35 Burst results for "Lake"
The Officer Tatum Show
What's Wrong With Gavin Newsom?
"Gavin Newsom is an absolute disaster when it comes to California. I was sitting there thinking, listen, Gavin Newsom is going to challenge Biden. He's going to be the guy most likely, you know, God forbid of Michelle Obama or somebody pops up on the scene, but I don't really foresee that leaving all of her income and all that kind of stuff behind. Is Gavin Newsom still looking towards The White House? It's really seems hard to fathom. Given how disastrous he is, but maybe people don't understand how disastrous this guy has been. I think they don't. And the press just completely plays along with it. And sadly, even our conservative press over the last month or so, I was basically screaming my head off about something happening here in California. We all know he took off to Mexico when we had these snowstorms about what God ignored was that there was this mountain community outside of Los Angeles, big bear Lake arrowhead area San Bernardino mountains, 21 days these people were snowed in under 12 feet of snow. They normally get maybe 6 feet in a winter. So they have some equipment, but not for 12 feet that fall within 7 days. And people were snowed in. Even when they got the main roads, plowed up there, but then within the communities they couldn't get around. I talked to people who were trying to do relief flights out there like helicopter flights of supplies because grocery stores roofs valid so they couldn't get the supplies from there. And the sheriff wouldn't let them land because it was a disaster zone and they weren't government helicopters, but the government wasn't doing anything. Why? Because San Bernardino county voted to study seceding from California and didn't forget it.
AP News Radio
Trump's VP? Some in GOP already jockeying for consideration
"While it's known that former president Donald Trump is running again for the Republican nomination. The question remains of who might be his running mate, a shadow contest is underway with Republicans openly jockeying to position themselves as potential running mates with Donald Trump. Trump spoke during a swing through Iowa on Monday. We're going to have a lot of great choices for vice president. We're going to pick a great one. Three women who have been mentioned as possible contenders include representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, at least stefanik of New York, and news anchor turned failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Carrie Lake, who kissed a portrait of Trump that was placed on stage at the conservative political action conference this month. I don't know about you, but I say we spend every single day from here going forward striving to make America great again. According to people who have spoken to Trump, he's in no rush to make a decision, but allies say he is looking for someone who is unabashedly loyal. Trump has discussed other potential running mates, including Nikki Haley, South Carolina senator Tim Scott, Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn, and Iowa governor Kim Reynolds. I am Jennifer King
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: Changing the Name of Lake Lanier Is Ridiculous
"I thought I'd love your show. I listen all the time. Never call in, but I couldn't help myself today. Listen, thank you. My husband grew up on Lake Lanier. I learned how to fish. Learn how to swim all that. We live in Cleveland, Georgia now, but I would love to know who was going to be so relieved if they changed the name. I just think it's ridiculous. Not to mention what it's going to do to all the businesses who have the name Lanier in their business name because their businesses are in and around the area. I just think it's crazy. And like I said, there must be people that have nothing else to do, but sit there and decide, well, what are we going to change today? You need to lead Lake Lanier alone. Susan, you know what's happening? These woke activists are literally every time there's a name they're Googling it to see if there's any connection to the confederacy, so they can be triggered. Yep. That's what it is. Unbelievable. There are trigger happy. I
The Officer Tatum Show
Why Competition Is Necessary?
"All right, ladies and gentlemen, I was just looking at the, I don't want to finish what I was saying about Carrie Lake in the Republican Party. We need competition. You don't just get the float into the presidency. You know, it's just like playing football. It's like, just because you were a junior, just say, hypothetically, let's say you're in a football team, just like I was. I mean, this is how my football career went. Just because you were an elite athlete and you are an all American football player. Don't mean that they're just going to guarantee you a spot. You may be by far the best athlete. They're not going to gain treat the spot. There needs to be competition. People need to get out there and compete. You don't just get handed the presidency just because you got to compete, man. You got to have a better argument. You got to give the people an opportunity to make a real decision. This is not a communism? You know, just pick a leader because they, no, man, I want to see some competition. I want to see. I mean, to be honest, I want to see Ron DeSantis. Campaign against Donald Trump and Donald Trump against Ron DeSantis. I want to see if we're on the Santa's fold like a lawn chair. Or can he stand up? Because therefore, let me tell you this. If Ron DeSantis can't stand up to Donald Trump in this election, I don't want to run the santas in 2028 or whatever whenever that'll be. He don't need to run for office. He needs to stay a governor.
The Officer Tatum Show
Ron DeSantis' Book BEATS Obama, Pence and Trump
"Ron DeSantis books sold more copies in its first week than books by Donald Trump, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Desantis first memoir sold over 94,000 copies in the first week, a number that includes pre orders. So either he is a marketing guru, or Ron DeSantis is an incredibly popular and people are increasingly interested in hearing his story. What does that mean? That means that Ron DeSantis is incredibly popular. And when I say incredibly popular, he may be just more popular overall than in the conservative movement. If you go and look at the polls, Donald Trump is ahead in the polls and Carrie Lake was ahead as the vice president with Donald Trump. But Republicans aren't the only people that vote in elections. I just want to make sure that's clear. All of y'all know that for a fact. I'm talking about somebody else that just tune in and they listen to somebody else's program more often than mine. Republicans enthusiasm for a presidential candidate is not the tale all in these elections. And I'm going to say this again and I say it all the time, but I want to drive it home 'cause there's some people that are listening they never listen to me before. There is a possibility that there's a difference between someone who's popular and someone And I'm not saying that Trump is an electable but here my argument. There is a possibility and I've seen it play out in the state of Arizona that some people are incredibly popular, yet incredibly polarizing. And some people hate them more than they love freedom. And so they may be willing to not vote for them or not vote at all or vote against them instead of acquiescing.
AP News Radio
Atmospheric rivers flood California with more rain, snow
"Thousands of people are under evacuation orders in Northern California, with flooding from the latest atmospheric river. Santa Cruz county is one of the areas hard hit by this latest burst of storms called the pineapple express. In SoCal, Nick muleta tells KG OTV, a flooded creek destroyed a portion of Main Street. I've never seen the creek go actually through the road, so it's just nuts to see, you know. It's really crazy. Dozens of homes are under threat and Watsonville and Lake oroville spillways are being open to head off flooding from the reservoir. In the Bay Area, a business roof collapsed, killing a worker at a Pete's coffee distribution center. Roads are reported washed out in central California and several public parks, including Sequoia and kings canyon, are closed to visitors due to the heavy rain. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Why Do Cartels Kidnap Americans?
