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"Well is there not a world of instruction for us here? First of all, do what Jesus says. Do what he says. Nevertheless, at thy word, we will cast down our nets. Keep preaching the word. Preach to myself. Keep casting the net. When doubts come, you resolve them here. When you're tired, when you're frustrated, when you're deposed, when you catch nothing for weeks, for months, for years. It's not easy but it's simple. Do what Jesus says. Keep casting the net of the Gospel. And believe that he has power to bring the fish in. And believe him when he says that his word will not return unto him void. Because he really has power over the hearts of men to bring them into the net or the advance of his kingdom. Those who would catch men must ultimately learn their art here. From the ministry of Christ himself who was preaching the word everywhere he went, to everyone he met. May God give us grace as a church to do so. Let's stand for prayer. O Lord our God Most High, we thank you for the glory of Christ. Some here today have seen it, some have not. Maybe some who have heard the call that comes on the back of it are now shutting their eyes to it. Lord there's something compelling here. That we have to present ourselves like Isaiah and Peter and others. That we would lay our life before you and say what would you have me to do. Too often we come and we tell you what we will do, what we're willing to do. It's not the Christian response, what would thou have me to do. Make our sons and use them for the glory of thy name and the preaching of your word. And we pray that knowing Lord that that might mean huge things for our family. That they could be thrust to the furthest ends of the earth to preach the gospel. And yet we know that such a thing would be good. We pray Lord that you would give us a burden for souls. That we would see ourselves collectively as a church, as net casters. And that we would go forth seeking the lost that we might bring them to Jesus. That you would make us not to be weary in well doing knowing that in due time we should reap if we faint not. Lord, kill in our hearts our stupid notions of building our own kingdom. Crucify them, crucify them O God. And replace that with a burning and singular desire. To seek first thy kingdom, whatever that means. We lay all of our boats and our nets, whatever they are, at thy feet today. And if you would have us continue to use them, we'll use them. We'll be diligent in our calling. But we leave it all at thy feet. We pray that you would lead and guide for Jesus' sake. Amen.
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"Again, a thought possibly occurring when he's stuck in those stocks. And that leads us to doubts about God. When we have doubts in our mind, when we are pressed on every side, when we have a hard time understanding what's going on, when the world comes crashing in, what happens is we start having doubts about God. When he says, oh Lord, thou hast deceived me and I was deceived, thou are stronger than I and has prevailed. I am in derision daily. Everyone mocketh me. The word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me. He's speaking to the fact that God's called him into a ministry and he's saying, why in the world am I doing this? Now I want us to understand something, the word deceived, that's translated there. The Hebrew word is a lot deeper than how we see deceive. When I say I deceived you, you see me doing something wrong, right, of tricking you. The word in Hebrew doesn't mean to trick, it's a word that means persuade and it's really to induce by words to do a thing. In other words, he's saying to God, you are the one who convinced me to serve you. You're the one, you're the driving force of me being called to this. It's God's calling is what he's saying. You put me in this role. And what's happened is Jeremiah's perspective on God's call, which is to speak God's truth to a hateful nation, his perspective on God's word has shifted to something negative. He no longer sees this as what is good and he no longer sees himself as fulfilling God's role, but actually what he's starting to doubt is that God is even present, that God has his best at heart. He's questioning whether serving God is worth it. He doubts God. This calling is no good. I don't want this. You talked me into this. And every time I do what you call me to do, this world comes after me. They're hunting me, they're ridiculing me, they're hurting me. And so what happens is Jeremiah doubts his purpose. What comes from this is he says, I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name. He doesn't say he's going to speak against God, he doesn't say he's going to turn his back in that sense, but he just says, I'm done. I can't do this anymore. I'm finished. He has decided that proclaiming God's truth is only viable when it doesn't rock anyone's boat. I can't do this because people don't respond like I'd like them to respond. They're not repenting, they're not turning, they're not doing anything. You say preach repentance and they say lock them up and beat them. Now I want us to be fair to Jeremiah. His message severely rocked people's boats. I don't think we even grasp our, and in case we're thinking this, we are not even at the point of preaching to people who are as resistant as the people Jeremiah was preaching to. Judah had locked in on false prophets. They had locked in on a lie and they had set that up first. Jeremiah is speaking to people that don't want to listen and everything he says rocks their boat. I put in my notes for action step. We need to recognize the potential for doubt that can come over us and to be completely direct. We tend to doubt a lot faster over a lot less resistance than Jeremiah faced. We bail with the hint of being canceled on social media by so-called friends where John Jeremiah's struggles come after a beating and friends trying to set them up to be accused and killed. I want us to see the comparison there a little bit. So don't think you're in a Jeremiah moment because someone de-friended you on Facebook because that doesn't count as facing any sense of pressure, but I understand pressures come. The idea is this, we're not just to preach God's word when everyone's happy with it. We have to see the damage that comes with doubt and discouragement. I want us to understand that that doubt and discouragement is Satan's playground to render us ineffective, to prod us to quit because what we learn from Jeremiah's circumstance, one, we understand who he is. We understand how brave he was, how courageous he was, how persistent he was. We also see what pressure does to somebody and we see how his mind when it starts to doubt shifts from trusting God to doubting God and then he doubts God. Somebody doubts God's call on his life and you see the playground that Satan is in because he has Jeremiah now saying, I just don't want to talk about anymore. He's not denying the truth. He just says, I don't want to proclaim that truth anymore. He wants to quit, but quitting is not an option when it comes to God's truth and his purpose. If you remember nothing from this sermon, remember that as his child, as God's child, you don't have the option to quit. God's truth and his purpose are to be your calling. Jeremiah may have thought about stopping. He may have wished to stop, but as he makes clear, he could not stop and neither should we because we must recognize the pressing call and message. Jeremiah 29, the end of it, and then 11 through 13 when he thought to quit speaking, proclaiming, sharing, preaching, testifying, witnessing, he found that he could not. Let me read nine B, but his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay. And when I mentioned that it's a burning fire and what Jeremiah is communicating is I know God's word in my heart. The burning is this sense of I can't stop. I'm almost hurting when I don't share truth. That's what he's trying to communicate. He's not making this a cozy campfire. He's talking about the fact that he knows God's word in his heart. When he decided I'm not going to talk about God anymore, that God's word began to burn in him, that he felt the pressure, the intensity, the need to preach it. 11 goes on, but the Lord, as he answers his own doubts, is with me as a mighty, terrible one and that means God comes in as the dreaded and feared warrior. Therefore, my persecutor shall stumble and they shall not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper. Notice the next words, their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten and you see these minds shift from this world to eternity. He goes on, but oh Lord of hosts, thou that triest the righteous and see us the reigns in the heart. You see the actions and you see the motivation. Let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have I opened my cause and then he goes to praise him. Sing unto the Lord. Praise you the Lord for he had delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evil doers. As one writer remarks, prophets did not leave off speaking to the people until they were slain. Thus, when Jeremiah was despised like other teachers and scholars of his age, he could not, though he desired it, withhold his prophecy or cease from reminding the people of the truths which they rejected. God had called him to prophesy from the womb and there is no quitting. Jeremiah 1 5 says this, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee and before thou came us forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. So though Jeremiah doubted and struggled, and we can see that actually throughout the whole book, you'll get a picture of that at times. He also understood that preaching, teaching, testifying, sharing, proclaiming God's message, proclaiming God's life giving truth is the highest calling. We all sit here as his children. I hope everyone is God's child. If you don't know Christ as your savior, I hope you'll be convicted this morning to put your faith and trust in him. But for those of us that are true believers, this calling is to be an unavoidable one. That's the message from Jeremiah 20. The burning fire is not a campfire again. It's in other words, you're supposed to not be able to not proclaim. You have to do this. It's an unavoidable calling for us. God's word must be in our hearts. It must cause burning in our bones if we neglect it. We should become exhausted if we don't share his word. Let me say that again. You're supposed to be exhausted if you don't share his word, yet sadly, we seem to only get tired when we do share it. But the point of Jeremiah is you should be broken if you're not. You can take a quick look in the New Testament just to see how that plays out. Acts 18 5, it says this, when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. If you read through the book of Acts, whenever Paul preaches to the Jews, nothing good seems to come of it. Now, I don't want to say that because if you see, you'll see Jews becoming believers in Jesus Christ. But usually, they're going to stir up the town and they're going to bring the pressure to him. But was he going to skip that? Not at all because he's pressed in the spirit. What did God say to him? I need you to preach the gospel to them. What they may do with it is not for you to decide whether or not you're going to give the message. He was burdened. He was burning to testify about Jesus and that he was the Messiah. He writes to the church in Corinth about preaching. And by the way, the church in Corinth was just a struggling church, horrific church. They undermined Paul's authority. They did anything they could to get away with whatever they wanted. And Paul writes to them in 1 Corinthians 9, 16, for though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me, yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.
