A lot of people aren’t losing their faith in one dramatic moment, they’re just drifting into a quiet, bored, overly safe Christianity. We sit down to talk about Burn, a new book Justin wrote as a practical field guide for anyone coming back to church after years away and anyone who’s still showing up but feels spiritually cold.

We start with the story that sets the tone: Latimer and Ridley, martyred for bringing God’s Word to people in a language they could understand, and the line about kindling a fire that won’t go out. From there we get honest about what it means to live as a living sacrifice (Romans 12), why “there are no little decisions,” and how a biblical worldview changes everything from your habits to your courage. If you’ve been shaped by fear-based Christianity, cultural pessimism, or a constant impulse toward self-preservation, we press into a better frame: redeem the time, wake up to what’s real, and live with hope rooted in Christ’s finished work.

We also get practical: why real Christian community is essential for sanctification, how “fake community” online leaves us isolated, and why action steps matter more than collecting the right answers. We talk Bible study, prayer, calling, and how to stop managing an image of maturity and start becoming the kind of person whose life actually means something.

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Marriage can be blissful, brutal, and forming all at the same time and that tension is exactly where we start. Justin and I talk candidly about what marriage feels like on the ground, then zoom out to ask a sharper question: what happens to a culture when it keeps redefining love, freedom, and even basic human categories until words stop meaning anything?

We trace the fallout of modern sexual ethics through the health of families, the stability of communities, and the way “rights” language often gets used to baptize desire. From a Christian worldview, we argue that freedom is not license. It’s the strength to live within God’s design, with Scripture as the standard that anchors our definitions of marriage, manhood, womanhood, and family. Along the way we reference key biblical passages like Colossians 3, Ephesians 5, and Romans 1 as touchpoints for how Christians think about covenant, responsibility, and discipleship in the home.

We also get practical: if marriage is mainly about personal happiness, then unhappiness becomes a reason to quit. But if marriage is a mission, then sacrifice, forgiveness, and perseverance become part of the calling. We close with a direct challenge to focus on rebuilding where you actually have authority: love your spouse well, raise your kids with intention, strengthen your church, and then speak with courage in public without neglecting your own house.

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Catholicism is having a comeback moment, and we get why. When church starts to feel like entertainment, a liturgy shaped by centuries can feel like oxygen: reverence, structure, tradition, and a sense of history bigger than your own timeline. But a hunger for roots can’t be the same thing as a commitment to truth, so we slow down and ask the hard question: what are you actually believing when you step into Rome?

We start with common ground. Protestants and Catholics confess the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the resurrection, sin, grace, heaven and hell, and the authority of Scripture. Then we move straight into the real dividing lines: authority and salvation. We unpack sola scriptura versus a framework where sacred tradition and the magisterium function as equal authority, and why that shift opens the door to doctrines Protestants say are not grounded in the Bible. From there we dig into the five solas, justification by faith alone, grace alone, and what’s at stake in “forensic justification” versus an ongoing system of infused righteousness through the sacraments.

We also talk through the practical flashpoints that make this personal: confession, prayers involving saints, Mary’s expanding role, purgatory, indulgences, the Mass, and transubstantiation. We close with the Council of Trent, papal infallibility, and a simple challenge: don’t pick a church because it feels ancient or trendy; test everything with Scripture and the sufficiency of Christ’s finished work. If this conversation helps, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s wrestling with Catholicism vs Protestantism, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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