POA2 – Why does God allow evil? – Put On The Armor – A Manual for Spiritual Warfare w/Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. – Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Paul Thigpen reflects on the armor of God, the role of virtue, the mystery of temptation and the strength found in prayer, Scripture and Our Lady.
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| 0:00.0 | Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. |
| 0:04.0 | To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to Discerninghearts.com and click the donate link found there or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. |
| 0:14.0 | Thanks and God bless. |
| 0:16.0 | Dcerninghearts.com, in cooperation with Tan Books, presents Put on the Armor, a manual for spiritual warfare with Dr. Paul Thickpin. |
| 0:26.6 | Dr. Thickpen is an internationally known speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning journalist, who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, a Catholic |
| 0:38.9 | response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this |
| 0:44.5 | series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickpin was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic |
| 0:49.9 | Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the church as a theologian, historian, |
| 0:55.7 | apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic |
| 1:01.6 | and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. |
| 1:08.6 | Put on the Armor, a manual for spiritual warfare with Dr. Paul Thickpin. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm your host, Chris McGregor. |
| 1:23.1 | From a letter from St. Paul to the Ephesians, Chapter 6. |
| 1:28.1 | Be strengthened in the Lord in the might of His power, put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. |
| 1:36.2 | For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual |
| 1:46.1 | forces of wickedness on high. Therefore, take up the armor of God so that you may be able to |
| 1:52.1 | resist the evil every day and stand in all things perfect. Stand, therefore, having girded your loins |
| 1:59.8 | with truth, and having put on the breastplate of justice, |
| 2:03.6 | and having your feet shot with the readiness of the gospel of peace, in all things taking up the shield of faith, |
| 2:09.6 | with which you may be able to quench all fiery darts of the most wicked one, |
| 2:14.6 | and take for yourself the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit |
| 2:18.6 | that is the word of God. With all prayer and supplication, pray at all times in the spirit, |
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