The Harder Way Podcast

The Church That Cannot Be Eliminated — How Community Survives Persecution
This episode explores how the Cuban church's deep community, mutual care, and stewardship enable faith to endure under pressure. It urges the American church to build relationships now—so members and leaders are known, supported, and able to carry one another before crisis arrives.
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Called, Not Promoted: When God Sends You Where You'd Rather Not GoThis episode examines what it means to be called by God rather than defined by a title or position. Using stories from Cuban pastors who left comfortable livelihoods to serve their communities, the host contrasts preference with calling, explains how calling is tested and confirmed, and highlights the costs and commitments involved.
Listeners receive practical questions to name and assess their assignment, encouragement to obey faithfully, and a reminder that obedience often means doing the next good thing until the Caller releases you.
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When Scripture Rules: Rediscovering the Bible's Authority
Scott explores the centrality of the Bible, telling stories from persecuted believers and urging Christians to stop treating Scripture as a decoration or tool and to let it govern their lives. He emphasizes memorizing Scripture, submitting to its authority, and keeping the Word as the foundation when suffering or culture pressures us.
Listeners are invited to examine how Scripture has changed them, identify passages they avoid, and consider how much of the Bible would remain in their hearts if physical access were lost.
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When Fear Leads the Church: Fight, Flee, CompromiseEpisode 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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Before the Pressure: How Prosperity Steals CourageThis 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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When Comfort Becomes the MasterScott 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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Before the Pressure Comes: Lessons from the Cuban ChurchThis 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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When Faith Meets Fear: Stories from Nigeria, Cuba, and CanadaScott 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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