{"podcast":{"title":"Thought For Today","slug":"thought-for-today-116948","podcast_index_feed_id":116948,"rss_url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today?format=rss","website_url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/","image_url":"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/1584448308250-HR2U7SIZFTDAC8P6TEJP/Option+4.png?format=1500w","author":"Shalom Ministries","episode_count":299,"summary":"A short, inspirational thought for today, from Angus Buchan.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:21:41.900981+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948"},"episode":{"title":"Born Again","slug":"born-again","published_at":"2026-07-02T03:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/born-again","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948","url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/bornagain3","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/t/6a456b832ed5f233e63f276d/1783003704346/TFT_020726.mp3","summary":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 2nd of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Old Testament in the Book of Deuteronomy 16:1. The Lord says: “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.” Then we go to John 3:3: “ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”  Then we go down a little bit further to verse 7, Jesus says again: “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.” A conscious decision to make the greatest decision of your entire life, and we cannot afford to forget that time. I know some of you listening to this message can honestly say, “I don’t remember the exact day. I don’t remember the exact month, but I know that God has changed my life. That is wonderful and I rejoice with you but there must be a time in your life where you have drawn a line in the sand and said, “Devil, this far and no further.”  I did it on the 18th of February, 1979, in the little Methodist Church in the Main Street of our town, Greytown, and I will never ever forget it. No, I didn’t see any bolts of lightning, I didn’t hear any thunder - no, I made a conscious decision that I was going to follow Jesus Christ and Him, alone.  That is why the Jewish people are so strong in their roots, because they do not forget the time that the Lord took them out of Egypt, 400 years of slavery, took them out by night - miraculous - and they will not forget that. I have been to Israel many, many times. I have had the privilege of speaking at the Feast of Tabernacles, where they rejoice in the Lord and tell the…","meta_description":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 2nd of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We st…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":213,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/born-again/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/born-again.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}