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Join Dr. D. Todd Harrison: Jesus Christ's Apostle to All Nations and Generations for powerful testimony concerning Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this revelatory lesson, Dr. D. Todd Harrison: Apostle of Jesus Christ unpacks the sacred truths of Doctrine and Covenants 76 with fire and clarity. Known as “The Vision,” this section reveals the degrees of glory, the fate of the faithful, and the eternal triumph of Jesus Christ's Atonement. With apostolic urgency, Dr. Harrison declares that this is not just a vision of heaven—it is a roadmap for exaltation. The celestial kingdom is real. The testimony of Jesus is the key. And the time to prepare is now."I testify in the name of Jesus Christ that the revelation recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 76 is not symbolic—it is literal. It is the Lord's own declaration of eternity. It is the blueprint of glory. And it is the invitation to rise.I declare that the Celestial Kingdom is reserved for those who receive the testimony of Jesus, are baptized by His authority, and are valiant in that testimony until the end. This is not folklore. This is not theory. This is the voice of the resurrected Christ speaking to His servants. I testify that Jesus Christ lives. He sits at the right hand of the Father. He glorifies the Father and saves all the works of His hands. This truth I declare to every nation and generation.The telestial glory surpasses all understanding. The terrestrial glory is real. But the celestial glory is exaltation—and it is offered to you through covenant, obedience, and the testimony of Jesus. This is the vision. This is the promise. This is the hour.We invite you to follow Moroni's promise:After watching this message, ask God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ if it is true—and listen for the Spirit to answer.As one commissioned personally by Jesus Christ, I testify that what the Spirit has revealed through me in this lesson is God's Truth. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."

Join Dr. D. Todd Harrison: Jesus Christ's Apostle to All Nations and Generations for powerful testimony concerning Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When the truth of Christ's restored gospel is opposed, the Lord does not retreat—He speaks. He sends messengers. He extends mercy while affirming judgment. In this in-depth message, Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, Dr. D. Todd Harrison explores the sacred revelations contained in Doctrine and Covenants sections 71 through 75, exposing how God empowers His servants in times of contention, clarifies priesthood responsibility, and urgently calls disciples to repentance and readiness.Topics include:– The Lord's command to proclaim, not hide, the restored gospel– How false spirits and deceivers are dealt with in the Lord's pattern– The sacred weight of missionary stewardship and priesthood duty– The Lord's care in organizing His kingdom, person by person, calling by calling– Apostolic insight and testimony from Dr. D. Todd Harrison a modern-day Apostle called directly by Jesus Christ just as the Apostle Paul was into the urgency of preparing for the Second Coming and the truth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Whether you are a disciple in the trenches or a seeker at the edge, this message will stir your soul and help anchor your faith.

Preachers and Preaching in the Pikes Peak Region introduces Pastor Mark Cowart of Church for All Nations. You have driven past CFAN on Powers and Dublin thousands of times – hear what God is doing at Church for All Nations! Jeff Anderson and Pastor Mark talk about the history of CFAN and his passion to preach the Word of God, applying it to every part of life! www.churchforallnations.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Delivered by Samue Ivan Gunarsa from the Parish of Mary of All Nations in the Diocese of Bogor, Indonesia. Genesis 19: 15-29; Rs psalm 26: 2-3.9-10.11-12; Matthew 8: 23-27.STORM The title for our meditation today is:Storm. A person who is very distress, a family that is facing economicproblems, a Church hit by disputes between factions of faithful, and a countrythat is massively destroyed by corruption; these are all examples of stormsthat hit our human life. All people are affected by the damage of theirphysicall, mental and spiritual lives, just like natural disaster that destroysthe life of a particular neighbourhood. Various kinds of storms that threatenhuman life and their environment are known as the natural forces that do notprovide comfort and serenity, but trouble and destruction of life. When natureis calm and beautiful, we are certainly very fascinated to enjoy it. Naturetruly offers a kind of nourishment to our souls, so that we become peaceful andjoyful. But when nature rebels, for example hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes,human life instead perils. In the scriptures we can find so manynatural phenomena. In our lives, especially in the Indonesian lands, naturaldisasters have become the story of the entire population of the archipelago.Often people interpret every disaster as a form of punishment given by nature.The punishment is actually a consequence of human behavior which damages natureand does not care for the nature. This understanding can be further deepening.God allows the disasters or storms to happen to strike human life, so thathumans become aware of their sinfulness then return to God. The question we canwould be: by allowing that, is God far away and watching us suffer? Is itpermissible for humans to be tortured while God does nothing to protectcreation that He loves so much? Of course the answer is no. Godremains in the hearts of every human being. He is in the homes of families, inplaces where men work, and in all matters of this world. He lives there and isoften silent. We may be too busy with all things of the world, that is why wedo not remember and realize the presence of God in our midst. He seems to besleeping soundly in the midst of all the busy life of this world. But thestorm, even though as big as we cannot imagine, is impossible to eliminate thislife, because God is there, He is truly with us. We should always remember, realize andcall on Him when the storm comes and threatens us. With Him, even if the stormis real and very harmful, we are certainly able to face it. Let's pray. In the name of theFather ... O Lord, bless us that we are able to survive and face all kinds ofstorms in life. Our Father who art in heaven ... In the name of the Father ...

