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Bible Study Don't just take our word for it . . . take His! We would encourage you to spend time examining the following Scriptures that shaped this sermon: Isaiah 42:8; Acts 4:1–12 Sermon Outline "What have you done with my Son?" Compared to this question, every other question in the Christian faith is a footnote. Perhaps we regard Jesus with vague approval or mild interest. But is this a reasonable way to respond to a man who claimed what Jesus claimed to be God and rose from the dead? As Acts 4:1–12 shows, only two ways forward lie open to us. Either, with the "rulers", we can dethrone God. Or, like the apostles, we can cast our crowns before the feet of Jesus. Mild interest will not do: there are only two ways. Sermon Application In what relationship is it the hardest to talk about Jesus? What challenges are unique to that relationship? Which challenges are more general? One thing we learn from v. 12 is simply that "we must be saved". Peter–a pretty senior disciple–includes himself as one who still needs to be saved. What about you? Is Peter's humility reflected in your prayer life? How is a Christian understanding of eternal life distinctive? How does that shape the way you pray in your joys and through your sorrows? In what area of life has God entrusted you with leadership responsibility? Have your priorities remained consistent with God's priorities over time? Memorize Psalm 118:9. As you steep in this verse, consider what "rulers" you may be trusting in. What would "taking refuge in the LORD" look like this week? You can listen to the sermon by using the player below or via the St Andrew's Sermon Podcast. Questions? Do you have a question about today's sermon? Email Sam Fornecker (SFornecker@StAndrews.Church).

Join Amanda and Shannon as they discuss the May 24-28 episodes of #GH. Britt gets the news she's been dreading but finds comfort in Jason. Is Peter dead? Who pushed him? Poor Chase! Sasha and Brando are so cute. Liz wasn't let Anna forget she could have prevented all this from happening. Portia and Curtis are on different pages. Maxie channeled her inner Frisco and Felicia. Roger Howarth is BACK! What will his new character bring to PC? Join Amanda and Shannon as they discuss this and SO MUCH MORE! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Stay up to date on GH by listening to our show at pier54podcast.com ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀#portcharles #gh #ABCSoaps #podcast #generalhospitalfans #instapodcast #kirstenstorms #johnnywactor #sofiamattsson #jeffkober #chadduell #joshswickard #kaitlynmcmullen #avajerome #sonnycorinthos #brittwestbourne #peteraugust #jasonmorgan #valentincassadine #hamiltonfinn #annadevane #cyrusrenault #portiarobinson #rogerhowarth #maxiejones #avacarrington #elizabethwebber #dantefalconeri #sammccall #curtisashford

Is Peter has received the Holy Spirit and converts 3000 people. Psalm 33 says the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Mary Magdalene encounters first to angels and then Jesus calls her by name --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sofia-fonseca7/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sofia-fonseca7/support

Big Ben is officially coming back for 2021, but he had to take a pay cut. Peter King joins Florio to discuss if the Steelers are legitimate contenders for this season. Meanwhile, when will Larry Fitzgerald decide on his future?Rule change proposals: Is Peter as intrigued by "spot and choose" sudden death overtime as Mike is?Vic Fangio says the Broncos will bring in competition for Drew Lock. Will the young QB still be the starter in his 3rd year?

Hope in a Broken World"Be Holy"Pastor Ron Kool1 Peter 1:13-22Sermon Summary:When we are hurting, what do we want others to say to us? For most of us we want people to say something comforting, something that will make us feel better. And that’s okay. We need comfort. In I Peter, Peter brings comfort to those who are hurting. But in the passage we’ll look at today, Peter also challenges the people of his day and us to be holy, to fight against sin in our lives. Is Peter not being very sensitive? Why does holiness matter when we are hurting?To give, please visit: https://pushpay.com/g/hillsidechgrSupport the show (https://pushpay.com/g/hillsidechgr?src=hpp)

In 2009, Yoel Israel, founder at WadiDigital, Israel's leading full service digital agency, was pursuing his MBA at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. A friend sat down with him for a cup of coffee and said, “Dude, you've got to get on Twitter.” Yoel fell in love with it, set his university up on Twitter (which brought in some international students), and got a scholarship for the effort He graduated and returned to his job at Xerox in his hometown – Philadelphia – and ran a social media management side gig (Facebook and Twitter) for small businesses. When he discovered the Facebook dashboard, this finance major found that he not only got to look at data . . . he could manipulate it. He was hooked. He learned Google Ads, started his own company, and moved back to Israel where English is the “B2B tech language. When LinkedIn rolled out lead generation in 2017, the agency took off – a “first mover advantage” payoff. Yoel explains: LinkedIn ads may be expensive, but they are powerful because of the discrete targeting capability the platform provides. Today, WadiDigital focuses on LinkedIn advertising, SEO, and lead generation for B2B technology startups, who, most likely, have already gone through Round A, Round B funding. After 3 customers asked for cybersecurity marketing and cybersecurity influencer marketing. WadiDigital decided to build a platform. Currently, a dozen cybersecurity companies are using an affiliate cybersecurity influencer distribution platform where influencer affiliates “can manage and track their own clicks.” WadiDigital's new platform launches in January and will consist of two parts: Cybersecurity clients and other cybersecurity companies can share and distribute blogs and non-gated content. Influencer CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) can retrieve these links, share them, and get compensated based on clicks. WadiDigital cohosts and curates webinars where cybersecurity company experts present content for different groups of influencers. Cybersecurity companies get to showcase their expertise. Well-vetted cybersecurity influencers (who get up-to-date information at a fraction of the cost of what they would pay Gartner or SANS), can post the information and get paid. Yoel says, ” We bring them good content and they get compensated for it.” In this interview, Yoel discusses some of the security risks individuals and companies take, when to hire and the questions to ask when you hire, and the importance of processes in keeping things going. Yoel recommends that people follow him on WadiDigital.com, Yoel Israel on LinkedIn, (send a connection request and tell him you heard him on the podcast), and eventually cyfluencer.com, the distribution platform (again, January launch). The company will soon be hosting a cyber intelligence magazine: Cyber Intel Mag, details on all the “new stuff” to follow on LinkedIn and the agency website.  ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I'm excited to be joined today by Yoel Israel, founder at WadiDigital based in Israel. Welcome to the podcast, Yoel. YOEL: Thanks, Rob. Thanks for having me. ROB: Why don't you start off by running down for us what WadiDigital is excellent in?  YOEL: Actually, our focus is LinkedIn advertising and SEO. We're very focused on lead generation, and all of our clients are B2B technology startups. They usually have at least Round A, Round B funding. A large majority of them are cybersecurity, especially because we're in Israel. It's like the cybersecurity hub of the world. So, we do a lot with cybersecurity there. We also now do cybersecurity influencer marketing. We have a cybersecurity influencer distribution platform that we're still building, and we're currently using but we're building a new one right now. We do a lot of influencer marketing in the cyber space. So, we do a lot, but our focus is B2B LinkedIn, SEO, lead gen, and influencer marketing for cybersecurity. ROB: That's probably an underappreciated and unknown aspect of Israel for people who don't know. In the technology space you get a flavor for that deep security knowledge and that expertise in the venture funded companies in Israel, but a lot of people may not necessarily make that association, so I'm glad we get to dig into that a little bit. I want to pull on the thread a little bit – when you mentioned cybersecurity influencers, that's interesting. I'm sure it looks a little bit different than what people may commonly think of as influencer marketing. What does influencer marketing look like in cybersecurity? YOEL: We have two parts. How we got into it was a few years ago, a cybersecurity client of ours asked us if we do cybersecurity marketing. We just said no. Then two months later, a different cyber client asked us the same question. We looked around online like, “All right, let's help them,” and we didn't find anything. There's nothing really for B2B for influencer marketing, and if there was one, it was more like an Upwork where they come in and make the connection and there's nothing special about it. It's definitely not cybersecurity focused. When a third client asked us, we decided to build it. So, the influencer marketing, right now we're actually developing our own that will be ready in January. We spent over $60,000 on it. It's going to be epic. But what we're doing right now is using an affiliate network to manage and track clicks, where basically every affiliate, which is influencers, can log in and have their own unique tracking. We have about a dozen cybersecurity companies on our platform. There are two parts to our influencer distribution platform. One is where our cybersecurity clients and other cybersecurity companies want to share and distribute their blogs and their non-gated content, and then influencer CISOs and such, mostly in America, get to go grab these links, share it, and they get compensated based on the clicks. That's one. The second part that we're doing is now we're offering, within our pool of dozens of cybersecurity influencers, some of them are writers and they're real experts within their space, within cybersecurity, so we're not just writing content, but we're also co-hosting webinars. If you were to do a webinar with SANS or Gartner, it might cost you 15 grand. However, there's no reason to do it twice because they send it to the same audience. What we do is set up our cybersecurity clients with different influencers every single time, and those influencers promote their content in the webinar. They each bring a different and important audience to each webinar, not to mention it's a fraction of the price if they were to pay SANS or Gartner. ROB: Got it. In one case you're providing them a platform to showcase expertise alongside people they'd want to be appearing alongside, and on the other side it sounds almost like you are helping the influencer solve a problem. It's often not really the case in influencer marketing. The problem you're helping them solve is they want money. But in this case, it sounds like part of the problem somebody who would be sharing one of these links would have is actually that they want to talk about the industry. They want a source of good, credible content, and you're able to connect content with people who want to share good content. YOEL: That's correct. We're curating. These people are already sharing and engaging with excellent cybersecurity content that they're sharing, but now in addition to what they're sharing, we're curating that content from about a dozen companies, and more are joining, that are able to then go and grab your content, and they can share it. It's really fantastic that we make it so easy for the influencers. We bring them good content and they get compensated for it. ROB: That's a really interesting model I haven't heard very much about before. YOEL: That's why we had to make it. ROB: [laughs] That's why you had to build it. Especially considering, from a product perspective, how do you think about elevating towards quality? Because that is one of the problems in the affiliate and link sharing world; it kind of has a bad reputation. How do you evaluate that experience? YOEL: We don't let anyone who wants to come and share links. We review anyone that wants to share a link. We go to their profile, we see all of their posts, make sure the overwhelming majority of their posts are cybersecurity related. We look at their engagement, their follower count, their work experience. So, you have to apply to be an influencer and we manually choose who can and cannot be influencers. That's how we get rid of the junk, and then the companies, especially when our platform will be ready in January, get to choose what companies they want influencers from, if they only want to pay for clicks from what countries. So even though you might have gotten clicks hypothetically from Pakistan, you don't want to pay for those, so we're not going to charge them and we're not going to pay out our influencers that way either. We have a lot of control over it. It's not just like “set it up and do whatever you want.” Especially the cybersecurity audience, they're very conservative. They're professionals. They do things by the book. By definition, they kind of need to. That's just how they are and who they are, so we need to make sure everything is very clean and kosher. ROB: Excellent. I love the clean and kosher. Yoel, if we rewind this business a little bit, how did WadiDigital come into existence? What led you to start the business and how did you arrive at that point? YOEL: It was weird. In 2009 I was getting my MBA at Bar-Ilan University here in Tel Aviv in Israel, and I met with a friend of mine who's a huge tech influencer in Israel. I wasn't friends with him at the moment; it was in 2009, and he took me out for some coffee and he goes, “Dude, you've got to get on Twitter.” I'm like, “What's Twitter?” This is 2009, right? I really got into it and I loved it. It was a real intro to social media. I'd been on Facebook a little bit, especially from college for my undergrad when that was up and coming. But I got on and I set up my university on Twitter and they were able to get some international students. They actually gave me a scholarship, so I knew I was good at something here.  I went back to Philly, where I'm originally from, and went back to work for Xerox. On the side I was doing social media management organically on Facebook and Twitter for small businesses. Then I had a client ask me to take out ads on Facebook, and then I saw the whole dashboard and I kind of fell in love. Originally, I have a finance background, so I do love numbers and I love looking at tables of data. But once I understood that I could actually manipulate that data, I knew this was what I wanted to do for a living. Then I got trained up in Google Ads from a friend of mine and then started my own business and started selling Google Ads. I moved back to Israel after two and a half years in Philly. That was 7 years ago, and then naturally, because everything here in English is B2B tech, I started getting more into B2B and Google Ads and then getting all-in on LinkedIn ads, and we grew from there. Once LinkedIn rolled out lead generation forms on April 1st, 2017, we went all-in and we skyrocketed, bringing in enterprise leads and business because we were first mover advantage. ROB: That's a good wave to catch. For a while, a long time, you would hear that LinkedIn ads were expensive and that's all you would really hear about them. Then I think there started to be a transition at some point – I don't know whether it was an evolution of the platform or in strategy, but you started to hear instead that LinkedIn ads were expensive but effective. What do you think fed that transition, and what was your experience in that? YOEL: It's definitely expensive relative to other platforms, but it's totally worth the money. You can target whomever you want professionally on LinkedIn. You can't do that on any other platform. It's extremely powerful. ROB: Talk more about that target. What's that look like in practice to be really effective? YOEL: In