Podcasts about increasing knowledge

In this episode, Dominic Bowen engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Waqar Rizvi, a multilingual Canadian-Pakistani journalist and strategic policy analyst. Rizvi shares his expertise on the evolving multipolar world order, the complexities of Iranian politics and society, and the challenges of combating misinformation in the digital age. The discussion covers a range of topics, including the nuances of Iranian culture, the impact of AI on fact-checking, and the importance of diverse perspectives in global discourse. Rizvi offers valuable insights into the ethical considerations of AI deployment in journalism and emphasizes the need for critical examination of biases in data collection and analysis. This episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of current geopolitical dynamics and the importance of nuanced, cross-cultural communication in addressing global challenges.The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members, and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with experts in a variety of fields to explore international relations. Our host is Dominic Bowen, Head of Strategic Advisory at one of Europe's leading risk consulting firms. Dominic is a regular public and corporate event speaker, and visiting lecturer at several universities. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest-risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests around the world to discuss international risk.The International Risk Podcast - Reducing Risk by Increasing Knowledge. Follow us on LinkedIn for all our great updates. 

Pastor JD explains why the increasing knowledge of Bible prophecy is an indicator that it's the time of the end as evidenced by how that which was sealed up then, has been opened up now.

Pastor JD explains why the increasing knowledge of Bible prophecy is an indicator that it's the time of the end as evidenced by how that which was sealed up then, has been opened up now. This update will only be shown in its uncensored entirety at https://www.jdfarag.org/."LIVE STREAMING ALERT: Pastor JD's COMPLETE Bible Prophecy Update Videos will only be available at https://www.jdfarag.org/. We will continue live-streaming the first part of the Prophecy Update on YouTube then the live-stream will end, and Pastor JD will continue the live-stream with the conclusion of the update at https://www.jdfarag.org/. The best and easiest way to watch the complete updates will be to watch them in their entirety from the start of the live stream at https://www.jdfarag.org/. Please set your reminders, bookmark our website page, or fan us on Facebook when we are about to go live." Prophecy Update Links All referenced links are at http://jdfarag.orgSocial MediaProphecy Website: http://jdfarag.orgMobile/TV Apps: https://subsplash.com/calvarychapelkaneohe/appChurch Website: http://www.calvarychapelkaneohe.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDFarag/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JDFarag/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/JDFarag/

If you are interested in learning more about the resources Mona has available for neurodiverse couples, or individuals in a neurodiverse relationship, you can check out her website at: www.neurodiverselove.com _________________________________________________ During this episode with Dr. Ali Cunningham Abbott, LMHC we talk about the self-discovery process for neurodivergent individuals and why it is critical for therapists, health care professionals and educators to have more knowledge and training about neurodiversity. Other topics addressed include: Ali's work at the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Combatting assumptions about autism and romantic relationships. Counselors need to have the competencies to work with neurodivergent individuals or neurodiverse couples. Understanding the self-identification and self-discovery options and process.  Knowing if it's necessary to get a formal diagnosis. Using free assessment tools may be helpful (ie: Autism Quotient; Social Responsiveness Scale). Go to www.embraceautism.com for a lot of free assessment tools. Understand your Sensory Profile. Hypo and Hyper social motivation. Understanding autism across the lifespan, for all genders, for different races and the diversity in sexuality identities. Autism representation in the media and stereotypes. Feeling alien or not belonging and getting a diagnosis or self-identification as an adult. Grieving what could have been because of unknown autism. Using strengths and assets to help individuals thrive. Project F.I.N.D. (Females in Need of Diagnosis). Making higher educational training more autism friendly. Ali is the Program Director for the Counseling Program at Lynn University and she has created an “Interest Network” at the Southern Association for Counselors Educators and Supervisors. If you would like to buy Ali's book the title is: Counseling Adults with Autism; A Comprehensive Toolkit.  The title of Steph Jones book is: The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy. You can contact Ali at Lynn University  or on LinkedIn --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neurodiverse-love/message

