38 Burst results for "Saints"
The Dan Bongino Show
Remembering the Tragic News About Private First Class Greg Ambrose
"And we had this bar at 64th place in Myrtle avenue in Queens And my grandfather and my grandmother ran the bar So my grandfather who my grandmother had remarried So my grandfather is not my uncle's father okay So my grandfather's sitting in a bar and they have all the signs up Welcome home Greg You know hand handmade signs Everybody was so excited and my grandmother was elated but my grandmother was over at saint pancras School which is the school I want to when my mother went to was onwards since closed down It was a Catholic school of Myrtle avenue in Queens Some of you live in the area it's probably a walk through history If you don't just roll with me for a minute I assure you these things happen This is not this is not this is a non fiction tale So my grandmother was picking up my mother and my aunt Jane From school they were in grammar school at the time And these two soldiers walk in And you know it's a bar so it's dark it's the middle of the day Sunlight coming through but you know they don't it's not like lit up like a doctor's office So my grandfather is a tough time kind of seeing my grandfather was a big guy My grandfather was like 6 6 you know 300 plus pennies They got football player Maybe he's a big guy That's where we all get our size from Every time I see someone in public they're like gosh I didn't realize you were that big Not as big as him but So he sees these gentlemen you know come on in As they walk through the door you know the sun kind of over their shoulders a little bit where they're silhouetted a little bit He knows right away That ain't Greg And you know something's up
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "saints" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"200 million dollars per year as well as the possibility of a reunion with Barcelona the soon -to -be 36 year old will be a free transfer at the end of the month after playing the last two years at Paris Saint -Germain reports say the seven -time belong to a winner's salary is expected to come from a combination of the club Apple the league's broadcast rights holder as well as Adidas the official outfitter of the league since 2006 sources say messy would have preferred to return to Barcelona but the club cannot guarantee they would have the financial ability to bring him back ESPN is also reporting that soon -to -be former Barcelona defender Sergio Busquets is in discussions with Into Miami to join his former teammate Messi next season in MLS they'll have to do some strange work to get him in considering they already had their farm Real players Madrid they reach an agreement to sign Brescia Dortmund star and England international Bellingham Jew an initial fee of 103 million euros another 20 million in add -ons tonight it is game number three of the NBA Finals this one's in Miami then the Heat and the Nuggets all tied at a game apiece I'm Dan Schwartzman that's your Bloomberg World Sports Update, Brian. Dan thanks very much the time is coming up on 15 minutes before the top of the hour let's get to our guest yes yeah who is Bloomberg Bond and FX reporter with us to look at some interesting trends in markets and yes you have one of the things that we noticed for most of the first part of this year was
AP News Radio
Sheriff: Girl, 16, fights off mom to save a sister from being drowned after 2nd sister killed
"A 16 year old South Carolina girl fought off her mom to save her sister. I'm Lisa dwyer. Authorities say a 37 year old mother drowned one of her daughters and their South Carolina home and was trying to kill another child when the oldest daughter was awakened by screams and managed to save her sister, investigators say Jamie Bradley Braun is charged with murder and attempted murder after the early Friday attack in their home on Saint Helena island, the sheriff says bruns 16 year old was awakened by her sister's screams and managed to fight her mother off and save one child, a 6 year old girl, had already been drowned. The teen then ran to a nearby family member's house to call 9-1-1, run as being held without bond. I only said
Evangelism on SermonAudio
Fresh update on "saints" discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"She, that is our attitude, that we're weird. Some of you are such, Corinthians says, some of you are such, we forget about that. Most of the Christians problem is after we come to Christ, we are so superficial saint, we forget about who we were. And we begin to just have a judgmental thing. No, it's not so. It's only but by the grace of God who we are today. It's only but by the grace of God. So we must see the world as Jesus sees. Everyone is lost. The people those who you face every day, either they are going to go to heaven or they are going to go to the last eternity. There's no in between. No limbo, not other place. No, or other people want people say here and there nothing. That what the Bible clearly teaches. And that is God's word. Let God be true and all men will be liar. That's God's word says. So he says, he's just, you can just transmitting his vision to disciples saying, then say this unto his disciple, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Then the final word says, pray therefore the Lord of harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. And in fact, that is the only prayer request ever he made to this world. Pray therefore that the Lord of harvest may send forth more laborers. Even as you think about he was talking, he was just doing the personal evangelism with the chapter four, the John, talking to the Samaritan woman. Then the people came back and he said, I have the meat, I have the food. He talking about what he was doing, the will of God. And then he said, then he said, lift up your eyes. See, you said the harvest is going to come after four months? No, it's already there. It's already there. He always, he thought about the lost world and tried to just communicate that to the disciples. So they may be able to take the gospel and tell them. We must see that because the old world, sometimes people say, we have students, people call me sir, some call me pastor, it's whatever. Sometimes people say, oh, that's a hard area. Then I go and just tap my established shoulder and put him around me and say that, he show me some place if it's an easy place, I can go.
AP News Radio
Surf's up! Florida's St. George Island beach named nation's best in annual ranking
"Doctor beach is out with his list of top U.S. public beaches for 2023. Saint George islands in 9 mile stretch of sugar white sand with clear gentle waves off the Florida Panhandle that draws this year's top honor as the nation's best beach. Professor Stephen Leatherman and Florida international university has been raiding America's public beaches for 33 years. He says the Florida islands unspoiled natural beauty, camping, water activities, and stargazing sets it apart. Connected by a bridge across Appalachia bay, famous for its oysters, the island contains a 2000 acre park at a small village with restaurants, rental homes and motels and not a whole lot else. Counting down from number 5 other top strands of sand include lighthouse beach in the outer banks, island state park in Florida. Cooper's beach in the Hamptons, and runner up duke on a moku beach on Oahu. I'm Jennifer King
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
Fresh update on "saints" discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"And I still remember that. No, the situation in the enthronement is not that have this in his bedroom, that's where it was, and I did it because that's where that family was, but hopefully they will come together so that they can have it in the living room or where they both can come together. And I don't even see how they can come together fully in their bedroom if they can't come fully together in their living room. How do you just go to bed together as husband and wife if you aren't together in this intimacy which the husband has for God and his wife doesn't? And so this union, and some of you have those kinds of unions where the one is very united with God and the other is far from God, and the one who is united with God must continually ask that the heart of Jesus, what is the key especially for the family that each member of the family be united with God? You see, how do you grow a garden and have it come together? How do you grow a rose? If you plant the rose, and this is what the family is, you don't tie roses together and bring them together. You trace them to their roots. The root of love in the family is God. And the sacred heart is the root, and he's the one that we plant this love in. And so the image of the sacred heart is like a garden, and he is that ground in which this family is planted. And as each one traces their love into the root, which is God, they come together and they bloom. They're more beautiful, and one can be withered, and the other can be flowering. And as you reflect that love, then it can bring that health to one another. The more love is there, the more that will flower as a family. It is the greatest root of family love that we could possibly have, the sacred heart. Planted in his heart, we grow together intimately of husband and wife, intimately as parents and children, intimately as brothers and sisters, and eventually grandchildren. That drawing that will bring us the health and the reunion and the flowering of the family again. That's why it's so important. Have him there right publicly where you are going to present him. And then right next to his image, after the father with an act of consecration. We all stand around. How do I publicly then profess this? Before whom? Before you, God, before you, sacred heart, gathered in the Holy Spirit, we are going to pledge ourselves to you. And that's why very intimate with the enthronement of the sacred heart is the understanding and the awareness of what I'm doing. I am taking my heart and uniting it with his heart and presenting through him to the Father who I am. Now no one can do that except the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has gathered this little family into that intimacy of union individually in each heart as we gather around the image. So when you get your enthronement ceremony, first you're going to have to profess your faith and those vows that you took when you were baptized, rejecting Satan, his works, his empty promises, believing in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. In Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, who suffered, died, was buried, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven. From thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. We profess our faith in this. We believe this as a family.
AP News Radio
3 dead as heavy rains in northern Italy burst riverbanks, flood towns
"Officials in northern Italy are warning residents to get to higher ground amid fears that rain swollen rivers would again burst their banks after flooding killed at least three people and forced a mass evacuation. In 45 fighters with rubber boats rescue people from their homes, while negotiating partly submerged cars, and the mayor of the city of cesena once residents to move to upper floors or vacate entirely announcing the closure to traffic of some bridges and streets after heavy flooding saint rivers of mud, sloshing through towns. These of heavy rain stretch across a broad area of northern Italy and the Balkans, where what have been described as apocalyptic floods, landslides, and evacuations have hit Croatia and Bosnia. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
Prosecutors want 25-year sentence in Texas protest killing
"A U.S. Army sergeant convicted of fatally shooting a man during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Texas is scheduled to be sentenced today. Prosecutors are asking for a minimum of 25 years in prison for 36 year old Daniel Perry, who was working as a ride share driver in downtown Austin when he shot and killed 28 year old Garrett foster, foster was legally carrying an AK-47 rifle as he took part in a demonstration following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, prosecutor saint Perry's history of racist texts and social media posts expose a threat of violence likely to resurface Perry claims foster pointed his gun at him so he fired, and his lawyers are asking for a maximum of ten years behind bars, Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott has said he will sign a pardon once a recommendation from the Texas board of pardons and paroles hits his desk. I'm John a water
AP News Radio
Trump forum a big test for CNN, moderator Kaitlan Collins
"Former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump delivers the first major television event of the 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday. Who can forget this quote from an April 2016 appearance in racing, Wisconsin. Nobody has greater respect for women than Donald Trump. Nobody. Or this virtual town hall on Fox News channel, less than two weeks after the nation began to shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter. Trump will be doing a CNN town hall forum at saint anselm college in New Hampshire on Wednesday night, moderated by Caitlin Collins, and taking questions from an audience of Republican primary voters. While Trump continually attacked CNN as fake news during his presidency, a Trump adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity said CNN executives made a compelling pitch to the former president, the network says given Trump's standing in polls with Republican voters, his candidacy can't be ignored, reflecting management's efforts to broaden the network's reach and rebuild trust as a non partisan news brand. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Charles III crowned in ancient rite at Westminster Abbey
"King Charles the third is crowned in an ancient right at Westminster Abbey. The symbolic peak of the two hour service came halfway through when Archbishop of Canterbury Justin welby placed the solid gold Saint Edward's crown on Charles's head. Trumpets sounded and gun salutes were fired across the UK. God saved the king. In a change to the ancient right, Charles had scrapped the traditional moment at the end of the service when nobles are asked to kneel and pledge their loyalties to the king instead will be invited everyone in the Abbey to swear true allegiance to the monarch. Charles De Ledesma, London.
