{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"West Side Church of Christ - Elkton Ky","title":"A Message From The Apostle Thomas(From our 4-20-25 Worship)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2289,"description":"In this episode, I pretend to be the apostle Thomas preaching one year after the resurrection of Jesus.\nWatch the video version here: https://youtu.be/yujK2-wkO_8\nTranscript:\n Shalom. Shalom, brothers and sisters, grace and Peace to each and every one of you.\nIf you don't know my, my name is Thomas and I don't bring this up to. To build myself up in any way, but I was blessed to be one of the 12 that got to walk with our Lord.\nToday is an encouraging day. It's the Lord's day, and we get to worship the true and living God of of heaven. We know him and we love him, and I believe the house is a little fuller today than it normally is, but.\nI don't want you this morning to, to look at me and build me up because I was one of our Lord's apostles. I'm not perfect. I never will be, but it's hard for me to remember sometimes that some of you, even just a short while ago that it was that, that you didn't get to walk with her. Lord. Yes. You didn't get to see him, you didn't get to hear him with your own ears.\nSo today, I, I stand not before you as someone who better than you or someone who has something internally inside of me that's better than you, that you can't ever arise to. I simply stand before you today because I want you to be able to see our Lord and Savior with your, the eyes of your heart, and I want you to be able to hear him.\nWith the ears of your mind, I want you to be able to experience him like we were blessed to be able to experience him. You know, some people, some people make fun of me. They wanna call me Doubting Thomas, and I don't really think that name fits. But when our Lord died on that cross, it shook me to the core, just like it did all the apostles.\nAnd I'm not proud of those days, but I hope that what you can get from our time together today is that even, even in the darkest place that you are, even with the biggest doubts that you may have, you can still search out the truth. He was a dark tie. My heart was broken, but I still sought for the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lvjrvJQzIzEamCIrdKMIrIgeJhJiQm_6B3NGmBkvnkU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMTFj/NDA4ZDU1M2YyMDdj/ZWFiZjA0MDU1MDE2/NWNmNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}