Jacobs Ladder Podcast

What You'll Hear: Damon got saved in 2009 which led to him evangelizing.  He met another evangelist in 2012 who invited him and his friend to an abortion clinic.  It was very dark. He continued visiting the clinic in 2013 more and more frequently. He met Rusty Thomas who was in the video "Babies are murdered here" He then went to the Herald Society and read the book "Abortion Violation" The Abolit...

S   Alone at Work? Whoever isolates himself . . .  breaks out against all sound judgment— Proverbs 18:1 Work is a place where we men are apt to live, not as our true selves, but rather as carefully crafted and false versions of ourselves. Work is a "compartment" where we try to be, not who God created us to be, but images we create   all by ourselves . Why? What makes work different? Well, at work...

What You'll Hear: After getting saved, Damon prayed and wanted to evangelize the way the Bible says to Gifted evangelists naturally without any training go out and evangelize and develop over time their techniques Most people who say this is not their gift, it's an excuse not to go out and share the Gospel Tracts is one of the easier ways to evangelize because you're giving them the Gospel in a wr...

S Dave Brown: men struggled with this from the very beginning with the first Adam in Genesis, sat by as Eve ate the fruit a life of passivity is void of courageous decisions The life of Jesus was an engaged, active life, marked by obedience, obedience to His father We know how Jesus turned over the money changer tables in the Temple and challenged the pharisees by healing and other activities He d...

What You'll Hear: Damon became a believer in 2009 after being a false convert earlier As a young boy he felt like he wasn't able to do what he wanted and he had a problem with authority.  He had a false conversion including a confession in church and baptism.  Soon after that He saw his first horror movie and got hooked Looking back, he sees that this was something he loved that no-one that could...

S God and wife most important relationships, but God wants us to invest in other relationships as well, in particular other men.  Jesus demonstrated this in how he invested in his 12 disciples but was closest to 3, Peter James and John, and you might say the closest was John. The Bible is filled with wonderful stories of how people relate to each other and how we should do the same (Elijah/Elisha,...

What You'll Hear:   From an early age, David and his wife wanted to do missions in a low tier country They worked in Africa, Central America and then after the 2010 Earthquake they went to Haiti to help and then went on to move to Haiti full-time They have a compound with a surgical clinic, a school, a church, a maternal health program, and a childhood Christian program. They meet physical needs o...

S Before I get into Something that's on my heart today, I want to share something with you. I seriously considered these past 2 weeks changing this podcast to one that you need to pay for to listen to, through Patreon or Glow which partners with Libsyn the media host I use.  I've been praying for a while now that God would confirm with me that I should continue doing the podcast and that he would...

What You'll Hear: Dave grew up in Ohio then began a career in the Federal Government in Wash DC In 1980 God pulled out the pins from under him.  He asked what his purpose was.  God granted Dave repentance and faith, and Dave was born again. The only Christian Dave knew was Chuck Colson.  Chuck told him that God would make it clear to him what his will was for him Later Dave went to Seminary and pa...

S   Lessons from Rocky (spoiler alert). I was 7 years old when both Rocky and Star Wars came out. We rarely went to the theater and this had some swearing so I didn't see this in the theater but the VCR and ability to rent movies came out soon after that so I watched this movie along with all the sequels and actually Rocky 4 was the only movie for which I stood in line at midnight to see the premi...

What You'll Hear: Lance  grew up in Sonoma County, CA, a very liberal progressive area He was in a frat house at Oregon State, then a semester later  Lance  got saved after hearing the Gospel and asking a lot of questions He got a full scholarship to play baseball at The Masters College in Southern CA, a very conservative school The Masters is part of John McArthur's ministry He went to the Master...

S I felt like my last Selah episode 47 didn't fully address the issue of being extreme and wanted to share some additional thoughts. I'm not retracting anything I said, and hopefully I don't contradict what I said, but rather expand on the topic. Last week, I said that generally living in moderation is what we should strive for, with the only possible exception being living out our faith, and in t...

S There's been a lot of talk about extremism in our political and cultural landscape.  Basically, each side (whichever side of an issue or identity we're considering) is more and more calling those who disagree with them "extreme" as a pejorative term or as a way to criticise, minimalize or belittle someone. In many ways I've been learning that a moderated approach to life is best especially when...

