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[Slide 1] Today, I'd like to do something a little different. Today I'll preach a message that has already been preached at least one time before. Although we aren't sure when this sermon was preached originally, I do know that it is over 300 years old. The original composer was Dr. Thomas Manton. I have preached a sermon from the past before. Why do I do this? For several reasons actually but the most important reason is that every time I've preached a message like this, it has been abundantly relevant to our time even though it is separated from us by centuries. This proves not the wisdom of the man, but the living nature of the Word of God and how it transcends through all generations. [Slide 2] But let me tell you a bit about Dr. Thomas Manton… Born in Somerset in 1620 from a long line of ministers. He was ordained by Bishop Hall at the age of nineteen. He served as a chaplain to the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Yet Manton was firmly opposed to the execution of Charles I, causing considerable offence by preaching against it before Parliament. Later he was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II and became a Royal Chaplain. But when offered the Deanery of Rochester he chose rather to suffer with his Puritan brethren in the Great Ejection of 1662. Preaching afterward in his own home he was imprisoned for his ministry. Manton died in 1677, after a lifetime of rich and practical biblical ministry. [Slide 3] The following sermon “Sermon LXX (70)” is included in Several Sermons upon Psalm 119, which contains 190 sermons and was his crowning achievement as a pastor. One quick note. I haven't abridged and translated very little of this sermon. Therefore, it is necessary for you to pay extra close attention as the language will be understandable – but challenging. Keep your eyes on the screen since the outline of the sermon will appear there. It should help you stay with me. But you must be extra attentive listeners today if you are to understand Dr. Manton's sermon. From this point on, all the words I say until the prayer at the end, will be Thomas Manton's Words with few alterations. [Slide 4] At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.—Ver. 62. In these words observe three things:— 1. David's holy employment, or the duty promised, giving thanks to God. 2. His earnestness and fervency, implied in the time mentioned, at midnight I will rise; rather interrupt his sleep and rest than God should want his praise. 3. The cause or matter of his thanksgiving, because of thy righteous judgments, whereby he meaneth the dispensations of his providence in delivering the godly and punishing the wicked according to his word… [Slide 5] [Which establishes 3 doctrines] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. Doct. 2. That, God's providence rightly considered, we shall in the worst times find much more cause to give thanks than to complain. Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise God and give thanks to his name, both in season and out of season. [Slide 6] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. This duty is often pressed upon us: Heb. 13:15, ‘Let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually, which is the fruit of our lips;' giving thanks unto his name. There are two words there used, praise and thanksgiving: generally taken, they are the same; strictly taken, thanksgiving differeth from praise. They agree that we use our voice in thanksgiving, as we do also in praise, for they are both said to be the fruit of our lips. What is in the prophet Hosea, chap. 14:2, ‘calves of our lips,' is in the Septuagint, ‘the fruit of our lips;' and they both agree that they are a sacrifice offered to our supreme benefactor, or that they belong to the thank-offerings of the gospel. But they differ in that thanksgiving belongeth to benefits bestowed on ourselves or others; but in relation to us, praise to any excellency whatsoever. Thanksgiving may be in word or deed; praise in words only. Well, then, thanksgiving is a sensible acknowledgment of favours received, or an expression of our sense of them, by word and work, to the praise of the bestower. The object of it is the works of God as beneficial unto us, or to those who are related to us, or in whose good or ill we are concerned. As public persons, as magistrates: 1 Tim. 2:1, 2, ‘I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority.' Pastors of the church: 2 Cor. 1:11, ‘You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.' Or our kindred according to the flesh, or some bond of Christian duty: Rom. 12:15, ‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice.' Another place where this duty is enforced is Eph. 5:20, where we are bidden to ‘give thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;' where you see it is a duty of a universal and perpetual use, and one wherein the honour of God and Christ is much concerned. A third place is 1 Thes. 5:18, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' See what reason he urgeth; the express will of God requiring this worship at our hands. We are to obey by the insight of the will. God's will is the fundamental reason of our obedience in every commandment; but here is a direct charge, now God hath made known the wonders of his love in Christ. [Slide 7] I shall prove to you that this is a necessary duty, a profitable duty, a pleasant and delightful duty. [Slide 8] 1. The necessity of being much and often in thanksgiving will appear by these two considerations:— [1.] [Slide 9] Because God is continually beneficial to us, blessing and delivering his people every day, and by new mercies giveth us new matter of praise and thanksgiving: Ps. 68:19, ‘Blessed be the God of our salvation, who loadeth us daily with his benefits, Selah.' He hath continually favoured us and preserved us, and poured his benefits upon us. The mercies of every day make way for songs which may sweeten our rest in the night; and his giving us rest by night, and preserving us in our sleep, when we could not help ourselves, giveth us songs in the morning. And all the day long we find new matter of praise: our whole work is divided between receiving and acknowledging. [2.] [Slide 10] Some mercies are so general and beneficial that they should never be forgotten, but remembered before God every day. Such as redemption by Christ: Ps. 111:4, ‘He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered.' We must daily be blessing God for Jesus Christ: 2 Cor. 9:15, ‘Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.' I understand it of his grace by Christ. We should ever be thus blessing and praising him; for the keeping of his great works in memory is the foundation of all love and service to God. 2. [Slide 11] It is a profitable duty. The usefulness of thanksgiving appeareth with respect to faith, love, and obedience. [1.] [Slide 12] With respect to faith. Faith and praise live and die together; if there be faith, there will be praise; and if there be praise, there will be faith. If faith, there will be praise, for faith is a bird that can sing in winter: Ps. 56:4, ‘In God will I praise his word, in God have I put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me;' and ver. 10, ‘In God I will praise his word, in the Lord I will praise his word.' His word is satisfaction enough to a gracious heart; if they have his word, they can praise him beforehand, for the grounds of hope before they have enjoyment. As Abraham, when he had not a foot in the land of Canaan, yet built an altar and offered sacrifices of thanksgiving, because of God's grant and the future possession in his posterity. Then, whether he punisheth or pitieth, we will praise him and glory in him. Faith entertaineth the promise before performance cometh, not only with confidence, but with delight and praise. The other part is, if praise, there will be faith; that is, supposing the praise real, for it raiseth our faith to expect the like again, having received so much grace already. All God's praises are the believer's advantage, the mercy is many times given as a pledge of more mercy. In many cases God will give gifts. If life, he will give food and bodily raiment. It holdeth good in spiritual things. If Christ, other things with Christ. One concession draweth another; if he spares me, he will feed me, clothe me. The attributes from whence the mercy cometh is the pillar of the believer's confidence and hope. If such a good, then a fit object of trust. If I have found him a God hearing prayer, ‘I will call upon him as long as I live,' Ps. 116:2. Praise doth but provide matter of trust, and represent God to us as a storehouse of all good things, and a sure foundation for dependence. [2.] [Slide 13] The great respect it hath to love. Praise and thanksgiving is an act of love, and then it cherisheth and feedeth love. It is an act of love to God, for if we love God we will praise him. Prayer is a work of necessity, but praise a mere work of duty and respect to God. We would exalt him more in our own hearts and in the hearts of others: Ps. 71:14, ‘I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.' We pray because we need God, and we praise him because we love him. Self-love will put us upon prayer, but the love of God upon praise and thanksgiving; then we return to give him the glory. Those that seek themselves will cry to him in their distress; but those that love God cannot endure that he should be without his due honour. In heaven, when other graces and duties cease, which belong to this imperfect state, as faith and repentance cease, yet love remaineth; and because love remaineth, praise remaineth, which is our great employment in the other world. So it feedeth and cherisheth love, for every benefit acknowledged is a new fuel to keep in the fire: Ps. 18:1, ‘I will love thee, O Lord, my strength;' Ps. 116:1, ‘I will love the Lord, who hath heard the voice of my supplications;' Deut. 30:20, ‘That thou mayest love the Lord, who is thy life, and the length of thy days.' The soul by praise is filled with a sense of the mercy and goodness of God, so that hereby he is made more amiable to us. [3.] [Slide 14] With respect to submission and obedience to his laws and providence. (1.) His laws. The greatest bond of duty upon the fallen creature is gratitude. Now grateful we cannot be without a sensible and explicit acknowledgment of his goodness to us: the more frequent and serious in that, the more doth our love constrain us to devote ourselves to God: Rom. 12:1, ‘I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.' To live to him: 2 Cor. 5:14, 15, ‘For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead, and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.' And therefore praise and thanksgiving is a greater help to the spiritual life than we are usually aware of; for, working in us a sense of God's love, and an actual remembrance of his benefits (as it will do if rightly performed), it doth make us shy of sin, more careful and solicitous to do his will. Shall we offend so good a God? God's love to us is a love of bounty; our love to God is a love of duty, when we grudge not to live in subjection to him: 1 John 5:3, ‘His commandments are not grievous.' (2.) Submission to his providence. There is a querulous and sour spirit which is natural to us, always repining and murmuring at God's dealing, and wasting and vexing our spirits in heartless complaints. Now, this fretting, quarrelling, impatient humour, which often showeth itself against God even in our prayers and supplications, is quelled by nothing so much as by being frequent in praises and thanksgivings: Job 1:21, ‘The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' It is an act of holy prudence in the saints, when they are under any trouble, to strain themselves to the quite contrary duty of what temptations and corruptions would drive them unto. When the temptation is laid to make us murmur and swell at God's dealings, we should on the contrary bless and give thanks. And therefore the Psalmist doth so frequently sing praises in the saddest condition. There is no perfect defeating the temptation but by studying matter of praise, and to set seriously about the duty. So Job 2:10, ‘Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' Shall we receive so many proofs of the love of God, and quarrel at a few afflictions that come from the same hand, and rebel against his providence when he bringeth on some needful trouble for our trial and exercise? and having tasted so much of his bounty and love, repine and fret at every change of dealing, though it be useful to purge out our corruptions, and promote our communion with God? Surely nothing can be extremely evil that cometh from this good hand. As we receive good things cheerfully and contentedly, so must we receive evil things submissively and patiently. [Slide 15] 3. It is a most delightful work to remember the many thousand mercies God hath bestowed on the church, ourselves, and friends. To remember his gracious word and all the passages of his providence; is this burdensome to us? Ps. 147:1, ‘Praise ye the Lord, for it is pleasant;' and Ps. 135:3, ‘Sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant.' Next to necessity, profit; next to profit, pleasure. No necessity so great as spiritual necessity, because our eternal well-being or ill-being dependeth on it; and beggary is nothing to being found naked in the great day. No profit so great as spiritual; that is not to be measured by the good things of this world, or a little pelf, or the great mammon, which so many worship; but some spiritual and divine benefit, which tendeth to make us spiritually better, more like God, more capable of communion with him: that is true profit, it is an increase of faith, love, and obedience. So for pleasure and delight; that which truly exhilarateth the soul, begets upon us a solid impression of God's love, that is the true pleasure. Carnal pleasures are unwholesome for you, like luscious fruits, which make you sick. Nothing is so hard of digestion as carnal pleasures. This feedeth the flesh, warreth against the soul; but this holy delight that resulteth from the serious remembrance of God, and setting forth his excellences and benefits, is safe and healthful, and doth cheer us but not hurt us. [Slide 16] Use. Oh, then, let us be oftener in praising and giving thanks to God! Can you receive so much, and beg so much, and never think of a return or any expression of gratitude? Is there such a being as God, have you all your supplies from him, and will you not take some time to acknowledge what he hath done for your souls? Either you must deny his being, and then you are atheists; or you must deny his providence, and then you are epicureans, next door to atheism; or you must deny such a duty as praise and thanksgiving, and then you are anti-scripturists, for the scripture everywhere calleth for it at our hands; or else, if you neglect this duty, you live in flat contradiction to what you profess to believe, and then you are practical atheists, and practical epicureans, and practical anti-scripturists; and so your condemnation will be the greater, because you own the truth but deny the practice. I beseech you, therefore, to be often alone with God, and that in a way of thanksgiving, to increase your love, faith, and obedience, and delight in God. Shall I use arguments to you? [Slide 17] 1. Have you received nothing from God? I put this question to you, because great is our unthankfulness, not only for common benefits, but also for special deliverances—the one not noted and observed, the other not improved. Humble persons will find matter of praise in very common benefits, but we forget even signal mercies. Therefore, I say, have you received nothing? Now, consider, is there no return due? You know the story, Luke 17:15–19, Christ healed ten lepers, and but one of them ‘returned and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down at his feet giving thanks, and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.' All had received a like benefit, but one only returned, and he a Gentile and no Jew, to acknowledge the mercy. They were made whole by a miraculous providence, he was made whole by a more gracious dispensation: ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole;' he was dismissed with a special blessing. God scattereth his benefits upon all mankind, but how few own the supreme benefactor! Surely a sensible heart seeth always new occasions of praising God, and some old occasions that must always be remembered, always for life, and peace, and safety, and daily provision; and always for Christ, and the hopes of eternal life. Surely if we have the comfort, God should have the glory: Ps. 96:8, ‘Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.' He that hath scattered his seed expecteth a crop from you. [Slide 18] 2. How disingenuous is it to be always craving, and never giving thanks! It is contrary to his directions in the word; for he showeth us there that all our prayers should be mingled with a thankful sense and acknowledgment of his mercies: Phil. 4:6, ‘In everything let your requests and supplications be made known with thanksgiving.' Do not come only in a complaining way: Col. 4:2, ‘Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.' They are not holy requests unless we acknowledge what he hath done for us, as well as desire him to do more. Nothing more usual than to come in our necessities to seek help; but we do not return, when we have received help and relief, to give thanks. When our turn is served, we neglect God. Wants urge us more than blessings, our interest swayeth us more than duty. As a dog swalloweth every bit that is cast to him, and still looketh for more, we swallow whatever the bounty of God casteth out to us without thanks, and when we need again, we would have more, and though warm in petitions, yet cold, rare, infrequent in gratitude. It is not only against scripture, but against nature. Ethnics abhor the ungrateful, that were still receiving, but forgetting to give thanks. It is against justice to seek help of God, and when we have it to make no more mention of God than if we had it from ourselves. It is against truth; we make many promises in our affliction, but forget all when well at ease. [Slide 19] 3. God either takes away or blasts the mercies which we are not thankful for. Sometimes he taketh them from us: Hosea 2:8, 9, ‘I will take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and flax.' Why? ‘She doth not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and gave her silver and gold.' Where his kindness is not taken notice of, nor his hand seen and acknowledged, he will take his benefits to himself again. We know not the value of mercies so much by their worth as by their want. God must set things at a distance to make us value them. If he take them not away, yet many times he blasts them as to their natural use: Mal. 2:2, ‘And if you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.' The creature is a deaf-nut; when we come to crack it, we have not the natural blessing as to health, strength, and cheerfulness, or if food, yet not gladness of heart with it; or we have not the sanctified use, it is not a mercy that leadeth us to God. A thing is sanctified if it cometh from God and leadeth us to God: 1 Cor. 3:21–23, ‘All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, for you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.' You have a covenant right, a holy use. [Slide 20] 4. Bless him for favours received, and you shall have more. Thanksgiving is the kindly way of petitioning, and the more thankful for mercies, the more they are increased upon us. Vapours drawn up from the earth return in showers to the earth again. The sea poureth out its fulness into the rivers, and all rivers return to the sea from whence they came: Ps. 67:5, 6, ‘Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee: then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us.' It is not only true of outward increase, but of spiritual also: Col. 2:7, ‘Be ye rooted in the faith, and abound therein with thanksgiving.' If we give thanks for so much grace as we have already received, it is the way to increase our store. We thrive no more, get no more victory over our corruptions, because we do no more give thanks. [Slide 21] 5. When God's common mercies are well observed or well improved, it fits us for acts of more special kindness. In the story of the lepers—Luke 17:19, ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole,'—he met not only with a bodily cure, but a soul cure: Luke 16:11, ‘If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?' When we suspect a vessel leaketh, we try it with water before we fill it with wine. You are upon your trial; be thankful for less, God will give you more. [Slide 22] Means or directions:— [1.] Heighten all the mercies you have by all the circumstances necessary to be considered. By the nature and kind of them: spiritual eternal blessings first; the greatest mercies deserve greatest acknowledgment: Eph. 1:3, ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ'—Christ's spirit, pardon of sins, heaven, the way of salvation known, accepted, and the things of the world as subordinate helps. Luke 10:20, ‘Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.' [Slide 23] Then consider your sense in the want of mercies; what high thoughts had you then of them? The mercies are the same when you have them and when you want them, only your apprehensions are greater. If affectionately begged they must be affectionately acknowledged, else you are a hypocrite either in the supplication or gratulation. [Slide 24] Consider the person giving, God, so high and glorious. A small remembrance from a great prince, no way obliged, no way needing me, to whom I can be no way profitable, a small kindness melts us, a gift of a few pounds, a little parcel of land. Do I court him and observe him? There is less reason why God should abase himself to look upon us or concern himself in us: Ps. 113:6, ‘He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.' We have all things from him. [Slide 25] Consider the person receiving; so unworthy: Gen. 32:10, ‘I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant;' 2 Sam. 7:18, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?' [Slide 26] Consider the season; our greatest extremity is God's opportunity: Gen. 22:14, ‘In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,' when the knife was at the throat of his son; 2 Cor. 1:9, 10, ‘We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us.' [Slide 27] Consider the end and fruit of his mercy; it is to manifest his special love to us, and engage our hearts to himself: Isa. 38:17, ‘Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption,' or ‘thou hast loved me from the grave;' otherwise God may give things in anger. [Slide 28] Consider the means by which he brought them about, when unlikely, unexpected in themselves, weak, insufficient. The greatest matters of providence hang many times upon small wires: a lie brought Joseph into prison, and a dream fetched him out, and he was advanced, and Jacob's family fed. Consider the number of his mercies: Ps. 139:17, ‘How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!' The many failings pardoned, comforts received, dangers prevented, deliverances granted. How he began with us before all time, conducted us in time, and hath been preparing for us a happiness which we shall enjoy when time shall be no more. [Slide 29] [2.] Satisfy yourselves with no praise and thanksgiving but what leaveth the impression of real effects upon the soul; for God is not flattered with empty praises and a little verbal commendation. There is a twofold praising of God—by expressive declaration or by objective impression. Now, neither expression nor impression must be excluded. Some platonical divines explode and scoff at the verbal praise more than becometh their reverence to the word of God: Ps. 50:23, ‘He that offereth praise glorifieth me.' But then the impression must be looked after too, that we be like that God whom we commend and extol, that we depend on him more, love him more fervently, serve him more cheerfully. [Slide 30] Doct. 2. That God's providence rightly considered, we shall find in the worst times much more cause to give thanks than to complain. I observe this because David was now under affliction. He had in the former verse complained that ‘the bands of the wicked had robbed him,' yet even then would he give thanks to God. [Slide 31] 1. Observe here, the matter of his thanksgiving was God's providence according to his word, seen in executing threatenings on the wicked, and performing his promises to the godly. God's word is one of the chiefest benefits bestowed on man, and therefore should be a subject of our praises. Now, when this is verified in his providence, and we see a faithful performance of those things in mercy to his servants, and in justice to his enemies, and the benefits and advantages of his law to them that are obedient, and the just punishment of the disobedient, and can discern not only a vein of righteousness but of truth in all God's dealings, this is a double benefit, which must be taken notice of, and acknowledged to God's praise. O Christians! how sweet is it to read his works by the light of the sanctuary, and to learn the interpretation of his providence from his Spirit by his word: Ps. 73:17, ‘I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end;' by consulting the scriptures he see the end and close of them that walk not according to God's direction: his word and works do mutually explain one another. The sanctuary is the place where God's people meet, where his word is taught, where we may have satisfaction concerning all his dealings. [Slide 32] 2. That when any divine dispensation goeth against our affections, yea, our prayers and expectations, yet even then can faith bring meat out of the eater, and find many occasions of praise and thanksgiving to God; for nothing falleth out so against but we may see the hand of God in it working for good. [Slide 33] [1.] Though we have not the blessing we seek and pray for, yet we give thanks because God hath been sometimes entreated, he hath showed himself a God hearing prayer, and is only delaying now until a more fit time wherein he may give us that which is sought: Ps. 43:5, ‘Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.' Now we are mourning, but he is our God, and we are not left without hope of a blessed issue. God, that hath been gracious, will be gracious again. He is our gracious father when we are under his sharpest corrections, a father when he striketh or frowneth; therefore we are not without hope that he will give us opportunities again of glorifying his name. [Slide 34] [2.] We bless God for continuing so long the mercies which he hath taken from us. Former experiences must not be forgotten: ‘Ebenezer, hitherto the Lord hath helped us.' If he shall afflict us afterward, yet ‘hitherto he hath helped us,' 1 Sam. 7:12. If he take away life, it is a mercy that he spared it so long for his own service and glory; if liberty, that we had such a time of rest and intermission. [Slide 35] [3.] God is yet worthy of praise and thanksgiving for choicer mercies yet continued, notwithstanding all the afflictions laid upon us. That we have his Spirit supporting us under our trials, and enabling us to bear them: 1 Peter 4:13, 14, ‘Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. For if ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth on you.' And that we have any peace of conscience: Rom. 5:1, ‘Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.' That the hope of eternal life is not diminished but increased by our afflictions: Rom. 5:4, 5, ‘We glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.' That many of our natural comforts are yet left, and God will supply us by ways best known to himself. [Slide 36] [4.] That evils and afflictions which light upon us for the gospel's sake, or righteousness' sake, and Christ's name's sake, are to be reckoned among our privileges, and deserve praise rather than complaint: Phil. 1:29, ‘To you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.' If it be a gift, it is matter of praise. [Slide 37] [5.] Take these evils in the worst notion, they are less than we have deserved: Ezra 9:13, ‘And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve.' Babylon is not hell, and still that should be acknowledged. [Slide 38] [6.] That no evil hath befallen us but such as God can bring good out of them: Rom. 8:28, ‘All things shall work together for good to them that love God.' All things that befall a Christian are either good, or shall turn to good; either to good natural: Gen. 50:20, ‘Ye thought evil, but God meant it for good;' or good spiritual: Ps. 119:75, ‘I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me;' or good eternal: 2 Cor. 4:17, ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' [Slide 39] Use 1. For information, that God's righteous judgments are matter of praise and thanksgiving. An angel is brought in speaking, Rev. 16:5, ‘Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.' Indeed, the formal object of thanksgiving and praise is some benefit: Ps. 135:3, ‘Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.' We praise God for his judgments, because they are just and right; we praise God for his mercies, not only because they are just and equal, but comfortable and beneficial to us, and so a double ground of thanksgiving. Use 2. For reproof, that we make more noise of a little trouble than we do of a thousand benefits that remain with us. We fret and complain and manifest the impatiency of the flesh; like a great machine or carriage, if one pin be out of order, all stoppeth, or one member hurt, though all the rest of the body be sound; or as Haman, the favours of a great king, pleasures of a luxurious court, all this availeth him nothing as long as Mordecai was in the gate; notwithstanding his riches, honours, multitude of children, great offices, this damped all his joy: Mal. 1:2, ‘I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?' Oh! let us check this complaining spirit; let us consider what is left, not what God hath taken away; what we may or shall have, not what we now want; what God is, and will be to his people, though we see little or nothing in the creature. [Slide 40] Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise and give thanks. [Slide 41] 1. It is certain that our whole life should be a real expression of thankfulness to God. The life of a Christian is a life of love and praise, a hymn to God: 1 Peter 2:9, ‘But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.' Christianity is a confession; the visible acting of godliness is a part of this confession; we are all saved as confessors or martyrs. Now the confession is made both in word and deed. [Slide 42] 2. There are special occasions of thanksgiving and praise to God, as the apostle bids Timothy preach: 2 Tim. 4:2, ‘in season, out of season,' meaning thereby that he should not only take ordinary occasions, but extraordinary; he should make an opportunity where he found none. So we should press Christians to praise God not only in solemn duties, when the saints meet together to praise, but extraordinarily redeem time for this blessed work; yea, interrupt our lawful sleep and repose, to find frequent vacancies for so necessary a duty as the lauding and magnifying of God's mercy. [Slide 43] 3. As for rising up at midnight, we can neither enforce it as a duty upon you, nor yet can we condemn it. It was an act of heroical zeal in David, who employed his time waking to the honour of God, which others spent in sleeping; and we read that Paul and Silas ‘sang praises at midnight,', though then in the stocks, and they had been scourged the day before. And it is said, Job 35:10, ‘None saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?' that is, giveth matter of praise if we wake in the night. And David saith elsewhere, Ps. 42:8, ‘The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me;' day and night he would be filled with a sense of God's love, and with songs of praise. Therefore we cannot condemn this, but must highly commend it. Let men praise God at any time, and the more they deny themselves to do it, the more commendable is the action; yet we cannot enforce it upon you as a necessary duty, as the Papists build their nocturnal devotions upon it. That which we disapprove in them is, that those hours instituted by men they make necessary; that they direct their prayers to saints and angels which should only be to God, that they might mingle them with superstitious ceremonies and, observances; that they pray and sing in an unknown tongue without devotion, appropriating it to a certain sort of men, to clerks for their gain, with an opinion of merit. [Slide 44] 4. Though we cannot enforce the particular observance upon you, yet there are many notable lessons to be drawn from David's practice. [1.] The ardency of his devotion, or his earnest desire to praise God, ‘at midnight;' then, when sleep doth most invade us, then he would rise up. His heart was so set upon the praising of God, and the sense of his righteous providence did so affect him, and urge him, or excite him to this duty, that he would not only employ himself in this work in the day-time, and so show his love to God, but he would rise out of his bed to worship God and celebrate his praise. That which hindereth the sleep of ordinary men is either the cares of this world, the impatient resentment of injuries, or the sting of an evil conscience: these keep others waking, but David was awaked by a desire to praise God; no hour is unseasonable to a gracious heart; he is expressing his affection to God when others take their rest. Thus we read of our Lord Christ, that he spent whole nights in prayer. It is said of the glorified saints in heaven, that they praise God continually: Rev. 7:17, ‘They are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.' Now, holy men, though much hindered by their bodily necessities, yet they will come as near as present frailty will permit; we oftentimes begin the day with some fervency of prayer and praise, but we faint in evening. [2.] His sincerity, seen in his secrecy. David would profess his faith in God when he had no witness by him, at midnight, then no hazard of ostentation. It was a secret cheerfulness and delighting in God when alone; he could have no respect to the applause of men, but only to approve himself to God who seeth in secret. See Christ's direction, Mat. 6:6, ‘But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly;' his own practice: Mark 1:35, ‘Rising early in the morning, he went into a desert to pray.' Both time and place implied secrecy. [3.] We learn hence the preciousness of time. It was so to David. See how he spendeth the time of his life. We read of David, when he lay down at night, he ‘watered his couch with his tears,' after the examination of his heart; at midnight he rose to give thanks; in the morning he prevented the morning-watches, seven times a-day praising God, morning, noon, night. These are all acts of eminent piety. We should not content ourselves with so much grace as will merely serve to save us. Alas! we have much idle time hanging upon our hands; if we would give that to God it were well. [4.] The value of godly exercises above our natural refreshings; the word is sweeter than appointed food: Job 23:12, ‘I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.' David preferreth his praises of God before his sleep and rest in the night. Surely this should shame us for our sensuality. We can dispense with other things for our vain pleasures; we have done as much for sin, for vain sports, broken our rest for sin. Some monsters of mankind turn night into day, and day into night for their drunkenness, gaming, vain sports, &c., and shall we not deny ourselves for God? [5.] The reverence to be used in secret adoration. David did not only raise up his spirits to praise God, but rise up out of his bed to bow the knee to him. Secret duties should be performed with some solemnity, not slubbered over. Praise, a special act of adoration, requireth the worship of body and soul. [Slide 45 (end)] Use. Let David's example condemn our backwardness and sluggishness, who will not take those occasions which offer themselves. Mark, he gave thanks when we fret; at midnight he rose to do it with the more secrecy and fervency; this not to pray only, but to give thanks.