For those who haven't heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a forty-one-minute bonus episode available, on Judy Collins’ version of this song. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Erratum For about an hour this was uploaded with the wrong Elton John clip in place of “Saturday Sun”. This has now been fixed. Resources Because of the increasing problems with Mixcloud’s restrictions, I have decided to start sharing streaming playlists of the songs used in episodes instead of Mixcloud ones. This Tunemymusic link will let you listen to the playlist I created on your streaming platform of choice — however please note that not all the songs excerpted are currently available on streaming. The songs missing from the Tidal version are “Shanten Bells” by the Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” by A.L. Lloyd, two by Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, three by Elton John & Linda Peters, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow” by Sandy Denny and “You Never Know” by Charlie Drake, but the other fifty-nine are there. Other songs may be missing from other services. The main books I used on Fairport Convention as a whole were Patrick Humphries' Meet On The Ledge, Clinton Heylin's What We Did Instead of Holidays, and Kevan Furbank's Fairport Convention on Track. Rob Young's Electric Eden is the most important book on the British folk-rock movement. Information on Richard Thompson comes from Patrick Humphries' Richard Thompson: Strange Affair and Thompson's own autobiography Beeswing.  Information on Sandy Denny comes from Clinton Heylin's No More Sad Refrains and Mick Houghton's I've Always Kept a Unicorn. I also used Joe Boyd's autobiography White Bicycles and Chris Blackwell's The Islander.  And this three-CD set is the best introduction to Fairport's music currently in print. Transcript Before we begin, this episode contains reference to alcohol and cocaine abuse and medical neglect leading to death. It also starts with some discussion of the fatal car accident that ended last episode. There’s also some mention of child neglect and spousal violence. If that’s likely to upset you, you might want to skip this episode or read the transcript. One of the inspirations for this podcast when I started it back in 2018 was a project by Richard Thompson, which appears (like many things in Thompson’s life) to have started out of sheer bloody-mindedness. In 1999 Playboy magazine asked various people to list their “songs of the Millennium”, and most of them, understanding the brief, chose a handful of songs from the latter half of the twentieth century. But Thompson determined that he was going to list his favourite songs *of the millennium*. He didn’t quite manage that, but he did cover seven hundred and forty years, and when Playboy chose not to publish it, he decided to turn it into a touring show, in which he covered all his favourite songs from “Sumer Is Icumen In” from 1260: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Sumer is Icumen In”] Through numerous traditional folk songs, union songs like “Blackleg Miner”, pieces by early-modern composers, Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs, and songs by the Beatles, the Ink Spots, the Kinks, and the Who, all the way to “Oops! I Did It Again”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Oops! I Did it Again”] And to finish the show, and to show how all this music actually ties together, he would play what he described as a “medieval tune from Brittany”, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”] We have said many times in this podcast that there is no first anything, but there’s a reason that Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention’s third album of 1969, and the album other than Unhalfbricking on which their reputation largely rests, was advertised with the slogan “The first (literally) British folk rock album ever”. Folk-rock, as the term had come to be known, and as it is still usually used today, had very little to do with traditional folk music. Rather, the records of bands like The Byrds or Simon and Garfunkel were essentially taking the sounds of British beat groups of the early sixties, particularly the Searchers, and applying those sounds to material by contemporary singer-songwriters. People like Paul Simon and Bob Dylan had come up through folk clubs, and their songs were called folk music because of that, but they weren’t what folk music had meant up to that point — songs that had been collected after being handed down through the folk process, changed by each individual singer, with no single identifiable author. They were authored songs by very idiosyncratic writers. But over their last few albums, Fairport Convention had done one or two tracks per album that weren’t like that, that were instead recordings of traditional folk songs, but arranged with rock instrumentation. They were not necessarily the first band to try traditional folk music with electric instruments — around the same time that Fairport started experimenting with the idea, so did an Irish band named Sweeney’s Men, who brought in a young electric guitarist named Henry McCullough briefly. But they do seem to have been the first to have fully embraced the idea. They had done so to an extent with “A Sailor’s Life” on Unhalfbricking, but now they were going to go much further: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves” (from about 4:30)] There had been some doubt as to whether Fairport Convention would even continue to exist — by the time Unhalfbricking, their second album of the year, was released, they had been through the terrible car accident that had killed Martin Lamble, the band’s drummer, and Jeannie Franklyn, Richard Thompson’s girlfriend. Most of the rest of the band had been seriously injured, and they had made a conscious decision not to discuss the future of the band until they were all out of hospital. Ashley Hutchings was hospitalised the longest, and Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson, and Sandy Denny, the other three surviving members of the band, flew over to LA with their producer and manager, Joe Boyd, to recuperate there and get to know the American music scene. When they came back, the group all met up in the flat belonging to Denny’s boyfriend Trevor Lucas, and decided that they were going to continue the band. They made a few decisions then — they needed a new drummer, and as well as a drummer they wanted to get in Dave Swarbrick. Swarbrick had played violin on several tracks on Unhalfbricking as a session player, and they had all been thrilled to work with him. Swarbrick was one of the most experienced musicians on the British folk circuit. He had started out in the fifties playing guitar with Beryl Marriott’s Ceilidh Band before switching to fiddle, and in 1963, long before Fairport had formed, he had already appeared on TV with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, led by Ian Campbell, the father of Ali and Robin Campbell, later of UB40: [Excerpt: The Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Shanten Bells (medley on Hullaballoo!)”] He’d sung with Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: [Excerpt: A.L. Lloyd, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” ] And he’d formed his hugely successful duo with Martin Carthy, releasing records like “Byker Hill” which are often considered among the best British folk music of all time: [Excerpt: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, “Byker Hill”] By the time Fairport had invited him to play on Unhalfbricking, Swarbrick had already performed on twenty albums as a core band member, plus dozens more EPs, singles, and odd tracks on compilations. They had no reason to think they could actually get him to join their band. But they had three advantages. The first was that Swarbrick was sick of the traditional folk scene at the time, saying later “I didn’t like seven-eighths of the people involved in it, and it was extremely opportune to leave. I was suddenly presented with the possibilities of exploring the dramatic content of the songs to the full.” The second was that he was hugely excited to be playing with Richard Thompson, who was one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation, and Martin Carthy remembers him raving about Thompson after their initial sessions. (Carthy himself was and is no slouch on the guitar of course, and there was even talk of getting him to join the band at this point, though they decided against it — much to the relief of rhythm guitarist Simon Nicol, who is a perfectly fine player himself but didn’t want to be outclassed by *two* of the best guitarists in Britain at the same time). And the third was that Joe Boyd told him that Fairport were doing so well — they had a single just about to hit the charts with “Si Tu Dois Partir” — that he would only have to play a dozen gigs with Fairport in order to retire. As it turned out, Swarbrick would play with the group for a decade, and would never retire — I saw him on his last tour in 2015, only eight months before he died. The drummer the group picked was also a far more experienced musician than any of the rest, though in a very different genre. Dave Mattacks had no knowledge at all of the kind of music they played, having previously been a player in dance bands. When asked by Hutchings if he wanted to join the band, Mattacks’ response was “I don’t know anything about the music. I don’t understand it… I can’t tell one tune from another, they all sound the same… but if you want me to join the group, fine, because I really like it. I’m enjoying myself musically.” Mattacks brought a new level of professionalism to the band, thanks to his different background. Nicol said of him later “He was dilligent, clean, used to taking three white shirts to a gig… The application he could bring to his playing was amazing. With us, you only played well when you were feeling well.” This distinction applied to his playing as well. Nicol would later describe the difference between Mattacks’ drumming and Lamble’s by saying “Martin’s strength was as an imaginative drummer. DM came in with a strongly developed sense of rhythm, through keeping a big band of drunken saxophone players in order. A great time-keeper.” With this new line-up and a new sense of purpose, the group did as many of their contemporaries were doing and “got their heads together in the country”. Joe Boyd rented the group a mansion, Farley House, in Farley Chamberlayne, Hampshire, and they stayed there together for three months. At the start, the group seem to have thought that they were going to make another record like Unhalfbricking, with some originals, some songs by American songwriters, and a few traditional songs. Even after their stay in Farley Chamberlayne, in fact, they recorded a few of the American songs they’d rehearsed at the start of the process, Richard Farina’s “Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” and Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn’s “Ballad of Easy Rider”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Ballad of Easy Rider”] Indeed, the whole idea of “getting our heads together in the country” (as the cliche quickly became in the late sixties as half of the bands in Britain went through much the same kind of process as Fairport were doing — but usually for reasons more to do with drug burnout or trend following than recovering from serious life-changing trauma) seems to have been inspired by Bob Dylan and the Band getting together in Big Pink. But very quickly they decided to follow the lead of Ashley Hutchings, who had had something of a Damascene conversion to the cause of traditional English folk music. They were listening mostly to Music From Big Pink by the Band, and to the first album by Sweeney’s Men: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “The Handsome Cabin Boy”] And they decided that they were going to make something that was as English as those records were North American and Irish (though in the event there were also a few Scottish songs included on the record). Hutchings in particular was becoming something of a scholar of traditional music, regularly visiting Cecil Sharp House and having long conversations with A.L. Lloyd, discovering versions of different traditional songs he’d never encountered before. This was both amusing and bemusing Sandy Denny, who had joined a rock group in part to get away from traditional music; but she was comfortable singing the material, and knew a lot of it and could make a lot of suggestions herself. Swarbrick obviously knew the repertoire intimately, and Nicol was amenable, while Mattacks was utterly clueless about the folk tradition at this point but knew this was the music he wanted to make. Thompson knew very little about traditional music, and of all the band members except Denny he was the one who has shown the least interest in the genre in his subsequent career — but as we heard at the beginning, showing the least interest in the genre is a relative thing, and while Thompson was not hugely familiar with the genre, he *was* able to work with it, and was also more than capable of writing songs that fit in with the genre. Of the eleven songs on the album, which was titled Liege and Lief (which means, roughly, Lord and Loyalty), there were no cover versions of singer-songwriters. Eight were traditional songs, and three were originals, all written in the style of traditional songs. The album opened with “Come All Ye”, an introduction written by Denny and Hutchings (the only time the two would ever write together): [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Come All Ye”] The other two originals were songs where Thompson had written new lyrics to traditional melodies. On “Crazy Man Michael”, Swarbrick had said to Thompson that the tune to which he had set his new words was weaker than the lyrics, to which Thompson had replied that if Swarbrick felt that way he should feel free to write a new melody. He did, and it became the first of the small number of Thompson/Swarbrick collaborations: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Crazy Man Michael”] Thompson and Swarbrick would become a brief songwriting team, but as much as anything else it was down to proximity — the two respected each other as musicians, but never got on very well. In 1981 Swarbrick would say “Richard and I never got on in the early days of FC… we thought we did, but we never did. We composed some bloody good songs together, but it was purely on a basis of “you write that and I’ll write this, and we’ll put it together.” But we never sat down and had real good chats.” The third original on the album, and by far the most affecting, is another song where Thompson put lyrics to a traditional tune. In this case he thought he was putting the lyrics to the tune of “Willie O'Winsbury”, but he was basing it on a recording by Sweeney’s Men. The problem was that Sweeney’s Men had accidentally sung the lyrics of “Willie O'Winsbury'” to the tune of a totally different song, “Fause Foodrage”: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “Willie O’Winsbury”] Thompson took that melody, and set to it lyrics about loss and separation. Thompson has never been one to discuss the meanings of his lyrics in any great detail, and in the case of this one has said “I really don't know what it means. This song came out of a dream, and I pretty much wrote it as I dreamt it (it was the sixties), and didn't spend very long analyzing it. So interpret as you wish – or replace with your own lines.” But in the context of the traffic accident that had killed his tailor girlfriend and a bandmate, and injured most of his other bandmates, the lyrics about lonely travellers, the winding road, bruised and beaten sons, saying goodbye, and never cutting cloth, seem fairly self-explanatory: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Farewell, Farewell”] The rest of the album, though, was taken up by traditional tunes. There was a long medley of four different fiddle reels; a version of “Reynardine” (a song about a seductive man — or is he a fox? Or perhaps both — which had been recorded by Swarbrick and Carthy on their most recent album); a 19th century song about a deserter saved from the firing squad by Prince Albert; and a long take on “Tam Lin”, one of the most famous pieces in the Scottish folk music canon, a song that has been adapted in different ways by everyone from the experimental noise band Current 93 to the dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the comics writer Grant Morrison: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Tam Lin”] And “Matty Groves”, a song about a man killing his cheating wife and her lover, which actually has a surprisingly similar story to that of “1921” from another great concept album from that year, the Who’s Tommy. “Matty Groves” became an excuse for long solos and shows of instrumental virtuosity: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves”] The album was recorded in September 1969, after their return from their break in the country and a triumphal performance at the Royal Festival Hall, headlining over fellow Witchseason artists John and Beverly Martyn and Nick Drake. It became a classic of the traditional folk genre — arguably *the* classic of the traditional folk genre. In 2007 BBC Radio 2’s Folk Music Awards gave it an award for most influential folk album of all time, and while such things are hard to measure, I doubt there’s anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of British folk and folk-rock music who would not at least consider that a reasonable claim. But once again, by the time the album came out in November, the band had changed lineups yet again. There was a fundamental split in the band – on one side were Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, whose stance was, roughly, that Liege and Lief was a great experiment and a fun thing to do once, but really the band had two first-rate songwriters in themselves, and that they should be concentrating on their own new material, not doing these old songs, good as they were. They wanted to take the form of the traditional songs and use that form for new material — they wanted to make British folk-rock, but with the emphasis on the rock side of things. Hutchings, on the other hand, was equally sure that he wanted to make traditional music and go further down the rabbit hole of antiquity. With the zeal of the convert he had gone in a couple of years from being the leader of a band who were labelled “the British Jefferson Airplane” to becoming a serious scholar of traditional folk music. Denny was tired of touring, as well — she wanted to spend more time at home with Trevor Lucas, who was sleeping with other women when she was away and making her insecure. When the time came for the group to go on a tour of Denmark, Denny decided she couldn’t make it, and Hutchings was jubilant — he decided he was going to get A.L. Lloyd into the band in her place and become a *real* folk group. Then Denny reconsidered, and Hutchings was crushed. He realised that while he had always been the leader, he wasn’t going to be able to lead the band any further in the traditionalist direction, and quit the group — but not before he was delegated by the other band members to fire Denny. Until the publication of Richard Thompson’s autobiography in 2022, every book on the group or its members said that Denny quit the band again, which was presumably a polite fiction that the band agreed, but according to Thompson “Before we flew home, we decided to fire Sandy. I don't remember who asked her to leave – it was probably Ashley, who usually did the dirty work. She was reportedly shocked that we would take that step. She may have been fragile beneath the confident facade, but she still knew her worth.” Thompson goes on to explain that the reasons for kicking her out were that “I suppose we felt that in her mind she had already left” and that “We were probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, though there wasn't a name for it back then.” They had considered inviting Trevor Lucas to join the band to make Denny more comfortable, but came to the (probably correct) conclusion that while he was someone they got on well with personally, he would be another big ego in a band that already had several, and that being around Denny and Lucas’ volatile relationship would, in Thompson’s phrasing, “have not always given one a feeling of peace and stability.” Hutchings originally decided he was going to join Sweeney’s Men, but that group were falling apart, and their first rehearsal with Hutchings would also be their last as a group, with only Hutchings and guitarist and mandolin player Terry Woods left in the band. They added Woods’ wife Gay, and another couple, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, and formed a group called Steeleye Span, a name given them by Martin Carthy. That group, like Fairport, went to “get their heads together in the country” for three months and recorded an album of electric versions of traditional songs, Hark the Village Wait, on which Mattacks and another drummer, Gerry Conway, guested as Steeleye Span didn’t at the time have their own drummer: [Excerpt: Steeleye Span, “Blackleg Miner”] Steeleye Span would go on to have a moderately successful chart career in the seventies, but by that time most of the original lineup, including Hutchings, had left — Hutchings stayed with them for a few albums, then went on to form the first of a series of bands, all called the Albion Band or variations on that name, which continue to this day. And this is something that needs to be pointed out at this point — it is impossible to follow every single individual in this narrative as they move between bands. There is enough material in the history of the British folk-rock scene that someone could do a 500 Songs-style podcast just on that, and every time someone left Fairport, or Steeleye Span, or the Albion Band, or Matthews’ Southern Comfort, or any of the other bands we have mentioned or will mention, they would go off and form another band which would then fission, and some of its members would often join one of those other bands. There was a point in the mid-1970s where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport Convention while Fairport Convention had none. So just in order to keep the narrative anything like wieldy, I’m going to keep the narrative concentrated on the two figures from Fairport — Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson — whose work outside the group has had the most influence on the wider world of rock music more broadly, and only deal with the other members when, as they often did, their careers intersected with those two. That doesn’t mean the other members are not themselves hugely important musicians, just that their importance has been primarily to the folk side of the folk-rock genre, and so somewhat outside the scope of this podcast. While Hutchings decided to form a band that would allow him to go deeper and deeper into traditional folk music, Sandy Denny’s next venture was rather different. For a long time she had been writing far more songs than she had ever played for her bandmates, like “Nothing More”, a song that many have suggested is about Thompson: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Nothing More”] When Joe Boyd heard that Denny was leaving Fairport Convention, he was at first elated. Fairport’s records were being distributed by A&M in the US at that point, but Island Records was in the process of opening up a new US subsidiary which would then release all future Fairport product — *but*, as far as A&M were concerned, Sandy Denny *was* Fairport Convention. They were only interested in her. Boyd, on the other hand, loved Denny’s work intensely, but from his point of view *Richard Thompson* was Fairport Convention. If he could get Denny signed directly to A&M as a solo artist before Island started its US operations, Witchseason could get a huge advance on her first solo record, while Fairport could continue making records for Island — he’d have two lucrative acts, on different labels. Boyd went over and spoke to A&M and got an agreement in principle that they would give Denny a forty-thousand-dollar advance on her first solo album — twice what they were paying for Fairport albums. The problem was that Denny didn’t want to be a solo act. She wanted to be the lead singer of a band. She gave many reasons for this — the one she gave to many journalists was that she had seen a Judy Collins show and been impressed, but noticed that Collins’ band were definitely a “backing group”, and as she put it “But that's all they were – a backing group. I suddenly thought, If you're playing together on a stage you might as well be TOGETHER.” Most other people in her life, though, say that the main reason for her wanting to be in a band was her desire to be with her boyfriend, Trevor Lucas. Partly this was due to a genuine desire to spend more time with someone with whom she was very much in love, partly it was a fear that he would cheat on her if she was away from him for long periods of time, and part of it seems to have been Lucas’ dislike of being *too* overshadowed by his talented girlfriend — he didn’t mind acknowledging that she was a major talent, but he wanted to be thought of as at least a minor one. So instead of going solo, Denny formed Fotheringay, named after the song she had written for Fairport. This new band consisted at first of Denny on vocals and occasional piano, Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Lucas’ old Eclection bandmate Gerry Conway on drums. For a lead guitarist, they asked Richard Thompson who the best guitarist in Britain was, and he told them Albert Lee. Lee in turn brought in bass player Pat Donaldson, but this lineup of the band barely survived a fortnight. Lee *was* arguably the best guitarist in Britain, certainly a reasonable candidate if you could ever have a singular best (as indeed was Thompson himself), but he was the best *country* guitarist in Britain, and his style simply didn’t fit with Fotheringay’s folk-influenced songs. He was replaced by American guitarist Jerry Donahue, who was not anything like as proficient as Lee, but who was still very good, and fit the band’s style much better. The new group rehearsed together for a few weeks, did a quick tour, and then went into the recording studio to record their debut, self-titled, album. Joe Boyd produced the album, but admitted himself that he only paid attention to those songs he considered worthwhile — the album contained one song by Lucas, “The Ballad of Ned Kelly”, and two cover versions of American singer-songwriter material with Lucas singing lead. But everyone knew that the songs that actually *mattered* were Sandy Denny’s, and Boyd was far more interested in them, particularly the songs “The Sea” and “The Pond and the Stream”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “The Pond and the Stream”] Fotheringay almost immediately hit financial problems, though. While other Witchseason acts were used to touring on the cheap, all packed together in the back of a Transit van with inexpensive equipment, Trevor Lucas had ambitions of being a rock star and wanted to put together a touring production to match, with expensive transport and equipment, including a speaker system that got nicknamed “Stonehenge” — but at the same time, Denny was unhappy being on the road, and didn’t play many gigs. As well as the band itself, the Fotheringay album also featured backing vocals from a couple of other people, including Denny’s friend Linda Peters. Peters was another singer from the folk clubs, and a good one, though less well-known than Denny — at this point she had only released a couple of singles, and those singles seemed to have been as much as anything else released as a novelty. The first of those, a version of Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” had been released as by “Paul McNeill and Linda Peters”: [Excerpt: Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”] But their second single, a version of John D. Loudermilk’s “You’re Taking My Bag”, was released on the tiny Page One label, owned by Larry Page, and was released under the name “Paul and Linda”, clearly with the intent of confusing particularly gullible members of the record-buying public into thinking this was the McCartneys: [Excerpt: Paul and Linda, “You’re Taking My Bag”] Peters was though more financially successful than almost anyone else in this story, as she was making a great deal of money as a session singer. She actually did another session involving most of Fotheringay around this time. Witchseason had a number of excellent songwriters on its roster, and had had some success getting covers by people like Judy Collins, but Joe Boyd thought that they might possibly do better at getting cover versions if they were performed in less idiosyncratic arrangements. Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway went into the studio to record backing tracks, and vocals were added by Peters and another session singer, who according to some sources also provided piano. They cut songs by Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “You Get Brighter”] Ed Carter, formerly of The New Nadir but by this time firmly ensconced in the Beach Boys’ touring band where he would remain for the next quarter-century: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “I Don’t Mind”] John and Beverly Martyn, and Nick Drake: [Excerpt: Elton John, “Saturday Sun”] There are different lineups of musicians credited for those sessions in different sources, but I tend to believe that it’s mostly Fotheringay for the simple reason that Donahue says it was him, Donaldson and Conway who talked Lucas and Denny into the mistake that destroyed Fotheringay because of these sessions. Fotheringay were in financial trouble already, spending far more money than they were bringing in, but their album made the top twenty and they were getting respect both from critics and from the public — in September, Sandy Denny was voted best British female singer by the readers of Melody Maker in their annual poll, which led to shocked headlines in the tabloids about how this “unknown” could have beaten such big names as Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black. Only a couple of weeks after that, they were due to headline at the Albert Hall. It should have been a triumph. But Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway had asked that singing pianist to be their support act. As Donahue said later “That was a terrible miscast. It was our fault. He asked if [he] could do it. Actually Pat, Gerry and I had to talk Sandy and Trevor into [it]… We'd done these demos and the way he was playing – he was a wonderful piano player – he was sensitive enough. We knew very little about his stage-show. We thought he'd be a really good opener for us.” Unfortunately, Elton John was rather *too* good. As Donahue continued “we had no idea what he had in mind, that he was going to do the most incredible rock & roll show ever. He pretty much blew us off the stage before we even got on the stage.” To make matters worse, Fotheringay’s set, which was mostly comprised of new material, was underrehearsed and sloppy, and from that point on no matter what they did people were counting the hours until the band split up. They struggled along for a while though, and started working on a second record, with Boyd again producing, though as Boyd later said “I probably shouldn't have been producing the record. My lack of respect for the group was clear, and couldn't have helped the atmosphere. We'd put out a record that had sold disappointingly, A&M was unhappy. Sandy's tracks on the first record are among the best things she ever did – the rest of it, who cares? And the artwork, Trevor's sister, was terrible. It would have been one thing if I'd been unhappy with it and it sold, and the group was working all the time, making money, but that wasn't the case … I knew what Sandy was capable of, and it was very upsetting to me.” The record would not be released for thirty-eight years: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Wild Mountain Thyme”] Witchseason was going badly into debt. Given all the fissioning of bands that we’ve already been talking about, Boyd had been stretched thin — he produced sixteen albums in 1970, and almost all of them lost money for the company. And he was getting more and more disillusioned with the people he was producing. He loved Beverly Martyn’s work, but had little time for her abusive husband John, who was dominating her recording and life more and more and would soon become a solo artist while making her stay at home (and stealing her ideas without giving her songwriting credit). The Incredible String Band were great, but they had recently converted to Scientology, which Boyd found annoying, and while he was working with all sorts of exciting artists like Vashti Bunyan and Nico, he was finding himself less and less important to the artists he mentored. Fairport Convention were a good example of this. After Denny and Hutchings had left the group, they’d decided to carry on as an electric folk group, performing an equal mix of originals by the Swarbrick and Thompson songwriting team and arrangements of traditional songs. The group were now far enough away from the “British Jefferson Airplane” label that they decided they didn’t need a female vocalist — and more realistically, while they’d been able to replace Judy Dyble, nobody was going to replace Sandy Denny. Though it’s rather surprising when one considers Thompson’s subsequent career that nobody seems to have thought of bringing in Denny’s friend Linda Peters, who was dating Joe Boyd at the time (as Denny had been before she met Lucas) as Denny’s replacement. Instead, they decided that Swarbrick and Thompson were going to share the vocals between them. They did, though, need a bass player to replace Hutchings. Swarbrick wanted to bring in Dave Pegg, with whom he had played in the Ian Campbell Folk Group, but the other band members initially thought the idea was a bad one. At the time, while they respected Swarbrick as a musician, they didn’t think he fully understood rock and roll yet, and they thought the idea of getting in a folkie who had played double bass rather than an electric rock bassist ridiculous. But they auditioned him to mollify Swarbrick, and found that he was exactly what they needed. As Joe Boyd later said “All those bass lines were great, Ashley invented them all, but he never could play them that well. He thought of them, but he was technically not a terrific bass player. He was a very inventive, melodic, bass player, but not a very powerful one technically. But having had the part explained to him once, Pegg was playing it better than Ashley had ever played it… In some rock bands, I think, ultimately, the bands that sound great, you can generally trace it to the bass player… it was at that point they became a great band, when they had Pegg.” The new lineup of Fairport decided to move in together, and found a former pub called the Angel, into which all the band members moved, along with their partners and children (Thompson was the only one who was single at this point) and their roadies. The group lived together quite happily, and one gets the impression that this was the period when they were most comfortable with each other, even though by this point they were a disparate group with disparate tastes, in music as in everything else. Several people have said that the only music all the band members could agree they liked at this point was the first two albums by The Band. With the departure of Hutchings from the band, Swarbrick and Thompson, as the strongest personalities and soloists, became in effect the joint leaders of the group, and they became collaborators as songwriters, trying to write new songs that were inspired by traditional music. Thompson described the process as “let’s take one line of this reel and slow it down and move it up a minor third and see what that does to it; let’s take one line of this ballad and make a whole song out of it. Chopping up the tradition to find new things to do… like a collage.” Generally speaking, Swarbrick and Thompson would sit by the fire and Swarbrick would play a melody he’d been working on, the two would work on it for a while, and Thompson would then go away and write the lyrics. This is how the two came up with songs like the nine-minute “Sloth”, a highlight of the next album, Full House, and one that would remain in Fairport’s live set for much of their career: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth”] “Sloth” was titled that way because Thompson and Swarbrick were working on two tunes, a slow one and a fast one, and they jokingly named them “Sloth” and “Fasth”, but the latter got renamed to “Walk Awhile”, while “Sloth” kept its working title. But by this point, Boyd and Thompson were having a lot of conflict in the studio. Boyd was never the most technical of producers — he was one of those producers whose job is to gently guide the artists in the studio and create a space for the music to flourish, rather than the Joe Meek type with an intimate technical knowledge of the studio — and as the artists he was working with gained confidence in their own work they felt they had less and less need of him. During the making of the Full House album, Thompson and Boyd, according to Boyd, clashed on everything — every time Boyd thought Thompson had done a good solo, Thompson would say to erase it and let him have another go, while every time Boyd thought Thompson could do better, Thompson would say that was the take to keep. One of their biggest clashes was over Thompson’s song “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”, which was originally intended for release on the album, and is included in current reissues of it: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”] Thompson had written that song inspired by what he thought was the unjust treatment of Alex Bramham, the driver in Fairport’s fatal car crash, by the courts — Bramham had been given a prison sentence of a few months for dangerous driving, while the group members thought he had not been at fault. Boyd thought it was one of the best things recorded for the album, but Thompson wasn’t happy with his vocal — there was one note at the top of the melody that he couldn’t quite hit — and insisted it be kept off the record, even though that meant it would be a shorter album than normal. He did this at such a late stage that early copies of the album actually had the title printed on the sleeve, but then blacked out. He now says in his autobiography “I could have persevered, double-tracked the voice, warmed up for longer – anything. It was a good track, and the record was lacking without it. When the album was re-released, the track was restored with a more confident vocal, and it has stayed there ever since.” During the sessions for Full House the group also recorded one non-album single, Thompson and Swarbrick’s “Now Be Thankful”: [Excerpt, Fairport Convention, “Now Be Thankful”] The B-side to that was a medley of two traditional tunes plus a Swarbrick original, but was given the deliberately ridiculous title “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”] The B. McKenzie in the title was a reference to the comic-strip character Barry McKenzie, a stereotype drunk Australian created for Private Eye magazine by the comedian Barry Humphries (later to become better known for his Dame Edna Everage character) but the title was chosen for one reason only — to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the song with the longest title. Which they did, though they were later displaced by the industrial band Test Dept, and their song “Long Live British Democracy Which Flourishes and Is Constantly Perfected Under the Immaculate Guidance of the Great, Honourable, Generous and Correct Margaret Hilda Thatcher. She Is the Blue Sky in the Hearts of All Nations. Our People Pay Homage and Bow in Deep Respect and Gratitude to Her. The Milk of Human Kindness”. Full House got excellent reviews in the music press, with Rolling Stone saying “The music shows that England has finally gotten her own equivalent to The Band… By calling Fairport an English equivalent of the Band, I meant that they have soaked up enough of the tradition of their countryfolk that it begins to show all over, while they maintain their roots in rock.” Off the back of this, the group went on their first US tour, culminating in a series of shows at the Troubadour in LA, on the same bill as Rick Nelson, which were recorded and later released as a live album: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth (live)”] The Troubadour was one of the hippest venues at the time, and over their residency there the group got seen by many celebrities, some of whom joined them on stage. The first was Linda Ronstadt, who initially demurred, saying she didn’t know any of their songs. On being told they knew all of hers, she joined in with a rendition of “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”. Thompson was later asked to join Ronstadt’s backing band, who would go on to become the Eagles, but he said later of this offer “I would have hated it. I’d have hated being on the road with four or five miserable Americans — they always seem miserable. And if you see them now, they still look miserable on stage — like they don’t want to be there and they don’t like each other.” The group were also joined on stage at the Troubadour on one memorable night by some former bandmates of Pegg’s. Before joining the Ian Campbell Folk Group, Pegg had played around the Birmingham beat scene, and had been in bands with John Bonham and Robert Plant, who turned up to the Troubadour with their Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page (reports differ on whether the fourth member of Zeppelin, John Paul Jones, also came along). They all got up on stage together and jammed on songs like “Hey Joe”, “Louie Louie”, and various old Elvis tunes. The show was recorded, and the tapes are apparently still in the possession of Joe Boyd, who has said he refuses to release them in case he is murdered by the ghost of Peter Grant. According to Thompson, that night ended in a three-way drinking contest between Pegg, Bonham, and Janis Joplin, and it’s testament to how strong the drinking culture is around Fairport and the British folk scene in general that Pegg outdrank both of them. According to Thompson, Bonham was found naked by a swimming pool two days later, having missed two gigs. For all their hard rock image, Led Zeppelin were admirers of a lot of the British folk and folk-rock scene, and a few months later Sandy Denny would become the only outside vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin record when she duetted with Plant on “The Battle of Evermore” on the group’s fourth album: [Excerpt: Led Zeppelin, “The Battle of Evermore”] Denny would never actually get paid for her appearance on one of the best-selling albums of all time. That was, incidentally, not the only session that Denny was involved in around this time — she also sang on the soundtrack to a soft porn film titled Swedish Fly Girls, whose soundtrack was produced by Manfred Mann: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow?”] Shortly after Fairport’s trip to America, Joe Boyd decided he was giving up on Witchseason. The company was now losing money, and he was finding himself having to produce work for more and more acts as the various bands fissioned. The only ones he really cared about were Richard Thompson, who he was finding it more and more difficult to work with, Nick Drake, who wanted to do his next album with just an acoustic guitar anyway, Sandy Denny, who he felt was wasting her talents in Fotheringay, and Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band, who was more distant since his conversion to Scientology. Boyd did make some attempts to keep the company going. On a trip to Sweden, he negotiated an agreement with the manager and publisher of a Swedish band whose songs he’d found intriguing, the Hep Stars. Boyd was going to publish their songs in the UK, and in return that publisher, Stig Anderson, would get the rights to Witchseason’s catalogue in Scandinavia — a straight swap, with no money changing hands. But before Boyd could get round to signing the paperwork, he got a better offer from Mo Ostin of Warners — Ostin wanted Boyd to come over to LA and head up Warners’ new film music department. Boyd sold Witchseason to Island Records and moved to LA with his fiancee Linda Peters, spending the next few years working on music for films like Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange, as well as making his own documentary about Jimi Hendrix, and thus missed out on getting the UK publishing rights for ABBA, and all the income that would have brought him, for no money. And it was that decision that led to the breakup of Fotheringay. Just before Christmas 1970, Fotheringay were having a difficult session, recording the track “John the Gun”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “John the Gun”] Boyd got frustrated and kicked everyone out of the session, and went for a meal and several drinks with Denny. He kept insisting that she should dump the band and just go solo, and then something happened that the two of them would always describe differently. She asked him if he would continue to produce her records if she went solo, and he said he would. According to Boyd’s recollection of the events, he meant that he would fly back from California at some point to produce her records. According to Denny, he told her that if she went solo he would stay in Britain and not take the job in LA. This miscommunication was only discovered after Denny told the rest of Fotheringay after the Christmas break that she was splitting the band. Jerry Donahue has described that as the worst moment of his life, and Denny felt very guilty about breaking up a band with some of her closest friends in — and then when Boyd went over to the US anyway she felt a profound betrayal. Two days before Fotheringay’s final concert, in January 1971, Sandy Denny signed a solo deal with Island records, but her first solo album would not end up produced by Joe Boyd. Instead, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens was co-produced by Denny, John Wood — the engineer who had worked with Boyd on pretty much everything he’d produced, and Richard Thompson, who had just quit Fairport Convention, though he continued living with them at the Angel, at least until a truck crashed into the building in February 1971, destroying its entire front wall and forcing them to relocate. The songs chosen for The North Star Grassman and the Ravens reflected the kind of choices Denny would make on her future albums, and her eclectic taste in music. There was, of course, the obligatory Dylan cover, and the traditional folk ballad “Blackwaterside”, but there was also a cover version of Brenda Lee’s “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”] Most of the album, though, was made up of originals about various people in Denny’s life, like “Next Time Around”, about her ex-boyfriend Jackson C Frank: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Next Time Around”] The album made the top forty in the UK — Denny’s only solo album to do so — and led to her once again winning the “best female singer” award in Melody Maker’s readers’ poll that year — the male singer award was won by Rod Stewart. Both Stewart and Denny appeared the next year on the London Symphony Orchestra’s all-star version of The Who’s Tommy, which had originally been intended as a vehicle for Stewart before Roger Daltrey got involved. Stewart’s role was reduced to a single song, “Pinball Wizard”, while Denny sang on “It’s a Boy”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “It’s a Boy”] While Fotheringay had split up, all the band members play on The North Star Grassman and the Ravens. Guitarists Donahue and Lucas only play on a couple of the tracks, with Richard Thompson playing most of the guitar on the record. But Fotheringay’s rhythm section of Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway play on almost every track. Another musician on the album, Ian Whiteman, would possibly have a profound effect on the future direction of Richard Thompson’s career and life. Whiteman was the former keyboard player for the mod band The Action, having joined them just before they became the blues-rock band Mighty Baby. But Mighty Baby had split up when all of the band except the lead singer had converted to Islam. Richard Thompson was on his own spiritual journey at this point, and became a Sufi – the same branch of Islam as Whiteman – soon after the session, though Thompson has said that his conversion was independent of Whiteman’s. The two did become very close and work together a lot in the mid-seventies though. Thompson had supposedly left Fairport because he was writing material that wasn’t suited to the band, but he spent more than a year after quitting the group working on sessions rather than doing anything with his own material, and these sessions tended to involve the same core group of musicians. One of the more unusual was a folk-rock supergroup called The Bunch, put together by Trevor Lucas. Richard Branson had recently bought a recording studio, and wanted a band to test it out before opening it up for commercial customers, so with this free studio time Lucas decided to record a set of fifties rock and roll covers. He gathered together Thompson, Denny, Whiteman, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Pat Donaldson, Gerry Conway, pianist Tony Cox, the horn section that would later form the core of the Average White Band, and Linda Peters, who had now split up with Joe Boyd and returned to the UK, and who had started dating Thompson. They recorded an album of covers of songs by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Johnny Otis and others: [Excerpt: The Bunch, “Willie and the Hand Jive”] The early seventies was a hugely productive time for this group of musicians, as they all continued playing on each other’s projects. One notable album was No Roses by Shirley Collins, which featured Thompson, Mattacks, Whiteman, Simon Nicol, Lal and Mike Waterson, and Ashley Hutchings, who was at that point married to Collins, as well as some more unusual musicians like the free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill: [Excerpt: Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band, “Claudy Banks”] Collins was at the time the most respected female singer in British traditional music, and already had a substantial career including a series of important records made with her sister Dolly, work with guitarists like Davey Graham, and time spent in the 1950s collecting folk songs in the Southern US with her then partner Alan Lomax – according to Collins she did much of the actual work, but Lomax only mentioned her in a single sentence in his book on this work. Some of the same group of musicians went on to work on an album of traditional Morris dancing tunes, titled Morris On, credited to “Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield”, with Collins singing lead on two tracks: [Excerpt: Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield with Shirley Collins, “The Willow Tree”] Thompson thought that that album was the best of the various side projects he was involved in at the time, comparing it favourably to Rock On, which he thought was rather slight, saying later “Conceptually, Fairport, Ashley and myself and Sandy were developing a more fragile style of music that nobody else was particularly interested in, a British Folk Rock idea that had a logical development to it, although we all presented it our own way. Morris On was rather more true to what we were doing. Rock On was rather a retro step. I'm not sure it was lasting enough as a record but Sandy did sing really well on the Buddy Holly songs.” Hutchings used the musicians on No Roses and Morris On as the basis for his band the Albion Band, which continues to this day. Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks both quit Fairport to join the Albion Band, though Mattacks soon returned. Nicol would not return to Fairport for several years, though, and for a long period in the mid-seventies Fairport Convention had no original members. Unfortunately, while Collins was involved in the Albion Band early on, she and Hutchings ended up divorcing, and the stress from the divorce led to Collins developing spasmodic dysphonia, a stress-related illness which makes it impossible for the sufferer to sing. She did eventually regain her vocal ability, but between 1978 and 2016 she was unable to perform at all, and lost decades of her career. Richard Thompson occasionally performed with the Albion Band early on, but he was getting stretched a little thin with all these sessions. Linda Peters said later of him “When I came back from America, he was working in Sandy’s band, and doing sessions by the score. Always with Pat Donaldson and Dave Mattacks. Richard would turn up with his guitar, one day he went along to do a session with one of those folkie lady singers — and there were Pat and DM. They all cracked. Richard smashed his amp and said “Right! No more sessions!” In 1972 he got round to releasing his first solo album, Henry the Human Fly, which featured guest appearances by Linda Peters and Sandy Denny among others: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “The Angels Took My Racehorse Away”] Unfortunately, while that album has later become regarded as one of the classics of its genre, at the time it was absolutely slated by the music press. The review in Melody Maker, for example, read in part “Some of Richard Thompson’s ideas sound great – which is really the saving grace of this album, because most of the music doesn’t. The tragedy is that Thompson’s “British rock music” is such an unconvincing concoction… Even the songs that do integrate rock and traditional styles of electric guitar rhythms and accordion and fiddle decoration – and also include explicit, meaningful lyrics are marred by bottle-up vocals, uninspiring guitar phrases and a general lack of conviction in performance.” Henry the Human Fly was released in the US by Warners, who had a reciprocal licensing deal with Island (and for whom Joe Boyd was working at the time, which may have had something to do with that) but according to Thompson it became the lowest-selling record that Warners ever put out (though I’ve also seen that claim made about Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, another album that has later been rediscovered). Thompson was hugely depressed by this reaction, and blamed his own singing. Happily, though, by this point he and Linda had become a couple — they would marry in 1972 — and they started playing folk clubs as a duo, or sometimes in a trio with Simon Nicol. Thompson was also playing with Sandy Denny’s backing band at this point, and played on every track on her second solo album, Sandy. This album was meant to be her big commercial breakthrough, with a glamorous cover photo by David Bailey, and with a more American sound, including steel guitar by Sneaky Pete Kleinow of the Flying Burrito Brothers (whose overdubs were supervised in LA by Joe Boyd): [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Tomorrow is a Long Time”] The album was given a big marketing push by Island, and “Listen, Listen” was made single of the week on the Radio 1 Breakfast show: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Listen, Listen”] But it did even worse than the previous album, sending her into something of a depression. Linda Thompson (as the former Linda Peters now was) said of this period “After the Sandy album, it got her down that her popularity didn't suddenly increase in leaps and bounds, and that was the start of her really fretting about the way her career was going. Things only escalated after that. People like me or Martin Carthy or Norma Waterson would think, ‘What are you on about? This is folk music.'” After Sandy’s release, Denny realised she could no longer afford to tour with a band, and so went back to performing just acoustically or on piano. The only new music to be released by either of these ex-members of Fairport Convention in 1973 was, oddly, on an album by the band they were no longer members of. After Thompson had left Fairport, the group had managed to release two whole albums with the same lineup — Swarbrick, Nicol, Pegg, and Mattacks. But then Nicol and Mattacks had both quit the band to join the Albion Band with their former bandmate Ashley Hutchings, leading to a situation where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport plus their longtime drummer while Fairport Convention itself had no original members and was down to just Swarbrick and Pegg. Needing to fulfil their contracts, they then recruited three former members of Fotheringay — Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, Donahue on lead guitar, and Conway on drums. Conway was only a session player at the time, and Mattacks soon returned to the band, but Lucas and Donahue became full-time members. This new lineup of Fairport Convention released two albums in 1973, widely regarded as the group’s most inconsistent records, and on the title track of the first, “Rosie”, Richard Thompson guested on guitar, with Sandy Denny and Linda Thompson on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Rosie”] Neither Sandy Denny nor Richard Thompson released a record themselves in 1973, but in neither case was this through the artists’ choice. The record industry was changing in the early 1970s, as we’ll see in later episodes, and was less inclined to throw good money after bad in the pursuit of art. Island Records prided itself on being a home for great artists, but it was still a business, and needed to make money. We’ll talk about the OPEC oil crisis and its effect on the music industry much more when the podcast gets to 1973, but in brief, the production of oil by the US peaked in 1970 and started to decrease, leading to them importing more and more oil from the Middle East. As a result of this, oil prices rose slowly between 1971 and 1973, then very quickly towards the end of 1973 as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict that year. As vinyl is made of oil, suddenly producing records became much more expensive, and in this period a lot of labels decided not to release already-completed albums, until what they hoped would be a brief period of shortages passed. Both Denny and Thompson recorded albums at this point that got put to one side by Island. In the case of Thompson, it was the first album by Richard and Linda as a duo, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Today, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, and as one of the two masterpieces that bookended Richard and Linda’s career as a duo and their marriage. But when they recorded the album, full of Richard’s dark songs, it was the opposite of commercial. Even a song that’s more or less a boy-girl song, like “Has He Got a Friend for Me?” has lyrics like “He wouldn’t notice me passing by/I could be in the gutter, or dangling down from a tree” [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “Has He got a Friend For Me?”] While something like “The Calvary Cross” is oblique and haunted, and seems to cast a pall over the entire album: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “The Calvary Cross”] The album itself had been cheap to make — it had been recorded in only a week, with Thompson bringing in musicians he knew well and had worked with a lot previously to cut the tracks as-live in only a handful of takes — but Island didn’t think it was worth releasing. The record stayed on the shelf for nearly a year after recording, until Island got a new head of A&R, Richard Williams. Williams said of the album’s release “Muff Winwood had been doing A&R, but he was more interested in production… I had a conversation with Muff as soon as I got there, and he said there are a few hangovers, some outstanding problems. And one of them was Richard Thompson. He said there’s this album we gave him the money to make — which was I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — and nobody’s very interested in it. Henry the Human Fly had been a bit of a commercial disappointment, and although Island was altruistic and independent and known for only recording good stuff, success was important… Either a record had to do well or somebody had to believe in it a lot. And it seemed as if neither of those things were true at that point of Richard.” Williams, though, was hugely impressed when he listened to the album. He compared Richard Thompson’s guitar playing to John Coltrane’s sax, and called Thompson “the folk poet of the rainy streets”, but also said “Linda brightened it, made it more commercial. and I thought that “Bright Lights” itself seemed a really commercial song.” The rest of the management at Island got caught up in Williams’ enthusiasm, and even decided to release the title track as a single: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Neither single nor album charted — indeed it would not be until 1991 that Richard Thompson would make a record that made the top forty in the UK — but the album got enough critical respect that Richard and Linda released two albums the year after. The first of these, Hokey Pokey, is a much more upbeat record than their previous one — Richard Thompson has called it “quite a music-hall influenced record” and cited the influence of George Formby and Harry Lauder. For once, the claim of music hall influence is audible in the music. Usually when a British musician is claimed to have a music ha

