Connecting The Gap

John 14:13-14 "13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it." Ok ..... In Jesus name, I want a new, loaded Range Rover, a big house, lots of money, annnnnnddd a dude ranch! That ought to do it for now God! :) Let's do this! (A week later talking to a friend) "Yeah, I quit church. I asked God for some little stuff, and you know, I never got it. God isn't real. The Bible isn't real. I mean, the Bible said to ask in Jesus' name, and He will do it! This church stuff is a big joke!" Have you ever been there and done that? The real issue here is the scripture was twisted to mean something Jesus never intended for it to mean in the first place! Have you ever fallen prey to that little problem while you prayed? This week, we are going to talk about some Twisted Scripture, not Twisted Sister for all you metal heads out there, Twisted Scripture, and we are going to tackle the passage in John 14. You can visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net and find out about our ministry. We are available everywhere you can get your podcast and more! Please share and have a blessed week!

Jackie Gleason once said, " Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if he created us!" We always look to God as our provider. He is Jehovah Jireh after all, right? But what happens when God provides things that makes our lives uncomfortable? I know I like to get up every morning and whiz through my day successfully without any hiccups along the way. If something comes along and tries to wreck my progress, it can be a very frustrating thing! That brings us to Jonah. At one time in Jonah's life, God provided four things for him. We might think, "Wow! That was awesome! I love it when God provides!" The only problem was, Jonah didn't really see it that way. In Jonah's situation, God did provide, but it was to take his comfort away and cause him to get back to what God called him to do. The first things God provided were an apparent irritation to Jonah, but it all came to a very hot moment when God provided that cute, pesky little worm. God sent ..... a worm?? This week on Connecting the Gap we discuss this story located in the Old Testament. We are going to take a look at our life. Has God sent a worm into your life lately to get you back on track for what He called you to do? Did you get upset? Did it make you want to fight? I've been there! You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for information about our ministry. We are also on Twitter and Facebook @ctgaponline. Please subscribe and share and we pray you have a blessed week!

Servitude is not just a job to Chris Wright...it's a passion. Chris Wright is a combat veteran who currently serves in the Missouri Army National Guard. He has 23 years of military service with a 17-month deployment to Iraq in 2003. He is a former police officer with 5 years law enforcement experience and 2 years in illicit narcotics enforcement. As a 15-year veteran business owner, Chris knows what challenges small business owners are currently facing in Missouri. Chris Wright has a plethora of training certificates ranging from Haz-Mat, Criminal Analyst, to Dental Assistant. Chris is proud to live in a country built on Christian values. He volunteers regularly at James River Church ranging from Youth Adult Leader to Baptism Host. He also volunteers regularly as security for an organization who helps rescue women from human trafficking. Chris and his wife Nicole have 4 beautiful children. Growing up on a small farm in Missouri, Chris learned the value of hard work and the importance of a strong family unit to support it. Affording every Missouri family the same safe community he grew up in is not only important to Chris, but a principle he believes is foundational for this country. After serving his church, community, and his country for decades Chris is now answering a calling to serve the great state of Missouri. If elected he intends to do so Uncompromised and Unapologetically. ​Chris Wright loves being competitive, however his heart is designed to serve people as shown by his 23 years and counting of service to his community, state, and nation. This week we sit down with Chris and discuss his family, faith, and politics. Chris is running for governor of Missouri for 2024. You can visit his website to learn more about his campaign or to contribute by visiting www.chriswright4mogovernor.com. His social media links are located there as well. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net to learn more about Connecting the Gap. Have a blessed week!

