Podcasts about elizabethan english

The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years, and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word.   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years, and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word.   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

Patrick explains the differences between the King James Bible and the Catholic Bible. He provides historical context, highlighting the unique Elizabethan English of the King James Version and the removal of seven deuterocanonical books. Patrick also recommends the Ignatius Bible for its accuracy and insightful annotations. If you're interested in understanding scripture or need the perfect gift for a loved one, this episode is essential.   Richard - There was no lift in the airplane because it was too hot to fly. We were not able to take off. (02:18) Nina - What is the difference between the King James Bible and a Catholic Bible? (03:32) Teresa - My daughter had a few abortions and when people say things that are hurtful, I tell her that when the devil reminds you of your past you should remind him of his future. (12:25) Brian – How can we debunk false charges from Protestants about incorruptible Saints? (21:39) John – What's the best study bible for my non-Catholic daughter. (26:29) Patrick reads and responds to an anonymous email about marital relations and sexual acts that do not lead to the creation of new life (35:21) Alicia – I had an abortion when I was young, and it was a horrifying experience (43:14) Penny - You didn't address that the husband had a vasectomy

When UBC acquired a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio in 2021, it was only the first step in an initiative to digitize and improve access to this historic text. In this episode, hosts Carol and Jeevan speak to Dr. Patrick Parra Pennefather, Assistant Professor at UBC Theatre and Film in the Faculty of Arts, about why this acquisition was so important to the university and how emerging technologies including touch tables, mixed reality, and generative AI are enhancing users' interactions with the folio and interpretations of Shakespeare's work.LinksUBC Profile: Dr. Patrick PennefatherDr. Patrick Pennefather: Website The Shakespeare First Folio | UBC Emerging Media Lab | UBC Twitter/X: Carol / JeevanCheck out our full archive of episodes here

Ever wonder why most 21st century preachers don't speak using Elizabethan English? Or why churches use instruments such as guitars and drums? Have you ever wondered why missionaries wear clothing that looks different from the rest of us? Sorting out what is necessary for the gospel and what is a cultural form are important matters when it comes to reaching people. Join us as we ponder the "Hudson Taylor Principle."1) The minister's right (vv. 1-14)2) The minister's flexibility (vv. 15-27)Text: 1 Corinthians 9:1-23

Geography was never my strongest subject, so I had to guess at where Delaware was when I started discussing it with my expert today. And it turns out the term "Boswash Megalopolis" did not give me as many clues as I was hoping. My guest today is Dave Tabler. Dave is a historian with all kinds of interesting knowledge about the second smallest state. It sits in the aforementioned Boswash area, which is the space between Boston and Washington D.C. Specifically it's just east of D.C. and South of Philadelphia. And boy do they have some weird history since they are old enough to be part of the thirteen colonies, but isolated enough to not really be that involved. They end up with all kind of odds and ends from German food to Elizabethan English clothes and accents. This is very much a history and tourism kind of episode, which I know isn't everyone's thing, but it's a nice way to shake it up every now and then. I'd love to do more of these if there are any historians or just fans of the places they live or visit that want to educate us a little. And just before we get rolling, I've seen a lot of people picking up podcasting recently, and there's no better place to host your show than with Podbean! This show is a featured podcast over there and I've loved every moment of belonging to their service. ( Www.Podbean.Com ) ( "Dave Tabler" on Www.Amazon.Com ) Let's get aware of Delaware!   So there's Delaware. Some fun, some weird, and some in between. I hope you enjoyed the history trip, but know that next week will be entirely  different as always! In other news, the March rankings are competitive for sure: 1. The United States, led by New York, California, and Florida. 2. England, dethroning our now number 3... 3. Canada, with Ontario barely leading. 4. Australia, with Queensland holding the top spot. 5. Ireland, honestly showing up with such numbers it might take top 3 before the month is done! That's it for this week! Have a great week, a great weekend, and I'll see you all back here next week for another new episode! Until the next episode, pretty please do all the things to help the show: rate, review, like, and subscribe.  Reach out to DumbEnoughPodcast@Gmail.Com or on any social media if you want to reach me personally. Most importantly, Stay Dumb!

(Volume 13) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband to prevent him from executing her. In translating the Nights, R. F. Burton attempted to invent an English equivalent of medieval Arabic. In doing so, he drew upon Chaucerian English, Elizabethan English, and the 1653 English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart of the first three books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1546). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat about different kinds of bible translations and then briefly discuss manuscripts. We finish with an informal discussion on how the Elizabethan English used in certain translations (like the King James Version) often rob from the reality of the people, places, and events in scripture. Audio from Video.

In schools today, Shakespeare is often taught superficially. Students attempt to grasp the plot with the aid of their teacher, who helps them through the difficult Elizabethan English. At best they learn something about the beautification of language and the cultural significance of the Bard. But his work is not taught as it was written to be understood, that is, sapientially, for growth in practical wisdom and the ability to see more clearly the nature of man and the man's relationship with both fellow man and God. This week on HeightsCast, we welcome back Dr. Matthew Mehan for a discussion of Shakespeare and the education of leaders. Associate Dean and Assistant Professor at Hillsdale's Van Andel Graduate School of Government, Dr. Mehan helps us see that there is more to Shakespeare than is immediately apparent from a surface-level reading of his plays. He explains how a deep reading of the Bard offers a training in that nimbleness of mind—a good mother wit—without which, St. Thomas More said, all learning is half lame.  To do this, Dr. Mehan walks us through the opening of Hamlet, Act V. Not only does he offer an example of Shakespeare's genius, he also gives an example of how to teach Shakespeare as not only aesthetically delightful but also morally instructive and useful—the ideal companion to theology and philosophy.  For educators interested in learning more about Shakespeare and how to teach him as a teacher of wisdom, check out the Forum's summer workshop on Shakespeare. Chapters 1:00 How Shakespeare is taught in schools today 3:00 Why and how to study Shakespeare 6:03 Polysemy and the good mother wit 10:13 Literature as experience  12:55 Mirror neurons and man as mimetic  14:10 Ethical gyms and ethical gems  16:25 Shakespeare as Socrates, Nester, and Virgil  19:00 How to approach Shakespeare for the novice 23:10 Opening up the text: Hamlet, V.1 33:40 Shakespeare as teacher of self-government and liberty  35:00 Shakespeare and the American tradition  36:40 Advice for teachers  39:00 Shakespeare as a companion for life  Also from the Forum Summer Workshops for Teachers Why Our Politics Needs Poetry with Dr. Matthew Mehan  On Reading Literature by Joe Bissex  Five Fruits of a Poetic Education by Nate Gadiano In Real Time: The Temporal Order of the Liberal Arts by Dr. Matthew Mehan On Pieper's Prudence: A Virtue for the Great Souled with Colin Gleason, Tom Cox, and Austin Hatch

Author Ian Doescher wrote William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope and others in the Quirk Books Pop Shakespeare series (The Taming of the Clueless, Much Ado About Mean Girls, Get Thee Back to the Future), which imagine popular movies adapted into plays as they might have been written by William Shakespeare. Ian discusses his Jane Austen/zombie inspiration; how his bar idea transformed into an actual best-selling series; figuring out how Yoda speaks in Elizabethan English; his personal connection to Shakespeare; how film action translates to the stage; the delight of inserting deep cut Easter eggs into the narrative; and the huge fun of embracing limitations and visualizing theatricality. (Length 20:54) (Skywalker Hamlet image by Nicolas Delort.)

Debra, Diana, and Jesi talk about a celebrity's James Dean premonition, a man who became a human balloon, and the only place in America where the locals still speak Elizabethan English... and the future of tongue prints. Tell us what sparks your interest on twitter (@interest_spark), facebook, instagram, and TikTok! (@sparkmyinterestpodcast) Send a crazy story or interesting article to sparkmyinterestpodcast@gmail.com or through our website sparkmyinterestpodcast.com and we might just discuss it on the show! Articles and other sources: https://www.scienceofpeople.com/category/health/the-weirdest-fact-about-human-tongues/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alec-guinness-warned-james-dean-his-car-one-week-before-deadly-crash-1019948/ https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/Cursed-James-Dean-car-part-sells-16907965.php https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgi9wYsR5fo

My recommendation for a good translation is the ESV or the NASB, the 1977, I prefer the thees and thous. The NIV is good, but it should be called what it is, a dynamic equivalent. That is, it tries to render the original language into our vernacular rather than translate literally. I appreciate the KJ, but since no one speaks Elizabethan English anymore, I don't recommend it for every day reading. I'll talk about the King Jimmy in a future podcast.

Summary by Peyton Smith Hour 1, segment 1: (AUDIO) Alberta gets a new area code. Mike rolls a clip from The Simpsons which illustrates the silliness of it all.-------------------------------------(AUDIO) A report from Greg Reese of Infowars. Americans are bankrolling the takeover of the U.S. by China. We all know that handing over the economies of the U.S. and Canada to China, through such things as the CCP purchasing of mass swaths of farmland, makes for a nightmare beyond comprehension.Mike breaks it all down beautifully.--------------------------------------(AUDIO) Ted Nugent's new song "Come And Take It" closes out the segment.--------------------------------------Hour 1, segment 2: (AUDIO) Kamala Harris on the way out? Reports are suggesting that is the case. The amount of backstabbing in her office is off the charts, which sets the table for the next story about the nationally broadcasted henhouse known as the view.Jedediah Bila, a former View host, recently joined the program to discuss her medical exemption from the vaccine. She was pilloried by the propaganda from Joy, Whoopi, and company.Mike delves into the chaos.----------------------------------------(AUDIO) Bill Gates admits that the vaccine doesn't prevent Covid transmission. -----------------------------------------(AUDIO) Rachel Walensky also admits that the vaccine is essentially worthless.-----------------------------------------The Ottawa Senators have a 100% vaccination rate, with 40% of the team testing positive for Covid.https://americanuckradio.com/breaking-news/the-ottawa-senators-have-a-100-vaccination-rate-and-40-of-the-team-has-tested-positive-for-covid/------------------------------------------Residents of Abbotsford B.C. have been told to evacuate due to flooding.https://americanuckradio.com/current-events/abbotsford-b-c-issues-urgent-appeal-to-evacuate-sumas-prairie-citing-possible-catastrophic-flooding/-------------------------------------------In Canada, one must never say Chinese people eat rats.NEVER!Not even the CBC can cross this line.https://americanuckradio.com/clowntown/rats-cbc-story-of-chinese-eating-rodents-called-insensitive/-------------------------------------------Enjoy all this, and more, in a very entertaining hour 1 from Mike.Hour 2, segment 1: Americanuck Radio was proud to have Gary Zeolla, author of books on Christianity, fitness, politics, as well as websites and newsletters, join us today in hour 2.Gary wrote a book about translations of the Bible. He translated original Septuagint Greek manuscripts into what is known as the analytical-literal version of the Bible. Wording makes a lot of difference in getting the gist of the Bible, especially for those who are new to it.Should people steer clear of the NIV(New International Version) Bible for the King James version?Which is more reliable?That question is covered in detail, as well as critical text which is missing from the NIV version. Gary has spent years upon years in his translation work, and his knowledge is very extensive.This fascinating conversation with Gary Zeolla continues in segment 2.--------------------------------------------Hour 2, segment 2: Gary returns to answer more questions, including on books that appear to be missing from the Bible, but are actually sources that were quoted by the authors of individual books that no longer exist, such as the book of Enoch.Gary also shares his knowledge on the 21st century King James version, which is basically Elizabethan English to New English.He gives his thoughts on divine inspiration in the Bible, including the prophesies. Mr. Zeolla is a Conservative Christian. He discusses his political views, which are rooted in common sense and constitutionally. Enjoy this conversation with Gary Ziola IN FULL! Click on the link below to find out MORE about the depth and breadth of Gary's work.https://zeolla.org/---------------------------------------------

