Podcasts about Character Day

HOLY SPIRIT 30: THE HOLY SPIRIT & YOUR CHARACTER | DAY 13 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/official-ayo-ajani/message

This episode is a bit different; we cover the process it takes to run for local elected office. Elections are April 4, 2023 but the process begins now. The IL State board of Elections released their Candidate's Guide for 2023.  On the calendar:  Tonight (Friday, Sept 16th) is Tip-A-Cop at Texas Roadhouse in support of Special Olympics. Officers and athletes will be on hand and 10% of sales go towards the cause. Sat, Sept 17 8am is the Vine Street Market at O'Fallon Station Sat, Sept 17 9-10:30am is Character Day at Auffenberg Volkswagen in Shiloh. Visit with your favorite princesses and superhero as well as Louie from the St. Louis Blues.  Sat, Sept 24 9am-noon is a Metal and Electronics Recycling event @ Carriel Junior High. Sat, Sept 24 4-10pm is the 22nd annual St Clare Oktoberfest. Huge biergarten, live music, festival foods, games and more.  Have an idea for a podcast topic? Submit it here! Follow us on Instagram @The618Now.

Welcome back to our Middle School Matters podcast! My name is Tim Cavey, and I'm the VCS Middle School vice-principal My name is Mary DeBoer, and I'm the VCS Middle School principal Here were some highlights from the week: FSAs for Grade 7s First MS Spirit Day: Character Day Upcoming Dates: Thursday, November 4 - Virtual Open House for MS and HS Thursday, November 11 - Remembrance Day (no school) Friday, November 12 - Professional Learning Day We will focus on our updated report cards Thursday, November 18 - Parent education series: Building Resilience for the Holidays Thursday, November 25 - End of MS Term 1 Friday, November 26 - Professional Learning Day Last week our Grade 6-7 students enjoyed a cross-country competition at Bear Creek Park in Surrey. For more on the day, let's go to Mrs. Vanessa Neufeld with the track report. Mary: We'd like share a shoutout for our listeners! This week's shoutout goes to Connie and Jason Leong. They wrote: “Our family listens to the podcasts together and really enjoy getting to know the both of you in this way. We get good laughs! Appreciate the audio updates on middle school as my eyes get really tired by the end of the day! Appreciate the summary page within the podcast too. As a suggestion, we would love to get to know the middle school staff through informal interviews ! Praying for VCS always.” It's finally TIME - time for us to spin the wheel for the Family Fun Pack! Mary, let the listeners know what's inside! Gourmet Microwave Popcorn Maker Orville Redenbacher popcorn White cheddar popcorn seasoning Gourmet Village hot chocolate mix Marshmallows Wizard card game Shoutout to our student listeners in 8M! You know who you are and we appreciate you! Final Words Thank you for listening! We so appreciate your support. We'd encourage you to subscribe so that you don't miss a future episode, and encourage other parents to do the same! Contact us at any time at mdeboer@vancs.org or tcavey@vancs.org. We're humbled and grateful for the opportunity to serve your children each day. Have a great week, and we'll talk to you again next weekend! Stick around to hear bits and bytes from our wonderful middle school community. Talk to ya later! Goodbye!

2021-2022 Episode 5: Experience students' take on Book Character Day, as well as a brief interview with our media clerk, Susie Dubois!

Building Character is something that takes time and involves trial and error. Listen all this week as Jim and Pam share some key thoughts about the process. Be sure to follow the broadcast and share with your social network. Contact information: LatinAmericanMinistry.org 

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Building Character is something that takes time and involves trial and error. Listen all this week as Jim and Pam share some key thoughts about the process. Be sure to follow the broadcast and share with your social network. Contact information: LatinAmericanMinistry.org 

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Building Character is something that takes time and involves trial and error. Listen all this week as Jim and Pam share some key thoughts about the process. Be sure to follow the broadcast and share with your social network. Contact information: LatinAmericanMinistry.org 

Facebook - Latin American Ministry 
Email: jim@latinamericanministry.org or laministry@yahoo.com  

Building Character is something that takes time and involves trial and error. Listen all this week as Jim and Pam share some key thoughts about the process. Be sure to follow the broadcast and share with your social network. Contact information: LatinAmericanMinistry.org 

Facebook - Latin American Ministry 
Email: jim@latinamericanministry.org or laministry@yahoo.com

