Podcasts about Baffin Bay

Captain Mickey talks with Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Bink Grimes from Matagorda. National Anthem sung by Leann Rhimes.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Bink Grimes from Matagorda. National Anthem sung by George Jones.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay. National Anthem sung by Kelly Clarkson.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna de la Cruz from Baffin Bay and Royce Simmons Richland Chambers. National Anthem sung by Beyonce.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay, Blaien Friermood from South Texas and Steve Hillman from Galveston. National Anthem sung by Lee Greenwood.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Jay Watkins from Rockport. National Anthem sung by Chris Stapleton.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Royce Simmons from Richland. National Anthem sung by Alan Jackson.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Royce Simmons from Richland. National Anthem sung by Luke Bryan.

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Royce Simmons. National Anthem sung By Petatonix

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay and Chris McKinley. National Anthem sung by Petatonix

Hour 3 of The Outdoors Show! Captain Mickey is joined by Reanna De La Cruz from Baffin Bay, and Royce Simmons from Richland. National Anthem sung by Carrie Underwood

A Hurricane Warning is now in effect from San Luis Pass to Baffin Bay. Get the latest by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxF04UckJSUQ1dsU-HTSJQ Tap the “Subscribe” tab to stay informed on the latest tropical information, weather events and to view previous Weather Insights Podcasts. #weatherinsightspodcast #tropics #weather #Beryl The post Episode 41: Beryl Update 7-7-24 PM Edition appeared first on Weather Insights.

A Hurricane Warning is now in effect from San Luis Pass to Baffin Bay. Get the latest by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/@WeatherInsights Tap the “Subscribe” tab to stay informed on the latest tropical information, weather events and to view previous Weather Insights Podcasts. #weatherinsightspodcast #tropics #weather #Beryl The post Episode 40: Beryl Update 7-7-24 Midday Edition appeared first on Weather Insights.

A Hurricane Warning is now in effect from San Luis Pass to Baffin Bay. Get the latest by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxF04UckJSUQ1dsU-HTSJQ Tap the “Subscribe” tab to stay informed on the latest tropical information, weather events and to view previous Weather Insights Podcasts. #weatherinsightspodcast #tropics #weather #Beryl The post Episode 39: Beryl Update 7-7-24 AM Edition appeared first on Weather Insights.

Today's episode marks a significant milestone to Paddling the Blue with episode #100. Our first episode released in February 2020 and we've come to you every two weeks since and we've had more than 120,000 listens from 103 countries.   Thank you to every guest who has generously shared their experiences. Thank you to you for listening and for reaching out to tell us how you were inspired by a guest, giving your suggestions, and your support.  Because of you, we have had the opportunity to talk with guests across the globe about paddling on every continent. Thank you! There are so many more stories to share with you and we are excited for the next 100 episodes!  Today's guest is West Hansen. West and the four person team, The Arctic Cowboys, came together to be the first team to paddle the entire length of the Northwest Passage by kayak in a single season. It's a tale that takes us from Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea while dodging icebergs, massive ocean waves, and killer Corgi puppies. Team members include West Hansen, Jeff Wueste, Eileen Visser, and Mark Agnew. Before we get to our chat with West: We are grateful to everyone who has supported the show financially. If you would like to help, please visit our website at www.paddlingtheblue.com and click the Buy Me a Coffee icon. Every little bit helps offset the cost of the show and keep the stories coming.   James and Simon at onlineseakayaking.com continue to produce great content to help you evolve as a paddler, and as a coach.   Everything from basic strokes and safety to paddling in tides, surfing, coaching, documentaries, it's all in one place. If you're not already a subscriber to Onlineseakayaking.com, here's your opportunity to get started. Visit onlineseakayaking.com and use the coupon code PTBPODCAST at checkout and you'll get 10% off up to 12 months of your subscription investment.  Enjoy today's episode with West Hansen! Learn: The Arctic Cowboys (including route map) Running the Amazon, by Joe Kane Amazon Source to Sea, by West Hansen Amazon Woman: Facing ears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea, by Darcy Gaechter   Connect: Westhansen.com  

We update you on the dove situation, answer some questions about water levels in Baffin Bay and start the conversation about what this year's duck season is going to look like.

When Denise caught wind of a nature preserve in a little town called Kingsville less than an hour south of Corpus Christi, her ears perked up. When James found out that said nature preserve had real-life raptor birds ready to put on a show and devour piles of meat, he brought every lens in the camera bag! From El Potrero Ranch to the 106-year old Harrell's Kingsville Pharmacy, the neighborly vibes were also on full display everywhere--even the Mayor showed up to talk to your favorite empty nesters. Kingsville is full of potential and affordable housing, and speculators are starting to take notice. If you're into fishing--or crushing four-dollar burgers at the corner store--then you may want to give Kingsville--or nearby Baffin Bay--a solid look! You can find out more about our outdoor adventure at El Potrero Ranch here: https://www.facebook.com/ElPotreroNaturePhotographyRanch/ Our guide, Hugh Lieck was THE BEST: https://www.facebook.com/HughLieck1955/ Harrell's Kingsville Pharmacy: https://www.facebook.com/people/Harrels-Kingsville-Pharmacy/100057509407878/ Baffin on the Rocks Fishing Lodge: https://baffinontherocks.com/ And anything you need to know about what's happening in Kingsville is here: https://www.facebook.com/KingsvilleVisitorsCenter/   As always, our social media links live at http://www.linktr.ee/skiptownallstars #emptynest #fulltank

John Franklin and Louise Cook were a wealthy couple in California, living off the fortune they earned during the gold rush. Their daughter Louise Arner Boyd was born in San Rafael on September 16, 1887. Louise was offered every advantage imagined by a late young woman in the late 19th century. But instead of living extravagantly with material things, as a socialite, Louise chose experience over material things and used her inheritance to explore the Arctic, in the name of science. “Far north, hidden behind grim barriers of pack ice, are lands that hold one spell-bound.” Today we will talk about Louise Arner Boyd. She was the world's leading female Arctic explorer, geographer and arctic photographer. Louise organized, financed and led seven maritime expeditions without a formal education, limited outdoor expertise and no family members alive to advise her.  Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West. Stories that contain adult content, including violence which may be disturbing to some listeners, or secondhand listeners. So, discretion is advised. I am Andrea Anderson and this is Queens of the Mines, Season Three.  In San Rafael, the Boyd's put effort into raising Louise to be a socialite, first hiring a governess tutor and then put her in the private school Miss Stewart's to learn the social graces. Louise's father had struck it rich, her mother, an aristocrat. Her mom encouraged her to join in her philanthropist activities and community work while she looked for a husband.  But she was bored. Her mind was on other things. She dreamed of, and read about geography, the Arctic in particular. She did not want to sip tea in the parlor of the family's genteel mansion on Mission Avenue. She would rather spend time with her brothers. They rode horses, hiked, hunted and taught her to be a fine equestrian and skilled marksman on the 6 acre estate at Maple Lawn. In 1901, tragedy struck the Boyd family. In that year, both of her brothers died unexpectedly. One boy had complications of rheumatic fever, the other passed while away at boarding school in a riding accident. The Boyd's were devastated. After a while, Louise's father, in an attempt to give her direction and distraction, brought her on to work in the family's investment company. She worked with her parents for twenty years. Until 1919, when her mother died, her father followed a year later. 32 years old, unmarried and without children, she lost her entire family and inherited their Maple Lawn estate and a vast fortune.  Fascinated with polar exploration, Boyd went to San Francisco at 19 to see Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen land in the city, after completing the first sea voyage through the Northwest Passage. She decided to travel. She spent the next few years visiting Europe. In 1924, Louise was gliding through icy waters on a Norwegian cruise ship. This is when Louise saw the polar ice pack for the first time, and madly curious, her life was forever changed.  No woman before had financed and led an expedition to the polar seas. Oh well, she made a plan to travel north, and two years later, Louise chartered the Norwegian sealer Hobby and crew, and brought some friends, ready for adventure. The departed from Norway, taking stops at Northbrook Island, for photography and botanical collecting, to Franz Josef Land, for a hunt, and others for Arctic exploration. Louise fell in love with the remote land of ice.  She killed many polar bears, which at the time, was highly respected. She planned another trip two years later. In  Norway, far north in the city of Tromsø, Boyd and her crew were getting the Hobby ready to set sail on their second expedition. Then, news broke that Boyd's childhood hero, Roald Amundsen the iconic explorer, and his French crew had vanished while on a flight to rescue another explorer. A rescue mission was underway, and six European countries got to work organizing ships and airplanes. Wasting no time, Boyd offered the ship, crew and provisions she had on standby to the rescue efforts. She would fund the expedition herself, with one exception, she got to come along.  It was a dangerous undertaking, staffed with high-ranking generals, aviators and explorers. The Norwegian government agreed, although no allowances were made for a woman. Good thing too, Louise ended up playing an integral role in the Amundsen rescue expedition.  She had no experience, and the men were skeptical, but she took on her responsibilities just as they did. The 10-week rescue mission in the Greenland Sea into the pack ice north, traveling about 10,000 miles along the coast line was unsuccessful. Amundsen was never found.  At the end of the summer, the Norwegian and French governments awarded Boyd the Chevalier Cross of the Order of Saint Olav and the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor for her courage and stamina. Following her return to California, Louise's life purpose was solidified. She would be an Arctic explorer. She would commit not just to polar exploration but to polar science, and use her considerable inheritance to pursue her childhood dreams. She would live two lives. At home in the States, she would play hostess, adored by California high society and on the high seas, she would be tough, brave and heroic.  Hiring a botanist and a staff of promising young scientists, she planned an expedition in 1931 visiting all the fjords and sounds in the King Oscar-Franz Josef region. The trips were originally planned for photographic reconnaissance but they ended up also serving as a topographical survey and saw a variety of investigations and discoveries.  The inner end of Ice Fjord was reached by ship for the first time. The De Geer Glacier, entering the head of this fjord from the north, was discovered and the area between this glacier and Jaette Glacier was subsequently officially named Louise Boyd Land. A previously unsuspected connecting valley between the heads of Kjerulf and Dickson fjords was discovered. Boyd supplied the material for a detailed topographic map of the connection, which was subsequently constructed by the American Geographical Society, from over 200 of her photographs from 50 selected stations. But several thousand photographs were taken. She was also a remarkably fast learner who sought out experts in her fields of interest—including photographer Ansel Adams and California Academy of Sciences botanist Alice Eastwood—to teach her what she needed to know.  Two years later, under the auspices of the American Geographical Society, Louise led the first arctic expedition to perform extensive echo sounding with self-recording gear. She equipped the ship with an echo-sounder, sonic equipment that helped them measure the depths of the ocean and the ice. It was the first American expedition to engage in ground photogrammetry. The primary objective of this expedition was the study of glacial marginal features; to supplement the investigations of the physiographer and geologist, as well as to try out new methods of field mapping. The staff included topographers, a physiographer, a geologist and a botanist from the University of Chicago, American Geographical Society, Cambridge, England and Harvard. They sailed from Ålesund, Norway, June 28, spending a few days at Jan Mayen Island on the way out and covering the East Greenland fjord region from King Oscar Fjord to Hold With Hope and returning September 16th. Tide gauge recordings were taken at Jan Mayen Island and at stations in the Greenland fjords and echo-sounding profiles were made of a number of the fjords, and fairly continuous lines of sounding were made on the runs between Norway and Greenland.  The Louise A. Boyd Arctic Expeditions of 1937 and 1938 were planned as a unit under the auspices of the American Geographical Society. In 1937, she made another expedition of 8,600 nautical miles, leaving Alesund June 4 and returning September 27. The work was a continuation of the glacial marginal studies of the 1933 expedition, and a botanist was added to the staff with the special objective of examining plant communities associated with recessional features.  The 1938 3 month expedition went a few weeks around the South Glacier, Jan Mayen Island and Walrus Bay doing echo-sounding and current measurement work, filling in or improving the blank spaces on their existing charts. They also performed detailed glaciological studies at the Narwhal Glacier area, Agassiz Valley and Tyroler Valley. Even more areas were visited for glaciological and geological examinations. This expedition carried a portable echo-sounder for use in a motor dory in waters too shallow or too ice-filled for ship navigation. In some areas, they found ice two miles thick. Glaciers made navigation dangerous, and after identifying an undersea mountain range, it was decided it should be named in her honor, the Louise A. Boyd Bank. It was, at the time, the farthest north landing ever made from a ship on the east coast of Greenland. They were delayed two weeks due to difficulty getting through the coastal ice barrier. The heavy polar ice had stopped the ship. They turned south to the Franz Josef-King Oscar fjord region. That year, she was awarded the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1938. She was the second woman to earn the award. Then, in 1939 both the University of California and Mills College granted her an LL.D. in the United States of America, the LL.D. was only awarded as an honorary degree. It is the equivalent of a Ph.D. Louise paused her traveling at the outbreak of World War II, and began to travel again after she was asked to study the effect of polar magnetic fields on radio communication for the U.S. government in 1941. In 1941 Miss Boyd chartered Captain Robert A. Bartlett's schooner Effie M. Morrissey and spent the period from May to November as a temporary member of the staff of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in charge of a program of radio and ionosphere research and magnetic observation for the Bureau that involved work on both sides of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay as far north as Ellesmore Island and in Hudson Strait. Her mission undertook hazardous journeys to dangerous places. It was a perilous time.  Only eight weeks before, a British cargo vessel had been torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Cape Farewell just to the south. Effie M. Morrissey navigated its way through a narrow fjord and anchored off the town of Julianehaab. The American ship appeared vulnerable and run-down next to the impressive U.S. Coast Guard vessels Bowdoin and Comanche. As newly minted members of the Greenland Patrol of the Atlantic Fleet, the Bowdoin and the Comanche were responsible for preventing German forces from establishing a base on Greenland and for providing vital support for the Allies. As the Morrissey's passengers disembarked, town residents gathered onshore. Commander Donald Macmillan of the Bowdoin hurried forward to greet the person in charge. Defying all expectations, the leader was no grizzled Navy man. Instead, a stately, well-coiffed California woman of a certain age clambered out of the rowboat and strode toward him. Everyone wondered what she was doing in the company of high-ranking officers engaged in war matters. Well the answer was a secret. Boyd, operating under the guise of her work as an explorer, was conducting a covert mission for the American government, searching for possible military landing sites and investigating the improvement of radio communications in this region. Even the captain and crew of her own ship were unaware of the expedition's true goals. Miss Boyd not only turned over to the War Department her photographic library and her collection of hundreds of maps and miscellaneous publications dealing with the northern countries of Europe as well as the Arctic, but served in Washington from March 1942 to July 1943 as special consultant to the Military Intelligence Division. The National Bureau of Standards commended Boyd for resolving critical radio transmission problems they had grappled with in the Arctic for decades, and a certificate of appreciation from the Department of the Army extolled her “exemplary service as being highly beneficial to the cause of victory in 1949.” But Louise was not universally respected by her expedition participants. Boyd battled shyness and did struggle at times to assert herself. At first, most academics would be pleased with her credentials and her generous offer to join the team, but many ridiculed her behind her back and undermined her position as leader during the expeditions. Whatever.  When Louise was 68, she took her last trip to the Arctic. This time, she chartered an airplane and became the first woman to fly over the North Pole.  Over her lifetime, Boyd had no interest in being the “first” or conquering territories, she focused on contributing to science. She used her inherited fortune to organize, finance, and conduct seven Arctic expeditions in vessels which she had chartered and equipped.  Louise was one of the first women to autograph their Explorers Globe, alongside major explorers and aviators of the 20th century. She pioneered the use of cutting-edge technology, including the first deep-water recording echo-sounder. She pioneered the use of photogrammetry, the science of taking photographs to create models or maps, in inaccessible places.  She discovered a glacier in Greenland, a new underwater bank in the Norwegian Sea and many new botanical species. In all but 2 expeditions, she made large botanical collections. The staff botanist covered the other two trips.  She also held the role as the official photographer and built up a full portfolio of glacial marginal features, land forms, vegetation, and sea ice, documenting ice patterns along the Greenland coast.  Her extensive photographic documentation of Greenland is currently used by glaciologists to track climate change in Greenlandic glaciers. Her expeditions generated new data in the fields of geology, oceanography, botany, and glaciology. Data generated during her expeditions is still cited by contemporary scientists in the fields of geology, geomorphology, oceanography and botany. As a U.S. military consultant, she was an invaluable asset to the Allied war effort.    Exploration of the Arctic seascape—with its vast expanses of bobbing ice, the rhythmic sway of the wooden ship as it traversed the surging waves, the soothing solitude of the north—resonated deeply with Boyd and defined who she was and what she did. She spent her remaining years in the San Francisco area writing about her experiences, she had spent most of the family fortune for her explorations and had to sell the family home in San Rafael, California.  Today the gatehouse at the Boyd Estate is the present day home of the Marin History Museum and has a permanent exhibit of Louise Boyd's photographs and memorabilia. Louise A Boyd died on September 14, 1972, two days before her 85th birthday. Boyd requested that her ashes be scattered in the Arctic Ocean. It all leads me to wonder,  Where do you want your bones to spend eternity?   —---------------------                         Are you enjoying the podcast? Make sure to subscribe, rate, review and find us on facebook and instagram. You can join the biggest fans behind the scenes at patreon.com/queensofthemines, or give a one time tip via venmo to, @queensofthemines