“Tell Me What You Really, Really Want” A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli with Foundry UMC, October 10, 2021, the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. “Prepare the Table with Justice and Joy” series.    Texts: Psalm 23:1, Mark 10:17-31 A story is told of a minister who sat at the hospice bedside of a woman near death and, failing to find his own words, began to recite the 23rd Psalm, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…” The woman stirred and summoned the energy to whisper, “But pastor, I do want!” I imagine there are many for whom this will resonate. The woman in the story wanted to be made well, to get to experience more of the life and love and relationship that she would be leaving behind. Does Psalm 23 teach that we aren't supposed to want like that? What does “I shall not want” actually mean? Rabbi Harold Kushner's book on the 23rd Psalm entitled The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm is one of my companions for our journey over the coming weeks. Rabbi Kushner points out that the familiar Elizabethan English used in the King James Version doesn't mean “I shall not desire anything.” Kushner says “the intent of the Hebrew is more accurately captured by more recent translations, with words like ‘I shall lack for nothing'…[or] ‘The Lord is my shepherd, what more do I need?' The issue of whether I desire things beyond that is beside the point.” Last week, I noted that the image of God as a good shepherd lives deep within the spiritual imagination of our religious ancestors. And the memory of God leading the Hebrew people out of slavery and providing manna in the wilderness folds into that image of a faithful, ever-present God who guides us through and provides for our needs. When you read the story of that wilderness time, you see that the people struggled to appreciate manna. They remembered all the food back in Egypt, the land of their captivity and, well, they wanted that. But the thing is, God led the people out of slavery and into freedom and made sure they had what they needed to survive. It is understandable to want spiced meat and vegetables and not a mystery substance likely scraped off a tree. They didn't get what they wanted but they did not want for sustenance.  Let's be clear: God is not a genie in a bottle; God is not an ATM; God does not exist to give us our way right away, but rather to guide us in God's way that is discovered in an unfolding kind of way over time. God doesn't just give us what we want, but works all day long to help us receive and share the good we need. Also, it is common and perfectly OK to get angry at God about the way things are—in our lives or in the world around us. We can have feelings about how creation is created, how humans have free will and choices, how everything experiences cycles of birth, growth, diminishment, and death. We can shake our fists at the heavens because of suffering and strife. We can cry out saying, “If the Lord is our good shepherd, why do we want for peace, for justice? Why do we want for an end to poverty, pandemics, and environmental degradation? Perhaps you've heard the one about a human who asks God, “Why do you allow poverty, suffering, and injustice when you could do something about it?” And God replies, “I was about to ask you the same question.” We can have feelings about what we have or how things are, but God has in fact given us all we need. We have been given this beautiful planet, created in ways that are intricately interconnected and interdependent. The planet, well-tended and respected, provides all we need to thrive. We have also been given one another—a wonderfully diverse human family—each one with unique talents, skills, gifts, and insight. We are made to live in community, to care for one another and to share with one another and, in so doing, assure that all have what they need. Perhaps it helps to think about it this way, when the Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want…  Because if we are being guided in God's way of life, we will be good stewards of the earth and grow healthy food that can feed hungry bodies instead of some other bottom line. When the Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want because we will understand that we are one human family, created to care, share, and provide for one another. We will both desire and choose in ways that assure ALL have what they need, that ALL have enough. Together, we can be the answer to prayer.  As I prepared these reflections for today, I received an email from the Poor People's Campaign that said: “As those with power and wealth continue to debate whether our nation has the resources to meet the needs of all of its people – with talk about debt ceilings and budget and infrastructure bills – we will continue to denounce the lie of scarcity amidst great abundance, and keep building our movement to end poverty once and for all.”  You will likely have encountered at some point along the way, the idea of a “scarcity mindset.” A scarcity mindset perceives there isn't enough time, money, or other resources for what is needed. It can be in response to a true lack of sufficient resources. Certainly there are those who do not have enough money or support to thrive. Others may have enough or more than enough but still maintain a scarcity mindset out of fear. “What ifs” can really do a number on us. What if I lose my job? What if someone in my family gets sick? What if, what if, what if can lead to fearful obsession with not having enough. In either case, the focus on the need to have more money or to protect our money affects our overall perspective and our literal brain function and, as a result, our choices and actions. In our Gospel text today, we encounter a rich man who was clear about what he wanted. He wanted to figure out how to inherit eternal life. The man is functioning within a market economy mindset: “What will it take to get this other thing that I want?” Jesus' response is to recite the last six commandments of the Big Ten. He doesn't name the first four—which have to do with our relationship with God—but rather, focuses on the last six, which are all about our relationship to our neighbor.  And Jesus edits one of the commandments—evidently just for the benefit of this man before him.  In verse 19 of our passage, instead of “you shall not covet” Jesus says, “you shall not defraud.”  The thing that made folks wealthy in Jesus' day was to own property, so we can assume that this rich man had lots of property. Folks gained more wealth by acquiring the land of debt-defaulting neighbors (foreclosures?); therefore, it is also reasonable to assume that those who had lots of property had gained that wealth at the expense of the poor. In fact, the Greek word for “defraud” literally means “to keep away from someone, to deprive, to take away what rightfully belongs to someone else.” To follow the commandment as Jesus presented it would mean that the man has to give back what doesn't really belong to him (Brueggemann's definition of justice)—that he would have to acknowledge that the goods of the earth are unequally distributed and then do something about it. Jesus calls the man to do just that, to let go of what he doesn't need, and to follow Jesus. The man refuses, the only time in Mark where someone refuses to respond to Jesus' call. This story not only impacts the life of the man who walked away from Jesus, it impacts the larger community as well. As one scholar writing about scarcity mindset says, “When we feel that money and goods are scarce, we start to think of our neighbors and fellow citizens as competitors rather than teammates united by our shared humanity. When we believe that the economy is zero-sum, we also come to believe that helping another person comes at our own expense. Helping our fellow humans escape poverty, debt, and misery becomes a disservice to the wealthy, rather than an expression of compassion and justice at the foundation of a society of equally free and valued people.” Scarcity mindset makes us believe there is not enough to go around. But that's simply not true. There is enough if we don't destroy or squander earth's resources. There is enough if we share what we have. There is NO REASON that children in this country or any of our siblings should be going hungry or not receiving healthcare or having access to clean water and secure housing. If we wanted to invest in solutions to care for the poor, the planet, and the common good as much as we want to focus on spaceships and weaponry (just two examples), the creative, innovative brilliance present all around us would figure out how to get things done and there would be enough money to make it happen.  If the Lord is our shepherd, we will want to do everything we can to assure that ALL have what they need, that ALL have enough, that ALL have a place at the table.  We can blame God for whatever…or allow ourselves to get caught in a scarcity mindset… or we can give thanks that God has given us one another, this beautiful world, and all sorts of ways to tend and mend, to care and to share. As we think about preparing a table here at Foundry that draws the circle wider and makes sure that all have enough, just think about the abundance that is among us and all around us. Some of the best tables I've ever experienced have been potlucks, when people all bring their best dishes to share. If each one of us simply contributes what we can, if each one of us brings out very best to the table, there's absolutely no reason we should struggle to exceed our goal and have the resources we need. As we continue to build relationships and partner with others in our city, we will find ways to assure that there are not two cities—one that has enough and another that doesn't—we will find ways to house our neighbors instead of evicting them from their tents—we will find ways to assure that all our neighbors' needs are met. The Lord is our shepherd, so let's not only really, really want to prepare a table that leaves no one wanting, let's do what it takes to get the job done.  https://foundryumc.org/archive

