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This week, we sit down with Jared Yanis to dive into his personal journey, how he built one of the biggest 2A news platforms, and why protecting our rights matters now more than ever. We talk about his background, what inspired him to start his channel, and the challenges he's faced along the way.

Luke 10 ends with Jesus commending Mary of Bethany, the sisterof Martha and Lazarus, for“choosing that good part, which will not be takenaway from her”.  She had chosen to“sitat Jesus feet” over serving in the kitchen when Jesus was a guest in their house.We talked about as important as it is to serve the Lord as ambassadors and be “goodneighbors”, we must remember that at the heart of everything we do should beintimate worship with the Lord. Colossians 3:17 teaches us:“And whateveryou do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks toGod the Father through Him.” Now interestingly, Luke 11 begins with a lesson on thesubject of prayer. Prayer is connected to worship like our beating heart is toour body. There can be no worship without prayer, and no prayer withoutworship. They are intimately connected to each other. Someone correctly said,“Prayeris not only the shortest distance to God's mighty throne, it the only way in.” An overview of Luke 11 shows us in this chapter that ourLord's teaching in it grew out of a prayer meeting, a miracle, and aninvitation to dinner. Jesus used these occasions to give instructions aboutfour important topics: prayer, Satan, spiritual opportunity, and hypocrisy. Itis important that we today understand these topics and apply these truths toour own lives. As we study the life of Jesus in the Gospels it is veryobvious that prayer was a priority in His life and ministry. In Luke 11:1, Jesusis praying and when He finishes one of His disciples asks Him to teach them topray as John the Baptist taught his disciples to pray. We usually think of Johnthe Baptist as a prophet and martyr, and yet our Lord's disciples rememberedhim as a man of prayer. Remember John the Baptist was a "miraclebaby," filled with the Holy Spirit before he was born, and yet he had topray. He was privileged to introduce the Messiah to Israel, and yet he had topray. Jesus said that John was the greatest of the prophets (Luke 7:28), and yetJohn had to depend on prayer. If prayer was that vital to a man who had thesemany advantages, how much more important it ought to be to us who do not havethese advantages! John's disciples had to pray and Jesus' disciples wanted tolearn better how to pray. No where in the Gospels do we find the disciplesasking the Master to teach them how to preach, to be good teachers, to be betterleaders, or do great signs. But they did asked Him to teach them to pray. Wetoday sometimes think that we would be better Christians if only we had beenwith Jesus when He was on earth, but this is not likely. The disciples werewith Him and yet they failed many times! They could perform miracles, and yetthey wanted to learn to pray. But the greatest argument for the priority of prayer is thefact that our Lord was a Man of prayer. Thus far we have seen that He prayed atHis baptism (Luke 3:21), before He chose the Twelve (Luke 6:12), when thecrowds increased (Luke 5:16), before He asked the Twelve for their confessionof faith (Luke 9:18), and at His Transfiguration (Luke 9:29). The disciplesknew that He often prayed alone (Mark 1:35), and they wanted to learn from Himthis secret of spiritual power and wisdom. If Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, had to depend onprayer during "the days of His flesh" (Heb. 5:7), then how much moredo you and I need to pray! Effective prayer is the provision for every need andthe solution for every problem. I'll never forget in my Bible college years hearing Dr. Falwelloften saying, “Nothing of eternal value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.”I believe it is John Wesley who is credited for saying, “The devil trembleswhen the weakest Christian gets on his knees”. Today, maybe our prayer should also be, “Lord, teach us topray”! God bless!

This week on Not in a Huff podcast, we're joined by one of the funniest people around, Mr. Kevin Lepine! Kevin is the award-winning hypnotist behind “Hypnosis Unleashed”, the longest-running hypnosis show in Las Vegas. He's got a sharp wit, an incredible talent for hypnosis, and a show that keeps audiences laughing every night.Here's what we talked about in this episode:Kevin's journey to becoming a hypnotist and how almost anyone can learn itWhat it's like performing nightly in Las Vegas and keeping a long-running show freshHow Kevin ensures volunteers are the true stars of his showThe misconceptions about hypnosis and what it's really all aboutWhat keeps him from burning out after performing night after nightKevin's rise to headlining his own show and what's next for himThis conversation is full of laughs, behind-the-scenes stories, and all things hypnosis. Tune in and enjoy!_____________________________________Get Tickets to the Show When in Vegas Here: https://vegashypnosisshow.com/_____________________________________Link to all things Not in a Huff Podcast: https://linktr.ee/notinahuffpodcastPlease follow/subscribe to the podcast to be the first to see new episodes when they come out each week. Be extra awesome and rate us on Apple Podcast and Spotify! :)

I am the righteousness of God In Romans 8:31-34, 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us I am the righteousness of GodI am standing right with God, perfect without blame.Before, only priests were able to enter the Holy of Holies Now, I have the name of Jesus, in whom I have received righteousnessGod dwell in MeI can come boldly before God in the SpiritFor, I am free from judgement of sinI have been reconciled by the blood of Jesus ChristMy righteousness is everlasting I did not do anything to obtain His righteousnessMy righteousness is from GodHe is the qualifierHe gave his righteousness to me freely by not sparing his own sonHe is the one who has justified meI did not make myself to be righteous, as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one My righteousness comes by faith in Jesus ChristIt is by the Grace of God, through the redemptive work of Christ.I will boast of my righteousness in Christ JesusThen being righteous in the Christian faith is in the faith of Jesus Christ No body can say he or she is righteousness on their own. Nobody can take the achievement of righteousness. The Glory is in Jesus Christ. Romans 3:27 put is this way 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Our righteousness was a gift from God, which we obtained from Jesus's death, burial, and resurrectionRighteousness can only be given and cannot be earned. It can only be granted and not be achieved. It can only be received. Romans 4:25, Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justificationSince, I know I have been justified by faith, I have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ.My past, present and future sin cannot take away my righteousnessFor I have a new nature, being called a new creationMy new nature is the same as that of Christ. I am righteous like He isChrist is in me, and I am in himThis is my new norm, and I will hold firmly on it and progress in itEph 4:24, And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.Jesus Christ is my righteousness, when God sees me, He sees Christ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/assumpta-widak/message

Acts 7:48 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.How does Jesus enter into Jerusalem? At just the right time but in unexpected ways. Jesus entered the city according to a specific time the Father had set,  ("In the fulness of times" Galatians 4:4 )The same can be said for His entrance and arrival into our lives. Jesus comes to us at just the right time, often when we were least expected in a way, we would have never anticipated but God has  pre-arranged our encounter with HimThis means that we should keep believing for our unsaved family members and friends, keep on praying and don't give up because we  do not know God's timing or His plans, we must simply trust Him! Jesus entered into Jerusalem humbly, not with all the usual fanfare that accompanies kings and great leaders but as a humble servant, a king riding a donkey but what does He do upon entering?  He cleans house!  When he entered Jerusalem, Matthew 21:12 tells us “ Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.”  Today, we are His house, we are where He lives, we are His temple and His overwhelming desire is to purify our hearts to be a Holy inhabitation of His presence.Thanks for joining us for this special Palm's Sunday messageSupport the showThanks for joining us!

Last week I got to spend the week at the Tecnifibre junior training camp in Valencia. Tecnibifre brought 5 of their juniors running from 11-16 years of age along with their parents and coaches for a week-long training camp. Their objective for to push the players outside their comfort zone on and off the court as well as give them advice which will be invaluable in their junior career. Tecnifibre wants to help these players as much as possible make the transition to the senior game.Leading the on-court sessions was former world number 32 Pablo Andujar and there also was former world number 41 Kenneth Carlsson who was there as a coach with a player. Both were so nice, full of advice, open to any questions and told great stories of life as a junior and on the tour.This episode is them talking about their experience as a Junior, lessons they learned, advice for the juniors and the 5 juniors who got to ask them a question.You could say this is an unplanned episode but the advice was so good I felt it had to be shared.I hope you enjoy it.FabioPs. We had Kenneth on the podcast before and tap here if you want to know more about himThis podcast is sponsored by ASICS. ASICS is a Japanese company founded in 1949 with the purpose of giving more people the opportunity to experience how sports and movement can have a positive impact on mental well-being.To learn more about ASICS visit their website here: https://www.asics.com/nl/en-nl/sports/tennis/Find us on Social Media:Instagram: Instagram.com/FunctionalTennisTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@functionaltennis YouTube: Functional Tennis PodcastThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

JD Black is a very dangerous narcissistic deranged violent stalker that comes after women online. Perfect complete stranger, He is so deranged that he feels by pulling all the great work the woman has done to try to create an online backlash has actually came back to eat him and RENESHIA alive! they both think by pulling all her photos and amazing work that they can STOP her or get someone to agree with him to try and "shame" her. This guy is deranged and unhinged. He is being exposed to the police as we speak, he is absolutely OBSESSED with this woman that basically told him to go to hell for harassing her on a seperate post out of the blue and calling her HEAX and Whores, she responded and for two weekends in a row this deranged online terrorist creature has dug up her life and work like a maniac and tried to contact business folk who ignored himThis guy is into Felonious ACTIVITY and Police should be Notified ASAPPPPOLICE has been Contacted!!!

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on August 11. It dropped for free subscribers on August 14. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoBrian Suhadolc, General Manager of Mount Snow, VermontRecorded onJuly 17, 2023About Mount SnowClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Dover, VermontYear founded: 1954Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass and Epic Local Pass: Unlimited access* Epic Northeast Value Pass: Unlimited access with holiday blackouts* Epic Northeast Midweek Pass: Unlimited access with weekend and holiday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Hermitage Club (9 minutes), Stratton (23 minutes), Bromley (36 minutes), Magic Mountain (39 minutes)Base elevation: 1,900 feetSummit elevation: 3,600 feetVertical drop: 1,700 feetSkiable Acres: 601Average annual snowfall: 150 inchesTrail count: 80 (15% advanced/expert, 70% intermediate, 15% beginner)Lift count: 19 (2 six-packs, 4 high-speed quads, 5 triples, 2 doubles, 1 ropetow, 5 magic carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Mount Snow's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himThis is my second podcast focused on Mount Snow. The first episode featured then-GM Tracy Bartels, in November 2020. Our focus then was Covid: as in, what the hell were we going to do about it? The ski industry had spent eight months from the March shutdowns preparing for a masked world of closed ski bars and social distancing. Was this actually going to work?It did, of course. Sort of. But that podcast from 2020 has little to do with the Mount Snow of 2023, which has evolved substantially in just three years. It was time for an update.I'm also owning the fact that I overcorrected when I took The Storm national in 2021. In the pod's first two years, I'd interviewed the heads of most of New England's largest ski areas. Check, check, check. Done. I needed to establish this thing in the Rockies, the Cascades, the Sierras, the Wasatch. And I did. But a lot of my New England listeners felt snubbed. I'd built this thing on their attention and enthusiasm, and now I was pivoting away.It's time to pivot back a bit. The lift-served ski world is changing fast, especially among those giants with access to capital and ambition. So I've scheduled upcoming podcast conversations with the leaders of Killington and Sunday River, both of which I've profiled in the past. I'll pursue more such follow-ups in the future, in all regions – and not just with mega-resorts, as the recent second installment with the owners of Plattekill demonstrated. The long-term goal is to alternate podcasts so that every other episode focuses on the West, with the East/Midwest/Mid-Atlantic occupying the alternate slots.But setting aside my own admin, I'm focusing on Mount Snow because it's an incredibly important mountain. I'll reset what I wrote in this same section three years ago:Because Mount Snow is where big-time Northeast skiing begins. As the southern-most major Vermont ski area, it is a skier's gateway to mountains that are big enough to get lost on. From its strategic position in the orbit of the East Coast megalopolis, successive owners have gradually built something uniquely suited to the frenetic swarms of wildly varied skiers who bullseye the place each winter: Mount Snow has one of the most outstanding terrain parks in America and one of the best snowmaking systems in the world. The families who swarm here find absolutely unintimidating terrain, blue as the sky and groomed smoother than I-91. It's a perfect family mountain and a perfect bus skier's mountain and a perfect first step from Mount Local to something that shows you how big skiing can be. It was the crown jewel of the Peak Resort's empire, and it's one of the most important pieces to Vail's ever-expanding Epic jigsaw puzzle. I wouldn't call it a special mountain – the terrain is mild and not terribly interesting, and the volume and quality of natural snowfall is best described as adequate. But it is a vital mountain, as the southern-most anchor of Vermont's teeming ski scene, as an accessible ski experience for weekending cityfolk, as an aspirational destination for people stepping more fully into skiing culture, and as a testament to the power of the imagination to transform a big vertical drop and cold skies into a vital and vibrant node of the regional ski scene.What we talked aboutSurveying damage from the July rainstorm; the Epic Promise Foundation; Mount Snow's four-foot March snowstorm; the frantic hilarity of New England powder days; the difference between east and west coast pow; breaking down Mount Snow's lift upgrades at Sundance, Sunbrook, and Heavy Metal; how the Sundance six-pack “changed the dynamic of the ski resort”; why Sundance – unlike the mega-popular Bluebird Express – does not have bubbles; how the resort manages 18 high-speed out-of-base seats; the four most-utilized lifts at Mount Snow; how Mount Snow built the Sunbrook lift in a roadless section of mountain; what it took to convert the Heavy Metal lift from a double to a triple; why Vail auctioned the individual chairs from the old Sunbrook rather than selling the lift – a 1990 CTEC quad – to a smaller ski area; talking through long-term upgrades to Nitro; why the resort doesn't add more chairs to the current Nitro to boost its capacity from 2,100 skiers per hour to 2,400; the status of paid parking two years in; impressions of New England ski culture; the difference between running a mountain in the east and in the west; what happens when Vail surprise-buys your resort; connecting Park City to The Canyons via gondola – “the magnitude of it was not lost on me”; the mining facilities still scattered across Park City; career opportunity within Vail Resorts; Mount Snow's monster snowmaking system; why Mount Snow has become Vail's late-season New England operator, rather than Wildcat; why Carinthia is the mountain's late-operating pod; whether we could ever see another October opening at Mount Snow; potential upgrades for the North Face lifts; assessing the Beartrap double; contemplating the future of Grand Summit; whether we could ever see a detach lift on beginner terrain at Mount Snow; whether the Epic Local Pass is the correct unlimited-access pass for Mount Snow; the popularity of Northeast-specific Epic Passes; the Epic Day Pass; and Vail Resorts' day-ticket limits for the 2022-23 ski season.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewEver since Peak Resorts built the Bluebird Express six-pack in 2011, Mount Snow has had a problem: the lift, with its blue bubbles and ultra-smooth ride, was so flashy and appealing that nobody wanted to ride any other lift on the front side of the mountain. Even the Grand Summit high-speed quad, which runs parallel to Bluebird and serves all the same terrain, had trouble getting attention. This was great for skiers who actively work the mountain, but a real drag for Mount Snow's rap as the most-crowded Southern Vermont ski area.Enter: Vail Resorts' Epic Lift Upgrades of 2022. Mount Snow was the beneficiary of two of the 21 planned lifts (18 of which Vail finished on schedule*): the Sundance and Tumbleweed triples made way for a new six-pack, while the backside Sunbrook lift got a boost from a fixed-grip quad to a detach. Meanwhile, the mountain converted the Heavy Metal double into a triple chair, adding capacity to the popular Carinthia terrain park.Sundance and Sunbrook had one job: give people a reason to ski something besides Bluebird. As far as replacement lifts go, they seemed brilliant. But did the plan work to unknot Mount Snow's gnarliest crowd points?That was one topic Suhadolc and I discussed. Another: was Vail able to recover from its arguably oversold 2021-22 ski season by implementing day-ticket limits and settling into paid-parking plans? And how were those paid parking plans going? And should Mount Snow really be unlimited on the Epic Local Pass?Vail Resorts is entering its fifth winter season operating Mount Snow. With the Peak Resorts transition fully digested and Covid's hassles a memory, the company has no choice but to fully own every piece of the experience. With its size and proximity to New York City, Mount Snow will always be somewhat hectic. New Englanders can tolerate that. Chaos, however, does not belong in this land of picket-fence order. And for a moment post-Covid, Mount Snow seemed to be tilting toward chaos.But no one can say that Vail has not brought big change to the mountain over the past several seasons. Despite daily lift tickets that topped out at $154 this past winter, Mount Snow has never been more affordable to the masses. Unlimited access is just $689 on the Epic Local Pass; subtract holidays with the $567 Northeast Value Pass; minus weekends with the $425 Northeast Midweek Pass. With prices that low at a mountain that big that's as easy to access as Mount Snow is, things could go sideways pretty quick. The new lifts, the parking plans, the lift-ticket limits – all of it is calculated to prevent that from happening.Ski areas are a little bit like novels. They're never really finished. But unlike our great works of literature, we get to edit ski areas after they're published. The version of Mount Snow that we ski today is probably not the best and final version of the hill, but it may also be the best it's ever been,.*Two lifts scheduled to rise in Park City were rerouted to Whistler after spiteful locals revolted; Keystone's Bergman sixer had to wait a year after a construction-road misfire tore up some sensitive high-altitude terrain.What I got wrong* I said that the new Sunbrook high-speed quad clocked a ride time around four minutes. The actual time is closer to six minutes, according to Suhadolc.* I asked Brian why Vail didn't try to re-use the Sunbrook lift – a 1990 CTEC quad that likely had lots of life left on it – at a “smaller ski area.” He explained that Vail does occasionally move a lift within its portfolio. What I had meant to ask, however, was why didn't Mount Snow didn't attempt to sell the lift on the open market to a smaller independent ski area. It's great that Mount Snow sold the chairs and flipped the money to the Epic Promise Foundation, which assists their employees in times of outstanding need, such as the floods that just smashed Okemo. But the company could likely have made more for Epic Promise by selling the entire lift to an independent ski area, many of which are desperate for a modern quad in good working condition.* I said that Vail Resorts purchased Park City Mountain Resort “in 2014 or 2015.” The company bought the resort in 2014, a year after it bought Canyons (which is now part of Park City).* I said the Outpost lift turned 60 this year. Lift Blog, my go-to source for pretty much all things lifts, lists the lift as a 1963 Yan triple. Brian said that it is a 1988 CTEC triple. New England Ski History agrees with Brian. This is not a crack on Lift Blog, which is an excellent resource, so much as on me for not double-checking my references - in fact, I think Tracy Bartels corrected me on the exact same factoid three years ago.* I said that the Northeast Midweek Epic Pass was “less than $400.” This is incorrect. The pass currently costs $425. The early-bird price for the 2023-24 ski season was $416.* When I was running through the various resorts that the Northeast-specific Epic Passes accessed, I left out Mt. Brighton, Michigan.* I noted that Mount Snow had opened in October “once and maybe twice” under Peak Resorts. The only record I can find of Mount Snow opening that early was on Oct. 27, 2018.Why you should ski Mount SnowMount Snow has two big, obvious constituencies: Park Brah and Family Bro.The Carinthia peak is a crucial piece of Peak Resorts' legacy, as important as the Bluebird Express or the tens of millions the company pumped into snowmaking upgrades. Once a separate ski area, the peak is isolated from the mountain proper (though connected both ways by green trails), a thousand vertical feet of straight hits served by a high-speed quad and a triple chair. Park Brahs can park out, Brah. Along with Seven Brothers at Loon, it may be the best terrain park in the eastern United States.Family Bro loves Mount Snow partly because of Carinthia. Radbrah Junior can spend his afternoons there, posted up five wide with his boys, contemplating the hits below. The rest of the mountain, outside of the North Face, is interstate-width and solid blue. Families of almost any ability can manage this terrain. Mount Snow may be home to the best sustained intermediate terrain in New England. It's certainly among the most varied. And the mountain grooms just about every run just about every night, even if I wish they'd chill and let some bumps sprout here and there. Mount Snow's biggest drawback is a relative lack of glades for a mountain of its size. Skiers seeking trees should aim their GPS for Stratton or Magic, both of which have excellent, extensive glade networks.Epic Pass holders need to really pick their spots, though. Both Mount Snow and Okemo reach stampede-level crowding on weekends and holidays (I really don't think either should be unlimited on the Epic Local pass). Head for Stowe at these times if at all possible. Or snag an Indy Pass for peak-day getaways to Magic and Bolton Valley.Podcast NotesOn Heavenly and the Caldor FireWhen discussing Vail Resorts' unified disaster response to the recent Vermont floods, I referred to a similar conversation I'd had with Heavenly COO Tom Fortune in regards to the Caldor Fire that descended on Tahoe two years ago. You can listen to that conversation starting at 56:03 here.On Vermont's monster March snowstormWe discussed a monster snowstorm that descended on Vermont March 14 to 15. Huge snow totals included 45 inches at Bromley, 37 inches at Magic, and 46 inches at Mount Snow.On crushing pow at Mount SnowI discussed the chaos of a pow-day rope-drop at Mount Snow. Unfortunately the only access I have to it is this Twitter video. And since Substack won't embed Twitter videos anymore you'll have to click through to watch it:Too many “suns”I kept getting Mount Snow's “sun” lifts confused. It reminded me of a time I was skiing Snowbird, and a bunch of us were debating where to go next, and my buddy Mike, clearly confused, was just like, “There's too many Gads.” And my God he's right.On the Mount Snow “tram”Brian and I briefly discussed Mount Snow's old “tram,” which transported skiers from a base-area hotel up to the ski hill. It was really more of a whacky speedboat suspended from a cable, as you can see in the rendering on this 1965 trailmap. And yes, that's a double bubble chair beside it:On the Vail Resorts acquisition of Park CityBrian worked at Park City when Vail Resorts swiped it off Powdr Corp's lunch tray after the latter forgot to renew its lease. It was probably the most cartoonishly absurd business transaction in the history of lift-served skiing. Here's Park Record, examining the events as part of a decade-in-review series in late 2019:In some circles, though, the whispers had already started that something was afoot, and perhaps not right, at PCMR. Powdr Corp. for some unknown reason was negotiating a sale of its flagship resort, the most prevalent of the rumblings held. The CEO of Powdr Corp., John Cumming, late in 2011 had publicly stated there was not a deal involving PCMR under negotiation, telling Park City leaders during a Marsac Building appearance in December of that year the resort was “not for sale.” Later that evening, he told The Park Record the rumors “always amuse me.”The reality was far more astonishing and something that would define the decade in Park City in a similar fashion as the Olympics did in the previous 10-year span and the population boom did in the 1990s.The corporate infrastructure in the spring of 2011 had inadvertently failed to renew two leases on the land underlying most of the PCMR terrain, propelling the PCMR side and the landowner, a firm under the umbrella of Talisker Corp., into what were initially private negotiations and then into a dramatic lawsuit that unfolded in state court as the Park City community, the tourism industry and the North American ski industry watched in disbelief. As the decade ends, the turmoil that beset PCMR stands, in many ways, as the instigator of a changing Park City that has left so many Parkites uneasy about the city's future as a true community.The PCMR side launched the litigation in March of 2012, saying the future of the resort was at stake in the case. PCMR might be forced to close if it did not prevail, the president and general manager of the resort at the time said at the outset of the case. Talisker Land Holdings, LLC countered that the leases had expired, suddenly leaving doubts that Powdr Corp. would retain control of PCMR. …Colorado-based Vail Resorts, one of Powdr Corp.'s industry rivals, would enter the case on the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC side in May of 2013 with the aim of wresting the disputed land from Powdr Corp. and coupling it with nearby Canyons Resort, which was branded a Vail Resorts property as part of a long-term lease and operations agreement reached at the same time of the Vail Resorts entry into the case. Vail Resorts was already an industry behemoth with its namesake property in the Rockies and other mountain resorts across North America. The addition of Canyons Resort would advance the Vail Resorts portfolio in one of North America's key skiing states.It was a deft maneuver orchestrated by the chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts, Rob Katz. The agreement was pegged at upward of $300 million in long-term debt. As part of the deal, Vail Resorts also seized control of the litigation on behalf of Talisker Land Holdings, LLC. …The lawsuit itself unfolded with stunning developments followed by shocking ones over the course of two-plus years. In one stupefying moment, the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC attorneys discovered a crucial letter from the PCMR side regarding the leases had been backdated. In another such moment, PCMR outlined plans to essentially dismantle the resort infrastructure, possibly on an around-the-clock schedule, if it was ordered off the disputed land.What was transpiring in the courtroom was inconceivable to the community. How could Powdr Corp., even inadvertently, not renew the leases on the ground that made up most of the skiing terrain at PCMR, many asked. Why couldn't Powdr Corp. and Talisker Land Holdings, LLC just reach a new agreement, others wondered. And many became weary as businessmen and their attorneys took to the courtroom with the future of PCMR, critical to a broad swath of the local economy, at stake. The mood eventually shifted to exasperation as it appeared there was a chance PCMR would not open for a ski season if Talisker Land Holdings, LLC moved forward with an eviction against Powdr Corp. from the disputed terrain.The lawsuit wore on with the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC-Vail Resorts side winning a series of key rulings from the 3rd District Court judge presiding over the case. Judge Ryan Harris in the summer of 2014 signed a de facto eviction notice against PCMR and ordered the sides into mediation. Powdr Corp., realizing there was little more that could be accomplished as it attempted to maintain control of PCMR, negotiated a $182.5 million sale of the resort to Vail Resorts that September.Absolutely brutal and amazing and hard to believe, even nearly a decade later.On Canyons' name historyI mentioned the various names that the former Canyons ski area (now part of Park City), had gone by. Ski Utah provides the complete history:A neighboring ski area and sister resort to Park City Ski Area, called Park City West, opened in 1968. It was renamed ParkWest in 1975 after a change in ownership, then Wolf Mountain in 1995 for just two seasons. In 1997 it became The Canyons after an acquisition by the American Skiing Company before it was purchased by the Talisker Corporation. It was then sold to Vail Resorts in 2014 and subsequently merged with Park City Mountain. Today that base area is known as The Canyons Village at Park City.On Mount Snow's amazing snowmaking systemJust two years before selling its entire portfolio to Vail Resorts, Peak Resorts invested an amazing $30 million into Mount Snow's snowmaking system. The Brattleboro Reformer profiled the system shortly before go-live in 2017:West Lake is actually a sprawling system that begins about 4 miles from Mount Snow.It starts with a small, black, inflatable dam that stretches 18 feet across Cold Brook in Wilmington. From November through March, Mount Snow can inflate that dam as needed, drawing water into the newly constructed reservoir.A sluiceway alongside the dam ensures a flow of water in Cold Brook whether the dam is inflated or not."We were trying to be pretty low-impact, or as low-impact as possible," Storrs said.A nondescript-looking pump house near the dam can send water upward toward Mount Snow at a rate of 11,800 gallons per minute, "which is pretty much double what we used to have in terms of pumping capacity," Storrs said.On a recent morning, crews were putting on finishing touches and conducting tests at that pump house and two others situated farther up the mountain. There's a nearly 600-foot elevation gain between the inflatable dam and the last pump house on Mount Snow's slopes.On Wildcat and the long seasonWe discussed Wildcat's tradition as a late operator. Under Peak Resorts, the ski area would push the season into late April and, occasionally, May. Snowpak has documented Wildcat's closing dates over the past nine years – note the shift to earlier dates after Vail acquired the resort in 2019 (ignore the 2020 date, for obvious reasons):Vail shifted late-season New England operations to Mount Snow for reasons that Brian explains on the podcast. But it's a little incongruous stacked up against the region's other five late operators: Killington, Sugarbush, Jay Peak, Sunday River, and Sugarloaf, all of which are quite a ways north of Mount Snow:On Grand Summit and Yan detachablesI referred to the dreadful safety record of Yan detachable lifts. I broke this history of death and incompetence down in my recent podcast with China Peak GM Tim Cohee (scroll down to the Podcast Notes section).On Epic and Ikon access shifts since 2020I keep asking Vail Resorts' GMs if their ski areas are placed on the appropriate Epic Pass tier, mostly because it's amazing to me that an unlimited season pass to a mountain like Breckenridge or Mount Snow or Stevens Pass could be $676 – the early-bird price of 2023-24 Epic Local Passes. The Ikon Pass, as I noted on the podcast, has shifted its pass structure all over the place the past several seasons, tweaking access to Stratton, Sugarbush, Crystal Mountain, Alta, Aspen, Jackson Hole, Taos, Deer Valley, and Arapahoe Basin. Here's the chart I included in my recent podcast conversation with Alterra CEO Jared Smith to document those changes:I was astonished when Vail kept Stevens Pass on the Epic Local unlimited tier after 2021's well-documented crowding meltdowns. Things got so wild in Washington that Alterra pulled Crystal off the Ikon Pass' unlimited tier and jacked its season pass price up to $1,700 for the 2022-23 ski season. I still don't really understand this super-bargain access strategy, but Vail has made it clear that they're sticking with it.On the phenomenal deal that is the Epic Day PassWe discussed the Epic Day Pass. This thing really is an amazing deal:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 68/100 in 2023, and number 454 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

