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WORD TO GO with Pastor Mensa Otabil Episode 466

Centralist tonight what the hell is Biden saying he's god he fix the economy in 3 months and invented the covid-19 vaccine this guy is nuts lets talk Joe Biden 1st 100 days and is the usa better off are worst off ? how has the world faired under emperor Joes 1st 100 days ? on a side note please free the Canadians ! www.uprntalkradio.com

Our worship is not based on what God does for us, but simply on Who He is, just the fact that He is God makes Him worthy of everything we are.

It is finished! . . . what is "it"? The deed is done. The torture has been inflicted. The Messiah has died; however, He said something just before He yielded the Spirit. What was it? "It is finished?" What did Jesus mean by that? Who was Joseph? Did Nicodemus get his redemption arc? Join myself and Mason as we discuss the back half of John Chapter 19! Reach out to us at podcast.crosstraining@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or suggestions of what you'd like to hear from us next. Also, you can join the discussion here: Facebook Instagram Twitter Thanks for listening!

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Part One- An interesting conversation about how optimizing your health can lead to the best version of self. How do we create an here on earth experience as it is in heaven. Using God's gift to us of love and light within us to make the world a better place. Sometimes we have to unlearn what we have known in order to learn a new and better way of thriving on this side of heaven. Start with diet, incorporate meditation and begin to connect mind/body/spirit in order to create the life you want to live.

"Guess what, Mom?" Andrea said as she burst through the door. "The teachers selected me to make the morning announcements for a whole month!" Mom wiped pie dough from her fingers. "That's wonderful, Andrea! I'm happy for you." Andrea frowned. "Happy for me? You should be proud! They picked me over everybody else. My voice must sound incredible when I speak!" Mom rolled her eyes. "Okay, Miss Incredible, I am proud of you, but don't let it go to your head. Go start your homework while I finish this pie." "Can I make a quick call first?" Andrea asked. "Okay, but make it snappy," Mom replied. After putting the pie in the oven, Mom found Andrea in her room with her arms folded, staring into space. "Have you finished your homework?" Mom asked. Andrea shook her head. "When I called Susan and told her I was chosen to make the announcements, she said I'm being overconfident. Does that mean I'm prideful?" "Well, you do seem pretty proud of the fact that they chose you," Mom said, sitting down on the bed. "The Bible tells us not to be puffed up with pride because all our abilities are gifts from God." "So, I shouldn't be happy they chose me?" Andrea asked. "Of course you should be happy," said Mom. "But let it be with a humble spirit. When we start to feel prideful, we need to remember Jesus' humility. He was willing to come to earth and die for our sins, even though He's God. And He's the one who gives us our abilities as well as opportunities to develop them and use them to help others." Mom smiled at Andrea. "Maybe you should humbly accept your announcing position as an opportunity from God to develop the voice He gave you and learn how to use it to connect with people." "It must have sounded like I was bragging to Susan. Can I call her back and apologize? I need to thank her too; she probably spared me some embarrassment." Mom walked to the door. "Okay, call your friend, and then come to dinner." "What's for dessert?" Andrea asked. Mom turned and winked. "Humble pie." Andrea giggled. "Perhaps I should eat two pieces!" Linda Ray Center How About You? Are you eager to tell others about winning a trophy or getting a lead role in a play? While it's good to feel satisfaction in your accomplishments, be careful not to let those feelings turn into pride. Instead of putting yourself above others, humbly accept the gifts God has given you. Jesus is the perfect example of humility. Be thankful for each opportunity He gives you to develop your gifts, and use them to serve Him. Today's Key Verse: When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. (NIV) (Proverbs 11:2) Today's Key Thought: Be humble

Pastor Dean Herring examines how even the darkest of days doesn't change who God is. Recorded on 04/05/2020. Welcome to the official preaching podcast of South Valley Baptist Church in Kuna, Idaho. Located in the heart of the Treasure Valley, SVBC is a family of friends. On this podcast you will hear Pastor Dean Herring deliver Biblical preaching from the pulpit. It is our desire that you will be helped and blessed by these Gospel messages. For more information about SVBC, please visit www.svbaptistchurch.com. There you will find links to all of our social platforms, years of audio sermons, and much more. God bless you!

Original Broadcast: January 2011 Monthly Theme: Pastoral Epistles (1 Timothy 1) I thank Him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He judged me faithful, appointing me to His service. (1 Timothy 1:12) Trustworthy Paul thanks Jesus because Jesus believe Paul is faithful. Not just believes that Paul is faithful. Jesus makes Paul faithful. Faithful to the point of being considered trustworthy with a great work for the kingdom of God. Jesus sets up people to do His work that He knows will do a great job. How does He know? First of all, He's God. But secondly, He appoints people for specific tasks. Jesus does this both inside and outside the Church. Inside the Church, Jesus appoints Apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists and so on. Outside the Church, Jesus appoints all those who are in government. While not all in government are morally good, Jesus still appoints them and gives them the tools and the abilities to govern. What has Jesus appointed for you to do? Every station you find yourself in in this life is what Jesus has appointed you to do: parent, child, caregiver, employer, employee, teacher, student. All these things have great responsibilities attached to them. Take a moment today to pray that God will continue to strengthen you so that you might continue to be faithful and trustworthy in your calling. Amen.

