# What Is Courage? | Church 12/14/25

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Podcast: [Church with Jesse Lee Peterson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-with-jesse-lee-peterson-1003515)
Published: 2025-12-14T23:21:56+00:00
Episode link: https://rebuildingtheman.substack.com/p/what-is-courage-church-121425
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## Resource

Assignment: Catch the first thought. Stop fighting. You present yourself differently from how you really are. Biblical Question: What is courage? Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, December 14, 2025 📝 New Assignment: Catch the first thought. Don’t go with the second thought. 📖 This past week’s Biblical Question: What is courage? 📖 New Biblical Question: When people say, “My prayers go out…,” what do they mean? 🗓️ Women’s Forum third Thur, Dec 18, 2025, 7pm at BOND, L.A. rebuildingtheman.com/events TIMESTAMPS (0:00:00) - 01 - Welcome… small talk with a doctor (0:02:09) - 02 - Shootings at Brown U. and in Australia (What’s Hanukkah?) (0:05:57) - 03 - Attracted to women like mother; Arguing with my stepdad (0:14:15) - 04 - Anyone else have a life? (0:16:08) - 05 - Assignment: Catch the first thought. (0:26:13) - 06 - Feeling heat, but caught it. (0:31:10) - 07 - My dad was worried about me, thinking the worst. Forgiveness, Prayer (0:37:32) - 08 - Catch the thought: no emotional pain (0:41:26) - 09 - Doug: Slow your roll! You’ll lose interest in the world, even your marriage (0:44:04) - 10 - Seeing things for the first time. Matthew 15: 17, Jesus on clean and unclean (0:48:25) - 11 - Presenting yourself differently from how you really are (0:51:38) - 12 - Negative thoughts. Ego vs Ego. Egos in the workplace. (0:57:05) - 13 - Breaking out of family’s conditioning: “I’ve never been me.” (1:02:10) - 14 - Car crash. Young person with depression. (1:06:01) - 15 - Leaving early. Happy b-day, friend, 60. Raymond on vigilance (1:08:04) - 16 - Southern gal: Things went left! Roommate’s LATE on rent! (1:12:25) - 17 - Biblical Question: What is courage? Stop fighting. Give up illusions. (1:20:50) - 18 - BQ… The doctor called-in to the radio show, got scared! (1:23:06) - 19 - Dev…

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