Sons of Thunder

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST

Recorded October 12, 2020

This episode was recorded on October 12, 2020 Banter Clock 5:16 CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST  - How to say no with friends and Family  - When you say no it opens up opportunities to say yes  - Boundaries  - Faith Fellowship and Fitness  - How do we have a well-rounded relationship?

Contents of this cast - How do we take care of ourselves? - The shift from college to real life - The agent of growth - The importance of being responsible for yourself - Taking care of yourself in faith fellowship and fitness - when we think we have it figured out…

Recorded on Sept 16, 2020 Season 3 Episode 1 - A Little Banter - The Genesis of the Sons - Podcast Restart - Introduce the Season “When Things Get Real” - Sons catch up on what has happened these last 6 months - Responsibility

Recorded April 14, 2020 CONTENTS  - How do we respond to the resurrection in quarantine?  - Disciple vs Apostle  - Otium ET BELUM Special thanks to our sponsor Lifeboat Network

The Sons are back, and happy Holy Week! Banter Contents - Trivia with the Sons - Catchup with the sons how is quarantine going?

Welcoming our special guest Jordan

We welcome on our special Guests: David Cushing and Greg Ebacher

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Influential men in the bible - Simon of Cyrene - David - Debunking David vs Goliath - St. Dismas

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Sons Lightning Round - The Origins of “Dangerous Men” - What is a Dangerous Man? - Lust free living - How do we create lasting change and continue to live as a dangerous man? - Practicals

Banter Clock 12:45

Shout outs: 2:35 Catholic interpretations in the Media 6:00 Banter Clock: 16:00

This is the Introduction to the new series we are going to publish on being a Dangerous Man.

Listen to the Sons of Thunder joined by the up and coming creators of Prayer and Pushups discuss topics of Masculine Initiation. CONTENTS OF THIS CAST - Learning about Prayer and Pushups - What are you strong for? - Why is there no longer the initiation of men in our culture today? - Where does initiation begin? - Who do you find inspiration from? Link to Prayer and Pushups Facebook

Contents of this cast - What is Frassati USA? - The Saint with the pipe in his mouth. - What would Pier Giorgio Frassati have to say to the youth today? - What was Pier Giorgio like? - What were some issues Pier Giorgio faced as a young man? - How was Giorgio’s relationship with his father? - A man beating Mediocrity

This is a Breakdown of the song: For Islands Fires and Family written by Dermot Kennedy

Hunger Series Part 2

HUNGER SERIES PART 1

—Relationship Series Pt 4–

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - The structure of relationships - Finding order in your relationships - Face the world and not each other - The risk of love - The most attractive quality in a man - Can men and women be friends? - Kissing on the first date? - Over spiritualizing within relationships

- What is a Relationship with the self? - What is good for me? - What do I need? - What is a bad relationship with yourself? - How do you encounter yourself? - How do we bring ourselves to a relationship? - If we don't have an ordered relationship with ourselves how do we expect those around us to have a good relationship with us? ~OUTLINE LIFE WITH CHRIST~ - 1.a) Admitting your faults - 1.b) Being okay with setting realistic Goals - 2.a) Find Forerunners that you want to follow in their footsteps - 2.b) Finding others in a community calling you on - 3. Encounter a Risk - 4. Know where you are going

What are relationships? Where do we find relationships? Are your relationships made on sand or rock?

- Where have the sons been? - Day in the Life - Entering into Fall - What does it mean to be present?

- Why Do we work? - How do we use money? - Some math for you - Why am I working today? - Why is it so easy to find our identity in our work?

- How do we combat our humanity? - How do we fear God in a healthy way? - Is it a fear rooted in love or a Fear rooted in sin? - Did Jesus Fear God?

- Do you need to have a Friendship before Brotherhood? - FELLOWSHIP | FRIENDSHIP | BROTHERHOOD - Three levels of friendship 1)Utility 2)Pleasure 3)Next level - Is the goal of every friendship to be a next level friend? - Charity is contagious and is deeper. - How do we say no? - When is it good to say no? - Self Care. - You don't have to be friends with everyone, but you have to be friendly to everyone - What is a friendship that incorporates all three friendships

- Chasing the Championship - Having Good Coaches and Mentors - Influential Athletes, Phillip Rivers, and Tim Tebow - Why is there a disconnect between sports and faith? - The sports realm is full of excuses which are lies. - Finding our Tebow effect