practice, if I want to target CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) at Fortune 500 companies only within the United States and who have just switched jobs in the last 90 days so they might be looking for new security opportunities for them to secure their companies, we can do that targeting. ROB: Got it. Does it line up a little bit with that enterprise hunting, account-based marketing mindset? YOEL: You could also do account-based marketing. You can upload a list of companies that you directly want to target and do that too. But then they also have different target options that you can choose, like the industry and the company size within that industry that you want to target. There's a lot of different ways – not just choosing what companies, but there's all kinds of different ways that you can target by company and you can target by the individual based on their experience. ROB: Got it. To justify the expense, do you look more at something that's in a lead capture mode? Is there any place for just pure brand and awareness marketing in LinkedIn? YOEL: Oh yeah, for sure. If you're a startup or you're a disruptor, people don't know that you're solving an issue that they don't know they have. They're not searching for that solution. Therefore, you can't use Google, but you can put in front of them the solution that you provide. So, awareness is fantastic. Video is very good. It's not necessarily good for lead generation but creating awareness videos and then remarketing people that viewed 50% or 75% of the video and then hit them up with a lead capture, you'll do very well. ROB: Wow, that's an interesting direction to take things. You started this and you got this thing moving; at what point did you realize that you were going to have to grow the team and this was really going to have to be something bigger than yourself? YOEL: When I stopped getting enough sleep. [laughs] I was working wire to wire, and then you get this really hot client. It was like, “Ugh, I'm totally full with time. I shouldn't take them,” but it was someone you really wanted. You're like, “Okay, now I need to hire.” That's how it happened. ROB: Got it. So, you just basically got to full capacity and then you said, “Well, I've got to do something that is beyond me.” YOEL: Right. ROB: Are you still in that sort of mode, or have you shifted in terms of capacity planning and hiring to some different metrics? Or do you still think about getting a little bit too busy? YOEL: I always try to make sure we're stretching before I do my hires. We're already 11 people full time, and I just signed last Thursday night a huge senior, the only other person that's worth – let's say it's someone else in Israel that's got perfect English, has LinkedIn ads, Google Ads experience, worked in an agency, built a team. So, I just made a big hire, a very expensive hire, who will be starting in January. I'm continuing to grow and I'm all-in, and I'm putting up a few more job postings now. To really build up a perfect team obviously will cost us a lot of money in the short term, but I think the medium and long term will be happy. But in general, as a rule of thumb for others that have agencies, do as much as you can, learn as much as you can, save up as much as you can, work wire to wire until you absolutely need to hire. Then hire. Too many people try to apply the 4-hour workweek before – the whole point of the 4-hour workweek is to escape the wire-to-wire working. First, you've got to build the business, build the revenue, and get all that. Then you can learn how to step back. Don't step back and start outsourcing things until you're really working like crazy. ROB: I know I've certainly had that experience of hiring for the business I wish I had instead of what's right in front of me. Have you had any either fractional or full-time hires that you've learned you may have made prematurely and had to pull back from it? YOEL: I used to say I hire on personality and then I learned that's not nearly as important. I think having a good work ethic is more important than anything. That's what I really learned. You need people to have a good work ethic. If they have a good work ethic, they're competent, and they really care about the quality of their work, I think that's the number one most important thing. ROB: How do you think about screening for a good work ethic and evaluating that before someone's on board? YOEL: Make sure they have a full year of working somewhere. If you're in marketing, digital marketing, maybe a 1 year of white collar, making sure that they haven't been fired, and calling the references – were they on time? I really think speaking to the references and making sure they actually have some full-time employment. You should be able to get it from the references. Make sure to ask difficult questions to the references. A lot of people try to be nice to references because they're being kind with their time, but that's really the way to know. ROB: Not only that, but people will often give you the good references. It's hard to get to sometimes the references you really need to understand the full picture of the person. YOEL: Right, but you need to ask the hard questions. You've got to pivot it and do it like this. Let's say Peter. “Is Peter more of an introvert or an extrovert? Does Peter excel better working alone or excel better working on a team?” Don't say “Has Peter ever been late?” They'll say no. You frame it as, “How many times a month has Peter been late?” Then you hear if they think or not. You get an idea. So when you frame it that way, you get a better idea. It's how you frame the question, you'll be able to get an honest answer. Also, ideally, when you do these reference calls, if you can schedule a video call because then you can see their reaction. If you can avoid the telephone and do a video call, which everyone now knows how to do because of the pandemic, you'll be better off. ROB: That's definitely an opportunity I've seen in this time. People are much less weirded out by a video call because we're all used to it. If you had told someone you wanted to do your first screen on a video call two years ago, I don't know if you would've had the level of adoption that I'm seeing with candidates now. YOEL: Right. It's a hiring market. Employers have a lot of leverage in a difficult economy. If someone asks for a video interview, I couldn't imagine anyone saying no. If you really want to weed people out, find out those that aren't willing to do a video interview. ROB: People find a lot of ways to weed themselves out. It constantly surprises me. Someone will spend the time on a video call, but then they won't follow up timely on the next step you ask them to do. It's a real tell. YOEL: It is, yeah. For those looking for employment, just a little tip: don't forget to send a thank you email after the interview. ROB: Man, it's such a way to stand out. YOEL: It's sad. I studied finance and they taught us a lot about business. We used to send handwritten letters. I'm not that old, man. I'm turning 35 next month. [laughs] I don't write in cursive and all that, but there's something to it. You want to stand out, you send a handwritten letter. You'll get that job. ROB: I think it's also interesting to recognize that one of the ways that I think you're really able to make those good premium hires you're talking about is in your choice of market. You're not talking to somebody who's selling a widget for $5 bucks a month. The cybersecurity market – the threats continue to grow. There's a lot of money on the line. What are you seeing when it comes to categories of cybersecurity that's emerging, trending? What should people be scared of that they don't know about yet? YOEL: Don't worry, all our clients are B2B. We're not selling VPNs like B2C to end users or anything like that. But everything and anything can be hacked. If you really want to be scared, to be honest, under no circumstances should you have TikTok or WeChat on your phone. They're stealing your texts. Anything you copy in your clipboard, even when you're not using the app, it's sending it to the Communist Chinese Party. That's the simplest and easiest thing you can do. I could really scare you, but