The Harder Way Podcast

The Harder Way Podcast

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The Harder Way Podcast episodes

  • #185 - ep3 What Fear is Doing to the American Church

    When Fear Leads the Church: Fight, Flee, Compromise

    Episode 3 examines how fear—rather than faith—shapes many responses in the American church, driving fight, flee, and compromise. Drawing on lessons from Cuban pastors and biblical examples, Scott urges listeners to identify what their fear is teaching them and to reorder their hearts under the fear of God.

    Practical questions and vivid stories (including Peter’s failures and restoration) challenge believers to choose God’s approval over man’s and prepare for costly faithfulness.


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      • 23 min
    • #184 - ep2 Fighting the Idol of Prosperity

      Before the Pressure: How Prosperity Steals Courage

      This episode examines how comfort and prosperity can quietly dull a Christian's obedience and offers a practical response drawn from resilient pastors who faced sustained pressure.

      Scott outlines three practices—name the fear, exercise the faith, and return ownership to God—and urges listeners to practice faithfulness now so they are prepared when real pressure comes.


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        • 20 min
      • #183 - ep1 Before the Pressure Comes

        When Comfort Becomes the Master

        Scott explores how prosperity can quietly own believers, using stories from the Cuban and Eastern European churches to show how scarcity built resilience and dependence on God. He warns that comfort can erode genuine faith by making obedience optional and offers three reflective questions to test what would separate you from Christ.

         

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          • 25 min
        • #182 - Before the Pressure Comes - Series Introduction

          Before the Pressure Comes: Lessons from the Cuban Church

          This episode introduces a nine-part series drawing on the experiences of Cuban and other persecuted pastors to show how faith matures under pressure. It explains the series structure and previews themes—prosperity, fear, Scripture, calling, community, spiritual life, suffering, and providence—that shaped resilient Christian leaders.

          Listeners are invited to examine whether comfort or control governs their faith and to prepare now so their Christianity will remain faithful when conditions change.


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            • 14 min
          • #181 - Standing Firm on the Word of God

            When Faith Meets Fear: Stories from Nigeria, Cuba, and Canada

            Scott explores real stories of Christians in Nigeria, Cuba, and Canada to show how Scripture shapes courage, endurance, and faithful witness under pressure.

            The episode contrasts violent persecution, severe hardship, and growing cultural hostility, and argues that the Bible prepares Believers to stand firm when obedience becomes costly.

            Listen for a call to build lives on the Word of God, pray for persecuted brothers and sisters, and embrace the Harder Way of faith over comfort.


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              • 18 min
            • #180 - Where Are Your Two Copper Coins? A Call to All‑In Faith

              Where Are Your Two Copper Coins? A Call to All‑In Faith

              Scott invites listeners to reflect on what it means to be fully committed to Jesus. Using the devotion to the Sacred Heart, Mark 12’s widow, and James 2, the episode contrasts pride and public religion with humble, costly obedience.

              The hosts emphasize the example of persecuted believers who live out their faith at great cost, and they challenge listeners to examine where they may be holding back from surrendering everything to Christ.

              Also included: a July Bible Courier update about early missions in Cuba and instructions to sign up at atlasbible.org/bci.


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                • 25 min
              • #179 - Life On the Harder Way

                The Harder Way: Pain, Prayer, and a Growing Miracle

                Scott shares a personal testimony that connects the persecuted church's struggles with their own season of pain, surprise blessings, and answered prayer. They reflect on Bible courier work, global persecution, and how the Harder Way shapes faithful living.

                Through medical diagnosis, a hit-and-run, and a worrying prenatal report turned healthy, the host models practical faith: prayer, trust in God’s goodness, and solidarity with believers under pressure. The episode closes with specific prayer requests for persecuted and restricted churches and for the hosts’ family.


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                  • 37 min
                • #178 - Tribulation Views - On the Harder Way

                  Tribulation Explained: Faith, Fear, and the End Times

                  Scott continues his walk through Revelation, unpacking different views of tribulation — pre‑trib, mid‑trib, pre‑wrath, and post‑trib — and the larger dispensational and covenantal frameworks that shape them. They emphasize the essentials every Christian must hold while explaining how sincere believers can disagree about timing and sequence.

                  The episode stresses humility, endurance, and hope, drawing lessons from the persecuted church: keep Christ at the center, hold to the core truths of resurrection and final judgment, and practice charity toward fellow Christians who read end‑times texts differently.

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                    • 21 min
                  • #177 - The 4 Millennial Views - On the Harder Way

                    End Times Without the Fight: Guardrails, Grace, and the Four Views

                    Scott continues the Harder Way Podcast series with a careful tour through end-times interpretation. This episode outlines the key frameworks—covenant and dispensational theology—and explains four main views of the millennium (historic premillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism).

                    Scott emphasizes the importance of staying within the essentials of the faith, showing grace toward differing secondary views, and offers a personal, motivating lens for living out Christian hope.

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                      • 25 min
                    • #176 - End Times Essentials - On the Harder Way

                      Hope & Judgment: The Essentials of the End Times


                      Scott lays out the core Christian hopes about the end times: Christ's visible return, the resurrection of the dead, final judgment, the defeat of evil, and the renewal of creation—truths that unite believers across traditions.

                      He encourages watchful faith, humility on disputed details, and faithful endurance, especially for persecuted Christians, emphasizing hope over speculation.

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                        • 23 min

                      About The Harder Way Podcast

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                      Join our hosts as they discuss religious restriction, the power of Scripture, living a life of faith over fear, and what the American Church can learn from the Persecuted Church about living…