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V Národním divadle moravskoslezském v Ostravě, konkrétně na scéně Divadla Antonína Dvořáka, má premiéru nová inscenace opery Giacoma Pucciniho Turandot. Titulní roli kruté čínské princezny, která posílá na smrt své nápadníky, pokud neuhodnou její hádanky, nastudovaly v alternaci sopranistky Maida Hundeling a Frédérique Friess. Více v reportáži, kterou v Ostravě natočil Daniel Jäger.Všechny díly podcastu Mozaika můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.
It's just about a week until the election, and Michigan is a battleground state. On today's Daily Detroit, we put a mostly local lens to the political conversation. Joining us is Steve Friess, freelance journalist for the New York Times, Newsweek and many others. He also writes the weekly newsletter for the Ann Arbor Observer. The rundown: 01:48 - We talking about the newspaper endorsements that didn't happen at the Washington Post and New York Times, and Steve's worries about journalists and free speech 09:16 - Another Democratuc local Muslim mayor endorses Trump, this time from Dearborn Heights. We discuss. 15:33 - We're not super into polling, but it looks like Slotkin has stayed ahead of Rogers in the U.S. Senate Race. We also think Slotkin will outpace Harris in votes. 18:59 - Democrats Rally in Ann Arbor this week 22:07 - Most people don't got to political rallies, so Steve went to the rally featuring Eminem and former president Barack Obama and shares his thoughts 34:06 - Should Harris have done Joe Rogan? And the rise of podcasting 36:58 - Some context on Steve's podcasting history and interest in local content As always, tell a friend about Daily Detroit, sharing what's new, what's next and what matters in Metro Detroit. On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DailyDetroit
Wie gelingt es, eines der erfolgreichsten Geschäftsjahre eines Konzerns trotz Krisen zu erreichen? Thomas Friess ist diplomierter Betriebswirt und CEO von Tyrolit, einem der weltweit führenden Hersteller von Schleif- und Abrichtwerkzeugen sowie Systemanbieter für die Bauindustrie. Der Werdegang von Thomas Friess umfasst zahlreiche Stationen in Führungspositionen, angefangen 1990 in New York beim Bankhaus Metzler. Seit 18 Jahren lebt er nun in Österreich und ist seit dem 1. Januar 2022 CEO von Tyrolit. Direkt war Thomas Friess mit zahlreichen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Dazu zählen Lohnerhöhungen, die Energiekrise, Preiserhöhungen und die Entwicklung einer Strategie, die die Werte der Gründerfamilie Swarovski bewahrt und einer veränderungsstarken Zukunft standhält. Doch was umtreibt Herrn Friess, der als CEO Verantwortung für über 4.500 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, mehr als 30 Produktionsstandorte, ein Produktsortiment von über 80.000 Standardprodukten und einen Jahresumsatz von mehr als 740 Millionen Euro trägt, darüber hinaus? Ganz klar: Europa! Im Podcast-Interview spricht Thomas Friess mit Host Robert Pacher über seine Karriereanfänge, Zuversicht in Drucksituationen, Entscheidungen, die Energiekrise, Preiserhöhungen, Europa, Nachhaltigkeit und vieles mehr. ⬇️ **Thomas Friess** CEO Tyrolit Gruppe
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Joining me as he does every Monday going into the Election, veteran journalist Steve Friess. He's written for the New York Times, Newsweek and many others. He currently writes the weekly newsletter for the Ann Arbor Observer. Here are some of the topics we cover today: Controversy in the Senate Race: We delve into the latest controversy surrounding Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers and his questionable residency claims. With voter fraud and election integrity at the forefront, this issue raises eyebrows as the race against Elissa Slotkin heats up. We encourage you to read the original report in the Freep so you can check out the source material to what we discussed. Campaign Dynamics: The conversation shifts to the strategies of the Harris campaign and the importance of addressing key voter concerns, especially the 100,000 uncommitted votes from the primary and if they mostly stay home. We tackle a listener question about the evolving role of social media in politics. They're turned off by politics on social media, and we talk about what it can be good for, and where it's not as strong. Our Happy Hour is back! We're celebrating over 1500 episodes at The Congregation in Detroit. Join us on October 17th, 2024, from 4pm onwards. Tickets are free, but please RSVP on Eventbrite. Don't forget to subscribe to Daily Detroit on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. Your support on Patreon helps us bring you more local stories from around Metro Detroit. Visit patreon.com/dailydetroit to become a member.
Each Monday until the election we're breaking down politics and what's happening with a local Michigan and Metro Detroit lens with Steve Friess, veteran political journalist who's written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Hour and others - and does the Ann Arbor Observer's weekly newsletter. On today's podcast: Election Countdown: Steve and Jer discuss the heightened awareness of the election countdown, influenced by Vice President Harris's entry into the race and the early voting process starting this week in Michigan. Kamala Harris's Media Presence: The duo talks about Harris's recent CNN appearance, her interview with Oprah, and her rising poll numbers in Michigan, as well as the impact of early voting and absentee ballots. Celebrity Influence in Politics: The conversation shifts to the role of celebrities in political campaigns, with mentions of Adam Scott, Jane Fonda, and the cast of "Scandal" making appearances to support various candidates. Endorsements: We dive into recent endorsements, including the Michigan Teamsters backing Harris and the Michigan Farm Bureau's endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers, and discuss the implications of these endorsements. Local Political Tensions: The episode covers the ongoing friction between Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and US Representative Rashida Tlaib over the prosecution of campus protesters, highlighting the complexities within the Democratic Party. Shifts in Political Allegiances: They discuss the endorsement of Donald Trump by the Democratic mayor of Hamtramck, Amir Hallab, and its potential implications for future elections. Michigan Supreme Court Races: These nonpartisan elections (with their candidates decided by delegates at party conventions) have a significant impact on state policies and laws. Don't forget to tell a friend about the podcast, and follow us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to shows. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942
In this episode of Daily Detroit, Steve Friess joins us to dive into the complexities of political polling, the upcoming presidential debate, and local Michigan politics. We dissect the reliability and value of national polls, discuss the implications of Kamala Harris's campaign strategies, and explore the contentious University of Michigan Board of Regents race. Tune in for a deep dive into the current political landscape and what it means for Michigan and beyond. Main topics: The Unreliability of National Polls Kamala Harris's Campaign Strategies Local Michigan Politics and Fundraising University of Michigan Board of Regents Race As always, you can follow Daily Detroit on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you download shows.
In the second hour of the CDGA show, Tyler and Mike talk to Nick Venson, CEO of Swag Golf! The guys then talk to Doug Friess. Mike then takes us around the CDGA for all the latest golf news and updates.
Welcome back from the long weekend! Steve Friess is back to talk all things politics with a Michigan and local Metro Detroit lens. If you don't know Steve, he's a veteran freelance journalist for the New York Times, Newsweek and many others. Some of the topics we hit: Political Landscape: Jer and Steve discuss the heated race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Harris recently visited Detroit and we discuss her possible strategic avoidance of college campuses maybe due to a hot-button issue. Internal Conflicts: The Michigan GOP's internal struggles come to light as Ron Wiser, a significant figure in the party, loses the nomination for the University of Michigan's Board of Regents. This is seen as a sign of the complete Trumpification of the party. Democratic Tensions: The Democratic Party faces its own challenges with a pro-Palestinian activist's nomination for the Board of Regents, highlighting the internal conflicts over the Gaza issue and the party's reluctance to address it head-on. Senate Race: A new poll shows Elissa Slotkin leading Rep. Mike Rogers 46 to 42 with 12% undecided. We analyze the campaign strategies, including Rogers' dual approach of presenting himself as both independent and a Trump ally. Media Trust and Journalism: Jer and Steve discuss the growing distrust in media from both the left and right, and the challenges faced by journalists in today's polarized environment. They reflect on the importance of local news and the impact of social media on public discourse. Don't miss this insightful episode. Share your thoughts with us at dailydetroit@gmail.com. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcast player of choice.
Our weekly roundup of locally-tied political news is back, as veteran journalist Steve Friess joins us to talk all things from local to statewide to how the national race ties into Metro Detroit. We hit on a few topics today: RFK Jr. has officially dropped out of the race. We discuss the implications of his decision to endorse Donald Trump and how this might impact Michigan's political landscape. Steve shares insights into RFK Jr.'s controversial past and his strange, erratic behavior that has puzzled many. We dive deep into the dynamics of the U.S. Senate race between Mike Rogers and Elissa Slotkin. Both candidates seem to be distancing themselves from their respective parties, which is unusual. We explore why this might be the case and what it means for the voters in Michigan. Vice President Kamala Harris's potential impact on Detroit's voter turnout is another hot topic. We speculate on how her presence might benefit Elissa Slotkin and discuss the importance of engaging young voters on college campuses. The Democratic National Convention had some notable Michigan moments. We talk about Dana Nessel's fiery speech, Gretchen Whitmer's underwhelming presentation, and Mallory McMorrow's creative look at Project 2025. To finish, we get into the controversy surrounding Tim Walz's son Gus and awful comments made by some about him. Gus deals with NVLD, and why all of this personally connects with Steve. Don't miss this engaging discussion on the latest political developments in Detroit and beyond. Share your thoughts with us at dailydetroit@gmail.com. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcast player of choice.
Welcome back to Daily Detroit, your go-to podcast for all things happening in Southeast Michigan. In today's episode, Jer Staes is joined by journalist Steve Friess to dive deep into the current political landscape leading up to the general election. They kick things off with a discussion on early voting in Michigan, expressing confusion over the lack of a coordinated push from election officials and candidates alike. The conversation then shifts to the national stage, examining the recent poll numbers that show a tight race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with a surprising 9.7% for RFK Jr. They debate the implications of these numbers and the potential influence of RFK Jr.'s candidacy on the election outcome. Jer and Steve also explore the impact of the Dobbs decision on the women's vote and the importance of having Kamala Harris, a vocal abortion rights proponent, at the top of the ticket. They discuss the potential VP picks for Harris, weighing the pros and cons of candidates like Mark Kelly, Josh Shapiro, and Pete Buttigieg. We talk about the Michigan Senate race, highlighting the head-to-head poll showing Elissa Slotkin leading over Mike Rogers in the General. They discuss the challenges in the Democratic Primary that Hill Harper faces as a first-time candidate and the broader implications for Michigan politics. And finally Jer and Steve both reviews of the Gretchen Whitmer book, "True Gretch," and came to two different conlusions. Jer's review in Daily Detroit: https://www.dailydetroit.com/book-review-true-gretch-reveals-the-kind-of-reasonable-relatable-leader-america-needs/ Steve's review in Hour Detroit: https://www.hourdetroit.com/books-literature/is-that-all-there-is/ Support local media by joining us on Patreon for exclusive content and access to our member-only Discord: https://www.patreon.com/DailyDetroit Daily Detroit is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen to podcasts. Share this episode with a friend to help push Detroit's conversation forward.
Today, we pivoted from our planned episode to cover a story that has profound implications both nationally and locally: President Joe Biden has announced he will not seek a second term. We don't always play in the national politics pond, but with Michigan being a key state in the upcoming race, this development has significant ramifications. In short, Michigan matters. And Metro Detroit does, too. Joining us to dissect this news is journalist Steve Friess - who both has experience and is known for his sharp political insights. We get into: Initial Reactions: Steve shares his first thoughts upon hearing Biden's decision, juxtaposing it with recent campaign communications and historical precedents like Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run. Political Calculations: Do we think polling data and advisors influenced Biden's choice, and the broader implications for Congress and the Democratic Party. Impact on Democrats: Analysis of how Biden's decision reshapes the Democratic strategy, with Kamala Harris emerging as a strong candidate and receiving endorsements from key figures. Michigan's Role: And the impact of Biden's decision on local politics. Timing and Strategy: Debating the timing of Biden's announcement and its potential benefits for the Democratic campaign, especially in the wake of recent Republican actions. Future Speculations: Speculations on the Vice Presidential pick and the potential candidates, including discussions about figures like Josh Shapiro and Pete Buttigieg. Trump's Response: Examination of Donald Trump's reaction and its impact on the political landscape. Campaign Dynamics: The changing dynamics of the presidential race and how Democrats can leverage the current situation to their advantage. Daily Detroit is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen to podcasts. Feedback for the show: dailydetroit - at - gmail - dot - com Local media requires local support. Join us as a member - and get swag and access to our member-only Discord!