Transgender..... The term sounds harmless and is made so cool through media. TikTok, Snap Chat, and social media outlets everywhere have indoctrinating material for youth to access. Kids have become test subjects for this agenda. The child has a moment of confusion in their life, and an adult brings up "maybe you’re a girl instead of a boy or maybe you’re a boy instead of a girl". They then are sent through the pipeline of transgender affirmation with hormones and treatments which most generally ends up in the operating room at a participating hospital and their lives are changed forever. Once kid’s brains have been trained to that kind of thinking, you may never get them to come back from that. The reasons for the mental issues with how kids think about their gender is never explored. Instead they are always pushed to believe they are something that they are not until they believe it in their own minds and decide to change the rest of their life forever. There are private LGBTQ+ groups in schools that are a "safe place" and they don’t tell the parents. They distribute flyers around the school in different places for the members to find out about the next meetings that are secret, and they are told their parents won’t be told anything. They gather vulnerable children and basically tell them it is us against them because "no one will ever understand them outside that circle". It places a wedge between the child and the parent. Parents and people around them are "unsafe spaces" because they call their children by their names and don’t affirm them. Therapist are trained to tell parents, "Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a living son?” and vice versa. In some states laws are in the process of being passed that will effectively take your children away due to "child abuse" if you as a parent refuse to affirm them in their mind dysphoria. Physically transgendered teens are 20 times more likely to commit suicide than those that never physically change. Are we in a new pandemic of sorts? This week we welcome back Luke Taylor to the podcast for a second week of discussion. Together we tackle the issue of our youth and transgenderism. Is there any hope? You can visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the information you need to know about my ministry. Please find us on your favorite podcasting platform and subscribe and share! Have a blessed week!

In a recent study drawing on survey data from more than 2,200 Gen Z Americans, they found that 45 percent of Gen Z Americans rarely or never attend church while just 1 in 4 reported attending weekly or more. African American Gen Zer’s report having the highest rates of weekly church attendance. Roughly 1 in 10 among this generation say they are atheists. Other findings in a study of nearly 100 Gen Z youth (ages 15–17) and more than 3,300 Gen Z adults (ages 18–24) found that only 9% of the younger group could be designated as “Scripture Engaged” – centered on reading the Bible – compared to 14% of Gen Z adults and 23% of Millennials. 56% of Christian teens in the U.S. believe that it is ok to have sex before marriage compared to 76% of their unbelieving peers, yet Christian teens are more sexually active than unbelievers. 70% of youth pastors have had teens come to them for help in dealing with porn within the past few years. The average age of first exposure to porn is 11 years old. 94% of kids will have viewed porn by age 14. We are living in a time of a huge epidemic. Are we losing our youth to society and things that are immoral? If there is an issue, how can we fix it? Or is it even fixable? This week we welcome an ordained minister and former youth pastor, Luke Taylor, to the show. Together we talk about this epidemic we seem to be having at this time with the youth of today. You can visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the platforms we are on. You can also contact us at daniel@connectingthegap.net. We would love to hear from you or please take some time to leave comments or questions where you love to listen the most! Please subscribe and share our ministry and together we can keep the Christian community informed and win souls for Christ! Have a blessed week!

Israel is the only country in the world where a higher percentage of men say they engage in daily prayer than women, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. In the United States, even among those who are religiously unaffiliated, 20% say they pray daily. Women (64%) are more likely than men (46%) to pray every day. And Americans ages 65 and older are far more likely than adults under 30 to say they pray daily (65% vs. 41%). Women are more religiously devout than men even though they are excluded from positions of leadership in many faiths and denominations. According to the respected Pew Research Center, 83.4% of women around the world identify with a faith group, compared with 79.9% of men – a difference of about 97 million people. Why is prayer so important in the life of the believer? How does prayer glorify God? Is it acceptable to repeatedly pray for the same thing? This week we welcome Holly Hoyer, Kim McIntire, and Amber Sampson on the show and together we discuss all of this and more. They are part of a group that is putting on a prayer conference for women in Branson, MO at the Keeter Center at College of the Ozarks on August 4-5, 2023. Conference times are Aug 4 from 6-9 pm CST and Aug 5, 9 am - 12 pm CST. Tickets are still available. You can visit their Facebook page @warriorsarise and on Instagram @warriorsarise_. You can also email them at warriorsarisenow@gmail.com for more information or to purchase tickets. They are $40 each and breakfast is provided on Saturday morning Aug 5. Make plans to attend this awesome conference!

Rebellion is opposition to authority. Rebellion can become violent, but it can also remain unexpressed. Rebellion always begins in the heart. Rebellion against God’s authority was humanity’s first sin. Rebellion always separates people, whether a nation, a work place, or a family, it will separate and divide relationships. You think about people you know that are rebellious, they hurt, crush, divide, and care more for their rebellion than they do for the feelings and relationships around them. Every human heart has the seed of rebellion germinating deep within. We are “rights fighters,” and when we believe someone is not respecting our “rights,” we rebel. Rebellion is always a wrong attitude. This week we dig into the spirit of rebellion as we go through the story of David and Absolom. You can visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net. Please subscribe and share and give us a 5-star review! God bless and have a blessed week!

