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What does it look like to bring your full faith into a 30-year career at the top of London banking? Filipe Santos, lead pastor at Echo Church in the Bay Area interviews Ken Costa — former Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Bank, Chairman of Alpha International, and advisor to the UK government on Saudi economic reform. They talk about the moment that changed everything for Ken as he realized his workstation was his worship station.In this conversation, Ken unpacks why "work-life balance" is the wrong framework, how to steward time, energy, and money as one integrated life, why the local church matters more than ever in a digital, disconnected age, and what he sees coming in the massive wealth transfer happening right now between generations. He also shares a candid word on AI, spirituality, and why church leaders can connect more with high-octane people working in the marketplace.Whether you're pastoring a church, leading in business, or just trying to figure out what your work has to do with your faith, this conversation will challenge how you see both.

In episode 502 of The Reformed Brotherhood, Tony and Jesse begin what promises to be a multi-part deep dive into the Parable of the Good Samaritan — one of the most culturally embedded and theologically rich stories Jesus ever told. But before a single character hits the Jericho road, the hosts ground listeners in something easily overlooked: the charged context in which this parable is told. A lawyer — trained, confident, adversarial — steps forward not to learn but to test. What follows is a masterclass in how Jesus turns the law back on those who wield it as a weapon. This episode covers Luke 10:21–36, explores the covenant of works and covenant of grace, the noetic effects of sin, and why the Good Samaritan is far more than a lesson in being a helpful neighbor. Buckle up. Key Takeaways The lawyer's question is self-contradictory from the start. Asking "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" smuggles a works-righteousness assumption into the very grammar of the question. Inheritance by definition is received, not earned. Jesus does not give the lawyer a new paradigm — He reorients him to the true one. The covenant of grace is not a New Testament innovation. It runs through every Old Testament covenant administration. The lawyer should have already known this. "Do this and you will live" is not a Pelagian concession. Christ is holding out the law's own terms — perfect, total, unrelenting obedience — not to suggest it is achievable, but to expose its impossibility and drive the lawyer (and us) to the only alternative: mercy. "Desiring to justify himself" is more complex than it first appears. Tony argues that the desire to fulfill the covenant of works is not inherently wicked — it is the misguided belief that one can which is the problem. This distinction creates room for reading Christ's response as genuinely merciful instruction, not merely rebuke. The noetic effects of sin mean accurate theology can be deployed in service of self. The lawyer knows the right answers and still uses them to avoid repentance. Correct doctrine alone does not save. The fundamental human problem is not ignorance — it is the will's bondage and the heart's self-love. The parable is primarily Christological, not merely ethical. Jesus is the Good Samaritan. The story is not first about mercy ministry; it is about who binds up our wounds when we are left for dead on the road, unable to save ourselves. The priest and the Levite are not exonerated by their ritual obligations. Considerable ink has been spilled trying to justify their passing by on grounds of Levitical purity concerns. The parable refuses that exit. Everyone in the story — and everyone listening — already knows what the right thing to do was. Key Concepts The Covenant of Works Is Not a Black Box One of the more quietly important arguments Tony makes in this episode is that the covenant of works was never meant to be mysterious or inaccessible. When Jesus responds to the lawyer's question by asking, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" — He does so with a visible assumption: there is a clear, knowable answer, and the lawyer should be able to give it. And he does. Love God completely, love your neighbor as yourself. The covenant of works was always coherent and comprehensible. The problem has never been that its demands were obscure. The problem is that no one — save the Mediator — has ever kept them. Jesus is not introducing a new ethical framework. He is forcing the lawyer to confront a standard he has always known and has never met. The Lawyer as a Warning to Reformed Christians Jesse closes the episode's first movement with a pointed and personal application that cuts across theological self-satisfaction. The lawyer is not a caricature of ignorance — he is a portrait of someone with accurate, affirmed theological knowledge who instinctively deploys it in the service of self-justification the moment he senses conviction. Jesse names this directly as a danger particularly acute in Reformed circles, where doctrinal precision can become a subtle mechanism of self-defense rather than an occasion for repentance. The Reformation's great recovery of grace must not become a new form of the very disease it diagnosed. Knowing the right words about total depravity, the covenant of grace, and the mediator does not exempt anyone from the need to actually be humbled by them. Theology is not armor against repentance — it is, rightly received, the road toward it. Context Is Not Just Setup — It Is Part of the Lesson Tony and Jesse both emphasize that Luke 10:21–24 is not merely throat-clearing before the real content begins. The theological statement embedded there — that the Father has hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children, that no one knows the Son except the Father or the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him — is the hermeneutical key to everything that follows. The lawyer approaches Jesus as one rabbi testing another. But Luke has already told his readers that this is not a conversation between equals debating interpretive options. It is the Lawgiver being questioned by someone who does not recognize Him. The parable that follows is not just an answer to a legal question. It is a revelation — the kind that only happens when the Son chooses to give it. Memorable Quotes You do not want to pit the law against the one who has given the law, the one whose character is represented in the law — because you're always going to get owned, and you'll get owned before you realize you've just gotten owned on multiple levels. - Jesse Schwamb Jesus is trying to sort of reorient them back to the true paradigm of grace that is present under all of the Old Covenant administrations. It's not so much a matter of developing a new framework and imposing it on this guy. It's really trying to say, 'Listen — think about this for a second. Think about the fact that, yes, you know you have to love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, your whole mind, and you have to love your neighbor as yourself. You've answered correctly. If you can do those things, you will live.' — with the subtext: and of course you cannot possibly do those things. - Tony Arsenal The fundamental human problem is not primarily ignorance, but the will's bondage and the heart's self-love. It's a problem no amount of correct discipline or doctrine alone can fix apart from some kind of regenerating grace — which is exactly what Jesus is going to illustrate for us in the mercy he's about to display in this parable. - Jesse Schwamb Full Transcript Tony Arsenal: [00:00:00] This parable is not primarily about us figuring out how to do mercy ministry. Like, that's important. It's probably an outcome of this. It's probably something for us to think about. But really, this is actually Christ saying, like, "Hold on a second here, dude." Like, "Let's just think about this." Do you need someone who is going to tell you to pick yourself up off your bootstraps and cross to the other side of the street and leave you to your own devices? Or do you need someone who's gonna throw you on their donkey, who's gonna bind up your wounds, who's gonna pay the innkeeper, and is gonna pledge to pay everything that is owed for your salvation? Right? That's not too on the nose here, I think. Welcome to episode 502 of The Reformed Brotherhood. I'm [00:01:00] Jesse  And I'm Tony, and this is the podcast with ears to hear. Hey, brother.  Jesse Schwamb: Hey, brother. Well, we've got a big one to talk about on this episode. We're marching further and further into all of the glorious parables Jesus told as part of His teaching. And as you and I kind of joked before we began, I mean, what did you call it? Did you say this is, uh, the big daddy?  Tony Arsenal: It's the big daddy, one of the big daddy parables.  Jesse Schwamb: It's one of the big daddy parables. Now, this one is probably second maybe only to the prodigal son. Yeah But in terms of its ubiquity and its kind of just common knowledge in culture, this one ranks right up there. And before I reveal what it is, which you may already know, I was thinking how so many times we look at the Beatitudes as expression of a master class in Jesus teaching the law, and I think that's true. But as I was reading and thinking about this particular parable, I thought, "I don't know. I think this one is, uh, right up there," because [00:02:00] this is like law on law. It's double law. Yeah It's law coming back at the law giver who's trying to use the law to test Jesus, and then Jesus tests him with the law that He himself gave His people. It's... I'm already getting too excited- ... and we've got something to do before we get there. But we're talking about the parable of the Good Samaritan. And so I can't imagine, can I just make a prediction up front? I, you know where I'm going with this, and probably everybody else does. Uh, this is gonna be like two conversations-  Tony Arsenal: At least ...  Jesse Schwamb: probably.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah, at least two.  Jesse Schwamb: Is that fair? Because I realize we, of course, wanna get to the parable itself, and oh, my goodness, how much ink has been spilled. Even going back to, like, if you read, like, Augustine or, like, the early church, like the Patristics, the Church Fathers, there are so much that could be said, and maybe some stuff that just shouldn't be said about all the allegorical potential intent here about these characters. But [00:03:00] there's so much amazing stuff that happens in the opening of this, that's not just the setup, but it is its own lesson, and I'm real excited actually to talk about that with you before we even get into, like, all the good stuff that everybody expects that you wanna talk about. So we're gonna do it all. Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Jesse Schwamb: We're gonna do it all, but it'll take time.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah. I'm interested to see if we're even on the same page about where to start reading, 'cause I, I think we might not be, and that's gonna be fun. So we'll, we'll let it fly and see what happens. It'll be our own little, uh, podcast game.  Jesse Schwamb: But, uh, I think- Well, I mean, we're gonna be in Luke chapter 10, but I guess to your point, we should be starting in Luke chapter one to get to this. Yeah.  Tony Arsenal: Exactly. But  Jesse Schwamb: we, we do have to back up quite a bit, and I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah. But I, apparently we're just gonna play that on the fly and see where we go.  Affirmations Denials Segment Jesse Schwamb: But of course, the Reformers had their five solos. Chalcedon had its, what, seven withouts. We've got opinions, and we're just as confident about ours, so of course it's time for affirmations, denials, where we affirm something that we think is good or awesome or [00:04:00] we wanna recommend, and we deny, again, something that is not so great or maybe just plain annoying. So before we talk about the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Tony, what do you got for us on this episode? Are you affirming with something, or are you gonna come in with a denial?  Tony Arsenal: Well, I've got two affirmations. That's fine. One is just- I will allow it ... a declaration of joy, and one is, like, a real affirmation. I, I just can't... It would be remiss of me not to share with our podcasting family that my son August and my daughter Adeline, uh, joined the visible church today as- Hear, hear ... uh, non-communicant members. Uh, Augie and Addie were baptized on the 16th of August of 2026, uh, into the visible church, into the name of Jesus Christ. Uh, was, it was just a great service. Um, it's funny because I've been- been talking with Augie. One of the thing with toddlers when you're doing something big like this is you kinda have to talk about it and practice and rehearse, rehearse it and, and get them ready for it. And up until maybe, like, I don't know, three days [00:05:00] ago, every time it would come up he would be saying, "I don't wanna be baptized. I don't wanna be baptized." And, um, you know, I, I, I, you know, I don't wanna force him to do something, but also, like, I make him eat vegetables. But, um- ... he, I, I think it was nerves, and I think something clicked in his head and all of a sudden he was very excited to be baptized. So, um, it was great. We've been talking about, you know, what baptism is, God's promise to you that if you trust him he'll save you. And so today he- Right ... he was like, "God's gonna make a promise to me to save me." So he was very excited. Nice. And he did a great job just standing quietly and listening to the pastor talk. Uh, and Addie was, was, was just a beautiful little girl, and she, um, she loved it as well. So that's just a bonus affirmation. I don't know that I could get through a podcast without gushing over that.  Glorify App and Devotionals Tony Arsenal: Uh, but the, the affirmation I have, uh, this is an, an app that I think some of our listeners may have heard of. Um, some may roll their eyes at it, to be honest with you. Um, I stumbled on this because, uh, you have an Oura Ring, don't you, Jesse? Jesse Schwamb: I do.  Tony Arsenal: You [00:06:00] do, yeah. So for those who don't know, an Oura Ring is like a little wearable ring that's like a, almost like a fitness tracker, but it tracks biometrics, pulse rate, temperature, all these different things, sleep. Um, there's a startup, uh, that has been doing a GoFundMe or a funding kind of thing for, uh, what they're calling like a Christian version of an Oura Ring. So it does a lot of the same things, sleep tracking, basic biometric tracking. Hmm. But it also has like alerts built in, and it's tied into an app that they use for devotionals. So it'll, it'll remind you to pray. It'll remind you, you know, bring you to an app to do a devotion. But the app it uses is a standalone app that I looked up, and it's called Glorify. Have you ever heard of this app before this evening? I have heard of  Jesse Schwamb: this, yeah.  Tony Arsenal: So Glorify is just a small devotional app. Uh, it's not much different than you would expect based on the name. It is connected to this, uh, to this Glorify ring, which again is, is sort of like an Oura Ring tied into this app. But this app basically is, is [00:07:00] designed to help you complete short daily devotional exercises, and they're usually very brief. They're based on a very brief, um, a very brief passage of scripture. Today's passage, uh, c- there's a quote. So today's quote is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It says, "True love does not consist in finding the perfect person, but in faithfully loving an imperfect one." Not sure why this devotional app is using a romance, uh, quote from Bonhoeffer of all people. But that was today's. Um, and the passage is Proverbs 5:15-17. So it's a, it's a devotional based on two verses, which is fine. So you read the passage. There's a very brief devotional on that passage, and then sort of a guided prayer, and they have both premium and free models. The premium model includes like you can listen to the devotional, you can listen to the prayer. Um, but just for example, today's prayer, it, it's very simple. "Loving Father, thank you for, uh, thank you because you're faithful and unchanging. In a world [00:08:00] marked by broken promises, disposable relationships, you remain the same. Teach me to reflect that faithfulness in my relationships. Help me to love with perseverance, grace, and commitment following the example of Christ. Protect marriages, strengthen families, restore what needs healing. May every relationship be marked by respect, truth, and genuine love. Shape in me a heart of integrity that honors you in both the small and significant choices of life. In Jesus' name, amen." So I think what I love about this, and this, I mentioned last week that there was, this is kind of like, sort of like the fluffy evangelical devotions. Like- Right ... there's not a ton of like solid doctrinal meat- But like, it's still nourishing. And sometimes we need a little bit of help. Sometimes we don't know what to pray, we don't know what to read, we're not sure. Sometimes in, I think in our Reformed circles, we feel like if we're not reading large portions of scripture and reading deep theological treaties or long, complex devotionals, that we're really not doing anything, and that's just not the [00:09:00] truth. So I've been using this in addition to other devotional studies I'm doing. I don't do it every day. I mean, there's some like streak functionality, kinda like habit tracking type stuff that's built into it. Um, but it's nice. It's nice to be able to pick it up, read a very short scripture, a brief devotional thought, and then have some guided prayer. I know one of the reasons I don't pray as often as I ought to is because I struggle to know what and how to pray. So even having some written prayers, I mean, this is why the Psalms are good, things like the Valley of Visions are good. Um, having some pre-written prayers that you genuinely pray but you're not having to come up with in the moment can really help. Right. So the app is called Glorify. I know it's available on iPhone. I'm not sure about Android. I'm sure it probably is. I'm sure they wanna have a pretty broad ecosystem. Um, and, and it's good. Again, it's, it's not anything fancy. It's not anything like super technical. Uh, and as I kind of alluded, like some of it's a little weird. Um, I, I didn't read the proverb. I think maybe the proverb is about romantic relationships, why they're, why they're tying in that, um, Bonhoeffer quote in, in the prayer. [00:10:00] But, um, even that, like it's pretty innocuous. And the quotes, like you don't have to read the quotes. It's not like you have to have to do that. Um, you could jump in, just read the scripture or just read the devotion and just do the prayer and you would be fine. So check it out. It's called Glorify, available on iPhone for sure. I'm pretty sure it's on, on Android. And maybe it's something you add daily, you know, this kinda thing like you do when you're on the bus or you're waiting at the grocery store, something quick you can do when you might be wasting that time just sorta sitting around or scrolling Twitter. Again, Twitter's fine. You can use your leisure time as you see fit. But if you wanna fill it with something like this, something that is more spiritual, then this would be a good option to just add a little bit of, uh, a little bit of nourishment to your diet where you might not otherwise be getting it  Jesse Schwamb: I have no proof of this, but I just keep saying it anyway. It might be that we're living in the golden age of really great- ... daily worship resources. Like, something to actually cultivate, not just, like, a devotional nugget, but something that actually leads you into a pattern and a habit of [00:11:00]worship, giving your attentive focus on Jesus. And I love that. So, uh, uh, 'cause I was just thinking, like, I was trying to look back on some of our past affirmations here. We've talked about the book Walking in Faith. I just gave everybody Awake My Soul last week. You're coming in with the Glorify app. I- we've talked about Dwell, if not recently, we've talked about that for some time. It's like a great Bible reading app, and there's lots and lots of new features, by the way, coming out on that- Yeah that are fantastic. And then, yes, all these other great prayers. I, I see, like, these books on prayer, like, actually, I'm sorry, like, prayer books, I guess, as, like, a great way to kinda... It's like a jumper for your car. You know what I mean? Like, just gets you started. What a, what a lovely thing to come into a place and have a launching pad. And I've been using a lot of Into His Presence, which is a collection of Puritan prayers, sometimes because, for instance, this just happened, where I wanted to pray for someone who was just going through a rough time, a good friend of mine. And I went to that place to kinda start and frame, knowing that I was gonna sit down with him and pray, how I might be able to do that well and [00:12:00] effectively. And these things are just, like, really phenomenal resources. It's just an amazing time to have all these things at our disposal. So that's another great option. It's, it's really more about, like you and I have talked about, Tony, like, whatever gets us into that pattern, whatever gets us, like, authentically experiencing under our own volition, coming in the discipline of sitting before God in daily worship with that expression being pretty broad in its representation- Yeah is to really include something of devotional time in the scriptures, memorization, metabolation, metabolizing. Metabolation, I'm just gonna make that up as, like- ... what happens when you, when you take the scripture and metabolize it into your own life. Meditating on it and, you know, again, maybe looking through the confessions and creeds that have shaped our distilled understanding of what the scripture teaches so that we're enhancing and edifying our mind. We're also engaging the heart, and then we're engaging God and ourselves in communication with Him through prayer. I'm all for anything [00:13:00] that gets us into those rhythms, reminds us of the importance of them, and like we talked about last week, makes it so that when we think about what it means to be married to Christ, so to speak, it's not just about whipping out some kind of marriage certificate to prove that, but that we actually have a frame and a behavioral pattern that fits a married person, that- Yeah how they act, how they think, how they behave, how they communicate, they're never too far away from their lovely spouse in some way or another. And so I think that these tools are great ways to get us exactly into that kind of mindset and practice.