Dr. Michael Wetz at Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Kiersten Stanzel of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program join us to discuss their Bringing Back Baffin project.  We talk about challenges associated with restoring an entire watershed.  Email us at wildpodcast@tamuk.edu For more information: https://www.cbbep.org/ https://www.harte.org/people/michael-wetz https://www.ckwri.tamuk.edu/media/talk-wild-side-podcast https://www.rotarycc.com/harvey-weil/

0 mins In this episode I am joined by Jaime, Hiram and Hector makes his way back on to the podcast after a long hiatus. We start with a repeat headlines and ask Hector why he thinks that not that many people are paying attention the NBA Finals. Jaime want to talk about Deshawn Watson as he has been a popular subject in the news again.  We make prediction about when he will actually play again.  10:00 minI tell the guys about my experience at the Sizzling on the Tropics Cookoff in McAllen. This has become a frustrating event for us as we attempt to reach the top of the mountain every year.  This year was even more difficult as we cooked in over 100 degree temps.  We were also short handed as we try to turn in the comp entries as well as serve all of the people that showed up to the event.  In the end we had some great calls but fell short of the ultimate prize.  We end the night with a bbq pit on fire and burned chicken wings.  20:00 minHiram finally gets to have his boat party as he makes his way back to Marina del Rey.  He tells us about the fancy food and drink spread they have as well as details about he fancy boat.  He takes a dive in the ocean and quickly regrets that decision.  Hector bashes the Kings Inn and tells us that there is another better place to eat in Baffin Bay.  35:00 minHiram tells us about a new word that he discovered called Trans-abled. We can't believe that this is an actual term and that people believe this.  Hector talks a little bit about ridiculous lawsuits that people are managing to get away with.  A bunch of joes that cook like pros!!!Law Office of Hector Hernandezhttp://hhernandezlaw.com/?fbclid=IwAR3kaG_wQzrsUJ-cVxJLUyjvipMPM1R59xo9YMKFFsiGHaaUgdZ8hd8cB7YTexas Cook'em High Steaks in Edinburg https://edinburg.com/texas-cookem-high-steaks-in-edinburg/ 

Hour 3 of the Outdoors Show! This hour Captain Mickey spoke with Cliff Webb from Baffin Bay, and Harry Detane from Lake Livingston.

Dr. Mike Wetz joins Shane and John to highlight a new initiative called Bringing Baffin Back. Bringing Baffin Back (BBB) is a sustained commitment to dramatically improve the health of Baffin Bay and the surrounding economy through partnerships between scientists and stakeholders who want the bay to thrive. Texan By Nature recently selected BBB as one of four projects that will receive up to 18 months of tailored support through its Conservation Wrangler project in 2022. Led by Dr. Michael Wetz, Chair for Coastal Ecosystem Processes at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Dr. Kiersten Stanzel, Director of Partnerships for the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, BBB consists of a stakeholder group of at least 131 members that seek to address the key issues in the decline of Baffin Bay watershed. Learn more by listening to this episode and watching this video - https://youtu.be/ZPP0V1EnyT4

Photo:  Arctic explorers preparing for the long winter - historic Cape Sabine and Baffin Bay (79 deg. N. lat.) 2/4   N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  @PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 2021    "GRIPPING. . . . One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamourous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.              Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles' greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen's body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic's most enduring mysteries . . .              During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany's luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain's Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.              But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls.              In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration. Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice floes, unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival.              Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . .              Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of Earth's extremes. https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527

Good ol' Cliff Webb joins the show from Baffin Bay.  We head north to Lake Livingston and talk to our good friend Harry Detant.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, I am joined again by fellow outdoorsman Daniel Guillette who moved to South Texas several years ago and became quite the avid fisherman and primarily fishes the legendary Baffin Bay.  Join me as we talk about his setup, what he likes to throw and shares some of his tips and tactics for fishing South Texas waters. Check out Daniel's content on YouTube and Instagram https://www.youtube.com/user/dannorocks84  Instagram @daniel.guillette Follow us on Facebook Page @SoTXoutdoors or on Instagram @Thats_soTXoutdoors Or contact me via email at SoTXoutdoors@gmail.com or listen online at our website https://www.sotxoutdoors.com/

Baffin Bay in South Texas is known for its legendary Trophy Trout Fishing. In this episode, Captain Chris sits down with a true legend of this infamous bay system, Captain Cliff Webb. Cliff not only shares his experiences of some remarkable catches from his childhood, but stories of legend like his single day 10 trout stringer that weighed a little over 96 lbs. He also shares his passion for these big fish and how we as a community can move forward to bring something like this back to the present day. Hope you enjoy!