In this sermon from May 2013 at Marcus Pointe Baptist Church, Bradley Price preached a message celebrating his 50 years in ministry. "He is infinite, intimate, inescapable - He is God!"

God doesn't provide for you because you paid your hush money to Him this month! He's not the godfather; He's God the Father, and He looks after you and cares for you because you're His child. Hallelujah! Provision is not based on your performance of tithing and sowing. READ MORE

We're returning to the magical land of Narnia this week with THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN, and things sure have changed. The battles are bigger, the CGI animals are better, and Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy all suck harder. It makes this pretty bland Disney fantasy movie just as much of a slog to get through as last time, but at least the circumstances of this story allow us to get some classic We Want The D conversation going about the implication of four children who grew up to be kings and queens then being shoved back into their pubescent and pre-pubescent bodies.

"You think about the Mardi Gras parade and the Rose bowl parade and the Macy's Christmas parade and all these millions of dollars of floats and millions of dollars of cars and all this fanfare, but there wasn't a parade like this one. There's never been a parade like this one nor will there ever be." Family Discussions: Why do we call that day, Palm Sunday? What was really going on in Jerusalem that day? How can you lay your blanket before Jesus as he comes riding into your life, into your home? How does Jesus' life of exemplary humility speak to you today? Transcription: 00:13          This passage today in scripture is a phenomenal a passage. When you really understand what's going on this passage out of Mark chapter 11, man, it will rock your world. It'll change your life. Mark chapter. 11 verse seven, we call this Palm Sunday and, and I'll tell you why we do it says, "They brought the donkey to Jesus and they put their coats on it and he sat on it and many spread their coats out in the road and other spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna, Hosanna. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, David. Hosanna in the highest."   01:06          Folks that it was the, it was the greatest parade ever. You know, you think about the Mardi Gras parade and the Rose bowl parade and the Macy's Christmas parade and all these millions of dollars of floats and millions of dollars of cars and all this fanfare, but there wasn't a parade like this one. There's never been a parade like this one nor will there ever be. Jesus the Messiah. He's God. He's about to down the cross. A week later, we're going gonna raise from the dead, but how does he come in to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday? Comes in on a donkey. It comes in a little humble colt. Because Zachariah 9:9 prophesied hundreds of years before that he would ride in the Messiah, would be presented his King on a donkey and according to Psalms 118 the prophecy a thousand years before Jesus said they will cry. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.   01:59          And then the prophecy of Daniel 538 BC, 530 years before Jesus was born. Daniel said it will happen on that day. The prophecy of Daniel 9 says that on that day, April 6, 32 AD if you do the math, that's the day that Jesus would come in as King on a donkey being proclaimed as Messiah. No wonder he said, when the Pharasees said, Jesus, tell these people to become silent. If you claim to be God, we're going to kill you. And he said, if they become silent, the stones will cry out. This is the day of my visitation as he wept over Jerusalem He said. You know what? Humility, man, it makes you want to take a towel to dry the dishes, doesn't it? It makes you want to empty the trash cans throughout the house. It makes me want to want to wash literally the feet of the people in your family, by the way you serve them. You know, humility in a home, oh man, it's the smile on your faces in the home. Serving each other. You know, coming in on a donkey, so to speak, on the lowly, lowly colt. You know, they proclaimed him, Messiah and King. And the happiest kids I know, the happiest husbands I know, the happiest wives I know are people who get on their colt and ride every day.   03:19          So here's the questions today. Why do we call that day, Palm Sunday? And what was really going on in Jerusalem that day? The second question is, how can you lay your blanket before Jesus as he comes riding into your life, into your home? And then the third one says this, how does Jesus' life of exemplary humility speak to you today? And here is the lifeline. The thought for today, today in the home, let us mount our pride on the seat of a donkey.