Listener discretion is advised. Satan at the Grammys? A mom silenced at a school board meeting for reading an excerpt from a school library book? People of color not going to listen to "white tears and their ignorance" in Memphis? Fines up to $50,000 for violating Michigan's new LGBTQ+ discrimination law? Drag Story Hour for kids sponsored by New York Attorney General Letitia James? The White House Easter Egg roll should use colored rocks? High school kids in Eugene Oregon were instructed to write a short story depicting a sexual fantasy involving feather boas, romantic music, massage oil and flavored syrup? What in the Mrs. Butterworth....you can't be serious?!?! Oh yes, we are.... aaaaannnnddd USA Today gave a biological male a "Woman of the Year" award as well...and we haven't even mentioned when President Joe Biden talked about chocolate chip ice cream at a breaking news conference of a school shooting at a Christian school where 6 people including children lost their lives. I'm out of breath after all that intro to this week's podcast and what's crazy is there is so much more! Join us this week on Connecting the Gap podcast for the latest Woke News update of what is going on all around as every moment the clock ticks by. This is my second installment of my Woke News Brief. As Christians we need to stay informed of what Satan is throwing at our kids and society as a whole every day. How can we fight him back if we don't care what is going on or naive because we don't pay attention? We can ignore it now, but our kids and grandkids will be the ones to pay if we don't stand up. We'll be back next week with more Bible study. For this week, check out the podcast and you will see how much our country needs prayer. You can visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net for all my podcast platforms. You can also contact me with comments, questions, or hate mail from that same location. God bless and I hope you all have a blessed week!

Now we tend to think I'll pour more when I get more. But the way it works in the order of God is it becomes more as it is poured. Isn't it just like God to command you to pour something that you don't feel like you have enough of? I wonder was the woman a little disappointed that the Prophet told her to pour something? It's frustrating when you have to pour into someone else when you really wish someone would pour into you, yet the more you pour, the more it flows. And bitterness will keep you from pouring what you have while you wait for what you want. This week on Connecting the Gap we finish our mini-series on miracles by talking about the God that provides. If you would like to go back and listen to every episode in this series you can do so. They are episodes 114, 115, 118, 119, 120. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the podcasting platforms we are on. Please subscribe and share and we are praying that you have a blessed week! LC/SF

A lot of people today would say God that's not fair. I don't know where you are. You said you'd protect me, you didn't. What did God not do in that case? God did not provide a miracle of protection. Did he? He could've. He could've sent a 10 foot angel that balled up and said don't you mess with him or you'll get me and all of my brothers. God coulda done that. God didn't do that. So what did the apostle Paul do when God let him down? How do you feel when God protects you from something bad but at the same moment doesn't protect someone else? How do you sort that out in your mind instead of feeling guilty? This week we are talking about the miracle of protection on Connecting the Gap in our mini-series on miracles. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms we are on. Please subscribe and share! Have a blessed week! LC

Jesus saw their faith. He witnessed collective faith. We weren't meant to be Lone Ranger Christians. We need one another. Sometimes our circumstances can be so overpowering, in fact, that we need to even piggyback on the faith of others. Have you gathered people around you who will carry your burdens when your faith is dull? In Galatians 6:2 it says, "To love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and strength AND to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves". Who is our neighbor? Every person we encounter. God does miracles of healing. Have you experienced a healing in your life that you know wouldn't have happened unless God intervened? Sometimes we are battling a sickness that we can't seem to shake. In those moments we can pray to a God that is in the healing business. Our healings aren't only limited to physical sickness. Sometimes we need a healing emotionally, relationally, or even financially. Satan can attack us from all angles. But no matter what he may try, we have a God that heals! This week we talk about our Healer as we continue our mini-series on miracles. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the podcasting platforms we are on. If you find you look forward to our podcast each week but you haven't subscribed, please do! That helps our algorithms and gets us into the ear buds of many more people who may potentially be helped with this ministry. We pray you have a blessed week and please keep us in your prayers!

