If God Does Not Build The House, We Lose

We open with Psalm 127 and confront the lie that nonstop work can secure a home, a family, or a nation without God. We move from prayer and marriage Scripture to American history, military sacrifice, and a blunt challenge about what happens when a culture abandons Christian foundations. 
• Psalm 127 on anxious labor, rest, and God’s protection 
• A brief report on a UK sexual assault case and sentencing concerns 
• Prayer for listeners, families, marriages, and the hurting 
• Proverbs 31 as a standard for character and marriage 
• Acts 7 with Stephen’s retelling from Abraham to Moses 
• Children as a gift from the Lord, not a burden 
• Proverbs 16 on gossip, strife, and quiet evil 
• A DUI death case used to argue about immigration and public safety 
• Medal of Honor story of Jose Calugas and the reality of combat 
• Critique of coed deployable units in war and public safety roles 
• The origin of “In God We Trust” through Salmon P. Chase and Congress 
Also, if you get a chance, join us over on America's Christian Heritage Podcast. If you would leave a review of that as well, I would appreciate it. If you have five or ten dollars a month you can spare, there's a link in the show notes where you can set that up and that helps both podcasts. If you're looking for a middle grade fantasy series, kind of along the lines of Narnia, The Hobbit, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, if you would check out the first two books in the countryside series, I would be very grateful for that. And if you enjoy them, if you'd leave a review somewhere that helps other people to find them or tell them word of mouth, that's always the best. 

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Transcript

Psalm 127 On Work And Rest

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Psalm one twenty-seven starting with verse one. Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat, for God gives rest to his loved ones. Hadesh, I'm not even gonna try and pronounce the middle name. Kabatu.

UK Assault Case And Sentencing

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Epping, Essex, UK Sexual Assault of a 14-year-old girl. This was a Ethiopian Muslim asylum seeker living in Bell Hotel, taxpayer-funded asylum accommodation. Forty-one-year-old Ethiopian national arrived illegally by small boat.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

The girl had offered him pizza. And he attempted to molest her. He was also linked to assaulting another woman. And I gave him a grand total of twelve months in prison with the possibility of a quote unquote mistaken release.

Greeting Gratitude And Opening Prayer

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Hope y'all are doing well wherever y'all are, whatever part of the day you're in. Sure do appreciate you joining me, giving me a little bit of your time and attention, a little piece of your day. I will try and use it wisely. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast with others and tell others about it, thank you. For those of y'all who continue to join us every couple weeks over on America's Christian Heritage Podcast, thank you. For those of y'all who have tried out the Countryside series and left reviews and told others about it, thank you. And for those of y'all who donate to the podcast. And most of all, though, folks, for those of y'all that pray for me and for the podcast, desperately need and want those prayers above all else. So thank you very much. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, Father, and your son Jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love and your mercy, your grace, and your forgiveness of sins through the merit of your son Jesus Christ.

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Thank you for the people listening to the podcast. Father, please be with them and their families.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

Bless their marriages, bless their children, their families, guide them, calm those who are anxious, who are worried, depressed, suicidal, scared, abused, abandoned. Be with those who are brokenhearted, draw them close to you, Father. Help us to help those that have less than we do. Help us to help our country turn back to you and your son Jesus Christ.

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Be with our leaders in the pulpit and in the state. Help them to rule and lead in fear of you.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

And God, my words here, Father, please. Your son's name we pray. Amen.

Proverbs 31 And A Godly Marriage

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Marriage verses for today. Proverbs 31, 10 through 12, and 27 through 30. A wife of noble character who can find. She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her. Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. What the world says about marriage, about what men are looking for in a wife, about what women are looking for in a husband. If it doesn't line up with God's word and commands, it's not worth anything. It's actually counter destructive, right? It's it's a negative. Proverbs 31 woman was always concerned about her husband and her family at home.

Stephen Retells Israel’s Story

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Acts 7, 1 through 29. Then the high priest asked Stephen, Are these accusations true? This was Stephen's only reply. This was Stephen's reply, Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran. God told him, Leave your native land and your relatives and come into the land that I will show you. So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live. But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole land would belong to Abraham and his descendants, even though he had no children yet. God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, God said. And in the end they will come out and worship me here in this place. God also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision at that time. So when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him on the eighth day, and the practice was continued when Isaac became the father of Jacob, and when Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs of the Israelite nation. These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him and rescued him from all his troubles. And God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him governor over all of Egypt and put him in charge of the palace. But a famine came upon Egypt and Canaan. There was great misery, and our ancestors ran out of food. Jacob heard that there was still grain in Egypt, so he sent his son, sons, our ancestors, to buy some. The second time they went, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and they were introduced to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to Egypt, seventy-five persons in all. So Jacob went to Egypt. He died there, as did our ancestors. Their bodies were taken to Shechem and buried in a tomb. Abraham had bought for a certain price from Hamor's sons in Shechem. As the time drew near when God would fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt greatly increased. But then a new king came to the throne in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph. This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so that they would die. At that time, Moses was born a beautiful child in God's eyes. His parents cared for him at home for three months. When they had to abandon him, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and raised him as her own son. Moses was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in both speech and action. One day when Moses was 40 years old, he decided to visit his relatives, the people of Israel. He saw an Egyptian mistreating an Israelite, so Moses came to the man's defense and avenged him, killing the Egyptian. Moses assumed his fellow Israelites would realize that God had sent him to rescue them, but they didn't. The next day he visited them again and saw two men of Israel fighting. He tried to be a peacemaker. Men, he said, You are brothers, why are you fighting each other? But the man in the wrong pushed Moses aside. Who made you a ruler and judge over us? He asked. Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday? When Moses heard that he fled the country and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There his two sons were born.

