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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#502 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 2 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church to create expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brainwave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press we now continue with part two of our conversation a lot of times we look at those things that the action of the enemy that is what 90 % is temptation the our father lead us not into temptation but also as we just said the oppression and obsession those are things that can be dealt with especially in the sacramental life that we have within the mass within confession isn't it been said Adam that one good confession could be worth of a hundred exorcisms these are all just kind of turns a phrase but essentially yes for the average person the average Catholic who has access to the sacraments deliverance comes primarily through the sacramental graces and that means baptism confirmation confession and the mass those are the the mechanisms that sanctifying grace comes into your life for the average person and then of course matrimony for some people people underestimate the importance and power of the sacramental graces and they want the drama of the exciting prayer thinking you know you'll do this kind of magical incantation and make these problems go away versus the person doing the the work of conversion in themselves of making it to mass of having a good confession of doing the work of building a daily prayer life all of those things are actually what lead to deliverance primarily it's not just the exciting prayers if a person is unwilling to make any changes in their life is an unwilling to walk away from sin is essentially unwilling to have conversion in their life usually the prayers don't work because Jesus is looking for conversion and change so if somebody has done something to get into trouble spiritually they can't just come to the church and say well wave the magic wand and make the suffering go away I don't like it but I'm not gonna change my life because Jesus knows our hearts and so I've seen this over the years that even in the case is a full -blown possession he wants to see spiritual growth in the person he wants to see a movement towards him and trust and love and a turning away from sin in addition to coming to the church for prayers and so the sacramental grace is for the person that isn't possessed actually that is the engine that drives deliverance it's so important that in your book you have a section called Jesus as exorcist and that ultimately that's the lesson is the turning towards him right summately and that's what the team in their particular response to the individual is helping that individual to turn towards them it's not so much it is the actions of what they're doing during the liturgy that's what it is exorcism is a liturgy but it's that reception of that person to a life of faith is that a fair way of saying it yes that's that's a big part of it they also are repenting of their sins through sacramental confession if they're Catholic and then another important piece that most people don't think about is they're forgiving the sins of others and so a demon can hold on to or it gets traction from our sins that we're unwilling to let go of or keep trying to let go of and get away from but they can also hold on to when we are unforgiving of the sins of others that have hurt us and so as we know from the our father forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us we know that God wants us to forgive as he forgives us you know the parable of the king who forgives the debt of the one slave and then that slave goes and beats up another slave and says give me you know the little bit you owe me and then when the the king finds out about this he throws the first guy who he had forgiven who's now being mean in turn in jail so we see this played out time and time again God expects us to be merciful and that that is part of it and then you know in an interesting twist sometimes the unforgiveness towards yourself becomes a stumbling block to total freedom because if a person feels they deserve to be punished and suffer and they're not forgiving themselves even though they know they've been sacramentally forgiven they even understand and believe Jesus has forgiven them but if they feel that they can't forgive themselves and that they deserve this that also gives the demon traction to hold on so there's kind of a pastoral process that is woven through exorcism over time working with the person outside of the sessions before and after and chatting with them and you know basically spiritual direction and that's the part that's missing in the movies oh yeah that's an incredible part of it because as I alluded to earlier you know it's the opening of doors I mean we can for example I have priests come through our house and bless our homes place Benedictine metals at windows go through the whole ritual as family but then we go downstairs and put on a television screen or open up online and allow something that's evil in character into our house or to do actions what was the point of the of the prior blessing I don't think we appreciate the fact that there is a need for repentance and a conversion of action not just of words and correct yeah and again Jesus knows our hearts so we can't just give lip service to these ideas because he knows what's going on with us for real and he's looking for real conversion and so you know it's just so important because ultimately he doesn't allow this stuff just because he wants to allow it you know he doesn't enjoy the fact that we're suffering but he allows it as a corrective experience so we realize the thing that we're embracing and we turn and run back to it so ultimately he's looking for closeness with us and possession is something that happens to people that generally are running away from Jesus and are far from him and specifically are embracing demonic spirits in some way and so he's not allowing this to be mean he's saying I'm gonna let you see the monster that you've chosen hoping that the person will then turn away and come back to him no I thought it was really important in that particular section in closing from the exorcisms by Jesus that you point out that he does Commission the 12 but in the 72 as well to go out but it's important that it's not only the priests and the bishops who have the authority to cast out demons and that would be revealed over time but it took centuries in a way for the church to find the need to limit the exercise of the use of exorcism and you really broke that open I thought that was so fascinating the research you did on that well it was a journey the church went through and you know one thing we have to remember in the very early church it was just apostles and followers you would have the equivalent of a bishop in your city or your region who would be you know the current apostle but there wasn't this whole hierarchy of you know deacons and priests and formal offices within the church because we're you know for the first 300 years the church was under terrible persecution it wasn't this big wealthy institution with buildings and schools and everything else it was it was a struggling little movement and so we have to remember in those very early centuries there weren't priest exorcists because there weren't priests in the very beginning it quickly came about but again with the persecution in the early church things just weren't that organized and then as the church spread around the world communication wasn't there we didn't have an internet letters could take weeks months or never arrive you know sending information around the world at that time and so it was a very different world it took centuries for the church to figure out this ministry and then through hard experience and seeing how difficult the ministry is and how it can chew people up and how it can lead to pride which leads to destroying people and causing heresies to develop and all kinds of other problems the church wisely said we need to regulate this so that qualified people are doing it it's not just you know somebody deciding they're gonna pick it up because they'd like to the church wanted to make sure people were qualified and then had kind of a proper context to keep them safe and effective essentially yeah it isn't a game and there isn't something that you oh I'm fascinated I'm curious about this I want to explore more yes reading your book is the great way to do that if you have that inkling but the actual ministry of it there is so much involved and you go into the different types of exorcism and how they developed for anybody who wants to understand more about the free masonry dynamics that are addressed by exorcism that's fascinating but also it's a very real issue isn't it yeah so the minor exorcism what's sometimes called the Leonine exorcism because Pope Leo the 13th wrote it in 1890 was originally explicitly directed against Freemasonry it wasn't a general exorcism against the devil it was it was against Freemasonry and Freemasonry since it's you know within 20 years of it coming into existence in the world in the early 1700s the church was identifying it as the church's greatest enemy in the world and there's been you know papal statements I think there's at least seven different popes have made formal bulls and statements about Freemasonry condemning it reminding Catholics that their ex communicated if they become Freemasons which is still the case by the way and so yeah the the minor exorcism actually was all about Freemasonry and that's why I took that kind of a side in the book to explain the history of Freemasonry and where it came from so that we could see it kind of from the church's perspective and imagine you know how they were seeing Freemasonry and why that may have led to this prayer being written we'll return to inside the pages in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr. Anthony Lewis Monsignor John s of Deacon James Keating father Donald Haggerty Mike Aquilina dr. Matthew Bunsen and so many more they're all available on the free discerning hearts app over 3 ,000 spiritual formation programs and prayers all available to you with no hidden fees or subscriptions did you also know that you can listen to discerning hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcasts like Apple podcasts Google Play I heart radio Spotify even on audible as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms and did you know that discerning hearts also has a YouTube channel be sure to check out all these different places where you can find discerning hearts Catholic podcasts dedicated to those on the spiritual journey show your support for streaming platforms such as Apple podcasts Google Play Spotify and more with a collection of insightful podcasts led by renowned Catholic spiritual guides such as father Timothy Gallagher Monsignor John sf dr.
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Fresh update on "angels" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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The Guardian Angels Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr John Esseff - burst 1
"Angel reminds people on earth to pray for you so often you know some people who are not yet and may be in purgatory and not yet settled in their in their home forever in heaven that angels work is to go to the people on earth or to others to pray for that soul and I really believe that many of us are reminded oh my grandmother or my uncle so -and -so or having a mass offered for so is really inspired by the angel who comes and asks why don't you have a mass said for your dad why don't you have a mass said for your aunt Tilly so that there's there's that reminder to pray for the dead
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "angels" discussed on Mark Levin
"Well, that's Maurice can't indict anybody. No, but what I'm saying is if you can have members of Congress acting as individuals bring forth a motion to indict... You're listening not to me. Individuals don't have the power to bring motions to indict people. Can you name one? I'm sorry, what? Thank you for your call. Look, I can't do basic second grade stuff here, folks. Most of the people here understand that individuals cannot indict people. Understand that, don't you Mr. producer? And that's not what he was going to talk about anyway. But individuals cannot indict people. Congress can't indict people. Only the executive branch and the federal level can or have grand juries paneled and bring indictments. An individual can't bring an indictment. Not everybody knows that, or almost everyone apparently. I don't be rude, but I just don't have time to go through that whole history and then told I'm wrong and whatever. It just doesn't make any sense. You know, Merrick Garland was on 60 Minutes. I thought 60 Minutes was over. They had this guy Scott Pelley and Leslie Stahl, you know, long in the tooth nitwits. Merrick Garland wants you to know that everything is cool over there at the Department of Justice. No favoritism whatsoever. Not now, not ever. Cut 16, go. We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats. We don't have one rule for foes and another for friends. We don't have one rule for powerful and another for the powerless, for the rich or for the who are based on ethnicity. We have only one rule and that one rule. So we follow the facts and the law. Get public. Mumblers ready after this guy here, Mr. Bruce. Go ahead. Protect civil properties. Are you essentially saying as attorney general to the American people, trust me. Now, Pelley, he's a real sharp dude there. Let me see if I understand this. And they all talk like Dan Rather were there. The jaw kind of locked. The bottom row of teeth don't move. And they just kind of are you essentially saying as attorney general to the American people, trust me. Yes he is, you nitwit, which is hilarious. Why would we trust him? He's the worst attorney general in my lifetime. Go ahead, please. I suppose it does come down down to trust, but it's not just me. It's decades. Shut up, dummy. In fact, he sounds a lot like this. Go. What What are they? Can you get a funny only the ghost track? They have the night it calls when they just gave you gave them the withdraw, bringing U .S. home groups from home and and and the the the. You know, you you you you need somebody. So what? Finally, what? Uh, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, about a budget, but resist. We much we must and will much about that be committed. I'm a warrior. Ha ha uh, you know, the the that it was the it did detect detect. I mean, they said that, look, the, the, the, the, yeah. Why is it? It wasn't him. I didn't. If we, if we, you know, it, uh, you know, it, it, it, it, we can walk and chew gum gum. We hold these shoes to be self evident. All men and women created by go, you know, the, you know, the, the, inside of the erection insurrection. And, uh, what am I doing here? I'm going to lose track here. Uh, to competence in the content, private, uh, private, uh, uh, uh, economic, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. let them know how much I'm going to do with the deficit this year bridges and those balls that are collapsing. And, you know, is, it it is, um, it is, you know, it is not, uh, it is, uh, it is. part of the, um, the, uh, Mr. Uh, the sin, uh, the, the, I don't do some of you to some of the leadership of, um, uh, kajon kajon katangi, drown you docs are good. If there's any angels in heaven, they're all nurses, male and
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from The Guardian Angels Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr John Esseff
"Discerning hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey 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 thanks and God bless discerninghearts .com presents building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef Monsignor Assef is a priest of the diocese of Scranton Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the sisters of the missionaries of charity. Monsignor Assef encountered St. Padre Pio who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical missions a Catholic organization established by Pope St. John Paul II to bring the good news to the world especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops priests and sisters seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef I'm your host Chris McGregor. Angels are so much on my mind today to talk to you about and I would like to begin with the guardian angel. I was very much enamored of my angel as a child. Ever since I can remember my brother and I were roommates and we had in our room you know that picture of guardian angel guiding this child across a bridge and we certainly he and I had so many scrapes as children we have some of them in our book but as two boys growing up and we were so companions because I can't remember being my memories go way back but they they don't go back before my brother because I was only a year and a half old when he came along so I always had this companion and so it's kind of easy for me to believe that I have a companion the angel the guardian angel is given to us from the first moment of our conception the guardian angel is interuterine he is given to you from your mother's womb and from the first moment that that egg fertilizes that is for that seed fertilizes that egg that soul that's blown into that person who now is going to be that's the beginning that's the moment your guardian angel begins to protect you and watch over you so he's with you and assists you in your life in the womb because how many more things are being told to us these days about what happens to the child in the womb it's a whole life in there if you're a single birth if you're you know are you my mother tells the story about that what do they talk about when a child is turned around and I was a breach breath I was going to be a breach birth and what happened to me is I got turned around and there's like all kinds of assistance that goes on within the womb guardian angel is right there assisting you in the birthing you know I think so many times we've it's good for a mother to know that that baby is being watched over and protected how that life is there and how the mother loves that baby from the moment that she knows she's pregnant and so the the baby is being watched over and cared for within the womb and then in the birthing your guardian angel comes with you that that angel stays with you from that moment of conception not only until you die but if you fail to go to paradise that angel reminds people on earth to pray for you so often you know some people who are not yet and may be in purgatory and not yet settled in their in their home forever in heaven that angels work is to go to the people on earth or to others to pray for that soul and I really believe that many of us are reminded oh my grandmother or my uncle so -and -so or having a mass offered for so is really inspired by the angel who comes and asks why don't you have a mass said for your dad why don't you have a mass said for your aunt Tilly so that there's there's that reminder to pray for the dead so until that's also because even in the liturgy itself it says at the death of a person may the angel lead you into paradise may the martyrs receive you on your way so as we go into the eternal city the angels are individually created angels do not multiply like humans so therefore if there are six billion people in this universe and each one of us has a specific guardian angel then there must at least be six billion angels God in making angels we always hear scripturally that there are myriads you know what myriads is millions and billions he just makes them and he creates them individually the least angelic creature is greater than any human creation you know after all man is only half spiritual half of him is material or physical he's half animal half spirit so that our bodily part it's no less beautiful it's a creation that we have feet and arms and legs and and we have a sex to us know that individual creation of my body is a very beautiful creation God has made the the marvel of a human body you know when I go to doctors and see especially if a person becomes ill the functioning of a healthy organ and a body is such a magnificent the eye the complexity of what an ear is or what a face is so what a brain is this is a magnificent each one of us who are human have been given this body creation and we have be given a spirit which is that part of us we are a body soul composite so that when we do die it's not only that the soul goes on to live because that's the part of us that will live eternally that's the part of us that's immortal but so is our body going to be so when the body and we believe that it's going to be raised from the dead we believe in the resurrection of the body so that it will participate in the glory of God in heaven forever or in the damnation in the fires of hell or whatever there is for eternal damnation and torture so we do know that we have any we are not made to die we are made to live eternally and because of Jesus who gives us a new life we are called now to live eternally in heaven he has given us the opportunity of salvation when he died on the cross Jesus saved everyone from the time of the cross back to Adam and Eve but they were not able to enter into glory because of Adam and Eve sin so he by his death on the cross brought salvation to every human being from Adam and Eve down to the year 33 and from the third year 33 to the end of time so that the cross is the salvation of all of mankind the desire of God was to save all of the human family each member of that family has a guardian now I'd love to go over that prayer angel of God my guardian dear to whom God's love commits me here so that God has sent an angel to be with me to watch over me to guard and to assist me to enlighten me to inspire me to guide me so this and we usually like to use the word guard because I think each of us is dealing with a lot of hostility in the world in which we live so there's a protective nature to this friend of ours and be careful watch for yourself and these inspirations that we receive daily and how many times you know driving along there's like an inspiration of why don't you take this street instead of that or that some different you slow down here this is like our guardian protecting us and I I often think how important it is to develop that relationship with our guardian angel to become more familiar I developed a very strong relationship with my guardian angel I think I had it as a child I kind of lost it and then it came back to me very early in my priesthood and I remember meeting a long tradition with Carmelite nuns who said to me why don't you ask your guardian angel its name because your guardian angel has a name it's a particular spirit and if you ask your guardian angel what your name is you would be able to become more familiar because you could call him by name and you could become more dependent on him and ask him and and then develop a closer relationship with him because every guardian angel has a nature it's an angelic nature it is hugely powerful and not incidentally every guardian angel is not the lowest rank of angel you could have a guardian angel from the archangel class you can have an archang you can have an angel that's your guardian from the seraphim or cherubim or Thrones I'll talk about those choirs of angels because they have enormous power each one in gradation and they they come according to the power that was given to them in their nature which is vastly different from each other they are all invisible creatures but they are all creatures made by God who have this nature and it's a particular nature I'm starting off with guardian angels because they're the ones I think that we're most familiar with we'll return to building the kingdom of love with Monsignor John Essip in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "angels" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