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"Jeremiah, a burning fire. We still have about two more messages in Judges, but that'll have to wait towards the end of October because the next two Sundays, and I'm just saying it now so don't forget at the end, Pastor Theron is going to begin a series on Amos, and so he'll be preaching the next two Sundays, and then I will finish out Judges, and then he will close out the Amos November series 5th when I'm in Nicaragua, but an opportunity to walk through that Old Testament book, and I'm looking forward to him preaching, for us getting to be able to sit under that for a whole series on the book of Amos, excited to learn what he has to share there. As I mentioned, Jeremiah and the idea of a burning fire, and just as we start out, I just want to make a statement that I think we all know, but God has not promised that we even will grasp exactly how what we do and experience functions and fulfills his great purpose. He hasn't promised that it's easy, and he hasn't promised that we will necessarily understand every component, but he has promised this, that what we do for him will be eternally fruitful and that he will make all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The idea that it's not always easy and that it doesn't always make sense, if you turn into the Old Testament and look at the prophets, one of the prophets that exemplifies that truth so well is Jeremiah. He's described by some as the post -Christian prophet, the one to preach to post -Christian times. He's a man who was the unwanted yet truthful voice of God in his era. He was called to preach repentance to an unresponsive people. He confronted ungodly kings, untruthful prophets, and unfaithful people. As he states in Jeremiah 2 13, in a very clear illustration, he says, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. He's constantly called to preach to a hard -hearted people for them to turn from this world's broken and false replica of a God to the only God who redeems the only God of life. It was a message largely unheeded by Judah, a message of judgment that saw fulfillment in Babylonian destruction and captivity, which was a reality that broke Jeremiah's heart. Irving Jensen says this, By divine design, it was Jeremiah who was called to prophesy in the darkest hours of Judah, when Judah as a nation died. He is known as the weeping prophet and the prophet of the broken heart, but he wept not for his own trials, grievous as they were. It was the sins of his nation and the fearful destruction these sins were bringing upon them that broke Jeremiah's heart. So as Francis Schaeffer notes, Jeremiah provides us with an extended study of an era like our own, where men have turned away from God and society has become post -Christian. And it's to this type of people, this ministry, that the divinely called Jeremiah struggled at times to understand and accept his role in giving God's message. He preached 50 plus years going through, I think, four different kings. He faced opposition and derision, and at times he wondered internally with why God has called him to this task. He wrestles with that thought continually throughout the book. But it is in those instances of distress that we get a window into the prophet's soul showing the deep personal price that he has to pay for his faith and his faithfulness. And it's to one of these that we're turning this morning, chapter 20 of Jeremiah, to see that battle and understand what it means to truly have a burning fire in your bones to proclaim God's truth, no matter the response or reality in which we live. My goal with this whole message, one, as we walked as a church in ordaining Pastor Theron to the gospel ministry is to be a call in his life that no matter what comes up that the Word of God is a burning fire, but it's also a call to us as a church to have a burning fire, a truly burning fire that we cannot but proclaim Christ no matter what we encounter in this world. So we encounter Jeremiah in the midst of one of his sermons or oracles preaching the destruction of Judah at the temple, and this is around 606 BC during the reign of King Jehoiakim. If you've ever read Jeremiah cover to cover and you're wondering if it's a chronological history, it is not. So it is based on these sermons and how they fit together and the message that God wants to bring. It's not always set in chronological order at all. So this is early on in Jeremiah, 1914 and 15. It says this. This is his message. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet with the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, by the way, he was a prophet and a priest. Thus say at the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I've pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. And he is a weeping prophet, a broken prophet. He's the prophet that had to preach to people who didn't want to hear what he was saying because they had other prophets saying, don't worry, we're going to be fine. It's not going to be a problem. We're going to get over this. We're going to prosper. We're going to be victorious. And he is almost a singular voice during this time saying, no, that's not what God said, that God has something else for us. Well, a man named Pasha, who is both a priest and the chief officer, here's Jeremiah speaking and he has Jeremiah whipped in scripture. It says he's beaten and really likely what Jeremiah received at that time were 40 lashes based on what Deuteronomy 25 three would allow. And so when you see that he got beat, it's not a whipping or two, but instead a formal punishment that took place. And then it says that pasture placed him in the stocks where his hands, feet and head were placed through holes, which contorted his body and caused extreme pain. Where is he placed in the stocks? It's not in prison, but it's at the gate. There's stocks at the gate. It's the Benjamin gate, upper Northern Benjamin gate because they wanted everyone to see what happens to someone that confronts them and speaks of God's judgment. Jeremiah is released the next day and instead of backing down, he renames pasture to Magor Miss Abib and you, you get extra chicken if you remember that at the end of the service, what his name was. But it means this terror on every side and, and what Jeremiah was saying was he was reiterating his message. He says, pasture, you're going to see your friends struck down on by the sword. You're going to witness people you know, hauled off to Babylon. He himself will be hauled off to Babylon after seeing the Babylonians take all the wealth of Judah and Jerusalem and that he would ultimately die there and be buried with the friends to whom he pasture had prophesied falsely. I want us to see as he's coming out of the pain and punishment, what he did yet those strong and bold words from Jeremiah were not all he was feeling or experiencing. The rest of the chapter deals with a cry to God saying that the mocking and the disrespect and the ridicule or are wearing on him. He preaches God word and it says he feels like it's become a reproach and the reason why people attack him. He wants to stop speaking God's word but realizes that he cannot stop speaking because that truthful message is in his heart and not speaking God's word creates a burning in his bones and what they're trying to say is there is such an intensity that you cannot stop a burning word that he must preach no matter how his world responds and so with that burning word in perspective, we take a moment to see and recognize what can waylay us from speaking it. For Theron, I kind of specifically kind of diving in for him on this. What can knock you off course? What are things that can come in and recognizing what they are from Jeremiah's circumstances and then seeing how they are overcome and so as we look at Jeremiah's circumstances, we must first recognize the potential pressure. Jeremiah 21 through six, it says, now, pasture, the son of emir, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then pasture smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord, and it came to pass on the morrow that pasture brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him and pastures thinking that Jeremiah is going to recant. He says, the Lord had not called by name pasture, but Maggore, Miss Abib. For thus say at the Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and then I shall behold it and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, which is the first time he names the oppressor that's coming in a specific way and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labors thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon and now pasture and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and now shall come to Babylon and there thou shalt die and shall be buried there. Thou and all thy friends to whom thou has prophesied lies. And if you think Jeremiah is a coward and I want you to make sure you get this image correct in your mind as we walk into where his, his struggle comes, you recognize that after being beat 40 times, put in stocks for 24 hours, that when you're released and the first thing you say is what I said is right and let me get very personal and let you know exactly what's going to happen to you. You recognize that this is not a coward or a weak man. What we see is that Jeremiah encountered significant pressure or pushback from the world of his day. They're not pleased with what he's saying. He's actually accused of being a traitor. They wanted to kill him for committing treason because he preached what God had said and Later on in his ministry, beyond this beating in the stocks later on, they're going to throw them in a pit that has water in it. It's sinking constantly to let them drown in a very slow way. The reality of God's truth though, is often those who need it and who we are striving to reach hate it, and that's something we have to accept as we bring truth that the world doesn't love truth, that the world is not enamored with truth. They're not sitting there saying, Oh, everything makes sense to me, but instead they will come after truth with some of the ugliest hate possible. They can resort to violence and physical attack. Many of us cannot fathom the idea or that reality. We don't see that in our world and in our, in our country, but we know that around the world fellow believers face physical attacks for believing and preaching God's word. I read the voice of the martyr and go through it and I'm just shocked by different sufferings that people walk through. I just read of one where they lock Christians up in sea containers in the middle of the desert and give them meager rations. You imagine how hot that gets in there and the suffering that is faced and yet those people remain faithful to the word. There is a potential for physical abuse. This world hates the message of truth that God has sent to it. Now, along with that physical abuse, one that we probably will encounter more quickly, we find psychological stress. Don't lose sight of where he was put in the stocks. He's in the north gate off of the court of the Lord. So at the temple, they have punishment designed to be public and they're taking a man who is both a priest and a prophet who's preached God's word, who knows that truth, and they've made a public example of him and they've set him up to be ridiculed. He's sitting there. Later on, Jeremiah will talk about the fact that he hears many whisperings. In this chapter alone, and we'll see it in the next segment, he talks about this idea that his closest friends have denounced him.
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"Jeremiah is being pushed to second guess the prophecy that he's giving. He knows it is God's truth, but the overwhelming majority of people, people close to him are saying he is off base. And I want us to kind of grasp what that does to you because we recognize that our court system is oftentimes wicked and we see them push back and we recognize that this world is oftentimes difficult. But what if your family and friends start doing that? What if they start saying, let's denounce him? Actually, his friends and family are trying to trick him so they can end up getting him killed. Yet Jeremiah changed nothing about what he said. He just applied it specifically to the one person that was denying it so vehemently. Which leads me to the next kind of idea, even though he's been mocked, he's been labeled, he's been prodded to join the voices of false prophets, preaching victory and security, and everyone loves to preach the win. Instead, he responds by persisting in truth. Right after he's freed, he renames Pashor and it highlights what's really going to take place. I want you to recognize before you grab that and say, great, when the world attacks me, I'll just call them names. I will rename them all the things I want to rename them and go after them. That's not what he's doing. He wasn't being ugly or vindictive when he did this. This is a way of teaching the nation. You're no longer Pashor. You are terror on every side. This is what reality is. And so Jeremiah changed nothing but only isolated it and focus in. You're going to whip me and put me in stocks. My answer to you is God is going to accomplish this and you're going to personally witness it. He was making the message God wanted crystal clear. I put as an action step. We must recognize the potential of physical abuse and likely psychological stress that comes to those who bear God's truth. We have to be prepared and dedicated to not alter that message, even though pressure may come from the world or even harder from friends and family. We must remain true to what God has said and apply it accurately to our world. What we see in his focus on Pashor is a very specific application of God's truth that it's not left in theory. Instead, the message got more poignant, got more personal, got more applicable, but the hardest thing sometimes to overcome when we look at potential pressure is the thoughts in our own heads. So we look as we look at being his church with a message we need to share, it is important that we also recognize the potential doubts. This is the reality of life, is it not? And so I'm going to read portions of chapter 27 through the first part of nine, verse 10 and then 14 through 18, which is this massive self doubt. I wish I never lived. That takes us all the way back to what Job said at one time. Likely was said or thought while he was in the stocks. Again, it's not a chronological order, so it's just laid out there. But let me read that to see what happens when doubts arise. Oh Lord, thou hast deceived me, says, and I was deceived, thou are stronger than I and has prevailed. I am in derision daily. Everyone mocketh me for since I speak, I cried out. I cried violence and spoil. He says, I'm predicting what's going to come because thy word, because the word of the Lord has made a reproach unto me and a derision daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name. Verse 10, it said, for I heard the defaming of many fear on every side report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watch for my halting, saying, per venture, he will be enticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our revenge on him. And notice who wants to take revenge on Jeremiah. It's people close to him. Then 14 through 18, cursed be the day wherein I was born. Let not the day wherein my mother bear me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, a man child is born unto thee, making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew and repented not and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontime because he slew me not from the womb or that my mother might have been my grave and her womb to be always great with me. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame. And you can see the brokenness that would come from somebody potentially locked in a painful position, shamefully put in front of all the nation to say he's wrong. What he says is out of whack. See Jeremiah is left wondering about what he's doing. He is doubting that he fulfills any good purpose because of the pressure of the many. He's exhausted by the constant attempts to trip him up. That's verse 10. And think about that. Think about if someone has just zeroed in on you. Their goal is to make sure they get you, to trap you, to get you to fall because they want to take revenge on you. He wishes he had never been born. That's verses 14 through 18. Very similar to how Job processed his grief and his pain at one point.
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"Part 3 Chapter 40 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 40 Councils to Widows Saint Paul teaches us all in the person of Saint Timothy when he says, Honor widows that are widows indeed. Now to be a widow indeed it is necessary, one, that the widow be not in body only but in heart also. That is to say, that she be fixed in an unalterable resolution to continue in her widowhood. Those widows who are but waiting the opportunity of marrying again are only widowed in externals, while in, will they have already laid aside their loneliness. If the widow indeed chooses to confirm her widowhood, by offering herself by a vow to God, she will adorn that widowhood, and make her resolution doubly sure. For the remembrance that she cannot break her vow without danger of forfeiting paradise, will make her so watchful over herself, that a great barrier will be raised against all kind of temptation that may assail her. Saint Augustine strongly recommends Christian widows to take this vow, and the learned Oregon goes yet further. For he advises married women to take a vow of chastity in the event of losing their husbands, so that amid the joys of married life they may yet have a share in the merits of a chaste widowhood. Vows render the actions performed under their shelter more acceptable to God, strengthen us to perform good works and help us to devote Him, not merely those good works which are, so to say, the fruits of a holy will, but to consecrate that will itself, the source of all we do, to Him. By ordinary chastity we offer our body to God, retaining the power to return to sensual pleasure, but the vow of chastity is an absolute and irrevocable gift to Him, without any power to recall it, thereby making ourselves the happy slaves of Him, whose service is to be preferred to royal power. And as I greatly approve the counsels of the two venerable fathers I have named, I would have such persons as are so favored, as to wish to embrace them, do so prudently, and in a holy steadfast spirit, after careful examination of their own courage, having asked heavenly guidance, and taken the advice of some discreet and pious director, and then all will be profitably done. Two, further all such renunciation of second marriage must be done with a single heart, in order to fix the affections more entirely on God, and to seek a more complete union with Him. For if the widow retains her widowhood merely to enrich her children, or for any other worldly motive, she may receive the praise of men, but not that of God, inasmuch as nothing is worthy of his approbation, save that which is done for his sake. Moreover, she who would be a widow indeed must be voluntarily cut off from all worldly delights. She that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives, Saint Paul says. A widow who seeks to be admired and followed and flattered, who frequently balls in parties, who takes pleasure in dressing, perfuming, and adorning herself, may be a widow in the body, but she is dead as to the soul. What does it matter, I pray you, whether the flag of Adonis and his profane love be made of white feathers or a net of crepe? Nay, sometimes there is a conscious vanity, in that black is the most becoming dress, and she who thereby endeavors to captivate men, and who lives in empty pleasure, is dead while she lives, and is a mere mockery of widowhood. The time of retrenchment is come, the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Retrenchment of worldly superfluity is required of whosoever would lead a devout life, but above all, it is needful for the widow indeed, who mourns the loss of her husband like a true turtledove. When Naomi returned from Moab to Bethlehem, those that had known her in her earlier and brighter days were moved, and said, Is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, which means beautiful and agreeable, call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. Even so the devout widow will not desire to be called or counted beautiful or agreeable, asking no more than to be that which God wills, lowly and abject in his eyes. The lamp which is fed with aromatic oil sends forth yet a sweeter odor when it is extinguished, and so those women whose married love was true and pure give it a stronger perfume of virtue and chastity, when their light, that is, their husband, is extinguished by death. Love for a husband while living is a common matter enough among women, but to love him so deeply as to refuse to take another after his death is a kind of love peculiar to her, who is a widow indeed. Hope in God while resting on a husband is not so rare, but to hope in him when left alone and desolate is a very gracious and worthy thing, and thus it is that widowhood becomes a test of the perfection of the virtues displayed by a woman in her married life. The widow who has children requiring her care and guidance above all in what pertains to their souls and the shaping of their lives, cannot and ought not on any wise to forsake them. Saint Paul teaches this emphatically and says that those who provide not for their own and specially for those of their own house are worse than an infidel, but if her children do not need her care, then the widow should gather together all her affections and thoughts in order to devote them more wholly to making progress in the love of God. If there is no call obliging her in conscience to attend to external secular matters, legal or other, I should advise her to leave them all alone and to manage her affairs as quietly and peacefully as may be, even if such a course does not seem the most profitable. The fruit of disputes and lawsuits must be very great indeed before it can be compared in worth to the blessing of holy peace. Not to say that those legal entanglements and the like are essentially distracting, and often open the way for enemies who solely the purity of a heart which should be solely devoted to God. Prayer should be the widow's chief occupation. She has no love left save for God. She should scarce have aught to say to any, save God. And as iron, which is restrained from yielding to the attraction of the magnet, when a diamond is near, darts instantly towards it as soon as the diamond is removed. So the widow's heart, which could not rise up wholly to God or simply follow the leadings of his heavenly love during her husband's life, finds itself set free when he is dead to give itself entirely to him, and cries out with bride and the canticles, Draw me, I will run after thee, I will be holy thine, and seek nothing, save the savior of thy good ointments. A devout widow should chiefly seek to cultivate the graces of perfect modesty, renouncing all honors, rank, title, society, and the like vanities. She should be diligent in ministering to the poor and sick, comforting the afflicted, leading the young to a life of devotion, studying herself to be a perfect model of virtue to younger women. Necessity and simplicity should be the adornment of her garb, humility and charity of her actions, simplicity and kindliness of her words, modesty and purity of her eyes. Jesus Christ crucified the only love of her heart. Briefly, the true widow abides in the church as a little March violet, shedding forth an exquisite sweetness through the perfume of her devotion, ever concealing herself beneath the ample leaves of her heart's lowliness. While her subdued coloring indicates her mortification, she dwells in waste uncultivated places, because she shrinks from the world's intercourse, and seeks to shelter her heart from the glare with which earthly longings, whether of honors, wealth, or love itself, might dazzle her. Blessed is she if she so abide, says the holy apostle. Much more could I say on this subject, but suffice it to bid her who seeks to be a widow indeed, read Saint Jerome's striking letters to Salvia, and the other noble ladies who rejoiced in being the spiritual children of such a father. Nothing can be said more, unless it be to warn the widow indeed not to condemn or even censure those who do resume the married.
