Season 2 Episode 8 A BLAST FROM THE PAST – Songs that Form the Soundtrack of our Teenage Dreams Why do the songs we heard as a teenager sound sweeter than anything we have ever listened to as an adult? In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have done plenty of research and have confirmed that these oldies but goodies hold disproportionate power over our emotions. And researchers have uncovered evidence that suggests our brains bind us to the music that we heard as teenagers more tigh...
Jan 06, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 8
SEASON 2 EPISODE 7: SEEKING FORGIVENESS - How Difficult is It to Find Forgiveness Hello Everyone. Today I will be presenting one of the most challenging topics that, over time, I've incorporated into a dozen or more of my novels… FORGIVENESS. I can't seem to wrap my mind around just how in the world people find forgiveness… How do you let go of grudges? How do you let go of bitterness? When someone you care about hurts you, you can hold on to anger, resentment, and thoughts of revenge — or embra...
Jan 04, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Hello Everyone. Welcome to the New Year 2022. I laid my pen down for the last several months of 2021 and paid more attention to my new Podcast Show , and simply gave a long rest from writing. However, I am not sure what I will be choosing, but if you would like to know what I am working on, I will give you a glimpse of what is yet to be for this coming year. Furthermore, I will be releasing the audio version of The Winds of Destiny, available wherever audiobooks are sold. But for now, let’s get ...
Jan 03, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Christmas Memories with Great Christmas Traditions from Sidney St. James Including… The Twelve Days of Christmas Christmas is stuffed to the brim of memories for most of us. Hopefully, yours are great memories of the family, good food, and if you ate my grandmother's cooking in Louisiana, you would agree, and unique gifts. Your memories, if they are like mine, might be funny ones— My father installing Christmas lights or Aunt Ida bringing her dreaded jello-salad — but there's no denying that Chr...
Dec 29, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Of all of James' novels, "I Am Woman" won the race as best seller of all. Four beautiful young women, known throughout the novel as the “Four Musketeers,” pledged a lifelong friendship with each other before the beginning of the Civil War and follow their lives of falling in love after graduation from the Hampton Women’s College. They signed their life away to become a slave to their husbands based on our country's laws in the 1860s. Frances “Fran” Meyer, Jackie ‘Bonzo’ Hager, and Debbie “Deb” K...
Dec 29, 2021•5 min
SEASON 2 EPISODE 5 GOD HUMBLES HIMSELF ON THE DAY JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN Merry Christmas Everyone and welcome to my Christmas Day Edition of the Sidney St. James Show. Wow, another year has come and gone. When you are much younger, it seems like it takes forever for Christmas to roll around again and again. However, in my family, it’s almost a December Curse. Not Christmas, something unwanted always happens. This year my December Curse is Covid-19. Although I had all three vaccines which includes...
Dec 24, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 5
A 5-minute soundbite of a short story of a Sunday School lesson at the First Presbyterian Church in Eagle Lake.
Dec 16, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 4
God called to Jonah one day and told him to go and preach to Nineveh because the people were very wicked. Jonah didn’t like this idea one cotton-pickin’ bit because Nineveh was one of Israel's biggest enemies and Jonah didn’t want anything whatsoever to do with preaching to them! So, Jonah tried to run away from God in the opposite direction of Nineveh and headed by boat to Tar-shish. While crossing the great waters, God sent a great storm upon the ship, waves over 20 feet high and the men decid...
Nov 23, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Lord, I Want to be Like Jesus in My Heart? Episode 25: Noah and the Flood: The Gospel in the Old Testament Hello Everyone. I was sitting here this morning after a torrential downfall of rain outside and said to myself, "My God, it's raining cats and dogs… and so… He answered... yes, just like it did almost 4,500 years ago in 2348 BC… That's when I got this vision of what my final Podcast for Season 1 should be. As I stared out the window watching the water run down the street, my thoughts turned...
Oct 19, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 25
SEASON 1 PODCAST 24: Is Through Jesus Christ the only Pathway to Heaven? Don’t all religions lead to God? Or, are we, as Christians, really so narrow-minded and intolerant to think so? The Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds read from her Bible while standing at the pulpit at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Easter, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” That brings me to ask myself, what about those who have never heard? The other night while dining with a very dear frien...
Sep 15, 2021•32 min
Is Abraham Lincoln the next American historical personage to be canceled by the left? Protesters in Portland tore down a statue of the venerated President, and some figures of him are targets for removal in other places. Why is Honest Abe so suddenly so blasted controversial? First, I don’t wish to sit here today and talk “politics.” When I join friends, it is the only subject matter that makes for unpleasant conversation. But, this particular part of so-called politics is destroying your and my...