The Guardian Angels St Bernard of Clairvaux from the Office of Readings Discerning Hearts Podcast - burst 1
"He has given his angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways. These words should fill you with respect, inspire devotion, and instill confidence, respect for the presence of angels, devotion because of their loving service, and confidence because of their protection. And so the angels are here. They are at your side. They are with you, present on your behalf. They are here to protect you and to serve you. But even if it is God who has given them this charge, we must nonetheless be grateful to them for the great love with which they obey and come to help us in our great need. So let us be devoted and grateful to such great protectors. Let us return their love and honor them as much as we can and should.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
Fresh update on "angels" discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
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A highlight from The Guardian Angels St Bernard of Clairvaux from the Office of Readings Discerning Hearts Podcast
"From the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Rite, from the Office of Readings. From a sermon of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. He has given his angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways. Let them thank the Lord for his mercy. His wonderful works are for the children of men. Let them give thanks and say among the nations the Lord has done great things for them. Oh Lord, what is man that you have made yourself known to him? Or why do you incline your heart to him? And do you incline your heart to him? You show him your care and your concern. Finally, you sent your only Son and the grace of your Spirit and promise him a vision of your countenance. And so, that nothing in heaven should be wanting in your concern for us, you send those blessed spirits to serve us, assigning them as our guardians and our teachers. He has given his angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways. These words should fill you with respect, inspire devotion, and instill confidence, respect for the presence of angels, devotion because of their loving service, and confidence because of their protection. And so the angels are here. They are at your side. They are with you, present on your behalf. They are here to protect you and to serve you. But even if it is God who has given them this charge, we must nonetheless be grateful to them for the great love with which they obey and come to help us in our great need. So let us be devoted and grateful to such great protectors. Let us return their love and honor them as much as we can and should. Yet all our love and honor must go to him, for it is from him that they receive all that makes them worthy of our love and respect. We should then, my brothers, show our affection for the angels, for one day they will be our co -heirs, just as here below they are our guardians and trustees appointed and set over us by the Father. We are God's children, although it does not seem so, because we are still but small children under guardians and trustees, and for the present little better than slaves. Even though we are children and have a long and very long and dangerous way to go, with such protectors what have we to fear? They who keep us in all our ways cannot be overpowered or led astray, much less lead us astray. They are loyal, prudent, powerful. Why then are we afraid? We have only to follow them, stay close to them, and we shall dwell under the protection of God's heaven. Let us pray. Lord God, in your all -wise providence you send angels to guard and protect us, surround us with their watchful care on earth, and give us the joy of their company forever in heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
Fresh update on "angels" discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"Discerning hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey 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 thanks and God bless discerninghearts.com presents building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef Monsignor Assef is a priest of the diocese of Scranton Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the sisters of the missionaries of charity. Monsignor Assef encountered St. Padre Pio who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world serving in the Pontifical missions a Catholic organization established by Pope St. John Paul II to bring the good news to the world especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops priests and sisters seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a kingdom of love reflections with Monsignor John Assef I'm your host Chris McGregor. Angels are so much on my mind today to talk to you about and I would like to begin with the guardian angel. I was very much enamored of my angel as a child. Ever since I can remember my brother and I were roommates and we had in our room you know that picture of guardian angel guiding this child across a bridge and we certainly he and I had so many scrapes as children we have some of them in our book but as two boys growing up and we were so companions because I can't remember being my memories go way back but they they don't go back before my brother because I was only a year and a half old when he came along so I always had this companion and so it's kind of easy for me to believe that I have a companion the angel the guardian angel is given to us from the first moment of our conception the guardian angel is interuterine he is given to you from your mother's womb and from the first moment that that egg fertilizes that is for that seed fertilizes that egg that soul that's blown into that person who now is going to be that's the beginning that's the moment your guardian angel begins to protect you and watch over you so he's with you and assists you in your life in the womb because how many more things are being told to us these days about what happens to the child in the womb it's a whole life in there if you're a single birth if you're you know are you my mother tells the story about that what do they talk about when a child is turned around and I was a breach breath I was going to be a breach birth and what happened to me is I got turned around and there's like all kinds of assistance that goes on within the womb guardian angel is right there assisting you in the birthing you know I think so many times we've it's good for a mother to know that that baby is being watched over and protected how that life is there and how the mother loves that baby from the moment that she knows she's pregnant and so the the baby is being watched over and cared for within the womb and then in the birthing your guardian angel comes with you that that angel stays with you from that moment of conception not only until you die but if you fail to go to paradise that angel reminds people on earth to pray for you so often you know some people who are not yet and may be in purgatory and not yet settled in their in their home forever in heaven that angels work is to go to the people on earth or to others to pray for that soul and I really believe that many of us are reminded oh my grandmother or my uncle so-and-so or having a mass offered for so is really inspired by the angel who comes and asks why don't you have a mass said for your dad why don't you have a mass said for your aunt Tilly so that there's there's that reminder to pray for the dead so until that's also because even in the liturgy itself it says at the death of a person may the angel lead you into paradise may the martyrs receive you on your way so as we go into the eternal city the angels are individually created angels do not multiply like humans so therefore if there are six billion people in this universe and each one of us has a specific guardian angel then there must at least be six billion angels God in making angels we always hear scripturally that there are myriads you know what myriads is millions and billions he just makes them and he creates them individually the least angelic creature is greater than any human creation you know after all man is only half spiritual half of him is material or physical he's half animal half spirit so that our bodily part it's no less beautiful it's a creation that we have feet and arms and legs and and we have a sex to us know that individual creation of my body is a very beautiful creation God has made the the marvel of a human body you know when I go to doctors and see especially if a person becomes ill the functioning of a healthy organ and a body is such a magnificent the eye the complexity of what an ear is or what a face is so what a brain is this is a magnificent each one of us who are human have been given this body creation and we have be given a spirit which is that part of us we are a body soul composite so that when we do die it's not only that the soul goes on to live because that's the part of us that will live eternally that's the part of us that's immortal but so is our body going to be so when the body and we believe that it's going to be raised from the dead we believe in the resurrection of the body so that it will participate in the glory of God in heaven forever or in the damnation in the fires of hell or whatever there is for eternal damnation and torture so we do know that we have any we are not made to die we are made to live eternally and because of Jesus who gives us a new life we are called now to live eternally in heaven he has given us the opportunity of salvation when he died on the cross Jesus saved everyone from the time of the cross back to Adam and Eve but they were not able to enter into glory because of Adam and Eve sin so he by his death on the cross brought salvation to every human being from Adam and Eve down to the year 33 and from the third year 33 to the end of time so that the cross is the salvation of all of mankind the desire of God was to save all of the human family each member of that family has a guardian now I'd love to go over that prayer angel of God my guardian dear to whom God's love commits me here so that God has sent an angel to be with me to watch over me to guard and to assist me to enlighten me to inspire me to guide me so this and we usually like to use the word guard because I think each of us is dealing with a lot of hostility in the world in which we live so there's a protective nature to this friend of ours and be careful watch for yourself and these inspirations that we receive daily and how many times you know driving along there's like an inspiration of why don't you take this street instead of that or that some different you slow down here this is like our guardian protecting us and I I often think how important it is to develop that relationship with our guardian angel to become more familiar I developed a very strong relationship with my guardian angel I think I had it as a child I kind of lost it and then it came back to me very early in my priesthood and I remember meeting a long tradition with Carmelite nuns who said to me why don't you ask your guardian angel its name because your guardian angel has a name it's a particular spirit and if you ask your guardian angel what your name is you would be able to become more familiar because you could call him by name and you could become more dependent on him and ask him and and then develop a closer relationship with him because every guardian angel has a nature it's an angelic nature it is hugely powerful and not incidentally every guardian angel is not the lowest rank of angel you could have a guardian angel from the archangel class you can have an archang you can have an angel that's your guardian from the seraphim or cherubim or Thrones I'll talk about those choirs of angels because they have enormous power each one in gradation and they they come according to the power that was given to them in their nature which is vastly different from each other they are all invisible creatures but they are all creatures made by God who have this nature and it's a particular nature I'm starting off with guardian angels because they're the ones I think that we're most familiar with we'll return to building the kingdom of love with Monsignor John Essip in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr.
Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Rebecca Alvarez Story Built a Sexual Wellness Brand
"Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the colorful world of Skittles. Skittles brings you a jolt of five fruity flavors in every bite, giving you the chance to taste the rainbow like never before. Break free from the ordinary day -to -day with the help of Skittles chewy candy. Skittles is a must in my candy jar, movie snack, even my secret to an afternoon pick -me -up. And I don't even care who knows it. Add a splash of joy to your day with Skittles. There's nothing better than fruity fun that tickles your taste buds. Taste the rainbow. I've been wanting to talk with Rebecca Albera's story for a while. She is an award -winning entrepreneur, sexologist, and intimate product developer. Three titles that do not often go together. But I'm glad we waited for this moment when, like many of my very favorite conversations, we find Rebecca and her company Bloomy, a wellness brand focused on clean, intimate care essentials, at an inflection point, asking the very familiar question, will what got us here get us to where we want to go next? Rebecca, finally, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad it worked. I'm so happy to have this conversation. Rebecca, among the things you say about intimacy is that so much of the root of intimacy is unlearning bad sex ed. What was the bad sex ed that you grew up with? My bad sex ed was actually no sex ed to start with. I definitely saw love, and my parents modeled that so well. But in terms of, like, in my community, in my school, did we have sex education? Not really, because it was abstinence -only education in high school. It's wild that someone goes from growing up in an environment that is abstinence -only to, I mean, by the time you are in college, you're very clear that you want to study sex and sexuality. I sit at the intersection of so many things, being Latina, a woman. I was a single mom at that time. I just felt like I could relate to so many people's intimacy journeys. And I wanted to create the spaces where we could talk about it. I didn't know exactly what it was going to look like. But yes, in college, I tell this story, you know, I was apprehensive about sexuality because my first year in college, I was actually assaulted. And I ended up transferring home. I ended up at Cal, a very liberal, very progressive school where I could take so many wonderful classes that were holistic, and I shared with people that it was very healing for me. I had great therapy. I had great all of that. But the education, it just transformed my life. When did it become clear to you that you are an entrepreneur? To be honest, I feel like I've always known this since I was little. I had that spirit of, oh, that should be a business. And why don't we have a solution? I would just see things differently than like the cousins I grew up with, I think. They would joke and say, why do you always have so many ideas? Why are you always so bossy? But it was just little. I was little and I was like taking initiative to create things. Talk me through the evolution of Blumey, because as I understand it, the original idea was a multi -brand marketplace. How did it morph from that concept to a place for education, advice on intimacy with a line of sexual wellness products? I had been in the industry for 10 years. I was working as a consultant for startups, helping them with their product development. And I was coaching both singles and couples, learning so much about intimacy challenges, intimacy goals, and really helping people in a lot of different ways, where at the end of so many of my sessions, my clients wanted solutions. They wanted the book, the product, the toy, the whatever it was. And so I would manually send this to them. I started creating a list, but it was a little bit like it was a lot of work on my end to always curate. And so what I did is I said, I'm just going to put these products that I recommend that are clean, because it's very important that these products be healthy, especially for these areas of the body, put them all on a page. And that was the beginning of Bloomie, where I had multiple brands. They were my favorite clean brands that I would recommend in the category. And then when I developed our first product with our team, it was called Bloomie Arousal Oil. We still sell it. It's a bestseller. That was just the beginning of a pivot for us. And that's why we fundraised and why we ended up really focusing on Bloomie's products, making solutions for products that I wish I had 10 years ago. The question I'm about to ask you seems particularly relevant given the timing of your and my conversation, but I want to take us back to April 2022. Your line is set to debut at Target and your funding falls short. How does that happen? Funding for women of color entrepreneurs is severely lower than what it should be. There is less than one percent of funding that is going to entrepreneurs of color and Latina founders. So I never use that as an excuse. But when I went out and I fundraised, I did everything by the book. I trained, I did accelerators, I did boot camps. I had a cis white male co -founder. I had everything you're supposed to, and I'm using quotes, to have. And we fell short. We wanted to raise two million. We raised one million. So what did I do? I ended up seeing that there is no standard for my industry. This is new. Intimacy companies were not being venture backed at that time. And I just realized I'm going to have to do things differently. So we crowd raised. We basically opened up part of our round to the community where they could invest one hundred or two hundred dollars minimum. We raised almost a million dollars that way, two different times. And then we also I took out personal loans. We had a few angels give us personal loans. I took out a line of credit. Like I did everything to make sure that we could have sufficient capital to meet the demands of going into retail. And even with that, I'll say when founders ask me, what does it take to go into retail? It's so big of a question. I want to sit down and go through things with people. But you have to estimate how much you're going to need to be on shelf, stay on shelf. That's even harder. Mark it and to not plan to be profitable right away.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Monday of the 26th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew chapter 18 verses 1 through 5, 10 and 12 through 14. The disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. And he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. The disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in my name are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. The disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in the kingdom of heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven. What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who love us, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from Versatus - The Most Versatile DevEx in Web3
