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A highlight from Ep379: The 5 Fs Podcasters Shouldn't Neglect - Jerry Dugan
"Be consistent with who you're speaking to, what you're posting off. Still show yourself and be a guest on other shows, especially if the show is like yours, because those listeners will also want more and more variety and they'll come to you for that. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm joined with Jerry Dugan from Beyond the Rut. And Jerry's passionate about supporting business leaders, helping them with different things like work -life balance. So one of the questions that I'm going to ask, does work -life balance even exist? Because I'll tell you it's very polarized. On one end, everybody's like, you have to balance, you have to balance. And then I read this other book that said, no, it's not balanced. It's switch tasking. You go here all the way, then you go here all the way. And then there's other people that say you have to be out of balance for a certain amount of time. So I'm really curious just to start there. Jerry Beyond the Rut supports people with a life worth living in faith, family, and career. So a lot of the listeners that you have are probably around my age and your age that are probably struggling with the work -life balance and making sure that they are putting enough to their faith and their family and their career. And I love that. I want to ask, why do you think work -life balance is real? And what have the other people said? Yes, ultimately, I think they're all saying the same thing. Like if you really break down to what, like, even the folks that say there's no such thing as work -life balance, what they're ultimately saying is like, we make life choices based on our priorities. And when I talk about work -life balance, I'm saying the same thing. One of my hope is that when you're on your deathbed, I already know you're not going to say, man, I wish I did one more launch of my program or man, I wish I was at inbox zero more days in my life. You're going to say things more like, I wish I had one more day to spend with my grandkids and my great grandchildren. I would have loved to have been there for my daughter's wedding or for my son's wedding, whatever it is. And in serving in combat and knowing some folks who worked in hospice care, that is the thing that they hear over and over again, that people wish they had more time to be with the people they love and on the flip side, when they have the people they love, they wish they succeeded more in their career. And so it's like, what if you could win in all of that? What if you could take your career as far as you can and not sacrifice your family at the same time? And so you look at what's important to you and how are your current activities impacting those areas of your life? How are you doing with your family life? You know, okay, work's taking a lot out of me. Okay. Is that a permanent thing or is this a temporary thing? If it's temporary, then you talk it over with your partner and you decide from there, like, okay, yeah, this is temporary. What's the deadline? What does success look like? And what's the bailout trigger that says, all right, we're not hitting these measures doesn't look like we will let's scrap that and go another direction. So that to me, that is why I'm a big fan of work -life balance. It's not just strictly. I spend so many hours at work, so many hours at home. It really is. How is getting out early impacting all the things? Am I going to miss my children's big school events? What's that impact if I do? And what's the message I send? Because I'll tell you from personal experience, I was a lot of kids, superheroes, because I would volunteer my kids' school for a day and their dad had to go to work and it's not the same thing against their dad, because why did the dad go to work? Because he wanted to provide for his family. And so the motivation for a good thing for the family was there, but there wasn't that balance to, I also want to communicate to my child that my child is important. I want to communicate to my partner that she's important. And so it's, how do you win at all those things? And how do you find the right company that will support you as a person while also supporting you and your career growth and getting you to perform well to help the company also succeed? It's like, there's a way to find all that. I want to hear a tip or two. And I'm thinking you and I talked a little bit about this before we first press record. You were talking about the checkbox and a lot of us, we got a checklist and we're checking off all the boxes and it's seems like we're checking off all the boxes. It feels like when we look at the checklist, it's pretty much full, but we might not feel fulfilled even at the expense of checking off lots of boxes. So if that's us, we're listening and we're trying to think of what is it that we think we've had success on paper, but we don't really feel it. We don't really feel like we're everywhere we need to do. What's one or two tips for the listener to be able to feel like they're doing the right thing right now? I think the first thing is you got to know who you are and that's the big broad umbrella piece of advice. Know who you are, what is valuable to you? Like, what do you believe in? What do you not believe in? It's if you believe in respecting the dignity of every person, then that is key. If you value time with family, then your calendar should reflect that. If you value being a supportive person for your family, does that go beyond just monetary support? And so knowing your values, I think is very huge. What is your vision, your purpose in life? I have a couple of mottos I live by. One is the Dugan crest motto. So somebody around the 1500s and it's a miracle that the Dugans are still around because apparently these guys called the Saxons came into like Ireland and almost wiped us all out, but like good Irish people, we stuck around. And so that's not important. The important thing is somebody added to the family crest. Oh man, it's by virtue and valor. So for Tute et valore, and it sounds cooler when it's Latin. I hope I said it right. So that's one thing I live by is am I living my life according to my family's crest motto, am I living by virtue? Am I living by valor being courageous to do what's right when even nobody's looking. But then from there, I had a vision that I wanted my children to live a life that was better than mine, but also be set up to be better adults than I was to have better successes than I did to know who they are and to feel comfortable pursuing their own dreams. Like that's in a written vision that I have tucked away on Evernote somewhere. So you got to have something like that. Like, what do you stand for? What is life like for you when you die? And I love talking about these things called the five Fs, your faith, your family, your fitness, your finances, and your own future growth or possibilities. Like looking at your life through those lenses, what does success look like for you? So I guess that's the second one is defining a second, Jerry. I missed an F F that I got faith. I got family. I got finances. I got fitness. And what did I miss? Emily, faith, finances, and fitness, future possibilities, future possibilities, always growing to be better today than you were yesterday. And then what's that future state of yourself you'd like to become. And so being a constant learner is that future possibilities. One reading books that are outside your usual norm, listening to podcasts that are outside your norm, being open to ideas that are not typically in your bucket or wheelhouse either a, to see how your own ideas and beliefs stack up, because sometimes like I myself had gone through life and realized, oh wow, I held onto this belief and I met three people who completely challenged that is my belief wrong or is it just not as strong as I thought it was, is there more context? I needed to add. And, and so sometimes I realized I was completely wrong about something. And other times I realized, oh, I was missing a lot of context here. I believe this, but only in this context, because I also believe this and my belief should not undermine somebody else's right to be who they are. And so it's like, oh yeah, okay. I can wrap my head around that. And I can be a decent person in my community that way. And so that, yeah, the future possibility is that a bit more unpacked, I should have put that in. Have you ever heard of, I think it's Gino Wickman and I hope I'm not wrong. And he wrote like three books. One was like, I'm going to just type in Gino Wickman. This is going to be the easy way. Then I'll sound so smart instead of dumb Gino Wick man. All right. So he wrote three books. Yes. Yes. What the heck is E O S he wrote traction and he wrote what it's not showing me the last one traction, what the heck is EOS and there's another one called rocket fuel. Okay. So these three books are interesting and it kind of is what you're talking about, but in more of a business category. And so I think this is really great to extract it and bring us to the listener in rocket fuel, what the heck is EOS and traction, ultimately what Gino Wickman talks about is your business should have a culture or have values that you all live by. And so it's interesting because when we look at all of the things that we can value, let's just pretend that I don't know the number. I'm just going to say that it's 20 values. There's 20 things that are good. And most people would agree with 18 or 19 of them. So one would be honesty, but at what expense are we going to be rude and honest? Another one might be politeness. Another one might be doing the right thing. Even when it hurts, you kind of mentioned your integrity. Even when people are not looking, am I going to be doing this with my family crest and everything? So the Gino Wickman also talks about like all of these things that we can value. And most of them are important to everyone. Honesty, of course, that sounds right, but not everybody puts that at the top of their value. Maybe they put discretion, maybe they put kindness above it, or maybe they put honesty above kindness and et cetera, et cetera, they might put doing the right thing, even when it hurts as one of the top values. And so in RocketFuel and EOS and Traction, Gino talks about how we need to build our team, our company culture around where all of us agree on these main values. Like we value making money, we value serving the client, we value X, Y, or Z. All of them are good, but which one is in the hierarchy? And so when I'm hearing you, you basically gave me two things. The first one is you got to know who you are. You got to know your culture. You got to know your values. What do you believe in? And you talked about by virtue and valor. What do you believe in? What matters to you? And then you focus on it and you bring people along. And the second one is a written vision. Like you actually write down the vision where you put in faith, family, finances, fitness, and future possibilities, and you figure out how are you doing these? How does this work for you? And you write it down because everybody's vision, like a fingerprint has to be different. Everybody's culture or their values have to be a little bit different, how they put them. And for you, you're saying a way that you can check off the boxes is to just know exactly what the heck the boxes are in the first place. Know which things matter to you and get rid of the rest. So you can really focus on those. And I thought that was really interesting because not only can we do it in our business, we can do it on our podcast. And as you've illustrated, we can do it with our family, with our own lives, our personal lives. So I thought that was really, really beautiful. I appreciate you going into that before we move on to anything, something that I missed or something else you want to share about being able to check off those boxes and feel really good about it, even that person who might be listening might feel like it looks like they're checked off, but they don't feel completely fulfilled. Yeah. Similarly to how business, they have their strategic plan that pushes them and they make big decisions off of that. Does this activity support the strategic initiative of this organization? And the answer is yes, they keep pushing forward with some adjustments. If it doesn't, they're like, well, then why are we doing that? Let's cut that out and let's restructure and reorganize. And it's cool to see that there are these business and even podcasting principles and practices that help us create a better podcast, create a better business, and we don't realize how easily we can just transfer those same skill sets into our very lives. And so it's the same thing. You know, how many people do we know who are physicians who hate being a physician? I can think of two or three or somebody who became a lawyer because the money was good and they quit being a lawyer because they realized that wasn't fulfilling for them or me, I left my corporate job because I realized I didn't want to start all over again and build something that belonged to somebody else and it was time to go after my dreams. So even my mom like kept encouraging me to become a doctor. I was a pre -med student. I'm not a doctor now because I did not do well as a pre -med student, but I realized later on it's because that was never my dream. That was my mom's dream. She wanted me to be a doctor. She wanted to be able to live vicariously through me and what she wanted success to be, and once I realized, Oh gosh, I don't want to be a doctor. What do I want to be? Of course, now it took a 10 year journey for me to realize what I did want to be, but I got there, man. That's that's important. So anyway, that was it. Yeah. You're willing to walk away from something really good stuff. I want to move into just your podcast journey now for the listener. I'll point out a couple of things that I'm seeing with your podcast. Hey, I think it, haven't you been doing it for like eight years? Yeah, this particular year, eight years. Yeah. Amazing. So with eight years, over 400 episodes and a lot of traction, not going back to Gina Wickman, a lot of traction on your podcast success, I think that we've got a couple of listeners that haven't quite been doing it for eight years, they may have been doing it for a year or two, they're new. And they would like to have the type of success that you've got with your podcast. So I'm like to get a couple of takeaways, what you've done, what you've learned, what you would do differently. First, a quick word from our sponsor, but when we get back, I really want you to focus on what made your podcast successful so that the listeners podcasts can also be successful. We'll be right back. Hey, my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links, just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We're back with Jerry Dugan. And we've talked a little bit about work -life balance, helping leaders with work -life balance, making sure that you're checking all the boxes and feeling fulfilled and the five F's and his family crest, which I don't even remember what it said in Latin. I think it was Latin, but it really means by virtue and valor. And I wanted to talk about now, how is his podcast so fricking well known and he's doing a great job. He's getting a lot of success through the podcast. And hopefully you'll be able to take away a couple of things that can support you in a successful podcast as well. Jerry, what do you think made your podcast? Yeah, a lot of what I'm seeing really is in the last year, year and a half, really. So I jokingly tell folks, but I'm not joking that it seems like I did year one, seven times, and then finally I had year eight happen all at once. So it's no overnight success kind of thing. I think the first thing that really helped was when there was a team of three of us. So we started off with three of us. We all agreed on one thing other than the name of the show. And that was the avatar of the show. So we have an avatar that we named AJ. He's 35 years old, married to his college sweetheart. He has two kids that they both have together. One's in elementary school. One's in middle school. AJ has a mid -level leadership career going on with a corporation in a metro area. And got the car, got the house, got the six figure income, but feels stuck in life. And so from there, we start to unravel how AJ feels stuck. There's the commute to work. There's the no real future in the job he's in. Not really making any progress. Wants to be a good family man when he gets home, but he's just drained of energy. And this cycle is putting a strain on his marriage. The kids feel like he doesn't love him, which is so far from the truth. So how does AJ live the life that he really wanted to live in his faith, in his family, in his fitness, finances, and his future? And so that's what we did when we came together to start the show. Now where we had a lot of weak spots, and I feel we did the first seven years over and over again, was that when you listened to the early episodes, we were all over the place, we didn't really stick to that mantra. Like what does AJ really need? And I hate to say it, but it wasn't until like the other two guys quit from the show that I realized, Oh, we're so far from what we wanted to do, who we wanted to help. And so how do I get there? And so year six, really going into year seven was how do I niche this down? I worked with a couple of different groups that really helped me start to niche that down. Jerry, you're helping specifically this demographic. You're helping them specifically with things like work -life balance and really having a mapped out future or a vision for their future focus on that. Okay. What kind of guests should I have? And so this kind of leads into the second one, which was that pairing down that niching down. So the first one was having that vision of who I wanted to help. The second one was really paring down and niching down. How am I going to help AJ? And once I started to see that a bunch of doors opened up and the third thing was I needed to get the word out there. So the marketing piece, I threw stuff out there for the first seven years, but really it's in this last year that I've been more intentional about it. The posts that I put out there on social media are aimed at AJ. The shows I appear on are aimed at AJ and you know, as that guest appearance on other shows, I think so far in the last 10 months, I've been on almost 70 other podcasts and to the point where now I'm starting to feel like I'm in alternate realities down. Like, how do I know Adam Adams? Oh yeah, I was on his show. All right, there we go. We talked about this, this, and this, or how do I know, Deirdre? Oh yeah, I'm here, here and here. It's just all that starting to overlap. But anyway, those would be the big three is know who you're serving. The second thing is truly niche down. Even if you have a lot of passions, interests, try to stick to one thing and just kind of lit little dose of yourself, sprinkle into your episodes. That way people know what they're getting when they come to your show. And then the third thing, I know I just said it. Marketing.
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Telecom Reseller
Major hotel property takes service to next level with E-Metrotel Galaxy Expand, Podcast - burst 1
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very, very pleased to have with us today Yash Gauda, who's the General Manager of Marriott Courtyard in Brampton, Ontario, which is in the Greater Toronto Area. Yash, thank you very much for joining me today. Pleasure, pleasure, Steve. Thank you. Well, you know, this is something I don't get to do that often. Instead of my usual interview of people that are professionals inside the telecommunications market and the IT market, this time we're bringing our listeners and watchers a special podcast of somebody very special who runs an organization, runs a hospitality organization in a major metropolitan area, and basically can give us some insight on the impact of how a change in the use of technology impacted the function of that technology itself and also helped the organization overall. So we're going to be getting into that in just a second. What we will be talking about specifically is how eMetroTel's GalaxyExpand replaced a previous Mitel product. So Yash, you're the General Manager of the Marriott Courtyard, and your hotel basically implemented this new phone system. Can you tell us a little bit about your Marriott facility? Yeah, sure, Steve. Again, my name is Yash, the General Manager at Marriott Courtyard, Brampton Hotel, and we are one of the biggest hotels in Brampton in terms of rooms or inventory. We have 160 rooms with a huge banqueting space. So we are one of the upscale hotels in Brampton. So that's very interesting. You're a very prominent property. It's something that people like to use and so on. So you know, what I want to understand a little bit to begin with is, why did you make this change? Oh, the moving over to eMetroTel? Okay, this is a pretty, like, how do I say it was a coincidence that got through Joseph. So eventually we had Mitel as our telecommunication system, and all of a sudden our voice messaging system went down in the hotel. So all the back office phones or even the guest phones, if someone had to leave a message to them. So yeah, the whole system went down and we had an old partner who used to service Mitel and I was trying to reach that particular gentleman, Myron, like several times a day. And like, I think nonstop, tried reaching him at least every day for a period of 15 to 20 days. And one day, but the irony was, his phone was ringing. And one day the phone was answered and it was answered by Joseph. So then I started talking to Joseph and then I told him that I need to get in touch with Myron and this is our situation. And then I came to know that Myron had passed away and Joseph took over his accounts. So then that is the time that where I established a connection with Joseph and I briefed him on our issues that was happening in the hotel. And he immediately put me on to his other colleague, Rakshith, started to helping me out in rectifying the current issue that we had. And this is how we got into e -metro rel and they tried to resolve it remotely, but it couldn't happen because the server was down and they never knew it. So Rakshith passed by the hotel. He had a look at the entire existing system. And then I think so he did try to reach out to Mitel and see what was happening. And again, the system, since it was outdated, Rakshith and Joseph came up with a new proposal with e -metro tel and that's how it started. So it literally sounds like a very interesting story of literally going from one generation to a new generation of product and thinking and outlook. So now you're talking to basically company representing e -metro tel. So how did you end up migrating to the e -metro tel system that you chose? The first when I started communicating with Joseph and Rakshith, even though they are not one of the key players in our industry, but their integrity, their honesty in helping me out, that is what influenced me to go with them, because that is one thing that I truly believe in, even though they are getting into new without any experience having done any prior work with hotels and so on. But what influenced me was their honesty and integrity to help the clients. So that is where it started. And they gave me a couple of proposals with the e -metro tel itself and then went through the proposals with our corporate office. And the best part was, again, for us, without even redoing a lot of wiring work, just working at the back end with the server room and changing the main equipment itself. That was awesome. The interruption was bare minimal. If you don't mind, take a closer look at that, because I think all those points are very interesting one by one. So to begin with, as a customer and as a non -technical person, did you expect that there was going to be sort of a physical replacement of the same thing, one with another? Was that initially what you thought would happen? I was thinking, yes, it was going to be a swap of the machines, but when they proposed me with the different equipments and so on and what each functionality would be, then I was like, yeah, I was able to understand it much better. So I think initially this is very interesting. There's no rewiring and you were able to keep basically your bell phone lines in place. Everything was intact. Only the thing that was moved was all the Mitel equipments was switched to e -metro tel, keeping all the wiring, everything intact. So that's a lot less disruptive, probably a lot less expensive in terms of actually implementation. And then I understand that the solution that ultimately came in is basically on one rack, just one box. Yes, just one rack. Yes. Okay. And is that actually like literally the footprint smaller than whatever was there before? Oh, yes. Before, like again, this was an old system and these were like a huge system. There were multiple of them, like four or five of them, but now everything is consolerated to one. And one. And then let's talk about what you've got there. So basically it has the PBX functionality that you had before. Correct. So that is, I think we have an Infinity 5010W console and expansion, I guess. And then actually it solves the problem that initially started this whole thing. The voicemail is operating. Correct. And there's a lot less space, probably a lot less heat and energy being used. So let's sort of bump that up to how it impacts your job. Your ultimate job, I take it, is to make the people that are staying at your hotel happy. Has it really impacted that? Has it impacted your ability to do that? Yes. The important thing is like we are a hotel and the phone has to be buzzing all the time. So if the phone doesn't buzz, that means something is wrong. So earlier we had the issues where the phone was not working and so on. And even the functionality of the new console and even the back office phones are all, it's amazing. We should stay on this point because as a hotel manager, you have the burden of being, it's not just like an office, people in a sense are residing there at least for an evening or two. And so there's all sorts of safety and other issues that are involved in making sure that the phone is perfect. Correct. So, you know, e -metro hotel is a network of certified resellers. Was the migration process that you're describing, was that difficult or hard? No, no, very, very easy. To be honest, like once the new system, the back office phones were shipped to the hotel, so it was like I could install it myself with the help of Rakshith and Joseph. Because they had programmed the phones prior, I guess, and when it was shipped to us. So then again, I was with them on the call and he was guiding me how to activate it and so on. It was easy. Like me not being a technical guy, like installing the phones at the back of the offices was easy. You know, yours is a very difficult job because you're literally running a 24 -hour business, 24 hours a day, 24 -hour desk, residents are coming and going and so on. So how fast, you know, how fast did this all happen? Like the downtime, I can say about the, see, I would say the important thing is the main console. So when that was being like 10 minutes, I guess. 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 to 15 minutes. That's it. And you know, you came in to the office one morning or one afternoon. Was it the same shift that you began and then later at the end of that shift, there was a new phone system in place? Yes, it's like it was Rakshith who was there in the property from his solution. So yeah, I was with him. So he came in the morning, started working one thing at a time. And then yeah, it was the same as I came in the morning. No interruption. As I said, when the telephone, the main console was being put in place, so it's about 10 to 15 minutes for it to reboot and restart and so on. So yeah, maximum. And since this has been working, has it actually worked better for you than the old system? Yes, Ali, in terms of options -wise, yes, this has been worked out much better. So, you know, you were mentioning earlier, you gave us a little bit of background how you ended up back with the ACE security services implementing the solution. And I was interested in understanding that, you know, there was a technological and there were product choices and so on. But I was fascinated by the fact that it ultimately came down to people. Correct, yeah. It is like, see, you need to give options to the new people who are getting into entrepreneurship and so on. Because again, they have the zeal, you know, to excel. So when you go with the bigger companies, what happens is then again, the same process. It's just that, okay, the code, the shipment and all that thing and the scheduling of the people and so on. But here is a new company, ACE solution. Again, as I told you, I was fascinated even before we could get into an agreement. As I said, once the voice messages was down, Rachit was already on top to help me out even without knowing. You know, your industry is so important to so many people. It's such a big employer. It's part of everyone's lives. It's a leading organization. You also work for a leading organization in the world. You know, with all that in mind, do you have any recommendations for people in the position that you're in when it becomes time for them to replace an old system? I would strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues within the same industry and who has outdated versions of a telecommunication system and trying to upgrade their systems to the newer versions to definitely reach out to a solutions and look into e -metro tel. Yash, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you and giving us an insight that we normally don't get the perspective of a person not in the telecommunications industry, but a person actually that uses these products and services and what the outcomes were. I really appreciate your time and I hope to encounter you again. I hope to stay over some time when I'm in Brampton. Sure, sure. Anytime, Steve. It will be great to host you. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to that, but for now, thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. You take care.
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Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Major hotel property takes service to next level with E-Metrotel Galaxy Expand, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very, very pleased to have with us today Yash Gauda, who's the General Manager of Marriott Courtyard in Brampton, Ontario, which is in the Greater Toronto Area. Yash, thank you very much for joining me today. Pleasure, pleasure, Steve. Thank you. Well, you know, this is something I don't get to do that often. Instead of my usual interview of people that are professionals inside the telecommunications market and the IT market, this time we're bringing our listeners and watchers a special podcast of somebody very special who runs an organization, runs a hospitality organization in a major metropolitan area, and basically can give us some insight on the impact of how a change in the use of technology impacted the function of that technology itself and also helped the organization overall. So we're going to be getting into that in just a second. What we will be talking about specifically is how eMetroTel's GalaxyExpand replaced a previous Mitel product. So Yash, you're the General Manager of the Marriott Courtyard, and your hotel basically implemented this new phone system. Can you tell us a little bit about your Marriott facility? Yeah, sure, Steve. Again, my name is Yash, the General Manager at Marriott Courtyard, Brampton Hotel, and we are one of the biggest hotels in Brampton in terms of rooms or inventory. We have 160 rooms with a huge banqueting space. So we are one of the upscale hotels in Brampton. So that's very interesting. You're a very prominent property. It's something that people like to use and so on. So you know, what I want to understand a little bit to begin with is, why did you make this change? Oh, the moving over to eMetroTel? Okay, this is a pretty, like, how do I say it was a coincidence that got through Joseph. So eventually we had Mitel as our telecommunication system, and all of a sudden our voice messaging system went down in the hotel. So all the back office phones or even the guest phones, if someone had to leave a message to them. So yeah, the whole system went down and we had an old partner who used to service Mitel and I was trying to reach that particular gentleman, Myron, like several times a day. And like, I think nonstop, tried reaching him at least every day for a period of 15 to 20 days. And one day, but the irony was, his phone was ringing. And one day the phone was answered and it was answered by Joseph. So then I started talking to Joseph and then I told him that I need to get in touch with Myron and this is our situation. And then I came to know that Myron had passed away and Joseph took over his accounts. So then that is the time that where I established a connection with Joseph and I briefed him on our issues that was happening in the hotel. And he immediately put me on to his other colleague, Rakshith, started to helping me out in rectifying the current issue that we had. And this is how we got into e -metro rel and they tried to resolve it remotely, but it couldn't happen because the server was down and they never knew it. So Rakshith passed by the hotel. He had a look at the entire existing system. And then I think so he did try to reach out to Mitel and see what was happening. And again, the system, since it was outdated, Rakshith and Joseph came up with a new proposal with e -metro tel and that's how it started. So it literally sounds like a very interesting story of literally going from one generation to a new generation of product and thinking and outlook. So now you're talking to basically company representing e -metro tel. So how did you end up migrating to the e -metro tel system that you chose? The first when I started communicating with Joseph and Rakshith, even though they are not one of the key players in our industry, but their integrity, their honesty in helping me out, that is what influenced me to go with them, because that is one thing that I truly believe in, even though they are getting into new without any experience having done any prior work with hotels and so on. But what influenced me was their honesty and integrity to help the clients. So that is where it started. And they gave me a couple of proposals with the e -metro tel itself and then went through the proposals with our corporate office. And the best part was, again, for us, without even redoing a lot of wiring work, just working at the back end with the server room and changing the main equipment itself. That was awesome. The interruption was bare minimal. If you don't mind, take a closer look at that, because I think all those points are very interesting one by one. So to begin with, as a customer and as a non -technical person, did you expect that there was going to be sort of a physical replacement of the same thing, one with another? Was that initially what you thought would happen? I was thinking, yes, it was going to be a swap of the machines, but when they proposed me with the different equipments and so on and what each functionality would be, then I was like, yeah, I was able to understand it much better. So I think initially this is very interesting. There's no rewiring and you were able to keep basically your bell phone lines in place. Everything was intact. Only the thing that was moved was all the Mitel equipments was switched to e -metro tel, keeping all the wiring, everything intact. So that's a lot less disruptive, probably a lot less expensive in terms of actually implementation. And then I understand that the solution that ultimately came in is basically on one rack, just one box. Yes, just one rack. Yes. Okay. And is that actually like literally the footprint smaller than whatever was there before? Oh, yes. Before, like again, this was an old system and these were like a huge system. There were multiple of them, like four or five of them, but now everything is consolerated to one. And one. And then let's talk about what you've got there. So basically it has the PBX functionality that you had before. Correct. So that is, I think we have an Infinity 5010W console and expansion, I guess. And then actually it solves the problem that initially started this whole thing. The voicemail is operating. Correct. And there's a lot less space, probably a lot less heat and energy being used. So let's sort of bump that up to how it impacts your job. Your ultimate job, I take it, is to make the people that are staying at your hotel happy. Has it really impacted that? Has it impacted your ability to do that? Yes. The important thing is like we are a hotel and the phone has to be buzzing all the time. So if the phone doesn't buzz, that means something is wrong. So earlier we had the issues where the phone was not working and so on. And even the functionality of the new console and even the back office phones are all, it's amazing. We should stay on this point because as a hotel manager, you have the burden of being, it's not just like an office, people in a sense are residing there at least for an evening or two. And so there's all sorts of safety and other issues that are involved in making sure that the phone is perfect. Correct. So, you know, e -metro hotel is a network of certified resellers. Was the migration process that you're describing, was that difficult or hard? No, no, very, very easy. To be honest, like once the new system, the back office phones were shipped to the hotel, so it was like I could install it myself with the help of Rakshith and Joseph. Because they had programmed the phones prior, I guess, and when it was shipped to us. So then again, I was with them on the call and he was guiding me how to activate it and so on. It was easy. Like me not being a technical guy, like installing the phones at the back of the offices was easy. You know, yours is a very difficult job because you're literally running a 24 -hour business, 24 hours a day, 24 -hour desk, residents are coming and going and so on. So how fast, you know, how fast did this all happen? Like the downtime, I can say about the, see, I would say the important thing is the main console. So when that was being like 10 minutes, I guess. 10 minutes? Yeah, 10 to 15 minutes. That's it. And you know, you came in to the office one morning or one afternoon. Was it the same shift that you began and then later at the end of that shift, there was a new phone system in place? Yes, it's like it was Rakshith who was there in the property from his solution. So yeah, I was with him. So he came in the morning, started working one thing at a time. And then yeah, it was the same as I came in the morning. No interruption. As I said, when the telephone, the main console was being put in place, so it's about 10 to 15 minutes for it to reboot and restart and so on. So yeah, maximum. And since this has been working, has it actually worked better for you than the old system? Yes, Ali, in terms of options -wise, yes, this has been worked out much better. So, you know, you were mentioning earlier, you gave us a little bit of background how you ended up back with the ACE security services implementing the solution. And I was interested in understanding that, you know, there was a technological and there were product choices and so on. But I was fascinated by the fact that it ultimately came down to people. Correct, yeah. It is like, see, you need to give options to the new people who are getting into entrepreneurship and so on. Because again, they have the zeal, you know, to excel. So when you go with the bigger companies, what happens is then again, the same process. It's just that, okay, the code, the shipment and all that thing and the scheduling of the people and so on. But here is a new company, ACE solution. Again, as I told you, I was fascinated even before we could get into an agreement. As I said, once the voice messages was down, Rachit was already on top to help me out even without knowing. You know, your industry is so important to so many people. It's such a big employer. It's part of everyone's lives. It's a leading organization. You also work for a leading organization in the world. You know, with all that in mind, do you have any recommendations for people in the position that you're in when it becomes time for them to replace an old system? I would strongly recommend all my fellow colleagues within the same industry and who has outdated versions of a telecommunication system and trying to upgrade their systems to the newer versions to definitely reach out to a solutions and look into e -metro tel. Yash, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you and giving us an insight that we normally don't get the perspective of a person not in the telecommunications industry, but a person actually that uses these products and services and what the outcomes were. I really appreciate your time and I hope to encounter you again. I hope to stay over some time when I'm in Brampton. Sure, sure. Anytime, Steve. It will be great to host you. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to that, but for now, thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. You take care.
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"Hours mainly toward the Fredericksburg area the northern neck and southern Maryland. States of emergency are effect in in both Virginia and Maryland freed up resources now for emergency crews to get ready to handle any possible disasters those states of emergency declared by the Virginia and Maryland governor. Stay ready is the message from local emergency management people to residents across our area were bracing for tropical cyclone conditions. Our Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security is anticipating a good amount of steady rain. That's Mark Roper with Montgomery County he says as of this moment the good news is they aren't expecting flash flooding in their area but that could change at a moment's notice plus with wind gusts expected to reach 40 miles an hour. We're suggesting to our residents right now to secure any loose outdoor items to keep them from blowing but also to be sure to keep their electronic devices charged. VDOT also issuing a warning to Virginia residents to stay off the roads if they can. The department is saying that pockets of standing water plus down trees and power lines are all obstacles potential as they prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Matt Kofax, WTOP News. And now 905 here on WTOP. The people who run Metro remind you to look out for down trees or flying debris. Certainly slippery conditions when we get all that rain on roads, walkways and at Metro stations. Of course Metro says it will get the word out if any trains or buses are disrupted by the weather or maybe they have to cancel some service. They are also working to prevent flooding in the system. Stay with WTOP, your first alert weather station for all the latest this weekend. We have traffic and weather on the 8th. Plenty of updates as well. Plenty to see and read at WTOP .com. Other news tonight, a Northern Virginia mother who sedated her daughters with melatonin -laced gummy bears before shooting them to death gets 78 years in prison for the crimes. 38 -year -old Veronica Youngblood was arrested in August of 2018 after police say that she shot her daughters, year 5 old Brooklyn Youngblood and 15 -year -old Sharon Castro at their apartment in McLean. Castro survived long enough to call 911. She told the dispatcher it was her mother who shot her. Youngblood told detectives planned she to kill them and herself following a drawn -out custody dispute. Brooklyn, the younger child, had been set to move to Missouri with her father. Youngblood presented an insanity defense at trial that was rejected. With no deal to keep the federal government funded, we appear to be moving closer to a government shutdown in just one week. We've got what you need to know come October 1st. The National Zoo and some of your favorite Smithsonian museums will close if there's a government shutdown. D .C. courts and services like the Public Defender's Office will also close since those offices are funded by the federal government. The IRS is reversing its plan to stay open, saying it will partially close. And the Department of Defense is set to this close time.
