Abide in Liberty
Episodes
72 episodes
Interview With Stephanie Dale - Liberty Youth Academy Founder
In this episode, I interview my mother, Stephanie Dale, who founded Liberty Youth Academy. Her story is incredibly inspirational and is a great example of what it takes to stand up against evil, consecrate our lives to God, and find greater mea...
2nd Amendment; Peace Through Strength; Antelope Aren't Safer Without Their Antlers
In this episode I dive into the 2nd Amendment which guarantees to United States citizens the right to keep and bear arms without restriction. I walk through the history of this amendment, why the Founding Fathers actually wanted it in there, an...
We Are Fighting Evil - We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood
In this episode, I share many of the ways that evil abounds in our society and how important it is that we seek to root it out wherever we find it and in any way that we can. We have to analyze everything based on principles (not political part...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 9 (Alliances, Family, Debt, & Manifest Destiny)
In this final installment of the overview of the 5000 Year Leap by Clean Skousen, I talk about the importance of avoiding entangling alliances, the foundational role the family plays in stable and peaceful societies, the dangers of excessive de...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 8 (Rule of Law, Education, and Peace Through Strength)
This week, we cover three important principles. The first is the rule of law. For so much of history, and throughout many countries today, the rule of the ruler is what reigns supreme, and that can make for turbulent societies and troubling tra...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 7 (Strong, Local Self Government)
Welcome back! I begin by addressing the concept of majority rule. We might think unanimity is preferable, but in practice this leads to rule by the minority, and I explain why that is. I finish up by talking about the importance of keeping as m...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 6 (Written Constitution & Limited Government)
In this episode I cover the importance of having a written constitution (and how such a thing was an American invention) as well as the importance of limiting the government through that written Constitution to prevent centralization of power.
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 5 (Free Market, Separation of Powers, and Checks & Balances)
In today's episode, we explore the importance and key elements of the free market economy. We also look at the separation of powers and checks and balances, both what they mean and where these game changing ideas came from. All of these are key...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 4 (Power Corrupts & the Importance of Property Rights)
The first principle I talk about in this episode is the corruptibility of human nature and how power corrupts even the most virtuous and well intentioned. The Constitution was structured to prevent even the best-intentioned people from exceedin...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 3 (Establishing New Government, We Are a REPUBLIC!)
Welcome back! In this episode, we continue our study of the principles of liberty by looking at what has to be in place for a nation to alter its form of government, and we look at the Revolutionary War as a case study to see if it meets the cr...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 2 (Unalienable Rights and Where Sovereign Power Lies)
In this episode, I continue sharing principles of freedom that our Founders believed in and which informed how they built this country. This episode explains what unalienable rights and where the come from. I also dive into the Divine Right of ...
The Founders' Principles of Freedom - Part 1
In this episode I review the first 7 principles of freedom from the book, 5000 Year Leap, that virtually all the Founding Fathers agreed with. I cover the political spectrum the Founders used (not right and left), the important of moral citizen...
George Washington: A Great Example for How to Face Opposition
In this episode we dive a litter deeper into the Revolutionary War and focus on the incredible persistence of George Washington. When we are doing God's work, we will face intense opposition, but he will be with there with us, like he was with ...
American vs. French Revolution - We Don't Want To Repeat the French Experiment
In this episode, I explore the historical case study comparing the American and French Revolutions. I show how an experiment with freedom and a grounding in God led to a very different outcome in America than it did in France. I end making a pl...
A Stripling Warrior Education (Stand in Holy Places AND Put on the Armor of God)
Following up on last week's episode about the importance of God in education, this week I confront the fallacy that our kids can get truth diluted with the philosophies of men at school and all the God stuff at home and have them be as strong a...
Education for the Real, Eternal World
Education is supposed to be so much more than just job training or career prep. This life is a short blip on the grand scale of the eternities, and it is that eternal world that is the real one. Our education and our children's education should...
Trust God to Work Wonders For You and Through You
Often my doubts center not around God's ability to do great things but in my own ability to do adequately do my part. In this episode I share how I recently struggled with some self doubt and what I learned about God's ability to work miracles ...
Confront the Darkness and Make It Tremble
In this episode, I focus on how important it is for each of us to learn truth and learn the principles of freedom that our country and its Constitution are founded on so that we can stand up and do our part to defend truth and right. We all lea...
We WERE Founded on Christianity - No Ifs, Ands, or Buts...
Those who seek to claim that the United States was NOT founded on Christianity rely on scant claims and ignore a mountain of evidence in order to make their case. Braeden addresses some of the main points they make and shares his favorite quote...
Separation of Church and State | Spiritual Neutrality Revisited
Braeden responds to comments on last week's episode about spiritual neutrality and reaffirms that faith and believe in God are not somehow intellectually inferior to atheism. Then he goes into this week's topic and explains the importance of un...
The Myth of Spiritual Neutrality - Atheism Is Scientifically Unprovable Too
Braeden talks about how the movement to remove God from the public square and public schools beginning in the 60's in favor of Godlessness was not a step in the right direction. There's a prevalent belief that removing faith from the equation l...
What Abide In Liberty Is All About: Re-enthroning Faith, Family, and Freedom
In this episode, Braeden introduces himself, explains why he is doing this podcast, and previews the topics he'll be discussing in future episodes. He also outlines the underlying assumptions and perspective behind everything that he'll talk ab...