Sep 15, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 23
One of the most significant challenges faced by Christianity and Christians is the reality of evil and suffering. I am writing a screenplay now for Hollywood called Faith – Seventy Times Seven , and I watched another script on television, I Still Believe. Playing the role of Jeremy Camp, the lead character questioned God as to why he let the woman he loved die from cancer at such an early age. He got angry and tore everything up around him. I must admit, at times, even great thinkers are baffled...
Sep 07, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 22
THE SIDNEY ST. JAMES SHOW EPISODE 20 – WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A CEMETERY ENTHUSIAST or A TOMBSTONE TOURIST – A True Family History Story JUNE 2021 As one who has studied genealogy for decades, I suppose you can also call me a cemetery enthusiast. I’ve learned the many ways people around the world honor their dead to put the pieces together across the “pond.” Take the moss-covered mausoleums of Edinburgh to the candle-lit cemeteries around the lands in Italy. In my studies of overseas family member...
Jun 28, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Episode 21: A Tribute to Father's Day To my two girls, who are grown-up ladies now. Today, we will go and have Father's Day at a restaurant in Georgetown. Now get this, one will say, "do you remember Dad when you walked up the sidewalk at O. Henry Middle School acting like Frankenstein? Embarrassing back then to no get-out, and they still remember that. Then, I was cleaning a bass I caught on the river, and while cleaning it, I acted like it ate my thumb. Gosh, was that a mistake? They didn't go...
Jun 20, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Are you in true love? Do you want to truly love your partner? Here are the characteristics of true love you should know and implement in your relationship. In my last two episodes, where I paid tribute to our friends and family in World War II, I spoke of three special friends I called the Three Musketeers of Eagle Lake, Texas. They were TRUE FRIENDS . Today, I will talk about taking that friendship to another level… TRUE LOVE. Love is something that most of us can’t describe in words. One thing...
Jun 15, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Operation Magic Carpet was the most extensive combined air and sealift ever organized during wartime. Elmer A. Struss, my father, was an officer in the Navy, one of many assigned this task and helped bring back home millions of soldiers at the end of WWII. It was called… by all the servicemen and women, as the scope expanded worldwide, as “Home Alive By ’45!” My special presentation on this Memorial Weekend is of the First Nighttime Torpedo Drop in Naval History, Operation Magic Carpet, and acti...
May 29, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Owing a home is one of our great American dreams, something we all aspire to do in our early years of life. There's something about having a tiny part of planet Earth to call your own that inspires a sense of both security and pride. Getting the keys handed over to you at closing for your very first home is always a cause for celebration: you open the door, cross the threshold, possibly carrying the woman you love in your arms, and go inside your very own castle - whether it be an apartment or a...
May 23, 2021•25 min
SEASON 1 EPISODE 15 THE THREE DIFFERENT STEPS TOWARDS FINDING FORGIVENESS FAITH – SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN BY SIDNEY ST. JAMES (A True Story of Forgiveness) From the memoirs of the first ordained woman minister in the state of Louisiana, Rev. Ada Caston Slaton Bonds, as Moderator for the General Assembly six years in a row. Given the official title of Mother of All Presbyteries of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Active in the ministry for 55+ years, almost longer than any other woman in the Unite...
May 16, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 15
n 1965, Peter & Gordon sang the song written by Buddy Holly called " True Love Ways ." As a youngster, I danced my first slow song with a woman in the Community Center who I decided would be my wife one day. She was from Deer Park, Texas. Funny how life branches out in many directions… it never happened. Our story, much like the song, is unique because it is both romantic and realistic. It recognizes the truth: that sometimes life will be difficult. Our leading characters will cry, but they'...
May 09, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Episode 13: A Podcast of the Sidney St. James Show Burn, Baby, Burn! – Take the long-held assumption, found even in some of the most respected history books, that 1960s feminists exhibited against the establishment by setting fire to their bras. I grew up during this era. But where did it all begin? Maybe with Susan B. Anthony and others at the Seneca Falls meeting in New York in 1848? Follow my most exciting new adventure in this fiction novel based on actual facts as Dianne Jenkins loves one m...
May 05, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The rush to the Louisiana border was known to the Texans as the Runaway Scrape, the Great Runaway , or the Sabine Shoot . Whatever one calls it, the wild exodus was a nightmare of terror and suffering for women and children across the Lone Star State. It was only their burning desire for retribution that made it possible for them to keep going. REMEMBER THE ALAMO! REMEMBER GOLIAD! COME AND TAKE IT! Dilue Rose Harris told her story for the Eagle Lake Headlight in Eagle Lake, Texas , in 1900. Deli...
Apr 28, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Growing up in the small town of Eagle Lake, Texas, I always saw myself living in the big city of Houston, Texas where stores are open past five o'clock and inspiration can be found on almost every street corner. Now that I finally made the move, I couldn't be happier with my choice. But growing up in a tiny town made me who I am and I wouldn't trade my small-town experiences and all my lifelong friends I made for the world. One such friend was Wanda Lynn Smith. I received a phone call a few week...
Apr 22, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Rosenthall - Bête Maléfique des Bois - The Birth of Detective Vincent James Gideon Black Rock Cove, on the coastline of Oregon, has a unique and sinister charm. By day, it is a quaint fishing village and charming resort for summertime visitors, but by night…well, that’s a different story. The murder of Oliver Bateman was purely the strangest of all crimes. A gunshot was heard as he fell dead in the courtyard, but bullet holes were missing from his body. Three deep knife wounds, however, covered ...
Apr 19, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 10
PODCAST EPISODE 009: The Making of the Final Chapter of the Storm Lord Trilogy , Three Keys to Armageddon! Using the rich background of the spiritual world of Archangels Michael and his Sword of Angels and Gabriel with his trumpet of victory in the background, the Storm Lord Trilogy Series pursues the return of Satan himself with a paranormal bent world of EVIL versus GOOD filled with captivating characters. The ever-moving series’ sharp dialogue, highly original plot lines and stylistic flair i...
Apr 16, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 9
NINE MONTHS WILL TELL BOOK TWO IN THE STORM LORD TRILOGY SERIES ---a paranormal romance Continuation of the Storm Lord Trilogy in Chapter Two, Nine Months Will Tell, finds Angelica Thompson and Sheriff Kevin Connors expecting their first child. Her pregnancy comes as a surprise to her and Kevin because it is precisely nine months after their defeat of Ethan Knight in Chapter One of the Storm Lord Trilogy series. The question now that arises for the two love-birds is whether the Storm Lord lost h...
Apr 16, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 8
EPISODE 007: The Making of The Flaming Blue Sword Angelica Thompson, an award-winning romance novelist, makes a decision to end her turbulent relationship back home in Denver and heads to a secluded spot on the shores of Black Rock Cove in Oregon. Writer’s block is preventing her from finishing her last novel in her paranormal romance series and is being pressured by her publisher, BeeBop Publishing Group , to finish by the end of the summer. She discovered the first night of her arrival how viv...
Apr 13, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Episode 006: The Sixth and Final Novel in the Faith Chronicles by Sidney St. James - Seeing the Power of God! After writing Genesis and Hallelujah , I became one of those people who asked, “Can anyone be a Christian and not believe in the Bible? Is it wrong to question any of the scriptures in the Bible ?” Some people believe questioning the Bible, the direction God is going, or even God himself, is blasphemy. Some think it is a sign of disbelief. The mystery of why our main character in the nov...
Apr 12, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Podcast Episode 005: The Making of Hallelujah – He is not Here; He Has Risen (Luke 24: 6) by Sidney St. James If you're a slow and methodical worker when it comes to creating things, then you'll likely find great inspiration in " Hallelujah ," episode five of the Sidney St. James Faith Chronicles Series. In "Hallelujah," James, the best-selling author of Faith, Seeing the Power of God , and I Am Woman, lets his creative nonfiction loose upon how creative writing works. Hallelujah - He is not Her...
Apr 11, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 5
GENESIS – Imagine Stepping Onto the Shore and Finding It’s Heaven is a creative historical nonfiction novel drawn from the Old Testament . It is factually accurate and written with attention to literary style. My extensive research led me into animated descriptions at my desk and emotional outpours to arrive at the truth through shaping the information, molding the narrative so that it reads like fiction. It makes the stories so easy to understand. One of the methods Jesus used in communicating ...
Apr 10, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Reverend Mrs. Ada Caston Slaton Bonds is one of the most colorful ministers ever produced by the great Cumberland Presbyterian Church . Beyond a doubt, she overcame more difficulties and passed through more heartaches than any minister ever known to preach the 'Whosoever Will' gospel. Miss Ada, as all affectionately called her, possessed countless prodigies. By way of the corridors of her ministerial career, she helped shape the lives and mold the character of many young ministers, who, today, r...
Apr 09, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
