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Sons of Thunder
Sons of Thunder is a podcast for young men, by young men, about living a life centered around faith, fellowship, and fitness.
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- 🕰Banter Clock 5:02 🕰
- Sons Lightning Round
- 🕰14:06 🕰 Getting to know Jon
- Playing football for Iowa
- Asking bigger questions
- “Is Jesus on the Throne of Your Life?
- There is something more
- “Incline my heart to you”
Recorded October 12, 2020
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Reminiscing about grade school shenanigans
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Iron Sharpens Iron
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Importance and Responsibility of Conflict
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Receiving Conflict
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Fruits
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This episode was recorded on October 12, 2020 Banter Clock 5:16 CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - How to say no with friends and Family - When you say no it opens up opportunities to say yes - Boundaries - Faith Fellowship and Fitness - How do we have a well-rounded relationship?
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How do we take care of ourselves?
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The shift from college to real life
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The agent of growth
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The importance of being responsible for yourself
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Taking care of yourself in faith fellowship and fitness
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when we think we have it figured out…
Recorded on Sept 16, 2020
Season 3 Episode 1
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A Little Banter
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The Genesis of the Sons
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Podcast Restart
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Introduce the Season “When Things Get Real”
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Sons catch up on what has happened these last 6 months
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Responsibility
Recorded April 14, 2020 CONTENTS - How do we respond to the resurrection in quarantine? - Disciple vs Apostle - Otium ET BELUM Special thanks to our sponsor Lifeboat Network 🔗SONS LINKS 🔗 Instagram ▪️Website ▪️Facebook ▪️Twitter
The Sons are back, and happy Holy Week!
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Trivia with the Sons
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Catchup with the sons how is quarantine going?
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Acedia
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Do we have to be productive over quarantine?
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Are you Abiding or Striving?
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What are we doing for prayer?
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What are we doing for fitness?
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Welcoming our special guest Jordan
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Johns Activity on Twitter
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@Armsandchestskiptherest
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Jordans New Gym Idea
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Lighting Round
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“The Injury”
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The Ins and Outs of Homeschooling
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The Beginning of a Life of Nutrition and Fitness
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Combating Vanity
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What is your motivation?
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Growing in Faith
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Preparing for Marriage
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The Power of the Novena
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Practicals
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Jordan's Instagram▪️Jordan's Twitter
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We welcome on our special Guests: David Cushing and Greg Ebacher
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Worst Lightning round yet 🤦♂️
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Workout horror stories
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Sean’s life update
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Where does John’s conviction in his belief come from?
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David’s life journey with supporting narration from Greg
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Using your Strength
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The need to be strong as a male in the 21st century
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Greg's Instagram ▪️David's Instagram
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CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
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Influential men in the bible
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Simon of Cyrene
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David
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Debunking David vs Goliath
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St. Dismas
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Sons Lightning Round
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The Origins of “Dangerous Men”
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What is a Dangerous Man?
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Lust free living
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How do we create lasting change and continue to live as a dangerous man?
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Practicals
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🕰Banter Clock: 6:25 🕰 CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Sons talk making gains 💪 - What does fitness look like for each of the Sons? - overcoming lower back pain from deadlifts and squats 🏋️♂️ - Free weights - Functional Fitness - The debate over Body Buiding - NUTRITION 🥑 - Carrots 🥕 - Countering Estrogen - RAW EGG GAME 🥚 - How can I increase testosterone? - Supplement Life - PRACTICALS 🔗LINKS 🔗 Instagram ▪️Website ▪️Facebook ▪️Twitter
🕰Banter Clock 8:00 🕰
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Holding yourself accountable is the beginning of achieving virtue
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Holding yourself accountable vs voluntary actions
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Stages of development
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The Virtue of Initiative
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When we succeed its WE and when we fail it’s ME
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Holding yourself accountable vs. having others hold us accountable
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Admitting you need help
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This is the Introduction to the new series we are going to publish on being a Dangerous Man. 🕰 Banter Clock 🕰
Listen to the Sons of Thunder joined by the up and coming creators of Prayer and Pushups discuss topics of Masculine Initiation. CONTENTS OF THIS CAST - Learning about Prayer and Pushups - What are you strong for? - Why is there no longer the initiation of men in our culture today? - Where does initiation begin? - Who do you find inspiration from? Link to Prayer and Pushups Facebook
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Did the Saints see themselves as being spiritually mature?
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Can we ever reach maturity?
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The Catholic life is a journey
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2 different types of time
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Quality vs Consistency vs Quantity
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How does God's grace pour out through spiritual maturity?
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What is Frassati USA?
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The Saint with the pipe in his mouth.
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What would Pier Giorgio Frassati have to say to the youth today?
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What was Pier Giorgio like?
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What were some issues Pier Giorgio faced as a young man?
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How was Giorgio’s relationship with his father?
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A man beating Mediocrity
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What is Chaos?
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Predator Detection
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What is the fruit of Chaos?
This is a Breakdown of the song: For Islands Fires and Family written by Dermot Kennedy
🕰Banter Clock 8:37🕰
Contents of this Cast
~Banter~
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Sean learns about Dad Strength
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Are John and Eric Packing?