I'm not going to do that. You wanted an easy answer. [laughs] ROB: I wonder if maybe there's a novel category of solution that you've worked with, a client you've worked with that people wouldn't even realize was a problem or a solution. YOEL: I don't use Zoom. Most people do, but we use Google Meet because Zoom is hosted in China, so it's not secure. And most of our clients are cybersecurity. A few of our clients don't care; most of them do. There's a lot. You have no idea. People know everything about you. They've watched you do everything on your phone through your camera, heard every conversation. They're recording everything. Everything you think Google's recording, which it's doing legally and with your permission, imagine what foreign governments are doing and getting information on you. I don't think anyone can run for office in a free country in the future with foreign adversaries knowing everything about you. ROB: Right, or they can and then it becomes a security risk. YOEL: Right. You can see that right now. ROB: Exposing the information is actually – you do that, you can never use it again. But if you hold it over someone's head, you can influence them for a long period of time. YOEL: Correct. That's what's happening right now maybe in America with Hunter Biden, with everything that he has on him and on Biden. It's a little worrying. But we'll see. ROB: You really do have to wonder. I hadn't thought about it too much. If someone has the dirt on you –  YOEL: People don't think about it. And they have the dirt on you. That's the thing. They have it on me. They have it on you. ROB: So turning over the dirt is the nuclear option. YOEL: You don't turn it over. It's taken from you. ROB: Yeah. But them releasing the information is the last play. There's a lot in between. It's really interesting. Some interesting trends I have seen in this world – I don't know what you've seen here – is an increase – we have one client who is moving to virtualized desktops. It was an S&P 500 company and they got ransomwared, and they're just over it. So they are deploying – all of their developers are going to be developing on virtual Windows boxes, I think on Amazon's cloud. Virtual desktops. YOEL: Yep, not surprising. You hear a lot more than that. I give examples of what people can do as individuals, but my clients are B2B, so it's more like how they present a ransomware, patching solutions, things like that. Having different keys in order to access different information, using cryptocurrency and things like that. All kinds of different technologies in order to be able to prevent different kinds of penetration for IT and OT and industrial and ICS. It's amazing. Think about it; if they take down the energy supply, you're screwed. You have no food. Nothing gets to you. They can't even pump the water that comes out of your faucet. Everyone's out in the street killing each other. ROB: We got a scary sneak preview. I don't know what the immediate COVID-lockdown experience was for you, but you realize how overoptimized and how fragile our supply chain is. What was your experience? YOEL: Yep, yep, yep. A lot. ROB: What could you not get and what can you still not get? YOEL: I have a couple old B2C clients from back in the day back in the States, and they're ecommerce. Ecommerce was through the roof when people couldn't go to the store. I was like, “Yo, we've got to up our budgets. This is amazing. Our ROI is like 5x the previous month. This will only last as long as the pandemic or until things open up.” He goes, “I can't. My supply chain is screwed.” We had to cut budgets, and it was time to rake it in. He couldn't supply. We had to go through and start removing products on their website. They sell beads for arts and crafts, high end beads and all that, like African beads. Just to get an idea. And that's not even important stuff. Then you talk about all of your medication and all that. I know we're totally off topic, but that's fine. All of your medication ingredients that go into medication and all of your technology and everything is made overseas, not to mention your master PPE equipment and everything. Nothing was made here at the time. Big changes have been made in the last 6 months, thankfully, for America to be able to centralize and other countries to start bringing their manufacturing back home. It's become a national security risk. ROB: Yeah. I was going to say, that's a good security story as well. We talked a little bit about some things you'd learned along the way. What are some other lessons you have learned from building WadiDigital that you might do a little bit differently if you were starting from scratch? YOEL: Starting from scratch? It's such a simple question but I never thought of it that way. I would've maybe hired a little bit earlier. I would have taken processes more seriously. I never worked at another agency, so I would've hired a consultant that worked at another agency to give me some tips on how to do and build things, processes, streamline, and save time. Oh, another thing I did, if you own an agency: get a personal assistant. I learned between me and let's say one junior when it was just the two of us, only one person working under me, all my time was client-facing, and then I would assign tasks on Monday.com and she would do them. But then my other time went a lot of times to stuff in my personal life. So you can hire someone pretty cheap either locally, in my case – I hired someone on my block – or you can hire someone virtually to do a lot of the stuff you need to do in your personal life. I freed up almost an hour and a half of my time a day. That's three client calls a day. That's a lot more work and business that I can take on. I only started that a couple months ago. After I got used to the personal assistant, I was like, “Why didn't I do this years ago?” ROB: [laughs] Right. What I have found is you start off thinking of a few things you could delegate and hand off, and then you just keep on realizing things you can hand off. There's a freedom that starts to come when you start to think about the additional things you can take off your plate instead of having the mindset that you have to do it. YOEL: It's a shift. It doesn't make any sense to people that don't. Once you start delegating and handing things off, your life changes. ROB: I think to some people it sounds very indulgent. It sounds like one of those first world problems of whether or not you have an assistant. But when you're trying to build a first class business, it's hard to imagine how you can go without it. After a time. Maybe not when it's just you. YOEL: But it's not even that. I know a lot of people, they're employees themselves, but they hire some help at home to help with the kids and dishes and cleaning and things like that, and it makes a huge difference. Then they can stay later at work, maybe earn more. And these aren't people building a business; they're employees. They just need some help so they can mentally recharge, so they're not up all night cleaning up after the house and the kids or whatever or helping with tutoring with children. In a sense, it's all a personal assistant in a way. ROB: Right, especially now, probably, to have someone who is in your inner circle, who you know and trust their habits. In the middle of the pandemic, I'm not scared, but I am careful. The list of people I'm going to call to babysit my kids has gotten a lot shorter right now because I want to know how you're living your life. YOEL: Yeah, I feel you, man. My wife and I went through the same thing. There's less babysitting. ROB: For sure. You mentioned processes. I think a lot of us, especially the creative class, “I'm going to go start a business,” bucks at the idea of structure and process. It almost feels like rules, but it's also kind of like having a bionic exoskeleton sometimes that can help you be a lot stronger than you would be on your own. What was it that helped you realize – was there a particular process that you realized needed to be tightened up or some experience that made you turn the corner on processes? YOEL: I found out that one of my competitors had some processes that I wasn't doing, and then I really looked into it and I