Best Eric Ludy Nathan Johnson Podcasts (2025)

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1305: The Only Way Forward // The Awful Fear of the Lord 14 (Nathan Johnson) 1:00:14

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In this concluding message of our series on the awful fear of the Lord, we bring together the key truths we've explored and discover how holy fear transforms every aspect of Christian life. In this study, Nathan tackles several practical questions like: How can we increase our fear of the Lord? What do we do when we struggle to relate to God with f…

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1304: No Bird Soars in a Calm // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 29 (Eric Ludy) 53:44

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This message puts the punctuation on the entire series. As the final episode, it brings the entire storyline in for a beautiful landing (pun intended). We follow Wilbur Wright to New York City and his final public flight. It is there that we are freshly stirred to remember that--since we never know when our last flight is going to be flown--we shou…

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1303: The Homecoming // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 28 (Eric Ludy) 55:24

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Throughout Christian history, the greatest longing of the believer has always been to go home to be with Jesus. As the Apostle Paul said, “to live is Christ, but to die is gain.” The world is unable to look at death as gain, but the Christian does. This message parallels the Homecoming welcome of the Wright brothers in Dayton, Ohio in 1909 with our…

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1302: Knowing God’s Ways // The Awful Fear of the Lord 13 (Nathan Johnson) 1:07:07

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Throughout Scripture, knowing God’s ways and fearing Him are inseparable. If you do not have a holy fear and live in humility, you will not understand or be able to walk in His ways. And yet, like the Israelites of old, it is possible to be close to God and yet never experience Him. The Psalmist wrote that God “made known His ways to Moses, His act…

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1301: The Tattered Flying Machine // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 27 (Eric Ludy) 44:40

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The Wright Brothers built magnificent flying machines. Many of them were officially retired due to crashes in the early years of flight discovery. But there was one particular flyer that was not magnificent—it was tattered, ripped, re-stitched. It was built differently than all the others. Out of necessity, it was built out of broken and smashed pi…

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1300: Tragedy unto Greater Triumph // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 26 (Eric Ludy) 48:24

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September 17, 1908 tragedy struck. At Ft. Myers, in Washington D.C., Orville Wright had broken seven aeronautical world records over the previous two weeks. He was on top of the world. And then a grief intruded into the Wright Brother’s storyline. But, as in every good story, grief is never the final chapter, it’s merely a difficult stretch along t…

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1299: Orville's Encore // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 25 (Eric Ludy) 51:02

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In September 1908 all the pressure is on Orville Wright. In August, his older brother, Wilbur, amazed the world over in Le Mans, France, demonstrating the abilities of the Wright’s flying machine before a skeptical Europe. But now it’s Orville’s turn to show his stuff in front of skeptical America. On September 3, 1908 the pressure on Orville is ne…

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1298: Triumph // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 24 (Eric Ludy) 49:06

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After years of put-downs, ridicule, and mockery the day finally arrived for Wilbur and Orville Wright to show the world that they actually were flyers and not liars. In Le Mans, France on August 8, 1908, the stage was set for one of the most extraordinary public breakthroughs in history. There is an August 8, 1908 in every life that lives for Truth…

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1297: Discover the Delight of Obedience // The Awful Fear of the Lord 12 (Nathan Johnson) 55:51

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God has called Christians to a life of holiness, godliness, and righteousness—a life conformed to the image of Jesus Himself. Yet, for many of us, we dislike holiness and find obedience to be difficult. What is the solution to our desire for sin and our passivity toward obeying God? In this study, Nathan proposes that the fear of the Lord is the so…

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1296: The Bread and Cheese Moment // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 23 (Eric Ludy) 55:36

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Wilbur and Orville, even after discovering human-controlled flight on December 17, 1903, still traversed difficulty after difficulty in convincing everyone that they did indeed accomplish the feat. From December 1903 to August 1908, the Wrights were accused of being liars instead of flyers. Each of our lives has a segment like this-a stretch of par…

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1295: A Pair of Shotguns // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 22 (Eric Ludy) 1:05:48

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The Wright Brothers headed back to Kitty Hawk, NC in 1907 for the expressed purpose of getting alone and remembering afresh how to fly. They hadn’t flown for two and a half years and they had become a bit rusty in the art. How often we need the same thing in our spiritual lives—a return to wilderness, the desert, the solitude in order to rekindle t…

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1294: Holy Fear Brings Freedom // The Awful Fear of the Lord 11 (Nathan Johnson) 1:00:48

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When we have a proper (godly, holy) fear of the Lord, it brings forth freedom and life within the believer. It not only dispels all other fears from our lives, it also enables us to live victorious over sin and live in obedience to God and His Word. In this study, Nathan gives a refined definition of the “awful fear of the Lord” and explores how ho…

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1293: Unpurchasable // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 21 (Eric Ludy) 57:32

