Provide Like Jesus- Inspiring Christians to Serve Their Families and Communities like Christ

We are always thinking of how to provide in new and fresh ways. This podcast episode is the latest experiment. Justin recaps the previous five episodes, #108-112, with his main takeaways and favorite clips included. We hope this episode provides for you, and if it does, please leave a review. Here are some simple steps to submit a review on Apple Podcast and Spotify, with a link to guide you. Than...

Rob Ferry is a successful entrepreneur, engineer, and consultant who reminds us all to give God the Glory no matter what season our business or life may be in currently. He and his wife Kathy recently moved to Northern Virginia to be closer to their 4 children and 5 grandchildren after living the majority of their working careers in Hillsborough, NC. I feel so fortunate to have crossed paths with...

Hunter Davis is an entrepreneur and coach that helps people take their businesses and lives to the next level using story. He became one of the early StoryBrand Certified Guide + Copywriter professionals and used those skills to turn around his marketing agency and helped many other businesses do the same over the past 10+ years as a marketing expert and gifted storyteller. He lives in Hillsboroug...

Sherry McIntyre is the Assistant Director of the Christian Life Home . The ministry was started by individuals in the Raleigh-Durham community who wanted to provide a brighter future for pregnant women and their babies. They provide a Christ-centered, loving, family atmosphere for young women, ages 10 - 23, in an unplanned or crisis pregnancy. I met Sherry almost a year ago and I'm so excited to s...

Bryan Finley has been influencing people to make a positive difference in their local communities as a pastor and as a community leader for nearly thirty years. He is the pastor at Life Point Church in Hillsborough, NC. He's married to his High School sweetheart, Nicole, and they have three children. Bryan has an academic background in Biblical interpretation and a passion for helping people under...

I love doing these podcast interviews, especially when I'm able to motivate my wife to join me on an episode like this one! Amy Thomas is back to help me reflect on how we are trying to live out this mission of "Provide Like Jesus" and to share some of the fun work of our non-profit, The CL Thomas Fellowship, which carries on this mission through small groups and online resources. Help us spread t...

Derrick DePriest leans into challenges. From teaching himself how to kick a football in his childhood, drastically changing his pitching delivery as a college student-athlete, or switching careers, Derrick is willing to dare the odds. In 1999, Derrick led all college pitchers with an impressive 1.71 ERA and was drafted by the Montreal Expos the following year. Today, Derrick lives with his wife an...

I hope you enjoy this special testimonial episode! Usually I interview a guest and we get to learn new and unquie ways to provide. Today, I have taken stories from our first CL Thomas Fellowship group members and created this podcast. You can watch additional video testimonials on our website at https://www.clthomasfellowship.org/testimonials. Also, we are excited to equip you, that's right you to...

Coach Cheryl is a National Board and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. She has worked as a coach in Integrative Medicine and Functional Immunology since 2016. She enjoys helping her clients find ways to feel their best, experience fewer symptoms, and live full, enjoyable lives, a life where they are able to fully participate in their favorite activities and have meaningful relationships....

Dr. Brett Blair is the founder and president of Best Life Global. Headquartered in Durham, NC,  Best Life Global is a high-performance coaching and organizational consulting company. Brett is also the founding partner of Sanford Rose Associates, an executive search firm based in Brighton, MI. You can connect with Brett at https://www.brettblairphd.com/ Brett was previously employed with 3M Corpora...

Thaís Naveda Luy is a bilingual, Venezuelan Canadian Journalist specializing in Marketing and Public Relations, and a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, living in North Carolina with her husband and two daughters. She is passionate about holistic health and has graduated from the IIN Gut Health, Hormonal Health, and Emotional Eating Psychology certification programs, as well as an...

While you might think this episode is about completing an ultramarathon event, it's really about family and friends showing up in our lives to provide for us when we need them most. I'm joined again by Patrick Harell who helps to recap the adventure that happened on March 18, 2023 at the Mountain to Sea Trail race event. Enjoy all the highs and lows of the story and I hope it encourages you to tac...

Patrick is a brand, marketing, and creative professional. From his early days working at small advertising agencies, to being responsible for a team of more than 65 people at a major health insurance company, Patrick developed into a high-performing leader by defining and sticking to his core values. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Patrick is a husband, father, neighbor, friend, and jokest...

It's my privilege to celebrate the 100th episode with my hero as my guest, my Mom. Kelli Thomas shares from the heart in this conversation ranging from practical advice on creating lasting friendships to finding the right support team to tackle health issues. She reflects on her personal journey of growing up in California and how her life took an unexpected twist when she met a Virginian on the r...

Mr. William "Bill" Fuller is our special guest on the Become a Provider podcast. He is the grandfather to my wife and when he came for a visit we seized the opportunity to learn from his 94+ years. Mr. Fuller shares about growing on the family farm in Creedmore, NC before eventually going to the Army for a couple of years and then having a long career with American Tobacco. He raised his family in...

Raymond (Ray) L. Singleton, 72, of Pulaski, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. He was my father's best friend and he taught me how to be a provider in many practical ways that deserved an episode to capture for future generations. His obituary is below: He was a member of Unity Christian Church in Radford. Ray was an avid sportsman who loved hunting, fishing, and baseball....

My guests today are the wonderful husband/wife couple, Joe and Tamara Rice. I met Joe first when we worked together and I was immediately impressed with his proficient technical skills and friendly demeanor to non-techies like me. Joe started building websites in New York City during the dot-com heydays where he eventually met his wife Tamara. He would later get his masters in computer science, bu...

Aoife Keegan is the Campus & Outreach Director at the Every Nation Dublin church. She also is the Director of Every Nation Campus Europe helping to guide their work across Europe. My wife and I met Aoife while we were living abroad and quickly became friends. In this episode, Aoife reflects on the risk she has taken and continues to take to live in a counter-cultural way while taking steps that al...

Donna Mitchell is the Founder of Horizon Productions , a full-service multimedia production facility located in Durham, NC. They create video, audio and multimedia solutions for clients like Lenovo, IBM, John Deere, GSK, The Alzheimer's Association, and Intel. Donna started the company over 40 years ago and reflects on her journey in this inspiring conversation. She shares about her legendary fath...

Alan Ying dropped out of the cardiothoracic surgery residency program at Duke University to start a software company when he was twenty-eight years old. I'm grateful he took this risk because the company he co-founded hired me right out of college! Since selling that business, he's enjoyed leading, investing in, and serving on the boards of start-ups to public companies. Alan grew up in Ohio and n...

Henry Kaestner cofounded the Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor ministries, and has been a catalyst behind both movements. He and his team seek to serve faith-driven investors, funds, partners, advisors, and entrepreneurs through content and community.  Henry is also a co-founder and partner at Sovereign's Capital, a private equity and venture capital management company that inves...

Rym Selmi is the founder and CEO of Miiro, a vegan and keto-friendly treat company that makes chocolates and baking products. She is an accomplished entrepreneur who went from a burnt-out professional in fiance to a successful founder and CEO in the food industry first in the UK and now in the USA. In this episode she shares more of her personal journey, the hard-working values she learned from he...

Jeff Browning (aka Bronco Billy) is a veteran ultra runner and endurance coach. He has competed in some of the world's hardest and most competitive ultra mountain races over the past two decades, including Western States 100, Ultra Fiord in Patagonia Chile, Europe's Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and Ultra Trail Mount Fuji in Japan. He's also a 5-time finisher and 2018 champion of the wild and tough H...

A fun, short episode where I share six (6) books that I read in the first half of 2022 that had a positive influence on my health, business, and personal development. I hope they also assist your journey as well! Here are the books with links to purchase as well if you want to dive deeper into one (or all) of the subjects: Primal Blueprint  Life Force The Secret Lives of Customers The Pumpkin Plan...

In honor of Father's Day here is the reposting of the podcast with my brother on the story of our father, "Pop."  We originally recorded this conversation on Father's Day 2020 as a way of honoring him and to preserve his story and the life lessons not only for our family but hopefully for a broader audience to be inspired that personal transformation is possible. We can all become providers. This...