Building Character is something that takes time and involves trial and error. Listen all this week as Jim and Pam share some key thoughts about the process. Be sure to follow the broadcast and share with your social network. Contact information: LatinAmericanMinistry.org 

Facebook - Latin American Ministry 
Email: jim@latinamericanministry.org or laministry@yahoo.com

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Dr. Heidi talks with Rijul Arora, Digital Well Being Advocate and Practitioner. Rijul is a technology enthusiast working on building a better working world through technology. But, he's a millennial who’s been on both sides of the table-completely addicted to technology, left it and now he has a healthy relationship with technology. This transition has completely transformed his life personally, professionally, and mentally. Thus, he spread this message of “healthy relationships with technology” through various platforms.  Professionally, he is working with EY and helping clients in end to end technology transformation.  Personally, he has delivered 70+ talks in leading Indian Colleges like IIM's, IIT's etc. and global platforms like TEDx and Character Day.  Rijul is also an Innovator and Thought Leader with LookUp Live. A millennial who’s been on both sides of the table-completely addicted to technology, left it and now he uses it in a healthy way. This transition has completely transformed his life personally, professionally and mentally. Thus, Rijul spreads this message of “healthy relationships with technology” through schools, colleges, NGO's and corporates.  Read a brief story about Rijul: https://medium.com/lookup-live/this-is-what-happened-when-i-stopped-using-social-media-for-seven-months-6d7d0e105de6 Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijularora Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rijul.arora.3591 This episode is also celebrates Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste's, #1 Bestselling book, Digital Self Mastery Across Generations, Print edition now available from all on-line booksellers, and for order in local book sellers internationally. Your order will help support the Evolving Digital Self podcast. If you like it, please feel free to share it with your friends (both the book and the podcast :-)

In this episode, Dr. Nelly Zahiri tells us how to connect with our kids and friends during quarantine, how to create moments of joy for yourself and others, and why compassion is the real tool for positive change. She urges us to show up for ourselves and believes crisis can be an opportunity. Join us as we discuss our greatest weapon against feeling isolated and the 5 “Vitamin C’s” you need to be taking daily! www.self-compassion.org  www.apa.org www.drnellymomtalk.com Facebook: PeaceLearning Living  Facebook: MomTalk LA They can text me directly to set up a confidential appointment. (310) 413-9353 Guest Bio Dr. Nelly Farnoody-Zahiri is married and mother of three Cyrus 12, Camy 12, and Chloe 10 at Curtis School Community living in Los Angeles.  Author and keynote speaker, and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in working with Cross-Cultural Families in The Greater Los Angeles Area.  Her expertise is in the area of  Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindfulness, Eastern & Western Integration, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Attachment Parenting, Conscious Parenting, Peace Learning Curriculum Development, Conflict Resolution, Peace Training, and Leadership...she's the author and founder of the International Center For Peace Learning and MomTalk LA TV On-Line and at Andisheh TV.  www.Andisheh.tv   Facebook: PeaceLearning Living  Facebook: MomTalk LA Dr. Nelly has been in private practice, serving the West Los Angeles area for more than 18 years, and she's an active member of The American Psychological Association, Peace Psychology & Media Psychology Divisions Of The APA.  She was an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at Santa Monica College for 7+ years, where she taught Abnormal Psychology, Human Sexuality, Introduction to Psychology, Developmental Psychology to college students and advisor to the Persian Students Group At SMC. Dr. Nelly has conducted presentations at conferences and seminars, such as the APA, ISTSS, Mental Health Summit on Biculturalism, and The Center For Early Childhood Development.  She's an active member of the International Society For Traumatic Stress Studies, Media Psychology, Peace Psychology, Common Sense Media, active groups on Interpersonal Neurobiology with Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Shefali'a Conscious Parenting Group, The Dalai Lama Center For Peace & Education, and Social Activists and Warrior Moms Social Media Networking Communities like Let It Ripple Films and Character Day. Dr. Nelly has an upcoming book in the field of Early Childhood Development and Peace Learning Parenting, and her mission for MomTalk is to discover opportunities to help build more Empowered Families, Conscious Communities to Support Growth, Higher Consciousness & PeaceLearning Leadership...Dr. Nelly’s work focuses on Cultivating Character, Community Leadership Empowerment, Peace Training, and Galvanizing Peace Learning and Well-Being for Families Locally & Globally.

In EPISODE 26, Wayne and Rob talk with Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and creator of the Webby Awards, Tiffany Shlain.  Tiffany has been described by Newsweek as "one of the women shaping the 21st Century".  She's the co-founder of 50/50 Day, Character Day, and The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.  Her films have been translated into multiple languages and have had over 50 million views.  Tiffany is the author of the new must-read book, "24/6: The Power Of Unplugging One Day A Week".  

A Biblical Portrait of Womanhood (Part 1) - Nancy Leigh DeMossA Biblical Portrait of Womanhood (Part 2) - Nancy Leigh DeMossA Biblical Portrait of Womanhood (Part 3) - Nancy Leigh DeMossA Biblical Portrait of Womanhood (Part 4) - Nancy Leigh DeMossA Biblical Portrait of Womanhood (Part 5) - Nancy Leigh DeMossFamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Becoming a Woman of Character Day 5 of 5 Guest:                        Nancy Leigh DeMoss From the series:       A Biblical Portrait of Womanhood                                   Bob: One of the ways for a woman to tell if she's been influenced by the ideology of feminism is to examine her own thinking and see if there is a root of selfishness present there.  Here is Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Nancy: If I say my body is my own, I will run my own life, it doesn't matter what men see or what they think, I am living for myself.  But if I am willing to embrace God's plan for my life, then I say, "When I dress or behave or talk or act in any way, if it is a way that tears down and harms men rather than helping them and building them up, then I have failed in my divine purpose." Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, June 20th.  Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.  What should a 21st century woman think about subjects like chastity and purity and modesty?  We'll talk about it today.  Stay tuned. And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Friday edition.  This week we've been looking at womanhood from a biblical perspective, and it's interesting, the Bible says that all of us are to be people of godly character and yet there are some things, there are some character qualities or characteristics that the Bible would point to as being distinctively feminine, and that's what we want our focus to be about in this time together today. Dennis: It's interesting, you hear all kinds of messages to men about being men of character, but I can't recall a message to women on being women of character. Nancy: And yet it's interesting that the Scripture has so very much to say about the character of women. Dennis: Yes.   Bob: Which is why we wanted to get into the subject today and let me, if I can, Dennis, introduce for the listeners who don't recognize our guest's voice, Nancy Leigh DeMoss is joining us this week.  Nancy is the host of a daily radio program called "Revive Our Hearts," that is heard on many of the same stations that carry our program, FamilyLife Today.  She is an author and is going to be hosting a national conference for women in Chicago coming up in October.  It's called True Woman '08. A number of speaks who are going to be there, including Janet Parshall and Joni Eareckson Tada, your wife, Barbara, is going to be there, our friend, Karen Loritts is going to join Nancy, and John Piper is also going to be speaking at this conference.  And I know Mary Ann is looking forward to being at the conference. If our listeners are interested in more information about how they can attend the national True Woman '08 conference in Chicago, they can go to our website, FamilyLife.com, click where it says "Today's Broadcast," and there is a link there that will take them to the registration area for True Woman '08, and they can plan to be a part of that conference. And I know one of the things you're going to talk about at the conference is how women can better understand what we've been talking about this week – biblical femininity.  And there are a lot of components to that portrait.  Help us out – if a woman wants to be all God wants her to be, as a woman, what is the starting place for her? Nancy: Again, we have to go back to the Scripture and not let the world press us into its mold but go back and draw our understanding and our authority from the Scripture.  I think of a passage such as 1 Peter, chapter 3, known to many of us, as women, but if we go back and examine that passage, it has so much to say about our character, as women.  It's talking about, in this specific context, a woman who has an unsaved husband.  How does she influence his life?  How does she help to draw him toward Christ?   And I say to women often, as they come to one of my seminars, "Now, you may be going back into a home where your husband doesn't necessarily see all these truths," and I say to them, "Don't start putting tracts in his cereal bowl or putting your seminar notes under his pillow."  The Scripture talks about a much more powerful means of influence; it talks about our subjection, and we talked about that earlier this week, about the coming under authority, but then it talks about our pure, chaste behavior.  And the other passages that shed light on this in the New Testament talk about a woman of modesty in the way that she conducts herself, in the way that she dresses, a woman whose heart is pure, a woman who is morally pure. You know, we used to have to address the subject of moral purity just with men, but now we find today that in our sensual culture that many, many women struggle with these issues of fantasizing of the books and novels that they are reading, the magazines that they are reading, the TV programs that they're watching that are fueling immoral thoughts and behavior in their lives, and the Scripture says the woman of God, a true woman, is the woman who has pure behavior.  She is chaste in her behavior. Dennis: Yes, and it's interesting that purity of heart is expressed in the way she not only behaves but in the way that she dresses. Nancy: The Scripture tells us that a wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman is going to tear it down, and in the Book of Proverbs, one of the ways that a foolish woman tears down the men around her is with the way that she dresses and the way that she carries herself.  Proverbs 7 talks about a woman who sets out to entice or to ensnare a man who is simple, who is naïve, who is lacking wisdom.  