Reformed Operator
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThere's a war for your soul. The Gospel's offensive, and so are we. Bold, Zealous, Christian Men who aren't afraid to act like men. Biblical Husbands and Fathers. Reformed Operators. Lights on- it's time to get salty. Be. Don't Seem. Memento Mori.
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The Sluggard and the Ronin: Gifting, Excuses, and Mastery
July 08, 2022 22:21 - 1 hour - 158 MBThe Sluggard and the Ronin will not achieve mastery. Not in any meaningful sense of the word. Hard work under authority beats talent. Men are built to pursue mastery and competence. Yet for some reason many hide from responsibility/authority The Independent Fundamentalist Baptists (IFB)/Home Church/Militia guys all share the same problem. A disdain for outsiders and the magical ability to hate everyone outside of their very narrow tribe. We open with "If" followed by Eccl 11:4-6 a...
Hasta La Vista Roe: Cause for Celebration
June 26, 2022 04:23 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBSome thoughts on the momentous overturn of Roe V Wade. Some interaction with AOC's horrible floor speech. There are next steps, but this is also a time to humbly celebrate. What happened, what's next, what can you do? Memento Mori
(A-R:2) The Death of the Author: Pravda, Worship, and Warfare
May 05, 2022 16:09 - 1 hour - 134 MBAnti-Revolution Part II: The Death of the Author This episode was recorded two months ago. Now, it's here. Another discussion about 4th Generation Warfare: how it's played out in the past and how it's playing out now through information warfare (note that this episode was recorded prior to recent events over the last week). The Death of the Author is a postmodern critical perspective that removes all authorial intent, and turns books to just strings of words. The author ceases to be mea...
Anti-Revolution Pt 1: Infidel Jacobin Theories, Patriarchy in WLC, Natural Theology
February 21, 2022 22:10 - 1 hour - 161 MBAnti-Revolution Pt I: Infidel Jacobin Theories, Patriarchy in the WLC, Theological Supremacy Two things under full frontal assault by Jacobin Theories (besides the obvious death, burial, and resurrection of Christ) the Lord’s Day and Marriage Critical note for critical theory, critical theorists always try to pit terms against one another, as in White Christian or White Evangelicals in order to make it easier to create an emotional response in the listener or reader. This is the ...
Detonating the Nuclear Family
January 25, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 160 MBThe revolution wants to detonate the Nuclear Family. The fallout will be horrendous for decades to come. The Key Topics we discuss Family: Detonation of the Family by the revolution Freemasonry: What is it and should a Christian be one? Francis Turretin: Introduction to Volume 1 of the Institutes of Elenctic Theology (one of the best theology books you can get that you've never heard of) We discuss the most important theologian of the 19th century. The Word of the day is ...
Theodore Roosevelt and Citizenship
January 21, 2022 00:57 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBCitizenship in a Republic, the greatest speech you've never read. You might be familiar with "It’s not the critic who counts." We live in a world of critical theory, sophistry, and vain cynicism. We tend to forget that we have true duties to perform. Duties as citizens of a government on this earth that as Christians we are required to obey. As long as that government justly upholds and enforces good and destroys and punishes evil. If they don’t we are to obey God rather than men as Pe...
Husbands and Wives as Superiors and Inferiors
January 08, 2022 23:31 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBBishop James Ussher wrote "A Body of Divinity" in 1645, you may remember Ussher as the guy who calculated the approximate day of creation according to some incredible mathematical precision. Read this material over at The Daily Genevan
Jolly Work and Juking Jabs
January 07, 2022 01:03 - 1 hour - 138 MBLet it be known, PBR had a creaky chair. They don’t make chairs like they used to anymore. //Jolly Work 00:00-45:00 Stop working for the weekend Book Recommendations: The Masculine Mandate Richard D. Phillips The Works of William Perkins Volume 10 Section on Vocation //Juking Jabs 45:00-70:00 Can/should I take the jab? Is it right to require it for work? What are some arguments against the jab? Are the mandates wrong? //Listener Questions 70:00-END ...
Killing Time
November 15, 2021 22:55 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBQuit killing time. A Narration and commentary of the Essay "Killing Time" with some practical tips. For more check out Reformedoperator.com A link to the Ghosts, Death, and Dust Essay.
