Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher

What do you do when you feel too weak, insecure, or inadequate to keep going? In this episode, Zach and Jill sit down after a heavy week and talk honestly about what it feels like to serve, teach, lead, parent, and follow Jesus when you don’t feel strong. Instead of pretending, they turn to Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians, where the power of the gospel is located not in eloquence, strategy, charisma, or human wisdom, but in Christ crucified. Paul says the word of the cross looks like foolishness to the world, but to those being saved, it is the power of God. The Jews demanded signs. The Greeks sought wisdom. But Paul preached Christ crucified: the power of God and the wisdom of God.

What do you do when you realize your heart has drifted? After discussing Solomon’s failure to finish strong, Zach and Jill continue the conversation with the pathway back: confession. Solomon’s legacy shows how devastating it can be when a heart turns away from the Lord. The kings after him repeat the same tragic pattern, doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord, and the temple Solomon built eventually ends in destruction. But the grace of God is that He still brings the true King through the remnant, the Lion of Judah, and Christ becomes the cornerstone of a new temple. So how do we participate in that life now? Through confession.

How does someone who built the temple of God end up building high places for false gods? In this episode, Zach and Jill sit down for a shorter conversation about finishing strong, family legacy, and the sobering warning of Solomon’s life. Solomon began with wisdom, humility, power, and purpose. He was chosen to build the house of the Lord, a place where God’s presence would dwell among His people. But later in life, his affections shift. He clings to the wrong loves, partners with foreign gods, and the man who built the exalted house of the Lord eventually builds high places for idols.

In Mark 16, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome go to the tomb with spices to anoint Jesus’ body. They love Him. They are faithful. They show up when others have scattered. But they are still expecting a corpse. Their question is simple: “Who will roll away the stone?” And when they arrive, the stone has already been moved. In this episode, Zach, Jill, and Brandon talk about why the resurrection is not only a future hope or an apologetic argument, it is power for life right now. Jesus didn’t just die so we could be forgiven and wait for heaven. He rose so that resurrection life could begin breaking into the present through the Holy Spirit.

What does Scripture have to do with politics, culture, America, and how we live in public?

In this episode, Zach and Brandon pause before finishing the Gospel of Mark to discuss a timely and complicated question: How should Christians think about authority, culture, Christian nationalism, and the public witness of the church? The conversation begins with the authority of Scripture, and what happens when God’s Word confronts our assumptions, preferences, or cultural moment. From there, they unpack why Western civilization cannot be understood apart from the Bible, how Christian ideas shaped movements like abolition and public education, and why phrases like “Christian nationalism” often need careful definition before they can be meaningfully discussed.