THE SIDNEY ST. JAMES SHOW

SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 HAVE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO PUBLISH A BOOK YOU WROTE OR ARE THINKING ABOUT WRITING? IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK! Hello everyone. Welcome to the start of Season 3. Today I thought about changing up a little on what I want to talk about to something that has taken me a lot of years to accomplish, Publish my Own Book. I have often got questions from authors on how to bring a book they...

COMING IN ONE WEEK Season 3 Episode 2 Jesus Christ's Last Supper with His Disciples Part I of Three-Part Podcast Were You There the Day Jesus Died 17 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?" 18 He replied, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: M...

Over a decade ago, I produced two large family history books well over 700 pages in length. Then, a man from Denver offered me $30,000 to create one like I did for the Smith Family . The answer to why I turned it down was because the number of hours it took me to finish this family genealogy history was far more hours than what minimum wage would have been on writing the record. Furthermore, I beg...

Season 2 Episode 23 Who Are the Sons of God "The Making of the Storm Lord Trilogy Series" Who Were the Sons of God and How Did They Play a Part in the Writing of my Storm Lord Trilogy Series, a paranormal romance? THERE WERE GIANTS ON THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS, AND ALSO AFTER THAT. WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME IN UNTO MEN'S DAUGHTERS, AND THEY HAD CHILDREN TO THEM, THE SAME BECAME STRONG MEN WHICH WERE...

Hello Everyone, and welcome to my show today. A longtime friend from Old Progress Cumberland Church near Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, called me the other day and asked me about my Grandmother, the Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, and how in the world she found forgiveness over and over. They had just finished reading my novel, Faith – Seventy Times Seven. It brought to my mind how we all study the Bible. I...

As an author with over 50+ novels written in various genres, I must admit, the ones that I enjoy almost more so than the others are those written about the Power of God, such as in some of my novels called, “Seeing the Power of God” or “Genesis – Stepping Onto the Shore and Finding It’s Heaven” or “Hallelujah – He is not here, He Has Risen.” I can go through the back of my mind where all my memori...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 22: THE FALL OF THE ALAMO - THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE In 1899, after living in Texas for over 60 years, Dilue Rose Harris (1825–1914) recorded her childhood memories of the Texas Revolution. Her handwritten account of the Runaway Scrape speaks to the hardship civilian families endured while trying to flee from Texas in 1836, and the actual handwritten copies are with the Bullock Museum i...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 20 Friday Night Lights At Eagle Lake High School Growing Up in the 1950s and 1960s Hello Everyone. Today we've got a good one for you. Two weeks ago, I did a show talking about the consolidation of small town high schools and its damage to communities. So many have just withered away, and even some have disappeared. The broadcast was about Eagle Lake High School in Texas. Well, my...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 19 THE GOOD SAMARITAN – A Story from “Seeing the Power of God" by Sidney St. James Hello Everyone.  Today I have a story to tell, one that I wrote about in one of my novels, Seeing the Power of God . I am telling the story because I stopped in a parking lot across the street yesterday and watched a man pushed down into the street and was barely able to crawl back onto the gra...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 18 WHO WAS MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT , AND WHY WAS SHE THE FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Hello Everyone. And, in particular, all you women listening. Today I have a big question for you. But, before you listen to this broadcast, you should read my novel, or after listening, go and read it before you give me a more informed answer about MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT, this p...

Season 2 Episode 17 God Calls First Woman to Preach in Louisiana Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Progress Cumberland Presbyterian Church Old Bethany Cumberland Presbyterian Church On December 23, 1969, Reverend Loyce Estes with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church addressed the congregation at the funeral services. "The dignified First Lady of the Louisiana Presbytery...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 15 EAGLE LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN The Significance of a High School to a Rural Community Today, most of America’s population now resides in either the urban or suburban areas, and consequently, most Americans don’t struggle with the big question of whether their community can maintain its own high school. Nevertheless, this question continued to confront many rural...

Season 2 Episode 13 VALENTINE’S DAY 2022 How to Stay in Love for 50 Years! Walking together with a good friend in the darkness is far better than walking all alone in the light! Theoretically, you cannot define LOVE and the trueness in it! You don't have to do many sacrifices to prove that your love is true for that one special person. Because what if life hasn't given you any chances to make any....