figured out, “I need to get it together.” [laughs] I went all-in on these processes. I started making processes and spreadsheets, processes in Monday.com, processes on what I do before and after a call and everything. It's almost automatic. I don't think about it. It's become a habit, and everything's documented, and no work ever gets forgotten or unchecked by doing things a certain way. Processes are important. But you don't notice you need it until you either hear complaints from a client or you find out what other people are doing in the industry and you're like, “Oh, I should be doing that. Why aren't I doing that?” Which is why I recommended earlier to bring in a consultant, because you don't know what you don't know. ROB: Right. Those experiences beyond yourself, certainly. YOEL: Correct. Especially because I haven't worked at an agency, so I haven't really learned how to do that. I don't have that experience of “Here's how we do things, here's how we do training, here's how we do keyword research,” and the processes of hiring. You need other help sometimes to see things differently if you don't have that experience. ROB: We've had a couple of those sorts of folks on. There's a couple of gentlemen, David C. Baker and Blair Enns, who co-host the 2 Bobs podcast. They've both been on here, and they are both consultants to agencies that just have that longitudinal visibility. Even right now, if you want to say, “Hey, what are people doing? How are people's bookings? What categories are hot, what categories are not hot? What are people doing about office space?”, these are all things where you need some perspective. YOEL: Right. But get more specific. I don't follow what people do; I try to do the exact opposite of what everyone does. But when it comes to processes, you need to get specific. Don't follow the crowd per se, unless you want to enter a rat race, but sometimes you're straight-up missing the obvious, which you don't even know. ROB: Very solid. Yoel, when you think of what's ahead for WadiDigital and marketing and maybe cybersecurity, what are you excited about that's coming up? YOEL: We're trying to transition from a cybersecurity marketing agency to a cybersecurity marketing and media agency, so in addition to influencer marketing and doing those things, we're building some reading resources, websites, cybersecurity news websites, cybersecurity TV show. We're trying to do – that's for a few years from now. We're really trying to make the destination for everything cybersecurity marketing and media so if you're in cybersecurity, you're a fool not to work with us. ROB: Where's that going to live? Do we have a future parking spot domain for that, or some digital properties? Or just follow WadiDigital? YOEL: You can follow WadiDigital on LinkedIn, but right now, cyfluencer.com. “Cy” like cyber. That's our distribution platform. That's going to be launched January. There's a LinkedIn page we literally just made, and then Cyber Intel Mag is going to be where we do our cyber news and all of that. It's a cyber intelligence magazine. And then there's some other things I can't really share just yet. Just follow me or WadiDigital on LinkedIn to learn more. ROB: Got it. Is it WadiDigital.com? Where do we go to find you? We can find you on LinkedIn. YOEL: Yep, wadidigital.com, but the best is search “Yoel Israel” in LinkedIn. Send me a connection request, tell me you heard me from here, and I look forward to following and engaging. I'm very active there. ROB: Awesome. If we google your name, there's a nice Google ad that runs right up top too. It's pretty sweet. YOEL: As it should. [laughs] Control your name. ROB: Very good. Yoel, thank you for taking the time to share your experience. It's great to learn about what you're doing both within cybersecurity marketing, but also that goal and the thought and the distilled knowledge going into the platform and the media side. It's really, really instructive. YOEL: Awesome. Thanks. My pleasure, and I appreciate you having me on. ROB: Thank you so much. Be well. Bye. YOEL: Cheers. ROB: Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. Converge helps digital marketing agencies and brands automate their reporting so they can be more profitable, accurate, and responsive. 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SwordPlay - S3E17 (ep.80) - The Harrowing of Hades - What does the “Harrowing of Hell/Hades” refer to? - What is the difference between Hell and Hades? - What other passages might relate to Christ’s descent? - How do we interpret 1 Pet. 3:18-20? - Is Peter alluding to the book of 1 Enoch? - How does our interpretation fit the overall context of Peter's letter? - What do early Church writers say about Christ descending into Hades? view our website: swordplay.cast.rocks search "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review. feel free to re-post to social media text questions to 316-24-sword (79673) send questions and comments to: swordplaypodcast@gmail.com

SwordPlay - S3E16 (ep.79) - 1 Peter 3 - Is the instruction to “wives...husbands” or to “women...men” in a household? (v.1) - Does Peter compare wives to slaves? (v.1) - Is Peter saying a woman should stay with an abusive husband? (v.1) - Are Christian women prohibited from braiding hair or wearing jewelry? (v.3) - What does it mean to have a gentle and quiet spirit? (v.4) - What does it mean for wives to be submissive? (v.1, 5) - How would wives be frightened into doing what is right? (v.6) - Does Abraham and Sara represent the ideal marriage? (v.6) - In what way is a woman weaker? (v.7) - How is the husband's prayers hindered? (v.7) - What does it mean to be kindhearted? (v.8) - What is the blessing that we give and inherit? (v.9) - What does it mean to suffer for the sake of righteousness? (v.14, 17) - What is the parallel between Is. 8 and 1 Pet. 3? (v.14-15) - What does it mean to sanctify Christ as Lord in your heart? (v.15) - What is our hope and how do we defend it? (v.15) - How does baptism correspond to Noah and the Flood? (v.21) - Is baptism essential for salvation? (v.21) - What is the connection between Peter’s teaching on submission and one’s conscience? (v.21) - Why does this mean water baptism as opposed to just “spiritual” baptism? (v.21) - What is significant about being at the right hand of God? (v.22) - How are angels/authorities/powers now subjected to Christ? Were they not always subjected? (v.22) - Why did we skip v.18-20? This week’s Featured Creature: Deber 2020 St. Nicholas Award: former Liberty University president and chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. view our website: swordplay.cast.rocks search "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review. feel free to re-post to social media text questions to 316-24-sword (79673) send questions and comments to: swordplaypodcast@gmail.com

SwordPlay - S3E15 (ep. 78) - 1 Peter 2 v.13-25 - What are the limits of the Christian’s submission/subjection to governing authorities? (v.13-14) - Who was the king when Peter said these things? (v.13) - What did Peter have in mind when he said to honor the king? (v.17) - What does it mean to use your freedom as a covering for evil? (v.16) - Why is loving the brotherhood and fearing God sandwiched between honoring all people and the king? (v.17) - What does “for the sake of conscience towards God” mean for the slave? (v.19) - Why doesn’t the NT condemn slavery outright instead of merely providing moral instruction? (18-20) - Is Peter’s instruction to slaves compatible with critical (race) theory? (18-21) - Who has been called to suffer? Why? (v.21) - Was Jesus really sinless? (v.22) - What does it mean that Jesus bore our sins? (v.24) - Did Jesus bear our sins on a cross or on a tree? (v.24) - What OT text does Peter interact with at the end of ch.2 & how does he apply it? (21-25) This week’s Featured Creature: Lucifer view our website: swordplay.cast.rocks search "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review. feel free to re-post to social media text questions to 316-24-sword (79673) send questions and comments to: swordplaypodcast@gmail.com

A sermon given on Advent I, 2020. Is Peter talking about the apocalypse or something else in his fiery vision?

