SEASON 3 EPISODE 11 MOTHER'S DAY – A TRIBUTE TO MY MOM Hello everyone. Sidney St. James, your host for today's show. It's the time of year when we stop and pay honor to the first woman we have ever loved, our mothers. Mothers are superheroes... our greatest American Hero. They do it all. No matter how challenging life gets, moms have a way of making everything so much better. As most of you probably already know, my mother, Dorothy (Dot), has now gone to Heaven, as I've discussed her on other br...
May 08, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 11
IF WOMEN HAD JUST KEPT SILENT IN THE CHURCH… THERE WOULDN'T BE A CHURCH. STRONG STATEMENT… BUT THAT'S THE FACT, JACK!!! SEASON 3 EPISODE 10 PREQUEL TO MOTHER'S DAY PODCAST THE TRUE STORY OF THE REVEREND MRS. ADA CASTON SLATON BONDS OF THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (A MOVIE ON THE SILVER SCREEN SCRIPT ALMOST COMPLETE... WATCH FOR IT IN THEATERS IN 2023) In yellowed and dogeared Red Chief notebooks dating from 1914 to the 1960s, she told a part of her memoirs of the difficulties of being acce...
May 06, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Season 3 Episode 9 DID YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP? Hello everyone! Sidney St. James here with another exciting and different kind of subject matter than I usually talk about on my podcasts. Last night, I had a dream… a dream that seemed so real. Not the kind Martin Luther King had, but one that was totally different. As I always do during such a dream, after I wakened in sweat and threw the covers off me, I jumped up and ran to my computer and began typing. I lear...
May 06, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Top of the Day, Everyone! This is Sidney St. James, your host today, as we talk about the POWER OF PRAYER . Sometimes I think the most challenging part of being a Christian is acknowledging that there are many of our friends and family we hold deeply in our hearts who do not agree with the same convictions as we do. They don’t recognize Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; they may not even acknowledge God. It might be parents, siblings, maybe even our children or nieces, nephews, friends, and neigh...
May 01, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 7
SEASON 3 EPISODE 6 1375-1300 BC Samson and Delilah's Shocking Love Story From the Book of Judges in the Bible Hello everyone. Your host Sidney St. James with you today. I had been "clicking" up a storm on my novel No. 51, a murder mystery called "Murder in the Prairie Edge Museum," when suddenly, a thought hit me. I don't understand why this occurs, but I was way up in the present day in my hometown murder mystery when I thought of another loving relationship from way back in 1350 BC. I know… ho...
Apr 23, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Season 3 Episode 5 Finding the Foe for Satan to Battle in "The Three Keys of Armageddon" What Are Archangels in the Bible? How Many Archangels Are There? Welcome everyone today. I'm Sidney St. James, your host. Thanks for joining me in discussing the making of "The Storm Lord Trilogy Series," a paranormal romance. Beginning right away in my opening narrative, I wrote a paranormal romance series where the main characters were Satan and Angelica Thompson, a prolific writer who moves to Black Rock ...
Apr 21, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 5
A Prayer to Conclude the three-part series on Easter 2022 by Sidney St. James.
Apr 17, 2022•4 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Season 3 Episode 4 EASTER SUNDAY – THE RESURRECTION A SERIES: PART 3 OF 3 APRIL 21, 2022 Welcome, everyone, to my Easter Podcast for this year. This is your host, Sidney St. James. I still remember a small brick building outside Coushatta, Louisiana, called the Bethany Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where I attended my grandmother, the Reverend Ada Caston Slaton Bonds' Easter Sermon. Although there still remain notes from many of her sermons from the early 1900s, a few pages still remained wher...
Apr 10, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Season 3 Episode 3 On Thursday, Judas – The Kiss of Death A Series: Part 2 of 3-Part Podcast Hello Everyone. Thank you for joining me for Part II of my Easter Series, "Judas – The Kiss of Death." This is your host, Sidney St. James, to give you my ideas of why Judas betrayed Jesus, if he, in fact, betrayed him. Many inconsistencies and irrational aspects of Judas' actions in the gospels challenge his traditional depiction. As I always do, I study the scriptures repeatedly before I comment. First...
Apr 10, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Season 3 Episode 2 Jesus Christ's Last Supper with His Disciples Part I of Three-Part Podcast Were You There the Day Jesus Died 17 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?" 18 He replied, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.'" 19 So the disciples d...