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah, absolutely. And like I said, like, I think- In our Reformed circles, we can, you know, we, we tend to be maybe a little eggheaded, and we, we tend to be a little more intellectual and, and a little more, I don't know, studious. And there's nothing wrong with that. Um, but I think sometimes it can breed a sort of, uh, elitism and arrogance. Sure. Uh, this is a perfectly valid devotional tool. Yes. Mm-hmm. And, and I think, [00:14:00] you know, kinda like the old adage, like, well, what's the best translation of scripture? Well, whichever one you're gonna read. Exactly. Like, what's the best devotional tool? Whichever one you're gonna use, whichever one's actually gonna bring you into the Word, uh, on a, on a regular basis. Um, and again, like, two verses of the scripture is two verses of the scripture that you might- Right ... not have other spent time, otherwise spent time reading. And it really is short enough, and it saves your progress. Like, you can do, you can do the quote in the morning, and then you can check the scripture on the way to the, you know, the word work, on a stoplight or whatever. Um, if you have the, the paid subscription, you can listen to this stuff, you know, on the, the bus or whatever. Um, so check it out. Glorify app, they have a ring they're making. It's in funding, I guess, if you wanna check it out, you can check that out too. I am neither affirming nor denying whatever this Glory ring is, Glorify ring. But, um, but yeah, the app is great. The, the app is free, and it's, it's worth even just checking out and adding once in a while to your day  Jesse Schwamb: The glory ring or the glorify ring sounds like almost too Tolkien, even for me  Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah. It's the one ring to rule all of your devotions. [00:15:00] Uh, and in the, and in the morning bind them. Jesse, save me from the trail I was about to go on, and, and I was gonna speak in the language of Mordor, I think, on accident. Uh, save us from this. What are you affirming or denying?  Jesse Schwamb: That's  Tony Arsenal: beautiful. Please tell me it's the language of Mordor. Elvish AI and Music Pick Jesse Schwamb: Uh, no, but can I just say at the risk of really taking us really far afield so early on, which is not necessarily off-brand for us, I have done this... I, I don't know if I should be ashamed by this or I should be excited by this. But- ... um, the Elvish tongue in the Tolkien universe-  Tony Arsenal: Oh, no. ...  Jesse Schwamb: is like, there's several... If you're super nerdy, you'll know there's like several different kind of iterations or formulas of it, and there's no, like, official language like Klingon, but there ha- it has been studied, and basically, like, it's kind of like the Eugene Peterson of the language. Like, there's, like, just kind of a dynamic equivalent or an expression of words. Anyway, all that to say- ... there's several languages that, uh, Microsoft Copilot will just not [00:16:00] translate because it says, like, "This one, this language doesn't actually exist. There's not enough for me to do anything." Let me tell you something. Tolkien Elvish is not one of those languages, and I actually built an agent, because I have a coworker who can, uh, who can appreciate all this stuff, that takes a text, translates it into this kind of academic high-level Elvish from Tolkien, and then translates it back to English. That makes anything you're saying way better and far more poetic and just absolutely amazing. So if you wanna have some fun, go and do that with whatever your favorite AI model is. Anyway, that's free of charge. Real quick, my affirmation is more music. It just turns out I've found this band, and I've been listening to them a lot. The band's name is Thronebreaker, which is just a phenomenal name, I think, for any group. Uh, it's amazing. Uh, th- this is... I'm gonna read you their description from Spotify. It just says, "Thronebreaker is Christian metalcore built for the bruised, the doubting, and the ones still fighting their way home." And what I've really been [00:17:00] loving about them is it is kind of like Wolves at the Gate adjacent. It's really lovely music. It is melodic, so it's, there's not just that there's that kind of hard edge, but that is present in it. But, uh, the music is really lovely and beautiful, and in part that's because they're going through this, like, drip of releasing music where they're taking, like, old hymns or maybe songs if you're of a certain age like I am of kind of childhood Sunday school- And they're taking the lyrics, not the melody, and they're reimagining them. So they have two versions of Jesus Loves Me that they just released. They have the old We're Gonna Cross, a song called Glory to the King Most High. These songs are just saturated with gospel. Like, they're just all power, all encouragement, and all authority represented in Jesus Christ. They're incredible, and I've j- where I've, what I've been really blessed by is these two versions of Jesus Love Me are just fantastic. Like, they're orchestral. There is a children's kind of chorus at one point, and it got me [00:18:00] singing that song again, and really, maybe to what you were saying before, Tony, like sitting in those three words, which are really phenomenal words to hear. And so I have been surprised at how moved I've been by what really I, I first understood, of course, as a children's song with simple truth that seems, you know, depending on how long you've known some part of the gospel, obvious. And yet I found them all new again, and a, a really lovely way of just sitting in the truth of God in music that I didn't expect to find. So if you're interested in any of that or maybe just curious of what it would sound like if a Christian metalcore band took Jesus Loves Me and turned it into their genre, then honestly you should just go check out Throne Breaker. I mean, you pretty much have to at this point.  Tony Arsenal: I, I don't ever have anything to add to your musical affirmations or denials, 'cause I, I just don't. What I do have to add is that Throne Breaker actually sounds like some sort of really [00:19:00] amazing, like, mace-type weapon in Lord of the Rings. Yes.  Jesse Schwamb: Yes,  Tony Arsenal: it does. Or like a big hammer that a dwarf carries. And I would also like to say that if you ask Google Gemini to translate something into Tolkien English, it not only will do it, it will tell you how to pronounce it.  Google Elf: A ava aini Ilai amel i trona se.  Tony Arsenal: What do you think that was, Jesse?  Jesse Schwamb: No idea.  Tony Arsenal: First of all, that was elevated Quenya, a Quenya. Yes.  Jesse Schwamb: Yes, that's  Tony Arsenal: the one. Classic Quenya.  Jesse Schwamb: Yes.  Google Elf: A leta Ilai amel aima.  Tony Arsenal: I would be willing to bet... Actually, let's do this.  Jesse Schwamb: Ugh.  Tony Arsenal: Uh, we don't give out prizes very often. Uh, I will say to anyone who can tell me what that is, the first person that emails, uh, or, or goes into the Telegram chat, we'll do this. We'll be professional podcasters and drive people to one of our channels. Here we  Jesse Schwamb: go.  Tony Arsenal: The first person who goes to our telephone, our Telegram chat and tells me what that [00:20:00] means, what that, uh, Elvish means, will get a Reformed Brotherhood T-shirt.  Jesse Schwamb: Oh, that is big.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Jesse Schwamb: That-  Tony Arsenal: So I'm gonna, I'm gonna play it one more time.  Jesse Schwamb: Okay, here we go. Everybody listen. Every- All right, pull over. Stop your vehicles. Here we go.  Google Elf: A leta Ilai amel aima.  Tony Arsenal: There it is, everybody.  Jesse Schwamb: I'm not being a cry- I have a guess, but I, I, I wanna try to win the T-shirt, so I'm gonna- Yes ... wi- withhold. All right. Uh, yeah, that's, that's super fun. Did it, um... Did you also translate it back into English from that  Tony Arsenal: just to see- No, I'll do that later, 'cause that would give away the, that would  Jesse Schwamb: give away the prize. Yeah, it's, it's... We'll have to save that for next week, because that, that is the fun. It creates, like, what I was doing to, to have fun with this coworker is take very technical, like, work-related emails, and I would send it through. It would go through that iterative process, and I actually loved how it, it was talking. Like, it wa- this was an email about risk, and it, it gave, like, these beautiful grand metaphors that didn't sound corny or cheesy. That's the beautiful thing. That's amazing. It [00:21:00] was like true Elvish. Like, you were just like, "I wish I spoke that way all the time about, about risk." And it, like I said, it wasn't just like... You could, you could obviously throw something in and be like, "Make this Shakespearean," or, you know, "Make this, you know, sound like, you know, Milton." This is way better. This is way better, because it's not, like, actually trying to manipulate what you're saying. It's takes, like, the dynamic equivalent of what you said, then translates it back with way more kind of poetic infrastructure while maintaining, like, the essential meaning that you have. I'm, I'm selling this too hard. Everybody just has to go out and try it. So, all right, you know what's at stake here, but here's how you have to win this. If you want a chance, if you want a chance at winning this, you gotta go to t.me/reformedbrotherhood, t.me/reformedbrotherhood, and that link will take you to the Telegram app and our little corner of it, and you're gonna find there's a bunch of chats there. You gotta go to the affirmations or denials chat, and then you gotta put in what is the translation of what Tony just played.[00:22:00] I just love... Isn't it amazing, though, that, like, y- as you discovered, there's more than one version of Elvish available? Yeah. And they do differentiate between the various kinds. This is a big deal. I learned there are actually scholars who have, like, again, filled in kind of like the details of the language- Oh, yeah taking as a basis what Tolkien had there. Yeah. So I think that this is the best. We couldn't have conceived of this if we'd actually tried and planned for it, so-  Tony Arsenal: It's true ...  Jesse Schwamb: it's just better that it all happened in, in real time. It's true. And, and speaking of which, I think now we get to have the fun of figuring out, uh, where in Luke chapter 10 are we gonna begin? Or should we just start in Luke 1 and just let's see how far we can get reading  Tony Arsenal: in this- I could have, I could have Google Gemini read it in elevated Kenya, Quenya I did try to get it to put it in Sindarin, and it wouldn't do it for some reason. I'm not sure. Maybe this anti-Sindarin bias in Gemini,  Jesse Schwamb: man. Disappointing.  Tony Arsenal: It's disappointing.  Jesse Schwamb: Dis- disappointing. So let's kick off some Good Samaritan talk, which again, I think is gonna take us [00:23:00] through maybe in the next couple of conversations, in part because, like I said, we're not even gonna start at, uh, verse 25 because there is so much more that needs to be said, I think, before that. Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah. I, I think actually the proper place to start this, and I, I'm guessing Jesse probably, whether he was there or not, he probably figured out where I was going, uh, over the course of the last 20 minutes or whatever. Um, I actually think the proper place to start, at least one of the proper places to start, is in verse 21. Yeah. Um, and I- we'll talk about why that is. And I'll... I'm gonna read here, um, 21, uh, through the end of the parable. Uh, and this is Jesus talking. He says in this, uh... Well, it, this is, um... Yes, uh, I'll just read it here. "In the same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 'I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will. All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one who knows who the Son is except... No, no one knows who the Son is [00:24:00] except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Himself.'" Then turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see and did not see it, and hear what you hear and did not hear it." And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this and you will live." But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and he saw him and passed on the other side. So likewise a Levite, [00:25:00] when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take good care of him. Whatever you, whatever more you spend I will repay you when I come back.' Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" And he said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "You go and do likewise."  Jesse Schwamb: I think you're right, of course, to back us up into verse 21 because I don't want to keep saying it's always a setup, but Jesus is certainly giving us like the right context in which... Well, Luke of course is the author here and as he's explaining the teaching of Jesus, he does so well to start out with some irony that we don't realize is gonna be ironic until we get to the, to verse 25 [00:26:00] when we realize who's testing Jesus, who's setting this all up. So this idea that the Holy Spirit, everybody rejoicing in the Holy Spirit and the knowledge and the wisdom, the intelligence that's revealed through the Holy Spirit to all of these lesser people and in particular here emblematic the infants That here we have kings and rulers, and in this case, this beloved scholar of the law, who all have this adventure in missing the point. They think, in fact, they're looking for the one who is to set them free, and they can't even see that it's Him who is before him. And yet, incidentally, God has already revealed all these things to the lowest, to the ones who are the most humble, the meek, the mild, the down and outs, the ones who are weak by the view of everybody else. And so it's amazing that if we just kinda, again, like blow past it into, like, just all the characters, we don't see that the teaching starts actually well above this, that even everything we're about to understand, that unfolds in our lives, ev- every spiritual incarnation and insight that we have [00:27:00] first starts with God himself in his revealing it to us both in his general revelation, but of course, in the specific revelation of his teaching. So I like that you started us there, because I, I'm with you. That's where this whole thing launches off, right?  Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Parables Reveal and Conceal Tony Arsenal: Yeah, and as we come into when we very, like very start of this, uh, series, the, the parable series, Jesus sort of embeds a theology of parables into this introduction, right? Or I should say Luke does. But this, uh, this is written a- as though all of this is occurring as sort of one event. Right. And likely it was, right? So sometimes, uh, in the Gospels, events are kind of, like, moved next to each other for thematic reasons. It's possible that that's the case. It seems like this may have actually just been one, one teaching, and I'll, I'll talk about why that is in a second here. Um, but at the very least, this is placed next to each other in the Gospel almost as, like a, "Here's the theology of parables. Now, here's actually that happening in real [00:28:00] time."  Jesse Schwamb: Yes.  Tony Arsenal: And then also, like, a parable kinda demonstrating it, right? So the theology of the parable here is that there are many prophets, kings who desire to see what it is that, that, uh, uh, the disciples are seeing, right? And all things have been handed over to the Father or to, to the Son, by the Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father. No one who knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal, right? So the, the theology of parables here presented in Luke is that the parable itself is being used as a way to reveal the Father and the Son to those whom the Son chooses to reveal it to. The Lawyer as the Fool Tony Arsenal: And that leaves us with this lawyer, um, sort of playing, playing the fool in almost like a dramatic sense, right? In a lot of drama, there's kind of like the fool character who's sort of like the foil or the idiot of the thing who's, who's unaware and is almost like made an example of, right? Um, I, I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but there's often a character in a play who's like, uh, it's [00:29:00] almost like the opposite of the everyman, right? The everyman in a, in a play- Right ... or in a movie is sort of like the outsider who things gets explained to, and he's sort of the proxy for, for the audience. Um, I think like, um, Hawkeye in Avengers is kind of the everyman. He's sort of just like this regular dude swept up in this thing, and oftentimes he's the one that, uh, the big characters are explaining things to. And really what that is is the big characters are explaining that to the audience through this proxy. There's also this concept of the fool in a lot of these plays or movies who's sort of like the dummy, the idiot of the play, who things are explained to, and it's still a way to explain it to the audience, but the character doesn't get it. And so that's kind of, kind of the role that this lawyer is playing in this, this narrative here. He, he steps forward. He's like, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answers his question, and then in this like sort of like stunning moment of, like unawareness, he's trying to justify himself. He says, "Well, who is my neighbor?"[00:30:00] As though that's a question that needed to be asked, right? I think, like, we sort of think of it as like, "Oh, yeah, that's a valid question." I actually don't think it is. Like, it's pretty obvious, in the Old Testament at least, who your neighbor is. It's the people who live immediately with you. It's the other people of Israel. It's the people in your immediate concentric circles, the people you have direct access to. Um, and so then Jesus explains it through this parable, and whether or not he gets it at the end, I guess is maybe a little bit unclear. We can talk about that as we get there. But at least in the beginning, he's portrayed as this sort of, like, fool who doesn't understand what Jesus is saying, and then this parable is taught. So it's this theology of, um, revelation to those whom it is intended to, and further obscuring from those it's intended not to, not to illuminate, which is identical. Uh, maybe it's a different flavor of the same thing, but it's the same thing as what Matthew had and what Jesus taught- Right ... in Matthew with the parables. Jesse Schwamb: Right. It definitely is, again, illustrating, again, God's divine prerogative. I think you really have to do a lot of theological gymnastics [00:31:00] to try to work yourself out of a place here that says, like, "Well, this, this knowledge is accessible to all people."  Tony Arsenal: Right.  