As the saying goes, the mind is a terrible thing to waste.  That's the ethos Major Terry Masango lives by, and it's paid off as he recently received a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership. Dr. Masango was raised in Zimbabwe and now as a Salvation Army officer, or pastor, he serves in the Seattle area as the General Secretary in the Northwest Division—a role you might compare to a chief operations officer.  Along his educational journey, Dr. Masango learned to embrace discipline, and is now putting those skills to work.  So allow me to introduce to you today, to share more about his academic pursuits and how he's applying them to his ministry with The Salvation Army, Dr. Major Terry Masango.  EPISODE SHOWNOTES: Read more. BE AFFIRMED. Get the Good Words email series. WHAT'S YOUR CAUSE? Take our quiz. STUDY SCRIPTURE. Get inside the collection. BE INSPIRED. Follow us on Instagram. FIGHT FOR GOOD. Give to The Salvation Army.

In this excerpt, Sandra Hall discusses how she started understanding lipedema and raising awareness about this disease.

Central Christian Church is a non-denominational church in Wichita, KS. We are happy to share the teaching of our pastors and friends with you through this podcast. If you have any questions or want to know more about us, visit www.ccc.org Sermon Notes: https://bible.com/events/48792771

Increasing Knowledge Loss in Process Units by K and K Process

Methods of Increasing Knowledge and Learning We begin with Melissa Heath speaking on "Becoming More Teachable." Full audio, video, and transcript at: Then the second half features Val Jo Anderson's address "Into the Burn!"

 Digital Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussions among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles.    On today’s episode, Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Jeff Moffa, President of Auros Knowledge Systems, to discuss the importance of knowledge management in every industry.  Jeff highlights the value of effective knowledge management, the importance of effective provision mechanisms and contextual value, and defines the role of active knowledge in the ever-changing digital world.  He also highlights the benefits of the changes have come as a result of the COVID-19 required need to work remotely.     On today’s podcast, you will learn: The value of knowledge management Knowledge management refers to the need and ability to capture, share, and reuse knowledge in productive ways Capturing and indexing knowledge is best done while communicating with others during processes Provision mechanisms offer the greatest opportunity to capture knowledge  Contextual value can vary based on time frames, situational usage, and assembly Provision knowledge refers to obtaining only the information you need to know, precisely when you need to know it Industries that benefit from provisioning knowledge include software, automotive, financial, and other non-mechanical workflows   Understanding the role of active knowledge   Do active knowledge-based machines need human assistance in order to perform properly? Various digital tools are becoming more and more model-based   The application and implementation of active knowledge will only continue to increase over the years   Industry changes resulting from COVID-19 Company leaders need to know that knowledge has not been applied as effectively as it could be  COVID-19 has given people an opportunity to examine whether there is a need for the next level of variation and change that companies are often pushing for More is not always better — companies might actually benefit from reducing their competition Many companies in the building industry can easily thrive at a distance thanks to online collaboration technology Do you have an example of extraordinary efforts or innovation during these unprecedented times? We would love to hear your story and possibly interview you for an upcoming episode. Please reach out to us at www.DigitalEnterpriseSociety.org   Auros Knowledge Systems

