The Robertsons reveal the biggest mistake Christians make when sharing their testimonies



Sharing one’s testimony of faith feels intimidating for a lot of people. Many Christians, churches, and discipleship programs get their guidelines from the apostle Paul’s testimony in Acts 26 when he stood before King Agrippa and shared his coming-to-faith story — starting with his former life, moving to his encounter with Jesus, and concluding with his decision to repent and follow Christ.

While Acts 26 is one of the most commonly used biblical models for creating personal testimony templates in Christian discipleship, Jase Robertson says that people are overcomplicating what should be a simple task.

“There’s one point,” he says, that a testimony hinges on: We give our lives up because He gave his life up for us.

A testimony, Jase says, “should be 99.9% about what He did, and your 0.1% is, I gave my life to Him.”

“Your testimony is, you’re going to point to Jesus and say, ‘You want to define love? You want to define how my life turned around? It all started with God becoming a human and giving up His life,’” he says.

Al agrees and says that too many people when sharing their testimonies overfocus on the bad things they did before they knew Christ, but “those things don’t matter” in light of the redemption Christ freely offers.

“The good part of the testimony is: I finally relented. I finally submitted,” he says.

This submission, Al argues, shouldn’t be just the focus of our testimonies; it should be the focus of the entire Christian walk. He points to the marriage passage in Ephesians 5:21, which instructs married couples to “submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”

“That’s the idea,” Al says. “It’s the giving up of yourself, and it’s not just for marriage, but of course, it’s for everything.”

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When is anger righteous? The Robertson brothers share Phil’s rule.



Scripture has many warnings about anger. Ephesians 4:31 tells us to put away “all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor.” Psalm 37:8 warns against anger and wrath. James 1:20 says “the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”

And yet, anger is an emotion we all experience. Even Jesus himself expressed it at times.

So how do we know when our anger is righteous and when it leads us into rebellion against God?

On a recent episode of “Unashamed,” Al and Jase addressed this very question, drawing on the longstanding wisdom of their father, Phil Robertson — the late beloved patriarch of the family.

The key, they explain, is examining what the anger is rooted in. Righteous anger, when boiled down, is ultimately an overflow of love rather than hate.

Al shares a personal example.

“My dad ... became angry at me when the lifestyle that I was living was against the covenant of our family,” he reflects.

“I took that as I was being forsaken and shunned by him, ... but I was 180 degrees wrong. The only reason he had that conversation is because he did love me.”

When Al finally turned from his prodigal ways, his father’s anger immediately gave way, revealing the deep love that had fueled it all along.

“When I came back, guess who was right there waiting — not with hate, not with forsakenness, not with separation, but, ‘Welcome home, son’? The same dad,” he says. “Why? Because his love for me never stopped.”

“A lot of times people think anger is a sin, but it’s not a sin. Anger can lead you to sin,” Al continues, noting that the Bible mentions anger “over 600 times,” but “85% of the 600 times, God is the one who’s angry.”

To hear the Robertsons dive deeper into the powerful tension between God’s love and wrath — especially how they beautifully intersect at the cross — watch the episode above.

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Melissa Dougherty warns: This wildly popular movement is masquerading as Christianity and leading millions astray



Most Christians see the New Age movement’s deep ties to occultism and witchcraft and recognize it as a demonic worldview. But there’s an adjacent movement that, despite its inextricable connection to New Age, is packaged as a Christian belief system.

That movement is called New Thought. It’s a spiritual movement that influenced New Ageism that centers on how the power of the mind shapes reality — emphasizing positive thinking, the law of attraction, mental healing, the divine nature of humanity, and the idea that Infinite Intelligence or God is within all things and accessible through right thinking.

This is the movement author and Christian apologist Melissa Dougherty found herself in before she became a true Christian.

On this episode of “Unashamed,” Melissa unpacks the good-sounding but ultimately evil mechanics of the New Thought movement that has millions of people duped into thinking they’re Christians.

“If I were to define New Thought in two words, it would be metaphysical Christianity. All that means is that everything that you see physically has a spiritual counterpart, including words,” Melissa says.

Instead of reading Scripture in its proper historical context to decipher what’s being communicated, New Thought, she explains, positions the reader as “the arbiter.”