Jesse Schwamb: That if somehow we just work hard enough, study hard enough, come even before God with the right attitude or do the right things, that somehow all this will be made plain to us, and that's certainly not the truth here. In fact, again, the ironic setup is you have this lawyer asking this question, which creates this strange contrast because here's a man trained in the law, and he approaches the very wisdom of God to test him while the little children already perceive what this fool cannot. So it's irony upon irony, and then I, I like what you're saying. I think, and we'll get to this to anticipate a bit, I'm reading this as he's hoping that the answer to whom is my neighbor, just like he- he's received the affirmative from Jesus saying, "Yes, you understand. Go and do these things. This is life," and we'll get to all of what that means, I think, as well in terms of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace. But I think he's hoping that the definition of neighbor is gonna mean that he has [00:32:00] already accomplished the thing then, so that if there's somehow- Yeah ... he could just set the right boundaries. He could say, "Ah, yeah, I'm already good then, Jesus. I already, already did all that stuff." So- It's wild to me that it, it all starts with, of course, like some kind of scribal specialist in the Torah, of course, likely some kind of Pharisee by theological alignment. And as I'm looking at the notes here, what I find particularly stunning as we start this out is that Luke, of course, is able to speak several times in this parable to the intent. And so he says right away with great kind of fanfare and description that the intent here from this scribal Torah person was to test or to tempt, which is the same verb used of Satan's temptation of Christ and of Israel's testing of God in Deuteronomy 6, which of course Jesus is gonna quote here later on. So it's not, of course, like sincere inquiry, like you're saying. It, it is like adversarial probing. It is like really profound setup. It is dripping with like [00:33:00] ulterior motive. It's seeking to expose Jesus as either like heterodox or as diminishing the law's demands. And I think we've talked about this before, so Tony, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure in one of the previous parables we talked about sometimes how these get set up with this kind of weird like oxymoronic setting. Inherit Eternal Life Debate Jesse Schwamb: So like this question of se- uh, uh, itself, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?  Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Jesse Schwamb: It's like more than just theologically revealing. Biblically it's self-contradictory, 'cause of course like we talked about inheritance, I think actually when we went through the, the parable of the prodigal. By definition, that's received, of course, on the ba- basis of relationship or promise. It's not earned by performance. And if the inheritance comes by a law, it no longer comes by promise, right? I think that's like Galatians. So the lawyer's question already portray- portrays like some kind of weird works righteous paradigm. E- even if you think he's really after trying to understand the true intent of God's heart [00:34:00] behind the law, he is assuming at least in this question that eternal life is some kind of wage that he can earn rather than a gift to be received by grace through faith. And that's a fundamental error that the entire subsequent exchange, including the parable, is designed to expose. It's both, like you're saying, Tony, he has not learned yet what it means to be in the kingdom of God. He's outside of that, and so he's trying... Now Jesus is bringing in this corrective action, as it were, set up in a story, but he's gonna turn the law on him, which, which I don't wanna get too excited about that yet. But he's... But essentially, here we have somebody who's the expert in the law trying to leverage the law by way of force against the one who he does not understand has all leverage and authority over him, and is in fact the law giver himself So he's gonna, Jesus is gonna drive him to see his own ability to keep the law that he claims to honor, and that's more than just brilliant. This is what the law does. You do not wanna pit the law against the one who has given the law, the [00:35:00] one whose character is represented in the law, because you're always going to get owned, and you'll get owned before you realize you've just gotten owned on multiple levels, and I think that's what basically unfolds here. Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah, I, I have a little bit of a different take on the, the word inherit here. Um, I don't think what you're saying is wrong, um, but I think there's a little different flavor here, and actually, I, I think it, it still sort of propels us forward to the conversation we have to have, um, about the law and the gospel and the covenant of works, the covenant of grace. The, the Greek that lays under this word is, uh, it's a compound word of the word for, like, lot or portion and the word for law. And so, so the, this force of the word is more along the lines of, like, what shall I do to have a legal right to eternal life? Like- Right ... inherit, I think we hear inherit, and we think of, like, um, like what you get when someone dies, and so, like, obviously there's nothing you do to earn it, and that's certainly an element of the way this [00:36:00] word is used in some instances. I think reading this and kind of how, how the rest of the text plays out, this lawyer is coming forward and he's like, "What do I need to do to have a rightful legal claim to eternal life?" Right? We might even be able, and this is where it comes into the covenant of grace, covenant of works k- kind of paradigm. We might even be able to say that what this lawyer or this person comes forward to ask Jesus is, how do I gain, how do I gain the benefits of the covenant of works, right?  Jesse Schwamb: Right.  Tony Arsenal: Yep. That's language that was developed later that's not, not, like, biblical language in terms of, like, the actual language within the text, but that's the force of what he's saying. What must I do to be a rightful legal... Uh, what must I do to have a rightful legal claim on all of the blessings of the covenant of works, is really the question that's here. And so Jesus' answer is so instructive- Right ... 'cause what he says is, "Well, what's written in the law?" Like, he, he basically says, like, "Well, you should be able to tell me, teacher- Exactly of [00:37:00] the law, like, what, what needs to happen there." And there's an assumption on Christ's part that, like, there is an answer. I think sometimes, sometimes we, we, uh, we make an error in thinking that the covenant of works was never attainable, that it's somehow this, like, um, it's almost like a black box. Like, nobody could know what we have to do to, like, obtain eternal life. That's absolutely not the assumption Jesus makes. Jesus not only knows that there's an answer, it's such a straightforward answer that he expects this scribe to be able to answer it, right? And the scribe can, right? The scribe says, "Well, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, your mind, your strength, and your neighbor as yourself," right? The summary of the law. Just good old classic Westminster larger, shorter catechism. Where's the law summarily comprehended? Summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments. And then, then again, I don't know the questions exactly, but then it also, like, says, like, "Where does Christ summarize this?" Well, you should love the Lord your God, and you should love your [00:38:00] neighbor as yourself, right? Covenant Works and Grace Tony Arsenal: So the, the lawyer comes forward and says, "What do I need to do to have a legal right to all of the blessings of the covenant of works?" Christ says, "Well, what do you think?" He says, "Well, you obey the entirety of the law." And he says, "You've answered correctly. Do this. Obey the entirety of the law and you will live." So the parable itself doesn't necessarily speak to this law, gospel, covenant of works, covenant of grace paradigm. The, the parable is used to show that not only does this lawyer know what is required of him, but that he won't do it.  Jesse Schwamb: Right.  Tony Arsenal: And I think that's really key, because even in the parable, within the parable itself, there are these figures that know what they should do, right? I, I think, um, we'll get into it, but there's a lot of ink spilled on almost like, um, explaining [00:39:00] why the priest and the Phar- phar- and the, the Levite almost like did the right thing by going to the other side of the room, and it points to like, well, their priestly and Levitical responsibilities, if they touch a dead body, like they can't do those things, and those things are so important. Like, there's a lot of ink spilled trying to almost explain why what they did is right, when the point of the parable is that actually we all know what the right thing to do in that sense was. And even the most righteous people in the mind of the hearers, the Levites and the priests, the most righteous people, even they don't do what they're supposed to do. Jesse Schwamb: Right.  Tony Arsenal: This, this paradigm, this gospel law paradigm, law gospel paradigm, this covenant of works, covenant of grace paradigm, is so baked into the very like fabric of, of human thought that it's just there. And Christ takes this time to point out to this lawyer, like, "You know what's expected of you." And so that's why the phrase desiring to justify himself is so key [00:40:00] here. I actually think that the, the, the I don't wanna go so far as to say, like, that this person was regenerated in the midst of this conversation, 'cause I don't know that. But I actually think that there's a forward movement of this lawyer as he interacts with Christ that is optimistic. I'm optimistic about it, right? Right. He starts out trying to test Jesus, then he star- then he moves to having a desire to justify himself. I think we hear that, we read that, desiring to justify himself, we automatically think that that's a negative thing. But if we think about justifying himself in terms of what he's talking about, how do I fulfill the obligations of the covenant of works, that's not a bad thing to wanna do. Right. It's not bad to wanna obey God's law and to lay claim to His promises. It's a misguided notion of something we can't accomplish, but in itself, desiring to justify himself is to desire to fulfill the obligations of the covenant of works. That's not necessarily a bad thing. And so I think this is a merciful, a merciful [00:41:00] teaching on Christ's part. He's trying to instruct this guy to say, "Look, you can't do it. And even if you could do it, you wouldn't do it. So let's, let's talk about mercy instead and what that looks like." And that's where we get to kind of the end of the, uh, the end of the parable.  Jesse Schwamb: And again, we have to remember that we know that the intent here is actually to test or try Jesus, so He's certainly being merciful by using this opportunity not to just put him on blast, but to actually provide true instruction. And of course, like, that was, to some degree, this turning the question back would've been, like, a rabbinic pedagogical technique, but theologically, this is what floors me, is from the jump, Jesus refuses to let this man treat Him merely as one more voice among competing rabbis. Yeah. Instead, He holds that lawyer to the standard of God's own revealed word by, like you said, asking not just what does it say, but how do you read it? Mm-hmm. He's pressing not just for, like, some kind of recitation, but for the lawyer's own understanding and application, and Jesus is gonna hold him [00:42:00] accountable to his own hermeneutic. So by, by the time we get the answer, we know as readers, and all those present would've understood, he already knows the right answer, and he's not ignorant to God's requirements. He already summarizes the whole moral law correctly, encompassing both tables of the Decalogue. And so I think that does lead us then to this statement that we probably should spend a little time on, like, do this and you will live, like you introduced for us. Like, what does that even mean? Because i- it's not, like, in my view It's not like a Pelagian or Arminian concession that law keeping actually saves. I mean, it is the covenant of works principle stated truly inexorably that the law as law does promise life to perfect obedience. But that's the exact problem. I, I like what you said that it's not as if we can't understand what it would be to comprehend or contemplate this perfect law and what it means to fall under the covenant of works. It's just that he also presents for us at the same time this covenant of grace in which life is [00:43:00] granted freely through faith in the mediator who alone fulfills all of these laws' demands. So it's wild in this back and forth that's happening here where it's... I don't even know if it's fair to say this is like the most incredible subtext ever. I'm imagining trying to process this in real time and realizing everything that's being said, not just listening to what's being said and like the technical answers going back and forth. But I think like you said, that the Spirit even here is at work, I would like to believe, in the life and at the heart and the mind of this lawyer who's bringing forward this question with nefarious intent first to test and to undermine, and then is being drawn in almost inexorably into this debate to more profound understanding about a covenant based on works that cannot be accomplished, uh, in perfect obedience except through the mediator who organizes and distributes liberally this covenant of grace to his children for whom he has accomplished at least passively and then actively in his obedience in life and death. And so Jesus' reply is, I [00:44:00] think, thus a very genuine like if that functions to expose an impossibility. I, I don't think he's teaching salvation by works here, of course. He is holding out the law's own terms so that the lawyer and everybody else listening, and even us as well, can discover through this narrative which is about to happen the impossibility of self-produced righteousness, which again is what this gentleman is theologically all about. He's trying to justify himself. And that is precisely the pedagogical strategy like Paul uses later when he systemizes all of this by saying that the law was our guardian or school master until Christ came in order that we might be justified by faith. I think- Yeah ... and it's only because God is good to us and we might sit in some of this teaching, I think this is all in play. So, so I ask you, like, have I gone too far with all this? Like, how much do you think in the real time was being processed? And maybe that's a horrible question to ask because we know the Spirit does this work of illumination and enlightenment, and we're on the other [00:45:00] side of this and have this time to sit and to kind of parse and to really kind of just be pickled in all of this. But there's so much happening here, right?  Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, maybe I'll answer the question a, a little bit of a different way. I think, um- We often can think about Old Testament religion, if we wanna kinda call it that. We think about Old Testament religion as though it was totally uniform and, um, entirely legalistic. Right. Uh, my- the, the listener is gonna panic a little bit when I say this, so please don't freak out, but I, I think N.T. Wright, uh, and some of the new perspective on Paul stuff is a, a little bit helpful in this, in that it gives us a foil to sorta push against. Yes. The new perspective on Paul is this idea that, um- Paul was not saying that Judaism was legalistic and Christianity is a grace-based religion, right? He, m- [00:46:00] um, N- NPP is not, is saying, um, Paul was not correcting New or Old Testament religion. And where they go wrong is that they say that Paul actually retains this concept of covenantal faithfulness, covenantal nomism fidelity. Uh, where I think, where I think they're right is that this idea that, like, the Old Testament religion is entirely legalistic and Paul was just sort of correcting that, I think that's way too simplistic. And the reason I say that is that the Mosaic Covenant for, you know, w- and predominantly this podcast is coming from a sort of Westminster Confession of Faith Presbyterian perspective, give or take, right? The, the broad Reformed tradition would say that the, the Mosaic, uh, covenant, the Davidic Covenant, all of the covenants of the Old Testament, and we can break them up in all sorts of different ways, but all of the covenants of the Old Testament, [00:47:00] um, with maybe the exception of the Noahic Covenant, and there's some debate about that, all of those are They're not just, like, supporting structures for the covenant of grace, but they actually are the covenant of grace in various administrations. If that's true, and of course we believe that it is, if that's true, then the people of those covenants understood that on some level. Right. Right? So to think that, like, people under the administration of the covenant of grace somehow thought that they were operating under a legalistic framework doesn't make any sense. Jesse Schwamb: Yeah,  Tony Arsenal: that's true. So, so where I think that applies here is I think this person coming forward, it's not as though the concept of the covenant of grace... Again, that's language that we would develop later, but the concept that God graciously saves His people by the counsel of His own will, apart from their works of righteousness, apart from their meritorious effort, that God [00:48:00] simply extends His grace and conveys the cov- the blessings of the covenant of works to those who trust in the mediator, those who trust in the one to come, the, the forthcoming serpent-crushing seed, right, if you wanna use- Right language from Genesis 3. The, the idea that God simply graciously conveys the blessings of the covenant of works to those people Um, that's not something that's alien to the Old Testament, right? It's not alien to the, even to the Mosaic economy. The most law-based of all of the Old Testament, um, covenants, even that starts with the concept that these people are God's people who he redeemed out of Egypt, right? Right. The redemption out of Egypt comes before the giving of the law, and the giving of the law is a result of the redemption out of Egypt. So to think that this lawyer comes forward, and again, this had been sort of corrupted and distorted and had become a very works-based, uh, [00:49:00] meritorious-based understanding. But the idea that this framework of a covenant of grace is totally alien to this guy just doesn't, it just doesn't, I think it doesn't play. And so I think rather than us read this as I think sometimes we do, of Christ as kind of like giving this guy, trying to give this guy an entirely new paradigm, or like the rich young ruler is very much a parallel kind of situation. We read this, this guy comes forward, he's like, "What do I gotta do to earn eternal life?" Christ is like, kinda basically says like, "Well, you dum-dum, you can't. And I'm gonna demonstrate for you that you can't by- Right ... taking sort of like this situation that you can't possibly believe that you fulfilled and telling you to fulfill it." That's the outcome of this. We'll get to that when we get to the end of the parable. Um, he's not trying to give them a new paradigm. He's trying, in my opinion, he's trying to sort of reorient them back to the true paradigm of grace that is present under all of the Old Covenant administrations. So it's not so much a matter of like [00:50:00] developing a new framework and impli- like imposing this new framework on this guy. It's really trying to say like, "Listen- Think about this for a second, dude. Think about this, right? Think about the fact that, yes, you know you have to love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, your whole mind, and you have to love your neighbor as yourself, right? You've answered correctly. If you can do those things, you will live. With the subtext, which I think is what you're getting at, the subtext of, like, and of course you cannot possibly do those things. Right. Right. So what's the alternative, my friend? The alternative is not justifying yourself by somehow identifying who the person is that you have to love the most. The, the, the, um, the... Well, we'll get this when we get to the parable itself, but the, the alternative is... This will be interesting, 'cause I'm not sure that we... I don't know where you are on this, but, um, the alternative is that there's someone out there who shows us mercy. [00:51:00] Right. There's someone out there who takes care of our need despite our total inability to do so. Jesse Schwamb: That's right.  Tony Arsenal: That's the alternative to the covenant of works, is the covenant of grace. I m- maybe I'm, like, hinting at it too much, so I'll just say it. Like, Jesus is the Good Samaritan, right? Like, there's something for us to learn about our own justification here and our own- Right ... like, um, our own need to be merciful, to treat people as our neighbors. But just like we talked about when we talked about, like, what does the least of these mean, this parable, uh, I'm totally, like, burying the lede for next, next week, but that's fine. This parable is not primarily about us figuring out how to do mercy ministry. Right. Like, that's important. It's probably an outcome of this. It's probably something for us to think about. But really, this is actually Christ saying, like, "Hold on a second here, dude." Like, "Let's just think about this." Do you need someone who is going to tell you to pick yourself up off your bootstraps and cross to the other side of the street and leave you to [00:52:00] your own devices? Or do you need someone who's gonna throw you on their donkey, who's gonna bind up your wounds, who's gonna pay the innkeeper, and is gonna pledge to play- pay everything that is owed for your salvation? Right? That's not too on the nose here, I think. Right. And, and I really look forward to, like, unpacking that, although maybe we don't need to now, but I think, like, this parable is so much more about how salvation works than it is about, like, what it means to have a good neighbor and to be a good neighbor. I think we get bogged down in that, and I just am really excited to talk more about, like, what I think this parable actually gets at.  Jesse Schwamb: I agree, and it's happening in the contex

