Sons of Thunder
By Sons of Thunder
Sons of ThunderNov 18, 2019
S3 E5: "Tackling Identity with Former D1 Athlete Jon Wisnieski"
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- 🕰Banter Clock 5:02 🕰
- Sons Lightning Round
- 🕰14:06 🕰 Getting to know Jon
- Playing football for Iowa
- Asking bigger questions
- “Is Jesus on the Throne of Your Life?
- There is something more
- “Incline my heart to you”
S3 E4: "The Fruits of Conflict"
Recorded October 12, 2020
🕰 BANTER CLOCK 7:22 🕰
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- Reminiscing about grade school shenanigans
- Iron Sharpens Iron
- Importance and Responsibility of Conflict
- Receiving Conflict
- Fruits
S3 E3: "The Dangers of Being a Yes Man: How to Say No"
Banter Clock 5:16
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- How to say no with friends and Family
- When you say no it opens up opportunities to say yes
- Boundaries
- Faith Fellowship and Fitness
- How do we have a well-rounded relationship?
S3 E2: "Why Take Care of Yourself?"
Contents of this cast
- How do we take care of ourselves?
- The shift from college to real life
- The agent of growth
- The importance of being responsible for yourself
- Taking care of yourself in faith fellowship and fitness
- when we think we have it figured out…
S3 E1: "Things are Getting Real"
Recorded on Sept 16, 2020
Season 3 Episode 1
- A Little Banter
- The Genesis of the Sons
- Podcast Restart
- Introduce the Season “When Things Get Real”
- Sons catch up on what has happened these last 6 months
- Responsibility
Quarantine Cast: The Resurrection
CONTENTS
- How do we respond to the resurrection in quarantine?
- Disciple vs Apostle
- Otium ET BELUM
Special thanks to our sponsor
Lifeboat Network
🔗SONS LINKS 🔗
Instagram ▪️Website ▪️Facebook ▪️Twitter
The Leisure Cast
The Sons are back, and happy Holy Week!
Banter Contents
- Trivia with the Sons
- Catchup with the sons how is quarantine going?
🕰Banter clock 21:00 🕰
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- Acedia
- Do we have to be productive over quarantine?
- Are you Abiding or Striving?
- What are we doing for prayer?
- What are we doing for fitness?
🔗SONS LINKS 🔗
What is Your Motivation? With Jordan Dick
Welcoming our special guest Jordan
🕰Banter Clock 9:53 🕰
- Johns Activity on Twitter
- @Armsandchestskiptherest
- Jordans New Gym Idea
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- Lighting Round
- “The Injury”
- The Ins and Outs of Homeschooling
- The Beginning of a Life of Nutrition and Fitness
- Combating Vanity
- What is your motivation?
- Growing in Faith
- Preparing for Marriage
- The Power of the Novena
- Practicals
🔗GUEST LINKS 🔗
Jordan's Instagram▪️Jordan's Twitter
🔗SONS LINKS 🔗
How to be Convicted and Mighty with Greg and David
We welcome on our special Guests: David Cushing and Greg Ebacher
🕰Banter Clock 22:10 🕰
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- Worst Lightning round yet 🤦♂️
- Workout horror stories
- Sean’s life update
- Where does John’s conviction in his belief come from?
- David’s life journey with supporting narration from Greg
- Using your Strength
- The need to be strong as a male in the 21st century
🔗GUEST LINKS 🔗
Greg's Instagram ▪️David's Instagram
🔗SONS LINKS 🔗
A Lion After God's Heart
Lust Free Living with Special Guest: Lowell Seashore
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- Sons Lightning Round
- The Origins of “Dangerous Men”
- What is a Dangerous Man?
- Lust free living
- How do we create lasting change and continue to live as a dangerous man?