[Slide 1] Today, I'd like to do something a little different. Today I'll preach a message that has already been preached at least one time before. Although we aren't sure when this sermon was preached originally, I do know that it is over 300 years old. The original composer was Dr. Thomas Manton. I have preached a sermon from the past before. Why do I do this? For several reasons actually but the most important reason is that every time I've preached a message like this, it has been abundantly relevant to our time even though it is separated from us by centuries. This proves not the wisdom of the man, but the living nature of the Word of God and how it transcends through all generations. [Slide 2] But let me tell you a bit about Dr. Thomas Manton… Born in Somerset in 1620 from a long line of ministers. He was ordained by Bishop Hall at the age of nineteen. He served as a chaplain to the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Yet Manton was firmly opposed to the execution of Charles I, causing considerable offence by preaching against it before Parliament. Later he was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II and became a Royal Chaplain. But when offered the Deanery of Rochester he chose rather to suffer with his Puritan brethren in the Great Ejection of 1662. Preaching afterward in his own home he was imprisoned for his ministry. Manton died in 1677, after a lifetime of rich and practical biblical ministry. [Slide 3] The following sermon “Sermon LXX (70)” is included in Several Sermons upon Psalm 119, which contains 190 sermons and was his crowning achievement as a pastor. One quick note. I haven't abridged and translated very little of this sermon. Therefore, it is necessary for you to pay extra close attention as the language will be understandable – but challenging. Keep your eyes on the screen since the outline of the sermon will appear there. It should help you stay with me. But you must be extra attentive listeners today if you are to understand Dr. Manton's sermon. From this point on, all the words I say until the prayer at the end, will be Thomas Manton's Words with few alterations. [Slide 4] At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.—Ver. 62. In these words observe three things:— 1. David's holy employment, or the duty promised, giving thanks to God. 2. His earnestness and fervency, implied in the time mentioned, at midnight I will rise; rather interrupt his sleep and rest than God should want his praise. 3. The cause or matter of his thanksgiving, because of thy righteous judgments, whereby he meaneth the dispensations of his providence in delivering the godly and punishing the wicked according to his word… [Slide 5] [Which establishes 3 doctrines] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. Doct. 2. That, God's providence rightly considered, we shall in the worst times find much more cause to give thanks than to complain. Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise God and give thanks to his name, both in season and out of season. [Slide 6] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. This duty is often pressed upon us: Heb. 13:15, ‘Let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually, which is the fruit of our lips;' giving thanks unto his name. There are two words there used, praise and thanksgiving: generally taken, they are the same; strictly taken, thanksgiving differeth from praise. They agree that we use our voice in thanksgiving, as we do also in praise, for they are both said to be the fruit of our lips. What is in the prophet Hosea, chap. 14:2, ‘calves of our lips,' is in the Septuagint, ‘the fruit of our lips;' and they both agree that they are a sacrifice offered to our supreme benefactor, or that they belong to the thank-offerings of the gospel. But they differ in that thanksgiving belongeth to benefits bestowed on ourselves or others; but in relation to us, praise to any excellency whatsoever. Thanksgiving may be in word or deed; praise in words only. Well, then, thanksgiving is a sensible acknowledgment of favours received, or an expression of our sense of them, by word and work, to the praise of the bestower. The object of it is the works of God as beneficial unto us, or to those who are related to us, or in whose good or ill we are concerned. As public persons, as magistrates: 1 Tim. 2:1, 2, ‘I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority.' Pastors of the church: 2 Cor. 1:11, ‘You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.' Or our kindred according to the flesh, or some bond of Christian duty: Rom. 12:15, ‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice.' Another place where this duty is enforced is Eph. 5:20, where we are bidden to ‘give thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;' where you see it is a duty of a universal and perpetual use, and one wherein the honour of God and Christ is much concerned. A third place is 1 Thes. 5:18, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' See what reason he urgeth; the express will of God requiring this worship at our hands. We are to obey by the insight of the will. God's will is the fundamental reason of our obedience in every commandment; but here is a direct charge, now God hath made known the wonders of his love in Christ. [Slide 7] I shall prove to you that this is a necessary duty, a profitable duty, a pleasant and delightful duty. [Slide 8] 1. The necessity of being much and often in thanksgiving will appear by these two considerations:— [1.] [Slide 9] Because God is continually beneficial to us, blessing and delivering his people every day, and by new mercies giveth us new matter of praise and thanksgiving: Ps. 68:19, ‘Blessed be the God of our salvation, who loadeth us daily with his benefits, Selah.' He hath continually favoured us and preserved us, and poured his benefits upon us. The mercies of every day make way for songs which may sweeten our rest in the night; and his giving us rest by night, and preserving us in our sleep, when we could not help ourselves, giveth us songs in the morning. And all the day long we find new matter of praise: our whole work is divided between receiving and acknowledging. [2.] [Slide 10] Some mercies are so general and beneficial that they should never be forgotten, but remembered before God every day. Such as redemption by Christ: Ps. 111:4, ‘He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered.' We must daily be blessing God for Jesus Christ: 2 Cor. 9:15, ‘Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.' I understand it of his grace by Christ. We should ever be thus blessing and praising him; for the keeping of his great works in memory is the foundation of all love and service to God. 2. [Slide 11] It is a profitable duty. The usefulness of thanksgiving appeareth with respect to faith, love, and obedience. [1.] [Slide 12] With respect to faith. Faith and praise live and die together; if there be faith, there will be praise; and if there be praise, there will be faith. If faith, there will be praise, for faith is a bird that can sing in winter: Ps. 56:4, ‘In God will I praise his word, in God have I put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me;' and ver. 10, ‘In God I will praise his word, in the Lord I will praise his word.' His word is satisfaction enough to a gracious heart; if they have his word, they can praise him beforehand, for the grounds of hope before they have enjoyment. As Abraham, when he had not a foot in the land of Canaan, yet built an altar and offered sacrifices of thanksgiving, because of God's grant and the future possession in his posterity. Then, whether he punisheth or pitieth, we will praise him and glory in him. Faith entertaineth the promise before performance cometh, not only with confidence, but with delight and praise. The other part is, if praise, there will be faith; that is, supposing the praise real, for it raiseth our faith to expect the like again, having received so much grace already. All God's praises are the believer's advantage, the mercy is many times given as a pledge of more mercy. In many cases God will give gifts. If life, he will give food and bodily raiment. It holdeth good in spiritual things. If Christ, other things with Christ. One concession draweth another; if he spares me, he will feed me, clothe me. The attributes from whence the mercy cometh is the pillar of the believer's confidence and hope. If such a good, then a fit object of trust. If I have found him a God hearing prayer, ‘I will call upon him as long as I live,' Ps. 116:2. Praise doth but provide matter of trust, and represent God to us as a storehouse of all good things, and a sure foundation for dependence. [2.] [Slide 13] The great respect it hath to love. Praise and thanksgiving is an act of love, and then it cherisheth and feedeth love. It is an act of love to God, for if we love God we will praise him. Prayer is a work of necessity, but praise a mere work of duty and respect to God. We would exalt him more in our own hearts and in the hearts of others: Ps. 71:14, ‘I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.' We pray because we need God, and we praise him because we love him. Self-love will put us upon prayer, but the love of God upon praise and thanksgiving; then we return to give him the glory. Those that seek themselves will cry to him in their distress; but those that love God cannot endure that he should be without his due honour. In heaven, when other graces and duties cease, which belong to this imperfect state, as faith and repentance cease, yet love remaineth; and because love remaineth, praise remaineth, which is our great employment in the other world. So it feedeth and cherisheth love, for every benefit acknowledged is a new fuel to keep in the fire: Ps. 18:1, ‘I will love thee, O Lord, my strength;' Ps. 116:1, ‘I will love the Lord, who hath heard the voice of my supplications;' Deut. 30:20, ‘That thou mayest love the Lord, who is thy life, and the length of thy days.' The soul by praise is filled with a sense of the mercy and goodness of God, so that hereby he is made more amiable to us. [3.] [Slide 14] With respect to submission and obedience to his laws and providence. (1.) His laws. The greatest bond of duty upon the fallen creature is gratitude. Now grateful we cannot be without a sensible and explicit acknowledgment of his goodness to us: the more frequent and serious in that, the more doth our love constrain us to devote ourselves to God: Rom. 12:1, ‘I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.' To live to him: 2 Cor. 5:14, 15, ‘For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead, and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.' And therefore praise and thanksgiving is a greater help to the spiritual life than we are usually aware of; for, working in us a sense of God's love, and an actual remembrance of his benefits (as it will do if rightly performed), it doth make us shy of sin, more careful and solicitous to do his will. Shall we offend so good a God? God's love to us is a love of bounty; our love to God is a love of duty, when we grudge not to live in subjection to him: 1 John 5:3, ‘His commandments are not grievous.' (2.) Submission to his providence. There is a querulous and sour spirit which is natural to us, always repining and murmuring at God's dealing, and wasting and vexing our spirits in heartless complaints. Now, this fretting, quarrelling, impatient humour, which often showeth itself against God even in our prayers and supplications, is quelled by nothing so much as by being frequent in praises and thanksgivings: Job 1:21, ‘The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' It is an act of holy prudence in the saints, when they are under any trouble, to strain themselves to the quite contrary duty of what temptations and corruptions would drive them unto. When the temptation is laid to make us murmur and swell at God's dealings, we should on the contrary bless and give thanks. And therefore the Psalmist doth so frequently sing praises in the saddest condition. There is no perfect defeating the temptation but by studying matter of praise, and to set seriously about the duty. So Job 2:10, ‘Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' Shall we receive so many proofs of the love of God, and quarrel at a few afflictions that come from the same hand, and rebel against his providence when he bringeth on some needful trouble for our trial and exercise? and having tasted so much of his bounty and love, repine and fret at every change of dealing, though it be useful to purge out our corruptions, and promote our communion with God? Surely nothing can be extremely evil that cometh from this good hand. As we receive good things cheerfully and contentedly, so must we receive evil things submissively and patiently. [Slide 15] 3. It is a most delightful work to remember the many thousand mercies God hath bestowed on the church, ourselves, and friends. To remember his gracious word and all the passages of his providence; is this burdensome to us? Ps. 147:1, ‘Praise ye the Lord, for it is pleasant;' and Ps. 135:3, ‘Sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant.' Next to necessity, profit; next to profit, pleasure. No necessity so great as spiritual necessity, because our eternal well-being or ill-being dependeth on it; and beggary is nothing to being found naked in the great day. No profit so great as spiritual; that is not to be measured by the good things of this world, or a little pelf, or the great mammon, which so many worship; but some spiritual and divine benefit, which tendeth to make us spiritually better, more like God, more capable of communion with him: that is true profit, it is an increase of faith, love, and obedience. So for pleasure and delight; that which truly exhilarateth the soul, begets upon us a solid impression of God's love, that is the true pleasure. Carnal pleasures are unwholesome for you, like luscious fruits, which make you sick. Nothing is so hard of digestion as carnal pleasures. This feedeth the flesh, warreth against the soul; but this holy delight that resulteth from the serious remembrance of God, and setting forth his excellences and benefits, is safe and healthful, and doth cheer us but not hurt us. [Slide 16] Use. Oh, then, let us be oftener in praising and giving thanks to God! Can you receive so much, and beg so much, and never think of a return or any expression of gratitude? Is there such a being as God, have you all your supplies from him, and will you not take some time to acknowledge what he hath done for your souls? Either you must deny his being, and then you are atheists; or you must deny his providence, and then you are epicureans, next door to atheism; or you must deny such a duty as praise and thanksgiving, and then you are anti-scripturists, for the scripture everywhere calleth for it at our hands; or else, if you neglect this duty, you live in flat contradiction to what you profess to believe, and then you are practical atheists, and practical epicureans, and practical anti-scripturists; and so your condemnation will be the greater, because you own the truth but deny the practice. I beseech you, therefore, to be often alone with God, and that in a way of thanksgiving, to increase your love, faith, and obedience, and delight in God. Shall I use arguments to you? [Slide 17] 1. Have you received nothing from God? I put this question to you, because great is our unthankfulness, not only for common benefits, but also for special deliverances—the one not noted and observed, the other not improved. Humble persons will find matter of praise in very common benefits, but we forget even signal mercies. Therefore, I say, have you received nothing? Now, consider, is there no return due? You know the story, Luke 17:15–19, Christ healed ten lepers, and but one of them ‘returned and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down at his feet giving thanks, and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.' All had received a like benefit, but one only returned, and he a Gentile and no Jew, to acknowledge the mercy. They were made whole by a miraculous providence, he was made whole by a more gracious dispensation: ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole;' he was dismissed with a special blessing. God scattereth his benefits upon all mankind, but how few own the supreme benefactor! Surely a sensible heart seeth always new occasions of praising God, and some old occasions that must always be remembered, always for life, and peace, and safety, and daily provision; and always for Christ, and the hopes of eternal life. Surely if we have the comfort, God should have the glory: Ps. 96:8, ‘Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.' He that hath scattered his seed expecteth a crop from you. [Slide 18] 2. How disingenuous is it to be always craving, and never giving thanks! It is contrary to his directions in the word; for he showeth us there that all our prayers should be mingled with a thankful sense and acknowledgment of his mercies: Phil. 4:6, ‘In everything let your requests and supplications be made known with thanksgiving.' Do not come only in a complaining way: Col. 4:2, ‘Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.' They are not holy requests unless we acknowledge what he hath done for us, as well as desire him to do more. Nothing more usual than to come in our necessities to seek help; but we do not return, when we have received help and relief, to give thanks. When our turn is served, we neglect God. Wants urge us more than blessings, our interest swayeth us more than duty. As a dog swalloweth every bit that is cast to him, and still looketh for more, we swallow whatever the bounty of God casteth out to us without thanks, and when we need again, we would have more, and though warm in petitions, yet cold, rare, infrequent in gratitude. It is not only against scripture, but against nature. Ethnics abhor the ungrateful, that were still receiving, but forgetting to give thanks. It is against justice to seek help of God, and when we have it to make no more mention of God than if we had it from ourselves. It is against truth; we make many promises in our affliction, but forget all when well at ease. [Slide 19] 3. God either takes away or blasts the mercies which we are not thankful for. Sometimes he taketh them from us: Hosea 2:8, 9, ‘I will take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and flax.' Why? ‘She doth not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and gave her silver and gold.' Where his kindness is not taken notice of, nor his hand seen and acknowledged, he will take his benefits to himself again. We know not the value of mercies so much by their worth as by their want. God must set things at a distance to make us value them. If he take them not away, yet many times he blasts them as to their natural use: Mal. 2:2, ‘And if you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.' The creature is a deaf-nut; when we come to crack it, we have not the natural blessing as to health, strength, and cheerfulness, or if food, yet not gladness of heart with it; or we have not the sanctified use, it is not a mercy that leadeth us to God. A thing is sanctified if it cometh from God and leadeth us to God: 1 Cor. 3:21–23, ‘All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, for you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.' You have a covenant right, a holy use. [Slide 20] 4. Bless him for favours received, and you shall have more. Thanksgiving is the kindly way of petitioning, and the more thankful for mercies, the more they are increased upon us. Vapours drawn up from the earth return in showers to the earth again. The sea poureth out its fulness into the rivers, and all rivers return to the sea from whence they came: Ps. 67:5, 6, ‘Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee: then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us.' It is not only true of outward increase, but of spiritual also: Col. 2:7, ‘Be ye rooted in the faith, and abound therein with thanksgiving.' If we give thanks for so much grace as we have already received, it is the way to increase our store. We thrive no more, get no more victory over our corruptions, because we do no more give thanks. [Slide 21] 5. When God's common mercies are well observed or well improved, it fits us for acts of more special kindness. In the story of the lepers—Luke 17:19, ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole,'—he met not only with a bodily cure, but a soul cure: Luke 16:11, ‘If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?' When we suspect a vessel leaketh, we try it with water before we fill it with wine. You are upon your trial; be thankful for less, God will give you more. [Slide 22] Means or directions:— [1.] Heighten all the mercies you have by all the circumstances necessary to be considered. By the nature and kind of them: spiritual eternal blessings first; the greatest mercies deserve greatest acknowledgment: Eph. 1:3, ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ'—Christ's spirit, pardon of sins, heaven, the way of salvation known, accepted, and the things of the world as subordinate helps. Luke 10:20, ‘Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.' [Slide 23] Then consider your sense in the want of mercies; what high thoughts had you then of them? The mercies are the same when you have them and when you want them, only your apprehensions are greater. If affectionately begged they must be affectionately acknowledged, else you are a hypocrite either in the supplication or gratulation. [Slide 24] Consider the person giving, God, so high and glorious. A small remembrance from a great prince, no way obliged, no way needing me, to whom I can be no way profitable, a small kindness melts us, a gift of a few pounds, a little parcel of land. Do I court him and observe him? There is less reason why God should abase himself to look upon us or concern himself in us: Ps. 113:6, ‘He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.' We have all things from him. [Slide 25] Consider the person receiving; so unworthy: Gen. 32:10, ‘I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant;' 2 Sam. 7:18, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?' [Slide 26] Consider the season; our greatest extremity is God's opportunity: Gen. 22:14, ‘In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,' when the knife was at the throat of his son; 2 Cor. 1:9, 10, ‘We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us.' [Slide 27] Consider the end and fruit of his mercy; it is to manifest his special love to us, and engage our hearts to himself: Isa. 38:17, ‘Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption,' or ‘thou hast loved me from the grave;' otherwise God may give things in anger. [Slide 28] Consider the means by which he brought them about, when unlikely, unexpected in themselves, weak, insufficient. The greatest matters of providence hang many times upon small wires: a lie brought Joseph into prison, and a dream fetched him out, and he was advanced, and Jacob's family fed. Consider the number of his mercies: Ps. 139:17, ‘How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!' The many failings pardoned, comforts received, dangers prevented, deliverances granted. How he began with us before all time, conducted us in time, and hath been preparing for us a happiness which we shall enjoy when time shall be no more. [Slide 29] [2.] Satisfy yourselves with no praise and thanksgiving but what leaveth the impression of real effects upon the soul; for God is not flattered with empty praises and a little verbal commendation. There is a twofold praising of God—by expressive declaration or by objective impression. Now, neither expression nor impression must be excluded. Some platonical divines explode and scoff at the verbal praise more than becometh their reverence to the word of God: Ps. 50:23, ‘He that offereth praise glorifieth me.' But then the impression must be looked after too, that we be like that God whom we commend and extol, that we depend on him more, love him more fervently, serve him more cheerfully. [Slide 30] Doct. 2. That God's providence rightly considered, we shall find in the worst times much more cause to give thanks than to complain. I observe this because David was now under affliction. He had in the former verse complained that ‘the bands of the wicked had robbed him,' yet even then would he give thanks to God. [Slide 31] 1. Observe here, the matter of his thanksgiving was God's providence according to his word, seen in executing threatenings on the wicked, and performing his promises to the godly. God's word is one of the chiefest benefits bestowed on man, and therefore should be a subject of our praises. Now, when this is verified in his providence, and we see a faithful performance of those things in mercy to his servants, and in justice to his enemies, and the benefits and advantages of his law to them that are obedient, and the just punishment of the disobedient, and can discern not only a vein of righteousness but of truth in all God's dealings, this is a double benefit, which must be taken notice of, and acknowledged to God's praise. O Christians! how sweet is it to read his works by the light of the sanctuary, and to learn the interpretation of his providence from his Spirit by his word: Ps. 73:17, ‘I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end;' by consulting the scriptures he see the end and close of them that walk not according to God's direction: his word and works do mutually explain one another. The sanctuary is the place where God's people meet, where his word is taught, where we may have satisfaction concerning all his dealings. [Slide 32] 2. That when any divine dispensation goeth against our affections, yea, our prayers and expectations, yet even then can faith bring meat out of the eater, and find many occasions of praise and thanksgiving to God; for nothing falleth out so against but we may see the hand of God in it working for good. [Slide 33] [1.] Though we have not the blessing we seek and pray for, yet we give thanks because God hath been sometimes entreated, he hath showed himself a God hearing prayer, and is only delaying now until a more fit time wherein he may give us that which is sought: Ps. 43:5, ‘Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.' Now we are mourning, but he is our God, and we are not left without hope of a blessed issue. God, that hath been gracious, will be gracious again. He is our gracious father when we are under his sharpest corrections, a father when he striketh or frowneth; therefore we are not without hope that he will give us opportunities again of glorifying his name. [Slide 34] [2.] We bless God for continuing so long the mercies which he hath taken from us. Former experiences must not be forgotten: ‘Ebenezer, hitherto the Lord hath helped us.' If he shall afflict us afterward, yet ‘hitherto he hath helped us,' 1 Sam. 7:12. If he take away life, it is a mercy that he spared it so long for his own service and glory; if liberty, that we had such a time of rest and intermission. [Slide 35] [3.] God is yet worthy of praise and thanksgiving for choicer mercies yet continued, notwithstanding all the afflictions laid upon us. That we have his Spirit supporting us under our trials, and enabling us to bear them: 1 Peter 4:13, 14, ‘Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. For if ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth on you.' And that we have any peace of conscience: Rom. 5:1, ‘Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.' That the hope of eternal life is not diminished but increased by our afflictions: Rom. 5:4, 5, ‘We glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.' That many of our natural comforts are yet left, and God will supply us by ways best known to himself. [Slide 36] [4.] That evils and afflictions which light upon us for the gospel's sake, or righteousness' sake, and Christ's name's sake, are to be reckoned among our privileges, and deserve praise rather than complaint: Phil. 1:29, ‘To you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.' If it be a gift, it is matter of praise. [Slide 37] [5.] Take these evils in the worst notion, they are less than we have deserved: Ezra 9:13, ‘And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve.' Babylon is not hell, and still that should be acknowledged. [Slide 38] [6.] That no evil hath befallen us but such as God can bring good out of them: Rom. 8:28, ‘All things shall work together for good to them that love God.' All things that befall a Christian are either good, or shall turn to good; either to good natural: Gen. 50:20, ‘Ye thought evil, but God meant it for good;' or good spiritual: Ps. 119:75, ‘I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me;' or good eternal: 2 Cor. 4:17, ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' [Slide 39] Use 1. For information, that God's righteous judgments are matter of praise and thanksgiving. An angel is brought in speaking, Rev. 16:5, ‘Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.' Indeed, the formal object of thanksgiving and praise is some benefit: Ps. 135:3, ‘Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.' We praise God for his judgments, because they are just and right; we praise God for his mercies, not only because they are just and equal, but comfortable and beneficial to us, and so a double ground of thanksgiving. Use 2. For reproof, that we make more noise of a little trouble than we do of a thousand benefits that remain with us. We fret and complain and manifest the impatiency of the flesh; like a great machine or carriage, if one pin be out of order, all stoppeth, or one member hurt, though all the rest of the body be sound; or as Haman, the favours of a great king, pleasures of a luxurious court, all this availeth him nothing as long as Mordecai was in the gate; notwithstanding his riches, honours, multitude of children, great offices, this damped all his joy: Mal. 1:2, ‘I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?' Oh! let us check this complaining spirit; let us consider what is left, not what God hath taken away; what we may or shall have, not what we now want; what God is, and will be to his people, though we see little or nothing in the creature. [Slide 40] Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise and give thanks. [Slide 41] 1. It is certain that our whole life should be a real expression of thankfulness to God. The life of a Christian is a life of love and praise, a hymn to God: 1 Peter 2:9, ‘But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.' Christianity is a confession; the visible acting of godliness is a part of this confession; we are all saved as confessors or martyrs. Now the confession is made both in word and deed. [Slide 42] 2. There are special occasions of thanksgiving and praise to God, as the apostle bids Timothy preach: 2 Tim. 4:2, ‘in season, out of season,' meaning thereby that he should not only take ordinary occasions, but extraordinary; he should make an opportunity where he found none. So we should press Christians to praise God not only in solemn duties, when the saints meet together to praise, but extraordinarily redeem time for this blessed work; yea, interrupt our lawful sleep and repose, to find frequent vacancies for so necessary a duty as the lauding and magnifying of God's mercy. [Slide 43] 3. As for rising up at midnight, we can neither enforce it as a duty upon you, nor yet can we condemn it. It was an act of heroical zeal in David, who employed his time waking to the honour of God, which others spent in sleeping; and we read that Paul and Silas ‘sang praises at midnight,', though then in the stocks, and they had been scourged the day before. And it is said, Job 35:10, ‘None saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?' that is, giveth matter of praise if we wake in the night. And David saith elsewhere, Ps. 42:8, ‘The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me;' day and night he would be filled with a sense of God's love, and with songs of praise. Therefore we cannot condemn this, but must highly commend it. Let men praise God at any time, and the more they deny themselves to do it, the more commendable is the action; yet we cannot enforce it upon you as a necessary duty, as the Papists build their nocturnal devotions upon it. That which we disapprove in them is, that those hours instituted by men they make necessary; that they direct their prayers to saints and angels which should only be to God, that they might mingle them with superstitious ceremonies and, observances; that they pray and sing in an unknown tongue without devotion, appropriating it to a certain sort of men, to clerks for their gain, with an opinion of merit. [Slide 44] 4. Though we cannot enforce the particular observance upon you, yet there are many notable lessons to be drawn from David's practice. [1.] The ardency of his devotion, or his earnest desire to praise God, ‘at midnight;' then, when sleep doth most invade us, then he would rise up. His heart was so set upon the praising of God, and the sense of his righteous providence did so affect him, and urge him, or excite him to this duty, that he would not only employ himself in this work in the day-time, and so show his love to God, but he would rise out of his bed to worship God and celebrate his praise. That which hindereth the sleep of ordinary men is either the cares of this world, the impatient resentment of injuries, or the sting of an evil conscience: these keep others waking, but David was awaked by a desire to praise God; no hour is unseasonable to a gracious heart; he is expressing his affection to God when others take their rest. Thus we read of our Lord Christ, that he spent whole nights in prayer. It is said of the glorified saints in heaven, that they praise God continually: Rev. 7:17, ‘They are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.' Now, holy men, though much hindered by their bodily necessities, yet they will come as near as present frailty will permit; we oftentimes begin the day with some fervency of prayer and praise, but we faint in evening. [2.] His sincerity, seen in his secrecy. David would profess his faith in God when he had no witness by him, at midnight, then no hazard of ostentation. It was a secret cheerfulness and delighting in God when alone; he could have no respect to the applause of men, but only to approve himself to God who seeth in secret. See Christ's direction, Mat. 6:6, ‘But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly;' his own practice: Mark 1:35, ‘Rising early in the morning, he went into a desert to pray.' Both time and place implied secrecy. [3.] We learn hence the preciousness of time. It was so to David. See how he spendeth the time of his life. We read of David, when he lay down at night, he ‘watered his couch with his tears,' after the examination of his heart; at midnight he rose to give thanks; in the morning he prevented the morning-watches, seven times a-day praising God, morning, noon, night. These are all acts of eminent piety. We should not content ourselves with so much grace as will merely serve to save us. Alas! we have much idle time hanging upon our hands; if we would give that to God it were well. [4.] The value of godly exercises above our natural refreshings; the word is sweeter than appointed food: Job 23:12, ‘I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.' David preferreth his praises of God before his sleep and rest in the night. Surely this should shame us for our sensuality. We can dispense with other things for our vain pleasures; we have done as much for sin, for vain sports, broken our rest for sin. Some monsters of mankind turn night into day, and day into night for their drunkenness, gaming, vain sports, &c., and shall we not deny ourselves for God? [5.] The reverence to be used in secret adoration. David did not only raise up his spirits to praise God, but rise up out of his bed to bow the knee to him. Secret duties should be performed with some solemnity, not slubbered over. Praise, a special act of adoration, requireth the worship of body and soul. [Slide 45 (end)] Use. Let David's example condemn our backwardness and sluggishness, who will not take those occasions which offer themselves. Mark, he gave thanks when we fret; at midnight he rose to do it with the more secrecy and fervency; this not to pray only, but to give thanks.