Increasing Knowledge and Signs of the Times – Tom Donnan Tom Donnan had an encounter with God when he died in an ambulance after a “widow maker” heart attack. He had an encounter with God & then he was back! He has been fulfilling that calling ever since. In this series of interviews, we discuss many events happening right now that are possible indications of “The End Times.” Tom has the unique insight to identify interesting phenomenon that is occurring around the world and compares it to signs of the End Times. Most of the things he shares with us is not being covered by the news. Help me welcome back to the program, Tom Donnan! Tom, thanks for coming back on the program today! Now, for the benefit of those listeners who may not have heard any of our prior interviews, briefly tell us, “Who is Tom Donnan?” Now, the scripture tells us, in Daniel 12:4, that in the last days, “Knowledge shall increase.”  Some people say that knowledge has always been increasing. It’s impossible for knowledge NOT to increase. But the really big news in this area, is not that knowledge is only increasing, it is the intensity of the increase. In his 1992 book, “Critical Path,” R. Buckminster Fuller estimated that up until 1900,  human knowledge doubled approximately every 100 years. According to his (and other research pretty much confirms these estimates as well), by 1945, knowledge doubled every 25 years. Then by 1982, it was doubling about every 12-13 months. We can credit the development and wide availability of the computer for helping in that. But, here is the kicker…IBM now estimates, that by 2020, just a few months from now, the amount of knowledge that we, as human beings have access to, will double – not get this – every 12 hours! Think about that! Every single day, knowledge basically squares itself. So if we had X amount of knowledge right now. In 12 hours, it is 2x. Tomorrow morning, it is 4x and the next day it is 8x. By the end of the week, it is 64 times what we started the day with one week ago. I do believe this is the fulfilling times of Daniel 12:4. And if that is so, we are definitely living on the edge of Jesus’ soon return. It is a clear fulfillment of the times in which we live. Now, before I get into some of the news items I want to get your opinion on. To add credence to what I just said, I have discovered some statistics that will also back up what we just talked about. In 2018, these are the the things that happened on the Internet. Let me give them to you and then you take a guess as to the time frame we are talking about. 973K Facebook log ons 18 million text messages 4.3 million video views on YouTube 375,000 apps downloaded on Apple 174,000 Instagram messages 481,000 Twitter messages million swipes on Tinder 187 million emails sent $862,000 spent online 266,000 hours spent watching on Netflix 3.7 million Google searches.   Those numbers were all accomplished…every single one of them simultaneously done – IN ONE MINUTE OF TIME (on average)! “Signs in the sky” is also one of the prophetic events that signifies the end times. And that is what we will talk about today. First up, let’s talk about two asteroids that were recently in the news. One was a near miss. Passing so close to the earth, basically between the moon and the earth! And we did not see it coming until just before it passed. Did you see that report? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asteroid-near-miss-city-killer-asteroid-misses-earth-and-scientists-had-no-idea/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asteroid-near-miss-city-killer-asteroid-misses-earth-and-scientists-had-no-idea/) What about the asteroid that exploded near Puerto Rico in the daytime. Nobody knew about it until a satellite image clearly identified that it had happened. Scientist seen it coming a few days prior. But even with all of the computer software available now, they...

Level 3 has 2 components, and the biggest part of the project assignments are the essential Speech Skills electives in a level titled Increasing Knowledge. Essential Speech Skills – finally! Toastmasters’ reputation was built on public speaking skills.  That’s why many of us long-timers have struggled with Pathways.  Learning speech skills isn’t postponed till after … Continue reading "Level 3: Essential Speech Skills" The post Level 3: Essential Speech Skills appeared first on Toastmasters 101.