The Dan Bongino Show
How to Clean House at the Corrupt CIA, FBI, And DOJ
"How you do it Let me give you a little lesson here Everybody can take notes get a pen pencil whatever it is don't care Got it Okay First day in office president swears in early January president saints president Trump right Probably the most likely at this point swears in first day you get a list of people in the FBI who you think have been acting based on politics and not the constitution You fire them all The media starts going crazy They call it the Tuesday night massacre whatever it is right As that stories get written you go over to the CIA You find out who the political actors are at the CIA And instead of firing 20 people you fire 40 So then they don't know what to do because the media is still busy writing the story about firing these people at the FBI and they're like what do we do man Do we write the CIA story the FPS And then is they're thinking about the CIA or FBI story You go over to the NSA and you go over to the bureaucracy and any other entity what doesn't even matter the bureau of Indian affairs and you fire a hundred more And then as they're figuring out do we write that story the CIA history or the FBI story You walk over to DoJ and you get your new attorney general who openly or probably have an acting at that point We'll see or if you kept the old guy on and you say I am the president of the United States I want all of these prosecutors fired too And you get rid of them too Here's the thing The media can only write one story at a time They're not that smart They can't multitask So the minute they're focusing on one story and they're trying to get their sea legs about them because they're faking outrage about it You fire a hundred more people
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Trump Attacks GOP Candidate
"So okay, South Carolina, Democrats have moved their primary up. To February 3rd, that means as of today, we are looking at the New Hampshire primary being the Tuesday, January the 23rd, all right? It's going to be called a New Hampshire. I'll be up there in the north country. I'm going to miss it. Got studio north established last year. So I can cover this year completely every day, driving down New Hampshire if I have to. Try to pass the liquor store outlets. Doctor governor said you knew about that last week because somebody's got to tell you about these rules. Somebody's got to tell you about these candidates. And somebody's got to follow what they do over the weekend, the former president was on the war room with his former aide Steve Bannon cut number one, taken out after governor desantis again. Donald Trump was Steve Bannon. Total assault. Because we're winning in the polls. If I wasn't the most there was 62 16. Well, the sanctus is failing Bentley. Rhonda saint ammonias. I mean, you know, it's always bad. You endorse somebody who's dead. He's the over his political career. He's going to be looking for a job. He'll be lucky to get a job. Comes to me begs me for an endorsement to give it to him. He ends up winning the election. Winning the nomination winning the election, by numbers that you wouldn't believe. I mean, he was so far down. He was gone. And then they shouted to him a couple of years later. Where do you run against the president? I have no comment. No comment means the answer is yes, right? But today I'm very interesting thing happened. He said he's going to form a committee. He's going to form moratorium. Exploratory committee to determine, well, that's the except because he was never looking at committees. Now he's looking at committees. It's amazing what being 40 down does. But this is the consultants and donors and back out. This is a guy who's going to make 30 donors are largely leaving him now, you know? I think in fact, I will tell you off the record. Off the record except for the millions of people that watch your show because you show us you show great. I mean, show us the war room it is. This guy's a warrior. It's whether they like him or not. It doesn't make any difference. But he is a warrior. There aren't too many. But what's happening is the donors are calling me right now because the donors follow the pulse and when they see a guy getting clobbered. Think of it. He was a lousy politician because before he met me before I gave him the endorsement. So he was at three.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Michael Wilkerson: The Russia Narrative Is Being Controlled in the US
"Right before the break, you talked about the publicly accepted narrative what we're being told being fed in the U.S. and it goes something like this that Putin is the devil that Russia is revanchist, meaning it wants to take back all the territory and Soviet Union. That Russian soldiers are Barbarians and monsters that are committing rapes and doing all sorts of terrible things. On the other hand, that Ukraine is a beautiful country. It is, but that zelensky is a saints in contrast to Putin is the devil, that its soldiers are valued and heroic. They are. But you're not hearing the other side of the story. You're not hearing, for example. Now, listen, some of this might be true. I think the Russians are committing atrocities. We have a friend Chad robicheaux, who has spoken to me privately about that. I mean, so this is definitely complicated, but keep going. And I'm not saying that any of this isn't there are truths in all of this. My point is, what are you allowed to hear? And in America, what is interesting is what we are not allowed to hear is anything from the other side. That's the point. That's the main point. Right. War is a horrible thing and atrocities are being committed on both sides likely. And heroism and kindness has been committed both sides. On the other hand, interesting Eric, you know, I'm a man of a certain age. I've been trying to learn French. As part of the way I learned French, I've been listening to a lot of French media coming from. It turns out France. In France, in their media, even their mainstream media, they are hearing the public is hearing both sides. They're hearing leaders from Ukraine, but they're also hearing leaders and spokes people from the Kremlin from the Russian government. We're not getting that. Even in France, at least they're allowed to hear the other side. They may not agree. This isn't a fawning conversation. These are very confrontational. But the public is getting an opportunity to hear both sides and make their own decision. The narrative is being controlled here in the U.S., we're not hearing the true progress of the war. Well,
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Peter St. Onge Tries to Make Sense of Biden's Economic Accomplishments
"Guys, I'm really happy to welcome to the podcast a new guest. His name is Peter, saint Ange ONG is an economist at the heritage foundation, former MBA professor in Taiwan. I actually encountered Peter with videos that he makes regularly about economics and freedom. Peter, welcome to the podcast. Wow, we're living in strange times. It looks to me that there's a lot of economic chaos in the United States, perhaps America even losing its position economically in the world, and yet on the other hand, you have President Biden. I'm running again because I've been doing an amazing job. In fact, I need to finish the job that I started. So I thought I'd begin by asking you to make sense of this kind of disconnect. First of all, what is Biden referring to in terms of his economic accomplishments and then can you, can you set that against the larger stage of what's happening in the country and more broadly? Yeah, thanks for having me on dinesh and God help us all if Biden finishes the job given what he's managed so far. His president and C so far has been largely paying back the activists who brought him to the dance. So he's delivered a lot of crony handouts for green energy and things like this. Sort of click bait for the activists. And the rest of his alleged victories have been the economy sort of springing back from the insane lockdowns that had been imposed during COVID. And so, you know, when Biden goes on about the job growth or the income growth or the rest of the alleged accomplishments, these were all freebies that were just sitting there, you know, policy had been sort of holding crushing the economy down. And of course, when you let the people actually go work and open their businesses again, then lo and behold, jobs are created.
AP News Radio
NATO chief visits Ukraine for 1st time since Russia invaded
"NATO's chief has visited Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded more than a year ago, the highly symbolic visit from NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg under schools the alliance's commitment to helping Kyiv defend itself, Stoltenberg, confirmed NATO support for Ukraine in a news conference with Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. Ukraine's rightful place is in NATO. And over time, our support will help you make this possible the visit has sparked a strong reaction from the Kremlin which clearly warns that Ukraine must not be allowed to join NATO, one of Russia's regular justifications for going to war in Ukraine has been the expansion of the military alliance towards its borders, including fears that Kyiv would be admitted. Images published in local media showed Stoltenberg apparently paying tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv saint Michael's square. I'm Karen Chammas
The Charlie Kirk Show
Secrets of America's Ruling Class Exposed
"Angelo codo villa wrote an amazing book on the ruling class. In 2010, he summarized it in an essay. He said, quote, today's ruling class. From Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with a secular sacred history sins. For example, actions against minorities and the environment and saints, using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters. Speaking with the in language, serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, they wrote up included government channels and government money because as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leverage their way into the private sector. Hence whether formally in government or out of it or halfway, America's ruling class speaks, the language, and as the tastes, habits, and tools, a bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans, not oriented to the regime.