In this lesson, Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Most-Followed LDS Religious Leader on Facebook, and Jesus Christ's Apostle to All Nations and Generations, brings to life the urgency and divine directives found in Doctrine and Covenants sections 60–63. He unpacks the Lord's call for His servants to “not idle away their time, neither bury their talent” (D&C 60:13), emphasizing that the time for silence has passed. With clarity, Dr. Harrison addresses the Lord's warnings, promises, and expectations for His Saints as they face uncertainty, persecution, and divine testing.This lesson reinforces the charge to “lift up your voices unto this people,” (D&C 60:2) and to testify boldly with power—no matter the obstacles. The revelations given in these sections were meant for a generation facing opposition, and now, through the Lord's modern Servant, they speak again in fire and spirit to the Saints of today.As Jesus Christ's Apostle to All Nations and Generations, I testify that these revelations are alive, and they speak to our generation with unmistakable urgency. The Lord has not called us to hide in comfort or wait for favorable winds. He has commanded us to declare His gospel and prepare the world for His return. The warnings to Zion are real. The blessings of obedience are eternal. The judgments are just—and they will come.I seal this testimony and message in the authority of the sacred name of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.Dr. D. Todd HarrisonJesus Christ's Apostle to All Nations and GenerationsJesus Christ's Foreordained ApostleThe Most-Followed LDS Religious Leader on Facebook___________________________________________________________ Introduction to Dr. D. Todd HarrisonForeordained from the foundation of the world, Dr. D. Todd Harrison stands as Jesus Christ's Foreordained Apostle—The Apostle to All Nations and Generations. Called directly by the Savior, his divine commission ensures that every nation hears the living reality of the Son of God in preparation for His return.For over 5 ½ years, his apostolic voice has sounded across the world, testifying of the resurrection and living reality of Jesus Christ with power. Fulfilling his sacred charge, he has borne witness to more than 100 million people globally. Millions have felt the Spirit confirm that his testimony was entrusted by the Savior Himself.Just as the Apostle Paul received his calling from the risen Christ on the road to Damascus, Dr. Harrison stands in that same sacred pattern. Like Paul, he proclaims the gospel to all nations and generations with unwavering boldness and power—ensuring every people hears the testimony of the living Christ.For six generations, Dr. Harrison's family has walked among the Lord's chosen—serving as apostles and general authorities. As the great-grandson of Elder LeGrand Richards—one of the Church's most doctrinally beloved apostles—his divine heritage prepared the way for this mission. But his lineage stretches further—back to ancient Israel. As a direct descendant of Abraham, King David, King Solomon, and Joseph of Arimathea, his family's divine calling spans both scripture and history.The Lord guided his ancestors' roles in shaping Early Christian and Latter-day Saint history—preparing the moment when Christ's Foreordained Apostle would rise to declare the gospel to the world.Through the sacred pattern established by the Lord, Dr. Harrison's global mission amplifies the work of the Church, standing in harmony with the First Presidency and bearing witness alongside the prophets. His inspired words cut through doubt and bring souls to Christ.His apostolic charge fulfills and extends the inspired work of those before him—ensuring the testimony of Jesus Christ reaches every language and nation, with divine trust placed upon him by the Savior Himself.