And one of the ways she does that is by provocative dress. Bob: Do you think there is any difference between God's call to a woman being chaste and pure and His call to a man to be morally pure? Nancy: Well, certainly, both created in the image of God and both redeemed by the grace of God, we are to be pure in heart toward God, but the Scripture talks about specific characteristics that will be true of a woman if she is not pure or if she is pure.   For example, Proverbs talks about a woman who is loud and stubborn and her feet abide not in her house.  She is brash, she is bold, she is brazen, and Proverbs tells us that as a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman, a woman who is outwardly beautiful, but she lacks discretion.   And I think about – a pig is a pig is a pig.  You can put designer clothes on that pig, and you can put makeup on it and give it a designer handbag and expensive jewels, but it's still a pig, and I think that so many of us, as women today, are outwardly adorning and dressing up and fixing up something that in its heart is a pig. And the Scripture says if a woman, though she may be outwardly beautiful, does not have discretion, if she is not discreet in the way that she carries herself and handles her relationships with men and with those in her family, that all that outward adorning is of little value and really is ludicrous if it's put on someone who doesn't have a godly heart. Dennis: You know, one of the things I pray frequently for my daughters is that they will have discretion, and occasionally one of them will stop me in that prayer and say, "Dad, what do you mean, discretion?  What are you talking about there?"  And they'll get a chance to talk about being a woman who is wise about how she behaves and how she carries herself in the presence of men.  And 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 9, I think, really outlines how a woman is to carry herself.  It says, "Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly.  Not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments but rather by means of good works as befits women making a claim to godliness." Now, that reminds us of the goal.  The goal is not physical beauty.  The goal is a woman whose life is a portrait of feminine beauty that glorifies God; that is Christ-like.  I want my daughters to understand at points that a hemline that's too high, a neckline that's too low, a dress that fits too tight, are all moving them away from godliness toward provoking the opposite sex to be interested in them for the wrong reasons.  It takes a dad stepping into their lives sometimes and a mom doing so at the same time to reinforce this.  I'm going to tell a practical illustration of this from this summer, and this was really interesting, because last summer another family and ours joined together to have one of these old-fashioned pictures made – you know, a western picture where you get the guns that are 100 years old, and you get the chaps and all this stuff.  And our daughters, all of our daughters, had put on outfits that were appropriate for a bar scene.  Now, how shall I say it, okay?  And it's amazing how quickly these things can happen.  I mean, in an instant, boom, that other dad and I were faced with a choice.   To me, there was no choice.  We were about to take a picture, and it looks harmless and fun, and I don't think our daughters had anything malicious in their minds when they did this, but what happened was they got together with some other teenagers at that point, and they put these dresses on, and they were inappropriate.  And so we said, "Hold it.  You've got to redo this." But it's interesting, Nancy, at that point, all of that occurred with two mothers kind of involved in the process, kind of unaware of what had happened.  It really just kind of snuck up on them. Bob: Well, and I think one of the reasons that dads noticed it right off is because the nature of the dress is provocative to men.  And it might take a few minutes longer for that to sink in with women who aren't immediately aware.  I think there are some cases of innocent indiscretion on the part of Christian women who just don't give full thought to what they are wearing or to how that clothing might provoke a response from a man. Dennis: Right, and I think it's at those points, as dads and as men, we've got to be loving, very relational, by the way, and not just pound the table and say, "Take it off."  But instead recognize the culture we are in but nonetheless hold forth the standard of biblical femininity, which we just read – adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, and use those times as an opportunity to teach. Nancy: And that's where, Dennis, you are fulfilling the role God has entrusted to you as a man, which is to be the protector and the priest and the king in the most loving sense possible of your home, and that's where your daughters are given the opportunity to learn how to fulfill their God-created role, which is to be a helper to the men.  You see, if I say "My body is my own, I will run my own life, it doesn't matter what men see or what they think, I am living for myself."  But if I am willing to embrace God's plan for my life, then I say, "When I dress or behave or talk or act in any way, if it is a way that tears down and harms men rather then helping them and building them up, then I have failed in my divine purpose." Dennis: And, Nancy, as Barbara and I have been in the process of raising four daughters, they are not all the same.  They don't all have the same sensitivity to these issues.  They need help. Nancy: You know, there is an interesting passage in the last chapter of the Song of Solomon that talks about two different kinds of women, and it uses the imagery of a door and of a wall.  The bride describes a little sister that she has who is developing and what kind of woman she will become, and she talks about the kind of woman who is a door, a picture of one who yields easily, who is perhaps flirtatious or bold or indiscreet in her relationships with men.  Then she uses the opposite kinds of pictures as a woman who is like a wall that is firm, her life built on convictions, and she says, "What shall we do for our sister, depending on which of these kind of women she is?"  I've found that women, daughters, younger women and older women, naturally fall into one of these two categories.  