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The Charlie Kirk Show
The Majority of Pastors Are COWARDS
"First first brag on the courageous, okay? There are a lot of great pastors out there. Second baptist here's a great church here in Houston. They deserve credit. They're a great truth. So I don't mean to dwell on the negative. But they are a minority, okay? That is a minority church in America. The courageous Jack hibbs, for example, pastor Jurgen. There are some amazing, amazing pastors, and they must be mentioned. They must be celebrated. It must be platform, but they are not a majority. The majority are cowards. Cowards can be nice people. Cowards can be sweet people. Cowards can be great at counseling. Cowards can be great at getting a parking car ministry outside of their big church. Cowards can have a great coffee bar. The cowards need to step up in a wartime for the gospel and do something because you can stop being a coward. How do you know that you have a coward leading your church? The roe versus wade test is another test. If your pastor has not mentioned mention in the last 30 days that there is a trans ideology that is targeting Christians with violent murderous behavior, you have a coward as a pastor. That's okay. So what do you do? Go lovingly confront your coward as a pastor in a room and say, why are you not mentioning this? Here's what they'll say, not my role. That is wrong. Jeremiah 29 7 demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare. You are commanded in the gospel time and time again to care for the least of these. The children, children are being mutilated with unbelievably aggressive pharmacological agents, lupron, and other things. It is the church's role to stand up for those that can not stand up for themselves. Not to mention, they might say, well, we don't do politics around here. Well, then how do you teach Esther mordecai nehemiah, Jeremiah and Daniel who are all counselors to the king, who cared about government for God's purpose. You just kind of gloss over that.
Truth For Life Daily Program
"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"For those of you who are near, and also it is a message for those of you who are far away. In other words, this is the message which is the message for the entire world. This is the message for all the nations of the world. That's what he's saying. That was a lesson that Peter himself was going to have to learn as he realized just how isolated and Jewish his mentality was. He was going to have to learn it in a dramatic way as the story of acts unfolds. And Paul makes it absolutely clear when he writes his letters. Paul himself discovered, and therefore a lesson that Paul began to convey ephesians and in chapter two and inverse 17, Paul reminds his readers that Jesus has come, and he now is the one who has preached peace, this is what he says. And he came that's Jesus and preach peace to you were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him, we both have access in one spirit to the father, so then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but your fellow citizens with the saints and the members of the household of God, so he goes, oh, Paul gets it. He says, this message of deliverance is a message of deliverance, which is foreshadowed tons of times as the drama of the Old Testament story unfolds. Dramatically, in the exodus from Egypt. In a small manner in the crossing of the Jordan. Here in the establishing of the feast of purim, which two and a half thousand years later is still celebrated, as we said last week, here in the city of Cleveland, saw that the people when they celebrate the feast of purim might say, but are we really delivered? We know our people were delivered. But are we really delivered? I mean, did that deliverance prevent the Holocaust? In a Second World War? No. Has that deliverance been the deliverance? No. Then the authors say we ought to see, then maybe it points to the deliverance. The great deliverance, that's exactly what it does. Because the deliverance here in ester is a deliverance that is partial and is temporary. The deliverance that Jesus brings is complete, and it is eternal. Mordecai is the man of the moment, Jesus is the king of the ages. Mordecai was used for a moment by God to deliver the people in that context. Jesus comes as God into time in order to grant deliverance to all who turn to him in repentance and in faith. The passage that I read from Isaiah 57. What he says that the piece is extended to those who are near and far away goes on to say in the next verse, the wicked don't know this piece. The wicked he says the prophecies are like the C which is always churning and throwing up mud and throwing up Meyer. They are unable to calm their hearts. They're unable to deal with the refuse that is start up. The refuse of the wicket, the evil of people's hearts, the taste this, inject this, enjoy this. It will make your life fabulous. The turning of the wickedness, as men and women long for deliverance, who can set us free.
