The Warrior's Cry Podcast - The Warrior's Cry: Recent Episodes
The Warrior's Cry
Monthly podcast where the host, James Edwards, interviews Pastors, Ministers, and Leaders from various churches and Christian Ministries concerning unity in the Body of Christ.
This conversation was a hard one to have but necessary, in times such as these. Division, racial riots and peaceful protests, what does completion look like in Christ? How does race relations look in Christ?
Stuck at home with nothing to do, so I made a podcast with one of my most favorite people in the world! First Time Talking with her and my heart lept at the good news and hope that she shared. Listen in and share with your friends.
Check out TheWarriorsCry.com for my swag, t-shirts and book are available. What better time to enjoy His presence than when we are called to rest at home!
I had another opportunity to interview Caesar Kalinowski, this time from a point of view of a completely different theology on my side. The Gospel is way bigger and more simple than we were ever taught!
Live from our Hotel Room after the Mystical School, after Saturday night we opted to record an episode where we talked about things happening during the Mystical School. We also did live Communion as well!
I had a chance to interview Matt Spinks from the Firehouse Project, and Kainos Koinonia which is a Glory Community that covers the entire globe and centralized in Fort Wayne, Indiana. On this episode I also have Matt’s father Lynn Spinks, who so many call Papa Lynn.
In a continuation from the previous episode, I realized that Sin was a sick cycle carousel, and now that I am off that carousel I realize truly how free I am! I have never been a sinner, but have always been in Christ, I just didn’t know what it looked like!
What does it look like to live without sin? To completely and utterly close the door on what you thought you just did because you couldn’t help yourself? To see yourself as completely dead to the idea of a sin nature, and Alive in Christ!
In this episode I take a long hard look at myself, in the process I realize just how selfish I am. This episode also took place in the very beginning of a very radical change in my life and theology!
In this episode I interview the author of Simply Sonship and Drop the Stones, also the former Pastor of Catch the Fire in Raleigh, NC. He has since moved back to Puerto Rico, and his ministry called Happy Sonship is a Non Profit Organization partners with ministries all around the world to help the needy and the hurting.
In this episode I talk with Michael Abbott, pastor of Lifeway Church in Sylva, NC. They also have a satellite campus in Rabun Gap, GA.
This episode is my opinion about why LGBT and Abortion issues are so important in America. I will caution that this view has changed for me a lot in the year and a half since I recorded this episode.
This interview was the most convicting and blessing I have received in the eleven episodes I have recorded. So amazing!
In this episode we tackle Unity in the Body of Christ from the perspective of Dr. Frank Turek.
This interview takes place with James in the comfort of his hime in North Carolina, and David sitting on a sidewalk in Beijing, China. China is not friendly to Christians, so this interview made me extremely nervous, so I am excited to share this with the Church!
This week, I talk to my spiritual father. Like Paul was to Timothy, Pastor John is to me. It is a little longer than normal, but a great conversation indeed.
James Edwards goes on without a guest to talk about the mission of The Warrior's Cry, and the heartache that goes along with building the ministry.
In this inaugural episode of The Warrior's Thoughts, James talks about communion, and why it is so important but underutilized in the Body of Christ.
James Edwards spent some time with Drew Koehler discussing Unity in the Body of Christ from his perspective, a Reformed, Calvinist point of view.
Is the Church Healthy? What is God saying to the Church Today? These are just a few questions we cover, join the Unity Revolution and listen in!
The true Church is not measured by the denomination you claim to be a member of, nor the building in which you inhabit. The True Church is measured by who you are. Who do you identify with? Do you identify as Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist? Or do you identify as Christ, who set aside His place in Heaven at the Right Hand of the Father? Who lowered Himself to our level as a servant, not as a King, but as nothing to shame the things that set themselves up as something. My identity is Christ, as I am in Him, He is in me, and you. Let not your theology keep you from the one Minded mission that is God's. To Love Him with Everything, and then to Love our Neighbor as He would. That is the Good News, That is the True Church.
“It occurred to me that as a Christian we are brought up to become apologists concerning our faith, some of us seek to prove other faiths wrong by attacking their doctrines and ideals. As if by doing so we prove our doctrines and ideals any more real or realistic. I know this note will definitely scandalize much of my readership, which at this time is fairly small. But I decided to treat this page with more dignity than to care about what the few think in regards to a true message. The message is this: Love your neighbor as yourself; treat others with the same kindness that God showed you when you repented.
Were you totally there when you repented? Did you have it totally together? Did you not know that God chose the things that are despised in the Earth to call his own. Some of us were found in prostitution, some witchcraft, some murder yet God showed you kindness. Why can’t you show that kindness to another who does not believe? Go to where the sinner is and love them. Instead we hang out in safe areas, areas that are not as affected by the world like church. Our Christian friends and family insulate us from those who truly need God. We sit in circles and expound to each other the truths of God instead of living the truths of God in the world and showing kindness and love to those who don’t know.
When a Jehovah’s Witness comes to your door what do you do? Do you send them away or offer them cold water and a rest? Sure they may try to speak their doctrine, let them. But let God win them by His endless kindness. Love covers a multitude of sin, inasmuch kindness overcomes a multitude of doctrine. When a Mormon comes knocking, welcome them into your home, offer them rest and kindness. Allow them to speak because when they do I believe that my God will speak to them and love them to repentance. You know we were never told that we have to do all the work, what if that is it? Just plant the seed, make sure they know that the Lord is your Strength, but don’t bash, because then you nullify the kindness in which you exhibited.”
— https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-warriors-cry/love-the-greatest-weapon-of-all/163669216982214
I wrote this blog on my Facebook Page on September 28, 2010 at 10:22 AM. I spoke about this during Episode 1: Pastor Nick Honerkamp, and the most fascinating thing was that God tested my thoughts on this soon after I published. Shockingly it has been a little less than 6 years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Two Jehovah's Witness women knocked on my door within 10 minutes of my posting this to The Warrior's Cry Facebook page.
Love is the greatest weapon of all simply because who can criticize when you have love? Who can ridicule you when you have an open heart that shows the love of Christ?
Didn't Christ hang out with the prostitute? Did he criticize their life choices or nag them into change? No, He loved them, showed them the love of God, fed them, clothed them, then he told them to go and sin no more.
The Church seems fascinated by formulas so here is a formula. God will never give us an opportunity to change someone unless we first love them. First comes love, then comes repentance, without love the turning from sin is simply hollow.
Pastor Nick Honerkamp and James Edwards discuss topics such as denominationalism, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Unity in the Body of Christ, and the transformational Love of Christ.