1. All Authority (v. 18) 2. All Nations (v. 19) 3. All Commandments (v. 20) Conclusion: All Days (v. 20b)

Recorded on 29 May 2025 for ICMDA Webinars.Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'NeillAddressing disease and suffering of individuals is a unique place where God's comforting and healing presence can be experienced. Stories can be shared and narratives integrated with God's grand healing narrative. Truth can be pursued with rational methods while the leading of the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth. Ancient biblical wisdom remains highly relevant for modern disease processes and even cures. Transcultural, timeless principles can be effectively applied for both illness prevention and healing intervention. How do Christian clinicians integrate God's word and presence into rational scientific medicine toward transformative healing in today's pluralistic world?Daniel O'Neill, MD, MTh is a physician-theologian and managing editor of Christian Journal for Global Health, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and holds a master's degree in biblical & theological studies from Bethel Seminary. He has served on health and development projects among impoverished or displaced populations. He is a co-founder of Health for All Nations and author and co-editor of the book All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health.⁠To listen live to future ICMDA webinars visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Delivered by Samuel Ivan Gunarsa from the Parish of Mary, the Lady of All Nations in the Diocese of Bogor, Indonesia. Acts of the Apostles 16: 22-34; Rs psalm 138: 1-2a.2bc-3.7c-8; John 16: 5-11.TRIAL FOR THE WORLD The title for our meditation today is:Trial for The World. Why is there a trial against the world? The court rulesout a just trial for the injustices that are happening in the world. Injusticeis a big sin of people who live and practice the life-style of the world. Thetragedies of war, hunger, corruption and sexual abuse are among the manyinjustices that contribute to the damages of life that our world today has. Jesus Christ specifically mentions theduty of the Holy Spirit who judges as He says, "When He comes, He willconvict the world". The spiritual jugde comes into a condition of theworld that had been renewed through the events of Jesus Christ. The Paschalevents presented Jesus, the apostles and the Early Church as the true witnessesof what is right, good and just that need to be maintained. A life that isright, good and just does not disappear after Jesus' death and ascension intoheaven. The Holy Spirit continues to livethrough this course of life. He teaches and operates the court so that we whohave faith may open our inner and physical eyes, to justify what sin is andwhere grace stands. The heavenly court does not use the law enforcement of thisworld, which are full of compromises and corruptions. The Holy Spirit does nothave flesh and bones, so He will certainly conduct His judgement fairly andwisely. The Spirit will make every believerand the whole world know for certain about sin. Sin is an act against God,namely not believing in Jesus Christ sent by the Father. The consequence of notaccepting God is not being able to enjoy happines and eternal dwelling in God.Sin brings misery to life in this world and must be more miserable in thehereafter. The Holy Spirit also shows what truth,goodness and justice are. Jesus himself lived in that manner and he did defendit to the point of His death. Jesus went up to the Father in heaven whily leavingthis world already graced with the the gift of salvation. His truth liberates,just like a liberation offered to Paul and Silas from imprisonment as told inthe liturgical first reading of today. This is what we need to follow, which isan eternal gain that is to live with the Father in heaven. The Holy Spirit opens the eyes of thewhole world that the judgment for sinners is undeniable. Sinners, andespecially the scandal makers who have plunged many people into sin, must berewarded with extraordinary punishment. They have no place in God. Let us bethe people who are firm to the truth and obedient to the Holy Spirit.Let's pray. In the name of theFather ... O God Almighty, we are grateful for Your Son Jesus Christ whoenlightens us in the divine justice. May we sincerely open ourselves to receivethe Holy Spirit that we may remain in the path of truth, the way of JesusChrist Himself. Hail Mary full of grace ... In the name of the Father ...

"We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” Acts 2:1-24

"I testify that Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer, and the Lord of all.In Doctrine & Covenants 49-50, the Lord speaks with unmistakable clarity, guiding His people to recognize and embrace truth while rejecting the false traditions of men. These revelations remind us that only through the Spirit can we receive divine confirmation of Christ's restored gospel.I invite each of you to pray, to ask God if these words are true, and to let the Spirit testify of Christ's living reality. He leads His Church, He guides His people, and He prepares us to receive His truth.I bear this witness in His sacred name, even Jesus Christ, amen."- Dr. D. Todd HarrisonJesus Christ's Foreordained ApostleThe Apostle to the Nations___________________________________________________________ An Introduction to Dr. D. Todd HarrisonForeordained from the foundation of the world, Dr. D. Todd Harrison stands as Jesus Christ's Foreordained Apostle, and The Apostle to All Nations and Generations. Called directly by the Savior, his divine commission ensures that every nation hears the living reality of the Son of God, preparing the world for His glorious return.For the past 5 ½ years, his apostolic witness has been sounding throughout the world, testifying of the resurrection and living reality of Jesus Christ with boldness and power. Fulfilling his sacred apostolic commission, he has borne witness of Jesus Christ to more than 100,000,000 people across the world, delivering the sacred testimony entrusted to him by the Savior Himself. Millions have heard his testimony, felt the undeniable witness of the Holy Spirit, and have come to Christ through the divine charge given to him by the Savior Himself.Just as the Apostle Paul was personally called and commissioned by Jesus Christ—receiving his divine charge directly from the risen Lord on the road to Damascus—Dr. D. Todd Harrison stands in this same sacred pattern. Like Paul, he has been called by the Savior Himself to proclaim the gospel to all nations and generations with unwavering boldness and power. His mission echoes Paul's, ensuring that every people and language hears the living testimony of the Son of God before His return.For six generations, Dr. D. Todd Harrison's family has stood among the Lord's chosen leaders in this last dispensation, serving as apostles and general authorities. As the great-grandson of the late Elder LeGrand Richards—one of the most beloved and doctrinally influential apostles in modern Church history—his prophetic heritage is divinely orchestrated, preparing the way for his foreordained mission.Yet, his lineage extends beyond modern apostolic heritage—it reaches back to the very foundations of scriptural prophecy. As a direct descendant of Abraham, King David, King Solomon, and Joseph of Arimathea, among many other biblical prophets, his family's divine calling spans from ancient Israel to the present day.This prophetic lineage is no coincidence. The Lord's hand has guided his ancestors' roles in shaping both Early Christian and LDS history, ensuring that the path was prepared for this moment—when Christ's Foreordained Apostle would rise to proclaim the gospel to all nations and generations.Through the sacred pattern established by the Lord, Dr. Harrison's global mission amplifies the work of the Church, standing in full alignment with the First Presidency, bearing witness alongside the prophets. His inspired words cut through doubt, bringing souls to Jesus Christ in faith and certainty.His divine commission stands as an extension of the inspired work carried forth by his ancestors, ensuring that the testimony of Jesus Christ reaches every people and language. Just as past apostles laid the foundation, Dr. Harrison now fulfills an apostolic charge entrusted directly by the Savior Himself, standing as a witness to all the world with the full trust and confidence given to him by Jesus Christ.

Today's sermon is for Easter 6 (C) and is titled For the Healing of All Nations. It was written by Katrina Katsarka Whitley and read by the Rev. Danáe Ashley. Sermons That Work is an offering of the Episcopal Church's Office of Communication. For more free resources, including sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and more, visit episcopalchurch.org/sermons. We would love it if you'd rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcasting platform – and while you're at it, share it with a friend!

Doctrine and Covenants 46-48: Spiritual Gifts, Stewardship & Zion's Foundation"Jesus Christ grants spiritual gifts, calls His stewards, and prepares Zion. These revelations stand as divine instruction—not just for the early Saints, but for all who recognize His work today. As His Foreordained Ambassador and Witness to All Nations and Generations, I testify that He lives, His truth stands, and His return is near. Choose to stand with Him in these latter days. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."___________________________________________________________ Introduction to Dr. D. Todd HarrisonDr. D. Todd Harrison is a prominent religious leader within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is known as "The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations" and as "The Apostle to the Nations." He was called directly by Jesus Christ—similar to the way in which the Apostle Paul was called—to teach and preach in His name to all nations and generations.Dr. Harrison is the most-followed LDS religious leader on Facebook, with over 1.4 million followers, and is recognized as one of the top Christian leaders worldwide. Through his teachings, he has inspired millions to deepen their faith, embrace the restored gospel, and come unto Christ. His content—shared across platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and podcasts—focuses on pure doctrine, biblical truth, and strengthening faith among LDS members and non-LDS Christians.His divine mission is to testify of Jesus Christ, ensuring that people everywhere understand the unchanging truth of the gospel. Many have reached out to missionaries for baptism after hearing his messages, and his influence continues to grow globally.A lifelong Christian and devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dr. Harrison has served in numerous leadership roles within the faith. He also comes from a long lineage of apostles, prophets, and kings, carrying forward their legacy of faith and leadership—an unbroken heritage stretching back through church history and even further into Old Testament times.#AmbassadorAndWitness #ApostleToTheNations #Apostle #LDS #TheChurchofJesusChristofLatterdaySaints #LatterdaySaints #Church #ChurchofJesusChrist #DoctrineAndCovenants #DoctrineAndCovenants41-44 #ComeFollowMe #ComeFollowMeDoctrineandCovenants #BookofMormon #DToddHarrison #DrDToddHarrison

Doctrine and Covenants 41–44: The Gathering of God's People and Divine Leadership with Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and GenerationsThe Lord has always called and prepared His chosen servants to lead His people in righteousness. In Doctrine and Covenants 41–44, we see the establishment of divine order—God commanding His people to gather, appointing faithful leadership, and preparing His saints for the greater outpouring of His blessings.Join Dr. Harrison as he explores these powerful revelations and how the Lord is calling His people today.____________________________________________________________Introduction to Dr. D. Todd HarrisonDr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations and The Apostle to the Nations is the most-followed LDS religious leader on Facebook, with over 1.4 million followers. He is also one of the top 10 most-followed Christian leaders. Dr. Harrison has testified of Jesus Christ to more than 100 million people worldwide—an accomplishment that stands as undeniable proof of the great amount of trust that God has placed in him to proclaim the Savior's eternal gospel to all nations and generations.Such extraordinary reach is a witness that God has foreordained, called, prepared, and sustained His servant in this sacred mission. The immense faith and confidence placed upon Dr. Harrison is evidenced in the lives he has touched and the testimonies strengthened by his witness of Jesus Christ.Dr. Harrison has come to be known as 'The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations' and 'The Apostle to the Nations,' standing in complete alignment with and adding his sacred apostolic witness to that of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency—magnifying the authoritative testimony of the Lord's chosen servants in proclaiming the Savior's eternal gospel and resurrection to all people and generations.#AmbassadorAndWitness #ApostleToTheNations #Apostle #LDS #TheChurchofJesusChristofLatterdaySaints #LatterdaySaints #Church #ChurchofJesusChrist #DoctrineAndCovenants #DoctrineAndCovenants41-44 #ComeFollowMe #ComeFollowMeDoctrineandCovenants #BookofMormon #DToddHarrison #DrDToddHarrison

