Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow

Five words. Lifted from a letter. Turned into a wall between your faith and your vote.

Most Christians can repeat the phrase “separation of church and state.” How many know where it came from?

It isn’t in the Declaration of Independence. It isn’t in the Constitution. It isn’t in the Bill of Rights. It comes from an 1802 letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists, assuring them the government...

Every conversation is going somewhere. The question is: Who is directing it?

When God and His Word enter the conversation late, fear, frustration and opinion have already had time to take command. How far has the conversation already traveled without God?

In this episode of “Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow,” Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow examine what happens when we all...

Host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) draws on a term from his Marine Corps days for this episode: commander's intent. Every mission statement has two parts — what you're supposed to do and why. That “why” is always part of the order, but Colonel Mendelow points to what it does for you when things don't go as planned — it's what guides you, especially when the plan falls apart.

In this episode, Colonel Mend...

To speak to a general, Colonel Richard Mendelow needed an appointment. A respectful knock. Permission to enter. Because of Christ, we come into God's presence freely — not because we've earned it, but because His work on the cross has already opened the door.

In this episode of "Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow," host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow talk about prayer — not...

You've been told the enemy is out there. Turns out there's one we haven't named.

Over the last few weeks, Richard and Christy have talked about the external threats to our faith on “Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow” — comfort, opinions that don't line up with Scripture, what the world is doing to our kids. In the series finale, they bring it full circle: it all ultimately comes back to us.

Every one o...

The Marine Corps has a saying: the more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in wartime. It applies just as much to faith as it does to combat.

In this episode of “Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow,” host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow continued the Threats to Christianity series with guest Jeff Egli—airline captain, rancher, and a man who understands the conne...

Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their opinions. Proverbs 18:2 said it 2,000 years ago. Social media continues to prove it.

In Part 2 of the Threats to Christianity series, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow address a threat that is not coming from the outside. It is coming from within—what Christians are doing to Christianity themselves.

Opinions. Everyone ha...

Your words are not your own.

That is not a suggestion for Christians—it is the truth of what it means to follow Jesus. Everything you say, post, text, or speak into the world reflects Him. And in a culture where everyone has a voice and many don't seem to have the discipline to use it wisely, that responsibility has never mattered more.

The First Amendment protects your right to say what you want. But Scripture holds you to a...

The enemy is not hiding. He is working in your child’s classroom, on their phone, and in the culture that surrounds them every single day.

In this first episode of a new series, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow address one of the most urgent threats facing Christians today—what is being done to our children.

President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission delivered a historic ...

Discouragement is not weakness. It is what happens when you lose heart. And it can happen to anyone.

The word itself tells the story. Dis-courage. No courage. No heart. And whether it comes from exhaustion, unmet expectations, or a world that seems to be getting harder by the day, every person reading this has probably been there.

Host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow talk about discouragement in t...

You have a plan for almost everything. Do you have one for loving your neighbor?

In Part 2 of the "Missed Opportunities" mini-series, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow pick up where they left off—and get practical. It is one thing to recognize a missed opportunity. It is another to figure out who you need to be so you stop missing them.

The conversation moves into the difference between w...

Have you ever missed an opportunity to do something good—not because you didn't care, but because you were somewhere else in your head?

On a layover in Frankfurt, Germany, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) walked past a hungry homeless man with a full meal's worth of leftovers sitting on the table behind him. He admits he was too caught up in his own disappointment to see the opportunity right in front of him. And it sta...

250 years ago, men risked their fortunes, their families, and their lives to establish something the world had never seen—a nation built on biblical truth, dedicated to God-given liberty, and committed to the idea that our rights extend not from government, but from our Creator.

That nation is still here. The question is what we are doing with it.

In this special Independence Day edition of “Courageous Christianity with...

You know the feeling. You read something in Scripture, or feel called to do something uncomfortable, and then it starts.

Yes, but...

Yes, but the world won't like it. Yes, but it won't make a difference. Yes, but look at what everyone else is doing.

With this show, the "Real Faith for the Real World" series comes to a close—and host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) and his wingman Christy Mendelow get to the core of what it ...

It is not your last mistake that defines you. It is your next opportunity to be the man God wants you to be.

In this Father’s Day episode, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow and his wingman Christy Mendelow speak directly to what this day is really about. Not the cards, not the grilling, not the commercial version of fatherhood. The real thing.

The United States has the highest rate of fatherless children of any nation on earth...

The only behavior you control is your own.

The world gives you plenty of reasons to be angry. Scripture gives you a different instruction—take the plank out of your own eye first.

That is Matthew 7. And it is not a suggestion.

This week on the show, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow and guest Pastor Steve Dennis bring one of the most downloaded conversations of the year back to the airwaves. Anger, integrity, and what it actua...

82 years ago on June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to fight pure evil. They didn't negotiate with it. They didn't look the other way. They stood against it at the cost of everything.

The battle between good and evil has not ended. It has just moved to different ground.

That same fight is playing out today.

Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett stepped away from a successful political career b...

God's Word has something to say about everything happening in the world around you. The border. Transgender issues. The war in Iran. The legalization of marijuana. Every issue, every headline, every opinion.

So why are so many Christians forming their perspectives without it?

This week, host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow, wingman Christy Mendelow, and guest Jeff Egli take on politics—but not the way you might expect. This is no...

On Memorial Day weekend, we remember those who sacrificed everything—not just the years they lived, but the futures they never had. To honor that means standing for the freedom and the values they died to protect and one of the most important things every Christian must stand for is something most don't fully understand.

In this episode of "Courageous Christianity with Richard Mendelow," host Colonel Richard J. Mendelow and h...