The Devil's Lie

Texas lost its governor, its lieutenant governor, and a United States Senate seat on the same night, and a thirty-two year run of Republican statewide wins ended with it. Democrats took both the House and the Senate. Marc Little uses Texas as the lens for the November 3 midterms and asks what happened and what the church does next.He starts with where the count stands and the history of presidents losing seats in a midterm, then turns to the Iran war, gas prices, and the cost of living. In Texas, the swing from Donald Trump’s 2024 margin to James Talarico’s win is about twenty-six points in two years. Marc has not called the election fraud. He says an outcome that extreme in a state that red is worth asking questions about, and he explains why he uses the word irregular for the 2020 count night in Fulton County, Georgia.The last segment is pastoral. Marc looks at what it means to be Christ’s ambassadors, why disciples vote, and what the drop in the evangelical share of the electorate says about who showed up.Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20, Matthew 28:19-20, Daniel 2:21, and Proverbs 29:2 (NIV).Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Is God punishing me? A woman asked me that at our No Longer Bound retreat this past weekend. Years ago she had an abortion. She repented. She did the work. And she still has not been able to conceive. Somewhere in that silence, a voice started building a case against her, and the sentence it handed down was an empty nursery.If that question has followed you, this episode is for you. Scripture answers it directly.We look at the disciples’ question about the man born blind in John 9, Jesus’ answer about the tower of Siloam in Luke 13, and God’s rebuke of Job’s friends in Job 42. We walk through the barren women of the Bible, Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Hannah and Elizabeth, women Scripture calls loved, faithful and blameless. We name the accuser from Revelation 12:10. And we stand on what Isaiah 53, Romans 8:1, Psalm 103 and Hebrews 10:17 say about a punishment that Christ already carried. I spent a lot of years in courtrooms, and a court does not sentence a person twice for the same offense.This one is personal for me. My wife and I walked through more than a decade of this very pain.I can’t promise you a baby. I can promise you that God’s love for you is not measured by what your body can or cannot produce, and that He gives the childless a name better than sons and daughters (Isaiah 56:5).If you are carrying the pain of a past abortion or miscarriage, No Longer Bound Abortion and Miscarriage Recovery Ministry will walk with you toward healing. Learn more at nolongerboundministry.org.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

The first campaign promise ever made was a lie. In the garden, the serpent offered Eve something good without God and without cost (Genesis 3:4-5). Days before the 2026 midterms, that same offer is on the ballot.My good friend Lonnie Poindexter returns to the show. He is a Washington correspondent, the founder of the Lion Chasers Network, and one of the first guests ever to sit in this chair. We take on the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and the “Jesus was a socialist” argument, answered from Acts 5:4 and 2 Corinthians 9:7. Then we ask why the economy moves almost every voter except Black voters, through Exodus 16:3 and the meat pots of Egypt. Along the way: the history most of our community was never taught, and the part the Republican Party owns. We close with a wine literally named The Devil’s Lie, from a winery co-founded by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband, and the allegations surrounding it.In this episode:DSA’s primary wins and the offer underneath the affordability pitchWhat Acts 4 and 5 actually teach about property and givingWhy pastors are silent, and the churches that will be left with empty buildingsLincoln, Andrew Johnson, the civil rights amendments, and the history that leapfrogged our communityWhy vote your values, not your rationsThe eStCru winery and Chairman Comer’s empty-barrels claimBenaiah, the lion in the pit, and why Christians are called an armySend us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

