Mercy Culture

In this powerful Summer of Prayer message, Matt Lockett and Pastor Will Ford unpack John 17 and the prayer of Jesus: that His Church would be one so the world would believe. Through the story of a 250-year-old prayer kettle, generational prayer, forgiveness, revival, justice, and the call to stand in the gap, this message invites the Church to become the answer to Jesus’ prayer.

In this episode of Holy Disruption, Pastor Heather sits down with Tim Barton — historian, researcher, ordained minister, and President of WallBuilders — to dig into the truth about America's founding. From rare original artifacts to the radical Marxist agenda infiltrating education, this conversation will challenge everything you think you know about the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, and what it means to be a Christian in America today. This is history, faith, and courage colliding — and the Church needs to hear it.


TIMESTAMPS

0:00 – Cold Open: Was the Declaration of Independence called racist?
1:01 – Welcome & Episode Intro
3:38 – Meet Tim Barton: WallBuilders & the mission to restore American history
5:01 – How David Barton got started — and what a 6th grade history teacher set in motion
12:06 – The Marxist playbook: How the Frankfurt School weaponized American education
15:37 – The Louisiana hearing: Debating whether the Declaration is a "racist document"
17:25 – Tim pulls out the original draft of the Declaration — and reads the anti-slavery grievance Jefferson wrote
37:22 – The textbook crisis: Who's really funding and controlling what our kids learn?
43:06 – Deep dive: Who were the Founding Fathers really?
54:31 – The first Bible printed in English in America & the founding father who was a worship leader
1:00:19 – Westminster Catechism in first grade: What early American education actually looked like
1:12:03 – COVID, control & critical thinking: What history teaches us about trusting "experts"
1:27:17 – Christian Nationalism: Should the Church be afraid of the label?
1:30:22 – Prayer & prophetic charge over the nation


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Hear Pastor Isaac Hector from our Fort Worth Campus teach us how to live a life of prayer from the understanding that God's will and pleasure is so much greater than out own!

Pastor Uriel Torres teaches that Jesus' invitation to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” is ultimately a call to daily trust in the Father's provision rather than self-sufficiency. Through Israel's dependence on manna in the wilderness and Jesus' declaration as the Bread of Life, he reveals that God uses daily dependence to form sons and daughters who know Him as Father. Pastor Uriel challenges believers to stop relying on their own strength, pursue the Provider above His provision, and find their deepest satisfaction in Christ alone.

What would change if we really believed in prayer?

In this message, we continue through the prayer Jesus taught His disciples and focus on one simple but powerful request: “Give us today our daily bread.” Prayer is not about religious performance, impressive words, or copying church culture. It is about coming to the Father with trust, humility, and dependence.

Through the Lord’s Prayer, Acts 12, and Jesus’ words in John 6, this message unpacks what it really means to ask God for daily bread. It is not just a prayer for physical provision, and it is not a promise of wealth. It is an invitation to trust God for what we need today: provision for our bodies, strength for our souls, and a daily receiving of Jesus Himself, the Bread of Life.

God wants His people to ask, seek, and knock with faith. He is a good Father who knows what we need, delights in caring for His children, and calls us to depend on Him one day at a time.