Podcasts about do unto others

(February 23, 2025) Father Charles L. Persing encourages us this week to reflect on how we treat others.

In this episode, Mark Stephenson gives us a message titled "Finding Common Ground" as part of our sermon series "Do Unto Others" during the worship service on October 6th, 2024.Sunday Replay is a part of the Harmony Podcast Network.Learn more about Harmony-Toluca Lake:IG @Harmony_TLCFB @HarmonyTLwww.HarmonyTL.orgmedia@HollywoodUMC.org

On a Sunday in mid-July, Pastor Chris Morgan welcomed worshipers to Christ United Methodist Church in suburban Pittsburgh with a simple message.That Sunday was particularly difficult.A day earlier, a man had nearly assassinated then-candidate Donald Trump forty miles north in Butler. Morgan asked people to pray for Trump and those killed and injured in the shooting, and asked the congregation to pray for the family of the shooter.Morgan had already planned a sermon series, called Do Unto Others, to deal with the nation's — and his congregation's — political divisions ahead of Election Day. NPR's Frank Langfitt went to Christ Church the weekend before Election Day – and the weekend after – to see if the efforts there made a difference. As Americans prepare to come together at Thanksgiving, how do we bridge this country's political divide? And can we? For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

"This past week, voters decided who the next president of the United States would be. And the feelings about this decision run the gamut of human emotion: excitement and relief and validation, and shock, disappointment, and grief. In many ways, this election has felt like the ultimate fight between “us” and “them.” Both sides convinced that their candidate would bring in a new era for “their people.” And so this past week, all the scriptures and messages that have been preached in this sanctuary this past fall have been ringing in my ears—Do Unto Others; remember the power of kindness and that we have common ground in Jesus. But I have to admit, I've struggled. Ever since the results came out, I've been asking God, “What do I preach on Sunday?”

Welcome to The All Means All podcast at Cathedral of the Rockies. Today's message is the final in our Do Unto Others sermon series, part of our campaign for kindness in this election season. Pastor Duane closes out this series with Abraham Lincoln's philosophy of malice toward none, charity toward all. Donate to our Capital Campaign: https://secure.myvanco.com/L-ZA1K/campaign/C-14SNF Give Online: https://www.cathedraloftherockies.org/donate/ Connect with us: Facebook Downtown Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockies Facebook Amity Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockiesamity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathedral_of_the_rockies/ Instagram Cathedral Families: https://www.instagram.com/cathedralfamilies/

Join us as we finish the Do Unto Others series what may be the simplest but most profound “todo” you've ever received!

Welcome to The All Means All podcast at Cathedral of the Rockies. Today's message is the second in our Do Unto Others sermon series, part of our campaign for kindness in this election season. Pastor Duane asks about Christian nationalism, identifies its roots, and discusses if it has a place in Christianity or in America. Donate to our Capital Campaign: https://secure.myvanco.com/L-ZA1K/campaign/C-14SNF Give Online: https://www.cathedraloftherockies.org/donate/ Connect with us: Facebook Downtown Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockies Facebook Amity Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockiesamity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathedral_of_the_rockies/ Instagram Cathedral Families: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/cathedralfamilies/

Today's sermon will be the best sermon that's ever been offered to God. Ok, maybe not… we're talking about humility.

Welcome to The All Means All podcast at Cathedral of the Rockies. Today's message is the second in our Do Unto Others sermon series, part of our campaign for kindness in this election season. Pastor Stacie shares where to find common ground, and how we can use that common ground to help the young people in our community.  Donate to our Capital Campaign: https://secure.myvanco.com/L-ZA1K/campaign/C-14SNF Give Online: https://www.cathedraloftherockies.org/donate/ Connect with us: Facebook Downtown Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockies Facebook Amity Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockiesamity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathedral_of_the_rockies/ Instagram Cathedral Families: https://www.instagram.com/cathedralfamilies/

The Do Unto Others series may be changing the world a little, but it's changing US a LOT!This morning the stakes get higher still, as we look at what we really mean by a common four-letter word, a word that taps into the very heart of God: LOVE.

Welcome to The All Means All podcast at Cathedral of the Rockies. Today's message is the first in our Do Unto Others sermon series, part of our campaign for kindness in this election season. Pastor Duane shares what Jesus would say to the divided political parties in America. Donate to our Capital Campaign: https://secure.myvanco.com/L-ZA1K/campaign/C-14SNF Give Online: https://www.cathedraloftherockies.org/donate/ Connect with us: Facebook Downtown Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockies Facebook Amity Campus: https://www.facebook.com/cathedraloftherockiesamity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathedral_of_the_rockies/ Instagram Cathedral Families: https://www.instagram.com/cathedralfamilies/

How many times have you listened to another person and thought, “That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard?” Ok, maybe don't answer that out loud. This morning's installment in the Do Unto Others series is on respect. And the takeaway from it is so deceptively simple— a small rewording of a question you think every day that has the power to change how you relate to everyone you meet. (Maybe it even has the power to heal our divided society.)

In this episode, we join Rev. Hannah at the Hollywood campus for her message "Do Justice, Love Kindness", based on Micah 6:8 - the first in our new sermon series entitled "Do Unto Others".Sunday Replay is a part of the Harmony Podcast Network.Learn more about Harmony-Toluca Lake:IG @Harmony_TLCFB @HarmonyTLwww.HarmonyTL.orgmedia@HollywoodUMC.org

In this episode, we begin a new sermon series titled "Do Unto Others". Join Mark Stephenson as he gives us a message called "The God Who Gathers Us Home", based on Isaiah 56:1-8, and then listen to Gattison and the Harmony Worship Band sing a song called "I Thank God".Sunday Replay is a part of the Harmony Podcast Network.Learn more about Harmony-Toluca Lake:IG @Harmony_TLCFB @HarmonyTLwww.HarmonyTL.orgmedia@HollywoodUMC.org

We are in the second week of our sermon series, “Do Unto Others,” campaigning for kindness. It's the middle of September and we are already deep into election season here in the US. And now, more than ever, we need to be reminded of how we are called to live in the world as followers of Jesus. Last week, Pastor Bruce Hitchcock talked about how in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus shares the Golden Rule—“Do unto others as you would have them do to you… this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” That is the basis for how we treat people—we recognize all that God has given us, and then because of that, we treat others with the same love, compassion, grace, and understanding with which we have been treated—which also sums up the way we want others to treat us. Today, I want to remind us that this Golden Rule is necessary and important even when—especially when—we're talking politics.

Sermon on the Mount E33 – The final teaching in the main body of the Sermon on the Mount is commonly known as the Golden Rule: do to others what you would have them do to you. Jesus says that all of the Law and Prophets—everything he has come to fulfill—are contained in this one statement. How? In this episode, Tim and Jon unpack what many consider Jesus' most famous teaching. Join us as we examine how the Golden Rule fits into the intentional design of the Sermon on the Mount, reinforcing the central theme of how God's desires reshape our own. TimestampsChapter 1: The Golden Rule as a Compass (00:00-9:55)Chapter 2: The Complex Motivation of the Human Heart (9:55-36:21)Chapter 3: Establishing a Heavenly Kingdom (36:21-50:27)Chapter 4: What's Next? (50:27-55:09)Referenced ResourcesCheck out Tim's library here.You can experience our entire library of resources in the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.Show MusicOriginal Sermon on the Mount music by Richie KohenBibleProject theme song by TENTS“Will You Play With Me?” -=by Lalinea“Lakes” by sero“Ecstasy” by MILANOShow CreditsStephanie Tam is the lead producer for today's show. Production of today's episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer; Cooper Peltz, managing producer; and Colin Wilson, producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer. Tyler Bailey and Aaron Olsen edited today's episode. Tyler Bailey also provided the sound design and mix for today's episode. Nina Simone does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Today's hosts are Jon Collins and Michelle Jones, and Tim Mackie is our lead scholar. Special thanks to Michael Helmy and to Dan Gummel for supporting and commissioning this episode.Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Michael Wexler brings us today's message: "Do Unto Others" discussing how we judge, from Matthew Chapter 7, The Sermon on the Mount.

Do Unto Others

In this 'EPISODE 362 WHERE DID JESUS PROMISE WE WOULD HAVE PEACE? WILL IT COME IN OUR LIFETIMES? WILL PEACE COME TO ISRAEL? WHAT IS THE WAY TO PEACE? HOW WILL PEACE COME TO THE MIDDLE EAST?', author/speaker and your host covers Jesus' words answering the difficult questions in hope of bringing some new incites that will boost your spirits and perhaps easing your troubles.Go to itellwhy.com to read Elbert's books free of charge, no Ads and no requests for money or Email addresses. You can watch faith building YouTube Links to Videos and the listen to Elbert's Life of Christ Audio Book in 30 minute Episodes arranged and read by the author straight from the Bible, but rearranged in logical harmony of the Gospels, Revelation and other scriptures. All FREE of charge in the public interest.

This week, Pastor Jim Ellis continued in our Kingdoms series where we look at the most influential talk ever given: Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. In this sermon, Jim navigates the ever popular Golden Rule and the narrow gate. #bismarck #church #BismarckCommunityChurch #JimEllis #Gospel #KingdomOfGod #SermonOnTheMount #Matthew7 #GoldenRule #DoUntoOthers #NarrowGateSupport the Show.Find out more about us at BismarckCC.org. We would love for you to join us in person on Sunday mornings at 10am for worship service. We are located at 1617 Michigan Avenue in Bismarck, ND. If you have any questions for us, we would be happy to help. Click HERE to ask us anything.

The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most influential messages in all of scripture. Join us as we walk through this message with slowness and intentionality, unpacking it's rich truths to find out what it means to follow the way of Jesus. "Do Unto Others" is a sermon based on Matthew 7:1-12 Join us in person on Sundays, 10 AM 221 Herron St. Morganton NC, 28655

