Rather than missing ANOTHER week, we're delivering a sermon from our church's Ephesians series. We'll be back next week. Working on something pretty interesting for you guys. ALSO. If you haven't visited our site recently, we've got our ENTIRE inventory up and discounted for you. So hit the link below and enjoy the savings!

Justin takes one verse — Ephesians 4:11 — and traces the five grace-filled roles God gave his church: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. He explains why apostles and prophets were time-sensitive foundational roles tied to the direct revelation and establishment of the church (and why you should think carefully before using those titles today), what the Greek word for "prophecy" actually means beyond predicting the future, and why the role of pastor has been quietly destroyed by a culture that turned a shepherd into a CEO and a calling into a career. The central image of the whole sermon: grace flowing from the twelve apostles into the world isn't like a bucket of water dumped on sand — spreading out until it disappears. It's a deluge. It only grows. And the reason the list in verse 11 ends with teachers — without saying "some as teachers" — is because teachers aren't for some. They're for everyone.

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Dr. Dan Samms holds a doctorate from Liberty University on the very topic his critics would rather bury, and he turned it into Christian Federalism: The Founding Vision and the Road Ahead, a 259-page field manual for Christians ready to stop spectating. Justin and Jesse dig into the surprising origin of the term "Christian nationalism," the founding documents that settle the debate, and the three competing Christian approaches to law: natural law, positive law (theonomic general equity), and the soft Christian-influence model that has, in Dan's words, gotten people killed. Then Dan gets practical: how to run candidates from your church for city council and school board, why local elections swing on fifty to two hundred votes, what Gideon's destruction of Baal's altar authorizes, and why federalism begins in the home with a man who leads. The Kindle pre-order is live on Amazon now (releases October 14). Print version soft-launching for Carpe Fide listeners any day.

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This year we're making an effort to grow our podcast without being cringey. That said, some cringe must happen, and that's happening now. Please head over to iTunes to leave a rating and a comment, subscribe to us on YouTube, and follow us on all the socials to keep up to date, and most of all, leave us some feedback and dialogue with us. You can also drop us a line at hello@carpefide.com

Bandit just needs five minutes — the spring rolls aren't ready, there's one table, two daughters, and a whole lot of waiting. In "Takeaway," Justin and Jesse find what happens when a dad's best-laid plans collide with the beautiful chaos of small children in dead time, and why a fortune cookie read from the floor of a Chinese restaurant might be the most quietly theological moment in the whole series. They dig into Jesus calling the children to him (Matthew 19:14), GK Chesterton's stunning passage from Orthodoxy about God's "eternal appetite of infancy," and what it means that we've sinned and grown old while our Father is younger than we. If you've ever stood in a waiting room with little kids and just tried to survive five minutes, this one's for you.