hi GGB:)   Guyssssss our sweet Maddie Crawford is our special guest today.    Maddie opens up about how church hurt led her away from God and into years of partying, unhealthy relationships, anxiety, and trying to fill a void that nothing could satisfy. After praying for direction, she moved to Los Angeles, attended a Bible study, encountered genuine Christian community, and began a life-changing relationship with Jesus.    She also opens up about dating and marrying Bryce, learning to put God above her relationship, navigating public judgment, comparison, modesty, submission, and the pressure to perform Christianity online. Her message to anyone feeling caught between faith and the world is that shame is not from God, following the crowd will not fulfill you, and Jesus is worth choosing.   this is such a good episode    we love you so much. Jesus loves you more. -Ang & Ari   ORDER OUR BOOK! You can order our new book "Out of the Wilderness- 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons" at https://www.girlsgonebible.com/book   JOIN US ON GGB+

hi GGB:) Today's episode is all about what happens when your heart is divided between what God is asking of you and what your flesh still wants to hold onto. This conversation is a reminder that peace often comes when we stop trying to live in two directions at once. God is not asking for a perfect heart, but He is asking for a surrendered one. We love you so much. Jesus loves you more. ORDER OUR BOOK! Order our new book, Out of the Wilderness: 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons: https://www.girlsgonebible.com/book JOIN US ON GGB+

