The Blacksmith's Furnace

Definitely Not Clickbait, but also not the end of the Furnace, just a conversation about endings. Sometimes painful and heartbreaking, sometimes trivial and insignificant, one day cosmic and eternal, we dished on what an end looks like from different sides of that milestone and as believers we talk about what the end of this journey would look like in the long run We had a special surprise appeara...

As the name suggests, here's one from the vault, technically its a new episode as it's never seen the light of day but due to uncontrollable circumstances we were unable to record this past week but in effort to remain consistent, I'm posting this episode from a couple years back that focused on fear and all things halloween We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the com...

Let me start with the fact that half a furnace does not mean half as much fun at all. Due to various factors Mo and Kaylin couldn't record however Bobby A and myself were sure to hold down the fort and that we most certainly did. In Bobby's own words, any half including him is the better half so rest assured you still get a got episode. And in today's episode we talk about Idolatry. Not the overt...

Official past the half way mark and for the most part it's been a pretty interesting year for everyone on the furnace. So today we took stock! How the years so far has gone, the highs the lows, and what were gonna do to make sure the rest of the year does or doesn't follow suit! It was a really personal conversation but one we would encourage everyone to have, it's always good to have an evaluatio...

This week's episode is a letter to myself, about diligence and hard work, we couldn't record together so bringing one out from the vault. You have to remain consistent to achieve your #goals. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing....

It's Official!!!!. There's a new voice on the Furnace and it was a pleasure to officially welcome her to the team. You've already heard the lovely Kaylin aka Bobby A's kryptonite, affectionately recognised as his nemesis! But today she joins us in an official capacity. Father's day has just gone past though and possibly unsurprisingly our emotional Bobby has woes with the apparent lack of fanfare...

It's a dark day in London in the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack The furnace hasn't got the answer! But we do have hope. And that's what we talk about today, it's a hard topic but underlying everything our prayers are with all affected, all those injured, the families of those who lost loved ones, our prayers are with London and all victims of terrorism around the world! May God bring us...

As usual, Bobby A has some issue with someone and today that just so happens to be Kaylin. What started out as his intervention for her quickly turned into one of the shadiest episodes of the Furnace ever. No one was safe from getting a smart remark or a quick quip and with Jolade also in attendance this was definitely one of the most fun episodes we've had a chance to record. We talked finances,...

Yeah the title pretty much maps out the conversation we had in this week's episode of the podcast. The beautiful Anita, made a surprise visit to the furnace, and for whatever reason Bobby decided this would be a good opportunity to ask questions about why she dated and is now marrying yours truly. Luckily for us the one and only Kevin aka Jolade also joined us today and shifted the conversation th...

This week's episode was really about religion and the youth, with Bobby asking about how best the church can engage young people. With most of us no longer fitting into the category it was a surprisingly difficult conversation to have, especially as one main thing,that turned the youth away, was the older generation being unable to truly prescribe something they'd find relatable. The voice of reas...

In this week's episode of the Blacksmith's Furnace, we're joined by Bobby's pastor, Captain Ashish Pawar for an insightful, humbling and inspiring conversation about the church and persecution. Having experienced it himself as a young man in the college dorms of Mumbai, Pastor Ashish brought a sobering practicality to a conversation most of us in the UK have the luxury of avoiding. Thanks so much...

If you could have a super power what would it be? That's what sparked the discussion in today's podcast and that discussion revealed very clearly how much time I must have as I already had a well thought out answer in mind. But as Christians a pillar of our faith is the supernatural and what that could mean for Christians and thus we also look at it from the point of view of the Christian, and how...

You know those short form posts that get sent around in WhatsApp broadcasts, or that seemingly get shared literally for the fear of what ever bad thing they promise will happen to you if you don't share them with x number of people. Well today we took one of those posts, this one claiming to be an excerpt from Myles Monroe about the 5 things a man should be before marriage. We discuss, as three me...

It's the bank holiday Monday after the Easter celebrations and the furnace is back with an interesting conversation about the Relevance of Easter, the depiction of that monumental event, and r rated Hollywood movies based on the song of songs by Solomon, #FiftyShadesOfGrey We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if yo...

This week's topic of discussion is another listener suggestion! Reverse Racism: is it possible to be racist to a white person? It was an interesting conversation that dipped into while privilege, modern day segregation and if there is such a thing as black privilege. As always it's a great conversation with varying views but we manage to settle in some things by the end of the podcast, but as you...

Riddle me this, What's Mo been through, Peter going through and Rob never even considered before? Premarital counselling! ? Yes in today's episode we discuss what we're learning, have learnt or would want to learn in these counselling sessions. We also had an impromptu bit of improv from lil baby Leia on the piano which we all loved We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in...

With mothers day coming and international women's day just gone, The Furnace jumps right out of the frying pan into the fire that is feminism. As guys what does feminism mean and look like to us? How can we best support our ladies? and a plethora of other discussion points are addressed from our point of view. Wisdom would have us bring onto the show a lady who is better suited to keeping us in ch...

In a rather dark and introspective episode we ask the question: what's legacy are you / do you want to leave behind? Among other things the stark realisation that we might not be remembered by that many people outside of our families left us somewhat surprised but also spurs us on and hopefully will spur you on to think about what you'll leave behind and whether or not you should be doing somethin...

Apparently, I'm emotionally, unavailable, walled off and closed up with a superman complex and psychopathic tendencies. And my dear friends chose to have an intervention for me, albeit an impromptu one, but in what, most possibly, has been the most uncomfortable episode of the podcast we talk about the importance of having someone to talk too in times of need. We hope you enjoy the episode and if...

Our Beloved Brother Bobby A( Is it bad the Beloved is only there for the alliteration?) is absent today but the show must go on. Luckily, we were blessed with the presence of the lovely Jemz of Writerznscribez.org which presented the perfect opportunity for a quick discussion of Valentines, romance, love and life as a young couple with a bouncing baby girl. We also had the Grammys Awards and Chanc...

It's Valentine's day and today's episode feature's the ladies from The Faith Girl Cafe, we talk about a bunch of things from dating, finding the one, being single, raising kids etc It was a great conversation with some great ladies and we're glad to share it with you all! Whatever you're relationship status is this year there's at least one person that I can personally guarantee loves you. Our ver...

Today's conversation started with another of Bobby A's pet peeves. Swear word replacements, As an individual that actually does this we talk about if there is any point when it's normally quite obvious what we really want to say. We of course go off on a number of random tangents that we hope you find both entertaining and may insightful at the same time. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you d...

Would Christian law , in it's entirely, suffice as the rule governing a secular country. Would it work in a solely Christian country? The new president of the USA, Donald Trump has already put things in motion that make us wonder about these things, and that's what we talk about, among other things of course, today on the furnace. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in t...

For some unknown reason, making chicken soup makes Bobby A contemplate sperm donation and thus naturally that's what we open with in this episode of the furnace! We move on to babies with three parents, genetically modified foods and end up, somehow, talking about make up! Its your usual mix of specific randomness from the furnace and Jemz, all to the glory of God! We hope you enjoy the episode an...

As promised last week, we're here talking about the #KimBurrell situation today on the Furnace. Now for those that don't know Kim Burrell is a gospel singer and pastor and was recently supposed to feature on the #EllenDegeneres show with #Pharell. She was removed from the show when a video of her preaching against homosexuality in her church surfaced online. And since it's been a social media stor...