Welcome to this "Inside The Epicenter" episode with Joel and Lynn Rosenberg, a podcast where we explore global affairs through a biblical lens. In this episode, we explore the prophetic significance of recent events in Israel, including the October 7th attacks and the ongoing war in Gaza. Joel unpacks what scripture says about God's promises to Israel, the consequences for those who bless or curse her, and why the modern state of Israel is such a powerful testimony to God's faithfulness. We'll also discuss the importance of teaching the next generation about Israel's role in biblical prophecy and how believers can pray and respond compassionately, even during judgment. Tune in for a timely conversation on the road ahead for Israel, and what it means to live with hope and purpose in these challenging days. (00:00) "Bible Prophecy and Israel's Future"(05:47) Biblical Prophecy: Gaza and Israel Debate(08:08) Generational Divide in Views on Israel(12:27) Bible Prophecy and the October 7 War(13:51) "America's Spiritual Role and Urgency"(19:54) "God's Role as Shepherd Critiqued"(23:07) "Israel's Judgment and Redemption"(31:00) Biblical Warnings Against Gaza(34:29) "Gaza's Crisis and Leadership Critique"(37:04) Controversial Symbols and Identity Choices(38:33) "God's Love for All Nations"(42:41) Presidential Bargaining Tactics Questioned(45:49) Zephaniah's Dual Prophecies(51:38) "Gaza's Fate and Judah's Inheritance"(53:47) "Compassion, Judgment, and Nineveh Lesson" Learn more about The Joshua Fund: JoshuaFund.comMake a tax-deductible donation: Donate | The Joshua FundStock Media provided by DimmySad / Pond5 Verse of the Day: Amos 9:9- For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations, as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground. Prayer: Pray for the country of Israel that many will cry out to God and come to know Him even as they are shaken during this difficult season. Pray that the people of Gaza will also come to salvation during this time of judgment.Related Episodes:China's Complex Relationships with the US and Israel #276Strategic Moves and Surprises: Netanyahu's Crucial Washington Visit #275How Israel Prevented Hezbollah's Invasion Plan #274Ancient Bible Prophecies and Modern Politics: Gaza's Future #272 Links For Reference https://www.inspirationtravel.com/tjahttps://www.joshuafund.com/learn/latest-news/join-us-on-our-alaska-cruise Donate a generous monthly gift to The Joshua Fund to bless Israel and Her Neighbors now and for the long haul. Become an Epicenter Ally today! Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Join us as we discuss Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations' lecture on Doctrine and Covenants sections 30-36, interpreting them as revelations from Jesus Christ primarily addressing missionary work and the restoration of His Church. Dr. Harrison emphasizes the importance of boldly proclaiming the gospel, relying on God rather than men, and accepting the guidance of those appointed over you in the Church. Key themes include the necessity of repentance and baptism, the promise of sin forgiveness for those engaged in the Lord's work, and the power of the Holy Ghost received through the laying on of hands by those holding proper authority. Throughout the lecture, Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations highlights Jesus Christ's repeated testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and other restored scriptures as essential for salvation.

Delivered by Samuel Ivan Gunarta from the Parish of Mary the Lady of All Nations in the Diocese of Bogor, Indonesia. Acts of the Apostles 2: 14.22-32; Rs psalm 16: 1-2a.5.7-8.9-10.11; Matthew 28: 8-15COME TO MEET THE RISEN JESUS Our meditation today is entitled: Come to Meet theRisen Jesus. Jesus' apostles and disciples were the eyewitnesses to the deathand resurrection of Jesus Christ. There were heavenly messengers who revealedabout the risen Jesus and all the more so, when Jesus Himself appeared to them.The concrete feature of the risen Jesus is of course different from when He wasalive and together with them. The risen Lord was already in spirit or accordingto the Acts  of the Apostles, it is"the risen Jesus". Their testimony is obviously strong and to be thetruth faith. This is shown by their obedience to the request of the risen Jesusthat they should come to Galilee and meet him. The meeting must take placewithin the scope of space and time, and therefore, the truth can be accountedfor. Meetings or encounters that are only in memory, imagination or through thehelp of means and intermediaries, will definitely open up opportunities fordoubt.  So according to the account in Matthew's Gospel today,the women who met the risen Jesus asked that the apostles come immediately andmeet Jesus in person. It was the direct encounter with Jesus that became a newexperience of faith and shaped a new life for the Lord's apostles anddisciples. It became the basis for the Apostle Peter, the first disciple of thetwelve, to give his first sermon on the risen Jesus. He and his companions hadto testify about the truth of the risen Lord. The sermon essentially reads like this: Jesus Christ,whom God has appointed to fulfill all the promises of the past, is the realMessiah. He was executed on unjust and untrue charges. He had died and beenburied, but now God has raised him up. All that pertains to His death andresurrection, Peter and the other apostles are witnesses. To make this sermonis not just empty words, the proof of the event and the recorded experience ofthe eyewitnesses are factors that determine its truthfulness.  Every follower of Christ is endowed with the basicneed to come and meet the risen Jesus. He comes to the presence of Jesus everymoment of this life. This is the same as a husband who has often not come toattend the Eucharist. Even though he is healthy and prays privately at hishouse. Because the wife was impatient with her husband's behavior, shedeliberately asked for a Holy Communion service to her husband at home. Theparish priest then came to the house. So there was a real encounter with theLord Jesus for the husband. From that moment on, he was always aware and readyto come and meet God in person through the daily and weekly Eucharistcelebration. We must do the same.Let us pray. In the name of the Father... O Almighty God,fill us with the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Fatherwho art in heaven... In the name of the Father ...

Welcome to today's podcast with Dr. D. Todd Harrison, The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations. This Easter, we reflect on the true resurrection of Jesus Christ—not just as a symbolic event, but as an undeniable reality, witnessed and affirmed in the Doctrine and Covenants and by Dr. Harrison-called directly by Jesus Christ to be a Modern-Day Witness of His resurrection. Join us as we explore how Christ's resurrection is the ultimate promise of redemption, and why obedience to His restored gospel is essential in these last days.Dr. D. Todd Harrison is The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations, called directly by Jesus Christ—just as the Apostle Paul was—to teach and preach in His name.As the most-followed LDS religious leader on Facebook, with over 1.4 million followers, Dr. Harrison is recognized as one of the top Christian leaders worldwide. His teachings focus on pure doctrine, biblical truth, and strengthening faith among LDS members and non-LDS Christians.Through his inspired messages—delivered across podcasts, YouTube, Facebook, and various platforms—he has led thousands to embrace the restored gospel and deepen their faith. His divine calling is to testify of Jesus Christ, ensuring that people everywhere understand the unchanging truth of His gospel.Dr. Harrison comes from a long lineage of apostles and prophets, carrying forward their legacy of devotion and truth.

The Exodus Way E10 — The Exodus story was core to the identity of ancient Israel. Inspired by the prophet Isaiah's words, 1st-century Israelites were awaiting a new exodus, where a new Moses-like figure would deliver them from Roman oppression. The gospels present Jesus as that figure, who saves people from sickness, hunger, spiritual oppression, and even death itself. And following Jesus' resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit, the early Jesus movement became known as “The Way,” carrying a message of salvation for all nations. In this episode, Jon and Tim explore how the new exodus people in the book of Acts embody the prophet Isaiah's vision.CHAPTERSRecap and Acts as an “Isaianic” New Exodus (0:00-9:44)Isaiah's New Exodus Language in Luke-Acts (9:44-26:18)Exodus and Acts' Shared Theme of the Victorious Creator God (26:18-35:03)A New Exodus for All Nations (35:03-45:24)OFFICIAL EPISODE TRANSCRIPTView this episode's official transcript.REFERENCED RESOURCESActs and the Isaianic New Exodus by David W. PaoYou can view annotations for this episode—plus our entire library of videos, podcasts, articles, and classes—in the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.Check out Tim's extensive collection of recommended books here.SHOW MUSIC“Nimbus” by Toonorth“Silk” by El Train“Wistful” by ToonorthBibleProject theme song by TENTSSHOW CREDITSProduction of today's episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer. Frank Garza and Aaron Olsen edited today's episode. Aaron Olsen and Tyler Bailey provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations, is one of the most-followed Christian leaders worldwide. As the most-followed religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Facebook, he reaches millions across the globe with his faith-driven messages.In this video, Dr. Harrison delves into Doctrine and Covenants 30–36, where the Lord calls His servants to preach the gospel and testify of Jesus Christ. These sections highlight the sacred responsibilities of discipleship, the power of the Holy Ghost, and the blessings that come from obedience to God's commandments.Discover how these revelations apply to our lives today, inspiring us to embrace our divine callings and share the light of Christ with the world. Follow Dr. D. Todd Harrison on Facebook and other platforms for more inspired teachings and life-changing insights.#DoctrineAndCovenants #ComeFollowMeDoctrineAndCovenants #ComeFollowMe #CalledToServe #ComeUntoChrist #DoctrineAndCovenants30to36 #ComeFollowMeDoctrineAndCovenants30to36 #TheChurchofJesusChristofLatterdaySaints #LDS #LatterdaySaints #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christ #Bible #BookofMormon

Join Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations and increase your faith and testimony concerning Doctrine and Covenants 29.For further study, please contact the missionaries through the following link:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.comeuntochrist.org/requests/missionary-visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠I know that God will bless you greatly if you will do so.Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations is the most followed religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the leading social media platform-Facebook. With more than 1.4 million followers, he is also one of the top 10 most followed Christian leaders as well. As an Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ, it is estimated that he has now testified of Jesus to more than 100,000,000 people around the world. Thousands have become baptized members of the Church, and many have and are currently serving as full-time missionaries.

Msgr. Roger J. Landry The Pontifical North American College, Vatican City March 31, 2025   To listen to an audio recording of today’s talk, please click below:  https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholicpreaching/3.31.25_Sheen_and_Preaching_of_the_Missions_1.mp3   To download a copy of the slides of the presentation, please click below:  Sheen and Preaching the Gospel to All Nations   The post Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and the Preaching of the Missions, Pontifical North American College, March 31, 2025 appeared first on Catholic Preaching.

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In this episode join Dr. D. Todd Harrison: The Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ to All Nations and Generations as he delves into the profound revelations of Doctrine and Covenants 27-28. Discover the significance of the Armor of God as a spiritual defense and the essential role of prophetic authority in guiding the Savior's Church. Dr. Harrison's insights bring timeless truths to life, offering guidance to strengthen your faith and empower your spiritual journey across all generations.For further study, please contact the missionaries through the following link:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.comeuntochrist.org/requests/missionary-visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. D. Todd Harrison is the most followed religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the leading social media platform-Facebook. With more than 1.4 million followers, he is one of the top 10 most followed Christian leaders as well. As an Ambassador and Witness of Jesus Christ, it is estimated that he has now testified of Jesus to more than 100,000,000 people around the world. Thousands have become baptized members of the Church, and many have and are currently serving as full-time missionaries.

Fr Stephen DeYoung is an Eastern Orthodox Priest at Archangel Gabriel in Lafayette, LA. He is also the cohost of "Lord of Spirits" podcast (  @AncientFaithMinistries  ). He is also the author of many books. We discuss his new book "Saint Paul the Pharisee : Jewish Apostle to All Nations". We mention Gamaliel, Yosef Razin, Jacob Faturechi (  @faturechi  ), St Jerome, Fr Andrew Dammick, and more. St. Paul the Pharisee book - https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Paul-Pharisee-Apostle-Nations/dp/1955890706Our First Convo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMVBmpN8c7cSecond Convo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNTxEm1Gb_A&t=2467sThird Convo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1_oA-IQQmQ&t=3182s

1 - Engineer extraordinaire and valued colleague and friend Dave Skalish joins the program to discuss a local landmark that no longer exists: The Bazar of All Nations, among a few other places in Delco. Dave takes us through his favorites. People would watch people play the organ? Tell us about the hardware store down the street! And the… insane asylum??? Why did the Bazaar close? 110 - Continuing with your calls on the Signal leak scandal. 120 - There's a local guy throwing and placing screws at and under people's cars who he believes to be Trump supporters. We revisit Scott Presler's showdown with Diane Marseglia of Bucks County. 130 - What does The View have to say on the Signal scandal? 145 - The focus of ire keeps shifting from one cabinet member to another after the scandal. 155 - Drum roll please! Trump is stripping all federal funding from Planned Parenthood!