“You're the one that interprets it on how it feels to you and what it means to you. Because metaphysically speaking, truth is found from within, not outside of yourself, because God is in you,” she says. “So it's a subjective interpretation. ... There's a higher, deeper, esoteric, hidden meaning within that text that's meant for you.”

Melissa boils down the movement into one simple concept: “It’s the positive thinking movement in America with Jesus as its mascot.”

People in this movement believe that they “create [their] reality” through cognition. “Sickness, poverty, things like that are all a state of mind. How you feel creates your reality,” Melissa says.

This results in a lot of “distortion of truth,” she laments. For example, “there’s a saying in New Thought that when you look in the mirror, there’s a god staring back at you, and that’s the secret ... of what Jesus was really trying to say.”

While this “sounds really good,” Melissa says, it’s a lie. That’s why she titled her book “Happy Lies” — because it shines a true biblical light on the positive-sounding but heretical New Thought movement.

“It duped me,” she confesses.

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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Robertsons drop the ultimate ‘litmus test’ to spot false prophets



Scripture is crystal clear about the dangers of false prophets. In the book of Matthew, they are described as deceptive figures who appear harmless as sheep but are inwardly destructive like ravenous wolves, often leading people astray through lies, false signs, or teachings that contradict God’s word.

But sometimes “false teacher” is a label used to defame and discredit a true teacher.

“It’s a real threat on one end, but then it’s also an accusation that is thrown around very loosely,” Zach Dasher said on a recent episode of “Unashamed with the Robertson Family.”

In this world of truly false teachers and those who have just been wrongly labeled one, how are Christians to know who to avoid and who to trust?

Dasher says there’s a simple “litmus test” we can use to help us navigate this common dilemma.

“The litmus test for me, and I think the litmus test in Scripture,” he says, revolves around how these teachers “treat the body [of Christ].”

He references Ezekiel 34:2-3: “Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.”

In this passage, God rebukes Israel’s leaders (the “shepherds”) for selfishness. Instead of caring for and feeding the people (the “sheep”), they are only feeding themselves — eating the best food, taking the wool for clothing, and slaughtering the fattest animals for their own benefit — while neglecting to provide for or protect the flock.

These same warnings about corrupt leadership echo throughout the Bible — from Isaiah to Jude.

A true shepherd, Dasher says, “eats last.”

“I think that’s the caveat. So when you are looking at ministry leaders and you’re looking at teachers and you’re looking at shepherds, look at their ministry. Look at the fruit of their life. Are they elevating themselves at the expense of the body? Are they using people?” he continues.

He gives the example of the “prosperity gospel” — the belief that tithing and donations result in divine blessings of material wealth, health, and success — as a truly heretical doctrine.

It’s not uncommon to see teachers of the prosperity gospel “go buy an airplane with [their congregations’] money,” he says.

“I mean, that is a shepherd feeding [himself].”

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Lisa Harper's heartbreaking yet miraculous adoption journey reduces the Robertsons to tears on 'Unashamed'



Throughout scripture, God, who calls Himself a “father to the fatherless,” pulls no punches about His heart toward orphans: They are to be cared for.

Many faithful believers choose to live out this holy commandment through the adoption of a child. But while the redemption of a broken situation is a beautiful and joyful thing to behold, few talk about the pain that often accompanies adoption.

On this episode of “Unashamed,” the Robertsons speak with bestselling author and podcaster Lisa Harper about her adoption story.

After hearing a sermon on the passage in James about the importance of widow and orphan care, Lisa, a single woman in her 40s at the time, felt convicted to act.

After several years of wrestling, Lisa found herself prepared to adopt a baby from Haiti. “I got written into a story of a precious little girl who was a crack addict and had gotten pregnant,” says Lisa, noting that she “spent Christmas that year in a crack house.”

Right before she was set to bring her baby home, however, the adoption “fell apart at the 11th hour.”

Lisa returned home utterly crushed.

But two weeks later, something miraculous happened. Lisa received a phone call from a friend who was in Haiti working on building a communal kitchen to help feed children in a particular village. While she was there, a young mother in the village died of AIDS, leaving behind a sickly daughter with no one to care for her.