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In the second hour of the CDGA Golf Show, Tyler and Mike are joined by Doug Friess, GM at Bolingbrook Golf Club, to discuss the upcoming event including LIV Golf. Mike then takes us around the CDGA for the latest news!
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In part two of this incredible conversation, Dr. Peter Friess shares some secrets of the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva and explains why it represents such an important part of the company's DNA. Plus, we learn more about the strict criteria which must be met if a new piece is to be acquired for the museum. As someone who regularly studies and attends watch auctions, Dr. Friess reveals his vision for the ideal watch auction catalog. He also explains his view on the value proposition of pocket watches. Follow Collectability: Learn more about Collectability on our website: https://collectability.com Follow us on Instagram for regular updates: https://www.instagram.com/collectabilityllc Listen, like and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite platform: https://linktr.ee/Collectability
For anyone obsessed with Patek Philippe, Dr. Peter Friess has the dream job. As Director of the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva, each working day he goes to one of the greatest horological museums ever assembled and has the privilege to examine and hold some of the most important timepieces ever made. In this fascinating conversation with John Reardon, Peter Friess explains what it is like to be the curator of such an incredible collection and how, together with the owners, Philippe and Thierry Stern, they decide which additional timepieces to acquire for the collection. Dr. Friess also takes us on a virtual tour of the museum, stopping at each floor to identify some of the timepieces that must not be missed. We also hear some fun, anecdotal stories such as how it's easy to identify which are the most popular watches to view by the wear of the carpet in front of the showcase. The Patek Philippe Museum provides two important functions: first, it offers visitors an unparalleled opportunity to see the history of portable timekeeping and secondly, it offers Patek Philippe watchmakers, engineers, and designers the opportunity to learn from history and build watches for the future. For any visitor fortunate to visit the Patek Philippe Museum the experience is unforgettable. In this podcast, listeners can come close to visiting with the personal guidance of the museum's curator. Learn more about Collectability on our website: https://collectability.com Follow us on Instagram for regular updates: https://www.instagram.com/collectabil... Listen, like and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite platform: https://linktr.ee/Collectability Watch on Collectability YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGYJ6hDYlPU
Three-Part Episode In Part I, Ben Freeman and SSG Title Belt Champion The Winner review the DeSantis-Newsom debate and discuss whether DeSantis can make a comeback. In Part II, PlayUSA columnist Steve Friess offers lessons on what the political betting community can learn from how sports betting became mainstream. In Part III, Mick Bransfield provides theories on why Kalshi pressed ahead with election contracts at the CFTC knowing it didn't have the votes. Timestamps 4:30: Interview with Ben Freeman and The Winner begins 7:49: DeSantis's mannerisms 12:36: Is DeSantis deferring too much to advisors 15:03: Missed opportunities in the DeSantis-Newsom debate 18:42: Market prices on DeSantis and Nikki Haley 25:13: Trump's legal problems 27:23: Can Haley get through the Republican primaries? 30:16: Interview with Friess begins 34:46: Pratik's view on legalizing political betting at the state level 37:19: Interview with Bransfield begins 43:12: Incentives created by Kalshi's investors SUPPORT US: Patreon: www.patreon.com/starspangledgamblers FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL: Twitter: @ssgamblers VISIT OUR WEBPAGE: www.starspangledgamblers.com
Lynn Friess is the wife of the late Foster Friess, a prominent American businessman and philanthropist. Together, the couple were instrumental in supporting numerous charitable initiatives, dedicating their resources and efforts to causes that resonate with their values. Lynn's commitment to philanthropy and her unwavering support for her husband's ventures have made her a respected figure in the world of charitable giving. On the Wow Factor this week, we're talking to Lynn Friess about how her relationship with her late husband, Foster, laid the foundation for philanthropy that would impact countless lives. We explore how the couple's unwavering faith became the driving force behind their charitable giving. Lynn reminisces about the unforgettable 70th birthday bash they threw, where guests were left in awe by the couple's idea to commemorate the occasion. We also dive into Lynn's inspiration behind founding the Active Women Engaging (AWE) group, a platform that motivates individuals to raise their voices. “Giving the money away filled us with joy.” - Lynn Friess “It's a great feeling to be involved in organizations that really do make a difference” - Lynn Friess “Don't be afraid - you can do things.” - Lynn Friess This Week on The Wow Factor: How Lynn and her late husband Foster's meeting was a "divine appointment," and how their relationship began How Lynn and Foster got into the investment business Their commitment to their faith and how that led them to philanthropy The amazing party that Lynn and Foster hosted for their 70th birthday and the phenomenal gift that they gave all of their guests Why Foster went back to investing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it led to the couple giving away $87 million to charity The value of work as a learning experience and why we shouldn't deprive our children and grandchildren of that experience The number of people who have shared their love and appreciation of Foster's charitable giving and generous spirit with Lynn since his passing What led Lynn to start the Active Women Engaging (AWE) group, and what they do to inspire people to speak up Some of the practical things that Lynn and Foster did to help the next generation learn about how to how to steward resources Lynn Friess's Words of Wisdom: Don't be afraid - whether you make a small contribution or a large one, everything makes a difference. Connect with Lynn Friess: Foster's Outriders on Instagram Foster's Outriders on Facebook Connect with The WOW Factor: The WOW Factor Website Connect with Brad Formsma via email Brad Formsma on LinkedIn Brad Formsma on Instagram Brad Formsma on Facebook Brad Formsma on Twitter
Barbara Friess ist Fotografin aus Hünstetten in Hessen. Sie ist europaweit tätig. Barbara führt ein Team von Foto- und Videografen und kann daher zum Beispiel bei Krankheitsausfällen schnellstmöglich reagieren. Barbara und ihr Team legen Wert auf Menschlichkeit. Es ist ihnen wichtig eine freundschaftliche Beziehung zum Hochzeitspaar aufzubauen um Vertrauen zu schaffen. Sie sind Freund und Helfer, und manchmal übernehmen sie sogar ein paar kleinere Aufgaben der Trauzeugen, so Barbara. Darunter zählt beispielsweise das Richten des Brautkleides und des Schleiers während der Trauung. Barbara und ihr Team sind in Situationen zur Stelle, an die du vor deiner Hochzeit noch gar nicht denkst. Barbara erzählt, welche das sind! Viel Spaß beim Hören wünschen dir Barbara Friess und deine Hochzeits-Plauderei! Hier gehts direkt zu deiner Hochzeitsfotografen-Freundin: www.barbarafriess-hochzeitsfotografie.com Dir gefällt, was du hörst? Dann schenke uns deine Bewertung! Bewerte uns auf deinem Streamingdienst oder über unseren Google Account! Wir sagen von Herzen für jedes liebe Wort von euch: DANKE! Alle Podcast Episoden sind auf www.hochzeitsplauderei.de themenbezogen filterbar! Weitere Folgen: ♥ Folge 32: Preisstruktur der Fotografie ♥ Folge 48: Der First Look ♥ Folge 64: Das Eheversprechen
This week: CNN reports that an investigation into voting machine breaches continues as the federal grand jury meets again after a four-week break; DoJ opposes a motion to vacate in the DC case; a partial win for Rep. Scott Perry in his fight to keep his phone data from Jack Smith; new reporting on Giuliani aide Kathrine Friess; a cooperation agreement between the DoJ and Yuscil Taveras in the Mar-a-Lago documents case; plus a listener question, and more.Questions for the pod:https://formfacade.com/sm/PTk_BSogJOr Email us at hello@muellershewrote.com and put “Jack” in the subject lineCheck out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Follow AG:Follow Mueller, She Wrote on Posthttps://twitter.com/allisongillhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://twitter.com/dailybeanspodAndrew McCabe isn't on social media, but you can buy his book The Threathttps://www.amazon.com/Threat-Protects-America-Terror-Trump-ebook/dp/B07HFMYQPGWe would like to know more about our listeners. Please participate in this brief surveyhttp://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortThis Show is Available Ad-Free And Early For Patreon and Supercast Supporters at the Justice Enforcers level and above:https://dailybeans.supercast.techOrhttps://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr when you subscribe on Apple Podcastshttps://apple.co/3YNpW3P
Intro: Pratik's thoughts on the first Republican presidential debate Part I: Pratik interviews PlayUSA columnist Steve Friess about his reporting on why political prediction markets missed the 2022 Senate races, and why the policymaking community is skeptical of political gambling. Part II: Jonathan Zubkoff (Zubby Badger) discusses the circumstances in which Trump will attend a Republican debate Timestamps 0:12: Pratik introduces the interview with Steve Friess 1:37: Pratik introduces segment with Zubby Badger on whether Trump will attend a debate 2:59: Political betting insights from the first Republican debate 10:32: Friess's interest in political gambling 13:55: Why betting markets missed the 2022 midterms 21:05: Policymaking community's skepticism of political gambling 39:17: Factors in whether Trump will show up to a Republican debate
In this inspiring episode, we sit down with John Friess, serial entrepreneur, cofounder and CEO of Metolius Hemp. As Co-Founder and CEO of Metolius Hemp Company John and his team of co-founders are working to innovate the industrial hemp industry in a manner like no other company. They were recently awarded the ‘Most Pioneering CBD Company In North America' supporting their vision and mission around what they deem the EXIT P.A.C.T. To learn more about EXIT P.A.C.T. visit https://www.mycannabis.com/metolius-exit-pact-harness-the-power-of-hemp-to-overcome-addictions/ In this episode we discuss: Hemp and the future of CBD How farms are decreasing and usage of CBD is going up Why most CBD products are under dosed How ramping production and minimizing quality is not the way to go And how John's son with autism was helped with CBD Wellness Renegade Links: Website: https://WellnessRenegades.com Google Business Profiles: https://wellnessrenegades.com/google-business-reviews/. Link to the Transcript:https://bit.ly/WRep14 Instagram: @WellnessRenegades Sponsors: JaneApp Jane is a HIPAA-compliant, all-in-one practice management software that's loved by the acupuncture community. Jane offers online booking, electronic charting, insurance billing, and integrated payments (to name a few) to help make your day-to-day easier. To learn more about Jane, visit jane.app/acupuncture-us John Friess's Bio: John Friess is focused on founding and building the marketability, viability and exit ability of idea and emerging stage startups. He has worked with hundreds of startups and is currently the CEO and cofounder of Metolius Hemp Social Channels and Website: Website: https://metolius.hemp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metoliushemp
Illinois State Rep. David Friess calls in to discuss a news bill in Illinois that will allow the Attorney General to sue you or the FFL dealer if someone purchases a firearm then sells it to someone who wouldn't be allowed to purchase a firearm.
Word of Mouth Marketing for CBD Products with John Friess #102 In a cacophony of self promotion in the CBD market, what's the best way to stand out from the noise? In today's episode our guest John Friess returns to the podcast to provide marketing advce. John is a serial investor and entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Metolius Hemp Company, a vertically-integrated health and wellness brand of premium cannabinoid vices for non-psychoactive use. Metolius Hemp Company works alongside family farmers to plant, grow, harvest, cure & craft all of their organic hemp flower & consumable products on their four-acre regenerative farm just outside of Bend, Oregon. The Cannabis Advocate podcast advocates for businesses in the cannabis industry and explores the unique challenges they face. Despite hurdles in legislation, regulation, and culture, there are tremendous opportunities for growers, manufacturers and retail sellers of cannabis products. Many of these issues are unique to the cannabis industry. This podcast speaks to these common concerns and shares stories of success. This is a production of Habanero Media. https://habaneromedia.net
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Rep David Friess calls in with his take on the Waterloo HS situation
Dazu zwei Stellungnahmen von Anette Stein von der Bertelsmann-Stiftung, sowie von Sozialpädagogin Dörthe Friess. Außerdem ein Interview mit Armutsforscherin Irina Volf, das Claudia Schaffer führte. Moderation : Florian Haas
Steve Friess of Newsweek, Hour and all the things is back to help unpack the beginning of what may be a crowded race for Debbie Stabenow's U.S. Senate seat as she announced her retirement at the end of this term. Plus, we get into some punditry for Michigan Governor as Whitmer is term-limited. Because if a well known name isn't running senate, they might be running for governor.
