The Awkward Pastor is a savage Christian podcast for people exhausted by fake religion, shallow answers, and plastic faith. Hosted by Brandon—a pastor and Iraq war combat vet—and Tim, a seasoned believer with real ministry scars, this show confronts chaos with biblical truth, satire, and zero concern for religious comfort. From grace for the worst sinners to exposing church hypocrisy, nothing is off-limits. If you’re tired, skeptical, or done pretending—hit play.
(Ep. #30) Former Special Forces Green Beret Keith Holland: Combat, Trauma & Joint Task Force K-9s
What happens when the mission ends, but the war leaves something behind?
Former U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret Keith Holland spent 15 years in Special Forces, with multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. But this conversation isn't just about what happened overseas. It's about what happened afterward.
In Part One of this conversation, Keith opens up about combat, traumatic brain injury (TBI), trauma, faith, dark moments after leaving the military, and the long road toward finding purpose again.
We also talk about the unexpected role dogs played in that journey and how Keith eventually turned his own experiences into a mission to help others.
Today, Keith is the founder of Joint Task Force K-9s, a nonprofit providing trained service dogs to veterans and law-enforcement officers at no cost to the recipient.
This is a conversation about war but even more than that, it's about what comes after it.
About identity when the uniform comes off.
About carrying things nobody else can see.
About God meeting us in places we never expected to be.
And about discovering that sometimes the next mission is helping somebody else survive theirs.
The mission ended. The story didn't.
This is Part One of my conversation with former Green Beret Keith Holland.
Learn more about Joint Task Force K-9s, support their mission, or apply for the program at jtfk9s.org.
11 Aug 2026
(Ep. #29) The King is Coming: Revelation 1:1-3
Revelation isn’t a locked book of riddles reserved for scholars, prophecy experts, and people with a suspicious amount of end-times charts.
It is “The Revelation of Jesus Christ" — an unveiling given by God, delivered through Jesus Christ, communicated by His angel to John, and preserved for us. Ordinary people. Working people. Christians who simply want to know their King.
In Lesson 1 of The King Is Coming, we begin our verse-by-verse journey through Revelation by unpacking what revelation actually means, tracing the remarkable chain of delivery in Revelation 1:1, and examining what Scripture means when it says these things must happen “shortly” and that “the time is near.”
How can something be “near” nearly 2,000 years later? Does God experience time the way we do? What does eternity look like from His perspective? And how should the promised nearness of Christ’s return affect the way we live right now?
Before we chase beasts, bowls, trumpets, or timelines, we have to get the main thing right:
Revelation is about Jesus Christ.
He isn’t a side character in the book.
He is the point of the entire book.
6 Aug 2026
(Ep. #28) Lead Well: The Leader's Inner World, Part 1
What does God actually look for in a leader's inner world? In this episode of Lead Well — our biblical leadership podcast series — we are tackling three of the most overlooked qualifications from 1 Timothy 3: temperate, sober-minded, and not given to wine. These are not personality suggestions. They are character requirements. And every single one of them is about what is happening inside you before it ever shows up outside you.
If you have ever worked under a leader who could not hold it together under pressure, made impulsive decisions that everyone else had to clean up, or was clearly being run by something other than the Holy Spirit — this episode explains exactly why that happens and what God requires instead.
We break down the Greek words behind each qualification, look at what the research says about emotional regulation and leadership effectiveness, and ask the question most leaders never stop long enough to answer: is there anything that has more control over you than you do?
This is Part One of a two part series on The Leader's Inner World. Part Two covers not violent and not quarrelsome — what happens when the leader gets pushed.
The Awkward Pastor — biblical leadership that says what everyone is thinking but nobody is saying.
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