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The BOB & TOM Show – June 30, 20266:00 Hour 6:00 – White Trash Noise Machine6:06 – Tom never watched Cops6:09 – Kristi and Pat disagree6:14 – John Cena discussion6:25 – Gad about Gaddis6:31 – "I could parallel park a train." – Josh6:35 – Letter: Listener has an Indianapolis 500 book signed by Marty Allen ("Hello dere")6:35 – Letter: "Thank you, Tom Griswold—I never thought I'd say that."6:50 – Concert floor incident and copyright discussion6:53 – Letter: Pick up a camera for the Brownie6:53 – Letter: Wallet found at a soccer game; crowd chants owner's name 7:06 – Tom switched iced teas and is feeling tired and grumpy7:07 – Jeff in studio7:09 – Dirty Ditties7:24 – Josh and Jeff compare chest hair7:25 – Concert floor incident was not an accident7:27 – Why aren't there more women's restrooms at concert venues?7:28 – Women using urinals7:29 – Tom says a "fridge cigarette" is a Diet Coke7:32 – Letter: Watching an old Columbo episode reminded a listener of Hugh Jackman and Tom7:37 – John Cena hair transplant discussion7:39 – Jeff compliments John Cena7:48 – Sports7:52 – Women's tennis players grunting discussion7:54 – Peter Tork discussion7:55 – Stephen Stills, the Monkees, and Charles Manson 8:03 – Josh jokes about Kristi having a crush on Charles Manson8:05 – First indoor fishing pond in a Moscow mall8:10 – Oldest living parrot discussion8:12 – Is a beak the same as a pecker?8:16 – "Not a grower or a shower—just there." – Jeff8:27 – Letter: Listener loved Jeff's hot dog trick8:27 – Josh invites everyone to run through his sprinkler8:30 – Discussion of P-Shot procedures8:34 – "We are at the dawn of Grandma Griswold." – Josh8:46 – Today in History 9:06 – Josh discusses his bladder scope procedure9:10 – Tom recalls having a bladder scope as a young man9:23 – Gen Z "Day Cap" day drinking trend9:25 – Michigan bill to make lemonade stands easier9:29 – Metallica donates $25,000 to a food bank9:30 – Jacket designed to harvest water from the air9:32 – Jeff says cottage cheese makes a terrible grilled cheese sandwich9:45 – Josh and Pat's trip to the grocery store9:50 – "Making Some Changes" – Josh 7:00 Hour8:00 Hour9:00 Hour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We explore the final days of Moses as the Israelites prepare to enter the Promised Land. Despite his enduring physical strength, Moses faces the reality that he cannot cross the Jordan River due to his past disobedience. Joshua is appointed as his successor to lead the people into Canaan. We delve into the challenges Moses faces, including requests from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh to settle outside Canaan, and God's command to drive out the inhabitants of the land. Support the showRead along with us in the Bible Brief App! Try the Bible Brief book for an offline experience!Get your free Bible Timeline with the 10 Steps: Timeline LinkSupport the show: Tap here to become a monthly supporter!Review the show: Tap here!Want to go deeper?...Download the Bible Brief App!iPhone: App Store LinkAndroid: Play Store LinkWant a physical book? Check out "Bible Brief" by our founder!Amazon: Amazon LinkWebsite: biblebrief.orgInstagram: @realbiblebriefX: @biblebriefFacebook: @realbiblebriefEmail the Show: biblebrief@biblelit.orgWant to learn the Bible languages (Greek & Hebrew)? Check out our partner Biblingo (and use our link/code for a discount!): https://biblin...

This sermon on Joshua 4:8–24 emphasizes that the command of the Lord must be obeyed to the glory of God. Israel's crossing of the Jordan was not merely a historical transition into Canaan; it was a covenantal act of obedience, remembrance, and worship. The twelve stones taken from the river and placed at Gilgal became a visible memorial, teaching future generations that the Lord had brought His people across on dry ground by His mighty hand. The sermon highlights the careful, immediate obedience of Israel, the priests, and the eastern tribes. The people followed Joshua's instructions precisely. The priests remained in the Jordan with the Ark until every command was completed. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh honored their covenant commitment by crossing ready for battle. Their obedience teaches believers to respond to God's Word attentively, without distraction or self-invented alternatives. Joshua's exaltation before Israel points typologically to the greater exaltation of Christ, who died, rose, ascended, and will receive universal confession as Lord. The memorial stones also point to the church's responsibility to remember and teach: fathers, families, and congregations must explain God's works, worship, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and the Lord's Day to the next generation. The central applications are clear: remember God's past mercies, trust His sovereign timing, worship as He has prescribed, honor covenant obligations, and obey His present commands. God is faithful to complete His promises, and His people must live as remembering, obedient disciples. This remembrance strengthens faith as God carries His people through every Jordan.

Do I have generalised anxiety disorder? Generalised anxiety disorder is a psychological condition, which affects around 3% of all people, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. But it seems to affect certain groups disproportionately. For example, women are twice as likely to be affected as men. Furthermore, less than half of people with GAD receive treatment. What are the symptoms I should be looking out for? What's the best way to go about seeking treatment?  ⁠In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !⁠ To listen to the last episodes, you can click here : ⁠Why do friend breakups hurt so much?⁠ ⁠Who are the RMT, the organisation creating massive travel disruption across the UK?⁠ ⁠Who are the Moonies, the church with ties to Japanese politicians?⁠ A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First Broadcast: 29/7/2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this study we will take a look at the women within the Bible. We will look at each one of them and see how their story influences our lives today.As we continue our study in this fantastic insight of the Women of the Bible, this morning we complete our study on Rachel and LeahNames in the Bible often say something about the person:Rachel means 'ewe', a female sheep, a symbol of prosperity and security for nomadic people Leah means 'weary or wild cow' Jacob means 'heel grabber', either his brother's heel at the moment of birth or his brother's inheritance later on; the name can also mean 'deceiver' Laban means 'white'; it was sometimes linked with leprosy Reuben means 'behold, a son!' Joseph means 'may he add or increase'The story contains five different episodes:   1 Rachel meets Jacob at the well, Genesis 29:1-14 2 Leah and Rachel marry Jacob, Genesis 29:15-30 3 Rachel has a son, Joseph, Genesis 29:31-15, 30:1-24 4 Rachel and Leah leave with Jacob, and Rachel takes the sacred household deities, Genesis 30:25-43, 31 5 Rachel has a son, Benjamin, and dies soon after, Genesis 35:16-30In our last study we learned about Jacob leaving his homeland and traveling to his mother's homeland of Haran to find a wife. There at the well Jacob meets his future wife Rachel. But hold on Rachel as we learned had a older sister Leah. When Jacob went into their father and asks for his daughters hand in marriage, Labin tricks Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel. So we see that Jacob must fulfill his promise to Labin for the hand of Rachel. As the story unfolds we see Leah producing children for Jacob. However we see that Rachel faced a different problem. No matter how she prayed to Yahweh, no matter how much she was loved by Jacob, Rachel did not conceive. In desperation she gave her maid Bilhah [timid, bashful] to Jacob, so that he could conceive a child with Bilhah as a surrogate mother for Rachel. This practice was common in the ancient world [Code of Khammurabi section 145]; the woman became a concubine instead of a servant, and it was a step up the social ladder for her. She might become the mother of the future tribal leader.  Bilhah had a son, whom Rachel named Dan [judge]. Then she had a second son, and Rachel called him Naphtali [my wrestling]. In response, Leah gave her own maid Zilpah [trickling] to Jacob, and this resulted in yet more sons: Gad [troop] and Asher [happy]. A bitter rivalry grew up between the two women.  We pick up our story in Genesis Chapter 30(1-4) Rachel, out of frustration, gives Jacob her maid Bilhah to bear children through her.(5-6) The birth of Dan.(7-8) The birth of Naphtali.(9-11) The birth of Gad.(12-13) The birth of Asher.(14-18) The birth of Issachar.(19-20) The birth of Zebulun.(21) The birth of Dinah.Finally we read in verse 22 that Yahweh remembers Rachel and opens her womb.Verses 23, 24, “She conceived and bore a son and said, 'Elohim has taken away my reproach'; and she named him Joseph (let me add or adding), saying 'May Yahweh add to me another son!'” Rachel and Leah flee with JacobAt this stage, Jacob felt Yahweh calling him to return to his homeland. Rachel and Leah were also dissatisfied by the way things were panning out financially, and felt they are not getting what they were entitled to as Laban's daughters. It was time to go. They both urged Jacob to take action. It seems that Rachel in particular was still angry at her father for what he had done to her. Before they set out, she took the small figurines that represented the spirits of ancestors and the protective deities of her father's family (the teraphim), telling no one at all what she was doing. This was not a random act of malice, for years ago on what should have been her wedding night, Laban had stolen Rachel's happiness. Now she stole something that was precious to him - pay-back for a life-time of bullying. But her act had wider significance than this, because the teraphim (This word occurs only in the plural, and denotes images connected with magical rites. The teraphim, translated, "images", in the Authorized Version, carried away from Laban, by Rachel, were regarded by Laban as elohims, and it would, therefore, appear that they were used by those who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion) were a form of title deed, and the person who possessed them could claim the tribe's wealth. Ownership of the household deities was the privilege of the head of the family, and by taking them Rachel secured this position for her husband.  The whole family group assembled; ready to return to the land of Jacob's father, Isaac. They crossed the Euphrates and headed towards the hill country of Gilead. But it was not going to be as easy as that. Laban pursued them, caught up with them, and confronted them. Where were the household elohims? They were missing and Laban wanted them back.  This was news to Jacob. He did not know Rachel had taken them, since she had kept them hidden and had not told anyone what she had done. Jacob then made one of those foolish pronouncements that give the reader a hint that something bad is coming: he indignantly denied knowledge of the theft, and said that whoever had done such a thing should die. Laban searched the tents of Jacob, Leah, and the two maids to find the teraphim- each woman in a polygamous marriage had her own separate tent.  Laban found nothing. Then he went into Rachel's tent, where the teraphim were hidden. What he did not know was that Rachel had hidden them in the saddlebags of her camel. She greeted her father respectfully but did not rise from where she was sitting. She explained modestly that she could not do so, since she was menstruating.     'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.'This meant that the cloth on which she was sitting was ritually unclean, and could not be touched by anyone. Most ancient tribes had customs that allowed menstruating women to withdraw from physical contact with the tribe while they had their periods, and women welcomed this time of rest from their usual tasks. Rachel's manner towards her father was so sweet and yielding that Laban did not argue or tell her to move, and the upshot was that he left her tent empty-handed. She had used the laws of ritual cleanliness to her own advantage. The irony was that it was a lie. She was already pregnant with a son.Since Laban could not find the teraphim, he had to back down. The two men made a face-saving covenant, and early the next morning Laban said good-bye to them all, and left.When Laban was gone Rachel's family moved on, and on the way to Ephrath she went into labor. This time things did not go well for her. The pains were very bad, and Rachel suffered terribly. To comfort her, the midwife told her it would be a boy. It was, but Rachel would not live to see him grow. She died in childbirth.  Join me as we go Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse, Unraveling the Words of Yahweh!Have any questions? Feel free to email me; keitner2024@outlook.com

