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Glenn Butner joins the show to discuss how markets and money impact spiritual formation. - Website: cfc.sebts.edu - Contact us: cfc.sebts.edu/about/contact-us/ - Support the work of the Center: cfc.sebts.edu/about/give/ All opinions and views expressed by guest speakers are solely their own. They do not speak for nor represent SEBTS. Read our expressed views and confessions: www.sebts.edu/about/what_we_believe.aspx

According to the gospel of Matthew, shortly after Jesus was born an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee with his family to Egypt, since King Herod was going to try to kill the new baby. They stayed there, according to Christian tradition, until Herod had died and it was safe to return. This incident, popularly known as the “flight to Egypt,” has inspired an array of artistic depictions. It has also inspired a popular pro-immigration argument: Christians should welcome those seeking safety in their country, because Jesus, too, was a refugee. The Vatican has even published various documents citing Jesus' refugee status.  But was Jesus really a refugee? Would the Holy Family be granted refugee status, according to the laws and definitions of today? On this episode of the podcast, theologian and social ethicist Glenn Butner talks to the hosts about what it means to be a refugee, the significance of the flight to Egypt, whether it is accurate to call Jesus a refugee, and the theological implications of this topic.  Butner is an associate professor of theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and the author of multiple books on theology and social ethics, including Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity.  You can learn more about this topic and Butner's work in these links.  Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity, by D. Glenn Butner Jr. Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity | Fortress Press “Was Jesus a refugee?” by Alice Camille Was Jesus a refugee? - U.S. Catholic “Think of the Holy Family fleeing Herod and pray for migrants, pope says,” by Cindy Wooden Think of the Holy Family fleeing Herod and pray for migrants, pope says | National Catholic Reporter Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for the 93rd World Day of Migrants And Refugees  Message on the occasion of the 93rd World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2007 (October 18, 2006) | BENEDICT XVI What is a refugee? Definition and Meaning What is a Refugee? Definition and Meaning | USA for UNHCR Refugees and Asylum Refugees and Asylum | USCIS Glad You Asked is sponsored by the Claretian Missionaries.

Adam Butner is the host and content creator behind Tabletop Vibes an Instagram and Youtube channel dedicated to bringing Good Times, Great Vibes, and Play, with vibrant stylized photography and engaging video content.Adam takes his passion for all types of tabletop hobbies and shares them through his channels. His favorite part of this hobby is that it brings all kinds of people from different backgrounds and mixes into a shared tabletop community!You can check out Tabletop Vibes on Instagram and youtube here: https://linktr.ee/tabletopvibesFOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebingeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boardgamebingeWHERE TO FIND OUR PODCAST:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RJbdkguebb3MSLAatZr7riHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-board-game-binge-72500104/Tune In: https://tunein.com/embed/player/p1344218/Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vYm9hcmRnYW1lYmluZ2U=Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/board-game-binge/id1522623033Visit Our Websites: Board Game Binge: https://boardgamebinge.com/Tin Robot Games: https://tinrobotgames.comElixir Board Games: https://www.elixirboardgames.com/our-games

This episode originally ran on Monday 19 June 2023. Theodore ‘Ted' Kaczynski died at the federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, last year at the age of 81. Known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski waged a 17-year bombing campaign from an isolated shack in the Montana wilderness before finally being caught in 1996. One of those who helped apprehend Kaczynski was former FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald. He tells Michael Safi that the arrest was only possible after the publication of the bomber's manifesto in the Washington Post. It was those words that were recognised by Kaczynski's brother, who took his concerns to the authorities

The three mustaches pour some Crime Juice and discuss Fred Butner's fall from the rooftop of The La Concha Hotel, Key West.  When police found attorney Fred Butner's body at the bottom of the tallest building in town, the evidence of murder was plain as day. Extortion, payoff money, a secret meeting and even an incriminating tape recording - including the thud of the fall - point to the same person: the dead man's former secretary, Susan Hanna.But was it all an elaborate plot to frame an enemy?Try Our New 8% Seltzers HardAFseltzer.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/crime-corner-with-jessie-wiseman/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Wes Buck Show, we've got a lineup that's straight FIRE! First up, we're talking to Randi Lyn Butner, who just made history as the first to dip into the threes in Extreme Pro Stock at the PDRA Brian Olsen World Finals, driving her Johnson's Horsepower Garage Elite Motorsports Camaro! Absolutely insane. Then, we've got No Prep Kings standout Scott Taylor, who's currently second in the points for the Elite NPK Championship and hotter than a nitrous bottle getting blowtorched at a grudge race. Dude's making a serious run for the crown! And to round things out, NHRA Pro Stock sensation Dallas Glenn is joining us after another killer performance. Buckle up, folks—this episode is gonna be a banger! Each week on The Wes Buck Show, Wes Buck, JT “Murder T” Hudson, and Mike Carpenter bring their unique insights and analysis to the most electrifying moments and storylines from a packed weekend of drag racing. Don't miss out on the action and conversation—hit SUBSCRIBE for the latest in drag racing: @dragillustrated Grab your MERCH here: https://dragillustrated.store Stay connected with The Wes Buck Show: @thewesbuckshow @dragillustrated RACERSCLUB MERCH: http://www.racers.club Want to sponsor the show? Contact us: wes@dragillustrated.com #dragracing #wesbuck #dragillustrated #NHRA #PDRA #NoPrep #Streetoutlaws #NoPrepKings #Promod #MWDRS #topfuel #funnycar #prostock #radialracing #NPK #WDRA #dragrace #DI #WBS #WesBuckShow #WSOPM #WorldSeriesOfProMod #Brandenton #MMPS #FloRacing #FloDragRacing #Stroud #RedLineOil #RacersClub #racers.club --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewesbuckshow/support

“Solidarity, Spirituality and Liberatory Promise on a Turtle's Back” with Ashanti Omowali Alston This week, we're sharing words from anarchist, author, organizer and former participant in the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army, Ashanti Omowali Alston, in the key note address at the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville. The presentation was entitled “Solidarity, Spirituality and Liberatory Promise on a Turtle's Back”. You can support Ashanti's GoFundMe here. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) From the ACAB website: Trusting in solidarity, the mysterium of spirituality, and a promise from god knows where—a “where” that at this historical moment, might just be Palestine. What does it mean TO BE in the midst of all this right now? RIGHT NOW! M. Ashanti Alston is a revolutionary Black nationalist, anarchist, abolitionist, speaker, writer, elder motivator. A long-time member of The Jericho Movement, he is presently an advisory board member of the National Jericho Movement and co-founding board member of the Center for Grassroots Organizing (Vermont land project). He continues giving talks and writing inspirational analyses concerning the dismantling of the myriad oppressive regimes in which we find ourselves enmeshed. Ashanti is one of the few former members of the Black Panther Party who identifies as an anarchist in the tradition of ancestor Kwesi Balagoon (BPP & BLA). He developed abolitionist politics in the early years of Critical Resistance. He has helped save the life of a baby pig with animal liberationists, learned depth-queer politics from being challenged, and wants to see non-ego eldership partaking through sincerely loving the younger generations who truly want to ‘CARRY IT ON.” You can find other recordings from the 2024 ACABookfair at acabookfair.noblogs.org. Announcement Phone Zap for Granville CI in North Carolina Prisoners have been filing grievances at Granville CI, a prison in Butner, North Carolina, to no avail complaining about a lack of the legally mandated showers and access to the exercise yard, and are asking for phone calls and emails to demand a resumption of serving these basic needs despite any claims of understaffing: By Joseph ''Shine White'' Stewart How many prisoners must die and how long must we languish in solitary confinement subjected to these harsh and unconstitutional living conditions before there is a public outcry? The deficiencies in the day-to-day operations of this prison have been longstanding/persistent and well documented. In the past I've reported on the culture of abuse, negligence and unprofessionalism here at Granville Correctional. Over the past couple of months the conditions have only worsened. Those of us who are assigned to Restrictive Housing for Control Purposes (RHCP) are being deprived of showers, recreation, subjected to inadequate health care and other unconstitutional treatment. Pursuant to Chapter C subsection .1205(A) of the NCDAC policy and procedure manual, prisoners assigned to RHCP will have the opportunity to shower a least three times a week. Lately prison staff have been using the excuse that there is not enough staff to give us showers or even saying that they are too tired to do showers. As always I must maintain my integrity and be honest when reporting on these conditions. The laziness and neglect I am mentioning here doesn't apply to all the staff. Sergeant Jones, the second shift sergeant here in C-1 building, makes sure that we are afforded the opportunity to shower. However when it's not her shift or if she's not scheduled to work we're likely not to receive showers if there is a shortage of staff. Despite being demoted to a less restrictive solitary confinement setting I've yet to be offered to exercise outside. Pursuant to Chapter C section .1206 of NCDAC policy and process manual, prisoners assigned to RHCP shall he allowed one hour per day, five days per week to exercise outside of the cell, moreover the outdoor exercise cages should be used as the primary exercise area. During the exercise periods we are to be allowed to exercise unrestrained. As when it is time for us to take showers the same excuse is used to deprive us of any recreational time. They don't have enough staff. As mentioned I haven't been afforded outside exercise for almost three years now despite being demoted to a lower security level. Recreation here in C-1 building consists of us being placed in full restraints and allowed to pace up and down the tier for one hour. Lastly, custody staff are having any medical appointments cancelled claiming there isn't enough staff to escort is to the nurse's station. This includes mental health appointments as well. Of course the foregoing isn't all that needs to be addressed, however these are the issues that my peers and I find to be the most important, thus we entreat that the reader call and demand redress for the aforementioned issues. Warden James Williams and unit manager Eldridge Walker are responsible for promulgating the aforementioned policies and procedures and for the allowance of the aforementioned practices/customs, therefore they are the individuals who should be held accountable. Please contact these officials repeatedly: Granville Correctional Institution warden, James Williams - 919-575-3070 (call main line and ask for warden's office) Granville CI C-1 Unit Manager Eldridge Walker- 919-575-3070 (call main line and ask to be connected to Unit Manager Eldridge Walker) NCDAC Dep. Director of Rehabilitation/Correctional Services Maggie Brewer - maggie.brewer@dac.nc.gov - 919-733-2126 (call main line and ask to be connected to Brewer's office) NADAC Internal Affairs Director Anthony Smith - 919-715-2632 anthony.smith1@dac.nc.gov Script for calling and emailing: "I am (calling/emailing) to demand that prisoners being held in solitary confinement in the C-1 building be afforded the opportunity to shower and exercise outside according to NCDAC's policies and procedures and pursuant to their U.S. Constitutional rights. I am demanding that an internal investigation be conducted at the Granville Correctional concerning the grievances being made by prisoners there and I demand warden James Williams and C-1 unit manager he held accountable for the deliberate indifference they have demonstrated." . ... . .. Featured Track: Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow (instrumental) by Funkadellic from Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow

Our guest this week is Richard Behar, an award-winning investigative reporter who spent 15 years chronicling the life of Bernie Madoff, the mastermind behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Behar is the author of the newly released blockbuster book Madoff: The Final Word. Before Madoff died in prison, Behar and Madoff had more than 50 phone conversations, exchanged more than 300 emails, and met face-to-face three times. When Madoff was arrested in December 2008, his decades-long scam unraveled, revealing approximately $68 billion in purported assets across nearly 5,000 client accounts. In stark contrast, Madoff had less than $300 million, having swindled countless victims, including banks, charities, colleges, pension funds, and notable individuals such as Steven Spielberg, Sandy Koufax, Kevin Bacon, and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. On this week' episode, Behar shares how Madoff sustained his scam for decades, the many people who facilitated his fraud, why his investors were so gullible, and what steps everyone should take to avoid falling victim to swindlers. As an exclusive bonus, listeners will hear two short private phone conversations between Behar and Madoff, recorded during Madoff's incarceration at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina. Behar, honored as one of the top 100 business journalists of the 20th century, has received more than 20 major journalism awards. He previously worked on the staff of Forbes, Time, and Fortune. He also contributed reporting to CNN, PBS, and the BBC. If you believe you could never be tricked like thousands of Madoff's trusting investors were, you need to listen closely to this week's episode. Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart. Photo: Richard Behar, Madoff: The Final Word Posted: July 22, 2024 Monday Morning Run Time: 1:10:31 Episode: 13.06 RELATED EPISODES Investigative Journalist Gary Weiss Shares the Real-Life, Criminal Exploits of ‘Crazy Eddie' Who's in Your Wallet? An Expert Panel on Employee Fraud and Embezzlement Right This Minute, There Is a Criminal Scouting Your Company for Vulnerabilities

Geldgeschichte(n): Der größte Finanzbetrug aller Zeiten Im Rahmen unseres deutsch-österreichischen Verständigungsprojekts vereinen mein Bloggerkollege Clemens Faustenhammer und ich die zwei schönsten Nebensachen der Welt, nämlich Geld und Geschichte, miteinander und reisen dafür einmal monatlich zurück in unsere Finanz-Zukunft. Die 17. Folge der Geldgeschichten ist wieder eine Themenfolge. Das bedeutet, dass wir uns gemeinsam einer verbindenden Geldgeschichte widmen. Und was ist welthistorisch und weltweit verbindender als Finanzbetrug? Dem bisher größten der Geschichte gehen wir anlässlich seines Jubiläums diesmal auf den Grund. Bernard Lawrence Madoff wurde am 29. April 1938 in New York geboren. Er wuchs als zweites von drei Kindern in einer jüdischen Familie in Brooklyn auf. Seine Großeltern waren Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in die USA eingewandert. Er schloss die Far Rockaway Highschool 1956 ab, das anschließende Studium der Politikwissenschaften am Hofstra College auf Long Island beendete er im Jahr 1960. Ein Jahr vor seinem Abschluss heiratete er seine Jugendliebe Ruth Alpern. Das Ehepaar bekam zwei Söhne, Mark und Andrew. Madoff gründete 1960 die Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC mit einem Startkapital von 5.000 USD, die er unter anderem als Rettungsschwimmer verdient hatte. Sein Unternehmen spezialisierte sich zunächst auf die Vermittlung von Pennystocks, also spekulative Nebenwerte, später auf das sogenannte Market Making. Zur Stellung von Kauf- und Briefkursen nutzte Madoff moderne Computertechnologie und legte damit die technische Grundlage für die NASDAQ. Von 1990 bis 1993 war er Non-Executive Chairman des Board of Directors der Technologiebörse. In den 1970er und 1980er Jahren etablierte sich Madoff zunehmend als Vermögensverwalter für sehr exklusive Kunden. Dabei konzentrierte er sich auf die sogenannten „jüdischen Kreise“ auf Long Island, Palm Beach und Hollywood. Zugang zu seinen Leistungen gab es in der Regel nur durch Mund-zu-Mund-Propaganda. Er gab seinen Kunden das Gefühl, zum erlauchten Kreis eines Geldmagiers zu gehören. Zunehmend wurde Madoff für seine Fähigkeit bekannt, scheinbar konsistent hohe Renditen ohne Schwankungen für seine Investoren zu erzielen. Im Dezember 2008, drei Monate nach der Lehman-Pleite, trat Madoff vor seine Mitarbeiter und sagte: „Es ist alles vorbei, es gibt nichts mehr.“ Er hatte über Jahrzehnte hinweg ein klassisches Ponzi-Schema betrieben. Der Schaden wurde auf mindestens 65 Milliarden Dollar geschätzt, etwa 4800 Investoren waren betroffen. Vor 15 Jahren, am 29. Juni 2009, wurde Madoff wegen Betrugs und Geldwäsche zu einer Haftstrafe von 150 Jahren verurteilt. Als Häftling 61727-054 starb er am 14. April 2021 im US-amerikanischen Bundesgefängnis in Butner, North Carolina. Eine frische Folge unseres gemeinsamen Podcastformats mit einer beziehungsweise zwei lehrreichen Geldgeschichten erscheint an jedem letzten Freitag im Monat! Medienempfehlungen: ► Jim Campbell: Madoff Talks ► Thorsten Dennin: Games of Greed ► Julian Nebel: Adele Spitzeder ► Podcast: Der Absturz von René Benko ► Spielfilm: The Wizard of Lies ► Dokumentarserie: Bernie Madoff ► Wikipedia: Participants in the Madoff investment scandal ► YouTube: Harry Markopolos und die SEC

#NHRA #dragracing #fastcars Top Fuel driver, Shawn Reed and Mountain Motor Pro Stock racer, Randi Lyn Butner join NHRA's Alan Reinhart and WFO host, Joe Castello for a preview of the 4-Wide NHRA Nationals at zMAX Dragway. Shawn Reed will discuss launching his team and running full time in 2024. Randi Lyn, will talk about making her Mountain Motor Pro Stock talk debut. Joe and Alan will preview the second race of NHRA's 4-wide mini-season with Doug Kalitta, Bob Tasca, and Jeg Coughlin Jr. looking to sweep. Interviews on WFO Radio have become part of winning for drivers in the NHRA Drag Racing Series. As part of the National Hot Rod Association's Track Announcing team, host Joe Castello brings insights directly from the world of professional NHRA Mission Foods and Lucas Oil Series Drag Racing. NHRA results and news are featured in weekly livestreams, NHRA's Alan Reinhart and other NHRA stars including John Force, Ron Capps, Antron Brown, Steve Torrence, Justin Ashley, Josh Hart, Austin Prock, Greg Anderson, and Erica Enders all make frequent stops on the WFO Radio Podcast and livestream. MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/wfo-radio?ref_id=24678 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/WFORadio APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wfo-radio-podcast/id449870843?ls=1 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0oo5mn0E3VmfhRCTHyLQIS GOOGLE: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL1dmb1JhZGlv

Here's the audio from the March 13, 2024 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, with guests Richard Butner & Moses Ose Utomi. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​​​​ ​   Richard Butner... Continue Reading →

Close to five thousand people have died in federal prison since 2009.There are 100 federal prisons across the U.S. An NPR investigation found that a quarter of those deaths happened at one federal prison. Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina. Inmates have a constitutional right to health care. Being denied care is considered cruel and unusual punishment. But many of the sick inmates who wind up at Butner don't get the healthcare they are entitled to – and some end up dying. NPR's Meg Anderson tried to find out why.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Welcome to PCOS Awareness Month here at Fertility Forward! Today we are joined by an incredible naturalistic doctor, Lana Butner to discuss all things holistic PCOS management. Tuning in, you'll hear about what drew Lana to natural medicine, what PCOS is, how it manifests, the problematic traditional process of diagnosis, and so much more! Our holistic expert offers nutrition and exercise tips tailored to women managing PCOS followed by a illuminating discussion on cortisol and stress in PCOS. We then explore how mindful eating and acupuncture can assist in alleviating symptoms. Finally, Lana talks about her PCOS course and recipe books! You don't want to miss this one so be sure to press play now! 

