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Daily Thunder Podcast
With a passionate heart for Christian discipleship, the majesty and centrality of Jesus Christ, and the life-changing power of the Gospel, the Daily Thunder podcast is a daily teaching series from the Bible to exhort, equip, and encourage Christians down the Narrow Way of the Cross. Taught by Eric Ludy, Nathan Johnson, and other guests – now you can have a little of the Ellerslie Discipleship boom, grit, and oomph thundering daily in your earbuds.
Episodes
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877: The Core of Corinth // Soul Drift 19 (Nathan Johnson)
The ancient city of Corinth was drowning in idolatry, sexual perversion, and pride. Several years after Paul ministered in the city, he wrote a corrective…
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876: Voie Sacrée // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 29 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-ninth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores another side of…
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875: Naming Idols // Soul Drift 18 (Nathan Johnson)
Idolatry doesn’t have to be a mysterious, abstract, or elusive concept. Scripture makes it clear what idols are and if we desire to be free from them, we must…
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874: The Zone Rouge // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 28 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-eighth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the longest…
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873: Big Tough // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 27 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-seventh installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode looks at the ANZAC…
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872: The Altar of the Heart // Soul Drift 17 (Nathan Johnson)
We all have an altar in our lives upon which we continually offer sacrifices and worship—our hearts. In this message, Nathan not only discusses the key problem…
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871: The Rise of Pancho // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 26 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-sixth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explains the elaborate…
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870: Altered Altars // Soul Drift 16 (Nathan Johnson)
Altars have been used throughout history as a place to commune with God, sacrifice to Him, and worship. But altars have also been the place where idolatry is…
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869: The Ethics of Victory // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 25 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-fifth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode investigates the German…
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868: Going Over The Top // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 24 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-fourth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode unpacks the idea of…
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867: God, Garbage, or Gift // Soul Drift 15 (Nathan Johnson)
Humans have the strange propensity to take good gifts from God and turn them either into gods or treat them as garbage. In either case, we exchange the gift…
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866: The Sincere Soldier // Spiritual Lesson from WW1 23 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-third installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode examines the personal…
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865: Stalemate // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 22 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-second installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the formation…
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864: The Meltdown of Moltke // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 21 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twenty-first installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode dives into the man…
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863: Sipping Salt Water // Soul Drift 14 (Nathan Johnson)
God has offered us unlimited fresh living water … yet we have chosen to guzzle saltwater. The reason many of us feel spiritually thirsty and depleted is…
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862: The Dragon Hole // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 20 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twentieth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the Battle of the…
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861: The Gates of Hades // Soul Drift 13 (Nathan Johnson)
We often have more faith in the power and strength of the enemy than we do in our God. Rather than live in the reality that God is truly God, we submit to…
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860: National Road 2 // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 19 (Eric Ludy)
This is the nineteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode focuses on the unexpected…
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859: Twenty-One Gun Salute // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 18 (Eric Ludy)
This is the eighteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode returns us to America in…
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858: A History of Idolatry // Soul Drift 12 (Nathan Johnson)
The people of God have always been surrounded by a culture of idolatry. Though the gods and their worship were called different things over the generations…
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857: The Honor of England // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 17 (Eric Ludy)
This is the seventeenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode zooms in on one of the…
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856: Why God Stands Against Idolatry in Your Life // Soul Drift 11 (Nathan Johnson)
We, as Christians, are called to serve God alone and remove the idols from our lives. But what is idolatry and why are we called to remove them? In this…
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855: The French Counterpunch // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 16 (Eric Ludy)
This is the sixteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode exposes the strange…
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854: The Motive of the Monsters // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 15 (Eric Ludy)
This is the fifteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the feigned…
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853: A Simple But Radical Devotion // Soul Drift 10 (Nathan Johnson)
We are called to a simple but radical devotion to Jesus Christ. He is to be Lord of our lives and we are to love Him with all we are and all we have. In this…
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852: The Nicholas Swizzle // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 14 (Eric Ludy)
This is the fourteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode takes us to St…
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851: With ALL of Your Might // Soul Drift 09 (Nathan Johnson)
Many think that the final statement of Moses in the Shema—to love the Lord with all your might—refers to loving God with our muscles and physical strength…
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850: The Meddling of William // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 13 (Eric Ludy)
This is the thirteenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode takes us to an unexpected…
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849: BONUS Listener Insights (Eric Ludy + Ellerslie students)
Last Saturday we released a "Bonus Listener Insights" episode on Eric Ludy's current WW1 series that utilized the voices and input of eight regular Daily…
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848: Simply Churchillian // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 12 (Eric Ludy)