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A present for Sean?
~ Focus👀~
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Do you need to commit to something to have Focus?
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What is Focus?
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How do we not set a definition without Commitment?
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“The closer the distance between what you have to do and what you want to do, the happier you will be”
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How do we maintain focus when we are day in and day out going through the grind of life?
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ROCKY
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Practicing what you preach will reap wonders in the future
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How do we bring the Lord into Focus?
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How do we trust our Focus?
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The Castle of the Heart
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The importance of the emptiness
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PRACTICALS
Hunger Series Part 2 🕰Banter Clock 6:37🕰 🔑Contents of this Cast🔑 - What is Vision? - Reacting vs. Responding - How do we experience a call?
HUNGER SERIES PART 1 🕰Banter Clock 10:05🕰 —Contents of this Podcast— - How can we commit find greatness apart from the environment around us not changing? - How do we take time to focus on where we are at? - Where have you found desires in your life? - What is this hunger? - The “Dark Room” - What are the things in my heart that need to be torn out? - How do we find the “Dark Room”? - What is the Lord revealing about me?
—Relationship Series Pt 4– 🕰 BANTER CLOCK 8:28 - How do you experience a relationship with God? - How do we receive an encounter with Christ? - What happens post-encounter? - How do we make space for God? - How do we love God?
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The structure of relationships
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Finding order in your relationships
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Face the world and not each other
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The risk of love
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The most attractive quality in a man
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Can men and women be friends?
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Kissing on the first date?
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Over spiritualizing within relationships
- What is a Relationship with the self?
- What is good for me?
- What do I need?
- What is a bad relationship with yourself?
- How do you encounter yourself?
- How do we bring ourselves to a relationship?
- If we don't have an ordered relationship with ourselves how do we expect those around us to have a good relationship with us? ~OUTLINE LIFE WITH CHRIST~
- 1.a) Admitting your faults
- 1.b) Being okay with setting realistic Goals
- 2.a) Find Forerunners that you want to follow in their footsteps
- 2.b) Finding others in a community calling you on
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- Encounter a Risk
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- Know where you are going
What are relationships? Where do we find relationships? Are your relationships made on sand or rock?
- Where have the sons been?
- Day in the Life
- Entering into Fall
- What does it mean to be present?
- Why Do we work?
- How do we use money?
- Some math for you
- Why am I working today?
- Why is it so easy to find our identity in our work?
- How do we combat our humanity?
- How do we fear God in a healthy way?
- Is it a fear rooted in love or a Fear rooted in sin?
- Did Jesus Fear God?
- Do you need to have a Friendship before Brotherhood?
- FELLOWSHIP | FRIENDSHIP | BROTHERHOOD
- Three levels of friendship 1)Utility 2)Pleasure 3)Next level
- Is the goal of every friendship to be a next level friend?
- Charity is contagious and is deeper.
- How do we say no?
- When is it good to say no?
- Self Care.
- You don't have to be friends with everyone, but you have to be friendly to everyone
- What is a friendship that incorporates all three friendships
- Chasing the Championship
- Having Good Coaches and Mentors
- Influential Athletes, Phillip Rivers, and Tim Tebow
- Why is there a disconnect between sports and faith?
- The sports realm is full of excuses which are lies.
- Finding our Tebow effect
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - The need to find confidence now that we are in positions of power - No one is going to follow someone that isn’t confident - Purpose and sense of achievement in God - The gray between cockiness and confidence - where are you grounding yourself? - Definition: Belief that you have what it takes - Humility and Confidence goes hand in hand - You need to know yourself - Humble and Confidence is the killer duo WHAT? - We were created with the purpose of the intention of GREATNESS WHY? - Men are not living in the potential that they were made to live - Purpose…..The “Zone” - Jesus’ Purpose was to do the will of the Father - Deadpool? - Live within the reality of your identity everyday and be ready to FLEX on ‘em - You make great moments by inviting God in HOW? - “IF YOU CAN?” “ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR ONE WHO BELIEVES” - Jesus - We need to discover our purpose and know it ourselves - We need to find more time with the Lord - Have faith and strong nerves - We need to trust in the little things
CONTENTS OF THIS CAST - The Dignity of the human person - Aestheticism and Exodus 90 - One of the problems facing our society is a man cannot sit alone in his room - Asceticism - self-denial for a purpose to get closer to the lord - Relying on the Lord and not the things of this world - Don't believe the lie that you cant be holy - You don't choose your cross you pick up the one that God gives you - Holiness isn't perfectness - It's not about falling it's about getting back up - The lord allows us to stumble so we can rely on him - We need to stand up for ourselves and Choose for ourselves - Banter Outro
The Video didn't work SMH CONTENTS OF THIS CAST - Songs with the Sons (If You Want Love - NF) MYTHS DEBUNKED: - Christianity Preys on the Weak - Christianity is anti-intillectual and anti-scientific - Christianity is anti-sex