Ever felt drained after giving it your all, only to be left with nothing? Ever experienced burnout from feeling like an outsider or overworking for acceptance? Let's unpack that together with my dear friend and esteemed colleague, Dr. Patrice Butner Jackson (Dr. PBJ), a seasoned educator and executive coach who is passionate about helping those who serve from a heart of purpose. In our heart-to-heart conversation, Dr. PBJ guides us through her journey of disrupting burnout and equipping heart workers to break free from this exhausting cycle. She shares her effective tools and strategies, and we delve deep into the role of self-care and understanding diverse emotions and perspectives in preventing burnout.What if I told you that cultivating diversity and inclusivity could revolutionize your network marketing efforts? That's right! Get ready as Dr. PBJ and I navigate the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We shed light on the importance of immersing ourselves in experiences unlike our own and creating an impactful experience through genuine feedback. We don't stop there — we touch upon inclusive leadership strategies including the enlightening 'Check Your Backpack' tactic, the power of setting boundaries, and the journey to discovering your unique brilliance. This conversation promises to arm you with the insights to disrupt burnout, build an inclusive organization, and foster inclusion in network marketing. So, come join us on this enlightening journey.You can find Dr. PBJ on…Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drpatricebucknerjackson/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drpatricebucknerjacksonYouTube https://youtube.com/user/judicialladyWebsite https://www.patricebucknerjackson.com/Want more from Dr. Raymona?Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drraymonahlawrence/?hl=enLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraymonahlawrence/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drraymonahlawrence/Thank you for listening!~Dr. Raymona

***This episode is not meant to be medical advice. If you're currently experiencing something out of the normal please contact your medical provider for individualized care.***In this episode of the Flow State Podcast, hosts Monica and Norah are joined by Dr. Lana, a certified naturopathic doctor and licensed acupuncturist, to explore the topic of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Dr. Lana shares her personal journey and how she found her calling in holistic healthcare. PCOS is defined as a condition involving hormonal, insulin, and blood sugar imbalances, which can have various effects on the body, including fertility and menstrual cycle disruptions. They also delve into the connection between PCOS and mental health, offering insights and tips for managing anxiety and depression related to the condition. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of PCOS and learn about holistic strategies for managing this complex condition. Episode Highlights:Dr. Lana's personal journey and how she got into holistic healthcare Her experience with anxiety and IBS symptoms What is PCOS The impact of PCOS on fertility and menstrual cycle Common symptoms of PCOS The importance of early diagnosis and treatment for PCOS Dr. Lana's approach to treating PCOS holisticallyThe role of nutrition and lifestyle changes in managing PCOS Addressing insulin resistance through diet and exercise The benefits of acupuncture and herbal medicine for PCOS The importance of personalized treatment plans for PCOS Tips for managing PCOS-related anxiety and depression The impact of stress on PCOS symptoms Dr. Lana's advice for anyone dealing with PCOS And so much more!About Dr. Lana Butner:Dr. Lana Butner is a board certified naturopathic doctor (ND) and licensed acupuncturist (LAc). She earned her ND at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, a four-year accredited medical school. Stay connected with Dr. Lana:Website: https://www.drlanawellness.com/Instagram: @drlanawellnessFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/drlanawellness/Email: info@drlanawellness.comThis podcast is brought to you by Marea. A menstrual wellness company providing drinkable nutrition to support you and your hormones. Take 15% off your first order with the code FLOWPOD.Learn more about Marea: http://www.mareawellness.com/Connect with The Flow State Podcast Hosts:Norah Candito, registered dietitian: @nutritionwithnorahEmail: nutritionwithnorah@gmail.comWebsite: https://www.nutritionwithnorah.com/Join Norah's group program for personalized support on your hormonal health journey:https://www.nutritionwithnorah.com/harmonizeMonica Grohne, Marea's founder, PMDD warrior and wellness junkie: @monicagrohneWant to

Maia tells Grant the story of the Unabomber through the lens of the authorities trying to solve the case. We're not condoning the Unabomber ... but ... he maybe had some okay ideas in his manifesto (which by the way starts with "The Industrial Revolution and its Consequences").  Since we recorded this episode, the Unabomber died in a federal prison medical center in Butner, N.C. at the age of 81. 

Dr Lana Butner, a Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist, discusses Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, commonly known as PCOS. She explains what PCOS is, what causes it and the common signs and symptoms that present with the condition. Dr Lana gives her recommendations on how PCOS can be managed naturopathically through diet, lifestyle and herbal medicine. For more information and the show notes, head to the CNM podcast website. Stay updated by following CNM on:Website: https://www.cnmpodcast.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collegeofnaturopathicmedicine/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CNM.UK/

On today's episode, I interviewed Dr. Ben Silber. We talked about:What is Psychosis and How it Differentiates from Other Mental Illnesses.Causes/Etiology of Psychosis.Ethical Considerations of Treatment (Involuntary/Voluntary)Challenges with Treatment in the JailExamples of Psychosis and its Role in Legal Outcomes (i.e., NGRI)Specialty Guidelines for Forensic PsychologyAbout Ben Silber, Ph.D., ABPPBenjamin Silber is a licensed clinical psychologist based out of Little Rock, Arkansas. Following specialized training in psychological assessment and forensic evaluation at Patton State Hospital, he completed a predoctoral internship at the federal correctional complex in Butner, NC, where he received further training in forensic psychology. He completed a formal postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at the Arkansas State Hospital, worked as a forensic evaluator for seven years there, and started Expert Psychological Evaluations, where he performs forensic psychological evaluations and serves as the training director of the postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology. Dr. Silber is certified as a Specialist of the American Board of Professional Psychology in Forensic Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He is licensed in Arkansas, Ohio, and through PSYPACT, allowing him to conduct psychological evaluations in 33 jurisdictions.  Website: www.psychological-evaluations.com Phone: 501-444-2688 Email: Benjamin.Silber@psychological-evaluations.com Thanks for listening! See you again in two weeks for another amazing episode delving through psychology and the law.  Please Note: The podcast shows, guests, and all linked content is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute medical, psychiatric, or legal advice. Nor is it intended to replace professional advice from your healthcare or legal professional. Last, it is not a substitute for supervision. Please continue to seek the appropriate guidance form your clinical supervisor. The show content is to be used at listeners' own risk.  I invite you to show your support for the show by: Telling your friends and colleagues about the showSubscribing (free) and leaving a rating/reviewFind and connect with Dr. Vienna on Twitter, TT, Fb, or IG to continue the discussion Connect with Dr. Vienna:LinkedIn: Dr. Nicole M. ViennaIG: @drnicolevienna  Facebook: Vienna Psychological Group, Inc. Are you an attorney looking for a forensic evaluation? Book a FREE 20-minute consultation with Dr. Vienna here. 

Episode: Is it anachronistic to call Jesus a refugee? Does the story of Jesus’ family fleeing persecution carry modern political relevance? Would the holy family receive protection in modern society? Listen […] The post Glenn Butner – Jesus the Refugee first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Is it anachronistic to call Jesus a refugee? Does the story of Jesus’ family fleeing persecution carry modern political relevance? Would the holy family receive protection in modern society? Listen […] The post Glenn Butner – Jesus the Refugee first appeared on OnScript.

Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del lunes 12 de junio de 2023: El presidente Joe Biden no se expresará o hará comentarios sobre la acusación de 37 cargos contra Donald Trump que señalan al expresidente de arriesgar algunos de los secretos de seguridad más sensibles del país después de dejar la Casa Blanca en 2021. Los funcionarios de la administración planean mantener su silencio sobre la acusación de Trump, un reflejo de la opinión de Biden de que ningún presidente debería interferir con el Departamento de Justicia, dijeron fuentes de la administración. Dado que Trump es el principal rival de Biden en la carrera presidencial de 2024, la campaña debe proceder con cuidado en cualquier mención de los cargos, dicen algunos expertos políticos. Muchos compañeros republicanos que están desafiando a Trump en 2024 han reprendido al Departamento de Justicia, no a Trump, por los documentos y acusaron a Biden de usar al departamento como arma, a pesar de que la acusación de Trump fue dictada por un gran jurado. Hasta ahora, la campaña de Biden no ha mencionado la acusación. El sábado tuiteó sobre infraestructura. Biden se negó a responder preguntas sobre la acusación en Washington el sábado. El viernes dijo que no había hablado con el fiscal general de los Estados Unidos, Merrick Garland y que no tenía planes de hacerlo. Incluso hablando extraoficialmente, muchos funcionarios de Biden evitaron cuidadosamente dar su opinión sobre los 37 cargos que enfrenta Trump por su manejo de documentos clasificados. Y los demócratas en el Congreso cercanos a Biden han enfatizado el estado de derecho en lugar de aprovechar la ocasión para criticar a Trump. FUENTE: REUTERS Ted Kaczynski, conocido como el “Unabomber”, quien llevó a cabo una campaña de bombardeos de 17 años que mató a tres personas e hirió a otras 23, se suicidó. Kaczynski, que tenía 81 años y padecía cáncer en etapa avanzada, fue encontrado inconsciente en su celda en el Centro Médico Federal en Butner, Carolina del Norte, alrededor de las 12:30 a.m. del sábado. Los socorristas realizaron resucitación cardiopulmonar y lo revivieron antes de que fuera transportado a un hospital, donde fue declarado muerto más tarde el sábado por la mañana. La muerte de Kaczynski se produce cuando la Oficina Federal de Prisiones se ha enfrentado a un mayor escrutinio en los últimos años tras la muerte del financiero Jeffrey Epstein, quien también se suicidó en una cárcel federal en 2019. Kaczynski había estado recluido en la prisión federal Supermax en Florence, Colorado, desde mayo de 1998, cuando fue sentenciado a cuatro cadenas perpetuas más 30 años por una campaña de terror que puso nerviosas a las universidades de todo el país. Admitió haber cometido 16 atentados con bombas entre 1978 y 1995, mutilando permanentemente a varias de sus víctimas. En 2021, fue trasladado al centro médico federal de Carolina del Norte, una instalación que trata a los presos que sufren graves problemas de salud. Bernie Madoff, el infame autor intelectual del esquema Ponzi más grande de la historia, murió en las instalaciones por causas naturales el mismo año. Kaczynski, matemático educado en Harvard, vivía como un recluso en una lúgubre cabaña en la zona rural de Montana, donde llevó a cabo una ola de bombardeos solitarios que cambió la forma en que los estadounidenses enviaban paquetes y abordaban aviones. FUENTE: AP

In this episode Caleb discusses how Scripture speaks of the one divine essence subsisting equally and fully in the persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with Glenn Butner (PhD, Marquette University) professor of theology and ethics at Sterling College. Dr. Butner has recently written an extremely helpful book titled Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God that aims to help Christians speak accurately, faithfully, and biblically about who God is and has revealed himself to be. Glenn's work also stresses how the church as historically spoken of and argued for the triunity of the God of Scripture. This episode will give listeners a taste of what they can expect from Dr. Butner's important work in trinitarian theology and hopefully answer so difficult questions many have surrounding this doctrine. Resources: Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God by Glenn Butner https://a.co/d/1IEb1ER The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son by Glenn Butner https://a.co/d/1IEb1ER The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain https://a.co/d/eyo63me The Biblical Trinity: Encountering the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Scripture by Brandon Smith https://a.co/d/aWuJR23

Does it feel like you are always scrambling for time? Trying to catch-up on life and allowing your joys to play second fiddle? As if the joys you seek, and the impact you want to make, are constantly stop and go? Heck, maybe more stop than go. In today's episode I speak with business and life coach Geri Paige Butner on how you can consciously navigate hustle-and-grind, stepping into a state of flow to reclaim your true joys. Geri shares her “Eat, Pray, Love” journey from successful corporate marketing exec to freedom-focused entrepreneur and curiosity-driven creator.  What taking a chance on stand-up comedy taught her about intention and being ok with messing up. Rounding out our episode with foundational pieces of Geri's 7 part process in transforming limiting beliefs. (P.S. I've tried and it works! ) Let's ask the questions that will truly get you from stuck in the mud chasing time to feeling light and free. --- SHOW NOTES Join the free 7-Day Challenge to Get Unstuck Subscribe to The Liberated Life newsletter Follow Geri on Instagram Join the waitlist for The Business Firestarter Listen to the Abundantly Curious Podcast --- CONNECT WITH KRISTINA Share Your Story or Ask Your Questions: ⁠⁠⁠Kristina@andthenbewell.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Along: ⁠⁠⁠Podcast IG⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ // ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠ Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review after your favorite episodes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andthenbewell/support

Tanner Butner is in the house after setting the all new high score for the Forth Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. Also talks about his first trip to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in December of 2022. My apparel line DaleBrisby.com Text me "Special Offer" to (940)353-0890 yes it is me texting you

Dr. Lana Butner is a board certified naturopathic doctor & licensed acupuncturist treating patients in the Greater New York Area, guiding them towards a healthy life, mind and body. She helps uncover root causes of health and wellness issues, and creates holistic, naturopathic health plans to treat a range of issues in gut health, skin conditions, women's health, autoimmunity, the nervous system and more. Episode Highlights: - Stress & burnout - Adrenal fatigue - Adrenal cocktails - Shamanic healers - Somatic Breathwork - Morning routines to decrease stress - & so much more! Connect with Dr. Lana: - Website: drlanawellness.com - Instagram: @drlanawellness Connect with Alex: - Currently accepting new clients worldwide! Work with me here - Free resources - Instagram: @nutritionmoderation - TikTok: @nutritionmoderation - Website: www.nutritionmoderation.com DISCOUNTS: - Get 15% off at Giddy Yo using code ALEXANDRAKING - Get 10% off at Pascoe using code ALEXKING10 - Get 10% off the TempDrop thermometer with code AFNUTRITIONMODERATION - Use code ALEXKING to get 10% off your Twistie cup at twistieonthego.com - Get 10% off at Greenhouse Juice using code NUTRITIONMODERATION - Order the Mira Starter Kit or the Mira Plus Bundle online at miracare.com using the promo code ALEXKING to get 10% off - Discount on US Supplements: https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/aking1654616901 - Discount on Canadian Supplements: https://ca.fullscript.com/welcome/aking

Are you ready to say goodbye to acne, irregular periods, unwanted hair growth, and  fertility challenges and say hello to an absolute transformation in your health, wellness, and healing? Then it's time to TRULY understand PCOS. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex hormonal disorder affecting at least 10% of women. If you've recently been diagnosed, please know that 1) you're not alone and 2) you've come to the right place for all the information you need to help HEAL. The basis of HEALING is based on understanding the factors that are key in healing your own unique presentation.First, regardless of the name, it's important to know that the ‘cysts' seen in PCOS are really not cysts at all. They are actually an increased number of follicles which in some cases can be quite normal and can be seen in women even without PCOS. The term ‘polycystic' is therefore pretty misleading, and one of the main reasons why there is so much debate about changing the name ‘PCOS' to something more accurate like Hyperandrogenic Persistent Ovulatory Dysfunction Syndrome. Repeat after me: PCOS cannot be diagnosed by ultrasound alone. If it has, it's time to get a second opinion (and a new provider).Also, THERE ARE MORE THAN 4 TYPES OF PCOS. Knowing how to prosper with PCOS is way more nuanced than the four reductive boxes that conventional medicine has invented. About Dr. Butner:Dr. Lana Butner is a board certified naturopathic doctor (ND) and licensed acupuncturist (LAc) treating patients in the Greater New York Area, guiding them towards a healthy life, mind and body. Dr. Lana helps uncover root causes of health and wellness issues, and creates holistic, naturopathic health plans to treat a range of issues in gut health, skin conditions, women's health, autoimmunity, the nervous system and more. She offers services including acupuncture, cupping, cleansing and detoxification and lab work, in addition to monthly wellness memberships, classes and talks, and health and wellness coaching. Dedicated to living the practices she preaches, Dr. Lana works alongside patients towards the goal of feeling great, with energy to spare and positive mindsets, to “be your best self every day.”  Resources Mentioned:PCOS Recipe BookletConnect with Dr. ButnerInstagramFacebookWebsiteLinkedInThe podcast's hashtag is #nourishyourflourish. You can also find our practice on the following social media outlets:Facebook: The Eudaimonia CenterInstagram: theeudaimoniacenterTwitter: eu_daimonismFor more reproductive medicine and women's health information and other valuable resources, make sure to visit our website.Support the show

Interested in further study of the Bible? Join us at Logos Bible Software. Sign up to attend Westminster Seminary California's Seminary for a Day here! Do you want to retrieve our Classical Protestant theology and heritage? Sign up for a degree program or individual classes at the Davenant Institute by following this link here. Please help support the show on our Patreon Page! WELCOME TO BOOK CLUB! D. Glenn Butner Jr. (PhD, Marquette University) is assistant professor of theology and Christian ministry at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas, where he also directs the honors program. He is the author of The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case against the Eternal Submission of the Son and Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God. We want to thank Fortress Press for their help in setting up this interview and providing us with the necessary materials for this interview! Purchase the book(s) here: Jesus the Refugee Have Feedback or Questions? Email us at: guiltgracepod@gmail.com Find us on Instagram: @guiltgracepod Follow us on Twitter: @guiltgracepod Find us on YouTube: Guilt Grace Gratitude Podcast Please rate and subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you use! Looking for a Reformed Church? North American Presbyterian & Reformed Churches --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gggpodcast/support

The Coode Street Advent Calendar rolls on through December and today Gary sits down with Shirley Jackson and Locus Award nominee Richard Butner to discuss what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, his holiday reads, and his wonderful new collection, The Adventurists. As always, our thanks to Richard for making time to talk to us, and we hope you enjoy the episode.