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly When I first became a Lutheran at age 18 in 1982, our congregation had two hymnals in the pew: The elder statesman of the Lutheran world: The Lutheran Hymnal (1941) and a little red new generation paperback volume called Worship Supplement (1969). We would soon ditch the TLH for the green Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) - the joint project with the churches that became the ELCA, and which was rejected by the Missouri Synod - over the objection of the congregation's Worship Committee, which recommended the adoption of the LCMS-approved variation of LBW, the blue Lutheran Worship (1982). I don't know all of the political machinations of the congregation, but I did later learn that the senior pastor had authored a resolution that the Missouri Synod join the ELCA. Maybe that had something to do with the congregation being strapped with the ***A hymnal for many years. Being a new Lutheran, I actually read through the TLH and the WS. The rubrics in TLH, which more resembled Adam's loincloth than the historic vestments of the church - were bolstered by more detail in WS as to how to worship as a Lutheran. Like the 1966 Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, WS was a mixed bag: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. But in the interest of starting with the Law and ending with the Gospel, let's look at them in reverse order… The Ugly The ugly would include things such as the horrible rewording of the Lord's Prayer. This was, after all, the year of Woodstock. I think some of the folks on the Commission on Worship (COW) had been tripping on some bad acid while listening to Country Joe and the Fish's “Vietnam Song.” This is an example of pure progressivism: change for change's sake. Even the option for the version of the Our Father that English speakers of every liturgical denomination has said for 500 nearly years was excised. And our liturgical overlords were very determined on this point. The boomers tried for more years than the Beatles were together to foist this “New and Improved - Now How Much Would You Pay” verbiage on a church that didn't want it. A modernized version of the Lord's prayer made it to LBW and LW, as like unto cockroaches, it proved hard to exterminate, but was finally put out of our Missouri in the latest hymnal, Lutheran Service Book (2006). It seems like the Commission on Worship had, by this point, gone through rehab, kicked the habit, and had come to Jesus. The traditional wording hath won the victory. Thanks be to God. The other “ugly” is the introduction of the Reformed ceremony of the fraction in The Holy Eucharist II (page 61). Again, LSD is the only reasonable explanation. Just say no, kids. The Bad The Bad parts include the goofy pictographs indicating the rubrics for when to sit, stand, or kneel. I think this was about the same time when international road signs with stick figures were making their grand debut, and who knows how confusing the words “sit” and “stand” and “kneel” would be as rubrics in a hymnal? Again, the modern COW - no longer on its dope bender - has seen the light, as these silly ideograms have been replaced by plain English in LSB. After all, if English was good enough for King James and Jesus… Also, the COW aped the papacy and the Green New Deal, I mean, the Novus Ordo, by introducing the Holy Handshake ritual. Sometimes, this is called the “passing of the peace” - but to me, it is like passing a kidney stone. Another Bad is more along the lines of inexplicable: there is no confession of the Creed in Holy Eucharist II and III. There is no explanation for this. The Good The Good includes the restoration of the word “catholic” in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds (which was deep-sixed by the Blue Hymnal Boys). Also a Good is the rubric for the sign of the cross at the crescendo of both creeds in which we boldly confess the resurrection. The Nicene Creed includes the restoration of the first person plural “We believe…” instead of the first person singular “I believe…” This is how the Creed was written, and how it was confessed by the Church for centuries. It is not our individual confession only, which is implied by our modern American penchant for “I believe…” but is rather the Church's collective confession - “We believe.” This change did not survive the transition from LBW to LW - itself a mélange of Good, Bad, and Ugly. The inclusion of the prayer offices of Prime, Noonday, and Compline are indeed very good. The COW renamed the Office of Sext to “Noonday.” This was, after all, the year after the Summer of Love. I suppose they didn't want to give people ideas about some new form of contemporary worship. The Office of Compline is one of the greatest additions to our hymnals' services - and LBW/LW rounded it out with its inclusion of traditional chant tones and extended rubrics. Compline got its toe in the door and was reintroduced into the North American Lutheran life by its inclusion in WS. One of the best features is the “Suggestions for the Worshiper” on pages 15-16. It consists of rubrics for the laity, and goes into more detail than did its equivalent in TLH on page 4. This section explains the sign of the cross, and gives instructions for doing it. It encourages crossing oneself “at the Trinitarian Invocation, at the last phrase of the Creed, before and after receiving the elements of Holy Communion, and at the Benediction.” Such rubrics actually help in the restoration of liturgical practice in American Lutheranism, as it will placate some “concerns” that “people are having, pastor (but I can't say who)” that this stuff is “too Catholic.” After all, if CPH says it's okay, it must be okay. At least some people will accept the imprimatur of the Holy Office of the Publishing House from the Violet Vatican. Others will still demur, but a half glass is better than an empty glass, as Gottesblog's whiskey-drinkers believe, teach, and confess. This section also includes rubrics for bowing: “on entering the church, during the first half of the Gloria Patri, on approaching the altar for Holy Communion, and on leaving the pew after the conclusion of the service. Bowing more deeply or kneeling is customary at the words of the Nicene Creed ‘he was born… and became man.' Bowing only the head is appropriate at any mention of the sacred name of Jesus, especially where this occurs in the Creed.” I learned the profound little prayer upon receiving the elements from this section, a variation of which I still say as the celebrant: Lord, I am not worthy that You have come under my roof, but only say the word, and Your servant will be healed. These rubrics also teach the reader to confess his “Amen” when receiving the elements after the pastor has said, “The body of Christ” and “The blood of Christ.” This Worship Supplement's rubrical catechesis shaped my piety as a new Lutheran attending Divine Service. Inexplicably to me, precious few in the pews actually followed these rubrics. But some did. There is also “A Form of Private Confession and Absolution” including helpful rubrics. There was no such liturgy in TLH. Another enhancement of TLH is the fact that the pastor's chant tones are indicated, thus giving the celebrant “permission” to chant the liturgy - something that was missing in TLH. I've heard several theories, such as the World War II paper shortage or a hurried effort to publish the book, but people often make such assertions with no evidence. The TLH version of the Pastor's Chant Tones did come out as a separate volume a couple years later, but by that time, the weird hybrid of the pastor speaking and the congregation chanting had already calcified, like clogged arteries. Some pastors are still accused of secret Romanism to this very day if they chant their parts of the liturgy - even though our hymnals have indicated these chant tones now since the days of John Cougar's “Hurts So Good,” Asia's “Heat of the Moment,” and Van Halen's “Pretty Woman.” That's almost 40 years, as long as the Israelites wandered in the desert. And we know what the purpose of that timeframe was. Maybe some of our members of a certain age see LSB as a Russian conspiracy to put us back under the pope. OK boomers. Perhaps the best Good of the Worship Supplement is the hymn section. So much of the hymnody that we now take for granted was introduced to North American Lutherans by this resource. And, believe it or not, many of these hymns are stronger versions than what eventually filtered its way into LSB - including some hymns that retain gendered language and even Elizabethan English. Apparently, not everyone was dropping acid. There were clearly a few Nixon voters in the old COW Some of the “new” hymns include: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending Creator of the Stars of Night O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide O Come, All Ye Faithful Angels We Have Heard on High Let All Together Praise Our God In Dulci Jubilo (in Latin and English) Gentle Mary Laid Her Child What Child is This O Wondrous Type! O Vision Fair My Song is Love Unknown Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing With High Delight, Let Us Unite O Sons and Daughters of the King The Victimae Paschali Celebration (LSB: Christians, to the Pascal Victim) This Joyful Eastertide I Bind Unto Myself Today Thy Strong Word Did Cleave the Darkness O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High Son of God, Eternal Savior Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling From All Thy Saints in Warfare (LSB: For All Your Saints in Warfare) In Adam We Have All Been One Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence In Thee is Gladness Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise God of Grace and God of Glory Before the Ending of the Day There are also improved tunes for some hymns, such as: Hark! A Thrilling Voice is Sounding The Royal Banners Forward Go Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain Lord God, Thy Praise We Sing (Luther's antiphonal Te Deum) One glorious hymn that was introduced in WS, made it to LW, but did not make the cut in LSB is: O Kingly Love, That Faithfully So although Worship Supplement is largely forgotten, like the fact that a band named Quill played Woodstock - there seems to be no relation to the eponymous Fort Wayne professor - it has been influential in the shaping of our worship in the LCMS. It has retired and sits on pastor's shelves, only being thumbed through for the sake of nostalgia or research. And like the 1960s itself, it is a mixed bag. And so as a tribute to Worship Supplement, here is a video of the earworm that we are all hearing right now. You're welcome. Larry BeaneMarch 5, 2021 Facebook0TwitterLinkedIn0TumblrPinterest00 Likes  

rḗ - lij´un : "Religion" and "religious" in Elizabethan English were used frequently to denote the outward expression of worship. This is the force of φρησκεία , thrēskeia , translated "religion" in Acts 26:5; James 1:26 , James 1:27 (with adjective thrḗskos , "religious"), while the same noun in Colossians 2:18 is rendered "worshipping" ("cult" would give the exact meaning). And in the same external sense "religion" is used by the King James Version for λατρεία , latreı́a , "worship" (so the Revised Version (British and American)), in 1 Macc 1:43; 2:19, 22. Otherwise "Jews' religion" (or "religion of the Jews") appears in 2 Macc 8:1; 14:38 (the Revised Version (British and American) bis); Galatians 1:13 , Galatians 1:14 ( Ἰουδαΐσμός , Ioudaismós , "Judaism"); and "an alien religion" in 2 Macc 6:24 (ἀλλοφυλισμός , allophulismós , "that belonging to another tribe"). The neglect of the external force of "religion" has led to much reckless misquoting of James 1:26 , James 1:27 . Compare Acts 17:22 . See SUPERSTITION .

sermon transcript So I ask that you turn in your Bibles to the text you just heard, read by Andy, 1 Corinthians 16. We look at five closing commands. Right now, I'm listening to an audiobook, a biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, the Union General. I love listening to audiobooks. I love biographies, and this one's on General Grant. And one of the author's themes is what made him such a great general, was his ability to give sharp, clear, decisive commands that brought order out of chaos. Especially in the heat of battle, Grant was an amazingly cool commander, he was clear-headed in the malestream of wheezing bullets and exploding shells and screaming men and the undulating frenzied action of a battle, he was clear-minded at times like that. He was able to size up the need of the moment and of the position and give decisive commands that would position his army for victory. He could do this again and again. For example, at the Battle of Shiloh, after General Grant's Army was caught by surprise and they were running, basically pell-mell, from the battlefield, Grant arrived just in time and rode all over the battlefield, assessing the need of the hour, and gave critical commands to bring order out of chaos. He did the same thing when he arrived in a different circumstance, at Chattanooga. Where the army of the Cumberland, the Union Army, was surrounded with the Confederate Army on the heights and they were being starved to death, there was no food supply. And Grant arrived, evaluated the situation, immediately sat down at a rudimentary table, a little desk there. And started writing orders on pieces of paper and letting them fall to the ground, pell-mell and just would write more commands and they'd fall to the ground, and more commands. And when he needed something from another table, he wouldn't stand up, he would just move over in the same seated crouch and get the stuff from the other table and go back and continue to write. And when he was done, the floor was covered with these commands. He got done, he collected them, read them over, arranged them, and handed them each to the appropriate person. Laser-focused, and the ability to give clear commands that brought order out of chaos. All the great commanders have been able to do this. Napoleon was known for this, he was keeping four secretaries going at once, just the ability to give sharp, decisive, even detailed commands. But none of these men can come close to the clarity of the Holy Spirit. Operating through the Apostle Paul, to give clear commands to God's people that are trans-cultural, that lasts in every generation all over the world, bringing order out of chaos, for us. The commands of God, these five, short, clear, sharp commands to every generation of Christian. Look at them again, Verse 13-14, "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong and let all that you do be done in love." So these commands somewhat sum up what Paul wants to say to this dysfunctional, messed up Corinthian church. And I feel like with so many sermons I preach here in Corinthians. I think we've earned the right to say that, this was a dysfunctional messed-up church, not trying to be insulted and not trying to say we're any better, I hope we're better. But it was dysfunctional and messed up, as we've seen across these chapters, it was written with factions and divisions. It was immature, worldly, and carnal, acting like babies, spiritually. They were yearning for the approval of the world in very inappropriate ways, they were rife with sexual immorality and even of a kind that doesn't occur among pagans. And they were unwilling to perform church discipline in those cases. They struggled with temple prostitution or dealing with going to temple prostitutes. Christians were taking other Christians to court. Because those Christians had defrauded them in business. Terrible, all around. They had improper views of marriage and of singleness. They had problems with meat sacrificed to idols at every level. They had problems with the Lord's Supper. Even the Lord's supper. They had problems with spiritual gifts, they gave primacy to certain gifts and denigrated others, and they had a fundamental problem loving each other, they didn't love each other as they should have. Some were even saying that resurrection from the dead cannot occur, does not occur. And in all of this, they were forgetting the two reasons why God leaves all Christians on earth. The internal journey of holiness and the external journey of witnessing to a lost world, they weren't doing those things as they should have done. What a terrible mess. That's why I call them a dysfunctional church, and yet, I think in a very wholesome way, I'm glad that they were dysfunctional. And that God the Holy Spirit addressed their dysfunctionality in a timeless way through 1 Corinthians. And it's gonna take a second epistle, 2 Corinthians, to continue to address the problems in this church. As Paul the apostle, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit addresses these problems, he gives these five sharp clear commands, and we're gonna study them, each one of them in time. "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong and let all that you do be done in love." Let's take them one at a time. First, be watchful. This is a call to be vigilant in the Christian life. It implies danger, even a danger that comes unawares or perhaps by stealth. It implies danger but implies other things that call for watchfulness as well. It implies waiting, persevering, and waiting. Watchfulness. The contrast, perhaps, could be sleepiness or slumber. So, a century standing watch throughout the night, during wartime, can be executed for falling asleep at his post. Why is that? Because really, the fate of the whole army is in the hands of the centuries at night, the soldiers are vulnerable, they can be killed in their beds by an enemy that comes up by stealth, and so the centuries have to stay awake through the night, vital. So, spiritual drowsiness is a severe problem in the Christian life. A kind of fog, a spiritual fog can fill our minds and cause us to underestimate the circumstances that we're in, spiritually, and even physically. We don't really see what's happening, the circumstances right around us or in our age. A fog can come in and we can get sleepy or drowsy. And I see that I see it in my own life many times. And I see that in Christians in this church and in our time, a spiritual drowsiness that underestimates the dangers of the day. The worldliness, the encroaching worldliness that I see more and more happening in the church, in our generation, in American Christianity. It has the effect of dulling our senses, we become not sharp anymore. And hardening our hearts, and then we can gradually tolerate, become okay with things that the Bible screams out against. So there becomes a gap between the language of sharp warning in the Bible and the way we're living and thinking about those topics. We are sleepy, drowsy. So the Bible calls on us, not just here, but in many places, to being watchful and vigilant, not drowsy. So what are we supposed to watch for? Well, watch for Satan and his demonic cohorts. 1Peter 5:8 says, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour." A number of years ago, I went on my first mission trip, 1986, to Kenya, and we went out on safari and it was pretty exciting. We were out in those cool-looking Jeeps and out there, and... We saw some exciting things. Imagine going on safari, out in a lion country, maybe in Tanzania, not that place I was at, near Nairobi. But I mean further out, out into lion country. And you're out there and you decide you wanna sleep under the stars, you're gonna take a ground cloth and you just love... You're just away from all the light pollution, and you just love how the stars look here in Africa. Do you realize what a fool you are? Do you understand that lions are nocturnal? Do you have a sense that they might be interested in you, putting it mildly? Well, that's a picture of how some Christians are spiritual, they're not self-controlled and alert, they don't understand that their enemy, the devil, is prowling after them, looking for someone to devour. 600-pound beast, devour, that's the image. So Paul says we ought to be... Says, "Not unaware," but I'll just say, aware of Satan's schemes. He says that in 2Corinthians 2:11, we are... "In order that Satan might not outwit us, for we are not unaware of his schemes." Think of a scheme. It's an evil plot, an evil plan, there's an intelligence, a dark intelligence to it, a combination of things that led to your demise, to your sin, they're schemes. We need to be aware of it. So watch, in reference to Satan and his demons. Jesus said to his disciples, to watch and pray. Do you remember how he was praying in Gethsemane? Jesus was pouring out his heart in prayer, getting ready to die for us. And then, Peter, James, and John were with him, and then the other disciples were a little further off. And in Matthew 26:41, he says, "Watch and pray so that you'll not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." Satan's coming at you. He's speaking specifically to Peter who was about to go through the worst night of his life. Definitely the worst night of his life, and he was unprepared. He was not prayed up, he wasn't watching and praying. What about you? Are you watching and praying? Or are you just assuming Satan's not gonna come after you? Paul said to Timothy, "Watch your life and your doctrine closely," 1Timothy 4:16. What does that mean? Watch your lifestyle. What habits are you in? What are your patterns? What are your habits? What are you doing now, consistently? There are good habits and bad habits, are you into some bad habits? Watch it. What's happening in your life? Watch it closely and watch your doctrine closely. Are you morphing, doctrinally, in a very bad way? Are you letting worldliness affect the way you see Christian doctrine? Watch your life and your doctrine closely. Are you drifting away from Christ? That's another image. Hebrews 2:1 says, "We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away." Is there a process of drifting going on in your life where you're further away from Jesus than you were... As he said to the church of Ephesus in Revelation, "You have forsaken your first love." Do you love Jesus a little less now than you did a year ago, or five years ago? Are you drifting away? Watch yourself. And we're supposed to watch over one another too, we're supposed to watch each other. Not just, "Am I drifting away? But, "Is he or she drifting away?" my Christian brother or sister. We're called on to do that for each other. In Hebrews 3:12 and 13, it says, "See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." Sin is deceitful, sin is lying to you, and it's taking you where you don't wanna go. And the remedy there, in those verses, are the brothers and sisters that watch over one another and speak into your lives. That's why you need to be a covenant member of a healthy church with people who care enough to talk to you when they see you drifting, and they see that sin is encroaching and it's hardening your heart. You're less soft and responsive to Jesus than you used to be because sin has been lying to you, and there's that hardening process going on. Watch. We will watch over one another in brotherly love. And then, ultimately and finally, we're supposed to watch for the second coming of Christ, we're supposed to be looking ahead to Jesus coming. There's a watchfulness in the Christian life, forward-looking. And Jesus said very plainly in Mark 13:33-37, he said, "Be on guard, be alert. You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away, he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task. And he tells the one at the door to keep watch, and therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back. Whether in the evening or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. And if he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone, "Watch." That's a sense of intense expectancy, ready at any moment for the Lord to come to you. Now, he's either gonna come and take you out of this world by death. And you do not know when that will be. Or he's going to come in the clouds and end human history, and you do not know when that will be. And you need to watch and be ready. Secondly, stand firm in the faith. So, be watchful, the first command. Second command, stand firm in the faith. Now, this phrase, The faith, is doctrine. It's not just, stand firm in your faith or in faith, but it's stand firm in the faith, in this set of doctrines, these set of teachings that come from scripture, from the Holy Spirit, through the Bible. Stand firm on doctrine. Now, the centerpiece of Christian doctrine is Christ and Him crucified and resurrected, that's the center of everything. Paul said, "I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified," and he definitely would add, "And resurrected." Christ crucified, Christ resurrected, that's the centerpiece of the gospel. Stand firm in that. Now, the Greek word, "Stand," here, I like, is "Stasi." So it's like driving a stake into the ground. This is a solid pillar on which you can build your life, it's not going anywhere. It's solid and secure. I remember years ago when I was a student at MIT, and they're just building all the time, and Cambridge in the Back Bay of Boston, and they're still buildings, still going on, they're just always developing that area. And what's interesting is that that part of Boston is landfill. Back Bay, it was just water during the revolutionary war era. And so they need to drive pillars down, foundational pillars deep into the Earth, and they do this with these repetitive hydraulic hammer bangs, just bang, bang, bang. You're just hearing this all the time, a little bit annoying. But anyway, just, again and again, you're just hearing it. And why are they doing... Driving pillars down, because they're building a tall building up. So they might need to go down as far as 100 feet, down into... So picture that. So as one of the parables says, "Dug down deep," and take the word of God and let it dig deep into your soul. Stand firm in the faith. You settle matters of Christian doctrine and you just never move from them. Not going anywhere. And you build your entire life on them. Jesus said, "Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rains came down and the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock." And the opposite is building on sand, and it's going to be destroyed. So building on Christ and on His word, and he's telling you, "Stay put here on this. Don't drift off of this." As Ephesians 4:14 says, "We will no longer be infants tossed back and forth by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching, and then by the cunning and craftiness of men and their deceitful scheming." So we're not gonna be blown around like children, doctrinally. We're solid, we're secure, we're standing firm in the faith. I remember when I was a kid, one of my... Or a younger teenager, I think, at that point, one of my favorite movie was the Karate Kid. Some of you have seen that movie, some of you are like, "Boy, pastor, are you dating yourself?" I'm dated, it's who I am. But anyway, Karate Kid. Now some of you have seen, it's this Japanese man, Mr. Miyagi, who takes a little... A young teenage boy, Daniel, Daniel Son, under his wing, to teach him karate. And one of the most important lessons he teaches him, is the lesson of stability, of being stable on your feet. And he does this by bringing him to the California coastline and he has him stand in way steep surf water, and then it's just... Surf is just pounding him while he does his karate kicks. And the idea is just, learn how to be balanced and strong on your feet. He also takes him out to a little pond, I guess, in some little dingy, and has him stand up on the prow of that little boat, and it's kind of wobbly, and he has to learn balance, he has to learn how to be stable and balanced. And then, at one point, you see him up on a pillar, like a pier kind of pillar, a little short thing, but he's upon it, and he's standing on one foot and learning this kick. Plot spoiler, by which he wins the competition. But at any rate, he's there. I can't spoil a movie that's that old. If you haven't seen it, it's your problem. But he's up on a pillar, balanced on one foot, and then he kicks with it. So the idea here is that we need stability. Satan is going to be just wave upon wave of attacks on your doctrinal life. New concepts coming in that challenge your doctrinal life, your Christianity, your understanding of doctrine. So be strong in the Word. You need to drink in the Word every day, be in the Word. Feed your soul in the word of God. So stand firm in the faith. Third command, act like men. Act like men. Now, this is a fascinating Greek word. This is a literalistic translation of the Greek word. Many modern English translations go with something more like, be courageous. And in the end, I'm pretty much going to get there, but I wanna stay close to what the Greek actually says. And it's an interesting word here. There is a word, a Greek word often translated man, but less so now as we have more inclusive language on gender, but Anthropos, from which we get anthropology. And that would be just generally, usually just generally human being, human being. But then there's another word translated man, which means man as opposed to woman, male as opposed to female, Andros. And this is that word turned into a verb. So, act like that. Act like a man. So, the KJV fascinating it says quit you like men. Isn't that great? What does that mean? Quit you like men. Well, it's in the imperatible form in Elizabethan English. So, you must acquit yourself like a man would. That's the idea, quit you like men. So, one incredible story from church history in the year '81, '85, the 86-year-old Christian hero, Polycarp, the Bishop in Smyrna was seized, arrested, and brought in as the leader of the church at Smyrna to face trial for being Christian. And he was brought into this seething amphitheater of enemies of the population, and they were... They wanted him dead, and he was going to be questioned for his faith. And as he came in, the account says that he heard a voice from Heaven saying this, Be strong Polycarp and play the man. Be strong Polycarp and play the man. I think that would be a similar concept here. So we need some background. We need to understand Paul's context, and then we need to understand our context to bring it across. So back then, especially in some key areas there were clearly gender-based roles. Gender-defined roles. In our age, gender itself is under direct attack, savage attack by Satan. It's remarkable in our lifetime in the last few years. The very concept of the reality of gender and what it is is being brought into question. It started earlier in the 20th century, as I traced out in Chapter 11, when I was preaching on it with feminism and then moved on into the LGBTQ range. And now we're beyond that into the issue of transgenderism, the transgender issue. Even within the last number of weeks or maybe a month or two ago, the New England Journal of Medicine questioned the validity of identifying a newborn baby's gender. It's just bizarre, the level that we're at. Joe Biden has made opening America up more and more to transgenderism a major plank of his early presidency with his presidential edicts. Transgenderism, I believe should be seen as a form of mental illness similar to anorexia nervosa, where you have a faulty self-image that leads to devastating consequences. So, with anorexia, you've got an individual who thinks that they're overweight and therefore they just stop eating. And everyone knows what to do with anorexia, is you don't feed the delusion. You try to heal them to have a healthy view of their bodies and of themselves. But when it comes to gender dysphoria, all of society's feeding it and with devastating consequences. And so, Biden has opened up high school athletics and the military to transgender. We're in a very weird place. And Christians, I would say, Let's look on it as an opportunity, we are uniquely positioned to tell the truth, the Biblical truth about gender. It actually does matter. It's one of the first things that it says about the human race is that we're created male and female, but the government now, it's men who identify as women and women who identify as men is a protected category, like race, worthy of intervention by the Federal Government. That's where we're at. Now, even for some Christians sadly, there's been seepage in this area and questioning in this area, and we need to stand firm on the faith. We need to be able to say what the Bible actually says gender is. We need to be able to answer, as I've said many times before, that critical question that a 12-year-old boy would ask his dad, “Dad, what does it mean for me to be a man and not a woman?” Or for a 12-year-old girl to say to her mom, “What does it mean for me to be a woman and not a man?” What does that mean? Is there any Biblical answer to that? And yes, there is. There are some things, the overwhelming majority of the most important things about us that are not gender-based at all, is that we're human beings, both male and female, created in the image of God, fallen into sin, redeemed through faith in the blood of Christ, and going to the same heaven and able to do amazing gifts for the glory of God. All of those things are true of both men and women. But there are differences too. Alright, now what did Paul mean by act like a man? Act like men. What did he mean? Well, there's two possibilities, the first is that he's talking about act like a man and not like a child. So this would be basically, grow up you children, and he openly says that in Chapter 14, they are acting like children, and he tells them, and they are to stop acting like children. And he uses the same Greek word in 1 Corinthians 13, when he says, “When I was a child, I thought like a child, I talked like a child, I reasoned like a child, when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” So it's the same thing when I became a man as opposed to a child. So the idea is, grow up and be mature. I think that's possible, but I actually think that option two is the more likely. And act like men would be more like, act like a man in a warrior sense. In a sense of fighting battles, and that's... There are actually multiple scripture Verses that head in that direction. Men were back then warriors, who would go out to meet an invading army and meet a military threat, they would put on armor, they would go out with edged weapons, swords, and axes, and they would go out and they would stand firm on the battlefield and fight. That's what battles were like back then, it was hand-to-hand, and pure physical strength was needed. And if you got pushed to the ground by your enemy, you're probably done for. So you needed to maintain your feet, you needed to be strong, you needed to be skillful with the sword and all that, that's what it was like. And generally thought of as cruel to put women on the battlefield. When Paul Revere rode through the sleeping Massachusetts countryside on April 15, 1775, saying, the British are coming, the British are coming in the wee hours of the morning, he was expecting men to get up out of their beds, get their rifles from over the fireplace hearth and go out and take a stand and defend their freedom. And so, they're called Minute Men. They were called unto man up, I guess, or act like men to go out and meet the enemy with valor and defend those who couldn't defend themselves, this required manly strength and manly courage. Now, in our military context, things are very different, aren't they? With the development of military technology. I mean, just starting with guns, a child can pull the trigger and kill a man, a warrior, much bigger and stronger. Anybody could do that. If you can fly a drone and push a button, you can destroy a whole village. If you can push the right button with the right code, you can take out a whole city with an ICBM, it doesn't take any strength to do that. And so, women fighting in the military makes more sense to our age. Although it still has certain issues and a lot of pushback, but more sense than it did back in those days, in Paul's days. So the question that's in front of me in the series of five commands, is this a command for everyone? Or is everybody needing to act like a man? Or is this just a command for men to act like men? Well, is it for everyone? Home base, no. Women aren't being told, act like a man. You could say, But my Bible says, Be courageous and women are called on to be courageous. I'll get there dear friends. Yes. But home base, it's calling on men to rise up and be men, to be leaders, and to be strong in the leadership of the church and the family. And Biblical Manhood, if you ask, “Alright, Pastor, tell me what to say to my 12-year-old son, or what should I say to my 12-year-old daughter, what is the difference?” I would bring you from manhood and womanhood to Ephesians 5, though not everyone's married to everyone, I know that, but home base for me, thinking about Biblical Manhood is Christ as a man laying down His life for the church. And the wife responding to that Godly male leadership. And we need men that will stand up and be Christ-like servant leaders in that sense. We need a clear display of Biblical manhood. We need fathers to train their sons to lay down their lives, to lay down their lives. And have patterned after Christ. One author put it this way, for men, a man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family. He must have a cause to which he is devoted even unto death, for this is written into the very fabric of his being. "That is why God created you to be his intimate ally and to join him in the great battle." So, we could see his home base as a command to men, to act like men. There is, I think, a secondary sense that I think is worth mentioning and preaching, which comes across in most of the English translations, though not all of them, which is to be strong and courageous. And this is a command to every Christian in that regard. We are all of us soldiers in Christ's army, all of us have to Ephesians 6, Put on the full armor of God, and take our stand against the devil and his power. Every Christian has to do that male or female. That image is very strongly masculine, but no one would say that only men are to put on spiritual armor and fight, no way. All of us have to take up the shield of faith, we have to take up the sword of the spirit and we have to fight. We have spiritual battles to fight, so that we are holy and fight temptation, and that we can courageously advance the Gospel. Some of the most courageous human beings in history have been women, sisters in Christ, who have stood for Christ at the tribunal, and were willing and did lay down their lives for the Gospel. And we're gonna meet these dear sisters in Christ when we get to heaven. And so, God is commanding all of us to show that level of courage. Act like men. The fourth command, be strengthened. The verb is passive, not be strong, so much as receive strengthening, that might be a way to look at it, be strengthened. Not something that we generate in and of ourselves, but something that we are commanded to receive. And the implication is from God, receive this strengthening. Fundamental to this is a sense of the need for ongoing strength in the Christian life. Daily life saps us. It saps our strength, it drains us. We feel less strong at the end of the day than we did at the beginning, even spiritually. Living in this world, constantly assaulted by the world, the flesh and the devil drains us. We feel weary, it's draining. And dealing with the sorrows of this life, the afflictions, the diseases, the disappointments, the pain, the emotion, saps our strength. And so, we need ongoing strength for personal holiness and for witness. And so, it's be strengthened here. I think about Isaiah 40. Even youths grow tired and stumble, and young men stumble and fall, but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. I think that's the idea. As it says in Psalm 23, “The Lord makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.” So you just need to get quiet before the Lord, you need to meditate on some strengthening promises of God. You need to be in his presence in prayer and feel your spiritual battery get recharged. I really think that's what Sunday should be about. I'm not a Sabbatarian, but there's some restful-ness that comes on Sundays where you worship, and then you might spend this afternoon just doing that, in the presence of God through the scripture, reading your favorite Psalms or some account of the life of Jesus. And you find your battery getting recharged. You find yourself renewed in your strength. Ephesians 6:10, as I've alluded to this just a moment ago, says, “Be strong in the Lord and His mighty power.” And part of that strengthening is recognizing your weakness. Paul said, when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Well, that's not a complete statement. I think what he meant was when I'm weak, I'm strong when I take it to the Lord in prayer. When I realize I can't do this, God, I'm coming to you, would you please strengthen me? Then I'm the strongest I can be. So that's what I think of, I think of be strengthened. And fifth, do everything in love, do everything in love. The final of all these five commands, it just to some degree sums up everything. It literally says, Let all your things be in love, everything you do, be in love. Now, I went back and counted, I devoted 10 sermons to 1 Corinthians 13. I'm not doing that again this morning, but 1 Corinthians 13 is just a vital, a vital analysis of the Christian... Of love in the Christian life. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have not love, I'm a resounding gong or clanging cymbal. If I do any spiritual gift ministry, but I'm not a loving man or a loving woman, a loving person, it's nothing, it actually is detrimental. And then those sweet Verses, oh, I would commend them to your meditation, convicting, but powerful. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres, love never fails.” Oh, just take those Verses and just pray them into your soul, pray them into your marriage. I've read them, I was just convicted with how I was being as a husband. I just... I wanna be patient and kind and humble. And so it is with all of us, just let everything you do be characterized by these kinds of words. Let all your things be done in love. It's the capstone. And I think even if you did all these other commands, if you didn't have love, it would be worthless. If you were extremely vigilant, and if you stood rock-solid in the faith, and if you were a bold and courageous warrior for Christ, and if you were amazingly, strong, having been strengthened, but you were an unloving person, you would do damage to the Church of Christ. Love is the capstone. Alright, applications. Five straightforward commands. Be watchful. Stand firm in the faith. Act like men. Be strengthened, and do everything in love. Now, these are commands. One of the most helpful insights I've ever had about Christian law or law in the Christian life is whenever we have commands, turn them around as promises. Just make them promises. This is what you've commanded me to do, now do it in me, Lord. Do these things in me. Take them up to God in prayer and ask Him to fulfill all of these things in you. Now, which of them is speaking to you particularly? Do you feel yourself sluggish or sleepy or drowsy in the Christian life? Ask the Lord to wake you up. Ask the Lord to make you aware of what's going on in your life and in your world. I remember years ago, I went skiing with some friends in New Hampshire, and I was living in Massachusetts. Drove up three hours to the ski resort area, just spent the day there, all day skiing. At the end, they very kindly treated me into a very big dinner. Nice dinner. Got in my car in the dark at 8:15 for my three-hour-plus drive back. You know what happened? Within 20 minutes, I was almost asleep at the wheel, straight out asleep. I'm like, I'm going to die tonight. I'm gonna literally die, not met... I mean, I'm gonna die tonight if I don't stay awake. So I pulled over, and that car had rolling down windows. Now, I'm really dating myself. Some of you rolled down windows years ago, none of... Obviously, you don't even know what I'm talking about. It's also 'cause you've never hung up a phone either. [laughter] You think you have, but you never have. [laughter] You've clicked off, but you didn't hang up. But I pulled over, rolled down the four windows in northern New Hampshire in January, and drove home. [chuckle] I was sick two days later. [laughter] But I was alive. And the wind that blew in was chilly and terrible and very effective. So, I would just say, if you need to pull over and roll down the windows and let the cold blast in, whatever you need to do, do it. Are you standing firm in the faith? Are you strong doctrinally? Or do you feel yourself flickering? Do you find yourself... Like, take transgenderism, do you say, Oh, maybe who knows. If you're flickering, just go back and say, There's no doubt about this in the Bible. God's not flickering on this, why am I? What's going on with me? Make me God rock solid in my faith. So are you reading the Bible regularly? Are you strengthening your soul with sound theology? What about your boldness and courage as a warrior? If you are a man, are you acting like a man as Jesus would have you, are you acting like a Christ-like man? And if you're raising young men, are you raising them to be Christ-like men? Whether they are ever husbands or not,o just be Christ-like leaders. And concerning all of you, are you fighting courageously? Are you fighting your lusts? Are you putting on the spiritual armor and fighting for holiness? What about evangelism? You know, are you being courageous? Are you bold as a lion? What about being strengthened? Do you feel weak? Do you feel like you just need... Well, then, if I could just urge you, spend this afternoon well, spend it wisely. Go into your week tomorrow morning much stronger than you feel right now. Be strengthened today through the ministry of the word in prayer. And finally, do everything in love. The simple application I give you is just read over 1 Corinthians 13 again, and take Verses 4-8 and just press them and say, Am I patient? Am I kind? Just those two are powerful in a marriage, patient and kind. Do I keep a record of wrongs? Am I a bitter person? Just go over those things and say, Oh God, make me tender-hearted. Now finally, I just wanna... I began the sermon this way, I wanna end this way. I wanna plead with any of you that are outside of Christ, you came in here today and you weren't a Christian, I wanna plead with you. I just believe that God draws people for times like this. John 6:44, “No one Jesus said, can come to me unless the Father sent me draws them.” Before you ever come to Christ, there's a drawing. Is God drawing you to Christ? All you need to do is repent of your sins and say, Jesus, I'm a sinner, you died for sinners, I trust in you, forgive me, and He will. These commands won't save your soul, faith in Christ, this is what you must do, this is the work of God for you, believe in the one he's sent. And if you do believe, you'll receive forgiveness of sins. Close with me in prayer. Father, thank you for the clarity of these commands, I thank you that we have a commanding officer through the Holy Spirit who gives clear, sharp, understandable commands to us in the Christian life. We know we're not saved by obeying these commands, we're saved, Lord Jesus, by your obedience to all the commands, by your righteousness, Lord, we're saved. But Lord, having been saved, justified by faith, we ask, how shall we live? And these commands tell us how to live, so I pray that you would strengthen each one of us based on these words in Jesus’ name, amen.

This week on the Carolina Snowflakes Podcast we’re tipping our hats to all things British as we embark on our quest for knighthood. Our understanding of attaining knight-ness is you must first be epic for England and thus appealing to the Queen.We figure there’s no better way to demonstrate our worthiness than by sharing how British history and pop culture has influenced who we are as Snowflakes. Yes we attempt accents and we’re sure you’ll enjoy it.From our adoration of Robin Hood to our love of Mary Poppins and our nerding out over The Canterbury Tales, we salute our neighbors across the pond and hope they’ll give us a wave or a nod or something….knighthood perhaps? Are we doing this right?We also discuss a very special British-Carolina connection with the locals living on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Descendants of Blackbeard’s pirates, the residents of Ocracoke still speak a unique dialect called Hoi Toider, which is comprised of old Elizabethan English and pirate slang. The Hoi Toider dialect isn’t found anywhere else in the world and we do our best to share a few words and phrases one might hear when visiting.So grab a spot of tea and tuck into this week’s episode as we hail the Queen and all things British.

We’re heading to Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. That’s right, we’re talking about the life and work of Elizabethan stage actors with our guest, Clive Greenwood, who in addition to being a Museum Heritage Educator, happens to be an actor himself. Turns out that learning lines as a Shakespearean actor was a lot more than that. For starters, in those days, they rarely even had a full script to work from! The stage that Shakespeare wrote for had to be a uniquely dynamic and versatile space. Put simply, it had to be an entire world. And was it ever for the actors who trod it. (recorded over zoom) Music by Max Richter

Welcome back to "In This Essay, I Will-", the show by and for those who love storytelling, story watching, and everything in between! Talking Points: Feet, Witches, Bards, Elizabethan English, Heartbeats, and SunriseYouTube Links:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqyIts6h0Eg&t=15s

Shakespeare is one of Britain’s favourite sons but his popularity is global. While the Elizabethan English is a challenge for modern audiences his characters and plots are timeless.

Shakespeare is one of Britain’s favourite sons but his popularity is global. While the Elizabethan English is a challenge for modern audiences his characters and plots are timeless.

Tamara K. Anderson interviews Jason Hagues on the Stories of Hope in Hard Times podcast. Jason shares his journey from feeling numb to aching joy with his son Jack, who has autism. There are seasons of both sorrow and joy.Jason Hague: Feeling Both Joy and Sorrow with AutismJason Hague BioJason grew up in the piney woods of East Texas. He is the associate pastor of Christ’s Center Church in Junction City Oregon (near Eugene.) He has served on staff for Youth With A Mission for many years. Jason and his wife have been married for nearly twenty years, and they have five amazing kids. He has a passion for writing, and enjoys creative, visual storytelling. Jason often speaks often about the intersection of faith and special needs, due to the fact that he has a son, Jack, who is on the autism spectrum. He is the author of Aching Joy, which I highly recommend.Jack’s DiagnosisJack was a lively and interactive child, but at age one and a half to age two he started to drift. Jason says he didn’t even notice at first that he wasn’t interacting with them anymore until a friend mentioned that Jack had never given him eye contact.He and his wife researched a little bit but were certain whatever was wrong with Jack wasn’t autism. He made little gains and to them, that was further proof he was doing just fine. Finally Jason’s mom emailed him and said, “I think Jack has autism and I think you are in denial.” He laughed when he read it, which he is pretty sure people in denial do when they are accused of being in denial.But they had to face the facts. Jack received his diagnosis at age three and they have been on a journey since then.Facing DiagnosisThe diagnosis was a real blow for Jason. He and his wife had two daughters and he was anxiously awaiting a son to be born. His daughters seemed to be born speaking “Elizabethan English” and he took it for granted that his son would be the same.He came from a loud and excitable family that loved sports. Jason imagined that when he had a son that they would watch football on Sundays and then go outside and play. He had all these visions in his head about what fatherhood was going to be like when he had a son.After Jack’s autism diagnosis Jason realized that the dreams he had imagined might never happen and that he was going to have to recalibrate the expectations he had for Jack.Lesson #1 Grieving & FeelingsJason went through the denial stage and then he went through a stage where he was angry with God. After that, Jason went through this long season of sadness and numbness. Jason wasn’t sure how to deal with this grief.Dealing with GriefSome people don’t like using the term grief when you talk about a child, because you should be able to celebrate each child’s uniqueness. But Jason simply wasn’t able to do that at this point.This is a concept Jason talks about in his book and I was so glad to hear it brought up. So many of us have dreams or expectations that we truly do grieve when they don’t happen. The diagnosis doesn’t have to be autism. It could be cancer or depression.Jason explains that for some reason it is okay to feel blue when someone you love is diagnosed with disease–then people understand. But for some reason he feels it is controversial to mention feeling down after a child is diagnosed with some kind of mental disorder like autism. People feel they have to tiptoe around it.Feeling Your FeelingsHe has had some people say, “You should be rejoicing about your child and the beauty that they bring.” But in Jason’s experience you just can’t tell someone how they ought to feel. “Feelings don’t sing on command.”If you are feeling sorrow or grief you can’t just wish your way out of it. “You just pray you can get past some of the heavy stuff so you can see the beauty.” You have to deal with the feelings you are actually dealing with. If you are dealing with grief, you have to acknowledge it and vent it. If you are angry at God. Talk to Him about it and submit it.If you are sad, it is so helpful to acknowledge what it actually is and go through the process of working through it.Anger and GodWe also talked about how it is normal to angry with God during the grief cycle. So just get it out and vent to Him because He is big enough to take it and He still loves us. God also wants us to get through that and move on towards peace.Jason calls this “upward condescension” in his book. We feel like we don’t want to talk about our grief to God because we are afraid He will be mad or can’t handle it. When in reality he sees our grief. He has seen anger, disappointment and disillusionment before. So if the emotion is there, let’s just tell Him that it is there.It is common in these types of situations to have questions and ask, “Why God?” Don’t smother the feelings. “I think it is much more healthy to give them to Him in prayer” Jason shares. Tell God how you are feeling and ask him to come into that place and be with you.Be real with God and He will help you through it.Lesson #2 Look for and Celebrate the Small VictoriesLooking for little victories didn’t come naturally for Jason. Jack is now thirteen and is still pretty much non-verbal. He begged for God to give his son words and be able to relate and have conversations. The problem was Jason didn’t see huge progress in communication and it was easy to sink down into sadness again.Jason confesses his wife has always had an easier time seeing the small ways Jack improves. He tended toward the harsh reality of the situation, “Did you see that meltdown he had today?” He wasn’t going to sugar-coat it. But he realized that,”Some things are really good in the midst of the hardness. So let’s look for those things as well.”Jason found that as he looked for daily little victories, everything changed. You can continue to pray for the big thing, but look for the small miracles as well. Learning this concept was a game-changer for Jason.Lesson #3 Bearing Burdens With OthersJason was always a people-person, but he didn’t realize how much he needed others until he was given something too hard for him to bear on his own.So much of the pop psychology now is “You can do this. You were made for this.”But some things are too big for us. We simply cannot carry the load. This is where community and people can help. When Jason was in depression his wife suggested that he go out with his friends, but he didn’t feel up to it. She would still encourage him to go. The times he went, he always came away feeling better.He needed friends to talk and vent to. We pray for God’s help and God usually sends people to answer our prayer.Jason’s Letter to GodIn Jason’s book, Aching Joy, he wrote this very sweet letter to God once when Jack was going through a self-injury phase. Here is what is says,Dear God. . .I am afraid. . .I have always believed the world is broken, and that you didn’t break it. That you are the Great Restorer. That your Son came to make all things new. This has been my conclusion after years of study and thought, but I have to admit, I am biased on this point, because I desperately want to believe it. I need to believe that you are truly, wholly good. That you don’t desire innocent children to live frantic and bruised. That you don’t lock up a boy’s future behind impaired speech centers in the brain. I don’t know how to help my son, and I don’t know how to pray. I can’t just pray “heal my son” because I don’t even know what that means anymore. I don’t know what anything means. So I won’t pray anything too bold for now. Instead I will just remind you that your name is Immanuel, which means “God with us.” Come close, Immanuel. Prince of Peace, draw near to my son, and give him rest. Amen.Jason read this letter out loud in a sermon once and completely broke down crying. He had to have the Elders from his church come and embrace him. But the sweet outpouring of love that came to him afterwards was amazing.More Than We can Handle“God does give us more than we can handle. We need to cry out to God and have our communities come around us and add strength.”This goes to show that it is really important to be real. When we really are struggling, our answer to the question, “How are you,” shouldn’t be “fine.” It is important for us to open up and be real.This is tricky though because even if we are walking parallel paths we are never truly going to understand one another because everyone’s circumstance is different. This is especially true for special needs families. They often feel like no one understands and so they don’t reach out.But it is important to open up and say, “I know you might not be able to relate to this, so I am just going to tell you this is what is going on. And this is really, really hard.”You can find friends in similar circumstances, but you can also be friends with people who have completely different trials than you do. They can listen and that is a lifesaver.Friend can share in your sorrows and your victories as long as you are open and willing to share.A Breakthrough with JackJason’s constant prayer was that he would be able to have connection and a relationship with Jack. “God you created us to have relationships. I would love for him to understand how much we love him.” This prayer seemed to go unanswered for a really long time.The Book and the BreakthroughOne day Jack brought a little board book home from the library called, “I Like it When.” His wife text him and told him he had to come home and see this.So, Jason rushed home and found Jack on the top bunk reading the book laughing. Jason looked at the book and it depicted a big penguin and a little penguin doing daily things together. For example, there was a picture of two penguins holding each other’s wings and the book said, “I like it when you hold my hand.”Then Jack pointed to the little penguin and the big penguin and said, “Jack and daddy.”The next page showed the big penguin giving the little penguin a bath. It said, “I like it when we splash about.” Jack then said “Jack and Daddy.”Of course by this point Jason is in a puddle of tears.Jack had never used language like this before, and yet he was laughing and pointing at all the things that he did with his dad.Jason realized that God had answered his prayer. Jack understood their relationship.There is so much that goes on in the mind of a child with autism. It is almost like their are prisoners in their own little bodies and they are trying so hard to tell you what they are thinking. You have to learn to decode what they are trying to express when they quote movies or books.The Viral VideoI originally “found” Jason through a video he made where he shares a sweet poem about Jack as he romps through the ocean waves. If you want to watch the video, Click Here.The Backstory of the VideoJason shares a little bit of the backstory. Back in 2016 he was listening to some music and it inspired him to write his feelings about Jack. He tried to cover his frustrations about some of the questions argued over in online forums: Is a person autistic or do they have autism? “So much of autism in general is confusing…and there is sadness and beauty at the same time.”The message he wanted to convey to his son was “I love you.”They filmed Jack and Jason on the beach while Jason recites the poem in the background. He wonders what the waves mean–the gains and losses with autism. There aren’t definite answers.During the first filming his friend got his finger caught in his drone and they had to stop filming. They almost lost all the footage because it kept crashing. They went home discouraged. But his wife convinced him to go back out and try again.The second time around the got all the shots they needed and were able to recover all the originally shot footage as well.The VideoThe video they made immediately went viral. He had like a million views in four days. It was crazy.Jason’s favorite thing was that people started posting pictures of their kids on the spectrum and saying, “This is my son and he is beloved too!”The comments he has received is that although the video was sad, it was hopeful and joyful at the same time. Jason thinks that having that combination of “this is hard but it’s beautiful” is what made the video work and go viral. If we can embrace the hard things we can also embrace the beauty.Favorite Bible VerseJason confesses that he prefers to hang out in the Psalms because they are so heartfelt and full of longing.But in this season of his life, his favorite verse is found in Romans 12:12, “Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation. Be constant in prayer.” It is important to have hope in tribulation, and then rejoicing and hard times. But perhaps it is most important to be present in all of it. Be present in talking to God about all of it.Jason feels this verse summarizes his journey. He didn’t know how to be present in all of it early on. Right now he is on a journey to have more joy in his life. He wonders if there is such a thing as pure joy.The PendulumI shared the story that one of my friend’s grandparents told me when I was a teenager. They explained that our emotions are kind of like a pendulum that swings back and forth. The greater we feel joy, the greater capacity we have to feel sorrow. I have found that to be true. As I have gone through life and experienced greater sorrow than I ever experienced as a teenager, yet I also felt greater love and hope and joy than I had ever felt as a teenager as well.So, it is important to cling to hope when we are hanging out on the sorrow side of the pendulum that it will eventually swing the other way.Feeling NumbJason added that sometimes we think we can protect ourselves by feeling numb, but when we do that we miss out on the beauty. In Aching Joy, Jason explains that you can’t numb one side of your heart only. He feels this is what he tried to do early on–numb the pain and kind of mute everything. The problem was that it then muted everything–even feeling joy with his other children.Jason found that as he was able to experience more pain he was able to experience more beauty.It is important to lean into the pain and experience it–even though it feel counterproductive because that is not where we want to be.Happy All the Time?Some of the songs we sing at church are hilarious because they talk only about joy…”I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart.” Or “I’m inside, outside, upside, downside happy all the time.”Jason jokes that our kids should sue us for religious malpractice because there is also great sadness in this world, and we are just going to have to know how to deal with that.So, we debunked the myth that if you are just good enough you will be happy all the time. It is simply not true, which is what I thought growing up.When I crashed after Nathan was diagnosed I thought, “This is not how it is supposed to work.” And I began to look for proof in the scriptures that if I was just good enough good things would happen. And I found person after person who were good but had hard things happen to them. Think of poor Joseph in Egypt alone. That poor man! He had hard thing after hard thing happen to him.Jason add that Jesus tells us “in this life you will have trouble” (John 16:33). It played out in Jesus’ life and the life of 11 of the 12 disciples who were martyred. This life is full of difficulties. We have to be able to face that and move on.The way you move on is by admitting it is there and dealing with it. Work through it with God and work through it with yourself. Otherwise you will live in perpetual disillusionment.How do you answer when people ask, If life is going to be hard and challenging, why should I believe?Jason answers that it isn’t just about this present moment. Sure, you could earn lots of money and insulate yourself from life and be “happy” without God.But to him the Christian faith embodies what he sees in the world. We were built for love. We were built for beauty and life. And all of that has been damaged, so we experience deep pain. But Christ has come and given us a taste of redemption. He has restored us and that process of restoration is going on until one day it will be complete. That means that one day every injustice will be turned around and one day the things that hold Jack back will be gone. He will be able to speak and sing and say everything that was in his heart.There really is a God up there and His Son really did give Himself in redemption for us so we can be with Him forever.Jason and I agree that we are both looking forward to the day when we can truly talk to and communicate with our sons. This gives us both something incredible to hope for and look forward to.Connect with JasonFacebook His Website (Jasonhague.com)Shareable Quotes and Memes

Jason Hagues shares his journey from feeling numb, moving to aching joy with his son Jack, who has autism. There are seasons of both sorrow and joy. Jason Hague: Feeling Both Joy and Sorrow with Autism Jason Hague Bio Jason grew up in the piney woods of East Texas. He is the associate pastor of Christ’s Center Church in Junction City Oregon (near Eugene.) He has served on staff for Youth With A Mission for many years. Jason and his wife have been married for nearly twenty years, and they have five amazing kids. He has a passion for writing, and enjoys creative, visual storytelling. Jason often speaks often about the intersection of faith and special needs, due to the fact that he has a son, Jack, who is on the autism spectrum. He is the author of Aching Joy (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631469401/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1631469401&linkCode=as2&tag=tkas1tips-20&linkId=911e433a912e4c1acddd2e72bc9ca7c2) , which I highly recommend. Jack’s Diagnosis Jack was a lively and interactive child, but at age one and a half to age two he started to drift. Jason says he didn’t even notice at first that he wasn’t interacting with them anymore until a friend mentioned that Jack had never given him eye contact. He and his wife researched a little bit but were certain whatever was wrong with Jack wasn’t autism. He made little gains and to them, that was further proof he was doing just fine. Finally Jason’s mom emailed him and said, “I think Jack has autism and I think you are in denial.” He laughed when he read it, which he is pretty sure people in denial do when they are accused of being in denial. But they had to face the facts. Jack received his diagnosis at age three and they have been on a journey since then. Facing Diagnosis The diagnosis was a real blow for Jason. He and his wife had two daughters and he was anxiously awaiting a son to be born. His daughters seemed to be born speaking “Elizabethan English” and he took it for granted that his son would be the same. He came from a loud and excitable family that loved sports. Jason imagined that when he had a son that they would watch football on Sundays and then go outside and play. He had all these visions in his head about what fatherhood was going to be like when he had a son. After Jack’s autism diagnosis Jason realized that the dreams he had imagined might never happen and that he was going to have to recalibrate the expectations he had for Jack. Lesson #1 Grieving & Feelings Jason went through the denial stage and then he went through a stage where he was angry with God. After that, Jason went through this long season of sadness and numbness. Jason wasn’t sure how to deal with this grief. Dealing with Grief Some people don’t like using the term grief when you talk about a child, because you should be able to celebrate each child’s uniqueness. But Jason simply wasn’t able to do that at this point. This is a concept Jason talks about in his book and I was so glad to hear it brought up. So many of us have dreams or expectations that we truly do grieve when they don’t happen. The diagnosis doesn’t have to be autism. It could be cancer or depression. Jason explains that for some reason it is okay to feel blue when someone you love is diagnosed with disease–then people understand. But for some reason he feels it is controversial to mention feeling down after a child is diagnosed with some kind of mental disorder like autism. People feel they have to tiptoe around it. Feeling Your Feelings He has had some people say, “You should be rejoicing about your child and the beauty that they bring.” But in Jason’s experience you just can’t tell someone how they ought to feel. “Feelings don’t sing on command.” If you...

Meet Matt Stillman Matt is probably the most fascinating person I know and I don’t say that lightly because…as you’re well aware…ALL of my guests are pretty damn fascinating. But Matt? He’s extra super-duper rare.  In a very tidy nutshell which is hard to do with Matt, he… Spent years studying and practicing aspects of Easter and Western spiritual practices and disciplines along with long-form improv. Does tantric bodywork which fascinates the ever-loving hell out of me. Started his creative approaches service and consultancy on the streets of New York offering strangers ‘creative approaches’ to what they had been struggling with – big or small, personal or professional, mundane or profoundly esoteric. Basically, Matt helps people look at whatever is burdening them in new ways. Not to solve the problems but to court new relationships with them. Writes biblical erotica written in Elizabethan English looking at how we might heal the fracture between sex and spirit (I mean…if that right there doesn’t intrigue the hell out of you, why are you even here?!?!). Conceived and produced “The End of Poverty?” – a feature-length documentary about the origins of poverty and why it persists in a world with so much wealth. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Directors Choice commendation. He has spoken at the UN four times about his film. Started a skin care company, Primal Derma, where he attempts to reclaim some older forgotten trails of how people made a deep connection between health of place, animals and humans to making a spot in the world that you belong to a bit more deeply. (Get thee some Primal Derma STAT! It takes away my weird old-lady dry spots between my fingers when I remember to use it. ) Is a former Food Network executive and brought groundbreaking shows such as Iron Chef and Good Eats (and many others) to American audiences. Matthew is a life-long New Yorker, a lover of language, culture, and is a practitioner of bigger questions and wondering aloud and sitting in mystery. He is currently a student of The Orphan Wisdom School. NOW THAT THE FORMAL STUFF IS OUT OF THE WAY, I WANT TO SHARE SPECIFICALLY WHAT MATT MEANS TO ME. Matt, out of the blue and with zero expectations other than for me to be a kind and loving person to myself and others, offered to lend an objective ear about a number of things I was going through (this was all before my ‘coming of middle agedom’) at the time – divorce, intimacy and sexuality issues, loneliness, etc. I was just starting to get comfortable opening up to others in more vulnerable and tender ways and he gave me this incredibly safe space (I HATE that phrase – let me know if you have a better one) to explore my thoughts and feelings…no judgment – just objectivity and curiosity and non-boundary pushing insights. I was platonically smitten and I think you will be too. CONNECT WITH MATT Website | Twitter

Programming Languages and Communication With Kerri Miller TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! (https://stickynote.game) Rails 5 Test Prescriptions (https://pragprog.com/book/nrtest3/rails-5-test-prescriptions) is updated, available, and shipping! Guest Kerri Miller (https://twitter.com/kerrizor): Senior Developer at TravisCI (https://travis-ci.org/) and Ruby Community Member. Co-Organizer of the Open Source and Feelings Conference (https://www.osfeels.com/). Blog (http://kerrizor.com/). Summary Why is Smalltalk the Elizabethan English of programming languages? Why has it been so influential, and how does the programming language you use affect the way you think about programming. On this episode, Kerri Miller and I talk about programming languages and communication, and what we've learned from our most recent programming language adventures. Notes 01:56 - Introduction Twitter Stream (https://twitter.com/kerrizor/status/974391130484752385) Creole Languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language) Pidgin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin) 06:18 - SmallTalk is to Ruby as Elizabethan English is to Modern Day 08:11 - SmallTalk’s History Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (https://amzn.to/2JxTtss) Squeak (http://squeak.org/) By the way, I did get the Squeak history partially wrong. The original work was done at Apple, and when they went to Disney after that, they downloaded their Apple work as Open Source to continue. (It is possibly named Squeak because they were being wooed by Disney). The technical details are basically right, though. 17:55 - Thinking About Programming and Software Projects in a Flexible Way Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sapir-whorf-hypothesis) 22:01 - Object-Oriented Programming, Thinking, and Design The Overton Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) 28:37 - Learning New Programming Languages, Concepts, and Techniques The Silmarillion by Tolkien (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion) Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPfEXIlTVE) Much Ado About Naught by Avdi Grimm (http://www.virtuouscode.com/introduction-to-much-ado-about-naught/) Related Episodes Back in the Testing Weeds with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls (http://www.techdoneright.io/33) Ruby Tapas and Avoiding Code with Avdi Grimm (http://www.techdoneright.io/24) The Elm Programming Language With Corey Haines (http://www.techdoneright.io/17) Special Guest: Kerri Miller.

Enjoyed bringing my friend Mark Ward back on The Shaun Tabatt Show to share about his new book Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible (Lexham Press, 2018). About the Book:  The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today? The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years―and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word. In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In Authorized Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar"―and what we would call "the man on the street." About the Author:  Mark L. Ward, Jr. received his PhD in New Testament Interpretation from Bob Jones University in 2012; he now serves the church as a Logos Pro at Faithlife, writing weekly articles on Bible study at the Logos Talk Blog. He is the author of multiple high school Bible textbooks, including The Story of the Old Testament and Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption. Connect with Mark: Facebook Twitter (@mlward) about.me/mark-ward ByFaithWeUnderstand.com Logos Talk Blog Logos Pro Training AuthorizedBook.com For additional show notes, visit ShaunTabatt.com/204.

Award winning travel writer, Inga Askamit shares how she created her piece about alfresco theatrics, Transcendant Summer Night. Catherine Bramkamp chats about being a poetry judge for the anthology, as well as writing her poetic elegy, Wolf House: Jack London State Historic Park Roger C. Lubeck talks about the seductivness of dancing in a story he calls Crush, and reads his poem, “Valley of the Moon.” In addition, Roger has been assigned the task of “official question answerer” by the anthology’s editor, Robert Digitale. Word By Word host Gil Mansergh joins the conversation as well, by revealing some of the pitfalls of creating historical nonfiction in his “written in Elizabethan English” piece Exploring the Bay of Nova Albion for Captain Francis Drake.” Linda Loveland Reid reads from the nonfiction piece that captured Press Democrat columnist Chris Smith’s attention at the Sonoma County Fair, Confessions of a Prune Picker.

Ever wonder what Shakespeare’s plays actually sounded like 400 years ago? David Crystal is a linguist and author who has researched Original Pronunciation, or OP, the accent with which actors in Shakespeare’s day would have spoken their lines. And Daniel Fromson tells the modern-day story of a man who set sail for Tangier Island on which it’s rumored OP still exists. Plus: Getting the accent right is not the only challenge in reading Elizabethan English. Paul D’Andrea has spent years trying to pull the big ideas out of Shakespeare’s plays. D’Andrea was named Outstanding Faculty of 2015 by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Later in the show: With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to take him under his wing and mentor Tony on the art of thriller writing. Plus: Novelist Carrie Brown draws inspiration from her years as a small-town America journalist, and from the mysteries of the cosmos. Her new book The Stargazer’s Sister tells the story of two remarkable sibling astronomers whose work led to the discovery of the planet Uranus.

Two great interviews this week on The Library...William Shakespeare is considered the world's greatest writer, but for many his Elizabethan English is challenging. The Sonnet Man, conceived and produced by Broadway playwright Arje Shaw sets Shakespeare's sonnets to Hip Hop blending classical literature with an urban beat, hearing Shakespeare as never before, and opening it up to young people in a genre they know and love.I interviewed the star of this production rap artist Devon Glover.My Second interview is with Hip-Hop artist Illus...Family First is the brand new cd by ILLUS featuring some of the best emcees in the business. Each emcee also produces the track they are featured on, making this a one of a kind musical experience.Family First features Blueprint, Apathy, Ill Bill, Erin Barra, J-Live, Phashara from the Beatmonstas, DJ Johnny Juice, Esoteric, Chuuwee and more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

William Shakespeare is considered the world's greatest writer, but for many his Elizabethan English is challenging. The Sonnet Man, conceived and produced by Broadway playwright Arje Shaw sets Shakespeare's sonnets to Hip Hop blending classical literature with an urban beat, hearing Shakespeare as never before, and opening it up to young people in a genre they know and love. I interviewed the star of this production rap artist Devon Glover. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com