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hey team, we have a new sponsor here at the Crypto Conversation, BitGet, one of the world's leading copy trading cryptocurrency exchanges, yes indeed. What happens if you've got the funds to invest but you don't have the time to keep track of the market? You still want to make smart money moves, what do you do? Well copy trading is a popular choice for beginner traders. You can shorten your learning curve by uncovering tips and strategies from more experienced traders. BitGet's copy trading platform has over 80 ,000 elite traders to choose from and 380 ,000 followers just like yourself who are already using the BitGet copy trading platform as a potential passive income stream. All it takes is one click, you can subscribe to an elite profitable strategist, set your limits, automate your orders and monitor their trades. I've got some links in the show notes below, one link will take you through to the BitGet sign up page, give you a VIP discount. So learn all about it for yourself, thanks to BitGet. And now it is on with the show. My guest today is Andrew Smith, Andrew is the founder of Versatus Labs, building out the most versatile DevEx in Web3. Welcome to the show Andrew. Thanks for having me Andy. It is a pleasure, let's do what we do at the beginning of the show Andrew, it would be great if you could please introduce yourself. I'd love to hear a little bit about your, I guess, personal and professional backstory, what you've been doing that has led you to founding Versatus Labs. Yeah, absolutely. So I was born and raised in Miami, Florida, which is where I now reside again. I did do a stint in Denver, Colorado and an extended stint in Los Angeles. So I was gone from my hometown for about 12 years. I programming started at the age of 14, a technology teacher and seventh grade enemy, the classic, the C programming language book and said, learn this, I think it's going to be important. And so I did, never really did much as a kid other than like, you build like space invader clones and C and a couple of other things. Picked up Python and C++ a little bit later in life, during high school and, you know, was very, very interested in the cross -section of like machine learning and AI and economics. Economics is really sort of my first love, even though I'm a programmer, I kind of always wanted to be an economist, but just found that there's not really a lot of money in it unless you work for a political campaign. So it wasn't going to do that. And programming and machine learning in particular was something that I thought I could apply my love and knowledge of economics to. So it was building machine learning algorithms very, very early on before you add any of the sort of open source tools that you have today that makes it easy. And was sending my resume and GitHub around to a bunch of different hedge funds. Yes, this was going back about 10, 11 years now. And finally found one that was willing to give me a little bit of money to play around with. It's a group called Trident Asset Management. They're based part -time out of Connecticut and part -time out of Colorado, wasn't going to move to Connecticut. So that's what took me to Denver, then did the same thing for a fixed income shop based out of Newport Beach. That's how I ended up in Los Angeles. Started my first startup there, it's called Owl ESG, it's a environmental, social and governance data company built out, you know, some machine learning models and, you know, from PDFs, sort of scraping about 30 ,000 documents a day and extracting the data and building out a ESG data set. Grew that company and then in 2020 decided to start Versatus. So started this sort of hobby project, was doing a solo build on it, spent about 18 months solo building and was talking to a few friends in the space and they thought I was really onto something. So made some introductions, next thing you knew we were raising our first round from jumping big brain, hiring out an engineering team and now 14 months later, here we are. Very nice, very nice. Thank you, Andrew. Give us an idea then of, I guess, your vision for Versatus. What are you guys building? What's the vision? Yeah, so the vision is like the best way to put it, even though this is an imperfect if analogy is you think of like the cloud compute providers, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, et cetera, you know, they own these huge data centers and these data centers are effectively a commodity business. You know, they build out a warehouse and put a bunch of servers in it, connect those servers to the Internet, occasionally maintain them and update them in and of themselves. They're not really that valuable. What makes them really valuable is that they provide all these tools that make it easy and efficient for developers to interact with those data centers and build applications on top of them to store data inside of them, et cetera. We believe that blockchain is analogous to that. It's not, again, it's an imperfect analogy. But if you kind of view the blockchains that exist in the world today and the ones that will come in the future as those data centers, next generation data centers where we provide value is we provide that program ability layer and compute layer that makes it easy and efficient for developers to build on top of blockchains. So we what we're building is a decentralized compute stack that enables developers to build in any language on any chain. And I think this is really powerful for a number of different reasons, which I'm sure we'll get to. But one of the major barriers to entry for developers is the language barrier. There's also a pretty big tooling barrier as well, which we saw that the language barrier, you know, if you're you want to build in Web3, the first thing you need to do is either go learn Solidity or Rust or one of the other languages. And Rust is a general purpose language. There are some people that already know it, but anybody that's entering into Web3 at the very beginning and they've got to go learn Solidity. Right. So a lot of them just don't view it as worthwhile to go learn Solidity. It's a domain specific language. The only thing you'll ever be able to do with that is build EVM compatible smart contracts. So until and unless there's a robust enough financial incentive for them to actually go and learn Solidity, they're probably not going to. But what we found from doing some pretty significant market research is if they could just use their existing languages and existing tools, they'd be happy to hobby hack and maybe even look for a job or start their own project and build on top of blockchains. So we want to make that process easier. We want to reduce the barrier to entry for developers. We believe that developers precede users, that you need developers to build applications that users actually want to use if we're ever going to see mass adoption for Web3. Yeah, I mean, that's a great point, Andrew. And I've seen you guys talk about this and some of your comms, I guess, because that's kind of it is flipping the script, right? Because everyone thinks, yeah, OK, it's the transition to Web3, easy as just got to build some user user friendly apps and and and if you build it, they will come. But of course, real life has has not been that simple. So so your philosophy is essentially the reverse of that. So you want to attract as many developers as possible. So just talk us through that again. I mean, you have a little bit, but just explain why you think that is really the key to the paradigm shift for Web2 to Web3. Yeah, absolutely. I think like just kind of telling the story of some case studies probably helps here, right? So you never know where a killer app is going to come from. I mean, Facebook started as a dating app for Ivy Leaguers, right? And it's Harvard and Yale dating app. You know, Slack started as a video game studio and Slack was their internal messaging network. So and now that is the product. Killer applications oftentimes come from experimentation. And the more experiments you have going on, the higher the probability that you're going to find stuff that people actually want to interact with and use. There are some precursors to what makes a killer app, things that make people's lives more convenient. That's just undeniably is going to make their life better, makes their work more productive. These are usually more business applications, makes the world more connected. These are social media type of applications or makes their life more affordable. So things that create efficiencies that reduce the cost of things that they were already doing. So, look, if I knew what that killer app was going to be, I'd probably go build that. It probably would be easier. But what I what I think where I think killer apps come from is lots of developers trying lots of things and competing for the limited funding and resources out there. And then you have unfortunately you do have gatekeepers in the world that you have VCs and you have investors and angel investors. So typically, yeah, there's going to be some stuff that's lost in the process of gathering funding and everything else that might have been really cool. But really, like if you have lots of things competing, probably the cream rises to the top and you're going to get well -funded, really interesting application ideas that can then promote themselves and attract users. The users are going to come for the applications right now. We have sort of the most users will ever have. If this is all we ever have to offer, which is effectively gambling and speculation, I think we've captured the gambling market pretty, pretty, pretty well. The speculator market we captured pretty well. They're here to make money off of token price fluctuations. If we want people that are here for the long term to use applications, well, we need to offer the applications that they want to use. And I think where that comes from, it's largely a numbers game. It's Pareto principle, you know, 10 percent, 20 percent of the developers are going to create the applications that get 80 percent, 90 percent of the users. So if we want to have a bigger 20 percent of applications that get lots of users, we need a bigger 100 percent. We need a bigger pie in general. And the only way to get a bigger pie is to reduce the cost, both time and money cost of building in Web3. And that's what we're attempting to do, particularly on the on the time cost of things, reduce the opportunity cost of learning how to build in Web3 by making it easier for them to build in Web3. So that's really sort of how we think about this. We think that developers necessarily are a precursor to users. If you look at like some of the market research we've done, it's kind of an either or like if there were more users, developers would take the time to learn this stuff. But the problem is, is that there's not going to be more users until developers learn how to build this stuff. So that's kind of where we see ourselves. We we believe we can be the catalyst for a Cambrian explosion of Web3 developers coming from all different walks of life, bring in product managers that they can understand how to manage a project that's being built in Python or Go or C++, but may not understand how to manage a project that's being built in Solidity, bring in on, you know, entrepreneurs that they come into this space and they look at, OK, well, how do I build a team out to build this? And what they see is extremely high cost of talent acquisition because there just isn't that big of a pool of Solidity developers. So make the talent pools that they can hire from significantly bigger, reduce that cost. Now you get some of those non -technical entrepreneurs looking at Web3 as a way to build their application. That's kind of the way we look at it. Just make the process easier, reduce those barriers. You'll get that first wave who's like jumping at the bit to come into Web3 and then they'll build some apps. You'll get more users. You'll then get the next wave of developers who see that there's financial incentives to doing so. It's going to be a process. It's going to take time. But we believe within the next seven to 10 years, if you offer up the correct tools and stacks, that about a third of all applications will be built on decentralized stacks for a number of different reasons, which we could talk to if you'd like. But that's where we see our value proposition is we make it easier for them. They come in, they build, then you get the users, then more come in and build, and so forth and so forth. You create a flywheel effect. OK, well, thank you, Andrew. And look, we don't need to get too deep into the weeds, but just talking about that decentralized stack, I suppose that you guys are building at Versatus. You have your own layer one blockchain, right? And there's the consensus mechanism, I believe, is proof of claim. So maybe just give us the kind of the two minute overview of your stack, I suppose. Yeah, so our L1 is primarily used for content addressing programs that are deployed to our network. So this is a way that our compute nodes can verify that they're executing the correct programs and such that watcher nodes and validators can also ensure that those compute nodes are not acting maliciously, that they're executing the correct programs. Our consensus mechanism, so proof of claim is actually our election mechanism. So this is how we elect nodes to quorums. Our consensus mechanism, we call it farmer harvester. Basically, it's a modification of what many distributed systems engineers would know as the worker collector model, but to fit a Byzantine fault tolerant model. So in your worker collector model, you basically have worker nodes that are individual nodes that they're allocated compute tasks. They execute those compute tasks and return the results to a collector node, which collects them and does batch updates into a database or to wherever they're storing state in our model. You don't want to have single nodes doing this work because then if a single node is malicious, they can actually create have state altering transactions that are incorrect. So we do have we form quorums as opposed to having single nodes. And then 60 percent of that quorum needs to what we call redundant, redundantly execute the program. So redundantly execute the program, return results, agree on results and then send votes to the what we call the harvester quorum. So, again, instead of having a single collector, we have a quorum of collectors that they then need to agree on the threshold of votes being reached before they would commit that to a block. So that's sort of very high level overview of how our architecture works. Now, again, like our goal is to enable language agnosticism on top of every chain. So not just for our L1, but on top of Ethereum, on top of other chains as well. And the primary reason for having our own L1 is it's a place where we can efficiently prove that compute nodes in our network are using the correct program, they're executing the correct program. And it's also a place where we can accrue value to those compute nodes. So whether they're being paid by another network's native token or they're being paid for executing compute on our network, we can emit our native tokens to them as an L1. So they're bootstrapped. And that way they're earning some money off of it. And then also it's a place where we can accrue fees back to our own L1 so that those compute nodes have a place where they're getting paid. Got it. Thank you, Andrew. If we kind of zoom out then to some more kind of, I guess, just a general state of where we are and the slow transition from Web 2 to Web 3. You saw a lot of the big brands, big financial institutions start to experiment with blockchain, but they were kind of like, they weren't really interested in building on Bitcoin or Ethereum. They went down the route of building their own private blockchains, which was a little bit pointless perhaps in hindsight. And now we're seeing with so many different chains around now and much more interoperability, brands and institutions are recognizing that it's to their benefit and everyone to build on the decentralized stacks that you're talking about. So maybe just you look at, I'd love you to paint a picture of, I suppose, your ideas of where we are now and your vision for what the next steps are just over, I guess, the next wave of adoption, maybe what's going to ignite the next hype cycle. How do you think about this? Yeah, so it's an interesting question. I try to steer away from predictions as much as possible. If I were a better investor, I probably would just be investing and making money that way. I do think the key, going back to hate to just sort of beat a dead horse, but the key is going to be getting more developers and whether those are enterprise developers, which I think what we're building provides a lot of value to enterprises. Again, they don't need to go out and hire a bunch of solidity developers that have four or five, six years experience. They can hire much more experienced developers or use the existing developers they have on staff. That to me is the key. I think we need more people trying things, pushing the limits of what's possible on top of this technology in order for us to find the use cases that are going to lead to mass adoption. I also think that enterprises, there are potentially some use cases for enterprise blockchains, but for the most part, I think one of the things that steered enterprises away from using public blockchains were privacy concerns. Right now, if you were to have a corporate wallet on top of Ethereum, everybody knows how much money you have in that. I think that level of transparency is something that scares a lot of enterprises and the closer we move towards being able to have on -chain privacy, so provability, but without revealing the underlying values, the more you'll see enterprises adopt public blockchains as a place, as a development environment, as a place to build and deploy applications to both internal applications as well as consumer facing or other business facing applications. But I think you've got to solve that privacy issue. Transparency is good when needed. It's also something that can be a deterrent to particularly large publicly traded companies who have to report to the SEC, who get audited, all these other things. They don't want all of this information, their financial information public. So finding ways to create some privacy around that I think will probably help with enterprise adoption. Yeah, yeah. Makes perfect sense, Andrew. What about, how does AI fit into this? I know it's a little bit of a tangent, but I've seen you guys talk a little bit about AI. I think you've probably got some opinions. So yeah, I mean, anything you want to kind of speculate on in terms of the, I guess the intersection of AI and web3 in the future? So in one word, trust, I think that's the key is that we're able to offer trust is very, very expensive. And I'm not talking about just necessarily blockchain trust, but trust in general. It's very expensive and it's at the core of how and why society works. If you don't have trust, society breaks down. So we have to trust each other, that we have our individual best interests in mind. And as a result of us trusting that we each want to do what's best for ourselves, we know that we're not going to put ourselves in a situation to damage each other because that might hurt ourselves. So having trust in AI models is going to be really, really important. And right now that mechanism works because OpenAI runs it and OpenAI is a big company, they have profit motives, but it's all centralized. As we move to a world where there's decentralized AI models, there needs to be some way to trust that that AI model is not malicious. And I think blockchain can be a huge component of that and tokenization, staking, and being able to lend trust to compute models is a really important component of it. I think it's an area where we fit in really, really well in particular. So that to me is the most obvious intersection of AI and blockchain. Particularly when it comes to things like deep fakes, I think you want to be able to have some verifiability behind images. You want to have some verifiability behind videos. You can just imagine a scenario where somebody creates a deep fake there's and no way to prove that this came from an AI model, and all of a sudden chaos ensues in a city or in a region or in a country because of some deep fake that people think is real. So there are a lot of concerns around fake news use cases for AI, and how do we solve for that problem? How do we put a marker on that image or on that video that proves that this came from a model and having some sort of watermark of trust? I think that crypto can provide that in some ways. So that's one area. I also think there's a lot of concern about existential threats related to AI and decentralizing AI models and getting them out of the hands of individuals and into the hands of communities, open sourcing them, and then providing incentives around building these models in a way to where they won't create existential threats. I don't think we're quite there yet. I'm less of an AI doomer than a lot of people. But to the AI doomers, I would say use crypto as a way to provide some of these guarantees that your model is not going to go off the rails.
Abundant Encounters
Unlocking Heaven's Abundance: Discover the Power of Stewardship
"We share a beautiful inheritance. It's bountiful, abundant and it is the Father and it's heaven's supply and it's worth our attention. It deserves our value. And when we begin to bring that within our intentionality, maybe we, it's like the size of a tiny cloud in the sky, you know, it just grows until it becomes a full on deluge. It's called stewardship. It's this concept of stewarding. But when we steward not just the resources of earth, but the resources of heaven, then we get heaven's fruitfulness and reward. That's what Jesus paid for. And I pray that's coming to you right now where you're at, that you can even feel the increase coming in like a flood. Yes, Lord, let the deluge begin, the spiritual outpouring, the refreshing, the reconnection to you, to the family of God. Let that begin right now and I'll pray, Lord Jesus, thank you. Let me just enter your gates with thanksgiving. Thank you so much. Thank you that you're real and thank you that you don't hold back from us. You're not holding anything back from us. In fact, you did a light in us moving towards you, you're running towards us with a ring and a rope. You are ready to bring us into our full inheritance. We can start cutting checks for the family and we are in this thing. I mean, you are fully invested in us. Thank you, Lord. Thank you so much. And I take authority that you so generously gave to me, Jesus, and I take that authority and I say, in Jesus' name, anything that's trying to hinder this time, create distractions or obstructions, just cancel your assignment. We have no time for you, no patience for you. You just get removed right now in Jesus' name. That's it, done. And Holy Spirit, come and fill that space. Ministering angels, come and fill that space. Just come and bring hope, peace, life, abundance. Thank you, Jesus. And thank you, Father God.
