Daily Thunder Podcast

This is the twenty-first installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode dives into the man steering the military operations of the Germans in the very first month of the Great War—Helmuth von Moltke. Moltke is an average man in a very un-average situation. He finds himself at the helm of something so big, so grand, so weighty—with consequences of victory and failure so extreme—that he begins to crumble under the weight. There are two ways to lead in times of crisis—one that works and one that fails. Moltke chose the wrong one, and it totally destroyed him.

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God has offered us unlimited fresh living water … yet we have chosen to guzzle saltwater. The reason many of us feel spiritually thirsty and depleted is because we have turned to our saltwater idols rather than the fountain of Living Water. In this episode, Nathan Johnson uses a metaphor from the book “Sipping Saltwater” to talk about our propensity to chase after the very things that makes us more thirsty yet never satisfies.

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This is the twentieth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the Battle of the Aisne that unfolded in mid-to-late September of 1914. This one battle has so many rich pictures of the Christian faith and our battle against our evil Foe. So often, we as believers accept stalemate in the territorial battles of our souls and fail to claim that which is rightfully ours due to the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

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We often have more faith in the power and strength of the enemy than we do in our God. Rather than live in the reality that God is truly God, we submit to fear, lust, pride, or a host of other idolatrous attitudes and behaviors. In this message, Nathan Johnson examines a strange event in the Gospels where Jesus and His disciples stand at the Gates of Hades and reveals that darkness has no power at all.

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This is the nineteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode focuses on the unexpected revival of the French military strength in the hour of their greatest need. Utilizing the principle of “thanksgiving”—this message shows how obedience in the Kingdom of Heaven, even when it seems strange, leads to an unexpected surge of might at the moment it is most required.

This is the eighteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode returns us to America in 1914 and lays another foundation stone in the drama embroiling the United States at the time the Great War breaks out. US President, Woodrow Wilson, becomes a chief character in the landscape of WW1 and by the end of the war will prove possibly the most important decision-maker on earth. This message explores the beginnings of his presidency and his susceptibility to the distractive measures the Germans are employing to keep him preoccupied everywhere but in the territory the Germans are wanting to conquer.

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The people of God have always been surrounded by a culture of idolatry. Though the gods and their worship were called different things over the generations, God’s people have always had to stand against the tide. Today is no different. We too are surrounded by an idolatrous culture and we are called to come out from among them and be separate. In this episode, Nathan Johnson discusses the idolatry problem the Early Church faced and their simple solution to it.

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This is the seventeenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode zooms in on one of the most extraordinary moments in the war—when Joseph Joffre confronted Sir John French on September 5, 1914 and begged him to join the offensive against Germany at the First Battle of the Marne. The participation of the BEF (French’s forces) in this epic battle is the key factor in the ultimate outcome of WW1. However, at the time, it didn’t even seen possible that the British would side with the French in this occasion. If French had succumbed to his panic rather than risen to fulfill his role, the outcome of the Great War would have been wholly different.

We, as Christians, are called to serve God alone and remove the idols from our lives. But what is idolatry and why are we called to remove them? In this episode, Nathan Johnson dives into God’s command against idolatry, explains what idolatry is, and why it is absolutely essential to remove them from our lives. 

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This is the sixteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode exposes the strange phenomenon of Sin’s inability to slow itself and put on the brakes. This fatal flaw in Sin’s make-up is leveraged by God as one of His chief means by which he awakens the soul to His glorious salvation. This idea is demonstrated in a powerful way through the German aggression of WW1 and their attack on Paris in early September 1914. Paris was vulnerable, the Germans were powerful, and then . . . the strangest thing happened.