All of the man's external torture was due to internal turmoil. He wasn't merely crazy; he was under demonic influence. Like previous demons Jesus dealt with, the demon inhabiting this man recognized Jesus for who he truly is: Son of the Most High God. Morover, he recognized Jesus power and authority. Though the Son of God wanted the demon out, the demon begged, Don't torment me! Thomas Adams once said, " Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish." Jerry Bridges was also quoted, "While God most often appeals to our wills through our reason, sin and Satan usually appeal to us through our desires." We like to blame some of the issues we have within ourselves as our "inner demons", but in all reality, demonic possession is very real. Many times, throughout the Bible, people were relieved of demons by the power of Jesus or they were being tormented by them. It's easy to make fun of someone that may have crazy outbursts or very weird theology, but the fact of the matter is demon possession or being controlled by evil spirits is very real. This week on Connecting the Gap we continue our series on miracles as we talk about the miracle of deliverance. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more about our ministry. Please subscribe and share! We pray that you have a blessed week! LC

To be woke typically means to be socially aware and concerned about social injustice and discrimination. In the theory of that it doesn't really seem that bad. Unfortunately, Woke-ism is taking on a whole new level these days and most of it isn't good. In the mainstream world it now means to be leaning very far left with no sense of reality to what the truth really is at all. As a Christian, do you know what the truth of today really is? Are you aware of all the brain washing and liberal interpretations of reality that is being spoon fed and forced onto your kids at school and on us as a whole in society? As I have been asking around, it has been painfully proven to me that most Christians have no idea what is going on in today's society. The main reason for that? They don't want to listen to that stuff or watch it. And I do understand, I really do. I don't like any of it either, but how do we stand up and fight, as God has directed us to in his Word to do just that against Satan and all his demonic influences, if we won't even take the time to be informed? We can look the other way, but just because we do that it doesn't go away. We actually allow it to get worse. Here at Connecting the Gap we want you to be informed. As of this week we are starting a new feature that will be released at random times that we have affectionately called our woke news brief. We hope to be able to do this once every other month or so or sometimes maybe sooner than that. In this episode you will find news items that I am sharing with you that didn't get much airtime or were pretty much swept under the rug to help protect an agenda. We want to expose this stuff that is going on. I will attempt to perfect this as time goes along. This is a whole new thing to me and I really do hope you will listen and help spread the word of what is taking place in our society, or if it is personally affecting you, "pick up the sword and fight" as they say. We will be back to Bible study next week and keep on keeping on through this year of 2023! Thanks for your support and I hope you learn some stuff from this news brief this week. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all our podcast platforms and learn more about our ministry. Have a great week!

Prepare for Battle. Prepare for Victory. That's the first slogan you will read when you visit www.wearewarriorsapparel.com website. We Are Warriors Apparel is a faith base apparel company that is designed with the positive focus that as Christian Warriors we can overcome the bad things in life and move forward to defeat the enemy that fights against our very beings in this daily spiritual war we are waging. According to their description on the website, "Our mission is to empower and inspire individuals to embrace their inner warrior, cultivate strength and courage, and fearlessly pursue their passions and purpose. Through bold and innovative designs, we aim to be a constant source of inspiration and motivation, reminding our customers to never give up, stand up for what they believe in, and live life to the fullest. We believe that every individual has the power to be a warrior in their own unique way, and we are dedicated to fostering that strength and spirit through the clothes they wear. Join us on this journey of self-discovery and empowerment, and embrace the warrior within." Their apparel lines are top-notch and very high quality while at the same time making a profound statement. Join us this week we as we talk to the man who started it all with a vision to build up believers and capture non-believers alike. Jason Wike joins us this week to tell us all about the apparel line and new things coming soon and what it means to run an apparel company with a purpose. Check out this week's episode for all the details! You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more about our ministry. Please subscribe and share!