A big blue wave swept over Michigan this 2022 midterm election with big wins by Gretchen Whitmer and most all the way down the ballot to reproductive rights and the for the state legislature for the first time in four decades. We dive in with Steve Friess. Feedback: https://forms.gle/MnwUf8uJEtpyG9m2A or dailydetroit -at- gmail -dot- com
On this episode of Tradeswork: The Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association Podcast, we welcome Greg Friess, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Murphy. Since 1907, Murphy has set the standard for mechanical and industrial construction, and engineering, providing clients throughout the United States with high quality, timely execution, excellent value and fair price. We're also joined by Jamie Hodges, Executive Vice President at Industrial Contractors/Management, Inc, or ICM for short. ICM's mission is as follows: "The employees of ICM commit to safely delivering the finest quality industrial construction projects, on time and on budget." Here are some of the questions you can expect to be answered on the show: How doe these companies partner and collaborate on large scale projects? What was the career path for these two executives as they rose throughout their respective companies? What is a millwright? What does a millwright do? What are some of the favorite projects they have worked on together? What are the challenges in having multiple contractors working on one job together and how do you overcome them? What impacts have they made on their communities? Why do they believe construction has the best people of any industry out there? For more information about Murphy Company, please visit their website. For more information about ICM, please visit their website. For more information about Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association, please visit our website.
August 16, 2022 Legal Hemp John Friess, SaaS Development Patrick Parker and CMS for Kids Beth Lynk
The 2022 Michigan primary happened. So what's next? Were we right on our predictions? Where do things go from here? Steve Friess returns to unpack it. You can become a monthly member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DailyDetroit
It's Primary Election Day in Michigan! Steve Friess is here to help unpack it and make some predictions relevant to Metro Detroit. Then, we'll look back at it later this week and see how we did and what surprises there were in 2022. We'll talk about the new 13th District involving Portia Roberson, Adam Hollier, Shri Thanadar and others. The race between Andy Levin and Haley Stevens in Oakland County As well as the gubernatorial race and how recent events have changed the odds, and some others around the state. Follow Steve's work on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveFriess Steve's latest work for Newsweek: Detroit May Not Elect a Black Person to Congress for First Time in 70 Years - https://www.newsweek.com/detroit-may-not-elect-black-person-congress-first-time-70-years-1729434 You can become a monthly member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DailyDetroit
Flathead County Commissioner Candidate Brian Friess joined the KGEZ Good Morning Show with John Hendricks and Robin Mitchell on Friday May 20, 2022 to talk about why he should be elected the next Flathead County Commisioner.
How To Start a CBD and Hemp Farming Business with John Friess #53 Today we meet a CBD and hemp farming serial entrepreneur in the cannabis industry. John Friess is the founder of Metolius Hemp a vertically-integrated health and wellness brand of premium cannabinoid vices for non-psychoactive use. As CEO and founder of Metolius Hemp Company, John works alongside family farmers to plant, grow, harvest, cure & craft all of their organic hemp flower & consumable products. In this episode he shares his startup journey via an incubator and processes they use to build brand and acquire new customers. If you're looking to start a cannabis business this is the episode for you. The Cannabis Advocate Podcast The Cannabis Advocate podcast advocates for businesses in the cannabis industry and the explores the unique challenges they face. Despite hurdles in legislation, regulation, and culture, there are tremendous opportunities for growers, manufacturers and retail sellers of cannabis products. Many of these issues are unique to the cannabis industry, This podcast speaks to these common concerns and shares stories of success. This is a production of Habanero Media. https://habaneromedia.net
Chase and Dr. Friess take a dip in the snow! Listen as they share what a full cold therapy plunge really feels like. **Disclaimer** While I make every effort to broadcast correct information, I am still learning. I welcome any comments, suggestions, or correction of errors. I take no money from drug or device companies. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to use this podcast as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having. This entire disclaimer also applies to any guests or contributors to the podcast or blog. Under no circumstances shall Chase Thornock, What Magnificence, any guests or contributors to the podcast or blog, or any employees, associates, or affiliates be responsible for damages arising from use of the podcast.
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Journalist Steve Friess is back to talk about two stories he wrote for Newsweek, one for Hour Detroit, and a timely topic. First up, Jerry Green is an iconic sportswriter in Detroit. And he holds a unique place in Super Bowl History: https://www.newsweek.com/2022/02/18/one-sports-writer-has-been-every-super-bowl-will-this-year-his-last-1677257.html Here's a GoFundMe to help send him on his way: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ry48d-send-sportswriting-icon-jerry-green-to-super-bowl Can the GOP make inroads with black voters with black candidates? We discuss Steve's Newsweek cover story: https://www.newsweek.com/2022/02/18/gop-bets-black-conservatives-key-victory-we-change-we-die-1677030.html The Secretary of State race is of more importance this year. Steve profiled the current office holder, Jocelyn Benson and we discuss. Here's the Hour Detroit story: https://www.hourdetroit.com/political-topics/secretary-of-state-jocelyn-benson-gears-up-for-a-reelection-fight/ Plus, the both the Ambassador Bridge and Blue Water have been virtually locked up for days due to the "Freedom Convoy," bringing this international story to our doorstep. It's disrupting commerce and snarling traffic. We discuss. More: https://www.newsweek.com/detroit-bridge-closed-first-time-decades-over-canada-covid-protest-1677237 More: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60293708 If this is your first time meeting the show, don't forget to follow us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download your favorite shows. Also thanks to our supporters: One-time on BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dailydetroit Our members on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DailyDetroit
0 (0s): Good morning if you're on the patio or you're at home, would you also stand as we worshiped 1 (21s): I 0 (21s): Was lost, but he brought me in no, his, his I was asleep to, since Jesus died. 1 (1m 4s): There's 0 (2m 59s): A place. Yes. 2 (3m 12s): Because as we worship you, we are your children. We thank you that we get to worship you this morning church. We're going to sing a new song this morning. And in that song, we declare that we believe in the word of God. We declare that he is true and that we sing this out with that. 0 (3m 37s): Do your speed. Can see being Christ. Jesus I believe in the resurrection that will, we will rise. 0 (4m 22s): Ah, I believe in resurrection when Jesus I believe in God. 0 (7m 5s): I believe in Christ 1 (8m 17s): we cry. 1 (10m 23s): We cry. 3 (10m 51s): Thank you, Lord. You are indeed. Holy And by your grace, you have imputed holiness to us. It's incredible. You have forgiven our sins washed us, made us as white as snow pure and your sites because of the shed blood of Christ on our behalf. We thank you, Lord, that you are holy and you have made a way for us to ensure into your holy presence by forgiving us, redeeming us. This promise, this process of sanctify sanctification. You're sanctifying us Lord. You're doing such wonderful and profound and powerful things in our lives. 3 (11m 37s): Lord God, I pray God that we would God find a firm foundation. God, for those of us who have been waffling questioning, wondering doubting Lord, I pray that we would set our feet on a firm. The, the firm foundation, who is Christ the Lord, and that we would stand firm, that the truth of the scripture would anchor our lives. Anchor our souls. Lord, the revelation of God would be sufficient for us for our lives. We love you. We trust you, God. We believe you. And we praise you in Jesus name. 3 (12m 17s): Amen. Amen. Hey, go and turn around and greet and neighbor and we'll come right back here in just a moment. I'll get it. I got it. 1 (12m 26s): my back. 3 (13m 53s): Come on back. Good morning. We're in Hebrews chapter seven. Today you can be seated and turns you Hebrews chapter seven. I'm just going to warn you up front. I got a ton of material to go through today. I got a ton of stuff. So for historical context, we'll be looking at well, we look well steady all the way through Hebrews chapter seven, but we'll be looking at chapter six, chapter eight and chapter nine as well, just to kind of lay some groundwork. But before that, we'll just kind of go through some information. And the title of the message today is Jesus is absolutely enough. 3 (14m 36s): He's absolutely enough. And we walk with Jesus for any length of time, whether we're brand new and cry in the Lord, or I've been doing this walking with the Lord for decades, we realize that Jesus is absolutely enough, but then, but then circumstances happen. Sometimes we begin to waffle in that we begin to wonder about that. We begin to question that. And so really that's why Hebrews has been written to reaffirm, to believers in the Lord. Jesus Christ, that he is absolutely enough. That station is to fall back into an old way of thinking old system of believing a way of working things out with the Lord where the truth is. He's absolutely not for this life. 3 (15m 17s): He's come that we might have life and life abundantly, but then also for our eternal life. So we have a hope in Christ for this life and for the next this life. And for the next it'd be a total bummer if we didn't have hope in this life as well. But God by his grace has given us a bundle of mercy and goodness and gifts and favor for this life. And then it just carries on into eternity. God is absolutely good. I just want to cover a few things before we get into our text today. Some of us wonder because of maybe background experiences, choices we've made is God sufficient. 3 (15m 58s): Is he absolutely enough to save me, to redeem me? And I just want to tell you, man, no matter who you are, God is absolutely enough. Jesus is absolutely enough to redeem you. He's able to cleanse you of your sins to make you a brand new person to sanctify your life so that you look, you look totally different in your new life than you did in your old life. He's actually made it possible for you to be born again spiritually with the implication, meaning that you're going to be a brand new person in the Lord. Jesus Christ. 3 (16m 38s): Jesus is enough to save us. Jesus, Jesus has by one sacrifice made perfect forever. Those who are being made. Holy, we read that in Hebrews 10, 14, Peter preach that there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. We see that in acts chapter four, verse 12, there is literally no one and nothing else that we could add to Christ to aid in our salvation. We are saved by grace through faith because he is good. 3 (17m 21s): Not because we are good. He finished the work on the cross. And what he did is enough to save us John 1930. So Jesus is enough to save us and that should set a foundation in our lives to build upon that informs our lives and encourage us. Us encourages us to believe that he is absolutely enough for every other arena of our lives. Jesus is enough to save us. Jesus is enough to provide for us. Paul wrote in Philippians four 19, and my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 3 (18m 6s): So Jesus is absolutely enough. He's absolutely enough to bless us as well. Paul said that God blessed us in interest with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, Ephesians one three, he didn't say a few spiritual blessings. He said every spiritual blessing. And since we can't add anything more to every Jesus is truly enough for every spiritual need we have. So we see that God is sufficient, absolutely sufficient, absolutely enough for every area of our lives. Jesus is enough to equip us. 3 (18m 46s): I say this all the time that God calls and God equips people to do the work in the world that he has for us to do at whatever level he's calling us. And he's equipping us. Jesus is enough to equip us. We have the promise that God's divine power has bestowed on us. Absolutely everything necessary for a dynamic spiritual life and godliness. Second, Peter one three says by his divine power, by his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. You wonder how to live a godly life. Stay close to Jesus. 3 (19m 27s): Be filled with the holy spirit, open up the word of God, allow it to inform you. You will live a godly life by his grace. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. So he hasn't called us into a religious system. He's called us into a relationship with him by which she pours out and bestows upon us. All kinds of amazing gifts here in this life and in the life to come, Jesus is enough to strengthen us. Maybe you're feeling weary. It's only halfway through January in the new year, but maybe you're feeling weary. God is actually able to strengthen you in whatever scenario that you're facing in your life for Jesus is enough to strengthen us. 3 (20m 16s): When Paul prayed three times to the Lord to remove the thorn from his flesh, the response was my grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in weakness. My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in your weakness. So when we are weak, Jesus' strength is enough to carry us onward. In fact, our weakness only perfects his power, which leaves no room for adding another power source. Jesus is all we need. 3 (20m 56s): There is nothing and no one to add to Christ his person and his work are perfect. He is the way he is the truth and he is the life. John 14 six. He is the only one who can save. He's the only one who can provide for us, bless us, equip us and strengthen us. Having faith in Christ involves trusting. This is the challenge for us. Having faith in God involves trusting in his complete sufficiency. Having faith in God involves trusting in his complete sufficiency for our salvation and for our life in the here. 3 (21m 39s): And now he's come that we might have life in life, abundance, you that he Hewitt wrote. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me. There's something about that truth that should resonate with us as believers. If you're hearing this truth for the first time, you need to know by God's grace, he wants to come into your life. He wants to forgive you. He wants to set you free. He wants to lavish on you. The kind of love that you've never experienced before he wants to lead you through life leads you out of danger, leads you into eternal life with him. He wants to be your Lord, your king, your Redeemer, and your saver. 