What are eternal processions? The language of “processions” may be foreign to some today, but the Great Tradition capitalized on this language to describe the Trinity and keep heresy at bay. From the church fathers to the medieval and Protestant scholastics, theologians used the language of procession to explain how the Son is eternally begotten… Download Audio

This is a conversation with Matthew Lyons, antifascist researcher, contributor to Three Way Fight Blog and author of, among other books, Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and contributor to the recent AK Press compilation, No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (edited by Shane Burley). For the hour, Matthew talks about Christian Nationalist and theonomic tendencies and movements like New Apostolic Reformation, Dominionism, reactionary Catholicism and Christian Reconstructionism to learn more about how they interrelate or conflict with other far right tendencies in the so-called USA and the ongoing assault on bodily autonomy, abortion access and cis-hetero-patriarchy. More of Matthews work can be found at MatthewNLyons.Net Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) https://traffic.libsyn.com/thefinalstrawradio/tfsrpodcast20221120-MatthewNLyons.mp3 Next Week… We're hoping to bring you voices from graduate student workers and other workers on strike in the University of California system and possibly beyond for this coming Sunday's show. Announcements Phone Zap for Shinewhite BACKGROUND: Joseph “Shine White” Stewart is a long-time incarcerated writer and organizer who is known, among other things, for promoting interracial unity among black and white prisoners in North Carolina as a way to forward their shared resistance against the prison industrial complex and for encouraging abolitionists on the outside to center prisoners' demands and resistance in their work.  He has most recently been central to prisoners' organizing efforts to combat racist CO brutality at Alexander Correctional Institution and the extended lockdown at Bertie Correctional Institution.  As one might imagine, he is no stranger to political repression, and he has been repeatedly transferred, held in solitary confinement for years at a time, and physically brutalized as the system has attempted to silence him.  On November 3, in response to his most recent organizing, Shine White was transferred to Granville Correctional Institution in Butner, NC, where he was placed in restrictive housing.  When he arrived, he was placed in a filthy, unsanitary cell which staff refused to allow him to clean and denied access to his property, including legal paperwork related to pending motions in a lawsuit his is pursuing which he was therefore unable to put in the mail on time.  Staff have even restricted his access to paper.  As of his last contact with Solidarity Beyond the Walls, Shine White is still being housed in unsanitary conditions and still does not have his property.  He has requested that SBW support him by organizing a phone zap on his behalf. NCDPS Division of Prisons Central Region Director Loris Sutton 919-582-6125 (direct office line) OR 919-803-0713 (cell phone) OR 919-838-4053 (Central Region main office line); Standard and Performance Director Cynthia Thornton 919-838-4000 (Division of prisons main office line) Remember that repeat calls are welcome, as the more calls come in, the more likely it is that our demands on Shine White's behalf will be met. WHAT TO SAY: Here is a script you can use if you aren't sure what to say when you call:“Hello.  I am calling on behalf of Joseph Stewart, OPUS number 0802041.  When he was transferred to Granville CI on November 3, Mr. Stewart was placed in restrictive housing in unsanitary conditions and denied his property, including legal paperwork that needed to be put in the mail no later than November 4.  Both of these are violations of NCDPS policy and procedure.  I am calling to demand that Mr. Stewart be released from restrictive housing, be placed in a clean cell with access to supplies to keep it that way, and that all of his property be returned immediately.” Support Colombian Uprising Prisoners There is still repression being felt by those swept up by the state during the 2021 National Strike in Cali, Colombia and there's a fundraising effort for the Paso del Aguante 6 who are facing up to 50 years in prison for participating in the strike. The Colombia Freedom Collective is happy to announce that Christian Andres Aguilar has been released at 14 months of pre-trail detention, though he's not out of danger yet. You can learn more about the cases of the Paso del Aguante 6 and how to support their defense efforts at: https://colombiafreedomcollective.org/christian-andres-aguilar-released-after-14-months-of-pretrial-detention/ Bad News #62 Check out the latest episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World from the International A-Radio Network. This month features two really good interviews you may not have heard from Frequenz-A: a chat with a member of Feminist Anti-War Resistance, a movement against the militarism of the Russian state and the war in Ukraine; a conversation with Berlin-based advocates for Alfredo Cospito, Juan, Anna and Ivan hunger striking in Italy against 41 bis. These are alongside shorter versions of our recent chats on heaters in Albuquerque, updates on Eric King and Oso Blanco's situations and the struggle against Camp Grayling. Suppport TFSR We are entering a period of recording fury. Patreon supporters will get early access to interviews as we get them edited down, as well as behind the scenes conversations between the producers. Upcoming releases include Mitchell Verter, co-author of the 2005 AK Press book, Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader speaking around the 100th anniversary of the murder by incarceration by the US state of the Mexican anarchist communist revolutionary, RFM, and discussion of his legacy. Another is a conversation with Rhiannon Firth on her recently published book, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action, out from Pluto Press. You can find our patreon at patreon.com/tfsr Though we're releasing some content early to patreon supporters, we won't be paywalling it permanently. Our fundraising goes to operating costs, equipment, and paying our transcribers. We've been transcribing each interview we've conducted and making them available as zines on our website for coming up on 2 years now, and going back to transcribe past episodes to boot. This makes these important conversations available for translation, for easier access to folks who are more comfortable reading or for whom English is a second language, as well as getting the content more easily into prisoners, reading groups and passers-by's hands so as to include more people in the discussion. For other ways to support our project monetarily, there's merch and donation options at tfsr.wtf/support. For non-money support, we could always use ratings on apple, google and amazon podcasts or mentions and boosts on social media (including on Mastodon and Castopod), examples can be found at tfsr.wtf. Telling others about the project is also a great way to help us expand our audience. If you have a story you'd like covered, you can find ways to contact us there we well! Finally, if you have a community or college radio station that you'd like to hear our weekly, free, 58 minute episode air on for any weirdo with an antenna and receiver to pick up, help us out by visiting tfsr.wtf/radio to learn more. Thanks for the support! . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Gods and Government by Snog from Dear Valued Customer The Voice of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse? Brazil by Django Reinhardt from Django in Rome

In this unique (daytime-recorded) whiskey-free episode, Drew interviews theology professor and author D. Glenn Butner about his new book Trinitarian Dogmatics. We touch on his previous work on the eternal subordination debate, and discuss how Glenn's book is not at all trendy, and why this is a compliment. Dr. Butner. has advanced degrees from Duke Divinity School and Marquette University, and you can find his new book from Baker Academic here. (We appreciate Baker providing a copy of this book for the purposes of conducting this interview.) You can find Glenn on twitter at @glennbutner, or via his faculty page at Sterling University here. From this episode: You can read Drew's full review of Trinitarian Dogmatics in Firebrand Magazine here.

Welcome to the Alliance's Podcast Wednesday. It's a question few Christians will typically entertain: how do you enjoy communion with all three persons of the Godhead in worship? Dr. Glenn Butner offers satisfying, biblical answers to many such queries in his outstanding book, Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God. It's his topic of discussion today with Jonathan and James. Indeed, the word Trinity is not mentioned in Scripture. Still, the evidence for the eternal coexistence, inseparable operations, and unmistakable unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is found throughout its pages. Today's conversation and Butner's book help us clarifyor even correct our grammarwhen considering this essential doctrine of God. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/581/29

Trinitarian Dogmatics It's a question few Christians will typically entertain: how do you enjoy communion with all three persons of the Godhead in worship? Dr. Glenn Butner offers satisfying, biblical answers to many such queries in his outstanding book, Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God. It's his topic of discussion today with Jonathan and James.  Indeed, the word “Trinity” is not mentioned in Scripture. Still, the evidence for the eternal coexistence, inseparable operations, and unmistakable unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is found throughout its pages. Today's conversation and Butner's book help us clarify—or even “correct our grammar”—when considering this essential doctrine of God. Baker Academic has provided a few copies of the book for giveaway. Get in the running here.   

Author Richard Butner joins the show to celebrate his marvelous first book, The Adventurists and Other Stories (Small Beer Press). We get into the F&SF story that started him on the writing path, his love of the Fantastic in fiction, his background in engineering & how he has to throw it out the window when it comes to writing, and the theme of return that runs through his stories and the unfinished business it implies. We also talk about his history with Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop & how he ended up running it, how critiquing others' stories can teach you more than having your own work critiqued, and his love of the short story as a form. Plus we discuss writing & performing theater and how he balances that collaborative art with the solo process of writing, his experience in immersive theater, the impact of Kurt Cobain's suicide on him & his friends, my observation that changed the way he sees his stories, and a lot more. Follow Richard on Twitter and Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Here's the audio from the August 17, 2022 Fantastic Fiction reading series with guests Richard Butner & Veronica Schanoes.​ ​   Richard Butner Richard Butner's short fiction has appeared in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, been shortlisted for the Speculative... Continue Reading →

We're led to believe that traditional medicine involves seeing a doctor in a white coat, most likely being prescribed some pills for whatever ails us and going home. But over the last hundred years, we've lost the true meaning of traditional medicine. In fact, naturopathic medicine encompasses more of the traditional aspects of health and wellness that our ancestors relied on. Dr. Lana Butner, board-certified naturopathic doctor (ND), explains how naturopathic medicine can help get to the bottom of your health and wellness issues.  || LINKS || www.drlanawellness.com | https://www.trybite.com/darin20 | Full Show Notes & Links - https://darinolien.com/how-naturopathic-medicine-can-help-you-dr-lana-butner/ 

Looking for a Reformed Church in Orange County? Check out Santa Ana Reformed (a United Reformed Church plant) meeting Sundays at 2 PM at Davis Elementary School in Santa Ana! Contact us: santaanareformed@gmail.com Please help support the show on our Patreon Page! WELCOME TO BOOK CLUB! Dr. Glenn Butner Jr. (PhD., Marquette University) is Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas. He also authored The Son Who Learned Obedience. We want to thank Baker Academic for help setting up this interview and providing us with the necessary materials to interview Dr. Butner! Purchase the book(s) here: Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God Have Feedback or Questions? Email us at: guiltgracepod@gmail.com Find us on Instagram: @guiltgracepod Follow us on Twitter: @guiltgracepod Find us on YouTube: Guilt Grace Gratitude Podcast Please rate and subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you use! Looking for a Reformed Church? North American Presbyterian & Reformed Churches --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gggpodcast/support

Dr. Lana Butner is a board-certified naturopathic doctor (ND) and licensed acupuncturist who has a medical practice in New York City. As a Naturopathic Doctor, her practice involves using natural methods, lifestyle changes, diet, etc. to heal the body from the inside out, as opposed to simply receiving a prescription. During this interview, Dr. Lana Butner dives deep into what naturopathic medicine really is and how it compares and contrasts to conventional medicine. She talks about her background and the qualifications she went through to become an ND. She also touches upon gut health, women's health, and many other relevant topics. If you're at all interested in holictic or natural wellness, be sure to listen to this interview! Remember to follow womendotcom on instagram and subscribe to The Women.com Podcast for more exclusive interviews.

Casey Butner, the pastor of Beulah Baptist Church, attended the recent Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim, CA. Upon returning, after witnessing the debacle that that convention was, he announced to his church that they will be leaving the SBC. Casey's church, Beulah Baptist Casey's sermon to his church on why they are leaving the SBC ✅

Casey Butner, the pastor of Beulah Baptist Church, attended the recent Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim, CA. Upon returning, after witnessing the debacle that that convention was, he announced to his church that they will be leaving the SBC. Casey's church, Beulah Baptist Casey's sermon to his church on why they are leaving the SBC ✅

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Emily Waterfield-Buttner is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and founder of Golden Wellness. She specializes in women's hormonal health and menstrual cycle wellbeing. She works closely with women to discover the root cause of their hormonal imbalance. Through this, she creates personalized protocols to gently guide them into a more sustainable and healthy way of living that helps balance hormones and promote healing. Emily's specialized 1:1 program helps women to reclaim their lives through focusing on the foundations of health and connection to the menstrual cycle to experience easy, symptom free periods and true wellbeing. Emily's Website Emily's Instagram

Geri Paige Butner is a Business Coach who has spent more than a decade working in marketing. She has worked for corporations and helped launch startup brands from the ground up. After experiencing her own ‘Eat, Pray, Love' moment, Geri realized the corporate lifestyle wasn't for her, and her body could no longer keep up with the demands. In this episode, Geri talks about her shift from corporate life to a lifestyle that fits more of her needs and how it's completely possible to optimize your life.  Key Takeaways: [1:45] You can have a job you love and a job that inspires you as well. [3:35] Geri was so used to climbing the corporate ladder, but never felt happy or fulfilled. [4:30] When things got a bit too much, Geri went on her own ‘Eat, Pray, Love' journey. [7:30] Geri did not have healthy habits growing up. At school, she ate medium french fries and a large cookie every single day for lunch. [10:30] After Geri got back from her trip, she saw a big gap in her life. She realized her life was not optimal and her body was responding accordingly. [17:35] When Geri became more aware about healthy food choices, she was also very frustrated by the lack of good choices available. [20:35] Geri decided to stop drinking alcohol. This was hard to do because of the social conditioning around it. [22:40] Health is a choice you make every morning. [26:25] Health is a combination of mind, body, and spirit, and we can not separate these three things. [34:00] Geri quit her long standing-corporate career around the time COVID hit. [40:15] If you're feeling stuck, it's time to identify where your power truly is and tap into that. [46:35] Action step: Focus on giving yourself some intentional free time.  Today's episode is sponsored by: Healinggroundmovement.com/resources Radroller.com. Coupon: Healing20 for 20% off.  Join the Movement! Healinggroundmovement.com Healing Ground Movement on Instagram Healing Ground Movement on Facebook Healing Ground Movement on Pinterest Healing Ground Movement on LinkedIn Like what you learned? Donate to show your appreciation!  Mentioned in This Episode: Geripaige.com Geri on Instagram Geri on LinkedIn Download your Free Checklist for Starting a Business

Aaron talks with Mike Ciriello, the Planning Director in Butner, NC about the NTBA's Spring 2021 visioning exercises in Butner, NC, including what worked and what could be added in future offerings. Mike also talks about how difficult it is to do walkable urbanism in highly regulated Southern watersheds, and why there is such a shortage of good urbanist planning, design, and development talent.

Apologetics Live episode 129 What is going on with the SBC today? Get a chance to speak with people behind the scenes for the last several decades... Alan Beach, former SBC church planter, Pastor Casey Butner, SBC all his life, and Justin Peters! Hosted by Dr. Anthony R. Silvestro, Jr. This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources Listen to other podcasts on the Christian Podcast Community Support Striving for Eternity Give us your feedback, email us info@StrivingForEternity.org Write us a review and tell us how we are doing. Sponsors: Logos Bible Software MyPillow or call (800) 873-0176 and use promo SFE

After ten years of climbing the startup and corporate marketing ladder, Geri Paige Butner decided she needed to jump off, stuff a backpack and take a solo seeker trip to Bali and Vietnam. She experienced a massive awakening overseas and over the next several years shifted her entire personal and professional life to become a business firestarter for women, while enjoying the freedom of being a digital nomad. Geri takes us through her international journey and the result - a 3 month program she developed that provides real tools for overcoming fear of failure and judgement, imposter syndrome and an entire lifetime of conditioning. This episode delivers a mindset that will break you free of the belief that you have to wait for someone else's permission to take action on your dream. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After ten years of climbing the startup and corporate marketing ladder, Geri Paige Butner decided she needed to jump off, stuff a backpack and take a solo seeker trip to Bali and Vietnam. She experienced a massive awakening overseas and over the next several years shifted her entire personal and professional life to become a business firestarter for women, while enjoying the freedom of being a digital nomad. Geri takes us through her international journey and the result - a 3 month program she developed that provides real tools for overcoming fear of failure and judgement, imposter syndrome and an entire lifetime of conditioning. This episode delivers a mindset that will break you free of the belief that you have to wait for someone else's permission to take action on your dream. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

William Camacaro, senior analyst at the Council of Hemispheric Affairs, artist, radio host, and activist, joins us to talk about U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's tour of Latin American countries, stopping in Ecuador and Colombia to promote the U.S. brand and to “promote democracy” in the region. We talk about the actual chequered history of U.S. intervention in the hemisphere that has, more often than not, led to undemocratic regimes, how these interventions have shaped and often times scarred the countries affected, with consequences that can be felt after generations, and how the immigration crisis could be directly linked to U.S. support for conservative and right wing groups in the hemisphere. We also talk about how this visit, particularly in Colombia, is related to the continuing economic stranglehold on Venezuela and support for the opposition there. John Kiriakou, co-host of The Backstory on Radio Sputnik, tells us about drone whistleblower Daniel Hale being sent to the notorious Communications Management Unit at the maximum-security U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois to serve a 45-month sentence, rather than the low-security prison at Butner, North Carolina and how this could be used to set an example and have a chilling effect on other potential whistleblowers. We also talk about the Biden administration's top spies and scientists releasing the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate on the global security threats posed by climate change, and how diminished energy supplies, food, and water security could shape international relations in the future.Steve Grumbine, founder and CEO of the nonprofits Real Progressives and Real Progress in Action and host of the podcast Macro n Cheese, joins hosts Michelle Witte and Bob Schlehuber to discuss the controversy at the Federal Reserve, where it has been revealed that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account during the pandemic in 2020, which raises questions about ethics and insider trading, Biden saying that he doesn't think there are enough Democratic votes to raise tax rates in a deal on his economic agenda.

