Podcasts about in water

Mes chers auditrices et auditeurs,Ensemble cette année, nous avons prouvé qu'impossible n'était pas français.Nous avons continué de bâtir une émission de progrès, de lutter contre le changement climatique en faisant moins émissions, en continuant aussi de nous battre pour notre présent et notre avenir.Nous avons eu aussi, comme promis il y a un an, des moments de grande fierté. D'abord, nous avons organisé au printemps notre anniversaire, nos 15 ans sur les ondes, aussitôt entrés dans l'Histoire, entrés dans nos mémoires, dans nos cœurs qui ont fait vibrer un pays uni, de Betton à St-Renan, de Nancy à Belfast, et ont montré une émission pleine d'audace, de panache, follement libre.Une émission qui rayonne avec ses soucis techniques, ses émotions, sa générosité, un Stade Rennais Football Club qu'on aurait aimé pouvoir magnifier.Demain, sachons garder le meilleur de ce que nous avons été durant cette année 2024. Unis, déterminés, solidaires et face à chacune des grandes épreuves, face à ce que tant et tant disaient impossible, nous avons réussi parce que nous avons été ensemble.Unis, déterminés et solidaires, nous l'avons aussi été face aux épreuves et aux drames de 2024 : les films de merde, la crise que traversent encore aujourd'hui nos exploitants de cinéma que nous continuerons de protéger et de soutenir, les tensions dans plusieurs de nos territoires et le ralentissement économique mondial.Nous sommes aussi confrontés à l'instabilité de la disponibilité du personnel, elle n'est pas propre à notre émission. Mais cela nous inquiète légitimement. Je dois bien reconnaître ce soir que le salariat a apporté, pour le moment, davantage de divisions du temps de présence que de solutions pour les auditeurs. Mais la lucidité et l'humilité commandent de reconnaître qu'à cette heure, nos décisions ont produit plus d'instabilité que de sérénité et j'en prends toute ma part.Le cinéma actuel ne représente pas néanmoins le pays dans sa diversité, et donc aussi dans ses divisions. Il est pleinement illégitime et dans cette configuration, pas inédite mais démocratique, il  doit savoir dégager des majorités de spectateurs, et notre émission  doit pouvoir tenir un chemin de compromis pour critiquer.Je souhaite que l'année qui s'ouvre soit celle du ressaisissement collectif, qu'elle permette la stabilité, les bons compromis pour prendre les bonnes décisions au service des cinéphiles.Car nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre d'attendre. L'année 2025 doit être une année d'action, une année utile pour vous et pour vous permettre de regarder  mieux. Nous pouvons rendre la vie meilleure en nous mettant d'accord sur quelques sujets simples : faciliter la vie de tous ceux qui travaillent dur et n'ont pas le temps d'aller au cinéma, améliorer la filmologie au quotidien, juger plus vite les œuvres et permettre à chaque famille d'avoir accès à la meilleure connexion par la fibre pour les sites de streaming et de téléchargement.A nous de le faire donc.L'année 2025 doit aussi être une année d'unité, de responsabilité pour bâtir un cinéma plus fort, plus indépendant face aux dérèglements du monde.Les cinémas d'Inde ou d'Amérique du Sud ne sont pas des cinématographies lointaines. Elles nous concernent directement, nous devons en tenir compte.En 2025, la France devra continuer d'investir pour son réarmement cinématographique, pour garantir notre souveraineté, la protection de nos intérêts et la cinéphilie de nos compatriotes.Nous devons lucidement voir que le monde avance plus vite et bouscule nombre de nos certitudes. Ce que nous tenions pour acquis ne l'est plus.Pour que nos enfants vivent mieux que nous, il faut aussi que s'inventent en France et en Europe les cinéastes et les producteurs qui façonneront le monde de demain, notre avenir, notre regard : l'intelligence, les révolutions du medium, de l'énergie, pour ne citer que quelques-uns de ces chantiers.Les cinéphiles doivent en finir avec la naïveté. Dire non aux lois du commerce édictées par d'autres et que nous sommes les seuls à encore respecter, dire non à tout ce qui nous fait dépendre des autres, sans contrepartie et sans préparer notre avenir.A l‘inverse il nous faut le réveil cinéphilique, réveil filmologique, intellectuel, technologique, industriel, réveil sémiologique, ontologique et anarchique. Il faut pour cela aller plus vite, prendre nos décisions plus rapidement, plus fortement en cinéphiles, simplifier nos règles pour nos auditeurs comme nos partenaires de l'édition vidéo.Cela suppose une émission qui continue d'être attractive, qui travaille et innove plus, qui continue de ne pas créer des emplois et qui assure sa croissance en tenant ses finances qui n'existent pas. J'y veillerai.Depuis 16 ans, nous avons réussi à résister aux pires crises, tout en augmentant le chômage, tout en ne réindustrialisant pas et en attirant pas plus les inventions du monde entier.A nous donc, collectivement, de faire, car 2025 imposera l'audace et le sens des décisions.Mes chers cinéphiles, les grandes Emissions sont celles qui, dans les moments de crise, de doute, savent voir loin, se détacher des polémiques du quotidien pour bâtir l'avenir et prendre un temps d'avance.Nous y sommes. C'est pourquoi, en 2025, nous tiendrons le cap. Oui, l'espérance, la prospérité et la paix du quart de siècle qui vient dépendent de nos choix, aujourd'hui.C'est pour cela qu'en 2025 nous continuerons de décider et je vous demanderai aussi de trancher certains de ces sujets déterminants. Car chacun d'entre vous aura un rôle à jouer. Chacun d'entre vous sera nécessaire pour réussir ce projet que je viens rapidement de brosser devant vous.C'est pour cela que je nous souhaite pour 2025 d'être unis, déterminés et fraternels.Très belle, très heureuse année 2025 à vous et à vos proches.Vive En Attendant Godard.Vive le Cinéma.Émission disponible aussi sur le tube :Doc Erwan et El Comandante s'ont allés chez nos meilleurs ennemis tailler le bout de gras sur 2024, 4h30 de propos intolérables vraisemblablement. Partie 1 / Partie 2 / Partie 3El Comandante a vu des films en 2024, il en a aimé plusieurs qui ne sont pas de 2024. Détail chez l'ami Tatum.______PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:El Comandante présente son pote Linklater samedi 11/01 à L'Arvor.Le Film du Dimanche Soir, Bloody Sam, Bob, Kris, James, et l'Eternité.______THOMAS « EL COMANDANTE »Top (sans ordre)Furiosa – A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)Riverboom (Claude Baechtold)C'est pas moi (Leos Carax)A son image (Thierry de Peretti)May December (Todd Haynes)Ferrari (Michael Mann)City of Darkness (Soi Cheang)Raayan (Dhanush)Hundred of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)The Goat Life (Blessy Ipe Thomas)The Devil's Bath (Severin Fiala et Veronika Franz)Los Delincuentes (Rodrigo Moreno)Et globalement, plein de bons films ou des projets fascinants (The Bikeriders, Horizon, Rebel Ridge, Kneecap, Here, La Zone d'intérêt, Megalopolis, Vingt dieux, The Outrun)FlopLes derniers hommes (David Oelhoffen)Road House (Doug Liman)Civil War (Alex Garland)Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard)ER FORCE WAN « LE GRAND TIMONIER »1. Bushman (David Schickele, 1971) 2. Furiosa (George Miller)2. La Zone d'intérêt (Jonathan Glazer)4. Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)5. La Vie selon Ann (Joanna Arnow)6. C'est pas moi (Leos Carax)7. The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams)8. Dahomey (Mati Diop)9. Ferrari (Michael Mann)10. Fainéant.e.s (Karim Dridi)11. Apolonia, Apolonia (Lea Glob)12. Viêt and Nam (Truong Minh Quy)Flop:Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard)DOC ERWANTOP 10 (en fait 12)1- Furiosa – A Mad Max Saga – George Miller2- La Zone d'intérêt – Jonathan Glazer3- City of Darkness – Soi Cheang4- The Bikeriders – Jeff Nichols5- Here – Robert Zemeckis6- Juré n°2 – Clint Eastwood/Good One – India Richardson7- Ferrari – Michael Mann8- Rebel Ridge – Jeremy Saulnier9- Hundred of Beavers – Mike Cheslik10- L'Histoire de Souleymane – Boris Lojkine/Longlegs – Osgood PerkinsFLOP 31- Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard2- Civil War – Alex Garland3- Godzilla Vs. Kong II – Le Nouvel Empire – Adam WingardTHIBAUT « CARREMENT FLEURET »Sans ordre particulier, 11 entrées :-Vroum vroum : Furiosa, The Bikeriders, Ferrari, L'Histoire de Souleymane-Documentaire : Riefenstahl, Sous un soleil bleu, Man In Black, Portraits fantômes, 20 jours à Mariopol, Bison-DJ Medhi-Napoléon vu par Abel Gance-Spectrum, Hitcher, The Fall, Epouvante sur NY-Riverboom-May December-The Zone Of Interest-Testament : Here, Juré 2-Rebel RidgeCa ne ressemble à rien mais y'a quand même de la qualitay.JB MASSUET1. Here - Les plus belles années de notre vie (Zemeckis)2. Trap (Shyamalan)3. La Zone d'intérêt (Glazer)4. Les Chambres rouges (Plante)5. Furiosa - Une saga Mad Max (Miller)6. Juré n°2 (Eastwood)7. Vice-Versa 2 (Mann)8. Knit's Island (Barbier, L'Helgouac'h, Causse)9. May December (Haynes)10. Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant (Louis-Seize)11. City of Darkness (Cheang)12. Longlegs (Perkins)Flop :1. The Substance (Fargeat)2. Megalopolis (Coppola)3. Horizon - Une saga américaine (Costner)SIMON DANIELLOU « L'ANCIEN »Top des films distribués en France en 20241. Furiosa : une saga Mad Max (George Miller)2. La Zone d'intérêt (Jonathan Glazer)3. Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)4. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)5. Juré n° 2 (Clint Eastwood)6. Anora (Sean Baker)7. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)8. Cent Mille Milliards (Virgil Vernier)9. The Last Stop in Yuma County (Francis Galluppi)10. Noël à Miller's Point (Tyler Taormina)11. Sleep (Jason Yu)12. Voyage à Gaza (Piero Usberti)13. Le Mal n'existe pas (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)14. Vice-versa 2 (Kelsey Mann)15. Dahomey (Mati Diop)16. Land of Bad (William Eubank)17. Film annonce du film qui n'existera jamais : « Drôles de guerres » (Jean-Luc Godard)18. In Water (Hong Sang-soo)19. The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)20. Concrete Utopia (Eom Tae-hwa)+ La scène post-générique de Mauvais Sang re-« jouée » par Annette dans C'est pas moi (Leos Carax) ; Gojira (le kaijū) dans Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki) et Gojira (le groupe) lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des JO 2024 ; enfin, deux rappels déjà dans les tops des années précédentes, Au cœur des volcans : Requiem pour Katia et Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog) et L'Affaire de la mutinerie du Caine (William Friedkin). Flops (aka "j'ai mal à mon film de genre")1. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)2. MaXXXine (Ti West)3. Civil War (Alex Garland)4. Late Night with the Devil (Colin et Cameron Cairnes)5. Blitz (Steve McQueen)6. Elyas (Florent Emilio-Siri)7. Immaculée (Michael Mohan)8. Exhuma (Jang Jae-hyeon)9. Heretic (Scott Beck et Bryan Woods)10. The Devil's Bath (Veronika Franz et Severin Fiala)SIMON GOSSELIN « LE JEUNE »1. Furiosa, George Miller2. Horizon, Kevin Costner3. Longlegs, Osgood Perkins

Film aficionado Davis Rivera shares his memorable movie viewing of the past 12 months including The Brutalist, Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros, Aggro Dr1ft, Juror #2, In Water, and Last Summer.