Abundant Encounters
Unlocking Heaven's Abundance: Discover the Power of Stewardship
"We share a beautiful inheritance. It's bountiful, abundant and it is the Father and it's heaven's supply and it's worth our attention. It deserves our value. And when we begin to bring that within our intentionality, maybe we, it's like the size of a tiny cloud in the sky, you know, it just grows until it becomes a full on deluge. It's called stewardship. It's this concept of stewarding. But when we steward not just the resources of earth, but the resources of heaven, then we get heaven's fruitfulness and reward. That's what Jesus paid for. And I pray that's coming to you right now where you're at, that you can even feel the increase coming in like a flood. Yes, Lord, let the deluge begin, the spiritual outpouring, the refreshing, the reconnection to you, to the family of God. Let that begin right now and I'll pray, Lord Jesus, thank you. Let me just enter your gates with thanksgiving. Thank you so much. Thank you that you're real and thank you that you don't hold back from us. You're not holding anything back from us. In fact, you did a light in us moving towards you, you're running towards us with a ring and a rope. You are ready to bring us into our full inheritance. We can start cutting checks for the family and we are in this thing. I mean, you are fully invested in us. Thank you, Lord. Thank you so much. And I take authority that you so generously gave to me, Jesus, and I take that authority and I say, in Jesus' name, anything that's trying to hinder this time, create distractions or obstructions, just cancel your assignment. We have no time for you, no patience for you. You just get removed right now in Jesus' name. That's it, done. And Holy Spirit, come and fill that space. Ministering angels, come and fill that space. Just come and bring hope, peace, life, abundance. Thank you, Jesus.
Abundant Encounters
Unlocking Heaven's Abundance: Discover the Power of Stewardship
"We share a beautiful inheritance. It's bountiful, abundant and it is the Father and it's heaven's supply and it's worth our attention. It deserves our value. And when we begin to bring that within our intentionality, maybe we, it's like the size of a tiny cloud in the sky, you know, it just grows until it becomes a full on deluge. It's called stewardship. It's this concept of stewarding. But when we steward not just the resources of earth, but the resources of heaven, then we get heaven's fruitfulness and reward. That's what Jesus paid for. And I pray that's coming to you right now where you're at, that you can even feel the increase coming in like a flood. Yes, Lord, let the deluge begin, the spiritual outpouring, the refreshing, the reconnection to you, to the family of God. Let that begin right now and I'll pray, Lord Jesus, thank you. Let me just enter your gates with thanksgiving. Thank you so much. Thank you that you're real and thank you that you don't hold back from us. You're not holding anything back from us. In fact, you did a light in us moving towards you, you're running towards us with a ring and a rope. You are ready to bring us into our full inheritance. We can start cutting checks for the family and we are in this thing. I mean, you are fully invested in us. Thank you, Lord. Thank you so much. And I take authority that you so generously gave to me, Jesus, and I take that authority and I say, in Jesus' name, anything that's trying to hinder this time, create distractions or obstructions, just cancel your assignment. We have no time for you, no patience for you. You just get removed right now in Jesus' name. That's it, done. And Holy Spirit, come and fill that space. Ministering angels, come and fill that space. Just come and bring hope, peace, life, abundance. Thank you, Jesus.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#501 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 1 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church decreed expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brain wave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press Adam thank you so much for joining me sure Chris it's great to be back with you I'm very grateful for the history of exorcism I think it's an important work I think it's one of those things that needs to be brought out in the light because people have a lot of different ideas about what exorcism is but also maybe not an appreciation of its role in the life not only of the church but even before that and you bring that forward so clearly so thank you so much the history is all there so I really didn't do a whole lot except try to put it together and maybe synthesize it a little bit but I found it to be a really interesting story which is why I wanted to to get it out to people in the form of a book because yeah as you said most people really have no idea where this came from they've just kind of seen the movies you know they have their ideas from there which which is really distorted obviously Hollywood doesn't know much about this so yeah I'm hoping it'll kind of demystify it a little bit and and also it had some interesting twists in the road through the history of this so it's kind of a neat story I thought and I'm not saying that about like my own book I'm saying that the history of it is just it's a neat history well I'll say it for your book it is a neat book I found it fascinating and I think context is everything isn't it so to understand something more fully you need to be able to put things into context don't you mm -hmm yeah I think you do and hopefully it'll help not only with the idea of solemn exorcism but the whole deliverance world it kind of puts the whole range of prayers in a context because it shows back when it was more of a gray area and prayer was just prayer and you know deliverance and exorcism weren't well defined in the early church in terms of where the lines were between them so I hope it'll lead people to understand why exorcism is is really a qualitatively different thing than just deliverance prayers how did you become involved in the ministry that that helps to free people from a captivity that the church wants to be able to offer them well it's a long story but it's about 15 or 16 or 17 years ago I was doing graduate work in adult clinical psychology and mainly brainwave research and I was curious whether any of these strange experiences were real or if they were an artifact of the brain or mental illness and so I started looking into it stumbled across a possessed person early on it wasn't like anything I had seen clinically or been trained for clinically the interventions that you would do in psychology for psychosis had no impact and that led to you know obviously questions and then as I got to meet specialist clergy and got drawn into this and saw full -blown cases of solemn exorcisms I started seeing things that you can't explain and so once I realized it's a real phenomenon it's a real spiritual reality I then decided to basically as long as God was willing dedicate my life to it because there was so few exorcists around at that time you know 27 well about 17 years ago the ministry really you know it had faded out it was almost gone and so we've been working you know as a community for a lot of years and now there's a lot of exorcists trained up in the United States you know a few hundred at least and there's more every year so things are really kind of rolling at this point well the really good news about that is it as you said in the past maybe 15 years or so institutes have developed the one that I'm more familiar with is the Pope Leo XIII Institute that is established by priests and also their particular teams which include practitioners as you are someone who is not only devout in his faith but somebody who has an understanding of the human person which can help them to provide their ministry and then that's an important thing isn't it yeah and it's good to mention of course I'm a lay person I'm not a priest I don't actually do exorcisms only a priest with permission from their bishop can do that but God seems to have called me into a kind of unique role of training and teaching and essentially coaching priests and particularly new exorcists so the best way to learn is kind of in the situation so I do teach at the Leo Institute and I've taught at other national conferences for years and things like that but really the at the end of the day you have to do it and kind of be mentored by other exorcists and people with experience basically and just wanted to be clear so people don't make the mistake of assuming I'm an exorcist I know from the founders of the Pope Leo XIII Institute I know Monsignor John S.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1243. Should You Trust Pet DNA Tests?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Do you know what kind of pet you have? Well, certainly if it's a cat or dog, you probably know the difference. But do you know what kind of breed? Is it a mutt? What is making up the DNA of your dog or your cat? And do you care? A lot of people do. There's about 10 different tests on the market right now where you can send in saliva or cheek spittle, I guess? Yeah, cheek swab. It's actually the epithelial. So it's the cells that you're getting off the cheek, not necessarily the spit. Epithelial? Is that what you said there? I learned so much from you. And they'll tell you if it's what kind of breed it is or if it's made up of several different breeds. You did this, Judy. I think your results came back like lion and elephant. They weren't even dogs. It was so bizarre. She's full grown now. She weighs nine pounds. And it came back all these St. Bernard's, German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois. I thought, really? So that was a cheek swab. And then when I did the blood... Oh, you did a blood test too? I did a blood. It came back Jack Russell, miniature pincher and Maltese. And are you going with that? Oh, definitely. She's definitely Jack Russell. It came out 50 % Jack Russell. And that's what she is. Now, why did you want to know this information? Well, first of all, I didn't want a Jack Russell because I did my research and I know how hyper they are. And I'm not that hyper person. I want a more laid back dog. And so I did my research and got her from a rescue when she was eight weeks old. They said she was a Chihuahua, but there was no Chihuahua in this girl. And I questioned that as she got a little bit older. And I thought, okay, I got to find out. And I wanted to know what she was because people ask, people look at her, and everybody had their guesses. And it's like, I don't know. And I wanted to know what my dog was. But would it be safe to say you didn't want a Jack Russell, but you love your dog? Oh, I would not trade her for the world. I'll keep that little 50 % Jack. So the blood test really made little difference in anything, really, except telling people. Just what it was. It was kind of like bragging rights to know what my dog is and be able to say when people ask. That's basically why I did it. But then again, still, at least I know if there's anything I should look at, you know, with the breeds that she may be predisposed to down the line. You mean like a sickness or a disease? Health? Yeah. If she starts doing something or something happens and I can say, well, that's typical of this breed. So what kind of diseases and sicknesses are typical of, what did you say? Was it Jack Russell? Jack Russell, 50%. And a Min Pin? Well, we can see a lot of things with knees, so we can see patellar luxations. She's had two knee surgeries, two back legs. But that also fits with a lot of other small breeds. But, you know, there can be some host of skin diseases, allergies that we may not have like a specific test for. You know, but there are some conditions in some breeds, like say golden retrievers have a genetic linked with seizures. So if you had a yellow large breed dog and you didn't know what it was and it started developing seizures. And if I knew this dog was a golden retriever, I'd say, wow, you know, sometimes golden retrievers can be very challenging to manage with seizures. And we really have to use every means at our disposal to try to get those seizures under control. So it wouldn't change necessarily, you know, would I treat or not treat, but it might make us say, okay, our expectations are this is going to be a more challenging patient to try to manage. So that's one example. But there's a whole tons of things, you know, cataracts are inherited, heart diseases with certain breeds can be inherited, and kidney problems with cats. There's a type of polycystic kidney disease, a kidney disease in Himalayans and Persian type cats that can cause different problems. So, you know, there's all sorts of things that there are genetic tests for. It doesn't mean your dog or cat will get them. It just may mean they have some genetic tendency or genetic marker for that. So I see these online tests and but you do it in your office there? Do veterinarians offer these tests? Yeah, I mean, not everyone is going to do that. But we we do like that. And it's one is it's kind of the ooh, cool factor, you know, so you can, you know, have a party and people will ask and you can actually have some answer that sounds, you know, like you didn't just make this up. That's one important thing. But I do think it can help guide some decisions on awareness and potentially your pet's health down the road. So I wouldn't say it will make me do something different for a patient as far as putting them to sleep. But I do think it's important information to be armed with to know what you need to worry about to watch for in your pet's life. I agree. And if you can't afford it and somebody asks what kind of dog you have, say snuffle up against it really will throw the middle. It'll be different. So we're going to talk to a lady today, a doctor, Dr. Lisa Moses. She practices pain and palliative care at the Angel Animal Medical Center in Boston. And she says you may not want to bet the farm when you do one of these tests, as sometimes the information may not be accurate. And I wanted to find out about this. How important is it? Are people making decisions with bad information? So we'll have her on the show in just a few minutes to talk about that. Also today, we're going to be talking to the folks over at Smoke Alarm Monitoring. What's this guy's name? It's spelled really weird. Z -S -O -L -T. Zolt. Is that Hungarian? What is that? Sounds like it could be. He says our pets are starting fires. He sells smoke alarms for a living. And he says that our pets are actually, while they're unattended, starting fires in our house. See, I hide the matches. You do? Little delinquents. Oh my goodness. Yes. What do you expect? But first, your calls toll free from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Let's go to Gary. Hey, Gary. How are you? I'm very good, sir. How are you? Very good. Where are you calling from today? You have kind of that southern twang. North Carolina. North Carolina. How is North Carolina today? It's kind of warm. It's not unbearably hot, but it's a warm day. What's going on with the animals? I have the whole team here for you. Okay. Well, I've been listening to your program lately over the last several weeks and was interested in the discussion that I've heard about yeast infections, skin conditions, and the treatments. And then also, there was also somewhat of a separate discussion about the use of human products on animals and how effective they can be, or harmful, or whatever the case may be. And I wanted to tell you about my little guy. I'll give you a little background on him, a little of the tale of the tape. He's approximately eight years old, as far as we know. He's a Yorkie mix, he's a small guy, just a shade under eight pounds, and I found him abandoned out in the country. And he was in pretty bad shape. He was missing hair and had a lot of parasites and skin infections, yeast, and all that. And we've been battling it for nearly three years now, but he's made much improvement, just great improvement. I kind of took it upon myself to use a product that's designed for human females, actually, who might have that kind of affliction, and rubbed it liberally on the elephant skin areas of my dog. And after doing that for three or four days in a row, it really seemed to help clear it up. What do you think of that, Doc? Well, we have to be precise when we talk about different products, because there's some products that actually can have harmful ingredients in them, and some won't hurt, and actually have active ingredients that might be appropriate. So I'm going to back up, because when we talk about elephant skin, and kind of that thickened skin, like for anybody who's not seen this in dogs, it typically is when their skin gets real thick, leathery, they lose the hair in the area, and it actually, from a distance, looks like elephant skin. And that's a combination of what we call hyperpigmentation, so the skin turns dark, and lichenification, which is where the skin becomes thick, and there's extra layers, if you will, that kind of are put on top of the skin. Those things happen from a couple possibilities, and we can see it with allergies, but really with things like yeast and bacterial infections. So it sounds like you're certainly barking up the right tree there, but the cautions I have with some of the female yeast products that are used for vaginal yeast infections, there are some that actually contain anesthetics. A vagus cell, for example, contains an ingredient called benzocaine. And this can be highly - Well, that's actually what I used. I used the generic, but yeah, you're on the right tree there. Okay. Yeah, so actually, benzocaine can cause toxicities in both dogs and cats. So just licking it off their skin, it can actually be toxic to the red blood cells, causes what we call hemoglobinemia. So if it contains that ingredient, I would say, put it back on the shelf and save it for your wife in the household. But there are certainly, say, athlete's foot creams that contain chlorotrimazole, which is an antifungal. In that, we've used that on surface yeast infections. But the reality is, if we've got that kind of change in the skin, most of those pets actually need kind of a two -pronged approach. So the topicals only get you so far, and they really need to be on some kind of oral or systemic therapy. So most of the pets that I have with that kind of skin can take a course of maybe three months to get them improved, controlling the itch, controlling the infection. If they've got yeast or bacteria, then we put them on either an antibiotic or an oral yeast form, like ketoconazole, per se.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
Day 9 The Angels St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 9. The Celestial Choir of Angels. The Angels' primary focus is the caretakership of humanity and the world. While the lowest ranked of all the angelic beings, if one accepts the idea of a regulated angelic organization, angels are nevertheless members of the heavenly host and thus possess the profound and beautiful attributes given to them by their Creator. They are beings of pure spirituality and exist to fulfill the task given to them by God. Chief among these are to act as messengers of the Lord to the earth and guardians of the human soul. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Angels, may the Lord grant us to be protected by them in this mortal life and conducted hereafter to eternal glory. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant of the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of Thy Church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of Thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Soul Winning 101 - The 5 W's of Evangelism