This is the twelfth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode investigates the…
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847: With ALL of Your “Soul" // Soul Drift 08 (Nathan Johnson)
Our modern culture typically uses the term “soul” to refer to the mind, will, and emotions of a person … or the disembodied part of us that lives forever. But…
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846: The Red Trouser Dilemma // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 11 (Eric Ludy)
This is the eleventh installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the Biblical theme…
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845: With ALL of Your Heart // Soul Drift 07 (Nathan Johnson)
We are told the greatest commandment and the summary of the Law is to love God with ALL of our heart, soul, and might. But what does it mean to love God with…
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844: The Daring Decisions of Albert // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 10 (Eric Ludy)
This is the tenth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode returns to the storyline of our…
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843: BONUS WW1 Listener Insights // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 9.5 (Eric Ludy)
This is a special episode in the WW1 series utilizing eight regular Daily Thunder listeners from around the world. We get asked a lot to offer discussion…
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842: The Other Eric // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 09 (Eric Ludy)
This is the ninth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode investigates the life of Erich…
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841: You Become What You Love // Soul Drift 06 (Nathan Johnson)
Humans are imaging creatures and we will either reflect our Creator or something in His creation. But even more than reflecting, we will slowly drift and…
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840: The Old Contemptibles // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 08 (Eric Ludy)
This is the eighth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode dives into the daring of the…
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839: 3 Dimensions of Loving the Lord Your God // Soul Drift 05 (Nathan Johnson)
After reminding the Israelites that Yahweh alone is their God, Moses declared that they should love their God with all their heart, soul, and might. But what…
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838: The French Fury // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 07 (Eric Ludy)
This is the seventh installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode explores the impact of…
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837: The Inexorable Force // Spiritual Lessons of WW1 06 (Eric Ludy)
This is the sixth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This episode investigates one particular…
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836: An Exclusive Relationship // Soul Drift 04 (Nathan Johnson)
God has called us into an exclusive relationship with Himself—and thus we are not to entertain other “gods” or “lovers” in our lives. As we continue to look at…
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835: Underestimating Albert // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 05 (Eric Ludy)
This is the fifth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This particular episode unpacks the dramatic…
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834: Do You Have Ears to Hear? // Soul Drift 03 (Nathan Johnson)
Idols and those who worship them are called blind and deaf throughout the Bible. They don't have eyes to see nor ears to hear. In this message, we begin to…
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833: A Foolish Thing in the Balkans // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 04 (Eric Ludy)
This is the fourth installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This particular episode demonstrates the…
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832: The Insecurity of William // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 03 (Eric Ludy)
This is the third installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This particular episode contrasts two key…
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831: Clean Hands and a Pure Heart // Soul Drift 02 (Nathan Johnson)
God has chosen you before He spoke creation into existence that you might be holy and blameless before Him. This call to holiness is not something we add to…
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830: Realpolitik // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 02 (Eric Ludy)
This is the second installment in Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This particular episode explores the impact…
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829: Soul Drift and Broken Cisterns // Soul Drift 01 (Nathan Johnson)
In this introduction to his new series, Nathan Johnson talks about the heart behind “Soul Drift” and our need to repent of our broken cisterns to embrace the…
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828: The Sinister Unknown // Spiritual Lessons from WW1 01 (Eric Ludy)
This is the first episode of Eric Ludy’s epic summer Daily Thunder series based on the convulsive struggles of World War I. Few people today know much about…
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827: The Exciting Series Ahead (Eric Ludy & Nathan Johnson)
Eric and Nathan finally announce their upcoming summer Daily Thunder series. It should be an amazing summer packed full of Truth. Everything starts this next…
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826: Plane Flights and Teary Goodbyes (Eric Ludy & Nathan Johnson)
Eric Ludy and Nathan Johnson debrief their Spring 2022 Daily Thunder Series and review their adventure-filled last twelve weeks, which included many plane…
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825: Called to Love and Unity (Ephesians 4:2-3) // The Calling On Your Life 10 (Nathan Johnson)
Paul exhorts believers in Ephesians 4:2-3 to be marked by love and unity with one another. If we are called to the high calling of Christ, we must be marked by…
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824: Soup, Soap & Salvation - William Booth // Thunder Down Under 16 (Ben Price)
Ben Price is once again our special guest on Daily Thunder. Known as Australia's Best Impersonator, Ben is a comedian with a penchant for Jesus Christ. Every…
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823: Getting Death-Defying // Becoming Brave 11 (Eric Ludy)
This is the eleventh and final installment in Eric Ludy's spring Daily Thunder series, entitled Becoming Brave, which explores the mechanical construct of…
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822: An Ordinary World-Changing Life // Becoming Brave 10.5 (Leslie Ludy)
Many of us put limits on what God can do through us because of our own insecurities and feelings of inadequacy. But we must never forget that what God calls us…
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821: Called to Gentleness and Patience (Ephesians 4:2) // The Calling On Your Life 09 (Nathan Johnson)
In Ephesians 4, Paul not only declares the calling with which you have been called, but he also gives five key “tests” that your life should be marked with. In…
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820: No Compromise - Keith Green // Thunder Down Under 15 (Ben Price)
Ben Price is once again our special guest on Daily Thunder. Known as Australia's Best Impersonator, Ben is a comedian with a penchant for Jesus Christ. Every…
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819: Getting Conscience-Clean // Becoming Brave 10 (Eric Ludy)
This is the tenth installment in Eric Ludy's spring Daily Thunder series, entitled Becoming Brave, which explores the mechanical construct of spiritual and…
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818: Calling the Enemy’s Bluff // Becoming Brave 09.5 (Leslie Ludy)
As Christians, it’s easy to adopt the idea that the lost in our culture are hopeless, beyond reach - so we don’t even try. Don Richardson’s example among the…