Life's Tough Media is pleased to announce the latest episode of our “Life's Tough: Explorers are TOUGHER!” podcast series. Hosted by Richard Wiese—explorer extraordinaire and President of The Explorers Club—this episode features Captain Alfred McLaren, former President of The Explorers Club, President of The American Polar Society, Senior Pilot of the Super Aviator submersible, author, deep-sea explorer and a veteran of more than 20 Cold War missions. Captain McLaren is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Naval War College. He holds master's degrees from George Washington University and Cambridge (Peterhouse) University, and after retiring from the Navy in 1981, he received his doctorate from the University of Colorado. He is also a highly decorated submarine captain; his awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the nation's highest peacetime award, two Legions of Merit and four Navy Unit Citations. North Pole Expedition Captain McLaren has completed three successful missions to the Arctic—and the first submerged transit of the Northwest Passage aboard the USS Seadragon. This mission resulted in the first baseball game ever played on the North Pole. Aboard the USS Queenfish, his following missions were a Baffin Bay cruise and an expedition to the North Pole, with the primary intention of this mission being the first-ever exploration and collection of hydrographic, oceanographic and sea-ice data. En route, Captain McLaren and his crew examined the underside of icebergs, navigated the unpredictability of deep-draft sea ice, mapped the plains, crags and fissures of the seabeds and successfully completed the first, and only, underwater survey of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf. As a deep-sea explorer and scientist, Captain McLaren has completed dives to explore historic wrecks, participating in “The First Manned Dives to the German battleship Bismarck,” at an incredible depth of 4,750 meters beneath the sea; and to the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic and the Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents near the Azores, working with the Russians, using Russian deep-diving MIR submersibles to get a closer look at what's left of this once magnificent vessel. Author and Speaker Captain McLaren is the author of three books detailing some of his incredible missions during the Cold War and his discoveries under the icy seas, with a fourth coming this summer sharing in more detail his deep dives exploring historic shipwrecks. His book, Unknown Waters (University of Alabama Press, 2008), was judged a “Notable Naval Book of 2008” by the U.S. Naval Institute. As a research scientist in climate change in the Polar Regions, he has also written over 50 peer-reviewed research papers and is a National Geographic Global Perspectives lecturer. “Retirement isn't in my vocabulary. There's still too much I want to achieve. I am still thoroughly enjoying the rich smorgasbord of life,” says 84-year-old Captain McLaren. Join Richard and Captain McLaren for exciting tales of life and exploration aboard a nuclear attack submarine and what the “cat and mouse” games during the Cold War were really like.

Kate Eschner in the Smithsonian Magazine, writes: “In 1845, Arctic veteran Sir John Franklin departed Britain in command of two ships, the HMS Terror and Erebus, to seek the fabled Northwest Passage in the Arctic. They were last seen by Europeans in Baffin Bay, off the coast of Greenland. Then both ships disappeared, seemingly swallowed by the ice and never heard from again, at least not from the explorers themselves”. This is the mysterious story of Franklin's Lost Expedition! Buy tickets to our live streamed shows:https://sospresents.com/catalogSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodBuy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 8 available to watch now! All with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoonCheck out our web series: https://www.youtube.com/user/stupidoldchannel Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: dogoonpod@gmail.comCheck out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expeditionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae%E2%80%93Richardson_Arctic_expeditionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin

Tropical storm beta Live podcast, update on tnw news NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center ...RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AND RADAR DATA INDICATE THAT BETA HAS REDEVELOPED A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE WEST... *** A Storm Surge Warning is in effect from Port Aransas, Texas to Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana, including Copano Bay, Aransas Bay, San Antonio Bay, Matagorda Bay, Galveston Bay, Sabine Lake, and Lake Calcasieu. *** A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from Port Aransas Texas to Morgan City Louisiana. *** A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas Texas. Tropical storm conditions are occurring in the tropical storm warning area along the southwestern Louisiana coast and will spread westward to the warning areas in Texas late today through early Monday. Tropical storm conditions are possible within the tropical storm watch area along the south Texas coast on Monday. A tornado or two could occur Monday near the middle-to-upper Texas coast or the southwestern Louisiana coast. Through Thursday, Beta is expected to produce rainfall accumulations of 8 to 12 inches with isolated totals of 20 inches from the middle Texas coast to southern Louisiana, with 4 to 8 inches spreading northward into the lower Mississippi River Valley by mid-week. Flash and urban flooding is likely, as well as minor to isolated moderate river flooding. For storm information specific to your area, including possible inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office www.weather.gov At 1 p.m. CDT, the center of Tropical Storm Beta was located about 180 miles (290 km) east-southeast of Port O'Connor, Texas. Beta is moving toward the west-northwest near 5 mph (7 km/h), and this general motion is forecast to continue during the next day or so. A decrease in forward speed and a turn to the north and northeast is expected Monday night and Tuesday. On the forecast track, the center of Beta will continue to move toward the coast of Texas and will likely move inland by Monday night, and remain close to the coast of southeastern Texas on Tuesday. Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph (95 km/h) with higher gusts. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km) from the center. Little change in strength is forecast during the next couple of days before Beta reaches the Texas coast. Weakening is anticipated once Beta moves inland. The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline. The water could reach the following heights above ground somewhere in the indicated areas if the peak surge occurs at the time of high tide... - Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, LA to Ocean Springs, MS including Vermilion Bay, Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, and Lake Maurepas...1-3 ft - Port Aransas, TX to Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, LA including Copano Bay, Aransas Bay, San Antonio Bay, Matagorda Bay, Galveston Bay, Sabine Lake, and Calcasieu Lake... 2-4 ft - Baffin Bay, TX to Port Aransas, TX including Corpus Christi Bay and Baffin Bay... 1-3 ft - Mouth of the Rio Grande to Baffin Bay, TX...1-2 ft The next complete advisory will be issued by NHC at 4 p.m. CDT - www.hurricanes.gov

In this episode of the podcast, I have continued talking about the Arctic. This episode is a little longer than the previous episodes. I have talked on the following topics:France's Importance in the ArcticBackgroundKey issues and challenges ahead in the ArcticPrioritiesInternational Polar Years France's main scientific interests in the arctic.PermafrostEconomic opportunitiesProtecting the arctic marine environments The European Union and the arcticArctic Facts“France will do everything that it can, here in the Far North of the planet, to take action, mobilize its researchers and its businesses, to enable us to preserve this part of the world, which is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful.”“France will never think that the Arctic Ocean can be treated like any other ocean in terms of the level of environmental precautions. We are calling for the implementation of special, more stringent environmental safety standards in the Arctic where French operators are present.”Additional InfoSize of the Arctic: mainland and sea area located inside the Arctic Circle (66.33° north latitude): 20.946 million km²(approx. 38 times larger than metropolitan FranceSize of the Arctic Ocean: 14.2 million km²Canada and Eurasian Basins, Siberian Seas (Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian seas), the Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, Baffin Bay, and Hudson Bay. Maximum depth of the Arctic Ocean: > 5,400 metres (Litke Deep)(approx. 60% of the area of the Arctic Ocean is less than 200 metres deep).Minimum extent of summer sea ice (11 September 2015): 4.4 million km²(4th lowest extent of sea ice in the satellite record)Maximum extent of winter sea ice (March 2015: 14.4 million km²(Sea ice extent in March 2015 was the lowest in the satellite record)Extent of permafrost (frozen ground): Approximately 24% of the land mass in the northern hemisphere and a large, poorly mapped, part of the ocean floor on the continental shelves of the Arctic seas.Follow me on Twitter for daily climate change news: https://twitter.com/realyashnegiSuggestions are always welcome: yashnegi4920@outlook.comSupport the show (https://paypal.me/yashnegi27?locale.x=en_GB)

Captain Sally Black of Baffin Bay Rod and Gun and our mutual friend Darren Jones of Feral Concepts join the show this week. We discuss the legendary Baffin Bay, Texas which is synonymous with trophy caliber speckled trout (spotted sea trout). Sally is a longtime guide and has an in depth understanding as to why [...]

In the 2nd part of this 2-part episode, Captain Chad shares some truly remarkable stories about Baffin Bay Legends. He also talks about how these legends game plan around high solunar times and major and minor feeding periods. Lastly, we talk about the pressures on Baffin Bay to sustain its amazing trophy trout fishery and how we can do our part through personal conservation. This truly was a remarkable podcast to record and we hope you enjoy!

In Part 1of this 2-part episode, we dive head first into the inception of the Saltwater Legend Series with founder Captain Chad Peterek. In his 25 years of guiding, he not only shares how he created the Premier Trout Tournament on the Texas Coast, but the purpose behind this highly competitive Tournament Series. Additionally, he shares some of the legendary stories from these anglers that pioneered trout fishing from the Upper Coast to the Lower Laguna. As always, we hope you enjoy Part 1 of this 2-part series – Tight lines!

In this episode we take a different approach to begin our series on one of the darkest tales of humanity we have ever encountered. Join us for part I of II as we ease into the tale of Sir John Franklin and his final Arctic expedition in quest for the infamous North West Passage. One of the most dangerous voyages in history. His ships Erebus & Terror were last seen entering Baffin Bay, July 26th, 1845..  The exact series of events that would follow are still unknown to this day. We’d like to thank our regular sponsors of the show: Audible.com, BetterHelp.com, and all of our Patreon Supporters as well as our Producer Tim Godbey  Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help (http://www.betterhelp.com/portal) and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Free Audio-Book! Sign up for a 30 day Audible trial with no obligations and get a FREE audio-book and support ITP at the same time. Win-win!  Get Your FREE Book Here (http://www.audibletrial.com/IntoThePortal) Want some exclusive bonus episodes of High Strangeness? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  (https://www.patreon.com/intotheportal) One time show donations are greatly appreciated :) You can now help Into The Portal with a Cup of Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/IntoThePortal)   Check out the Straight Up Strange Network & be strange clothing at straightupstrange.com (https://straightupstrange.com/)   For more information and resources visit our website https://www.intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on https://www.straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  (https://www.facebook.com/intotheportalpodcast/) Hit ITP up on Twitter!  (https://twitter.com/IntoThePortal1) Check out ITP on YouTube  (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9nYn-T9na-QVC0NmfTnExA?view_as=subscriber) Official Into The Portal Storefront  (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/slogantees?ref_id=6307) Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com (mailto:Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com)  

In this episode we take a different approach to begin our series on one of the darkest tales of humanity we have ever encountered. Join us for part I of II as we ease into the tale of Sir John Franklin and his final Arctic expedition in quest for the infamous North West Passage. One of the most dangerous voyages in history. His ships Erebus & Terror were last seen entering Baffin Bay, July 26th, 1845..  The exact series of events that would follow are still unknown to this day. We’d like to thank our regular sponsors of the show: Audible.com, BetterHelp.com, and all of our Patreon Supporters as well as our Producer Tim Godbey  Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help (http://www.betterhelp.com/portal) and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Free Audio-Book! Sign up for a 30 day Audible trial with no obligations and get a FREE audio-book and support ITP at the same time. Win-win!  Get Your FREE Book Here (http://www.audibletrial.com/IntoThePortal) Want some exclusive bonus episodes of High Strangeness? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  (https://www.patreon.com/intotheportal) One time show donations are greatly appreciated :) You can now help Into The Portal with a Cup of Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/IntoThePortal)   Check out the Straight Up Strange Network & be strange clothing at straightupstrange.com (https://straightupstrange.com/)   For more information and resources visit our website https://www.intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on https://www.straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  (https://www.facebook.com/intotheportalpodcast/) Hit ITP up on Twitter!  (https://twitter.com/IntoThePortal1) Check out ITP on YouTube  (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9nYn-T9na-QVC0NmfTnExA?view_as=subscriber) Official Into The Portal Storefront  (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/slogantees?ref_id=6307) Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com (mailto:Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com)  