Episode 171 looks at "Hey Jude", the White Album, and the career of the Beatles from August 1967 through November 1968. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifty-seven-minute bonus episode available, on "I Love You" by People!. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata Not really an error, but at one point I refer to Ornette Coleman as a saxophonist. While he was, he plays trumpet on the track that is excerpted after that. Resources No Mixcloud this week due to the number of songs by the Beatles. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them. All my Beatles episodes refer to: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For this episode, I also referred to Last Interview by David Sheff, a longform interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from shortly before Lennon's death; Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, an authorised biography of Paul McCartney; and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. This time I also used Steve Turner's The Beatles: The Stories Behind the Songs 1967-1970. I referred to Philip Norman's biographies of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney, to Graeme Thomson's biography of George Harrison, Take a Sad Song by James Campion, Yoko Ono: An Artful Life by Donald Brackett, Those Were the Days 2.0 by Stephan Granados, and Sound Pictures by Kenneth Womack. Sadly the only way to get the single mix of “Hey Jude” is on this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but a remixed stereo mix is easily available on the new reissue of the 1967-70 compilation. The original mixes of the White Album are also, shockingly, out of print, but this 2018 remix is available for the moment. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a quick note -- this episode deals, among other topics, with child abandonment, spousal neglect, suicide attempts, miscarriage, rape accusations, and heroin addiction. If any of those topics are likely to upset you, you might want to check the transcript rather than listening to this episode. It also, for once, contains a short excerpt of an expletive, but given that that expletive in that context has been regularly played on daytime radio without complaint for over fifty years, I suspect it can be excused. The use of mantra meditation is something that exists across religions, and which appears to have been independently invented multiple times, in multiple cultures. In the Western culture to which most of my listeners belong, it is now best known as an aspect of what is known as "mindfulness", a secularised version of Buddhism which aims to provide adherents with the benefits of the teachings of the Buddha but without the cosmology to which they are attached. But it turns up in almost every religious tradition I know of in one form or another. The idea of mantra meditation is a very simple one, and one that even has some basis in science. There is a mathematical principle in neurology and information science called the free energy principle which says our brains are wired to try to minimise how surprised we are --  our brain is constantly making predictions about the world, and then looking at the results from our senses to see if they match. If they do, that's great, and the brain will happily move on to its next prediction. If they don't, the brain has to update its model of the world to match the new information, make new predictions, and see if those new predictions are a better match. Every person has a different mental model of the world, and none of them match reality, but every brain tries to get as close as possible. This updating of the model to match the new information is called "thinking", and it uses up energy, and our bodies and brains have evolved to conserve energy as much as possible. This means that for many people, most of the time, thinking is unpleasant, and indeed much of the time that people have spent thinking, they've been thinking about how to stop themselves having to do it at all, and when they have managed to stop thinking, however briefly, they've experienced great bliss. Many more or less effective technologies have been created to bring about a more minimal-energy state, including alcohol, heroin, and barbituates, but many of these have unwanted side-effects, such as death, which people also tend to want to avoid, and so people have often turned to another technology. It turns out that for many people, they can avoid thinking by simply thinking about something that is utterly predictable. If they minimise the amount of sensory input, and concentrate on something that they can predict exactly, eventually they can turn off their mind, relax, and float downstream, without dying. One easy way to do this is to close your eyes, so you can't see anything, make your breath as regular as possible, and then concentrate on a sound that repeats over and over.  If you repeat a single phrase or word a few hundred times, that regular repetition eventually causes your mind to stop having to keep track of the world, and experience a peace that is, by all accounts, unlike any other experience. What word or phrase that is can depend very much on the tradition. In Transcendental Meditation, each person has their own individual phrase. In the Catholicism in which George Harrison and Paul McCartney were raised, popular phrases for this are "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" or "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." In some branches of Buddhism, a popular mantra is "_NAMU MYŌHŌ RENGE KYŌ_". In the Hinduism to which George Harrison later converted, you can use "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare", "Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya" or "Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha". Those last two start with the syllable "Om", and indeed some people prefer to just use that syllable, repeating a single syllable over and over again until they reach a state of transcendence. [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Jude" ("na na na na na na na")] We don't know much about how the Beatles first discovered Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, except that it was thanks to Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's then-wife. Unfortunately, her memory of how she first became involved in the Maharishi's Spiritual Regeneration Movement, as described in her autobiography, doesn't fully line up with other known facts. She talks about reading about the Maharishi in the paper with her friend Marie-Lise while George was away on tour, but she also places the date that this happened in February 1967, several months after the Beatles had stopped touring forever. We'll be seeing a lot more of these timing discrepancies as this story progresses, and people's memories increasingly don't match the events that happened to them. Either way, it's clear that Pattie became involved in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement a good length of time before her husband did. She got him to go along with her to one of the Maharishi's lectures, after she had already been converted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation, and they brought along John, Paul, and their partners (Ringo's wife Maureen had just given birth, so they didn't come). As we heard back in episode one hundred and fifty, that lecture was impressive enough that the group, plus their wives and girlfriends (with the exception of Maureen Starkey) and Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, all went on a meditation retreat with the Maharishi at a holiday camp in Bangor, and it was there that they learned that Brian Epstein had been found dead. The death of the man who had guided the group's career could not have come at a worse time for the band's stability.  The group had only recorded one song in the preceding two months -- Paul's "Your Mother Should Know" -- and had basically been running on fumes since completing recording of Sgt Pepper many months earlier. John's drug intake had increased to the point that he was barely functional -- although with the enthusiasm of the newly converted he had decided to swear off LSD at the Maharishi's urging -- and his marriage was falling apart. Similarly, Paul McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher was in a bad state, though both men were trying to repair their damaged relationships, while both George and Ringo were having doubts about the band that had made them famous. In George's case, he was feeling marginalised by John and Paul, his songs ignored or paid cursory attention, and there was less for him to do on the records as the group moved away from making guitar-based rock and roll music into the stranger areas of psychedelia. And Ringo, whose main memory of the recording of Sgt Pepper was of learning to play chess while the others went through the extensive overdubs that characterised that album, was starting to feel like his playing was deteriorating, and that as the only non-writer in the band he was on the outside to an extent. On top of that, the group were in the middle of a major plan to restructure their business. As part of their contract renegotiations with EMI at the beginning of 1967, it had been agreed that they would receive two million pounds -- roughly fifteen million pounds in today's money -- in unpaid royalties as a lump sum. If that had been paid to them as individuals, or through the company they owned, the Beatles Ltd, they would have had to pay the full top rate of tax on it, which as George had complained the previous year was over ninety-five percent. (In fact, he'd been slightly exaggerating the generosity of the UK tax system to the rich, as at that point the top rate of income tax was somewhere around ninety-seven and a half percent). But happily for them, a couple of years earlier the UK had restructured its tax laws and introduced a corporation tax, which meant that the profits of corporations were no longer taxed at the same high rate as income. So a new company had been set up, The Beatles & Co, and all the group's non-songwriting income was paid into the company. Each Beatle owned five percent of the company, and the other eighty percent was owned by a new partnership, a corporation that was soon renamed Apple Corps -- a name inspired by a painting that McCartney had liked by the artist Rene Magritte. In the early stages of Apple, it was very entangled with Nems, the company that was owned by Brian and Clive Epstein, and which was in the process of being sold to Robert Stigwood, though that sale fell through after Brian's death. The first part of Apple, Apple Publishing, had been set up in the summer of 1967, and was run by Terry Doran, a friend of Epstein's who ran a motor dealership -- most of the Apple divisions would be run by friends of the group rather than by people with experience in the industries in question. As Apple was set up during the point that Stigwood was getting involved with NEMS, Apple Publishing's initial offices were in the same building with, and shared staff with, two publishing companies that Stigwood owned, Dratleaf Music, who published Cream's songs, and Abigail Music, the Bee Gees' publishers. And indeed the first two songs published by Apple were copyrights that were gifted to the company by Stigwood -- "Listen to the Sky", a B-side by an obscure band called Sands: [Excerpt: Sands, "Listen to the Sky"] And "Outside Woman Blues", an arrangement by Eric Clapton of an old blues song by Blind Joe Reynolds, which Cream had copyrighted separately and released on Disraeli Gears: [Excerpt: Cream, "Outside Woman Blues"] But Apple soon started signing outside songwriters -- once Mike Berry, a member of Apple Publishing's staff, had sat McCartney down and explained to him what music publishing actually was, something he had never actually understood even though he'd been a songwriter for five years. Those songwriters, given that this was 1967, were often also performers, and as Apple Records had not yet been set up, Apple would try to arrange recording contracts for them with other labels. They started with a group called Focal Point, who got signed by badgering Paul McCartney to listen to their songs until he gave them Doran's phone number to shut them up: [Excerpt: Focal Point, "Sycamore Sid"] But the big early hope for Apple Publishing was a songwriter called George Alexander. Alexander's birth name had been Alexander Young, and he was the brother of George Young, who was a member of the Australian beat group The Easybeats, who'd had a hit with "Friday on My Mind": [Excerpt: The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind"] His younger brothers Malcolm and Angus would go on to have a few hits themselves, but AC/DC wouldn't be formed for another five years. Terry Doran thought that Alexander should be a member of a band, because bands were more popular than solo artists at the time, and so he was placed with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, a Beach Boys soundalike group that had had some minor success. John Lennon suggested that the group be named Grapefruit, after a book he was reading by a conceptual artist of his acquaintance named Yoko Ono, and as Doran was making arrangements with Terry Melcher for a reciprocal publishing deal by which Melcher's American company would publish Apple songs in the US while Apple published songs from Melcher's company in the UK, it made sense for Melcher to also produce Grapefruit's first single, "Dear Delilah": [Excerpt: Grapefruit, "Dear Delilah"] That made number twenty-one in the UK when it came out in early 1968, on the back of publicity about Grapefruit's connection with the Beatles, but future singles by the band were much less successful, and like several other acts involved with Apple, they found that they were more hampered by the Beatles connection than helped. A few other people were signed to Apple Publishing early on, of whom the most notable was Jackie Lomax. Lomax had been a member of a minor Merseybeat group, the Undertakers, and after they had split up, he'd been signed by Brian Epstein with a new group, the Lomax Alliance, who had released one single, "Try as You May": [Excerpt: The Lomax Alliance, "Try As You May"] After Epstein's death, Lomax had plans to join another band, being formed by another Merseybeat musician, Chris Curtis, the former drummer of the Searchers. But after going to the Beatles to talk with them about them helping the new group financially, Lomax was persuaded by John Lennon to go solo instead. He may later have regretted that decision, as by early 1968 the people that Curtis had recruited for his new band had ditched him and were making a name for themselves as Deep Purple. Lomax recorded one solo single with funding from Stigwood, a cover version of a song by an obscure singer-songwriter, Jake Holmes, "Genuine Imitation Life": [Excerpt: Jackie Lomax, "Genuine Imitation Life"] But he was also signed to Apple Publishing as a songwriter. The Beatles had only just started laying out plans for Apple when Epstein died, and other than the publishing company one of the few things they'd agreed on was that they were going to have a film company, which was to be run by Denis O'Dell, who had been an associate producer on A Hard Day's Night and on How I Won The War, the Richard Lester film Lennon had recently starred in. A few days after Epstein's death, they had a meeting, in which they agreed that the band needed to move forward quickly if they were going to recover from Epstein's death. They had originally been planning on going to India with the Maharishi to study meditation, but they decided to put that off until the new year, and to press forward with a film project Paul had been talking about, to be titled Magical Mystery Tour. And so, on the fifth of September 1967, they went back into the recording studio and started work on a song of John's that was earmarked for the film, "I am the Walrus": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] Magical Mystery Tour, the film, has a mixed reputation which we will talk about shortly, but one defence that Paul McCartney has always made of it is that it's the only place where you can see the Beatles performing "I am the Walrus". While the song was eventually relegated to a B-side, it's possibly the finest B-side of the Beatles' career, and one of the best tracks the group ever made. As with many of Lennon's songs from this period, the song was a collage of many different elements pulled from his environment and surroundings, and turned into something that was rather more than the sum of its parts. For its musical inspiration, Lennon pulled from, of all things, a police siren going past his house. (For those who are unfamiliar with what old British police sirens sounded like, as opposed to the ones in use for most of my lifetime or in other countries, here's a recording of one): [Excerpt: British police siren ca 1968] That inspired Lennon to write a snatch of lyric to go with the sound of the siren, starting "Mister city policeman sitting pretty". He had two other song fragments, one about sitting in the garden, and one about sitting on a cornflake, and he told Hunter Davies, who was doing interviews for his authorised biography of the group, “I don't know how it will all end up. Perhaps they'll turn out to be different parts of the same song.” But the final element that made these three disparate sections into a song was a letter that came from Stephen Bayley, a pupil at Lennon's old school Quarry Bank, who told him that the teachers at the school -- who Lennon always thought of as having suppressed his creativity -- were now analysing Beatles lyrics in their lessons. Lennon decided to come up with some nonsense that they couldn't analyse -- though as nonsensical as the finished song is, there's an underlying anger to a lot of it that possibly comes from Lennon thinking of his school experiences. And so Lennon asked his old schoolfriend Pete Shotton to remind him of a disgusting playground chant that kids used to sing in schools in the North West of England (and which they still sang with very minor variations at my own school decades later -- childhood folklore has a remarkably long life). That rhyme went: Yellow matter custard, green snot pie All mixed up with a dead dog's eye Slap it on a butty, nice and thick, And drink it down with a cup of cold sick Lennon combined some parts of this with half-remembered fragments of Lewis Carrol's The Walrus and the Carpenter, and with some punning references to things that were going on in his own life and those of his friends -- though it's difficult to know exactly which of the stories attached to some of the more incomprehensible bits of the lyrics are accurate. The story that the line "I am the eggman" is about a sexual proclivity of Eric Burdon of the Animals seems plausible, while the contention by some that the phrase "semolina pilchard" is a reference to Sgt Pilcher, the corrupt policeman who had arrested three of the Rolling Stones, and would later arrest Lennon, on drugs charges, seems less likely. The track is a masterpiece of production, but the release of the basic take on Anthology 2 in 1996 showed that the underlying performance, before George Martin worked his magic with the overdubs, is still a remarkable piece of work: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus (Anthology 2 version)"] But Martin's arrangement and production turned the track from a merely very good track into a masterpiece. The string arrangement, very much in the same mould as that for "Strawberry Fields Forever" but giving a very different effect with its harsh cello glissandi, is the kind of thing one expects from Martin, but there's also the chanting of the Mike Sammes Singers, who were more normally booked for sessions like Englebert Humperdinck's "The Last Waltz": [Excerpt: Engelbert Humperdinck, "The Last Waltz"] But here were instead asked to imitate the sound of the strings, make grunting noises, and generally go very far out of their normal comfort zone: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] But the most fascinating piece of production in the entire track is an idea that seems to have been inspired by people like John Cage -- a live feed of a radio being tuned was played into the mono mix from about the halfway point, and whatever was on the radio at the time was captured: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] This is also why for many decades it was impossible to have a true stereo mix of the track -- the radio part was mixed directly into the mono mix, and it wasn't until the 1990s that someone thought to track down a copy of the original radio broadcasts and recreate the process. In one of those bits of synchronicity that happen more often than you would think when you're creating aleatory art, and which are why that kind of process can be so appealing, one bit of dialogue from the broadcast of King Lear that was on the radio as the mixing was happening was *perfectly* timed: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] After completing work on the basic track for "I am the Walrus", the group worked on two more songs for the film, George's "Blue Jay Way" and a group-composed twelve-bar blues instrumental called "Flying", before starting production. Magical Mystery Tour, as an idea, was inspired in equal parts by Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the collective of people we talked about in the episode on the Grateful Dead who travelled across the US extolling the virtues of psychedelic drugs, and by mystery tours, a British working-class tradition that has rather fallen out of fashion in the intervening decades. A mystery tour would generally be put on by a coach-hire company, and would be a day trip to an unannounced location -- though the location would in fact be very predictable, and would be a seaside town within a couple of hours' drive of its starting point. In the case of the ones the Beatles remembered from their own childhoods, this would be to a coastal town in Lancashire or Wales, like Blackpool, Rhyl, or Prestatyn. A coachload of people would pay to be driven to this random location, get very drunk and have a singsong on the bus, and spend a day wherever they were taken. McCartney's plan was simple -- they would gather a group of passengers and replicate this experience over the course of several days, and film whatever went on, but intersperse that with more planned out sketches and musical numbers. For this reason, along with the Beatles and their associates, the cast included some actors found through Spotlight and some of the group's favourite performers, like the comedian Nat Jackley (whose comedy sequence directed by John was cut from the final film) and the surrealist poet/singer/comedian Ivor Cutler: [Excerpt: Ivor Cutler, "I'm Going in a Field"] The film also featured an appearance by a new band who would go on to have great success over the next year, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They had recorded their first single in Abbey Road at the same time as the Beatles were recording Revolver, but rather than being progressive psychedelic rock, it had been a remake of a 1920s novelty song: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies"] Their performance in Magical Mystery Tour was very different though -- they played a fifties rock pastiche written by band leaders Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes while a stripper took off her clothes. While several other musical sequences were recorded for the film, including one by the band Traffic and one by Cutler, other than the Beatles tracks only the Bonzos' song made it into the finished film: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "Death Cab for Cutie"] That song, thirty years later, would give its name to a prominent American alternative rock band. Incidentally the same night that Magical Mystery Tour was first broadcast was also the night that the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band first appeared on a TV show, Do Not Adjust Your Set, which featured three future members of the Monty Python troupe -- Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones. Over the years the careers of the Bonzos, the Pythons, and the Beatles would become increasingly intertwined, with George Harrison in particular striking up strong friendships and working relationships with Bonzos Neil Innes and "Legs" Larry Smith. The filming of Magical Mystery Tour went about as well as one might expect from a film made by four directors, none of whom had any previous filmmaking experience, and none of whom had any business knowledge. The Beatles were used to just turning up and having things magically done for them by other people, and had no real idea of the infrastructure challenges that making a film, even a low-budget one, actually presents, and ended up causing a great deal of stress to almost everyone involved. The completed film was shown on TV on Boxing Day 1967 to general confusion and bemusement. It didn't help that it was originally broadcast in black and white, and so for example the scene showing shifting landscapes (outtake footage from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, tinted various psychedelic colours) over the "Flying" music, just looked like grey fuzz. But also, it just wasn't what people were expecting from a Beatles film. This was a ramshackle, plotless, thing more inspired by Andy Warhol's underground films than by the kind of thing the group had previously appeared in, and it was being presented as Christmas entertainment for all the family. And to be honest, it's not even a particularly good example of underground filmmaking -- though it looks like a masterpiece when placed next to something like the Bee Gees' similar effort, Cucumber Castle. But there are enough interesting sequences in there for the project not to be a complete failure -- and the deleted scenes on the DVD release, including the performances by Cutler and Traffic, and the fact that the film was edited down from ten hours to fifty-two minutes, makes one wonder if there's a better film that could be constructed from the original footage. Either way, the reaction to the film was so bad that McCartney actually appeared on David Frost's TV show the next day to defend it and, essentially, apologise. While they were editing the film, the group were also continuing to work in the studio, including on two new McCartney songs, "The Fool on the Hill", which was included in Magical Mystery Tour, and "Hello Goodbye", which wasn't included on the film's soundtrack but was released as the next single, with "I Am the Walrus" as the B-side: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Incidentally, in the UK the soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour was released as a double-EP rather than as an album (in the US, the group's recent singles and B-sides were added to turn it into a full-length album, which is how it's now generally available). "I Am the Walrus" was on the double-EP as well as being on the single's B-side, and the double-EP got to number two on the singles charts, meaning "I am the Walrus" was on the records at number one and number two at the same time. Before it became obvious that the film, if not the soundtrack, was a disaster, the group held a launch party on the twenty-first of December, 1967. The band members went along in fancy dress, as did many of the cast and crew -- the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed at the party. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys also turned up at the party, and apparently at one point jammed with the Bonzos, and according to some, but not all, reports, a couple of the Beatles joined in as well. Love and Johnston had both just met the Maharishi for the first time a couple of days earlier, and Love had been as impressed as the Beatles were, and it may have been at this party that the group mentioned to Love that they would soon be going on a retreat in India with the guru -- a retreat that was normally meant for training TM instructors, but this time seemed to be more about getting celebrities involved. Love would also end up going with them. That party was also the first time that Cynthia Lennon had an inkling that John might not be as faithful to her as she previously supposed. John had always "joked" about being attracted to George Harrison's wife, Patti, but this time he got a little more blatant about his attraction than he ever had previously, to the point that he made Cynthia cry, and Cynthia's friend, the pop star Lulu, decided to give Lennon a very public dressing-down for his cruelty to his wife, a dressing-down that must have been a sight to behold, as Lennon was dressed as a Teddy boy while Lulu was in a Shirley Temple costume. It's a sign of how bad the Lennons' marriage was at this point that this was the second time in a two-month period where Cynthia had ended up crying because of John at a film launch party and been comforted by a female pop star. In October, Cilla Black had held a party to celebrate the belated release of John's film How I Won the War, and during the party Georgie Fame had come up to Black and said, confused, "Cynthia Lennon is hiding in your wardrobe". Black went and had a look, and Cynthia explained to her “I'm waiting to see how long it is before John misses me and comes looking for me.” Black's response had been “You'd better face it, kid—he's never gonna come.” Also at the Magical Mystery Tour party was Lennon's father, now known as Freddie Lennon, and his new nineteen-year-old fiancee. While Hunter Davis had been researching the Beatles' biography, he'd come across some evidence that the version of Freddie's attitude towards John that his mother's side of the family had always told him -- that Freddie had been a cruel and uncaring husband who had not actually wanted to be around his son -- might not be the whole of the truth, and that the mother who he had thought of as saintly might also have had some part to play in their marriage breaking down and Freddie not seeing his son for twenty years. The two had made some tentative attempts at reconciliation, and indeed Freddie would even come and live with John for a while, though within a couple of years the younger Lennon's heart would fully harden against his father again. Of course, the things that John always resented his father for were pretty much exactly the kind of things that Lennon himself was about to do. It was around this time as well that Derek Taylor gave the Beatles copies of the debut album by a young singer/songwriter named Harry Nilsson. Nilsson will be getting his own episode down the line, but not for a couple of years at my current rates, so it's worth bringing that up here, because that album became a favourite of all the Beatles, and would have a huge influence on their songwriting for the next couple of years, and because one song on the album, "1941", must have resonated particularly deeply with Lennon right at this moment -- an autobiographical song by Nilsson about how his father had left him and his mother when he was a small boy, and about his own fear that, as his first marriage broke down, he was repeating the pattern with his stepson Scott: [Excerpt: Nilsson, "1941"] The other major event of December 1967, rather overshadowed by the Magical Mystery Tour disaster the next day, was that on Christmas Day Paul McCartney and Jane Asher announced their engagement. A few days later, George Harrison flew to India. After John and Paul had had their outside film projects -- John starring in How I Won The War and Paul doing the soundtrack for The Family Way -- the other two Beatles more or less simultaneously did their own side project films, and again one acted while the other did a soundtrack. Both of these projects were in the rather odd subgenre of psychedelic shambolic comedy film that sprang up in the mid sixties, a subgenre that produced a lot of fascinating films, though rather fewer good ones. Indeed, both of them were in the subsubgenre of shambolic psychedelic *sex* comedies. In Ringo's case, he had a small role in the film Candy, which was based on the novel we mentioned in the last episode, co-written by Terry Southern, which was in itself a loose modern rewriting of Voltaire's Candide. Unfortunately, like such other classics of this subgenre as Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Candy has dated *extremely* badly, and unless you find repeated scenes of sexual assault and rape, ethnic stereotypes, and jokes about deformity and disfigurement to be an absolute laugh riot, it's not a film that's worth seeking out, and Starr's part in it is not a major one. Harrison's film was of the same basic genre -- a film called Wonderwall about a mad scientist who discovers a way to see through the walls of his apartment, and gets to see a photographer taking sexy photographs of a young woman named Penny Lane, played by Jane Birkin: [Excerpt: Some Wonderwall film dialogue ripped from the Blu-Ray] Wonderwall would, of course, later inspire the title of a song by Oasis, and that's what the film is now best known for, but it's a less-unwatchable film than Candy, and while still problematic it's less so. Which is something. Harrison had been the Beatle with least involvement in Magical Mystery Tour -- McCartney had been the de facto director, Starr had been the lead character and the only one with much in the way of any acting to do, and Lennon had written the film's standout scene and its best song, and had done a little voiceover narration. Harrison, by contrast, barely has anything to do in the film apart from the one song he contributed, "Blue Jay Way", and he said of the project “I had no idea what was happening and maybe I didn't pay enough attention because my problem, basically, was that I was in another world, I didn't really belong; I was just an appendage.” He'd expressed his discomfort to his friend Joe Massot, who was about to make his first feature film. Massot had got to know Harrison during the making of his previous film, Reflections on Love, a mostly-silent short which had starred Harrison's sister-in-law Jenny Boyd, and which had been photographed by Robert Freeman, who had been the photographer for the Beatles' album covers from With the Beatles through Rubber Soul, and who had taken most of the photos that Klaus Voorman incorporated into the cover of Revolver (and whose professional association with the Beatles seemed to come to an end around the same time he discovered that Lennon had been having an affair with his wife). Massot asked Harrison to write the music for the film, and told Harrison he would have complete free rein to make whatever music he wanted, so long as it fit the timing of the film, and so Harrison decided to create a mixture of Western rock music and the Indian music he loved. Harrison started recording the music at the tail end of 1967, with sessions with several London-based Indian musicians and John Barham, an orchestrator who had worked with Ravi Shankar on Shankar's collaborations with Western musicians, including the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack we talked about in the "All You Need is Love" episode. For the Western music, he used the Remo Four, a Merseybeat group who had been on the scene even before the Beatles, and which contained a couple of classmates of Paul McCartney, but who had mostly acted as backing musicians for other artists. They'd backed Johnny Sandon, the former singer with the Searchers, on a couple of singles, before becoming the backing band for Tommy Quickly, a NEMS artist who was unsuccessful despite starting his career with a Lennon/McCartney song, "Tip of My Tongue": [Excerpt: Tommy Quickly, "Tip of My Tongue"] The Remo Four would later, after a lineup change, become Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, who would become one-hit wonders in the seventies, and during the Wonderwall sessions they recorded a song that went unreleased at the time, and which would later go on to be rerecorded by Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke. "In the First Place" also features Harrison on backing vocals and possibly guitar, and was not submitted for the film because Harrison didn't believe that Massot wanted any vocal tracks, but the recording was later discovered and used in a revised director's cut of the film in the nineties: [Excerpt: The Remo Four, "In the First Place"] But for the most part the Remo Four were performing instrumentals written by Harrison. They weren't the only Western musicians performing on the sessions though -- Peter Tork of the Monkees dropped by these sessions and recorded several short banjo solos, which were used in the film soundtrack but not in the soundtrack album (presumably because Tork was contracted to another label): [Excerpt: Peter Tork, "Wonderwall banjo solo"] Another musician who was under contract to another label was Eric Clapton, who at the time was playing with The Cream, and who vaguely knew Harrison and so joined in for the track "Ski-ing", playing lead guitar under the cunning, impenetrable, pseudonym "Eddie Clayton", with Harrison on sitar, Starr on drums, and session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan on bass: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Ski-ing"] But the bulk of the album was recorded in EMI's studios in the city that is now known as Mumbai but at the time was called Bombay. The studio facilities in India had up to that point only had a mono tape recorder, and Bhaskar Menon, one of the top executives at EMI's Indian division and later the head of EMI music worldwide, personally brought the first stereo tape recorder to the studio to aid in Harrison's recording. The music was all composed by Harrison and performed by the Indian musicians, and while Harrison was composing in an Indian mode, the musicians were apparently fascinated by how Western it sounded to them: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Microbes"] While he was there, Harrison also got the instrumentalists to record another instrumental track, which wasn't to be used for the film: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "The Inner Light (instrumental)"] That track would, instead, become part of what was to be Harrison's first composition to make a side of a Beatles single. After John and George had appeared on the David Frost show talking about the Maharishi, in September 1967, George had met a lecturer in Sanskrit named Juan Mascaró, who wrote to Harrison enclosing a book he'd compiled of translations of religious texts, telling him he'd admired "Within You Without You" and thought it would be interesting if Harrison set something from the Tao Te Ching to music. He suggested a text that, in his translation, read: "Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven For the farther one travels, the less one knows The sage, therefore Arrives without travelling Sees all without looking Does all without doing" Harrison took that text almost verbatim, though he created a second verse by repeating the first few lines with "you" replacing "I" -- concerned that listeners might think he was just talking about himself, and wouldn't realise it was a more general statement -- and he removed the "the sage, therefore" and turned the last few lines into imperative commands rather than declarative statements: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] The song has come in for some criticism over the years as being a little Orientalist, because in critics' eyes it combines Chinese philosophy with Indian music, as if all these things are equally "Eastern" and so all the same really. On the other hand there's a good argument that an English songwriter taking a piece of writing written in Chinese and translated into English by a Spanish man and setting it to music inspired by Indian musical modes is a wonderful example of cultural cross-pollination. As someone who's neither Chinese nor Indian I wouldn't want to take a stance on it, but clearly the other Beatles were impressed by it -- they put it out as the B-side to their next single, even though the only Beatles on it are Harrison and McCartney, with the latter adding a small amount of harmony vocal: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] And it wasn't because the group were out of material. They were planning on going to Rishikesh to study with the Maharishi, and wanted to get a single out for release while they were away, and so in one week they completed the vocal overdubs on "The Inner Light" and recorded three other songs, two by John and one by Paul. All three of the group's songwriters brought in songs that were among their best. John's first contribution was a song whose lyrics he later described as possibly the best he ever wrote, "Across the Universe". He said the lyrics were “purely inspirational and were given to me as boom! I don't own it, you know; it came through like that … Such an extraordinary meter and I can never repeat it! It's not a matter of craftsmanship, it wrote itself. It drove me out of bed. I didn't want to write it … It's like being possessed, like a psychic or a medium.” But while Lennon liked the song, he was never happy with the recording of it. They tried all sorts of things to get the sound he heard in his head, including bringing in some fans who were hanging around outside to sing backing vocals. He said of the track "I was singing out of tune and instead of getting a decent choir, we got fans from outside, Apple Scruffs or whatever you call them. They came in and were singing all off-key. Nobody was interested in doing the tune originally.” [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] The "jai guru deva" chorus there is the first reference to the teachings of the Maharishi in one of the Beatles' records -- Guru Dev was the Maharishi's teacher, and the phrase "Jai guru dev" is a Sanskrit one which I've seen variously translated as "victory to the great teacher", and "hail to the greatness within you". Lennon would say shortly before his death “The Beatles didn't make a good record out of it. I think subconsciously sometimes we – I say ‘we' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us – Paul would sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song … Usually we'd spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul's songs, when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like ‘Strawberry Fields' or ‘Across The Universe', somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in … It was a _lousy_ track of a great song and I was so disappointed by it …The guitars are out of tune and I'm singing out of tune because I'm psychologically destroyed and nobody's supporting me or helping me with it, and the song was never done properly.” Of course, this is only Lennon's perception, and it's one that the other participants would disagree with. George Martin, in particular, was always rather hurt by the implication that Lennon's songs had less attention paid to them, and he would always say that the problem was that Lennon in the studio would always say "yes, that's great", and only later complain that it hadn't been what he wanted. No doubt McCartney did put in more effort on his own songs than on Lennon's -- everyone has a bias towards their own work, and McCartney's only human -- but personally I suspect that a lot of the problem comes down to the two men having very different personalities. McCartney had very strong ideas about his own work and would drive the others insane with his nitpicky attention to detail. Lennon had similarly strong ideas, but didn't have the attention span to put the time and effort in to force his vision on others, and didn't have the technical knowledge to express his ideas in words they'd understand. He expected Martin and the other Beatles to work miracles, and they did -- but not the miracles he would have worked. That track was, rather than being chosen for the next single, given to Spike Milligan, who happened to be visiting the studio and was putting together an album for the environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund. The album was titled "No One's Gonna Change Our World": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] That track is historic in another way -- it would be the last time that George Harrison would play sitar on a Beatles record, and it effectively marks the end of the period of psychedelia and Indian influence that had started with "Norwegian Wood" three years earlier, and which many fans consider their most creative period. Indeed, shortly after the recording, Harrison would give up the sitar altogether and stop playing it. He loved sitar music as much as he ever had, and he still thought that Indian classical music spoke to him in ways he couldn't express, and he continued to be friends with Ravi Shankar for the rest of his life, and would only become more interested in Indian religious thought. But as he spent time with Shankar he realised he would never be as good on the sitar as he hoped. He said later "I thought, 'Well, maybe I'm better off being a pop singer-guitar-player-songwriter – whatever-I'm-supposed-to-be' because I've seen a thousand sitar-players in India who are twice as better as I'll ever be. And only one of them Ravi thought was going to be a good player." We don't have a precise date for when it happened -- I suspect it was in June 1968, so a few months after the "Across the Universe" recording -- but Shankar told Harrison that rather than try to become a master of a music that he hadn't encountered until his twenties, perhaps he should be making the music that was his own background. And as Harrison put it "I realised that was riding my bike down a street in Liverpool and hearing 'Heartbreak Hotel' coming out of someone's house.": [Excerpt: Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"] In early 1968 a lot of people seemed to be thinking along the same lines, as if Christmas 1967 had been the flick of a switch and instead of whimsy and ornamentation, the thing to do was to make music that was influenced by early rock and roll. In the US the Band and Bob Dylan were making music that was consciously shorn of all studio experimentation, while in the UK there was a revival of fifties rock and roll. In April 1968 both "Peggy Sue" and "Rock Around the Clock" reentered the top forty in the UK, and the Who were regularly including "Summertime Blues" in their sets. Fifties nostalgia, which would make occasional comebacks for at least the next forty years, was in its first height, and so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney's song, "Lady Madonna", which became the A-side of the next single, has more than a little of the fifties about it. Of course, the track isn't *completely* fifties in its origins -- one of the inspirations for the track seems to have been the Rolling Stones' then-recent hit "Let's Spend The Night Together": [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Let's Spend the Night Together"] But the main source for the song's music -- and for the sound of the finished record -- seems to have been Johnny Parker's piano part on Humphrey Lyttleton's "Bad Penny Blues", a hit single engineered by Joe Meek in the fifties: [Excerpt: Humphrey Lyttleton, "Bad Penny Blues"] That song seems to have been on the group's mind for a while, as a working title for "With a Little Help From My Friends" had at one point been "Bad Finger Blues" -- a title that would later give the name to a band on Apple. McCartney took Parker's piano part as his inspiration, and as he later put it “‘Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing. I got my left hand doing an arpeggio thing with the chord, an ascending boogie-woogie left hand, then a descending right hand. I always liked that, the  juxtaposition of a line going down meeting a line going up." [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] That idea, incidentally, is an interesting reversal of what McCartney had done on "Hello, Goodbye", where the bass line goes down while the guitar moves up -- the two lines moving away from each other: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Though that isn't to say there's no descending bass in "Lady Madonna" -- the bridge has a wonderful sequence where the bass just *keeps* *descending*: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] Lyrically, McCartney was inspired by a photo in National Geographic of a woman in Malaysia, captioned “Mountain Madonna: with one child at her breast and another laughing into her face, sees her quality of life threatened.” But as he put it “The people I was brought up amongst were often Catholic; there are lots of Catholics in Liverpool because of the Irish connection and they are often religious. When they have a baby I think they see a big connection between themselves and the Virgin Mary with her baby. So the original concept was the Virgin Mary but it quickly became symbolic of every woman; the Madonna image but as applied to ordinary working class woman. It's really a tribute to the mother figure, it's a tribute to women.” Musically though, the song was more a tribute to the fifties -- while the inspiration had been a skiffle hit by Humphrey Lyttleton, as soon as McCartney started playing it he'd thought of Fats Domino, and the lyric reflects that to an extent -- just as Domino's "Blue Monday" details the days of the week for a weary working man who only gets to enjoy himself on Saturday night, "Lady Madonna"'s lyrics similarly look at the work a mother has to do every day -- though as McCartney later noted  "I was writing the words out to learn it for an American TV show and I realised I missed out Saturday ... So I figured it must have been a real night out." The vocal was very much McCartney doing a Domino impression -- something that wasn't lost on Fats, who cut his own version of the track later that year: [Excerpt: Fats Domino, "Lady Madonna"] The group were so productive at this point, right before the journey to India, that they actually cut another song *while they were making a video for "Lady Madonna"*. They were booked into Abbey Road to film themselves performing the song so it could be played on Top of the Pops while they were away, but instead they decided to use the time to cut a new song -- John had a partially-written song, "Hey Bullfrog", which was roughly the same tempo as "Lady Madonna", so they could finish that up and then re-edit the footage to match the record. The song was quickly finished and became "Hey Bulldog": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Bulldog"] One of Lennon's best songs from this period, "Hey Bulldog" was oddly chosen only to go on the soundtrack of Yellow Submarine. Either the band didn't think much of it because it had come so easily, or it was just assigned to the film because they were planning on being away for several months and didn't have any other projects they were working on. The extent of the group's contribution to the film was minimal – they were not very hands-on, and the film, which was mostly done as an attempt to provide a third feature film for their United Artists contract without them having to do any work, was made by the team that had done the Beatles cartoon on American TV. There's some evidence that they had a small amount of input in the early story stages, but in general they saw the cartoon as an irrelevance to them -- the only things they contributed were the four songs "All Together Now", "It's All Too Much", "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song", and a brief filmed appearance for the very end of the film, recorded in January: [Excerpt: Yellow Submarine film end] McCartney also took part in yet another session in early February 1968, one produced by Peter Asher, his fiancee's brother, and former singer with Peter and Gordon. Asher had given up on being a pop star and was trying to get into the business side of music, and he was starting out as a producer, producing a single by Paul Jones, the former lead singer of Manfred Mann. The A-side of the single, "And the Sun Will Shine", was written by the Bee Gees, the band that Robert Stigwood was managing: [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "And the Sun Will Shine"] While the B-side was an original by Jones, "The Dog Presides": [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "The Dog Presides"] Those tracks featured two former members of the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Paul Samwell-Smith, on guitar and bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Asher asked McCartney to play drums on both sides of the single, saying later "I always thought he was a great, underrated drummer." McCartney was impressed by Asher's production, and asked him to get involved with the new Apple Records label that would be set up when the group returned from India. Asher eventually became head of A&R for the label. And even before "Lady Madonna" was mixed, the Beatles were off to India. Mal Evans, their roadie, went ahead with all their luggage on the fourteenth of February, so he could sort out transport for them on the other end, and then John and George followed on the fifteenth, with their wives Pattie and Cynthia and Pattie's sister Jenny (John and Cynthia's son Julian had been left with his grandmother while they went -- normally Cynthia wouldn't abandon Julian for an extended period of time, but she saw the trip as a way to repair their strained marriage). Paul and Ringo followed four days later, with Ringo's wife Maureen and Paul's fiancee Jane Asher. The retreat in Rishikesh was to become something of a celebrity affair. Along with the Beatles came their friend the singer-songwriter Donovan, and Donovan's friend and songwriting partner, whose name I'm not going to say here because it's a slur for Romani people, but will be known to any Donovan fans. Donovan at this point was also going through changes. Like the Beatles, he was largely turning away from drug use and towards meditation, and had recently written his hit single "There is a Mountain" based around a saying from Zen Buddhism: [Excerpt: Donovan, "There is a Mountain"] That was from his double-album A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, which had come out in December 1967. But also like John and Paul he was in the middle of the breakdown of a long-term relationship, and while he would remain with his then-partner until 1970, and even have another child with her, he was secretly in love with another woman. In fact he was secretly in love with two other women. One of them, Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend Linda, had moved to LA, become the partner of the singer Gram Parsons, and had appeared in the documentary You Are What You Eat with the Band and Tiny Tim. She had fallen out of touch with Donovan, though she would later become his wife. Incidentally, she had a son to Brian Jones who had been abandoned by his rock-star father -- the son's name is Julian. The other woman with whom Donovan was in love was Jenny Boyd, the sister of George Harrison's wife Pattie.  Jenny at the time was in a relationship with Alexis Mardas, a TV repairman and huckster who presented himself as an electronics genius to the Beatles, who nicknamed him Magic Alex, and so she was unavailable, but Donovan had written a song about her, released as a single just before they all went to Rishikesh: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Jennifer Juniper"] Donovan considered himself and George Harrison to be on similar spiritual paths and called Harrison his "spirit-brother", though Donovan was more interested in Buddhism, which Harrison considered a corruption of the more ancient Hinduism, and Harrison encouraged Donovan to read Autobiography of a Yogi. It's perhaps worth noting that Donovan's father had a different take on the subject though, saying "You're not going to study meditation in India, son, you're following that wee lassie Jenny" Donovan and his friend weren't the only other celebrities to come to Rishikesh. The actor Mia Farrow, who had just been through a painful divorce from Frank Sinatra, and had just made Rosemary's Baby, a horror film directed by Roman Polanski with exteriors shot at the Dakota building in New York, arrived with her sister Prudence. Also on the trip was Paul Horn, a jazz saxophonist who had played with many of the greats of jazz, not least of them Duke Ellington, whose Sweet Thursday Horn had played alto sax on: [Excerpt: Duke Ellington, "Zweet Zursday"] Horn was another musician who had been inspired to investigate Indian spirituality and music simultaneously, and the previous year he had recorded an album, "In India," of adaptations of ragas, with Ravi Shankar and Alauddin Khan: [Excerpt: Paul Horn, "Raga Vibhas"] Horn would go on to become one of the pioneers of what would later be termed "New Age" music, combining jazz with music from various non-Western traditions. Horn had also worked as a session musician, and one of the tracks he'd played on was "I Know There's an Answer" from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Know There's an Answer"] Mike Love, who co-wrote that track and is one of the lead singers on it, was also in Rishikesh. While as we'll see not all of the celebrities on the trip would remain practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, Love would be profoundly affected by the trip, and remains a vocal proponent of TM to this day. Indeed, his whole band at the time were heavily into TM. While Love was in India, the other Beach Boys were working on the Friends album without him -- Love only appears on four tracks on that album -- and one of the tracks they recorded in his absence was titled "Transcendental Meditation": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Transcendental Meditation"] But the trip would affect Love's songwriting, as it would affect all of the musicians there. One of the few songs on the Friends album on which Love appears is "Anna Lee, the Healer", a song which is lyrically inspired by the trip in the most literal sense, as it's about a masseuse Love met in Rishikesh: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Anna Lee, the Healer"] The musicians in the group all influenced and inspired each other as is likely to happen in such circumstances. Sometimes, it would be a matter of trivial joking, as when the Beatles decided to perform an off-the-cuff song about Guru Dev, and did it in the Beach Boys style: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] And that turned partway through into a celebration of Love for his birthday: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] Decades later, Love would return the favour, writing a song about Harrison and their time together in Rishikesh. Like Donovan, Love seems to have considered Harrison his "spiritual brother", and he titled the song "Pisces Brothers": [Excerpt: Mike Love, "Pisces Brothers"] The musicians on the trip were also often making suggestions to each other about songs that would become famous for them. The musicians had all brought acoustic guitars, apart obviously from Ringo, who got a set of tabla drums when George ordered some Indian instruments to be delivered. George got a sitar, as at this point he hadn't quite given up on the instrument, and he gave Donovan a tamboura. Donovan started playing a melody on the tamboura, which is normally a drone instrument, inspired by the Scottish folk music he had grown up with, and that became his "Hurdy-Gurdy Man": [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man"] Harrison actually helped him with the song, writing a final verse inspired by the Maharishi's teachings, but in the studio Donovan's producer Mickie Most told him to cut the verse because the song was overlong, which apparently annoyed Harrison. Donovan includes that verse in his live performances of the song though -- usually while doing a fairly terrible impersonation of Harrison: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man (live)"] And similarly, while McCartney was working on a song pastiching Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys, but singing about the USSR rather than the USA, Love suggested to him that for a middle-eight he might want to sing about the girls in the various Soviet regions: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Back in the USSR"] As all the guitarists on the retreat only had acoustic instruments, they were very keen to improve their acoustic playing, and they turned to Donovan, who unlike the rest of them was primarily an acoustic player, and one from a folk background. Donovan taught them the rudiments of Travis picking, the guitar style we talked about way back in the episodes on the Everly Brothers, as well as some of the tunings that had been introduced to British folk music by Davey Graham, giving them a basic grounding in the principles of English folk-baroque guitar, a style that had developed over the previous few years. Donovan has said in his autobiography that Lennon picked the technique up quickly (and that Harrison had already learned Travis picking from Chet Atkins records) but that McCartney didn't have the application to learn the style, though he picked up bits. That seems very unlike anything else I've read anywhere about Lennon and McCartney -- no-one has ever accused Lennon of having a surfeit of application -- and reading Donovan's book he seems to dislike McCartney and like Lennon and Harrison, so possibly that enters into it. But also, it may just be that Lennon was more receptive to Donovan's style at the time. According to McCartney, even before going to Rishikesh Lennon had been in a vaguely folk-music and country mode, and the small number of tapes he'd brought with him to Rishikesh included Buddy Holly, Dylan, and the progressive folk band The Incredible String Band, whose music would be a big influence on both Lennon and McCartney for the next year: [Excerpt: The Incredible String Band, "First Girl I Loved"] According to McCartney Lennon also brought "a tape the singer Jake Thackray had done for him... He was one of the people we bumped into at Abbey Road. John liked his stuff, which he'd heard on television. Lots of wordplay and very suggestive, so very much up John's alley. I was fascinated by his unusual guitar style. John did ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun' as a Jake Thackray thing at one point, as I recall.” Thackray was a British chansonnier, who sang sweetly poignant but also often filthy songs about Yorkshire life, and his humour in particular will have appealed to Lennon. There's a story of Lennon meeting Thackray in Abbey Road and singing the whole of Thackray's song "The Statues", about two drunk men fighting a male statue to defend the honour of a female statue, to him: [Excerpt: Jake Thackray, "The Statues"] Given this was the music that Lennon was listening to, it's unsurprising that he was more receptive to Donovan's lessons, and the new guitar style he learned allowed him to expand his songwriting, at precisely the same time he was largely clean of drugs for the first time in several years, and he started writing some of the best songs he would ever write, often using these new styles: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Julia"] That song is about Lennon's dead mother -- the first time he ever addressed her directly in a song, though  it would be far from the last -- but it's also about someone else. That phrase "Ocean child" is a direct translation of the Japanese name "Yoko". We've talked about Yoko Ono a bit in recent episodes, and even briefly in a previous Beatles episode, but it's here that she really enters the story of the Beatles. Unfortunately, exactly *how* her relationship with John Lennon, which was to become one of the great legendary love stories in rock and roll history, actually started is the subject of some debate. Both of them were married when they first got together, and there have also been suggestions that Ono was more interested in McCartney than in Lennon at first -- suggestions which everyone involved has denied, and those denials have the ring of truth about them, but if that was the case it would also explain some of Lennon's more perplexing behaviour over the next year. By all accounts there was a certain amount of finessing of the story th