The Dan Bongino Show
Kyle Seraphin: George Floyd Square Is a 'No-Go' Zone for Enforcement
"So there's effectively just to sum up where we are before we move to the next step the angle to this There's a chop zone outside of Seattle essentially It's in Minnesota at this point And the chop zone is basically by any definition standard definition Basically an insurrection People are saying your rules don't apply here We own this You can not enforce American and state laws in Minnesota in here It's an insurrection by definition But where that zone is is quite interesting Why don't you describe that angle there So the zone is George Floyd square also known as saint George of fentanyl square So you can imagine why that is And I guess it's fairly well known that this area of Minneapolis This is the 38th street and Chicago area I'm told is just kind of a no go zone Like you just don't go in there and do enforcement actions Like I said they could pick up the dead That's pretty much what they're able to do So basic service is not really available to folks there And I'd love to hear if more people want to reach out to me on Twitter by all means if they have a personal experience I've got someone that's going to go do some recce work and take some photos over there in the next couple of days and kind of get us some on the ground truth from it
AP News Radio
Joe O'Biden? President in Ireland, eager to trace roots
"President Biden is in the home of his ancestors and eager to trace his Irish roots. On Saint Patrick's Day, the president said he's a proud descendant of Ireland. Of the blues of county Mayo and the finnegans of county louth. He'll visit both starting with lauff, where aim and Thornton was waiting in carlingford, the town claiming the president as its own. The most important man in the world, as we call him a local Sarah dela hunt's pub was ready. The shaft decided that Joe Biden's comment let's put on a nice American burger for him. Biden burger. Bacon, American cheese and or trimmings. All the other stops, the president will address the parliament in Dublin and attend a gala dinner. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Pope evokes cold-war replay, says leaders should avoid arms
"Poop Francis has a vote memories of the 1960s Cold War and is urging world leaders to use reason, not weapons. At his weekly audience in Saint Peter's square, Francis noted that this week marks the 60th anniversary of a Cold War era encyclical by Pope John the 23rd, the passenger in terrace, Francis said his predecessor's message which encouraged peace efforts is very current today, and he encourages world leaders to read the document. He cites a passage, relations between political communities, like those between individual human beings, should be regulated not by resorting to the force of arms, but by the light of reason Francis also lamented the war in Ukraine. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Actor Sean Patrick Flanery Joins Dinesh In-Studio
"Guys, I'm really thrilled about today on the podcast we have a guest and a great guest in studio, Sean Patrick Flannery, a Hollywood actor. He is an American actor born in Lake Charles Louisiana. It was raised outside of Houston, Texas. He's appeared in over a hundred movies and TV shows, powder, suicide kings, the boondock saints, the young Indiana Jones chronicles, Criminal Minds, the dead zone, Dexter, and so on. He also owns and operates while on martial arts academy. Hollywood Brazilian jiu-jitsu. And we're here to talk about a film, a new film coming out this week, April 14th. Called nefarious. John Patrick, welcome to the podcast great to have you. Thank you. And let's talk a little bit about Hollywood first. You're a Texas kid. Who went to Hollywood? What got you there? Well, I went to university of Saint Thomas and I was studying business with focus on law and I saw the most beautiful girl I've ever seen at the time leaving a building. And I did what any red blooded Texan does. He goes to the school administration office and he drops an English class to sign up for whatever they're teaching that building. And that's true story. And in the building was the theater department. And so I fell in love with acting. And I wrote a piece of children's theater and I decided, after school, I was going to drive out to LA and I was going to try and produce that play. And then an agent could I submit you on some commercials? And I said, yeah, if it supplements my writing career, then I got a handful of those and she goes, let me submit some theatrical, which means TV and movie. And I said, absolutely, if it supplements my writing group. Next thing I know I was on a plane to go do young Indiana Jones and the acting kind of took over.
AP News Radio
Bieber recovers from slow start, Guardians edge Yankees 3-2
"Josh needler's 7th inning sacrifice fly snapped a two two tie in the guardian's bullpen made that run hold up as the game winner Mike zunino goes three for three with three doubles and an RBI while will Brennan adds a run batted in for the guardians. Giancarlo Stanton drove in both New York runs with the first inning double saint Bieber gave up two runs over 7 innings to pick up the win.
Leading Saints Podcast
"saints" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Our system doesn't necessarily allow you to do that automatically for various reasons that I've spent hours and hours trying to figure out. But if you reach out to me, I can make that really easy just send me an email and we'll do it real quick and it would be awesome. So maybe increase your donation if you're already giving and then get involved. I'm just thinking of this past year in 2023. How many bishops have been released? How many stake presence have been released? How many mission presents? How many relief society presidents? How many, so many leaders who've been like hyper focused on giving and serving and doing, you know, having all your responsibilities and suddenly it's gone. Right? And so if you're looking for, hey, now I got two, three hours a week that I used to give elsewhere and I could probably sort of like a mini mini mini mission, right? So maybe you're not ready to put the papers in and go on a full-time mission, but if you could give a few hours a week, reach out to leading saints and let's figure out a place for you and you can still contribute with your experience and whatnot. And we can put you to work. So that's another way you can help. And then just large donors, if you have a network of individuals who would at least sit down with me and talk about our plan for 2023 and beyond what we're trying to do, where the funding will go and I promise you be surprised and maybe we'll announce this point. We already have a donor who is waiting for a presentation who wants to give that.
