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The Confessionals
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Jamie Walden joins Tony for a direct and practical conversation about preparedness, survival, and the responsibility Christians have to think ahead. Drawing from his background as a Marine Corps infantry sergeant and years of ministry work, Jamie explains why preparation is not rooted in fear but in wisdom, stewardship, and protecting the people God has placed in your care. He walks through the mindset shift believers need if systems fail, emphasizing community, skill-building, and the importance of developing resilient families and churches. The discussion also explores how modern comfort has weakened many people’s ability to endure hardship. Jamie argues that preparation begins with spiritual readiness, but it must also include practical planning and discipline. The goal, he says, is not isolation or paranoia, but building communities capable of standing firm and helping others when difficult times arrive.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing, |
| 0:04.4 | head on over to the confessionalspodcast.com. Hit the join button and become a member today. |
| 0:10.7 | Merkel. Media. |
| 0:17.0 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:22.6 | I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:33.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:40.3 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:47.3 | And he starts running and firing up this giant. |
| 0:50.3 | Well, the giant moves. |
| 0:52.3 | He's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast. |
| 0:56.0 | It spears, Dan, holds him up like this. |
| 1:00.0 | Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. |
| 1:02.0 | They basically decapitated. |
| 1:04.0 | Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, |
| 1:08.0 | when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that |
| 1:12.3 | 12 days and I blow this head off. I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are |
| 1:19.2 | two small gray entities pulling it. And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. I |
| 1:26.6 | reached my hand into this bush, |
| 1:28.5 | and I touch air. Couldn't breathe and I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster. |
| 1:35.2 | All right. Today we got returning again, Jamie Walden. How you doing, man? Good, man. I'm glad you |
| 1:41.2 | hear. We were going to do this in person, and we were looking at at the clock and we were like, okay, we're not going to have enough time to record two recordings. So we recorded the episode that everybody heard this past Tuesday and this conversation was meant to be in studio, but we're doing a remote so that we could have more time to, I don't know, eat food after we were |
| 2:01.2 | doing recording. Yeah, because we were already talking for like six hours by the time we were done talking. So yeah, that's one of the things. It's like I, I'll bring people in to the studio. We'll sit down in the green room. We'll start talking. And then at some point, it's like, okay, this needs to be on the recording. Let's get in this studio. But what I wanted to open up with this, |
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