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"So the king was in his counting as the queen wasn't mentioned mordecai was honored and the people were relieved. The people were relieved. We saw that last time in chapter 9. They had been under threat of annihilation, and they now found rest. They were now at peace. They were in our enjoying this amazing deliverance that had taken place. So I haven't been delivered from the threat of annihilation. They now are going to have to learn how to live, delivered. In the same way that since we've got a post Second World War, metaphor going now in the same way that after the liberation, after the armistice, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, then the people had to say, okay, now we're delivered. What do we do now? Because we have lived under threat of annihilation for all of this time. Someone is interceded on our behalf. We've been set free, but now we're going to have to figure out how do you live with a piece. We know how to live with a war, but I don't know if we know how to live with a piece. So is that the end of the story? Well, it is, really, isn't it? Unless we remind ourselves of what we've always said, the importance of reading the Bible backwards. Because remember, Paul tells the Romans when he writes to them that everything that was written in the past, all these Old Testament stories were written in order that through endurance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hoped. In other words, that we might have that, which pushes us forward into an understanding of that, which is not only recorded for us here, but that to which this record then in turn points. And so what is this point to? Well, it's the story of a great deliverance. Yeah, but it was a deliverance, but the evil empire was only vanquished for a moment or two. The people of God were then to be under threat that would come again and again and again and waves. They were to live their entire lives longing somehow or another for a deliverance that would be the great deliverance. Now, let me summarize this for you. And you didn't follow along in terms of turning it up so that we can get through it quickly. But if you get this, then you will be greatly helped. In chapter 9, I pointed out to you that when mordecai sent out the letters, concerning the establishment of the celebration of purim. That he sent the letters to those who were near and far. I said in passing that that was a significant little phrase. The reason I did so is because it is a recurring phrase, and it is a phrase that is used in the prophecy of Isaiah in chapter 57 where the prophet speaking from God says I speak peace peace to the far and to the near says the lord, and I will heal him. So he says I'm speaking peace, peace to the far and to the near. So the story ends mordecai was concerned for the welfare of his people and he spoke peace to his people. That was a great deliverance, but it wasn't the ultimate deliverance. When Peter preaches on the day of Pentecost, he says the same thing. He says this message concerning there isn't Jesus, is for you and for your children.
Truth For Life Daily Program
"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"Esther, we read about a remarkable deliverance that got brought to the Israelites from the hands of the Persians, but as we'll hear from Alistair begged today on truth for life, that doesn't compare to the ultimate deliverance God has promised to his people. We're wrapping up our study in the book of Esther looking today at chapter ten. The king was in his counting house. The queen wasn't mentioned, mordecai was honored. He said, well, of course he was honored. No, there's no, of course, in it. Why was he honored? The reason that he was honored is presumably because of his absolute integrity and his moral consistency. He was so clearly a Jew. And lived as a Jew. He wasn't a Persian. He honored another God. He lived in a different way. He kept different traditions. He was an absolute obvious standout from the Persian community. And yet he was the one that was eventually chosen to fulfill this position. It's not dissimilar to the story of Joseph in the book of genesis or to the story of Daniel. Again, these men came to positions of significant influence not on account of their ability to be political animals. But on account of their willingness just to tell the truth. I quote a Churchill so that gives me liberties and quote martyr Thatcher. Says that if you just set out to be liked, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time. And you would achieve nothing. You just said I would be liked. I have to be liked. Well, then I'm going to have to compromise here and compromise there. Any other chief nothing. Mordecai, I didn't set out to be liked. He set out to do what God had put him in the place to do. He set out to influence his cousin so that she might understand that she came to the kingdom for such a time as this so that they might go against the absolute run of play. And as a result, he ends up in such a unique position. In fact, you will see that the position that he fills as second in position to the king himself is both a dangerous position and an honorable position. Dangerous insofar as it brings the threat of self aggrandizement, honorable in that fulfilling the role of second fiddle is not an easy position to fill. The only way to be a good prime minister is to fulfill the calling that is entrusted to you. He played the position of second fiddle, I guess is a hard place to play in the orchestra. Frankly, any place would be a hard place to play in the orchestra for me, but if you want to have the principle of seat to play the second fiddle it's got to be a tough road, especially if you spend your entire orchestral career playing in the second chair. Not everybody can do it. And he did it fantastically well. We have wonderful illustrations of that right here at parkside. So his position was not one that incurred the wrath or the jealousy of his friends, but it was a position of popularity as well. You will see that's the very word that is there in the text. He was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers. Popular with the most. Have you noticed that people in your office become very unpopular when they just move up two floors? It was fine when she was on the 6th floor, which he had the same kind of desk as you, but as you go move to the 9th floor.
