Podcasts about Anthem

Text: Romans 3:25b-26For more resources and information from Anthem Church, visit us at https://www.anthemcolumbia.com/

Some years ago, I had to register for my medical benefits with Redgate. My employer had contracted with Anthem for health insurance, and I went to register myself. I found that not only could I not register myself, but there was already an account there with my tax number, and it was under my wife's account. Many years ago, she had health insurance with Anthem through another employer. Anthem kept her record, which includes my tax ID. So today, in 2026, I have to log into my Anthem account with her ID to see my plan. That's likely an older, legacy system, so we might understand that they didn't expect two people to be primary account holders over time, right? Well, we also have a more modern tax software system to deal with. Let's call the software "Chewit" to protect the reputation of the company. When we contracted with an accountant for services, they set up an account for me. However, my wife manages most of the money, so I asked them to add an account for her. Apparently, this "Chewit" business tax service only allows for one person in a household to have an account. This person has to manage the account, so now when my wife logs in with my account, I get a code, and I send it to her. If you think these are isolated, I have 3 or 4 other services that work like this, from well-known, global brands. Read the rest of Designing for Teams

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Welcome to PTBN Pop's Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. With this year's NFL season underway now, we are featuring songs from the greatest football video game franchise ever, Madden. On today's episode, Andy Atherton is watching, “The Anthem” by Good Charlotte from 2002.   The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desJKYvdq9A

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Raju the Parrot's Anthem Adventure: Singing Amidst Chaos Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-09-22-07-38-20-hi Story Transcript:Hi: शहर के व्यस्त शॉपिंग मॉल के पार्किंग लॉट में हलचल भरा दृश्य था।En: There was a bustling scene in the parking lot of the city's busy shopping mall.Hi: कारों के इंजन की आवाजें, लोगों की बातचीत, और ट्रॉलियों का खटखटाना, इस जगह को जीवंत बनाए हुए थे।En: The sounds of car engines, people's conversations, and the rattling of trolleys were keeping the place lively.Hi: इसी बीच, आरा एक छोटे से पिंजरे में बैठे अपने पालतू तोते, "राजू," को राष्ट्रगान सिखाने में व्यस्त थे।En: Amidst this, Aarav was busy teaching his pet parrot, "Raju," the national anthem, while sitting in a small cage.Hi: "चलो राजू, गाओ 'जन गण मन'!" आरा ने उत्साहपूर्वक कहा।En: "Come on, Raju, sing 'Jana Gana Mana'!" Aarav said enthusiastically.Hi: हालांकि राजू ने तो कुछ और ही करने का मन बना लिया था।En: However, Raju had something else in mind.Hi: उसने अचानक एक कार का हॉर्न की आवाज़ निकाल दी।En: He suddenly mimicked the sound of a car horn.Hi: पास खड़े मीरा और राज यह देखकर हंस पड़े।En: Nearby, Meera and Raj laughed at this.Hi: "आरा, लगता है राजू का रियाज़ कार्टून चैनल पर ज्यादा हो रहा है!" मीरा ने मजाकिया अंदाज़ में कहा।En: "Aarav, it seems Raju has been practicing more on cartoon channels!" Meera joked.Hi: आरा ने हार नहीं मानी।En: Aarav didn't give up.Hi: वह जानता था कि अपने प्यारे तोते को सिखाने के लिए उसे और मेहनत करनी होगी।En: He knew he would have to work harder to teach his beloved parrot.Hi: राज ने सुझाव दिया, "क्यों न हम कुछ देर और रुके रहें? शायद यह शोर जल्द ही कम हो जाए।"En: Raj suggested, "Why don't we stay a little longer? Maybe this noise will die down soon."Hi: आरा ने सहमति में सिर हिलाया और तोते के बगल में बैठ गया।En: Aarav nodded in agreement and sat next to the parrot.Hi: उसने सोचा कि उसे राजू को अनुशासन के साथ, लेकिन प्यार से सिखाना होगा।En: He thought that he had to teach Raju with discipline but also with love.Hi: उसने राजू की चोंच पर हल्के से थपथपाया और फिर से शुरुआत की।En: He gently tapped on Raju's beak and started again.Hi: धीरे-धीरे, जैसे ठंडी हवा बहने लगी, राजू ने अपनी गर्दन सीधी कर ली, मानो उसके भीतर कुछ नया जोश जाग गया हो।En: Slowly, as the cool breeze began to blow, Raju straightened his neck, as if something new was awakened inside him.Hi: अचानक ही राजू ने "जन गण..." की धुन तोड़-मरोड़कर ही सही लेकिन पहचानने योग्य रूप में दोहराई।En: Suddenly, Raju repeated the tune of 'Jan Gan...', albeit in a distorted but recognizable form.Hi: आरा की खुशी का ठिकाना न रहा।En: Aarav was overjoyed.Hi: वो खुशी से उछल पड़ा, जबकि पास खड़े मीरा और राज तालियां बजाने लगे।En: He jumped with joy while Meera and Raj applauded.Hi: "वाह राजू, तुमने तो कमाल कर दिया!" मीरा ने खुशी से कहा।En: "Wow, Raju, you've done wonders!" Meera said excitedly.Hi: "दीवाली तक यह पूरा गाना गा लेगा, मैं शर्तिया कहता हूं!" राज ने जोश में कहा।En: "By Diwali, he'll be singing the whole song, I bet!" Raj said energetically.Hi: आरा ने राजू की पीठ थपथपाकर उसे शाबाशी दी और सभी ने इस छोटी सी सफलता का जश्न मनाने के लिए मॉल के फूड कोर्ट में कुछ खाने का फैसला किया।En: Aarav patted Raju on the back and gave him praise, and they all decided to celebrate this small success by getting something to eat at the mall's food court.Hi: इस अनुभव ने आरा को सिखाया कि कभी-कभी धैर्य और लचीलापन सिखाने का सबसे अच्छा तरीका होता है।En: This experience taught Aarav that sometimes patience and resilience are the best ways to teach.Hi: उसने समझा कि छोटी-छोटी उपलब्धियों को भी मनाना चाहिए क्योंकि सफलता अकसर छोटी-छोटी कोशिशों से ही बनती है।En: He realized that even small achievements should be celebrated because success often comes from small efforts. Vocabulary Words:bustling: हलचल भराrattling: खटखटानाenthusiastically: उत्साहपूर्वकmimicked: अनुकरण कियाdistorted: तोड़-मरोड़करoverjoyed: खुशी का ठिकाना न रहाapplauded: तालियां बजाने लगेresilience: लचीलापनpatience: धैर्यachievements: उपलब्धियोंcelebrated: मनानाsuccess: सफलताsmall efforts: छोटी-छोटी कोशिशोंconversations: बातचीतengines: इंजनanticipating: आशा कर रहा थाtrolley: ट्रॉलीscene: दृश्यteach: सिखानाdiscipline: अनुशासनrecognizable: पहचानने योग्यbreeze: हवाstraightened: सीधी कर लीsuccess often comes: सफलता अकसर बनती हैjoy: खुशीcelebrate: जश्न मनानाbeloved: प्यारेpracticing: रियाज़joked: मजाकिया अंदाज़ में कहाnoise: शोर

Donna from New Jersey joins me to share about her family's first cruise - a 7-night Alaska sailing aboard Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas! Donna traveled with her husband and two teenager kids, ages 13 and 15, plus her sister's family, including her 18-year-old nephew, for a summer 2026 adventure cruising round-trip from Seattle.We're talking about what it's like to cruise Alaska with teenagers, what they loved about Anthem of the Seas, how to pack for unpredictable Alaska weather, and the excursions that made this trip unforgettable — from whale watching in Sitka and riding the White Pass Railroad in Skagway to seeing Dawes Glacier and visiting a summer musher's camp in Juneau. Plus, Donna shares why, if you can swing it, she believes a balcony is a MUST for an Alaska cruise — especially when the scenery is this spectacular.This episode is available to watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kelseygravesIf you'd like to share about your trip on the podcast, email me at: kelsey@triptalespodcast.comBuy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kelseygravesFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelsey_gravesFollow me on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mskelseygravesJoin us in the Trip Tales Podcast Community Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1323687329158879Mentioned in this episode: - Alaska Cruise- Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas: The Key, Port Valet- On ship cruise activities: iFly, ping-pong, pickleball, bumper cars, sushi making, The Solarium, - Seattle Marriott Waterfront- SEATTLE: Puget Sound, Pike Place Market, the original Starbucks, The Great Wheel, Bite Society cookies- How to pack for Alaska- Inside passage vs. outside passage- SITKA: Free shuttle, cute harbor town, shopping, restaurants, Sitka Sound, bald eagles, Sitka National Historical Park, Tongass National Forest, Totem Trail, whale watching tour with Captain Brad, sea lions, - SKAGWAY: Alaska Shore Excursions: White Pass Railroad - Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm- JUNEAU: Summer Musher's Camp, - VICTORIATrip Tales is a travel podcast sharing real vacation stories and trip itineraries for family travel, couples getaways, cruises, and all-inclusive resorts. Popular episodes feature destinations like Marco Island Florida, Costa Rica with kids, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Aulani in Hawaii, Beaches Turks & Caicos, Park City ski trips, Aruba, Italy, Ireland, Portugal's Azores, New York City, Alaska cruises, and National Parks like Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Yosemite. Listeners get real travel tips, itinerary recommendations, hotel reviews, restaurant recommendations, and inspiration for planning their next vacation, especially when traveling with kids.