3 (22m 21s): Why? Because he's absolutely enough. Jesus is absolutely enough. So before we get into Hebrews chapter seven, that was just kind of get us, get us prepared for that to get some historical context. Like I said, we're gonna look at the last couple of verses of Hebrews chapter six. We're going to look at the first couple of verses of Hebrews chapter eight. And then we're going to look at a number of verses in Hebrews chapter nine because all of those verses is a lot, but all of those verses give us context, historical context to understand what's happening in Hebrews chapter seven, Hebrews chapter seven is it is a challenging chapter and some people skip it. And, but I just like to go through the whole text of scripture. 3 (23m 2s): And so we're gonna do our best to teach their Hebrews chapter seven today, before we do that, let's get into Hebrews chapter six. I feel like we should pray. Here we go, Lord, we're gonna pray one more time. There's a lot of information ahead of us. I pray God that we hang in there, that we don't glaze over and check out, but that we hear the truth that are, that we need to hear in our spirits Lord in our souls, in our minds, in our lives, God. And that we would hear it and not just hear it, but believe it, maybe at a whole new level, maybe for the first time, but that we would believe God that you are absolutely all that we need. Jesus. And so he works efficient, absolutely sufficient. 3 (23m 44s): So help us to believe that and hear that and see that in the passage of scriptures that we read through today in Jesus name. Amen. Here we go. Hebrews six, you guys ready? Historical contexts, Hebrews six, 19 through 20. You can just jot these down and look at them later, but there'll be up on the screen as well. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. What's the hope that we're talking about all of the hope that we've been talking about, right? I hope for eternal life in Jesus, new life in Jesus here on the here and now. So this hope is what we're talking about. And Hebrews chapter six, this hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It means when we are building our life on this truth, that anchors of the truth anchors us and keeps us from getting too far away from God and too far away from God's planet keeps us right where we need to be. 3 (24m 34s): It leads us this hope, this, it leads us through the curtain, into God's inner sanctuary in the tabernacle. There was the holy place and the most holy place. This is where the priests of God did business with God, where they offered sacrifices for themselves. And for the people of God who had sinned, they're offering animal sacrifices, old covenant, old Testament stuff. This is what was going on, but Jesus has already gone in there for us. And he has become our eternal high priest. In the order of milk has a deck. Let's jump to Hebrews chapter eight, skip skipping chapter seven for a moment, Hebrews chapter eight verses one and two says this here is the main point. 3 (25m 17s): So as you read through Hebrews 5, 6, 7, as you read through Hebrews, you get to Hebrews chapter eight. And it says, here is the main point when it says here is the main point. It's time to pay attention because this is the main point, right? So we want to pay attention. So if you're asking, what's the main point, here's the main point. We have a high priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven. What does it mean that he sat down and we said it is finished, right? It is just right. Like the work, the sacrifice has been accomplished. 3 (25m 58s): It is finished. The work is done. So he sits down at the right hand of the father. There, he ministers in the heavenly tabernacle, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands. We'll talk about that as we go through our study through Hebrew. So the fact that Jesus is at the right hand of the throne of God and he's interceding for us indicates that he hasn't called us into a religious practice. He's called us into a relationship with him. And some of us pay lip service to that relationship, but we never really maybe injured into it. 3 (26m 39s): Or we don't handle that very well. We kind of maybe keep God at a distance or we, you know, talk to them or pray to them on Sundays or when we're in trouble and that sort of thing. But he's actually called us into a close and intimate relationship with him. And he's, he's invested. He made the way for our salvation for just an amazing life here in the earth. Even with all of the difficulties that we go through, he is with us. He sustains us, he strengthens us. He provides for us. So he's done all of that to come that again, that we might have life and life abundance, but then also he's gone to the father. He sits there and he's interceding for us. So he's engaged with us. He's thinking about us, he's aware of what we're going through. 3 (27m 20s): So when we're going through stuff, we can go to him and bring our petitions to him. And he will intercede for us, strengthening us in what he has called us to do and what he's taking us through. There, he ministers and the heavily tabernacle, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands. Jesus is absolutely enough. Number one, because he has completed the necessary work of securing our salvation. Wow. He has completed the necessary work of securing our salvation. 3 (28m 1s): He has pleaded the necessary work of securing our salvation. Some of us seem to understand that on a whole new level, like a transformational level, that changes the way that we think and relate to God and live in this life. It's Jesus plus absolutely nothing that equals salvation. So Jesus by his grace, because he is good. Not because we are good, he saves us. And then he takes us on this amazing journey. That's reflective of our connection with him, our intimacy with him. He takes us on this journey of sanctification. I was just talking to a couple of this morning after first service. 3 (28m 42s): And they said they were separated and they were distant from God. And then when they decided to get serious about their relationship with God, again, because they had drifted and backslidden God brought them back together and his reconciling their relationship, sanctifying their relationship, bringing them back together and together now they will follow Jesus together. This is what Jesus does. He's absolutely sufficient to save us. And then to take us down this path of sanctification, whereby we look totally different, totally different as we move forward. Then when we did, when we were younger, I did a Memorial service for my friend. 3 (29m 23s): I don't know, last year, sometime friend from junior high school. And so all these are all buddies from junior high and high school people that I've known forever. And a lot of them I haven't seen for decades, like since then know. So it's been a few that few decades. So when I get done, you know, bringing the message and talking about my friend who passed away, some friends came up to me who hadn't seen me since high school. They're like, man, you're totally different than you used to be my best. That's the plan, right? Like if I'm born again, but stay, if we're born again, but never grow. If we never grow up in our most holy faith in what's the point, God has designed us to mature and grow and be sanctified by his grace so that his work is constantly happening within us and changing us and transforming us Jesus plus nothing equals salvation that we go on this amazing journey called sanctification. 3 (30m 18s): Jesus is sufficient. He's completely enough. So this important information for the believers in the first century needed to be reiterated and communicated to them so that they might wake up because they began to backslide away from it begin to not believe it begin to fall away from this truth. And so this first century group of believers, Jewish believers needed to hear this information again. And I, I think down through the centuries, down through the centuries, we've all needed to be hearing this information again. So it's my job to bring this information, this revelation to us again, so that we have a firm foundation and an effective walk with Jesus, many people. 3 (31m 1s): We, we wrestle in our seasons of life with whether the truth is that Jesus isn't, we, we, we wonder is Jesus enough. And we need to be reminded by the scripture. This is why I'm always telling us open up your Bible, get to church, stay informed with the word of God. Hebrews was written to a group of people who were backsliding or struggling. We've all been in that place where we've been struggling with what we really believe. So Hebrews now to us is reminding us as followers of Jesus, that he is enough. This information and revelation are difficult for some to hang on to, but if we just continue to come back to it, we will be able to hang onto it. 3 (31m 43s): I think some of us get saved and we're distant from the Lord. And so we never quite experienced victory on this side of heaven. And so we're dealing with guilt and condemnation and there's something about there's something about in the first century, something about the religious experience that the people wanted to sometime somehow participate in their salvation, into their sanctification. So that's why they kind of drifted back into like the animal sacrifices where literally they would sacrifice the bulls and goats and, and the blood of those animals would, were meant to cover sin until a time all of that stuff was going on. But, and so we're disconnected from that. 3 (32m 23s): But the reality is, is that in the 21st century, we want Jesus. Plus my good works it's Jesus. Plus my Bible reading it's Jesus. Plus my giving my tithing, whatever it may be. It's Jesus plus something else that brings me into a place of favor with God. And that God wants to shake all that up. He wants to shake all that up. Not that he's not going to grow you and make you different, but it's Jesus plus nothing else that equals your salvation. Jesus is enough. Meaning no more beating yourself up for past mistakes. Jesus is enough. Some of us are thinking back to our life when they, oh Lord. 3 (33m 4s): Back in 1945, I did this right back in 2020. I did this last week. Lord, I did this. I got to say, my grace is sufficient. If you confess your sins, God is faithful. And just to forgive you and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. So no more guilt over past mistakes, no more condemnation because Jesus has forgiven your sins. We love the new system, but our flesh likes the old system. So we slipped back into a system of works. Paul addressed this issue to the church in Glacia Galatians one six. He said, I am shocked. I'm shocked that you're turning away so soon from God who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. 3 (33m 49s): You're following a different way. That pretends to be the good news, but it's not the good news at all. So let's look at Hebrews chapter nine because Hebrews chapter nine helps us understand the old system. This is what would happen in the old covenant. Under the old, in the old Testament before Christ came, this is what was going on. When these things were in place, the old system, the old covenant, the priests, the Levi priest regularly entered the first room, which is the holy place as they perform their religious duties. But only the high priests Everett enter the injured, the most holy place, which is behind another curtain in the tabernacle and only once a year. 3 (34m 33s): And he always offered blood for his own sins. And for the sins that people had committed in ignorance by these regulations, the holy spirit revealed that the entrance to the most holy place was not freely open. As long as the tabernacle and the system that old system is, is represented, represent represented. We're still in use right about that verse nine. This is an illustration pointing to the present time. So now we're talking about what God has done, what Jesus has done. This is an illustration pointing to the present time for the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciouses of the people who bring them for that old system deals only with food and drink and various cleansing ceremonies, physical regulations that were in effect only until a better system could be established. 3 (35m 32s): What is that better system that has been established Jesus, right? Christ the better system Christ is the better system. He's the perfect and final sacrifice. And so these people had believed the first century believers, Jewish believers had believed, but then begin to slip back into old ways of thinking. So that's why this letter is written verse 11 says, so Christ has now become the high priest language that they would understand over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world. 3 (36m 14s): So now let's get into Hebrews chapter seven. Is that clock set? Okay, good to set. I got to, I need to know how much time I've got left here. I just need to take a breath and what I need to do. So I'm trying to get a lot in here. I told my wife, I said, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get all of Hebrews seven in there. She said, we'll break it up. Of course I didn't break it up here. We are. So now as we get into Hebrews chapter seven, we're going to be learning about this mysterious person named Mel Kesa deck. All right. Again, the whole purpose of this letter is to inform and to encourage and to remind the Jewish believers that Jesus is absolutely enough. 3 (36m 57s): And so this person, Mel Kazakh interacted with Abraham. So we're talking 4,000 years ago, 2000 years before Christ Marchesa deck and Abraham are having this interaction. It was a setup 4,000 years ago to prepare the people, the Jewish people, especially, and as Gentiles, it was to prepare them for a better system that would be revealed 4,000 years later. So we will learn about this mysterious person though, because we've kind of hinted about him leading up to this point. So we're going to learn some stuff about milk as a deck and realize Marquez deck is greater than Abraham, but Jesus is greater than has a deck. 3 (37m 42s): Here we go, because the deck is both a king and a priest who foreshadowed Jesus. So the Levitical priests were just priest. They weren't Kings as well. They were just priest. So cause a king. He's the king of Salem, which is ancient Jerusalem. So he's king and priest, but we know that Jesus is a prophet priest and king. So he trumps milk has a deck and Marchesa deck trumps Abraham. So Jesus trumps them all. Here we go. Mel Kazakh prepared the Jewish people for a different type of priesthood. Something that would be instituted thousands of years later, God use mal Kesey deck. It seems as an example of what was to come in Christ. 3 (38m 24s): So mal Kuznick foreshadowed the work ministry and life of the Lord. Jesus Christ. We will see that now is greater than Abraham, but Jesus is greater than milk has it at Hebrews chapter seven one, shall we get into verse one? All right, here we go. This milk mill Cassa deck was king of the city of Salem, ancient Jerusalem, and also a priest of God. Most high when Abraham was returning home, after winning a great battle against the Kings milk, met him and blessed him. Then Abraham took a 10th of all. He had captured in battle and gave it to milk. Heza deck the name now Kesey deck means king of justice and king of Salem means king of peace. 3 (39m 8s): And so when we study this guy, Mel Kesey deck, we see that there's some similarities. Some people would say that milk Kesey deck was a Krzysztof mini, a an old Testament personification of Jesus. I don't believe that. I don't think that's the case. I think no deck was used. Maybe he was an angelic being who ruled over Salem, Jerusalem. I don't know who he is. We won't know this side of heaven, but we will meet him in eternity. Right? Cause he remains a priest forever. Like the Lord Jesus Christ. All right. We're looking at milk as a deck. There are plenty of similarities to Jesus, our great high priest, by the way, is just a priest and Jesus is the great high priest. 3 (39m 53s): All right, here we go. No charismatic is just says that he's just, and Jesus is just first John one nine. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful. And what just, he is faithful. And just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. So who is the one who is just unable to forgive? Well, Jesus is right. We see it in the scripture and ex or excuse me, John first, John one seven says, but if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other and the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us from all sin. So if you wonder if Jesus is enough, absolutely enough to forgive you and to save you. 3 (40m 39s): We we've got evidence from the scripture. Hebrews seven two says again, the name means king of justice and king of Salem means king of peace. So ML Kesey deck as king of Salem is also known as the king of peace. Who else do we know in the scripture is related to peace? Jesus, he's the prince of peace, right? Isaiah nine, six, a popular passage for Christmas time says this for a child is born to us. A son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father and prince of peace, right? 3 (41m 22s): He's the prince of peace. Isaiah nine, seven. Speaking of Jesus says his government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and there it is again, justice from the throne of his ancestor, David, for all eternity, the passionate commitment of the Lord of heaven's armies will make this happen. So what else do we know about milk has a deck? Well, there's no record. This is interesting, right? Is there's no record of his father or mother or any of his ancestors, no beginning or end to his life. He remains a priest forever resembling the son of God. 3 (42m 4s): So that Greek word translated resembling in Hebrews chapter verse seven, chapter seven, verse three, it just simply means a copy or a facsimile. It means to be made like, or to render similar. So we see that milk has a deck is a priest forever resembling the son of God. I don't think he's across Christophe and at Christ often, if you think so, no problem. We won't have to talk about it after church, but I think he's probably just an angelic being or some somebody that God chose to use to point us to a new system, to the person in the work of the Lord, Jesus Christ. 3 (42m 48s): So there's no record of his family. Lineage is important. If you want to serve as a priest, you needed to prove that you were part of the right family, that you were indeed a Levi's. So we see begin to see a shifts. So God calls Melchizedek priest forever, but he's not a Levi. It only errands descendants. The it's could be priests. So we see a shift. We know that Jesus, wasn't a Levis, but he's called our great high priest. Jesus was of what tribe Judah. So that's a totally different tribe. Nowhere in all of scripture were people from Judas tribe priests. 3 (43m 28s): So we've got Mel Cassie, who's pointing people to a new system. Jesus is God using Melchizedek to point us to a new system pointing to something better that's coming. So he used the McKesson and 4,000 years ago to kind of foreshadow Jesus, you came 2000 year, goes years ago so that we get to hear about him today, 2000 years later, God's God's got this big picture plan that is unholy. So if you're worried about your life and what's going on in your life and you're like 30 years old right now, God's got it handled. Maybe you're a hundred years old. God is good. He's got it handled, right? He's not on this. Time-space continue. He's not worried. He's outside of time. He's got you handle. He's absolutely capable of handling your life. 3 (44m 9s): So there's no record of his family. We know who Jesus, father and mother are, but Jesus, again, our great high priest is not a Levi he's of the tribe of Judah. According to verse three, Mel and Jesus are both priests forever. I don't know how to work that out. Theologically. We'll figure it out when we get there. But according to the scripture, that's the case and they're priests forever. So typically a Levi would serve for a time they would die. And then a new Levi would come in and serve as priest. But Jesus is our great high priest for forever and ever and ever consider then how great this milk has. 3 (44m 52s): The deck was even Abraham. The great patriarch of Israel recognize this by giving a 10th of what he had taken in battle. So again, we're trying to elevate the reality that McKesson had good points is to Jesus is actually superior to father Abraham, the father of the Hebrew nation. He's been elevated as their father, spiritually and relationally. And, and, and through whom the promise of God has come, but there's something beyond that. And so the writers pointing this out, even Abraham, the gate, rape patriarch recognize this by giving him a 10th of what he had taken in battle. Now the law of Moses required that priests who are descendants of Levi must collect a tie from the rest of the people of Israel who are also descendants of Abraham. 3 (45m 37s): But now Cassa, DEC, who was not a descendant of Levi collected a 10th from Abraham and no Kesa Dick placed a blessing upon Abraham, the one who had already received the promise Genesis 12. And without question, the person who has the power to give a blessing is greater than the one who is blessed. Verse eight, the priests who collect ties are men who die. So Mel Kesa Dick is greater than they are because we are told that he lives on. In addition, we might even say that these Levi's and I, I love this rationale here, this, this language here. In addition, we might even say that these Levi's the ones who collected the ties, paid tied to milk has a deck when their ancestor, Abraham paid a tie to him for although Levi wasn't born yet, the seed from which he came was in Abraham's body. 3 (46m 28s): When deck collected the tithe from him, you have to think about that one. So if the priesthood of Levi in which the law was based could have achieved, this is important. Verse 11, if the priesthood of Levi in which the law was based, the old covenant, the old system could have achieved the perfection, God intended. Why did God needs? You establish a different priesthood with a priest in the order of instead of the, instead of the order of Levi and Erin, right? There's a transition happening. The old covenant was given the law was given. So we, we might recognize how desperately in need of God's grace. We are like obey the 10 commandments. 3 (47m 10s): Nobody could do it. Nobody could keep the commandments. In fact, scripture says that we break one part of the law. We're guilty of breaking all of the loss. So in every scenario with every person, we all need the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ. And so the message throughout the scripture in the old and the new Testament points us to Jesus. Hebrews chapter points us to Jesus first wealth. And if the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed to permit it for the priests. We are talking about belong to a different tribe whose members have never served at the alter as priest. What I, what I mean is our Lord came from the tribe of Judah and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe. 3 (47m 57s): This change has been made very clear since a different priest who was like Mel Kesa. Dick has appeared. Jesus became a priest, not by meeting the physical requirements by belonging, to the tribe of Levi Levi, but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed as a Psalm was pointed out. When he prophesied you are a priest forever. In the order of Melchizedek, Jesus is absolutely enough. Number one, because he has completed the necessary work of securing our salvation and number two, and we'll wrap this left part up very quickly because he is a priest forever, and he guarantees a better covenant with God. 3 (48m 41s): So the old covenant was based on works obedience to the law Jesus and the new covenant guarantees by his sacrificial work on the cross. He guarantees a better covenant with God by grace. Are we saved through faith as nothing to do with ourselves, Ephesians 2 8, 9. It's all a gift of, of, of the Lord by grace. Are we saved through faith? Jesus guarantees a better covenant with God. Yes. The old requirement about the priesthood was set aside because it was weak and useless. Do you guys hear that? And this is what the people were beginning to slip back into. They were blinded to the effectiveness of what Christ had done, and they were slipping back into an old system for the law. 3 (49m 24s): Never made anything perfect, but now we have confidence in a better hope through which we draw near to God. This new system was established with a solemn oath. Era's descendants became priest without such an oath, but there was an oath regarding Jesus. For God said to him, the Lord has taken an oath and will not break his vow. You are a priest forever. So this will never change. This will never change because of this oath. Verse 22, Jesus is the one who guarantees this better covenant with God. You can't guarantee a better covenant with God through your good works. You can't guarantee a better relationship with God through your good works. 3 (50m 5s): You will enjoy maybe greater intimacy with God because of your obedience to him. You will enjoy a closer relationship with God, maybe because of your obedience, but you will never guarantee a better covenant relationship with him based on those things. Jesus secured that for you. Verse 23, there were many priests under the old system for death, prevented them from remaining in office, but because Jesus lives forever, his priesthood lasts forever. Therefore he is able once and forever to save those who come to God through him, he lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf. Jesus is absolutely enough. Number one, because he has completed the necessary work of securing our salvation. 3 (50m 46s): Number two, because he is a priest forever. And he guarantees a better covenant with God. Number three, because he is holy and blameless unstained by sin. He is holy and blameless. Imagine holy and blameless. The Lord, Jesus Christ. God who created the heavens and the earth took on human flesh in the, in the incarnation became a child raised, preached, taught, lived, died, raised from the dead all for you and me. 3 (51m 26s): Not because of his sin, but because of our sin, he is the kind of high Friess we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has been set apart from centers and has been given the highest place of honor and heaven. Unlike those other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices every day. They did this for their own sins and first, and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus did this once for all. Get this once for all. Don't keep going back, just receive the grace of the Lord. Jesus tries to, if you mess up, say, Lord, forgive me. I don't want to walk down that path, but don't go back from things that you've already been forgiven for. 3 (52m 7s): You're feeling guilty and condemnation about just, just receive the grace of the Lord. Jesus Christ. Maybe you're here today and you've never received the grace of the Lord. Jesus Christ healed. Jesus loves you. His grace is efficient. Receive it a fresh brand new today and watch what God will do in your life. The law pointed high priests who were limited by human weakness, but after the law was given God appointed his son with an oath and his son has been made the perfect high priest forever. Jesus has absolutely enough for your life now and for your eternity, build your spiritual foundation on that truth. 3 (52m 52s): And 2022 will be for you a time of amazing growth, spiritually amazing growth in the area of faith and confidence in trusting God and amazing things. Transformational things will begin to take place in your life, but we got to place our confidence solely in Jesus. He's absolutely enough with that. Let's go ahead and stand up and we're going to sing and worship a little bit more and then we'll get out of here. Lord. Thank you for this time. Thank you for your word for the historical context of your word. Thank you for speaking us. I pray God with all of that information. God that we would've absorbed something that builds us up in our most holy faith that we would have grabbed hold of something that will transform us and change us and encourage us Lord. 3 (53m 40s): So bless us. Help us. We pray Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Let's worship. 2 (56m 50s): Hi. Holy holy holy. And we cry. Holy holy today. And God we know that in eternity. We can cry. Holy holy, holy, thank you. That you are good. Thank you for your word. Thank you for your church. We love you. Jesus. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
0 (1s): Good morning. Would you stand and worship with us? If you're out on the patio, would you stand there as well? If you're at home, would you stand and would you rate lift your hands as we worship you this morning? God, we thank 1 (12s): You, father. Praise you. 0 (15s): And we lift your name. Hi 1 (17s): . 1 (4m 33s): Hi, the phrase go up. 1 (12m 30s): 2 (14m 13s): Thank you, Lord. It's a good day. It's a good day to be in the house of the Lord. And we bless you today. Thank you for the opportunity to gather with friends and family. Lord, we are so, so thankful for church and so thankful for where we live and for what you're doing in our midst. Lord God, it's a new year. And with new year comes new opportunity and hopefully a refreshing renewing of our hearts and minds, Lord, and we pray God that 2022 would be amazing. And God that we just continue to be grateful for all that you're doing in our lives. 2 (14m 55s): Lord God, as we open up to Hebrews chapter six today, instead of your word, we just pray God that your word would penetrate our hearts and minds. Lord that you gave me the grace to communicate truth. When your hearts and with your mind Lord, at the end of the day, Lord God that we would have heard something from you, receive something from you and that we'd be encouraged by you, Lord God, because you're good. And so thank you for this time. Thank you for this day in Jesus name. Amen. Hey, turn to Greg grease. Somebody next. See you before you sit down. Good job. 1 (15m 35s): Beautiful water. Beautiful. Jesus. 1 (16m 1s): 2 (16m 29s): All righty. Come on in. We will be wrapping up Hebrews chapter six. I was told that before we get into the message, I was told that I should re-introduce myself cause I've been gone for a couple of weeks. So my name is pastor Steve. I was told that some new people have joined the church in the last couple of weeks and they don't know who you are. So I am pastor Steve, one of the pastors here at the church. And so it's a pleasure to be back I, so three weeks ago for each I wasn't feeling good, but I took a COVID test and it was came back negative. And so I preached, and then a couple of days before our Christmas Eve service, I was feeling pretty lousy, again, pretty gnarly. And so I took another COVID test and it came back positive. 2 (17m 9s): So I decided that I would stay home and get better. And so I called Ron pastor Ron D and said, Hey, you're on for Christmas Eve. And so he preached on Christmas Eve and then I think Jeremy priests the next day or on the 26th and then last week Ron was scheduled to preach. So he preached and anyway, so I'm, I'm happy. So happy to be back. It feels, it feels like a long time, right? You Ms. Church and family and friends for two weeks and it's just really, really good to be back and I'm feeling so, so, so much better this real quick, what a year 20 well, 20, 20 and 2021 just crazy last couple of years. 2 (17m 52s): And now we're already in 2022 and we posted something on social media, just about all of the things that God did in 2021. And so I just want to recap that and just as a way to be reminded all that God had done and to appreciate our, our, our church, our staff, our elders pressures, it just takes an army to do all of the stuff that God has called us to do. And we're so excited. And so I just kind of going through my, we, we baptized 36 people last year. I don't think we've ever baptized 36 people in the same year. So that was incredible. 