"All right, hey folks, good evening. This is Daniel Karzewski coming to you live from Washington, D .C. again. Here on tonight's episode, we're gonna talk about soul winning 101, or also known as evangelism 101. And so, first of all, there's five basic questions that you have to answer, and that's the five Ws, the who, what, where, when, why. And what are we doing this for? So, number one, what is evangelism or what is soul winning? It is going out and snatching the souls out of the gates of hell, or out of the pits of hell. But furthermore, what is evangelism specifically? And it comes from the root of the Greek word angel, which also means messenger, or also known as the act of sharing the message of God's word. And that's where we get our commission and our commandment from in Matthew 28. And we're supposed to go forth and share the gospel, which means the good news with everybody, because sinners need to have their sins forgiven, and lost people need to know that they're lost, and they need to know that they can get a savior, and they know that they can get out of their wicked, wretched lives that they're living that's not taking them anywhere, especially not in eternity's sake. And then number two, why do we evangelize? Well, number one, we're commanded by God there in Matthew 28, like I just mentioned, and then also for the glory of God and the good of man, and 2 Peter 2, 9 tells us. Then where are we to go, and where are we to share it? Well, everywhere, near and far, indeed, the whole entire world, just like Acts says in chapter one, verse eight. And then, when are we supposed to do it? Anytime, anytime the Lord leads us and tells us. I think it's almost always that we've got tracks on us, and we're handing them out to everybody that we meet. We don't even know these people, but God knows them, God sees their heart, and God wants to save them. In 2 Timothy 4, verses two, that's where it tells us, anytime. And then who are we supposed to do it with, and who are we supposed to share it with? To everyone, to all, to all people in the whole entire world Mark 16, verse 15 commands us. And then, of course, there we've got some different tools in the toolbox, we've got spiritual warfare, we've got different equipment, different weaponry, and Ephesians 6 that we see putting on the whole armor of God, using prayer as a weapon, as a sword. Then we've got apologetics in 1 Peter 3 .15, be ready to answer every single man. And then we've got different techniques, we've got Jesus's example, we've got different ways to relate and create and convict and reveal to people. Then we've got one -on -one situations, we've got tracks, we've got door -to -door, we have different events and signs, public proclamation that goes out, we've got people that go out and play music and dramas and do skits on the street, in churches, whatever the case may be, there's all different types of ways to do it. And then, what's the biblical method of the gospel presentation? Well, I mean, it's just like, what would Jesus do? Ray Comfort has a great ministry called the Way of the Master, and he goes out every single Saturday, matter of fact, I've been out there with him on occasion and seen him and got to pray with him and got to watch him, and it's really just such a blessing to be able to see that man's ministry the way that he does it, and that's the same way that we're trying to do it. And if you're looking for a good example of a way to evangelize, follow Ray Comfort's way, the Way of the Master, and it's the biblical way, and it's the law in the evangelism, because you've got to get the sinner lost, oftentimes, before they can realize their need for a savior. And that's just like John 4, verses three through 30 tells us, it tells us we need to use the law in the evangelism, as opposed to some type of life enhancement where it's Christianity and getting saved and Jesus Christ on the cross, it's some good luck charm that we wear on our necklace, and that gets us saved, that couldn't be farther from the truth, and so we need to get people out of that thinking, and we need to use the law to convict people that they are sinners and that they are in need of a savior from hell and eternal damnation and hell fire and brimstone and get them to realize that heaven is so much better. I mean, we shouldn't have to scare people into heaven, but it says, just like in Jude, verses 21 through 23, that there are some that are saved by fire and some that are saved by compassion. And God tells us unto the proud man, he's gonna receive judgment and rebuke and reproof and condemnation and judgment. He's gonna receive the word of God because he's not understanding the spiritual things. He can only understand the natural things of man. But then under the humble, he receives grace and mercy, love and kindness, forgiveness, and he's willing and ready to receive, you know? And I've seen people like that on the street before. And then who is to evangelize? Who is qualified? What are the qualifications? Ephesians chapter four, verse 11 through 12, and then we've got the examples in all of scripture, Moses, Gideon, Jeremiah, Peter, James, John, Paul, and the list could go on. We could go on all night listing every single person in the Bible who was somebody that was out there evangelizing and witnessing and using God's word as a message to reach the loss for their generation. And that's what we're called to do. We're called to reach our generation for the loss. However many years that may be, I don't wanna go another day without telling somebody about Jesus. I mean, life is a vapor, and what are you gonna do? You gonna get to 80 and, oh, well now I'm gonna start working. And matter of fact, I've seen that. I've seen a 72 -year -old woman get saved, and she said, wow, I wasted 72 years of my life, and nobody wants to be like that. I sure don't wanna be like that, you know? In the 30s, thinking about, man, okay, well, what should I do for the next 40 years? Should I just waste them and see as much gain as I can get? Well, I mean, Solomon told us that all is vanity. He was chasing after the wind his whole entire life. He strived after every pleasure he could possibly get his hands on. And he said all was vanity. And the end of the preacher is to do God's word, obey his law, be righteous, and worship God and serve man. That's the end of the law. That's the end of God's word for man, is to obey him and worship him and serve others. And that's the 10 commandments. That's the whole entire word of God summed up. It'd be Jesus said it too. He said, love God with all your heart, mind, soul, body, spirit, and love your neighbor as yourself. And if we do those things, we've done all the law and the prophets, praise the Lord. And then finally, evangelism and you. There's different styles of evangelism. Everybody can evangelize in some way, shape, or form. You don't have to talk, but I remind you that Moses and Jeremiah and many other preachers and prophets said, Lord, I can't speak, I'm a small person. I mean, David started out small too and we all start out somewhere, but there's different types of serving. You can just give somebody a bottle of water and a track, whatever the case may be. Anytime we give food to the homeless, we always give them a track with it because you never know. We don't give money unless we're given to specific charity or we're given our time or we're given to a local New Testament church that's gonna gain, gather food and we're gonna go out and serve the food ourselves. And I really don't give to a lot of big charities out there because unless I know that they're extremely reputable and they're serving the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, I know my friend Matt, he's down in Malawi, South Africa. He's doing the Lord's work there. He takes 12 disciples every three years and disciples them and sends them out as pastors. It's a perfect biblical ministry and I love it and I love supporting him because every time I send them 50 or $100, I know that's gonna feed one of their students for a month or two on end. It's gonna be wonderful. And so there's a great need for evangelists and the urgency of evangelism in today's day and age. And so that is Soul Winning 101 wrapped up. I love y 'all, God bless. Like, comment, subscribe, send us a note. We love you all, take care and God bless. We'll see you next time.
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A highlight from Day 8 The Archangels St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 8. The Celestial Choir of Archangels. The Archangels' primary duty, as is clear from their appearances in Scripture, is to carry out the will of God as it relates directly to humanity. They bring to the world the prayerful blessings of the Lord and the special concern of God for each and every human life. It is for that reason that the Archangels, like their close counterparts, the angels, are said to intervene so regularly in the affairs of men and women, be it on a battlefield, in an impending disaster, or in the private anguish and sorrow of the living. In each case, they impart a portion of their immense compassion and love, giving comfort, solace, or fortitude at the darkest of moments. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Archangels, may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works, in order that we gain the glory of Paradise. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and for all that is to come, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel, St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A highlight from Evangelism: Muslims and Mormons
"Of things, looking at how when we speak and reach out to those who are around us, specifically we'll be talking about Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and then atheists as well. What are some things that as we seek to point them to Christ, what are ways in which we can engage them well? And so we are going to do those things together here. And with anything that you talk about, especially other world religions, I know pastor has been going through different denominations in the morning and kind of looking at some different aspects of denominations. I thought this would kind of be somewhat in line with that, looking at other religions and ones that are a little bit more common to you and I, maybe some less than others, but how is it that we can engage with them well? And of course, many things can be said about Jehovah's Witnesses, what they believe, Muslims, what they believe. And so the point of this isn't to give an exhaustive discussion about everything in which a Muslim or a Mormon might believe, but just to give us some handles that we can hold on to in our brains as we discuss the gospel with them. I know for myself, sometimes if I see someone on the side of the road and let's say I know they're a Jehovah's Witness, you know, there was times in my life where I would say like, ah, well, I don't really want to engage with them because I don't really know what they believe and I don't know how to answer all their questions, so I'm just going to, you know, I'm not going to talk to them. Whereas with Mormons, I had a lot more understanding of Mormonism and I had talked to a lot more Mormons. When a Mormon would come to the door, I'd be like, ah, come on in guys, like you want to come in? I'll get you some water? I'm like, let's chat. Because I had a better understanding of the Mormon faith and I felt like I was ready to engage them. I felt like I was ready to have an answer for questions and try to point them to the gospel. And so the point of all of this is to equip us as a church, to equip us as saints, as we go out into the world, at your jobs, in your neighborhood, with your family members. We might not all have a Mormon cousin, but you probably have an atheistic coworker. And so being able to engage them with the gospel and feeling that you are equipped, and I know many of us are, many of us are, so I hope this will just be a supplemental help to you in that endeavor. And so we're going to begin working through these notes. And if you look at your notes, the first one is Islam. And I recognize that Islam is not huge in the Midwest, in Omaha, Nebraska in particular. For sure there are Muslims. I've talked to a few since we've been here, walking around different parts of Omaha, but you almost have to go and find them. But I'm sure that even, I know, I'm speaking to Dan Williams and others that there are coworkers even here in Omaha that are, hold to the Islamic faith. And so I want to walk through each one of these religions together, give us a little brief understanding of their history. And because Islam is so big, where we are in Mombasa, a large portion of Mombasa is Islamic. A lot of times you'll have Somalis in particular that we're working with. The father will be here working in America and he will, they'll live here as a family for many years, but eventually as the kids get older, they send their kids back to a place like Mombasa because it's not, you know, a war -torn place like Somalia, but there's a large Islamic influence there and they want their children to be brought under that Islamic influence. And so we'll have a lot of Somali Muslims that are there, the kids in the model are there, and they're being taught and trained in that Islamic culture, and while the dad is here in America working and supporting them. And so there's Muslims here and I hope I'm writing that. I hope, I know a lot of times we can be afraid of Muslims, but there's, for the most part, there's no reason for that theory. So what I want to do is spend a little bit more time on Islam because again, it's something that we have been very, very engaged in, spending many hours talking with Muslims, and so it will be a little bit more in -depth, but I will try to walk through this one quickly. So today for the Sunday School, September 24th, Understanding the Other Side, we're going to be looking at Islam and Mormonism. Just out of curiosity, just out of curiosity, how many of you have either, you know, neighbor, relative, co -worker, whatever, who is Muslim, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, or atheist? Just raise your hand. Just probably raise your hand. So at least somebody, right? There's somebody. Now if he just said Muslim, there might be like two hands that go up, but that's all right. We'll get to the others, okay? So very briefly, I'm going to try and be brief, okay? I was trying to be brief with these notes and they ended up being 11 pages, so not off to a good start, but that is all right. So as you've seen in your notes, Islam, A, the history of Muhammad, early life. So of course, whenever you speak of Islam, you're speaking of Muhammad, and so if you talk to any Muslim, they will talk to you about the prophet Muhammad, and then they'll go on to say, just be upon him and ramble on these Arabic blessings about his name, but Muhammad was born in AD 570 and he died in AD 632. And in his life, living in Saudi Arabia, born in the city of Mecca, he had a rough childhood. His parents both passed away as a young boy. As a six -year -old boy, he went off to live with his uncle, or his grandfather, and then as an eight -year -old, as his grandfather died, he went off to live with an uncle, and so he was kind of moved around from family to family. He joined in the family business of being a camel caravan driver, so he would go on all of these long trips across Saudi Arabia, Syria, with his uncle and others that they were working for, traveling all over the place, delivering goods. At that time, in Saudi Arabia, of course, at this time, it was not an Islamic country as we think of it today, but there was all sorts of Gnostic Christianity, which is no Christianity at all. It taught a dualistic type religion and many, many problems with some Judaism, other pagan religions, polytheism. There's just a hodgepodge of religion going on in Arabia at that time. And so Muhammad would have come across all of these things as he's traveling around, listening to stories, discussing with other people. The Quran itself tells us very little about Muhammad himself. We don't really understand much about Muhammad at all if you've got random passages that don't really connect with anything, and you have to have some sort of grid to really be able to understand that. And you find that grid within the other important literature in Islam, which are the Hadiths, the Sirat, and these other religious important books that give the traditions and the understanding of who Muhammad was and what he did and all of that. And so in the Islamic literature, we discover these things about Muhammad, where he was and what it was like for him growing up and these other things. And so you might think, okay, you know, the pastor's going through Quranicals, and so we don't really want to go through any more genealogies with Muhammad and figure out who his grandpa and all of those people were. And that's not the point of discussing him being moved around and all of these things. But it is important to note that Muhammad was exposed at a young age as he's traveling all over to various religions. He's hearing different stories as he's traveling around. He's hearing stories from Gnostic Christians, again, who are not Christians at all. And if you read and study the Quran, you find that Muhammad oftentimes quotes things in the Quran that he either thinks are biblical excerpts, or he thinks that they come from the Jewish scriptures in the Old Testament. But as a matter like the Arabic Infancy Gospel of Matthew and these other Gnostic gospels that no Christian would have accepted, what Muhammad quotes is that he believes that they are, in fact, the Christian scriptures. And so this happens time and time again. Muhammad thinks he's quoting from the Bible, but he's really quoting from the Jewish Talmud. And this happens oftentimes. And so the understanding that Muhammad had of Christianity is by no means what you and I, and so even if you read the Quran, you see that Muhammad believes that the Trinity, the Trinity that the Christians believe in is God the Father, Mary, and Jesus. Of course, no Christian believes that the triune God is made up of Mary, and not even, if you want to try to point the finger at Catholics or Orthodox, not even Catholics or Orthodox go so far as to worship Mary. And so there's just a, in many ways, a bad understanding, for lack of a better word, a bad understanding of Christianity within the mind of Muhammad. But at the age of 25, Muhammad is employed by a woman named Khadija. He starts running his own caravan. He eventually marries this woman, and then he begins, as we get on to point number two there, Quranic Revelation, Muhammad begins to really seek after God. He wants to worship God. He wants to know God. And Muhammad goes away. He begins to go into a mountain near Mecca. He goes up into the mountain. He goes into the cave, and there he's fasting. He's praying. He's seeking to know Allah, which is just the Arabic word for God. And he wants to know God. He's trying to have a closer relationship with him. And again, for the sake of time, we're not going to go into any lengthy accounts of Muhammad and the experience he had in the cave. But what happened as Muhammad is there praying and fasting is Muhammad says that there is an angel named Jibril, which is Gabriel. And Jibril comes to him and says, Muhammad, read. And Muhammad says, I can't read. And the angel says, well, first the angel squeezes him very hard. Muhammad says it hurts him. It squeezes him very hard. And it says again, read. And Muhammad says, I can't read. And so this goes on. It's kind of like, I don't know, a Three Stooges play. But Muhammad just keeps telling the angel, I don't know how to read. And the angel beats him up a little bit and tells him to read again. And it just goes on and on and on until eventually Muhammad, you know, starts to recite parts of the Qur 'an that the angel Jibril is giving to him. And so this happens, and Muhammad comes home. As I'm quoting, I'm not quoting, but the place in which I'm getting this story from is from the Hadith, it's from the Surah, it's from the Islamic tradition itself. It's not some, you know, angry Christian writing from their seminary office saying like, ah, Muhammad was, you know, this crazy guy who's getting beat up by an angel as he's reciting the Qur 'an. And this is all from the Qur 'anic sources, Sahih al -Muslim, Sahih al -Bukhari, and so on. And so Muhammad then, he runs home to his wife, he hides under their covers, and he is petrified from what has happened. And he tells his wife, he's like, I don't know if I was meeting her with a demon or what happened, but it scared me and it hurt me and I don't know what happened. But his wife assures him, no, no, no, it was God, God is speaking to you, you should go back. And so Muhammad goes back, he continues to go back to this mountain, to this cave, and there he continues to receive revelations from this angel. And Muhammad goes on to say, this is a quote from, again, one of the Qur 'anic, one of the Islamic resources here, Sirah Rasula, says, Muhammad is quoted as saying, I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and gain rest. So I went forth to do so. And then when I was midway on the mountain, I heard a voice from heaven saying, oh, Muhammad, thou art the apostle of God and I am Gabriel. And so the Gabriel goes on to tell Muhammad, do not kill yourself, you're the apostle of God, you can't do this. But there's multiple times in the life of Muhammad while he is receiving Qur 'anic revelations where he seeks to kill himself, he tries to throw himself off of the mountain. And furthermore, there's other accounts of people saying that at that time, Muhammad was possessed by a demon. So these are just some facts to keep in the back of our mind. As we think about this, even within the Qur 'an, Surah, I had printed off, originally it was going to be in your notes, kind of a glossary of terms, because I know using a lot of these Surah and Ayah and all these type of things, you might not all know what that is, but Surah is just chapter and the Ayah is the verse. And so in the Qur 'an, Surah Adam 1, 22 to 25, 69, 41 to 42, Muhammad is trying to refute the idea that he is demon -possessed. And so he's arguing against the Jews and the Christians and are saying like, nah, we don't think you're demon -possessed, man. And he's like, no, I'm not. And he's trying to argue against that idea. And so this is just kind of a bit of a background as to how the Qur 'an was revealed to Muhammad. And so we might ask the question, well, do you think that Muhammad was just making all these things up? Is he just a total, is this all just a fabrication of his mind? I personally believe that Muhammad was not just making these things up. If you look at the scriptures and you see in the Old or the New Testament, you see various times when angels Abraham, appear to Mary, the Lord Jesus, Isaiah, there's many encounters where angels come and speak. Even the angel of the Lord comes and speaks to people. And many times people recognize that, oh man, like I am speaking to an angel and they are startled and there is awe and wonder that is within them as they speak to an angel. Not always, but we never see an angel of God coming and beating somebody up and hurting them and then causing them to become depressed and wanting to kill themselves and so on. And so what I believe is that as you look at the life and the story of Muhammad receiving the Qur 'anic revelations, his desire lines up much more with, as we read in the gospel, these, and again, not saying this to be crude or rude towards the Islamic faiths, but faith. But you see a herd of pigs when they are enveloped by demons, high -tempered toward the cliff and jumping off. We see Judas Iscariot, when he is the son of Perdition, when he is, it says, the Bible says that the devil goes into him and he betrays Christ and turns Christ over. Shortly thereafter, himself, Judas, killing, many believing, killing himself. And so it just doesn't seem that Muhammad truly had, of course we don't believe that Muhammad is a prophet of God, but it would be much more in line that, yes, Muhammad did have a revelation, but it was not from God, but rather, as we read in 2 Corinthians 11, 13 and 14, for such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
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Day 7 The Principalities St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts - burst 1
"Day 7 The Celestial Choir of Principalities The principalities are the first of the choirs most concerned with the earth and are traditionally declared to have the roles of caretakers over every nation, province, county, district, city, town, village, and house, working with the guardian angels who also are assigned to every spot and person. Two other areas of concerns for the principalities are religion and politics. The former they encourage to spread by prayer and spiritual encouragement. The latter they seek to regulate for the good of humanity by guiding the thoughts and especially the ethics what Dionysius termed the leaders of people all over the world.
