Thriving in The Word

This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our new study on the Book of James, wait a minute, we have a theme going here, the brothers of Jesus.

James kicks us off by sharing an experience of listening for the voice of God and hearing the message "Value the Shadow People" and the many months asking, seeking and trying to discern the meaning. Memorial Day weekend (ironically) in 2023 the discernment was clear; as he looked out in his backyard and noticed that God had placed so many amazing people in his life, young, old, tattoos, jacked up pasts and that God had surrounded him with his tribe, the shadow people...exactly where he belonged because he himself was a shadow person.

The conversation then heads into the backstage; Gold, Silver, Bronze passes to meet Jesus, and how important it is to spend alone time with Jesus...after all, we pay all this money to meet these famous musicians and celebrities and the backstage pass with Jesus is FREE!!

Such an awesome conversation and no surprise, a Memorial Day story kicks us off and as I type this, it is Memorial Day...God is just THAT GOOD!!

To all the fellow Shadow People, we love you and we encourage you to invite someone to church, to Bible Study or into the fold...cuz statistics show, 88% of people are waiting for the invite and will say yes.

Happy Memorial Day to all and we lift ALL families and ALL brothers and sisters that have paid the ultimate sacrifice so we can praise and worship in FREEDOM. To ALL who have served this great country, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts of YOUR SERVICE. God Bless the United States of America.

Enjoy and we appreciate you listening.

We encourage you to read James with us and comment on what has been sticking out to you?

Have a blessed day.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our new study on the Book of James, wait a minute, we have a theme going here, the brothers of Jesus.

David kicks us off by taking us back to the beginning of James and shares what stood out to him about how to become a good follower of Jesus Christ? What questions come to mind? Am I doing the right thing? In Chapter 1, verse 2, "when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it all great joy". David reminds us that tests always serve great purpose, and reads, "when you faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow".

Mike then shares how the above reminds him of the cycles in the Book of Judges and Mike calls them, "Faith Cycles".

We then chat about the "World" telling us we need this or that and we will finally be happy. More, more, more...needing more.

Yet, the Book of James tells us, "when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing."

Lenny shares how Jesus stands beside us when we go through trials and tribulations and it isn't by our strength that we get through it, it is Jesus Christ!

Mike shares some personal trials he had been through and how he now sees them as blessings.

Judah jumps in and shares how we often grumble and complain, but James tells us to consider it all "great joy". Judah then explains the basics of what an actual test is, it is a reward for completing the test, right?!?! A test helps us make it to the next level. Testing = troubles of any kind.

This is only scratching the surface, but the conversation evolves into the importance of asking God for wisdom no matter what the circumstance. However, to not forget to the read the next few verses which stress the importance of having unwavering faith...hence, where the title came from.

Enjoy and we appreciate you listening.

We encourage you to read James with us and comment on what has been sticking out to you?

Have a blessed day.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, Dan Yeadon, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our new study on the Book of James, wait a minute, we have a theme going here, brothers of Jesus.

David kicks us off by sharing what stood out to him about Faith without works is dead and this quickly turns to Judah sharing about flying an airplane and which of the two wings is most important? Both, correct? Faith without Works is Dead.

We then talk about how people often think they can stack up good deeds to offset wrongdoings.

Conversation then takes a deep dive into how preparation, study, weight rooms, playbooks and the amount of prep before an NFL team takes the field for gameday.

We spend quite a bit of time on this as it so applicable to life.

Enjoy and we appreciate you listening.

We encourage you to read James with us and comment on what has been sticking out to you?

Enjoy and have a blessed day.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, Lenny Selgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our new study on the Book of James, wait a minute, we have a theme going here, brothers of Jesus.

Ben kicks us off talking about the humility of James, not mentioning Jesus by name. James then talks a little about James being skeptic and what happened to transform him from skeptic to being a leader of the church.

We then go all over the place, from being a brother of Jesus, what that must have been like, to Bible App Streaks, to praying to God and asking Him for wisdom. It is an awesome episode and hope that you enjoy it.

We encourage you to read James with us and comment on what has been sticking out to you?

Enjoy and have a blessed day.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Selgado, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our study of the one chapter in the Book of Jude.

David kicks us off by talking about common salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Judah then shares about common themes in evangelical churches about a personal relationship with Jesus, which of course is important, but how they often fail to share about the importance of having a shared relationship with Jesus Christ. After all, we are called to be in community, to be The Body of Christ, why does the Holy Spirit give us spiritual gifts? To serve others, to be Jesus' hands n feet in this world.

