R&B Talks

About R&B Talks

The noise of our culture and the world we live in can be overwhelming. With the vast amount of information that we have access to, there is confusion as to how one should perceive the world. Reggie and Brian are two guys who seek to share their journey and wisdom garnered from their faith and life experience to lend a hand in understanding the reality we live in. We, as men, are here on this earth to be leaders, husbands, fathers, sons, friends, brothers, uncles, nephews, and witnesses. R & B Talks is one place where we try to cut through the noise of the culture and the world and help give some real transparent views on important aspects of life, men, Christianity, or whatever comes up. Join us as we have real unscripted discussions about issues and life. Just 2 guys in 2 chairs talking. ------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@randbtalks (https://www.youtube.com/@randbtalks) Check us out on Instagram: https://instagram.com/randbtalks?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg== (https://instagram.com/randbtalks?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg==) Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095476576481&mibextid=LQQJ4d (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095476576481&mibextid=LQQJ4d) Also available as a podcast on your favorite platform or via RSS feed here: https://media.rss.com/randbtalks/feed.xml (https://media.rss.com/randbtalks/feed.xml)

Publisher

Reggie Payne and Brian Kirby

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

20 Jul 2023

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

147 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   EP148 - Define It or Drop It — The Truth Behind the 'Christian Nationalist' Label

   A rock singer calls Christian nationalism the greatest threat to American democracy. A political strategist calls it a bigger threat than al-Qaeda. Neither one says what it is. Reggie and Brian take the label apart, follow the money behind the survey that made the headlines, and land where they started on EP67: bring your faith to the ballot box, never put politics above the Gospel, and make anyone who uses the term define it. KEY TOPICS: - What gets a Christian called a "Christian nationalist": pro-life votes, the nuclear family, faith at the ballot box - PRRI's five-question survey, who founded PRRI, and who funded the research - Pew: only 10% view the term favorably, and most have no opinion - The few authors who actually claim the name, and the conservative churches drawing their own line - The DSA in its own words, and the same labeling move run in the other direction - Religious freedom: why faith in Christ must be a free choice - Give God his 40: what the number 40 in Scripture teaches about seasons of testing SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: John 18:36, Matthew 22:21, Romans 13:1-4, Philippians 3:20, Matthew 28:18-20, Numbers 14:33-34, Matthew 4:1-2 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - PRRI, "Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States" (2026) and the PRRI/Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey (2023) - Pew Research Center, "How Americans Feel About Religion's Influence in Government and Public Life" (2026) - Southern Baptist Convention, "On Defending Religious Liberty" (2024) - PCA Ad Interim Committee, Partial Report on Christian Nationalism (2026) - National Women's Law Center, "Pronatalism: Just White Christian Nationalism in Disguise" - Chetty, Hendren, Kline & Saez, "Where Is the Land of Opportunity?" (2014) - Democratic Socialists of America, "What is Democratic Socialism?" - Stephen Wolfe, The Case for Christian Nationalism (2022) - Torba & Isker, Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide for Taking Dominion and Discipling Nations (2022) — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   EP147 - The Cold Open — Christian Music, False Prophets & Talking Across the Divide

   The plan was a cold open. It turned into the whole episode. Reggie and Brian follow the conversation wherever it goes, from why Christian music sounds the way it does to a gym conversation with a man who assumed a Christian couldn't talk to him, and on to why political conversation keeps collapsing. KEY TOPICS: - Why there is so little good music about ordinary life as a Christian - What counts as worship music, and playing Bethel and Hillsong songs in church - Self-proclaimed prophets and faith healers - "Those weren't Christians": disagreement is not hatred - Having a real conversation without the party labels - Dogs, shelters, and whether three is too many - Titus and a church that has been playing defense SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Titus 3:10 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Brad Wampler, Rooted in Logos podcast - Bob Dylan's gospel-era albums: Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980), Shot of Love (1981) - Bourbon & Beyond music festival, Louisville, KY — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   EP146 - Blessed, Not Lucky — Why Blessing Was Never Earned

   Why do Christians say "blessed" after a promotion but never in a hospital waiting room? Reggie and Brian take on the most overused word in Christian vocabulary: how it became a synonym for luck, where the instinct to read God's approval off our circumstances comes from, and what Jesus meant when he called the mourning and the persecuted blessed. The answer runs through the Beatitudes, Job, and Luke 13, and lands on a standing no circumstance can move, because nobody ever earned it. KEY TOPICS: - "Blessed" as a Christian word for "lucky," and why it goes silent in hard seasons - The reward-and-punishment ledger: the disciples in John 9 and Job's friends - Sowing and reaping vs. blessing: related, not the same - The Beatitudes and the woes of Luke 6 - Job 1:21 and blessing the name in the middle of loss - Luke 13 and Romans 3: why blessing was never earned SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Matthew 5:3–12, Luke 6:20–26, John 9:1–3, Luke 13:1–5, Job 1:21, Job 42:7, Romans 3:10–12, 23, Galatians 6:7, Deuteronomy 28 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Scripture read on air: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

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