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Matty Dalrymple talks with Cheryl McKay about SHOWRUNNING YOUR SERIES NOVELS, including how to plan for standalone versus series formats; the role of episodic elements; the benefits of feeling inspired by and using real-world locations in storytelling; the importance of character development and story arcs; and the importance of making strong standalone stories with potential for growth or spinoffs. We also discuss the responsibilities of a showrunner and how this role parallels the varied duties of an indie author.  Interview video at https://bit.ly/TIAPYTPlaylist Show notes at https://www.theindyauthor.com/podcast.html  If you find the information in this video useful, please consider supporting The Indy Author! https://www.patreon.com/theindyauthor https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattydalrymple   CHERYL MCKAY been professionally writing since 1997. Before creating, showrunning, and executive producing the multi-award-winning Season One of These Stones, Cheryl wrote the screenplay for The Ultimate Gift. Cheryl co-wrote the faith-based feature films, Indivisible and Extraordinary, as well as multiple children's projects, including five episodes of Superbook and forty episodes of the audio drama, The Wild & Wacky Totally True Bible Stories with Frank Peretti. In addition to film and television, Cheryl has enjoyed penning novels like Song of Springhill and the award-winning Never the Bride (with Rene Gutteridge), as well as nonfiction books. Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers, beginning with ROCK PAPER SCISSORS; the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, beginning with THE SENSE OF DEATH; and the Ann Kinnear Suspense Shorts. She is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. Matty also writes, speaks, and consults on the writing craft and the publishing voyage, and shares what she's learned on THE INDY AUTHOR PODCAST. She has written books on the business of short fiction and podcasting for authors; her articles have appeared in "Writer's Digest" magazine. She serves as the Campaigns Manager for the Alliance of Independent Authors.  

When I heard about Laurie Christine's Dragon Slayer Bible series, I was so excited.  I mean, Bible stories retold as fantasy elements?  Listen in and learn what happens with Seth, the third named son of Adam and Eve goes on a quest to find out more about this Chosen One and how to defeat this dragon. note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you.   My brain is going into over-drive as I consider all the things that Laurie Christine could do with this series.  The lineage of Christ's stories told as fantasy as the world falls further from Eden and needs their Savior more each day. All in a world of beasts and dragons and... Oh, my!  Buckle up, it's going to be a great ride... um, read!  And Christmas is coming, so if you've got a kid on your list who has "everything," I bet this is something he didn't know he wanted or something she didn't know she needed. Garden of Mysteries by Laurie Christine  An ancient curse. An invisible dragon. A mysterious prophecy. Seth's parents have secrets they won't share with him. Why did the King kick them out of the garden and curse the land? And can the curse be broken? Finding answers to Seth's questions will prove more dangerous than he imagined. Can he discover the truth before the dragon destroys him? Frank Peretti meets The Jesus Storybook Bible in this action-packed biblical fiction story that will inspire readers to identify lies of the dragon and to put their trust in the dragon slayer. Seth's story takes place in a post-fall world where ferocious beasts lurk in the darkness and thorns and thistles cover the land. When Seth learns of an ancient prophecy about the Chosen One, he sets off on a quest to find the one who will break the curse. But the evil dragon also has a mission—to deceive Seth and turn his heart from the King. On his quest for truth, Seth learns what it means to trust the King and to resist the lies of the evil dragon. Learn more about Laure on her WEBSITE or at Dragonslayerbible.com and follow her on GoodReads. Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple  Castbox  Google Play Libsyn  RSS Spotify Amazon and more!

An ancient curse. An invisible dragon. A mysterious prophecy. Seth's parents have secrets they won't share with him. Why did the King kick them out of the garden and curse the land? And can the curse be broken? Finding answers to Seth's questions will prove more dangerous than he imagined. Can he discover the truth before the dragon destroys him? Frank Peretti meets The Jesus Storybook Bible in this action-packed biblical fiction story that will inspire readers to identify lies of the dragon and to put their trust in the dragon slayer. Seth's story takes place in a post-fall world where ferocious beasts lurk in the darkness and thorns and thistles cover the land. When Seth learns of an ancient prophecy about the Chosen One, he sets off on a quest to find the one who will break the curse. But the evil dragon also has a mission—to deceive Seth and turn his heart from the King. On his quest for truth, Seth learns what it means to trust the King and to resist the lies of the evil dragon. Learn more about the series here. More about Laurie Christine Laurie Christine is an author, podcast host, Bible teacher, wife, and mom of four wild, loud, adventurous boys. Her podcast, Redeeming the Chaos, invites moms of boys to join her on the wild, wonderful adventure of raising courageous boys and connecting them with Christ. With degrees in Creative Writing, Biblical Studies and Education, Laurie has more than 20 years of experience in teaching the Bible to children and teens. Connect with Laurie Christinewebsite | Dragon Slayer Bible | Podcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thetriciagoyershow/support

Subscribe today for access to our full catalog of bonus episodes, including 2+ new episodes every month! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy This stylish Christian horror film, possibly inspired by the SILENT HILL franchise, is based on a novel co-authored by the two titans of Christian supernatural fiction: Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. These writers each sold millions of copies of their respective books throughout the 2000s, identifying and filling a niche for Christian supernatural thriller literature with exciting stories that still promoted a wholesome message. HOUSE is a collaboration between Peretti and Dekker, adapted into a feature film by director Robby Henson (THR3E) in a very lurid, saturated way that nowadays feels dated to the late 2000s, and could have been influenced by the burgeoning video game adaptation genre of cinema at the time. HOUSE as a film has interesting ideas but is barely held together with no narrative follow through. A couple experiencing domestic issues gets into literally three or four car crashes within the first ten minutes of the film, then stumble upon a remote cabin hotel with eccentric hosts who try to kill the couple before telling them the legend of the Tin Man, a psycho wearing a wooden mask who claims to have killed God. Weird southern gothic set dressing and video game-style quests hurtle the plot toward a disappointing climax where (spoiler alert) the Tin Man is defeated by light. It's barely coherent and barely Christian, and doesn't compare to other Peretti film adaptations we enjoyed such as HANGMAN'S CURSE (2003), but at least it's weird and funny with bold, bright colors that remind us how Christian cinema tried to merge with the secular in the chaotic and very silly decade of the 2000s. View our full episode list and subscribe to any of our public feeds: http://boysbiblestudy.com Unlock 2+ bonus episodes per month: http://patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Subscribe to our Twitch for livestreams: http://twitch.tv/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/boysbiblestudy

In the early 90's, Frank Peretti wrote a novel titled This Present Darkness. I don't think he got everything right about the nature of spiritual warfare, but one thing that book did an amazing job at was to enable the reader to imagine the unseen realm of angels and demons. In Mark 5, Jesus gives us a real life glimpse into that world.

In the early 90's, Frank Peretti wrote a novel titled This Present Darkness. I don't think he got everything right about the nature of spiritual warfare, but one thing that book did an amazing job at was to enable the reader to imagine the unseen realm of angels and demons. In Mark 5, Jesus gives us a real life glimpse into that world.

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Guests: Jake Mulder with helping youth with church, and author Frank Peretti.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Twenty-five years after release, Frank Peretti's supernatural thriller still boldly shows a struggling ex-pastor fighting foes scarier than demons.

In this profoundly moving episode of the Seek First CEO Podcast, host Heather Shriver Burns engages in a heartfelt conversation with spiritual breakthrough coach, Miranda Wendler. Together, they delve into their personal experiences with inner healing, confronting the shadows of past traumas, and the liberating journey towards truth and freedom.   Miranda explains how she guides women through their pain to uncover a life of freedom rooted in Christ. The dialogue traverses the difficult yet necessary path of confronting generational dysfunction and the steps toward wholeness in personal and family life. Heather reflects on the challenges of trust and vulnerability, especially within the Christian community, underscoring the importance of creating and seeking safe spaces for honest expression.   This episode explores the profound impact of unaddressed trauma on our physical and emotional states and sheds light on powerful, spiritually nurturing techniques. Miranda introduces listeners to the practice of ascending into the heavenly realms and immersing oneself in the Word of God, a place of spiritual cleansing and the exchange of pain for divine truth. Heather corroborates the significance of these spiritual practices, affirming the Holy Spirit's role in the healing process.   Listeners are encouraged to courageously trust in God's process, to seek out the Holy Spirit's transformational power, and to commit to a journey of inner healing, even when it defies comfort and logic. The episode concludes with an open invitation to engage with Miranda's coaching services and an actionable guide for listeners to embark on their path to wholeness and abundant life. Whether it's through counseling, support groups, or diving into the Word of God, this conversation is a call to mend the soul's wounds and step into the fullness of one's calling.   About Miranda: Miranda is a wife to Fred and Momma to 4 world changers, ages 20, 8, 7, and 5 yrs old. At 12 years old, her eyes were opened to the unseen realm after reading a book by Frank Peretti, This Present Darkness, and since then, through many ups and downs, she has been on a journey of partnering with heaven to receive all that Jesus died for. As a Spiritual Breakthrough Coach, she helps women walk through their own breakthroughs and transformation.    https://mirandawendler.com/ https://www.instagram.com/healthymommm/   About Heather: Meet Heather Shriver Burns, a beacon of guidance and a Businesstry Mentor dedicated to empowering Christian entrepreneurs. Her calling is to support individuals who aspire to serve others through their gifts and passions while making an indelible impact on the Kingdom of God. Heather's expertise lies in teaching entrepreneurs how to collaborate with the Divine, maintain a steadfast focus on Him, and draw strength from His presence as they nurture their businesses for His glory. Once the architect of a thriving 8-figure company, Heather's journey wasn't without its trials. She wrestled with understanding how to intertwine her business acumen with a partnership with God. Through significant loss, Heather uncovered the most valuable lessons of her life, realizing the necessity of placing God at the forefront to fulfill her calling. Heather's transformative experience led her to a profound truth: true impact begins when God leads the way. By silencing the world's noise and seeking God with all her being, Heather adopted a lifestyle of surrender and partnership with God, aligning her work with His calling on her life. Her revelations are clear and compelling: True success does not require sacrificing family, rest, or mental health. The dreams instilled by God should not be forsaken due to fear or reluctance. A sense of paralysis, a desire to do more but being shackled by uncertainty, is not the destiny of God's children. Crafted to FLOW in sync with God's rhythms, Heather Shriver Burns exemplifies faith-driven entrepreneurship. Heather offers a path of wisdom and empowerment for those eager to delve into their potential and merge their business endeavors with spiritual intent. She invites all to join her on this divinely charted journey towards a harmonious blend of business and faith.   https://www.heathershriverburns.com/ https://www.facebook.com/seekfirstceo https://www.instagram.com/heathershriverburns/          