As a Toronto schoolgirl, Jill was fascinated by the Apollo program and wanted to be an astronaut. However, Canada did not have a space program, and it wouldn’t be until 1992 that Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman in outer space. Instead, Jill navigated a path to inner space and is recognized as one of the world’s most prolific underwater explorers. Jill’s expeditions include exploring and mapping some of the world’s longest submerged caves, documenting ancient Mayan remains along the way. In Florida, Jill was a lead technical diver on the ground-breaking Wakulla2 project, where she piloted the first 3D underwater cave mapping device - technology that will be bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa. When the largest moving object on the planet, the B-15 iceberg, calved from Antarctica, Jill led a dive team into the labyrinth of frozen underwater caves beneath the massive iceberg’s surface, discovering a diverse, colorful ecosystem of life in one of the harshest environments on earth. A pioneer of technical rebreather diving, Jill has made extreme conditions her specialty. Her ongoing expeditions to document the changing climate of the Arctic resulted in Jill being awarded the prestigious Canadian Polar Medal. From the desert oases of the Sahara to the cold waters of Baffin Bay, Jill Heinerth continues to explore what lies beneath the surface, sharing images of places where no person has gone before. Through collaboration, she becomes the hands and eyes for climatologists, archaeologists, and engineers, extending their reach into the depths. In her role as the first Explorer-in-Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Jill visits schools and universities, sharing her love of exploration and science. She is a frequent online educator, leveraging technology to inspire classrooms full of eager young people from Anchorage, Alaska, to Mumbai, India. Jill is a presenter on radio and TV broadcasts, including PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, the CBC, and networks from Japan to Australia. Over two million people have learned about climate change, water advocacy, and exploration by viewing Jill’s passionate and motivational TED Talks. A gifted storyteller, Jill is an associate editor and columnist for Diver Magazine, and a contributor to publications as diverse as Canadian Geographic and the Los Angeles Times. Her recent book, “INTO THE PLANET - My Life as a Cave Diver” was published in late 2019 by Harper-Collins in the United States and Penguin-Random House in Canada. Jill’s accolades include induction into the inaugural class of the Women Diver’s Hall of Fame, first presentation of the Sir Christopher Ondaatje medal for exploration, and the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences “NOGI” award. Jill has recently been named a member of the 2020 class of the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame and receives the William Beebe Award from the Explorer's Club in March 2020. Jill Heinerth is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the National Speleological Society, and the Explorer’s Club.

De ijsbeer heeft het zwaar door veranderingen in het klimaat, dat horen we helaas al enkele jaren. Een groep onderzoekers onder leiding van de Universiteit van Washington heeft nu gekeken hoe het er precies voorstaat. Ze keken naar twee groepen ijsberen rond Baffin Bay: een stuk oceaan tussen Canada en Groenland. Ze volgden 43 volwassen vrouwtjes tussen 1991 en 1997 en 38 volwassen vrouwtjes tussen 2009 en 2015 en zagen dat de dieren steeds dunner werden naarmate het zee-ijs afnam. Ook kregen ze minder jongen en laten berekeningen zien dat dit nog verder zal afnemen.

I veckans avsnitt av Cyber Talks gästas vi av Joakim Sundberg, grundare och VD för Baffin Bay Networks.Baffin Bay är ett svenskt cyber-bolag som genom avancerade molnbaserade tjänster bidrar till att skydda företag och organisationer mot t ex Distributed Denial of Service attacker. I avsnittet får vi höra om Joakims erfarenhet av att som entreprenör bygga bolag, men också vad som krävs för att Sverige ska få fler framgångsrika cyberstart ups. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The final part of our four-part miniseries! Wait Wait Don't Teleport Me!! is a sound collage of shows heard on IFM2 Subspace Radio, an ambient comedy outside the frame of linear time. In this final extended episode: making deep purple bread on The Universe's Test Kitchen, the horror of being named Derek, Janet fills us in on recent TV shows and movies, and a breakup song from Maggie's band, The Spindly Sisters. Also: the full vocal version of our theme song! With your soap operatic hosts: Kerrington, Nova, Maggie, and C.C. Sims. Transcript at www.stppodcast.com/blog/wwdtm4 WWDTM!! was created, produced, and musically scored by Michael F. Gill. Written sections were by Michael F. Gill, with everything else improvised by the actors. The theme song was composed by Thomas Dwyer, with lyrics and arrangement by Michael. This episode features: Suzanne O'Toole as The Honorable Margaret Fly April March as Dr. Nova Lasagna Pennington Susanna Kittredge as C.C. Sims Catherine Martin as Catherine Mckey Michael F. Gill as Kerrington Woods and Michael Frederick The voice of Mr. Xorfus is Ron Prudent. The voice of Samantha is Phoenix Bunke. The voice of Janet is Austin Hendricks. The voice of Loaf is Nathan Comstock. The voice of Frankie is Valerie Loveland. You also heard the voices of Austin Hendricks, Nathan Comstock, Chloe Cunha, Ramy Abdelghani, and Ron Prudent in the skits and sketches. “Baffin Bay” was written by Suzanne O'Toole. You can visit us online at www.stppodcast.com, which has full transcripts, as well as links on how you can support us through PayPal or Radiopublic. Season 3 of Solutions To Problems will be released this winter. We'll see you soon!

Welcome to Season One Episode Twelve of the HECHO Corpus Christi Podcast, the podcast featuring Corpus Christi’s Creators Makers Doers and Builders. Jenni Pollock is our guest on this episode. Jenni is a marine habitat expert at the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M Corpus Christi where she is also the Chair for Coastal Conservation and Restoration. Her areas of study and practice include oyster reef restoration and Serpulid reef restoration, all along the Texas coast, but with an emphasis in the Coastal Bend and Baffin Bay. Jenni and her family moved here several years ago so that she could began working as a post-doc researcher at the Harte Research Institute. Not only has Jenni been instrumental in forming and leading the “Sink Your Shucks” oyster reef restoration program with the Water Street Restaurants, she also is a key member of Representative Todd Hunter’s mariculture advisory team which recently helped the Texas Legislature pass a new law allowing oyster farming in Texas coastal waters. That new industry will rely heavily on the research Jenni and her team have developed and continue to perform in marine habitat creation and health. So, in the not-too-distant future, you and I will need to thank Dr. Jenni Pollock for the Texas Gulf Coast oysters that we eat! Jenni is at the forefront of exciting new industries and marine habitat restoration and health. She has been a key leader in opening Texas waters to mariculture, and she continues to develop new methods for the restoration of the reefs that we know as the Baffin Bay rocks, which are so critical for providing the habitat for the fish we love to chase in Baffin. Keep a sharp eye on the Caller-Times for news about Jenni and her research, and be sure to read the interview with her in The Bend Magazine by Kylie Cooper, which you can find in the Seafood Issue, appropriately, or on the Bend’s website. Please don’t forget to follow us on Instagram @hechocorpus. Thank you to our infrastructure partners the Sound Guys, Clint Tucker Homes, and Sawyer Audiology. And thank you for taking time to listen! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hechocorpus/message

In this Technado, Don explains to a confused Peter and Justin how you can fit Azure in a backpack. The team also talks about MacOS Catalina and Fedora dropping 32-bit support before bringing in Joakim Sundberg from Baffin Bay Networks to talk about predictive threat detection.

In this Technado, Don explains to a confused Peter and Justin how you can fit Azure in a backpack. The team also talks about MacOS Catalina and Fedora dropping 32-bit support before bringing in Joakim Sundberg from Baffin Bay Networks to talk about predictive threat detection.

In this Technado, Don explains to a confused Peter and Justin how you can fit Azure in a backpack. The team also talks about MacOS Catalina and Fedora dropping 32-bit support before bringing in Joakim Sundberg from Baffin Bay Networks to talk about predictive threat detection.

In this Technado, Don explains to a confused Peter and Justin how you can fit Azure in a backpack. The team also talks about MacOS Catalina and Fedora dropping 32-bit support before bringing in Joakim Sundberg from Baffin Bay Networks to talk about predictive threat detection.

In this Technado, Don explains to a confused Peter and Justin how you can fit Azure in a backpack. The team also talks about MacOS Catalina and Fedora dropping 32-bit support before bringing in Joakim Sundberg from Baffin Bay Networks to talk about predictive threat detection.

In this Technado, Don explains to a confused Peter and Justin how you can fit Azure in a backpack. The team also talks about MacOS Catalina and Fedora dropping 32-bit support before bringing in Joakim Sundberg from Baffin Bay Networks to talk about predictive threat detection.

Quick note: Don't forget to sail yourself over the footnotesofhistory.com for more daring exploits from the past. With that announcement out of the way, today's episode is equal parts grand, intrepid adventure and terrifying horror story. In 1845, things were looking pretty good exploration-wise. Humanity knew where most things were and maps were *almost* as we see them today. That’s barring a few wars here and there in Europe – but I’m talking about islands, continents and oceans here, not Bismarck for once. But there was one itch that kept nagging at the compulsive brains of the great and the good - and that was the Arctic. The theory was sound: Logically, from the spherical shape of the globe, there should be some kind of route from Europe that went due north west across the Atlantic, between the coasts of Greenland and Canada. Then you would head sharply west at Baffin Bay and travel “over” the seas off the northern coast of Canada before finally heading south again into the clear waters of the Pacific. From there it ought to be plain sailing to Japan, China and the rich trading zones of the Asian continent. Easier said than done thanks to the treacherous polar ice – its habit of melting and suddenly re-freezing at random had trapped many an explorer in its fatal grip. But the mission remained alluring for a few reasons: It would shorten the trade route to Asia significantly. Currently, ships had to sail all the way south around the Cape of Good Hope and then East. This was a long journey, but it was also dangerous – the seas were rough and - until much later - swarmed with pirates. The country that discovered and secured the route first would be at a significant advantage versus other nations. This was a time of grandiose nationalism and of variations on the “manifest destiny” – many nations considered it their destiny to dominate the world and the North West Passage would be a prestigious asset in the struggle. The man who found the safe route would be the Toast of the Empire for generations to come. In fact, he could readily expect to have the route named after him. There was also a slightly more mundane justification: the Royal Navy was a vast force that was – in the absence of war - sailing about with not a huge amount of purpose. So the stakes were high. Step forward Sir John Franklin. A veteran of polar exploration, eager to make his name and equipped with state-of-the-art ships, Franklin was tasked by the Royal Navy with the exploration of the last bit of the Arctic that was so far uncharted. What would he find? Well you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out!