Hello friends! Thank you for joining us for another episode of As For Me and My House podcast! On this week's show, Milena and Jordan discuss a recent encounter with angels. While this may be cause for skepticism for some, we who believe the Bible and take it seriously should not be surprised to have experiences with spiritual beings from time to time. After all, Hebrews 1:14 says, that angels are "ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation," and later on in chapter 13 verse 2, we are told to "not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Additionally, we are told that angels visited and ministered to Jesus after his temptation in the wilderness in Matthew 4:11. If you've ever had a similar encounter like Milena describes in this episode, be sure to leave a comment below and share your experience! We look forward to reading your testimonies! Be blessed! Thank you to Glorify App for sponsoring today's video! Visit glorify-app.com/myhouse to download the Glorify App for FREE! Listen to the music created by our friends at House of Psalms here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB5IQ6SUsluYbDrMy2e7cGwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thank you for joining Brighterside Church to worship and give Glory to our almighty Father Jesus Christ! I just want to remind you that God is overjoyed when his children come into the house of god. Remember Matthew 18:20 - "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”  Apple Music Playlist: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/brighterside-church/pl.u-mJy8r4EuaaxYVX ** HOW TO GIVE **  GIVE ONLINE:  You can give at our website which is below, the ways are listed on the side, they go as follows: Cash App or Venmo. https://austinluxurylife12.wixsite.com/brightersidechurch GIVE BY CARD: You can text or call in with your amount and information to:  (717)-582-1951, or email pastoraustinbsc@gmail.com GIVE BY CHECK: You can send a picture of your FULLY FILLED IN and SIGNED check, checks MUST be signed and fully written our in correct manner. Make sure you write checks out to me AUSTIN BENDER. You can write gift in the memo.  EMAIL THEM: pastoraustinbsc@gmail.com  TEXT THEM: (717)-582-1951 If you would like to give in another way please reach out to us!  Email: pastoraustinbsc@gmail.com Call Or Text: (717)-582-1951 If you would like to get more connected here at BSC you can visit our website which is linked below: https://austinluxurylife12.wixsite.co... Our website offers ways to give and sow a seed into our ministry, a forum for prayer requests, and our blog. Make sure to check it out if you feel inclined!  ▼ CREDITS ▼ Music Videos Created By: LYRIC VIDEO BY: Landon Gingerich CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Landon Gingerich Music Meets Heaven & Other names listed on the Music Videos "Give God Thanks In All Circumstances!"  Give all praise and glory to our great almighty Father!! "We worship the Lord every day, NOT Just On Sunday!" "We Are On The Brighterside because WE Are On God's Side!!" DON'T FORGET: Subscribe, and connect with us on our other platforms!  Twitter/X: Brighter_church Pastor Austin's Personal Channel:     / @austinbender   Pastor Austin's Personal Twitter/X: Auslynn7 SEE YOU ALL IN OUR NEXT WORSHIP SESSION! MAY GOD BLESS YOU & HAVE A GREAT DAY! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austin-bender1/support

