Brett equips students, parents, and leaders to develop a thoughtful, confident, and biblically grounded faith. 
A nationally recognized speaker on apologetics, worldview, culture, and evangelism, Brett previously served at Stand to Reason, where he founded the Reality Apologetics Conference. He is also the co-author of A Practical Guide to Culture and A Student’s Guide to Culture and serves as a Teaching Fellow at Impact 360 Institute.
Brett holds an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Talbot School of Theology. He and his wife, Erin, have five children and live in Southern California.

📌 Recommended Resources:  
     👉 Website: About Us – Maven 
     👉 YouTube: MAVEN's Vision -- Why We Do What We Do   
     👉 Book: A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World

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Episode Summary:
The Sexual Revolution didn’t just loosen society’s rules around sex. It fundamentally changed what our culture believes sex is for, what marriage and gender mean, and what children are owed.
This week, we sit down with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute, economist, and author of The Sexual State, to trace the ideas that brought us to where we are today.
Dr. Morse expertly walks us through three interconnected ideologies at the heart of the Sexual Revolution: contraception ideology, which separates sex from children; divorce ideology, which separates children from the lifelong union of their parents; and gender ideology, which separates personal identity from their biological sex.
But this conversation isn't only about what went wrong. We discuss the often-overlooked human cost of these ideas, especially for children, and why Christians need to offer something better than opposition. What is the better story of sex, marriage, family, and the human body? And how can the Church obey its God-given mandate and build a culture marked by truth, goodness, beauty, and love?

Who is the Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA)? Since 1997, DNA’s mission has been to equip followers of Jesus around the globe with a biblical worldview, empowering them to build flourishing families, communities, and nations. 👉 https://disciplenations.org/

🎙️Featured Guest: 
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder of the Ruth Institute, an international coalition dedicated to defending the family and addressing the harms of the Sexual Revolution. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and taught economics at Yale and George Mason Universities for 15 years.
Dr. Morse has authored or co-authored six books and spoken around the world on marriage, family, and sexual ethics. Her latest book, The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along, examines the ideologies behind the Sexual Revolution and their impact on individuals, families, and society.

📌 Recommended Resources:  
     👉  Book: The Sexual State: https://ruthinstitute.org/product/the-sexual-state-2/
     👉 The Ruth Institute: Home - Our Values Are Under Attack – Ruth Institute 
     👉  Podcast: Dr J Show Archives – Ruth Institute 
     👉  Recommended Episode: The Same Idea Fueled the Holocaust and the Sexual Revolution
     👉  Recommended Episode: Is It Important That We Overturn Same-Sex Marriage? | Katy Faust
     👉 Book: Love and Economics - It Takes a Family to Raise a Village – Ruth Institute 
     👉 Greater Than Movement: Join the Movement to Protect Kids | Greater Than Campaign 

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