"Who touched me?" There is a miracle that is briefly mentioned in Mark 5 that we a lot of times seem to just breeze right on through in our Bible reading. I've read it many times, but I have never really taken in all of the lessons taught by this passage. In this miracle the woman goes to Jesus, even when she isn't supposed to be seen in public and reached out to touch Jesus for her miracle. When she touched the hem of Jesus garment, He calls her out. Why did Jesus want to single this woman out in front of the Crowd? In Psalm 50:15 God says, "Call on me in the day of trouble, I will rescue you and you will honor Me." It would seem then that Jesus was determined to see that God was glorified publicly in this healing. Sometimes miracles are triggered by our movement. This week, we continue our mini-series on miracles as we study the woman with the issue of blood. Visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net for more details about my ministry. We'd love to hear from you if you have experienced a miracle in your life and we would love to share that if you would permit us to. Our contact information is at our website and on our Facebook page. Please subscribe and share and have a blessed week!

Nothing is over until Jesus says it's over. Something in your life could look utterly dead and impossible, nothing is finished until Jesus says it is finished. John 11:38, "Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 'Take away the stone,' He said. 'But Lord, it's been four days, it's gonna smell.'" We get so preoccupied in the natural even when we're speaking to the one who is the supernatural. It's gonna smell, Lord. "By this time there's going to be a bad odor, for he has been in there for four days." Jesus didn't show up in their situation in the time frame they expected so they thought He didn't care. Are there situations where you have asked for things or intervention from God, and He didn't show up when you wanted, and you held it against Him? There is always a purpose in the waiting. This week we are starting what will end up being a small series on miracles. This will be broken up over the next month or so. We have some special episodes scheduled for in between as well. Our church is in an unusual season of God's favor. He has been answering prayers for miracles in an unprecedented way. With the move of God and the appearance of miracles comes disbelief and criticism. Our church has been under the attack of the enemy by Satan manipulating "believers", and non-believers alike, to criticize and make fun of what God is doing. Do we have to provide proof for a miracle when it happens? Do we owe anyone an explanation or physical proof for something God does in our life in a miraculous way? We touch on these topics and so much more in this week's episode of Connecting the Gap. Please visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more about our ministry. Please keep us in your prayers! Have a blessed week! LC

In Romans chapter 11, Paul is talking about the initial rejection of Christ by the Jews and the opportunity for salvation for both the Jews and the Gentiles. In the midst of this discussion, we find a short but important phrase in verse 22: "Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God." This brief phrase actually summarizes the entire reason why Jesus suffered and died on the cross. These two divine attributes, God's goodness and His severity, directly contributed to the suffering and death of Jesus the Christ. In fact, it seems appropriate to say that the whole story of the cross and the good news of the gospel is about the goodness and severity of God. It's the week of Good Friday and Easter Sunday as we celebrate the death of Christ to pay the huge price for our Salvation which we did not deserve and His subsequent resurrection. Without the price He paid on Calvary we would have no hope. Pull out your Bibles this week as we walk our way through the crucifixion and why he had to suffer the atrocious treatment to pay for our redemption. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for everything you'd like to learn about our ministry. Please subscribe and share and have a blessed week!

What could drop a man of God who was so great, that he dropped 850 false prophets on Mount Carmel? What could drop a prophet so powerful in Word and in deed that when he said not a drop until I say so, and it didn't rain for three years? We can't even control our kitchen sink that well! And he drops. Collapses. Sometimes things don’t meet our expectations. Sometimes we expect something so much more, but then something way below that level is what we get. It creates an interesting question. Who drew your blueprint? How many times have you put all you had on the line and never even received a thank you? Sometimes it is exhausting to keep trudging forward when you really don't get any feedback for the work you do for God and it can cause a burn-out. How do you fix it? This week on Connecting the Gap, we will discuss the story of Elijah when he had had enough and he just drops. It looks like he caves and gives in. Why did he do that? You can connect with us at www.connectingthegap.net. Please subscribe and share and we would love to hear from you!

Sometimes when you get passionate, apathetic people get threatened. The Jewish religious system was not a fan of the prevalence of the gospel, so they kicked Paul out of the synagogue. How many know when you have passion you'll find another place? Nobody can shut you down when you have a real passion. Revelation 2:4 says, "I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first, Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen; repent...." If you have lost your passion, God didn't take it from you, you left it. Passion isn't how high you jump. Passion is how straight you walk when your feet hit the ground. The proof of passion is perseverance. We study that thought this week on Connecting the Gap. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap for everything about us. Please subscribe and share! Have a great week!