Perfidī diurnāriī Britannicī Tīmotheus Davie, director generālis Britannicae Societātis Divulgātiōnī, quae saepius litterīs compendiāriīs BBC vocitātur, et Deborah Turness, ēius sociētātis diurnāriīs praefecta, coāctī sunt mūneribus abdicāre, cum alia societas diurnāriōrum, quae Tēlegraphēma dīcitur, dēmonstrāvisset diurnāriōs Britannicae Societātis Divulgātiōnī ōrātiōnem praesidis Americānī partibus omissīs aliīsque falsē coniunctīs consultō et cōnsciōs dētorsisse, ut ille contrārium suae ōrātiōnis dixisse vidērētur. Nāvēs prope Americam Merīdiōnālem Britannī diē Martis inhibuērunt quōminus suī speculātōrēs Americānīs auxilium darent, cum ipsī coepissent timēre nē Americānī, quippe quī iam ad octōginta narcotromocratās et mercātōrēs venēnī indemnātōs per mare Caribbicum interfēcissent, iūs gentium violārent. Eōdem diē ad mare Caribbicum advēnit duodecima Americāna classis, Thomā Moninger thalassiarchō, cūius praetōria et āeroplānigera nāvis, Geraldus Ford nōmine, est omnium longārum nāvium maxima. Adsunt etiam secundus exercitus classicōrum, Calvertō Worth imperātōre, cūius nāvis praetōria et helicopterigera appellātur Īwō Jīma; necnōn aliae longae nāvēs missilibus refertae atque etiam nāvēs subaquāneae. Tot et tantīs copiīs convocātīs, quoniam Venetiolānus tyrannus illēgitimus illēgitimō commerciō venēnī lucrātur quō cīvēs Americānī necantur, iūs gentium longē vehementius violārī potest. Magistrātūs Americānī quingentiēns centēna mīlia nummōrum prōmittunt eī, quīcumque Nīcolāum Madūrō tyrannum Venetiolānōrum in dīciōnem reddiderit Americānam. Starmer nōn labefactus Keir Starmer, minister prīmārius Britannōrum quī favōre populī vix fruitur, nēgāvit sē rūmōribus labefactum esse, neque sē in suōs ministrōs neque illōs in sē coniūrāre. Rēspūblica solitō mōre administrātur Senātōrēs factiōnis sinistrae sīve Dēmocraticae, quī quadrāginta diēs recūsāverant nē pecūniam magistrātibus ērogārent ad rempūblicam gerendam, cum nihil quod sperāverant efficere posse vidērentur, manūs tandem dedērunt. Itaque satis pecūniae ērogātur ut magistrātūs rempūblicam diēs gerant septuāginta. Quod comitia populāria ad senātōrēs ēligendōs annō proximō habēbuntur, fierī vix posse vidētur quōminus tālēs rixae iterum iterumque incommoda dītiōribus commeātū āeriō interdictīs et prōlētāriīs congiāriō prīvātīs miseriās afferant. al-Sharā in Americā Ahmed al-Sharā, quī ōlim al-Jolānī vocitābātur, praeses Sȳrōrum, Vasintōniam urbem vīsitāvit diē Lūnae, ubi cum praeside Americānō collocūtus est dē lēge Caesariānā abrogandā. Nam illa lex, quae commercium inter Americānōs et Bashar Assad tyrannum Sȳrōrum interdīxerat, eōdem tyrannō in exilium expulsō nunc obstat, nē post bellum cīvīle Sȳrōrum rēs renoventur. Terror in Indiā Pakistaniāque In capitibus tam Indiae quam Pakistaniae gemina pyrobola dīrupta sunt, quibus ad vigintī hominēs sunt interfectī. Pax tamen, quam mēnse Māiō praeses Americānus utrīque gentī suāsit, manet, dum quaestiō in auctōrēs terrōris habētur. Ūcrāīnēnsēs pecūniā corruptī Cum quaestiō dē pecūlātiōne corruptiōneque in Ūcrāīnā habērētur, ministrī tam iūstitiae quam energīae præfectī honōribus officiīsque sē abdīcāvērunt, ut quī coniūrātī referrentur in pecūlātiōnem. Timur Mindich, amīcus praesidis Ūcrāīnēnsium, quī fōns et princeps coniūrātiōnis esse putātur, fūgit. Mīliēns centēna mīlia nummōrum sublāta esse feruntur. Comitia in Chiliā habenda Diē Sōlis Chiliēnsēs populāria suffrāgia ferent. Doctī hominēs quī populārem ōpīniōnem metiuntur referunt scelera, mīgrātiōnem, gregēs coniūrātōrum latrōnum animōs cīvium magis occupāre quam rem oeconomicam, salūtem pūblicam, īnstitūtiōnem puerōrum. Quamquam Chilēnsēs inter tūtissimās gentēs merīdiōnālis Americae manent, numerus tamen hominum ā percussōribus occīsōrum inter decennium est bis auctus. Quod nōn sēiungitur ab auctō numerō Venetiolānōrum, quī in Chiliēnsium fīnēs ingressī sunt, unde fit ut Chilēnsēs nōmen “Trāminis Arāguae” audīre coeperint. Sinēnsēs Iāpōnēs reprobant Sanaē Takaīchī coram senātū Iāpōnum dīxit sibi necesse vidērī respondēre, sī Formōsa īnsula, quae suī iūris est, ā Sinēnsibus oppugnārētur. Quod Sīnēnsibus, utpote quī Formōsam īnsulam, quae suī iūris est, in suā dīciōne esse falsē dīcerent, offēnsiōnem praebuit. Negāvit autem Takaīchī ab oppositō senātōre diē Lūnae rogāta sē posse nunc negāre Iāpōnēs arma atomica invēntūrōs, factūrōs, habitūrōs. Sola enim est terra Iāpōnica, in quam arma atomica adhibita erant, unde diū negābātur nē Iāpōnēs arma atomica possidērent.