Text: Romans 3:22-25For more resources and information from Anthem Church, visit us at https://www.anthemcolumbia.com/

Welcome to Oktoberfest week! We're back in the studio this morning, but on Friday we'll be live at the State Room in downtown La Crosse for our 18th annual Kick-off to Oktoberfest! In the news this morning, the latest on the suicide attempt by Carrot Top, Converse has to pull an ad & apologize, several news organizations are banned from the White House, ICE agents shoot & injure a man in Austin, RIP to Duncan Sheik & Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory, and President Trump post a poll about renaming A.I. In sports, the Brewers complete the sweep of the Orioles over the weekend, the Packers come from behind to beat the Jets in overtime yesterday, the Vikings beat the Bears after Caleb Williams went out with an injury, the latest on the injuries to Jaylen Reed & Jayden Daniels, and the Badgers get a big win on Saturday. We talked about what's on TV & streaming today/tonight. And a new "Halloween" game is being banned in Australia. Cool story about a 48 year-old guy making his college football debut, a girl is helping victims of house fires by fixing up stuffed animals from second-hand stores, a pelican in need of assistance comes knocking on a door, and a trumpet player's instrument stops working during the playing of the National Anthem...so he continues by singing the Anthem instead! A list of everyday phrases that could sound condescending. A woman who thinks the grocery store was scamming her. Elsewhere in sports, thirty-five more women come forward about being scammed by a fake NFL player, a caddie quits mid-round, the Matt Kalil lawsuit against his ex-wife is dismissed, and an entire high school football team is suspended for one game because of their team mascot! And in today's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a #FloridaMan who strangled his wife after she complained about his farting in bed, a man that pretended to be a woman and evaded police for EIGHT years, a hunter in Deleware shot & killed a woman who he thought was a deer, a police chief is upset that the Flock camera company is using his image without his permission, and a guy in China opens a back-scratching salon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this lively episode, Pipeman sits down with Hugo from Tantric at the Louder Than Life festival. The conversation spans festival antics, life on tour, rock culture, the challenges of singing the Star-Spangled Banner, multigenerational bands, and the unique sense of community in the rock and metal world. Packed with humor and heartfelt moments, this episode offers both insider stories and reflections on music's broader impact.Main Topics CoveredThe excitement and significance of performing at Louder Than LifeTouring life, late-night drives, and the band's originsThe evolving, multigenerational makeup of modern bands and fansHugo's story singing the Star-Spangled Banner for Evan Longoria's retirementIconic mishaps with the national anthem by famous artistsThe misconception versus reality of the rock festival communityAppreciation for fans, music media, and the larger music “family”Key Discussions & StoriesLouder Than Life Festival ExperienceHugo shares the gratitude and thrill of playing at a top-tier festival, especially since the band originated in the city (00:56).The band's overnight drive to make it to the festival (01:24).Touring LifeConversations on who actually does the driving on tour—usually the bus driver!Bonding stories about exhaustion, teamwork, and sleeping in bunks (01:55).Multigenerational Rock BandsDiscussing band chemistry across ages and how today's scene brings together Gen Z, millennials, and more (03:23).Singing the Star-Spangled BannerHugo shares his nerves and pride singing the national anthem for baseball star Evan Longoria's retirement event (05:09).Fear of forgetting lyrics and preparation to avoid the fate of infamous anthem “butchers” (06:47).Humorous talk about rapping the anthem by mistake (08:00).Musicians' Off-Stage VoicesHugo and Pipeman discuss how musicians like Tom Araya of Slayer sound unassuming off stage but transform during performances (09:20).New Music & Ongoing ToursHugo mentions working on a new Tantric record with a single hoped for release by year-end (10:04).Appreciation for fans, the touring community, and the support system that keeps rock music alive (10:28).The True Nature of the Rock Festival CommunityDebunking stereotypes: Most festival-goers are positive, supportive, and friendly (11:37).The mosh pit as a metaphor for mutual support – “picking each other up” instead of knocking down (12:05).Notable Quotes“[Louder Than Life] is the best concert experience you can go to… If you can go to one concert a year, this is the one.” – Hugo (01:00)“We're happy to be here. We appreciate all the fans… This is like a family event.” – Hugo (10:13)“The bands only exist because of the fans, and the fans only exist because of the people in between that introduced the music to them, which is you guys. It takes a village to do this.” – Hugo (10:51)“If you don't want to get hurt, don't go to the mosh pit… But these are the nicest people you'll ever meet.” – Hugo (11:45)Resources & Links MentionedLouder Than Life Festival: Official WebsiteTantric: Facebook | InstagramW4CY Radio: w4cy.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support.Click Here to Subscribe for PERKS, BONUS Content & FREE GIVEWAYS!Follow @pipemanradio on all socials & Pipeman Radio Requests & Info at www.linktr.ee/pipemanradioStream The Adventures of Pipeman daily & live Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays at 1PM ET on W4CY Radio & Talk 4 TV. Download, Rate & Review the Podcast at The Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & All Podcast Apps.

Canadian pride gets a warm reception from American NFL fans as the economic trade war continues. Dave Neal breaks down the latest Canada trade updates, the cheers for the Canadian anthem, and the worsening oil crisis as prices keep skyrocketing. Plus, the fallout from Macklemore's firing as Ed Sheeran continues his tour tonight. All that and more on this afternoon's Rush Hour Podcast.

The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry — A Calming Bedtime Story for Sleep & Insomnia | Books at Bedtime Drift off with this gentle bedtime story for sleep and insomnia relief, read aloud as part of Calming Anxiety's Books at Bedtime strand. Tonight's tale is The Cop and the Anthem, O. Henry's wry, warm-hearted story of a homeless New Yorker's winter scheme, first published in his 1906 collection The Four Million — long in the public domain, with Porter (1862–1910) having died more than a century ago. For more calming audiobooks and sleep stories whenever you need them, download Anchored, the free companion app to Calming Anxiety, with offline-ready relaxation and Books at Bedtime sessions for any hour of the night.Get it on the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anchored-panic-anxiety/id6785035669 or on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.martinhewlett.anchored. In this soothing bedtime audiobook, Soapy tries every trick he knows to get himself arrested and land a warm winter berth on the prison island — from a slap-up dinner he can't pay for to a stolen umbrella — only to find the law has other plans, right up until a church anthem changes his mind entirely. A gentle, unhurried classic with O. Henry's trademark twist, perfect for winding down, easing anxiety, and drifting off to sleep. Hosted by clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic Martin Hewlett, as part of Calming Anxiety's Coffee Break for the Soul and Books at Bedtime story readings. And in everything, my friend, be kind.  Support the Show: Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to help us reach more listeners! YouTube: Watch all episodes at https://www.youtube.com/c/calminganxiety?sub_confirmation=1 Social Media Support: For younger listeners struggling with social media stress, visit https://www.icanhelp.net/ Music: All music by Chris CollinsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief--4110266/support.Ready for More Calm?Thank you for listening to the Calming Anxiety Podcast, featuring guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep hypnosis sessions with Martin Hewlett. Our mission is to provide you with proven tools for anxiety relief, stress reduction, and a path toward deep relaxation. Use this episode anytime you need to calm your mind and feel more at ease.

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PLUS: A global airline industry group says it has some major concerns about Prime Minister Carney's plan to open up operations of Canada's four largest airports to privatization. Canadian auto parts mogul Frank Stronach will be sentenced on December 11th, but won't face jail time. Canada has the potential to bolster Europe's energy security through the new alliance. The Royal Canadian Air Force has welcomed the first two of its new trainer aircraft, the C-T-1-5-7 Siskin two. it's the same planes that will replace the old Tutor jets flown by the Snowbirds aerial demonstration team. We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future episodes. You can find us: Through email at hello@thebigstorypodcast.ca Or @thebigstory.bsky.social on Bluesky Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Craig Carton and C-Mac reflect on the last time the New York Jets started a season 2-0 while debating whether Geno Smith can lead them to victory against the Packers. They also dive into a heated discussion regarding UB40 cover songs and critique the Buffalo Bills for playing the Canadian national anthem. The conversation concludes with Giants injury updates and a comparison between collegiate and professional male cheerleaders. (00:01:00) Jets 2-0 History (00:07:49) UB40 Song Debate (00:13:35) NFL Male Cheerleaders (00:17:10) Giants Injury News (00:20:59) Canadian Anthem Critique

01:51 | 01. Keltek - Spaceman 04:52 | 02. DJ Isaac - Nobody Listens to Techno '26 07:27 | 03. Steve Aoki, Sub Zero Project - Promises 10:17 | 04. 4444 OF A KIND - WAITING 4 13:48 | 05. Frontliner - Running Running Running 15:17 | 06. Project One - Move With The One 18:02 | 07. D-Block & S-te-Fan & Phuture Noize - Arcadia 21:20 | 08. Sound Rush & Hardwell - Iris 23:19 | 09. KELTEK - Vortex 26:30 | 10. Coone & LOVIXX and STOSLIV - Don't tell your dreams (hard version) 28:18 | 11. 4444 OF A KIND - 4 THE RAVE 31:55 | 12. Ran-D & Level Up - Knockout Outdoor 2026 Anthem 34:58 | 13. Audiofreq, ERABREAK - Overcome 38:05 | 14. Adaro & Ricardo Moreno - Lost On You 40:19 | 15. Ran-D & Adaro - Home 43:17 | 16. Bass Modulators ft. Diandra Faye - Final Call 47:19 | 17. Sound Rush - Stand Together (Sana Duri 2026 OST) 49:49 | 18. Bass Modulators & DÂVINØ - Another World 53:19 | 19. Zatox & Regain - On The Beat 55:47 | 20. Gunz For Hire - Born To Be Wild