Episode 25 - Crafting Stories with Faith and Impact, with Cheryl McKay In this episode of the Faith and Family Filmmakers Podcast, hosts Geoffrey Whitt and Jaclyn Whitt interview Cheryl McKay, an accomplished screenwriter and producer known for her inspirational films and TV series. Cheryl shares her journey from aspiring actress to a successful writer, touching on the pivotal moments that led her to embrace her talent for writing and her path through education and practical experience, to her eventual move to Los Angeles. Facing a turning point after being released from an acting program, she redirected her path towards writing, fueled by a deep-rooted desire to impact the world positively through her work. She recounts her professional progression, including writing children's audio dramas for Frank Peretti and screenplays for films like 'The Ultimate Gift.' McKay also discusses her venture into producing with Stone Impact Media, revealing the development of 'These Stones,' a TV series merging biblical characters with modern-day challenges. The episode delves into McKay's philosophy on writing with a purpose, her desire to leave a positive legacy, and the importance of creating content that impacts the audience meaningfully.Welcome & Introduction to Cheryl McKayCheryl's Journey from Acting to ScreenwritingBreaking into Professional Writing and Moving to LAThe Importance of Connections in the Film IndustryThe Acting Background's Impact on WritingCreating 'These Stones': A Dream ProjectNavigating Creative ControlPortraying God in FilmsWhere to Buy Cheryl's Book: Never the BrideFinal Thoughts and Advice for Aspiring WritersSince 1997, Cheryl McKay's screenplays for television, cable, TV, new media, and inspirational feature films have attracted multiple awards, nominations, as well as top star talent like James Garner, Brian Dennehy, and Abigail Breslin. Her first film produced was The Ulitmate Gift. She co-wrote the feature films, Indivisible and Extraordinary, and most recently served as the producer/showrunner for a 6 episode TV series she wrote called These Stones, starring Madeline Carroll, Karen Abercrombie, Charlene Amoia, and Cameron Arnett. Her heart from the beginning has been to make an impact through words and change the world through writing. That's the heart behind serving at the helm of the creative development for Stone Impact Media. www.stoneimpactmedia.comhttps://www.facebook.com/thesestonesThe Faith & Family Filmmakers podcast helps filmmakers who share a Christian worldview stay in touch, informed, and inspired. Releasing new episodes every Monday, we interview experts from varying fields of filmmaking; from screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers, to film scorers, talent agents, and distributors. It is produced and hosted by Geoffrey Whitt and Jaclyn Whitt , and is brought to you by the Faith & Family Filmmakers Association Support Faith & Family Filmmakers Our mission is to help filmmakers who share a Christian Worldview stay in touch, informed, and inspired. Please help by becoming a supporting member or leaving One-Time Donation.Get Email Notifications Enter the Faith & Family Screenwriting Awards festival Jaclyn's Actor's Reel Script Writing Workshop:

 Frank Peretti meets the Jesus Storybook Bible! That's how I like to describe the Dragon Slayer Bible Series. Book 2 in the series, Garden of Mysteries,  is available to order through Kickstarter, April 3-19th, 2024.  ORDER YOURS TODAY! A mysterious prophecy. An ancient curse. An invisible dragon.Seth's parents had secrets they wouldn't share with him. Why had the King kicked them out of the Garden? Why had he cursed the land? And could anyone break the curse?Seth wanted to know more. He had to find out the truth. But finding answers to his questions would prove more dangerous than he imagined.In the second book in the Dragon Slayer Bible Series, readers will experience a world where the consequences of sin have affected every part of creation, even the animals.Can Seth learn his parents' secret before the dragon destroys him?Garden of Mysteries, book 2 in the Dragon Slayer Bible Series, is part Bible-based fictional narrative, part devotional, and part Bible study. Through action-packed stories, inspiring scripture, and challenging devotional readings, boys will be trained to identify lies of the invisible dragon, and to trust more fully in the God of Angel Armies. Learn more at www.DragonSlayerBible.com

  The devil made us read This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti. Fortunately, we were #blessed to be joined by Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart, who helped safely guide us through this Christian thriller. Listen … Continue reading →

Tempted to avert our gaze from the mention of “evil spirit” or “demon”, instead Pastor Megan chooses to hold this story's gaze and look for what may be true… then and now. What is true? What binds humans is indeed legion. What liberates humans is indeed Jesus. Who liberates humans is indeed us. Whew. Buckle up as we explore what makes demons tremble.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:05Mark 5.1-20ResourcesIntersectionality: In the sermon, I credit the origin of intersectionality to the women of the Combahee River Collective. In fact, Kimberlé Crenshaw should be credited with the origination of the term, in a pair of essays from 1989 and 1991. The work of the Combahee River Collective, particularly their work on ‘simultaneity' in the 1970s, laid a foundation for Crenshaw's development of the concept of ‘intersectionality'. But credit for coining the term and more fully developing the concept of ‘intersectionality' belongs to Crenshaw!BibleWorm podcast: Episode 521 – Making the Demons Tremble, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Frank Peretti wrote a series of fiction books depicting demons, angels, and ‘spiritual warfare' for a largely Pentecostal and more conservative evangelical Christian audience through the 1980s and beyond. I'm still recovering from the images his terrifying books emblazoned on my young impressionable brain.Ruth C. Duck hymn text published in Voices Together 642, “Healing River of the Spirit” verse 3: “Living stream that heals the nations, make us channels of your power. All the world is torn by conflict; wars are raging at this hour. Saving Spirit, move among us; guide our winding human course, till we find our way together, flower homeward to our Source.”Image: Photo by Tony Rojas on UnsplashHymn: VT 285 - Cast out, O Christ. Text: Mary Louise Bringle (USA), 2002, © 2006 GIA Publications, Inc. Music: William Tans'ur (England), Harmony of Zion 1734 Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

New York Times bestselling author with over 12 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He wrote This Present Darkness back in 1986 and Piercing the Darkness in 1989 popularizing the Christian thriller genre.  Let me know what you think. Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcastE-transfer here: shaunnewmanpodcast@gmail.com Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/ Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.com Phone (877) 646-5303 – general sales line, ask for Grahame and be sure to let us know you're an SNP listener.

Merry Christmas everyone! We did not record a podcast this week as we are embracing the birth of our Savior and time with our families. However, we would like to share a Christmas story with you. The title is “All Is Well” by Frank Peretti. Please click on the link to hear this heart warming […]

It sounds like a county music song or a story of a politician's early years.   Byron Williamson grew up with his mom in a shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing in a small north Texas farming village.   A few years later Byron became a book publisher and in 2021 the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association presented him with The Chair's Award for Lifetime Achievement.   Byron has headed Worthy Publishing, Word Publishing, Thomas Nelson books, and Integrity Publishers. He's published books by Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Billy Graham, Max Lucado, John MacArthur, and Frank Peretti. He worked with Sarah Young to create Jesus Calling, which has sold more than 45 million copies.   As far as we're concerned, though, Byron's claim to fame is that he's usually at the table near the buffet line at Puckett's on the first and third Thursdays. And this coming Thursday he will tell us how God led him every step of the way, although the path was not always straight or anticipated.

Get ready everyone, this book was a doozy! We read the iconic Christian horror book The Oath and, surprise surprise, we had a lot to say about it.

Has our church invited an unholy alliance within its people? Today there are many things that have been grafted into our common worship; be that on Sunday morning or in our daily lives. But do some of the new ideas and practices carry with them a spirit of the occult? We often laugh at the simple sinful Hebrews in the Old Testament who just couldn't get it right and fell back into the pagan practices of their forefathers. But, is their story our story? Have we sought to worship a strange fire, and in doing so, have we begun including occultic practices in the church?Join the conversation on Twitter @TeleiosTOr, email us at teleiostalk@gmail.comCheck out our book "Six Good Questions" https://a.co/d/bCtOzajThanks for listening!Please consider supporting our ministry. Donate using the link below:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=N54GRDE34VUDY&no_recurring=0&item_name=Donations+to+the+ministry+of+Teleios+Talk.¤cy_code=CAD

In this episode, Lianne shares a relic from her uber-Christian childhood.. A book by best-selling Christian author, Frank Peretti. Spoiler Alert: It's better than expected, but like most religious media, it can't help but be annoying.Also in this episode:Which Christian author did "Christian" meet at a church? (it's Peretti)Find out when it's okay to use SCIENCE!What is Cracker Barrel Heaven?!JOIN OUR PATREONLINKTREEChat with Christian on INSTAGRAMTweet it up with Lianne on our TWITTEREmail us your thoughts, ideas, and condemnations at hereticparty@gmail.comRemember, Happy Lost Souls, your stories deserve to be heard, you deserve friends and community who listen to you and support you. If you are struggling, recoveringfromreligion.org is a great, nonprofit, resource for individuals who have questions about changing or leaving their faith? They have a support hotline you can call anytime.Support Reproductive RightsCheck out the rad community-diner that we're raising money for! One Grub Community Heretic Party is a member of Rad Pantheon, a collective of podcasters, artists, musicians, and other creative types who do our best to connect you with rad stuff you'll enjoy. If you like what we do, check out radpantheon.com or look for @radpantheon on Instagram or Twitter.

write…write…right! (Tribute to Run by OneRepublic) Original written by: Brent Kutzle, John Nathaniel, Ryan Tedder, & Tyler Spry Lyrics: Write, write, write, Write, write, write, Write, right! And read, read, read Read, read, read, Read, read Back as a small kid Learning to get witty Mom and Dad taught me to write write, write, write, right! Caring about the greats Their books too funny Plugged in And Mom called me Hun, Hun, Hun, Hun, Hun She told me the world out there's tough So make your art bold Listen for the pitter patter of footsteps They're foretold Carve out fairy tales Cause you're in one Girl, you need to write, write, write, write, right! So write, write, right! Write, write, write, Write, write, write, Write, right! And read, read, read Read, read, read, Read, read As I was a young kid Uniformed at the ready With books in all my bag bag, bag, bag, bags Never was a time that God didn't show me To trust in Him for everything Breaking my chains Planting love, seeds sown When I get stuck Masterpieces unfold Leave that writer's block in the dust So I'll write, write, write, write, right! Yeah For creepy, seek out Edgar Allan Poe For life lessons, Jordan Peterson's got more than t-shirts in the mall I'll scribble until I can't hold a pen Charles Dickens style Did you get my message? From Stephenie Meyer to Sinclair Lewis Books will keep you young So read, read, read With Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov must murder investigation stall With Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen will make you in love fall Adore Alice from Lewis Carroll and Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Watching for George Orwell's 1984 predictions Did you get my message? Norm & Ayoade's comedy classics will keep you young So read, read, read And write, write, write, Write, write, write, write, right! Read, read, read Read, read, read Read, read Glad I'm not wearing Crane's Red Badge of Courage Jesus, through the Bible, still planting seeds, so many Jeffery Deaver and Linwood Barclay's stories keep twisting Plus magical frights with Stephen King Feeling Bradbury's vibes And Alex Himaya's soul Create a new story One that's never been told With Vonnegut, an asterisk means you're done So write, write, write, write, right! Can't get enough of Chris Sims and Benito Cereno! Adore Alicia Erian's Brutal Language of Love Scribble until I can't hold a pen Reading Mary Gaitskill Did you get my message? Read those classics Books will keep you young So write, write, right! A good man is hard to find with Flannery O'Connor For J. D. Salinger, Holden is the Rye's Catcher For Christian authors, seek out Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker Always love C. S. Lewis Fall for Fitzgerald's language Books will keep you young So write, write, right! Read, read, read Read, read, read Read, read & write, write, write, Write, write, write, Write, right! Read, read, read Read, read, read, Read, read Did you get my message? Read those classics Books will keep you young Did you get my message? Read those classics Books will keep you young Did you get my message? Write a classic Books will keep you young So write, write, right! End Tribute by Melissa Smith: - Melzy of Wonderland on Youtube - Mel's Music on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Castbox, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Podchaser, Facebook & - Melissa_Martinek_Smith on Instagram (AKA: MelsMusic)