Do you ever have the subtle thought that you are better or more important than others? Do you ever overlook other people's needs or perspective? Do you tend to focus on others' faults and excuse your own shortcomings? In this convicting episode, Nate and Gabe will expose the great need for us to walk in humility and sensitivity. We need to daily ask the Holy Spirit to cultivate in us a sensitivity to the needs of other people.There is no room for selfishness in the Christian life.  As we examine what we commonly refer to as “The Golden Rule”, may our hearts be stirred to see our selfish focus and shallow pursuits for what they are, and turn to Jesus. He has given Himself to us, and only by His life in us are we able to lay down ourselves to our Father's will for the sake of others.Want to go deeper in studying this command of Christ? Download a free study guide at www.homediscipleship.comStudy guide includes: Scriptures referenced in podcastReview of Old Testament contextGuide for Scripture meditationQuestions for application and prayerFor more information, visit us at www.homediscipleship.comFind us on Facebook and Instagram @homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.facebook.com/homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.instagram.com/homediscipleshipnetwork

All people have needs - the need to be loved, the need to be protected and provided for, the need to be known and cared for, and even deeper spiritual needs. In this episode, Nate and Gabe discuss how making ourselves available to the Lord to meet the needs of others, often opens a door to meet their spiritual needs. As He does this in us, the world will not see merely an attempt at being Christlike, they will actually see Christ Himself living and operating through us!There is no room for selfishness in the Christian life.  As we examine what we commonly refer to as “The Golden Rule”, may our hearts be stirred to see our selfish focus and shallow pursuits for what they are, and turn to Jesus. He has given Himself to us, and only by His life in us are we able to lay down ourselves to our Father's will for the sake of others.Want to go deeper in studying this command of Christ? Download a free study guide at www.homediscipleship.comStudy guide includes: Scriptures referenced in podcastReview of Old Testament contextGuide for Scripture meditationQuestions for application and prayerFor more information, visit us at www.homediscipleship.comFind us on Facebook and Instagram @homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.facebook.com/homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.instagram.com/homediscipleshipnetwork

