Pip: Between a Father and His Daughter, Home of The Artisans Pen — where the site name alone tells you something serious is happening before you even click a post.

Mara: This episode covers one territory: spiritual warfare, through a series of books from ABASilence Ministries that treat the subject as something you train for, not just believe in.

Pip: Let's start with what that training actually looks like.

Spiritual Warfare Series

Mara: The Spiritual Warfare Series post introduces a library of books built around a single premise — that the giants described in scripture are not historical footnotes but active forces, and that readers can be equipped to face them.

Pip: The anchor book here is I Am a Giant Slayer, and its description puts the mission plainly: "GIANT SLAYER exposes the giants that are walking the face of the earth today, as in Noah's day, and then empowers us, through a practical application of God's Word, to overcome ALL of the Giants that we face."

Mara: So the upshot is that this is not a retelling of David and Goliath — it uses that story as a training case. David is one of several biblical giant slayers examined for tactics, and the goal is to hand those tactics to the reader directly.

Pip: That framing — scripture as a tactical manual rather than a monument — is what makes the series unusual. The David and Goliath account sits in Chapter 3, not at the front, because the book argues David's fight is not even the first giant-slayer story worth studying.

Mara: The companion volume, Giant Slayer: The Training Manual, picks up where the first book leaves off. It adds two things the original did not cover: a personal testimony of recent battles, and a demographic of giant slayers the first book missed entirely — the elderly.

Pip: Which is a genuinely striking editorial choice. Most warfare frameworks skew young and heroic. Noting that age is not a disqualifier for the fight is the kind of move that earns the subtitle "training manual."

Mara: Part Two of that manual contains what it calls the Dressed for Battle instructional teaching — a detailed breakdown of the armor of God, how to put it on, and how to activate each piece before entering battle.

Pip: And the series goes further back in the timeline with They Called Me the Mastermind, which frames chess — an actual chess game — as the moment the author first encountered spiritual warfare strategy without knowing it.

Mara: Then Keep on the Watch grounds the whole series in Genesis 6 through 8, asking what Noah actually did that set him apart, and applying that comparative study to the present. The question it poses is direct: Jesus said not everyone calling out "Lord, Lord" will be saved — so what did Noah do that we need to do now?

Pip: Four books, one argument: the battle is real, the tools are in the text, and the training starts when you decide to pick them up.

Mara: The series treats readiness as a discipline, not a feeling — and that thread runs through every title here.

Pip: Spiritual warfare as something you study, practice, and put on like armor — that is a different posture than most people bring to the subject.

Mara: And the books keep pointing back to the same source: the Word itself, read closely enough to become useful. More to come next episode.