Mel Phillips is the president and co-owner of Product Recovery Management, PRM Filtration, and Triangle Stainless, alongside his brother, Brian Phillips. Operating out of a 150,000 square-foot facility in Butner, North Carolina, PRM manufactures environmental treatment systems and offers field services for equipment, including installation, setup, and maintenance.We covered: Overcoming growth barriers in a small businessThe journey from electrical contracting to environmental remediationThe benefits of acquiring companies in related industriesGrowing up in the family businessKeeping work at workHow to learn and improve from mistakesWhy Mel recommended his daughters go to collegeA decade of financial hardships – what you don't seeHow to hire and keep good peopleWhere the business is headedMore---Visit shop.prmfiltration.com---Subscribe to my newsletter to get updated every week with a new episode at jonahpollone.comConnect with me on LinkedIn

This week Michelle speaks with Geri Butner, she is a former startup and corporate leader who spent a decade specialising in making ideas come to life. After realizing her passion for kickstarting change and making an impact, she became a Life and Business Coach to help dreamers turn their vision into their reality. Geri works with her clients to help them awaken their potential, master their minds and develop the strategy and commitment needed to achieve their wildest goals. Geri is also a wonderful cat mom to a sweet kitty cat called Fiona. Find out more about Geri on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geributner/ Instagram: @geripaige and her website www.geripaige.com.  Join Michelle for weekly episodes as she invites guest speakers from coaches, personal trainers, yogis, business owners, chefs, and more to discuss their personal success stories and well-being. Oh, and of course PETS. All of our guests are pet owners and have such amazing stories about their beloved pets. So whether you want to start a journey of wellness, listen to inspirational stories about life and pets, we are the place to be. You can follow Michelle on Instagram and Facebook @Chattycatscare. As always please do rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast. Podcast Artwork: Allison Tanenhaus Music: Joy Joseph   

If you haven’t heard the news already, Bernard Madoff has just passed away at the age of 82 in a federal prison hospital in Butner, North Carolina. For more than 50 years, Bernie Madoff was renowned on Wall Street as a big money manager who founded his own firm at age 22 and became non-executive chairman of the Nasdaq in 1990. Madoff was famously known for running the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history. He defrauded thousands of investors out of tens of billions of dollars over the course of about 17 years. Madoff was busted on December 11, 2008 after his two sons turned him in.  Victims included director Steven Spielberg, actor Kevin Bacon, former New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon, Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel, as well as ordinary investors like Burt Ross who lost $5 million in the scheme.  In a 2013 email to CNBC from prison, Madoff mentioned that the break in the market that started the Great Recession led to his scam. “I thought this would be only a short-term trade which could be made up once the market became receptive. The rest is my tragic history of never being able to recover.” In today’s podcast, Phil and Danielle discuss Bernie Madoff and his scheme that led to the nation’s largest financial fraud in history,   You can learn a lot from the history of financial figures and investors. Check out my guide where I discuss some of the best investors in the world: https://bit.ly/2P21xJs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronza Bowers, Jr: 47 Years of Justice Denied This week, we're airing a conversation recorded by Eda Levinson on September 12th, 2002, with political prisoner Veronza Bowers, Jr. It originally aired on Youth Speaks Out on KZYX in Modesto County, California, and we re-air this with permission of Veronza and the current producer of the Youth Speaks Out. The show continues to produce youth focused and progressive content available at YouthSpeaksOut.net. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) For the hour, you'll hear former Black Panther Party member Veronza describe to the audience in his own words his upbringing, his experiences of racism, his time in prison, his case, his views on the burgeoning War on Terror, and the situation of political prisoners in the US. You'll also hear some recordings of Veronza playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Veronza was convicted of the death of a US Park Ranger on the word of two prison informants who were paid and received reduced sentences. Veronza continues to claim his innocence and he has been illegally held beyond his mandatory release date of June 21, 2005, based on political pressure by GW Bush appointed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales apparently on behalf of the Association of National Park Rangers, the widow of the dead ranger and the Fraternal Order of Police. The conversation is very much a product of it's time, for instance the discussion of the implications of the one year anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Sadly there is a timelessness in their discussion of the brutal war against the people of Afghanistan as well as the continued incarceration of Veronza, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier, alongside many other long term, leftist and liberation political prisoners held by the US government. Currently, the Biden administration is discussing some sort of pull out of US troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in the last year we've seen the deaths due to medical neglect and decades of incarceration for political prisoners like Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald, deaths right after release like Delbert Africa, and the endangering of aging political prisoners in their 70's and 80's who've had bouts with covid and cancers inside like Sundiata Acoli, Dr Mutulu Shakur and Russell “Maroon” Shoatz. Veronza was successfully treated for lymphoma and pneumonia in 2017 and 2018, having hip surgery in 2019 but his death by incarceration only looms a larger possibility day by day. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) He is currently being held at FCI Butner in North Carolina and can be written at: Veronza Bowers, Jr. ##35316-136 FCI Butner Medium II P.O. Box 1500 Butner, NC 27509 You can learn more about his case as well as see pictures of Veronza and loved ones, read his writings, poetry and interviews at Veronza.Org. Some of this is also available by viewing his page on PrisonerSolidarity.Com and you can read many articles about his situation on the SFBayView.com. Other Veronza Audio Recordings These are a collection of audio recordings of spoken word and musical pieces featuring Veronza Bowers, Jr, political prisoner since 1974 and former Black Panther Party member in the US. These are being posted with the permission of Veronza and we hope to have them more available for streaming in the future. Healing Heart is performed by Jah Roots (a band of imprisoned musicians featuring Veronza on shatuhachi bamboo flute) Birthing Song is performed by Veronza Bowers, Jr, on shatuhachi flute with overlaid ocean sounds Song for Alexis is performed by Jah Roots (a band of imprisoned musicians featuring Veronza on shatuhachi bamboo flute) To Touch the Spirit is performed by Jah Roots (a band of imprisoned musicians featuring Veronza on shatuhachi bamboo flute) Eulogy was recorded by Veronza "Butch" Bowers, Jr, in memory of his Mama's passing. As Veronza was unable to participate in his mothers funeral so with the allowance of the then-Warden at USP Coleman, alongside comrades Rev. "One Love" and another comrade,Siakatame "Mountain Heart" Hafoka, the three speak their goodbyes to Dorothy Woodruff and Veronza performs poetry and music in his mother's memory and family. Sean Swain talks about the FBI [01:05:16] :D Announcements BadNews #44 Out! The A-Radio Network has released the 44th monthly episode of our Angry Voices From Around The World, English-language podcast. Check it out! Updates from Bristol & the wider UK, Mare Liberum about resisting deadly anti-refugee practices in the Mediterranean, hunger striking anarchists and prisoners of the Uprising in Chile, interview with a Myanmar Food Not Bombs activist, the student movement and trial of the anarchist Vaggelis Stathopoulos from Greece, anti-dam resistance in Aragon (Spain), and notes on repression and struggle against the state in Greece! All Out for Mumia's Birthday It's notable also, that Mumia Abu-Jamal, prolific author and journalist, former Black Panther and political prisoner in Pennsylvania is in grave danger. He's been in prison since conviction for the 1981 death of a cop in Philly based on flimsy evidence and perjured testimony. From a blood infusion, he contracted hepatitis-c which was eventually treated and cured due to his struggle on behalf of so many other prisoners, that condition gave Mumia cirrhosis of the liver and damaged eye sight. He developed congestive heart disease from his time inside and this year Mumia has contracted covid-19 and is fighting for his life in an emergency heart surgery. The white supremacist police state failed at assassinating Mumia, they failed at executing him and now they're killing him by medical malfeasance and mistreatment. It is long past time for Mumia to be free. You can join Mumia's friends and family for his 67th birthday on April 24th by taking to the streets to exert pressure to releaes Mumia so he can get the medical treatment he needs and end this charade of injustice. There are events popping up around the world for the 23rd through the 25th. You can find some info at FreeMumia.Com New bilingual website for Fidencio Aldama Pérez There is a now a bilingual support site for Fidencio Aldama Pérez, a Yaqui de-colonial activist in so-called Mexico who is serving a bullshit 15.5 year sentence on a murder he did not commit. You can hear a little in our Mexico interview from last year, there's a brief intro post at IGD about the case and the site, and you can learn more at FidencioAldama.org/en/ . ... . .. Featured tracks: To Touch The Spirit by Jah Roots (featuring Veronza Bowers, Jr. on shakuhachi flute) [01:02:42] Song For Alexis by Jah Roots (featuring Veronza Bowers, Jr. on shakuhachi flute) [00:22:50] Healing Heart by Jah Roots (featuring Veronza Bowers, Jr. on shakuhachi flute) [00:37:59]

Bernie Madoff, l'architetto della più grande frode finanziaria di tutti i tempi è morto è morto mercoledì 14 aprile 2021 in un carcere federale di Butner, North Carolina. Qui stava scontando una pena da 150 anni di prigione. La sua colpa è quella di aver truffato 37mila persone in 136 Paesi nell'arco di quattro decenni. Clienti che gli hanno affidato i risparmi di una vita e che si sono ritrovati con un pugno di mosche in mano quando si è scoperto, alla fine del 2008, che nulla di quanto scritto nei libri contabili della sua società corrispondeva al vero. E che la sua finanziaria altro non era che gigantesco castello di carte. In questa puntata di Market Mover vi raccontiamo l'ascesa e la caduta di uno dei più grandi criminali finanziari di tutti i tempi. Lo facciamo con l'aiuto di Marco Valsania, collega del Sole 24 Ore da New York a cui abbiamo chiesto di raccontarci chi era Bernie Madoff e come ha costruito la sua grande bugia

Bernie Madoff, l'architetto della più grande frode finanziaria di tutti i tempi è morto è morto mercoledì 14 aprile 2021 in un carcere federale di Butner, North Carolina. Qui stava scontando una pena da 150 anni di prigione. La sua colpa è quella di aver truffato 37mila persone in 136 Paesi nell'arco di quattro decenni. Clienti che gli hanno affidato i risparmi di una vita e che si sono ritrovati con un pugno di mosche in mano quando si è scoperto, alla fine del 2008, che nulla di quanto scritto nei libri contabili della sua società corrispondeva al vero. E che la sua finanziaria altro non era che gigantesco castello di carte. In questa puntata di Market Mover vi raccontiamo l'ascesa e la caduta di uno dei più grandi criminali finanziari di tutti i tempi. Lo facciamo con l'aiuto di Marco Valsania, collega del Sole 24 Ore da New York a cui abbiamo chiesto di raccontarci chi era Bernie Madoff e come ha costruito la sua grande bugia

https://storiainpodcast.focus.it - Canale PersonaggiBernard Lawrence Madoff detto Bernie (New York, 29 aprile 1938 – Butner, 14 aprile 2021) è stato un banchiere e criminale statunitense, condannato per una delle più grandi frodi finanziarie di tutti i tempi.A Storiainpodcast lo racconta Francesco Semprini (Corrispondente da New York per il quotidiano La Stampa).A cura di Francesco De Leo. Montaggio di Silvio Farina.------------Storia in podcast di Focus si può ascoltare anche su Spotify http://bit.ly/VoceDellaStoria ed Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/la-voce-della-storia/id1511551427.Siamo in tutte le edicole... ma anche qui:- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FocusStoria/- Gruppo Facebook Focus Storia Wars: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocuStoriaWars/ (per appassionati di storia militare)- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/focusitvideo- Twitter: https://twitter.com/focusstoria- Sito: https://www.focus.it/cultura

Bernard Madoff, whose name became synonymous with financial fraud, died while serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison. He was 82 years old. His death Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in the prison in Butner, North Carolina, was confirmed by the US Bureau of Prisons. A cause of death was not released.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

In this episode, Sam meets Maggie Murphy and Sissy Butner, the owners of Clover, a Milwaukee-based plant shop. They chat about Sissy moving to Milwaukee from Kansas City, massive snowstorms, how they met, selling plants on Instagram, why they love plants, educating the public, having two brain aneurysms, pricey plants, Lake Michigan, and parenting a plant.

Your past doesn’t define you. Your pain has a purpose. Your story matters.Those of are some of the things that Kelly Butner learned after she came to know Christafter a traumatic childhood. Kelly felt broken, but on a mission trip to Romania a fewyears ago, she felt God healing her as she publicly shared her testimony for the firsttime.Kelly discovered that she had a voice – and that her voice was powerful because Godwas using it. She also discovered her passion for sharing the Gospel around the worldon mission trips. She’ll share all about doing that, plus the important distinction betweenbelieving in God and actually following Him, on this episode of Limitless Spirit.5:35 – Growing up in church, but experiencing hurts, family dysfunction, andbrokenness7:25 – During a very hard time, the Holy Spirit started helping Kelly process somedifficult childhood memories, a key step on her journey to healing11:16 – On her first ever mission trip to Romania, Kelly publicly shares her story for thefirst time15:26 – Highlight from a trip to Buenos Aires17:50 – Figuring out how to do missions as a mom of three young boys and facing fearand self-doubt before every trip20:52 – Kelly says she is “absolutely” a different person who has found her greaterpurpose and understands more about the way God way her through doing missionswork23:50 – Going on a mission trip with her husband and how they’re more connected now26:51 – “I’m just hungry to see what He’s (God’s) doing” and some closing thoughtsabout connecting with WMAWould you like know more about how you can connect with your greater purpose? After you listen to this episode, go to our website: www.rfwma.org and find out how World Missions Alliance can help you connect to your greater purpose. Find out more about the Greater Purpose Conference: https://rfwma.org/greaterpurpose/If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the Limitless Spirit Podcast, click belowSupport the show (https://rfwma.org/give)Email us your questions and comments at podcast@rfwma.orgWMA is 501(c)(3), donations are tax deductibleSupport the show (https://rfwma.org/give)

About Geri Paige ButnerGeri is a former startup and corporate marketing leader turned Life Alignment Coach, Business Launch Coach, and Speaker. After a decade of starting and growing business from the ground up and living life in the fast lane, she hit rock bottom and ended up in the ER. Geri then decided to take back her power and design the life of her dreams. She completely transformed her mindset, health and lifestyle, and left the corporate world to help people align their life with what brings them joy.Geri guides others to awaken to their potential, live their life out loud, and free themselves from the subconscious beliefs that keep them in lifestyles and work that aren't in alignment with their truth.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geripaige/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geributner/Website: https://www.geripaige.com/

This week we revisit an important episode on the Trinity. Coleen and Rachel discuss the doctrine of the Trinity and eternal functional subordination with Glenn Butner. Glenn has written The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son.  Episode Resources: The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son Women can join Theology Gals Facebook Group Theology Gals-Ladies Theology Discussion and Encouragement Follow Theology Gals: On Facebook On Twitter @TheologyGals On Instagram theologygals Email us at theologygals@gmail.com  

This week we revisit an important episode on the Trinity. Coleen and Rachel discuss the doctrine of the Trinity and eternal functional subordination with Glenn Butner. Glenn has written The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son.  Episode Resources: The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son Women can join Theology Gals Facebook Group Theology Gals-Ladies Theology Discussion and Encouragement Follow Theology Gals: On Facebook On Twitter @TheologyGals On Instagram theologygals Email us at theologygals@gmail.com  

Julie Butner, President and CEO of the Tarrant Area Food Bank talks about her organization's response to COVID-19 and the work they are doing with the community to give everyone in need a Thanksgiving meal. To get involved, go to www.tafb.org.

Jordan and Brandon talk with Glenn Butner about the doctrine of the Trinity. They cover topics like: What is the Trinity?  What do the ecumenical creeds require of the Christian to believe about the Trinity? What are the key terms we must know and understand? What texts of Scripture are primary in our understanding of God as Trinity? How can we best teach the Trinity to lay church members? And more.Find more info about the London Lyceum or contact us at our website.Resources:1) The Son Who Learned Obedience, Glenn ButnerSupport the show

In the fourth episode of PopTalk! we discuss what food insecurity in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the Tarrant Area Food Bank can offer community members. We are joined today with a very special guest, who serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tarrant Area Food Bank, Ms. Julie Butner. In addition to her role as CEO, Ms. Butner is a Registered, Licensed Dietitian and has held leadership roles in multiple multinational corporations in the healthcare industry focused on food and nutrition, such as Aramark and Compass Group. Listen in to find out more about food insecurity, identify poor nutrition in patients, and what caregivers can do. Tarrant Area Food Bank: https://tafb.org/

Is there a nice way to say, "You're standing too close to me?" Judith Martin aka "Miss Manners" has written a new book about etiquette in the COVID-19 age. She joins us to discuss her new e-book that she co-authored with her adult children. And, attorneys have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of inmates at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina. The prison houses inmates with special health needs and at least 10 have died of COVID-19.

What's In Your Frame? - Episode 2: An interview with  local legend Scott Butner  Episode summary:Scott Butner is considered by many as a Tri-Cities creative staple. Many know him for his technical shots of weather and storm landscapes and incredible eye for portrait photography. Scott takes us on his life journey through the lens of his cameras and experiences including his early years working with film, working for the Seattle Seahawks as a team photographer, and how his 25 year hiatus from photography impacted his career as a photographer today. “A photo-generalist in an era of niche specialization. And proud of it.” - Scott Butner  Connect and follow Scott Butner http://www.scottbutner.com/https://www.instagram.com/scottbutner/ Support your local artists on Instagram:@jnunnsparks @raycaststudio @captainmadisonx Music: Green Tea by Smith The Mister https://smiththemister.bandcamp.comSmith The Mister https://bit.ly/Smith-The-Mister-YTFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/smith-the-mister-green...Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/A7zatZLprh

Being Better To One Another: Comrade Malik from USP Pollock / Peter Gelderloos from Spain On this podcast special, we're sharing two segments. First, Comrade Malik (s/n Keith Washington) of the IWW and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee speaks about his experience at the Federal prison USP Pollock in Grant Parish, Louisiana, changes in policies in relation to the pandemic and the dangers posed by guards going in and out of the facility. Comrade Malik was paroled from the Texas prison system some months ago and is now serving the remains of a nine month Federal sentence before release to CA where he plans to work on the SF Bay View National Black Newspaper. More of Malik's wriitngs can be found at ComradeMalik.Com. [00:05:40-00:10:23] He also requests listeners to press the Bureau of Prisons release Malik to the address in San Francisco that he has now on file with the BOP. Comrade Malik is in his 51 years old and has a history of medical issues, thanks to maltreatment in the Texas prison system. You can contact the USP Pollock via email at POL/ExecAssistant@bop.gov or by phone at +13185615300. You can also call the head office of the BOP at +12023073198 to register a similar request Then, we hear from author and anarchist, Peter Gelderloos about responses by the Spanish government and in civil society to the pandemic, challenges to internationalize rent refusal and to treat people better in our communities. More of his writings can be found at TheAnarchistLibrary.Org. [00:14:30-01:08:34]   Stay tuned for Sunday's release with housing organizers in Asheville from UHOH about the work they're doing here and suggestions about organizing as well as a chat with a volunteer doing harm reduction on the actions of local police and politicians against houseless folks and drug users and the shut down of life saving programs during the pandemic. . ... . .. Just a quick announcement of some phone zaps beginning today about prisoners and the covid-19 virus, Find the numbers and demands compiled from prisoners in our show notes.: Prison Phone Zaps Two deaths of prisoners at Lee State Prison in Georgia There is a phone zap starting April 9th for Lee State Prison in GA where two deaths have occurred from covid-19. Atlanta IWOC suggests dialing *67 to block your number before making calls and a few other ways to keep yourself safer while dialing into prisons.   North Carolina Prison Outbreaks of Corona Federal Correctional Complex at Butner, operated by the BOP, was reported to have 59 cases of covid-19 a few days ago. Outbreaks have been reported at Caledonia CI, Greene CI and Johnston CI, operated by North Carolina Department of Public Safety. There is an ongoing phone zap up at BRABC.Blackblogs.Org   North Lake Immigrant Detention Hunger Strike About ten inmates at the North Lake Correctional Facility, a federal immigrant prison in Baldwin, MI, are moving into day five of a hunger strike, demanding adequate nutrition and basic healthcare services currently being denied, as well as religious freedom for followers of the Hebrew Israelite faith. A call script and the numbers are up at itsgoingdown.org   Frederick, MD Activists Demand Release of ICE Detainees and Prisoners Spire City Medics is blasting a zap to press Sheriff Chuck Jenkins in Frederick County, MD to release prisoners and ICE detainees in light of the pandemic and lack of preparation for the safety of those housed in the jail there. More info at SpireCityMedics.Org . ... . .. image by Robert Ramos Featured tracks: Jeru The Damaja - "Me Or The Papes (instrumental)" - s/t single Time - "I Wrote This To Start A Fire" - These Songs Kill Fascists

