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Beneath the beauty of Prague's iconic Charles Bridge lies a chilling past—one soaked in death, war, and eerie legends. Join hosts Anne & Renata to uncover the dark secrets lurking behind the historic sculptures and explore the ghosts that still guard this ancient crossing, and explore the many claims, from spectral children and headless horsemen to demons and even the devil himself, the bridge is said to be haunted by those who met tragic ends on its stones. Tragic Hauntings of Charles Bridge - A True Hauntings Podcast SUPPORT THE ADVERTISERS THAT SUPPORT THIS SHOW Factor Meals - Get 50% off your first order & Free Shipping at www.FactorMeals.com/factorpodcast and use code: FactorPodcast at checkout Mint Mobile - To get your new wireless plan for just $15 bucks a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to www.MintMobile.com/P60 Shadow Zine - https://shadowzine.com/  Tarot Readings with Winnie Schrader - http://lovelotustarot.com/ Follow Anne and Renata: Facebook: @AnneAndRenata Instagram: @AnneAndRenata YouTube: @AnneAndRenata TikTok: @AnneAndRenata Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In honor of Halloween, today's show is all about legends, ghost stories… and the beautiful city of Prague.  My guest today is Katerina Sedlakova, one of the top guides in the city. She shares how storytelling in Prague has been a way to pass down lessons and legends for generations. We cover ghosts and ghouls as well as the history of the city and why it's a beautiful place to visit.  So Insiders, I wish you a very Happy Halloween season full of spooky stories, crisp fall evenings, and dreams of travels to come.  Learn more at www.luxtravelinsider.com   Connect with me on Social: Instagram LinkedIn  

In this revamped episode from 2022, we are taking you on a magical journey to the beautiful city of Prague! We chat with Jan, co-founder of Taste of Prague, a tour company that shares the vibrant culinary scene, culture, and history of this enchanting city. From the iconic Charles Bridge to the grand Prague Castle, Jan introduces us to some must-see landmarks and hidden gems like the secret deer moat beneath the castle. Jan also shares his favorite childhood spots, including a mini Eiffel Tower replica and the largest stadium in the world! The episode wouldn't be complete without a deep dive into Czech cuisine—fruit dumplings, fried cheese, and hearty soups that make Prague's food scene extra special. Plus, Jan teaches us a few words in Czech, including the fun greeting "Ahoy!" (Yes, like pirates!). Grab your ticket and enjoy this family-friendly virtual tour of one of Europe's most magical cities. Taste of Prague: https://www.tasteofprague.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tasteofprague

On this week's Hemp Podcast, I recap my recent visit to the Heart of Europe, the Golden City, the City of a Hundred Spires, the capital city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia — Prague. The occasion for my trip was the European Industrial Hemp Association's 21st annual Conference, this year held in the Czech Republic. I was invited to be part of an American delegation representing the American hemp industry. The trip was funded through a grant from the USDA Market Access Program, or MAPS. The Market Access Program allows the Foreign Agricultural Service, the FAS, to partner with American trade associations, cooperatives, trade groups and small business “to share the costs of overseas marketing and promotional activities that help build commercial export markets for U.S. agricultural products and commodities,” according to the USDA website. The National Industrial Hemp Council was given official cooperator status by the USDA earlier this year, giving it access to MAP funding. At the conference, I witnessed my fellow Americans developing relationships and making business deals, and I saw the purpose of the USDA's Market Access Program playing out in real time. During the conference, I interviewed over 30 hemp people from around the world. On this episode we'll hear what people had to say about hemp in Europe, what the U.S. can learn from the Europeans, what the Europeans can learn from the U.S., and a whole lot more. Before the conference started June 5, Lorenza Romanese, managing director of the European Industrial Hemp Association, was hopeful for a successful event. “I hope that people will engage. I hope that people will go back home knowing more than what they knew when they arrived,” she said. “I hope that they are able to develop business opportunities.” Francesco Mirizzi is senior policy advisor at EIHA and focuses on the fiber and grain sectors. He said the fiber industry is well developed in Europe, thanks in large part to farmers and processors in France. “We kept production in Europe after the Second World War, and we have something like seven or eight big size decortication facilities that allowed us to build a market for fiber,” he said, “mostly dedicated to specific paper application composites, and especially in the automobile industry, and fibers for insulation material in construction and chives (hurd) for construction, like hempcrete.” An epicenter of hemp construction in Europe is war-torn Ukraine, less than 800 miles to the east of Prague. Sergiy Kovalenkov is a Ukranian hemp builder who has been teaching refugees displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine how to rebuild with hemp. “We train the refugees, the people that lost their houses. And they started to build their own homes during the war using local biomass,” he said. “So when you tell me you have problems, trust me, let's go to Ukraine. I'll show you what problems are,” he said. Hana Gabrielová, a recent podcast guest, is from Czech Republic and was instrumental in bringing the conference to her home country. She has worked with hemp for over 20 years and is involved in many ares of hemp in Europe, including as a board member of EIHA as well as a member of the CzecHemp Cluster, an advisory board to help guide and grow the Czech hemp industry domestically and abroad. Gabrielová was very kind to me, pointing me in the right direction on Czech food, restaurants, pilsner, and what I should see while visiting this ancient city. She recommended the svíčková (pronounced sveech-covah), which she described as the national dish consisting of a root vegetable cream sauce and high quality beef sirloin, served with dumplings. It was good. As for what to see in Prague, she said I should see the astronomical clock in Old Town Square and the Charles Bridge over the River Vltava. “They are not far from each other,” she said. “Prague is not too big so you can walk it out and have a nice afternoon and see everything basically,” she said. I took her advice and wandered around the city each day after the conference ended. I cannot express to you how impressive the city was to me, with its ancient streets of cobblestone and castles and medieval fortresses. So much history in one place. But not all ancient history. I was inspired to learn more about the Velvet Revolution that took place in 1989. It started as student protests against the one party rule of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party. Within a week, the crowd grew to over 500,000 people in Wenceslas Square, shaking their house keys, telling the communists to step down and go home. It worked. By the end of the month, the party relinquished control over the people. I think we can all learn lessons from this story. We the people hold the power. IN this episode you will hear: 15:22 Hana Gabrielová https://hempoint.cz/en/ https://www.konopius.com/ 17:05 Lorenza Romanese EIHA Managing Director https://eiha.org/ 21:18 Francesco Mirizzi Sr. Policy Advisor, EIHA 27:06 Laurie Blanchecotte Antoine Moussie La Chanvrière 32:51 Sergiy Kovalenkov Ukrainian Hemp Builder https://hempire.tech 36:13 Jörg Morgner Axel Philipps https://www.temafa.com/ 38:43 Otilia Frolu Romanian Hemp Cluster 42:45 Stephania Christodoulou Pavlos Kitsis https://klostiki.com/ 50:15 Daniel Kruse https://hempconsult.com/daniel-kruse/ 53:26 Catherine Wilson https://uk.linkedin.com/in/catherine-wilson-b2a7133b 58:20 Christophe Nourissier https://en.augur.associates/equipe 1:07:26 Maciej Kowalski https://kombinatkonopny.pl/ 1:10:27 Daniel Matthews, Caroline Matthews, Tatham https://tatham-uk.com/ 1:12:47 Frederic Vallier Maren Krings Federation of International Hemp Organizations     https://marenkrings.com/ Learn More about USDA's Market Access program https://fas.usda.gov/programs/market-access-program-map Learn More about the National Industrial Hemp Council https://nihcoa.com/ News Nuggets Pa. Gov. Visits Lancaster County Hemp Farm to Announce Ag Innovation Grant https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/shapiro-farm-visit-promotes-10m-for-ag-innovation-in-budget-proposal/article_65f3adfe-2755-11ef-a48b-4f9a0a14b320.html 2024 NIHH Hemp Building WorkshopJune 20 – 21 • maple park, IL Register: https://nihh.org/ Read Eric Hurlock's blog about his trip to Praguehttps://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/hemp/follow-lancaster-farming-at-the-2024-european-industrial-hemp-conference-in-prague/collection_64c3071c-1f54-11ef-aa56-63dfa0a4ce3f.html Lancaster Hemp Circuit, August 20-21Learn more and register: info@kingsagriseeds.com Thanks to Our Sponsors! IND Hemp in Fort Benton, Montana https://indhemp.com/ Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council https://www.pahic.org/ Kings Agriseeds https://kingsagriseeds.com/ Forever Green https://www.getforevergreen.com/ Music by Tin Bird Shadow https://tinbirdshadow.bandcamp.com/album/dot-dot-dot

News; Cutting-edge technology to protect Prague's Charles Bridge tower; Brno scientists investigate bacteriocins as alternative to antiobiotics

News; Cutting-edge technology to protect Prague's Charles Bridge tower; Brno scientists investigate bacteriocins as alternative to antiobiotics

Hilchos Hashavas Haveida Part 8: Do I have to return a lost iPhone B”M?!?! Can I break my friends iPhone(in Eli's camp)?!?! The famous “Maase Rav” on the Charles bridge Prague!!!!

How Are Raisins Made? Join us today as we learn how a grape turns into a raisin. Sources: https://kids.kiddle.co/Raisin  http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Raisins.html  http://tonsoffacts.com/24-fun-interesting-facts-raisins/  Ryan, Pam Muñoz, and Craig McFarland Brown. How Do You Raise a Raisin? Charlesbridge, 2003.   Send us listener mail!  Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message  Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com   

We are in our 2nd day in Prague, & we check out the castle, the people, Charles bridge. We have plenty of funny stories and jumping pictures. We also talk about our 1st Till Lindemann concert of the trip!

More (interesting) Brachos: Shechiyanu on a Fruit that brings back TRAUMA??? Going to hell for giving Tzedaka on the “Charles Bridge”?!? Siamese Twins!!!!

A production designer and illustrator from Portland known for solving visual problems across both animation and children's books. Jenn just wrapped her next kid's book, Cactus Queen, a non-fiction picture book written by Lori Alexander for Calkins Creek. Other recent works include designing color for Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, illustrating on Henry Selick's Wendell & Wild, and illustrating The Gardener of Alcatraz: A True Story, a recently released non-fiction picture book written by Emma Bland Smith for Charlesbridge.

In this funny, engaging and candid interview Lili Rosenstreich talks about her career leading up to her current role as founder, publisher, and creative director at Kalaniot Books, an up-and-coming US-based publisher of books for Jewish children. We discuss her wishlist for manuscripts, and her thoughts on the publishing industry. Prior to founding Kalaniot Books, Lili was the design director of Children's Books at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has designed and art directed books for HarperCollins, Macmillan, Henry Holt, Charlesbridge, and Holiday House. She has had the honor of collaborating with such widely recognized talent such as Jon Agee, Siona Benjamin, Alice Blumenthal McGinty, Menahem Halberstadt, Rashin Kheiriyeh, Shoshana Nambi, Eric Rohmann, Peter Sis, David Small, Chana Stiefel, Liza Wiemer, and Ed Young. Mel Rosenberg is a professor emeritus of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is co-founder of Ourboox, a web platform with some 240,000 ebooks that allows anyone to create and share flipbooks comprising text, pictures and videos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jana Markova, a licensed guide furnished by Czech Tourism, gives James Shillinglaw a quick tour of Prague, including the famed Prague Castle, cathedral, Lesser Town, Charles Bridge, Jewish quarter and much more. Rediscover Prague as it is today, a vibrant city of history, culture, dining and much more. For more information, visit www.visitczechia.com or www.absolutelyprague.com. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

Jan Korta, director of sales and marketing for the Aria Hotel in Prague's Lesser Town, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about his unique boutique property located just below Prague Castle and steps from the famed Charles Bridge. Korta details how each suite in the hotel has a musical theme ranging from classical to jazz and beyond. He also showcases the hotel's great restaurant and its rooftop. For more information, visit www.ariahotel.net. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

Adnan-Daniel Al Dabbas, hotel manager at the Mozart Prague, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about his historic hotel located next to the Vltava River with views of the famed Charles Bridge and Prague Castle. Al Dabbas describes the many categories of rooms this former palace, including some opulent suites (one named after Mozart). He also details food and beverage options and other amenities. For more information, visit www.themozart.com.  If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

Get ready for an adventure to Prague as we're joined by a special guest, Jan, from the tour group "Taste of Prague."  Explore the city's incredible food and rich culture, including a hidden secret garden beneath Prague Castle, crossing the legendary Charles Bridge, and savoring the mouthwatering delight of fruit dumplings and crispy fried cheese.  We'll end the episode with some fun words in Czech, all packed with excitement and wonder!  For more information about Taste of Prague, click here:https://www.tasteofprague.com/ For comments and feedback: http://culturekidspodcast.comFollow us on Instagram: @culturekidspodcastEmail us: culturekidspodcast@gmail.comLike us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/culturekidspodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGFuV6-GMP4eEEPpNKFP4ug