Apr 10, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 2
SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 HAVE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO PUBLISH A BOOK YOU WROTE OR ARE THINKING ABOUT WRITING? IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK! Hello everyone. Welcome to the start of Season 3. Today I thought about changing up a little on what I want to talk about to something that has taken me a lot of years to accomplish, Publish my Own Book. I have often got questions from authors on how to bring a book they wrote to fruition, especially now that I am tying so many podcasts to certain novels I've written. ...
Mar 25, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 1
COMING IN ONE WEEK Season 3 Episode 2 Jesus Christ's Last Supper with His Disciples Part I of Three-Part Podcast Were You There the Day Jesus Died 17 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?" 18 He replied, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.'" 19...
Mar 25, 2022•4 min
Over a decade ago, I produced two large family history books well over 700 pages in length. Then, a man from Denver offered me $30,000 to create one like I did for the Smith Family . The answer to why I turned it down was because the number of hours it took me to finish this family genealogy history was far more hours than what minimum wage would have been on writing the record. Furthermore, I began a significant undertaking and did a genealogy study starting with Adam and Eve in Genesis. There ...
Mar 21, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Season 2 Episode 23 Who Are the Sons of God "The Making of the Storm Lord Trilogy Series" Who Were the Sons of God and How Did They Play a Part in the Writing of my Storm Lord Trilogy Series, a paranormal romance? THERE WERE GIANTS ON THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS, AND ALSO AFTER THAT. WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME IN UNTO MEN'S DAUGHTERS, AND THEY HAD CHILDREN TO THEM, THE SAME BECAME STRONG MEN WHICH WERE OF OLD TIMES, MEN OF NOTORIETY. WELCOME EVERYONE TO MY SHOW TODAY. I am your host, Sidney St. James...
Mar 21, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Hello Everyone, and welcome to my show today. A longtime friend from Old Progress Cumberland Church near Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, called me the other day and asked me about my Grandmother, the Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, and how in the world she found forgiveness over and over. They had just finished reading my novel, Faith – Seventy Times Seven. It brought to my mind how we all study the Bible. I remember standing in a jewelry store a few days ago, and a young girl walked up to her mother and a...
Mar 21, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 24
As an author with over 50+ novels written in various genres, I must admit, the ones that I enjoy almost more so than the others are those written about the Power of God, such as in some of my novels called, “Seeing the Power of God” or “Genesis – Stepping Onto the Shore and Finding It’s Heaven” or “Hallelujah – He is not here, He Has Risen.” I can go through the back of my mind where all my memories lie and remember books that I wrote, church services attended and recall a number of things that ...
Mar 10, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 3
SEASON 2 EPISODE 22: THE FALL OF THE ALAMO - THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE In 1899, after living in Texas for over 60 years, Dilue Rose Harris (1825–1914) recorded her childhood memories of the Texas Revolution. Her handwritten account of the Runaway Scrape speaks to the hardship civilian families endured while trying to flee from Texas in 1836, and the actual handwritten copies are with the Bullock Museum in downtown Austin. In addition, I have a copy on yellowed pages that were typed and corrections made...
Mar 02, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 22
SEASON 2 EPISODE 20 Friday Night Lights At Eagle Lake High School Growing Up in the 1950s and 1960s Hello Everyone. Today we've got a good one for you. Two weeks ago, I did a show talking about the consolidation of small town high schools and its damage to communities. So many have just withered away, and even some have disappeared. The broadcast was about Eagle Lake High School in Texas. Well, my reviews and voice mail filled up after that broadcast. I was surprised by many of the comments. The...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 20
SEASON 2 EPISODE 19 THE GOOD SAMARITAN – A Story from “Seeing the Power of God" by Sidney St. James Hello Everyone. Today I have a story to tell, one that I wrote about in one of my novels, Seeing the Power of God . I am telling the story because I stopped in a parking lot across the street yesterday and watched a man pushed down into the street and was barely able to crawl back onto the grass median. I watched as numerous people walked by without lifting a finger to help him. Finally, I walked ...
Feb 12, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 19
SEASON 2 EPISODE 18 WHO WAS MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT , AND WHY WAS SHE THE FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Hello Everyone. And, in particular, all you women listening. Today I have a big question for you. But, before you listen to this broadcast, you should read my novel, or after listening, go and read it before you give me a more informed answer about MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT, this podcast's subject matter. We have all heard the name John Wilkes Booth many times growing up and taki...