Support the Soul Full Production and Outreach on Patreon for a monthly contribution or Venmo for a one-time contribution.In today's episode I'm interviewing Shelby Bowen, a Certified Christian Life Coach who specializes in helping women overcome church hurt and spiritual abuse. We have a raw and honest discussion on this difficult topic. She is truly a wealth of knowledge when it comes to overcoming this very common occurrence and I can't wait for you to listen!Connect with Shelby on IG: @shelbybowencoach or check out her programs to learn more!Follow along or message me on IG @sam_kalawart and @soulfullwithsamJoin me on the Glorify App for daily encouragement from God!All my favorite products for health and wellness!Spotify Playlist: Music for the Soul_____________________Remember that the Church may be imperfect, people may be imperfect but GOD is not.Do not let a bad taste of religion or church keep you separate from your creator. God is here to wrap his loving arms around you and carry you through this life!If you have any topic requests or questions you would like covered on the podcast,  please email me directly at: sam@samkalawart.com xx,Sam

Support the Soul Full Production and Outreach on Patreon for a monthly contribution or Venmo for a one-time contribution.In today's episode where taking a deep dive into the true meaning and origins of Halloween. You'll also here what satanists believe about this day and why they revere it so much. I think you'll be shocked as I was to the truth about this day!Book: The Second Coming of the New Age: The Hidden Dangers or Alternative Spirituality in contemporary America and its Churches.Follow along or message me on IG @sam_kalawart and @soulfullwithsamJoin me on the Glorify App for daily encouragement from God!All my favorite products for health and wellness!Spotify Playlist: Music for the Soul_____________________Want to learn more? Watch these New Age to Jesus Testimonies:Why Doreen Virtue Left the New Age to Follow JesusStop ManifestingDark side of Law of AttractionFormer Yoga Teacher: "It invites Demons"From New Age Witch Craft to JESUSOut of Astrology, Tarot, Crystals, Spirits, into Jesus with Angela UcciDivine Feminine is NOT Divine with Jessica TorresI Grew up Buddhist, Demons Followed me and Jesus did THISRemember that the Church may be imperfect, people may be imperfect but GOD is not.Do not let a bad taste of religion or church keep you separate from your creator. God is here to wrap his loving arms around you and carry you through this life!If you have any topic requests or questions you would like covered on the podcast,  please email me directly at: sam@samkalawart.com xx,Sam

Today's episode is with Benjamin Windle is a discussion that is definitely needed. We talk about some of the reasons why people are leaving the church and one of the main reasons is because people have a difficult time understanding why bad things happen to good people. I know I am not the only one who has struggled with this as well. That is why Benjamin wrote his book, Good Catastrophe. He discusses how we can reframe the way we see our problems and that hardship and hope together can do something for us that a problem free life never could. He talks about how a problem free life was not one of God's promises and isn't the pursuit of a Christian. We also talk about how hope and community go hand in hand and that we can become hope ambassadors to those around us. I pray this conversation helps you to better understand how we can get our hope and joy back even in the midst of catastrophe. Bio: Benjamin Windle is an innovative and empathic author and speaker. He has a Bachelor of Theology, an MBA from Deakin University, and Executive Education at Stanford University and the MIT Sloan School of Management. As a pastor for over twenty years, he's walked with many people through the dark shadows and valleys of the  human experience. He has dedicated his life to helping people overcome life's challenges by growing deeper in their faith and reaching higher in life. Along with his wife Cindi and their three sons, he is now based between both the U.S. and Australia. Benjamin is a new-generation content creator for some of the most respected Christian brands in the world. His work has been featured by the Barna Group, YouVersion, RightNow Media, Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast, and the Glorify App. Anchor Verse: Job 14:7 Connect with Benjamin: Website: https://www.benjaminwindle.com IG: https://instagram.com/benjaminwindle FB: https://m.facebook.com/benjaminwindlepage Book Website: https://www.goodcatastrophe.com ***This podcast is a proud member of the Spark Network! It is a network of Christian podcasts that cover so many different topics!  Head over to: https://www.sparkmedia.ventures/spark-network#/ to find more amazing podcasts!!***

(DISCLAIMER: I'm an unlicensed preacher, but as I said before, anyone can preach the word of the great almighty god of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob.) Thanks for joining us today. If you would like to give a tithe and an offering you can at our website: https://austinluxurylife12.wixsite.com/brightersidechurch If you would like to give with a check you can email me a picture of the front and back, fully filled in for me to deposit at pastoraustinbsc@gmail.com You can also call our phone line now: (814)-429-3790 WRITE CHECK OUT TO OUR MANAGER: CHARLES LYNCH ▼ CREDITS ▼ LYRIC VIDEO BY: Landon Gingerich CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Landon Gingerich Give all praise and glory to our great almighty father!! "We worship the Lord everyday, NOT Just On Sunday!" "We Are On The Brighterside Cause WE Are On GODS Side!!" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austin-bender1/support

Support the Soul Full Production and Outreach on Patreon for a monthly contribution or Venmo for a one-time contribution.In today's episode I'm discussing what it truly means to surrender to God and how when we fully give Him our lives, true transformation and peace begin to unfold. Want to learn more about the true origins of new age self-healing practices? I highly recommend the book linked below! Book: The Second Coming of the New Age: The Hidden Dangers or Alternative Spirituality in contemporary America and its Churches.Follow along or message me on IG @sam_kalawart and @soulfullwithsamJoin me on the Glorify App for daily encouragement from God!All my favorite products for health and wellness!Spotify Playlist: Music for the Soul_____________________Want to learn more? Watch these New Age to Jesus Testimonies:Why Doreen Virtue Left the New Age to Follow JesusStop ManifestingDark side of Law of AttractionFormer Yoga Teacher: "It invites Demons"From New Age Witch Craft to JESUSOut of Astrology, Tarot, Crystals, Spirits, into Jesus with Angela UcciDivine Feminine is NOT Divine with Jessica TorresI Grew up Buddhist, Demons Followed me and Jesus did THISRemember that the Church may be imperfect, people may be imperfect but GOD is not.Do not let a bad taste of religion or church keep you separate from your creator. God is here to wrap his loving arms around you and carry you through this life!If you have any topic requests or questions you would like covered on the podcast,  please email me directly at: sam@samkalawart.com xx,Sam

Daniel Grothe is the Associate Senior Pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and the author of Chasing Wisdom and The Power of Place.  Both books are powerful and timely messages for our day and age! Daniel also serves as the Sr. Content Advisor for the Glorify App. And, he has a remarkable Grammy nominated history as a drummer and musician. More importantly, Daniel and his wife Lisa, have three children--Lillian, Wilson and Wakley. Daniel has been a remarkable friend to host Mindi Linscombe and her husband Jordan for over 20 years and they are honored to have him on the show for you to glean from his insights and some fun stories, as well! In this meaningful episode, Mindi and Daniel cover powerful topics including: Tips on finding rest if you work with your mind or work with your hands. Paying attention to a larger story in life.Learning something new every decade.Learning your craft and refining your skills.  How Daniel was involved in a very pivotal moment of Mindi & Jordan's relationship in a slum in London.  The importance of "Social Capital". How relationships are a multiplier.Why he and Lisa challenge their kids to "10 seconds of brave each day". What does it look like to live a vow of stability and place in an age of wanderlust?Why you should never run from something...but when necessary, go to something. Find out more about Daniel at https://danielgrothe.com & on Instagram at: @mrdanielgrothe. Thanks for listening! Be sure to rate the show and leave a review with one key takeaway from this episode. And, be sure to subscribe to the show and tell a friend. Also, follow @thesomethingnewshow on Instagram and Facebook. If you want a fuller experience, like & subscribe to the show on Youtube! Cheers!