Leading Saints Podcast
"saints" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Many people appreciated that and there's so many insights as far as the concept of repentance and what we're trying to do, especially when someone has to come in and confess and why do we confess and then what about membership councils and how do we move someone through that in a way that removes shame and gets them back on track without beating them up along the way spiritually and whatnot. And so that's one thing I'm playing with is repentance having a virtual comments all around repentance where we learn from scholars or other people. I mean, authors, I don't know, and really dive into understanding repentance in a more effective way more helpful way so that we can be helpful for those who turn to leaders for repentance. So that's one idea. And then there's probably a few of these past virtual conferences that we need to relaunch and almost pretend like we're doing it. We haven't done it before and see what other presenters are out there. Like for example, the motivating saints, virtual conference, this is phenomenal, but I think we only had 9 or so presenters in that. And to me, this is just that alone. I mean, the value you'll get out of the motivating saints. And again, if you're recurring donor, you'll get access to all those recordings. So helpful, because that's one of the biggest concerns people have that I get emails from people saying, how do we motivate our people? You know, they just don't seem to do what I ask. And as a volunteer organization, what can I do? And there's so much you can do. There's so much research behind motivating people. And just a matter. So anyways, we should probably relaunch the motivating saints and others, the questioning saints is another one to probably relaunch. Because there's so many good things there, but there's been more books and more research and more people we can include in that. So just make a well rounded library. So
Leading Saints Podcast
"saints" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Donate or go to any page on the website and hit the green donate button or whatever it color it is now. But hit the donate button and just give something. It can be a yearly payment that you just worry about once a year, but it really does make a difference. And we need there. We have so many ambitious goals for 2023, which I'll get into in just a minute. But we can not do it without your contribution. And so please, leading saints dot org slash donate and help us out. If you need any help to make it easier, you can email me, we'll get on the phone, I'll walk you through it, whatever you need to do. I'm willing to work for it and make it as easy as possible. So that really does make a difference. Now, the other way that we fund leading saints is through a virtual conferences. And I'm happy to report that in this coming year of 2023, we will have additional virtual conferences, we're actually in the works of I'll get to those as far as the topics in just a minute. But the virtual conference, we make it free to anybody who wants to attend for free. And we do that with all of our content. If you haven't noticed, we don't want this content to be to ever be out of reach for church leaders, no matter how much money they have or what they can contribute. So yeah, all of our content is always made available for free before we put it behind a paywall or a donation wall or whatever it is. And so the virtual conferences, they're free for anybody who wants to sign up through their email if they want to watch day to day. But if they want the recordings, an additional benefits, we ask for donation. And so that actually raises quite a bit of money with every virtual conference we do to help supplement our costs and expenses producing the podcast and just moving forward. So every time you see a virtual conference, please donate, help us out that way because it's one way that we trade value for value. You make a donation, we'll give you an awesome virtual conference that will hopefully bless your life. And then we have larger donors. I mean, I would like to say we have a lot of larger donors. We need a whole lot more. And so this is going to be an effort in this coming year of 2023.
Leading Saints Podcast
"saints" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"We put the top 6 most downloaded episodes. So you can typically go there and find them there. And so then rob Farrell, so Bennett Becky Borden, creating engagement through ministering interviews. This is a phenomenal interview with Deanna Murphy. She's another one of our all stars. That was a third most downloaded. Then my interview with Blair Hodges, the host of the fireside podcast. I believe that's what he's calling it. Liberals doctrine and apologetics at church. Not that we get controversial, but we had a great discussion just about some of the political dynamics that are passively aggressive at our culture and whatnot. Anthony sweats the next one is Anthony Switzer interview called church doctrine policy and leadership. This is a phenomenal discussion about church doctrine. I mean, I can go on and I will elaborate too much on these, but just for your information. And then probably the most downloaded episode. This is an our top ten. This is the only 2022 episode in our top ten. Well, there's one more. But we'll get to that. And that is our my interview with Chris Raleigh. This is when the stake president struggles with pornography has been such a blessing to know Chris get to hear his story to share his story and man, just so inspiring we just did a follow-up interview as many of you know just a few weeks ago that you should also listen to. That'll probably be up there gathering the numbers as time passes. And then how I lead in a mission presidency, my interview with Bruce Chang, that was in 2021 episode. Another fun one that this, I love this episode. I encourage that it's getting a lot of traction and that is the peculiar history of calling leaders in the church. That's my interview with Kevin Tully, who is a CES teacher. I believe this is in California. And just some fun, interesting stories. He's got a great book that is full of just how leaders have been called in our church history. So, and then I believe this one was Dan Duckworth, why testimony is not the only goal for Latter day Saints. I believe that is one of the presentations that was part of our leading young saints virtual conference and we put it on the podcast and away it goes. So just some cool things that are happening, some cool progress in 2020, 20, 22, and we are moving. And I just got to say, this could not have been done without people like you, donors. We and maybe I should get into that. I often tell and I'll get into that story. Let's tell the story first, gather round children. It's a sit on the floor here and grandpa Kurt here will tell you the story of leading saints because this is the question is I meet people in real life, it's kind of funny because as I meet people, they can't get past my voice. It is actually my voice. This is not enhanced or edited or adjusted to make me sound so awesome. This is literally my voice. And so when they meet me in person, they're always like, it's so strange hearing your voice. But as I meet people, and you know, I do a lot of lunches. And by the way, if you ever want to drive out to tool county and go to lunch, I'm game. I love the meat and I always need a reason to get out of my home office and go to lunch.
Leading Saints Podcast
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"Hey everyone, this is Kurt Franken with leading saints and I've been putting off doing this episode. I don't know why. I mean, I enjoy every year I do this type of episode and I enjoy it, but it's just like one more thing. I'm sort of in that the holidays funk, right? I got plenty of work to do. I should probably do it, but the kids are home and the family's chilling and maybe I should just chill too. But I'm doing it. I'm sitting down, I'm recording this episode, which is what is leading saints in 2023. Every year I do an end of the year sort of recap looking forward into the new year and that's what I'm doing. So, man, we've had a great 2022. I don't know, I've been talking to a few people. They've said things like, some people are sort of getting out of the rhythm of podcasts, like listening on a regular basis and it's easy to sort of project our own experience on others. And assume that that's happening across the board. But when I look at our analytics and the numbers, that is not the case, per se. I mean, we have let me pull this up. So yeah, so we've had on average we've had a 133% increase of downloads in 2022. We are getting close to I didn't pull this number, but there's some months that we hit, we've almost hit 600,000 downloads a month. And so it's just so encouraging to see where we were at the beginning of 2022. And where we're headed, this coming year, and the progress is continues to grow. I could have never thought that we would get these kind of numbers when we started the podcast and started putting content out there. You know, obviously leading saints were going after a niche of a niche. And I just didn't think we replied to a long ago, but hey, we're gonna keep growing. We're one of the, probably one of the top two or three most popular latter day saint podcasts that are independent from the church. And man, let's just keep it going. So just for fun, let's just review some of the content we've had in this past year. We are quickly approaching 13 million total downloads of the podcast, which and that is so encouraging so cool. And some of the top episodes of this year, it's interesting to look at. Of course, rob Farrell, his interview that we did back in 2019 continues to top the charts. He continues to just dominate the downloads. And we actually published it twice because as you know, every, I think is fourth Wednesday of the month. We rebroadcast a past episode. We republish it and some of the more popular ones. And so they get even more listens that way, especially for the audience. I mean, our audience is more than doubled. This year, and there are people who probably haven't heard the classics, right? Can you imagine? Not hearing some of these things. So we put them out there on the fourth Wednesday so people can benefit from it. And so these are I'll just go through the top ten or so the most popular ones, the why we married in the temple after 20 years of in same sex relationships, my interview with Bennett and Becky Borden continues. They're right there with rob Ferrell just getting the downloads. That's probably the second most popular episode. Again, if you haven't heard these, we'll try and link to these. Actually, we put on our homepage at leading saint dot org.