What do you want others to do for you? How do you want people to treat you? What kindness do you desire from family or friends? Jesus makes it very clear - whatever you want others to be doing for you, you should do for them. This is not something passive - it is something active. Listen as Nate and Gabe exhort us to allow Christ to actively love others through us!There is no room for selfishness in the Christian life.  As we examine what we commonly refer to as “The Golden Rule”, may our hearts be stirred to see our selfish focus and shallow pursuits for what they are, and turn to Jesus. He has given Himself to us, and only by His life in us are we able to lay down ourselves to our Father's will for the sake of others.Want to go deeper in studying this command of Christ? Download a free study guide at www.homediscipleship.comStudy guide includes: Scriptures referenced in podcastReview of Old Testament contextGuide for Scripture meditationQuestions for application and prayerFor more information, visit us at www.homediscipleship.comFind us on Facebook and Instagram @homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.facebook.com/homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.instagram.com/homediscipleshipnetwork

It is so easy to live for me - my wants, my needs, and my goals. How wonderful and freeing when the Lord opens our eyes to see that life is not about me! Life is about God - living in relationship with Him and being filled with the life of His Son. In this study on the command Do Unto Others, we will take a deeper look into the beautiful calling we have to be channels of His life to those around us.There is no room for selfishness in the Christian life.  As we examine what we commonly refer to as “The Golden Rule”, may our hearts be stirred to see our selfish focus and shallow pursuits for what they are, and turn to Jesus. He has given Himself to us, and only by His life in us are we able to lay down ourselves to our Father's will for the sake of others.Want to go deeper in studying this command of Christ? Download a free study guide at www.homediscipleship.comStudy guide includes: Scriptures referenced in podcastReview of Old Testament contextGuide for Scripture meditationQuestions for application and prayerFor more information, visit us at www.homediscipleship.comFind us on Facebook and Instagram @homediscipleshiphttps://www.facebook.com/homediscipleshipnetworkhttps://www.instagram.com/homediscipleshipnetwork

This is Part 2 of What's Going On In Our Hoods.  I share Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks from his Radio Show on the Cancel Culture and Beyonce Fans to give my Commentary on the issue as well.  We both are merely and basically summing up that you "Do Unto Others, As You Want Done To You" so you can Agree to Disagree.  SONG CHOICE LINK

Looking Intense, Breaking Animal News, Tic Tok Wisdom, Understanding the Bible, Masterclass, Love Your Enemies, Listener Uniform, Awkward Jog of Gratitude, Do Unto Others, Don't Join Misery, Social Norms, Peak of Productivity; Quotes: “Just because I don't understand it doesn't mean it's invalid.” “In marketing, you just make claims.” “Why not a Mr. Peanut outfit?” “I don't have to do what you're doing.”

