War Room - Interviews with Kingdom Building Christians: Recent Episodes
Reconstructionist Radio
The War Room is a production of Reconstructionist Radio. Hosted by Bill Evans and Jason Sanchez, this is not your average Christian podcast. Here you'll find interviews with seasoned, veteran kingdom-builders who have not only talked the talk but walked the walk in various areas of life. Learn about their ministries as we discuss and consider practical approaches to overcoming the myriad of obstacles confronting believers in Post America Christianity.
Joe Salant exposes some inconsistencies and shines the light on some blind spots in the modern abolitionist movement, related to the idols in the Pagan State, Pagan Church, and Pagan Family that must be identified and destroyed to deliver man from the dominion of man and establish the true biblical hierarchy: man over creation.
Prompted by current events, this week in the War Room we discuss how families and congregations need to be proactive regarding rapacious, anti-God/anti-family, quasi-government agencies like Child Protective Services, EPA, FDA, etc. I share counsel from a parent whose children were seized, and from a battle-hardened veteran of the fight against the beast system.
Joe Salant lays out the Reconstructionist Radio position against Knoxian Patriarchalism and shows why it is part and parcel of the worldview that must be abolished to abolish abortion.
Meet the women of The Monstrous Regiment, our new podcast set to drop every Wednesday (starting July 11) and be prepared to be taken by a storm of righteousness and justice.
Dr. Joel McDurmon joins Joe Salant in the War Room to discuss the aftermath of his ground breaking volume The Problem of Slavery in Christian America and chart the way forward.
Links:
The Problem of Slavery in Christian America
Justice for the Weaker Vessel & Smashing on the Objectification of Women with Kate Robinson
Joe Salant delivers a message and statement on behalf of Reconstructionist Radio, drawing a line in the sand in regard to obliterating an embarrassing strain of racism and its toleration within the recon movement.
Chopping up the latest events in the advancement of the Gospel Axe of Abolition throughout the culture, including the Dan Fisher Campaign in Oklahoma and Prop 7 in Texas.
Jason Garwood of Cross & Crown Church in NE VA joins me in the War Room to talk about form vs. function in the church, during our Blowout Koinonia Weekend at casa Sanchez in Waco, TX.
We have the privilege of interviewing Pastor Sunday Adelaja, author of Church Shift and The Kingdom Driven Life, and founder of Embassy of God in Kiev, Ukraine, the largest Christian Assembly in Europe. This may be the most significant interview ever from a global, kingdom perspective. Adelaja’s journey as a world renowned mentor reads like a movie script. This brother, who is truly an ‘organic reconstructionist,’ a ‘kingdom builder’ with no theological or formal bible training, has nevertheless spoken before the UN, the US Senate, and legislative bodies around the world, having planted over 3,000 faith for all of life congregations in 50 countries.
Links:
Church Shift
The Kingdom Driven Life
A man of God rises up in Oklahoma to hold the standard of the God’s Law against the Moloch State and the Ministry Industrial Complex Little Popes Remain Silent in the Face of Evil.
Boots on the Ground with Joe Salant: Joe interviews Abolitionist Nicholas Perez live from the bunker in SoCal to get a report from the front lines on the progress of the abolitionist petition to abolish abortion as murder in the Golden State.
David Botkin is my guest in the War Room. We talk about church security, preparedness, shooting proficiency, defense, and taking steps that enable us to love our neighbor. We also discuss building bridges with first responders, and the role of Christian congregations in meeting needs in their communities.
Dr. Joel McDurmon joins us again in the War Room to discuss his new book The Problem of Slavery in Christian America.
Links:
The Problem of Slavery in Christian America
Pastor Rusty Thomas of Operation Save America visits the War Room to talk about spiritual warfare and how not to become a casualty.
Abolitionist wife, homeschool mother, fitness instructor & Live On Air hostess of ‘Awake Oh Sleeper’ on the Christian Patriot Network, Rachael Haggerty joins us in the War Room to share with us her war Stories from Sin City. Let’s see what we can learn shall we?
Mike Gulley Abolitionist from Sumner Country Tennessee, homesteader/homeschooler, friend and brother joins me to talk about always being ready for opportunity to plant truth seeds.
Jason Matyas visits the War Room to discuss the excellent documentary Beyond Off Grid.