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As we see in news headlines and in our own neighborhoods, water crises are more frequent and increasingly severe, and the world's approach to providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems fails to meet the demands of growing population and the water challenges of a changing climate. But the grim news reports of empty reservoirs, withering crops, failing ecosystems need not be cause for despair, argues award-winning author and environmentalist David Sedlak, who is with us on the Lean to the Left podcast.In Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate, just published by Yale University Press, Sedlak identifies the challenges society faces, including ineffective policies and outdated infrastructure, and the many tools at our disposal. He offers an informed and hopeful approach for changing the way water is managed so we can create a future with clean, abundant, and affordable water for all.Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Water Center. He is author of the award-winning Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource. "Climate change combined with global development is going to result in (water) crises happening more frequently and being more severe," Sedlak says, "but at the same time, the knowledge that we've accumulated and the technologies that we've developed and are developing give us new answers."(It) depends a lot upon whether we can let go of some of our preconceived notions about how we manage water and take a different path forward in," he adds. "And I think that if we're capable of doing that; if we're capable about seeing this as a time when the status quo no longer works and we have to try something different, there's a chance to come out in a much better place."Here are some key questions we discussed regarding water challenges of a changing climate:Q. Your book starts off discussing the six separate water crises that exist today. How about discussing them?Q. So what are the solutions to these crises?Q. What can be learned from communities that have experienced water crises and the actions they have taken?Q. You talk about the wealthy and their ability to cope with water shortages. But what about those less fortunate like the urban poor and those in rural communities?Q. How can emerging technologies unlock untapped water resources without damaging the environment?Q. You discuss some ideas to expand conventional and unconventional water sources. What are some of the most promising ideas there? Q. Are there places in the world that are practicing good water usage? What can we learn from them?Q. So where do we go next to ensure the best outcome? How do we tackle these areas in concrete, strategic ways? Q. Your last book, Water 4.0, looked at the history of water systems. What did you learn in the decade between Water 4.0 and now that made you want to write this book? Q. Where can people find your book?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support.

As we see in news headlines and in our own neighborhoods, water crises are more frequent and increasingly severe, and the world's approach to providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems fails to meet the demands of growing population and the water challenges of a changing climate. But the grim news reports of empty reservoirs, withering crops, failing ecosystems need not be cause for despair, argues award-winning author and environmentalist David Sedlak, who is with us on the Lean to the Left podcast.In Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate, just published by Yale University Press, Sedlak identifies the challenges society faces, including ineffective policies and outdated infrastructure, and the many tools at our disposal. He offers an informed and hopeful approach for changing the way water is managed so we can create a future with clean, abundant, and affordable water for all.Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Water Center. He is author of the award-winning Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource. "Climate change combined with global development is going to result in (water) crises happening more frequently and being more severe," Sedlak says, "but at the same time, the knowledge that we've accumulated and the technologies that we've developed and are developing give us new answers."(It) depends a lot upon whether we can let go of some of our preconceived notions about how we manage water and take a different path forward in," he adds. "And I think that if we're capable of doing that; if we're capable about seeing this as a time when the status quo no longer works and we have to try something different, there's a chance to come out in a much better place."Here are some key questions we discussed regarding water challenges of a changing climate:Q. Your book starts off discussing the six separate water crises that exist today. How about discussing them?Q. So what are the solutions to these crises?Q. What can be learned from communities that have experienced water crises and the actions they have taken?Q. You talk about the wealthy and their ability to cope with water shortages. But what about those less fortunate like the urban poor and those in rural communities?Q. How can emerging technologies unlock untapped water resources without damaging the environment?Q. You discuss some ideas to expand conventional and unconventional water sources. What are some of the most promising ideas there? Q. Are there places in the world that are practicing good water usage? What can we learn from them?Q. So where do we go next to ensure the best outcome? How do we tackle these areas in concrete, strategic ways? Q. Your last book, Water 4.0, looked at the history of water systems. What did you learn in the decade between Water 4.0 and now that made you want to write this book? Q. Where can people find your book?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support.

This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Show features professor and award-winning author David Sedlak, who discusses his new book, “Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate." Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UMN9alDYvLk The current approach to providing water is failing to meet the demands of the growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change. In "Water for All," David Sedlak argues there are solutions to address global water shortages. He identifies the challenges including ineffective policies and outdated infrastructure, and also outlines the myriad of tools at our disposal to address the problem. David Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Water Center. He is the author of the award-winning "Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource." More at https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sedlak and https://sedlakgroup.berkeley.edu/professor-sedlak/ This episode is part of Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Series that airs every 4th Friday in collaboration with Margot Carrera, a fine art nature photographer who is passionate about the environment. More: https://www.carrerafineartgallery.com/ Follow the Nature Connection Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/bigblendradio-nature Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Show features professor and award-winning author David Sedlak, who discusses his new book, “Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate." Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UMN9alDYvLk  The current approach to providing water is failing to meet the demands of the growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change. In "Water for All," David Sedlak argues there are solutions to address global water shortages.  He identifies the challenges including ineffective policies and outdated infrastructure, and also outlines the myriad of tools at our disposal to address the problem.  David Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Water Center. He is the author of the award-winning "Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource." More at https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sedlak and https://sedlakgroup.berkeley.edu/professor-sedlak/  This episode is part of Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Series that airs every 4th Friday in collaboration with Margot Carrera, a fine art nature photographer who is passionate about the environment. More: https://www.carrerafineartgallery.com/  Follow the Nature Connection Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/bigblendradio-nature 

In a year when so much felt so over, film seems so beautifully back. Casting their eyes over twelve months, four festivals, and countless hours of chthonic kino encounters, the boys sat down to boil the broth of 2023; setting out to identify their top 10 films of the year. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hdAjXtGPpeQTCcuJ3KNmH?si=Ud_f__90TOSa28tzYPA5GQ Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/muub-tube/id1515030490 Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@returntoformpod 00:00:00 Intro 00:05:18 Honourable mention: Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella) 00:11:11 Honourable mention: Reality (Tina Satter) 00:11:58 Honorable mention: How To Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker) 00:15:17 Totem (Laura Aviles) 00:17:47 Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) 00:21:59 Allensworth (James Benning) 00:23:46 The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams) 00:25:50 In Water / mul-an-e-seo (Hong Sang-soo) 00:28:10 May December (Todd Haynes) 00:29:48 Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Phạm Thiên Ân) 00:32:43 One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen Love) 00:35:28 Afire (Christian Petzold) 00:41:49 Samsara (Lois Patiño) 00:43:42 Passages (Ira Sachs) 00:48:09 The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 00:50:23 The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa) 00:51:53 Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice) 00:55:45 Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World (Radu Jude) 00:59:48 Honourable mention: Rotting in the Sun (Sebastian Silva) 01:00:45 The official RTF Top 5

Hoy hablamos del estreno en cines de “Killers of the Flower Moon”, nueva obra maestra de Scorsese, la serie “Beckham” en Netflix y películas que ya vimos en el Festival de Cine Lima Alterna como “In Our Day”, “In Water” y “The Natural History of Destruction”.

In a world saturated with content, what makes a good movie trailer stand out? The answer lies in a potent blend of psychology, novelty, and familiarity. Trailers like Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" and George Lucas's "Star Wars" have set the gold standard, employing a mix of well-known tropes and groundbreaking elements to captivate audiences.  Marvel Studios has taken this to the next level, mastering the "novel yet familiar" approach and leveraging psychological principles like the Zeigarnik effect to leave audiences wanting more.  And if trailers and teasers have proven to be a game-changer for dozens and dozens of movies, beyond the silver screen, the principles that make them compelling can be applied to our everyday storytelling, whether it's a business presentation, a social media post, or a pitch to a local journalist to "news hack" a Global Trend.  By understanding the psychology and strategies behind successful movie trailers, we can craft narratives that not only capture attention but also sustain it, making our stories as unforgettable as the films they promote. And coincidence or not, if you've ever followed my advice and read the Worth of Water book by Gary White and Matt Damon - who should know one thing or two about movie trailers - the opening chapter exactly follows the 6-step framework that Phill Agnew lays out. Step 1 - Identify the Core Message That's the narrative we discussed with Carl minutes ago; in the example of the Water.org founders' book, that's the win-win-win perspective of achieving Water for all.  Step 2 - Blend Novelty and Familiarity In theory, that's Star Wars combining the Hero's Journey with Space Opera. In the case of our book, that's a water charity, but combined with a bank and Nobel-prize-winning microcredit strategy. Step 3 - Cast for Impact Matt Damon, do I need to add anything here? Well actually yes, because it's not just the impact of a big name; it's also a blend of novelty and familiarity, as just explained. The well-known Matt Damon, but not cast as Jason Bourne but as an NGO founder with a high drive for impact. Step 4 - Craft the Narrative Arc Remember how Carl explained minutes ago how two pictures ended the Vietnam War? Or the heartbreaking story of the parents of the deceased football player in Nebraska? In Water.org's book, it's Matt Damon getting to know Wema along her long road to collect Water for her family. Step 5 - Zeigarnik Effect Don't close the action; let things open. That happens several times in Matt Damon and Gary White's story. But we had an even greater example with Carl's congressman story: when he says "I work in water security. And I leave it at that." the congressman can't resist the urge to get to know what happens next. Step 6 - Choose the Release Timing Wisely For the "Worth of Water" book, that was right in time to get people buzzing about it before the UN Water Conference, and guess who then got to feature in the opening segment of that Conference - probably also the only one worth watching? Along the same lines, that's word for word Carl's advice of picking the right story at the right time and constantly being on the lookout for planets aligning with that regard.  So here you go, a bullet-proofed 6-step framework to get your local news reporter intrigued or to shed new light on your water innovation's impact.  ➡️ Check out the entire article on how to finally build the Water Narrative

