Faith in Focus

Jamey Dolby: Years of Rage & Detroit to Deliverance

How do you get from Detroit, Michigan to Oklahoma City,Oklahoma?  How do you beat the odds ofgrowing up in a fatherless home and now being a great father to your children and a great father figure to other fatherless teens?  How do years of anger get wiped away to turnto joy? There is only one answer, God. Jamey Dolby is from a single mother home in the Detroit areawhere he experienced a revolving door of men that didn’t turn into fathers.  But one day one man stuckaround even when he didn’t have to.  For the first time Jamey felt like he could connect to someone who really caredabout him and his brother.  But it all faded too soon…and the anger would soon set in. That loss would be a pivotal turning point in the soul of Jamey Dolby.  But God had other plans.  Rage does not have the final word, God does!  Listento find out what really happened to Jamey as he grew up and how God used him to change other teen’s lives that looked similar to his own through youth ministry and the teen challenge ministry.

Dwight Dozier: Old Magazines, Ephraim's Loneliness, and Church Multiplication in Rural Ministry

A Christian giant in the Kansas Assembly of God, Dwight Dozier, has been able to create a great amount of impact for God's kingdom over the years, because of God and the willingness to serve. Dwight had a superhero for a mom, taking him and his other siblings to church by herself as they grew up. With a rollercoaster of a relationship with the Lord in his early years, Dwight said he just wanted to fell noticed by the Lord. Well, he was and then he took that to the next level in his continual years in ministry by helping save dying churches and giving resources to others that needed it. Listen to see that God still has plans for greater kingdom impact in the church!

A Façade, Chasing Happiness, and the Long Game with Adam Hathaway.

Adam Hathaway grew up in a military family bouncing from one country to another.  His parents were one of the most stable areas of his life.  With a marine father who was highly promotable and had a prominent name and a mother who loved Jesus, Adam had a good up bringing.  Adam grew up attending church when the rare opportunity arose, but he mainly went out of obligation to his mother, but life changed when he left for college. After Adam got out of the house and went to the university, alcohol entered the conversation and did not leave for a LONG time.  Adam classified his battle with alcohol among other self-destructive behaviors as a ‘game.’  “Sin will leave no leftovers.  It doesn’t want part of you; it wants all of you.  Satan plays the long game, but God plays a longer game.”  In over a ten-year bout with managing a façade while chasing cheap moments for happiness, we see that the inward battle of chasing ‘good things’ devoid of God still leave you feeling empty.

A Pastor Sows The Seed with a Lady of the Night

Pastor and author Tony Campolo flies into Honolulu for a conference, but his sleep schedule doesn’t account for sleeping in Hawaii.  With no chance of having sweet dreams anymore, Pastor Tony looks for some breakfast but finds something entirely different.  A birthday party, a pastor and how the wise words of Jesus and Mother Teresa can change anyone’s life. Make sure to check out Levi Lusko’s book, “Last Supper on the Moon” and Tony Campolo’s book, “Kingdom of Heaven is a Party.” https://www.amazon.com/KINGDOM-GOD-PARTY-Tony-Campolo/dp/0849933994 [https://www.amazon.com/KINGDOM-GOD-PARTY-Tony-Campolo/dp/0849933994] https://www.amazon.com/Last-Supper-Moon-Christs-Fantastic/dp/0785252851 [https://www.amazon.com/Last-Supper-Moon-Christs-Fantastic/dp/0785252851]

40 Martyrs of Sebaste: Soldier for Heaven First; Soldiers of the Roman Empire Second

The Roman Empire was split between the east and the west, but even worse than that, the empire was split between God and persecution. In the moderately sized town of Sebaste, 40 Roman soldiers find themselves on the wrong side of the empire to be on the right side of The Kingdom of God. In a battle of wills and of faith in God, these 40 men stood their ground against the icy winds of evil and chose to endure to the frozen end. Bribery, power, position, torture, traitors, and much more in this episode about the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste.