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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

You Are Going To Die One Day (Part I with Kelly K)

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Former U.S. Senator and university president Ben Sasse faced a stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis in late 2025—a stark "death sentence" that forced him to confront mortality head-on. Instead of despair, he embraced family, faith, and resurrection hope, transforming his final days into a powerful testimony of purposeful living. Mike Slater, host of Politics By Faith, draws inspiration from Sasse's journey to show how facing death reorients priorities away from fleeting pursuits toward what lasts forever. Blending this real-life story with timeless wisdom literature from Scripture, the special reveals how an eternal mindset brings deeper joy, love, and faithfulness in Christ. This is part one of two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.7

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0:15.2

Welcome to Politics by Faith.

0:16.9

Thanks for being here.

0:17.4

Just recorded a really wonderful TV show here we never know when we embark

0:25.8

on the TV show journey how it's going to go and then we do it and we're like oh that was that

0:30.4

actually worked out praise god so this one's called life death and the eternal mindset and the opening

0:37.1

here we talk about why we went down this road.

0:40.3

And then we had some great guests.

0:42.3

And in this part, we talked with Kelly Kay, a guy who had a near-death experience

0:47.3

and then changed his life a lot afterwards.

0:50.3

Great story. Enjoy.

1:03.4

America is the greatest country in the world. Thanks for being here. Welcome to today's special, life, death, and the eternal mindset. What really inspired this special today is a letter

1:12.4

that the former senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse,

1:16.4

wrote just before Christmas.

1:19.4

And then the contents of this letter

1:22.7

was reinforced by my back hurting

1:26.0

after squatting a little too much or something. And then my wife

1:30.4

saying, she thinks my hair is thinning. And then I ran into a door the other day. Maybe if you

1:38.0

look at last week's episode, you could see it. It's feeling pretty good, but I ran to a door.

2:02.6

In other words, I'm getting old. I wish I could play the Louis CK clip. It's too many swear words, but there's a bit he does that he says, when you're in your 30s, you're just shuffling along in life. And you don't even know you're moving. And then you notice, like, way down there, people falling off the edge and you're like like, oh, weird, like what's going on? And then all of a sudden you get closer and someone falls off and you're like, wait, I knew that guy.

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