Moment of Truth

Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

Moment of Truth is a short-form podcast from the weekly radio show Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow. Each week, in just a few minutes, you’ll hear a direct, Biblical challenge to help you live courageously in today’s world. It’s clear. It’s scriptural. It’s real faith for the real world. You’ll find insights rooted in Scripture, Christian leadership, courageous faith, and biblical manhood. Whether you’re a husband, father, veteran, or follower of Jesus navigating the cultural confusion of our time, this podcast will help you sharpen your focus and take action. Learn more: CourageousChristianity.today Explore resources: courageouschristianity.today/resources Support the mission: courageouschristianity.today/donate-2

  1. Run Your Race

    5d ago

    Run Your Race

    Send us Fan Mail This week's Moment of Truth: Hebrews 12:1 (NIV) — "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." The world did not want Jesus. It will not want you either. Not at work, not in your children's education, not at the voting booth. So, what are you going to do about it? Real faith takes courage. Not just believing the Truth — living it, even when it costs you. On Father's Day, a golfer named Wyndham Clark was heckled relentlessly by a hostile crowd at the US Open. He didn't change how he played. He stayed focused, shot by shot, and won the tournament wire to wire. Success didn't silence the fools. It never does. You serve Jesus, not the mob. Their right to be them does not give them the right to define you. Your task is to follow Christ — one interaction, one day, one decision at a time. Not theirs. Not the crowd's. Yours. When the devil whispers that you are not enough, treat him like a badly behaved spectator. Ignore him and keep running. Support the show Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

    6 min
  2. Rock or Sand

    Jun 17

    Rock or Sand

    Send us Fan Mail This week's Moment of Truth: Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV) — "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." The rain will fall. The floods will come. The winds will blow. That is not a maybe — that is a promise. The only question is what your house is built on. If your hope is in politics, you are placing it in men. Men who were wrong yesterday and will be wrong again tomorrow. Men whose schemes created the problems they now promise to fix. But if your hope is in God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the unchanging truth of the Bible — then politics becomes what it was always meant to be: a necessary human undertaking, not the foundation of your life. Politics is downstream of culture. Culture is downstream of faith. And biblical faith — rooted in the unchanging truth of God's word — is the foundation on which everything else must be built. So what is yours built on? Support the show Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

    4 min
  3. The Church and State Lie

    May 21

    The Church and State Lie

    Send us Fan Mail This week's Moment of Truth: Psalm 127:1 (NIV) — "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain."  The Lord built this nation. The Bible was its foundation. And piece by piece, that foundation has been dismantled — starting in 1962 when prayer and Scripture were removed from our schools.  The wall between church and state that Americans have accepted as law? It was never meant to protect the state from the church. It was meant to protect the church from the state. Five words lifted out of context from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802 have been used to silence the very faith that made this nation great.  Speaker of the House Johnson recently held up a worn Bible and said something worth sitting with — a Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to a man who isn't. How long before we say the same about this nation?  In this week's "Moment of Truth," Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) calls every Christian man to stop accepting the lie and start fighting — politically, culturally, and in his own home — to put the word of God back where it belongs.  Support the show Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

    7 min
  4. Critical Vulnerability

    Apr 29

    Critical Vulnerability

    Send us Fan Mail This week's Moment of Truth: Romans 12:2 (NIV) — "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will." Every warrior has a critical vulnerability — the weak point that, if left unguarded, will take him down. What is yours? In this week's "Moment of Truth," Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) makes it plain: when you call yourself a Christian, you wear the uniform of Christ. That uniform comes with responsibility. What you think, what you say, and how you live either honors the One whose name you carry — or it doesn't. Romans 12:2 is not a suggestion. It is a direct order. Do not conform. Be transformed. The battlefield is your mind, and the world is fighting for it every single day. Are you? The center of gravity for every Christian warrior is the Bible. Your critical capability is reading it. And your critical vulnerability is whatever is keeping you from it. Busyness. Distraction. Comfort. None of those are acceptable excuses when you consider what Christ gave for you. So, what is standing between you and your Bible today? Support the show Listen now at https://courageouschristianity.today/moment-of-truth/ or find "Moment of Truth" wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, subscribe and listen each week.  Visit CourageousChristianity.today for full episodes, resources, and to learn more. God bless & Semper fi, Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

    5 min

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Moment of Truth is a short-form podcast from the weekly radio show Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow. Each week, in just a few minutes, you’ll hear a direct, Biblical challenge to help you live courageously in today’s world. It’s clear. It’s scriptural. It’s real faith for the real world. You’ll find insights rooted in Scripture, Christian leadership, courageous faith, and biblical manhood. Whether you’re a husband, father, veteran, or follower of Jesus navigating the cultural confusion of our time, this podcast will help you sharpen your focus and take action. Learn more: CourageousChristianity.today Explore resources: courageouschristianity.today/resources Support the mission: courageouschristianity.today/donate-2