Podcasts about Christon

RJ and Elle recount their experiences with  spiders and RJ discusses the history of spiders in mythology. RJ recounts Ovid's story of Arachne and reads an anthropologists recorded Anansi story. RJ and Elle then discuss the arachnomancy readings that are currently popular in West Africa. RJ and Elle then find a black widow spider  and Elle divines a question for Christon using the web.Support the show

Aztec RB Kenon Christon Tells The Guys What Its Like To Be In The New Video Game.

I avsnitt fem av House of the dragon känns det som att alla spelpjäser återigen är uppe i luften. Alla försöker fatta vad som hände och laddar om kanonerna för vidare strider. Vad 17 händer egentligen på Harrenhal? Kommer Aegon vakna till liv? Är det helt kört mellan Christon och Alicent och kommer Hugh Hammaren kunna lämna King's Landing? Vi analyserar och snackar om allt som hände i senaste avsnittet, häng med oss! Med: Jenny Ågren och Sandra Wejbro. Kontakt: tronspelet@aftonbladet.se.

During his first week leading La Sierra University, Christon Arthur, PhD, shared his vision for the progressive Adventist culture of the campus, his Caribbean and Catholic upbringing, and his core values of equity and duty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On July 1, 2016, Christon Arthur began serving as the provost of Andrews University following his election to the position by the Andrews University Board of Trustees on May 11, 2016. He is married to Carmelita, and they have one adult son, Christon Arthur Jr. Proceeding that appointment, Arthur has served as dean of the Andrews University School of Graduate Studies & Research since 2010. In addition to that role, he has also served as associate provost, with responsibilities for faculty policy and faculty development, since 2012. Prior to coming to Andrews University, Arthur served as an associate professor of Educational Administration and associate dean of the College of Education, at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. Arthur has been an educator for more than 30 years. He worked as both an elementary and secondary teacher. He holds a bachelor's degree in theology from University of the Southern Caribbean (Trinidad & Tobago) and graduate degrees in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Administration from Andrews University and has completed postgraduate studies at Harvard University's Institute for Management and Leadership in Education

The Love of Christ: On the night before the cross, Jesus gave his disciples a new command that would change everything: "Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." Despite all the things that threaten to divide us, the cross-shaped, costly love of Jesus was to be the defining marker of his church. Recorded on Feb 4, 2024, on John 13:18-38 by Pastor David Parks. Finding Life in Jesus' Name is a sermon series on the gospel according to John in the Bible. Have you ever felt unsatisfied with your life? Or, even when things were going well, something was still missing? Many people sense there must be something more. But what?? John, one of the closest friends of Jesus, believed that Jesus came into the world so that we may have life and have it to the full. Jesus turned John's life upside down, and John claims this new life — marked by God's power, presence, and purpose — is available for all who believe. Sermon Transcript So, all year, we're working through The Gospel According to John in a series called Finding Life in Jesus' Name. It wasn't long ago that I was really having a hard time in my life. And I wasn't handling it very well. And no one could see it more clearly than my wife, Holly. Now, Holly and I were married when we were pretty young. So we've had to do a lot of growing up together, and it hasn't always been pretty. In fact, it never is. Immaturity is always painful. But when I was deep down in this dark valley and feeling pretty bad for myself, she could've responded to me with judgment and condemnation (or at least a cold shoulder). But instead, she told me, “It's ok. I'm not going anywhere. And we'll figure this out.” It was her grace; it was her love for me in that moment that made me want to run up out of the valley. Now, not everyone is called to be married, and I know that not everyone who gets married stays married for various reasons. But this kind of love is what every single one of us was created to enjoy with God and within the church. Today, we're finishing John chapter 13, considering the love of Christ and his calling for us, his people, to love one another just as he has loved us. If you have a Bible/app, please take it and open it to John 13:18. We'll read through this and unpack it as we go. John 13:18–21 (NIV), “18 “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.' 19 “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am. 20 Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.” 21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.” Ok, let's pause here. So, last week, we started a long section in John's gospel focusing on the events and teachings of the night before the cross of Christ. This includes the story last week of Jesus washing his disciples' feet, demonstrating the humble service that Jesus called his disciples to do for one another. But this night also includes the Last Supper, one of the longest sections of the teaching of Jesus known as the Upper Room Discourse, and the sad story here of the betrayal of Jesus by one of his friends and followers. But Jesus knows this will happen. He isn't surprised by this betrayal, but it still hurts. John says that he was troubled in spirit. If you knew one of your friends, someone you spent years of your life with, would sell you to your enemies, how would you feel? But Jesus says that this tragic choice was all part of the plan. He says this was to fulfill a verse from Psalm 41. This was a psalm of the ancient King David. And one where some sort of illness had threatened David's life while his enemies prowled around him, celebrating his impending death. Even one of David's close friends,

Holy crow! It's the FIFTH anniversary episode of Please Hold For Dave Sim! Five years of holding. Five years of two dudes talking about a cartoon aardvark. Over sixty hours of AMOC's Manly Matt Dow trying to make Dave Sim laugh. Five years with a lot of answers to a lot of questions. Like these: Matt remembers Jeff Seiler's car. Dave skips Lank Stephens because, oh god the questions... VGDC Maroro asks about: Judith Bradford a sort of "list of exercises" for one to learn how to ink lines How does one figure out how far one can push the expression of a character until it becomes off-model How did you go about making the rock-climbing scene from Church & State so heartpoundingly thrilling that it took me all the way to 5 paragraphs of the brick wall that is Chasing YHWH in like 2 days If you had the ability to draw without any pain in any bit of your arms tomorrow, would you attempt a second magnum-opus like Cerebus was?  What is your take on the ethics of artists using an AI trained nonconsensually on the work of other artists as a tool to help them? Does Glenn Vilppu's technique work for cartoon characters that were constructed two-dimensionally like Fred Flintstone rather than ones made of 3D forms like Mickey Mouse? Dodger wants to know about Dave's thoughts on Marvel & DC's B/W reprint lines. Steve has inquiries about Jeff Seiler's copy of The Cerebus Guide to Self-Puplishing. Margaret has one of them notebook questions. Zipper wants to know if he has a rare misprint. Christon has questions about Cerebus #1. Philip Fry has questions about two unnamed guys from the first 13 issues. Mike Sewall wants to know how long SDOAR is gonna be. James Windsor-Smith has questions about Matt's favorite cartoon. Wayne Thomas has questions about Deni Sim's signature. Aaron Wood makes us hungry... And has questions about Superman. It's another two hours and twenty minutes added to the pile of content we provide you...for free. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-dow/support

We interview Joshua Christon, a certified paralegal, minister and current student at Oklahoma Baptist University. Joshua has been wrongfully convicted of first degree murder for over 16 years over rap lyrics. We learn about his fight for freedom and insights on what it is like to be imprisoned while innocent. Sign his petition to the Governor Kevin Stitt to support his release: https://chng.it/6Bf2ZkMgSQ Check out the latest Black Lawyers news, our free Black Lawyers Directory, Black Law and Medical student scholarship and Merchandise all year around at TheBlackLawyers.com.

Dave Sim, and Manly Matt Dow REUNITE, again, for the October 2023 Please Hold For Dave Sim! This month's collection of wonders include: Dave Sim's remembrance of Cerebus Super Fan Jeff Seiler (1962-2021) gets to the weird confluence of: Karaoke, Covid lockdowns, Yusuf Islam, Neil Gaiman, Sandman, The Book of Genesis, Surah 12 of the Quaran, a riddle, and, a cat. David Birdsong's Kickstarter for MarvelManVark Dave answers a question from his YouTube Channel, from Lank Stephens, about collaboration between a foreground and background artist. (Dave promises this might be an ongoing discussion...) Dave answers a question from Dodger about inkers. And Dave's thoughts on Wally Wood. And Matt stuns Dave with Tomb of Dracula Artist edition, and Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns. (Which Dave suggests anyone interested in inking should check out.) Dave and Matt answer Jason Trimmer's question about the resemblance between President Biden and Mary Hemingway. And Dave answers a hypothetical (I KNOW!) Dave answers Christon's question about Zipatone/Letratone. And Dave answers if he's doing conventions or signings. Michael R. (of the FAMED Easton, Pennsylvania Rs) explains Reed Waller's birthday And Dave answers Michael's questions about The Last Day widescreen remarque catalogue. And Chris W. has a question that's more a "Matt" one than a "Dave" one. And a message from Little Orphan Aardvark for her Secret Society. Set your decoder wheel's to the Steve Ditko's Mr. A code! It's two hours and nine minutes of Please Holdedy goodness! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-dow/support

We were formed by God. We may look like our parents but we have The Fathers heart and calling in us. Some of us have been told that we were an accident. But God doesn't make mistakes. Before God formed us in the womb. He molded us and carved out who we were. He designed us way before we were even a thought in our parents mind.God designed us and designed our destiny at the same time. If we don't fit in, it's because God designed us to be set apart. He made us different so we can seek for something greater than us. By not fitting in God reminds us of who we aren't, so we can discover who we are. The more we compare ourselves to others, the more we'll fail to be who we're called. God put a call and destiny in our life not to fit in, so we can become leaders and pioneers.When you're walking in the kingdom mindset you should know… Christ FOR you. He loves you at ALL times. His love is not bases on us, it's based on Him. Christ IN you. We invite Him into every part of our life, good and bad. Christ ON you. Instead of putting on our old and dirty clothes. It's time to wear and put on Christ. When we're in Christ we become everything He is. When we're in Christ, He doesn't see our failures because He turns them into our testimony. We need to put on the armor of Christ everyday. The armor is not some religious stuff, the armor of is Jesus, so we can't forget to put ON Christ.Application: Do you currently feel like you don't fit in? What are some things that come to mind about who God has designed you to be? Are you currently walking in all 3 of the kingdom mindsets? If not, how can you begin to do that today?Prayer: Father, Today I receive and believe that you're FOR me, IN me, and ON me. I ask that you remove all the dead things and become the center of my life. Thank you for not only loving me but also liking who I am. I'm ready to discover all that you designed me to be. In Jesus name, Amen.

In this episode, I speak to Dr. Gregory Schulz, he holds a PhD in Philosophy and creates online content at lutheranphilospher.com. Suspended by his university after writing an article criticizing the school as Woke. We discuss the philosophy of language, wokeism, angst, Christian living, the Kata Christon philosophy, and much more. You can find his work here: lutheranphilosopher.com

Christ communicates to us His delight to do God's will, and the joy that He has in it. Christ prays that we will enter into His joy---We are to be a joyous, obedient band of brothers with Christ, our prince and our kinsman redeemer, knit together in joy, love, faith and courage. The purpose is that, in the end, all the joyous things Christ promised will be accomplished in every one of us who have trusted in Him.--No wonder Christ prayed that His joy would be fulfilled in His people. His prayer cannot fail for any of us---Christ's joy must be fulfilled in us- What He joys in must be accomplished in every one of His people, and when it is, His joy floods over us as well.--What brings joy to Christ, in the end, are the same things that bring joy to us all. We come to share with Jesus a common enthusiasm.--What Christ delights in is His sacrifice that takes away our sin, and reconciles us to a Holy God, and justifies us, declaring us perfect before God in Christ, and rescues our bodies from sin and death and corruption.--A principle means used by God to fulfill Christ's joy in us, is the miraculous work of the Holy Ghost. By Him we are quickened, who were before dead in our trespasses and sins, and we are brought to faith in our Lord Jesus.--Not stopping with that, God sends the Holy Ghost to indwell every believer, to knit our hearts unto His, to adopt us by His Spirit as His sons.--The Holy Ghost also comforts us, by drawing us to the knowledge of all the things that bring joy to Christ---On the night He was betrayed, Christ promised that all this would happen.--But God also institutionalizes that comfort, He instantiates that comfort in the Holy Ghost Who indwells us.

Christ communicates to us His delight to do God's will, and the joy that He has in it. Christ prays that we will enter into His joy---We are to be a joyous, obedient band of brothers with Christ, our prince and our kinsman redeemer, knit together in joy, love, faith and courage. The purpose is that, in the end, all the joyous things Christ promised will be accomplished in every one of us who have trusted in Him.--No wonder Christ prayed that His joy would be fulfilled in His people. His prayer cannot fail for any of us---Christ's joy must be fulfilled in us- What He joys in must be accomplished in every one of His people, and when it is, His joy floods over us as well.--What brings joy to Christ, in the end, are the same things that bring joy to us all. We come to share with Jesus a common enthusiasm.--What Christ delights in is His sacrifice that takes away our sin, and reconciles us to a Holy God, and justifies us, declaring us perfect before God in Christ, and rescues our bodies from sin and death and corruption.--A principle means used by God to fulfill Christ's joy in us, is the miraculous work of the Holy Ghost. By Him we are quickened, who were before dead in our trespasses and sins, and we are brought to faith in our Lord Jesus.--Not stopping with that, God sends the Holy Ghost to indwell every believer, to knit our hearts unto His, to adopt us by His Spirit as His sons.--The Holy Ghost also comforts us, by drawing us to the knowledge of all the things that bring joy to Christ---On the night He was betrayed, Christ promised that all this would happen.--But God also institutionalizes that comfort, He instantiates that comfort in the Holy Ghost Who indwells us.

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#80 The Beatitudes Part 1   In this episode, Alisha, Stacy, Lauren, and Annie start a 3-part series over the Beatitudes. They discuss what they are and ways in which the first two beatitudes are played out in their own lives.    References Discussed:   Avila Institute https://avila-institute.org/   Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger (aka Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) https://ignatius.com/jesus-of-nazareth-3-volume-set-jnsetx/   Living the Mystery of Merciful Love: 30 Days with Therese of Lisieux by Anthony Lilles and Dan Burke https://sophiainstitute.com/product/living-the-mystery-of-merciful-love/   Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude by Deitrich von Hildebrand https://www.amazon.com/Transformation-Christ-Dietrich-Von-Hildebrand/dp/0898708699   Join us on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/groups/231017461535192 If you enjoy this podcast, please consider contributing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcatholics or you can email us at coffeeandcatholics@gmail.com for direct donations and prayer requests. Thank you to our lovely affiliate Blessed is She for their dedication to sisterhood in Christ. https://blessedisshe.net/?ref=COFFEECATHOLICS   We are big fans of Catholic Sprouts and all the wonderful things Nancy and the team are doing to spread the faith in families. Get their new book Catholic Social Teaching for Youth and many other great items at https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/?ref=COFFEEANDCATHOLICS   Love TAN Books? We do too! Consider using our affiliate account for your next purchase. https://tanbooks.com?rfsn=7123077.dfb511   We're a proud partner of the SmartCatholics Podcast Network. Find new shows to love, meet like-minded Catholics, and join the community at smartcatholics.com.

The 2023 SDSU Aztecs Football Fall Camp is in mid swing. Running Back #23 Kenan Christon has been working hard all off season and is now expected to be the feature back to the new look offense. From his San Diego high school days, to USC, and now back home at SDSU, Kenan shares on what he expects of himself this year, how SDSU differs from other programs, and what influences him the most.

The 2023 SDSU Aztecs Football Fall Camp is in mid swing. Running Back #23 Kenan Christon has been working hard all off season and is now expected to be the feature back to the new look offense. From his San Diego high school days, to USC, and now back home at SDSU, Kenan shares on what he expects of himself this year, how SDSU differs from other programs, and what influences him the most.

Coucou mes stars ! Aujourd'hui on se rappel juste qu'on ne (re)vit qu'une fois. Comme on est deep on va échanger en prenant une double perspective sur la devise de vie « on ne vit qu'une fois car aussi « on ne meurs qu'une fois », et bien sûr, lier ce motto à la marche en Christ :) On se retrouve dans les Q&A, IG et tiktok pour poursuivre ensemble notre chemin de Foi

Exclusive interview with Semaj Christon of Derthona Basket, talking about his career, his experience in Italy and the man who score the bucket giving Russell Westbrook an hystorical record.Questo show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/4175169/advertisement

This was an episode that aired as #18 during season 2. We will continue to air these episodes until season 4 begins in spring 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/researchshows/support

Next on the list for season 2 we catch up with local entrepreneur Hilary Christon at one of Jackson's favorite restaurants The Iron Horse Grill located downtown. She discusses a few of her different business as well as a few of her favorite places in Jackson & how she's excited for there future. Tune in, you don't wanna miss this episode!Hosted by: Taylor

Cara and Maya welcome in Christon, John and Mike to answer the questions the girls are too afraid to ask the guys!

Reading 1 Gn 18:1-10a The LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre,as he sat in the entrance of his tent,while the day was growing hot. Looking up, Abraham saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them;and bowing to the ground, he said:"Sir, if I may ask you this favor,please do not go on past your servant. Let some water be brought, that you may bathe your feet,and then rest yourselves under the tree. Now that you have come this close to your servant,let me bring you a little food, that you may refresh yourselves;and afterward you may go on your way." The men replied, "Very well, do as you have said."Abraham hastened into the tent and told Sarah,"Quick, three measures of fine flour! Knead it and make rolls." He ran to the herd, picked out a tender, choice steer,and gave it to a servant, who quickly prepared it. Then Abraham got some curds and milk,as well as the steer that had been prepared,and set these before the three men;and he waited on them under the tree while they ate.They asked Abraham, "Where is your wife Sarah?"He replied, "There in the tent." One of them said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year,and Sarah will then have a son."Reading 2 Col 1:24-28 Brothers and sisters:Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake,and in my flesh I am filling upwhat is lacking in the afflictions of Christon behalf of his body, which is the church,of which I am a ministerin accordance with God's stewardship given to meto bring to completion for you the word of God,the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past.But now it has been manifested to his holy ones,to whom God chose to make known the riches of the gloryof this mystery among the Gentiles;it is Christ in you, the hope for glory. It is he whom we proclaim,admonishing everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom,that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.Gospel Lk 10:38-42 Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.She had a sister named Marywho sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said,"Lord, do you not carethat my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply,"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better partand it will not be taken from her."

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Lillian Christon about emotional wellness for youth with obesity. Dr. Christon is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC and she's a clinical health psychologist who works with youth and adults who have chronic health conditions.

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ On a basic level, physical nourishment such as food and drink provide a certain level of satisfaction, while on a deeper level spiritual nourishment which comes from a relationship with God provides another kind of satisfaction. When Luke's Gospel account states that all ate and were satisfied from the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, this begs the question where does our satisfaction truly come from?   Scripture Readings for June 19, 2022 Genesis 14:18-20Psalm 110:1-4 1 Corinthians 11:23-26Luke 9:11-17   

MatteoSanDiego, K5James and Dirtball Dan are back together to give an early June SDSU Football report. The guys discuss: 3:30 K5James is sleeping with the enemy 4:00 SDSU are going to the P5 and it's all because of SDSU_Alum2003 on Twitter 14:30 Snapdragon Stadium Update 20:30 New Football Commitments! 28:50 New USC Transfer Kenan Christon analysis  

MatteoSanDiego, K5James and Dirtball Dan are back together to give an early June SDSU Football report. The guys discuss: 3:30 K5James is sleeping with the enemy 4:00 SDSU are going to the P5 and it's all because of SDSU_Alum2003 on Twitter 14:30 Snapdragon Stadium Update 20:30 New Football Commitments! 28:50 New USC Transfer Kenan Christon analysis  

Arriva il nuovo playmaker: Christon, tra i migliori nel ruolo in Eurocup. Brocks oggi ospita nel suo programma il consulente di mercato del Derthona, Gian Maria Vacirca, con il quale vengono analizzate tutte le trattative e le idee per i vari ruoli, per una squadra che intende ulteriormente crescere guardando a un futuro in Europa.

Summary, In this episode, I discuss the central importance of love as the marker of well-being from a Catholic perspective -- our capacity to live out  the two great commandments.  We explore how love is the distinguishing characteristics of Christians, we detail the eight different kinds of love, and we discuss Catholic theologian Bernard Brady's five attributes or characteristics of love -- how love is affective, affirming, responsive, unitive and steadfast.  We discuss what is commonly missing from philosophical and theological approaches to love, and we briefly touch in the death of love and distortions of love.   Lead-in I want to speak to you from my heart today.  I want to share with you heart to heart about what it most important to me.  And maybe what is most important to you.  I want to talk with you today about love.  Real love.  Fundamental Love. Radical love.  The real thing.  Not the counterfeits of love that you and I have pursued in our lives in one way or another -- the fakes loves we've mistaken for real love, or the lesser loves that we've tried to inflate into more than they could possibly be.  I think love is not only the most essential experience in the whole world, it's also the most confusing for us.  Think about it.  What else has confused you more than love?  What has been more enduringly puzzling than love?  What has been more elusive for you?  What has been more enigmatic than love in your life?  What have you struggled with more than love?   Love -- the word is evocative.  The word is provocative, it stirs us up.  You parts react in so many different ways to the word love.  And so that's where we are going today.  Into the mystery of love.   Intro: Maybe you are feeling like you're just struggling to survive.  I want more for you than that. Maybe much of the time you feel like things are OK, maybe pretty good. I want more for you than that.   I want to share with you the very best of what I have with you on the central focus of well-being from a Catholic perspective.     Broad overview  Let's review a little.  In episode 88, we began a series on trauma with that piece Trauma: Defining and Understanding the Experience -- that one was a huge hit -- so many people interested in it, by far the most downloads of any episode.   In episode 89, called Your Trauma, Your Body: Protection vs. Connection -- we did a deep dive into the effects of trauma on the body, really understanding trauma from the perspective of Polyvagal theory by Steven Porges and Deb Dana.   From there, though, I really wanted to look at well-being -- how does secular psychology understand well-being --  It's so important to understand what well-being is, what it looks like, how it feels.  So many people have never really experienced well being.  It's possible that you've never really experienced well-being.   So I started a subseries on well-being within the broader trauma series.   So shared with you the secular views of well being in Episodes 90 and 92 of this podcast We really dived into what the best of current psychological theorizing says about well-being  Episode 90  Your Well-Being: The Secular Experts Speak DSM 5 -- which doesn't have a description of well being  PDM 2  Hedonic Well-being  Eudemonic Well-being  Freud's ideas of well-being  Contributions of Positive Psychology - pioneered by Martin Seligman  Polyvagal Theory -- Stephen Porges, Deb Dana  Internal Family Systems   Episode 92 Understanding and Healing your Mind through IPNB Interpersonal Neurobiology -- Daniel Siegel -- a lot to say about the healthy mind, a sense of well-being.  Very well developed.   Episode 93 consisted of three experiential exercises The first on the ways in which you reject yourself or condemn yourself as a person  The second on protection vs. connection -- your internal reactions to your wounds.  That one was based off of polyvagal theory  The third was on exploring your own inner chaos and rigidity within -- based off of Daniel Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology and one point he makes is that all psychological symptoms can be thought in terms of rigidity and/or chaos.  Rigidity and chaos are signs of having lost a sense of well-being.   I invite you to check those out if you haven't already, there's a lot of opportunities in those experiential exercises for you to do your inner work.   As you know, I am Dr. Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist, passionate Catholic, and I am the voice of this podcast, Interior Integration for Catholics In this podcast, Interior Integration for Catholics, we take on the most important psychological questions.  We take the most important human formation issues head on, directly, without mincing words, without trepidation, without vacillation, without hesitation -- We are dealing with the most important concerns in the natural realm, the absolute central issues that we need to address with all of our energy and all of our resources.   And up until now, the most important episodes I've done are numbers 37 to 49 -- that was the 13-episode series on shame.  Why?  Because shame is the major driver of so much emotional distress, so many identity issues, and so many psychological symptoms.   But these new few episodes, these episodes on well-being from a Catholic perspective, informed first by the perennial wisdom of the Catholic Church, and then secondarily by the best of psychological science, theory, research and practice, these episodes on love, these are the most important.  Why?  Because, in two words, love heals.  Love restores.  Love makes new.  Love is our mission, love is our goal, love is the destiny we are called to.   This is episode 94 of the Interior Integration for Catholics podcast, released on June 6, 2022 and it's titled Well-Being from a Catholic Perspective:  The Primacy of Love   Love as the Center  We were made in love and for love and to love. Prayer to God in the Litanies of the Heart: "Lord Jesus, You created me in love, for love. Bring me to a place of vulnerability within the safety of your loving arms."  Discussed the Litanies of the Heart with Dr. Gerry at length in Episode 91 of this podcast, a special episode all about the litanies of the heart.   Inviting to the adventure of loving So many people are just surviving -- their vision is so reduced, they are not even looking to be loved or to love.  Maybe that's you, to some degree.   They are not on the adventure -- the are jaded, disillusioned, tired, wounded by betrayal or abandonment, cautious now, skeptical, calculating when it comes to love.  They hear the word love, and it activates shame, grief, loss, sorrow, fear in parts of them.  Parts of them don't want the vulnerability, the risk of being hurt again.  Maybe that's you, too.  They are not on the adventure.  I want you to come on the adventure.  The greatest adventure.  The adventure of loving.  Stay with me in the podcast.  That can be a fresh start if you need one. A new start on the adventure of loving.   St. Augustine:  To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the great human achievement. St. Therese Lisieux  "I know of no other means to reach perfection than by love. To love: how perfectly our hearts are made for this! Sometimes I look for another word to use, but, in this land of exile, no other word so well expresses the vibrations of our soul. Hence we must keep to that one word: love.   Our Great Mission as Catholics is summed up in the two Great Commandments  Two Great Commandments Mark 12:28-31:28  And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these.”  Loving with our whole heart.  Jules Toner, 1968 book  The experience of love In the full, concrete experience of love, our whole being, spirit and flesh, in involved.  Cognitive acts, feelings and affections, freedom, bodily reactions -- all these are influencing each other and all are continually fluctuating in such a way as to change the structure and the intensity of the experience.   Love is the distinguishing characteristic of the Christian John 13:35  By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”   Baltimore Catechism First Lesson on the End of Man, question 6  Q. Why did God make you? A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.  To love God implies both that we know Him and that we serve Him   CCC 2392 Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being. (quoting St. John Paul II Familiaris Consortio, paragraph 11)  2134 The first commandment summons man to believe in God, to hope in him, and to love him above all else.   Matthew 6:21:   For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  Quotes for St. Therese of Lisieux   It is love alone that counts.   Catholic well-being is not hedonism, feeling good all the time - It is all about being equipped to live out our mission of being loved and loving God, our neighbors (including our enemies) and ourselves.   So many secular approaches emphasize the Pursuit of happiness -- they operate off of a hedonistic anthropology.  Carrie Snow -- stand up comedian who was raised in a Jewish family:  The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. Mick Cady 2019 blog:  At age 19, Augustine of Hippo read a dialogue by the Roman philosopher Cicero in which Cicero stated that every person sets out to be happy, but the majority are thoroughly wretched. Truly, no one dreams as a child of one day growing up to be miserable, and yet many people's lives are characterized by conflict, frustration and unfulfilled longings. Augustine was convinced that what defines a person more than anything is what they love. He said that when we ask if someone is a “good” person, what we are asking is not what they believe or what they hope for, but rather what they love.  We need an anthropology, a revealed religion or we will never get it.   Psychology alone cannot answer the deep questions about what we should love and what love is ordered and disordered --- as many psychologies as there are anthropologies -- psychology cannot answer the questions that are properly in the realm of theology, philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics.   G.K. Chesterton:  “We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”   Charles Dickens, A Critical Study Definitions of Love English is a very difficult language when it comes to describing inner experience -- Jose's anecdote  Different Types of Love --  Eros (romantic, passionate love) The first kind of love is Eros, named after the Greek God of fertility. Eros is passionate, sensual, romantic love with an intense romantic and sexual feelings. Philia (affectionate love) The love between friends -- friendship.  Some call this platonic love, love “without physical attraction.” Storge (familiar love)  Storge is a natural form of affection experienced between family members. This protective, kinship-based love is common between parents and their children, and children for their parents. Storge can also describe a sense of patriotism toward a country or allegiance to the same team.   Mania (obsessive love) When love turns to obsession, it becomes mania. Stalking behaviors, co-dependency, extreme jealousy, and violence are all symptoms of Mania.   Ludus (playful love)  The Ancient Greeks thought of ludus as a playful form of love. It describes the situation of having a crush and acting on it, or the affection between young lovers. Pragma (enduring, committed love)  Pragma is a love built on commitment, understanding and long-term best interests. It is a love that has aged, matured and about making compromises to help the relationship work over time, also showing patience and tolerance.   Philautia (self love)  The Greeks understood that in order to care for others, we must first learn to care for ourselves. As Aristotle said “All friendly feelings for others are an extension of a man's feelings for himself.” Agape (selfless, universal love)  selfless universal love, such as the love for strangers, nature, or God. This love is unconditional, bigger than ourselves, a boundless compassion and an infinite empathy that you extended to everyone, whether they are family members or distant strangers.  Bernard Brady, p. 267  2003 Book Christian Love: How Christians through the Ages have Understood Love.  Agape does not neglect, deny or destroy eros or indeed philia, it informs them.   Agape is what we are focusing on.   Jules Toner looking for what he call "radical love" -- phenomenologist.   from the latin radix or root, the love the is the foundation for all other loves.   Toner describes how radical love is a response to the beloved's total reality.   Interdisciplinary approach  Not just theology and philosophy Philosophers and Theologians generally don't understand the impact of trauma on being loved and loving.  They don't get it.  Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person -- almost nothing on trauma and its impact. Nothing in the index.    Phenomenology -- an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience. This is really important because it's what people relate to.   Spiritual Writers and Saints  Best of psychology   Bernard Brady's description of Love  Christian Love: How Christians through the Ages have Understood Love.-- drawing heavily from the work of phenomenologists  Jules Toner and Margaret Farley Love is affective, affirming, responsive, unitive and steadfast.  (repeat)  Five characteristics  Love is affective -- emotional components of love can often be neglected in philosophical or theological discussions of love.   Love is an emotion Love is a movement from your heart, your soul -- a movement from the innermost depths of your being.  From your core self.   Love is prior to reason and transcends reason.   You might say it's "bigger" than reason.  Love is best captured, not in the dry academic language of the philosopher, but in the verses of the poet Blaise Pascal -- The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.   Love rejoices in the beloved -- Protestant Theologian R.H. Neibuhr writes in his 1977 book the Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry:  By love, we mean at least these attitudes and actions: rejoicing in the presence of the beloved, gratitude, reverence, and loyalty toward him.  p.35 Love is the directive and dominant center of emotions.  p. 267  Many emotions are associated with love Delight, Bliss, Happiness  A sense of fulfillment  Warmth   Grief John 11:32-36  32 Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled; 34 and he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”  Sadness  Anxiety Dolly Parton:  Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.   Distress-- as when our Lady, Mother Mary and St. Joseph were searching for the missing 12-year-old Jesus in Jerusalem Luke 2:48.  And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.   If there is no emotion, there is no agape, no love.  The heart must be moved for love to be anything like complete. We cannot love like a Vulcan, without emotion.  Limitations of benevolence alone -- when I was but a wee therapist… Love is an act of the will  I didn't have to like my clients  But warmth and affection toward them, a warm and inviting emotional response was so much better.   Love is affirming Love affirms the other  Love says yes to the other person at the same time as love says yes to oneself.   "Agape is the simple yet profound recognition of the worthiness of and goodness in persons."  p. 268   Affirmation happens at two levels One level is the basic level of human dignity shared by all persons.   Affirmation on this first level has an equal regard for everyone -- all persons are ontologically good, all bear the image and likeness of God. St. Thomas "Love the sinner and hate the sin."  Not about the personal merits or individual characteristics of the person. Philosopher Gene Outka describes this as equal regard for each and every person.   Second level of affirmation is the uniqueness of the person.   In loving the other person, we acknowledge and affirm the uniqueness of the beloved.   Her gifts Her beauty Her unique qualities and traits When you love your neighbor you truly see the other as a person.   Jules Toner, SJ -- "I love you because you are you." A deep respect for the other person, a reverence for the individuality of the person. Augustine in his confesssions:  O thou Omnipotent Good, thou carest for every one of us as if thou didst care for him only, and so for all as if they were but one!    We need to affirm at both levels.  The basic dignity of the person and the uniqueness of the person. Brady:  We do not want to be loved merely because we are a person (no one wants to be generically loved) nor do we want to be loved because of particular characteristic or physical trait (what if my full head of dark hair is no longer full or dark).  We want to be loved in our totality.  p. 268.  That's why my clients didn't respond to my cool efforts at benevolence.  I was not finding and not taking in their good qualities.  Sometimes I was not looking for their uniqueness.  I was not seeing them as persons.  My attempts at benevolence actually avoided who they were, because I was threatened.  I wasn't sure I could handle the intensity of their pain, their shame, their grief, their rage.   God loves us as individuals.  God loves us in our unique particularity.  "God calls us each by name."  Isaiah 43:1 But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.  Jesus -- who does he connect with?  Paupers and nobles, lepers and rich men, Samaritan women and Roman centurions, fishermen and lawyers, tax collectors and Pharisees, the sick and the strong, the dying and the robust, the political zealots and the housewives, the prostitutes and the Sanhedrin.   Jules Toner "You are why I love you."    "Loving someone in depth…means loving from the lover's most personal self, with sincerity, intensity, endurance….to affectively affirm this unique person in a response informed by a full, detailed knowledge which catch the delicate shadings of his profoundest attitudes, moods, likes, and dislikes, ideals, fears, hopes, capabilities, etc. "   Affirmation implies acceptance of the other and knowledge of the other.    This is not an endorsement of the other's vices or bad habits, but a recognition of them and an acceptance of who the person is as an entire being.  Not picking and choosing the attractive bits.   Self-acceptance of the same things. Leo Tolstoy:  When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. Conrad Baars' affirmation therapy -- quoting from baarsinstitute.com:  A person's ability to love is unlocked when that person experiences himself or herself as good, worthwhile, and lovable. According to Christian psychiatrists Conrad W. Baars and Anna A. Terruwe, this process is called “affirmation.” Affirmation is a three-step process which occurs when one person is the source of unconditional love and emotional strengthening for another person. These three steps are: the person is open and receptive to the goodness and lovableness of the other; over time, the person allows himself to be moved with affection, love, delight, etc., by the other person; and third, the person reveals these feelings to the other primarily through his countenance, tone of voice, gentle touch, etc. Love is Responsive  Love is an active response for the well-being of the other.  This is where Brady includes benevolence.  It's about participating in the promotion of the highest good for the other, potential for the other's full humanity. How can I help you to flourish?  How can I help you toward your highest good?  1 John 3:18  Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.    James 2:26:  For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.    This is where self-sacrifice comes in.  There are times, and sometimes it's often when agape, when love will call for self-sacrifice.   It does not necessarily mean allowing oneself to be exploited or used or destroyed or mistreated.   That is often different than self-giving -- and we are going to discuss this at length in future episodes in this series.     Brady:  A dominant feature of agape is a readiness and a willingness to subordinate the fulfillment of my needs so as to be able to help the other fulfill her needs. p. 279  That subordination may at time call for my life.  For martyrdom. St. Therese of Lisieux:  Little things done out of love are those that charm the Heart of Christ… On the contrary, the most brilliant deeds, when done without love, are but nothingness.   Loving God or my neighbor can never demand that I violate my integrity, my deepest values, the core of who I am. Margaret Farley -- I can sacrifice what I have, but I can never sacrifice who I am.   Responsiveness implies an attunement to the other -- a resonance, and understanding.  The capacity to respond well.  It's not just any responsiveness.  The ability to be aware of and to respond effectively to the needs of my neighbor.  So there is a capacity about this.  It's not just an act of the will.  Attunement can be described as a kind of resonance.   Toner:  Radical love is experience as being in accord with the loved one, vibrating as it were, in harmony with the beloved's act of being and so with the whole melody of the beloved's life.  It is a welcoming of the loved one into the lover's self and his life-world, as fitting there, making a harmony with the lover's being and life.   Augustine:  “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”  Love is Unitive  Brady:  The fruit of love is unity.  Love unites.  It is in the very nature of love to bring together.  p. 279 John 17:  20-23  “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,  that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,  I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one,  Colossians 3:12-14:  Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,  forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.  Acts 4:32  Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul  Philippians 2:2  complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.   Brady:  When you love, you step out of yourself and experience the other.   There is still a separateness.  Not a blending or a fusion or a loss of identity.  But you are no longer just within yourself.  You've entered into the space of another.   And you've allow the other to enter into your space "Come live in my heart and pay no rent." — Samuel Lover   Loving an enemy -- you are like me.  We are similar on a fundamental human level.  No dehumanization. Loving doesn't necessarily lead to a mutuality or reciprocity.  Not all love is accepted or taken in.  Witness John 6, the discourse of the bread of life when Jesus was offering the greatest gift ever, the entirety of himself, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity to his disciples: The response:  John 6:60 and 66:  Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” … After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.    But you still reach out to the beauty and inner goodness of the other.   Agape pulls for unity, even with strangers.  Right now, devastating wars are actively going on in the Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, among other places. Food crises are becoming more urgent as international food trade and distribution channels are breaking down.  This will move hearts that love with agape. Jesus wept over Jerusalem  Luke 19:41-44   And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it, saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes.  For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side,  and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”   The mystics describe the unity we are called to in God -- Union with God.   Love is steadfast God's love endures.  '  Psalm 136 opens:    Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,    for his steadfast love endures for ever.O give thanks to the God of gods,    for his steadfast love endures for ever.O give thanks to the Lord of lords,    for his steadfast love endures for ever; Love can change, though.  For us humans, it can deepen, it can mature.  H.R. Neibuhr -- "Love can have a history."   It may not always be mutual or reciprocal Story of the prodigal son.  Story of St. Monica and St. Augustine.   Story of St. Augustine and God Quote from Confessions:  “Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.”  Martin Luther King Essay -- Loving your Enemies To our most bitter opponents we say: ‘We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws, because noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you. But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.' ” Psalm 36: 5-10 5 Thy steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,    thy faithfulness to the clouds.6 Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God,    thy judgments are like the great deep;    man and beast thou savest, O Lord. 7 How precious is thy steadfast love, O God!    The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.8 They feast on the abundance of thy house,    and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.9 For with thee is the fountain of life;    in thy light do we see light. 10 O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee,    and thy salvation to the upright of heart!  Desire for this in the modern era:  1983 songs Cyndi Lauper -- If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting… Time after Time Jules Toner -- Love is the not just "giving of self" but giving self.    Giving of myself -- sharing something of what I am -- I may share my wit, my knowledge, by strength, my sense of joy, my playfulness.   These are all qualities of my being.   They are things I possess. Giving myself -- that radical love, according to Toner, is the gift of my self.  It is me.  I am the gift.  Not just my qualities or my possessions.  So I am loving from the core of my being -- the loving is the most personal act.   Integration Resilience Distortions Loving the wrong things.   Augustine:  “In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”   Confessions  "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love." — Goethe  "Tell me who you love and I'll tell you who you are." — Creole Proverb   The death of love Brady 273.  Love does not die because of hate but because of apathy.  The death of love is often preceded by the denial of the basic dignity of the other.  The death of love happens when we reject instead of affirm the other's special personal and unique goodness.  The death of love is encouraged when we ignore the other's needs and wants while prioritizing our own wants.  The deal of love occurs when we pursue discord, division, disassociation, and distance in the place of unity.   It is not just the pursuit of these things.   If whatever we are pursuing, even if it is a good but not the highest good results in ignoring or  rejection of others' needs -- or if it results in discord, division, disassociation, and distance.  I might want to become physically fit and start training two hours per day for a marathon.  If I did that, I would wind up neglecting my family's needs.   Malice is not necessary for love to die.  Apathy doesn't have a lot of malice in it.  Hatred has a lot more malice than apathy.  If you are hating someone, you are still at least in relationship with the hated one.  You are thinking about the hated one.  The hated one still exists for you.  But in apathy, the other does not register in your consciousness.  He or she doesn't matter.  Where we are going  Tolerating being loved -- many people assume that we just want to be loved Brady:  page vii, second sentence.  Loving seems entirely natural and being loved seems wonderfully good.  I take issue. Being loved can be very, very painful.  It can feel very unnatural to very many people, especially those with complex trauma.   This kind of sentence would never be written by a depth psychologist, or anyone really experienced with the terror, the shame, the grief, and the walls that those who have experienced abandonment and betrayal traumas suffer with.  Assumption -- we naturally love ourselves.  I take issue with that.  Ordered Self Love Love and Identity 1 John 3:1  See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  Learning to love by loving St. Bernard of Clairvaux:  We much remember that love reveals itself, not by words or phrases, but by actions and experience.  It is Love with speaks here, and if anyone wished to understand it, let him first love.   What gets in the way of loving  Sin -- the great unlove Missing the mark   Trauma Protection vs. Connection -- Polyvagal theory, Episode 89:  Rigidity and Chaos IPNB, Episode 92   Original Sin => original trauma  Shame  Differences between unlove and desolation   The RCC -- Come with me on an adventure.  Come with me on an adventure of being loved and of loving.  That is what the Resilient Catholic Community is all about.  Check out the Resilient Catholics Community at soulsandhearts.com/RCC  The RCC is all about working through your human formation issues -- the ones that inhibit you from receiving the love you need and from loving God completely, with every fiber of your being, with your body,  with all your parts, with all your emotions, thoughts, all your inner experience with all of you, with no part of you left behind, no part of you left out.   It's all about learning to be gentle but firm with yourself -- it's all about integration.  It's all about resilience.   All about restoration -- recovering from being dominated by shame, fear, anger, sadness, pessimism, whatever your struggle is in the depths of your human formation And we do this work experientially -- so many experiential exercises -- this is not just intellectual knowledge, we're working with all of you. Informed by Internal Family Systems and the best of the rest of psychological and human formation resources  All grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person  All focused on helping you to better accept love and to love more fully, to carry out the two great commandments of our Lord.   Are you up for the challenge?  Would you like to join me and the rest of the pioneers in this adventure?  Do you want to be a part of the community?   Are you ready to prevail over whatever hinders your human formation -- would you like to no longer be dominated by fear, anger, shame, sadness, pessimism?  And would you like to be with other like-minded Catholics on the journey -- If so join me.  Join all of us in the Resilient Catholics Community.  The RCC We are taking applications throughout June of 2022 for our third cohort, those in that cohort will start their adventure in June and July by taking our Initial Measures Kits and be getting feedback on their parts in a personal Zoom session with me.  It's a great chance for us to get to know each other, really know each other at the level of parts.  You'll get a 5 or 6 page report on your internal system and then be eligible for our weekly company meetings and programming to begin in late August or early September.   Sign up  for the June waiting list -- Souls and Hearts.com/rcc -- or just do an internet search for the Resilient Catholics Community.  Human Formation Retreat -- August 12-14, 2022 details will be put on the website.  Meet me in person.  Only for RCC members Patroness and Patron  

Christon Halkiotis and I have a lot in common, in that we're both former prosecutors who sought a change after a handful of years wearing the "white hat." But Christon's path took her to criminal defense, where she started her own practice in 2019 in Greensboro, North Carolina after 15 years as a prosecutor. Her practice flourished immediately, which is a testament to Christon's personality, reputation among colleagues, and also to a ton of hard work! She shares some lessons learned over the years about how to make yourself a better attorney, what it was like to "hang out a shingle," and how she has dealt with owning a business during the pandemic.

Christon was zanger van de populaire band Rigby totdat hij erachter kwam dat hij veel blijer wordt van werken achter de schermen. Inmiddels schreef hij meer dan 500 nummers voor diverse artiesten zoals Aloe Blacc, Ziggy Marley, Mathieu Koss en Guus Meeuwis. Maar hij doet nog veel meer! In het tv-programma ‘Troubadours' crosst hij in een pick-up door het land op zoek naar de roots van bekende Nederlandse artiesten. Songlines producer Chantal Schouten vroeg hem naar zijn eigen roots. Ook vertelt hij over zijn eerste grote passie (spoiler; geen muziek), podiumvrees, liefde voor Nashville én deelt het nummer dat voor een omslag in zijn carrière zorgde! Enjoy!

Christon Halkiotis always knew that she wanted to become a prosecutor. After interning with the District Attorney's office as a 3L, Christon Halkiotis excelled as a prosecutor where she participated in more than 300 bench trials and 35 jury trials. In 2019, Christon Halkiotis opened her law firm where she serves criminal defense clients. Listen to learn: How to be a zealous advocate for your client The importance of the personal relationships between lawyers and criminal defendants (and having a physical office for clients to visit) How to become a court-appointed attorney on the North Carolina Capital Defense Roster We also discuss: The power shift from being a prosecutor to working in criminal defense The difference between bench trials and jury trials The prestige of being admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States Bar Christon Halkiotis is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. Learn more about Christon Halkiotis:  Instagram: @cshlawpllc.com*You Are A Lawyer is hosted by Kyla Denanyoh.  Follow the podcast:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youarealawyer/Twitter:  https://twitter.com/YouAreA_LawyerWebsite: https://www.youarealawyer.comADVERTISER:  This episode is sponsored by the Law Office of Vernon P. Thomas.

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Jamie Christon has a wealth of experience leading at a senior level from sectors as diverse as retail, to airports and now Chester Zoo. Jamie has spent the last 9 months as CEO and shares his experiences of what it's like and some of the challenges that come with the role. 

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On todays episode of #Leadership - what's on your mind? I talk to JAMIE CHRISTON BA(Hons), Chief Executive Officer about his leadership journey at Chester Zoo and more. Jamie spent the first part of his career in high street food and retail department store management after graduating with a degree in politics. He took these skills to Manchester Airport Group where he headed up commercial operations before becoming Managing Director at Exeter Airport in Devon where he managed the transition from local authority to private sector ownership. Jamie then moved onto take responsibility for on-board operations in Europe of Stena Line and joined Chester Zoo in 2013. Initially as Chief Operating Officer and since March 2021 as Chief Executive Officer. He is responsible to the Board of Trustees of one of the largest and most popular zoo's in Europe. In 2019 Chester Zoo welcomed over 2million visitors, employed 1,000 staff and had a turnover of £46m. Make sure to FOLLOW/SUBSCRIBE to my other social media platforms: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/STARDevelopm... LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-wa... Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stuart_wadd... YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/LeadershipW... Spotify - #Leadership – What's on your mind?

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy, I bet you didn't know that Pastor Shane can sing, he can. Some people get all the talents. If you're new, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the connection card and the worship guide, you can fill it out. The physical copy, you give them the back of the Welcome Center, and if you just leave it there, we'll get in touch with you over the course of the week. We also send a little gift in the mail, and if you're like, "Oh, a gift, what is it?" Well, there's only one way to find out. With that said, would you please pray with me with over the preaching God's Holy Word.Heavenly Father, we thank you that you are a good Father and we are so proud of you. We boast in you that you are our God that you revealed yourself to us. You gave us the gift of revelation, you gave us the gift of faith, you gave us the gift of regeneration. You give us the gift of anointing, the same anointing that Christ had, we are anointed by the power of the Spirit and our hearts are sealed, within our hearts is a guarantee that we are yours, and we're so proud that we get to know you, and we're so proud that we get to serve you, that we get to be used by you, we thank you for that.Jesus, we thank you that you lived that perfect life of love toward God, toward people and then you present your life as a living sacrifice for us, you died in our stead, in our place. Bearing the wrath of God that we deserve and you rose from the dead on the third day, and we're so proud of you. You are our Lord and our older brother, we're so proud that we get to know you thank you for saving us. Holy Spirit, we're so proud that we get to know you, we're so proud that you are in us, that you are filling us, that you fill this church, that you're building, this church we're so proud of your work here in a really difficult area, and we pray continue to work, continue to use us.Lord, we are proud of one another. We're proud of the work you're doing in one another. There's a mutual up building that's happening, and we're so thankful for it. I thank you for this body of believers and I thank you for joining many more to yourself uses here in the city to continue to build your kingdom all to the glory of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and pray this in Jesus name. Amen.Title of the sermon is I'm proud of you. Do you grow up in a household where you were told by your parents, verbatim out loud using these words, I'm proud of you. I'm so proud of you. I did not. I know my parents are proud of me. I can see it in their eyes and both my mom and dad but they didn't use that language, partially because of Slavic background. It's like if you do good, you're supposed to do good congratulations. Then partially I think there were theological reasons, why? Because pride is a sin, it's the mother of all sins. It's the sin that made Satan, Satan. God hates pride. So many of us have a hard time of saying anything that begins with the words I'm proud, et cetera.So should parents tell their kids that they're proud of them? Yes, resoundingly yes. When you see your children growing, when you see them maturing, when you see them growing in the Lord, you're supposed to say, "Praise God, that I get to be your parent. Praise God, for God's work in you. I see how he shaping you into the image of Christ. I see how he's changing your heart, to love God and to love people. We see the Lord at work in your life, and we thank him for what he's doing." God the Father gives us the example. He looks at his son and the day that Jesus is baptized, and he says, as he's anointed by the power of the Spirit, he said, "This is my son, that's my Son, in whom I am well pleased."So we shouldn't be proud of our God, we should be proud of our Heavenly Father, we should boast in the Lord. God, we're proud of you, God, thank you for the work that you're doing in this church, the work you're doing in these people, and we're proud of the service of God's people. We should be, we should be able to say to one another, "Hey, I'm proud. I see the work that God is doing. I see how you've grown. I see how you serve. I see how you give generously. I see the gifts of the Spirit that you're exercising for God's good. I see that." There's no tension there. We agree with that. But can you say, "I'm proud of the work that I have done for the Lord by the power of the Lord." If you preface this with in the Lord, in Christ Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, I'm proud of the life I've lived. I'm proud of what I've accomplished. Can say that? There's a tension there, it's a little uncomfortable. That's the tension we're dealing with today.In Second Corinthians chapter one, verse 12, and then through chapter two, verse four, would you look at the text with me? "For our boast is in this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity, and Godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God and supremely so toward you. For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and acknowledge and I hope you will fully acknowledge, just as you did partially acknowledge us that on the day of our Lord Jesus, you will boast of us, as we will boast of you, because I was sure of this. I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say yes, yes and no, no at the same time? Surely, if God is faithful, our word to you has not been yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ when we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not yes and no, but in him, it is always yes for all the promises of God find their yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our amen to God for His glory, and it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.But I called God to witness against me, it was despair you that I refrain from coming again to Corinth, not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you, for if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, and with many dears not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you."This is the reading of God's Holy and infallible, authoritative word may write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Three points to frame up our time together boast about God's grace in you, boast about God's work through you, and then boast about God's love in you. First boast about God's grace in you. He begins verse 12 by saying, "Our boast is this. This is what we are proud of." What are you saying, Paul? We are proud of this, the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity. The original is hagios holiness. Meaning I focused, I oriented my whole life around what's most important, which is God has glory, loving people proclaiming the gospel, building the church. That's a life of holiness. He calls it simplicity. He didn't clutter anything around.So if you missed the love Jesus simple sermon series go back. But we say love Jesus simple and by simple we don't mean simplistic, simple, we mean we focus on what's most important. That's how St. Paul built his life, simplicity, holiness. That's his external behavior, simplicity. We behave with simplicity and Godly sincerity. Not by earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God and supremely so toward you. Boasting is a major theme in Second Corinthians, the word group, the verb or the noun is used 29 times significantly more than any other letter of Paul. Why is he bringing in languages of boasting partially because he's defending himself against false teachers that have entered the church, and what he's doing is he's comparing and contrasting, they're boasting in the wrong way about the wrong things. He is showing that you can boast, there is a right way to boast, a holy boasting, a humble confidence, and he does it in his own personal example.There's lots of lessons to draw from the text. So when I sit down when I'm preparing a sermon, I get a text like this. I'm like, "You can go a million different ways." You can talk about conflict resolution, proper management of disputes between Christians and people in general speaking hard truth and tender love. I had a writing teacher I remember in high school English, and this is what she used to say, "If you write a paragraph, it can only have one idea. That's it. That paragraph needs to support the one idea of the chapter and your book should have this, whatever. There's one idea." Then I go to homiletics class in seminary, and they're like, "Your sermon should have one idea. One big idea, what's the big idea?"Then I started studying scripture, and I read Jesus and Jesus sermons have many more than one idea. The sermon on the mountain has about 80,000 different ideas, and then I read St. Paul and St. Paul is like, every sentence could be like 12 sermons, it just weaves things. I think they just had a shortage of parchment of paper, and he's like, "How many pages we got today?" They're like, "We have six." He's like, "All right, we're making the most of it." That's how he writes. So there's a million ways you can go, but I think there's something here that's the undercurrent of the text, and it's and I choose to focus on this because it's so rare in Christians. It's so clear in the Scripture, but it's not found often in the practice of believers.What you see here is something difficult to acquire, at least in the truly biblical form, something many of us are suspicious of even averse to it's a confident assertion that I did the right thing, a confident assertion that I believe the right thing. A confident assertion that I have true knowledge I have, it's mine, and I act accordingly. It's a confident assertion that I have been faithful. You look back at your life and you say, "I have been faithful." Why is this so hard to grasp? Why is there such a tension because we know sola gratia, that we're saved by grace alone, only grace. We are dead in our sins is Jesus Christ that saved us. He gives us the gift of faith. He gives us the gift of sight of sanctification, he gives us the gift of justification, and ultimately glorification, he gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit. Everything he does, in and through us he does by the power of the Spirit. Yes, we know that.We believe in total depravity. We believe that there's a comprehensiveness of sin. So seems somehow inappropriate, even blasphemous to say, "Well, there is virtue in us. There is a goodness in us. We did good and we were right." I was having this conversation with my wife, she's like, "What are you preaching?" I was like, "I'm preaching on the fact that in the Lord, I'm proud of the work that I've done for him." She was like, "You can't say that?" I was like, "Why not?" Paul says it. She says, "You're not Paul. He's an apostle, his name's in the Bible, he wrote half the New Testament, you're not in there." I was like, "Ah, but my name is written the book of life bruh." That's what I said to her. These are the conversations that we have. So what do we do here?If Paul like he's as close to an angel, as anyone gets uncommon, devotion, uncommon testimony, God, Jesus Christ in the flesh, resurrected appears before and that's how he got saved, and he must have had an extra dose of the Holy Spirit that we don't have access to. So he live the holy life all the way from the Damascus road to the prison in Rome where he died. Since he is not like us we can't draw any lessons from him and his life, right? I would argue no. Paul isn't the only one in the Bible that boasts of his character, of his conduct. He's not the only one that says, "In good conscience, God is my witness, I did the right thing. I lived a life of integrity." Psalm 26, one through three. "Vindicate me oh Lord for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Prove me, oh Lord, and try me, test my heart and my mind, for your steadfast love is before my eyes and I walk in your faithfulness."Or Nehemiah who sacrifices so much to go rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Toward the end of his career, he says, "Remember me, oh my God concerning this, do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service." Nehemiah isn't that a little boastful? Well, scripture does teach we are to give honor where honor is due, and everything we do, eat or drink we do to the glory of God. In a sense, if God does work in you, if God changes you, if God uses you, for you to not give God honor for that work that he's doing in and through you is to deflect from the glory of God.I'll just give you an illustration and I'm going to deal with a couple caveats. Illustration. In my household, we have four daughters, my wife and I were bilingual. So we decided we're gonna raise our kids to know two languages. My job with them is to teach them how to read in English before they're taught that in school, her job is to teach them how to read in Russian, her job significantly harder. I chose these. I'm sitting with my third daughter yesterday and we started probably three and a half, four and now she's six and we've done some good work. She read a whole book yesterday, 27 pages about a little otter that went to a zoo, it was so sweet. Then at the end, he went to the gift shop and he bought stuff. It's a marketing ploy by the zoo, that's what that is. She read the whole thing, she read the whole thing, I helped her with a couple of hard words, she read the whole thing. At the end, I'm like, "Baby girl, I'm so proud of you. You can read. You did a tremendous job." Which is fine. It's great.Now, if she gets up but she's like, you know what? I'm proud of me, that I taught myself how to read. I'm going to take issue with that because I've invested hundreds of hours, and I'm talking about hard hours. After you work a full day and in the evening hours before I put you to bed out, I am brain dead right now, when I'm giving you an hour of my time, I've given you the hundreds of those hours. Baby girl, if it wasn't for me, you'd be an ESL. There's this combination, we did it together, you did it by my help. In the Christian life it's the same thing, that God is sovereign, we're responsible. He is the one that empowers us. He's the one that gives us every single breath that we have. He gives us the Holy Spirit, but you have to work. Scripture says, "You're only saved by grace through faith, faith itself is a gift of faith without works is dead."So you have to be able, at some point, if someone asks you, "Show me your works. Show me why you're a Christian." You have to be able to say, "By God's grace, I have done X, Y and Z. By God's grace." St. Paul says in First Corinthians 15, he said, "It's by the grace of God, I am what I am, and God's grace has not been in vain in me, because I've taken his grace and I've worked harder than any of the other apostles, it wasn't me it was God's grace in me." So if we are to not take God's grace in me, we are supposed to work, and then you have to be able to show a portfolio of the work that you have done by God's grace for God's glory.Caveats. Whenever you deal with something that has as much tension as this, you got to deal with a little caveat. Caveat number one, simple isn't claiming sinlessness. When he's saying, "I live the life of holiness." He's not saying I've been completely sinless, a lot of us use holiness as a synonym for sinlessness. It's not true, holy means you've been set apart, your life has been set apart. St. Paul is brutally honest, Roman seven, verses 14 through 25, brutally honest about his own sinful nature, demoralizing sinful nature. But there's so often that he doesn't do the things he wants to do and the things he doesn't want to do, that's the stuff that he does. He wrote Romans during his three month stay in Corinth, the very visit that he's promising to make.So if you would ask him as he's in Corinth, as he's writing, Romans, "Hey, St. Paul, when you were in Corinth, and you wrote Romans, are you saying that you had never committed a sin of thought, of deed, of word ever in relation to the church in Corinth or in relation to other churches?" He'd say, "My goodness, no." I'd never done a sinless thing in my life. I'm certainly not saying I'm sinless. No one is sinless, except for Jesus Christ, that's a caveat. Caveat two is, in claiming innocence, holiness, faithfulness here. He's saying he did everything in the power of Christ. So he's not taking credit for his own achievement, he's recognizing the achievement that God has done through him, that's what boasting in the Lord means.So he's saying, "Look at what the Lord has done in and through me of all people." This certain kind of pride is entirely appropriate, a certain kind of satisfaction and doing the right thing, being the right person in the Lord. Jeremiah nine, 23, 24. Something St. Paul quotes all the time. "Thus says the Lord, let not the wise man boast in his wisdom. Let not the mighty man boast in his mind. Let not the rich man boast in his riches, let him who boast, boast in this that he understands and knows me that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight declares the Lord."Can you do it? Can you stand up and say, "You know what? I am proud that I know God. I am proud that I understand God. Not because I came to this understanding in of myself, God revealed to me. So I am proud that I know the truth." There's too many Christians today who vastly right there. I know Jesus said He's the only way but a lot of people said that there's another way to God, and because we don't have that firm conviction where we say, "You know what? This is truth, and I'm proud that I know this truth. I get to know this truth, and I'm going to proclaim this truth, so that others get to know God." First Corinthians one, 30 through 31, "And because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification, and redemption so that as it is written, let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord Christ is in us by the power of the Spirit, and we are in Christ. So everything good in us comes from Christ."There's a wisdom that we have access to, there's a sanctification, there's a righteousness, there's a redemption that we have access to, and we both, God I am so proud that you will let me be in Christ. God, I'm so proud that you give me access to this treasure house of wisdom. God, I'm so proud, I'm boasting in the Lord. Second Corinthians 10, 17 through 18, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord for it is not the one who commands himself who was approved, but the one whom the Lord commands." So he's saying we should boast in the fact that God approves of me. God approves of me not because of what I've done, because of Christ has done and because of Christ has done he fills me with the spirit now he does things through me.Second Corinthians 1:12, he makes it clear, it's only by God's grace. This is our boast. "We behave in the world with simplicity, Godly, sincerity, not by earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you." So who gets all the glory? God does. But there still is a recognition that God you did this in and through me, and you're using me. God, you chose to use me, you chose the four year grace into me. Caveat number three is, Paul's claim to holiness or innocence in matters of dispute, and that's what he's doing. Is not to deny that his personality might have rubbed people in the wrong way, and this is true. It's true that we find some people easier to love than others. Some people just have a more congenial personality, just more personable. Maybe just they have more people skills, or maybe they have a nice smile, and you're like, "You're a nice person. I already like you." You haven't said anything.A lot of the time just from appearance, you look like a nice person. St. Paul did not. How do I know he didn't look like a nice person? Extra biblical historians tell us and then we get some of this book of Acts where he goes into towns with Barnabas, and everyone's like Barnabas is the head guy, right? Because he's good looking and Paul can't be the head guy, he's not very good looking. Because extra biblical historians, they tell us that he was short, he was pudgy, and he had a unibrow. You can Google it. This is true. I'm telling you, if you have a unibrow in the middle of school, that shapes your personality in a way.So he in of himself until he started talking people don't, they were like, "What do we supposed to mean?" Then he does start talking, and he was the smartest person in any room that he walked into it with. That's why it took Jesus to stop him on the road to Damascus and be like, "Hey, bro you're mine." Because Jesus was the first person he ever met that was smarter than him. St. Paul had this personality where finally, if you convinced me that this is the truth, and Jesus did, now he has this mission, a sense of mission of just a force of zeal in him that whenever he walk into any room, and he's teaching people feel like they're drinking from a fire hydrant.He had two speeds, one in relation to people, he listens and then he dominates. That was his personality. That was his character. So we can't always say that St. Paul is likable. He's not talking about likability, Paul and Peter were the same in this, John was a little more likeable. But if you read church history, virtually every great Christian whose name you know, who's actually accomplished things to get into church history, they rubbed people the wrong way, they rubbed good people the wrong way. John Knox, John Calvin, Martin Luther, they exasperated people with their personalities. Jerome Francis Schaefer. No one has ever met someone that everyone finds endearing, there aren't people like that. Paul isn't speaking about personal likability, he's speaking about his conduct as a minister of the gospel, he's speaking about his character as a Christian.We can't always say, "Hey, we live blameless lives." Like Paul here says, but we are to strive for blameless and holy and life of sincerity. When we find ourselves that we're not living a life of honor, we're living a life of shame. We have to repent at those times when we fail, David was faithful, and he was righteous until he wasn't. But God calls him a man after my own heart because he repented of his sin. So St. Paul isn't talking about personality, he's talking about care. He's talking about life, he's talking about integrity, and if you have the grace of God, it should make a difference in your life. If you're a Christian, it should make a difference in your life.People should be able to see that difference, that you're a person of integrity, you're a person of honor, you're a person of patience, honesty, commitment to truth, love, kindness. Yeah, we are to remain humble. It's only God. It's only by the grace of God, but he does make a difference. We can and should be able to boast about the difference that he's made. Praise God am not the person I used to be. Praise God, that He did save me, because I know the trajectory that my life would be on. Praise God, that He saved me, that he loves me, he fills my heart with love. Now you can look back and say, "Yeah, we've done great things for the Lord." If you are a Christian, you should be a better person than a non Christian. You should be, and you should be growing there. Why? Because you have the power of God within you. You have the grace of God, you have the anointing of God, but who made you to defer? It was God. So by all means, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. So let us boast.Second Corinthians one, 13 through 14, "For we're not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand, just as you did partially understand us, that on the day of our Lord Jesus, you will boast of us as we will boast of you." St. Paul says, "This should be a mutual boasting." I'm proud that I get to serve you and you should be proud that you get to serve me, this is a mutual boast. So you know what? After church, I want you to go up to people that you know well and say, "I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you, I see the work of God in you. I'm proud of you for your service. I'm proud of you for your generosity. I'm proud of you that you're following the law. I'm proud of your faithfulness."There's that mutual ability, I even test it out with my wife today. I said, "I'm proud of you baby." She said, "For what?" I said, "You want the details?" She's like, "Yeah." Do you want the details? Girls want the details. You give them the details. I'm proud of you, I'm not going to tell you stuff. But I was like, "You, 15 years you've been putting up with me, I'm proud of you. Good job. That's not easy." Second point is boast about God's work through you. Through you, that's verse 15. "Because I was sure of this. I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea."So I mentioned this last week, St. Paul planted the church, then he goes to Ephesus, in Ephesus, he hears that the church isn't doing well. So then he comes back, and that's what's called a painful visit. He talks about it, and it was so painful, because he saw these people that he loved dearly, they shared the gospel with. He saw that they were saved, now they're living in sin, open sin, and actually boasting in the fact that because they're Christians, because they're saved by grace through faith, they can sin as much as they want, because God's job is to forgive and our job is to sin. So St. Paul goes there and he says, "That's not how it works." It was a painful visit, brings discipline. Then he leaves and he writes, First Corinthians. First Corinthians is a hard letter hard words, to soften hearts.What he's saying here is like, "Look, I promised to you that I was going to come a second time, make two visits after that, but I'm going to hold off. I'm going to hold off because I'm going to let God's Spirit take God's scripture, First Corinthians, and apply it so that you have time to put your house in order so my next visit isn't painful." Verse 17, Second Corinthians 1:17 says, "Was I vacillating? When I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say yes, yes and no, no, at the same time." So he promised in the beginning, he's going to make two visits, and then he says, "You know what? If I make that first initial visit, it's going to be painful again.So you know what? I'm going to take that one out, I'm going to give them some time and then I'm going to make a visit that's longer." He talks about that in First Corinthians 16, and because he did that, because he said, he's going to make two visit but then changed his mind, his enemies came in. They're like, "This guy vacillates, therefore we can't trust him." What St. Paul says is, "Look, when I say yes, I mean, yes and when I say no, I mean, no. But sometimes the Lord changes plans. I wanted to come, that was my initial plan." But then the Holy Spirit said, "Give them time. Give him some time." So that's what he says, verse 18, "As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been yes and no." He says, "I'm not being double minded, I'm not double speaking. This isn't a duplicity. I'm not like a politician says whatever you need to say for you to get the vote."He says, "I am honest, a man of integrity, my conscience proves and God testifies that everything I did, I did with holiness, and I did for God, but I did want to come, I didn't want to come and give you a second dose of grace and I will." From that what I glean is, this is a man that understood whatever room he walked into, he is a representative of God. Whatever room he walks into, he knows he's here to serve people. He's here to encourage, he's here to edify, and when he's in the room he gives people doses of grace. That's something that we need to aspire to, that God wants to work through us. In Second Corinthians one, 19 through 20, he talks about God's power, in ministry for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you Silvanus and Timothy, and I was not yes and no, but in him, it's always yes for all the promises of God find their yes in him. That is why it is through him we utter our amen to God for His glory.He said, "We preach Christ too, how can you question our character, our integrity, when you clearly saw your life transform when we proclaim the gospel?" St. Paul knew that this is the way that God works. God chooses to save people through, and this is 99% of the time, sometimes he saves people through visions and dreams, et cetera, but most of the time it's through a human representative. That the representative is filled with the words of God and the representative when he proclaims the gospel of God, the gospel of God as a power, of God unto salvation for anyone who believes and when St. Paul proclaim the gospel to them, the Holy Spirit save them, and then he leaves and these people that come in and say, "We can't trust Paul." St. Paul here is saying, "You can't trust me. If you can't trust me here, how can you trust me that I preach the truth to you? Oh, you can trust me that I preach the truth to you, because your life changed, therefore give me the benefit of the doubt. We preach Christ, and Christ is the one who is the ultimate amen for the glory of God. He is the ultimate truth. In Him all the promises of God from the Old Testament find their yes."Then verse 21 and 22, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. So he continues this motif of God uses us, but not just me, he say, he uses the word language us, put together. Here we see the Trinity, we see God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. God the Father establishes us with you in Christ. God is the one that establishes our faith with Christ. Christ is the one through whom we're saved, and he anoints us, in here, this is a wordplay. Christ is Christon in the Greek, anointed is Christos. So Jesus is called the Christ because Christ means the anointed one.So a lot of people are like, "Oh, Jesus is his first name, Christ is his last name." Hello, Mr. Christ. No, Christ is a title, is the Messiah. He says, "In the same way that God establishes us with you in Christ, in the same way that Jesus was anointed, God anoints us." Every single Christian God anoints us, how? He also put his seal on us, like on a letter, there's a seal, he puts a seal on us and given us in His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. So every single Christian is established by God in Christ anointed, just like Christ was with the power of the Holy Spirit.Jesus Christ, when he started his ministry sat down in a synagogue and he took the scroll of Isaiah in Luke 4:18. He says, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me." A lot of us, a lot of Christians, we're afraid to use the language of anointing because we've seen some Christians or some churches abuse this anointing. But Scripture is clear, there is such a thing as anointing that when God saves you, he also seals you with the Spirit and He anoints you, anoint you for what? Anoints you to be set apart and powered to serve God and you're authorized to act on his behalf.So when God does use you, you're the boast in the fact that God uses you, and if God doesn't use you, as a Christian, you got to say, "Why not? Is there sin in the way? Have I been suppressing the Holy Spirit, grieving the Holy Spirit? Have I been searing my conscious? Is there sin in the way? From the Holy Spirit flowing, the anointing being used by God. I want to give you that vision, I want to give you a vision that you are a minister of God. I don't know maybe we'll get to here at some point, but I wanted us to come up with these T-shirts where it says Mosaic Boston, on the back it says staff. Every single person this is your T-shirt, that you're the staff, you're the ministers of this church, every single Christian you have anointing from the Holy Spirit, use that anointing, use that power of God.So if you're a Christian you are to be being changed, bad grammar but tremendous theology. You have to be changing and you have to be being used by God because you're anointed. Every single person, there has to be transformation, change in your life that affects change in the lives of other people. If you don't want to change, if you just want a church that you go to as a check mark so when mom and dad who are back in some other state, another state. Mom and dad, yeah, I went to church. If that's the only reason you're here, or because you just want to meet someone or you just want some friends. If that's the only reason you're here and you don't want to change, I'd recommend you don't come to this church. Because at this church people change by the power of God, the Holy Spirit changes people in the Holy Scriptures are read.I was studying how Jesus marketed I was like, "How did Jesus start the greatest human movement in the history of the world?" I was like what were his marketing tactics. Jesus would do this crazy thing where He heals someone He's like, "Don't tell anyone." Bro, everyone I know, everyone that knows me knows I had seven demons in me. I was filled with demons, you did an exorcism. If show up at a party and my friends are like, "Why happened to you?" "I can't tell you." "You can't say?" You used to be blind and you're not, what happened? So it was tremendous marketing, "He told you not to tell anyone, what? Who is that guy?"So I was like, "Why don't we do that in Mosaic?" Text time we do tea ads and not just love Jesus simple, where it's like Mosaic Boston, don't come here. Not the church for you, go somewhere else, unless you want to be changed. Unless you want to be changed, unless you want your life to change, unless you want your life to be reoriented around what matters most, which is the ministry of the gospel to the glory of God. This is what I tell people when they move here, and I say this because at the beginning of the year, fall, I already know everyone's church shopping. So if your church shopping, this is a message for you. Let me just explain what the city does to your faith. Let me just explain, I've been here for 12 years, I have seen this over and over.When you come in, you're like, "I think I'm a Christian." You're going to go one or two ways. You're either going to become a Navy SEAL Christian, like you are elite, or you become unitarian. It's one of the other there's nothing in the middle. Why? Because the city has a spirit. If you're sensitive to the demonic realm, the spiritual realm, you know. I go out to like New Hampshire, and I go up to other parts of the country and like, there's just an openness and your soul and your spirit, and then I come back here and as the plane's am like, "Oh, no. Oh, not this again." You just you're entering, this is a battlefield. So I office in my basement, and the water just gets in. So I got these two dehumidifiers, and twice a day, you walk into the room, you don't smell it, it's not musty, it's just normal room.Twice a day, the dehumidifier gets filled up, both of them get filled up, and I got dumped it out. It's manual work every time, there's no way to automatize and I'm telling you, it's kind of like that, Boston's like that. There's a spirit and you need a spiritual dehumidifier of getting the gunk out of your soul, and that's what ministry is. That's what the gospel is. That's what Scripture is. That's what the church is, that's what your community group is. But you need to understand that that's happening. If you are going to be effective, you need to stay close to the Scriptures, stay close to the Lord and to His church. You've been anointed, you've been sealed, there's a guarantee that you are His.Verse 23, "Would I called God to witness against me? It was to spare you that I refrained from coming again, to Corinth and not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy for you stand firm in your faith." St. Paul says, "I could have come." This what the false teachers are saying, he's not trustworthy because he didn't come when he said he didn't come. He said, "I didn't come on purpose, because I already did one painful visit, I don't want to do another painful visit. I'm going to let God's word do its work." St. Paul is saying, "You think it's fun for me to come in and tell people of their sin? That's not fun."It's like any parent knows, it's not fun to discipline your kids, when they do something where they clearly disobey, where they clearly rebel against you. That's not fun. I don't want to discipline my kids. All I want to do is love my kids. But if all you do is say yes to whatever your kids want, you don't really love them, you don't really care. You don't want to deal with the emotional baggage that comes with actually doing the discipline. St. Paul says, "I had a reason for not coming." Because I don't want to just come with a whip. I don't want to lord it over your faith, because I'm not your lord. You have one Lord, Jesus Christ, and there are times where there's no one in the room except for you. No one knows what you're doing. No one knows what you're thinking. No one knows the decisions you're making except for your Lord.If you're going to grow in the faith, you need this awareness that the Lord is with me, that I am doing what I'm doing, I'm making the decisions that I'm making to live a life of holiness, simplicity and sincerity because I love the Lord. Because he told me to do this, and I want to do what He tells me to do, because I know He wants the best thing for me. St. Paul says, "I don't want to lord it over you." The same way pastors, we're not your Lord. I'm a pastor, meaning I'm a servant, meaning I'm here to serve. I'm here to help. So we're here to equip you for the work of the ministry, but you must have a ministry. You must have a ministry.... We ran out of batteries? Oh, we're back. Praise God. We rebuke the demons that are in the sound systems, the demons.We do everything, we check everything. Now, you have spiritual gifts, you have anointing, you have the Holy Spirit, use that. You don't need my permission to be a Christian. You don't need my permission to start Bible study. You don't need my permission to do evangelism, to throw parties for your unbelievers where share the gospel. You don't need our permission. You have the Holy Spirit, you have a lord. So do the work that God has called you to do. If you have the gift of prayer, pray. If you have the gift of healing, heal. If you have the gift of prophecy, prophesy. If you have the gift of proclaiming God, the gift of evangelism, evangelize, that's what we need. That's what St. Paul says, "Stand firm in the faith."Then finally boast about God's love in you. In chapter two, verse one and two, it's the same train of thought. So the chapter of vision, if you didn't know this, the chapter divisions, the big number's the chapter, the small number's the verse. That's not inspired by the Holy Spirit that was added later by the church in order to make it easier to find text, but this chapter division, it breaks up the train of thought, and that's why we're going to continue into verses one through four. Second Corinthians two, one through two, "For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you, for if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad, but the one whom I have pained?" He says, "I didn't want to come with discipline again, because when you're in pain, I'm in pain, when you're glad I'm glad, when you're rejoiced, I rejoice."How can he say that? He says that because his heart is wrapped up with their heart. Their sorrow, his sorrow, and he wants to avoid increasing it. He continues this in verse three, "And I wrote as I did so that when I came, I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice for I felt sure of all of you that my joy would be the joy of you all, for I wrote to you out of much affliction, and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you."He's talking to people that caused him affliction, he's talking to people that caused them anguish, because he gave birth to this church so to speak. He planted this church, these are his spiritual children, and then he sees them rebelling from God and from truth. Then he writes them a hard letter in First Corinthians and he wrote it with tears. When's the last time you wept over someone else's soul? That's what he's doing. Why? Abundant love. He's like, "I have so much love in my heart for you, overflowing. That's what says in the original, I have overflowing love for you, and you're like, "Then why are you writing First Corinthians to us?" He's like, "Because I love you, and so I'm going to tell you the truth." This is where it's helpful to understand what biblical love is. Biblical love isn't just sentiment, it's like, "Oh, I love you, you're so sweet.No, biblical love is a choice, it's an act of the will, that leads to sacrifice. That's what biblical love is. So St. Paul is writing to these people and writing to the church, and the church, by the way, had a lot of people already that he didn't know. So sometimes it's hard for me to get up and say, "Mosaic Boston, I love you. I have abundant love in my heart for you." It's hard for you to understand that because I look like this, but St. Paul had a unibrow. So it's okay. Give him the benefit of the doubt, give me the benefit of the doubt. He loved them even though he didn't know a lot of them. What kind of love is that? What kind of love is that? It's supernatural love.He's not saying I have abundant love in my heart, because I'm such a loving person. I'm not a loving person. People aren't the love, and people hurt me and people stab me. But I love them anyway. St. Paul, where did you get this kind of love? What kind of love is this? That you can love the people who are stabbing you in the back. He's like, "I got that love from Jesus Christ." Who on the cross as he's being crucified says, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Father, forgive them, forgive them for crucifying me." Pouring out his love on his enemies. So when you come to God and you realize that Jesus Christ died for your sins, that's what it took to save you because he loves you. He loved you not because you were lovely, or because you were loving, he loved you because he's loving, and he loved us when we weren't lovely, so that we can now be transformed by his love.So Jesus, you died for me, my sins were crucifying you, and you did that willingly? What kind of love is that? That melts your heart and you're like, "Now, okay, fine, fine. I can love people, even people in Boston. I can love them too." By the power of God, it's not me. It's not me. It's not you. It's the power of God so we can rejoice in that. God gave me this love, that God filled my heart with this kind of love, and we can boast about God's love in us. This, by the way is what made St. Paul's so effective. He truly loved God with all his heart, soul, strength and mind, with everything. Then if you love God, and he's like, "All right, if I love God and I have to keep his commandments.So I'm going to keep His commandments to the best of my ability, repent when I couldn't, by the power of spirit I'm going to do that. Well, what are his commandments?" One of his commandments is going to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to everybody. So I'm going to do that, and it's going to be hard, and there's going to be consequences for doing that. But I'm going to do that because the God whom I love, who love me, told me to do that, and I also love people. When this combination of like I'm doing because I'm filled with God's love, and I'm doing it because I love people, that right there is what changed the world, that's what grew Christian, that's what's going to transform the city, and that's what's going to grow the kingdom of God here where we are.I'll close with Romans 15, 17 through 21. Because when St. Paul on his second visit does go to Corinth, that's what he wrote, Romans, he starts like this, he says, "In Christ Jesus then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all the way around to Illyricum, I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ. Thus, I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, less I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, those who have never been told of him will see and those who have never heard will understand."As we transition to Holy Communion, we celebrate communion on the first Sunday of every month. The question before us before we partake is can you honestly say that you have a clear conscience? Can you like St. Paul say I have a clear conscience? "I have a clear conscience." Second Corinthians 1:12 that's what he says. Our boast is this the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity and Godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God and supremely so toward you. First Timothy 1:5, "The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith." First Timothy 3:9, "They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience." Second Timothy 1:3, "I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly my prayers, night and day." Second Timothy 1:3, "I thank God whom I serve as..." I did that twice, all right, there you go, because it's doubly important. That's how important it is.What do you do when your conscience isn't clear? You examine, you own it. Lord, I know my conscience is unclear, so I repent of my sin. I repent of my sin, I thank you for Jesus sacrifice, I call upon the name of Lord. The very second you repent, God forgives you. He forgives you of your sin, He cleanses, the blood of Jesus cleanses your conscience. So that's how we approach Holy Communion. First Corinthians 11:28, "Let a person examine himself then and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup." Examine yourself. For whom his Holy Communion it's for repentant Christians.So if you're not a Christian, if you've never repented of your sin, if you've never believed in Jesus Christ, cried out to him, called upon the name of Lord, we ask that you refrain from this part of the service it'll do nothing for you, or repent of your sin and become a Christian today. We welcome you to do that, and then you are welcome partake. If you are a Christian, who is living in unrepentant sin, if there's clear sin in your life, repent of it today, and you welcome partake. If not, we ask that you refrain as well.That said, would you please pray with me over Holy Communion. Heavenly Father, thank you for the Holy Scriptures. They don't just teach us about you, they don't just enlighten our minds and illuminate our hearts but they also nourish our souls, and make us the people who desire by the power of the Spirit to fight the good fight of faith and live lives of a clean conscience. So we can be used by you. So the Holy Spirit courses through us, so the Holy Spirit give grace to whomever we encounter and continue to use us to do that. Lord, we do repent of sin. We repent of pride where we attribute your work to ourselves, we repent of that.We're so proud that you call us your own, that you save us and that you forgive us of sin and continue to anoint and empower us. Bless our time in the Holy Communion, Jesus we thank you for your suffering. We thank you that you died on the cross on our behalf in our place to save us. We thank you for that. We thank you that you humbled yourself, the great God of the universe, to save us. Bless our time in the Holy Communion we pray this in Jesus name, amen. The way we do it is you take this little cup, you take the first lid off, you take the bread and then you take the second lid off.The night that Jesus Christ was betrayed he took the bread and after breaking He said, "This is my body broken for you, take eat and do this in remembrance of me." Then proceed to take the company said, "This cup is the cup of New Covenant, my blood was poured out for the sins of many, take drink and do this in remembrance of me." Jesus, we do remember your sacrifice in the cross, and we do remember your resurrection and we do remember your ascension, and before you ascended you promised to send us the Holy Spirit.Holy Spirit we thank you that you have come, that you are in our hearts, that you have sealed us and the Holy Spirit continue to empower us, bear fruit through us. We thank you that you forgive us when we sin and we thank you that you forgive us when we repent of having grieved you, having suppressed you. I pray Holy Spirit continue to use us to build the Church of God, I pray this in Christ's name. Amen.Would you please stand and join us as we continue...

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I remember when I used to intern at a criminal defense attorney's office, and man, it was a lot of work. It took discipline and passion to get through the finish line because you are directly representing the client, and usually there is no boss you can report to. You are responsible for justice. So what does it really look like to be a criminal defense lawyer, and how do the lessons of a criminal defense lawyer translate into being fit to practice law? In this episode I speak with Christon Halkiotis, a former prosecutor who is now a criminal defense lawyer who shows up each day with a greater purpose. How can we show up with a greater purpose as a lawyer? She tells us how. Let's get started.   Show notes: Connect with Christon on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cshlawpllc/ Connect with Christon on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshalkiotis

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On this brand new episode pastor Trevor DeVage and recording artist Christon Gray discuss the importance of God in their lives, how it effects their daily lives, and how it causes them to help others find the same hope they claim. Not only that, but they talk about how to overcome addiction and make sure not to replace one addiction with another. Plus, brand new music from Christon and artist Dee-1 on Christon's new two song EP called Winner's Circle. Make sure you subscribe wherever you listen and share this with your friends. Winner's Circle by Christon Gray Social Media Links: Trevor DeVage- @trevordevage (everywhere) Christon Gray- @christongray (everywhere) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theculturalredemptive/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theculturalredemptive/support

Appearing on this episode of Money Making Conversations is LaurieAnn Gibson, Judge, FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance," Director, Choreographer and Artist; Holly Robinson Peete, Actress, Author. Autism/Parkinson's Advocate, and Co-Founder of the HollyRod Foundation; Christon Jones, CEO of Return on Investment LLC., Executive Producer of the "Truth Playmakers" Awards, International Speaker, and Author; and Matt Barnes, Retired NBA Player and Entrepreneur, Founder of Athletes vs. Cancer.Each Money Making Conversations show hosted by Rushion McDonald is about entrepreneurship and entertainment. We provide the consumer and business owner access to Celebrities, CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Industry Decision Makers. They in turn deliver information about career planning, motivation, financial literacy and how they lead a balanced life.Don't miss Money Making Conversations with host Rushion McDonald streaming LIVE every Monday at 10AM-12PM EST on biz1190 (www.biz1190.com), on our Facebook fanpage at Facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations, anytime through our iHeartRadio Podcast, which can be found under the Business/Finance Section, Fridays at 10AM ET on SiriusXM Channel 141: H.U.R. Voices and Fridays at 7PM ET on SiriusXM Channel 142: HBCU. We want to keep you Winning with your Career and your Life! #AskMMCThe Money Making Conversations radio talk show shares the “Secrets of Success” experienced firsthand by marketing and branding expert Rushion McDonald. Mr. McDonald is a brand guru and has been a marketer for major national and global brands like State Farm, Ford and Home Depot. He has worked with Kevin Hart, Stephen A. Smith, Jamie Foxx and most notably, Steve Harvey and will provide access to women and multicultural markets to expand the reach of your brand. The show features one-on-one career advice to callers, contributions from corporate leaders, successful entrepreneurs, celebrity interviews regarding their business ventures, social media branding, financial planning and information to empower small businesses to a path of success!“The Kind of Talk that Inspires Change.”https://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-Money-Making-Conversations-28341098/https://www.rushionmcdonald.com/https://www.facebook.com/rushionmcdonald/https://twitter.com/RushionMcDonaldhttps://www.instagram.com/rushionmcdonald/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushionmcdonaldhttp://biz1190.com/radioshow/5557Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Appearing on this episode of Money Making Conversations is Christon Jones, CEO of Return on Investment LLC., Executive Producer of the "Truth Playmakers" Awards, International Speaker, and Author.Each Money Making Conversations show hosted by Rushion McDonald is about entrepreneurship and entertainment. We provide the consumer and business owner access to Celebrities, CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Industry Decision Makers. They in turn deliver information about career planning, motivation, financial literacy and how they lead a balanced life.Don't miss Money Making Conversations with host Rushion McDonald streaming LIVE every Monday at 10AM-12PM EST on biz1190 (www.biz1190.com), on our Facebook fanpage at Facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations, anytime through our iHeartRadio Podcast, which can be found under the Business/Finance Section, Fridays at 10AM ET on SiriusXM Channel 141: H.U.R. Voices and Fridays at 7PM ET on SiriusXM Channel 142: HBCU. We want to keep you Winning with your Career and your Life! #AskMMCThe Money Making Conversations radio talk show shares the “Secrets of Success” experienced firsthand by marketing and branding expert Rushion McDonald. Mr. McDonald is a brand guru and has been a marketer for major national and global brands like State Farm, Ford and Home Depot. He has worked with Kevin Hart, Stephen A. Smith, Jamie Foxx and most notably, Steve Harvey and will provide access to women and multicultural markets to expand the reach of your brand. The show features one-on-one career advice to callers, contributions from corporate leaders, successful entrepreneurs, celebrity interviews regarding their business ventures, social media branding, financial planning and information to empower small businesses to a path of success!“The Kind of Talk that Inspires Change.”https://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-Money-Making-Conversations-28341098/https://www.rushionmcdonald.com/https://www.facebook.com/rushionmcdonald/https://twitter.com/RushionMcDonaldhttps://www.instagram.com/rushionmcdonald/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushionmcdonaldhttp://biz1190.com/radioshow/5557Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.