Episode 116 - We Are Warriors Apparel with Jason Wike
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!
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Episode 115 - Press to a Miracle
"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.
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Episode 114 - When Pigs Fly
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
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Episode 113 - The Passion of the Christ
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.
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Episode 112 - When You Can't Go On
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!
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Episode 111 - Have You Lost Your Passion?
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!
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Episode 110 - Dry Bones Live Again!
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!
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Episode 109 - Under the Potted Rose with John and Nancy Chase
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.
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Episode 108 - Shortcuts
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?
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Episode 107 - The Benefits of Baggage
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!
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Episode 106 - Fishers of Men - John 21
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!
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Episode 105 - Fishers of Men - Luke 5
In the New Testament there is a miracle that is repeated twice, once in Luke 5 and once in John 21. It is the miracle where the disciples have been fishing all night and caught nothing. Jesus comes by and tells them to cast their net to the other side of the boat and they pull in a tremendous amount of fish. Some scholars and Bible Commentaries say this is the same miracle. But is it?
In Luke 5 the nets break, but in John 21 they don't. Is Luke or John lying about the story in essence making it a "fish story"? What is the meaning of the net breaking or not breaking? Is there a significance to it?
This week on Connecting the Gap we dive into Luke 5 and dissect the miracle as it happened, and we answer these questions. Next week we will work our way through John 21. In both cases we solidify the fact that most everything Jesus ever did while here on the Earth was a teaching and learning experience for those around Him.
You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net to subscribe to our podcast. Please share this with others that would enjoy or learn from our Bible Studies each week. Thanks for your support in prayer and we hope you have a blessed week!
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Episode 104 - Believers Day of Judgment
CS Lewis says it the best. He says that "if you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this one."
Being a part of the human race, we largely live day to day. We never expand our horizons to work towards what we are expecting for the eternal life we will have. In the Bible God promises rewards to us as Christians based on what we do here on the Earth in this "zero" time. Are you working toward a full reward, or no reward?
There is a judgment we as Christians will participate in as we stand before God and give an account on what we did here below. Have you ever thought about that? How would God drop the gavel on your life if your judgment time was today?
This week on Connecting the Gap, we talk about the judgment of the believer. Listen, and then if you dare, do an inventory on your life and think about where you would stand on that judgment day.
You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net and please subscribe and share! Questions and comments can be directed to daniel@connectingthegap.net.
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Episode 103 - Abiding Conversations with Kim McIntire Pt. 2
St. Augustine once said, "Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him."
One place we all as Christians fall short many times, is our direct communication with God in our life. Many a Christian has neglected their prayer life because it was too "complicated" or "not very easy to concentrate" when trying to pray.
There are many other excuses we can all use to justify why we don't spend the time we need on our knees having intimate conversations with our Lord. But in all reality, God hungers for that relationship with us and cherishes every moment we cry out to him whether in pain or praise. He wants to hear us speak to him the deepest desires of our hearts. It's true that he knows everything about us including our thoughts, but he wants to hear it from our own lips.
We finish the interview with Kim McIntire this week as we continue to talk about prayer and how we can easily intertwine it into our Bible study and devotion time. Join us now as we sit down with Kim and finish our discussion on Abiding Conversations.
Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more podcast episodes and our platforms we are on. Please keep our ministry in your prayers and please subscribe and share!
"Do not make prayer a monologue...make it a conversation."
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Episode 102 - Abiding Conversations with Kim McIntire Pt 1
Do you struggle in your prayer life? Do you feel inadequate when you try to soak in your quiet time with the Lord? Does Satan like to play tricks in your mind about your walk with God and the relationship you have with him as you attempt to commune daily with him in prayer?
"I am the vine. You are the branches. Abide in me, and I will abide in you. If you abide in me, you will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing" (John 15:5, NIV).This is Abiding Conversations, the Lord's voice as it echoes through His Word, and my prayers offered in response to His Shepherd's voice. Know. Obey. Confess. Give thanks. These five words have helped guide Kim in her reading of the Bible. They draw her into intimate conversations with her Creator and Lord as she is led by the Holy Spirit in prayer. Come join us in this journey of not just reading God's Word but communing in conversation with our Maker.
This week on Connecting the Gap, we have part 1 of an interview with author Kim McIntire. We touch on a lot of the above-mentioned topics and more. You can visit www.connectingthegap.net for everything you need to know about our ministry and our podcasting platforms. There is also a link to purchase her book on our website on the bookstore page. Please subscribe and share!
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Episode 101 - It Was All A Lie
Politicians stand on platforms and they say we need sudden change. We need rapid change. We need everything to change. And guess what? It's a lie. What happens when you are constantly bombarded by these methodical lies? One, you're either put into a trance and you're hypnotized. Two, you become apathetic just because you listen to it so much you forget to stand up against it. Or three, you are intimidated into submission.
How do you hypnotize a nation into submission? You lie to them.
This week on Connecting the Gap, we talk about this and more. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for anything you would like to know about our ministry. Visit us on Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble as well. Please subscribe and share! This ministry doesn't grow without YOU! Have a blessed week!
