What Is Courage? | Church 12/14/25

Assignment: Catch the first thought. Stop fighting. You present yourself differently from how you really are. Biblical Question: What is courage?

Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, December 14, 2025

📝 New Assignment: Catch the first thought. Don’t go with the second thought.

📖 This past week’s Biblical Question: What is courage?

📖 New Biblical Question: When people say, “My prayers go out…,” what do they mean?

🗓️ Women’s Forum third Thur, Dec 18, 2025, 7pm at BOND, L.A. rebuildingtheman.com/events

TIMESTAMPS

(0:00:00) - 01 - Welcome… small talk with a doctor

(0:02:09) - 02 - Shootings at Brown U. and in Australia (What’s Hanukkah?)

(0:05:57) - 03 - Attracted to women like mother; Arguing with my stepdad

(0:14:15) - 04 - Anyone else have a life?

(0:16:08) - 05 - Assignment: Catch the first thought.

(0:26:13) - 06 - Feeling heat, but caught it.

(0:31:10) - 07 - My dad was worried about me, thinking the worst. Forgiveness, Prayer

(0:37:32) - 08 - Catch the thought: no emotional pain

(0:41:26) - 09 - Doug: Slow your roll! You’ll lose interest in the world, even your marriage

(0:44:04) - 10 - Seeing things for the first time. Matthew 15: 17, Jesus on clean and unclean

(0:48:25) - 11 - Presenting yourself differently from how you really are

(0:51:38) - 12 - Negative thoughts. Ego vs Ego. Egos in the workplace.

(0:57:05) - 13 - Breaking out of family’s conditioning: “I’ve never been me.”

(1:02:10) - 14 - Car crash. Young person with depression.

(1:06:01) - 15 - Leaving early. Happy b-day, friend, 60. Raymond on vigilance

(1:08:04) - 16 - Southern gal: Things went left! Roommate’s LATE on rent!

(1:12:25) - 17 - Biblical Question: What is courage? Stop fighting. Give up illusions.

(1:20:50) - 18 - BQ… The doctor called-in to the radio show, got scared!

(1:23:06) - 19 - Devil sending you a man or woman. JLP’s stalker story.

(1:27:22) - 20 - “I’m not perfect”? You are perfect. Don’t wanna go to family party

(1:36:32) - 21 - JLP on BQ: Let the false self die.

(1:40:53) - 22 - Courage, Catching the first thought. Life will happen naturally.

(1:48:07) - 23 - Don’t go down the rabbit hole. They want you to care! S—cidal friend still alive! J Lo

(1:52:54) - 24 - New BQ: “My prayers go out to…” What does that mean? Closing

CLIPS

ASSIGNMENT: Catch the First Thought… (13-min) YouTube | Rumble

See Recent and Archive clips on BOND YouTube, BitChute, Rumble, Odysee — BOND: Rebuilding the Man

LINKS

🗒️ BLOG - https://rebuildingtheman.com/church/#podcast

🎧 PODCAST / Substack - https://rebuildingtheman.substack.com/p/what-is-courage-church-121425

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