The conversation shifts to mercy, every person is as close to God as they want to be, draw near to God, He will draw near to you. Johnny talks about the grumblers. Judah shares scripture that addresses how to handle those that cause division in church. We are called to build each other up and to show mercy to those whose faith is wavering.

David then shares how Jude brings attention to invaders in the church. To be vigilant and contend for the faith.

We then go into a deep dive on James being Jesus' 1/2 brother and how other brothers in other religions, for example Muhammad whose brother denied his claim.

The conversation then moves into the importance of community, one another, why we have spiritual gifts...we are called to serve others, to encourage others, to build one another up.

Then, the conversation takes flight and we hope it inspires you to pick up God's Word, to read it, pray about it and then to meditate and listen for the voice of God.

Enjoy and have a blessed day.

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So, we hit record early and captured a 20 minute conversation about magic. Well, it all started as David LaManna had tickets to a magician at the Warner Theater...and the rest is history. Audio isn't the best, but the editing team did an alright job and you'all get to hear an interesting conversation.

Join us for a convo on the power of the mind, magicians, and everything in between.

Enjoy.

This BONUS Episode features Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Ben Cossette, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

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Bonus series featuring Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Selgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell. Edited by: Tim Nicholson.

Each week we will be discussing a chapter of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. This weeks discussion is focused on book 3, chapter 5 - Sexual Morality.

Enjoy and we encourage you to pick up a copy and follow along. Thank you for sharing this podcast.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Selgado, Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our study of the one chapter in the Book of Jude. Ben kicks us off by sharing the fire and brimstone message, events that occurred in Los Angeles.

The conversation shifts to the common phrase, "The devil made me do it", to then stop blaming the devil and the reality that the devil probably doesn't even know who you are. The devil is not omnipresent, so he's busy roaming around trying to devour people. If we truly assess sin, sinful nature, we aren't at war with the devil, we are at war with ourselves.

The conversation takes flight and we hope it inspires you to pick up God's Word, to read it, pray about it and then to meditate and listen for the voice of God.

Enjoy and have a blessed day.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Selgado, Ben Cossette, and Mike McHugh.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for our study of the one chapter in the Book of Jude. Ben kicks us off by asking the question about Jesus' half brothers. This evolves into how catholic priests became gatekeepers of scripture and creating interpretations like the Virgin Mary.

We then end up in Vincent van Gogh territory where he actually began to make God's Word more accessible to the common man and why the gatekeepers of this time did not like this.

Lenny then brings it back to Jude verse 3 and the importance of vigilance, contend for the Faith. The group then shares the importance of trusting what is being taught, but to then verify.

David shifts the topic to rescuing brothers and sisters from the lake of fire. Hate the sin, but love the sinner. Mike shares about being lost in the world, but having zero clue that he was actually lost.

Judah brings it full circle by sharing the actual catholic interpretation of the Virgin Mary and how they have added things to the Bible and declared by various popes as dogma.

Enoch, Elijah and Jesus being the only three Biblical bodily resurrections.

So so much more and what an amazing conversation!!

Enjoy and have a blessed day.

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This week's discussion features Judah Thomas, Lenny Selgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Join us for an epic discussion fueled by the Holy Spirit regarding our study of the one chapter in the Book of Jude. So many potential titles for this episode and thought we'd share a few of them.

• Study God's Word to Show Yourself Approved
• Are You Really There for God?
• Vigilance Against Deception
• Past Judgement Serves as a Warning
• Church Shopping without God's Word
• To Be Above Reproach
• Leading Others By Example
• Members of Your House Being Against You
• Shopping Churches for Features with No Bible Around
• What is it That's Going to Keep You Comfy?
• Church Shopping to Hear What Your Itching Ears Want to Hear
• The Devil Does Not Care if You Are a Moral Human Being
• Shopping for Church That in One Hour Can Fill You with the Holy Spirit for the Remainder of the 167 Hours in a Week.
• Experiencing Jesus Cannot Be Taken Away
• Warning: The Bible Will Change You
• Church Shopping Warning: No Bible Required
• Religion is the Opium of the Masses
• Warning: The Bible Will Wash Your Brain
• Church Shopping: No Bible in Your Cart
• Church Shopping'ology

It is going to be an interesting study and no shortage of talking points from this one book from Jude.

Our prayer is that your hunger for God's Word will Increase.

Enjoy and have a blessed day.

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