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Fresh update on "thies" discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Jeremiah, a burning fire. We still have about two more messages in Judges, but that'll have to wait towards the end of October because the next two Sundays, and I'm just saying it now so don't forget at the end, Pastor Theron is going to begin a series on Amos, and so he'll be preaching the next two Sundays, and then I will finish out Judges, and then he will close out the Amos series November 5th when I'm in Nicaragua, but an opportunity to walk through that Old Testament book, and I'm looking forward to him preaching, for us getting to be able to sit under that for a whole series on the book of Amos, excited to learn what he has to share there. As I mentioned, Jeremiah and the idea of a burning fire, and just as we start out, I just want to make a statement that I think we all know, but God has not promised that we even will grasp exactly how what we do and experience functions and fulfills his great purpose. He hasn't promised that it's easy, and he hasn't promised that we will necessarily understand every component, but he has promised this, that what we do for him will be eternally fruitful and that he will make all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The idea that it's not always easy and that it doesn't always make sense, if you turn into the Old Testament and look at the prophets, one of the prophets that exemplifies that truth so well is Jeremiah. He's described by some as the post-Christian prophet, the one to preach to post-Christian times. He's a man who was the unwanted yet truthful voice of God in his era. He was called to preach repentance to an unresponsive people. He confronted ungodly kings, untruthful prophets, and unfaithful people. As he states in Jeremiah 2 13, in a very clear illustration, he says, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. He's constantly called to preach to a hard-hearted people for them to turn from this world's broken and false replica of a God to the only God who redeems the only God of life. It was a message largely unheeded by Judah, a message of judgment that saw fulfillment in Babylonian destruction and captivity, which was a reality that broke Jeremiah's heart. Irving Jensen says this, By divine design, it was Jeremiah who was called to prophesy in the darkest hours of Judah, when Judah as a nation died. He is known as the weeping prophet and the prophet of the broken heart, but he wept not for his own trials, grievous as they were. It was the sins of his nation and the fearful destruction these sins were bringing upon them that broke Jeremiah's heart. So as Francis Schaeffer notes, Jeremiah provides us with an extended study of an era like our own, where men have turned away from God and society has become post-Christian. And it's to this type of people, this ministry, that the divinely called Jeremiah struggled at times to understand and accept his role in giving God's message. He preached 50 plus years going through, I think, four different kings. He faced opposition and derision, and at times he wondered internally with why God has called him to this task. He wrestles with that thought continually throughout the book. But it is in those instances of distress that we get a window into the prophet's soul showing the deep personal price that he has to pay for his faith and his faithfulness. And it's to one of these that we're turning this morning, chapter 20 of Jeremiah, to see that battle and understand what it means to truly have a burning fire in your bones to proclaim God's truth, no matter the response or reality in which we live. My goal with this whole message, one, as we walked as a church in ordaining Pastor Theron to the gospel ministry is to be a call in his life that no matter what comes up that the Word of God is a burning fire, but it's also a call to us as a church to have a burning fire, a truly burning fire that we cannot but proclaim Christ no matter what we encounter in this world. So we encounter Jeremiah in the midst of one of his sermons or oracles preaching the destruction of Judah at the temple, and this is around 606 BC during the reign of King Jehoiakim. If you've ever read Jeremiah cover to cover and you're wondering if it's a chronological history, it is not. So it is based on these sermons and how they fit together and the message that God wants to bring. It's not always set in chronological order at all. So this is early on in Jeremiah, 1914 and 15. It says this. This is his message. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet with the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, by the way, he was a prophet and a priest. Thus say at the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I've pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. And he is a weeping prophet, a broken prophet. He's the prophet that had to preach to people who didn't want to hear what he was saying because they had other prophets saying, don't worry, we're going to be fine. It's not going to be a problem. We're going to get over this. We're going to prosper. We're going to be victorious. And he is almost a singular voice during this time saying, no, that's not what God said, that God has something else for us. Well, a man named Pasha, who is both a priest and the chief officer, here's Jeremiah speaking and he has Jeremiah whipped in scripture. It says he's beaten and really likely what Jeremiah received at that time were 40 lashes based on what Deuteronomy 25 three would allow. And so when you see that he got beat, it's not a whipping or two, but instead a formal punishment that took place. And then it says that pasture placed him in the stocks where his hands, feet and head were placed through holes, which contorted his body and caused extreme pain. Where is he placed in the stocks? It's not in prison, but it's at the gate. There's stocks at the gate. It's the Benjamin gate, upper Northern Benjamin gate because they wanted everyone to see what happens to someone that confronts them and speaks of God's judgment. Jeremiah is released the next day and instead of backing down, he renames pasture to Magor Miss Abib and you, you get extra chicken if you remember that at the end of the service, what his name was. But it means this terror on every side and, and what Jeremiah was saying was he was reiterating his message. He says, pasture, you're going to see your friends struck down on by the sword. You're going to witness people you know, hauled off to Babylon. He himself will be hauled off to Babylon after seeing the Babylonians take all the wealth of Judah and Jerusalem and that he would ultimately die there and be buried with the friends to whom he pasture had prophesied falsely. I want us to see as he's coming out of the pain and punishment, what he did yet those strong and bold words from Jeremiah were not all he was feeling or experiencing. The rest of the chapter deals with a cry to God saying that the mocking and the disrespect and the ridicule or are wearing on him. He preaches God word and it says he feels like it's become a reproach and the reason why people attack him. He wants to stop speaking God's word but realizes that he cannot stop speaking because that truthful message is in his heart and not speaking God's word creates a burning in his bones and what they're trying to say is there is such an intensity that you cannot stop a burning word that he must preach no matter how his world responds and so with that burning word in perspective, we take a moment to see and recognize what can waylay us from speaking it. For Theron, I kind of specifically kind of diving in for him on this. What can knock you off course? What are things that can come in and recognizing what they are from Jeremiah's circumstances and then seeing how they are overcome and so as we look at Jeremiah's circumstances, we must first recognize the potential pressure. Jeremiah 21 through six, it says, now, pasture, the son of emir, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then pasture smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord, and it came to pass on the morrow that pasture brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him and pastures thinking that Jeremiah is going to recant. He says, the Lord had not called by name pasture, but Maggore, Miss Abib. For thus say at the Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and then I shall behold it and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, which is the first time he names the oppressor that's coming in a specific way and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labors thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon and now pasture and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and now shall come to Babylon and there thou shalt die and shall be buried there. Thou and all thy friends to whom thou has prophesied lies. And if you think Jeremiah is a coward and I want you to make sure you get this image correct in your mind as we walk into where his, his struggle comes, you recognize that after being beat 40 times, put in stocks for 24 hours, that when you're released and the first thing you say is what I said is right and let me get very personal and let you know exactly what's going to happen to you. You recognize that this is not a coward or a weak man. What we see is that Jeremiah encountered significant pressure or pushback from the world of his day. They're not pleased with what he's saying. He's actually accused of being a traitor. They wanted to kill him for committing treason because he preached what God had said and Later on in his ministry, beyond this beating in the stocks later on, they're going to throw them in a pit that has water in it. It's sinking constantly to let them drown in a very slow way. The reality of God's truth though, is often those who need it and who we are striving to reach hate it, and that's something we have to accept as we bring truth that the world doesn't love truth, that the world is not enamored with truth. They're not sitting there saying, Oh, everything makes sense to me, but instead they will come after truth with some of the ugliest hate possible. They can resort to violence and physical attack. Many of us cannot fathom the idea or that reality. We don't see that in our world and in our, in our country, but we know that around the world fellow believers face physical attacks for believing and preaching God's word. I read the voice of the martyr and go through it and I'm just shocked by different sufferings that people walk through. I just read of one where they lock Christians up in sea containers in the middle of the desert and give them meager rations. You imagine how hot that gets in there and the suffering that is faced and yet those people remain faithful to the word. There is a potential for physical abuse. This world hates the message of truth that God has sent to it. Now, along with that physical abuse, one that we probably will encounter more quickly, we find psychological stress. Don't lose sight of where he was put in the stocks. He's in the north gate off of the court of the Lord. So at the temple, they have punishment designed to be public and they're taking a man who is both a priest and a prophet who's preached God's word, who knows that truth, and they've made a public example of him and they've set him up to be ridiculed. He's sitting there. Later on, Jeremiah will talk about the fact that he hears many whisperings. In this chapter alone, and we'll see it in the next segment, he talks about this idea that his closest friends have denounced him.