"I talked a couple of days ago about this very disturbing incident involving the cartels, Mexico, and the murder in Matamoros or in the modern Morris area of a couple of Americans and wounding of a third. So these are four African Americans who went down to Mexico in an American vehicle with American license plates, apparently one of them was getting some surgery, a tummy tucked something like that. And there was somehow cornered and kidnapped and chased. And then two of them killed by the cartels. And this raises all kinds of questions. It raises the questions about the border. It raises questions about the cartels. It raises questions about the security of Americans going to Mexico, which a lot of Americans do. Sometimes for casual purposes, if they live near the border, they go over to eat, and they come back, or they go on vacation or they go to get dental work done and all kinds of things. We know a guy who goes to get his dental worked out in Mexico because it's a lot cheaper. And Debbie's all over this topic and knows a lot about it. And the thing that you were telling me really struck me is that although we should talk about the latest incident, there's a kind of context. There's a background to it, and you've been tracking this stuff for at least a decade. For a long time. So back in 2010, it was actually September of 2010, a man by the name of David Hartley was skiing was jet skiing with his wife, and they were, they were jet skiing on this Lake that basically separates the United States from a merit from Mexico. And it's called falcon Lake, and they were just having a good time. I think they were taking photographs of this old church that's kind of sunk in a little bit on the side of the Mexican side. And all of a sudden, these two boats come after them, like speeding boats come after them, and when they saw that this was happening, they took off, right? And asked the chase began, they shot him in the head twice.
The Officer Tatum Show
Mexico Authorities Arrest Suspects in Murders of US Nationals
"All right, so let me get to this topic here at Mexico authorities arrest the suspect in the kidnapping and murder of U.S. nationals. And, you know, just kind of listening to the story as it unfolded. It seemed like this was an accidental or not accidental, but a misdiagnosis. Or a misidentification. I'm a read this article real quick, it's Mexico authorities arrest the suspect Tuesday alleging alleged ties to the kidnapping of four Americans last weekend leaving two dead after crossing the U.S. Mexico border. Jose Guadalupe with an inn, I don't know what that means. A Mexican national in his early 20s was guarding a small wooden house outside the city where cartel members held the Americans when authorities detained him. Authorities have not confirmed if Guadalupe is involved in the cartel suspect or suspected of kidnapping the U.S. nationals. shahid, I think a shaed, woodard, and Zendaya Brown. According to official Mexican Mexico's state officials, they discovered the victims kidnapped by a gunman and they were taking and I think they were killed instantly, at least at the initial stop. So it's interesting to see this happen. It's interesting to see how we respond to this, you know, this is everyday life in Mexico in my personal opinion and some of these states where they just killing and dealing. And they have no mercy on people they'll kill you they'll kidnap you they'll do all kinds of stuff to you. You know, I was seeing articles in years ago where they had a whole bus load of kids all killed and buried in a shallow grave. I mean, a bus, a bus full of kids. School kids at a school. They killed all of them, beheaded them and put them in a grave. On the side of the road,
The Officer Tatum Show
Doocy Presses Jean-Pierre On Fighting Drug Cartels
"All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want to just point out lying gene pia, she lied, I heard rear end when it comes to fentanyl. And I have a clip of her line, 'cause I don't want you just to believe me. Let's roll a clip of gene Pierre. I think it's clip one. So cartels kill Americans on this side of the border with drugs. And now they're killing Americans on the other side of the border with guns. Why is President Biden so comfortable with cartels operating so close to the U.S.? Well, let's be very clear. Let me take on the drug part here because since you brought this up because of the work that this president has done because of what we've done specifically on fentanyl at the border, it's at historic lows. Historic levels that we have been able to record a number of personnel working to secure the border because of what we've been able to do. Seizing that fentanyl. We've done it in a historic way. That's because of what this president has done. I just talked about 23,000 federal agents that have been able to be that we've been able to hire and put at the border to secure the border. On top of that, historic sanctions going after traffickers and other financiers are helping disrupt fentanyl supply chains throughout their flow to the U.S. and we're really expanded access to treatments like that are saving lives. If you think about it, which prevent overdoses, expanding as our fentanyl test strips. And through the removal of the X waiver, anyone registered to prescribe control medications can now prescribe lifesaving medication to treat addiction. So again, we are seizing fentanyl at record historic levels because of what because of what the president has done to secure our border. Okay, I could not wait for her to stop lying.
The Officer Tatum Show
Charles Barkley Slams Kendrick Perkins for 'Racists' Comments
"Let me read this head and I'm real quick. It says Hall of Fame basketball player Charles Barkley ripped into Kendrick Perkins, suggesting that race plays a role in the NBA MVP, voting when it comes to the Denver Nuggets, the center, Nikola jokic. Jokic, jokic. You know I'm from America, jokic. And the funny thing is the criticism that racist Kendrick Perkins had made mention of was he was criticizing yo kitsch. He was criticizing Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash. And the funny thing is is that none of them are white Americans. them. And it's funny because white Americans sit on the board of the voting for MVP and I don't have they ever voted for a white American to be of MVP of a basketball of the NBA. I mean, I'll say from starting from 1990 because he went since 1990 to the present day, there has never been a white American that have been, I voted MVP in the NBA. None. racist Kendrick Perkins is a complete maniac and idiot in my personal opinion. And it makes black people folks look bad. I mean, we look dumb. Sitting on TV, making all that money, and we trying to claim that white people are racist, yet the white people we claim are racist, vote for black people more than white people. And they vote for white people who are not American more than white Americans. So if anything, they're excluding white Americans from the MVP voting. But I'm going to play with Charles Barkley said and if anybody out there that's listening, if you can get me in contact with Charles Barkley, I would love to sit down and smoke a cigar and interview charged Barclay because I just really appreciate his perspective even though I don't agree with everything. I appreciate people that keep it real. And Charles Barkley, I know he live here in Arizona. I saw him at the airport one year, but I wasn't able to follow up with him. However, if you know him, I want to interview him and talk to him about this whole thing. But I'm going to play the clip from Charles Barkley. I don't remember which number it is, but let's roll clip two. I think I got it. Clip two. If only 5 white guys have won MVP in the last 30 years, that makes zero sense if argument. Zero sense. Because if that was the case, we'd have a lot more white MVPs. Those and it's a little short clip of what Charles Barkley said. I know he probably said a lot. I mean, in the article that I have here, and I'm not going to say these words on a radio, but he said, he's pretty sure that the other gentleman jokic, is that how you say his name? That jokic don't give a, you know what about these idiots on television?
The Officer Tatum Show
Arizona Bill Banning Critical Race Theory in Schools Goes to Hobbs
"Arizona Bill has passed to ban not passed. It is past Senate and now has gone up to Katie Hobbs that you know what going up to her desk for her to pass. Now, since the Arizona Bill ban critical race theory in schools narrowly passing in the Senate, now it goes on to Katie Hobbs, this Katie Hobbs is the governor of the state of Arizona, the state that I live in and I'm very disappointed that she's an absolute nut. And she's not even qualified. She's like an immature woman baby. That's walking and woke. And we're going to see what she did with this bill. She considered the bill that it would be as sponsored, say, preventing schools from teaching critical race theory, Senate Republicans voted 16 to 14 to pass SB 1305 to prevent critical racial bias education plans. They sent it to Katie Hobbs desk. We'll see if Katie Hobbs actually do her job like she's supposed to because the people elected the Senate, the Senate came up with the bill so the government should pass the bill. If she got any sense whatsoever, and in my personal opinion, I think it's invaluable for us to consider never teaching critical race theory. You can teach history. You can teach black history. You can teach American history which black history is American history. But to teach kids, this theory that no matter what you do in life, no matter where you come from, no matter how many aspirations you have, you will never be able to maximize because the white man would never let the black man get a hand up.
The Officer Tatum Show
May the Best Man Win
"I don't care what you could be in a wheelchair with no legs, and you can't even talk. If you can produce, then I want you to be in that position. Even if, you know, I don't believe in the homosexual lifestyle or anything like that. But may the best man win. In my personal opinion, I made the best woman win. I prefer people who are Christians. I prefer people who do the right thing. But at the end of the day, if you ain't a Christian and you can still get the job done, then I prefer the job getting done versus a religious person or a Christian person who ain't doing Jack. IE Mitt Romney, the Cyrus Mormon Christian on Planet Earth with no backbone, completely feckless. I prefer not to have him in office, even if a person was secular. They probably can do better than what Mitt Romney and some of these airheads who are in the Republican Party are representing. So let me just end it with this because I got to get to the break. I think Donald Trump is going in the right direction, but I would like to see Larry elder as his vice president over Carrie Lake Kerry Lake, I love you. I wish that you were the governor of the state of Arizona and I would vote for you again when you run.
The Officer Tatum Show
A Donald Trump, Kari Lake Ticket?
"Donald Trump considers Carrie Lake running as his VP. I think that's the best. And let me just say this, right? There's two sides to this conversation that's two sides to my idea of this conversation. The one side is that who would I want? I want the baddest, the most conservative, boldest individuals running as president and vice president. Not only other side of it is that, you know, will it be too much of a polarizing ticket for these other people that just haven't caught up to speed with what's really going on in the world. So I think it's a tremendous opportunity for the red the red meat for the base because Carrie Lake is just as bold just as courageous as Donald Trump and I think that if you talk about somebody that take no prisoners, somebody that getting your face that'll take down a deep state, then Donald Trump on the male side is the dominant one and Carrie Lake on the female side is the dominant one. I really think that Carrie Lake could run for president and have a competitive chance over some of the other women that are in the race.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: Tulsi Gabbard Over Kari Lake for Trump's VP
"I feel a lot of people don't really know Carrie Lake. So I think tell us to Gabbard would be a nice tech. Surprise the hell out of it. What would surprise everybody? I mean, it would be unconventional. Don't expect any conservatism from Tulsi gabbert. And let's be realistic. We have to be as realistic about Trump as we are grandpa Joe. Grandpa Joe's, you know, 80 years old, knocking on 80. Trump is not going to be that terribly far away from 80 years old. So you got to look at a vice presidential running mate as a potential president someday, heaven forbid. Tulsi Gabbard is a liberal. Tulsi Gabbard is not a conservative. Go look up Tulsi and I like the lady and I like seeing her on TV. She does a good job on Fox every time Tucker asks her to be on. Check out her record on the Second Amendment, check she's pro pro abortion. I mean, you go down the list. This is not a conservative Republican by any stretch of the imagination. So I would be on. That would make me uncomfortable.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: Donald Trump Doesn't Have a Chance
"Hey, Mike. Yeah, listen, here's my concern about the ticket you mentioned. By the way, I love that woman from Arizona. She should have won that election. Jerry Lake, she's great. I am so worried about what the media is going to do to Trump. I just, I feel no matter what he does, he can't win. But you say that about desantis too, right? You know what the media know what you know what the media is going to do to desantis, right? I think it'll be different. No, it won't be. Does not have a history of, you know, all this stuff they accuse Trump of. They've sabotaged him to death. I just don't think he has a chance. He could run with George Washington anymore. Yeah, you know, you know what maybe being in Atlanta, maybe you're not, you don't have the benefit of hearing Florida media, what they're doing to desantis they're calling him a fascist. I know, but he knows how to handle the media. He's not going to get it. You don't think Trump knows how to handle the media? I think sometimes he gets out of control with his comments. He gets into arguments with people at a very massive personal question because you sell. Policies were phenomenal. You voted for him. You voted for him in 2020? I'm sorry. You voted for him in 2020? Absolutely. Okay. I got you. All right, well, listen, hey, you're entitled to your opinion. I mean, when I hear somebody say, well, the media is going to be different with Ron DeSantis. It'll be better. If they won't be quite so mean to him. Oh my gosh, look around already what they're saying about it.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller Apologizes to Mike Gallagher for Bad Take on Nikki Haley
"Hi. Hi. It'll never work because it's simply redundant. People who won't vote for Trump will never vote for Lake for all the same reasons. Who'd you like to see? Who do you think would be a good balance on the ticket for Trump? Not sure, but I think it should be somebody in senator Congress. Senate, not a governor. What about Sarah Huckabee? I mean, he keeps tough. Sarah Huckabee, you know, the conventional wisdom and far be it, we shouldn't apply conventional wisdom to Trump on anything, but the conventional wisdom is he would do well to have a female running mate to help with white suburban women. What about Sarah Huckabee Sanders? What about Nikki Haley? Not Nikki Haley. In fact, I owe you an apology from over a year ago. He left the Trump administration. I'm ready to take it. I'm always open for a good apology. So take your time. Go ahead, dude. I wrote you a critical email when you were so suspicious of Nikki Haley when she was leading the Trump administration and she turned out to be everything you heard she was. I accept your apology with grace and with goodwill. In fact,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Kari Lake Among Four Women Trump's Considering for VP Pick
"I really hate my cynicism. I hate how cynical I can be. And I do. I'm a cynical soul. When somebody hears the news that Trump is considering Carrie Lake to be his vice presidential running mate, it's like I'm watching carefully how certain people react. According to axios, president Trump is strongly considering the former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kerry Lake to be his running mate. She is among a short list of women being considered by the former president. As he looks for a way to gain support from white suburban women. She, of course, is the former TV news anchor from Phoenix, who ran for governor against Democrat Katie Hobbs. Here's where my cynicism comes in. You can measure where people are by their reaction to this news. Now, I could be wrong. I've got people on my team who say, oh, I don't know, Carrie Lake. She's so heavy handed. You know, she's dramatic. Oh, I don't know about Carrie Lake. And then I've got people in America who say, that's an unbeatable ticket. You have two brawlers like Donald Trump and Carrie Lake on the same ticket. No one will stop them. And so I don't know if it's fair. For example, the person on my team who seems reluctant about Carrie Lake, she's not wimpy or not with Donald Trump. She's not. She's not like. So that's not fair. So maybe it's just my cynicism overtaking me and I'm having a hard time being objective about certain things. And
The Charlie Kirk Show
Tracy Beanz Unpacks Kari Lake's Arizona Court Case
"Tracy, we just had Carrie Lake on the program. You did a great job of researching the Kerry Lake legal challenge in the Arizona Supreme Court case, just kind of walk our audience through that as we begin. Sure. It's something and Carrie was right what she said that, you know, this could affect all of Arizona elections moving forward because what so we had the trial, right? We went to trial for the first time ever. We saw that trial. Everybody watched it. It was sort of ridiculous, the ruling that came down. So then they appealed that decision to the higher court and then that court also reaffirmed what they had said in the lower court and added their own flair to it. But the problem is that the flare that they added to it makes it so that Arizona election procedure and law in some cases is just completely moot. Ruling against basic things, for example, Carrie Lake was challenging the procedure they used to verify signatures in the election. And the lower court said, oh, you've brought this challenge too late. It's something called latches. You know, when you say that you brought it too late, you brought it too early. This is the standing kind of juggle we do in every single election case. Well, if she were challenging the procedures validity and how they implemented it, then yeah, it would have been too late, but that's not what she was challenging. She was challenging whether or not they followed the procedure. And they didn't. They didn't follow the procedure. So that was kind of tossed aside. You know, another thing, the chain of custody issues, Charlie, were absolutely off the chain. If there is not chain of custody requirements, why bother with anything at all at that point?
Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"lake" Discussed on Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"News this week. Did you know that yellowstone national park is sitting on top of our gargantuan lake of molten lava like a huge one. Yellowstone is basically a giant volcano. And it's not really a question of if it erupts but win erupts and when it does it's been suggested that it would blow quote with enough forced to send hundreds of cubic miles of material fourteen miles into the sky. That would make things. Pretty rough matt could happen. So that's exciting too. Scary world is changing fast. So i wanna talk to you today about staying stable in a world that is quaking in immediate context. Here in second peter. Peter is warning us about losing our stability by being carried away by false teaching false teachers the temptation to sin. But i want to expand on that. Just think about what. The bible has to say about stability in general. Here's three ways to stay stable in a quaking world. It's fundamentally cling to god. Here's how you do that. I as you grow strong staying stable and unstable world takes a great deal of strength. You know that it's so much easier to just go with the then to stand against the tide and even that presumes going on that things are changing rapidly. It's kind of funny but even as a church even here lewis lake. We're finding that staying committed to the same principles. The same believes the same doctrines that we were founded on. One hundred twenty years ago is actually really difficult and rather unpopular. There's major forces in the world trying to get us to change to update to be hip with the times. There's forces within the world of christianity trying to get us to change and we're just trying to say. Hey look we're just trying to be who we've always been we don't wanna move and that's actually the minority position in our world today. The flow of culture and of christianity is moving incredibly fast. Trying really hard to take us with it and it takes an increasing amount of strength just to not move. That's the world we live in and the same things. Of course that are happening on a church wide scale happened on an individual level. This happens in your life. You're under pressure to accept this new thing or that they're not necessarily biblical ideas but really in this enlightened age who believes that dusty old book anymore anyway so we have to grow strong. If we're not going to be swept away and just to remind you the way the world works. The river never stops flowing. Things are always changing the people who are begging us to adopt this thing or that thing today are going to be condemning. Nothing tomorrow and begging us to embrace something else..
Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"lake" Discussed on Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"Perhaps any of us ever have and when they crossed god's boundaries he didn't spare a single one of them but cast them into the gloomy darkness four millennia ago and said stay there. I'll deal with you and they're they sit to this day. There's another side to the story. Because even while god was destroying the ancient world. His own handiwork. While god was throwing angels into darkness while god was burying all of humanity beneath a great flood there was one godly man and his family and that man was noah and god rescued him. Peter says that noah was a herald of righteousness no hated the sin in the wickedness of his world. Noah played with people turned from your sin stopped crossing god's boundaries. He played with people to live as god would have them to live. And when the judgment came and neither man nor angel was spared. God rescued noah. See god knows how to judge the wicked but he knows how to rescue the righteous that story number one relating to the flood. Peter's other story starts in verse six. When he says if by turning the cities of sodom and gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly when you think of sodom and gomorrah and you know the story from your sunday school days or reading through genesis because even if you get stuck in leviticus you always make through genesis. So you know this story when you think of sodom and gomorrah maybe you think of a desert wasteland but i want you to notice how the bible describes sodom and gomorrah the jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the lord before the lord destroyed sodom and more they were like a new version of the garden of eden the garden of the lord they were they were like heaven on earth sodom and gomorrah. We're like a tropical paradise. Maybe to us minnesotans there were like the cabin only a thousand times greater and i think if you understand that maybe understand and be sympathetic right word but maybe you'll understand why lot's wife looked back. These were. This is a beautiful place luxurious wealthy prosperous but the men of sodom amora maura were un godly men. Kind of like the angels who pursued a love of women human women which is against the nature of angels. The men of sodom pursued what god calls through paul unnatural desires. The angels left their abode to be sexually joined to women. The men of sodom left women to be sexually joined to each other..
Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"lake" Discussed on Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"Christ will live in our ms and he'll be our god will be his people. Those promises are real and they are going to happen. But how do we know. How do we know they're going to happen. Can we be sure. And one answer is what pastor. Bob talked about last week. Peter himself saw a glimpse of that day he saw the lord. Jesus in glory in majesty on the mount of transfiguration and he reported that to us. He told us verse sixteen. We were eye witnesses of his majesty. But there's another reason that you can trust the promises of god's grace. His forgiveness is future. And that's what. I want to talk with you about this morning. Peter says we saw christ majesty. We heard the voice of god thundering out of heaven and then he said in verse one thousand nine hundred and we have the prophetic word. More fully confirmed to which you do well to pay attention to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your heart now very quickly. We're just covering ground from last week to prophetic word. Here is the promises of god that were delivered through the old testament. Prophets the lamp shining in a dark place is the light of god's word shining dark and dingy world we just saying right. Thigh word is a lamp to my feet and as a light uncovers truth hidden by the dark. God's word shows us safe path through this world to the house of gone the phrase the day dawns.
Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"lake" Discussed on Lewis Lake Covenant Church
"He came like a teeny weeny little baby and even when he grew up he did not come with power necessarily he did in his ways but he came very invitationals and still today comes to us. Invitation iw as it were now. Jesus is tender. he is in biting. He says to people. Hey this is me. This is who i am. This is what i've done for you. My love for you is extended. Would you like to receive that. You're invited to come. And he doesn't demand he did with me but i'm a different story. He doesn't demand and he doesn't require he invites and he says if you would like to if you want to if you're willing if you can find it within your heart come to me and if somebody says to him for forget you i'm not coming to. Jesus will let you walk away. When the second coming takes place it will not be like this. This coming will not be tender and it will not be invitation oil. it will not be kindhearted. Necessarily it will be with power and he will say every one bow the knee and obey me and it will be required. Now people might say to peter peter. How do you know what's going to happen. How do you know that this is gonna take place like this. How do you know that. Jesus is gonna come back again number one and number two. How do you know he's gonna come with power and peter will respond to us and he will say i. I've seen it with my own eyes and we might say well. What do you mean you. You've seen the second coming of jesus christ with your own eyes. How can you say that people will take us back notice..
Lewis Lake Covenant Church
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"I've just got a few examples of a mansion. Entrances is now look fancy you walk in. You can go up the right side. You can go up to the left side. It's all very ornate very beautiful. What's the next one there. This one has one stairway that goes off into two. And so you can get a picture of what your retirement home might look like from these zero another one. Is that it. it's it all right. It was kind of fun because we went after the lynching mansion we we all gathered up by the boat house on lake superior there's a little concrete pure. If you've been there you can go out on that. And it has a little l-shaped turn at the end and we gather all our young people together at the end of that. And i did a little devotional time sharing with them on john. Fourteen versus one and three one to three. You remember what that's about in. My father's house are many rooms. And that's what the glenshane mansion in behind me right and in the glenn she mansion. If you've gone through that there are all these rooms and bedroom for this guy bedroom for this lady. They all had their own customized bedroom. And i it was kind of fun to share about in. My father's house are many rooms. And if if i told you i'm gonna come and get you you know i'm preparing a place for you and so we think about that. We think about this. What as you welcome. The electing working. Of god's grace in your life as you receive that as a free gift and you say thank you lord for saving me through the blood of jesus freely wonderfully. You've given me the gift of faith. And i'm able to believe in you and connect with you now through. Jesus christ thank you so much for that and father. I know you've saved me to get away from sin and to enter into righteousness and so help me to add to. My faith helped me to grow in these virtues. Helped me to stay focused on you. As i make this the project of my life to become more for you and your behalf in this world and as i grow into these things and as you grow into these things. What is the final outcome. Look at verse. Eleven for in this way. Everything i just said..
Curtis Lake
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"Go ahead and take a seat. We are going to get right into it this morning if you have your bibles you can turn a luke chapter thirteen. If this is your first time at curtis lake first time in a long time we have been in the series where we're going through luke's description of the life ministry of jesus christ and so over the last now few months we've been making our way we're up to chapter thirteen. We still have several weeks to go. I hope you've enjoyed the journey. Those of you that have been.
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"It's pervasive in a couple of weeks. I'm going to have surgery on my face. I have been diagnosed with a skin cancer. And it's the quote unquote mind right. The good kind of skin cancer. The doctors described to me that this is the kind of skin cancer that doesn't have a tendency to spread it is in essence encapsulated within kind of the little seller. Tumor that it exists. And so what they'll do remedy is they will cut my face open and just dig it out and that's the end of it hopefully right for most for the most part. That's how you deal with this thing and that's fine. Maybe you get another one somewhere else but like in and of itself. Just its own little thing. That's very different from eight years ago. I was diagnosed with foam by and back then. What the doctors discovered was like a fist sized tumor in my chest and even in the diagnosis of that lymphoma. Some testing had to be done to find out. Just how bad is this right. And so as i'm in the hospital and their first biopsy they cut open my chest. They biopsy the tumor to find out. Exactly what it is. What kind of cancer are we dealing with. But then they did the most awful thing to me after after they had figured out what it was then they came in and did another procedure on me where they turn me over on my bed the pull my pants partway down and they ground into my buttocks with some kind of tool in order to extract bone marrow a bone marrow biopsy literally the most painful thing i've ever undergone in my life. You know why they did that. They did it because they wanted to know. Are we talking about lymphoma that exact essentially exists currently as this tumor or is it worse right. Is it in the mayor. Is it has. It has gotten into the lymph. Nodes right what they're trying to discern and hypocrisy. It's not like the skin cancer. It's not like the isolated tumor that they can go ahead and deal with her cut out. Or how however they're going to kind of deal it's pervasive it's pervasive like some cancers that people have experienced where the really bad news is. Hey this is kind of taken over your entire body. And that's what jesus says. Hypocrisy is like it's like yeast. And here's the problem with policy is that it's not it's not easily detectable it's not easily detectable when it comes to park in our lives like the policy that you and i are guilty of. It's really really hard for us to see our own hypocrisy. It's not like you look in the mirror most days and you can just see your life folk because again like we think hypocrisy has just being this outright like i don't do this and then i go and do that right. That's what we think of when it comes to hypocrisy hypocrisy is it's so much deeper and really broader than ira because it's far more has to do with what we have justified in our lives. That is wrong but that we are now unable to identify ourselves. And that's why. Jesus says the disciples pay attention to your selves. Like pay attention to yourself what we do is we pay attention to other people right. We pay a lot of attention to what other people are doing. Or how they're behaving or how they're talking or how they sound right or what they posted on facebook. What they said to me how they acted toward me. We have so much attention directed on what other people are doing. Our other people are acting. But jesus says pay attention to yourself. There's a little bit of m y o b in this matter of hypocrisy. See this levin the errors of the pharisees. He says pay attention that you don't fall into exactly the same trap that they themselves have fallen into crecy. It's not easily detectable. So sometimes we need a little bit of help right sometimes. We need that. Hey tak- good look in the mirror. Right that's what this kid is. Essentially saying to his dad and the commercially watched a few moments ago like dad. I get your incense that i have started doing this. And i'm not supposed to be doing this and i get why you're angry by hey favor for a second. Take a good look in the mirror. Because you're doing exactly the same thing. Hypocrisy is not easily detectable hypocrisy also and this is part of the challenge of is that it feeds on praise right. We started as we were looking at hypocrisy at talking about the idea that hypocrisy seeks to please others right to gain their favor or to keep the favor of a particular group and poxy find its food on this thing called praise on the approval of other people as we looked at the beginning of the story. Luke describes the scene for us. He said the crowds grew. He essentially gave us the idea that the crowd had come to be innumerable. He uses the word used for ten thousand people or just used. Generically of an innumerable number of people had begun to gather around. Jesus right that there was to some degree. A rapidly growing popularity. Four this figure. Jesus and his disciples so much so that now they were stepping over each other trampling on one another and jesus as he is there with his disciples. Viewing the expansive crowd understands that he has to warn he has to caution disciples against the temptation that there are naturally going to feel as they view the crowds that have come to see them and to hear from them. It would be tempting for jesus and his disciples to grow to like the crowd right into not only having received a favor of the crowd but then wanting to maintain the favor of that crowd that was what the jewish leaders had been guilty of so many times in their lives is this desire to have attributed to them the praises of other people the applause of men and women and jesus says beware or watch yourselves. Pay attention to yourself that you don't grow to love the crowd you see we. We find ourselves especially i feel like in these days in which we live having the temptation to align ourselves with the right crowd right the people that are in power the people that seem to hold the cards at any given time and we want to be aligned with the right people and sometimes we we actually kinda give up on. What we know is right for ourselves because we know that we have to align ourselves with what other people think and not only that but we have to show content right to the right degree for the people that the people in power don't like and we find ourselves instead of actually living out this thing called love instead of actually living out the kind of graciousness that jesus would have in our lives. We jump in with a group of people in a desire to earn and keep their favor..
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"That which is that. Who is jesus. You see a lot of times we do just that we let our lives be informed by things other than jesus we let are lies being formed by culture as if culture has the answers in the wisdom that we need for actually living through this life and we listened to culture all the time we start behaving according to the pattern of culture. We listen to popular opinion or majority opinion. Hey if more people think that this is right then it must be right. Sometimes there are more people than there are smart people so majority opinion doesn't always work. We listen to people that we trust you. Listen to a person that you trust who stands in opposition to who jesus is run away. What are you listening to. That isn't jesus. We listened to our own feelings. This is how i feel. This is how i make sense of what i see of what i'm experiencing and so we are feelings actually determine what is truth for us on a caution. You don't listen to anything. That isn't jesus peter said for. We weren't making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our lord. Jesus christ we saw his majestic splendor with our own eyes. The promise of jesus's return is still a promise. I get it. It's been two thousand years since what was promised in the old testament and then refreshed in jesus's life and ministry. It feels like it's been forever and we could certainly be prone to just think well if it hasn't happened yet it must never be happening. But jesus is promise was that he would return and that return is still a promise and so again i ask you not. Just what are you listening to. That isn't jesus. But what are you looking for. That isn't jesus. why are you looking for. That is other than jesus who again let us peek into.
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"Really just how small and fragile they were compared with him again before he was big brother before he was yeah. Let's follow this guy. He's got some things going on here but it's like he was just some superhuman one word to be followed absolutely but one who deserved the abandonment of everything else. That's where they needed to be brought to you. That's where you and i need to be brought to as well. The jesus isn't one to be followed. Here's one for whom we absolutely and utterly abandoned everything else. That's what it means to follow him. Peter later on. After jesus died rose. Again and peter's he is fulfilling the great commission jesus had given to him into the rest of the apostles. Peter later wrote a couple of letters and in second peter chapter one versus sixteen through nineteen. This is what he says as he reflects back on the experience on the mountain. This is why he says he says for we were not making op clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our lord. Jesus christ peter is here trying to help his readers stand that there are certain promises that have been made regarding the return of jesus and the church as time waned on experience this tendency to forget or to disregard the promise that jesus was going to come again because they thought well if he were going to come again he would have done it.
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"And then the next day he handed the innkeeper to silver coins. Telling him take care of this man if his bill runs higher than this. I'll pay you the next time. I'm here right. So that's jesus is example. And then he asks the lawyer this question now. Which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by bandits and the man replied the one who showed him mercy the one who showed him mercy and then jesus said yes. Now go and do the same. What can we learn from that. Besides the fact that if you're in any kind of trouble whatsoever the last person you want to see somebody that works for the church. Other than a priest or pastor or somebody that works for the church right. Who's obviously no good. No help to you. What can we learn from this story. I think one of the really important things we need to understand that love. Your neighbor is not just a nice concept. And i'm afraid to report that. So oftentimes this idea of loving our neighbor as ourselves has been reduced to something that is just a fanciful concept in our mind that we've actually replaced the outward expression of love that requires for feet to move at for hands to operate for sacrifices to occur. We've replaced that with the sentiment of love your neighbor as yourself and we're satisfied with that. We talked a number of weeks ago about the idea that for a lot of us love has been defined as merely the absence of hate. And you and i are sometimes prone to think in our minds and our spirit. Is that the extent to which i have no hatred for anybody else in this world reveals. How well. I'm doing at loving other people in this world in other words if i don't hate another person if i don't hate a segment of people if there's not a group that could be named to which i would ascribe hatred toward well as long as i don't have any of that hate than i am.
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"I love the declaration of that song. I think that's a great way for us to go into the word of god this morning declaring this living hope. I'm really glad that were in the business of providing. Hope you know there's a lot of things out there in the world that would presume to promise hope to people right but we have many of us discovered why is the true source of our hope and that is the hope that we have in jesus amen. How's everybody doing good good to see you all out here. Thank you to those of you. Who are joining us online as well so glad to have you all part of this experience today if you have your bibles you can turn to luke chapter nine. We're going to read chapter nine versus twenty eight to thirty six together this morning. If you're new to curtis lake or if this is the first time you've been with us for a long time. We have been journeying through the gospel of luke and trying to understand better. His presentation of jesus's life. Many of you are aware that there are multiple gospel accounts of jesus's life. There's matthew mark luke and john and we are specifically looking at luke has to say as he tried his best to describe the historical events surrounding jesus life today. We're going to look at one. Such event that i think that many of us who have read through the bible a number of times probably have a tendency to just kind of gloss over. I don't know why it seems that. I feel like a lot of times especially in this series that for those passages of scripture that we have a tendency to gloss over the down. I wanna park here for a little bit to try to understand. Maybe the deeper meaning of what's supposed to be being communicated to us many of you know that was a long time ago. We of organized the weeks leading up to into the series and there are a couple of messages that i was especially a little squeamish about one was early on when we talked about angels as i confessed to the church at that time it never preached the message on angels before angels aren't particularly all that interesting to me and so it's like our is supposed to say about angels but you can't really get around the birth narrative of christ in the early parts of luke without just seeing all this activity surrounding angels. So we we made the decision to kind of camp there for a little bit. This is another one of those stories. This is the story that if you have a bible that differentiates between sections of scripture. The kind of gives you some headings or to help you understand what's going on there. This is the story involving the transfiguration of jesus jesus's transfiguration as we read this. We're gonna discover that there's this kind of event in jesus's life. It's a little peculiar a little odd yet. It's recorded in matthew. In mark and luke all three of the synoptic gospel writers bring this into the story and their and their elaboration of the life of jesus to us. And so chances are if you see it three times right three gospels. It must be important. So we're going to do our best to kinda dive into the story of jesus's transfiguration. My goal is to help us see what the transfiguration what.