Note: Our internet connection was very sketchy. Please forgive the audio quality.
Links:
Beyond Off Grid
I visit with Lee ‘the Real Ninja’ Weiland, acrobat, fitness & gymnastic club owner/martial artist, abolitionist, reconstructionist and blogger at GospelJitsu.com. We talk about gymnastics, Alaska, ecclesiology, and his article Milk Tyrant Popedoms.
From Guttenberg to Zuckerberg, the church & change, and decentralization – technology and methodology.
Bill spends an hour with Sye Ten Bruggencate to talk about apologetics, street preaching, and being peacemakers between brothers.
Links:How to Answer the Fool
Debating Dillahunty
proofthatgodexists.com
Tactical tidbits & miscellaneous thoughts with call-in guests Shelby Luke and Brandon Michalec.
During this, Mark Rushdoony’s first visit to the War Room, we talk about just what you’d expect…his father. Mark clarifies how to rightly identify what we call Christian Reconstruction. He talks about theonomy, the slow process of change, faithfulness, and the need to take the long view. Lastly, he explains the work of the Chalcedon Foundation.
Bill talks with Kyle & Shelby Shepherd, a young homeschooled, Christian Reconstructionist couple, who despite very ordinary beginnings, by the age of 24, investing their simple love for reading, have already been involved in some BIG things; and are planning even BIGGER things.
Bill talks with Dustin Ranem, husband, homeschooling father of 5, internet marketing guru, and busy webmaster for Reconstructionist Radio and New City Times. He talks about his many responsibilities, and his work behind the scenes advancing the Kingdom and connecting God’s people.
Links:
NewCityTimes.com
110Marketing.com
Bill talks with Lt. Joseph Graham, Navy pilot and EXTREME dad, about the challenges and joys of fatherhood and homeschooling. You have to check out their YouTube channel Reconstruction Life, its an absolute hoot!
Links:
Reconstruction Life
Bill speaks with Kevin Swanson of Generations Radio. Kevin, an Orthodox Presbyterian pastor and radio host, is a well known and respected defender of the biblical world and life view. As such, he is a high value target on the hit list of God haters everywhere.
Note* I apologize that we experienced several technical glitches which reduced the original useable audio considerably from hour long discussion. We hope that what remains will contain something of value.
Bill talks with his long time friend, elder, missionary, former family practice & ER Physician’s Assistant, prepper, organic gardener and naturapathic researcher, Jack Campbell. This War Room episode is an introduction to discussions on physical wellness, aka Taking Dominion by Being Healthy.
Bill talks with Pastor George Grant, respected, veteran church planter, statesman, educator, author, lecturer, missionary, following a visit to Parish Presbyterian in Franklin, TN. They discuss the parish model and liturgy as a tool of discipleship, and means of reaching the culture, evangelism in affluent America, the church response to abortion, and his work in Iraq.
[This was my first time talking with George at length, and much of it ended on the cutting room floor, due to my ebullient babbling. My enthusiasm reduced me to stammering.] Lord willing there will future visits, during which we will dig deeper.
In this rousing war room free-for-all held at Casa Sanchez with host Bill Evans, and War Room guests Jason Sanchez, Gilbert Lino, Gabriel Colangelo and Matt Vitelli engage in typical man talk over aged scotch and fine cigars-family, ecclesiastical & civil government, secession, abolishing human abortion, biblical leadership, the priesthood of every believer, making disciples, education and culture.
Don’t mind the children in the background, God calls them a blessing and they tire out way before we do 😉
Bill exhorts listeners to the War Room concerning the need to share personal testimonies, volunteering to watch and pray, relationships and giving.
Pastor Phil and Kathy Kayser of Dominion Covenant Church in Omaha, NE join us for a second time on the War Room. We discuss tactical relocation, hospitality and the home as a tool to reach the nations, strategic prayer, intercession, and spiritual warfare.
Bill talks with former National Director of Operation Rescue & co-founder of Missionaries to the Preborn, Joseph Foreman about his understanding of Christian discipleship, reflections on Operation Rescue, the state of the Church, and his book Shattering the Darkness.
Bill and Joe discuss what it would look like for Christians to actually live as if they believed covenantal sanctions were on the way for America.
