A Summer 2021 Daily Thunder Series
Presented by ERIC Ludy
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September 6, 2021 — Passing on the Casu Marzu
This is the second episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he dives into the strange and perplexing concept of spiritual taste buds. When we enter the Kingdom of Heaven via faith in Jesus Christ, there is a process of being recalibrated in our desires, our drives, and our determinations. In a sense, God gives us new taste buds to appreciate the exquisite feast He has prepared for us — a feast that we would not appreciate or be able to stomach outside His supernatural enablement.
September 8, 2021 — Inured for Danger
This is the fifth episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he unpacks the extraordinary providence of God as shown both throughout Biblical history and in Christian missionary history throughout the past 2,000 years. Using the story of famed missionaries Don and Carol Richardson and their work in the 1960’s with the head-hunting Sawi people as his muse for this message, he showcases the awe-striking way God works to provide light for a people that are seemingly lost in total darkness. It is deeply moving and truly astounding.
September 14, 2021 — Dreamer of Dreams
This is the sixth episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he unpacks the theological mindset that the missionaries of this past century shared that led them to radical givenness and great risk on the mission field. And it’s a mindset that, for the most part, is no longer present in the modern Church. Simply put, the mindset was, “Bring back the King!”
September 15, 2021 — Never For A Moment
This is the seventh installment in the Daring to Do as Stanley Dale series with special guest, Leslie Ludy. In this episode, Leslie shares some powerful audio excerpts from Darlene Diebler Rose’s testimony – a missionary in the interior of New Guinea for 46 years. Leslie explores three spiritual lessons we can learn from Darlene’s example of faithfulness, surrender, and long-suffering for the glory of God.
September 17, 2021 — The Tuan Invasion
This is the eighth episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he discusses the ethics of foreign missions. Is it our job as Christians to poke our noses into the cultural and religious affairs of others? Should we just mind our own business? Or is our business the actual invading of foreign places where the Gospel has not yet been heard and delivering the Gospel in order to wholly alter that culture?
September 19, 2021 — Staring Down the Shock Troops
This is the ninth episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he investigates the astounding spiritual courage and boldness of men and women of God throughout these past 100 years. The series title, Daring to Do as Stanley Dale begins to really take shape in and through this particular message.
September 22, 2021 — A Mission Field Right Here
This is the eleventh installment in the epic fall Daily Thunder series entitled Daring to Do as Stanley Dale, which draws on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s.
Leslie Ludy joins as a special guest in this episode and unpacks the principle of developing a missionary-mindset wherever we are. This session expounds upon the many mission fields that are right in our own backyard, and shows us that Christ’s Gospel work is just as critical in our own country as on foreign soil.
September 24, 2021 — Building Commandos
This is the twelfth episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he investigates the powerful training institute God raised up in this time to train, equip, and inspire a generation of missionaries with a passionate yearning to reach the unreached of this earth.
September 26, 2021 — When I am Weak
This is the thirteenth episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this episode he explores the rough beginnings of the man, Stanley Albert Dale. And then he demonstrates how that very “roughness,” that nearly suffocated Stanley in his childhood, was the very same “roughness” that worked a very real wonder, glory, and awe forever in the hearts of the tribal inhabitants of the Dark Mountains of Irian Jaya in the 1960’s.
Daring to Die as Stanley Dale – October 15, 2021
This is the twenty-second episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this momentous episode he explores the final moments of Stanley Dale’s earthly life up unto the moment he triumphantly died in 1968 for the sake of Christ. Stanley Dale’s martyrdom was an extraordinary catalyst to the winning of the Yali people. And it has been a dynamic catalyst to tens of thousands of believers to be built by the Holy Spirit to go and do the same.
Daring to Care as Kusaho – October 18, 2021
This is the twenty-third and final episode in Eric Ludy’s epic fall Daily Thunder series drawing on the boldness and bravery of the fearless missionary ventures to Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea) during the twenty-five years from WW2 up until the massive harvest of souls in the 1960’s. In this final episode he shows how God turns even the greatest tragedies into His greatest triumphs.
Daring To Do As Stanley Dale
Presented by Eric Ludy
In 1938 something historic began to unfold on this earth. It was a daring missionary movement of epic proportions. At the very time in history when Hitler was beginning to exert his malevolent power in Europe and evil was conspiring to bring the world under its boot, God was also conspiring. He was conspiring to aggressively go after the souls of the hundreds of thousands of forgotten and unknown peoples of Irian Jaya (Papua New Guinea). This is that epic tale. A tale of God’s boundless love for those imprisoned in sin, bound in demonic traditions, and, in many ways, repulsive to the natural man — people that considered the traitor the hero and the most grotesque cannibal in their midst the greatest among them. God didn’t just go after these needy souls — He won them to Himself. Stanley Dale is merely one of the heroic missionaries that gave up everything to share the message of Jesus with these dangerous people. But, Stanley Dale, though very real, is a symbolic character in this series. He symbolizes the very imperfect messenger willingly laying down his life in order to reach the the unreached of this earth by introducing them to the astounding gospel of Jesus Christ.