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"Embrace that forgiveness this morning i also want to speak to those of you may be the. Haven't you've never experienced africanness in fact you're not really even sure what exactly it is. That i'm talking about your. You're here today or listening online or at some later. Point down the road and this whole concept of forgiveness four into you. I hope that by the time we are done today. You will see the this thing called. God's forgiveness extends to every single person who wants it and it doesn't matter how we have a mask for ourselves all kinds of things for which need to be forgiven. It does not matter the depth of those offenses maybe the level of evilness that we might associate with any of those actions or behavior lifestyle or way about us. None of those things is exempt from or out of the reach of god's forgiveness so i want to speak to all of us today. Those have experienced. God's forgiveness how we should that respond even today Some of you that experience of god's forgiveness is something that's relatively new for you. Maybe it happened over the course of the last year. But there's others of you you have you experienced that thing called god's forgiveness twenty thirty forty fifty sixty years ago. I want to talk to you about how we respond to that forgiveness this morning new. Chapter seven verse. Thirty six through fifty. Let's read it together. One of the pharisees. Ask jesus to have dinner with him. And so jesus went to his home and sat down. To eat the pharisees were of course. This religiously elite group of people right. These were these were the the holiest the more serious about their religion. The most rigid in their lifestyle. They were all about doing the right thing. They were all about living righteously. They were all about being able to walk through the streets of their town and having absolutely nothing bad said about them and the way they conducted themselves. And so one of these guys. He invites jesus who is now. Travelling around from place to place speaking from synagogue to synagogue. He's invited into come into his home for a meal. And so jesus goes into this meal and he sits down and eats with this ferris. His name is simon well. When a certain immoral woman from that city heard that jesus was eating at simon's house she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his feet. Weeping her tears fell on his feet and she wipe them off with her hair and she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. Well when the pharisee who had invited. Jesus sawed this. He said to himself if this man jesus if this man were truly a prophet he would know he would know. What kind of woman is touching him. She's a center so again to set the stage. Jesus has come into the home of this religious person. This person is very very serious about his relationship with god and while they're eating suddenly a woman presents herself at jesus's feet now. That probably sounds really strange to us. And that's for good reason because that's not how we have meals these days right if we if i were to invite you over to my home or you would invite me over to your home. We go to each other's house and close the door and sit at the table and we would eat well. In jesus's day it was customary for a banquet of sorts to be held especially on the sabbath following the religious service. That occurred at the synagogue. That's probably the context that we're talking about here and this pharisee is well known right. He's not he's not a person that is a small figure in his community. No he's he's a well known. Well respected probably leader within his community. He's invited jesus. Of course his famous just just blowing up all over the place and so when jesus comes into his home. I'm like how we would do at. The door is not closed. It was customary for other people who aren't particularly invited to the feast to come and observe taxi. Stand around and watch other. People eat and listen in on their conversation. I mean something to be expected. When you have a notable figure like jesus coming into the home of another individual a lot of the people that had come into simon's house. Where probably simon was largely okay with what was going on. But then there's this woman this woman that simon had a choice she certainly would not have been invited in fact. He was probably kind of disgusted. That she was even there under his roof in the first place while she comes up behind jesus and she starts sobbing at his feet. Just starts weeping. We don't know exactly what experience she may or may not have had with jesus whether there was some direct contact where she actually experienced. Jesus as forgiveness right where where there was some some point in which they had come together and jesus was able to communicate her directly the love of gaba. Apparently she has four herself experienced. God's love and forgiveness for for her a person who has been cast off by the rest of society. And how does she respond. What's she responds by following. Jesus is feet and weeping probably just unloading all that weight of emotion that comes alongside the kind of life that she's lived a life that is full of regrets and remorse. And i wish it weren't this way. And i wish i had done things differently and i wish i had had better opportunities and i wished that people didn't think about me the way they think about me. I wish that i was different somehow. Someway she's beginning to experience. Some of the difference that god makes in the life of a person even person that's very very far away from him and overwhelms her. She can't control herself. She response to the forgiveness of god. I weeping at the feet of jesus now we might think as we read the story this. This is about the pharisee. Simon making a bad judgment about another person right. I mean after all he looks at her and he certainly has some criticism for how she has conducted her affairs over the course of her lifetime but this is not about simon making a judgment on this woman because there was nothing to judge right. This was not about somebody trying to split between. You know a person's behavior and what are their intentions. We very often do today. This was not trying to figure out. Was she in the right way. She and the wrong. No there was. She was categorically considered to be an immoral person. A person who is as far away from.
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"Good morning welcome back so good to see all of you out here this morning. Thank you for those of you. Who are joining us online as well. Today we're going to look at what is perhaps one of the most difficult commandments in all scripture for us to follow you ready for that. How many of you got up this morning expecting that. You're going to go to church and be encouraged to follow. What is really probably one of the most difficult things we have ever ever been asked to do. Do you realize that when it comes to such things as the commandments. When we think about the things that we are commanded or expected to do in this life a lot of them are really easy right. I mean when you look at when you look at the big ten for instance right the ten commandments. One of them is don't kill another person right. Thou shalt do no murder. Maybe you have trouble with that one now. Most of us doing okay right and even like don't steal from other people how we doing on that. Maybe not quite as easy to satisfy when you really think about. It is the donut murder other people on but still when it comes to many of the commandments that we understand create these requirements these obligations these expectations of us. A lot of them are easy to follow. Well today we're going to look at one. That i believe is really really really really difficult. The good news is we're all the same camp like we are all in this together. The reality is that the struggle that we have with such a commandment is what we're going to look at. Today is pretty common to all of us right now. Don't be fooled us. Think we're doing really well when it comes to actually following this commandment but in reality if we were honest. We maybe see a little differently. Now what's interesting is that this message comes in the context of what we're kind of experiencing in our society today as i think about the events of this past week in fact you know the time leading up to the election of our president and many of much of what has happened even after that election to this present day to the storming of the capitol building this week right i mean we are living in absolute crazy town. The world just feels like it has gone crazy that people have gone crazy that the distinction between people on one side and the other side is getting wider and wider and wider in that the anger and the hatred that one faction of people has for another faction of people just seems to be getting deeper and more entrenched that instead of us as human beings coming into a deeper sense of unity and purpose and desire to get along right even with the virtue of of tolerance having been preached to us for now many many years. We live in a very very intolerant time. A very intolerant day. Now this message does not come as a reaction to what has happened over this last week in fact we had planned to be in this passage of scripture. That we're going to look at a back in the fall so it was months ago and so i always find it interesting to see how often the word of god presents itself as being really really alive and really really relevant to our every day life. Invite you to turn your bibles to luke chapter six. There's a few verses. We're going to read their together and again. Let me introduce this to you as one of the most difficult commandments. We've ever been asked to obey luke chapter six. We'll start reading in verse twenty seven. This is jesus speaking and he says but to you who are willing to listen. I say love your say there. Oh i know that's hard to say isn't it and love your what love your enemies do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one cheek offer the other cheek also if someone demands your coat offer your shirt also give to anyone who asks and when things are taken away from you. Don't try to get them back due to others as you would like them to do to you. There was a part of me that as i was reading through and thinking about the scripture and especially given just what feels like the temperature.