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Sarp Ozkan talks IMO 2020 with Ryan and Ellen on Energy Week - https://www.spreaker.com/user/9550540/energy-week-65The Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

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Joseph's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-triepke-2028091/OilfieldWater.com - https://oilfieldwater.com/Oilfield Water Houston - https://oilfieldwater.com/event/oilfield-water-financing/InFill Thinking (Joseph's day job) - https://www.infillthinking.com/The Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

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Various stories about Oxy, Anadarko, and Chevron, PLUS: we talk to Jason Leal, producer and director of the upcoming Spindletop movie.Spindletop movie website - https://spindletopmovie.com/Contribute to the Spindletop kickstarter - http://kck.st/2Ji0oZZThe Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

Various stories about Oxy, Anadarko, and Chevron, PLUS: we talk to Jason Leal, producer and director of the upcoming Spindletop movie.Spindletop movie website - https://spindletopmovie.com/Contribute to the Spindletop kickstarter - http://kck.st/2Ji0oZZThe Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

We talk with Tom Zabel today, one of the chief partners of Zabel-Freeman Law Firm in Houston, Texas. Tom talks with us about Senate Bill 421, which imposes new information and periodization requirements on pipeline companies.Zabel-Freeman Law Firm - http://zabelfreeman.com/The Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

We talk with Tom Zabel today, one of the chief partners of Zabel-Freeman Law Firm in Houston, Texas. Tom talks with us about Senate Bill 421, which imposes new information and periodization requirements on pipeline companies.Zabel-Freeman Law Firm - http://zabelfreeman.com/The Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahstogner/Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-bennett-76ba0ab/Sarah's Law Firm - https://www.flanaganpartners.com/Oil & Gas Legal Risk - https://oilandgaslegalrisk.com/B3 Insight - https://www.b3insight.com/The Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/Subscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

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Connect with Joe on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-dancy-8069637/Joe Dancy's faculty page at SMU - http://www.law.ou.edu/directory/joseph-r-dancyThe Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/The TAEP Wichita Falls Meeting - https://bit.ly/2Ujum0oSubscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

Connect with Joe on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-dancy-8069637/Joe Dancy's faculty page at SMU - http://www.law.ou.edu/directory/joseph-r-dancyThe Texas Oil and Gas Podcast is brought to you by Baffin Bay Rod and Gun: https://www.baffinbayrodandgun.com/The TAEP Wichita Falls Meeting - https://bit.ly/2Ujum0oSubscribe to Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect - https://wavve.link/og-contractors-connectCome fishing with Ryan and Josh at Baffin Bay! - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/fishing/Leave a 5 star rating and review! - http://apple.co/2mkM3ASContact the show via text or voicemail - 318-599-9192Visit our website - http://www.texasoilandgaspodcast.com/Connect with Ryan - http://bit.ly/2lLX1uhConnect with Josh - http://bit.ly/2W90MgrBuy Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/2CBOtAoGet an interview on the Oil and Gas Contractor's Connect Podcast! - nate.hansen@gor2.com

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In 1845 an expedition of two ships and 129 men went into the arctic to look for the northwest passage. Led by experienced captains both of which artic veterans. After being sighted by whalers in Baffin Bay they disappeared. Their story has finally been pieced together. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Whineabouthis1

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Your hosts: Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts and Terry Haig. (Video of show at bottom.) ListenEN_The_Link-20190322-WEE15 Public hearing on oil and gas development in eastern Arctic wrap up in Iqaluit A polar bear stands on a ice flow in Baffin Bay above the arctic circle as seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent on July 10, 2008. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press) Public hearings on potential oil and gas development in the waters between Canada and western Greenland wrapped up in Canada's northern territory of Nunavut this week. There is ongoing moratorium on offshore oil and gas projects in the Canadian Arctic, but it expires in 2021 and Nunavut authorities are doing their homework to see whether they want that moratorium extended for another five years. This latest meeting took place in Iqaluit, which is the capital of Canada's Arctic territory of Nunavut.  This was the last public hearing and was part of a strategic environmental assessment being conducted by the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB). The board will now prepare a report and a list of recommendations that will be presented to the federal government. The meeting heard from members of the public, various Inuit organizations and government agencies about potential oil and gas development in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. It's a long sliver of water that separates northeastern Canada and Greenland. And it's one of the Arctic's most productive marine environments. The strategic environmental assessment will look at various scenarios of potential oil and gas activity in the region from exploration and development to full-scale production. And of course it will look at potential benefits and drawbacks for the affected Inuit communities and the marine environment they depend on for much of their food source. For more Levon spoke with Chris Debicki, with Oceans North, it's a marine conservation NGO. Online hatred growing in Canada, warns rights advocate The massacre at two mosques in New Zealand elicited sympathy but also online celebration by extremists. (Vincent Yu/AP Photo/file) Last week's attack on a mosque in New Zealand had particular resonance for Canadians. Last week a gunman stormed two mosques killing 50 people and injuring dozens more. Horrifying in and of itself, it also brought back memories of a similar attack in Quebec City in Canada. A gunman stormed a mosque there killing six people. He pleaded guilty to the crime and is now awaiting sentencing. There have been attacks on Muslims in other places around the world, prompting questions about the spread of hatred online. Canada is not exempt. To find out more about what's going on here and the concern, Lynn spoke with Amira Elghawaby, a board member with the non-profit Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Spring arrives in Canada, can more rain and snow be far behind? Spring: the idealized version. Not what it looked like in Montreal. (Ian Black/CBC) On Wednesday at 5.58 our time and describing himself as a good Canadian, Terry took it for what it was....kind of chilly and overcast  but at least it wasn't snowing. He found it to be very strange though, Yellowknife had its warmest temperatures ever and so did the lower mainland of British Columbia. For the rest of us, it was business as usual. Now, since he didn't grow up here, Terry says he never really learned the trick of pretending that the first day of spring was absolutely gorgeous or at the very least somehow finding spring in his heart. The actual weather always got the better of him.  So he decided to call an old friend of ours, Dave Bronstetter, CBC legend and native Montrealer, thinking he might be able to supply the means to develop the needed suspension of disbelief. Watch The Link! Images of the week window.jQuery || document.write('

Story 1 - Banff Officials Launch New Campaign This summer, Parks Canada is launching a new public education campaign to try to educate visitors about the dangers of feeding animals in the park. Large images of a wolf with a plastic bottle in its mouth with the caption 'human food kills wildlife' are beginning to appear in and around Banff. The other key message that will appear on posters is 'Give Wildlife Space'. Fines for feeding or harassing wildlife can be as high as $25,000 but the cost to wildlife can be even higher. Over the past few decades, front-line staff has been gradually reduced in the parks and it has really begun to hurt the ability of parks to keep tabs on visitor behaviour. For a number of years, we have had the wildlife guardian programs with staff driving park roads looking for wildlife jams and educating visitors on safe behaviour around animals. It is a very successful program and it would be a great program to keep expanding. Recently I had the opportunity to teach several this year's new guardians a course in park interpretation and from what I could see, we've got some great new guardians ready to hit the roads this summer. Story 2 - Who owns the Franklin Artifacts After years of searching, Parks Canada solved the second part of a 160-year mystery last summer with the discovery of the final ship of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition which disappeared without a trace in 1845 while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage. They discovered the HMS Terror in, of all places, Terror Bay, off the coast of King William Island. This lonely outpost sits in a narrow channel to the west of Baffin Bay in Canada's Nunavut Territory. Two years earlier, they discovered the HMS Erebus, believed to be the ship that Franklin died on. Before Parks Canada discovered the Erebus in 2014, while the ships were the property of England, the U.K. agreed to transfer ownership of all the artifacts except for those significant to the royal navy…oh yah and gold. They want the gold (PS, so far, no gold). Despite this agreement, so far talks to determine ownership keep stalling out. Obviously, Canada would like to have this settled before we continue to sink more money into additional archaeological work on the two sites. According to a recent article in the Calgary Herald, Parks Canada Spokeswoman Meaghan Bradley said: "Discussions with the government of the United Kingdom on the transfer of the Franklin artifacts are ongoing". Story 3 - Bear 148 gets Cranky There have been several stories about bear 148 recently in the press. They have been blown out of proportion in many ways and now is the time to bring in some calmness to the discussion. Bear 148 took over her mother's turf, which includes the town of Banff when her mother passed away a few years ago. If a bear can take advantage of a territory close to people, but still walk the tightrope of wildness, it can be a pretty good place to live. We're just heading into the calving season and so she'll be hanging around the townsite looking to find an unattended calf. Grizzlies normally take around 45% of newborn elk and moose calves. She won't be alone; cougars and wolves will also patrol the periphery looking for an opportunity for some elk veal. In April, she trotted behind a Canmore woman that was kick-sledding along the Spray River Fireroad in Banff. Kick-sledding is a type of dog sledding and while dogs are not allowed on this trail in the winter, they are allowed after mid-April. In a second incident bear 148 followed a hiking party, also with a dog, for 20 minutes. They were hiking on Mount Norquay when they encountered the bear. They were not carrying bear spray at the time. And just this past week, 148 made headlines by walking through Banff's high school girl's rugby match on the playing fields in Banff. Needless to say, it was an exciting few minutes for the girls whose team is coincidentally called the bears. Story 4 - Interior Rainforest The Columbia Mountains represent a landscape often referred to as the Interior Wet Belt. In most cases, when we talk about rainforests, we're talking about a coastal landscape. In fact, this is true for 98% of the world’s rainforests. What makes Canada's rainforest unique is that we also have continental rainforests. What the heck is a continental rainforest you ask? While rainforests are ALMOST exclusively a coastal phenomenon, in rare situations, rainforest-like conditions can occur far inland from the coast. We refer to these as continental rainforests. Summers in the Columbia Mountains are similar in temperature to the coastal rainforest, yet winters are quite a bit colder. While summer rains drop 320 to 452 mm of rain on the Columbia Mountains, it represents only a fraction of the rainfall soaking the coastal rainforests every year. You might wonder then, why is this considered a rainforest if it doesn't get enough, well, rain? The simplest reason is that precipitation has two forms…rain and snow. Winter snowfall in the Columbia's can be dramatic, with higher elevations buried under 10 or more metres of snow. This massive accumulation of snow means a long and prolonged summer melt, helping to ensure that soils never dry out. So, while it doesn't technically get enough overall moisture to really be considered a rainforest, the seemingly endless summer melt allows it to essentially simulate one. Soils that would dry out in other landscapes are constantly soaked by a seemingly endless runoff from melting winter snowfalls. These interior temperate rainforests are not only fascinating, but they are significant on a global scale. Only 2% of rainforests worldwide occur far enough away from coastal areas to be considered continental rainforests. In future episodes, we'll take a deeper look into some of the incredible natural and human history of these forests

On this week's episode, Dustin interveiws Captain Gerad Merritt from Paradise Guide Services in the Baffin Bay area of the Texas Gulf Coast. We haven't covered saltwater fishing much on this podcast so this is our first real dive into it as part of the TF&G Texas Outdoor Nation. As always, thanks for watching, reading and listening!   Paradise Guide Services (361) 228-0192 geradmerritt@gmail.com http://www.paradiseguideservices.com About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors.   Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman's one-stop resource for information and education on Texas' outdoors.

