Are you raising a child — or preparing an adult?

Scripture describes children as blessings, arrows, and olive shoots. Modern culture treats them as consumers, projects, and emotional centers of the home.

In this episode, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins confront the failure of child-centered parenting and recover a biblical vision of raising productive, responsible, joyful contributors within the household.

You’ll learn:

Why Scripture treats children as assets, not burdens

The difference between training and merely managing behavior

How discipline expresses love

Why consumer children become anxious adults

How to prepare children for marriage, vocation, and leadership

Practical steps to implement this week

Reform doesn’t begin in politics.

The Wisest Woman Builds (Proverbs 14:1)

In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins walk through Proverbs 14 and Proverbs 31 to recover the biblical vision of the industrious wife. This is not nostalgia. It is not role-play. It is obedience to God’s created order.

We address:

Why modern culture despises household labor

How feminism undermines biblical patriarchy

What it means for a wife to “build her house”

How husbands must protect, provide, and praise

Why authority and responsibility are inseparable

Practical steps to bring order back into the home

The collapse of the household is never neutral. Reform begins at home.

📖 Core Texts:

Who has the right to rule?

From the streets of Minnesota to the breakdown of leadership in homes and churches, we are witnessing the consequences of rejecting God’s design for authority. Paul’s confrontation with rebellion in Corinth gives us a timeless framework for understanding spiritual warfare, godly leadership, and taking every thought captive under Christ.

This episode is not political commentary. It is pastoral clarity rooted in Scripture—calling men to reclaim responsibility, exercise authority faithfully, and submit joyfully to Christ’s rule.

2 Corinthians 10 explained

Biblical authority vs. cultural rebellion

Spiritual warfare and the mind

Taking every thought captive

Authority and responsibility

Godly leadership in the home and church

Civil magistrate and lawful authority

Reformed theology applied to everyday life

Masculine responsibility and discipleship

Dominion, order, and obedience under Christ

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The Productive Household | Episode 3

In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Brandon Scroggins confront the modern crisis of fatherhood and recover a biblical vision of gravitas: a weighty, steady, trustworthy presence that brings peace, order, and joy into the home.

Our culture is suspicious of authority yet desperate for leadership. We see that confusion play out in public unrest, political chaos, and cultural rebellion—but nowhere are the consequences more personal than in the household. Scripture gives a clear blueprint: fathers are called to lead, and that authority is not optional—it’s obedience.

This episode is not about dominance or control. It’s about covenantal leadership forged through faithfulness, repentance, presence, and time.

Why authority is not optional for Christian fathers

What gravitas is—and what it is not

The danger of passivity and hyper-authoritarianism

How gravitas is cultivated through daily presence and faithfulness

Why repentance strengthens a man’s authority rather than weakening it

How a father’s leadership shapes the emotional tone of the home

A powerful real-life example of gravitas built over decades

Gravitas isn’t gifted. It’s grown. And it starts at home.

Dominion doesn’t begin in the White House—it begins in your house.

In this second episode of The Productive Household series, Nick and Brandon return to Genesis 1–2 to uncover God’s original blueprint for the family. They unpack the dominion mandate, expose the breakdown of modern households, and explore the biblical roles of husband and wife as prophet, priest, king—and home-builder.

If you've ever wondered what are we building together under Christ?—this episode is for you.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 – Cold Open: Dominion begins in the household

📖 Key Scriptures:

What happened to the productive household? In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Pastor Brandon Scroggins and Nick Carter unpack the biblical, historical, and practical vision of the home—not as a place of consumption, but as a center of dominion, discipleship, and joyful work under Christ’s lordship.

We trace how the Industrial Revolution, modern feminism, and cultural consumerism dismantled the household—and how Christian families can begin to rebuild it from the ground up.

This is not a call to nostalgia. It’s a call to obedience.