You guys, when I tell you this book is bonkers, I'm not sure I'm making myself clear. Monster by Frank Peretti is a wild ride of racism, creationism, and misogyny; the author tries to hide all this behind a thin veneer of bigfoots but we see right through it.   This week we have very special guest Kylan Savage of the podcast Church Jams Now! It's a podcast where three former youth group kids talk about the christian music they listened to as youths with a critical eye, daring to ask whether or not those church jams were indeed bops or if they are in fact nots. There's games, and bits, and if you look very closely even an episode featuring yours truly.   Where to find Kylan: Church Jams Now! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/church-jams-now/id1544099373 https://www.kylansavage.com/ (oh dang, https, he got that tls, that's how you know it's legit) Twitter: https://twitter.com/SavageKylan   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoShowMonster Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noshowmonster/ Email us at noshowmonster@gmail.com Follow Kelly Attaway Twitter: https://twitter.com/kellyattaway Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attawaykl/ Follow Chelsea Hollander lol SIKE you can't she's not online because she values her mental health and wellbeing    Show notes: Dead and Buried https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/dead-and-buried THE VISITATION (2006) movie trailer https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xcehb Kung Fury (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg Patterson-Gimlin film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60mSMmhTZU Catalog of bigfoot sounds https://www.woodape.org/index.php/catalog-of-recorded-audio/   Join us next week as start our new series, Possessed by Aliens! We'll be starting off REAL strong with THE FACULTY (1998) (https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-faculty)    Hosted by Kelly Attaway and Chelsea Hollander Produced by Kelly Attaway Art by Ryan Tate Theme by Unicorn Heads      

Hey, lemme ask you something - what's your time cycle? This week we're talking THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES (2002), an atmospheric tour of high strangeness that isn't scary so much as, like, moody. Join us as Kelly tries desperately to remember details about Indrid Cold from books and podcasts she's read over the years but did not commit to memory! Also Chelea stuns and amazes as she waxes poetic about Chapstick, her one true love. Not sponsered - yet! Chapstick, get at us!! Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoShowMonster Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noshowmonster/ Email us at noshowmonster@gmail.com Follow Kelly Attaway Twitter: https://twitter.com/kellyattaway Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attawaykl/ Follow Chelsea Hollander lol SIKE you can't she's not online because she values her mental health and wellbeing  Show notes: Donate to wikipedia Mothmonsterman https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/Mothmonsterman Woody Derenberger interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HxY4suVjSo Haunted Objects podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-haunted-objects-podcast/id1652260827 Bridge collapse car miniatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT-UdJL4wM Next week we'll be joined by Kylan Savage, freelance musician and animator, as well as co-host of the podcast Church Jams Now!. We'll be talking about the absolutely BONKERS book Monster by Frank Peretti, a "horror" novel loosely focused on bigfoot, but the real horror is the evangelicals along the way. Hosted by Kelly Attaway and Chelsea Hollander Produced by Kelly Attaway Art by Ryan Tate Theme by Unicorn Heads  

When I saw that Bryan Timothy Mitchell had written a book that took inspiration from Dante's Inferno, I knew I'd want to check out Infernal Fall right away. Listen in to see why Bryan decided to write this book! Note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you. What Made This Author Use Hell as Inspiration for His Novel? Bryan Timothy Mitchell is probably the kind of student every teacher both dreads and delights in. Because at the core of it all, a guy like Bryan who really does grasp the idea and hold onto it for years, despite a lack of interest in much of the information being taught, is what it's about.  Well, he didn't disappoint, did he? Using Dante's Divine Comedy as inspiration, he sends his character in Infernal Fall through the circles of hell to discover Who he really needs to turn to for escape and purpose.  And to top it all off, not only do we have this exciting new book, but James L. Rubart narrated it for audio!  Audio listeners, you're in for a treat! Infernal Fall by Bryan Timothy Mitchell There is only one way out of Hell. Daniel Strong is a troubled young man with only one bright spot in his life—his girlfriend, Kristine. He hopes to propose to her on a hike in the mountains, but a mysterious artifact in a dark cavern ruins his plan. Things quickly go downhill—literally—as handling the ‘keystone' causes Daniel to fall straight into Hell, leaving Kristine behind. A soul-harvesting demon tells him the only way out is through, that he must go to Satan and bargain for his freedom. But the shadow man responsible for leaving the keystone behind tries to show him there's another way out. Against his better judgment, Daniel finds himself listening to the demon's claims that appealing to the Master of the Underworld himself is his only choice. As the unlikely group traverses the many levels of Hell, hurt, anger, and fear hound Daniel, reminding him how hopeless his efforts truly are. All Daniel can do is push forward in hopes of making it back to Kristine. Will Daniel heed Kristine's words to choose life? Or will he succumb to the lies pulling him down with every step? Infernal Fall is a modern twist on the classic tale: Dante's Inferno. If you're a fan of Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, you will love Infernal Fall. Grab your copy today and embark on a harrowing tale of light vs darkness and discover if there truly is only one way out of Hell. You can learn more about Bryan Timothy Mitchell on his website. Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple  Castbox  Google Play Libsyn  RSS Spotify Stitcher Amazon and more!

This week's podcast review comes from this blog review of The Oath. 

Hello, friend! Welcome back to the show. This week, I have such a treat for you. I was blessed to interview my Spiritual Coach, Miranda Wendler. Miranda is a wife to Fred and Momma to 4 world changers, ages 20, 8, 7, and 5 yrs old. At 12 years old her eyes were opened to the unseen realm after reading a book by Frank Peretti, This Present Darkness, and since then through many ups and downs she has been on a journey of partnering with heaven to receive all that Jesus died for. As a Spiritual Breakthrough Coach she helps women walk through their own breakthrough and transformation.  . In this episode, Miranda and I talked about the importance of community. Too often, estranged moms hide in isolation without getting the proper support. And even beyond getting the right support from an estrangement coach or a therapist who specializes in family estrangement and trauma… beyond that, we need to be in community with like minded women who are walking on a similar path. This is SO healing, affirming and important. In this episode, Miranda and I are digging into the value of vulnerability, and the power of community, We're being transparent about insecurity, fear of rejection and how God works to heal our soul wounds.    If this episode resonates with you and you find yourself feeling led to get into community with like minded women, I invite you to join me in my free Facebook community for Christian estranged moms. Go to estrangedmoms.community to join us.  . Schedule your free consultation to find out how Family Estrangement Coaching might help you: https://bit.ly/jennygood  . Join the free Facebook support community for Christian estranged moms: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianestrangedmothers   . Download Your Free Guide Of What To Do When Your Adult Child Estranges: bit.ly/estrangementguide  . Email me: Jenny@theestrangedmomcoach.com   . Find Miranda at: https://mirandawendler.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recalibrating-hearts/id1566204931

LISTEN TO THIS ONE! Spiritual Warfare - more Christianese or is it real? Are there really battles happening over countries in the heavens? What's happening in the world today with wars, rumors of wars, scandal, deception, and corruption here on Earth, Sean says it's almost like a Frank Peretti novel...there is a war on...it's spiritual - there is evil - and we have a weapon...and that's prayer.

LISTEN TO THIS ONE! Spiritual Warfare - more Christianese or is it real? Are there really battles happening over countries in the heavens? What's happening in the world today with wars, rumors of wars, scandal, deception, and corruption here on Earth, Sean says it's almost like a Frank Peretti novel...there is a war on...it's spiritual - there is evil - and we have a weapon...and that's prayer.

As a child, best-selling author Frank Peretti was bullied, hassled and teased at school because of his appearance.

It's tough for a kid to deal with a schoolyard bully – but best-selling author Frank Peretti knows that there's hope!

PATREON MOVIE DISCUSSION:  This movie was selected by our Patreon Supporters over at the Cinematic Doctrine Patreon. Support as little as $3 a month and have your voice heard!  Frank Peretti's film adaption of Hangman's Curse arrived with an official youth devotional. Or, at least, Melvin's DVD copy did. In part two of their Hangman's Curse discussion, Melvin, Dan, and special guest Melanie Dejesus (from Melvin's church) spend time working through the official Hangman's Curse devotional guide questions, including what makes some of them so problematic. But, before they get into the spicey stuff, the three laugh over 20-year-old IMDB reviews.  Topics: Melvin feels the Online Christian Review complex is very "team jersey", in that they often celebrate and 5-star films that are otherwise quite bad or uninspired despite containing all they need: the "Christian" tag in the marketing field. Thus, he reads a few silly reviews that celebrate Hangman's Curse for being good actually. Melvin, Dan, and Melanie spend time talking about the positive and negative critical phrase, "It is/isn't realistic." and how that's sort of a silly criticism at times for movies, which aren't real to begin with. Unlike Dan's DVD which arrived barely intact, and Melanie's DVD which was new, Melvin's DVD of Hangman's Curse arrived with an official devotional partnered with the film specific for youth small groups for Christians and non-Christians alike. He summarized interesting parts into a few points. The devotional occasionally references scripture, which Melvin summarizes to save time. In addition to scripture, the angle of the Devotional is very "Assemblies of God", which means it focuses heavy on "words of death" and "words of life", among other nuanced AG Pentacostal ideologies. Daniel shares further insight here. Due to the film's subject matter, the official devotional talks about topics like bullying and suicide. Our discussion cautions heavily against what's included. Unlike the film, the devotional sure has a climax that leaves each member flabbergasted.Christian movies and stories created to be used as "ice breakers" for small groups often don't turn out very well, and at other times end up causing more damage in their depictions of various difficult topics. Ultimately, nothing competes with a genuine relationship cultivated to foster healthy discussion. SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE: 988Recommendations: Spy x Family (Show)The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) (Movie)Bring It On: Cheer or Die (2022) (Movie)Support the showSupport on Patreon for Unique Perks! Early access to uncut episodes Vote on a movie/show we review Social Links: Twitter Website Facebook Group

