21 Dec Catch the First Thought | Church 12/21/25
Dating Don’ts… Israel and Christians… Anticipating an argument… Christian actress played a lesbian… “Prayers go out…”? Catch the first thought.
Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, December 21, 2025
- 📖 Biblical Question: When people say, “My prayers go out…,” what do they mean?
- 📝 Assignment: Catch the first thought. Don’t go into the second thought.
- 📖 NEW Biblical Question: Where did Judas Iscariot go when he died?
ANNOUNCEMENT: BOND will be closed weekdays from Christmas Eve through New Year’s week. We WILL have Church on Sundays as-normal (if the Lord is willing and the creek don’t rise). We reopen Monday, January 5th, 2026.
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TIMESTAMPS
- (0:00:00) – 00 – Small talk, Welcome
- (0:02:56) – 1A – Don’t date woman at work who has a boyfriend, or spend money
- (0:10:46) – 1B – Disaster is a false thought
- (0:13:15) – 1C – Again: Don’t spend money on women
- (0:14:16) – 2A – Israel, Christians, and victims: Donyale
- (0:20:56) – 2B – It didn’t used to be like this.
- (0:24:24) – 2C – It doesn’t make sense to hate. Leave your hate at home!
- (0:26:04) – 2D – BQ: “My prayers go out…”?
- (0:28:29) – 2E – Go to Israel before Germany! Dead Sea.
- (0:30:50) – 3A – In my head over dispute with contractor
- (0:35:37) – 3B – What’s he doing wrong? How does he let it go?
- (0:42:48) – 3C – He missed it. Do you see there is no you?
- (0:47:30) – 3D – You don’t know what’s coming. Practice being present.
- (0:50:47) – 3E – So relatable. Husband bought wrong Califia milk! Stop mid-sentence.
- (0:55:50) – 3F – JLP: Test the Devil. Feel like fighting? Don’t. Have a wait-and-see.
- (0:59:52) – 3G – JLP on Jewish business owners, Mexican employees
- (1:01:45) – 4A – Miss Alabama moving out. Roommate loudly talking about me on phone
- (1:06:43) – 4B – Assignment? There is no “you” to defend!
- (1:10:07) – 5A – Doug catching the thought: confrontation, embarrassment, willingness
- (1:16:44) – 5B – Thinking I should be further along
- (1:18:25) – 06 – Shock the Devil. Just stop. Califia milk example. No evaluating.
- (1:25:26) – 07 – “Health nut” in his head avoiding a/c vents: Revolver
- (1:29:51) – 8A – “There is no you.” What does that mean?
- (1:33:44) – 8B – Count it all joy. Take the pain. Like “DEI” Doug
- (1:35:39) – 9A – Actress’ moral qualms about a script she’s “cosigning” playing a lesbian
- (1:41:16) – 9B – Disagree?
- (1:47:04) – 9C – Hassan, Derrick, Kurt on playing “immoral” roles. Grandma’s prayers
- (1:53:02) – 9D – Side note: Pray without ceasing…
- (1:54:54) – 9E – Morals and values don’t work
- (2:00:15) – 10 – Don’t agree or disagree. Stop taking sides. You own nothing.
- (2:02:52) – 11 – Disagree, but don’t hate. Assignment…
- (2:05:22) – 12 – JLP: Stay with it
- (2:06:28) – 13 – New Biblical Question: Where did Judas Iscariot go? Closing
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CHURCH NOTES 12/21/25
ANNOUNCEMENT: BOND will be closed weekdays from Christmas Eve through New Year’s week (no radio shows). We WILL have Church on Sundays as-normal (if the Lord is willing and the creek don’t rise). We reopen Monday, January 5th, 2026.
📖 Biblical Question: When people say, “My prayers go out…,” what do they mean?
📝 Assignment: Catch the first thought. Don’t go into the second thought.
📖 NEW Biblical Question: Where did Judas Iscariot go when he died?
00 – Small talk, Welcome
(0:00:00) – Start (0:02:02) Intro (0:02:16) Welcome
(0:02:41) Any input?
1A – Don’t date woman at work who has a boyfriend, or spend money
(0:02:56) – Man with a woman situation
(0:04:38) JLP: Why not keep dating simple… She has a boyfriend! Why isn’t that obvious?!
(0:07:07) JLP: You shouldn’t date at work anyway! Never date from work! And never date if they already have a boyfriend. And never spend your money. Except Burger King or McDonald’s. (0:08:00) Dating is not complicated, except guys don’t know not to spend money. His stepfather was a player spending money on women. In the good old days, women wouldn’t even ask for money.
(0:08:46) Guy called JLP show spending a lot! Ride a horse, save on gas.