Children As Gift And Reward

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Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects the city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat, for God gives rest to his loved ones. Children are a gift from the Lord, they are a reward from him. Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior's hands. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

Gossip Strife And Quiet Evil

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Proverbs 16, 28 through 30. A troublemaker plants seeds of strife. Gossip separates the best of friends. Violent people mislead their companions, leading them down a harmful path. With narrowed eyes, people plot evil. With a smirk, they plan their mischief.

Reviews Support And Book Plug

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Also, if you get a chance, join us over on America's Christian Heritage Podcast. We do it every two weeks on Thursday, usually. A little bit deeper dive into some of these topics that we briefly cover on the American Soul Podcast. And if you would leave a review of that as well, I would appreciate it. Very, very helpful. If you have five or ten dollars a month you can spare, there's a link in the show notes where you can set that up and that helps both podcasts. And if you're looking for a middle grade fantasy series, kind of along the lines of Narnia, The Hobbit, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, if you would check out the first two books in the countryside series, I would be very grateful for that. And if you enjoy them, if you'd leave a review somewhere that helps other people to find them or tell them word of mouth, that's always the best.

DUI Death And Immigration Warning

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Rodrigo Antonio Rodriguez Flores, Gwyneth County, Georgia, May 2026. Alicia Thomas, 43-year-old mother of a 13-year-old child. Flores was driving under the influence in a multi-vehicle crash that killed Thomas. The crash occurred near her home. He was charged with DUI vehicular homicide.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

He's a Mexican national, criminal, illegal alien. Again, Islam.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

Illegal immigration. Can't have them and keep a free society.

Medal Of Honor And Coed Units

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Jose Calugus. Probably didn't say that right. That's our Medal of Honor winner for today. Sergeant, highest rank, Captain World War II, Philippine Scouts, Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 88th Field Artillery, 23rd Division, U.S. Army, January 16, 1942, Cullus, Bataan Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands. The action for which the award was made took place near Cullus, Bataan Province, Philippine Islands, on 16 January 1942. A battery gun position was bombed and shelled by the enemy until one gun was put out of commission and all the cannoneers were killed or wounded. Sergeant Calagas, a mess sergeant of another battery voluntarily and without orders, ran a thousand yards across the shell-swept area to the gun position. There he organized a volunteer squad which placed the gun back in commission and fired effectively against the enemy, although the position remained under constant and heavy Japanese artillery fire. Accredited to Fort Stottensburg, Luzon, Philippine Islands, not awarded posthumously, presented April 30th, 1945. Camp Olivia, Philippine Islands, by Major General Richard Marshall, born December 29th, 1907. Leon DeLeola, Panay, Philippine Islands, died January 18, 1998. Tacoma, Washington, United States. Buried Mountain View Memorial Park, Tacoma, Washington. Location of metal, Fort Sam Houston Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Interesting how that metal got there. Jose Caligus. Of how the modern narrative about coed units is such just trash, really, but just so deceptive. As if if you can just keep women and out of the combat units, folks, in a theater of war, everything's a combat unit. There are no non-combatant MOSs in a theater of war. Doesn't matter whether it's infantry, combat engineering, artillery, logistics, special forces, com, admin. I didn't say that already. Supply. Right?

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Sergeant Caligus was a mess sergeant.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

That means you worked in a food, a chow hall, if you don't know what that means. Coed units deployed or deployable with the rarest of exceptions make our nation weaker and our citizens more vulnerable. And that's true in the military, and it's true in law enforcement firefighters. There are definitely places where women can serve, but co-ed units of any MOS, they don't work. They at best retard the functioning.

In God We Trust And Christian Heritage

SPEAKER_01 16:30

So we talked about in God We Trust on our currency, I think on the last podcast. And that brings us to Sam Salmon Portland Chase. U.S. Secretary of Treasury under President Lincoln, served as Governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator, was appointed by President Lincoln as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. That's an important one to note. Strong opponent of slavery and defended so many slaves that he was given the nickname Attorney General of Fugitive Slaves. November 20th, 1861, he wrote this to the director of the mint in Philadelphia. Dear sir, no nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in his defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay, with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition. Yours truly S. P. Chase. I approve your mottos, only suggesting that on that, with the Washington obverse, the motto should begin with the word R so as to read our God and our country. And on that, with the shield, it should be changed so as to read in God We Trust. March 3rd, 1865, the Congress of the United States approved Secretary Chase's instruction to the U.S.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

meant describing the motto on the coins in God We Trust. Our God and our country.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

America was founded as a Christian nation by Christians for Christians. If others want to live here, they have a responsibility to follow the principles of Christ, to support the general principles of Christ and Christianity in general. And if they don't want to do that, like the communists and the Muslims, then they have no right to live in the United States of America. Our God and our country. God the Father of Jesus Christ, his only son. And just on the offhand chance that somebody's going to throw back which happens so often about the Old Testament verses of God telling us to care for the foreigners and the sojourners, absolutely love those verses. Wish dearly that our national immigration policy was built on them, because then every single immigrant would be required to follow the principles of Christ as laid out in the Bible. So huge proponent of the Old Testament verses, if you want to use those.

Final Blessing And Sign Off

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Amen. God bless y'all. God bless your families, your marriages, your children if you have them. We'll talk to you all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.