- Practicals
🔗LINKS 🔗
Raw Eggs and Gains
🕰Banter Clock: 6:25 🕰 CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST - Sons talk making gains 💪 - What does fitness look like for each of the Sons? - overcoming lower back pain from deadlifts and squats 🏋️♂️ - Free weights - Functional Fitness - The debate over Body Buiding - NUTRITION 🥑 - Carrots 🥕 - Countering Estrogen - RAW EGG GAME 🥚 - How can I increase testosterone? - Supplement Life - PRACTICALS 🔗LINKS 🔗 Instagram ▪️Website ▪️Facebook ▪️Twitter
The Initiative of a Dangerous Man
🕰Banter Clock 8:00 🕰
CONTENTS OF THIS CAST
- Holding yourself accountable is the beginning of achieving virtue
- Holding yourself accountable vs voluntary actions
- Stages of development
- The Virtue of Initiative
- When we succeed its WE and when we fail it’s ME
- Holding yourself accountable vs. having others hold us accountable
- Admitting you need help
👨💻LINKS 👨💻
Obeying Anyway With Joe Masek
Banter Clock 12:45
Chest Day: Being Dangerous in Our Culture
Shout outs: 2:35
Catholic interpretations in the Media 6:00
Banter Clock: 16:00
Wrestling With God: Being Dangerous in Confrontation
🕰Banter Clock 4:10 🕰
Break the Lion out of the Cage : Intro to Being Dangerous
The Initiation into Manhood with Special Guest Podcast: Prayer and Pushups
CONTENTS OF THIS CAST
- Learning about Prayer and Pushups
- What are you strong for?
- Why is there no longer the initiation of men in our culture today?
- Where does initiation begin?
- Who do you find inspiration from?
Link to Prayer and Pushups Facebook
Aiming for Spiritual Maturity
🕰banter clock 8:30🕰
CONTENTS OF THIS CAST
- Did the Saints see themselves as being spiritually mature?
- Can we ever reach maturity?
- The Catholic life is a journey
- 2 different types of time
- Quality vs Consistency vs Quantity
- How does God's grace pour out through spiritual maturity?
The Man of the Beatitudes: A Look into the Life of Frassati with Special Guest Christine Wohar
Contents of this cast
- What is Frassati USA?
- The Saint with the pipe in his mouth.
- What would Pier Giorgio Frassati have to say to the youth today?
- What was Pier Giorgio like?
- What were some issues Pier Giorgio faced as a young man?
- How was Giorgio’s relationship with his father?
- A man beating Mediocrity
In the Face of Chaos
🕰Banter Clock 7:05🕰
~Contents of this Cast~
- What is Chaos?
- Predator Detection
- What is the fruit of Chaos?
Songs With the Sons: Dermot Kennedy - For Islands Fires and Family
This is a Breakdown of the song: For Islands Fires and Family written by Dermot Kennedy
Hunger Series: Focus and the Castle of the Heart
🕰Banter Clock 8:37🕰
Contents of this Cast
~Banter~
- Sean learns about Dad Strength
- Are John and Eric Packing?
- A present for Sean?
~ Focus👀~
- Do you need to commit to something to have Focus?
- What is Focus?
- How do we not set a definition without Commitment?
- “The closer the distance between what you have to do and what you want to do, the happier you will be”
- How do we maintain focus when we are day in and day out going through the grind of life?
- ROCKY
- Practicing what you preach will reap wonders in the future
- How do we bring the Lord into Focus?
- How do we trust our Focus?
- The Castle of the Heart
- The importance of the emptiness
- PRACTICALS
Hunger Series: Vision
Hunger Series Part 2 🕰Banter Clock 6:37🕰 🔑Contents of this Cast🔑 - What is Vision? - Reacting vs. Responding - How do we experience a call?
Hunger Series: Awakening Desire
🕰Banter Clock 10:05🕰
—Contents of this Podcast—
- How can we commit find greatness apart from the environment around us not changing?
- How do we take time to focus on where we are at?
- Where have you found desires in your life?
- What is this hunger?