Send us Fan MailA platinum party anthem doesn't come from luck, it comes from risk, relationships, and knowing exactly who you're making music for. We sit down with Trap Beckham, repping Jacksonville, Florida and Duval County, and he instantly flips expectations: yes, he's a club record guy, but he's also the type to get excited about science, animals, chemistry, and the solar system. That contrast turns into a real conversation about identity and how artists can be more layered than the internet gives them credit for.Trap walks us through the moment music stopped being a hobby, including the hard backstory behind a producer's injury, a settlement, and a two-thousand-dollar feature that became the biggest song in his city. From there we get into why “Birthday Chick” still hits years later, why he genuinely loves performing it, and why women and party culture are the engine behind records that last. We also argue about nostalgia, why 2016 felt like a peak year for being outside, and what it would look like to create a new era instead of only replaying old ones.Then we shift into “Triggered” with the Lindsay Clancy case, digging into postpartum mental health after childbirth with a clear breakdown of postpartum depression vs postpartum psychosis, the public's blurred lines, and the hard question of compassion vs accountability when a crime is involved. We wrap with “Words of the Week” so you leave smarter: aporia, monachopsis, and pareidolia, plus a funny closing debate on doppelgangers and how your brain finds patterns everywhere.Subscribe for more real conversations, share this with a friend who loves culture and big topics, and leave a review if you want us to keep going. Where do you land on treatment vs punishment when mental illness is part of the story?Support the showFollow us on social media www.instagram.com/noadvisorypodcast

Randy Brown has spent over a decade as an executive career mentor at Butler University's Lacey School of Business, walking alongside students through the full arc from self-discovery to career launch. Before that, he spent 12 years in human resources at Anthem, navigating 10 acquisitions and learning firsthand what it takes to lead people through constant change. In this conversation with Katherine, Randy shares the leadership philosophy that has guided him through both worlds: get to know the whole person, lead with curiosity before judgment, and take the time to truly connect. He reflects on why today's generation of students is more resilient and capable than they often get credit for, how a CEO who recorded his messages nine times taught him the value of tone, and why communicating about how you're going to communicate is the most overlooked first step in any major change.   Additional Resources: Connect with Randy Brown on LinkedIn Connect with Katherine Coble on LinkedIn Learn more about Borshoff Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: You can't help someone grow until you've earned their trust and taken the time to know them as a whole person. Curiosity before judgment helps leaders pause, reconsider assumptions, and reach better answers. The best communicators think not just about what they're saying but about how it will sound to the listener. In times of major change, the first thing people need to hear is how and when you'll answer their unanswered questions. Today's generation responds powerfully to caring, and leaders who show genuine interest get that care right back.  

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This week we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at the Real Organic Podcast, the Anthem-award-winning “Best Sustainability, Environment & Climate Podcast” produced by the Real Organic Project. Recently named one of the "best climate podcasts" by Earth.org, the Real Organic Podcast uncovers the forces reshaping organic farming today. Hosted by Linley Dixon and Dave Chapman, each episode features deep conversations with farmers, scientists, chefs, and journalists fighting to keep the organic movement truly organic. Like today’s special episode, featuring Drilled’s own Amy Westervelt, for a conversation about the hidden systems and greenwashing campaigns that have shaped public discourse and debate for more than a century. From early corporate PR to modern think tanks and strategic legal influence, she shows how the information ecosystem itself has been bent in service of fossil fuel profits. For more episodes like this, make sure to follow Real Organic Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And tell them we sent you.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

   I've begged and pleaded all off season... please let me be wrong.  Andy says, "I got you."    For the first time in three years, the Chiefs brought something new to their season opener.  Something really, really new and it was spectacular.   How great was Kenneth Walker racking up 191 total yards?  So great that in the storied history of the franchise the Chiefs have never had a game where their quarterback started a game 2 for 12 passing and the Chiefs won.  In fact, in this one, they never trailed.  Good golly was this a thing of beauty.    The one area your humble host was right was the Chiefs clearly built this off season for Justin Fields to start the opener but you're always going with Mahomes even if he was rusty, and admittedly, has a lot of work to do this year to get into form.    It wasn't just the offense as the defense has a whole new look and shine.   The Buffalo Bills are under fire for announcing they are perrorming the Canadian national anthem this Thursday night.  Robert Kraft makes a great decision about a concert at Gillette Stadium.    The Royals announce construction plans for their new ballpark.  Hickman Mills Schools sells a grade school on the cheap and some folks aren't happy.  And our Final Final is legendary radio announcer, Hall of Famer Dale Carter, running for office in Jackson County and happy to not be the Chiefs PA announcer anymore.

01. DJ Isaac - Intro 02. Johannes Schuster, Lil Rave Machine - NRG 03. 4444 OF A KIND - 4 THE RAVE  (D-Block & S-te-Fan & Sub Zero Project) 04. Coone x LOVIXX x STOSLIV - Don't Tell Your Dreams 05. Frontliner - Running Running Running 06. KELTEK - Spaceman 07. Aaron Hibell - I Feel Lost (devin Wild Edit) 08. Geck-O - Soul Train (Ecstatic Remix) 09. Project One - Move With The One 10. D-Block & S-te-Fan & Phuture Noire - Arcadia 11. D-Block & S-te-Fan - Higher (Hardstyle Classic) 12. DJ Isaac - Nobody Listens to Techno '26 13. Steve Aoki & Sub Zero Project - Promises 14. Aversion & Adrenalize - Gotta Stay 15. Hardwell & Sound Rush - Iris 16. Bass Modulators & Davino - Another World 17. Ran-D - Level Up (Knockout Outdoor 2026 Anthem) 18. Vennic - Chemicals 19. Dual Damage & Rebelion - Wickedest Bassline Stream 'Nobody Listens to Techno '26' Stream 'Let Yourself Go' Stream 'Face Down Ass Up' with Dimitri Vegas, Outsiders & DJ Isaac Stream 'BERLIN' with D-Block & S-te-Fan Stream 'RISE' Stream Showtek & DJ Isaac - Spaceman Stream 'Feel So Good' Hardstyle Sessions Playlist on Spotify More DJ Isaac Music: DJ Isaac on Spotify DJ Isaac on Apple Music DJ Isaac on Deezer Socials: DJ Isaac official Website DJ Isaac on Facebook DJ Isaac on Instagram DJ Isaac on Twitter

On Monday's show: The Texas Supreme Court blocked Galveston County from using a new precinct map in the November election. And Fort Bend County approved its budget and a lower tax rate amid a heated meeting as Democrats returned to court last week. We get updates on both stories from Houston Public Media reporters. Also this hour: On the anniversary of Francis Scott Key writing the words that would become the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner, we ask what words you would want included, what themes, concepts, characters, places and events you'd add to an anthem about Houston?Then, we get some advice on gardening in Houston.And we recap the Texans' season-opening loss to the Bills and check in on the Astros.Watch

Text: Romans 3:21-22For more resources and information from Anthem Church, visit us at https://www.anthemcolumbia.com/

Send us Fan Mail Join us as we celebrate America's 250th and draft the best America has given us. Word! Like Actual damn wordsThis is the Anthem, throw all your damn hands up!POTUS who? did what?Drive it like its hotMmmmmm Beer!This is why we're fat?Tales of Florida, Alabama, Indiana, etc., Man/WomanHit us up at Email: CBCPodcast@gmail.com, Twitter: @CBCO_Podcast, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks_coldones/

Today on Turf Today, we're celebrating Thank a Golf Course Superintendent Day with a conversation featuring James Symons, Director of Agronomy at Anthem Country Club in Las Vegas. James takes us through his journey from Mississauga, Ontario, to managing turf in the middle of the Las Vegas desert. We talk about the challenges of water conservation, surviving extreme summer conditions, and the massive renovation work he's been a part of at Anthem.  We also get into the reality of growing grass in the desert, the lessons James has learned throughout his career, and what keeps him pushing to be better. Plus, Brian shares a little bit about his recent trip with his son. Want to show some love to a superintendent today?  Head over to https://thankasuper.org/ and let them know how much their work means to you Turf Today Online shop https://www.turftodayshop.com/  

Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer discover cringe culture on 2 Bears 1 Cave, Khalyla Kuhn takes credit for Bobby Lee's career, Mark Normand & Joe List compare Blind Mike to Gas Digital's Gay Blind Mike & King Azoulay gets humbled in the ring. Joined by  @CrackAmico  https://www.youtube.com/@CrackAmicocrackamicorap.comCrack Amico Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/4wdE6jl904LVnJLRmIfJLx?si=Buhv2ZUCSQu1EZVm8bdI5gTIMESTAMPS0:00 Show Intro5:22 Crack Amico joins14:58 Joe List & Mark Normand on Blind Mike33:05 Khalyla vs. Bobby Lee58:21 King Azoulay fight1:23:15 Bert & Tom discover Cringe Culture2:14:08 Crack on Comedy2:37:20 Crack Amico World PremiereFOR ALL THINGS BLIND MIKEhttp://blindmike.netFOR ALL THINGS CRAIGGERShttp://www.verygoodshow.orgFOR ALL THINGS KC DAY / HACKRIDEhttp://www.hackridestudios.com

 The 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 18A)  ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969)  PSALM 149 – Plainsong, Tone I.9  HYMN: The duteous day now closeth (Tune: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen) – mel. attr. Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)  NUNC DIMITTIS – Arthur Wills (1926-2020)  ANTHEM: O sing joyfully – Adrian Batten (1591-1637)  Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • Fred McIlroy, cantor 

Text: Romans 3:9-20For more resources and information from Anthem Church, visit us at https://www.anthemcolumbia.com/