PATREON MOVIE DISCUSSION: This movie was selected by our Patreon Supporters over at the Cinematic Doctrine Patreon. Support as little as $3 a month and have your voice heard!  Frank Peretti's Hangman's Curse was the first of his books to finally reach the silver screen, and Melanie Dejesus from Melvin's church joins him and Daniel on this first of two episodes where the three work through this weird amalgamation of teen scream and early 2000's "cool" Christian media.  Topics: (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 33-minute discussion of "cool" Christian media, the mid-90s to mid-00's craze of music, clothing, and all things "cool" in the western Christian world (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) Melvin proposes, since no one on the planet has seen Hangman's Curse other than Melvin' sister, that the three detail the entirety of the film from start to finish. Daniel, a self-described Frank Peretti novel-fan, details Peretti's style and talent when it comes to literature. Melvin starts describing the opening 5-minutes of the film and all three members of the show levy criticisms. Melvin also confesses that, technically speaking, Hangman's Curse is the first horror movie he remembers watching... and scaring him as a kid. The faith-based Christian theming in the film is extremely awkward and often surprising as it's almost never-expected.One can practically feel Hangman's Curse pleading to have something horrific, shocking, dramatic, or scary happen on screen, anything to bring some life to an otherwise sluggishly paced snooze-fest.As the film continued, a lightbulb went off over Daniel's head, "Wait a minute... this should have been a TV-Show!"Hangman's Curse would have been benefitted by the Hollywood "Christianity" flair of gadgets with crucifixes, weird prayers for protection, the sort of thing we're used to with the Conjuring Universe.Frank Peretti plays a full-fledged non-cameo character in Hangman's Curse, a performance that is, at the very least, memorable.Coming in at 106 minutes, Hangman's Curse truly pushes the boundaries of patience, while also including many scenes that are obvious chaff. What's nearly 2 hours could have been a 45-minute TV-Special.Passively, the Assemblies of God influence of the film is apparent through its depiction and development of the "goth" subculture within the narrative, including a few other nods and references that otherwise might be missed.SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE: 988Recommendations: Spy x Family (Show)The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) (Movie)Bring It On: Cheer or Die (2022) (Movie)Support the showSupport on Patreon for Unique Perks! Early access to uncut episodes Vote on a movie/show we review Social Links: Twitter Website Facebook Group

Subscribe today for access to our full catalog of bonus episodes, including 2+ new episodes every month! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy This October, we once again strive to guide you down the righteous path by exposing you to wholesome media that still satisfies the natural human fascination with the macabre. First up? Edward Furlong (Terminator 2, Detroit Rock City, etc.) stars in the film adaptation of THE VISITATION, a book by preeminent Christian supernatural fiction author Frank Peretti. Any appreciator of Christian pop culture should know about Peretti, whose thrillers have lined the shelves of many a church library from the 80s onward. It's obvious that Peretti sees his work as cinematic, since he takes a great interest in film adaptations of his books. He's co-produced, co-written, and even acted in films such as HANGMAN'S CURSE (2004), another Peretti-sourced story which we've previously covered on our show. THE VISITATION takes advantage of Edward Furlong's charmingly creepy drawl by casting him as a mysterious small town stranger named Brandon who stuns the community by performing Christlike signs and miracles. But as Dark Brandon's disturbing motivations unfold, it becomes clear that his power comes not from God — but from a force far, far more sinister. View our full episode list and subscribe to any of our public feeds: http://boysbiblestudy.com Unlock 2+ bonus episodes per month: http://patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Subscribe to our Twitch for monthly streams: http://twitch.tv/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/boysbiblestudy

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE PULL EPISODE, GO TO patreon.com/worstofall   Ashleigh Stoneman (The Very Worst, The Merry Worst) returns to the pod to help the lads tackle two disastrous attempts by evangelicals to cover the subject of abortion: Odyssey's infamous lost episode “Pamela Has a Problem” and Frank Peretti's should-have-been-lost radio drama “Tilly”. Topics include the hubris of Paul McCusker, the brain worms of Frank Peretti, and the path forward as America becomes increasingly hostile towards access to basic healthcare.   Episodes discussed: Tilly (Focus on the Family Drama 4) Pamela Has a Problem (Adventures in Odyssey episode 134)   Ashleigh's Socials: Twitter: @AshStoneman Instagram: @ashstoneman   Abortion Funds You Can Donate To Right Now: National Network of Abortion Funds Alabama: Yellowhammer Fund Arizona: Abortion Fund of Arizona Kentucky: Kentucky Health Justice Network Louisiana: New Orleans Abortion Fund North Dakota: North Dakota Women in Need Abortion Access Fund South Dakota: South Dakota Access for Every Woman Idaho: Northwest Abortion Access Fund (Also Serves Alaska, Oregon, and Washington) Michigan: Reclaim MI WIN Fund Mississippi: Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund Missouri: Missouri Abortion Fund Tennessee: Abortion Care for Tennessee Texas: Texas Equal Access Fund Utah: Utah Abortion Fund Wyoming: Chelsea's Fund   TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll   Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com   Media Referenced in the Episode: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-studyhttps://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/later-abortion  

What if you could see the state of someone's soul, know their inner truth and detect their every lie? Zeke Jackson is a mild-mannered reporter with a checkered past who discovers he has such an ability. Is it demonic or divine? The CIA classifies him as a touch-enabled psychometric. Zeke doesn't do psychic. The CIA doesn't care where he gets the power. They've been experimenting with psychics for decades. Zeke has choices: he can ignore his power and live a normal life, milk it for fame and fortune, or risk everything and use his ability to uncover assassination and terror plots for God and country. A faith based supernatural thriller with a little bit of Stephen King, a splash of Jack Ryan, and a dash of Frank Peretti. Listen in as we begin our month of showcasing Christian authors who write dark fiction starting with Dante Lupinetti. Tune in by dialing 646-668-8485. Listen to PJC Media on podcast platforms everywhere. Or, click on the link here: http://tobtr.com/s/12151974.