Stepping foot onto the Charles Bridge, will take you back in the history of Prague to experience the history, culture, splendour of this magnificent structure. This bridge is in the Capital of the Czech Republic and it is a major tourist attraction.Behind the religious sculptures and the magnificent photographic opportunities lies the dark history of this bridge's past. With death, flood, war, punishment and ego all going into the stones and mortar of the Charles bridge we wounder if it is also haunted by the events of the past that have shaped it.Indeed, spectres of children inhabit the bridge at night as well as the risen saint who suffered death here. Headless horsemen, demons of all sorts and even the devil himself has made an appearance as well as the ghost of a Native American.We will soon be taking our own walk across the historic Charles bridge, as we join a tour of Germany and Prague with Dave Schrader later this year.We cannot wait to explore this site and see what we can find out for ourselves. In the meantime, there are some really fantastic ghost stories about the hauntings of the bridge so let's travel to the Czech Republic together and take the walk across the bridge and be thrilled by the visions of the ghosts that guard the path.We would ask that you leave us a review and if you haven't done so yet please SUBSCRIBE.Send us a message as we would love to hear from you.Leave us feedback or a message with what you think is going on here on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/TrueHauntingsPodcastIf you have enjoyed this episode please leave us a review and subscribe and share.We would love to hear from you too!Join us on our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/TrueHauntingsPodcastP.S. If you want more Anne and Renata - catch our NEW PODCAST - Diary of a Ghost Hunter on all the best streaming platforms to find out what our life as female ghost hunters is really like (no Bullsh*t).Also Follow Anne and Renata:Facebook: @AnneAndRenataInstagram: @AnneAndRenataYouTube: @AnneAndRenataTikTok: @AnneAndRenata#anneandrenata #ghostgrannies #truehauntings #truehauntingspodcast #charlesbridgepodcast #paranormalpodcast #frightfullygoodpodcast #anneandrenatafrightfullygood #ozparatech #newcastleghosttours #hauntedcitiesofeurope #ghostsofprague #ghosts #vampiresofprague #pragueghoststories #diaryofaghosthunter #charelsbridgeghosts #ghostsofprague #mythandlegendsofprague #hauntedadventuresinprague Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why Does the Moon Change Shape? Join us today as we discover why the moon changes its shape each night. Sources: Scott, Elaine. Our Moon: New Discoveries about Earth's Closest Companion, Clarion Books, New York, 2015. Beaton, Kathryn. Tell Me Why the Moon Changes Shape. Cherry Lake Publishing, 2015. Crelin, Bob, and Leslie Evans. Faces of the Moon. Charlesbridge, 2009. Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

News; Restorers use goat hair in Charles Bridge renovation; Dry season for mushrooms linked to climate change; Czech Forrest Gump aims to raise money for sick children.

News; Restorers use goat hair in Charles Bridge renovation; Dry season for mushrooms linked to climate change; Czech Forrest Gump aims to raise money for sick children.

Charles Bridge's Exposition of Psalm 119 published in 1827

n our interview we talk about modern retellings of a classic Yiddish folktale and celebrate Michal Babay's upcoming book The Incredible Shrinking Lunchroom (Charlesbridge, 2022),  illustrated by the late Paula Cohen The students at Parley Elementary have a hard time using the space in their lunchroom efficiently. When they get tired of shoving and arguing, they write a letter to their principal asking for help. She responds by moving all the science projects into the lunchroom. Now it's even more crowded! Through a series of letters and increasingly hilarious scenarios, the lunchroom gets more and MORE chaotic. When the principal finally announces that the lunchroom is once again only to be used for lunch, the students are overjoyed with the result. Michal Babay is a former teacher and elementary school specialist. She is the author of I'm A Gluten-Sniffing Dog (Albert Whitman) and On Friday Afternoon... (Coming Fall 2023 from Charlesbridge). Michal lives in her own incredibly shrinking house in California with her husband, three kids, three dogs, one cat, and a bearded dragon named Gus Pirate Potato. www.michalbabay.com Joining us for the interview is Karen Rostoker-Gruber whose recent book, A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale, appeared in 2020 (Albert Whitman). Mel Rosenberg is a professor of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is also the founder of Ourboox, a web platform that allows anyone to create and share awesome flipbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about Prague, Kutna Hora, & Krakow.

Jennifer Wolf Kam has been writing since she could hold a crayon. Today she holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her young adult supernatural novel, Devin Rhodes is Dead, winner of the NAESP Award, was published by Charlesbridge and nominated to Voya Magazine's Top Shelf for Middle School Fiction. Jennifer's debut picture book, Until the Blueberries Grow, will be published by PJ Library in May 2022, and will join the PJ Library family of books. Jennifer is a five-time finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, and winner of the Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest for Middle Grade Fiction. Her supernatural short stories have appeared in the journal, Hunger Mountain. She lives in New York with her family, her rescue kitty, KitKat, and a love of history and chocolate. Visit Jennifer at www.jenniferwolfkam.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Jennifer Wolf Kam has been writing since she could hold a crayon. Today she holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her young adult supernatural novel, Devin Rhodes is Dead, winner of the NAESP Award, was published by Charlesbridge and nominated to Voya Magazine's Top Shelf for Middle School Fiction. Jennifer's debut picture book, Until the Blueberries Grow, will be published by PJ Library in May 2022, and will join the PJ Library family of books. Jennifer is a five-time finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, and winner of the Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest for Middle Grade Fiction. Her supernatural short stories have appeared in the journal, Hunger Mountain. She lives in New York with her family, her rescue kitty, KitKat, and a love of history and chocolate. Visit Jennifer at www.jenniferwolfkam.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THEN - Charles IV (1346-1378) The Luxembourgs now produce the man who would become known as Charles IV - considered by many to be the greatest Czech of all time. He'd found Charles University, commission St. Vitus and Charles Bridge, design New Town, move the capital of the Holy Roman Empire to Prague, build a LOT of castles, and generally do awfully good things for the lands of Bohemia and Moravia.  Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our Buy Me a Coffee page! SECTIONS 01:10 - A childhood in prison, then in France, a wife, Italian adventures, a throne 04:18 - Another wife, German adventures, the path to Emperorship 06:13 - Urban improvements, Prague becomes the cultural center of Europe, Emperor at last 07:47 - He finds Karlovy Vary, no more Italian adventures, improving Nuremberg, a third wife, lots of castles and a Golden Bull, more infrastructure projects, (finally) a son, a fourth wife, another son 11:02 - The Golden Age - restructuring the HRE, treaties, various land claims, in vino veritas 12:33 - The legacy of Charles IV Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: THEN - End of the Line: The Last Přemyslids & John the Blind HERE - New Town, New Jerusalem with Raymond Johnston Charles IV and Prague – 700 years: When all roads led to Prague Charles IV - the father of the Czech nation on Radio Prague Charles IV and his construction projects on Visit Czech Republic Prague Chronicles - the biography of Charles IV video Největší Čech Wikipedia page For events in Prague, go to the Facebook page The Prague Haps  Follow us on social for extras: Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 2021 Silver Davey Award and AVA Gold Award, the 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  CONSPIRACY CLEARINGHOUSE - A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that's behind the curtain.

Dr. Rajani LaRocca is a prolific children's author and also an esteemed physician. In our conversation we discuss her recent book Bracelets for Bina's Brothers (Charlesbridge, 2021), her life and craft, and juggling between careers and cultures. Mel Rosenberg is a professor of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is also the founder of Ourboox, a web platform that allows anyone to create and share awesome flipbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Rajani LaRocca is a prolific children's author and also an esteemed physician. In our conversation we discuss her recent book Bracelets for Bina's Brothers (Charlesbridge, 2021), her life and craft, and juggling between careers and cultures. Mel Rosenberg is a professor of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is also the founder of Ourboox, a web platform that allows anyone to create and share awesome flipbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Valery of Real Prague Guides takes us through the best places to see in the “City of 100 Spires” including Old Town Square, the Charles Bridge and The John Lennon Wall. Valery also gives us the best places to get a famous Czech Pilsner, including a monastery. Then, we talk Read more... The post Destination Eat Drink – Prague with Valery of Real Prague Guides appeared first on Radio Misfits.