With Russell away, Graeme, Cole and Gad manage the shop counter. They talk the latest in film and entertainment news from the past week like...Hey did you guys see….The teaser for The Social ReckoningRidley Scott, Glenn Close & Floyd Norman getting honorary OscarRidley Scott and Hugh Jackman setting sail with new Treasure Island adaptationRidley Scott's (he's a busy guy) latest, The Dog Stars, gets a trailerOne step closer to Idiocracy with White House UFC shenanigans127 Hours but it's in a whale looks horrifying in Whalefall trailerBrendan Fraser getting ready for The Mummy 4Pixar's next film, Gatto, get a teaserThe end of Destiny 2What we've been watchingToy Story 5 | In theatres 19 June & at The Bioscope 27 JuneDisclosure Day | In theatres & at The Bioscope 19 JuneMonarch: Legacy of Monsters | Apple TVAmong Us | Paramount+Frieren: Beyond Journey's End | Netflix007 First LightLinksJohn Williams - Live in ViennaVideo Store LinksOfficial SiteInstagramYouTubeContact: thevideostorepod@gmail.com

Fifteen years after ‘The Book of Mormon' made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the stage as Mormon missionaries — this time at the 2026 Tony Awards. The musical is a satirical — sometimes affectionate, sometimes offensive — look at Mormonism and youthful naïveté. Rannells and Gad spoke with Terry Gross about their first impressions of the show, how their voices have changed, and how the songs in 'The Book of Mormon' are a tribute to musical theater.Also, Clarke Peters played Det. Lester Freamon in ‘The Wire' and now plays a retiree in the supernatural thriller ‘The Boroughs.' He spoke to Terry Gross about both series, and about his continued work as an actor. “I picked this profession so that I would have longevity, so that I could still be acting at 100, if it comes to it,” he says. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Fifteen years after ‘The Book of Mormon' made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the stage as Mormon missionaries — this time at the 2026 Tony Awards. The musical is a satirical — sometimes affectionate, sometimes offensive — look at Mormonism and youthful naïveté. Rannells and Gad spoke with Terry Gross about their first impressions of the show, how their voices have changed, and how the songs in 'The Book of Mormon' are a tribute to musical theater.Also, Clarke Peters played Det. Lester Freamon in ‘The Wire' and now plays a retiree in the supernatural thriller ‘The Boroughs.' He spoke to Terry Gross about both series, and about his continued work as an actor. “I picked this profession so that I would have longevity, so that I could still be acting at 100, if it comes to it,” he says. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Alinia-gate, Gad world och populistisk mediekritik. Sånt det snackas om i detta avsnitt.   I det 217:e avsnittet av Publicistpodden gästas programledare Jonas Nordling av: Martin Ahlquist, Tf chefredaktör och utgivare för Dagens Media Lisa Bjurwald, journalist, författare och förläggare, samt senior media advisor Altinget James Savage, publicistisk chef på The Local, samt ordförande för Sveriges Tidskrifter och Utgivarna På dagordningen denna gång stod bland annat:  Årets sommarvärdar  Gad world  Ivar Arpi till Kvartal  SVT:s dikeskörning kring Nick Alinia.  Populistisk mediekritik  Det fortsatta arbetet med en svensk språkmodell   Publicistpodden görs av Jonas Nordling på uppdrag av Sveriges tidskrifter. Ansvarig utgivare är Kerstin Neld.

Fifteen years after ‘The Book of Mormon' made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the stage as Mormon missionaries — this time at the 2026 Tony Awards. Created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the duo behind ‘South Park'), along with veteran Broadway composer Robert Lopez, ‘The Book of Mormon' follows two young missionaries sent to try and bring Mormonism to a Ugandan village. The musical is a satirical — sometimes affectionate, sometimes offensive — look at Mormonism and youthful naïveté. Rannells and Gad spoke with Terry Gross about their first impressions of the show, mishaps onstage, and regretting their decision to leave when they did. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Fifteen years after ‘The Book of Mormon' made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the stage as Mormon missionaries — this time at the 2026 Tony Awards. Created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the duo behind ‘South Park'), along with veteran Broadway composer Robert Lopez, ‘The Book of Mormon' follows two young missionaries sent to try and bring Mormonism to a Ugandan village. The musical is a satirical — sometimes affectionate, sometimes offensive — look at Mormonism and youthful naïveté. Rannells and Gad spoke with Terry Gross about their first impressions of the show, mishaps onstage, and regretting their decision to leave when they did. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

In 2023, the FDA approved escitalopram (Lexapro) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in children aged 7 and older, based largely on one industry-sponsored trial showing a small statistical edge over placebo on the Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale (PARS). Critics argue the benefits fall below clinically meaningful thresholds while risks—particularly a roughly six-fold increase in treatment-emergent suicidal ideation—raise serious concerns about the risk-benefit balance. This episode explores the trial data, study limitations, broader context of pediatric antidepressant use, and what it means for families and clinicians navigating anxiety treatment options.

Text: 1 Samuel 18 - 21 Supplemental Text: The Fourth Thousand Years chapter 2 BYU Lecture 26: David exercises his faith in God and confronts Goliath, killing him with a rock and sling. David suddenly becomes a military hero to the people of Israel. He meets and befriends the crown prince of Israel, Jonathan – son of King Saul. With all the praise for David from the people of Israel, Saul becomes jealous and feels his power threatened, especially since the prophet Samuel informed Saul that God is planning to replace him with another man, a king worthy of God. King Saul becomes psychotic and makes five failed attempts to kill David. As tension rises, David slips through the land of Israel – seeking refuge in priestly tents, feigning madness in enemy courts, and secretly settles within his own homeland, the land of Judah. David begins to gather followers and allies. As counseled by the prophet Gad, David stays in Judah waiting upon the Lord until circumstances allow him to rise as king of Israel.

Quetiapine, an atypical antipsychotic, is increasingly prescribed off-label for anxiety when first-line treatments fail. Discover how it works on brain chemistry, its effectiveness for GAD, and the critical side effects you need to know before considering this option. Learn more at https://amfmtreatment.com/quetiapine-seroquel/ A Mission for Michael (AMFM) City: San Juan Capistrano Address: 30310 Rancho Viejo Rd. Website: https://amfmtreatment.com/

Is there such a thing as having too much ⁠empathy⁠? That's a theory gaining the support of some of the world's richest people following the release of a new book by Gad Saad, a Canadian marketing professor and frequent critic of liberal policies. Saad is an evolutionary psychologist, professor at the University of Mississippi, host of The Saad Truth podcast, and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book Suicidal Empathy, where he argues that Western societies are embracing forms of empathy and compassion that can ultimately become self-destructive. We dive into the ideas that have made him both influential and controversial: immigration, gender, identity, culture, free speech, and what he sees as larger changes happening across the West. Some listeners may strongly agree with Gad. Others may take major issue with his framing, philosophy and conclusions. But these are ideas increasingly shaping conversations—especially on the political right—and we thought it was worth digging into them directly. Please note: Parts of this discussion include provocative examples and references to sexual violence that some listeners may find difficult.

8 czerwca (poniedziałek) w Concordia Design (Wyspa Słodowa 7, 50-266 Wrocław), o godz. 17:30 spotykamy się, by wspólnie rozpocząć tydzień WWDC i obejrzeć Keynote otwierający konferencję. Wstęp wolny. Będą konkursy z nagrodami, poczęstunek, ale przede wszystkim nasza wspaniała społeczność. Koniecznie wpadnijcie! MacGadka w wersji w wideo tutaj: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekVleIYQfaQ 00:00 Witają i zapraszają 07:17 Problem bernardyna 19:55 Power tipy 28:57 Gadżet roku 41:22 Michał kupił komputer! 01:16:28 Życzenia WWDC na koniec 01:23:49 Kącik kulturalny MacGadki

In this episode of The Health Literacy 2.0 Podcast, host Seth Serxner welcomes Brian Oss, Head of Solutioning at Calm, for a deep dive into the evolving landscape of workforce health literacy, behavioral health, and digital mental health solutions.Calm is a leading mental health company on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. Our flagship consumer app - ranked #1 in its category with over 180 million downloads and available in seven languages across nearly 190 countries - helps people sleep better, stress less, and live more mindfully through content and tools from experts and beloved celebrity voices.Since their launch, they've expanded their offerings with Calm Sleep, an app providing deeper, personalized sleep support, and Calm Health, an evidence-based digital solution offered through employers, health plans, and providers to expand access, boost benefits engagement, and drive positive health outcomes.Today, Calm supports more than 3,500 organizations and reaches over 26 million covered lives through Calm Health.Brian leads solutioning to address some of the toughest challenges in behavioral health.Brian and Seth discuss:Career Paths Are Not Linear: Both Brian and Seth highlight the importance - and inevitability - of nontraditional career journeys in health and wellness leadership.Cost and Access as Top Challenges: Controlling costs while increasing access to mental and behavioral health care remains a leading concern for employers and health plans.Digital Content as a Scalable Solution: For roughly 75% of a given population, high-quality digital content can be a first line of support, offering tools for episodic needs and keeping people out of higher-acuity care.Data-Driven Personalization: Calm Health leverages PHQ and GAD scores to curate programs tailored to each user's unique needs, including specialized tracks for those with chronic conditions like diabetes.Clinical Expertise Meets Engaging Delivery: Calm collaborates with top psychologists to create evidence-based programs, then crafts them into highly engaging audio-visual experiences featuring trusted voices.Proof of Outcomes: A recent payer-led study of 70,000 users showed significant reductions in anxiety and depression scores - demonstrating that digital tools can make a real impact.Health Literacy = Access + Navigation: True health literacy goes beyond reading level - it includes providing clear pathways and referrals to the right care, tailored to each user's situation and acuity.Supporting the Full Continuum: Calm Health's offerings help users at every point in the journey, from “green” users needing only light support to those who require referral to therapy or crisis services.Cautious Approach to AI: While Calm Health utilizes AI to help users articulate their goals, they are conservative about using AI for actual clinical care - mindful of both ethical concerns and payer requirements.Brian closes with a reminder of the human side of mental health - urging listeners to check in, offer a smile, and truly see one another, as small moments of connection can be transformative.Discover how digital innovation and compassionate leadership are reshaping mental health support in the workplace - one small step, and one smile, at a time.Learn About EdLogicsWant to see how EdLogics' gamified platform can boost health literacy, drive engagement in health and wellness programs, and help people live happier, healthier lives?Visit the EdLogics website: www.edlogics.com.Get Seth's BookCheck out The Wellbeing Effect by Seth Serxner.

O âncora Jota Batista e a colunista de política da Folha de Pernambuco, Betânia Santana, receberam, nesta terça-feira (02), no Folha Política, o deputado federal Túlio Gadêlha (PSD).

Text: 1 Samuel 16-17 Supplemental Text: The Fourth Thousand Years chapter 1 BYU Lecture 25: The Jews use different names for some of their scriptural books than do our Bible scriptures. The following reference table shows these differences:                   JEWISH                                 KJV Bible             1st Book of Kings                    1st Samuel             2nd Book of Kings                   2nd Samuel             3rd Book of Kings                   1st Kings             4th Book of Kings                    2nd Kings             5th Book of Kings                    1st Chronicles (parallels 1st Kings)             6th Book of Kings                    2nd Chronicles (parallels 2nd Kings) All the history and prophecy during this period of time was originally recorded by the prophets Samuel, Nathan and Gad, but the writings were tragically lost. Fortunately, scribes and scholars had extracted some material from the original writings which we have today in these 6 books. It's important to keep in mind that these writings we have today were not recorded by prophets of God, but rather by scribes. Near the beginning of the fourth thousand years (about 1,100 BC) the slothful high priest was Eli. His student Samuel was called by God to replace Eli, to be the new prophet and High Priest of Israel. Samuel's prophetic voice shapes the nation. But Israel eventually rejects Samuel as their leader and demands a king. Distraught by failure, Samuel is reassured by God that Israel has not rejected Samuel but has rejected God. Meanwhile, a humble shepherd boy named David begins life's journey in the shepherd fields.  

https://youtu.be/Qd6qplgMVdU https://www.uncommen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-29th.mp3 The Devastating Cost of Staying Out of the Way There is a silent but devastating epidemic crippling the modern Christian home, and it has absolutely nothing to do with being a bad provider or a bad person. The crisis is happening inside our own families, dressed in the most comfortable, socially acceptable clothing available. It sounds exactly like this: “I just let my wife manage the schedule because she's better at it anyway, and it creates less conflict.” Men repeat this line like a badge of wisdom, like a strategy, like the peace they think they are building. But that sentiment is not wisdom. It is a devastating retreat from the very post God called you to guard — and your family is paying the price for your absence every single day. The modern definition of keeping the peace has tricked men into completely abandoning biblical leadership in the home. We have been sold a massive lie that staying out of the way is a form of grace toward our wives and families. For generations, men have mistakenly assumed that biblical leadership in the home was reserved for intense spiritual giants — the guys who pray for an hour before sunrise and have every theological answer ready on demand. But biblical leadership in the home is not a personality type; it is a command, and it belongs to every man sitting on a couch while his family drifts without direction. The cost of outsourcing this responsibility is not just inconvenient. It is spiritually catastrophic. The Adam Problem: Passivity Is Not Neutral Most men think of passivity as the absence of a problem. If you are not yelling, not absent, not addicted to something destructive, you have cleared the bar. This is the Adam Problem, and it is as old as the first chapter of the human story. When the serpent approached Eve in the garden, Adam was right there — physically present and spiritually absent. He let the enemy speak without challenge, let the fruit get picked without intervention, and then had the audacity to blame the woman God gave him for the entire catastrophe. Biblical leadership in the home was the first thing men abandoned in human history, and we have been repeating that exact pattern ever since. Passive leadership is not neutral territory. Passive leadership is still leadership — it just works entirely for the wrong team. When a passive husband refuses to initiate the spiritual direction of his family, someone else fills that vacuum immediately. The culture fills it. The screens fill it. The school system, the friend group, the social media algorithm fill it. Biblical leadership in the home does not operate in a vacuum; it operates under constant pressure from forces that are absolutely hostile to the faith you are trying to build. Every time you “stay out of the way,” you are making a leadership decision. You are making it by default instead of by design, and the enemy could not be more grateful for your cooperation. Peacekeeping Versus Peacemaking: The Cold War at Your Kitchen Table There is a fundamental, critical difference between peacekeeping and peacemaking, and a staggering number of passive husbands have confused the two completely. Peacekeeping is conflict avoidance dressed up as gentleness. It looks like a man who lets his wife carry the full weight of the family schedule because confronting the chaos feels worse than ignoring it. It looks like a man who goes quiet during an argument because checked out is easier than engaged. Peacekeeping creates a shallow, exhausting Cold War climate in your marriage — the kind where everything appears fine from the outside, but where both people know something critical is fundamentally missing. Biblical leadership in the home is not peacekeeping. It is peacemaking. Peacemaking is far more costly than peacekeeping. In Matthew 5:9, Jesus says: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9, ESV) The Greek word used here — eirēnopoios — means one who actively creates peace, not one who passively avoids conflict. Biblical leadership in the home is the work of a peacemaker: a man who walks directly into the hard conversation, the messy logistical disaster, the spiritually drifting household, and brings the full weight of his calling to bear on the problem. A passive husband keeps the peace by retreating. A man committed to biblical leadership in the home makes the peace by stepping in, owning the moment, and working toward genuine unity — not just the absence of noise. The Cold War comparison is not an exaggeration. When a man consistently avoids leading, his wife does not feel loved by his deference; she feels alone in it. She adapts by handling everything herself because someone has to. He retreats further because she seems to have it covered. Over time, the marriage develops a functional distance that has nothing to do with love and everything to do with leadership failure. Biblical leadership in the home does not just affect your spiritual life. It shapes the entire emotional climate of your household, and your silence is one of the loudest statements you make every single week. The Numbers 32:6 Indictment: Why Are You Sitting There? The Bible has absolutely no patience for men who stay on the sideline while others carry the battle. In Numbers 32:6, Moses delivers a direct, brutal rebuke to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, who wanted to settle comfortably on the east side of the Jordan rather than cross into the fight: “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?” (Numbers 32:6, ESV) This is not a gentle pastoral suggestion. This is a public indictment of men who found a comfortable situation and decided that the battle belongs to someone else. The spiritual application is devastating in its accuracy. Every passive husband sitting in a home where his wife is fighting the spiritual battle alone is sitting in the exact same chair as Reuben and Gad. Your brothers are going to war. The fight for your children's faith is happening right now, inside your own living room, and biblical leadership in the home demands you pick up and step into it. Not dominate. Not micromanage. But lead. The verse does not ask whether you are a good provider, a conflict-avoidant man, or a genuinely well-meaning husband. It asks one devastating question: Why are you sitting there while the battle rages around you? Biblical leadership in the home does not require perfection. It requires presence — the kind of engaged, intentional, willing-to-be-uncomfortable presence that most passive husbands have been systematically outsourcing for years. What Biblical Leadership in the Home Actually Looks Like Here is what biblical leadership in the home is not: it is not the loudest voice in the room, the man who controls every decision, or the theological expert who delivers a sermon at the dinner table every night. Those are caricatures, and they are the exact caricatures that passive husbands use to justify their retreat. “I'm not that kind of guy,” they say — as if the only two options are domineering tyrant or quiet bystander. Spiritual leadership for men looks nothing like either extreme. Biblical leadership in the home looks like a man who notices the spiritual temperature of his household and takes responsibility for it. It looks like praying out loud with your wife before bed — not because you have the perfect words, but because you refuse to let that moment go unclaimed. It looks like driving the family devotional even when you feel completely unqualified, because your kids do not need a theologian at the head of the table; they need a father who takes their faith seriously enough to show up for it. It looks like sitting down with your wife and presenting a thoughtful game plan for a major family decision instead of waiting for her to solve it alone. Spiritual leadership for men is fundamentally relational and practical, not performative. The Barna Group has documented consistently that men who actively step into the spiritual leadership of their homes raise children dramatically more likely to maintain their faith into adulthood. (Barna Group Research on Family and Faith) Biblical leadership in the home has generational consequences that ripple far beyond the week you decide to start. The man who steps into this calling today is not just changing his marriage. He is redirecting the trajectory of his entire family for decades. Blind Spots: Why Good Men Stay Passive Most passive husbands are not cruel men. They are not men who have consciously decided not to lead. They are men who have developed powerful, deeply ingrained blind spots that make their retreat feel reasonable — even noble. Understanding these blind spots is a critical component of reclaiming spiritual leadership for men who genuinely want to change. The first blind spot is the competency myth: “She is better at this than I am.” This statement is almost always true on a functional level and completely irrelevant on a leadership level. Biblical leadership in the home is not about being the most competent person in the household. Your wife may be a better organizer, a more emotionally intelligent parent, and a more consistent prayer warrior. None of that eliminates your responsibility to lead. A man who truly grasps biblical leadership in the home invites his wife's strengths into the process rather than using them as an excuse to opt out permanently. The second blind spot is the conflict avoidance trap. Men who grew up in explosive households are often so committed to not repeating that environment that they swing entirely to the opposite extreme. The silence feels like safety. But biblical leadership in the home requires you to make a fundamental distinction: there is a massive difference between a man who avoids creating unnecessary conflict and a man who avoids every uncomfortable moment....

The Tribulation: Hell on Earth   Our springboard text is Revelation 6:16-17: “And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”   These words, ripped from the throats of kings and great men, rich men and chief captains, mighty men and every bondman and every free man, echo across the shattered landscape of a world in collapse.    As the sixth seal bursts open, the sky rolls up like a scroll, mountains and islands are moved out of their places, and the sun turns black as sackcloth while the moon becomes as blood.  Men do not cry out for mercy; they scream for the rocks to crush them rather than face the wrath of the Lamb. This is the Tribulation—the seven-year period of divine judgment poured out upon a Christ-rejecting world. It is hell on earth, the time of Jacob's trouble, the great tribulation spoken of by the Lord Jesus in Matthew 24:21 as unparalleled in human history.    The book of Revelation, the unveiling of Jesus Christ, lays it bare in vivid, terrifying detail. We will walk through it in the exact prophetic timeline John received, seal by seal, trumpet by trumpet, bowl by bowl, pausing at the parenthetical texts the Holy Spirit inserts to show us the behind-the-scenes reality of salvation and conflict amid the judgments. After the messages to the seven churches in Revelation 1–3, John is caught up through an open door in heaven in chapter 4.        There he sees the throne of God, the four living creatures crying “Holy, holy, holy,” and the twenty-four elders casting their crowns. In chapter 5 the Lamb as it had been slain takes the seven-sealed scroll from the right hand of Him who sits on the throne. Heaven explodes in worship: “Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” Then, in chapter 6, the Lamb begins to break the seals, and hell on earth is unleashed in perfect, ordered fury. The first seal: Revelation 6:1-2. “And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.”  A counterfeit Christ rides forth—the Antichrist—deceiving the nations with a false peace. No arrows yet, only a bow; he conquers through diplomacy and lies before the sword is unsheathed. The world cheers a man of peace who is in reality the man of sin. The second seal: Revelation 6:3-4. “And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.”    Global war erupts. The red horse rider turns the planet into a slaughterhouse. Brother against brother, nation against nation—blood flows in rivers as the false peace shatters. The third seal: Revelation 6:5-6. “And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”  Famine stalks the earth. A day's wages buys only a quart of wheat or three quarts of barley—bare survival. The rich may still afford luxuries, but the masses starve while inflation and scarcity crush the poor. The fourth seal: Revelation 6:7-8. “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”  One-quarter of the world's population—billions—die in a single stroke from war, famine, plague, and wild beasts turned savage. Death rides with hell at his heels, reaping a harvest so vast the imagination recoils. The fifth seal: Revelation 6:9-11. “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.”      The martyrs cry from beneath the altar, their blood crying out for vengeance. More will join them—tribulation saints slaughtered for refusing the beast. Then comes the sixth seal, and the parenthetical pause is not yet. The cosmic cataclysm of Revelation 6:12-17: earthquake so violent every mountain and island moves, sun black, moon blood-red, stars falling like untimely figs, sky rolling up like a scroll. Men of every class hide in caves and beg the rocks to fall on them—“from the wrath of the Lamb.” This is only the beginning.   Now the first major parenthetical text breaks the chronological flow in Revelation 7. While the judgments continue on earth, heaven reveals two groups preserved and saved amid the horror.    First, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists: Revelation 7:4-8. “And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”      Twelve thousand from each tribe—Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin—sealed on their foreheads with the seal of the living God.    These are not the church; they are literal Jews, protected supernaturally so they cannot be harmed by the coming trumpet and bowl judgments. They become the greatest missionary force in history, preaching the everlasting gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people while the world burns.   Because of their fearless proclamation—and the ministry of the two witnesses yet to come—an innumerable multitude is saved. Revelation 7:9-17: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands… These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”      Millions upon millions—Gentiles from every corner of the globe—turn to Christ during this hellish time. They endure hunger, thirst, scorching heat, and persecution, yet they stand before the throne, palms waving, singing of salvation. The 144,000 Jewish evangelists and the two witnesses are the instruments God uses to reap this vast harvest even as wrath falls. The seventh seal brings silence in heaven for half an hour—Revelation 8:1—then the seven trumpets. The first four are ecological and cosmic disasters affecting one-third of the earth. First trumpet: Revelation 8:7. “The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.” Burning hail and blood rain down; one-third of the planet's vegetation is incinerated.   Second trumpet: Revelation 8:8-9. A burning mountain—perhaps a meteor or volcano—plunges into the sea. One-third of the sea turns to blood, one-third of sea creatures die, one-third of ships are destroyed. Oceans become graveyards. Third trumpet: Revelation 8:10-11. A star named Wormwood falls on one-third of the rivers and springs. Waters turn bitter; “many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”   Fourth trumpet: Revelation 8:12. One-third of the sun, moon, and stars are struck. The day and night lose one-third of their light. Darkness deepens over the planet.   Then an angel flies through heaven crying, “Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!” The three woes are announced.   The fifth trumpet—first woe—Revelation 9:1-12. A star falls, given the key to the bottomless pit. Smoke darkens the sun and air. Locusts pour out—demonic hordes with the power of scorpions. They do not touch grass or trees or those sealed by God, but only the unsealed men. “And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”    Picture it: locusts shaped like battle horses, crowned like gold, faces of men, hair of women, teeth of lions, iron breastplates, wings roaring like chariots, tails with scorpion stings. For five long months men are stung again and again. The agony is unbearable—burning, electric torment that drives them mad. They claw at their flesh, beg for death, but death refuses to come. This is hell on earth, demonic torture let loose by divine permission. Their king is Abaddon—Apollyon—the destroyer. The sixth trumpet—second woe—Revelation 9:13-21. Four angels bound at the Euphrates are loosed for a precise hour, day, month, and year. An army of two hundred million horsemen is released. “And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed…” Fire, smoke, brimstone, and serpent-like tails with heads that wound. One-third of surviving mankind is slaughtered.  Yet the rest “repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood… Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Even after billions dead, hearts remain stone.   Now the second major parenthetical section: Revelation 10 and 11.  A mighty angel with a rainbow crown and feet like pillars of fire stands on sea and land, holding a little open book. John eats it—sweet as honey in the mouth, bitter in the belly.    He is told he must prophesy again. Then the temple is measured; the outer court is given to the Gentiles for forty-two months. And the two witnesses appear: Revelation 11:3-12. “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies.”      They shut heaven so no rain falls, turn waters to blood, and smite the earth with plagues as often as they will. For 1,260 days they torment the beast's kingdom. Then the beast from the bottomless pit kills them. Their bodies lie in the street of the great city for three and a half days while the world rejoices and sends gifts. But suddenly breath enters them; they stand on their feet. A voice from heaven calls, “Come up hither,” and they ascend in a cloud while their enemies watch. A great earthquake follows, killing seven thousand. The two witnesses—likely Enoch and Elijah or Moses and Elijah—preach, perform miracles, and add to the harvest of souls alongside the 144,000.   The seventh trumpet sounds: Revelation 11:15. “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” Heaven rejoices, but the third woe is still to come in full force.   Revelation 12–14 forms the third great parenthetical block, filling in the cosmic and earthly drama. A woman clothed with the sun gives birth to a man child who is caught up to God's throne.    The red dragon—Satan—is cast out of heaven with his angels. “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”    He persecutes the woman (Israel) who flees to the wilderness for 1,260 days. Then the beast rises from the sea—Revelation 13—the Antichrist, empowered by the dragon, with a healed deadly wound that causes the world to worship him. He blasphemes God for forty-two months and makes war on the saints.    The second beast—the false prophet—rises from the earth, performs miracles, makes fire come down from heaven, and forces the world to worship the image of the beast. He causes all to receive a mark in the right hand or forehead—the mark of the beast, 666—without which no one can buy or sell. Those who refuse it are beheaded.   Yet amid this, the 144,000 stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion in Revelation 14:1-5, singing a new song no one else can learn—virgins, firstfruits, without guile.    Three angels fly through heaven: one preaches the everlasting gospel, another announces Babylon's fall, the third warns with the most terrifying words in Scripture: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark… The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever.”    Then the harvest of the earth—both the reaping of the saved and the grapes of wrath trodden outside the city until blood flows to the horse bridles for two hundred miles. Finally the seven bowls—the last plagues, in which the wrath of God is filled up—Revelation 15–16. These are poured out rapidly, one after another, more intense than anything before. First bowl: Revelation 16:2. Noisome and grievous sores break out on everyone who has the mark of the beast and worships his image.    Open, festering ulcers cover their bodies; they cannot sit, cannot lie down, cannot escape the burning pain.   Second bowl: Revelation 16:3. The sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; every living soul in the sea dies. The oceans are one vast, stinking cemetery of rotting flesh.   Third bowl: Revelation 16:4-7. Rivers and fountains turn to blood. The angel of the waters declares it just: “For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.” Fourth bowl: Revelation 16:8-9. The sun is given power to scorch men with fire. Men are burned with fierce heat. Instead of repenting, they blaspheme the name of God “and they repented not to give him glory.”   Fifth bowl: Revelation 16:10-11. The seat of the beast is plunged into darkness. Men gnaw their tongues for pain from the sores and the darkness, yet “they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.”     Sixth bowl: Revelation 16:12-16. The great river Euphrates is dried up, preparing the way for the kings of the east. Unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouths of the dragon, beast, and false prophet—demonic miracle-workers gathering the armies of the world to Armageddon for the battle of the great day of God Almighty.   Seventh bowl: Revelation 16:17-21. “It is done.” Voices, thunders, lightnings, the greatest earthquake in history. Every island flees, mountains disappear. The great city is divided into three parts; the cities of the nations fall.    Babylon is remembered before God to receive the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. And “there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent”—one hundred pounds of ice falling from the sky. Men blaspheme God because the plague of the hail is exceeding great.   Revelation 17–18 details the fall of Babylon the great—the religious and commercial system that intoxicated the nations with her fornication and persecuted the saints.      She is made desolate, naked, eaten, and burned with fire by the ten kings who once supported her. The merchants of the earth weep over her in one hour her riches are destroyed.   All of this is the Tribulation—hell on earth. One-quarter of mankind dead at the fourth seal, another third at the sixth trumpet, billions more from famine, plague, hail, scorching, demonic torment, and war.        Yet through it all, the 144,000 sealed Jewish evangelists and the two witnesses proclaim the gospel, and a great multitude no man can number is saved out of the great tribulation, washing their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. Most harden their hearts, refusing to repent even as they gnaw their tongues and scream under the hailstones. The wrath of the Lamb is poured out without mixture—pure, undiluted, terrifying justice.   The Tribulation ends with the return of the King in Revelation 19. Heaven opens; the white horse rider—Faithful and True—comes with the armies of heaven to tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. The beast and false prophet are cast alive into the lake of fire. Satan is bound. The thousand-year reign begins. But the question remains from our springboard text: “Who shall be able to stand?” Only those whose robes are washed in the blood of the Lamb. The Tribulation is coming. It is the time of God's wrath poured out on a world that has rejected His Son.    Yet even in the darkest hour, grace abounds for those who will call upon the name of the Lord. The 144,000 will preach, the two witnesses will testify, and multitudes will be saved. But for those who take the mark and worship the beast, there is only fire and brimstone forever.   This is the Tribulation. This is hell on earth. May we heed the warning and be found among those who stand before the throne, palms in hand, singing the song of Moses and the Lamb.