0 (0s): Church worship this morning. God, we're grateful to be in your house. We thank you that we can lift your name. There's no, our, 1 (3m 4s): Our, our thank 0 (4m 2s): You that 1 (4m 3s): You're here. 0 (4m 10s): I'm on the God of 1 (4m 16s): Jacob's 0 (4m 19s): And oh God, my God, you things are I'm 2 (6m 6s): But I've got 1 (6m 18s): You. Oh 0 (6m 36s): God, my God. Oh God, my God need 2 (7m 15s): Heard your, you hear your children. Now you are the same guide. You are the same guide. You answered prayers back then any you'll answer. Now you are the same guide. You are the same God 1 (7m 42s): You're providing 0 (7m 44s): Men. 1 (7m 45s): You're providing 0 (7m 49s): You're the 1 (7m 50s): Same God, you're the God, 0 (7m 58s): God 1 (7m 59s): Moving power. 0 (8m 1s): Now 1 (8m 2s): You 0 (8m 2s): Are the same. 1 (8m 4s): God, you 0 (8m 5s): Are the same. 1 (8m 7s): God, you are heal. You are the you, 0 (8m 19s): The, 1 (8m 21s): You 0 (8m 23s): Save. 1 (8m 25s): You're save you. God, you, I, 2 (9m 54s): You free the can is then you are freeing hearts right now. You are the same God, you are the same. God, you touch the, feel your touch, right? You are the saying the I'm dear river, 3 (11m 25s): Holy spirit and, and, and dying and so dark. And what is going on in this world? Spirit within this flow untouchable, the hearts of 5 (12m 1s): Lord knows and there's power to, 4 (13m 38s): I have been by the grace of God. I have been raised, do a future without I eyes on a true in loyal friend. The one whose life I'm hidden. The 1 (14m 15s): Love 4 (14m 19s): Us, you for us, Jesus of, oh, 1 (14m 52s): In the family of my God will be named when the saints go marching on he to the glory who glory is people shouting victory through generations. 1 (16m 31s): Jesus, Jesus, Jesus love she's 6 (17m 20s): Lord. We honor you this morning. God, we just invite your presence here. Jesus. We ask that you do what you want to do this morning. God, we are submitted to you. God, we are absolutely desperate without you, Lord. We look at the world around us and we know that your only hope so God just, I just asked that you'd fill this place that you'd fill each heart. Fill each mind, Lord that you would align us to your spirit, that you would align us in ways that we've come off. Course Lord, in our mind, in our, our hearts, God just align us to yourself. And we just ask that we would be faithful and that we would be obedient to, to listen to you. Jesus, we love you so much. 6 (18m 0s): We just wanna honor you this morning in Jesus name. Amen. All right. If you'll take your seats, that would be great. Eight. And also if there's some seats around you, we've got some people in the back that are coming in that still need to be seated. So if you want to come up, if you've got like a couple seats around you, you can raise your hand. We've got some seats down here. Yeah. So just filter in. Don't be shy. So I just wanna welcome you all to harvest church. We're glad to have you here. Oh, if you wanna sit on the front row, there's some spots up here too. Yeah. It's great to have you here. I'm Curtis. And just wanna extend a special welcome to you. If you are new here for the first time, just wanna let you know that there's an info center at the back. 6 (18m 43s): There's a really beautiful woman Manning the info center. She's my, my wife. So she'll take good care of you. 7 (18m 51s): Yeah. 6 (18m 55s): We just got married. That's why that's yeah, we don't. That doesn't happen every time, but I'm expecting it from now on. So Yeah. So we've also got coffee out on the patio there and then bathrooms down these hallways. You'll see the signs there. That'll lead you right to 'em. We've got a few things coming up. The first thing is the Bonko for the baby's event. This is really special because the whole purpose of it is to bless lifeline pregnancy center. We've supported them for a long time. And so this is another great opportunity to do that. The registration for the event you'll need a sign up online or at the info center, but the registration is bringing an item to donate to lifeline. 6 (19m 36s): So it's gonna be a big blessing for them and for a lot of moms and young, unexpected pregnancies in the area, we just wanna bless them. So if you want more information on that, head back to the info center, that's gonna be on September 30th. Also we have our harvest festival parade outreach this every yeah, the last few years we haven't had it. The harvest festival has not been here and we thought it might never return, but here it is. And we're stoked about it. So we are gonna be handing out balloons and free waters to people coming up and down grand just to bless them, make a connection with them. And yeah. So if you wanna be a part of that, you can also sign up at the info center. 6 (20m 16s): And then just one more thing. We've got a new life group that's joining on a little bit late, but it's gonna be amazing. Dr. Stacy Harmon is leading this life group and it's about Christian ethics. He's a medical doctor. He's got great insight to these things and it's gonna be on Thursday. So if you want more information, you wanna sign up for that. You can head back to the info center. We'd really encourage you to do that. So now we're gonna just get up and meet somebody you haven't met before fifth and sixth grade is gonna be released at this time. But junior high and high school are gonna be in cuz Jeremy's gonna be preaching this morning. So let's get up and mingle and Jeremy be back in just a minute. 9 (23m 34s): All right. Well good morning, everyone. Welcome. Welcome. I love it. Y'all rowdy this morning. Huh? That's great. Yeah, it was a surprise to see. First service was really rowdy as well. I don't know if it's the weather or what, what it is, but glad to see you guys awake as well. It's gonna be a great message. Pastor. Steve had a vacation this week and so he was gone. And so he asked me to come up and teach today and, and I showed him my outline earlier in the week. And he said, that sounds like it's a two-parter. 9 (24m 14s): So this, this will probably, well, this is going to extend into next week. So instead of one week, he got me two weeks. Sorry about that. Steve will be back after that. But my name is Jeremy. I'm the youth and family pastor. Hence the youth are staying in service. I'm glad to have them here. I, I realized the weight of, of today. I remember what I was doing 21 years ago. It was my college roommate's birthday and the phone was ringing off the hook. We, we, we thought that she was simply just trying to get ahold of him to wish him a happy birthday. When he finally picked up the, the phone and the kind that was attached to the wall, or we, we realized that the world had changed. 9 (25m 1s): And I spent that day with eight of my other college roommates staring at the TV, wondering how this would change the, our, what would this would change. And it did our, our, our world. Our nation has not been the same ever since on that day, the twin towers were attacked using our own commercial aircraft. The Pentagon was attacked and then flight 91 crashed in a field because of some brave men and women who decided they were gonna sacrifice their lives to bring that, that plane down to field and not into our capital building or into the white house. 9 (25m 46s): So that would start all this, this, this morning and with a, with just a moment of silence, as we, as we remember the, the brave men and women who rushed into those buildings that were on fire, the brave women, men, and women that stopped the airplanes from going where they were intended. We can remember them right now. 9 (26m 25s): Well, we thank you for the sacrifice those men and women paid to at least attempt the saving of li other lives. Lord, we think of that day that our world changed forever. When over 3000 people on American saw were, were, were killed because of the acts of a, a few evil people and how that's marked our world ever since Lord, where we thank you for those brave men and women that that kept evil at bay. 9 (27m 8s): We remember them now, Lord and Lord. Ultimately, we look to you, Jesus, because you, by your death and given of your life gave us freedoms in ways that we do not deserve Lord. So Lord, thank you for this morning, pray that we would open up your word and, and receive some truth. Lord Jesus made me pray. Amen. So we're taking a break, a short break from Peter this morning, and we're gonna look at, and we're gonna get ready for some verses that are to come in. 9 (27m 48s): Peter and that's maybe today is a little bit of a warmup for that, a little bit of, of getting ahead of the curve, but I'm gonna, I am gonna recommend that you get a note card out. I'm gonna be thrown out a lot of verses for you to mole over this week. Some passages to write down, to think through. And I want you to be like the BES and acts 17. You see the BES, Paul praises them because they heard what Paul had to speak. They heard Paul preach and then they went home and they searched the scriptures themselves. So some of the things I might say this morning might be new to you. 9 (28m 29s): It might be a little strange. And so I'm gonna encourage you to take what I have to say. Don't just take it from my word. Look at the scriptures. Look at these passages, look at our culture and we'll go from there. I also wanna do recommend that this, that there is some mature content in this morning's message. So I've tried to keep it a junior high level and above, but it, there will be a little bit of mature content, but I've labeled this message as the veil is getting thinner, you know, and when they unveil a new car, any car fans out there, you either go to the shows or, or, or, or you watch online and, and, and they're gonna be showing this new car. 9 (29m 10s): And so they have this veil covering the car, and then they, they say like, like the Tesla, the cyber truck, they pulled back the veil on that thing. And you're like, oh, what is this thing? It's, it's, it's it's crazy. Or that veil that was on my 13th, I think it was my 13th birthday bike. You see, I was getting into mountain biking and the Kmart huffy white Hawk was no longer doing the job. And I really, really wanted this Bianchi NA bike, but it was a little bit out. My, it was outta my price range and a little bit stretched to budget for my parents. 9 (29m 50s): And so that morning I woke up and there there's my birthday present. It's underneath this sheet. My parents had put a sheet over it and I'm like, oh man, is it gonna be another K-Mart bike? Or is it gonna be the Italian stallion, the Bianchi Nala? And because the sheet was thick, I couldn't see through it. But then my parents, they pulled it back and there was my dream bike, the Bianchi Nala, which I have some good, painful stories to tell on that bike. But had that sheet been any thinner I could have seen right through it. And I wouldn't have need to that veil wouldn't have need to be pulled back. I would've just known what it was. And I believe that in our culture, we're, we're, we're starting to see that the veil is getting thinner. 9 (30m 32s): We're starting to see a mixing of strange, strange things, a mixing between the natural and the supernatural in, in ways that steams like strange bed bedfellows, you know, movies. We think about when movies first came out and even movies in my childhood have changed a lot to movies. Now you think about all the supernatural movies that are coming out, you can think of even child children, children's movies like Moana. Right? Great movie. I was, I, I enjoy watching that, but what is it about it's about a demigod, a half band, half God being who comes and rescues the world, or he stole something. 9 (31m 16s): He guys put it back, or you look at the Marvel movies and how intense they're getting and how much superpower, superhuman strength. These, these things are being given. And, and it's, it's, it's getting strange to me. Our culture is being warmed up to the fact of this supernatural. And that makes sense because as we get closer and closer to the second coming of Christ, things will get more warmed up and more warmed up. The veil will become thinner and thinner. If you think about revelation, chapter 11, and that's maybe a verse to go back and or chapter to go back and look at revelation, chapter 11, we have the two witnesses in Jerusalem at the temple. And these two Jerusalem, these two witnesses were given the power that if anyone wanted to attack them, fire can come out of their mouth. 9 (32m 4s): They're given power over the water that they can either cause droughts or they can cause the water to turn to blood. That's weird. How do we go from right now where we're at in our culture, in our world to that to two men who can have fire come out of their mouth and not bat an eye, the world, doesn't take that into account the world. Doesn't like, oh my goodness, people gonna shoot fire mouth and, and, and repent. Or what about revelation 14 where there's three different angels flying in the, in the, in the heavens and the skies proclaiming different messages. And the world seems they turn a deaf ear to it. 9 (32m 47s): They're proclaiming the gospel. They're proclaiming the watch out for the mark of the beast. And yet the world's still marching the same way. How do we get to that place in the future? Where the people can be. So insensitives to these angels flying in the heavens. And that's because I think over the centuries, we've lost our supernatural biblical worldview, right? We think of angels and demons, but really Those are just cartoons, right? Those are those little things on the shoulders that get like speak into our ears. Is that really what angels and demons are? 9 (33m 28s): Or what about my friend's house? Who his mom had these chubby baby angels everywhere. Nothing to be fair. They were plastered everywhere in their house. Really cute, but I don't think that's a biblical angel. I don't see that picture and think, oh my goodness. And, and, and wanna fall down and this, whoa, I'm not, I shouldn't be here. The Shepherd's out in the field when that single angel comes to proclaim them a message. They all were just fallen down with fear. And the angels have to say, don't worry, don't fear. So much of our worldview right now is spent trying to explain everything naturally that we've lost the ability to understand and see what's the world around us. 9 (34m 15s): And as Christians, we're called to be a light to a broken world. And so how do we look at the world around us and bring the gospel? We see weird things are happening, weird things are happening. One of my favorite places growing up as a kid was the Woodlake hardware store. And it had a long history of being there. And I've, I, I think the employees must have thought we were CRA. We would go there days on end and just wander the aisles, just to look at every knife, every BB gun, every, every rope, every, just we as a kid. 9 (34m 55s): And I still do. I still do this every day. I walk into a hardware store. I just kind of catalog in my mind where things are at, if the, okay, if the faucet home breaks, this is where I can go to get that part. I just, I love wandering the aisles of hardware stores. And in a way I feel like that's kind of what I'm doing now is, is you look at culture and you start to pick up clues. Like what, how does this fit in with, with the Bible? What about this? Why is our government releasing data on UFO sightings by our military government report admits true UFOs. Aren't manmade. That's weird. 9 (35m 38s): That's weird that these, these airplane pilots, these military airplane pilots are reporting these things that, that forest surpass anything, any speed that we're capable of as humans, anything, any technology that we've ever made, and the ability for these, these crafts to be traveling super fast and then make these right hand turns out of nowhere without slowing down without curving, without any. And then these CRE they've they've reported in some of these, these reports that these crafts have either flown above, or they go under the water into the ocean. They're just, they're just, we it's weird. If you really dig into these things, how does that fit in with the Bible? 9 (36m 19s): Or what about stories of, of people who've come back from near death experiences? You know, those experience, those, those times where somebody dies on a ho operating operating table, either from a heart attack or something, and they report going to someplace and seeing something or having an out of body experience, Or what about those? Like those, those stories where people seem to come out of their body, hover over their body, hover over the operating table while their people are working on them, operate, look around in the room. They're, they're witnessing all these things going on to their own body, but yet their soul is detached. And yet, while their soul is attached, people have come back and reported that they've can remember, or they can retell the serial numbers on the back of the machines that were in that operating table or operating room knowledge that they had no prior understanding beforehand. 9 (37m 12s): Or what about the person that came back from this near death experience, this death, where they, their heart rate was dead and they came back and they said, well, I saw sh there's these shoes up on the hospital. There's so there's certain colored shoes up on the top of the hospital. How, how do we explain that as Christians strange? What if you encounter someone on the street who says that they've lived three previous lives and they can explain those things in detail and they explain in a way that's very historically accurate. Are they outta their mind? See, I think the Bible, I think we have a way in our Bible of explaining these things and that's what I want to kind of get at. 9 (37m 57s): But those are strange things out in the world. What about the strange things in the Bible? There's some strange passages in the Bible. Yes. Let's look at a few. And these are maybe just, we're just gonna, I'm just gonna highlight a few, throw a few at you kinda like spaghetti on the wall. Look at Genesis chapter six, when you get home, write that down. Genesis chapter six. And we're gonna break that down just a little bit more later on Genesis chapter six caused about talks about the sons of God and the NELI, the giants, the mighty men. That's strange Daniel chapter three talks about a hand of God coming and writing on the wall. 9 (38m 38s): And it wrote me. Faron was Daniel chapter three, Daniel chapter 10 has these dueling superpowers in the heavens that Daniel started praying. And for 21 days, he kept praying and fasting, praying, and fasting. And he got no answer from God until an angel finally came and said, I was held up by the prince of the kingdom of Persia in the heavens. And it wasn't until Michael, the arc angel came and released me fought against that superpower, that king kingdom, prince of the kingdom of Persia and released me. So I can come bring this to you now, Daniel, 10 (39m 16s): That's 9 (39m 17s): Strange. What about first King's 22, the prophet Makaya, and yawe having a council or a cohort, and then aligned spirit, a spirit coming forth and, and saying, I will be a lion spirit in the mouth of those 400 priests and Macias stood apart from that that's weird Reed, first Kings 22 this week, or then you get to sections like Psalm 82, where it's like God and his divine council Elohim stands in the council of the mighty, the L. 9 (39m 57s): And he judges amongst the El hems, the gods that's 82. Isaiah 14 is a strange one as well. Is it a, is Isaiah 14, a prophecy against a king? The king of Babylon? Or is it a prophecy against Satan? It would almost seem like both because he's talking at one point to the king of Babylon, but then another point he says that you were in the garden beforehand and you were a mighty chair up. So is he talking to the king of Babylon or is he talking to Satan? What about Ezekiel 28? Same thing, human king of tire, or is he talking about Satan? 9 (40m 37s): Then we have passages in the Bible that we so often just, just floss over like the, the, the Virgin birth of Jesus. That's a supernatural thing. What about Jesus' dealings with the demons? How, where do we categorize that? Where is that to be put? Or what if finally, about the, what about the resurrection from the dead Lazareth called out of the grave? After three days, four days, three days, he stumps. He stunk. He stunk by that time called out of the grave or Jesus. When he died the streets, they said the tombs were opened and men began to walk about the streets. 9 (41m 22s): That's weird. These things are weird, but if the Bible is strange, what about the world around us as well? Thing, weird things are happening. As we all know, science is, is, is stuck in chasing after this philosophy of the, or this theory of the big bang, the theory of how we came into bean 13.8 billion years ago, there was a sub atomic particle and it blew up. And then this whole world came into, into be well, right now in se Switzerland is one of the largest machines in the world. 9 (42m 3s): It's called the large Hadron Collider. It's a sub sub atomic Parto particle Collider. And what it is, it's a 17 mile tunnel underneath the ground, about 300 feet under the ground. And it shoots out subatomic particles at near the speed of light. And these, these particles that what they're trying to find is how the universe was created. So they're trying to figure out how these things collided and how the big bang happened. Okay, They're looking for this, God particle the Boston Higgs particle, but strange things are there because it's not just science. You see, in between those buildings, you can find a bronze sculpture of the Hindu God Shiva, the Hindu God of destruction. 9 (42m 53s): And that is said, that is balancing unifies, ancient mythology, religious art, and modern physics. Why do you need a picture or a depiction of the Hindu God Shiva in the middle of a very, the world's biggest science experiment, where the scientists are saying that weird things are apparitions are happening as their, as these particles are colliding. In fact, there's many atheist scientists that were, that were calling up great warnings. We do not know what we're doing by colliding these things. One of those guys names is Neil Tyson. Degos another was Steven Hawking. 