The Death of Heroism
October 27, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBDeconstruction is death. Whatever happened to heroes? Should I have dark humor? Is it wrong to desire greatness for you? Why have heroes? Should we have them? There are many different types of heroes, but how should we live? Is there a way to view heroes? Watch The Four Feathers
Live Not By Lies
October 07, 2021 06:09 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBYou can find the full Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn essay here, and we hope you get to know and apply it well. When all seems lost, we can remain committed to live not by lies. We know Jesus Christ, and therefore we know the Truth. Solzhenitsyn was illegally raised a Christian, became a devout atheist marxist, and joined the Red Army, only to repent of his previous life and turn to Christ in a Gulag. He became a thorn in the side to Soviet Russia, and was exiled to the West. He wrote this es...
The Gay Science and How to Fight Demoralization
September 21, 2021 04:26 - 1 hour - 122 MBWhat do you do in light of darkness? When the fear of the world strikes, what will you do? Friedrich Nietzsche, the delusional nihilist wrote a book called “The Gay Science” This episode is going to show some of the darkness of our current “situational ethics” driven science. Relative morality brings cultural decay When relative morality goes off the rails, we face demoralization. Discouragement, despair. Cultural Demoralization Starts HERE ...
Rhodesia to South Africa: When the Brushfire Comes to Town
July 22, 2021 01:09 - 1 hour - 147 MBThe world is always one spark away from a brushfire. In this episode of Reformed Operator: John, host of “Fighting Men of Rhodesia” comes on the show to talk brushfire wars, the chaos of Rhodesia and the lessons learned. John's reflections on the influence of communism/socialism/marxism on Rhodesia and South Africa become all the more relevant in light of current events. Please pray for John and others in South Africa right now. Check out John’s "Fighting Men of Rhod...
IGM or: Peace in Our Time
May 31, 2021 15:18 - 1 hour - 103 MBIGM. I got mine. You did your work, now it's someone else's problem. The retirement mentality. The Ronin mentality. The Neville Chamberlain mentality of Peace for our time. What's wrong with the retirement mentality? Check out Don't Waste Your Life Dave and Kyle briefly discuss Memorial Day with a brief award citation and the manful reminder of why we say memento mori at the end of the episode. We pray this episode is of great help on this day, while we remember the price...
Churchmen: Death to Comfort
May 19, 2021 15:03 - 1 hour - 104 MBThe bribery of comfort. Taking a bribe distorts your judgment. Worldly comfort distorts your judgment. Worldly comfort is a bribe to churchmen. Death to Comfort. The left is destroying much of what is good. Are you afraid of the faces of men? Do you fear man or God? A slippery serpent sneaks his whispers in. Prowling about like a roaring lion, constantly whispering “did God really say?” Be brilliant at the basics. Learn to resist the things that make you soft. Our...
Masculine Christianity (with Zach Garris)
May 04, 2021 04:38 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBThis time we have another guest on the show. Zach Garris, Author of “Masculine Christianity” and Editor of “Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government” joins us to talk patriarchy, feminism, and the influence intersectionality, feminism, and intersectional feminism has had in the culture from the days of the early "women's movement" of the 1800s. Its creep into the interpretation of text and general softness growing in the broader evangelical church, e...
A Narrow Path for Hard Men (with Eric Conn)
April 08, 2021 04:19 - 1 hour - 106 MBEric Conn of Wilderness Warrior and The Hard Men Podcast Joins us to talk about Hard Men, softness, comfort, and the difficult dance of being a man in an effeminate soft world. You need to find fellow believers and form a group of solid men you can trust. Sharpen one another. Don't sit around doing tea parties. Yes, cigar and poker nights fall into that category. Go out and do difficult things together. Sweat and bleed together. Preach the gospel together. Stand outside an abortion mill t...
Christian Manhood and the Difference Between Folly and Funny (with Michael Foster)
March 22, 2021 21:35 - 1 hour - 102 MBDave (our host) has special guest Pastor (and fellow Presbyterian) Michael Foster from “It’s Good to Be a Man” on the show to talk about men, gravitas, levity, LARPing Manhood, and whether or not you should make fun of the President. Are you a clown who always angles for jokes and sees jokes as the "whole enchilada" rather than merely a sauce? Are you a self serious man who is unable to laugh or take a joke? Do you joke about the flesh too much? Do you mock authority? If you answered y...