Feb 10, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Season 2 Episode 17 God Calls First Woman to Preach in Louisiana Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Progress Cumberland Presbyterian Church Old Bethany Cumberland Presbyterian Church On December 23, 1969, Reverend Loyce Estes with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church addressed the congregation at the funeral services. "The dignified First Lady of the Louisiana Presbytery is dead. Vibrantly alive are the articles of faith that constitute our legacy. May her mantle fall ...
Feb 06, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 17
SEASON 2 EPISODE 15 EAGLE LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN The Significance of a High School to a Rural Community Today, most of America’s population now resides in either the urban or suburban areas, and consequently, most Americans don’t struggle with the big question of whether their community can maintain its own high school. Nevertheless, this question continued to confront many rural dwellers in all states, one of these was the folks living in Eagle Lake, Texas. Before undertaking ...
Feb 06, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Season 2 Episode 13 VALENTINE’S DAY 2022 How to Stay in Love for 50 Years! Walking together with a good friend in the darkness is far better than walking all alone in the light! Theoretically, you cannot define LOVE and the trueness in it! You don't have to do many sacrifices to prove that your love is true for that one special person. Because what if life hasn't given you any chances to make any. So, even a simple feeling of extreme care for someone makes you aware that you are all drenched in ...
Feb 02, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 13
As we wait on my Music Man to come by the recording studio to put the finishing touches on this Episode, I thought I would drop by for just a short and record a 5-Minute Soundbite about what the Show is all about. I hope you will return in the next ten days to hear the complete episode. Thanks for joining me. Sidney St. James
Feb 02, 2022•5 min
Sam Bass - A Texas Outlaw A Dead Man's Hand, Aces and Eights SEASON 2 EPISODE 14 ALERT! $5,000 REWARD. Wanted Dead or Alive. Notorious Badman. SAM BASS, alias Sam Bushon, and Honest Eph. If sighted, immediately call the nearest U. S. Marshall's Office... The Round Rock Shootout in 1878 Hello Everyone. Welcome to my show today. After a month of moving BeeBop Publishing Group to Georgetown, Texas, from Brenham, Texas, I took a ride south on IH-35 from Georgetown to Austin. I couldn't help but noti...
Jan 29, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 14
SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 - THE DAN & DAVE COUNTRY DUO GROUP FROM AUSTIN TEXAS IN THE 1970S AND 1980s An entertaining evening with Dave Henry on the Sidney St. James Show! First, let me tell all the folks out there that it appears almost impossible to talk with people who have ever heard of Dan & Dave (Part I) , although they played in front of thousands of people at the Backroom in Austin, Texas , during the late 70s and early 80s. For many years, his partner in crime was no other than Dan Bur...
Jan 29, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Season 2 Episode 11 THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by ROBERT FROST LIFE IS ABOUT THE PATHS YOU CHOOSE TO WALK THROUGH Walking together with a good friend in the darkness is far better than walking all alone in the light! Did I ever tell you I am a packrat? I never throw anything away. I still got the four-letter jackets I won in high school in football. And, I still have the dried flowers from the Powder Puff Football Game when I was runner-up for Homecoming King. William Brunner won the title. Wow, did my ...
Jan 23, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 11
I have never published a podcast that deals with politics and it will be a while again before I will do another. I do not like politics. I leave that to the news channels. But this is one I had to stand up and have my say! Season 2 Special Report Make a Choice: President Jefferson Davis or President Abraham Lincoln? President Joseph Biden Asked Who I would rather be for, President Jefferson Davis or Abraham Lincoln? That question alone got me riled up because I lost two of my great-great-grandfa...
Jan 19, 2022•33 min
Season 2 Episode 10 Jesus – The Greatest Storyteller of All Time PODCAST INTRODUCTION (0-30) Every day should be a day of Thanksgiving, and what better way to celebrate than to recognize the greatest storyteller of all time. No, it’s not Sidney St. James. It’s not Steve Jobs either or Martin Luther King Jr. (2:30-3:07) It’s Jesus Christ, of course. So today my friends, I will be demonstrating how Jesus uses analogies, or more commonly known as parables, to tell his stories. So, sit back and enjo...
Jan 18, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 10
SEASON 2 EPISODE 9 HAVE YOU EVER IMAGINED HEAVEN? Hello Everyone. This morning on our way to Pickleball at the Georgetown Rec Center , my wife and I were talking and trying to imagine just what Heaven is like? What brought up our conversation was a song played by a group known as Mercy Me. It was a song that filled her heart from a movie we saw, “I Can Only Imagine.” Then we talked about whether we will have a house there and asked so many more questions, one after another. So, let’s get started...
Jan 14, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 9