Living in the age of woke churches and religious systems, it is so hard to keep from being angered by what is going on in our society. It seems that Christian churches in many places are nothing but a pile of dry bones. Why is that? Is there any hope? God is about to raise up the people of God for the sake of his name, that all the world will know that he is holy; that God fulfills his promise and that he is able to speak life into hearts and lives that are spiritually dry or dead. God was about to give the Israelites new hearts of flesh to replace hard hearts of stone, and to put his spirit in them. Today we talk about dry bones and how they can translate into what is going on in today's society. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the information you need to know about our ministry. Please subscribe and share! Have a blessed week!

Great! That's just great! Just because I skipped out on that stupid economics class one too many times, I can't graduate with the rest of my class. Now that horrible man, Principal Speace, is assigning me some lame "special assignment" to earn my diploma. As if I haven't already worked hard enough in the past twelve years. He gave me 50 days to get it done, and it looks like it will take every bit of that ... Sara is 18 and ready to graduate high school, but because she has skipped class too many times, Principal Speace will not give her a diploma. She is faced with an ultimatum: either complete a special assignment that will last 50 days or return next semester to complete the class. Coming from an abusive, single-parent home, Sara is eager to graduate so she can get a job and move out on her own, so she grudgingly accepts the assignment. Each assignment is a mystery. When Sara completes an assignment and leaves her report under the potted rose in front of the school, she finds another brief note from Principal Speace about her next adventure. What follows are situations that challenge her in every way and shape the rest of her life. This week we welcome John and Nancy Chase, authors of Under the Potted Rose - A Journey of Discovery, to Connecting the Gap Podcast. John and Nancy are also prior missionaries to Panama, and we talk to them about their time there and their current ministry of prayer for deliverance and healing that God has placed them in. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the platforms we are on and as always, please subscribe and share!

Sometimes what you want isn't the problem, it's the way you go about getting it. There was nothing wrong with David's desire to be king. God gave him that promise, but David knew that God can't honor the promise if I don't honor the process. The way that I get it, will determine who I am when I get there. I'm not this kind of King. I can't do it like this. I want it, but there are certain things I won't do to get what I want. Many times in life, we decide to cut corners and take shortcuts in our walk with God. It's in those moments that we are striking out on our own that we tread dangerous territory when we don't do it God's way. The Bible makes it very clear in Proverbs 19:21 "Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails." How far do you think you can make it taking shortcuts? We talk about David this week and the time he had an opportunity to take a shortcut. How did he handle it? You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net to see all the platforms we are on. We'd also love to hear from you! There is a contact page there as well for that purpose. Please subscribe and share and have a blessed week!

A Therapist once said, "We are all carrying backpacks that we continually load up. We keep stuffing them full until one day, they can’t zip and the stuff starts spilling out all over the place." One study found that emotional baggage can be a real barrier to making healthy lifestyle changes (like exercising more, eating healthier or quitting smoking). “Participants described being burdened by an emotional baggage with problems from childhood and/or with family, work and social life issues,” found the study. “Respondents said that they felt that emotional baggage was an important explanation for why they were stuck in old habits and that conversely, being stuck in old habits added load to their already emotional baggage and made it heavier.” This baggage can also “interfere with professional ambition or goals, healthy relationships, personal contentment and the enjoyment of life,” says Ward. “Until you bring to your awareness why your life is not going the way you want; you can feel like a victim, someone who is being tossed around by life's circumstances.” Sometimes the benefits of baggage can be that we can help others with their load when we can successfully unload ours. This week on Connecting the Gap, we talk about baggage in life, what it can do to us and how we in essence can lay it down. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for everything you need to know about our ministry, and please keep us in your prayers and subscribe and share!

Christ time of making himself known to his people is when they are most at a loss. When they think they have lost themselves, he will let them know that they have not lost him. Christ appeared to them not walking on the water, because being risen from the dead he was not to be with the way he was before, but standing on the shore because now they were to make their way towards him. This week we study the second miracle of Jesus where he caused his disciples to have a huge haul of fish and then they have breakfast with Jesus. Why were there 153 fish? Why did the nets not break in John 21 when they did in Luke 5? Is there a conspiracy theory? We tackle these questions this week and more on this week's episode, Fishers of Men. You can find out all you need to know about our ministry at our website at www.connectingthegap.net. Please subscribe and share and thanks for listening!