9 (43m 34s): They're like we are messing with things with forces, with powers, with things that we do not know, but going back to that, That sculpture, why, why have a sculpture of the Hindu God Shiva? This is what a postdoc student working there. His name is Aiden Randall Conde. He wrote this speaking about that statue. So in the light of day, when CERN is teaming with life, Sheva seems playable reminding us that the universe is constantly shaking things up and remaking itself and is never static. But by night, when we have more times to contemplate the deeper questions, Sheva literally cast a long shadow over our work. 9 (44m 17s): A bit like the shadows on Plato's cave. Sheva reminds me that when that we still don't know the answer to one of the LAR the, the biggest questions presented by the universe. And then every time we collide the beams, we must take the cosmic balance sheet into account. They're looking for something beyond science and they're finding it. What about if that is looking at the most ultimate, smallest particle and trying to find the origins of that? What about the, the galaxies recently, we just launched the James web space telescope, and it was a, it's an upgrade to Hubble. And this, this looks into the deepest universe, as farther than we, we can ever see. 9 (45m 0s): And if the images that are coming back are pretty phenomenal, but their discoveries are not matching their data or what they predicted or what they thought they would say. It's caused a lot of panic among scientists going there's things that we're witnessing or that were seen out there that we sh we, we didn't think we, we have to kind of rewrite the, go back to the drawing board in some sense, it's because there's trying to track down this big bang theory. So those are strange things. What about athleticism? What does athleticism have to do with worship? 9 (45m 41s): You see every, every two years, or it's held every four years in between the Olympics, there's this thing called the Commonwealth games. And this year was held in Britain. And at this opening ceremony, it was one of the strangest open ceremonies that you, you could ever imagine. I'd recommend going back and watching that. But here's a cl this is a, a, a still image from that Commonwealth games, athletic games. And what you see is a woman holding a fallen star. And that phone star is the way that she can then communicate with that beast. This, this bowl that is being shackled. 9 (46m 25s): At one point, the woman then gets to ride the beast. And if that doesn't give you a revelation, prophecy, it's, it's just wild, but she can communicate with the bowl because she has a fallen star. She then rides it. That's weird. Why, what does worshiping a bowl have to do anything to do with the athletic games? What about building projects? You think building a physical thing would just be just doing that, just building a physical thing. Well, in Switzerland as well, they built one of the large largest, longest tunnels in the world. 9 (47m 5s): It's called the Gohar tunnel and the Gohar tunnel as well. And the opening ceremony was one of those bizarre things you could watch in which there was a Satan, a, a literal Satan that showed up And they were dancing and worshiping this, this Satan. It goes a lot back to the, the, the history of the area, but it was it's strange. I don't recommend watching it creepy stuff. What does it have to do with building a tunnel, going back to what, what, what is our government, why is our government releasing this UFO and how the most important question is, how do we look at this from a, a biblical worldview? 9 (47m 49s): There's four different worldviews as I see it. So I made this, I made a little quadrant in the top left. You have this supernatural, a biblical worldview. So they are against the Bible. They do not believe in the Bible, but they believe in the supernatural. And those are people like that, that you would find in ancient mythology. The ancient mythology believed that there was gods and they created the worlds and they, they, they, well, you can, you can study mythology. Mythology will, will give you a supernatural, a biblical world view. 10 (48m 30s): It's 9 (48m 31s): Strange that even scientists are starting to head in that direction. Richard ha Richard Dawkins. One of the, a staunch atheist is now looked at the probability and, and more, more research that comes out about the, about our world that we know, and the probability that life could not happen without some outside force now says that he believes that aliens might have seated the, our, our race here on the world, because he's not willing to believe in a God, Jesus. He has to go and believe that maybe aliens seated our planet. So that's strange, but in the bottom left the naturals, a biblical world, you would, you would have your, a, your evolutionary believers that things have always continued as they were. 9 (49m 15s): Nothing's really changed. There's no God to just dance to your DNA down at the bottom, right? We have men like Charles Darwin who had a, who held a degree in theology. He tried to have a biblical worldview, but he looked around and tried to make it like it was a natural progression up on the top, right? As I, I believe the view of the, of the biblical authors and the view, I'm trying to steer us towards the supernatural biblical world view. And often that starts right in the beginning of the Bible, Genesis one through 11 Genesis, one through 11, not viewed as poetic, not a story, but a literal account of the things that happen. 9 (50m 7s): How did Jesus view Genesis? And I would question you, do you have the same view of Genesis that Jesus did see our biblical worldview includes this supernatural, like things like God calling into the universe, calling the world and universe into existence, created from nothing bar, nothing. And our biblical supernatural worldview hinges on two passages. The first I'd like to go to is Genesis three, Genesis three. And if you look at Genesis three, we'll look at 4, 3, 14 and 15 God handing out the consequences of the fall to the serpent. 9 (51m 2s): He says, because you have done this, you are cursed more than the cattle and more than every beast of the field and on your bell, you shall go and you shall eat of the dust all the days of your life. And I will put nity between you and the woman between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. So in the same way that Isaiah 14 talks about a human king, but also Satan, who's controlling that human king the same way as Ezekiel has talked about another human king, that's being controlled by Satan. God is now addressing first, the serpent and then the power behind the serpent. 9 (51m 46s): So addressing the power behind the servant, he's talking about a cosmic battle that is to come. I will put enmity. I will put war between you, between the serpent between Satan, between you Satan and the woman between your seed Satan and between her seed. He shall bruise your head. So the coming Messiah shall bruise your head, serpent, Satan, but you shall be allowed to bruise his heel. That is the first message of the gospel. It's called the proto Evangelion, the first message of the coming Messiah. 9 (52m 27s): And that was the start of the cosmic battle between the seed of the woman and the seed of Satan. Now, as time goes on, we've come to another big event in the Genesis narrative. And that is found in Genesis chapter six, after giving the genealogy in Genesis chapter five, the Tola dot of Adam. We now come to this strange passage in Genesis six, about a worldwide flood and the need for it. And the flood was accepted up until the mid 18th century. 9 (53m 8s): It was a man by the name of George Von, who, who then looked at the world. And he said, well, things have always consisted. And they began to weed out that a global flood happened and they began to explain, like, things have always just continued the way it is. And so even George Beon got away from the world, a biblical worldwide flood, but going back fur further before him, the early church fathers, the biblical writers, they all believed in a worldwide flood, a global worldwide flood. Jesus himself believed in a global worldwide flood. Matthew 24 says, but of the day an hour, no one knows not even the angels in heaven, but my father only, but as the days of Noah were so also the coming of the son of man will be for as in the days before the flood, there were eating and drinking Marion and given marriage until the day that Noah entered the arc and did not know until the flood came and took him away. 9 (54m 10s): So also will be the coming of the son of man. Jesus is looking forward to some coming events, but he's using that. And he's looking back at the story of the flood as the days of Noah. He didn't say as in the days of the stories of Noah, Noah, as in the days of Noah, that's what it's gonna be like before my second coming Luke 17, he also says this as well as it was in the days of Noah. So it'll also be in the days of the son of man, they ate, they drank, they married wives and were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the arc and the flood came and destroyed them all. 9 (54m 50s): If it was a regional flood, God could have just told Noah to move your family out of the area. I'm gonna flood the area there's wickedness there, but God didn't, God had him put into a safe place, had him made an arc. The only way of salvation in an arc that would then float above the waters during this time of global upheaval in which all were destroyed. So that's what Jesus believed. What do you believe? Genesis six is one of the strangest verses in the Bible chapters in the Bible, Genesis six, read the, we will read through one through four. 9 (55m 42s): We'll spend some time breaking it down a little bit this week, and maybe next week as well, Genesis chapter six, one through four says in now it came to pass. When men began to multiply on the face of the earth and the daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever free is indeed flesh. Yet his days shall be 120 years and there were giants or Neelum on the earth in those days. And also afterwards, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them, those were the mighty men of old men of renowned, strange verses might be about the strangest verses in the whole Bible. 9 (56m 34s): So we have to ask ourselves who is this group of beans, who is the sons of God? And I'll tell you there's been three major theories throughout 10 (56m 47s): Christianity. 9 (56m 51s): First is that they're fallen angels. The second theory is that their royalty that their, they took multiple wives and had hers. The third theory is the, is the Sethy theory theory. And that there's the descendants of the lineage of Seth marrying with the ungodly lineage. Those are the three main theories, but I'm not interested in theories. I wanna know what the Bible has to say. That's where we look at hermeneutics, the study and the art of interpreting the Bible. The most important is that scripture always interprets scripture. 9 (57m 31s): So we have to go and we have to look at where else this phrase, sons of God is, is used in the old Testament twice. It's used here in Genesis six, and then twice more it's used in the book of job. So job chapter one, verse six, he says that there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came with them. Also, we know that job was brought up in that conversation. God said, look down at my people. And they found job as an excellent man. Once again, they, they, they corral back up job chapter two, verse one. And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them to prevent, present himself before the Lord. 9 (58m 22s): So we see that these sons of God come in a way to God, they're able to present themselves. And it says that strangely, that Satan came also. So you look at other passages of scripture and you see that Satan was a fallen angel as well. And so here we have a little, a little bit of knowledge, but let's look at job chapter 38. This is the last time it's used. God is then questioning job in job chapter 38, Joe job, you know, struggling with why he's doing all this. Why, why is all happening to him? 9 (59m 4s): And God begins to then ask questions to job. In, in this section in chapter verse six and seven, he's asking, asking them specific questions about creation. So in verse seven, he says, what are when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, Joe were there when the, the stars sang together. When I created the world and the stars began to sing. And it's, and, and were you there when all the sons of God shouted for joy? So we see that the sons of God, and this, this section are used as angelic beans, divine beans that were there witnessing the creation of the universe. 9 (59m 46s): And they were there shouting for joy. So what we deduce from those passages and that is that the sons of God actually refers to angels. In Genesis six case. We look at the sons of God, refers to fallen angels, and we'll get to that in a bit. This whole thing about the sons of God becoming, becoming were descendants of Seth was a, a later theory in the early church, the early church always all believed that the sons of God were angels or angelic beans. But that then that the, that, that theory that the sons of God were the descends of Seth was introduced by Julius Africanists and later codified into the Catholic church by St. 9 (1h 0m 35s): Augustine, they took a natural biblical worldview. Now I know there's some pushback on this fallen angels theory in that, you know, there's a passage in mark chapter 12, when Jesus is talking about what the resurrection will be like, remember the stages he were arguing about, well, you know, Jesus, this, this brother dies. And the, his, his wife has to marry the next brother and that brother dies. And the wife has married her. He goes down, which, which husband is, is she gonna be married to in heaven? And so Jesus answered mark 12 and says for when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven. 9 (1h 1m 21s): And see that's the angels in heaven. Doesn't say they cannot, but what, they don't see the angels in heaven, obey God, the fallen angels have left their place. And I have new Testament evidence for that as well. See, we pray in our Lord's prayer Lords here on earth. Like it is in heaven in heaven. God has his will. God has his way, but here on earth, we're praying. And we're called to give the gospel. We're called to pray that God's will be done here on earth. There's also some pushback because Genesis chapter six, when the new king James says, they took wives for themselves, it actually should be more like took women for themselves Because that word in the Hebrew word, that word Esau, it could be for a woman married or single. 9 (1h 2m 14s): So these sons of God took and that it took is a euphemism for sex. It's that same Herman word. You can study. Humanics. Judah took his wife, took his sister Tamar as in, he raped her. These angels left their place and they took women for themselves. That's weird stuff. So why do we need to know this? And you're probably asking me that question. Why do we need to know this? Why are you bringing this up? Because we're gonna be coming up on some strange verses in the new Testament, some strange ones coming up in first, Peter, and then in Jude, I love Steve pastor. 9 (1h 2m 59s): Steve. He's been, we've been working our way through, through the new Testament and we're in we're normally we've been in first, Peter, and we're gonna get come to these verses. In fact, first Peter three, we can look that up first, Peter three 18 through 21 says for Jesus also suffered once for all sins, the jest for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the spirits by whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison who were formally disobedient when once the divine long suffering waited in the days of Noah while the arc was being prepared in that, which a few that is eight souls were saved through water. 9 (1h 3m 43s): You look at 20 verse 21 is a strange one as well. There is also an anti type, which now saves us baptism, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but an answer of a good conscience towards God through the resurrection of Jesus. So the question is in first, Peter three, who are these spirits that were held in prison? We know they were disobedient when the divine long suffering Waited in the days of no. While the arc was being prepared, those 120 years that God said, my, I will not strive with man for this. I'm gonna put a limit to his days that wasn't a limit of years of life because their Abraham lived longer than 120 years, but it was the limit that God would put on the way that humanity was headed in 120 years, God said, I'm gonna bring the global worldwide flood. 9 (1h 4m 37s): And the only people saved would be those aboard the arc. So God had divine patience, divine long suffering, while he was waiting for Noah to complete the arc that his Noah and his family who were perfect, who had good DNA waiting for them to be saved. And there was only one way of salvation during the flood. And that was on the arc. What about second Peter chapter two verses four and five. It says for God, do not spare the angels who sin, but cast them down to and deliver them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment. 9 (1h 5m 22s): And he did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah. One of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly. So God sent a global worldwide flood and only saved Noah and his one of eight people. But before that, there were angels who sinned. Well, who were those angels who sinned. Those were those angels from Genesis chapter six that took women for themselves. They deliver them in a special place of chains and darkness to reserve for judgment. What about Jude chapter one, verse six or Jude six, cuz there's only one chapter, right? 9 (1h 6m 6s): Jude six says the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode. He has reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness for the judgment of the great day, those angels who left their proper domain, the angels, the sons of God who came in and took women, thereby creating a superhuman race, giving us the myth, the legends that we have in Greek mythology, Roman mythology, strange things, but it's biblical. 9 (1h 6m 54s): Now next week, I'm gonna get into the difference between angels and demons because there's very, very difference. It's a big difference and what I didn't do first service, but maybe I'll try this service is, is, is there any questions so far? I I'll be open to a couple questions. I know we're a little bit over time, but are they, is anything just pressing so far that I've said Things to study. I want you to take these things home to study. Don't just take my word for it. Go and study these things. But I think there's, if there we are wrestling, not against flesh and blood is what Paul said. 9 (1h 7m 38s): And that's why God is talks about Ephesians. Why God gives Paul the instructions that put on our full armor of God. And as I look at the full armor of God, I always, I always question, maybe you have to the boots. Why does somebody's feet need to be shawed with the preparation of the gospel of peace as a Roman soldier would put all their armor on as they're ready to go out to battle. They've been trained, they've been prepared. They would put on their last thing. They put on their boots. Boots. Things seems to be a strange thing for me in my mind that that Paul had mentioned. But then once you begin to learn what boots are to the Roman soldier, you learn that these boots not only had protection had covering, they had these two inch spikes in the bottom. 9 (1h 8m 23s): And that was, if you were in town, if you were like in your, in a parade, you'd wear these boots that had two inch spikes in the soul. But when going to battle, you would wear these spike. These spikes, your shoes that have were up to six inches long. And that's because the Roman soldiers viewed their, their shoes as a weapon. It was offensive thing because the Roman soldiers wanted to be, they knew they had to be hand to hand tight combat. They had shorter swords so they could swing them easier. They wanted to be up close in person. And one of the things they want on the tactics that they want to do to their enemies is they want to knock 'em to the ground. And then you just take a spiked boot right into their body. 9 (1h 9m 7s): To us. We hear the, the, the preparation of the gospel piece. That sounds so nice to us. Oh, wow. Yeah. I want to, I want my feet to be beautiful, like up on the mountains, like Isaiah talks about, but you have to remember from the perspective of the enemy, when we have our feet, shawed with a preparation of the gospel, peace that's peace to us and we wanna bring peace to others, but that peace comes at a cost to the enemy. The enemy know what that means and saying. So we have an enemy, Like Elijah said, when he, when he looked at his servant, a servant came in, gave him a report, oh, we're surrounded by the armies. Elijah's like, oh Lord, open his eyes. 9 (1h 9m 48s): Let him look up. And he saw above him a multitude of the heavenly host, just waiting to go to battle lately. I just finished the book, the pie in this darkness by Frank Peretti and this pastor who was just on his knees and prayer and the, and the, the damage, the, the darkness that was unfolding on the town, around him. As I wonder what that darkness is in the spiritual realm, around our church, around our community. Right now we need people who know what they're headed, the kind of battle that they're headed into and are prepared for that. So the more we know about our enemy, the more we can be prepared to fight that fight. 9 (1h 10m 31s): Dday was not one by sending one ship or two ships sent by rose and rows and boats and boats and lives and lives to storm that beach and to win it. It's because they knew the fortified city, the fortified beats that they're headed into and there came of cost. Next week. We're gonna jump into the difference between angels and demons and how those things influence us even now. And just as a precursor, I didn't give this to him. I'm gonna give you guys a clip of Joe Rogan next week. And I'm gonna show you how he has opened himself up to demons and how those demons are communicating with him. 9 (1h 11m 19s): That'll be next week. Let's pray, Lord. I know by your word that we are facing a battle, we are facing an enemy Lord. And there, there are people souls around us that are being held captive by the evil hosts, the evil armies, Lord, God, you have given us a, a gospel. That is good news. It is good news to us because we've believed it and we've taken it Lord, but is not good news to our enemies. 9 (1h 12m 1s): Lord, put on us the full armor of God that we may be able to fight against the wilds of the devil that we can go to battle for you. Lord, help us to understand the enemy and that what we're, what we're up against Lords. That was we, we love. And we preach the gospel to those around as family members, neighbors com people in our community, people in our schools that we can know that we are up against What you came to save and deliver from the darkness Lord. So we thank you Lord for this morning, Jesus name, we pray. 9 (1h 12m 43s): Amen. 4 (1h 13m 13s): Oh, my words, for sure. I can nothing new. How could I express? Oh my gratitude. I could sing these songs as I often do. Every song must praise you. 4 (1h 13m 58s): It, it's not much for singing. I've got, I've got one. 4 (1h 14m 54s): You and 11 (1h 15m 49s): Don't you get, I'll be lifted up lifts. Cause you got 4 (1h 15m 54s): Lie inside of those and praise the 1 (1h 16m 0s): Lord 4 (1h 16m 9s): Lift because you got my praise you again and again, he said for, 12 (1h 17m 46s): We just lay everything before you're thrown this morning and worship you, Lord, fill this with your spirit, shine through us. As we go about our week minister to our hearts, Lord, as we glorify you in Jesus name, amen.

Leah Church was an NCAA Division One basketball player for the University of North Carolina when, as she would say, she was met with the choice of basketball or Jesus. Today we hear her inspiring story of how God led her to UNC but then gave her the courage to step away when she was asked to compromise her convictions.    Leah Church Show Notes  Take the Strong Women Survey Leah's viral video of making basketball shots backwards  Choosing God Over Basketball article by the Gospel Coalition  This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti  Goliath Must Fall by Louie Giglio  Sylvia Hatchell: The Life and Basketball Legacy by Roberta Teague Herrin & Sheila Quinn Oliver  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc   Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/    The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/    Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women 

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Evil is in the world. Recent headlines are evidence. So is what happens in daily life that never makes the news. As a dad, what is your role in navigating the topic and the reality? How are you helping your son to prepare for when he encounters evil? What are things you can do to be more engaged and proactive in guiding your son? This is what unfolds in today's conversation.   Expanded Notes: Exposure to evil is going to happen. What will you do when it does? Are you willing to engage with topics for which you don't have answers or on which you're not informed? If we don't help our boys find answers, they will look elsewhere Meet your boy at the age-appropriate level for where he is  One of the best things parents can do is recognize child-sized problems Engaging your son is part of how you can protect him (from lies and misunderstanding) and prepare him (to be a warrior who will stand against evil) Resources:  Frank Peretti books: This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness Louie Giglio book: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat At Your Table Acts 16, What is our posture as men when evil is happening around us?

