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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"john newton" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"And on the other hand, the fact is that marriage can never give you all the things that you really are looking for. It's only in Jesus' arms that you'll ever find what you're really looking for in a spouse. It's only in the family of God and the church. Now here's what's weird about the church. The church is actually living in the overlap of the ages. Ultimately, we're not just going to be in the presence of God. We're going to be in our family, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. Those who are in Christ are part of a family. Now right now, we get a foretaste of it a bit. We'll get to this in a second. But we're going to be not only seeing Jesus, we're going to be together in that wedding supper of the Lamb. It has a lot of people. There's a lot of guests at the wedding. Blessed are those who are guests at the wedding supper of the Lamb. And because of this, the Christian view of singleness has always been that this is a viable paradigm for adult life. And Stanley Hauerwas, as some of you know, if you've ever heard me teach on this or you read Kathy and my book on marriage, Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University has a couple of classic essays on this subject that you can find in the book, which you can buy easily now, called Community of Character. And in it, he says this. He says, Christianity was the very first religion or worldview that held up single adulthood as a viable way of life. One clear difference between Christianity and Judaism and all other religions is the former, that's Christians, entertainment of the idea that singleness is a paradigm way of life for its followers. He points out in the essay, for example, that Tiberius at one point, Tiberius Caesar, at one point, made it a law that any woman who became a widow who was under a certain age had to get married again in two years, kind of like that, because the idea was that if you were a single person, you were a drag on society and you were an embarrassment to yourself. There was no honor without family honor. You didn't have really individual honor. There was no legacy unless you had heirs, unless you had people who were descended from you. And it just was not considered a viable way of life. And yet when you read the New Testament, you will see that widows were not forced in any way to marry. And that's what's so radical about the places where it says the poor widows, poor Christian widows were supported by the whole church financially in every way. Why? Because the implication is it's okay to be single. It doesn't say poor old widows, by the way. Poor widows, women who are widowed and who therefore did not have a good means of support. They were supported by the church. And what did that mean? It meant that it's okay to be single. And Hauerwas goes on and says, it's that plus the fact that Paul and plus the fact that Jesus, Jesus himself, the perfect human being, let me point that out. The perfect human being, the ultimate expression of perfect humanity didn't feel the need to get married in order to exhibit perfect humanity, which means by the way, he also, the earthly Jesus also lived in wondrous hope and joy at the prospect of that future wedding supper of the lamb. It was enough for him too. Now, here's what this means. Paul says some stuff in Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 7, which is pretty even handed about singleness in marriage. One of the things he says, which is I think a little easy to misunderstand, but actually in light of what Wesley has already taught earlier, he actually is setting me up to say what I want to say right now. Paul says, one of the reasons why he's saying, look, if you want to get married, that's fine, but it's great to be unmarried. In fact, there's a lot of problems with being married. I would like to spare you from, and you say what? And then he says, well, a man who is married wants to please his wife, a man who is single wants to please the Lord. Now I want you to know that is a trenchant observation and here's what I think it's got to mean. It is possible to turn a friend into an idol. It's possible to look at a friend or two and basically put them in the place of Jesus, make their friendship the thing you're living for, make their regard the thing that gives you your self image. In other words, really turn a friend into a pseudo savior, but I want you to know it's a lot harder to do that with a friend than it is with a spouse. I guess I would say that friendship in general, we're all sinners so we can twist anything, but in general, friendship is more, how do I say it? It's more avoidably, it's more unavoidably unselfish. Friendship more naturally becomes unselfish, but let me tell you, when you get into marriage, you want to be full filled and if you are not being full filled, you just blow up. Marriage is really about me. Marriage is about you. Marriage is about me. I mean, it's supposed to, what I liked about Wes's talk was he was bringing out the fact, now there's no, there's actually no relationship that's perfectly like that, but relationships have both service and possession as part of them. So on the one hand, a friend or a spouse belongs to you and what that means is you're my possession, you're my wealth. You're something that fulfills me. You are a form of my wealth. I enjoy you. You help me. You build me up, but also I serve you. I'm here to serve you, to help you along, to help you become what Christ wants you to be, to not think of my own interests. Now, I'd say the fact of the matter is that it is a lot easier in friendship in general to remember that relationship is about service and it's a lot harder in marriage. And this is what Paul is saying, not for marriage to become possessive, absorbing, idolatrous, either way. You know, if you have a good marriage, a lot of people know this. If you have a good marriage, it's absolutely, absolutely almost impossible not to have that spouse replace Jesus in your life in all sorts of ways. John Newton, the great letter writer, hymn writer, John Newton has some great stuff in his letters about the fact that he had a good marriage and as a result, he says, I just do not lean on Jesus the way I would otherwise. I just do not really go to Jesus to get my, to really get my love, to really get my satisfaction. I don't do that. I don't need to. I got this adoring woman who's doing all this and he says, if your marriage is good, you have a problem with idolatry. If your marriage is bad, marriage is bad. I think it's just as easy, if not easier to say, if my marriage was good, everything would be better in my life. It would all be fixed and it wouldn't be, no, it wouldn't be. That's Paul's whole point. The only thing that's going to fix you is the future, that incredible wedding supper that's coming.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"john newton" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"And the second way, in the marriage you can make an idol out of marriage. I found this out by reading my old friend John Newton, the guy who wrote all the great hymns. He was a tremendous pastor. He wrote lots of letters. And whenever he wrote letters to people on the basis about marriage, he always said the biggest problem in marriage is idolatry. That is, you make the other person your salvation. Instead of Jesus being the one that really is your strength, the other person is the one who is your strength. Instead of saying, I know I'm okay because Jesus says I'm okay, instead we put tremendous pressure on our spouse to love us perfectly, and to not be bad and not fall apart and not be too weak. We need someone in our marriage to love us perfectly, and so we put tremendous burdens on that marriage to make us completely happy. John Newton says, unless you understand the fact that the real bridegroom is Christ, and that the real marriage is a relationship with Christ, unless you see that even the best possible marriages can never satisfy, you'll always be demanding more out of your spouse than that person can ever possibly give you. That person is a sinner, and that person is just as upset with you. And you see, if you don't see that marriage is penultimate, it's to make an idol out of marriage. Well, that's what happens when you're inside marriage, but how do you make an idol of marriage when you're outside of marriage? That's easy. Most of you are single, and you know, a lot of you know exactly how that works, because you say, I've got to be married or I'm going to jump off a bridge. Now, you see, the same attitude if you were married today, you'd be wanting to jump off a bridge anyway. It's not funny, because the attitude that makes you feel like life isn't worth living unless I'm married is the same attitude that will wreck the marriage, because you will be sure that that person, that spouse, that marriage has got to be the source of all of your happiness. And you say, oh, I wouldn't make that mistake, but you're making it now. You see, listen, you can easily conclude by reading Genesis 1 and 2, and I think I've pretty much concluded, that if there was no sin in the world, that marriage would be the ideal and that all human beings would be married. But you see, the Bible tells us that something happened after Genesis 2, something called sin, something called the fall, and it's very clear from 1 Corinthians 7 and Matthew 19 that now marriage is only the ideal if you're called to it and when you're called to it. Marriage and singleness are trade-offs. There's advantages and terrible disadvantages to marriage, and there's advantages and terrible disadvantages to singleness. They're both full of glories and they're both full of burdens, and therefore, and they trade off. I remember talking, when I was a younger minister, I had a friend who was in the ministry and he was single, and I was married, and we used to argue with each other, because when we got under the gun and when we were under tremendous pressure to produce, and we had all these ministry opportunities, we used to envy the other, because he would say, I am so tired, I am so stressed out, I wish I was married. When I'm overworked, I wish I was married, because when I'm overworked, all I am is lonely, and I have no comfort. And I say, yeah.
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"john newton" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Amen, so we're gonna wrap up this morning our month long series here. Studying Jesus' teachings to his disciples about the all important subject of the end, the coming end of this dark and evil age that we're all living in, the coming end of this world that is groaning. Because it is under the curse of sin, this world that is not our home, Jesus says, this world in which we are just pilgrims and sojourners on our way to Jesus teaches about the coming end of it all when he comes in final judgment against all sin and unrighteousness and corruption in this world. And he comes not only to put an end to it all, but to make all things new. And give us an abiding eternal home in his presence, in his glory, in a new heavens, in a new earth where only righteousness dwells. Last week, especially if you'll remember with me in verses 36 to 44, Jesus started to bring all of his teaching about the end to a culmination. And he was exhorting his disciples, of course us included, to live our lives in regular readiness, remember? In perpetual preparedness for the certainty of his future coming. And we saw that doing that, being prepared, isn't something that happens automatically. Being prepared requires regularly preparing and living our lives constantly, daily, hourly, in light of the certain reality of his coming as he's revealed it in his word. No one knows the day or the hour that he's going to come. That's what Jesus himself says there in verse 36. And the reason he hasn't revealed to us the day or the hour is because if we did know exactly when he's coming, then the sin that remains in us would cause us to be spiritually lazy and lethargic during our lives in this world. We would wait until the very last minute to try to get ready for his return. But Jesus says that his return is going to come unexpectedly, like a thief comes in the night. Remember last week, if we knew for certain that a thief was going to come and break into our house at exactly 3.30 in the morning, not 3.29, not 3.31, but exactly 3.30 in the morning, and that he wouldn't possibly come a minute before that, then what we would be tempted to do would be to go to sleep and set an alarm for 3.20, 3.25, wake up just in time to get prepared. Well, Jesus doesn't want us living our lives like that. He wants us to stay awake all night long. He wants us to be preparing all the time, all our lives, mortifying sin daily, growing in holiness daily, putting on the whole armor of God daily, being transformed by the renewing of our minds daily, regularly, progressively, increasingly, communing with him in prayer daily, unceasingly, fellowshiping together and worshiping together with his body regularly so that the whole focus of our minds and the whole trajectory of our lives more and more is being driven by the certainty of his coming more than any other concern or priority of our lives are in this world. So that as the tribulation and pressure and temptation in this world already that's going to precede his coming, as all of that continues to build and increase, we will be increasingly prepared to endure it and to persevere until the very end when he comes to gather us all together and bring us home to the new heavens and new earth. So today, Jesus is going to sharpen his focus on that same subject of preparedness even more by once again speaking in illustrations, in parables. Now the ones that we saw last week, there were three of them, the illustration from the days of Noah when people remember were too busy attending to the cares of this world, the daily concerns of daily life, there's nothing sinful about those things, but they were so focused on them that they weren't focused on him, on God and on his word and on his holiness and on the fact of his coming judgment and so they weren't prepared when it came. Then there was the picture of two people out in a field and one was taken away to judgment and the other was left. There was the picture of the thief in the night. All of those pictures portrayed people who weren't prepared for his coming because they never gave it a second thought. Their heads were so buried in the business of this world and the busyness of this world that they weren't looking to the eternal realities and being prepared for the coming of the one who will make those realities real when he arrives. So eternity just didn't matter to those people at all that we were talking about last week, but Jesus doesn't just want to address people like that. He also wants to address those of us who do think about the reality of his coming, who do think about eternity, but still struggle in this world sometimes, oftentimes, and in our lives to become distracted. We still struggle with sluggishness in our lives either because we've assumed that he's going to come later than he actually will come or because we've assumed that he was going to come sooner and we've put all our hope in that. And then when he's delayed beyond our expectations, we get lulled into distractedness or sluggishness. And that's the kind of thing that these parables today focus us on. There's one at the end of chapter 24 and there's another one at the beginning of chapter 25 and they go together. And as we focus on them, we need to make sure we keep in mind the basics of what Jesus has already taught about the certainty of his future coming, about the reality of his future coming. He's taught us that he will return and he will return unexpectedly. No one knows the day or hour and so we must be perpetually prepared. He's also taught us that he's going to return personally and bodily. He's not just going to send angels from heaven to come and get us. He himself is coming and they're coming with him and he won't just come in some invisible secret ethereal way. He's coming in the same way that he left, bodily, visibly, like he told his disciples he would at the beginning of the book of Revelation. And it's not going to be any secret when he returns. Remember, every eye will see him. He says at the beginning of the book of Revelation, every ear is going to hear the voice of the archangel resound through the whole universe and the trumpet of God being blown when Jesus comes. It'll be unmistakable and the whole universe will literally be shaken and shattered by the great glory and power of the coming of the Son of Man. And when he comes, he's going to raise the dead physically and bodily from the grave. And then he's going to judge the whole world and all of those human beings who have ever lived in this world, who have now been raised and made immortal and imperishable, all of them who don't know him will be cast forever, body and soul, into everlasting condemnation. And all of those who do know him, who have been saved from that eternal judgment by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, those he's going to gather unto himself, body and soul, and welcome them into the presence of his glory and the new heavens and the new earth for all eternity comes down to that. One way or the other way, nothing else matters. All of this is what God's revealed word makes absolutely certain. He is coming, the end is coming and eternity is at stake. Are we prepared? And Jesus's point is what else in this world, what else in our lives matters more than that? There's a lot of things that matter, but what matters more than that? What matters more than eternity? So in verses 45 through 51 here at the end of Matthew chapter 24, this is the point that Jesus is driving home and he does it in this parable of faithful and unfaithful servants. So as we think about preparedness and being perpetually prepared and regularly ready until the day of his coming, until the very end, chief among the things that preparedness means is faithfulness to the master while we wait for his return and in a very specific way. This little parable is all about being unprepared for his coming because he came sooner than we assumed he would. We thought we had more time. The people in this parable thought they had more time, thought they had time to burn, thought they had time to do whatever they wanted to do and live however they wanted to live because the master's not coming back for a long time and then when he comes back sooner than they thought, they're in big, big trouble. That's what this parable is about. People who are busying themselves more and more with their own concerns and their own desires and the things of this world than with the affairs of the kingdom of God. To be prepared means persistently preparing and that means being consistently faithful stewards of the kingdom that Jesus has called us to serve. Who then, Jesus asked his disciples in verse 45, who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his master has set over his household to give them their food at the proper time? Jesus uses the word servant and he doesn't just use it to illustrate. He uses it to define what it means to be his disciples. If you're a disciple of Jesus, you are a servant of his household. You are a servant of his kingdom. Now the word disciple in the New Testament basically just means a student and the whole goal of a student is to become more like the teacher, to learn from the teacher, to become more like the teacher and to become like Jesus is to become more and more a servant because servanthood is the one of the chief attributes of our Lord and Savior. The Son of Man came here not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Those are Jesus's own words in Matthew chapter 20 and verse 28. He's the King of all things were made and yet he came here not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. He came in absolute fulfillment of the great prophecy of Isaiah 53 and he came of the suffering servants. That's what he is. The one who would bear our griefs, the ones who would carry our sorrows for us, who would be stricken and smitten and afflicted by God for us. That's who he is. The one who was pierced for our transgressions, the one who was crushed for iniquities, the one who was chastised for our sins that we might know peace with God because by his wounds we are healed. That's the kind of servant he is and those are the kinds of sacrifices that he made. He willingly for the joy set before him bore the awful burden of God's punishment for our sins. He bore that for us as our suffering servant. That's what he is. Becoming like him means becoming like that. So there are two main words for a servant in the New Testament. One of them is the word diakonos, like a deacon, somebody who serves others, somebody who meets the needs of others, to minister to others and tend to their needs and care for them is what that word means. So when the 12 disciples asked Jesus in Mark chapter 9, who is going to be the first in his kingdom, which of us are you going to have to be the first in the kingdom? Jesus said to them, if anyone would be first, he must be last of all and the servant of all. So you see, in other words, the one who Jesus is most impressed with is the one who is most like Jesus, specifically in this way that they're not concerned with themselves. They're not concerned with their own needs nearly so much as they're concerned with the needs of others and meeting those needs even if it costs them a lot because that's how Jesus is. He's the one who's willing to make great personal sacrifice and to endure great loss for the sake of others. Paul's words in Philippians 2, right, resound with that ethic, don't they? If we're Christians, if we're disciples of our master who was the great servant on the cross, then our lives ought to look like his in exactly that way. It looks like this, Philippians 2, do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit pride, but in humility, count others more important than yourself. That's what it means to look like Jesus. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but to the interests of others and have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, because here's who he is. Though he was in the grass but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men, and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. So being like Jesus means being a servant like Jesus was and being a servant like Jesus is. A self-sacrificing minister who cares about meeting the needs of others more than we care about our own needs. That's what it means to be like Jesus, plain and simple, because Jesus is willing to sacrifice for the sake of meeting the needs of others. And in Jesus's economy, it works like this. Jesus's calculus is that the greater the need of others, then the greater the sacrifice his loving servanthood is willing to make. He became obedient to the point of death, even that horrific death that he endured on the cross because of the great need of our eternal souls. The greater the need, the greater the sacrifice that he's willing to make. That's what we need to be like. Now in that passage in Philippians 2, Paul doesn't use the word when he's talking about Jesus being a servant, he doesn't use that word diakonos. He uses the second word, which is most common, and that's the word doulos in Greek, which means a slave, a servant in relationship to a master, someone whose life is defined by submissiveness to the master's will and not a commitment to his own will. That's what the word doulos means. So the first word, diakonos, emphasizes the importance of being like Jesus and ministering to the needs of others, being willing to consider their needs more important than our own, being willing to meet other people's needs even at their needs are great. If we're servants like Jesus, great needs and others prompt great sacrifices in us. And the second word for servant is this word doulos, which emphasizes the relationship that exists between us and Christ as our Lord, between us and God, because Jesus is the eternal son of God. And that relationship fundamentally demands the kind of sacrificial servanthood to others that Jesus himself models. Because of course, even though he came here not to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many, he never stopped being God. He never stopped being the almighty Holy One who he is. He never stopped being the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. So see, the one who was our great suffering servant on the cross is at the same time and always will be the eternal Lord of our lives, which means that we always and always must be servants of him, our great Lord and our master by acting like he acted, by doing what he did. So the word doulos, slave, servant signifies this position of submissiveness to him that has to define everything about our lives in him. And it's interesting in Philippians 2 that Paul uses that word doulos to refer to Jesus. Those words or those verses that I just read from Philippians 2 talk about how we should be like Jesus and considering the needs of others more important than our own and being willing to sacrifice for others like he did. But the word for that kind of sacrificial service is that word diakonos, deacon, minister, right? But that's not the word that Jesus is described by in Philippians 2. It's that other word doulos, slave in relationship to a master. Jesus humbled himself by becoming obedient, see, to the point of death on a cross. And he didn't become obedient to us, did he? He didn't put himself under us in relation, like we were his master. Who was he obedient to? He was obedient to the will of God the father. In coming here to serve us and minister to our needs, diakonos, in coming here to sacrificially in heaven and the will of the father over his own will. Garden of Gethsemane, not my will, but yours be done. As he came to serve us, he came as a servant of the father fully and indescribably unimaginably humble in devotion to the eternal will of the father to redeem us through the death of the only begotten son. Now I hope I'm not confusing you with all that because I hope it makes some sense to you because this is how Jesus is describing things in the passage in Matthew 24. These two words in the New Testaments for servant define how Jesus came not to be served but to serve us by giving himself as a ransom for us as a payment to the holy God for our sins against God. In coming to serve us sacrificially, he came as a servant to the father bound by faithfulness, covenant faithfulness to the father to redeem us by suffering for us. And see all of that defines what we are as Christians and in him. It defines what our lives have to be like in him as we wait for him to return. So here he's saying in verse 45 of Matthew 24 that we need to be wise and faithful servants. And the word that he uses is the second one that I talked about that word doulos, slaves. Not don't think of slaves with all the terrible connotations that come to mind in terms of the modern world when we think about slavery. It's simply a description of our relationship to our God in recognition of his lordship as the great Lord and God who he is. Our lives in him must be characterized chiefly by submission to him, obedience to him, devotion to his will and not our own. In other words, Jesus is not the cosmic butler who lives up in heaven and exists and waits up there for us to ring a little bell so that he can come and do our bidding. He loves us. He delights to do good things for us. He delights to give good things to us, but he's not our butler to command around. We're not above him as the master. He's our Lord. He's our master. He's our God and we are his servants devoted by definition and by virtue of our relationship to him as our God, devoted to his will, devoted to his service, devoted to his kingdom, devoted to his righteousness, not devoted to ourselves and our own desires and ambitions and wills. So how do we be faithful servants of his while we wait for his return? We do it by seeing to the affairs of his household like he says here in verse 45, feeding those who belong to his household and tending to his possessions like he says in verse 47, being stewards of what he has left us here in this world to see to. So what does that mean? What is the household of God? His church is the household of God. Paul says in the book of Ephesians to the Gentiles living in the city of Ephesus, you are fellow citizens with the saints and you are members of the household of God. People who are redeemed and saved by grace through faith are the household of God, his chosen people. What are the possessions of God in his household? It's his chosen people. Peter says, and he's speaking to suffering Christians who are scattered all around the Roman Empire, he says, you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession. That's what we are. We're his possessions in order that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light. And how do people come to be God's own choice possessions and members of the household of God? By being called out of darkness and into his marvelous light, by being saved from our sins and reconciled to God and delivered from the wrath of God that is to come. And how does that happen? By grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Romans 10 verse 13, everyone, every single sinner in this dark, evil age, in this sin-cursed world who cries out to Jesus for salvation with genuine living, saving faith, all of them will be saved eternally. And when he comes, all who have called on the name of the Lord will be gathered up by him and ushered into that glorious presence of him and his eternal blessings forever. But Paul asks there in Romans 10 where he says everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Well, how are they going to do that? How are they going to call on him in whom they've never believed? How are they going to believe in him if they've never heard of him? And how are they going to hear about him without somebody telling them, preaching to them, Christ crucified? And how are they going to preach unless they're sent as his servants? See, that's what we are. As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news, the gospel. So how do we faithfully steward the kingdom of God's household and possessions until he returns chiefly by preaching the gospel to the lost and perishing world? Michael and I were talking about this this past week in preparation for a sermon he's going to prepare to make a defense of the hope that is within you to the lost and the dying world. And we were talking about the reality that this hope that is laid up before us in the new heavens and the new earth is going to include us being able to do every single thing almost in our lives better there than we can do here. We'll work better there. We'll serve God better there. We'll worship better there. Our lives will be unencumbered by sin and mortality and imperishability. So why are we still here? Why hasn't he taken us there yet where we can do every single thing better there? Because the one thing you can't do there that we can do here and must be doing here is preaching the gospel to the lost, calling people by the power of God in the gospel out of darkness and into that marvelous light to repent of their sins, to come to Jesus and to be saved. So when Jesus says, blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes, that's what he means. When he comes, is he going to find us bearing witness to him and calling people out of darkness and into light? And we don't know when he's going to come, do we? Which is the very reason like we saw last week that we have to be perpetually preparing and being prepared in a state of regular readiness for his return. And if that means faithfully seeing to his household and possessions, faithfully preaching the gospel of salvation through faith in Christ alone, then we've got to be doing that regularly until he returns. And that's exactly what he's saying. That preparedness, that readiness necessarily means faithfulness as his servants to proclaiming the gospel of calling people out of darkness and into light. And our master's words in verses 48 through 51 are pretty sobering, are they not? But if the wicked servant, not the wise and faithful one, if the wicked servant says to himself, well, my master's delayed. He's not coming back for a long time and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, lives like the world. The master of that servant will come on a day when he doesn't expect him and in an hour when he doesn't not know. And he'll cut that wicked servant into pieces and put him with the hypocrites in the place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. In contrast to the faithful and wise servant, the wicked and the foolish servant is the one who says, well, my master's delayed. I don't need to live according to his will. I don't need to be a servant of his right now. I can whoop it up here in the world and do whatever I want. It's been a long time since he left, says the wicked servant. And then he foolishly concludes it's going to be a long time until he comes. So he decides to pursue his own will instead of the will of the master. This is like the unfaithful wife who doesn't think her husband's coming home yet from his business trip, but he comes home sooner than she thought and catches her with another man. And then there's all kinds of trouble. This is like the kid who doesn't think his parents are coming home until the next day. So he throws a big old party in their house only for them to show up early before he was expecting them to. And then there's all kinds of trouble. When the master of the household of God returns, what's he going to find us doing? Live in like the world or faithfully tending to his possessions? Faithfully feeding people with the gospel and our own lives with his righteousness or neglecting all of that because we're more concerned with the things of the world and our own desires. More devoted to the pleasures of this age than with the kingdom and the righteousness of God. And worse still, what's really being described here in the wicked servant is those wicked servants who call themselves followers of Jesus and say that they're servants of him and disciples of him, but they end up abusing their fellow servants. And that analogy speaks to all of those who call themselves Christians and followers of Jesus, servants of the king and his kingdom, but they're just indulging in all of the wickedness and licentiousness in this world. And they're imbibing the fallen godless spirit of the age in such a way that they end up leading other people astray into wickedness, into eternal harm. So what he's really talking about here are false teachers who peddle false gospels in the name of Christ. What he's really talking about here are those Christians and especially those people who stand in pulpits in Christ's church and end up saying that things are good, which God says are evil. And they end up saying that things are evil, which God says are good. And you know what I'm talking about. People who lead people astray into worldliness and godlessness in the name of Jesus, those people are going to be in big trouble when the master returns. We won't take the time to enumerate all the ways that that's going on today and pulpits in churches all over the place and how people are polluting the household of God and leading people away from Christ and straight into the jaws of destruction. And when Jesus comes, there will be no mercy for those kinds of wicked servants who perpetrate those perversions and those deceptions in the household of God. So in the parable of the servants, this is what he's doing. He's highlighting the danger of presuming that he's coming later than he purposes to return. So we fool ourselves into thinking we've got all this time to indulge in worldliness and ungodliness instead of serving him and his household. And he's highlighting the importance of faithfulness day by day by day, consistently until he returns. And then there's another parable at the beginning of chapter 25 where he's highlighting the other danger, the other side of the same coin of thinking that he's coming sooner than he actually purposes to and not taking the time to adequately prepare and then being caught unprepared when he does return. So look at this parable with me at the beginning of chapter 25. The setting of this parable is a wedding. And I probably don't need to tell you that ancient weddings worked differently than they do in the modern world. In ancient times, wedding day was an all day affair. It started early in the morning with festivities and dancing at the bride groom's house early in the day while the bride was at her house with her bridesmaids getting dressed and getting ready for the big ceremony of the wedding and a big feast that was going to happen in the evening. And so sometimes, see in the late afternoon while the bride groom is at his house rejoicing and celebrating and the bride is getting ready, some point in the late afternoon or early evening, the bride groom would leave his house and go all the way to the bride's house in order to get her and walk back with her to his house arm in arm in order for them to be married and then that would be followed by a big lavish feast afterward that would last late into the night. And at the time when the when the groom came to the bride's house to get her and escort her back to his house to marry her, he would take her and they would walk along with all of his attendants and all of her bridesmaids and they'd all be singing together through the streets of the city and cheering and hooping and hollering making their way back to the groom's house in a big grand torch-lit procession. That was the custom of the day. All of the attendants would be carrying torches through the streets in honor of the bride and the groom. And then when they got to the house everybody would would surround them with their torches and the wedding would take place and then the feast would take place late into the night. That was a typical wedding day in the ancient Middle Eastern world which Jesus and his disciples lived in. So picture all of that and here in this little parable there are 10 young maidens. Your translation says virgins. These are bridesmaids. They're young unmarried ladies who because they were young and unmarried in that culture would have certainly been virgins even though that's not even true in our culture. But these young ladies were 10 young bridesmaids waiting for with the bride waiting for the groom the groom the groom waiting for the groom to come and bring his bride back home to marry her. And Jesus says in verse 2, five of these maidens were foolish, five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps their torches that they were going to use in the procession they didn't bring any oil with them. But the wise had both lamps or torches and oil for their lamps. So the foolish ones see were only half prepared. They had lamps, they had torches to take on the procession but they didn't have any oil for those lamps and what good is a lamp without oil? It's useless, right? You can't light it. The wise ones though had prepared and they had both lamps and oil to light their lamps with. So in this parable Jesus goes on to say verse 5, the bridegroom was delayed. It was a long time in coming to get his bride just as Jesus has been a long time. It's been 2,000 years so far in coming. It was longer than they were expecting. So implicitly there was actually lots of time for these foolish girls to go get the oil they would need when the bridegroom did come so that they'd be able to light their lamps and join the festal torch-lit procession when the bridegroom came. But they didn't do that. So they were doubly foolish. See, first of all they should have brought oil with their lamps to begin with. They didn't do that. Then they should have gone out and gotten oil when the bridegroom delayed and gave them plenty of time to do it but they didn't do that either. They waited and they waited and they waited and when it took longer than they expected they got sleepy. They became drowsy and they slept. And then verse 6, at midnight, much longer than they expected, there was a cry. He's coming. Somebody down the street finally sees the bridegroom with all of his attendance coming down the street to get the bride. He's coming. He's come out and meet him. It's time. He's here. Time to light the torches. Time to join the festal procession back to the foolish maidens who neglected to bring oil in the first place and neglected to go out and get it while there was still time. Now he's coming and they've got no oil in their lamps to light their torches with in order to join the procession. So they try to get some from the wise maidens, right? Verse 8, give us some of yours. But the wise maidens knew that if they did that then everyone's torches would burn out early in the middle of the procession before they got back to the groom's house and all of that would become a distraction that would dishonor the bride and the groom. So that's why the wise ones said in verse 9, we're not giving you any of our oil. Not because they were greedy but because they were wise. We don't want to dishonor the groom. So you got to go find a dealer to buy oil for yourself in the middle of the night. So that's what they did. They went out way too late in the game, these foolish maidens, to buy oil hoping that they would be able to get the oil and then run back to the groom's house before or join the procession before they got back to the groom's house so that they could join the wedding. But it didn't work that way. They were too late. They didn't have time. While they're out there scurrying around trying to find someone to sell them oil at the last second in the middle of the night, good luck with that, the bridegroom returns. Verse 10, came for his bride and the maidens who had oil for their lamps joined the festal torchlit procession back to his house and went into the marriage feast and verse 11, the door was closed behind them. So that when the foolish maidens finally got there, they're pounding on the door saying, hey, let us in, open the door. Lord, Lord, they said, Lord, Lord, open the door. But it was too late. He said to them, truly, I don't know you. Now listen, as you think about what all that means, there is another place in Matthew's gospel where Jesus says something very, very similar to what he says here in verses 10 and 11. Here, the foolish maidens cry out to the bridegroom, Lord, Lord, open the door. And he says, I don't know you. In chapter seven of this same gospel of Matthew, Jesus says this. In fact, turn there with me. Turn to Matthew chapter seven and look at verses 21 through 23. And this is not a parable that Jesus is saying here. This is just a straight up deal. But he's teaching the same thing. And these are some of the most sobering words in the Bible. Look at Matthew 7 21. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, same thing as the maiden said, right? Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. Not enough to name. Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom, but the one who does the will of my father, the one who is a doulos, the one who is a servant, the one whose life is lived in submission to the will of the father who is in heaven will enter in. Jesus says on that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, and then they'll point to stuff they did. Did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not cast out demons in your name? That's pretty impressive, right? Show up at the bridegroom's house and go, hey, I cast out a bunch of demons. Surely that gets me a ticket inside, right? Did many mighty works in your name, but he will declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me. Go away, you workers of lawlessness. It didn't matter what they did. What matters is, do they know him? Are they his servants? So it's the same message, see? The foolish maidens had lamps with no oil. Useless. Well, these guys had works with no love and devotion to God. Useless. The foolish maidens waited until way too late to do anything about the fact that they had no oil, and then said, Lord, Lord, open the door, only to hear him say, I don't know you. And in Matthew 7, there's going to be many people, Jesus says, who are going to say, Lord, Lord, then point to all kinds of stuff they did only to hear him say, go away, I never knew you. Because the only ones who will enter the kingdom of heaven, Jesus says, are those who do the will of my father who is in heaven. And the verb in that statement, to do, those who do the will of my father, is a present active participle. Those who are doing as the course of your life, the will of my father who is in heaven, as a regular, consistent, ongoing pattern of life, as a doulos, as a servant of God, whose lives are defined, not perfectly, but essentially by this relationship to God as their master. Is that how your life is defined? I know it doesn't exist that way perfectly, because nobody does mine either. But do you see yourself as the doulos of God? And is your life devoted more and more and more to trying harder and harder by his grace and the strength with which he strengthens you to living for his glory and doing his will and not your own in this world? Is that how your life is defined? Submissiveness to his will and not your own. Laying aside your own needs and cares in order to seek first his kingdom and righteousness as your greatest priority. That's the oil, see? That's the oil. The loving, grateful, humble, submissive devotion to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It's not about, I've got a bunch of outward works I can point to. It's not about, well, I read my Bible eight hours a day, seven days a week. It's not about, I went to every church service there was. It's not about how many books you have on your bookshelf. It's not about any of that. It's about, are you the servant of God who lovingly, humbly serves his kingdom? Because it's out of that. That's the oil. It's out of that, that the flame of any kind of good deeds is going to come. Otherwise, it's just an empty shell, right? Some people, many people, they just have the lamp, the torch, but they don't have any oil. They've just got a facade of righteousness. They've just got this outside of the cup kind of formalism, which is what characterized the Pharisees, right? That kind of religiosity that thinks that the entrance into the kingdom can be obtained by doing all kinds of the right things on the outside without any faithful, loving, humble devotion to God on the inside. That's as useless as a lamp with no oil. And that's what these people that Jesus is describing here in chapter seven of Matthew's gospel are like. We did all the right stuff. Problem is none of that stuff was fueled by a love and devotion to Christ as humble, loving, loyal servants. It's not about what you do. It's what you are by grace alone through faith alone. And so here in verse seven, even if they try to say, or chapter seven here, if they try to say to him on that day when he comes, Lord, Lord, and then point to themselves and the stuff that they did, he'll say, that doesn't matter because what matters is I never knew you. You were never my servant. You didn't love me. You didn't honor me. You didn't do it for my glory. All they had was an outside of the cup religiosity, just an empty torch, not a loving devotion to him that flamed with a passionate service to his will, fueled by faith in his loving service to them on the cross. Whatever oil they had was purchased by their own merit and not by his. So in the end, here's what it all means. Based on everything that our loving Lord and our bridegroom says, being prepared for his coming, all comes down according to Jesus himself to knowing him, to being rightly related to him, to not seeing him as the butler, but understanding ourselves to be the servants of him who served us by laying down his life for us in order to reconcile us to God. So it means being saved by grace through faith in him, and it means that saving faith is that kind of faith which causes us to turn from seeing our lives as our own to seeing him not only as our blessed Savior, but as our sovereign Lord and to living by his life giving grace more and more to living in humble self-forsaking devotion to his will and not my own. You'll never do it perfectly. It's going to that gives a little sprout and then over a long time becomes a big mighty oak. That's what the Christian life is like. John Newton says it's like that and not like a mushroom. Sometimes in the evening I'm looking out on my lawn and then I go to bed and I wake up and in the morning there's a big old mushroom that wasn't there the night before. It grew up fast. That's not how the Christian life works. It's like an acorn that becomes a big strong mighty oak tree as our lives are more and more defined by what we are in Christ and devoted more and more humbly to forsaking self and living for his will and his kingdom and his righteousness as his servants, and that means preparing for the all-certain reality of his return by seeking his kingdom and righteousness first as the overarching priority of our lives, not as extracurricular activity, not as a side interest, living as his bond servant, devoted to his kingdom, his household, his possession, his church, his people, his will to call people out of darkness and into light, to preach the gospel so that other people might come to know him too and be delivered from his wrath and gathered as his own when he comes. Are you prepared for his return? Look, it's not about just doing a bunch of things and making sure you're doing a bunch of things. It's about cultivating a loving, humble, grateful devotion to him who loved you and gave himself up for you, and out of that grateful, loving, humble devotion, it's about becoming more and more a faithful servant of his, more and more a watchful steward of his household. That's what it means to know him. That's what it means to be known by him so that when he returns, he won't say, you got a bunch of stuff you did, but I don't know you. Instead, he'll say, even though you and you lived by that grace and growing devotion to me, well done, good and faithful servant. Now enter in to my rest, eternal rest, everlasting rest in the presence of the glory of the one who was obedient to his father, even unto the cross, where he crushed the curse of death for us in order to make us his forever. Do you know him? Do you know his grace? And is it defining more and more in your life, a loving devotion to his service? Let's pray together. Our God and father, how grateful we are for making it clear to us that we must know you and understand ourselves and right relationship with you. And especially father, how grateful we are that that relationship is not defined by a bunch of stuff we did or could ever do. It's defined by what Jesus did for us in order to wash us and cleanse us and forgive us and give us daily the grace that we need and the oil for the lamps that we need to be able to live in growing devotion and service to you. So father, fuel us with your grace, fuel us with your word, fill us with the joy of the Lord that is our strength. Fill us with love because you first loved us. Fill us with humility father, because Christ was humble to serve us. Fill us with gratitude for all that you are and all that you've done and all that you do and will do in order to come for us as your bride. And so father, may we serve you may we be strengthened in the strength of Christ to serve you and honor you until he returns. This we pray in Jesus name. Amen.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"john newton" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"We stop coming to worship. We stop private prayer. We stop reading our Bible. We stop going to our small group if you go to a small group. You stop serving people. You stop doing for people. Why? Because you're filled with self -pity. You feel bad and you're not getting anything out of it. Right? I could just, at the court marshal for the century who just left his post, what have you got to say for yourself? You know, the judge, and he says, I wasn't getting anything out of it. So I left. Oh, well, that's right. I'm sorry about that. Case dismissed. No, not at all. You know, so what if you're getting nothing out of it? John Newton, the great pastor, John Newton, who's also a great hymn writer, someone wrote him and said, I'm just getting nothing out of praying. And he said, I can tell you're going to get nothing out of not praying. He says, if you get nothing from trying every day to go to the throne of grace, I can absolutely assure you you'll get nothing by staying away. He says, you keep it up. You just keep at it. But it's not obeying. Waiting on the Lord obediently does not just mean doing the things that you should do, you know, not just failing to do the things you should do. It also means not trying to do some things you know you shouldn't. I mean, in times where you're weary, you're disappointed, you're empty, you don't know why God's not answering your prayers, it's very easy. You just want to feel good. So you do things with sex, you do things with money, you do things with food. You do things to make yourself feel good. You do something that you know isn't right and you feel high for a minute and then afterwards you feel even worse. But that's leaving your post. And the one thing you mustn't do, waiting on the Lord means no matter how evil things are, you don't leave your post. Just do what you're supposed to do. Do the next thing. Put one
Jesus Stories
"john newton" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"To write. Her birthday present requests as a girl, writing paper. Writing paper was scarce, it was expensive, and she was endlessly writing poems and essays. She'd offered imbue her writings with a moral bet. Her older sisters opened a school where our young lady became a student at the age of 13, but by the age of 16, she was teaching at the school. And besides teaching, this vivacious 16 year old was befriending some well-known people of the society of the time. At the age of 18, she had written her first play for the girls at the school, yes, it was entertaining, but it also carried the moral sits which imbues her work. This was not the type of play which was popular at the time, by the way, but it was entirely appropriate for the her students to perform. It's 1767, she's 22 now. The theater royal opens in Bristol, with student ties to the theater, outings to this theater, were common for our lady students. So he becomes close friends with the theater's manager, who is a star on the London stage. A year later, she visits the estate of a wealthy man, a cousin to two of her students, and she and her sister would join those students at times at the estate. It wasn't long before the master of the estates of 20 years are senior who proposes marriage to which she accepts. Life changes for her. Now she is to become a lady. She begins preparing for this life among the rich and the elites of her day, but the wedding never happened. Her fiance would set and then break the date for the nuptials three times. Finally, she broke off the engagement her fiance provided a generous stipend on which to live is compensation for his lack of backbone, enough that she could concentrate on her writing. 1774, she's 29 years old. She visits London for the very first time. She took in the cultural historical and literary site. She befriended the best known actor on the London stage. He was also the manager of London's theater royal. This friendship opened doors for her in the London society. Remember, this is the poor daughter of a school teacher from Bristol. She's now enjoying the company of the great cultural figures of the day the upper crust of London society. Also in 1774, her plays began to be published. In 1777, the covent garden theater staged one of her place to grade a claim and success. Two years later they staged another play, but this one was tainted with unfounded charges of plagiarism, and this conflict caused her to cease playwriting altogether. Now, it was during this time that her faith in Jesus and her moral bet were less obvious than they would become. But they were a part of who she was, how she viewed the world what she wrote, and while the elites of London were not serious about faith. She nevertheless accepted and loved them anyway. With the troubles over her last play, our lady begins a time of transition. She slowly withdraws from London and the fast life she had been a part of for the past 5 years. Her faith begins to take a more central role in her life. She became increasingly disenchanted with the trappings of high society and turned more fully toward the Christian faith she had assumed all her life, but not embraced with full intention. This transition really began with the reading of a book by John Newton. Now you probably know his name and maybe even his story. He was a former slave ship captain who embraced Jesus, giving up the slave trade. Today's most commonly known as pinning the favorite hymn amazing grace. Newton's book cardia caused our lady to write this. There is in it much vital religion, and much of the experience of a good Christian who feels and laments his own imperfections and weaknesses. To give up the theater was no small feat for her, she looked back on her years in London and lamented the pointlessness of much of what passed for life in London, society. She did not turn her back on her writing, she knew the power of literature and understood that the culture of the day was more influenced by the arts than by legislation, not too differently from today, and like today she received pushback from those who thought that the marriage of arts with Christian beliefs were to be mixing things of the world with the things of Jehovah God. This didn't dissuade her. However, I hope the poets and painters will at last bring the Bible into fashion, she said. In 1787 our lady met two of the great reformers in English history. She actually met John Newton, whom we've just mentioned before, and William wilberforce. Now we've talked about wilberforce in a previous Jesus story's episode at episode three of this third season of Jesus stories, I encourage you to go back and listen, Newton had a profound effect on wilberforce in helping him to abolish the slave trade in England by encouraging him to remain in politics to effect legislative change from the inside. It was in 1787 that our lady met John Newton, and he helped to strengthen her faith. She also met wilberforce, she wrote about that that young man's character is one of the most extraordinary I have ever known for talent, virtue, and piety. It's difficult not to grow better and wiser every time one converses with him. In 1780 8, wilberforce decided it was time to bring a bill to parliament to abolish the slave trade. Our lady began working on a poem entitled slavery to help sway public opinion and influence the voting on wilberforce's Bill. So the abolitionist movement was pushing not only in parliament for a legal lid to slavery, but also to sway the public to understand the wrong and the horrors of this trade, her poem helped the average Britain to see the humanity of the African peoples for a first time. Most had seen the slave trade in an abstract way, an economic way. Now they could see the human side, the suffering, the infants and children being torn from their mothers. This led to hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions against the slave trade, which were brought to parliament and swayed its members to vote ultimately against the practice. Our ladies view of the world also saw other evils in society too, many Britons thought of themselves as Christians, but in practice they were pagans or agnostics, church was a formality. There was no faith, no Jesus in their lives. So our
The Eric Metaxas Show
"john newton" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Nefarious comes out this weekend. We hope everyone will see it. John, you and I are talking about other films. You just talked about a film that really was a terrific film, Robert Duvall, made and starred in the apostle, Farrah Fawcett is in that. So this was made, I don't know, 12 years ago. But he had to fund the whole thing himself because Hollywood is so allergic to doing any kind of faith films. Here's a guy you talk about credentials, Robert Duvall in The Godfather in so many great films, he could not get he had to put up his own money to make this film the apostle. It came out a very powerful film, but they did cut out a segment where you see his conversion. And I think it would have been more powerful with it. I'm sure. When I saw the film, I wasn't sure in the second half of the film that he was taking it. If it was just an effort to find a new life, and I didn't know because they had cut out that scene. Similarly, I walked the line, the Johnny Cash movie. Oh, man. They cut out all the Christianity. It's like doing the story of John was it John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote amazing grace. Yeah. And you take Christianity out of it. And he just gets awakened to social justice somehow. Yeah. Somehow. It becomes a Johnny Cash movie, walk the line. You know, it's a good movie, but it is shocking that the whole center of his story is about how his wife, June Carter Cash, who is a Christian, helps him find Jesus, which helps him to kick drugs and alcohol. I mean, the man was a mess. And it was Jesus and only Jesus that saves him from that hell, they managed to make the film with what's his name, Jake when Joe kin Phoenix. Somehow they make the film and they leave that out and you're thinking, you've got to be kidding me. Eric little story. The sequel chariots of the gods has heard to fire. Jerry's a fire, rather. You're right. He's in a Japanese concentration camp, and he his faith keeps him going. They made a movie about it and they left the faith mostly out. And that was made by faith people. It gets even worse when you find out the people who made the film, they were kind of too cool to go there. I don't know, I didn't see that film. I can't comment on it, but I'm sorry to hear that. I'm telling you, you don't have to. But you have to see an nefarious. Now, nefarious, the way I would describe it is any of you have read the brothers caramel itself. The scene, the grand inquisitor, where Christ is arrested by the head of the Spanish inquisition, and is interrogated by him in the over the course of like 30 to 40 pages. That's what this reminded me of. Almost the whole film is a dialog between two characters. And that's very clever in terms of filmmaking because it's not super expensive, as long as you have really good actors. And it puts a lot of pressure on the actors. And these two actors were fantastic. They are a secular liberal psychiatrist. Your average secular humanist woke humanitarian, the kind of person who might say, I'm a rational altruist, you know, I try to calculate that the things that I do will diminish unhappiness in the world. Against a serial killer who's about to be executed. He's about to receive the death penalty. And the thing is, the serial killer seems to believe he is possessed by a demon, and it's the psychiatrist's job to evaluate whether this person is mentally cogent enough to be executed. Because if you are delusional, if you are in a psychotic break or schizophrenic episode, the state can't put you to death. You have to be cogent in order to receive the death penalty, which I think is an interesting leftover of Christianity in our legal system..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Why Are We Leaving Faith Out of Movies? John Zmirak and Eric Discuss
"You and I are talking about other films. You just talked about a film that really was a terrific film, Robert Duvall, made and starred in the apostle, Farrah Fawcett is in that. So this was made, I don't know, 12 years ago. But he had to fund the whole thing himself because Hollywood is so allergic to doing any kind of faith films. Here's a guy you talk about credentials, Robert Duvall in The Godfather in so many great films, he could not get he had to put up his own money to make this film the apostle. It came out a very powerful film, but they did cut out a segment where you see his conversion. And I think it would have been more powerful with it. I'm sure. When I saw the film, I wasn't sure in the second half of the film that he was taking it. If it was just an effort to find a new life, and I didn't know because they had cut out that scene. Similarly, I walked the line, the Johnny Cash movie. Oh, man. They cut out all the Christianity. It's like doing the story of John was it John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote amazing grace. Yeah. And you take Christianity out of it. And he just gets awakened to social justice somehow. Yeah. Somehow. It becomes a Johnny Cash movie, walk the line. You know, it's a good movie, but it is shocking that the whole center of his story is about how his wife, June Carter Cash, who is a Christian, helps him find Jesus, which helps him to kick drugs and alcohol. I mean, the man was a mess. And it was Jesus and only Jesus that saves him from that hell, they managed to make the film with what's his name, Jake when Joe kin Phoenix. Somehow they make the film and they leave that out and you're thinking, you've got to be kidding me. Eric little story. The sequel chariots of the gods has heard to fire. Jerry's a fire, rather. You're right. He's in a Japanese concentration camp, and he his faith keeps him going. They made a movie about it and they left the faith mostly out.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"john newton" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"We'll tell you the rest of the story when we come back with Barry McGuire. The book is ignite your life, may I recommend that you get a copy, it's all in the book, ignite your life. I've looked at clouds that way now the only blocks. Folks, the book is ignite your life, I'm speaking with the author Barry Maguire, a dear friend, very, you just shared that, so here you are, and again, there are a lot of people that need to hear this. They think if I'm excited about God, if I'm excited about Jesus, do I have to go into full-time ministry? They have some idea. Yeah. I gotta go. Most people do. Listen, William wilberforce, about whom I write in my book amazing grace. What he got so excited about God, he thought, I guess this means I have to leave politics. And he goes to talk to John Newton, who wrote to him amazing grace and says, what do I do? And John Newton says no. Stay where you are, God will use you in the place that he's already put you. And you're telling me that this happened to you, you're sitting there in your office and this man says, God has given you a great ministry here. I said, why did you say that? Why are you telling me he says, well, a passer could never reach the people you're reaching. But as a businessman, you can and he gave me this line, Eric, in 1976, it's obvious that your business is your pulpit. I said, I got to tell you, I just prayed this prayer, not 20 minutes ago, and he said, oh, that explains it. I said, explains what. He said, I just dropped missionaries over the Orange County airport. I was driving a red hill, which was the closest Main Street to my office. He said, God spoke to me. And said, go see Barry Maguire. And I driven by your office many times. I saw the name of it. I put together that for the church. And I argue the guy I said, I don't know this guy. I'm going to make a fool of myself. And when I walked in your office just now, my heart was beating in my throat. I was so nervous I didn't know what to say, but how's it going? Now, this is also a message on obedience. If he had not been obedient, I would have been a failure as a pastor. I'm a businessman. Because of him, I had stayed the course and got his recipe, but I've then till now I've seen that everything I do is administering quite frankly for all of us right now. All of you, everything you say and do. Is moving everybody watching you closer further away from Jesus. You're in full-time ministry. What we're all witnesses, some of us are witnesses for the prosecution, but we're all witnesses. So every conversation, everything we do, and I'm entitled entirely capable of saying the wrong thing to God convicts me. I mean, there are times when I'll say something to Karen in the bathroom in the mornings we're getting ready to look at her face. I think I didn't just move you closer to Jesus, you know? When that's the goal, then all of a sudden, life has purpose. Everything has purpose. And now you're pro life ignites and your Bible. Everything comes alive. I was going to say, we're going to go to a break. This is the end of our one, we're going to have Barry in our two, hopefully followed by our friend malachi O'Brien. Versus legs carry him here in time. I want to say, first of all, the book ignite your life is exciting and it's kind of, I think people are looking for this. I think there are people that they say, is this all there is, I'm talking about people with faith. It just feels kind of dead. And we want to be alive to what God is doing and saying. So the idea that you could hear from God that he could move in your life in a way that he shows you that he is real, that he's, that is gigantic. Now actually, before we go to the break, I should mention we have a new sponsor on the program. It is the Israeli ministry of tourism, their website is Holy Land dot Israel dot travel Holy Land dot Israel dot travel and the idea of making your life real, I think going to Israel is one of the easy ones. Like if you do that, now Barry, I'm guessing you've been Israel a couple times. A few times, yes. A few times? Do you know how many? Do you have an idea? At least four. Four times. Okay, everybody says, oh, change your life. Change your life. Holy Land. Israel.
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Check Out Barry Meguiar's New Book 'Ignite Your Life'
"Book is ignite your life, I'm speaking with the author Barry Maguire, a dear friend, very, you just shared that, so here you are, and again, there are a lot of people that need to hear this. They think if I'm excited about God, if I'm excited about Jesus, do I have to go into full-time ministry? They have some idea. Yeah. I gotta go. Most people do. Listen, William wilberforce, about whom I write in my book amazing grace. What he got so excited about God, he thought, I guess this means I have to leave politics. And he goes to talk to John Newton, who wrote to him amazing grace and says, what do I do? And John Newton says no. Stay where you are, God will use you in the place that he's already put you. And you're telling me that this happened to you, you're sitting there in your office and this man says, God has given you a great ministry here. I said, why did you say that? Why are you telling me he says, well, a passer could never reach the people you're reaching. But as a businessman, you can and he gave me this line, Eric, in 1976, it's obvious that your business is your pulpit. I said, I got to tell you, I just prayed this prayer, not 20 minutes ago, and he said, oh, that explains it. I said, explains what. He said, I just dropped missionaries over the Orange County airport. I was driving a red hill, which was the closest Main Street to my office. He said, God spoke to me. And said, go see Barry Maguire. And I driven by your office many times. I saw the name of it. I put together that for the church. And I argue the guy I said, I don't know this guy. I'm going to make a fool of myself. And when I walked in your office just now, my heart was beating in my throat. I was so nervous I didn't know what to say, but how's it going? Now, this is also a message on obedience. If he had not been obedient, I would have been a failure as a pastor. I'm a businessman. Because of him, I had stayed the course and got his recipe, but I've then till now I've seen that everything I do is administering quite frankly for all of us right now. All of you, everything you say and do. Is moving everybody watching you closer further away from Jesus.