I The seven thunders roll, shaking up the world, rending through the sky, changing heaven and earth. Piercing is the sound. Where can man run and hide? Heaven and earth are changed by thunder and lightning. Man lies dying. A fierce storm rolls in across the universe, fast as thunderbolt; heavy rain pours in. Each corner of the earth is bathed in this storm and nothing impure remains, oh. The whole world is washed and nothing unclean stands. Who can hide from the stormy rain? Oh, oh. II When destruction comes, all enemies will fall, defeated helpless into the raging torrent. They're swiftly taken to their deserved end, defeated hopeless, rushed away to their death. The seven thunders roll. God's purposes are clear. Evil will be punished with gusts of weeping. Some wake from their dreams, ponder their wicked schemes, only to hurry back to the foot of God's throne. They don't hesitate, hurry to God's throne. They do not indulge in their deceit and crime, but repent just in time. God is righteous and God is loving and God is merciful, oh. God is trustworthy, He's God of majesty. Someday the earth will see, oh. God is a burning fire. God is a burning fire. He'll show no mercy, when judgment is in His path. III From His royal throne God gazes down, searching deeply into hearts and minds, saving all those who seek after Him, sincerely seek after Him. Whoever loves God above other things, knows God's heart with understanding, follows Him all the way to the end, God will save him eternally. IV The seven thunders roll all throughout the earth. Man gets salvation and comes to God's throne. They seek to survive in the light of life, come worship and bow down to God Almighty! The seven thunders roll, lightning flashes down, proclaiming to one and all judgment has begun. He who speaks not his heart, who's doubtful and careless, and refuses God's will, judgment surely awaits them, awaits them! God is righteous and God is loving and God is merciful, oh. God is trustworthy, He's God of majesty. Someday the earth will see, oh. God is a burning fire. God is a burning fire. He'll show no mercy, when judgment is in His path. V Let the whole universe know the truth, Almighty God is the only God worth bowing to. Who can fight against God or oppose Him? There is none who can judge or revile Him. Every heart and tongue will be allegiant. Every nation will surrender before God. Today and tomorrow and eternally, they will bow down to God forever! They will bow down to God forever! They will bow down, they will bow down, they will bow down to God forever! from Utterances and Testimonies of Christ in the Beginning

Sometimes we picture our lives going one way, until we encounter impossible choices and painful struggles we never saw coming. But no matter your past, your pain, or your mistakes, when we give our stories over to God, He can write a new ending for us—one filled with potential and purpose. On today’s episode, author and activist Cyntoia Brown-Long is joined by her husband Jamie Long as she shares her redemptive story of an adolescence marred by trafficking and drug use that led to a murder conviction and a life sentence in prison. Despite the walls around her and no guarantee of freedom, Cyntoia determined to expand her horizons and better herself personally in prison. But Cyntoia found it was when she began to give her life back to God that a new chapter really started to unfold. Cyntoia’s husband Jamie tells how God miraculously brought the couple together, and how He’s using them to not only strengthen each other, but to help others find justice and mercy. Interior designer Liz Marie Galvan tells the story of a life seemingly filled with joy and opportunity. Married to the love of her life, she had a budding career in design and dreams of a family—until she was confronted with the harsh reality of infertility. Hesitant to share her pain with others, she eventually found community with those who were walking through the same issues. Now, through the work she does to create cozy homes and being open about her personal story, Liz Marie sees how God can be a light during our darkest of hours and how He can redeem our stories for a greater good.   Links, Products and Resources Mentioned: Jesus Calling books Jesus Calling weekly prayer call Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith [Original Video Series] featuring Rita Wilson Cyntoia Brown-Long Simon Shuster Book publisher ‘Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System’ book   Libscomb University PBS Documentary: Me Facing Life  #FreeCyntoia hashtag (Twitter) Bill Haslam (Tennessee Governor)   Liz Marie Galvan Cozy White Cottage: 100 Ways to Love the Feeling of Being Home The Found Cottage Christopher Lowell Trading Spaces   Interview Quotes: “I knew that there was some way that I could live some type of meaningful life [in prison].” - Cyntoia Brown-Long “Jesus is always calling. He has a word for you 365 days every year. It doesn't stop. He's always there. He's there when you need Him. He's there just to say, "Hey, thank you." - Jamie Long “But to experience true freedom—whether in prison or out of prison—it comes through Him.”- Cyntoia Brown-Long “He is a God of second chances.” - Cyntoia Brown-Long “Even though I was in a physical prison, I was in prison within prison. I was in a prison of anger. I was in a prison of my past, constantly letting that anxiety hold me captive.” - Cyntoia Brown-Long “No matter what your prison is, you just have to submit to Him and cast all your cares on Him and let Him do what He does. That's who He is. He's God.” - Cyntoia Brown-Long  “I was able to meet an entire community of people that were going through the same struggle [through my blog]. It was so helpful to be able to rally together and give each other hope and pray for each other.” - Liz Marie Galvan “I was starting to stumble a little bit and wonder why I was going through this. And I was looking to God, wanting to know why I was not able to bear a child. It was one of the darkest seasons of my life.” - Liz Marie Galvan ________________________ Enjoy these videos on Jesus Calling YouTube channel: Audio podcast: https://bit.ly/2uCnNM0  Original Series video podcast: https://bit.ly/2WzFY0O  ________________________    Connect with Jesus Calling Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Jesus Calling Website

A Message by Pastor Brian Childs Part of our series "Connecting the Dots"

Has God forgotten to be gracious? I know that on the surface we may think, "of course not, He's God!". But how many times while we are in the midst of suffering and going through hard times do we feel like God has abandoned us? Pastor Bryan Kurty shares some Good News and shows a the biblical way to Lament.

In IT we know that the only constant is change. And for the most part, that's OK. What is difficult is when standards or processes are framed as immutable, and THEN they change. How do we adjust when the company spends $5million on a data center expansion, and then moves everything to the cloud 2 years later? Or when Windows abandons the GUI and goes to CLI, while Cisco moves away from IOS commands and on to GUI and API-driven interfaces? Does our religious/ethical/moral background help (or hinder) us from accepting and adapting to these moments in our work as IT pros? In this episode Kate, Josh, and Leon try to unpack the question and formulate some answers. Listen or read the transcript below. Leon: 00:00 Hey everyone. It's Leon. Before we start this episode, I wanted to let you know about a book I wrote. It's called The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked", and if you like this podcast, you're going to love this book. It combines 30 years of insight into the world of IT with wisdom gleaned from Torah, Talmud, and Passover. You can read more about it including where you can get a digital or print copy over on adatosystems.com. Thanks! Kate: 00:25 Welcome to our podcast where we talk about the interesting, frustrating and inspiring experience we have as people with strongly held religious views working in corporate IT. We're not here to preach or teach you our religion (or lack thereof). We're here to explore ways we make our career as IT professionals mesh - or at least not conflict - with our religious life. This is Technically Religious. Leon: 00:49 Last week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints made an announcement which sent shock waves through the Mormon community and tremors throughout many other religious communities as well. We'll get into the details about that in a minute. But it caused us here at Technically Religious to think about how supposedly immutable truths, whether we're talking about replacing Latin with English during mass or Microsoft's adoption of open source, affect us and how we deal with those changes. Joining the conversation today is Kate Asaff Kate: 01:17 Hello. Leon: 01:18 And Josh Biggley. Josh: 01:20 Yeah, it's still cold in Canada! Leon: 01:23 and I'm Leon Adato and it's slightly warmer here in Cleveland. So Josh, do us a favor and run us down just the main points of the announcement from last week. Josh: 01:34 Sure. So this announcement was made in early April, and in order to understand it, we have to go all the way back to November, 2015, and maybe even a little further. So the Organization of the Mormon Church, or the LDS church, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is such that it's a top down organization. So the President, or prophet, of the church, he makes a declaration, often he has to get his two counselors and the other 12 men that sit on the quorum of the 12 apostles. And then those 15 men make these proclamations. So in November of 2015, the church released a policy internally, that was leaked, and then they had to address it publicly, that said that any child who had parents who were of the same gender, so you're in a same sex-relationship or a same-gender relationship or if you are trans-gendered - first, they were now labeled apostates. And that's really heavy language within any religious community. There's one thing to have transgressed, but there's another thing to be considered an apostate. And then in addition to them being an apostate, they also said that no child whose primary residence was with those same sex couples could receive any ordinances within the church. So that spans the entire gamut of: You could not be blessed as an infant within the church; to: you couldn't be baptized; to: if you were in the church - there are certain things that you that you undertake within Mormonism, you know, if you're a boy at the age of 12 (and now the age of 11) you can receive the priesthood - just things that you can't do, many of those rites of passage. So last week, and of course we're recording this in the early days of April, so last week the church came out and said, "Hey, that policy that was put into place in November of 2015? We're going to change that policy. And we're going to make it so that now if you are the child of an LGBTQ family, you can be baptized as an infant, you can be blessed within the church, under the understanding that of course the church is going to reach out to you and, throughout your lifetime because you are now officially a member of the church, once you're, once you're blessed and in the LDS church. That's a huge change because leadership within the church and members at large - admittedly myself prior to my transition away from Mormonism - defended that policy with a couple of talking points. First and foremost that the prophet, he specifies what is the will of God. He speaks for God. He's God's mouthpiece on earth. And second that this was an act of kindness, because we didn't want to - as a church - we didn't want to have people, with their children attending the Mormon church where the Mormon church was teaching that their parents were apostates. And then having to go home to their parents and say, "Hey mom and dad...", sorry... I got... hey, look at that. "Hey Mom and mom, dad and dad." Or "Hey, mom and dad, you know, dad and dad or mom and mom. You're an apostate." Or "You know, we think that you should be excommunicated." And all those horrible things that go along with that. So yeah, that's um, that was huge. I was pretty... I'll admit I was pretty pissed off on Thursday. Not because I disagree with the change that children should be allowed to join whatever church they want to regardless of their parents. I was just pissed off because lots of people put a lot of time and effort into setting aside their personal views and trying to make it so that they align with what they were being told from the top of the church. And then the church went, "Hey, by the way, we're going to change." Leon: 05:36 Right. And you'd actually mentioned in an earlier episode when we talked about opposing as you follow, you said that that was one of the things that caused you and your family to move away from the Mormon church for a while. And then you came back and you suffered censure and a bunch of other things for those views. So you directly experienced some of that just for expressing an opinion. Josh: 05:58 Yeah. And that actually goes back pretty far in my marriage. That goes back probably 15 years ago when that particular experience happened. I mean, just to give some context and then, and I know that we want to talk about this as a foundation for IT. And I think there's a great parallel. And Leon, thanks for calling it out. Harold B. Lee, who was the president of the church from July of 1972 until his death in December of 1973, he said this: "You may not like what comes from the authority of the Church. It may contradict your political views. It may contradict your social views. It may interfere with some of your social life. But if you listen to these things, as if from the mouth of the Lord himself, with patience and faith, the promise is that 'the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory." So, you know, pretty powerful language from the LDS church. Fortunately in IT, apart from Mac users, right Kate? Nobody thinks that their salvation from any of their other platforms. Leon: 07:09 I think actually, yeah, there is actually a Mac airbook that blocks the gates of hell. Kate: 07:14 It's actually an iPad. Leon: 07:18 Oh, of course. It would be. And that, with making a little bit of lighthearted humor is where I actually want to go, which is the IT aspects of that. But before we dig too far into that can we think - the three of us - can we think of any other analogs in religions that may have been that same kind of thing? Again, I'm not talking about the fact that things change. I'm talking about things that were supposedly immutable, or somewhat permanent, and then the group, the organization sort of pivoted away from it. And, and I brought up one which was the change from the Catholic mass from Latin to English, which you know, happened I think in the seventies, if I remember correctly? I could be wrong because I don't pay very much attention to that kind of stuff. But I