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Is there such a thing as having too much ⁠empathy⁠? That's a theory gaining the support of some of the world's richest people following the release of a new book by Gad Saad, a Canadian marketing professor and frequent critic of liberal policies. Saad is an evolutionary psychologist, professor at the University of Mississippi, host of The Saad Truth podcast, and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book Suicidal Empathy, where he argues that Western societies are embracing forms of empathy and compassion that can ultimately become self-destructive. We dive into the ideas that have made him both influential and controversial: immigration, gender, identity, culture, free speech, and what he sees as larger changes happening across the West. Some listeners may strongly agree with Gad. Others may take major issue with his framing, philosophy and conclusions. But these are ideas increasingly shaping conversations—especially on the political right—and we thought it was worth digging into them directly. Please note: Parts of this discussion include provocative examples and references to sexual violence that some listeners may find difficult.

Toby Gad and Dave Eggar Interview (Eureka Concerts)Legendary German-born songwriter and producer Toby Gad and acclaimed crossover cellist/composer Dave Eggar have each spent decades redefining the boundaries between virtuosity, emotion, and modern popular music. Raised in a jazz-centered musical family in Munich, Gad combined classical piano training with jazz harmony and improvisation before becoming one of the most successful hitmakers of the modern pop era, writing and producing global hits including Beyoncé's “If I Were a Boy,” Fergie's “Big Girls Don't Cry,” and John Legend's “All of Me.” Eggar, a classically trained prodigy and adventurous improviser, built a remarkable career blending classical performance with jazz, rock, folk, film music, and contemporary crossover projects, collaborating with artists ranging from Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Amy Winehouse, Tony Bennett, Paul Simon and his mentor Michael Brecker.Together, their project Eureka Concerts captures the spontaneity and creative freedom that define both artists — a fully improvised musical dialogue where jazz intuition, classical sophistication, cinematic textures, and emotional storytelling collide in real time. The collaboration stands as a rare meeting of two fearless musical minds whose legendary careers continue to evolve through exploration and improvisation.For more info check out  Toby Gad at https://www.tobygad.com/ Dave Eggar https://www.domomusicgroup.com/daveeggar/Eureka Concerts https://open.spotify.com/album/0AqBO1SukqFI6SZ8IMbmni?si=eKdoOacNQMK32wplvahkSQ

American psychiatry has built a sociological armor around itself that protects it from reform. The armor has two parts. Reverence and complexity. Together they form the most effective institutional defense system in American professional life. And the apparatus, in 2026, has evolved its most refined defensive move yet, the DSM-6 roadmap, which absorbs the entire body of structural critique against the field by publishing thoughtful documents acknowledging the critique is correct, while channeling an entire generation of reform energy into bureaucratic processes that will conclude, eventually, with the publication of a new manual that incorporates the language of the critique without changing what the manual does. Why the apparatus persists despite forty years of evidence it is failing. How residency capture, modality capture, and credentialing capture work together to produce a workforce whose tolerance for the mystery of the work has been systematically lowered. What would have to change. And why none of the obvious answers are actually answers. This episode covers: Of Two Minds. Tanya Luhrmann's anthropology of American psychiatric residency. How young doctors who enter training wanting to think across biological and psychological registers get formed, by the reward structure of training itself, into single-register practitioners. Why this is happening right now to the residents who started in 2025, and why the AI replacement is going to be welcomed by the field that has been preparing for it for a generation. How Aaron Beck got eaten. The careful, curious clinician who let his data change his mind. The three properties of cognitive therapy that made it perfectly compatible with the emerging managed care apparatus. Why Beck himself was not the version of Beck that got reproduced in the training programs. The selection pressure that captures every modality with the same properties, regardless of the founder's intent. The ABA parallel. Ivar Lovaas, the 1987 study, the autism insurance mandates, the BACB explosion. Why Applied Behavior Analysis became mandatory standard of care despite extensive evidence of harm from the autistic community. Henny Kupferstein on PTSD outcomes. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Private equity acquisition of ABA chains and what the moral crumple zone looks like at scale. Measurement as the real religion. The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 as Pfizer-funded screening instruments that became, by capture and convenience, the definitions of depression and anxiety in American clinical practice. Campbell's Law. Goodhart's Law. Theodore Porter on quantification as defense against weak internal authority. The IAPT case study from England, Layard's economic argument, David Clark's CBT rollout, Michael Scott's outcome research, Farhad Dalal's cognitive-behavioral tsunami. Why the entire international model of measurement-based care produces excellent statistics and very little durable change. The critics the apparatus could not absorb. Robert Whitaker on long-term outcomes and Anatomy of an Epidemic. Joanna Moncrieff and the 2022 serotonin meta-analysis that should have ended the chemical imbalance theory and didn't. Lisa Cosgrove on DSM-5-TR financial conflicts of interest. Why each of them produced exactly the kind of evidence that should have triggered structural reform, and why the apparatus dismissed each of them through credentialing arguments that were really about boundary policing. The DSM-6 trap. The closure-of-the-trap argument. Why the DSM-6 roadmap, which concedes the entire structural critique, is the apparatus's most sophisticated defensive move yet. Why being invited to participate in the DSM-6 working groups is the mechanism by which the next decade of reform energy gets neutralized. Why the manual is downstream of the apparatus and reforming the manual cannot reform the apparatus. Enshittification of care. Cory Doctorow's framework applied to American mental health. The four constraints that should have prevented it. How each was eliminated. Madeleine Clare Elish on moral crumple zones. Why clinicians absorb the moral and financial cost of an apparatus they did not design. The diploma mill. The accreditation conflict of interest. Why MSW programs, counseling programs, and PsyD programs have doubled their output without any accountability for what they produce. The accountability inversion. The structural fix. Why schools and boards should be liable for the clinicians they produce. Why the field needs both rigorous selection and rigorous accountability, and how the current system has neither. What would change if the field stopped being a diploma mill. Why this is not a return to Freud's priest class. Disagreement was the wisdom. Why the productive conflict between schools of thought was where psychology was actually thinking, and why the DSM-III atheoretical move killed the conversation that produced wisdom. Neither side wins. Why the cold machine and the warm ghost both need each other. Why the answer is not to defeat the apparatus but to stop mistaking it for the work. The coda. The Machines Will Start to Dream. The actual ending of the series. Why you do not need a conspiracy theory for any of this. The cold machines are nothing, the warm ghost is everything. The microcosm is the macrocosm because the systems are human. The AI threat as reality splitting, where the simulated layer becomes thick enough that the substrate underneath stops being accessible. Freud's permanent problem. Bureaucracy as the most successful avoidance technology humans have ever invented. The disbelief at the root. The question of whether you are more scared of yourself than of not seeing life clearly. The wager that even if humans always refuse, professional psychology should stop being the most refined refusal in the culture. About the host: Joel Blackstock is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Supervisor, the Clinical Director of Taproot Therapy Collective in Hoover, Alabama, and the author of work on Brainspotting, Emotional Transformation Therapy, qEEG neurofeedback, somatic and depth approaches to trauma. Find more at gettherapybirmingham.com. 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Gad Saad's Suicidal Empathy just became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller — and the thesis is as urgent as it is disturbing: the West is being dismantled not by its enemies, but by its own misguided compassion.Ami sits down with Professor Gad Saad to unpack what's really going on. They cover the Marxist roots of suicidal empathy and how it destroys personal agency, why antisemitism is like a shingles virus — dormant until the conditions are right — and why the concept of "radical Islam" is a comforting lie we need to stop telling. Islam is Islam. Individuals choose how seriously to follow it.They also get into what really happened when Gad spent three hours on Joe Rogan's show trying to counter a tsunami of anti-Israel voices. Why Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly's turns were genuinely surprising. Whether audience capture and personal slights — not ideology — drive most of these betrayals. And the only real path back.Support the show: patreon.com/AmisHouse