Increasing Knowledge of God’s Love Does God really love us? He showed His love on the cross, but does He still love us? If so, why do we still experience pain and suffering? How can that be good? Show Notes: If the only characteristics that were true about God were the elements of His power, as well as His justice and holiness, there would be no hope for humankind. In fact, we never would have lasted this long. Without God’s love for us, He would have wiped humanity from the face of the Earth, maybe to make room for a race less obstinate and fickle. Fortunately for us, though, God is not only the most powerful being in the world—star-breather, life-former, thought-knower—He also cares for us. While He seeks His own glory in all things, He equally seeks our good. These two goals are not at odds with each other. God receives glory from us when we enjoy Him, so when He seeks our ultimate good, He is also seeking His own glory. And when we seek God, which is our highest good, we are fulfilled and happy. If you are interested in learning more about this particular topic, I would highly recommend John Piper’s Desiring God. As he puts it, “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” Each outcome leads to the other. I have found that many Christians either believe the things I said about God in the last episode but they do not really believe that God loves them, or they believe God is loving but forget how big and powerful He is. This is the cause of a lot of fear. If you know God is loving but don’t really believe He’s powerful enough to take care of you, anything could happen. If you believe God is powerful but don’t really believe He loves you enough to always make decisions based on your best interests, then He might take care of you when it’s convenient but choose to do something that puts you at risk when it suits Him. Today we’re going to look at the trait of God’s love and how it is manifested toward us. Before we go any further, we need to define love. The world would tell us that it is an unpredictable feeling, one that may or may not last very long. Once it's gone, it doesn’t often come back. Just about any popular romance movie will exemplify this definition. Even we in the church fall prey to this description, and I believe it has distorted our view of God and His love. In 1 John 3:16-18, the apostle John tells us what love looks like as believers. “This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brother. If anyone has this world's goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need – how can God's love reside in him? Little children, we must not love in word or speech, but with truth and action.” Many people read just the first of these verses and conclude that love means being willing to die for another person, but there is so much more to it than that. John says that we know what love is because Jesus “laid down His life for us,” and we should “lay down our lives” for our fellow Christians. In the next verse, he gives us an example of what that looks like—giving away what you have for the sake of others. Jesus laying down His life didn't just include His death; it was a life-long process of taking care of those around Him and generally being about His Father's will. It is the same for us. The main component of love is sacrifice and self-forgetfulness. As C.S. Lewis says in Mere Christianity, “If we were to meet a truly humble person, we would never come away from meeting them thinking they were humble. They would not be always telling us they were a nobody (because a person who keeps saying they are a nobody is actually a self-obsessed person). The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they seemed to be totally interested in us. Because the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.” (Mere Christianity, 1952) And so, we aim to think of ourselves less. But to what end? John answers that question in the next verse. We are to fill the needs of our fellow believers. If we summarize, according to John, love is spending our lives sacrificially filling other people's needs. Though he goes about it differently, Paul says the same thing in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7: “Love is patient, love is kind Love does not envy, Is not boastful, is not conceited, Does not act improperly, Is not selfish, is not provoked, Does not keep a record of wrongs. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness But rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, Hopes all things, endures all things.” True love, according to the Bible, is not a feeling or in any way related to sexual desire or fulfillment. It is seeing other people’s needs and taking care of them, all while forgetting that you exist. That’s not to say that we don’t practice good self-care. But the point of healthy self-care is that we will make the most of ourselves and our time for the sake of others. It is not selfish. It’s like studying for a test and realizing that you are so tired that you’re not going to be productive any longer, so you set your alarm for a couple hours earlier than normal in the morning so you can finish studying then, and you get some sleep now. We should rest, eat well, exercise, and not over-work ourselves so that we can be more effective in serving and loving other people. Having defined love, we are now equipped to look at God's love. If love is sacrificially filling others' needs, what is it that we need? According to Ephesians 2:1-10, we are dead and in need of life. Through the sacrifice Jesus made by His life and death, God has given us that and more. He has seated us in Heaven with Jesus, given us good works to do for His glory, and promised to show us kindness for the rest of eternity. If you’ve grown up in the church, you probably don't have a problem believing that God loved you through the cross. You’ve heard it all your life. The issue is now. Does He love you today, yesterday, and tomorrow, or did He just show His love once through the cross so He could save you but then use and abuse you at His whim? In the book of Romans, Paul spends the first seven chapters explaining how no one measures up to God’s standard of righteousness but how God, in His love, provided a way for us to receive the righteousness of Christ through His death on the cross—in essence, the gospel. Now Paul has moved on to sanctification. He’s about to answer the question I just posed. Does God still love us? The whole of chapter eight is a glorious exposition of God’s continued love for the believer, but I’ll just hit the highlights: “Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus, because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death…. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you…. All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’ The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him…. “We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose. For those He foreknew He also predestined… and those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. “What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare His own Son but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything?... “…Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!” (Romans 8:1-2, 8-9a, 14-17, 28-29a, 30-32, 35-39, emphasis mine) What beautiful, live-giving truths. One of Paul’s greatest arguments here is in verse 32, which says, “He did not even spare His own Son but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything?” Paul must have known that there would be this temptation to slip away from believing that God loves us in the here and now. He argues that God did the big thing; He laid aside His glory and came as a human being, then He died in the place of sinners. This is incomprehensible. If God went to that extreme to save sinners out of love (John 3:16), how could he possibly stop loving us? Even still, we forget. When we don’t remember how great God’s love is for us, our trust in Him begins to slip. Without trust, fears creep into our lives. Why do we forget so easily? What can we do to remember? I have found that the fastest way to forget how much God loves me is to take my righteousness into my own hands. I have a tendency that I think many believers share, and that is to look at the cross and say, “Yes, I’m in! God has brought me into His family and secured my eternal destiny. Now I have to make sure I stay here.” Then I try to do well and keep God happy with me, all the while feeling both guilty about how I’m failing and superior to those who are messing up more visibly than I am. This is called self-righteousness, and it belittles the work of Christ. It says, “Yes, God, Your work was good, but it wasn’t good enough. Let me help.” But we are incapable of helping, and we have nothing good to offer God except what He’s already given us and enabled us to do. When Jesus died on the cross, two very important things happened. First, He took upon Himself all of the sin of every person who would ever be saved. All the ugly, stinky, abhorrent nastiness of my sin and yours was placed in the body of the Son of God (1 Peter 2:24). Second, God the Father exerted all the force of His wrath for all of that sin on Jesus. When we become believers, we receive the righteousness of Jesus in place of the sin He paid for (Phil. 3:9, 2 Cor. 5:21). This is called justification. What does this mean? It means that as believers, there is no wrath left for us (Rom. 5:9-10). There is nothing we can do to make God punish us or even be disappointed in us. He knows everything that we have done and will do, and He paid for it all. We have been brought near to God (Eph. 2:13) and are called children and heirs of God (Rom. 8:17-19). In John 15:9, Jesus tells His disciples that just as much as the Father loves Him (that would be infinite and incomprehensible love), so Jesus loved them, loves us. This is what justification means for us. There’s something some of you are probably thinking that flies in the face of this, right? To one degree or another, we have all experienced loss, pain, and disappointment. A lot of bible teachers dismiss this by saying, “Well, those are the result of sin in the world, and they’re not God’s fault. God wants good things for you.” But that doesn’t actually solve the problem, because it makes God out to be this kind person who wants good for you but doesn’t have the power to give it to you. He’s not really sovereign and in control of everything. If He’s not in control, then we still have reason to be afraid. And as we looked at last week, God really does have the power. So why does He allow us to hurt? In Genesis 50:20, Joseph is talking to his brothers in Egypt. He is the second most powerful man in the world, and his brothers sold him into slavery when he was younger. Now he has the power to get back at them if he wants, and they are terrified. Instead, Joseph takes the long view. He sees God’s hand in the situation and tell his brothers this, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” This word “good” means the same thing as it does coming from Joseph’s lips. Did Joseph suffer? Did he experience loss and pain? Of course. So how can he say it was good? How can Paul in Romans say that everything works together for good when he experienced terrible things over the course of his ministry? The reason we have a hard time reconciling this is because we have a skewed perspective of good. God created us to know Him and to be fulfilled in our relationship with Him. When sin entered the world, that relationship was lost, and all of human history pointed to and waited expectantly for the time when it would be possible to restore that relationship. When Christ died on the cross, it became possible again for human beings across the globe, from all walks of life, of all ages to have a fulfilling, joyful relationship with their Creator again. That’s what we were made for. But because of sin, we think that avoiding pain, loss, and suffering is our best good. That’s how we structure our lives, to experience the least physical and emotional discomfort as possible. But if you look around you at the people who have the most means for keeping themselves from experiencing pain and loss, are they happy? They’re not. For one, they’re never satisfied; they always want more comfort, more ease. For two, they’re terrified that something is going to happen and bring it all crashing down. On the other hand, when those who really know God experience hard things, how do they react? What does it do to them? It brings them closer to Him. Our natural, sinful tendency is to put our trust in things that are not God. We trust school, government, our car’s safety features, locks on our doors at home, etc., etc. to keep us safe, and we trust friends, family, work, hobbies, etc. to give us joy and fulfillment. God loves us enough to send hard things our way to strip us of those trusts, because He knows that our ultimate source of security and fulfillment comes from Him. God doesn’t promise us an easy life, in fact, He promises us a hard one. But He also promises that He will be with us, has a plan for us, and will turn anything we may think is bad in the moment to good in the end. As you go through your day today, think about how God has used things you did not enjoy, things you might have labeled as ‘bad’ when they happened for your good in the end. Remember that He will always do that and fear not. Thanks for joining me on the podcast today. Next week we’re going to wrap up the series on fear with a few more practical steps, examples, and stories. I hope you’ll join me then.

