Faith Under Fire: an interview with author Ardyce Templeman

Yaya Diamond TV

https://a.co/d/4Dloh6K This historical novel spans the reigns of the Roman Caesars Tiberius through Nero. It tells the story of the fledgling early church and how they were impacted by Roman law and rule. The apostle Paul traveled extensively throughout that world, visiting metropolitan cities, fearlessly taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ straight into the heart of pagan worship. He suffered hunger, stoning, prison, flogging, beating, being shipwrecked three times, and being in constant danger of bandits. Yet throughout all of these reverses, he courageously and fearlessly defended his message and his God-given calling. Interwoven throughout the pages of this story are two Roman soldiers, Marcos and Gaius, who walk the Jerusalem wall, observing from their Roman viewpoint all that is going on in the Jewish world. They observe the persecutions led by Saul and, later, the puzzling change in his life. Eventually, because of the impact a changed Paul has upon their lives, they come to know his Christ. This very real and human Paul, along with the electrifying, heart-stopping world in which he and the early church lived, is sure to keep the reader on edge, wondering what can happen next. Paul and this early church were willing to give everything, including their lives, for the truth of the good news that Christ had come to set up his kingdom in the heart of man. https://podopshost.com/yayadiamond   ⚡ VidChapter AI generated these chapters, try it out https://vidchapter.com/?affiliate=yayadiamond Recommended podcast platform get 10% off: https://podopshost.com/register/?ref=yaya   Tools and Services I use: Appsumo has the best lifetime deals ever!!! I love this site.  appsumo.8odi.net/yayadiamond The easiest way to make your graphics: https://buff.ly/2RTQLn0 Best website for musicians. Try it for free on me: https://buff.ly/2GMYugG Make money with Fiverr.com: https://buff.ly/2KjTVvV   Our Amazon store: https://buff.ly/34RYNlm DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. My affiliate links usually provide either a free trial or discount so go try them out on me! Thank you for supporting DreamChasersRadio.com  so I can continue to provide you with free content each week! Privacy Policy: https://buff.ly/2XSrflS ™Yaya Diamond Red Hot Reality Ent. LLC

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00:00hey guys it's me yaya diamond what's up people's how you're doing it is a great day and i'm so

00:19very excited to be here today i have an author on the show she's so sweet she's so sweet i mean

00:24she's like she's sweet she's just sweet and i'm loving her i'm loving her and she's got a new

00:29book okay in the book i'm going to put it up on the screen right now and it is called to finish

00:35the course and of course you guys know what the course is if you don't know what the course is

00:40we're going to be talking about that today we have our d's and i i hope i said that right is

00:45that right i mean if i said that wrong i am so sorry oh i am so sorry how are you doing today

00:51miss templeman artist is that how you pronounce it that's how i pronounce it that's it it's

01:03beautiful i like that i like that i have never introduced or even had an artist on the show

01:09you're the first you're the first and you're beautiful thank you so much for joining me today

01:17tell me you know okay so let's let's dive right in you wrote the book you know here it is to finish

01:25the course but what was that course like for you in the beginning well it really began um i don't

01:32know if this is what you want but it began with my love for history we moved to um new england to

01:40um boston's full of it and uh i remember we walked down the my husband and i uh started at the commons

01:59in boston and uh we you know there's bimes and music groups and all kinds of things going on and

02:07and so we we we walked the walk of the paul revere ride and ended up in um the old north church

02:16to our horror we realized we had to walk back the long walk but it was uh but uh in in learning to

02:26know the history of new england i then i fell in love with the with the movie ad

02:34um well i don't know how many times i watched it and it was the the story of the roman empire

02:43and uh during the time of the of the caesars and then i i i love the bible the stories of the bible

02:53and i began to put together in my mind that uh the the christian world really began during the roman

03:03empire during the time of the caesars and so the man paul the man paul um uh what uh took the story

03:16of christianity all across the roman world wow and he suffered tremendously because he he he um he clashed

03:29with the uh orthodox jewish people and he clashed with the with the greeks and the romans and

03:37oh my goodness he ended up in prison he was beaten he was stoned he was uh he went through terrific