She told Lisa that the Lord spoke to her “clear as a bell in that ER room ... ’Lisa Harper's supposed to be that little girl's mama.’”

Lisa, still mourning the loss of the first child, boldly and faithfully said, “Sign me up.”

“Missy’s 16 now, healthy as a horse,” Lisa says through tears. “She's not my hope. Jesus is my hope, but she is tangible grace.”

“Missy does not have an orphan spirit. I had an orphan’s spirit,” she says, recalling her years of wrestling with feeling undeserving of God’s invitation to be part of his eternal family.

By the end of Lisa’s story, Jase, Al, and Zach Dasher are all wiping tears from their eyes. To hear it in full, watch the episode above.

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The Robertsons open up about pornography: Childhood exposures and the road to freedom



On a recent episode of “Unashamed,” the Robertson brothers and Zach Dasher dove headfirst into the infamous P-word.

Pornography has become an epidemic that enslaves millions and millions of people, most often boys and men. While it’s technically been around for millennia, the digital age has brought porn into the mainstream and made it nearly impossible to avoid. It’s on our televisions; it’s on our phones; even artificial intelligence has fused with the industry in ways that can only be described as sick and depraved.

Today, many boys are exposed to porn long before they hit puberty.

Al, who grew up in an era where pornography was still confined to magazines, says he first encountered it at a “very young” age — “probably 7 or 8 years old” — while living next door to the bar Phil owned and operated before his radical conversion to Christianity. This early exposure caused Al to struggle for years, even into his marriage.

Zach Dasher has a similar story. When he was just 11 years old, his friend’s older brother put on an adult movie with the intention of introducing the younger boys to pornography. Years later, Zach learned from renowned Christian counselor Dr. Trent Langhofer that exposure to pornography before puberty has “the same effect on you as being sexually molested.”

“It made a lot of sense to me because that was an imprint in me that I dealt with for years. ... I think that that early exposure probably set me on a trajectory of sin for many years,” he says.

Jase, who was lucky enough to avoid exposure in his early years, says that he sees pornography as an issue that roots back to creation. God created Adam and said, “It’s not good for the man to be alone,” so out of His kindness, He created Eve and subsequently marriage and sex. Pornography, however, is a perversion of God’s good design.

Not only does it isolate man, which God already said wasn’t good, it also taints his view of reality, and harms his relationships, especially the one with his wife, Jase explains.

Al says something that helped him think differently about pornography was having his own daughters and wrestling with the reality that every girl on a magazine page or a screen is not only someone’s daughter but also an image bearer of God. “You start thinking like Jesus thinks,” he says.

Zach found freedom in not just learning the truth but by taking action. Accountability was key in helping him break the cycle. Confession is the first step, he says, and if you’re married, it needs to be to your wife. “Now you’ve got skin in the game,” he says.

“And then after the confession, you have to find new rhythms ... we are what we consume.”

“If you consume something different, then you will become something different. You will worship what you behold. And so if you're beholding entertainment, then that's what you will eventually begin to worship,” he warns.

Freedom is “truth coupled with discipline.”

To hear more of the panel’s honest conversation, watch the episode above.

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From water to wine: Why Jesus’ first miracle is NOT about alcohol



Many Christians are confused by Jesus’ first miracle documented in the book of John, where he turns water into wine at a wedding at his mother’s request. If Christians are called to refrain from getting drunk, then why would He make more wine, increasing the possibility of drunkenness?

Is this not a contradiction?

Jase and Al Robertson and Zach Dasher, BlazeTV hosts of “Unashamed,” addressed this common question on a recent episode.

“Alcohol is never said to be bad in the Bible ... but getting drunk is always bad,” says Jase.

To explain God’s command against drunkenness, he points to Ephesians 5:18, which says, “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.” He also cites Galatians 5:22, which lists “self control” – the opposite of drunkenness – as one of the fruits of the Spirit.

However, these verses, while certainly true, “have nothing to do with John 2,” says Jase.

When He turns water into wine, “Jesus is revealing a picture of who He is and what He's going to do.”

“Jesus turning water into wine is directly connected to the new wine that Jesus says He's bringing. ... So it's no accident that He's doing this miracle, making new wine at a wedding ceremony, right? Because we're the bride of Christ. There's all kinds of imagery here that's being played out,” Zach explains.