1B – Disaster is a false thought
(0:10:46) – How do I treat triumph and disaster like imposters? Disaster happened after morning praise!
(0:12:58) Yes, they’re both false thoughts.
1C – Again: Don’t spend money on women
(0:13:15) – JLP: I didn’t know dating was so complicated!
2A – Israel, Christians, and victims
(0:14:16) – Donyale on a question from the radio show: Why do people hate Israel and Jews? (0:15:03) Every group taking on a victim mentality. Zionists taken on a victim mentality, she says. Suddenly you’re an anti-Semite. A sense of entitlement.
(0:16:14) JLP: Anyone who thinks they’re a victim is vicious. They’ll destroy you if they don’t get what they want. A victim person is an evil person.
Donyale brings up the Holocaust like blacks with slavery. Jewish fatigue like black fatigue.
(0:16:58) Being still… Thankful for Jesse and for the move.
(0:17:57) Jesse asks her if she grew up with a mentality of friendship between Christians and Jews, and Israel. She feels it was propaganda. As a small child, I remember Benjamin Netanyahu talking about Weapons of Mass Destruction…
2B – It didn’t used to be like this.
(0:20:56) – JLP: When we grew up and studied the Bible, we didn’t think of the Jewish people, but the religious aspect of it. Visiting Israel… (0:22:53) No Jew was spitting on us. We took pictures with the military people.
(0:23:23) Donyale talks about BLM and the gay community. She mentions Bill Lockwood and the chosen people versus modern Jews…
2C – It doesn’t make sense to hate. Leave your hate at home!
(0:24:24) – JLP: It doesn’t make sense to hate the Jews. No? All you Jew haters! For your soul’s sake, you can enjoy it, and leave your hate at home — and nobody’s gonna spit on you. And they had the real black Jews found in Ethiopia! (0:25:46) JLP: Leave that mess at home! “I grew up with Jews…”
2D – BQ: “My prayers go out…”?
(0:26:04) – Donyale: I have the answer, but I forgot the question. “Do not mock my accent, sir.” (0:26:57) JLP asks the BQ… “a platitude.” They really don’t want to know how you are.
2E – Go to Israel before Germany! Dead Sea. Different interests?
(0:28:29) – Go to Israel before you go to Germany!
(0:30:13) Do you love the Jews? Different interests… They’re interested in God. How are you different?
3A – In my head over dispute with contractor
(0:30:50) – Man watched Revolver … Contractor insulting. I start almost hating him. Disagreement over what I owe. The work’s not done correctly. Going over it, trying to relax.
(0:33:20) JLP: Don’t react to him at all. Let him act how he will. The man responds… (0:34:07) When will you stop worshiping the Devil?
3B – What’s he doing wrong? How does he let it go?
(0:35:37) – Another man is a contractor and says you might not get paid but whatever.
(0:36:44) The first man says if it’s not the contractor, it’s women, or someone else.
(0:37:03) What is he doing wrong? Christina (Randy’s wife) on control and arguing. (0:37:48) JLP says he has grits or eggs or something… She says Silent Prayer, sit in your hell. Let go and let God take control. (0:38:35) How does he let it go? She points out her husband being really good at taking a lot of crap at work.
(0:39:28) Randy — JLP: Once you do let it go, the rest of your life you’ll never deal with it again. — back to Randy: Feeling those emotions inside you is not you, but trying to control you. An infection, bacteria, let it run its course, you’ll be sick a few days. Allow that to take its course. (0:42:14) Randy: Autopilot.
3C – He missed it. Do you see there is no you? Repeat what I said.
(0:42:48) – JLP: He laid it out clearly. I could tell you weren’t getting it.
(0:43:28) Do you see there is not you?
(0:44:52) JLP: One of the primary things he said … those feelings aren’t you…
(0:46:34) Repeat what I said. … Do nothing. Two demons arguing.
3D – You don’t know what’s coming. Practice being present.
(0:47:30) – JLP: You don’t even know it’s coming! You’re living in time, a future or past that doesn’t exist! Eternal life …
(0:49:15) Your thoughts or my thoughts are not my own? Who’s me? I’m crazy!
(0:49:52) Why are you not practicing staying present?
3E – So relatable. Husband bought wrong Califia milk! Stop mid-sentence.
(0:50:47) – Donyale: So relatable. I could not wrap my brain around “it’s not me.” — ”Are we being Kool-Aided”? Thoughts, songs in my head, voices out of nowhere, felt like a nervous breakdown.
(0:53:11) Husband bought the wrong Califia milk… JLP calls it Coleco milk (0:54:19) I stopped talking mid-sentence — it shocks the Devil.