The Breakdown
A highlight from A Primer on China's Current Economic Turmoil
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, August 17th, and today we are doing a great, big, what the heck is going on with China episode. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, we are rumbling on towards the end of the week. And speaking of rumblings, if you have been watching the macro Twittersphere closely, there have been growing rumblings about China. You see it pop up a little bit in mainstream media and on YouTube's and certainly now happening on podcasts. And then yesterday, Preston Pish tweeted, anyone have a really good and recent article or podcast on what's happening with the economy in China right now? Well over here at The Breakdown, that really cinched it that we were going to dig into this. And before we do the usual caveats, one, I am not a China expert, just like basically I'm not an expert on anything we talk about here. But what we try to do well over here at The Breakdown is aggregate sources to help you better understand what's happening at least a little bit better. And number two, to the extent it comes up, apologies in advance for pronunciations or perhaps I should say mispronunciations. With that, let's try to get a sense of what's happening and why it matters. On Tuesday, the People's Bank of China cut rates on one year loans by 15 basis points to 2 .5%. This is the largest cut since 2020 and was an emergency policy adjustment following the release of some truly dismal economic data. July data showed weak consumer spending growth, sliding investment and rising unemployment. Youth unemployment for people between the ages of 16 and 24 hit 21 % in June. I know you guys can do the math, but to put that differently, that means one in five young people are now out of work. In fact, this month, the National Bureau of Statistics didn't actually release data on youth unemployment, stating that they needed to adjust their methodology to exclude students seeking their first job. Now, over in currency land, the yuan has devalued by 6 % over the course of the year, recently reaching the low point it recorded last October of 7 .3 yuan per dollar. That's the weakest exchange rate for the yuan since late 2007. Data from June showed that China have decreased their holdings of U .S. treasuries for three months in a row, bringing them to a 14 -year low. Some analysts believe that these reserves have been mobilized to defend the yuan from devaluing too rapidly. June CPI data released last week showed that the Chinese economy was in outright deflation. Consumer prices fell by 0 .3 % on an annualized basis. Manufacturing activity has now contracted for four months straight, and GDP growth this year has been paltry, recording 2 .2 % in the first quarter and just 0 .8 % in the second quarter. Multiple international banks have now downgraded Chinese growth estimates, forecasting that the economy will fail to achieve the 5 % growth target set by the CCP. And if that target is not hit, it will be the third year in a row with sub -5 % growth, an unprecedented rough patch in the post -Mao era from 1976 onwards. Now, contributing to this are debt problems, credit problems, and social stability problems. But before we get to those, let's do a whistle -stop review of the last few years in China to see how things wound up in this position. You will remember that during the pandemic, China ran one of the strictest and longest -running lockdown regimes in the world. And while the impact of the lockdown on the people of China was of course immense, the disruption it caused was also a major driver in economic dysfunction. Global supply chains became broken, impacting items from semiconductors to gym equipment. While the fragility of supply chains based in Chinese manufacturing had long been a talking point for hawks in the West, the failure of multiple critical supply chains during the pandemic cemented the idea of reshoring manufacturing across the political aisle in the US. Since taking office, the Biden administration has pursued major industrial policy with a view to decoupling critical industries from reliance on China. The financial sector has also been discouraged from investing in China over the past few years, with a range of policies and pressure campaigns ensuring that capital flows into China are crimped. And as a little bit of a self -shill, if you want to hear about how this has been impacting the development of their artificial intelligence field, go check that out. There continues to be incredible pressure on the Biden administration to even increase restrictions on export of AI -related technology to China, even though many of those restrictions are already in place. Anyway, heading back into the COVID era, as the rest of the world opened up and rolled back lockdowns in late 2021, China continued to be locked down into the strict zero COVID era. Many times, even when it appeared that things were on the verge of opening back up, some new outbreak would cause another lockdown, leading ultimately to citizens bristling at the continuation of tough track and trace policies. Another big notable event during this time was that in December of 2021, the massive Evergrande property development group defaulted on an interest payment on its corporate bonds. The property giant had been severely impacted by a crackdown on leverage within the property sector in 2020 and had struggled to refinance its debt. The tightening of credit standards was known as the three red lines policy and was intended to reduce the credit risk of home builders. When it collapsed, Evergrande had over 50 million apartments left unfinished, leaving homeowners to question whether they would ever receive finished units. The Evergrande failure precipitated further economic problems across China in 2022. Protesters staged demonstrations outside banks, with organized groups refusing to make mortgage payments on unfinished homes. In many cases, mortgages had been taken out prior to construction beginning, and so you can only imagine the frustration of people who were continuing to pay for homes that had been further and further delayed and who couldn't actually even live in them. In that same time period, multiple banks and wealth management products failed across the country and Chinese real estate in general entered its most severe downturn in history. Now the government did step in to manage the Evergrande failure and broader economic contagion. They were, however, in a tough position. Government policy around the restriction of credit to the property sector had been a major catalyst for the problems, but officials were reluctant to wind back the regulations entirely. President Xi Jinping has been outspoken about reducing the financialization of housing, stating, quote, houses are for living in, not for speculation. Now diving a little bit deeper into this area of the economy, the property sector is a key part of basically every major economy, but China takes this element to the extreme. China has one of the most overvalued housing markets in the world in relation to income. On average, an apartment cost over 30 times annual income, with major cities like Shanghai bringing this ratio as high as 50 times income. In the US, the ratio between housing costs and income is closer to four times on average and 10 times for major metros like New York and San Diego. Part of the reason housing is so expensive is that Chinese citizens use housing as a primary store of wealth. Again, this is true globally, but it's particularly lopsided in China. Housing accounts for more than 70 % of household wealth in China. Many people invest in property and then hold it vacant to preserve its value as a never lived in home. China has some of the highest rates of homeownership in the world, with as many as 90 % of households owning at least one property. This skew towards the property sector is largely a function of mistrust in other domestic assets, as well as tight capital controls. The Chinese stock market is notoriously opaque and lacking in the disclosure rules that provide a semblance of investor protection in the West. And while managed investment products are popular, they're often just proxies for exposure to the property sector. Analysts typically measure the Chinese property sector as representing around 30 % of Chinese GDP, which compares to the estimates of around 17 % in the US. Now other countries, including Canada and Australia, have similar levels of household wealth and GDP contribution from the property sector. But the key difference for the Chinese housing industry is the sheer scale of the market. Chinese real estate is estimated to be worth $42 .7 trillion. This is slightly larger than the US real estate market in aggregate, and even a few trillion dollars bigger than the total market capitalization of the entire US stock market. Many point to Chinese real estate then as the largest asset class in the world, and it is going down hard right now. Official data has new home prices down 2 .4 % across China since their peak in August of 2021. Existing homes have dropped by 6 % in the same time. This is already a massive drop for a housing market that was generally assumed to go up forever, but these official average figures don't tell the whole story. In China, closing prices for real estate are not public, so the official data is an estimate at best and a political fabrication at worst. The data relies on surveys and has significant smoothing to dampen trends. This makes turning points difficult to capture and could mean the official data is not telling the full story. Private data from property agents shows major markets like Shanghai and Shenzhen falling by at least 15 % in prime neighborhoods. The real estate surrounding Alibaba's headquarters is estimated to have lost a quarter of its value. Goldman Sachs economist Wang Lishang said, Now, alongside the fall in the housing market, more acute problems in the financial sector have also sprung up recently. At the end of July, Zhongrong International Trust Company missed payments across dozens of wealth management products. The company is a gigantic player in the Chinese shadow banking sector, which intermediates loans between individuals and private lenders. They primarily deal in the sale of real estate backed bonds, and at least 30 products are now overdue, and the company have said they have no immediate plans to make clients whole. Chinese authorities have set up a task force to investigate potential contagion, and banking regulators are looking into risks at the firm's part owner, Zhongjie Enterprise Group. Zhongjie managed around $138 billion. Jason Hsu, chief investment officer of Raelient Global Advisors, said, This was one that everyone knew was going to blow up. Overall, there are 106 trust products across the country in default through to July of this year, worth around $6 billion in principle. Real estate investments have accounted for 74 % of default by value. Corporate defaults are also up in recent months. June and July recorded missed payments on more than a billion dollars in domestic notes. That's the worst stretch since last December and January, which was punctuated by the default of Evergrande. This time around, the problem seems centered on an even larger property developer called Country Garden. The firm is considered by most to be the largest home builder in China and has more than four times as many outstanding projects as Evergrande. Country Garden has missed payments on its dollar -denominated bonds and is currently inside a 30 -day grace period prior to a formal default. Trading has been suspended on at least 11 onshore notes, and payment extension proposals are in the works. Country Garden's January 2024 dollar bond issuance traded at 9 cents earlier this week, an implied yield of 2 ,500%, just to give you an idea of how the market is pricing the firm's chance of recovery here. Now, as credit risk rips through domestic markets, China's major state -owned banks have been told to sell dollars to buy yuan in both onshore and offshore markets. According to anonymous sources speaking to Reuters, Chinese banks have been propping up the yuan throughout the week in an attempt to control the decline of the currency. Now, standard caveat on quoting Zero Hedge, but Zero Hedge is also reporting that Beijing have urged investment funds not to sell off Chinese stocks. Taking a step back, up until recently, the Chinese reopening was a major narrative for markets. There had been turmoil across China over the last two years, but many investors consoled themselves that China would reopen strong and provide some much -needed growth to the global economy. What's happened is almost the complete opposite. Chinese growth has come in weak and sputtered along since reopening. It now looks like China is headed for a recession at best, if not a full -blown financial crisis. Carnegie Endowment senior fellow Michael Pettis wrote, It may seem like terrible luck and amazing coincidence that so many things are going wrong in the Chinese economy at the same time. But of course, it is not a coincidence at all. This is how systemic imbalances work themselves out. I've often written about the Minskyan dynamics of long periods in which market variables move persistently in the same direction. When that happens, businesses, banks, local governments, and households who implicitly or explicitly take too much one -direction risk systematically outperform those that don't, until eventually the operations and balance sheets of much of the economy are directly or indirectly leveraged to those variables. That is why, when that variable finally reverses, the damage can often be much greater than anyone expected, mainly because no one understood the extent of the implicit and explicit exposures. Decades of surging property prices, expanding liquidity, and contracting credit spreads in China have created an economy in which balance sheets have highly correlated mismatches and distortions. In that case, the impact of an eventual reversal is brutally hard to predict. What about the response? Well, three weeks ago, when it had become clear that China was entering another period of economic distress, Chinese leaders vowed to provide more support. The Politburo pledged to spur consumer spending, tackle unemployment, and backstop the property sector. However, details were sorely lacking. The Politburo's statement acknowledged that the economic recovery after reopening was making quote torturous progress and that it was necessary to quote actively expand domestic demand and expand consumption by increasing residents' income. Julian Evans -Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics, lamented the lack of a clear plan. He said at the time, Given how bad things are at the moment, it is a bit disappointing that they didn't give us some figures. And while their statement did recognize the risk to the economy, Evans -Pritchard said quote, They are not so desperate that they feel the need to resort to the old -school Big Bang stimulus. What he's referring to is that during prior downturns during the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2012 euro crisis, the CCP was eager to dole out massive stimulus on the supply side. The Chinese government directed the stockpiling of commodities and gigantic infrastructure projects to keep growth ticking over at a fast pace despite global economic turmoil. This time around, as of yet, there is no clear policy, just haphazard emergency interventions. For example, the People's Bank of China has cut rates, but there's a limit to what monetary stimulus can do to support consumption. This time, the problem is deflation, a collapse of demand. Until now, Chinese policymakers have largely been able to keep the economy out of the ditch using only supply -side stimulus, but it's not clear that that will work again. Late on Monday, Kai Fang, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the PBOC, warned that