From the Stally brand digital studios, America Held Hostage celebrates 250 years of freedom and liberty with a special 4th of July edition podcast looking back into America's rich and lost heritage of Christian resistance to tyranny. How America was formed for the Worship of Jesus freely and the proclamation of the Gospel even back to its early settling in 1620. Then 1776 showed how 15% of Colonial men asked God to judge their works which would leave the world richer and freer 7 years later.

Jon opens the show with a goodbye to his pal DJ, as fatherhood/coaching/marriage take 1st priority here at the America Held Hostage podcast and DJ must answer the call. We wish him nothing but the best as his 4th child is on the way, and we look forward to still having him as a contributor as his schedule allows moving forward.

Then Jon talks about how men struggle with failure & disappointment, how men after a time of just going thru the motions of life begin to realize they lack desire, passion, zeal, and purpose and begin to look for meaning thru different means that never truly satisfy. So where do men need to go?? - Jesus!!

In this episode, Jon and his Dad Mark discuss why Christian Masculinity needs to the offensive in nature, not in an insulting way - but in a moving forward and standing against the forces of darkness type of way. Christians who have been on the offense against evil thru out history have always been blessed in their fight by GOD to stand for righteousness. But when Christians cower from the public arena and the marketplace, cultures collapse because of cowardice and evil fills the vacuum of dominion left behind by weak ineffectual men!!

So what do we do as men? - we discuss the way forward as fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, leaders, followers, and workers.

This episode of the America Held Hostage podcast, Jon's Dad - Mark Hinton lends his wisdom to show us what true Christian Masculinity looks thru the examples of Jesus and Charlie Kirk. Both Jon and Mark cite John Eldredge of "Wild at Heart" and Chuck Colson of "How Now Shall We Live" with great, timely and relevant wisdom and observational science that shows what Christian Men need to pursue and what they need to become at this critical hour. 

In this throwback edition of the America Held Hostage podcast, Jon is joined by his late Uncle Merle (aka Uncle FreightTrain) to talk about heresy in our churches that allows men to be passive and controlling women to take the lead. Cultural Chaos then ensues when MEN inside and outside the church abdicate their Biblical, God-given roles - which leads to strife, oppression, dissension, and ruin begins to pour out into our streets because before politics and culture comes the family. And when families stop honoring GOD and protecting the Imago Dei, a culture unravels from within!!

From the Stally Brand digital studios - Be Challenged, Be Encouraged, and Become Engaged to "stand Boldly without wavering upon the Hope that we confess." - Heb. 10:23

Jon and DJ recap day 2 of the Seth Gruber's Last Stand Conference, the clarion call to stand boldly for Gospel of Jesus in a culture awash in sin, how we lead with humility, repentance, boldness, courage, and conviction - and how the GOSPEL that built the west is the only hope that can save what's left of it!!!

America Held Hostage covers Night 1 of the Last Stand conference in Denver, CO. with Seth Gruber & The White Rose Resistance. Host Jon Hinton & his Father Mark talk about the clarion call to action that was raised by Seth, Dr. Frank Turek, Dr. Abby Johnson, and the powerful worship that ended the night with Shane & Shane.

Truth and Repentance were the two themes that invaded the nite this past Friday with Holy Spirit conviction, courage, boldness and anointing on display in very powerful and palpable ways.

Are we merely playing church? Or are we contending for the faith & the Gospel of Jesus Christ at this critical hour in America?? 

From the Stally Brand/AHH mobile digital studios, be encouraged, be challenged and ask, "Are you ready to take the last stand for Jesus?"

From the Stally Brand/AHH digital studios, America Held Hostage talks about the upset earlier this week in the Iowa Governor's GOP Primary and how the lies that came with COVID helped lead to the rise of new Christian Conservative Millennial leaders like Zach Lahn in Iowa.

Jon and Dylan James (aka DJ) go in-depth talking about how electoral upsets in Iowa and Texas are indicative of how men in their prime now are done waiting for Gen-Xers to lead and for boomers to get off the stage. 

The conversation then took a turn as both hosts discuss the lies and crimes that occurred during COVID and how those 2.5 yrs were impactful enough to show that the stink brick of a culture left behind by do-nothing leaders who locked us down & kicked the can down the road can only be changed by those who understand that "the Kingdom of Heaven advances forcefully, and forceful men lay hold of it." - Matt. 11:12

America Held Hostage stands with Jaxson Dart and his right to free speech. Jon and DJ discuss the sports media world coming to cancel NY Giants QB Jaxson Dart last week for introducing President Donald Trump at rally and how mobs only work one way - they come to silence conservative/Christian voices who speak truth.
They discuss the hypocrisy that is occurring right now and how Jaxson Dart is actually a role model to follow when the mob comes knocking on your door - don't back down, double down and stand firm!!

America Held Hostage says hello to an old friend - Fmr. all B1G 10 & NFL OT Ike Boettger joined the program to announce a new partnership featuring our podcast and his new apparel line "Stally." We also talked about his testimony in Christ, being raised as a PK (pastor's kid), playing at IOWA for legendary football coach Kirk Ferentz, his budding NFL career only to be derailed by injuries and how his athletic setbacks prepared him for Christian manhood as a Father, Husband, Son, Friend and now CEO of the STALLY brand. The Stable just got a whole lot larger, and the horses run wild on this special edition of the AHH podcast.