Fool’s Gold Amen. In 1577, English privateer and explorer, Sir Martin Frobisher, led the first English mining expedition in Canada, on the rocky and freezing Kodlunarn Island in Baffin Bay. Now, on an earlier voyage to that same part of Northern Canada, he was looking for the Northwest Passage through to the Orient. Didn't find it, but found this island, went on it and found there a mysterious, large, black rock that had gold specks all the way through it. And he was intrigued. And he took it with him back to England, and brought it to an assayer that he knew about, who studied it and told him that it was gold. Whereupon the Crown, the English Crown, funded a massive mining expedition back to Kodlunarn Island. And they extracted over 1,000 tons of similar black rocks, and sent them back to England, the largest shipment ever, as far as I know, of iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold. Completely worthless. Needless to say, Frobisher's reputation took a beating. I would think the assayer that told him it was gold, his reputation would take a beating. But the fact of the matter is, it became a display of a well-known slogan, "Not all that glitters is gold." And just because it glitters, does it look... Does it actually turn out to be the genuine article? The assaying of the ore, the testing of it to determine its worth is a picture of what awaits all of us on Judgment Day. We are told in 1 Corinthians Chapter 3 that all of our works are going to be tested with fire. And they will be proven to be what they truly are. Are they wood, hay, and straw, on the one hand, or are they gold, silver, and costly stones on the other? Our own individual faith and our life practices are going to be tested. Is our faith genuine? Is it worth more than gold, or will it be proved to have been fraudulent, a deception in the end? I. Fool’s Gold: The Deception of Religious Machinery (vs. 1-5) Now, in Isaiah 58, the prophet exposes, I think, many religious people, Jews, in his day, who appeared to be godly, who appeared to be religious, but who actually weren't. They had heart problems. They were going through the motions of a religious system. And he calls them away from that pattern of fasting and praying and other religiosity to a genuine fast that he defines in the chapter. And we talked about a lot last week. Now beyond that, this illustration of fool's gold and the assaying of it and the testing of it could also serve a different purpose for my sermon today. And that is, our evaluation of the world as it comes to us. Not all that glitters is gold. And we can be enticed into worldly things, worldly patterns and habits that we think are going to be satisfying to us, and are really actually impoverishing our souls in the end. We can be drawn into patterns of behavior that we think are going to satisfy us and they're going to leave us weak spiritually, defective spiritually. Now, Isaiah 58 calls on the people of God, of his time, to a Sabbath rest, a fast to some degree, from the world once a week, for the purpose of recalibrating their souls to the still small voice of Almighty God, to the delight of intimate and healthy fellowship with God. That's what I want to talk to you about today. Now, the fool's gold of their false religiosity, we went over last week. I'm not going to have time to go over in detail. But look again at verses 1 through 5. These were religious people going through the motions. "Day after day, they seek me out, they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God." They seem eager for God to come near them. Verse 3, "'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?'" These were a religious people who did the fasting thing, but on the day of their fasting, it ended in quarreling and strife and striking each other with wicked fists. That's not the kind of fasting God wanted to see. This was another example of something we've seen again and again in the Book of Isaiah, of a religious machinery that was set up. And they were just going through these religious motions day after day, but the actual heart of the matter was far from the truth. Isaiah 29:13, And Jesus quoted this, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain. Their teaching is just rules taught by men." So we saw that last week, that was fool's gold, it wasn't genuine piety. II. Pure Gold #1: The “True Fast” of Mercy Ministry Instead, he calls them to the pure gold of a genuine mercy ministry. We went over this in detail last week, just want to remind you. Verse 6 and 7, "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen? To loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and provide the poor wanderer with shelter? When you see the naked, to clothe them, and not turn away from your own flesh and blood." God calls this the fast he wants from them. This is the religion that he accepts as pure and faultless in his sight. And we saw verse 10, in particular, it was a challenging call for us to spend ourselves on behalf of the poor and needy. Not just give of our money alone, but invest our souls, our hearts in the condition of people who are suffering. That is genuine, not fool's gold, but genuine piety. III. Pure Gold #2: The “True Fast” of Delighting in the Sabbath Now we come to pure gold number two, verses 13 and 14, the true fast of delighting in the Sabbath. This is a second condition in the text, not just caring for the poor and needy, but honoring the Sabbath. Look at Verse 13, "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words." This is the "if," it's the condition, and he's defining, it seems in the old covenant, a true, genuine-heart Sabbath observance, what it means for God to observe the Sabbath, that's what... How God is defining it. God calls the Sabbath, in this text, "My holy day," and also, "the Lord's holy day." So he calls it holy twice, and he commands the people to call the Sabbath a delight. And it would be a weighty or honorable or massive thing, this Sabbath observance. "It's a weighty thing," he says. "I want you to think of it that way," he said to his people. Now, the word "holy" here, I think means, "set apart unto God as His own prized possession." The word "holy" is a very important word in the Bible, in the Old Testament. So in effect, it's like... It feels like this to me, like God is saying, to the Jews, "Although all nations on Earth are mine, you are my holy people, set apart unto me for my own pleasure." And again, in the Old Covenant "Although all the Earth is mine, this holy ground, this temple is my space, set apart unto me to be my Holy Place, where I will meet with you. And although all time is mine, this day, this seventh day is set apart unto me as holy, belongs to me." I think that's what he's saying, it's holy ground. Negatively: Do Not Break the Sabbath! So negatively, he commands on them to not break the Sabbath, that they would not violate the Sabbath with their footsteps. "Keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath" I think would be a better translation there. Daily lifestyle choices, almost like the Sabbath is holy ground and you're supposed to, "Take off your sandals, for the place on which you're walking... " So "Don't just tramp on my holy day. "And not doing as you please," he says, very challengingly to us. We're going to take this concept over to some of the confessional statements in the New Testament. But it comes, I think, right from this verse, not just doing whatever you want or not doing your pleasure. I think, specifically, what it means here is not... It's not talking about sin, we know that's out, it's not like God's saying, "Six days you may sin but the seventh day is a holy day, on that day you must not sin." We know we're not talking about wicked things that we should not be doing, but good things, things that bring us pleasure usually, things that are usually delightful, that we would not do those things. That seems to be what it means, not doing your own pleasure. And not speaking idle words, doing whatever you want and speaking idle words. And then, in the end, the "then statement," he says, "These are what your rewards are going to be, this is what will happen if you do that, if you meet this condition." Then Verse 14, "You will find your joy in the Lord. And I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken." Wow, it's an amazing promise, if you do what verse 13 says, if you meet those conditions, then you will learn, you will find your joy in the Lord. It's almost like the psalmist in Psalm 73. You remember the one who was so jealous of those prosperous wicked people, and he wanted to become like them, remember? Until he went into the temple and understood their final end, and he said, "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire beside you." It seemed like the Sabbath, for them, was a time to say that to God. "There's nothing else I want here, but you. You're what I'm going to... " You're going to find your joy in the Lord and not in earthly things. And he says, "I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land." So I get the picture almost of being up on Mount Pisgah and looking out over the Promised Land, and you can see the beauty of it, a land flowing with milk and honey, that Old Covenant blessing language. And you're going to be enriched, you're going to be made rich by the inheritance of your father, Jacob. I would actually go even back to the inheritance of your father, Abraham. Remember how he turned away from the loots, after the defeat of the kings, and the King of Sodom and Gomorrah and all that, just turned away from that, didn't want any of it. And then the Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward." It's about a powerful thing, and then, in that, in Genesis 15, he shows him the covenants and all that. So you're going to feast on the blessings of the covenant, which ultimately is the blessings of God, you're going to feast on your inheritance, God himself. "The mouth of the Lord has spoken." What a great way to end the chapter. In other words, "Take this seriously." Or like in the Book of Revelation, "Write these words down for they are trustworthy and true." This is just the true statement here. So that's the chapter, walking through it. The phrase "call the Sabbath a delight" is very provocative isn't it? Very intriguing for us. Walter Chantry wrote a book in 1991 about it, about Sabbath observance for Christians, and he chose that as the title. It's very intriguing, it should draw us in, and it's going to be worthy of our full attention for the rest of the afternoon, so...Yeah, you missed that one, didn't you? Just want to see if you're paying attention. This is an elaborate, difficult, complex, theologically weighty issue that we're about to walk into here. I'm not going to stand up here and make simple pronouncements and make a bunch of assumptions that I don't support and just say, "This is what you all should do." That's not how I'm going to preach this. And that's what took me so long to work on this this week. And so let me lay out plainly what I think we're going to do now with this time. I believe that learning in some spiritual way that connects with the truth of the New Covenant, that we've learned in Jesus, to call the Sabbath a delight and to cheerfully and willingly refrain from work and secular pleasures, not because you have to in a legal sense, but because you want to, will give you power, spiritual power, a level of intimacy with Christ that you haven't known before. And will greatly enrich and empower you the rest of the week, in a way that you will in no way regret. But I cannot come so far as to say that the Sabbath observance should be handled the rest... The same way the rest of the nine commandments of the 10 Commandments are handled. I can't go that far, so I'm laying my cards on the table. I do not think this is a legally binding command like the rest of the 10 Commandments are, but I really do respect others that do think that. So in the end, I'm going to say to you several times in here, "You will have to make up, O church, your own mind on this. But I'm going to give you some principles that I hope will enable you to make a wise decision by what you do on Sundays. IV. Understanding and Delighting in the Sabbath So let's try to understand the Sabbath, what are we talking about? What do we mean by the Sabbath? Well, this Hebrew word literally means to cease or desist or stop or rest. The focus then is on stopping something. That's what the word... The Hebrew word means. And of course, the first time this comes in in the scriptures, right at the beginning of the creation account, in Genesis 1 verse 31, it says, "God saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And it was evening, there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day." Then Genesis 2:1, "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day, he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it, he rested from all the work of creating that he had done." So that's where it first comes in. That becomes a very significant weighty pattern for us to consider as we look at the Sabbath. That's where it all starts. Now, obviously, we should not imagine that God rested on the seventh day because he is, in any way, depleted or drained by all the work he had done, He wasn't tired, God is omnipotent. He does not grow weary, ever, Isaiah 40, he never gets tired. So we shouldn't imagine that. The resting of God here, I think, is some kind of a display of his total, complete satisfaction in the world that he had made. He loved it. He thought it was very good, he delighted in it. Other theologians have, I think, helpfully given us the picture of God moving through his creation, both spiritual and physical, and going up where the throne is, turning around, looking at his creation and then sitting on the throne. So it's an enthronement-image for some of the theologians. I like that. It's the idea of God sitting in rulership, over all the things that he has made, in a final resting of God on his throne. Now, after the Exodus, after the Jews were delivered from bondage, from slavery in Egypt, where their lives had been an unending blur of slave labor. There was no difference from one day to the next to the next to the next. Seven straight days without a rest they were made to feel the lash of the taskmaster. Then God brought them out with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, brought them through the Red Sea, and brought them to Mount Sinai where he gave them the law, the essence of the Old Covenant, law, at Mount Sinai. And the fourth commandment, reads this, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord, your God. On it, you shall not do any work. Neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates, for in six days, the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." So that's the fourth of the 10 Commandments that are so well known. Then 40 years later, when they're about to enter the promised land, in the book of Deuteronomy he gives the law a second time. And the fourth commandment is stated similarly but a little bit different. I won't read the whole thing, but I'll pick up in the middle of it, Deuteronomy 5:14-15, "On it, you shall not do any work, neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien that is within your gates so that [now this is new] your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day." Now there, he links it to redemption. So here we have these two glorious, massive theological themes, creation and redemption, both of them linked to the Sabbath observance. It's very powerful. Now the Sabbath regulation that we're describing here is an old covenant law, a rule for Israel. It was also for them, something that was a mark of the Covenant, it was a way you marked the Jews out in the city, they had the Sabbath rhythm. And on the Sabbath day, they would meet together in the synagogue and study the Scriptures etcetera. They were, the Jews, to labor for six days, but on the 7th they were to cease, they were to stop laboring. That's the essence of the Hebrew word. Now, the implication would... There would be worship in that time, there were... It was consecrated to the Lord, so they would turn their hearts, their minds to God, and they would consecrate that day and make it holy by worshipping and focusing on God. Because the commandment begins with the word "remember" they were to look back at God's creation, "remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy." They were also to look back, "remember that you were slaves in Egypt." So you're supposed to think back in the old covenant observance and remember it. I think the Sabbath also had a vertical looking up aspect because it's consecrated to the Lord, you're looking up to God and thinking about God enthroned, God the King. I think also we should notice in the commandment that there's a special focus on leaders on heads of households, fathers kings masters employers to be sensitive and aware to what's going on with their sons and daughters and their manservants and maidservants, and to set up the system so that they can rest. Not just you. So that brings us into that social justice theme of Isaiah 58. Don't just fast yourself while your workers are having to slave away. You need to extend that rest to them as well, so that they can rest as you do. How Does the Sabbath Translate to the New Covenant? Alright, now this is an old covenant regulation and Christians have had long and rancorous debates on whether this is still binding for us, so we come to the issue of the law in the new covenant, how are we to understand the law of Moses in the New Covenant? Well first, in Christ, thank God we have been delivered in some mysterious sense, from the law we've been set free from the law and then we're told that in multiple places like Galatians 2:19, "for through the law I died to the law, so that I might live for God." That actually is stated also in Romans 7 and Romans 8. We have died to the law. In some sense, it says that. Roman 6:14 says it a little differently, it says, "Sin shall not be your master, because you're not under law, but under grace." So where you're now in some sense, delivered from the law. We're not under the law, etcetera. We also know that forgiveness of sins can never, does never come by observing the law. We know Galatians 2:16 a person is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Christ because by observing the law, no one will be justified. Our sins are forgiven by faith in Jesus. We're actually really ultimately trusting in his law-keeping not in ours. We're saying he actually perfectly kept the law, and then substituted himself under the law's penalties for us who didn't perfectly keep the law so that there's that beautiful transfer of our wickedness to him and he dies, his perfect righteous law-keeping to us, and we live in that righteousness, forever. So that's how we get saved. So, if I can just say simply none of us is going to be saved our eternal destiny, is not going to depend on what we do on a Sabbath day, or a Lord's Day. So that's, in some sense, it means that we're free from the law. I think we all agree with that. We're free from the fact that the law has the power to send us to hell, we're free from that. Christ nailed that to the cross. The law is not going to send us to hell. Praise God. It could have, apart from Christ, it would have. But we're free from that. However, there are some other things we need to say about the law. There are aspects of the law as we look at, that we know are obsolete, there are details in the law that we know we don't have to do anymore. There's a whole thing in Galatians and in Acts on how we don't need the circumcise our boy babies on the eighth day, we're done with that there is no spiritual reason to circumcise a baby anymore. That's done it's been fulfilled. Also there's the dietary regulations, Jesus declared all foods clean, so we can eat. We can eat bacon, praise God, we can eat ham, we can eat pork. We can do that even though there's clear prescriptions against it in the old covenant. We know that, we're free from that... And then there's obviously, quintessentially the sacrificial system, the animal sacrificial system with the Levitical priesthood that whole thing has been fulfilled, that's one good word. And another powerful word in Hebrews 8, it's obsolete. So not only is it true you don't have to offer a lamb or a bull or a goat for your sin, you better not, thinking that God's going to accept it. What an insult to Jesus. So we're done with that. Furthermore, we know that there are national laws that had to do with the life of the Jews in the promised land, that we don't need to do anymore, like the three-time annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem, which would be very costly. We don't need to do that. There are parts of the taxation system and the kingship and all that that are fulfilled, it's done, we don't need to do that anymore. Yet we know that there are, what some theologians call the "moral aspects of the law", that are going to be binding till Jesus returns. Like, "I'm the Lord, your God, You shall have no other gods before me." Tt's not like, "Well thank the Lord now that we're Christians we can have as many gods as we want". And we can take the name of the Lord in vain, and we get to do that now that we're free from the law. And now that we're free from the law we can dishonor and disobey our parents. Kids, that's not what I'm saying. We don't have the freedom to do that, we must honor and obey our parents when we're minors and then honor them, the rest of our lives, we know that those other 10 Commandments, we understand that they're binding, we're not free now to murder, free now to commit adultery. Or just take the summary of the law that Jesus gave us so beautifully, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." That's the law, we're not free from that, we are now able to do it finally by the power of the Spirit, we can actually love God with all of our hearts and we can love our neighbors ourselves. So, we're not free from that. The question then comes is the fourth commandment binding on the Christian so that we now must say "I am not permitted by God to work on the Sabbath/Lord's Day?". That's the question that's in front of us. Christian Views of the Sabbath