With a passionate heart for Christian discipleship, the majesty and centrality of Jesus Christ, and the life-changing power of the Gospel, the Daily Thunder podcast is a daily teaching series from the Bible to exhort, equip, and encourage Christians down the Narrow Way of the Cross. Taught by Eric Ludy, Nathan Johnson, and other guests – now you can have a little of the Ellerslie Discipleship boom, grit, and oomph thundering daily in your earbuds.
406: The Marriage of the Bride // Jesus in the Old Testament 10 (Nathan Johnson)
Jul 16, 2020
Show notes405: The Marriage of the Bride // Jesus in the Old Testament 10 (Nathan Johnson)
Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Jesus in the Old Testament Study: 10 – The Marriage of the Bride Jesus is engaged! And we, the Church, are His bride. In this final message in the Jesus in the Old Testament series, we examine the motif of marriage and brides throughout the Old Testament and show how they point to the greatest marriage of all time – between Christ and the Church. This is a powerful reminder of why we should be pure and spotless before Him in love.
405: Life With Christ (Ephesians 2:5-6) // Ephesians Bible Study 44 (Nathan Johnson)
Jul 15, 2020
Show notes405: Life With Christ (Ephesians 2:5-6) // Ephesians Bible Study 44 (Nathan Johnson)
Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Ephesians Bible Study Study: 44 – Life With Christ (Ephesians 2:5-6) There is a big difference between living your life FOR God and living your life WITH Him. In Ephesians 2:5-6, Paul is adamant that what is going on in your life is “with” Christ – you have been made alive with Him, raised with Him, and seated with Him. In this expositional study of Ephesians, Nathan talks about the importance of a life lived with Christ.
404: The Rock That Is Higher Than I // Jesus in the Old Testament 9 (Nathan Johnson)
Jul 14, 2020
Show notes404: The Rock That Is Higher Than I // Jesus in the Old Testament 9 (Nathan Johnson)
Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Jesus in the Old Testament Study: 9 – The Rock That Is Higher Than I God is our rock. He is our fortress, our strong tower, our deliverer, our horn of salvation. He is our cornerstone upon which our lives and the Church is built. In this message, we examine the concept of God being a rock and how that is portrayed in the life of Jesus, the master architect and stone mason of the world.
To study out this concept further, here are the additional passages Nathan mentioned: Genesis 49:24; Deuteronomy 32:4, 32:15, 32:18, 32:30, 32:31, 32:37; 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 22:2-3, 22:32, 22:47, 23:3; Psalm 18:2, 18:31, 18:46, 28:1, 31:3, 42:9, 61:2, 62:2, 62:6-7, 71:3, 78:35, 89:26, 92:15, 94:22, 95:1, 144:1; Isaiah 8:14, 17:10, 51:1; Romans 9:30-33,
1 Peter 2:4-8, Revelation 21:14
403: The Sicilian Wind // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 54 (Eric Ludy)
Jul 13, 2020
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403: The Sicilian Wind // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 54 (Eric Ludy)
Speaker: Eric Ludy
Series:Spiritual Lessons from WW2
Study: 54: The Sicilian Wind
This is the fifty-fourth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he leverages the providential gusting wind along the shoreline of Sicily on July 10th, 1943 to explain one of the most difficult-to-grasp ideas in Scripture and one of the most-needed Truths to understand. This unseasonable wind was very unwelcome to the invading good guys, but this same northwest wind that threatened to destroy the good guy's ships turned out to be the great undoing of the bad guy's defense.
402: Controlling the Sea // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 53 (Eric Ludy)
Jul 10, 2020
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402: Controlling the Sea // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 53 (Eric Ludy)
Speaker: Eric Ludy
Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2
Study: 53: Controlling the Sea
This is the fifty-third installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he walks through the intriguing process of discovery that the Allies went through in determining their priority opponent in the war (is it Germany, Japan, or Italy?) and their priority theater of battle (is it the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, or the Atlantic?). This process of discovery is not only important for World Wars, it is imperative for each of us as individuals and for us as a corporate Church. We need to know who our real enemy is and know the priority battles that God has set before us to win.
401: The Scarlet Cord and the Battle of Dependence // Jesus in the Old Testament 8 (Nathan Johnson)
Jul 09, 2020
Show notes401: The Scarlet Cord and the Battle of Dependence // Jesus in the Old Testament 8 (Nathan Johnson)
Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Jesus in the Old Testament Study: 8 – The Scarlet Cord and the Battle of Dependence Today’s Daily Thunder dives into one of Nathan’s favorite pictures of Jesus in the Old Testament – the story of Rahab (a gentile prostitute), her salvation by a scarlet cord, and the battle of Jericho. Learn some fascinating background on this famous battle but more importantly, learn how Rahab, the scarlet cloth, and the battle are a picture of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and what He desires to do in and through our lives as we enter into the “Land of Promise."
400: A Million Unused Soldiers // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 52 (Eric Ludy)
Jul 08, 2020
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400: A Million Unused Soldiers // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 52 (Eric Ludy)
Speaker: Eric Ludy
Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2
Study: 52: A Million Unused Soldiers
This is the fifty-second installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he breaks down Winston Churchill’s thinking towards the expenditure of British military strength in the critical year of 1943. Should he hoard it or should he radically spend it? Should he take a step away in order to amass greater strength for a battle someday in the future or should he take the uncomfortable step forward into the fray now and wield the strength he already possesses? His decision-making process back then profoundly parallels the decision that we as the Church are needing to make right now in this hour of dire need.
399: The Importance of Egypt, Wilderness, and the Promised Land // Jesus in the Old Testament 7 (Nathan Johnson)
Jul 07, 2020
Show notes399: The Importance of Egypt, Wilderness, and the Promised Land // Jesus in the Old Testament 7 (Nathan Johnson)
Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Jesus in the Old Testament Study: 7 – The Importance of Egypt, Wilderness, and the Promise Land We all know well the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt at Passover because of the blood of the lamb on the doorposts, entering and wandering the Wilderness, finally entering into the Promised Land forty years later. But few of us recognize that this too is our story – it is a picture (a shadow) of the Gospel and the reality of what Christ has purchased on the Cross. In this message, Nathan talks about seeing Jesus in the Old Testament through the profound progression from Egypt through the Wilderness and into the Promised Land.
398: The Old Lion // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 51 (Eric Ludy)
Jul 06, 2020
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398: The Old Lion // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 51 (Eric Ludy)
Speaker: Eric Ludy
Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2
Study: The Old Lion
This is the fifty-first installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he unpacks Winston Churchills dangerous bout with pneumonia in the critical war months of 1943 and then parallels that with the Church’s dangerous bout with comfort and correctness in the year 2020.
397: Casablanca // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 50 (Eric Ludy)
Jul 03, 2020
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397: Casablanca // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 50 (Eric Ludy)
Speaker: Eric Ludy
Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2
Study: 50:Casablanca
This is the fiftieth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he dives into the tumultuous waters of contention, division, and denomination in the Body of Christ today. In paralleling the modern Church with the Allied forces in January of 1943, a fascinating picture emerges. Casablanca was the place where a common vision and purpose statement was forged amongst America, Great Britain, and the Free French. The Church is in desperate need of our very own Casablanca Conference in this hour.
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