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The Escape Room Podcast
Hosted by Darryl L Howard Sr · EN
🎙️ The Escape Room Podcast — Unlocking Faith, One Truth at a Time
Welcome to The Escape Room Podcast, where young adults team up to crack the code on life’s biggest questions through the lens of Scripture and Spirit.
Like any good escape room, the puzzles are complex, the stakes are high, and the clock is ticking. But we don’t run from the hard stuff—we run toward it, armed with biblical truth, bold faith, and the belief that God’s Word is the key to freedom.
Each week, we tackle real-world issues—identity, justice, relationships, doubt, calling, culture clashes, and more—and work together to break down the walls of confusion, apathy, and fear. This isn’t just Bible talk. It’s a mission to escape shallow Christianity and step into radical, authentic discipleship.
If you’re ready to wrestle, reflect, and rise with a generation chasing truth, justice, and Jesus—you’re in the right room.
Let’s escape the noise. Let’s unlock the truth.
This is The Escape Room Podcast.
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Mind Surgery, Not Messaging: The Mind of Christ in a Divided Church
Jan 2401:41:16Tap to summarize🎙️ Mind Surgery, Not Messaging: The Mind of Christ in a Divided Church 🧠✂️ The church doesn’t have a messaging problem. It has a formation problem. In Philippians 2, Paul doesn’t pitch unity with better language or softer tone. He prescribes something far more invasive: death to self. Not optics. Not spin. Not brand management. Mind surgery. At a moment when Christians confuse volume with conviction, outrage with faithfulness, and certainty with Christlikeness, Paul refuses to fight on the surface. He pulls the camera inward—into ego, ambition, and the unexamined motives shaping our witness. Jesus didn’t conquer through dominance. He didn’t cling to power. He emptied Himself. And that’s where this episode gets uncomfortable. Because disunity in the church isn’t mainly about politics, culture wars, or theology debates. It’s about pride—what we protect, what we grasp, and what we refuse to lay down. In this conversation, we ask: 🔍 Why knowing the truth doesn’t mean we’re living it 🩺 Why humility—not outrage—is the prerequisite for unity ⚔️ How disunity begins in the mind long before it erupts in the church ✝️ Why the cross dismantles ego, ambition, and spiritual performance 🧠 Why Paul calls us to the mind of Christ—not the spirit of the age This is not unity as silence. Not unity as compromise. But unity as cruciform obedience. If the church is going to survive this moment—let alone bear witness in it—it won’t be through better messaging. It will be through transformation. 🎧 Welcome to The Escape Room Podcast—where faith isn’t used to win arguments, but to form people.
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Unity Without Illusions: Truth, Humility, & the Kingdom of God
Jan 1700:45:55Tap to summarizeUnity is one of Christianity’s most applauded ideals—and one of its most abused. In this episode of The Escape Room Podcast, we strip the word of its sentimentality and put it back under the weight of Scripture. Drawing from Jesus’ prayer in John 17 and Paul’s prison-born witness in Philippians, this conversation argues that biblical unity is not about smoothing conflict or protecting comfort—it’s about truth-telling, self-emptying humility, and allegiance to a Kingdom that doesn’t bend to fear or power. At a moment when justice is debated, truth is politicized, and the church feels pressure to choose silence over faithfulness, this episode insists that real unity is costly—and that cost is the ego. Not unity as branding. Not unity as compromise. But unity as witness. The kind that refuses propaganda, resists domination, and dares to believe humility can still be a form of resistance. This is a call to abandon illusions, confront ourselves, and recover a unity strong enough to tell the truth—and humble enough to survive it.
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Chains, Claims, & Conscience: What Paul Teaches Us About Judgment
Jan 1001:27:52Tap to summarize🎙️ Chains, Claims, & Conscience: What Paul Teaches Us About Judgment Paul doesn’t write from a think tank or a green room. He writes from a cell. And in a culture obsessed with speed—breaking news, instant outrage, preloaded conclusions—his posture feels almost subversive. Paul refuses to rush the verdict. He won’t confuse faith with certainty. He won’t let fear masquerade as discernment. Instead, he starts with gratitude. He prays before he pronounces. He asks for love shaped by knowledge, not reactions fueled by anxiety. Philippians and Colossians force a question modern Christianity would rather avoid: What if the gospel is meant to slow us down when the world demands instant judgment? This episode examines how Christian conscience is formed under pressure—when facts are incomplete, narratives are weaponized, and silence and outrage both feel like betrayals. Because Scripture doesn’t call believers to ignore injustice. It calls them to resist premature judgment. Before the story settles. Before motives are assigned. Before conscience gets handed over to ideology. Paul reminds us: Faith isn’t measured by how quickly we speak— but by how carefully we listen. 🎧 The Escape Room Podcast — where reactions aren’t sanctified. They’re examined. 🔥
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Hijacked from Within: The 7 Mt. Mandate’s Threat to 3 Angels’ Call
Aug 1601:57:35Tap to summarizeBeneath the language of revival, influence, and “taking back culture,” a theological shift is underway—one that quietly replaces the gospel’s call to faithfulness with a hunger for power ⚠️. We examine how false prophetic movements 🐍 and the Evangelical Seven Mountain Mandate 🏔️ are reshaping Christian imagination, redirecting mission, and normalizing compromise—all while claiming divine authority. At stake is more than politics or strategy. It’s the church’s identity ⛪. Instead of proclaiming the Three Angels’ Messages 📜—truth, judgment, humility, and allegiance to Christ—many communities are being discipled into dominance, cultural conquest, and spiritual nationalism. What’s being framed as bold faith is often a retreat from biblical discernment. What’s sold as urgency can actually be impatience with God’s way of working. This episode calls believers back to first principles: to test spirits 🔍, not platforms; to guard the mission 🛡️, not chase influence; and to remember that faithfulness—not control—is how the gospel advances ✝️. If you’ve felt a quiet unease about what’s being preached, praised, or platformed lately… you’re not imagining it. This is not about fear. It’s about clarity. And the time for clarity is now ⏳🔥.
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When the Church Crowns Saul: The Dangers of Asking for a King
Apr 26, 202501:20:14Tap to summarizeIn Part 1, we asked: Where is the Lamb?—as the prophetic obsession of our age increasingly trades Calvary’s altar for culture wars, and Jesus’s crown of thorns for political coronations. In this gripping continuation of our prophetic deep dive, we travel back to the scorched pages of 1 Samuel 8, where Israel cried out not for revival—but for a ruler. Not for redemption—but for regime. And God gave them Saul. In this episode, we expose: The spiritual rebellion hiding behind political desperation The eerie parallels between ancient Israel’s demand for a king and the modern Church’s entanglement with power, parties, and Project 2025 Why choosing a “Saul” today could mean forfeiting your ability to recognize the true King when He arrives How prophetic obsession can blind us from the Lamb who already came—and is coming again And why forgetting Calvary may be the most dangerous form of idolatry in our generation 💣 This isn’t just biblical history—it’s a warning flare to the Bride of Christ. From Eden’s lie to Babylon’s pride… From Samuel’s tears to political theater on Capitol Hill… This episode doesn’t just ask where is the Lamb?—it asks: Are we so desperate for a throne, we’d crown a counterfeit? 🎧 Buckle up. This isn’t church as usual. This is The Escape Room.
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Where is the Lamb? Prophecy, Project 2025, & the Peril of Forgetting Calvary
Apr 11, 202501:30:47Tap to summarizeWhat happens when political ambition hijacks biblical prophecy? When Christian nationalism weaponizes worship? When the church, in pursuit of influence, forgets the Lamb? 📖 From Genesis to Revelation, the Lamb is central to the story of justice, sacrifice, and redemption. But in the age of Project 2025—a real-world blueprint for government overhaul steeped in dominionist theology—we explore how Scripture is being twisted to sanctify supremacy, and how eschatology is being exploited to justify authoritarian control. 🎙 Join us as we dive deep into the foundation of biblical prophecy, expose the spiritual manipulation behind today’s political agendas, and ask the sobering question echoing since Mount Moriah: Where is the Lamb?
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Faith, Fear, & Free Speech: What the Bible Says About Justice in 2025?
Apr 5, 202501:25:21Tap to summarizeThey took her in an unmarked SUV. No charges. No trial. Just a student with a message the government didn’t want broadcast. Rumeysa Ozturk’s detainment is more than one isolated case—it’s a warning flare in an America drifting toward silence, surveillance, and sanitized faith. This week, we unpack the dangerous rise of Project 2025, the gutting of DEI, and the weaponization of immigration law—all backed by voices claiming to speak for “Christian values.” But what does the Gospel actually call us to do? We also confront a question every church should be asking: If the Church isn’t standing up for justice today, why would young people show up for Sabbath School tomorrow? This episode doesn’t just expose injustice—it offers real strategies to reignite passion, relevance, and engagement among our youth. If your faith community is losing its voice—and its next generation—this is the episode you can’t afford to miss.
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Justice or Convience? The Real cost of Following Christ
Mar 28, 202501:15:25Tap to summarize🔥 Faith, Justice & Relationships: Are We Living It or Just Saying It? Love and justice aren’t optional in faith—they’re the foundation. But are we truly living them out, or just wearing the label? In this episode, we tackle the hard truths of following Christ, from injustice in the world to love in our relationships. Are we reflecting Jesus, or just playing it safe? Let’s get to work. 🎤🔥
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