God has blatantly challenged me to walk into all that he has ordained for me regarding my ministerial charge.I have been charged to reach out to those who have been deceived by false religion, those who have been disfellowshipped and shunned.Those of you who follow me know I don't do ministry seeking any accolades, followers, money or fame. I am not looking to live off the ministry God has called me to walk in.  God got me.I have seen several post online where people have been raked over the coals by false doctrine, cults and dysfunctional religions.  And because of how they have been treated in the name of God, they have turned their back on God, and denounced their belief in Him or their ability to trust HimThis is my public service announcement, God is still God, He is still the creator of all things, he is still the Alpha and Omega, he still loves you and the truth is He created you with purpose.The greatest gift God gave to man also proves to be the biggest detriment to man and that is free will.  Some use their free will to deceive others and others use their free will to put their trust in man instead of God.......www.BibleDeliverance.org

What is fear like for professional boxers? Is fear different for them than anxiety? What kind of coping strategies do boxers put in place to understand, contrast, or even use fear and anxiety?In this Martial Attitude Voice podcast episode, we had the chance to explore the topic from a slightly different angle, that is the one of the boxing coach. Guest of the episode is Jon Durrant, former ISKA Kickboxing Champion, acknowledged as one of the most versatile coaches in London. He has and continues to train Elite Amateur International Boxers (Olympic level), Professional Boxers (WBC International Champion), Kickboxers (ISKA European champion, WKA European champion, World champion) Karate Combat' World title fight and MMA fighters (Bellator, PFL and Cagewarriors).What did he learn about fear and how to tackle it over almost 4 decades in competing in different combat sports and in boxing? Who is he training now? What does he says to his champions when in doubt of fear?Super podcast to listen to.Follow Jon on INSTAGRAMExplore Jon's WEBSITE and training with himThis interview was first recorded on  Wednesday 12th of July, 2023.

Triggering Love - featuring Robert O'Hara (he/him)Featuring award winning playwright and Tony Award nominated theater director Robert O'Hara | he/himThis creative conversation kicks off with frank discussions of the practical and physical: this industry is tough, success is not promised, and backstage Broadway is far from glamorous. In short, it's a job! Robert and Will connect on the value of voicing the risks to young artists early - "It's a profession, not a hobby." This leads to an interrogation of trigger warnings in general and specifically with regards to Robert's hotly publicized direction of Jeremy O. Harris' SLAVE PLAY on Broadway. Will takes the opportunity to ask Robert about the difference of developing new work when directing MACBETH at The Denver Center. Robert suggests approaching all projects like new plays, a project that has never appeared before, by bringing a personal perspective to every choice that is made. Only by making informed, personal choices can audiences learn who you are and clarify your artistic voice. After a rigorous discussion of reality, Robert's brave tarot pull explores how to shepherd grace personally and professionally. In Teacakes and Tarot: Conversations with Queer Futurists, host Will Wilhelm (they/them) welcomes an artistic crush for an intimate chat and a reading. Each episode features a new queer guest discussing art, life in our industry, and their dreams and intentions while the world of performance waits in the wings. Together, they hold space to summon more inclusive, exciting, and queer-friendly ways to create. As the candle burns low,  Will offers their guest a unique tarot reading to give them greater insight on a personal journey. It's one part cocktail party and one part slumber party that will leave you stirred but never shaken. Teacakes & Tarot: Conversations with Queer Futurists is produced by Island Shakespeare Festival as part of the Shakespeare Playground Series. The series presents socially distanced programming that upholds ISF's mission of accessible Shakespeare that embraces intersectional storytelling and artistic excellence. Find out more at islandshakespearefest.org!Co-Created by Will Wilhelm (they/them) and Erin Murray (she/her)Graphic Design by Ray Kathryn Morgen (they/them)Theme Song: Raro Bueno by Chuzausen, licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.Audio & Mixing: Nigel Saskrotch (they/them)

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Background Bob (@background_bob)Background Bob & his amazing friends…back againA simple little idea that has turned into a worldwide phenomenon. Background Bob is the artist name of 14 yr old Noah. Noah has hydrocephalus, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, but despite that, he's a cheeky, kid full of smiles who loves to paint. He paints wonderful abstract paintings on cardboard and sends them to artists all over the world to collaborate on with himThis is his 3rd year of running his project (with his dad, Nathan) He has already collaborated with over 720 different artists from all over the globe, has made the news worldwide, held 2 exhibitions, produced 2 beautiful books, and has raised over £160,000 for his local children's ward in Colchester through auctions selling off the artwork and books.And he's back again……His 3rd exhibition containing over 250 stunning collaborations is about to open at Firstsite, Colchester. It opens on Saturday 1st April and runs until 8th October. Plenty of time to plan a trip. There is something for everyone at this exhibition, and some big names have jumped on board this year!Background Bob is also busy putting finishing touches to his 3rd book containing all this years artworks, which will be available soon. To keep up to date please follow @background_bob over on InstagramTo Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofartsIf you would like to promote your work, exhibition or any other creative project, please contact us at:Social Media: @ministryofartsorgEmail: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode makes Gary's soul sing. Walker made Gary reassess what he knows about life. They dove into some REAL topics. This might be a short episode, but it's PACKED!In this episode:The amazing thing Walker did for GaryHaving a stillborn childExperiencing the highest of highs on Earth and the lowestWhat he and his wife are surprised the fight about nowWhat really matters in lifeRunning away from and to GodHaving the freedom of not having to understand why good things and bad things happen to usAssumptions we makeHow Walker values humanity more nowGetting over yourselfThe importance of stopping and serving othersChoosing the best outcome vs fearing the worstBeing a  humble parentWhat Gary's mom told him when he was 10 that has stuck with himThis episode is sponsored by Habana Cuba.Get 15% off with code "Gary" when you order!About Walker:It took Walker Hayes over a decade to break into the mainstream country, but when he finally landed a Top Ten hit in 2017 with "You Broke Up with Me," it hit with the force of an explosion and proved an appropriate song title since its parent album was called boom. The 2017 album came six years after his full-length debut, Reason to Rhyme, announcing a promising talent in a bro-country vein, but boom. was fresh and fused modern R&B, contemporary country, hip-hop, and rock, announcing a distinctive talent. Hayes consolidated this breakthrough with the clever "Fancy Like," which reached number one on Billboard's Country charts in 2021, a hit that was the cornerstone of his third record, Country Stuff the Album.Hayes is a native of Mobile, Alabama. Born on December 27, 1979, he grew up in Mobile, dividing his time between music and sports as a child and teenager. He wound up earning a music degree from Alabama's Birmingham-Southern College, then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his wife moved to Nashville in 2005 with dreams of him becoming a professional musician. He signed a song publishing deal, and then, on the strength of a demo he recorded for Keith Urban, Hayes inked a deal with Mercury before quickly moving to Capitol Records. He released his debut single, "Pants," in 2010, which wound up reaching 60 on the Hot Country Songs chart. The full-length Reason to Rhyme followed in 2011, but it didn't chart. Over the next few years, Hayes worked as a songwriter, landing placements with Colt Ford and Rodney Atkins in 2014. Capitol dropped him, so he worked at Costco and continued to write, releasing the single "Pimpin' Joy" to little attention in 2014. Shane McAnally signed him to SMACK/RareSpark in 2016, leading him to release two EPs -- 8Tracks, Vol. 1: Good Shit and 8Tracks, Vol. 2: Break the Internet -- that year. Hayes landed a contract with Monument in 2017, which released "You Broke Up with Me" that year. www.GaryScottThomas.com

Have you been wronged? Been betrayed? Discarded? Neglected? If so, be encouraged!You're not alone!Jesus was rejected.The Bible says He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.He was betrayed by one of His own disciples.Denied by one of His own disciples.The people praised Him one-day shouting Hosanna in the Highest only to neglect Him the next through shouts of “Crucify Him!” What was His response? “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!”How did He teach us to respond?When they smite you on one cheek, turn to them on the otherWhen they ask of you for your tunic, give them also your cloakBless those that persecute youPray for them that despitefully use youThis is counter-culture to what many of us have been taught or what many of us have experiencedBut remember: As born-again believers, we are not of this worldAnd if we are to truly shine for Jesus, we must be like JesusIt's not enough to act like Him on the weekends only or only when we feel like it,we mustn't act all Acting implies pretending and God doesn't want us pointing on a show for Him, He wants us to show Him to others by being like HimThis will take courage.And He has given us just that!It will take us being willing to go counter-culture,To take up our cross and follow Jesus!We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength!Listen, when we will learn to forgive, it will not only bring healing into our lives, but it will also position us to be able to rightly be a witness and an encouragement for others, affecting change in them for eternity!Jesus did and so can we!Are you dealing with unforgiveness at all?Don't fret, go before God, ask Him to give you the courage to make it right, and He will!And then watch as the power of God begins to flow in you and through you like never before!I want to end today with a short poem about a toad and a squirrel. The squirrel was quite mean but through the forgiveness of a toad, not only was the toad empowered, but he was able to have quite a lasting impact on the squirrel as well…

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Feb. 22. It dropped for free subscribers on Feb. 25. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoDave Scanlan, General Manager of Eaglecrest, AlaskaRecorded onFebruary 13, 2023About EaglecrestClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The City of JuneauLocated in: Juneau, AlaskaYear founded: 1975Pass affiliations: Indy Pass, Powder Alliance, Freedom PassReciprocal partners:* 3 days each at: Anthony Lakes, Diamond Peak, Hilltop, Hogadon Basin, Lookout Pass, Monarch Mountain, Mount Bohemia, Mount Sima, Mount Ashland, Skeetawk, Skiland* 1 unguided day at Silverton* Eaglecrest has one of the most extensive reciprocal networks in America. Here's an overview of everything that's included in a season pass, which debuted for this season at $576. While there's a ton of overlap, adding an Indy Pass onto this would give you another 50-plus ski areas:Closest neighboring ski areas: Eaglecrest's website reminds us that “There are no roads into Juneau, Alaska— you have to live here, fly, or ferry to experience this powder paradise.” There are no other ski areas nearby. So stay for a few days and enjoy it.Base elevation: 1,130 feetSummit elevation: 2,750 feetVertical drop: 1,620 feetSkiable Acres: 640Average annual snowfall: 350 inchesTrail count: 36 (40% advanced/expert, 40% intermediate, 20% beginner)Lift count: 4 doubles – Eaglecrest also plans to add a pulse gondola, which will likely be ready for the 2025 summer season and 2025-26 ski season.Why I interviewed himThis podcast started, as so many of them do, with me asking one question: what is going on here?Every ski area is different, but some are more different than others. Mount Bohemia, with its complete absence of grooming and snowmaking and $109 season pass. Perfect North, which sits on southern Indiana farmland but processes more than 10,000 skiers on a busy day and employs 1,200 workers in the winter – bigger numbers than some Western alphas. Black Mountain of Maine, which, over the past decade, has undergone the largest expansion of any New England ski area – with zero promotion, masterplanning, or fanfare.And here's Eaglecrest. This ski area up in Alaska. But not just regular Alaska. Isolated coastal Alaska. Where roads don't go. You have to fly or take a ferry. There, for some reason, is where the 49th state chose to locate its capital, Juneau. The state's residents have voted many times to move the capital. But it remains. It is a gorgeous place, mountains launching dramatically from the water. There are 31,000 people there. And one ski area. Eaglecrest is big enough to stir curiosity, but not big enough to draw skiers in volume from the mainland, who have dozens of larger ski areas to bounce between. It is an Indy Pass member, a Freedom Pass member, a Powder Alliance member. It has a dozen reciprocal partnerships besides. Almost anyone can ski there – almost no one does. So what is this place? This city-owned ski area at the end of civilization? And what does it want to be? And how does it plan to get there?I had questions. Scanlan had answers. This is a good one.What we talked aboutFifteen straight days of snow is just how they roll in Southern Alaska; the Pineapple Express; if you think Alaska is all dark and subzero weather, think again; skiing in fishing gear; “we don't have the big testosterone bro-brah attitude”; is Juneau ski bum paradise?; where a crowd on a Saturday pow day is a dozen early-risers ahead of you in the maze; Midwest pride; bump skiing at Wilmot; when “you fall in love with it not for the hype of a powder day, but for the feeling you get when you're on your skis or snowboard”; a young vagabond in the ‘90s; Hope Alaska; founding the Mountain Rider's Alliance to help small ski areas; the potential for resurrecting the long-lost Manitoba Mountain, Alaska; Skeetawk (Hatcher Pass); moving to and running Mt. Abram, Maine; what it's like to compete with Sunday River; hardcore New England; Maine nice; landing a dream job at Eaglecrest; reworking the primitive snowmaking system; the pros and cons of running a city-owned ski area; whether Eaglecrest could ever survive without city subsidies; massive summer potential; easier to get to than you think: “If you live in Seattle, you can be sitting on the chair at Eaglecrest before most days you could be sitting on the chair at Crystal”; fly and ski free with your boarding pass; pushing back against locals who want to keep the place secret; why Eaglecrest has so many reciprocal partners and how effectively that's drawing skiers to Alaska; why you saw an Eaglecrest booth at the Snowbound Festival in Boston; Indy Pass; comparing the coming Eaglecrest gondola installation with how the Lone Peak Tram transformed Big Sky in the 1990s; 20,000 daily summer visitors to a town that has 30,000 residents; “how do I take advantage of this amazing opportunity to put the cash in the pocket that I need to turn Eaglecrest into the best ski area in the world?”; why low-capacity lifts will continue to be Eaglecrest's default; the drive to begin relocating quality used ski lifts from Europe to North America; breaking down Eaglecrest's soon-to-be-installed fixed-grip pulse gondola; where the gondola's top, bottom, and midstations will sit; how much larger Eaglecrest's trail footprint will get; “I do carry some guilt of polarizing our ski community” by putting a lift into what's now hike-in terrain; why the ski area needs investment to survive; thoughts on the future of the four double chairs; visiting and riding the future Eaglecrest gondola in Europe; massive upgrades for the lift; how the gondola will work with the Mt. Roberts Tram; a gondy timeline; potential for a beginner carpet; and how much the official count of 36 trails undersells the resort's terrain.   Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewEaglecrest is, as noted above, one of the continent's most aggressive Megapass-Reciprocity players. That makes it an important mountain in an important Storm sub-narrative: how can you ski as much as possible, at as many ski areas as possible, for as little money as possible? While Eaglecrest's network (50-ish partners), and pass price-point ($576 early-bird for 2022-23) don't quite drop it into the Ski Cooper realm ($329 early-bird for this season and 61 partner ski areas), it nonetheless acts as a powerful enabling device for skiers with an adventurous bent and a small degree of logistical savvy.The question, of course, is why Eaglecrest bothers. The place is marooned along the North American coast, one of the few non-island cities unreachable by road from the rest of the landmass. I'm sure some Eaglecrest locals journey south by plane and orchestrate a ski loop through the continental West. But I'm not sure if that's the point here. Rather, Eaglecrest is trying to get skiers to come to them, to realize that if they hop a plane two-and-a-half hours north, they can land in the Great Unspoiled and have a powder-draped ski area to themselves.The goal is to create long-term skiers. Tourists, you know. And once they've seen what the place is now, they'll be revved up to return once Eaglecrest runs a new-used pulse gondola from its base to the top of Pittman's Ridge. That will bring lift service to the ski area's full 1,620-foot vertical drop for the first time and, more importantly, open hundreds of new acres of terrain skier's left of the current boundary.If you're not familiar with a pulse gondola, you may have seen them at Snowmass or Steamboat – they run with little groups of cabins together, and are typically used in America more as transit lifts than ski lifts (the Snowmass lift mostly takes passengers up the village, and Steamboat's lift moves skiers up from a cluster of condos down the mountain). These are fixed-grip lifts, but travel at tram speeds – Scanlan estimates the base-to-summit ride at around seven minutes. The lift will travel in three pods of 15-passenger cabins and will have a mid-station, off of which Eaglecrest could eventually build a learning area with carpets, Scanlan tells me. The yellow line here shows where the gondola will run on the mountain - the red lines represent the current lifts:The lift has been controversial. It's 34 years old, and operated at Austria's Galsterberg Ski Area until last April. It cost approximately $2.5 million to purchase and transport, and will cost an additional $5.5 million to install. It will operate at a far lower capacity than a modern detachable gondola, which is what most U.S. ski areas use. Critics say the gondola competes with the private sector – in particular, the Mount Roberts Tramway.Scanlan addresses each of these points in our conversation, with a nuanced analysis of Juneau's thumping summer tourism season and how Eaglecrest can both act as a relief valve and boost its own long-term goal of financial independence.Questions I wish I'd askedTwo points I wanted to discuss that I didn't get to: how much the gondola will cost, and Eaglecrest's very low lift ticket prices, which top out at $68. The ski area breaks down the cost in an FAQ on its website:Q: I've heard about a $2 million cost and a $7.5 million cost. Which amount is correct?$2 million [it ended up being $2.5 million] covers the initial purchase, transportation, and preliminary engineering of the Austrian pulse gondola. The funding ordinance currently under review is for this sum.$5.5 million covers the cost of installation and additional infrastructure. Eaglecrest may eventually seek this sum as a loan to be paid back by summer operations. This number will be refined in the months ahead as we continue work with the Eaglecrest Board and Eaglecrest Summer Task Force to examine the business case and evaluate future costs.Why you should ski EaglecrestBecause this might be it. Survey the West: it's full. Colorado High Country, the Wasatch, Tahoe, the Seattle and Portland day-drivers, Jackson, Mammoth, Big Sky – it's traffic or it's ticket limits or it's sticker-shock pricing or it's rivers of people or it's the raw cost of living and everything else. Or it's several or all of these factors, blended, to frustrate the romance of mountain-town living.Not that rustic snowy backwaters don't remain. But they are backwaters. Places like Turner, Montana, 2,110 vertical feet and 1,000 acres but lodged in the wilderness between Schweitzer and Whitefish. Sunrise Park, Arizona, 1,800 feet of vert and 1,200 acres, but marooned 90 miles from the nearest interstate highway and so dysfunctional that a huge chunk of the mountain sat inaccessible for five years after their monster triple chair broke down (it now takes three lift rides to reach that same terrain).But look north. Look at this:If you haven't watched yet, let me pull one stat: Scanlan says on this video that a busy day at Eaglecrest – a weekend powder day, for instance – might draw 900 skiers. For the day. There's more people waiting in the average McDonald's drive-through line than that.“Yeah Brah but it's small.”Watch the video, Brah.“Yeah but it gets like half the snow of Mt. Tahoe, where my boys ride Brah.”Watch the video.“Yeah but it's in Alaska and I don't see the point of skiing in Europe when I can ski right here in U.S. America.”Brah, watch the video.As mainland Western U.S. skiing boils over, Eaglecrest remains on a low simmer. And while you'll need an airplane to get there, you land in a state capital, with all the infrastructure and life conveniences that attend such a place. Juneau is a small city – 31,000 people – but an important one, with abundant stable government and industrial fishing jobs. It's big enough to host a woo-hoo walkable downtown and all the standard American big-box claptrap on the outskirts, small enough that unloading every skier in the valley onto Eaglecrest's access road won't be enough to clog the drain. And when you arrive, you just ski. No parking drama. No lines. No Powder Day Death Matches. Just. Ski.Yes, the lifts are old and slow: four fixed-grip doubles. Yes, accessing the full vert requires some hiking. Yes, coastal snow is not Wasatch snow. And yes, the total skiable acreage does not match your big-mountain Western destinations. But: recalibrate. Reset your expectations. Stripped of the hoards and the Hunger Games mentality they inspire, skiing is something different. A 10-minute lift ride is not so intolerable when you ski right onto the chair. Six hundred forty acres is plenty when it's mostly ungroomed faces sparsely cut by the local bombers. Three hundred fifty inches is sufficient when it tumbles over the mountain in lake-effect patterns, a few inches every day for weeks at a time, refreshing and resetting the incline day after day.Eaglecrest is going to get bigger, better, and, probably, busier. That gondola will change how Eaglecrest skis and, eventually, who skis there. It's not a destination yet, not really. But it could be. And it probably should be – we're rapidly moving past the era in which it makes sense for city tax dollars to subsidize a ski area. There are plenty of examples of publicly owned ski areas operating at a profit, and Eaglecrest should too. Go there now, before the transformation, to see it, to say you were there, to try that different thing that gets at what you're probably looking for in the mountains already.Podcast NotesOn the gondolaWe referenced a note Scanlan penned shortly after taking delivery of the gondola. Read it in full here.On Manitoba MountainScanlan tells the story of trying to resurrect a small ski area called Manitoba Mountain near Hope Alaska. It had operated with up to three ropetows from World War II until the lodge burned down in 1960. Skimap.org has archived a handful of concept maps circa 2011, but Scanlan moved to Maine to take over Mt. Abram before he could re-open the ski area:On Skeetawk/Hatcher PassScanlan and I discuss a recently opened Alaska ski area that he refers to as “Hatcher Pass.” This is Skeetawk, a 300-vertical-foot bump that finally opened in 2020 after decades of failed plans. Here's the ski area today:And here's a circa 2018 concept map, which shows where a future high-speed quad could run, connecting, in turn, to a high-alpine lift that would transport skiers to 4,068 feet. That would give the ski area a 2,618-foot vertical drop.On the impact of the Big Sky tramIt's hard to imagine, but Big Sky was sort of Small Sky before the ski area broke out the Lone Peak Tram in 1995. That project, which acted as a gateway to all-American pants-shitting terrain, transformed the way skiers perceived the mountain. But the tram was bigger than that: the lift accelerated the rapid late-90s/early-2000s evolution of U.S. skiing as a whole. An excerpt from this excellent history by Marc Peruzzi:As unpolished, friendly, and authentic as Big Sky was in the early 1980s, it was a timid place known within Montana for stunning views, but exceedingly gentle pitches. Big Sky was the yin to rowdy, chute-striped Bridger Bowl's yang. And it was struggling. Annual skier visits hovered around 80,000. The mountain wasn't on the destination circuit. The business was losing money. Bound up skiing wasn't working. …it's easy to overlook the fact that the Lone Peak Tram was and is the most audacious lift in North American skiing history. It was such a bold idea in fact, that John Kircher had to agree to the purchase without the approval of his father, and Boyne Resorts founder, Everett who disapproved vehemently with the project. The audacious claim is not hyperbole. The Peak 2 Peak Gondola in Whistler (it came 20 years later) might sport a longer span, but it was a far more straightforward installation and it's more of a people mover than a ski lift. The Jackson and Snowbird trams serve serious terrain, but they run over a series of towers like traditional lifts. The Lone Peak Tram is an anomaly. Because it ascends a sheer face, the lift features a continuous span that's unique in North America. No other design would work. Beyond the challenges of the cliff, the routine 120mph hour winds in the alpine would rip chairs off cables and smash tram cars into towers. …By 1996, the year the tram opened, the skiing nanny state was crumbling. … At the forefront of this change was the Lone Peak Tram. It changed the mindset of the ski industry. But that change was bigger than the sheer audacity of the lift and the terrain it served—or even the fact that Big Sky's patrol had figured out how to manage it. The Lone Peak Tram didn't just make for good skiing, it made good business sense. Whereas Kircher is quick to credit Montana's frontier culture for the actual construction of the tram, Middleton discounts the cowboy element and insists it was a strategic long-term business play to elevate the ski experience. But two things can be true at the same time, and that's the case with the Lone Peak Tram. …In the years after the Lone Peak Tram opened, expansion into steep terrain became commonplace again. Sunshine Village's Delirium Dive opened in 1998. Then came the hike-to terrain of Aspen Highlands' Highland Bowl; Crystal Mountain's “inbounds sidecountry” in the Southback zone, and its 2007 Northway expansion; and more recently Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico finally strung a lift to Kachina Peak, which as with Lone Peak had been hiked for years. Any skier worth their weight would add the Headwaters at Moonlight to that list.This video tells the story just as well:The context in the podcast was the incoming Eaglecrest gondola, and whether that lift could have the same transformative impact on Eaglecrest. While the terrain that the new-used Alaskan lift will serve is not quite as dramatic as that strafing Big Sky, it will reframe the ski area in the popular conversation.On ski pornI don't write a lot about athletes, obviously, but Scanlan mentions several that he skied with at summer camps on the Blackcomb Glacier back in the ‘90s. One is Candide Thovex, who is like from another galaxy or a CG bot or something:On old-school Park CityScanlan talks about the summer he helped yank out the “old-school” Park City gondola and install the “Payday six-packs.” He was referring to the Payday and Bonanza sixers, which replaced the mountain's two-stage, four-passenger gondola in the summer of 1997. Here's the 1996 trailmap, showing the gondy, which had run since 1963:And here's the 1997-98 trailmap, calling out the new six-packs as only a 1990s trailmap can:On old-school AltaModern Alta – the one that most of you know, with its blazing fast lifts and Ikon Pass partnership – is a version of Alta that would have been sacrilege to the powder monks who haunted the place for decades. “The ski area for traditionalists, ascetics, and cheapskates,” read one Skiing Magazine review in 1994. “The lifts are slow and creaky, the accommodations are spartan, but the lift tickets are the best deal in skiing, especially when Alta's fabled powder comes with them.” Here's what Alta looked like in 2000, the year before Sugarloaf gave way to the resort's first high-speed chairlift:This is the Alta of Scanlan's ski-bum days, “before the high-speeders came in,” as he puts it. Before the two-stage Collins lift took out Germania (which lives on at Beaver Mountain, Utah), a longer Supreme killed Cecret, and a new Sunnyside sixer deleted Albion, which served Alta's boring side. Before a peak-day walk-up lift ticket ran $179 (throw in another $40 if you want to connect to Snowbird). They do, however, still have the stupid snowboard ban, so there's that.On previous GM Matt LillardScanlan and I discuss his immediate predecessor, Matt Lillard, who is now running Vermont's Mad River Glen. Lillard joined me on the podcast three years ago, and we briefly discussed Eaglecrest:On GunstockScanlan compares Eaglecrest's operating and ownership models to Gunstock, noting, “we've all seen how that can go.” We sure have:On Eaglecrest's fly-and-ski-free programHere are details on how to cash in your boarding pass for an Eaglecrest lift ticket on the day you land in Juneau. Alaska Airlines offers similar deals at Alyeska, Bogus Basin, Red Lodge, Red Mountain, Schweitzer, Marmot Basin, and, shockingly, Steamboat, where a one-day lift ticket can cost as much as a 747.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 14/100 in 2023, and number 400 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing all year long. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

This week, we are joined by Bob Bausmith, FMR CIO at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City.What you'll get out of this episode:Bausmith's background in healthcareHealthcare's virtual evolution since Bausmith's career startedWhether payers are adopting enough virtual care systems or if they are still laggingThe key to working with payers What technology excites Bausmith most in the healthcare industry todayHow healthcare shaped where Bausmith is today, and what's next for himThis episode is presented by AmplifyMD“AmplifyMD immediately connects medical facilities to a large network ofphysicians in all of the most essential specialties, including Neurology, Cardiology,Infectious Disease, Pulmonology and Heme/Onc.” Their mission is access, by becomingthe definitive specialty care platform that connects every medical facility to the specialtycare they need to improve patient outcomes. - https://amplifymd.com/To learn more about Bob Bausmith please use the link below:- LinkedInAlso, be sure to follow The Seamless Connection:- Linkedin - YoutubeThe Seamless Connection is part of the Slice of Healthcare podcast network:- Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube - Newsletter

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for episode 99!This is the second part of Matteo's interview with Andrea "Bubu" Alessi!Bubu is a former Pro water skier from Italy, the 1993 World Jump Champion, and former coach of the Italian National Team. He is widely regarded as the most influential water skier in the history of the sport in Italy, due to his successes and contribution to the development of the sport. In this second part, Matteo and Bubu discuss the transition from skier to coach, including the importance and challenges of these identity changes. The two proceeded to explore Bubu's years sailing around the world, the birth of his daughter Mia, the challenges of being a good coach (including the mental side of skiing and coaching), and a bunch of other nuggetsEnjoy! Episode 100 will be released as soon as it is ready :)_________________________Matteo will soon be hosting an online class in sport psychology for waterski coaches and anyone who enjoys helping water skiers to improve. More details will be announced in upcoming weeks. For more information feel free to write himThis episode is brought to you by the FlowPoint Method, a revolutionary and holist approach to water skiing created by Jenny LaBaw and Marcus Brown.Learn more about the FlowPoint Method by going to thewaterskipodcast.com/flowpointmethod. Take a few seconds to write a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, it really helps :-)If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider a donation.If you are interested in advertising on The Water Ski Podcast, please reach out.

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast and Happy New Year!Episode 98 is the first part of Matteo's interview with Andrea "Bubu" Alessi!Bubu is a former Pro water skier from Italy, the 1993 World Jump Champion, and former coach of the Italian National Team. He is widely regarded as the most influential water skier in the history of the sport in Italy, due to his successes and contribution to the development of the sport. In this first part Matteo and Bubu discuss the early days, the first wins, and the journey that brought him to be one of the most recognizable faces and competitors for two decades.Enjoy!_________________________Matteo will soon be hosting an online class in sport psychology for waterski coaches and anyone who enjoys helping water skiers to improve. More details will be announced in upcoming weeks. For more information feel free to write himThis episode is brought to you by the FlowPoint Method, a revolutionary and holist approach to water skiing created by Jenny LaBaw and Marcus Brown.Learn more about the FlowPoint Method by going to thewaterskipodcast.com/flowpointmethod. Take a few seconds to write a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, it really helps :-)If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider a donation.If you are interested in advertising on The Water Ski Podcast, please reach out.

Welcome back to The Water Ski Podcast for a recap of the 2022 season with Trent Finlayson!In this episode, Matteo and Trent look back at the 2022 season and discuss what impressed them, what they have noticed, and specific achievements obtained by some incredible athletes. From key moments in the Pro Tour to incredible performances, from climbing stars to seasoned veterans, historical and personal moments, Trent and Matteo had a fun time reviewing a wonderful season of water skiing.Enjoy!_________________________Matteo will soon be hosting an online class in sport psychology for waterski coaches and anyone who enjoys helping water skiers to improve. More details will be announced in upcoming weeks. For more information feel free to write himThis episode is brought to you by the FlowPoint Method, a revolutionary and holist approach to water skiing created by Jenny LaBaw and Marcus Brown.Learn more about the FlowPoint Method by going to thewaterskipodcast.com/flowpointmethod. Take a few seconds to write a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, it really helps :-)If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider a donation.If you are interested in advertising on The Water Ski Podcast, please reach out.

Welcome back for Part 2 of Matteo's interview with Dave Wingerter!Dave is the Vice President of Product Management and Global Brand Director at HO Sports Company. He is also a great skier who continues to train and test whenever he gets a chance. In this second part, Dave and Matteo dive deep into the role and responsibilities Dave has at HO Sports, including products that go beyond the Syndicate line. This sets the ground for interesting considerations about engineering and creativity, the beauty behind manufacturing, and some Dave's ideas for future projects.Enjoy!_________________________Matteo will soon be hosting an online class in sport psychology for waterski coaches and anyone who enjoys helping water skiers to improve. More details will be announced in upcoming weeks. For more information feel free to write himThis episode is brought to you by the FlowPoint Method, a revolutionary and holist approach to water skiing created by Jenny LaBaw and Marcus Brown.Learn more about the FlowPoint Method by going to thewaterskipodcast.com/flowpointmethod. Take a few seconds to write a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, it really helps :-)If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider a donation.If you are interested in advertising on The Water Ski Podcast, please reach out.

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Nick begin their discussion of The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton, while two of the three of them drink Benriach distilliery's The Twelve.In this episode:Nick makes a very good ruleMichael is provoked into asking a bad question and then the rest of the episode is about thatEthan says “fantasy” a bunch of times when he probably should have said “speculative fiction,” feel free to sue himThis book is full of filthSpoilers for the Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the Hound of the Baskervilles, and a bunch of other stuff you've had 100 years to readFun old-timey ocean stories! Also, pretty violent.Next time Michael, Ethan, and Nick will continue discussing The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Donate to our Patreon! BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.