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Ēventus Comitiōrum Americānōrum Omnibus suffrāgiīs tandem numerātīs, Donaldus Trump nōn sōlum māiōrem partem suffrāgiōrum tulit sed etiam trecentōs duodecim ē quingentīs duodēquadrāgintā ēlectōribus habēbit in collēgiō electōrum, Harris vērō ducentōs sex et vigintī. In superiōre Senātūs camerā, factiō dextra quattuor sedēs cēpit et auctōritātem suam auxit, in īnferiōre vērō potestātem suam retinet et pollēbit. Itaque ūna factiō dominābitur, sī poterit intrā sē cōnsēnsum invenīre. Divīsa autem est illa factiō inter populārēs, quī Donaldō Trump favent, et optimātēs, quī diū pollent. Itaque incertum est, an superior Senātūs camera, ubi optimātium partes dominantur, velit magistrātūs, quōs Trump ēligit, cōnfirmāre. Praecipuē ambigitur an Matthaeus Gaetz, senātor īnferiōris camerae, possit administer reī iūridicae fierī, atque an Tulsī Gabbard, ōlim vīcāria tribūna mīlitis et senātrix īnferiōris camerae quae sinistrae factiōnis fuit, fīat praefecta speculātōrum. Etiam prōpōnitur Robertus Kennedy, fīlius Robertī, quī cīvium salūtem valetūdinemque tueātur. Cōrēa Boreālis et Russia sociātae Kim Iong-un, dux Cōrēae Boreālis, novum foedus īcit cum Russīs quō utraque gēns prōmittit sē alteram, sī oppugnāta sit, dēfendendam. Ūcrāīnēnsēs iam aegrē ferunt, decem mīlia mīlitum Cōrēānōrum in Russiam mīssōs esse, quī Curscham regiōnem, quam Ūcrāīnēnsēs Augustō mēnse invāserant, cum Russīs recuperārent. Cōrēānī mīlitēs bellī inexpertēs fuērunt, sed, quī contrā Ūcrāīnēnsēs proelia faciunt, novissimum genus bellī discunt. Quae disciplīna possit dētrīmentō esse Cōrēānīs Merīdiōnālibus, sī certandum sit cum Cōrēānīs Septentriōnālibus. Justīnus Welby sē abdicat Justīnus Welby, archiepiscopus Cantauriensis et praefectus ecclēsiae Anglicānae, diē Martis munere honoribusque sē abdīcāvit, ut quī salūtem iuvenum parum tuerētur. Quī diu cōnātus erat concordiam afferre ecclēsiae diversīs opīniōnibus distractae, praecipuē cum Britannī novārum rērum studiōsi essent et Africānae ecclēsiae in trānslātīciam doctrīnam prōniōres, quā rē difficilius erit successōrem creāre. Le Pen Accūsātōrēs pūblicī Lūtētiānī poscunt ut interdīcātur nē Marīnae Le Pen, quae annīs praeteritīs candidāta ambīvit summum magistrātum Gallōrum, liceat intra quinque annōs ullum gerere magistrātum, propter causam quam agī coepit abhinc octō annōs. Le Pen ēiusque factiō accūsātōrēs dēnuntiant, ut quī ob ratiōnēs politicās Le Pen persequantur. Doctī virī quī opīniōnēs cīvium metiuntur referunt Le Pen omnēs longē antecellere aliōs, quī annō bis millēsimō vīcēsimō septimō ambītūrī esse videantur. Hāītia Garrius Conille, quī sex mēnsēs ministrī prīmāriī Hāītiēnsium officiō sine effectū fungēbātur, dīmissus est, cūius in locum Alexander Didier Fils-Aime successit. Etiam in Portū Principis, quae urbs nōmine tenus caput est Hāītiae, latrōnēs grassātōrēsque vīcōs cēpērunt ultimōs, in quibus nōndum dominātī erant, et āeroportum clausērunt. Āeroplānō glandibus plumbeīs ictō, magistrātūs Americānī prohibuērunt, nē quis hāc mēnse āeroplānum in Hāītiam dīrigeret. Scholz parum amātus Olāvius Scholz, cancellārius Germānōrum, comitia indīxit diē vīcēsimō tertiō mēnsis Februāriī habenda. Quibus in comitiīs ille vidētur sperāre sē posse secundum creārī cancellārium, quamquam minus amātur quam ullus alius cancellārius in memōriā Germānōrum. Intrā suam factiōnem sunt, quī hortentur ut Scholz spem ambitiōnemque dēpōnat, ut Boris Pistōrius fiat novus dux sociālistārum. Nam tantum quīnta pars cīvium Olāvium Scholz probat, sed Pistōrius lāte probātur.

Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 5ú lá de mí na Samhna, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1985 bhí an teachta Des O'Malley ag téarnamh san ospidéil tar éis timpiste carr mór i gCill Dara nuair a chuaigh a carr isteach chuig cúil leoraí a raibh páirceáilte. I 1999 tháinig an scannán 'The Magical Land of the Leprechaun' amach le Colm Meany agus Whoppi Goldbeg sa scannán. Bhí a lán conspóid ann de bharr an léargais cultúr Éireannach leis na criticeoirí ag rá go raibh sé maslach do steiréitíopaí Éireannach. I 1970 bhí daoine cáiliúla cosúil le Dusty Springfield agus Shirley Bassey ag réiteach le fanacht i gCaisleáin Drom Ólainn do sheoladh an scannán Bloomfield a stiúir Richard Harris a rugadh i Luimnigh. I 1999 toghadh Doctúir Mary Upton chuig an Dáil. Chuaigh sí chuig Coláiste Mhuine in Inis agus bhuaigh sí síocháin i mBailte Átha Cliath Deisceart le 28% den vóta. Sin Coolio le Gangstas Paradise – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo i 1999. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht ceoil ón lá seo – i 1967 bhí Robin Gibb, a bhí sa bhanna ceoil Bee Gees, ar an traein a bhí i dtimpiste i Londain. Maraíodh 49 duine agus gortaíodh 78 duine. I 2000 chuaigh albam U2 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' chuigh uimhir a haon ar na cairteacha. Bhí sé sin an 8ú halbam chun dul chuig uimhir a haon. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliula ar an lá seo ná Kris Jenner a rugadh an lá seo i 1955 agus rugadh Bryan Adams i gCeanada ar an lá seo i 1959 agus seo chuid de a amhráin. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.

A new MP3 sermon from Chappelow Ridge Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Beginning of Christian Doct Speaker: Dr. Errol Fowler Broadcaster: Chappelow Ridge Baptist Church Event: Sunday School Date: 4/14/2024 Bible: Matthew 7:28; 2 John 9-10 Length: 42 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Chappelow Ridge Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Beginning of Christian Doct Speaker: Dr. Errol Fowler Broadcaster: Chappelow Ridge Baptist Church Event: Sunday School Date: 4/14/2024 Bible: Matthew 7:28; 2 John 9-10 Length: 42 min.

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Ag tabhairt eolas ar thógra atá ag Institiúid síci-theangeolaíocht Max Plank san Ísiltír agus iad ag iarraidh measúnú a dhéanamh ar an dóigh a ndéanann daoine abairtí Gaeilge a mheas ó thaobh na gramadaí de.

“We are reading to fast!”  This is typically something that we would never say about our study groups. However, as we sit at the feet of St. John Climacus, we come to the realization that we could sit with a single saying for months on end and not fail to be nourished.  We concluded our discussion of Step 23 and the difficulty with blasphemous thoughts. The evil one in his envy will seek to distract us with blasphemous thoughts that come like a flash of lightning before the mind. Our one response should be to lay this great burden upon the Lord, to entrust it to him, knowing that it comes not from our hearts but from the malice of the evil one.  In Step 24 Saint John begins to discuss meekness, simplicity, and guilelessness. As Saint John begins to define it for us, we suddenly experience ourselves as moving too briskly. Meekness is an “unchangeable state of mind, a rock overlooking the sea of anger”. These thoughts alone are enough to alter our view of this great virtue. In the face of the chaos of living in a fallen world or the experience of the hatred and anger of others, meekness becomes a buttress that is unshakable and keeps us from being swept away by touchiness of mind or irritability of heart. Meekness creates the desire for simplicity; to create a place where the Lord will find rest within us. It allows us to maintain dominion over our heart by the simple act of mortifying the intellect and private judgment. In the weeks to come, may we linger along with these thoughts and come to desire this great virtue.   ---   Text of chat during the group:   00:01:31 Suzanne: Hello! Happy Feast of All Saints!!   00:01:39 FrDavid Abernethy: to you as well!   00:01:54 FrDavid Abernethy: page 175 para 47   00:03:02 Suzanne: Look! The West gets it! From Vespers for All Saints:   00:03:09 Suzanne: Choréa casta vírginum, Et quos erémus íncolas Transmísit astris, cǽlitum Locáte nos in sédibus.   00:03:52 Suzanne: And the Antiphon from the Magnifcat:   00:03:58 Suzanne: Ángeli, * Archángeli, Throni et Dominatiónes, Principátus et Potestátes, Virtútes cælórum, Chérubim atque Séraphim, Patriárchæ et Prophétæ, sancti legis Doctóres, Apóstoli, omnes Christi Mártyres, sancti Confessóres, Vírgines Dómini, Anachorítæ, Sanctíque omnes, intercédite pro nobis.   00:04:23 Sean: I tried to find it, it's out of 'print', no luck   00:06:44 Rachel: ty   00:09:26 FrDavid Abernethy: page 175 para 47   00:14:59 Art: Hello TY and same to you!   00:25:05 Louise: In my culture of origin, in Quebec, Canada, the French-Canadians swear with the names of God and the Eucharist, even psychologists in supervision with me. I ask them to not do so, but they relapse after a while. I thus decided to offer, inwardly, my apologies to Christ when they swear. Can I do something else?   00:25:55 Louise: I would have to exclude them all.   00:28:38 David Swiderski: When I lived in Spain the same issue most swears blasphemous. I was a teacher so just joked wow you need a thesaurs and have a limited and very poor vocabulary. It seemed to work and get a laugh.   00:31:47 Suzanne: equanimity   00:33:05 Fr Marty, ND, 480-292-3381: Learn of Me, for I am meek and humble in heart. It seems, then, that depending on Christ and becoming like Christ transforms us into being humble. So, it seems like it's part of the process of theosis. Is this so?   00:33:37 sharonfisher: How can insecurity be transformed to meekness? I guess I'm asking how to display the strength I feel in Jesus Christ, but the body belies.   00:34:30 Anthony Rago: Something that helps me deal with anger -and bad thoughts - is that any bad thought against a man really reflects on the Lord,  the ne Adanm. And any bad thought against a woman really reflects on our Lady, the ideal of a woman. I don't like that so it helps keep the interior life in check, to dash the infants of evil thoughts against the rocks.   00:38:02 sharonfisher: Replying to "How can insecurity b..."   Thank you - I think my question was more self-centered (ie, not appropriate!)   00:38:38 David Swiderski: On my door to my room I have a quote which I see when I leave and when I go to bed- (In loving one another, God in us made flesh). I often find I fall short at night but seem more careful the next day.   00:40:08 sharonfisher: Reacted to "On my door to my roo..." with ❤️   00:40:58 Daniel Allen: This conversation about meekness makes me think of “the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent carry it away” which is very much not being a doormat. So it's a matter of that violence being directed towards biting our own tongue (or what have you) and not against another.   00:45:09 Suzanne: Fr. Ripperger talks about demons putting negative perspectives on things that are pure illusions, and that get us angry.   00:46:38 Ashley Kaschl: To Suzanne's point, it's the cogitative power of the brain that Fr. R talks about, which makes associations, and is why asking the Lord to protect our faculties is so important

Welcome to another episode of "Leadership Bites" the podcast where we delve deep into the world of leadership with experts who are at the forefront of their fields. I'm your host, Guy Bloom, a leadership specialist with a passion for exploring the nuances of effective leadership.In this episode, we have not one but two distinguished guests joining us to shed light on a critical aspect of leadership - navigating tough conversations, particularly among senior business leaders. We are thrilled to be joined by Doctor Jenny King, a renowned expert in organizational psychology, and Professor David Pendleton, a leading authority on leadership and management.Tough conversations are an inevitable part of leadership, but they can be some of the most challenging situations to navigate. Whether it's delivering difficult feedback, addressing conflicts, or making crucial decisions, senior business leaders often find themselves at the crossroads of high-stakes interactions. Doctor Jenny King and Professor David Pendleton have extensive experience in this area, and together, they bring a wealth of knowledge to this episode.We'll explore the psychological aspects of tough conversations, including the emotional intelligence required to handle them effectively. Our guests will share their insights into the unique challenges faced by senior business leaders when engaging in difficult discussions and provide practical strategies for fostering a culture of open communication within organizations.Join us for this enlightening conversation as we unpack the intricacies of tough conversations in leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive or an aspiring leader, you'll gain valuable insights into how to approach these challenging moments with confidence and grace.To find out more about Guy Bloom and his award winning work in Team Coaching, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching click below.The link to everything CLICK HEREUK: 07827 953814Email: guybloom@livingbrave.com Web: www.livingbrave.com

Today we are at a crossroads when it comes to meeting our challenges as a nation and as individuals. However, if we learn the lessons of Sir Winston Churchill, the great statesman left us timeless wisdom. My conversation with Professor Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College about his book, “Churchill's Trial,” is a guide to shaping ourselves and the current situation dividing us all.Support the show

Hi everyone.Today (March 3rd 2023) would have been Doc Watson's 100th birthday, so I've put together a couple of really special episodes to celebrate. I spent the past 3 months interviewing people who knew, played with, worked with, were inspired by or just loved Doc and his music. I ended up with hours and hours of wonderful conversation and have edited it all into two episodes. This is the first....This one focusses on those who worked and played with Doc, plus a couple of people responsible for carrying on his legacy.You'll hear from:Happy Traum, founder of Homespun Music on getting to know and working with DocJohn McEuen from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on recording the seminal Will the Circle Be Unbroken record with DocT. Michael Coleman on 15 years playing and touring with DocJack Lawrence on his 20 years with DocLindsay Craven, Artist Relations Manager at MerleFest on making sure Doc's vision lives on at the festivalTed Olson, who wrote the book that accompanies the box set Life's Work: A RetrospectiveAll of these are brand new interviews carried out for these episodes. They've been a joy to put together. I hope you enjoy them (and don't forget to check out episode 2).Happy picking (and happy birthday Doc!)Matt===- Sign up to get updates on new episodes - Free fiddle tune chord sheets- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews- Follow Bluegrass Jam Along for regular updates: Instagram Facebook - Review us on Apple Podcasts

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Episode Summary Do you know anyone who has a so-called “disability”? How do you know? This week I want you to meet Tiffany Noelle Brown. Tiffany has a PHD, she is a wife and mother, and, by most people's standards, she has a disability as she happens to have a traumatic brain injury. Tiffany will tell you her story of growing up in environments where she sensed she was different, not because of her traumatic brain injury, but due to other things she will discuss. You will hear how she used her observations to carve out a successful career helping others to recognize that difference is not a problem for them or others. Personally, I very much enjoyed her insights. I had a wonderful time talking with Tiffany about various topics not only around disabilities, but also around the idea of being different. I hope you will like our episode and that you will let me know your thoughts. Thanks for listening and I hope you will let me know your thoughts about our episode and the Unstoppable Mindset podcast by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com.   About the Guest:  Dr. TiffanyNoelle Brown, known as docT, is recognized internationally as a catalyst in embedding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI-B) concepts into our everyday lives, with actions everyone can take.  She is described as a master at awakening the unseen, more subtle aspects of inclusion in our awareness, actions, and social structures.  A colleague has dubbed her the Doctor of Inclusion.   She is an innovative, non-judgmental, compassionate leader in the field of DEI-B dedicated to creating impact through her Ah-Ha's-to-Action methodology. She shines as a facilitator, guiding newbies and experts alike in individual and group settings through personalized coaching and speaking engagements. Acknowledging and respecting where clients are at without judgment, she compassionately guides clients in developing their own awareness, understanding, and healing, creating their own toolboxes to expand and support their DEI-B efforts.  Certified in healing methodologies, trauma-informed care, and nurturing parenting, she brings an understanding of the impacts of social factors on mind, body, and spirit, passionate that including you in your inclusion journey is a critical addition to the process.   Even before DEI-B was recognized and valued within the business and personal development worlds, docT has been a pioneer in the research, teaching, and coaching of DEI-B concepts. Her Master's thesis, Doctoral Dissertation, and other published articles and presentations at professional associations focused on issues of inclusion/exclusion in the healthcare system.  Her work has impacted policy and furthered the application of DEI-B concepts within the healthcare and child welfare systems, at the organizational, state, and national levels. Her expertise and unique ability to shift paradigms in a nonjudgmental way have most recently been recognized by the Wisdom Playground, Proximity, and Colorado Foster Parent Association.  Even former students and clients have come back to share how interacting with docT has positively impacted their personal lives and work.   Her personal experiences have given her an even deeper understanding of DEI-B. For example, she attended schools where she was in the religious and racial minority.  She attended a “women's college” and advocated for the rights of students and faculty who identified as LGBT, developing her passion for the importance of allyship.  She is the Mommy to an amazing kiddo, who came into her life through the foster care system. Embedded daily in trauma-informed parenting techniques, Tiffany is an amazing support and role model for her kiddo, helping her navigate issues of race, culture, and family. People are often surprised to find out that she is living with a traumatic brain injury.  This experience provides another lived experience of why and how we can do business differently to capture, engage, and provide platforms for people with neuro- and physical- (dis)abilities to contribute their gifts how and when they can and be fairly paid for their expertise.     It is no surprise that Tiffany's motto is the concept of ‘Ohana, which you can see embedded in her work.  Illustrated by the quote from Lilo and Stitch, “‘Ohana means family.  Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”  Understanding the word ‘Ohana is Hawaiian, she recognizes the literal translation to mean “family,” but the intention of the word means “community”.  Her Mom, albeit biased, of course, says that even as a little girl, Tiffany has always seen, advocated for, and empowered people that others discriminated against, left out or left behind.  “It is just who she is.”  About the Host:  Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/  https://twitter.com/mhingson  https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links  https://accessibe.com/  https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe  https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!  Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast  If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review  Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes UM Intro/Outro  00:04 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson  01:24 Hi, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset, the podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. And it is that today we have as our guest, Tiffany Noelle Brown, who has an interesting story to tell lots of things to talk about. We'll spend a bunch of time today I suspect talking about diversity, inclusion, and we will see what else we come up with. So Tiffany, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Tiffany Noelle Brown  01:57 Thank you, I'm so glad to be here. I'm so privileged to be able to talk with you and really excited for your, for your audience to try to think of, you know, get be included in this conversation even. Michael Hingson  02:16 So, so tell me a little bit about kind of you from the from the beginning, and what what eventually got you into this whole area of diversity and inclusion. Yes. Tiffany Noelle Brown  02:29 So thank you for asking that I am. Even as a little kid, I remember, I was treated differently. And I got a lot more attention. And I wasn't treated differently in a negative way, but in a positive way. And it actually made me really uncomfortable. People would pick me up all the time, they were constantly picking me to be on their teams, that kind of thing. And I could feel the energy and feel the hurt that others were experiencing. Once they say it again. Michael Hingson  03:10 Why was that? What Why were you Why were you different? Tiffany Noelle Brown  03:13 So I'm blond haired, blue eyed, Caucasian, I guess the stereotype and people just thought I was, you know, cute or whatever, I don't know. But they would, you know, constantly, the adults would pick me up no matter what. And I could see the looks on other people's faces. And now I'm recognizing that I have an intuitive quality of being able to sense and feel someone else's emotion and really be in tune with that. And I hadn't developed that at the time, but I could feel it and it made me feel badly and guilty for getting the attention that I was getting. Michael Hingson  04:00 So other other kids weren't getting that same attention. Tiffany Noelle Brown  04:04 Yeah. And I think throughout my life, I was really sensitive to it when it came to my brother as people would on the on the baby. And people would refer to my brother as Tiffany's brother rather than my being Tiffany Noelle Brown  04:21 Chris's sister.  Michael Hingson  04:25 Got it? Well, so you you grew up what No, where did you grow up? Tiffany Noelle Brown  04:31 I grew up in the Washington DC area. And I've been able to have the opportunity to move around in I've lived in most difference categorizations of how our country is Midwest, south, north northeast, Pacific, and now I live in the mountain region. Ah Michael Hingson  04:59 well So you, you grew up. And I appreciate very much that you were, you're sensitive to how people treated you so so tell me a little bit more about what you what you thought about that and how that kind of shaped your life and your direction. Tiffany Noelle Brown  05:16 Very much. So I think, especially looking back on it, having studied, intentionally studied issues of inequality and bias. In my formal studies, looking back on it, I realized that maybe I was coming at it from a different perspective. But I was I was the one that noticed, I guess, my parents told me this, that I was one that noticed when someone was being left out. And the inclusion of different folks just was a part of my life, my best friend growing up was, was a boy. And that was kind of unusual in and of itself. And he had Japanese American and Jewish American Heritage. And that was not anything unusual for me. And so But growing up, even at my wedding, people would point out, oh, my gosh, you have the most multicultural wedding party that we've ever seen. And that, that was that's just who I am, I guess. And it wasn't until I was able to study it. And I found sociology, that I got it.  Michael Hingson  06:48 Well, so you spend a lot of time talking about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, which is, which is interesting. How did you really come to want to focus your life on dealing with those issues? Tiffany Noelle Brown  07:05 I think, even as I was in high school, originally, you have to choose what you want your major to be. And I wanted to be a physician, because that's helping people and I didn't really have a sense of other careers that could do that. And so I was taking, I also was doing health care administration, and it's as my minor, and took a medical sociology class, just as an elective. And oh, my goodness, that one class changed my life. And I didn't even know sociology existed, I'd never heard of it before. And I was like, wow, I don't have to go to med school to do this. With and then this being, I saw a lot of inequalities and was learning more and more about inequalities and bias in the healthcare system, and decided that's the path I wanted to go. And that's where I ended up focusing my graduate work as well. Michael Hingson  08:14 From a standpoint of intellectual pursuits, I mean, that that's certainly understandable. But you've become very emotionally involved. So it goes far beyond just a career path or a learning path. What, what caused you to be I think, so emotionally steeped in doing this? You know what I'm saying? Tiffany Noelle Brown  08:38 Yes, so, I had the intellectual and I came to it from the perspective of for the most part being in the majority of what we typically research as categories. And then I've had experiences where I was in the minority, and that there were characteristics that actually created barriers for me and my loved ones around me. For example, I I was a foster parent and became an adoptive parent to a kiddo who is biracial. And I was already very sensitive to the issues around race and ethnicity and gender. And now I'm living it. I'm not only sensitive and aware as an academic, I'm living it and living not only from an abstract theoretical level of how to, to categorize and understand the experience of someone who is in a minority category in multiple categories that overlap. But I am living trying to help her navigate that. And I'll give you an example. When we went to the airport for the very first time with our kiddo, the person at security, taking our IDs and stuff, kept asking our kiddo who we were to her, he couldn't understand not intentionally, he wasn't intentionally trying to have the situation, because he was trying to protect a kiddo. But he kept asking her who we were to her. And she didn't understand the question. And after a couple, like multiple times of being asked that, I jumped in and said, he's wanting to know what you call us. And then she said, That's my mommy and daddy. And we even went so far as getting a military ID for her earlier than what kids of military folks tend to get them at. Just so we would have some kind of formal identification that demonstrated that she's connected to us. Michael Hingson  11:24 When you explain what he was asking, and she answered him, What was his reaction? Tiffany Noelle Brown  11:37 That's a really great question. I know that there was a pause. And then he was like, okay, and it seemed to me, like he may have been a little bit embarrassed, but was very professional about it. Um, and again, I appreciate anyone who's trying to protect kiddos from trafficking or anything like that. So I think that was the context with which he was asking that question. I was actually more concerned about the reaction my kiddo was having. I was watching her. And because she was really confused, and she was only five at the time. Michael Hingson  12:16 Well, how old is she now? Tiffany Noelle Brown  12:18 She's 12. Now, between Michael Hingson  12:24 the teenage years comeith soon. Tiffany Noelle Brown  12:26 Yeah. And my family and friends have frequently said that situations like that, instead of blowing up that I give someone a different perspective without trying to do it in a way that's embarrassing, or confrontational, I hope is helping to create space for perceiving situations in as as accommodating and understanding as possible. Michael Hingson  13:05 So you, you've become, by definition, very concerned and interested in the concept of inclusion. What's the difference between diversity and inclusion to you? Tiffany Noelle Brown  13:22 To me, measuring diversity is a scientific and theoretical construct of categories. And, and I often try to think about it in terms of with diversity, we're trying to measure and monitor areas where there's intentional and unintentional bias, or overt discrimination. And you have to create categories by which to do that, to be able to show who's not being treated fairly. And then the issue becomes that we start creating this cycle of by measuring it, it becomes more real, because it's an actual concept that's talked about and becomes a self perpetuating cycle of then you are categorizing people in and when your work is really trying to Uncategorized people if that makes sense, so that there is less unfair treatment or different treatment and inclusion to me, I tend to talk about my work in terms of inclusion, inclusion, for me as a strategy and a philosophy. So the philosophy being where we are intentional about trying to understand someone else's perspective, noticing who's being left doubt who's at the table and being silenced, who's not even thought of to be included in the first place? Whose voice is listened to the most? Those are the kinds of things that I tend to engage with. And then there are strategies of inclusions such as even smiling at someone when you see them acknowledging them. Michael Hingson  15:24 Yeah. I think is it's interesting. I don't know how this comment fits directly into the model that you described, but I think it does. I have experienced lots of discussions and participated in meetings about diversity over the years. And one of the things that I generally see is, no matter how much discussion we have about diversity, there is at most lip service paid to discussing the concept of diversity, including people with disabilities. And that is a serious problem. Because diversity, I think, is as I put it, been warped to the point where disabilities don't matter in the whole concept of diversity. I've been to console councils and conversations and meetings, talking about diversity and disability may be mentioned, like once or twice in the course of the day. Why is why is that?  Tiffany Noelle Brown  16:39 I don't know, as far as individuals and how they're interacting,I think. Michael Hingson  16:47 I'm thinking more as a group. Tiffany Noelle Brown  16:49 Yeah, I think society in general, which influences group behavior, is the conversations that tend to happen, and initially were researched are around race and ethnicity and gender. And that's most people's touches with the concept of diversity. I agree with you that there are a lot of other categories where people are left out and not treated in the same way. And I mean, I can give examples, sometimes it's because people assume that it's obvious if it's a disability that's visible. And I can give an you know, an example in my life, people are always really surprised when I tell them that I have a brain injury, which can be classified as a disability. So the broad range of what disability is, and for me, I even have tried doing initiatives trying to break the stereotype of the disc part of disability and shifting it to alternate abilities or, you know, different abilities rather than dis abilities. And that, that shift in and of itself is difficult. And I was lucky enough to, to be able to partner with a former board member of mine, who happens to have cerebral palsy, and people assume all the time that she can't think because she is in a wheelchair in a way that she's not as mobile, and she does have trouble verbally articulating. But that doesn't mean that she can't contribute. And that's one of the things, you know, just an example of trying to break through exactly that idea of how people think of what disability is how people think of what ability is, and diversity. Michael Hingson  19:05 And that's, I think the the crux of the issue. I have seriously disagreed with the concept of different ability or whatever, because the ability isn't different. Maybe the way we manifest it, or the way we cause it to be utilized is different than what most people are used to, for example, yes, person in a wheelchair, uses a wheelchair and doesn't walk. But as you point out ability is what ability is and so however it manifested if you start talking about it as different ability for example. It kind of covers up the real issue. So I'm all for changing the definition of disability and keeping it because I haven't come up with Something else, unless we come up with some whole new word we've morphed, we've totally warped and morphed diversity. And it doesn't tend to be an inclusive term anymore. And I think we need to make sure we don't allow that to happen with the term inclusion. But I think that disability is, is not as bad a thing, if we really say, oh, all that means is that somebody is is different than you. But it doesn't mean less, we can change that. That definition. In the in the educational system, for example, and in the professional world of blindness. Many people have adopted a terminology of your blind or your sight impaired or you're visually impaired or you're visually challenged. They're uncomfortable with blind. But I but I believe that the reality is blindness does not mean a total lack of loss of eyesight. Blindness is a, if you will term that represents anyone whose eyesight has diminished to the point where they have to use alternatives to using their full, normal, not normal, but their full eyesight to be able to accomplish things. And if you have to use alternatives and different tools, then you are using the techniques of what a person who is blind ought to use. And so we've got to get over this idea of blind being a bad term. It's the same concept with disability. Tiffany Noelle Brown  21:48 Yes, I appreciate that so much. And I appreciate you, you pushing back and, and having us really think through even different ability, right? That's not that that may not be the right terminology either. And, obviously, it's not perfect, but like you said, sometimes you want to use disability, and sometimes it doesn't make a fit. So I love that we have this podcast and the folks that are on it, and you out in the world really trying to figure out okay, well, you know, words matter. And going back to what you had asked me before, about why did groups use the categories that they use. And I think part of that has become a save your rear end kind of thing from a legal standpoint, and also checking boxes to demonstrate that, that they are paying attention to the categories that are being given to them. And that that can be harmful, as we've talked about, it can also be beneficial in that maybe there's not a focus on every group, but maybe by focusing on one group that they're focusing on it. My hope is that and I think their original idea would be that that would become part of the culture, that's part of the creation where then it it kind of expands out where more and more people and their their different talents and abilities and quirks and personalities all can create better things. I think the issue is, that was the ideal of what was intended initially by these frameworks. I think it's gotten stuck in that the the more holistic spreading of including more and more people hasn't happened, we've remained stuck in focusing on certain categories. Michael Hingson  24:20 Yeah, and we, we, we tend to like to put people in boxes, we'd like to put everything in boxes. Yes. And the problem is that when we start to do that, no matter who it is, we create limitations that ought not to be there. Yes, you're in a box because you're a woman, you're in a box, for whatever reason, and society has made decisions about you because of the fact that you're in that box. And yes, we are trying to break down the barriers. What I what I tend to see with disabilities is that, even though next to Well, it's hard to say that women are a minority since they're actually more women. But I bet you and I know what they mean in terms of included in power. But next next to women, disabilities as a collective, some is the next size minority down from that. The CDC says that 25% of all people have some sort of disability, and I'm sure that's now been affected by COVID. Oh, yeah. And we're going to start classifying people somewhere along the line, because of how they have been affected by COVID. And some have been very physically affected by COVID. And it is something that we need to deal with, we've got to figure out how to address this issue of stop putting people in so many boxes. Yeah. And recognize that we all have gifts, and we all ought to be able to use our gifts to their fullest extent. Yes. Tiffany Noelle Brown  26:17 Yes, I love that so much. And a couple of, you know, highlights out of what you said is, I actually recently wrote a column and did a Facebook Live, and then I have a different version of it, that I am more than happy to post that, that talks about the different categories that I know that people see me as and how, even as I read off those categories of checkboxes, how does someone perceive of me and create that mental picture of me, as I say those things, and then if I say something that like creates a disjuncture of, oh, that doesn't make sense. That we can start to see Oh, my goodness, like subtly, I didn't realize that I was that I was doing that. Right. And I think what you're talking about in terms of inclusion is exactly what I work on in terms of I see the need for categorization as we talked about the, it can also be very harmful. And for me, I'll go back to kind of what my motto in life is, which is the word ohana. And the word ohana. If anyone has seen Lilo and Stitch they've, they've heard this quote that Ohana means family and family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. Right? Well, that sounds like a great idea. But how in the world do we do that? In reality, and when you look at the actual intention of the Hawaiian, like, Hawaiian people's understanding of this term, Ohana. In my conversations with some friends that are from Hawaii, they talk about it in terms of community. So I started shifting this quote, to Ohana means community. And community means no one gets left behind or forgotten. Michael Hingson  28:27 Which is the way it should be. Tiffany Noelle Brown  28:30 And I find also that this might be an example that people have said, shifts their perspective on even the word family, in that I consider my family, not only my biological family, the family that I married into, but I also include my kiddos biological family. And there are reasons to have safety measures. In some cases, but that doesn't mean that they're left behind or forgotten. I continue to I have a personal email that I communicate so that I can tell what's safe or not. And I can pass on that information and be the go between. But then there's the safety factor. And there's the realistic of I don't want there the connection between biological family and my kiddo to be completely severed even though in the legal sensitives. Michael Hingson  29:41 And how is she dealing with all that? Tiffany Noelle Brown  29:45 That's shifted over time. Yeah, I'm, I'm much more of I'd rather keep the connection so that there's a relationship there. With the understanding that typically kids that are adopted at some point are curious about their biological family and want to learn about them, I'd rather create an environment where it's safe for my kiddo To learn more, but that there's actually more accurate information and that her biological family trusts my spouse and I, and understands that we are trying to keep that connection so that when, when our kin is old enough, she can make the decision, whether she feels that she could reach out, or even possibly do something in person. And some of that has happened over time. There are some family members that we have been able to engage with in person. And there are some that that we are trying to bring together, for example, there's a camp that we're trying to bring together. The family members that are similar in age to my kiddo together in an environment where all the adults are, like, shaping that, you know, aren't shaping that relationship development, if that makes sense, but it's done in a way that's safe, because there's camp counselors that are trained in trauma and have experienced and in helping develop and nurture those relationships in a camp environment. Michael Hingson  31:43 It's it's a process. I think you've you've verbalized it very well, it clearly is a process. And hopefully, she will appreciate the concept of ohana. And internal internalize it very well going forward when she is older. And of course, as she gets older and becomes more mature, then you're offering the opportunity to make that happen. Tiffany Noelle Brown  32:12 And I'd like to my goal is to, regardless of someone's situation, create environments where that can happen. So that connections are fostered in ways that are positive and don't cause harm to either side. Then I don't even like the idea of taking sides. Yeah, yeah, my own statement. I'm like, reflecting of like, there's not a side here, you know, I want to understand that people in her family have been through a lot of trauma to and have not had the opportunities that I've had, and have had significant barriers which have led to certain traumas, and that's deeply embedded. And I don't want to add another trauma onto that. That Michael Hingson  33:08 That makes sense. I mean, that that is certainly a lofty and ideal goal, and certainly one that makes a lot of sense to do. Sometimes it's hard to be Switzerland, but at the same time, it makes a lot of sense to do that. Tiffany Noelle Brown  33:23 Yeah, especially with the dynamic of I am the one in power in this situation, to both sides, you know, and at the same time, as I'm trying to be as fair and open minded and inclusive. My number one priority is the health and safety of my kiddo. Michael Hingson  33:47 So tell me a little bit more about what you do professionally. What, you've graduated from college, you've got a doctorate? No, do you actually did you get an MD as well? Tiffany Noelle Brown  33:59 No, I don't have an MD and it's I love that you're asking that question because people frequently will, because I focus in medicine and people like I consider myself a medical sociologist, even though my current work isn't embedded in health care or well being or specific health stuff as it was when I was faculty at a med school. But people will constantly say you're a doctor, but you're not a doctor doctor. Michael Hingson  34:32 And don't show love it when they do that. Tiffany Noelle Brown  34:34 Yes. And I'm like, I'm a doctor, but I'm not a physician. And that's part of actually identity wise, why I tack the PhD at the end of my name and for a while I was you know, working within doc T PhD specifically because I didn't want there to be a confusion Jim, that I was an MD, even though I was doing a lot within, right? Medical School and hospitals and community health, those kinds of things. Michael Hingson  35:11 So no matter what it is, you got to be a doctor. So what else? So So what do you do now? professionally? Tiffany Noelle Brown  35:20 Yes, so my work has really evolved into doing facilitation related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. And a lot of that, for me is in relation to not necessarily the policy end of things. But more in the application, the real application of creating more inclusive cultures, and making those institutionalized in policy and inhabit. And one of the things that I'm offering now is to other diversity, equity and inclusion professionals to provide them with support. And not only do I have this, the opportunity within my background to help support someone in that. And I used to be a director of continuous quality improvement, so I bring that aspect. But I'm also a holistic practitioner. So yes, not an MD, but I'm a holistic practitioner, I'm a Reiki Master, and engage in other holistic techniques as well. So I bridge medical, and holistic well being. And so for me, it's not only moving forward, the ideas of depth, depth, diversity, equity, and inclusion and belonging, in practice, but really supporting the people who are doing this work, because the work in and of itself is sometimes traumatizing, and it's exhausting and high burnout. And we, we want to move. I personally, and I believe you do, too, based on what you've said is, we want to move this movement forward, and we can't afford to lose people who are passionate about trying to move the needle for everyone. Michael Hingson  37:24 When you say holistic, tell me a little bit more about that. Yes. Tiffany Noelle Brown  37:29 So that also is I guess, a categorization trying to help people understand some people call it alternative medicine or health care. And again, the labels go with it. So I'm glad you're asking me. For me, it's, I take the social, all of what I know as a sociologist, and include practices of mind, body and spirit, recognizing that those individual processes and and ways of being are very much affected by the social construct, cut social context, by legislation, by societal culture, by organizational policy by one on one interactions. So all of that, is there kind of embedded together. And if you only do one piece, which I think is great that there are so many diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives and professionals and people just volunteering in this realm, that we want to provide the support for them to be able to do that in ways that are positive and not not so reactive. Where we're taking care of each other, including taking care of ourselves. Michael Hingson  39:03 How do you deal with someone you're introduced to or a new person who doesn't necessarily deal with diversity, equity, inclusion and so on? Well, how do you break through some of those barriers? Tiffany Noelle Brown  39:19 I absolutely love that question. Of course, that you can see probably a spark in me right now. And you hear hear the change in my tone of voice. I love love, love teaching intro to sociology with the exception of grading, because I think the grading and assignments are actually what prevent people in this realm of trying to see diverse perspectives and practicing doing that. That that gets in the way of that expansion. But part of what I loved is exactly that. People. You know, my students the majority of the I'm not interested in sociology hadn't heard of it kind of like when I first was introduced, I don't care about it, you know, checking a box to graduate. And I've always seen it and tried. And I still do this today of how can I help someone see things from a different perspective in a way that's non confrontational, and non judgmental, really trying to understand what's going on in their story that leads them to that belief. And with that, a lot of it is really, from in a business or organizational perspective, it's helping teach someone to facilitate a meeting, so that everyone's voice is heard, equitably. And that, even perspectives that you don't believe in, are treated without judgment, and finding ways to still add parts of each of those perspectives. And moving forward. In a, in an interactional perspective, I have developed, like, you know, a bunch of tools, one of which is where I just have a simple printout card, saying, you know, seven things you can do to include someone today. One is smile. One is wave one is, you know, just send someone a quick text, letting them know, you're thinking of them picking up the phone and colons and not for any purpose other than how are you doing what's going on with you, just that creating that connection. And when there's connection, there's, there's a better opportunity for people to be included. And I really work to have people think intentionally about easier ways to be inclusive ways that are more practical that you can add in right away. Yeah. Michael Hingson  42:17 I think we really is with most things, just need to make the effort and do it, whatever it is. And we, we tend to allow our perceptions of limitations be the thing that holds us back the most. Tiffany Noelle Brown  42:36 Yes, and, actually, I'm an example of that, that I hold myself back. And it's just literally been recently that I've been, okay, talking about the personal aspects of my life. That we're, I'm embedded in living in categorizations that are different from the norm, and really even trying to move even trying to move what we're doing to little kids. Yeah. And in the suicide prevention work that I've been a part of the sense of belonging has become a really big concept. And for me, this sense of belonging is is a critical piece. And for someone to have a sense of belonging, someone has to do some kind of action or some kind of connecting. where that person is in a situation to feel belong, like they belong. Michael Hingson  43:53 Yeah, it is a two way street, right? So it is true that people need to be more open to those who they don't necessarily understand or know. But the other side of it is those of us who are in the category of people who want to be known and understood, need to reach out and try to create an environment where people appreciate and understand and will help then create a welcoming environment. And that may be kind of a circular way of doing it. But the bottom line is we're all on this the same earth and need to learn to get along and work together. Yes. Yeah. And that's really the big thing. Tiffany Noelle Brown  44:44 I mean, even looking in our larger geopolitics, all of that sense of identity, sometimes our sense of identity and the US them. dynamic of how we tend to talk about others, creates them as an other and creates that separation. And that obviously, as we're seeing carried out in, in the world and our nation and our communities today, it's it can have, like catastrophic consequences. Michael Hingson  45:24 What do you do in your professional world? To help change that? Tiffany Noelle Brown  45:33 That's a, that's a really great question. I see a lot of what I see the majority of what I do is creating ripples. well beyond any interaction that I'm having of helping people develop the skill sets, and understanding of someone different from them seeking out intentionally seeking out perspectives and cultural activities that are different from them. And that may sound over simplistic. It's, if we're intentional about it, for example, that say, you see some some type of cultural event going on, maybe go to it, and talk with the folks that are attending of why that events, important to them. And culture being a very broad word. Of course, for me that meaning just some kind of difference, right? So seeking out difference, creating connection with people who are different, does start to create comfort with difference over time. I guess, maybe I have that belief. And maybe that's not a fair belief, and too simplistic. But growing up in such a diverse area, being in the DC area, I'm comfortable with difference. And I I intentionally seek out people who are different from me to be intentionally. An example, when I started the nonprofit on your own health, I intentionally put people on the board and invited them people to be on my board who I knew thought differently and had a different experience than I did. Because I wanted them to, to push me and challenged me just like we had a little bit earlier in the conversation about about the word different. And I'm comfortable with that. And sometimes I'm not comfortable with it. But I know it's important. And so I work through my own discomfort. And luckily, we've never had arguments on our board, we had very different perspectives on certain topics. But there was not this Animus. And I, I know, that's not as easy to do in some settings. And I, you know, in my own personal life, that's part of why San Francisco is my favorite place I've ever lived, because I didn't feel like I stood out, not in the sense of what I look like. But there's so much diversity in San Francisco on a whole bunch range of issues, that that's the most comfortable place, I've felt because I didn't feel challenged, I felt that my uniqueness was celebrated and welcomed, and welcomed. Absolutely. And then when I moved to, you know, back to a location that's in categorization, you know, very Caucasian majority of the people have higher education, degrees, and I felt really uncomfortable here again. And even if I fit into those categories, I didn't like that. Michael Hingson  49:43 Well, maybe God is just trying to help you expand your horizons and recognize that it's, it's not the worst thing in the world to be there either. Tiffany Noelle Brown  49:53 Absolutely. It's it's not and I know that I'm here for a reason. And if that reason is, by interacting with me that it helps someone see a different point of view than that's important. And I also feel that is that, especially for people who are in majority categories, or you know, aren't having the same barriers, it's really critical for people in those categories, and people who are in power, especially and have resources in those categories, to, to be able to say, it's important and valuable to support and lift up and include perspectives, and people who are different from us. Michael Hingson  51:04 I think you've given us lots to think about. And I hope that people will go away from this, thinking a little bit different about inclusion than maybe they haven't certainly different about diversity. But I hope that people will take away some things to truly think about and intellectualize in their own lives about how maybe they can start to deal with people who are different than they. And you have, you've certainly worked to help create what we call here the concept of the unstoppable mindset where people believe they can move forward, not only people who are different, but people who may be more in line with what the so called normal person is, recognizing that in reality, we're all more unstoppable if we work together. Tiffany Noelle Brown  52:02 Absolutely. If thank you so much, Michael Hingson  52:05 well, if people want to reach out to you, and learn more about what you do or contact you, for whatever reason, how will they do that? Tiffany Noelle Brown  52:15 The quickest way would be through LinkedIn. And it's the LinkedIn/IN/docT. And if you want to schedule a consultation, and talk about the situation that you're in, and how I might be able to add value to that. That would be through the proximity platform in its prox.io/docT. Michael Hingson  52:47 Do you have any courses or books or other things that people can read? Tiffany Noelle Brown  52:54 Yes, I have some manuals that I've created, I have some tools that you can use right away. And I have a series of workshops that I've created. One specific workshop that I'm in the second phase of, of utilizing is one called repurposing your purpose. And that could be for folks that are getting burned out in their purpose. It could be for folks just starting up initiatives. And, of course, I focus on helping people be able to enact and really ignite the purpose that they are here for to make the world a better place for all. And how Michael Hingson  53:52 do people get access to that? Is that through the prox.io? site? Or? Tiffany Noelle Brown  53:56 Yes, yes, yes, through prox.io. And again, if you want to chat with me or get some of the other downloadable resources, just reach out to me on LinkedIn. Michael Hingson  54:09 Cool. And again, it's prox.io/docT. Yeah. Okay. Well, Tiffany, it has been wonderful to have you here and I've got lots to go think about. You know, every time I do a podcast, I learned things that I get to use in future podcasts and I don't even necessarily know what they are but they come up is as we go forward. So I really enjoy what you have brought to us today. And I hope that everyone has has enjoyed this as much as I have. And we really appreciate you coming on and hopefully we'll do this again. Tiffany Noelle Brown  54:48 Awesome. I so appreciate it. Thank you all for for listening and you know, for Michael, both you and any of your listeners I would love to get your are, you know your thoughts and keep moving my own thinking forward. And you know, this is this is bright. So I would love to connect. Michael Hingson  55:09 Let's do it would love to. And definitely I want to stay in touch. So let us by all means do that. And again to all of you who are out there listening, thanks for doing so please give us a five star rating wherever you are listening to podcasts. And if you would like to comment on this podcast and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to reach out to me you can email me at Michaelhi@accessiBe.com that's Michaelhi M I C H A E L H I at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. And you can also go to our website where we have all the podcast information. It's Michaelhingson.com M I C H A E L H I N G S O N.com/podcast. So again, Tiffany and well Brown, thanks for being here. And thank you all for coming and listening to us today. Tiffany Noelle Brown  56:10 Thank you so much. Have a great day. Michael Hingson  56:15 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. 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Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More includes. Shoals Technologies Group, Inc., Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P., Clearway Energy, Inc. Sunnova Energy International Inc., First Solar, Inc., SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., Enphase Energy, Inc., Sunrun Inc., NextEra Energy, Inc., Tesla, Inc., Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio, New Alternatives Fund Class A, and Rize Environmental Impact 100 UCITS ETF PODCAST: Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More Transcript & Links, Episode 69, July 30, 2021 Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More… Hello, Ron Robins here. Welcome to podcast episode 69 published on October 22, titled “Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More…” — and presented by Investing for the Soul. investingforthesoul.com is your site for vital global ethical and sustainable investing news, commentary, information, and resources. Remember that you can find a full transcript, links to content – including stock symbols, quotes, and bonus material – at this episode's podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts. Now, just a reminder. I do not evaluate any of the stocks or funds mentioned in this podcast. The recommendations are by the article's authors. Furthermore, if you're concerned about the ESG and sustainability ratings of any stock or fund included in this podcast, check your broker's online site for such information. If your broker doesn't have this information, signup for free with Morningstar and you can gain access to company and fund ESG-sustainability ratings. Please note, I receive no compensation from Morningstar or anyone else covered in these podcasts. If any terms are unfamiliar to you, simply Google them. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More So, I'm going to start with this article titled 10 Best Solar Energy Stocks to Buy Today by TRISH NOVICIO in Hedge Funds, News. Here are some quotes from Ms. Novicio. “Insider Monkey's research was able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the S&P 500 ETFs by more than 86 percentage points since March 2017… 10. Shoals Technologies Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHLS) Hedge Fund Holders: 12 The Tennessee-based solar company sells junction and splice boxes, inline fuses, cables, and wireless monitoring systems. (It's) electrical balance of system (EBOS) products are used in building solar energy projects… On July 21, JPMorgan analyst Mark Strouse kept an Overweight rating on Shoals Technologies Group, Inc. and increased his price target for the stock to $46 from $42… 9. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (NYSE: BEP) Hedge Fund Holders: 20 The company supplies electricity internationally through renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy. On September 22, Raymond James analyst Frederic Bastien upgraded Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. to Outperform from Market Perform and increased his price target for the stock to $44 from $41. 8. Clearway Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CWEN) Hedge Fund Holders: 21 The New Jersey-based energy company is one of the biggest renewable energy providers in the US with over 4,700 net MW of installed wind and solar generation projects. On August 26, UBS analyst William Grippin initiated a Buy rating on Clearway Energy, Inc. with a price target of $36 per share. Shares of Clearway Energy, Inc. jumped 2.08% on September 22 as the solar company announced its second agreement with Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) North America to supply power to its manufacturing facility in Mississippi. 7. Sunnova Energy International Inc. (NYSE: NOVA) Hedge Fund Holders: 25 The Houston-based solar power company sells residential solar energy systems and storage solutions. On August 31, Wolfe Research analyst Steve Fleishman initiated an Outperform rating on Sunnova Energy International Inc. with a price target of $50 per share. 6. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Hedge Fund Holders: 31 The Arizona-based solar energy firm sells photovoltaic (PV) solar panel solutions. On August 2, the stock gained 2.8% after Susquehanna upgraded First Solar, Inc. to Positive from Neutral and raised its price target to $120 from $89… On September 21, Morgan Stanley analyst Stephen Byrd kept an Underweight rating on First Solar, Inc. and increased his price target for the stock to $61 from $57. 5. SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEDG) Hedge Fund Holders: 37 The Israeli-based solar energy company develops and sells residential solar systems which include power optimizers, inverters, storage, and a monitoring platform.  On August 31, Wolfe Research analyst Steve Fleishman initiated an Outperform rating on SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. 4. Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH) Hedge Fund Holders: 44 The company manufactures and sells microinverters and energy storage for residential and enterprise solar panel systems.  On September 21, KeyBanc analyst Sophie Karp initiated an Overweight rating on Enphase Energy, Inc. with a price target of $179 per share… 3. Sunrun Inc. (NASDAQ: RUN) Hedge Fund Holders: 45 The company manufactures and sells residential solar energy systems in the US… On September 9, Needham analyst Vik Bagri initiated a Buy rating on Sunrun Inc. with a price target of $75 per share. 2. NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) Hedge Fund Holders: 59 The company distributes electricity in North America from solar, wind, and nuclear energy. The company also operates coal and natural gas facilities. On July 13, Credit Suisse analysts initiated coverage of NextEra Energy, Inc. with an Outperform rating with a price target of $85 per share.  1. Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) Hedge Fund Holders: 60 The company delivered 201,204 electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2021, up 121% year over year. Additionally, Tesla, Inc. also offers solar panels and energy storage… In the Q2 2021 investor letter of Worm Capital LLC, the fund mentioned Tesla, Inc… Here is (in part) what the fund said: ‘Tesla alone is a vertically integrated hardware and software business developing state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques that will revolutionize the auto industry (i.e. its Giga Presses, 4680 cells, etc.)… We anticipate it will eventually be the largest company in the world.'” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Funds to Buy In Line With Thematic Trends in Q4 My next article is another fine piece of research from Zacks Equity Research. It's titled 4 Funds to Buy In Line With Thematic Trends in Q4 and appeared on Nasdaq.com. They mostly align with sustainable investing—though not specifically. Here are their comments on these funds. Quote “We have selected four funds that carry a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1 (Strong Buy)… 1) Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio (FSPTX) Aims for capital appreciation. It invests primarily in equity securities, especially common stocks of companies engaged in offering, using, or developing products, processes, or services that will provide or benefit significantly from technological advances and improvements… This non-diversified has returned 30.7% and 31.8% in the past three and five years, respectively… [This fund] has an annual expense ratio of 0.69% versus the category average of 1.05%. 2) New Alternatives Fund Class A (NALFX) … seeks long-term capital growth with income as its secondary objective. It primarily invests in common stocks of companies and even in other equity securities such as real estate investment trusts and American Depository Receipts. (The) New Alternatives Fund Class A has three and five-year returns of 29.3% and 19.6%, respectively… (The fund) has an annual expense ratio of 0.96% compared to the category average of 1.26%. 3) Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund - Investor (PARNX) … aims for capital appreciation. The fund invests a majority of assets in mid-sized growth companies. (The) Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund - Investor has returned 17.7% and 15.7% for the three and five-year periods, respectively… (This fund) has an annual expense ratio of 0.83%, which is below the category average of 1.09%. 4) Fidelity Select Software & IT Services Portfolio (FSCSX) … aims for capital appreciation. The non-diversified fund invests most assets in common stocks of companies engaged in research, design, production or distribution of products or processes related to software or information-based services. (The) Fidelity Select Software & IT Services Portfolio has returned 27.3% and 28.3% over the past three and five-year period, respectively… (This fund) has an annual expense ratio of 0.70% versus the category average of 1.05%.” End quotes ------------------------------------------------------------- Five top impact ETFs The next article is from the UK and on the etfstream.com site. It's titled Five top impact ETFs and is by Jamie Gordon. I'll mention the names of the ETFs followed by brief quotes from Mr. Gordon on each ETF. Quote. “1. Rize Environmental Impact 100 UCITS ETF (LIFE)  Came to market in July as a one-stop shop for exposure to several segments of sustainable industry.  Carrying a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.55%, (this ETF) tracks the Foxberry SMS Environmental Impact 100 index of 100 companies and provides exposure to 100 companies involved in clean water, energy efficiency, circular economy solutions, renewable energy equipment, pollution control, electric vehicles, nature-based solutions, climate resilience, hydrogen and alternative fuels… It touches on each of the objectives set out in the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities.  2. iClima Global Decarbonisation Enablers UCITS ETF (CLMA)    With a fee of 0.65% and tracking the iClima Global Decarbonisation Enablers index of 162 stocks, (this fund) offers 2%-capped exposure to companies involved in renewable energy, green transportation, water and waste improvements, decarbonisation enabling solutions and sustainable products. What keeps it from the top spot on our list is the inclusion of holdings such as the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG.L) and Uber Technologies (UBER), whose connection to impact are more tenuous. 3. Lyxor Green Bond UCITS ETF (CLIM)  The oldest product on our list is the Lyxor Green Bond UCITS ETF which launched in February 2017…  With a TER of 0.25%, (this fund) tracks the Solactive Green Bond EUR USD IG index of 578 euro and US dollar-denominated investment-grade green bonds issued by sovereigns, supranationals, development banks and corporates.  Aside from being Europe's first green bonds ETF, (the fund) has $457m assets under management (AUM)… which is considerable versus its counterparts… The constituents in the Lyxor Green Bond UCITS ETFs underlying index have all been defined as eligible for inclusion by the non-profit organisation Climate Bonds Initiative. 4. Invesco Global Clean Energy UCITS ETF (GCLE) … is the newest and most diversified clean energy thematic ETF in Europe.  Mirroring its equivalent US product, Invesco's clean energy play physically replicates the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation index of 126 stocks involved in the clean energy value chain, including energy generation, lower CO2-renewables, conservation and efficiency. (This fund is) equally reweighted and rebalanced quarterly to reduce the concentration issues suffered by Europe's most popular clean energy ETF, the iShares Global Clean Energy UCITS ETF (INRG).  Additionally, it has a TER of 0.60. 5. L&G Healthcare Breakthrough UCITS ETF (DOCT)  Charging a relatively low fee for a thematic product (0.49%) (it) tracks the ROBO Global Healthcare Technology and Innovation index of 84 stocks in the medical instruments, diagnostics, process automation, precision medicine, genomics, telehealth, data analytics, robotics and regenerative medicine industries. (The) L&G Healthcare Breakthrough UCITS ETF is considered impact-eligible by impact investing app Circa500 and healthcare innovation is certainly a social good.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- Honorable Mentions 1. Title A Multi-Asset Strategy With ESG Can Help Mute Short-Term Volatility by ETF Trends. Quote “One ETF that's worth a look is the FlexShares STOXX Global ESG Impact Index Fund (ESGG)… in the U.S. can opt for the FlexShares STOXX US ESG Impact Index Fund (ESG)” End quote. 2. Title Why Plug Power and Other Alternative Energy Stocks Surged Today by Howard Smith. Quote “Shares of hydrogen fuel cell companies like Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) and Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) had jumped as much as 4% and 7%, respectively, in early trading. And the stock of solar technology company Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) was also on the rise.” End quote. 3. Title 3 Leading Infrastructure Stocks to Buy in 2021 and Beyond by Matthew DiLallo appearing on fool.com. Quote “Three infrastructure stocks that stand out as ideally positioned to profit in 2021 and beyond are Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (NASDAQ: AY), Brookfield Infrastructure (NYSE: BIP)(NYSE: BIPC), and Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI).” End quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- Ending Comment Well, these are my top news stories with their stock and fund tips -- for this podcast: “Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More…“ To get all the links, stock symbols, or to read the transcript of this podcast -- and more -- go to investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and scroll down to this episode, "Best Solar Energy Stocks PLUS Much More…" Also, be sure to click the like and subscribe buttons in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you download or listen to this podcast. And please click the share buttons to share this podcast with your friends and family. Let's promote a better post COVID world through ethical and sustainable investing! Contact me if you have any questions. Stay well and healthy—and conscious about the ethical and sustainable values of your investments! Thank you for listening. Talk to you next on November 5. Bye for now. © 2021 Ron Robins, Investing for the Soul.