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Is demonic activity on the rise? Is there something in our culture that has turned a switch onto "high" when it comes to the world of dark energies infesting our environment? There is a hierarchical system of demons who want to maintain control of the living and seem to stop at nothing to do so. How does living protect themselves from such forces? Today we discuss Demonic Culture with Peter James Dowling on The Grave Talks. PART 2 - AVAILABLE TO GRAVE KEEPERS ONLY - LISTEN HERE (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) In part two of our interview, available only to Grave Keepers (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) , we discuss: What were some of Peter’s fears when he began investigating demons and trying to help people who were suffering? What does Peter fear today now that this is part of your world? Is Peter now a target for dark entities, even after you leave a case, almost because dark entities view him as a threat? People falling into a dark trap who went into demonology, what were some of those traps?  As a Grave Keeper, for $5 per month you will get: Access to every episode (http://www.thegravetalks.com/category/podcast-episodes/) of our show, AD-FREE – MONTHS BEFORE THEY GO PUBLIC. Access to every EXCLUSIVE PART 2 episode of our show for Grave Keeper Only! Access to submit questions to upcoming guests of our show. The “good feeling” knowing that you are keeping this show alive (It really does feel good!) Listen to part two of this interview and get exclusive access to HUNDREDS of bonus episodes at http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks

Is demonic activity on the rise? Is there something in our culture that has turned a switch onto "high" when it comes to the world of dark energies infesting our environment? There is a hierarchical system of demons who want to maintain control of the living and seem to stop at nothing to do so. How does living protect themselves from such forces? Today we discuss Demonic Culture with Peter James Dowling on The Grave Talks. PART 2 - AVAILABLE TO GRAVE KEEPERS ONLY - LISTEN HERE (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) In part two of our interview, available only to Grave Keepers (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) , we discuss: What were some of Peter’s fears when he began investigating demons and trying to help people who were suffering? What does Peter fear today now that this is part of your world? Is Peter now a target for dark entities, even after you leave a case, almost because dark entities view him as a threat? People falling into a dark trap who went into demonology, what were some of those traps? As a Grave Keeper, for $5 per month you will get: Access to every episode (http://www.thegravetalks.com/category/podcast-episodes/) of our show, AD-FREE – MONTHS BEFORE THEY GO PUBLIC. Access to every EXCLUSIVE PART 2 episode of our show for Grave Keeper Only! Access to submit questions to upcoming guests of our show. The “good feeling” knowing that you are keeping this show alive (It really does feel good!) Listen to part two of this interview and get exclusive access to HUNDREDS of bonus episodes at http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks

Jason and Cory sit down to discuss Derby County's upcoming match against AFC Bournemouth. In this episode we are joined by Peter from The Cherry Chimes to discuss the match. How is Bournemouth dealing with the transition from Eddie Howe to Jason Tindall? Is Tindall a carbon copy of Howe or is he his own man? Was it a risk from the Bournemouth board to higher the long time assistant? What went wrong for Bournemouth last season and how are they coping with life back in the Championship? David Brooks is a massive talent but Cherry fans did not see much of him last season. Why? Can he come back and have an impact this season? Is Peter happy with Bournemouth's transfer business? We also discuss Harry Wilson and Derby's new winger Jordon Ibe. We also give our score predictions for the match. How optimistic are we feeling?. Thank you for listening! Get in touch with your questions or comments. On Twitter: @ramsreview1 ; Facebook: @ramsreviewpod and Email ramsreview@hotmail.com

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Peter Doherty is an immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Show notes Selected links •Follow Peter: Website | Twitter •'I'm 79, I won the Nobel Prize and I don't give a s---', AFR profile of Peter Doherty •Pandemics: What Everyone Needs To Know, by Peter Doherty •The (in)famous Imperial College paper Topics discussed •Has Peter always not given a shit? 7:32 •Peter's odd high school experience. 9:00 •How the media report on science. 12:30 •What is the difference between a virus and a bacterium? 15:08 •How does a new coronavirus come into existence? 17:47 •What is Peter's area of expertise and what does he know about pandemics? 22:57 •What has the coronavirus pandemic taught us about the usefulness of epidemiological models? 25:20 •The politicization of lockdowns. 35:57 •The origins of America and Australia's cultural differences. 47:33 •Social media and political polarisation. 57:05 •In weathering the pandemic relatively well, was Australia lucky or were the epidemiological models too pessimistic? 59:56 •Can we just lockdown the vulnerable segment of the population, rather than the whole population? 1:03:52 •Is Peter optimistic about keeping a lid on the virus until a vaccine arrives? 1:08:25 •What do governments need to learn from the pandemic to be better prepared for the next one? 1:16:00

Our theme for the year is "Change what You Love." And the original idea behind the theme this year was to confront the idea that the things we love are somehow fatalistically, genetically hardwired and therefore impossible to change. Our love can change. And it's a choice. We all came in this morning with love that needs changing. And we emphasized three things. - It possible to change. - You have control over that change. - It's the main thing God wants you to do with your life. The great commandment is not a command to do anything. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. That's a command to change what you love. But how do we do that? Well our current series, "Love the Commandment," helps us answer that question. Today is our last installment of this series of five messages. We have been looking at this cycle that conversely either creates and strengthens love in our hearts or deconstructs and eliminates love in our hearts. The heart moves through this cycle and in each phase there are commands that God gives us to obey. And when obeyed, it changes our love. Thus far we've looked at the first three quadrants. - Belief Predicts Fulfillment (Belief) -> You believe you'll be happy if you are rich. - Anticipated Fulfillment Drives Behavior (Pursuit) -> You find a good-paying job. - Behavior Leads to Experience (Cultivation) -> You save and invest and spend money. Cultivate wealth. Today we'll talk about the final quadrant of evaluation. Every quadrant is important and contributes to the love changing process, but this quadrant, as you will see, is where the change actually happens. After we've believed something for a time, pursued it, and served that thing, it creates an experience. And there are seasons we all go through where we compare our current experience with what we originally believe. Based on my experience, is this thing worthy of my continued pursuit? That's an important question! Sometimes our experience says, "Absolutely, keep going." Other times, we say, "Mmm, that provided some level of enjoyment, but I can see where this is going and I'm not so sure I think it's worth it. Maybe there is something better?" When we evaluate we open the possibility of being controlled by new ideas: - Things