Increasing Knowledge of God’s Power In order to fight fear with trust in God, we have to know more about who God is--or more accurately, we have to remind ourselves what we have already heard and believe it. We'll start by looking at four facets of God's power and how they work together. Show Notes: We have been talking about fear and anxiety and how to battle them in our everyday life. One of the things we’ve learned is that fear is the opposite of trust. If we could completely trust God in every moment with everything, we would not experience fear anymore. However, here is where we find ourselves with a problem. We can’t just decide to trust God more. Trust is built on knowledge and experience. The more we know and experience a person or thing, the more we can choose to trust it or them. If I sit down in a chair without thinking twice, it is because I have made the decision to trust that it will hold me, but I have made that decision based on my knowledge of its structure and past performance. I trusted it, and then I proved that trust by sitting in it. Now if the chair does not have a good track record or looks unsafe, I can’t force myself to trust it fully unless it’s fixed or proven to be safe. I can force myself to sit in it, but it will be with a dose of caution and fear because I do not trust it. Trust is also easier to destroy than it is to build. We all know how one bad experience can change the way we see things and ruin our trust. One bloody encounter with a dog can make us fear all dogs. One relative in a plane crash could cause us to decide never to fly again. Trust in God works the same way. Until our knowledge and experience with Him increases, we will not trust Him more. Additionally, if we have a faulty view of God—like one that says He must protect us and those we love from all harm—one negative medical test result or car crash can bring our trust in God crashing down. So the real problem in combating fear seems to be that we do not know enough about God. Though it might also be accurate to say that we do not actually believe everything we have heard is true about Him. Even if we believed and acted on certain truths about God in the past, we may not anymore. Our fallen human nature has an annoying way of throwing out truth when we're not looking and replacing it with lies. Where once we believed God was loving and attentive, now we perceive Him as distant and indifferent to our lives. This is often an unconscious shift. If asked, we would say that of course we believe God cares about us. But like we talked about several weeks ago, we always live what we believe. So our behavior has become fearful, then we need to evaluate if we really believe what the Bible says about who God is. In order to help us better understand the character of God as it relates to fear, I want to focus on two larger facets of who He is—His power and His love. If we are to place our trust in God, we must know that He is both capable of handling anything in our lives and caring enough to keep our best interests at heart. Our God is both these things, but you don’t have to just take my word for it. Let’s see what the Bible has to say. One of my summers on staff at a camp was spent as a counselor. Over the course of the summer, I had over seventy campers come through my cabin. Some of those kids were from great homes and Bible-believing churches. Others came from rough backgrounds and were going back to a place with no church support and families who didn't know Christ. While they were in my care, I had influence in their lives. I could speak truth to them and answer their tough questions. When they went home, however, sometimes I was afraid for them. What if they fell away from Christ? What if those who were supposed to be caring for them ended up hurting them instead? Sometimes I thought it would be easier if I could just keep them all, but I knew that wasn't practical. I had to trust in God's power to care for them as He knew they needed. I had to trust God's omnipotence. “Omnipotence” is a fancy word that means “all-powerful.” The Bible is full of examples of God’s power, starting with Creation. Genesis 1:3 says, “Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” God spoke light into existence, and He didn’t stop there. By the word of His mouth, He created everything that is, apart from Adam and Eve, whom He formed out of dust and a rib, respectively. In the book of Job, after Job has tried to show his own innocence and vindicate himself before God and his friends, he is confronted by God. God asks Job a lengthy series of lofty questions designed to humble him, and it works. Job’s response in chapter 42 begins with this, “I know that You can do anything and no plan of Yours can be thwarted.” That’s power. Sometimes I wish I could make anything I want happen, then I realize that a world following my every whim would definitely end in disaster. In Numbers 11, God promises to bring meat for the wandering people of Israel, enough for a whole month. Moses doubts that it is possible, but God answers him, saying, “Is the Lord’s power limited? You will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you.” God comes through with quail, just as He promised. Daniel 2:21-22 is a portion of Daniel’s prayer of praise to God for revealing the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. “[God] changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.” God’s power and control extends even to weather, rulers, and knowledge. Take a moment to think about that. What do you control? How much power do you have? Can you make your phone charge by thinking about it? Can you convince the gas in your tank to last you until the next gas station? Can you make your children or siblings obey you? Can you prevent your hair from turning gray? Can you keep a deer from jumping out in front of your car? Can you keep your nail polish from chipping? We like to think that we have control, but we really don’t. Our power is so limited. Speaking about how difficult it is for rich men to be saved, Jesus says in Matthew 19:26, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Based on the other passages we’ve explored, we can safely apply this to more than just salvation. God is capable of anything. He wields unimaginable power, enough to speak galaxies into existence and radically change the lives of sinners. So that’s God’s omnipotence, the fact that He has the power to do anything He wants at any time. Let’s look at another facet of God’s power. I don’t know about you, but I often wonder what my life will hold in the future. A few years ago, I had no idea what I was supposed to do with my life or what my next steps should be. I was so scared to make a wrong move and step outside the will of God that I was paralyzed. I thought that in order to choose the next thing, I had to have a significant part of my life planned, but that was impossible because I didn't know everything that was going to happen. My mind just kept going in circles trying to figure it out. What I didn't realize was that God has always had a plan for my life, but He doesn't reveal the whole thing at once. I don't have to have my whole life figured out, because He does. I just have to trust Him and listen for the next thing I have to do. I have to trust His omniscience. If God is omniscient, it means that He knows all things across all time. There is nothing beyond the scope of God’s knowledge, and nothing and no one can outsmart Him or keep a secret from Him. 1 John 3:20 says that God “knows all things.” He has known them for all time. As a finite human, my knowledge and memory are so small. I have to set alarms to remind myself to do all kinds of things, even things I enjoy and want to do. Isaiah 40:13-15 says: “Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or who gave Him His counsel? Who did He consult with? Who gave Him understanding and taught Him the paths of justice? Who taught Him knowledge and showed Him the way of understanding? Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.” Just think about that for a moment. I am a learner. I pride myself in the things I know and am constantly trying to learn new things. I will never come remotely close to having as much knowledge as God has. If God's knowledge could be measured and represented as all the grains of sand on the earth, my knowledge would not even be equivalent to one atom of one grain of sand. While teaching his disciples to fear God and not men, Jesus says, “Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s consent” (Matt. 10:29). This speaks to both God’s power and His omniscience. He not only knows when sparrows die, but He also has to give permission for it to happen. David says of God in Psalm 139:1-6: “Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I stand up; You understand my thoughts from far away. You observe my travels and my rest; You are aware of all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, Lord. You have encircled me; You have placed Your hand on me. This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.” In 1 Kings 8:39, Solomon says of God, “You alone know every human heart.” It is one thing to know statistics and historical facts; it is quite another to know the intimate thoughts and feelings of each person to ever live—including you and me. That is how far God’s knowledge goes. What’s another way God is powerful? As I’m writing this, some of my friends just landed in Haiti, and a few more are headed out this weekend. Haiti has had a lot of civil unrest recently, and their trip was postponed from February to now. Even though things seem to have settled down, the US government has not lifted the travel advisory for Haiti. This means that if something does happen while they’re there, getting help from our government is complicated. In order to not be anxious for them, it helps to remind myself that the same God who is present with me in the States is also present with them in Haiti. I have to remember that God is omnipresent. The omnipresence of God means that He is in all places at all times. This is not like when you and I try to multitask, and each thing we are doing only gets a small piece of our attention. God is fully present everywhere. He is present and available with me as I type this, as He is with my friend in Pennsylvania, my cousin across the country, and my friend in the other room. This also does not mean that He is small enough to be contained by the walls of my bedroom but has managed to replicate Himself so as to be in multiple places at once. God cannot be measured as we measure matter. David continues in Psalm 139:7-12 with these words: “Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. If I live at the eastern horizon or settle at the western limits, even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will hold on to me. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night’— even the darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to You.” God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present. What else? In October of 2011, I began thinking about what position I would be interested in pursuing the next summer at camp. Through a series of events, I determined that God was calling me to a particular position at the camp I had grown up attending and working at. I went after it but was turned down. I was so sure that this was where God wanted me that I didn't pursue any other position for the summer but kept waiting to hear that they had changed their minds about me. It sounds silly now, but I have hardly ever been so convinced of where I was supposed to be than then. About two weeks before camp started, I still didn't have a job for the summer, and I needed one. My aunt called and told me about a position at a camp near her that had been posted in their church bulletin. I called about it and was told that the position had been filled and was never supposed to have been posted in the bulletin. Desperate, I asked if there were any other positions available. He said there was one spot left. I came to this new camp that summer as the breakfast/lunch cook. My plan was to work for three months and make some money. I didn't want to form attachments or lasting connections. I was angry that I wasn't at the camp I loved, and I didn't understand why God would bring me to this new place that I didn't know. What I didn't realize was that it was there that God would introduce me to a nine-month internship designed to help me understand my identity in Christ and God's purpose for my life. It was there that God transformed a scared and scarred, timid girl into a woman after His own heart. God never intended for me to get that position at the camp I had always worked at, but He put that desire in my heart to lead me to something far better. I never would have voluntarily left that camp for another; I was very loyal to my roots and scared to try anything else. God knew that, and He knew that I needed that internship, and through His sovereignty, He led me right where I needed to go. The three characteristics of God’s power that we have talked about combine into what we call the sovereignty of God—that because God knows all things, is all-powerful, and is everywhere present, He makes all things take place as He has planned them and for His purposes. Because of God’s sovereignty, nothing is pointless; everything works for His glory. Isaiah 48:9-11 shows how zealous God is for His own glory. Notice how many times He says things like “for My name” or “for My praise”: “I will delay My anger for the honor of My name, and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise, so that you will not be destroyed. Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. I will act for My own sake, indeed, My own, for how can I be defiled? I will not give My glory to another.” God speaks to Israel in Isaiah 46:8-11 saying: “Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors! Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like Me. I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: My plan will take place, and I will do all My will. I call a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.” What God sets in motion, no one can stop. What Satan and men plan for evil, God turns to his own purposes, just like the story of Joseph. That is power like no one else possesses. Such is the power of our God. Next week we are going to talk about the attribute of God’s love and answer the objection that ‘if God is so powerful and loving, how does He allow bad things to happen to good people?’. I hope you’ll join me then.