“There are eight rings in charity. The highest is when you help a person to help himself.”- Maimonides. This episode explores how to be a true giving person to lift up others without expecting anything in return. The guest is Fearless Fabulous You Host Melanie Young's Mother, Sonia Young, who died December 22, 2022. Known as The Purple Lady, Sonia Young dedicated her life to her "Purple Principle of Giving" a.k.a. "Do Unto Others" and expect nothing in return. Original air date December 2015.Fearless Fabulous You is broadcast live Wednesdays at 12 Noon ET.Fearless Fabulous You Radio Show is broadcast on W4WN Radio - Women 4 Women Network (www.w4wn.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Fearless Fabulous You Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Top 5 News Headlines and Commentary for Friday, August 5, 2022. 1. Trump-backed Kari Lake wins Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary. 2. Governor DeSantis Suspends Woke DA Unwilling to Enforce State Law. 3. President Biden Declares Public Health Emergency Over Monkeypox Virus. 4. Whoopi Goldberg Invokes God and “Do Unto Others” to Support Abortion. 5. Cut! Newsome Calls on Hollywood to Stop Filming in Pro-Life States.

Do you have the gift of "light hands," willing to help others along their way?

For Palm Sunday, Lead Pastor Jeff Denton looks at Matthew's gospel that was directed toward a Jewish audience and made a case for Jesus as the promised King-Messiah. Jesus' donkey ride into Jerusalem (on what we refer to as Palm Sunday) should have heralded the arrival of the prophecy-fulfilling Conquering King. Yet, it set the stage for Jesus to wear a crown of thorns by the end of that week. Where did the Conquering King go?!  Within Matthew's gospel there was so much about God's kingdom agenda. How did they miss it? In this message, Pastor Jeff looks at a portion of the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew's gospel and considers how Jesus was showing an unexpected kingdom picture that so many missed. It may be a message we're missing today if we're seeking to be the "conquering Christians". In Matthew 7, we have a record of something so contradictory to our expectations that the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, who was not a follower of Christ, reportedly had it carved into the wall of his chamber...and inscribed in gold.  Originally preached at Waterbrook Bible Fellowship on Sunday, April 10, 2022. 

According to Wikipedia, The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures. It can be considered an ethic of reciprocity in some religions, although different religions treat it differently. As a result of this understanding, those of us in personal recovery, realize that to be served we must first serve. In other words, If I want to stay sober, I must be as concerned toward others as I want others to be concerned for me. The post Episode #227 Tuesday the Fix; Do Unto Others appeared first on Recovery Guy.

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Luke 10:25-37 In the closing of our "Do Unto Others" series, Brian talks about how we are called to be a community with those like, and unlike us.Support the show (http://www.citruschurch.org/give)

Ken continues his teaching on the "50 Commands of Christ" in this edition of "Sunday Morning with Love In Action." He teaches commands 19-21, which are: Do Unto Others, Choose the Narrow Way, and Beware of False Prophets.   "Sunday Morning with Love In Action" airs every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. on The Joy FM 94.3/96.1 thanks to a generous donation from Weed Man, who provides quality lawn care services to the greater Dothan area.   You can subscribe to the Love In Action Podcast on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and pretty much anywhere you listen to blogs. 

Long time friend of Compassion Radio, Dr. Jim Jennings of Conscience International, joins Bram on the broadcast today to talk about the state of the world and what the church needs to be ready for as the hands and feet of Christ. Dr. Jennings has spent much of the last three decades responding to wars […] The post Do Unto Others… appeared first on Compassionradio.com.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes New York Times best-selling author Jeff Abbott to the studio to discuss his latest thriller, An Ambush of Wives. https://jeffabbott.com/ Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of many mystery and suspense novels. He has been called “one of the best thriller writers in the business” (Washington Post). His novels have been called “compulsively readable” (Chicago Sun Times), “outstanding. . .genuinely moving” and “fresh, original… intricately woven” (Publishers Weekly), “nail-bitingly suspenseful and totally original” (Irish Independent), and “extremely compelling” (Associated Press). He is published in many languages and has been a bestseller in the US, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, Portugal, and other countries. Jeff's novel Adrenaline was a Summer Great Reads choice by both The Today Show and Good Morning America. His novel Inside Man was a Summer Book Pick by O, The Oprah Magazine, and a Best Beach Reads pick by USA Today. Jeff is a winner of the Thriller Award (for The Last Minute) and was nominated for the Thriller Award for Panic. He is a three-time nominee for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award and a two-time nominee for the Anthony Award. Jeff's first novel, Do Unto Others, won both the Agatha Award and the Macavity Award. His novels Adrenaline, Panic, and Collision have been optioned for film and are in script development. Jeff graduated from Rice University with a degree in History and English. He lives in Austin with his wife and two sons.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes New York Times best-selling author Jeff Abbott to the studio to discuss his latest thriller, An Ambush of Wives. https://jeffabbott.com/ Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of many mystery and suspense novels. He has been called “one of the best thriller writers in the business” (Washington Post). His novels have been called “compulsively readable” (Chicago Sun Times), “outstanding. . .genuinely moving” and “fresh, original… intricately woven” (Publishers Weekly), “nail-bitingly suspenseful and totally original” (Irish Independent), and “extremely compelling” (Associated Press). He is published in many languages and has been a bestseller in the US, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, Portugal, and other countries. Jeff's novel Adrenaline was a Summer Great Reads choice by both The Today Show and Good Morning America. His novel Inside Man was a Summer Book Pick by O, The Oprah Magazine, and a Best Beach Reads pick by USA Today. Jeff is a winner of the Thriller Award (for The Last Minute) and was nominated for the Thriller Award for Panic. He is a three-time nominee for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award and a two-time nominee for the Anthony Award. Jeff's first novel, Do Unto Others, won both the Agatha Award and the Macavity Award. His novels Adrenaline, Panic, and Collision have been optioned for film and are in script development. Jeff graduated from Rice University with a degree in History and English. He lives in Austin with his wife and two sons.

Long time friend of Compassion Radio, Dr. Jim Jennings of Conscience International, joins Bram on the broadcast today to talk about the state of the world and what the church needs to be ready for as the hands and feet of Christ. Dr. Jennings has spent much of the last three decades responding to wars […] The post Do Unto Others… appeared first on Compassionradio.com.

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Bruce and Justin continue the SOTM series with a discussion about what it means to ask, seek, & knock with a mindset of treating others how you desire to be treated.Matthew 7:7-127 “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them—this is the Law and the Prophets.

Long time friend of Compassion Radio, Dr. Jim Jennings of Conscience International, joins Bram on the broadcast today to talk about the state of the world and what the church needs to be ready for as the hands and feet of Christ. Dr. Jennings has spent much of the last three decades responding to wars […] The post Do Unto Others… appeared first on Compassionradio.com.

Long time friend of Compassion Radio, Dr. Jim Jennings of Conscience International, joins Bram on the broadcast today to talk about the state of the world and what the church needs to be ready for as the hands and feet of Christ. Dr. Jennings has spent much of the last three decades responding to wars […] The post Do Unto Others… appeared first on Compassionradio.com.

Long time friend of Compassion Radio, Dr. Jim Jennings of Conscience International, joins Bram on the broadcast today to talk about the state of the world and what the church needs to be ready for as the hands and feet of Christ. Dr. Jennings has spent much of the last three decades responding to wars […] The post Do Unto Others… appeared first on Compassionradio.com.

Hour 1 * Guest: Becky Akers – Author: Halestorm, Abducting Arnold. the revolutionary new novels. Buy them before They’re banned! * Tom Woods, the THICKREDLINE principles: Live and Let Live, Do Unto Others, and No Victim, No Crime! – THICKREDLINE Project – ThickRedLine.org. * No Charges for Cop who Killed Woman at Capitol. * Black Lives Matter has been nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian member of parliament Petter Eide said he nominated the organization because it is “bringing forward a new consciousness and awareness about racial justice. * Stacey Abrams Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize. * The Great Wall of Washington – According to Joe Biden, Democrats were supposed to be building bridges — not walls! Tell that to his party’s leaders, who are actually considering a plan to add a permanent, razor-wire fence around the Capitol complex. * Lindsey Graham threatens Democrats: If you call even one witness for impeachment trial, we’ll open up ‘Pandora’s box’. * White House asks reporters to submit questions ahead of daily press briefings. Hour 2 * AOC to Sen. Cruz: “you “almost had me murdered three weeks ago”. GOP Congressman Chip Roy, TX, is demanding that AOC Apologize, Media Research Center wants her suspended from Twitter. * YouTube demonetizes WND for defending Trump supporter Mike Lindell – David Kupelian. * A Newsmax segment featuring MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell quickly devolved into chaos Tuesday and resulted in host Bob Sellers walking off the set. * Kayleigh McEnany to begin working at Fox News. Prior to this, she was a conservative political commentator on CNN and got her start in media working as a producer at Fox. * Lin Wood, one of the attorneys who filed dozens of lawsuits regarding massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, is under investigation for voting illegally in November. * Mask Slip: Barkley Admits It’s All About Community Money – ESPN: Quick to Criticize America, Silent on China’s Real Human Rights Abuses – NBA Shuts Down Reporter Asking Hoops Stars About China. * Two supermarkets in Southern California will permanently close Kroger, the parent company of Ralphs and Food 4 Less, after the Long Beach City Council passed an ordinance that mandated a hazard pay increase of $4 per hour. * According to WalletHub, American’s are expected to spend $21.8B on Valentine’s Day this year! * Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down, Andy Jassy steps up to fill the position. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

* Guest: Becky Akers - Author: Halestorm, Abducting Arnold. the revolutionary new novels. Buy them before They’re banned! * Tom Woods, the THICKREDLINE principles: Live and Let Live, Do Unto Others, and No Victim, No Crime! - THICKREDLINE Project - ThickRedLine.org. * No Charges for Cop who Killed Woman at Capitol. * Black Lives Matter has been nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian member of parliament Petter Eide said he nominated the organization because it is "bringing forward a new consciousness and awareness about racial justice. * Stacey Abrams Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize. * The Great Wall of Washington - According to Joe Biden, Democrats were supposed to be building bridges -- not walls! Tell that to his party's leaders, who are actually considering a plan to add a permanent, razor-wire fence around the Capitol complex. * Lindsey Graham threatens Democrats: If you call even one witness for impeachment trial, we’ll open up 'Pandora's box'. * White House asks reporters to submit questions ahead of daily press briefings.

This week on Live Joy, Share Joy: "JOY and Do Unto Others" with LaVon Dennistoun. Hosted by Deb McGregor of Life Full of Joy. Visit lifefullofjoy.com.

Season 2 Episode 5 of the Chasing MacNaughton Podcast from Tech Hockey Guide; "Do Unto Others.” This week, Tim Braun, Rob Gilreath, and Dustin Lindstrom discuss (times are approximate): · Robbie Beydoun and other former Huskies (2:11) · Joe Shawhan Hour Review (16:31) · Mighty Techster's Recruiting Tweet (29:09) · Minnesota State Series Preview (40:30) For additional information and more episode liner notes, check out our episode overview on Tech Hockey Guide. To make sure we can afford all our fancy equipment we purchased for the podcast and the THG website in general, please check out our patreon page and consider joining. Patrons at our Black Level or above receive an authentic MTU jersey patch and access to extra podcast content including extended versions of our other episodes. This week’s extended version is almost 71 minutes with extended discussions of recruiting and more. Follow us on twitter at ChasingMacPod and you can submit questions through our email address, ChasingMac@techhockeyguide.com. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Please rate and review which will help us reach more people, and tell your friends. Please check out Jonathan Zamaites series previews every Friday and Mike Anleitner's Old Dog in Texas column every Wednesday. Also, keep an eye out for new recruiting articles on Tuesdays. As always, special thanks to our patron saint Doc McResin for his generous donation to get this thing running, we hope you enjoy. Also, thanks to The Thank You Notes for all the bumpers in today’s episode. If you like what you hear, check them out at thethankyounotes.bandcamp.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today's call touches on an interesting moral dilemma that many have likely considered, but far fewer have acted on. As "the other woman", which is more ethical: To tell your ex-lover's girlfriend about his cheating ways, or to stay out of their relationship and let her learn those tough lessons on her own? How far does "Do Unto Others" extend, or is it better to trust in karma? And in playing a role in the indiscretion, does one surrender the right to moral high ground? Shandy definitely wants your take on this one!If you have a relationship question, write us at: dearshandy@gmail.comSubscribe and watch the episodes on YouTube! https://bit.ly/SubscribeDearShandyFollow us!Dear Shandy - https://www.instagram.com/dearshandySharleen Joynt - https://www.instagram.com/sharleenjoyntAndy Levine - https://www.instagram.com/machinelevine

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Thank you for listening to this episode of my podcast series! Here is the bibliography: Colossians 3.” ESV Bible. Accessed October 8, 2020. https://www.esv.org/Colossians 3/. Jefferson, Thomas. 1997. Declaration of Independence. Jackson, MS: Applewood Books. Mieder, Wolfgang. “‘Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You': Fredrick Douglass's Proverbial Struggle for Civil Rights: Document View.” The Journal of American folklore 114, no. 453 (2001) “Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Religion in Eighteenth-Century America.” Religion in Eighteenth-Century America - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic | Exhibitions (Library of Congress), June 4, 1998. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html.  Tise, Larry Edward (1974). "The "Positive Good" Thesis and Proslavery Arguments in Britain and America, 1701—1861". Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America  (Thesis) (1987 ed.). Athens, Georgia : University Press of Georgia. p. 97. I

The 80's rock band Stryper has released their 13th studio album "Even the Devil Believes" featuring the new single called "Do Unto Others." Michael Sweet is lead singer of Stryper and he joined WKEI today to talk about the band's 34 year history, including their biggest hit "To Hell with the Devil" and what the band has been up to over the last three decades and how they've adjusted to the new landscape of music and the modern era of quarantine and COVID.

