Thriving in The Word

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we take a deep dive into the foundational landscape of Genesis chapters 1 through 11, focusing squarely on the gripping sibling drama of  Cain and Abel.

We start by busting a common misconception (and joke): God is not a vegan. When lo...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

We are continuing our deep-dive study on Genesis chapters 1 through 11! In this thought-provoking and upbeat episode, we confront the ultimate collision of faith, logic, and human history.

We unpack the radical truth that science and Scripture do not conflict, challenging both the casual doubter and the deeply entrenched criti...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Ben Cossette, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

We interupt this regularly scheduled program and study of Genesis to bring you our 250th episode or should we call it, rabbit trail on Artificial Intelligence and the prediction that it will end mankind in 10 years (many saying 10% chance).

Is this the end, or just a massive rabbit trail? In this...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Week 2 of our new study on Genesis chapters 1 through 11! In this foundation-setting episode, we dive deep into obedience versus disobedience and did God really say that? We unpack Genesis 3 where Adam and Eve are tempted by the serpent.

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Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

We are kicking off a brand-new study on Genesis chapters 1 through 11! In this foundation-setting episode, we dive deep into the ultimate origin story to answer the most fundamental question of human existence: Who is God? We unpack the beauty, the chaos, and the radical truths found i...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Mik McHugh and James Gowell

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

While this book is filled with raw grief and sorrow, it also holds profound truths about God's sovereignty and our ultimate hope. In this episode, we unpack why suffering is never meaningless when it is anchored in the Creator.We shift our gaze away from our immediate circumstances and ask the most critical question:...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Johnny V., and James Gowell

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Jerusalem is in ruins. The streets are empty. The people are in chains. And the prophet sits in the ash and weeps.

Lamentations isn't a book for the put-together, it's a book for anyone who has ever felt abandoned, forgotten, or spiritually numb. Five chapters of raw grief that somehow land on the most stunning declaration in the Old Testament...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this deep-dive episode, we walk through all five chapters of Lamentations, one of the most raw and honest books in the entire Bible. This isn't a feel-good study. This is what real grief, real discipline, and real restoration actually look like — and why you need to hear it.We cover:

• Cannibalism in the ...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Ben Cossette, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell 

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this deep-dive episode, we walk through all five chapters of Lamentations, one of the most raw and honest books in the entire Bible. This isn't a feel-good study. This is what real grief, real discipline, and real restoration actually look like — and why you need to hear ...

Featuring: David LaManna, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

What do you do when everything falls apart — and God feels silent?

In Week 2 of our deep dive into Lamentations, we continue walking through all five chapters of one of the most raw, overlooked books in Scripture. This isn't a comfortable Bible study. This is gut-level honesty about sin, suffering, isolation, and what happens when you've been livin...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Mike McHugh, Ben Cossette, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

Most people skip Lamentations. It's raw, it's brutal, and it doesn't come with a tidy bow. But what if that's exactly why you need it?

In this week's episode of Thriving in the Word, we kick off a brand-new series walking through all five chapters of Lamentations — and we're starting with a truth that...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this final episode of Thriving in the Word and the Hall of Faith series, Judah opens by reading the closing verses of Hebrews 11 and the section following. In this section the writer shifts from naming names to describing the unnamed. No introduction. No backstory. Just a list of what they did, what they suffered, an...

Featuring: David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, David kicks us off by reading the section of Hebrews where Barak and several others are mentioned without description. David then reads stories from the Book of Judges where we learn about Barak.

James then gives some historical background, how God spoke to the Prophet Deborah, promi...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we continue our deep-dive Hall of Faith series by exploring one of the most relatable and unlikely heroes in all of Scripture: Gideon.We open in Hebrews 11:32, where the writer highlights a band of imperfect judges who "turned weakness to s...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Ben Cossette, Mike McHugh, and James Gowell.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we continue The Hall of Faith series and land on one of the most unlikely heroes in all of Scripture — a woman the world had already written off, living in a city God was about to bring down.

We open in Hebrews 11:31, where Judah reads the actual text &md...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., and Mike McHugh.

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we continue The Hall of Faith series and we stop at one of the most iconic figures in all of Scripture — but we start with two people whose names most people never learned.

We open in Hebrews 11:23–26 and trace back through Exodus 2, where two unnamed ...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Ben Cossette, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell
Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we continue The Hall of Faith series and arrive at one of the most beloved figures in all of Scripture: Joseph. But instead of focusing on the colorful coat, the dreams, the pit, the prison, or even the palace, Hebrews 11 points us to a much different momen...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Ben Cossette, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell 

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we continue The Hall of Faith series and we stop at a man who spent most of his life running — from his brother, from his past, from himself — and still somehow ended up in the Hall of Faith, leaning on a staff at the end of his days...

Featuring: Judah Thomas, David LaManna, Lenny Salgado, Johnny V., Mike McHugh, and James Gowell

Edited by: Tim Nicholson

In this episode of Thriving in the Word, we continue The Hall of Faith series and we stop at a man who spent his whole life living inside someone else's story and still found a way to pass the promise forward.

We walk through Genesis 25, 26, and 27 and trace it into Hebrews 11:20, where Isaac, by faith, fo...