03:46terrific um um uh uh uh uh uh you know uh pain and to take that gospel across the roman world and begin new little

04:00churches everywhere wow so he sacrificed a lot yes he did sacrificed his whole life yes he did at the end of his life he was able to say i have finished the course i've run the race

04:15and uh there's laid up for me a crown of of glory and uh that's what i mean by he's finished the course

04:25wow he was faithful he was faithful wow wow how how accurate does the novel portray the political

04:35and social climate of the roman empire uh from tiberius to nero do you put that in there because i know you

04:42said you you love history what was that like for you to grab that that those nuggets

04:47it it it took me 20 years actually oh my gosh we were living in new england and i went to the harvard

04:57library and i went i went i they let me in and i would clear back to the dusty book section

05:04for nobody goes the old old old old hundred and you're older than that year old books and i went to

05:13yale and i went to dartmouth got into their libraries go way back there to where nobody was

05:22and nobody really dusted the books either

05:25i would i would make notes i would i i made many many many many notes just bought reams of notes

05:38and of the of the geography of the area and what what the what the old cities were like

05:47person most all of them now are just archaeological digs yeah and uh um i and the customs of the people

05:57of the age i mean the customs of the greeks the customs of the of the jewish people and i did the best

06:05i could yeah but my profession was a counselor wow and so um in in counseling

06:16i i studied the behavior of people i began to realize that uh these people in back in on the

06:26history history of our nation the history of of um of the type of christ of the times of of of paul

06:36they were real people they weren't just flat figures on a page they had they had they had likes

06:44they had dislikes they had dislikes they had fears they had um they had needs like we have

06:51that needs to be cared for that needs to be loved that needs to have their needs met

06:58and that's how i developed the band paul and the people he worked with nice and so i just i turned

07:07into people well yeah i mean they were weren't they they really were they were people my gosh so what

07:15did you find out that you didn't know before i mean there's got to be some nitty-gritty in there

07:21that we're missing that we you know we haven't found out before i mean what was it that you found out that

07:27you were like what no way um well one of the things was i was not equated with the philosophies of the

07:39greeks of what of what paul had had to encounter everywhere he went there were greek statues i don't

07:49know if you if what as i was reading about it i was reading about how nero just became insane you know

07:59he was insane up i don't know what he thought i guess he thought he would live into an infinity i

08:06don't know but he had all of the heads cut off all of the statues even the female statues that his head

08:13put on all the statues yeah he he thought a lot about himself he wanted to that was his version of

08:21a mirror that was his version of the mirror very narcissist narcissistic yeah that's it

08:29wow wow what paul was in in encountering uh with the greeks was he he he was he was stating

08:40there was only one god there weren't hundreds of them there was one god the creator of the heavens

08:45and the earth that was our one god you know but the greeks uh and the romans believed that there was

08:55no afterlife and so they they gave themselves up purely to pleasure yeah and uh in in uh the city of

09:07corinth corinth the epicurean philosophers taught that of course also that there was no life after

09:14death it was all materialism all all pleasure and uh and paul saw that there was course no fulfillment in

09:24that yeah you know i mean in our culture that uh there really is no fulfillment if we don't work

09:33no no no but you're doing this fulfillment it's got to be well definitely and i do believe that this

09:41is a a learning ground you know this is the teaching yeah you know this is where you learn this is where

09:47you experience and afterwards you know you go to wherever the most high wants you to go i mean i don't

09:53know where that may be you know everybody tells me that's you know gold streets pearl gates i mean if you've

09:59gone and come back you could tell me you know but i don't know anyone that has gone that far and come

10:05back you know so i have to say that yes i do believe yeah yeah there is we live on and on and on into

10:13eternity yeah forever and ever and ever so paul saw the hopelessness the total hopelessness and the

10:23enslavement they felt and um there there there there was unfulfillment but he was telling them you

10:33know uh he was he was proclaiming the the the the creator of the heavens of the earth right that is

10:43there is an eternity to gain yes you know we could have freedom from our internal and enslavements we

10:52could be set free yeah definitely what what what did what did this do for you i mean did this change