JHM
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Episode 100 - Rape And A Murder
A culture that tolerates abuse is very hard to eradicate, much harder than its leaders suppose. If David thought that his personal repentance was all it would take to restore his household’s integrity, he was tragically mistaken. Sadly, this kind of complacency and willing disregard in tolerating a culture of abuse continues to the present day. How many churches, corporations, universities, governments and organizations have promised to root out a culture of sexual abuse after an incident is exposed, only to fall back immediately into the same old ways and to perpetrate even further abuses?
The Bible says that David "saw" Bathsheba. But what was it that he didn't see?
This week on Connecting the Gap we discuss this as we take our text out of 2 Samuel 11. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms and please subscribe and share. Our goal in 2023 is to grow this ministry and reach more people with the Gospel. We are excited about what God has done through this ministry in 2022 but without your help we cannot fulfill the complete calling of what God has placed on Connecting the Gap. Thank you for your prayers and support!
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Episode 99 - The Best Is Yet To Come (The Tale of Two Faiths)
Why did Jesus tell Mary not to touch Him after he was resurrected but a week later asked Thomas to do the same? Are there some lessons to be learned in this story that can be applied into this new upcoming year? As we start this new year where do you stand? Do you pray blessings over this year and believe in your heart the best is yet to come? Do you stand grounded in faith that regardless of the bleakness of your current situation God is still in control? Or are you that person that has passed the new year with the mindset that you will believe it all goes away when you see it happen?
This week on Connecting the Gap we talk about the tale of two faiths, the best is yet to come!
You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms we are on and the many different outlets you can subscribe to for our podcast. As we go into this new year, if this ministry has blessed you, please subscribe and share to others as we together proclaim the gospel of Jesus to the world!
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Episode 98 - What Child Is This?
What Child is this who, laid to rest
On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary
What memories do you have of hearing or singing this Christmas carol? What do the words of this carol bring to mind or stir in your heart? Why do you think the circumstances of Jesus’ birth are so significant? By sacrificing His own life, what did Christ do for us that we could never do for ourselves? What does that mean to you personally? How does the fact that Jesus was “one of us,” affect your relationship with Him? How has the promise of Christ’s return given you hope in your daily life? How have you responded to Christ’s knock on the door of your heart? How has that affected your life? How can you celebrate that this Christmas season and throughout the year?
This week we talk about these thoughts in this week's episode of Connecting the Gap. Join us this week as we discuss the true person of Jesus as the Baby, the Lamb of God, the Man, and our returning King!
Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms and for ways you can contact us. Please subscribe and share! Have a Mery Christmas!
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Episode 96 - Prophecies of the Bible Pt. 62 - Heaven or Hell
God has, through the redemption wrought by his Son, set into motion a new humanity. In the present age he rules the hearts of all who have turned to him in faith: in the age to come that reign will find its full completion. Sin will forever be removed and the design of Eden will be totally realized. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 21 and 22 in our study on Prophecies of the Bible. This is the final week left of this study! The next couple of weeks we will do some special Christmas episodes and a New Year’s episode so you will have that to look forward to. After the new year we are on to new things! God has blessed us for sure! Please visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe, share and comment as that helps our algorithms! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!
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Episode 95 - Prophecies of the Bible Pt. 61 - A New Jerusalem
This world will not continue forever. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, otherwise known as the Law of Entropy, declares that all organized systems tend to disorder after time. Like all things, the earth, along with this physical universe, will wear out. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 20 and get started into chapter 21 in our study on Prophecies of the Bible. We only have two weeks left of this study! Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!
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Episode 94 - Prophecies of the Bible Pt. 60 - World War 3
Yet as the armies of the world converge upon Armageddon on a massive collision course, suddenly their objective will change. Instead of contending with each other, they will unite to fight the armies of the Messiah that descend from heaven to the storied fields of Armageddon. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 19 and get started into chapter 20 as we are getting close to wrapping up our study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!
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Episode 93 - Prophecies of the Bible Pt. 59 - Blood Repaid
A truly global economy was not possible until today. Before the advent of modern communication and transportation systems, the world was little more than a collection of economic islands. However, there is no denying the fact that the same generation that saw Israel come back in her land (1948), is also seeing the world’s economic focus set clearly on free trade zones, the reduction of tariffs and the building of “the new global economy”. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 18 and also cover the beginning of chapter 19 in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!
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Episode 92 - Prophecies of the Bible Pt. 58 - Antichrist, The Puppet
The Beast, who was dominated by the harlot system (Rev 17:3), rises against her and destroys her and her system completely. Without doubt the harlot system was in competition with the religious worship of the Beast, promoted by the False Prophet, and her destruction is brought about so that the Beast may be the sole object of false worship as he claims to be God. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 17 and also cover the beginning of chapter 18 in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!
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Episode 91 - Prophecies of the Bible Pt. 57 - The Woman Rides the Beast
Teachings of non-monotheistic Eastern religions (religions that believe in many gods) have infected even the Church itself, driving it increasingly toward apostasy (to completely forsake one’s faith or religion) and a laissez-faire (letting people do as they please) interpretation of God’s Word. With widespread religious deception so out of control, it is easy to understand how worldwide ecclesiastical trends are leading to the dawn of a one-world church controlled by the spirits of Satan. This week on Connecting the Gap we have reached Revelation 17 in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!
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