Hear the Word of the Lord from Ecclesiastes chapter 11, starting in verse seven through the end of the book. 7 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. 8 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity. 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. 10 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. 1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, 3 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, 4 and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— 5 they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— 6 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 8 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity. 9 Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. 10 The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 12 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:14, ESV The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God endures forever. My junior year in high school, I was required to take a physics course. Now, physics would not have been my choice, numbers and science, and all of that is not really my favorite thing to do, but it was a requirement and I took it. There were actually some interesting things in the class, one of which was an assignment. I was calculating, this would be 20 years ago right now I was gearing up to do. We had to do it over Christmas break my junior year there and we had to build a balsa wood bridge. So they gave us balsa wood sticks and some wood glue, and we had to take it home and to form a bridge that would hopefully be as strong and sturdy to bear up under as much weight as possible. So I worked on this project with a friend. We went home and hung out, and kind of messed around if I'm really being honest, and put together a very basic bridge. We got a little concerned when we got there and we saw all the elaborate bridges that some of my other friends had put together and we were thinking, oh my goodness, ours looks so flimsy. What's going to happen here? Actually, we ended up okay because it wasn't just how much weight can your bridge bear up under, but it was a ratio thing. So the lighter the bridge, the sort of the less weight you had to bear under if two bridges held the less or the same amount of weight, the lighter bridge because it held up weight under less material, would be deemed the winner. So because ours was so flimsy and very little went into it, our ratio was actually quite high. What was interesting in that project was the way that they worked through bridge after bridge after bridge. They put it on this machine that my physics teacher had hooked up, that we he slowly poured water into the bucket so that he could know exactly how much weight this could bear up under. We watched bridge after bridge after bridge crack and collapse. There wasn't any bridge that stood the test of all the weight that was put on it. There was no bridge that got to the end and said, well, I guess that can withstand under any pressure. Eventually, every bridge broke. Indeed, in life, ultimately, everything breaks. So what this means and what the preacher is trying to tell us in this passage is that if our identity, if our hope, if our confidence is in how we compare against others at some point in our lives, well, then we're ultimately building our foundation on a sinking sand. Even though you might be a little bit behind someone here or you might be a little ahead of someone tomorrow, the point is that ultimately even your bridge won't stand up. Eventually, everything is going to break. You need a firmer foundation, one that's not built on shifting sinking sand. What the preacher says as he closes this book of wisdom is that you need to build your life on the rock solid foundation of God himself. In Jesus Christ and him crucified. You need to do this through all the days of your life, from when you were young to when you were old, for as many years as the Lord trusts you and trust to you until he calls you home. Afterwards, as the preacher reminds us, comes the judgment. Our big idea then today is this Fear God and keep his commandments. This comes directly from Ecclesiastes 12 verse 13. So this morning, three parts to the sermon as we look at it. First, fear God in youth, some of you young people today, this is a sermon for you. Second, fear God in old age. Those of you who are not young anymore, this is a sermon for you and for everyone in between. Then third, fear God in view of eternity. 1. Fear God in Youth 2. Fear God in Old Age 3. Fear God in View of Eternity Fear God in Youth So number one fear God in youth. Look again at 11:7, "Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun." Now the preacher's starting a comparison here, but it's not clear yet where he's going with this. So we have to peek ahead a little bit in the passage to see where he's going. He's talking about light and light is sweet, and he's talking about eyes that see, especially see the light of the sun. This is an image for youth, for the earlier years of our lives. We're going to see this as the preacher later talks about the dimmed eyes and the darkness of old age. In fact, one of the main ways that the Bible talks about old age is as dimmed eyes. For example, Isaac in Genesis 27:1 is old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. Jacob, in Genesis 48:1, again is old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. Eli, the priest under whom the Prophet Samuel served, again when he was only reading in ` Samuel 3:2 was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. Dimmed eyes are a product of old age. So the preacher is saying, enjoy light while you can see it. It's sweet, it's pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. So verse eight, "So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity." What he's saying here is that life is precious, life is sacred, every moment of your life from the beginning to the end is something that you should enjoy and savor because he says the days of darkness will be many. Now, what are these days of darkness? Well, this could refer to old age. Again, if old age is characterized by dimness of sight, then old age could be the darkness that it's referring to here. Or this dimness, this darkness could refer to death. Death is the final enveloping of darkness around us, as it's often talked about in the Bible. Or it may not refer to the lifespan of an individual human being, but it may be talking about the lifespan of the world itself. The end of the world, the day of the Lord, the final day of God, when God brings all of history to an end and brings everyone in judgment is described by the Prophet Amos in Amos 5:20 as a day of darkness, "is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light and gloom with no brightness in it." So enjoy these years when there is light and enjoy all the years of your life, but remember the days of darkness will be many. There's a warning here, not to give too much attention to youthfulness. Verse nine, once again, encouragement to enjoy youth. "Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth." Enjoy this youth! But he says, be mindful of the coming judgment. He says walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things, God will bring you into judgment. Now what's interesting about this walk in the ways of your heart and the side of your eyes is how often we are told elsewhere in the Bible not to walk after the ways of our heart and not to walk after our sight. For example, a verse I quote often is 2 Corinthians 5:7,"We walk by faith and not by sight." The preacher isn't contradicting those verses. The preacher isn't contradicting the many places where we are told not to follow after the ways of our hearts. What he's saying here is not a contradiction because those passages talk about morality. Will you trust in your own wisdom or will you trust in your own insight? Will you trust in what you can see or will you trust in the Lord? Here the preacher is simply saying, enjoy this, enjoy life while you can see it and savor it. The warning says don't get too far afield is to know that for everything you do, God will eventually bring into judgment. So in verse 10, the preacher really encourages us to enjoy youth, "Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity." They are a mist. They are here and then they are gone. Enjoy this while it is here. Youth ends far too soon. Now I am not yet what I would consider to be old, my children might disagree, but I'm also probably not quite in the young category anymore. I'm at 37 years old, which means that I'm just a year or so shy of half the average age of life expectancy for a male living in the United States. I haven't had that many years on this Earth, but it's astonishing how much has changed, even in my short lifetime. I want to give you a vivid example, some of you who are older will maybe remember some of this. My wife and I were this week at a shopping mall. Shopping malls are tremendously depressing places to go today. It's hard to explain to younger people how much fun and how much life and how much bustling there used to be at shopping malls. I have the most vivid memory as a child of being at a shopping mall and being in the food court, which was the best place to eat in town, and there were so many people they were just on top of each other. Then when you left the food court, people were just going in all kinds of different ways. There was life and energy and vitality there. I associated a lot with my childhood. But as I think about the childhood, my youth, I also know that that child or that mall in Hastings, Nebraska, has now been bulldozed to the ground because it couldn't sustain itself anymore. As I went in a shopping mall that's sort of limping along, I won't name it. I don't want to offend anyone, but you can probably guess there aren't that many in Omaha. As I went to a shopping mall this week, it was amazing. The growth of that is how skillful they are in putting up walls where they used to be businesses. So I was looking at a wall that was tiled and there was sort of a makeshift library, a take a book, leave a book. I realized, wait a minute, this is where the pretzel vendor used to be. As these businesses are going away as life and the world changes, I think about these vivid childhood memories of things that were a big deal then and how quickly things change and move away. That's a picture of a little bit of what happens in our youth. We have these vivid memories of when life is sweet and it's pleasant for the eyes to see the sun and the preacher says, enjoy this while you can. Children enjoy your childhood; you never get it back again. Young people enjoy the stage at which you are because you will never get it back again. Those of you with new babies enjoy that stage, they grow up so quickly. But everything eventually breaks. Nothing can withstand the test of time. It all eventually breaks down. Youth is but one season under heaven, there's a time to be born, but as the preacher is about to remind us, there is also a time to die. The preacher exhorts us to take seriously old age and death. Fear God in Old Age So what we're seeing in the next section in verses one through eight of chapter 12 is really the final word of the main part of this book. There's a main section. I'm going to show you how we find the end of that and a little bit, but this is the last main thing that the preacher says before the conclusion or the epilogue to this book. His main point is fear God in old age. The second section is fear God in old age, and it starts in verse one. This is sort of the transition from the previous section to this one. "Remember also your creator in the days of your youth before the evil days come in the years draw, near of which you will say, I have no pleasure in them." Now we read in verse nine of the previous chapter that we should remember our creator because judgment is coming, but here the preacher is reminding us that we should remember our creator in the days of our youth because of joy. Charles Bridge is one of the commentators on this passage. He writes this this line that really stood out to me, "Many have remembered their creator too late in life, but none too soon." As I look back on my life, I do not regret a single thing I gave up following Jesus. I don't regret any of the parties I missed. I don't regret any of the lifestyles that people around me were living. I don't regret missing out on any of that. My only regrets are when I did not follow Jesus as closely as I should have. My only regrets. Many people find their creator too late, but none find their creator too soon. You see, when you're young, you tend to think that you are invincible. The preacher reminds us here that the young invincibility very quickly fades away, far more quickly than we realize. The days are coming when you will say, I have no pleasure in them. Then versus two through seven, the preacher turns to this extended metaphor or this sort of stream of images that sort of roll by us now. Sometimes he's building an extended metaphor where the details are very clear, you know, pretty much exactly what he's talking about. Other times, some people have tried to sort of press the details too far to say, well, this refers to that, and it's a little too hard to make some of those connections. Where the details are not always clear the general meaning is. He's giving us a tremendous range of imagery to remind us about what old age does to all of us. So look at what he says in verse two. Here is where he brings back that comparison that he started in verse seven at the beginning of our passage of the last chapter, that youth is characterized by seeing the sweet light, whereas old age is characterized by darkness. So 12:2, "before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain." Not just clouds that come to bring the healthy life giving rains, but now these are clouds that come after the rain is over and they just hang and darken the sky. Then there's verse three, "in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed," We have here at the beginning of a description of a house that's falling apart with age, and it begins with the keepers of the house probably talking about limbs, arms and legs that tremble. The keepers of the house tremble and the strong men are bent, what used to be as strong back is now bent over with age. The grinders ceased because they are few, probably referring to your teeth. The old age makes it difficult to chew. Those who look through the windows are dimmed again, we're having a sight imagery, someone's looking out of this house and you can't quite see through the windows anymore. Verse four begins the discussion of hearing and the doors of the street are shut, "and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—" When we shut the doors, we can't hear what's going on outside, and that's what happens to this house. Again, where the youth think that they are invincible, those who are old know fears. "They are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— " in verse five. The almond tree blossoms, well, this sounds promising new life blossoms, but it's giving an image of if you think of an almond tree when it blossoms, it's whitened like hair. The grasshopper drags itself along, think of how spry and nimble a grasshopper is, but as the days creep on year after year in fall toward the colder seasons, you ever seen those grasshoppers that can barely move anymore? Grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home and all of a sudden, the house is no longer decaying. We find ourselves in the middle of a funeral. The end has come, the mourners go about the streets. Then verse six, "before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." Again, don't try to press the details of what the cord is and the bowl is and the pitcher is or the wheel is. This is an image of the fragility of life. In just a moment, it's gone. Until verse seven, "and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." When God first created Adam, he gathered together dust and mold it and shape that dust into Adam's body, and then God himself stooped down to breathe the breath of life into this man. When sin into the world when that same man rebelled against God, God told him that you are dust and to dust, you shall return. Our bodies returned to the dust, and the life breath that's been on loan to us has to be returned to God. In verse eight, the preacher ends this main section of Ecclesiastes with, "Vanity of vanities, says the preacher. All is vanity." We know this is the end of the main section, because there's a this is the tail where there's a corresponding top at the very beginning of Ecclesiastes in 1:2. It says the exact same thing, "vanity of vanity, says the preacher, all is vanity." He began on that word, and now he ends on that word. Everything is a mist. It's a breath. It's a vapor. It's here, and then it's gone. Everything, even you young children one day are going to grow old and you are going to break down and die. Everything breaks down and dies. All is vanity. One of the most stunning object lessons of the relentless, vicious work of time, I think, is to see whenever they have a big reunion for something, a big reunion of people who are famous. So this year was the 50th anniversary of a really famous football game, the game of the century, between Nebraska and Oklahoma in 1971. Children, 50 years ago, Nebraska won games. In that in that game, it was a really big game against, against a really big team, and it was an epic battle. You can pull this up on YouTube. The fittest, the fastest, the strongest men who are youthful in their vigor and their vitality fighting it out like gladiators on the field. It was an epic game. That's why it's called the game of the century. When this reunion has happened, those same young, vibrant men are now bent with age and their limbs tremble. Age has taken a significant toil on the best and the fittest and the strongest of their generation. Even more cruel, perhaps, or when you see reunion episodes of sitcoms, especially the sitcoms that that glamorize and idealize and idolize youth. Where you see these people who are living it up for their youth and their beauty, and that's everything to them. You see them 20 years later and age has not been kind. You say if they were living for their youth, if that was everything to them, if that's what that show was about, their lives have already peaked. How tragic to live that way. How tragic to live clinging to what cannot be retained. If youth is everything, what do you do when it's gone? Youth is a time of light, and it is and it is a time of joy, but it is so fleeting. Old age is a time of darkness and fragility. No one likes it better. The preacher acknowledges that these are years you are going to say, I have no pleasure in them. You will have pleasure in them, but not of the kind that you had, which is everywhere, all around you in your youth. As I remember my grandmother so vividly saying at the death of my grandfather, death comes to us all. Death comes to us all. The preacher wants us to know life under the sun is so fragile, it is so fickle, it is so fleeting to cling to, it is futile and foolish. Wisdom insists, then, that we must remember our creator because he is the eternal one who stands outside time. Time does not age God because he is the ageless one. He is neither older nor younger. He has never been before. He is always before. He is, and he always will be. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not change. There is no before and after with God. He simply is. Fear God in View of Eternity So the preacher concludes all of this book in verses nine through fourteen. With an exhortation to remember this creator. So now we come to section three, fear God in view of eternity. Again, some commentators call this the epilogue or conclusion, but the point is this stands outside of the main body of the work. The preachers surveyed everything, and now he comes to his final conclusions. What should we take from this? This is the application section of his sermon. So in verses nine through ten, part of this is tracing the preacher's work in life and ministry. Besides being wise, the preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. The preacher sought to find words of delight and uprightly he wrote words of truth. We're told in 1 Kings 4:32 that Solomon spoke 3000 proverbs and his songs were one thousand and five. You see we value in our day access to information. We want to be able to Google something at the drop of a hat and figure out an answer to anything or look it up on Wikipedia. Figure that kind of thing out. The ancients had a very different perspective. They valued not mere access just to know that I can look it up, and they didn't value mere information. They wanted mastery of wisdom. For someone to memorize 3000 proverbs and one thousand five songs is an extraordinary feat of wisdom. He mastered this great wisdom over the course of his life and he tried to pass it on. He was a teacher. He tried to find words of delight and uprightly he wrote words of truth. Then verses eleven and twelve, he talks about what these words did. He says, "The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Goads prod livestock. If you're trying to get a cow or a sheep to go in a certain direction, a goad was a big stick that you would poke him to get him to go in the direction that you wanted to go. We need these in our own lives to be goaded by these words of wisdom. But he says words of wisdom are also like nails. You think of what nails do? They fix something down, particularly for a shepherd, that's what's in view here. The shepherd who's goading, the shepherd who has nails firmly fixed down, the one shepherd from whom on wisdom comes. This is shepherding imagery. The shepherd would have used these nails to fix down his tent from site to site. Wisdom teaches us to know when we need to move and when we need to remain steadfast and fixed and steady. What the preacher warns us is that too much information, too many books, can obscure the clarity of God's wisdom, the wisdom that comes from one shepherd. Of course, this one shepherd is God. As Psalm 23:1 says, "The Lord is my shepherd". Particularly when Jesus Christ came into the world de declared, "I am the Good Shepherd" in John 10:11. That's where wisdom comes from. It comes from the timeless one, the eternal one, the one who is not affected by time because he created it and encompasses it all before him in his eternal wisdom and power. Well, in verse 13, this is the conclusion. He says, "The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." He has surveyed everything under the sun and what does he say? Fear God and keep his commandments. After considering everything under the sun, everything in this world, the preacher says there's nothing in here that's going to satisfy you like you're looking for. Instead of looking under the sun, look above the sun, look to the creator of the sun. Fear God and keep his commandments. Now we've talked about what the fear of God is. It means, on the one hand, acknowledging your vulnerability and your helplessness and your hopelessness and your guilt because of sin. To be truthful about that. Not to try to hide it, not to try to make justifications or excuses. It's to acknowledge them before the judge of all the Earth you stand guilty. It's to go to that same judge and recognize that he is your only hope, because he has loved you so much that he has sent his son, Jesus Christ, into this world to die for you in your place so that you may be reconciled to him by grace through faith. It's to trust in this same Lord because of his promises, anyway, even though you are guilty. The fear of God, the fear of the Lord is another word, then for faith. As the Bible everywhere declares, we are justified, we are made righteous before God by faith. We are counted as righteous before him by faith. So the preacher says fear God, but he adds this line, he says, keep the commandments. Now this isn't to atone for your guilt. This isn't to earn something before God. We are saved by grace alone through faith alone and not by works. Ephesians 2:8-9 is very clear about this. "For by grace, you have been saved through faith and this is not your own doing. It is the gift of God, not by work so that no one may boast." We are not saved by keeping the commandments, rather, when the Bible talks about keeping the commandments, it's always as a loving response of gratitude. Knowing that even as we seek to keep his commandments, we're still dependent upon him upon his grace, upon his power to obey. To keep the commandments as another word for what the Bible calls sanctification, to grow in the holiness without which no one would see the Lord. We are justified by faith, by the fear of God, and we are sanctified as by God's power. It's by God's grace through faith, we seek to keep his commandments. So, in verse 14, the preacher closes with this word. He says, "For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil." A life lived for the fleeting pleasures of this world is its own reward in full and those pleasures are so quickly fading away. Nothing lasts, everything ultimately breaks down. A life lived for the glory of God, who is not under the sun, he is above the sun, he is the one who created this, and the life lived for his glory will not be in vain. Application How do we apply then? Well our application then is just what the preacher tells us, fear God and keep his commandments. Ecclesiastes is a difficult book. There are blunt words, grim outlooks and despairing conclusions. Forgive me if you were offended by the preacher's description of old age today, for example. As I said in my first sermon in this Ecclesiastes series. Martin Luther considered this to be a most optimistic book. Martin Luther was the great reformer who began the Reformation in 1517, and he considered this to be the most optimistic book. What he saw in Ecclesiastes is a book that has explored all the possible rabbit trails that we might pursue all the possible avenues under the sun to find happiness and satisfaction and joy. He exposes them all as a fraud. He shows that every single one of these cannot provide what we are looking for. So what he's doing is to clear away the debris, to get rid of what may cloud our vision, to get rid of what may be a confusion. Much study and much anticipation and attempts to find satisfaction in this life is a weariness to the flesh. He's done that for us, and he's cleared away these false ideas about how to live, especially by clinging to the vanity of this world. So that once that debris is cleared away, the gospel then can shine all the more radiantly. The gospel tells us not about a life hack, not about a quick fix, not about how to have your best life now. The gospel tells us that Jesus Christ came into this world, the one who is above the sun, who came down from heaven into this earth, so that he could lift us up to God. Fear God and keep his commandments. Well, let's unpack what that means, because it gets at what the gospel is. Again, the idea of fearing God is to believe, it's faith. It's to have faith in God and what the Bible tells us after everything else has been cleared away, and we can see the gospel in its radiance, is that we are to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with the promise that all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. There are so many proposals in life for how to find salvation. You can find anywhere all kinds of ideas about how to do the right good works, about how to sacrifice personally in your own life, about how to do the right collection of religious practices to appease God. The scriptures are so clear you are dead in your sins and trespasses. You are a child of wrath. You are without hope and without God in the world. There is nothing you can do to counteract this. You cannot do enough community service hours to overcome the wrath of God against you because of your sins. You need nothing less than the death and resurrection of God's only Son, the Lord of Glory. Fear God, then. He is the judge of the living and the dead, the judge of all the Earth, and he will surely do what was right. He will bring every deed in a judgment on the last day and he will by no means clear the guilty. Fear him, the Bible commands. Again, the other part of fearing him is not just to cower before him, not just to acknowledge your helplessness and hopelessness and vulnerability and guilt before him. It means to take him at his word. To believe the promises that he makes. The promise of salvation for all those who turn from their sins in sorrow. As we heard earlier today to consider his word, to confess our sins and to hear the assurance of God's pardon through the gospel of Jesus Christ. The question is, will you believe his promises? We turn to Christ for salvation. That's what this book is driving at. Clear away everything else that's getting in the way and turn to Jesus Christ, whom the rest of the scriptures hold out as your only hope and comfort in life and in death. Fear God. But also keep his commandments. In addition to the saving grace of justification by faith alone, another one of God's saving graces is as the Westminster Larger Catechism question thirty-two, puts it, "To enable us unto all holy obedience as the evidence of the truth of our faith and thankfulness to God and as the way which he hath appointed us to salvation." Now, listen to that God's commandments are the way to salvation. Now, not the way to gain salvation. We don't keep commandments to gain salvation. This is rather the way that God has appointed for those whom he has saved. It's not how we are saved, by keeping the commandments, it's what we are saved for. Again, Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "It is by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not your own doing. It is the gift of God, not by works", not by keeping the commandments well enough". so that no one may boast." But in verse 10, the very next verse, he says, "for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works", for keeping the commandments, "which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in." We are saved not by keeping the commandments, we are saved for keeping the commandments. God has appointed these good works that we should walk in them as a people whom God has brought out of death and into life. You see, for the believer, God's commandments are no longer a thundering word of condemnation against our sin. That's the warning of the Bible if you have not yet trusted in Jesus Christ, God's word sounds as a thunder blast from heaven, declaring that you are guilty and in danger of the wrath of God for all of eternity. For believers, in the words of John Newton, the man who wrote Amazing Grace, "Christ has hushed the laws loud thunder", and he has done this, "so that justice smiles and asks no more." There's nothing else that you need to do because Christ has done everything that justice demands. The law then is transformed from our enemy, our persecutor, our oppressor, our condemning agent into a friend. Not by anything that we have done, but through Christ. Christ reorient us to the law through Christ, we relate to the law in a new way. He makes that introduction in a friendly way. The commandments of God then teaches how to please God through holy lives. So as we've seen all of the false ways to live and as the preacher has exhorted us at many points toward the wisdom of the fear of God, the wisdom that begins with the fear of the Lord. I want to ask you, do you long for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord? Do you delight in the law of God in your inner man and your inner person? Do you pray that God would conform you to the image of Christ and to righteousness, holiness and knowledge? The only alternative to Christ is this vain world where everything ultimately breaks. Don't put your trust there. Put your trust instead in Christ. As the apostle John writes in 1 John 2:17, "this world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever." "Vanity of vanity, says the preacher, all is vanity." In a view of that and in view of eternity. Fear God, looking to Jesus Christ in faith, and keep his commandments. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we pray for a heart of wisdom, wisdom that comes from above that is first pure and peaceable, not wisdom that is from below and is earthly and spiritual and demonic. We pray that you would give us the wisdom of Jesus Christ crucified that we would look to him as our alone confidence, our alone assurance, our alone hope and comfort of salvation. That through Christ, you might relate us to the law in new way, not to gain something, because we can gain nothing before you, we can earn nothing from you. But to live a life that's really related to you as your children, as your people who are growing in the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Who are being conformed to the image of Christ, by your grace, by your mercy, by your power. We pray that this would all be to your glory through Jesus Christ name we pray. Amen.

Linda opens this episode with a dedication to her nephew -- and then "shares the light" of Diwali with children's literature author, Mitali Ruths, with whom she chats about her book Archie Celebrates Diwali. Published this year by Charlesbridge Archie Celebrates Diwali is based on an epic, Ramayana, and focuses on the South-Asian festival of lights (3.45, 8.45, and 10.30). Mitali addresses Diwali's origins (3.45 and 4.37), how it is celebrated (15.11), and the reasons for writing this story (7.30, 8.45, 10.30 and 18.30). She makes reference to Sanjay Patel's Ramayana: Divine Loophole (8.27); the significance of Archie's name (a reference to archana and to the Emmy-winning British actress, Archie Panjabi, 20); her fabulous illustrator, Parwinder Singh (4 and 4.15); and, more generally, the plot and meaning of the book (20.30). Mitali also locates this book as one among several in a renaissance of South-Asian stories (9.35). Special shout-outs (among others) to:HG Literary Group (11.28)Victoria Wells (11.28)her publisher, Charlesbridge (12.28 and 16.09)the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (10.33)At 26.10, Mitali makes a special offer to listeners of the podcast -- and I want "in" on that too! Join me on the next episode when I chat with some of the finalists for the Quebec Literary prizes (hosted by the Quebec Writers' Federation). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi Everyone! I have a special guest Diane Earley the Creative Director for Charlesbridge Publishing with me today! I got enough courage to ask her to be on the podcast to give listeners a chance to hear from a creative director what it's like working with illustrators and what she is looking for. It was very informative and I really enjoyed speaking with her. I learned a great deal from it. Here is some more information about Charlesbridge Publishing. Charlesbridge Publishing is an independent publisher of high-quality books for children and young adults. Our books promote reading and discovery in the classroom, library, and home and reflect a belief in the power of knowledge and the value of story. Visit their website at: https://www.charlesbridge.com/ Good luck and Happy Illustrating! Thank you for listening.

Written by Jacqueline Jules, illustrated by Jef Czekaj, and published by Charlesbridge, this book included some additional information to further explain the first United States and some of the challenges and successes resulting from the journey from separate states to united ones.

Written by Jacqueline Jules, illustrated by Jef Czekaj, and published by Charlesbridge, this story is a perfect one to help you learn how the United States of America became united after the American Revolution.  It was quite a journey!

Eggs are one of the most common ingredients in cooking often found in cookies, pastas, custards, crepes and waffles. Eggs are also an excellent base for mortar and were a common item used in the construction of Charles Bridge. In Praga Caput Regni, your favorite boys put their egg brains to work, constructing bridges, city walls and buildings. Also this episode: under the table board game conversation - yay or nay?, popular hits from the 90s, the boys revisit Yokohama and Tim's back to discuss TI4 (again!).

Please be aware the stories, theories, re-enactments and language in this podcast are of an adult nature and can be considered disturbing, frightening and in some cases even offensive. Listener Discretion is therefore advised. Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, monsters lurking under your bed or deep in the forest, that unknown creature lurking just out of sight and frighteningly imagined creatures, ghosts, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... And on today’s Dark enigma we’re looking into a few scaries, I know, I was trying to be clever and came up with a tale of two cities, but scaries, and it just didn’t work. So this is one of those times when you give me a pity laugh. So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. The choice of libation is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Prague that will be a single shot and every time I say ghost, that will be a double shot. Now that the business end is out of the way put on your Tonak, and stuff your face with some Palačinky as we dive into today’s Dark Enigma and A Tale of a Few Scaries… in Prague. The city of Prague is famous for its historic churches, castles and squares which all boast extraordinary features of Baroque and Gothic architecture; in fact Prague is sometimes referred to as the City of a Hundred Spires. Prague also has a reputation for its local and inexpensive beer, with its 800 or so pubs attracting visitors from all over the world. But Prague has another attraction, one that isn’t as widely known to those who haven’t visited the city. Visitors to Prague are surprised at Prague’s haunted history, with attractions such as the Prague Ghost Museum and companies offering Ghost Tours. Prague ghosts come in a wide variety. From pantomime-like skeletons on fire, to truthful gruesome executions, there are plenty of stories to send a chill up your spine. Three of Prague’s most famous legends are of the 27 Noblemen of Charles Bridge, the Headless Templar and St. John of Nepomuk. So let’s start with the famous… or infamous Charles Bridge

 Join us as we sit down with the wonderful Dr. Martina Načeradská! Dr. Martina is a specialist in feline medicine who leads the team behind the first cat-friendly clinic in the Czech Republic! She is also interested in behavioural disorders of both dogs and cats and is very active in the fight against puppy farming, giving lectures to both breeders and the public. We discuss her work as well as Czech cuisine, candle sauce and the Charles Bridge in Prague.Dr. Martina has published several papers about feline and canine medicine and is a member of ISFM (International Society of feline medicine), ESVD (European society of veterinary dermatologists) and PDTE (Pet dog trainers of Europe). For more information about where you can access our show, please search for 'Veterinary Ramblings' on google or head over to https://www.veterinaryramblings.com/

Natasha Yim shares LUNA’s YUM YUM DIM SUM, a new picture book written by Natasha and illustrated by Violet Kim. Natasha talks about being invited to submit a story for the Storytelling Math series for Charlesbridge, which includes titles by Grace Lin, Sara Levine, and Ana Crespo. She started with an idea to set the story in a Chinese restaurant and asked herself the question, “Is being equitable the same as being fair?” The result was a fun and engaging sibling story over how to fairly divide portions when “fair” looks different from person to person. You can access even more information about this book and its author by visiting www.matthewcwinner.com/blog. Get a copy of this book and support independent bookstores (and this podcast) by visiting our BookShop Store. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/matthewcwinner or on Paypal at paypal.me/childrensbkpod

New restrictions on schools, restaurants and bars as the Czech Republic records both the highest and the fastest-growing daily number of new Covid-19 cases per capita in Europe. The Czech Health Minister Roman Prymula tells us "it’s a real fight to keep more people alive". Also in the programme: a US doctor who travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh tells us the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has to stop; and a fifth case of Covid-19 reinfection raises more questions about the idea of herd immunity. (Photo: A man walks on the Charles Bridge early morning in Prague, Czech Republic. Credit: EPA/Martin Divisek.)

EP 28: Study Abroad-College Kids On Their Own in Europe, What Could Go Wrong?College is, theoretically, a place of higher learning and represents a period of time where one might learn many things. For some, college includes an opportunity to travel outside of their home countries resulting in meaningful experiences and memories that last the rest of their lives. In this episode, we explore the experiences that we had with our college aged international travel. We don’t spend much time talking about the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Prague’s Charles Bridge or the Crown Jewels of Germany. Instead, we discuss getting sick, running out of money, and where we slept. We also discuss the impact that a plane crash in Chicago may have on a college student traveling on a tight budget in Germany! In the end we both agree that the experience of living over seas for a period of time in college played a significant part in our growth and development. As with all of our episodes, this is a standalone episode, which means that you don’t have to listen to any other episode to enjoy this one. We hope you find this short conversation interesting. If you would like to share your comments and questions please Email us at DadStoriesPodcast@Gmail.comVisit our website at DadStoriesPodcast.comDownload our podcast from where ever you get your favorite podcasts. Now available on Amazon!Music written by Tom Knutilla (intro) and Brian Roberts (outro)Music performed by Tom Knutilla

Gillian Flint is a children's books illustrator, this hasn't always been the case though, Gill has been a successful illustrator for 17 years now but after 10, Gillian felt slightly, very almost, nearly ready, to reach out to book agents. We talk about this and what persistence and determination really look like for a mum of two. Her clients include CBeebies, Rodale Kids, Penguin Random House, Charlesbridge, Alfred A Knopf, Penguin Random House, Hardie Grant Egmont, Little Bee Books, Worthy Kids, Five Mile Press, Bonnier, Oxford University Press, Highlights Magazine, Highlights High Five, UK Greetings, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Tesco, Clintons, and many more.    Gills takeaways   1.If you're freelancing for a come company you’ve got relationship with offer to go in and help if they aren’t too far away, those connects and relationships go along way!  2.If you’re wanting to get into another area of illustration like books, then trade shows are great way to connect with the right agents. Of course, Covid changed this but there is still linked in or twitter!  3.Make sure you plan in enough research time for big briefs  4.You don’t need a fancy studio to start, create a corner with a portable trolley with your materials in or hide away in your tv cabinet. Don’t wait for all the gear to start the thing  5.Getting up earlier each morning to work is far more productive than staying too late. You are giving yourself the freshest awake empty part of your new day rather than the tired end of the day part.  6.Having a side project helps with your creative flow when you have to be creative for your day work  7.Remember, this isn’t to sell or show just for your own joy  8.It doesn't have to be creative, a hobby could be learning a language, fishing, dissent matter what it helps feel. It can put Control if your life rather than work life and family juggles   https://www.gillianflint.com/ https://thebrightagency.com/us/publishing/artists/gillian-flint?collection=black-white

Meet Raj - the bookstore tiger, who loves to patrol the storerooms and greet the customers with his hearty meow. But when another cat, Snowball, arrives on the scene, and causes Raj to doubt his tigerness, his owner knows just what to do to help him regain his confidence - she reads him a poem.  Perfect for celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day! (written by Kathleen T. Pelley and published by Charlesbridge publishing)  (duration - 12 minutes) An episode from Journey with Story, a storytelling podcast for kids.

Visit https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2020/04/welcoming-elijah-books-in-time-of.html for full show notes. Lesléa Newman shares her picture book Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail from Charlesbridge on the "Books in the Time of Coronavirus" special series on The Book of Life Podcast. Your feedback is appreciated! Please write to bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com or call our voicemail number at 561-206-2473. 

The Doc is inviting fantastic comedian Andy Haynes on the show! The Doc ruins the interview by talking about beaver taints way too early...he should've waited at least 10 minutes in. But, Andy and the Doc talk about giving up the dream of skiing, starting comedy, reviewing the Charles Bridge in Prague, eating at Parm in NYC and much much more. On top of all that there's fantastic music from Hayden Coffman and Drake Freeman!! Monologue: 0:21 Birthday Suit 1: 8:45 Ripped from the Headlines: 11:34 Hayden Coffman - Tennessee: 34:55 Shoutouts: 40:20 Birthday Suit 2: 47:05 Interesting Point or Who The Hell Cares?: 51:12 Drake Freeman - Creek Don't Rise: 1:00:26 Andy Haynes Interview: 1:06:42 Birthday Suit 3: 1:53:00

Taste of Prague interviews Mark Baker. Mark who now? Yeah, while he may be invisible to many, Mark is a writer of guide books for the Lonely Planet, Fodor’s and Frommer’s, covering mostly Central and Eastern Europe. So if you’re walking past the Charles Bridge and can’t get through because of the crowds, well, that’s kinda Mark’s fault. No, really, he wields a lot of invisible might, steering travelers in the right places and making sure that enjoy the destination to the fullest. We see his guides in the hands of the guests of our Prague food tours all the time. Let me put it this way: the man who covers Slovenia for the Lonely Planer got „knighted“ by the Slovenian government. I will make it one of my top 2020 priority the same thing happens to Mark in the Czech Republic.Mark is a fascinating guy. Hailing from Ohio and having majored in journalism at the University of Miami, he worked in Vienna for The Economist group and Bloomberg when the Berlin Wall fell. Then he got to Prague on a writing assignment and… well, never left would not be entirely correct, but he’s still here 28 years later. He was one of the founders of the iconic Ouky Douky coffee shop / book store that was the ground zero for the exact community and young local intellectuals (heck, I was one of them) in the Holesovice district. He is also the author of multiple articles about Central and Easter Europe for the likes of the BBC, the Wall Street Journal or the National Geographic. Finally, he has a fantastic website with long-form posts about his experiences living in and traveling through Central and Eastern Europe. It’s a true wealth of information and great writing: don’t blame me if you spend long minutes or hours browsing through the posts.But back to the interview. When you think about it, writing guide books seems to be the perfect job: somebody pays you to travel and you write about it. But of course, on second thought, this ain’t no vacation. So this episode of the podcast tries to look into the mechanics of writing a guide book. Who is it for, how is it researched, what is the brief, and how do you write it. And also, we look at the future of the printed guide book in the age of the internet and the smartphone app. Mark also has a few comments on the Czechs and Czechia, having lived here - on and off - since 1991.Here’s some of the things we talked about with Mark:How do you land a job as a travel writer for a big publisher?Is writing guide books a viable job going forward?What have been the major changes since Mark started writing guide books?Who pitches a destination to write about? The publisher or the writer?What is the „refresh interval“ of guide books? How long does it take for a guide book to be updated?Is there a target group defined when you write a guidebook? An „ideal reader“?How is research travel for guide books organized? How does a guide book writer research for his own research trip:Do national tourism boards get involved in the guide book creation?Is the guide book author free to choose his POIs?Do travel writers get writer’s block?Do editors get in the way of a guide book author?Do locals ever get to have a say what’s in a guide book?Has the definition of the „assumed user“ changed to include multiple ethnicities, genders, travelers with mobility issues?Do guide books contribute to „over tourism“?How have the Czechs changed since the early nineties?What is the one thing Mark misses from the US?What is the guilty pleasure Mark likes to eat?

Druhý díl prázdninového podcastu LYNX je věnován opcím, radám pro začínající investory a strategiím hedgových fondů. Hostem je člen investičního výboru a opční stratég fondu Charles Bridge Jan Rohrbacher. Pobavili jsme se o tom, jak investuje hedgový fond, jehož strategií je přinášet konstantní výnosy - a to nehledě na situaci na trzích. Honza se nám také svěřil, jak uvažuje při investování v posledních volatilních týdnech s vidinou recese. A proč jsou pro Charles Bridge Global Macro Fond nejvhodnějším nástrojem opce. A aby toho nebylo málo, Honza nám nakonec prozradil, jak by dnes investoval on v roli běžného investora LYNX – muže okolo 45 let s jedním milionem korun na účtu. Dal nám také pár rad, jak může opce ve svůj prospěch využít i běžný investor. --- Investování na finančních trzích zahrnuje rizika. Vaše celková ztráta může převýšit Váš celkový vklad.

It's been about two months since Endgame changed the M.C.U and we're back in the cinema for Spider-Man Far From Home as Peter Parker deals with deaths and his return to high school. Join us here for our spoiler-filled podcast all about the twenty third movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nick Fury, Peter Parker and Quentin Beck team up in Spider-Man Far From Home https://open.spotify.com/episode/2VATDulp0U6iIC5YUQYzHn Listen to our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie review on Spotify Synopsis for our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie Review Directed by: Jon Watts Written by: Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Peter Parker still feels the loss of Tony Stark after the defeat of Thanos, but he needs a break as everyone thinks Spider-Man should be the next Iron Man. The perfect opportunity comes up while he’s ghosting calls from Nick Fury as Peter must prepare for his school science trip to Europe with his classmate Ned, his crush M.J., his nemesis Flash Thompson and Brad Davis the 4th grader who’s all grown up!!! Peter doesn’t get to enjoy much of his Venician trip as an unknown elemental threat rises from the canals and attacks the city but is defeated by a new superhero nicknamed Mysterio. Back at their Hotel, Nick Fury finally catches up with Peter who introduces him to Mysterio (aka Quentin Beck) who is from another universe and here to save Earth from the Elementals of Wind, Water, Earth and Fire that had destroyed his own planet. Fury also gives Peter a pair of very special glasses from Tony Stark called E.D.I.T.H. they are the keys to Stark Industries. He challenges Peter to step-up as Spider-Man and to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. As their trip moves to Prague, Spider-Man and Mysterio must team-up to take down the strongest elemental, Fire. After they have defeated it, Peter, who still feels uncomfortable trying to emulate Tony Stark, realises that Quentin Beck should be the new focus to superheroes on earth and hands over E.D.I.T.H. to Quentin. But after a piece of unusual tech is found by MJ and given to Peter on the Charles Bridge in Prague a Spidey-sense of deception forms in Peters mind over Quentin as betrayal begins to play out from Berlin to London that culminates with the battle of Tower Bridge with the mysterious Mysterio and his army of armed, armoured drones! Getting in Contact with us Thanks so much for listening to our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie Review we love to hear from listeners about your thoughts on all of our podcasts so please send yours to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com join us on Facebook at facebook.com/tvpodcastindustries or follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TVPodcastIndustries/ Twitter @tvpodindustries  and you can now record your thoughts for the podcast directly from our website tvpodcastindustries.com by clicking the “Send Voicemail” button. That's it for our movie reviews so far this year. We're continuing our TV reviews with the rest of the final season of Jessica Jones. We'll also be jumping back to DC for their new series Pennyworth from the creators of Gotham, and finally we'll be discussing Garth Ennis' The Boys on Amazon Prime from July 28th 2019. So make sure you subscribe to the podcast. Just search for "TV Podcast Industries" on any good or evil podcast catcher Thanks for listening John, Chris and Derek TV Podcast Industries Date recorded: 07/07/2019Date published: 09/07/2019 MP3, 123.22 mins, 112kbps, 99.1 MB All images and audio clips are copyright of their copyright holders no infringement is intended. The music for this episode "Fighting Against Our Will" by Ask Again is licensed under an Attribution License.

It's been about two months since Endgame changed the M.C.U and we're back in the cinema for Spider-Man Far From Home as Peter Parker deals with deaths and his return to high school. Join us here for our spoiler-filled podcast all about the twenty third movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nick Fury, Peter Parker and Quentin Beck team up in Spider-Man Far From Home https://open.spotify.com/episode/2VATDulp0U6iIC5YUQYzHn Listen to our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie review on Spotify Synopsis for our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie Review Directed by: Jon Watts Written by: Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Peter Parker still feels the loss of Tony Stark after the defeat of Thanos, but he needs a break as everyone thinks Spider-Man should be the next Iron Man. The perfect opportunity comes up while he’s ghosting calls from Nick Fury as Peter must prepare for his school science trip to Europe with his classmate Ned, his crush M.J., his nemesis Flash Thompson and Brad Davis the 4th grader who’s all grown up!!! Peter doesn’t get to enjoy much of his Venician trip as an unknown elemental threat rises from the canals and attacks the city but is defeated by a new superhero nicknamed Mysterio. Back at their Hotel, Nick Fury finally catches up with Peter who introduces him to Mysterio (aka Quentin Beck) who is from another universe and here to save Earth from the Elementals of Wind, Water, Earth and Fire that had destroyed his own planet. Fury also gives Peter a pair of very special glasses from Tony Stark called E.D.I.T.H. they are the keys to Stark Industries. He challenges Peter to step-up as Spider-Man and to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. As their trip moves to Prague, Spider-Man and Mysterio must team-up to take down the strongest elemental, Fire. After they have defeated it, Peter, who still feels uncomfortable trying to emulate Tony Stark, realises that Quentin Beck should be the new focus to superheroes on earth and hands over E.D.I.T.H. to Quentin. But after a piece of unusual tech is found by MJ and given to Peter on the Charles Bridge in Prague a Spidey-sense of deception forms in Peters mind over Quentin as betrayal begins to play out from Berlin to London that culminates with the battle of Tower Bridge with the mysterious Mysterio and his army of armed, armoured drones! Getting in Contact with us Thanks so much for listening to our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie Review we love to hear from listeners about your thoughts on all of our podcasts so please send yours to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com join us on Facebook at facebook.com/tvpodcastindustries or follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TVPodcastIndustries/ Twitter @tvpodindustries  and you can now record your thoughts for the podcast directly from our website tvpodcastindustries.com by clicking the “Send Voicemail” button. That's it for our movie reviews so far this year. We're continuing our TV reviews with the rest of the final season of Jessica Jones. We'll also be jumping back to DC for their new series Pennyworth from the creators of Gotham, and finally we'll be discussing Garth Ennis' The Boys on Amazon Prime from July 28th 2019. So make sure you subscribe to the podcast. Just search for "TV Podcast Industries" on any good or evil podcast catcher Thanks for listening John, Chris and Derek TV Podcast Industries Date recorded: 07/07/2019Date published: 09/07/2019 MP3, 123.22 mins, 112kbps, 99.1 MB All images and audio clips are copyright of their copyright holders no infringement is intended. The music for this episode "Fighting Against Our Will" by Ask Again is licensed under an Attribution License.

It's been about two months since Endgame changed the M.C.U and Defenders TV Podcast are back in the cinema for Spider-Man Far From Home as Peter Parker deals with deaths and his return to high school. Join us here for our spoiler-filled podcast all about the twenty third movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal. Synopsis for our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie Review Directed by: Jon Watts Written by: Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Peter Parker still feels the loss of Tony Stark after the defeat of Thanos, but he needs a break as everyone thinks Spider-Man should be the next Iron Man. The perfect opportunity comes up while he’s ghosting calls from Nick Fury as Peter must prepare for his school science trip to Europe with his classmate Ned, his crush M.J., his nemesis Flash Thompson and Brad Davis the 4th grader who’s all grown up!!! Peter doesn’t get to enjoy much of his Venician trip as an unknown elemental threat rises from the canals and attacks the city but is defeated by a new superhero nicknamed Mysterio. Back at their Hotel, Nick Fury finally catches up with Peter who introduces him to Mysterio (aka Quentin Beck) who is from another universe and here to save Earth from the Elementals of Wind, Water, Earth and Fire that had destroyed his own planet. Fury also gives Peter a pair of very special glasses from Tony Stark called E.D.I.T.H. they are the keys to Stark Industries. He challenges Peter to step-up as Spider-Man and to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. As their trip moves to Prague, Spider-Man and Mysterio must team-up to take down the strongest elemental, Fire. After they have defeated it, Peter, who still feels uncomfortable trying to emulate Tony Stark, realises that Quentin Beck should be the new focus to superheroes on earth and hands over E.D.I.T.H. to Quentin. But after a piece of unusual tech is found by MJ and given to Peter on the Charles Bridge in Prague a Spidey-sense of deception forms in Peters mind over Quentin as betrayal begins to play out from Berlin to London that culminates with the battle of Tower Bridge with the mysterious Mysterio and his army of armed, armoured drones! Getting in Contact with us Thanks so much for listening to our Spider-Man Far From Home Movie Review we love to hear from listeners about your thoughts on all of our podcasts so please send yours to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com join us on Facebook at facebook.com/tvpodcastindustries or follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TVPodcastIndustries/ Twitter @tvpodindustries  and you can now record your thoughts for the podcast directly from our website tvpodcastindustries.com by clicking the “Send Voicemail” button. That's it for our movie reviews so far this year. We're continuing our TV reviews with the rest of the final season of Jessica Jones. We'll also be jumping back to DC for their new series Pennyworth from the creators of Gotham, and finally we'll be discussing Garth Ennis' The Boys on Amazon Prime from July 28th 2019. So make sure you subscribe to the podcast. Just search for "TV Podcast Industries" on any good or evil podcast catcher Thanks for listening John, Chris and Derek TV Podcast Industries Date recorded: 07/07/2019Date published: 09/07/2019MP3, 123.22 mins, 112kbps, 99.1 MB All images and audio clips are copyright of their copyright holders no infringement is intended. The music for this episode "Fighting Against Our Will" by Ask Again is licensed under an Attribution License.

Renowned poet Laura Purdie Salas talks about her debut Charlesbridge book Snowman-Cold=Puddle

This tourist destination in the Czech Republic is home to nearly 700 years of ghost stories. The stone Gothic bridge not only connects Old Town to the rest of Prague, but also connects the afterlife to those living today. They say if you dare to go late at night you can see severed heads still dangling from the towers at each end. Parcasters - After this episode of Haunted Places, take the Parcast Bridge over to our new show Extraterrestrial to hear about the abduction of Barney and Betty Hill. Listen at parcast.com/extraterrestrial.

Puppy Talk: Opposites author JC Coates talks puppies, photography, and more puppies!

We're kicking off 2019 with author Samantha Vamos, who is here to talk about her book The Piñata That the Farm Maiden Hung

Hillary Homzie stops by to talk about her new early reader series Ellie May! Come have a listen.

Award-winning author Patricia Hruby Powell joins our conversation today to talk about her upcoming book Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz

Today we're talking to two of our esteemed middle grade authors, as well as one of our middle grade editors! Joining us today are Ellen Wittlinger (Someone Else's Shoes) and HP Wood (Fakers: An Insider's Guide to Cons, Hoaxes, and Scams) as well as Editor Julie Bliven.

Come listen to us talk to Erin Dionne, author of the picture book Captain's Log: Snowbound.

Today we're talking to not one author but THREE about their young adult books for our teen imprint CharlesbridgeTEEN. We're excited to have Tracy Barrett (Freefall Summer), Marit Weisenberg (Select Few), and Caitlin Seal (Twice Dead) in discussion with each other and Executive Editor Monica Perez.

Today we're in conversation with author Carrie Pearson about her picture book Stretch to the Sun: From a Tiny Sprout to the Tallest Tree on Earth and how she came to write about the tallest tree in the world.

Kevin O'Malley and Patrick O'Brien stop by to talk about creating the third Captain Raptor book CAPTAIN RAPTOR AND THE PERILOUS PLANET!

Traci Sorell talks about her debut book WE ARE GRATEFUL: OTSALIHELIGA

Nancy Bo Flood and Jonathan Nelson discuss their first book together, FIRST LAUGH—WELCOME, BABY!

Christina Matula stops by to talk about her debut book The Shadow in the Moon: A Tale of the Mid-Autumn Festival

Anne Sibley O'Brien joins us to talk about her new book Someone New

Ruth Spiro talks about the two new books in her Baby Loves Science series, Baby Loves Gravity! and Baby Loves Coding!

Special guest Renee joins the duo to talk about the Czech Republic capital, a city Troy has never visited.

Debut nonfiction author Michelle Cusolito talks about her research process for Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible ALVIN

Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins stops by to talk about his first-ever book with Charlesbridge, A House in the Sky, and Other Uncommon Animal Homes

Today we're talking to expert and season author David Biedrzycki about the newest book in his Breaking News Bears series, Alien Alert. 

Today we're talking to debut author Tami Charles about her semi-autobiographical book Like Vanessa and why it was so important for Tami to write a book for herself and others like her.

sermon transcript Introduction Hope is merely faith in the future; the two terms, hope and faith, seem almost synonymous when it comes to future good things that God has promised us. Therefore, I preach for your hope and for your faith, based on the Word of God. Revelation 21:5-6 contains wonderful words: “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, [I can imagine he spoke it in an urgent and excited tone of voice; but even better:] for these words are trustworthy and they are true.’” We can have a hope based on scriptural truth; anything other accounts about Heaven that add to Scripture are fantasy. I would dissuade you from paying attention to those accounts — people who die and go to Heaven temporarily then come back and tell us what it was like. Be afraid. Do not listen to that; listen to the Word of God, to Scripture. That is enough. It is complicated, not easy to put into words, but it will be wonderful walking through it. In 2004, Randy Alcorn published a book about Heaven called Heaven. It is 494 pages of some scriptural exegesis and some speculations. Alcorn argues for the sanctified use of imagination. These words of Scripture beg to be explained and unfolded and meditated upon. Alcorn wrote the book in part because he was shocked to find that many Christians that he talked to dreaded Heaven. I can understand being afraid to go to Hell, but they were afraid of their faulty view of Heaven. Many see it as an ethereal, non-physical, wispy-clouded place, with much playing of golden harps. One of my kids asked me if we will need harp lessons to be let into Heaven, like being in language school as a missionary. When one graduates into golden harp skill, he will be admitted into Heaven to begin his eternal harp strumming while sitting on a cloud. Some imagine that we will be singing Amazing Grace forever, given the line in the hymn, “When we’ve been there 10,000 years, bright, shining as the sun, we’ve no less days to sing his praise [i.e., Amazing Grace] than when we’ve first begun.” Thinking about it that way, it can be depressing. Many people like the song, but most will say honestly that there is nothing they like doing on earth that they would want to do forever and ever and ever and ever. People have a hard time with the concept of eternity. Alcorn cites a passage from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain, no believer at all, must have been gleeful in writing this section. Miss Watson, the Christian spinster who took in Huck, was continually warning him that he would not go to Heaven with his loose lifestyle. Huck said about her, “She went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing forever and ever. So I didn't think much of it. I asked her if she thought Tom Sawyer would go there and she said not by a considerable sight. And I was glad about that because I wanted him and me to be together.” Clearly, such a view of Heaven was utterly unappealing to Huck Finn, and if we are honest, it is unappealing to us as well. Thank God, that view is not biblically accurate. Alcorn wrote his book Heaven to drive away such depressing views of Heaven. So what is the truth? What can we really believe about the future to which we are going? There is no better way to answer that question than to study Scripture, and there is no better place in the Bible to study about Heaven than in the final two chapters of the Bible, Revelation 21 and 22. We will take our time going through these chapters to try to squeeze all the heavenly nectar that we can out of the admittedly incomplete view that words cannot afford. Our Heavenly Mindedness Glorifies God Fill Our Hearts with Heaven At the end of 1 Corinthians 13, Paul wrote about spiritual gifts, including preaching and teaching, saying all gifts culminate with what is eternal, what will remain — namely, faith, hope, and love. Before that verse, he said, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face-to-face. Now I know in part [thus a partial view] then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” Now, we see through a mirror, indistinctly, dimly, like the man whom Jesus healed in stages. At first he saw people like trees walking around; later, he was able to see everything clearly. Our view of Heaven might be somewhat like that. From apocalyptic, visionary language, we are seeking to extract details of what our heavenly life will be like, and the process is well worth it. We should all meditate on Heaven based on Scripture more than we do. We should read Revelation 21 and 22 more frequently than we do. Commit it to memory and recite it to yourself on repeat. Colossians 3:1-4 talks about being heavenly-minded: “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” We are commanded to set our minds on things above and things to come, future things. We are to be thinking about them all the time, not primarily earthly and dark and temporal things. Our heavenly meditation is commanded. Greater Suffering Brings Sweeter Meditations on Heaven For our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world, it is definitely true that the greater we suffer in this world as Christians, the sweeter our heavenly meditations will be. Brothers and sisters who are being persecuted for their faith in many places in the world feed their souls continually with meditations on Heaven. Such thoughts keep them going, keep them hopeful. These meditations enable them to lead guards who have tortured them to Christ, so obviously filled with a hope and fearlessness when it comes to death that the guards lack. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5:11-12, “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.” In the midst of persecution, we can meditate on how great our reward will be in the heavenly world. Jesus says it is a time to rejoice. He is commanding heavenly joy based on heavenly reward, even in earthly suffering. When we get to Heaven, we will look back a great deal on church history. We will be able to see what God did to strengthen our brothers and sisters who were in prison cells, in places of torture, with streaming heavenly light, a supernatural foretaste of heavenly joy and enabled them to endure great suffering. I read a book called The Heavenly Man about a man named Brother Yun, who was involved in the house church movement in China. He was arrested for the first time as a Christian when he was only 17 years old. At that time, he was ministering at a meeting far away from home. When caught, he was thrown into a freezing, unheated prison cell. His winter coat had been thrown away into the snow as he was being dragged to prison by the security police who had caught him. In that cold prison cell, he began to sing Psalm 150 out loud. The more he sang, the more he was filled with supernatural joy. Gradually, his frozen hands and feet regained feeling and he no longer felt cold. This would be the regular pattern of his many incarcerations for Christ. He was called the Heavenly Man because his hope in Heaven was so clearly on display in those many imprisonments. The more suffering that we go through on earth, the sweeter our heavenly meditations will be. This was true of Christian slaves on the plantations in the South before the Civil War. Working in the cotton fields, they would sing constantly of Heaven, their only hope and solace in a life of unremitting sorrow and pain and injustice. “Swing low sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan and what did I see, a band of angels coming after me. I’m sometimes up, sometimes down, but still, my soul feels heavenly bound. Swing low sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.” Wikipedia writers prefer to say it was a secret language for the Underground Railroad, and it may have been, but very likely they were thinking about and yearning for Heaven even more. Affluence Reduces Sweetness Most of us do not endure suffering like that. There are sufferings that are common to people all over the world — sufferings of a medical nature, financial pain, chronic pain. But in general, our present level of affluence and our level of comfort renders heavenly meditation less sweet and less frequent. I do not think we do it as much as others do. Proverbs 27:7 says, “One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.” The Bible says that we are aliens and strangers in this world, but the more affluent and the more comfortable our lives are, the harder that is to believe. Those who lived by faith in the past, like those listed in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11, admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. They went through extreme suffering, people of whom the world was not worthy, but they fed themselves on heavenly hope. They saw from a distance their heavenly home where they were going. When all our needs are met physically — stomachs full of good food, beds warm, no real danger on the horizon — it is easy to forget about God and easy to not think much about Heaven. Benefits of Yearning for Heaven There are multiple benefits of a strong yearning for Heaven. First and foremost, it proves what your treasure really is. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” [Matthew 6:19-21] Heavenly-minded people know where their treasure really is. They live securely in this world because they are not afraid of losing earthly things. Second, a strong yearning for Heaven develops Christian character. People who are drinking continually from thoughts of Heaven display fearlessness and boldness and perseverance. It shapes their character. Third, a strong yearning for Heaven greatly glorifies God. The Psalmist says in Psalm 73, “Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.” Sincerely meant, that glorifies God. The Psalmist is saying, “There is nothing I desire on earth compared to God. If I could have God, I do not need anything else in this world.” Fourth, a strong yearning for Heaven makes all life God-centered because Heaven is a God-centered place. The more you meditate on Heaven, the more God-centered you will be in this world, thinking about God more, who He is, what He does and has done. Fifth, a strong yearning for Heaven helps us to realize how insignificant our present earthly condition is, whether good or bad. Life is a mist, a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Whether things are going well or poorly as we would define it, either way it is as nothing compared to the heavenly reality. Earthly accolades and honors and prosperity are as nothing compared to Heaven. Heavenly accolades and heavenly life and heavenly prosperity are infinitely better. Our present sufferings are very small compared to the future glory, which puts everything in perspective, enabling us to persevere through suffering. Paul says in Romans 8:18, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Sixth, a strong yearning for Heaven results in holiness. It is a very powerful force for putting sin to death. Being heavenly-minded, we will yearn for holiness and purity. Again, Colossians 3:4-5 says, “When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.” John makes the same connection in 1 John 3:2-3: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.” Meditating on Heaven gives us power for holiness. Seventh, a strong yearning for Heaven drives missions and evangelism. The more heavenly-minded we are, the more it is evident that we have a hope in us that non-Christians do not have, and the more they will ask us to give a reason for it. That is especially true when we endure suffering. It creates missionary encounters. Tertullian said, “The blood of martyrs is seed for the church.” It is seed if they die well, filled with evident hope in Heaven. The pagans will notice that these Christians have something they do not have, that they could not respond that way in the face of death. Hope in Heaven also frees missionaries up from earthly entanglements. Missionaries typically leave their homes to serve in worse conditions than they have ever known because they are yearning for a heavenly glory, both for the people they share the Gospel with and for themselves. They want rewards, as should we. We should want God to be pleased with us. A heavenly mindset frees people up to go serve in some remarkably difficult settings. Eighth, a strong yearning for Heaven keeps us vigorously serving God for the rest of our lives. It gives us perseverance in service. At the end of that marvelous chapter on the resurrection body, Paul applies in 1 Corinthians 15:58: “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” Because there will be a resurrection of the body, your service to the church is not in vain. Your gift of administration is not in vain. Your financial giving is not in vain. Your teaching of toddlers in a BFL class is not in vain. Your secret closet prayer ministry is not in vain. Your evangelism in Durham is not in vain, even if none of the last 25 people you witness to have been interested. None of it is in vain. The more confident we are in our hope of Heaven, the more energetic and persevering in service to Christ we will be. Therefore it is well worth it for us to meditate often on Heaven. The New Heavens and New Earth Revealed Revelation 21 begins with this marvelous statement: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” We have now come full circle now in the Bible. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Revelation ends with a New Heaven and a New Earth. There are innumerable vibrant, vigorous themes in the Bible that come to fruition and completion in Revelation 21 and 22. It is a challenge to trace them all — consummation of the tabernacle and the temple, service to Christ, worship, and many more. A Physical and Spiritual Reality It begins with this issue of creation. The terms heavens and earth provide familiar, recognizable concepts, not some alien universe. We have experience with the starry heavens — the sky and the stars — though we have not seen Heaven itself, the spiritual realm. We have experience with the earth; we understand the concept. In Revelation, though, the heavens and the earth will be new physical and spiritual realities which we will be able to explore, like Lewis and Clark, paddling up the Mississippi out of St. Louis and then going up the various rivers, but without the accompanying danger, disease, hostile enemies attacking, starvation, extreme temperatures, and other hardships. We will finally see the consummation of Habakkuk 2:1 — the verse which I requested to be put over our missions map in the hall: “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” We will explore and see how God has woven his glory into everything in creation, and we will know it well. We will not be idolaters, worshiping and serving the creature and creation; we will give the Creator full credit for creation and will serve Him. Genesis 2 gives a picture of the first world to be explored, the Garden of Eden. God made this beautiful garden with a river running through, which“…separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)” [Genesis 2:11-12] If they had not fallen into sin, Adam and Eve at some point would have left Eden, perhaps by boat, to explore the whole world. It would it have been beautiful. Sadly, they did fall into sin and the world was cursed. Eden is long gone, but we will inhabit a new perfect world with a river flowing out from God’s throne. Revelation 22:1-2 says, “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit yielding its fruit every month.” One tree stands on both sides of a great river. There is a sense of a real physical world to be explored. Predicted and Revealed This heavenly world must be predicted or unveiled or revealed by the Holy Spirit through writings, as it is in Revelation. Without this revelation, idle speculations would be damaging, but there is enough to go on. The phrase “new heavens and new earth” first appears in Isaiah 65:17-18: “Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.” In addition to the New Heaven, New Earth, this also speaks of a delightful Jerusalem. The First Heaven and First Earth Pass Away Revelation 21:1 says, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away…” John, transported, saw the new world in his vision of the future, given to him as an apostle while exiled on the island of Patmos. The first heaven and earth had passed away. Revelation 20:11 says, “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.” Take these two verses in conjunction with one another — Revelation 20:11 and 21:1; it is clear that the present physical universe that we know and call home will go away. In one sense, it will be transformed, made new; in another, it will be radically destroyed. Hebrews 1:10-12, quoting Psalm 102, says, “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.” Peter makes it plain that the present physical universe — earth and sky and outer space — will disappear. 2 Peter 3:10 says, “…the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.” Two verses later, 2 Peter 3:12 says, “That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.” It is not hard to imagine that this verse describes a thermonuclear conflagration in which the atoms themselves release energy in a kind of massive explosive fireball. Continuity and Difference But there must also be continuity with this present world. While the word “new” implies a difference, the terms “heaven and earth” imply continuity. Just as our bodies will be resurrected, so will the world be resurrected, made new. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 describes the resurrection body in the language of a seed that is sown and raised, another picture of both continuity and disconnect: “The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.” We will have a spiritual body. Our resurrection bodies will be different than we can imagine, but still physical. Jesus said, “Touch me and see; A [spirit] does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” [Luke 24:39] “Go ahead, Thomas, put your finger in the nail marks.” It is physical. He asked for broiled fish and ate it to prove that his body was physical. The spiritual aspect to Jesus’ resurrection body enabled him to go through cave walls, grave clothes covered with sticky, resinous, aromatic spices, locked doors — there were no obstacles for his resurrected body, and people did not recognize him unless he revealed himself, so there was some difference. Our resurrection bodies will be like that. Paul calls it imperishable — cannot perish or fade or get old; glorious — radiant and shining; powerful — not growing weary but energetic and strong. In addition to being imperishable, glorious and powerful, it is a spiritual body. It is hard to fathom, along the lines of transparent gold or a single pearl as a gate (if you can picture the pearl, imagine the oyster that made it). It stretches the mind. We cannot yet imagine what a spiritual body, transparent gold, and a single massive pearl will be like. Resurrected bodies with resurrected feet need resurrected ground to walk on. Anthony Hokum said, “Resurrected bodies are not intended just to float in space or to flit from cloud to cloud. They call for a new earth on which to live and work and glorify God.” The doctrine of the resurrection of the body makes no sense without the doctrine of the new, or resurrected, earth. No Longer Any Sea Revelation 21:1 ends saying, “…and there was no longer any sea.” Randy Alcorn disagrees with this. (One of his basic rules is that if he likes it, it will be in Heaven.) We have to take the Bible’s statement as it is given, but I understand the sentiment. The coast is a beloved vacation destination. Observing the sea, one sees a display of beauty and power, such as when the sun rises on the east coast and sets on the west coast. Some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen has involved the sea, like the rocky Maine coastline in Acadia National Park with sailboats all over the harbor. It sparkles beautifully in the sunlight. We visited my mother’s house in Orleans on Cape Cod during Christmas 1996 when Carolyn was six months old. Since she was born in land-locked Kentucky, the only massive body of water she had ever seen was the Ohio River. I wanted her to see the ocean, so I put her in the car and the two of us went to Nauset Beach. From the parking lot, we walked up the stairs, cresting the sand dune which hides the ocean from view. There had been a serious winter storm the day before so the waves were in fine form. We heard the crashing waves and wind, felt the foam and mist on our faces, and smelled the salt air. I did not want to miss the moment Carolyn first saw the ocean. I had seen it plenty of times myself, of course, but I had never seen my daughter see it for the first time. God gave me the foresight to watch her face. Since she was a wordless little baby, all she did was just point, as if to say, “Don't look at me, look at that spectacular, powerful thing.” I would love to go on a whale-watching cruise in the New Heaven and New Earth. The last time I participated in whale watching, the sea was rough and choppy and had a less than desirable effect on my stomach. That will not be a problem in the resurrected world. There are darker implications of no sea. It could be argued that there were no seas before the flood of Noah. God separated the water from the dry land, but the seas are vastly larger now than they were before the flood of Noah, which was a display of God’s wrath and judgment. The sea harbors, in the Hebraic mind, sea monsters that need to be killed; without the sea monsters being killed, there can be no salvation, no rescue. Psalm 89:9-10 says, “You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them. You crushed Rahab like one of the slain…” This churning sea was the source of Daniel’s four great wicked empires that came up, one beast after another. John has the same image of the Antichrist that comes up out of the churning sea. The sea represents the nations and all their tumults and their churning. “But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. ‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked.’” [Isaiah 57:20-21] If we literally take what it says, there will be no longer any sea, our future lives and the new earth will be radically different than the one we know in terms of ecology and biology. 70% of our oxygen comes from marine plants and 83% of our rainwater from the sea. 71.1% of the surface of the present earth is covered by water, and if all of that surface area became land and a new earth, with all of the creativity of God, there will be much exploring to do and plenty of room for us to do it in. We do not have any idea how many people will be redeemed but most will not be. Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” We cannot guess the percentage of unredeemed, but Jesus put it in more general terms: many will be condemned and only a few saved. But we also know from Revelation 7 that the redeemed are comprised of “…a multitude, greater than anyone could count, from every tribe, language, people, and nation.” A smaller group of people than presently live on earth will be exploring much more land than we can possibly imagine. So a new universe is coming, radiant with the glory of God. It will be our home for all eternity, and we would know nothing about the New Heaven and the New Earth, except that Scripture reveals it to us. The New Jerusalem Descends from God The Capital City of God’s Eternal Empire Verse 2 reveals that a beautiful city is coming as well — not just countryside with beautiful land — called the New Jerusalem. Revelation 21:2 says, “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.” This is the capital city of God’s eternal empire, where his throne will be. There will be a radiantly beautiful land to explore and a radiantly beautiful city to live in. I have seen some amazing sights all over the world. I tend to gravitate more toward and get refreshed by nature rather than city. Other people find cities exciting — I do too but I love nature to my core. I love visiting National Parks like Acadia; the Redwoods along the Pacific Coast in Northern California with massive trees and rocky coastline; Half Dome in Yosemite; Old Faithful in Yellowstone. I saw Mount St. Helens’ eruptions of steam following the main eruption as I was traveling down the Oregon coastline. All interesting and spectacular natural beauty. I have seen some amazing cities as well, with their sights and sounds. It is impressive. I spoke at a conference on outreach to Muslims in New York City, staying on the 30th floor in a decent hotel on the Avenue of the Americas. It was like a man-made canyon of steel and glass and light. When the sun went down, I could see a man working at his desk right across the road, and as far as I could see to the left and right were man-made buildings. It had its own kind of beauty. This past summer, I was on my way to Cameroon and missed my flight, so I had an extra day in Paris. I decided to make the most of it and took the train from the hotel they put me up in Paris. I walked as much as you possibly can in one day and was thoroughly exhausted by the end. As the sun was going down, I climbed the Eiffel Tower, overlooking the City of Lights. It was beautiful and amazing. London was the same way with Big Ben and all the monuments and other sights. I have seen some amazing European cities as well, like Prague for example, one of my favorite cities, with cobblestone courtyards of old buildings, the Charles Bridge across the Vltava River, and the ancient castle on the hill. A city implies a society with many people together — working, eating, experiencing life, having a common culture together. There is a man-made beauty because we are created in the image of God. Babel had this man-made beauty of construction even as the people were building the Tower of Babel as a display of human arrogance and pride. Perhaps there will be other cities in the New Earth, as Jesus implies in his parable about the ten minas: one who managed his affairs well would be in charge of ten cities and another in charge of five cities. The New Jerusalem is the capital city, and we will all be together to see its glory and its beauty. The Old Jerusalem Jerusalem links back to a history and heritage. Jerusalem was the place in Israel where God chose for His name and His glory to dwell. He told the Israelites, before they entered the Promised Land, that He would choose a place. It was called the City of David, because David conquered it militarily from the Jebusites. The Tabernacle had been moving around from place to place, but at last, the Ark of the Covenant came to Jerusalem. Three times a year, the Jews would take pilgrimages up to Mount Zion, to Jerusalem, to offer their sacrifices there. That was the heritage of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem also had a history of great wickedness — evil and sin and idolatry. It was a dirty, filthy, nasty, sinful, wicked city, and the prophets railed against the wickedness of Jerusalem. Isaiah 1:21 says, “See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her — but now murderers!” Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem, saying, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” [Luke 13:34-35]. After saying this, he left Jerusalem. Timeless Picture of God and His People The new Jerusalem will be perfectly pure, radiantly glorious, purified of all of her uncleanness and idolatry and wickedness. It will be a radiant, beautiful place, the perfection of the Old Testament purpose, fulfilling God’s intention to put his name in a place, a location where His glory will dwell. The New Jerusalem the physical city, is this location. In our resurrection bodies, it is where we will congregate. But the New Jerusalem is, more significantly, the church of Jesus Christ, the bride of Christ. The language in Revelation is of a radiant bride beautifully dressed for her husband. She is ready for her wedding day, descending from God, beautifully adorned. She is made ready in Heaven by God himself, prepared and made glorious by thousands of years of redemptive history, evangelism and missions, the ministry of spiritual gifts, and sanctification. Christ makes her ready, and she is also making herself ready. Revelation 19:7-8 says, “‘Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.’ (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)” By her righteous good deeds she is preparing herself for her wedding day while being made ready by God and by Christ as well. She will descend ready, glorious. Revelation 21:9-11 says, “One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.” Radiant with the glory of God, He got her ready, made her glorious and beautiful. Revelation 21:2 says, “beautifully dressed for her husband,” or adorned, kosmeo, from which we get the word “cosmetics.” She has adorned herself as every bride does. I have had the privilege of officiating many weddings — all brides are beautiful. My daughter was the flower girl in one. When she came down the aisle in her miniature bride dress, it was hard not to become emotional. (Fathers of brides look back; fathers of flower girls look ahead.) A bride’s dress is the most costly she will ever wear, perhaps made of silk, with sparkling sequins or beads woven into it. She puts a great deal of time into choosing it or making it. Her hair is perfectly styled, every hair in place. She has just the right amount of jewelry, tastefully chosen, and her face is shining with joy. She is beautiful. In American weddings, the bride gets ready with help from her mother and bridesmaids, not typically from the bridegroom. In fact, it is a tradition that he does not see her on that day until the moment she walks down the aisle. But in this case, this radiant bride has been prepared by her bridegroom, Christ, for centuries. This is a word to every husband in Ephesians 5:25-27 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” Her beauty is his work. He did not find her beautiful but, as Ezekiel saw, kicking around in her blood and her defilement, ugly, rebellious, sinful. Romans 3:11 says, “There is no one righteous, not even one, there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.” That is all of us who are part of the bride of Christ. He will is making us radiantly holy and glorious and beautiful — it is his work. The bride is the consummation of the wedding image of Israel and God — God married Israel, but she was unfaithful until He restored her in a new form. Application First and foremost, I yearn, if you are listening to me with your ears, listen to me with your heart. Jesus said, “He who has ears, let him hear.” Please do not miss it; do not be excluded, on the outside trying to get in when it is too late — you will not be admitted then. Hear me now. This is the day of salvation. Hear the Gospel. God sent his son Jesus into the world to die on the cross for sinners like you and me. If you believe in him, your sins will be forgiven, and you will be there in Heaven. That is all. You do not have to — you must not — do any good works to pay for your sins. You must only trust in Christ. Do not miss this doorway of opportunity open for you — walk through it. Two years ago, I shared the Gospel with somebody on a plane. The Holy Spirit was so completely filling me that I had a deep yearning to spend eternity in Heaven with a guy I had never met. In my heart, I wanted to plead with him “Don’t miss it!” He would not have understood that, so I toned it down. But I do not want you to miss it either. Be there. Second, for all who are Christians, I urge you, be heavenly-minded. Think about this more than you do. This week, take opportunities to talk to co-workers, to non-Christians about these things. Talk about the sermon. Ask the person if he ever thinks about Heaven. Let the Lord open the door to share the Gospel. Closing Prayer Let’s close in prayer. Father, thank you for the things that we have covered today, for the opportunity we have to walk through this incredible truth and the things you are showing us. Please strengthen each one of us, and make us, O Lord, radiant and strong and energetic in serving you. Help us to be so filled with joy and hope that we would give you the glory that you deserve by the way we live. In Jesus name. Amen.