Leading Saints Podcast
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"I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeff McCullough, who is the creator of hello saints, a YouTube channel where Jeff, who is an evangelical pastor, explores the latter day saint world. Everything from our doctrine to our culture to locations where we live and so forth. And many of you are probably now more familiar with Jeff compared to the time that I recorded this interview because he had a recent viral video, we could probably call it of his reaction to attending general conference. He attended the Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon sessions of this past October 2022 general conference. And in that video, it gives me a few shout outs. But this interview that you're about to hear is actually recorded a few weeks before he attended conference and this was actually beginning of sort of having a friendship that led to him giving me a shout out in that video. And so we explore all things leadership in the context of his personal life, being a evangelical pastor and leading in that role. And we just talk about why he would start a YouTube channel about Latter day Saints. I think you'll appreciate this episode. Let's jump into my interview with Jeff McCullough. The creator of hello saints. Jeff McCullough, welcome to the leading saints podcast. Hey, thanks for having me.
Leading Saints Podcast
"saints" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Hey everyone, this is just a quick episode that one of many that you're gonna see coming this and over the next few days and so keeping a lookout for these episodes are gonna be shorter. I really invite you to listen to each one. One, they're shorter so it'll be easy to get through. And two, it really will help our explain where we're headed as an organization with leading saints. And I get this question all the time. People ask me, okay, where do you see leading saints in the future? And for a long time, I sort of felt like, man, I never thought we could accomplish what we've accomplished now, let alone what was after this. And so for the last few years, it's sort of been grappling with what the next phase of leading saints looks like. And whether they are even needs to be a next phase, right? I mean, we've had some remarkable success. And so it's just like, wow, we're reaching so far and having such interesting conversations with remarkable guests and putting information out there that is helping so many leaders. And that's great. And I know there's individuals out there who maybe just tune in every once in a while or they Google a topic and up pops a leading saints article or episode and they read that and they move on and they don't think twice about leading saints. And then I also know there are individuals who are diligent and listening to every episode or the vast majority of episodes and just feel like it consistently gives to their leadership experience, which is awesome. And then I think there's others that are enjoying the content listening to most of it, but still desiring more still looking for a deeper, more transformational experience. And that's sort of what's led us to the next phase of leading saint, which is going to be our gathering saints experiences.
NFL Live
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"Money to count on I know. We've got two game 7s in the Stanley Cup playoffs Saturday and ESPN and on the app, the ruins are in Carolina to take on the hurricanes at four 30 eastern, and then the kings and oilers square off it. Rogers place in Edmonton at ten eastern. There's nothing better than these two words in sports and they are game 7 and these are on the ice. Are we got some breaking news here on NFL live and for that we go to Adam Schefter for the latest out of New Orleans. Oh, Shay wide receiver Jarvis Landry who is released earlier. This all season by the Cleveland Browns now plans to sign with the New Orleans Saints he announced the news on social media. If you go back and remember, shortly after he was cut, one of the first teams that he was in contact with was the New Orleans Saints, the saints and the chiefs out of the gate were most interested. And in the end it comes back to the New Orleans Saints who continue to work financial magic with their salary cap situation and squeeze in players like Jarvis landy like tyron Matthew and crystal lavi, their first round draft pick who signed earlier today. All right, Adam, thank you. And you mentioned there, tyron Matthew, who already hit the bird, good old Twitter, sent this out to Jarvis Landry. Let's do it like old time soldier because these two were teammates back in 2011 at LSU and here's to hoping that the saints can replicate that same kind of success those two had down in the Bayou. All right, let's go back to the NFL schedule here because week one will feature the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys. The cowboys won the NFC east last year, but the last time we saw deck and company on the field, they were basically stumbling through the last seconds of a playoff game against the niners. Tom Brady is also never lost to the cowboys in his entire career. Is that streak really gonna end in week one? We will find out. The cowboys opened the 2022 season with two consecutive home games for the first time since 2001, but they won't be easy as the Buccaneers and bangles will be coming to AT&T Stadium. The good news though for Dallas is that they have the easiest strength of schedule this season based on their opponents win percentage last year. In the previous ten years, the team entering the season with the easiest schedule has made the playoffs 7 times with four of those teams making it to the conference championship game and so Mina can the cowboys capitalize on this easy slate that they have as we look ahead. I think they can. The easy slate is in part because they are in the NFC east, they also get to play the AFC south. But I also think that this roster is capable of winning. They did take a bit of a step back this year. You got to say that to anyone who doesn't believe the cap is real in the off season and there are some question marks. I mean, right tackle. I don't know, cornerback and not so sure about that. But here's the thing, Shay. If dak Prescott returns to form and plays like he did in the first few weeks of last season, they should win the division because he is the best quarterback, but that has to happen because the rest of the roster has lost ground relative to some of the other teams. Mina, I would say you can say two things can be true. The cowboys roster might have gotten worse, but their team actually got better. I feel like they had too many miles to feed in that receiver room last year with Amari Cooper Michael Gallup and also CD lamb. So now having gotten rid of Amari Cooper, it's going to allow them to get back to what their identities should be and that should be relying on the running game and have the big play passing ability with those other receivers. Doc did play out of his mind at the beginning of last year, but he started to falter off because I felt like they had too many expectations for their wide receivers to be the ones leading the team to victory. Well, now they've got CD lamb. They've got Michael Gallup coming back off of injury. They added James Washington and Jalen tober, but there's not the same type of onus to throw those guys the football because they're not making the money that Amari Cooper was making last year. So although the cowboys roster might look like it's not as good, they still have ballers, shot callers, and a guys with a whole lot of dollars in that locker room and they can win. What are we talking about here? We're doing all this discussion about personnel and stuff. This is going to be the same old cowboys that we've seen every year almost, where they just start. They start off. People buy into them and then later on in season, they just fold up. So until the cowboys proved me wrong, that's the story I'm sticking to. I'm telling you that NFC eastman, they haven't seen back to back champions since 2003, 2004. It has been a difficult place to win. And back to back years. All right, schedule release in the NFL is basically like Super Bowl Sunday, for NFL teams and their social media departments. If you didn't see yesterday, it was a treat. Shout out to all the creativity. And in some cases, all the pettiness that was on display across the NFL last night. I've been working on a top secret mission of putting together the giant schedule and you never know who might be trying to get their hands on it. Hey. Come on. Here's what I heard. I don't want to hear you talking about the schedule. They call me the plumber. The least of my house. Oh, I love it. I haven't seen the script. What's happening? Check, check, check, check, fire the easy. Come on, I almost get your to go. I remember my nickname Matty ice because I have an undeniable passion for ice sculpting. Detroit of his old training. Right now we're gonna share with you. Intelligent options, the Detroit Lions will be using to increase win ability throughout the 2022 season. What does this all mean?.