Valley Green Vegan
Podcast Highlight: My Hacks for Satisfying Vegan Meals on the Road
"I'm leaving today on a flight from Washington Dulles to Cleveland, Ohio. Then I have to drive with my work partner two more hours to get to our work site in Toledo. My flight leaves at 5 .30, but it's going to be pretty late by the time I arrive at the hotel tonight. And I'm going to take a small snack on the airplane with me, but I need something healthier to eat, you know, as a late dinner when I check in tonight because I know I'm going to be really hungry when I get in. So for this trip, I've packed a bowl of Simply Asia sesame teriyaki noodles, you know, pretty simple. You can find it in the ramen section in your grocery store, along with two packets of these really cool, ready -to -eat French green beans and cauliflower to throw on top of my noodles. Now, I took a picture of this and I'm going to post it on the food blog with the podcast highlights, so you'll be able to actually see what these little packets look like. I found them at Wegmans. If you have a Wegmans, it's a fabulous store. It's very vegan friendly. You can find all kinds of neat things there. So I also drink loose leaf hibiscus tea every morning to keep my blood pressure low. I mean, if you've listened to podcasts in the past of mine, you may have heard me talk about how I used to take high blood pressure medicine for years until turning to a plant -based diet. And as an extra measure of food being thy medicine, I drink one cup of hibiscus tea every morning, and my blood pressure is continuously lower now than it was when I was on my meds. So it's pretty essential to me to be drinking the tea every morning. But rather than trying to pack the tea leaves and a strainer that I use at home, you know, into my bags, I just buy the tea bags, the simple tea bags, and I tuck a couple into my bag very easily. So in addition to the essential hibiscus tea that I drink, I always like to load up on fiber and cholesterol -lowering granola each morning. On the road, that is difficult because I like almond milk on my granola. I don't know about you, but it tastes pretty darn good, and almond milk needs refrigeration. So as a substitute, I tuck a packet of instant Quaker oatmeal into my bag, along with a banana or a baggie of blueberries, and I've got a really great breakfast with my tea when I wake up in the morning at the hotel. Now, I'm also gonna take a long two slices of Ezekiel bread sealed tight in a baggie, just to keep it really fresh, along with a tear -and -spread packet of Justin's Creamy Peanut Butter. So if you haven't tried the Justin's Nut Butters, they're really good, and you can now find them in these little handy, well, like little travel packs that you just open and spread right on your bread. So I'll make a peanut butter and banana sandwich in the morning before heading to my work site, and that way, I'll have a high -fiber, high -protein meal that's definitely healthier than any fast food that we're gonna go looking for for lunch tomorrow, or that my work partner probably will go looking for. And then for my flight home tomorrow evening, I've packed a baggie of dark chocolate raisins just to raise my blood sugar and satisfy any hunger pangs that might hit before I land in Washington. Oh yeah, and you know, I also wanna mention that my husband found an amazingly cool collapsible cup slash bowl for me to take on travel. It even includes a top and inserted straw for sipping, so you can sip liquids out of it, or like, I'm gonna make my oatmeal in the morning in this. And it takes up very little room in my bag. It washes and dries really easily in the hotel room, and incredibly it's handy for, you know, ramen, oatmeal, whatever. And then you can use it as a cup, too. So if you've got, like, you know, you're trying to drink your tea or something and take it along with you, it's got a little straw for sipping.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Monday of the 26th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew chapter 18 verses 1 through 5, 10 and 12 through 14. The disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. And he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. The disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in my name are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. The disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in the kingdom of heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven. What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who love us, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Reaching Out / Great Ideas for Evangelism
"We talked about survival last night. You know there's a saying I've always thought, don't wait until you're thirsty to dig a well. A lot of times we wait until the 15th round before we've been knocked down, before we go for help. Isn't that true? Sometimes we have to hit that bottom bottom, I guess. Just don't take things for granted. Good lives, lives that are together are not my accident. They're my right choices. The world just says you're lucky, but we know it's not luck. We know it's not luck. You don't order godly kids in the catalog. I'm a godly kid, respectful. You don't order me, you have to build lives. And I tell you what, we live in a day that, I tell you what, it's kind of sad. God doesn't give you wisdom. To see things how he sees them, and actually to see through things. To see through the deception of Satan. Look, two things I begged for in my life. I begged to be a solider, and I begged to raise my kids. He used to beg God for wisdom, because I knew his past was going to be greater than me. He used to say, if you want to mess up your life, that's your choice, but you're not messing your kids' lives up. And I don't know, I guess God, I just begged God for wisdom, and then James, he says he'll give it to you liberally if you ask. And I do believe he has. I got a lady in my church, my secretary, I'm going to be the secretary. She said, I think there is certainly something about raising kids. And if I really even know what I said, I just need to ask her. I think she wrote down everything I've ever said. And it's nice to have people listen. You know, it's ironic, people in my church now are more like me than my own kids. That's just the way it is. They're more like their pastor. They've been influenced by their pastor. My people have been influenced by me. They've been sitting under my preaching group, some of them, for 29 years. So, you know, they actually thank and remind me of how my kids would be. I see my kids, and they've kind of sometimes drifted away from different ways. And it kind of hurts me, but they become like their pastor. And, you know, so we just need to try to encourage each other, you know, hold together. You know, we're one body of many members. Amen. I think I heard one time that a car has about 30 ,000 parts. You know, it takes all of them to put together. It only takes one of them to miss malfunctions before you're in trouble. Isn't that the truth? You know, when one malfunction, you know, you have maybe eight cylinders on your car. You know, when one of them malfunctions, you lose a lot more than one -eighth of your power. Anyone in those cars knows if one plug or one wire is misfiring, it's like you lose 70 % of your power. And, you know, we got to make sure we don't malfunction on starry again. Mm -hmm. Joe, Steve will bring her own water tonight, because I'm not falling for that one yet. You know, we just need to work together as a body. You know, hey, I always tell my people, the devil only needs one heart to work out of. Don't let your heart be that one he works out of. It's a dangerous place to be, too. And, well, I think we have enough work out here. We have enough people that I think God's work, besides having Christians, amen, but Ezekiel, if you're Ezekiel 33 now, verse, I just thought we'd start at verse 31. It says, and they came unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear my words, but they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after covetousness, passions, desires, things like that. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, for they hear thy words, but they do them not. They were too powerful at first, aren't they? Man, I just read that. They point that verse, so many people are, they sit in church, and, you know, they may say, oh, it's a good message, whatever, but they just don't do them. God says, happier little do these things, amen, you know? And just knowing them and not doing them actually just makes you miserable, probably, right? Some people just have enough religion to bug them instead of bless them. Isn't that the truth? Yeah, just enough to just make them miserable without making them joyful. One guy I've told, and I've heard this all the time, but he's going to tell me in church, he says, the pastor's job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, you know? So I'm here to try to disturb you where you're comfortable and comfort you where you're hurting. Amen? And so we come here tonight and turn with me now to Mark, Matthew, Mark, I think, with the gospel, where Christ is portrayed as his servant. You know, the four gospels in Matthew, God is portrayed as a king, as a king, and Mark as a servant, and Mark and Luke as a son of man, and John, the son of God. And we find here one of my passages I love, and I don't know, anyone have favorite, I love, I have so many favorite passages, I guess, but I like this one because it's about four men, I guess, a four, but I guess I can't even say for sure, I'm sure there were probably men that took a man of palsy that was paralyzed through the Peter's house roof to get him to Jesus to be healed. It says there in chapter two, no, actually this just follows where I talked about it the other day about the leper that was healed, and Jesus said in verse 44, right before that in chapter one, see thou say nothing to any man that would go thy way and show thyself to the priests and offer for like cleanliness these things which Moses commanded for a testimony to them. But he went out and began to publicize it much, to blaze abroad the matter, and so much that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city. I mean, God, Jesus at the end is so well known now, it's hard for him to even, you know, move and around stuff, and set him up in the desert places, and they came to him from every quarter. So we come here now, it says here, and again, he entered into Capernaum, you know, that's kind of where he kind of made his home, where Peter was after some days, and it was noise that he was in the house. And straightway, many were gathered together in so much that there was no room for them, no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door. And he preached the word unto them, and they came unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was born of four, and when they could not come nigh unto him from the press, in other words, the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and when they had broken a nub, they let down a bad brim the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he sent unto the sick of the palsy, saying, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. And there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, you know, isn't that amazing? Here in this crowd, there are some hearts that were very, very ungodly. Here they are just looking for a reason to cause trouble, looking for a reason, observing just with a critical spirit, you know, and sadly, they can be in a church, someone comes just to be a critic, but there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, why does this man thus speak blaspheming? Who can forgive sins but God only? See, they knew exactly what Jesus was saying he was. Jesus said, I am God, you know, and that made them angry because they didn't want to receive it except that, and immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye of these sayings in your hearts? Whether it is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk. But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. He said to the sick of palsy, I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed and go thy way unto thy house, and immediately he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this faction. Isn't that amazing? You know, I love that. You know how exciting when God's moving in the hearts of people. When you have a revival, you know, it's not about one person. It's about what God is doing in the hearts of people. And your testimony has brought tears to my eyes. You know, man, isn't that great? Somebody cared enough to go out and make that extra effort, and here he is in church today, almost waiting ahead on the sight of somebody who cared for his soul. You know, I had one psalmist who said, There's no way I cared for my soul. You know, tonight, that's why we're here. We're one beggar telling another beggar before we found bread telling people. I thank God I was blessed to grow up in a Christian home. And I tell you, I didn't have to make us go to church. We loved church. We loved revival meetings. Loved evangelists. You know, that was just kind of the highlight of the year, really. It was like the Super Bowl, you know? And I just thank God. We were poor. It was just like church mice. There were six kids we were poor so we could get out. But I tell you what, I remember I was a little boy. I had my own little horn, you know? I won't tell you. Because there was an evangelist. He blew up. He had a horn. And I would not get out in the middle. I wanted to be like him. I tell you what, that's the kind of heros you ought to be wanting your kids to have. My friend today, if you don't get them in church, if you don't build up the man of God, if you don't build up authority in your life, it will come back to bite you like you've never seen. Go ahead and teach your children disrespect to pastors, to the president, to police.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Sunday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Sunday of the 26th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew chapter 21 verses 28 through 32. Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, what is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, my boy, you go and work in the vineyard today. He answered, I will not go, but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, certainly, sir, but did not go. Which of the two did the father's will? The first, they said. Jesus said to them, I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in him. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, what is your opinion? A man has two sons. He went and said to the first, my boy, you go and work in the vineyard today. He answered, I will not go, but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, certainly, sir, but did not go. Which of the two did the father's will? The first, they said, Jesus said to them, I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him. And yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that you refuse to think better of it and believe in him. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, what is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, my boy, you go and work in the vineyard today. He answered, I will not go, but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, certainly, sir, but did not go. Which of the two did the father's will? The first, they said, Jesus said to them, I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him. And yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that you refuse to think better of it and believe in him. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the father that Jesus gave us. Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and from evil. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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A highlight from The Ministry of Evangelism