In this episode, Benjamin Windle talks about the themes of his latest book Good Catastrophe. He talks about finding hope in the midst of despair, darkness, and catastrophe. Is it possible to find? Well, Ben takes the story of Job and illuminates it for our time.Benjamin Windle is an innovative and empathic author, speaker, and Millennial/Gen Z specialist. As a pastor for over 20 years, he has walked with many through the dark shadows and valleys of the human experience. He has dedicated his life to helping people overcome life's challenges by growing deeper in their faith. Windle is a new-generation content creator for some of the most respected Christian brands in the world. He has a Bachelor of Theology, an MBA from Deakin University, and Executive Education at Stanford University and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He and his wife, Cindi, have three sons. Windle's academic expertise and grassroots experience in discipleship have shaped him into an influential writer and public speaker. He is passionate about helping churches reach the Millennial and Gen Z groups, offering them wise counsel and practical resources. Windle and his family are based in both the U.S. and Australia. His work has been featured by the Barna Group, YouVersion, RightNow Media, and the Glorify App. For more about the author, go to benjaminwindle.com. Benjamin's book:www.goodcatastrophe.comConnect with Joshua: jjohnson@allnations.usGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook or Instagram at www.facebook.com/shiftingculturepodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/shiftingculturepodcast/Consider Giving to the podcast and to the ministry that my wife and I do around the world. Just click on the support the show link below.Support the show

Our guest is Henry Costa, co-founder and CEO of Glorify, maker of the Glorify App, a Christian daily worship app with globally over a million users. Henry is a tech entrepreneur with multiple seasons of launching and leading startups and companies. We talk private equity, building a company, tech and faith, insights on Gen Z and spirituality, leadership lessons, and more. Plus, check out Part 2 of the latest Young Influencers List, including 10 young leaders you need to know. Make sure to visit http://h3leadership.com to access the list and all the show notes. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: COMPASSION – sponsor a child at http://compassion.com/h3 or you can TEXT “H3” to 83393. One leader, like me and you, sponsors one child. One sponsorship ensures food, clean water, education, medical checkups, and spiritual discipleship. All in partnership through the local church. Go to http://compassion.com/h3 or TEXT “H3” to 83393 to sponsor a child. Join me in bringing hope to a waiting child today. And LEADR - a people development software that helps you engage and grow every person on your team, providing a better way to collaborate and manage tasks effectively. Sign up for a FREE 7 Day trial at http://leadr.com/h3-trial and invite up to 10 team members to join. You will experience more intentional team meetings, streamlined to-do lists, and personalized goal-setting with linked action items. Visit http://leadr.com/h3-trial to start your 7 Day FREE Trial.

 Have you faced catastrophe in your life? Are there situations that had the ability to crush you but in fact created greater resilience in your character? Pastor Ben Windle talks about how God uses “good catastrophes” to empower you to greatness.  About Ben Windle Benjamin Windle is an Author, Pastor, and Millennial/Gen Z Specialist. He has been a local church Pastor for over 20 years, including as a Founding and Senior Pastor. Along with his wife Cindi and their three sons, he is now based between both the U.S. and Australia. His work has been featured by the Barna Group, YouVersion, RightNow Media, Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast, and the Glorify App. Known as an innovative and empathetic speaker and writer, he combines his academic expertise with deep grassroots experience as a practitioner. His work helping churches develop generational intelligence in reaching Millennials and Gen Z has grown into a range of resources.  

Don't miss out on the next WeAreLATech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://wearelatech.com/podcastWelcome to WeAreLATech's Los Angeles Tech Community Spotlight!   “Remix: Josh Litchman, Ed Beccle, and John Jung”WeAreLATech Podcast is a WeAreTech.fm production.To support our podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/believe To be featured on the podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/feature-your-la-startup/Want to be featured in the WeAreLATech Community? Create your profile here http://wearelatech.com/communityHost,Espree Devorahttps://twitter.com/espreedevorahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/espreeGuest, Josh Litchmanhttps://twitter.com/joshlitchmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlitchman/Guest,Ed Becclehttps://twitter.com/edward_becclehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardbeccle/Guest,John Jung https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-jung-79727816/For a calendar of all LA Startup events go to, http://WeAreLATech.comTo further immerse yourself into the LA Tech community go to http://wearelatech.com/vipLinks Mentioned:Impatient Ventures, https://www.linkedin.com/company/impatientventures/Glorify App, https://glorify-app.comBrick+Work, https://www.linkedin.com/company/brickpluswork/Credits:Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.comStory Produced, Edited and Mastered by Cory Jennings, https://www.coryjennings.com/Production and Voiceover by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/Team support by Janice GeronimoMusic by Jay Huffman, https://soundcloud.com/jayhuffmanShort Title: Josh Litchman,  Ed Beccle, and John Jung

Don't miss out on the next WeAreLATech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://wearelatech.com/podcastWelcome to WeAreLATech's Los Angeles Tech Community Spotlight!   “Remix: Josh Litchman, John Jung, and Ed Beccle”WeAreLATech Podcast is a WeAreTech.fm production.To support our podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/believe To be featured on the podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/feature-your-la-startup/Want to be featured in the WeAreLATech Community? Create your profile here http://wearelatech.com/communityHost,Espree Devorahttps://twitter.com/espreedevorahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/espreeGuest, Josh Litchmanhttps://twitter.com/joshlitchmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlitchman/Guest,John Jung https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-jung-79727816/Guest,Ed Becclehttps://twitter.com/edward_becclehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardbeccle/For a calendar of all LA Startup events go to, http://WeAreLATech.comTo further immerse yourself into the LA Tech community go to http://wearelatech.com/vipLinks Mentioned:Impatient Ventures, https://www.linkedin.com/company/impatientventures/BAYC, https://boredapeyachtclub.comBrick+Work, https://www.linkedin.com/company/brickpluswork/Glorify App, https://glorify-app.comCredits:Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.comStory Produced, Edited and Mastered by Cory Jennings, https://www.coryjennings.com/Production and Voiceover by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/Team support by Janice GeronimoMusic by Jay Huffman, https://soundcloud.com/jayhuffmanShort Title: Josh Litchman, John Jung, and Ed Beccle 

Rich Martin has a rich history of church leadership & ministry but recently felt the call to step out into the world of business. Find out about his take on the shift from church to kingdom as well as how to follow the invitation of the Holy Spirit and have the courage to try something new.► RATE, REVIEW & SUBSCRIBE to get more insightful content like this► RICH MARTIN ON INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/richmartinuk► RICH MARTIN WEBSITE: https://richmartin.co.uk► GLORIFY APP: https://glorify-app.com► SATS SOLANKI ON INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/satssolanki ► DISCOVER OUR MOST POPULAR DIGITAL PACKAGES: https://digitalrabbi.co Website design, branding design, social media strategy, email funnels and more.00:00 Intro1:00 About Rich Martin2:20 Glorify App5:35 A story of sleep6:20 The removal of choice7:30 The world is changing8:35 Technology is on trend9:20 Church vs kingdom11:55 Pay attention to the shift12:35 Advice for church leaders14:00 Rethinking church culture16:30 The calling to business19:00 Unhooking from the chain of church20:25 Holy Spirit, what are you inviting me to do today? 22:30 Your gifts match your purpose27:00 A season of uncertainty28:00 Narrowing down your focus29:30 The gift of age31:00 Just start something32:45 Every person brings something unique34:00 The awkwardness of personal brand36:00 Getting over yourself38:30 Internal permission39:10 God, money & ego41:50 Keeping things pure42:20 Be courageous43:20 Outro

Don't miss out on the next WeAreLATech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://wearelatech.com/podcastWelcome to WeAreLATech's Los Angeles Tech Community Spotlight!   “Remix: John Jung, Ed Beccle, and Morgan Williams”WeAreLATech Podcast is a WeAreTech.fm production.To support our podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/believe To be featured on the podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/feature-your-la-startup/Want to be featured in the WeAreLATech Community? Create your profile here http://wearelatech.com/communityHost,Espree Devorahttps://twitter.com/espreedevorahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/espreeGuest,John Jung https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-jung-79727816/Guest,Ed Becclehttps://twitter.com/edward_becclehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardbeccle/Guest,Morgan Williamshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mrgnw/For a calendar of all LA Startup events go to, http://WeAreLATech.comTo further immerse yourself into the LA Tech community go to http://wearelatech.com/vipLinks Mentioned: Brick+Work, https://www.linkedin.com/company/brickpluswork/Glorify App, https://glorify-app.comPersefoni Podcast, https://persefoni.com/podcastCredits:Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.comStory Produced, Edited and Mastered by Cory Jennings, https://www.coryjennings.com/Production and Voiceover by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/Team support by Janice GeronimoMusic by Jay Huffman, https://soundcloud.com/jayhuffmanShort Title: John Jung, Ed Beccle, and Morgan Williams

Guests: Hosts Catherine Gates, Nadya Dickson, & Martha Brangenberg   It's the beginning of 2022, and in this special show, the sheWorks4Him co-hosts tackle the question: “How do we bring the Holy Spirit to work with us this year?” Tune in to hear from Nadya Dickson, Catherine Gates, and Martha Brangenberg about how they are leaning into Emmanuel, God with us (both at work and home). Catherine's word of the year is FOLLOW, and what an appropriate word it is! Following the Holy Spirit's call on our lives requires us to be still and listen to his gentle promptings. The world is full of noise, and as Craig Groeschel says, “If the enemy can't destroy you, he will distract you.” In this power-packed show, the sheWorks4Him co-hosts discuss the resources and tools that help them quiet down and focus on the voice of the Holy Spirit. Resources from today's show: The Bible Study Unleashed by Women in the Marketplace is all about unleashing the Holy Spirit at work, as well as in EVERY area of life! To find out more, visit womeninmarketplace.net/start-a-group. Their team would love to help you find your small group, a place to learn and grow with other women just like you! Nadya also suggested the book Experiencing God by Henry & Richard Blackaby, as well as some apps she has found to be useful: Centering Prayer App, Abide App, and Glorify App. What scripture can we take with us into 2022?  Philippians 2:14-16.  It's been a wonderful 2021 launch for sheWorks4Him, and we look forward with anticipation to 2022. Encourage or motivated by today's show? Connect with us more at www.sheWorks4Him.com or tag @sheWorks4Him on Facebook or Instagram with your story! You can also leave a comment or submit a question to 866-713-9675 that's 866-713-WORK. Quarterly we will answer questions from YOU, so fill up the listener line with your thoughts and questions!

Is the Christian mediation app Glorify, worth $40 million dollars?

Is the Christian mediation app Glorify, worth $40 million dollars?

"Can you find God in an app?" w/ Henry Costa the CEO and Founder of Glorify @glorifyappofficial This episode of Millennial Women Talk is sponsored by Glorify, the #1 daily worship app connecting millions around the world! Enjoy 50% off the subscription plan by using the code MWTALK and download Glorify with the following link https://bit.ly/3zBImYx  Do you take time in your day to connect spiritually? Do you have a desire to learn more about the Bible but find it difficult to sit down and open it up? Well, we have a solution for you! In today's episode, we chatted with the CEO and Founder of @glorifyappofficial, Henry Costa. Glorify the app is making it easier for anyone who is seeking to connect with God through the Bible by providing a Structure to your daily worship and allowing you to get into good habits fast with curated Bible readings, guided meditation, and space to reflect and pray. Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro 01:34 How we found the Glorify App and what is it? 02:03 How the idea of the app came to be 06:03 Keys to find success launching the app 07:51 Challenges faced along the way 09:34 What to do when you want to give up 11:18 First impressions 12:55 How the name came to be 15:10 How to use Glorify 18:23 App sneak peek 23:43 Encouraging words Let's Stay Connected Instgram.com/WeAreMillennialWomen Facebook.com/WeAreMillennialWomen Shop our inspirational T-Shirt line IAmAMillennialWoman.com Subscribe to our show this helps us continue to bring you great conversions like this every week! Text us for freebies and perks (305) 850-6998 About the hosts Melissa and Stephanie Carcache are two sisters and the hosts of Millennial Women Talk Podcast, the number one podcast for millennial women looking to elevate their lives mind, body and soul. Their mission and vision is to create inspirational yet resourceful content for the women of their generation. The Carcache sisters are Cuban American and reside in Miami, FL USA Melissa Carcache: ​​Melissa is an actress and producer, known for her breakout role as Lily on Nickelodeon's hit series Every Witch Way.  In 2017, Melissa co-created, produced and starred in the scripted web series Hialeah, a tribute to the unique Miami neighborhood where she and her sister Stephanie were raised, and home to the largest Cuban population in the country. The series was honored as Best Web Series at the Omni Cultural TV Fest and Best Comedy Series at the Boca Raton Film Festival in 2020.  A passionate creator, Melissa focuses on putting out content that inspires, entertains and unites global audiences. Stephanie Carcache: Stephanie's love of performance began at an early age—at 13, she competed in the televised series America's Most Talented Kids.  She has since graced stages around the world with performances alongside Grammy Award winner Stephan Moccio and the LGT Youth Orchestra for a sold-out concert series in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates melding the sounds of a full orchestra with pop crossover vocals. Her latest release, Army of One, contains remixes by Andy Shade and house music legend Stonebridge.

Hey everyone! At the beginning of this podcast, we have a quick chat about a book called, "Believe Bigger" by Marshawn Evans Daniels. It's so good! I should be finished with the whole book by the time this podcast airs, but a story she shared in the book, I wanted to share with you to encourage you in your walk with Christ today. With Christ, each day we get has meaning and purpose... So let's do what we do for the Lord! If you want to, buy the book or see if you can check it out at your local library. Our downtown Pensacola main library was where I checked out this book. I also talk about the Glorify App. Pleaseeeeeee know that these are not advertisements. These are just two Christian platforms that are helping me in my walk with Christ and broadcasting God's love. Hope they encourage you to Christ!! It's all about Him. Then we go into a conversation with Caleb Pierce who is an entrepreneur in Pensacola who started Makers Coffee Co. with his wife Haley. The concept of their coffee cart is super interesting, so I hope you all enjoy and are drawn to Christ from this conversation. Connect with Caleb below! Instagram for Makers Coffee Co.: https://www.instagram.com/makerscoffeeco/?hl=en Facebook for Makers Coffee Co.: https://www.facebook.com/FishOrtho/photos/%EF%B8%8F-makers-coffee-pop-up-%EF%B8%8Fjoin-us-for-some-fancy-coffee-at-our-pensacola-location-/3929518617094664/ Markers website: https://www.makers.coffee/ Caleb's videography company website: https://www.calebpierce.co/ Thank you so much Caleb for your time!! Yall please follow his pages and thank him for coming on and sharing what God has on his heart!! Thanks for listening!!

If you've ever strived for perfection, then you know how it feels when you fall short. Maybe you aren't the one carrying a list of all you "need to do to earn God's love." But more the type who carries a "Never Good Enough List” with all the reasons you'll never be able to earn His love. Either way, Amy Carroll, (author, speaker, Proverbs 31 contributor) is on the podcast this week helping us break up with perfect. In this episode (and in her new book), Amy helps us recognize the lies we have been believing and the Truth to set us free. Lies like: "I was created to produce perfection" or "People are obstacles to my tasks" or "If I have the right stuff, my life will be perfect." My favorite quote from our conversation was: Only when I end my own pursuit of perfection can God do a perfecting work in me. --Amy Carroll  May you experience a supernatural freedom from the struggle to be perfect. May your friendships deepen, your family be strengthened and your awareness of God's love grow as you stop striving and surrender to His gentle heart work. Connect with Amy: Breaking Up with Perfect :: Blog :: Facebook :: Twitter :: Pinterest  What we chat about: The events making Amy aware of her perfectionism The impact a mentor had in Amy's journey to lose the list of perfect The supernatural work God did on Amy to break the shell around her heart, to feel His love The two perfect super moms in Amy's head--torn between two ideals. The destruction of friendship when perfectionism enters. The different types of perfectionists and their lists: good girl list or the never-good-enough list The possibility of passing on perfectionism to our kids. Links Mentioned: Courtney DeFeo--our connector Breaking up with Perfect Dr. Caroline Leaf Proverbs 31 Ministries The Opinion Blender--didn't mention in podcast, but found it on Amy's site. . .such great advice Discussion Questions: Have you had friendships end because of your struggles with perfection? When friends go through hard times do you wonder how to be a good, imperfect friend?  Do you have a mentor? Is there someone you wish you could meet with? Could you make a plan to meet with her once in the next few months?  Could you relate to Amy's struggle to feel God's love and having a list of things you have to do to be right with God? What areas are you striving for perfection in motherhood? Who is your mental ‘ideal' mom? Earth-mama, right-on-schedule mom?  Which type of perfectionist do you relate to—the good girl list or the never-good-enough list? Need to measure up or will never measure up? Or do you swing between the lists?  What have you found helpful to break up with perfection? Featured Sponsors: Betterhelp--get 10% off your first month of secure online professional counseling betterhelp.com/DMA Glorify app--Get 50% off unlimited access to Glorify App with promo code DMA applied in the profile section of the app.   

Cornelius and Heather are back with another episode. This time they bring along with them the co-founder and CEO of the Glorify App, Henry Costa to discuss how he was able to create such a successful Christian meditation application.Download the Glorify App TODAY!https://share.glorify-app.com/1ry8Yd1Ulhb

Welcome to the Live in Love Podcast! Each week Lauren sits down with friends and family to talk about all the different areas of her life where she gets to live in love. She shares behind the scenes things to share with you that you may not know even if you have read her book Live in Love. Co-hosted by Annie F. Downs. If you haven't gotten your copy of Lauren's beautiful book, Live in Love, the paperback edition is new and you can pick one up at your favorite local bookstore or at laurenakins.com. On today's episode, Lauren sits down for a solo episode with Annie F. Downs to talk about what it's like to live in love today. Thanks to our sponsors in this episode: Cru - For only $21 a month, you can provide three people with Bibles each and every month. As a thank you, Cru will provide meals to five hungry families through their humanitarian aid ministry AND you'll receive a copy of Lauren's new book, Live in Love. Simply text LOVE to 71326 to help today. Glorify App - As a Live in Love listener, you can download the Glorify app from your app store, create an account and enter code LIVEINLOVE in the profile section for a special limited-time promotion of 50% off unlimited access to Glorify's premium content designed to help you get into good worship habits and grow closer to God. That's promo code LIVEINLOVE to get 50% off unlimited access to Glorify's premium content when you download the Glorify App today. Hello Fresh - Now you too can enjoy more time with the family and less time planning: go to hellofresh.com/liveinlove14 and use the promo code LIVEINLOVE14 for 14 free meals including free shipping. Make sure you tag us in your socials when you get your meal kit and show your support for the show. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to the Live in Love Podcast! Each week Lauren sits down with friends and family to talk about all the different areas of her life where she gets to live in love. She shares behind the scenes things to share with you that you may not know even if you have read her book Live in Love. Co-hosted by Annie F. Downs. If you haven't gotten your copy of Lauren's beautiful book, Live in Love, the paperback edition is new and you can pick one up at your favorite local bookstore or at laurenakins.com. On today's episode, Lauren sits down with her friend, Lauren Tomlin to talk about what it's like to live in love in purpose. Thanks to our sponsors in this episode: Cru - For only $21 a month, you can provide three people with Bibles each and every month. As a thank you, Cru will provide meals to five hungry families through their humanitarian aid ministry AND you'll receive a copy of Lauren's new book, Live in Love. Simply text LOVE to 71326 to help today. Glorify App - You can download the Glorify app from your app store, create an account and enter code LIVEINLOVE in the profile section for a special limited-time promotion of 50% off unlimited access to Glorify's premium content designed to help you get into good worship habits and grow closer to God! That's promo code LIVEINLOVE to get 50% off unlimited access to Glorify's premium content when you download the Glorify App today. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Graphic Rhythm DesignsRecommended Tool for DIY Design: Glorify  (like Canva for ecommerce ) SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:3:00 - how to optimize product images 12:12 - how to capture a product image when you have a commodity product like a supplement 17:30 - why all you need is $40 to create great brand images23:22 - DIY image software (Glorify App)30:34 - How to capture the Voice of the Customer 

Hey, Glorify fam!  Are you ready to learn how to successfully manage your remote team? In this episode, we have an amazing guest, Matt Ackerson, who'll share with you all his tips when it comes to managing a remote team.  Matt is the founder of Autogrow, a company that helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses smarter and faster using online sales funnels and digital marketing.  Over the last decade, he's been a part of the founding of 3 different companies and managed thousands of people worldwide. Matt specializes in sales, online marketing solutions, remote team management, web design, and web development. So he is the perfect person to learn from! If you want to hear what he had to say about managing remote teams, listen to the full podcast episode right now! ____________________________ Glorify App is all-in-one business design tool that helps you create high-converting product images with just a few clicks

If you wanna nail your email marketing strategy and get more traffic to your website, this is the perfect place to start. We're back with another great ‘The Path to Glory' episode and today we are talking about the top email marketing strategies for e-commerce in 2021. As usual, we have an amazing guest who will share his knowledge and experience with you - Chase Diamond. Chase is the founder of Chase Diamond.com and a co-founder of Boundless Labs - a top email marketing agency. Here are some cool facts about him and his team: 1. They've helped their clients send millions of emails resulting in over $50 million in email attributable revenue 2. They are currently working with over 50 brands that have 6-8 figures in annual revenue 3. Chase has created and scaled a product of his own and managed to get 500.000 visiting in 6 months without spending a dollar Enjoy! _____________________________ Glorify App is all-in-one business design tool that helps you create high-converting product images with just a few clicks

Do you want to build a profitable 3rd party application? But you're not sure how? Well, on this week's episode of “The Path to Glory,” Uri Abramson will delve into this! Uri Abramson is a top-notch developer and a super-successful entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Post Studio, Overdraft Apps, and RecipeGET. Uri is also an experienced VP of R&D with a history of working in the fin-tech industry. So there's no doubt that this podcast is going to be a goldmine! __________________________ Glorify App is an all-in-one business design tool that helps you create high-converting product images with just a few clicks

In Episode 89, Adam sits down with longtime worship leader Mack Brock to talk about Matt's career in music, how we handle control, being intentional about our time, obedience to God, Mack and his wife Meredith's experience with foster parenting, and so much more. Glorify App: apple.co/32uGpzbMack's new album, Space: apple.co/36mD9qq