Daily Thunder Podcast

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: The Muscular Christian Study: 1 – Fortified This is the first installment in Eric’s series on The Muscular Christian. In this episode, he tackles the issue of spiritual fortification and discusses how the protection of the believing life works in Jesus Christ. Eric walks through his personal journey to both learn and gain this critical component to functional...

In this reprise episode, Dan McConnaughey talks about spiritual awareness and our need to be "left of bang" – and as an unexpected bonus, the fire alarm went off in the middle of the session … giving Dan a great illustration of "bang". Using physical warfare as a lens to view our spiritual warfare, Dan explains that we either give the enemy too much credit and don't live as true...

Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Names of God Study: 1 – The Significance of Names Names throughout the Bible are significant. Whether it be people or locations – the meaning of names holds tremendous insight into the stories of Scripture. In this first episode of a new mini-series on the Names of God, Nathan Johnson discusses names and why they matter so much to our understanding...

Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Ephesians Bible Study Study: 6 – What Are You Into? (Ephesians 1:3) The concept of being "In Christ" is a foundational statement throughout all of Scripture, especially Paul's letter to the Ephesians – in fact, the entire book revolves around understanding your position IN Christ. In this expositional study of Ephesians 1:3, we examine the phrase "in Chr...

God is a God of breakthroughs! There is no circumstance, situation, problem, crisis, or struggle that He doesn't have a solution for. Though He may not take away the problem, He does want to be your peace, strength, and confidence in the midst of it. In this study of 2 Samuel 5:17-20, we discover that the moment the true and rightful king sits upon the throne, all the enemies rise up against him &...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Basics of Prayer Study: 3 – The Whatsoever Territory This is the third installment in Eric’s mini-series on prayer. In this episode he discusses the six classic reasons that the Scripture gives for prayers going unanswered and supplies clarity as to how we, as Christians, can begin to hit the bullseye with our praying.

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Basics of Prayer Study: 2 – The Agony of Barrenness This is the second installment in Eric’s mini-series on prayer. In this episode Eric addresses the significant role that “barrenness” plays in building a Christian into a man/woman of fervent prayer. Fervency grows out of desperation and out of deep longing, and so, the greatest prayer lives are...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Basics of Prayer Study: 1 – The Rope and the Shovel This is the first installment in a fun and powerful mini-series on prayer that Eric is doing to kickstart the Summer 2019 Ellerslie 5-week training in Windsor. In this episode Eric answers the question, “What is prayer?” This message is sure to stir you to prayerful action.   

This message kicks off the beginning of the Ellerslie Summer 2019 semester with style. In this Sunday edition, Eric delivers up a powerful and poignant study on the life of Jonathan (the son of Saul) enunciating the humble position we all must take when the “better man” shows up in our lives.

In this special edition Daily Thunder, Dan McConnaughey looks at the church in Ephesus and gives us both an exhortation and a warning for how we are to live our lives.

In this special edition of Daily Thunder, Elijah Robertson expounds upon John 17:24 – "Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world."

In this mini-series, Philip Hartman expounds upon Psalm 16:1-3 – "Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust. O my soul, you have said to the LORD, 'You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You.' As for the saints who are on the earth, 'They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.'"

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Glossary of the Gospel Study: 12 – The Battle of the Mind This is the twelfth installment in Eric’s series entitled The Glossary of the Gospel. In this episode Eric addresses the importance of operating the Christian mind with excellence. The battle is fierce over the thought life of a believer, but God has supplied us all we need to keep the mind sharp, clea...

Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: Ephesians Bible Study Study: 5 – Live From a New Perspective (Ephesians 1:3) As Christians, we have a dual citizenship – we live physically on this earth, but we also dwell in Christ (spiritually) in the heavenly realms. While both realities are indeed real, we are called to live with a heavenly or spiritual perspective while on this earth. In this expos...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Glossary of the Gospel Study: 11 – The Invisible Hand This is the eleventh installment in Eric’s Glossary of the Gospel series. In this episode Eric addresses the critical concept of grace. He walks through how the idea of “grace” has been commonly misunderstood and twisted throughout Christian history and then he lays out a tremendously exciting...

This is a special edition of Daily Thunder held for the attendees of the 2019 Set Apart Conference. It is a deeply stirring and inspiring meditation on the doctrine of exquisite preciousness.

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: The Gospel Toolkit Study: 4 – Repent This is the fourth installment in The Gospel Toolbox series that Eric is delivering every Friday morning. In this episode, entitled Repent, Eric addresses the critical position repentance holds in the new birth process. For many Christians the idea of repentance is strangely twisted and, therefore, unattractive. But, when looked...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Mini-Series: Spiritual Biography Part 2 of 2: The Radical Father On Tuesday and Thursday of this week Eric is filling in for Nathan Johnson and delivering a two-part series entitled Spiritual Biography. In this, the second installment, Eric powerfully and emotively outlines how the Father heart of God is intended by the Holy Spirit to be inculcated in the heart of every Christia...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Glossary of the Gospel Study: 10 – The Kite This is the 10th installment in Eric’s series entitled The Glossary of the Gospel. This particular episode addresses the significance of three key Biblical words in the Christian discipleship process - three words that happen to also be a tripping point for many unstable believers (authority, submission, and liberty...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Mini-Series: Spiritual Biography Part 1 of 2: The Idiot Preacher On Tuesday and Thursday of this week, Eric is filling in for Nathan Johnson and delivering a two-part series entitled Spiritual Biography.  In this fascinating and moving biographical sketch, Eric takes us through the formation of two of the most painful yet most important points of his spiritual growth and de...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Glossary of the Gospel Study: 9 – The Wall of Doubt This is the 9th installment in Eric’s series entitled The Glossary of the Gospel. In this episode Eric focuses on the mechanism of faith - how it practically works and how the Devil seeks to undermine it.

A rainbow has always been the symbol of God’s unchanging nature.  That is, until recently.  It seems that this grand and lustrous symbol of our covenant-keeping God has been hijacked in our modern times.  But, that doesn’t change what this symbol teaches us about our God and what it also teaches about how we are supposed to live out our lives as believers. In this messag...

Jonathan Edwards is famously quoted as saying, "Lord, stamp eternity upon my eyeballs." This eternal perspective is essential for every Christian – for though we are in this world, we are not to be of this world. In this Daily Thunder message, Philip Hartman exhorts believers to have this eternal perspective as he examines what Scripture says about faith, our "home", and the life of every Ch...

Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: The Gospel Toolkit Study: 3 – Believe Your Savior This is the third installment in Eric’s Friday morning series –  The Gospel Toolkit . In this series, he is breaking down the 35 individual processes that the human soul must navigate through in transferring from Darkness unto Light. This particular episode lands on, what is arguably, the most signi...

Speaker: Nathan Johnson Series: The Saga of Scripture (Bible Survey) Study: 4 – The Kingdom Promised After the Fall of humanity with our rebellion and rejection of the Kingdom and life of God, we see God seeking to save that which was lost. In Genesis 12, a dramatic shift takes place in Scripture where God calls Abraham to leave all that he knew to follow and live by faith – going to a...