Salt & Fire

Most people wake up and just let their thoughts bounce around like a bowling ball in the gutter. They hand the remote to whatever emotion shows up first and call it authenticity. In this episode, Evangelist Robert Martin walks through what it actually looks like to take your thoughts captive on purpose. Scripture, gratitude, talking back to your own emotions, and what David was doing in the Psalms when he asked himself, "Why are you cast down?"

Three times in the gospels, Mary of Bethany shows up at the feet of Jesus. Not at a scheduled event. Not after the sermon was good enough. Just at his feet, because he was there.
Evangelist Robert Martin sits down with his best friend and fellow evangelist Robbie Grubbs to talk about the kind of prayer that isn't a laundry list, the secret place that isn't just silence, and what it actually means to be a Mary in a world full of Marthas.

In this episode, Evangelist Robert Martin takes a list of dangers showing up in Christian young adult culture and follows it to one conclusion. God asked for skillful playing. That requires practice in secret, submission to instruction, and knowing when to put your instrument down.
Your most raw self is not your best self. And your best self was developed on purpose.

In this episode, Evangelist Robert Martin opens up the whole Old and New Testament to show why God's people have always been a prophetic people, and what that actually looks like on an average Tuesday.
You don't need five more confirmations. Stir up what God already gave you and go to war with it.

The prosperity gospel got something right. God does provide. The problem is when provision becomes performance, when the Rolex becomes proof of your faith and the jet becomes evidence of your anointing. In this episode, Evangelist Robert Martin draws a line between a God who exists to give you things and a God who funds every assignment he calls you to. One is prosperity. The other is provision. And knowing the difference changes everything about how you trust him.

When we make the gospel about escaping hell and getting to heaven, we've made God the supporting character in our story. In this episode, Evangelist Robert Martin tackles the danger of a man-centered gospel and why the best thing God could ever give us is not a blessing but himself.

Evangelist Robert Martin sits down with his friend Caleb for a conversation about going from atheism to altar calls, getting baptized at a gym, and what happens when a 23-year-old starts handing pocket Bibles to eighth graders.
Don't give up on the person you're praying for. There's still heat in those embers.

The paralysis of analysis. The fear that one misstep could ruin everything. The endless waiting for more clarity before taking any step at all. Evangelist Robert Martin calls it detrimental ism, and it might be doing more damage than any wrong decision ever could.
God would rather rescue you from a failure than watch you forfeit your calling by doing nothing at all.

In the final part of this series, Evangelist Robert Martin names the only voice that gets to fill in the blank. Your skin color, your trauma, your failures, your achievements, none of it gets the last word. Only one voice has the right to fill in that blank. You are loved. You are his. That's your third word.

In part two of his series on identity, Evangelist Robert Martin unpacks why the mirror of other people's opinions will always give you a distorted reflection and why the only face that tells you the truth is the face of God.
Remove the name tag they gave you.