September 25, 2026 • The Back 40 Leadership Podcast
Episode 130 — One Side of Hell, Wielding Power
Mel, Joel, and Michael discuss one side of hell that rarely gets talked about — the final realization of how much God loved the people who turned away from him, and why hell is the natural end we were all headed toward rather than a punishment a loving God adds. Then power: the most God-honoring way to use authority, Jesus’ teaching that the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and the difference between leaders people fear and leaders people love. From there they ask how to correct sin without driving someone into secrecy, drawing on Solzhenitsyn’s account of the Gulag. They close on cheap grace — mercy that looks the other way without calling for repentance — and the difference between shame and conviction.
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