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
"angels" Discussed on The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
"And this is really important because we know that paragraph ten 22 will go on to later on in the catechism, paragraph ten 22. We'll talk about when it talks about the reality of judgment, the reality of hell. He says this. It says each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, so basically you get what you've chosen at the moment of death in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ, either entrance into the blessedness of heaven through a purification or immediate and everlasting damnation. There's this recognition that at the moment of death, our choice is irrevocable. We get what we've chosen. And Satan, you know, some people ask, can we pray for the devil? Should we pray for the devil? The answer is I get that impulse, but no. There's no use in praying for the devil. He has made in irrevocable choice it is unchanging. And this is really important. The catechism highlights in paragraph three 93. It's the irrevocable character of their choice and not a defect in infinite divine mercy that makes the angels sin unforgivable. This is, again, it's not that God doesn't have the mercy to do this. It's that they don't want to do this. That's so vitally important for us to understand because once again, we can get to that place where we just, we want to out of compassion, we're willing to excuse many, many things. And yet here is God. Who is saying yes, I mean, let's take this honestly. And just look at this. We talked about there is no depth to which Jesus will not go and has not gone. To redeem us. He has not only allowed suffering and death to overwhelm him, he descended to the abode of the dead, there is no depth to which Jesus will not go to win his back, but he won't force us to come back. That's one thing he will not do. He has not done, and he won't do. He won't force us to come back just like he will not force the angels to come back. So it's not a deficit in his mercy that he won't force us back into his presence. It is his mercy. It is his love. It is his justice that refuses to force us just as it is his love and his mercy and his justice that refuses to force the angels back into his presence. This is so important for us to understand, because God has done everything he possibly can do.
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
"angels" Discussed on The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
"You. And we fear. Fear nothing. While you are at our side, we fear nothing. We declare this. And ask you to be with us in the name of Jesus Christ, our lord, amen, in the name of the father and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen, as I said, it's day 55 for reading paragraphs, three 91 to three 95, the fall of the angels. The fall of the angels. Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents, lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy. Scripture and the church's tradition, see in this being a fallen angel called Satan, or the devil. The church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel made by God. The fourth lateran council stated, the devil, and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God. But they became evil by their own doing. Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. This fall consists in the free choice of these created spirits who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempters words to our first parents when he said you will be like God. The devil has sinned from the beginning. He is a liar and the father of lies. It is the irrevocable character of their choice and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy that makes the angels sin unforgivable. St. John damascene wrote there is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death. Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls a murderer from the beginning, who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his father. First John wrote the reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. In its consequences, the greatest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God. The power of Satan is nonetheless not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He can not prevent the building up of God's reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus and although his action may cause grave injuries of a spiritual nature and indirectly even of a physical nature, to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine Providence which with strength and gentleness, guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that Providence should permit diabolical activity. That we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him. Okay, so there it is. Paragraphs three 91 to three 95 on the fall of the angels. I know I already highlighted a couple of these things, but jeepers creepers. It is important to note this. I really,
Cinemavino
"angels" Discussed on Cinemavino
"As a parent, it's like, from her perspective as a doctor, it's like, she runs in there. It's like, it's the baby's sleeping. It's like, as a parent, that's the first thing on your checklist. Okay, but it was an orphan baby. It was an orphan baby. She's an orphan, baby. But you got to assume that on this floor of doctors and nurses, there are also parents involved in this. And it's like there has to be. And it's like, that's the first 600 checklist with eating, is it sleeping? Weeks later, her bursting in there and saying that. Be realistic. You think it's a little bit of a late conclusion? Yes. Yeah. That's fair. Yeah. That might just be my perspective as the parent to a toddler. 'cause baby's not sleeping, nobody's sleeping. Who's paying for the medical care of this orphan baby? We are. America. Yeah, yeah, we're chipping in for that. All right, yeah. But honestly. Okay with that. Yeah. I'm okay with that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I will pay for any orphans. Are you an orphan baby? Call me. I'll pay for you. And $800 ashtray in The Pentagon. I don't really want to buy that, but I'll get some formula for a baby orphan baby. That's fine. Well, they have a government contract for that ashtray. So it has to be $800 based on the government contract. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, it was Congress approved it. Yeah. No. Again, different podcasts. Different podcasts. The Beatles are overrated. Yeah, I can't wait to hash that one out. So I tried to send me a text that said that James Brown was overrated and said, I'm going to kill you. I will find you. All right, I don't buy that, yeah. So but again, we'll talk about that later today. This has been another episode in lavino. It has been. It's Sean Jordan and I. That's me. Keeping it real. Yeah. Talk about city of angels. And drinking shampoo boo ray, sparkling. Shampoo. How much does that bottle set you back? That'll be around 30 bucks. That is a tasty boot for 30 bucks. Yeah. Honestly, I would fuck with that bottle anytime of the day. If you don't want to pay champagne prices, that's a great way to go. Yeah. Excellent. Excellent. So I would highly suggest it. Yeah. In the kava that we had before that? Also an excellent alternative champagne. Yeah. The Spanish bellies are, again, if you're looking for something that you don't want to say that you're trying to save money on Valentine's Day, but if you're looking for something that you could drink that maybe you won't necessarily break the bank on. Kava's a great way to go. There's some great kavas. And honestly, if you're dating somebody that you're newly introducing yourself to, you don't want to spend a bunch of money on a champagne. Get a call. It's so good, impress them with excellent flavors of it. Yeah. Yeah. Not a bad idea. Not a bad idea. But next time we will see you guys, we'll do a little more vox Machina and a little more Boba Fett. The grand finale. Both of them. We will tie everything together. And we will do what we do. But with a bang, and probably a whimper also, a little bit of bang, a little bit of water, column a column B we will see you guys soon. Later. Be sure to listen. And subscribe. Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is a cinema veno dot net and reviews of these movies can be found at Todd wafford movies dot com..
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"angels" Discussed on Cinemavino
"But we want to get your partner wet on the cheeks. This is the one. I would suggest going also back and looking at wings of desire. If you're interested in this, go back. How does good of a soundtrack? No. This movie did have a hell of a soundtrack. I respect Google dolls. Which shows up in this movie acoustic style, unplugged. Yes. You got angel, western McLaughlin. Oh my God. So okay, was this, I don't know the context, but was this kind of the big break for Sarah McLaughlin's angels? That song, yes. Because holy crap, this movie, that song it has a whole other context now with like animal animals and sad animals. You have to shut that off from an adopt all these animals. Yeah. So just real quick. When I worked at a retail store, I was one time working a shift and I started singing in the arms of angels and everyone was just like, oh my God, you stop seeing that. Like what? What's wrong? Turns out someone's husband had just died. That day. And I was like, why did they show up to work? Yeah, they off. But it turns out I was the asshole. You gotta have some PTO. Take some time off. But it turns out that's not the capitalistic hell spare. You're working. You work for the man. Yeah, you work for the man, so your husband dies that day. You come into work the next day. Your grief be damn. Grief be damned, someone's gonna sing in the arms of an angel. Exactly. Also has uninvited by Alanis Morissette. An underrated only asks more set track. Yes. What's actually fits the movie better because it describes somebody creep at least stalking somebody. Yep. What was the song that was playing? So the masturbation scene where she's in the bathtub. Oh, I have to go back and look at that. Whatever song that was like, that was a saucy song. Yeah. It's tasty. They played, if God will send his angels by YouTube, which I think is from their most underrated album pop. Every album by U2 is overrated. Take that back..
Cinemavino
"angels" Discussed on Cinemavino
"They say, hey, take my hand, let's go. Let's go on to the old pearly Gates. Unlike death, they don't dictate that it's your time, but they are there for you in that moment. And I don't know that death has ever canonically given regular it's mixed how death is perceived, but I feel like that is kind of how death is also done is he's there your time just kind of take you along. It's that grim Reaper of present. Yeah. He's not the one actually like touching you in the forehead and being like, all right, let's go. Yeah. Like I said, it depends on which version you watch. Sure. Yeah. In this film, it's like the angels don't experience. Human senses, the way we do, touch, or smell, or even vision. In the original German version, they only see black and white. And they kind of hint at that in this one. When he becomes human later on Nick cage, his character basically is talking about what color is this. Is this red? Yeah. And it's like, in the original version, they don't see color. They see black and white. Okay. And so that's why. In this movie, when he jumps off of the building, whatever, you only see his memories. He plunges from heaven. Yes. And you see his life in black and white. And if that's how he sees everything. Okay. So they experience the world in a very muted way. So no digs against peck Ryan, but you're telling me that Nick cage, the angel, has been around for eternity. Before humans. Since the dawn of existence. Yes. He has been around. He's part of the heavenly choir. Yada, yada, yada. It's seen all of humanity. And Meg Ryan heart surgeon. Yeah. She's the one who he's just like, one day. You're my, I gotta get out of here. I gotta hang out with you. You're my go to. Yeah. And this movie, Meg Ryan is an ambitious surgeon. A young heart surgeon. Young heart surgeon, kind of cocky. And skilled..
Cinemavino
"angels" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back to cinema vino. This will be the concluding episode of our date night rom coms spectacular. Our February romantic series. Our Valentine's Day Odyssey for February. Yeah. Thanks for going on this journey with us. Yeah. Romantically. User picks. For this one, we're going to look at something a little different. City of angels. This is a romantic fantasy drama from 1998. Romantic, fantasy drama. There you go. Now that this is an elves falling in love. This is ethereal. Ethereal is a good word. It's eccentric. Yeah, yeah. First, we're going to talk about we're drinking a grower champagne. I actually know I take that back. For this episode, we're doing the shampoo Lou vue. Sparkling shenanigans. Trampolines. This is tasty. Yeah, it is. This is a $30 bubble. You could do, especially if you're looking for something that's going to be on the dry side, still have kind of a nice minerality to it. It's going to have kind of a limestone flavor to it. It's going to be a little bit floral. My border collie really wants to drink out. That's right now. Eddie. I find this really refreshing because I oftentimes find champagnes to be too, or not champagnes, but sparkling wines to be too sweet. Yeah. Very overpoweringly sweet. Especially just the cheap stuff that you typically find. This is a nice dry dry, it's a fruit. Which is always going to be really dry. But flavor wise, it's not too fruit forward. Minerally. It's nice. Yeah. I think this would be good. I mean, if you're looking for food wise, you could do this with a seafood meal, even a pretty heavy seafood meal. They could pair up really well. Okay, yeah, I can see that. Fish based kind of thing, but I think it also would go well like the previous bubbly. It would go well pre party pre meal. Icebreaker. Yes. It makes well with a charcuterie. Yes, this would go really well with a variety of cheeses. So I think what would really enhance this would be something salty..
Ideas
"angels" Discussed on Ideas
"A series about history not ancient but history. That still hot to the touch. In this first season i explore a revolutionary political movement that brought a modern democracy to the brink. You can find recall how to start a revolution on the cbc. Listen app or wherever you get your podcasts. Never had reason to fear. He'd never returned to iraq. He was sent to a prison camp where he'd remain for the next seventeen years. Can you describe the place. What was the prison. Like my darcy. I don't want to get into the politics of it. But i don't want to go there but i will say this. It was unearthly like we weren't on this planet anymore. I'm not looking for political explanation but it is physically. What did the place look. Like your hunger i that cold that it How awful it must about. Solis killed your sense of yourself. How many prisoners were there enough thousands. I know this is not easy. None of this is easy But i also know that. They did torture prisoners. Were you tortured to non. Of course we were can ask you how. They tortured you in her akiyama. They'd beat us with us with a belt. Leonardo the muslim painful thing was when they put you in a room a cold room with no toilet or commit twentieth majoor. Oh heat had no bed had worked. But they do this. All the time with all of us are idea to you mentioned. there was starvation. What did they feed you. What did they give you to drink. And it's not after we finished working. They bring us the scraps from them. Meals to eat whatever's leftover turned us into animals and humans into animals. It's unbelievable to me to imagine how you can live through that torturous imprisonment for seventeen years. Did anyone try to get out. Was were attempts to escape awesome kabonga. Some tried to run away. Thou- gio they catch them and chop off one of their feet. Did anyone try to get oh by committing. Suicide arrived tarot lot especially the highly educated ones because saddam took all the university students all the doctors and engineers all of them and he threw them into the war. That's high which were mostly the ones who committed suicide michelle. How did you survive that love. My mother's love. I guess and you follow me and my god in angel who is looking over me once again. The guardian angel after seventeen years nadje was finally released in a prisoner exchange. He made his way back to his home city of basra in southern iraq and started looking for his family. Why had been million india amid. I figured i had about a one in a million chance. That i'd find my partner and my child one in a million. Did you still try to find them would did on yes i. I never gave up routine for them when i got back to iraq. The only thing. I did was try to find them this much. Though this one about someone would tell me. Oh they're both dead and others told me they ran away. But i had nothing concrete to confirm whether they were dead or alive. How long did that search go on. Then when in malecki. Until the god angel told me then enough no more coffee mug the by monday asia there has no life for me in iraq anymore on thirty six had nobody there anyway. Taxi so taxi driver. I knew said. I'll get a passport for your super. Take you across the border so you were leaving iraq. What what was that like though to say goodbye to the people who are close to you any family. That was there any friends was it sad. Gila thought of my friends. Were all dead. By the time. I got back to iraq. I could him all of them. My one brother father sisters and brothers at a time to get it all the country. So i didn't have anything in iraq anymore. Eventually made his way to candidate. And join extended family in vancouver. In the meantime the war continued to drag on for side. He got wounded and while in the hospital. He fell in love with his nurse and they got engaged to be married but just before the wedding and iraqi bombardment hit the neighborhood of his bride to be in. Both she and her family were killed in woah. And other would happen. Changed can manabe transformed into something eve. Al-baghdadi cash them laugh them soon as i recovered harlem. Haley went back to the front of them but not as a medic. This time in worship with them. I became the commander of machine. Gun squad boy then came august. Nineteen eighty czar had was stationed near the iranian border. City of sumo shop sought. That was though the ten minutes after midnight when disaster struck. Sawsan one or more drama hidden iraqi forces in mujahideen were invading territory again covet the whole area of samara so covered with tanks and tank traps and corpses and artillery shells. It was physically impossible to put anything on. The ground was all covered with war material. Assembled show has never was so messed up. You didn't know if when you reach the side of this hill or the top of that hill whether you're gonna come face to face with the iraqi army or mujahideen in god. Lash nacho devote close. Was this to the end of the war at wounded one hour. Yixin wounded one hour till the end of the war when the next ceasefire was expected to start to your salt and it was then that i got shot got shot in my left shin. Valero bent over the dress. And get some painkillers from my backpack pinky for them. You didn't have a weapon on me. Aslam neither i. and then i saw group approaching me. couldn't tell if they were rocky or run or mujuhedeen nationally them get iranian just came over and told me to stay still. Don't move so i put up. My hands grew modern and then they shot me once more. The bullet grazed my right cheek and hit my ear lobe. While i had my hands up that one guy came forward and started swearing in arabic at i b. so back then he started beating me up and asking me. Are you basiji militia. Are you in the army. Was he bashes. Gee i was rising from all the pain. And i happened to be wearing an overcoat. Oh equity to. I didn't know whether it belonged to the militia or the army because everyone was wearing everyone else's uniform so everything so mixed up. I had no idea. My overcoat actually belong to the army. And then the commander of the group. The guy would hit me turned to his men and said okay. Don't kill this guy. He's in the army to set a bus on some people right next to me. Who were in the militia basiji as iranians say and they were shot immediately because they were in the militia nezami to tanisha and you were taking prisoner then because you were soldier not militia was a total fluke. That this overcoat which i didn't even know i was wearing saved my life. They thought i was a soldier. Because of it. But actually i was in the militia. Best as you will them. That overcoat saved my life. Over-quota june manager. So they took you prisoner instead of shooting you. That's right and they took you to a prison. Camp settles motto kept us in the area of somare where we were arrested for three days. Assume odd rues. The temperature in sumatra reaches fifty degrees in the daytime and drops to minus twenty at night. So it gets really cold at night. Shed that the iraqi soldiers had heard. It is together like cattle and through a kind of tarp over us through mon so only our own body. He kept us alive. These conditions we to live in. It's sounds like the conditions were hellish. Was there also torture. Yes.