12 - Scandal inside our Cabinet as messages about bombing Yemen were leaked to a reporter with The Atlantic. Was pertinent info leaked? Who's to blame and who will pay for the mistakes? 1210 - Side - Local Landmarks no longer around. 1220 - How do the Republicans not have an answer as to how this happened? Your calls and reaction to the leaks. 1230 - What is wrong with the suburbs with their judges looking to sue oil companies? 1240 - Nick Sirianni and Cooper DeJean are appearing at a Christian convention in Philadelphia to a mixed response. Wawa will last forever. Your calls on the Signal scandal. 1250 - Continuing with your calls on this to round out the hour. 1 - Engineer extraordinaire and valued colleague and friend Dave Skalish joins the program to discuss a local landmark that no longer exists: The Bazar of All Nations, among a few other places in Delco. Dave takes us through his favorites. People would watch people play the organ? Tell us about the hardware store down the street! And the… insane asylum??? Why did the Bazaar close? 110 - Continuing with your calls on the Signal leak scandal. 120 - There's a local guy throwing and placing screws at and under people's cars who he believes to be Trump supporters. We revisit Scott Presler's showdown with Diane Marseglia of Bucks County. 130 - What does The View have to say on the Signal scandal? 145 - The focus of ire keeps shifting from one cabinet member to another after the scandal. 155 - Drum roll please! Trump is stripping all federal funding from Planned Parenthood! 2 - Live from Wisconsin, it's Scott Presler! Why is this election so important not only to Wisconsin, but the whole country? And how was Scott ahead of the curve on this? What can people do to help? What kind of PA race is so important that Illinois Democrats are shoveling money into a Pennsylvania State Senator race? Why is getting turnout in off-year elections so important? What is the New Jersey outlook? 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 225 - Returning to the Signal conversation where Scott Jennings has thoughts. 230 - Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn joins us today to discuss the vandalism taking place across the county on Tesla drivers. Jennifer is kind of breaking news as to the response to this issue on The Dom Giordano Program. What is to be done about our elected leaders almost promoting this sense of lawlessness? How are we going about prosecuting these crimes so that it sends a message? How is her re-election campaign coming along, and will we see a debate? Will there be a live debate here at Audacy HQ? 250 - The Lightning Round!

This episode of 15:14 is the message Dr. Deepak Reju gave at the BCC's 2016 Global Summit: Better Together. In his message, Dr. Reju, demonstrates how God-Glorifying Counsel Reaches Out to All Nations.   FROM OUR SPONSOR:  To learn more about this undergraduate degree in biblical counseling at Boyce College, go to: BoyceCollege.com/1514.    ONE WORD ONE WORLD CONFERENCE 2025: To learn more and register for the One Word One World Conference presented by the Biblical Counseling Coalition go to: bccglobalsummit.org.   Support 15:14 – A Podcast of the Biblical Counseling Coalition today at biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/donate.

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Inspired by Revelation 7:9, where “a great multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language” worships before the throne of God, you are invited to A Praising Night for All Nations, an evening of worship, renewal, and unity Friday February 28th at 7:00 at the Grace Fellowship Church In West Palm Beach. Monday, Eric and Brigitte will extend an invitation to you and share details about this special night. A Praising Night for all NationsDonate to Moody Radio: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/morningshow/wrmbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In considering the last passage in Hebrews 12, it is referencing Haggai and understanding the reference will provide more insight for that passage next week. In Chapter 1 of Haggai, God had rebuked Israel for not having rebuilt the temple since they came back to Jerusalem around sixteen years before. They had started, but the opposition used King Artaxerxes to stop it after they rebuilt the altar of burnt offering and the foundation of the temple. Nothing had happened since, but after Haggai rebukes them, they start to rebuild the temple. Less than a month later, God tells them to look at the temple and recognize how it is nothing compared to the previous temple, but that they should persevere for God is going to shake like He did when they came out of Egypt, but also heaven. He will shake the nations so they come to the Desire of All Nations and I will fill this temple with glory That temple will have greater glory than the first temple that Solomon made. As we consider all the shadows of Christ in this passage, it is important for the understanding of Hebrews 12:25-29 for us to understand what it meant that He shook heaven and earth when the Desire of the Nations come. Since Haggai 2 is about the heavenly temple described in Hebrews 12:22-24, we will consider that temple and the promises associated with it before we conclude Hebrews 12.

Series: The Mission of the ChurchScripture: 1 Corinthians 10:31Speaker: Pastor David HallettDuring this series we have seen that the true story of the world is revealed and called forth as God's mission. Then, we showed how, as followers of Jesus in His church that He is building, we have a duty to fulfill our mission under God's grand mission. Last week, we saw that we as Christ's church need to be engaged in extending the Lordship of Christ and the glory of God to ALL NATIONS. Now we must come to the key question, “To what end?” Why is the true story of the world that God's cosmic renewal is accomplished through the saving work of Jesus spread around the world to all nations? The answer is the glory of God. All of this is accomplished to bring God glory. This does not make God some vain diva looking for attention. In fact it is just the opposite. When God is glorified in the universe and especially in His people, we begin to experience and enjoy all the beauty and greatness of God to our own ultimate satisfaction. That is why He is worthy of our praise—God's glory gives more than it takes.

In this episode, Jim and Todd hit the road and head out to Lancaster Kentucky, home of Garrard County Distilling Co. Listen in as we dive into the story of distillery and its brand All Nations. Smokeys Lifestyle Cigars The Hill House Bed and Breakfast  Be sure to check out our private Facebook group, "The Bourbon Roadies" for a great group of bourbon loving people. You will be welcomed with open arms!

In Week 2 of the "Jesus' Church" series, we explore the Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20, where Jesus commands His followers to make disciples of all nations. Tying together the promise to Abraham in Genesis 22:17-18, the fulfillment of that promise in Christ, and the inclusivity of the gospel found in Galatians 3:28-29, we see how God's plan has always been global. Romans 10:14-15 challenges us to proclaim the good news, as we are reminded that the Church is called to be a sending, preaching, and disciple-making body. This message invites us to embrace the mission of Jesus' Church and to actively participate in God's redemptive work around the world.For more information about Integrity Church, visit our website, http://liveintegritychurch.org Connect with us on social media throughout the week to stay up to date on events and things happening at Integrity! Instagram: @integrity_church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liveintegrity/

What makes a ministry truly impactful? Discover how healthier leaders and organizations can lead to long-term, sustainable Kingdom impact. In this episode of the Lausanne Movement Podcast, Neil Hart, Executive Head of the Mergon Foundation, explores what it takes to build healthy ministries for lasting Kingdom impact. Neil shares his journey and insights on organizational health and introduces a helpful resource—FiftyFour Collective—designed to empower ministries worldwide. Main Points: Leadership as the Foundation: The role of vision and character in shaping impactful organizations and the irreplaceable value of tested leaders. The Nine Dimensions of Organizational Health: Discover the 9D framework for assessing and enhancing ministry effectiveness. Storytelling for Sustainability: Why the ability to tell compelling stories is key to raising funds and fostering deeper connections. The Importance of Long-Term Thinking: Neil challenges ministries to think generationally, building resilience and capacity for lasting impact. FiftyFour Collective – A Free Resource: Learn how the FiftyFour Collective platform offers tools, courses, and assessments to strengthen ministries culturally agilely. Explore the FiftyFour Collective platform to access the 9D assessment and over 90 practical courses designed to strengthen your ministry's health and impact. Visit https://fiftyfourcollective.com/. today and start your journey toward healthier ministry practices. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast, leave a review, and share this episode with your network! Links & Resources: FiftyFour Collective – Explore the 9D Assessment and Courses - https://fiftyfourcollective.com/ Learn more about the Mergon Foundation's work: Mergon Foundation Website - https://mergon.co.za/ Neil Hart's Recommended Reading: Mission Drift by Peter Greer Guest Bio: Neil Hart is deeply inspired by creativity as a redemptive force for God's kingdom. With a rich background in entrepreneurship, leadership, ministry, and organizational management, he has gained unique insights into leadership from diverse perspectives. For 20 years, Neil was the founder and CEO of Boomtown, a creative brand agency in South Africa, where he developed strategies for universities and large corporations. Later, he assumed leadership of All Nations, a global missions and church-planting organization founded by Floyd McClung. In this role, he served on the international leadership team and engaged with unreached people groups across 20 countries. Currently, Neil serves as the Executive Director of the Mergon Foundation, a catalytic resource partner supporting kingdom-focused ministries throughout Africa and the Middle East. Beyond his professional contributions, Neil's personal passions are equally remarkable. He once wrote a speech for Nelson Mandela, speaks three languages, and is an author and exhibited artist. In his leisure time, he enjoys woodworking, playing the guitar, cooking, and growing bonsai—but above all, his life is centered on Jesus. We'd love your feedback to help us to improve this podcast. Thank you!

Step through the Gate of All Nations and into a world of untold secrets. This episode takes you on a journey to uncover mysteries long buried, challenging everything we've been led to believe about the past—and the present. What lies beyond the gate may hold the key to a revelation that changes how we see our world. Be warned, you may never see things the same way again SPONSOR LINKS: THE WELLNESS COMPANY LINK: Get prepped with life-saving meds at The Wellness Company: https://www.twc.health/MLB – code MLB saves $30 + FREE shipping Morning Kick LINK: https://ChuckDefense.com/Lunch GDR LINK: http://www.trycono.com/MLB Thank you all for your support of this channel! Every Subscriber, every Like, All Comments are huge in helping spread this research to new people every single week. Every Badge Member and every Patreon Member help keep this channel running. I appreciate all of the support and I can't wait for every Saturday to expose even more information to the world. And we are just getting started! ---- TO BECOME A BADGE MEMBER & HELP GROW THIS CHANNEL ---- HERE IS THE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Za5DiASIbqT8fuhiDBU6Q/join Join this channel to get access to perks! TOP EPISODES PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsFQI9PYz0b27yHR3V7di34AoFxT5NXWc LINK TO RUMBLE CHANNEL: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v2q03po-his-story-not-ours-pt-5.html LINK TO TIKTOK CHANNEL: https://www.tiktok.com/@themylunchbreak LINKS: BECOME A SPONSOR OF MY LUNCH BREAK: Shout-Outs For the next Month's Episodes! Patreon: https://patreon.com/MyLunchBreak X: https://twitter.com/MYLUNCHBREAK_ LINK TO RUMBLE CHANNEL: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v2q03po-his-story-not-ours-pt-5.html We are also on TikTok, Spotify & Instagram T-shirts: https://my-lunch-break.myspreadshop.com/tartaria+my+lunch+break-A644da062cabffc5328538705?productType=111&sellable=yrpy4VgZADuvGXd0Gj02-111-22&appearance=2 Flat Earth Sun, Moon & Zodiac App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flat-earth-sun-moon-zodiac/id1440996640 This is all in my own opinion. Entertaining as always, and of course, you are free to believe whatever you want. I do not claim to know any of this to be 100% true. It is all based on my personal research and simply sharing what I find with you all. Thank you for your support. My Lunch Break Disclaimer: The content on My Lunch Break is provided for informational and entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed in the videos are those of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organization or institution. I strive to present accurate and well-researched information, but we cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the content. Viewers are encouraged to conduct their own research and exercise critical thinking. Theories discussed on this channel may be speculative, controversial, or unverified. My Lunch Break is not a substitute for professional advice, and I do not provide legal, medical, financial, or any other type of advice. Consult with qualified experts for such matters. Viewers should be aware that information and opinions may change over time, and my content may become outdated. We are not responsible for any consequences resulting from reliance on our content. By using this channel, you agree to the terms and conditions of this disclaimer. We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove content at any time. My Lunch Break disclaims any liability for actions taken based on the information provided on our channel.

1851 it is, and the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century. Famous people of the time attended the Great Exhibition, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Samuel Colt, writers like Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Schweppes was the official sponsor. The Great Exhibition was a celebration of modern industrial technology and design - mainly for the British who were trying to show how through tech, the world would be a better place - leading the nations in innovations so to speak. Six million people, equivalent to a third of the entire population of Britain at the time, visited the Great Exhibition, averaging over 42 000 visitors a day, sometimes topping 100 000. Thomas Cook managed the travel arrangements for the Exhibition, and made the equivalent of 33.2 million pounds in today's cash - or 186 000 pounds back in 1851, and promptly used the money to found the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum, as well as the Natural History Museum. Inventor Frederick Bakewell demonstrated a precurser to something that we know as a Fax Machine. The New Zealand exhibit was well liked, featuring Maori crafts such as flax baskets, carved wooden objects, eel traps, mats, fish hooks and the scourge of the British army in Kiwiland, their hand clubs. A couple of conservative politicians let it be known they were not happy about the Exhibition, saying visitors would turn into a revolutionary mob. Considering that Karl Marx was part of the visitors - perhaps not unsurprisingly. But did Karl Marx use the services of Thomas Cook? Not exactly a question destined for a dissertation. This Exhibition went on to become a symbol of the Victorian Era. Meanwhile … a serious War in one of its colonies, the Cape was more than disquietening - it appeared this war was more a Victorian error. AS in mistake. amaNgqika chief Maqoma was causing Harry Smith sleepness nights, and Colonel Fordyce and his colleagues were fighting for their lives along the Amathola mountains. The Waterkloof ridges — in a place to the west of Fort Beaufort — was where the Khoekhoe and coloured marksmen made their greatest impact. The ex-Cape Mounted Rifles members amongst the rebels had other uses. They understood the British bugle calls, having been trained by the British, further exasperating men like Henry Somerset and Colonel Fordyce. The amaXhosa and Khoekhoe rebels were also much more organised than in previous wars against the invaders. They targeted the Messengers reading updates from British commanders intended for Grahamstown and been reading the reports, and some of the rebels were actually being supplied directly from Grahamstown itself. Then Henry seemed to receive an injection of spine - of determination. On November 6th 1851 he massed two large columns, one under Colonel Fordyce, and the other led by Colonel Michel. Unbeknownest to him, this was to be Fordyce's last mission. Michel's column had to advance up the Waterkloof aka Mount Misery, while Fordyce's column would wait above, on the summit. Michel would drive the rebels up the mountain, Fordyce would trap them and voila! Victory. It didn't quite work that way.