Introduction Sermon Illustration Turn in your Bibles to James 3. You'll be looking this morning at the text you heard read for us, James 3:1-12. In the year of 2012, I went on a mission trip to Nepal, fulfilling a dream. For many, many years, I'd wanted to go to Nepal, prayed for many years for an unreached people group there, and yearned to be able to share the Gospel there in Nepal and had the opportunity in 2012. At one point, we were driving along a road that was alongside on the verge of a raging river swollen by a month of rains, torrential downpours. The river had a brown muddy look to it. It was not attractive at all, but I had never seen such a rushing torrent in all my life. It looked like a stampede of bison back in the Old West. Not that I've ever seen that but what I imagine it would look like. A stampede of muddy bison. It was rising and falling and roaring and undulating with peaks and troughs, and unspeakable power. It was terrifying just to drive alongside it, wondering if at any moment, it might leap out of its boundaries, and swallow up the very road that we were driving on. It was ugly, it was powerful, it was threatening and dangerous. I feel certain if anyone were to have fallen into it, they would immediately be swept to their death, or pulled down under and drowned. So these words are in my mind as I think about that image. Dirty, dangerous, powerful. So as we come to this passage this morning, James 3:1-12, that picture's in my mind. An overwhelming force, a rushing torrent, a deadly power, able to sweep away whole villages in a flood and swiftly bring death. But look at what we're actually talking about today, we're talking about the tongue. That little muscle behind your teeth that has no bone to it, but how powerful it is. James zeros in on the tongue as it seems like a weapon of mass destruction. I think James wouldn't have known that expression, but if he understood it, he would say, yes, that's exactly what it is. The human race speaks an almost immeasurable torrent of words every single day. We Speak Many Words Every Day Estimates put the average ration of words for you as between 18 and 25,000, some of you more, some of you less. Seven and a half billion people. I know a percentage of those haven't learned to speak yet, but they will. So we're talking about approximately 150 trillion words every day spoken by the human race, and God listens to every one of them, remembers all of them, but what's really terrifying is not the sheer volume of human words, but what the Bible says about how evil many, if not most of them are, and that's exactly what James 3:1-12 is addressing, the absolute necessity of we Christians, who James calls again and again. “My brothers, my brothers. We Christians have to tame the tongue by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Now in context we've just passed through what I call the theological center of the Book of James. James is a very practical book. It seeks to address how Christianity is actually affecting your life. What's actually going on with you now that you've heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And he's seeking to instruct Christians on what genuine faith looks like in the real world. Now he's just made it plain at the end of James 2, that faith without works is dead. If your faith isn't actually affecting what you do, then it's a dead faith, a useless faith, a demon faith. But immediately after that, he addresses the tongue because there is such a powerful connection between the heart and the tongue. Who you really are as a person and what you say, and James wants his readers to know that the transformation of the tongue is essential to genuine salvation. It may be the single greatest proof that you really are a Christian, how you use your tongue. So we're going to draw out from the text today six reasons why all Christians must tame the tongue by the power of the Holy Spirit. I. Because By Our Words We Will Be Judged The Tongue is a Clear Reflection of the Heart Reason number one, “Because By Our Words We Will Be Judged.” Because by our words, we will be judged. Look at verse 1, “Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.” Now for me as a teacher of the word of God. I must read that with fear and trembling. I was sitting over there in the seat just like all of you, were sitting in your seats but I have to get up and walk up here and talk, and I have to do so with fear and trembling because it says that “not many of us should be teachers,” and the NIV puts it, “presume to be teachers.” I think that's to take that honor on yourself. Many of you should not do that. Why? Because we who teach will be judged more strictly, more severely. Why is that because of the great danger of hypocrisy, of saying one thing with your mouth, and living a different way with your life. Richard Baxter in his classic, Reformed Pastor, said this to his brother pastors, "Take heed to yourselves lest you live in those sins which you preach against in others, lest you be guilty of that which daily you condemn. Will you preach God's laws, and then willfully break them? If sin be evil, then why do you live in it? And if it be not, then why do you dissuade men from it? If sin be dangerous then how dare you venture on it? But if it be not then why do you tell men so? If God's threatenings be true, then why do you not fear them? And if they be false then why do you needlessly trouble men with them and put them into such frights without a cause?" That's very convicting for me. “Let not many of you presume to be teachers because you're going to be judged more severely if you get up in front of people and talk about God's word, and then you don't live it out in your own life.” We're going to be judged. James says more severely, but on the other hand, God has ordained the teaching office as essential to the completion of the salvation of the flock of Christ. So what am I supposed to do? The talents, the Parable of the Talents, five talents, two talents, one talent, the one with the five went out and put it to work and gained five more, the one with the two went out and put it to work and gained two more. But then there's that one with the one talent that was afraid of the master because he's such a severe judge and he's harsh, and unfair, and so he takes his talent, hides in the ground and he's called a, “wicked lazy servant.” So, I'm hemmed in by the word of God. It says in Romans 12, if your gift is teaching, then teach. And so those of us that have the gift of teaching, we need to venture forward and teach but this passage stands as a warning to be certain that we understand that we are going to be judged more severely even as we teach week by week. What is this link then between the tongue and judgment? Jesus Clearly Links the Heart to the Tongue Well, it's because there's a clear link between the tongue and the heart. Between the tongue and the heart. We're going to be judged, evaluated by our words, and Jesus made this link very clear. You remember when he was driving out demons and his enemies claimed that it was by Beelzebub, the prince of devils that he was driving out demons? That's a filthy statement. Well, they made many filthy statements about Jesus. And at one point Jesus zeros in on that. Talk to his blasphemous enemies, and he said this in Matthew 12:33-35. “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, make a tree bad and it's fruit will be bad for a tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him. And the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.” So that's why there's this link between what we do with our tongue, and Judgment Day. Out of the overflow or out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. The heart then really is the issue, the heart is the storage receptacle of all manner of things. The heart does many things, biblically. There are many verbs attached or connected to the heart, biblically. So what you ponder, you ponder in your heart, what you delight in, you delight with your heart. What you ruminate over, what you fantasize about. What you covet, what you lust after, what you desire and pursue, what you love, what you hate, what you choose, what you reject, what you consider, what you plan for, the heart does all of these things. It's the core of your being. Now the Bible makes it plain, the basic nature of the unregenerate heart is wickedness. Jeremiah 17:9 it says, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” That's where all of us starts, with a deceitful wicked heart. Do you not see the supernatural grace of salvation? Jesus said, "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good.” That's the one thing we cannot do, we can't make ourselves good, we can't make our hearts good. And so, as the Gospel has unfolded so clearly and so powerfully and in great detail in the Book of Romans, the first section of Romans unfolds the universality of sin. And it culminates in this crescendo in Romans 3 saying there's, “no one righteous, not even one, there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God, all have turned away, they've together become worthless. There is no one who does good, not even one”, now, listen to the next words, “their throats are open graves, their tongues practice deceit, the poison of vipers is on their lips, and their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” That's four straight statements about the mouth. The poison of our unregenerate mouths. The tongue therefore, is a clear tattletale to the state of the heart. What's really going on in your heart? Jesus Says, “By Our Words We Will Be Judged” And Jesus says, “by our words we will be evaluated.” As he continues there in Matthew 12:36-37. “But I tell you that men will have to give an account on the Day of Judgment for every careless word you have spoken. For by your words, you will be acquitted and by your words, you will be condemned.” That's an amazing statement. The tongue is such a sure-fire reflection of the state of the heart that all Jesus, the Judge of all the Earth will need, is a full catalog of your career in words and he'll know exactly the state of your heart. Now, he'll look at more than that, but I'm just saying that all he needs are your words if he has a 100% catalogue of the words. Now, does he? Does God keep track? Oh, he does. I remember sharing the Gospel with somebody, and I came to that verse. It’s a very useful verse in witnessing. You'll have to give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word you have spoken. Well this individual who had the great misfortune of sitting next to me on a four-hour flight, and I said, you're going to have to give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word you have spoken. He said to me, “But I don't remember everything I've said.” What would you say next to that? “That's okay, God does. He's got it all written down. Every single word.” Job said, "Oh that my words were recorded. That they were written on a scroll. That they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead or engraved in rock forever.” Don't you want to say to brother Job, be careful what you wish for? Everything has been written down. God has a perfect record, an accurate record of everything that we've ever said, and we're going to have to give an account on the Day of Judgment for all of it. Therefore we ought to tame our tongues, brothers and sisters. What is the Tongue Capable Of Doing? Now what are the different things the tongue is capable of? It's remarkable the catalog of corruption linked to the human tongue. There are so many different ways that we can sin. James says in verse 2, "We all stumble in many ways.” What a self-reflective, open, honest statement that is. He's saying, “I'm not a perfect person. All of us stumble in many ways.” Alright, but when it comes to the tongue, how many different ways can we stumble? It's remarkable. When I was writing my book on sanctification, An Infinite Journey, I actually cataloged the sins of the tongue alphabetically. You're ready? Here we go: Arguing, blasphemy, boasting, coarse speech, complaining, cursing, deceit, disrespect, exaggeration, false doctrine, filthy joking, flattery, foolish talk, gossip, insults, lies, mockery, rebellion, sarcasm, seduction, slander, threats, words of unbelief. And that's just a partial list. If you're thinking, what about this or what about that? Come and tell me afterwards, I'll make the list longer and more detailed for the second edition of that book. And for all of these verbal sins, God is going to bring people into judgment, and his record of our words is perfect. Do you not see how much we need a savior? Thank God that God sent his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die in our place under the wrath we deserve for such a catalog of corruption. And I'm pleading with you, be certain that Jesus is your savior today. Don't leave this place unconverted. You don't want to stand before the perfect judge with this catalog of your own words and have to give an account for everything you've said and you don't have a savior to intercede for you whose blood was shed on the cross, to save you from your sins. So come to Christ and trust in him. On Judgment Day our words will be a perfect reflection of the state of our heart and our souls. II. By Taming the Tongue We Control Our Whole Bodies Control Your Tongue, Control Your Life Secondly, we need to tame the tongue because by taming the tongue we control our whole bodies. By taming the tongue we control our whole bodies. Look at verse 2, “We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.” So what James is doing is he's telling us that controlling the tongue is a key step to controlling your whole life. James has already said if you don't bridle the tongue, your religion is worthless, you're deceiving yourself. He said that in chapter one, But conversely if you want a genuine salvation, you have to start really with the tongue, bridling the tongue will enable you to control your whole life. “Now, if you're able to do that, if you're never at fault in anything you say, you are a perfect person,” James says. Now, we will never be perfect in this life. We will never be perfect. There is only one man who ever perfectly controlled his tongue and that's Jesus Christ, but he did perfectly control his tongue. He made it through his whole life in this world without once saying something wrong. And never failing to say the right thing that the situation called for. I think about Proverbs 25:11, which says, “a word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Jesus had almost a countless number of those. Saying exactly the right thing to the person, what was needed for that situation. He knew how to deal with broken-hearted sinners who felt there was no hope for them. “The bruised reed, he did not break. The smoldering wick he did not snuff out,” he knew how to lift up a weeping sinner and give him or her hope of forgiveness. He also could speak like a lion to self-righteous, arrogant religious leaders who needed to have someone speak to them like a lion. He did both. Now James is not in any way implying that we can be perfect, but it is the goal of sanctification. After justification, after our sins have been forgiven and we've been born again, to seek perfection every day. So what do you say we start with just the rest of the day. For the rest of the day that we will be perfect in speech. What a goal. Wouldn't that be sweet, if you could put your head on the pillow tonight and say, from the time that the pastor said that on, you didn't say anything wrong. But then Monday will come, and there's another day in which you can be perfect in your speech. The Tongue Determines the Spiritual Course of Your Life Now, the point that he's making here is the tongue controls the course of your life, actually. Look at verse six, "The tongue is also a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body, it corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire and is itself set on fire by Hell." James literally says that the tongue sets the whole course of his life on fire when it's used for evil. It's interesting. The word that he uses here is the word wheel, like the wheel of fate, or the hinge of fate, that kind of thing. For us, we might think of a steering wheel, that kind of thing. But the whole course of your life is set in motion or in direction by how you use your tongue. Now, for the unregenerate person, James, I think is speaking in verse 6 of the evil that seizes his or her tongue and sets that tongue on fire, even as though it were set on fire by Hell. The direction of that kind of life, that type of talking is Hell, eternity in the Lake of Fire. That's what he's saying. It's a terrifying direction to be on. If you want to know, "Am I on the broad roads that leads to destruction?", look at how you talk. Conversely and positively, when he rescues you from that highway to Hell, and brings you to that straight and narrow gate, he's going to affect by the Spirit the way you talk. So, if you want to grow in grace in the knowledge of Christ, if you want to be more and more conformed to the perfection of Christ, the way he used his tongue, then ask Christ through the Holy Spirit to change the way you talk, to control your speech patterns. So, to weed out the bitterness and complaining you reveal in trials. The way you don't consider it pure joy, but you actually start to complain and murmur against God, start there. Or perhaps kill the gossip or the slander by which you assassinate the character of people who are not even there with you, behind their backs, the things you say about them. Or putting lies and deceitfulness to death. To put an end to the exaggeration that you use when you tell that story about what you did, and you end up the knight in shining armor and the other person, the villain in the dark hat. We all do this, we twist the truth, it's malleable and we make it say what we want. To kill the habit of flattery by which you manipulate people. You say things you really don't believe good things about them, so that you can bring them in your thrall, you can control them, manipulation, that flattery. There is so much work to be done, isn't there brothers and sisters? There's so much to be done. It's like, "Oh God, I want to be a sanctified man, I want to be a sanctified woman." The Holy Spirit is saying to us through this text, “Then control your tongue. You get control of your tongue, your body will follow.” Two Illustrations He uses two illustrations to prove this point. The bit in the horse's mouth and the rudder of the great ship. Look at verse three and four, when we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example, although they are so large, and are driven by strong winds, they're steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. So the bit in the horse's mouth is a clear illustration of how this whole powerful animal can be turned by a little piece of metal. I mean, the horse outweighs the rider by 10 to 20 times. The horse, I don't think is getting up in the morning, saying, “I really want to plow your field for you.” Can I pull your wagon? Think of a wild bronco. Like, “I really am just looking for someone that will ride me. I'm just yearning to have a human being get on my back.” But instead the horse has to be broken, and then the bit has been developed somewhere along the line by horse trainers, to say, this is the way you make it turn left or right. Tiny piece of metal. James also speaks of the rudder. Think about a massive ship, all of the steel and all of the weights and all of this, and it's turned by this very tiny portion of metal left or right, whatever direction the pilot wants to go. And so, what he's saying is, the tongue is like that for you. If you can control your tongue, you can turn your whole body. If you can control your tongue, the whole ship is steered. III. Because the Tongue Has a Powerful Effect on Others Alright, thirdly, because we have to control our tongues because the tongue has such a powerful effect on others. Verses 5-6, likewise, “the tongue is also a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark, the tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire and is itself set on fire by Hell.” So the tongue makes great boast, because it has great influence. It has great power. The Tongue “Makes Great Boasts” Because of Its Great Power For me, I cannot help but think about eschatology, about the end of the world and about the Antichrist that is coming. And Daniel 7 makes it plain that he's characterized more than anything by great boasting. The little horn made great boasts, boast even up to Heaven. He's going to set himself up in God's temple declaring himself to be God and accepting worship. He's like the quintessential unregenerate human. All of us are that if it weren't for Christ. We would want to be that person, to be set up in God's temple and be up on a throne and be worshipped and making these boasts that claim up to Heaven. Or think about politicians that have used the power of rhetoric, the power of the tongue. I think about Adolf Hitler and his ability to just capture the heart and soul of the German nation with these nighttime rallies, like at Nuremberg, where he would use a light show and all that, and he said that the will of the people can be more easily controlled at night. And then you look at videos of his speeches and how powerful and how boastful and arrogant they were and how the entire nation was swayed by his tongue. There are so many examples of this, of politicians that have been able to capture the moment, for good or bad. Think about the Gettysburg Address, which is so short and Lincoln was able to just zero in on the issue of slavery. Yes, but the issue of representative government and will government of the people, by the people, for the people, even survive or will it break into factions and keep breaking apart and breaking apart? Or you think about Winston Churchill, what it'd be like to become prime minister in May of 1940, and have to galvanize the English nation against the kind of tyranny that had taken over all of Europe, Western Europe. And be able to say with words, we're going to fight on the seas and oceans, our goal is victory at all costs lest we submit to slavery. See, I'm not Churchill or else I couldn't do it, but I could do it right here. But that kind of passion, that speaking that galvanized the nation, the whole nation gathers around one man's tongue. And so, James likens the small tongue and the damage it can do to a spark that sets a whole forest on fire. A Spark Starting A Forest Fire So I didn't know that much about the history of forest fires in the United States. Do you know the deadliest forest fire in the history of the United States? It was the exact same time as the Chicago fire, but it was a different fire. It was in the upper peninsula of Michigan and in Wisconsin, killed 1,500 people. You don't see 1,500 people dying in forest fires, they usually flee, they have time to get out. But it was just a weird combination of winds and a storm front that came down and the people were trapped and they died. The exact same time as apparently, Mrs O'Leary's cow kicked over a kerosene lantern. We've been told it's a myth, but it's really good for illustration for this sermon, right here. So, one cow and one kerosene lantern and the whole city burns up that kind of thing. But it was a myth. Anyway, preacher's story, but where I think the point's made. Tiny spark. One idea can get in and ruin everything, can destroy it, and people can be swept away. IV. Because the Tongue is Set on Fire by Hell The Satanic Origin of the Fire Fourth reason: Because the tongue is set on fire itself by Hell. The Satanic origin of this evil fire is clear. Look at verse 6 again, “the tongue is also a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire and is itself set on fire by Hell.” This may be the single most devastating verse in the entire Bible on human speech. Layer upon layer of the damage the human tongue can do. “It's a fire,” it says, “burning up, destroying much good.” He calls it interestingly, a world of evil. It's a system of evil. There's a logic to the things we say. They take root in the minds and they persuade hearts, they sway wills toward evil. There's a logic to it, there's this world. I think about the tragedies of Shakespeare and how clear words are powerful. But one in particular, I remember this one struck me more than any of them, the tragedies of Shakespeare and that's Othello. And in that we have the power of slander. And you have Othello and he's got a friend who really isn't a friend, an evil guy named Iago who whispers in his ear that his, Othello's wife, Desdemona is committing adultery, is unfaithful to him. It's not true but he's able to turn his heart against his own faithful wife. And we know that she's faithful for the way that Shakespeare writes the play, but it's all the power of whispers into the ear and the heart can turn and he ends up killing Desdemona and then committing suicide. All of that from Iago's tongue. So James says the tongue directs the whole course of someone's life in evil. And Satan uses the tongue to do his work. Think of the role of the tongue in the crucifixion of Jesus. Think about that. The people that got together and plotted many times to kill Jesus. The way that Judas told where Jesus would be that night. The way that they slandered him when he was on trial and gave false witnesses against him. The way that they persuaded Pontius Pilate who wanted to set him free to kill him. V. Because the Tongue is So Wild More Wild Than Untamed Beasts The fifth reason that we need to control the tongue is because the tongue is so wild. Look at verses 7-8, "All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the Sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil full of deadly poison." So James likens the tongue to a wild animal, barely, it's just untamable. Now, every kind of animal has been tamed. Some of you have actually been to the circus. I remember when we were first here, 20 years ago, we got tickets to the circus in Raleigh. And it was quite remarkable what the animal trainers could do to lions and elephants and the things that they could make them do. I remember a number of years ago, I went to Sea World in Orlando, And there was a woman there with a bucket of fish attached to her belt and she's got all these hand signals and all that, and she's making Orcas, I mean they are at the top of the food chain in the ocean, making them jump and do ridiculous things. The Orcas, like do you have any self-respect? Like the untrained Orca coming along and saying, "Because of a few sardines you're jumping through a hoop? Have some dignity, have some self-respect." But here's this skillful animal trainer able to make this massive animal do whatever she wants it to do. But the real question the text would ask is, “Yeah, but what does she talk like after the show's over?” She's able to control this massive Orca but she can't control the way she talks and neither can any of us. But No Man Can Tame the Tongue Now when it says, "No man can tame the tongue." you might say then, "What's the point? Why are we listening to this sermon? Just so we can all go home and feel bad?" No let me tell you what I think is one of the most important verses concerning our salvation. It's the first beatitude, blessed are the spiritual beggars for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. God doesn't want you to bring your capabilities and your abilities and all of this stuff to him and say, what a great person I am. He wants you to bring your brokenness and your sinfulness and your corruption to him and say, "Would you please heal me, fix me?" Jesus said “it's not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous. I'm not calling on perfect people to talk so we can all know how perfect they are. I'm calling on broken sinners to bring me their brokenness and they're sinfulness and I will heal you, I will save you.” So that's what we're supposed to do with this. We're supposed to bring our brokenness and our tongues to the Lord. And then you're going to start praying differently about your tongue. You're going to say something like this, "Set a guard over the door of my mouth, keep watch over the door of my lips, O Lord." Psalm 141:3. Guard Your Mouth I live in Butner, near the federal facility up there. What a gentle word for that, “federal facility.” Alright, it's got spiral razor wire and big towers and searchlights and guards. And a whole system by which you can get in if you have the permission to get in, no one can get out. It's you're like, "Well is that what my mouth is like?" Yes, yes. Can you imagine like Amnesty Day, once a month, there at Butner. Just letting everyone out, just get out in the community, and we'll get them all back. And it's like, "No, please don't." I don't want those murderers and those folks out because of the damage they'll do to me and my family, etcetera. Well, think about your mouth like that. Say, "Lord, would you please dispatch an angel and set the angel over the door of my mouth and set guard so that nothing harmful gets out of my mouth." You probably need to slow down your speech as we talked about earlier. Quick to listen, slow to speak. Used to be true, I don't know if it's still true, the FCC had like a seven-second delay so they could beep out things that shouldn't be said. I don't know if they still do that anymore, they should. There are some things that get said that I don't want to hear. But alright, whether they do it or not, why don't you do it? Seven second delay. I'm going to wait, wait a second or seven seconds before I say something to my wife or my husband, some of you, alright. I'm going to be careful. I'm going to be slow to speak. VI. Because the Tongue is Given to Praise God Six, because the tongue is given to praise God. “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father and with it we curse men who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing, my brothers this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brother's can a fig tree bear olives or a grape vine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.” Well, here's the thing, our changed nature should result in praise and worship to God. It's the best thing you can do with your tongue. You know you will be doing that with your redeemed tongue in Heaven. Your tongue will be glorified in Heaven. You will shine like the sun in the kingdom of your father and you will talk only perfect words in Heaven. Isn't that encouraging? Think about that. But now, we should be consistently praising and glorifying God. Now, when we fell into sin our tongues fell with us. You remember the first sin that Adam committed after eating the fruit? Do you remember? God confronted him. “The woman you put here with me, she gave me some of the fruit.” So he's taken a swipe at both God and his wife. But when we have been redeemed, genuinely redeemed, we're going to speak to one another with “psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.” We're going to sing and make music in our hearts to the Lord. We're going to always give thanks to God the Father through our lord Jesus Christ, Ephesians 5. That's the redeemed tongue. We're going to worship God. So our tongues show our redeemed nature. Now, the question he's asking here is how can you praise God one moment and then do that the next moment. How can we sing, in a few moments we're going to sing a closing hymn, how can we sing that closing hymn praising God and then get in the car and say this or that to each other. How can you do that? How can a fresh spring produce salt water or vice versa? But let's speak positively. You've been redeemed, there should be good fruit flowing from your life, not bitterness and not wickedness. So out of your mouths, you should be praising God and out of your mouths you should be blessing others and not speaking in this way. So let your mouth show your transformed nature. VII. Application Evaluate Yourself in Light of God’s Law Alright, applications. This should make all of us repent. We're looking in the mirror of God's word, the perfect law that gives freedom. We're looking in it. How do we look, how do we look? So we should be convicted by this. Start with your family life, without joking at all, just start with your marriage. How do you talk to your spouse? It could be that some of you husbands have some things you need to ask forgiveness for as soon as you can. Ways that you've spoken perhaps even this morning, this very morning to your wife. Some of you wives may need to do the same thing to your husbands. Ways that you've talked to him that show disrespect or sin. We need to look in the mirror of God's law and say, "How am I actually talking to my kids? What do they hear when they hear me speaking? Do they hear a redeemed person?" and you kids, you teens, how do you talk? How do you talk to each other? How do you talk to your parents? You're looking in the mirror of God's law now, what is it saying about the way you're actually using your tongue? And what about specific occurrences? Let's go back to the one I mentioned. Affliction comes in your life, you're hurting, something is happening whether great or small. Is your nature to praise God and trust him and speak those words or do you complain? Do you murmur? It's a very common sin, but it's still a sin. “O God set a guard over the door of my mouth when I'm hurting. I don't want to question you.” What about the issue of gossip or slander. How do you talk about someone who is not there? Gossip about other people in the church can hurt their reputation. It can affect the way other people think about them. Do you do it? Do you have a reason to repent, a reason to ask forgiveness? What about lying? What about exaggeration? Tell you what, next time you tell a story about yourself in which you believe that you did well, put that seven-second delay in there and make sure you tell the truth. Don't exaggerate the truth, don't go beyond what the truth is. What About Your Language? What about filthy language, course language? My brother-in-law lives in Amish Country, Pennsylvania. Like what are you going to do with that? Alright, well, I'll tell you. For about a year he had a job in New York City and he would commute from Amish County, Pennsylvania, up to New York City. The closer and closer he got to the Big Apple, he noticed, not just a change in accents, but a change in vocabulary. Unbelievable, the things that were said. But woe to us, if we ever think the sin is just out there, are there coarse words that come out of your mouth, false speaking? Learn therefore to be quiet in God's presence. Start in your prayer life. I would start by getting into the presence of God and just being quiet. “The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the Earth be silent before him,” Habakkuk. Let's be silent before God and then say, "Lord, would you please teach me what to say and how to say it?" I love this mouth filter that I've used before, Ephesians 4:29, "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs that it may benefit those who listen." So that weeds out the bad, it allows the pure water through. I have a whole house water filter, changing that cartridge is quite a moment. Actually, we had a year in that house before I put one in. I'm like, "What did I drink for that year?" The nasty color of that pure white cartridge that I put in there, it's not pure white anymore. It's a combination of reddish-orange from that clay that we have here in North Carolina and something black, and I'm not sure what that black is but the filter has caught it out. Well, set that filter over your mouth. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs that it may benefit those who listen. So you think about World War I, that gas mask thing, with the big cartridge in front of the mouth like that, that's to protect you from what you're breathing in. It'd be nice to have one for what goes out. But boy, would that look weird? There's a lot of people wearing masks now but imagine a mouth filter. Say what's that, what's a mouth filter? What does it do? Well, it doesn't let any unwholesome talk come out of my mouth but only what is helpful. Well, you don't have to physically wear one. Clean out your heart, clean out your heart. Start there. Say, "Lord, what is in my heart?" I love Philippians 4:8, “whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy, think about those things.” You think about those things and that will come out of your mouth. That's one of the reasons I love to memorize scripture. When I'm going through, what I'm doing now is the Gospel of Mark, when I'm doing Mark to and from work when I'm getting over it and saying it over and over, it's amazing the amount of Mark that's coming out of my mouth. It's just Mark all the time. And so, fill your mind with the Word of God. Friends, we have a challenge in front of us, don't we? We have the rest of this day, let's resolve to be holy by the power of the Holy Spirit for the rest of this day. Prayer Close with me in prayer. Father thank you for the clarity of the Word of God. We thank you for the warning tone that it strikes for us. We thank you that you have not left us as orphans, but through the Spirit of Christ, you are in us if we're redeemed. Oh God, I pray that you transform our tongues. Help us to say only those things that will bless and benefit first our spouses then our kids, our parents, our brothers, sisters at home and then our neighbors, our co-workers, Lord, our fellow church members. Help us to use our mouths for what you designed them to do, which is to praise and exalt your glory and your goodness. We pray in Jesus' name, amen.

