Salty Saints

Salty Saints

Better equipping you to be salt and light to the world around you. Join Zack and Randy as they dig in to what it means to defend our faith through apologetics and real world examples of people working out their faith. If you have any questions or topics you want us to cover, email us at saltysaints@becomehope.com.

Recent Episodes

Art can Glorify God or Tear You Down
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Jan. 27, 2026

Art can Glorify God or Tear You Down

What does God think about art? Is it frivolous and unimportant, or does it matter more than we realize? In this episode of Salty Saints, Zack and Randy explore the biblical foundations of art and why it's absolutely essential to let God into this "room of your house." From the tabernacle to Salvador Dalí, from worship music to Breaking Bad, we unpack five biblical expressions of art: physical works (paintings/sculpture), music, dance, performance arts, and words. Discover how the very first pers
Your Business is God's Business
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Nov. 7, 2025

Your Business is God's Business

Welcome to the final episode of our mini-series on letting Jesus into every area of life! (Well, maybe the next-to-last, we might do one on arts and entertainment too.) In this episode, Zach and Randy tackle business and money, the things we're told never to discuss in polite company. But should Christians really compartmentalize their faith when it comes to work? Absolutely not. 🎙️ IN THIS EPISODE: - Why the "don't talk about religion, politics, or money" rule needs to go - How God's original j
Jesus is Lord Over Your Family
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Aug. 19, 2025

Jesus is Lord Over Your Family

In this episode, we continue our series on surrendering every part of life to Jesus—this time digging into what it means for Him to be Lord over our families . This conversation gets personal real quick. From awkward Christmas dinners to parenting challenges and redefining what “family” even means, we cover a lot of ground. We share some stories from our own lives, dig deep into Scripture—Ephesians, Colossians, Peter, Proverbs, Joshua—and wrestle with how to live this stuff out in our actual hom
Jesus is God Over Your Politics
June 19, 2025

Jesus is God Over Your Politics

You ever try to talk politics without starting a fight? Yeah, me too. This week on the Salty Saints Podcast, Randy and I take a deep dive into one of the most off-limits dinner table topics— politics . But here's the twist: we’re not here to campaign for a side. We’re here to ask a much bigger question— what does it look like to let Jesus shape your political views instead of the other way around? We explore how compartmentalizing our faith is hurting our witness, why Jesus doesn’t play for eith
It's Time to Let God Rule Every Part of Your Life
May 23, 2025

It's Time to Let God Rule Every Part of Your Life

In this first episode of our new mini-series on compartmentalization , Randy and I take a deep dive into why we so often treat our lives like a house full of locked rooms—and why Jesus doesn’t want to just hang out in the foyer. We explore how our culture says, “Don’t talk about religion, money, or politics,” but the Bible says Jesus is Lord over every single room , from finances to friendships, politics to professions. This episode sets the stage for a much bigger discussion on surrender, disci
God Has Got Us Covered. What Does That Mean?
May 10, 2025

God Has Got Us Covered. What Does That Mean?

Have you ever stopped to ask what it really means when we say “God has us covered”? Is it just a nice phrase, or does it point to something far more powerful—something that reaches all the way back to the Garden of Eden, through the Old Testament tabernacle, and straight to the cross? In this mind-bending episode, Randy and I dive headfirst into the rich biblical imagery of covering —from the cloud on the mountain at the Transfiguration to the curtain in the temple being torn in two , and all th