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Mabuting Balita l Abril 25, 2024 - Huwebes sa Ika-4 na Linggo ng Pasko ng Pagkabuhay     Ebanghelyo: Mk 16:15-20 Sinabi ni Hesus sa mga alagad: “Pumunta kayo sa buong daigdig at ipahayag ang Ebanghelyo sa buong sangkinapal. Maliligtas ang maniniwala at magpabinyag; hahatulan naman ang di maniniwala. At ito ang mga tandang sasama sa mga maniniwala: magpapalayas sila ng mga demonyo sa aking Pangalan, magsasalita sila sa iba pang mga wika, hahawakan nila ang mga ahas, at hindi sila maaano kung iinom man sila ng may lason. Ipapatong nila ang kanilang kamay sa mga maysakit at gagaling ang mga iyon.” Matapos silang kausapin ng Panginoong Hesus, iniakyat siya sa Langit at lumuklok sa kanan ng Diyos. At umalis sila at nangaral sa lahat ng lugar. Kasama nilang gumagawa ang Panginoon at pinatatatag ang Salita sa tulong ng mga tandang kasama nila.   Pagninilay: Isinulat ni Fr. Ramil Tapang ng Society of St. Paul ang pagninilay sa ebangheyo.  Ngayon ay Kapistahan ni San Markos, isang ebanghelista. Ang kanyang tanda ay isang leon na may pakpak. Bakit nga ba leon na may pakpak ang kanyang tanda? Unang-una, ayon sa aklat ng Ezekiel at Pahayag, ito ay tanda ni Hesus na makapangyarihan at muling nabuhay. Pangalawa, kung babasahin at pag-aaralan ang ebanghelyo, nagsisimula ito sa pamamagitan ni Juan Bautista, na may dumadagundong na panawagan (like the roaring of a lion) na may pakpak (na tanda ng kapangyarihan at tagadala ng mabuting balita), “Ihanda ang daan ng Panginoon. Tuwirin ninyo ang kanyang mga landas… Ipangangaral ang bautismo ng pagsisisi para sa ikapagpapatawad ng mga kasalanan” (cf.  Mark 1:314).  (Ang ebanghelyo ayon kay San Markos ay hindi tulad ng tatlong ebanghelyo na “tahimik” at may mahabang panimula pa. Ang kay San Marcos, wala nang pasikot-sikot, direct to the point. Kapansin-pansin din na hindi niya tinatawag si Hesus na Anak ng Tao, kundi Anak ng Diyos. Ito rin ang pinakamaikli sa lahat ng ebanghelyo.)  Sino nga ba si San Markos? Hindi siya kasama sa labindalawang alagad ni Hesus. Gayunpaman, pinapaniwalaan na isa siya sa mga unang kristiyano; at ang tawag sa kanya ni San Pedro ay anak, dahil marahil, si San Pedro ang nagbinyag sa kanya. Kung kayat sabi sa unang sulat ni San Pedro, “Kinukumusta rin kayo ni Marcos, na aking anak sa pananampalataya” (1 Pedro 5:13-14).  Dagdag pa dito, siya ang namuno upang maitayo ang simbahan sa Egipto. Mga kapatid, malaki ang ambag ni San Markos sa pagpapahayag ng Mabuting Balita. Ito ang umalingawngaw na mensahe ni San Pablo noong nakulong siya sa Roma. Sabi nga niya, “Hanapin mo si Marcos at isama mo rito, sapagkat malaki ang maitutulong niya sa aking mga gawain” (2 Timothy 4,11). // Sa ating pagdiriwang ng kapistahan ni San Markos, sana tularan natin siya na ipahayag si Hesus sa salita at gawa. Ito din ang hamon ng ating Ebanghelyo ngayon, “Humayo kayo at ipahayag ang Mabuting Balita. Amen.  

Mabuting Balita l Disyembre 9, 2023 – Sabado l Unang Linggo ng Adbiyento        Ebanghelyo: Mateo 9:35-10:1, 5a, 6-8 Nilibot ni Hesus ang mga bayan at mga nayon; nagtuturo siya sa kanilang mga sinanoga, nagpapahayag ng Mabuting Balita ng Kaharian at nagpapagaling ng lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Nang makita niya ang makapal na tao, naawa siya sa kanila sapagkat hirap sila at lupaypay na parang mga tupang walang pastol. At sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad: “Marami nga ang aanihin at kakaunti naman ang mga manggagawa. Idalangin ninyo sa Panginoon ng ani na magpadala siya ng mga manggagawa sa kanyang ani.” Tinawag ni Hesus ang labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Sinabi ni Hesus sa kanila: “Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang kaharian ng Langit.' Pagalingin ang maysakit, buhayin ang patay, linisin ang mga mayketong at palayasin ang mga demonyo. Ibigay ninyo nang walang bayad ang tinanggap ninyo nang walang bayad.”    Pagninilay: Sa ating Mabuting Balita, narinig natin ang Panginoong Hesus na naglalakbay, nagtuturo, at nagpapagaling ng mga may sakit. Ito'y isang malinaw na larawan ng Kanyang pagmamahal at paglilingkod sa mga nangangailangan. Si Hesus ay hindi lamang isang guro o manggagamot; Siya ay ang Tagapagligtas at modelo ng kabutihang-loob. Ipinakita Niya sa atin ang halaga ng pagmamahal sa ating kapwa, lalo na sa mga nangangailangan. Sinabi niya sa mga alagad: “Napakaraming aanihin, ngunit kakaunti ang mag-aani. Idalangin Ninyo sa may-ari ng aanihin na magpadala ng mga mag-aani.” Mga kapanalig, baka tayo na ang tugon sa panalanging ito! Tayo ang mga mag-aani na nais ipadala ng Diyos.  Ang Adbiyento ay panahon upang tingnan ang ating mga buhay at suriin kung paano tayo makakatulong sa mga nangangailangan. Ang munting hakbang na ito ay maaaring magdala ng malalim na kahulugan sa ating paghahanda para sa pagdating ng Panginoon.   -  FR. ROLLY GARCIA JR.

Mabuting Balita l Hulyo 12, 2023 Miyerkules ng Ika – 14 na Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon Ebanghelyo: Mt 10:1-7 Tinawag ni Hesus ang Labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasinang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Ito ang pangalan ng labindalawang apostol: una, si Simong tinatawag na Pedro, at ang kanyang kapatid na si Andres; si Jaime na anak ni Zebedeo, at ang kapatid nitong si Juan; sina Felipe at Bartolome, Tomas at Mateo, na tagasingil ng buwis; si Jaimeng anak ni Alfeo, at si Tadeo; si Simong Kananeo, at si Judas Iskariote na magkakanulo sa kanya. Sinugo ni Hesus ang labindalawang ito at pinagbilinan: “Huwag kayong lumiko papunta sa mga pagano at huwag pumasok sa bayang Samaritano. Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang Kaharian ng Langit   Pagninilay: Mga kapanalig, sa araw na ito muli tayong pinapaalalahanan ng Panginoong Hesus ng ating misyon, tulad ng misyon na ibinigay niya sa kanyang mga alagad.  Sa Mabuting Balita, narinig natin ang mga pangalan ng labing dalawang alagad o “Apostles” na sinugo ng Panginoon sa misyon – “Humayo kayo at ipangaral ninyo na malapit nang maghari ang Diyos.” At kasunod nito ang pagbilin sa kanila na hanapin ang mga nawawalang tupa ng Israel o ang mga taong nawawala sa kanilang landas at pananampalataya sa Diyos.  Ang misyon na ipalaganap o ipangaral ang mabuting balita ng Panginoon ay para sa ating lahat na mga binyagan. Hindi lamang ito para sa mga pari, madre, relihiyoso at “missionaries”.  Nang tayo'y bininyagan at naging mga anak ng Diyos, may kaakibat itong misyon, isang responsibilidad natin bilang mga Kristyanong katoliko. Sa ating pagsimba, naririnig natin sa pagtatapos ng Misa ang “humayo kayo at ipalaganap ang mabuting balita”. Napakahalagang tandan at gawin natin ang atas na ito.  Ano ba ang ating ipapalaganap, ipapangaral o ibabahagi sa ating kapwa? Ang pagmamahal ng Diyos, ang mga aral na natutunan natin sa mga pagbasa, lalo na sa mismong Mabuting Balita na nagbibigay sa atin ng liwanag o pag-asa ng buhay. Makinig din tayo sa homiliya ng pari upang mapalalim ang ating pagkaintindi ng Salita ng Diyos at maisabuhay ito.  Nawa'y tanggapin natin ang Mabuting Balita na biyaya ng Diyos, at sikaping maisabuhay at maibahagi ito sa ating kapwa sa tulong ng Banal na Espiritu. Manalangin tayo:  Panginoong Diyos, maraming salamat po sa araw-araw na mga biyaya!  Nais po naming sumunod sa iyong kalooban na gawin ang misyon na ibinigay ninyo sa amin. Tulungan mo po kaming maibahagi ang iyong Mabuting Balita lalo na sa mga hindi pa nakakarinig nito at nawawala sa landas.  Hinihiling din po namin na gawin mo kaming instrumento at saksi ng iyong pagmamahal sa aming pamilya at kapwa, amen. - Sr. Mennen Alarcon, FSP l Daughter's of St. Paul      

Mabuting Balita l Hunyo 18, 2023 Ika-11 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (A) Ebanghelyo: Mateo 9:36 – 10:8 Nang makita ni Hesus ang makapal na tao, naawa siya sa kanila sapagkat hirap sila at lupaypay na parang mga tupang walang pastol. At sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad: “Marami nga ang aanihin at kakaunti naman ang mga manggagawa. Idalangin ninyo sa Panginoon ng ani na magpadala siya ng mga manggagawa sa kanyang ani.” Tinawag ni Hesus ang Labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Ito ang mga pangalan ng labindalawang apostol: una, si Simong tinatawag na Pedro, at ang kanyang kapatid na si Andres; si Jaime na anak ni Zebedeo, at ang kapatid nitong si Juan; sina Felipe at Bartolome, Tomas at Mateo, na tagasingil ng buwis; si Jaimeng anak ni Alfeo, at si Tadeo; si Simong Kananeo, at si Judas Iskariote na magkakanulo sa kanya. Sinugo ni Hesus ang labindalawang ito at pinagbilinan: “Huwag kayong lumiko papunta sa mga pagano at huwag pumasok sa bayang Samaritano. Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. “Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang Kaharian ng Langit'. Pagalingin ang maysakit, buhayin ang patay, linisin ang mga may ketong at palayasin ang mga demonyo. Ibigay ninyo nang walang bayad ang tinanggap ninyo nang walang bayad.     Pagninilay: Mga kapanalig, sa Mabuting Balita ngayong araw, nakita natin kung paano naging maawaing pastol si Hesus. Nakita niya ang mga tao na parang mga tupa na walang pastol.  Naawa si Hesus sa kanila, at sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad na magpahayag ng Mabuting Balita sa mga taong ito. Pero hindi madali ang pagiging alagad ng Panginoon. Ipinakita ni Hesus sa kanyang mga alagad na may mga pagsubok na darating sa kanilang pagtupad sa kanilang tungkulin. Pero mas mahalaga ang kanilang misyon, na ipakalat ang Mabuting Balita sa mga taong nangangailangan. Minsan, maaaring magdulot ng tiwala sa sarili ang mga pagsubok na ito. Pero ipinakita rin ni Hesus sa kanyang mga alagad na hindi sila nag-iisa sa kanilang paglalakbay. Kasama nila ang Panginoon, at hindi siya magdudulot ng kahit anong paghihirap na hindi nila kayang lampasan. Sa ating panahon, may mga taong naghihirap din sa mga laylayan ng ating mga komunidad, at wala nang ibang tumutulong sa kanila. Hindi natin dapat ipagwalang-bahala ang kanilang kalagayan. At bilang mga alagad ni Hesus, may tungkulin tayo na dalhin ang kanyang pagmamahal sa kanila. Mga kapanalig, mag tiwala sa Panginoon, tulungan natin ang isa't isa na magsikap na maging mabuting alagad at magpakalat ng kanyang Mabuting Balita sa buong mundo. Nawa'y patuloy tayong gabayan ng Panginoon sa ating mga paglalakbay, at nawa'y magpatuloy tayong maging maawain sa ating mga kapwa. Amen.   - Fr. Rolly Garcia Jr. – Director of Biblical Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Manila    