Study Passage: Numbers 32Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. 2 So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land that the LORD struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” 5 And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”6 But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here? 7 Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them? 8 Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them. 10 And the LORD's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, 11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, 12 none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.' 13 And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone. 14 And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel! 15 For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”16 Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, 17 but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.” 20 So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war, 21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him 22 and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. 23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out. 24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.” 25 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. 26 Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead, 27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders.”28 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. 29 And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. 30 However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” 31 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do. 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”33 And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. 34 And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, 35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, 36 Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 38 Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. 39 And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair. 42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Cilvēks ir iemācījies sintezēt teju visu, bet aizvien mums nav aizvietotāja cilvēka asinīm. Asinis nav vienkārši šķidrums, kas rit mūsu ķermenī - tas ir teju vesels orgāns, kura sarežģītā uzbūve un bioķīmija ir kas tāds, ko cilvēks atdarināt laboratorijas apstākļos aizvien nespēj. Bet varbūt kādu dienu spēs? Organiskās sintēzes institūtā (OSI) top pētījumi par to, kā varētu aizvietot šo dārgo šķidrumu un pētnieki ir soli tuvāk atbildei. Vai varam cerēt, ka nākotnē nebūs nepieciešami donori un asinis varēs saražot laboratorijā? Raidījumā Zināmais nezināmajā skaidro OSI Farmaceitiskās farmakoloģijas laboratorijas vadošais pētnieks, Baltijas biomateriālu ekseleces centra Pretklīnisko biomateriālu izpētes grupas vadītājs Antons Sizovs, OSI Farmaceitiskās farmakoloģijas laboratorijas vadošā pētniece, Baltijas biomateriālu ekseleces centra Pretklīnisko biomateriālu izpētes grupaszinātniece Baiba Švalbe. Sazināmies ar Valsts Asinsdonoru centra vadītāju Egitu Poli. Lai arī notiek pētījumi, pilnvērtīgi aizvietot nesanāks. Asinīs ir četri komponenti - plazma, eritrocīti, imūnšūnas un trombocīti. "Kad runājam par mākslīgajām asinīm, vairāk domājam par eritrocītiem, par asins spēju pārnest skābekli," skaidro Antos Sizovs. "Ja ir lieli asins zudumi, galvenais ir nodrošināt, lai skābeklis nokļūtu līdz audiem, kas ir dziļi ķermenī." Gadījumos, kur ir lieli asins zudumi, varētu izmantot mākslīgās asinis. Notiek vairāki pētījumi, lai izstrādātu mākslīgās asinis, arī OSI pētījums ir ar to saistīts.   Jauni materiāli kaulu un locītavu defektu aizstājēju jomā Jau no pirms vairākiem tūkstošiem gadu cilvēki ir meklējuši materiālus, kā aizstāt fiziskos defektus. Pētnieki ir atraduši gan ziloņkaula acs protēzi, gan no ziloņkaula izgatavotu kājas lielā īkšķa protēzi. Tiek uzskatīts, ka šie atradumi nāk no trešā gadu tūkstoša pirms Kristus. Šodien, skatot medicīnas zinātni ortožu un protēžu jomā, ir notikusi pamatīga evolūcija, sākot no koka kājām, kas reiz bija teju neaizstājams pirātu kapteiņa atribūts, ir nostaigāts garš ceļš līdz kaulaudu implantiem un kustīgām protēzēm. Kopā ar Rīgas Tehniskās universitātes  Dabaszinātņu un tehnoloģiju fakultātes profesoru, Baltijas Biomateriālu ekselences centra projekta vadītāju un Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmijas akadēmiķi Jāni Loču skatām, kas šodien ir pieejams un kādus jaunus materiālus šobrīd pēta un izstrādā kaulu un locītavu defektu aizstājēju jomā. Uzzināsim arī, kāpēc titāna implanti ir labāki par nerūsējošo tēraudu un kā tiek uzlaboti esošie implantu materiāli. -- Ja iepriekšējie stāsti vairāk bija par sugām, kas atbilst nosaukumam "pavasara vēstnesis", šoreiz stāsts par vasaras vēstnesi – svīri. Svīre ir putns, kurš Latvijā ierodas no dienvidiem viens no pēdējiem un uzturas te vien dažus mēnešus. Stāsta Latvijas ornitoloģijas biedrības pārstāve Ance Priedniece.

Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.25 And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

eastvillageradio.com, brianturnershow.comCRUSHED BUTLER - My Son's Alive - Uncrushed: Previously Unreleased British Punk From The Underground 1969-1971 (RPM, 2005)THIRD WORLD WAR - Preaching Violence - Third Word War (Fly, 1971)TERRY STAMP - Six Day Drive - Twenty Rough Rotters 1980-1989 The Bomb Shelter Tapes (Just Add Water, 2020)RUSTED SHUT - 6 x 8 = Nuthing - Rusted Shut (Fleece, 1996)ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET - Invocation For Judgement Against And Destruction Of Rock Music - The Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults (1984, re: New World Tapes, 2015)HILTON KEAN JONES - Eastmontage - Eastmontage And Performances By Eastman School Of Music Student Ensembles (ESM, 1969)HENRI CHOPIN - Echos de Bouche - Le Corpsbis & Co (Nepless, 1996)THESIS - Retumbar -  V/A: Transmisiones: Cuba (cs, Buh, 2026)RADON ABATEMENT - Harmonium Jr. - s/t (cs, NL, 2026)PROSTITUTE - Judge (Fast) - Judge (Fast) (Mute, 2026)SCHIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN - Schattenriss - Einsenmund (cs, Billo, 2026)HOLGER CZUKAY, JAH WOBBLE & JAKI LIEBEZEIT - How Much Are They? - How Much Are They? (Island, 1981)GERSON KING COMBO - Mandamentos Black - s/t (Polydor, 1977)OIDOPUAA VLADIMIR OIUN - How the Shadow Is Clear - Divine Music From Jail (Ebalunga, 1999)QU'IL Y A DU MONDE - Got The Bliss -  Split w/Le Clonq (U Bac, 2026)JOHANNES BAUER, MICHAEL GRIENER, OLAF RUPP - Umsturz - Aufsturz (Scattered Archive, 2026)KAREN BROOKS - King of Fantasy - Lost Silence (NL, 1972)STEPHEN COGLE / PETER STAPLETON - Thirteenth Floor / Back To the Zoo - An Afternoon With Victor Dimisich (1981, re: Siltbreeze, 2026)KONRAD BOEHMER - Aspekt - Electronic Works (1969: rel Bhvaast,1990)LEANDRO BARZABAL - Dodécaphonisme Monochromatique (excerpt)  - Monochrome Electronic Music (NL, 2025)ABADIR - Habban - The Primitivist (Planet Mu, 2026)SBB - Penia -FOS (1975, re: GAD, 2024)

Description: What happens when you know you're right, but speaking up may cause more damage? What if silence is not weakness, but the most powerful choice available? In this practical and profound episode, Rabbi Prisman explores Gad, Aharon, the Sdei Chemed, and a moving story of a melamed who lost his job quietly. A meaningful, eye-opening look at silence in our own lives today.

Don't forget to grab your free scripture journal at ⁠⁠⁠PrayingChristianWomen.com/journal ⁠⁠⁠today! What do you do when God says “Leave” — calling you out of your safe stronghold into the open wilderness? Join Jaime on the Praying Christian Women Podcast for a devotional on Psalm 63 — The Thirsting Soul Satisfied in God — a psalm born out of raw obedience in the wilderness of Judah, where David dares to leave the secure cave of Adullam and his band of four hundred loyal men at the prophet Gad’s command — and still sings for joy in the shadow of God’s wings. Jaime unpacks the historical backdrop from 1 Samuel 22–23, when David was fleeing Saul, had tucked his parents safely away, and had built a strategic military stronghold… only to hear God say, “Leave.” In that dry and weary land with no water, David’s soul thirsts for God more than his body thirsts for drink. He speaks truth before his emotions catch up, declaring that God’s covenant lovingkindness is better than life itself, lifting his hands in praise, clinging to the Lord, and choosing to meditate on Him through the fearful night watches. Come ready to look at your own strongholds — the places that feel secure, logical, and safe — and the moments when God calls you out into uncertainty. Let this psalm remind you that there is no truly secure place apart from Him. Because His lovingkindness is better than life, His wings are the only shelter you need, and in the wilderness, when your soul clings to the One whose right hand upholds you, you can still sing for joy. Discover More: Explore additional episodes of Praying Christian Women, Mindful Christian Prayers, and other Christian podcasts at Lifeaudio.com Check out our new podcast, Christian True-Crime Junkies!, on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts! Connect with Us: Stay updated and engage with our community: On Substack @PrayingChristianWomen On Facebook @PrayingChristianWomen On Instagram @PrayingChristianWomen On YouTube: @PrayingChristianWomen Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

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Of what do these forgotten tribes remind us? 1Chronicles 5 looks forward to the hearing of God's Word, publicly read, in the holy assembly on the coming Lord's Day. In these twenty-six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that these forgotten tribes remind us of sin's harm and God's grace. The devotional draws from First Chronicles 5 to reflect on the enduring consequences of sin, the faithfulness of God despite human unfaithfulness, and the call to return to covenantal obedience. Though Reuben lost his birthright due to his sin, and the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half-Manasseh were ultimately exiled for their idolatry, the narrative highlights God's mercy in hearing the prayers of those who cried out to Him in battle. The Chronicler uses these genealogies not merely to record lineage, but to remind the returned exiles of their spiritual inheritance, the cost of disobedience, and the continuing offer of divine mercy. The central message is a pastoral call to repentance, faithfulness, and renewed dependence upon God, emphasizing that while sin has lasting effects, God remains ready to hear and restore those who turn to Him.