This week its all about the Coon Hounds!  Kevin Butner had us down to run his hounds with him and afterwards we got together to discuss what got him into the hound world, his thoughts on training, competition hunts, natural ability vs. "manmade" dogs, and so much more.  Kevin has been doing this for years and his passion gets more evident as the conversation goes on.  Give it a listen and let us know what you think.  Please rate, review and share with a friend! Patreon= https://www.patreon.com/gundogityourself Interested in a kennel  Go to www.gundogityourself.com and use the Gunner link to purchase "Man's Best Kennel!" Also, while at the website, use the Duck Camp link to go to their website and see everything they have to offer!

This week, Coleen and Rachel discuss the doctrine of the Trinity and eternal functional subordination with Glenn Butner. Glen has written The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son.  Episode Resources: The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son Women can join Theology Gals Facebook Group Theology Gals-Ladies Theology Discussion and Encouragement Follow Theology Gals: On Facebook On Twitter @TheologyGals On Instagram theologygals Email us at theologygals@gmail.com  

The Butners have a candid conversation with Matt about their journey to becoming parents - and damn fantastic parents at that. From personal stories of miscarriage and fertility treatments to the highs-and-lows of the adoption process, their story is one that will provide guidance to those going through the often difficult and emotionally draining process of starting a family. Never ones to shy away from humor, Matt and Felicia tell their story with a lot of laughter, but serious issues in the world of adoption - especially of babies of Marshallese descent - need to be brought to light so potential parents have a well-rounded understanding of the birth family’s situation. Music in this episode by Verified Picasso and MK2Produced by Harrington Communications ConsultantsSupport the show (https://www.caughtbyhappy.com/donate)

Ralph is an author that spent over 30 years off and on in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for bank robberies and once for counterfeiting. He began writing 14 years ago when he entered prison for the last time. Seven years before his released he was transferred to a small medical and psychiatric facility in Butner, North Carolina where he shared a small 60 man unit with Bernie Madoff, Jonathon Pollard, Nicky Scarfo, Carmine Persico, and alleged serial killer Larry Hall.

Doug Hardy is the guest tonight and talks about Camp Butner and the article he did on the camp for American Digger Magazine's March-April 2019 edition on pages 36-39

Doug Hardy is the guest tonight and talks about Camp Butner and the article he did on the camp for American Digger Magazine's March-April 2019 edition on pages 36-39

In today’s episode we welcome Dr. Glenn Butner from Sterling College to discuss his book, The Son Who Learned Obedience. After answering our guest questions, Glenn tells us about how he stumbled upon a debate about the putative subordination of the Son to the Father in the Trinity and began writing on the topic. He walks us through his approach to the controversy, why Arianism isn’t really the problem with Eternal Functional Subordination (EFS), and why monothelitism might be the much more serious problem. Glenn also uses Anselm’s atonement theory to indicate yet further problems with EFS. We get into how “function” in EFS connects with Evangelical complementarianism and then consider some of the moral and political implications of taking this Trinitarian theology as a model for gender relations. Robyn asks Glenn why penal substitutionary atonement figures so largely in his account of salvation. Ryan asks Glenn how his intervention has been received. Then Glenn gives us a précis of his book, The Son Who Learned Obedience. We also had *another* very special guest: India Rose Boeré, born on February 22nd. Congrats to Robin and Neil! TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT: The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case against the Eternal Submission of the Son. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018. “Against Eternal Submission: Changing the Doctrine of the Trinity Endangers the Doctrine of Salvation and Women.” Priscilla Papers. 31.1 (Winter 2017): 15-21. “Eternal Functional Subordination and the Problem of the Divine Will.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. Vol. 58.1 (March 2015): 131-149. We have a Patreon! Check out the page at www.patreon.com/systematically Please consider making a much-appreciated donation. We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

This episode is a conversation with Dr. Glenn Butner of Sterling College. We discuss entering the 2016 Trinity debate (3:30), Trinitarian theological method (7:00), his new book on the obedience of the Son (16:05), why Jesus's human submission to the Father matters (26:30), and more. Buy Glenn's books. Church Grammar is presented by B&H Academic and the Christian Standard Bible. Intro music: Purple Dinosaur by nobigdyl. *** This podcast is designed to discuss all sorts of topics from various points of view. Therefore, guests' views do not always reflect the views of the host, his church, or his institution.

In this episode, Sam speaks with Art Beeler, former Complex Warden at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina. In their time together, they discussed leadership, recruiting for Corrections, the importance of Corrections staff, and "collateral consequences" - the post-prison restrictions often imposed on men and women who have served time in prison. Discover Prison Fellowship's Warden Exchange Program at pfm.org/warden-exchange For more information about Prison Fellowship, contact prisonfellowshippodcasts@pfm.org Join the movement to reduce recidivism by removing barriers to successful reentry. Learn more at prisonfellowship.org/secondchances music by Podington Bear under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Grit/Blammo)

