ordsmithing, The Art of Using Words to Influence Our Minds”   Show Description:   Do you realize how effective words are to affect the way you think and behave? Sticks and stones will break my bones will never harm me”. That childish statement is a lie. Everything we do in life emanates from a thought we have. Every thought we have comes from a word or picture (remember a picture is like a thousand words) that sits in our mind, and we believe it. In the Theatre of the Mind the use of...

“How Truth Connects Us to Our Father Through the Eyes of a Child”   Show Description:   Many are familiar with the saying from Scripture, “unless you become like a child again you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven”. This podcast discusses Papa Tom’s Tales Book Three “The Birthday Present”. In the tradition of each book overcoming a specific fear via the love of God the Father, this book deals with the Spirit of Deception. The background to this book is discussed as in the famous style...

“The Fatherlike Characteristic of An Avenger”   Show Description:   What does Avenger mean in the Bible? Avenger translates Hebrew go'el , which in its verbal form means to redeem. Redemption applies to repossessing things consecrated to God (Leviticus 27:13-31 ) or to God's actions for His people (Exodus 6:6; Job 19:25; Psalm 103:4; Isaiah 43:1 ).   This podcast with Jaime Luce is a discussion of the redeeming characteristic of a Father who seeks to redeem or repossess. It is...

For better or for worse, stories effect the way we think and consequently how we relate to each other. This podcast discusses why stories exist; what their varied purposes are, and how it affects our minds and our relationships. Personally, I believe my calling is to be a Storyteller. It has taken me 70 years to walk into my calling, however once I landed in this role, I am where I am supposed to be. One way or the other stories effect our minds. Jesus told parables to reveal spiritual...

Bring your Kleenex to listen to this podcast. This is an interview with Sam Sanchez who transparently discusses his relationship with his father. Sam is a father of four children himself and one of three in his family of origin. Sam’s father was functionally illiterate, barely having a 7th grade education. Yet, when you listen to Sam’s stories about his father you will be touched by the emotional connection Sam had with his Dad. I will not go into any detail with you in this description as I...

This podcast is about good discipline in the true sense of the word from a good father. This podcast addresses the issue of discipline from both a spiritual and natural perspective. When a father disciplines his children, he should never use his hand. The hand of a father is for blessing and affection. The same is true with the Hand of God our Father. Our Father’s Hand is to bless not to punish.   Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are older, they shall not depart from...

This podcast is a story of redemption. Many people have heard the story of the Prodigal son in Scripture. The son left home, spent all his inheritance in wayward living and debauchery and finally awoke to the realization that the servants in his father’s house were living a much better life than he was living and so he decided to return to his father’s house. The father embraced his son, all was forgiven. The father gave his son a robe, a ring and new sandals, artifacts that all symbolized...

This podcast discusses the concept of who we are connected to? Where do we come from? Who are we descended from? The importance of knowing who your father is goes beyond the thought of who your natural father is. If you know who your father is, do you follow him?  The podcast discusses the dialogue between Jesus and the Pharisees about who their father was and who Jesus’s Father was. The real issue here is the attempt of the Evil one to deceive us from realizing who our true Father is. Many...

This podcast discusses with a successful college football coach, Tony Pierce, the absence of fathers in young men’s lives. Tony’s father was the youngest of 20 children and never learned how to be a father himself. There appears to be a generational curse operating in America and perhaps around the world, wherein young men are not being trained to be fathers. When a young male sires a child we place the label “father” on him, yet most of the time he is clueless about how to be a true father...

This podcast addresses the issue of how our lives are being affected by changes in our society in the words we use to create new reasons for people to be offended and consequently divided and separated. The purpose of The Father’s Heart Talk Show is to help us connect. Offenses cause the opposite effect; we become separated. This podcast has four stories that illustrate how people are offended, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. Come listen to how you can overcome offense or...

This podcast is a presentation of the process of thinking outside of oneself about others. Everything “other” is the antithesis of self-centeredness. Three stories are given about Otherness. The first story is showing the effect of a grandson discussing with his grandfather a topic very dear to the grandson’s heart. The grandfather's defense mechanisms were pierced by the innocent and pure motive of his grandson whose only concern was his grandfather’s well-being. Come listen to this story...

This podcast delivers a perspective of Halloween from the dark side. Consider the truth that we are all spiritual beings having natural experiences rather than natural beings having spiritual experiences. As spiritual beings whose side are we on? We will find ourselves on either one side or the other: The Kingdom of Heaven or the Domain of Darkness. Let’s look at how the dark side perceives Halloween, Satan’s High Holy Day. All Hallows Eve, All Souls Day, the day when death first entered the...