Suggest an interview for Cheryl Lee or let us know who your favorite interviewee is so farJoin Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musiciansThat chorus chant didn't start as a plan, and it definitely didn't spread because of the internet. It spread because crowds loved it, passed it on, and turned one Angels song into a piece of Australian culture. We're joined by Australian music legend John Brewster for a relaxed, funny, and surprisingly moving chat that reaches far beyond a single hit.We go back to the roots: four generations of music in the Brewster family, from classical Adelaide and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra connection to the “black sheep” moment that pulled John toward rock and roll. John shares the records that shaped him, from the Everly Brothers to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, plus what it meant to see Dylan live in 1966. Along the way, we talk about learning music by ear, why lyric-writing mattered to The Angels, and how today's world of YouTube changes the learning curve for young players.Then we dig into the big milestone: the 50-year celebration of “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again,” the national tour, and the wild path from early flop to all-time anthem. John opens up about working with Harry Vanda and George Young, the creative pressure of the AC/DC era, the moment the band heard the chant explode in Mount Isa, and the sad real-life story behind the lyric. If you love Aussie rock, classic Australian bands, and the real mechanics of how songs become legends, this one's for you.Subscribe for more conversations, share this with a mate who knows the words, and leave a review so more music lovers can find the show. What's the one song that instantly takes you back?What is Andrew Farriss up to at the moment?  Let's find outGet out when you can, support local music and I'll see you down the front!!Visit:  ThatRadioChick.com.au

San Francisco has always been a very special city to me. The people of the city value and reward genuine individuality. As an artist I've always had a deep appreciation for crowds who just wanted to hear what my heart had to say and weren't too concerned with trying to coerce me in to playing what they wanted to hear. It's nice to play for those who trust me and want to go on a good journey with me.I played my first FITP in October 2014. What a day that was. It's a day firmly implanted in my memory and heart. And here after all these years...it always feels good to go "home". In August I got to go "home" to play for the most beautiful people on earth. And I felt like it was a true collaboration with me and the crowd. Love and kindness was in full abundance and I hope you hear it when you listen to the set.The set contains some of my favorite songs of the year. It's been an amazing year for music and I am so happy to share some of that beauty with you here. I open the set with "You Belong" by Ciaran McCauley. I chose that song to open the "All Flag" set because of the powerful message it contains. There's nowhere on earth that I feel the message of "you belong" is sent more than AIDS Memorial Grove. So....I felt it fitting to open with it. From there I weave my way through a series of anthemic heart-tuggers before finally coming to a soft landing with "Back To Love" by Lincoln Jesser. The lyrics say:What if the end was the beginning?What if that light we see in the tunnel leads right back to love?What if we found it and it was in us?Oh, what if everything isn't only ever was?What if the paths we take all lead right back to love?I gotta open up my heart and let it inIt's never too late to begin againIt's not over just 'cause something's dyingI know I got more to giveWhat you put in's what you're gonna get out of itI made the decision that I'm all inBecause I've never been good at half-heartedOh, I wanna be happy, I wanna healAnd every shadow is so perfectly cast by the sun (By the sun)Can't have one without the other one (Other one)Oh, and every part of us so interwovenWhat if the paths we take all lead right back to love?"It was a spine-chilling way to end the day. We all went home with full and happy hearts. As always this set was conceptualized and mixed with every ounce of love I've got to give. As I always say...from my heart....to your ears! Soundcloud & PodOmatic links in the comments. #/Artist/Title/Remix01. Ciaran McCauley/You Belong/Extended Mix02. Joji/Beautiful/Anyma Extended Mix03. Oliver Smith, Moone/Wash Away/Phillip Castle Extended04. Above & Beyond/When I Look In Your Eyes/Extended Mix05. The Police/Every Breath You Take/Sonny Noto Festival Remix06. OneRepublic/In Your Eyes/Alesso Extended Mix07. Above & Beyond/When You Believe/A&B Extended Club Mix08. York/Fade/Extended Mix09. Bluebird Wood/SASHA (Every.Day.Today)/Alexander Orue Extended10. Farius/Not Alone Now/Extended Mix11. Susie Ledge/Love Is A Feeling/Oliver Smith Extended Club Mix12. Aname/Anywhere/Sonny Noto Private Remix13. Yotto, Dakota/Deep Dive/Extended Mix14. GHEIST/Way Out/Original Mix15. Citadelle/Calling/Extended Mix16. Richard Walters, molly/Feeling Something/OCULA Extended17. Con's Universe/One In The Same/Extended Mix18. Lincoln Jesser/Back To Love/Extended Mix

Matthew Toffolo chatted with Lily Lejeune about their short story "The Memory Thief," which was adapted into a film. Lily explained the story's dystopian premise, where pronouns are outlawed, and discussed its inspirations from novels like 1984, Anthem, and Gallia's Daughters. She shared her background, including growing up on a farm in Iowa, learning to read late, and her journey into writing and competitive speaking. Lily also talked about her time in the Navy as a nuclear mechanic, her current studies in pre-law, and her passion for writing and D&D. The conversation covered her writing process, her aspirations as a writer and future lawyer, and her experiences transitioning from a non-traditional upbringing to conventional schooling. Matthew congratulated Lily on her achievements and expressed interest in promoting more of her work in the future. —- Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod —— Love for you to try the Indy Film Festival AP. • Daily new film festival of the best new films from around the world. New archived festival to watch anytime. • Library of over 500+ award-winning films to watch anytime. Go to https://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 3-day trial. Check out the daily film festival (and previous ones from last month) at https://www.wildsound.ca/browse Always an amazing lineup of films. Inspiring for storytellers.

PLAYLIST - 28 Tracks / 1 Hour   Outkast - Atliens (Kwikmix) Skee-Lo - I Wish (Remix) Too Short - Short But Funky - LYTEMIX-1.0 (CLN) Ludacris F Shawnna - Stand Up (Kwikmix) Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray (Kwikmix) Paperboy - Ditty - PARTYUP-1.0 (CLN) Arrested Development - Tennessee (Remix) DMX - Ruff Ryders' Anthem 2021 (Remix) (Clean) E 40 (ft YG, Problem, Iamsu) - Function - STR8CUT-1.0 (CLN) Ice Cube - You Can Do It (Clean) (BackSpins) T Pain - Take Your Shirt Off - PARTYUP-1.0 (CLN ) Too Short - Blow The Whistle (kwikMIX) Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours - LYTEMIX-1.0 (CLN) DMX - Party Up (kwikMIX) Master P - Them Jeans (Clean - Short Edit) N2Deep - Back 2 The Hotel (Remix) Whodini - Freaks Come Out At Night - QUICKCUT-1.0 (CLN) Candyman - Knockin' Boots (ReMix) Heavey D - Nuttin' But Love (Remix) MC Breed - Ain't No Future In Your Frontin (Remix) Slick Rick ft. Doug E. Fresh - La Di Da Di - Remix (DJ Intro) Snow - Informer - Puro Pari Remix Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker Pt. 2 (Remix) Eminem vs The Bee Gees - Shady Alive (kwikMIX) Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (80s WH2 QH) Clean Lil Jon - Get Low (9INCH-1.0 CLN) DJ Quik - Tonite - LYTEMIX-1.0 (CLN) Dr Dre, 2 Pac Vs Usher - Cali Love Yeah - MASHUP-1.0 (CLN)

Host Evie Stokes sits down again with Seattle duo Lucha Luna to talk about the music that’s moving them. This time, the group shares their mutual love for Tamara Flores’ empowering anthem, “CHINGONA,” and what it means to be a “badass woman.”“To have, like, a chingona energy comes from your ancestors, comes from the people behind you,” Lucha Luna singer Eva Vazquez says. “People that are holding you through it… It reminds me of my mom and my auntie, and the women that I came from that are chingonas. I’d love to feel that sometimes I have that chingona energy, too.”Produced by Dusty HenryMastered by William MyersProduction support: Serafima HealyListen to the full songs on KEXP’s “In Our Headphones” playlist on Spotify or the “What’s In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube.Support the podcast: kexp.org/headphonesContact us at headphones@kexp.org.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today we're joined by Sam Hamstra, Lead Pastor of Anthem Church, a fast-growing, multi-ethnic and multi-generational church serving Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland. Anthem became an independent church in March 2020—the same week the world shut down—and has since grown to multiple locations and thousands of people. In this conversation, Sam shares how clarity around mission, values, discipleship, and vision has helped Anthem develop a distinct ministry culture and sustain healthy growth. Does your church know exactly who it is and how it does ministry? Are your leaders aligned around a shared playbook—or are you borrowing someone else's model without adapting it to your context? Sam offers practical lessons on creating organizational clarity that shapes everything from calendars to leadership development. Move from imitation to innovation. // Sam is quick to acknowledge how much Anthem learned from churches and networks that came before them. But even before Anthem launched, he began recognizing that another church's model could not simply be copied and pasted into Northwest Indiana. The local culture, demographics, ministry environment, and people were different. Healthy leaders learn from others while also doing the harder work of discerning what God is uniquely calling their church to become. Clarity takes courage. // Copying an established model feels safe because leaders can see evidence that it works somewhere else. Developing your own approach requires greater faith because the outcome is less predictable. Sam believes churches must have the courage to move into that uncertainty. Rather than endlessly chasing the next successful strategy, leaders should prayerfully identify the unique blueprint God has given their church and commit to it. Define your “way.” // Inspired by Patrick Lencioni's The Advantage, Sam and his leadership team spent roughly nine months working through five foundational questions: Why do we exist? How do we behave? What do we do? How do we live? Where are we going? Their answers eventually became what they call “The Anthem Way”—a framework that brings clarity to mission, values, discipleship, spiritual formation, and long-term vision. Mission and vision are not the same thing. // Anthem's mission is to lead people to know Christ and make Him known. That mission remains constant because it flows from the Great Commission. Vision answers a different question: where is God taking this particular church? Separating those ideas has helped Anthem distinguish between the timeless calling of the church and the specific future they believe God is leading them toward. Let your discipleship pathway drive the calendar. // One of the biggest benefits of clarity has been simplifying Anthem's yearly ministry calendar. Instead of allowing every ministry to bring new ideas and events to the table, leaders evaluate opportunities through their defined discipleship pathway. The result is greater focus and consistency. Sam says their annual rhythm has remained largely the same for years, helping both staff and attenders understand what comes next. Boring can be a strength. // Churches often feel pressure to constantly create something new, but Sam has learned that repetition can be one of the greatest drivers of health. Anthem maintains a weekly prayer gathering, predictable discipleship rhythms, and recurring ministry events rather than continually reinventing the calendar. The goal is not novelty. It is consistency around the few things the church believes matter most. Create intentional invite moments. // Anthem builds four major invite opportunities into its annual rhythm: Easter, a Summer Kickoff, Homecoming, and Christmas. These predictable moments give the congregation specific opportunities to invite friends and family. Sam has seen the church grow following these events because people know when the church is intentionally creating space for them to bring someone who may not normally attend. Values have to become behaviors. // Anthem's core values include “We Love People,” “We Choose Joy,” and “We Bleed Passion.” But Sam emphasizes that values only matter when people can see them lived out. Loving people means creating a culture where people can belong before they behave. Choosing joy means approaching ministry with gratitude rather than obligation. Bleeding passion means refusing to settle for the status quo and remaining willing to change as God leads. Use clarity to protect multisite culture. // As Anthem expands to additional locations, the Anthem Way provides clear boundaries for what must remain consistent. Sam is not claiming Anthem's approach is the only way to do church, but he does believe it is important for every one of their locations to understand and embody Anthem's distinct way of doing ministry. That documented clarity gives leaders freedom while protecting the culture across campuses. Check out Anthem Church’s About page to see how their story, mission, values, and discipleship pathway fit together. You can also follow @SamHamstra and @ThisIsAnthemChurch on Instagram. Thank You for Tuning In! There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose unSeminary, and I'm grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the left hand side of this page. Also, kindly consider taking the 60-seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes, they're extremely helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and you can bet that I read every single one of them personally! Episode Transcript Rich Birch — Hey friends, welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Really looking forward to today’s conversation. This is a funny one because literally yesterday I was talking to a church in a coaching call. We were talking about this exact issue that we’re going to unpack today. They’re wrestling with these things. I know that this is going to help you. So you’ve tuned in for a great conversation today with Sam Hamstra. Super excited to have him. He and his wife, Taylor, they founded Anthem Church in March 2020 with a vision and heart to lead people to know Christ and make them know known. Rich Birch — Over the past few years they have seen this mission become a reality, continues to grow. It’s a multi-ethnic, multi-generational family made up of thousands of people from all walks of life in Northwestern Indiana, Chicagoland, and beyond. It’s one of the fastest growing churches in the country. So honored that you’re with us today, Sam. Welcome.Sam Hamstra — Rich, so honored to be with you. This is a full circle moment for me. I’ve been following you for quite some time. So super honored to be on your on your show.Rich Birch — Oh, come on. That’s I’m glad you’re here. We, we’ve got a lot to learn from you today. So March, 2020, it’s one of those dates that sticks in all of our brains. Cause like, we all know, what were you doing? March 15th, 2020. We all can say exactly what we’re, where we were. That’s a wild month to, to launch.Rich Birch — It’s funny because I keep bumping into people who are telling a similar story. They’re like, we started during the pandemic, right at the beginning, right after that sort of thing. Give us a picture today and kind of from that moment all the way on to today, kind of bring the story, bring us, tell us a little bit about Anthem. Give us a flavor of the church.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so we currently today we’re headquartered in Hammond, Indiana, which when we say Indiana, different people have different thoughts. But we’re we’re actually butting up to Chicago.Rich Birch — Yep.Sam Hamstra — Joking around right now, we’re going to be the future home of the Chicago Bears soon.Rich Birch — Nice.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. But um yeah, so we’re headquartered in Hammond. Our second location is in Merrillville, Indiana, about 30 minutes from here. So currently um our family’s grown to about 2,500 people in English. And we also have a Spanish service as well. And God’s done a phenomenal work over a six-year time frame.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so we did launch in March of 2020. Our first Sunday was the same Sunday the world shut down.Rich Birch — Wow.Sam Hamstra — And so the third week of March was our first service on the internet.Rich Birch — Dude, that’s amazing.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — That’s incredible.Sam Hamstra — Yes. So in God’s divine plan, kind of underneath our origin story, we we were actually a part of a church in Tinley Park, Illinois. We were a location of that church called Christian Life Center.Sam Hamstra — And our senior pastor and I, Pastor Jerry McQuay, we had been having an ongoing conversation about him making us independent, which is a whole long story. And he decided to really lean into what he believed God was doing in our lives and in this region and made us independent in God’s divine plan. That started in March of 2020. Rich Birch — Wow.Sam Hamstra — And so we transitioned from being a multi part of a multi site church a location up to being independent in March. And yeah, we started with nothing. We didn’t have any cameras, didn’t have anything. I called our media guy and said, do you have anything at your house? And he brought it. Yeah.Rich Birch — What gear you got in your basement? Yeah, that’s amazing.Sam Hamstra — Yeah and he he brought a camera from his house. And yeah, that’s how we started. One continuous shot streaming online. And that was the start of Anthem Church in March of 2020.Rich Birch — Wow. Yeah, that’s amazing.Sam Hamstra — So God’s done a great work.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s amazing. That’s incredible. That’s cool to hear and fun to see where it’s come, you know, since then. When you look back on that experience, you know, a lot of what you’re trying to define in those early days of a church, you’re trying to bring clarity to like, what is our approach? And part of what we do is you know, we there’s ah there’s, I think, some good copying and pasting. You’re like, hey, here’s the way they do it over here. Maybe we could try a little bit that. But then eventually you start kind of coming up with your own way. You kind of birth your own a approach, playbook, you might call it. Rich Birch — When did you start to feel… ah the kind of transition from, hey, I just want to do it like in this case, either CLC or another church over there. And you started to realize, hey, there’s something unique here at Anthem. And we got to try to define some of that. Talk us through maybe from um a timeline point of view or from a revelation point of view, like, oh, this is kind of things I started to see. Talk us through what that looked like.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so about two years before we launched Anthem, God started to really kind of do a work in our heart just on unique DNA. And we were coming out of like heavily influenced by ARC, Church of the Highlands, and learned so much from there.Sam Hamstra — And we’re seeing just how like clarity really was so important on where we’re going.Sam Hamstra — And so we were coming in there and I just was really praying and seeking the Lord on, okay, this is great. But in our context here, there’s some some differences, there’s some nuances.Sam Hamstra — This is, um we’re over here. what What does this look like here? And so really took the foundation of that and started looking at what does this look like? So when we started Anthem, it was with the thought of, we really want to lean into this unique blueprint of how God designed us and what God has called us to here. Sam Hamstra — So it really started from the jump from from day one. And so but it was a couple years ahead of time to say, OK, this is great. Let’s let’s use this. Let’s we’ve been imitating. Let’s imitate now move to a little bit of innovation and what the Lord would have for us.Rich Birch — Yeah, and there’s obviously there’s like an art and science to that, right? There’s like the, the yeah, insert whatever church, Church of the Highlands is fantastic. They’re doing a great thing, but you’re not Birmingham, Alabama. And you know and so there’s cultural differences, there’s community differences, there’s different resources and all that. That’s like the kind of science-y part of it. Rich Birch — But then there’s the art part of it, which is a little bit more… like intuitives, it’s like vibes, that kind of thing. How did you discern, okay, what are those things that we should be thinking about that are different that you start, or maybe things you started to see, evidence you started to see like, oh, maybe this isn’t working, just importing. Was there evidence of that that you saw?Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so like, and it was like small things, you know, just on approach to Sunday service. Rich Birch — Right.Sam Hamstra — You know, like, hey, this is open door, we don’t do this on Sunday. And we had just been starting to see like pretty early on, we’re we’re reaching lost people through like a hard approach to the gospel.Sam Hamstra — And it was just like, it wasn’t really seeker sensitive. Rich Birch — Sure.Sam Hamstra — It wasn’t, not saying they are, but just, it was just a little bit different in in our context where people were coming from. On the multi-ethnic side, it was just some approaches being super intentional with sounds, sights, all of that in in our context. And so, and even on the discipleship model, you know, groups, what kind of groups are we doing? How are we setting these up?Sam Hamstra — And so it was definitely like these nuances in the different categories, I would say, of discipleship that we started to pay attention to. That that was really the start, I think, of innovating what we have now.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s cool. Why do you think so many of us just reach for someone else’s model rather than doing the longer, harder, deeper, like it’s more annoying work to try to define you know our own thing and and then ultimately to document it which we’re going to get to here. what What did you actually do to kind of try to codify that? But why do you think we avoid that as leaders?Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so I think on one end, what’s established, you can see that the model works. And so um there’s great success you’re seeing. I mean, it’s working everywhere. And so I think it’s safe. And so deep down, it’s like this is established. I see it work. And so I can kind of press play on this. And and I know to a level that this this works. Sam Hamstra — And so it takes courage to do something that you haven’t seen before. Rich Birch — Right.Sam Hamstra — And deep, deep down, i think in our hearts, to me, that’s probably foundational thing. It’s like, man, I haven’t really seen this so his is going to require some courage, require some faith to press into the unknown.Rich Birch — Right. Right. Sam Hamstra — And so I do think that unknown word leads to some different decisions sometimes.Rich Birch — Well, and your church is an interesting um example just because it’s grown so quickly. I, you know, even in the… the lead up to it, I was thinking about, you know, the word, the term church plant.Rich Birch — Like, I don’t know when that term, you know, I was talking with a church that had been around for 30 years and they’re a big church. They’re like 20,000 people. And they, the lead pastor was like, well, we still think of ourselves as a church plant. And I’m like, yeah, I don’t at some point you stop being a church plant and just be, you start being a church. Rich Birch — And I think actually this is one of those, one of those differentiations is when you start saying, okay, like we’re going to, we believe that kind of God’s called us to this unique thing. There’s something in there. You built something that I think you call the Anthem Way. Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Rich Birch — Walk us through what that is. How does it function? What is the Anthem Way? Help us understand that.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so this was actually birthed in an odd place. I was reading “The Advantage” by Patrick Lencioni,…Rich Birch — Yeah. Sam Hamstra — …and he was talking about organizational health, and one of the keys is clarity. Rich Birch — Yes.Sam Hamstra — And I had I have kind of, I’m somewhat of a mutt in church in my upbringing. Rich Birch — Love it.Sam Hamstra — So I’ve been in a lot of different environments and seen to a lot of different things. And so it was really just kind of like looking like, how can we just be crystal clear on who we are, where we’re going and different things. And so I read that book and in that book, he actually laid out these questions that he was like kind of pointing to every successful organization needs to answer.Sam Hamstra — And Iwas kind of seeing that with some of the stuff I’ve been hearing. And I’m like, and there’s a couple of missing pieces for me that he pointed to that I thought was so important in church world that I would actually point to that have been some of the biggest things I think that have been what I would call probably the secret sauce of what we’ve seen as far as clarity. Sam Hamstra — Just the separation of something simple, but the difference between mission and vision, you know, why we exist compared to where we’re going. And so, yeah, I read that book and in there he laid out questions that you need to answer. I took that to our leadership team and we wrestled with these probably for about nine months. Sam Hamstra — I’m just going back and forth on wording, how we say things. question by question in five different questions. We answered those and we gave it a name called the Anthem Way. And so that was the foundation, but I want to give credit where credit is due. It came through the book, The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni. Yeah.Rich Birch — Yeah, no, that’s great. That’s fantastic. And I, you know, one of the things I love that you’ve hit on here is I’ve talked in other contexts that our vision, well, this is the problem with with vision, mission stuff is it’s like, first you have to have a conversation. How do you define vision? How do you define mission?Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — But the big thing that we’re called to, the big idea, it comes from Jesus, right? We’re supposed to reach people and grow them up in in in relationship with him. All churches should have that as their core. That is at the core of what we do. Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Rich Birch — But getting clear on how we do that, you know, these other questions I’m assuming has helped give you a bit of a more of an edge, something that’s a little bit different. Do you want to rattle through the five questions… Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Rich Birch — …and maybe some high level, I know we can’t get into all the detail, but kind of high level how you’ve answered it. And then the follow-up I’m going ask you is, which are those couple that have given you what you think are the biggest distinctives around Anthem… Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Okay. Rich Birch — …that kind of that that kind of, um you know, that provide that edge that’s a little different, you think.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. So five questions and I’ll rattle them off quick. But so first one is why do we exist? Mission – the mission question, um which you just said it, I 100% agree, you know, every church really is called to the same thing. Let’s make disciples who make disciples, the Great Commission is still our first priority.Sam Hamstra — And so the way we say that is to lead people to know Christ and make them known. That was something we just prayed into language. We want to share language that people could really rally around. Sam Hamstra — Next question is how do we behave? The values question. We wanted to boil down in our culture those not aspirational values like truly who we are. So we boil those down to three things and wrestle with the language a lot. We wanted them actionable, but we choose joy. We love people and we believe passion. Sam Hamstra — And those all have disclaimers and really feed into our culture of what we call multi-everything. We love people from all walks of life, belong before you behave, and all that falls in there.Sam Hamstra — What do we do? Patrick Lencioni was talking about how that’s really your your business definition, so to speak, not for external use, but internal. We answered that with, we provide defined discipleship pathway.Sam Hamstra — It’s what we do day in and day out. It’s why we wake up in the morning. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. We’re not a country club. We’re not here to make money, we’re a church and and this is this is how we do, like what we do to ah to reach our why.Sam Hamstra — How we live is the spiritual question for us. We wanna make disciples. So we wanted to be able to weigh spiritually what a disciple is. And so we looked at Acts 2:42, which we felt like was a really good, definition of these handles on a disciple. And so we have five kind of disclaimers on what we want to see in our people at our church. And we offer resources on those, but from daily devotion to prayer to we share our Jesus story. How do you testify? How do we share? How do we make Christ known?Sam Hamstra — And then the last one is where are we going, which is the vision question. And we’ve we’re wrestling with the timing right now. We currently have a 10 year vision statement, which is just kind of pointers on like, this is where we believe God is taking us as a people.Sam Hamstra — And so those five questions are give us the framework for what we call the Anthem Way. What I’ve seen, as basic as it sounds and in our context. And I don’t know if this resonates with anybody. One of the most frustrating meetings I had in church context was the yearly calendar meeting.Rich Birch — Yeah, so true.Sam Hamstra — And I just felt like everybody was coming every year with their own ideas. Some of them had to do with our mission, some didn’t. And these are just in past experiences. And so it just felt like everybody was trying to, and some, you know, just different reasons, good, bad, indifferent.Sam Hamstra — And what what gave me great clarity was to look at our defined discipleship pathway and say, this is how we create our calendar. And um that’s been one thing that has simplified everything for us.Sam Hamstra — So every year in the last six years, our our yearly calendar flow has been the same. And our people are starting to understand it. The next steps fall within it when we even, you know, baptisms, we’re doing it this time. And So that’s been one thing is basically that sounds like what do we do?Rich Birch — No, no, that’s good. I like it.Sam Hamstra — I found a lot of confusion on that in the past, on like, how do we do groups? How do we have services? To define everything within that in the discipleship pathway, to me has been life-giving, not only for us as a team, but as as our church as well.Rich Birch — Yeah. Pull that apart a little bit more. I think, because I think this is where we fall down on this type of work is, you know, and, and I know it’s none of the people that are listening in, but there are churches that like, they do a retreat and we’re like, we’re going away. We’re going we’re reading Lencioni. We’re going to define the five questions. We even make a snappy poster and we put it up on the wall. And then we go back to business as usual. It’s the same thing we’ve always done. But you’ve been able to make the connection there, particularly with the calendar.Rich Birch — Maybe talk us through, give us some examples of how this work is shaping, how you’re actually defining, you know, how you operate as a church.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so one example I would say is prayer. I had somebody call me and I like to think our prayer culture is strong. And they said, how did you get your prayer culture strong? And I said, well, this is really mind blowing. We have a weekly prayer meeting.Rich Birch — Right. Right.Sam Hamstra — And so because of that, and and still as the lead pastor still today, I take responsibility for leading that because I believe it’s it’s a high value for the church. Rich Birch — Right.Sam Hamstra — So it’s on the calendar. We you know And we’re not adding to it. It’s just 6 p.m. to 7 every Thursday. And we support it, which I think is the secondary layer behind that because it’s important. Now we have staff support. We have worship team support. We’re, we’re like staying very focused, on a few things rather than getting broad and going to a retreat and saying, this is a silver bullet. I don’t think there, I think the whole thing is a silver bullet, the whole pathway.Rich Birch — Right. Sure.Sam Hamstra — And so we always say, you know, I took this from somebody, but, you know, we want to be Ruth’s Chris, not Ponderosa. We want a one page menu and we really want to just do that.Rich Birch — Yep.Sam Hamstra — And it might even get boring. And we we’re trying to learn that boring is good.Rich Birch — Yeah, yeah. Boring stuff grows churches. I love it.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — One of those five is sharing Jesus. Every disciple has one mission, to make Christ known. We don’t keep the gospel to ourselves. We share it through our words, our actions, our lives, wherever we go. We carry the hope of Jesus to a world that needs him.Rich Birch — Unpack some ways that that value drives behavior at the church, that actually drives calendaring and and you know what you’re talking about, that sort of thing.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so deep, you know, we always want to empower everybody to be inviters and not just share. I think the key word in that is share your Jesus story. You know, we have to be people who understand how to share a testimony outside the four walls with it, you know, with a pretty quick invite to be like, hey, come be part of this community if you don’t have a community.Rich Birch — Right.Sam Hamstra — And so that is really through calendaring. We that’s really probably intrinsically baked into what we’re doing. So anytime I bring a guest to church, I’m saying it from the pulpit. And this is my friend. They’re here. I invited celebrating those through baptisms.Sam Hamstra — We let people testify of so you’re hearing stories of that. And then really resourcing people to make Christ known by sharing their story, teaching them how to do that.Sam Hamstra — So In the context of the calendar, um you know I took this from your playbook, sir, so thank you. We wanted to create four big events in our flywheel… Rich Birch — Yep. Love it. Sam Hamstra — …that are big invite events, that these are the moments where you need to bring 10 people. Rich Birch — Right. Sam Hamstra — We have found in our calendar since day one that we are seeing people respond to that and our church grows after every single time we do a big event. Rich Birch — That’s great.Sam Hamstra — And so we’re we’re doing four quarterly things.Rich Birch — Are those are those four the same every year? Are they, are they, yeah.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, yes.Rich Birch — So what are they? What are those four? If you don’t want me asking.Sam Hamstra — So, you know, Easter, of course… Rich Birch — Yep. Sam Hamstra — …summer kickoff was something we just created… Rich Birch — Yeah, great. Sam Hamstra — …to start the first Sunday of June. We rented a football field and we just say, bring everybody. We don’t… Rich Birch — That’s great. Sam Hamstra — …in our culture here, this is one thing, like, we’re like, we don’t shrink in the summer. This is a great time to grow.Rich Birch — Keep going forward. Yep. Love it.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. And then we created something years ago called Homecoming, just, you know, it was really show up Sunday, invite day. Rich Birch — Yeah. Yep. Sam Hamstra — And then Christmas. Rich Birch — Love it.Sam Hamstra — So those are our four homecomings in November on the calendar. It just kind of flows quarterly for us that way.Rich Birch — That’s great. I love it. Well, I love what we’ve seen in fastest growing church in the country, friends that are listening in, is, you know, lots of churches will get, they have two big days, Christmas and Easter. But what we see is the behavior that you’re doing, which is you kind of end up having to make up a couple other days where you’re kind of injecting energy. We’re recording this in the summertime. You know, lots of churches have pulled a page out of Life Church’s book around At the Movies. And they, at the movies is one of their biggest attended days of the year on the the front end of that.Rich Birch — It’s just made up. There’s no reason for you to come the first week of August… Sam Hamstra — Yeah, absolutely. Rich Birch — …but they’ve decided, hey, we’re going to do that. That’s great. So we’re going to link to your about page where a lot of this is on that that page.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — On the how our core values, how we behave: We love people. We bleed passion. We choose joy. There’s some unique stuff in there. So talk me through. We love people, I think could be universally true of lots of churches… Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Rich Birch — …but I’m not sure that every church would say we bleed passion. We choose joy. Talk me through those as how those are kind of a unique thing that is helping you define what it means to be Anthem.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so you know on the love people thing, is you do hear that a lot. And I found there’s a difference between hearing it than living it out. And in religious environments sometimes, you know, I think we all pray we wanna reach the lost until you reach the lost. Rich Birch — True.Sam Hamstra — And our first service, our first Easter Sunday here, we only had one door into our auditorium. And I still remember we had the whole back of the auditorium smelled like weed.Rich Birch — Oh, wow. Okay. Love it.Sam Hamstra — And it was like this tense moment, you know, like of like, okay, this is what we pray for.Rich Birch — Yes.Sam Hamstra — And kind of diving deep into that. So we really own that language within that of we belong before we behave. And so we’re, you know, you can come from all walks of life and we believe Jesus died for all people. So we love all people.Sam Hamstra — And then the we choose joy…Rich Birch — I love that. Before we move on, the thing I love about that… Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Rich Birch — …that you’re calling out, that I do think is a nuance that we miss in too many churches, which is oftentimes we say we want to reach people. But what that comes with is messy pastoral care, hard conversations, stuff that doesn’t make sense, and long nights. Like, it’s just hard. Rich Birch — And, um you know, if you’re, it’s easy to reach Christians from the other church across town. It’s hard to reach people who don’t normally journey in this stuff.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Yeah.Rich Birch — And I love I love that story, even of your opening weekend with the the smell of weed in the back of the room.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — I love it.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Definitely messy.Rich Birch — That’s great. Yes, yes, love it.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. You know, the “We choose joy” has just been, um i think one of the greatest testimonies we had was from somebody that just, it was their first time guest. So like, man, everybody feels like they’re the same here. Everybody’s so happy. And we just wanted to build in just this, we believe that, you know, joy should be a badge that every believer wears. It’s just been, you know, you go into the different environments and some people just, it seems like a chore to be alive.Sam Hamstra — And so we just wanted to drive in. This is a privilege to be part of what God is doing in the earth in this hour, even if it doesn’t look perfect. Rich Birch — That’s great. Sam Hamstra — And then with “We bleed passion”, um that’s really our way to say here, you know, if you’re looking for a place that’s content with status quo, you’re probably not going to like it here. We’re always going to be changing. We’re always going to be moving. We’re always going to be shifting. We always want to go with where the Lord is leading. And so we’re a sending church. Don’t get comfortable. There’s always going to be more services. There’s always going to be new churches. Sam Hamstra — So we tried to to really get that in the DNA from the front side.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s so good. I love it.Rich Birch — I love that “we choose joy”. When I was at Liquid Church, are one of our three in this in this coupling was “Church is fun”. And you know the way we would talk about that is we would say, you know we we we say good news or we say gospel. We’re like, we should be gospel people or we should be good news people. Rich Birch — But what that actually means, how that actually should work itself out in our culture is when people interact with us, those people are a lot of fun to be around. Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Rich Birch — Because they’re redeemed people who have figured out, man, we’re following a God who loves us dearly. So what that should actually like, I love the way you’ve said it, we choose joy. Joy should be the natural outcome of our churches… Sam Hamstra — Yes. Rich Birch — …which is, again, that should not be rocket science, but it’s amazing how much that is a cultural difference or can be a huge cultural difference in many churches.Sam Hamstra — Yes. 100%. Yep.Rich Birch — That’s cool. So um you’ve been using this really throughout your how you develop leaders, how you onboard people, how you, you know, how do you come back to this time and time again? What are you using? How are you using these tools in your leadership development, in your raising up of volunteers, that sort of thing?Sam Hamstra — Yeah, so foundationally, I got to give credit where credit is due once again on this. I heard University of Kentucky’s baseball coach say this about culture, and it was like the best thing I’ve ever heard. He totally transformed his program, and he said it was culture at at the root of it. He said culture is every day. Culture is what you accept, and culture is what you reinforce.Rich Birch — It’s good.Sam Hamstra — And so we try to keep that in front of us as much as we can. It’s you know not something we just say we want to lead the way every day. So within these three, we actually just came out with 10 leadership values that all fit within those three…Rich Birch — Oh, that’s cool.Sam Hamstra — …that give a little more language to our leadership, like, you know, we love people, so we park in back. And so really speaking to the culture of, you know, we put other people first, we serve. Rich Birch — Oh, that’s good.Sam Hamstra — And so, you know, we try to outdo each other. You know, I park about a half mile away from church on Sundays. We don’t we don’t do pastor parking, you know, or anything like that. umAnd so just, it’s every day.Rich Birch — Yes.Sam Hamstra — We do a value at every single one of our pre-service huddles on Sunday. So we’re taking those three values every Sunday, one, here’s what we’re doing.Sam Hamstra — And then Leadership Pipeline, we implemented this two years ago and we’re teaching our Anthem way across the board to a new set of leaders three times a year. And so we really zone in on culture a lot. We’ve just realized people coming from a lot of different places and what makes our culture, our culture are these distinctives. And so we’re teaching those and then really trying to walk them out. And the best testimony we’ve been hearing is people say, yeah, we see that in the leadership of the church. So that’s been really cool to hear.Rich Birch — That’s really cool. I love it. And friends, this just reminds me of the like such a foundational thing we’ve all got to get right and work on and then repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.Rich Birch — We’ve got to keep on top of this language and and just come back to it time and time again. So you’re multi-site, you’re you’re going to launch more campuses down the road. Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — How does this tie into that conversation around, you know, there can be in you know, some multi-site churches, there’s like this tension of uniformity, you know, versus autonomy. And like, how how does that how does how does your thinking work out with the Anthem Way in multiple locations?Sam Hamstra — Yeah. So I want to preface this with I’m new, so I am figuring this out in real time. Rich Birch — Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Sam Hamstra — I’m coming from from being a campus pastor to now being in the position I’m in. We’re two years into our first ah plant location campus. So and we’ve seen it be successful.Sam Hamstra — But what we’ve agreed on is we are going to be uniform in the Anthem Way. So we’re choosing uniformity and everything that falls within that box of the Anthem Way. Um, and so that has been like the running lanes for us to define what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, the way we talk, the way we move, our style of church, um, and all of that. So that’s been, you know, we’ve been really struggling with, with, with what you just said, that uniformity versus unity versus, you know, autonomy. Sam Hamstra — And so, the Anthem Way is to become our framework on how we’re starting locations. And we feel like as long as everybody’s in sync with all, and it and it entails a lot, right? I mean, how we do church, our approach to a lot of things.Sam Hamstra — And so that’s been that’s been our overarching theme is we want to be uniform in this. Rich Birch — yeah that’s good. Sam Hamstra — And so that’s what we’ve been trying to make sure it’s documented, ready to go.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s good. Yeah, that’s an interesting, that’s like a, we could have a whole other half an hour just on on on that issue.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — But one of the things we have seen over the long arc of the multi-site movement is churches that are choosing clarity and um and more, yeah, an understanding of, in your case, what is Anthem and how do we do what we do, those churches are the churches that, from my perspective, and not just statistically, are actually benefiting more from the multi-site movement. Rich Birch — The churches where they’re like, hey, let’s spend a lot of time. It can actually be the worst model because it’s like, we have a lot of people thinking about all the different ways you could potentially do church. As opposed to saying, no, no, like this is the way we’re not, we’re not saying this is the best way. We’re just saying it’s our way. We’re not saying that this is the only way to do it.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — We’re just saying this is the way we do it. And, um and we’re okay with that. We’re settled on on that as an issue.Sam Hamstra — Yeah. That’s good. That’s good.Rich Birch — That’s interesting. Is there anything that changed or that has changed as you, I realize you’ve influenced ben to this from the beginning, but like, has there been anything that has kind of changed as you got clearer on the Anthem Way over the over the years? You know, something you cut or improved or, you know, is there anything that jumps to mind on that front?Sam Hamstra — Yeah, we’re would I might use the word refined rather than changed. Rich Birch — Sure. Yep, that’s good. Sam Hamstra — I was just talking to our discipleship director this morning just on, you know, is there is there a small group model? So like our three kind of handles in our discipleship pathway are know Christ, grow in Christ, and and make Christ known.Sam Hamstra — And, you know, our small group model isn’t working. We added what we call the Mosaic School of Ministry, which is is another thing in Grow. And we’ve actually seen way more interest and success in that. And so, you know, we have a way higher percentage right now going through what we call a School of Ministry, which is classes and and discipleship then we’re getting in small groups. Sam Hamstra — And so we’ve been just kind of wrestling with that a little bit. Like, is that culture, is it good, is it bad? And so I think those those refining moments have have really changed. We started off, though, I feel soft saying this, but it worked in our context. But we would start every year with 21 days of prayer and fasting in the beginning. And do 21 days again in the fall.Rich Birch — Love it.Sam Hamstra — We’ve actually gone down to seven days to start the year. There’s seven days in the fall. We just feel like we’re seeing actually better results with more people getting involved just with those minor tweaks, just to say this…Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s good.Sam Hamstra — …his is we’re we’re seeing bigger impact there. Rich Birch — Sure. Sam Hamstra — But so I think those refining things have been really good.Rich Birch — Has there been any of that refining that has come not from you, but from a member of your team? Like, has anyone called you out or called the church out on like, hey, like on prayer or on any of these where, you know, like when that’s happened in my life, I kind of like that. Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — I’m like, oh, well, that’s a pleasant thing that just happened there, even though it feels weird to be the person being called out.Sam Hamstra — Yeah.Rich Birch — Have you had any experiences like that?Sam Hamstra — Yeah. Yes. I’m laughing because, yeah, I’ve had quite a few. I could point to the one with prayer fasting. Rich Birch — Yes. So somebody on our team was like, hey, pastor, you know that there’s really no a place in the Bible where there’s a three week corporate fast. Rich Birch — Sure. Sam Hamstra — Yeah like where the whole church is coming together for three weeks and I’m like well I got a challenge, I’m gonna look. And I’m like sure enough you know, I’m maybe somebody could find it, but it was like these times and seasons where people come together for specific things of like, oh man you’re right. Rich Birch — Yeah. Yeah, love it. Sam Hamstra — So and so that was like one of those um yeah it’s it’s definitely happened quite quite a bit and so which I love that too and so it’s been such a blessing of solid team that feels free to speak when when they need to.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s great. Well, this has been a good conversation, just as we’re kind of coming to land. If you think about a church out there that feels like okay they’ve listened to this and they’re like okay, we maybe they’ve opened up your website. And they’re like, hey, we’re not as clear on this that as we could be, we need to get much clearer on that.Rich Birch — What’s kind of one first step that you would encourage people to take? What would be kind of the best first step towards getting clarity on this front?Sam Hamstra — Write the vision, make it plain so that he that reads it may run.Rich Birch — Dude, I love it. And with that, we end the episode. That’s fantastic. No, that’s great. Unpack that a little bit.Sam Hamstra — Um, you know, I for so much of my life, I was always looking to be so unique and so different. Rich Birch — Right.Sam Hamstra — And I felt like I just needed the next best thing. And it was wasn’t until I just locked into this is what the Lord has for us. And it might sound like somebody else it might look and that’s OK, but this going to be very unique to us. And this is what we’re doing. And just to be very clear on that and then just this is for me, but I get bored so easily. And to just, just not get bored and just keep doing the same thing in the same direction day after day.Rich Birch — Right.Sam Hamstra — And in that that flywheel, to use your words, it does work. And just to see that go and to to get very clear and and simple and and let people know where you’re going and just keep saying the same thing over and over is so life-giving.Rich Birch — That’s so good. So good.Rich Birch — Well, I really appreciate you being here today. If we want to send people anywhere online to track with you or to track with the church, where do we want to send them?Sam Hamstra — So first name, last name would be all my personal stuff. So @samhamstra, last name H-A-M-S-T-R-A.Sam Hamstra — And all church stuff is weareanthemchurch.com. And then weareanthemchurch on social as well.Rich Birch — Love it. So good. Appreciate that, Sam. Thanks so much for being here. Honored that you take some time to be with us today.Sam Hamstra — Yeah, thanks so much, Rich, my honor.