This week we had the opportunity to connect with Vanessa Bolin, who is an indigenous artist, community organizer, and activist who has been helping with flood rescue and rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Florence in Lumberton, NC, which is in Robeson County. In this interview we talk about what still needs to be done in this area, how to help out, some important parallels between post hurricane relief and anti pipeline organizing, and the importance of foregrounding marginalized voices in mutual aid efforts. . … . .. Our guest mentioned the Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice (IACJ), which has a fundraiser right now that is benefiting the indigenous communities of Robeson County. Here is the donation link via Facebook, or you can go to their website to donate that way. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is also coordinating a bunch of efforts, you can learn more about this group at mutualaiddisasterrelief.org or look them up on any social media platform. If you have 4-14 days spare and want to get down to Robeson County to help out, especially if you have proficiency in Spanish and skills in logistical coordination, you can send them an email to get networked in at WeKeepUsSafeVC@protonmail.com. There is also a GoFundMe for mutual aid efforts in Asheville, benefitting affected areas in Robeson County. Links to some things our guest mentioned: To learn more about the Indigenous Wisdom Permaculture Model and convergence, just follow the link for information and future convergence dates. To see the Water Protector Arts Facebook page, you can just go to Facebook and search the name of the page. You can follow this link to reach directly out to the Lumbee Tribe if you are intending to do direct support work. To connect with EcoRobeson, the group which is doing anti pipeline work in Robeson County that is mainly affecting already disenfranchised people, you can follow this link. Somethings we'd like to mention: When Vanessa talks about the struggles of the Dine people (who are sometimes known as Navajo) where she mentions uranium mining, this is a huge issue that spans many generations. You can visit Black Mesa Rezistance, which is an organized effort in Black Mountain and Big Mesa (also known as Arizona) on the part of the Dine and Hopi people to defend themselves and their existences. You can learn more about this effort at https://blackmesa.rezist.org/ and follow the links for further material to learn about the history and present day projects and struggles. And finally, for a look into some of the truly amazing legacy of the Lumbee Tribe in so called NC, we at The Final Straw recommend the book To Die Game by William McKee Evans. This book details a resistance movement at a time when Lumbee youth were being targeted for conscription into the Confederate army, and how they along with a diverse coalition of other resistors, eluded capture in the swamps of eastern NC for over 5 years. You can also read about this in the book Dixie Be Damned, along with many other lesser reported moments of resistance in the American Southeast. Announcements for Prisoner Support Jalil Muntaqim Jalil Muntaqim, former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army is facing the parole board in November as his August visit was postponed due to clerical issues. He's going to be getting a lot of pushback from the Policeman's Benevolent Association, Fraternal Order of Police, Corrections Guards associations and the rest of the gallery of reactionary so-called unions for cops. Those groups are on alert, as we've seen with the tug of war around the release of Herman Bell, any time an aging political prisoner, especially one accused of involvement in the killing of a cop, comes up for parole. The parole boards are often made up of former judges, D.A.'s, Prosecutors and law enforcement, forming an added blue wall for prisoners facing parole boards. So, Jalil needs us to write letters of support for his release. Although some of the links are dead from the earlier parole push, you can check this IGD link (see our shownotes at thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org for the link) for a list of achievements Jalil has since his incarceration. Also, Jalil's birthday is October 18th, so feel free to send him a separate birthday greeting! Also, also, check out our website to hear past episodes featuring interviews with Jalil conducted by buddies at Prison Radio on CKUT in Montreal. To support Jalil, follow these instructions passed on from National Jericho NY: Write a letter in you own words in support of parole for Jalil, address to: Senior Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator Sullivan Correctional Facility 325 Riverside Drive Fallsburg, New York 12733 BUT SEND TO: Nora Carroll The Parole Preparation Project 168 Canal Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10013 The subject line should be “Anthony Bottom 77-A-4283” We are making an effort to include letters of support for Jalil that are personalized and from people who are familiar with him and his work. If you want further instructions for how to write a strong, personalized letter of support, please email carroll.nora@gmail.com. Also, please send a copy of your letter to Jalil for his files: Anthony Bottom #77A4283, Sullivan Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 116, Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116 More on Jalil can be found at http://freejalil.com . … . .. Casey Brezik Casey is an anarchist political prisoner who also has a parole hearing coming up, his one and only for his 12 year stint for the stabbing of the president of a university in Missouri. Casey recently got married to a woman being held in another Missouri prison. He's studying calculus so he can go to school to be an aerospace engineer once he's released. He goes before the parole board November 2018. He's unsure of exactly when he gets out, but knows he isn't eligible until November 2020. He's currently saving his money (and asking for help) to afford a cheap vehicle when he gets out in order to transport himself to work and school. His intentions are to parole out to the St. Louis area and attending a community college until he gets his basic credits and can transfer to a university. His eyes are set on the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Casey suffers from depression and has a history of schizophrenia. he describes himself as socially awkward and says he often feels misunderstood. He has a kind heart and he looks forward to getting out relatively soon and getting to see all of those who have shown him support over the years. He thanks you all. Casey was recently transferred to the Farmington Correctional Center in Farmington, Missouri. In November, he will go before the parole board for the first and ONLY TIME and he needs your help! Thoughtful and professional letters to the parole board by people who care about Casey and are willing to offer support to him during his transition back to life outside of prison can make it more likely that Casey will be released. *Even though the letter should be addressed to the parole board, all letters should be sent directly to Casey and he will deliver them to the parole board: Casey Brezik #1154765 Farmington Correctional Center 1012 West Columbia Street Farmington, MO 63640 More on Casey at https://supportcasey.org/ . … . .. Sean Swain Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain is still being silenced by the state of Ohio and could use your letters. He's potentially in the process of being transferred in an inter-state deal which will make his life way harder. Sean has communicated that he was at one point on hunger strike and is extremely isolated. You can write to Sean at : Sean Swain #243-205 Warren CI P.O. Box 120 Lebanon, Ohio 45036 It's suggested that concerned listeners call ODRC Director Stuart Hudson (614) 387-0588 Governor's Counsel Kevin O'Donell Stanek (614) 466-3555 Callers should voice concern over Sean's health, access to communication and the blocking of counsel from his recent RIB hearing that threatens to transfer him out of Ohio. More info on his case can be found at seanswain.noblogs.org . … . .. NC Prisoners repressed from #PrisonStrike On IGD you can read the list of demands specific to NC prisoners that Joseph Stewart wrote back in July. He was transferred after the outside published his statement in support of the strike and has intermittently been left off of prisoner support call-ups so he can surely use some supporting letters at Polk CI where he is currently housed. You can write Joseph at : Joseph D. Stewart #0802041 Polk CI Box 2500 Butner, NC 27509 Three other prisoners in NC, are held within the Hyde Correctional Institution, a facility in Fairfield, NC, are being threatened with retaliation for their active support and organizing in solidarity with the national #PrisonStrike. They're facing threats of administrative repression, as are any other fellow prisoners connected to the national strike. More info in our show notes Please write letters of support to: Randy Watterson #427985 Hyde Correctional Institution P.O. Box 278 Swan Quarter, NC 27885 Todd Martin #1071227 Hyde Correctional Institution P.O. Box 278 Swan Quarter, NC 27885 Jace Buras #1522417 Hyde Correctional Institution P.O. Box 278 Swan Quarter, NC 27885 . … . .. The Vaughn17 From a statement by the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) and Vaughn17 Support in Philly: On Feb. 1, 2017, after a series of peaceful protests yielded no results, incarcerated comrades took over a building at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware to demand slight improvements in their treatment. After a 20-hour stand-off, the prison's response was to literally bulldoze their barricades and figuratively bulldoze their demands, retaliating with constant beatings, destruction of prisoner property, and denial of food and medical care. Furthermore, the state has accused 17 of the incarcerated with egregious offenses even though these charges have no basis in reality. The state's response shows once again that any prisoners standing up for themselves, to regain dignity and achieve decent treatment, is a threat. And the state will collectively punish everyone and anyone to hide its barbarism. The only role of prison guards, wardens and the Department of Corrections (DOC) is the perpetuation of slavery and subjugation. There is a call for court support for the 17, who will be attending trail in small groups, at New Castle County Courthouse, 500 N. King St., Wilmington, DE 19801. The first trial starts on Monday, October 8th and the last is slated for February 11th, 2019. People in the area interested in helping volunteer for court support can learn more by reading this IGD article. A pdf of a poster with addresses, pictures and info on the 17 prisoners pulled into this case can be found here . … . .. Show playlist here.

For this week's episode, Bursts spoke with Ray Luc Levasseur, longtime activist, Vietnam War vet, revolutionary and former political prisoner in the U.S. Ray was a reputed founder of the Sam Melville / Jonathan Jackson Unit, later known as the United Freedom Front which conducted sabotage, expropriations and attacks against profiteers and symbols of American Imperialism and oppression abroad. After 9 years of activity in the group and living underground, members of the group were apprehended and became known as the Ohio 7. Ray was paroled in 2004, about 20 years after his arrest. Here we present half of our interview with Ray, which covers some of his political development. The other portion of this interview will air soon. Now, though, we'll hear about Ray's organizing with prisoners after his own political incarceration for organizing and possession of small portions of marijuana for sale, the organizing of SCAR (Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform), meeting Tom Manning, the process of going underground and why they chose this route and the formation of the underground movement later known as the SM/JJU. Then, Ray speaks about the case of his still incarcerated co-defendants, Jaan Laaman, and in more detail about co-defendant Tom Manning. Tom has been kept off and on in solitary confinement for very long periods of time, has been summarily transferred, has received inadequate medical care for the injuries of incarceration and aging inside of prisons. He was producing artwork until 2010 when he almost lost his leg due to an injury while being held in Florida. He was recently transferred from the Medical Facility at Butner, NC, to USP Hazelton in West Virginia. Tom Manning has only recently been able to start drawing again because he finally relieved some medical care relieving some of his pain & there' s an art room at Hazelton with some supplies. If you'd like to correspond with Tom, you can write him at: Thomas Manning #10373-016 USP Hazelton Post Office Box 2000 Bruceton Mills, West Virginia 26525 If you want to check out Tom's art while monetarily supporting him, consider getting "For Love And Liberty" We'll have more info on the case of Jaan Laaman, the other member of the UFF still in prison soon. Jaan's birthday is coming up on March 21st, so send him a birthday greeting if you want. Jaan Laaman #10372-016 USP McCreary Post Office Box 3000 Pine Knot, Kentucky 42635 To keep up on support for Tom, Jaan and other political prisoners in the U.S., check out the for The National Jericho Movement Fedbook page, or signing up for the Freedom Archives Political Prisoner News list.  Also, you can check out 4StruggleMag, which Jaan helped to found. If you're in NYC, the National Jericho Movement (website & fedbook) is having it's 20th anniversary gathering on March 24th (as Ray mentions in the chat). Here's a link to the JerichoNYC page for more details. Playlist

In Episode 63 of the Ex-Worker, we conclude our series of reflections on 2017 with an audio version of the recently published essay “Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One.” It analyzes five key turning points in 2017, assessing how anarchists took part and what lessons we can learn for the battles ahead. While recognizing all we've accomplished under incredible stress, it argues for the importance of broadening our efforts to challenge authority and dismantle hierarchy in every area of our lives and our societies in 2018. Afterwards, Clara and Alanis debate themes from the essay and our year in review episodes, around relating to non-anarchists on the left, organizational formats, resiliency and care, and more. {Feb 7, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One {2:02} Dawn of a New Apocalypse {3:43} J20: A Call to Revolt {6:20} The Airport Blockades: A Message to the Center {13:02} Shutting Down Milo in Berkeley: A Risky Escalation {16:16} Charlottesville: Moment of Truth {19:58} The First J20 Trial: Pushing Back the Reaction {26:25} What We Lost Along the Way {31:25} The Challenges Ahead {33:22} The Centrists {33:53} The Authoritarian Left {38:52} In Conclusion: Expanding the Anarchist Palette {43:09} Reflections {45:58} Prisoner Birthdays and Conclusion {58:45} This episode is based on the recently published CrimethInc. essay “Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One.” The analysis we share in this episode is by no means comprehensive; for a detailed timeline of anarchist activity throughout 2017, check out the this report by It's Going Down. Prisoner birthdays this month: Veronza Bowers, Jr. 35316–136 FMC Butner Post Office Box 1600 Butner, North Carolina 27509 {February 4th} Kamau Sadiki (Freddie Hilton) #0001150688 Augusta State Medical Prison, Building 13A–2 E7 3001 Gordon Highway Grovetown, Georgia 30813 Address envelope to Freddie Hilton, address card to Kamau {February 19th} Oso Blanco (Byron Chubbuck) #07909–051 USP Victorville Post Office Box 3900 Adelanto, California 92301 Address envelope to Byron Chubbuck, address card to Oso Blanco {February 26th}    

Reporter Steve Fishman tells the story of how he convinced Bernie Madoff to call him from prison. Along the way, Steve learns about Madoff’s life in prison from Bernie’s new associates: the other criminals serving time in Butner, NC.

Episode #39 - Parenting Technolescents: Dr. Roger Butner,PhD, LMFT joins us to discuss parenting adolescents in an age of technology. Dr. Roger is a great friend of Healing Place Church. For more information on him and his counseling practice, please visit http://hopeforyourfamily.com/

