Watch Your Mouth! - What the Bible Says About What We Say

Happy New Year! We kick off 2022 with stories of hope that will inspire us to greatness and goodwill.In a society where division, strife and put-downs seem to rule the airwaves, news, and social media, it can appear that this world is hopeless.  But this episode proves that if we pay attention we will find honorable people honoring each other everywhere. This episode highlights a few of those awesome folks.Our That Was Then segment gives the Biblical/historical account of King David who honored a 20+ year old promise to his deceased best friend by showing extraordinary kindness to his surviving son - honoring him in ways he couldn't have imagined.Our This Is Now segment highlights noteworthy acts of kindness from several people (like WWE Wrestling Champion John Cena, Canadian high school students who gathered to show kindness to an elderly woman, a North Carolina high school principal who took a second job at Walmart for his disenfranchised students during COVID-19 and more).We learn the positive effect we can have when we honor one another above ourselves!

Your kids are doing it... your teacher is doing it... your co-workers are doing it... your neighbors are doing it... your church parishioners are doing it... grandma's doing it... heck, everybody's doing it... This episode features the salacious, enticing, and destructive guilty pleasure GOSSIP.  Jazmine Bentley brilliantly sets the tone with her ‘tongue-in-cheeky' monologue. In our That Was Then segment we hang in the shadows of JESUS CHRIST - the most gossiped about person in history to see how He dealt with all the disinformation concerning Him. Our This Is Now segment brings gossip center stage (literally) as we hear snippets of a TEDx Talk by celebrity gossip journalist Elaine Lui as well as getting Dave Ramsey and Brenae Brown's take on gossip. I'm convinced you'll wanna tell everybody about this episode!

Has anyone ever defined you as psychic, telepathic, or clairvoyant based on something you said?  Or have you described someone else that way based on a far-fetched prediction they made that came true?  If so, (and assuming it didn't originate from a dark, creepy, or eerie source), then you'll find yourself in some impressive company.This episode features spot-on predictions made by celebrities from Colin Kaepernick to Bill Gates, and covers everything from deadly pandemics to famous people who predicted their deaths. You'll learn that life, death and even your career path really are in the power of the tongue.

This episode was created for everyone who may be feeling a little weary, anxious, alone, frustrated, overwhelmed, COVID-fatigued, politically disgusted, depressed, hopeless or disheartened for any reason.In our "That Was Then" segment we take a peek down a country-dark corridor of King David's life. He's greatly distressed, he lost everything and on top of that his own life is being threatened.  We'll see how he was able to ENCOURAGE himself and recover everything that was lost.You'll be doing cartwheels by the time you get through our "This Is Now" segment as Nick Vujicic and Christine Caine - two Australian mega-giant motivational speakers will ENCOURAGE you to keep going and conquer!

This episode explores the courage and altruism it takes to come to someone's defense (both verbally and physically).   We glean wisdom from stunning examples like Esther and Mordecai (in Biblical times who saved Jews from annihilation), Irena Sendler (Polish Social Worker who saved over 2500 Jewish children from the horrors of the Holocaust), Wesley Autrey (NYC subway passenger who literally saved someone from moving train) and Philip Zimbardo, PhD Psychology Professor at Stanford University who discusses "What Makes a Hero".

This episode highlights icons of society who soldiered through the harshest criticism to accomplish their dreams and fulfill their purpose.  Our "That Was Then" segment dissects the sibling rivalry between Moses (the 2nd most criticized man on earth besides Jesus), his big sister Miriam and his slightly older brother Aaron.   In our "This  Is Now" segment we rehash the blistering criticism faced by Martin Cooper (inventor of the cell phone), Steve Jobs, Jennifer Hudson and the Beatles.  From them we learn the difference between constructive and destructive criticism.

In this episode our "That Was Then" segment features one of the biggest bully defeats in history - the full Biblical account of David and Goliath.  Although we mostly tend to focus on Goliath as the bully, the full text shows us that David had to make it past several people who sought to put and keep him in his place - just to get to Goliath.  Throughout these verses, there was a constant push and push-back ranging from “you can't do that” to “yes I can”, to “you don't have what it takes… to “yes I do, to “you aren't big, strong, old or smart enough” to “yes I am”!  Although we all know how the story ended (back then) we explore what modern ballistic reports would say about David's "sling" today and how that same courage and tenacity could stop the biggest bullies of our time.  Our "This Is Now' segment features a first-hand testimony of a cyber bullying victim who turned vicious web comments into one of  the most successful anti-bullying campaigns in the world.

This episode features court trials that went HORRIBLLY WRONG!!!  In our "That Was Then" segment we start with a Biblical/historical example of a woman charged with adultery (a crime punishable by death back then)  and in our "This Is Now" segment shift to a non-religious modern account of a man wrongly accused and sentenced to over 200 years for a brutal sexual assault.  In both cases, the defendants were (eventually) ACQUITTED of all charges.  Marvin Anderson, with the help of the Innocence Project shared riveting details about his fight for freedom in his own words.  Lastly, after getting an example from scripture of when we should or shouldn't acquit (forgive) we rehashed some catch phrases that stemmed from past hurts caused by another person or circumstance.