remember that it caused quite a bit of a stir, Josh: 08:13 Yeah, the ordination of women in the United Methodist Church, which happened well before I was born back in the mid fifties is an interesting one. Again, linking it to Mormonism. A woman named Kate Kelly founded an organization called Ordain Women. She's a lawyer and an activist and she was excommunicated by the LDS church in June, 2014. So everyone kind of waits for the day in which women will be ordained within the Mormon church or within the the LDS church. I don't know if it's going to happen, but we certainly see that adopted. And that's a huge thing, right? Because traditionally, you know, as far back as tradition goes religions tended to be very patriarchal. Where, you know, men were the heads, the household, they were the heads of the church. And so for the United Methodist to allow women to be ordained officially, even though it had been doing it for a long time, unofficially. That was huge. Kate: 09:04 It kinda reminds me in the 90's when the Catholic Church decided to start allowing girls to be altar servers. I remember there was a cardinal in Boston who had saw these girls serving and before the proclamation came from the Vatican, the story I heard was that he told the congregation, "Get these girls out of here." He didn't want to see them serving and that it was something, obviously 20 years later it has stuck with me Leon: 09:34 With religion you have things that really are dogmatic. Sometimes we throw that word around somewhat flippantly but religion actually is dogmatic. It has, you know, strictures or rules that are, at least in the eyes of it, internally immutable. And so you've got that. But pivoting to the IT piece, I want to talk a little bit about, about that. What are some of those changes? It's not going to change and then it does and you have to suddenly cope with it. What are some of the ones that we've either heard about or experienced ourselves? Kate: 10:08 Well since you guys were poking fun of me a little bit earlier as being a devoted Apple fan girl I will bring up the 2006 when Apple changed from Motorola to Intel processors. That was a huge thing for the Apple community and you know, many of us had spent years structuring these complex arguments as to why RISC processors are better than CISC processors and you know, insisting that megahertz and gigahertz aren't true measures of processing power. And then all of a sudden, like everything for us was just blown away overnight. Now Macs were Intel based and we kind of had to let go of, you know, our are sworn allegiance to the Motorola chipset. Leon: 10:56 That's, I'm going to say funny, not funny ha ha, but I just had, I would never have expected that to be overwhelming to a community. But I can see that the way that you describe it, I can absolutely understand that you had an emotional investment in a particular hardware standard. Josh: 11:16 Yeah. Well, I think that functional workspace, right? You know, Kate, you talked about defending the position of you know, RISC processors. That's why it's good. That's why it's the thing that makes Apple as awesome as it is. And we all go through that. You know, I've been in the industry long enough that I remember walking into data centers and seeing literally big metal, there were mainframes sitting on the data center floor. The idea that we would virtualize? It blew people's minds and I was like, I thought that was a great idea. Let's virtualize, let's get density. I will admit to being a little slower to adopt a shift to cloud because it, it put in place some barriers to entry for me. When I started my career, I loved the idea of networking, although I'm not a networking engineer, but I loved the idea that you could plug in cables and lights would start blinking and things just work. You know, there was, there was a command line and I actually, I had a reputation for asking questions in class, like "How do you do that from the command line?" But it got beaten out of me. I was that guy. But it got beaten out of me because Windows was the thing, Windows and at the time, a Netware were the platforms for for server managers and that's where I was headed. We've made this swing to having to code, and I don't code, but everything is code now. Networking is code, storage code, servers are code, everything is code. I'm made a very firm stance early in my career that I didn't want to code because I wasn't good at it. I'm still not good at it. I feel like I'm fumbling with 14 hands tied behind my back. I don't know what the analogy is. I just feel dumb. I feel like I'm the guy smashing his face on his keyboard trying to make things work anytime I code. So I get it. Those shifts are hard, and they're not hard because we don't, I don't want to accept the shift to cloud. It's hard because it makes me address other deficiencies in myself that I don't know that I'm 100% ready to address. Speaker 1: 13:24 And I think that that's actually a good point is that the change, the changes themselves may not be so troublesome, but they address either inadequacies or perceived inadequacies in ourselves and we don't like that. We don't always like to have a mirror held up to it. Sometimes I think it's not that though. So given a quintessential example, and I think many of us in IT have experienced this, where on Monday the business says, "Hey, you know, this event is occurring," whether it's a merger or an acquisition or whatever it is, "but don't worry, nothing's going to change for you. Everything's going to be just fine." And then Friday, metaphorically, they say, "Oh, by the way, we're shutting down the location" or "You're being let go" or you know, "We're moving this entire department to merge with this other department" or whatever it is. And, whether it happens in days or weeks or months, "You first told me nothing was going to change. And then it did." And that's the part that I think a lot of us have a hard time coping with. Don't tell me that it's not going to change when you know full well that it is. Enough times in business, things change and everyone says, oh yeah, we had no way of knowing that was going to happen. Those changes are unpredictable and so you just deal with them. But when it's clearly predictable, that's the part I think that is more difficult for us in IT to deal with. And I think that's the whole point of vendors offering what's known as LTS, Long Term Support, for something, like "We promise we're not going to pull the rug out from under you for x years." Josh: 15:09 I want to make sure that we understand or at least that we agree that IT is not religion. Religion is not IT. There's certainly some overlap and are dogmatic beliefs on both sides of of the row. But I tweeted earlier today and I'm going to read it, "A gentle reminder that you are more than your nationality, favorite sports team, political party, or religious ideology. Be more than the sum of your parts. Be better than your weakest part. Be human." And I think that that applies to IT as well. You might have been the person who was responsible for gateway computers, probably cause you liked cows. I don't know. Just because that is what you've always done doesn't mean it's what you always need to do. You are more than capable of transitioning and learning something new. And a coworker of mine, Zach, if you're listening, shout out, he will, he will admit that I am not a great scripter, but I'm also more than capable of being taught how to be an okay scripter, you know? Under his tutelage, I've become kind of useful with powershell and I have even remotely built some shell scripts recently. So it's possible you can be something more than what you thought you always were. And that is really a beautiful thing, both in IT and in humanity. Leon: 16:31 And I've written about that in the past. And I probably will again in response to this podcast about that's actually not what you are. You might be, you know, a Cisco IOS command line jockey. You might be, you know, you might know everything there is to know about the Apple platform, whatever it is, but that's not actually what makes you a great IT professional. What makes you a great IT professional is your sensibilities. The fact that you understand how networking works, how hardware reacts with software, how architecture and design and you know an idea converts itself and moves through the pipeline into an actual product. Those are the things that make you a great IT practitioner and those things will persist even when the foundational platform - software or hardware - change. But again, just to drive it back again, the point is that, you know, we know things change, but when we are told something is not going to change and then it does, what do we do about that? So my question does our perspective, our outlook, whether it's religious or philosophical, whether it's moral or ethical, does that make it easier or harder to deal with? Kinds of events that you know, we promise it won't change it than it does. On the one hand, I could see someone saying that if you are heavily religious, you come from a strongly dogmatic frame of view, then you carry with you baggage of what "forever" means. And when a vendor or my employer says "It's never going to change, we are standardizing on x," and then they change. That can feel like a betrayal because I brought along, "No, no wait, you said the f word, "forever", so you know that means something to me and you just broke your promise." That could be much harder than somebody who might not have, like I said, that baggage coming along with it. I don't know what, what's your take on that? Kate: 18:36 We talked about this a little bit before, but what I found was interesting about that question was that as an atheist, I obviously have a somewhat fluid view of, you know, how the world works and how things are. I am also, technology-wise the quintessential early adopter. I'm the first day that it's available. I will consume it, upgraded, download it, in any way that I can get the new stuff. I'm on board. Josh: 19:03 So I think that that makes you Kate an IT relativist. There's this great thing within Mormonism about moral relativism and how it's such a bad thing, which that is a whole different discussion, but I think that the very best IT practitioners are those who can balance a bit of that. Conservativis... can't say that word... Conservativism plus that moral relativism within IT that you see the changes, you're willing to bring them in, but you do it in a way that requires that you parse them through your personal and your community experience and then say, "Yes, that's something we actually want to bring in to our enterprise. We're willing to adopt it." You need to know about it so that you can also say to someone who has read a shiny brochure or seen a vendor pitch about how amazing a product is and say, "Nope actually that's not something that we want to do and here's why." And being able to speak to a multitude of points. I think makes us great IT practitioners, if you are just that sole sourced individual who only knows about one technology, you're going to find yourself in some IT challenges. I've got a great friend, who coincidentally is also ex Mormon and his name is also Josh. Interesting point. It's interesting for me to listen to him talk about his challenges within his career. He's a great DBA. He is actually not just a DBA, but he designs databases and he's worked on a bunch of different areas and he has really struggled because he thinks that he's only in that data space. And I want to say to him, "Hey Josh," which is a little weird cause I'm calling my name, "Hey Josh, you need to understand that you're better than what you think that you are because first, you're willing to look at your career and figure out the parts that are really useful for you and you know where your weaknesses are." That, for me, is the big part. Are we willing to look at what we're doing today and understand both its strengths and weaknesses and then leverage the strengths and minimize the weaknesses by adopting other technologies? It would be kind of like me saying, "Hey, Mormonism is still really awesome," - which I do think. There are some wonderful things about Mormonism, but I also am willing to adopt some ideologies from Judaism. Thank you Leon. And I'm also willing and very open to adopting that moral relativism that comes along with atheism and other non traditional religious beliefs." Leon: 21:36 I definitely think, Kate, that we have a new topic idea on the horizon, which is whether or not being staunchly religious makes you more or less likely to be an early adopter of technology. I think as an IT person, I really want to solve that problem because I like new technology and I would hate to think that I'm predisposed as an Orthodox Jew to like not want to do the things. Of course I could be an outlier. I could. So Josh, to your point, I think that that IT is not like religion in the sense that no matter how strongly a vendor or an organization says that something is never going to change, it's gonna. Right? Yeah. I mean we just know that that's the nature of IT, is that things are going to change and probably sooner rather than later when you look at the long game. However, I think one of the things that makes this issue, you know - "It's not going to change," and then it does - similar in both religious and IT contexts is what we as people hope and expect from that event. Which is, I think, that whoever's making the change needs to be transparent about it. I think they need to be intellectually honest about it. And they need to be consistent about it. And what I mean by those things is that they need to say that "This change is happening. We saw it coming, even if we couldn't tell you at the time, but we're telling you now that we knew it was coming. We just had to," you know, whatever it was, the merger was coming, but we couldn't say anything because blah, blah, blah, legal, blah, blah, blah, Wall Street, whatever. Right? Um, it needs to be intellectually honest. We're doing this because it supports our brand values. It supports our corporate goals. It, you know, whatever. And it needs to be consistent. And I think most of all, if people were hurt by that first statement, this is the way it is. "This is the way it's always going to be." And then it changes. And people were hurt. You know, an example that happened a couple of jobs back for me: $5 million investment in a data center, building it out, putting tons of hardware in there, and then they moved to the cloud. What are you kidding me? Like, we just bought all this stuff and the company did say, "We know we hired a lot of you for your depth expertise in on-premises data center operations. And now we're asking, you - we're in fact demanding - that you move to a cloud based model. We know that some of you are going to be upset by this. Some of you may want to leave. We're going to support you in whatever decision you make, but this is the direction we're going. That kind of statement makes it a lot easier to accept the, "We never will... Oops. We are" kind of thing. And I think just to tie it back to our opening topic. I would hope, although I'm not in the community, but I would hope that a statement is made to the families that were hurt within the Mormon community for, you know, the years of being called, you know, apostates and all that stuff, and say "We're really sorry about this and we're going to do what we can to make it better." I would hope that that statement would be forthcoming. I guess time is going to tell. Josh: 24:55 Time will absolutely will. Unfortunately Mormonism does not have a history of apologizing. The unfortunate reality of some of the current leadership has come out specifically and said that the church does not ask for, nor does it offer apologies. Kate: 25:12 A long, long time ago I worked for MCI Worldcom and, if you recall, it is now Verizon business. It was sold to Verizon about 18 months after the CEO promised all of the employees that he was not looking to sell the company. MCI is also a huge company. It had definitely been in the works. So your comment about honesty really struck home with me. Nobody likes to be blindsided by change, but even more, nobody likes to be lied to about it. Josh: 25:45 Thanks for making time for us this week. To hear more of Technically Religious, visit our website, technicallyreligious.com, where you can find our other episodes, leave us ideas for future discussions and connect with us on social media. Kate: 25:59 To paraphrase and old Greek guy, "the only constant in IT is change."

In this message, Pastor Danny preaches on the power that's available in our lives through the resurrection of Jesus.  His resurrection means more to us than we might realize.  It not only means that He's God, but that He's able to bring dead things in our world to life.  Listen in and celebrate the resurrection with us! 

"Seeing the crowds, [Jesus] went up on the mountain, and when He sat down, His disciples came to Him." (Matthew 5:1-2) The Great Discipler Our meditation this morning shows Jesus as the Great Discipler. This is the beginning verse of the Sermon on the Mount--one of the greatest sermons that we have from the lips of the Savior. Jesus was walking around, teaching His disciples when He saw the great number of people thronging to hear what He had to say. To say He had a "captive audience" would be an understatement. As St. Matthew says at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, "the crowds were astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes" (7:28-29). Jesus was one who knew how to teach. He could adapt His message to the audience before Him. Of course, He had an advantage because He's God, but He gives us a great example. Almost everyone can think of at least one person--a teacher, a parent, a grandparent, an uncle or aunt--who helped to shape their lives. That's the role of a mentor--a discipler. Jesus calls each of His disciples to be disciplers. In His final instructions, He says, "[While going] make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). As Christians--disciples of Christ--we're to make disciples. We start with our families--parents and grandparents passing on the faith the their children and grandchildren--but it goes throughout our lives as we go to school, as we work and as we talk with our friends and neighbors. Discipling is in every aspect of life. May the Lord bless you as you fulfill this task today and always. Amen.