And her bridegroom says to her, "If she is a wall, then we will build upon her a palace of silver.  Her life is a foundation fit to build a home for a king."  But he said, "If she is a door, if she gives in easily to the advances of men, if she is naïve in some of these areas, then we will enclosed her with boards of cedar."  We will put parameters around her and tighter restraints for her protection and so that she can develop to the place where she will become a wall. Dennis: And finally grow up and have her own discretion.   Bob: Nancy, there is a passage in Scripture that talks about a woman having a gentle and quiet spirit, and I know a lot of women who think of themselves as naturally in opposition to that passage.  They just think, "This is what God wants.  Why did He make me the way I am, because I am not a gentle and quiet-spirited woman?"  What is that passage talking about and how does a woman develop a gentle and quiet spirit? Nancy: Well, I think, Bob, it's important, first of all, we recognize that the Scripture is not here talking about something that's just a matter of personality.  God made us with different personalities.  Some people are naturally more outgoing than others, and I am a more outgoing type of person.  I can remember, as a younger woman, thinking when I would hear this phrase, I would think of some women I knew who were just very shy and quiet and mousy, and I'd think, "If that's what it means to be a godly woman, I'm not sure that's what I want to be and I'm sure I can't be."  And to deal with the "want to" issue, again, I have to come back to am I willing to let the Word regulate and control my life?  But it's helpful to know that the Scripture is talking here not about my personality as much as the spirit of the woman.  When it speaks of a woman being gentle – another translation renders that as "meek" – this speaks of a woman who is not demanding, who does not insist on having her way and, again, we live in a rights-crazed generation.  We emphasize rights, and we're going to produce rebellion and, in fact, we have.  Rather, we need to be emphasizing responsibility – responsibility to yield my rights.   Even traffic laws recognize that you don't say to someone, "You have the right of way," we say, "You yield the right-of-way."  And, as women, there is a beauty – 1 Peter 3 says, "This is what is beautiful to a woman.  This is what causes God to look at a woman and say, 'She is beautiful.'"  This is what gives a woman her true beauty, because any beauty that is external is fleeting, it is fading, it's not going to last.  But a woman who has beauty of the spirit is going to increase and part of that beauty is a meekness; it's a yielding of her rights; there's a quietness there.  That word means a tranquility that arises from within, causing no disturbance to others.  And the picture here is a woman who trusts in God so she does not have to manipulate her circumstances, she doesn't have to be a controller, she doesn't have to manipulate her husband.  She is a woman who has, because she trusts in God, she has a grateful spirit, and I think that grateful spirit flows out of a meek and a quiet spirit. Dennis: Practically speaking, address the mom who is raising a daughter who may be a little Nancy Leigh DeMoss.  She may have a personality that's very outgoing, she may even be loud.  Very loud, in fact, and, of course … Nancy: Are you saying I'm loud? [laughter] Dennis: I didn't, Nancy.  I was actually thinking of some of my children.  But I was thinking of some hope for Barbara in this process, actually.  What would you say to that mom as she raises a child who may not have a personality that is naturally quiet? Nancy: Again, this is a matter of the heart and of developing a spirit that trusts in God, that does not intimidate or run over other people, and these are issues I've had to continue to have to walk through in my own life.  I can walk into a staff meeting in our ministry where there are mostly men in the room and, without saying a word, at times, or by saying just a few words, can subtly manipulate and control the environment of that room, and that's not the place God has for me.  There are times, as a woman, when I need to not say everything that I'm thinking but to be quiet, to wait on the Lord, to listen to Him, and then when I speak to know that it's God who has given the direction and that when I speak it's with a spirit that is surrendered and yielded and trusting in God that I don't have to be in charge of the world. That's what Satan said to Eve, "You can be like God.  You can be your own god," and the drive of our natural flesh is to run the world.  You know, I just think, you let me have the reins of this ministry or this family or this world, and I'll take it. Bob: If a woman has a gentle and quiet spirit, the output of her life, and I'm thinking particularly of her speech, that's going to be reflected in her communication, isn't it? Nancy: Oh, there's no question, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.  Again, if I could hearken back to the Song of Solomon, one of the things this bridegroom appreciates about his bride, he says, "Honey and milk are under your tongue."  He talks about her speech being comely and being beautiful and this being attractive to him.  Think about honey and milk – what do they do?  Honey strengthens that which is weak and milk builds up young, immature bones.  It helps to grow, and I have to ask myself as I read that passage and other passages such as Proverbs 31:26 talks about a woman who opens her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness.   And I have to say, "O Lord, set a watch over my mouth and, by Your Holy Spirit control my heart in such a way that the words that I speak will benefit, they will bring grace.  We women can be so cutting, so hurting, so wounding with our tongues, and this is where a woman who uses her tongue to threaten divorce, to cut up and belittle and criticize her man does not perhaps realize how much damage she is doing not only to him but ultimately to their relationship and to their capacity to reflect the glory of God to our world. Bob: And to her own sense of femininity.  