3F – JLP: Test the Devil. Feel like fighting? Don’t.
(0:55:50) – JLP: You can test the Devil. When the feeling comes to want to fight back, don’t.
(0:57:18) Don’t think about how it’s going to go…
(0:58:23) Franky on dealing with contractors: Expectations, making people happy. Some can’t be fixed. Reading people…
3G – JLP on Jewish business owners, Mexican employees
(0:59:52) – JLP: Don’t hire Jews who hire Mexicans. They’d pay the Mexicans Friday, and they’d get drunk off the paycheck money, and not show up on Saturday!
4A – Miss Alabama moving out. Roommate loudly talking about me on phone with mom
(1:01:45) – Miss Alabama (the Southern gal) walks up to the front row… I’m moving out! (Bad roommate situation.)
(1:03:52) Loudly talking about me with his mom on the phone — this morning. He told his mom I freaked out. It really bothered me. “I freaked out?” While I was in the Silent Prayer.
(1:04:47) JLP: Christ said don’t fight.
(1:05:40) She showed her replacement the fight, and he was giving bad vibes. JLP tells something to the man with the contractor problem…
4B – Assignment? There is no “you” to defend!
(1:06:43) – Assignment? Assignment: Catch the first thought. (from Church 11/14/25) It’s not happening to you. It’s NOT happening to you. He’s not saying those things about you. You’re trying to protect a you that doesn’t exist!
(1:09:20) He’s been stomping loudly, he lives above me. (1:09:51) JLP: It’s not him. He can’t help himself. Same spirit in him and you.
5A – Doug catching the thought: confrontation, embarrassment
(1:10:07) – Doug: I lived a little bit this week. He had a life! Holy smokes. Assignment. Walking slowly. Slow your roll! (1:11:12) …
(1:11:35) At the gym 5am. Who wants to argue then? Girls talking, not using the machine. She says, You guys can go work out over there. I didn’t let the whole b-word get out. It took about a half-hour. Feeling bugging me.
(1:13:38) I said something wrong, awkward silence, totally embarrassed. Hot, sweaty. I realized this is not even me. Going through it. Everybody looking at me. “What an idiot.”
(1:15:00) Doug to Daniel (the man with the contractor disagreement) — the more I can stay out of my head, and the willingness to deal with it anyway, nothing like what I was thinking, resolves nicely.
(1:16:14) JLP: It will always work out if you have a wait and see.
5B – Thinking I should be further along
(1:16:44) – Doug & Jesse: Going through the week, harder to catch it, thinking I should be further along, thinking I should be somewhere. No thinking! As soon as I said it out loud.
06 – Shock the Devil. Just stop. Califia milk example. No evaluating.
(1:18:25) – JLP on Donyale’s point: Shock the Devil, just stop. I love that. You don’t have to stay in it just because you started.
(1:19:16) Question from Frida (?) (spelling?) the Norwegian-seeming gal… (1:20:13) JLP: No, don’t do that, it’s too liberal. … Dolores or someone helps explain…
(1:23:57) The woman clearing up her confusion (1:24:57) There’s nothing to evaluate in the Light. Everything’s perfect.
07 – “Health nut” in his head avoiding a/c vents: Revolver
(1:25:26) – Shayan: Revolver is amazing. The character hated the elevator. Similarly I hate the air conditioning vent. (1:26:33) JLP: Were you a sickly child? Who thinks about the elevator vent? (1:27:09) Mentality of a strong, healthy body? One of those! Your mama! (1:28:17) Just a thought. Your body breaks down because your mind believes it.
(1:29:04) I have to slow down talking. He recommends “Snatch” also by Guy Ritchie
8A – “There is no you.” What does that mean?
(1:29:51) – JLP asks Raymond and Doug: There is no you. What does that mean? (1:30:42) Doug sees himself attached to the idea there is a me.
(1:32:05) Young lady answers. (1:32:38) Randy… be grateful, and go through it with a smile.
8B – Count it all joy. Take the pain. Like “DEI” Doug
(1:33:44) – JLP: Count it all joy. Take the pain. The more pain, the happier. The sooner you’ll get past it. (1:35:08) Doug was embarrassed in front of 1000 people, they were thinking “DEI”! (laughter) Just kidding, probably not!
9A – Actress’ moral qualms about a script she’s “cosigning” playing a lesbian
(1:35:39) – Miss Alabama reading a script she has moral qualms about. (1:37:04) JLP: Be the best slut! That’s not who you are. Your job is to do the best job… (1:37:46) What morals and values? Showcase personalities — it’s all acting, even in real life. What morals and values do you have? “I am a Christian.”