Yes, God did it again. He made a way when I didn't know what would happen. We can never doubt Him, because He's the God of all-things-are-possible-for-those-who-believe. That's why He's God all by himself. Joshua 1:5, says "No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you." And God is saying the same thing to you right now. Blog: insharonsheart.blogspot.com/ WebinarCourses: in-sharons-heart.thinkific.com/ facebook.com/InSharonsHeart/ instagram.com/insharonsheart/ twitter.com/insharonsheart

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God could make us obey.  After all, He's God, but He doesn't. In many ways, He allows us to choose obedience or disobedience, belief or disbelief. Listen in as we answer, "Why doesn't God just make us all obey Him?"  And BONUS! Listen after the featured resource break for tips on helping your kid who is afraid of the dark.  Featured Resource: It's All About Jesus Bible Storybook

Sometimes I just sit and marvel at how the Lord operates and what little I know about His capabilities. None of us truly knows how limitless He is. None of us really knows His true power. That's why He's God all by himself. See Joshua 1:5 and Joshua 1:9. Blog: http://insharonsheart.blogspot.com/2018/03/god-made-way.html?m=1

Psalm 46:10 NLT There's nothing God can't do or won't do for you. He's God...and He's on your side. If you ever have something you want to talk about shoot me an email at HeListensWhenWeSpeak@gmail.com and catch up on all past episodes at HeListensWhenWeSpeak.blogspot.com!

6/5/16 PM - Pastor Paul McGee

Because He's God • The Great Return! • Acts 1:9-11 NLT

Because He's God • Empire of the Son

Because He's God • Unexplainable, Undeniable • John 9

Because He's God • Re.con.cile • Col. 1:19-20 ESV

Because He's God • Perfection! • Luke 4:1-13 NLT

Because He's God • Moving In! • John 1:1-5; 14 ESV

Scripture: Mark 5

Pastor Mike speaks on the power of God's unconditional love and the great motivator that it is. This love is like God is, immeasurable, uncontainable, and unlimited in it's ability to motivate and fulfill our lives. How does one love God back - "conditionally" based on what God does for us or "unconditionally" like God loves us because He's God and we're His creation? This and other questions are discussed. Listen in and see how God's unconditional love impacts your life...

After a really tough year in a lot of ways, it's a good thing that Christmas comes this time of year.  We all need some good news.  But here's something about the Good news that we usually don't think about.  Where did Jesus learn it?  You can say, if you want, that He's God and he therefore knows everything, but in his human nature, growing up from a baby to a young man, where did Jesus hear this good news?  You'll be surprised at the answer.   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

The Holy Spirit is more that just a guarentee for the future; He's God with you here and now.

Lead I'm so glad You died for me I'm so glad You shed your blood for me I'm so glad You rose for me Sweet Jesus--Jesus Sweet Jesus--Jesus I'm so glad You died for me So glad You shed your blood just for me So glad You rose for me Sweet Jesus--Jesus Sweet Jesus--Jesus Lead (Choir just repeats Jesus) Help me say Jesus Sweet Jesus Jesus The precious name of Jesus The powerful name of Jesus How he loved me I wont' ever know How he cared for me yeah The precious name of How he loved me in spite of me The name, the name Jesus It's so sweet I know, I know, I know Oh I love the name What you did for me on Calvary No man would have done But you loved me in spite of me yeah You loved me just as much To be hung there and died You were thinking just of me What a God, what a God Budda couldn't do it for you Confucius couldn't do it either God is He's God all by himself The name, the name, the name of The precious name How I love the name, I love the name of Jesus When I think of his goodness & all he's done for me I can't help but give him glory He is God all by himself Come on give him glory At the name of Jesus demons must flee That's the kind of power he's given us We can speak to that sickness and it will leave That's what he said in his word yeah He said I've come to give you life more abundantly That's what he did at the cross for you & me (REPEAT 3Xs) But I'm so glad he rose on the third day With all power in his hand Yeah Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Jesus, Jesus, Jesus The powerful name of The precious name, glorious name The name of Jesus yes it is No other name I know I'm talking about Jesus How he loved me I'll never know, I'll never know Yes he did He loved me in spite of me Cause he knew I wasn't fit to die He died just for me He said I can handle it daughter I took care of it on the cross for you I took care of it, bore it on the cross for you Nobody but Jesus Come on give him glory The name of jesus Come on give him glory The name of Jesus Come on give him glory The name of Jesus The precious name The precious name of Jesus No other name I know No other name I know Jesus Jesus I can't help but worship The music don't even have to play For me to give him worship The music don't even have to play For me to give him worship How I love him oh yeah How I love him, oh yeah How I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him how I love him, I love him How I love him, I love him, I love him See I don't need a dance partner cause I've got Jesus When I think of his goodness & what he's done When I think of his goodness & what he's done I've gotta give him glory Jesus Glory hallelujah Jesus Hallelujah Bless the Lord