Show Resources Here were the resources we covered in the episode: Follow Andrew Harder on LinkedIn Awesome viral post about LinkedIn document ads from Andrew Another excellent viral post from Andrew about this video strategy Certified Marketing Experts Certification Follow AJ on LinkedIn NEW LinkedIn Learning course about LinkedIn Ads by AJ Wilcox Youtube Channel Contact us at Podcast@B2Linked.com with ideas for what you'd like AJ to cover. A great no-cost way to support us: Rate/Review! Show Transcript AJ Wilcox Are you interested to hear how LinkedIn Video Ads drive actual opportunities, not just leads? Well, you'll love this case study with Cisco on this week's episode of the LinkedIn Ads Show. Welcome to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Here's your host, AJ Wilcox. AJ Wilcox Hey there, LinkedIn Ads fanatics! I get asked so often about video ads on LinkedIn. And the truth is that it's so hard to answer what works and what doesn't with video, because it's so very different from static. There are infinite ways to deliver a message through video. It sure makes it difficult to narrow down and find a set of best practices that we can then present to other marketers as a recipe for success. When a friend reached out and told me that he'd had extreme success with video ads, I was listening. Then he shared how video ads weren't just getting high click through rates or low cost per view, but they're getting him low costs per opportunity. Well, he then had my full attention. He's got gold to share. And of course, I wanted to share that gold with you LinkedIn Ads fanatics. Andrew Harder, and I have crossed paths lots of times in the past. He started out his career at Hanapin Marketing, the agency that puts on the advanced PPC conference called Heroconf, and also do the blog, PPCHero. I absolutely love this conference in this blog and I've been blessed to speak at hero comp for the last like six years. It's by far one of my favorite shows that I attend every year. I've also been blessed to be named one of PPC Heroes, top 25 PPC professionals for lots of years running. And Andrew wasn't behind any of those decisions. So don't worry, this is not a conflict of interest. But Hanapin got acquired by Brain Labs and they're a mega agency. He moved on and now he works for Cisco under WebEx events. I'm really excited to interview Andrew about his results at Cisco. So we'll dive into the interview. AJ Wilcox But first in the news, one cool feature. So one of our loyal listeners, Joshua Stout, from the Impactable agency, who consequently I actually got to meet last night when he and his team were in town for a team building exercise, and we got to go to dinner. But he posted this week that he got access to a new feature on one of his accounts and it's called Website Actions. If you remember from the B2Believe event, this was one of the features that was announced would be coming, but didn't let us know when it would be coming. So I was so excited to see it out in the wild. To check to see if you have it in your account, navigate in the left hand navigation bar, under analyze, and then look and see if you have a heading there for website actions. I have to tell you, this feature is going to be so cool. And the reason why, I have to ask you, have you ever tried to set up a conversion action as an event, not just as a thank you page that people land on and it triggers the conversion? To do it as an event, you have to put a bit of JavaScript on the button that you want to track. And if you're like me, you don't happen to know JavaScript, it's a whole lot of troubleshooting, and wasted time, and no way to tell whether it's implemented correctly. What this feature does is it scans your landing pages to find buttons on the page, and then allows you to create any of those buttons as a conversion event just by selecting it. It works by having your insight tag installed on the page. There's no custom JavaScript, no wondering if it's set up properly, you just click an action and call it a conversion. This is one of those rare acts of brilliance by LinkedIn. I love the concept of this feature. I'm excited to get to use it. And it's also one of those features that I totally would have expected someone like Meta or Google to come up with. And yet we have it here on LinkedIn. Hurray. Justin Rowe from Impactable suggested that this feature may have been a result of the marketing analytics company called Oribi that LinkedIn acquired back in February of 2022. And that sounds totally plausible to me. Another awesome listener, Jay Rathell mentioned that he thought this was part of a beta so it might not actually be out yet. Your rep may have had to register you in the beta to get access. And I'm not sure what the truth is there. So just watch out in your accounts for when you get it. I wanted to give a shout out to Dig Altamiranda. Dig left us a review here on the podcast that says, "Best LinkedIn paid podcast ever. I love how AJ is unbiased and unguarded when sharing his expertise, the performance of my campaigns has definitely seen a boost since I started listening. And I will be a fan of the podcast for a very long time, a must listen. Dig, thanks so much for sharing that you've been able to take the things that you've learned from this show, and then use them to boost your campaigns and your performance. Well done. And of course, thank you for the kind words. It means a lot to me and the whole team who support me in the creation of these episodes. As a reminder, if this is not your first time listening to the show, please do leave a review and I want feature and shout you out as well. All right. Without further ado, let's jump into the interview with Andrew Harder. Let's hit it. AJ Wilcox I'm so excited to have Andrew Harder here. He's the senior paid media manager at WebEx events. It's a Cisco company. He lives in the Bloomington Indiana area. Andrew, I'm super excited to have you here. Andrew Harder Thanks, AJ been really looking forward to this thing. Thank you for having me. AJ Wilcox Oh, of course. First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself. Like give us the whole background. Andrew Harder Yeah. So have been in the PPC paid media world going on six years now. I had a few jobs post college, it was a little bit late getting into my current marketing career arc now. But I started at Hanapin, a small agency that's located here. That was actually how I first heard about you, AJ. So it's fun being on your podcast today. It's what little I knew about B2B at the time, like you were always the guy that we went to for resources. So yeah, I was there for about three and a half years. And then in the spring of 2021, I joined Socio, an event software company. And we were then shortly after acquired by Cisco, so hence the rebrand to WebEx events. But we're still a standalone software that's a part of the larger WebEx suite now, but I joined just to really run like their paid media. And it was just kind of search at first, but we've expanded a ton into paid social, especially LinkedIn, which is I know what we're gonna be chatting about today. So looking forward to diving in deeper with you. AJ Wilcox Awesome. Well, my roots with Hanapin go really deep. They're the ones who put on the Hero Conference. I've spoken there for years and years. 2023 is actually got cancelled this year, which, you know, just telling everyone else, which is so sad, because it's the first time we haven't had Hero Conference in a long time. I always look forward to that one. Hanapin was purchased by Brain Labs, like you were just telling me how many acquisitions they've gone through. They've been really growing a bunch of stuff, which is super cool for the digital marketing, but exciting background. So tell us about when you went to WebEx events? What kind of shape was the LinkedIn Ads account or the LinkedIn Ads initiatives before you got there? And what did you I guess, set up and start to do? Andrew Harder Yeah, so I mean, there technically was a few things that were just getting launched, like the month I started, but it was very bare bones, there have been a few like small tests here. And just kind of top of funnel content, and some like event promotions, like webinar promotions, but really, it was kind of a blank slate. So it was super fun. I mean, for most B2B brands, like searches, you know, priority in terms of driving MQLs and pipeline and revenue. So that was what I spent most my time with at first, but I was also only the fourth marketer hired on the team. So we didn't really have any content. There was another content marketer that started with me, but we're a team of four. And then because of the Cisco acquisition, we were able to grow really fast, and you know, just have a lot more budget. So our team then grew to a team of 20. So we had a content team, events team, it really took a while like having to think now. It was probably the first year I was there, it was just kind of adding in some more top of funnel content, promoting some things of course, like with the rebrand needed a lot of brand awareness around that, but there wasn't nearly the same level of like strategy as we have now. So we do have a lot more into video, but it was just kind of your traditional, like gated lead gen with some brand awareness. AJ Wilcox Very cool. Alright, so obviously, we have you on the show, because you've really knocked it out of the park in a lot of ways. I'm curious, what kinds of initiatives did you take on? After you came in you saw where it was at? You mentioned that you start some video, tell us how that all really progressed. Andrew Harder Yeah. So I mean, first thing, we hired another person to work with me because our budget and channels have gotten so large, so I was managing all like search and social and programmatic channels. And so we hired the amazing Krystal Marquez to work with me. And so she was a huge part of this transformation because like I said, we were just running just a lot of lead gen. There wasn't a ton of pressure for us to generate down funnel results. But we could do a lot more if we really started honing in on our audience on LinkedIn because, you know, for us, like we do have a few different ICPs but primarily like event marketing managers, field marketing, you know, a lot of those folks are on LinkedIn. And so at the same time, our events team was producing just amazing virtual events that we could use as like cut down. So I'm getting a bit head I think, but we started to put on paper, hey, we're gonna spend a lot of time analyzing our CRM, see what job titles were missing, and also, instead of having like, just like this large ICP audience, we're gonna segment that. So that was like kind of step one of like, audience segmentation. And then we also really want to talk to some of our customers, which is, like kind of a small step that's easy to gloss over in this process. But I think it was a huge part for us was, we wanted to actually talk to you. And we were able to talk to you like four different ideal, like customer profiles and different job levels. And really ask them frank questions about like the buying process, how they heard about us what channels are on, because we wanted to validate some of the things that we were going to do from a channel perspective, but also the type of content. And then we spent a ton of time cutting down these videos writing really like in depth ads. So it's not just, you know, slap a couple lines, hey, watch this video, like we really were taking the time of what's breakout, like, what are these nuggets that we can share with our audience. And so we spent a lot of time doing that. So that was a three month process really, of doing that. But before that, there was a lot of internal discussions about how we're going to change our strategy, and also took some work kind of convincing our bosses to to like, hey, we're going to take some of our lead gen budget, and we're going to start doing a lot of video where you don't get direct results from. AJ Wilcox Oh, yeah, so there's a lot of different areas. I want to dive in here. The first let's talk about this, what sounds like customer focus group or really market research. We just recently had an episode by the time this one comes out about market research. So this is something that's very top of mind for me. Did you go out and hire a market research firm to conduct this? Did you just grassroots say, hey, let's just start sending emails to our customers. How did you go about doing this Andrew Harder Super simple process, I'll break down that. Literally anyone can do, especially you're in paid media, you don't typically think of paid media folks doing this. But if you have, you know, whether you slack or whatever, internal comms, you need slack, you need Google docs. And that's literally all you need is an email. So like there's no hiring a firm or anything like that, it was I sent a message to our customer team, just asking for a list in for contacts of customers that would be willing to speak with us, and I prefaced it with hey, like, we're marketing. So they might think, Oh, they just want more case studies and things like that, which we do. And a lot of our customers are happy to do that. But I was framing it as hey, we literally just want to get some feedback for some things that we're gonna be testing out on social. And I got a list and I can't remember how many I was given, but we ended up being able to conduct 10 interviews over the course of like a month. And when I say 10, you might think, well, who cares? Like that's like nothing is a small sample size. I would say we have so much data like you know, we're marketers, we always want to be data driven, you can get that in the platform's, but really like spending half hour to an hour, with 10 different customers upwards of 10 hours of like, really in depth, going back and forth, you can discover so much more information. And also like we got a lot of ideas to from different types of creative that you want to test on LinkedIn and the types of content that we could go back to our content team and event team and say, hey, like people are talking about XYZ, are there plans for that? Do we already have some of that? And so it was super helpful, I would recommend that exercise to anyone. And also you'll be surprised if you have a great product you have for sure customers that are going to be happy to talk about it, especially if it helps them do their job better. Or for us like event software, a lot of event managers like have just horror stories of like, you know, event apps that didn't work or took super long time to get things set up. And so, you know, when they experience something that's a lot easier to use, or they're able to like justify ROI from their sponsorship, just like different things like that. They're pumped to talk about that, just like how I am as a marketer with different tools that we use in our everyday. So yeah, I would say do it. AJ Wilcox Did you have to offer them anything for their participation? Like a gift card or discount or anything like that? Andrew Harder Yeah, good question. So we didn't like have to I don't think. We offered, there's a WebEx merch store that actually does have a lot of cool stuff on it, so we offered like, I think it was like a $50 voucher to that. So it was just kind of like a thank you. But I honestly I would say probably all of those people would have done it without anything. But yeah, because we also do for anyone that's in B2B SaaS, like, we do a lot of reviews, too. Like we do gift cards, and like those reviews are great, but like, doing these actual like in person, or like through virtual, like those interviews, like it's so different than just, you know, filling out a few questions on G2. AJ Wilcox Yes. And what I want all the LinkedIn Ads fanatics out there to understand is, I don't want you to hear this and say, Well, of course, Cisco has the budget, to go out and hire market research firms and go and do all this, but I'm just a lowly paid marketer. That's not my job. I don't want you to let yourself off that easily. This is what Andrew did. He started this program as a paid marketing manager and did it by himself without a significant budget. And you heard him say he didn't even have to offer them anything for their participation. They would have been stoked to chat. But of course, it's always nice if he can offer something. So very insightful, like thanks for sharing us with us about the program. You also mentioned that you were cutting out video and that video was an initiative that you wanted to take on. First of all, what was spurred you to decide that you wanted to go all in on video? And how did you go about that? Andrew Harder Yeah, so I guess starting with kind of like the bigger picture reason why we did have a lot of I would say good solid image assets and different things that we were running like, it wasn't like we didn't have quality. But we knew, especially on LinkedIn, again, if your audience is engaged on it every day, multiple times, like, people do stop, at least I'm talking from personal experience, if there are videos, it doesn't have to be video necessarily, but for the sake of this conversation, like there are certainly that is about like other paid media, marketers talking about things that they do, or different tools, like I certainly, like, stop and watch those things. I don't like it. I don't like do anything to like, give LinkedIn, some feedback. So they get that, but a lot of times, you know, I send a Slack message to my team and say, hey, like, what do you think about this? And so one of the reasons why we really wanted to video was, we knew that we wanted to start, people use the term like creating demand, it might be a bit generous for what we were doing. But I do think we were really trying to like speak to just pain points and different like, ways that we could educate, who we were trying to bring in whether you know, they come in six months from now through a PPC click, or they come in through a different means or like, do they start falling on LinkedIn page, and then, you know, they click on us, you know, three, four months from now. We weren't so obsessed with like getting like this direct response from that it was really about taking these like 30 seconds, even upwards of like, two and a half, three minute clips of hey, there's a ton of virtual events, event marketer, and we're talking to you, how do you increase like virtual engagement awareness? How do you measure that? That's just one small example. But we were cutting this down. So we had that like focusing on like the virtual aspect, because our platform is virtual and person and hybrid speaking to, we have a lot of higher ed companies, a lot of member based organizations that their business or their event, like programs really run on sponsorships. And so like, we talked a lot about how to prove ROI from your event sponsorships how to, like get better at partnering with different sponsors, things like that, that were just very specific like one message. And this goes back to like the audience targeting we'd split this out. So instead of like this one large, like, okay, we want all these people, we knew that, you know, people that work at universities are very different than and they have very different event needs than someone who works at a fortune 500 company, doing a big internal event, or doing like, you know, their big summit, whatever they use cases. So we were showing these ads to all these audiences, because we had each event, we were probably cutting down like three to six different ads. And so we could see who was engaging with what so we're looking at all those engagement metrics, view metrics, and then this really allowed us to build a quality remarketing pool of people who were watched, like 50% of our videos, and we started so in the more and then we get some more like the product videos that were more like down funnel, and we saw a huge lift. And like we had like an overview video of our platform, when we just show that to a cold audience. Now surprised like, there's not a very good watch time. I don't have the numbers in front of me. But when we showed that maybe two, three, like remarketing sequences down the funnel, it was like 2 or 3x, higher, this small things like that. I'm just trying to give some examples of like what we were seeing. So as you can tell, there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. AJ Wilcox I love that. So you're talking about multiple step sequences. How did you set that up in campaign manager? Andrew Harder Yes, I guess preface this, we use metadata to run all of our paid social. So you can do all this natively. But what we were doing in campaign manager, you can, you know, create those remarketing audiences. So we could capture anyone that saw 50% or more of these videos. And then you know, it took a while when we first started, because some of these prospecting audiences we were targeting were not like super large. Also, we started with a lower budget. And when we started seeing good results, we started increasing that so we could get a larger pool. And then we'd create these campaigns. So we're only targeting people that you know, saw this specific video, we've combined some of them. But again, because we service a lot of different ICPs. We also have a big difference, like virtual events very different instant in person. So we could show specific mobile like event ads to people that maybe saw one of our like event cut downs that we're talking about how to get the most out of your event app, just like specific things like that. I mean, you can do, it's pretty easy to set that stuff up in your audiences. And then when you're creating your campaign, just selecting those remarketing audiences. AJ Wilcox So obviously, we can put together video programs. And if you can't actually tell something's working, it can be hard to convince, you know, upper leadership to give you more budget or hang on a little bit longer. What was the effect that you actually saw on your lead gen programs as this video strategy went on? Andrew Harder It changed a lot and for several reasons. One, we were starting to invest more in video and less in our lead gen. Because we started like I mentioned this earlier, but what I was able to get as a test budget for this was 20% of our paid social budget, which was a decent size. It was plenty for us to get going but that started to creep up to like 30% and like four already percent after a few months. And so we were seeing a drop in our leads, but because of our increased efforts in like targeting more refined audiences, and I would also say like, I don't have data to prove this necessarily, but I think, you know, running this alongside all of the video ads that we were doing that we're not like super pushy, or even, like, just kind of generic B2B stuff that no one really cares about, like it was educational. And like, you could take stuff away from that, we saw huge drops in our CPL, like we saw, like over a 60% drop in our CPL. But the other thing was, we had a budget reduction, like, you know, a lot of SaaS companies, we're starting to see throughout 2022, so we had more of that hit. But what I did was I measured this, after the first three months of doing this, I measured that against the spring when we had a much larger budget. And we were doing just pretty much all lead gen. And we had 28% fewer leads, but we had a 63% drop in our cpl. So it was like a massive, like we should have had really way less leads. But we were seeing the audience targeting I think even just like the quality, and there's a lot of things that go into this. So I know I'm oversimplifying a bit, because we were testing a few different offers. It wasn't apples to apples, but overall, like for paid social for LinkedIn, our budget was like 70%, less from like this comparison period. But to answer your question, we were still running a lot of the same type of lead gen, but we don't do any hard direct response, like demo request. But even so we saw saw a huge lift and the opportunities that we were producing both from like, kind of a first touch triggering standpoint, but also just like influencing, we can see these metrics because our serums integrated with metadata, kind of like, you know, the headline numbers was like, we spent like 70% last, but we had like 60% more pipeline that our sales team had generated. So again, like a lot of stuff goes into this. But I mean, that was like a pretty astounding difference, especially with the budget difference. And also 70%, less budget, but also like we were spending roughly half of that at this point on video. So like we were spending significantly less on lead gen. So it's a combination of a lot of things like we changed our audience targeting, we had all that video creative, we were running. Yes. And you could also say, well, all that stuff, you're doing the springton that influenced the fall? Yes, of course, it totally did. So it's not like a clear cut, you know, like AB comparison. But it was such a stark difference. We really had a stark stop, like in September when we started this, like, Okay, we're gonna really change our strategy. And we started like increasing that investment. So for anyone that says, like, oh, you can't get demos looked at our quality from LinkedIn, you definitely can like there's different ways to do it. I know there's some brands still do run some of that direct response or conversation ads, and that does drive pipeline. But like for us, like we try that it doesn't work at all. I mean, I see this all the time. I go into our CRM, I see our HubSpot reports, and I see, oh, we've had some more paid social meetings booked. And I'm like, oh, is that from this month? Did they come through this month? And a lot of times, it's no, they actually like downloaded one of our guides maybe like three or four months ago. And then they came back through search or like email alerts or different things like that. And now like they're either ready to buy, or like they weren't in market at all. And now they are and like we've been top of mind for them. We've been educating them, not like harassing them to like book a demo. And they came to us. And I think I've heard this before. And I love this way of like measuring is it working? Like you can tell if your marketing is working, if more people are like coming to your sales team to ask to talk versus how much are you going out and like asking them? I just love kind of like that idea and way to quantify it. So yeah, the very long winded answer to your question, but but certainly has changed. AJ Wilcox And I think marketers, myself included in this, we feel like once we've warmed a top of funnel well enough that eventually you've earned the right to ask for a demo. And in this case, you're seeing demos come in naturally, like you're not even having to ask for them. But even if you do run demo ads, you still don't feel like you're getting a great response from them. It's almost like people are perceiving us as being too pushy when we're asking but if we leave them alone, they'll naturally do it. Andrew Harder Yeah, absolutely. And I would even say to like one way how I justified testing 20% of our budget for video was I crunched the numbers on Okay, of all these leads, like yeah, you can show low CPMs especially on LinkedIn. Like it's good because a lot of times you call them like ICP leads depending on like title or company but what I did was actually measure that down to the full funnel different getting through the sales cycles and like close one and I'm not a huge fan of just focusing on like first touch like okay, did this trigger from like, I love looking at influence metrics and things like that, because obviously there's so many different touch points. And there's some great marketing tech out there now that can help with this, but it was like a no brainer to be like oh yeah, you can test 20% because like it's not like we were producing millions of dollars in revenue from this. It's like Okay, we have some great content to produce also, like kind of an added bonus. And this is kind of a caveat leftfield thing. If you're running virtual events or in person events, and you have that footage, you have to, like, repurpose that and run that on LinkedIn especially. And I would say, don't just do an organic channel so that all your employees and your family like it, put some paid budget behind it, target the audience that you know, is your target persona. And use that content, like you're gonna get much more out of that. And also, it's like a win win for like the content team, the events team or whoever is doing this. Or if you're a solo marketer, or a small team, like you can just get so much more out of that. So I would say even from just a, I don't know, like marketing team ROI standpoint, like it just makes a ton of sense. AJ Wilcox Alright, here's a quick sponsor break, and then we'll dive back into the interview with Andrew Harder. The LinkedIn Ads Show is proudly brought to you by B2Linked.com, the LinkedIn Ads experts. AJ Wilcox If you're a B2B company and care about getting more sales opportunities with your ideal prospects, then chances are LinkedIn ads are for you. 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And you actually have to start dedicating some budget unless you happen to be a videographer by trade and can throw things together. How did you attack video specifically? How did you deal with the overhead of the cost of video? Also, how did you decide what types of videos to film and actors or employees or customers? How did that all line up? Andrew Harder Yeah, so I mean, this answer might be a bit strange, but I think it might give some people some more confidence to test this, like we Krystal and I, like knew the type of strategy we wanted to test. And we didn't have net new budget or things to do, or money to play with to create that new stuff. So we went and looked at okay, what do we have? And you also might be thinking, well, he works for any event company, like they have event software, they are like doing these things. Yes, huge advantage. I will say that for sure, but a lot of marketing teams still have some, you know, own first party events. And to kind of speak to one thing you were saying like, I would actually say you don't need super high production, I would actually advocate it's better to have more just authentic real video, especially on LinkedIn, because you know, you're seeing your network and then all of a sudden, you see like this really stocky photo, video type stuff doesn't really kind of penetrate your mind, you don't really care about that. So I would say like, you don't necessarily need the super high budget, you don't to go out and like, you know, spend 100 grand on some agency. We do have like a freelancer they used to help with, like some of these cut downs, but there's a lot of freelancers out there, they're gonna like break your marketing budget. I mean, Krystal stepped up big time, she spent a lot of time cutting down these videos, so huge props to her for I mean, she's a paid media marketer, just like myself, but she was like, well, I can like cut down some of this stuff. And over time, like when we started doing this more, our team started seeing like how much of an impact this was having our events team and content team are getting more proactive and like, oh, we're gonna plan this event that's upcoming, we know that the paid team is going to use this giving us timestamps, and in that to our freelancers, but to say more concisely, like, you don't need a ton of budget for an agency. Yes, we use our event software, but you don't need that, like you can use something which should say WebEx first or zoom. Like you can use something like that, and record that. That's just fine. I mean, you can see you can look at the engagement metrics and I would actually say if you already have some video that's super high production value or something like compare that against something that's more just raw. And I would even say to there are some larger brands out there SaaS brands that do this and I think it works well. Caveat to is if you do work for a large brand, like there are brand standards and I get that because I worked for Cisco so like there are certain things we have to abide by, but like at the end of the day, you can definitely do this. I would say it's not as easy as what I made it sound like for the customer interviews like that's super easy. Like it is a different thing, but I think anyone can do that. AJ Wilcox And how did you plan what type of video content you'd show? At what stage in the buyers journey? Andrew Harder Yeah, great question, I think also super important thing that we learned as we went on, because we really started with just kind of more. I don't like the term thought leadership, because I think it's more than that, how we were kind of framing it was like, Is this educational? Like if I wasn't, and we would even ask, like our events team, like, would you interact with this? And a lot of times, it was them saying, so it's like, yeah, of course they would. But like, the questions I would kind of ask myself is like, is this going to help someone that's running events do their job? Is this differentiated enough from just kind of like the generic advice out there, and all the events we're doing, like, very well thought out, and so we do have the benefit of that. So like, that's where we started off with was like that content that's really going to hit a pain point, or just give some value. But then from there, we'd get a bit deeper, like I was saying earlier, you're talking about hybrid events, like the value of that go a bit deeper and say specifically, like, you really need to hone in on like event sponsorships, or you really need to make sure you have the right event technology. And like you could say, well, that's kind of like a hard sell, we actually have a lot of content from our team that's saying, like, you need something and then like, oh, yeah, of course, like, we can provide you with that technology. But it's kind of educating to like, there's, this is specific to the event industry. But like, there's been so many changes, as you can imagine, with like COVID coming up on like, three years, and like it went in and out from in person to virtual. But now like, there's just a huge range, and like what hybrid even means. And so we would take people on these journeys, if anyone is familiar with like YouTube sequence ads, it's kind of similar, like, you can just set this up to then go a bit deeper into that. And then really, the best kind of journeys we had was, okay, we have like this educational video to show, then we have another layer of that, speaking to something more specific, maybe we had one or two of those, and then layer in like a more specific like this, how our product can do that. And so it's a bit easier to explain when I have like a spreadsheet to show, but hopefully that helps the audience a little bit. AJ Wilcox Very much. So let's say smaller marketing teams that don't have a budget for maybe something like metadata. Maybe they're working with a basic CRM, what's some advice that you'd give them on ensuring that they could take cold prospects, educate them through video, and actually ended up with close deals? Andrew Harder That is a great question. I hope I can give a great enough answer to that because I think there's so many factors that do come into this, because I would say we had a lot of things going for us with the video content we already had to play with. And then we were able to expand that. But if you are a smaller team, you don't have as much budget for tech or video, things like that. This is kind of obvious advice. But just like start small, even before that I would challenge like, look at what you're doing right now. And really challenge yourself and ask yourself the questions like if I am my, like target audience, if I am this, you know, X persona, do I actually care about this? Like, is this giving some value? Or am I just noise in this person's LinkedIn feed? I think you'll find a lot of your stuff is either stale, or it's really just kind of about you the company versus like, how can you first like give value and not ask for anything in return. But then from there, like if you have products that are fairly easy to record, like some tutorials to like, you might have a subject matter expert on your team. So that I would say that's kind of a hard gap to fill. But you can use free tools out there to just record either yourself or someone on your team, walking through the benefits of what you get from XYZ, like whatever your product is, or service is. And so yeah, I feel like I didn't meet my expectations for answering that question. But hopefully, I would like to starting with, like really challenging, like what's working. And then if you have content, like reuse that content, and you can go from there and get learnings and segment your audience so you can see who's engaging with what. AJ Wilcox I love it. Yeah, I think that's perfectly fine. Great answer. Well, the one question I like to ask everyone I interview, what are you both personally and professionally most excited about coming up? Either in 2023 or in the following months? Andrew Harder Yeah, love that question. I'll start professionally. I think I'm excited. So we are really early days and testing out a true like plg like free motion. It's new for us because we've been very like enterprise software. Like you can't really use the product without talking to us. I'm really excited for us to test that just from a marketing standpoint. But also how it's gonna play into our paid campaigns, especially like with LinkedIn, too. I see so much opportunity and I follow some other brands that do this so well and really just showing people like how easy it is to get started. I think you can apply this to anything in life. Everyone wants to like, you know, be in better shape or read more books or do things like that, but it's like just getting started. That's the hardest and I think cuz there's so much potential for us. There's not too many competitors that we have. There's a lot that have like that motion, but their software isn't as powerful. And I think just being able to learn as a marketer how to do that it's gonna be really fun. And I think getting more into being a quote unquote, content creator on LinkedIn, I'm very inconsistent still, but it's been fun just to put myself out there more. I mean, it's really how it's opened up opportunities like this to speak with you. And I think I'm just looking forward to meeting more marketers that I can learn from share some of my experiences, beginning of this, like I didn't set out to have a career in marketing, I didn't even know what PPC was. And I think it's really, really fun to speak to younger marketers. And so I'm, I'm hoping for more opportunities like that. And then personally, I have two young kids, my daughter is about to be three next month, which is crazy. And my son is just over eight months. So last year, couldn't do a whole lot because had a young baby. And so I'm excited for we have some fun trips planned. So I'm originally from Minnesota. I have a cousin getting married so getting out there and seeing some family. My younger sister's getting married this summer as well. So excited for that. And for my kids to hopefully have some memorable flower girl type moments, you know, that'll be super fun. And we have some friends in Wisconsin that we go up to see, looking forward to that. My wife and I love to travel and just with young kids don't get to do it as much. And this year, we have more plans. So excited for that. And yeah, especially on a day like today when it's like I don't know, like it was in the teens this morning maybe it's in the 20s now, but so cold, and I'm already looking forward to summer. So yeah, that's kind of what's on my mind. AJ Wilcox Awesome. Well, you're doing a great job of creating content on LinkedIn, for sure. I'm going to put down on the show notes. I want to invite everyone to come follow Andrew there on his LinkedIn profile. Also, I don't know if you have a minute if you can share with us. Maybe some insight into the posts that really caught my attention you posted, it was kind of like a mini case study about using video ads on LinkedIn. Can you tell us like was that he most popular thing you've posted on LinkedIn? What sort of engagement did you get from that? Does that inspire you to do more? Andrew Harder Yeah, so it was actually the second most because the first most was also another kind of LinkedIn case study is about document ads. I don't know if I was one of the first first but I was early into testing that. And it really if for all the people that love the gated versus on gated conversations, like we really put that to the test. The ungraded document did fantastic for us. And like that got a ton of engagement. Like I said, I'm still early. So I'm trying to kind of find what stuff I want to talk about, hoping to talk more about personal stuff, too. But yeah, it did get a ton of engagement. I mean, I was thrilled when I shared it with you. And you said you shared it with your team. I was like, okay, that's why I know it's good, then if Aj is sharing that. So yeah. And I honestly, like that's probably an easier thing to go to that post. And it really breaks down the process that we did, and some of the results that I shared today. But it really makes it pretty simple. I think a lot of times, it's easy to get just like oh man, I can't revolutionize my strategy or something, you know, just sounds so big when you break it down into like these bite size steps. So I think that's maybe why it got so much engagement. Of course, yeah, the results do catch people's eye, but a lot of marketers found it helpful. So yeah, definitely connect with me. I'm only active on LinkedIn. I'm not really a social media person, ironically, being that I advertise on it. But yeah, please connect with me on LinkedIn. I appreciate you sharing that AJ. AJ Wilcox All right, I've got the episode resources for you coming right up. So stick around. Thank you for listening to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Hungry for more? AJ Wilcox, take it away. AJ Wilcox All right, like we mentioned during the interview, I've got some great resources for you. First of all, you'll see in the show notes below Andrew Harder's link to his LinkedIn profile, go follow him or even connect with him. You'll also see what we mentioned the post that he posted about his LinkedIn video ads strategy. And that one got a ton of attention, which is so cool. It's actually the reason why he's here on the show. He also had another viral post about LinkedIn document ads that actually went more than double the amount of virality is that one so definitely check that one out. Both links are in the show notes. If you or anyone you know is looking for a course on LinkedIn Ads, check out the one that I did on LinkedIn Learning. You'll see the link in the show notes. But it is by far the most succinct, the highest quality, and the lowest cost of any LinkedIn Ads course out there. Also, if this is your first episode you've listened to make sure to hit the subscribe button. But if this is not the first time you're listening, please do go and leave us a review. 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Mabuting Balita l Disyembre 3, 2022 – Sabado Unang Linggo ng Adbiyento Ebanghelyo: Mt 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8 Nilibot ni Hesus ang mga bayan at mga nayon; nagtuturo siya sa kanilang mga sinanoga, nagpapahayag ng Mabuting Balita ng Kaharian at nagpapagaling ng lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Nang makita niya ang makapal na tao, naawa siya sa kanila sapagkat hirap sila at lupaypay na parang mga tupang walang pastol. At sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad: “Marami nga ang aanihin at kakaunti naman ang mga manggagawa. Idalangin ninyo sa Panginoon ng ani na magpadala siya ng mga manggagawa sa kanyang ani.” Tinawag ni Hesus ang labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Sinabi ni Hesus sa kanila: “Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang kaharian ng Langit.' Pagalingin ang maysakit, buhayin ang patay, linisin ang mga mayketong at palayasin ang mga demonyo. Ibigay ninyo nang walang bayad ang tinanggap ninyo nang walang bayad.” Pagninilay: Kapanalig, kaya mo bang sabihin ngayon, na: “The Kingdom of God is at hand”? Sa mga encounters ko sa mga young people, isa ito sa mga tanong. “Sister, how can I proclaim that the Kingdom is at hand?” “How safe is my message?” Baka mamaya, kapag nagcreate ako ng ‘reel' na “Narito na ang Kingdom of God”, baka ibash ako. “Ano po ang proof na malapit na ang Kaharian ng Diyos?”. Nainspire akong balikan ang ganitong mga questions lalo na tungkol sa issues sa cyberworld. Paano nga ba i-shout out si Lord sa social media? Sa mundo ng instant communication, totoo na may risk ang bawat message natin na pwedeng madistort. May mga issues na tungkol sa moral teaching ng ating Simbahan na nagiging superficial ang pagbasa sa text o namimisinterpret ang image. O kaya, nilalaktawan ang post dahil they are not interested. Dito sa pang-araw-araw nating Mabuting Balita, wala pa sa 5% kung ikukumpara sa mga gumagawa ng short videos tungkol sa infidelity sa asawa. Sa Tiktok na kunwari Christmas message at very entertaining pero offensive naman; sa mga news tungkol sa mga sikat na artista, na hanggang sa huli ng video, walang conclusion ang kanilang balita. Laging bitin, pero millions ang views. Mayroon pa na deceiving ang title ng post, pang-come on lang pala para mag-monitize ang kanilang uploads. Pero, dito sa Mabuting Balita, patuloy pa rin kami, dahil nandito ka. Naririto kayo. Sa mundong social media, where is the Kingdom of God? Narito. Dito sa ating kalooban. Dahil, una, the greatest message of the Father is with us. He is the Word made Flesh. Hindi lang basta text message, hindi lang din siya image message. Siya ang Incarnated Word of the Father na sumasaatin at nagbigay sa atin ng buhay. Ikalawa, The Word made Flesh living in us works through us. Kumikilos Siya sa atin at ginagawa Niya tayong better persons. Ikatlo, the Word of God that is with us and working through us, is to be lived and proclaimed. Kaya kahit na may bashers, kahit may mga trolls, ang mahalaga, gumagawa tayo ng paraan para kuminang ang ngalan ni Jesus. Sabi nga ni San Francisco Javier, ang ating saint of the day, “Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason: there is nobody to make them Christians.” Advent Season na. Magpapasko na. Simulan nating gisingin ang mga nakaidlip na mga salita, ang mga natutulog na images. Transform them into Good News! Sa panalangin at kababaang loob, tayo mismo ang buhay na saksi ng Kaharian ng Diyos. Deep inside us, may message of love ang ating Panginoon. Once you receive it, pagnilayan at patalabin sa ating gawa! Tapos, umupo at humarap sa cyberworld, icompose ang message at i-send. With God's mercy and grace, easy lang ang pagproclaim ng Kingdom of God, di ba?

Mabuting Balita l Nobyembre 5, 2022 – Sabado | Ika-31 na Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon #MabutingBalita #DaughtersOfStPaulPhilippines #PaulinesPH Ebanghelyo: Lucas 16:9-15 Sinabi ni Hesus sa kanyang mga alagad: “Sinasabi ko sa inyo: gamitin n'yo ang di matuwid na Perang-diyos para magkaroon ng mga kaibigan para sa pagkaubos nito'y tanggapin naman nila kayo sa walang hanggang mga tahanan. Ang mapagkakatiwalaan sa maliliit na bagay ay mapagkakatiwalaan din sa malalaki, at ang di mapagkakatiwalaan sa maliliit ay hindi rin mapagkakatiwalaan sa malalaki. Kung hindi kayo mapagkatiwalaan sa di matuwid na pera, sino ang magtitiwala sa inyo ng tunay na kayamanan? Kung hindi kayo mapagkakatiwalaan sa mga bagay na labas sa inyo, sino pa kaya ang magbibigay sa inyo ng atin na mismo? Walang katulong na makapagsisilbi sa dalawang amo; siguradong kamumuhian niya ang isa at mamahalin naman ang isa pa o magiging matapat sa isa at mapapabayaan ang ikalawa. Hindi kayo makapaglilingkod sa Diyos at sa pera.” Narinig ng mga Pariseo ang lahat ng ito. Sakim sila kaya pinagtatawanan nila siya. At sinabi ni Hesus sa kanila: “Ginagawa n'yo ang lahat para magmukhang mabuti sa paningin ng mga tao pero alam ng Diyos ang inyong mga puso. At kasuklam-suklam sa paningin ng Diyos ang mataas sa mga tao.” Pagninilay: “Ano ang kayang bilhin ng bente pesos mo?” Isang linya po yan galing sa commercial ng isang ice cream. Sa halagang ito, makakabili ka na ng candy na makakapagpangiti sa batang paslit, o di kaya'y tinapay sa kumakalam nilang sikmura. “Nabibili ba ang kayamanan o nabibili ba ang kasiyahan?” Marahil ang sasabihin ng iba ay oo, dahil kaya mo ritong mamuhay ng marangya. Ang tao po ang nagdadagdag o nagdudulot ng kasamaan sa salapi, sapagkat nakasalalay sa tao kung paano niya pamamahalaan ang mga ito. Itinuturo sa atin ni Hesus sa ebanghelyo na pangalagaan ang tunay na kayamanan upang makamtam ang tunay na kasiyahan. Ngunit ano at saan natin ito matatagpuan? Sabi nga ng isang pari, lagi nating alalahanin ang nasusulat: “Mag-impok kayo ng kayamanan sa langit. Sapagkat kung saan naroroon ang iyong kayamanan, naroroon din ang iyong puso.” – Mt 6:20-21. Gamitin natin ang yaman ng mundong ito upang makatulong tayo sa iba. Sa ganitong paraan, tayo ay makakaimpok ng tunay na kayamanan sa langit. Tularan natin ang pagiging tuso ng katiwala. Maging tuso, ngunit panatilihin natin ang kabutihan ng ating mga puso. Isipin natin ang pangmatagalan at ang hindi ang pangsamantala lamang. Hanapin natin ang tunay na kasiyahan sa Diyos, sapagkat doon naghihintay ang tunay na kayamanan sa langit. - John Ervin S. Valerio