The Prophecies of the New Covenant promise a 2-fold provision of the Spirit for all believers (the Promise of the Father): (1) The Spirit WITHIN, at salvation, enabling us to live holy lives (Ezek 36:26- 27), and (2) the Spirit UPON at our Baptism in the Spirit (Joel 2:28-29), releasing supernatural gifts and empowering us for ministry. The Promise of the Spirit is the 2-fold Blessing of Abraham (Gal 3:14): “(1) I will BLESS you (by the Spirit within), and (2) you will be a BLESSING (to others, by the Spirit upon)” (Gen 12:2). Christ brought this into fulfilment through His death and resurrection (Gal 3:13-14). He said the Promise of the Father included the Baptism in the Spirit (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-5). The life of Jesus, our perfect example, reveals this 2-stage Blessing of the Spirit: (1) He had the Spirit within from conception, enabling Him to live a perfect life as a man, but (2) it was only later at His Baptism that He received the Spirit upon, empowering Him for ministry (Luke 3:21-22, John 1:32-33). John 1:33 says Jesus, who received the Spirit upon from the Father, will also give us the same experience of the Spirit upon, by baptising us in the Spirit. So we must come to Jesus to receive the Baptism in the Spirit (Matt 3:11). The Blueprint for our Baptism in the Spirit is Jesus' own Baptism in the Spirit (John 1:33). He had the Spirit within from Birth, but still needed to receive the Spirit upon, to empower Him for ministry (the fact the Spirit came UPON Him at His Baptism to ANOINT Him for ministry is confirmed by His testimony in Luke 4:18). In the same way, we have the Spirit within from our New Birth, but still need to receive the Spirit to come upon us, to clothe us with supernatural power for our ministry and witness to Christ. Thus the Baptism in the Spirit is the Spirit coming on us, clothing us with power - a different and subsequent experience from receiving the indwelling Spirit. The only difference between us and Jesus is He received the Spirit without measure (John 3:34). He distributes the anointing of the Spirit to each of us by measure, according to our gifts and ministries. This blueprint also tells us there is a close connection between Baptism in Water and Baptism in the Spirit, for God ordained for Jesus that these took place at the same time. In Matt 3:11, John said: “(1) I indeed BAPTISE you with (lit: IN) WATER unto repentance, but He (Jesus) who is coming after me is mightier than I, will BAPTISE you with (lit: IN) the HOLY SPIRIT.” Baptism means IMMERSION, so to describe any Baptism, one must specify the MEDIUM into which a person is immersed. This is what this verse does. It should be translated as baptism ‘in water' not ‘with water', and baptism ‘in the Spirit' not ‘with the Spirit': “(1) I baptise (immerse) you IN (the medium of) WATER, but (2) He will baptise (immerse) you IN (the medium of) the HOLY SPIRIT” (also Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16, Acts 1:5). So, Baptism in Water is a picture of Baptism in the Spirit. Just as John immersed people in water, so in the Baptism in the Spirit, Christ immerses us in His Spirit, covering and clothing us in His Spirit, who comes and rests on us. He does not sprinkle us, but immerses us in the Spirit. Both baptisms are outward expressions and manifestations of our Baptism in Christ, when we received the Spirit within. Jesus' experience of being baptised in water and the Spirit at the same time points to the spiritual connection between the 2 Baptisms, which is confirmed by the pattern we see in Acts, where their Baptism in the Spirit normally followed soon after their Water Baptism. This connection is because (1) Dedication comes before (2) Consecration (anointing with the Spirit). When God calls us to serve Him, we (1) respond by dedicating ourselves to do His will. (2) Then He anoints us to fulfil His will, by His Spirit upon us (Luke 1:35-38). (1) Our Dedication to God's will qualifies us to (2) receive His power to do it. This principle is seen at Jesus' Baptism (the blueprint): (1) His Baptism was an act of obedient Dedication, pleasing to God, to fulfil His ministry, as He was about to enter into it, so (2) God's response was to baptise Him in the Spirit, anointing Him to fulfil His ministry. Likewise, (1) our Water Baptism is our act of obedient Dedication to God. This kind of Dedication to God is what He needs to (2) empower us for our ministry by baptising us in the Spirit. Jesus' Baptism was His Dedication to God as He was about to enter into His ministry, that resulted in His death, resurrection and exaltation, when He received the Spirit from God to pour out on us. He prophetically acted this all out in His Baptism, and in so doing He was dedicating Himself to God to fulfil His will. Going under water represented His death and burial, and rising again from a watery grave prefigured His resurrection. Then receiving the Spirit upon Him prefigured His exaltation, when He received the Spirit from God, to pour Him out upon us.

The Prophecies of the New Covenant promise a 2-fold provision of the Spirit for all believers (the Promise of the Father): (1) The Spirit WITHIN, at salvation, enabling us to live holy lives (Ezek 36:26- 27), and (2) the Spirit UPON at our Baptism in the Spirit (Joel 2:28-29), releasing supernatural gifts and empowering us for ministry. The Promise of the Spirit is the 2-fold Blessing of Abraham (Gal 3:14): “(1) I will BLESS you (by the Spirit within), and (2) you will be a BLESSING (to others, by the Spirit upon)” (Gen 12:2). Christ brought this into fulfilment through His death and resurrection (Gal 3:13-14). He said the Promise of the Father included the Baptism in the Spirit (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-5). The life of Jesus, our perfect example, reveals this 2-stage Blessing of the Spirit: (1) He had the Spirit within from conception, enabling Him to live a perfect life as a man, but (2) it was only later at His Baptism that He received the Spirit upon, empowering Him for ministry (Luke 3:21-22, John 1:32-33). John 1:33 says Jesus, who received the Spirit upon from the Father, will also give us the same experience of the Spirit upon, by baptising us in the Spirit. So we must come to Jesus to receive the Baptism in the Spirit (Matt 3:11). The Blueprint for our Baptism in the Spirit is Jesus' own Baptism in the Spirit (John 1:33). He had the Spirit within from Birth, but still needed to receive the Spirit upon, to empower Him for ministry (the fact the Spirit came UPON Him at His Baptism to ANOINT Him for ministry is confirmed by His testimony in Luke 4:18). In the same way, we have the Spirit within from our New Birth, but still need to receive the Spirit to come upon us, to clothe us with supernatural power for our ministry and witness to Christ. Thus the Baptism in the Spirit is the Spirit coming on us, clothing us with power - a different and subsequent experience from receiving the indwelling Spirit. The only difference between us and Jesus is He received the Spirit without measure (John 3:34). He distributes the anointing of the Spirit to each of us by measure, according to our gifts and ministries. This blueprint also tells us there is a close connection between Baptism in Water and Baptism in the Spirit, for God ordained for Jesus that these took place at the same time. In Matt 3:11, John said: “(1) I indeed BAPTISE you with (lit: IN) WATER unto repentance, but He (Jesus) who is coming after me is mightier than I, will BAPTISE you with (lit: IN) the HOLY SPIRIT.” Baptism means IMMERSION, so to describe any Baptism, one must specify the MEDIUM into which a person is immersed. This is what this verse does. It should be translated as baptism ‘in water' not ‘with water', and baptism ‘in the Spirit' not ‘with the Spirit': “(1) I baptise (immerse) you IN (the medium of) WATER, but (2) He will baptise (immerse) you IN (the medium of) the HOLY SPIRIT” (also Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16, Acts 1:5). So, Baptism in Water is a picture of Baptism in the Spirit. Just as John immersed people in water, so in the Baptism in the Spirit, Christ immerses us in His Spirit, covering and clothing us in His Spirit, who comes and rests on us. He does not sprinkle us, but immerses us in the Spirit. Both baptisms are outward expressions and manifestations of our Baptism in Christ, when we received the Spirit within. Jesus' experience of being baptised in water and the Spirit at the same time points to the spiritual connection between the 2 Baptisms, which is confirmed by the pattern we see in Acts, where their Baptism in the Spirit normally followed soon after their Water Baptism. This connection is because (1) Dedication comes before (2) Consecration (anointing with the Spirit). When God calls us to serve Him, we (1) respond by dedicating ourselves to do His will. (2) Then He anoints us to fulfil His will, by His Spirit upon us (Luke 1:35-38). (1) Our Dedication to God's will qualifies us to (2) receive His power to do it. This principle is seen at Jesus' Baptism (the blueprint): (1) His Baptism was an act of obedient Dedication, pleasing to God, to fulfil His ministry, as He was about to enter into it, so (2) God's response was to baptise Him in the Spirit, anointing Him to fulfil His ministry. Likewise, (1) our Water Baptism is our act of obedient Dedication to God. This kind of Dedication to God is what He needs to (2) empower us for our ministry by baptising us in the Spirit. Jesus' Baptism was His Dedication to God as He was about to enter into His ministry, that resulted in His death, resurrection and exaltation, when He received the Spirit from God to pour out on us. He prophetically acted this all out in His Baptism, and in so doing He was dedicating Himself to God to fulfil His will. Going under water represented His death and burial, and rising again from a watery grave prefigured His resurrection. Then receiving the Spirit upon Him prefigured His exaltation, when He received the Spirit from God, to pour Him out upon us.

There is a 2-fold RECEIVING of the SPIRIT: (1) WITHIN, at the New Birth (Romans 8:9), and then (2) UPON - the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT. (1) The Spirit WITHIN is for our personal holiness. (2) The Spirit UPON is to EMPOWER us to fulfil the Great Commission. It is a separate experience that comes after salvation. Old Testament Prophecy said when Messiah comes and brings in a New Covenant, it would include a greater ministry of the Spirit for all believers - the 2-fold Promise of the Father: (1) The Spirit WITHIN for their blessing and holiness (Ezekiel 36:26-27), and (2) the Spirit UPON, to empower them to be a blessing to others (Joel 2:28-29). John announced the Messiah as the One who will bring this Promise to fulfilment. He was the first to use the phrase ‘Baptism in the Spirit', so his description is definitive. He compared it to Baptism in Water: “I BAPTISED you IN WATER but He will BAPTISE you IN the HOLY SPIRIT” (Mark 1:8). When a man is BAPTISED (immersed) IN WATER, the water covers (envelops) him, so it is UPON him. Likewise, when Jesus BAPTISES us IN the HOLY SPIRIT, we are immersed in the Spirit, so we are covered and clothed with the Spirit UPON us. We see this 2-fold experience of the SPIRIT in the life of Jesus, our example: (1) He was conceived of the Spirit, and had the Spirit WITHIN, enabling Him to live a perfect human life, (2) He was BAPTISED in the SPIRIT, when the SPIRIT came UPON Him to supernaturally EMPOWER Him for His ministry (Luke 3:21-22, 4:18). Only after the Spirit came upon Him did He start preaching, healing and working miracles (John 2:11). The same Jesus, who was BAPTISED in the Spirit also BAPTISES us in the SPIRIT (John 1:32-33). Thus, He was BAPTISED in the Spirit as our representative (receiving the Spirit on our behalf), so He could then BAPTISE us in the Spirit The apostles also had a 2-stage experience of the Spirit, as (1) on the day of the resurrection, He imparted the Spirit into His disciples. This was their new Birth, when He gave them the Spirit WITHIN (John 20:22, Gen 2:7). Then He started to prepare them to also (2) receive the Spirit UPON, to be His witnesses, 50 days later at Pentecost (Luke 24:46-49). He gave them the same instructions 40 days later in Acts 1:3-5,8. Although they had already received the Spirit WITHIN, they had not yet received the SPIRIT UPON (Luke 24:49), called the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT (Acts 1:5). So, what they experienced at Pentecost, when the Spirit came UPON (Acts 2:1-3), was the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT. The Spirit came UPON them (v3) and “they were all FILLED with the HOLY SPIRIT" (v4). In the New Covenant, anyone who receives the Spirit UPON has previously received the Spirit WITHIN, so He must come upon us from within, and so fills us from the inside (v4). When we dedicate to do God's will and fulfil His mission, we receive His Spirit to come UPON us by FILLING our SOULS and taking control of our tongues, the control centre of our body (Jas 3:3-4). So: “they were all FILLED with the HOLY SPIRIT, and began to SPEAK with TONGUES, as the SPIRIT gave them UTTERANCE (the words)” (Acts 2:4). When we pray in tongues, we YIELD our TONGUE to God, speaking the words the Spirit gives us. In this way, we submit our body to the Spirit, and allow Him to come upon us. Then as we continue to pray in tongues, we maintain and deepen that surrender, keeping the Spirit active upon us. Acts 2:4 is a key verse describing the Baptism in the Spirit. Speaking in tongues was the outward evidence and sign the Spirit had FILLED them and was now UPON them in POWER. What the disciples received at Pentecost was the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT (Acts 1:5), and this is confirmed by the Gentile Pentecost in Acts 10-11, when Peter explained the SPIRIT had come UPON the Gentiles, just as He had come UPON the Jews at the Beginning (Pentecost), and that both events were fulfilments of the Lord's prophecy in Acts 1:5 of the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT (11:15-17). We also see this 2-stage experience of the Spirit with the Samaritans in Acts 8, who had received the Gospel and were born again (v14,16), but had not yet RECEIVED the HOLY SPIRIT, in that, He had not come upon UPON them (v15-16). But later when the apostles laid hands on them, they RECEIVED the HOLY SPIRIT upon them (v17), which was manifested outwardly (v18-19), even tongues. Their experience proves the Baptism in the Spirit is different from and subsequent to salvation. They had received salvation through the Gospel, but had not yet received the Spirit upon, for there was no outward evidence (tongues), until the apostles prayed for them. So, to receive the Baptism in the Spirit, we must (1) be born again with the Spirit within. Then (2) we must surrender to God to fulfil His mission, which allows His Spirit within to fill us and come upon us with power, so as we obey Him His Spirit flows out through us as rivers of life (John 7:37-39).

There is a 2-fold RECEIVING of the SPIRIT: (1) WITHIN, at the New Birth (Romans 8:9), and then (2) UPON - the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT. (1) The Spirit WITHIN is for our personal holiness. (2) The Spirit UPON is to EMPOWER us to fulfil the Great Commission. It is a separate experience that comes after salvation. Old Testament Prophecy said when Messiah comes and brings in a New Covenant, it would include a greater ministry of the Spirit for all believers - the 2-fold Promise of the Father: (1) The Spirit WITHIN for their blessing and holiness (Ezekiel 36:26-27), and (2) the Spirit UPON, to empower them to be a blessing to others (Joel 2:28-29). John announced the Messiah as the One who will bring this Promise to fulfilment. He was the first to use the phrase ‘Baptism in the Spirit', so his description is definitive. He compared it to Baptism in Water: “I BAPTISED you IN WATER but He will BAPTISE you IN the HOLY SPIRIT” (Mark 1:8). When a man is BAPTISED (immersed) IN WATER, the water covers (envelops) him, so it is UPON him. Likewise, when Jesus BAPTISES us IN the HOLY SPIRIT, we are immersed in the Spirit, so we are covered and clothed with the Spirit UPON us. We see this 2-fold experience of the SPIRIT in the life of Jesus, our example: (1) He was conceived of the Spirit, and had the Spirit WITHIN, enabling Him to live a perfect human life, (2) He was BAPTISED in the SPIRIT, when the SPIRIT came UPON Him to supernaturally EMPOWER Him for His ministry (Luke 3:21-22, 4:18). Only after the Spirit came upon Him did He start preaching, healing and working miracles (John 2:11). The same Jesus, who was BAPTISED in the Spirit also BAPTISES us in the SPIRIT (John 1:32-33). Thus, He was BAPTISED in the Spirit as our representative (receiving the Spirit on our behalf), so He could then BAPTISE us in the Spirit The apostles also had a 2-stage experience of the Spirit, as (1) on the day of the resurrection, He imparted the Spirit into His disciples. This was their new Birth, when He gave them the Spirit WITHIN (John 20:22, Gen 2:7). Then He started to prepare them to also (2) receive the Spirit UPON, to be His witnesses, 50 days later at Pentecost (Luke 24:46-49). He gave them the same instructions 40 days later in Acts 1:3-5,8. Although they had already received the Spirit WITHIN, they had not yet received the SPIRIT UPON (Luke 24:49), called the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT (Acts 1:5). So, what they experienced at Pentecost, when the Spirit came UPON (Acts 2:1-3), was the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT. The Spirit came UPON them (v3) and “they were all FILLED with the HOLY SPIRIT" (v4). In the New Covenant, anyone who receives the Spirit UPON has previously received the Spirit WITHIN, so He must come upon us from within, and so fills us from the inside (v4). When we dedicate to do God's will and fulfil His mission, we receive His Spirit to come UPON us by FILLING our SOULS and taking control of our tongues, the control centre of our body (Jas 3:3-4). So: “they were all FILLED with the HOLY SPIRIT, and began to SPEAK with TONGUES, as the SPIRIT gave them UTTERANCE (the words)” (Acts 2:4). When we pray in tongues, we YIELD our TONGUE to God, speaking the words the Spirit gives us. In this way, we submit our body to the Spirit, and allow Him to come upon us. Then as we continue to pray in tongues, we maintain and deepen that surrender, keeping the Spirit active upon us. Acts 2:4 is a key verse describing the Baptism in the Spirit. Speaking in tongues was the outward evidence and sign the Spirit had FILLED them and was now UPON them in POWER. What the disciples received at Pentecost was the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT (Acts 1:5), and this is confirmed by the Gentile Pentecost in Acts 10-11, when Peter explained the SPIRIT had come UPON the Gentiles, just as He had come UPON the Jews at the Beginning (Pentecost), and that both events were fulfilments of the Lord's prophecy in Acts 1:5 of the BAPTISM in the SPIRIT (11:15-17). We also see this 2-stage experience of the Spirit with the Samaritans in Acts 8, who had received the Gospel and were born again (v14,16), but had not yet RECEIVED the HOLY SPIRIT, in that, He had not come upon UPON them (v15-16). But later when the apostles laid hands on them, they RECEIVED the HOLY SPIRIT upon them (v17), which was manifested outwardly (v18-19), even tongues. Their experience proves the Baptism in the Spirit is different from and subsequent to salvation. They had received salvation through the Gospel, but had not yet received the Spirit upon, for there was no outward evidence (tongues), until the apostles prayed for them. So, to receive the Baptism in the Spirit, we must (1) be born again with the Spirit within. Then (2) we must surrender to God to fulfil His mission, which allows His Spirit within to fill us and come upon us with power, so as we obey Him His Spirit flows out through us as rivers of life (John 7:37-39).

The word BAPTISE means IMMERSE. There are 3 foundational Christian BAPTISMS: (1) Baptism into Christ, (2) Baptism into Water, and (3) Baptism into the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). Although we received the Spirit WITHIN at salvation, we also need to receive the Spirit UPON to empower us to be a witness (the Baptism in the Spirit). The PURPOSE of this Baptism is to RECEIVE POWER to fulfil the great commission. After salvation, the next step is to embrace Christ's mission, and surrender our soul and body to God to receive His supernatural power to be His witness. This fulfils of the 2nd part of the Blessing of Abraham: “I will (1) BLESS you (salvation), and (2) you will be a (channel of) BLESSING (to others)” (Gen 12:2). This 2-fold BLESSING of the new creation follows the same pattern as man's original creation (see Genesis 1:27, 2:7 and Genesis 1:28). Likewise, (1) God first BLESSES us with His Spirit WITHIN (at our New Birth), then (2) He wants to BLESS (empower) us to be a BLESSING by His Spirit UPON, so we can go forth and multiply ourselves by fulfilling the Great Commission (Mark 16:15-18, Matt 28:18-20). He promised to give us the POWER of the SPIRIT to do that (Luke 24:48-49, Acts 1:8). This Baptism is God's empowerment (blessing) upon us to be a blessing, to communicate His life and blessing to others through the Gospel. God released and communicated the BLESSING by speaking WORDS of life (Genesis 1:28). Likewise, having received His power through this Baptism, we transmit the BLESSING of the SPIRIT to others through our WORDS. As in physical multiplication, we MULTIPLY ourselves spiritually by the transmission of blessing (life) through the SOWING of SEED (God's words). God wants us to be filled with His Spirit (Eph 5:18), for we can't (1) live the Christian life, and (2) be a witness in our own strength. This Baptism is God's POWER upon us for the PURPOSE of fulfilling God's mission for our life, that is centred on the great commission. There is a 2-fold RECEIVING of the SPIRIT, as seen in Acts: We receive (1) the SPIRIT WITHIN at salvation, and then (2) the SPIRIT UPON at the Baptism in the Spirit. The same Spirit we receive at salvation wants to come upon us and clothe us with His power. So there is an experience subsequent to salvation of being baptised in the Spirit. *1. Old Testament Prophets gave a 2-fold promise of the Spirit, called the Promise of the Father, that would be fulfilled in the New Covenant: (1) The New Birth and Spirit WITHIN all believers, for our personal connection with God, blessing and holiness (Ezekiel 36:26-27). (2) The Spirit UPON all believers, to empower them to be a blessing to others (Joel 2:28-29). In the Old Testament, although some prophets, priests and kings had an anointing of the Spirit UPON, no believer had the Spirit WITHIN, and so, even for those with the Spirit UPON, this was not necessarily permanent. The prophecies say in the New Covenant established by Christ, (1) all believers will have the Spirit WITHIN, and also (2) the SPIRIT UPON will be available to all. *2. John the Baptist announced Christ as the One who will bring this Promise of the Spirit to fulfilment. He is the first to use the phrase: ‘Baptism in the Spirit' and so these verses are definitive as to its meaning. He used the analogy of Baptism in WATER to describe the Baptism in the SPIRIT: “I indeed BAPTISED (immerse) you IN WATER, but He will BAPTISE you IN the HOLY SPIRIT” (Mark 1:8, Matt 3:11, Luke 3:16). This tells us JESUS is the Baptiser (Agent), who baptises us in the MEDIUM of the HOLY SPIRIT. So just as John immersed men in water, so the water covered them, so when Christ baptises us in the Spirit, we will be immersed (covered) in the Spirit. Thus, this Baptism is the Spirit UPON. Likewise, Jesus said in Acts 1:5: “John truly BAPTISED IN WATER, but you shall be BAPTISED (immersed) IN the HOLY SPIRIT not many days from now.” *3. Jesus was baptised in the Spirit when He was baptised in water. He did this as our example, representative and pioneer, showing what He wants to do for us: “the HOLY SPIRIT descended in bodily form like a dove UPON Him” (Luke 3:22). His experience proves there is a 2-fold experience of the HOLY SPIRIT: (1) He already had the SPIRIT WITHIN Him from His conception, but (2) only when He was baptised did He receive the SPIRIT UPON Him, clothing Him with the supernatural power He needed to fulfil His ministry. John 1:32-33: “John bore witness, saying: “He who sent me to BAPTISE with WATER said to me: ‘UPON whom you see the SPIRIT descending, and remaining UPON Him, this is He who BAPTISES IN the HOLY SPIRIT.” The same Jesus, who received the Spirit UPON Him, baptises us in the Spirit. Thus, as the Father baptised Jesus in the Spirit, so Jesus baptises us in the Spirit. He described the result of His BAPTISM in the SPIRIT in Luke 4:18: “The SPIRIT of the Lord is UPON ME, for He has ANOINTED Me to PREACH the Gospel to the poor; He has SENT Me to HEAL...”

The word BAPTISE means IMMERSE. There are 3 foundational Christian BAPTISMS: (1) Baptism into Christ, (2) Baptism into Water, and (3) Baptism into the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). Although we received the Spirit WITHIN at salvation, we also need to receive the Spirit UPON to empower us to be a witness (the Baptism in the Spirit). The PURPOSE of this Baptism is to RECEIVE POWER to fulfil the great commission. After salvation, the next step is to embrace Christ's mission, and surrender our soul and body to God to receive His supernatural power to be His witness. This fulfils of the 2nd part of the Blessing of Abraham: “I will (1) BLESS you (salvation), and (2) you will be a (channel of) BLESSING (to others)” (Gen 12:2). This 2-fold BLESSING of the new creation follows the same pattern as man's original creation (see Genesis 1:27, 2:7 and Genesis 1:28). Likewise, (1) God first BLESSES us with His Spirit WITHIN (at our New Birth), then (2) He wants to BLESS (empower) us to be a BLESSING by His Spirit UPON, so we can go forth and multiply ourselves by fulfilling the Great Commission (Mark 16:15-18, Matt 28:18-20). He promised to give us the POWER of the SPIRIT to do that (Luke 24:48-49, Acts 1:8). This Baptism is God's empowerment (blessing) upon us to be a blessing, to communicate His life and blessing to others through the Gospel. God released and communicated the BLESSING by speaking WORDS of life (Genesis 1:28). Likewise, having received His power through this Baptism, we transmit the BLESSING of the SPIRIT to others through our WORDS. As in physical multiplication, we MULTIPLY ourselves spiritually by the transmission of blessing (life) through the SOWING of SEED (God's words). God wants us to be filled with His Spirit (Eph 5:18), for we can't (1) live the Christian life, and (2) be a witness in our own strength. This Baptism is God's POWER upon us for the PURPOSE of fulfilling God's mission for our life, that is centred on the great commission. There is a 2-fold RECEIVING of the SPIRIT, as seen in Acts: We receive (1) the SPIRIT WITHIN at salvation, and then (2) the SPIRIT UPON at the Baptism in the Spirit. The same Spirit we receive at salvation wants to come upon us and clothe us with His power. So there is an experience subsequent to salvation of being baptised in the Spirit. *1. Old Testament Prophets gave a 2-fold promise of the Spirit, called the Promise of the Father, that would be fulfilled in the New Covenant: (1) The New Birth and Spirit WITHIN all believers, for our personal connection with God, blessing and holiness (Ezekiel 36:26-27). (2) The Spirit UPON all believers, to empower them to be a blessing to others (Joel 2:28-29). In the Old Testament, although some prophets, priests and kings had an anointing of the Spirit UPON, no believer had the Spirit WITHIN, and so, even for those with the Spirit UPON, this was not necessarily permanent. The prophecies say in the New Covenant established by Christ, (1) all believers will have the Spirit WITHIN, and also (2) the SPIRIT UPON will be available to all. *2. John the Baptist announced Christ as the One who will bring this Promise of the Spirit to fulfilment. He is the first to use the phrase: ‘Baptism in the Spirit' and so these verses are definitive as to its meaning. He used the analogy of Baptism in WATER to describe the Baptism in the SPIRIT: “I indeed BAPTISED (immerse) you IN WATER, but He will BAPTISE you IN the HOLY SPIRIT” (Mark 1:8, Matt 3:11, Luke 3:16). This tells us JESUS is the Baptiser (Agent), who baptises us in the MEDIUM of the HOLY SPIRIT. So just as John immersed men in water, so the water covered them, so when Christ baptises us in the Spirit, we will be immersed (covered) in the Spirit. Thus, this Baptism is the Spirit UPON. Likewise, Jesus said in Acts 1:5: “John truly BAPTISED IN WATER, but you shall be BAPTISED (immersed) IN the HOLY SPIRIT not many days from now.” *3. Jesus was baptised in the Spirit when He was baptised in water. He did this as our example, representative and pioneer, showing what He wants to do for us: “the HOLY SPIRIT descended in bodily form like a dove UPON Him” (Luke 3:22). His experience proves there is a 2-fold experience of the HOLY SPIRIT: (1) He already had the SPIRIT WITHIN Him from His conception, but (2) only when He was baptised did He receive the SPIRIT UPON Him, clothing Him with the supernatural power He needed to fulfil His ministry. John 1:32-33: “John bore witness, saying: “He who sent me to BAPTISE with WATER said to me: ‘UPON whom you see the SPIRIT descending, and remaining UPON Him, this is He who BAPTISES IN the HOLY SPIRIT.” The same Jesus, who received the Spirit UPON Him, baptises us in the Spirit. Thus, as the Father baptised Jesus in the Spirit, so Jesus baptises us in the Spirit. He described the result of His BAPTISM in the SPIRIT in Luke 4:18: “The SPIRIT of the Lord is UPON ME, for He has ANOINTED Me to PREACH the Gospel to the poor; He has SENT Me to HEAL...”

our fan favorite segment is back with 3 sizzling hot takes on 3 (or 2) sizzling hot movies: In Water, Padre Pio, and How to Blow up a Pipeline

Ep. 167: Berlin 2023 Six with Jordan Cronk: Hong's In Water, Forum (incl. James Benning), Mal Viver + Viver Mal, The Echo, Samsara Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I'm your host, Nicolas Rapold. We conclude (?) with the latest and greatest from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. To catch up, I chat with Jordan Cronk, critic, programmer, and co-founder of Acropolis Cinema in Los Angeles. We discuss Hong Sangsoo's In Water, Forum highlights including James Benning's Allensworth, Tatiana Huezo's The Echo, Joao Canijo's two-part hotel epic Mal Viver and Viver Mal, and Lois Patiño's Samsara. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow's Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ich hatte im Rahmen der diesjährigen Berlinale die Möglichkeit ein kurzes Interview mit Jeon Do-yeon, der Hauptdarstellerin aus Kill Boksoon, zu führen, welches ihr am Ende dieser Folge hören könnt. Außerdem berichte ich von den Internationalen Filmfestspielen in Berlin - dabei fokussiere ich mich auf die südkoreanischen Beiträge beziehungsweise die Filme mit Südkorea-Bezug. E-Mail: kinokorea@gmx.deTwitter: @kinokoreaInstagram: @kinokorea_podcastLetterboxd: kim_chi Filme in dieser Folge:Green Night von Han ShuaiPast Lives von Celine SongRegardless of Us von Yoo Heong-jun In Water von Hong Sang-soo Kill Boksoon von Byeong Seong Hyeon.

This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2023 Berlinale is currently winding down. Throughout the festival, we'll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year's selection, including new films by Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Hong Sangsoo, James Benning, and many more. On today's episode, FC co-editor Devika Girish is joined by critics Giovanni Marchini Camia (Fireflies Press), Victor Guimarães (freelance), and Frédéric Jaeger (critic.de). Before getting into a broader conversation about German cinema at the Berlinale, the four discuss some of the highlights from the festival's waning days, including Music by Angela Schanelec, In Water by Hong Sangsoo, Bad Living and Living Bad by João Canijo, Ramona by Victoria Linares Villegas, and Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything by Emily Atef. Stay up to date with all of our Berlin 2023 coverage here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/category/festivals/berlin/berlin-2023/

In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up in Bethlehem, fascinated with understanding his Syriac roots even as he drew steadily nearer to the day when he would inevitably be transplanted to the United States. George first traces his ancestors' migration from Upper Mesopotamia—present-day Turkey—to Palestine in the aftermath of the horrific Sayfo genocide of 1915 (known more popularly as the Armenian genocide); in doing so, he provides a personal history of the Syriac presence in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He then describes the realities of that presence through memories from his own boyhood, offering an intimate look at myriad aspects of Syriac life in Palestine in the 1970s and '80s: church community and religious identity, brushes with ancient history and artifacts, conflicts with the Israeli occupation, fraught custodianship of Christian holy places in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Readers will meet many of the community members who influenced and encouraged George in his nascent academic interests, and they will even learn about his father's role in the legendary discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. George is known for his contributions to Syriac studies and to the preservation of the Syriac language and heritage. These tasks, though, are not just the sum of his professional CV; they are the story of his life, his ancestry, his family's survival. This memoir chronicles his lifelong investment in the Syriac world and the childhood experiences that would later shape so much of his later academic life. Water the Willow Tree offers an illuminating account of a Bethlehem boyhood to readers with a range of interests; anyone interested in modern Syriac heritage and diaspora, the Sayfo genocide, Palestinian history, or religious pluralism and minority communities will be alternately informed, entertained, and moved by George's story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up in Bethlehem, fascinated with understanding his Syriac roots even as he drew steadily nearer to the day when he would inevitably be transplanted to the United States. George first traces his ancestors' migration from Upper Mesopotamia—present-day Turkey—to Palestine in the aftermath of the horrific Sayfo genocide of 1915 (known more popularly as the Armenian genocide); in doing so, he provides a personal history of the Syriac presence in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He then describes the realities of that presence through memories from his own boyhood, offering an intimate look at myriad aspects of Syriac life in Palestine in the 1970s and '80s: church community and religious identity, brushes with ancient history and artifacts, conflicts with the Israeli occupation, fraught custodianship of Christian holy places in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Readers will meet many of the community members who influenced and encouraged George in his nascent academic interests, and they will even learn about his father's role in the legendary discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. George is known for his contributions to Syriac studies and to the preservation of the Syriac language and heritage. These tasks, though, are not just the sum of his professional CV; they are the story of his life, his ancestry, his family's survival. This memoir chronicles his lifelong investment in the Syriac world and the childhood experiences that would later shape so much of his later academic life. Water the Willow Tree offers an illuminating account of a Bethlehem boyhood to readers with a range of interests; anyone interested in modern Syriac heritage and diaspora, the Sayfo genocide, Palestinian history, or religious pluralism and minority communities will be alternately informed, entertained, and moved by George's story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up in Bethlehem, fascinated with understanding his Syriac roots even as he drew steadily nearer to the day when he would inevitably be transplanted to the United States. George first traces his ancestors' migration from Upper Mesopotamia—present-day Turkey—to Palestine in the aftermath of the horrific Sayfo genocide of 1915 (known more popularly as the Armenian genocide); in doing so, he provides a personal history of the Syriac presence in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He then describes the realities of that presence through memories from his own boyhood, offering an intimate look at myriad aspects of Syriac life in Palestine in the 1970s and '80s: church community and religious identity, brushes with ancient history and artifacts, conflicts with the Israeli occupation, fraught custodianship of Christian holy places in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Readers will meet many of the community members who influenced and encouraged George in his nascent academic interests, and they will even learn about his father's role in the legendary discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. George is known for his contributions to Syriac studies and to the preservation of the Syriac language and heritage. These tasks, though, are not just the sum of his professional CV; they are the story of his life, his ancestry, his family's survival. This memoir chronicles his lifelong investment in the Syriac world and the childhood experiences that would later shape so much of his later academic life. Water the Willow Tree offers an illuminating account of a Bethlehem boyhood to readers with a range of interests; anyone interested in modern Syriac heritage and diaspora, the Sayfo genocide, Palestinian history, or religious pluralism and minority communities will be alternately informed, entertained, and moved by George's story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

In the past we've hosted episodes with a handful of non-Japanese individuals that have dedicated themselves to the work and lifestyle that comes along with being a kurabito (brewer) in Japan. We've even had a guest that's been so deep in the game for so long that he's approached toji status.This week, however, we sit down for a sort of fireside chat with an inspiring and insightful young woman who not only committed herself to the rhythm of a sake brewery, but in doing so, made herself a part of the small mountain town that it resides in, and all that comes along with it.Lucky for us, in Water, Wood & Wild Things, accomplished writer, artist and food stylist Hannah Kirshner was kind enough to document it for all of us, as well.Scheduled to release on March 23rd via Viking, Hannah conveys her experiences in Yamanaka since 2015 in a manner that I've rarely experienced in books crafted to communicate an experience of life in Japan. Maybe it's because the book isn't really about Japan. While in Yamanaka, Hannah has set up shop in a sake brewery, in this case Matsuura Shuzo, makers of Shishi no Sato brand sake, committed herself to apprenticing behind the bar with a borderline-obsessed sake evangelist and service professional, relentlessly pursued the “way” of tea, dedicated her time and energy to the lathe with a woodturning artisan of national acclaim, insistently pursued the inherent warmth in the craft of charcoal making, grown indoctrinated into the world of wild game hunting, and all of the other things you might imagine (and many you wouldn't) that would accompany such a lifestyle and commitment.Thankfully, there are a lot of books these days that focus with precision on what sake is. In Water, Wood & Wild Things, by shedding light on the ways in which the people of Yamanaka's livelihood is interwoven into the fabric of their work, community, and hence their identity, we finally get a voice that shares with us why sake – and the ecosystem that it's inseparable from – is important. You can help new listeners discover Sake On Air by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite service for podcast enjoyment. Send us your thoughts at questions@sakeonair.staba.jp and follow along with us on  Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. There's also a lot of great sake and shochu-inspired programming over on YouTube.We'll be back with more Sake On Air very, very soon. March is going to be a busy month. You can thank us later.Kampai! Sake On Air is made possible with the generous support of the Japan Sake & Shochu Makers Association and is broadcast from the Japan Sake & Shochu Information Center in Tokyo. The show is a co-production between Export Japan and Potts.K Productions, with audio production by Frank Walter.Our theme, “Younger Today Than Tomorrow” was composed by forSomethingNew for Sake On Air.

In the past we’ve hosted episodes with a handful of non-Japanese individuals that have dedicated themselves to the work and lifestyle that comes along with being a kurabito (brewer) in Japan. We’ve even had a guest that’s been so deep in the game for so long that he’s approached toji status.This week, however, we sit down for a sort of fireside chat with an inspiring and insightful young woman who not only committed herself to the rhythm of a sake brewery, but in doing so, made herself a part of the small mountain town that it resides in, and all that comes along with it.Lucky for us, in Water, Wood & Wild Things, accomplished writer, artist and food stylist Hannah Kirshner was kind enough to document it for all of us, as well.Scheduled to release on March 23rd via Viking, Hannah conveys her experiences in Yamanaka since 2015 in a manner that I’ve rarely experienced in books crafted to communicate an experience of life in Japan. Maybe it’s because the book isn’t really about Japan. While in Yamanaka, Hannah has set up shop in a sake brewery, in this case Matsuura Shuzo, makers of Shishi no Sato brand sake, committed herself to apprenticing behind the bar with a borderline-obsessed sake evangelist and service professional, relentlessly pursued the “way” of tea, dedicated her time and energy to the lathe with a woodturning artisan of national acclaim, insistently pursued the inherent warmth in the craft of charcoal making, grown indoctrinated into the world of wild game hunting, and all of the other things you might imagine (and many you wouldn’t) that would accompany such a lifestyle and commitment.Thankfully, there are a lot of books these days that focus with precision on what sake is. In Water, Wood & Wild Things, by shedding light on the ways in which the people of Yamanaka’s livelihood is interwoven into the fabric of their work, community, and hence their identity, we finally get a voice that shares with us why sake – and the ecosystem that it’s inseparable from – is important. You can help new listeners discover Sake On Air by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite service for podcast enjoyment. Send us your thoughts at questions@sakeonair.com and follow along with us on  Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. There’s also a lot of great sake and shochu-inspired programming over on YouTube.We’ll be back with more Sake On Air very, very soon. March is going to be a busy month. You can thank us later.Kampai! Sake On Air is made possible with the generous support of the Japan Sake & Shochu Makers Association and is broadcast from the Japan Sake & Shochu Information Center in Tokyo. The show is a co-production between Export Japan and Potts.K Productions, with audio production by Frank Walter.Our theme, “Younger Today Than Tomorrow” was composed by forSomethingNew for Sake On Air.

Well we are on the verge of a new year. I know a lot of you are going to be really sad to say goodbye to 2020. We’ve all really bonded with this year and as we say goodbye, we might experience some detachment, mourning and grief associated with genuine loss. But with a stiff upper lip we’ll try our best to move forward and not just live in the nostolgia of covid and masks, rioting, political debate.Now in all seriousness, 2020 will be part of your story. You will look back and tell future generations who did not live through it, what it was like. These events shape us. The STORY of 2020 will be a shared experience that will forever be part of your life. Telling our story and knowing how our story fits into the greater story is one of the most fundamental aspects of being human.Story is so ingrained in us. It’s so fundamental. You prove this just by how our culture is structured.You turn on TV and you watch stories.Video games are not challenges, they are stories.Live theater.Our brains are hardwired to ingest stories. An often cited clinical study shows that experiencing an event and hearing a story about the event is almost identical in terms of brain activity.Why is that? Because stories, more than perhaps anything else, help us understand and discover meaning. I begin with the concept of story because today we begin a new study in the book of John entitled “The Story of Amazing Love.”And this is the story of all stories because this story CLAIMS TO solve two of humanities greatest problems. The story as told in the gospel of John gives you answers to two of the biggest human problems you EXPERIENCE in life whether you are actively asking the question or not. These problems are so enormous, 99 percent of people have given up trying solve them. These questions are so giant, so significant, most people don’t even think they are solvable and so they just try to find a way to cope, to manage, to shove the problems.So I’m going to introduce the two problems. Here’s the first one.How can I be both known and loved? Here’s how this problem goes. Let start with the first half: I want to be known. Solving this problem is definitely possible. I can start letting people in. And at first it feels good to disclose who I am and tell my story and divulge things I’ve never told anyone else. And that feels great doesn’t it.It’s incredible freeing to just disclose our deepest secrets and finally tell someone that thing that we’ve been carrying around like a ball and chain. It just feels completely liberating! But as we do that we discover something not so great. When people see who we really are, they begin to withdraw. They don’t like what they see. We see the shock in their eyes and the horror on their face when they see who we really are. And that causes us to freeze.You see we want to be known but we also want to be loved. We solve this problem in this exact opposite way. In our desire to be loved, we don’t disclose who we really are; instead, we project a more loveable image in hopes of that being received. We manipulate our image. We post pictures to instagram or Facebook that look very attractive. We hide the failures, project the success and now suddenly we are loved but it’s fake. It’s pretend. We are loved but not known. How do we get both? How can we be BOTH known and LOVED. That’s a hard problem to solve and most don’t think it’s solvable.That’s the first problem the gospel of John claims to solve. The problem of being known and loved - that’s a pretty tough nut to crack. But you think that’s a tough problem, try this one.Now I say it that way, not to be crass but to awaken us to the reality that we too often forget about. It’s a physical problem that has to do with blood pressure and oxygen levels and tissues and DNA and organs. Our lives are coming to a end and as amazing as modern medicine is, there is nothing that can be done to fix this problem. And that’s kind of significant: whatever meaning you discover in life will be stripped away from you in death.So how do I not die? You want to talk about a fundamental problem to the human race? Try death. Death is the problem of problems. Death is the ultimate destroyer. It’s the grand daddy of all problems.So in my estimation, these are the two greatest problems that humanity faces. Ones a spiritual problem and the other is a physical problem. Here in the gospel of JOHN there’s content here that solves both these problems. It solves the problems by telling us a story that is simultaneously both meaningful and true.Some stories are meaningful but not true. Chronicles of Narnia. They don’t deal with reality but they do help you with meaning.Other stories are true but are not meaningful. A newspaper article four weeks ago about gas prices. They deal with reality but they don’t help you with meaning.This story is meaningful because it’s true. In other words, it solves the meaning problem by dealing with a reality problem.The gospel of John, this story of amazing love, tells you how you can be known and loved and how you can have eternal life. As we get into the book you will see how it deals with the problem of unworthiness and how it deals with the problem of death.The answer isn’t short or simplistic. It wll take us 21 chapters to do that. But here’s the thing you need to realize for our purposes today - it can only solve those problems if you believe that the story is true. You must believe that it’s true.If it’s just a story then it certainly can’t solve the death problem because nothing in reality has changed. The cells that break down, the physical aging process, the brain cell loss - all of that is still happening.If it’s just a story, it can’t solve the loved and be known problem either. Because nothing materially has changed - The deep dark unflattering, unloveable secrets are still there.In order for this story to solve those problems it MUST BE TRUE. It must be history.But now we introduce a third problem. The claim that this is a true story is a problem. We are being asked to believe something, that at first blush, seems rather unbelievable. Being asked to believe this story is history is for some a difficult pill to swallow. We have giant claims that a man born of a woman is in fact part of a triune God, water to wine miracles, blind people seeing, people rising from the dead. That sounds like a great story but it can’t possibly be true.Nobody is expected to easily believe that, right? If you believe it too quickly, you wouldn’t be respected. It has many, many elements that are not easily believable. But, here’s the deal, the fact that you are asked with a straight face to believe it, suggests, that maybe it’s worth investigating.The story of amazing love is very hard to believe. But guess what? Here’s the good news. This is why the gospel of John was written. There are four gospels, and each gospel has a unique purpose. Did you know this? Here’s some interesting facts about each of the gospels.Matthew was written to Jews to present Jesus as Messiah to a Jewish audience waiting to receive their Messiah.The Gospel of Mark emphasizes that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and comes at it from the perspective of three groups of people that didn’t understand Jesus.Luke was a historian and he wrote Luke/Acts to Theopholis to provide an accurate account.Now while these gospels differ in their content, there is a large amount of overlap. Compare this to the book of John.John writes a gospel in which 90% of it is unique. This is to make the point that John has a very unique purpose in the book.This was the last gospel written and it was written very intentionally not primarily to describe what happened. That’s what the other gospel writers have already done. John writes for a purpose. And he states that purpose very clearly at the end of his book.Now do you see? John was written so that you might BELIEVE that Jesus is the Christ, that the story is history, and do you see the connection. THAT BY BELIEVING YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE IN HIS NAME.IT IS THE BELIEF THAT IS THE PREREQUISITE FOR LIFE!It’s the prerequisite for spiritual life and the prerequisite for physical life.Belief that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living is the prerequisite for your DEEPEST spiritual need and your deepest physical need.John was written so you might believe this unbelievable story. So everything we read in the book was written with this purpose in mind for you to believe that this story is true. To believe that this is in fact history.So I want to talk to you today if you do not yet believe this. Maybe you are watching online. Either way, I’m glad you are here.I’m glad your not just biting this off hook line and sinker. That shows critical thinking. It shows that you are a person who is seeking truth. I want to warn you. This story has convinced millions of people. It is very convincing! And I want you to be convinced because look at the benfits. Truth believed is incredibly life changing. Feel free to talk to me at any point if you have questions. I’d love to help you get answers!The Concept of NothingNow today we are only going to cover the first five verses. Now interestinglyJohn’s gospel doesn’t begin with a genealogy or the Christmas story or the early boyhood of Jesus.Thankfully, we have just come off the Christmas season and so that is all fresh in our minds.John begins with the eternal non-beginning of a pre-created universe and a non-created God. Here’s how John starts his gospel.This is intended to transport us not to the beginning of Jesus’ earthly life, but to the beginning of the space/time continuum of our physical universe. This transports us right back to Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."Now I want to stop right there. Now we are so familiar with this but try to not be for a moment. In terms of philosophical grounding or in terms of worldview cornerstones, this is massive. To say that God created the heavens and the earth is like being lost in a snowstorm and pulling out your spiritual compass and finding north. The fact that God, the eternally existent one, created everything we see is the bearing off which everything else is oriented. In the beginning God was. In the beginning was the pre-incarnate Word. That totally orients us so we can begin making sense of what we see.This is strictly the point he’s making. God always was. In the beginning God was wasing. In the beginning God.Here’s what John is doing here,We will soon be introduced to this person who appears very human. We will be reading about JESUS, this very human man,this flesh and bone being who drinks water,and talks with people,and gets tired and needs to sleep at the bottom of a boat,and who weeps when friends dieHe’s connecting that man with the eternally existent triune God.In the Beginning GOD.Now to appreciate this, I want you to try to imagine nothing. The best illustration of nothing that I can think of is darkness. Have you ever been in a cave and turn off the flashlight? In most other situations when you turn off the lights, your eyes adjust and you can make out faint sources of light (maybe starlight or an led off a device or a pinprick of distant light from a lamp.) But when you are in a cave deep underground, there’s just nothing. You can stay there two days or two years. There’s zero light.That’s darkness, but we still haven’t arrived at the concept of nothing. You have to take away all objects. So take away the cave. Take away the rocks. Take away the grass and trees, the land, the water, the cows, the goats, the hamsters, the earth, and all the planets. We are getting closer.That’s still not enough. We now need to take away the air. So no air which of course means no sound since sound has to travel through a medium.And finally we need to take away the heat. So your body chills to a frigid absolute zero temperature of -459.67 degrees F.No sun. No stars. Which means no light waves, no energy waves. The darkness, the nothingness is now complete. You are suspended in space, in absolute absence of light, absolute absence of heat, absolutely absence of movement because after all motion has to be in reference to something else.There’s nothing to stimulate sight, sound, taste, touch or smell. You are a frozen block existing in nothing. That sounds cheery.What existed at this moment?Well the text says that the WORD existed. Now we know that the WORD spoken about here is representative of Jesus because down in verse 14 it says:So just tuck that away, that the Word = Jesus Christ.That’s where we are headed, but we aren’t there. John 1:1 is talking about the pre-incarnate word.This is the pre-incarnate Jesus. What does that word incarnate mean? We get our word carnivore from that root. A flesh eating animal. So pre-incarnate means pre-enfleshed. Before Jesus had a body.In the beginning, before Jesus had a body and was just spirit, was the word. We are not talking about the Jesus with flesh and blood. It’s not talking about a man with legs and arms and flesh and a heart. He became that. Jesus’ life did not begin like our life did at BIRTH. Jesus had not beginning. That’s the point the author is making.In the Beginning, if you could be there at that moment, there would be nothing to see, nothing to smell, nothing to taste, nothing to touch, but there would be something there. In the beginning was the Word. In dimenesions totally other, God existed.Now why do I mentally back us up to this point? To make the point that if you are going to change from a state of nothing to a state of something, energy has to be injected into the equation. 0 + 0 is always going to equal 0.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz the father of Calculus and the binary system said over 300 years ago, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" That’s a pretty good question. If you look around and see something. If you look around and discover anything other than absolute zero nothingness, then logically you must have a SOURCE of energy, power, and life to infuse something into nothing.The Bible likes the logic of Leibniz. Which is why John after saying that the Word was with God from the beginning, goes on to say,Notice that it is not said that all things are made by him. We take things in the universe and manipulate them. Works of art are made by humans. Houses are made by builders.But the universe was made through God. To bake a pizza you have to send it through the oven. The source of power is the oven. The world was created through Jesus.So all the energy, power the life that we experience here on planet earth is a result of the energy, power and life that comes from the pre-existent God who eternally exists.This GOD-Man Jesus Christ, existed before all times and was in fact the creator of all things. We don’t tend to think of the 2nd person of the trinity, the Word, as the creator but the Bible makes it explicit on many occasions.Here we are told that all things are created through him and that they were created for him. That is means and purpose. So clearly, we are told that JESUS CHRIST is the creator of ALL THINGS.That means that Jesus is really powerful. Really powerful. Try to geek out with me for a moment. He can speak a word and the entire universe spins into existence. Now let’s think about what exactly that means. Can we just pause a moment and think in concrete terms about the CREATIVE ABILITY of Jesus.One of the ways to conceptualize this incredible act of creating all things is to just think in terms of raw power. Power is what is needed to do work. So if you need to turn on your mixer, you need power. If you want to run a mile, you need power. If you want to drive your car, you need power. This is essential to get out of the state of nothing. You need power. Think about power.Here is a chart explain the energy output of various things in the universe.The chart is in Joules of energy. I can’t picture a joule of energy, so I put this little dot on 1 calorie which very, very close to 1 joule. 4 joules = 1 calorie so it’s a very small amount of energy.As we work our way around the chart, every increment is a power of ten.10^8 (10 with 8 zeros) joules of energy represents the amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline. 1,000,000,000. To give you an idea of how much power is in a gallon of gas. If you convert that to calories, that’s about 30 million calories or 300,000 bananas. If you could drink gasoline, you’d only need about 4 gallons to fuel your entire life.10^9 is the amount of energy in a ton of dynamite10^11 is the amount of energy in a ton of hydrogen10^13 is the first atomic bomb10^18 is the annual energy production of the U.S.10^21 is all the energy since the invention of the tesla coil10^32 is the daily output of the sun10^47 is all the yearly output of the milky way10^55 is the yearly output of the universe10^70 is all the energy in the universe.Those are eye watering amounts of power.Jesus Christ is POWERFUL. John 1:1 is connecting the MAN JESUS with this CREATIVE POWER. That’s amazing. Now the text goes further. Not only is Jesus Christ the source of all power. He is the source of all LIFE. You get this astounding two sentences that will become the entirety of our remaining meditation.Not by him, not through him, but IN HIM was life.Here’s the incredible point that is being made here. God is life in himself. God is the source of life. He is life. So to have life, you must be IN the source of LIFE in the same way that to be wet you must be IN WATER. It cannot be any other way.This is why when you read the NT one of Paul’s favorite ways to reference a Christian is those who are “in Christ.”In HIM was LIFE. Spiritual life and physical life the same.The ApplicationSo I want to come back to it and help you see where John is going in this book. The book of John claims to answer some of the greatest questions known to man.How can I have spiritual life? How can I be known and loved? How can I have physical life? How can I live forever?John begins by saying, this life that we all are longing for can only be found in Jesus Christ. And let me try to explain what a bombshell this would have been.Our English translations say, “In the beginning was the Word.” That’s the Greek word logos and it’s a highly loaded philosophical term in the 1st century. Greek philosophers talk about it, the stoics talked about it, Philo writes entire books about it. It meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But the core idea was that this was the ultimate expression of meaning, fulfillment, purpose. It was the highest ideal.And so these ancient philosophers after debating this idea for centuries came to recognizing something very important. They recognized that for that to even make sense, for there to even be a concept of purpose or meaning, there had to be a God.For example, I could show you this object and say, “Hey can you tell me if this is a good trinandoid?” How can you possibly answer that question?You have to first ask, "What’s a trinandoid? What’s it supposed to do." Only after you know what it is supposed to do, can you then evaluate whether it is operating according to it’s design. This is not a trinandoid. I just made up that word. This is actually a mechanical calculator. So is this a good one?Now you can start evaluating. What are features of a good calculator.it calculates correctly,quicklyconvenientlyeasilySo you’d test it by punching in a math problem on the keypad to the right and then you’d see if it printed the right numbers on the roll of paper. You evaluate it based on it’s design. It’s a good calculator if it calculates.Ancient philosophers realized this. We can’t evaluate if a life is good or bad unless of course we know what the purpose of that life is. And so that was the quest. What is the logos? That’s why the concept of logos was closely linked with the concept of God.What is the ultimate meaning behind life? You need a God to even have a category for meaning. And from plato to the present you have had all these attempts and philosophical theories to say, “What is the logos”.Confucianism says the logos of life is to achieve harmony.Buddhism says the logos of life is to remove desire.Zoroastrianism says the logos of life is to bring happiness into the world to combat the battle against evil.The reason it’s so important to find the logos, and presumably the reason so many people are miserable is that they aren’t operating according to their design. What if I tried to use this mechanical calculator as a hammer? Not only would it not be very effective at sinking nails, it would destroy the calculator such that it could not function any longer according to it’s design.You’d be smashing and smashing and saying, “This thing is a piece of junk.” It’s not a piece of junk. You haven’t been using it as it was designed.Here’s the horror and tragedy of the Bible. We have been using the calculator as a hammer. We thought that the goal of life was to make everything revolve around us and our happiness. We thought the goal of life was to build a kingdom in which we are king. And because we were not designed to be fulfilled in that way, it means not only are we miserable because we are operating outside of our design, but we have permanently destroyed ourselves so that even if we did want to operate in our design, out souls are wrecked such that we could never experience it.We can never experience the perfect design because we are wrecked! The gears are smashed flat by repeated hammering and all the keys are broken off. The thing doesn’t work any longer. Things are permanently damaged and irreparable.And I’m not overstatign: We sense that problem in the two greatest problems mankind faces.How can I have spiritual life?How can I have eternal life?Now here’s where John just comes in a drops a bombshell. I mean this is like a philosophical nuclear warhead.“Guess what? There is a logos to life, but it’s not a truth brought by a person; it is a truth that is a person.The logos is not an abstract principle.The logos is not a theorem.The logos is not something you can find in a book.The logos is a human being, God come to earth. The logos became flesh and LIVED among us and we beheld his glory.”When you know this One and when you behold his glory and when you serve this One and when you worship this One, you find your reason for life. Now there’s meaning and purpose and LIFE. This is what the book of John is about. It’s what Christianity is about. It’s solving these massive problems.Christianity, is not a philosophy. It’s true that you can develop a philosophy from Christianity. You can talk about philosophy that rises out of Christian belief, but it’s not a philosophy; it’s life; it’s power.It’s being connected to GOD who is power and life.Christianity is a person.Christianity is Christ.Jesus is going to say later on in the book, I am the way, the truth and the LIFE. No man comes to the father except through me.That’s what it’s talking about right here. Jesus Christ is not an abstract bit of truth; he is your Alpha and he is your Omega. He is the thing you were created by, and he is the thing you’re created for. That’s what gives you meaning. Jesus CHRIST GIVES YOU LIFE AND GIVES IT TO YOU ABUNDANTLY.Church ThemeEvery year we have a church theme as a way to really drive home a concept we feel like is important for us as a church body.In 2020 God providentially guided us through two sections of Scripture that were so incredibly helpful, Ecclesiastes and the story of Joseph. And we learned about the meaning of life, how to think about suffering, how to think about pleasure, how to think about the sovereignty of God through it all.Change what you love. Hopefully what you ended up loving in 2020 was God and particularly the love of God for you. Well this year we want to build on that. Last year we wanted to focus on taking our eyes off the trinkets of the world, we want to encourage you through the book of Ecclesiastes to stop loving money, sex, power, pleasure and instead fear God and keep his commandments. Love the God of love. Love the fact that God loves you!So this year we build off that idea.Life in his LOVE.So now in 2021 we want to explore what it looks like to have Life in His Love.

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In Water and Whine (we didn’t have coffee this week), Amber has perfect boobs. Isn’t she lucky? Disney canceled Christmas, because of Covid. The trump boat parade was sad, and like the rest of the Republican party, pathetic. The rich people’s boats caused the smaller boats to sink. And isn't that just the perfect metaphor for USA?Last week, Amber and Jennifer talked about a small cute mammal from Africa, this week we’re doing an adorable predator that hunts them, the Black-Footed Cat (Felis nigripes), also called the small-spotted cat, the smallest wild cat in Africa, and locally called Sebala cat, Bont-kat, or Afrikaans, which mean anthill tiger. Despite the Black-Footed Cat’s name, only the soles of its feet are actually black. This cat may be tiny, but they are vicious and the most successful solitary hunter in the world. Listen as Amber and Jennifer entertaining talk about one of the worlds most endearing, and ferocious, hunter. Stay tuned to the very end where we talk about our upcoming Halloween episodes, and Amber and Jennifer have a heated discussion about Zombies. More to come in the following weeks? For more information on us, visit our website at betterthanhumanpodcast.comFollow us on Twitter @betterthanhuma1on Facebook @betterthanhumanpodcaston Instagram @betterthanhumanpodcaston TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@l_a_manderor Email us at betterthanhumanpodcast@gmail.comWe look forward to hearing from you, and we look forward to you joining our cult of weirdness!#betterthanhuman #cultofweirdness

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In Water you see your own reflection, in Wine you see the heart of another according to Mosi Wine Owner. In this episode we dig deep into the art of making wine as a black person in South Africa with Joseph Dafana a Zimbabwean Wine Mogul who owns Mosi Wines. If you want to learn more about important ENTREPRENEURSHIP topics such as how to raise money for your first business, how to use social media to get investors, customers, e.t.c follow this link for courses taa-tomondo-capital.teachable.com

Push the water out of your lungs and breathe the air back into your lungs. In Water is performed by Sean Heyboer. Doorway (Theme from Constants) is performed by Quiet Theory. Constants is created by Sean Heyboer. Follow Constants on Twitter: @constantspod Please visit our website at constantspodcast.com   For fans of paranormal, occult, scary, spooky, creepy, horror, mystery, fiction, audio drama, science fiction, lore, unexplained.

This week on the Bartender Journey Podcast we talk with Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller Jeff Arnett. I spoke with Jeff at San Antonio Cocktail Conference. Its the Bartender Journey Podcast # 204!  Listen with the audio player on this page, or subscribe on iTunes, Android or Stitcher Radio. Jack Daniel’s is such an iconic brand with so much history. Jeff shared some great information with us, including facts about why Jack Daniel’s is not called “Bourbon”. He said, in fact it legally could be classified as Bourbon. But when the man who started the brand, Mr. Jack Daniel in the mid 1800’s he decided that he wanted to differentiate his whiskey and embraced the classification of Tennessee Whiskey.   Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 whiskey follows all the requirements of Bourbon, with the addition of a charcoal filtering process. This filtering is legally called the "Lincoln County Process,” by the state of Tennessee. It is also known as “charcoal mellowing,” and occurs before Barreling.   Cocktail of the Week: I was trying to come up with interesing & sophisticated cocktails for St Patrick’s Day and came up with this one. I first called it the Emerald Sour, but after hanging out with my friend Hazel and describing the drink to an Bartender Carl at Swift Hyberian Lounge, it was decided that the name would be changed to “Man in the High Castle” which the name of a book that Carl had just finished. There is also a TV show on Amazon Prime Video by the same name. The two appear not to be related. “Man in the High Castle” Cockail: 2 oz Knappogue Castle 12 year old Irish Whiskey 1 oz Myers Lemon Juice, (freshly squeezed – peel lemons before juicing to make Oleo Sacrum and Twists). ¾ oz of Myers Lemon Oleo Sacrum syrup* Dash of Salt Shake with ice. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass containing fresh ice. Garnish with Myers Lemon Twist and a Sprig of Fresh Thyme, (slapped to release aromatics). (If you don’t have Myers Lemons you can use regular ones).   *Myers Lemon Oleo Sacrum Syrup Peel 2 lemons before juicing them: Use a Y-peeler and try to get only the yellow zest – as little of the white pith as possible. Put them in a sealable container, or better yet use a if you have a vacuum sealer, place in a vacuum sealer bag. Cover with ½ cup sugar. If using the vacuum sealer…seal it. Otherwise cover tightly. Let sit for at least 4 hours at room temperature, or overnight. Add ½ cup warm water and stir to dissolve. Use a fine strainer and discard all the solids.   Book of the Week is A Spot at the Bar: Welcome to the Everleigh: The Art of Good Drinking in Three Hundred Recipes By Michael Madrusan & Zara Young Michael’s Bar The Everleigh is in Melbourne Australia. He studied under Sasha Patraski and worked at the original Milk and Honey. His goal with Everleigh was to bring the Milk and Honey concept to Australia, and in fact Sasha was his business partner on this venture. As you may know Sasha left this world way too early in August 2015. But Sasha inspired a generation of Bartenders, not only those who were trained by him, but many, like myself that never had the opportunity to work with him. This Book, A Spot at the Bar is another wonderful offshoot of Sasha’s Legacy. There are many great recipes and photos in here, but a lot of other useful stuff as well. There is an entire section on Bartender’s Choice. This can be challenging for a Bartender. In the book Michael talks about how to do it best. There is a series of questions to ask - in a certain sequence - to figure out what this guest would enjoy.   Michael said in the book that Sasha taught his students that “working hard behind the scenes allows you to look effortless in front of your guests”. Wise words from a wise man.           Cocktails in the Country is a great experience, which I was honored to attend in the Summer of 2016. It is run by the man I call the Yoda of Bartending Gary (gaz) Regan. It normally costs $250, but I’m going to tell you how to get it for only $100. Its 2 days of education, learning the gaz approach to “Mindful Bartending”. Plus, practical skills making original cocktails behind the bar. It takes place in the Hudson Valley, just over an hour north of Manhattan.   Included in the cost is transportation from Manhattan, lodging for the evening, most meals, classes with gaz and cocktail making with your 9 new best friends.   Here’s how to get your discount Email gaz at gazregan@gmail.com Put the code BUY-BACK in the subject box. Please mention to gaz you heard about it from me, Brian Weber of the Bartender Journey Podcast! Please cc me on the email so I know you are going! My email is brian@bartenderjourney.net   To participate in CITC you have to be a working Bartender and have worked in the Hospitality Industry for at least 3 years.   Bar Institute Econo Bar Institute is hitting the road for a six week tour stopping in 25 cities in the US and Canada this Spring. In each city, they will be hosting a one day Bar Institute session featuring 3-5 classes and a popup event, which will incorporate the information from the classes into service each night. They’ll be asking for only a $5 donation for admission to the classes and the drinks in the evening. All proceeds will benefit charity.  Along the way, they've identified social justice issues that will serve as the centerpiece of the weekly focus for each region. This is so awesome! They will be in a bunch of mid size cities – many of which (I’m guessing) don’t have cocktail conferences very often. CONTEST! Win some swag: Go to bartenderjourney.net/bi for details on the swag give away. 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Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. What happens to the basic services of government after democratic institutions take hold? Specifically, when do elected officials relinquish the clientelistic approach to the provision of water services? In Water & Politics, Herrera shows that middle-class and business interests play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water & Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Eric Pepin discusses one of the most requested topics from the Higher Balance Forums: Becoming One with the Universe. He begins by explaining his opinion of what the Universe or God is, before going into what it means to become one with it. Learn how the foundation meditation and surrender, two of the cornerstone techniques in the Higher Balance Curriculum, are used to Become One with the Universe. Then, Eric takes it to a third level, sharing a special technique to “bring out the big guns” and truly awaken in God’s dream.  Other topics include the tones and how they are used to navigate reality. This episode marks a big milestone in your spiritual journey and contains the answers to some of the most important questions for spiritual seekers. Enjoy.   In this show we cover:  Gain a deeper understanding of what the Universe is so that you can become one with it Many schools of spirituality ignore the sixth sense, or even worse, discourage students from pursuing it. Discover why the sixth sense is critical to reaching the states you are seeking Overcome the spiritual trap that calls you to escape society and discover why isolating yourself is one of the least spiritual things you can do How to overcome negativity and discouraging thoughts Learn to separate your true self from your body (the machine) that holds you in place How to use dimensional sound, or the Tones, to move through dimensional reality   Free Material From the Episode:  Learn the Higher Balance Method (aka The Tones): Click Here     For more on these topics: Water of Life – There’s something about spiritual people that evokes feelings of comfort and trust.  This ethereal quality is what attracts others.  It has a feeling, a level of tranquility…yet, it has no words.  This seemingly unknown quality is their tonal, their higher state of consciousness that creates these feelings.  Eric refers to a person’s frequency as their tonal.  It is the unique vibration of one’s consciousness, and it determines all aspects of one’s life, like karma and profound spiritual experiences Water of Life is a very unique and effective process designed to raise your tonal to a much higher frequency.  In Water of Life, Eric guides you through visualizations, breath patterns, sounds, and hand gestures which attract massive quantities of prana, and raise your own tonal to a much higher state. The Power of Surrender – Most people have it all wrong – surrendering. They think in order to surrender, you must become submissive, often to another person, and this is repeated over, and over, never quite believing you’ve accomplished anything because there’s always the guilt, shame, and begging for forgiveness. You relive your experiences and feel the need to surrender all over again. Did you know that surrender is finding peace within you? It is the struggle to find the missing piece to complete who you are.  Surrender is the strength to forgive yourself, unconditionally, by honestly acknowledging what you are forgiving yourself for. And once you have the key, the Universe will take it from there. It will change you in profound ways. Foundation - This is the must-have course for all spiritual seekers. To fully harness and develop the abilities of the mind, you must transcend normal meditation and discover the missing link.  The tools you'll acquire in The Foundation will enable you to master these higher dimensions.  It's time to discover Multi-Dimensional Meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.