Daily Thunder Podcast

This is the tenth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message explores the unique cultural demands of the American Frontier. If you wanted to survive and be free on the frontier of America, you needed to stand your ground when the bullies tested your mettle. How simila...

Distractions abound around us, even seemingly good and spiritual ones. Yet as Paul cautions the Colossians, we are to beware of anything that draws us away from Christ (even if it is spiritual and good in and of itself). Join Nathan Johnson in this expositional study of Colossians 2:8-23 as we examine four false teachings the church at Colossae were embracing, and how we must guard ourse...

Ben Price is once again our special guest on Daily Thunder. Known as Australia's Best Impersonator, Ben is a comedian with a penchant for Jesus Christ. Every Wednesday throughout our winter Daily Thunder season, Ben will be chiming in, making us laugh, and reminding us that it is all about Jesus.

Struggles and suffering is simply abundant in the Christian life. We are not promised ease and safety, rather we have the hope of comfort and joy amidst the difficulties and hardships of life. When we as believers live fully for Christ, we will face persecution and trials—which Paul says we should embrace and delight in. But how? In this expositional message from Colossians 1:24-2:7 we e...

This is the ninth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message addresses the complex and challenging issue of a Christian and the World — a point of intense debate and division for thousands of years in the Church. Is a Christian supposed to avoid the World and shun it...

This is the eighth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message touches on a phenomenon that many of us are witnessing right now in the world (and even in the Church), that we are struggling to understand and explain. It would appear that people’s brains are being turne...

God made Paul a minister so he might preach the marvelous message of the mystery of Christ. In this expositional message on Colossians 1:24-2:7, we explore this glorious mystery of “Christ in us” and how this mystery has been “hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints.” If you are interested in joining Nathan in studying the book, sign up to receive...

We've never done this before—a bonus special Daily Thunder discussion with Eric Ludy and Nathan Johnson on how you can access last year's Daily Thunder series in audiobook and MP3 formats with downloadable notes. Included are the following series: Spiritual Lessons from WWII (Eric Ludy) Spiritual Lessons from Alfred the Great (Eric Ludy) Daring to do as Stanley Dale (Eric Ludy) The Christian Minds...

Ben Price is once again our special guest on Daily Thunder. Known as Australia's Best Impersonator, Ben is a comedian with a penchant for Jesus Christ. Every Wednesday throughout our winter Daily Thunder season, Ben will be chiming in, making us laugh, and reminding us that it is all about Jesus.

Christ alone is to have first place in all things. He is preeminent! In what may be one of the greatest descriptions of Jesus, Colossians 1:15-20 declares that Jesus alone is to have the priority of our lives. Join Nathan Johnson in this expositional message to explore what it means for Jesus to have first place in all things at all moments of every day. If you are interested in joining...

This is the seventh episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message explores the very unique medical mindset at the time of the Civil War that spurred on a supposed “Christian” nation in their strange and bizarre mistreatment of African Americans. This proves that “science...

This is the sixth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message unpacks the unique group in history known as the Clapham Saints. This profound troop of believers didn’t just change the history of England back in the early 1800s, but they impacted the course of the U...

Jesus is God in the flesh … and thus has made God known to humanity in a relational and intimate way. This “mystery of godliness” is a profound concept, but one that must be grasped in order to fully understand Jesus Christ and all He has done on our behalf. In this expositional message from Colossians 1:15-17, Nathan Johnson discusses this great mystery of godliness and explains four ke...

Ben Price is once again our special guest on Daily Thunder. Known as Australia's Best Impersonator, Ben is a comedian with a penchant for Jesus Christ. Every Wednesday throughout our winter Daily Thunder season, Ben will be chiming in, making us laugh, and reminding us that it is all about Jesus.

Paul summarizes the entirety of the Gospel in a simple phrase: “[God] rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love.” This profound phrase is more than a bumper sticker slogan to memorize but the Christian’s reality to be experienced. In this expositional message from Colossians 1:12-14 and 21-23, Nathan Johnson expounds upon this tre...

This is the fifth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message dives into the unique and profound blindspots that the South sported leading up to the Civil War and throughout it. But, in looking at the blindspots in South, it’s important that we allow the Holy Spirit to...

This is the fourth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). In the pre Civil War era, the North and the South struggled with the inability to hear one another — they suffered from a strange deafness that emerged from endemic stereotyping. And it is a problem that we too are struggling with...

Christians have access to the knowledge of God’s will … but knowing His will is not enough, we must live it out. In Colossians 1:9-14, Paul declares that the only way you can live out the will of God is to be strengthened by the power of God. In this message, Nathan Johnson explores the path of redemption, examining the prayer of Paul on behalf of the Colossians and how we too can live o...

Ben Price is our Daily Thunder special guest for next six Wednesdays. Noted as "Australia's Best Impersonator," Ben has spent his professional life as a top flight comedian traveling the world and wowing audiences with his unique talent and wit (benpricecomedy.com). But, in the past five years God has been doing something else in this man. He has been drawing him unto Himself in a profound way and...

Christians are to be known for their faith in Christ and their love for the saints. But this is impossible unless we have a proper understanding of the Gospel and have experienced its power in our lives. In this message, Nathan discusses Colossians 1:3-8 and Paul’s introduction to the believers living in Colossae.  If you are interested in joining Nathan in studying the book, sign up to...

This is the third episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American History known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). In this particular episode Eric explores the unique parallel between the period right before the Civil War and the period we are all living in right now. Today we have the Woke crowd, but back in 1861, they had the Wide Awakes. And...

This is the second episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). Surprising to most Americans is that the division between the North and the South that led to the Civil War in 1861, was a 250 year feud that started back in 1604 with the rise of King James I to the seat of power in England....

As we finish looking at the overall picture of Colossians, we examine the associates of Paul in his postscript at the end of the book. Understanding the bookends of Colossians will help us better grasp the incredible truth that Jesus is to be preeminent in all things at all times. If you are interested in joining Nathan in studying the book, sign up to receive his Colossians study guides and notes...

The book of Colossians is an incredible book focusing on Jesus being first place in all things. In this introduction to the book, Nathan Johnson examines the author, audience, and the small church in the city of Colossae as we prepare to study the book together.  If you are interested in joining Nathan in studying the book, sign up to receive his Colossians study guides and notes at:  ht...

This is the very first episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861).  It’s a season oddly similar to the season we now find ourselves in as a nation. We may not be Abe Lincoln, and we may never get the assignment of President of the United States, but that doesn’t mean we can’t f...