Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
912 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsDo you find yourself angry or anxious when watching or listening to the news? If that answer is YES...this is the podcast for YOU. 'Politics By Faith with Mike Slater' offers a very different analysis to the equation, drawing from faith and the founders for perspective instead of the warring opinions of pundits. Each episode begins with the top story of the day, then provides a historical and Biblical parallel, and finally a motivating truth to calm your soul. You’ll be amazed at what the Bible and our very own history have to say about where we are today. Enlightening, insightful, and reassuring, and 100% unique – Politics By Faith.
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The Trump Trials Explained (TV Special)
September 12, 2023 14:00 - 53 minutesFormer President Donald Trump has been indicted in multiple instances. The indictments range from the DOJ to Fulton County, Georgia to New York City. This all comes as Trump runs for the presidency yet again. How will the trials impact the 2024 election? Will Trump be put in prison at some point before or after Election Day? These are just a few of many questions that Mike Slater attempts to answer with his panel of legal experts. Joining Mike are accomplished attorneys, including one that re...
Guide To Christian Living: Deny Self
September 12, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutesThe second point of John Calvin's 1536 book is the importance and benefits of denying the self. Where the world tells you to have "reason", the Bible tells you to have your reason take a back seat to something else... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Guide To Christian Living: Love Righteousness
September 11, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesThis week we're going to give the overview of John Calvin's 1536 book "Guide to Christian Living" I wish someone had given me this overview when I first became a Christian. It's worth a reminder for everyone. Calvin's first point: Love righteousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plodding to Excellence
September 08, 2023 16:00 - 7 minutesWork is not a curse. Good works include good work. We need to be, as Willaim F. Buckley said, "on the side of excellence" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jesus and Wobbly Tables
September 06, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesWhy did God have Adam working in the garden BEFORE the fall? Why do we even have to work at all? He certainly made it that way for a reason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Labor Day: Redeeming the Grind
September 05, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesWe're going to focus this week on sanctifying your mundane, terrible, soul-crushing job. Whenever I complained about a job growing up, my dad always said, "That's why they call it work." That's true, and no offense to Dad, but the Bible has better advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Selfish to Senseless
September 01, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutesWe've been talking this week about the true divisions in Amerinca. It's not Republican and Demcorat. Today we wrap up talking about the path from selfish to senseless to shameless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learn From Me
August 31, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesWe've been talking this week about the true division in our country. Matthew 11:29 highlights another one of these divisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The REAL Division in America
August 30, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesIf you want to "heal the division" in our country, you have to know the real cause of the division. These are not just policy differences. It's much deeper than that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Not Republican vs. Democrat
August 29, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesThe real division in America is NOT Republican vs. Democrat. It's something much deeper than that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Do You Care So Much?
August 28, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutesA progressive listener asked me this question on my Sirius/XM show on Friday. It's clearly his last "argument" after all of his other ones have failed. Fortunately, someone else called in with the perfect answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Bruised Reed, Trump Booked
August 25, 2023 13:00 - 7 minutesTrump is the only person who can take the incessant attacks against him. But when this becomes the norm for the left against conservatives, what type of person would ever run in the future for higher office? Not the type of person we want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let Not One Escape
August 24, 2023 12:30 - 4 minutesIt's easy after a debate to fall into a very common trap. We need to be aware of it before we fall into it, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Debate Day: Give All Diligence
August 23, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesIf you get frustrated at the candidates at the debate tonight, let's focus on the truth in 2 Peter 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
GOP Debates and The Spider's Lies
August 22, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesIn light of the debate tomorrow, this is the beginning of a new era of deceit and lies coming our way. Let's be on the lookout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Back To School: The Dinner Table
August 17, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutesThere are so many things pulling us away from the dinner table. That should be a sign of how important this sacred place is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Back To School: Discipline
August 16, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutesEveryone today wants to be their kids' friends. But the Bible says that discipline leads to "the peaceful fruit of righteousness" which I think we all want even more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Back to School: Apple Of My Eye
August 15, 2023 20:00 - 6 minutesI love this expression. It's 4 times in the Bible, but what's interesting is it's not used how we use it. It's always a PERSON who is the apple of our eye, but not in the Bible. We talk about how we can use this truth for the new year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Homeschooling Advice
August 14, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesTo be clear, we're the ones in NEED of advice. This is our first year of homeschooling, and we start tomorrow, so...send it over! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Progress vs Revival
August 10, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutesWe don't need more progress in our country, we need a restoration. There are 4 aspects of restoration. Today we talk about REVIVAL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Progress vs Renewal
August 09, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesWe don't need more progress in our country, we need a restoration. There are 4 aspects of restoration. Today we talk about RENEWAL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Progress vs Replacement
August 08, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesWe don't need more progress in our country, we need a restoration. There are 4 aspects of restoration. Today we talk about REPLACEMENT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trump Indictments: Fresh As The Morning, As Sure As The Sunrise.