It's Stryper's EVEN THE DEVIL BELIEVES release date! We premiere the new song "Do Unto Others" and throw back to our last two conversations with Michael Sweet! ENJOY AND ROCK ON!

I have begun my soul journey with certain friends in 2020. Due to my Psychic Network Club I have invited Janet Kira Lessin, and Karen Gresham Nickell to join me on my Talk Shows Live Fridays. I  have my web presence on Theresa J Morris where I also have my hosting specialist store now. There are many friends of mine who have asked me to assist them as their webmaster and virtual assistant since I take action in technology and communications. Tonight on June 5, 2020 we will deep dive into these two ladies souls to see how they want to proceed as my friends as we all learn how to make this world a better place to evolve and ascend together in what  in my spiritual science club of metaphysicians is a group of chosen friends who I can appreciate with a web presence. I choose my friends wisely. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer while we all decide to share "Do Unto Others what we would have them do unto US!" I am about Peace and Justice for ALL! Freedom of Speech is important to me. Janet Kira Lessin and I have been Co-Hosts together now 8 years and our anniversary date is June 3, 2012. She has invited Karen Gresham Nickell to share in our syndication of our radio shows Live and Recorded on Fridays. Saturdays will have the MEN of Ya' Ain't Gonna Believe This in our ACE Folklife Society Alien Contact Organizers Groups with Ronnie Dawson and Tommy Hawksbllod Friends invited. 

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This week we dig into one of Jesus' most famous sayings ever. It's always amazing how much we can get out of just a couple lines. Jesus manages, as always, to challenge us and encourage us in new ways and in new levels as we take this common, well-known saying and pull new meaning out of it.

“Do Unto Others….” This is a phrase that practically everyone has heard. It can be used to encourage the very best behavior. This episode is based on the following article: Do Unto Others.... This podcast is written by David C. Bloom and narrated by Jonathan Bloom. For more articles and podcast episodes, visit AsWeMoveForward.com

Sermon titled "Do Unto Others" by Pastor Myles Weiss. Download or Stream Audio Here

You can find the videos from this episode at our Discord RIGHT HERE!LEGAL ADVICE: Could you get arrested for simply being a good person and offering a child a ride home? What kind of world is this!? Corey Feldman: Corey Feldman is doing the promo tour for his upcoming rape documentary, Dr. Oz is on the case. Lark Voorhies: Keeping the Dr. Oz party going, we check in with his interview with Lisa Turtle herself, Lark Voorhies. COCKSUCKING CHEESE!, SILVIO!, THE SOPRANOS!, THE STROKES!, BAD DECISIONS!, CLAIMS!, CRUSHED!, STRAIGHT ELTON JOHN!, PUSSY!, I’VE GOT A LEGAL QUESTION JIM!, LAW ADVICE!, OFFERING CHILDREN RIDES HOME!, DO UNTO OTHERS!, GOOD CHRISTIAN!, GOOD NEIGHBOR!, LITTLE KID!, SUSPICION!, DANGEROUS!, PEDOPHILES!, CESSPOOLS!, MINDS!, CYNICAL!, NEFARIOUS!, SOCIETY!, SNOW STORM!, RAINY DAY!, HOT DAY!, 10 YEAR OLD CHILD!, TWISTED ANKLE!, NO HELP!, KEEP DRIVING!, INJURY!, SELF PROTECTION!, YOUNG GIRL!, YOUNG BOY!, BLUE PILL!, RED PILL!, BUSSY!, HUMAN TRAFFICKING!, HAPPY FAMILY!, SERIOUS TROUBLE!, CONTACT A MINOR!, HOPS IN YOUR CAR!, WALLIN AND KLARICH!, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY!, EMERGENCY!, WASTING POLICE RESOURCES!, COREY FELDMAN!, DR. OZ!, MY TRUTH THE RAPE OF 2 COREYS!, DOCUMENTARY!, TRAILER!, PROMOTION!, PACK OF WILD DOGS!, STREAMING!, DISTRIBUTION!, COURTNEY FELDMAN!, SUPER VILLAIN!, REGISTER MUTANTS!, NAME NAMES!, IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!, VINCE MCMAHON!, IT WAS ME AUSTIN!, REALITY SHOW!, THE 2 COREYS!, DIVORCE!, GREMLINS!, SAVED BY THE BELL!, THE PEACOCK NETWORK!, DAVID HASKINS!, MR. BELDING!, KELLY KAPOWSKI!, ZACK MORRIS!, AC SLATER!, JESSIE SPANO!, LISA TURTLE!, LARK VOORHIES!, MANIC!, CRAZY!, TURKISH!, DISORDER!, TROUBLE ARTICULATING!, REBOOT!, FAMILY!, BLOND ROOTS!, DEPRESSING!, WIGS!, FOURTH LEAD!, DISORDER!, STUTTER!, NON SEQUITUR!CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD JIM AND THEM #622 Part 2 RIGHT HERE! 

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SummaryBrian Mayer discusses the concept of boundaries in relationships or how to set limits without feeling guilty.  Boundaries are easy to talk about but more difficult to implement.  It takes practice and lots of encouraging support.  You will learn how to set appropriate boundaries so you can live a life of freedom.  We hope you enjoy today's message.  For more information and additional resources please visit our website at http://www.theremarriedlife.com Today's Goodies Today's episode is all the concept of Boundaries in Relationships in regard to a subsequent marriage that affects more people like biological and step children.          What is a Boundary?  A boundary is simply a property line to keep what is yours in and what is not yours out.  Think of houses and the property lines that are drawn around each home.  The history around Boundaries started several decades ago when research around how to help people with addictions took off.  This research began to take a look at the family system and found enabling behaviors by other family members.  This can also be called Co-Dependency.  Out of this co-dependency movement specifically related to addictions, came the term Boundaries and began to be applied to all relationship issues not just addiction issue.       A very helpful book about this topic is simply called Boundaries:  How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.  They have also written one specific to marriages called Boundaries in Marriage.  When healthy boundaries are not in place it can cause issues like depression, anxiety, resentment, and anger.   By not implementing an appropriate boundary, you are replacing a temporary discomfort with a more permanent pain.  Boundaries sound easy in theory, but are hard to implement.  When we first try to install a boundary on someone that is encroaching we can feel guilty or like we are a bad person.   Sometimes we also have this mentality that we must be all things to all people and that is how the Golden Rule works – Do Unto Others as You Would have done to You.  However, if you are not healthy first then you are no good to someone else.  You will ultimately burn-out if you do not install good boundaries.  Myths of Boundaries According to Cloud and Townsend: I am selfish if I install a boundary. I am being disobedient if I say No. If I set limits, I will be hurt I will hurt others I'm angry I should feel guilty or bad Boundaries are Permanent Learning to not feel responsible for others thoughts, feelings, and actions.  For example, the kids being bored is not your responsibility.  Now of course day after day, if you never do anything with them then yes that is a problem.  But the fact is that they are responsible for how they feel.  If we do not allow them to learn to pull themselves out a funk, then they will be stunted in their growth as adults.      Can Love and Boundaries Exist Together:  Yes they can.  In fact, boundaries actually signal that love exists.  Implementing Boundaries shows the other person under what parameters that love can flourish.  Inside the boundaries amazing things will happen, outside the boundaries is where individuals can work on themselves.  How Do Implement a Boundary Successfully? You are One Step Closer because you are listening to this podcast Get Support.  Either find a group or ask a close friend.  Role play setting boundaries by being both the boundary setter and the one for whom the boundary is being set.  Do not beat yourself up when you try to set boundaries initially.  You may fail and you probably will fail.  Boundary setting is a process.  You will receive much resistance at first because people will not be used to this.  Final Thoughts: Practice, practice, practice Know that boundaries will help keep you healthy and in turn will help others recognize how to keep themselves healthy.  Think about the Expect failure and grow from it. Resources Mentioned Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud and John Townsend Codependent No More by Melody Beattie The above resources are affiliate links, which means that The Remarried Life Podcast receives a percentage of the sale.  Your cost does not change.  By purchasing these items you are helping cover the cost of expenses to produce this podcast.  Thanks in advance for your continued support of the podcast! Thanks For Listening! With so many things that take time in our lives, I more grateful than you know that you took time to listen to this podcast episode.  If you liked this episode and believe that it would be beneficial to a friend, family member, or colleague, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. 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Luke 6:20-31The Golden Rule is for everyone- and Jesus offers a new way of living- a way to live a satisfied life- unburdened.  Jesus teaches the sermon of the plain- and offers hope to those who are oppressed. 20 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 "Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. 24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 25 "Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. "Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. 26 "Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. 27 "But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29 If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. 30 Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you. 

Elle and Bill look at a couple of blog posts called "Do Unto Others" and "Symbolism," both written by Rob Steele from the blog "Oh For F*s Sake."  (www.ohforfssake.com)  Both are quite relevant to today's Modern Pagan. We've also got a few stories a few short stories and poems concerning Halloween, or as we call it, Samhain. www.thewytchinghour.com

Luke 6:27-38: The Golden Rule isn’t so much setting up one more rule we have to figure out how to follow correctly, and get just right. Instead, each of the verses in the passage from Jesus' "sermon on the plain," including the Golden Rule, is not a command or a rule, but a promise. The promise, essentially, that the world doesn’t have to be the way it is. That there is another option, an option grounded in active love – in love that does for others.

The Ghouls embark on their Romance Gone Wrong series and are here to tell you, Don't Have Sex...because you'll die or horribly maim someone. Horror movies have always had a "love" hate(mostly hate) relationship with sex. The Ghouls are exploring some ways in which horror has tackled rape culture, vagina dentata (freud & mythology) and the dangers of sex. The Ghouls have FINALLY watched Teeth and the incredible ride that was Killer Condom. Talking Points: Abstinence till I Die, Sex is Dangerous, Teeth, Don’t Do It, Vagina Dentata, Castration, Freud, Mother, Dangerous Womb, Good Sex, Rap Culture, Femme Fatale, Angel Shots, Rugrats, Consent is a Thing, Do Unto Others, Rape Prevention, Burglary, Alarms, Burgled, Angel Shots, Ellers, Toothed Condom, Dawn of New Females, Evolution, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Check us out on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google Play!! Rate, Subscribe, Comment. You know the drill. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-ghouls-next-door/support

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54- Helping Parents Raise Joyful, Self-Confident & Kind Children With Melonie Collmann Melonie Collmann is a singer, actor, and director of Kidlosophy, an educational and lifestyle brand she created with her daughters that teaches values and inspiration-- with a dash of entertainment--to children through music and storytelling by way of video. She received her Bachelors of Music Degree and Masters of Music Degree, and holds a certificate in acting. Melonie has performed at internationally renowned music venues such as the Lyric Opera of Chicago and starred in national and regional commercials for over 13 years. Featured in major publications such as the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Parent Magazine, Melonie will be releasing her debut children’s album of original music entitled, “Do Unto Others” in Fall 2018. Mission Statement: Love hard. Change the world. My mission on a very personal level, is to give my own children a very different childhood than I had. I'm righting wrongs and I feel it... Connect With Melonie Collmann: http://www.meloniecollmann.com https://www.instagram.com/kidlosophy/ https://www.facebook.com/kidlosophy/ https://www.youtube.com/kidlosophy/ Important links: Head to www.maiaandmichaela.com for other free resources LATEST FREE MASTERCLASS: Step Into Harmonizing Being A Mom AND An Independent Woman https://bit.ly/2vFF1sR To schedule your FREE breakthrough call follow this link: https://maiaandmichaela.com/apply/ Join our Free Facebook Group: Energized Mama Tribe- Coaching, Resources, Support and Methods to Harmonize Motherhood and Become an Empowered Woman goo.gl/QiVGvm Follow us on Instagram: MaiaandMichaela & MichaelaHorvathova

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Romans 12:1 "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship." Even though this passage comes across as being somewhat abstract, what Paul is essentially telling us is to "love God with our heart mind and soul and to love our neighbors as ourselves." And if we want to know what that looks like two of the best examples in the gospel accounts are in John 4, when Jesus encounters the Samaritan woman by the well and the Parable of the Good Samaritan beginning with Luke 10:25 when "an expert in the law asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life." This is a companion episode to the previous one, "Racism, Faith and Worship, Oh My!" that has as it's basis Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman . Central to both is worship.