This podcast introduces the discusses how anyone can find their identity, calling and destiny. The background of this podcast in the Book One of Papa Tom’s Tales: “The Boy Who Found His Name”. However, the search for one’s identity transcends all ages. How sad it would be for someone to live their whole life and never come to know who they are! The approach of using the genre of a Children’s Book to broach the subject of identity permits one to understand how simple it really is to understand...

We cannot understate the importance of the meaning of words. The word “repentance” often brings negative connotations of someone in “sackcloth and ashes” which is not the true meaning of the word. Come listen to the true meaning of repentance, turning 180 degrees from one direction to the opposite direction. Papa Tom shares personal stories about his own father, his family, and his personal life decisions to receive repentance as a gift which opens the door to blessing and favor. There are...

Come listen to this podcast wherein two fathers in the financial services industry discuss how they learned about money from their family of origin. Ted DeLisi and Joe Delmonte are our guests on this podcast wherein we interviewed them for the “The Father’s Heart Talk Show.” Both Ted and Joe discuss their approach to how to allocate the resources of Time, Energy and Money.  Which perspective do you have? Do you have a poverty mentality or a wealth mentality? Do you come from poverty or...

This podcast describes a conversation Papa Tom had with the Father about Energy. The conversation started with how one best utilizes their resources: time, energy and money. It moved into understanding God the Father’s resource is energy. We are made in His image and likeness: He creates through the power of His Word. We can do the same thing. Everything is held together with the Power of His Word or inversely the Word of His Power. Come listen to Papa Tom discuss how gaining greater...

Have you ever taken the time to ask yourself the question: “do you know where you are going?” If you have been honest with yourself, you may find the answer is you are lost on your journey through life. Most of us who live in a civilized society are distracted from the reality in which we find ourselves. Media, entertainment and sporting events occupy our awake moments when we are not working. How often do we take the time to have a real, meaningful conversation with someone?  Herein in this...

Addressing our mission statement “Bringing the hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the Hearts of the Children to the Fathers”, this podcast adds an additional thought which precedes the above statement: These are the days of Elijah. The Days of Elijah are the days when prophets are raised up to prepare the for the second coming. We are in those days right now. The Father’s Heart Talk Show is based on an appeal to reach out to people to get connected. Who should you get connected to?...

This podcast discusses the importance of being understood. Communication via talking is extremely important to all our relationships. Papa Tom discusses how we interpret words that are spoken to us and affect our lives in a dramatic way. Understanding the meaning of words, the tone delivered by the person speaking, their body language, etc. All these manners of communicating help us relate to one another. Come listen to our presentation of how words and images affect our behavior by...

As difficult as it is to connect with people, places, and things that we can see; how much more difficult it is to connect with people, places, and things we cannot see. Dreams provide a channel for connection and communication beyond our five senses. While our five senses are the gates to our mind, dreams open the door to our imaginations to see into another world that we cannot see or perceive with our natural eyes. Is it any wonder the most likely time for us to dream is when we are...

Few people live lives comfortable in their own shoes. Few find careers satisfying to their natures, giftings and callings. Of the few people who find such careers, how many become lawyers? Occasionally, you can find such a person, when you do you will find they have a purpose in life beyond the apparent day to day things they do, they find meaning in what they do. How many lawyers find true meaning in the Law? You can find lawyers performing their jobs for the money, power, prestige etc., but...

This podcast is Part One of a Two Part series of interviews with an old family friend who from any perspective is considered a “mensch”. The dictionary defines a mensch as someone who is a person of integrity and honor. The Jewish culture would also imply in Yiddish that such person had an imminently successful career. Such is the case with Robert G. Flanders Jr., or more affectionately Bob Flanders. Few people live lives that in the eyes of the world reach the highest levels of success and...

It seems right that I meet Tyler Lee at a Freedom Convoy in rural North Carolina. Tyler is a young man from Virginia, the home of many of our nation’s statesman. He was born in Virginia, raised in a Biblically sound family of four brothers. He always wanted to be businessman, not a politician, but God led him to run for political office as a US Congressman from the 12th District in North Carolina. Come listen to Tyler’s story. Come listen to how God His Father led him in is life to this...

This podcast addresses the question about why we seem to feel the need to help God out with our Calling and Destiny. One of my teenage children once told me that “he had it all under control”. Come listen to the context when this statement was made at 2:00am in the morning with the police on the phone. From a teenager’s perspective nothing to worry about here “I got it all under control”. From a parent’s perspective all hell was breaking loose. It was not just that I knew that he didn’t have...

The phase the bait of Satan is taking offense (This term is taken from the book “The Bait of Satan” by John Bevere. This podcast deals with the bait of Satan from the perspective of how it affects our destiny. Not to say that we will not reach our destiny, however, when we are offended, we are sidetracked from our destiny and that is the devil’s plan. The only one who can stop you from reaching your own destiny is you. When you become offended you derail yourself from your own destiny. Come...