"Welcome to the Heart for God podcast. With many years of experience pastoring and helping to start churches, Dr. Jim Townsley has some practical and biblical advice that can be a great help to you and your ministry. On this podcast, Dr. Townsley and other guests with special expertise cover a variety of topics. His goal is to help you lead your church to be a healthy, strong, and balanced ministry, and for your family to be happy, healthy, and living for the Lord. Welcome to the podcast today. I'm glad that you joined us. I have with me here Brother Matt Barber, and he is an evangelist. He's been at our church since Sunday. This is now Wednesday, so he's had several opportunities to speak to us and preach the Word of God. Matt, it's good to have you with us this morning. Good to be here. It's a pleasure. So I want you to just say a little bit about your background, who you are, your family, what God has called you to do, and where you were before. Well, I was raised in a pastor's home. I had great opportunities to hear the gospel. I got saved as a child. When I was 16, the Lord finally got a hold of my heart, and I surrendered to him, and that's when I felt called to preach. I went on to Bible college. I went to Baptist College of Ministry up in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, back in the early days of the college there, and that's where I met my wife. So a lot of good things happened in those days. And then our first ministry was in Woodridge, Illinois, where I went there as an assistant pastor. So that's in the Chicago area? Yep, that's right, southwest suburbs of Chicago. And within six months, I found myself the pastor of the church, and we stayed there for 13 years. And you have family? Yes, sir. Yep. So my wife, Chelsea, and then we have five children, and so the Lord's blessed us richly. And the years at Woodridge were wonderful. We learned a lot. The church grew. It had been through a lot, and we were kind of in a re -establishing, rebuilding phase at the church. And then in 2018 and 2019, I began to feel the Lord stirring my heart towards evangelism, and that's where I felt called originally. And by 2021, the Lord finally gave us the green light, and we stepped out by faith. And so we've been traveling full -time now the last two years. So stepping out by faith is no small exaggeration, because for an evangelist, to get started, people don't know you, they don't know your name. So how does that all come about? How do you end up getting meetings? Well, that's a good question. When I first announced it to our church, they were shocked that we were moving on, but I felt that the church was ready for another hand at the till, so to speak. The church was established, and I guess they thought that I was going out into evangelism by popular demand, and that was not the case. I didn't have anything on the schedule, and I was just trusting the Lord. I expected to be working full -time or part -time as we got meetings lined up, but God and His mercy just allowed the meetings to come in. And they didn't come in all at once, but the Lord stayed ahead of us by three or four weeks or a month or two, and He just filled up our year. We found ourselves traveling two or three weeks a month, plus Sundays and Wednesdays here and there, different places that first year. This second year has been a lot more busy. We spent the whole summer just packed all the way through. We're out west and got to see some beautiful country. But the best thing is we've been seeing God's blessing and seeing God just confirm the step of faith with meetings and with fruit. Dr. Darrell Bock So you're traveling with your family. So you've got a pole -behind trailer, and you've got seven people in that thing. How do you live in that? David Jones Well, you know, the Lord already provided the Ford Excursion. That's right. It's a 2002 Excursion. It's the gas kind, the gas guzzler, but we already had the Excursion, and when the Lord was stirring us up to go, of course, the first question is, can we do this? And the first thought is, no, we can't do this. This is impossible. But then we began to look into it, and we found some pole -behind travel trailer options that would work for our family. In fact, we only found one option big enough that I could actually haul with our truck. And so it's got several slide -outs, and it has a lot of roomy space for the kids to sleep. I say roomy in relative terms, but it works for us. It's tight, but we've been doing fine the last couple of years. Dr. Darrell Bock So you've been a pastor. Now you're traveling as an evangelist. There's got to be a pretty good perspective you have. What is the difference in what are some of the things that people might be interested in, the difference between being a pastor and being on the road as an evangelist? David Jones Well, there's some stark differences, and I guess just going back to the root of it is there are two different gifts in the Bible. We have them listed in Ephesians, Chapter 4. Of course, you have the foundational gifts of the apostles and prophets. Those are no more because the foundation has been laid. But then it goes on to mention evangelists and then pastors and teachers, and I think pastor -teacher is kind of the one idea of pastoring and teaching a flock. So what is the evangelist? Well, if you think about it in the order of events, before you have a church, you have to have gospel preaching so people can be saved so you can have a church, right? So evangelist, an the word evangelist comes from the word evangel or gospel. So an evangelist preaches the gospel, but all of us do that, right? But it's a special gifting that focuses on the gospel. So as an evangelist, I think God gives a special desire, burden, boldness, or even I think also clarity in preaching the gospel so that people can understand. And that's not something to boast of, it's just something that God begins to reveal what your strengths are, what his giftings are. So evangelism is a pioneering gift. Oftentimes evangelists will plant churches, but that's not always the case. My older brother Nathan is a pastor. He planted a church. He would not call himself an evangelist, but he planted a church. So God can use different gifts for different things. I was an evangelist, but I was pastoring for 13 years. But the whole time, I knew I was an evangelist who was trying really hard to be a pastor. It's hard to explain that, but I knew that. But I'm thankful for that background so I could understand the ins and outs of being a pastor and how a church works. But an evangelist is a pioneering gift. You lay the foundation. But an evangelist can also be a restorative gift. I think of Paul. Obviously Paul was an apostle, but if you look at the way he traveled, he was trailblazing. And that's not something just an apostle can do. There were others who did that. In fact, when Paul and Barnabas split up, Barnabas took Mark, and he went off in a different direction doing the same thing that Paul was doing. So there were many who were traveling around in an itinerant way, preaching and laying new foundations through church planting. But then Paul continuously came back and had a desire to circle back and establish and strengthen the churches that he had been a part of. Well, that's itinerant work. I think in America we see a lot of the typical evangelist who travels itinerantly, preaches revival meetings. But that's not unfounded. There's a basis for that in Scripture. I just think the evangelist is more than a revival man. An evangelist can plant churches. An evangelist can go to the mission field. But I think there is a desire in evangelists to not only plant or lay a foundation, but then to be used of God to establish or to even bring an outside perspective that can help a church. And the pastor is there day in, day out. God uses that outside perspective and that special outside gifting to complement the pastor and to help the church grow. Dr. Darrell Bock So what would you say your goal is? As you go from church to church, what is your purpose and goal? What do you feel you want to accomplish by doing that? Dr. Mark Bock Well, a lot of evangelists focus on the word revival, and that's a good word. It's actually more of an Old Testament word, although we see the concept in the New Testament as well. But basically the way I look at it is churches need to thrive and new churches need to be started. My role in that would be to preach the gospel so folks can be saved. But then if I'm going back through established churches, then my goal is to see churches restored, revived to a place where they can grow again. And obviously individuals in that church being, to use another word, quickened. David talked about that. He says, quicken thou me according to thy word. And I think the evangelist can be used of the Lord to have God's power to open eyes, to quicken, to revitalize a church so they can grow. Not that he brings revival with him. Not that he has anything better than the pastor has. But it's a different gifting that complements the work of the pastor. Dr. Darrell Bock So a different train of thought here. From the perspective of a pastor, having an evangelist come into your church, how can a pastor best prepare to have an evangelist come, and how can he take care of him while he is there? Well, I mean, going back to Ephesians 4, they're called the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church, right? So the pastor, I think people see that clearly, the pastor is a gift to a church. If you have a pastor, you have a gift. God has gifted and blessed your church. But I think sometimes pastors forget that the evangelist is also a gift to the church. And there are many pastors now who aren't having evangelists for various reasons. And I would say they're robbing their church from a gift that God wants to give them. Not because the evangelist is so special, because it's a gift God designed for the health of the church. So knowing, seeing it as a gift that God has established, make room for it, you know, promote it.
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Day 9 The Angels St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 9. The Celestial Choir of Angels. The Angels' primary focus is the caretakership of humanity and the world. While the lowest ranked of all the angelic beings, if one accepts the idea of a regulated angelic organization, angels are nevertheless members of the heavenly host and thus possess the profound and beautiful attributes given to them by their Creator. They are beings of pure spirituality and exist to fulfill the task given to them by God. Chief among these are to act as messengers of the Lord to the earth and guardians of the human soul. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Angels, may the Lord grant us to be protected by them in this mortal life and conducted hereafter to eternal glory. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant of the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of Thy Church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of Thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A highlight from Wednesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Wednesday of the 25th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke chapter 9 verses 1 through 6. Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town, shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. Jesus called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. He said to them, take nothing for the journey, neither staff nor haversack nor bread nor money, and let none of you take a spare tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town, shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. Jesus called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. He said to them, take nothing for the journey, neither staff nor haversack nor bread nor money, and let none of you take a spare tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there, and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town, shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? So so What did your heart feel as you prayed? So what do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
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A highlight from Day 8 The Archangels St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 8. The Celestial Choir of Archangels. The Archangels' primary duty, as is clear from their appearances in Scripture, is to carry out the will of God as it relates directly to humanity. They bring to the world the prayerful blessings of the Lord and the special concern of God for each and every human life. It is for that reason that the Archangels, like their close counterparts, the angels, are said to intervene so regularly in the affairs of men and women, be it on a battlefield, in an impending disaster, or in the private anguish and sorrow of the living. In each case, they impart a portion of their immense compassion and love, giving comfort, solace, or fortitude at the darkest of moments. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Archangels, may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works, in order that we gain the glory of Paradise. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and for all that is to come, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel, St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A highlight from Day 7 The Principalities St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the holy angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 7 The Celestial Choir of Principalities The principalities are the first of the choirs most concerned with the earth and are traditionally declared to have the roles of caretakers over every nation, province, county, district, city, town, village, and house, working with the guardian angels who also are assigned to every spot and person. Two other areas of concerns for the principalities are religion and politics. The former they encourage to spread by prayer and spiritual encouragement. The latter they seek to regulate for the good of humanity by guiding the thoughts and especially the ethics what Dionysius termed the leaders of people all over the world. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Principalities, may God fill our souls with the true spirit of obedience. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the divine king, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, thou shafed to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Day 6 The Powers St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 6 The Celestial Choir of Powers The powers have the task of defeating the efforts of the demons in overthrowing the world and are declared the awesome defenders of the cosmos against all evil and the maintainers of all cosmic order and equilibrium. They are the guardians of the heavenly paths, policing the routes to and from heaven to the earth, which means that they concern themselves as well with all humanity. The great harmonizers, they assist each soul to overcome the temptations placed before it to do evil and to lean instead toward the proper action, which is to love and worship God. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Powers, may the Lord vouch save to protect our souls against the snares and temptations of the devil. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Well, glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, oh glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A highlight from Day-8-St.-Michael-Holy-Angels-Novena
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 8. The Celestial Choir of Archangels. The Archangels' primary duty, as is clear from their appearances in Scripture, is to carry out the will of God as it relates directly to humanity. They bring to the world the prayerful blessings of the Lord and the special concern of God for each and every human life. It is for that reason that the Archangels, like their close counterparts, the angels, are said to intervene so regularly in the affairs of men and women, be it on a battlefield, in an impending disaster, or in the private anguish and sorrow of the living. In each case, they impart a portion of their immense compassion and love, giving comfort, solace, or fortitude at the darkest of moments. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Archangels, may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works, in order that we gain the glory of Paradise. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and for all that is to come, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel, St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A highlight from Day-7-St.-Michael-Holy-Angels-Novena
"A novena to St. Michael and the holy angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 7 The Celestial Choir of Principalities The principalities are the first of the choirs most concerned with the earth and are traditionally declared to have the roles of caretakers over every nation, province, county, district, city, town, village, and house, working with the guardian angels who also are assigned to every spot and person. Two other areas of concerns for the principalities are religion and politics. The former they encourage to spread by prayer and spiritual encouragement. The latter they seek to regulate for the good of humanity by guiding the thoughts and especially the ethics what Dionysius termed the leaders of people all over the world. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Principalities, may God fill our souls with the true spirit of obedience. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the divine king, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, thou shafed to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 6 The Celestial Choir of Powers The powers have the task of defeating the efforts of the demons in overthrowing the world and are declared the awesome defenders of the cosmos against all evil and the maintainers of all cosmic order and equilibrium. They are the guardians of the heavenly paths, policing the routes to and from heaven to the earth, which means that they concern themselves as well with all humanity. The great harmonizers, they assist each soul to overcome the temptations placed before it to do evil and to lean instead toward the proper action, which is to love and worship God. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Powers, may the Lord vouch save to protect our souls against the snares and temptations of the devil. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Well, glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, oh glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious archangel St. Michael, Prince of thy church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 9. The Celestial Choir of Angels. The Angels' primary focus is the caretakership of humanity and the world. While the lowest ranked of all the angelic beings, if one accepts the idea of a regulated angelic organization, angels are nevertheless members of the heavenly host and thus possess the profound and beautiful attributes given to them by their Creator. They are beings of pure spirituality and exist to fulfill the task given to them by God. Chief among these are to act as messengers of the Lord to the earth and guardians of the human soul. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of Angels, may the Lord grant us to be protected by them in this mortal life and conducted hereafter to eternal glory. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant of the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of Thy Church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of Thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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"Hi everyone good morning you're welcome to the refinance on his podcast once again and I'm your host the beneath the bassin I trust that the Lord is he then has been so gracious to you all right without wasting most of your time I I just wanted to share a bit of what the Lord is laying in my heart this morning with you and I'm trying to bring a corrective doctrine and let's bring a balance to this very subject because it has been it has been trending for a while and I just want us to have a proper understanding what scriptures really talked about our central text will be taken from Proverbs chapter 18 from verse 16 and it is actually talking about the wisdom in getting along with others okay so I got to understand that to actually relate properly with other people that there is a certain kind of wisdom that the Lord has the Lord expect of us yes there's something that the Lord expect of us yes there is an attitude there's a lifestyle it expects us to live so I I trust that the Lord will help us this morning in the name of Jesus so Proverbs chapter 18 from verse 16 I'm gonna read it in different translations and how the myths of God explain it I mean bit by bit so the Bible says in King James Version a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men all right the good news Bible says that do not do you want to meet an important person is it take a gift and it will be easy that's a good news translation so let's go to the passion translation the person translation says would you like to meet a very important person is it take a generous gift it would do wonders to gain entrance into his presence you see this very scripture is bringing so much attention to what has been trending so they must gift make it room for him so a lot of people used to think it is what they call it now it is relating to someone's inherent talent someone's order calling now like let's say gifting oh I was born with a gift but the scriptures in Hebrew chapter 18 is practically talking about your relationship with other people and in verse 16 the Bible says if you want to get access you want to meet an important person if you want to be faithful by an important person now we're not talking about bribery as in Proverbs chapter 17 essentially Proverbs chapter 17 was talking about bribery no it's not bribery but this is this gift is giving you access now this talks about access to to important personalities amen so the Bible says if you want to meet an important person get a generous gift and it's going to do wonders I think that's a passion translation you're going to do a lot of wonders so I also carefully look at this in some other perspectives so the Proverbs is a simple recognition of factual generosity and politeness opens many many doors so you can just go to meet an important person for example the let me get let me get let me get that scripture straight but I want to really place so much emphasis I mean so much so much emphasis on on this very subject because I know that there has been a whole lot of misappropriation miss everything has been I mean everything has been taken in the wrong direction so Deuteronomy chapter chapter come chapter 16 verse 16 the Bible says three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles and they shall not appear before the Lord empty amen so this is not talking about your talent not talk about your gift this is more of your reverence your honor to a person that you you revere highly this is having to talk about your attitude your your the level at which you are not a person that this important person you're going to me so it must make it so all that can be very foolish and they go to meet an important person empty handed okay but you came with a gift you have so much access okay you have so much attention because you you have whole not this person coming to it you did not come to meet this person empty handed you came with something so a gift is more is more general than bread so here the proverb simply says that a gift can expedite matters but says nothing about bribing judges no so in Genesis chapter 43 verse 11 Jacob knew well and therefore paid his sons to take a present for the governor of the land presented a governor of the land though it were though it were both of every good thing a little so saw in first so was very very I mean King Saul was very very attentive to this very fact so his father's ass got missing and the guy said is there no man of God and the servant of which he was talking with said there is one there's one we know there's one we know and then when he went to go and see the man of God to inquire about is the loss as he did not go empty okay so it can it can it can also be an innocent courtesy of very early con that's a gift to reconcile that like a present Minha sent to the captain that was in first how much as a 20 generous at the 43 verse 11 that's King that's also please you have to take note of this very passage so that say that um you can really understand where I'm coming from and what I'm actually talking about so a lot of people misuse this very subject I mean they talk about their giftings and how talented you are and you see a lot of people start to charge before they can be a blessing to God's people they collect so much money some will be asking you how much is your honorarium budget because they believe that that the scriptures here is talking about what they have inside of them what the Lord gave to them is it freely I have given and I mean freely I've received and then free you have to give so they don't you know that very very scripture they go ahead you go ahead to scatter the the context of scripture just to suit their personal lost I think I made this I made something about this podcast episode happy some some some weeks ago about how people will go about decontextualizing the scripture just to suit their personal lost so a minister who is drawn after Mammon or who is was so much lost for money will now be selling what God gave to him freely and that he was supposed to to give out freely because God gave it to him freely so a man of God will start mechanizing the gift the giftings of God and then using the scripture to to back it up please I beg in the name of God we need to go back to our Bible studies we need to we need to check yes I know you spent so much I know you spent a whole lot to improve on yourself yes second Timothy chapter 2 I think from verse 15 apostle Paul was speaking to Timothy is a study to show yourself approved a workman and it's not patient so the Lord invested in you of course you will need to you will need to work that out you need to make him know that truly you're not wasting that which he bestowed in you amen you need to prove that okay I'm not saying that ministers of the gospel the mind of God should not be cornered of course when they are the concept I know you are still asking me to give you a million dollars you are outside the kingdom of God I'm telling you the truth now I expect to you in all honesty I tell you nothing I am NOT talking because I'm perfect I'm into the full image but I am bringing by the message how do you say part of the money to account before you come now we take the context or the lifestyle of the world to God's Kingdom yes the Lord is supposed to the Lord is supposed to sincerely yes but this is not the root the Bible says he blessed the works of your hands yes now now believe me the fact that you're doing ministry does not mean that you should not walk amen now the fact that you are you a minister of the gospel doesn't mean that you should be I don't know except and unless the Lord sends you I said oh go and do justice and if the Lord asks you to I mean give yourself totally to this cause which he has chosen you for I'm sure he's going to make provision not you make challenging and looking for ways to provide for yourself no how about some sweet little Lord is my shepherd I shall not want if you really know the God in which you are serving you should understand it now to Elijah the Bible says that the Lord commanded arabian arriving to what to feed him now I want you to understand that the Lord cannot really I mean the Lord truly sent you on an errand and then he leaves you empty it's impossible I mean it is extremely impossible like you I mean deconstructorization You are a spiritual, you should, you should, you should talk of midterm dancing.
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"Can see or I guess my understanding would be that the only difference or the only really significant factor there is money. And when the people that are wealthier kind of have respect conjoined with it, so with money comes respect, kind of correlated with each other. So when you already have the respect of society and even if you don't, you have the means to support yourself or move to a place that is accepting of your choice of life, you're kind of more open to adopting adapting new ways of life. 'cause you already have the respect that you need to live in society because you're wealthy. Whereas when you look at it from the other side of things where you're not not wealthy, you're kind of trying to fit into society you're trying to you're trying to get or gain respect. And so you don't try to do anything that you know is not accepted by society because you don't want to risk being the black sheep. I guess maybe that's, I don't know, I just kind of threw out a hypothesis. Yeah, I can see how that can fly there. And I think it just multifaceted because it's also age because you still have wealthy people who are older generation who are so fixed to bear to their old ways or traditional ways, not seeing that a negative tone, but I don't mean it. It's that way, but yeah, I think it's just, that's like a whole PhD paper right there. Yeah, really good water on that. And I'm actually now of it, then I'm going to do some research. In conclusion, we have lost it. And so we have to go and put out a search party to find her. So we're going to go. But thank you so much for coming. And spreading you wisdom to the world, last thoughts, but everyone says, get married when you want to. If you're 21 and you want to get married, get married. 55 and you want to get married, get married. That's our conclusion.
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"Before at home Sense Discover a store near you at home sense dot com. Even more music for your morning on the way in seconds First another look at the news here on 97.1 Wash up, Then it's time for Toby until he's top stories. Senate Republicans are expected to block a procedural vote today on a commission to investigate January six Capitol attack. The vote was delayed last night because of continued debate on an unrelated bill. But the goal is to have it happen before the holiday weekend. If you were infected with Cove in 19, you might have immunity against the virus for years and even possibly a lifetime. The New York Times cites two new studies which say that if you recovered from Cove in 19, and you got a vaccine You won't need a booster. Two suspects are in police custody for the murder of a Springfield couple. Fairfax County Police say both victims were military veterans. According to investigators. Thies suspects were co workers of a relative of the victim's folks heading to the Eastern Shore this weekend are being encouraged to travel during off peak hours. The empty A says that people need to get to the Bay Bridge today before eight a.m. almost time or after 10 P.m. and then tomorrow before eight A.m. or after five p.m., then looking to head back on Sunday, officials say the best time to travels before 10 a.m. or after 10 P.m.. With around the same suggestions for Monday. And finally, according to a recent survey, 42% of People who have been working from home have been on a date during work hours and 41% have gotten busy with said date, 60% admit to napping and nearly half have had an alcoholic beverage on company time. But not us, Toby right now, never bite your tongue. That would never happen here. Kidding, Marc Toward today later on rain will continue chance of some severe thunderstorms highs around 73 right now, 66 degrees in Rockville. Wanna know how they can.
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"Can we trust the cops? Thies air, The different reasons people were put on the list. Falsifying reports are records. What if I told you that in states all across the country issuance of unlawful orders? There are lists that could tell you if individual cops were trustworthy obedience, toe laws and policies. These lists can draw a straight line from an officer. His name to past misconduct. The problem is, there's a good chance you're not allowed to see them to turn a blind at it is basically saying while I hope the justice system works, that's not good enough for me. This is the story of how these secret lists have warped our view of cops for decades. It was confusing for me because I had for all intents and purposes, and he said one, but it didn't feel like I won for the right reasons. I felt really dirty. We're talking about police officers who carry a gun and a badge, You know, have the right to arrest us. It's a special trust. It's a story of how these lists have turned the criminal justice system on its head. Just because someone's on the list doesn't mean they did something wrong like that happened to you. Are you still doing his job? I whisper to them. I go. I don't know. Once you know there's a secret. All those black belt marks Everybody's wanted The lorry. That's sort of like the Holy Grail from the document team at New Hampshire Public Radio the list listen and follow this podcast for free on the I Heart radio app number one for music,.
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"To replace had disrupting deliveries to the food bank she serves. There must be a market for catalytic converters. Someone's buying them. Obviously, that scrap yards like Cal bag in Tacoma. Operations manager John Temple says they're paying a premium for 80 You pay 4 85 84 80. I'll probably end up making probably 10% to the untrained eye. Catalytic converters could be mistaken for useless slabs of metal. These air Cem Cem high end some low end cats, but this important vehicle part used to filter out toxic fumes. This is a common one that people steal also houses so called rare earth minerals inside like platinum, palladium and rhodium. Demanding big time prices on the secondary market and leading to the rise of some questionable transactions. It could be used as an A T. M and we're taking that element away from home sellers, a cow back don't have to go through a rigorous process showing ideas in a legitimate paper trail. Otherwise, they're turned away. The guy who came in like yesterday they had had to do not buy from Auburn PD and Temple says his company continues to work with local law enforcement agencies. Monitoring scrapyards. Police say it's hard to make arrests and catalytic converter thefts because it happened so quickly, like a car problems very, very difficult. But when thieves are busted like in this recent Burian case, turn out that they've been stealing catalytic converters sergeant to Meyer with the King County Sheriff's Office says they usually find evidence linked to other crimes. They are able to execute a search warrant on about a week later recover 100 fentanyl pills. About 7 G of methamphetamine and 45 caliber handgun. The latest surgeon Catalytic converter thefts is also getting the attention of Democratic state representative Roger Goodman, chair of the Public Safety Committee. We really have strictly regulated the scrapyards here. Several years ago, he crafted a bill regulating scrapyards to fend off copper thieves. Goodman says. This time around, it's difference. Thies catalytic converters are being loaded, perhaps concealed and loaded onto containers and sent straight over to China. Goodman says China is primarily fueling the global demand for rare earth minerals. So, he says the port of Seattle also deserves extra scrutiny. If this continues to grow, then we are going to help for federal authorities, they just cut it. And cut it. Until then, Kyle Bryant had lends automotive says there are several ways to protect cars and trucks. You could well the chain to this and then maybe to the frame and it'll slow.
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"They're calling it an excellent meeting. I'm Lee Scylla. Sarah Fox News. That's how the group of 10 Republican senators are characterizing their Oval Office meeting with President Biden as they try to strike a deal that coronavirus relieve, he explained in more depth areas that We're not fleshed out as much in the package the $1.9 trillion packet Maine Senator Susan Collins, a Republican plan is much smaller about $600 billion. In a statement, the White House said. In part, the president expressed his hope that the group could continue to discuss ways to strengthen the American rescue plan. But he will not slow down work on this urgent crisis response and will not settle for a package that fails to meet the moment. Update this morning from the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Chief Medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci said vaccines are key in battling variants of the virus. It is very important. That you might very, very positively prevent serious illness and serious diseases that Johnson and Johnson, which has developed a one dose vaccine now, most applying for emergency use authorization. Millions of Americans from Maryland, Maine, dealing with a dose of winter weather estimates are for close to 2 Ft of snow in much of New York state. Governor Andrew Cuomo says the amount is not the only issue. The duration of the storm is a problem. Because this is not a band that's going to last a few hours. This is a band that could affect the state. The room tomorrow night. The snowfall is also having an effect on covert vaccinations. New York City is postponed them as have sites in Connecticut. Fox is Colonel Scott, nine of the 11 Fort Bliss. Soldiers who got sick last week after drinking antifreeze think he was alcohol. I've been released from a Texas hospital. America is listening. The Fox News Thies days everyone's making do with less. But with Walmart family Mobile, Less is more for less than 25 bucks a month get unlimited talk and text with two gigabytes of data or three gigs. When you enroll in auto pay.