are up for grabs. I could be right. - But I might be wrong. I'm willing to be wrong. I'm willing to admit I've been barking up the wrong tree. - I'm being open-minded. I'm willing to re-evaluate what has value and what is worth following. The experience that comes out of the belief/pursue/cultivation process is pretty important to think about. But there is a major problem associated with that experience. It can sometimes mislead you. To illustrate, consider this image. In the cartoon you have a couple guys digging. There's a pile of diamonds off to the right. There's the prize. There's the object of fulfillment. The guy on top is clearly a guy who is in hot pursuit. He's investing everything he has. He's submitted himself entirely to the process. All of his eggs are in this basket. Now the guy below was in the same condition but has somehow abandoned his pursuit. The question is, how did that happen? That's a really important question. How do we determine in life that something is no longer worth pursuing? Well at some point he evaluated and determined that it was no longer worth it. At some point, this guy reached a tipping point where he observed: - I've been digging for a long time and I'm really tired. - Look at my hands, they are full of blisters. - I only hit one or two tiny junk diamonds along the way. My body aches. There are only two possibilities: either I have believed something wrong or I haven't dug deep enough. And he concluded, I don't think this place even had diamonds. And his changed belief results in new actions. Maybe you've known someone who once was all in with Christ and seemed to be really following him and then turned away. How does that happen? Answer: somewhere along the way he or she reevaluated. Maybe you feel that way. Maybe you are still a follower of Christ but you find yourself so much less motivated than you once were. You seem to be following but at a distance. I mean you are digging but with so little enthusiasm. So easily distracted. So half-hearted. Maybe you are re-evaluating even now. Now, there are commands in the Bible that God gives us when we find ourselves in a season of evaluation, and particularly in a season where it seems like our experience doesn't square with our belief. God wants us to do something when we find ourselves in this evaluation season. Now I want to illustrate how these commands help us by looking at Peter. Because Peter underwent a major faith crisis where he believed, pursued, served and then tragedy struck. And that experience caused him to reevaluate nearly everything he believed to be true. Now for the sake of today's message we are going to lump all these commands under the heading of "Following." People follow politics, sports, or the stock market. If you are following something, you believe it has value, so you pursue it and you serve that thing. You give it your time, your money, your mental energy, etc... Well, Peter followed Jesus. Let's just trace the word 'following' through the life of Peter. So here we have a command. Follow me. Now if you were Peter, why would you obey that? Well, you would have to believe that if you followed him, it would be rewarding. There's an implied claim. Dig here and you will find gold. And all through Jesus' ministry, he's claiming, "I am the diamond and gold mine." All the I am statements are value claims. So these are the claims. Follow me and I will give you both what you want and need. Follow me. Pursue me. Let me shape you. Let me cultivate your minds and souls so that you can receive happiness. I am the way. These are the claims. Peter, do you believe it? Well, you vote with your feet, don't you? Peter drops his net and follows Jesus. He must believe it to some degree. In fact, Peter straight up says it. He nails the doctrinal statement. Do you remember that time when Jesus asks his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" Some say you are John the Baptist. Some say you are Elijah. Some say Jeremiah or some other great prophet. Some say this. Some say that. Okay great. Now the real question. Peter says, "Jesus, I believe you are the Messiah and that's why I am following you. I am serving you because you are the rabbi/teacher." Peter says, of course, I believe that you are the Christ. Jesus, I follow you because I believe that you are the path to life. Okay, that's good. Remember the diamond digger? Peter is digging for diamonds. He believes in the claims. But here's the million-dollar question. What happens when your hands get blisters? What happens when your muscles get sore? Will he keep digging? Will he keep following? Or will he turn away? It's one thing for Peter to follow Jesus when he's the most popular guy in town. Does Job follow you for nothing? It's easy to be a Patriots fan when the Patriots are winning. The real test happens when Jesus isn't so popular. Do you remember John chapter 6? Street magicians draw crowds. This was right after the feeding of the 5000. That was a pretty cool trick. So the crowds were electric. Do another trick for us! Is Peter just one of these fair-weather fans? Well, in John chapter 6 we see the answer. Jesus teaches some really hard things about the cost of discipleship. The crowds heard those words and began to grumble. Jesus went from being really popular to not so much. They didn't like the way that sounded and so many turned away and stopped following him. It's a bit of a chilling scene. There's a lot that hangs on that question. You can envision sadness in Jesus' face. But Peter just nails this answer. You can hear the confidence in Peter's voice. Master, Rabbi, I follow because I believe. I'm digging for diamonds, Master. I'm no fair-weather fan. A few blisters aren't going to stop me, are you kidding? I believe you are Messiah promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David. Belief results in pursuit. Pursuit submits itself to the cultivation process. I'm all in Jesus. Peter is convincing, even to himself, just how committed he really is. Do you remember the passage in Matthew 19 where Jesus rebuked the rich young ruler and said, "Hey, if you want to enter into eternal life, you have to repent of your riches, you have to sell all that you have, and you have to follow me." Rich young man, you have been serving money; you need to serve me. So give it up and come follow me. Now the rich man went away sad because he wasn't able to do it. Peter, instantly compares himself, pride welling in his heart. I was able to do it. I have left all I have. I gave up my career. I gave up my home. Peter said to himself, "Dang, I'm good." Jesus, I believed you. I've pursued you. I've served you. What's my reward for being so awesome? Now you know where this is going, but let me ask you. Is this all a ruse? Is this just a game. Is Peter totally just gaming things? No of course not. Peter really believes that Jesus is the Messiah. He really, truly loves the Lord. Of course he does. He really has discovered that Jesus is worthy. He really is following him. He really has given up everything. But Peter's love and following-commitment are weaker than he believes. A test will come that will reveal the shallowness of his loyalty. A test will come that will show a veneer upon a very serious weakness. Jesus, just days before his crucifixion, says to his disciples. And even the way he addresses them is so telling. Little children! I like the way the Bible so tenderly and compassionately insults us: He's saying, Peter, you think you are following me, but you won't be able to follow me. Here's what he's saying. He's saying, Peter, you think you love me, but you really don't love me the way you think you do. Peter, our actions always follow our love. You can't follow me because you don't yet love me the way I love you. Now, this had to have been so offensive to Peter. This was a straight-up attack on his pride. Peter has