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - The need to find confidence now that we are in positions of power - No one is going to follow someone that isn’t confident - Purpose and sense of achievement in God - The gray between cockiness and confidence - where are you grounding yourself? - Definition: Belief that you have what it takes - Humility and Confidence goes hand in hand - You need to know yourself - Humble and Confidence is the killer duo WHAT? - We were created with the purpose of the intention of GREATNESS WHY? - Men are not living in the potential that they were made to live - Purpose…..The “Zone” - Jesus’ Purpose was to do the will of the Father - Deadpool? - Live within the reality of your identity everyday and be ready to FLEX on ‘em - You make great moments by inviting God in HOW? - “IF YOU CAN?” “ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR ONE WHO BELIEVES” - Jesus - We need to discover our purpose and know it ourselves - We need to find more time with the Lord - Have faith and strong nerves - We need to trust in the little things

CONTENTS OF THIS CAST - The Dignity of the human person - Aestheticism and Exodus 90 - One of the problems facing our society is a man cannot sit alone in his room - Asceticism - self-denial for a purpose to get closer to the lord - Relying on the Lord and not the things of this world - Don't believe the lie that you cant be holy - You don't choose your cross you pick up the one that God gives you - Holiness isn't perfectness - It's not about falling it's about getting back up - The lord allows us to stumble so we can rely on him - We need to stand up for ourselves and Choose for ourselves - Banter Outro

Discipline comes through the steps of: 1 Humility 2 Identity 3 Trust

CONTENTS - Lightning round - Desires - Vocations

The Video didn't work SMH CONTENTS OF THIS CAST - Songs with the Sons (If You Want Love - NF) MYTHS DEBUNKED: - Christianity Preys on the Weak - Christianity is anti-intillectual and anti-scientific - Christianity is anti-sex

CONTENTS - Songs with the Sons: From now on from the Greatest Showman - Debunking Myths - Jesus Didn't Exist - The Ressurection is a Myth

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Steroids? - Songs with the Sons (A Prayer by Kings Kaleidoscope) - The Passion that would go on a cross and die for you - In suffering and silence is where you experience God the most - "Beauty will save the world" - silence is a call to dive deeper

CONTENTS - More spoilers - Humanity / A Human Experience - Freedom - Working with our Purpose - Jesus as a Lover - Discernment - Gods Passion and desire for us to choose good - “Pray as if everything is dependent on God and work like everything is dependent on you” - Leaving the door open in your heart

CONTENTS -Winter -Darkness -Isolation of experience -Lonliness

CONTENTS - The Sons start a new segment called Songs with the Sons, where they analyze and interpret song lyrics and tie it to the Christian journey - What men are striving for - The Distraction of Media ***STUPID DEEP*** - "What if who I hoped to be was always me? And the love I fought feel was always free?" - (Jon Bellion - Stupid Deep) - "The path I've tried to cut was always clear" ***GO THE DISTANCE*** - The Road you are on is the right road for you - "Every Mile will be worth my while" - Far off place = Heaven - Relationship, Identity, Mission - Goes to his father's house - The Journey and the story of love - Gods glory is us fully alive

CONTENTENTS - Lots of Banter - Stories of Ireland - John leaves - Taking risks, and having an adventure

CONTENTS - Eric is Back - The Question of what are you thankful for - It's hard to be thankful - Is it so hard to think that the Lord wants a good life for us? - The parable of the Talents - Challenging yourself to rid attachment to things of this world - Stay Hungry - Lessons from Job 38:04 - Be thankful for what the Lord has done for us in our lives - John tries to leave but goes on a fitness rant - Ham on thanksgiving?

CONTENTS - Shoutout to WILL GOODWIN - Johns Recap of the Philosophy Conference - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - What is going on in the microcosm of St. Thomas - The Dignity of every person needs to be upheld - The horrible existence of Pornography and what it is doing to our culture - What happens to the brain during Porn - Bring it to the light - How we root out evil - The Frodo Mindset "Did the ordinary things extraordinarily well" FIGHT THE NEW DRUG TALKS - link below - https://www.sonsofthundermn.com/series-1/

Tune in for a great podcast with Sean and Delexi Healy sharing about their relationship. CONTENTS - SOT Shoutouts - Our Story - Our Brokenness is saved - Losing your Identity - Need for Order - Trust and how it transformed us

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - SOT lightning round - How to run a hundred miles... - Ping Pong - Bringing Christ into Fitness - The benefits... physical emotional and spiritual... of fitness

CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Intro to Technology - Distractions in society - Addiction in our lives - We are closer to God in nothingness - The easy abuse - Actually listen to music jon bellion video: https://twitter.com/jonbellion/status/1050099647610384384 https://www.sonsofthundermn.com/

CONTENTS - Friendship - Greatness - Leadership