How much do you know about the Stolen Generations?It is highly likely your children will know more than you do - thanks to new study plans that are providing students with necessary knowledge of Australia's rich cultural history. - Gaano ba ang iyong nalalaman tungkol sa mga ninakaw na henerasyon o stolen generations?Malamang na higit ang nalalaman ng iyong mga anak kaysa sa iyo - salamat sa mga bagong plano sa pag-aaral na nagbibigay sa mga mag-aaral ng mga kinakailangang kaalaman tungkol sa mayamang kasaysayan ng kultura ng Australya.

Take advantage of the excellent opportunities to seek knowledge and to be able to learn more about one’s deen and religion this Ramadan.

This week Pastor Mike is beginning a new series on what it means "To Know Christ" in the way the Paul desired to in his life. Paul has a mid to end of life revelation that he "Wants to Know Christ" better then he currently does... And if that's the case, then how much more should we as followers of Jesus 2000 years later want and need that so much more? But the question is, do you? What is your hunger to know Jesus? That's a real indicator of personal spiritual growth and maturity. **Special note** The beginning of this message Pastor Mike's wife Chris brings a very welcome message to the body of a new direction of our Christian Education department in regards to being ready for new growth and an overall direction for our church body...

This week Pastor Mike is beginning a new series on what it means "To Know Christ" in the way the Paul desired to in his life. Paul has a mid to end of life revelation that he "Wants to Know Christ" better then he currently does... And if that's the case, then how much more should we as followers of Jesus 2000 years later want and need that so much more? But the question is, do you? What is your hunger to know Jesus? That's a real indicator of personal spiritual growth and maturity. **Special note** The beginning of this message Pastor Mike's wife Chris brings a very welcome message to the body of a new direction of our Christian Education department in regards to being ready for new growth and an overall direction for our church body...

Susanne Friend from Friendly Aquaponics talks about you can set up your own aquaponics system.