This is the 161st episode of I AM HARDSTYLE Radio by Brennan Heart. Tracklist: 0:00:00 | I AM HARDSTYLE Radio Intro 0:00:34 | Project One - Move With The One 0:03:19 | Ran-D & Adaro - Home 0:06:00 | The Pitcher - Up To No Good 0:08:12 | DJ Isaac - Nobody Listens To Techno '26 0:10:46 | KELTEK - Spaceman 0:13:50 | Da Tweekaz - Step Into The Madness (Into The Madness 2026 Anthem) 0:17:53 | Jay Reeve & Sigma ft. Max Alexander - Outro 0:19:37 | Geck-o - Soul Train (Ecstatic Remix) 0:22:18 | D-Block & S-te-Fan & Phuture Noize - Arcadia 0:25:35 | Brennan Heart - Life That We Dream Of (City2City) 0:28:00 | Code Black - Pandora 0:31:33 | ANDY SVGE & Ravewalker - Watching Me 0:34:40 | Jesse Jax - Higher 0:36:43 | Bass Shaker - You & I 0:39:44 | Galactixx - Runaway (U & I) 0:42:33 | Testarossa ft. EVELYN - Cloud Nine 0:44:47 | Toneshifterz & Dimatik & Weaver- Rise Of The Phoenix 0:47:51 | Zany - DRV U CRZY 0:50:33 | Bass Modulators & Davino - Another World 0:54:50 | Hardwell x Sound Rush - Iris 0:58:00 | Thyron - Stardust Skies 1:00:49 | KELVIN FARHEAVEN - Take My Hand (We're Gonna Fly) 1:03:41 | D-Sturb - Good Old Days