When you think of the Presence of Jesus, what would you normally think about? Respect, awe, fear, amazing glory, praise, wonder, speechlessness, astonishment, blown away!I cannot think that “times of refreshing” fits into that list.  Some might think, guilt, shame, ugliness, fear, awkward, lost, evil, bad, judged, deceived.But we need to see the three parts of this sermonYou are guilty even when no wrong was uncoveredYou were innocent and there is still a chance, take it because now you are no longer innocent. This is a strict warning. Your opinions don't count when God the creator determines what is moral.The results of your repentance Times of RefreshingJesus coming, both now for your appointed time and in the future at the culmination of allThe prophets spoke of this, and you can be the first to participate in Gods ultimate plan that will go from here to all the worldThe message is for us all.  A simple short direct call to repent with consequences:Choose the times of refreshing!Notes from Acts 3: 1-16What's in a Name?Associations of identity come with names. A good name speaks of a good reputation, a good character, great feats, or memorable exploits. A good name brings up images of respect, or events, or relationships.  A good name can elicit feelings and emotions associated with a particular person. A bad name does the same in reverse, stirring up unwanted memories. Names can spurn people into action, from love to revenge they can be great motivators in life. Here we see another aspect that a particular name evokes:The setting: The temple, the spiritual center of Jewish life. It is the place Jesus headed towards in the final days of his life here, and it is the place his disciples experienced his final discourses. The prayer life of the new converts to Christianity happened here daily. There is a growing movement that surely is not passing the attention of the religious leaders.  But this event is going to change the dynamic of the growing movement. It is a major turning point in the growth of what the church will be.The beginning of opposition: it was this event that clinched the deal for me to become a Christian. How could the intelligent people of the day not see the good in what was being done here?Here is the key to seeing the difference between legalistic religion and the joy of relationship in desiring to be like Jesus:The lame man is not permitted to become a priest – he is considered imperfect and an outcast, not whole, a burden to society, a receiver of charity. He is at the entrance at the mercy of others.The Encounter changes his life! His future, his acceptance by God and getting used to a new way of living.  Clinging to Peter and John shows his fear of the leaders.The Boldness of Peter is astonishing in that just a few days previously he was in hiding from the Jews, also wondering if Jesus would still accept him. His restoration complete, he gives what he is now sure of in his faith. And he uses the name of Jesus – why? Because he does not have the authority, not the power, nor the piety, to do such things on his own! He clarifies where the authority comes from! He demonstrates the power in a relationship with Jesus mixed with honest humility.  No power struggle, just doing what he sees the Father doing.The reality of this event is to elevate the church, and the head of the church, Jesus. And in this case Jesus restores the broken-hearted, revels his heart of love, and restores his human dignity.  Only Jesus has the authority to do so.  That is the central question: who has what authority?  The issue was addressed clearly in Luke 5: “who has authority to forgive sins?  Just so you know who has the authority to do that, he heals the lame man.  For him, healing is as easy as forgiveness, though forgiveness is much more valuable considering eternity as compared to temporal healings.  In this event, the challenge to the Jewish leaders who thought the had gotten rid of Jesus is renewed. It's like he had been multiplied! His fame was spreading, and his activity was increasing!  What the 70 and the disciples had experienced was spreading faster than before.What do we glean from this? The name and the authority of Jesus is not committed to a select few, but to all disciplesThe use of his authority is dependent upon his direction and timingThe authority of Jesus is powerful, and he gives us the right to even forgive sins! (John 20:22,23)Authority is linked to our faith: knowing the character and life of Jesus, and responding to himThis authority is not linked to our piety, character, deeds, but to Jesus and must point to Jesus!There is a challenge to us, who will we be like? Those who resist what God is doing, or those who are Co-workers with Christ? What changes need to take place in your thinking and life for you to be one who Carrie's the authority of the name of Jesus?

https://youtu.be/haGlz7ulCtM Matthew 12:31-32 Have you ever seen in a movie when they say, “under no circumstances do this” and then interrupted? This is a very contested and often misunderstood scripture in the Bible. You better get this rightIN this verse Jesus says- you can do anything and be forgiven except for one thingNow if I were you- I'd want to know what that one thing is. We serve a God that forgives sin and welcomes us into his kingdom- but there actually is something he wont forgive? Yes. Get this RIGHTWhat does the term blasphemy even mean?Basically “defiant irreverence”- you are rebellious in heart and action have no holy reverence of God or willfully degrading things that are of GodBlasphemy is also attributing evil to God, or denouncing good as not of himThis defiant irreverence is the unique sin of openly mocking God and intentionally speaking evil against God. Defaming him. Mocking him. Your mouth speaking. Your lifestyle speaking. Direct rebelliousness towards God's holy ways. You don't want to do this. God does not like itIn a worldly sense it would be like a child who is well cared for saying they aren't or that their parents acted with impure motives or intent. Speaking against their character and powerIt is when God moves and we say he didn't. Someone isn't forgiven, that move wasn't of the spirit, that God is evil for what he has done, that God doesn't exist, that God doesn't saveLev 24:16 had the punishment of death by stoning for blasphemyIn the book of Revelation blasphemy is described as the characteristic of those who are rebellious and oppose God- I'm always surprised when professing Christians blaspheme God- He's watching. Blasphemy is serious business. Its not something to be toyed with or allowed. God will forgive blasphemy, Jesus said that people would be forgiven of it if it is confessed and repented of. blasphemer who repents can be forgiven- paul was a blasphemer. But there's one thing NOT forgiven1 Timothy 1:13-14 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; 14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.“Christ Jesus came into the world,” the apostle continues, “to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all” (v. 15). Peter blasphemed Christ with curses (Mark 14:71) and was forgiven and restored.Even a believer can blaspheme, since any thought or word that sullies or defames the Lord's name constitutes blasphemy. To question God's goodness, wisdom, fairness, truthfulness, love, or faithfulness is a form of blasphemy. All of that is forgivable by grace. IF YOU REPENT1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”).Now to our verse- 31 “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.Scholars have debated and continue to debate the meaning of this verse. Lets go through them All are bad. Don't do any of them. I think we can agree what the essence of the sin is  There is a blasphemy that can be forgiven, there is a blasphemy that cannot The blasphemy that CAN be forgiven is one that you have repented of and asked forgiveness ofGods heart- 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.Those words were written by the Apostle Peter—and if anyone was guilty of denying Christ, it was Peter. Peter denied Christ and sent him to the crossBut Peter repented, and God forgave him—completely and totally.

https://youtu.be/haGlz7ulCtM Matthew 12:31-32 Have you ever seen in a movie when they say, “under no circumstances do this” and then interrupted? This is a very contested and often misunderstood scripture in the Bible. You better get this rightIN this verse Jesus says- you can do anything and be forgiven except for one thingNow if I were you- I'd want to know what that one thing is. We serve a God that forgives sin and welcomes us into his kingdom- but there actually is something he wont forgive? Yes. Get this RIGHTWhat does the term blasphemy even mean?Basically “defiant irreverence”- you are rebellious in heart and action have no holy reverence of God or willfully degrading things that are of GodBlasphemy is also attributing evil to God, or denouncing good as not of himThis defiant irreverence is the unique sin of openly mocking God and intentionally speaking evil against God. Defaming him. Mocking him. Your mouth speaking. Your lifestyle speaking. Direct rebelliousness towards God's holy ways. You don't want to do this. God does not like itIn a worldly sense it would be like a child who is well cared for saying they aren't or that their parents acted with impure motives or intent. Speaking against their character and powerIt is when God moves and we say he didn't. Someone isn't forgiven, that move wasn't of the spirit, that God is evil for what he has done, that God doesn't exist, that God doesn't saveLev 24:16 had the punishment of death by stoning for blasphemyIn the book of Revelation blasphemy is described as the characteristic of those who are rebellious and oppose God- I'm always surprised when professing Christians blaspheme God- He's watching. Blasphemy is serious business. Its not something to be toyed with or allowed. God will forgive blasphemy, Jesus said that people would be forgiven of it if it is confessed and repented of. blasphemer who repents can be forgiven- paul was a blasphemer. But there's one thing NOT forgiven1 Timothy 1:13-14 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; 14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.“Christ Jesus came into the world,” the apostle continues, “to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all” (v. 15). Peter blasphemed Christ with curses (Mark 14:71) and was forgiven and restored.Even a believer can blaspheme, since any thought or word that sullies or defames the Lord's name constitutes blasphemy. To question God's goodness, wisdom, fairness, truthfulness, love, or faithfulness is a form of blasphemy. All of that is forgivable by grace. IF YOU REPENT1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”).Now to our verse- 31 “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.Scholars have debated and continue to debate the meaning of this verse. Lets go through them All are bad. Don't do any of them. I think we can agree what the essence of the sin is  There is a blasphemy that can be forgiven, there is a blasphemy that cannot The blasphemy that CAN be forgiven is one that you have repented of and asked forgiveness ofGods heart- 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.Those words were written by the Apostle Peter—and if anyone was guilty of denying Christ, it was Peter. Peter denied Christ and sent him to the crossBut Peter repented, and God forgave him—completely and totally.

Series: Revelation: The Best is Yet to ComeTitle: “Why Worship Jesus?”Scripture: Revelation 19:11-21 (Commentary helps listed at the end)Bottom line: We worship Jesus for who he is and what he's done (and what he's doing to do): He came and He's coming again!INTRODUCTIONOpening story:See Tomb of Unknown Soldier description in Jim Hamilton's Revelation commentary.OUR NEED“We Christians don't realize who we are. We too often forget that this world is not our home. We are not earthlings. We see the city that is to come, which has eternal foundations, whose King is Jesus.”I was chatting with my long-time friend who's in the ministry about this happenings in the news this week. We talked vaccines, civil disobedience, and our identity in Christ. It was funny how we both were struggling with how to respond to the events happening in our country this week. I found that in both our cases when we focused“Mission for God exists because worship of God doesn't.” -John Piper, Let the Nations Be GladSo why worship Jesus Christ?Last week's bottom line: We worship Jesus Christ for who he is and for what he's done. We exist to worship him and enjoy him forever.Bottom line: We worship Jesus for who he is and what he's done (and what he's doing to do): He came and He's coming again!CONTEXTWe have seen:Jesus and his churches (1-3)The throne and judgments of God (6-16)The whore, the King, and his bride (17-22)We saw the fall of BabylonLast week we saw heaven celebrate himThis week we see another reason why: his return! (Second coming)OUTLINEThis passage gives us THREE huge reasons for why we worship Jesus. And they don't even include that fact that he CREATED us or that he is the RISEN Christ defeating death and living forever (which should be reasons enough!). (We covered two last week)So, in case we needed more reasons to worship Jesus, here they are in Revelation 19We worship Jesus Christ because:Of his just wrath and judgment over humanity. (Last week)Of his joyous wedding to the Bride of Christ (the Church). (Last week)Of his jubilant return ending Babylon and establishing his Kingdom forever. (This week)In light of Jesus' return in chapter 19, a vast crowd will praise him the Lamb of God:I. The celebration in Heaven (19:1-10) LAST WEEKA. Praising the Lamb for his wrath on a corrupt whore (19:1-5)The reasons for his judgment (19:2): This false religious system is condemned on two counts.Corrupting the earth with immorality (19:2a)Murdering the saints of God (19:2b)The rejoicing over this judgment (19:1, 3-5)The song (19:1b, 3, 4b-5): It consists of one great, grand, and glorious word: “Hallelujah!”The singers (19:1a, 4a)A vast multitude (19:1a)The 24 elders (19:4a)B. Praising the Lamb for his wedding to a chaste wife (19:6-10)_The clothing of the bride (19:6-9): She wears the cleanest, whitest, and finest of linens.The chastening of the apostle (19:10): John is rebuked for attempting to worship the angel who is revealing these things to him.II. The confrontation on Earth (19:11-12) THIS WEEKLet's remember we're talking about the king of kings in Rev 11:15: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”He's also a person in the sense that he's the second person of the trinity. This passage opens with us looking at a person—the divine person of Jesus Christ. Fully human and fully God. I can't explain it. And he's beautiful to behold. Perhaps this is why Darrell Johnson wrote, “I'm sure this is why, as my grandfather died, just before he took his last breath, he said to my father and his brothers, ‘Oh, boys! He's beautiful!” Heaven is about a person!A. His appearance as heaven's King (19:11): John sees Jesus, who is called Faithful (reliable) and True (authentic, genuine, real thing), seated on a white horse, coming from heaven.Second coming: White horse (2nd coming)—conquering king, and a Donkey (1st coming)—king of peace.Why is Jesus coming back? 3 reasons for his second coming:To judge Satan, sin, and the system of the world (Babylon) (17, 18, 19:11-21)To establish the universal, visible, manifestation of His millennial kingdom (20:1-6)To provide motivation for faithful service for the Church in each and every generation in the meantime.Second coming will be globally unmistakable:Like lightning—quick and brightly visibleLike vultures—come to consume corpses (see battle)End of great tribulation starts with judgment and vengeance.Note his character: faithful and true (just judge and just war)B. His apparel as heaven's King (19:12-13, 15-16): Jesus wins because of…His eyes…penetrating judgment and insight; he misses nothing seeing all (and he still loves you); they don't just look at us—they look through usHis many diadems (symbols of victory) all on one head represents all the kingdoms he rules (all of them); total sovereignty! It is a strange sight but not uncommon in the first century for kings to wear multiple crowns to show he was king of more than one country. A crown for every victory? you could argue a crown for every person he's rescued and defeated death for!Vs many heads each with just one crown on the dragonHis name no one knows but him—two points:In ancient times it was thought if you knew someone's name (even a god's) then you could exercise a certain level of control over him or her. To a degree that is true. If you see your friend walking down the street ahead of you and you yell out, “Betty!” She will stop and turn around. If you want to get a child's attention you say their full name Darien Roger Gabriel! It is a way of saying that Jesus Christ—as available as he's made himself—is under no one's control.In ancient times, names revealed something about the person's nature and character. “You are Simon. You shall be called Cepheus, the Rock.”His robe dipped in blood—both a priests and kings robe…His from battle—his enemies will be judged; but he arrives to the battle with blood already on his robe…His martyr's blood—his saints will be vindicatedHis blood from the cross (I favor this one)—his substitutionary atoning sacrifice will save many souls from sin, death and hellC. His authority as heaven's King (19:15-16): unparalleled authorityHis titles:The word of God (cf. John 1:1-14)-God's perfect communication and revelation (word and deed)King of kings and Lord of lords—sovereignly rules over all for ever. Not Caesar is Lord—Jesus is Lord! The declaration of faith of the early churchHis sword—his powerful words are the means from which he will conquer evil forever.He spoke to a fig tree and it withered.He spoke to howling winds and heaving waves and they calmed.He spoke to a legion of demons and they obeyed.He speaks here and the war is over and he is the victor.Jesus is “the word of God” meaning Jesus is God's speech…his final speech.His rod—more like a very strong shepherd's staff. He shepherds by leading, feeding and protecting his flock. Rule here can also be translated “shepherd”His wine press—Picture of his holy and full wrath against Babylon, Satan and his kingdom. It will also include those who follow him.D. His armies as heaven's King (19:14)—plural meaning probably humans AND angelsDressed in linen and on white horses—white represented the redeemed and linen representing priests (vs warriors); will get to follow him into battle but really no battle at all; linen is the uniform of priests and the Bride—not of warriors.No fight—Jesus shows up and it's over; Chuck Swindoll said, “Let's cut to the chase: before anybody on earth can utter the word ‘Armageddon,' the battle will be over. When God determines the end has come, it's curtains.” Insights, p. 254E. His avenging as heaven's King (19:17-21)He defeats Satan's armies.He defeats antichrist and false prophet. The first permanent residents of hell are these two.Why does Jesus Christ win? Because of who he is. He is king of kings and lord of lords. He's our Creator! He's our savior!CONCLUSIONContrasting two feasts.Wrath vs Wedding.PrayLord's Supper, 1 Corinthians 11:17-32OTHER NOTES:Contrasting first and second comings of Jesus ChristFirst vs. SecondHe rode a donkey vs a white horseHe came as the suffering servant vs King and LordHe came in humility and meekness vs majesty and powerHe was rejected by many as the Messiah vs recognized by all as LordHe came to seek and save the lost vs to judge and rule as KingHe came as God incognito vs in all His splendor-Daniel AkinOTHER ILLUSTRATIONS:MAIN COMMENTARY HELP:Exalting Jesus in Revelation by Daniel AkinRevelation by Jim HamiltonRevelation by Paige Patterson, New American Commentary seriesBreaking the Code by Bruce Metzger2020 Sermons by Matt ChandlerESV Global Study BibleBible in One Year by Nicky GumbelBible Knowledge CommentaryThe Outline Bible, WilmingtonDiscipleship on the Edge, Darrell W. JohnsonReplyReply allForward

Patrick celebrates his birthday with more inane rambling! Could 'cultural' or 'tribal absurdism' be a remedy to the narcissistic objectification and/or killer socialism that threatens our lives? Plus, he re-reads a tweet from his 30th Birthday outlining 30 tips for building a better life that have worked for himThis episode was originally released on August 4, 2021 as episode 54 of the North Bank Media Podcast, entitled "Birthday Bonus & 30 Old Thoughts."

This is the third installment on the person who named himself Man Haron Monis, the perpetrator of the Lindt café siege.  Let's talk about his past for a minute, his sad attempt to become a biker, and the woman who would do anything for himThis is going to make me angrygrab a drink , you may need to to hear thismusic credit "The Brotherhood" By Darren Curtiswww.murderlaide.comwww.patreon.com/murderlaideIntro to help support Ann as a creator and help keep the podcast ad free Likes, ratings and reviews are how other Strangeone's find the podcast. Give a gal a hand and review the podcast todaySupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/murderlaide)

https://youtu.be/Hb5A-vNHa2Y Matt 1:18-25 - celebrateMerry Christmas! Man- who else is done with 2020? I am! That's why I'm celebrating Christmas earlyIm  Purist- no Christmas before thanksgiving but based on this year- I need some Christmas joyI need it in my spirit- I also need some Christmas cookies- so I'm doing that as wellThis is the birth announcement of Jesus- the arrival of the king- the reception of the saviorWe all know the story- heard it many times- but just like a friends good story- its always good to hear it again- my kids will say, Dad, tell that story again- there's some stories that never get oldWhats going on- Matthew is recounting the birth story. Mary is bethrothed to joseph, she's a virgin, but she's pregnant by the HS. Joseph was going to pull her away, but an Angel speaks to him in a dream and tells him to not be afraid, its God, call him Jesus and he's going to change the world. Matthew shares once again- this is a fulfillment of prophecy. (Connection to Jewish audience) and then Joseph is obedient to what the angel of the Lord told him (insert sermon on obedience)Before we get into the sermon- I need to talk a moment about the virgin birth- because its so vitally important and the backdrop to this story- fully human without a taint of sin, fully God and fully man, and because God himself comes to us, able to save us from our sinTitle- Lets celebrate Christmas! Lets celebrate Christmas- God speaks20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,The Lord speaks in a dream to Joseph through an angel- and its two fold- Don't be afraid, here's whats going to happen and heres what you do v20-21Can you imagine if you hadn't been with your betrothed and she came up pregnant and you're wondering what you're going to do? Full of despair,  not sure what to do next?God- knew- and God sent a prophetic angel to speak directly to Joseph at the exact right time to comfort him, explain to him, and direct himThis is God's ways- when he moves he tells the people who need to knowBeen this way- Dt 18:18-22  READ-  will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.God spoke in the OT, the NT and now. God speaks- That's a theme of Christmas to celebrateLuke 1:70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began,Why? Because in this backwards make no sense world, we need God to speak to us- we need him to speak and he does.Amos 3:7 7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.Prophecy is a huge part of living for God- it comforts his people, explains to them, and directs them.This is the verse that Matthew was waiting for- Isaiah 7:14 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.What does it mean to you?Do you believe in prophecy? Do you seek after the prophetic?1 Corinthians 14:1  Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.Now- I'm all about flowing in the prophetic- but not the pathetic- If you can't hear from God what you need to do to manage the simple details of your life- he's probably not speaking through you to arrange the affairs of others lives.Prophecy first starts with you- what is God speaking to you, and about you- this is  a step many skip-This prophecy to Joseph was for HIM not what he was going to tell othersMany people want to be the prophet without responding to direction from the HS1 Cor 14:3 3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.Discern that which comforts men- you don't have to speak everything the HS tells you- some of it is just for you- but its not about YOU and you can't push it- no school of prophets2 Peter 1:21  for prophecy never came by the will of man, but [a]holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

https://youtu.be/Hb5A-vNHa2Y Matt 1:18-25 - celebrateMerry Christmas! Man- who else is done with 2020? I am! That’s why I’m celebrating Christmas earlyIm  Purist- no Christmas before thanksgiving but based on this year- I need some Christmas joyI need it in my spirit- I also need some Christmas cookies- so I’m doing that as wellThis is the birth announcement of Jesus- the arrival of the king- the reception of the saviorWe all know the story- heard it many times- but just like a friends good story- its always good to hear it again- my kids will say, Dad, tell that story again- there’s some stories that never get oldWhats going on- Matthew is recounting the birth story. Mary is bethrothed to joseph, she’s a virgin, but she’s pregnant by the HS. Joseph was going to pull her away, but an Angel speaks to him in a dream and tells him to not be afraid, its God, call him Jesus and he’s going to change the world. Matthew shares once again- this is a fulfillment of prophecy. (Connection to Jewish audience) and then Joseph is obedient to what the angel of the Lord told him (insert sermon on obedience)Before we get into the sermon- I need to talk a moment about the virgin birth- because its so vitally important and the backdrop to this story- fully human without a taint of sin, fully God and fully man, and because God himself comes to us, able to save us from our sinTitle- Lets celebrate Christmas! Lets celebrate Christmas- God speaks20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,The Lord speaks in a dream to Joseph through an angel- and its two fold- Don’t be afraid, here’s whats going to happen and heres what you do v20-21Can you imagine if you hadn’t been with your betrothed and she came up pregnant and you’re wondering what you’re going to do? Full of despair,  not sure what to do next?God- knew- and God sent a prophetic angel to speak directly to Joseph at the exact right time to comfort him, explain to him, and direct himThis is God’s ways- when he moves he tells the people who need to knowBeen this way- Dt 18:18-22  READ-  will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.God spoke in the OT, the NT and now. God speaks- That’s a theme of Christmas to celebrateLuke 1:70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began,Why? Because in this backwards make no sense world, we need God to speak to us- we need him to speak and he does.Amos 3:7 7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.Prophecy is a huge part of living for God- it comforts his people, explains to them, and directs them.This is the verse that Matthew was waiting for- Isaiah 7:14 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.What does it mean to you?Do you believe in prophecy? Do you seek after the prophetic?1 Corinthians 14:1  Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.Now- I’m all about flowing in the prophetic- but not the pathetic- If you can’t hear from God what you need to do to manage the simple details of your life- he’s probably not speaking through you to arrange the affairs of others lives.Prophecy first starts with you- what is God speaking to you, and about you- this is  a step many skip-This prophecy to Joseph was for HIM not what he was going to tell othersMany people want to be the prophet without responding to direction from the HS1 Cor 14:3 3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.Discern that which comforts men- you don’t have to speak everything the HS tells you- some of it is just for you- but its not about YOU and you can’t push it- no school of prophets2 Peter 1:21  for prophecy never came by the will of man, but [a]holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

https://youtu.be/jRJx-6CSBGw Welcome the King 2 sam 19:8-19 People are arguing about David v Absalom. David was good, but Absalom was good too they say. David talks to his priests and ask them to talk to the elders and ask- why aren't you supporting me? Remind Amasa that we're family. David gets into their hearts- and they say “Return” So he returns. Judah comes to escort, 1000 men from Benjamin, David comes across the Jordan into Jerusalem.The king was gone- but now he's been welcomed back.Like many OT stories and scriptures, you can gain a lot from looking at these stories Christologically- That is- to see the stories of Christ in them and to apply them to your lifeThe people of Israel knew David was their king, but they were the ones who installed Absalom and followed him instead of David and pushed David out. They chose their own king-Not DavidMuch like many people today.. Jesus is the rightful king in their lives, but they choose their own king- their “Absalom” the one who they think they can manipulate and control- not submitIts rebellion- Its literally American politics- I'll vote this person in so they can do what I want- usually so they don't have to submit to the Lord- regardless of political party. Self- ruleMany people can't receive King Jesus in the same way these couldn't receive David 1.They were fighting 9 Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel,What were they arguing about? David v Absalom. Who was the better king. Who served us better- AND- should we let David back? He didn't kill Absalom- He failed us. Do we want himThis isn't good- Israel shouldn't be in this type of discussion or in this type of fight.David- Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! BUT THEY AREN'T DWELLING IN UNITY- They are created STRIFE- DIVISIONPr 17:14 The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.I'm always surprised at what the Bible doesn't say- where's the guy calling for unity?I'll tell you where- in the back not speaking up for unity- Just joining in.Here's where the fighting came from- and it always comes from- Selfish desiresJames 4:1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?Ancient Israel is no different than modern day America- people are deeply selfishIsrael wanted their king their way- It will be the same heart that will crucify JesusThis isn't what God desired- never desired Absalom to reign- only David but PEOPLE What does it mean to youConstant fighting will always keep you from experiencing God's best for you in your lifeWhether its fighting God or others- Strife, quarreling, division, will never bring Peace1 Th 5:9 God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,You're fighting God- God did not create you to be argumentative, divisive and contentious.Gal 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!That's the end result of fighting- It happened to Israel when Judah split and same for us-God doesn't approve of it- and we need to resist it and keep it from infiltrating our lives.When I was in the military- we never had long standing fights- they always got squashed that day- What was truthful was told, you sucked it up and drove on-Why? The mission- What you cared about was insignificant- Field- Driving- SSG to SGTWe don't do it that way here- but the heart is there- this is a mission for God1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;It all comes back to selfish desires- you can never get along when you put yourself first and you can never welcome the king if you are consumed with yourself instead of the King-Ephesians 4:3 1 Corinthians 1:10 Philippians 2:2 They were longing for false kingdom

https://youtu.be/jRJx-6CSBGw Welcome the King 2 sam 19:8-19 People are arguing about David v Absalom. David was good, but Absalom was good too they say. David talks to his priests and ask them to talk to the elders and ask- why aren’t you supporting me? Remind Amasa that we’re family. David gets into their hearts- and they say “Return” So he returns. Judah comes to escort, 1000 men from Benjamin, David comes across the Jordan into Jerusalem.The king was gone- but now he’s been welcomed back.Like many OT stories and scriptures, you can gain a lot from looking at these stories Christologically- That is- to see the stories of Christ in them and to apply them to your lifeThe people of Israel knew David was their king, but they were the ones who installed Absalom and followed him instead of David and pushed David out. They chose their own king-Not DavidMuch like many people today.. Jesus is the rightful king in their lives, but they choose their own king- their “Absalom” the one who they think they can manipulate and control- not submitIts rebellion- Its literally American politics- I’ll vote this person in so they can do what I want- usually so they don’t have to submit to the Lord- regardless of political party. Self- ruleMany people can’t receive King Jesus in the same way these couldn’t receive David 1.They were fighting 9 Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel,What were they arguing about? David v Absalom. Who was the better king. Who served us better- AND- should we let David back? He didn’t kill Absalom- He failed us. Do we want himThis isn’t good- Israel shouldn’t be in this type of discussion or in this type of fight.David- Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! BUT THEY AREN’T DWELLING IN UNITY- They are created STRIFE- DIVISIONPr 17:14 The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.I’m always surprised at what the Bible doesn’t say- where’s the guy calling for unity?I’ll tell you where- in the back not speaking up for unity- Just joining in.Here’s where the fighting came from- and it always comes from- Selfish desiresJames 4:1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?Ancient Israel is no different than modern day America- people are deeply selfishIsrael wanted their king their way- It will be the same heart that will crucify JesusThis isn’t what God desired- never desired Absalom to reign- only David but PEOPLE What does it mean to youConstant fighting will always keep you from experiencing God’s best for you in your lifeWhether its fighting God or others- Strife, quarreling, division, will never bring Peace1 Th 5:9 God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,You’re fighting God- God did not create you to be argumentative, divisive and contentious.Gal 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!That’s the end result of fighting- It happened to Israel when Judah split and same for us-God doesn’t approve of it- and we need to resist it and keep it from infiltrating our lives.When I was in the military- we never had long standing fights- they always got squashed that day- What was truthful was told, you sucked it up and drove on-Why? The mission- What you cared about was insignificant- Field- Driving- SSG to SGTWe don’t do it that way here- but the heart is there- this is a mission for God1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;It all comes back to selfish desires- you can never get along when you put yourself first and you can never welcome the king if you are consumed with yourself instead of the King-Ephesians 4:3 1 Corinthians 1:10 Philippians 2:2 They were longing for false kingdom

 [Verse 1]Hey, tequila to free the wormHad his liver scuba suit up on the SabbathHis personal pale rabbitAt the hole's end her delicate mitten tippedFor sticking pissy liquor in him every day at sixSilly, predictability is a bitchFully patterned, had her awkwardly christening the small talk chalk boardShe said, "This is less of a fixer-upper than my last bar.""Funny, you're less of a fixer-upper than my last whore."Crass is Similac to the milky wit of today's youthsBoth chuckle outNext couple on the houseNext couple on the couchSwapping social coma rantsPhobias and soldier doubts, jokes and corporate mogul bansMotor-mouthsThe key to open his closure:Pussy plus yay; she hid in a broken toasterAnd later wake neighbors over chemical flavor to fuck sicklyTooth, nail beauty through the skin deep[Verse 2]Now the dizziness is similar to whimsy with a pretty twistIf pretty is a bidding war for meteors of iffy sniffAnd cigarettes, and pills on a speakerSilhouetted by the muted television and the rickety VenetiansBetween tweaks, he sweeps at home depot and readsMostly biblical, but not cause he believedBut found the lexicon of Jesus-heavy literature flyFeverishly sponged up the information highFade into the cradle of his same deck train wreckShe pet him with a mechanical tape deck play backPlus, the depressing sum of the two combined pay checksStung less when little Debbie D-cup put her legs backDrunk, put her on the business-end of his favorite couplet from CorinthiansSunk into the comforts of a kid againEnough to share the stuff that truly interest himThis is where the vision of a shiny, happy Christmas endTipsy little princess wasn't listening, just yes-ing himThe more she fed him "yes", the more he fed her fresh barbituratesAssuming it was them against the world into oblivionBut he was just a stupid simian that her live with him[Verse 3]Pirouetting madly on a mirror full of baggiesIn the valley of the irritable AggieAny sincerity, miracles, or memory buried in the back-seatBy the hazardous materials was seriously gaspingHere he is in action trying to patch up the attractionFigured he would win her back if he act in a common passionPenned a couple chapters 'bout a sassy pair of magnetsWith a cottage on a hill and a picket fence and a marriageNever having gathered her rabid enthusiasm over languageWas fashioned around the aspirin in his cabinetsAsked her to read it expecting flattery after the factThis is an exact imitation of how she react:"You ain't shit man, your story's a jokeYou should package it with a last smoke and six feet of rope."Man she knows five chores, more coke, and all foursSaid, "Leave me on the floor and leave the dope by the door."Bounced all shook up, she cook up aluminumConsuming every skull and crossbones in the roomIn under two minutes, he fuming with a flipped lid, stormed into the cribAnd found her body on the tiles like, "No she didn't!", yes she did

Welcome to episode #1 from the Festival of Enterprise podcast 2019.On today's show I welcome Piers Linney, star of BBC TV's Dragon's Den and Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire, entrepreneur, investor, banker, lawyer, number one podcaster, and non-executive director of the British Business Bank.Piers has an unparalleled insight when it comes to starting, growing and scaling a business.At this yearsFestival Of Enterprise you can find Piers at the Business Leaders live keynote stage. He'll be joined by some of the most famous names in British business along with innovating industry captains from retail, technology, manufacturing, media and more.On today's episode Piers gives us a taste of what he'll be talking about on October 23rd at the Nec in Birmingham including:Key focuses for anyone starting out in businessLaunching his new course for startup'sMeeting Richard Branson at his South African game reserve and the advice Richard gave himThis is the first time Piers has talked about the real reason why he left Dragon's Den.Take a listen to find out why, and grab your FREE ticket to the NEC here See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joining me today is Elan Pamensky.Elan is an advisor and mentor to start-ups and small businesses across Australia. He loves the challenge of helping companies reach their business growth potential.Elan left his suit and tie behind in the corporate world at Sensis and started Cloud CFO - a team of experts that specialises in everything finance-related for start-ups. Cloud CFO provides expert guidance around the financial and business roadblocks that so many companies face in their early growth stages.An ultra-marathon man, he loves a challenge and pushing beyond the boundaries for adrenalin-filled achievements in business and life.There is a key theme throughout this podcast and that is knowledge is power. The better you know your finances the better decisions you can make for your business.We chat about:How Elan supports small business in the financial and technology spaceTips for better managing the financial aspect of businessElan’s running and how this supports himThis is a great chat with lots of good tips shared. Enjoy!Links:Cloud CFOLinkedin

The Episode continues the discussion of what it means to have a DEEP Personal Relationship with the Almighty Creator and continues to discuss the headlines of what is required in order to develop a DEEP Personal Relationship with HimThis show is broadcast live on Friday at 2PM ET on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

https://youtu.be/DFMhw7Uxa1o When God tells the truth 1 sam 15:24-24In this scripture we see that this is the end of Sauls reign as King. He is being removed.There’s components to his removal- The scriptures are pretty clear on where he’s at with GodIn this sermon- I want to show you what caused Sauls demise- look at it and see what doesn’t please God and then we will look at what pleases God.The truth is that God will tell you the truth about you- Just as Jesus told Nicodemous There is 5 main issues we see about Saul that is clear in this scripture Saul was trying to please people Sauls Kingship is made clear- he was trying to please people and not God-He wanted the people to have a high view of him instead of God having a high view of himThis is a large problem with Christians- Care more about what people think than what God thinksWhat is sad is that Saul attempts repentance- but it is too late- God rejects Saul 26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”Being rejected by God seems like a big thing- The ever loving merciful God has come to the end of his patience with Saul and rejects him as King. Saul gets the bootGod doesn’t play-Since Saul didn’t want to be the king that God needed him to be-Samuel tells the truth- You are not where you need to be- I’m not going to pretend you areGod rejects people He rejected Israel for a season- God wants repentance-Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. God tells the truth to Saul 28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than youSamuel was telling Saul where his heart was- not in a good place- someone betterThis is a damning statement to Saul- You are not my Guy- There is someone better than you that will do what I need him to do- so in addition to being rejected- I want you to know why you’re being rejected- You’re not that Good. HS Football Played Center- You’re not goodThis is the American Idol moment- “sorry love, this just isn’t you, I don’t know who told you”Our God is a truth teller- Remember Jesus said to the woman in John 14:17-18 Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”God isn’t the one who doesn’t tell the truth- he speaks what he needs to- This is path to change God has someone else finish the job 33 And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.Saul was told to destroy the AMelikites and he didn’t do it. He spared King Agag. This displeased God- so he had Samuel destroy him instead of Saul.Its pretty sad that the King couldn’t do what he was supposed to do and finish what he needed to finish. Again, embarrassing.So the Priest has to finish the job- Hates sin- Hates the enemy- Has to destroy it completelySo what’s the outcome?“the Lord Regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel”I’m not sure you can really fathom the depths of this statement. This is an emotional statement about God and his king. God had regrets. God wasn’t pleased. God was upset. God didn’t like it.35 And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.You would think that this would be enough to change Sauls heart- that God wasn’t pleased with him- but we will see- its not enough. This whole discourse centers around one thing- Saul was supposed to destroy the Amelikites.1 Sam 15:3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman,

In order to align one’s mind with the Mind of God, one must first know who God is. I am not referring to our intellectual understanding of who the Supreme Being is. We can read the Bible and learn of His benevolence and the many miracles He performed. Knowing facts about God in our heads is a far cry from knowing God. One must come to know the heart and mind of God intimately in order to fully experience HimThis show is brought to you by Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).