{"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":"Tell Them","slug":"tell-them","published_at":"2026-06-03T03:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/tell-them","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948","url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/tellthem","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/t/6a1f28f9c963062f3b7623cc/1780477928324/TFT_030626.mp3","summary":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 3rd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Ezekiel 3:18: ”…and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.“  Then we go to the Book of Acts 20:26-27: ”Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.”  You and I have an obligation to tell people about Jesus, starting with our own families. There’s an old saying that goes like this. “Nobody deserves to hear the Gospel twice until the world has heard it once.” Isn’t that true? We live on a farm and we’ve got lots of horses. You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. Isn’t that right? We need to tell people they need Jesus Christ in order to be saved. If we don’t tell them and the Holy Spirit has prompted us to tell them, then their blood shall be on our hands. That’s what Paul was saying and that’s what the Book of Ezekiel is saying, but don’t try and force them. Now this word is specially for wives and for daughters because I want to tell you something, I am so grateful to Jesus Christ for my wife and for my dear old mother who’s gone to be with the Lord, soft hearts, but there are men that get tough and the worst thing that you can do is to try and persuade your loved one to become a Christian when he’s not ready. The worst thing you can do is to leave Christian magazines on the coffee table! I’m laughing, but it’s not funny. Those men are not stupid. They know exactly what you are trying…","meta_description":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 3rd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We g…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":191,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/tell-them/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/tell-them.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}