Kingdom faith for the present tense.
JesusSmartX is a Christianity and public-faith show built around scripture-forward reflection, interviews, and short exhortive episodes. It moves from Bible texts and spiritual formation into current events, culture, governance, and everyday obedience.
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JesusSmartX sits at the meeting point of devotional teaching, Christian worldview, and public-faith commentary. The show is built around the conviction that Jesus is not merely relevant to private belief, but brilliant about how life, culture, purpose, and authority actually work. Recent episodes alternate between brief Jesus Smart 180 installments and longer teachings or interviews. The short-form pieces are tight spiritual resets, often centered on one turn: move out of anxious self-analysis and into God’s perspective, or see personal purpose as something designed rather than improvised. The longer episodes are more expansive. They linger over scripture, repeat central claims for emphasis, and push toward practical response. Psalm 110 becomes a major text for thinking about Christ’s present reign. The cross becomes a challenge to Western Christianity’s comfort-seeking instincts. The Holy Spirit is treated as essential for full-spectrum Christ following, not as an optional layer of experience. Interviews widen the frame. Travis Weber brings policy and religious-freedom concerns into a discussion of global governance and national sovereignty. Terry Hoggard brings covenant, yearly calibration, clarity, closure, and catalytic action into view. Frank Viola’s conversation points toward reading the New Testament through storyline and early-church context. The Smart Edit newsletter also shapes the show’s rhythm, adding signals from faith, culture, and global currents. The tone is pastoral, but not soft. It encourages, warns, teaches, and presses. Listeners should expect scripture, application, public concern, and repeated calls to live under Christ’s reign now, not someday.
Made for: For Christians who want scripture-rich teaching tied to personal growth, public life, and practical obedience. It especially fits listeners drawn to kingdom theology, cultural discernment, and direct spiritual challenge.
What sets it apart: JesusSmartX blends devotional exhortation with politics-and-faith concerns more openly than many Christian formation shows. Its short turnarounds and longer interviews share the same insistence: faith should reshape perception, action, and public imagination.
The show that goes beyond waiting for heaven. Beyond religion. Jesus is brilliant ... he knows how life works best.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
JesusSmartX connects biblical interpretation, spiritual formation, and public life through Brian DelTurco's solo teaching and wide-ranging guest conversations.
Brian DelTurco moves between direct solo teaching and guest conversation, using JesusSmartX to connect Christian formation with public life. Scripture remains the center of gravity, but the questions range from identity and belonging in Christ to covenant, women's place in the…
Psalm 110 has a present-tense question for your 'Jesus will rule someday' file.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A direct appeal to pair spiritual attentiveness with scrutiny of global governing power.
JesusSmartX Episode 368 brings together the two concerns named up front: Travis Weber's account of walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, and his warning about global governance, national sovereignty, and a church that needs to stay awake.
A present-tense reading of Psalm 110 argues that Jesus is reigning now, not merely waiting for a future throne.
Jesus Isn't Waiting to be King frames Psalm 110 as a present-tense case for Christ's reign. Brian Del Turco sets that reading against the familiar idea of Jesus waiting in heaven for a future throne, then argues that the psalm's fulfillment has already moved into "a high gear…
A conversational newsletter reading pairs cultural observations and practical resources with scripture-shaped encouragement toward sharper attention.
Brian DelTurco turns a direct-to-drive reading from his Smart Edit newsletter into a call for spiritual alertness. A reported shift toward podcasts in spoken-word listening opens into Bible engagement, Revelation imagery, money-saving advice and the influence of close…
A warm, covenant-centered conversation about spiritual inventory and choosing a faithful direction for the next season.
Jesus Smart X frames spiritual planning as a practice of foundation, strategic insight, and covenant with God. Brian DelTurco and Terry Hoggard tie that posture to clarity, closure, and catalytic action, with a useful reminder that a preferred future does not have to wait for…
A kingdom-centered conversation about Jesus, women, and what the church has taught in his name.
Jesus Smart centers the episode on a pointed question: has too much of the church, or Christianity itself, misrepresented Jesus to women? Mary DeMuth and Frank Viola discuss their coauthored book, The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels, as…
A raw, faith-centered reflection on being seen by Christ and finding belonging.
Brian Del Turco frames life in Christ around identity, belonging, voice, and agency, keeping the focus close to the experience of being known.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Host Brian Del Turco shares a raw, unscripted reflection on four transformative elements experienced when one is born again in Christ.
Host Brian Del Turco interviews authors Mary DeMuth and Frank Viola about their book 'The Day I Met Jesus' and Jesus' relationship with women.
Brian Del Turco explains how to shift from analyzing situations in your own head to seeking and locking into God's perspective, distinguishing between divine impressions and worldly counterfeits.
Brian Del Turco introduces a new short-form podcast format and discusses how God has an intentional, eternal purpose for each person's life.
["Jesus Smart X episode 368 pairs Brian DelTurco with Travis Weber, the Family Research Council's vice president for policy and government affairs, who also studied international human rights law at Georgetown.", "The first half centers on DelTurco's \"full-spectrum Christianity\" framing, which says believers need the Holy Spirit's presence for clarity, healing, deliverance, and daily decisions, not only doctrinal assent.", "The second half moves to Weber's May 2024 trip to the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the WHO's stalled pandemic agreement, and the IHR amendments he says increase global coordinating power.", "The closing argument ties the UN's \"Pact for the Future,\" programmable digital currency, and censorship wrapped in \"protect democracy\" or \"misinformation\" language to a broader loss of national sovereignty and personal freedom."]
Brian Del Turco explores what it means to follow Jesus apostolically, emphasizing that life comes through death and the cross must precede resurrection for kingdom breakthrough.
Brian Del Turco's Jesus Smart X episode 366 argues that Psalm 110 describes Jesus already reigning from the Father's right hand, not waiting to begin kingship later.
Hebrews 10:24-25 and Proverbs 27:17 frame the case for a "holy push toward leveling up."
Brian DelTurco talks with Terry Hoggard, a 30-year missionary leader who served in Rome, Brussels, Copenhagen, and Malmo, about a practice he and Ruthann use before the new year.
Brian DelTurco argues that seeing a relationship, project, or challenge in “a new light” can create possibilities that negative interpretations conceal.
Brian Del Turco continues a conversation with Frank Viola about his book 'The Untold Story of the New Testament,' offering a fresh perspective on the early church and the New Testament letters.
Brian Del Turco interviews Frank Viola about his new book uncovering the real storyline of the New Testament church.
In part two of a conversation with Bruce Colbert, the host explores a six-step process to break free from destructive thoughts and how physical health supports mental freedom.
Brian Del Turco interviews Mary DeMuth about how Jesus champions women and rewrites their life stories, drawing from Genesis and the kingdom of God.
Brian Del Turco interviews Keith Guinta about whether the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is a message from God to America.