emergency rate cuts would not be enough. He said, Fang joins a growing chorus of economists insisting on direct transfer payments to consumers in order to support spending. This option has been controversial with senior Politburo figures, however, and so far Beijing has ignored the suggestion. Many have suggested instead that tax and fee cuts for companies were the most direct, fair, and efficient way to stimulate the economy. Senior Party members also have a history of warning against the Of course, the concern is that the underlying problem might be a simple lack of capacity. China's government resources are distributed through numerous local governments. These governments typically raise funding through land sales, but with the property sector in trouble, this line of revenue is less viable. There has also been an ongoing dispute between the central party and provincial governments. During the turmoil of the last few years, Beijing has been reluctant to come to the aid of overindebted regional governments. Estimates vary wildly due to the large amount of off -balance sheet liabilities, but Goldman Sachs analysts think there could be as much as $13 trillion in debt held by local governments. China's GDP is around $17 trillion annually, so there could be significantly less fiscal space for stimulus than the publicly disclosed figures imply. Liu Chao, professor of finance at Peking University, said, Now, as you might imagine, overarching all of these economic problems are the very real political considerations. Tensions around the rule of President Xi Jinping have started to come to a head around the financial turmoil of the last two years. For the first time, we've seen evidence of open protests against Xi on the mainland. Now, of course, it's impossible to tell how widespread the antipathy towards Xi is, but it's hard not to view at least some of the events of the last couple years as cracks emerging. And so really where we're left to do a very brief summary is a situation in which a set of challenges are converging all at the same time. And they're a set of challenges not necessarily easily solved by old techniques. Officials are caught between wanting to run back the old playbook and trying to figure out if there's a new playbook that'll work better. Michael Pettis again wrote, What got China into this mess has been over a decade of massive amounts of investment in unnecessary infrastructure and empty apartments. If this investment had been economically justified, rising debt would have been more than matched by rising productive capacity and GDP, which means local government debt would have never become the problem it has clearly become. I understand why many policy advisors are so worried about China's economic slowdown, that they are turning again to the old policies that boosted GDP in the past. But more of the same won't get China out of the mess that more of the same got it into. Now, of course, outside of China, the big questions are how a Chinese recession or slowdown or even financial crisis will impact the global economy. One thing that some observers have noted is that we haven't had a normal business cycle recession in so long. In other words, we haven't had a downturn precipitated by anything other than a financial crisis for so long that we kind of don't know how to handle it. We don't really have a playbook for what to do with it, at least not one that's been updated recently. To some extent, I wonder if the not knowingness of the situation is contributing to the anxiety around it, but as with any macro topic, it is an extremely dense, complex, nuanced intertwined set of issues. And so the best we can do is keep trying to keep track of it and recontextualize as new events teach us more about what's happening. Hope this was a helpful primer, at least a little bit on what's going on. Until next time, peace.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "metro" discussed on Mark Levin
"System recorded several milestones this week. On Wednesday September 20th nearly 4 .2 million MetroCard swipes were recorded and that's the fourth time inside of two weeks that subway ridership went past the 4 million mark. Catherine Rinaldi of the MTA. We had 100 percent OTP yesterday morning we're breaking records all over the place at MTA. OTP referring to on -time performance LIRR sold 242 ,000 tickets Wednesday Metro North carried 224 ,000 riders Tuesday a post -pandemic record high. James Flippen for 77WABC News. There's a wake tonight for the one -year -old boy who died after being exposed to fentanyl on a Bronx daycare. Nicholas Domenici will be laid to rest in Yonkers tomorrow one week ago Nicholas died by ingesting fentanyl with three other children were sickened by the drug the daycare center owner and her cousin -in -law arrested while cops are still hunting for the daycare owner's husband. President Biden establishing is a first -of -its -kind office of gun violence prevention. I'm proud to announce the creation of a first -ever
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A highlight from The Mysterious Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition
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"Fitsmall .com and find your electric ride today. Check out the Subaru Solterra, Hyundai Ionic or Toyota the BZ4X at fitsmall .com, that's the Fitzway. Dave DelDine, WTOP traffic. The forecast now from 7news First Alert meteorologist Steve Rudin. Cloudy skies will give way to scattered showers this evening with moderate to heavy rain overnight and extending through the day on Saturday, Tropical Storm Warning for southern Maryland, Calvert and St. Mary's Counties, a wind advisory for the metro area and a coastal flood advisory for the tidal Potomac. Could see upwards of three to four inches of rain in southern Maryland, two to four inches around the metro area with daytime highs only in the 60s. Weathermaker is finally going to move on out of here Sunday. I'm 7news Meteorologist Steve Rudin of the First Alert Weather Center. Well the storm system is already spewing off some rain in St. Mary's County around Lexington Park and then across the river into the northern neck of Virginia. We'll be keeping on top of this all through the weekend. Otherwise we are looking at temperatures that remain in the 70s. We're at 70 in Fairfax. 71 in College Park National Mall. Checks in at 71 were brought to you by Long Fence. Save 25 % on Long Fence decks, pavers and fences. Six months,
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Mark J. Brandenburg's New Book Reveals Truth About Police Stress
"I'm talking to Arthur, author Mark Brandenburg about his brand new book, Fence Jumper. It's about a Secret Service agent who gets into some trouble and then it develops into a DC novel of manners. But Mark, I told you when we were going out. You introduced Metropolitan Police Detective Derek Rowland on page forty nine and on page two, you know, 250 pages later, he's having a conversation with a young FBI agent outside the Willard Hotel in his Crown Vic, which is really kind of a serious moment about being a local policeman. Did you put that in there purposely? I did. I did. So before I was a Secret Service agent, I was a police officer in a suburb of Kansas City, a police department for five years. Now, obviously, I've worked with police officers all over the country. So Derek Rowland, I'm glad you like the character so much because he's one of the most enjoyable characters to write in the entire work. And it just kind of came easy because I had met so many police officers. I know the personalities. He's an aging Metro cop who's seen it all. And he was just a fun character to write. And also having him play off the younger FBI agent who at first he's not real thrilled with, but as it progresses, the relationship gets better. And he's also a coincidentally, Derek Rowland, one of my best friends, is still a police officer. Johnny Rowland is kind of an ode to him. That's why I named him Rowland at the end. Well, I got to say, when you say there comes a time when you're just tired of being lied to and then you talk about the emotional toll. I was just in my 45th college reunion and one of my buddies has a son who's a cop on a major Metropolitan Police Department, and she's convinced that every street cop has got to have a mandatory meeting with a counselor every three to six months because of the accumulated amount of mental stress. And you communicate that in three pages. It's like talking to Hillary when I talk to her about her son, because, my gosh, the stress just is cumulative.
AP News Radio
Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
"Germany transport officials, say millions of people have jumped on a new national travel scheme. Public transport companies say more than 3 million people have already snapped up a new ticket launch Monday, allowing them to use all local and regional trains, buses and metros across the country for just €49. That's $53.9 a month. The schemes considered a revolution in Germany's fractured public transport system where dozens of regional companies offer a variety of different fair options that tend to baffle most travelers, also officials hope to encourage people to ditch their cars in favor of more environmentally friendly forms of transport. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jeremy Carl Details the Evolving Political Landscape of Montana
"Cut 38. This is happening in Montana. Montana's more liberal than people realize. I want to talk, you know, Jeremy, because it involves the Senate race. People don't get it. And I said Missoula, I met Helena, but Missoula is more left wing than Stalingrad. That place is out of control. You got university of Montana there. Boseman is not too far behind it with Montana state university. Play cut 38 please. Let's post it. Literally holding them hostage. And again, this is such a this is such an exhausted way of commentating on radio and television, but I have to do it. Could you imagine if those people were wearing maga hats and a bunch of cowboys? Could you imagine how the media would respond? It's actually an appropriate thing to keep on saying. It just kind of gets a little tired because no one really cares. But Jeremy, tell us about Montana. I'm worried about Montana. You know, you're letting a lot of Californians into your state. It's not as right wing as people think. Now is it maybe I'm wrong because I heard one interesting point from somebody I trust they said, but Charlie it's mostly Republicans moving into the state is that true? I do think that post COVID it's been a much more Republican movement. And that's good to hear. Keep going. Yeah. And I've actually done some very micro analysis of the Senate like county by county district from the census. And what you see is people moving into conservative and rural counties. You have the most conservative in the last year, metro in Montana, which is callous bell the flat head up near glacier national park growing twice as fast as Boseman, which is more liberal to kind of near where I live. But still a mixed district and I have to say, I know tons of conservatives who have moved here just in the last few years. We are quite a ways from boulder. It's not an accident that the Montana GOP got its first super majority in the legislatures in the last century just this last cycle.
AP News Radio
Ex-officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor hired as a deputy
"The former officer believed to have killed Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement, about 50 miles from Louisville, Kentucky. The Carroll county sheriff's office confirmed that the former Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor has been hired as a deputy. Miles cosgrove was never charged by a grand jury in the death, but he was fired from the Louisville metro police department for violating use of force procedures and failing to use a body camera in the raid during which Breonna Taylor was killed. Cosgrove fired 16 shots into the apartment, federal ballistics experts say they believe the shot that killed Taylor came from cosgrove's gone. Last year the Kentucky law enforcement council voted not to revoke cosgrove's certification, which meant he could apply for other law enforcement jobs in the state. Taylor's death rose to public attention after her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department in the city and challenged the police narrative. I'm Jennifer King.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
New York Post: FBI Is Stalling the Release of Audrey Hale's Manifesto
"An update. This again is from the reporting of the New York Post. And they're citing a Nashville politician who says it's actually the FBI, so the local police want to be able to release this manifesto of the transgender terrorist, but it's the FBI that stepped in and said, no, you can not release this information. Now, metro Nashville council member Courtney Johnston told the New York Post quote what I was told is her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction and it was so detailed at the level of what she had planned. The council member goes on to say that document and the wrong person's hands would be astronomically dangerous. So I want you to read between the lines here and what they're not telling us is that this individual targeted a Christian school. And by the way, our understanding is perhaps others were targeted as well. Fortunately, the police came in and took out the terrorists. But that this was literally directed at people of faith. Because of this person's selected gender identity. Now, according to the council member, the FBI is stalling the release and they say even if it happens only a portion of the manifesto will be made public. Quote, I personally don't want to know the depths to which her psychosis reached when I'm told by a high ranking police official that it keeps him up at night, I'm going to defer that person to that person and that agency that I don't need to read it.
AP News Radio
Black lawmaker who was expelled reinstated to Tennessee seat
"One of the two black Democrats expelled by colleagues in the Tennessee legislature over a gun control protest is already back at work in the chamber. Less than 5 days later, at a special meeting of the Nashville metropolitan council to fill the seat opened by the expulsion of representative Justin Jones. Mayor John Cooper announces Jones is voted back in on a temporary basis until there's a new election. It's expected the same will happen in Shelby county, with fellow expelled lawmaker Justin Pearson. Jones supporters include metro council member, delissa porterfield. We witness a miscarriage of justice and an egregious of thought on our democracy. And with his supporters singing, Jones marched to the state capitol blocks away and took the oath of office. Jones and Pearson say it's not just gun control. Their race and their youth make them a target for some in the Tennessee legislature. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Louisville bank employee livestreamed attack that killed 4
"Police in Louisville, Kentucky say a bank employee opened fire at his workplace, killing at least four people. The victims were inside the old national bank when the gunman started shooting. Louisville metro police chief Jack and gwynne villarroel on W HAS TV says he was armed with a rifle and live streamed the killing on social media. Someone decided that they wanted to take life today. She's thinking of the victim's families. The evil that took place today, we shouldn't hear the tears. They were coming out. From these families. And a rookie officer who was shot in the head on the job for less than two weeks. Troy haste was inside a conference room when the shots rang out. Whoever's next to me got shot and hit Bloods on me from it. Kentucky governor Andy beshear is grieving the loss of a close friend who was at the bank and another gun tragedy in his state. I tear at the fabric of who we are at our society. I'm Jackie Quinn.