HULYO 6, 2022 – Miyerlules sa Ika – 14 na Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon Santa Maria Goretti, Dalaga at Martir Ebanghelyo: Mt 10:1-7 Tinawag ni Hesus ang Labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Ito ang mga pangalan ng labindalawang apostol: una, si Simong tinatawag na Pedro, at ang kanyang kapatid na si Andres; si Jaime na anak ni Zebedeo, at ang kapatid nitong si Juan; sina Felipe at Bartolome, Tomas at Mateo, na tagasingil ng buwis; si Jaimeng anak ni Alfeo, at si Tadeo; si Simong Kananeo, at si Judas Iskariote na magkakanulo sa kanya. Sinugo ni Hesus ang labindalawang ito at pinagbilinan: “Huwag kayong lumiko papunta sa mga pagano at huwag pumasok sa bayang Samaritano. Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang Kaharian ng Langit.'” Pagninilay: Ang mga apostoles ay nagmula sa iba't-ibang lugar, may iba't-ibang trabaho at family background, iba't-ibang antas ng pinag-aralan, at may iba't-ibang ugali. Nguni't silang lahat, ay pinili ni Hesus, di alintana ang kanilang pagkatao, upang maging kabahagi sila ng Kanyang buhay at ng Kanyang misyon. Napakagandang isipin na katulad ng mga apostoles, ikaw at ako, ay itinatangi at tinatawag din ng Diyos, upang maging kabahagi ng buhay ni Hesus. Ang salitang apostol, ay nagangahulugang “ipinadala.” Bakit sila pinili ni Hesus at ipinadala? Dahil may misyon sila at ang kanilang mensahe: “Nalalapit na ang kaharian ng langit.” Ang kaharian ng langit, ay ang kaharian ng Diyos. Tulad ng mga apostoles, tayo rin ay tinatawag na isabuhay at ipahayag ang kaharian ng Diyos, sa ating pakikisalamuha sa ating kapwa. Sa ating pagsisikap na gumawa ng kabutihan sa mga nagdurusa, sa mga may kapansanan, sa mga maysakit, ay maiibsan ang kanilang pagdurusa at madarama nila ang presensya ng Diyos. Masasabi kaya ng sinuman, na ang kaharian ng langit o ang kaharian ng Diyos ay nalalapit na, sapamamagitan ng ating pakikipag-kapwa at pakikipag-ugnay sa kanila? Ang Diyos na sumasaating puso, ang magpapahayag nito, sapamamagitan ng ating pag-aaruga, pang-unawa at pagmamahal sa ating kapwa. Sr Divina

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MABUTING BALITA | DISYEMBRE 4, 2021 Sabado sa Unang Linggo ng Adbiyento EBANGHELYO: MATEO 9:35-10:1, 5a, 6-8 Nilibot ni Hesus ang mga bayan at mga nayon; nagtuturo siya sa kanilang mga sinanoga, nagpapahayag ng Mabuting Balita ng Kaharian at nagpapagaling ng lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Nang makita niya ang makapal na tao, naawa siya sa kanila sapagkat hirap sila at lupaypay na parang mga tupang walang pastol. At sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad: “Marami nga ang aanihin at kakaunti naman ang mga manggagawa. Idalangin ninyo sa Panginoon ng ani na magpadala siya ng mga manggagawa sa kanyang ani.” Tinawag ni Hesus ang labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Sinabi ni Hesus sa kanila: “Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang kaharian ng Langit.' Pagalingin ang maysakit, buhayin ang patay, linisin ang mga mayketong at palayasin ang mga demonyo. Ibigay ninyo nang walang bayad ang tinanggap ninyo nang walang bayad.” PAGNINILAY: Sa gitna ng pandaigdigang krisis pangkalusugan na patuloy nating kinakaharap,marahil marami sa atin ang nagtatanong: Nasaan na ba ang awa ng Diyos? Bakit hanggang ngayon, hindi pa rin tayo nakakaahon? May katapusan pa ba ang lahat ng ito? May mga nagnilay at nagsabi: “hindi na tayo kagaya ng dati matapos man ang pandemyang ito.” Actually,sang-ayon ako sa kanila. Hindi na nga tayo magiging katulad ng dati kasi may magbabago sa atin. At sa tingin ko, ito'y isang magandang pagbabago. Sa Mabuting Balitang narinig natin, nahabag si Hesus sa maraming tao na nangangailangan ng kaginhawaan at kaligtasan mula sa anumang uri ng sakit at hapis, pisikal man o espiritwal. Dahil sa laking awa Niya, tumawag si Hesus ng mga alagad upang maging kaagapay Niya sa pagpapalaganap ng Kaharian ng Diyos. Mga kapanalig, totoo na may awa ang Diyos at naririto Sya nananahan sa atin. Ikaw at ako ay tinatawag Niyang maging manggagawa sa Kanyang anihan. Ang bawat isa sa atin ay nakatanggap din ng biyaya upang isabuhay ang misyon ng Panginoon sa gitna ng krisis na ating pinagdadaanan. Kapag niyakap natin ang misyong ito, hindi na nga tayo magiging katulad ng dati. - Sr. Ma. Janice Golez, PDDM | Pious Disciples of the Divine Master

