The Ready Room Broadcast

Power Up Church

Welcome to The Ready Room Broadcast — the official Power Up Church podcast. Each episode takes you deeper into the message shared on deck. This is where the crew debriefs, unpacks the Word, and explores the practical missions that follow every Mission Briefing. Hosted by Erin Dunn and Patrick Nash, The Ready Room Broadcast isn’t just about hearing truth — it’s about understanding how to live it. We dive into scripture, story, and strategy — connecting faith to real life, one frontier at a time. Whether you’re a seeker, a student, or a veteran believer, this is your after-action report — where reflection meets revelation. ⚡ The Ready Room Broadcast — Exploring God. Empowering People. Charting New Faith Frontiers. 🌐 powerupchurch.org

  1. OPERATION 08 — Mission 07 | Sloth Alert — Mission Neglect

    MAR 31

    OPERATION 08 — Mission 07 | Sloth Alert — Mission Neglect

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Ready Room Broadcast, Patrick Nash and Erin Dunn head back into Operation 08 — Mission 07 and break down Fleet Commander Brandon Holm’s Mission Briefing on sloth as mission neglect. This conversation goes deeper than the surface idea of laziness. Sloth is exposed as spiritual drift, delayed obedience, passive disengagement, and the slow surrender of readiness. Patrick and Erin unpack how comfort can become a lock, how “later” can become a hiding place, and why neglected rhythms of prayer, scripture, repentance, and follow-through leave the soul undertrained and vulnerable. If you have ever felt yourself easing off the mission without a dramatic collapse—still present, still saying the right things, but losing sharpness, urgency, and movement—this episode is for you. The crew walks through the theological weight of the Mission Briefing and brings it into real life with practical ways to interrupt drift, rebuild discipline, and return to faithful movement. Mission focus: Sloth is not just doing nothing. It is quitting by inches. But mission neglect does not have to stay mission neglect. Through small faithful steps, Spirit-led consistency, and renewed obedience, drift can be interrupted and readiness can be rebuilt. Scripture references Proverbs 6:6–11  Hebrews 2:1  James 1:22–25  Romans 12:11  Ecclesiastes 11:4  Matthew 25:24–30  Ephesians 5:14–17  Hebrews 5:11–14  Proverbs 24:30–34  Matthew 26:40–41  Galatians 6:9  Psalm 119:59–60  Luke 16:10  1 Corinthians 9:24–27  John 14:15  Hebrews 3:12–13  1 Corinthians 15:58 Thanks for stepping into The Ready Room today. If this mission briefing strengthened you, share it with a crew member who needs a boost for their next jump.  Explore more mission briefings, resources, and livestreams at powerupchurch.org. Gear up at Fleet Suppliers in Cargo Bay 3: https://fleetsuppliers.pwrup.church . The Ready Room Broadcast Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People.

    30 min
  2. OPERATION 08 — Mission 06 | WRATH ALERT — Redline Aggression Breach

    MAR 26

    OPERATION 08 — Mission 06 | WRATH ALERT — Redline Aggression Breach

    Send us Fan Mail  Patrick and Erin return to Mission 06 to examine wrath as anger that has crossed into destruction. They explore God’s holy wrath, Jesus’ righteous anger, and the sinful wrath that grows out of pride, entitlement, fear, revenge, and control. This episode focuses on Spirit-led restraint, clean confrontation, forgiveness, fast repair, and peacemaking that protects the crew instead of scorching the room.  Wrath is not just anger with volume. It is anger past containment — anger that stops serving truth and starts serving punishment. In this Ready Room Broadcast after-action report, Patrick and Erin break down Mission 06 and walk through the difference between divine wrath, righteous anger, and sinful human wrath. They unpack the internal scripts that drive destructive reactions, why wrath damages families, friendships, leadership, and community life, and how the Holy Spirit forms restraint, repair, forgiveness, and peacemaking in their place. This episode slows down on the key theological distinctions from Fleet Commander Brandon’s Mission Briefing and makes them practical. What do you do when anger feels justified? How do you tell the difference between conviction and retaliation? What does repentance look like when your words became a weapon? And how do you confront what is wrong without becoming destructive yourself? If wrath is redline aggression breach, this episode is about learning how to keep conviction under command. Scripture references Genesis 6:5  Ephesians 4:26–27  Matthew 21:12–13  John 2:13–17  James 1:19–20  Proverbs 14:29  Proverbs 16:32  Galatians 5:19–21  Colossians 3:8  Matthew 12:34  Proverbs 15:1  Romans 12:17–21  Galatians 5:22–23 Thanks for stepping into The Ready Room today. If this mission briefing strengthened you, share it with a crew member who needs a boost for their next jump.  Explore more mission briefings, resources, and livestreams at powerupchurch.org. Gear up at Fleet Suppliers in Cargo Bay 3: https://fleetsuppliers.pwrup.church . The Ready Room Broadcast Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People.

