Have you ever heard of cheap dopamine?

What is it?

How does it affect us?

Are there any biblical examples of someone who chased it, and found out it was all in vain?

Find out on this episode of Talking Truth!

Sources:

https://mhanational.org/resources/what-is-dopamine/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12401922/

It’s always important to be prepared for a number of situations in the wilderness.

Self-defense, which is a way of protecting oneself physically, is also a spiritual factor as well.

How do we defend ourselves physically in the wilderness?

How do we defend ourselves spiritually in the wilderness?

Find out on this episode of Talking Truth!

Welcome to the first episode of the 2026 season! This episode is my submission for Lads To Leader’s Mass Communications event.

In October of last year, I ran my final high school cross country race. This April, my time of participating in Lads To Leaders as a highschooler will be over as well. Now as I look back at my time in both of these influential programs, I have recognized some similar lessons that I have been taught through the two of them. Lads To Leaders and cross country have both shown me how to be a better Christian, and how to live out the Christian faith. So, how does faith work? First, I recognized that faith works through endurance. Having a strong faith will not remove our struggles, but will help us to rise above them. Secondly, faith works through discipline. Our faith has to be backed up by consistent habits that bear good fruit. Lastly, our faith works through our past and present cloud of witnesses. These 3 characteristics of faith help us to form a biblical faith that we can know works, because as James 2:17 says, faith, without works, is dead.