Self Government and Self Discipline

Choosing not to is just as much freedom as being able to.</p>The freedom without the discipline and discernment may be freedom but it isn't smart.</p><br /></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p> </p>To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006.   </p> </p>Please follow us and share.</p> </p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:22:43

Fixed Pattern Behavior, Flies, Frogs and Fishhooks

Fixed patterns of behavior are responses that can't be controlled. But we can learn to control our response to the responses.</p><br /></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p> </p>To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006.   </p> </p>Please follow us and share.</p> </p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:28:02

Where No Man Has Gone Before??

It's not that you are the only one who has ever been there, through there or ended up there. But it is up to you to decide if "there" is your story or just the background to your story.</p><br /></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p>To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006.   </p><br /></p>Please follow us and share.</p><br /></p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:17:24

Some Men Run In The Rain

The head coach at our high school used to say that "men don't run in the rain". I think what he meant was you don't let a little thing like rain dictate how you carry yourself.</p></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p> </p>To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006.   </p> </p>Please follow us and share.</p> </p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:22:13

Strange and Wonderful

The strange thing about our "strangeness" is it just may be that the very thing we think makes us vulnerable actually makes us functional. Change how you view it and change how you use it.</p><br /></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p>To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use Cash App$Lonniejones3006.   </p><br /></p>Please follow us and share.</p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:22:21

Dissonance, Dissociation and Dilemma

"He chose...poorly" is apt only if there is a good choice. Dilemmas occur when there are only poor choices. But to be caught in a dilemma one has to choose poorly in order to create the dilemma.</p><br /></p></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p> </p>To Support this podcast projectplease send gifts via </p>Venmo @Lonnie-Jones-19 or use</p> Cash App$Lonniejones3006.   </p>Please follow us and share.</p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:33:56

Is Dis A Bacation?

If you know how to do it it looks easy. If you know someone who knows how to make it look easy then you should use their experience to gain experience.</p></p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p>Support this podcast at <a href="https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support</a></p>--- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support</p> </p> </p>Please subscribe and share.</p> </p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:27:18

Waiting...

Waiting to die. That's what he said he was doing. Waiting to die. It may have been because his life was full or fulfilled but I had the sense that it was because he thought it was empty and there was nothing left.</p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p><br /></p>Support this podcast at <a href="https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support">https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support</a></p>--- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support</p><br /></p>Please subscribe and share.</p><br /></p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p><br /></p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:21:57

The Lunge O Matic

"If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done or in a way you've never done it." That's the difference in solving a problem and getting past a problem.</p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.</p> </p>Support this podcast at <a href="https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support">https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support</a></p>--- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support</p> </p> </p>Please subscribe and share.</p> </p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:25:27

Creme Brulee Doesn't Always Mean Dessert

Dessert and desert (the action not the dry place) sound the same. But when she brought up the dessert she was making sure her husband wasn't going to desert her. What I say and how I say it may not be as important as what we hear and what we are listening for...</p>Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi. </p>Support this podcast at <a href="https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support">https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support</a></p>--- Support this podcast:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support</p> </p>Please subscribe and share.</p> </p>Want lonnie to speak at yourevent?  Contact:  <a href="mailto:lonjones@bellsouth.net">lonjones@bellsouth.net</a></p> </p>Check out YouTube for thelive eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videosshowing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  <a href="mailto:YouTube.com/@LonnieJones">YouTube.com/@LonnieJones</a></p> </p>Visit <a href="http://www.lonniejones.org">www.lonniejones.org</a>  to find links tooriginal art, swag, 550guys and the following books:</p>"Cognitive SpiritualDevelopment: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem";"Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space";"Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Werea Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones;"The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parableby Lonnie Jones.</p> </p> </p> T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at <a href="http://www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art">www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art</a></p> </p><a href="https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46">https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46</a></p> </p> </p>#www.worldchristian.org#tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org</p>Faulkner.edu/kgst </p> <a href="mailto:graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu">graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu</a> </p> </p> </p> </p></p>

00:32:04