Jacobs Ladder Podcast

Thank God It's Monday with Tom Petersen - JL247 19.05.2025 29:21 ↓

Tom Petersen  After a brief and ill-fated start as a daily newspaper reporter, Tom C. Petersen spent decades in the corporate world as a utility communications professional. He started out writing news releases and employee newsletters before transitioning to writing strategic business objec- tives and annual performance reviews. He ultimately was primarily responsible for attending meetings and d...

Lessons from Dark Matter - JL232 - PPP115 16.12.2024 27:24 ↓

Content Selflessness Purpose Choices Flesh vs Spirit Repentence

On Getting Out of Bed Pt2 with Alan Noble - JL231 09.12.2024 24:43 ↓

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.   In this 2nd part of a 2 part interview, we discuss that for the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down to mundane choices that we each must make—like the daily choice to ge...

JL 230 - Mental Health - PPP114 02.12.2024 12:35 ↓

Tips on Providing Help for Those Struggling with either Mental Health Challenges or Mental Health Disorders

On Getting Out of Bed Pt1 with Alan Noble - JL229 25.11.2024 37:50 ↓

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.   In this interview, based on Alan Noble's book we discuss that for the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down to mundane choices that we each must make—like the daily choice...

JL 228 - Lessons from the Movie Here - PPP113 18.11.2024 12:00 ↓

Look for the positive message not hung up on something's that makes you said. Honor your parents-friend shared how he and his wife were caring for his father who was in the early stages of dementia, his only wish not to go in a nursing home "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exod.20...

Are We Doing Church Wrong with Jason Pierce-JL227 11.11.2024 47:00 ↓

j316173@hotmail.com For professional management: jrpierc2@uncg.edu   You teach classes on having a vision for your life and it struck both of us as we were talking recently that you don't hear this message about casting a vision for your life, often if ever in the Christian church. Why do you think that is? What are the consequences of this, I.e. how is this lack of direction from church messaging...

JL 226 - Morning Prayers - PPP112 04.11.2024 14:41 ↓

I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me. Psalm 3:5 Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation. Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray. My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up. Psalm 5:1-3 With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will...

Praying the Psalms with Jim Papandrea - JL225 28.10.2024 37:25 ↓

Why did you write this book? The subtitle is "The Divine Gateway to Lecto Divina and Contemplative Prayer". What is Lecto Divina? What is contemplative prayer? I'd like to drill down a bit into the 4 parts of Lecto Divina clarity The first is Lecto which means reading. What's going on here? The second is Meditetio, meaning meditation or reflection.  This is narrowing in a portion of the passage co...