The wedding party, Jase adds, is also reflective of the reality that “we're participating in the greatest party of all parties in Jesus.”

Further, in John 2, Jesus is, for the first time in His ministry, showing that miraculous change can only be done through Him. By turning water into wine with a mere thought – an act none but God Himself could accomplish – Jesus is “giving you a picture [of]: If you want to know how to change something, I'm your guy,” says Jase.

Al then brings up another point: The passage is also about Mary’s faith.

“I mean His mom believed in Him enough [that] she said, ‘Do something about this wine situation.’ I mean, that blows me away that she had enough faith in who He was in the moment to think He could do something, which He did,” he says.

John 2, says Jase, is a passage where many Christians, especially new ones, go off in the weeds debating what the text is saying about alcohol, when in reality, the story is about who Jesus is and what He came to do.

That said, it’s still important to abide by God’s command against drunkenness.

People who have a history of alcohol abuse probably “shouldn't touch it at all,” Zach advises.

“Also, I mean, I wouldn’t have a drink around somebody that I knew had an issue with it," he adds.

“The more you get to know this Jesus and what He is really not only offering you but what He's given you ... it becomes not the ‘do’ and ‘don't do,’ but this is who I live for,” says Al.

To hear more of the panel’s conversation, watch the episode above.

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A rainbow and a stranger: The divine encounter that helped Jase Robertson heal after Phil’s death



It’s been nearly two months since Phil Robertson, the beloved patriarch of Duck Dynasty, passed away after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease. On their podcast, “Unashamed,” Phil’s sons Jase and Al Robertson have openly shared the raw and heartfelt journey of grieving their father’s loss with their listeners. Yet Jase recently revealed a deeply personal story he had held close — until now.

In the latest episode of “Unashamed,” Jase recounted a poignant, tearful moment that beautifully illustrates how God works in mysterious and profound ways.

“It seems unbelievable. I wouldn’t make this up because it’s kind of a heavy story,” he says.

When Phil was at the pinnacle of his fight against Alzheimer’s, Jase, trying to get his mind off his father’s waning condition, went to the driving range to hit a few golf balls.

“I was hitting the ball terribly because I hadn’t been playing golf,” he confesses.

Unbeknownst to him, the club’s multi-time champion was watching him. “I knew him but didn’t really know him,” Jase says, “and he’s like, ‘Do you want me to help you?’”

The two ended up playing nine holes together and exchanging phone numbers.

The very next day, however, Jase received a text message from a friend mourning the death of one of the golf club’s members.

The person who had died was none other than the man Jase had played with the day prior. “I was so shocked,” he says.

Life, as it does, moved on. Phil passed away on May 25, and after funeral arrangements and time to grieve with family, Jase continued recording podcasts and running Duck Commander.

Last week, however, Jase returned to the golf course. Little did he know that another strange encounter awaited him.

Jase, alone on a nearly empty course, suddenly got the feeling that he was “being watched.”

“I look and there’s a guy standing there ... in the parking lot looking at me,” he says. “I said, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ and he said, ‘What are you fixing to do?’ which I thought was a weird question. ... I said, ‘I'm fixing to play nine holes,’ and he said, ‘Can I play with you?’”

Jase could see that the man was sad, and immediately he knew that this encounter wasn’t an accident. “I thought, this has got to be a God thing,” he says.

And it was.

The second the man got into Jase’s cart, he told him that his best friend of 35 years had died and that he hadn’t been able to play golf since.

His friend happened to be the man Jase had played golf with a few months prior.

“He said, ‘I’m into a routine where I go to his grave site and ... then I come up here, and I just sit in the parking lot. ... I know you just lost your dad, and I saw you walk across the parking lot, and I thought, well, maybe he can help me,”’ Jase recounts.

“It was an uncomfortable, weird conversation,” but “we talked about Jesus. We talked about life,” he says.

Right as they were finishing their game, a storm was blowing in. “I turned around and looked back at the fairway. It was the most spectacular rainbow you have ever seen in your life,” says Jase. “When he saw that rainbow, he just burst into tears.”

When they eventually parted ways, Jase was “overcome with emotion.”

“I thought, this is what God does,” he says, noting that the encounter hadn’t just been for the man who was grieving his friend — it was also for him.