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"New standard for you to follow all you have to give everything. So what actions can i take. What does this mean for me. What does this mean for you. What does this mean for us as church. What does this mean for people who want to continue to proclaim good news to the poor. How do we actually effectively proclaim good news to the poor. What does that look like well. It's very simple. Three things three suggestions on number one give from what you have is that easy give from what you have. some of. You are extremely generous. And i am so grateful for how god has brought you to this place in your life where you've been able to actually part with some of what is rightfully yours. You have recognized that you were just a steward of all that god has given to you and you've used what god has blessed you with to bless others. I want to encourage you keep doing it and grow in it. But then there's some stingy folks out there too. I think they're all online but some sometimes we're sometimes. We're we're stingy greedy right where where forgetful of is the need that exists out there and so we we forsake the idea of giving or we give in such a mazer early miserly level. Listen there's coming a day. You know this. Whole when god sets the world right when justice equity finally bound when god holds each of us accountable for what we did in this present life. I mean we're gonna we're gonna have to answer for we handled are stuff. That's just the reality. So gift from what. I have a couple of really easy ways for you to just jump into that. We started our benevolence offering campaign. Right christmas eve. That evidence offering is used to purchase food and supplies to make meals for our community for people who are hungry largely for everybody but it is largely centered on trying to provide some relief to those who are poor who can't adequately provide for themselves even the most basic some you hear benevolence offering. It's like he's just walk your years. You want to hear anything about it. I would encourage you give give generously toward help us to not only ensure that this ministry continues on in its present day but even grows so that it can actually make the difference lies more in the year. Twenty twenty one. Sharon shared a little last week. About just some of the impact that that's been making those are real stories real people that drive through this parking lot so whom we hand the simple gift of a meal for many it makes all the difference and it actually invites hopefully and ultimately an opportunity for the proclamation of the good news of god's grace and forgiveness to actually be hurt. We're not going to abandon. What is our obligation toward one. Another and replace it merely the proclamation of the word. it's not that we do one and not the other. It's that we need to have priorities in the right order. So give from what you have can give is to global outreach. Some of you doing that already. Thank you continue to do it and give even more for those of you that you don't even know what that is. Find out what it is. It is the way in which our church participates with ministries throughout the world that are providing tremendous amounts of relief relief to fatherless relief to the widow relief to the hungry relief to the oppress relief to the stranger. Give from what you have secondly serve where you can help serve where you can help I if you write a check for the benevolence offering thank you. That's wonderful right another one but even beyond that guess what there are hands and feet that are needed to actually make that ministry go on money alone doesn't get the job done. We need people to prepare the food. We need people to plate the meals. We need people to deliver and have a conversation with people receiving. We need people to clean up and wash dishes after all kinds of very very humble access service that each of us has called so serve where you can help. That's just a starting point right. The reality is that god by put into your heart. A real deep desire to see justice served in our world in some particular area. I have nothing to do with food. Community meals might not have anything to do with. Our church is presently in corporately involved in but it might be something else. Do serve where you can help them and finally share with whom you know and it is my desire for our church place that just regards a growth in our social activity and reform but we are a place that unashamedly unabashedly and withholding nothing back proclaims the good news in its entirety. The good news says you and i are lost. The crossover price got is provided his grace forgiveness and he welcomes poor and rich alike answering to this community of faith looking forward to his kingdom fully. Invite you to stand. We're gonna sing the song enclosing together this morning. I want as we sing the song for you to understand the words that come straight out of scripture to just be a dream a wish they desire. I believe god has over. Each of us speaks of blessing. But i want you to see not only as a pronouncement of blessing over your life but also the of those that god is going to bring into your life. Those baby that fall under the category of the poor the marginalized the forgotten and understand that. God's heart aches and breaks for people living in the situations of injustice inequality. And watch for you and i to become more and more awake and sensitive so that we can begin to move to make change in our world.
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"How's everybody doing this morning. So i basically prepared three messages today. We were in danger of basically being here all day for first service. And so i'm to get right into it. If that's all right with you you might get a little more information. You might get a little less information. I don't know what we're going to do our best. We're in the gospel of luke chapter. Four if you're to curtis lake. We're doing this series. On the gospel of luke which is a presentation of the life of jesus historical events and facts surrounding his life and the teaching of jesus throughout his ministry. So here we are embarking on jesus into ministry like last week. We talked about the preparation being made for the messiah. The promised one that all israel was anticipating and waiting for now in luke chapter four. We see jesus beginning his ministry as an itinerant kinda guest reader lecturer in the various synagogues in galle. Pick it up. So if you have bibles you can turn to. Luke chapter for starting at verse. Fourteen then jesus return to galilee. Okay this is the area in which jesus was beginning. His ministry and filled with the holy spirit's power reports spread about him quickly through the whole region. So the name of jesus is starting to gain some notoriety. People are starting to take notice of this. This man who is now thrust on the scene. John having prepared the way for him it says he made it this habit to teach regularly in the synagogues and he was praised by everyone so at least the initial reception of jesus positive. One people are listening to an anticipated masses of jesus as he is making his way from synagogue to synagogue. Right well at one point says he came to the village of nazareth his boyhood home. Right the place where he grew up as a child and as was his custom he went to the synagogue on the sabbath and he stood up to read scriptures. The scroll of isaiah. The prophet was handed to him. I don't know. Jesus asked for it or if it just so happened that it was handed to him but he takes that scroll he unrolls it to the place where this had been written hundreds of years before the spirit of the lord is upon me for years. Anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released that the blind will see that the oppressed will be set free. And that the time of the lord's favor has come. He rolled up the scroll handed back to the attendant and sat down and all the is in the synagogue looked at him intently then he began to speak to him the scripture. You've just heard has been fulfilled this very day. I wanna talk about the scripture that jesus not only read but then told to the people that were listening to the reading. This applies to the very want standing before you today. This fact has been set up to be what is the mission statement of. Jesus the reason for his being the reason for his coming. We talk about the arrival of the messiah christmas. Or why did jesus come in the first place. The isaiah in this prophecy relates a major kind of idea for why the messiah was to come. Jesus reads it and he says today. The scripture has been fulfilled. Look at it a little more carefully. First of all these the reads this portion. That speaks of this thing called the anointing right. He says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me. What does that mean. Well if you're familiar with what were the kind of common practices especially of the old testament times. You find this thing called the anointing. This is the act by which a person has been set up set a par for a particular work kings before they came into their kingdom. Were anointed became. You remember the story. Maybe when david who still as a young boy was visited by the prophet samuel there was already a king in the nation of israel king saul but the prophet samuel came and after having gone through the entire brotherhood of david. Finally comes to david and god says to him. This is going to be my cane. And so samuel takes this jar of oil and he pours it on the head of david again as an act signifying that david had been set apart and commission for a very particular active service that he was going to be god's instrument he was god's choice for his next came right. And so we see this anointing happening from time to time as god sets op commissions. A person for some particular role is as spoke hundreds of years before and prophetic terms. The spirit of the lord is upon me for he has anointed me and jesus now quotes that verse in application to himself saying this is the reason for my coming the spirit of the lord is upon me free. His anointed me. Now what does he anointed him for. Jesus begins in talking about what is his mission as he is anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor and then he goes on to say a number of other things like preaching liberty to those who are captive the restoring of sight to those who are blind of ushering in the day of the lord and jesus says this is why i'm here. I want to focus in on those words that jesus begins to describe his mission with that is that he has come to proclaim good news to the poor. I don't know about you. But as i read that i find it curious and interesting and so i decided that that's kind of where we're going to spend the bulk of our time together this morning. What exactly did jesus mean when he said. I have come to proclaim good news to the poor. What is the good news. What are the aspects that this good news speaks of. What exactly is the good news that jesus is going to convey to the poor and we all know it are some of the major issues regarding the poor especially in speaking of jesus's day. We're not talking about somebody. Living at or below the level of poverty as we have defined it in our developed current living situation. A lot of times we're thinking about the biblical poor. We're we're speaking of people that had no means by which to provide for themselves even their most basic needs like food clothing shelter right. These are people that were without the ability to provide for themselves. This is a condition that continues to be perpetuated even in our world today now two thousand years after jesus speaks and says i have come to preach good news to the poor. We still wrestle with this major issue of poverty. Jesus bent when he said. I have come to proclaim good news to the poor. You and i would think initially that that good news would be. Hey guess while. I have a solution for your poverty. We're gonna fix the inequities and injustice that exists that has created the poverty that this world experiences in the first place right. That's what we would expect to be the good news. At least if you were a person. Categorizes being impoverished a person who could not meet the basic needs of your life. Like you didn't know your next meal was coming from. You didn't have adequate clothing. You are homeless. If i were to come to you if somebody were to come to you and say hey. Guess what. I have good news.