She is, essentially, robbing herself at that moment of the womanhood that God wants to display in her. Dennis: Yes, because she's stepping outside of what God created her to be and her character and, Nancy, I'm grateful today that you have – well, you've taken us back to the Bible to take a look at a woman's character but, at the same time, talk about it while painting this portrait of what it means to be a feminine woman. Bob: I know our listeners are grateful, as well, and I know they're grateful for your ministry on "Revive Our Hearts," your daily radio program, you're ministry in writing.  We have a number of your books in our FamilyLife Resource Center including the bestselling book,  "Lies Women Believe."  The booklet called "A Biblical Portrait of Womanhood," your  Bible study guide, "Seeking Him," and many more of the resources that you've created to help women understand God's plan for them.   And if our listeners are interested in any of these resources – and let me just say here, if you haven't read "Lies Women Believe," that's a great place to start.  And you'll find more information about it on our website at FamilyLife.com.  When you get to the home page, look to the right side of the screen.  You'll see a box that says "Today's Broadcast."  Click where it says "Learn More," and that will take you into the area where there is information about the resources that are available from us written by Nancy Leigh DeMoss.   There is also information about the upcoming True Woman '08 conference that's happening in October in Chicago.  This is a national conference for women that features Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Barbara Rainey, John Piper, Janet Parshall, Joni Eareckson Tada, Keith and Kristyn Getty will be there leading worship, and it looks like it's going to be a sold out event.  So if listeners are interested in attending, they ought to register as soon as possible.  Go to our website, FamilyLife.com and, again, click where it says "Today's Broadcast" on the right side of the home page.  That will take you to an area where there is a link to the True Woman '08 conference site, and you can get more information about the upcoming conference or register online, if you'd like. You can also contact us if you're interested in ordering any of Nancy's resources by telephone.  Our number is 1-800-358-6329.  That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.   Someone on our team will make arrangements to have the resources you need sent out to you.   When you do get in touch with us, if you can make a donation to help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today, we would appreciate it.  We are listener-supported.  Your donations make a huge difference.  They make it possible for us to be here on this station each day and on other stations all across the country as well.  We appreciate your financial support. This month, when you make a donation of any amount, we would love to send you a CD that features a message from Pastor Stu Weber about what biblical manhood looks like.  It's a message called "Applied Masculinity," and the CD is our gift to you as a way of saying thanks for your financial support of FamilyLife Today. If you are donating online, you will come to a box that says "keycode" out in front of it on the donation form.  Type in the word "Stu" there, s-t-u, and we'll know to send you a copy of the CD on manhood.  Or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make a donation over the phone and just ask for the CD about manhood or the CD from Stu Weber and, again, we're happy to send it to you.  It's our way of saying thanks for your financial support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today.  Dennis? Dennis: Well, this has been a great day, Bob, talking about the character of a feminine woman today and all this week, in fact, and, Nancy, I want to thank you for helping to paint a portrait of what it means to be a biblical woman, a feminine woman and equipping so many women to be that and also helping so many mothers to raise the next generation of young women, and I want to thank you for being on the broadcast. Nancy: It's been a privilege, Dennis, and I've been challenged myself to let God continue to make me into His kind of woman. Dennis: I want to conclude today's broadcast by asking you to pray for all of our women listeners in their assignments because they are varied, and yet we need God to grant them favor where He has them. Nancy: Father, I just want to thank you for Your wisdom and Your divine choice.  And, as women, we just want to come to You and cry out and say that we need You, we need Your mercy, we need You to change us and to make us what You want us to be.  We know that of ourselves we cannot be godly women, that we need the filling of Your Holy Spirit.  So we ask for that, and I ask, Lord, that you would give to us that heart, that spirit, that lifestyle that You find beautiful, that we would reflect what it means to be the bride of Christ with a heart of humility and surrender and brokenness and giving back love as You have loved us. And, Lord, thank you for the men that you are raising up in this generation to provide protection and covering for our lives.  I pray that You would bless them in fulfilling their God-given role and help us, as women, to make it easy for them, and I pray that we will love them and serve them and help them in such a way that one day they can give account with joy; that we make it easy for them to lead; that we encourage them and create a climate where they can be all that You made them to be.   And, Lord, our prayer is that, as women complementing and helping those men that together we will be able to reflect to our world what You are like and that the world will be drawn to know You because of what we have shown them of Your heart and Your ways.  We pray it in Jesus' name, amen. Bob: FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas – help for today; hope for tomorrow.  _____________________________________________________________We are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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Thursday PodcastGood Morning Sapulpa! I’m Chloe with your daily Thursday PodcastNewsChoir is holding a Coffee House Concert tonight at 7 pm in the High School Commons Today’s dress up day is Character Day so show off a character from your favorite Christmas movieWeatherWe have a high of 66 today and a low of 40 for the weatherSportsGirls Varsity Basketball has an away basketball game tomorrow against Bixby starting at 3:30 pm at Bixby HS

