Daily Thunder Podcast

There are many blessings and benefits of the Gospel in our lives. As we begin our investigation of a few of them, Nathan Johnson focuses on the topic of adoption. Far more than the modern concept of adoption, this beautiful concept showcases the glory of what Christ purchased in our lives and our new sonship (adopted position) in the family of God. And it is this amazing reality that gives us great assurance of our salvation.

This is the sixteenth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from the Time of Nero. In this episode he asks his listeners to take off their doom and gloom glasses and put on their rose-colored ones. Strangely, for many people, the Book of Revelation is an oppressive, anxiety-inducing piece of God-ordained literature. But, ironically, the book’s purpose is totally opposite that. Its primary purpose is to reveal Jesus Christ. And many people miss the innate beauty hidden in this Divine Masterpiece because they first try to solve the book instead, of first trying to see Jesus in the book. .

This is the fifteenth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from the Time of Nero. In this episode he labors to parallel today’s modern church with a child “on the spectrum.” Strangely, it is much easier to give grace, patience, and understanding to someone known to be injured, malnourished, and/or otherwise neglected in their development, than it is to someone deemed privileged. And that is why it is important to note that much of the Church today has been stunted in their development and is showing serious signs of social backwardness because of that stunting. The majority of Christians in the West are used to an undernourished diet of unhealthy filler food and have not gained an appetite for real spiritual substance. If we can understand this “spiritual stunting” that surrounds us, it ought to make it easier to show grace and patience to the strange “spectrum” behaviors we are presently encountering in the Church.

In this special bonus episode, Nathan talks about why we aren't releasing a "normal" study in the series this week, gives a quick reflection on the series thus far, and talks about two profound quotes on the Gospel from Charles Spurgeon.

This is the fourteenth installment of Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from the Time of Nero. In this installment he discusses the unique phrase in Scripture, “He who has an ear let him hear.” It’s an odd statement and responsively many of us think, “Wait a minute! Don’t we all have an ear?” Yes, we do have physical ears, but not all of us possess spiritual ears. And spiritual ears are what is necessary to be able to hear and understand what God is saying to His Church. To understand and comprehend the mysteries of Scripture demands the presence of the “Bionic ear.” 

This is the thirteenth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from the Time of Nero. In this episode he gives an overview of the arduous task it is to understand and make sense of the Book of Revelation. Many scholars have concluded that it is a waste of time to even try to comprehend the meaning of this apocalyptic masterpiece. But the Book itself declares that there is a blessing waiting for anyone that dares to read it, hear it, and keep its words. If we genuinely believe in the purposefulness of every single word in the Scriptures, it only makes sense that at the far side of this tangled jungle, is a glorious reward—a greater understanding of the Person of the Jesus Christ. 

This is the twelfth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from the Time of Nero. In this episode he puts out on the table his most important puzzle piece for the series. It’s the puzzle piece that most clearly demonstrates his goal in putting this all together and the one that has given him passion to actually systematically address all these awkward and difficult matters pertaining to the End. It’s all summed up in what he describes as the Principle of the Here-and-Now. 

The Gospel offers a great exchange: my life for Christ’s. Because of the Gospel, I have been bought with a price, and my life is now hid in Christ Jesus. As such, I am to live not merely for Christ, but through Christ. In this study, Nathan examines the “exchanged life” and what it means to practically abide and abound in our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is the eleventh installment in Eric’s summer series. In this episode he discusses the historical agenda of the Devil to distort the working of God, to twist the words of God, and to obscure the Good News from clear sight. The Devil works to bury the amazing accomplishments of God while the Holy Spirit works to reveal them. But who is going to win? It is a well known fact that when Light and Dark battle it out head-to-head, that Light always comes out the victor. 

This is the tenth installment in Eric’s series entitled Spiritual Lessons from the Time of Nero. In this episode he discusses the “culture of silence” that religious communities are prone to establish as the means of protecting the integrity of their denominational identity. Like caution tape, certain topics or ideas become “roped off” and “inaccessible” to the laymen. “We don’t talk about that in this church” or “we don’t ask those questions around here” become either the spoken or the unspoken messages. But, inevitably, cordoning off these topics leads to a weakening and never a strengthening of the Body of Christ. Like Nicodemus, we must go to Jesus with our questions, even if it be “sneakily” at night.For more information on the theatrical production, Dragon Mountain: Click Here