📚 Recommended Resources

Teach Them to Work by Mary Beeke

Durable Trades by Rory Groves

The Household and the War for the Cosmos by C.R. Wiley

Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey (Chapter on home/family)

Why are men leaving the church—and what does worship have to do with it?

For decades, churches have watched men quietly disengage from congregational life. Not because faith demands too much—but because, in many cases, worship demands too little.

In this episode of Everyday Reformation, we tackle a hard but necessary question:

From concert-style evangelical services to emotionally driven, consumer-oriented music, much of modern worship trains men to be spectators rather than participants. But worship is never neutral. What the church sings shapes what men love, what they fear, and what they’re willing to sacrifice for.

Joined by Pastor Brandon Scroggins and music leader Matt, we explore how recovering psalm-singing, robust hymns, and historically grounded worship is forming strong, dependable men—and reshaping the culture of the local church.

This conversation moves from diagnosis to prescription, contrasting:

Concert Christianity vs. congregational worship

Effeminate sentimentality vs. ordered strength

King Alfred’s War Song and Psalm 23—warfare and shepherding held together

This episode isn’t about musical preference.

Churches don’t drift because they stop caring. They drift because they stay busy without clear direction.

In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter is joined by Pastor Brandon Scroggins to examine why movement is not the same as mission—and how churches, families, and men can lose their way even while remaining active, committed, and sincere.

This conversation explores the difference between activity and alignment, why repeated vision matters, and how clear direction forms habits that shape people over time. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, and real church life, Brandon explains why churches must resist both complacency and the constant chase for novelty, and instead anchor themselves in durable convictions and ordinary faithfulness.

Along the way, they discuss:

Why churches experience mission drift even when attendance and activity remain high

How habits and repeated direction form church culture over time

The role of Scripture, discipleship, and shared convictions in sustaining faithfulness

How suffering and pressure reveal whether a church’s framework can actually hold

Practical counsel for families and men seeking clarity, maturity, and perseverance

The episode closes with a powerful reminder that perseverance is not ultimately grounded in our grip on God—but in His grip on us.

Same mission. Same Lord. Same Word.

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What does it mean to be a man in a culture that doesn’t even know what a woman is?

In this episode, Associate Pastor Brent Madding joins Brandon and Nick to tackle one of the most urgent crises of our time: the collapse of biblical manhood and womanhood. From the created order in Genesis to the redemptive model of Christ, Brent lays out God’s design for masculinity, femininity, and dominion—starting in the home and extending to the church and culture.

You’ll learn the 3 W’s of biblical manhood (Work, Word, Wife), how passivity and tyranny distort male leadership, and why biblical masculinity is the antidote to feminism—not by swinging back to macho posturing, but by modeling fortitude, gravitas, and meekness after Christ Himself.

🔗 Referenced Sermon:

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What He Must Be If He Wants to Marry My Daughter – Voddie Baucham

Raising Men, Not Boys – Mike Fabarez

It’s Good to Be a Man – Michael Foster

Masculine Christianity – Zachary M. Garris

0:00 – What is the most pressing issue of our day?

The war on Christmas isn’t about trees or slogans—it’s about whether the baby in the manger is truly God.

In this episode of Everyday Reformation, Nick Carter and Pastor Brandon Scroggins take listeners back to the year 325 AD, when the church stood at a crossroads. The question was simple—but explosive: Is Jesus truly God, or merely the greatest of created beings?

At the Council of Nicaea, scarred pastors who had survived persecution gathered to defend the truth of Christ’s deity. What emerged was the Nicene Creed—a confession forged in crisis, declaring that Jesus Christ is “true God from true God, begotten, not made.”

Seventeen hundred years later, the same error has returned.

Drawing on church history, Scripture, and the Ligonier State of Theology survey, this episode shows why Nicaea still matters—for the church, for Christian households, and for how we celebrate Christmas today.

This is not academic trivia.

If this episode strengthened your faith or helped you see Christmas more clearly, share it with your family, your church, or someone who needs a bigger Christ.

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May we be the church reformed,