- The “Dark Room”
- What are the things in my heart that need to be torn out?
- How do we find the “Dark Room”?
- What is the Lord revealing about me?
Relationship With God
🕰 BANTER CLOCK 8:28
- How do you experience a relationship with God?
- How do we receive an encounter with Christ?
- What happens post-encounter?
- How do we make space for God?
- How do we love God?
Relationships of Men and Women with Special Guests: Lisa and Rachel
CONTENTS OF THIS PODCAST
- The structure of relationships
- Finding order in your relationships
- Face the world and not each other
- The risk of love
- The most attractive quality in a man
- Can men and women be friends?
- Kissing on the first date?
- Over spiritualizing within relationships
The Interior Encounter
- What is good for me?
- What do I need?
- What is a bad relationship with yourself?
- How do you encounter yourself?
- How do we bring ourselves to a relationship?
- If we don't have an ordered relationship with ourselves how do we expect those around us to have a good relationship with us?
~OUTLINE LIFE WITH CHRIST~
- 1.a) Admitting your faults
- 1.b) Being okay with setting realistic Goals
- 2.a) Find Forerunners that you want to follow in their footsteps
- 2.b) Finding others in a community calling you on
- 3. Encounter a Risk
- 4. Know where you are going
Experiencing Relationships In Every Day Life
Where do we find relationships?
Are your relationships made on sand or rock?
The Sons Are Back - The Phoenix
- Day in the Life
- Entering into Fall
- What does it mean to be present?
Let the Small Balls Drop 😂
- How do we use money?
- Some math for you
- Why am I working today?
- Why is it so easy to find our identity in our work?
Do You Fear God?
- How do we fear God in a healthy way?
- Is it a fear rooted in love or a Fear rooted in sin?
- Did Jesus Fear God?
Next Level Friendship
- FELLOWSHIP | FRIENDSHIP | BROTHERHOOD
- Three levels of friendship 1)Utility 2)Pleasure 3)Next level
- Is the goal of every friendship to be a next level friend?
- Charity is contagious and is deeper.
- How do we say no?
- When is it good to say no?
- Self Care.
- You don't have to be friends with everyone, but you have to be friendly to everyone
- What is a friendship that incorporates all three friendships
The Tebow Effect
- Having Good Coaches and Mentors
- Influential Athletes, Phillip Rivers, and Tim Tebow
- Why is there a disconnect between sports and faith?
- The sports realm is full of excuses which are lies.
- Finding our Tebow effect
All Things Are Possible For One Who Believes
- The need to find confidence now that we are in positions of power
- No one is going to follow someone that isn’t confident
- Purpose and sense of achievement in God
- The gray between cockiness and confidence
- where are you grounding yourself?
- Definition: Belief that you have what it takes
- Humility and Confidence goes hand in hand
- You need to know yourself
- Humble and Confidence is the killer duo
WHAT?
- We were created with the purpose of the intention of GREATNESS
WHY?
- Men are not living in the potential that they were made to live
- Purpose…..The “Zone”
- Jesus’ Purpose was to do the will of the Father
- Deadpool?
- Live within the reality of your identity everyday and be ready to FLEX on ‘em
- You make great moments by inviting God in
HOW?