What happens to a Christian’s faith if their side loses the 2026 midterm elections? With Election Day two weeks away and Republicans trailing on the generic ballot, pastor, attorney and political commentator Marc Little turns to Hebrews 11:6: “And without faith it is impossible to please God.”Marc explains what the verse assumes before it ever mentions faith. He shows why the word “impossible” puts pleasing God in the same category as God lying, and why a Christian’s vote is a duty and not a verdict. He also shares how watching his own father provide shaped the way he understood faith, and how Romans 8:15 corrected a walk built on fear instead of sonship.In this episode:Two wrong reactions to Election Day: despair and idolatryMoving our hope from the throne to our CongressFaith as assurance about what we do not seeWhy the faithful in Hebrews 11 did not all receive what was promisedFour marks of faith on November 4: trust, intimacy, calling and authorityChristians as Christ’s ambassadors, aligned with candidates but not defined by themSend us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Should a Christian vote for a flawed candidate? With the 2026 midterm elections weeks away, Pastor Marc Little asks what a believer owes the ballot box, and he answers it as a pastor, a lawyer and a political commentator.Marc opens with the scoreboard: the generic ballot, the Senate map, and the races that will decide control in Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Maine, Alaska and Kansas. He explains why Democrats lead on the cost of living, why Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed could not say Iran is a threat, and what the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America means for voters. He then names four things on the ballot besides affordability: religious liberty, the border, law and order, and women’s sports.From Matthew 5, Marc makes the case that salt and light do nothing from a distance, and that voting is a duty for a Christian. He takes on the harder question of the morally imperfect candidate, drawing on Jethro’s counsel to Moses, Romans 3:23, and Cyrus, the pagan king God called His anointed.The episode ends in Texas, where James Talarico and Ken Paxton are in a dead heat for the United States Senate. Marc defines apostasy, reads Talarico’s own words about God and Christianity, states Paxton’s marital scandal plainly, and explains why he votes the record. There is no virtuous party in this country. The ballot box and a Bible study are two different things.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Does the Bible tell Christians to pray for someone who did something evil? Pastor Marc Little reads six passages, three that seem to say stop and three that say pray, and leaves the verdict with the listener.The question comes from the Lindsay Clancy case, where three children are dead. If the church prays for her, what should it pray for? Should it pray for her at all? Marc puts both questions to Scripture. Jeremiah 7:16, John 17:9 and 1 John 5:16 seem to close the door on prayer. Luke 23:34, Matthew 5:44 and Jeremiah 29:7 point the other way. Stephen's last words, Paul's own history, Romans 1 and 2, and 1 Timothy 2 pull the two sides together into a conundrum no decent person can wave off.There is no recited prayer and no easy answer. The text challenges, and the listener decides. Marc believes she should answer to the full weight of the law, and he is honest about how hard it is to pray for her.Scripture references (NIV): Romans 1:28, 1:32, 2:1, 2:4. Jeremiah 7:16, 29:7. John 17:9. 1 John 5:16. Luke 23:34. Matthew 5:44. Acts 7:60, 8:1. 1 Timothy 1:13, 2:1-4. 1 Samuel 15:23.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Why are a growing number of Black women leaving the church for Ifa, Orisha worship, and other ancestral religions, and what does the Bible say about the trade they are making? In Paid in Full | Sex and the Ancient Exchange, Pastor Marc Little, an attorney and political commentator, starts with a CBS Baltimore news report on women who worship Osun, the Orisha of beauty, sex, and sensuality, then follows the same exchange from Beyoncé's stage to a New Orleans love-spell shop to the pages of Scripture.The episode takes the pain behind the exodus seriously, including church scandal, unanswered prayer, and hurt no pulpit addressed, and explains why a real wound does not make a counterfeit cure work. Marc then walks through Romans 1:25, King David and Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11, and the Baal of Peor in Numbers 25 and 31, showing how sex has been used to buy power, identity, and belonging from Eden to Shittim to today. He closes at the well in John 4, where Jesus offers the real thing to a woman who kept drinking from the wrong source.If you have searched for answers on sex and spirituality, spiritual freedom, ancestral worship, Santeria, Vodou, Beyoncé and Oshun, or why people leave the church, this is a biblical and pastoral response from a pastor.