AP News Radio
Police: Bank employee killed 4 killed in Louisville shooting
"Police in Louisville, Kentucky say a 23 year old bank employee opened fire at his workplace, killing at least four people. The victims were inside the old national bank when the gunman started shooting. Louisville metro police chief Jack and gwynne villarroel on W HAS TV says he was armed with a rifle and live streamed the killing on social media. Someone decided that they wanted to take life today. She's thinking of the victim's families. The evil that took place today, we shouldn't hear the tears. They were coming out. From these families. And a rookie officer who was shot in the head on the job for less than two weeks. Troy haste was inside a conference room when the shots rang out. Who was next to me got shot and hit Bloods on me from it. Kentucky governor Andy beshear is grieving the loss of a close friend who was at the bank and another gun tragedy in his state. I tear at the fabric of who we are at our society. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Nashville council to vote on restoring ousted state lawmaker
"Nashville officials could be poised to reinstate one of two black Democrats expelled by the Republican colleagues at the state House last Thursday. Nashville's metro council has called a Monday meeting to address the vacancy left by the expulsion of former state representative Justin Jones, many council members have publicly commented that they want to send Jones back to the state House essentially turning his expulsion into a long weekend, Jones spoke with NBC's meet the press. This was not as an attack on us, but it was an attempt at silence our districts. Jones and colleague Justin Pearson of Memphis, who are black, were propelled into the national spotlight when the Tennessee House voted to expel them for using a bull horn at the podium in support of gun violence protesters, as for Pearson, he's awaiting word from Shelby county Tennessee, commissioners meet Wednesday, and could pick Pearson to fill his own vacancy. It's unclear how House Republicans would respond to seeing the lawmakers they kicked out sent right back, special elections for the seats would take place in coming months. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Expelled Tennessee lawmakers both seeking seats again
"Two black lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives last week over a gun control protest say they hoped to be reappointed by county officials and then reelected. Ousted Nashville representative Justin Jones thinks his constituents are going to put him back in office. He says the expulsion was as much about resistance to diversity as it was about gun control. Our presence as young black voices for our constituencies, people who will not bow down, those who will not be conformed. That's what made put a target on us. Joan spoke on NBC's meet the press along with ousted Memphis lawmaker, Justin Pearson. It's about us not belonging in the institution because they are afraid of the changes that are happening in our society and the voices that are being elevated. Both say it's their constituents that wind up being silent. A special meeting of the Nashville metro council has been called. Jones could be reappointed. I'm Jackie Quinn.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Thousands Converge at Tennessee State Capitol for 'Transurrection'
"Anth is very moment. There are thousands of people that have converged on the Tennessee state capitol for a transection. Now this is, I mean, again, if you want to compare it to whatever happened on J 6, I suppose you can do that. I'm just using the rules that Democrats have put forward, so using the rules of the Democrats, this would, in fact, be an insurrection, but because this is an insurrection that supports the elimination of the Second Amendment and in defense of the transgender movement, we on this program are calling it a transection. Now I want to set the stage for you here and I want to explain why this is important because this kind of nonsense is happening and is going to happen at state houses all across America. Just remember, just remember, the left now understands the power of the state House. And in Tennessee, we are controlled by a super majority of Republicans. They control everything, and it's great. And we live in a state where we do not have an income tax. We live in a state where parents have a big say and what happens to their local public schools. We live in a state where now it is illegal for doctors to make millions of dollars by medically mutilating children. And we also have a new law on the books that does not allow a child to go to a sexually exotic drag show or any other sort of sexually provocative program. And we can debate the merits of that law, is it an overreach, probably so, but at least at least the lawmakers are trying to do something. So a few days ago, there was a horrible shooting in Nashville. You know the story covenant Christian school. And 6 people were killed by a transgender person with a gun. Armed to the teeth. We don't know how this person was able to acquire all the firepower. They say she got all the guns legally, but she had no job and she was living at home with her parents at the age of 28 years old. And thank God for members of the metro Nashville police department who went in there and took out the bad guy,
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Scott Couch: Latest Developments From Nashville School Shooting
"Of new developments? It seems like every few minutes we're learning something new, one of the things I continue to believe is morning is we've got some new definitive information about how the head mistress at this school Catherine coons came out of her office, left a Zoom call to confront the shooter and was shot down outside her office, one of the metro council and here who serves that district and the connection inside the school also law enforcement background, provided that information initially, it was backed up by the chief of women's challenge break saying that, yeah, by the way, her body was down in the hallway. It appears that she has another hero stepped up to put herself in between pure evil and the children at her school. And then just a little while before we were preparing to come on, I learned from my office that the actress, Melissa Joan Hart, who I believe was just been a number of things, but that's Sabrina, the teenage witch was going to national television shows, lives in the area. She had her husband over on their way for a conference at their children's school, not the school, but nearby. And were among those who helped children cross busy. As they emerged from the Woods, being led by school personnel to escape that shooter and it's just one thing after another. And then late last night, we learned that our own governor Bill Lee had a personal connection to this tiny school of just a little over 200 students. The substitute teacher, misses peak, who was just there for the day, turns out she's a very close friend, close personal friend of our First Lady in Tennessee, and was to have dinner with the governor and his wife after a home after subbing at the school that day. And just the transit is just stuck in the compound and the heartbreak and all the people with personal connections to it. These things impact a community for a lifetime.
AP News Radio
"Multiple patients" in Nashville school shooting; gunman killed by police
"There's been another school shooting in America with reports of three dead and multiple injuries in a private school in Nashville, Tennessee. There are images of students in their parochial school uniforms being let out hand in hand by police. The covenant school has about 200 students, grades pre-K through 6th, metro Nashville police say the gunman is dead, after a firefight with officers. A local reporter's mother in law works at the school and said she had gone outside for a break when
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"We're going to continue our ethos series the small so before we do so. Let's just pray logo. Thank you for this opportunity to once again just to be here to be with each other to worship in this place we remember lusty logo when we restrictions. And this time we weren't able to meet together. We certainly weren't able to raise our voices open to sing together and to worship and to come together and just open up prescriptions license so we may help as never take this for granted. Low got never take this opportunity for granted being able to see to to chat to which of the ketchup lookout shirl life with one another. And i just pray that you at blesses as weekend every time that we gather that we'd get a sense not just of this being to give a sense of you in the mix of all of that logo that you is pulling goes together. It's us that's lead in the conversations and even now as we open up the scriptures as we opened up your word lookout. I pray that you would draw to each other and drawers to yourself look you. Would you would bind together as we used to sing. Jesus in the old course you'd bindis together with codes that cannot be broken and a would be in the midst of all of this logo. We really do want you to be the center of what we are about as follows of eulogies. And so we pray that you bless that you would hope in the hearts they would open upon lines today as we just as we just come and we sit low god at your feet and we learned from you in. Jesus name amen. So we're gonna continue our series on. We've been looking at the things that matter to as a church. It metro christian center. We've already looked at the fact. That scripture is important to us that we are seekers that we have seek god is important. Is that the spirit of god is importance over the past two weeks. We stressed out for two weeks. We've looked at the importance of service and this morning we're going to. We're going to look at some. I think is really crucial. Even though all of that was also really crucial. I'm gonna talk about something it's really really close to. my heart. thinks something that we really should oughta valley was a church and i don't think churches generally value enough but that's is the importance of sabbath and not i want us to be a sabbath church and i'll explain as we go and but if you have your bible with you if you consume would mcleese to matthew chapter eleven verse twenty five to thirty says come to.
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"We have another guy who's a regular who you will recognize without shadow without if you've ever been in his initials a and he really struggles to make ends meet. He often goes without food to feed his dog. Oh here we brought to see me as my early birthday present the other day because i like dogs. He attends trust house four times a week and accesses the communes to cafe. He's also a member of the country and he has had advice on managing his money and accessing benefits. We are beginning to scratch the surface of this guy. Even though we've probably known him. I dunno a two and a half years. I don't think we know the full extent of what's going on in his life and what's going on in his life. He talks a lot but he doesn't say much. I mean then i'm going to bring you to a lovely woman coach j. and she had a baby on the day. After lockdown started that when she heard the news about she was like come on baby. Let's get a baby right on the day before lockdown. She was a first time. Mom single mom no family around her and she really struggled during the first few months one of her neighbors told her go to trust house. That look what an amazing.
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"We're gonna continue us ethos series. The smaller would just going to have a look at the things that matter to us in this series of church at metro christian center and he'd been with the past couple weeks then we we've journeyed fact. That scripture is important to us every time we get together as a church. We are going to wrestle with scripture. We're going to engage with the scriptures. Last week halen looked at this. Being seekers is important. We are seekers of god. Is the very famous manner. Very famous preacher writer. Many go a guy called eighty eight to of for anyone who said of him and he said this wonderful thing. That's found god and to still seek after god is the souls power docks of you. Don't have to worry about. Stanton stresses the point that even though we have got the something more of god and this something yet. Paul picks up as well. It doesn't have any writes the asians that he wishes they would know that. That from the from the length. Of god's little unless we ellen impressed this importance of seeking after christ just like paul the apostle seeking the show in his sufferings the show in his life and to share in the power of his resurrection. And this morning. I'm going to take us through the fact that the spirit holy spirit is important to as as well very very important. Now i this this many things we can say about the holy spirit. I'm very. I'm very mature word. It's more than that. The whole experience is a big topic and we re are pentecostal church. And we spend a long time. And i'm not gonna certainly i'm not gonna touch everything smart. I'm only going on a bit of an aspect and my intent is next year next year. We'll do a series on the holy spirit more focused on the holy spirit and explore a bit more wide in a bit more deeper. But i want to do this morning. It's sean the fact of the fact that the host is is essential to church. You can't have church without the holy spirit. It is impossible. I just want to kind of switch. Always we're going to open up the scriptures of your bible with you. I'd love you to turn the john chapter fourteen. I'm gonna invites He's gonna read. We're going to many places that we could turn to in the old and new testaments on the holy spirit huddle around jesus words in john fourteen and as a bit of context to these words as you find them and just before serums and read jesus just washed the disciples feet in the super the beginning of john thirteen and from john thirteen onwards numerous points with jesus mentions in john rights mentioned says he writes that the hour had come for jesus to enter into his glory to jesus just about to face the crucifixion and the resurrection in following ascension. And so what we have in. John thirteen all the way through to the end of john. Seventeen is jesus putting words. What some people call his the well discourse to his disciples the things that are impressed on the spirit that really wants to them to understand before he leaves them as is encountered sales policies and words and jesus frequently refers to the holy spirit. And so we're going to look. At this thirst. Instances i reference to jesus talking about the holy spirit and service is going to come up and read john fourteen starting from i one all the way to i twenty six. Dan let your heart be troubled. Believe in god. Believe also in me in my father's house and my many many rooms..
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"If i were to testify on my own behalf. My testimony would not be valid. But someone else is also testifying about me. And i can assure you that everything he about me is true. In fact you sent messengers to listen to john. The baptist and he preached the truth but the best testimony about me is not from a man though. I reminded you about john's testimony. So you might be saved. John shem brightly for a while and you benefit rejoiced. What's high of a greater witness. John my teachings and my miracles. They have been assigned to me by the father and they testified that the father has sent me and the father himself as also testified about me. You have never heard his voice off seen him face to face and you do not have his message in your hearts because you do not believe me. The one he sent to you. You search the scriptures because you believe there give you eternal life but the scriptures point to me yet. You refuse to come to me so i can give you this eternal life. Your approval or disapproval means nothing to me. Because i know you don't have god's love within you for i have come to you representing my father and you refuse to welcome me. Even though you readily accept others represent only themselves. No wonder you can't believe for you. Gladly honor each other. But you don't care about the honor that comes from alone yet. it is not i. You will accuse you of this before the father. Moses will accuse you yes moses on set your hope but if you had believed moses you would have believe me because he wrote about me and since you don't believe what he wrote. How will you believe what i say. Thank you steph. That's just praises before we jump into this passage. Just mom logo. We thank you for the opportunity to be in here today. Just to open up your scripts and just to hear what you have said about. Some and i pray you'd help us today. I pray that you would help us with your spirit. Look you with guidance that you'd speak to us. I pray you help me and my ineptness in my fragility in my fallibility to to kind of speak. What you've played them. A hot as i've opened up the scripture over the past couple of weeks now really prelude. You would help that you would help you. We reminded little got even later on john's gospel. Look at the. You said that you've sent you spirit helpless and to lead us into. And so i i pray as we as we open up this tax the morning as we look at it as we think about it as we let it wrestle with us i credit your spirit would guide us. Spirit would lead us into all truth so that we could reflect you. I know you and worship you in. Jesus name amen. It's an interesting text isn't it it. It's an interesting text isn't it. It's a law in the john's gospels. A fantastic fantastic people and it says this. I'm just gonna count assuming on this on seven. Two i nine..
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"Hope we understand that we are people are the book. And it's a peculiar thing. But i make no apologies when i say this. But one of values as metro christian center is that we will actively engage with the scriptures always. We will wrestle with them and we will let them wrestle with us. We're never going to look anywhere else. Whenever going to pick up another book we might use analogies and illustrations. As i often to. This is what we are about. We are people of a book and the big question is why. Why are we people other book. Well i could say something very simple. Like i say simple but something along the lines of what john calvin said in this wounds. He wrote a very slim volume at eighteen hundred page long volume. Cool the institutes of the christian religion in the fifty nine. I ended up in bookie kinda described scriptures as being a sets of glasses that we've put them on and fruit of scriptures when we look through to scriptures we see god. It's the script. Is the brain goal of blurry. Fuzzy confused ideas about god into focus. But what does that mean. What does that mean exactly. What happens if you put those losses on upside down and what happens if if the person were in those losses decides to interpret what they're seeing fritos classes differently than what the losses are trying to show us. i'm. Furthermore if the scriptures bring something into focus the scriptures bring ideas into focus is that focus were is not focused point. And so we're going to explore this this morning. I'm going to practice what we preach. We're going to jump into the scriptures and into the text together. Answer if you have a bible with you this one. I hope you do and can i encourage you to bring a bible with you to church and if you do not have a bible. Ask us and we'll supply you would want but if you have your scriptures with small. We're going to jump into a story in john's gospel and in chapter five. I'm going to read from verse. Thirty one in minute but in john's gospel chapter five. Before we read from going to invite steph in a moment to come and read from that foamy before rita's just give you a little bit of contact. John chapter five and chapter five. Jesus causes of rookus. I don't even notice this. Jesus could calm storms. But jesus always had a way of kind of kicking up a bit of a rookus innovative still as well and it's cho's a bit of a commotion and at the start of john chapter five. Jesus heals a man man. He's been laying thirty seven years and he commands them. Onto pickup is sleeping and to walk..
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"For those who give us the encouragement and the feedback on the series. Thank you for that. It's been a great thing to do. It was a pleasure a and it was a challenge. It always the challenge to kind of garoppolo. Would those words those wonderful incredible words to kind of spoke in in in the sermon. The mountain i said to someone they have started a series. I was the first time. I've actually had the opportunity despite all the years. I've preached the first time actually preached with a focus on the beatitudes which is crazy to think about but it was a great pleasure to and the reason just to remind you why we did is a series reason. We wanted to do that. Is we want to kind of continue to work in a heart as a church. we wanna be kingdom orientated. People we want to be salt and light. We want to be people of humility. We want to be people have laments and hope as we should be out you want to be people who make people who crave got people who are merciful and so we want to kind of build on continued to build and as we leave the beatitudes series and we launch into a new series. This morning the reason for doing so still remains the same. We want work and our heart as metro christian center in bury and whitefield and to be honest with you when we go into the series to follow this and the series that follows on a series that follows down. Whatever comes off that way. It's still the same purpose. we just wanna work in. A hot as scott's people. Because that work i don't know about you were never ceases. It never comes to an end and we're never going to rush through. We never just gonna think that's over because hall. Surgery is not something that you shrew and god wants to do heart surgery on us. He wants to work in our hearts and so over coming weeks. We're going to spend some time on a series called ethos and on the back of this this to kind of pre new. I say pre warned us. Not the right word warn. Encourage you on. The back of this is also launching the series after seven weeks. And this we're gonna launch an interest series on the apostles creed which i'm really really looking for to don't be worried you're gonna love it and you're going to be excited about it. Don't worry it's going to be the next few weeks we're going to spend some time looking e. for fossil values to things that are important to us as we seek to express the centrality of jesus christ so we're going to look at scripture. We're gonna look at the fact that we are seekers of god. We're going to look at the fact that we are spirit. People spirit filled people. Not as important is we're going to look at the importance of service but also gonna look at the importance of sabbath that we do not want to be a people burnt. How have burnout culture. We're going to look at the importance of church being a sanctuary also. Look at the importance of stories that are stories are on every single one of us has a story and that story has been wrapped up in the story of god.
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"Price and then maybe it'll be interested to fund out more about who is these. Jesus are we ready to represent him. Are we ready to be called peacemaker. And if you want to please. Jesus influence daily life. This we become automatic. Tumor tick let peace be depr- to patient of your heart and mind. You might say. There is nothing i can do. These things are high-skilled thing. War won't and i do. Yes you can do. Something is pray for the peace in the world. And you pray you pray and mine impact the outcome of what we see. Remember abram pray to go with the impression in gomorrah moses pray to god when is rated seen again god times time and you know most of the time. God relented wanted to do so church. It is our responsibility to be pied by the peace in the world. But we can't do it if we don't have peace within ourselves and the only way we can have peace ourself is living jesus and our life. We're ready for it. It's pretty load. we thank you. Thank you because you love us. We thank you because you've chosen us. We thank you because we've got these massive responsibility because we know you to be peacemaker and to an fears thinks in the world lord may appear an impossible times but you are the prince of peace and the god of peace you say that is the following. You our characteristic. A one of our characteristic is peacemaking. We can't do it by ourself. We can't do it by a power. We can't do it with our human mindset. We call you into our life. Lord i pray that is a church who understand these things that would be would be power if we can understand that piece is crucial in our daily life let us support each of the lead tossed approach pine piece. Make be our and be the center of everything we do in our life in our church in our community in our in jesus amen..
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"The second world war and you know the purpose was trying to head. The won't know to have this will woes anymore. Question is since then up to today. How many days of peace every hit that we can. that's to global. Never let's say how many days of peace the would have had since then government of organize all sorts of think also of meeting and freeze going over there to try to create peace. How many days of peace. The award have have hanged let bringing again in our community. Just watch the news. what are we talking about. The world today is about race. The world today is about six assault the war today's decides of peace that god intended for us. What simply because human being for her wide. We're trying to play god. We think we can solve issues by ourselves. The world have been posted a rejecting god that we see yesterday. We're celebrating. What is still a should nine eleven. What this celebration nine. Eleven thinkable ticked church. We don't.
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"Laugh. And someone standing close as a miracle. It's a work of got then. I think you need to look at jesus. Christ because as an example when jesus healed those could not walk did not give them gold legs or a gold. Walking for frame did just point out elvis. He gave them something thaw bets. Restored function to the natural legs. So why would handle gold teeth. When a natural tooth is the better thing someone stands up and he calls to hate somebody or some group. What's the scene to treat them as enemies that needs to be attacked or treated like superhuman a sucking second class people a navy base that hates on on the on the nationality ethnicity euro cooler or the background. And he's so declared at this is god's will then we really need to look at jesus who taught us to love our enemies and invited us to be the very next beatitudes invited us to be peacemakers. Because it's the peacemaker. Caesar said he wanted children of god. And you love jesus. He loved and served all humanity. And the jesus who gave his life full everybody even the worst of sinners every body and he calls us his disciples to exhibit that same level of mercy not same level of sympathy as ellen exploded last week as we love over the degrades assign of lavas. What's laying your life down on behalf of this not taking lives book giving your life. Did he examples. Could go on and on and on but the point is jesus is where we see god and we're getting confused. It's that we go back to. And we've read everything else through christ but i wonder i really do wonder and this is true of me. Not just you sit in and listen. It's true of me. How often do we base our ideas of got an own thinking or our own prejudices own wants instead of looking at what jesus got to set about himself in jesus christ or stop famous puts lean not on your own understanding.
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"Everything they have is a gift. Everything are came out of the weakness every blessing day of received and every blessing. They ought to bestow emerged from a cry of help. All they are is grace all we are today. All we are is grace. I wanna think about these words of jesus when i think about this beatitudes. I wonder if he's hinting as he as he throws out this theme of the history. I wonder if he's going back. I wonder if he's throwing back the history and he may be going back to the origins of israel not just as a nation but before israel's our nation it was a person is a person cold jacob into stores if genesis. Jacob is a struggling. He's a wrestler. he's a grasp. Now i know a lot about amish kausar. But he's grasp easily grasp. I've you if you can't do a quick review of a story it. We could review a story this acting. I suppose i of a sense of privilege acting out of a sense of privilege. Jacob takes advantage of his brothers weakness and desperation and he steals e source birthright. You can read about the and genesis twenty five. That's the story of a sense of privilege. Jacob says blind father and rob see sauce blessing. He can read that in genesis chapter. Twenty seven out of a sense of pride out of a sense of injury and arrogance and superiority jacob manipulates. His uncle aban stressed and he cheats amount of the best of his flock. And you can read about in genesis chapter thirteen and we re often familiar with those stories and there. Numerous when i've heard those stories preached and we wrongly take jacob side like these the good guy we often look at it and say well the problem. Isn't jacob the problem was e saw stupid stupid cravings and that kind of thing. We say the problem wasn't jacob. But it was isaac and his favouritism say. The problem wasn't jacob but it was zone ban because his uncle oban jason..
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"But you've lost your soul this year light to the world but you're seeking to hide it. I looked away. Eugene peterson and in the message translation way translates those versus. He puts it this way. He puts jesus words. This is. let me tell you why you are here. I love that. Let me tell you why you're here you're here to be salt seasoning that brings out the flavors of this earth. Salt seasoning that brings up god flames. But if you lose your soul tenous how will people taste godless. You've lost a usefulness melendez garbage. he's another way to put it. You're here to be lights. Bringing the god cools in the world bringing up the god coz will dog is not a secret to be kept with going public with this as public as a city on a hill. I if i make you like burgers. You don't think i'm going to hide you under a book do you. I'm putting you on a light stand. Now what set you during a hilltop on the light stand shine keep open house. Beat generous with your lives by opening overs. You prompt people to be open with god. This generous father in heaven. I loved the way translates jesus speaking so if people who've forgotten lost sight of the calling to be a blessing to the world. I hope that make sense. It kinda reminds me and this is going to sound like the worst analogy ever. It sounds kind of reminds me of something. How steph steph as a sweet jaw in our house. I don't have anybody in your houses. Sweeter or cookie. Job at steph is a sweet sweet sweet ya. She has an insatiable sweet tooth. Were sweet tooth and our house. That's not quite true. That's not true so it's actually me. It's actually being called and but steph to hasn't sweet jar and we'll see taking sweet you on a number of months ago we can't regular we kinda take a bag of various flavors of hard boiled sweets and we refilled the job with hard boiled sweets but has been a problem. Because i don't know if you've noticed but the weather this past few weeks has been exceptionally good. It's been exceptionally hearts. No sweets sweet yard not coped well at all and so instead of of many individual suites is now this launch lodge. Lump of sugar is the best writing. Describe it stuck in the bottom of this job and so we've got these humble jokes and chocolate limes and rebe in custody and blackcurrant liquor. All kinds of melted togetherness homogeneous lump of.
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"Leaving was extraordinary in the extreme grounded. The people lived longer back then but seventy five years of age. Each perhaps abraham could have been looking to relax and taking life big easier being no spring chicken. He must have been surprised when god called him and god required to leave everything that was familiar unloved. He's home. he's wider family. He's natural does on efforts security safety and a settled comfortable lifestyle to journey into a strange foreign land where he would be regarded with suspicion as an outsider to living in tents with all the insecurity and vulnerability that that entails having absolutely no idea where he was where he was going. Or what lay ahead for him sarah. And furthermore says the rijeka he would be leaving intense. Said no madge moving from place to place some giants because he's flocks lead fresh pasta some delays because the native inhabitants didn't want him around sometimes because he decided to move and sometimes because god directed him but it all makes she had to keep leaving and move on over and over again. In short abraham is called to a life that from a human perspective was the pitcher many epitome of uncertainty and mystery walking by faith in god that started his journey he hardly knew. Abraham is not an idle for us to add. Mind say willey's. He's actually a model for outs to emulate as indicated by the first verse of the following chapter in routes therefore we also since we are surrounded by so greater platter witnesses. Let us run the rice that he set before us the same journey the logic is if abraham and the rest of the people of faith can do it. So can we like him then. We accordingly travelers not settlers to experience. Change do embrace unpredictability to expect disruption and as a result encounter fresh discovery. Just to be clear on talking about mindset not actual mileage there will be some such as apostles with travel may feature in their faith journey but we can keep moving on in golf even if we never move.
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"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"It any circumstance. We have access less him. We're gonna go to hebrews. Let's say what hebrews your taxes says you got your bible nine says that full brothers and sisters since we have confidence to enter the most holy place as the language of being a priest since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of jesus by a new living wide open forest through the cash and ninety body and since we happy we are again a great priest over the house of god. Lexus drool needs to god with sincere house Fullish orense the faith brings having a sprinkles to cleanses from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with your again. The same language appears in hebrews. We we Jesus as high priest and this whole idea of the priests told repeats itself now in your an-and priests had to be descended from aaron but in the new covenant we do not have to be sent sent from air into the priest. Way hasselt emot- better. We've been chosen to be adopted as sons endorsed the living god. We have to prove ourselves in a job interview before we receive state systems endorsers. We've been shows in before the patient will to be holy and blameless in sign as evasions one says so what does that mean for us. Do we sit back. And enjoy a privileged. Jesus priests cold snaps. That would be the same us. And so what do you mean pointed to a role a job at a never do innocent in that job. So what does it mean for us to be a royal priesthood. So i'm sure you can guess what we gotta look now. We look at one pizza chapter two this nine warm peter charted to nine days now. Pizza is talking to christians. So he's talking to us to i nine but you are a chosen people a royal priesthood. A holy nation got special possession. You may declare the praises of him. Who called you out of darkness into his wonderful lines. She say how. Peter uses the same language as an exodus as as god use to moses in exodus piece uses the same language to describe as christians. Sto let's have a look at what peter says. We are this morning this. He says we are chosen now. We sing a song. Go way that said. Who am i that the highest king should welcome may. That's how the song stars. Now that tells you. The initiative is all with god is not with us. Jesus sent to nicodemus. No one can come to me on less. The father draws it and we became a christian. We responded to the holy spirit's invitation and useless rail we weren't shows and because we were better than anyone else in his divine grace and wisdom. Gob decided the make owes his treasured possession. Now if that's not enough to get on knees in worship to him on his pentecostal van don't really know why as we show was an we are chosen. Well won't be to this nine also says that we are royal pizza. Says we are royal priest old. Now why is he saying royal because we are. Susan does at the king of kings now at the moment. There's lots of controversies about prince harry..
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"metro" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"They worshiped idols. Data pine all sorts of pagan rituals and in the days of samuel a bit later on when they wear in the promised land they king just like all the nations around them. Ignoring the fact that god king but he noticed that god's covenant promise the all gods people would be at kingdom of priests not so that was reserved for special few reserved just for the descendants of era in which it was in the old testament the oh covenant system of the priesthood was gonna be an page of salt in a lot more wonderful and so as we enter the new covenant. I want you to think about what we learned about. The priests of mexico's the pages of the old covenant perfectly embodied by jesus our great high priest we said earlier the priesthood was designed so that people could see god's glory now what does john say. We're going to john. Chapter one verse. Fourteen very very famous words. John the same person whose wrote who he wrote. Revelation says this and the word became flash and dwelt some moguls and way have seen his glory glory as of the only son from the father full of grace and truth. Jesus is the radiance of the father's glory. If you want to know what god is like you look at jesus in the old covenant the high priests to cleanse himself before he could offer sacrifices on behalf of the people. Now jesus who knew no sin with the all new trudeau Qualified to make contentment for us in by his death on the cross he didn't needs to be cleansed. He was already backed. His death brings us the giftedness so as the high pass. The priest made sacrifices in the old testament. Jesus sacrificed himself in order that we might be forgiven. So he fish. The person specification of the high priest perfectly doesn't eat and as he cried is finished when he died on the cross. The sit in the temple separates garden mama's toting into from talked about some way now have full access. The father do what. Jesus don't for us high priest who could only have access on the day tolman an adult. I don't think well for me personally. I don't realize how big thing nice way have access to the father at anytime of the day or.
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"The cross. We witnessed the blood spilling effects of our sin. But we also witness in that cross like we do in risk over the radical self emptying parental nature of divine love. She god loves us on the cross. San reminded of martin luther king once wrote in a sermon. He said that when he holds to cross he sees the worst man mankind but he sees the very best of god reformed theologian. Tear tolerancy describes it the same way he describes the cross the crucifixion as having both a dark side and a light side and he says the dark side is the unveiling of our inhumanity. But the light. Side is the unveiling of god's unflinching embrace of humanity but the dockside is in unveiling of our inhumanity but the light side is the unfailing of god's unflinching embrace of humanity. Seeing across tells us that god is not willing to let us go to this cross shaped this on the cross when we look at it. God is giving his life. He's exposing our injustice but he's doing so in order to call each and every single one of us back home in order to revive us in order to stimulate change and transformation Every single one of just like in the story when we've being thirsty eleven says that when david heard what risperidone he changes or the think of it in the way when david. Here's what risperidone. Suddenly script on his senses is shaken loose. When david here's what risperidone suddenly desk grip on his life and his appearance death is suddenly overthrown and broken and david is finally freight's act differently and that's exactly what god desires for each and every single one of us in each and every single one of us here on soon for anybody listens to this late sarong on youtube. God wants us to transform to change to see and to hear when we look at a cross that is all god is asking office got asks for us to see and not just say but also to listen to what he has spoken through the cross and if we give ears that up and we hear what god's blood saying and in response to that if we repent from giving allegiance to death and will we start imitating god's patterns of life. God wants us to live or as the old testament always beautifully reminds us. The cross gives the those this wonderful choice. So i choose death.
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"That you fed us. But don't give us this Sham suffering business. We are not interested at twelve and they walked away in fact so many of regression walked away that the bible says it tone to his a postal and say you don't wanna go away also do you. Are you all living. Do whatever these requirement are the must not have the must not have been very popular in jesus today as long as they could see sign and one does and it can be fed with bread and multiplying the love aficionados. Dow's fine and jesus had the crowd with him you wouldn't condemn do with coming from everywhere to hear him. But when jesus told them about what to expect when they choose to follow him it appeared dot even is apostol where ready to leave and to abandon. So what are these requirements for us today. Remember i said previously this requirement have not changed requirement. Number one is that we have. We need society to the holy spirit in those days. Follower of jesus christ could hear him talking audibly they could see him. As in this chapter four there were in fishing. Jesus walked by and this and say to them follow me. They knew exactly where to go. They just followed his footsteps. The dan decide wherever you went. They went to wherever you was. They were there they could follow him because the could see him and the good touch him now because we cannot see. Jesus we can not touch him. We cannot hear him or deeply speaking. We have to develop a very keen sensitivity to the holy spirit so when the holy spirit would does not shout speaks with Nuys is voice. How many of us as heard the holy spirit shouting. The spirit of god is in the inside giving us a very cliff guidance. We must develop a very sensitive ity. That sharpness of our spirit can rapidly detect the voice of the holy spirit when the holy spirit speaks. We just know that. This is the spirit of god speaking within us. If you ever come across a situation when you react like something inside me just told me that something inside you is. Somebody is the holy spirit. We've been in those situations when we just fell absolutely definitely we must this situation must interpret us because god was speaking to us. Someone may say. I never heard god speaks to me. Listen carefully god does speak. He does speak to.
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"Lost the last year. I i read a wonderful book. Called the little prints and i'm going to try and pronounce the his name probably probably. I'll forgive me if my french isn't so brilliant but it's no i'm on the sun takes you purdy and so wonderful book if you've ever read it you'll understand that it's a fantastic buccaneers. It's full of wonderful little quotes and wonderful little insights. I'm one of the quotes in the book that y'all put in that really stood out to me was this. He writes at one point in the book. He says it's hard to judge yourself then to judge ovallis and if you succeed well in judging yourself that's when you truly wise let me just read that again. It's harder to joe. Joe south then to judge ovallis and if you succeed well in judging yourself that's when you truly wise..