Tiffany Shlain is the author of "24/6. The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week". She is also the founder of the Webbys, Character Day and the creator of a number of films. In today's episode Tiffany brings it all together. You'll hear how taking time off from technology and taking time to reflect helps fuel your creativity and activism. Support our production with a tax-deductible contribution at inflectionpointradio.org/contribute

Episode Summary:   Welcome to Free Forum, a show that features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture.    In this episode, Terrence welcomes Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain to the podcast. Terrence and Tiffany discuss her career path, the societal impact of technology, and the inspiration for her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week. They share their thoughts on how the digital age has impacted not just the way we live our lives, but how we think, feel and communicate with one another. Tiffany expounds on her family’s decade-long transformative practice of turning off screens one day each week for what she calls her Technology Shabbat. Finally, Terrence and Tiffany explore what the future could look like for our world if we act swiftly and resist the addiction that technology has inflicted on us as a people.    What We Covered:    03:05 – Introducing today’s guest, Tiffany Shlain  05:52 – Tiffany’s career path  09:10 – Two seminal events that shaped Tiffany’s life  10:29 – The origin of the Webby Awards  13:02 – A simple practice Tiffany has implemented in her life  15:27 – Is technology our doom or deliverance?  21:00 – Character Day  23:51 – Breaking down the relationship between technology and society  26:11 – How screens have become a 24/7 addiction  30:49 – The stress that smart phones induce  32:59 – The Five-Minute Journal  34:20 – Brain science  35:55 – Terrence speaks to his own usage of technology  38:04 – Tiffany encourages the audience to participate in unplugging for a full 24 hours for four straight weeks  40:52 – The beauty of the text Shabbat  43:17 – Terrence and Tiffany speak to the newness of this technological phenomenon 46:45 – Terrence poses an interesting thought experiment to Tiffany  55:01 – Terrence leaves the audience with one big idea    Tweetables: “You could say that I’ve really been focused on this issue of technology – what does it mean to be human, when does technology amplify us and when does it amputate us?” (08:39)    “When you’re this distracted, it’s really hard to do big picture thinking.” (10:13)    “I never expected, I never ever expected, that everyone would be just staring at screens all the time and not being present in the real world.” (11:49)    “It is clear that what was begun as a mission to connect and unite mankind has mutated into a pernicious distortion machine that has disconnected mankind and put us at each other’s throats and, in doing so, has destroyed and is destroying institutions and knowledge that have taken centuries to develop.” (18:56)    “It takes twenty-three minutes to regain your flow when you’ve been interrupted and just seeing someone else’s smart phone go off on the table will distract you.” (30:07)    “It’s our favorite day of the week. We’re not giving up something. It’s literally our favorite day because we’re doing all things that you don’t really do anymore because you’re on your phone.” (39:37)    “It’s such a liberating feeling when you realize you don’t need permission to tell everyone in your life, ‘Ya know, I’m gonna take twenty four hours completely off just to recharge.’” (42:52)    “It’s not healthy. It’s just not healthy do be this available to everything and everyone at every moment.” (52:27)    “I often say that civilization is going to die by convenience.” (53:32)    Links Mentioned:   Terrence’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrencemcnally/    Terrence’s Website – https://aworldthatjustmightwork.com/  Terrence’s Email – temcnally@mac.com    Tiffany’s Websites – https://www.letitripple.org/about/tiffany-shlain/ & http://24SixLife.com   Tiffany’s Twitter – @tiffanyshlain https://twitter.com/tiffanyshlain  Tiffany’s Instagram – @tiffanyshlain https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyshlain/?hl=en    Tiffany’s Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623232620    Tiffany’s Book – 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week   Websites Mentioned:   https://front.moveon.org/    https://www.letitripple.org/character-day/    http://couragecampaign.org/    https://5calls.org/    https://350.org/    https://www.waituntil8th.org/    Books Mentioned:    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power   24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week   Documentaries Mentioned:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8GxLP1FHo 