Is wisdom obtained simply by attending church? Is wisdom a one-time "purchase?" In this series we discover what the Word of God tell us about seeking, obtaining, and maintaining life-long wisdom.   Wise Living Series Travis Miller  January 20, 2019   Come Visit Us!! Or join us online at LivingFaithMinistries.church     Episode Transcript English   Travis Miller: [00:00:15] I must speak for a little while this afternoon, I'm going to share some stories, I'm going to look at some verses of scripture, they'll be put up on the screen and my whole intention, my entire goal and direction in speaking this short while this afternoon is to inspire each and every one in the sound of my voice to have a conversation with God. In conclusion prayer in her own way, in her own fashion, in her own words, is to have a conversation with God, that is exactly what I am attempting to do. There you go. Cat's out of the bag. That's what I am trying to do in sharing this talk. This speech, this sermon, whatever you want to call it, so that we would respond to God. [00:01:07][51.9] Travis Miller: [00:01:09] As you might expect, is pastor of this congregation, I am in the people business. I've been in ministry now for more than 30 years. I've been around church and around congregations for more than 50 years and over all those years and all those experiences. I've observed some things, quite frankly, that trouble me. I've seen some things and reflected on some things that, to me, seem out of place with following Jesus Christ. [00:01:46][36.2] Travis Miller: [00:01:48] Here's the deal, I've wondered how in the world good people end up in bad situations. I, over the years, in the course of time in various congregations, I've traveled and ministered in 40 different states and God knows how many different churches as part of our ministry and I've seen this and that and the other, and you know what I come across? What about this young lady who's kind and compassionate and friendly, but she's often in a bad relationship? What about that? What about the faithful family that even serves in some ministry in the church, but they seem to regularly be in financial trouble? What about that? What about the friendly, interesting couple whose children, unfortunately, are giving them regular grief? Or what about the couple who found Jesus long ago? They seemed to really love Jesus, but they fight and argue like complete enemies. I'm bothered by the good young man who seemed to not be able to keep anything related to a decent job. I am concerned about a sincere person who is in lack of personal control that brings ongoing health issues. Am I the only one who is ever wondered about such things? [00:03:13][85.5] [00:03:20] Three or four years ago, I learned of the ridiculous tragedy of a long time friend. Fact he was a friend for 20 plus years. An enjoyable person, a helpful, fun, pleasant, churchgoing man. Not only churchgoing, but church involved, he served and ministered to others. But a few years ago, unexpectedly, my wife and I received a call from his wife. She discovered that the man had maintained a mistress in another state for seven, eight, 10 years. He destroyed his marriage. Devastated his children and rocked the faith of those he'd influenced. It makes me ask how? How does that happen? How does a nice person do something so foolish? I'm aware of another good man. An older man, a man who spent his entire life serving congregations. A man who planted churches and pastored churches, who then went on to help others plant churches and pastored churches. A good person, a righteous man. One of his adult children started business, the business started getting a little bit of success and the child decided, You know what, I want to expand the business, I want to add other locations, and so he went to the bank, but the bank wouldn't give a business loan. And so the good dad, the righteous dad, the ministry dad. Emptied out his 401k. Gave all the money to the child. There were struggles in the business, and the child was convinced things are ready to turn, the tipping point is really very close. Just a little more capital and the business will go over the edge, and really over the hump, and it'll go from there. And so dad, the faithful man, the righteous man. Mortgaged his home, gave the money to the child. And the business went belly up. Retirement money gone. Bank foreclosed the house, the righteous man, the faithful man, the ministry man lost everything. How does a good person? Makes such tragic mistakes. I mean, really, anybody who hangs around a church and ministry long enough, you hear sermons about how God wants to bless lives and how God heals people and how God changes families and how God blesses finances. But still, if you observe, you get engaged, you watch and figure what's happening. There are examples of people who hear the messages but aren't experiencing what's being preached and taught. Why is that? [00:07:04][223.7] Travis Miller: [00:07:07] Actually, if we become students of the Bible, the word of God, there are similar stories in here. Sometimes we think in the Bible, well, the stories in the Bible are like this. We get stories about wicked people who live wicked lives. Well, that's true. Well, there's story about righteous people who have righteous lives. That's also true. But today, I want to point out that in this book, we also find stories of good people who did foolish things and it cost them dearly. Right in this book, There are battles lost. There are lives ended, there are families ruined by good people acting foolishly. There are murders and adulteries. There are kingdoms lost. There are friendships ended in this book by decent humans who are acting ignorantly. There are hopes vanished and promises extinguished and health wasted in fortunes forfeited and relationships terminated. These are Bible stories that happened at the hands of good people who were living poorly. Why do these things happen? [00:08:23][76.5] Travis Miller: [00:08:26] In the Book of Job Chapter nine in verse four, he made a helpful observation for this discussion. Today in Job nine, from the Bible, says God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered? Well, clearly, God is wise and God is mighty, that's plain and simple, Joe declares it. But after declaring that truth, Job then asked who has hardened himself against him against God and prospered? Who's hardened himself against God? And still prospered? [00:09:14][48.1] Travis Miller: [00:09:18] Nearly every spring, and it's coming up again in April, May. My wife wants me to take her to Skagit County and see the beautiful tulip fields. Sometimes we visit, you've been there, you know this, you visit and boots are absolutely needed. There's not just mud there's lots of mud. Fabulous Pacific Northwest rain, note, I said fabulous. Soaks those tulip fields, making them muddy and soft. But there are other times we have visited those fields when the rains have ended and the fields are different. Fields are crusty. I've been there when the surface is hardened and even cracking, it's so hard, yet when you walk on it, you can tell it's a crusty surface, but there's moisture underneath, but the surface is hard and dry. The soil is gone from moist and muddy to crusty and hard. And you know what? We know this that doesn't happen immediately. First, the rain dwindles, there's fewer days of rain and then there's fewer inches of rain. It's not as severe, less rain, less mud, slowly but certainly, then no rain and then more crusty hardened soil. Job asks the question, who has hardened himself against God and prospered? It's a rhetorical question. Listen, good people live poorly when we allow our lives to harden toward God like those tulip fields. Soil lives don't harden immediately. Would you hear the preacher today? It's not overnight that we go from muddy, saturated, spiritually soaked people into hard, cracked and crusty hardened ones toward God? Oh no, my friend. But over a period of time. Choices are made. Often times not intentionally, but accidentally good people, people who have an experience with God get hardened toward God, we minimize God. Sometimes we de-emphasize God. And sometimes it's not just ignoring God, but we forget about God. We go on our daily duties and our things, and we don't even consider, Hey, I might want to talk to God about this distancing from God. It happens when we don't make the connection between eternity and our present reality times. We become crusty because we compartmentalize God and the spiritual rain diminishes, because there are some areas of my life I don't want God raining on. I don't want God messing with. I don't want him investing in challenging and changing that area of my life. We don't need him. We think for some things, dryness comes when we keep God at arm's length. We hold God to a comfortable distance. And as we make these small incremental decisions, they accumulate until there is faulty, hard crusty, cracking soil in our approach, in our determination and our response to God. And when we get to that place where we are hardened toward God, hear this preacher and that ancient preacher Joe from years ago, we cannot expect God's prosperity and God's success when we have put him out of areas of our life. Good people know failure when they allow their lives to harden against God. [00:13:44][266.9] Travis Miller: [00:13:49] How's a good person make tragic mistakes? It bothers me. I believe that good people foolishly fall. When we mistake our righteousness for wisdom. Good people. Foolishly fall. When we mistake our righteousness for wisdom. You see, righteousness, that explains the believers standing with God. It describes his view of our lives when we are in right relationship with him. According to scripture, living in the New Testament Covenant, we enjoy rightness with God when we apply the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to our lives. We enjoy rightness with God when we repent, when there's sorrow for walking the wrong direction, and we turn toward Jesus Christ is rightness with God. When we are baptized in the name of Jesus to wash away our faults and failures, there's rightness with God. When we receive the gift of his Holy Spirit, part of him dwelling within us, and that New Testament new birth experience makes us righteous in God's sight. It brings us in the right relationship with him, and that's a wonderful and miraculous and amazing thing that we could never accomplish on our own. But righteousness is not the same as wisdom. [00:15:49][119.4] Travis Miller: [00:15:53] Wise living is earthly wise, living is a human experience. In the great book on Wisdom, Proverbs Chapter one and verse number seven. Solomon writes, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. Fear of the law, the respective God entering into a right relationship with him, that's the beginning of knowledge, that's the start. But hear me, it doesn't say all knowledge is now yours. It doesn't say all wisdom is now yours. It doesn't say you've completed the package and you've got all of God's brains. It doesn't say that it says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. And it also says fools despise wisdom and instruction, I think it's interesting that it doesn't say wicked people despise wisdom. It doesn't say sinners, despise wisdom. It doesn't make that differentiation, it says. In other words, I can be a good person, I could fear the Lord yet still live foolishly in this world. Proverbs Chapter two, notice these verses, beginning at verse number six. For the Lord grants wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He grants a treasure of common sense. Man, there you go. The treasure of common sense. He grants that to the honest. He's a shield to those who walk with integrity. He guards the powers of the just and protects those who are faithful to him. Verse nine, then in other words, afterwards, after these things have happened, then you'll understand what is right just and fair, and you will find the right way to go, for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe. Hear me today, according to scripture, wisdom follows honesty and integrity and faithfulness. We are told that wisdom comes with the salvation package. We don't get baptized in the name of Jesus and come up out of there full of wisdom and understanding. It's not the way it works. Wisdom for living is separate from righteousness with God. Come on, think about it, folks. I can be compassionate and kind, and it's not the same as being thoughtful and thorough. I could be loving, and it's not the same as being discerning. I can be funny, and it's not the same as being perceptive kind. People aren't always knowledgeable. Pleasant folks aren't always rational. Sweet folks aren't always sensible folks. [00:19:22][209.7] Travis Miller: [00:19:23] Righteousness, explains the believers standing with God. Wise living is a human experience. I want us to get in in our hearts and our understanding and our knowledge today. Sometimes we mistake, alright standing with God, with wise living on the Earth, and when we do, good people fall into foolish outcomes. What's the alternative? Preacher, Surely you haven't just shared all this information to scare the bejesus out of all of us? There's got to be a solution? Indeed, I need to make us aware of the deception, and the error in the faults, that would cause us to crash. But I happily proclaim that there are elements of scripture, very clear and very direct, to help ordinary humans as you and I. There is a better way we can experience God's prospering, we can know God's success, not just on Sundays in a house full of worshiping disciples, but we can know success in our career choices. We can know success in our marriages and families. We can know success as we go into this world, in our financial decisions. We can know success in our retirement. We can know success in our careers, if we do what the scripture points us to do. [00:20:57][94.0] [00:21:00] A few weeks ago from this pulpit, I spoke about the Ark of the Covenant. In particular, David's efforts to return the ark to Jerusalem, perhaps you recall that the Ark of the Covenant represented God's presence. It wasn't all of God's presence in a gold box, but it it signified the centrality. And when he visited his people, it was from the centrality of that box. And so, David's trying to bring the box back to the Israel, to the city, and we talked about how, that while it was in the House of Abinidab, God blessed that household because of the Ark. So David had one failed attempt to return the ark. Then he got it right, and he led the people to transfer the ark back to Jerusalem. And so we pick up at that same story again, if you'll look with me in first Chronicles 16 and verse number one. The Bible says they brought the Ark of God and set it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for us. Then they burnt offerings, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. They brought it back, put it in the Tabernacle, in the tent in the town where they were living. Verse number seven of the Bible says, on that day, David first delivered this Psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren to thank the Lord. Now this entire song runs to verse 35. I'm not going to read it all right now. I encourage you to read it in its entirety. It's a wonderful song, but I want us to notice something right near the beginning of the song David had sung after the Ark was back in town. All give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him. Sing songs to him. Talk of all his wondrous works. Glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord. Look at verse 11, seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face evermore. Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face evermore. [00:23:40][159.6] Travis Miller: [00:23:47] Over the recent holidays. Our family took an adventure, went down to Safeco Field or T-Mobile Field now. We went to that enchanted Christmas thing. Where the whole infield was created into this big old maze of incredible Christmas lights. And in the maze, there were hidden, Santas nine reindeer. So as you walk into the maze, every participant is given this little card with all the names of the nine reindeer and there's little scratch off places. When you find a reindeer, you could go over to the table with all the five year olds and scratch off your gold coin that you found that reindeer. Some in our party were more jazzed about finding all nine than others. We went round and round in that crazy maze seeking nine reindeer. I'm sorry to confess, among six average Americans, we were not able to find them all. Some little five year old kid found them all in five minutes, probably, but adults were lacking. I think we found 7 maybe. But after that, it was over. The seeking was finished. We found all the reindeer we were going to find, everybody with me seeking, it was a one time event. Seek, find, it's over. And so I'm challenged when David writes, and so says to the children of Israel, seek the Lord and his presence and his strength, seek him ever more. And I begin to struggle. That seems kind of strange to me because the arc wasn't lost any more. The presence of God wasn't somewhere else any more. It was no longer in a barn in Abinidabs house. The ark was in town. It was in a tabernacle made by David. It was in a tent, the ark, if you will, while David was talking, was right over there! David Seeking, had to be different than us looking for reindeer in a ball park. I want to know, why does a king call his people to seek the Lord when the presence of God is right in the tent? Obviously, it's right there! Why does David challenge all of Israel to seek what is obvious? His meaning of seek, if we look in other translations, it says study God. It says search for the Lord. It says, look to the Lord. Study God. Inquire of God. Look to the Lord, in modern day in practical terms. I submit to this congregation, david was saying this, we sought the ark. We searched for the presence of God. We brought it back home and we set it up in a tent. And there it is. And now, as he's singing and as he's rejoicing us, he says to the children of Israel, Now hear me as often as you can, as regularly as you would go to the tent, seek what is obvious! Get into that tabernacle! Saturate yourself in the presence of God! Have you found God's presence? Absolutely, they had. Did they know where he was? Certainly they did. David was saying, Now visit the ark. I want you to notice in that passage, he said, seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face ever more, seek his face ever more. Seek his presence, continually pursue his presence day and night, frequent the power of God always. Why? Why did David feel that way? Why was the presence of God so important as David challenged the people of Israel? [00:28:46][299.3] [00:28:47] I'll take you back to the book of Job once again. Job said, God is wise in heart. And mighty in strength. God is wise. And Mighty. You get to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul and an apostle by the name of Jude had this to say, in first Timothy 1:17. Now to the King Eternal, immortal, invisible. To God, who alone is wise be honor and glory, forever and ever amen. Jude, in the last sentences of the book, in the letter that he wrote Verse 25, he says, to God our savior, who alone is wise the glory and majesty, dominion and power now and forever. I believe with all of my heart that David called for a continual and lifetime pursuit of God's presence. Because David knew there is a difference between rightness with God and wisdom in living. David knew, I want to be in the presence of God because he alone is wise. David understood the presence of God brings more than a right relationship for humanity. The presence of God also brings wisdom for a living. I preach this afternoon there's a difference between finding God and learning from God. There's a difference between an experience with God and the goose bumps on a prayer meeting, and there is a prospering and a successful life with God. We don't constantly pray and turn to God because we've lost him. We're not on our knees because our relationship is in question, rather, we constantly seek the obvious because we want his wisdom for living day to day. Finding God the first time that makes my soul right with him, but seeking God all the time that makes our lives successful here and now. [00:31:31][163.6] [00:31:37] Well, I preach today, you know what, we keep going back to that obvious tent because God alone is why we seek the obvious, because we want his wisdom in our day to day living and we seek the obvious because you know what, I want to maximize success. And I want to minimize foolishness. That's why we seek the obvious. 21 days of prayer, preacher? Why are you doing that? Did you lose God? You don't know where he is? Is your relationship in trouble? Oh no, my friend, we seek the obvious because we want to maximize our success and we want to minimize our foolishness. We want to do that as individuals. We want to do that as families. We want to do that as a congregation. Well, you have pre-service prayer for 30 minutes, Don did a great job leading prayer today. Evan did a great job last week. Why do you do that, preacher? We're going to pray at the end of church anyway. Why are you praying at the beginning at church? What's going on? You're so carnal? You're so sinful? No, my friend, we seek the obvious because we want to maximize success and we want to minimize foolishness, right here right now on this Earth, as individuals and families and as a congregation. My God preacher, you're getting all stinking wound up, sweats running down your little bald head. What's the big deal man? We saw you last weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Preacher, you were having a Holy Ghost rally, tearing it up, enjoying the presence of God. What are you doing back here again this week? Why in the world do you come in two weeks in a row? You've got three services last week, you're good till June man. Why are you back again this week? Why are you so wound up tight about the things you've got to tell? I'll tell you why, it's not because I've lost him. It's not because I have sinned during the week. I'll tell you why, because I recognize he alone is wise, and I recognize I want to maximize God's prosperity in my life, and I want to minimize the foolishness and the life failures and the crash and burn. I want to have God's favor in my life. I want his wisdom. So I follow the King David Song, Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face everyone. For his wisdom. For his strengths. Always. Always. [00:35:03][206.9] Travis Miller: [00:35:09] What are you getting at preacher? I'm getting at here and now. I hope to have provoked to prayer, those in this room who are weighing things in their lives. I hope to provoke in this room those that are making college choices and career choices that they would decide, I will seek the Lord and his strengths forever more in this decision. For those in this room that are making decisions about their family, the school their kids attend, or where they're going to go to school, or maybe your children are entering kindergarten for the first time. I preach to parents, you know what? Those decisions, those steps, those outcomes. We need to seek the Lord in his strength and seek his face ever more. I preach to those who are considering a new relationship or perhaps the status of a current relationship. We need to seek the Lord and his strength. The reason many good people end up in lousy relationships is because we falsely think God doesn't care about that. Hear me today, the church is the bride of Christ. He cares about our relationships as much as that. You considering a home purchase, are you considering a major financial decision? Are you doing something in retirement or in career? Listen, I plead. I preach in faith. We ought to seek the Lord and the only wise God always, in all things I preach, for every one who's already involved in serving in ministry and to those who would become involved in serving in ministry, whether that's in Children's Ministry, Student Ministry, Music Ministry, Guest Services Ministry, whatever the ministry, music and students and all of those things, faith group leadership and all the roles in Faith Group. I pray for a congregation that'll saturate those ministries in the power and presence of Almighty God. I pray for our men and women who must have a saturating anointing of God. I preach this afternoon about decisions, lives, choices that are bathed in God's presence. I Pray for men and women that will recognize and realize, anytime any human decides, I don't need God in that area of my life, we're making a choice. We're saying my wisdom is greater than his. In the Old Testament and new, they were convinced. Those who walked in the steps and pathways with Jesus Christ. Their conviction, their knowledge, their understanding was, He alone is wise. Of course, if I've never found him, I've not known of forgiveness of my sins, I've not been baptized or filled with his spirit. That's the starting place. It's got to begin right there. And hear me today, this holy savior did not die on the cross, suffer that pain, humiliation and ridicule, raise himself from the dead, so you and I could have a one time hit of godly power. That is not what this holy book is all about. But even before the outpouring of the spirit. There is a man named David, got all jazzed about a God experience, And in that moment of God moving on him, as he penned his song, he said, these people got to know. The ark is home, it's in a tent right there, it's obvious. These people got to know it's not the end. It's the beginning. These people got to know, you need to be in a tent. Little decisions add up and become big decisions. You need to be in that tent. Why do you change your schedule? Why do you work around an afternoon service on a Sunday? Why do you organize your life so you can participate in a faith group and get together with other believers? Let me tell you why I need to be in that tent. I mean, look at that gold box. I need to be around when his presence settles in. I got a few degrees, I got decades of experience, but I don't have the wisdom I need to go a step farther. I need to be in that tent. If anybody in this house feels a little bit like I do, would you join me in the presence of God? Would you? Even where you're at? Raise your hands? Would you come up around this front area and kneel? Would you close your eyes? Would you open your voice? Whatever is spurring you and challenging you right now? Come on somebody. Do you want to be in that tent? Are there men and women, and moms and dads, and husbands and wives that'll declare, "You know what"? I am not going into the future on my own, of my own energy, my own defense and my own understanding. No. I want to seek the presence and the power and the anointing of God. All the days of my life. I don't want to end up in a foolish tale here. I want the prosperity of the all knowing and only wise God In me. [00:35:09][0.0] [2041.3]   Episode Transcript Spanish   Travis Miller: [00:00:21] Debo hablar un rato esta tarde, voy a compartir algunas historias, voy a mirar algunos versículos de las Escrituras, se pondrán en la pantalla y toda mi intención, todo mi objetivo y dirección al hablar este corto mientras que esta tarde es inspirar a todos y cada uno en el sonido de mi voz tener una conversación con Dios. En conclusión, la oración a su manera, a su manera, en sus propias palabras, es tener una conversación con Dios, eso es exactamente lo que intento hacer. Ahí lo tienes. El gato salió de la bolsa. Eso es lo que intento hacer al compartir esta charla. Este discurso, este sermón, como quiera llamarlo, para que respondamos a Dios. [00:01:07][45.6] Travis Miller: [00:01:09] Como era de esperar, es pastor de esta congregación, estoy en el negocio de las personas. Llevo más de 30 años en el ministerio. He estado en la iglesia y en las congregaciones durante más de 50 años y durante todos esos años y todas esas experiencias. He observado algunas cosas, francamente, que me preocupan. He visto algunas cosas y he reflexionado sobre algunas cosas que, para mí, parecen fuera de lugar al seguir a Jesucristo. [00:01:46][36.4] Travis Miller: [00:01:48] Este es el asunto, me he preguntado cómo en el mundo las personas buenas terminan en malas situaciones. Yo, a lo largo de los años, en el transcurso del tiempo en varias congregaciones, he viajado y ministrado en 40 estados diferentes y Dios sabe cuántas iglesias diferentes forman parte de nuestro ministerio y he visto esto y aquello y lo otro, y ¿sabes con qué me encuentro? ¿Qué hay de esta joven que es amable, compasiva y amigable, pero que a menudo tiene una mala relación? ¿Qué pasa con eso? ¿Qué pasa con la familia fiel que incluso sirve en algún ministerio en la iglesia, pero parece que tienen problemas financieros regularmente? ¿Qué pasa con eso? ¿Qué hay de la pareja amistosa e interesante cuyos hijos, desafortunadamente, les están causando dolor regularmente? ¿O qué hay de la pareja que encontró a Jesús hace mucho tiempo? Parecía que realmente amaban a Jesús, pero pelean y discuten como enemigos completos. Me molesta el buen joven que parecía no poder conservar nada relacionado con un trabajo decente. Me preocupa una persona sincera que carece de control personal que trae problemas de salud continuos. ¿Soy el único que se ha preguntado sobre esas cosas? [00:03:13][85.5] Travis Miller: [00:03:20] Hace tres o cuatro años, me enteré de la ridícula tragedia de un viejo amigo. De hecho, fue amigo durante más de 20 años. Una persona agradable, un hombre servicial, divertido, agradable, que va a la iglesia. No solo fue a la iglesia, sino que también participó en la iglesia, sirvió y ministró a los demás. Pero hace unos años, inesperadamente, mi esposa y yo recibimos una llamada de su esposa. Descubrió que el hombre había mantenido a una amante en otro estado durante siete, ocho, 10 años. Destruyó su matrimonio. Devastó a sus hijos y sacudió la fe de aquellos a quienes había influenciado. ¿Me hace preguntar cómo? ¿Cómo ocurre eso? ¿Cómo hace una buena persona algo tan tonto? Conozco a otro buen hombre. Un hombre mayor, un hombre que pasó toda su vida sirviendo a las congregaciones. Un hombre que plantó iglesias y pastoreó iglesias, que luego pasó a ayudar a otros a plantar iglesias y pastorear iglesias. Una buena persona, un hombre justo. Uno de sus hijos adultos comenzó un negocio, el negocio comenzó a tener un poco de éxito y el niño decidió: ¿Sabes qué? Quiero expandir el negocio, quiero agregar otras ubicaciones, así que fue al banco, pero el banco no le dio un préstamo comercial. Y así el buen padre, el padre justo, el padre del ministerio. Vació sus 401 mil. Le di todo el dinero a la niña. Hubo dificultades en el negocio, y el niño estaba convencido de que las cosas están listas para cambiar, el punto de inflexión está muy cerca. Solo un poco más de capital y el negocio se irá al límite, y se irá desde allí. Y así papá, el hombre fiel, el hombre justo. Hipotecó su casa, le dio el dinero al niño. Y el negocio se echó a perder. Se acabó el dinero de jubilación. Bank embargó la casa, el hombre justo, el hombre fiel, el hombre del ministerio lo perdió todo. ¿Cómo funciona una buena persona? Comete errores tan trágicos. Quiero decir, en realidad, cualquiera que esté en una iglesia y un ministerio el tiempo suficiente, escucha sermones sobre cómo Dios quiere bendecir vidas y cómo Dios sana a las personas y cómo Dios cambia de familia y cómo Dios bendice las finanzas. Pero aun así, si observas, te comprometes, observas y te das cuenta de lo que está sucediendo. Hay ejemplos de personas que escuchan los mensajes pero no experimentan lo que se predica y se enseña. ¿Por qué es eso? [00:07:04][224.0] Travis Miller: [00:07:07] En realidad, si nos convertimos en estudiantes de la Biblia, la palabra de Dios, hay historias similares aquí. A veces pensamos en la Biblia, bueno, las historias de la Biblia son así. Recibimos historias sobre personas malvadas que viven vidas malvadas. Bueno, es cierto. Bueno, hay una historia sobre personas rectas que tienen vidas rectas. Eso también es cierto. Pero hoy quiero señalar que en este libro también encontramos historias de personas buenas que hicieron cosas tontas y les costó caro. Justo en este libro, hay batallas perdidas. Hay vidas acabadas, familias arruinadas por gente buena que actúa tontamente. Hay asesinatos y adulterios. Hay reinos perdidos. Hay amistades terminadas en este libro por humanos decentes que actúan de manera ignorante. Se desvanecen las esperanzas y las promesas se extinguen y la salud se desperdicia en fortunas perdidas y las relaciones terminadas. Estas son historias bíblicas que sucedieron a manos de buenas personas que vivían mal. ¿Por qué suceden estas cosas? [00:08:23][76.6] Travis Miller: [00:08:26] En el capítulo nueve del libro de Job, en el versículo cuatro, hizo una observación útil para esta discusión. Hoy en Job nueve, de la Biblia, dice que Dios es sabio de corazón y poderoso en fuerza. ¿Quién se ha endurecido contra él y ha prosperado? Bueno, claramente, Dios es sabio y Dios es poderoso, eso es claro y simple, dice Joe. Pero después de declarar esa verdad, Job preguntó quién se había endurecido contra él contra Dios y prosperó. ¿Quién se ha endurecido contra Dios? ¿Y aún prosperó? [00:09:14][48.3] Travis Miller: [00:09:18] Casi todas las primaveras, y vuelve a aparecer en abril, mayo. Mi esposa quiere que la lleve al condado de Skagit y vea los hermosos campos de tulipanes. A veces visitamos, has estado allí, lo sabes, visitas y las botas son absolutamente necesarias. No solo hay barro, hay mucho barro. Lluvia fabulosa del noroeste del Pacífico, nota, dije fabulosa. Empapa esos campos de tulipanes, haciéndolos fangosos y suaves. Pero hay otras veces que hemos visitado esos campos cuando las lluvias han terminado y los campos son diferentes. Los campos están crujientes. He estado ahí cuando la superficie se endurece e incluso se agrieta, es muy dura, pero cuando caminas sobre ella, puedes ver que es una superficie crujiente, pero hay humedad por debajo, pero la superficie es dura y seca. El suelo ha pasado de húmedo y fangoso a crujiente y duro. ¿Y sabes qué? Sabemos que esto no ocurre de inmediato. Primero, la lluvia disminuye, hay menos días de lluvia y luego hay menos pulgadas de lluvia. No es tan severa, menos lluvia, menos barro, lenta pero segura, luego no llueve y luego tierra más endurecida y crujiente. Job hace la pregunta: ¿quién se ha endurecido contra Dios y ha prosperado? Es una pregunta retórica. Escucha, las personas buenas viven mal cuando permitimos que nuestras vidas se endurezcan hacia Dios como esos campos de tulipanes. Las vidas del suelo no se endurecen de inmediato. ¿Escucharías hoy al predicador? ¿No es de la noche a la mañana que pasamos de personas embarradas, saturadas y empapadas espiritualmente a personas duras, agrietadas y endurecidas hacia Dios? Oh no, amigo mío. Pero durante un período de tiempo. Se toman decisiones. A menudo, no intencionalmente, sino accidentalmente, las personas buenas, las personas que tienen una experiencia con Dios se endurecen hacia Dios, minimizamos a Dios. A veces le quitamos importancia a Dios. Y a veces no se trata solo de ignorar a Dios, sino que nos olvidamos de Dios. Llevamos a cabo nuestras tareas diarias y nuestras cosas, y ni siquiera consideramos: Oye, tal vez quiera hablar con Dios sobre este distanciamiento de Dios. Ocurre cuando no hacemos la conexión entre la eternidad y nuestros tiempos de realidad actuales. Nos volvemos crudos porque compartimentamos a Dios y la lluvia espiritual disminuye, porque hay algunas áreas de mi vida en las que no quiero que Dios llueva. No quiero que Dios se meta con él. No quiero que invierta en desafiar y cambiar esa área de mi vida. No lo necesitamos. Pensamos que, para algunas cosas, la sequedad llega cuando mantenemos a Dios con los brazos extendidos. Mantenemos a Dios a una distancia cómoda. Y a medida que tomamos estas pequeñas decisiones graduales, se acumulan hasta que hay un suelo defectuoso, duro, crujiente y agrietado en nuestro enfoque, en nuestra determinación y en nuestra respuesta a Dios. Y cuando llegamos a ese lugar en el que estamos endurecidos hacia Dios, escuchamos a este predicador y a ese predicador antiguo Joe de hace años, no podemos esperar la prosperidad de Dios y el éxito de Dios cuando lo hemos sacado de áreas de nuestra vida. Las personas buenas conocen el fracaso cuando permiten que sus vidas se endurezcan contra Dios. [00:13:44][266.7] Travis Miller: [00:13:49] ¿Cómo es que una buena persona comete errores trágicos? Me molesta. Creo que la gente buena cae tontamente. Cuando confundimos nuestra justicia con sabiduría. Buenas personas. Caen tontamente. Cuando confundimos nuestra justicia con sabiduría. Verás, justicia, eso explica que los creyentes estén con Dios. Describe su visión de nuestras vidas cuando estamos en una relación correcta con él. Según las escrituras, viviendo en el pacto del Nuevo Testamento, disfrutamos de la rectitud con Dios cuando aplicamos el sacrificio de Jesucristo a nuestras vidas. Disfrutamos de la rectitud con Dios cuando nos arrepentimos, cuando sentimos pena por caminar en la dirección equivocada, y nos volvemos hacia Jesucristo es la rectitud con Dios. Cuando nos bautizamos en el nombre de Jesús para lavar nuestras faltas y fracasos, hay rectitud en Dios. Cuando recibimos el don de su Espíritu Santo, parte de él mora dentro de nosotros, y esa experiencia del nuevo nacimiento en el Nuevo Testamento nos hace justos a los ojos de Dios. Nos lleva a la relación correcta con él, y eso es algo maravilloso, milagroso y sorprendente que nunca podríamos lograr por nuestra cuenta. Pero la rectitud no es lo mismo que la sabiduría. [00:15:49][119.3] Travis Miller: [00:15:53] La vida sabia es sabia terrenal, la vida es una experiencia humana. En el gran libro sobre Sabiduría, Proverbios capítulo uno y versículo número siete. Salomón escribe que el temor del Señor es el principio del conocimiento. Pero los tontos desprecian la sabiduría y la instrucción. El miedo a la ley, a que el Dios respectivo entre en una relación correcta con él, ese es el comienzo del conocimiento, ese es el comienzo. Pero escúchame, no dice que ahora todo el conocimiento sea tuyo. No dice que toda la sabiduría sea tuya ahora. No dice que hayas completado el paquete y que tengas todo el cerebro de Dios. No dice que diga que el temor del Señor es el principio del conocimiento. Y también dice que los tontos desprecian la sabiduría y la instrucción, creo que es interesante que no diga que los malvados desprecian la sabiduría. No dice pecadores, desprecian la sabiduría. No hace esa diferencia, dice. En otras palabras, puedo ser una buena persona, podría temer al Señor y aun así vivir tontamente en este mundo. Proverbios Capítulo dos, observe estos versículos, comenzando en el versículo número seis. Porque el Señor concede sabiduría. De su boca salen el conocimiento y la comprensión. Concede un tesoro de sentido común. Tío, ahí lo tienes. El tesoro del sentido común. Se lo concede a los honestos. Es un escudo para aquellos que caminan con integridad. Protege los poderes de los justos y protege a los que le son fieles. Versículo nueve, en otras palabras, después, después de que hayan sucedido estas cosas, entonces entenderás lo que es correcto, justo y justo, y encontrarás el camino correcto a seguir, porque la sabiduría entrará en tu corazón y el conocimiento te llenará de gozo. Las decisiones sabias te vigilarán. La comprensión lo mantendrá a salvo. Escúchame hoy, según las Escrituras, la sabiduría sigue a la honestidad, la integridad y la fidelidad. Se nos dice que la sabiduría viene con el paquete de salvación. No nos bautizamos en el nombre de Jesús y salimos de allí llenos de sabiduría y comprensión. No es la forma en que funciona. La sabiduría para vivir está separada de la justicia con Dios. Vamos, piénsalo, amigos. Puedo ser compasivo y amable, y no es lo mismo que ser considerado y minucioso. Podría ser cariñosa, y no es lo mismo que ser exigente. Puedo ser gracioso, y no es lo mismo que ser amable y perspicaz. La gente no siempre está bien informada. La gente agradable no siempre es racional. La gente dulce no siempre es sensata. [00:19:22][209.7] Travis Miller: [00:19:23] La rectitud, explica la posición de los creyentes con Dios. La vida sabia es una experiencia humana. Quiero que entremos en nuestros corazones y en nuestro entendimiento y conocimiento hoy. A veces nos equivocamos, estando de pie con Dios, con vivir sabiamente en la Tierra, y cuando lo hacemos, las personas buenas caen en resultados necios. ¿Cuál es la alternativa? Predicador, ¿seguramente no has compartido toda esta información para asustarnos a todos? ¿Tiene que haber una solución? De hecho, tengo que hacernos conscientes del engaño, y del error en las fallas, que nos causaría un choque. Pero proclamo con alegría que hay elementos de las Escrituras, muy claros y muy directos, para ayudar a los humanos comunes como tú y yo. Hay una mejor manera en que podemos experimentar la prosperidad de Dios, podemos conocer el éxito de Dios, no solo los domingos en una casa llena de discípulos adoradores, sino que podemos conocer el éxito en nuestras elecciones profesionales. Podemos conocer el éxito en nuestros matrimonios y familias. Podemos conocer el éxito a medida que avanzamos en este mundo, en nuestras decisiones financieras. Podemos conocer el éxito en nuestra jubilación. Podemos conocer el éxito en nuestras carreras, si hacemos lo que las Escrituras nos indican que hagamos. [00:20:57][94.1] Travis Miller: [00:21:00] Hace unas semanas, desde este púlpito, hablé sobre el Arca de la Alianza. En particular, los esfuerzos de David por devolver el arca a Jerusalén, quizás recuerdes que el Arca de la Alianza representaba la presencia de Dios. No todo era la presencia de Dios en una caja de oro, pero significaba la centralidad. Y cuando visitó a su gente, fue por la centralidad de esa caja. Entonces, David está tratando de llevar la caja de vuelta a Israel, a la ciudad, y hablamos de cómo, que mientras estaba en la casa de Abinidab, Dios bendijo a esa casa debido al Arca. Así que David tuvo un intento fallido de devolver el arca. Entonces lo hizo bien y llevó a la gente a transferir el arca de vuelta a Jerusalén. Así que retomamos la misma historia de nuevo, si miran conmigo en la primera Crónicas 16 y el versículo número uno. La Biblia dice que trajeron el Arca de Dios y la pusieron en medio del tabernáculo que David había erigido para nosotros. Luego quemaron ofrendas, ofrecieron holocaustos y ofrendas de paz ante Dios Lo trajeron de vuelta, lo pusieron en el Tabernáculo, en la tienda del pueblo donde vivían. El versículo número siete de la Biblia dice que, en ese día, David entregó este salmo por primera vez en la mano de Asaf y sus hermanos para agradecer al Señor. Ahora, toda esta canción va hasta el versículo 35. No voy a leerlo del todo en este momento. Te animo a que lo leas en su totalidad. Es una canción maravillosa, pero quiero que notemos algo justo al principio de la canción que David había cantado después de que el Arca volviera a la ciudad. Todos dan gracias al Señor, invocan su nombre, dan a conocer sus obras entre los pueblos. Canta para él. Cántale canciones. Hable de todas sus maravillosas obras. Gloria en su santo nombre. Que se regocijen los corazones de los que buscan al Señor. Mira el versículo 11, busca al Señor y su fuerza. Busca su rostro para siempre. Busca al Señor y su fuerza. Busca su rostro para siempre. [00:23:40][159.6] Travis Miller: [00:23:47] Durante las últimas vacaciones. Nuestra familia emprendió una aventura, ahora bajó a Safeco Field o T-Mobile Field. Fuimos a esa fiesta navideña encantada. Donde todo el cuadro interior se creó en este enorme y viejo laberinto de increíbles luces navideñas. Y en el laberinto, había escondidos, nueve renos de Santa Claus. Así que a medida que entras en el laberinto, a cada participante se le da esta pequeña tarjeta con todos los nombres de los nueve renos y hay pequeños lugares para rascar. Cuando encuentres un reno, puedes ir a la mesa con todos los niños de cinco años y rascar la moneda de oro que encontraste ese reno. Algunos en nuestro grupo estaban más entusiasmados por encontrar a los nueve que a otros. Dábamos vueltas y vueltas en ese laberinto loco buscando nueve renos. Lamento confesar que, entre seis estadounidenses promedio, no pudimos encontrarlos a todos. Un niño pequeño de cinco años los encontró todos en cinco minutos, probablemente, pero faltaban adultos. Creo que quizás hemos encontrado 7. Pero después de eso, todo había terminado. La búsqueda había terminado. Encontramos todos los renos que íbamos a encontrar, todos los que estaban conmigo buscándolos, fue un evento único. Busca, encuentra, se acabó. Así que me desafía cuando David escribe, y así les dice a los hijos de Israel: busquen al Señor y su presencia y su fuerza, buscadlo cada vez más. Y empiezo a luchar. Me parece un poco extraño porque el arco ya no se perdió. La presencia de Dios ya no estaba en ningún otro lugar. Ya no estaba en un granero de la casa de Abinidab. El arca estaba en la ciudad. Estaba en un tabernáculo hecho por David. Estaba en una tienda de campaña, el arca, por así decirlo, mientras David hablaba, ¡estaba justo ahí! David Seeking, tenía que ser diferente a nosotros buscando renos en un parque de pelota. Quiero saber, ¿por qué un rey llama a su pueblo a buscar al Señor cuando la presencia de Dios está en la tienda? ¡Obviamente, está justo ahí! ¿Por qué David desafía a todo Israel a buscar lo que es obvio? Su significado de buscar, si miramos en otras traducciones, dice que estudie a Dios. Dice «busca al Señor». Dice: mira al Señor. Estudia a Dios. Pregunte a Dios. Mira al Señor, en la actualidad en términos prácticos. Me someto a esta congregación, David estaba diciendo esto, buscamos el arca. Buscamos la presencia de Dios. Lo trajimos a casa y lo pusimos en una tienda de campaña. Y ahí está. Y ahora, mientras canta y nos regocija, les dice a los hijos de Israel: Ahora escúchenme tan a menudo como puedan, tan regularmente como vayan a la tienda, ¡busquen lo que es obvio! ¡Entra en ese tabernáculo! ¡Sábate en la presencia de Dios! ¿Has encontrado la presencia de Dios? Absolutamente, lo habían hecho. ¿Sabían dónde estaba? Sin duda lo hicieron. David decía: Ahora visita el arca. Quiero que noten en ese pasaje, dijo, busquen al Señor y su fuerza, busquen su rostro cada vez más, busquen su rostro cada vez más. Busca su presencia, persigue continuamente su presencia día y noche, frecuenta el poder de Dios siempre. ¿Por qué? ¿Por qué David se sentía así? ¿Por qué la presencia de Dios era tan importante como David desafió al pueblo de Israel? [00:28:47][299.5] Travis Miller: [00:28:47] Te llevaré de nuevo al libro de Job. Job dijo: Dios es sabio de corazón. Y con una fuerza poderosa. Dios es sabio. Y Mighty. Al llegar al Nuevo Testamento, el apóstol Pablo y un apóstol llamado Judas dijeron esto, en primera Timoteo 1:17. Ahora al Rey Eterno, inmortal, invisible. Para Dios, que solo es sabio sea el honor y la gloria, por los siglos de los siglos. Amén. Judas, en las últimas oraciones del libro, en la carta que escribió el versículo 25, dice, a Dios nuestro salvador, quien solo es sabio la gloria y la majestad, el dominio y el poder ahora y siempre. Creo con todo mi corazón que David llamó a una búsqueda continua y de por vida de la presencia de Dios. Porque David sabía que hay una diferencia entre la rectitud con Dios y la sabiduría en la vida. David sabía que quiero estar en la presencia de Dios porque solo él es sabio. David entendió que la presencia de Dios trae más que una relación correcta para la humanidad. La presencia de Dios también trae sabiduría para ganarse la vida. Predico esta tarde que hay una diferencia entre encontrar a Dios y aprender de Dios. Hay una diferencia entre una experiencia con Dios y la piel de gallina en una reunión de oración, y hay una vida próspera y exitosa con Dios. No oramos constantemente y nos volvemos a Dios porque lo hemos perdido. No estamos de rodillas porque nuestra relación está en duda, más bien, buscamos constantemente lo obvio porque queremos su sabiduría para vivir el día a día. Encontrar a Dios la primera vez que hace que mi alma esté bien con él, pero buscar a Dios todo el tiempo que hace que nuestras vidas sean exitosas aquí y ahora. [00:31:31][163.8] Travis Miller: [00:31:37] Bueno, hoy predico, ¿sabes qué?, seguimos volviendo a esa tienda obvia porque solo Dios es la razón por la que buscamos lo obvio, porque queremos su sabiduría en nuestro día a día y buscamos lo obvio porque sabes qué, quiero maximizar el éxito. Y quiero minimizar las tonterías. Por eso buscamos lo obvio. ¿21 días de oración, predicador? ¿Por qué haces eso? ¿Perdiste a Dios? ¿No sabes dónde está? ¿Su relación está en problemas? Oh no, amigo mío, buscamos lo obvio porque queremos maximizar nuestro éxito y queremos minimizar nuestras tonterías. Queremos hacerlo como individuos. Queremos hacerlo en familia. Queremos hacerlo como congregación. Bueno, tienes oración previa al servicio durante 30 minutos, Don hizo un gran trabajo dirigiendo la oración hoy. Evan hizo un gran trabajo la semana pasada. ¿Por qué lo hace, predicador? Vamos a rezar al final de la iglesia de todos modos. ¿Por qué oras al principio en la iglesia? ¿Qué pasa? ¿Eres tan carnal? ¿Eres tan pecador? No, amigo mío, buscamos lo obvio porque queremos maximizar el éxito y queremos minimizar la estupidez, aquí mismo en este momento en la Tierra, como individuos y familias y como congregación. Mi Dios predicador, te estás volviendo apestoso, con sudores corriendo por tu cabecita calva. ¿Qué es lo importante, hombre? Te vimos el fin de semana pasado, viernes, sábado, domingo, predicador, estabas teniendo una reunión del Espíritu Santo, rompiéndola, disfrutando de la presencia de Dios. ¿Qué vas a hacer aquí de nuevo esta semana? ¿Por qué demonios vienes en dos semanas seguidas? Tuviste tres servicios la semana pasada, estás bien hasta junio, tío. ¿Por qué has vuelto esta semana? ¿Por qué estás tan alterado por las cosas que tienes que contar? Te diré por qué, no es porque lo haya perdido. No es porque haya pecado durante la semana. Te diré por qué, porque reconozco que solo él es sabio, y reconozco que quiero maximizar la prosperidad de Dios en mi vida, y quiero minimizar la estupidez y los fracasos de la vida y el colapso y el incendio. Quiero tener el favor de Dios en mi vida. Quiero su sabiduría. Así que sigo la canción del rey David, Busco al Señor y su fuerza. Busquen su rostro todos. Por su sabiduría. Por sus puntos fuertes. Siempre. Siempre. [00:35:03][206.9] Travis Miller: [00:35:09] ¿Qué le estás diciendo a predicador? Estoy llegando aquí y ahora. Espero haber provocado a la oración, a aquellos en esta sala que están pesando cosas en sus vidas. Espero provocar en esta sala a aquellos que están tomando decisiones de universidad y de carrera que ellos decidirían, buscaré al Señor y sus fortalezas para siempre más en esta decisión. Para aquellos en esta sala que están tomando decisiones sobre su familia, la escuela a la que asisten sus hijos o dónde van a ir a la escuela, o tal vez sus hijos ingresan al jardín de infantes por primera vez. Predico a los padres, ¿sabes qué? Esas decisiones, esos pasos, esos resultados. Tenemos que buscar al Señor en sus fuerzas y buscar su rostro cada vez más. Predico a aquellos que están considerando una nueva relación o quizás el estado de una relación actual. Tenemos que buscar al Señor y su fuerza. La razón por la que muchas personas buenas terminan en malas relaciones es porque creemos falsamente que a Dios no le importa eso. Escúchame hoy, la iglesia es la novia de Cristo. Le importan nuestras relaciones tanto como eso. ¿Está considerando comprar una casa, está considerando tomar una decisión financiera importante? ¿Estás haciendo algo en la jubilación o en tu carrera? Escucha, te lo suplico. Predico con fe. Debemos buscar al Señor y al único Dios sabio siempre, en todas las cosas que predico, para cada uno que ya está involucrado en el servicio en el ministerio y para aquellos que se involucrarían en el servicio en el ministerio, ya sea en el Ministerio de Niños, el Ministerio de Estudiantes, el Ministerio de Música, el Ministerio de Servicios para los Huéspedes, cualquiera que sea el el ministerio, la música y los estudiantes y todas esas cosas, el liderazgo del grupo de fe y todos los roles en Faith Group. Rezo por una congregación que sature esos ministerios en el poder y la presencia de Dios Todopoderoso. Rezo por nuestros hombres y mujeres que deben tener una unción saturadora de Dios. Predico esta tarde sobre decisiones, vidas, elecciones que se bañan en la presencia de Dios. Rezo por hombres y mujeres que reconozcan y se den cuenta de que, cada vez que un ser humano decida, no necesito a Dios en esa área de mi vida, estamos tomando una decisión. Decimos que mi sabiduría es mayor que la suya. En el Antiguo Testamento y en el nuevo, estaban convencidos. Aquellos que caminaron en los pasos y caminos con Jesucristo. Su convicción, su conocimiento, su comprensión era, solo Él es sabio. Por supuesto, si nunca lo he encontrado, no he conocido el perdón de mis pecados, no he sido bautizado ni lleno de su espíritu. Ese es el punto de partida. Tiene que empezar justo ahí. Y escúchame hoy, este santo salvador no murió en la cruz, sufrió ese dolor, humillación y ridículo, resucitó de entre los muertos, para que tú y yo pudiéramos tener un golpe único de poder divino. No se trata de eso este libro sagrado. Pero incluso antes de la efusión del espíritu. Hay un hombre llamado David, que se entusiasmó con una experiencia de Dios, y en ese momento en que Dios se movió sobre él, mientras escribía su canción, dijo, estas personas llegaron a conocerlo. El arca está en casa, está en una tienda de campaña, es obvio. Estas personas deben saber que no es el final. Es el principio. Estas personas deben saber que tienes que estar en una tienda de campaña. Las pequeñas decisiones se suman y se convierten en grandes decisiones. Tienes que estar en esa tienda. ¿Por qué cambias tu horario? ¿Por qué trabajas en torno a un servicio vespertino un domingo? ¿Por qué organizas tu vida para poder participar en un grupo de fe y reunirte con otros creyentes? Déjame decirte por qué tengo que estar en esa tienda. Quiero decir, mira esa caja de oro. Tengo que estar cerca cuando su presencia se asiente. Tengo algunos títulos, tengo décadas de experiencia, pero no tengo la sabiduría necesaria para ir un paso más allá. Tengo que estar en esa tienda. Si alguien en esta casa se siente un poco como yo, ¿te unirías a mí en presencia de Dios? ¿Lo harías? ¿Incluso dónde estás? ¿Levantar las manos? ¿Te acercarías por este frente y te arrodillarías? ¿Cerrarías los ojos? ¿Abrirías la voz? ¿Qué es lo que te está estimulando y desafiando en este momento? Vamos, alguien. ¿Quieres estar en esa tienda? ¿Hay hombres y mujeres, mamás y papás, esposos y esposas que digan: «Sabes qué»? No voy a ir al futuro por mi cuenta, por mi propia energía, por mi propia defensa y por mi propia comprensión. No. Quiero buscar la presencia y el poder y la unción de Dios. Todos los días de mi vida. No quiero acabar en un cuento absurdo aquí. Quiero la prosperidad del Dios omnisciente y único sabio en mí. [00:35:09][0.0] [2036.0]   Episode Transcript in Tagalog   Travis Miller: [00:00:21] Dapat akong magsalita ng ilang sandali ngayong hapon, magbabahagi ako ng ilang mga kuwento, titingnan ko ang ilang mga talata ng banal na kasulatan, ilalagay sila sa screen at ang aking buong intensyon, ang aking buong layunin at direksyon sa pagsasalita ngayong maikling panahon ngayong hapon ay upang pukawin ang bawat isa sa tunog ng aking boses upang magkaroon ng pakikipag-usap sa Diyos. Sa wakas panalangin sa kanyang sariling paraan, sa kanyang sariling paraan, sa kanyang sariling mga salita, ay upang magkaroon ng isang pakikipag-usap sa Diyos, iyon ay eksakto kung ano ang sinusubukan kong gawin. Doon ka pumunta. Cat ay sa labas ng bag. Iyan ang sinusubukan kong gawin sa pagbabahagi ng usapang ito. Ang talumpati na ito, ang pangaral na ito, anuman ang gusto mong tawagin ito, upang kami ay tumugon sa Diyos. [00:01:07][45.8] Travis Miller: [00:01:09] Gaya ng inaasahan mo, ay pastor ng kongregasyong ito, ako ay nasa negosyo ng mga tao. Ako ay nasa ministeryo ngayon ng higit sa 30 taon. Ako'y nasa paligid ng simbahan at sa paligid ng mga kongregasyon ng higit sa 50 taon at sa lahat ng mga taong iyon at lahat ng mga karanasang iyon. Na-obserbahan ko ang ilang mga bagay, medyo lantaran, na problema sa akin. Nakakita ako ng ilang mga bagay at nakalarawan sa ilang mga bagay na, sa akin, ay mukhang wala sa lugar sa pagsunod kay Hesu-Kristo. [00:01:46][36.5] Travis Miller: [00:01:48] Narito ang pakikitungo, naisip ko kung paano sa mundo mabubuting tao end up sa masamang sitwasyon. Ako, sa paglipas ng mga taon, sa paglipas ng panahon sa iba't ibang kongregasyon, naglakbay ako at naglingkod sa 40 iba't ibang mga estado at alam ng Diyos kung gaano karaming iba't ibang mga simbahan bilang bahagi ng aming ministeryo at nakita ko ito at iyon at ang isa pa, at alam mo kung ano ang aking nakikita? Paano ang tungkol sa batang babae na mabait at mahabagin at magiliw, ngunit madalas siyang nasa masamang relasyon? Ano ang tungkol sa na? Paano naman ang tapat na pamilya na naglilingkod sa ilang ministeryo sa simbahan, ngunit tila sila ay regular na nasa problema sa pananalapi? Ano ang tungkol sa na? Paano ang tungkol sa friendly, kagiliw-giliw na mag-asawa na ang mga bata, sa kasamaang-palad, ay nagbibigay sa kanila ng regular na kalungku O paano naman ang mag-asawa na nakatagpo kay Hesus ng matagal na ang nakalipas? Mukhang iniibig nila talaga si Hesus, ngunit nakikipaglaban sila at nagtatalo tulad ng kumpletong mga kaaway. Ako ay bothered sa pamamagitan ng mabuting binata na tila hindi magagawang upang panatilihin ang anumang bagay na may kaugnayan sa isang disenteng trabaho. Nag-aalala ako tungkol sa isang taos-puso na tao na walang personal na kontrol na nagdudulot ng patuloy na mga isyu sa kalusugan. Ako ba ang nag-iisa na kailanman nagtaka tungkol sa gayong mga bagay? [00:03:13][85.6] Travis Miller: [00:03:20] Tatlo o apat na taon na ang nakalilipas, natutunan ko ang katawa-tawa na trahedya ng isang mahabang kaibigan. Katotohanan siya ay isang kaibigan para sa 20 plus taon. Isang kasiya-siyang tao, isang kapaki-pakinabang, masaya, kaaya-aya, taong nagpunta sa simbahan. Hindi lamang ang pagpunta sa simbahan, kundi kasangkot sa simbahan, naglingkod siya at naglingkod sa iba. Ngunit ilang taon na ang nakalilipas, hindi inaasahan, nakatanggap kami ng tawag mula sa kanyang asawa. Natuklasan niya na pinananatili ng lalaki ang isang maybahay sa ibang estado sa loob ng pitong, walong, 10 taon. Nawasak niya ang kanyang kasal. Nawasak ang kanyang mga anak at binato ang pananampalataya ng mga naimpluwensyahan niya. Ito ay gumagawa sa akin magtanong kung paano? Paano iyan nangyari? Paano gumagana ang isang magandang tao ang isang bagay kaya hangal? Alam ko ang isa pang mabuting tao. Isang nakatatandang lalaki, isang lalaking gumugol ng kanyang buong buhay na naglilingkod sa mga kongregasyon. Isang lalaking nagtanim ng mga simbahan at nagpaimbak ng mga simbahan, na pagkatapos ay nagpatuloy upang tulungan ang iba na magtanim ng mga simbahan at mga pastore na simbahan. Ang isang mabuting tao, isang matuwid na tao. Ang isa sa kanyang mga adult na bata ay nagsimula ng negosyo, ang negosyo ay nagsimula sa pagkuha ng isang maliit na bit ng tagumpay at ang bata ay nagpasya, Alam mo kung ano, gusto kong palawakin ang negosyo, gusto kong magdagdag ng iba pang mga lokasyon, at kaya siya nagpunta sa bangko, ngunit ang bangko ay hindi magbibigay ng business loan. At kaya ang mabuting ama, ang matuwid na ama, ang ministeryong ama. Emptied out ang kanyang 401k. Ibinigay ang lahat ng pera sa bata. May mga pakikibaka sa negosyo, at ang bata ay kumbinsido na ang mga bagay ay handa na upang buksan, ang tipping point ay talagang napakalapit. Lamang ng kaunti pa capital at ang negosyo ay pumunta sa ibabaw ng gilid, at talagang sa ibabaw ng umbok, at ito ay pumunta mula doon. At kaya ama, ang tapat na tao, ang matuwid na tao. Mortgaged kanyang bahay, nagbigay ng pera sa bata. At ang negosyo ay nagpunta sa tiyan. Pagreretiro ng pera nawala. Bank foreclosed ang bahay, ang matuwid na tao, ang tapat na tao, ang ministeryo tao nawala ang lahat. Paano gumagana ang isang mabuting tao? Gumagawa ng gayong mga trahedya pagkakamali. Ibig kong sabihin, talaga, kahit sino na nakabitin sa isang simbahan at ministeryo ng sapat na katagalan, naririnig mo ang mga sermon tungkol sa kung paano nais ng Diyos na pagpalain ang mga buhay at kung paano pinapagaling ng Diyos ang mga tao at kung paano binabago ng Diyos ang mga pamilya at kung paano pinagpapala ng Diyos ang mga pananalapi. Ngunit pa rin, kung susundin mo, nakikibahagi ka, pinapanood mo at malaman kung ano ang nangyayari. May mga halimbawa ng mga taong nakarinig ng mga mensahe ngunit hindi nararanasan ang ipinangangaral at itinuro. Bakit iyan? [00:07:04][223.7] Travis Miller: [00:07:07] Sa totoo lang, kung tayo ay maging mga mag-aaral ng Bibliya, ang salita ng Diyos, mayroong katulad na mga kuwento dito. Minsan iniisip natin sa Bibliya, mabuti, ang mga kuwento sa Bibliya ay ganito. Nakukuha natin ang mga kuwento tungkol sa masasamang tao na namumuhay ng masasamang buhay. Well, totoo iyan. Well, may kuwento tungkol sa matuwid na mga tao na may matuwid na buhay. Totoo rin iyan. Ngunit ngayon, gusto kong ituro na sa aklat na ito, nakita rin natin ang mga kuwento ng mabubuting tao na gumawa ng mga hangal na bagay at mahal ang mga ito. Tama sa aklat na ito, May mga labanan nawala. May mga buhay na natapos, may mga pamilya na nasira ng mabubuting tao na kumikilos nang may kamangmangan. May mga pagpatay at pangangalunya. May mga kaharian na nawala. May mga pagkakaibigan na natapos sa aklat na ito ng mga disenteng tao na kumikilos nang walang kamangmangan. May mga pag-asa vanished at pangako extinguished at kalusugan nasayang sa fortunes forfeited at relasyon tinapos. Ang mga ito ay mga kuwento sa Bibliya na nangyari sa kamay ng mabubuting tao na nabubuhay nang hindi maganda. Bakit nangyari ang mga bagay na ito? [00:08:24][76.7] Travis Miller: [00:08:26] Sa Aklat ni Job Kabanata siyam sa berso apat, gumawa siya ng kapaki-pakinabang na pagmamasid para sa talakayang ito. Ngayon sa Job siyam, mula sa Bibliya, sinasabi ng Diyos ay pantas sa puso at makapangyarihan sa lakas. Sinong nagmatigas laban sa kaniya at guminhawa? Well, malinaw, ang Diyos ay matalino at ang Diyos ay makapangyarihan, iyan ay simple at simple, Joe declares ito. Datapuwa't nang maipahayag ang katotohanang iyan, tinanong nga ni Job kung sino ang nagmatigas laban sa kaniya laban sa Dios at guminhawa? Sino ang nagmatigas laban sa Diyos? At pa rin umunlad? [00:09:14][48.4] Travis Miller: [00:09:18] Halos bawat tagsibol, at ito ay darating muli sa buwan ng Abril, Mayo. Nais ng aking asawa na dalhin ko siya sa Skagit County at makita ang magagandang patlang ng tulipan. Minsan binibisita namin, naroroon ka, alam mo ito, binibisita mo at bota ay talagang kailangan. Hindi lang putik ang may maraming putik. Hindi kapani-paniwala Pacific Northwest ulan, tandaan, sinabi ko hindi kapani-paniwala. Ibabad ang mga patlang ng tulipan, ginagawa itong maputik at malambot. Ngunit may iba pang mga oras na binisita namin ang mga patlang na iyon kapag natapos na ang ulan at ang mga bukid ay naiiba. Ang mga patlang ay magaspang. Ako ay doon kapag ang ibabaw ay hardened at kahit crack, ito ay kaya mahirap, ngunit kapag naglalakad ka sa ito, maaari mong sabihin na ito ay isang magaspang ibabaw, ngunit may kahalumigmigan sa ilalim, ngunit ang ibabaw ay mahirap at tuyo. Ang lupa ay nawala mula sa basa-basa at maputik sa magaspang at mahirap. At alam mo kung ano? Alam natin na hindi ito nangyayari kaagad. Una, ang ulan dwindles, mayroong mas kaunting mga araw ng ulan at pagkatapos ay mayroong mas kau

Tampok sa episode na ito ang huling bahagi ng ika-46 na kabanata ("28. Michael") ng WALONG DIWATA NG PAGKAHULOG na available din sa http://edgarcsamar.com/santinakpan. Binasa ko rin dito ang ikaapat bahagi ng tulang "Pikhukhu" mula sa libro kong SAMANTALANG SAKOP AT INIIBIG: PANIBAGONG TULAMBUHAY. ✨ Kung gusto ninyong magkaroon ng one-on-one online workshop sa pagsusulat via Zoom at magkaroon ng access sa aking works in progress kasama ang dalawa kong Patreon-exclusive podcasts na MGA LIHAM KAY ELIAS at KASAYSAYAN NG NOBELA, bisitahin lang ang http://www.patreon.com/ecsamar para sa detalye. ✨ Subaybayan rin ang aking YouTube channel sa http://www.youtube.com/c/EdgarCalabiaSamar1 para sa mga video na may kinalaman sa panitikan, pagsusulat, at kagila-gilalas. At kung namimili kayo sa Lazado o Shopee, maaari ring gamitin ang mga sumusunod na link sa Shopee (https://podlink.co/la0) o Lazada (https://podlink.co/4t9) para makatanggap kayo ng discount at bilang pagsuporta rin dito sa podcast: ✨ Kung gusto naman ninyong mag-sign-up sa Podmetrics para sa pagmo-monetize ng inyong podcast, pumunta lang sa http://podmetrics.co at gamitin ang REFERRAL CODE na: MgaTeoryaNgPagkahulog. ✨ Kung naghahanap kayo ng VPN, please check out NordVPN! Nag-o-offer sila ng 73% discount ngayon sa listeners ng MGA TEORYA NG PAGKAHULOG podcast! Go to this link: http://nordvpn.com/teorya and use the coupon code: teorya when you check out! Maraming salamat!

#Hanapin | Luke 15:1-10: Kapag may nawawala, hinahanap mo ba? Kapag may umaalis na mahalaga sa'yo, nagsisikap ka ba na hanapin siya? Listen to today's episode and be reminded that as the Lord gives his whole heart in searching for each one of us, we, as Christians, are asked to look after each other, for we are brothers and sisters in Christ. God bless you, ka-Almusalita! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/almusalita-by-fr-luciano/support

This episode features Kier Mitchel Pitogo, a wildlife biologist at the Protected Area Management Office of the Allah Valley Watershed Forest Reserve. In 2021, he rediscovered a Philippine frog that had been lost to science for 28 years. He also co-authored the first extensive herpetological survey conducted in southern Mindanao. We talked about the story of rediscovering Guttman's stream frog, finding a rare species of critically endangered orchid, the process of putting together his pioneering study on Mindanao wildlife, why it's important to keep studying the Philippines' biodiversity, the challenges that Pinoy wildlife biologists experience in the field, and more.

Hanapin ang ibig sa pag-ibig

MABUTING BALITA | HULYO 7, 2021 Miyerkules sa Ika -14 na Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon EBANGHELYO: MATEO 10:1-7 Tinawag ni Jesus ang Labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Ito ang mga pangalan ng labindalawang apostol: una, si Simong tinatawag na Pedro, at ang kanyang kapatid na si Andres; si Jaime na anak ni Zebedeo, at ang kapatid nitong si Juan; sina Felipe at Bartolome, Tomas at Mateo, na tagasingil ng buwis; si Jaimeng anak ni Alfeo, at si Tadeo; si Simong Kananeo, at si Judas Iskariote na magkakanulo sa kanya. Sinugo ni Jesus ang labindalawang ito at pinagbilinan: “Huwag kayong lumiko papunta sa mga pagano at huwag pumasok sa bayang Samaritano. Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang Kaharian ng Langit.'” PAGNINILAY: Kapanalig, meron ka bang kaibigan, kapamilya, kapitbahay o kakilala na nawawala? Nawawalan ng pag-asa, nawawalan ng tiwala, nawawalan ng lakas loob o nawawala sa tamang landas dahil sa iba't ibang nangyayari ngayon sa ating mundo? Kung meron ka mang kakilala, tinatawag ka ni Hesus upang ibalita o ipamahagi sa kanila na ang kaharian at kagandahang loob ng Diyos ay narito na. Katulad ng pagtawag ni Hesus sa kanyang mga alagad, tayo rin ay kanyang sinusugo para ipahayag ang kaharian ng Diyos. Sa kanyang apostolic exhortation na “The Joy of the Gospel”, inaanyayahan tayo ni Pope Francis, bilang kasapi ng sambayanang Kristiyano, na maging “Missionary Disciple” o misyonerong disipulo. Personal na tinawag at sinugo ni Hesus ang kanyang mga alagad, at gayun din naman ang kanyang paanyaya sa atin. Ito ay personal na paanyaya. Ang bawat isa sa atin ay tinatawag na isabuhay ang biyaya at kahulugan ng ating binyag sa pakikibahagi natin sa buhay ng simbahan, at sa ating mga salita at gawa na sumasaksi sa mabuting balita at sa kaharian ng Diyos. Dagdag pa ni Pope Francis, ang bawat Kristiyano ay misyonero kapag nararanasan niya ang pag-ibig ng Diyos kay Hesukristo at ito ay kanyang isinasabuhay at ibinabahagi sa iba. At ito ay nagmumula sa malalim na pagkakaibigan at pakikipag-ugnayan natin kay Hesukristo at lumalago sa bawat karanasan natin sa kanya sa pamamagitan ng kanyang mga salita at mga sakramento. Kapanalig, handa ka na bang humayo at ibahagi ang mabuting balita ng Diyos? - Sr. Mary Anthony Basa, PDDM | Disciples of the Divine Master

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MABUTING BALITA | Disyembre 5, 2020 - Sabado sa Unang Linggo ng Adbiyento EBANGHELYO: Mt 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8 Nilibot ni Jesus ang mga bayan at mga nayon; nagtuturo siya sa kanilang mga sinanoga, nagpapahayag ng Mabuting Balita ng Kaharian at nagpapagaling ng lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Nang makita niya ang makapal na tao, naawa siya sa kanila sapagkat hirap sila at lupaypay na parang mga tupang walang pastol. At sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad: “Marami nga ang aanihin at kakaunti naman ang mga manggagawa. Idalangin ninyo sa Panginoon ng ani na magpadala siya ng mga manggagawa sa kanyang ani.” Tinawag ni Jesus ang labindalawa niyang alagad at binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan sa maruruming espiritu para palayasin ang mga ito at pagalingin ang lahat ng sakit at karamdaman. Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanila: “Hanapin ninyo ang nawawalang tupa ng sambayanan ng Israel. Ipahayag ang mensaheng ito sa inyong paglalakbay: ‘Palapit na ang kaharian ng Langit.' Pagalingin ang maysakit, buhayin ang patay, linisin ang mga mayketong at palayasin ang mga demonyo. Ibigay ninyo nang walang bayad ang tinanggap ninyo nang walang bayad.” PAGNINILAY: Matinding pagkahabag ang nadama Jesus nang makita niya ang makapal na tao. Nahabag sa kanila sapagkat sila ay nahahapis at nanlulupaypay na waring mga tupang walang pastol. Niyakap ni Jesus ang pagiging isang Guro na nagtuturo sa atin ng tunay na pagmamalasakit at pagmamahal. Karaniwan Niyang ginagawa ang maghayag ng Mabuting Balita at magpagaling ng mga maysakit. Minumulat niya ang mga tao sa katotohanan na magbibigay ng kahulugan sa buhay. Ito rin ang kahalagahan ng ating patuloy na pakikinig at pagninilay sa salita ng Diyos. Binubusog tayo sa mga bagay na makalangit. Inihahanda tayo para sa mga himala at pagpapala ng ating Diyos. Si Jesus ang ating mabuting Pastol. Tinatawag Niya tayong tularan ang kanyang halimbawa sa tunay na pagkalinga sa ating mga kapatid na nangangailangan. Tumugon tayo sa kanyang panawagan na maging mabuting pastol sa ating kapwa. Magabayan sana natin ang mga kabataang nahihirapan nitong panahon ng pandemya. Kahit na rin simpleng suporta sa ating mga guro at mga magulang. Makapagbahagi ng makakain kahit sa isang front-liner o maging sa isang back-liner. Mag-alay tayo ng panalangin para sa mga taong nahahapis at nanlulupaypay na. Tumugon tayo sa panawagan ni Jesus! “Idalangin niyo sa Panginoon ng ani na magpadala siya ng mga manggagawa sa kanyang ani.” Ngayong bagong panahon ng adbiyento, nawa'y maging panahon ito ng isang masaganang ani para sa kaharian ng Dios. Amen! - Sr. Amelyne Paglinawan

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Miyerkules ng Ika-14 na Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (II) Oseas 10, 1-3. 7-8. 12 Salmo 104, 2-3. 4-5. 6-7 Hanapin ang Poon lagi, sa harap n’ya manatili. Mateo 10, 1-7

Ever been brave enough to remove all the targeting from a marketing campaign? Our guest Will Larcom from Hanapin Marketing did (admittedly "a scary moment"), and the results did not disappoint. Tune into the first-ever episode of Out of the Box, with our guest Will Larcom, Account Manager at Hanapin Marketing, to hear more about Will's out of the box marketing strategies, or read the transcript here: https://outofthebox.ironsrc.com/podcasts/will-larcom/

Sa episode na eto, pinagusapan namin ang buhay quarantine at mga worries namin bilang tatay. Pinagusapan din ang mga panliligaw nung kapanahunan namin at mga tips para sa mga younger generations. Wala munang seryosong usapan sa podcast na eto, kwentuhan lang talaga. First time ko palang mag-Zoom kaya pagpasensyahan nyo na kung medyo pangit ang audio :( Pwede nyo rin kaming panoorin sa youtube. Hanapin nyo lang ang "Kwentuhan Sessions" Wag ding kalimutang magsubscribe. :) Please let me know pala kung mas gusto nyo ng may pinapanood or purely na audio lang. If you like this podcast, we would be more than happy if you can give us a thumbs up or a 5-star rating and subscribe. You can also send us a message, comments, and suggestions through my IG @kwentuhansessions / FB fan page @kwentuhansessionsph.

Insight Brokers, what are they?  On this week's episode of Tech Demand Weekly! Charles learns about the new trend in marketing that is Insight Brokers. While it may be something that you think you already do within your marketing department, our guest today suggests that there is a lot more on offer.  Jeff Allen has 20 years of digital marketing experience which started at an email platform company before moving to the agency side. Aside from running the day-to-day at Hanapin, a digital marketing agency, he oversees the popular industry blog, PPC Hero, and conference series, Hero Conf.

This week Paul and JD record from PubCon and bring along marketing gurus, Emma Franks from Hanapin and AJ Wilcox from B2Linked. Sure we did the headlines but we also laughed a lot! Google average position is going away, AdX auction is changing, Facebook working on blockchain, Pinterest adds product feed-based ads, Twitter has new video analytics and more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-ppc-show-podcast/message

Pat East, founder of Hanapin Marketing and director of The Dimension Mill, knows the five things it takes to create a healthy profitable business. Do you? Hit play to find out. Mentions: The Tim Ferris Show The 4-Hour Work Week Breakthrough Strategy Siri QuickBooks Digital Marketing Blog Hero Conference Showers Brothers Furniture Factory StoryBrand Clayton Christianson Special thanks to Pat East for sharing his story with us Contributors: Host - Jeremy Goodrich Music Production - Mark Vinten Audio Editing - Christopher Lang Copy Editing - Talia Chakraborty If you liked this episode, stick around: SUBSCRIBE to Scratch Entrepreneur on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you catch your podcasts.  REVIEW the show and SHARE with friends. Connect with us! JOIN the Scratch Entrepreneur Group so we can make it Facebook official. Thanks for listening!   Want insurance without the headache? We’re here for you.       More great stories & information at: Youtube - Blog - Podcast Facebook - Twitter

In this podcast, Optmyzr’s Fred Vallaeys and Hanapin’s Jeff Baum will analyze the upcoming features in the Google Ads platform and provide you with helpful strategies to implement and see the beneficial impact!

David and Amber  welcome Jeffrey Baum, the ‎Director of Services at Hanapin Marketing, an industry veteran who educates us on relationship marketing, customer nurturing and PPC. Jeff is a seasoned PPC advertising professional with Hanapin Marketing. He has a nine year track record of success in digital advertising. He has developed and implemented strategies to substantially grow revenue and profits for a variety of lead generation and e-commerce businesses. He has also been responsible and accountable for managing hundreds of thousands of dollars in PPC advertising spend per month. Jeff is a reacurring writer for Hanapin's blog, PPC Hero, and also manages Hanapin's RWE (Remote Work Environment) program.

This week we spoke to Stephanie White from one of my favorite agencies, Hanapin. She started her career selling jewelry online and next thing you know she had a career in PPC. Enjoy the episode! Links we covered: http://blog.adstage.io/2016/03/01/this-week-in-ad-tech-week-of-03-01-2016/ http://www.ppchero.com/amazing-automated-ppc-rules-you-must-use/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-ppc-show-podcast/message

"Hanapin ang Diyos sa bawat sulok ng ating buhay."

Hanapin Marketing president and CEO Pat East discusses Blogging and Inheriting Shaky Campaigns. Hanapin Marketing is an Internet marketing firm specializing in pay per click management, search engine optimization, and web design and development. Hanapin is best known within the SEM industry for their blog on pay per click management, PPC Hero.

Hanapin Marketing president and CEO Pat East discusses Blogging and Inheriting Shaky Campaigns. Hanapin Marketing is an Internet marketing firm specializing in pay per click management, search engine optimization, and web design and development. Hanapin is best known within the SEM industry for their blog on pay per click management, PPC Hero.