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Host: Heidi HatchGuests: Maura Carabello- Exoro Group and Dan McCay- Utah Senator (Sponsored NHL Bill) Ryan and Ashley Smith bought an NHL team:Utah NHL What we know:UTAH will be on the front of the jerseys next season.The team will take its time to determine its name, logos and colors.The Delta Center will be renovated into a dual sport arena- is this where the Legislative bill and funds will be spent, or will it be spent on the surrounding area and eventual new arena?(Should taxpayers fund stadiums?)First priority now is to set up the team players/execs in Utah. Salt Lake County Convention:Embattled state school board member Natalie Cline's reelection bid is over.The Utah Legislature Censured Cline but did not go as far as impeaching and taking away ability to run- was this the right call? State Convention Saturday:Senators Mike Lee and Mitt Romney voted to hear impeachment case against Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.Governor Spencer Cox Gave a Ted Talk- encouraging Americans to follow 4 stepsSpend less time with polarizing headlines that pit one side of the country against the other.Spend more time with people who think differently than you because it is “harder to hate up close.”Expend more effort serving and giving back to society.Attempt to develop “the classical political virtues of humility, patience and moderation.”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Going digital must be a priority for care homes but it is a complex area.In our latest industry-leading podcast we look at three specific areas to save care homes time and money:DSCR - improving outcomes for Care Providers & Service UsersImproving transparency in the care home by removing manual processes, particularly around expenses Digitalisation in workforce management, particularly the challenges with temporary staffing Join our expert panel of Kate Roberts, managing director of Neuven, Sanjay Malkani, head of sales at Expend and Ed  Evans, sales director at Log My Care.Podcast sponsored by Rotacloud and hosted by CHM's publishing editor Steve Hemsley.Tune in to all our podcasts here.Support the showCare Home Management is the UK's leading media brand for care home providers and managers.

When Do You Expend Ammunition? | Ep. 702 - Daily Dose Mushrooms https://redpills.tv/mushroom Kirk Elliott Gold and Silver www.getgoldtoday.com www.redpills.tv/mypillow My Patriot Supply Be Prepared When Disaster Strikes redpills.tv/patriot The Redpill Project.. Find Us and Subscribe! Web https://redpills.tv Telegram http://t.me/RedpillsTV Rumble https://rumble.com/c/RedpillProject CloutHub https://clouthub.com/redpills GETTR https://gettr.com/user/redpill TikTok https://tiktok.com/@realjoshreid Foxhole App: https://pilled.net/#/profile/127862 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redpillproject DLive: https://dlive.tv/RedpillProject

Surely by now you've heard of Power Plate. I discussed in a recent episode about whole body vibration and well, Power Plate basically has cornered the market on research, design, and utility. Want to know some sneaky good Power Plate benefits? Stay tuned! We're all looking for a short cut. There are a few. In fact, maybe for women over 50 there are more than you think because if the effort is there the time doesn't have to be! In fact, shouldn't! Power Plate Benefits #1 Stimulate 138% more muscle fiber during workouts A study done by The American Chiropractor has shown working out on Power Plate activates up to 138% more muscle fibers when compared to a standard workout. The micro vibrations activate more muscles so you may be waking up dormant muscles. The additional recruitment results in more calories burned too. Quite a bit in fact. Power Plate Benefits #2 Expend 50% more energy than normal workouts According to a study in the European Association for the Study of Obesity the same workout done on the floor vs on Power Plate Move increased calories burned by 50%. But All That? Even better when combined with this… Power Plate Benefits #3 Increased Endocrine Stimulation Growth Hormone is a key in gaining lean muscle. With aging there is a decline in growth hormone production. That's complicated further by lack of quality sleep in women in menopause since growth hormone is produced during deepest cycles of sleep. Without adequate growth hormone, all the work you put in may not see its just rewards. Good news is growth hormone is increased by up to 500%. That's so high it sounds inflated but it's not nor is it a typo. Power Plate Benefits #4 Boost Bone Density One study featuring postmenopausal subjects had them using Whole Body Vibration 5 minutes 3 times a week for 6 months and resulted in 2% increase in bone density. Compare that to an average loss of 1-3% annually and that's an almost 5% different. For 15 minutes a week and 5 minutes at a time. Stop the scroll and start vibrating. Sherri: I've been using my Power Plate Move for 3 months now. I have increased my bone density, lost body fat and increased muscle mass. I am 60 years old, 5 foot 5 inches at 129 lbs. Very pleased with my results. My main health concerns are bone density loss.”   Who & When Benefit from Power Plate? Recovering from hip or knee surgery Limited ability to lift heavy weights due to arthritis, severe osteoporosis Already frail Recovery from exercise Suffering from soreness due to exercise or fibromyagia Athletes like golfers Ill, long haul or adrenal fatigue prevents more exercise If you want to take advantage, I scored 20% off for Flipping 50 community members here: https://www.flippingfifty.com/powerplate with code Flipping50 Resources:  Get  20% off with this link: FLIPPING50 at https://www.flippingfifty.com/powerplate Other Episodes You Might Like: Whole Body Vibration: http://flipping50.com/whole-body-vibration/ Are MEN JUST as at Risk for Osteoporosis?: https://www.flippingfifty.com/risk-for-osteoporosis/

Get battle-ready for a doozy of an episode as the Watch/Skip'ers welcome back E.f. Contentment and his singular wit and wry humor to take on Expend4bles, the fourth in the Stallone-Statham-Lundgren-Couture fronted franchise. Clearly the film - which welcomes Megan Fox and others to the cast- had an unintended effect as the trio dole out bad imitations, express anger over cutesy franchise film titles, and have their passions run amok staining the proceedings like bad CGI blood. But is this summer "bullets, buddies, and babes" film a Watch or a Skip? Before it all, E.F double pluses an IMAX re-release and provocative new book, Cupcake quickly shadows his plus, while Red reveals the recent Regal Mystery Movie. Expend us in your ears!!! Timestamps (00.00.32) Intro (00.01.43) Movie/Guest info (00.04.14) E.F's Plus (00.22.44) Cupcake's Plus (00.25.39) Red's Plus (00.33.44) Above/Below (00.54.26) Spoiler Free (01.20.42) Spoilers Expended (01.49.21) Final Verdicts (01.54.00) Outro/Stinger

Episode 155 “Tr4il3r Bl4z3r5: Expend Four Bulls” 0:00 Introduction: Birthday Blazers 4:15 What We Done Watched 8:40 Dumb Dudes News 13:05 The Question Times 15:00 New New Trailers 15:20 Downey's Dream Cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-ATm2H9uo 17:03 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem https://youtu.be/IHvzw4Ibuho 20:32 Hidden Strike https://youtu.be/ohRPE_OEm0Q 22:40 Jack Ryan s4 https://youtu.be/k1Vo7wsR4LM 24:00 Black Mirror S6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jY1ecibLYo  26:40 Good Omens 2 https://youtu.be/9GljnUA6Ll0 30:35 Sympathy for the Devil https://youtu.be/R13GAQdphXU 32:54 Ahsoka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38or-xIlWd4 34:45 The Expend4bles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1BeyPx9WDI 37:55 Poor Things (full trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg2QJUtWsCs 39:40 The Grand Tour: Eurocrash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAOZxT-NWLY 40:55 The Witcher season 3 full trailer (redband) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzS8Ao0H6Co 44:15 Patron Selects The Last Starfighter (1984) (Kevin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q-Qs3loKoc 47:20 Trailer Mailers 52:30 Contact Info 53:45 Quick Mickey 54:50 VidYOgames ¼ Portion 59:10 Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51r-3IrowZc 1:00:35 Five Star Ratin' Instagram: @TrailerBlazersPodcast Email us @ TrailerBlazersPod@gmail.com Twitter @Trailer_Blazers Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailerblazers    Rate & Review us on Apple Podcasts please!

Hello, dear listeners, travelers of the celestial realm, and co-pilots. This new session evolves around the ethos of an album that I just put out entitled 'Bloom', and is one that ushers in a re-invention and reinvigorating of our mental and physical being. As we weather the storms of life's turbulent forces, we need enlightenment and encouragement so that we can pick ourselves up, knock of the dirt and negative vibes, and bring in a rebirth and passion for not only living but striving. That's it, dear listeners, striving!! And THRIVING!! It rhymes, and now all of a sudden I feel like Dr. Seuss. Working to be better tomorrow than we are today requires incremental steps. We hear the expression 'Rome wasn't built in a day' and, well, neither were we. Take the time in planning your re-entry into the world as a better version of yourself every single day. It requires mental energy to develop the creative means to plan our re-entry into our proposed new world, and it takes physical energy to implement those changes around us. But, the biggest and most effect change is within us, in our minds and hearts. Work to calibrate and synchronize these with your new mission. Expend the mental energy so that the task of pushing through your boundaries is well rewarded. This session is your comforting pillow of that much needed mental reset. We at Spaceman's Transmissions propose that you set aside a quiet hour-ish of time to let everything go, and let the tapestry here guide you to the prairie of peaceful vibes. A place where you can assemble your collage of innovative endeavors which will bring your incrementally closer to where you view yourself. Fill in the gaps that separate where you are and where you want to be, as if you are patching holes in the wall for a fresh, new coat of colorful and vibrant paint. Through effort and realization of your potential comes the reward of a newly emerging you! The stormy night that you endured will pass over you, and the stage will reset for you to explore and set up for new scenes to create and thrive in. Lather, rinse, repeat. Don't take your renewals for granted, dear listener. Celebrate each victory as a reward to yourself for reaching and surpassing milestone, not unlike traveling past a dark cosmic tide to reemerge into a realm of a breathtaking starlit field of beauty. I'm with you, dear travelers, and as your co-pilot I have full faith that your journey and effort will yield great success. Okay, yes, as mentioned, shameless plug time (sorry!). I put our a new album entitled Bloom (of course) which can be found by going to https://www.tonepoet-music.com. My music was, is, and always will be free so that you can all have access to it. It is my gift to you, dear listeners, as my thanks for your attendance during the voyages that we undertake. Peace. Turn on, tune in, sleep... https://www.tonepoet-music.com https://www.facebook.com/tonepoetmusic  TRACK LISTING “I'm Outside Now” by Dr. Tone Dude from Nature Calls, So You'd Better Answer (Start Time: 00:00)  “Beyond The Limelight (Song For Neil)” by Tonepoet from Bloom (Start Time: 00:30) “Half Light” by Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society from Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society (Start Time: 03:10) “Funambulist No8” by Rémi Fay from Funambulist (Start Time: 09:35) “Capacitor Weavers” by Conrad Praetzel from Adventures Into Somethingness (Start Time: 13:48) “The Large Floating Vessel” by Siren and the Sea from Gravity Wave (Start Time: 15:04) “Trauma” by Henrick Meierkord from Gesichten (Start Time: 18:37) “Transience” by A Cerulean State from Omgjord (Start Time: 23:11) “All Those Little Moments” by Colliding Galaxies from Ambient, Vol. 4 (Start Time: 26:14) “I Touched The Face Of God (Bonus Track)” by Benoît Honoré Pioulard from Plays Thelma (Start Time: 27:25) “The Quiet Divide (Early Mix, Tranquility Version, 2011)” by Black Swan from Re-miniscence - Unreleased Recordings, 2010-2020 (Start Time: 33:03) “Don't Leave Santa Cruz (Excerpt)” by Cliffdiver from Cliffdiver (Start Time: 35:49) “Sleeping Under the Stars” by Hidden Sky from Afternoon Light (Start Time: 38:48) “All is Memory” by Hotel Neon from All is Memory (Start Time: 47:38) “Always On” by Marta Mist from Eyes Like Pools (Start Time: 52:49) “TKATC X Message To Bears” by The Kids And The Cosmos from Ambient Mixtape Vol. 1 (Start Time: 58:07)

Podcast 14: human doing vs human being ACIM lesson 13 “a meaningless world engenders fear” We have spent our whole lives ascribing meaning to anything and if we don't know we feel fearful and ignorant. We are learing to step back and not give meaning to everything. Story about Lili and upset around not doing or being smart enough. But being a human being doesn't mean that they don't accomplish anything. To the contrary, human beings can be very successful, but unlike human doings, they can experience meaning, satisfaction, and joy in their achievements because they aren't driven by need, but rather by their values and life priorities. In other words, human beings' achievement efforts are an affirming expression of who they are. So, not only can human beings be successful, but just as importantly, they can be happy: 1) Change what you consider the level of success. Is it gaged on how much joy and peace you feel and how you treat other people vs how much you achieve. Expend energy and gain success at pursuing what you love with satisfaction from the pursuit of creative adventures and helping others. 2) Accept your humanity: no one is perfect: failure loses its power to harm your self esteem. No threat of self esteem because there is no perfectionism. You cannot fail at being. 3) Less doing and more being! Reduce your to do list. 4) Go with the flow and break out of rigidity 5) Have more fun-stop being so serious If you want to unf*ck your mind and figure sh*t out so you can live the passionate life of your dreams without jumping off the roof contact me at: nikki@drnikkineretin.com or schedule a Figure sh*t out together session and feel 10%better quickly and see if you want to work together. #nikkineretin#drnikki#drnikkineretin#unfuckyourbrain#figuringshitout#youngadults#anxiety#findyour passion#depression#trauma#thelifecoachschool --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drnikkineretin/message

“So great a musician are you.....that if the Fates carried you off.....music would be mute.” So wrote a contemporary of Thomas Tallis, showing us just how highly this composer was regarded in his own time. Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod traces the career of Tallis, unquestionably one of England's greatest ever composers. We follow him from the early faint mentions of the composer in Dover Priory, to his 40-plus years serving four successive monarchs as part of the Chapel Royal, and through the upheaval of one of the most tumultuous periods in all of English history. O Sacrum Convivium Lamentations of Jeremiah I & II Euge celi porta Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix Ave, rosa sine spinis When shall my sorrowful sighing slack Sequence: Celeste Organum - Agnus Dei Magnificat for 4 voices Salve Intemerata Mass for four Voices Magnificat for 5 voices 5 part Litany Sancte Deus Hodie nobis caelorum Videte Miraculum for Vespers on Purification of Virgin Mary Remember not, O Lord God Te Deum for Meanes If Ye Love Me A New Commandment Gaude Gloriosa In nominee II Mass: Puer natus est nobis – Agnus Dei Archbishop Parker's Psalter: O Come in One to Praise the Lord; E'en like the Hunted Hind; Expend, O Lord, my Plaint; Why Brag'st in Malice High ; God Grant with Grace Psalm 2, the third of 9 tunes for Archbishop Parker's psalter “Why Fum'th In Fight” Suscipe quaeso domine My Soul Cleaveth to the Dust O Nata Lux (arr. Christian Forshaw) Spem in alium Cantiones Sacrae - Salvator Mundi I; Derelinquit impius; Semone blando angelus; In ieiunio Miserere nostri Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Thomas Tallis (1505 – 1585) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Happy New Year! Let's make 2023 the turning point in your recovery.   Today's episode is all about the Motivational Triad. This is the human need to;   - Seek pleasure - Avoid pain - Expend the least energy   This shows up in our lives daily and it makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective, but in today's world where food and material items are in abundance ... it often leads us to behave in ways that no longer serve us. Listen to learn more!   If you've been listening for a while, now is the perfect time to change your destiny - learn to rebuild trust, make intentional decision in your life and relationships and really become the intentional author of your own story. Let's go!! Let's talk - >> click here

I have always admired people who deeply believe in themselves and take on courageous and amazing things. I used to think it was the courage part of the equation that was so admirable. I now understand it is the “taking the action” part of the equation that makes all the difference in who we become. The problem I had with “taking action” was I had a family, a job, volunteer work, and my church which takes up a lot of time and energy. I recently found an article by Cal Newport that changed my perspective. I discuss that article today and how often the news and magazines may not always be sharing the best ways to be successful. **Cal Newport's article “On Michael Crichton's Busy Ambition.” CalNewport.com QUOTES BY DR. BRAY “Everybody is wired differently and has different ambition types. What type best matches you? You have to figure it out before success will begin to assert its force on your life.” “Is that car in the driveway worth having to work the extra hours?”

The Biden administration cannot explain their policy on how they are going to stop inflation. The people are seeing the truth, the plan is collapse the economy not help it. Fuel prices are moving up again. [JB] is helping subsidize foreign workers while Americans don't have jobs. Bitcoin expands. Durham is on the hunt and he is slowly squeezing the truth out of the [DS]. The people are seeing this and soon the first conviction will occur which will send a signal to the rest of the [DS]. The patriots are winning the information war. Nazi surrender in Ukraine, Russia is in control. When does a bird sing, as pressure builds those who are in the cross hairs will most likely try to make a deal. When does the your enemy expend ammunition, when they are winning or when they are weak and losing.

I'm just too tired to workout. Have you ever said that to yourself? I'm pretty sure each and every one of us would have to say yes (maybe in between a yawn and another sip of coffee). Feeling tired or downright exhausted is one of the most common barriers to physical activity. If you can barely pull yourself out of bed, how are you supposed to drag yourself through a workout? Listen to today's episode to find out! ____________________________________ Find more from Willpower Not Required and Fired Up Fitness: Website: https://firedupfitness.ca/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCknO0eGWZt4WitWP3fMq6WA Instagram: http://instagram.com/firedupfitnesscoaching Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firedupfitnesscoaching [episode music courtesy of purple-planet.com] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/willpowernotrequired/message

This episode we catch up with Katie (Tom) Walters on their debut collection My Body is a Resource I am Willing to Expend - out now! We talk about being a disabled artist, before and during the pandemic. How disablity has changed Tom's approach to performance poetry and how digital spaces are integral in a society slipping back into non-disabled reality. https://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/my-body-is-a-resource-i-am-willing-to-expend-by-katie-tom-walters

1 (2s): Welcome harvest 2 (3s): Church. Welcome this morning. Stand and worship with us. 1 (1m 48s): . 1 (3m 4s): I am who you say you are for me? Not against me. I am who you say hi. I am chosen show. Who's not foresee. Can you say you love for me? 1 (3m 43s): Not against me. I am who you say you love for the kids? 1 (4m 3s): 4 (4m 54s): Good morning, everybody. Go ahead and have a seat on no. Okay. Hold on a second. I'm good. I'm good. Okay. I was on, but I wasn't on whatever that means. So good morning. Welcome. Love to have you all gathered together today, a beautiful day out. So want to welcome you, those of you in the sanctuary, also in the loft and the patio, and those are tuning in online. So my name is Ron and I have a few pieces of information you might be interested in. So the first of which is today is, is what we call family Sunday. So the fourth, Sunday of each month, what we do is we encourage families to worship together. 4 (5m 36s): And so if you have kids that are first grade and up, they don't have class today. They're they're in with mom and dad with a family. And if you have kids younger than first grade, if you want to keep them with you in church, that's totally fine. We encourage that. But if you want to take them to class, we do have class for the little ones. So you'll feel, feel free to do that. Also on family Sunday, it's popular because we have donuts. So I head up the driveway, right near the info center. You're going to find a bunch of donuts, feel free to help yourself. There's coffee up there, and just a fun time to gather together and have coffee and donuts. But more importantly, today, we also have communion. And so towards the end of Steve's message, he will be inviting us to partake of communion and have communion together as, as the family of God. 4 (6m 22s): So we can look forward to that. If you're new to harvest church, we want to welcome you super happy to have you with us today. And if you have, if you'd like any information you need about harvest church, you can head up the driveway to the info center. There's some folks who would love to talk to you about what's going on here. Or if you prefer, you can go onto our website or our church app, and you can find out what's going on that way as well. So what we do three or four, three times a year, we have life groups that we start up. I should know this, right? If I'm making the album is I should know about this. So what we have is, is a new flyer. We put together about the different life groups that are coming up quickly. 4 (7m 2s): It beginning in may. So a life group is simply a small group of folks that gathered together in somebody's home may be here on campus, smaller venues during the week. And we w we really encourage everybody to get involved in a life group, a small group, because that's where you really get connected with people. And you really get into the, you know, the life of the church and make relationships and all that kind of good step. So feel free to pick one of these up there, up again at the info center, but just to let you know, we've got groups going on in a row grand day, we've got groups in Grover beach and a Pomo. We've got a couple of different men's groups that are happening. A bunch of women's groups that are happening as well. Probably the most important group of all. We've got a prayer group that meets on Thursday mornings would encourage you to be a part of that. 4 (7m 45s): There's a singles Bible study, and there is what we call recreational groups. So this is the good yarn club. So they get together and have fellowship and, and knit things, which is super fun. So check that out. Okay. What else is going on? So I want to update everybody on the worship center. That's just down the street at 1 0 2 branch. Okay. So here's, what's going on. We're getting close to Mo moving into the worship center. We will. I'm going to say we're definitely going to be in there in may. We're not exactly sure which Sunday in may, but we're, we're fairly positive about that final preparations are, are being made and getting, you know, getting the final permit on everything permission to occupy it. 4 (8m 26s): So we're gonna announce it in the future, the exact date, as soon as these things come together. So we're going to be shuffling around some different things. And with, with things like this comes some change. Okay. So sometimes change is a little difficult to, you know, get, get, get a handle on. Most of us don't really like change, but here's what's happening. Okay. So the new worship center is going to be called the east campus because it's east, this, this campus is going to be called west campus. And so here's a couple of other things. So the worship center is at 1 0 2. So whenever we talk about the worship center, that's what we're talking about. The east campus at 1 0 2 and over there, it's also, they're also going to have an outdoor courtyard venue where we're going to have coffee there. 4 (9m 12s): We're going to have some seating out there, some TVs to watch what's going on inside. It's a really cool garden area. If you hadn't had a chance to check it out. And also in the new worship center, we're going to have a nursery with his birth through two years. And we're going to have a mother's room over there as well. So at the west campus, we are actually changing the name of the sanctuary to our chapel. So we're going to have a chapel livestream happening here, right here in this venue. So if you prefer to hang out here, you're welcome to do so at the, the chapel live stream. So the, the kids' worship center is going to be moving into the loft. 4 (9m 54s): So again, the lock, which is right behind me is give me the new kids' worship center and kids classes, ages three, and up as well as youth classes are going to stay put right where they are currently. So that's, what's happening. As soon as we get to our, our new space. And as we open up the new worship center, we're going to need a lot more volunteers for various things that are happening because we're growing. So, for example, if you would like to get involved in, in the coffee ministry, greeting ministry, safety team, worship, team tech, team, kids, team, youth team, and many, many other things are going on. So what, when we get there, we're gonna have a better idea of all the things that we need to fill. So what you will find is if you get involved in a ministry team at church, it's super fun. 4 (10m 41s): You're going to get to know a lot of new people and, and it's a way to serve the Lord. So it encouraged you to get involved again, to, to volunteer for any of those things. You can go on our website and click on the connect tab, and that's what we're going to do. All right. So last Sunday, what happened last Sunday? Oh, that's right Eastern the park. We have a little clip. We want to share with you so you can see what, what went on last Sunday. Okay. You ready? Okay. 5 (13m 19s): And I invite you to stand in. As we continue to worship, we're going to introduce a new song this morning. It's called strong God. It's taken from verses in Psalm 68. And those verses are father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home. He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. This has God in his holy place, 1 (13m 52s): Father to the fatherless 5 (13m 56s): Defender 1 (13m 57s): Of the weak Freedom for the prison. We see this is God in his holy 7 (20m 45s): God, you are surely great. And we're humbled your presence here today. Lord is so as we've gathered to pray, and as we've gathered to worship God, we've gathered for you to remember you, to worship you, to be in your presence. Lord God, as the family of God, we want to be with you, Lord God, we want to be in your presence, Lord God. And as we teach your word today, Lord, we want to take it in and believe it. So Lord God give us faith where we lack faith, give us clarity where we lack clarity, give us the help that we need. Lord God, to believe you, Lord, to believe your promises, to walk in those promises, Lord God, that our lives would be actually changed and transformed as a result of your word, your promises, your guidance, your direction. 7 (21m 36s): So Lord lead us. We pray. We humble ourselves before you today. We say, we need you. We say, we love you. We, so we say, we're so thankful, Lord God, that you've adopted us into your family. We think we're thankful that your grace is sufficient. Lord God. And so I pray that your grace would be extended all over this campus Lord, for whoever needs it, especially this morning, Lord, we all need it. But there are those who especially need just to an extra dose of your grace, Lord God, a truth to saturate their hearts and lives. Lord God. And so for those who are doubting fearful, unbelieving, Lord, we pray that you would reveal yourself in powerful and significant ways. 7 (22m 16s): God, that there would just be a move of God in each of our lives today, Lord all over this campus. And God, we just want to say thank you for our new worship center for what you're doing there. Lord, it's been a, it's been a long time in the, in the, in the making Lord, God, we're so thankful Lord for the way you've are bringing that to fruition and making that possible for us. Lord, we just continue to give that to you, God, for the expansion of your kingdom Lord. So we just want to honor you with that space. So be glorified Lord. Thank you for this time in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Turning green. Somebody will come right back. 7 (23m 44s): I got a feeling it's going to get 8 (23m 45s): Rowdy. 7 (24m 13s): Alrighty, come on in and grab your chair. How's everyone I'm blessed and no less is what I keep hearing. Hey, I'm so grateful for every person who came out last week to help us get that space set up. But when we were setting up the chairs and when we were cleaning up the chairs, I didn't think we would ever end. I mean, those chairs just continued. They were, they were just a ton of them. I'm not sure how many we had set up. It was almost 900. And so it was really, really good. And then the sound and audio video stuff. It's all, man. It all just came together. We were having so many technical challenges on Saturday. 7 (24m 55s): It was ridiculous. We didn't, we weren't sure what was going to happen, but, but our team got it together and I need a bigger podium is what I need. I've got all this stuff. Can we work on that? Like a four by just getting so thanks for that to everyone. Yeah. Great turnout. It was so good to be back at the, at the park. After two years through COVID of not being able to be out there. It was, I mean, we had a great time last year at our back lot back here, but we just love being in that park. Love the opportunity to be salt and light and in the neighborhood there in our community. And so we're just really, really grateful for that. 7 (25m 38s): And we're going to be in Hebrews 13 today kind of wrapping up in the next few weeks, our study through Hebrews. And we're just going to continue to March right through the rest of the new Testament. And so we'll be teaching through revelation here in a few months and I think it'll be really, it's really good timing, I think to get into a study through revelation and so wanted to let you know that that is coming. I, I taught last through revelation 15 years ago in that crazy. Yeah. I was looking at my old notes and I thought, man, it's been 15 years since I've taught through that. So a lot has changed in our world and last 15 years. So it's time for an update and the word of God never changes, but our culture, our circumstances certainly change don't they speaking of change, my son Curtis got engaged yesterday, go ahead and stand up. 7 (26m 30s): Curtis Curtis St. Clark. So we just did a wedding for Steven and Amanda a few months ago and our cup two and a half, three months ago or whatever it's been now. And, and so now we get to plan for another one. So the more the merrier. And so we're excited about that. So congratulations to you too. And you guys want to just get married now you want to just go, I happen to know somebody you can make that happen for you. So it would be zebra. I know, right? Get things done. What are the cupcakes say to the frosting? 7 (27m 13s): I'd be muffin without you. There we go. Told you, I'd tell you a joke on family Sunday. Hey, a lot of us, thousands of people throughout the state went up to Sacramento last Monday and Tuesday to, to lobby against assembly bill 2, 2, 2, 3. And I mean, it was just a huge outpouring of people throughout the states who showed up and, and people from other states. And so sadly the assembly health committee passed AB T T two three last week. 7 (27m 55s): So the bill will go next to the assembly appropriations committee before making its way to the assembly floor. So continue to pray, just continue to pray. It's re if you've done any research at all, you know that this assembly bill is, is heinous and it's, it's so grieves the heart of God to see this type of legislation making its way through and into, into, into law. I mean, it's not just California, there's other states who are trying to do the same thing. So anyway, take a look at it. We don't often talk about political things, but this is not just a political thing. It's a political thing, but it's a moral thing first and foremost. 7 (28m 36s): And so that when we're talking about moral things that contradict the word of God and God's direction for our lives, then we talk about it and we encourage action. So do some research, pray, pray, pray that this thing gets stopped in its tracks. And so we're going to just pray right now for that. And then we'll get into Hebrews 13, one through seven Lord. We do pray, God, God, we ask Lord God for it's just a supernatural intervention here, Lord God that she would stop this bill, this proposed bill or God that it would not become law. 7 (29m 17s): Lord God, that you would not allow it to become law. That born babies would not be allowed to legally be killed in our state Lord God. And as goes California as goes the nation. So it goes the nation, Lord God. And so we pray God that this would be stopped here. And then it would be a message to the rest of the nation that we, we don't, we don't want to stand for this kind of stuff and we will not stand for this kind of stuff. So Lord, I pray that the, the, the people of our nation be aware of what's going on, that these, this type of legislation is being moved forward. Lord, I pray that we would be alert. 7 (29m 58s): That'd be that we'd be wise to what's going on in our world and that we would be prayerful and lobby against things like this. It's our, our responsibility Lord. And so I pray God that we would take serious this responsibility, remember to pray and trust you, Lord God. So speak to those who will be deciding in this next step, Lord, God, speak to their hearts. Thank you Lord, for the opportunity to pray and to petition and to lobby against things like this, help us. We pray Lord in Jesus name. Amen. So last Tuesday we were walking through the buildings. We were out in front of the Capitol, on the lawn there. 7 (30m 40s): And then we were walking through and being able to, which we were trying to lobby the people who are a part of the part of the assembly health committee. And they wouldn't even open the doors for us. We would go knock on their door and they would say, Hey, we're not taking guests at the moment. And so just dozens and dozens of people would just pray outside of their doors in the hallways. And so we went to each office and just prayed and petitioned by God's grace, that, that things would change here. And so let's continue to do that and that we wrestle not against flesh and blood enemies, but we're in a spiritual battle. 7 (31m 23s): And so let's continue to fight against things like AB 2, 2, 2, 3. Amen. Hey, we're in Hebrews chapter 13, we're going to be looking at verses one through seven, the title of the message today, practical faith living. So it will be in Hebrews chapter three verses one through seven. The book of Hebrews is all about challenging your religious activity and tradition so that genuine faith life can be experienced and lived. And I think we need to do that all throughout the course of our lives. We need to be challenging religious activity, things that seem good, but are actually a hindrance to our intimate walk and commitment to Jesus Christ. 7 (32m 8s): So the book of Hebrews is all about challenging religious activity. It was written to Jews. This, we don't know who the author of Hebrews is, but it was written to Jews who had made a decision to trust Jesus as their Messiah. And they were breaking away from a religious tradition, a tradition of lots of works and that sort of thing. And so this book is written to this group of people, giving them practical insight. These are the things as we wrap up Hebrews, this, these are the things that we should be doing. These are the things that should mark the lives of believers, the lives of people in God's church. 7 (32m 53s): So Hebrews three 13 brings to light, very practical things that mark the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. And so as we look at the first seven verses of Hebrews 13, we find seven points that define for us practical faith, living seven points in seven verses. And so it's going to take us about three weeks to get through Hebrews 13. And, and then we'll, we'll just jump right in with number one, practical, faith, living, number one, love each other. We see that throughout the scripture that God has called us to love each other. We see that in Hebrews 13, one says, keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. 7 (33m 36s): And so the author saying, Hey, keep this up. You're doing it. The marks of a godly person is that we would continue to love one another. So love each other. The transliteration of the Greek word for love here is Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love, right? If you've ever been to Philadelphia, you have, I'd never been there, but I've, I've heard that it's not necessarily living up to its name. I don't know, but in 1994 at Gallup poll named Philadelphia, America's most hostile place. So maybe there's some truth to what I'm hearing. 7 (34m 17s): So good intentions only take us so far. So the founders of that city had great intentions. Let's call this place, Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love with the expectation that the goal that this place would be marked by brotherly love. And instead though it's become hostile and one of Philadelphia America's most hostile plays. So good intentions only take you so far. Have you experienced that? Like I'm gonna do better. I'm going to love this person better. And then we fall short, listen, we can't love people effectively unless we're filled with the grace of God, the presence of God and the power of God, because some people are just very difficult to love, but by God's grace, he gives us the ability and even the desire he refreshes our hearts and minds so that we actually have the desire to love people who are on lovely. 7 (35m 11s): How do we love each other? Romans 12, 10 says this love each other with genuine affection. So now we're kind of getting some action points here, genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other. So we're to love one another with genuine affection honoring each other. I would just reading in first Samuel this morning, and I was reading about the relationship between Jonathan, the King's son and David, the newly anointed king, who was yet to take the throne. But as we read through first Samuel, we see the, the, the love relationship that David and Jonathan had. 7 (35m 57s): There was, there was a sacrificial commitment to one, another to protect one another. And you can see how Jonathan over and over again, protected David from Saul's wrath. Saul was jealous of David and Saul was envious of David saw was, was, was angry at David. And so over and over again, Saul was trying to kill David and Jonathan would step up over and over again to protect him. He had, he had genuine love and affection for David and he honored him. And so there's, there's great examples in the scripture and there's great examples in our own lives. Maybe where people have loved us with genuine affection. 7 (36m 40s): And with honor, I can think back in my life about different people who have loved me. So well, my wife, for sure, being one of them for the last 32 years, she just loved me really, really well, genuine affection and honor. And I really do think that's part of like the recipe for longevity in marriage is that we would love and honor one another, a genuine affection can only come from a genuine heart. And so we need to regularly ask the Lord, God, what's going on with my heart. Why, why am I having a hard time loving this person? Maybe it's your spouse. You're having a hard time loving you. 7 (37m 21s): Say, Lord, what's going on with my heart because we can't love when we can fake it, but we can only love people with genuine affection. And honor, when we have a pure hearts, when our hearts are in the right place, we've, we've got to guard our hearts and make sure that we've confessed sin, that we've forgiven, that we're walking in purity and honor before the Lord so that we can lovingly serve others and love others with a genuine affection and honor. So genuine affection can only come from a genuine heart. And honor only comes from a humble heart. So we need to check ourselves. What's the condition of our heart. 7 (38m 2s): Are we being, are we being humble? Are we pure in our heart? Or are we do we have guile and unforgiveness and hatred in our heart brother and sister Lee love can only happen when we choose to extend grace from a genuine and humble heart. So part of doing what anything God has called us to do, what it requires that we're empowered by God, but that we always extend grace. If we think about our relationship with God, what is he always doing with us? I don't know about you, but he's always, always grace to me, right? I mean, I think about the person who loves me more than anybody who has the capacity to love me more than anybody that's God. 7 (38m 45s): And he knows all of my failures and shortcomings, but he genuinely loves me. And he genuinely loves you with affection. And he honors us in that relationship by loving us unconditionally. So in order for us to love, like, God loves us to love others. Like God loves us. We need to, we need to be constantly extending grace to the people in our lives. If you've been alive for any amount of time, you know that you need to extend grace to people constantly in work relationships and marriage, relationships and sibling relationships. And in every relationship, there's going to be opportunity for you to be offended or for you to offend others. 7 (39m 30s): And so there needs to be that constant extension of grace, constant extension of grace meets you. You to me, we, to each other, we just constantly extend grace. The apostle Paul wrote in Philippians four 13 for I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength. So maybe you're here today. And you're like, this is like a really impossible thing. There's this person in my life that I just don't like at all. I don't respect this person. I don't like this person. This person gets under my skin every time I see him or her. And so Lord, I don't know how all things are possible. When we submit our hearts to the Lord, we can love people. 7 (40m 11s): I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength. God will give you the strength to forgive great story. When the first missionaries arrived in Alberta, Canada, a young chief of the Cree Indians named Masco opportun, savaged, savagely, opposed them. But he later responded to the gospel and accepted Christ shortly afterward. A member of the Blackfoot tribe killed his father mascot. Batoon rode into the village where the murderer lived and demanded that he be brought before him confronting the guilty man. 7 (40m 51s): He said, you have killed my father. So now you must be my father. You shall ride my best horse and wear my best clothes in utter amazement and remorse his enemy exclaimed. My son. Now you have killed me. He meant, of course, that the hates in his own heart had been completely erased by the forgiveness and kindness of the Indian chief. This is the power of the gospel. When we've been touched by the grace of God, we, we find capacity. 7 (41m 33s): Expend extend that same grace to others. Even those who have done us rate great harm. God's grace, as we're filled with the spirit of God and the word of God, the truth that God gives us the capacity to extend grace to others in Luke 10 27, the most important commandment says this. You must love the Lord, your God with all your hearts, all your soul, all your strength and all your mind and love your neighbor as your self over and over again. We see this in the scripture. We see that God calls us to love others. The world. We will know that we are his disciples by our love one for another. 7 (42m 17s): So the love that we're exposed to be feeling for one another and extending to one another is constantly under attack. The enemy wants us to be at odds with one another, because then we're not properly representing the person of the Lord. Jesus Christ. Jesus was gracious in all that. He did. He extended grace and love to everybody. Even to those who executed him on the cross. Jesus tells us in his sermon on the mountain, Matthew 5 21 through 24, he says, you have heard that our ancestors were told you must not murder. 7 (42m 59s): If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment. But I say, if you were even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment. If you call someone an idiot, you're in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell. So if you verse 23 are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the temple. And you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar, go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and off your sacrifice to God. You think God is serious about what he's talking about in his word. He's very serious. 7 (43m 40s): He modeled it for us. He communicates it and the old and the new Testament, he's very serious that we would love one another. So that means we've got to constantly be forgiving, extending grace like 70 times seven. That means essentially that there's no limit to the number of times that we will extend grace and forgiveness. Number one, love each other. Number two, love strangers. So now we're getting a little more specific, loves strangers. We see that in verse two, don't forget to show hospitality to strangers for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. That's kind of a neat thought, huh? Well, some, some of us have entertained angels without realizing it. 7 (44m 22s): Have you ever wondered about that in your own life? Like, was that an angel? I wonder like, was that a messenger of God that I just entertained? Like, I didn't know who that person was and I haven't seen him since. I wonder if that was an angel of the Lord, that text refers to what happened to Abraham to lot and to Gideon in the old Testament, Genesis 18 Genesis, 19 judges, six and 13, they all entertained angels unaware. They were ministering to angels as they reached out with love to these strangers. One of the best pictures of a person loving a stranger, seen of the parable of the good Samaritan in Luke 10 when Jesus was asked and who is my neighbor? 7 (45m 13s): So that's the question. I'm like, okay, if I'm supposed to love my neighbor, then who is my neighbor? Right? We're always looking for loopholes, right? Luke 10 30 says this Jesus replied with a story. A Jewish man was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and left him half dead beside the road by chance a priest came along. But when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed by him. Also a temple assistant Levi gets walked over and looked at him, lying there, but he also passed by on the other side of the road, then a despised Samaritan. 7 (46m 1s): So Samaritans were half blood, half blood use. They were, they were a mixed race and they were despised by the Jewish people. Then despise Samaritan came along. And when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him going over to him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with all of oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an end where he took care of him. The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins, two silver coins to denari were essentially the wage for two late to two days of labor in the day. So he had an two days of work of pay to continue to take care of him, take care of this, man. 7 (46m 46s): If this bill runs higher than this, I'll pay you the next time I'm here. So this despised Samaritan served this stranger paid for his well and made sure that he was going to be taking care of until he was completely healthy. Now, which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by bandits? Jesus asked the man replied the one who showed him mercy. Then Jesus said, yes. Now go and do the same. So we have an opportunity to, in a practical way, love those who we don't know as we see people in need. 7 (47m 33s): Now we can't help everybody in need, but we do have the responsibility to help people in need. So we need to pray as we know of people in need and say, Lord, what is my role here? What is my place with this person? How can I serve this person? How am I supposed to serve this person? And as the Lord leads, you, you can minister to that person, but we've got to be prayerful, listening, responsive obedience so that we can do the things that God has called us to do. So there are going to be people in your life that are going to require your love. People that you don't know, maybe people don't like, but God has given you an assignment responsibility to serve them. 7 (48m 21s): Being essentially Jesus with skin on practical, faith living involves loving strangers, but also number three, loving the forgotten, loving the forgotten verse three says, remember those in prison as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated as if you felt their pain in your own body. Often we think about people who are incarcerated. We think, well, they deserve to be there. Well, we, if the truth were told, if we all got busted for things that we have done throughout the course of our life, then we would probably be in there as well. 7 (49m 3s): Truth, be told we've gotten away with a lot of stuff over the course of our lives and found out we might all be in that same place. I often say that apart from Jesus, that I rather either be dead in prison or addicted to something. I mean, apart from Jesus that's, that would be my lot. I just know myself way too well. And I know my life before Jesus came in, remember those in prison. One of my first ministries was to those who were incarcerated. And so we had ministries at the county jail. We had three services on Sunday morning. We had a service for the men's side of the jail and then a service for the women's side of the jail. 7 (49m 43s): And then we'd go over to the honor farm and we would have a service over there. So Sunday mornings, we have three services over there and it was a pleasure to minister and to serve those who are incarcerated. And in my early sales life, as an outside sales rep for a company might part of my territory included me service going into and serving those in prisons. And so I would go in to, I think I had six or seven or eight prisons that I would go into on a regular basis. And what I realized with a few exceptions, most of the people that I was seeing in these prisons, they, they had just made mistakes and they serving their time. 7 (50m 29s): And the truth is they were, they were worthy of love. They were worthy of respect and what I treated them with love and respect that was returned to me. And now I know that's not the case across the board, but overwhelmingly. So that was the case. It's only went to San Quentin prison. San Quentin prison was an altogether different scenario. I walked in that place and it was dark and cold and scary. It was scary. I went in there. I spent about half a day at San Quentin prison once and I decided never to step foot in his hand, Quentin prison. 7 (51m 9s): Again, it was a scary place for me. I didn't want to go back and it was my choice to go in or not. And so I decided not to. So I continued to serve the other prisons, but at San Quentin, I decided to stay away. Now I've heard it's gotten easier at San Quentin, but all the same, I steer steer clear. So we need to remember those in prison. Sometimes we, we think, well, they're not, you know, they're, they're incarcerated. We have an incredible opportunity. Mike and Sharon do tra take their curriculum into prisons and jails all over the country. And they're having a huge impact inside the walls of jails. Now, people who are there, most likely they deserve to be there. 7 (51m 49s): They're not all innocent. Like they would probably say, but we need to take the opportunity to serve people who are forgotten. And remember, remember also those being mistreated as if you felt their pain in your own body, we need to with empathy, remember those who are being mistreated. And so that's why we stand up for bills against bills like AB 2, 2, 2, 3. We believe in life. And we believe that those who are born and the unborn deserve life. And so AB 2, 2, 2, 3 is just another step that eliminates life in our nation. 7 (52m 39s): We need to remember those who are forgotten. There's a young man in our community. He's a homeless guy and he we've known him for years and he doesn't work around the church from time to time. And we've helped him from time to time. And he came to me recently and he said, Hey, I'm trying to get my life back in order. Would you help me get to teen challenge? And so I said, absolutely, we'll get, we'll help you get to teen challenge. And so we gave him a train ticket to get over to Shafter, and we helped him to get there. And we it's important that we are for people who are trying to get their lives back in order. 7 (53m 20s): And so he wanted to go to this Christian program and get his life back in order. So we sent him over there earlier this month and I've been praying for him. And then I got a text from him yesterday. He said, I got kicked out for fighting. So he's out. But that doesn't mean we stop trying. I mean, often we'll try stuff. And in our estimation, from our perspective, it looks like it failed, but it's just maybe another step in the journey that people are taking. And we need to continue to give grace and extend mercy. So he asked me for a train ticket back to the coast and I told him, you are on your own. 7 (54m 4s): He got kicked out. So now the rubber meets the road and he's got to figure out his own path forward. And so we'll figure out, we gotta figure out with good boundaries and good grace, how to serve people, but not enable people. So there's a lot there. We could probably talk about it for a very, very long, a long time. So number three, love the forgotten. Number four, love your spouse. That's actually in the Bible of your spouse, mess something we should just do naturally. Right? We should just love our spouse. We get engaged because we're in love. We get, we want to spend the rest of our lives together because we're in love. And so why is it so hard for us to love our spouse? 7 (54m 44s): Well, typically people coming together to get married are completely opposite of for whatever reason opposites attract. And so there begins to be a rub. Maybe you've never experienced it. And then in your own marriage, but there can be a rub sometimes in marriage, right? I mean, you guys are brand new, married if you guys experienced any rub. Never. Okay, good. So Amanda saying yes. Even saying no. So there's going to be a rub. Whether you've been married for two days or 20 years or 40 years, there's always going to be some kind of an opportunity to love our spouse. When there's a disagreement verse four says, give honor to marriage and remain faithful to one another in marriage. 7 (55m 30s): God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery. So how do we love our spouse? Well, we give them honor. We honor them find different ways to honor your spouse. What is your spouse enjoy? What is your spouse? Not enjoy. Figure out those things, answer those questions and then honor them when the way that you live in relationship with them, speak with respects, with tenderness, with kindness, I've heard some men talk to their end vice-a-versa spot, talk to their spouse and very damning and hurtful dishonoring ways. 7 (56m 17s): And so those things need to be, we need to pay attention. Sometimes we can get comfortable in our relationships and we get sloppy about the way we communicate. We get insensitive about the needs of our spouse. And for as long as we're married, we need to be working on honoring one another. Speaking with tenderness, with respect, with kindness, with humility, and just watch what the Lord will do to heal up. Whatever's going on in your marriage remain faithful. So someone's heard this quote recently when a man says yes to a particular woman, he is saying no to every other woman out there. 7 (57m 5s): And that's true for women, either women too. When, when a woman says yes to a particular man, that means she is saying no to every other man out there. So that's part of the deal. We, we honor one another by loving one another and saying, faithful remaining, faithful to one another. Then you make your spouse, your priority, make your spouse your priority. Often in life, everything else becomes priority. The kids that becomes priority. But what happens when your kids grow up? Like your kids are all grown up and maybe you spent the last 20 years making your kids your priority. And then now you're just kind of stuck. 7 (57m 46s): Just the two of you, right? Like now what do we do with each other? Right. Often people get divorced after their kids are raised because they've spent the last 20 years making their S their kids a priority and really everything else, a priority. And so when it's just the two of them in the house, it's, it's like, what do we do with each other? I couldn't wait for my kids to get out of house. It just, the two of us, you know, my wife and I, we, we just, I love my kids, but at 18 it's time for them to go, right. We raised them to be independence. Self-sufficient relying on God, loving Jesus and getting out of the house. 7 (58m 27s): Like they can show up anytime they wanted, they need food or laundry done while they have to do their own laundry. But if they need, they can rate my cupboards. If they need money, I'll give them whatever I have, but they need to be out. Right. Because I just, I want to hang out with my bride. We got, we got married in 11 months and three weeks later we had Caitlin, right? So like, there's no honeymoon period. Like she got pregnant immediately. And then 14, 15 months later, Steven was born. And then like 16 months later, Curtis was born. And like two years later, Leslie was born. So I'm like, Hey, I've done my duty. 7 (59m 7s): Right. Lights out. Time to go. And so no Jolene and I can walk around the house naked. It's wonderful. She would never do that. Me on the other hand, I might buy the house is right. So let's enjoy. Let's enjoy what God has given to us. I forgot his family Sunday, but sorry. Lastly, my daughter's dying over there. He's like, we need to love our spouse. And like, like I, I believe, and like after decades of marriage, that the spark can still be there and be magical and wonderful. 7 (59m 52s): And it needs to be there. It needs to absolutely be there. And if it's not there, work on it, get it back, begin to date your spouse again. All right. Let's take a look at things that hinder our ability to love love of money will hinder our ability to love others. So number five, don't love money. Money is a terrible thing to love. It's it's a one way street. I verse five says don't love money. Be satisfied with what you have for God has said, I will never fail you. I will never abandon you. 7 (1h 0m 34s): When money is a person's focus. Inevitably God loses first place in that person's life. And when God loses first place in a person's life, everything else begins to diminish as well. Loving money is the ultimate selfish thing. I mean, it's, it's about making sure that I have what I need, that I have my safety, my provision. I have everything that I need. And so it's all about me and my money. And, and so then we're not allowing God to be on the throne of our lives. We're not honoring our spouse and others and loving others with our resources because it's all selfishly belongs to me. 7 (1h 1m 20s): The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. It's the root of all kinds of evil. So don't love your money, money. This prob I think he's a proverb says, man, it's just like, takes on wings like an Eagle and just flies away. It's just, it's temporary. You can't take it with you. It doesn't bring lasting satisfaction. It's not helpful for most things in life. I mean, we can be thankful that, you know, we've got homes and food and things like that, that things that money buy, but man money can never be our priority. Our driving force, the kingdom of God has to be our driving force, doing what God has called us to do in the scripture. That needs to be our driving force, getting up every morning and making sure that Jesus is the Lord Lord of our lives. 7 (1h 2m 5s): That needs to be our driving force. Matthew 6 24, no one can serve two masters for you will hate one and love the other. You will devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money. Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil money can be a blessing when handled properly. And it can be a curse. I've watched so many families over the course of my life and ministry get blown up over, over money. 7 (1h 2m 45s): Inheritances. They divide families, squabbling over possessions. I'm just, I, I, I'm sick to my stomach of the stories that I hear when money gets introduced into a family and there begins the squabble. It's like, oh, we love each other until money shows up and you're not getting mine, man. I tell ya, I I've been so blessed by my, my brother in Denver. He's my half-brother. So my dad passed away six months ago or eight months ago. It's been awhile now, number of months and six months before that, my dad's second wife passed away. 7 (1h 3m 30s): My step-mom. And so my brother who lives in Denver, where my dad lived is handling the estate. And he's been so completely gracious with the way he's handled everything. I, I just tell him all the time I'm so Shane I'm so thankful for the way that you're handling all of this, because the last thing we want is for our family to be blown up because of a few bucks, right? It's not worth it. Relationships. We, we need one another. Am I done with time? How far over am I? I still got like 14 points left. Here we go. 7 (1h 4m 10s): I got five minutes. Thank you very much, Amanda. Here we go. So don't let the love of money. Dictate whom you will love the antidote for the love of money is contentment. Contentment. Godliness with contentment is great. Gain our culture. We don't understand contentment. We see the next new shiny thing. We want it. We, we, we need to have that next thing and I'm can be just as guilty as the rest. So we need to learn to find this place of contentment. Verse five. Again, for God has said, I will never fail you. I will never abandon you. 7 (1h 4m 51s): So that's where our focus, our hope our priority is has God. He, he will never fail you. He will never abandoned. You'd often were hoarding money or save, hold on to stuff because we're afraid of the future and the world's a crazy place. And so we're afraid. And boy, if, if, if we just honor the Lord seek first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, everything else will be added on to us. Someone said, if you fear God, you've got nothing else to fear, right? Like fearing God means to obey him, to honor him to do what he's called us to do. We put that kind of priority in our lives. Everything else will be taken care of. 7 (1h 5m 30s): Everything else will be taken care of. Another hindrance to love is fear. Don't live in fear, verse six. So we can say with confidence and we'll wrap this up quick. The Lord is my helper. So I will have no fear what can mere people do to me. So the writer of Hebrews is writing to people who are under persecution, Jewish people who have said I'm breaking away from Judaism to honor Christ to enter into this covenant relationship with the Lord. Jesus Christ. I recognize that Jesus is the Messiah. Well, this was a threat to the church, the Jewish church. 7 (1h 6m 14s): This was a threat to the church. And so there was persecution, the Orthodox religious use of the days, guys like Saul of Tarsus before his conversion were persecuting the church, pressuring the people to follow the laws of Moses. And so they were feeling fear. And so the writer is saying, Hey, you've got nothing to fear in light of eternity, which is where we're going to be spending. Most of our time. This, this life here is a blip on the screen of eternity. It's just a blip. It's an important blip. Jesus died for this blip that we might live for him, that we might take as many people with us to heaven as possible. 7 (1h 6m 57s): So it's an important blip, but, but it's not the whole thing. We'll spend eternity with the Lord or not depending on how and what we choose in this life. 9 (1h 7m 11s): Ah, 7 (1h 7m 12s): What can I skip here? This is good. An adverse or number seven, practical faith living number seven verse seven says, remember your leaders who taught you the word of God, think of all the good that has come from their lives and follow the example of their faith. So how do we, how do we love our leaders? We've all got leaders. I've got to leaders, you've got leaders, we've all got leaders. And so we have this responsibility. I submit to my elders. I submit to their leadership in my life. 7 (1h 7m 54s): We all have people that we must submit to because we all have leaders in our lives. So how do we, how do we love our leaders? I w I would say guard against criticism. It's easy to get critical of leaders. Often. We don't understand what our leaders are going through. The decisions that they're facing, the expectations that are upon. So if we can just be careful to extend grace and avoid criticism, and if we can pray for our leaders, that's governmental leaders, that's church leaders. We need to pray, pray, pray for our leaders. Often I'll ask the church. Will you remember to pray for our elders, our staff, our, our church. 7 (1h 8m 34s): Would you remember to pray for me specifically when we praying for people praying for the operative word, they're praying for people, not against people like Lord help his car to crash into that telephone pole. That's not praying for that's bringing again. So don't pray for Lord that they would be blessed and walking in grace and experiencing your clarity. That's what we need to be praying for. People decide to extend grace, understand our human limitations. I think we need to be able to look back at the, of our lives and be able to speak well of people that have led us currently and in the past. And if there's things sticking in our crawl a little bit about past leaders, we need to pray for them and watch the Lord change our hearts. 7 (1h 9m 16s): And then we begin to see their human limitations and begin to see the things that they were up against. And we can extend grace so that we're living in harmony with those who are in leadership over us. I don't think we can honor our earthly leaders very well. Let me, how do I say this? I think we really are. We begin to honor our earthly leaders really well when we figured out how to honor our heavenly leader. When we figured out how to honor the Lord, there's just something that of a work of God in our lives that allows us to honor our leaders and really everybody in our lives. So love each other. Love strangers, love the forgotten and love your spouse. Don't love money. Don't live in fear and love your leaders. Hey, let's take communion. 7 (1h 9m 57s): So thankful for communion. I, once a month, we remember what the Lord has done, and hopefully often more often than that, but especially once a month on family Sunday, we remember. And even as I flipped my elements, I'm like, that was the wrong thing to do. So I don't mean to take it. Forgive me for that. I it's really, we need to honor what God has given us in this active worship that we would honor the Lord. So I'm going to read first Corinthians 1123. 7 (1h 10m 39s): And then as I get ready to read that, just get your hearts, pray that you get your hearts in the right place. And that be a time of confession, time of humility, time of brokenness and contrition that we would go humbly before the throne of grace and say, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for salvation for new life and forgiveness for I pass on to you. What I receive from the Lord himself, this first grand thing is 1123 on the night when he was betrayed, the Lord, Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. 7 (1h 11m 22s): Then he broke it in pieces and said, this is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me. It's taken away from Got I'm filled with joy, and I'm also perplex. Lord. I I'm grateful that you Allowed your body to be nailed to a cross. Allow your board, your blood to be poured out for my sins. Lord God, I'm perplexed. Lord God that you would love us me enough to do that. Lord, I, I, I don't have the capacity to understand why you would do that Florida, But thank you. 7 (1h 12m 10s): Thank you Lord. For your grace. It is sufficient Verse 25 in the same way. He took the cup of wine after supper saying this cup is the new covenant between God and his people and agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this to remember me. As often as you drink it for every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord's death until he comes again. Let's go ahead and take the cup. Thank you, Lord. 7 (1h 12m 51s): Thank you for your blood. Thank you that you poured out your blood for my sins. You took the wrath of God that belonged to me upon yourself. And you gave me an exchange. Your righteousness. You gave us an exchange, your righteousness. If you're here today and you need the righteousness of God in your life. If you need God to take that weight of burden from sins and mistakes and failures and shortcomings, if you need God to lift those things off you and you want to enter into a relationship with God, a saving a life, changing, born again, relationship with God you say, Lord, I, I need you to lift this burden of sin. 7 (1h 13m 32s): I need you to forgive me. I repent. I change my mind about the way that I've been living and I'm going to turn and live for you. I'm going to turn and follow you. I want you to be the Lord and the leader of my life. I will submit to you in all things. I will follow you in all things. And I will love you always Lord by your grace. So Lord come into my life, forgive my sin and help me to follow you all the rest of the days of my life. And as you do that, you, you began, you began a journey of being a follower of the Lord. Jesus Christ. It's not about getting sins forgiven. 7 (1h 14m 14s): And then you move on. It's about submitting your life to Jesus and following God, the rest of your life into eternity forever and ever. Amen. It's about allowing God to transition your life from what it was to new life in him. To allow you to be born again into the kingdom of God, adopted into his family. So Lord, this is a life altering transaction that we're believing you for, help us to walk in that life-changing way. We pray this way that you have designed for us. We love you Lord in Jesus name. 7 (1h 14m 54s): Amen. Let's go out and stand up and worship. 1 (1h 15m 22s): You give you a green light to the job 0 (1h 15m 34s): You 1 (1h 15m 35s): Restore and every house that is . It's your breath in? praise. Praise. It's your breath. You bring right John? 1 (1h 16m 33s): Oh, hi. That is Oh, the wish shout shoe tricks cry. 1 (1h 18m 20s): These bones 2 (1h 19m 51s): Lord. You are great. You are awesome. And mighty, we praise you this morning as we go about the rest of our week. Lord, we just pray that you'd be filling us with your holy spirit so that we can shine light to the rest of the world. And everybody we come in contact with. We can glorify you in everything that we do in Jesus name. Amen.

Today's meet up of Venus with Uranus and Mars with Saturn helps us to be grateful and focused on practical affairs. We can feel energetic and crave stimulation as the Gemini moon prepares to go void tonight before moving into Cancer tomorrow morning. *Expend some physical energy today while meditating on your breathing.* --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jody-cirame/message

When YOU have a DREAM, there are CERTAIN things you MUST be WILLING to GIVE up. You CAN'T keep all YOUR options OPEN; you have to NARROW your FOCUS to what's most IMPORTANT. John Maxwell says: 'Many PEOPLE do the OPPOSITE. Rather than FOCUS on their DREAM and LET go of LESS IMPORTANT things, they WANT to keep every OPTION open. But when THEY do, they ACTUALLY face more PROBLEMS because DECISION-MAKING becomes overly COMPLICATED...at first it's fun to have so many POSSIBILITIES..But as TIMES goes by, YOU can't MAKE progress BECAUSE you SPEND all your TIME preserving OPTIONS rather than MOVING FORWARD...When you EXPEND your TIME and ENERGY on the few things that make a DIFFERENCE...tasks that aren't EXCITING or IMMEDIATELY rewarding take on added VALUE. Each ACTIVITY becomes an IMPORTANT piece in that BIGGER picture.' When God gives you a VISION He doesn't SHOW you the WHOLE picture up front. He DOES it in stages so you won't get OVERWHELMED. For example, when He shared with MOSES His vision for delivering lsrael, Moses had to WAIT for each part to DOWNLOAD. By FAITH he left Egypt. By FAITH he kept the Passover so the enemy wouldn't touch the firstborn of lsrael. By FAITH the lsraelites walked through the Red Sea and their enemies drowned trying to pursue them. By FAITH he kept the lsraelites moving for forty years through the wilderness until he stood, an old man, OVERLOOKING the Promised Land. What kept Moses GOING even after God told him he did NEVER enter the Promised Land? Simply this: he STAYED focused on DOING the WILL of 'Him who is invisible.' God's servant Rev Alfred Acheampong. Prayer Point: Heavenly Father help me to stay focused on my assignment in life without being distracted by anything of demons or man in Jesus name. Anchor Scripture: '....HE PERSEVERED BECAUSE HE SAW HIM WHO IS INVISIBLE.' (Hebrews 11:27 NIV) Stay Blessed! YearOfSupernaturalProvision

“Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.” —Henry David Thoreau It's morning, early in our house. Norman has finished his breakfast served in the mudroom which is adjacent to the kitchen, and I begin toasting my steel cut oats. The clanking of pans being chosen for the two egg omelette, the whisk of the eggs in the mixing bowl provide the soundtrack of our mornings, and Norman finds his way onto the rug in front of the stove to enjoy his daily dental chewy. An ordinary moment that happens every single morning and to me it is extraordinary. "Be extraordinary at the ordinary." —Andy Puddicombe, meditation teacher One of the common refrains I heard from TSLL readers over the past two years was while disheartened and pained by the reason for the slower pace of life, was that it was in fact a pace they appreciated. No longer did they have to fight back or expend energy to explain why indeed the slower pace suited them and nourished them. Now that lives and schedules and expectations are beginning to pick up steam and the ability to pursue, travel and experience those unique and intriguing occasions we longed for as we were unable to for some time return, the importance of choosing our pace in our everydays and how we hold ourselves in our everydays, having seen the difference in ourselves, a better time could not be had to continue to, or fine-tune so as to improve how we go about living in the ordinary moments. Often the word ordinary connotes a 'hum-drum' energy, an energy not desired or seen as inferior especially when we think of its relation to the word 'extraordinary'. However, all ordinary means is that it, whatever 'it' is, is commonplace. And for our purposes in today's episode/post, ordinary simply refers to the ability to have a day without strife, to tend to a job or a task to make money so that we can live our lives, to eat our daily meals and move about our home and community engaging with our family and coworkers and neighbors as they too move about a schedule similarly including the same elements. Why I gravitated to the quote I share above - be extraordinary at the ordinary - is because at its core we are choosing to focus on what is necessary, and so thereby we keep those necessities in our days, eliminate what weighs down or expends energy unnecessarily, and thus, we are choosing to focus on quality over quantity which is a core premise of living simply luxuriously. An example from Shannon's life of making ordinary extraordinary in our everyday lives As I type, it is early morning at Le Papillon. Norman is snuggled up next to me, softly snoring, and the house begins to warm up while the classical music plays softly providing a gentle easing into the day. The day, by objective definitions, is ordinary, but in this moment, it feels extraordinary. The companionship and good health of my pup, a home and thus a roof over my head to keep me warm and safe, the means (my computer) to do my work well, and the beauty of art (the music) to lift the day, yet keep it calm. How exactly do we elevate the ordinary to the status of extraordinary? Start with how you move through your everydays. While Henry David Thoreau's quote shared above is less known, it partners well with the quote that immediately springs to my mind, and more widely recognized, as is a mantra I display in my office as a way to ground me. I change the pronouns of course and do so as well here. "I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of [her] dreams, and endeavors to live the life which [she] has imagined, [she] will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." The awesomeness of life happens in the everydays, and guess what? The super majority of the days of our lives are everydays. Therefore we have so many opportunities to make them extraordinary. Let's break it down a bit further. Here is a list of concrete practices to incorporate into how you live in your everydays to welcome the extraordinary to be experienced: Understand the power of presence and then hold yourself in the present moment each day, each moment Learn the skill of savoring (doing so is one way to hold yourself in the present), listen to episode #323 Celebrate and appreciate all that is going well around you and don't hold it all inside - express it - say thank you, share what you enjoy (not what you dislike), be brave and vulnerable in sharing what makes you smile Slow down when you eat your meals - make them an opportunity to connect and refrain from watching the clock Grow and nurture a garden Take on the serious responsibility of caring for a pet and nurture them as you would yourself or a child (literally, clean their teeth, create healthy routines, regular exercise, build trust) Make and revel in daily, weekly or monthly rituals - make them special and important - and hold them firm as you would an appointment. Engage in one activity at a time Give yourself permission to not be engaged in any activity at all for a period of time each day - just be still, rest, relax Quality ingredients, seasonal fare for delicious everyday meals (fewer ingredients are necessary and appetites are satiated more quickly as the food is full of flavor and balanced for what the body needs Become a student of the mind, exercise (thereby strengthen) it regularly, put yourself in the driver seat so emotions that spring up due to events out of your control don't derail your day, your relationships, your life, as you know all emotions are evanescent. Fall in love with reading and have something to read that holds you in the pages - for pleasure or learning something new and deepening your knowledge. Thoughtfully and patiently curate a home, a wardrobe, a routine for your days that is an investment that will last and nurture your priorities. Each of the ideas suggested are merely a sampling of how we can elevate the 'ordinary' everyday to something extraordinary to experience each day. If you have been a long-time reader of the blog or listener of the podcast, you know that nearly all of the content you find shares inspiration, ideas and examples of how to do exactly this - live an extraordinary life in the ordinary moments. A key component, something we've tangentially talked about in a variety of ways is to understand why we/you place so much value on the extraordinary moments celebrated by outside sources - the awards, the status symbols, the life markers set by society one must achieve. While we are social creatures, and we want to feel included, we want to feel seen, appreciated, applauded and accepted, when we seek out healthy sources of each of the A's as David Richo describes as the 5 Key A's in a healthy adult relationship (ep. #287), we can find them and savor them in our everydays. So often we seek something that is already within each of us or capable of being nurtured with those in our everyday lives already. When we discover how rich we already are for living an extraordinary life in our everydays, the supposed 'grand' achievements become less tempting to pursue especially if doing so takes us away from what we know is quite special and we are quite fortunate to have - healthy, loving relationships, a career or calling that fulfills us, a home that gives us safety, shelter and security, a community that is at peace, small, yet significant opportunities to learn and grow. When we choose to embrace the choice of living extraordinarily in our everydays as Thoreau advises, it becomes easier to hold ourselves in the present moment, and because we are doing our best in those moments that each day offers, we go to bed each night more at peace and thus slumber is deeper, more nourishing which makes the new day that we awake to full of all the more potential to be extraordinary all over again. The cycle feeds itself, and we hold the key in how we hold ourselves, what we notice, what we engage in, how we engage, what we let go, etc. . Expend energy on the things that bring value, find strength to let go of unhelpful, unnecessary or detrimental tasks, habits or relationships, and your life will begin to feel quite extraordinary. Find inspiration for each day of the year, how to live well in your everydays in TSLL's new book - The Road to Le Papillon: Daily Meditations on True Contentment (available now). ~Take a peek inside the book, listen to an excerpt and discover why the title - Le Papillon - was chosen in this 15 minute video with Norman and I. Petit Plaisir —Murder in Provence, BritBox (based on M.L. Longworth's Provençal mystery series) ~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #324 ~Subscribe to The Simple Sophisticate:  iTunes | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon Music

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Call To Expansion II - Living By Faith in this podcast you will hear from Pastor Victor M. Zesati Sr. today we will be speaking on the topic, Expansion: Every day we will hear different topics of living a successful life in Faith. [Isaias 54:2-3]. Thank you for listening to the Living By Faith program, if you would like to write to us do so via email at vopsvzesati@yahoo.com. May God continue to guide you by Faith. [909] 631-7314 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/victor-zesati/support

Treasurer Frydenberg handed down the federal budget last night and to be honest, there’s not a lot in it for individuals and investors. However, there are some real positives for small business, first home buyers and retirees. This blog provides a summary of the initiatives announced on 11 May 2021.First home buyers’ to be able to access more super for a depositThe First Home Super Saver (FHSS) scheme was introduced four years ago to help first home buyers save a deposit. In summary savers can make tax-deductible voluntary contributions into super of up to $15,000 per year. These contributions are usually taxed at a flat rate of 15%, which means it reduces their income tax liabilities. They can then access these savings (plus investment earnings) in the future and contribute the monies towards the purchase of a first home. Previously, the maximum a saver could access from super was capped at $30,000. However, this has been increased to $50,000 in this year’s budget.Savers cannot withdraw compulsory employer contributions i.e. the 9.5% (to increase to 10% after 1 July 2021) their employer contributes on their behalf. These contributions are still preserved inside super, which is good.The benefit of this is it makes it easier to save after-tax dollars. For example, someone earning $135,000 p.a. pre-tax would pay a marginal tax rate of 39% on the last $14,000 of pre-tax income – or $5,460 – allowing them to save only $8,540 after-tax ($14,000 - $5,460). However, if they salary sacrificed that $14,000 into super, their super fund would only pay $2,100 of tax, allowing them to save $11,900 after-tax. In this example, this person has increased their savings by almost 40% due to the tax savings.People earning greater than $120,000 p.a. could enjoy the highest tax savings.Expend the home loan guarantee schemeThe First Home Loan Deposit Scheme (FHLDS) allows borrowers to borrow more than 80% of a property’s value whilst avoiding the cost of mortgage insurance, because the government guarantees part of the loan. Places under this scheme are very limited. However, the government will make available another 10,000 places. Plus a further 10,000 places over the next four years to eligible single parents with dependants.If you earn less than $120,000 – extension of low to middle income tax offsetIf you earn less than $120,000 you may be entitled to a tax offset of up to $1,080 (progressively scaled back if you earn between $90,000 and $120,000) – see here. This offset was introduced 3 years ago but has been extended to apply in the 2021/22 tax year.Increase to the Child Care Subsidy (CCS)From 1 July 2021, the government will move the CCS cap of $10,560 per child. And commencing on 11 July 2022, the government will increase the childcare subsidy for parents with two or more children under the age of five by 30%, up to a maximum CCS rate of 95% for these children.Company tax rate cutThe company tax rate will reduce from 26% for ‘base rate’ entities (revenue less than $50 million p.a.) to 25% after 1 July 2021. As such, if you operate a business in a company, it is advisable to bring forward as many expenses as possible into this financial year.For business: loss carry-back and temporary full expensingThe government will extend the loss carry back and temporary full expensing by an additional year.The loss carry back will allow eligible companies to carry-back tax losses from the 2022/23 tax year (or prior) to offset previously taxed profits as far back as the 2018-19 income year.The temporary full expensing allows businesses to claim a full tax deduction for the purchase of depreciable assets up until 30 June 2023.Simplify tax residency rulesDetermining tax residency can be a challenging task as there are a number of tests to apply and considerations to take into account, which are embedded in case law. This creates a high level of uncertainty and we have often needed to obtain a private ruling from the ATO on behalf of our clients. The government has announced that it will re-write the residency rules to provide more certainty.Removal of the super contribution work test for people aged between 67 and 74Previously, people aged over 67 needed to meet the work test to be able to make contributions into super. The work test requires the super member to have completed 40 hours of paid employment within any 30 day period. The government will remove this work test. This could be advantageous to retirees that have less than $1.7 million in super and investments or cash in their personal name. It could be a great opportunity to move wealth inside super which is a zero tax environment.Downsizer contribution is available from age 60Previously, anyone over the age of 65 who sold their home and met certain other conditions, could contribute up to $300,000 (per individual) into super. This minimum age will be reduced to 60.Is this a good budget?Overall, the initiatives aimed at easing housing affordability for first home buyers will have little to no impact. What’s required is a massive infrastructure spend to reduce travel times to regional centres and ensure they provide attractive employment opportunities and recreational facilities.The incentives to business such as the reduction on the corporate tax rate, loss carry-back and expense write off should provide substantial economic benefit and aid the economic recovery. These are good initiatives in my view.The government should provide more support for childcare expenses as they can be crippling and impair productivity (because the cost prohibits parents returning to work). People often balk at the cost of top-tier private school fees but childcare can cost just as much. It is difficult to afford, even for higher income earners. I think more must be done.And I like the incentive available to older Australians to contribute into super. This cohort wouldn’t have benefited from compulsory super for as long as younger Australians (as it was introduced in 1992).

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We've talked about the power of pausing in several other episodes. Today I'd like to talk about the idea of intentionally and consciously pausing to EXPAND your energy before you EXPEND your energy. Enjoy! If you'd like to be put on the waitlist for the Spiritual Weight Loss Challenge I reference in this episode, GO HERE. We'll alert you the next time we run the challenge. Michelle@GrowBy1.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michelle-burkhard/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michelle-burkhard/support

Welcome to Friendly Fire, the war movie podcast that - if it accomplished nothing else - made you watch Come and See. I’m show producer Rob Schulte…here to announce that this is the end of the line for Friendly Fire. We’ve seen a lot of great movies together, and we’ve also seen USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. But no matter what war movie we talked about, all of us who work on the show are going to miss these conversations, and we’d like to take this moment to express our gratitude to everyone who listened, supported the show, bought merchandise, and came to see the show live. If you’re a MaxFun member who supports the show, you can update your membership at maximumfun.org/manage Thanks for a few great years of podcasting. This is Friendly Fire signing off. Expend all remaining ordinance inside our perimeter.

The party makes their way into the Tabaxi mountains and struggles with the morality of killing baby kitten vampires. The beautiful mountain sanctuary of the Tabaxi-- Silver Peaks-- was dark and covered with eerie, sentient mists. The team quickly discover that the Silver Peaks have been overrun with all things vampire, including two turned Tabaxi children. After defeating them, the group chased after their mists, to wherever their home base is to finish the job. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ We are a Dungeons and Dragons 5e actual play focussed on roleplay over combat. Dragging themselves out of the chaos from their royal assassination, Verity, Elly and Ariana are in mourning. Reclaiming her title, Princess Verity faces her need to repent for past murders. Ariana struggles with what it means to be two souls in one body. Elly finds herself turned to ice, as she delves with powers beyond her.  They are joined by new allies, Lenore, Taabi and Brilia. Lenore, a follower of the Raven Queen, finds herself drawn to helping these lost young women (and freeing herself). Taabi, a nomadic Tabaxi, who will do anything to survive, and seeks the secrets of the dead. Brilia, a former housewife turned adventurer who learned her warlock abilities to protect her partner, Kos. Twitch Stream: Wednesdays, 6:30-9pm ESTYouTube/Podcast: Saturdays, 12pm ESTJoin our community: linktr.ee/darknessanddragons

New local lockdown rules for England are due to be announced later today. The Liverpool City Region is expected to face the tightest restrictions under a new "three-tier" system, which will classify regions as being on "medium", "high" or "very high" alert. Steve Rotheram, the city region's mayor, told Nick Robinson: "What we are trying to do is to see whether we can get support and the support package for the businesses in our city region that will be affected by the Government's decision." He added there is little they can do to challenge the decision: "We were told we were going into Tier 3, no ifs, no buts. We can either expend energy on that or we can try and get a better deal. Some people like to shout at the wind but if they can't change the direction of the wind it is important to shield people from its effects." With BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg and Leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese. Credit: Press Association

A depression after university, a burnout working in the family business, being in psychotherapy for 10 years, and a divorce, Dora Prado went through a lot physically and mentally before healing herself spiritually. From Brazil, Dora is now a holistic therapist in London, helping others. In this episode she talks about how the obstacles she met in her life helped her with where she is today, her spiritual journey and how she created her new life in the UK. Contents:2.05 : What’s a holistic “talking” therapist?2.35 : where it all began-> from university and depression to a burnout at work6.27 : Healing journey10.08: London and Bach Flowers therapy training12.19 : Expend the knowledge in different type of therapies 12.49 : financial support during training. 15.00 : think outside the box. Be conscientious 18.18 : ease on your perfectionist traits22.10 : “I am the business”, the difficulties23.49 : Dora’s different therapy techniques 26.46 : Definition of success. FOLLOW DORA: https://www.instagram.com/instantly_by_dora/ FOLLOW ME: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/way_of_living_podcast/ Twitter: @WayOfLivingPod1 Music: Fredji - Happy Life

““Expend, o Lord”” by Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

Do you expend your energy in a healthy way? Today Riley shares Deepak Chopra's guidance to properly expending your energy discussed in his book Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting The Soul. He defines healthy and unhealthy energy, the importance of utilizing healthy energy, goes through Deepak's quiz to assess how you expend energy, and more. Riley hopes you found value in this episode that will propel some aspect of your life. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe wherever you listened along with leaving a review to assist in enabling others to hear this episode. Sign up for CrowdQuestion free and follow The Moore You Know Podcast to ask Riley questions surrounding what was discussed. CHECK OUT MY BOOK HERE - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084DHWN69 CHECK OUT THE CHARITY BOOK DRIVE HERE - https://www.gofundme.com/f/young-men-in-juvie-amp-foster-homes DOWNLOAD CrowdQuestion FREE AT https://www.CrowdQuestion.com

I’ve talked about ways we can expand our horizons in this year about ourselves and live more happy and meaningful

Show notes & links available here. In this episode, I'm chatting with Dr. Chris Thurber, a legendary trainer in the camp industry and a clinical psychologist who works at Phillips Exeter Academy, about how important it for parents to connect with their teens. Chris has developed online training programs for educators and youth leaders around the world and many of the best practices and concepts he teaches apply to parents. We also discuss how the skills kids learn at camp can help them to thrive in life. Big Ideas Even one summer working at a summer camp can be so valuable for the experience gained and training in relational, leadership, and communication skills. Much of the training camp counselors receive is helpful for teachers and parents. Thurber's Tic-Tac advice: Expend as little energy as possible, “no more energy than a Tic-Tac.” Take a break from lecturing or nagging and instead use the low-energy responses of a look, a point, or just saying the child’s name. In our society today, it is harder than ever to be an adolescent. One big reason is the competitiveness of education. Colleges are getting more applications from students around the world as high school graduation rates continue to climb. Parents and students should consider alternatives to college such as apprenticeships and vocational training. Parents need to have more conversations with their kids--girls and especially boys--about their emotions.  Expressing empathy helps to alleviate the pressure that kids are feeling these days. When parents minimize or downplay their feelings, kids do not feel connected. Quotes: Chris: "The reason I think Happy Campers is a brilliant book is you've taken the lessons that we get to practice in a very intense way as camp professionals for, you know, seven, eight, nine weeks with constant feedback about whether it works or not. And I don't mean that kids were filling our questionnaires. I mean, they're either listening or they're not, or they're being compliant or they're not...It's a wonderful laboratory and classroom for parenting." Chris: "We have an untapped resource in a sense at camp. Everyone who is lucky enough to be a staff member at a camp is going to be that much better as a parent. The rest of the world can benefit from what we've understood about child development and behavior management, leadership, supervision, physical and emotional safety." Chris: "Instead of having high school graduates who are excited about going to college or university, they're starting to feel the pressure, even in elementary school or early middle school, to set themselves apart from the crowd, to develop a unique talent, to begin preparing their resume for college." Chris: "It's creating a tremendous amount of pressure for adolescents and that's a problem. They're more anxious, more depressed. It's taking an emotional toll.  Also, we're not thinking creatively as adults about education broadly construed. You don't necessarily need a college degree." Chris: "Apprenticeship is the model we use at summer camp. We have younger leaders apprenticing with older leaders or younger counselors with older counselors so you're learning on the job. We should be applying that to more things." Chris: "It's awesome if you get a bachelor's degree in English literature or physics or computer science, but not everyone wants that, needs that or has that as a career path. And I think we have, as a society, fallen victim to the perceived prestige of a college or university degree and completely overlooked expanded opportunities for vocational training and apprenticeships." Audrey: "You know that what makes a thriving adult is not a test score or even a degree from us particular place. It's these character traits and these interpersonal skills and this emotional depth and all these things that actually can be counter to when we're so focused on these specific metrics." Audrey: "What do you want to be building and growing in yourself and in the kids you work with? You want people who are going to be great friends, who are going to stop and help someone who needs help. When you're so busy climbing your way up to something, you make decisions and sometimes you're not your best self." Chris: "I recommend camp because it's the ideal complement to a traditional or non-traditional classroom setting. You take kids from being mostly inside and bring them outside. You take kids from mostly sitting to mostly running around. You take kids from doing things that have a lot of numbers, quantitative marks associated with them and put them in less structured, less evaluative circumstances." Chris: "It's a way of stretching your brain and building resilience that will not only relieve stress and boost your mood, but also make you more resilient to future challenges. Camp is not the panacea, but it's a huge part of robust youth development." Chris: "Ask better questions. Students here, like students at a lot of schools, are really sick of parents asking, what were your grades? Or if we want to steer clear of performance markers, what'd you do today? How was school? Those are well-intentioned questions. They're benign but they're not nurturing a relationship." Chris: "There are many students here with wonderful relationships with their parents. And I think a big key to that is taking an interest in your child as a person and how are they unique and how are they evolving, developing rather than continuing to try to fit them into some mold." Chris: "Kids need, people need room to be creative and be themselves. I want parents to encourage, to say that it's okay, who knows what it will lead to, but it doesn't need to lead to anything if it feeds your soul. The most authentically happy people in the world are the ones who tap into one of their signature strengths in service to other people." Audrey: "I think there's a lot of value in adults and parents showing kids what it's like to tap into those things even if it's different. If they see you doing something you enjoy, they learn that adults do things they enjoy and they're having fun and they meet other friends that way. So that modeling is really important." Chris: "Model this kind of humility and show your kids, not tell them, how to live. Show them what it is to balance work and play and sleep and get a little exercise and model what it's like to bounce back from failure. If you say something that you realize didn't have the intended effect or was the wrong thing to say, don't move on and pretend like nobody heard it. Talk about it, fix it. If you're enraged, that's not the time to debrief it, but you can always circle back." Chris: "Talk with your kids about what your vulnerabilities are. It's such an important thing to be able to do. For well-intentioned parents who make missteps, you shouldn't view your kids as fragile. They can bounce back from something you said or didn't say or forgot. They need to see you trying hard. They need to see you learning from mistakes." Chris: "Provide empathy but when you get to the end of your empathic statements, full stop, let it sink in. Let your kid respond. Let them just process the fact that you acknowledged some of the dimensions of their emotional experience. We are all tempted to immediately follow our empathic statement with problem-solving. But when someone is in distress, whether it's they didn't like the news they heard from a college or the grade they got on a test or the fact that you know their significant other just broke up with him by text message, or whatever it might be, they don't want to hear the solution right now and they probably know what the solution is anyway."   About Dr. Chris Thurber Dr. Christopher Thurber enjoys creating and sharing original content for business leaders, independent educators, and youth development professionals. He is a board-certified clinical psychologist, educator, author, and father. Chris earned his BA from Harvard University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA in 1997. A dedicated teacher from a young age, Chris has more than 30 years of experience working with camps and independent schools. He has written numerous book chapters and scholarly articles on leadership, homesickness, and youth development. An award-winning contributor to Camping Magazine and Camp Business, Chris has also shared his opinions and expertise on national and international radio, television, print media, podcasts, and webinars, including The Today Show, Martha Stewart, and CNN. In 1999, after a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Chris accepted a position as psychologist and instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy, a coeducational, independent school in seacoast New Hampshire. Combining his love of research, teaching, and clinical work, Chris’s work at Exeter has grown to include publications and presentations for The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) the British Boarding Schools Association (BSA) and the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA). Chris has keynoted conferences for all three associations and has delivered guest lectures on the differences between Chinese and American public education, as well as the complementary nature of schools and camps at schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wenzhou. In 2000, Chris and his lifelong friend, Dr. Jon Malinowski, co-authored the critically acclaimed Summer Camp Handbook, hailed by psychologist and parent, Dr. John Weisz, as “a remarkable accomplishment…the best in its field…required reading for every camper’s family…the most comprehensive and scientifically sound coverage of the camp experience available.” The Summer Camp Handbook has since sold tens of thousands of copies, won a Parenting Press Gold Award, and been translated into Chinese. As part of his lifelong effort to enhance the camp experience for young people, Chris has been a guest on The Today Show, Martha Stewart, CNN, Fox, CBS Morning News, and NPR. Chris is the Founder and CEO of CampSpirit, LLC,  which provides consultation and training to professional educators and youth leaders around the world. As he traveled across five continents to present in-person staff training workshops, Chris realized that no directors of summer youth programs had enough time with their employees to provide all the necessary training prior to opening day. The increased complexity of health regulations and accreditation standards, as well as heightened awareness of child abuse and risk management, made training demands higher than ever, especially for seasonal employees and volunteers. But with a fixed period of time during which to conduct on-site training, an innovative educational solution was imperative. Resources Mentioned Chris Thurber Prep4Camp.com Expert Online Training David Brook's Road to Character Bill Pollack's Real Boys Michael Thompson Related Posts/Podcasts Why Teens Need Summer Camp More Than Ever Ep. 89: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men with Michael Reichert, Ph.D. Ep. 92: Creating Strong Relationships with Teens Ep. 32: 10 Benefits of Summer Camp for Teens Ep. 27: Raising Teens who Thrive with Stephen Wallace 11 Ways to Help Kids Create REAL Connections

Welcome to Core52! This is the introduction to our year-long look at the 52 core verses and passages in the Bible and why it's so important that we become intimately familiar with them.Check out our Facebook page for more resources: www.facebook.com/TCCChurchIntro:[VIDEO][SLIDE] Why don’t we read the Bible?[SLIDE] Reasons given to Barna.Effect on Behavior (stats)the odds of giving in to temptation goes down when we engage with the Bible 4x or more per week:At the same time, our emotional health improves:Equally important are the positive effects:[SLIDE] But we WANT to read it.We know intuitively that reading the word transforms us.Bible engagement is the single most powerful predictor of spiritual growth.The ProblemRelying solely on the pastor’s message.Traditional sources of bible knowledge not available or taken advantage of.Moving away from a print culture - image/video based.The biggie: Not enough time, too busy (75% surveyed). Next largest group felt intimidated by trying to do regular/serious study.As a result, we’re not experiencing the transformation that God intends for us.James 1:21 So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.​What If?We could overcome the main objections of busyness and intimidation?Learn the 52 core passages that unlock and illuminate the rest of the Bible. Create confidence and understanding for more study.Based on 4x principle. Study shows that lasting transformation occurs only when we engage with the Bible 4x per week. (touches).The Plan[SLIDE] 80/20 rule - Pareto principle. Expend effort in the most effective and efficient manner.Learn the 52 core passages that unlock and illuminate the rest of the Bible. Create confidence and understanding for more study.[SLIDE] Based on 4x principle. Study shows that lasting transformation occurs only when we engage with the Bible 4x per week. (touches).The ToolsYear-long focus on the Core 52 passages. Based on book by Mark Moore. (how I came to this decision.)Year: Each week focused on a core verse or short passage. Major doctrines and principles of the Bible.[SLIDE] Monthly focus: the Core passages we will be studying and learning. (bulletin, slide, FB)Weekly:Sundays: SS classes have the option to study along with us. Preaching.[SLIDE] Weekly posts to social media with the memory verse, two videos by Dr. Moore: one will be a devotional about the topic, one is a memorization aid.Weekly family devotional handouts for you to use.Midweek “deep dive” with me on Wednesdays.The ChallengeHebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.Isaiah 55:10–11 “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. 11 It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.Isaiah 55:11 It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.

Shout outs to Women teachers, especially on Christian themes and concepts. Shout out to Technology which brought the timing of this walk.

Women’s Health: The Ultimate Guide to Creatine Supplementation Have you ever come across the term “Creatine”? Probably you might have come across someone at the gym who is consuming a drink pre-workout. Have you ever wondered what it is? You have probably heard your trainer or fitness enthusiasts say this term next to you in the gym. Should you be consuming it? Is creatine good? These might be some of the questions running through your mind when you came across this term.  Before we get into the details, as an Elizabeth City, NC Chiropractor and fitness enthusiast I have been taking creatine daily for years.    What Is Creatine? Take note that creatine is not a steroid. This is a misconception, which most people use to single it out from their fitness routine. Creatine as a compound is not linked to hormones. This compound was discovered in the 1800s to be primarily found in mammals. The liver naturally produces it through the following amino acids: methionine, glycine, and arginine. However, unlike other amino acids, creatine is not viewed as a protein. This is because of the metabolism process that it goes through, which excludes the removal of nitrogen through the kidneys and out of the body.   Commonly Asked Questions about Creatine - How exactly does creatine work?   When you ingest certain before your workout, it will help the muscles in your body to work longer and harder. This means that as your muscles cells use the body’s energy levels to work, the creatine comes in to help sustain this energy by replenishing the fuel in the cells. Scientifically, the muscle cells have an energy unit known as ATP, which stands for adenosine triphosphate. This is the energy unit that creatine works to replenish through combining with a phosphate (Pi) molecule in the boy to form a phosphocreatine compound (PCr). This compound aids in muscle cells energy metabolism especially when it comes to activities that require shorter outbursts of energy such as sprinting.   Expend your ATP to allow your muscles to contract when you perform high energy level activities such as lifting weights. The expended ATP forms two products, which produce energy. They are the phosphate molecule and the adenoside di-phosphate compound (ADP). This helps the body muscles work longer and harder thus enabling you to burn fat and build more muscle without getting tired easily.   As a woman, how can you increase your chances of becoming a creatine responder? Yes, there are a number of ways that you can apply to your daily routine to increase your chances of becoming a creatine supplementation responder.   Consistency and patience. We have seen many of the Elizabeth City, NC area women become impatient and discontinue the use of creatine supplements even before the supplements had enough time to accumulate and work. It might take about two months of consistent use for it to have any effect.   Ingest enough creatine. The creatine level in the female form is higher than that in the male form. This means that women have to consume more creatine supplements than males. It is advised that a woman take about 0.1 kilograms of a kilogram of their weight in a day. In addition to this, the first week should have a higher dosage, which is estimated to be about 0.3 kilograms per body kg in a day.   Consume creatine alongside a healthy dose of quick-digesting simple carbohydrate. Sources of this include dairy products such as yoghurt and milk, juice, and even fruit, among others. They boost the insulin levels that increase the movement of substances present in the blood to the muscle cells for storage and use. If creatine is present in high amounts in the body then insulin is more likely to support its accumulation in the muscle tissue, this is why you should take it with a quick-digesting simple carbohydrate. Alternatively, you could use it with a meal or post-workout shake.   

Energy comes before form & matter, & is the root of how we feel & what we think. Understanding our own energy can help transform our lives and how we feel each day.          In this episode, I talk a bit about my Reiki Energy Healing practice & the shifts I have made.  EXPEND ENERGY WISELY Root ~ Replenish & Re-Energize Shoot ~ Be Uncomfortable  ∞ ~support me on Patreon~tune in to my Spoken Prose~join weekly for Monday Meditation  

Shaun: So, Carrie's not the best in the mornings and too much noise, clutter, extra to-do items pretty much throws her completely off her game. Carrie: One of the reasons that the dogs and I do daily motivating thoughts on my Facebook and Twitter accounts is because it helps ground me and make me feel less cranky and stressed.... Usually. Shaun, however, is a morning person who craves noise and tropical music while I'm a Pachibel's Cannon morning person. Shaun: True. Carrie: So, this week's podcast is the first in a series of podcasts about how to make your life and your writing life better and our first tip is.... DOG TIP OF THE CAST: Just say no to the stuff you don't want to do. You don't have to say yes to invitations or the extra responsibilities. You don't have to respond to every single text and/or email. You get to be in charge of these ancillary parts of your life. If you don't want to email/text/talk to someone, there might be a really good reason why. In this life, we have a limited amount of time to expend. Expend it well. Do it on your terms. Dogs get this. WRITING TIP OF THE POD: Yep. Same point. Write the stories that you want to, that resonate with you. Say no to the stories you think other people want you to write. When you get rid of the baggage, the things you don't want or need to do, you free up your mind of clutter and give it space to create. Listen to the full podcast to hear Shaun's random thought all about marketing - KaPerPi. It's knowledge, awareness, public relations and public image. It's pretty cool. SHOUT OUT The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It’s “Night Owl” by Broke For Free. For more tips and insight and cool things, check out carriejonesbooks.blog or our webpage Dogs are Smarter Than People. Thank you so much for liking and subscribing and sharing! You rock. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carriejonesbooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carriejonesbooks/support

Three Kings: Was this a war movie or a heist flick? Can’t it be both? On today’s episode Adam, Ben, and John figure out who’s the main-man while debating the extreme color palette choices of this 1999 adventure.Friendly Fire needs your support! Become a member in the #MaxFunDrive. Expend all remaining ordinance on our pod. www.maximumfun.org/donateThis film is available via: Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, and Google PlayClick here to support our show!Next film, Force 10 from Navarone, is available via:Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, Starz and your local library.

Christians live compelled by God’s love to expend their life for Jesus so God is glorified before others.

On the latest edition of America's Healthcare Challenge, Sean and Allen talk about the collapse of the AHCA. What happened? Is the ACA here to stay? Is Paul Ryan's Speakership in jeopardy? Answers to this and more at www.edbellisinc.com

https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Wisdom-Trek2800.jpg () Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy Welcome to Day 383 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Cycles and Seasons of Life (6) – Prepare During Spring Thank you for joining us for our 3 days per week, 12 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 383 of our trek, and today is Philosophy Friday. Every Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. Today we are continuing our trek covering the Cycles and Seasons of Life.  In particular, we are focusing on the life season of spring. https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/slide_1.jpg () We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. I am recording this episode on Monday since we will be leaving for the Podcast Movement conference in Chicago tomorrow and will be away the remainder of this week. The reunion weekend is winding down with the final clean up and family members gradually leaving. Our final count was 76 family members in attendance which included 7 out of 9 of my siblings, my dad, our children, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews. The weather was nice, and everyone appeared to enjoy being back at The Big House for the weekend. We are blessed and humbled to be able to host it. Paula and I always enjoy being the hosts and the facilitators of family gatherings. This season of our lives allows us the opportunity to work on renovating the house and serving in this manner. https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_2239.jpg ()Speaking of life seasons, let's head out on our trek for today as we continue on with the spring season within the Cycles and Seasons of Life within the section titled… The Constant, Predictable, Pattern of Change The essence of springtime is faith woven among the threads of massive human effort. Springtime is the fresh air of new opportunity, amid the dissipating clouds of winter. Spring is the time for you to enter the bleak, empty fields given to you as a new chance. When you enter those fields, you see in the adjoining fields the blossoming of nature's flowers—the daisies, and other miracles of nature, which God planted, reminding you now that nature fulfills its promises. Already, the miracle of the seasons shows itself, for the same snows that gave you cause to huddle for warmth during the winter also covered nature's crops, which exist now before your eyes. Expend your effort now, without complaint, without doubt, without pessimism, and without self-pity over the severity of your winter of circumstance. Did the daisies complain because of the same cold and the same winds? No, they did not, yet they exist as either a reminder, a threat, or a promise. Do the lilies hide beneath the cover of earth, fearing an unexpected return of winter, or do they restrain themselves for fear of the coming bugs and weeds of summer? Do the daisies or the lilies of the field of nature make excuses or lie or linger? They are there because they endured circumstance and pushed aside the seasonal obstacles of rocks and hard-packed soil, and so must you if your life is to blossom. The same God who gave life and meaning, and opportunity to the crops of nature now gives you the same blessings. Are you to say that you are less than a lily or a daisy? Do they have a brain or vision or choice? Do they converse one with another for the sharing of ideas? In His parable in Matthew 6:28-30, Jesus taught us, “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?” God does provide...

Stuffology; For His Glory and My Joy in Him - I Expend Various Passages

THE LONG AND SHORT OF FUTURES OPTIONS GUEST: DAVID HIGHTOWER: FOUNDER  OF THE HIGHTOWER REPORT (http://www.futures-research.com/) DAVID SAT DOWN WITH MARK TO DISCUSS A WIDE ARRAY OF AGRICULTURAL OPTIONS STRATEGIES INCLUDING:  CORN STRATEGIES (Strategies range from weakest to strongest) BUY 1 December Corn futures contract and BUY 2 May Corn short dated new crop (SDNC) just out of the money puts for around 8 cents each. The strategy allows the hedger to be fully priced ahead of the upcoming reports, and it also allows protection against possible bearish report news. And if a sharp break continues into early April, one or both of the puts could be lifted prior to April 24th expiration to essentially lower the base hedge price. Less Aggressive Strategy: With May Corn trading near $3.85, BUY 1 April Corn week 2 $3.85/$4.10 bull call spread for net premium of about 7 1/2 cents, and then SELL 1 April Corn week 2 $3.80 put for about 6 1/2 cents. Owning the week 2, right on the money call spread provides close - in price sensitivity for low cost, but the hedge is limited because the strike price for the short call position is only 25 cents higher. Selling the out of the money put further reduces the cost and leaves budgetary room for future risk coverage beyond this relatively short time frame. Limiting outlays into the first key pivot point of 2015 might allow for fresh hedges at lower prices. With December Corn trading near $4.09, BUY a December Corn $4.40 call for around 23 cents and SELL 1 May Corn SDNC $4.10 call for around 12 cents. Th is strategy off ers long term protection with a chance to finance a portion of the hedge costs. Th e May SDNC calls have only 30 days until expiration, and they could see a signifi cant loss in value if prices decline. Th ey will also lose value in a sideways market. The long December Corn call position is the hedge in this case, while the short dated new crop call is a financing vehicle or a “hedge of the hedge.” If the market continues to trend lower into the April 24th expiration, the hedger will have reduced the cost of owning the $4.40 call to just 11 cents. The December calls do not expire until November 20th. Macro Hedge-Using Soybeans as a Shield against Higher Corn Prices With November Soybeans trading near $9.57 and December Corn near $4.09, SELL a June Soybean SDNC $9.60 call for around 28 cents and BUY 2 June Corn SDNC $4.10 calls for a combined cost of around 31 cents. The net cost of the spread is minimal at only 3 cents. The hedger is attempting to collect call premium from a market that appears to have a potential to build significant supply and invest that premium in a market that could easily become tighter. If soybean acres increase sharply, corn acres will likely decline, which could lead to a dramatic tightening of corn stocks and higher corn prices.  SOYBEANS STRATEGIES (Strategies range from weakest to strongest)   Minimal Hedge, Moderately Bearish Price View BUY 1 Week 2 April Soybean at the money call for around 20 cents (16 days coverage). The potential for huge ending stocks, heavy flow of South American  soybeans onto the global market and an expected adjustment higher in 2015 soybean plantings should increase the chance for prices to fall in the near future. Commercials and end users may want to postpone their prompt and forward purchases. Th is hedge strategy provides coverage against a bullish surprise for very little cost. The main drawback is the short duration. Slightly More Aggressive, Increased Sensitivity & More Time: BUY 1 May Soybean SDNC at the money call for around 20 cents (30 days coverage). Expectations for heavier planting acreage, increased South American export competition and residual knock-on from deflationary view should increase the odds of lower cash prices ahead. Expend minimal hedge call premium and secure some upside protection beyond the March 31st report and into the early planting window. More Aggressive Strategy - Attempt to Finance Forward Hedge Cost with Decay and Flat Price Weakness With November Soybean futures trading near $9.57, SELL 1 June Soybean SDNC $9.40 call for 38 cents (56 days coverage), and then BUY 2 November Soybean $10.40 calls for 32 cents each or 64 cents total (212 days coverage). Net premium paid 26 cents. Financing longer term calls with an aggressive short-term bearish play using short calls. If futures rally 50 cents in the coming month, the short SDNC call position will show a loss of roughly 15-17 cents, depending on time decay and volatility. On a 50-cent rally, the 2 November calls should appreciate roughly 40 cents in total. In short, this strategy offers moderate hedge coverage with reduced out of pocket expense and the chance to collect some premium using from the short-dated calls. To further reduce the cost of the hedge, traders could consider selling the April Soybean week 2 $9.40 puts for 7 1/2 cents, as soybeans are already down from the March highs and are somewhat oversold. SDNC Soybean Hedge/Ratio Back Spread With November Soybeans trading near $9.57, SELL 1 July Soybean SDNC $9.40 call for around 47 cents and BUY 3 July Soybean SDNC $10.00 calls for around 63 cents total.This initial delta is long about 40% of 1 futures contract. The strategy performs best if the market is weak in the next 30 days. As long as the short call remains in place, the hedge will remain sensitive into the middle of May, after which the short call component will reduce performance and increase risk. In the event of a surprise, extended rally, the hedge position could extend its sensitivity to the equivalent of almost 2 full futures contracts. Th is strategy has a low net out of pocket expense. It doesn't perform well on a minor rally that comes to a halt, but it will reap windfalls if prices rally straight-away. 

Greater Grace. Hosea 2:14-15 God intends all our trouble to be a door into greater grace and greater revelation of his sufficiency for us. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 We sit back and let our view of God and life be shaped by constantly shifting feelings about our ever-changing circumstances. We choose to passively listen to circumstances when we need to [start talking back]. We act like Jesus' work on the cross and God's kindness toward us have no real bearing on our lives. Of course they do. Of course they matter. They matter in every circumstance of life. Full sermon: Hosea 2:14-15 God is talking through Hosea about how he is going to restore Israel. He talks about Israel as an unfaithful wife. "into the desert"- he will take everything away so she will finally see his kindness. He simplifies life for her. He takes away all the men of her unfaithfulness and all the things they gave her. Why? Because they were false. They did not love her like he did. They confused her. He took them away so she could see her true husband's unconditional love and forgiveness to win her back. "I will give her vineyards and the valley of Achor for a door of hope" (Hos 2:14). The valley of Achor was the "valley of trouble" where the Israelites fled from the battle with Ai after they were routed because of the sin of Achan (Josh 7:26). The valley of trouble was an inlet to the promised land, the land of rest. He will make your troubles the door of your hope and an inlet to greater grace. God intends for trouble, suffering, hardship, sickness, failure, even sin, to be avenues into greater grace. The things that discourage us the most are intended by God to show us more of his grace and strength. So trouble and affliction can be for me an opening for more grace. What I see as bad, God intends for my good, for greater revelation of his sufficiency for me. When I walked through sorrow, He showed me his peace that passes understanding. When I walked through sin, He showed me his amazing grace. When I walked through fear, he showed me his concern for me and sovereignty. When I walked through disappointment, he reminded me of his unconditional love. When my world seemed out of control, he showed me he is the rock. When my pursuits came up empty, he showed me his fullness. God intends all our trouble to be a door into greater grace and greater revelation of his sufficiency for us. Our problems are very real. Illness can affect not only the body, but the soul as well. Financial problems can drive you into despair. Worry over the lives and the souls of our children when they are struggling can seem endless. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. But these are not our greatest issue. Our greatest problem is that we are fallen creatures. We are warped by sin. Our hearts have a natural bent away from our Creator and toward sin. Our minds do not comprehend what we have lost and are content with the things of this world in place of a relationship with our Heavenly Father. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. Our greatest need is for healing, not of our bodies, but our souls. We need our hearts healed so we desire God over his creation. We need God to restore our souls. We need God to transform our minds to fix my misconceptions about him and about what is truly important. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. I am not saying that we should just shrug our shoulders when we go through trouble and try to act like it is no big deal. It is a big deal. But we need God to change our perspective. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. How do we fix our eyes on the eternal? Don't sit silently and let your circumstances do all the talking. When we have trouble, we let our trouble do all the talking. We can't find our keys and we say, I'm so stupid. We are late for school or work we get angry with other drivers who slow us down. We have a disagreement with our spouse and we think it is hopeless. CJ Mahaney in his book The Cross Centered Life writes, "We sit back and let our view of God and life be shaped by constantly shifting feelings about our ever-changing circumstances. We choose to passively listen to circumstances when we need to [start talking back]." "We think with our feelings," Sinclair Ferguson. We allow our feelings to guide our thinking. Emotions are a wonderful gift from God. And our relationship with God should bring to our lives strong godly affections. However, our emotions should not be vested with final authority. This should be reserved for Gods Word alone. We act like Jesus' work on the cross and God's kindness toward us have no real bearing on our lives. Of course they do. Of course they matter. They matter in every circumstance of life. Talk back to your circumstances. Your sin has been atoned for. Jesus died for that sin. He stood in your place. God has forgiven you and will help you, not because you are sinless, but because he is merciful. Expend your energies admiring, exploring, expositing, and extolling Jesus Christ. Sinclair Ferguson. Don't listen to your circumstances, talk back. Speak the truth. This matters most: you are forgiven. You have hope. Your hope is based on the sacrifice of Jesus. Let this truth define your life.