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and has never disputed it. The only question at trial was whether postpartum psychosis erased her criminal responsibility for it. After six weeks of testimony, the jury deadlocked eleven to one. Eleven were ready to let her go. One would not. This episode is about that one man, and about a culture that has quietly decided some children are worth protecting and some are not.Marc Little, a pastor, lawyer, and political commentator, breaks down what actually happened in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, separates the prosecution's theory from what the jury actually decided, and introduces a word he believes the English language needed and didn't have: Mothicide. He tells the story of Michael Desronvil, the lone holdout juror who wouldn't move, what happened to his name and his family once the media found him, and what it says about this country that eleven jurors nearly excused her and one man alone would not.From there, Marc widens the lens to Massachusetts itself: a new law removing the state's gestational limit on abortion, a school policy that lets educators withhold a child's gender identity from parents, and a state medical guidance letting minors bypass parental consent for gender-affirming care. Three different rooms, one pattern.The episode also takes on Oprah Winfrey's podcast episode on the Clancy case, where a guest doctor asked listeners for sympathy based on Clancy's "melanin" and "privilege," and asks where the church's voice has been through all of it. Marc closes with a word for Patrick Clancy, the father in this story nobody is talking about, and a prayer for the children, for the holdout juror, and for a culture he believes has drifted further from the heart of God than it knows.This episode is for anyone who has followed the Lindsay Clancy case, anyone wrestling with postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility, and anyone willing to ask an uncomfortable question: whose side are you really on.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Are you inviting more into your life than you realize? In this episode of The Marc Little Show, Pastor Marc Little continues the Familiar Spirits series with Part 2, Abracadabra?, looking at how demonic influence rarely arrives through a ritual. It arrives through a word.Marc walks through two real examples from the last several months: a public figure who described being able to astral project and used the term "third eye," language rooted in Hindu and New Age chakra teaching, and a pastor who taught his congregation that the word "abracadabra" could help get their bills paid if spoken aloud. Neither example is about attacking a person. Both are about a pattern Scripture already warned us about in Deuteronomy 18.In this episode you'll hear:Why the door to demonic influence almost always opens on vocabulary before it opens on ritualThe real difference between prayer and incantation, and why confusing the two mattersFour warning signs Marc has identified after years of pastoral counseling that a destructive pattern may involve more than willpowerWhy "discerning of spirits" is a gift Scripture lists in 1 Corinthians 12, not a technique to purchaseThe biblical test for any spiritual claim, and why accuracy alone is never enoughThis is part two of a two part series. If you haven't heard Part 1, The Voice at Endor, start there for the full picture.Faith, the Law, and Politics. I'm Marc Little. Take inventory of your house.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle. 

Something answered Saul at Endor. Most teaching says it was the prophet Samuel. I do not believe it was, and in this episode I tell you why.We start with a word almost nobody looks up. Familiar. When the King James translators reached these passages they did not choose a frightening word, they chose a domestic one. Familiar comes from the Latin for household. Of the family. Of the house. A familiar spirit is a household spirit, which means it is not a stranger. It is something that has been near enough, long enough, to learn the family's business.Then I lay out the argument on 1 Samuel 28. Saul went to a medium. That is not in question. So if God permitted the real Samuel to come up through that woman, He honored the very practice He called an abomination in Deuteronomy 18. God does not forbid something on Monday and work through it on Tuesday. Tertullian made this same case around the year 200. Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin all landed in the same place, and they got there by reading the prohibition rather than studying the phenomenon.We walk the four things these spirits do. They observe. They imitate. They speak accurately, which is why accuracy is never the test. And they wait.I also draw a line that gets missed and does damage when it does. A familiar spirit does not equate to a person having demonic influence. Consulting is one thing, influence is another, and possession is a third thing entirely. A believer can be influenced. A believer cannot be possessed, because the title to your life transferred at Calvary.Scripture in this episode, King James throughout: 1 Samuel 28, 1 Chronicles 10, Leviticus 19 and 20, Deuteronomy 18, Job 1, 1 Peter 5, Acts 16, Luke 4, John 10:10, 1 Corinthians 6, Colossians 2:15.Part one of two. Part two takes up how these spirits get in, and what that looks like in this culture right now.I am Marc Little, pastor, attorney, and political commentator. The Marc Little Show publishes weekly at marclittleshow.com.Send us Fan MailSupport the showIf you liked this episode, subscribe, download it, and share it.  Follow our host, Marc Little, on most social media platforms at @realmarctlittle.