Now, there's been lots of debates on this. I greatly shortened this part of the sermon right here, you're welcome. Don Carson and some others that wrote with him, DA Carson wrote a book that basically said they see... What they call transference theology. Moving from the seventh to the first day, clearly articulated in the New Testament. Neither do they say a world-wide trans-cultural command of the Sabbath? He doesn't see that. He says basically Christians are free to do what you choose to do on that... Whatever it is that's DA Carson and others that wrote with him. John Calvin a little I would say a little stricter. He said that there were three lasting principles about the Sabbath for Christians to listen to. First, the Lord meant for his people in every generation to have a day of spiritual rest in which they lay aside their earthly work and let God work in their souls. So spiritual rest, stop working and God can work in your soul. So that's personal, you and God. Secondly, he wanted his people corporately to assemble together for worship, corporate worship, and for the hearing of God's word, there's a practicality to that. We need a time we can gather together for corporate worship. And then thirdly, he wanted to make provision for laborers and those under authority to cease from their toil as well. Just simply to... So for them not specifically a worship aspect, but it was there. Now, of course, those labors, free from needing to come work for your company are also now free to come to your church. You can see why Chick-fil-A and other companies have done this, "I can't really require you to work on Sunday morning and schedule some workers there and then also ask if you would come and visit my church" because the person's lost, you're trying to reach them. So they just saw it better to shut the business down on Sundays. Now my professor at Gordon-Conwell, Meredith Kline, taught this about the Sabbath, basically essence of the command was ceasing. It was stopping work and that's the fundamental... He's not saying, he's against worship or any of the worship themes, he's saying it's not intrinsic to the word or to the command. So for him it was just rest, physical rest, taking a long nap going for a refreshing walk in the woods, a nice bike ride... Whatever would renew you. That would be meeting the Sabbath regulation, Meredith Kline. The Puritans on the other hand, were what we call strongly Sabbatarian, and no one articulated Sabbatarian thinking better than they did, especially in the Westminster Confession of Faith. This is what they wrote: "as it is the law of nature, that in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God. So in his word, by... " listen to this, "a positive moral and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, he has particularly appointed one day in seven for a Sabbath to be kept holy unto him. Which from the beginning of the world, till the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week. And from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which in scripture is called the Lord's day, and is to be continued to the end of the world as a Christian Sabbath, this Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord when men, after a due preparing of their hearts and an ordering of their common affairs beforehand." So you get your heart ready and you get your house and everything, ready beforehand, like on Saturday. When you do that, do not only observe a holy rest all the day from their own works, words and thoughts about their world employments and recreations but are also taken up the whole time, in the public and private exercise of his worship and in duties of necessity and mercy. That is your full-on Sabbatarian statement. Well thought out, like everything the Puritans ever did. The Baptist faith and message, which is the Baptist statement of faith or confession of faith, that we had as a church, First Baptist Church had as a church when I came here in 1998 was Sabbatarian. Bet you didn't know that. So you all were Sabbatarians, I guess. Now this what it said, 1963 Baptist faith and message. This is what it said "The first day of the week is the Lord's day. It is a Christian institution for regular observance. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should be employed an exercise of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private, and by refraining from worldly amusements and resting from secular employments works of necessity and mercy only being accepted". Baptist faith, and message 1963 First Baptist Church's statement of faith until the year 2000. In the year 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention convened and changed a number of aspects of the Baptist faith and message including this statement on the Lord's day. This is what it now reads, "The first day of the week is the Lord's day. It is a Christian institution for regular observance. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should include exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private, that's all the same. Now listen, "activities on the Lord's day, should be commensurate with the Christians conscience under the Lordship of Jesus Christ". So that's a very different statement. Basically, whatever your conscience tells you to do on the Lord's Day, you are free to do. V. Applications Alright, so what applications can we take from all this? Well, first, let me just begin as I always do by proclaiming the Gospel to you who are lost. But in the context of what I'm saying now, it doesn't really make a difference what you do on Sunday it doesn't make a difference actually, what you do, any day of the week if you have not yet come to Christ. This is the work of God for those that are as yet unconverted, believe in the one that God sent. And by believing in Jesus alone are all your sins forgiven and if you will trust in him and turn away from your wickedness, turn away from sin, you will receive the gift of the forgiveness of sins and not only that but you'll receive the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and then you'll be given an exciting life to live. Now, let's talk about the Sabbath or Lord's Day aspect of that life. First of all, can we just look again at the text at Verse 13? Do you see the delight aspect, call the Sabbath a delight. Look again at Verse 14, "then you will find your joy in the Lord." If I can just say right at the beginning, the whole issue here is one of delight and joy. So friends let us not drag our feet into this theological discussion with groaning, and rolling of eyes and a sense ultimately coming down to some drudgery that God did not intend. This is meant to be about delight. The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. Then you sell everything you have and buy that field out of joy in the treasure. Now I got to tell you something, I thought about this this morning. I was like, for many years, I thought, "Hey I got a good deal where I can kind of gain the whole system here." Sell everything you have to like a pawn shop, go buy the field, now you got treasure, take a portion of the treasure and go buy back everything you had. Good deal, huh? I think that misses the point of the parable, don't you? It sure doesn't work with the pearl. Remember, you're selling everything and buying a pearl. What, are you going to cut off a portion of the pearl and get your possessions back? It would destroy the pearl. So the treasure and the pearl are supposed to be what delights you. So the real question I want to ask is, "Oh, friend, what delights you? What really delights you? What really makes you happy?" That's the question. So now, second, is the Sabbath... "Dear pastor, is the Sabbath a binding commandment on Christians today in the new covenant?" I'd like to ask that you would turn to Romans 14, and we're going to finish up there but, let me weigh it on one side. First, this sabbath commandment is a weighty thing. It is a weighty thing that God rested on the seventh day of his creation, and basically took his throne over that and set apart the seventh day and called it holy. That's weighty. It's not to be taken lightly. It is a weighty thing that clearly the other nine of the 10 Commandments are still binding on the hearts and souls of Christians, that's weighty. It is weighty to me that in no clear way does Jesus ever abolish the Sabbath. He just defines it and makes it clear how it's best to be spent. He didn't set it aside, he doesn't declare all foods clean when it comes to the Sabbath and say, "Hey you don't need to do the Sabbath anymore." Yet on the other hand, it's also significant that after the book of Acts, basically the Gospels and Acts are still in the old covenant era. Jesus is still operating under the old covenant, and then as the Gospel spreads out and goes from city to city, they're going on the Sabbath to Jewish synagogues to preach. But after that, the word Sabbath doesn't appear again in the New Testament except in two places, in Colossians 2, 16 and 17, we're told, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to religious festival and New Moon celebration listen or a Sabbath day. Don't let anyone judge you by what you do on a Sabbath day. So what that means is, I think elders, the leaders of a church can never set up a church discipline system connected to the Sabbath. It's therefore definitely going to be a matter of private conscience. It's never going to be a matter of sin that we're going to say, because we can't judge anyone by what they do on a Sabbath day. Then he goes beyond that and says, "These are a shadow of the things that were to come, the reality is found in Christ." That's exactly the kind of language that the author to Hebrews used about the whole Old Testament. Then in Hebrews 4:9-11, it says, "There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For anyone who enters God's rest, also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience." Lots of ways to interpret that statement, but the home base of that is, by faith in Jesus and coming into our salvation in Christ, we have entered our Sabbath rest. In some beautiful full complete sense we have rested from our works in Jesus. We have a perfect righteousness, can't be improved on, and we rest in that. That however doesn't mean we shouldn't have a Sabbath observance. So Romans 14 seems a powerful and helpful guide. Now understand Paul is writing, Romans 14 to a mixed assembly of Jews and Gentiles. So that means that the Jewish Christians would have had a regular pattern of one day in seven, worship in the Synagogue, right? The Roman Christians, the Gentiles would have had no such pattern at all. So what are they going to do now as a local church? How are they going to do that? And so he writes Romans 14 to talk about various issues of meat sacrifice to idols and other debatable issues. Look at verse five and six. "One man considers one day more sacred than another. Another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind." That is where the Baptist faith and message 2000 statement got its doctrine from. You need to be fully convinced in your own conscience, what the Lord wants you to do on a Sabbath day. That's all. Now let me tell you something, if verse 5, Romans 14:5, I think, this is my opinion, If Romans 14-5 is in fact talking about the Sabbath, that settles for me whether that commandment is treated differently than any other commandment of the 10 Commandments. The answer is, it is. Because you're not going to say similar things about any of the other nine commandments. You're just not. So clearly, it's just treated differently if this is talking about the Sabbath. I think it is, others don't. Other think it's just one of those Jewish ceremonial type days. So you need to be fully convinced in your own mind. At the end of the chapter, Verse 23, it says, "Everything that does not come from faith is sin." So you have to be fully convinced in your own mind and be sure it's done in faith, and that means tied to the word of God. So the one application I can give you is, don't blow this thing off, that's all. Just, if you can just take that from Romans 14, don't just blow it off. But take it seriously. Be fully convinced that the Lord does or does not want you to get in some extra work at the company on Sunday afternoon. Be fully convinced that Lord does or does not want you to watch NFL football, on Sunday afternoon. Be fully convinced that the Lord does or does not want you to take part in a soccer league that has Sunday games. Just be fully convinced, work it through. Be sure that you're operating in faith. Then in verse 7-8, it says that whatever you do, you're going to give an account to Jesus. It says, "None of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord. If we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord" and verse 10 and following says, "We're all going to stand before God's judgment seat. So then each of us will give an account of himself to God." So whatever you do, not just in general, but specifically, you're going to give an account to Jesus. Be sure it's real gold and not fool's gold, that's all I'm saying. At the time of us saying, when your works are tested with fire, be sure that it will survive. It was gold, silver, costly stones. So stop, pray, consider, ponder. Is the Sabbath regulation a binding one, like all the rest of the 10 Commandments? I will not give you an answer. I say, you have to be fully convinced in your own mind, work it through. Thirdly, we are never allowed to forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Corporate worship needs to be part of our lives, the rest of our time as long as we are able-bodied. As long as we are able to get around, you're able to go do shopping, you're able to go to work during the week, you're able to play golf on Saturday, as long as you're able to do these things, you should be in corporate worship. Hebrews 10:24-25 says, "Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as some are in the habit of doing." Now, does that mean every single Sunday? No, there are some times in which necessity, you can't be in corporate worship. The issue there is forsaking and habit, that's the issue. So as long as you are alive and able-bodied you need to be there. Fourthly, you need rest. "Nah, I can crank it out with the best of them." You're over-estimating yourself, you need rest. And you don't just need physical rest, you need soul rest. I love the songs that we sang, there's so many resting, like, "Jesus, I am resting, resting and my soul finds rest in God alone." That was beautiful, wasn't it? You need rest, you can't keep going forever under the lash of perhaps even your ambitions or desire for money, or even a company or boss that's driving you hard. And if you want to get ahead in this company, you're going to be at that Sunday afternoon meeting. You can't relentlessly drive yourself or your employees, you have to consider your manservants and maid servants, which translates now to people who are responsible to you, your sons and daughters, and your employees forcing them to work. And your souls need to be refreshed, you need time alone with Jesus. Psalm 62:1, "My soul finds rest in God alone." Listen to this, this one came alive a little for me this morning. "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want." What's the next part, remember? "He makes me lie down." Ponder that one, just spend the rest of the afternoon pondering that. "Makes me"... You mean against my will? No, hopefully not, but he's like, "You need to rest." Stop, rest and lie down and be refreshed. There's a practical side to it, "Come away," Jesus said in Mark 6, "And get alone and let's have some time of refreshment." Fifthly, let's consider not merely, what am I permitted to do? What is it lawful for me to do? But what is it best for me to do. Alright. Look, Martha was lawfully permitted to make 17 different dishes to serve to Jesus when Jesus came to visit that day. Mary was lawfully allowed to sit at his feet and listen to him. But I think Jesus says effectively that Martha chose a good portion but Mary chose a better portion. So it's just good, better, best in the Christian life. So over the next 10 years if God lets you live, you may have over 500 Sundays and you get to decide what to do with them. Let's assume you're going to go to church, let's just start there, that you agree with what I just said, you're going to get home around 1 o'clock or maybe today around 2 o'clock. Alright, so you're going to get home, and so in general, you're going to have eight hours of discretionary, what do I do with it, time. And you say, "We have home fellowship." That's a choice you make, I think it's a wise choice but it's a choice you make, you don't have to go. It's not like you lose your church membership if you don't go to home fellowship, you're just making choice about your time. So, you'll have about 4000 hours. You could spend all 4000, I'm convinced... Well, no, no, there's a season end, but you could spend all 4000 watching spectator sports. I was about to say football, but the season does end in February or March or whenever it ends. And there's three football games, one after the other, after the other now, it wasn't always that way, but there's the 1 o'clock game, the 4 o'clock game and the 8:30 game. Now, you could do that. The question is what's best for your soul? Not what am I lawfully allowed to do? But what would it be best? At the end of those 4000 hours, what will I be glad that I invested in? Six. We have to avoid legalism and judgmentalism on this topic. The quickest thing that groups tend to do is define work, once you start defining work, welcome to Pharisee land. Calvinistic reform traditions have struggled with this for years. I remember here Joel Beaky talking about this, he saw some other reform guy and they're both in an airport on a Sunday and they're like this...Both feeling ashamed, they're violating their churches' prescriptions. I don't think churches should make those kind of prescriptions on what is work, what isn't work. I think that's where you head to legalism. Furthermore, some of you are probably going to come to stricter convictions on this topic than others. Easiest thing to do when you come to a stricter conviction on a certain matter of Christian freedom is to export that through judgmentalism, and you start saying, "Oh, you do that," and start judging people. Seventh. This is a chance for you to evaluate what you really love, what really brings you pleasure. And if the answer is honestly, the world, you're in danger spiritually, that's all. If you would consistently rather watch an NFL football game or binge watch on Netflix or some other secular amusement, if you would consistently rather do that than spend time in prayer, singing praise songs, rich Christian fellowship, reading good Christian books, or just walking through the woods and looking at the foliage and thanking God for it. If you would really rather do the one than the other, shouldn't you be afraid of worldliness in your soul? "All things are lawful for me," 1 Corinthians 6:2, "But not everything is profitable." All things are lawful for me but I will not be enslaved, let's put it that way. I will not be enslaved by anything. How can you tell whether you're being enslaved by something? Fast from it. Just try one Sunday say, "I'm not going to do X." If it's inordinately difficult, you're sweating, like you're having DTs, and like its the afternoon's crawling by, and it's like, "I can't wait till next Sunday, I can go back to my usual pattern." Just be afraid of the state of your soul, that's all I'm saying. Eighth. Practical steps for those who want to do this, you say, "I actually would like to do something different." Okay, just some different things. I would suggest work harder, days one through six, the first six days. Set your clothes... Get them ready and hang them up like a fireman. I think that's a symbol, I think about the firefighters, and they have their coat, and their boots, and the door of the fire engine is open and everything's lined up for a quick getaway. So just get your church clothes ready like that and let that be a symbol. I'm going to try to clear out the day as much as I can. So women that cook for a home fellowship make simpler meals, make them on Saturday. It's not a requirement, it's not lawful, it's just so that you can rest. It's not like, "I'll be breaking the 10 Commandments, so I don't... " it's just... I want to try to have a spirit of a simplicity on Sundays. Consider the possibility of electronic fast or maybe even electronic reduction. I'm not going to feed on this stuff, I want some time to have my soul refreshed in Jesus. I want to go to a beautiful place, I want to see nature, I want to go look at lakes, I want to walk through woods, I want to reconnect with my family, I want to spend time with my kids, husbands and wives, praying together, walking together, talking about Jesus together. Taking Ephesians 1, Ephesians 3 and praying over those rich prayers that the eyes of your heart would be enlightened so that you would know the hope of your calling, and that you would know how wide and long, and high, and deep is the love of Christ for you, and you end the day saying, "I know more now than I did before this day started, how much Jesus loves me." Final word to fathers and mothers, parents, heads of households. You may be saying, "Do I have the right to say, As for me and my house we're going to do X." You do. Now, the earlier you do that in your kid's developmental process, the better. If they're infants they're not going to have any idea, but if they are well-attuned or accustomed to like teenagers or whatever, accustomed to certain secular patterns on Sundays, it may be very hard to change. What I would do is I would just start by saying, "Let's just talk about our souls, let's talk about soul inventory." Maybe give older kids freedom to choose but say, "Look, We are going to do this. I would urge you to do it." rather than setting the law, but others may say, "I think for me and my house we're going to do this." And you have the right to do that, but if you do that, be sure that you as a father enrich that day, think about it, how to make it fascinating, how to make it delightful, how to make it a joy in the Lord. Close with me in prayer.