10:59you did this make you different did this give you more insight did it give you a deeper faith it did

11:06really yes the more i studied the more the more my own faith uh deepened and uh you know i just i just i

11:18just i just felt that in my own life i've got to be faithful i i've got to i've got to leave a legacy

11:28yeah in my own life you know um after i wrote the book i i put so much energy and time and into it

11:41so then i said to send it off to a publisher and i got a pink slip i sent it off to another publisher

11:48i got another pink slip and so i got really really really discouraged i threw all my notes away

11:58and i deleted it from my computer i thought oh i thought all that work for nothing oh my gosh

12:07and you meant you meant my just met my son ron yeah one day i had that little internal voice that said

12:17you need to get it published and i said nope i've already deleted it it's not there anymore

12:24and i kept hearing that little voice and so i i mentioned the dm he says i think i can bring it up

12:31here it was like all encrypted on my computer and he brought it up and there it was

12:40wow 20 years almost gone with the flick of a finger with a pink slip

12:46that's right other people have determined that they think you are which you're not

12:52oh my gosh i am so happy thank you thank you thank you thank you for doing that thank you for finding

13:00it he's in the other room well tell him i said thank you you know it is just a pleasure to see that

13:07a pink slip doesn't determine whether this is going to be a success or not and even a tantrum because i

13:13think that was kind of like a tantrum like i'm not done with this it was but i'm glad that he was able

13:20to see through it find it and here it is today the book is out and tell me you know what can people

13:28expect from this book when they read it what what do you want them to get from this book

13:33um i want them to get the message i want to get them the message that um um really there's no pit so

13:44deep but what jesus is deeper still um i don't i want them to get the message that um there is that that

13:54that uh um they can find fulfillment in life and that there is um

14:07uh i think the lesson of faithfulness is right of difficulties we don't know what we're going to

14:15go through in here in the united states if we may end up going through some really really difficult days

14:21yeah one of us is possible we can't say we won't right for many of the countries in this world do

14:29they go through really difficult times and uh if we will remain faithful and if we would if we will

14:38work to make a difference in other people's lives um that's what it's all about i gotcha the difference

14:47i understand and i agree definitely making a difference we're going to go ahead and put

14:51the link to the book in the description box below or wherever you may be watching so that you too can

14:57find it it is on amazon it's called to finish the race or to finish the course i would say the rest

15:02the course course finish it's called to finish the chorus and we want to make sure that you finish the

15:11course with us thank you yeah thank you so much miss templeman for being on the show for and i thank your

15:19son for finding this book okay hello thank you guys so much for tuning in and we're going to have that

15:27information about to finish the course in the description box below or wherever you may be

15:31watching and so that way you can go ahead and find it for yourselves and thank you again so much for

15:37tuning in don't forget to dare to be different and until next time did we did we go through everything

15:42you wanted to say today before we finish i have a couple other of other books out you do well tell

15:48me about these books then hello oh one is when you see whatever it makes nice story of elijah and elisha

15:59and then i have another one called a shepherd's war well you are a writer right for this is for people in

16:07ministry navigating spiritual battles of ministry wow you you're amazing are you going to come out with

16:14another book i am oh forget me i'm done you're amazing i'm writing a book right now um my little

16:26granddaughter anna called me one day she said grandma will you write a book i said i've written three

16:34she said will you write a book another book okay what do you want she said i want you to tell all

16:40the stories you tell me in a book because someday you're going to die and those stories will die with

16:46you well oh my gosh okay just kill grandma right now i mean seriously okay that was wow okay so what did you

17:00tell her i'll do it well please hurry up oh my gosh well she's smart

17:11well i i kind of i kind of well i don't agree on the second half but just write the book you're not

17:16going anywhere anytime soon i'm sure no miss templeman thank you so much for being on the show

17:23and we look forward to seeing the other book that your granddaughter has asked you to write

17:29what is do you have a name for it not yet no okay well just don't name it anything

17:36in the sentence you just told me all right thank you guys again so much for tuning in don't forget

17:43to dare to be different and until next time guys bye

17:59thank you for watching

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