NFL Live
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"Best games on the entire schedule that's Sunday Night football. I think rams, 9 years, which is Monday night is also a sneaky good rivalry and we've seen in recent years that the niners have given the rams a uniquely difficult time and to finally bills ravens, those to me are two of the top contenders in the AFC can't wait to see how that plays out. Yeah, listen for me, it's week 13. You know, three divisional matchups starting with bills, pages. We saw how the bills wipe the floor with the Patriots in the wild card round. You got the Chargers raiders. We saw, you know, how, you know, how epic that matchup was last season. Saints bucks. We see just from today. You know what? Jarvis Landry coming over and then I obviously chiefs bangles, coach cowboys. That's such a loaded week 13. Well, guys, for me, it's week one. All of the anticipation and excitement from the off season and the first game they give us is the bills, rams, two of the best teams and best quarterbacks in the league. Oh my gosh, you gotta be kidding me. Then you got the Broncos and the Seahawks on Monday Night Football. They come back, you bring the cowboys and the bucks, which is electrifying last year, and then Patrick Mahomes going up against our guy, Kyler Murray in the Cardinals. I mean, just unbelievable matchups, football fans should be very happy. I mean, I know we're gonna talk a lot obviously about Russell Wilson facing his former team, but if you think about those week one matchups, we gotta talk about von Miller, going up against the rams, Darius Smith, going up against the packers. There's a lot of other people going up against their former teams. All right, we saw chefs are making cameo in the Bronco.
Leading Saints Podcast
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"Church leaders who are trying to figure out the best way to connect and love LGBTQ Latter day Saints, whether they're still in the church or out of the church or on the covenant path or not. We just want and it's a beautiful experience the last handful of years I've attended had the opportunity to serve on the board of north star the last 5 or so years and it is a remarkable work. And a good way to look at north star is similar to how people see leading saints. We're an independent nonprofit organization that's striving to support members of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter day Saints, but you guys cover the LGBTQ world and I cover the leadership world. So we're joined forces and here we are. And they work together. Yep, for sure. So I'm always excited for the north star conference. It's typically been held in March, April, maybe, but this year it's in June. The dates, what are the dates for this? The dates are the two 9th through the 11th. So the conference is actually, we start with a June 9th, we start with a opening social, where we meet all the information up on the website. But we start with an opening social. So everyone can kind of get familiar with everyone. We have a dinner and that's open to anybody who would like to come actually. That's not necessarily you have to register to the conference. If you'd like to come and just munch it mingle, if you will, that's an opportunity for lots of people to come and then the tenth and the 11th Friday and Saturday are the actual conference bulk of it. At the Sheridan and downtown Salt Lake, right? Last year we did it in June as well. And we just saw a really good turnout, especially with some youth and families. And that's the part where we felt like keeping it in June is something that we could do that would help youth and families be able to attend a little bit more and get that support, especially when so many are trying to understand what's going on in their lives. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that there is a youth track, so even that's an option there as well. So, and it is also available virtually as well. So you don't have to be in Salt Lake to participate. That's correct. Yeah, last year we started the virtual conference because of the pandemic..
Leading Saints Podcast
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Leading Saints Podcast
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"Are simply a content creating organization. Now, some people may listen to that content and feel like, wow, I feel better trained, but that's not because we gave you training. It's up to you to apply this how you may. But we don't. And that. Leads to the next principle, which is we do not advocate one particular leadership model over others. Now, me, myself, as Kurt frankcom, I have certain leadership models and approaches that I favor that I probably approach any leadership role through. But as leading saints, we don't necessarily, at least we really try not to promote one leadership model over another. Some of our strategic initiatives, I'll just share some of these for 2022. We want to develop the infrastructure to enable future growth initiatives. So this includes really continue to grow our board of directors. We want to create. An advisory board, a leadership council, and a strong fundraising campaign. Obviously, any work that leading saints does does not move forward without money behind it, fundraising that propels us forward. It allows us to do so many initiatives. We want to professionalize our production of virtual summits to make them more engaging impactful and enduring as many of you know, we've done, I believe there's 8. I think leading youth will be our 8th virtual conference. And we just wanted to really develop those shine those up a little bit to really make them more valuable to those that engage with those. A lot of times taking all my time and effort to simply put those together, make sure they're displayed in a way that at least be informative and then we move on and sometimes we can go back to that and develop those little bit better. I want to talk about how you can help leading saints. And I'm actually going to do another little more fun episode that you'll see pop up this month hopefully I remember to do it. Just like some quick things that you can do to help leading saints because there's a ton of quick things like go to Apple podcasts or whatever podcasting service you use and leave a review. Like that actually helps leading saints a lot and it's very simple to do..
Leading Saints Podcast
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"I keep them in the loop as we do different virtual conferences and whatnot. And for instance, Brad Wilcox, second counsel in general, young men's pregnancy when he heard about the young saints virtual conference coming up. He reached out and said, hey, you know, we could probably provide some speakers there. And from our board of advisers, and I thought, great. Appreciate the help. And so we're in the works of organizing that. I hope that answers your question. There's just not there's not a lot of communication there, but so I think less communication is probably a good news rather than not good news. I think if there is more communication from general authorities, it would be not positive communication. So I think that is how I interpret it anyways. So let's go back to the strategic outlook of leading saints. This is we actually put together as a board of directors a document about leading saints in looking in 2022 as far as what we want to create of leaving saints. And what the purpose is, make sure we're all on the same page as we as we move forward. So I'm going to review some points here and maybe we'll give you an idea of leading saints. That's another purpose for this episode is I hope that individuals who maybe aren't as familiar with leading saints could listen to this episode and walk away thinking, oh, I get it. I have a general idea of what they're trying to accomplish. So who are we, who is leading saints or what are we? Leading saints is an independent nonprofit organization that supports the mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints by empowering Latter day Saints to fulfill their God given potential to build and lead Zion like communities at church, home, work, and in society. So this is definitely a direction that we want to go as an organization and it is a direction we have been going. But we aren't just some blog online that talks about callings. Though we cover a lot of topics and principles and concepts that would help an individual in a specific calling. But our hope and the most simple way to communicate to somebody our mission is leading saints, we help ladder day saints be better prepared to lead. Now that may be and I hear this all the time where people listen to our content and they say, you know, I run a CPA office, Kurt, and your content or the content leading saints crates helps me be a better boss at my CPA office..
Leading Saints Podcast
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"More subscriptions and just awesome growth to hear and continue to get feedback from people from around the world. I always appreciate a simple email that says, hey, I appreciate what you're doing. And leading saints, here's how it's impacted us and thanks again. If you ever need a moment of gratitude that type of email would be so helpful for us. All right. And so since that time, since just growing, you know, now we're in the end of 2021. We have had phenomenal growth. We've had as many as 280,000 downloads a month to the podcast. I mean, that is remarkable. Now, that is to put it in perspective. The content we create at leading saints is very evergreen. You can listen to an episode from two years ago and gain a lot from it and still find application as if you listened to last week's episode. So it's very evergreen so that allows us to continue to. Have a lot of downloads in a month, even though maybe the most recent downloads typically what happens are the most recent episodes. Typically what happens is we all interview somebody we'll post it on a Saturday and probably about a week or two after that. It hits about ten to 15,000 downloads. The average episode, which is awesome. And then from there it just grows and grows. And that's another probably your view. As I do the top ten podcast episodes of 2021, I'll also review that the ten most downloaded episodes. That's always interesting to hear. And rob Farrell is a spoiled alert spoiler here. Rob Ferrell is the number one most downloaded episode still. He's the reigning champion for several years and he's got a wide margin between him and number two. I think that one's been downloaded like 55,000 times, which is really cool. Dear his influence, rob's actually down in Peru, serving as a mission president there and boy, what a bunch of lucky missionaries to have president and sister Farrell as their mission leaders..
Leading Saints Podcast
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"And it was kind of touch and go hit and miss writing content here and there. Sometimes I'd go months without writing, but it was just sort of a fun hobby blog. And from 2010 to 2014, I sort of did that. And then in 2014, I heard about podcasts. And I felt like at that point, I was sort of late to the game, but nonetheless, I looked into it, reached out to a few people who had already started podcasting. And I began to figure out how to do it. And that's really where the traction came with leading saints is when I started putting audio content out there in the podcast form. I think is the close to perfect type of content for what we're doing. Interviewing people, hearing how people are doing things and that's when it started getting some traction. That was 2014. And then by 2000 16, we became a 501c3 nonprofit and at that time it was such a demand on my time that I actually went full time with leading saints. And that's one thing that a lot of people don't realize sometimes when they meet me, I often get people who've listened to leading saints for years, and they'll say, so what is it you do for work? And I'll say, leading scenes. It's my full-time job. And it's been awesome. I mean, I couldn't even have thought up or dreamt of this type of job. But man, what are remarkable opportunity and career path that's been. I don't know how long it'll last, I don't know if this is a long term, I will do this forever. I mean, I don't think of anything else I want to do. This point in my life, so we'll see how long it goes. But yeah, since 2016, leading saints as the executive director of leading saints has been my full time job..
Leading Saints Podcast
"saints" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Welcome back to another episode of the leading saints podcast. This is Kurt Franken. Your host, I know many of you have tuned in and heard that time and time again. And this is going to be more casual episode. I'm just going to maybe explore some future ideas and points and directions that leading saints is headed specifically in 2022. I have Instagram Live on and I have Facebook Live on and we're gonna try that out, see if people chime in and ask questions or give feedback or, you know, call me names, something like that. We'll try to sort of experiment here. And that's really what we do at leading saints. We try different things and that's what's led to so much awesome content and unique ways of communicating content is we just experiment with different things..
National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"saints" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Who would teach us what we needed to know in that we could have a pure heart not so that we could be superior to a brother or to assist her and put them down because they believe in a secret rapture or they don't believe in a secret rapture or because they believe that revelation is all been fulfilled already. They believe whatever they believe. It's about jesus it's not about your intellectual fight burs eighteen. But the saints of the highest one will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever for all ages to come then i desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast which was different from all of the others exceedingly dreadful with its teeth of iron in its claws of bronze which devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came before which three of them fell namely that worn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts which was larger and appearance than its associates. I kept looking. And that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them. Look this is the end of time. There has not been a secret rapture. These not left behind saints. The left behind are not saints. Their sinners these are saints. These are righteous men and women who walk with jesus and the scripture says i kept looking and daniel says that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them until the ancient of days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the highest one and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom. If i'm understanding this correctly and i may not be but it appears that the saints are being persecuted and god finally comes. Jesus comes and makes a judgement in favor of the saints now. It doesn't end there..