🎙️ Code Red Talk | Standing for Truth in Enemy Territory with Jacob Van Sickle ✝️🛡️

What does it look like to live faithfully in a culture hostile to truth?

In this powerful and timely episode of Code Red Talk, Pastor Zach Terry sits down with Jacob Van Sickle, founder of Truth in Love Ministries, to discuss spiritual warfare, cultural confusion, and how believers can stand boldly for biblical truth, without losing compassion. 🧭🔥

Together, they explore:

✅ Jacob’s bold calling to preach biblical truth in a post-truth world

✅ The explosive rise of gender ideology and how it’s targeting the next generation

✅ Why love and truth must never be separated—and how both are needed to reach people trapped in deception

✅ Stories from the front lines of ministry: delivering the Gospel in hostile environments

✅ What churches can do to equip parents, youth, and pastors for spiritual battle ⚔️

✅ How social media, secular media, and progressive theology are reshaping minds, and how we push back with Scripture 📱📖

✅ Encouragement for weary Christians standing in enemy territory 💪🕊️

Whether you’re a parent, pastor, or simply someone wondering how to live boldly without fear of labels, this episode will challenge you to speak the truth in love and stand firm in the faith.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction

00:29 Providence, RI: from religious refuge to secular stronghold

02:52 Planting in Rhode Island: not the easy choice, but the right one

15:35 Discovering true biblical community in college: “This is church.”

16:10 Why real Bible-teaching churches are hard to find—and where to look

17:42 Why college ministry is costly—but worth it

19:03 Spiritual legacy: raising up the next generation to endure

24:33 How to stay civil with ideological opponents in divided communities

32:27 From chaos to calling: how God led Jacob into ministry

45:47 Spiritual warfare in marriage and ministry: “It just didn’t make sense”

46:21 When the enemy overplays his hand: spiritual clarity through attack

51:14 The spiritual difference when people are praying for you

54:49 The battle for worldview in public schools and Christian resistance

56:39 Starting a classical Christian school alongside church planting

58:43 Classical vs. modern education: what’s the difference?

01:03:30 How Francis Schaeffer predicted today’s cultural collapse

📚 Mentioned by Jacob:

Truth in Love Ministries → https://www.truthinlove.tv/

Sacred City Church → https://www.sacredcity.church/

Campus Fellowship → https://campusfellowship.com/

Providence Classical Academy → https://www.pvdclassicalacademy.com/

Resources for churches, parents, and students are available on their site

Book recommended: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman

💬 "We are not called to be liked. We are called to be faithful." – Jacob Van Sickle

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