Have you ever dealt with pregnancy loss? Unfortunately, it’s more common than we think and the topic is one that we just don’t talk about. Dealing with one miscarriage is difficult enough, but when you have the pain of multiple losses, it can be almost unbearable. How does a couple get through these times? How do you offer support to each other and keep your relationship strong? These are the questions addressed in today’s episode, in which we talk to a husband AND wife together about their experience with loss.   Shane and NaKaisha Banks are a couple who dealt with loss, birth, loss again, and birth again. They share about their two rainbow babies, the anxiety and depression that came after, and how they have navigated all of this as a couple. In this powerful episode, NaKaisha and Shane share their story in hopes of increasing awareness about loss as a couple of color. Although this is one couple’s story, it’s a great catalyst for us to think of the family as a system. While we tend to focus on what happens with the mother, the male partner is deeply affected as well. You’ll hear the strength of their relationship and how they were able to pull together through their experiences.   NaKaisha loves her roles in life, including Social Worker and life coach through her practice D.U.O. Empowerment Services, which stands for “Do Unto Others” and was begun in 2008. She is the author of The Birdcage, released in April 2018. She is the mother of two beautiful girls, London and Germany, and has been married to Shane for 12 years. Shane is a minister who enjoys fishing, sci-fi and action-packed movies, and lives a blessed life as a husband and father. Shane and NaKaisha share a passion of serving in ministry together, in which their faith is the foundation of life and difficult times.    Show Highlights:   Why their daughters, London (8) and Germany (2) are “rainbow children,” since Shane and NaKaisha suffered a pregnancy loss prior to each of the girls’ births The first loss was in 2009, when they weren’t even trying to conceive because they were living their lives and waiting to see what God ordained for them as a couple The first pregnancy and its complications, then a miscarriage at 9-11 weeks and a flood of unexplained emotions From Shane’s perspective: he was excited about the baby but found the miscarriage a tough thing to go through. He wanted to be strong and support his wife as much as possible The second miscarriage was a different experience and NaKaisha was labeled high risk. She couldn’t believe she was going through yet another miscarriage and felt angry, sad, and frustrated How NaKaisha couldn’t understand why her body was fighting against her How they each dealt with the loss separately and were disconnected as a couple How they had to work hard to communicate through feeling abandoned and alone and were later able to process the feelings and “get back on track” How Shane realized that NaKaisha needed more communication from him Dealing with the confusion of not knowing what the other person needed The range of emotions that came out of the loss and how they had to “push through” The foundation of their relationship to be able to weather these storms The healing process and how NaKaisha was scheduled for sterilization surgery that was canceled at the last minute and they found out about their surprise pregnancy The anxiety of another pregnancy, their Tuesday “celebrations,” and the birth of their second healthy daughter What NaKaisha went through with intense sickness during both pregnancies, being “willing to go through whatever it took to get my babies here” What Shane says fathers should know: “You need to be more open to share thoughts and feelings” What NaKaisha says to other couples: “You have to work ten times harder to keep the communication lines open and be willing to sit in the silence when you don’t know what to say.” Why this is an important piece of a relationship, because it’s a common experience that people go through Why Shane says he thought “being there” was enough, but then later realized that he should have opened up more How communication transcends across the relationship and allows you to be present, even without a voice How NaKaisha finds personal healing in being able to help others because of her understanding and empathy   Resources:   Connect with NaKaisha at www.nakaishatolbertbanks.com  Find NaKaisha Tbanks on Facebook, DUO Empowerment Services on Facebook,  and @1stLadyGiggles on Twitter and Instagram

Sources: Klimecki, O.M., Leiberg, S., Ricard, M., and Singer, T. (2013) Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/scan/nst060. Layous, K. S., Nelson K., Kurtz J.L., and Lyubomirsky S. (2017). What triggers prosocial effort? A positive feedback loop between positive activities, kindness, and well-being. The Journal of Positive Psychology 12(4), 385-398. Nelson, S.K, Cole, S.W., Layous, K. and Lyubomirsky S. (2016). Do Unto Others or Treat Yourself? The Effects of Prosocial and Self-Focused Behavior on Psychological Flourishing. Emotion 16(6), 850–861. Piper, W.T., Saslow, L.R., and Saturn, S.R. (2015). Autonomic and prefrontal events during moral elevation. Biological Psychology 108, 51–55. Poulin, M.J., Holman, E.A., and Buffone A. (2012). The Neurogenetics of Nice: Receptor Genes for Oxytocin and Vasopressin Interact With Threat to Predict Prosocial Behavior. Psychological Science 23(5), 446–452.

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Summary Brian Mayer discusses the concept of boundaries in relationships or how to set limits without feeling guilty.  Boundaries are easy to talk about but more difficult to implement.  It takes practice and lots of encouraging support.  You will learn how to set appropriate boundaries so you can live a life of freedom.  We hope you enjoy today's message.  For more information and additional resources please visit our website at http://www.theremarriedlife.com Today's Goodies Today's episode is all the concept of Boundaries in Relationships in regard to a subsequent marriage that affects more people like biological and step children.          What is a Boundary?  A boundary is simply a property line to keep what is yours in and what is not yours out.  Think of houses and the property lines that are drawn around each home.  The history around Boundaries started several decades ago when research around how to help people with addictions took off.  This research began to take a look at the family system and found enabling behaviors by other family members.  This can also be called Co-Dependency.  Out of this co-dependency movement specifically related to addictions, came the term Boundaries and began to be applied to all relationship issues not just addiction issue.       A very helpful book about this topic is simply called Boundaries:  How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.  They have also written one specific to marriages called Boundaries in Marriage.  When healthy boundaries are not in place it can cause issues like depression, anxiety, resentment, and anger.   By not implementing an appropriate boundary, you are replacing a temporary discomfort with a more permanent pain.  Boundaries sound easy in theory, but are hard to implement.  When we first try to install a boundary on someone that is encroaching we can feel guilty or like we are a bad person.   Sometimes we also have this mentality that we must be all things to all people and that is how the Golden Rule works – Do Unto Others as You Would have done to You.  However, if you are not healthy first then you are no good to someone else.  You will ultimately burn-out if you do not install good boundaries.  Myths of Boundaries According to Cloud and Townsend: I am selfish if I install a boundary. I am being disobedient if I say No. If I set limits, I will be hurt I will hurt others I'm angry I should feel guilty or bad Boundaries are Permanent Learning to not feel responsible for others thoughts, feelings, and actions.  For example, the kids being bored is not your responsibility.  Now of course day after day, if you never do anything with them then yes that is a problem.  But the fact is that they are responsible for how they feel.  If we do not allow them to learn to pull themselves out a funk, then they will be stunted in their growth as adults.      Can Love and Boundaries Exist Together:  Yes they can.  In fact, boundaries actually signal that love exists.  Implementing Boundaries shows the other person under what parameters that love can flourish.  Inside the boundaries amazing things will happen, outside the boundaries is where individuals can work on themselves.  How Do Implement a Boundary Successfully? You are One Step Closer because you are listening to this podcast Get Support.  Either find a group or ask a close friend.  Role play setting boundaries by being both the boundary setter and the one for whom the boundary is being set.  Do not beat yourself up when you try to set boundaries initially.  You may fail and you probably will fail.  Boundary setting is a process.  You will receive much resistance at first because people will not be used to this.  Final Thoughts Practice, practice, practice Know that boundaries will help keep you healthy and in turn will help others recognize how to keep themselves healthy.  Think about the Expect failure and grow from it.                  Resources Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud and John Townsend Codependent No More by Melody Beattie The above resources are affiliate links, which means that The Remarried Life Podcast receives a percentage of the sale.  Your cost does not change.  By purchasing these items you are helping cover the cost of expenses to produce this podcast.  Thanks in advance for your continued support of the podcast! Thanks For Listening! With so many things that take time in our lives, I more grateful than you know that you took time to listen to this podcast episode.  If you liked this episode and believe that it would be beneficial to a friend, family member, or colleague, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. It would be extremely helpful, it you would consider leaving a rating and review on Apple devices at iTunes  or on Android devices at Google Play as it will help the podcast reach others who need help in rebuilding life and relationships. The Remarried Life Facebook Group is a community of people just like you who get and give support.  Please join today!

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Darlene Tipton, Co-Founder of AmazingKarma.com, discusses her website and the movement it stands for - "What Goes Around, Comes Around" and "Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You."

Darlene Tipton, Co-Founder of AmazingKarma.com, discusses her website and the movement it stands for - "What Goes Around, Comes Around" and "Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You."

Do Unto Others, Billy Bragg, Tucson Rally, Democratic Representative endorsement, Unions, Biggest Massachusetts Rally in History, Gun Policy, Volunteers, Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Better Day

President and team leader of proactive and dynamic total protection team, teaching families and businesses how to properly protect everything they work so hard for. Our agency is licensed in 23 states. Author of 5 books on various types of insurance and business matters, founding member of the the National Society of Agents for Consumer Educational, national speaker on various insurance matters, founder of the Unstoppable Profit Producer Program, featured on Fox news as special insurance correspondent, certified workers compensation advisor, featured on Access to Experts. Our goal is to be the premier Independent Agency in our area. Our core value is "Do Unto Others".   Secret -- timesaving technique Plan your day the night before -- execute -- guard your time to limit any distractions. ONWARD! Daily habit that contributes to success Mike follows an exercise routine and writes a note to his wife so she can hold him accountable. Could have ruined your business -- but now --  an invaluable learning experience Mike had to separate an altercation between teammates -- and Mike tells the whole story here. Most critical skill you think business owners need to master to be successful “A business owner has to be able to look in the mirror and figure out how they can achieve a personal level of mastery.” Most influential lesson learned from a mentor “You can recover from any business situation -- did anyone die -- no -- then move on.”   Final Round -- “Breaking Down the Recipe for Success”   What systems would you go back and put into place sooner? “I would have put a system in place that could document my planning and free up time so I could make good hires.” What one strategy or “recipe” would compound into big wins for business owners? If you want to grow your business -- you have to understand marketing. How to exceed expectations and add the most value? An individual who has a set plan -- makes the decision to give first -- and  believes everything else will take care of itself. What strategy would you recommend new business owners focus on to best ensure success? Improve yourself daily Create a systematic business plan for the next three years How best to connect with Mike: http://www.siaonline.com

The twenty third sermon in our sermon series The Sermon That Turned the World Upside Down. This sermon was given by Pastor Dave Colburn on January 4th, 2015 at Restoration Road Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Deacon Matt Johnson preaches on Matthew 7:12-14

Social Media Etiquette - are you practicing the age old adage, "Do Unto Others..." when it comes to being online? Join us in our Tuesday Business Spotlight as Janice Clark, owner of BizMSolutions.com and host of Social Media Help Not Hype, shares the do's and don'ts of marketing online. There is much you can do that will turn your audience off and make your time online hurt - not help - your business. Janice is here every other Tuesday in our Business Spotlight with a 30 minute lunch and learn - so get your notebooks ready and find out how what you are doing might be stopping your business from growing. Find out why so many people are tuning into Word of Mom Radio - the show for Mompreneurs, the NEW Business Woman. Thanks to our show sponsors Phisco Marketing and Safety First Bags. Meet them and all our sponsors in our Mompreneur Marketplace. Be sure to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Google+ and email us at wordofmomradio@gmail.com with questions, comments and information on how to be a guest. Word of Mom Radio - sharing the wisdom of women.

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