- “IF YOU CAN?” “ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR ONE WHO BELIEVES” - Jesus
- We need to discover our purpose and know it ourselves
- We need to find more time with the Lord
- Have faith and strong nerves
- We need to trust in the little things
Its Not About Falling....Its About Getting Back Up
- The Dignity of the human person
- Aestheticism and Exodus 90
- One of the problems facing our society is a man cannot sit alone in his room
- Asceticism - self-denial for a purpose to get closer to the lord
- Relying on the Lord and not the things of this world
- Don't believe the lie that you cant be holy
- You don't choose your cross you pick up the one that God gives you
- Holiness isn't perfectness
- It's not about falling it's about getting back up
- The lord allows us to stumble so we can rely on him
- We need to stand up for ourselves and Choose for ourselves
- Banter Outro
Discipline = Freedom
1 Humility
2 Identity
3 Trust
Archbishop Hebda and the Sons: Discussing the Finer Things of Life
- Lightning round
- Desires
- Vocations
Fake News Isn't New: Debunking the Biggest Lies in Christianity Pt. 2
CONTENTS OF THIS CAST
- Songs with the Sons (If You Want Love - NF)
MYTHS DEBUNKED:
- Christianity Preys on the Weak
- Christianity is anti-intillectual and anti-scientific
- Christianity is anti-sex
Blinded by the Light: Debunking the Biggest Lies in Modern Christianity
- Songs with the Sons: From now on from the Greatest Showman
- Debunking Myths
- Jesus Didn't Exist
- The Ressurection is a Myth
A Prayer in the Desert
- Steroids?
- Songs with the Sons (A Prayer by Kings Kaleidoscope)
- The Passion that would go on a cross and die for you
- In suffering and silence is where you experience God the most
- "Beauty will save the world"
- silence is a call to dive deeper
Fa la la la la la la ka-ching with Sean and John
- More spoilers
- Humanity / A Human Experience
- Freedom
- Working with our Purpose
- Jesus as a Lover
- Discernment
- Gods Passion and desire for us to choose good
- “Pray as if everything is dependent on God and work like everything is dependent on you”
- Leaving the door open in your heart
The Winter of the Soul with Sean and John
-Winter
-Darkness
-Isolation of experience
-Lonliness
The Heroes Journey
- The Sons start a new segment called Songs with the Sons, where they analyze and interpret song lyrics and tie it to the Christian journey
- What men are striving for
- The Distraction of Media
***STUPID DEEP***
- "What if who I hoped to be was always me? And the love I fought feel was always free?" - (Jon Bellion - Stupid Deep)
- "The path I've tried to cut was always clear"
***GO THE DISTANCE***
- The Road you are on is the right road for you
- "Every Mile will be worth my while"
- Far off place = Heaven
- Relationship, Identity, Mission
- Goes to his father's house
- The Journey and the story of love
- Gods glory is us fully alive
Jumping off the Cliff
- Lots of Banter
- Stories of Ireland
- John leaves
- Taking risks, and having an adventure
Thanksgiving Special
- Eric is Back
- The Question of what are you thankful for
- It's hard to be thankful
- Is it so hard to think that the Lord wants a good life for us?
- The parable of the Talents
- Challenging yourself to rid attachment to things of this world
- Stay Hungry
- Lessons from Job 38:04
- Be thankful for what the Lord has done for us in our lives
- John tries to leave but goes on a fitness rant
- Ham on thanksgiving?
The Battle Among Us
- Shoutout to WILL GOODWIN
- Johns Recap of the Philosophy Conference
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- What is going on in the microcosm of St. Thomas
- The Dignity of every person needs to be upheld
- The horrible existence of Pornography and what it is doing to our culture
- What happens to the brain during Porn
- Bring it to the light
- How we root out evil
- The Frodo Mindset "Did the ordinary things extraordinarily well"
FIGHT THE NEW DRUG TALKS - link below -
www.sonsofthundermn.com/series-1/
Trust Within Relationships with Delexi Healy
CONTENTS
- SOT Shoutouts
- Our Story
- Our Brokenness is saved
- Losing your Identity
- Need for Order
- Trust and how it transformed us
Fitness With Brennan AKA Forest Gump
- SOT lightning round
- How to run a hundred miles...
- Ping Pong
- Bringing Christ into Fitness
- The benefits... physical emotional and spiritual... of fitness
A Distracted Culture
- Intro to Technology
- Distractions in society
- Addiction in our lives
- We are closer to God in nothingness
- The easy abuse
- Actually listen to music
jon bellion video: twitter.com/jonbellion/status/1050099647610384384
www.sonsofthundermn.com/