Live from Norman Oklahoma with Abolitionist Toby Harmon talking about Toby’s recent videos confronting the police outside of the child sacrifice centers with the Law of God.
John Andrew Reasoner and Jay Rogers join me in the War Room to weigh in on OSA’s Louisville action, and to discuss the tactic of rescue, creating an anti-death culture through theonomic discipleship, and the result of a merger of charismatic Christianity with Christian Reconstructionism.
Bill visits with Peter Allison, former Naval Officer and instructor at Annapolis, engineer and teaching elder at Crown & Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church in Conroe, Tx. The topics are the Federal Reserve, Social Security, Tax is Theft vs. Obey Lawful Authorities, and the importance of, and tips for, getting out of debt.
The views expressed by the guest are not necessarily those of the podcast host or Board Members of Reconstructionist Radio.
Bill visits with infamous internet personality and justice warrior/activist Gavin Seim. It may have been Gavin’s first exposure to Christian reconstruction, but he embodies the love of justice and courage we hold dear. We talk about apostate churchianity, the constitution and revolution, activism, and that infernal Blue Line.
Jordan Wilson and Jason Garwood join us in the War Room to talk about a new Christian Reconstruction and Active Abolitionist fellowship Cross and Crown Church, being planted around 10 or so families in NE Virginia, how the decision was reached, how its coming, and what it will look like.
Joe Salant interviews John Andrew Reasnor on a wide range of topics related to abolitionism and the Kingdom of God, from the public schools, police, prisons to borders. John shows how abolitionism applied consistently demolishes the idol of humanism.
The War Room welcomes Joe Salant as a new, permanent co-host.
Bill and Joe discuss the Future of Christendom conference, the gifts, and empowering of the Holy Spirit, and why reconstructionists should be abolitionists and vice versa.
Gary DeMar talks about Greg Bahnsen, new technology, preterism, postmillenialism and his new book.
Joe Salant joins us in the War Room, and talks about his time in the Ministry Industrial Complex.
Elizabeth Johnston, The Activist Mommy, joins us today in the War Room.
Links:
The Activist Mommy
Ideas have consequences. In this inaugural episode of the War Room, Bill discusses the birth of the idea, the Council of brothers, and the goal of our efforts
Being an editor for several internet Christian websites is a fulltime job. Add to that being a homeschool father of 10, while diligently guiding them through the challenges of adolescence and raising them to be self-conscious Christian Reconstructionists is about as strategic as it gets. Meet Tim Brown of Freedom Outpost on the War Room.
Bill visits with author Don Schawnzenbach about the what, why and how of writing of Christian books and also about the people who write them.
Bill interviews Brian Abshire, Pastor, Writer and contemporary of R.J. Rushdooney. They discuss Brian’s reluctant journey to Reconstructionism; the fatal flaw of reformed Christians; and the warnings to those new to Christian Reconstruction.
Bill visits with long time friend and pastor Mike Chastain in Savannah, Ga., for some reminiscing and name dropping, They talk about evangelism, labels, and church repent.
Bill visits with Martin Selbrede, scientist, musical composer, theologian and Vice President of the Chalcedon Foundation, and Editor of Faith For All of Life Magazine. They discuss the Doctrine of Work, and man as the Imago Dei, Reconstruction and a multigenerational emphasis eg. Cathedral Building, Group vs Individual Justice, medical tyranny and Johann Sebastian Bach.
In this episode of War Room we discuss Christianity as a social order, and the Pierre Viret Learning Center as the center of this paradigm for the Faith for all of Life community.
Jason interviews the first woman to grace the War Room, Andrea Schwartz. They discuss how she became a Christian Reconstructionist, why the family is to be Kingdom-Driven, what the Biblical calling for a wife and mother are, homeschooling and more.
Links:
KingdomDrivenFamily.com
WordsFromAndrea.com
Bill visits with the godfather of preppers, the popular Patriot Series author James Wesley, Rawles. They get very tactical and discus practical considerations: food, energy, communication, etc. for surviving persecution and/or social collapse that might be part of the coming judgment of God.
Link:
James Wesley, Rawles books
Wes is the co-author of the successful initiative to make the complete Abolition of Abortion onto the Texas Republican Party platform. Jason and Wes discuss politics, interposition, uniting under the banner of Christ with other abolitionists and much more.