SpyHards Podcast
"angels" Discussed on SpyHards Podcast
"So there was no discussion with remo williams but yeah i think you're right though as a spy film. There is a spy thread and it stronger than some other films. We've tackled fall thoughts. I feel like it's just not very strong so for me. It's an but you know what we also said no to The man from uncle which was a fun movie as well like. I think you could do a lot worse than doing an evening. Watching movies like man from uncle. Charlie's angels you know men in black like some of these more light fun ones. And you know. I don't know that charlie's angels had like the cultural impact that say like our man flint had But it is a noteworthy movie with some value behind it and i think it Opened the door to a lot of better movies. And it's nice to see a female lead female driven film walk and is successful and it gets a sequel and everything's great about it. I like that. I wanna see more of that. Please but yeah i just i know if it holds up against west sure. I am genuinely excited. Though end some franchises we know it's diminishing returns like i can't say when we finished men in black that i thought boy can't wait to see where men in black two or three rigo whereas i really am genuinely curious to see how this franchise evolves going from this will be into the msci directed second one and then see how little bit banks takes us material and reformats it because when i saw the You know the elizabeth banks film you know a year or so ago. I had very little memories of this movie other than specific scenes. But now actually examining the style of this movie. I'm really excited to see how it's changed up in the In the reboot. I as usual. Haven't seen it so that will be fun. I it does. This does remind me of law in a lot of ways of the man from uncle like stylistically really enjoyed the film. I think he did the things right. It was fun punchy. It just sort fell flat in a couple of key areas to make the norquist but it gets a recommendation for me nonetheless to watch it. I think this. I think if you've just finished listening to this well done for making it way for each treat yourself with charlie's angels two thousand listen to that soundtrack. Great great acting Just a fun phil and that's exactly what it is..
Greg Laurie Podcast
"angels" Discussed on Greg Laurie Podcast
"You know right now. All around us is a supernatural world. It's an invisible world and around us right now. Are thousands of mysterious created beings called angels. Most of them are wholly. I'm sorry to say some of them are not some of them are fallen. But you find with the bible says about angels both the old and the new testament in fact the bible mentioned angels nearly three hundred times. And there's so many misconceptions about angels. Let me just say first off. The job of an angel is to kind of work undercover. I like to compare angels. Two navy seals navy seals are that elite force that we dispatch in certain situations. Take care of business. They go and do things all the time and we often don't hear about what they did. They just get the job done that sort of a good description of angels. They get the job done for god. They're not there to draw attention to themselves. They're not there to have extended conversations with them though. It's possible you have spoken with an angel. And i'll tell you why believe that in a few moments but you probably weren't aware of it. If you were speaking with an angel i would suggest you. There are hundred angels of spoken to you. But you probably didn't know it wasn't angel but they're very interesting creatures sort of working behind the scenes working undercover. There are sort of like god's secret agents but there's a lot of misconceptions as they said for starters. People think that that when we die we might become an angel heard said when someone dies well god must have needed another angel in heaven. Well god doesn't need any more angels in heaven and more to the point people don't become angels dot angels are created beings. There are there are group olander themselves. When we die we receive a new body and and so forth but but we have no connection to angels. And i hate to break this to you girls but it every appearance of an angel on earth. It was a guy not a girl. Now i know that is hard for some people to believe because we use the term means sometimes in a feminine way like she's pretty s and angel right. We generally say he's handsome as an angel. But actually all of the appearances of angels are appearing as men in the bible and so these are amazing created beans. That are they're working constantly in our life. It would appear from scripture that they are eternal it would seem as though they never die speaking of those who have died in gandhi heaven. Jesus said in. Luke chapter twenty neither. Can they die anymore. For their equal to the angels now angels have a specific ministry and the life of the christian. They are dispatched from heaven to assist us to encourage us to minister to us sometimes to protect us occasionally to speak to us hebrews one fourteen says. Angels are ministering spirits. Sent to serve those who will inherit eternal life. There's many instances in scripture were angels intervened and angel spoke to fill up and told them to go to the desert and he went and man came to faith from ethiopia. And then we have the story of peter who was taken to prison and and he was going to be executed because james had already been put to death by king herod and the church pray and an angel was dispatched to wake peter up and get him out of jail so an angel was sent as an answer. To prayer is a story in the book of genesis regardless speaking jakup just showing them the world event djelic activity and in jacob how did dream and his dream or vision. He saw stairway or a ladder of angels going up and down the stairway or up and down escalator. If you will just angels constantly a work moving between heaven and earth doing the work of god and has already said it's entirely possible you've met at angel you say well how would that be well. Hebrews thirteen to says don't forget to entertain strangers for doing so. Some people have entertained. Angels without knowing it so you know you you might say how would i know you probably wouldn't know maybe i'll know when you get to heaven and you'll be walking around and some angel walked up. And says hey. Thanks for getting me. That burger what you got me. That burger. i've i've we met with matt. Remember that homeless guy at you ran into and this date and i was hungry and i said can i get a meal and you took me into in an opera and you got me. Great burger double double has ever call animal style still remember it even want to thank you for that. You were an angel. Yes i was because the idea is that when you did for a stranger somebody that was anita could have been in angel undercover. So it's possible you've met an angel it's possible there's angels in the room right now. I know they're here on the invisible realm but it's not entirely outside of the realm of possibility that there could be an angel as a person so look around. Look around you never know. Don't look for feathers or anything like that. When it'd be mind blowing if an angel appeared to us right now i tell you what if an angel did appear. You'd be very tempted to worship the angel that actually happened to the apostle john in angel appeared he was so blown away fell down to worship it and the angel said do not worship me worship god but they're so incredible they're so on inspiring you'd be inclined to worse it. But imagine if gabriel or michael or another angel appeared before. I did hear a story about a time in a church service when the devil himself up here so here people at church and all of a sudden satan appears on the stage. People are screaming and freaking out. Climbing over each other. To get out of the church are climbing out of the windows running at the doors. They're terrified that churches emptied in just seconds except one older man sitting in the second row. The devil says why aren't you running. Do you know who i am. The meant says i know who you are. The devil says i'm the devil. I have a lot of power. I could bring a lot of misery into your life. Why aren't you afraid of me. The old guy said. I've been married to your sister for forty six years. That's a true story. Notice just one of those lane. Preacher jokes right. But i'll tell you angel of the lord appeared. We would certainly be amazed now. Sometimes we have guardian angels. I don't know the answer to that. But i think the answer is maybe i know we have angels evolved in our lives but do we have a specific angel that has assigned to us like. That's your job you watch over that child. You watch over that person we can no a with. There is an interesting statement where jesus has a matthew eighteen ten. Don't look down on these little ones. Speaking of children pry tell you they're angels in heaven always see the face of my father in heaven interesting phrase. They're angels in heaven so that would imply maybe a guardian angel going back to this story of peter. When he was sprung from prison by the angel he showed up at a house where a bunch of christians for praying and he knocked on the door and they couldn't believe that god answered their prayer so quickly and so when someone said it was actually a lady named rhoda she said. Peter is standing at the front door knocking. One of the other said well. It's probably just his angel and they left them knocking. I mean for me if an angel knocks. I'm i'm letting them in heya fed ex knox. I opened the door when i opened the door for an angel curious thing but it's interesting that they say maybe it's his angel so maybe there are guardian. Angels if there are there are not. That's really not that important. You can just be confident of this..
Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"angels" Discussed on Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"And says hey you know what about the we with this and this once you try this idea or there's a bitten in the story where amy does the you know the back and forth with one. I try to keep an eye on the. You know the weeping angels that they can't move. Be quantum blocked. So and i'm sure that was a reference because muffin getting a lot of feedback. Probably from blink because a lot of fans at the time. I think they had questions about well. Why doesn't sally sparrow. Just hold when. I closed one eye open so that is went and dry out staring at the weeping angels. Yeah so i think this is. Maybe muppets way of kind of dressing. Some of those. Because he is a fan of himself so we probably knows what those expectations are in probably wanted to kind of address them with that and also give matica strong villain for fans. We recognize that. I'm guessing but For a moment. Yeah i like the fact that they have some new tricks like the fact that he didn't just go back to the same exact same. Like jump scares with angels that they are a little bit more maquiavelian. I kinda like that You know the fact that they this is probably the only time. I think we really see this is that they take control of bob and after killing him and and use his voice so that they can communicate because we never really get to hear that communicate again from this point on so so in that way. I think it's a little. Maybe it's a little special. Because that idea wasn't you know recycled perhaps or maybe just maybe it wasn't well received. I don't know but but it does make this. This appearance of the weeping ages a little more unique. Because you don't really see these and other stories even when mafia brings them back for stories like say the angels take manhattan Yeah so So i definitely appreciate that in the cracking time. Obviously this is the the big series five macguffin. Yeah that goes through the entire season yet. This is where this one of the the main story ideas that just.
Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"angels" Discussed on Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"That one So it's nice to see him run into a into somebody who makes him afraid just like. I almost think that mechanics of decide if you had made this any other alien. You could've done the cyber many dollars because they they're just used so much. But if you made it any other recurring race. I think he's still kind of have the same the same story. I don't know that you need these characters to be the bad guys. yeah well. jessie. I'm guessing that since you're a new who fan that you probably appreciate the weeping angels because essentially they proved so popular blink that it was almost like you know the modern whose version of the daleks that in the in the classic era dallas of captured. Everybody's imaginations and so they kept bringing them back. So so you kind of see that maybe with the weeping angels that that everybody just loving those characters wanting to see them come back that. That's the reason that we get to see them here so. I'm so glad that tom went first. Because that's all. I remember my feeling watching this. The first time is going well. That isn't what the weeping angels are. Wait a minute this is. This seems like why they're in her. I like true new tricks. But it's very cool. And i do think it is nice to her doing the countdown that you don't notice it first and then what rewatch you get to see that. That's a very slick and you wonder sometimes as ron moore. We'll talk about like doing battle star galactica. We needed that behind the scenes. Podcasts like sometimes. They did something just because they thought it would look cool whether it fit the story or narrative. Anything we're just doing this And i always appreciated his honesty watching this the second time i liked or this is probably the third but watching it this week. I enjoyed the story more. Because i went in knowing that the angels are going to be a little different. They are not what i thought they would be. This and i thought that. Tom put it really well. That you know they're really You know they. They don't have a wide range. It's it's as tom talked about. William shatner's acting ability right..
Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"angels" Discussed on Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"Who plays bob who meets a rather unfortunate and at the hands of the weeping angels literally at the hands of the weeping angels. You're wondering about whether where this story fits in the river song time line. I thought i'd mentioned this. It set between the pandora opens the big bay because we remember a river says that the next time you'll see her the will see her as when the pandora opens so that's essentially rivers passed and then the next time after this one is. There's a scene. At the end of the wedding of river song where river shows up in those church fatigues and this is where river tells you know amy that the doctor is still alive because remember at this point. She thought the doctor was dead. And that oh by the way. You're his mother-in-law now. So just the idea of amy finding out that the doctor is her son in law. I'm sure yes like made her laugh uncontrollably. Yes i'm kind of mad that we didn't never get to see that kind of a reaction from her when she found out because i think she would have laughed hysterically that very trivia so just over some real quick things i want to mention the time of angels was the first episode of the series to be produced so now like i said not the eleventh hour so this story was mets from debut is the doctor. Interestingly enough in his first scene was actually wear standing on what is essentially. It's a beach in real life but it's supposed to be the surface of the planet l. Falvo attracts is and you know doing they're arriving to to following up on the crash the bison so that was essentially matt's first day and also caring gillians. I i believe on doctor who executive producer piers winger thought that the delirium archive the museum. That the doctor. And amy visit at the beginning of the story. It needs to be explained so moffitt you know in a very hurry taxed to peers winger said oh. This is the final resting place of the headlights monks. Well who are the headless monks. Well this point we don't know but of course moffitt reintroduced them or actually introduce them for the first time in that midseries From series. Six finale good man goes to war which we talked about. This is we. Also this is also the next time that we kind of pick up with the church of the papal mainframe who gets introduced in this story. Yeah so. And lastly got a couple things alex kingston did not expect. A return is river song. But she stated that moffitt always intended that she would be coming back and mafia was apparently influenced by audrey niff- and eggers novel the time traveler's wife in which woman falls in love with the time traveler who moves unintentionally through time. So that's kind of wet. Inspired him to create that character. I've ever read that book..
Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"angels" Discussed on Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast
"H z dot com. There's a section called tom our store and that's where everything is in. I definitely encourage everybody. Go check that out because that sounds like a very cool game. Thanks and i wanna learn more about this. So i'm gonna do. I'm gonna do some digging on this myself in one of the nice things and then i'll quit plugging but i just thought this is cool. Tom reached out to all his friends. In instead of drawing all the art himself he reached out to other artists and says hey. Do you want to help draw. So there's all the cards have unique art from different contributions from other artists. Excellent any names. You want to drought i. I want to apologize for joe satan. Because his car didn't make it in but he's on the box art crater so from dc comics zoom youth who's be part of the line is drawn who sadly passed away. And i'm glad that gets put more of his art in the world Laura innes who does the dreamer. Those are the names. I can think of right now. I feel like i'm on the spot. My friend lou. Dobbs did about yeah it was just great ones all over the place. That's awesome. yeah. I'm a big fan of joe satan. Since all the way back for e man when he was When adjusting the first comex all the way back in the eighties so that got me into like this plastic man run in adventure comics and other things so yeah big fan too. That's awesome all right. Ray talk some who gains right absolutely. Sounds good all right. So this was of course written by steven moffett. Who is the show runner at this point in the new era directed by adam smith who directed the eleventh hour. Matt smith first episode. But it's kind of interesting and then one of the things. I wanna talk about and trivia. Is that the our was not matched first episode. That was filmed. This is the fourth and fifth episodes from series five and twenty ten. Starting of course matt smith as the eleventh doctor and karen gillan as amy pond who is This is obviously very early. Matt's run and we'll talk about amy. We have to talk about. Maybe because the very end of the story. She's all over the doctor like a cheap suit and sure. Tom being something of aficionado of romantic comedies rom coms might have a few thoughts on that sequence. We'll talk about that. of course. and this was of course. Guest starring alex kingston returning as river song after her spectacular debut. In during david era in sounds the library forced to the dead back in series four to leave and then we have in england who plays father octavian who was notable of course game of thrones fan because he plays search or more months on. Game of thrones played in currently. He's playing bruce wayne on titans. So which jesse. And i talk about of course on titan talk the titans podcast probably get to talk about hopefully again whenever series three finally makes its debut on. Hbo max so looking forward to that. He's also been on episodes of downton abbey and he was in believe it or not the first lara croft movie. Lara croft tomb raider. The one that started angelina jolie. So i thought that was kind of interesting and then we had a bunch of clerics but probably the most notable was david atkins..
Paranormal Analytical
"angels" Discussed on Paranormal Analytical
"This is the first for me. I guarantee i've never handled a case with anybody. You know of that age or anywhere around that age bracket you know. So it's a it's amazing to think that got some problems so many issues with the paranormal. Let her know tender age of in her eighties. So i have It's a personal story for me One was my grandpa He was ninety eight ninety seven. Something like that and We all is. This is the last supper that last dinner ahead with my grandpa in a sweet sweet old man you know. Great guy. Love them. Death man Pau texts you know We were sitting around and save a one time. My mom's house in a he's comma jamesy. That was his name for me. It was jamesy in a. He's always called me that. Since i was a little kid in a we're sitting around and he says jamesy We're all table. You know just paint a picture. It's me and my mom and dad and you know everybody there. And he sit across romania. Jamesy no I had some people come to my house Wanting to paint my house and like yeah and he's like yeah and my dad looked at me. He's like no like shut it down. Like don't don't say anything. So being the rev lamb you know just went into it. I'm like fuck you know. Hey so they wanted to paint your house right. he's like. Yeah just just the backstory. My grandpa never had dementia. You know like that alzheimer's anything like that. He lived to be about Ninety nine ninety eight ninety nine years old man he was you know he. He hung in there for a long time and he was sharp. He was an engineer. A very smart guy You know look up to him. Great guy and i was like they wanted to paint your house. She's like pot. You gotta brick house. Why would they want to paint a brick house. He's like well. You know I got the siding on the house. So they wanted to paint that and it was a lady in a guy in to their kids in a we talk outside for a little bit and then they walked in the house and we talked inside for a little while and the next thing you know they vaporized and that's the best the term he used. He said they vaporized in his living room. And i was like what he said. Yeah they just. Paper is out of nowhere. They just they went away. Now that's weird. You know and in that point i was kind of like my skin started the crawl because i was like damn sure have kept this going on or should i just shut up and played it off and change the subject but when he said they vaporized in front of him. That really really freaked me out. I was like oh shit. And he's never been one to have dementia or anything like that you know. He ended up in a home Because my grandma died we used to call her granny. She died back into nineties. Back about ninety seven Sweet sweet sweet old lady. I love her to death. She was great. That was her favourite Colorado like just well. She ended up dying back in like ninety seven. Something like that. And he stayed on his own In a ranch house in a form house you know by a black louisiana. Plenty acreage and stuff like that. He got too old to handle it. And then they moved into a new house He had a two bedroom house or a three bedroom house. And she died in that house and He stayed on his own. You know from there and when she was going on his own and You know he wouldn't call with any bullshit he wouldn't call and say like hey you know there's a water leak and all of the house you know like the typical dementia patients. You know they see a lot of water in the house or They'll see things that are kind of catastrophic. You know like like the toilets leaking all over the house or you know like i got lights burning out some catching fire like those things like that. But he didn't do that he just out of nowhere came up with this story. That like people vaporized in his house. And that's the term he used and when he said vaporized. I was like well. That's a pretty You know intriguing Term to use or that you know that's a pretty definitive Term to describe somebody disappearing. Dave vaporized in front of you. You know he didn't. He didn't say disappeared. He didn't say they walked out. He didn't say they just vanished. She said vaporize. And that was a really weird thing for me and it's always hung with me and You know try to picture with a person would look like vaporizing i can think of. Is you know when they stepped on a landmine or you know get beamed up to you. Know to the starship enterprise or something like that. Well you know the really weird term from me and it always stuck with me. Jane doe always under. Yeah yeah that room. when you say vaporizes. It almost reminds me of the story of that wolf that i told you about. Remember that we're kind of like right in front of us. That's kind of what that brings to mind when you speak about these people vaporizing. There's so it's kind of kind of creepy when you think about it but it also brings up It also brings up the black guy. Chilton moniker. not which a lot of people claim to block children are demonic. Very weird. That is bringing weird. You know who knows what he saw. You know he. He describes it the best he could. And but what what. What did he really see. You know ditties you know how much of an impact in how best could you describe that impact to us. You know not to make things awkward at the table that we're sitting at at that time and it was really weird in in hung on me a lot and i thought about that a lot and it was just something that stuck with me man and i don't know to this day. I'm so baffled by. I wish i could ask them that question But i did see him. You know in the The ozone before he passed away and It was a couple of days before You know he did thank me. He says thanks a million for come and see me jamesy in you know said. Hey paul said i knew it was. It was the last time. I was gonna see mustard. Hey man i'll see you on the other side man said thanks everything for you. Don't for me in a you know give. These nurses health their paycheck. You're in here for free. Do what you gotta do. Yep and So that the last time the song but that story stuck with me man and he he's been around the world and He had this african statue From africa was like this little wooden statue in with try to sleep at his house. One night in that statue. He told me stories about that thing like it was possessing curse. I don't know who ended up with possession of that thing but it was a wooden carved one piece wouldn't carve statue of like this african goddess and man. I woke up in the middle of the night throwing up and sick as a dog. And i was fine when i got there and i had to leave. Ed lee was like two in the morning. My dad had come get me picked me up and bring me home and there was something revolved around us that you. I don't know what it was. It was weird that that is weird. Those kind of things creeping me out anyway. What can you tell us about the black black eyed kids in the possibility these being demonic. Well they say they're demonic in the essence of saying that let let's look at how demons operate to begin with. Okay eddie. They operate through nature. They can manifest themselves through people. They can manifest themselves through physical illness and they can be attributed to spiritual actual spiritual oppression and most of all they can manifest themselves through mental disorders. That's not saying that the black eyed children aren't demonic because there is something there that there are a lot of people that talk about the demonic entities. Being in these children. Lot of the people i talked about. I talked to said if when it never stops on the side of the road or children ever stopped you on the side of the road..
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"An angel to me. If i had to describe you an angel i would say it was more humanoid. You know scott things. You'll wings playing the trumpet as it flies around and looking after a person protecting them. Healing them Other people believe that. I've talked to that. They're these just powerful entity set. You know they can't be seen unless they allow you to see him. Some people believe that angels walk amongst us every day that are guardian angels. Never leave our side. But there's so many different variations to what an angel could be or what it is. I think more depends on the person and what they want that angel to be. I think that's it's the belief system within it which really makes the difference. Not so much as what is an angel. But what is an angel to you. i liked. That's very good. I i do like that. We'll in hebrew and greek eddie. An angel means messenger and as their belief is right now as far as her belief in angels. That's the kind of belief that she has as far as an angel being a messenger and it's kind of ironic. Because i had to go back and actually look at were. They always with us know are they. Are they with us today. Canal and those two separate questions right there through quite a curveball at me because looking at the first question where they always with us clear back at the time win the creation story was going on supposedly they were created before the earth and heavens so they've been around quite a while. Eddie you know right and the number and the number of them as far as the number of angels and everything is said to be in the millions now you get to this little guy named lucifer that went against his mom god so to speak. He fell from heaven and took a third of those angels with him and when they fell become what was called the demons and the dirk entities and the spirits and walk along this earth. I had to look into this eddie. Because it's quite a story. It is something that really it really grabs your attention because you start understanding exactly or partially for me the story in the essence of the difference between the dark and the light and how it's so closely comes together and actually personifies. What is paranormal. Well let's take a look at lucifer for instance. He went against god. Because of god's love towards humans because angels' per se were there. They've never been human there if you want to get technical with it. Their their own species their own race their own They're not they're not beings and because of that lucifer became jealous. When god cast out of heaven because right he he could not understand how something that was created by. God could be loved as much as god loved the human side. He put on earth and he felt betrayed and he turned and turned a lot of the angels against heaven which was at that time. was a big battle between the lucifer and his angels and Guide in his angels being led by. Saint michael archangel exactly right and they were cast out of heaven onto earth. Now that leads me to another point talking. About angels in messengers. Let's go back to the birth of jesus. When mary was going to give birth to jesus and she was approached by an angel that said that she would give birth to the son of god and more in to deter extraterrestrial aspect of what angels could possibly be and these are other thoughts and beliefs as far as wedding. Angels are what their thought to be in how they work. And it's a typical abduction story. If you think about it where you know. Mary was a virgin and could have possibly possibly been artificially inseminated to give birth to jesus who could have been a hybrid. There's so many aspects to the story and what it could be. What could happen a lot out there. And it's what you choose to believe of course but there is a lot to these stories you know so i think by looking at what are angels. Were demons if it is an extraterrestrial type aspect of the whole religious outlook. Some being good some being bad will in all actuality eddie. Mankind is the one who made the description of the angels to begin with because in that bible as they call it as a use it and everything there is never a description in the bible that says angels have wings not one not one place. Israel in the bible at it said angels have wings. Mankind is the one that put the angel's wings together and i think the ingles wings being put on them was something that mankind did to try. And i guess. Give a reason how in why they're able to fly or you know float or what have you and so they add a new wings more descriptive than anything else. Well in saying that. I totally agree with you because there are different kinds of angels. There's a category of angels. There's a chair them. And there's a staffroom. One of them is primarily. The cherban are primarily the garden of god. Sloan at a seraphim a tin god's throne an offer praises to him. That's two kind right there. Now you have the messenger. Type dislike the time you were talking about the come to mary and the kind come to a lot and everybody when the destruction of sodom and gomorrah come on and they helped him out the city the kind that come to sampson the kind that come to the walls of jericho when they were told to do what they were told to do. And those are the messengers and all of these angels and gods. under god's authority are in hierarchy dislike. You were talking about gabriel and and all the other angels said are up there there is a hierarchy of up here and all the way down the scale as to actually well. It's kind of like kind of like the military. You've got your generals exactly you got the president. You got your generals. You've got your enlist your your officers. You have your enlisted all the way down.
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"Good evening. Everybody and welcome to paranormal analytical. On your host. Eddie hill along with the incredible and dead sexy. Rick warn james tubes may be on tonight. We're not real sure We did send out a message to him letting them know that the show is about to start so he may come on after a while Or he may still be tied up doing a other crazy studying that he's got going on on some different topics. Ooh yeah so. We don't know for sure if he's going to show up so We've got an interesting topic. That rick came up with tonight which deals with angels and demons so rick quantity start us off with what you want us to talk about. Eddie how he. How are you tonight my man. I heard you had a pretty busy day in. And you got drug through the past year and over the hills dales and things my god i was dealing with horses and introducing a new horse and that was fun Got drug all over the place and it was i you know. There's no way i. I was about to overpower this guy. But yeah he took me for a little ride. And i don't mean a right while i was sitting on them. I mean a ride. All hanging onto a lead as he dragged me across the yard and trying to get it the other horse so that was fun and interesting in a realized at that point in time that he was not he was not cut he was were in good shape and hanging there. I mean it was. So i asked my god i have taken. Some aleve and i'm sitting here is extremely sore and drinking a diet coke trying to recuperate. I guess you could say because. I feel like i've been rode hard. Put up with so. Yeah yeah hey sony. Doing my day was not as as fantastic as yours. It was eventful but not. Yeah yeah i. I'm pretty well. Out of the old west this indian has hung up his Bareback waste well. My bareback ways Led me through all kinds of interesting brush and shrubbery and That ten foot lead. I had was not long enough. I can tell you that long. Yeah but i was just trying to stay out of stay out of reach of his back legs and hooves and That was pretty much. All i can do and just kind of go skiing i come up. I come up with tonight's subject tonight Because we're in the middle well not in the middle. We are at the beginning of a very interesting case. And it has to be dealing with the person that is dealing with maybe a demonte kennedy or it may be We don't know what it is right now but it is. It may be just an oppression. We don't know but what got me on. This subject was the fact that this individual was very religious. I mean she's been in. She's eighty nine years old. Eddie wow and has been in religion for all of her life basically and as she talked an as. She told me about her experiences in the church she was talking about the angels and the demons about what they were taught and what angels meant her and want the dark side as far as anything like that meant to her. And it it really. It really hit home with me. Because i can see the sincerity in her heart. I could see sincerity in her eyes. Because she's having to deal with this and as we sit there and talked and everything. I thought too while this is so pertinent of an ideal and a topic in today's world because it says i picked up some information from dr robert jeffress and he's a phd scholar dealing and the theologian the questions and theology. And everything else like that. He says it's a tragic mistake to assume because something is not visible it is not real very true and that really hit me hard when i read that and it just really hit me because we are i mean he gives he is an analogy of like you know consider electricity. Okay it's invisible but stick your finger in the socket and you'll quickly discover the reality of electricity absolutely and so it is and so it is with the angels and demons. We live in a spiritual world. Eddie i know that our show. Paranormal electrical is is all about that. But i know that we get caught up sometimes in the semantics and the analytical part of what we're doing and everything and it really through curb ball at me eddie. When we started talking about her belief and some of her friends belief in angels and demons and i heard both sides. I'm hearing both sides next to be go over again and talk with her again. And do i'm gonna do some. Edp work and things like that. But you know. I got to studying about this and i thought what an interesting topic because maybe there's a lot of people out there that have had experience with angels and demons and the difference between the two is like night and day dark and light because they are all the first part that very similar yes you know what what is the demon but a fallen angel. That's exactly what i was gonna say. Lucifer is a fallen angel. It said that over seventy seven percent of american adults believe that angels' exist. I did not know that as far as being that high of a number that people actually believed in Angels and things like that and the experiences that they have with them or that they had with them or are having right now. There's a lot of belief just and believe me. I mean. I saw this. When i i went in for my triple bypass surgery eddie. When i was in the hospital i was at a place called saint francis hospital and there were a lot of people believing in the healing power and the messaging of angels that come to them in their sickness and in their time of need. I know that i'm native american. And we we have our own beliefs in the spirit world and things like that. We don't have a per se belief like everybody else does but it's similar. We believe in in spirits and everything. But we don't have the same ideals and the same tenacity of belief. If you wanna call it that are in some people call it indoctrination or dogma. But i saw this in this woman as she was sitting there talking to me about her beliefs and heard her experiences in churches and everything that she's went to with angels and demons and i guess the first thing we need to understand is what is an angel. Eddie well Angels could be something different for pretty much everybody depending on what. Your belief system is like.
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