Jesus Stories
"john newton" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"So he was sent to live with an uncle and an ant. Now, in those days, methodism was unfolding under the preaching and teaching of the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, this couple, the ant in the uncle, were devout followers of Jesus. They were methodists, and our boy was raised in this environment. He came to get to know John Newton, the author of the hymn, amazing grace, and he thought of him as a father figure in his life. At the age of 12, three years later, our boys grandparents were horrified to find out of the influence of the methodists upon our boy. You see, methodism was considered the belief of the people without means, and our boy was being erased in a very well to do environment, except for the religious training he was receiving. In the well to do environment religious expression was looked down upon, and with this discovery, our boy's mother rushed to free him from the clutches of his aunt and uncle, and their methodist belief and training. Back with his mother and his grandparents, our boy attempted to keep his faith alive, but he was seriously discouraged from this. He wasn't even allowed to attend the services at the Church of England, and without the influence of other believers. He drifted away from his methodist beliefs. Our boy grows into a young man. He enters college, he goes to Cambridge, and there he meets William Pitt, the younger. Now Pitt's father was a famous politician in the day, and he was training his son to follow in his father's footsteps. Pitt and our young man would visit the gallery of the House of lords. That's one of the parliamentary bodies of the English government to watch the debates. And by the time he graduated from college, our young man decides to enter politics by running for a seat in parliament, and in 1780, he succeeds, he wins his seat in parliament, having run as an independent. Four years later, he embarks on a trip to a warmer climate on the French and Italian rivieras, with his mother, she was again seriously ill. The only means of travel was a horse drawn carriage, his mother and his cousin would travel in one coach while our young man and a friend from childhood, Isaac Milner would travel in the other. Now these two men were about ten years apart in age, they were physically opposites, but intellectual equivalents, and during that long coach rod Aryan men discovers that his traveling companion was a closet methodist, he took his belief in and following of Jesus very seriously, much more seriously than our young man did. And while our young man might have blown off this discussion, he entered it honestly, debating with Milner as they traveled across the European continent. Through this debate, our young men concluded that the beliefs he held were not true. His understanding of methodism required that he wholly invest his life in following Jesus. So, he returns to London, knowing that his former life is now behind him, he isolated himself, leading others to think that he was melancholy mad or depressed to use a modern term. He may have been, after all, he now had to reconcile his life with new beliefs about the seriousness of a relationship with Jesus and Jehovah God, and later in his life he would refer to this period in his life as the great change. He made an easy decision to give up his memberships in his gentleman's clubs, but then that was the question of his profession. Would he have to leave politics? He consulted with his friend, John Newton, Newton encouraged him to stay in politics. Our young man could take his gifts into the political arena and use them to glorify Jesus. Then there is the question of how such a decision might play out. So after much prayer, some two years later, our young man would write prophetic words in his diary. God almighty has set before me two great objects. The suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. So let's translate that. During this time that we're around 1787 right now, the movement to abolish the slave trade was active. Our man was called upon by a fellow named Thomas clarkston, who became a very close friend and confidant who had published a prize winning essay on ending the slave trade. The abolitionists realized that they needed a friend in parliament. Our young man was approached to be that friend, but while being non committal at first, he soon came around to understand that this was part of his two great objects his mission. So what about that reformation of manners? Our young man had looked around at the society in which he lived, and concluded that it was indeed broken. It did not regard human beings as being made by Jehovah God, and worthy of respect, such a view would of course lead to the enslaving of peoples. But there were other social issues besides that, child labor, working children as young as 5 or 6 years old in horrific and dangerous conditions. Alcoholism was epidemic, fully 25% of all single women in London were prostitutes, and their average age was 16. Animal cruelty was public entertainment, as I said at the outset of this episode, anyone helping in these circumstances, it was not considered part of normal society at that time. Our young man was tasked with changing that attitude. God almighty has set
TuneInPOC
"john newton" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"And I laughed off. I don't know that there will be either. Thank you very much for your call Anthony nice to hear from you in your perspective getting to see Roger Federer up close in the flesh now nice to hear from you. On news talk is it the safe nothing else or implied Tomas Berdych. At the 2015 ATP tour finals in London, not as close as I don't think you were Anthony, but you just a remarkable presence to watch greatness in motion. A couple of texts that have come through on. Roger Federer, another one saying, I remember a quote from Andy rok saying, quote, you only beat fitter when he lets you. Another one, grace with fenice is the Swiss tennis is theater and he simply the very best and what a great man he is, we will all miss him. 23 away from free on news talks, very good afternoon, Chris has things. Thank you. On the sunny day on the coast with the most academic house here. Beautiful. I was like, I'll say lucky enough for the watch if it's played twice on the court and when he was at his prime. And we had 6 really close. And we were really close. And I saw him and Melvin play as well. One thing that has already, I don't know if it's been raised, but the difference between him and refer Novak is, roger played roger played when Andre Agassi Pete Sampras, Jim Courier. Those guys, they were still at their peak. I mean, that was still good. Now, Novak and rapper, they'd gone by the time they came on. The same? Yeah, federal is what I want 2000, I think he sort of wanted to get to the Grand Slam finals, but he was around for about 99, 2000 if I recall rightly? Yeah, yeah. Well, he knocked him for us out. It was only 17 when he knocked 10% of the fourth round at Wimbledon. Wow. Yeah, mister Michael, isn't it? So, you know, I'm old enough to see black and I have to say in all the top Australian rod laver, John Newton, et cetera. I ride labor was the greatest of the pre pro era and Rogers the greatest of the professional era. That's how I see it. And John McEnroe agrees with me, how about that? Do you guys have got John McEnroe on side? Wrong, Chris. Okay. Thanks very much for your call. On that one, I had 182 89 C 9 two for a text message Roger Federer retiring from tennis after this week's labor cup in London, another tick Sears. Sofia replied the Aussie open, it was superb. Later that night saw Agassi play so reckon I can say I saw two of the best players, I reckon you can too. Nick mills here in Wellington said yesterday how he spoke to fitter in a queue at the Australian airport. Apparently he had played in a game until the early hours that morning and was there watching and just doing something heck like he must be tired he said in return something like sure aim. I bet he would be. Roger Federer, remarkable plant in certainly we'll be missing Timothy even though he's been sort of out of the game for the last year or so with injuries. Couple more ticks on the raggedy front, a lot of people are graying about the referee decision cases. There's the issue of time wasting throughout most games. It seems some scrums taking too long thought that a long time they need to address collapsing of the scrams, genus, Elliot, in a sympathy. I might have hid for the Wallace's gone after the deliberate major injury to Quinn, Ron called by the referee, the referee should be accountable for what happened, the wallabies were robbed of the win. Then I follow his excuse of I thought the clock was off is a croc the clock must be running when he kicks at the balls and fly. What would happen if he missed touch? Where would the clock start from? And thinking about the bigger picture here, test drag me that the players challenging themselves at the highest level of their chosen sport. It's also about their customers and the fans without the fans to strike be as nothing. Fans want to see their team competing to take home the spoils fans don't want to see referees make lesser of the lower decisions and consistently. And inject themselves into the game, it random moments, your blacks were good enough to win the line out and the fans and ragley would have been better off to see that. Then watch the riff assert themselves and muzz Elliot, give me a midfield makeup now, Geordie at second 5. Bodin at full bank or move Jordan back to fullback and race on the wing and the reserves as well as to use this from us. I'm very intrigued. I asked foster that a bit earlier on. As to which way they might go, not expecting that to give me the tame, but I'd like to see Jordy Barrett get a start. I thought that backline I finished with after a few clunky moments, perhaps with a few overlaps and that sort of thing. It actually worked quite well. Maybe you keep Jordan at full back and you keep that impact of bone and bear on the bench for the game at Adam park. You bring in someone like severe Reese on the wing next weekend, list defying a knuckle also hasn't been seen in quite some time. So I think I'd go Jordy at 12 Nick swig and trigger call awaits is the all ex get their test week underway. 18 away from three. Right, time for a quiz on waking. The weight gained sport quiz. Three questions. If you answer, well, you could answer all three, but if you're the last person standing that answers the third and final question correct, then you win something that Andy's gonna scout out from the price cupboard after we come off the other afternoon. And he promises it'll be good, he's he's talking a big game about finding something out of the price cover that's decent. So your chance to win here on weekend sport. I'll 880 ten 83 sporting questions. You answer them all or you are the last one standing, you win. 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Live Talk with Dwayne Moore
"john newton" Discussed on Live Talk with Dwayne Moore
"Tell us about that. Man, I appreciate that so much. One of the passions of my life is missions, right? And it should be of every worshipper because I believe I believe worship and missions are two sides of the same point, right? When we experience the lord and worship, it causes us to go on mission. If not, our worship is just Christian karaoke, or it's a cult that we get together and we sing some songs. The difference, I really believe a key difference of knowing if it's true encounter with the almighty. We go, like Isaiah encountering the lord and where does that end? Here are my lord, send me, right? It's the woman at the whale that has an encounter with Jesus changes her life and what does she do? Does she sing a song to see raise her hands? No, she goes back to her town. And she says, you got to come check out this guy who just told me everything I've ever done. So when an encounter with God happens in worship, it must send us to go. So that's a big passion of mine. And so we've created a partner, a resource for churches called worship convergence international worship convergence dot com is where you can go to check it out. Worship convergence dot com. And our passion is to go on mission tours. It's to take worship teams on mission tours, right? Take the heart, beat of a director of a church. How do we take what you do in the church? And let's go on mission. Let's go preach. Let's go make disciples of all nations. Not only on the ground and go ahead and join this is what you do, brother, but also in us, right? Because what do you do when you go? The lord's going to craft discipleship in your heart. And then because you're taking leaders, guess what? The third tier of discipleship is you're going to bring all that back to your local church. And that's going to affect the local church. So it's really an amazing kind of Trinity of discipleship that happens on the ground in our hearts and also the local church. So we're so excited about that. And then also we do some heritage trips, which are a discipleship making tool, whether that's Israel. I mean, if you've been to Israel, you know, it's life-changing. You never the same way. Or steps and Paul or doing some great tours right now and next year of where we're going to go around the great hymns of the faith in Europe and touch and go to some of the places that the wesleys wrote their hymns and John Newton. Amazing grace turns 250 years old next year. I don't know if you knew that, but man, it's amazing. Or, you know, Isaac watts or these moments in history that we still sing today..
Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"john newton" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"I'm john. Newton in the newly released yesterday was alive. Black and white indie film that you guys would love to see should be out soon and you're listening to sifi daw our coverage continues or the film. Yesterday was a lie with an interview with nathan mobley who plays the lab technician in film. We also talked to nathan about another film. He's out that you get on. Dvd call the other side and he also previews and upcoming project a short scifi film that he's working on his well. Let's go to the phones and nathan mobley. Thanks for for being on the show. I done eighth and i really appreciate it in. Yesterday was a lie. I mean you play the lab assistant but that's very misleading and movies. Because a lot of times when you just have a name. Doesn't it means smaller part. But i know in yesterday. A lot of people just have names like that cases characters singer for example so it doesn't mean anything as far as what the scope of the role is. Can you kind of describe. And i know this is a different kind of film. We don't want to give any spoilers shirt in the context of the film. What your character is Well like you said he's His job as a lab assistant. He's working in this lab where they're doing some. I guess it's okay for me to say some undercover very clandestine type work and The kind of stuff that not many people know about obviously so so hero comes to to kind of tap into whatever they're doing and the last what was great about the labs distant was created the role with that not only is he kind of giving them some pivotal information for the film but he's also Fun to play because he's Also girl crazy but he happens to be a big dork. So therein lies with rama and So these beautiful women come in and not in his wildest dreams has he. Does he ever think that this could be something going to happen to him. So they using their powers of coercion. Then and you know that beautiful woman have they they they attempt to get some of the sensitive information out of the lab system. Would that be in the sense of kipling's character of oil and so Chases singer oil on singer I wanna dance around a little bit. But essentially is this something these experiments something related to time. Yes okay it is when people pieces together with john newton's interview that we have they know that something's up and actually as it has come out that there is apparently a nazi journal. That is out there. That has like dr frankenstein. Secrets of life and death. This one has pretty much some really interesting information and concrete theories on time and manipulating it. So right so that's kinda like the the the arctic. Like in raiders law stark. Or you know the the the thing that everybody wants it or because of the film noir references this film. I guess you could say. It's like the maltese falcon and the loose of a piece of history that contains that they need to kind of you know the final piece of the puzzle spotted you come to this project Interestingly my good friend. Josh waters who Was the casting director for the film or at least in a like assistant role. I'm not sure what is title is exactly what he was helping to cast a film and we we went to high school together and and perform together and so we knew each other and he said. Hey there's this film that. I'm working on that i'm helping to cast. And there's a role at the you'd be create for and that was fiscal yet and i went in win re For james and andrew. And and we had. I think we have maybe one or two call backs and analysis about it took a while. They were they were they. Were you know securing the funding which is always An arduous undertaking for a for a independent film. Sure to a little bit of a little bit of time but then we started rehearsing getting the ball rolling as fun. How much rehearsal time did you have With the cast. Oh man we heard of. I mean we had we would get together for hersal at least like at least three weeks where we got together once or twice a week and spend a few hours working on the scene which is really a luxury because you don't hear that too often and maybe you know because it was an independent film. The smaller film have that luxury. We could get together some spare time and i loved it. I thought it was great. And you just makes you that much more prepared on the day when you go to shoot you kind of ready for anything because you've been through it all so did you start like maybe like a table reading kind of thing and then maybe do something. We're james may blocked out some things or definitely. We started with with a read initially with all the all the actors Table read and then and then we got together and started breaking down and he started rehearsing individual senior. Yeah we actually blocked it out. Got a real sense of you. Know how things are they. I think they wanted to nail down whether locations. We're going to rain. And then they had that in that rains then we start blocking and that sort of thing. It was good fun now. was locations mostly indoors or a laboratory. Somebody would have to be endorsed. I would think. Yeah all all of everything that i shot was indoor and i believe the majority of the film was Was indoors as well. I think there were a couple of like allie shots or things like that. But it's all at night. Yes so they had anything. We did endorse a block out. We're shooting during the day. We had a block out all the windows and you know really high. Very dramatic lighting thinks. it's filmed war. Yes peace so you're shooting for black and white so essentially the colors that you wear as i've talked to some of the other actors have to work for black and white. So did you wear guinea. Strange color combinations. That looked horrible in color in black and white look right on. I don't know. I don't remember honestly. I don't think my character kind of like. I said he was a little bit of a. You know he wasn't the hit. This cat you know in the world so you know anything that he wore with slightly on the dorky side. Anyway so. I don't remember the colors being especially you know clashing or anything like that from what i've seen. Everything looks great. it really plays well. Have you had a chance to see some of the film or most of it or the only thing. All that i saw was what the trailer. And then when i went into when we did. Some of the eighty are some of the dialogue recording. After the fact. I saw some of the film. Then okay cool because you're basically trying to match up and i don't know if you're if you're listening they probably do. People are so savvy these days but You do think called looping which is where you go in and the dialogue that you get on the day on the day of the shoot. A lot of times doesn't work because you've got other noises running over it or whatever and so you have to go back into a studio after the film was shot and rerecord some dialogue but it has to match precisely to you know your movements and everything so it's kind of a. It's it's difficult but it's fun. I will you a fan of fossil film noir. All did you like those movies. I honestly i hadn't seen a lot of it and I watched some more. You know when when this When we did this. But you know. I'm not.
Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"john newton" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"Our coverage of yesterday was alive with an interview with megan henning. Megan has an extensive guest starring resume appearing on series. Veronica mars e. r. joan of arcadia crossing jordan nypd blue and judging amy and additionally she's appeared in the movie lost had also was a regular on seventh heaven though. We're here to talk about her role in yesterday was alive and we'll get to megan in just a moment. What has two hundred and fifty thousand albums. Eighty thousand artists and three million songs. That's rhapsody could legally download music burned to a cd and create playlists. Now you can try it for free. For fourteen days just go to sci-fi talk dot com and click on the rhapsody link to sign up for your fourteen day trial rhapsody of very interesting service. Now let's go to my conversation with megan henning make it's nice to talk to you. This movie has has made very curious. shot in its phil nor style and black and white. You play a student in this particular film exactly. Where does your character fit into the whole picture. Yesterday was a lie. you know. it's a little small part that i just felt really lucky to have. I think you know the whole thing is. It's a big mystery. I think these this is you know she comes in and she's trying to figure out what exactly is happening. And i don't think my kids are necessarily really helped her to that at off. I think it just adds a lot of mission. She's trying to prevent Kipling's character from figuring anything how. She's very protective. She dumped into like a science classroom. I'm really protective of the of the information. That's on hands. They're just very very suspicious of what's happening at a little more insult to injury trying to get away of her figuring anything out so they actually shot this in a classroom set somewhere an actual classroom. We did we did. We shot it over at a school in la vermont. A little bit south. Let's be this was the science classroom and and just next door where we were all dressing And getting stuff done with a pretty hard core science classroom with lots of dead animals and brains and things and that was fun. It's good it's good. How many days were you actually for a day. I have worked with james In the past several times in theater he asked. If i'd be willing to do a cameo in the movie and i read it and thought of course you're willing to do it and Just very curious about the style. And i think that i think that seems just such a good way with this kind of material so i was just a really gracious to be And it was fun. It was a real real fun day. I mean we. I i went there and we were supposed to start early afternoon and there was some some issues so something's got moved around and i was there. I guess until we didn't really start shooting like almost two in the morning. Oh yeah it was interesting so we just you know crapton waited and did this crazy Senior science lab was awesome. Now was this. Does this to take place during the day or evening or i think it takes place. Most of this movie takes place in the in the so Yeah i mean. I think it's even it's after hours. It's not like a you know. These are just some students hanging around that our assistant professor basically and She comes in to try to try to figure out some system information and these students are guarding basically with their with their lives not letting her have any access to any of the materials in this lab. So yeah to darken very spooky. Are you students of a professor. Who's played by john. Newton in the phil no okay. Yeah no we're we're students of You know this isn't such a long time. I have to be completely honest. i haven't even been able to see it yet. I'm chomping at the bet to see the final product. And i don't even remember everybody's name remember the actress parts but I wish i could have gotten it. After i i saw it. I'm just wait eagerly. Waiting at this had a baby so things sounds like it. That's great congratulations. That's a wonderful thing to you. Know in life so baby. Yeah being a parent. That's a hard job but it's very worthwhile. Let my brain cells are coming out in my breast milk. 'cause i can't remember any that's fine but But yeah we're all looking forward to seeing it and now there is shot in black and white so Did you have to wear any weird color combinations to try to avoid you know why not look totally west out You know you have to be a special person and the lightest right for for that. But no i didn't. I think i think they really just stuck addressing the characters the way the characters would be dressed. You know Just avoiding you know little things that would interfere with with lighting but You know we didn't have too much so we'll get to be sort of true to true to south. And i were a little skirt all shirt and backpack and would you say your dress contemporary or a a certain time period. Yeah because i know they kind of mix and match time periods and movie That was something that was really interesting about it. You know it's just It's sort of timeless thing. And i would say it's contemporary but yeah no i was contemporary. I mean jean. Skirts pre contemporary. Yeah yeah hose. It like to To work with kipling. That's great. I mean she was really feel like she. Just you know she just had that character down I'm lucky 'cause i kinda came into well. I mean lucky. You know for me to come into it. You know when they had a lot under their belt already so she was extremely comfortable. and and Just knew exactly what she was doing and You know you get to a place into a group when you're making a movie and she was certainly into that groove and so it's a thrill really she was tackling it and you know i always easier to act with somebody who knows what they're doing to jamie's have everything pretty much have a good idea of what he was doing. As far as the scene and blocked one of the most meticulous. I have ever met or had the push you're working with. No he is extremely specific to a t exactly what he wants exactly what he needs to get And you know. He doesn't settle for anything less than that Which is great. I mean you feel like you know you know he might be hamry into the ground but you know that he's not gonna let anything fly. It's anything less than the best stuff. You're in good hands pretty interesting stuff. So far we'll have more with megan heading in just a minute. Here's more sifi talk with tony. Tomato did you have to stand a certain way. Just so they can get the right angles. So the plaques looks really. I mean you know. We hit hit marks and lighting is always very very important and making but in black and white. You know it was all that much more specific so Yeah we You know you gotta be whereas you know your market or you're just just as much to the left you know. It doesn't work anymore. Yeah i hear you well. It sounds interesting and look forward to seeing.
The Wounds Of The Faithful
"john newton" Discussed on The Wounds Of The Faithful
"You. Fear not frame with you was just listening to that song before. Oh good i love it. I love it too and i was. I was so comforted. By those versus. That i i had to capture them in song. I i needed something really comforting. Like i said like i could read those words over and over. I could say them out loud. But there's something transformative when you set them to melody. And if like whenever i would start to feel afraid again Or like if my children like my daughter really struggled after that for a while just the year i would sing it over her on it was it was such a comfort and it still brings me comfort every single time that i do do Spend time with it. Absolutely well I was really sorry to hear about your friend able. It was so sorry. Yeah thank you. It was it's still you know. I have moments of like the even this morning because she used to be the soprano to my on our worship team. She my my right hand lady and to I even. I even struggled to sing for a while without her there and We have since. I hate to say replaced her but i do have a new friend on the team with us and got to sing with her this morning again and really enjoyed The relationship with i have with her now and It's still don't feel completely at peace about that situation. You know having lost her so young and without reason they never figured out what had happened and she left behind the family Six yeah has been and it just felt felt really broken like I know this world. Oh this world is so very broken. Yes i get it but I'm really thankful that. I'm learning to in the midst of the broken nece to really lean in and trust god with it. I don't it doesn't mean i'm going to ever understand it or be okay with it but i still. Yeah i can trust him. he's is good now. You have any favorite artists or songs messiah and songs that that you go to those hard times for encouragement i do. I was just listening to this album this morning as i was resting my voice a little bit after four full morning of leading worship and then our conversation. I'm like i better not talk much. But personally i love. The music created by. Jj heller She's a wife and a mom from the nashville area and she writes primarily in kind of a lullaby style very instrumental and released soothing and My favorite song is one from her. First lullaby album called the sun will rise and it really administered. I remember the first time i'd heard it. It was during a difficult health season of my life and my favourite lyric from that song is sometimes it feels like forever when it's dark outside Baby the sun will rise however long the night and it's just i mean it's cute and it's awesome comforting and sweet and yeah kind of revisiting that album this morning it. Yeah in the middle of winter. It's really helpful comforting. But i i have recently discovered the music of william a gusto. He's a brazilian artist. Who creates instrumental. We call it like soaking music really lengthy tracks that are really great for meditative prayer times or as background music as i journal or seven crafting lyrics just having some kind of they're very inspiring very uplifting these beautiful tracks of music so i really really enjoyed his work lately and and for congregational worship at teased that The gettys kim. Kristen getty are probably my absolute favorites. I think if. I pick the the worship i any morning. There's at least like three of their songs sprinkled in a their their biblically. Solid songs and kind of celtic. So there's that And they're really joy to lead. So i do enjoy them to. I'll have to say like a pretty obsessed with leland and we've went through one of their concerts when they came here to town but oh my husband has listened to them for years when we got married. He put the leland's music in the car. And i was like. Who is this guy and i could just feel the the presence of the lord in the car while we are listening to this yeah their songwriting is so oh they have lot of scripture based songs and you know we know their story their their siblings and they do live for the lord day their songs are from their relationship with god and so appreciate their their ministries. Let's usually would. I go to when i wanna wanna get some encouragement Tell you what song my favorite would be really hard but this hard. It'd be really hard because they don't have any bad songs in grades and i'll look at. It was watching movie. One of my favorite movies. Have you seen amazing. Grace about william wilberforce. He's one of my heroes of the faith for those. That don't know who william wilberforce is. He was the one responsible for any slave trade in. Uk it's it's the uk so he does need to that movie but it does feature john newton in they feature the song Amazing grace in the the soundtrack. And that's the first time that i heard chris tomlin did the remain kind of person. Yeah my chains are gone. i'm just like balling through the whole song. Yep and put that song on my album. Because i was so very moved by it My chains are gone. That's the year. I i left my abuser in a movie. Came out what you had said that. You have a favorite quote from newton. Oh man so many. But i you know. I was digging through my john newton staff and have you ever read his lyrics from approach my soul the mercy seat. No oh my goodness so it is. It is such beautiful lyric I mean some of the phrases are like thou call list burden souls to the in such. Oh lord i. I mean just his use of language is just like what is is. Just amazing. Very poetic and I think one of my favorite lines and that is be vowel. My shield and hiding place that sheltered by side. I mean just gorgeous so anyway. His use of language is so rich and deep. And i need. I need to continue to study more of what he wrote. Because it's it's all it's just so rich in deep in the use of language is really inspiring vision incredible credible songwriter and his life. If people don't Don't know anything about john noon. He was he had slave ships and That's i think that's probably why the he was included in that movie but yeah he knows about being restored and being forgiven for some really horrible things truly in trying to make up for that in whatever way he can. Yeah awesome loved john newton. No on top of you. Being a worship pastor Tell us about your creative art projects. You're involved with.
Word on Wednesday with John Mason
"john newton" Discussed on Word on Wednesday with John Mason
"Prayer for this week. Almighty god grant that we who justly deserved to be punished for our sinful deeds manual mercy and kindness be pardoned and restored through our lord and savior. Jesus christ man. Our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sense as we forgive those who sin against us lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever. I'm in a prayer for peace. God of the nations who's kingdom rules overall. Have mercy on our broken and divided world. Shed abroad your piece in the hearts of all people and banished from them. Spirit that makes for conflict so that all races and people may learn to live as members of one family in obedience to your laws through. Jesus christ man let lettuce pry sovereign lord god direct with your wisdom in power. The leaders of the nation's lord give them such wisdom and understanding that they may restrain wickedness and vice and uphold justice and truth through. Jesus christ lord oh god the creator and preserver of all humankind. We humbly pray for all who are in any kind of trouble sorrow sickness anxiety or need we particularly pray for those who lost loved ones through covid nineteen. We thank you that a vaccine has now been produced and pray that it will be made available both speedily in fairly so that all peoples nations may benefit father. We also continue to pray for people who suffer because of injustice poverty and powerlessness lord enable us to share with others. The material things that they need most of all and your great marcy bring comfort and hope through the good news of the gospel of jesus christ who died and rose to save us and give us meaning and hope forever. We ask all this through. Jesus christ our lord man now may the peace of god which passes all understanding. Keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of god and of his son. Jesus christ our lord and the blessing of god almighty the father son and the holy spirit be with you and a main with you always man people involved in today's podcast dr john mason speaker and roger andrew the dane senior minister of the cathedral church of the advent birmingham alabama. And catherine jacob a member of the cathedral ministry team the introductory and concluding music is from the cathedral under the direction of. Dr frederick tudor and zachary hits john newton's amazing grace some by the chamber choir of sedan verse cathedral sydney under the direction of roscoe prayers dawn from an australian prayer book nineteen seventy eight in the bible ratings from the new revised standard version. Please let us know if you have a question or a comment about this podcast. We'd love to hear from you and remember you can still register for post conference access at. Www dot anglican connection dot com..
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"john newton" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"I'm the city editor of the times. Those three boys in the back chuck borden. Geiger and john newton. They all worked for me on the construction high way. Seen the guys you brought into town really some pretty heavy boys. you know. Towns little edgy. With all its happened. Fire janitor getting burned murder of cobb none of which were caused by any of my investigators along. Are they going to be in town as long as they have to be. We're going to get to the bottom of all this. How many did you bring in eight. I'll bring eighty. If i have to odd you talk and kind of big. This is a big job is fine here..
Strength to Strength
"john newton" Discussed on Strength to Strength
"In that area of research is bearing fruit. People are learning a lot more about about the microbiome they did before. A certain way is Influences our health in ways we didn't know and discovery is underway. Think it's going to be a lot more discoveries made in that area but as far as the germ theory of disease not entirely sure what is being met there except that there are bad bacteria and viruses that causes these. I don't think that's been debunked The vast majority of bacteria and viruses around us not cause. These are important for all kinds of life functions. And we're thankful for them whether it's making yogurt or cheese or digesting your food and so forth but there's some bad actors out there that caused sickness. That's what i know. Is the germ theory of disease. I think that that's not debunked. Thank you okay. Thank you so question here. Come in on the chat. And i think i'll just a re to you and then this will be our last last one here for our top this morning and the question is what is the solution for christians as clo- in response to the unethical vaccinations or say anything on god for example The the ultra-orthodox israel will boycott businesses. That are against their laws For example businesses. That operate in sabah lauren. Time time john. Newton i believe the refusal by t in england due to his connection to slavery So it's back the beginning you know what is solution for christians as in response to the unethical. Vaccinations yeah that's a good question. We live in a world that has a lot of grey areas. And it's always been that way. It's possible this more that way than it was in the past. For example there are people that don't shop at walmart because they believe that walmart causes depression in aberdeen in the world. And perhaps so. I haven't studied it You could argue that. Smartphones are made by perhaps slave labor in other countries. You could boycott smartphones it these kind of things. I think there's general guidelines that we can go by so you in our family were boycotting on vaccines that are gonna feel tissue because we think it can make a difference in the long term. We think vaccine companies eventually will produce vaccine ethically enough people speak up and the in some way that will work against the tragedy of abortion and some of the justifications that are made of abortion for example stanley. Plotkin there in the video. That i showed you. Basically had no concerns with his use of seventy. Six fetuses developed the rebel vaccine because he considers that the good that was done far outweighs evil that he did. Now he's an atheist are inherently going to have in justifies the means kind of kind of worldview.
MyTalk 107.1
"john newton" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Don't All right. We've got some fun celebrity gossip mysteries to solve this afternoon Like this first one. You do know the photos of the eight plus a list mostly movie actor who sometimes directed has horrible decisions making skills when it comes to tattoos. Arranges for those viral photos to be taken. He knows they'll be a hit. Plus, he gets a bunch of money each time from the fast food chain. Ben Affleck and donkeys do it, do it. It's so obvious. It is so obvious. Yes, Okay, fill in that blank so You do know the photos of Ben Affleck are arranged, and he arranges those photos to be taken because he knows they'll be a viral hit. Plus, Ben Affleck apparently is getting a bunch of kickback money from Dunkin Donuts each time he goes outside and gets his own packages. Wow. That is what an arrangement I suppose that kick back. Just marketing money. Yeah, also like he probably also decided to show his butt crack this last time because what's fun about him bending over to get donkeys over and over again? Nothing. We need to show some crack. Well, I'm sure old Navy got a cut. This crack Crack cut crack kills. I'm telling you, I think he got some money from Amazon from Old navy and from donkeys for that. For that picture of him, bending down to pick up all of his Amazon packages will balancing his donkeys on the top of it and showing about an inch of crack and his old Navy waistband. Interesting. Well, okay, really Quickly. Free going. I'm sorry. I'm just totally blown away. I'm having like a weird by Ben Affleck's butt crack by Norma Jean Baker and Norma Jeane Mortenson. Apparently there's this whole conversation about how it's a Mandela effect. And now I just need to go. I just want you to know that at some point I am going to go off and understand what my brain is doing, because a lot of people remember Norma Jean Baker and don't understand where Mortensen came from, So I just want you to know if you feel the same way out there. You're not hope is in hand, not alone, costing him. Let's see. It seems that her mother was born. Gladys Pearl, Baker, Mortensen, Ellie. And then she married a guy named John Newton Baker. And then they had kids together. So there's ah whole reddit thread called. When did Norma Jean Baker become Norma Jeane Mortenson? And apparently, there's this confusion about Um About how this all happened, but I grew up. Knowing her is Norma Jean Baker. Right? Well, you know, here's Mortenson was salt people writing this question, Bradley. I had the very same thought I was going to put Norma Jean Baker and then I'm like, Well, let's consult the Internet and see what the Internet has to say. And then it's free. It's so lovely and then the Internet had that to say so. Nothing is real and everyone smokes right? May I also before we get to the next line item where you make a correction, waiting us very serious about this. We did get an email from Sarah, who said The bus and speed can't go under 50 MPH. So thank you for that correction. You know we do what we can that be hilarious that they're like, Don't go faster, like I'm 15 49. I mean, if it couldn't go over 50, he could have just started. She could have stopped. It was like I stepped in a movie. It would have been very short, faster. No, don't go faster. All right. Next blind item did.
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Thanksgiving Dinners Are The Cheapest They've Been In Decades
"Every year before thanksgiving the american farm bureau sends volunteer shoppers into grocery stores. They note the prices of the ingredients. That go into thanksgiving dinner. Cardiff garcia and patty hirsch from npr. Podcast indicator from planet. Money discovered the cost of thanksgiving is going down. The american farm bureau is a group that represents farmers throughout the country and its annual survey. It found that the average cost of thanksgiving dinner for ten people. This year is forty six dollars and ninety cents on the farm bureau's chief economist. John newton says that figure is low really low down four percent of from what we saw last year and actually is the lowest level that we've seen since two thousand ten and that's what i'd adjusting for inflation. We asked john if he could tell us high. The cost of thanksgiving dinners changed when he does adjust for inflation and specifically. What we wanted to know was if it was possible. That thanksgiving dinner was actually the cheapest it had ever been since the survey was started back in nineteen eighty six way. Let me let me power a spreadsheet. Just a mayor sure for go for it. Yeah i check it out yes it is. It is the lowest that it's been thirty five years. Wait a minute what did you just tell me. The in inflation adjusted dollars. Thanksgiving dinner is going to be the lowest. It's been thirty five years. Are you stunned. You know i am actually. I don't know why didn't look at that particular statistic before you asked me so. John says that you basically have to understand two stories to also understand why thanksgiving dinner is so cheap this year. Because here's the first story what happened this year. The ingredient with the biggest decline in its price is the turkey turkey. Prices came in dollar twenty one per pound that was down seven percent from what we saw last year. Which means you can put a sixteen pound bird on the table. Offer less than twenty dollars this year and this could be partly because the pandemic has forced families not to gather together in the same big groups as they normally would so. There's just less demand for those big turkeys families usually by and it's also because a lot of grocery stores have discounted the price of turkey. Frankly just to get people through the door. According to the department of agriculture more than eighty percent of retailers were running promotions across the country. When we started this survey. So you'll see turkey. Prices that range anywhere from twenty nine cents a pound to two ninety nine a pound depending on what type of grocer your and then. There's the second the longer story to tell. And this is actually an easy one to explain. Because of new technologies and innovations in how to produce food over the last few decades farmers have simply become better at it more efficient which means that they can sell the food for cheaper. You got to recognize that we benefit from a higher quality very affordable food supply. You know we spend a small percentage of our disposable income on food. Food in the united states is very affordable now john and the farm bureau of course represent farmers so he's boosting his piece. They're a little bit but the general story that the agricultural sector in the us has become more and more efficient over time is definitely true.
The Indicator from Planet Money
Farm Bureau Survey: Thanksgiving dinner cost down 4%
"Every year. Right before thanksgiving. The american farm bureau sends out hundreds of volunteers shoppers into grocery stores all throughout the country. All fifty states their mission to find report the prices of the ingredients that go into a traditional thanksgiving dinner and then the most mouth-watering way possible harris farm bureau chief economist john. Newton listing a bunch of those ingredients. I mean it's your classic thanksgiving dinner so you obviously have the turkey so there check in turkey prices. We've got stuffing sweet. Potatoes brown and serve roles. Cranberries for the cranberry sauce. You're shells your pumpkin pie. Mix whipping cream a gallon of milk. But it goes without saying the prices of these ingredients will be different depending on where you are in the country. Yeah absolutely. I mean a turkey that you buy a whole foods in manhattan is probably going to be more expensive than turkey. You buy a hy-vee in iowa partly because the price of everything is higher in manhattan but also for other economic reasons to john says you also have different supply. Chain costs to get that bird into grocery stores in manhattan for example. It's going to be more expensive to do that. And say Put it in a grocery store in in iowa where you're very close to where turkish approved so john and the crew at the farm bureau do is find the average price of each ingredient across the whole country. Then they add those prices to find the total cost of that classic thanksgiving dinner in every year. John and the farm bureau look at the same ingredients so that they can see just how the cost of thanksgiving dinner has changed through the years. And this is the thirty fifth straight thanksgiving. The farm bureau has conducted the survey. But this is twenty twenty year unlike any other. The couvert pandemic has upended so many parts of our lives and that includes the prices of the foods. We love to eat on thanksgiving today on the show. How and why. The price of thanksgiving has changed. Not just this year though but also through the decades