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I don’t know how many young boys develop a fascination with the world from having a map of the world hung above their beds, but this certainly fits in with the experiences of both Charles Emmerson and myself. Charles’ interest in the Arctic was born from a childhood of staring at those strange names fringing the Arctic Ocean – Novaya Zemlya, Svalbad, Murmansk and Baffin Bay. Look at the far North from a pole-centric map and the whole geography of the Arctic starts to make sense. Charles’ book, The Future History of the Arctic (Vintage Books, 2010) takes in the entire history and geography of the Arctic in a broad sweep – from the Norwegian explorers and the Alaskan purchase to the past and future hardships of Iceland and the Soviet dreams of expansion and riches. Now, of course, climate change is altering the very geography of the place. But how? The best word that I have for the book is ‘fascinating’. It is a rich subject and this is an excellent guide to a place that is increasing in economic, geopolitical and strategic significance. I thoroughly recommend getting hold of a copy – but first, enjoy the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don’t know how many young boys develop a fascination with the world from having a map of the world hung above their beds, but this certainly fits in with the experiences of both Charles Emmerson and myself. Charles’ interest in the Arctic was born from a childhood of staring at those strange names fringing the Arctic Ocean – Novaya Zemlya, Svalbad, Murmansk and Baffin Bay. Look at the far North from a pole-centric map and the whole geography of the Arctic starts to make sense. Charles’ book, The Future History of the Arctic (Vintage Books, 2010) takes in the entire history and geography of the Arctic in a broad sweep – from the Norwegian explorers and the Alaskan purchase to the past and future hardships of Iceland and the Soviet dreams of expansion and riches. Now, of course, climate change is altering the very geography of the place. But how? The best word that I have for the book is ‘fascinating’. It is a rich subject and this is an excellent guide to a place that is increasing in economic, geopolitical and strategic significance. I thoroughly recommend getting hold of a copy – but first, enjoy the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don’t know how many young boys develop a fascination with the world from having a map of the world hung above their beds, but this certainly fits in with the experiences of both Charles Emmerson and myself. Charles’ interest in the Arctic was born from a childhood of staring at those strange names fringing the Arctic Ocean – Novaya Zemlya, Svalbad, Murmansk and Baffin Bay. Look at the far North from a pole-centric map and the whole geography of the Arctic starts to make sense. Charles’ book, The Future History of the Arctic (Vintage Books, 2010) takes in the entire history and geography of the Arctic in a broad sweep – from the Norwegian explorers and the Alaskan purchase to the past and future hardships of Iceland and the Soviet dreams of expansion and riches. Now, of course, climate change is altering the very geography of the place. But how? The best word that I have for the book is ‘fascinating’. It is a rich subject and this is an excellent guide to a place that is increasing in economic, geopolitical and strategic significance. I thoroughly recommend getting hold of a copy – but first, enjoy the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices