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Today we are diving into the messages that have been leaked between basketball player Anthony Edwards and his ex-girlfriend. Will is going on a 10-day silent retreat, Liam loves his new vacuum, and Emily admits something extremely embarrassing on today's Therapy Couch. SUPPORT BLANDINO'S PIZZA: https://fridaybeers.shop/collections/af-pod FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS: https://www.flowcode.com/page/almostfridaypod SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: NO MORE HANGOVERS! Head to https://trylastcall.com/FRIDAY for 25% off your first order. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/FRIDAY to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code FRIDAY. DOWNLOAD BETTERHELP AND GET 10% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH OF ONLINE THERAPY WITH CODE “BEERS” HEAD TO https://HIMS.COM/FRIDAY FOR PERSONALIZED HAIR LOSS TREATMENT OPTIONS! (00:00:13) - Prank on Falbo (00:01:29) - Anthony Edwards Controversy (00:17:03) - RIP Val Kilmer (00:21:55) - A DM From A Friend of the Program (00:26:19) - Graphic Novels (00:32:51) - Will's Retreat (00:40:23) - Liam and Will's New Vacuum (00:41:40) - The Dyson Ball (00:46:43) - The Point of Life (00:58:59) - Cracker of the Week (01:03:22) - Characters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special “Media Leadership” edition of Lessons in Leadership, Steve Adubato is joined by Gerald D'Ambra, Founder and Managing Partner, and Lisa Marie Falbo, Founder and Managing Partner, Media First Group, to talk about the future of media and the importance of leadership and collaboration in a constantly changing media landscape. Then, Steve and … Continue reading Lessons in Leadership: Gerald D'Ambra with Lisa Marie Falbo / Lori Roth

Dans cet épisode d'États Dames, nous allons parler d'un sujet essentiel et pourtant encore trop méconnu : les premiers secours en santé mentale. Nous savons tous à quel point il est crucial d'intervenir rapidement en cas d'urgence physique, mais savons-nous réellement comment réagir face à une personne en détresse psychologique ?Pour nous éclairer sur ce sujet, j'ai le plaisir d'accueillir Anna Falbo, psychologue clinicienne et psychothérapeute. Spécialisée dans l'accompagnement des troubles du comportement alimentaire, l'hypnose et la thérapie cognitivo-comportementale, elle adopte une approche globale qui prend en compte le corps, l'esprit et les émotions.Aujourd'hui, elle nous explique en quoi consistent ces gestes simples mais fondamentaux qui peuvent faire toute la différence pour une personne en souffrance. Comment reconnaître les signes d'alerte ? Comment réagir avec empathie et bienveillance ? Et surtout, comment orienter quelqu'un vers l'aide dont il a besoin ?Anna nous partagera aussi des témoignages et des conseils pratiques, pour que chacun puisse, à son échelle, être un relais de soutien et de prévention.Installez-vous confortablement et laissez-vous guider par cette conversation précieuse, qui, je l'espère, vous donnera des clés pour mieux comprendre et agir face aux détresses invisibles.Anna Falbo Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Det finns ett fåtal platser kvar till vårvinterns kurser - anmälan på hrai.se I detta avsnitt av AI och HR-podden träffar vi Julia Falbo, organisationsutvecklare på SVT, som delar sina insikter om hur SVT omfamnar AI och dess inverkan på organisation och kultur. Julia berättar om ledarskapets roll i att skapa psykologisk trygghet, lärandekultur och vikten av att våga misslyckas i en snabbt föränderlig värld. Vi får också höra om konkreta initiativ som AI-demos, lärandedagar och AI-nav som driver innovation och samarbete inom public service. Ett samtal som kombinerar inspiration och praktiska tips för dig som vill ta nästa steg i din AI-resa.

Tasshin talks with Maria Falbo (@Maria__Falbo) about skateboarding, the UK and Italy, the dark feminine, the divine, intuition, and more. Maria on X You can sign up for Tasshin's newsletter here. If you enjoyed this episode, consider supporting Tasshin and the Reach Truth Podcast on Patreon.

Even as the average family size shrinks in much of the world, myths about only children remain common – including that they're lonely, spoiled or maladjusted. Toni Falbo, PhD, talks about her decades of research with only children that have dispelled many of these myths, explains what researchers have found instead, and offers advice for parents of only children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entrevista de Pablo Wende a Renato Falbo, miembro de la Mesa de Socios ADBlick Granos y uno de los fundadores de BisBlick, a propósito de Argentina Visión 2040, el evento solidario del agro.

The boys are joined by comedian Dan St Germain, who helped write Nikki Glaser's Tom Brady roast.  Falbo from the Falbonian Twist also lends a helping hand this episode. The boys talk about movies, conspiracy theories, and the unibomber. Follow Dan: @danst.germain Dan's Special and Upcoming Shows: https://danstgermain.net/ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS: https://www.flowcode.com/page/almostfridaypod SUPPORT BLANDINO'S PIZZA: https://fridaybeers.shop/collections/af-pod SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Your summer wardrobe awaits! Get 20% off @chubbies with the code FRIDAY at https://www.chubbiesshorts.com/FRIDAY #chubbiespod DOWNLOAD BETTERHELP AND GET YOUR FIRST 3 MONTHS OF ONLINE THERAPY FOR FREE WITH CODE “BEERS” (00:48) Bone Tomahawk (11:12) Tom Brady Roast (17:33) Dan St Germain (20:17) Conspiracy Theories (24:24) Tik Tok Ban (28:00) The Cosby Show (32:02) Unibomber (44:47) F*cked Up Movies (1:02:53) Worst Auditions (1:06:07) Feet Pics (1:14:29) Characters

I have been wanting to have a conversation with Amy for some time. Stopping at Salute Coffee or Old Rock Coffee I was aware that somewhere there was a source for the amazing foodstuffs showing up in their showcases. Yes, dressings, wraps, salads, and even desserts trace their path from Good Grab on Kelly Lake Road. Though much of her sales are wholesale there is a storefront... the only place you can purchase her mind-blowing Cashew-Caesar dressing. Go visit!

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This week is our season 3 premiere as filmmaker and wrestling producer, Benjamin Falbo, returns to the podcast! He discusses his recent work as a producer for #CatalystWrestling, horror & wrestling like the return of #braywyatt and the recent work of #HouseofBlack in #AEW, and a tease of a new documentary on indy wrestler AKIRA. Check out Ben's recently produced work, Undu Kati "Can't Stop Me" ft. Julius Smokes here: https://youtu.be/PsoX1a8RGDA Don't forget to follow the talent's social media: Ben: @falbo_benjamin on Instagram & Twitter Bryan: Follow @BryMDavis on Instagram & Twitter's Our Show: Like and follow @calltimetheshow on Instagram & Facebook Don't forget to like, share, and sub our YouTube channel for more bi-weekly and bi-monthly content. Please visit our Anchor for past episodes at https://anchor.fm/theptashow and on various streaming platforms.

Dr Kumar, Dr Patel, Falbo, and Ahlstrom highlight the importance of community-based discussions regarding adverse effects in multiple myeloma, the benefits of considering the whole treatment course, and subgroup analyses from the MAIA trial.

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Lisa grew up having a great family life with 3 brothers. She moved from Ohio to NC when she was twelve 12. She has two sons from first marriage and divorced after 9 years of marriage. Lisa raised her boys as a single mom and home schooled them until they entered high school. Their high school years were full of struggles, some normal, some not. Both boys started using drugs in their mid-teens. Sam (oldest son) escalated to IV drug use and meth. He was "in recovery" on MAT (Medically Assisted Treatment) for several years into his 20's where he relapsed. He found himself in and out of trouble. Ultimately, he overdosed and passed at the age of 27. Troy (youngest son) has been in and out of active drug use for over 10 years. Currently incarcerated. Lisa remarried in 2015 and currently works as a certified personal trainer. She is an independent small "business" owner and Co-founder of The SHARE Project, an awareness/support/educational organization with the goal of de-stigmatizing addiction so it is looked at as a treatable disorder.

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Kit Falbo writes GameLit with a twist. Actually, everything they write has a twist and we talk about why in the interview. His stories cover: a technomage working for intergalactic peanut magnets; a Mini-game obsessed card collector with an EX and a heist; a teenage chess hustler dipping into a fantasy VR world to grind for profit. Kit recommends some amazing ice cream I must try and refuses to answer the zombie question. You'll have to listen to find out why. To find out more out Kit, checked out their website http://kitfalbo.com.

The Bois R'Us https://linktr.ee/theboisrus Niki Falbo joins The Bois R'Us for a great interview discussing some great topics. She talks about attending the University of Alabama and meeting/having class with some of the countries top football talent like Bo Scarborough! She then discusses her role as Santa Ana Unified school district COVID-19 testing manager and the culture within a startup company. Finally she tells us about her role as Sage Hill Girls Lacrosse Head Coach! Our merch is officially here! Show your support for our show: Patreon! Get exclusive accesses to full episodes and extended content and MERCHANDISE!!! All available only on Patreon. Included you get to hear the one word that our guests would describe themselves, and how social media has changed the landscape of their career, and to include the bit of advice they will leave our listeners like you. You will also get access to the new up and coming Bois R'Us Studios podcasts. Don't miss out and join The Bois R'Us crew on Patreon! IG: @theboisrus Guest: Niki Falbo @nikifalbo Host: Ian Tesdall @iantesdall

Lisa Marie Falbo - Emmy-nominated executive producer and TV Host talks with Bob & Dave about starting her own production business despite it being potentially a 'longshot', a positive mindset and new beginnings in business as well as a Mom. Lisa Marie Falbo is CEO and executive producer of Long Shot Productions.   Lisa has appeared on TLC's Cake Boss, SNY's Oh Yeah and WFAN Sports Radio's Boomer and Carton Show, also with in-season for the New York Giants Radio Network.

Intro  (0:00) This week we are talking with Cristina Falbo  We met in our Facebook Group Body Positivity With An Ostomy I wanted to bring her on because of her story and how it is similar to mine.  A Little Bit Of Your Ostomy Story/Cancer (0:57) Have Ostomy because of Cancer Had cancer in 1995. Cervical Cancer. Right after had her son. I could not have any more children after that Stage 3  Had a colostomy during some of those treatment periods.  Happened 27 years ago. Had to have the colostomy then, things were not as good then as they are now.  DIfficulties with adhesives, obstacles with not really having any good Stoma Nurses available.  Kind of on your own, learn as you go. 2015 and I was diagnosed with terminal cancer.  Cervical cancer. Recurrence of original cervical cancer.  Surprised because they don't usually see a 20-year gap with that.  Told terminal by 3 different Chicago hospitals.  No surgeon would take on my case.  Too complicated and would have ended my life.  Ended up getting 1 more opinion.  My husband pushed me to get another opinion.  Went through all the testing and they said they would be able to help me. Top 100 surgeons in the country who were going to help me. Emotional Rollercoaster to Keep Going And Didn't Give Up (4:58) Was stressful.  Glad I had my husband by my side to help support me through that.  Had 5 children, 2 of them in college, I was now going to be out of a job so this was a big concern. Concerned that if I passed, how would it affect her family. Just wanted them to be okay.  Husband had talked about doing all kinds of possible treatments before we found the surgeon.  Looking for any possible opportunity to save my life.   Researching, sharing information, and finding options.  Just training to maintain sanity day-to-day.  Leading Up To Second Surgery/Treatment (7:20) Attended a friend's wedding right before the surgery.  Was a nice distraction to be with them and spend this weekend with them.  Soaked up and enjoyed every moment of that little vacation.  In preparation, it is probably the best thing you can do.  Live in the moment Something I try to do every single day.  Day of the surgery, I woke up early, fixed myself all up with hair and makeup. Surgery (10:13) Did you know being in an Ostomy was the option? Yes. I Was told that I would have both a permanent Urostomy and Colostomy.  After surgery though they said it would be possible to reverse the Colostomy.  They did reverse that but then had to go back into that.  That was a decision I had to make because of my lifestyle.  Lifestyle. What was it like? What made you say go permanent with it?  Gotten to the point where I could not go out or did not want to.  Was afraid to go out. Could not live in the moment.  Lived in fear of having an accident.  It got to the point where I didn't feel like I was truly living.  Had blockages, was uncomfortable, was in pain, and finally said enough is enough.  When I woke up from getting the Ostomy I was so happy.  “The happiest person to wake up with a Colostomy she ever met!!” Was happy because I felt like I was finally free. A lot of people look at it as a restriction of freedom, but I was FINALLY free! Immediately woke up without pain.  Finally I knew that I was going to be able to do things. What are some things you have been able to do now since having the permanent ostomy? (13:49) Was my dream to retire to Florida.  Planned to do this one day.  While in the hospital when I had a blockage and decided to get the colostomy, my husband came into the room and taped pictures of houses in Florida all around the room.  Said let's go now, so it has been pure heaven.  Bought a house with a pool, it was a MUST! Have so much fun, love the home and the pool.  Entertain at home, friends come to them a lot.  Go on vacations, go on cruises.  Start planning time with all of our family.  Think about what is important, and always come back to your family.  Swimming With Bags (17:53) Knew my appliances before I had a pool. Knew how they reacted with water and warm water.  Pool is saltwater so it was a bit of a learning curve.  Have a hot tub and can go into that.  Use a longer wearing bag when swimming.  Make sure to let it cure/have a time to let adhesives seel. (24 hours before go swimming)  Can't think of too many other restrictions.  Have swimwear designed for Ostomies.  Have some that are not designed for it either.  Have a 2 piece that is the most comfortable, makes it easy to make adjustments and bags fit right inside of the suit.  Take care of the Ostomy when I need to.  This has not impacted my enjoyment at all.  I Grew up being a summertime pool person, and if I eliminated this from my life, I wouldn't be true to myself.  “I am going to enjoy every part of everything I possibly can!!” - Cristina “But the most important thing that you've said, these last 2030 minutes, is that you are being true to yourself. You are honoring who you are, you are living your life, you don't really think about it, you just take care of things when they need to be taken care of, and your family. And everything you do is just surrounded by that. And I have to praise you for that!” - LeeAnne What are some of the things you do to help you live in the moment and stay in the moment? (22:38) In the process of being evaluated for a Kidney Transplant.  One of the things that came out of the cancer. My Kidneys were damaged. There are a lot of things that could eat me alive, wIth worry and anguish and concern.  I have been on my deathbed 2 or 3 times now.  I have fought death before a few times and won and that is part of it! Bigger part is, when you really explore all of the “what ifs”.. There are so many possibilities to one situation that your ability to control any of those things that are going to happen, are just not within our own personal ability.  Knowing that made me let go of those things.  When I have those days that things pile on top of me, I have to give myself a break and a treat!  I am trying to constantly keep myself grounded.  Use the phrase “Live in the moment.”  There is not a beginning and an end to things.  We are all in a process. “Have I done enough in life? Am I doing everything I should do in my Life? Am I on the right path? And the truth is, I think that we are all right where we were meant to be on our path. And we are doing it right now. We're not looking at the future of what we're gonna do. You can't look in the past and undo anything that's already there. You're doing it right now. We're doing life right now. Every moment.” Closing Thoughts (28:51) People with Ostomies or new Ostomies seem to find me all the time.  So many people are so afraid and it is a scary process. Just brace for it. It is okay.  You are doing what you are supposed to do.  You were led to this point in your life and this is where you were meant to be.  You can't plan for this, prepare for this. But just know it is going to be alright.  Hold your head up high. You have been through A LOT of stuff! If you have come this far, look at all you have gone through.  You are winning because you are still here. It really is an amazing life, and my life is not done, I am not over it. Has adjusted and learned the tricks on how to get through different situations. You make these adjustments and they become second nature.  Hold your head high, you have DONE SO MUCH Reach Out To Cristina (33:27) Find her in the Body Positivity Group. On Facebook under Cristina Herleinn Falbo.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Good morning, welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy, if you're new or if you're visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that officially through the connection guide and the worship guide or the connection card in the app or online. If you filled that out, we'll be sure to get in touch with you over the course of the week. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word.Heavenly Father, we are so thankful because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross bearing the penalty, the wrath of God for our sin, we now have access into your presence. We don't need a temple and we don't need a high priest, we don't need sacrifices, Lord, because on the cross, as you bore the ultimate sacrifice, you said it is finished and you now give us access into the Holy of Holies which is your presence, we thank you for that Lord. Lord, we thank of that in your presence we have access to the only things that satisfy us. We seek to find satisfaction in knowledge and we know that every truth in this world falls so short of knowing you and being known by you.Lord, we long for unconditional love, we long for a love that lasts, love that is endless and we can't find it anywhere but in you. You loved us so much that you gave us your only begotten son. Lord, we seek justice. We long for justice in this world. We long for this world to be what it ought to be, how it should be and yet it falls short and still that desires deep inside and we know that only you can satisfy that desire under the reign of Christ. Lord, we long for beauty. We long to see that which ravishes the soul and everything in this world falls so short, but it is found in you.And Lord, every single one of us, we long for a home and eternal home, a place of peace and comfort and security and you alone can offer us that in your presence. And we thank you that all of that is accessible to us when we come to you by grace, through faith and repentance and humility and we do that now and we ask Lord, satisfy our souls. And we pray all this in the beautiful name of Jesus Christ, Amen.Today we're concluding our sermon series through the first part of the book of Psalms that we've been calling Balm Psalms in terms of this is ointment from God, this is an anointing from God for our souls. When we come to the Lord, open up the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Scriptures are an extension of God himself and this is how God reveals his presence to us, his person to us as, his power to us.The title of the sermon today, as we look at Psalm 84, the title is, what do you want? What do you long for? What do you seek? There's this curious passage in the gospel of John in chapter one where John, the baptizer who has apostles, he has his own disciples. He sees Jesus Christ, his cousin, he sees Jesus Christ. And he said, "This is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."The next day, his disciples, one of them being Andrew, another disciple of John, they see Jesus Christ and they follow him. They leave John the Baptizer, they start following Jesus, Jesus turns around and he asks a question. He says, "What are you seeking?" They're caught off guard by the question, they don't really know how to respond. They don't even know what they're really seeking, but they are seeking it. So they respond by saying, "Rabbi, where are you staying?" And in response to them says, "Come and you will see."One of them, Andrew, then the next day goes to his brother, Peter, and says, "We have found the Messiah." What he's saying is, we did not know what we're seeking but we're seeking something that only Jesus Christ could offer. They found the anointed one and they found the anointing for their souls. So question before us is, what are you seeking? What do you want now? What do you want in the future? What do you want in life? What do you need to say? What do you need to achieve? What do you need to get to say when you get it that, "I'm home, I've arrived."It's the question buried under every single one of the questions in our hearts, we are what we want, our desires, they drive us, our wants, our longings, everything deep inside of a heart. All of these things together are at the core of our identity. Our heart is the wellspring. The desires of the heart is the wellspring that leads to our actions that leads to the behavior. That's why Proverbs 4:23 says, above all us, guard your heart because from it flow all the wellsprings of life, everything you do flows from your heart. So we're taught in scripture, pay attention to what you love, not just what you know.Knowing God isn't just a matter of knowing theological treatise, is knowing theological facts and truths. You got to pay attention to what you love, curate your heart, be intentional about it. And growing in the faith is so much more than just knowing facts, it's yes, knowing something and yes, we are to be renewed by the transformation of our mind. The truth need to penetrate our minds, but then we then need to fall in love with the truth. We need to align our longings, align our cravings, our desires with God's. And that's not an excuse, contentment can't be an excuse for complacency.A lot of people here talk about being satisfied in the Lord and a lot of people think, "Okay, now I don't have to do anything in my life. I'm satisfied in the Lord with where I am." No, once you're satisfied in the Lord, he equips, he strengthens you in order to fulfill the purpose that he has for you. Jesus Christ was the most ambitious person who has ever lived. He literally showed up and said, "I am going to save the world." And he did what he did because he found satisfaction in God. It was fuel for him to accomplish his work.As Holy scripture says that the word of God is something that divides our spirit and our soul. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of our heart. A lot of people and this is what our culture teaches is, you are what you think, but we're so much more than that. We're not just what we think, we are what we desire. And you can just look at your life, how many times did you do things that you know you shouldn't have done, didn't need to do and thinking it was just physical appetites?You know you should not eat whatever this is in front of you but you're going to, this isn't good for me, but I'm going to eat it. This thing I don't need to buy but I'm going to buy, why? Because I want it. Our desires are more than anything, control our actions. And this is what we're talking about today is, is taking our faith from our mind and let it penetrate and saturate our hearts so that it then begins to transform our lives. That's what Psalm 84 is about, it's an expression, it's a poem of someone longing for that which ultimately satisfies more than anything else, which is the presence of God.Would you look at Psalm 84 with me? Psalm 84:1, how lovely is your dwelling place Oh, Lord of hosts. My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord, my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God, even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young at your altars Oh, Lord of hosts. My King and my God blessed are those who dwell in your house ever singing your praise. Blessed are those whose strength is in you and whose heart are the highways to Zion.As they go through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs. The early rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength, each one appears before God in Zion. Oh Lord, God of hosts hear my prayer. Give ear O God of Jacob, behold our shield, Oh God. Look on the face of your anointed for a day in your courts is better than 1,000 elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness for the Lord God is a sun and shield the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. Oh, Lord of hosts blessed is the one who trusts in you. This is the reading of God's Holy and Falbo authoritative word, may write these eternal upon our hearts, three points to frame up our time long for God to draw near to God and finally enjoy God, first long for God.If this is your first time reading Psalm 84, if you're new to Christianity, or if you think of Christianity just as some world religion, you perhaps find verses one and two very puzzling. The emotion here, the descriptive language of the affections that this person feels, this worshiper of God feels for God, how lovely is your dwelling place? What a tremendous word, lovely. When's the last time you used the word lovely? How lovely is your dwelling place, Oh God.He's focusing on the beauty of God's dwelling place and by dwelling place he's talking about in his mind as an old testament believer as a believer in the old covenant, he's thinking about Jerusalem and in Jerusalem, it's the temple. And within the temple, is the Holy of Holies, that's where the presence of God resided. And it was marked by a mysterious light to show the presence of God. It was God's Shekhinah glory and only the high priest, only once a year, only after undergoing rigorous rituals could enter into the Holy of Holies. Everyone else desired to be there, but they understood, we can't be in the presence of God and the Holy of Holies without dying because of our sin.He longs to be there in the presence of God. Verse two says, my soul longs, yes, it faints for the courts of the Lord. When was the last time you had a desire like this, I long to be there? And it's talking about a particular place. If you are not from the area and you've desired to go visit family during the pandemic, you know this feeling of homesickness. In particular if you're an international student or from outside the United States you know this or if you're an immigrant you know this feeling, this desire of homesickness.My family immigrated here when I was five, but for some reason every winter I still have a desire to go back to Estonia. There's something about going back and smelling the air and feeling the presence of your homeland, that's what he's talking about. You miss this place. He longs for it. And it seems so strange for us to talk about God's presence like this, this longing or homesickness for the presence of God. How often do we long for God like this?And I want to show you that we do long. We have these yearnings deep inside of our hearts and it's yearning and a longing for things that only God can give you. Even if you're not a believer or if you're just interested in Christianity or you're new to the faith, I want to show you that deep inside your heart you will long for things that only God can give you. And what do I mean? I mean, things that separate us from the animal realm.Animals are satisfied if they have everything necessary for survival; food, shelter, security. You can have the best food, you can have shelter, you can have security and you will not be ultimately satisfied, why? Because there's something in our human consciousness that desires, something that transcends the physical. We have at least five transcendental desires, deep inside of our hearts. We have a desire for perfect knowledge. We have a desire for perfect love. We have a desire for perfect justice. We have a desire for perfect beauty and the desire for a perfect home.Perfect knowledge is the first one, perfect knowledge or truth. We want to know and we want to know what is true. We long for this, even as little kids. Little kids, what's their favorite question? Why, why is the sky blue? My daughter's had this kick, my daughter Elizabeth. She had this kick where she wanted to know the world record of everything like, "Dad, what is the heaviest stone in the whole world? What is the deepest point in the ocean? What is the fastest animal in the whole animal..." Why, why, why, I don't know why. Thank God for Wikipedia, and I don't even know if that's true.But have a desire for what is true, we long for desire for what is true. Even in a post-truth culture that we live in, there's fact-checkers. We hear something, is this true? Then there's a fact-checker, and then you find out that a fact-checker is actually sponsored by a certain political side. And then you find out that that's not true and what is true? I don't know. But we long for Truth. What is Truth? Capital T, Truth. Partially, this is why we long for knowledge. We love to know. We love to learn. This is why there's such a boom in podcasts. This is why Amazon is such a gift from the Lord, in terms of books. Do you want a book? Yes. And half a second, you buy that book and then it comes in and you add it to the stack of the other 30 books by your bed that you have not read. You read the introduction you're like, "I'm bored, next book."We want more, podcasts and books and lectures online and we long for scintillating conversations with people. We're impressed with knowers. You're about to finish one degree and you're thinking about... I'm finishing my doctorate in preaching from Westminster at the Abbey, I just finished my last class. And as I'm finishing my last paper, I'm like, "Ooh, now I can start another degree." We want more knowledge. We want to know more. I was having a conversation with someone recently and they were like, "Imagine not having any bills. What would you do if you had zero bills?" And the person's like, "I would go get another degree." Maybe that's just Boston.We want to know. We want knowledge. We long for truth. We also long for perfect love and not just to be loved, we long to be perfectly loved, unconditionally loved. We long to be fully known and fully loved, and everybody is looking for this. And what we think of in terms of perfect love, unconditional love, is love from another person. But we understand no matter how great a person is they're not perfect therefore, they will not love you perfectly; you're also not perfect. So then if you're looking to each other for that ultimate love, that perfect love, you'll only meet dashed expectations. We can't satisfy each other's perfect or unconditional love.I was trying to think through who is the closest person in my life that loves like this. I think it's kids. I think it's little kids who they don't know just how bad you are just yet, they get to know that the older they get. My mom and dad, they're not perfect either. But my three-year-old, she doesn't know yet. She shows my wife her love, by going up to her and licking her in the face. "Why are you licking her?" "Because I love her." Why? Because for her and mom and ice cream are in the same level, unconditional, I'm going to love you.And every single one we long for, from our stories to our movies, to the art, to the music, we're in transferred love stories. How did people meet? How did they end up? Where we long to end up happily ever after. We also long for perfect justice and by justice, I don't just mean what's fair. Yes, it begins there. Little kids, you don't have to teach them this is fair, this is not fair, it's written on their heart they know and we like them when we see that something's not fair, we're outraged. If that thing does not get fixed, then all of a sudden it turns into cynicism. But we don't just want justice, this isn't fair it needs to be punished.The opposite side of justice or the flip side, the positive side of it, is goodness. We want goodness. We want good to happen in the world, to people, to us. We want the world to be as it ought to be, as it should be. And we may disagree on what that looks like, but this idea of oughtness or shouldness it's written on each one of our hearts. We expect more justice or goodness than our finite world can deliver.We also long for a perfect beauty. We see glimpses of beauty and nature in magnificent red sunsets, majestic snowcap mountains. We see this glimpse of beauty in music or we see in art. Even sports; the perfect throw, the perfect catch, the perfect hit, the perfect championship. There's art, is this art? The perfect baked good, there's art there. It does not satisfy. We need another vantage point or we need that same thing again or a different or more of it and then after a while, we get bored with imperfection.Think of your favorite song, you hear the song for the first time and it's a hit and you listen to it over and over and over and over. After a while, it loses that power to move you. Nothing changed with the song, but you just got bored with that glimpse of beauty. And then we long for a perfect home or a perfect place of harmony or peace. It's a yearning to feel comfortable in this world, secure in this world. Think of how many channels, how many resources are invested into this and to shows about houses, about restoring houses, renovating houses, real estate shows. Why do we have this idea of a forever home? And that's the phrase that's used; this is where I want to live forever, this is where we are going to find our ultimate home.Five inner desires, and any solely, earthly satisfaction of these five, they always leave us frustrated. No matter how good this physical representation of this transcendental desire, it still leaves us wanting because we want the perfect version because we know that the perfect version exists. How do we know that? Well, it's written on our hearts. We seek these things; perfect knowledge, perfect love, perfect justice, perfect beauty, perfect home and it's things that only God can give us in himself. Deep inside we know that this is true, it's written on our hearts.The New Testament Version of this Psalms is found in 1st Corinthians 2:6-10, which have all of these components and you can study this text. I'll just read it here. Among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away, but we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God. That's the knowledge that we're looking for. The ultimate knowledge, the ultimate truth, the ultimate wisdom, is we impart the secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory, for our beauty.None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Crucifixion here, this is God's justice poured out on God's son for our sin. But, as it is written, what no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, this is a beauty that we long for. What God has prepared for those who love him, that's a love that we long for. These things God has revealed to us through the spirit, for the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God and the depths of God is the home that we're looking for.We are created to find our home, our knowledge, our beauty, all of these transcendence things in God. St. Augustine of Hippo wrote 1600 years ago, he said, "Thou hast made us." God, you've made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find the rest in you. So what do you long for? I want to submit to you that underneath every single one of those longings is a desire for God, for things that only God can give you. And this is where sin gets in the way. Sin clouds our vision. Sin comes to us, and this is Satan, this is the world, this is flesh. They all tempt us to find satisfaction in things, and experiences, and people, in anything other than God, even in good things. But if you seek the ultimate from a good thing, it turns into idolatrous thing and an evil thing, a deprave thing.A good thing, when you're seeking the ultimate innate, can turn into a deprave thing. Look at Jeremiah 2:12-13, be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, for my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.Evil one, refusing to find true refreshment for the hunger and thirst of our souls in God, instead seeking that satisfaction for the thirst of our souls in things, other things, cisterns. And that he says, they're broken, they can't hold this water. Forsaking God's fountain and seeking to make our own, whatever this is. The first evil, turning away from God. The second evil, seeking that which only God can give us in whatever it is that you long for. And it starts with the desires of the heart. It all starts there; gluttony, lust, envy, enmity, sloth. It's all in anger. It's all in there.And then we seek to find satisfaction for those things, in things. And what it does, it only makes us thirsty, it only makes us hungry and never satisfied. So this is what the psalmist is saying and he says, "I know that nothing in this world satisfies therefore I want to be in a place that does satisfy, which is the presence of God." And he's picturing in his mind Solomon's temple, but it's not about the temple it's about what the temple represents. And what it represents is, God's covenantal love and his knowledge. He says, "Israel, I've chosen you. I've decided to put my presence within you. I've decided to reveal myself; my will, my law, this is how you find satisfaction in me.That's why Psalm 84:1, he begins with this longing; How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts. And it's a longing to be in the presence of God. Verse two, my soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy. My heart and flesh, he's not just saying my mouth, he's not saying my throat, not my vocal cords, my flesh. He longs for God with almost a physical desire. He talks about this soul; my soul, the innermost being and starts there. But it's like a hunger, it's like an ache that works itself almost physically.And the language that he uses to describe the intensity, the desire, this language that's used elsewhere to talk about romantic relationship. A lover is almost kept from his beloved, that's the kind of language that he uses. And he even expresses jealousy for birds, that's verse three; Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my Lord. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise.He's jealous of these birds who are nesting in the rafters of the temple, their ways unimpeded into the temple courts. They soar above everything that is in the way of this psalmist entering the presence of God, and they build these nests on top of the columns. He's yearning to be in the presence of God like this, why? Because the psalmist, most likely he didn't live in Jerusalem. Most likely he came to Jerusalem once, twice, three times a year at most for the festivals. They would come and they would experience the presence of God, and then they would leave. And as he experienced God he said, "I wish I could just stay here. I wish I could be in the presence of God uninhibited, unimpeded."When I was in my early 20s and I was studying God's word and I loved God's word and loved God's truth and before God called me into ministry I was like, "Man, it must be so cool to be a pastor. Pastors get to be in the presence of God all the time, that's their job. They just study God's word." Of course, the pastor standing up here is going to tell me how great the presence of God is because that's what he does full time. That's all of his professional waking hours, that's all he does. And then I became a pastor.And one of the things I've realized after becoming a pastor is, becoming a pastor like most people that become pastors we call them the ministry, they do it because they love God's word. You love feasting on God's word, but feasting on God's word is a different skillset than preparing a feast of God's word. It's like someone who's like, "I love food. I want to devote my whole life to food. What can I do? I'm going to go into culinary school. I'm going to become a chef." You loved eating, but you spend all your time cooking. That's what's going on.So as I'm sharing with you how great God's word is, how great the presence of God is, I'm also preaching the same thing to myself because you can prepare a tremendous meal without even having a taste of it yourself. So it's to say, you need to develop in yourself this appetite, this longing, this desire for the presence of God. My wife asked me last night, she said, "What are you preaching?" I said, "Developing a longing for God." And she said, "What are your practical tips for that?" I don't have any because you know what, I preach God's word.Are there any practical tips in here? Obviously, I can give you practical tips. You can't develop a longing with practical tips. That's like saying, "I need practical tips for developing a desire to see beauty everywhere." You can't. It's either you have it or you don't and if you don't, how do you get it? You ask God. "God, I want this longing. I want this hunger. I want this thirst." And it's a blessing from God and of ourselves, we do not have this active desire. And here the psalmist, you see it in him. And it's one of these things that's better caught, not taught.Yeah, I can give you these little practical points and I'll give you a few after, but it's more like this person longs for God and they found God and they're satisfied. And God, I want what this person has. And he says, "The maker of heaven earth invites us into this relationship, into this presence of longing anticipation and delight." The second point is to draw near to God. So you long for the presence of God, but then you need to actively draw near to God. You have this desire, if it's given to you by God, if not you ask for it. Once it is given to you, then you need to practically draw near to God.And here I'll tell you this, this is really important and most likely if you've been in the faith for a while, you know this. Whenever there's a longing for God, almost immediately there's something that shows up that keeps you from acting on that longing. And there's different reasons for spiritual warfare or the flesh or the world, there's a resistance. There's almost like a force field that's all of a sudden enclosed over, so he longs for the presence of God.And then verse five, he starts talking about needing strength. Look at verse five, "Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion." He says, it's a blessing when your strength is in the Lord. Why is he starting to talk about strength? Because you need it, that's the assumption here. All of a sudden, he's like, "Yeah, longing for God. This is great." And then he's like, "Yeah, but to be drawn into the presence of God, you need a strength that is not your own. You need strength from God." Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in God, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.Blessedness of worship belongs to those who desire and then act upon it, despite the resistance from the enemy. Look at James 4:7-8; submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Draw near to God that sounds great, but he says in order to do that you need to actively resist evil out there, Satan, and resist evil within.And the evil within that he's talking about is, this double-mindedness. And the double-mindedness, every single one of us who pursues the Lord you know exactly what this is. The spirit decrees what God commands, but the flesh does not. I want to do what God tells me to do, but I don't do the things I want to do, instead I do the things I don't want to do, that's Romans 7, there's this fight on the inside. And that's why he says, "You need strength and blessed are those whose hearts are the highways to Zion."Why is he talking about highways in the heart? Well, he's talking about a longing to draw near to God that's willing to overcome the patterns that we've been used to. And by patterns that we're used to what I mean is; when you are used to a life of sin, sin becomes almost second nature. Sin becomes like, you don't even have to think about it, your mind just goes there and then your actions follow where your heart and your mind... You ever been really tired at work, back free COVID when you had to drive to work? And you were really tired at the end of work and then you get in your car and then you drive home, and then you pull in and you're like, "I do not remember the last half hour. I have no idea how I got home."It's like your muscle memory took over. You were thinking about a million other things, but you got home safely and you didn't kill anybody. You're like, "Whoa, how did I do that?" Something like that happens in our heart. Our heart, our desires, once our heart wants a thing, and it begins to follow that thing over and over and over there's a rhythm in life and you begin to act without even thinking about that action. It's just natural. It's a pathway. And the more you do that in your heart, the broader it gets. Now, it becomes a highway in the heart. And he says, "Blessed are those whose heart are the highways to Zion to God's presence."Well, this is one of the things, in terms of spiritual disciplines and one of the things that we need to learn to do is, we need to re-navigate the paths of our heart. And we need God's word and God's people in our life and you need to train yourself up in righteousness where it's like, "Yeah, this path feels natural, but I know where it leads. Instead, I want to follow God's pathway, the pathway into God's presence." It doesn't feel as natural and it takes a lot more work, but the more you do it the more natural it becomes.And then when you're by yourself, and you have nothing to think about, think about Sunday afternoon, there's naps and then there's Sunday afternoon naps. I don't know why Sunday afternoon they're just more blessed especially after church; church, Los Amigos Burrito, nap. Right before you go into your nap, analyze what you're thinking about. Analyze where your mind naturally gravitates when you don't have to think about anything. And he says that, if you want to experience the presence of God on an ongoing daily basis, train up your heart, your thoughts, your desires, to travel on the highway to God.Do we have highways in our heart to the presence of God? And this includes spiritual disciplines on a daily basis; wake up, a cup of coffee, scripture, prayer. And includes fasting, silence, solitude, community with other believers, corporate worship. Corporate worship is so crucial to our health as believers, our maturity, but also our health. For 11 years, I've been in one of those transient cities in the world trying to convince people, "God is great. Find your satisfaction in God."And then people become believers, and it's like, "Corporate worship is crucial, it's important. Joining a church membership, you are all one body of believers. Covenant membership, crucial. You have the Holy Spirit as a believer and the more believers together, the more Holy Spirit we have together. So yes, corporate worship is important and this is how we show the world the glory and the majesty of the presence of God by gathering together. Corporate worship, corporate worship, corporate worship, it's important," then COVID hits.And then we didn't have church for like three, four months and then we're back to church and wearing masks and social distancing. And then we've got people in the church and there's people in the culture, on two sides of the spectrum. The first side of the spectrum right here is, "I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I can't do anything. I'm going to die. Yeah, I'll go to the grocery store and I'll hang out with my friends."This right here, part of the sermon, this is for between you and the Lord, what's the Lord telling you? Obviously, there's people who need to stay home immunocompromised. But there's also people who are like, "Yeah, I'm not going to go to church. I'm going to take a flight across the country." And I've been on a flight recently, it was on American Airlines. And here's what happens on American Airlines, I had a person sitting right next to me. And also on American Airlines they're like, "Mask, mask, mask, mask, mask. Okay, it's coffee time. Okay. Everyone, take your mask off." And then everyone's pretending like, "Oh, okay. COVID knows during coffee break do not..." What I'm saying is, just be consistent. If you're going to stay home, just be absolutely consistent and so don't hang out at the beach with friends, et cetera.I just don't use COVID as an excuse. Pastor Shannon, Pastor Andy and I for the longest time, we didn't want to do live streaming because we understand the very second you're doing a live stream when a person is just a little lazy on a Sunday, they're staying home and they're like, "I'm still worshiping with my..." No, there's something physically important that is, body beliefs. That's one side. The other side, we've got Christians who are like, "Do you understand what this is? This is government overreach. This is going to lead to totalitarianism. It starts with a mask. It's only a mask, and then all of a sudden they're going to send you to the Gulags, that's number one. And then going to church with a mask and then being told where to sit? No, that's impinging on my freedom. Liberty or death, that's my only two options."So we got people over here and people over here and all I just want to say is, corporate worship is important and that's it. There's risks in everything. There's risk in driving. There's risk in taking the tea. There's risk in going out to eat; even more so now with outdoor dining, you're going to get a chill and get sick. Psalm 84:6; as they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs, the early rain also covers it with pools. He says, "We need the presence of God, see God, long for God." And then after we do, you begin to draw near to God. And as you do, there's temptation, there's a force field, there's an enemy. And then also, there's these physical challenges to drawing near to the presence of God.And here he brings in the Valley of Baca, which is the valley of weeping. I'm pursuing God, I want God's presence, but then as I long for God's presence, I see my own brokenness. I see my own sin, I see this in the people around us and represents this place of affliction. And part of the affliction's the enemy pulling us back from God or times when we just feel dry inside, empty of joy like a parched desert. And what he's saying is, when you find yourself, you're drawing near to God and you find yourself in this place of temptation or Valley of Baca, valley of weeping, you got to keep going. When you get here, the temptation is to stay there. When you feel a lack of joy to stay in this place, a lack of joy, and instead of breaking through and continuing to seek after God, we begin to seek joy in sin, joy in things that only cause more spiritual thirst.So he says, when you stay here, when you fight through this Valley of Baca, that's when God will send springs and rain and covers it with pools; living water, springing up to eternal life. And then he says in verse seven, they go from strength to strength. So you got strength from God to keep going. When you got strength to keep going, you got a little stronger and you go from strength to strength. It's as if, "God, I want your presence, I'm drawing near. There's a forcefield, I'm going to break through." As you break through, you get more strength. And the more strength you get, the more presence of God you want and the greater the pull toward the presence of God.And then as he mentioned, Zion, one of the things that he does here is, he stops, he pauses and he prays for the political situation in Israel that's verses eight and nine; O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer. God of hosts, which is used in verse one, three, eight, and 12, is saying, God of armies. God of all spiritual armies. God there's something in the political realm, the physical realm in my culture and my society, that's keeping me from experiencing your presence. And he says, God, Lord of hosts give ear, God of Jacob, Selah, behold our shield, O God, look on the face of your anointed. Your anointed, he's talking about the King. God, look in the King. God help us politically.Your ultimate protection, your ultimate shield. Most likely the psalmist here is in Second Kings chapter 18, in the days of King Hezekiah. Where the King of Syria comes in, he takes over Jerusalem and keeps the people of God from worshiping God. So the psalmist calls out," Lord, please bless us. And as we draw near to you, give us strength." So long for God, draw near to God and then as you draw near to God and you begin to enjoy the presence of God, you begin to realize that whatever the cost was to get here to the enjoyment of God it was worth it.Look at verse 10, for a day in your courts is better than 1,000 elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. By doorkeeper, he's talking about, I would rather be on the threshold of the presence of God. I would rather be the lowest of the low in the presence of God, the highest of the high, in whatever the world has to offer. And the presupposition here, and this is really important, is he understands that there's trade-offs. If you want to experience more of the presence of God, deeper fellowship with God, walking with God, abiding with God, to say yes to that, you got to say no to a lot of other things.In your heart, you need to resolve God's presence. One day of God's presence is more satisfying than 1,000 years in sin and 1,000 days elsewhere. And this is one of things that we need to and I'm not sure we believe this is Christians. I'm not sure we believe God's presence is better than sin. Do you believe that? And I ask because this is one of the greatest temptations of Satan, the greatest lies of Satan. And one of his most insidious lies is that the Christian life is boring, that it's dull. It's full of drudgery. It's void of anything scintillating, exciting.Sin is exciting and anything to do with Christianity is just boring, and that's one of the biggest lies of the enemy. And once you start analyzing, even go through times in your life when you have sinned, what happens next? What happens next is emptiness every single time. It over promises and under-delivers every single time, and yet we still believe that sin is more exciting than the presence of God. It's not. Look at how the psalmist talks about God's presence.Psalm 16:11, You make known to me the path of life, in your presence, there is fullness of joy, at your right hand are pleasures for evermore. He says, you can have the ultimate satisfaction for your soul, which makes all of life so much more enjoyable. Psalm 34:8; Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Psalm 36:7-8; how precious is your steadfast love, O God. The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.They feast on the abundance of your house, and you will give them drink from the river of your delights. Uses the metaphor of food and drink, as a way for us to understand satisfaction of the soul. Psalm 63:3-5, Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live, in your name I will lift my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips. It's getting to that time, where I'm getting hungry for lunch.He's saying this God's presence satisfies the soul like fat and a rich food. What's fat and a rich food? He's talking about steak, obviously. What's it say in the Hebrew? Ribeye. Tomahawk ribeye. That's what he's talking about. He uses the greatest physical food as a way to say, this is what happens in the soul. My wife and I last night we were... we do bedtime story from the Bible and scripture and prayer with our daughters. And last night when my wife was reading from a children's Bible about Jesus, this is where words chronologically, Jesus at the wedding in Cana, they ran out of wine. Jesus' mom comes to him and says, "Hey, you got to help them out, they're out of wine." Major faux pas back in the day. And then Jesus, he said, "Okay. Take the six jars," they're about 30 gallons each. "Fill them up to the brim with water and turn them into wine," and then the wedding continued.And then I'm like, "What's going to be the application of this story in a children's Bible?" And the application was, we're all sinners and we need to repent of our sin and when we do, Jesus forgives us. Amen. Let's pray. It's true. Repent of you sin and you will be forgiven. I was like, "I don't think that's the application." My wife's like, "What's the application?" I was like, "The application is, this wedding's boring and Jesus made it fun. That's the application." Responsibly, obviously, 180 gallons of wine responsibly. It's an absolute lie of Satan that life is more enjoyable apart from God, that's a lie. It's an absolute lie.God wants you to enjoy life, but he wants you to seek ultimate satisfaction in him which makes the rest of life so much more enjoyable. Indeed, the presence of God is worth it. One day in God's presence is better than 1,000 in the greatest vacation. That's why St Paul said, "Indeed, I count everything as loss, because it's a passing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake, I've suffered the loss of all things count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ. I'll give everything up, in order to gain Christ."Psalm 73:25-26; whom have I in heaven but you? And there's nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, my God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 84:11; the Lord is a sun, a source of life and light, and a shield, he is our source of protection. The Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. He said, "Seek ultimate satisfaction in God and then God longs to bless you with honor, with favor, with all the other things. He'll give you those good things, as long as they don't become idols."He says, "God is our shield." Why is God our shield? What is he a shield from? First of all, he's a shield from our own sin. He is a shield from the wrath of God that we deserve for our sin. And how do we know that God is our shield? Because he sends his son to die on the cross for our sin, bearing the wrath of God that we deserve for our law-breaking, for our evils of seeking satisfaction and things other than him. And Jesus Christ covers us, when we run to him as our refuge.And then Psalm 84:12; O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you. Blessed is the one who trusts in the finished work of Christ on the cross. Blessed is the one who trusts in God, who fills us with the Holy spirit. Our bodies are now the temple of the Holy Spirit. We don't need the temple, the priest, the sacrifice, because of Christ we have access into the presence of God.So we go back to the beginning question, What do you want? What do you seek? The scripture tells us, seek God, he alone is a source of perfect knowledge and truth. Jesus is truth. He alone is, and offer's perfect love. God is love. He alone offers us justice and goodness. He is perfect justice and goodness. He alone offers us perfect beauty, he is beautiful. And God alone offers and is our perfect home, our perfect place of belonging.I'll close with the Ephesians 3:14-21; for this reason I bow my knees before the Lord, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever, Amen.Let's pray, Lord, we thank you that you are the all-satisfying God. Lord, we do repent that so often we seek satisfaction in things, other new people, other new experiences, other than you. Lord, we thank you for the reminder that you are a God who cares about our wellbeing, our ultimate wellbeing, beginning even now. You said that whoever believes in your son, Jesus Christ, has eternal life now. I pray that everyone here; everyone hearing these words, turns from sin, turns to you and lives a life of satisfaction and joy and peace as we pursue you, as we long for you, as we draw near to you and as we enjoy you. And we pray this in Christ's name, Amen.

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