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The first campaign promise ever made was a lie. In the garden, the serpent offered Eve something good without God and without cost (Genesis 3:4-5). Days before the 2026 midterms, that same offer is on the ballot. My good friend Lonnie Poindexter returns to the show. He is a Washington correspondent, the founder of the Lion Chasers Network, and one of the first guests ever to sit in this chair. We take on the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and the “Jesus was a socialist” argument, answered from Acts 5:4 and 2 Corinthians 9:7. Then we ask why the economy moves almost every voter except Black voters, through Exodus 16:3 and the meat pots of Egypt. Along the way: the history most of our community was never taught, and the part the Republican Party owns. We close with a wine literally named The Devil’s Lie, from a winery co-founded by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband, and the allegations surrounding it. In this episode: DSA’s primary wins and the offer underneath the affordability pitchWhat Acts 4 and 5 actually teach about property and givingWhy pastors are silent, and the churches that will be left with empty buildingsLincoln, Andrew Johnson, the civil rights amendments, and the history that leapfrogged our communityWhy vote your values, not your rationsThe eStCru winery and Chairman Comer’s empty-barrels claimBenaiah, the lion in the pit, and why Christians are called an army Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

What happens to a Christian’s faith if their side loses the 2026 midterm elections? With Election Day two weeks away and Republicans trailing on the generic ballot, pastor, attorney and political commentator Marc Little turns to Hebrews 11:6: “And without faith it is impossible to please God.” Marc explains what the verse assumes before it ever mentions faith. He shows why the word “impossible” puts pleasing God in the same category as God lying, and why a Christian’s vote is a duty and not a verdict. He also shares how watching his own father provide shaped the way he understood faith, and how Romans 8:15 corrected a walk built on fear instead of sonship. In this episode: Two wrong reactions to Election Day: despair and idolatryMoving our hope from the throne to our CongressFaith as assurance about what we do not seeWhy the faithful in Hebrews 11 did not all receive what was promisedFour marks of faith on November 4: trust, intimacy, calling and authorityChristians as Christ’s ambassadors, aligned with candidates but not defined by themSend us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Should a Christian vote for a flawed candidate? With the 2026 midterm elections weeks away, Pastor Marc Little asks what a believer owes the ballot box, and he answers it as a pastor, a lawyer and a political commentator. Marc opens with the scoreboard: the generic ballot, the Senate map, and the races that will decide control in Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Maine, Alaska and Kansas. He explains why Democrats lead on the cost of living, why Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed could not say Iran is a threat, and what the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America means for voters. He then names four things on the ballot besides affordability: religious liberty, the border, law and order, and women’s sports. From Matthew 5, Marc makes the case that salt and light do nothing from a distance, and that voting is a duty for a Christian. He takes on the harder question of the morally imperfect candidate, drawing on Jethro’s counsel to Moses, Romans 3:23, and Cyrus, the pagan king God called His anointed. The episode ends in Texas, where James Talarico and Ken Paxton are in a dead heat for the United States Senate. Marc defines apostasy, reads Talarico’s own words about God and Christianity, states Paxton’s marital scandal plainly, and explains why he votes the record. There is no virtuous party in this country. The ballot box and a Bible study are two different things. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Does the Bible tell Christians to pray for someone who did something evil? Pastor Marc Little reads six passages, three that seem to say stop and three that say pray, and leaves the verdict with the listener. The question comes from the Lindsay Clancy case, where three children are dead. If the church prays for her, what should it pray for? Should it pray for her at all? Marc puts both questions to Scripture. Jeremiah 7:16, John 17:9 and 1 John 5:16 seem to close the door on prayer. Luke 23:34, Matthew 5:44 and Jeremiah 29:7 point the other way. Stephen's last words, Paul's own history, Romans 1 and 2, and 1 Timothy 2 pull the two sides together into a conundrum no decent person can wave off. There is no recited prayer and no easy answer. The text challenges, and the listener decides. Marc believes she should answer to the full weight of the law, and he is honest about how hard it is to pray for her. Scripture references (NIV): Romans 1:28, 1:32, 2:1, 2:4. Jeremiah 7:16, 29:7. John 17:9. 1 John 5:16. Luke 23:34. Matthew 5:44. Acts 7:60, 8:1. 1 Timothy 1:13, 2:1-4. 1 Samuel 15:23. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Why are a growing number of Black women leaving the church for Ifa, Orisha worship, and other ancestral religions, and what does the Bible say about the trade they are making? In Paid in Full | Sex and the Ancient Exchange, Pastor Marc Little, an attorney and political commentator, starts with a CBS Baltimore news report on women who worship Osun, the Orisha of beauty, sex, and sensuality, then follows the same exchange from Beyoncé's stage to a New Orleans love-spell shop to the pages of Scripture. The episode takes the pain behind the exodus seriously, including church scandal, unanswered prayer, and hurt no pulpit addressed, and explains why a real wound does not make a counterfeit cure work. Marc then walks through Romans 1:25, King David and Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11, and the Baal of Peor in Numbers 25 and 31, showing how sex has been used to buy power, identity, and belonging from Eden to Shittim to today. He closes at the well in John 4, where Jesus offers the real thing to a woman who kept drinking from the wrong source. If you have searched for answers on sex and spirituality, spiritual freedom, ancestral worship, Santeria, Vodou, Beyoncé and Oshun, or why people leave the church, this is a biblical and pastoral response from a pastor. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and has never disputed it. The only question at trial was whether postpartum psychosis erased her criminal responsibility for it. After six weeks of testimony, the jury deadlocked eleven to one. Eleven were ready to let her go. One would not. This episode is about that one man, and about a culture that has quietly decided some children are worth protecting and some are not. Marc Little, a pastor, lawyer, and political commentator, breaks down what actually happened in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, separates the prosecution's theory from what the jury actually decided, and introduces a word he believes the English language needed and didn't have: Mothicide. He tells the story of Michael Desronvil, the lone holdout juror who wouldn't move, what happened to his name and his family once the media found him, and what it says about this country that eleven jurors nearly excused her and one man alone would not. From there, Marc widens the lens to Massachusetts itself: a new law removing the state's gestational limit on abortion, a school policy that lets educators withhold a child's gender identity from parents, and a state medical guidance letting minors bypass parental consent for gender-affirming care. Three different rooms, one pattern. The episode also takes on Oprah Winfrey's podcast episode on the Clancy case, where a guest doctor asked listeners for sympathy based on Clancy's "melanin" and "privilege," and asks where the church's voice has been through all of it. Marc closes with a word for Patrick Clancy, the father in this story nobody is talking about, and a prayer for the children, for the holdout juror, and for a culture he believes has drifted further from the heart of God than it knows. This episode is for anyone who has followed the Lindsay Clancy case, anyone wrestling with postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility, and anyone willing to ask an uncomfortable question: whose side are you really on. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Are you inviting more into your life than you realize? In this episode of The Marc Little Show, Pastor Marc Little continues the Familiar Spirits series with Part 2, Abracadabra?, looking at how demonic influence rarely arrives through a ritual. It arrives through a word. Marc walks through two real examples from the last several months: a public figure who described being able to astral project and used the term "third eye," language rooted in Hindu and New Age chakra teaching, and a pastor who taught his congregation that the word "abracadabra" could help get their bills paid if spoken aloud. Neither example is about attacking a person. Both are about a pattern Scripture already warned us about in Deuteronomy 18. In this episode you'll hear: Why the door to demonic influence almost always opens on vocabulary before it opens on ritualThe real difference between prayer and incantation, and why confusing the two mattersFour warning signs Marc has identified after years of pastoral counseling that a destructive pattern may involve more than willpowerWhy "discerning of spirits" is a gift Scripture lists in 1 Corinthians 12, not a technique to purchaseThe biblical test for any spiritual claim, and why accuracy alone is never enoughThis is part two of a two part series. If you haven't heard Part 1, The Voice at Endor, start there for the full picture. Faith, the Law, and Politics. I'm Marc Little. Take inventory of your house. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Something answered Saul at Endor. Most teaching says it was the prophet Samuel. I do not believe it was, and in this episode I tell you why. We start with a word almost nobody looks up. Familiar. When the King James translators reached these passages they did not choose a frightening word, they chose a domestic one. Familiar comes from the Latin for household. Of the family. Of the house. A familiar spirit is a household spirit, which means it is not a stranger. It is something that has been near enough, long enough, to learn the family's business. Then I lay out the argument on 1 Samuel 28. Saul went to a medium. That is not in question. So if God permitted the real Samuel to come up through that woman, He honored the very practice He called an abomination in Deuteronomy 18. God does not forbid something on Monday and work through it on Tuesday. Tertullian made this same case around the year 200. Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin all landed in the same place, and they got there by reading the prohibition rather than studying the phenomenon. We walk the four things these spirits do. They observe. They imitate. They speak accurately, which is why accuracy is never the test. And they wait. I also draw a line that gets missed and does damage when it does. A familiar spirit does not equate to a person having demonic influence. Consulting is one thing, influence is another, and possession is a third thing entirely. A believer can be influenced. A believer cannot be possessed, because the title to your life transferred at Calvary. Scripture in this episode, King James throughout: 1 Samuel 28, 1 Chronicles 10, Leviticus 19 and 20, Deuteronomy 18, Job 1, 1 Peter 5, Acts 16, Luke 4, John 10:10, 1 Corinthians 6, Colossians 2:15. Part one of two. Part two takes up how these spirits get in, and what that looks like in this culture right now. I am Marc Little, pastor, attorney, and political commentator. The Marc Little Show publishes weekly at marclittleshow.com. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Everyone quotes "separation of church and state." Almost nobody has read where the phrase actually comes from. In this episode of The Marc Little Show, Pastor Marc Little, a pastor, lawyer, and political commentator, goes back to January 1, 1802, and the letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut. Marc walks through the letter in full context and makes the case that the wall it describes was built to keep government out of the church, not to keep God out of government, a distinction that has been inverted over the last two centuries. From there, Marc traces four Supreme Court rulings across sixty years that reshaped the role of faith in American public life: Engel v. Vitale (1962), which removed prayer from public schools; Roe v. Wade (1973); Stone v. Graham (1980), which struck the Ten Commandments from Kentucky classrooms; and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). He connects each ruling to Proverbs 14:34, arguing that a nation's moral foundation cannot be legislated out of existence by court order alone. The episode then turns to the case now sitting in front of the Supreme Court, Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District, the legal fight over Texas Senate Bill 10 and its requirement that public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Marc lays out both sides of the constitutional argument honestly, then raises a direct challenge to the Christian and Jewish families named as plaintiffs in the case, asking whether their objection is to a specific translation, or to the moral law itself. In this episode, Pastor Marc covers: The real story behind Thomas Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist AssociationWhy the "wall of separation" was built to restrain government, not to erase God from public lifeFour Supreme Court rulings that reshaped faith in American public life: Engel v. Vitale, Roe v. Wade, Stone v. Graham, and Obergefell v. HodgesThe current Supreme Court case over Texas SB10 and Ten Commandments displays in public classroomsWhy some of the plaintiffs challenging SB10 are Christian and Jewish, and what that reveals about the argumentProverbs 14:34 and what it means for a nation's moral foundationIf you are searching for: The truth about separation of church and state, a Christian legal perspective on the Ten Commandments in public schools, a biblical and constitutional analysis of religious liberty, or coverage of the Cribbs Ringer v. Comal ISD Supreme Court case, this episode covers all of it. The Marc Little Show examines faith, law, and politics with the seriousness those subjects deserve. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Listen and follow: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | marclittleshow.com Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Blood has never been neutral. From child sacrifice in ancient Canaan and Carthage to the Levitical sacrificial system, the cross of Christ, and the modern abortion debate in America, Pastor Marc Little traces one continuous question through history: who is cashing the check? In this episode, Marc walks through Leviticus 18, 2 Kings 23, and Hebrews 9 to unpack the difference between pagan bloodshed and God's provision of a substitute. He explains what Leviticus 17:11 means when God says "I have given it for you," why the tophet at Carthage still matters to the biblical narrative, and how Molech worship turned personal and national crisis into child sacrifice. Marc also brings the ancient pattern into the present, examining Massachusetts abortion law, the expanding legal landscape around reproductive rights, and public claims made by the Satanic Temple in recent religious liberty lawsuits. He argues the real issue underneath the politics is the value of vulnerable human life made in the image of God. You'll discover why the tophet at Carthage matters to the biblical story, how Molech worship turned crisis into child sacrifice, what Leviticus 17:11 actually means, why Hebrews insists on blood but not repeated sacrifice, and how Christ's blood ends the cycle with full atonement, adoption, and sonship. This is a conversation on faith, law, and politics that connects atonement, sacrifice, and the sanctity of life in a way you won't hear anywhere else. Pastor Marc Little is a pastor, lawyer, and political commentator who brings biblical theology into direct conversation with law and culture on The Marc Little Show. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Massachusetts just signed a law erasing every gestational limit on abortion, becoming the tenth state in the country with no cutoff before birth. In this episode, Pastor Marc Little traces that decision back three thousand years to the worship of Moloch, the god who demanded a child in exchange for prosperity, and argues the exchange behind abortion has never actually changed, only its name has. Marc also walks through the documented history connecting the eugenics movement, Margaret Sanger's 1939 Negro Project, and the founding of Planned Parenthood to a campaign specifically aimed at reducing births in the black community, and shares what he has seen firsthand in years of post-abortion counseling ministry, including the reality of post-abortion stress syndrome. This is a legal, historical, and pastoral look at a law most of the country never heard was signed. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