Bill visits Pastor Gordan Runyan from “Setting the Record Straight” in Tucumcari, New Mexico. They go through each of the original questions that were the starting point for the War Room podcast.
Jason interviews award winning writer, director, and producer Colin Gunn. They discuss the impact that documentary films can have on the culture and the importance of documenting history properly through this medium. They talk about the indoctrination of government schools, national socialized medicine, and some Christian alternatives to practicing medicine, without being enslaved to health insurance and having to deal with government bureaucracy. They also discuss Scotland and Colin’s new mission to his homeland: Laldy.org
Links:
ColinGunn.com
Laldy.org
Bill and guest discuss the basics of biblical disciple making – Part 2
Links:
Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations
The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
Jason interviews Professor and Pastor Aaron Hebbard of Covenant Church. They discuss Christ as the foundation of all education, dual enrollment advantages, homeschool co-ops and the economy of labor in the church; multi-generational discipleship, overcoming apathy and pessimism; making the invisible church visible and the need for a new reformation in the area of Sola Scriptura, the Bible is the authority in every area of life.
Bill and guest Matthew Marquard discuss covenantal faithfulness and the biblical doctrine of preparedness.
Note of correction: The essay “Why the Gun is Civilization” has been commonly yet erroneously attributed to a Major L Caudill USMC Ret., Who may be a fictional character created by the true author Marko Kloos, a writer of military fiction.
Stephen Perks explains the background of the Kuyper Foundation, and an assessment of the church, state and monarchy in the United Kingdom. He also gives a great lesson on the errors of ritualism and the need for reform in the church towards proper covenantal fellowship.
Links:
Kuyper.org
Bill and Tim discuss the Biblical model of Secession, calling the Lesser Magistrates to repent, building godly businesses while building relationships and much more!
This is an interview with Pastor Phil Kayser. Enjoy!
Links:Biblical Blueprints
Dominion Covenant Church
An Evening with Joel McDurmon. Bill & Joel talk about Theonomy and the Westminster Confession of Faith, general vs particular equity, popular strawmen, the use of label vs. doing the work of reconstruction, Joel’s response to critics, the importance of definitions, and theological Pharisees.
The Ministry Industrial Complex, the eschatology of defeat, and the threat of AHA (Abolition of Human Abortion.) Is theonomy dead? The term general equity. Statism vs. the Christian doctrine of humanity and the priesthood of the believer. The Sabbath as a day of worship a modern construct.
Bill interviews Lt Col Army Chaplain (retired) E Ray Moore, founder of Exodus Mandate, which exists to advance the proposition that Bible-based Christian education is the only acceptable option for Christian families. He discusses his second film, Escaping Common Core, and the resistance to Christian education from church leaders.
Interview with abolitionist, homeschooling patriarch, and Reconstructionist Paul Dorr. He discusses the most important person nobody ever heard of, and the classic strategy that has made him infamous: Follow the Money.
In this episode of the war room you will listen to Bill’s freewheeling conversation with Jerry Lynn Ward. She is a practicing Austin, Texas attorney, and affiliate of the Rutherford institute. They discuss Blue Lives Matter, a proper biblical response; the present state of institutional law enforcement; the courts; justice for all; and a reconstructionist perspective from inside the Justice/Legal system.
WARNING: Anti-statism Alert
Bill and Ruger enjoy a casual, free-flowing conversation with Michael Minkoff, President of the Nehemiah Foundation for Cultural Renewal, and editor for American Vision and attorney friend Matthew Bryan. This interview was loaded with pertinent discussion on a wide-range of issues, such as achieving a proper working balance between unity and propositional truth within the reformed community, or exposition vs. incarnation. (This was recorded in front of a live audience during a picnic.)
Links:
MichaelMinkoff.com
RenewTheArts.org
John Andrew Reasner
This is a short interview with abolitionist John Andrew Reasoner on what’s happening right now in Oklahoma.
“This is a short introduction to the basics of Christian Reconstruction.
Links:
Gary DeMar and Gary North’s book Christian Reconstruction: What It Is, What It Isn’t
Bill meets and talks with young, black, inner city pastor of Truth and Grace Bible Church in Jacksonsville, Fl., Trevaris Tutt concerning his journey into Christian Reconstruction and the challenges of promoting a faith for all of life within his community.