As we wait on my Music Man to come by the recording studio to put the finishing touches on this Episode, I thought I would drop by for just a short and record a 5-Minute Soundbite about what the Show is all about. I hope you will return in the next ten days to hear the complete episode. Thanks for joining me.  Sidney St. James

Sam Bass - A Texas Outlaw A Dead Man's Hand, Aces and Eights SEASON 2 EPISODE 14 ALERT! $5,000 REWARD. Wanted Dead or Alive. Notorious Badman. SAM BASS, alias Sam Bushon, and Honest Eph. If sighted, immediately call the nearest U. S. Marshall's Office... The Round Rock Shootout in 1878 Hello Everyone. Welcome to my show today. After a month of moving BeeBop Publishing Group to Georgetown, Texas, f...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 - THE DAN & DAVE COUNTRY DUO GROUP FROM AUSTIN TEXAS IN THE 1970S AND 1980s An entertaining evening with Dave Henry on the Sidney St. James Show! First, let me tell all the folks out there that it appears almost impossible to talk with people who have ever heard of Dan & Dave (Part I) , although they played in front of thousands of people at the Backroom in Austin, Texas...

Season 2 Episode 11 THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by ROBERT FROST LIFE IS ABOUT THE PATHS YOU CHOOSE TO WALK THROUGH Walking together with a good friend in the darkness is far better than walking all alone in the light! Did I ever tell you I am a packrat? I never throw anything away. I still got the four-letter jackets I won in high school in football. And, I still have the dried flowers from the Powder Puff...

I have never published a podcast that deals with politics and it will be a while again before I will do another. I do not like politics. I leave that to the news channels. But this is one I had to stand up and have my say! Season 2 Special Report Make a Choice: President Jefferson Davis or President Abraham Lincoln? President Joseph Biden Asked Who I would rather be for, President Jefferson Davis...

Season 2 Episode 10 Jesus – The Greatest Storyteller of All Time PODCAST INTRODUCTION (0-30) Every day should be a day of Thanksgiving, and what better way to celebrate than to recognize the greatest storyteller of all time. No, it’s not Sidney St. James. It’s not Steve Jobs either or Martin Luther King Jr. (2:30-3:07) It’s Jesus Christ, of course. So today my friends, I will be demonstrating how...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 9 HAVE YOU EVER IMAGINED HEAVEN? Hello Everyone. This morning on our way to Pickleball at the Georgetown Rec Center , my wife and I were talking and trying to imagine just what Heaven is like? What brought up our conversation was a song played by a group known as Mercy Me. It was a song that filled her heart from a movie we saw, “I Can Only Imagine.” Then we talked about whether w...

Season 2 Episode 8 A BLAST FROM THE PAST – Songs that Form the Soundtrack of our Teenage Dreams Why do the songs we heard as a teenager sound sweeter than anything we have ever listened to as an adult? In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have done plenty of research and have confirmed that these oldies but goodies hold disproportionate power over our emotions. And researchers have u...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 7: SEEKING FORGIVENESS - How Difficult is It to Find Forgiveness Hello Everyone. Today I will be presenting one of the most challenging topics that, over time, I've incorporated into a dozen or more of my novels… FORGIVENESS. I can't seem to wrap my mind around just how in the world people find forgiveness… How do you let go of grudges? How do you let go of bitterness? When someon...

Hello Everyone. Welcome to the New Year 2022. I laid my pen down for the last several months of 2021 and paid more attention to my new Podcast Show , and simply gave a long rest from writing. However, I am not sure what I will be choosing, but if you would like to know what I am working on, I will give you a glimpse of what is yet to be for this coming year. Furthermore, I will be releasing the au...

Christmas Memories with Great Christmas Traditions from Sidney St. James Including… The Twelve Days of Christmas Christmas is stuffed to the brim of memories for most of us. Hopefully, yours are great memories of the family, good food, and if you ate my grandmother's cooking in Louisiana, you would agree,  and unique gifts. Your memories, if they are like mine, might be funny ones— My father...

Of all of James' novels, "I Am Woman" won the race as best seller of all. Four beautiful young women, known throughout the novel as the “Four Musketeers,” pledged a lifelong friendship with each other before the beginning of the Civil War and follow their lives of falling in love after graduation from the Hampton Women’s College. They signed their life away to become a slave to their husbands base...