Residential treatment gets talked about like a single thing, but most people have no idea what they are walking into until they arrive. I sit down with Rachel Docekal, CEO of the Hanley Foundation in Florida, to open up the “black box” of residential addiction treatment and partial hospitalization (PHP), from how programs are structured to what patients actually do hour by hour.We dig into what separates a quality rehab program from one that is all marketing. Rachel explains measurement based care, why repeat assessments like PHQ 9 and GAD 7 style tools matter, and how teams should adjust treatment based on data instead of vibes. We also address a hard topic: predatory rehab practices, including unethical pressure to relapse to meet ASAM criteria so insurance will pay again, and what ethical, patient centered care should look like instead.Then we get practical. We talk length of stay, why discharge planning must start on day one, and how step down care, sober living, family involvement, and alumni support can make the difference between momentum and relapse. Rachel also walks through a real residential daily schedule including medical and psychiatric care, cohort based groups, nutrition and fitness, and why many programs restrict smartphones to improve engagement and outcomes.If you want a clearer map for choosing a residential treatment center and building an aftercare plan that holds up in real life, press play. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a rating or review so more people can find the show.To learn more about Rachel's program: https://hanleyfoundation.org/To contact Dr. Grover: ammadeeasy@fastmail.com

“I am in prison, but thesethings have happened to me for the furtherance of the gospel” (verse 12). Nowin verse 13-14, he writes, “So that it has become evident to the wholepalace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ; and most ofthe brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much morebold to speak the word without fear.” Paul is saying that everyone there inthe prison now clearly understands that he is there because of his testimony inJesus Christ. He is in chains because of his witness for Christ and hiscommitment to share the good news of Jesus Christ. As a result, he says thatothers, because of his boldness, have been encouraged to also share the gospelwith boldness. Paul'ssuffering did something very powerful—it gave others courage to speak up forJesus in their own chains, in their own situations. Possibly even the guards inthe prison who may have been afraid are now telling others about Christ becausethey saw his boldness, his faith, and his confidence in Christ. They werestrengthened. Myfriend, do not ever underestimate the influence you have in helping others dowhat they ought to do. When you remain faithful in difficulty, it encouragesothers to do the same. Your courage can spread. Never underestimate what Godcan do through you and your example when you stand with courage and boldnessfor Jesus Christ. Oneof the most powerful stories in the Old Testament—and one of my favorites—isfound in 1 Samuel chapters 13 and 14. The Philistines had surrounded the nationof Israel and the armies of Israel. Saul, who was king at that time, wasabsolutely afraid—trembling. The Scripture says in verses 5–7 of chapter 13: “ThePhilistines gathered together to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots,six thousand horsemen, and people as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Theycame and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. Whenthe men of Israel saw that they were in danger, for the people were distressed,they hid in caves, thickets, rocks, holes, and pits. Some of the Hebrews evencrossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he wasstill in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.” The people were in adesperate situation. They had no weapons. The Philistines had them surroundedand were preparing to attack. Butthen there is Jonathan in chapter 14, the son of Saul. He says to the young manwho bore his armor, in verse 6: “Come, let us go over to the garrison ofthese uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothingrestrains the Lord from saving by many or by few.” His armor bearer said tohim, “Do all that is in your heart. Go then; here I am with you, according toyour heart.” Hereis Jonathan saying, “We are going to take on these Philistines—just me andyou.” And his armor bearer says, “I am with you all the way.” God gave him oneperson to stand with him. As you read the story, they formed a plan andattacked the garrison of the Philistines. God caused the ground to tremble. ThePhilistines became terrified, began turning on one another, and startedfleeing. Just two men, with one sword between them, fighting a whole army—andthey began to win a great victory. Asthe story continues, you find that the people who had been hiding in caves,dens, and rocks—the ones who had deserted—came back into the battle. They cameout of hiding. They found courage to stand up and fight. Why? Because of thecourage of one young man, Jonathan, and his armor bearer as they fought againstthe Philistines. Myfriend, you never know how God will use you when you exhibit courage to sharethe gospel. Your courage may be the very thing that encourages someone else tostep forward and do the same. That is what Paul is talking about here. Thecourage God gave him spread to others, and now they are more bold to share thegood news of Jesus Christ.

Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?6 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.10 Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.11 Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.16 O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.18 O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the Lord your God. And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the Lord, and the king.21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:22 And did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the Lord to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.25 And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

Study Passage: Numbers 13:1-33The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” 3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. 4 And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; 5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; 9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; 10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; 11 from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi; 12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; 13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; 14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; 15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua. 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, 18 and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, 19 and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, 20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. 21 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. 22 They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there. 25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.” 30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” 32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-5d41e5e3afb4aaf570dfd7daf98ecacd{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-5d41e5e3afb4aaf570dfd7daf98ecacd .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-5d41e5e3afb4aaf570dfd7daf98ecacd .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; } Through My Bible Yr 03 – April 10Genesis 29:31 – 30:43 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – April 10 Genesis 29:31 – 30:43 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/03-0410db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Genesis 29 Jacob's Family 31 The Lord saw that Leah was not loved, and he allowed her to conceive, but Rachel had no children. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, [1] because she had said, “The Lord has looked at my misery. So now my husband will love me.” 33 She conceived again and gave birth to a son and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon. [2] 34 She conceived again and gave birth to a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi. [3] 35 She conceived again and gave birth to a son. She said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah. [4] Then she stopped having children. Genesis 30 1 When Rachel saw that she was bearing no children for Jacob, Rachel was jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.” 2 Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you fruit from your womb?” 3 She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Go to her, so that she may bear a child for me, and my family will be built up through her.” 4 So she gave her servant girl Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he went to her. 5 Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob. 6 Rachel said, “God has judged in my favor. He has heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan. [5] 7 Bilhah, Rachel's servant girl, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Rachel said, “I have had a desperate struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali. [6] 9 When Leah saw that she was no longer bearing sons, she took her servant girl Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 Zilpah, Leah's servant girl, bore Jacob a son. 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad. [7] 12 Zilpah, Leah's servant girl, bore a second son for Jacob. 13 Leah said, “I am blessed, for women will call me blessed.” She named him Asher. [8] 14 At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found mandrakes [9] in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.” 15 She said to her, “Isn't it bad enough that you have taken away my husband? Do you want to take away my son's mandrakes as well?” Rachel said, “He will sleep with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.” 16 When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come to me, because I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night. 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me the wages I deserve, because I gave my servant girl to my husband.” So she named him Issachar. [10] 19 Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob. 20 Leah said, “God has given me a great reward. Now my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne six sons for him.” So she named him Zebulun. [11] 21 Afterward, she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” 24 She named him Joseph [12] and said, “May the Lord add another son to me.” Jacob Versus Laban 25 After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go home to my own place in my own country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, because you know how much I have served you.” 27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have learned by divination [13] that the Lord has blessed me because of you.” 28 So he said, “Set your wages for me, and I will pay them.” 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how well I have served you, and how your livestock have fared under my care. 30 For before I came, you had very little, and it has been multiplied many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I set foot. Now isn't it time for me to provide for my own household as well?” 31 Laban asked, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You do not have to give me anything. But if you will do this thing for me, I will continue to take your flock to pasture and watch over it: 32 I will pass through all your flocks today and take all the speckled and spotted sheep, every dark brown sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled goats. These will be my wages. 33 This is how I will be able to prove my honesty whenever you demand an accounting of my wages: Any goats that are not spotted or speckled, and any lambs that are not dark brown that are found with me will be treated as stolen.” 34 Laban said, “Very well. We will do what you have said.” 35 But that day Laban removed all the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had any white on it, and all the dark brown sheep, and handed them over to his sons. 36 Then he separated himself from Jacob by a three days' journey, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flocks. 37 Jacob took fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He peeled stripes on them so that the white inside the branches was visible. 38 He put the branches that he had peeled into the gutters of the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so the flocks would see them. They conceived when they came to drink. 39 The flocks conceived in front of the branches, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted animals. 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and he made the flocks face toward the streaked animals and all the black animals in the flock of Laban, and he kept his own herds separate and did not put them into Laban's flock. 41 And whenever the stronger animals in the flock were in heat, Jacob laid the branches in the gutters where the flocks could see them, so that they would conceive while looking at the branches. 42 But when the weak animals in the flock were in heat, he did not put the branches in. So the weaker animals were Laban's, and the stronger were Jacob's. 43 The man became much wealthier and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. Footnotes Genesis 29:32 Reuben means Look, a son. Genesis 29:33 Simeon means he heard. Genesis 29:34 Levi sounds like joined to. Genesis 29:35 Judah means praise. Genesis 30:6 Dan means judged. Genesis 30:8 Naphtali means struggle. Genesis 30:11 Gad means fortune. Genesis 30:13 Asher means happy. Genesis 30:14 Mandrakes were thought to be an aphrodisiac and fertility drug. Genesis 30:18 Issachar means wages or reward. Genesis 30:20 Zebulun means live with or honor. Genesis 30:24 Joseph means may he add. Genesis 30:27 The meaning of this Hebrew word is uncertain. #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; } The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; } Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

I doubt that anyone who reads Spurgeon with any consistency and seriousness thinks of him as a soft preacher. Some may have a notion of him as some genial Victorian pulpiteer, but a few sermons will quickly dispel the image, and reveal a man whose compassion is matched with his conviction, whose kindness is rivalled only by his courage. The result is sermons which bite and sting, and sometimes constitute a sustained assault upon the Christian conscience. This sermon is one such, a penetrating study of Numbers 32:23 and the suggestion that Gad and Reuben might have held back when the time came to conquer the Promised Land. Spurgeon transfers the principle to those professing believers who do not go up to spiritual war with their brothers, who sinned against their brothers and their Lord by the great sin of doing nothing. Spurgeon holds nothing back in pressing this principle into the conscience of his hearers, and our own, by extension. This, he makes clear, is a sin that will find us out. There is, of course, a danger that sermons like this will trouble the feeble and stir up a false guilt, but there is an equal need for sermons which fearlessly probe both our motives and our intentions, and call us to consider whether or not we are serving God and his people as we could and as we should. Read the sermon here: https://www.mediagratiae.org/resources/the-great-sin-of-doing-nothing Check out the new From the Heart of Spurgeon Book! British: https://amzn.to/48rV1OR American: https://amzn.to/48oHjft Connect with the Reading Spurgeon Community on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ReadingSpurgeon Sign up to get the weekly readings emailed to you: https://www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts-1/from-the-heart-of-spurgeon. Check out other Media Gratiae podcasts at www.mediagratiae.org Download the Media Gratiae App: https://subsplash.com/mediagratiae/app

I doubt that anyone who reads Spurgeon with any consistency and seriousness thinks of him as a soft preacher. Some may have a notion of him as some genial Victorian pulpiteer, but a few sermons will quickly dispel the image, and reveal a man whose compassion is matched with his conviction, whose kindness is rivalled only by his courage. The result is sermons which bite and sting, and sometimes constitute a sustained assault upon the Christian conscience. This sermon is one such, a penetrating study of Numbers 32:23 and the suggestion that Gad and Reuben might have held back when the time came to conquer the Promised Land. Spurgeon transfers the principle to those professing believers who do not go up to spiritual war with their brothers, who sinned against their brothers and their Lord by the great sin of doing nothing. Spurgeon holds nothing back in pressing this principle into the conscience of his hearers, and our own, by extension. This, he makes clear, is a sin that will find us out. There is, of course, a danger that sermons like this will trouble the feeble and stir up a false guilt, but there is an equal need for sermons which fearlessly probe both our motives and our intentions, and call us to consider whether or not we are serving God and his people as we could and as we should.

"We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance." The tribes of Reuben and Gad see the lush pastureland east of the Jordan and request to settle there. Moses fears a repeat of the faithless spies, but these tribes promise to lead Israel into battle before returning to their chosen territory. In this chapter, we learn that receiving God's blessings does not exempt us from serving alongside our brothers and sisters. The body of Christ advances together.  The Rev. Roger Mullet, pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Buffalo, WY, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study Numbers 32. To learn more about Prince of Peace, visit buffalowylcms.org. The Book of Numbers is far more than an ancient census report. It is the story of a people learning to trust God in the wilderness, and failing, and finding grace anyway.  In this series, host Pastor Phil Booe and guest pastors walk through the Old Testament book of Numbers chapter by chapter. We follow Israel from Sinai toward the Promised Land, through grumbling and rebellion, fiery serpents and a talking donkey, faithless spies and faithful priests. The journey is hard, the failures are many, and God remains faithful to a faithless people.  These ancient accounts point us to Christ. The bronze serpent lifted on a pole points to the cross. The rock struck for water points to the one struck for us. The high priest whose death frees the manslayer points to the Great High Priest whose death sets us free forever. Join us as we discover that the wilderness has more to teach us than we ever expected.  Thy Strong Word, hosted by Rev. Dr. Phil Booe, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church of Luverne, MN, reveals the light of our salvation in Christ through study of God's Word, breaking our darkness with His redeeming light. Each weekday, two pastors fix our eyes on Jesus by considering Holy Scripture, verse by verse, in order to be strengthened in the Word and be equipped to faithfully serve in our daily vocations. Submit comments or questions to: thystrongword@kfuo.org.

Israel has just defeated Midian and they entire community is getting ready to cross the Jordan into the Promised Land and begin their military campaign against the inhabitants of the land. When the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manassah, see that the land of the Midianites is good for cattle, they ask if they can settle there. Moses wrongly assumes that they are trying to avoid going to war with their brothers, opting instead to settle outside of the Promised Land and break rank from the others. By the end of the conversation, they cut a deal with Moses, assuring him that they, too, will go to war with the rest of Israel before coming back to settle in the land. Numbers 32 - 1:02 .  Numbers 33 - 7:52 .  Numbers 34 - 13:54 .  Psalm 58 - 17:39 .  :::Christian Standard Bible translation.All music written and produced by John Burgess Ross.Co-produced by the Christian Standard Bible.facebook.com/commuterbibleinstagram.com/commuter_bibletwitter.com/CommuterPodpatreon.com/commuterbibleadmin@commuterbible.org

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Fr. Mike points out why it's important that the tribes of Reuben and Gad agree to fight in Numbers 32 and also reflects on how God knows that his people will be faithless, and yet He remains faithful to them. The readings are Numbers 32, Deuteronomy 31, and Psalm 117. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

Remember the Peor incident, where the men of Israel prostituted themselves to Baal along with the women of Moab? Turns out that was led by Balaam, the same Balaam who spoke oracles from the Lord against Moab. After defeating Midian, they begin to divide the spoils of war. When the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manassah, see that this land is good for cattle, they ask if they can settle there. Moses assumes that they are trying to avoid going to war with their brothers. By the end of the conversation, they cut a deal with Moses, assuring him that they, too, will go to war with the rest of Israel before coming back to settle in the land. Numbers 30 - 1:12 .  Numbers 31 - 4:02 .  Numbers 32 - 11:48 .  Numbers 33 - 18:30 .  Psalm 37 - 24:04 .  :::Christian Standard Bible translation.All music written and produced by John Burgess Ross.Co-produced by Bobby Brown, Katelyn Pridgen, Eric Williamson & the Christian Standard Biblefacebook.com/commuterbibleinstagram.com/commuter_bibletwitter.com/CommuterPodpatreon.com/commuterbibleadmin@commuterbible.org

In Numbers 32–35, the tribes of Reuben and Gad settle east of the Jordan but promise to help Israel conquer the land. God also establishes cities for the Levites and cities of refuge for those who accidentally cause a death.Read the WHOLE Bible with me! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If you appreciate what is happening on this channel, please like, comment and most importantly, share this everywhere you can so we can bring as many people as possible with us on this Bible reading journey. GOD IS SO GOOD!Here is a link to all of the worship songs I have finished the Bible readings with. Worship with me!https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0l3ExigVUcMr6ja88bC607BoR1EaQuF&si=e1HfJdRXr4LSdU7WHere is the link to read the WHOLE Bible with me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0l3ExigVUdyHEiJ2X2tFvXNINmLMs7O&si=FM_Od_qVefeWU1kYDo you want a Bald Headed Country Boy t-shirt? You can find them on my website with the link below.https://baldheadedcountryboy.com/

Send a textIn Joshua 22, the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh finally head home. After years of fighting faithfully alongside their brothers, they return to the east side of the Jordan. But before they cross over completely, they build an altar—an altar that almost sparks a civil war.What looked like rebellion was actually a desire for remembrance. What felt like division was really a plea for unity.In this episode of The Pursuit of Manliness, we unpack the tension, the misunderstanding, and the powerful lesson for men who want to lead well in their homes, churches, and communities.We'll talk about:The importance of finishing strong after seasons of obedienceHow assumptions can fracture brotherhoodWhy courageous conversations prevent unnecessary battlesThe responsibility men have to protect unity without compromising truthBuilding “altars” in your life that point the next generation to faithfulnessJoshua 22 reminds us that mature men don't react—they seek understanding. They don't assume the worst—they pursue clarity. And they don't drift from their calling once the battle is over.Learn more about The Pursuit of Manliness: https://www.thepursuitofmanliness.com/ Subscribe to Recalibrate, the daily podcast from The Pursuit of Manliness: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recalibrate/id1797551549Join The Herd:  https://www.thepursuitofmanliness.com/join-the-herdRegister for our 2026 Fall Men's Retreat: https://www.thepursuitofmanliness.com/gear/p/2026-mens-retreatSupport the show

Click here for the DRB Daily Sign Up form! TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Numbers 32-33,; Mark 10 Click HERE to give! One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on the Daily Radio Bible, a daily Bible‑in‑a‑year podcast with 20‑minute Scripture readings, Christ‑centered devotion, and guided prayer.This daily Bible reading and devotional invites you to live as a citizen of Jesus' kingdom, reconciled, renewed, and deeply loved. TODAY'S EPISODE: Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible, where we journey together through the pages of scripture and let the Word of God direct our hearts to the living Word, Jesus. In today's episode, Hunter guides us through Numbers 32 and 33, exploring the story of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh as they negotiate their inheritance and responsibilities on the east side of the Jordan. We then move into Mark 10, where Jesus' teachings challenge our understandings of marriage, wealth, service, and faith. Through the encounter with blind Bartimaeus, we witness the importance of spiritual sight—of hearing and recognizing Jesus before ever physically seeing. Wrapping up with heartfelt prayers and encouragement, Hunter invites us to live in the freedom, hope, and love found in Christ, encouraging us to share this good news with others. Whether you're new to the Bible or a seasoned reader, there's something in this episode that will inspire, challenge, and remind you: you are loved, no doubt about it. TODAY'S DEVOTION: He opens the eyes of the heart. In today's readings, we see the story of Bartimaeus, a blind man who, before his eyes are ever opened, seems to see what others do not. The miracle begins not with sight, but with hearing—Bartimaeus heard about Jesus, this one who pays attention to the poor, stands up to religious leaders, and is a friend of sinners. He recognizes that Jesus is the one the world has been waiting for, the Son of David, and cries out for mercy. When Jesus calls Bartimaeus to himself, he asks him, "What do you want me to do for you?" Although the answer may appear obvious, what's truly remarkable is that Bartimaeus, though blind, truly sees. He calls Jesus "My Rabbi." Somehow, the eyes of Bartimaeus's heart were already being opened by the love and presence of God. When God's heart awakens us and we hear of his love, our eyes are opened, too. Bartimaeus's physical sight is restored, but even more, his understanding—his inner vision—guides him. And upon receiving his sight, he does the only thing there is to do: he follows Jesus. Bartimaeus gets up and follows Jesus on the road, even toward Jerusalem and the cross. He is being made new. The story shows us that real sight, real transformation, often begins when we have ears to hear the good news of who Jesus is. That's a prayer for all of us—for open eyes, for hearts that catch a glimpse of the love of God, so that we, too, will see and, seeing, will follow. May your sight and your steps be guided by the love and mercy of the One who calls you by name. That's a prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters and my son—and that's a prayer I have for you. May it be so. TODAY'S PRAYERS: Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.   Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. 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In this episode, Dr. Lynne Hilton Wilson explores the rich Old Testament narratives surrounding the matriarchs of Israel, highlighting the faith, courage, and covenant loyalty of women in the Jacob cycle. Beginning with the well-known scene of Rebekah's generosity in Book of Genesis—where she offers water not only to Abraham's servant but to his camels—Dr. Wilson connects this act of selfless service to the covenant marriages that shape the house of Israel. The story then moves to Rachel and Leah, daughters of Laban, whose lives intertwine with Jacob's through love, deception, longing, and divine promise. Through their marriages, and through the faithful contributions of Zilpah and Bilhah, the foundations of the twelve tribes are laid. Dr. Wilson carefully examines the births of Gad and Asher through Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and reflects on the complex family dynamics that shaped Jacob's household. She also addresses the wives of Esau and the contrasting covenant paths chosen by Jacob and his brother. With insight drawn from ancient context and Latter-day Saint theology, this episode brings forward the voices of these often-overlooked women—Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, Bilhah, Rebekah, and Esau's wives—showing how their choices, sacrifices, and faith played a central role in God's covenant story. Thank you for joining us at Scripture Central! We hope that you have enjoyed this content.