Sana G and G-Biz sat down with 49ers faithful Travis King to talk about his viral Niner anthem being removed from all streaming and social media platforms. Even the "49er Faithful Official" remix featuring Bay Area legend E-40 has disappeared, leaving Travis heartbroken. During this episode, Travis discusses what happened and how he's trying to get the song back up for fans in time for football season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Headlines for August 31, 2026; “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing; The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung; “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks; “We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington; Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”

Headlines for August 31, 2026; “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing; The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung; “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks; “We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington; Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”

The 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17A)  ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982)  PSALM 105:1-6,23-26 – John Fenstermaker (b. 1942)  HYMN: Lord of all being, throned afar (Tune: Mendon) – German mel., adapt. Lowell Mason (1792-1872)  NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627)  ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jacob Handl (1550-1591)  Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor 

Text: John 4:31-35For more resources and information from Anthem Church, visit us at https://www.anthemcolumbia.com/

On today's show: Headlines “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing The Real Reason There's a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks “We're Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – August 31, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

The brilliance of "9 to 5" is that it is catchy even though it's also kinda depressing. You will be dancing along. You're enjoying it. And, then when you really listen to the lyrics, you're like, Wait, this is messed up. This is real. This is a problem we need to fix. Like, why does it have to be this way?That is the spirit of the song, why it became an anthem, and the heart of the movie 9 to 5. There's so much to say about Dolly Parton, about her music, acting career, her business savvy, not to mention Dollywood. Today though, we wanted to bring you the audacious true story of 9 to 5, the movie and the song. Between the 1960s and 1980s, there was a real sense that big workplace changes were just beyond the horizon. At the time, a very common job for women was clerical work. In 1973, a group of secretaries in Boston formed a women's labor organization. They called themselves the "9to5."Today on the show, we revisit our 2021 episode where we meet the women behind the movement that inspired the movie. And a look at how far we have — or haven't — come since then.This is a special Sunday bonus episode. For our latest episode on inventing new tomatoes, scroll down the feed or click here. (Note: This episode originally ran in 2021.)Read:  - Our book: Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life  - Our weekly longform Planet Money newsletter - Our weekly Indicator round-up newsletterFollow:  - Instagram - TikTok - YouTube - FacebookSupport public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.Today's episode was hosted by Sarah Gonzalez and Sonari Glinton. The original episode was produced by Nick Fountain and James Sneed and edited by Mitra Kaboli. The update was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, and engineered by Jimmy Keeley. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.Music: "9 to 5," "5 to 9," and "Fly on the Wall." See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

The Anthem of your Life

This week we're sharing a special episode from our friends at the Real Organic Podcast, the Anthem-award-winning “Best Sustainability, Environment & Climate Podcast” produced by the Real Organic Project. Recently named one of the "best climate podcasts" by Earth.org, the Real Organic Podcast uncovers the forces reshaping organic food and farming today. Hosted by Linley Dixon and Dave Chapman, each episode features deep conversations with farmers, scientists, chefs, and journalists fighting to keep the organic movement truly organic. Like today's special episode, featuring Ladd Harris, NFL wellness coach for the Houston Texans, for a conversation about organic food for athletes. Having built a nutrition program for professional football players, Harris explains how knowing your farmer means knowing your food, and how nutrient-dense, soil-grown crops give athletes the edge they need on and off the field. Whether you're feeding elite athletes or your own family, Ladd makes the case for real food grown in real soil. For more episodes like this, make sure to follow Real Organic Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And tell them we sent you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.