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Equine asthma is similar to human asthma based on several factors that have now been associated with this lung disorder in horses. It has had several names in the past including heaves, COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and others.  In the past allergens have been blamed for triggering the airways to constrict which in turn makes it almost impossible to exhale. Horses can no longer breathe effectively. This can be at worst deadly but usually limits the horse's ability to function at any sport or effort. But could there be another cause? Could this be associated with chronic inflammation? TheHorsesAdvocate.com - Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World Geoff Tucker, DVM (Doc T) explains what is known based on a recent webinar he attended on Equine Asthma.

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Calcium (Ca) and Phosphorus (P) are two of the most plentiful minerals in your horse and are required for bone structure, muscle function and hundreds of other metabolic functions. However they compete for uptake in the digestive tract. When there is more phosphorus than calcium in the diet, calcium is prevented from being absorbed in the diet so the body extracts calcium from the bones to maintain a precise and critical level in the blood. All grains are high in phosphorus and when fed over time cause calcium deficiencies. Feed manufacturers add calcium and phosphorus in a ratio so Ca is greater than P but in doing so, they prevent the absorption of Magnesium (Mg). TheHorsesAdvocate.com - Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World

Every horse owner fears the green grass of spring if they have ever had a case of laminitis. In this episode Geoff Tucker, DVM (Doc T) reviews an article written in a magazine for horse owners and analyze the information they are giving about this subject. He doesn't agree with most of it. He counters with his views and experiences. He focuses on glucose from starch and what happens to it in the body and the damage it does. After hearing this podcast you will have another point of view that will help you with this difficult period of caring for horses. - Doc T. TheHorsesAdvocate.com - Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World

The frequency of floating a horse is variable and is related to the individual horse. Often, we think of prevention on a mechanical device, like how often do you change oil in a car's engine. A horse is a living being and not a machine. It is the threshold of pain that determines how frequently you need to float. In other words, how they perceive the sharp points against their cheeks and tongue. It is also the hardness of the enamel and the number of chews in a day / month / year that also determine how fast they become sharp. Be sure to tune in to find out what other factors influence when is the right time to float. Hosted by Geoff Tucker, DVM (Doc T) TheHorsesAdvocate.com - Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World

Alfred Molina suena para Spiderman 3. "Lilo y Stitch" de acción real. Joaquin Phoenix se unirá a lo nuevo de Ari Aster. "Black Panther 2" comienza su rodaje. "Deadpool 3" sigue adelante. Mads Mikkelsen se confirma como Grindelwald. "Gambito de Dama" la serie mas vista de Netflix. Freddie Krueger se suma a "Stranger Things".

Nuacht Mhall. Príomhscéalta na seachtaine, léite go mall. * Tá an peileadóir Marcus Rashford tar éis togra nua spéisialta a eagrú do pháistí ó chúlraí faoi mhíbhuntáiste. Sheol sé club leabhar nua do pháistí idir aon déag agus sé bliana déag d'aois i gcomhar le Macmillian Children's Books sa Ríocht Aontaithe Dé Máirt. Don chéad leabhar, foilseofar leabhar nua leis an údar Carl Anka dar teideal You Are A Champion. Pléifear tábhacht an oideachais, cúrsaí cultúrtha, eiseamláirí baineanna agus an dearfacht. Is peileadóir é Rashford don chlub Manchester United ó 2015 agus fuair sé MBE i mbliana in ómós a chuid oibre ar son daoine atá faoi mhíbhuntáiste. “Is iontach an lá é seo don eolaíocht agus don duine” sin a dúirt an Doctúir Albert Bourla, cathaoirleach Pfizer, maidir le vacsaín Covid-19 atá á triail acusan faoi láthair i gcomhar le BioNTech. Deir Pfizer go bhfuil éifeacht 90% leis an vacsaín atá táirgthe acu féin agus nach raibh aon imní faoina sábháilteacht. Mar gheall ar na torthaí sin, tá socrú déanta ag an Aontas Eorpach le Pfizer le 300 milliún dáileog dá vacsaín a cheannach in am trátha. Deir Pfizer go mbeidh dóthain den vacsaín déanta acu faoi dheireadh 2020 le cosaint a thabhairt do idir 15 agus 20 milliún duine. Fuair thart ar milliún duine ar fud na cruinne bás den Chovid-19. Thug Zú Bhaile Átha Cliath foláireamh Dé Céadaoin go bhfuil seans ann go gcaithfí an áit a dhúnadh go buan mar gheall ar an ghéarchéim sláinte Covid-19. Bíonn an Zú dúnta faoi láthair ach caithfear aire agus beatha a thabhairt do na hainmhithe i gcónaí. Cosnaíonn sin thart ar cúig chéad míle euro gach mhí. Is eagraíocht sheachbhrabúsach í Zú Bhaile Átha Cliath nach bhfaigheann maoiniú ón Rialtas. D'eagraigh an Zú leathanach Just Giving chun síntiúis dheonacha a fháil ón bpobal. Bunaíodh an Zú i 1831 i bPáirc an Fhionnuisce agus faoi láthair cuirtear fáilte roimh milliún cuairteoirí gach bliain. * Léirithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge i Londain. Tá an script ar fáil i d'aip phodchraolta. * GLUAIS faoi mhíbhuntáiste - disadvantaged i gcomhar le - in association with eiseamláirí baineanna - female role models an dearfacht - positivity torthaí - results, fruit dáileog - dose foláireamh - warning eagraíocht sheachbhrabúsach - non-profit organisation maoiniú - funding

Nuacht Mhall. Príomhscéalta na seachtaine, léite go mall. * Inniu an deichiú lá de mhí Dheireadh Fómhair. Is mise Niall Ó Cuileagáin. An tseachtain seo caite, agus gan ach mí roimh thoghchán na huachtaránachta, nocht Uachtarán na Stát Aontaithe, Donald Trump, go bhfuair sé toradh dearfach ar thástáil don choróinvíreas. Ó shin amach, bhí torthaí dearfacha ag níos mó ná fiche duine sa Teach Bán. Tá gach cosúlacht go raibh siad ionfhabhtaithe leis an víreas ag imeacht sa Teach Bán chun an breitheamh Amy Coney Barrett a mholadh mar ainmní na Cúirte Uachtaraí. Chuaigh Trump chuig an Ospidéal Míleata Walter Reed i Washington Dé hAoine ach scaoileadh amach as an ospidéal é Dé Luain. Dúirt sé gur bhraith sé níos fearr ná mar a bhí sé fiche bliain ó shin mar gheall ar na stéaróidigh a bhfuair sé san ospidéal. Ina dhiaidh sin, dúirt sé go bhfuil an fliú níos marfaí ná an coróinvíreas, rud atá bréagach. Dúirt an Príomhoifigeach Leighis, an Doctúir Tony Holohan go bhfuil cursaí ag dul in olcas maidir le cásanna coróinvíris in Éirinn. Mhol NPHET don Rialtas srianta Leibhéal 5, an leibhéal is airde, a chur i bhfeidhm sa stát ach dhiúltaigh an Rialtas an chomhairle sin. Ina ionad sin, chuir an Rialtas Leibhéal 3 i bhfeidhm. Dá bharr sin, níl cead ag daoine taisteal chuig contaetha eile sa tír agus ní cheadaítear ach seisear ar a mhéad mar cuairteoirí i d'áras cónaithe féin. Fuair an file Meiriceánach Louise Glück Duais Nobel na Litríochta (ar an) Déardaoin. Dúirt an Fondúireacht Nobel go bhfuil “guth fileata so-aitheanta” aici agus go bhfuil sí in ann a saol féin a dhéanamh uilíoch “le háilleacht dhian”. Is as Nua Eabhrac í Glück. Bhí sí ina file cúirte sna Stát Aontaithe seacht mbliana déag ó shin agus is ollamh in Ollscoil Yale í anois. Is í Glück an séú bean déag chun an Duais Nobel a bhuachan ó bunaíodh í níos mó ná céad bliain ó shin. I nuacht liteartha eile, fuair an file Éireannach Derek Mahon bás an tseachtain seo caite. Rugadh i mBéal Féirste é ach bhí sé ina chónaí i gCionn tSáile, Contae Chorcaí le blianta. Bhí tionchar mór ag a dhán ‘Everything is Going to Be All Right' nuair a d'aithris sé é i rith na paindéime. * Léirithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge i Londain. Tá script ar fáil i d'aip phodchraolta. * GLUAIS cosúlacht - likelihood ionfhabhtaithe - infected breitheamh - judge ainmní - nominee níos marfaí - deadlier uilíoch - universal tionchar - influence aithris - recite

Episode 12 of the Channel 90 Podcast, topics include - All things Drake (recent tunes and our top Drake 5 projects)(05:30), Ye for President (37:27)and the official UK Afrobeats chart (52:50). Once again please excuse any technical difficulties! Tracks: John Alone Ft. Yusef Slim - CODEINE (@_JohnAlone) & (@thxmemegawd)

Dr. Ciaramicoli is a contributor to The Creative Living Foundation and formerly the Chief Medical Officer of Soundmindz. Dr. Ciaramicoli has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for several years, lecturer for the American Cancer Society, Chief Psychologist at Metrowest Medical Center, and director of the Metrowest Counseling Center and of the Alternative Medicine division of Metrowest Wellness Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. Dr. Ciaramicoli speaks with us about his latest book: The Soulful Leader: Success with Authenticity, Integrity and Empathy.  Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also catch this on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com.

Dr. Ciaramicoli is a contributor to The Creative Living Foundation and formerly the Chief Medical Officer of Soundmindz. Dr. Ciaramicoli has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for several years, lecturer for the American Cancer Society, Chief Psychologist at Metrowest Medical Center, and director of the Metrowest Counseling Center and of the Alternative Medicine division of Metrowest Wellness Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. Dr. Ciaramicoli speaks with us about his latest book: The Soulful Leader: Success with Authenticity, Integrity and Empathy.  Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also catch this on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com.

Dr. Ciaramicoli is a contributor to The Creative Living Foundation and formerly the Chief Medical Officer of Soundmindz. Dr. Ciaramicoli has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for several years, lecturer for the American Cancer Society, Chief Psychologist at Metrowest Medical Center, and director of the Metrowest Counseling Center and of the Alternative Medicine division of Metrowest Wellness Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. Dr. Ciaramicoli speaks with us about his latest book: The Soulful Leader: Success with Authenticity, Integrity and Empathy.  Listen to The Tony DUrso Show on VoiceAmerica Influencers Platform every Friday at 2pm Pacific. You can also catch this on Apple Podcasts or tonydurso.com.

"The man who thinks that he is quiet and peaceful has within him a passion that he does not see." St. Dorotheus was a 6th century Palestinian abbot who founded a monastery near Gaza. Excerpts of his instruction on self-accusation are found in the Office of Readings, and are particularly relevant in the wake of the violence and tension set off by the death of George Floyd. Excerpts from Doct. 13, De accusatione sui ipsius, 1-3: PG 88, 1699 Go to http://www.catholicculture.org/getaudio to register for FREE access to the full archive of audiobooks beyond the most recent 15 episodes.

Never miss an episode. Install our FREE Podcast App available on iOS and Android. For your Apple Devices, click here to install our iOS App. For your Android Devices, click here to install our Android App. [00:00:00] You buy a house and it burns down before you take possession. You don't have to go through with it, do you? [00:00:04][4.7] [00:00:09] You're listening to the Bo Knows Real Estate Podcast tips and advice for home buyers, sellers and owners with award winning Remax agent Bo Kauffmann. [00:00:18][9.9] [00:00:23] I love law and I love history. And in Canada, our law has been based on British common law, which is something that has evolved over the centuries, literally over hundreds and hundreds of years. So I learned about this case a few years ago and I wanted to share it with you. I found it to be very interesting. So the story goes that in the mid 1500's, a home purchase took place in England and it resulted in a court case and ruling, which still impacts us today. Now, the names and the dates have been changed to protect the innocent, even though nobody from that time is still around. But the underlying facts are true. So let's go back in time and see what happened. [00:00:57][33.6] [00:01:00] It was a sunny day, March 30th in the year of our Lord, 1546. A buyer, Richard Smith, was viewing a gorgeous homestead in Upper Uxton, being sold by the longtime owner, William White. Mr. Smith was quite impressed and decided to make an offer. [00:01:16][15.6] [00:01:17] "I offer the total sum of a hundred gold coins and I would like to move into this home, on May the 15th, in the year of our Lord 1546". [00:01:24][6.7] [00:01:26] "I accept your offer. Let's put it in writing". [00:01:28][1.8] [00:01:28] And so the customary contract was drawn up with payment to come on the date of possession. On May 15th, the buyer arrived at his new home to find, to his horror that the place had burned down a week earlier, as a result of a freak lightning strike. As one might expect, the buyer was not happy and tracked down the Seller at his new home. [00:01:48][19.5] [00:01:55] "How can I help you?". [00:01:56][0.6] [00:01:57] "The place is burned to the ground on I'll not be concluding our purchase. You can keep your charred pile of rubble". [00:02:03][5.8] [00:02:04] "We'll see about that. I'm taking this to court.". [00:02:06][2.0] [00:02:06] The case went before the courts and the resulting ruling was a bit of a surprise to the buyer. "This court rules that are legally binding agreement was made on March 30th in the year of our Lord 1546, with the acceptance by the seller. And on that date the buyer became the new owner of the home. The sellers role switched from that of an owner to that of a caretaker of the property. It was the seller's responsibility to maintain the property to his best ability. However, a lightning strike cannot be prevented. Therefore, the buyer must conclude the transaction and pay the seller the agreed upon sum of money. [00:02:40][34.0] [00:02:41] And we're back in the present day. And remember how I said that our laws today are based on these old English court rulings? Well, the underlying reasoning for what we just heard still holds true today. A buyer becomes the actual owner of the property, the minute all conditions of the offer are satisfied. The buyer might not take possession for several weeks, but they are the owner and the seller becomes a caretaker of sorts. So how do we protect today's buyer from the taper scenario we just heard? I'll have the answer right after this. [00:03:08][26.9] [00:03:11] You're listening to Bo Kauffmann of RE/MAX performance realty. If you were enjoying the show, please subscribe so that you never miss an episode. Bo knows real estate. [00:03:21][9.7] [00:03:27] So you bought a house and it burns down between now and your possession date. How do we protect the buyers interest in this? Well, over the years, several clauses have been incorporated into the standard offer to purchase in Manitoba. Here is just a few examples. [00:03:40][12.7] [00:03:41] For starters, Section 4, (a) 3 states 'unless otherwise specified the property and all included items will be in substantially the same condition they were at the time with the offer.' This would include things like appliances, furnace, hot water tank, etc.. The interesting part here is the phrase substantially the same condition. What does that mean? What happens if the furnace quits? Is the seller obligated to replace it? What about a hot water tank? These are topics for another episode and we'll discuss them another time. [00:04:09][28.3] [00:04:10] But here's an additional section number 11 B 1, which states 'if the property suffers substantial damage, which is not repaired before the time of possession to substantially the same condition it was in prior to the damage occurring, the buyer may terminate this agreement'. [00:04:25][15.6] [00:04:26] As we can see, this places is the responsibility of protecting the property back onto the seller's shoulder. Although it specifies until the time of possession, I always tell my sellers to maintain home insurance for an extra week, maybe 10 days or so beyond possession date. Just in case the buyer doesn't show up to pick up his keys or for some reason walks away from the deal. You don't, as a seller, you don't want to be in a position where your place is uninsured while you still own it. Well, I truly hope you've enjoyed this episode and found it to be helpful. [00:04:56][29.7] [00:04:57] And hey, if you're still with me at this point, why not grab my free podcasting app available for AOS and Android devices? It's super easy. Just go to Winnipeg. Got tips, slash Apple or slash Android. That's Winnipeg. Doct t I.P.S. Slash Apple or slash android. That way you'll never miss another episode about Winnipeg will or both. [00:05:19][21.8] [00:05:23] You've been listening to Bo Kauffmann of RE/MAX performance realty, are you thinking of buying or selling a house or a condo in Winnipeg call Bo at 2 0 4 3 3 3 2 2 0 2? Remember, Bo knows real estate. [00:05:23][0.0] [278.8]

Jon and Sam assemble this week to debate and dissect the entire MCU filmography, ranking their favorite films from best to worst. But with a twist! To create a definitive ranking, your friendly, neighborhood Cinemaholics had to compromise and collaborate on just ONE list covering all 22 films between 2018 and 2019, which includes Avengers: Endgame. It's a contentious enough discussion to spark a Cinemaholics Civil War, and the possibilities are likely infinite. So sit back, relax, and politely complain about our list by sending us one of your own!  Support the show.

Escucha en este episodio de #MéndezTalks una entrevista exclusiva con el artista latinoamericano que nos hizo pintar a todos la vida de color esperanza. Una charla íntima entre Carlos Javier Méndez, el Doctór Méndez, y Diego Torres en la que van más allá de la música del argentino.

Con Francisco José Fernández Cruz-Sequera, Marcos López Herrador y Fernando Montoya debatimos el cambio de la sociedad española en estos 40 años en los que se celebran los fastos de las primeras elecciones que denominan democráticas. Más allá de los pretendidos derechos políticos que nos otorgan al tener la posibilidad de introducir papeles en urnas, analizamos la pérdida objetiva de derechos sociales y el empeoramiento de condiciones materiales. Pero especialmente resaltamos el proceso de ingeniería social que ha llevado a la sociedad española a verse huérfana de referencias morales. Relacionado con lo anterior, denunciamos la responsabilidad del gobierno en la derogación de la doctrina Parod, lo que ha supuesto la liberación de terribles criminales que suponen un riesgo para la sociedad como el violador reincidente del ascensor. El profesor Javier Paredes, además, nos recuerda el sentido del Corpus Christi y nos invita a escuchar el "Pange Lingua" de Mocedades.

Con Francisco José Fernández Cruz-Sequera, Marcos López Herrador y Fernando Montoya debatimos el cambio de la sociedad española en estos 40 años en los que se celebran los fastos de las primeras elecciones que denominan democráticas. Más allá de los pretendidos derechos políticos que nos otorgan al tener la posibilidad de introducir papeles en urnas, analizamos la pérdida objetiva de derechos sociales y el empeoramiento de condiciones materiales. Pero especialmente resaltamos el proceso de ingeniería social que ha llevado a la sociedad española a verse huérfana de referencias morales. Relacionado con lo anterior, denunciamos la responsabilidad del gobierno en la derogación de la doctrina Parod, lo que ha supuesto la liberación de terribles criminales que suponen un riesgo para la sociedad como el violador reincidente del ascensor. El profesor Javier Paredes, además, nos recuerda el sentido del Corpus Christi y nos invita a escuchar el "Pange Lingua" de Mocedades.

Topics include the extent to which people, pumas and prey live in close proximity; how all are adjusting to living together; and whether people, as the apex predator, can live in harmony with other predators and their prey. Guest: Justine Smith, Doct

'Interactief entertainment': wat is eigenlijk de definitie van games? Daarover breken Erik, Ron en gastredacteur Erwin Vogelaar zich het hoofd. Verder in deze aflevering: een demo van Nintendo's line-up, Lego-games, Doct

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Hunger Games, Doctor Who, BioShock, Trek, Twilight & Akira.

Comhdháil a bhí ann, le fírinne, agus ionadaithe i láthar ó beagnach gach eagras Gaeilge i limistéir Nua-Eabhraic, ag an Irish Arts Center i Nua-Eabhrac, 24 Aibreán 2010. Bhí painéal de aoi-chainteoirí ann mar chuid de, agus seo an chéad bheirt a labhair ón stáitse sin, Elaine Ní Bhraonáin agus an Doctúir Art Hughes. Beidh i bhfad níos mó ag teacht, le cúnamh Dé!Podchraoladh Céad Fiche a Naoi (15:39)

Transcript -- Cassandra Latham explains her life as a full time, Inland revenue accredited village witch.

Cassandra Latham explains her life as a full time, Inland revenue accredited village witch.

Transcript -- Cassandra Latham explains her life as a full time, Inland revenue accredited village witch.

Cassandra Latham explains her life as a full time, Inland revenue accredited village witch.