    29 min
  3. OPERATION 08 — Mission 05 | Gluttony Alert: Appetite Overflow Event

    MAR 19

    OPERATION 08 — Mission 05 | Gluttony Alert: Appetite Overflow Event

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Ready Room Broadcast, Erin steps into the after-action debrief for Mission 05 of OPERATION 08 — SEVEN SINS. This one goes far beyond food and gets to the deeper issue underneath gluttony: appetite without governance. When desire stops serving and starts ruling, excess spreads everywhere — food, media, spending, comfort, distraction, and dopamine. Erin breaks down Fleet Commander Brandon’s Mission Briefing and unpacks how modern life keeps people overstimulated, oversaturated, and spiritually dulled. This conversation tracks the pattern of overflow, exposes how appetite gets overpromoted, and walks through the countermeasures that help restore order under Christ: moderation, fasting, and healthy rhythms that strengthen the soul instead of sedating it. If anything from this mission hit home, share this episode with someone who needs the reminder that excess does not have to stay in command. Appetite can be brought back under discipline, the walls can go back up, and by the grace of God, you can learn what it means to be full of God instead of flooded with more. Scripture References: Philippians 3:18–19, Proverbs 25:28, Genesis 25:29–34, Proverbs 23:1–3, 1 Corinthians 6:12, Romans 12:1–2, Luke 9:23, Ecclesiastes 1:8, 1 Timothy 4:7–8, Titus 2:11–12, Matthew 4:1–4, Proverbs 30:8–9. Thanks for stepping into The Ready Room today. If this mission briefing strengthened you, share it with a crew member who needs a boost for their next jump.  Explore more mission briefings, resources, and livestreams at powerupchurch.org. Gear up at Fleet Suppliers in Cargo Bay 3: https://fleetsuppliers.pwrup.church . The Ready Room Broadcast Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People.

    23 min
  4. OPERATION 08 — Mission 04 | Envy Alert — Friendly-Fire Signal Detected

    MAR 12

    OPERATION 08 — Mission 04 | Envy Alert — Friendly-Fire Signal Detected

    Send us Fan Mail Envy rarely announces itself with sirens. More often, it slips in quietly — through comparison, irritation, passive shade, and the private feeling that someone else’s blessing somehow diminished your own life. In this episode of The Ready Room Broadcast, Patrick slows down Mission 04 of Operation 08 — Seven Sins and works through how envy becomes friendly fire inside the people of God. This after-action report expands the theological core of Fleet Commander Brandon’s Mission Briefing by examining how envy distorts identity, corrupts discernment, and turns celebration into suspicion. Patrick walks through envy’s stealth modes, the spiritual danger of resentment theology, and the path back to peace through gratitude, celebration, and assignment clarity. If this Mission Briefing followed you into the week, this episode helps put the issue on the table long enough to deal with it honestly — not just as an emotional struggle, but as a discipleship issue that affects how we see others, how we see ourselves, and how we respond to the generosity of God. Scripture references: James 3:14–16; 1 Corinthians 12:12–26; 2 Corinthians 10:12; James 4:1–3; Matthew 20:1–16; John 3:27–30; Romans 12:3–8; Colossians 3:12–15; 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18; Romans 12:15; Ephesians 2:8–10; Galatians 6:4–5 Thanks for stepping into The Ready Room today. If this mission briefing strengthened you, share it with a crew member who needs a boost for their next jump.  Explore more mission briefings, resources, and livestreams at powerupchurch.org. Gear up at Fleet Suppliers in Cargo Bay 3: https://fleetsuppliers.pwrup.church . The Ready Room Broadcast Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People.

