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Crusade with Me
Crusade With Me! is a journey into the questions we're usually told not to ask.
Who is God—beyond the explanations we inherited? What is a human being? Why are we here? What happens when faith collides with doubt, suffering, desire, love, sex, consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the strange mystery of simply being alive?
Here, Christianity isn't something fragile that needs to be protected from difficult questions. We dig into Scripture, the wisdom of the ancient Church, philosophy, history…
Episodes
Crusade with MeThe Religion of Biscuits and Gravy
What if following Jesus isn't about learning the perfect recipe for being a Christian? Forty years ago, Kat asked her mother, Betty, how to make her famous…
Crusade with MeWhat If We've Been Looking at Salvation Backward?
What if everything you've believed about earning your way into heaven has been backward? Imagine standing before God and being asked one question: "Why should…
Crusade with MeI Must Confess!
What happens when our pursuit of understanding God begins to interfere with simply trusting Him? In this deeply personal episode of Crusade With Me!, Dave…
Crusade with MeWhat If the First Sin Wasn't About an Apple?
Walking Back to Eden — Part Two What if humanity's first mistake wasn't simply eating forbidden fruit—but believing we knew better than God? And what if we're…
Crusade with MeWhat If We Have Forgotten How To Be Human?
Walking Back to Eden — Part One We have more knowledge, more technology, and more conveniences than any generation before us. So why do so many of us feel like…
Crusade with MeWe Have Forgotten What Our Grandparents Knew!
We have more information at our fingertips than any generation in human history. So why does it sometimes feel like we know less about how to actually live?…
Crusade with MeIf You Trust God Why Are You Prepping?
If you really trust God to provide, why are there cans of food, stored water, and emergency supplies stacked in your house? Is preparing for hard times an act…
Crusade with MeWHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE BREATH GOD GAVE YOU?
What if the breath in your lungs isn’t really yours? In Genesis, God forms Adam from the dust—but Adam doesn’t become a living being until God breathes into…
Crusade with MeHave We Forgotten How To Die?
Death is the one appointment none of us will miss. So why have we become so afraid to talk about it? In Episode 187 of Crusade With Me!, Dave and Kat step into…
Crusade with MeWould You Still Choose Me?
Episode 186 — Would You Still Choose Me? After forty years of marriage, there’s one question you probably shouldn’t ask unless you’re prepared for the answer…
Crusade with MeWhat If the Person You Love Isn't the Person You Married?
Episode 185 — What If the Person You Love Isn’t the Person You Married? The person you married is going to disappear. And so are you. That sounds…
Crusade with MeWhat IF The Worst Thing That Happened To You... Wasn't The Worst Thing?
Episode 184 — What If the Worst Thing That Happened to You… Wasn’t the Worst Thing? What if the thing you’re begging God to change today is something you’ll…
Crusade with MeWhy Do People Hurt You... Then Pretend Nothing Happened?
Have you ever had someone treat you like absolute crap, disappear for a few days… and then come back acting like nothing ever happened? No apology. No…
Crusade with MeWhy Are We Still Hiding?
What is the one thing about yourself you hope nobody ever discovers? We want to be known. We want to be understood. We want to be loved for who we really…
Crusade with MeCrusade After Dark: Naked And Not Ashamed
What happens when you take away everything we normally use to hide? For their anniversary, Dave and Kat did something completely outside their normal world…
Crusade with MeDid God Actually Put Limits on Sex?
Christians have been given plenty of rules about sex. But which of those rules actually came from God—and which came from culture, tradition, fear, or our…
Crusade with MeIs Desire Something to Control Or Something To Understand?
We’ve been taught that strong desires can be dangerous—that maturity means controlling them, resisting them, or sometimes pretending they aren’t there. But…
Crusade with MeWhy Did God Make Sex Feel So Good?
Episode 178 — Why Did God Make Sex Feel So Good? If sex were only about reproduction, why did God make it pleasurable? Why did He create desire, attraction…
Crusade with MeWhere Does The Fire Inside You Come From?
What is that fire inside you? The drive to build. The urge to create. The desire to achieve. The anger that demands action. The attraction that pulls you…
Crusade with MeWhat Kind of God Would You Create?