August 07, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutesHow should you respond if you are unjustly accused of something? What is the Christian response to persecution? Trump says he's the victim of a witch hunt, so we go back to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to find parallels and finish with a powerful scripture from Lamentations that is a must-read if you've ever been falsely accused. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq...
Progress vs Restoration
August 07, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutesThe Boy Scouts have lost 60% of their members. Their latest Jamboree had an LGBTQ tent. There are girls in the BOY scouts. How did this happen? Well, their recent president said the Boy Scouts needed to change or else they would become irrelevant. It turns out, the changes they've made have MADE them irrelevant. We don't need progress in America, we need...restoration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Be Patient With The Weak
August 04, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutesPaul wrote that we are to be patient with three different kinds of people. One of them in particular is important because it's all of us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paralyzed On The Honeymoon
August 03, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesThe story of Benjamin Warfield always helps me be more patient. But we don't need to go back 100 years to find inspirational stories of extraordinary patience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wishing To A Genie
August 02, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesAre you praying to God or are you wishing to a genie? Jeremiah shows us not only patience with other people (yesterday's episode), but also patience with praying to God. He didn't just offer a 5-second prayer and give up, because he never viewed God as a genie who grants wishes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Patience of Jeremiah
August 01, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesWhat is the longest amount of time you have been patient? Have you been patient for longer than Jeremiah was? "Again and again" he warned people what was coming, and they never listened. Can you relate? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Microwave Culture
July 31, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesOur ancestors were patient and relentless. We are the opposite. Where are you the most impatient in your life? And where does this impatience show up in our spiritual life the most? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Beauty Brings Us Closer To God
July 29, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutesWe have so few transcendent things around us, we've become numb to the beauty that does exist. We need to be intentional about getting in nature, His creation. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is Your Kid A Shopping Cart?
July 26, 2023 16:00 - 15 minutesThe most important fact this week is: you're not alone. There's nothing new under the sun. We must use this reality to find peace and learn from other people's mistakes. Thank you for all the E-mails this week. They've been very helpful. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Bad Seed
July 26, 2023 13:10 - 7 minutesThank you for the Emails in response to yesterday's podcast, they were all so helpful. Tammy's life in particular experience is right in line with scripture. We also talk about the one kid's book that happens to be in this house we're renting, "The Bad Seed". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How To Parent A Strong-Willed Child
July 24, 2023 15:15 - 11 minutesMORNING MOTIVATION: How To Parent A Strong-Willed Child I don't know. Any tips? I do know that a scripture that many find encouraging, Proverbs 22:6, is actually the opposite of what most people think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sound Of Freedom & The Soul Of The Nation
July 21, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutesReagan spoke of the "soul of the nation". The soul has been forgotten. Look at the reaction from the left to the movie Sound of Freedom. It's over $100M and it's dismissed as a QANON conspiracy theory. How can people be so disconnected from the soul? It's nothing new, and the good news is, there is a way to get connected again. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com...
The Second Mountain
July 21, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutesI pray we all find the Second Mountain sooner rather than later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Jordan: "I just want some pizza"
July 20, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesMorning Motivation: Part 4 of money and fame and things won't make you happy, today's example is Michael Jordan. In Luke 10, Jesus tells his disciples and us what we should find joy in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paris Hilton: "They were my best friends"
July 19, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutesPart 3 of money and fame and things won't make you happy, today's example of Paris Hilton. We tie this into an often overlooked section of Luke 10 when Jesus spoke to his disciples who were rejoicing in something good, but Jesus said, "No! Rejoice in THIS instead." Where did he say we should find our joy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Brady, "There's gotta be more than this"
July 18, 2023 12:31 - 8 minutesTom Brady said the money and fame didn't make him happy. Why do we think we'd be any different? Jesus speaks to this discontent to 70 of his followers in Luke 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rainn Wilson: "It was never enough"
July 17, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutesRainn Wilson said he was never happy when he was filming The Office. He was a big TV star, super famous, making a ton of money. How could he not be happy? Because he wanted more. He wanted to be a big MOVIE star and make millions of dollars. Jesus speaks to this to 70 of his followers in Luke 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Psalm 1:1: Sitting With Scoffers
July 14, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesWhat is a scoffer exactly? And why do people "sit" with them? It can be hard to accept my first example of how we all scoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Are UFOs Real?
July 13, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutesRecently, former intelligence officer David Grusch came forward as a whistleblower and alleged that the United States government is in possession of non-human originated craft. Is there reason to believe this whistleblower? Mike Slater doesn't think so, but he can be convinced. On this special, Mike gets ALL sides of the story. First, he will hear from a UFO believer. Then he talks with a skeptic. At the end, Mike and one of his guests attempt to find a middle ground on UFOs and extraterrestr...
Psalm 1:1, No Rest For The Wicked
July 13, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutesPsalm 1:1, No Rest For The Wicked If the blessed man does not take the counsel of the wicked, who are these "wicked" I need to be avoiding? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Psalm 1:1, Meditation Is Not Silent
July 12, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesWe think meditation means being silent, but the Hebrew in Psalm 1:1 is obvious that it is not. But why does God want your meditation to not be silent? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Psalm 1:1: "Falling" In Love
July 11, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutesPsalm 1:1: "Falling" In Love Is love all about emotions? Let's hope not. Psalm 1:1 gets the order right; love is first a choice, and the emotions will follow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Psalm 1:1: The Wicked
July 10, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutesMorning Motivation: Psalm 1:1: The Wicked This psalm presents us with two ways to live. And everyone makes their choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Signer Samuel Huntington and The Proclamation
July 06, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutesSigner Samuel Huntington and The Proclamation How many signers of the Declaration of Independence can you name? There were 56 of them. Shouldn't we know all of these men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for us? One of our founders was Samuel Huntington and he issued a proclamation that is a must-read. Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. ...
Thomas Paine and the Battle of Long Island
July 05, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutesThomas Paine and the Battle of Long Island Have you ever felt as much despair as the colonists after the British steamrolled over Washington's men into Manhattan? Good thing Thomas Paine was there to set our hearts right and to make the point that "yes, it's hard. But it's worth it". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our Founders and Solemnity
July 04, 2023 13:00 - 7 minutesOur Founders and Solemnity That's the word I now think of when I think of our founding fathers: solemnity. Today we highlight two of the signers, Robert Morris and John Hart, as an inspiration on how we should love this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our Founding and The Gospel
July 03, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesMorning Motivational: Our Founding and The Gospel John Adams wrote that Independence Day would be a day celebrated for generations in the future. He was right about that. But he also said it should be celebrated with "solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty." Why? His son, 62 years later, tells us the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lay Up For Yourselves
June 30, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutesMorning Motivation: Lay Up For Yourselves That phrase is in the Bible twice. What are these treasures we're laying up for ourselves in heaven? And how do they compare to the things we idolize on earth today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices