The Blacksmith's Furnace

You've heard "All's well that ends well"

Well from experience I can tell you "All's crazy that starts crazy" and today we started with a story about how God, allegedly, answered a desperate Bobby's prayer by giving some poor girl an STD...

Yeah it's pretty much downhill from there as we talk about Prayer, what forms it takes and it's role in the Christian's life.

We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

... You will be the head and not the tail...

That verse from Deuteronomy has been quoted so often to encourage Christians to expect and look forward to fame and fortune and dominance in everything they do. But is that really the case.

Bobby A brought in a quote which, in summary, said God wants you to dominate!

We talked about what it means to dominate and whether or not this truly is God's will for everyone and how that truly pans out.

As usual there are several tangents that we run off on but nothign too off topic.

We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

This week's episode was intended to be the concluding part of last week's topic from the male perspective, things men wish women knew, unfortunately due to some technical problems and my (Peter here!) lack of ability as a sound engineer we can't bring you that episode.

But it's still coming...

In its stead, however, we have an unaired episode we recorded last year in late November, cinema companies in the UK had refused to play an advert of normal people reciting the Lord's prayer and we weighed in on the uproar this sparked, going off on as many fun tangents as possible.

Major thanks to Jemilea Wisdom-Baako founder of writers and scribez and Simi Solesi of ThoseNaturalAfricanCurls.com who both showed up and contributed immensely to the recording of the originally intended episode it is such a shame we couldn't bring you that conversation.

We really hope that in spite of that, you do enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're still big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

It was a full on war of the sexes today as we looked at the things women wish guys knew that apparently we don't.

We discussed so many things ranging from When NO actually doesn't mean No, to why women wish guys would learn a little bit more about the menstrual cycle.

A massive thanks goes out to everyone who sent in suggestions, for the sake of time we couldn't actually go through every single suggestion but your support and participation mean so much to us at The Furnace.

Guest appearing once more were AJ Taylor of MyAfricanCloset (theankarahouse.com) and the lovely Sarah Fynn of sarahfynn.com, many thanks to them for representing the best interests of Females on the podcast.

We really hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

From Keyboard Warriors to Thirst traps, in today's edition of the Blacksmith's Furnace we talk social media and the impact it has had on Christianity.

Quickly becoming a common theme here on the Furnace we also talk about the secular / sacred divide when it comes to memes and all things viral.

Guest appearing once more was AJ Taylor of MyAfricanCloset (theankarahouse.com) and the lovely Sarah Fynn of sarahfynn.com, many thanks to them for sharing their thoughts and insights on the podcast.

We really hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

In this episode we talk about Ex-es, talk about opening old wounds, it was all about those past relationships and how we navigate current and future relationships with that baggage.

Lowercase muse , Mo, is still on break this week and so we were joined by the lovely AJ Taylor (@myafricancloset) and we answer questions like how to make the transition back to friends at the end of a relationship, and if an Ex should call like Adele, whether or not to pick up in the first place...

Also Bobby A mentions and has us read an incredibly scary yet sobering passage about a woman cheating on her husband, from a book he's reading and here's the name of the book for those of you that wanna give it a read.

The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami

We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

In the absence of our beloved Mo we are joined by AJ Taylor (@myafricancloset on twitter) , Sarah Fynn(@slimtings1 aslo twitter), and Ms Angela Kumah (@ms.kumah on instagram).

We talk about the best bars for the approach to a new potential girlfriend, Bobby and AJ have a little role playing session where he gets to show off his approaching skills a little, just before sharing a heart-wrenching story of how someone he thought was the one, turned out to be another one that just didn't work out.

We really hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music, also to our guests on the show today, it's always fun having some new voices pop in and we thoroughly enjoyed their presence, and lastly a big shout out goes to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media on facebook (@torramedia on twitter) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

In the midst of Poets there shall be Poetry.

Me (2016 :While editing this description)

In today's episode we try a little something different. In response to a challenge set by Bobby A, we each share a piece of poetry which leads to a conversation about diligence, and artistry as individuals and as Christians.

We really hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

The accompanying music for our pieces was also provided by www.Bensound.com

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Growing up this was the first line of the parenting handbook, and from the look of things on twitter the next generation of parents are gearing up to make full use of the verse in their households.

But between stories of our own experiences and discussions as to whether or not it's still effective, in this episode of the podcast we look at the point of punishment in our lives, whether or not we benefited from corporal punishment and if we think it's something that should be re-introduced in western society.

We really hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

Lawyers, Doctors And Disappointments...

... The three main options of career paths according to the parents of most traditional African homes.

In this week's episode we have a discussion about the fine line between contentment and complacency, and where ambition, greed and God's plan for our lives fit in the mix.

We're privileged to have been joined by Jolade Olusanya of www.jolade.com who as an experienced freelancer added a fresh perspective to the conversation.

There's a little something in here for every so we really hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing.

We're big believers in the "win-win"

Take care and stay blessed.

Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music

And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.