The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson
The Daily Blade, hosted by Pastor Joby Martin of the Church of Eleven22 and Kyle Thompson of Undaunted.Life, is a short-form devotional show that equips Christians to apply the Word of God to their everyday lives.
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Episodes
396 episodes
#395 - Joby Martin // In Christ First
Your identity is never neutral. It either starts “in Christ” or it starts somewhere else, and that starting point quietly decides how you treat people, how you handle politics, and how you show up at church. We open day two of the Daily Blade b...
#394 - Joby Martin // Joy In A Prison Letter
A letter written from prison somehow becomes one of the clearest guides to joy and that tension is exactly where we start. We crack open Philippians at chapter 1, verse 1, then slow down long enough to feel the weight of the first words: “Paul ...
#393 - Kyle Thompson // Are You Carrying the Fire?
One question can save your life and reveal your soul: “Are you carrying the fire?” We end the week in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road at its most vulnerable moment a boy stands alone after his father’s death, facing a stranger with only one bullet l...
#391 - Kyle Thompson // Recognizing Tested Manhood
A burnt world, a father and son on the move, and one stubborn spark of goodness that refuses to go out. We take Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and trace the biblical themes running underneath it: mercy when it’s risky, generosity when it’s costly, ...
#390 - Kyle Thompson // When Will I See You Again?
A single bullet. An upstairs bathroom. A father doing the math on the unthinkable. We take one of the most brutal moments from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and let it expose the question underneath so many of our fears: when death comes, is that ...
#389 - Kyle Thompson // Gotta Keep Carrying the Fire
One line from a bleak story can punch straight through your defenses: “Gotta keep carrying the fire.” We take that moment from The Road and ask what it means for men who are trying to lead, love, and raise sons with courage without losing their...
#388 - Joby Martin // Judgment Is Coming
A net splashes into the sea, drags up everything in its path, and then comes the part nobody likes to talk about: the sorting. We take Jesus’ parable of the dragnet from Matthew 13 and slow it down until its meaning is impossible to dodge. Judg...
#387 - Joby Martin // Christ Is Worth It
What would have to be true for you to gladly sell everything you own? Jesus answers with two vivid images from Matthew 13: a hidden treasure in a field and a pearl so valuable it changes the buyer’s entire life. We sit with those parables and l...
#386 - Joby Martin // Mustard Seed Faith
A mustard seed is almost invisible in your hand, but Jesus says it can grow into something big enough for birds to nest in. That’s not a cute nature metaphor. It’s a reality check for anyone who feels like their faith is “too small,” their prog...
#385 - Joby Martin // Wheat Or Weeds
Jesus tells a story where the problem isn’t just evil, it’s how hard it can be to spot it early. In Matthew 13’s parable of the weeds, a farmer sows good seed, but an enemy plants look-alike weeds among the wheat. The roots tangle, the lines bl...
#384 - Joby Martin // Which Soil Are You?
Jesus doesn’t just tell nice stories. Matthew 13 shows him using parables in a way that can comfort, confront, and even expose what’s really going on inside us.We sit down in the teaching ministry of Jesus and walk through the Parable o...
#383 - Kyle Thompson // Saint Louis: Christ’s Tragic Hero
A city is sacked, pilgrims are slaughtered, and a king rises from a deathbed with one decision that will define the rest of his life. We close the week by walking through the story of Saint Louis IX, the Crusade-era French king who aimed himsel...
#382 - Kyle Thompson // Skanderbeg: The Albanian Braveheart
A kidnapper’s plan. A forced identity. A lifetime of training aimed in the wrong direction and then one decisive walk away. Today we tell the story of Skanderbeg, the legendary Albanian commander taken at age 10 and absorbed into the Ottoman sy...
#381 - Kyle Thompson // King Richard: The Lion that Roared at Islam
A warrior king built for battle shows us something most men never practice: restraint. We step back into the Crusade era and trace the high-stakes aftermath of Saladin’s victory at Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem, and the shock that rippled acros...
#380 - Kyle Thompson // The Cid: Lord and Master of War
A man gets exiled by his own king, abandoned by allies, surrounded by enemies, and still becomes the most feared and respected warrior on the battlefield. That’s the story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, and we use it to ask a...
#379 - Kyle Thompson // Duke Godfrey: Defender of Christ’s Sepulchre
A warrior scales the walls of Jerusalem, wins the city, and then does the unthinkable: he refuses the crown. That single decision cuts through a lot of modern noise about strength, ambition, and what it means to be a Christian man with a fight ...
#378 - John Eldredge // The Masculine Journey: Stages of Our Spiritual Development
The most dangerous story in your life might be the one you keep telling yourself. John Eldredge steps in for Kyle and Joby to sharpen the Daily Blade with a clear challenge for Christian men: stop clinging to the story you want to be true, and ...
#377- John Eldredge // The Masculine Journey: Relying on the Voice of God
Same enemy. Same valley. Different instructions. That’s the tension we sit in with John Eldridge as he unpacks David’s two battles with the Philistines from 2 Samuel 5 and shows why yesterday’s win is not always today’s plan. If you’ve ever tri...
#376 - John Eldredge // The Masculine Journey: An Invitation to Partnership
Chaos is everywhere right now and it is easy to feel like the faithful response is to hunker down, complain louder, or just hope God fixes it all. We take a different path by going back to the opening pages of Scripture, where God brings order ...
#375 - John Eldredge // The Masculine Journey: Bring Your Whole Life to God
Saul can’t see, can’t eat, and can’t even walk into Damascus on his own, and that’s exactly where God chooses to rebuild him. John Eldridge sits in and takes us back to Acts 9, not just to highlight Saul’s conversion, but to spotlight Ananias, ...
#374 - John Eldredge // The Masculine Journey: The Story That is True
Saul is convinced he’s the hero of God’s story, right up until a flash of light knocks him to the ground and a voice asks a haunting question: “Why do you persecute me?” We walk through Acts 9 and the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, not as distan...
#373 - Joby Martin // Fulfill Your Ministry
The fastest way to burn out is trying to live someone else’s calling. We close out this set of leadership lessons with a challenge that cuts through noise and ego: fulfill your ministry. If you’re a Christian man wondering whether you “really” ...
#372 - Joby Martin // Faithful Right Now
Chasing the next job, the next role, the next “break” can feel like motivation, but it can also become a trap. We dig into a simple leadership lesson that keeps showing up in real life: be faithful with what God has entrusted to you today inste...
#371 - Joby Martin // Trust Jesus With The Outcome
Your next big decision might not need more research, more opinions, or another round of “what if” scenarios. It might need one clear filter from John 2:5: “Do whatever he tells you to do.” We take that single verse and apply it to real leadersh...