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Crusade with Me

Crusade with Me

por Dave McKee

Superación personal Espiritualidad

Temporada 2

Is Desire Something to Control Or Something To Understand?

We’ve been taught that strong desires can be dangerous—that maturity means controlling them, resisting them, or sometimes pretending they aren’t there. But what if desire itself isn’t the enemy? In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore where desire comes from, what it may be trying to tell us, and the difference between suppression, indulgence, and formation. Maybe self-control doesn’t mean killing the fire inside us. Maybe it means understanding that fire well enough to direct it toward something good. What if the better question isn’t, “How do I stop wanting this?” What if it’s, “What is this desire actually pointing me toward?” The Truth Is Worth Seeking. Let’s keep walking.

Why Did God Make Sex Feel So Good?

Episode 178 — Why Did God Make Sex Feel So Good? If sex were only about reproduction, why did God make it pleasurable? Why did He create desire, attraction, intimacy, and bodies capable of experiencing such powerful pleasure? For centuries, Christians have sometimes talked about sexuality primarily in terms of temptation, rules, and restraint. But what happens when we begin with a different question: Why did God design it this way in the first place? In Episode 178 of Crusade With Me, Dave and Kat step into a conversation about sex, pleasure, marriage, desire, intimacy, and the goodness of the human body. We explore Scripture, human physiology, psychology, and ancient wisdom while asking whether sexual pleasure might reveal something about God's intentions for intimacy rather than merely presenting another temptation to overcome. Maybe the question isn't simply, “Where are the boundaries?” Maybe we first need to ask, “What was this created for?” This is a mature conversation about something deeply human—and something Christians shouldn't be afraid to talk about. The Truth Is Worth Seeking.

Where Does The Fire Inside You Come From?

What is that fire inside you? The drive to build. The urge to create. The desire to achieve. The anger that demands action. The attraction that pulls you toward another person. The sexual energy that can feel almost impossible to ignore. Where does it all come from—and what is it for? In Episode 177 of Crusade With Me, we explore the powerful energies woven into human life: ambition, creativity, anger, attraction, desire, and eros. Are these forces something we should fear and suppress? Something we should simply indulge? Or were they given to us for a purpose? Maybe the problem isn't that the fire exists. Maybe the real question is what are you doing with it? Because fire can warm a home—or burn it down. Join me as we continue asking the questions worth asking, following wherever the answers lead. The Truth Is Worth Seeking.

What Kind of God Would You Create?

If you could create God, what would He be like? Would He agree with your politics? Approve of your choices? Dislike the same people you dislike? Would He ever look at something you deeply believe and tell you, “You’re wrong”? For thousands of years, human beings have tried to understand the divine—from Zeus and Odin to the gods and philosophies of the ancient world. But maybe we never stopped creating gods. We simply gave them new names: money, success, politics, pleasure, identity…and ourselves. In this episode of Crusade With Me, we follow that question all the way to its answer. Genesis makes a startling claim: we weren't created to make God in our image. We were created in His. And Christianity makes an even greater claim—if you want to know what God is actually like, look at Jesus Christ. A God who washes feet. Touches outcasts. Eats with sinners. Loves enemies. Confronts hypocrisy. Gives Himself on a Cross—and rises from the dead. Maybe the question isn't whether God looks enough like us. Maybe the question is: Do I look anything like Him? The Truth is worth seeking. Let’s keep walking.

Who Gets To Define God? Spiritual Not Religious

What does it really mean when someone says, “I’m spiritual, but not religious”? In Episode 175 of Crusade With Me, Dave and Kat explore one of the fastest-growing ways people describe their relationship with faith—and ask whether spirituality without something outside ourselves to define truth can eventually become a spirituality of our own making. This isn't an argument for religious labels or institutions. It's a conversation about truth, authority, community, surrender, and the difference between seeking God and creating a god who agrees with us. Can we be spiritual without being religious? Can religion itself become empty? And perhaps the harder question: Who gets to define God? Listen. Think. Question everything. The Truth is worth seeking.

What If I'm Wrong?

What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the truth… is you? We all like to believe we're open-minded. But once a belief becomes part of our identity, changing our mind can feel like losing part of ourselves. Our brains defend what we already believe. Our tribes reward agreement. And sometimes questioning the accepted story can cost us relationships, reputation, or belonging. So what happens when the evidence points somewhere we don't want to go? In Episode 174 of Crusade With Me, we explore confirmation bias, the power of first impressions, cancel culture, tribal thinking, and three words that may be among the hardest to say: I was wrong. Because maybe wisdom isn't about never being wrong. Maybe it's about remaining humble enough to be corrected. And if the Truth really is worth seeking, we have to be willing to follow it—even when it leads somewhere we didn't expect. What if you're wrong? There may be only one way to find out. Let's keep walking.

Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It?

Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It? If everyone believed something false, would that make it true? And if nobody believed something true, would it suddenly become false? In Episode 173, Dave and Kat wrestle with the difference between belief and Truth—and the uncomfortable possibility that reality doesn't need our agreement. Are good and evil real? Does reality have an order? Why are we so good at seeing other people's deception while missing our own? And perhaps the hardest question of all: Do we really want the Truth if the Truth tells us we're wrong? The Truth is worth seeking. Let's keep picking them up and setting them down. And always "Crusade With Me?"

Reality Always Sends The Bill

Episode 172 – Reality Always Sends the Bill Every choice has a consequence—even the ones we think no one will ever see. In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore one of life's simplest and most challenging truths: reality always keeps the score. Our habits, relationships, character, and faith are all shaped by the small decisions we make every day. Why do some choices lead to peace while others lead to regret? What if God's commands aren't arbitrary rules, but the way reality itself was designed to work? And where does grace fit when we've already made a mess of things? Join us as we examine the relationship between consequence, truth, and redemption, and discover the hope found in Christ—the One who paid our greatest debt and calls us to a better way of living. Reality always sends the bill. The question is: what are we investing in today?

The Freedom of Accountability

What if accountability isn't punishment... What if it's freedom? This week, Dave and Kathy returned home from a week at the Jasper County Fair expecting to remember horses, ribbons, and competition. Instead, they found themselves watching something far more revealing—human nature. Children accepted responsibility with remarkable humility. Adults often searched for someone else to blame. Why is it so difficult to simply say, "I was wrong?" In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore why accountability has become one of the rarest virtues in modern life, and why Scripture presents it not as a burden, but as one of God's greatest gifts. Along the way, we'll discover what horses, children, ancient wisdom, and the words of Christ all have in common. Maybe every excuse keeps us stuck. Maybe every honest confession sets us free. Join us as we ask another timeless question... Could the path to real freedom begin with taking responsibility for our own lives? Slow down. Think deeply. Keep walking... and Crusade With Me.

The Conclusion To The Matter

For six episodes we've been asking difficult questions. Why do we feel like there has to be more than this? Why can't we sit still? Why has wonder faded? Why are we more connected than ever, yet increasingly alone? Why won't our minds ever stop talking? What did ancient wisdom know that we've forgotten? Now we arrive where King Solomon finally arrived after chasing pleasure, success, wealth, wisdom, work, and every earthly pursuit imaginable. "The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is this: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person." — Ecclesiastes 12:13 In this concluding episode of the Attention series, we follow Solomon's final words to the One who gives life its meaning. The search for purpose doesn't end with philosophy. It doesn't end with self-improvement. It doesn't even end with wisdom itself. It ends with Christ. Only in Him do our restless hearts find rest, our wandering minds find peace, and our endless search finally find its home. This isn't simply the end of a series. It's an invitation to begin the journey that truly matters.

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