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Rev. Kenn Blanchard, a.k.a., the Black Man with a Gun has been on the frontlines of several social battles. This podcasting former US Marine, former law enforcement officer, trainer, Second Amendment activist, and ordained Christian pastor is not afraid to talk openly about suicide. He is creating a project using music and YouTube to reach anyone …
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Creating a YouTube channel focused on suicide prevention in character might be the strangest thing I’ve done in my 59 years of life. The subject is evergreen but it is not the happiest topic you ever want to hear. After being a gun rights activist for thirty years that has been podcasting since 2007, video …
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Rebranding My Podcast and Not Losing Ground Nobody likes to lose. It is the fear of loss that keeps us from doing much in life. Podcasters and social media producers are really loss adverse because other people can see our followers and subscribers. If you want to rebrand your social media property, I say go …
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This is a message to all new Second Amendment Activist. All the cool kids are talking about Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two of them and wounding the third, during a protest police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020. He was acquitted of all charges. I’d like to make a few points …
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What is Gun Violence? If you intelligently break down the the term gun violence it means that guns are violent. Think about that, “violent guns.” There is no such thing. A gun is an inanimate object incapable of doing anything except rusting if not operated by human hands. The proposed changes to gun laws don’t …
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The Black Man With a Gun Show podcast has been in existence since 2007. It’s one of the oldest indy gun podcast in America. Coming from Maryland of all places which is not the most gun friendly places in the United States. The show is the flagship for the new https://blanchardnetwork.com which is a …
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Podcast Episode 668 The title of this week’s podcast is supposedly attributed to then-Governor Ronald Reagan during the time when the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and Justice (BPP) marched into Sacramento, CA to voice their opposition to the bill and raise awareness of the brutality that African Americans faced at the hands of …
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It’s been a year since… In my world, my Mrs retires. I sell a motorcycle and can’t wait to get another. I start a new job and learned to telework. This season I’m enjoying seeing my son buy his first home. I witnessed my friend become a pastor. I am becoming a guitarist. I’m not …
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We live in interesting times. Since the pandemic of the coronavirus, I have been skeptical and mistrusting of the vaccine until a week ago. I took my mother to get her shot and have been contemplating the process ever since. A doctor broke some stuff down to me and I decided to try to find …
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I have done some great things in my lifetime but I want to help just one more person not to give in to the battle within. I am creating a positive, encouraging and thought provoking podcast powered by the mantra of Cpl Desmond Doss, “Lord, let me get just one more.” It will and can …
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Do you realize that 1 in 5 people have considered suicide? Looking at the title of this post might make you worry about me. I’m fine. I’m launching a new project and I want to share it with you.
The struggles of life, and death is not a fun topic to talk about but recently I had an epiphany that this is something I should create a podcast about. The fact that so many people have thought or are thinking about ending their lives is real. I plan to use my gifts to minister in this podcast.
The podcast will cover more than suicide actually. It is going to cover some of life’s most messed up moments. Some of us don’t know how to process it. Some of us get overwhelmed and think that there is no way out but to end our lives.
Experiencing suicidal thoughts does not always mean that a person will kill themselves. It does mean you need to hear from someone that wants to hear from you.
I have overcome a lot in my life. It does me no earthly good not to help as many people as I can deal with the transitions of life.
You may not be so-called “religious” but it is my faith and belief in God that is orchestrating this in my life. It is my belief that if I do this I will help someone that needs it. There’s a good chance I’ve experienced or know of what you are going through, got beat down for it, and found my way out of it. This show wants to help you survive another week.
I am passionate about life and want more people to enjoy theirs.
There is hardly anything that you can go through that someone else hasn’t. Life doesn’t play favorites. It hits us all.
This COVID-thing is new to everyone under 90 years old, but we’ve even had plagues before.
• Are you dealing with sadness right now?
• Are you grieving?
• Are you feeling guilty for something you done?
• Are you pissed off, I mean angry and think you should get some payback?
• Are you feeling like you are a burden to others, that you are worthless?
• You feeling like is not worth living anymore?
• Do you feel trapped, and it can be physically or emotionally?
• Feeling like things will never get better?
• Are you just in pain?
But wait there’s more: The show won’t be morbid and sad though. I plan to encourage and share all the wisdom I have and can get from smarter people on strategies for doing better as a person.
Consider me your uncle, brother or friend that wants you to win. I’m still working out the details on how I am going to do this, but I am planning it now. You’ll see some post until then as I work out the kinks of my plan.
All I know is that I am called to do it. I want to use this voice, this heart and this spirit to save a soul. We’ll see where it goes from there.
I even have an ameliorated title for the podcast.
If I Died Tonight Podcast coming soon.
If you want to be notified of all the developments, you can email me.
Check out these podcast: Black Man With A Gun Show , Speak Life church , and Indian Motorcycle radio The Books, Kenn has written.The post If I Died Tonight appeared first on Rev. Kenn Blanchard.
Every community has their holy men, shaman, religious leaders. I am one for the gun community. I am the Friar Tuck of this band of merry minutemen and women that believe in God. I haven’t been promoting it or sharing it openly but have been participating in weddings, funerals, baptisms and private counselings when life events make us jump in the foxhole.
There are no atheist in a foxhole.
When you are contemplating next steps, life and death and where you are going from here, I’ve been called upon to offer an ear, solace, comfort, experience, empathy, and love. Its not a sexy job but I’ve been called to it. I am hard wired to it. I’ve been doing it since 2001.
Sometimes it seems to conflicted with my pro-gun stuff until I realized I was serving the community I was in. I was ordained and served as pastor to Historic Berean Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., for seven years before creating the Speak Life Church, Incorporated. I still rock the collar but I do it all virtually now.
I’m the pastor of patriots, pistoleros and paladins.
Speak Life is striving to be a continuation of the ministry of the Apostle Paul using technology. Church and fellowship is not about the building you are in, it is about learning and growing closer to Jesus. It is about building friendships and a community. Through the website, podcasting, video, live streaming and social media, people can be reached that do not feel at home in a traditional church. However, Speak Life is not all about technology. Phone calls, personal visits and meet ups are also a huge part of fellowship and are an even larger part of the roadmap for the church.
Although technically, Speak Life has only been operating for several years now, here are some of our successes:
* Helped prevent seven suicides
* Saved several marriages
* Organized charitable fundraisers for good causes
* Saved the home of a terminally ill veteran
* Provided fishing trips and ministry to a senior citizen, dying of cancer
* Officiated at 18 weddings
Our Mission To restore and strengthen the family, provide hope for those in need and offer a non-traditional place of worship, using technology to be anywhere. All are welcome, including those souls still searching for what they believe in.
Speak Life Church is an IRS 501 (c)3 recognized religious charity, incorporated in the State of Maryland in 2018.
A fellowship that uses technology to create a non-traditional place of life-affirming strength and worship everywhere to everyone.
Check out our weekly podcast at speaklifepodcast.com Contact info if you need me:
pastor@speaklifechurch.net
Ways you can support the Mission. Givelify
PayPal Charity
Patreon
Amazon purchases
You can support the ministry by check or money order by sending it to Speak Life Church, PO BOX 2, upper Marlboro, MD 20772
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