CONTENTS - Songs with the Sons: From now on from the Greatest Showman - Debunking Myths - Jesus Didn't Exist - The Ressurection is a Myth
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Steroids? - Songs with the Sons (A Prayer by Kings Kaleidoscope) - The Passion that would go on a cross and die for you - In suffering and silence is where you experience God the most - "Beauty will save the world" - silence is a call to dive deeper
CONTENTS - More spoilers - Humanity / A Human Experience - Freedom - Working with our Purpose - Jesus as a Lover - Discernment - Gods Passion and desire for us to choose good - “Pray as if everything is dependent on God and work like everything is dependent on you” - Leaving the door open in your heart
CONTENTS - The Sons start a new segment called Songs with the Sons, where they analyze and interpret song lyrics and tie it to the Christian journey - What men are striving for - The Distraction of Media STUPID DEEP - "What if who I hoped to be was always me? And the love I fought feel was always free?" - (Jon Bellion - Stupid Deep) - "The path I've tried to cut was always clear" GO THE DISTANCE - The Road you are on is the right road for you - "Every Mile will be worth my while" - Far off place = Heaven - Relationship, Identity, Mission - Goes to his father's house - The Journey and the story of love - Gods glory is us fully alive
CONTENTENTS - Lots of Banter - Stories of Ireland - John leaves - Taking risks, and having an adventure
CONTENTS - Eric is Back - The Question of what are you thankful for - It's hard to be thankful - Is it so hard to think that the Lord wants a good life for us? - The parable of the Talents - Challenging yourself to rid attachment to things of this world - Stay Hungry - Lessons from Job 38:04 - Be thankful for what the Lord has done for us in our lives - John tries to leave but goes on a fitness rant - Ham on thanksgiving?
CONTENTS - Shoutout to WILL GOODWIN - Johns Recap of the Philosophy Conference - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - What is going on in the microcosm of St. Thomas - The Dignity of every person needs to be upheld - The horrible existence of Pornography and what it is doing to our culture - What happens to the brain during Porn - Bring it to the light - How we root out evil - The Frodo Mindset "Did the ordinary things extraordinarily well" FIGHT THE NEW DRUG TALKS - link below - https://www.sonsofthundermn.com/series-1/
Tune in for a great podcast with Sean and Delexi Healy sharing about their relationship. CONTENTS - SOT Shoutouts - Our Story - Our Brokenness is saved - Losing your Identity - Need for Order - Trust and how it transformed us
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - SOT lightning round - How to run a hundred miles... - Ping Pong - Bringing Christ into Fitness - The benefits... physical emotional and spiritual... of fitness
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Intro to Technology - Distractions in society - Addiction in our lives - We are closer to God in nothingness - The easy abuse - Actually listen to music jon bellion video: https://twitter.com/jonbellion/status/1050099647610384384
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Contents of this Podcast: - Sons of Thunder Hot Seat - How to Pour Wine - The Split of our Lives - Unity of Life - Our call to our Vocation
Transitions - Lots of Banter/Catchup - Turn out not in - The Rock - Just Do It - Find Purpose/Passion
Contents Of This Podcast: - Institutional Inclusivity vs. Identity - Discovering Courage - Being Courageous Today - More Lord Of The Rings
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - 5 Minute SOT Reunion - Nerd Moments - Receiving Love - Encountering Suffering - Fear vs. Trust
Sean and Jake summer update Check out the video at https://youtu.be/Qm-N3CfdbjI Check out our website https://www.sonsofthundermn.com/
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Weaknesses & Strengths - Giving Glory to God - Accepting Others - Making God Primary Check out the rest of the series at: https://www.sonsofthundermn.com/the-way-of-humility/
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Being vs. Doing - God revealing who we are - You can't give what you don't know Check out the series at : www.sonsofthundermn.com/the-way-of-humility/
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Christian Joy vs. Christian Conviction - Some insights from Newman - Experiencing the fruit of discipline - What does it mean to be obedient?
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: Live at CCR Men's Youth Group - The three beginning stages of masculinity - Receiving permission to be men in today's culture - Confronting conflicts and big decisions - Knowing our identity and who we've been made to be - Our own experiences from Cowboy to Warrior
What's your Spark? Don't listen to the noise of this world, instead listen to the voice inside of you. We are not vessels to be filled, but fires to be ignited!
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Being vulnerable with men, women, and God - Taking the first step ourselves - The healing power of vulnerability - Inviting God in through our surrender - Vulnerability vs. Weakness
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - We don't need to wait for Moses - It is finished - What mountain is challenging you in your life? - Humility and meekness of Christ - We have what it takes
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: Live Recording from Tommie Catholic at the University of St. Thomas - The Grind - How do we incorporate our faith into our fitness? - Pursuing virtue while pursuing a healthy lifestyle - The struggle with vanity and pride
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Objectification of Snapchat - "You always have two choices" - Will - "It's the duty of every man to respect the dignity of every woman" - JPII - Pursuing the Beauty behind the beauty - How do we pursue women well?
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Encountering Christ - Discovering our call as disciples - Some talk on Star Wars - Allowing Jesus to call others on through us - Living with purpose as a son of God
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST: - Jesus as a WARRIOR - Traits of a Warrior - Warrior thinks above himself - We are not alone, the Lord is with us - Be a Dangerous Man