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"What about mankind in general? Oh, mankind like the whole world. John Wells. Welcome to balls. I'm so happy to have you on the show. I love your show. Oh, yeah. Thanks for having me. This is some of the only socializing I've really been able to do. So this is always a treat. I look forward to it every time it's nice to talk to an adult. Uh, other than my wife. I like talking to my wife. So, John, this is obviously when you have a television show, it's a job. It can't possibly have been a full time job when you were making this kind of film before it was going into a television show, so Like how much of your life did you dedicate to being out on the street with a camera? Um ah. Lot of it. Yeah. I mean, it's it's just kind of what I do. Naturally. You know, I would. I would. I would work these jobs that I didn't really care about for money during the day, but You know, I always like jobs that would take me to different neighborhoods. Um, so you know that then that's one of that's what happens when you you're kind of a freelancer. So I would always be in different parts of the city and you know my would always just be filming everything I saw anyway, and You know, if you shoot casually for long enough, then you know, I eventually got all this would have all this footage that I just wanted to do something with and I would just construct these little narratives and Make these little memoir films out of the material because I just I needed to deposit them somewhere. You know, I just didn't want you to sit on my hard drive. Were you working film production jobs or where you just You know where you working, casual labor or something? I was I was four. I mean, one of my only kind of marketable skills that I had was as like, you know, has like a camera operator or a video editor. But I only did stuff that I didn't really have to put my name on. You know, like in, you know, in the scaffolding episode I meant I mentioned the infomercial job that I had for a long time. That was just something. You know. That was a job where I could emotionally kind of vacate and really, really have. No uh you know, I I didn't really care about the end product. I was just a technician, Really? And E. It wasn't a compromise for me, which I get very touchy with In my own twisted logic, You know, it's like I knew that this wasn't art and I wasn't fooling myself into thinking it was And you know it paid enough for me to live in the city That inspired me. You know, the most When you are shooting footage in this kind of system that you've developed over years. Is there something that you are looking for? Or you just waiting for something to go into frame? I feel like I I look for kind of moments that feel fleeting at I'm not really sure how to describe it. You know the definition of what I'm chasing kind of changes every day and It just depends on my current obsession. I guess you know, like I was obsessed with scaffolding for an entire summer. You know, I spent the entire summer underneath scaffolding just studying it and going in. You know, just trying to find the oldest ones or the prettiest ones and you know or than the newest. And so you know that that was my tunnel vision for a little while, But then you know, I get into Something else just as easily. So I get really excited when I I'm capturing something that is going to disappear very quickly, And there's like no shortage of that in New York City, Um Everything is disappearing all the time in New York, you know whether it's the architecture or you or even just in individual, you know, or someone doing a funny dance on the you know. On the sidewalk. Um This like these are all things that are, you know, very ephemeral and and I feel like the best use of video. It's best used when it's kind of preserving something and So much of what drives me to make Thies documentaries are Is kind of preservation. You know, because New York could be a tragic place because it feels like it's All your favorite stuff is constantly disappearing and being replaced with other things, but I just wanted Toulon this camera as a tool, Tonto kind of to create a record, you know, because even if it fails as a memoir, At the very least, it'll succeed, just as as raw footage of New York during a very special time. It's bull's eye. I'm Jesse Thorn. I'm talking with John Wilson. He's the creator of the HBO series How to With John Wilson. Did you shoot the shot of the one putting the pigeon into the plastic bag? That was actually not me? That was my good friend and second unit shooter Chris Maggio. Chris Maggio get like a bonus and a promotion way back to the way it used to be like It's so funny. It's like like I've become so numb to that shot. It doesn't even amaze me anymore. You know, because like it because I've seen all the raw footage around like that moment, So it's like it wasn't a shocking to me. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Short answer. Yeah, he deserved that. I'll give him a promotion. You were born in New York. Did you grow up there? I was born in Queens, but I spent most of my childhood and Long Island, but I was always back and forth because they had relatives and kind of the old apartment in New York. Do you think you have a different relationship to New York? As a mostly Insider mean Long Island deserve is ah, slightly different kind of thing. But still New York City. Um then Someone who lives in New York because they You know, because it was like a choice for them like they, you know? Got on a bus from Kansas City or whatever. Yeah, I mean, I think I do have a slightly Yeah, I would say I would. I have a different kind of unique relationship with the city. You know, it was. It was something I always just kind of came in and out of on weekends. A lot of the time. Growing up and You know, I was able to see the city disappear. You know, Like like my childhood version of New York. I was able to see that disappear and be replaced with what we have now. So like But I also grew up in a very kind of sleepy suburb at the same time, you know, uh And there wasn't really anything interesting there to shoot. You know, I was just it was just kind of a boring strip mall ish kind of place. And I knew that I always wanted to, you know, be back in New York, and just be in the most in the most dense kind of Cluttered place imaginable, You know, just as as, like, kind of like a foil toe like my like my Long Island upbringing. But then like yes. So I've seen the city kind of turnover and, you know, I've seen it get cleaned up in a way, and it just makes me want to preserve what's here even more because, you know, you think that it's gonna look like this forever. On, you know, but that's never true. Even more. With John Wilson still to come. Stay with us. It's bull's eye for maximum fun dot or g'kar and NPR. When you become a member of W N Y C your donations pay for what.
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"Is this gonna be? Thies stories and more given new life, if only for a glimpse. Is this podcast a piece of ephemera in the making. I've forgotten story about forgotten stories. Only time will tell. Subscribe now on apple podcasts, the I heart radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts on, Learn more at ephemeral Dutch show. Listen and follow this podcast for free on the I Heart radio at number one for music, radio and podcasts. All in one free I heart radio app is number one for music, radio and podcasts, All in one discover a new podcast from our library of over 350,000 titles. Here's an I Heart radio podcast preview. 1995, a college student disappeared on a trip across the Yusa reported him missing right away, but they wouldn't take it so his mother started investigating got the case file. Started going through and some people that wasn't interviewed. I joined this mother search for justice. Are you recording us? I am now someone knows something. Season six. Available. Now listen and follow this podcast for free on the I heart radio app number one for music, radio and podcasts, all in one You better get yourself together. You're gonna be Oh, Happening, Ugo Thank you..
Newsradio 600 KOGO
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"On the coast 52 inland 33 in the mountains and 54 in the deserts right now, downtown 54 degrees Kogo news time, 6 42. So, as we know Cases of covert have exploded basically everywhere, and people and companies are looking for proactive strategies to help slow the spread, while the Alabama state Senate in an effort to ensure Were the uninterrupted operation of government recently adopted a system developed by a company called Dragon Fly and its partners that include Touchless smart, vital screenings to detect possible cases. So Dragonflies CEO Camera Shell is joining us here on the Cocoa news Live line. This also includes drones. Hey, How are you? Good. So drones as well as Thies touch screens. Yeah, So originally, so Dragon fly is a publicly traded company and DFL wise air symbol And we, um, are the oldest operating drone company Commercial drone company in the world and way primarily worked with public service. Organizations and a boat or a year ago, we had a public service organization. Ask if if we could develop a system to have drones help detect the Corona virus or in Texas conditions. And so we successfully did that. And basically, we can use a camera. Not just on a drone, but on your smartphone on a kiosk or on your laptop during a telemedicine. Um um Appointment to actually take your heart rate your respiratory rate your blood pressure your SP 02 which are all key indicators on obviously of health, but also if you have an infectious condition Okay, so that is interesting, and some people are saying it. Is this a little big brother like does it make people nervous? Well, certainly on a drone. I think it would make people nervous. And so as such, there is not really a overly big demand for it, And we would maintain that That's probably something that zoo not a broad market appeal or something that we're not really overly. In favor of, However, when you take that technology, and you put it into a telemedicine situation where people right over there laptop could be getting a screaming from their doctor. Or we can use it at the entrances to schools to help ensure that both faculty staff and students Aren't possibly infectious. Then it becomes of really, really important public safety service. So no, let's talk about wider applications and in cities and and things like that. I mean, if or let's just say that, you know, we had football games again that people could go to. Would you be able to use this technology in situations when you have that many people? Absolutely so how it's best. We're actually implementing it right now. And so, if you can imagine, you know the health out that we're all accustomed to Tonto, you know, before you get on the airplane, or if you're going into work or something in there, or if you're playing your kids are playing on a sports team. Often they have the answer Health out before they show up for practice or before you get on the plane. Have you been exposed to anybody with covert? Do you have a cough? Do you have a fever? Well, what else you could do is as you're filling that out, Simply hold Or cell phone up to your face for about 10 seconds and it will take all of your vital signs at that same time and added into that health check up, so that's the best direct application. The other area that actually is effective on drones is we're applying it now under first responder drones, so in the very near future, the first responder at an accident or a disaster scene. Will be a drone because it can get there quicker than everybody or anybody else so out that it could be delivering information back to the first responders that are coming to the scene or to be delivering medical equipment. But as that drone is coming in, it could actually be taking the vital signs of the crash or the accident victims. All right, Dragon fly CEO Cameron Shell joining us on the cocoa news live line. Thank you for your time. We appreciate it. Coco dears time. 6 46 Hear the stories Trending in San Diego Today, the house will deliver the article of impeachment against former President.
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Newsradio 970 WFLA
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"STI to Clearwater Thies Super Bowl in Florida will include a Florida team, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Green Bay Packers 31 to 26 to earn their way into the game February 7th at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. It marks the first time in NFL history that a team will play the ultimate game on their home field. No more closings for the Corona virus or any future pandemic. Republican State Senator Dany Burgess says Florida cannot afford the blow to its economy. Absolutely no circumstance. You should go back to where we were before we shut down our economy. Burgess heads of state Senate Committee on the pandemic. He echoes the position of Governor De Santis, who has insisted throughout this pandemic that lockdowns don't work exposure to the coronavirus has closed the air traffic control tower at the ST Petersburg Clearwater airport. It'll get a deep cleaning. The FAA says that Tampa International well control air traffic there until the end of the month. Former President Trump's impeachment trial in the US Senate begins February 9th, Florida Senator Marco Rubio told Fox News Sunday. He will vote as soon as he can to end it. Ultimately, it is a political process that gonna inject things into our public discourse. That's going to make it harder to get important things done. Fellow Republican Senator Mitt Romney said that for the sake of accountability, truth and Justice Trump needs to face trial for inciting the uprising at the U. S Capitol and for his phone call to Georgia's top election. Official. Demanding that he find votes for Trump. The space X rocket that lifted off from Cape Canaveral Sunday carried more than 130 satellites into orbit. One had the ashes of dozens of people, including those former CBS News reporter, Dave Barrett. He wanted to be an astronaut and back in those days, he had to wear glasses, and there were several restrictions that spirits wife, Joyce talking to CBS, Barrett covered the final special launch from the Cape Back in 2011. Florida's news. I'm John MC Weston. MORE deadly. I'm Joe Chiro. Fox News. White House chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci says it does appear that the UK strains circulating in several U. S. States does have a higher mortality rate. So the most recent data Is in accord with the Brits are saying we want to look at the data ourself, but we have every reason to believe them. They're very competent group. So we need to assume now that what has been circulating dominantly In the U. K does have a certain degree of increase in what we call very Linds found. She tells CBS's face the nation that so far vaccines currently being distributed are effective against the UK strain. President Biden on Mondays expected to formally reinstate travel restrictions on non U. S travelers from dozens of European countries. South Africa will also be on the list over concerns of a very into there. There's growing concern over vaccine shortages, making it much harder for.