If you could create God, what would He be like? Would He agree with your politics? Approve of your choices? Dislike the same people you dislike? Would He ever…
Crusade with MeWho Gets To Define God? Spiritual Not Religious
What does it really mean when someone says, “I’m spiritual, but not religious”? In Episode 175 of Crusade With Me, Dave and Kat explore one of the…
Crusade with MeWhat If I'm Wrong?
What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the truth… is you? We all like to believe we're open-minded. But once a belief becomes part of our…
Crusade with MeIs Something True Even If Nobody Believes It?
Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It? If everyone believed something false, would that make it true? And if nobody believed something true, would it…
Crusade with MeReality Always Sends The Bill
Episode 172 – Reality Always Sends the Bill Every choice has a consequence—even the ones we think no one will ever see. In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we…
Crusade with MeThe Freedom of Accountability
What if accountability isn't punishment... What if it's freedom? This week, Dave and Kathy returned home from a week at the Jasper County Fair expecting to…
Crusade with MeThe Conclusion To The Matter
For six episodes we've been asking difficult questions. Why do we feel like there has to be more than this? Why can't we sit still? Why has wonder faded? Why…
Crusade with MeWhat Ancient Wisdom Knows That Modern Life Forgot
For centuries, humanity searched for wisdom not because life was easy—but because it wasn't. Today we have more information than any generation in history, yet…
Crusade with MeWhy Your Mind Never Stops Talking
Have you ever noticed that your mind almost never becomes quiet? It replays yesterday. It worries about tomorrow. It imagines conversations that never happen…
Crusade with MeWhy We Feel More Connected Than Ever...Yet More Lonely Than Ever
We have thousands of followers, hundreds of contacts, and endless ways to communicate. Yet loneliness has quietly become one of the defining struggles of our…
Crusade with MeWhy You've Lost Your Sense of Wonder: and How to Get it Back
When was the last time something truly left you speechless? We carry supercomputers in our pockets, watch rockets land themselves, and can speak with someone…
Crusade with MeWhy We Can't Sit Still?
Why is silence so uncomfortable? Why do we instinctively reach for our phones, turn on the television, scroll social media, or fill every empty moment with…
Crusade with MeThere Has to be More Than This
Have you ever looked around at your life—even a good life—and quietly thought, there has to be more than this. You're not alone. In Part 1 of our new…
Crusade with MeA Place Worth Praying For
As America celebrated its 250th birthday, it's worth asking a deeper question: What does true freedom really look like? In this special episode of Crusade With…
Crusade with MeWhat One Missionary Learned After a Lifetime of Serving Christ
What does a lifetime of faithful ministry look like? In this special episode of Crusade With Me!, I sit down with Rev. Schumacher, a pastor whose life has been…
Crusade with MeThe God Who Seeks
What if the greatest obstacle between you and God isn't your past—but your belief that you've gone too far? In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore two…
Crusade with MeConnecting Dots
The older I get, the less certain I become about many things. Twenty years ago, I thought I had most of life's answers figured out. Today, I realize that…
Crusade with MeNo More Excuses
Most people don't reject God because they hate him. They reject Him because they're busy. Busy building careers. Busy chasing dreams. Busy paying bills. Busy…
Crusade with Me“From Scoundrel to Shepherd: The 1975 Turning Point — A Conversation with Pastor Mike Hesterman”
In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Crusade With Me! Dave sits down with a lifelong friend — Pastor Mike Hesterman — to revisit a 30‑year…
Crusade with MeWhat Are You Looking At?
In a world fighting for your attention, Jesus asks a deeper question: What are you really looking at? In Episode 157, we explore how focus shapes formation —…
Crusade with MePlans, What We Know, and How We Act
We all think we know how life is supposed to work. We make plans. We form opinions. We create expectations about what God should do, how He should do it, and…
Crusade with MeCrusade with Me! Come Back Episode: Just be a tree!
Crusade with Me! is back. After months away from the microphone, we're beginning a new chapter with a simple but life-changing question: What if the secret to…
Crusade with MeCrusade with Me! Final Episode New Years Eve.
Our last time. Countdowns. Fireworks. Endless advice on how to reinvent yourself by midnight. As if life responds to pressure. As if becoming whole can be…
Crusade with MeTruth A Final Benediction Before the Road Ahead
One more episode will follow—an episode of hope, prayer, and strength for the days ahead. But today… today is about grounding. What do we leave you with? What…
Crusade with MeGlory in the Highest: The Night Heaven Broke In
And tonight… the wait is nearly over. For weeks we have watched. We have trained. We have waited in the long quiet of Advent. And now — the night has arrived…
Crusade with MeChristmas Questions for my Nine-Year-Old Grandson
A quick chat with Ribeye (Grandson) with ten questions about Christmas. Ah, the Christmas spirit.
Crusade with MeWatchful Hearts: Training for the Return of the King
And today, we stand in a sacred in-between. This is our final episode of Advent. And there are only three episodes left in this entire journey. That is not…
Crusade with Me“Breath, Waiting, and Praise” A Christmas–Advent Celebration of the Journey
One hundred and fifty episodes in a little less than a year. That number is not just impressive— It’s meaningful. Because Scripture gives us 150 Psalms. And…
Crusade with Me“I Lost My Fa La La La La”
The first Christmas wasn’t shiny. It was dark, uncertain, and fragile. If you’ve lost your fa la la this year, this episode is for you.
Crusade with MeAdvent in the Dirt—Desire, Contentment, and the Humility of Christ
This is Episode 148, and as this year draws to a close, so does this podcast. We’ve spent a year walking together—through Scripture, tradition, encouragement…
Crusade with Me: Advent, Justice, and Truth
This is Episode 147, and today we continue our Advent journey through the Nativity Fast. We’ll reflect on three powerful passages of Scripture—Psalm 82, Isaiah…
Crusade with MeAdvent, The Nativity Fast, and the Commandments of Life!
This is Episode 146, and today we’re entering deeply into, the Nativity Fast, the season of Advent and the call to holiness that prepares us for the coming of…
Crusade with MeThe Nativity Fast, Advent, and the 3rd & 4th Commandments
Today we’ll talk about Advent as a season of holy waiting, the Nativity Fast as a discipline of simplicity, and then we’ll dive into the 3rd and 4th…
Crusade with MeNativity Fast, Thanksgiving Lessons, and the Ten Commandments
Today’s episode is a journey through gratitude, discipline, and obedience. We’ll begin at the Thanksgiving table, praising God for His abundant gifts. Then…
Crusade with Me“The Nativity Fast: A Season of Simplicity”
The Fast Before the Feast The world rushes toward Christmas with lights, sales, and sugar. But we are called to slow down. To prepare the way of the Lord—not…
Crusade with MeLife in the 21st Century — Obedience in the Face of Struggle Part III The Solution!
💰 Financial pressure. 👨👩👧 Raising kids in chaos. 🏘️ Living among the godless. 🙏 Still called to obey. In a world that mocks reverence and rewards compromise…
Crusade with MeLife in the 21st Century — Obedience in the Face of Struggle Part II
💰 Financial pressure. 👨👩👧 Raising kids in chaos. 🏘️ Living among the godless. 🙏 Still called to obey. In a world that mocks reverence and rewards compromise…
Crusade with MeLife in the 21st Century — Obedience in the Face of Struggle
💰 Financial pressure. 👨👩👧 Raising kids in chaos. 🏘️ Living among the godless. 🙏 Still called to obey. In a world that mocks reverence and rewards compromise…
Crusade with Me“As Far as It Depends on You”
Today’s episode — “As Far as It Depends on You” — is a challenge from the Apostle Paul that feels almost impossible in our world today. We live in a culture of…
Crusade with Me“The Maccabean Stand – Faith Under Fire: Then and Now”
Because what happened back then — is happening again. The same pressure to bow. The same attempt to silence faith. The same call to compromise what’s holy.
Crusade with MeLiving a Liturgical Life
And today, I want to call you into something ancient — something burning, holy, and alive. Something forged long before modern man began measuring time by…