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Rumor has it that everyone has a price. Supposedly, even the most virtuous man or woman, the most stouthearted, have their breaking point—the price point at which they are willing to compromise. However, those concocting such theories have never met Jesus Christ—a man who had no price and was totally and completely unpurchasable. This chapter in th…

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1292: Across the Pond // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 20 (Eric Ludy) 45:56

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By 1905 the Wright Brothers had officially learned to fly. They had a testable and provable flying machine. But, even though human-controlled flight was a reality, less than 1% of Americans believed the accomplishment was real. The Wright Brothers spent the entire year of 1905 attempting to convince the American War Department that they had somethi…

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1291: The Beginning of Knowledge // The Awful Fear of the Lord 10 (Nathan Johnson) 52:30

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In Solomon’s introduction to the book of Proverbs, he gives three key purposes for the book but gives a central premise: the fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge. In this study, Nathan explores Proverbs 1:1–7 and expounds upon wisdom, discipline, understanding, and how the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (and what that even m…

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1290: The Big Announcement // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 19 (Eric Ludy) 53:55

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The Wright Brother’s achieved flight on December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC. The problem was, no one believed them. It wasn’t until nine months later (September 20, 1904), back in Dayton, Ohio that the brothers were able to demonstrate to the world that their Kitty Hawk claims of 1903 were actually true. But, outside their intimate team, there was …

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1289: The Second Wind // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 18 (Eric Ludy) 1:02:43

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In the Wright Brother’s story of flight, wind was an essential ingredient. First it was the natural winds of Kitty Hawk—they learned to master the gusting winds, gain lift, and soar. But, then, in 1904, they needed to figure out how to fly even when there wasn’t any wind. And this challenge proved to be an even greater problem. Like Wilbur and Orvi…

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1288: Learning the Fear of Yahweh (Psalm 34) // The Awful Fear of the Lord 09 (Nathan Johnson) 1:04:12

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In Psalm 34, David invites his listeners to learn the fear of Yahweh. But far more than an intellectual pursuit, David reminds us that to fear of the Lord, it demands that our lives come into alignment (conformed) with the God that we stand in awe and tremble before. In other words, to fear God means to have His righteousness, holiness, purity, and…

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1287: A short pause and debrief (Eric Ludy + Nathan Johnson) 12:23

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In this special Daily Thunder, Eric and Nathan reflect upon their current series and mention that we are currently taking a three week break from Daily Thunder. We jump back into Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers and the Awful Fear of the Lord on September 10.

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1286: Huffman Prairie // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 17 (Eric Ludy) 1:01:01

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Huffman Prairie represents a significant chapter in the Wright Brother’s story, but a “Huffman Prairie” chapter is certainly not unique to them. It’s a chapter that each of us must pass through. And how we pass through it defines whether or not we fulfill our high calling and actually fly. ------------ » Take these studies deeper and be discipled i…

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1285: Overcoming the Three Day Stink // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 16 (Eric Ludy) 59:05

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The Wright Brothers accomplished something on December 17, 1903 that changed the course of history. And yet, no one believed them. Their hometown of Dayton didn’t pull together a big parade to welcome the boys home from Kitty Hawk—no one was in a celebratory mood. In fact, one in every hundred Daytonians believed the brothers had actually accomplis…

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1284: I Stand in Awe of You // The Awful Fear of the Lord 08 (Nathan Johnson) 1:07:40

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“Wow!” It’s a word that expresses astonishment or admiration or to excite someone greatly. Yet that state of awe and wonder should be how stand before God and His Word. In this study, we examine what it means to have “holy fear” (reverence marked by awe and a tremble) in light of awe, wonder, and living with a “wow” before who our God is and the au…

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1283: Twelve Seconds // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 15 (Eric Ludy) 1:05:15

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The Christian life is all about faith. But, what many Christians don’t realize is that it is not just the presence of faith that causes the Christian to triumph. It’s the testing of that faith; the proving of that faith as genuine that showcases the power of heavenly triumph. December 17, 1903 was a day of triumph. It was the first day of human con…

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1282: Sculpting the Sand Hills // Spiritual Lessons from the Wright Brothers 14 (Eric Ludy) 1:02:49

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When we think of the Wright Brothers, we think of two extraordinary men that pulled off an impossible feat all by their lonesome. And that is correct . . . sort of. There was actually a third person involved in this amazing accomplishment, but he is rarely ever discussed and, still to this day, is relatively unknown. His name was Charlie Taylor. It…

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1281: Lost in the Wonder of Our God // The Awful Fear of the Lord 07 (Nathan Johnson) 51:46

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I’ve been defining the “fear of the Lord” as having reverence for God mixed with tremble and awe. Over the past few studies we’ve looked at the idea of “tremble” and defined “reverence,” but what does it mean to stand in awe of God? In this study, we explore the idea of wonder, what it means to be lost in the wonder and greatness of our God, and se…