Westminster Standards Day 31: WCF 33, WLC 191-196, WSC 105-107
February 01, 2021 04:59 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 31 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 30: WCF 32, WLC 185-190, WSC 102-104
January 29, 2021 21:26 - 7 minutes - 8.14 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 30 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 29: WCF 31, WLC 179-184, WSC 99-101
January 29, 2021 04:35 - 7 minutes - 8.68 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 29 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 28: WCF 30, WLC 172-178, WSC 96-98
January 28, 2021 04:16 - 10 minutes - 11.5 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 28 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 27: WCF 29, WLC 166-171, WSC 93-95
January 27, 2021 03:12 - 13 minutes - 15.7 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 27 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 26: WCF 28, WLC 160-165, WSC 90-92
January 26, 2021 05:21 - 8 minutes - 9.22 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 26 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 25: WCF 27, WLC 154-159, WSC 87-90
January 25, 2021 04:52 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 25 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 24: WCF 26, WLC 148-153, WSC 84-86
January 24, 2021 01:05 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 24 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 23: WCF 25, WLC 142-147, WSC 81-83
January 23, 2021 01:18 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 23 Found on our website
Family Worship: Build and Fight by Faith
January 22, 2021 07:29 - 1 hour - 146 MBDave (our host) bring Pastor Ben, aka PBR back on as a guest for another assault on your comfort. //RO Book Recommendation: 00:00-27:43 J.C. Ryle’s "Thoughts for Young Men" Free HERE on Monergism Men struggle with purpose and Ryle addresses this well. He reminds us tomorrow is the devil’s day. 1 Tim 3 Manhood comes at you fast. You will be woefully humbled. Do you have an aim? What are you doing in the places you occupy? PBR commends the “Fabric of...
Westminster Standards Day 22: WCF 24, WLC 136-141, WSC 78-80
January 22, 2021 03:25 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 22 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 21: WCF 23, WLC 130-135, WSC 75-77
January 21, 2021 05:30 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 21 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 20: WCF 22, WLC 124-129, WSC 72-74
January 20, 2021 06:10 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 20 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 19: WCF 21, WLC 118-123, WSC 69-71
January 19, 2021 05:18 - 11 minutes - 15.9 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 19 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 18: WCF 20, WLC 112-117, WSC 66-68
January 18, 2021 04:23 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 18 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 17: WCF 19, WLC 106-111, WSC 63-65
January 17, 2021 05:31 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 17 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 16: WCF 18, WLC 101-105, WSC 60-62
January 16, 2021 04:49 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 16 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 15: WCF 17, WLC 95-100, WSC 57-59
January 15, 2021 07:50 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 15 Found on our website
WESTMINSTER STANDARDS DAY 14: WCF 16, WLC 89-94, WSC 53-56
January 14, 2021 04:13 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 14 Found on our website
ESSAY: Ghosts, Death, Dust, and the New Year
January 13, 2021 05:28 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBThis is a reading of the essay "Ghosts, Death, Dust, and the New Year." This essay aims at providing an argument for the practice of living properly oriented through past, present, and future in light of Christ and His finished work on the Cross. A reminder of where man came from and the future resurrection. Dust is everywhere and death is coming no matter what, may matter remind you of what really matters. You can read the essay on our website.
WESTMINSTER STANDARDS DAY 13: WCF 15WLC 83-88, WSC 49-52
January 13, 2021 04:52 - 8 minutes - 12 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 13 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 12: WCF 14 WLC 77-82, WSC 45-48
January 12, 2021 05:04 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 12 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 11: WCF 13, WLC 71-76, WSC 41-44
January 11, 2021 05:37 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 11 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 10: WCF 12, WLC 64-70, WSC 37-40
January 10, 2021 04:09 - 6 minutes - 8.73 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 10 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 9: WCF 11, WLC 57-63, WSC 33-36
January 09, 2021 06:05 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 9 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 8: WCF 10, WLC 50-56, WSC 29-32
January 08, 2021 05:16 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 8 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 7: WCF 9, WLC 43-49, WSC 25-28
January 07, 2021 05:22 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 6 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 6: WCF 8, WLC 36-42, WSC 21-24
January 06, 2021 05:02 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 6 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 5: WCF 7, WLC 29-35, WSC 17-20
January 05, 2021 05:22 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 5 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 4: WCF 6, WLC 22-28, WSC 13-16
January 04, 2021 06:28 - 6 minutes - 9.53 MBWestminster Reading Plan Day 4 Found on our website
Westminster Standards Day 3: WCF 5, WLC 15-21, WSC 9-12
January 03, 2021 04:57 - 8 minutes - 12 MBThis is the audio reading of the Westminster Standards Day 3
Foundations for Men: Fathers, The Future, and Family Worship
January 03, 2021 01:33 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBNote this well. It may seem peculiar that Dave started this episode with prayer. This is not for vainglory, this is not to make a show, we're trying to do all we do with prayer. All we have is a gift from God. We can do nothing without the Triune God of scripture. He is not the politician’s God. We must serve the living and True God! There is no point to starting any of this without first crying out to the mediator Jesus Christ. You cannot do anything here in this world without first going t...