The Good Samaritan As we come to today's text, we're coming to two moral issues, issues of the virtuous life, and I've really been pondering these two issues, and thinking about my own life. And in my pondering as I'm led to consider one of Jesus' most famous parables, it's in Luke chapter 10. Don't turn there, but just listen, you're very familiar with it. It's the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus taught it to people who asked Him, adversaries really, who asked Him concerning the two great commandments, to “love God with all of our heart, and love our neighbor as ourselves,” and someone challenged Him saying, "Who is my neighbor?" And Jesus told the parable, the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan. I'll never forget a mentor of mine, a man that I worked with in the North Shore of Massachusetts, did a great ministry with orphans, with refugees, and others, tremendous ministry, Nick Granitsas, and he preached a sermon on the Good Samaritan, and I never forget how he laid it out. You know the story of the Good Samaritan, how there was a man that was traveling, just a traveler going from Jericho on the road. And suddenly, some highway robbers assaulted him, and beat him, and stripped him and took all of his possessions, and left him half-dead and half-naked, laying by the side of the road. And then a priest in turn, and a Levite come and see him and walk right on by, and do not care for his needs. But then comes a Samaritan who sees the need, goes over and cares for his wounds, binds him up, puts him on his own animal, takes him down to an innkeeper, stays with him all that crucial night, gets him through the night, then pays him money, the innkeeper, money, to care for him until he should return. And what Pastor Granitsas said, he said there's different approaches to life that you see in this parable. The robbers look on people on the highway and they say, "What's yours is mine, if I can take it from you." And the priest, and the Levite seeing this man bleeding by the side of the road, say, "What's yours is yours and what's mine is mine," and that's that. Live and let live. The innkeeper says, "What's mine is yours for a price." But then there's the Good Samaritan who is a loving neighbor who says, "What's mine is yours, if you need it." I never forgot that. But in my mind this morning, as I'm thinking about the injunction, the command to the church in Ephesus, that they should stop stealing, I'm thinking about Daniel's comments about what kind of bride Jesus is taking on here. A bride characterized by thievery. And then I think about my own life, and I think about sins that I do struggle with and don't struggle with. And as a preacher, I'm thinking about relevance, and I'm wondering how many thieves I'm going to speak to this morning. The Lord led me to consider this parable, this morning. I was just pondering it. And I was thinking I want to continue the parable. The Parable Continued The Good Samaritan, we try to find ourselves in it, we don't want to be the robber, we don't want to be the priest and the Levite. The innkeeper, he has a job to do, but we are called on to something better, to love our neighbor sacrificially, etcetera, so we want to see ourselves in there. For me, as I look at it, Jesus is the Good Samaritan, He's the one that found us by the ditch in the road, bleeding to death, and He cared for us, He loved us, and as a good neighbor, no one loved in a neighborly way as Jesus. No one fulfilled the law like Jesus. But I want to continue the story. Imagine that Jesus leaves the inn and goes back up the Jericho Road. By evening, He finds the robbers that beat this man up and they're sitting around the campfire and they're looking at today's loot, the plunder that they took, and Jesus goes and walks and stands boldly in their midst. They're startled, because for the most part, you don't want to be out at night along that stretch of road, and in comes this man boldly, and He singles out one of the thieves and says, "You need a Savior. You need a Savior and I am your Savior." The Thief on the Cross And so, fast forward 13 chapters later, in Luke's Gospel, to the most famous, perhaps the most famous convert in church history. The thief on the cross. Now, I don't say that he's the same one that was in that group, but he was a thief, he was a robber. That's what he did, and you know what happened with him. Somehow, some way, by the sovereign grace of God, as he was dying on the cross next to Jesus, looked over and saw in Jesus a Savior and a coming king. Where did that vision come from? How Christ crucified, shedding His blood on the cross, for sinners like you and me, he felt was dying for him, rebukes his fellow robber, his fellow thief, who doesn't see it, doesn't have any vision of faith at all, but he says, you know, “Don't you fear God? We're under the sentence of God. We're going to die today. We're thieves and we're getting what we deserve under the law of God, but this man has done nothing wrong." And then he looked over at Jesus and said, with an astonishing boldness, "Remember me when you come in your kingdom." On what basis is this thief going to spend eternity with God in Heaven, what does he have to offer? He has no way to make it right, no way to pay recompense to his victims, there's nothing he can do, there's nothing he has to offer. But he's got the boldness of faith to look over and see in Jesus, a Savior. And I don't know everything he understood, but he knew his own guilt, Jesus' innocence, and the fact that He was a King and He was coming in His kingdom, and the kingdom would be made up of redeemed sinners. Thieves who had repented and been saved by simple faith, not by works. And Jesus gave him that beautiful assurance, "Today, you'll be with Me in paradise." On what basis? On what basis do sinners like that find salvation? On what basis will that thief sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, on what basis? On the basis of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, on the basis of simple faith, not by works. That's how thieves are redeemed from their thieving. The Gospel Alone Produces Godly Living A Sin We All Commit Now, you may look at that and say, you know, as we come to this passage, "I don't really steal." And as a pastor, what I could do is I could find perhaps ways that you didn't realize you were stealing and convict you of that, etcetera and I could do that, but I want you to step back and look with me in a bigger picture, okay? First of all, whether you suffer from that particular set of symptoms or another particular set of symptoms or another, remember how Jesus said, "The healthy don't need a doctor but the sick. I've not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." For you to say, "You know, I don't have that set of symptoms, I don't struggle with stealing," well, just thank God that you've never been in an economic situation which the Book of Proverbs says we can understand in the context of adultery, says we can understand a man stealing, if he's desperately hungry, we can understand it, but we're still going to make him pay fourfold for what he took. We understand that. Well then, thank God that you were born in a wealthy country, and born to wealthy parents and got a good education, you never needed to steal. But what I've learned to do is say there is no sin pattern that exists that I couldn't commit. If the circumstances were set up, I could have been a thief. I actually was a thief for a very little while. I was in elementary school and the place was White Hen Pantry, and it was a candy bar and it was a dare. I had fallen into some bad company. Talks about it in Proverbs 1, isn't it interesting one of the very first things that Proverbs deals with is, "Don't fall in, my son, with thieves who say let's share a common purse," it's like in the 14th verse of Proverbs 1, it's like an issue right away, but I just thank God. I could have been a thief, I was delivered. My parents, knowing my financial resources, wondered where that candy bar came from, asked some questions, and I went back in and confessed in full to the shop owner, and I was delivered from that. But for us, saved by grace, we have to learn not to excuse ourselves from passages of scripture. And we also need to realize God is doing a worldwide saving work. And what's fascinating about the verses that we're looking at today is that there are some verses that you probably don't struggle with. There's one verse here that you'd say, "You know actually I'm not a thief honestly, but I know I'm a sinner," but then the next verse talks about how you use your words every day, do you ever use your words in a way that doesn't glorify God? Everyone will say based on the book of James everyone will say, "We need a transformation of our mouths." The Gospel’s Transformative Power And so this is the marvel of the Gospel, isn't it? The “Gospel is the power of God for the salvation of every sinner, every kind of sinner.” So isn't it wonderful that a band of thieves like the one that beat up that man on the Jericho road could actually find salvation in Christ, isn't it beautiful that in the 24 time zones of the Church of Jesus Christ, there actually are some people that have struggled with thieving, that made a living doing it, that were really tough individuals and the Gospel of Christ came and transformed the whole way they lived. Romans 1:16, Paul says, "I'm not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes." All sinners who repent and turn to Christ, in the abandonment of faith like that thief did on the cross, can find salvation through faith in Christ. We can find total forgiveness. Deliverance Only Through Christ Now, in Ephesians the implication here is if you have found Jesus a savior, if you have trusted in Him, as a savior, and you have had all of your sins forgiven by the blood of Jesus, you've come to Him, you who are weary and burdened and troubled in sin and you have trusted in Him and you have been forgiven, you are now told by the Gospel to live a different kind of life. And so he addresses that very, very directly, and it's marvelous to me, for us sitting in the comfort of this sanctuary, in the comfort of our socio-economic condition, it's a stretch for us to understand why we need to be told that we who have been stealing must steal no longer but must work. Some of you sitting here, it wouldn't surprise me, know exactly why you have to be told this. Praise God that there is a Gospel that liberates us from all the symptoms of the disease of sin and death, and that this one Gospel of Christ, crucified and resurrected, is the “panacea.” It is the healing for every disease of sin there is in the world. And there are going to be brothers and sisters up in Heaven, we're going to meet them who did make their living by thieving, and Jesus delivered them. Not Stealing, but Labor, Love and Generosity (vs. 28) Defining Stealing So let's look at this first command and then the second, the first is not stealing, but labor in love and generosity. Look at verse 28, "He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need." So when we're talking about stealing, what is it? Well, before we can even have stealing, we have to have something before that, and that's the idea of private ownership. The idea that some created items, some goods, some possessions belong to people. They are theirs, possession. So without possession, then there is no possibility of stealing. So this is the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:15, "You shall not steal," but behind that we've got the idea of mine and yours. Just like Nick Granitsas was saying in that sermon, "What's mine is mine and yours is yours," there's mine and yours. Okay? So we get this in Acts Chapter 5, Peter said to Ananias, "Didn't the field belong to you before it was sold?” Your fields? “And after you sold it, wasn't the money yours as well? You could do whatever you wanted with that money. Why did you lie?" So the issue is not private ownership or what you did, it's that you lied about it. But private ownership's clearly established not just there, but throughout scripture. So stealing then is to take someone else's property, without their permission or without legal right, without intending to return it, especially secretly or by force. Now, this is actually in our society a bigger problem than we might think. According to Forbes Magazine, I looked this up, shoplifting and worker theft cost retailers $32 billion a year. $32 billion a year. And the cost of protecting from that drives the price of everything up, we're all affected by stealing, whether we steal or not. Walmart alone loses $300 million a year to theft. So yesterday, Calvin and I were at Walmart and I did the you scan the check thing. But now they've got someone at the door, and they go through your bag. So at Walmart as at the airport, I get to a be treated temporarily like a criminal, but I understand it completely and I had no problem doing it because I know I was going to preach on stealing, and I knew about the $300 million and I was like, "Okay, I understand why Walmart is doing this now." It's kind of an irony because they've got the you scan for maximum convenience, and then they've got the lady rummaging through your bag for not so much convenience. And so, they're trying to balance that, and it's hard for the retailers, but their employees are stealing from them, their customers are stealing from them, it's a big issue. I was at Lowe's two months ago, I was buying some vacuum cleaner belts, isn't it exciting that I can bring vacuum cleaner belts into a sermon? Various ones if you give me a challenge, "I want you to say this word sometime in the next year from the pulpit," I won't do it all right? But vacuum cleaner belts. So, I wanted to buy several bags, so I wouldn't have to go back, they're not that expensive. So I grabbed two bags off of the display and as I was walking forward I took a close look, and one of the bags had two vacuum cleaner belts in it as the bag promised, the other one was completely empty with a hole in it. And I don't see anyway that Lowe's could protect themselves from that kind of theft. I mean, it's such a cheap thing, it's got no little marker on it, it just got stuffed in someone's pocket. So this is an issue, we're surrounded by it all the time and then there's with the Internet with electronics and all, there's identity theft that's going on, a number of you I know are dealing with that at the other end as victims. And so, we understand this is a huge, a huge problem. Is This Really Stealing? Now, for ourselves, it's like, "Is it a problem for our church as a member... .".Well, you just have to look at your own conscience, you look at how you're living and asking. Obviously the issue of pretty soon taxes going to come up, it's stealing to not pay to the government every dollar that they deserve. And so, cutting corners, cutting edges. I think for me not to put in a full day's work or for any employee to not put in a full day's work, and Paul's going to deal with this in Ephesians 6, with the master-slave command, but you know for you to only work when your master's eye is on you, but then cutting corners, that's a different kind of stealing. So there's that kind of thing. If you take 20 napkins from Chick-fil-A, intending to have some of them in your glove compartment, and some of them you're going to use for the actual food you're eating a Chick-fil-A, I don't know, I've done it. I'm not quite at the point of conviction yet. Subway, they don't have it available, have you noticed? They put two napkins in there, in the bag, so they've cut that off at that point. Alright, we could do that. You could say, "Alright, do I steal?" But if I could just urge you, look a little bit bigger. One of the most important verses in the Bible on the universality of sin is Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." The more you meditate on that, the more you realize every sinner is a glory thief. CJ Mahaney in his book on pride said, "Basically pride is when I take God's place and steal from Him what should be going to Him." So all of us are glory thieves to some degree, even if you haven't stolen in the standard way. We need Jesus as a Savior, we need to be able to look over to Him and say, "Remember me when you come into Your kingdom because I am no better than any other sinner that's ever lived." Stop the Wrong, Start the Right Now, what Paul does here is he doesn't just say, "stop stealing", he does say that. This is very, very simple and direct. “If you have been stealing, you must stop.” It is evil, it is wicked, it is not harmonious with the Christian life. But he doesn't just stop there, he goes into a power that will drive out stealing, and that is a whole disposition of your heart where you say, "I'm going to take my mind and I'm going to take my energy and my hands, and I'm going to use them in productive labor that's going to produce a profit. And out of that profit, some of it I'm going to give to the poor and needy." It's a whole different mindset. It is the remedy. Whereas before, all you cared about was your self, as you laid in wait for some victim. Now you're going to see who's been beat up by providential circumstances in life, and you're going to love them as the Good Samaritan did. It's a whole different perspective. A good friend of mine, Vic Carpenter, who's with the FBI and we were talking about white collar crime, which he was trying to address in Florida, and he was marveling at just how inventive and creative and skilled these thieves are. And he said, "Why don't they just put all that inventiveness and creativity into productive work? They really would do very well." And in effect, that comment is exactly what Paul was saying here. Fundamentally, these folks have taken their amazing brains and their skillful hands and their creativity and their ingenuity and they're using it for corruption. Instead, what they should be doing, is that they should by the power of the Spirit, stop stealing and begin laboring, begin working with their own hands, delighting in work. Now, it seems that the thief hates honest work. They don't want to do it that way. They want a shortcut, they want some shortcut in life toward prosperity, and toward having that thing that they see. All Labor Can Glorify God But from this, the Christian should delight in work. Work is a delightful thing. The labor that God gives us is a beautiful thing, that we get to in some ways imitate God who fashioned and created worlds by the word of His power, and like Jesus said, "My Father is always at His work to this very day and I too am working," and we get to join the Father and work. And we talked earlier in Ephesian 4 about our spiritual gifts and we don't all have the same career or the same gifts or talents, but we have some. And we can take those talents and those gifts and we can develop them, and God just watches us and delights in it. Remember how He brought the animals to Adam to see what he would name them and whatever he named them, that's what was the animal's name? The idea, it's almost like God's observing, saying, "Here I'm giving you these gifts and talents, these hands, this mind, do something with it. Labor with it, do something creative with it, make something useful with your own hands. Work at your job.” For a long time in the history of the Church, there was a hierarchy of holiness, the medieval Catholic Church had established very wrongfully I think, the idea that the mystics, those that remove themselves from everyday life, the priests, the nuns. Anyway, monks and nuns, they remove themselves from everyday life, and just meditated and fasted and all that, and that was the high level of holiness, whereas your standard peasant who worked out in the field or the shopkeeper had a very low level of holiness. But, Martin Luther, with his priesthood of all believers doctrine, and then ultimately I think the Puritans more than anyone, established the beauty of a calling from God. Of having a career that you can labor with your own hands, and if you're called into the vocational ministry fine, but you may be called on to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a shopkeeper, a farmer, or a craftsman, and you can glorify God with how you develop your skills in your career. And what the Puritans found is the more they sought to do all of their work for the glory of God, the better they got at it. And the more their products were in demand and the more money flowed in, and this was the fulfillment, even of this verse, so that they would have something to share with those in need. And how beautiful is that? So, the former thief is now living for the glory of God and living for his neighbor, he's using his skill and his talents to alleviate suffering. Pray to See Your Sin and for Forgiveness So on this one, ask God to show you examples where you have been taking from others what didn't belong to you, where you have been stealing, and repent. Understand, big picture, you're no different than any other thief that's been saved by grace, even though you haven't perhaps been tempted in that area, you could have been if the economic circumstances were different, so don't be arrogant. Understand also the same Gospel works to heal thieves and bring them over and look forward to spending eternity at the table, the feasting table, with some thieves that have been saved by the same grace that saved you. I am looking forward to meeting that thief on the cross, aren't you? I'm looking forward to talking to him and saying, "You know, you have been an inspiration to so many who had no hope, at the end of their life." And is it possible for me, even at the very end of a life of wickedness to find forgiveness? Yes, all you need to do is look to Christ crucified. I'm calling on you if you're unregenerate I'm saying right now look to Christ crucified, see yourself like that the thief on that the cross and say, "I have no other savior", and Jesus will speak a word to you saying, "You will be with me in paradise." Not Corrupt Speech, but Love and Edification (vs. 29) Now, the second verse, much more applicable I think to all of us. Look at verse 29, I would say this is one of the verses in Ephesians I think about the most. It's very, very helpful to me, very practical. "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths. But only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs so that it may benefit those who listen." So, I've called this verse before a “mouth filter.” Now our home, we're on a well, we're on a well, some of you folks are on city water, we're on a well. And early in our ownership, within a month or so, it became obvious we needed a whole house water filter. One of the most courageous things I've ever done in my life as a homeowner, is cut the copper pipe that fed the water to our entire house. I'll never forget that. I had one of those copper pipe cutter things, and I was like, "Here it goes," and then bang it was gone. I had shut off the water and it's like, "Okay I'm in it now. I've got to get this water filter in this line today or we have no water tonight," which is a big deal. And so I put that filter in, I'll tell you after about less than two or three weeks, the filter needed to be changed. I was like horrified, like for a month we drank unfiltered water, and I was so delighted that we had that filter in there. The Mouth Filter Now what is a filter? A filter is something that's designed to take out, or remove out of the water stream in that case, particulates and pollutants and other things that would be harmful, or would not be beneficial for you to drink. So basically then picture the stream of your words coming out of your mouth. You need a filter. You need to filter some of the things that you say and not say them anymore. And this verse is a great “mouth filter” or “word filter.” Look at it again, "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths." That's 100%. Like, if there's anything unwholesome, let it never come out of your mouth; and then on the other side of the equation, but “only what is helpful for building others up that it may edify, only those things that will edify, that it might give grace to those who listen.” So Paul in effect wants the Ephesians to ask it every moment before they speak is what I'm about to say going to be helpful for building others up according to their needs. Will it benefit or give grace to those who listen, and if the answer is, "No," don't say it. Don't say it. “Unwholesome Talk”: An Amazing Gift Gone Bad So what does this mean, unwholesome talk? Well unwholesome talk, the word in the original means rotten, putrefying, or corrupted talk. It's a very strong word. The word translated unwholesome. So you could picture just leaving some chicken, uncooked chicken on your counter as you're away for a weekend in August. You know what I'm talking about? And then you come back Sunday night, and you know immediately you did something, you forgot something because the smell is horrible. So that's how some of our talk looks to God. It stinks. It's moral filth, it's evil, and we ought not to say it. So any word that hurts someone else, so verbal attacks or insults or slander or gossip, fighting words, arguments, dissensions, words like that, lies, or complaining. I mean complaining doesn't give grace to those who listen. So any time you're going to want to just put in... And complaining is anti-praise is what it is, it's exactly the opposite of praise. Praise is you're just thanking God for His goodness and you're just speaking words of joy, and all that, complaining is the exact opposite, very dissatisfied with the providence of God. So, you're complaining. And certainly harsh things like false doctrine, that doesn't benefit, that doesn't give grace. Or blasphemy, coarse words, foolish talk, joking, things that we'll get to that in Ephesians 5, but all of these corrupted ways, idle chatter, things that just don't benefit people. Just get rid of it, all of it. It's a whole mouth filter here. Out of the Fullness of the Heart the Mouth Speaks The problem with the mouth, with the words, is that there's such a strong connection between what you say and your heart, the state of your heart. Jesus said this, "Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks.” The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. “Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks," so whatever your heart's full of, you're going to speak. It's really hard not to. And on Judgment Day, we're told that we'll have to give an account for every careless word we've spoken, think about that. I was in a witnessing situation once, and I used that verse and he said, "Whoa whoa whoa, I don't... " The guy said to me, "I don't remember most of what I've said." I said, "That's alright, God's got it written down. He's got it all down." That was horrifying to that individual. They're like, everything I said. All of it. Not just our words, but our actions, inclinations of the heart, everything. That is a great verse for witnessing. "I tell you on the Day of Judgment, you will have to give an account for every careless word you have spoken, for by your words you will be acquitted and by your words you will be condemned." So what that means is really actually Jesus can just boil it down to this, a full transcript of all of your words of your life, He will be able to accurately gauge the state of your soul. By the fruit of your words He will know you. So the key to transforming your speech is a transformation of the heart, transformation of the heart. You say, "Lord, I want my heart to be filled with light and not darkness. I want to be filled with love for You and love for my neighbor." And so I would commend Philippians 4:8, as the partner verse for this whole “mouth filter.” It says there, "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, or lovely or admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about those things." And I just in my mind, I insert the word “only.” “Think only about those things.” And what's going to happen, is you're going to start speaking what's true and noble and right and pure and lovely and admirable. So if you're saying corrupting things, if you're arguing, and lying, and slandering, and gossiping, and complaining, and doing things with your mouth you ought not to do, the problem is your heart. The mouth is just a slave, it's going to do what your heart tells it to do. So go into your heart with the grace of God and say, "Oh Lord, can it really be that my heart is this bad?” It is. And, “Oh God, would You by the Word of God and by the Spirit of God transform my heart and fill it with light and joy and love for neighbor, so that I use my mouth as a blessing." James 3: The Restless Evil of the Tongue Now, it's not going to be easy. James 3 talks about this. James 3 talks about how hard it is to control the mouth. He says in James 3:2, "We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault, in what he says, he's a perfect man, able to keep this whole body in check." In other words, if you can get the tongue controlled you're a perfect man or woman. "The tongue is a restless evil, full of deadly poison," James says. It's really hard to control. I like Psalm 141:3. It says, "Set a guard over the door of my mouth, keep watch over the door of my lips." So, every once in a while, I ride on my bike past Butner prison. It's a maximum security prison I think, it's got guard towers and lights and it's got razor wire and it's got all of these things there, and as I'm riding I just look at all of the lengths that they've gone to keep those prisoners in. Because the idea is that it's very likely, if these folks get out into the community, they will do severe damage in the community. And so the guard's job, the warden's job, is to keep them in, at least in part, that's part of the job, to keep them in so that they can't get out and do damage in society. So when I go then to Psalm 141:3 where it says, "Set a guard over my mouth O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips." The idea is that some of my words will be like those inmates. They will do damage out in society. So please, don't let them escape, please don't let my bad words get out of my mouth. Be Slow to Speak James gives us more help in James 1:19 when he says, "My dear brothers, take note of this, everyone should be quick to listen," what's the next one? "Slow to speak." So slow down. Slow to become angry, slow down. I don't know if it's the FCC or the networks where they put in some time ago a seven-second delay, you know so that if something gets said that ought not be said they can beep it out, right? So it's almost like you need a seven-second delay. Seven seconds is a long time. Now that would get a little weird in, like at a party. That's been about four seconds. But just the idea is slow down, think about what you're about to say and bring it back to Ephesians 4:29, "Is what I'm about to say unwholesome talk? Or on the other hand, is it helpful for building others up?" The focus should be, "I want to use my words to further the Kingdom of Christ. I want to use my words to edify, that's one of the words here. I'm going to build my neighbor up, so I get that image from Ephesians 2 of that beautiful spiritual temple rising with the living stones. I want to use my words to speak to a lost person, the Gospel of Jesus Christ so that they find forgiveness and become a living stone in that wall. I want to edify and build that person up, moving them from darkness to light." Okay, "If they're a Christian, I want to build them up in maturity in Christ. I want to help them in some way, I want to edify them." And the NIV says, "that it may benefit those who listen," but all the other translations I think are a little sharper. It says, "That it may give grace to those who listen." So I want my words to be a river of God's grace to you. And not just when I'm preaching, I want that to be my regular habit. Give Grace With Your Words So how do I do that? How do I make my words a river of grace? Well, I would just commend the quiet time to you. Every day get up, begin your day and store up grace in your heart by the ministry of the word of God. Feed your soul with messages of grace that you can give to people through the day. Say, "This morning I met with the Lord, I had the most encouraging time, let me share something of it with you." And so you're giving grace. I love Isaiah 50:4, I think it's talking about Jesus, but I also take it for myself too. Isaiah 50:4, "The sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary," isn't that beautiful? I want to know a word today that could sustain someone that's weary, weary in this world, weary of physical afflictions, and disease, weary of struggling with sin. I want to speak a word that will give grace to that person that will sustain him. Isaiah 50:4, "He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught." So just say, "Lord fill me like a sponge with messages of grace, fill my heart with light, drive out the darkness so that I'm not complaining about my job or complaining about our finances or about my medical situation, I'm not complaining. That doesn't give grace to the people who listen to me. I want to be filled with joy, I want to set my heart on the New Jerusalem, I want to be talking about that." Speak to Your Neighbor’s Needs And it says, "According to their needs that it may give grace." So study the needs of your neighbor, find out what's going on in people's lives. Maybe they're going through trials, financially, physically, with illness, maybe the marriage is in trouble, maybe their child is rebellious or seriously ill or something. Find out, find out where they're at in the discipleship, maybe they're doctrinally immature, you can give grace to them in a discipleship relationship or at least just say some words that'll help. Perhaps there's a sin issue and God wants to use you to "restore them gently,” Galatians 6:1, and bring them back into a healthy relationship with God. There's all kinds of messages of grace that God wants to use. And pick up on the social cues, okay? I like this in Proverbs 25:11 it says, "A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver," isn't that beautiful? Apples of gold in a setting of silver, but it says it's a word aptly spoken, it's the right time. So let's say you had the most awesome quiet time, and you have this intricate three-part mini message you want to give and you run into a church member at Kroger, and they are happy to see you and it's like, "Yeah, it's great. Yeah, we got a lot to do," where you know it's like, "Oh stop, I got something I want to share with you." That's not the time. If they're physically giving off cues that they're needing to roll, this is not the time. So there's a sense of social sensitivity, alright? That's where it's an apple of gold in a setting of silver, it's a word aptly spoken, the time is right. Time is right. But oh, brothers and sisters, let us use our mouths to build up the Body of Christ.Let's use our words to speak grace to the people around us. Let's get rid of arguing and complaining and gossip and lying and slander and corrupting speech, and instead speak words of edification to one another, close with me in prayer. Prayer Father, thank you for the Gospel. Thank you for Christ, thank you that you spoke that word of forgiveness to the thief saying, "Today, you'll be with Me in paradise." Thank you that you save thieves, repentant thieves, you save them. And thank you that you save other kinds of sinners too, and thank you, oh Lord, that you've given us such a rich treasure trove of messages of grace that we can speak to one another. Oh God, fill our hearts with light that we may speak words of light, that give grace to those who listen. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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