Daily Thunder Podcast

408: The Rescue of Mussolini // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 56 (Eric Ludy) Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2 Study: 56: The Rescue of Mussolini This is the fifty-sixth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he zooms in on Adolf Hitler’s response to the removal of his friend, Benito Mussolini, from power in Italy in July of 1943. Eric creates a parallel between Hitler’s plan of rescue of Mussolini and Mussolini’s fascism with Satan’s plan of rescue for the operation of the flesh in our life, as believers, when Jesus Christ enters in as our new Lord and Leader.

407: The Fall of Mussolini // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 55 (Eric Ludy) Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2 Study: 55: The Fall of Mussolini   This is the fifty-fifth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he creates a parallel between the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini and Haman, the great enemy of the Jewish people in the book of Esther. In July of 1943 the Italian people will finally wake up and realize that they don’t want to side with lies, hate, and deceit anymore. And to the chagrin and ultimate destruction of Mussolini, the Italian people are going to put their foot down and say, “No more!” This is an ancient pattern sponsored by God Himself where He takes the fleshly aggression of an antagonist and turns it into a spiritual recovery for His people.  

405: The Marriage of the Bride // Jesus in the Old Testament 10 (Nathan Johnson)Speaker: Nathan JohnsonSeries: Jesus in the Old TestamentStudy: 10 – The Marriage of the Bride Jesus is engaged! And we, the Church, are His bride. In this final message in the Jesus in the Old Testament series, we examine the motif of marriage and brides throughout the Old Testament and show how they point to the greatest marriage of all time – between Christ and the Church. This is a powerful reminder of why we should be pure and spotless before Him in love.

 405: Life With Christ (Ephesians 2:5-6) // Ephesians Bible Study 44 (Nathan Johnson)Speaker: Nathan JohnsonSeries: Ephesians Bible StudyStudy: 44 – Life With Christ (Ephesians 2:5-6) There is a big difference between living your life FOR God and living your life WITH Him. In Ephesians 2:5-6, Paul is adamant that what is going on in your life is “with” Christ – you have been made alive with Him, raised with Him, and seated with Him. In this expositional study of Ephesians, Nathan talks about the importance of a life lived with Christ.

404: The Rock That Is Higher Than I // Jesus in the Old Testament 9 (Nathan Johnson)Speaker: Nathan JohnsonSeries: Jesus in the Old TestamentStudy: 9 – The Rock That Is Higher Than I God is our rock. He is our fortress, our strong tower, our deliverer, our horn of salvation. He is our cornerstone upon which our lives and the Church is built. In this message, we examine the concept of God being a rock and how that is portrayed in the life of Jesus, the master architect and stone mason of the world.   To study out this concept further, here are the additional passages Nathan mentioned: Genesis 49:24; Deuteronomy 32:4, 32:15, 32:18, 32:30, 32:31, 32:37; 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 22:2-3, 22:32, 22:47, 23:3; Psalm 18:2, 18:31, 18:46, 28:1, 31:3, 42:9, 61:2, 62:2, 62:6-7, 71:3, 78:35, 89:26, 92:15, 94:22, 95:1, 144:1; Isaiah 8:14, 17:10, 51:1; Romans 9:30-33,  1 Peter 2:4-8, Revelation 21:14

403: The Sicilian Wind // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 54 (Eric Ludy) Speaker: Eric Ludy Series:Spiritual Lessons from WW2 Study: 54: The Sicilian Wind   This is the fifty-fourth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he leverages the providential gusting wind along the shoreline of Sicily on July 10th, 1943 to explain one of the most difficult-to-grasp ideas in Scripture and one of the most-needed Truths to understand. This unseasonable wind was very unwelcome to the invading good guys, but this same northwest wind that threatened to destroy the good guy's ships turned out to be the great undoing of the bad guy's defense.  

402: Controlling the Sea // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 53 (Eric Ludy) Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2  Study: 53: Controlling the Sea This is the fifty-third installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he walks through the intriguing process of discovery that the Allies went through in determining their priority opponent in the war (is it Germany, Japan, or Italy?) and their priority theater of battle (is it the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, or the Atlantic?). This process of discovery is not only important for World Wars, it is imperative for each of us as individuals and for us as a corporate Church. We need to know who our real enemy is and know the priority battles that God has set before us to win.

401: The Scarlet Cord and the Battle of Dependence // Jesus in the Old Testament 8 (Nathan Johnson)Speaker: Nathan JohnsonSeries: Jesus in the Old TestamentStudy: 8 – The Scarlet Cord and the Battle of Dependence  Today’s Daily Thunder dives into one of Nathan’s favorite pictures of Jesus in the Old Testament – the story of Rahab (a gentile prostitute), her salvation by a scarlet cord, and the battle of Jericho. Learn some fascinating background on this famous battle but more importantly, learn how Rahab, the scarlet cloth, and the battle are a picture of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and what He desires to do in and through our lives as we enter into the “Land of Promise."

400: A Million Unused Soldiers // Spiritual Lessons from WW2 52 (Eric Ludy) Speaker: Eric Ludy Series: Spiritual Lessons from WW2 Study: 52: A Million Unused Soldiers   This is the fifty-second installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW2. In this episode he breaks down Winston Churchill’s thinking towards the expenditure of British military strength in the critical year of 1943. Should he hoard it or should he radically spend it? Should he take a step away in order to amass greater strength for a battle someday in the future or should he take the uncomfortable step forward into the fray now and wield the strength he already possesses? His decision-making process back then profoundly parallels the decision that we as the Church are needing to make right now in this hour of dire need.  

399: The Importance of Egypt, Wilderness, and the Promised Land // Jesus in the Old Testament 7 (Nathan Johnson)Speaker: Nathan JohnsonSeries: Jesus in the Old TestamentStudy: 7 – The Importance of Egypt, Wilderness, and the Promise Land We all know well the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt at Passover because of the blood of the lamb on the doorposts, entering and wandering the Wilderness, finally entering into the Promised Land forty years later. But few of us recognize that this too is our story – it is a picture (a shadow) of the Gospel and the reality of what Christ has purchased on the Cross. In this message, Nathan talks about seeing Jesus in the Old Testament through the profound progression from Egypt through the Wilderness and into the Promised Land.