(1:39:01) I was a lesbian … (1:39:33) What would happen if you dropped your morals and values? Drop ‘em. Were you a boy lesbian or girl lesbian? “Girl.” God doesn’t care about that. You’re just acting. Live by the light. Made-up morals and values enslave you.
(1:40:56) Your job is to play a role. Be Betty Davis or Joan Crawford.
9B – Disagree? Would you play an LGBT?
(1:41:16) – Disagree? Oh good… Daniel wouldn’t play a gay character. (1:42:27) Wouldn’t DJ for Pride. Condoning this narrative you don’t wanna push. (1:43:01) Donyale would not. Wouldn’t want to be typecast.
(1:43:54) The contractor: If you really need the money and you’re going through this roommate thing (laughter)
(1:45:22) Frida (sp) acting portrays all human stories. You might be in the wrong field.
(1:46:05) Donyale: Hollywood connected to govt and politics. The agenda. Downfall of culture.
(1:46:37) JLP: Ofc some things you won’t do.
9C – Hassan, Derrick, Kurt on playing “immoral” roles
(1:47:04) – Hassan: All for it. Just make sure it’s good. (1:47:53) Like Doug embarrassed in the performance. Hassan: I’m not gay but if the role is good, I’m a be gay! (1:48:38) Hassan on BQ — it’s like F— you. “I’ll pray for you.” (1:49:07) It’s rarely genuine.
(1:49:37) Derrick: If the goal is to create more lesbians… How you gonna give a testimony… (1:50:30) Did you catch the first thought this week?
(1:51:21) Kurt: Would you play a role that goes against your morals and values? (1:51:47) Catch the thought? What about it? (1:52:00) BQ?
(1:52:31) Derrick: I think prayer works. Grandma really will. What a mess, Grandma’s prayers.
9D – Side note: Pray without ceasing…
(1:53:02) – “Pray without ceasing” — Donyale
9E – Morals and values don’t work
(1:54:54) – JLP says all your morals and values — they’re not working.
Alex agrees and elaborates why they don’t.
(1:56:12) JLP: Not one person has morals and values, and they’re working.
(1:57:15) Have your morals and values ever worked, Hake?
(1:57:44) JLP: Judgment. Destroyed us
10 – Don’t agree or disagree. Stop taking sides. You own nothing.
(2:00:15) – Don’t agree or disagree: Marissa’s sister responds.
(2:01:10) JLP: Stop taking sides. You own nothing. Not your body, thoughts, life, children…
11 – Disagree, but don’t hate. Assignment.
(2:02:52) – Hispanic man talks about loving the Jews. (2:03:20) JLP: Disagree, but don’t hate. Everybody hate somebody. All being controlled by evil. Same spirit. You can disagree without being angry and hating.
(2:04:05) No, I didn’t do the assignment, but I thought about it. (2:04:34) Question about the position you should be in in the Silent Prayer.
12 – Stay with it
(2:05:22) – Stay with it… Catch the first thought. No second thoughts. Not giving life to evil… Practice staying present. Look around.
13 – New Biblical Question. Closing
(2:06:28) – BQ: Where did Judas Iscariot go when he died? (2:06:46) Judas ih-scary … “Hades” says Derrick, different from Hell. (2:08:32) Christina: Idk… Hassan: He went to Heaven. He thought Jesus would get out of it. (2:09:25) Who knows how much it helped him? He felt bad. He was a decent guy. (2:09:57) Were you helped? Yes.
REMINDERS / Assignments…
- 2025 theme/assignment: Practice being present.
- Catch the first thought. (Church 11/14/25)
- Give up. (Church 11/9/25, after stream)
- Take the pain. Stop fighting darkness. Go through the war. (Church 11/2/25 “This week…”)
- Let it pass through you, whatever you feel and think. (Church 10/19/25)
- Slow down. Feel the pain, and ask: Is it necessary? (Women’s Forum Oct 16, 2025)
- Never think about yourself again. (for 1 wk/mo, BQ/Women’s Forum Sep 18-21, 2025)
- Don’t overreact to your anger this weekend (JLP show Fri 8/29/25)
- Be nothing for three days. And on the third day, see if you rise. (Fri, July 25, 2025)
- Communicate with few words. (June 29, 2025, didn’t mention)
- Don’t agree or disagree with anyone. And see what happens. (June 2025)
- Quietly live with the hell in you (May/June 2025)
- Write down all the stabs you get (May 11-18, 2025)
- Be a single-minded person, not a double-minded person. (BQ/Women’s Forum Apr 13-27, 2025)
- Don’t judge with words, looks/eyes, gestures, emotions, or thoughts. (Oct 2024)
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