Truth For Life Daily Program
"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"You see in verse two, it moves from the acts of the power and might of the king to providing a full account of the high honor of mordecai to which the king had advanced him. And ultimately, of course, we've been discovering these unspoken lessons about the unseen God because God's name is not even mentioned in the book, but God is at work everywhere in the book, and when we see that the king had advanced him, it's true that as we're as had chosen them as his prime minister, but ultimately we see that there is another king that is involved in this unfolding story, namely he who is the king of all kings. And he has been advanced to a position of honor, second only to the king. So dramatic change in the circumstances of this little man, isn't it? I say little man. I don't know if he was little, but I've got him in my mind as little. Verse 5 of chapter two, now there was a Jew in Sousa the Citadel whose name was mordecai. It's a kind of inauspicious kind of introduction, isn't it? And there was a Jew and susa, whose name was mordecai. It doesn't seem like much. It wasn't really very much. His family background was such that they had been snatched away and taken into captivity. That was his heritage. One generation and another generation and here he was, an alien in a strange land. Caring for his cousin, Esther, who was going to provide a crucial role in the story of God's purposes, and yet he said it again. He didn't have access to the palace or to the king. Now look at him. And he was advanced advance to become second in rank to king as wearers. This is amazing when we rehearse the story because you remember at the beginning of chapter three, in contrast to little mordecai, who sits at the gate, Heyman had been advanced by the king.
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"It may surprise you to learn that the final chapter in the book of Esther doesn't even mention Esther. But guess who does take center stage? Today I'm truth for life, Alistair begg looks at the incredible advancement of the queen's cousin mordecai from relative obscurity outside the palace gates to the king's right hand man. Why did he receive such honor and how did he handle it? We'll find out. I invite you to turn with me to the Old Testament to the book of Esther and to chapter ten,
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
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Truth For Life Daily Program
"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"That these events are not as tidy as we might wish. And we ought to be encouraged. Because the events of God's Providence in our lives are not as tidy as we might wish. Review your life and realize that not all your decisions were good ones. Not all your plans were selfless, and yet God in his Providence. Has brought you to this day. And we need to stop. So let's just notice that more that guys pragmatism are really works to his good here. Whether we like the idea or not. In verse ten, he had commanded Esther to conceal her Jewish identity. He was a pragmatist. He decided it's better if you go undercover. I don't think anything is going to be served at the moment by you coming out and declaring yourself. He then puts himself in the right place to observe the proceedings in Barcelona. He is walking in front of the court of the harem in order to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her. In verse 22, it is his position that the king's gate that is mentioned twice in the closing verses that gives him the knowledge of an assassination plot, which allows him to use that as an opportunity to curry favor with the king. Webb in addressing the awkwardness as he puts it of trying to decide some of the questions that are raised by the actions of Esther and mordecai. As a wonderful sentence where he says, they may be heroes. But they are at best heroes of questionable morality and orthodoxy. Heroes, yes, but of questionable morality and orthodoxy. Are not possessed of the same propriety and boldness of Joseph or of Daniel. And when we come up against this and begin to think these things through, we realize why people have largely ignored the book of Esther, Kelvin, apparently never preached a sermon on it in all of his ministry. Luther regarded it with real hostility. Luther did not like the Jewish nature of it. Luther had problems. What's the problem? Well, we just come full cycle to where I began. Remember, I said at the beginning, it's very difficult to tell these stories in the proper way. Now difficult to tell this story is difficult to tell in a proper way. And here's where it goes wrong. When we look to anyone other than God himself as the hero. Who is the hero in the story of Joseph? God. Who is the hero in the story of Naomi? God. Who is the hero in this story? Moses. Esther. It's God. God in his Providence has granted to each of these individuals a little police in the unfolding drama.
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"When we read the book of Esther, are we to think of mordecai and Esther as heroes? God used them to save his people, but what are we to make of some of their moral decisions? They've got to prove of their behavior. We'll hear the answers today. I'm truth for life, Alistair begg is teaching from the book of Esther. We're in chapter two.
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"Now there was a Jew ensues of the Citadel whose name was mordecai. It just makes me want to read on. I want to say, well, who is he? What's he doing? Kind of name is mordecai. We're a Susan. What's a Citadel? Do you read your Bible like that? I hope you do. I don't read it like no, there was a Jew in suzhou's name and more college. Is there a peeler to read the Bible? Anyway, they don't read any other book. They read the Bible waiting for something to hit them. Oh, I didn't hit me. What did you think was going to hit you? It's written in the English language. You understand verbs and adjectives, don't you? Nouns? Prepositions? Read the Bible the same way. Investigatively, imaginatively, in other words, or drew there. Well, why was he there? Well, we're told that his family had been swept up in the Babylonian invasion, which took place in 5 97 BC. When Nebuchadnezzar had come in, gathered up a crowd of people and taken them away into exile. Among them were folks like Daniel. Who chose, along with his friends, not to defile himself with the king's food. Mordecai's family was part of that company, and it appears that mordecai, like many second or third generation exiles, had a peculiar interest in his country's welfare. It's very interesting. Isn't it? As Americans, we are in search of our roots. Aren't we? Well, I meet people all the time. They tell me, anyone who tells me they were from Scotland, they always have had a castle. Yes, yes, oh yes, I'm Scottish, and we had a castle. Oh, you did? Well, you know, a number of people that are not enough castles to go around unless you were all completely it from the same family. But it's fascinating. I said, well, where were you born? I was born in Minnesota.
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"At times alarming, whatever. And for certain bits and pieces to be picked up, and yet for people to walk out and not really have any idea about what was going on at all. Therefore, we have to, in our teaching, always say to ourselves, I say to myself, don't allow the main point to be lost in the details. Don't allow the main point to be buried by an overactive imagination, either on your part or on the part of those who listen. Because it is a serious misuse of the Bible to make it disclose something that God has chosen not to reveal. It is equally serious when we fail to say what God has so clearly disclosed. And not least of all, in a book like this, which we've been trying to study now for a few Sunday mornings, and we're trying to make progress today. A book in which the name of God is never mentioned, and yet a book in which we are learning how God is providentially at work, preserving his people as a witness for his name sake. That really is the story of Esther. And the essence of it, there are variations on the theme, but it is making that clear to all of us who would understand. Here, in this particular account, we are learning that God works everything out in order that his people, those whom he has called to himself, might be a witness to his name. And we've been trying to teach one another and learn together that when God seems to be absent, he nevertheless is always present and is always working out his purpose. I think all of us now have a finger in a vision chapter one as we come back to Esther so that we might realize exactly the magnitude of what is involved here. And we've been quoting these verses from ephesians one to each other, haven't we? Where Paul writing to the fis speaks of the wonder of Salvation that he says that God is making known to us the mystery of his will, the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. Now, I went to see how Eugene Peterson had paraphrased that. And I found it quite helpful. You don't want to ever study from the message, but it's useful to have alongside a proper Bible. This is how he paraphrases what I've just quoted to you from ephesians one. It's increased that we find out who we are and what we're living for.
Truth For Life Daily Program
"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"Now, when the turn came for each young woman to go into Kenya, as whereas after being 12 months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, 6 months with oil of myrrh and 6 months with spices and ointments for women, when the young woman went into the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king's palace. In the evening, she would go in and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of shaz gas, the king's eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go into the king again unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name. When the turn came for Esther, the daughter of Abraham, the uncle of mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter to go into the king, she asked for nothing except what hey guy, the king's unit, who had charge of the women advised. Now, Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her. And when Esther was taken to king, whereas, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tibet in the 7th year of his reign, the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of vashti. Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants. It was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity. Now, when the virgins were gathered together the second time, mordecai was sitting at the king's gate. Esther had not made known her Kindred or her people as mordecai had commanded her. For Esther obeyed mordecai, just as when she was brought up by him. In those days, as mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, big thin and teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry, and sought to lay hands on king as. In this came to the knowledge of mordecai and he told it to Queen Esther and asked her to hold the king in the name of mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. Our men, while as we've just noted on this screen during the week, hundreds of children, some 750 or so have spent a week learning one of the great Bible stories, one of the great stories from the Old Testament. And plan for the teaching was very carefully prepared and the teachers were also carefully prepared. As they learned the story of how God sovereignly brought about the preservation of his people and particularly of the part that was assigned to Joseph in the accomplishment of that purpose. The teachers, I think, would agree with me, although I haven't checked, that it is not difficult to tell these stories, but it is difficult to tell these stories properly. It is just as difficult to tell the stories properly when you are speaking to children as it is when you're speaking to add ons. The same thing is true in any kind of teaching opportunity and it extends to the responsibility that falls to me. It's relatively easy to address a story like the story of Esther and to do so in a way that may be intriguing
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"mordecai" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"You've gone to see a play or a movie, there have been a lot of things going on behind the scenes that you didn't necessarily see, but that contributed to the success of the production. God's Providence is similar, and today on truth for life will take a closer look at how God is at work behind the scenes in the story of ester. Esther chapter two verse 5 now there was a Jew in susa, the Citadel, whose name was mordecai, the son of jair, son of shumai, son of kish, a benjaminite, who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeff and I are king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away. He was bringing up hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at. And when her father and her mother died, mordecai took her as his own daughter. So when the king's order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in sues of the Citadel and custody of hair guy, Esther also was taken into the king's palace and put in custody of hay guy who had charge of the women. And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with 7 chosen young women from the king's palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem. Esther had not made no one her people or Kindred for mordecai had commanded her not to make it known. And every day mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her. Incidentally, it just made me think there of Moses and the bull rushes and the way in which the passage of the family members was in proximity. They are just watching out for Moses, and yet God was watching out for those who were watching out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Should Church and Politics Mix?
"Sometimes the accusation against Christians who are politically savvy and culturally involved is that you guys are crossing the line and, you know, keep church in the church. Keep hops out of the church. And you guys shouldn't mix the two. I mean, you know, we had candidate junkin came by last Sunday. And, you know, we welcomed him the sheriff was here. And it was faith in blue week. And I brought him up and honored him. And the sheriff's Facebook page lit up because people said, how dare he go into a church? He's an elected official, and the separation of church and state. Speak to that nonsense. Yeah. Sure. I injected my opinion there. No. No, I'm sorry. You let the questioner Gary, how are you? You love me in the right direction. So yeah, let's start with this. First of all, any Christian that says, you should not comment on politics. You shouldn't care what happens in government. They got to get a pair of scissors and cut out a lot of parts of their Bible. They have to cut out the parts of the Bible where God's people were trying to influence their secular government for his purpose. How about Esther, mordecai? Jeremiah. Joseph, just to name a few. Daniel that we're trying to influence secular government for God's purpose. It's all throughout the Old Testament that the people of God were trying to be counselors to the king.
Journey of Ruth
"mordecai" Discussed on Journey of Ruth
"Well. I'm here today with mordechai. Jasper thank you for being on the podcast. Mark mart. approach. My pleasure good to be here. Some mordechai has no me for a very long time. sa-. I don't even know how old i was when you met my parents but very young. Maybe twelve okay okay. And mordechai and his wife ebony have been a part of our family. Our group of family friends for many years of my dad was a pastor and mordechai would come sometimes and preach Went out was taking a sunday off. That didn't even we're leaving town. Sometimes my dad just had you come preach and he would sit and listen yes indeed. Yeah because he had no problem. Sure this well that's true. Actually that's very true and mordecai. Did my mom service when she passed away last year so Definitely a close connection there. But i wanted to talk to mordecai about an interesting thing that he said to me when i was a teenager. But we'll get there mordechai. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm electrical engineer by training the school. What's your gene yusup technology in montgomery west. Virginia and i became moved us. Las vegas got adopted engineering and confederate firm. Just under thirty eight years now. I'll be retired april after thirty nine years fourteen days. It was not that. I'm county. But i i was ordained pastor allay passer nineteen eighty seven and served in verse passages from the social pastors Youth pastor senior pastor. And now. I'm in the face. Pretty much lay teaching kathleen pastor at madrid's now. Yeah and so. You have kind of that. Very an eclectic perspective on the church. Because you've served so in so many roles absolutes now. We're gonna discuss relationships today so we're to discuss finding healthy relationships and this is one of those things where I had an idea of what i wanted to talk about When when i asked you to be on the podcast and then as you and i talked in our preliminary phone call. It just became very evident what god wanted us to talk about and that was healthy relationships before we dive in. Can you share with us about your family growing up. Let's see my family growing up I was tenth of eighteen children born in my family. And so i think the oldest was twenty years older than me in the is twenty years younger than me. So that's the span of mine and my dad has three children before right. My mom and so So have siblings. When you have that assembly. She only i was truly closest to two to three of them are two of the rather could we were all pretty much close in age. Dave it was Builder I i was most either sharks relationship with them. Just because we were together proximity ryan in my younger siblings. Were for the behind me. And so then. I moved out west. So that's My parents died. When i was real young died when i was five. My mom diagnosed twelve so my grandmother racist in greco church grew up knowing that got one at us relate to be tree people certain way and that's pretty much what happened until i got older and realize that even the things got what it means to do. I couldn't do because everyone seems that i learned that we're wrong. I had rethink can stop doing okay. So let's let's go kind of their about you know having to relearn let's talk about. What are you. What would your definition of healthy relationship. Health relationship remind mine would be wanting wish the two people are looking at each other. And they're choosing to relate to each other in a a minor that is not influenced by anything negative from their past and by that. I mean you can have a person who came from a family in which there was a a dysfunction. there was a a problem in a way of bed. just something in the way of a bad trade that could have been addiction. Abuse neglect A bad temper if you environment you pretty much learn to survive you. Don't learn your relate. You learn survive. It's your alcoholic. Father comes home. Your first thing do is to get out away not meet the target. That evening's if you've got an abusive our target of father of the to not the target. So you pretty much learn to shelter in place so to speak you go hide and so if you grew up that way and then you finally get out into the world and you start interacting with people. If that's how you learn relate to people by let's say france your environment were screaming yelling norm. And you take any anyone that you're interacting with. If they're stipulate talent goes up even the slightest little bit you proceed that gelling in she remained. You draw and you'd not to shell and you don't communicate more so There are lots of things that happen. Within families that lead people to be dysfunctional. Helping people recognized it. Okay you react situation. Not because you choose to react to that situation because that's what your family talked to. That's that's how you're finding out family dynamic work but you're not in that family anymore. You're now the new person you can look at the person. He is not your father. She's not your mother. Don't think of them that way. Don't don't relate to them as if they're that way in so getting people to understand those things Israeli essential ever been health relationship because they it's almost as if you're acting Acting to a situation in. You're not giving thought you just did. Your program. response and program response is not healthy because i pay lots of couples counseling whip and the guy would say something along the lines up but she looks at me accident. I'm going to. I'm the person who did all licensed to her in the past. And i didn't do any of those things are in the past but yet she sees me. She's projecting the relationship on me and that's unhealthy soap. You can get them to to recognize when they're acting heading that way and to know that they can choose not to. And that's why when the books i you should casting addresses that issue. It's not loved choice. You don't love it because you have to. You love people. Crunchy choose to if you love them because you have to that your mindset it can become very burdensome into become stop the it can become something you really bitter about but you love them because you choose to. That's a good thing. I choose to do something that means. I'm going to enjoy. I'm doing it because there should be mutual or something. I'm going to get out of it into something. The other person's going to get out of it. And so that's that's kind of why we spent upset the last thirty seven years as a pastor in this town primarily focused on that helping people understand how their family origin and the weather. As they retreated the relational diamonds families are harming them today. Because no families perfect. Nobody hip perfect parents. Nobody perky siblings so we all being into relationship a little bit of baggage from our pass from our family and we got to learn how to process baggage. Hopefully set aside. And you're gonna have really helpful healthy media relationships. Yeah you're not just talking about romantic relationships here you're talking about friendships as well. We're talking about friendships. We're talking about just in general learning how to relate to people So that they respect you. You respect them. The bible talks about being able to look at others being better than yourself and looking at pleasing people pleading his wife a style of the white. Pleasing your husband but the biggest thing it's just in being friends. I mean if you're gonna find a good friend you need to be able to. You need to be.
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"mordecai" Discussed on Journey of Ruth
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"mordecai" Discussed on Comedians Interviewing Musicians
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Monsey Jews respond to recent violence
"Muncie is a hamlet in the suburbs to the north of New York City was some twenty thousand people many residents here are his city could use a second of all to Orthodox Judaism at a strip mall and main street choppers hid under umbrellas and ducked in and out of she would clothing stores to limited skis father survived the Holocaust and she says the weekend's attack brought up painful feelings of what he always warned her about he would tell me be where these so much anti semitism I go no doubt anywhere in America and here it is coming up again you know just a very ugly and very horrific she works as a biology teacher at a public school nearby she says she felt an outpouring of support from the diverse community here many of my colleagues and my neighbors orthodox not orthodox Jews not Jewish black white people called me because they cared about me and asked if I was well inside an eyeglass store nearby the owner and his employees say they've been discussing ways to increase security the employee thinks they should get a gun but a key vote the order who declined to give his last name because of concerns over safety disagrees I like the idea of the taser better just to have something and protection but this is not a gun it's not float to the another man at the store Mordecai helper Stam works for security firm and he says his company has been getting lots of last minute requests somebody made a party last night Hanukkah party actually called if we could provide armed security as party because he's bringing out his whole family there is children as cousins grandparents you know if somebody has no problem walking into somebody's house of machete was she going to do there and sent a few women passing by declined to be recorded one says she knows one of the victims in the attack and feels traumatized another young mother says she now feels paranoid nearby adorama PO town hall elected officials and community leaders gather to discuss how to move forward risky fighter is a community activist the people to learn who we are we human beings I mean what we different so we prayed to from you have a different religion but we still love our children we care about education we have a lot of things in common people to want to see that Aaron leader is a Rocklin county legislator I can tell you that the number one thing on people's mind our god for bid if this is a school with the next attack is taking place the attack in Muncie is the latest in a string of violent attacks on ultra orthodox Jewish people in the tri state area members of this community where traditional clothes that make them easy to target despite that we said the thought of changing his appearance in any way has not crossed his mind I will never ever try to conceal the fact that I'm Joe all walk proudly is it you federal prosecutors say the alleged attacker Grafton Thomas kept journals with anti semitic writings and then he's facing hate crimes charges in a statement released by his attorney Thomas's family says he had a long history of mental illness meanwhile in Muncie members of the Jewish community are looking both for answers and for healing as they celebrate the last day of
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Quebec to ban public employees from wearing religious symbols
"Fights over religion are not exactly new in Quebec the province has a long history of them. In fact, and there's one fight brewing right now that has implications. Well beyond the provincial border and could spark outrage around the world. Depending on who you ask the issue at stake in Quebec right now has either absolutely no need for any legislation at all. Or is an absolutely critical part of the province's democracy. So small stakes right Quebec's majority. Provincial government plans to adopt Bill twenty one before the national assembly breaks for holiday in mid June. If it passes the Bill would ban public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. He can imagine how messy that would get. So why is this Bill necessary? What problem would it solve how much public support? Does. It have how do it supporters defended against criticism that it will unfairly target Muslims, and particular, and why is this an international mess. Just waiting to happen. Jordan, heath Rawlings. And this is the big story. Michael Cohen is a columnist and broadcaster and a recent graduate master's program in divinity at Trinity College. His stink tion with distinguished visiting. Shen? I I'm even special within the special. Well, we wanted to talk to you because this is a a religious matter. And because you've written you've written about it a couple of times, can you briefly just start by explaining what Bill Twenty-one in Quebec claims to do with a very well put that question when he claims to do what it's intended to achieve very different the things, but extensively I missed to remove all obviously, religious identification from public administration. So if you work for the state for the government, and that includes all sorts of things and teaches to police officers, and so on a many jobs in Quebec, you won't be allowed to wear things such as and he has become very pertinent Islamic headcovering. If you're a woman, perhaps a very obvious crucify. Fix. If you're a Christian yarmulkes skull Cobb, if you're Jewish and this would include a turban if you're a Sikh. Won't apply to people already in the service bought? It was brought in by a Quebec government that is populous to large degree on one with a safe majority and still have the majority and as I wrote him mcclain's. They certainly have the right to do this. Whether they they have the responsibility to act in such a way, but what is really aimed at quite obviously is Muslim women very few Jewish people where yarmulke some do modern orthodox Jews pretty wouldn't be in the public services much if you wear a crucifix. Well, it's generally underneath share and tuck it in. Yeah. And it's not required. There's no Christian nomination that requires that the Quebec was was clinical. It was a clerical state as was island as well. As to send incense Spain for the longest time, and all of these countries or provinces have reacted to that. And the related secularism. It's not particularly contemporary in Germany in the nineteenth century had what was called the call to come for whether the the Prussian state, which was Protestant. But just secular. Bismarckian wanted to defeat the power of the Catholic church in the south, and you have elements of that in what's going on now. So what happened in Quebec is that the Catholic church has really been expunged from power and on the prince has become fairly prosperous, partly as a result. But it's just I it's a coincidence. But after Catholicism came the the next most visible religion, which was the slim, and you have to throw into this is I'm a phobia, and I think the term is overused. It's one thing to to be very very angry about the what ISIS does and about the extremism that is within Islam, but that's a tiny minority of Muslim people. A most of the victims of that sort of craziness are the Muslims. What is the reasoning behind this from the government's point of view? What argument are they making about why this should happen? Just in state. They say there has to be a tangible division separation between church and state, and I think most Canadians would agree with that. We don't have that in our constitution, the Americans, actually, do we don't but affectively. We do have it. We don't have an established church like in England. And I think there are many people in Quebec because the left two largest into supported this, by the way, I think who would say, yes, we must have that. But another part of it is simply all of the polls of the ball pretty much supposedly being taken of showing. There is more anti-muslim feeling in Quebec than other parts of Canada. Yeah. Quebec is always been fairly raw in those terms. Its relationship with his Jewish minority. Montreal in particular has always been being not a troubled one. But a more vibrant, one, I suppose in some ways if you think of Linda Cohen and Mordecai Richler on on some, but at the same time there are issues there. So that there is the if you let positive church and state separation and the negative which is we don't like these people they have to completely assimilate with suspicious of so both of those elements are involved. What does it look like when it takes effect on the ground who will be impacted? The most was good question. We don't really know. We've already had some young women. Who are the he job who teaches English? They'll resign. They won't teach anymore. The protests all taking place. Teachers unions are very angry. I suspect as with the New Zealand symbolic gesture you would have some non Muslim women when wearing the job as a protest. But here's the problem. It will marginalize people who want to be part of mainstream society. I mean, this was like a birthday present to the radicals though. So because the Muslim radical position it all over the world, not just in case, I know Europe. Well, what they say to to almost as you will never fit in you part of world is lab, you're not part of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, so in a never never think you are now mostly Muslims. So that's not true. I am. You know, I I'm British. I'm french. I'm Jim and what to say to someone you cannot wear the job. Yeah. The radicals. And I've already read some of the propaganda. You see we told you. So they don't like you. They don't want you can only fit in. If you if you lose your slam and and Quebec has. They've said they're trying to defeat radicalism. They've played into his hands are outwardly visible religious symbols. Actually, a problem in any way that the government needs to address do we know of any sort of reasoning behind things that are resulting from this that the government should could could at least extensively be claiming to be fixing with this. I think the the book or the the full covering, which is very it's very isolated. There were very few people who actually have that. I think that is problematic. If you can't really see the person, you're speaking to this body language involved in a court of law, for example, or driving a car, but that's a tiny fringe, and that can be an and they're up most people, I know in the humidity have some issues with that too. But the hijab which is far more common, which you see quite a bit icon think of any problem. I mean, it's a problem for those people who regard it as a problem there. There have been experiments undertaken where people have put on a yarmulke a Jewish prayer cuff. Garing and won't through various areas to find out what the reaction is. Right. And it's not a problem for the person who's wearing it and phenomenal decent people. But the anti Semite for the big. It's a problem. There aren't many of those. I don't see this as being problematic. But I see on the in Toronto all the time young Muslim girls, we're gonna hit job and young girls. Have also races not wearing it. Just locking about being kids together just being normal and Canadian and we haven't seen it before. It's a new generation, but that's been said over and over again that was said when when ours Catholics came that was said when when Jews came the there's always a group who will react badly to a newcomer, but I don't see it as being offensive. I don't see how a teacher wearing a hit job is less able to do her job than a teacher not wearing when it comes to the wearing of the turban, and we dealt with this kind of long ago, you know, when seeks will prepare to late in their lives in huge numbers for the empire, the coming wealth in the second World War. And of course, the first World War people didn't. So I don't have. That you know, the head gear. And so if a Sikh qualms to be a call carry a sidearm and say, I'm gonna enforce law and order, and we said, well, you can't do it. Because of what you're wearing on. You know, we will most sensible than that. So all of these things can be accommodated. But there's some people who don't want to accommodate what has