<![CDATA[Firecracker HQ]]>Firecracker HQ is where David Newton takes the cultural headlines everyone is talking about and asks the only question that actually matters: what does Scripture say? Not a softened version. Not the version shaped to hold an audience. The full thing.

This is not a show for people who want to feel comfortable. It's for Christians who have grown tired of watching the church mirror the culture back at it and calling that faithfulness. Gender ideology, political idolatry, the prosperity gospel, deconstruction, death, judgment — nothing is off the table, nothing is hedged, and the text does not get negotiated.

If you've been looking for someone who will open the Word and just say what it says, this is the show.

]]>www.firecrackerhq.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:14:59 GMTTue, 25 Aug 2026 19:09:49 GMT60David Newton<p>Firecracker HQ is where David Newton takes the cultural headlines everyone is talking about and asks the only question that actually matters: what does Scripture say? Not a softened version. Not the version shaped to hold an audience. The full thing.</p><p>This is not a show for people who want to feel comfortable. It's for Christians who have grown tired of watching the church mirror the culture back at it and calling that faithfulness. Gender ideology, political idolatry, the prosperity gospel, deconstruction, death, judgment — nothing is off the table, nothing is hedged, and the text does not get negotiated.</p><p>If you've been looking for someone who will open the Word and just say what it says, this is the show.</p>episodicDavid Newtondb.newton1980@gmail.comno<![CDATA[The Deconstruction of Hell]]>The church stopped preaching Hell. Jesus didn't. David Newton goes straight to the text Matthew 25:46, the Greek word aionios, and the case for eternal judgment you haven't actually heard yet.

In this episode: a fair hearing for the universalist and progressive Christian argument, followed by a verse-by-verse look at what Scripture actually says: Matthew 25:31–46, Luke 16:19–31, 2 Thessalonians 1:6–10, Revelation 20:11–15. The centerpiece is Matthew 25:46, where Jesus uses the same Greek word for eternal punishment and eternal life in a single sentence. That is not an accident.

The application is uncomfortable and necessary: you cannot understand the cross until judgment is real to you, and you cannot love people well until you understand the cross.

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]]>be24c128-8bb6-443a-a6a3-f0b75afa26cdWed, 02 Sep 2026 19:43:05 GMT<p>The church stopped preaching Hell. Jesus didn't. David Newton goes straight to the text Matthew 25:46, the Greek word <i>aionios</i>, and the case for eternal judgment you haven't actually heard yet.</p><p>In this episode: a fair hearing for the universalist and progressive Christian argument, followed by a verse-by-verse look at what Scripture actually says: Matthew 25:31–46, Luke 16:19–31, 2 Thessalonians 1:6–10, Revelation 20:11–15. The centerpiece is Matthew 25:46, where Jesus uses the same Greek word for eternal punishment and eternal life in a single sentence. That is not an accident.</p><p>The application is uncomfortable and necessary: you cannot understand the cross until judgment is real to you, and you cannot love people well until you understand the cross.</p><p></p><p>Sponsored by Exodus Print - veteran-owned, built for real work. <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://exodus-print.com" target="_blank">exodusprint.com</a>, code FIRECRACKER.</p><p>If this is the show you've been looking for, subscribe.</p><hr /><p></p>no00:36:2111The Deconstruction of Hellfull<![CDATA[Teaser 1]]>The American church is comfortable. Comfortable with ambiguity, comfortable with silence, comfortable with giving people what they want to hear and it's costing us everything.

Firecracker HQ is where that stops: host David Newton takes today's headlines straight to Scripture and doesn't hedge. In this teaser episode, David breaks down what "Comfort Christianity" has cost the church, what this show is and isn't, and walks through what the Bible actually says when culture tells us "God doesn't make mistakes." If you're tired of waiting for your content to say something true, this is where you come to hear it! Subscribe so you don't miss what's coming.

]]>2206c094-ec5b-4221-b05f-8bfdbd8f8b0bTue, 25 Aug 2026 20:07:44 GMT<p>The American church is comfortable. Comfortable with ambiguity, comfortable with silence, comfortable with giving people what they want to hear and it's costing us everything. </p><p>Firecracker HQ is where that stops: host David Newton takes today's headlines straight to Scripture and doesn't hedge. In this teaser episode, David breaks down what "Comfort Christianity" has cost the church, what this show is and isn't, and walks through what the Bible actually says when culture tells us "God doesn't make mistakes." If you're tired of waiting for your content to say something true, this is where you come to hear it! Subscribe so you don't miss what's coming.</p>no00:06:501Teaser 1bonus