WNBA transgender controversy, explained through a four thousand year old lens. Pastor, lawyer, and political commentator Marc Little breaks down the fight over biological men in women's sports, and traces it back to an ancient religious cult most people have never heard of. The debate over Sophie Cunningham's comments, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert's memo to teams, and Cheryl Reeve's stance on trans inclusion in women's basketball is not a new argument. Marc connects it to Ishtar and Inanna, the ancient Mesopotamian goddess whose temple priests blurred the line between male and female as an act of religious devotion, four thousand years before Title IX existed. You'll hear: Who the assinnu, kurgarru, and gala were in the cult of Ishtar, and what the historical record actually supportsWhy Enheduanna, history's earliest known named author, wrote about a goddess with power to turn a man into a womanHow this week's WNBA transgender athletes controversy exposed a real gap between the league's stated values and its own standardsWhy Marc argues the fight over biological men in women's sports isn't just about sports, it's about created orderHow Genesis 1 and Deuteronomy 22 frame a biblical response to what male and female actually areMarc Little is a pastor, lawyer, and political commentator known for a direct, scripture-rooted take on the culture war stories everyone else is arguing about. He doesn't treat the WNBA gender debate as a neutral policy question. He treats it as a fight over truth, worship, and what it means to be human. If you're following the transgender athletes in sports debate, the WNBA controversy, or you just want an episode that connects ancient history to this week's headlines, this one is for you. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

Many of us spend years chasing connection, validation, and even mending broken relationships, only to find an unshakable restlessness underneath. If you have ever felt a persistent ache, like something is still missing even after reconciliation, this episode names that ache. It is called the orphan spirit, a hidden wound carried by millions. Whether your father was absent, emotionally distant, or present but disconnected, that wound can stay buried for decades, quietly shaping your relationships, your sense of purpose, and your sense of belonging. In this episode, Pastor Marc Little unpacks the orphan spirit through three distinct doors: the father who was never in the home, the father who was physically present but emotionally checked out, and the father who loved but never learned to show it. Marc explains how these wounds create a hunger for affirmation and belonging that reconciliation alone often cannot satisfy, drawing on his own story of reconciling with his father later in life and discovering that reconciliation was not the same thing as healing. Marc turns to Scripture for the answer. The older brother in Luke 15. Jesus' promise in John 14:18 that He will not leave us as orphans. Paul's teaching in Ephesians 1 that our adoption as sons and daughters was predestined, not an afterthought. Healing from the orphan spirit is not about erasing the ache. It is about receiving a Father who was never waiting to be convinced to love you. If you are tired of surface-level fixes, or waiting on a reunion to finally settle the ache inside you, this conversation offers something different. You were never actually without a Father. Discover how to name the wound, understand the difference between father hunger and father wound, and find the healing that only comes from Abba Father. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

What do you do when the headlines keep piling up faster than your peace can hold? In this episode of The Marc Little Show, Pastor Marc Little unpacks what he calls "the prayer that has never failed you," starting with a real conversation he had with an elderly woman in a Texas corner store who was quietly carrying more than she could say out loud. Marc walks through Matthew 27:51 and the torn temple curtain, explaining why that single verse changes everything about how we approach God with our worry. He turns to 1 Thessalonians 5:17 and Luke 18:1 to challenge the idea that prayer is a last resort rather than a daily rhythm, then tells the story of Peter's prison escape in Acts 12 as proof that prayer reaches places we cannot. He's honest, too, about what prayer does not promise, using Jesus's anguished prayer before the crucifixion to show that peace doesn't always mean the crisis disappears. It means we're ready to walk into it. The episode closes with the story of King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20:21, who sent worshippers ahead of his army into an unwinnable battle, and a challenge to trust God with the things we were never assigned to fix. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.

A Texas jury sent a 19-year-old to prison for 35 years. The music industry that sells the same violence in three-minute increments walks away with the royalty check. Pastor Marc Little asks the question nobody in the culture wants to sit with: why does the law treat a lyric about murder as protected art, and a moment of real rage as a life sentence? In this episode, Marc breaks down the Karmelo Anthony case, the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas track meet, and the 35-year sentence a Collin County jury handed down in June 2026. He walks through what Texas self-defense law actually requires, why the "sudden passion" argument failed, and how that legal standard sits next to an entire music catalog built on glorifying contract killings, cartel violence, and casual harm to bystanders, with no courtroom in sight for the artists cashing the checks. This episode covers: What Texas law requires to prove self-defense, and why Anthony's case didn't meet itThe First Amendment protection given to violent lyrics, and where courts have drawn the line on using an artist's own words against them in a prosecutionCalifornia's Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act (AB 2799) and what it actually does, and doesn't, protectWhy an industry that profits from glorifying violence rarely answers for the violence it inspiresThe danger of reframing a jury's verdict as racial injustice instead of confronting what happened in that courtroomMarc Little is a pastor, attorney, and political commentator, and the author of The Prodigal Republican: Faith and Politics (Westbow Press). He brings two decades of courtroom experience to a conversation most media outlets are afraid to have honestly. If you've watched this case in the headlines and wondered how the law can protect a lyric but not a life, this episode is for you. Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show If you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.