Tiffany Shlain founded Character Day in 2013 as a way to recognize and celebrate the importance of character strengths. This year, she’s combining the celebration of Character Day on September 27-28 with the release of her new book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week. For Character Day, she is encouraging everyone to take the day off from their screens, following the Jewish tradition of Shabbat and using it to find more time, connection and well-being. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to get your family to participate in a weekly Tech Shabbat. Why taking a break from technology improves your well-being. How to implement your Tech Shabbat as part of Character Day.

Tiffany Shlain talks about how she makes movies that inspire discussion about issues in our lives and creates global initiatives to connect people around those topics. 50/50 Day and Character Day are two of the largest. Her new book, 24/6 Life challenges people to disconnect from their screens for 24 hours to reconnect with their bigger picture thinking and achieve a more balanced life.

Even before there was an Internet, working from her Apple 2E in the school library, Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain knew that computers had the potential to connect people from all over the world. What the video version here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xden2dc0yWg

Each year, Tiffany Shlain, Emmy nominated filmmaker, speaker and Webby Awards founder, hosts the annual global event called Character Day. The next big event is coming up on Wednesday, September 26th. Tiffany joined me for my inaugural podcast to talk about her amazing career, Tech Shabbats and life as a working mom.

G5 Students speak about the week they just had at SWIS : Spirit Week included Creativity Day/Book Character Day and several other events which the students discuss. They then discuss the G5 Exhibition. A new presenter this week and 3 students who have never recorded a podcast before. They did a great job. #SWISrocRadio #SWISroc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Each week, Live Happy Radio presents #HappyFacts designed to enlighten, educate and entertain you. This week, in honor of Character Day on Sept. 13, we’re talking about character strengths.

It's spirit week and you know what that means! It's time for Pajama Day, Character Day, and...a day to dress as a giant pink hard candy? As the older sisters take a journey back through their experiences with spirit week and pep rallies, they try to advice Rileigh on how she should dress for her spirit week, but it doesn't seem like she's going to be taking their advice. Music: "Baby You Change Your Mind" by Nouvellas

The ultimate creative challenge is to take complicated scientific ideas and make it super accessible. In this episode of Live Happy Now we talk with Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain about the power of film and an event called Character Day which is a free global initiative where groups around the world screen films on the science of character development and dive into free discussion materials.