2 (18m 33s): We tried something new and because of COVID, we decided to just to have our Easter service, we always do an outdoor Easter service. And so typically it's out in the park and we're going to be back out in the park by the way, this year 2022. So we'll be back at the heritage square park there. And, but we did our Easter service on the back lot and it doesn't seem very big, but we set it up with tons of chairs and lots of people showed up and it was just an incredible Easter celebration. So that was fun, good stuff going on there. We had something, we did something that we'd wanted to do for a long time, but just haven't been able to pull it off. We had youth led services. So we did two of those where the youth did announcements helped with preaching, did music worship and all that sort of thing, ushers and greeting and that sort of thing. 2 (19m 14s): So that was incredible. We began the journey over at 1 0 2 in may. So we thought we would done we'd be done already, but you know, that was just my inexperience and optimism. Thank you very much pre optimism there. I was trying to think of a more negative word, but that it's optimism. Thank you. So, but we have made great progress at 1 0 2. In fact, I took a little phone video and we've, can we show that video really quick just to kind of, we can show you, maybe you'd never been in there, but this is kind of where it's at right now as a Friday, It's really coming together. 2 (20m 7s): So yeah, that's the video. So, you know, we spent months and months waiting on a permit and months and months doing work. And then finally we were able to call the drywallers in and, and now they're, they've got it all hung and now they're taping and texturing. And so hopefully by the end of the month, we'll be done with, you know, all the drywall work. And then there's a little bit of finished work that needs to be done and then painting and then floors. And then we're pretty much ready to go. So hopefully I'll put this kind of out loosely, I guess I've, you know, I've mistakenly said, you know, we're going to be in anyway sometime maybe sometime, maybe let's all hold the solution, maybe March. 2 (20m 46s): So that's hope, but Marx is going to be here before we know it it's our January. So anyway, this is going to be good. So a lot of good stuff, including one or two, we hosted our very first harvest fall festival on October 31st and just tons of people came out and just had a wonderful time. And it was the first time doing it. And man, so many people made that possible was wonderful. We saw growth in attendance within the church as a whole, but mainly with our kids with our Sunday school department, but fifth and sixth grade, that ministry has exploded as well as the junior high and high school tons and tons of kids show up here every week just to be part of the Bible studies and groups that we have going on. So we're super excited about that. 2 (21m 27s): They show up and pull out the basketball hoop every week. We just know they show up, they just show up and they own the place and we just, we think it's great. And so a lot of really good stuff there. We had multiple, multiple Bible studies going throughout the year, 20 home groups happening last year. I knew young professionals group multiple, as I said, multiple teen Bible studies and several other groups meeting on our campus throughout the weeks. I could have done any of this without your help. It takes, like I said, it takes an army of people just to pull it all off and to keep the place, you know, presentable and you know, people teaching and leading and all that sort of stuff. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 2 (22m 8s): So we so appreciate it. Thank you to you that staff, the elders, mostly just thank God he's been so faithful. It's been incredible to see what God did in the midst of, you know, pandemic and all of this stuff. That's been happening in our culture, in our community, in our world. We've just watched God just be faithful. It took on this project, had our biggest giving year ever a million, 1,000,400 thousand came in to cover cover expenses at 1 0 2, as well as just regular operating expenses. And I think the first year, so we're this year we're celebrating our 19 year anniversary and we had our first service in March of 2003. And so March will be 19 years. And is that right? Is that the right math? 2 (22m 49s): I think it's the right math. And so our first year, I think we brought in like totally for the year, like less than a hundred thousand dollars and we didn't need a lot. We had 12 people in the chairs back in the day, so we didn't need it. We rented a school and you know, we didn't need a lot. I was working full-time and, but we've, we've just watched God grow our budget, grow the ministry. And the budget just means it's just an indication of that. The ministries, you know, expanding and that sort of thing. So we're just, we're grateful for what God is doing. So I'm excited about 2022, how many is excited? About 20, 22. You're like ready to have 20, 21, 20 20 and in the rear view mirror and just ready to move forward. I'm super excited. I think God's going to do great stuff. 1 0 2 and with continually with the outreach and mission stuff that we do. 2 (23m 30s): And so I'm super excited about that. And so I just wanted to give you a brief update on kind of what happened in 20. I probably missed a ton of stuff, but, but that's, that's the deal. So we're, we're back to Hebrews chapter six and a. So if you want to turn there, we're going to get through the rest of Hebrews chapter six today. And we're seeing that, you know, much like maybe in the current culture, there was this difficulty in their life and it was causing them to the Hebrew people back in the first century, there was difficulty in, they were having a hard time continuing to trust that Jesus is the Messiah embracing their decision to believe that Jesus is Messiah. 2 (24m 12s): And so there's this encouragement from the writer of Hebrews to not give up, like never give up. They were waffling. And as often we do as believers, as followers of the Lord, Jesus Christ circumstances hit us. We begin to get a little unstable little waffling and our commitment and our faith. And God reminds us that we, we can trust him that we don't have to give up. We can move forward by his grace and in his strength. And so we've titled the message today. Never give up. It's just kind of the theme. As in the beginning, I think it was October, November. I started preaching and it was a similar title of messages for the first couple of weeks. You know, don't give up, Jesus can be trusted. 2 (24m 54s): And so we see the theme, you know, it's a theme, but it, it may be the theme. Like the biggest theme in all of Hebrews for all of Hebrews is never give up. And so we see the author continually encouraging the people, continually challenging the people. And so it's part of my job in the pulpit is just to continue to encourage and challenge and build us up, build people up in their most holy face that we can continue to March forward. Being the people that God has called us to be making the right decisions that God has called us to make. And so the challenge today never, never, never, ever give up. 2 (25m 35s): It's just one, never in the title, but you know, sprint is never give up, never give up. So revisiting Hebrews chapter six, verses 11 and 12, we covered this a few weeks ago. And last time I spoke, believers are encouraged to never give up. And so we, he, we read the Hebrews six, 11, and 12, and this is what it says. Our great desire is that you will keep on there. It is keep on loving others as long as life lasts in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true. So in the Christianity, our, our hope is Jesus. And then God has given us a hope in this life and for eternity. 2 (26m 18s): So we put our faith and hope in Jesus. We hold on to this person who is Jesus, who is our, the, the, the source of our hope and who is our hope. And we hold onto him as we journey through the seasons of life, hoping that we will by God's grace never give up. And so it's interesting that the writer of Hebrews challenges, the people to love others, as long as life lasts, keep on loving others. As long as life lasts. I wonder why he focused his writing on challenging the people in the midst of their kind of waffling. Why did he challenge them to continue to love others? 2 (26m 59s): Well, that the Bible new Testament is the message. There is that we're to love God and love others. And so when we are loving others, we're not. So self-absorbed, I've noticed when we were self-absorbed. We, we think the world kind of revolves around us and we get easily frustrated because people aren't living up to our standards or whatever it may be. So the, the, the writer is encouraging the reader in the first century and all the way through the 21st century to love others. Again, loving others, keeps us from getting self-absorbed reminds us the world doesn't revolve around us, or reminds us of the plights of others when we stop. 2 (27m 42s): And just think about the plights of others, the things that people are going through and really begin to pray for people, loving them by praying for them. Boy, I don't know about you, but it changes my whole perspective. I'm like my, my problems though, they may be big at times they begin to come into perspective and I'm able to think about others' problems instead of my own problems. And, and I'm able to do what God has asked me to do as a follower of the Lord. Jesus Christ, not just as a pastor, but just as one of his kids. You know, just like if you're a believer in Christ, you're one of his kids and he's called you to love him and love others. And in doing so, you keep your perspective fresh. You're able to have a tender heart before the Lord. So we going to keep loving others. 2 (28m 23s): Otherwise we become self-absorbed. So maybe cynical, angry, maybe a little bit selfish and also spiritually dull and indifferent. We see that in verse 12, it says, then if you're loving others, you will not become spiritually dull and in different isn't that just a subtle trap where you become spiritually doled during this COVID couple of weeks off that I had, and my mind was just not where it should be in order to really read and enjoy the scripture. So I try to read, get through maybe a few verses and I'd be like, forget about it. I can't absorb any of this stuff, you know? And I was just so tired. I just didn't. So for like, I don't know, like 10 days, I didn't read the scripture much, you know, maybe tried a couple of times, but I was so ready when my mind was refreshed, you know, to open up the scripture. 2 (29m 14s): And I just started reading the scripture. I'm like, oh my goodness, I've so needed. This I've needed to be refreshed by the word of God. I had become probably spiritually Dole because I've not been in church. I had not been reading the word and I don't think I was indifferent. I wasn't indifferent, but that's the slippery slope, right? You become spiritually dull and you become indifferent. And you're like, I don't care about what God wants to do. I don't care what God's calling me to do that. I, whatever, you know, take it or leave it, Lord. I don't really care. So the goal is that we would love others, love God and not become spiritually Dole. And in different verse 12, then you will not become spiritually adult and indifference dad instead. 2 (29m 57s): And this is important and said, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God's promises because of their faith and enduring. So how do we hang in there? How do we never give up? What do, how do we resist the urge to give up? We've all experienced it and felt it, number one, we must exercise faith. And in Durance, if you're just coasting in your walk with the Lord and not really exercising faith and endurance, you're going to, you're going to begin to get spiritually Dole and indifferent. It's just the way it works. God's called us into this active relationship whereby we're active participants in this relationship with God, we're talking to him, praying, reading the word, actively involved, doing the stuff that he's doing in the earth, involved in the kingdom, work in the earth. 2 (30m 46s): And so we must exercise faith and endurance. We've got to have a growing faith. And if, if you're walking with God at all, and if you're reading the scripture at all, you see that God's always calling his people to, into an active faith. Like, like he's not, he doesn't want us to just rest on what we've done in the past. In fact, he won't allow us to do that if we're really paying attention, but he wants us to have an act of faith. Like what has God wants to do in my life today? It's a new year. What does God wants to do in my life this year? I don't want to just rest on my past accomplishments or experiences. I want to figure out what God wants me to do this year, without faith it's in possible to please God. 2 (31m 27s): And so he gives us opportunity to step into areas in our lives that require a great deal of faith. And we must learn to endure temptation testing and hardship. That's part of everybody's experience, right? Testing, temptation hardship. We, so we have to figure out how to endure so that we don't give up when we're being tested, because we will be tested when we're being tempted, because we will get tempted whenever there's hardship, we've got to figure out how to navigate those things so that we don't give up. The apostle. Paul is a great example. When he writes to us from a Roman prison cell in Philippians chapter three, and he writes these things, he said, Philippians three 14, I press on like, I'm never giving up. 2 (32m 13s): It doesn't matter that my circumstances are dire. I press on what to what's he doing to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus is calling us. So this is faith and endurance and action. He's like in a prison, right? Like unjustly. So he's there. He's like, okay, God, I'm here. What what's next? Right. Do you want me to do while I'm here? And because of his faith and his endurance, he's like, all right, some prison abyssal. So I'm going to encourage people who are outside outside of these walls and encourage them in their faith with the Lord, Jesus Christ. 2 (32m 59s): God promises that if we remain faithful and persevere, we will receive the heavenly prize of salvation. But beyond that, a life here in the earth that is so wonderful and fulfilling, it's rich and good. Not without 17 temptation trials and difficulty, but a life that is worth living a satisfying, rich and satisfying life. We're going to read about Abraham and here just a moment in his, how he died, having lived a rich and satisfying life. So Paul had this heavenly vision, a part of that heavenly vision impacted the way that he lived his life day to day. 2 (33m 45s): And part of that meant that, Hey, I'm going to do, I'm going to be about my father's business. I'm going to write these letters, these epistles, and I'm going to get them out to the churches so that they might be encouraged. Paul chose to have faith. And he chose to endure in the result. He had a faith and he endured victoriously to the end. So we have to make some choices in our life about what we're going to do with this faith in Jesus Christ. Are we going to have faith all the way to the end? Are we going to endure all the way to then we have to make some choices. It says, okay, in the face of hardship, I'm not quitting. I'm not giving up. I'm moving forward. Maybe things are unfolding the way that I think they should unfold ball probably didn't expect to be spending some time in jail, but he did. 2 (34m 30s): And so, Hey, it doesn't matter. God knows. He just decided to move forward. And he had great joy. And he had a host of other things that went along with his faithful in Durance. He just had this incredible joy. In fact, we read about it in Philippians four, four, he says always be full of joy. Always. He said, always, always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again, rejoice. And so there was something brewing in him, something of revelation about this life and the eternal life that he was heading toward and moving, moving forward in, he just, he trusted Jesus. He, and, and that trust in Jesus meant that he had joy. It didn't matter what was happening externally around him, even internally with his body, he had joy, any challenged, the church, listen to everything that God asks us to do or requires of us requires that we're filled with his holy spirit. 2 (35m 21s): It's a supernatural work of God. Maybe you don't feel like having joy. Say, Lord, the word says here, always be full of joy. Well, how do I have joy in this circumstance and situation? Would you do a work in me? Maybe just make this your prayer. Lord, would you do a work in me that my joy might be restored? That I might rejoice in all things? Not that we can't grieve loss. He's disappointed about some things in life and, and walk through some hardship that way. But at the end of the day, we need to say, Lord, I need you to restore the joy of my salvation, the joy. I want the joy of the Lord to be my strength. I want to have just an incredible joy. As I go through this season of life, he had joy and he wasn't worried, worry will kill faith and endurance, right? 2 (36m 13s): We, we don't have to be fearful. We don't have to be worried. We can be filled with joy and trust the Lord, Philippians four six says this. Don't worry about what, say it with me. That's that seems very hard to me, right? I can find a thousand things to worry about, but in the Lord, if I'm trusting him, if I'm exercising, faith and endurance, and I really don't have anything to worry about, I can trust that his plans and purposes are unfolding in my life and my kids' lives and my marriage and the ministry that God has called us to. Don't worry about anything instead, pray. This is what, what do you do with your worry? You, you pray about it. You just turn it over to the Lord, pray about everything, tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done. 2 (37m 0s): So we're worried about something and say, Lord, I don't want to be worried about this. I can't carry this. All the worry in the world's not going to change anything anyway. So Laura, what do you want me to do about it? I don't want to be worried. A warrior is going to kill my Juul. I just want to trust you have joy, not be worried about anything. And then Paul was grateful. He was grateful. Gratitude will stoke the fires of faith and will give you endurance. So we have to choose to be filled with gratitude, even in a life that's not perfect. It's filled with imperfections in fact. And so we need to choose to be grateful. Listen to Paul, his writing to the church there in Philippians four. He says how I praise the Lord that you are concerned about me again. 2 (37m 42s): He could have been cynical, frustrated, upset, angry, because he's sitting in a jail cell and everybody else is out. You know, lollygagging around how I praise the Lord that you are concerned about me again. I know you've always been concerned. See the optimism. He's like optimistic, believing that the people of God love him, that he's not in this alone, believing that God hasn't forgotten about him. That God's with him in the midst of his difficulty. I know you've always been concerned about me, but you didn't have the chance to help me. So Paul chose gratitude over grumbling, faith and endurance. All of these things play right into our ability to exercise faith and have insurance. He was content. This is something that we all need to grow in, right? 2 (38m 24s): But he chose contentment, even though he didn't have anything really in the way of worldly goods, family, as far as we know, might've been married at one point, but wasn't married while he was following Jesus. So he didn't have a lot, but he just chose to be content. And we know that he learned contentment and that's really probably the path for most of us. Most of us, we have to learn, learn some things. He learned contentment. I think part of the deal is he wasn't living for this life only, but he was living for eternity. So he's like, Laura, it doesn't really matter what I have here. I got rewards and riches in the kingdom. So you know what I need Lord. 2 (39m 4s): So I'm going to just be content with what you do. Give me, and then move forward in my calling in my life as a follower of Jesus Christ, Philippians four, 11 and 12, not that I've ever was ever a needy. He tells them thrive. I have learned how to be content with whatever I have, how many he had needs, but he decided to look at it through a different lens and said, I might be hungry, but I'm not gonna worry about it. God knows. And we'll see that here. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything I've learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty with plenty or little I, you just decided, Hey, I'm going to be content. 2 (39m 46s): I'm not going to be anxious and be worried. I'm not going to let it kill my joy. I'm going to just be content. The Lord is my provider, Jehovah, Jerry. He knows what we need. He knows what I need. All of this was possible because we know from Philippians four 13, that he was, Paul was strengthened by Christ. And this is how all things are made possible through our strengthened life. As followers of the Lord, Jesus Christ. We're filled with his presence. The holy spirit takes up residency in our lives. And we're walking with God, Philippians four 13 says I can do all things. I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength. So again, everything that we're reading about in the scripture and everything that I'll ever teach about or challenge you to, it requires that we rest in the Lord, that we're filled with the holy spirit, that we walk in an intimate, close relationship with Jesus. 2 (40m 38s): So he, that he can give us what we need. So Paul had any eternal prize, the promise of the promise of eternity in mind, but he experienced a supernatural ability in the meantime, to just rest, if anybody should have given up, I mean, it should have been him. You know, he was stoned and shipwrecked and beaten and all kinds of stuff. You know, all kinds of hardship, Peaky. If anybody had, you know, the ability to you should can throw Paul. Yeah, you can throw in the towel, but he didn't, he didn't. And, and the early church didn't and for 21 centuries, now people have not given up on Jesus. 2 (41m 19s): The church is expanding all over the globe. And even in persecution around the world, the church is expanding people, just refusing to give up all of God's people have a price to look forward to. So if you're in, if you've accepted the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ, if you've accepted his message, his truth and welcomed dementia, you've got it. You've got a prize waiting for you. Something to look forward to you equally. True. All of God's people have a life of testing and trial. Just, just the reality. Nobody's surprised by that, right? Anybody surprised by that testing and trial and anybody gone like a day without testing a trial, maybe a day, right? 2 (42m 1s): But if you've gone a little bit without testing and trial, it's common. Just expect it. You know, don't be derailed by it. Just know that it's common and God will give you the grace for it and he'll help you through it. So, because that's true, all of God's people have the capacity in Christ to live above the fray and to never give up in this life. We have the power to press on and never give up as we grow in faith. And as we learn to endure hardship, so how do we never give up? We must exercise faith and in him and endure hardship and exercise, faith and endurance for number two, as we continue on our texts, let's look at, God's promised you Abraham, as we look at God's promise to Abraham, there's plenty of transferable principles to our life during the 21st century, things that we can learn from Abraham's experience. 2 (42m 58s): And so let's take a look at Abraham. Why? Because the writer of Hebrews points to Abraham as a great example of never giving up. So we already looked at Paul and now we're gonna look at Abraham Hebrews six, 13 through 20 says for example, there was God's promise to Abraham since there was no one greater to swear by God took an oath in his own name saying, I will certainly bless you. And I will multiply your to send this beyond number. Then Abraham waited patiently and he received what God had promised. So how do we never give up? Number one, we must exercise faith and endurance. 2 (43m 39s): And number two, we must wait on God patiently. That's never fun. I got called into the ministry at 18 years old and I thought, oh, I'm going to go right in. I'm going, I'm going, 12 years later, I finally entered into full-time vocational ministry. Got it. And it got so more to do in my soul and my spirit and my mind, everything. So it took, you know, 12 years, we, when we moved to this facility, we rented it and renovated it and poured all kinds of money into it. For 12 years, people would say, why are we pouring money into a building that we don't own? I said, we will own it. Just relax. And 12 years later, we bought it and own it. And then I'm now releasing one or two, and I'm pouring tons of money into that. 2 (44m 22s): And maybe we'll own that. I I'm hoping we will. I think the owner wants to sell it to us and someday maybe we'll get it. And we've been praying for years for this camp back that God would give us that as well. So yeah, we just have to wait patiently for God to unfold his plan and purpose in our lives. So Abraham or Abraham, as it was before he got his name change was 75 years old. When God first promised to bless him, Dennis is 12. So 75 years old, but you know, Abraham lived to be 175 years old. So it's got a middle middle-aged right? So maybe how many considered themselves middle-aged here? I don't answer that. But if you're middle-aged God, God's got some stuff you want us to do with you. 2 (45m 5s): If you're on the older end of things are on the younger end of things. God's got some stuff he wants to do with you. We're going to see that throughout the course of Abraham's life, God was working in him, giving him promise for providing for that promise, preparing him for that promise. So Genesis 25, 7 and eight tells us Abraham live for 175 years. And he died at a ripe old age. And I love this part. Having lived a long and satisfying life, but I want that on my appetite epitaph, he lived a long and satisfying life. I want to know that my life was purpose filled, that I honored my wife and my kids and my Lord in the ministry that God has called me to long and satisfying life. 2 (45m 51s): That's a great goal for all of us, no matter how young or old we are. We want to know that at the end of it all, whether we live to be 175 or 75 or somewhere in between that we lived along and satisfying life. He breathed his last enjoined, his ancestors in death, the versa has so Abraham middle-aged that 75 years old is given a promise, 75, the Lord promises to bless him. At this point, he and his wife are child lists. They don't have any kids. And then the angel, the Lord comes along and says, Hey, I'm going to bless you and give you descendants. So he's like, all right. So you know, and the Lord told them, Hey, leave your, everything is familiar and move to the land that I call you to. 2 (46m 34s): And he said he moves to cadence. So he's there with his wife for 10 years and 10 years in Abraham, Abraham and Sarah are both kind of like over it, 10 years in like, Lord, where's the promise. So they kind of take things into their own hands. And Sarah gives Abraham her servant and they have a baby together, Ishmael, but, but ish, my, he was not the son of promise, right? They thought he was a son of promise. They kind of took things into their own hands, but he was not the son of promise. And so 24 years after Abraham received the promise from the Lord, God shows up again. So now he's 99 years old. So now he's getting a little up there, right? He's still, he's still 80 years away from his earth, 76 years away from his end of his life. 2 (47m 17s): But he's getting up there. Genesis 17 when Abraham was 99 years old, God changed Abraham's name, Abram's name to Abraham. When he told him again of the promise to bless him. So he's 24 years in the waiting for this fulfillment. That's that's in everybody's calendar. That's that's a long time. Do you want me? I was talking with a guy after first service. He said, I've been waiting for this promise from the Lord for eight years. I said, well, that's not uncommon not to discourage you, but eight years, you know, just keep trusting the Lord and believing that God's going to do something. And you know, it's just, God's up to something in us. In our circumstances, he's growing us up, teaching us things, preparing us for whatever it is that he has for us. 2 (48m 3s): And so for Abraham, he had to wait 25 years, Genesis 17, one through six, when Abraham was 99 years old Lord appeared to him and said, I am El Shaddai. God almighty served me faithfully and live a blameless life. I will make a covenant with you by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants. So this guy's 99 years old now. And he's hearing this again. Like, God, the clock is ticking. What am I going to do here at this Abraham there, Abraham fell face down on the ground. Then God said to him, this is my covenant with you. I will make you a father of a multitude of nations. 2 (48m 46s): What's more, I'm changing your name. It will no longer be Abraham, which means exalted father. Instead, you will be called Abraham, which means father of Manny for you will be the father of many nations, verse six. I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations and Kings will be among them. So 24 years after the pop promise, God is back re communicating that promise God is God has spoken something to him and he's waited 24 years. But know this in the waiting. God is not been silent. He's not been absent. He's been at work in our lives. 2 (49m 25s): Preparing us when I got called the ministry at 18 and I had to wait 12 years. It was because there was a lot of work that needed to be done here before I was ready for full-time vocational ministry. So God is up to something. You got to believe that God is up to something in your circumstances in your life. And you can trust him. You can have faithful endurance and wait patiently for his timing. And so God is about to deliver on his promise to Abraham and Sarah. And, and so let's remind ourselves, what do we need to do to never give up. Number one, exercise, faith and endurance, exercise, faith, endures, exercise, faith, endurance, exercise, faith, and endurance, and then wait on God patiently. 2 (50m 6s): So what happened now that they've exercised faith and endures and waited patiently on God. What happened next? This is what happened next Genesis 21, 1 through five. The Lord kept his word. That's who God is. He keeps his word. The Lord kept word and did for Sarah. Exactly what he promised. That's the, that's the goodness of God. The perfection of God, the thoroughness of God, we can trust him. And we never, ever needed to give up. She became pregnant and she gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. 2 (50m 47s): This happened at get this just the time God had said it would. And Abraham named their son, Isaac eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham can circumcise him as God had commanded. Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born. Hallelujah. Twenty-five years of waiting, waffling a little bit, trying to make the promise happen on, on the, in their own strength. God's gracious through all of that and the promise. So you think after all of that Abraham and Sarah would, they'd be like on easy street, like we've conquered where Victoria is. 2 (51m 30s): We've got the promise, right? At a hundred. God's not done with Abraham at a hundred, or she'd be 90, I guess. I think that's an app say God's not done with Sarah. So we see that God is at work with people all the days of their lives of you're feeling old and tossed aside. You're not, you're not tossed society. You might be getting older, but you're not tossed aside. We're all getting older day by day. So in Genesis 22, because God was not done with Abraham and his promise to him, God asked Abraham to do something, to sacrifice his son, to sacrifice his beloved son Genesis 22, 2 God said, take your son. 2 (52m 22s): Your only son. Yes, Isaac, whom you love so much and go to the land of Moriah, go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you. Hm God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are way above our thoughts. Something happened in that 25 years of waiting. I mean, God was obviously a priority to Abraham. He moved out of his land and into Canaan and trusted the Lord and waited on the Lord. But there was something being developed in him. As he, as he waited, as he faithfully endured, as he waited on God's timing, there was something being developed in Abraham that allowed him to listen to the Lord and to be obedient, to do this very heart wrenching thing. 2 (53m 14s): He'd waited 25 years for this promise. And now God's saying, go sacrifice him. What does that even mean? God, what, what does that mean? And so he gets, his son gets the fire and the firewood, and they begin to head to the place of sacrifice and there's no animal to sacrifice. And so Isaac's like, Hey dad, you know, we got the fire and the bundle of what he said, don't worry, God will provide you. As you read Genesis 22, all of the chapter, you see that Abraham had a SIG sincere confidence that even if he sacrificed his son, that God would resurrect him. 2 (53m 55s): He knew that he was coming back with his son. There was no doubt in his mind. He, he didn't question God, he didn't. He just did what God asked him to do, because he knew that God had resurrection power to bring his son back to life. He knew that God had promised the son. He knew that this would be the, the through the son that he would become, you know, the father of many nations. I mean, there was a lot happening. And yet he had to faithfully do what God had asked them to do. So Abraham took Isaac. And even when he was about to offer his son as a sacrifice, praise the Lord, the angel of the Lord appeared to him. So he's, he's bound his son. He's on the alter. And he's about to do the deed. 2 (54m 36s): And it says the angel of the Lord told him, lay down, the knife do not hurt the boy in any way for now. I know that you truly fear God, you have not withheld. Even your beloved son from me. I didn't even know. I don't even know where to go with this because maybe, maybe the Lord has called us to sacrifice something in our own lives. And we're like, Lord, I've been working my whole life for this. I've been building my whole life for this. This is, and the Lord just saying sacrifice it. I don't know what it is. Cause I don't have like a word for thus sayeth the Lord. But I, I, I know that if God's asking you to sacrifice something for his kingdom and for his will, that it's, it's going to be difficult, but it's going to be okay. 2 (55m 23s): After Abraham passed this test, God told them he reiterated Genesis 2217. I will certainly bless you. I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies. And so this promise comes so he's 75 years old. You're going to become the father of a great nation. Many nations tries, you know, 10 years later to kind of make things happen. It's not the right path. He thinks he's got the son of promise. When he's 99 years old, he speaks it again at a hundred. 2 (56m 5s): He finally sees the car. What are you, what are you waiting on the Lord to do in your life? What do you feel like the Lord has communicated to you? Don't give up never ever give up exercise, faith and endurance wait, and God's timing and just trust he will do. Let's get back to Hebrews chapter six. As we wrap up these last few verses and one final point, it says now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question, that oath is binding. God also bound himself with an oath. So that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure something about there's something, something of confidence that comes when we are faithfully enduring, waiting on God's timing, trusting him and believing in there's something about this surety that we can have that God wants us to have. 2 (56m 58s): The enemy wants to lie to us and tell us, oh, you're on your own. God has forgotten about the promise. He's not paying attention to your life. You're on your own. But the Bible and God communicate to us that he wants us to be perfectly sure and confident, perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence. We need to have great confidence in God, as we hold to the hope that lies before us, the hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor. And we need that in these difficulties of life, we needed something to anchor us to the truth, to the person of God. 2 (57m 44s): Something that won't allow us to drift too far or get too, too far away from what God has for us. We need to be anchored with that hope. And that happens through faith and Durance or just trusting God waiting on his timing. Therefore we who have fled to him for a refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain, into God's inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal Friess in the order of and number three, never give up. We must have great confidence in God. And I think where we fall short as human beings, myself included, is that we get our eyes on our selves. 2 (58m 28s): We get our eyes on our own capacity, our own ability, our own strengths, our own weaknesses. We get our eyes on ourselves. I know pretty much all the pastors in the area, just because we hang out together and that sort of thing. And every one of us is cut from a different cloth. Every one of us have different gifts, set, different strengths, different talents has different weaknesses. In fact, I went to high school with a couple of the guys at AIG, and if I look back at their lives and if they look back at my life and they say, there's no way that dude is cut out for, for, you know, pastoral ministry. And I'd say the same thing about them, but even more so about me is I look back at my life and my calling at 18 I'm like I was so ill prepared. 2 (59m 13s): And if I looked at my own weaknesses, I, I, I came from a broken family. I wasn't pure my early days as a young man, struggled academically until honestly halfway through college. When I finally figured out how to apply myself and I finished, you know, halfway strong. And, but you know, there were tons of, I had tons of insecurities, tons of insecurities. It was just, I was fearful of speaking in front of anybody. It was just not my thing. You know, I just, I didn't. So to imagine. So the problem is that we get our eyes on our own insecure, insecurities, our own insignificance, all our own problems, our own issues. 2 (1h 0m 0s): And we forget that God is the one who qualifies. God is one who calls people. God is the one who equips with spiritual gifts and empowers with strength and the holy spirit. God is one who does all of that stuff. And we're just vessels. We're like conduit, like, okay, Lord, just plug me in wherever you use me, wherever. And when, and then throughout the whole course of our life in ministry, we just continue to trust in the Lord. I was talking to a guy he's not a pastor in the area, but I talked to him a couple of weeks ago and he's like, I'm a great preacher. He told me I'm a great preacher. I'm thinking to myself, holy cow, I don't know any preacher would say that, but whatever, because I feel like I've been doing this for a long time. 2 (1h 0m 41s): And I feel like every time I get up in the pulpit, I'm like, Lord, you have to do something. Like, I feel like I'm prepared, but I don't want to do this in my own strength. You have to empower what I'm saying. You have to speak through me. You have to encourage the people. Am I, I can't imagine ever saying I'm a great, I would never, I just wouldn't do it. And, and I think there's a, there's a little bit of, there's probably a lot of danger around that statement because no matter what our position or what our gift sets or what we're called to, we just have to do everything with great humility, with great dependence on the holy spirit. We have to be filled with the love of God for God. And for people we have to just be, it's just a, it's a process where we just die constantly to our flesh, to our own capacity, to our own ability. 2 (1h 1m 30s): So, so we need to keep our confidence in God. And as we do that, then we will never give up. We will have faith to endure. We will trust God's timing that things are unfolding, where they should. And we will, we will have great confidence in God and not in us. As soon as we get our confidence in ourselves, we're just, we're doing worship rec problems are coming and it's not, not good. So, so with that, just take that all in and choose a fresh this year to not give up. What does God want to do in your life this year? And this in this new 20, 22 year, what does God want to do? 2 (1h 2m 11s): You're not too young. You're not too old. You're none of that. You're called and equipped by God. Do the specific thing that he's asked you to do. So what does he ask you to do? And then just begin to walk in that humbly depended on the Lord, knowing that you're not all that none of us are, none of us are, you know, perfect or without flaw. We all just move forward by God's grace doing the stuff that he's called us to do. So be prayerful. As we worship in this last song, let's get the worship team up. And as we wrap up, just be thinking, thinking about it, be thoughtful about that. In what area have you been tempted to give up? 2 (1h 2m 51s): Maybe it's your walk with the Lord, but just never, never give up Lord as we get ready to sing this last song and worship you. I thank you. That you've called us since you've adopted us and Lord, maybe there are people here who have just been kind of coming to church and hearing the preaching and part of things, but they, haven't never, they've never made that commitment to follow you Lord, and to become a child it's opposite child into your family. I pray that if there are people here today that have never accepted the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ, that they would do that today. And if you're here today and you want to do that just in the quietness of your own heart, if you're ready to come into the kingdom of God, into the family of God, you do that simply by asking God for his grace, his forgiveness, you recognize your humanity and your need for salvation. 2 (1h 3m 49s): And you say, Jesus, I am imperfect in every way. Bible calls it sin. I'm a center Lord, but I know God that you will forgive me if I ask and that she want to forgive me. And so Lord, I ask that you would forgive me and you just say, Lord, I want to be in your family. I want to be filled with your holy spirit, even though I don't even know what that means yet, Lord, I want it. I want to walk with you. And I want you to walk with me. I want to follow you all the days of my life. And as you make that, the cry of your heart and your prayer to the Lord, God hears you. And he welcomes you into his family. And you begin on this journey. That's lifelong and into eternity and you get to follow Jesus and he gets to lead you and save you and redeem your life. 2 (1h 4m 33s): And so that's you here today, do that in the quietness of your own heart. But then after the service, sometime today, tell somebody that you gave your life to Jesus. And that you're a follower of the Lord, Jesus Christ. And then at the end of the month, we're doing a baptism and baptism is a public declaration saying Lord to the world, to my friends, family, and everybody. I'm a follower of the Lord, Jesus Christ and get baptized and move forward with your life with Jesus. So Lord bless those who need salvation today. We've all been there, Lord and bless, bless those who are just discouraged and maybe feel like giving up for they wouldn't pray. They would be faithful by your power and during with your power, trusting your timing in their lives, Lord, and keeping eyes on you. 2 (1h 5m 18s): So thank you for this time. We bless you Lord, as we worship, help us to worship in spirit and in truth, we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Let's stand and worship. 1 (1h 5m 44s): Ah 0 (1h 10m 10s): Thank you, Jesus. Thank you that every battle belongs to you. Thank you that we are going to see a victory. God, I pray that your word would penetrate our hearts today that something would stick and with sink and God, and that we would leave this service today in remembering that you are good and remembering that you want to do something, a fashion each and every single one of us this year. So we love you and Jesus name. We pray. Amen.
Jeff Friess is the Managing Director of Truckload, Dedicated, and IT at Global Executive Solutions Group. With over 18 years as an executive recruiter, he has provided clients with both permanent & contract staffing services and fully understands the business cycles of each. Make sure to connect with Jeff on social media and follow Global Executive Solutions Group! https://www.globalesg.com/
This conversation explores two launches: both in the same sector, during a global pandemic but targeting two very different groups. The Infiniti Motor Company recently launched its QX55 and QX60 models and the pandemic opened opportunities to experiment with new launch strategies — and ultimately reboot its playbook. The discussion that features Wendy Orthman, Infiniti's newly-promoted GM of global integrated brand, marketing and communications, in addition to Stephanie Friess, SVP at imre. Topics Covered: 02:02 Orthman on moving to Japan to join Infiniti just as Covid-19 enveloped the world 04:33 Friess draws parallels between automotive and beauty, retail & lifestyle 06:04 The QX 55 launch — and the unexpected pandemic pivot 08:12 How lockdown allowed the team to take unprecedented risks 11:20 How to replicate the sensory experience of buying a car during the pandemic 12:49 Rethinking exec comms around the ‘no suits rule' 15:03 ‘It takes a village' - a new way to approach the marketing mix 18:43 Getting real about the role of celebs vs more accessible influencers 21:00 How the ‘Claire' persona for QX60 still included multicultural nuance 25:11 Lessons learned on integration
In Episode 60 of the SAP on Azure Video Podcast we talk about remote audits of Azure Datacenters using HoloLens 2, General availability of Oracle consistent snapshots using Azure VM Backup, Creating Power Automate flows with Visio, Integrating Teams with SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud, Private preview for Configuration & SAP Installation for the SAP Deployment Auto and scaling your SAP CPI instance with Azure. Then Bernhard Friess joins us to talk about the SAP on Azure German v-Team. hhttps://youtu.be/1oYpzeyUDFw https://github.com/hobru/SAPonAzure
Welcome back to “From the Heart,” the Diocese of Salina's Catholic podcast! Thank you so much for listening! – Today we are excited to share our 7th episode featuring on of our 5th year seminarians, Luke Friess! In this episode Luke shares about his family, the seminary, and other wonderful stories. We think you will love listening to this episode! We are so blessed to have him as a seminarian for our Diocese. Please continue to pray for his discernment! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fromtheheartcatholic/message
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