“I think God sent him for me,” he says, “because it was probably the most I had talked about Phil in that way.”

To hear the full story from Jase, watch the episode above.

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Jase Robertson shares the last thing he heard his father say



On Sunday, May 25, Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson died following a tough battle with Alzheimer’s disease and other health issues.

After taking some time away to grieve and be with family, Phil’s sons Jase and Al, who are anchors on the “Unashamed” podcast, returned to share details about Phil’s passing and his funeral.

The funeral, which was a family service of 300-400 people, was perfectly suited for Phil. The family worshipped, preached the gospel, and celebrated Phil — not because of what he did, but because of what Christ did for and through him.

"I had to kind of detach myself," Jase admits, "because Phil had this famous line that he said many times: 'When I die, don't cry. You can sing; you can dance; you can do a little jig, but I made it.'"

The funeral was held in the same church — down to “the same room” — that Phil gave his life to Christ in. Per Miss Kay’s request, all four Robertson brothers — Jase, Al, Willie, and Jep — spoke. Phyllis, Phil’s daughter from an extramarital affair before he became a Christian, also spoke. Some of Phil’s grandchildren led a powerful worship service that brought many to tears.

Uncle Si, Phil’s brother, provided some needed comic relief, as he “kept talking back to Willie throughout his entire [speech],” even though he declined the opportunity to give his own speech.

“He was the sidekick to Phil and Kay through their first years of dating and probably 10 years of their marriage, and so he turned into the echo, which was funny,” laughs Jase.

At the grave site, Phil was laid to rest next to his sister Jan Dasher, who played a pivotal role in his coming to Jesus.

Jase’s son Reed says that hundreds of people, many of whom had never met Phil but had only watched his content, reached out in the days following his death to share how their lives were touched by his unshakable faith.

“Heaven got a titan,” he says of his grandfather.

In the final weeks before his death, Jase admits he was struggling watching his dad suffer.

“Every time I thought he was completely gone as far as communication-wise, something would happen, usually with the grandkids or the wives or whatever, and he would just lift up and say something,” he reflects. “My daughter started singing one night. ... He had done nothing all day to show any signs that he was with us, and he reached out his hand and held her hand.”

“It hit me in that moment. I thought God does a lot of good work in suffering,” he adds, citing Romans 5. “My daughter is never going to forget that moment.”

In his last conversation with Phil, Jase told his dad, “You're going to meet Jesus,” and Phil suddenly “came to,” “grabbed [Jase’s] hand,” and eagerly said, “Let’s go.”

To hear more about Phil’s funeral, the family’s final time on Earth with him, and the incredible legacy he leaves behind, watch the episode above.

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Phil Robertson’s 79th birthday request might be the funniest thing that’s happened this year



Phil Robertson, beloved patriarch of Duck Commander and the Robertson family, is a symbol of rugged tradition. Decked out in camouflage, preaching a faith-centered, back-to-basics lifestyle, he's the antithesis of modern trendiness.

That’s why his 79th birthday request left his son Jase in stitches.

“It was the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard come out of my dad’s mouth,” he laughs.

On April 24, Phil, now living in a care facility as he battles Alzheimer’s disease, welcomed Jase for a visit. “Your birthday’s coming up, Dad,” Jase said. “What do you want me to get you?”

Phil’s answer? “You heard of this company called Nike?”

Jase, retelling the story on the “Unashamed” podcast, can’t hold back his laughter.

“You can’t make this up!” he cackles. “He said, ‘I think I want some of those Air Jordan tenny shoes'" — specifically “high-tops” in "orange and white.”

"I just really think if I had a pair of those I'd be all right," Phil added.

“10 minutes later he's like, ‘You going to get me them shoes?'" says Jase.

A few days later, after returning from a trip to Nashville, Jase visited his dad, who immediately asked, “Where’s my shoes?”

“I’ve never seen him wear a pair of tennis shoes in my life,” he laughs. “Sometimes the bucket list, you just start digging around in there and you come out with a pair of high-top Air Jordans.”

To hear Jase tell the hilarious story of his dad, who’s spent a lifetime dodging modern trends, wishing for a pair of Air Jordans, watch the episode above.

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