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Award-winning author, Pamela S. Turner discusses two new books, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the Worlds Smartest Bird (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2016), and Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune (Charlesbridge, 2016). In Crow Smarts, Turner introduces scientist Dr. Gavin Hunt and provides a fascinating account... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning author, Pamela S. Turner discusses two new books, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the Worlds Smartest Bird (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2016), and Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune (Charlesbridge, 2016). In Crow Smarts, Turner introduces scientist Dr. Gavin Hunt and provides a fascinating account... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning author, Pamela S. Turner discusses two new books, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the Worlds Smartest Bird (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2016), and Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune (Charlesbridge, 2016). In Crow Smarts, Turner introduces scientist Dr. Gavin Hunt and provides a fascinating account of how his team in New Caledonia is investigating the mysteries of crow smarts, exploring the questions: How do New Caledonian crows learn to use and make tools? Is it possible that crows are improving their tool technology and passing the improvements on to the next generation–an achievement long thought unique to humans? Where is this tool use driving the crow brain, and what can crows teach us about the evolution of intelligence? Then, in Samurai Rising, Turner takes readers back to twelfth-century Japan to recount the dramatic story of Minamoto Yoshitsune, the child exile and teenage runaway, whose military genius made him a legendary samurai warrior and whose story has been told in books, manga, film, kabuki theater, and incorporated into a number of video and online games. At first, Yoshitsune had little going for him. Exiled to a monastery, he had no money, no allies, and no martial training. He wasn’t big or strong or good-looking. His only assets were brains, ambition, and a dream. But childhood dreams can change history. At the age of fifteen, Yoshitsune escaped. Blow by painful blow, he learned the art of the sword. Fall after bruising fall, he mastered mounted archery. He joined his half brother Yoritomo in an uprising against the most powerful samurai in Japan. This is the story of insane courage and daring feats, bitter rivalry and fatal love. Based on one of the great works of Japanese history and literature, Samurai Rising takes a clear-eyed, very modern look at the way of the samurai–and at the man who became the most famous samurai of all. Learn more at: http://www.pamelasturner.com Susan Raab is president of Raab Associates, an internationally recognized agency that specializes in marketing literature, products and initiatives that help improve the lives of young people. Clients have included National Geographic, Scholastic, the International Board on Books for Young People, and bestselling authors and illustrators. Susan is marketing advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She’s also a journalist reporting on publishing, education and human rights. Her work as a broadcast correspondent has been hosted by the University of Connecticut, and by the University of Florida’s Recess Radio, a program syndicated to 500 public radio stations. Her many interviews, including with Art Spiegelman, Jon Scieszka, Norton Juster, Laurie Halse Anderson and many others talking about art and literature can be heard here. Follow Susan at: https://twitter.com/sraab18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our first edition of Bohemican Bedtime Stories we will explore several legends about the Charles Bridge in Prague. One of my favorite times of the day is spending the last few moments of the evening reading to my boy. I will read three well-known stories to my son, Nathanael, as we get ready for bedtime. The Builder of Charles Bridge. The Bridge of Eggs and Cream Cheese. Bruncvik's Sword.A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all projects and news. Visit bohemican.com for more on this project and the Czech Republic. Check out our new show, Past Access! (YouTube Link) Twitter @bohemican | @Travis J Dow | @Podcastnik — Facebook Podcastnik Page — Instagram @podcastnik Podcastnik YouTube | Podcastnik Audio Podcast Support: PayPal | Patreon | Podcastnik Shop | Pete Collman Photography Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Biedrzycki (@artofdavid), author illustrator most recently of Breaking News: Bear Alert, published by Charlesbridge (@charlesbridge), stops by to talk about selling homemade comics for a quarter, getting kids on your side at the very beginning of any author visit, and a couple of pairs-turned-media darlings.

One of Europe's most pleasant strolls is along Prague's historic coronation route. Use it as a spine, but make a point to venture beyond, and learn enough Czech to interact with the locals. At www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.

One of Europe's most pleasant strolls is along Prague's historic coronation route. Use it as a spine, but make a point to venture beyond, and learn enough Czech to interact with the locals. At www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.

Interviews about new Jewish titles with Charlesbridge, Image Comics, and Dundurn at Book Expo 2014.

buskers play underneath Charles bridge, Prague, Czech Republic.

Few cities can match Prague for over-the-top romance and evocative Old World charm. Starting on historic Wenceslas Square, we'll stroll through the Old Town and end on the ultra-atmospheric Charles Bridge. Allow two or three hours for this walk. Don't forget to download the PDF companion map at https://www.ricksteves.com/audiotours.

Few cities can match Prague for over-the-top romance and evocative Old World charm. Starting on historic Wenceslas Square, we'll stroll through the Old Town and end on the ultra-atmospheric Charles Bridge. Allow two or three hours for this walk. Don't forget to download the PDF companion map at http://www.ricksteves.com/audiotours.

His historical name was Jan Velflín from Pomuku. Most know him as Saint Jan of Nepomuk, the martyred archbishop that was thrown to his death over Prague's Charles Bridge in 1393. We will examine this 14th century Czech martyr and the various legends attributed to the motivations of his murder. Was he murdered because he was protecting the sanctity of the confessional or was he marked for death because he backed the wrong Pope? We will examine the many angles of this story on this edition of the Bohemican Podcast.A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all projects and news. Visit bohemican.com for more on this project and the Czech Republic.Check out our new show, Past Access! (YouTube Link)Twitter @bohemican | @Travis J Dow | @Podcastnik — Facebook Podcastnik Page — Instagram @podcastnikPodcastnik YouTube | Podcastnik Audio Podcast Support: PayPal | Patreon | Podcastnik Shop | Pete Collman Photography Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author: Bob Crelin (on JOMB) Illustrator: Leslie Evans (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Charlesbridge (on JOMB) ISBN: 9781570917851 New, crescent, quarter, gibbous and full then all the way back to new, this ingeniously illustrated poem gives us a solid understanding and new appreciation for our revolving neighbour. UNESCO has designated 2009 as International Year of Astronomy. […]

Author: Bob Crelin (on JOMB) Illustrator: Leslie Evans (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Charlesbridge (on JOMB) ISBN: 9781570917851 New, crescent, quarter, gibbous and full then all the way back to new, this ingeniously illustrated poem gives us a solid understanding and new appreciation for our revolving neighbour. UNESCO has designated 2009 as International Year of Astronomy. […]

Commissioned in the 14th Century by the Holy Roman Emperor, the Charles Bridge in Prague offers one of the most pleasant 500-yard strolls in Europe. A gauntlet of sights, shops, and restaurants lead from the bridge to Wenceslas Square, but for many the top Czech tourist attraction is beer. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.

Commissioned in the 14th Century by the Holy Roman Emperor, the Charles Bridge in Prague offers one of the most pleasant 500-yard strolls in Europe. A gauntlet of sights, shops, and restaurants lead from the bridge to Wenceslas Square, but for many the top Czech tourist attraction is beer. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.

Our Prague New Year SpecialOver the festive period I travelled to Prague, with mini-disk in hand, this weeks podcast is an audio diary of that holiday, with recordings of folk - blues and gypsy performers on Charles Bridge,church recitals, our mystery ghostwalk and other interesting facts on the history of this beautiful town.    Music from Czech Republic:  Lindsay D'Arcy - Life Sized  Pan Svahilski - Balaton  Poitin - Toutoring  Two Mighty Men - Year    Poetry:  Nic Treadwell - Christmas In Prague