KFI AM 640
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"Angeles Orange County's live everywhere on the I. Heart radio APP steps forward. I'm Michael Pressure from the K F i 24 hour news room. Mayor Garcetti says L. A is making progress with administering the covert 19 vaccine are said he gave his weekly covert update from Dodger Stadium where he says healthcare workers are administering the vaccine around the clock, the shots that air going into the arms of Angelenos here at Dodger Stadium and elsewhere in our city and county Is our way out of this crisis. Thies shots are way to save more lives or said he says about 80,000 people been vaccinated so far, it's cities. City sights on elected official in San Clemente says the new records policy is an attempt to allow the city to operate in a shroud of secrecy. Councilwoman Laura Ferguson says the city put in new software to get her to stop sharing public documents with the public. I'm not going to register for this system. Um there's nothing in the state government code that requires an elected official in the administration of their duties to sign an open. Ferguson says the system allows city officials to choose of a document is considered public before it reaches council members. The city has not responded to requests for comment. New York's governor says the job market in his state will not recover from covert 19 until 2025. Even Ranger, Cuomo's and $193 billion budget plan says the labor market recovery has slowed to a trickle because of the colder weather. Increasing covert 19 cases and the closure of outdoor dining employment in New York City is more than 12% below where it was last February before the pandemic was declared, Dr Anthony Fauci has told the World Health Organization the U. S. Has re committing to its membership in the W H O join my fellow representatives in thanking The World Health Organization. For its role in leading the global public health response. To this pandemic down, she says the U. S will join the worldwide Kovacs project to help send vaccines the lower income countries Now she's staying on in his role is that at the National Institutes for Health while also becoming President Biden's point person on the pandemic. Former President Trump pulled the US out of the W. H O because he said it had been too soft on China. A pair of suicide bombings had a busy market in Baghdad has killed at least 32 people. Iraq's health minister says 110 Others were hurt in the attack. Islamic state has claimed responsibility for the bombings, which happened in a part of central Baghdad where terror attacks. Have been rare Southland weather from Ko Phi Clouds fog out there this morning. Watch your driving, please Lows around 50 degrees. Chance of rain Roughly start around 10 o'clock this morning and cooler today, Eyes around 60 at the beach is 70 Metreveli Orange County, 80 Inland empire in the valleys cool with that chance of rain hanging all the way through the weekend and into next week if we lead local from the K F i 24 hour news room. I'm Michel Closure. Robert leaving Burbank of the North bound son of the five from all live up the Hollywood way. It's the three left lanes ConEd. Obviously that's going to wrap up. His late is 5 A.m. heads up to Long Beach North and 17 before Anaheim wreck involving.
The Bone 102.5
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"Thies, our altar wrapped personalities, So we're about to get a lot more urban. You feel May I don't know Michael's freaks. Happy Birthday, Michael Springs in the worst way, like a fridge. Happy birthday. Michael Sprigs and the work. Wait. Call you shack because you've got them 32 candles. I'm Steph Marbury with the handles. First up on the mic. You may Man Truc about to get a little bit newsy. When I got in shotgun of your dad's car, he said Drago Robbo. I only know who you are. Does. My kid listens to your show? He thinks you're great. I think you blow I said your peak. What? That's real nice. You ain't got to say the same thing Twice. Put your boy up on the phone so we can talk, he said at this corner, you get out and walk, Michael streaks. Happy birthday, Michael sprigs in the worst way, Michael sprigs. Be birthday, Michael Sprigs in the worst way to think my main man Pete for doing that thing in laying down me because now we got a son that's preaching to the quiet that drew girl rather live. Is that damn fire? We gonna be rough for a long, long time? We got Michael to thank because he dropped that down. He told his daddy these dudes, but they are their best. So now we stuck in mad cash. Shall we ain't real sad. Michael Sprigs birthday Treat Michael Sprigs. Daddy laid that meat like John said, and he did it in your mom. Now I'm back on this microphone and dropping my bomb like Hiroshima or maybe Nagasaki. Your love for my show Got me a little cocky, so reach into my pocket and pull out a fat, not Michael Spring's blowing out the candles, not he's getting the cake from fudgy the whale. Christopher Cross is about to set sail. Yo, peace, You know, I got mad love for you and your son and your blessed from above Michael sprigs. Happy birthday, Michael sprigs in this worst way, Michael sprigs Happy birthday. Not my man, Fabio. We got song and to say, let me be true And I really don't care Don't know anything about Michael. Maybe he's got curly hair. Maybe he doesn't maybe skinny or fat, but I know that he steps up to the mic like a bat. And he lays it down. Preaching the word of this show. We appreciate it, my man. Please don't go. Don't go, Michael. You didn't love our show so much the powers that be my crush us like a great but instead, they saw fit to reward you go Rob.
KOA 850 AM
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"Dick Monfort. Grampa Warren started cattle ranching with the few cattle in Greeley, Colorado. In groups of 30,000 cattle, the largest cattle feeder in the world. At the time Index tag, Kenny kicked it up a notch, pioneering the vertical integration off the whole industry. He risked everything they had by building an operation. That's it its very own slaughtering, processing and distributing which all used to be done by different middlemen. He was successful building the first quote, complete meat company and saved US consumers money by cutting out all these middlemen. It was a serious business, but that didn't mean that they couldn't have some fun. Along the way fact cattle feeders from Maya what would drive out this way, and they go to Estes Park, which was a great place to go in the summer, right? One farmer. One time came through there and Looking at the deal and said, Oh, my God, This thing's huge. This is unbelievable, and he asked a guy by the name of Tito, who worked at the feedlot sort of took care of my grandfather, he said. How many people work here and Tito quickly set about half of them. Thies Montford guys are characters, but they sure are ethical. Nixon because of runaway inflation had put a price freeze. But the price freeze was on the in product. It wasn't on the cattle. Problem in in the beef industry is the rob material is about 70% of your cost, and so by freezing the back end or the meat prices the front end, the cattle prices went way up. Because cattle feeders didn't want to have their profits squeezed and they can hold onto their cattle until the price freeze was over. So the meat packers had to pay them a lot more to get any of their cattle, which eliminated the Packers profits and threatened to turn their business in the daily losses. People start saying, You know there's gonna be a shortage of me because they can't produce it at this level. Well, there wasn't really any shortage of me. But the people were going in and grabbing it in fear.
KSFO-AM
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"Very high quality person. Named William Barr. And he's doing He's comptel you he's working so hard, And rather than just doing a total release I gave I gave him a total release. In other words, he's got everything anything he needs. He's got easy attorney general of the United States. He's got a lot of A very good people under him that I guess are involved and I gave them a total release. So all of it's been released and he has all of it. I've also given him authorization to release it to whoever he wants. Now we were told that these documents were released the 2 30 today, not on at least some of them. But then I'm hearing from other people that maybe there's still some whole backs. Anyway. Well, he's been fighting harder even than I have been and getting these documents now for years. It's John Solomon is the editor in chief of just the news dot com And author of the book Fall out, Um and you know, we've been wanting waiting, even knowing what's in some of these documents unable to talk about them until they come out, John, But there's things that you and I both know exist. That would really blow this wide open, but we can't get access to it. Why? It's the extraordinary power of the bureaucracy In each of these agencies. Every agency claims to have the antiquities the rights to make their decisions. Review these to make sure there aren't any national security secrets that would harm alive for harm our national security and, of course, at the last minute as the president has already authorized the release of these documents, all the bureaucracy is worried about what We're gonna learn about their agencies has taken one last run it trying to redact slow down. Stop. Review the information in there. There's not pretty little if the president of the United States says to release it, they don't they have to release it. You would sure think that that would be the case, But we've seen time and again that Thies. These agencies have an eco system of their own. They can sport slow off the escape for as long as you want. I have a high degree of confidence that the were just a few hours or, well, maybe 48 hours or less away from this. I think it said on your show last night, some weird dream somewhere between Friday and Monday, these documents will become available. I still feel confident it will happen. But I have a good sense already. What's in there and and there are some big stories that we can prepare ourselves form. We could look at the documents, but The big The big new reveals are pretty clear to me from the reporting I've done all right, let's go through it because we're talking about a stack. I'm told at least a foot high, released by the Justice Department ordered released by the Justice Department. They've had a lot of this for years. I mean, it's when Rick Coronel was acting director of National Intelligence record. L. You know, released a lot. Then then Ratcliffe after him. But these are documents that would corroborate a lot of your reporting and a lot of what we said on the show. Yeah, they have things that I'm totally shocked by as I've done reporting. Let's take for one that just the real shocker to me and I'm 100% certain is true. It's going to be in these documents. The the Christopher Steele when he needs with the FBI year after he's been fired. Remember he's fired November 16 for leaking to the media. Ah, year later he comes back, and the FBI is not dubious of his entire dossier. And he says, you guess where I got my, uh, primary sub source from and they said what he said from Fiona Hill. If you don't remember who feel the hell is she was one of the star impeachment witnesses against Donald Trump and late 2019. She was a National Security Council expert on Russia, very well respected as a Russian expert. But it turns out she is the person according to steal that introduced him to the sub source who gave him all that malarkey. All that bad dope that was in his dossier that turned out to be Russian disinformation or just completely uncorroborated garbage. So respected NSC staffer who becomes a witness against the president is involved in the earlier Russia collusion, narrative building remarkable revelation, and even I felt all the reporting I've done That one caught me completely off guard. I think the big story the story that everyone will remember from these documents, and it is the final story of Russia collusion. Why did it happen? Because Hillary Clinton and their team, including Christopher Steele wanted to change the topic away from problems with their email server to a false story that would vilify Donald Trump on Russia. That is the headline that will come on. Christopher Steele debrief with the F B. I remember was fired for leaking told the FBI why he was leaking and this will be corroborated. We expect by these documents. Because he wanted to help Hillary cover up her email problem. But remember when they went to the sub source in January of 2017 substance, said none of this is true. This is Bart talk is was never meant for for this what they've used it for. It's all or none of it's corroborated or And at that point, they still were signing Fiza warrants and didn't call me a McCabe and all these people have to know what that point those people putting their signatures on these go back earlier, So I have 2016, the CIA director walks into the president of the United States President Barack Obama would have sunk it. That's Brennan. Yeah. John Brennan, the CIA director, goes in and says We have intelligence indicating Hillary Clinton has concocted this Russia story to possibly deflect from concerns in her email. That's an intelligence intercept that we don't know exact nature of it, but it's pretty clear what the president was told it, then sent to the FBI, which means Pete's truck and his team gets it. They knew it even before.
KCRW
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"NPR NEWS Thies are strange and historic times a pandemic that's killed more than 380,000 people across our country. An insurrection at the U. S. Capitol. Ah second presidential impeachment and troops in Washington, D C to defend an inauguration of a new president. Times like these can be hard to explain to Children. They had questions. They had a lot of emotions. There was a lot of anger. This is Elizabeth tackles. She's a teacher at Yale Haynes Middle School here in Washington, D. C. And for her and other teachers. The question was. How do you talk to students about events that even adults or having trouble finding words for I think we all could feel the weight of the responsibility. How we were going to sort of guide our students through these moments that were in a way still unfolding and other teachers had questions to. That's where Scholastic, the Children's publishing and media company jumped in. Our mission is to be able to help kids understand the world, so we just really want to be able to illuminate all of this for them so that they can participate in discussions. Lauren Torches is editor in chief of Scholastic Classroom magazines. She says that on the day rioter stormed the U. S. Capitol. Requests from educators poured in. We started hearing from teachers all over the country, and they knew that this was something extremely frightening and disruptive, and they knew that they were going to have to be prepared to answer questions the next day. Harsh is and her team went to work to make certain teachers had what they needed to talk to their kids the following morning. Thinking not just about what to say. But how to say it. We work with a psychologist because we knew you. The teachers also really wanted to be prepared to help students deal with the emotional aspects of watching such a troubling event unfold. Pakis says these conversations can't be avoided. In fact, she insists that.
600 WREC
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"Worked. He's just coming way are back on the air right now, because they have just learned that President Trump has put out a tweet announcing that he has a new secretary of state. Mike Pompeo, the CIA director is in Rex Tillerson. The current secretary of state is out first. Let me also say thanks to FTD for hosting this, thanks to Clifford for inviting me here this morning. I look forward to Ah, A great conversation. Lots of topics, including certainly this very important topic. The threat The Islamic Republic of Iran presents for the United States way now suffering the consequences with Iran, literally on Israel's border flying drones into Israeli airspace. I don't think that's the really most dangerous aspect of the Middle East, so I still think it's Iran's support for terrorism and its continued effort to get delivery will nuclear weapon democracy democracy. Democracy is not with these people need hell. It's not even what they wanted. America's been trying to install democracies and nations for a century. And it hasn't worked one time. Thies countries don't have the most basic building blocks to support democracy. Little things like way ought to be tolerant of those who disagree with us way gotta be tolerated Those who worship different gods than us. That a journalist ought to be able to disagree with the president. Do you think that you can just march into these countries based on some fundamentalist religious principles, drop a few bombs, topple a dictator and start a democracy. Give me a break. I'm quite Louis. You were losing ground zero. Could Sean in Texas High, Shawn, you're on ground zero. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Yeah, Yes, this concerning, you know, we spoke before and so much to do so little time. It's gonna be hard to undo the long and the short of it were dying Breed and we we were not the.