In the 1980s, Frank Peretti's best-selling novels about the spiritual war between angels and demons captivated evangelicals, but they also fostered a belief that anything out of step with conservative white Christianity was downright satanic. The podcast crew discuss their own experiences with Peretti's books and how they've shaped today's culture war—including a congresswoman's recent statement that Catholics helping immigrants is proof the church is run by Satan. Then, Beth Allison Barr is back one year after the release of her provocative book “The Making of Biblical Womanhood,” to discuss what she's learned from her critics as well as from her fans. And she offers pastoral advice for those struggling in patriarchal Christian communities. Plus, a family finds a tasty time capsule in their bathroom wall, and the underappreciated charms of Dubuque, Iowa. Patreon Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65967806/ News Segment 0:00 - Intro 2:24 - Dubuque travelogues 8:10 - Tasty time capsule https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-family-finds-bag-preserved-mcdonalds-food-half-century-ago-ho-rcna26252 16:49 - Fantasy novels and satanic conspiracies https://religionnews.com/2022/04/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-feuds-with-conservatives-catholics-over-satan-remarks-border-bishops-satan/https://www.vox.com/culture/23033782/frank-peretti-this-present-darkness-piercing-the-darkness-cultural-influence-moral-panic 46:56 - Patreon bonus plug https://www.patreon.com/posts/65967806/ Interview with Beth Allison Barr “The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth” book - https://amzn.to/3KNm8s0Postscript to book - http://cdn.bakerpublishinggroup.com/processed/book-resources/files/The_Making_of_Biblical_Womanhood_-_Postscript_Chapter.pdf?1650389860 47:53 - Intro 48:31 - Journey with book 55:39 - History and theology 58:58 - Untangling cultural elements in scripture 1:03:29 - Hindsight and reflection on critiques 1:12:46 - Role of social media 1:15:59 - Three FAQs https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2022/03/ideas-about-women-matter-a-resource-list-for-women-in-church-history/ 1:22:17 - Hope? 1:25:09 - Credits The Holy Post is supported by our listeners. We may earn affiliate commissions through links listed here. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Today's podcast comes from this blog review of Prophet by Frank Peretti.

Hi guys! Ricky Pope here, and today on the Christian Nerds Unite podcast I talk with Brian Godawa screen writer and author of over 15 novels in his Chronicles series of novels. Brian was also the screen writer for To End All Wars staring Kiefer Sutherland and Frank Peretti's The Visitation. Plus scripture and Nerdy News. If you want to keep up with what Brian is doing sign up for his email list at https://godawa.com/ (https://godawa.com/) Interested in Brian's Books? https://amzn.to/3LjigzY (https://amzn.to/3LjigzY) The video version is here: https://www.youtube.com/christiannerdsunite?sub_confirmation=1 (https://www.youtube.com/christiannerdsunite?sub_confirmation=1) I host my podcast with Captivate, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host™ - you can too, and get your first 7-days totally free! Clicking: https://www.captivate.fm/signup?ref=rickypope (https://www.captivate.fm/signup?ref=rickypope) My Microphone - Electro-Voice RE20: https://amzn.to/2VVg1ya (https://amzn.to/2VVg1ya) Join our Parteon: https://www.patreon.com/christiannerdsunite (https://www.patreon.com/christiannerdsunite) Some of the links are affiliate links meaning at no additional cost to you I may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac (The Tin Man) bent on killing them, they flee deep into the woods and seek refuge in a house. DirectorRobby Henson WritersTed Dekker(novel) Rob Green(screenplay) Frank Peretti(novel) StarsReynaldo Rosales Heidi Dippold Michael Madsen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gruesome-hertzogg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gruesome-hertzogg/support

Rebecca Jones's love for music began at a young age, serving behind the scenes in the events department at her church in Nashville, TN. This passion took her to Middle Tennessee State University where she graduated with a degree in Music Business.She began her career in the music industry over 15 years ago at the Gospel Music Association, followed by The MWS Group, working directly with Michael W. Smith. author Frank Peretti and Amy Grant. Her next endeavor was booking artists like Switchfoot, Lincoln Brewster and Gungor at Elite Talent Agency, where she also played a role in jump-starting the career of hip-hop artist NF.In 2015, Rebecca founded Redbird Artists Agency, where she is currently managing a roster primarily composed of independent worship leaders. In 2017, she founded Redbird Common - the first, purely CCM “writers in the round” series in the Nashville area.Rebecca's background brings with it, a wealth of knowledge and industry experience. Above all, she considers it a daily privilege to play a part in amplifying and expanding both her artists' career and the platform they serve.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today's podcast review comes from this blog review of This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti. 

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The Sinister Sisters, Felicia Lobo (@girlygorehorror) and Lauren Harris, join Josh (@boshj), Brian (@spocks_brian), A.J. (@TheFuzzyMask) to battle the forces of darkness, goths, and spiders (mostly spiders) as they face the 2003 movie adaptation of Frank Peretti's evangelical horror disaster Hangman's Curse. They discuss the power of spooky fonts, the demonic consequences of prayer in schools, and the subtle joys of being covered in spiders. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Sinister Sisters Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sinister-sisters/id1450842514 Girly Gore: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB58UzH4LMM1cydY4gb3eGA Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Cinema Verite: In this week's episode, Kelley and Julia discuss their top two movies that could be their biopics, also delving into the darkness of mental health when untreated in relation to childhood trauma. Kelley's PicksThe Wolfpack: is a documentary film about homeschooled siblings, the Angulos,  who are locked inside their Manhattan apartment and held hostage from the outside world by their father. They found the escape they needed from their reality through watching and re-enacting their favorite movies. Kelley has specific memories of her and her siblings using the same coping mechanism as the Angulo siblings; reenacting movies to escape from reality. Similar to Kelley's homeschooling experience, it did not seem as though the Angulos had a real school structure. As a result of her similar experience, Kelley has a blog dedicated to evaluating homeschooling from an analytical perspective. It is evident that isolation has an effect on socialization and is the reason the bonds between the Angulo siblings were so strong. Play acting was a way for them to pass the time and bond with each other. This coping technique was their attempt at controlling their environment through a pretend reality. The Babadook: is about a single mother, distraught over her husband's death, with a son who begins to fear a monster that is in the house. She soon discovers the Babadook for herself and can't escape it. Kelley found herself emotionally drained at the end because she realized the mom in the movie was her mom. The mom allowed the idea of the Babadook to manifest. The Babadook represents the mental illness manifesting in hers and her son's life. You can't get rid of the Babadook. Kelley's mom was just as good at creating fear. She would allow the kids to read adult, Frank Peretti books about demons fighting souls that proved to be terrifying for the kids. Even with companionship with other siblings, they were always fearful to sleep. Feared what was under the bed, closets, in the shower, cabinet, any hiding space. Julia's PicksTangled: is a Disney animation of a classic tale. Beautiful princess Rapunzel was kidnapped as a baby and trapped in a tower by Gothel. Her magical long blonde hair has the power to provide eternal youth, and the evil Gothel uses this power to keep her young. At the age of 18, Rapunzel becomes curious about the outside world, and when a prince uses her tower as a refuge, she asks him to help her escape. Julia found that the manipulation techniques used by Gothel were similar to her mom's. Like Julia's mom, Gothel made the things that Rapunzel wanted to do come across as a personal attack, using Gas lighting. Carrie: is about a quiet and sensitive teen who experiences bullying at school and abuse from her mother at home. She discovers that she has supernatural powers and gets invited to go to the prom, where things end up taking a dark turn. After watching this movie, Julia was terrified by how closely her mom and Carrie's mom resembled each other. Sex and body image was another striking similarity. Like Carrie's mom, Julia's mom considered boobs and curves to be dirty and shameful. The opening period scene was relatable due to the insensitivity of the situation. Julia shared the same despair as Carrie and had no idea what was happening. Her mom just shoved a bSupport the show (https://www.thefamilytiespodcast.com/subscribe/)

From the Story Vault: Frank Peretti is a New York Times bestselling author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction that have sold over 15 million copies and been adapted for film. A “natural storyteller,” Frank takes readers on imaginative journeys that weave together suspense and unseen worlds. Listen in as Frank shares his insights on the art of story!    

  Carrie Stuart Parks is an internationally recognised forensic artist and creator of the award winning Gwen Marcey suspense series featuring an FBI trained forensic artist who is always being thrust out of her studio into life and death action. Six things you'll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: How Carrie found her mentor through a thoughtful Christmas gift Why writing "kept her sane" in dark times The 'Don't Lie To Me' workshops that contribute to Gwen's character The two things behind Carrie's writing success How book research led her to Pentecostal serpent handlers Why she breeds Great Pyrenees Mountain Dogs Where to find Carrie Stuart Parks: Website: www.carriestuartparks.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarrieStuartParksAuthor/ For more details, a full transcript follows:  Note – this is a “close as” rendering of our full conversation with links to key points. (Not totally word for word) Jenny: Hi there: I'm your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Carrie Stuart Parks is talking about writing inspirational suspense. But before we hear from Carrie, just a reminder that the show notes for this BingeReading episode are available at the website, thejoysofbingereading.com That's where you'll find links to Carrie's website and books, as well as a free E book, and information on how to subscribe to our podcast so you don't miss future episodes. And now here's Carrie. Hello there Carrie, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Carrie: Thank you Jenny and I am absolutely thrilled to be here. Carrie Stuart Parks - thriller author Jenny:  You obviously are a very talented artist - you give forensic art workshops and you have written several how to paint and draw instruction books - so what was the “Once Upon A Time” moment or process that led you to express yourself through writing rather than through pencil and paint? Carrie: The original writing I did was for 'How To Books.' I decided I really needed to put down what I taught my students in a book rather than explain it over and over again. So I ended up doing five books with my husband Rick on how to draw and how to watercolour paint. And I thought that all I could do was write non fiction  - "here's how to sharpen your pencil." Eventually I moved over to writing novels, but it wasn't until I'd been writing non fiction books for a number of years that I ended up in this place. Jenny:  Yes and it's a very different process writing novels to writing fiction. Was there something that led you to make that jump? Carrie:  Yes, and it's a strange story!  I have a girl friend who has absolutely everything and every year I spend hours looking for the perfect Christmas gift for her. Well this one year I just couldn't find anything. So I thought maybe I'll just  write a little short story about people who go on this adventure. So I wrote this story about two gals who go on this adventure. A murder mystery kind of a thing.  And I gave it to her for Christmas.  And she'd be reading it in bed and laughing out loud and her husband said "What are you reading?" And she said "well there's this really funny short story" and she read it out loud to him.  He rang me up the next day and he said "I want to come over to your house" and I said "OK" and he came over and said "I think you have writing talent. I think you can write fiction and I am happy to teach you how to do it better." Well the gal I gave it to was Barbara Peretti, and the guy who came over was Frank Peretti (famous as the author of The Present Danger and Piercing the Darkness - editor note)  So for the next eight years the 'Dean of Christian Writing' was my personal mentor. Writing mentor Frank Peretti and Carrie Stuart Parks Jenny: Gwen is similar to you in many ways - for a start she is a forensic artist - and in other ways of course she is very different...   Tell us about those similarities and differences.