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(2nd Half) The 3rd Temple, House of Prayer for All… Religions. This is the first of two messages where we will be taking a contrasting look at the difference between the modern Secular Nation State of Israel and the coming Biblical Kingdom of Israel. Today is an introduction of sorts in that we will be discussing how some “Christians” including some Hebrew Roots/Messianic believers in Y'shua as Messiah are almost worshiping the modern State of Israel and the Jewish people who currently live there as prophetic Messianic figures. I'm going to play a short clip for you from a November 2023 interview and then we will also be looking at a document from templemount.org which reveals some surprising information about plans to use the Dome of the Rock for the altar portion of the 3rd temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This 3rd temple utilizing the Dome of the Rock as an altar to connect together 4 individual temples, one for each of the four monotheistic religions creating what the proponents call the prophesied “House of Prayer for All Nations”. However in reality it will be an ecumenical ‘house of prayer for all religions' on the Temple Mount. These 3rd temple plans include of course making Jerusalem the Religious Capital of the World.

The 3rd Temple, House of Prayer for All… Religions. This is the first of two messages where we will be taking a contrasting look at the difference between the modern Secular Nation State of Israel and the coming Biblical Kingdom of Israel. Today is an introduction of sorts in that we will be discussing how some “Christians” including some Hebrew Roots/Messianic believers in Y'shua as Messiah are almost worshiping the modern State of Israel and the Jewish people who currently live there as prophetic Messianic figures. I'm going to play a short clip for you from a November 2023 interview and then we will also be looking at a document from templemount.org which reveals some surprising information about plans to use the Dome of the Rock for the altar portion of the 3rd temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This 3rd temple utilizing the Dome of the Rock as an altar to connect together 4 individual temples, one for each of the four monotheistic religions creating what the proponents call the prophesied “House of Prayer for All Nations”. However in reality it will be an ecumenical ‘house of prayer for all religions' on the Temple Mount. These 3rd temple plans include of course making Jerusalem the Religious Capital of the World.

Guests: Fr Jeffrey Kirby, author of “Journey to Mount Carmel: A Nine-Day Preparation for Investiture in the Brown Scapular of Our Lady”. Dr Mark Miravalle, professor of Mariology Franciscan University at Steubenville, discusses the statement on negative judgement - Our Lady of All Nations.

This week we welcome Ray Franklin from Garrard County Distilling Company to the show and they talk All Nations whiskey! Him and Jesse do a deep dive on how to stand up a distillery and what it takes to make good whiskey. They start from the beginning and Ray walks Jesse through everything he had to work through to get All Nations on the shelf (including a pandemic) and then they dive into three amazing bottles of All Nations Bourbon! It's a great conversation and we can't thank Ray enough for being on the show. He has really put the time in on this whiskey and it has totally paid off which is evident in the fantastic whiskey going into the bottle for All Nations bourbon right now! 

Prophecy fulfilled of William Ruto, current president of Kenya, "biting off more than he could chew". The word was given that there would be economic instability, public backlash, and a very different Kenya than the one Ruto inherited from his predecessors. This prophecy was given on April 27, 2023 and is happening now- with more to come. Economic woes, violent protests and attacks on the seat of government have claimed 23 lives and injured scores of others. Kenya the stable East African nation is shaken to its core by nonstop days of public revolution against unpopular tax hikes on everything. Kenya you are facing the rise of the Beast system, Revelation 13, all kingdoms and nations will eventually be subsumed into the Beast that Daniel and John spoke about in the Bible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS VIDEO FAILED TO RENDER OR UPLOAD MANY TIMES & EVEN NOW I'M NOT SURE IF THE SOUND IS "EVEN" ALL THROUGH IT. Listen at a moderate volume so if any part is too loud or too low, you can adjust it as needed. Thank you. This video is a warning to ALL NATIONS, African and otherwise. 1) False Christs & false prophets will arise, deceiving many- so says Matthew 24:24, and it will be so. Many are at risk to dying in cults that don't look like cults, the fancier and more modern the church the less suspicious it will look. But OPEN YOUR EYES, because we are in the age where serious sorcerers and warlocks are in the pulpit paying dues for power with their members' lives. BEWARE that you do not become "THE DUES". 2) Political instability will rock all nations of this world, but why will that happen? He shall think to change times & laws. so says Daniel 7:25. The new system coming up will be highly oppressive in ALL NATIONS- old laws will be done away with suddenly, without any public participation or approval, sparking outrage, backlash, revolutions and even changes of government. None of this will have any effect in the end. The Beast is rising and will change its faces and masks as many times as it needs to, but the mindset behind the scenes will remain the same. 3) The coming 4th Industrial Revolution- the age of AI and the digital citizen, transhumanism, catalogues humanity like cattle, is now here. The so-called "modernization" initiatives you will see in Africa, SE Asia and South America are nothing more than regulating those areas to developed countries who are nearly 90% integrated with the Beast System already. It is time to repent, pray and be watchful. There is no point watching TV if you do not have the spiritual interpretation and understanding from God to know why you are seeing the news you see. God bless, Celestial from The Master's Voice.

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Finishing my missionary series, we end with a modern day missionary, or as some call Chau, a rogue adventurer. Either way, he did what he did, and his death caused a brief global conversation about unreached peoples and the cause for Christ. Tune in to hear of the controversial life and death of John Allen Chau Tom Nettleton, Voice of the Martyrs: New National Geographic Documentary Fails to Tell the True Story of John Allen Chau Denny Burk:Mission agency clears away some false assumptions about John Chau's missionary work Interview via Quick to Listen/Christianity Today with the director of All Nations missionary organization Mary Ho about John Allen Chau What John Allen Chau's Missions Agency Wants You to Know All Nations missionary organization issues letter regarding John Allen Chau Al Mohler The Briefing- Segment 1: The morality of global missions: How should those in the developed world look at hunter-gatherer tribes? Segment 2: Motivation vs. methodology: What the modern missions movement has taught us about how to most effectively reach the unreached. Garrett Kell: Was murdered missionary John Chau and arrogant fool? End of the Spear: Movie about Operation Auca and the five missionary deaths in 1956 Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman autobiography of first woman missionary to inland China Rethinking the viability of short term mission trips Why short term missions is really long-term missions Incomprehensible Evangelicals and the Death of John Allen Chau Music attribution Track New York Music by ⁠⁠https://www.fiftysounds.com⁠⁠ Track London Music by ⁠⁠https://www.fiftysounds.com

A talmudic adage says that before God inflicts a wound, he prepares the remedy. The tragedy of October 7 has left a spiritual scar on Israel and the Jewish people, but not without remedy. Messianic Israeli cellist Leat Sabbah, inspired by God's call to repentance through Yeshua and the prophets, has been sounding the alarm through her brilliant composition, “Wake Up, My Beloved.” She joins us to talk about her faith, her music, and the spiritual battle Israel is waging behind the scenes. Our co-host is Judi Abrams from the Bram Center for Messianic Jewish Learning in Jerusalem. – Episode Highlights – What began as a journey from childhood to be a professional musician has become a heartfelt effort to bring healing and inspiration to souls around the world through stirring lyrics and instruments such as the cello, harp, and piano. The development of Israeli music often seeks to blend Western and Eastern styles, which is symbolic of the peace and unity that will be present in the Messianic Kingdom. God has an intimate knowledge and love for every person and, in his desire to be known, leaves clues along the way. Even in times of struggle, he has thoughts of peace and blessing for his people. – Chapters – 00:00 Meeting Leat Sabbah. 04:05 What is The Bram Center in Jerusalem? 07:26 A standing-room-only concert at the Bram Center. 13:56 Leat's musical journey to become a professional musician. 18:28 Exploring different styles of music, including Arabic and Bulgarian. 22:24 A spiritual journey to search for God and move to Israel. 26:18 Discovering Yeshua as the Messiah. 27:44 The end times and the message of “Wake Up, My Beloved.” 33:17 Playing the harp and worshiping on the Mount of Olives. 35:27 The healing power of music. 38:05 Leat uses music to bring comfort in Turkey after devastating earthquake. 40:31 The impact of the war with Hamas on Leat's Music 54:09 Creating the song “Thoughts of Peace” in a time of war. 55:53 Finding peace and intimacy with God in times of trauma and confusion. 57:49 Promoting music and ministry. 59:16 Collaboration and future plans. – Episode Resources – Website: https://leatsabbah.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leatsabbahcello Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leatsabbah/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/LeatSabbah Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/mx/artist/leat-sabbah/1497601697 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4vl9FdNK3HnJkMhgWKuk19?si=D0-sXbFlR7iWg_am1MwoKQ Galilee Ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/@galilensemble Jerusalem House of Prayer for All Nations: https://jhopfan.org/ Messiah Podcast is a production of First Fruits of Zion (https://ffoz.org) in conjunction with Messiah Magazine. This publication is designed to provide rich substance, meaningful Jewish contexts, cultural understanding of the teaching of Jesus, and the background of modern faith from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Messiah Podcast theme music provided with permission by Joshua Aaron Music (http://JoshuaAaron.tv). “Cover the Sea” Copyright WorshipinIsrael.com songs 2020. All rights reserved.

A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of rape, torture and forced abortions by the late TB Joshua, one of Nigeria's most influential pastors. We hear from one of his victims. Also in the programme: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Palestinians must not be pressured into leaving Gaza, after some Israeli ministers call for Palestinians to leave; we speak to an MP from the ruling coalition. And after multiple awards at the Golden Globes we speak to the director of hit TV drama Succession(IMAGE: TB Joshua, Nigerian evangelical pastor and founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria; CREDIT: Getty Images)

The myths around Nigerian pastor TB Joshua draw young disciples into his web. His miracles go viral, bringing thousands more followers, hoping to be healed. Chosen ones, like Rae and Anneka, are invited to his Lagos church, with the coveted chance of becoming his disciples. Hosts Charlie Northcott and Yemisi Adegoke unravel a story of miracles, faith and manipulation, carried out by one of the most powerful religious figures of the century.Please note, some episodes in this season of World of Secrets contain graphic descriptions of sexual and physical violence, including sexual assault, rape and the language associated with it.If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionlineArchive: The Synagogue Church of All Nations, Emmanuel TV, CBN News, Powered by Dunamis, Journeyman Pictures#WorldofSecrets

This week, enjoy a Christmas potpourri of topics as Jeff dives into the spirit of the holidays. First, we take a look at Disneyland's "Parade of All Nations" from the holiday season in 1959, and compare it with the current Disneyland holiday events. Next, Jeff talks about the Hat Box Ghost making his debut on the East Coast; reviews Wish, the latest Disney animated feature; and discusses Fan Expo in San Francisco, which featured a rare live convention appearance by Mark Hamill among many other Star Wars celebrities. Keep in touch - comments@mousetalgia.com

What is the eternal message of hope that we are privileged to have here in the United States (and other parts of the West) that many people around the world don't have? It is the Gospel--the saving grace of Jesus Christ. And it was Jesus Himself who told us to go and make disciples of ALL NATIONS. But with only about 20% of the world speaking English (that's only 1 out of 5 people), how can we reach the other 80% with not only the Gospel, but also with the evidence for Christianity? And how can that be accomplished most effectively without breaking the bank? In this week's podcast episode, Frank, Phoenix, and Jorge team up to discuss how CrossExamined is chartering unprecedented territories by way of cyberspace (today's Roman roads). With the help of God, cutting-edge technology, and generous donors, we're using artificial intelligence (AI) and social media in ways that they have NEVER been used before! During the episode, Frank, Phoenix, and Jorge will share some of the exciting details surrounding this brand-new endeavor, known as the "Kingdom AI Project”, and you'll hear Frank speak languages that he really doesn't speak! They'll also answer questions like: Why is it wise for Christians to use AI technology in this way? Why is the Kingdom AI Project targeting Africa first? What does the Tower of Babel and Pentecost have to do with any of this? How is the Kingdom AI Project more cost-effective than traditional in-person missionaries? How does the CE budget and online reach compare to RZIM (which sadly is no longer in existence)? How can Christians all over the world get involved in the project to reach their local communities?   We are convinced that the Gospel message can overcome dark forces even in places where it's prohibited to talk about Christianity. This could very well be the BIGGEST feat in the history of apologetics anywhere in the world, which is why we're requesting all hands-on deck to help us reach this epic goal. Please join us today so that we can continue to grow God's kingdom by sharing the evidence for truth and the Gospel message using over 30 languages to reach 3 BILLION PEOPLE across the globe! To view the entire VIDEO PODCAST be sure to join our CrossExamined private community. It's the perfect place to jump into some great discussions with like-minded Christians while simultaneously providing financial support for our ministry. Watch the Kingdom AI Project video and support our mission HERE.