What You'll Hear: Tricia got saved when she was 5 after a conversation with her Mom about everyone was not going to go to heaven. This occurred after her parents rededicated their lives. In her teen years, she wondered if that decision had been sincere, she told her parents and they nailed it down at that point. First professional job was as an RN as a director of home care. She got her Masters in...

S   I have a couple devotions I want to share with you on the topic of friendship but first I want to share you some of my thoughts. I was recently contacted by David Smith who I interviewed in episode 86 about his book "Who's Got Your Back" about the importance of friendships for men. He was very concerned as I am about the negative this pandemic has had on men due to the fact that men aren't mee...

What You'll Hear: Grew up in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere Family called themselves Christian, but they had voodoo practices and beliefs as well It is man's natural state to be supernatural His mother made it a practice to speak to him from the book of Proverbs In his late 20's, in New York, he found himself in a temptation and thought of Proverbs 5 and ran out He said to Go...

S Don't give up, You can Change! In past talked about Gods mercies regardless what sin we've committed. I've been thinking lately about God's mercies not just in terms of our sins of commission, but also of our sins of omission, the good, god-pleasing things we don't do.  I was going to simply title this talk "Don't give up!", I didn't record it last night and then this morning I received a First...

What You'll Hear: Larry was raised Catholic, but at age 13 was invited to a Protestant youth retreat where someone showed him the Gospel going through the Bible and Larry was saved Larry and his wife had their first child Linley, who as an infant had an incident while in doctoral care that resulted in her having challenges throughout her life.  Larry became very angry at God but then read John 9 w...

S Damon Hinkle He's a trained Evangelist, not a gifted evangelist 3 main ways to evangelize   tracts  1x1 Open air preaching  What is not the Gospel  not limited by time, rev 14:6 location Mark 16:15, situation Luke 4:-7-19 Appealing to the flesh (God loves you and has a great plan for your life-stony ground, Do you want to go to Heaven (dying soon, Stephen, Apostles, Matt 24:9, John 16:33, Luke 1...

What You'll Hear: Rhae gave his life to Christ at age 11, learned a lot about the Old Testament in his church His first job was a paper route, he learned about the importance of customer service, he had learned about this from his grandfather who was a blacksmith He always wanted to work in HR, partly with the help of a counselor in high school He wrote a letter to Oral Roberts University when he...

S             Ready for an Upgrade? [ 1 min read ★ ] Sign up at wireformen.com     . . . the wisdom from above is first pure,  then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,  full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere— James 3:17     A lot of men—not every man—but a lot of us struggle to hold back a harsh and judgmental attitude toward the world around us, sometimes even toward those we love th...

S - 6 Ways to Deal with Stress   1. Worldly Ideas (not all bad provided not in conflict with Bible).   Recently read this:   Stress can best be described as emotional, physical or mental tension. We feel it in our bodies and brains. Others may notice changes in how we act. Stress is a healthy part of the human experience but can get out of hand. Difficulties  that  overwhelm  us  at work, school,...

What You'll Hear: Brian was raised Catholic in Boston, MA.  He met and married his wife who was raised Baptist.  He was separated in 1998 while working too much from home.  He was laid off from American Greetings because he didn't want to relocate.   He got into bad activities including drinking, clubbing, and pornography.   In June 1999 his divorce was final.  His wife invited him to a service in...

S   " Essential: Finding Worth in Your Work During Uncertain Times " was released February 2 and is now available on Amazon and other sites as it gets distributed.   Here's the announcement on  ChristianPost.com Here's the  book landing page  with a link to the YouVerion/ Bible.com  plan and some exclusive bonus material First Light Devotional by Pastor Brian Biggers, Lamb's Chapel, Burlington, NC...

What You'll Hear: Brian gave his life to Christ at age 16 in church, after hearing an audible voice that said "Come" First job was delivering appliances for local appliance dealer, while still in high school, learned how to install washers and dryers, learned about how hard work, how to use his hands, and how to deal with people Went to college, part-time cutting lawns, then worked for a print sho...