    31 min
  5. OPERATION 08 — Mission 01 | PRIDE ALERT: Command Chair Hijack (After-Action Report)

    FEB 17

    OPERATION 08 — Mission 01 | PRIDE ALERT: Command Chair Hijack (After-Action Report)

    Send us Fan Mail Pride isn’t confidence—it’s a hostile takeover. In Mission 01 of OPERATION 08 — SEVEN SINS, Fleet Commander Brandon sounds Red Alert because pride doesn’t usually arrive loud. It slips in as “I’m fine,” “I know better,” and “I earned this,” quietly shifting authority from Jesus to self until the command chair is compromised. In this Ready Room after-action report, Patrick Nash and Erin Dunn unpack the briefing in real-world terms: how pride rewrites the chain of command, why it’s so effective at disabling repentance (admission, submission, and change), and what scripture calls the humility restore—returning Jesus to rightful authority through surrender, teachability, and obedience. Scriptures referenced (ESV): Romans 12:3 Romans 12:4–5 Galatians 6:3–4 Proverbs 16:18 Luke 18:9–14 James 4:6–10 Philippians 2:3–11 Mark 10:42–45 1 Peter 5:5–7 Galatians 2:20 Matthew 23:11–12 Colossians 3:12–17 Power Up Church: Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People. Thanks for stepping into The Ready Room today. If this mission briefing strengthened you, share it with a crew member who needs a boost for their next jump.  Explore more mission briefings, resources, and livestreams at powerupchurch.org. Gear up at Fleet Suppliers in Cargo Bay 3: https://fleetsuppliers.pwrup.church . The Ready Room Broadcast Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People.

    22 min
  6. OPERATION 07 — Mission 05 | Comms-Link L1 Diagnostic — The Abide Check: Is the Link Live?

    FEB 9

    OPERATION 07 — Mission 05 | Comms-Link L1 Diagnostic — The Abide Check: Is the Link Live?

    Send us Fan Mail In this transmission, Patrick and Erin break down Mission 05: Comms-Link L1 Diagnostic—the Abide Check—built on Jesus’ core system statement in John 15:4–5. The goal isn’t to “try harder” or polish a religious image. The goal is to remain connected—because connection precedes output. We walk through the difference between leaves vs. fruit (external signals vs. real spiritual life), how the flesh can mask itself in spiritual language, and why self-powered “Christian-ish” living eventually runs dry. Then we get practical: how abiding actually works in daily life—Word, prayer, obedience, confession, and community—and how to trace bad fruit back to the real disconnect point. If you’ve been running on fumes, this episode isn’t here to shame you. It’s here to diagnose the problem and get you reconnected—because fruit doesn’t get forced. Fruit follows abiding. Scriptures: John 15:4–5 John 15:7 John 15:10 John 15:8 Galatians 5:24 James 1:22 Hebrews 4:16 Hebrews 10:24–25 1 John 1:9 1 John 1:7 Psalm 139:23–24 Thanks for stepping into The Ready Room today. If this mission briefing strengthened you, share it with a crew member who needs a boost for their next jump.  Explore more mission briefings, resources, and livestreams at powerupchurch.org. Gear up at Fleet Suppliers in Cargo Bay 3: https://fleetsuppliers.pwrup.church . The Ready Room Broadcast Charting New Faith Frontiers. Exploring God. Empowering People.

    17 min

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Welcome to The Ready Room Broadcast — the official Power Up Church podcast. Each episode takes you deeper into the message shared on deck. This is where the crew debriefs, unpacks the Word, and explores the practical missions that follow every Mission Briefing. Hosted by Erin Dunn and Patrick Nash, The Ready Room Broadcast isn’t just about hearing truth — it’s about understanding how to live it. We dive into scripture, story, and strategy — connecting faith to real life, one frontier at a time. Whether you’re a seeker, a student, or a veteran believer, this is your after-action report — where reflection meets revelation. ⚡ The Ready Room Broadcast — Exploring God. Empowering People. Charting New Faith Frontiers. 🌐 powerupchurch.org