The Blacksmith's Furnace

Here's one from the archives, Mo shared a question on how we share our faith, and the reason it's coming back here is for it to serve as a pre-cursor to next week's episode where we'll talk about the malarkey going on with Kim Burrell and the backlash she's received for, in the large part, quoting the Bible. How do we share our faith and what we believe? How do we navigate offending others with ou...

With the guys taking a long overdue break, you're stuck with yours truly (me Pete) delivering a short and simple thank you to all the contributors, listeners and great individuals that have been a blessing to the furnace in one way or another! and in keeping with the short and simple theme allow me to sign off with this: Let's make 2017 glorious! Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro...

This game is quickly becoming a favourite of the furnace and though we've played it a couple of times on here, on both occasions it was in the absence of Mo. Well this time Mo was in on the action and we have a fun and eventful game. For those that don't know, the game is actually called After Dinner arguments and it's essentially a series of questions spanning a wide variety of topics and for eac...

Last week we had another successful session of Poetry Pizza and Polaroids #PoPiPo and while it was a fun time it ended on a somewhat awkward note when a clearly high "roadman" walked in, to take part. It was an interesting situation with some of the ladies feeling a little threatened, some of the guys feeling a bit on edge and the entire group feeling just a bit tense. But is this how things shoul...

It's just two weeks to Christmas, and the Furnace just isn't feeling it yet. In today's episode we talk about Christmas, whether or not we're believers in Christmas trees and Santa Claus and somehow end up talking about racism and how it affects us today. There was an appropriate segue during the transition but your going to have to give it a listen to find out how one Earth we got from Christmas...

Possibly one of the darkest episodes we've put out yet, tonight we talked about death and our relationship towards it. We were graced with the presence of Jemilea Wisdom-Baako of Writerz n Scribez who in addition to bring some unique insights of her own, brought us back from the many tangents we took while discussing, the worst ways to die, whether or not we fear death, if we are organ donors and...

Today's episode is named after the would be title of the movie made about Bobby's life... On today's episode we play question roulette again, since Mo couldn't make it and it was just Bobby and I. As can be expected we cover a plethora of different topics and themes in the 30 seconds we have to respond to the question that gets shot. It's fun and I'd even ask that you answer some of the questions...

Robert, and his many woes, starts us off in today's episode with a little rant about why he doesn't eat salad! Random? VERY! But have you come to expect anything less? A more health focussed discusssion than usual, we talk about food, staying fit and whether or not we could be vegetarian. Kevin (Jolade Olusanya) joined us for another fun session of The Blacksmith's Furnace. We hope you enjoy the e...

So the Furnace is no E! News or Wendy Williams show, but as fans of hip hop and old school RnB I guess when new broke of Mary J Blige's (The undisputed Queen of RnB) divorce drama it organically became a part of the conversation. We ended up talking about relationships, divorce, adultery, and even our thoughts on being a house husband. Hopefully, Mary will get it all sorted and the bittersweet tru...

It's Halloween tonight and thus today's episode was dedicated to all things terrifying and terrible. Let's call it 'Fear Roulette' each member has to talk about one of their fears in turn and each round has to get scarier. Let's just say it gets quite dark quite quickly! But as always it stays fun as we honestly don't really let each other off easy for those things that scare us! We hope you enjoy...

The Furnace is once more complete with Mo and our beloved Leia returning this week it was a welcome return to form. Now if you ever wanted an episode that shows just how random the furnace can get this would be the one! We started off talking about travel and our plans for travel, went on to talk about favourite or most desired places to live and where we definitely wouldn't and somehow ended up o...

It's always good to get a fresh perspective on things every now and then. In today's episode of the furnace that is exactly what we did. Today Robert and Pete (because Mo is still away trying to find greek babes for Robert)were joined by the lovely Marion to talk about halloween, the black lives matter movement, and black history month. Talk about an education, it was a really informative conversa...

Mo's out on holiday this week, so with Just Rob and myself, we chose to play a game. It's called After Dinner Arguments and basically gives a variety of topics which we then Debate. We whizzed through quite a few so there's something to interest, and / or , offend everybody. Though it did provide some rather thought provoking questions. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us kno...

Quite unsurprisingly everyone on the furnace would classify themselves an introvert. So in a Church culture of "evangelism" and hyper "friendliness" how do we cope. In today's episode we talk through how we get by given our similar temperaments and how God's plan is brought to fruition in our lives regardless. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let y...

One from the archives, in tonight's episode Rob reveals his hatred of buckets?!!?? And we go on to discuss different experiences of being disciplined and those we intend to use! 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. We're big beli...

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.... You can probably finish off that verse off the top of your head, today on the Furnace we talk about the practicality of Matthew 6:33 What does it really mean to seek God's kingdom first, and what does that look like on a day to day basis. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends kn...

Where we normally have our wits about us during the podcast, half way through recording we realised we couldn't use the file because of circumstances outside our control(Lil baby Leia was contributing a wee bit too much) So tired, overfed and a little bit frustrated we started over and switched topics on the fly. What we didn't realise was that combination is quite dangerous when you're actively t...

What does God's presence mean and look like to the furnace, today's topic was a good biblical look at what we understand as the presence of God in an increasingly godless society. We were also privileged to be joined by a long term listener of the show and friend to Rob and now the Furnace, Ade, currently a student of our Alma matter Queen Mary University of London, Ade brought a fresh and new per...

The Furnace burns y'all, and today even hotter than usual, joined by the lovely Jemilea and a mystery guest!!! We talked about what the implications are of having so many different denominations in the body of Christ. We talk about where it stems from and what we believe the solutions would be. And just so y'all know.. we go in! We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the...

Today's episode actually got corrupted so we're bring you today an unaired episode we recorded earlier on in the year. We talked about the UK Gospel scene, Hip Hop, Christian Hip Hop and who our favourite rappers are. If you ever wonder why we're not in any Christian Hip Hop videos today's episode is probably the reason why? Also if you've ever wondered where Rob's infamous greeting came from, thi...

This time we talked about time from the point of view of the One outside time. You've heard it before, God's delay is not His denial. God's time is always best Etc All very true but but also all easier said than done. So what do you do when God's time seems to be taking its sweet time? Well join us for our take on the issue! We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the com...

After showing up late for the second time in a row, seems Bobby A's conscience isn't letting him slide on today's episode of the podcast. as the name suggests, It's About Time! In this episode we had a conversation about Time, how we use it and we focus in on how much of our Time is spent on God. We had a good time talking about time and ended with a few nuggets for our listeners. We really apprec...

In his own words; "the beautiful black beast of the furnace has returned" and with him, Bobby A brings us a question with consequences of biblical proportion! How can we trust our translation/interpretation of the Bible? Probably one of our more difficult questions, we tell it as we see it and I think I can say on behalf of the furnace , we are all open to correction but we'll stand by our reasons...

On any given episode of the furnace, you're quite likely to hear Mo or Yours truly quoting or referring to something our guest has said before. In the absence of Bobby A, who allegedly had various meetings slow him down, we are joined by Ayo a really good friend and listener of the Furnace. With Ayo around we had two young relatively new father's and one engaged soon to be married fella and so we...

In today's exceedingly special episode we bring you the much delayed, much anticipated conclusion to the conversation on the Things men wish women knew. Ofcourse we brought this with a twist, today is, friend of the show, Jemilea, 'Jemz' Wisdom-Baako's birthday and in celebration of that we had a little dinner party on a little boat on a canal in West London. And thus you join the party on the epi...