just got to be screaming in his heart, "Yes I do! Let me prove it to you!" Surely Peter had listened over and over to Jesus' words on the cost of being a follower of Christ. Jesus never made it easy to follow him. He didn't want fickle followers. Peter surely had taken very seriously to heart Jesus' words, I am certain that Peter had rehearsed his brave death for Jesus many times. I am sure he was convincing himself at this moment of his loyalty. Yes, I love you Lord. Yes, I will follow you. I am willing to die for you! What do you mean I won't be able to follow you? I'll do anything. Oh man, that was probably so confusing, hurtful, and angering all in one. Peter could not possibly envision a scenario where he would stop following the Messiah. It's just not possible. But it was oh-so-possible. Peter was confusing his love of self with love for the Lord. The feelings were being mixed together and indistinguishable in his own heart. He was not sufficiently acquainted with his weakness and fickleness. Weakness is never revealed until pressure is applied. Now what happens on that Thursday night is a scene of unspeakable complexity and emotional trauma as the pressure is applied to Peter's weak love. Peter watched his world fall apart piece by piece. - Peter watches as Jesus crumples like a blanket in weakness in the Garden of Gethsemane. He's never seen Jesus so weak, so distraught and worried. He had always seen such confidence when Jesus was facing his enemies. Was Jesus actually worried? Was he actually conceding his own capture? - Then the Romans come and confirm Peter's worst nightmare. Now, remember the Bible says that a cohort of soldiers came to arrest Jesus which was somewhere between 300-600 soldiers. There are hundreds of Roman soldiers behind the priest. Hundreds. And Peter goes on the offensive. They come to arrest him and Peter breaks out his sword to prove just how willing he is to die for Jesus. He swings wildly at the high priest's servant and chops of his ear. This is some serious bravery. Peter was showing commitment. Jesus miraculously puts it back on tells Peter to take a chill pill. What? Then Jesus is led away by those soldiers. And all the disciples flee for their lives. And Peter is standing there bewildered. Jesus, do something! And you can imagine Peter's thoughts. What is happening? Well, maybe Jesus is staging a giant reveal. Maybe he's going to pull a stunt in just a bit. Maybe he's setting the stage to make his entrance as Messiah even more dramatic. So Peter slinks along. And the way the Bible says it is so masterful. Peter follows Jesus at a distance, of course physically, but what a window into what is happening in his heart. Wow, what artful use of language here. He's following but now he's not so sure. His confidence is shaken. Now he's not so sure he's the way, the truth, and the life. So he's following, but at a distance. Now Messiah is getting flogged. He's getting whipped and lashed with bone and glass. Now I want you to think about that. Psychologically, what does that do to you to see your hero being strapped to a post and whipped and bloodied and beaten? And then out comes this little slave girl and verbally undresses him. He's not undone by the high priest. Not by a member of the Sanhedrin. Not by the elite in society. He's undone by a slave girl. In that society, respect came from being old, male, wealthy, and free. She was none of these things. Peter's confident, rock-solid, impenetrable, undying love for Christ was exposed to be fragile and paper-thin. His entire being was reduced to a puddle by a slave girl. And of course, it was at that moment two things happened. He caught the eye of the beaten and bloodied Jesus from across the courtyard and his ear caught the sound of the early morning rooster. Now you can imagine the shame. Such terrible shame and embarrassment and mortification. How he must have replayed those words over and over in his mind. Disturbed, stomach-churning, sick, disgusted with himself, and hopeless. Now there was a deep shame, but also deep examination. Peter was cast into this fourth quadrant, into this season of evaluation. The body was hung on a cross. It was taken off the cross, put in a grave. The grave was sealed and a Roman guard posted. Peter was forced into a moment of deep, deep evaluation. This Jesus is not who I thought he was. Now let me show you a picture of Peter at this moment. Peter's whole life had been undone. Peter had left his nets to follow Jesus. He had invested his life savings. Peter had given Jesus all his time. And it turned out to be all for nothing. In the words of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, "We had hoped that he would be the one to deliver Israel. But I guess we were wrong because he's been dead now for three days." Folks, this is the epitome of the evaluation phase. Peter's whole worldview was being upset and rocked and undone. He now believed that it was all a waste. That all that digging was in vain. And he turned back. Now here's where the story gets really fun. What do you when you stop digging for diamonds? You go back to what you know. Just that. The tender insult. That's familiar. Speaking of familiar. Now Peter is beside himself. Always wanting to prove his loyalty and commitment he tosses himself entirely into the water. There was not a molecule of reluctance in Peter’s heart. Whatever it took to be next to his Lord, the price was worth it. One hundred yards; one hundred miles. He was going. And like an oversized labrador, he pants on the banks of the sea of Galilee and embraces his Lord. So they sit down and eat breakfast in amazement. Now comes the moment we have all been waiting for, this interchange between Peter and Jesus. His fickle love has been painfully put on display. Peter has been dressed down and he's been shown to be such a talker. Almost everybody agrees that Jesus’ reference to “these” in verse 15 is a reference to the other disciples. In other words, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these other disciples love me?” Peter is probably slightly perplexed by this question. "Why would you ask this Lord, you know I love you? Of course. Lord, did you not see that I just jumped out of a boat in the cold early morning water just so that I could be with you 10 seconds earlier? None of the other guys did that. I don’t just jump into the water for everyone. Of course I love you.” But the question probably did not sit well. Why would Jesus try and compare my love to the other disciples' love for Him? So I think at this, Peter probably said to himself, you bet Lord, I will feed your lambs. The text does not say how much time went by between these statements, maybe a minute or two. Then: A second question, exactly the same. Okay, Jesus is making a point. And now Peter is starting to feel like his words are lacking meaning. Had he not said before that he loved the Lord? Lord, if everyone else abandons you, I will die for you. I love you Lord. But Jesus is still asking the question. I'm sure he could feel the hollowness of Peter's words. Your words don't mean very much after you've betrayed the one you claim to love. But he's stuck. What's he supposed to say? I picture at this moment the smoke from the fire shifting and it's a painful reminder. He remembers the fire from a few nights ago. Oh, how confidently he had boasted in his love and loyalty to the Lord and he denied him three times. Three times he had denied the Lord and now three times, the Lord asks him if he loves him. The lesson was painfully burrowing its way into his soul. The wound had to be reopened to be cleaned. The Lord was lovingly holding up a mirror and letting Peter see his frailty. Peter, you are only powerful when you are weak. You are only able to serve me when you beg for grace at my feet. Such a good answer. Such a beautiful answer. This is where the Lord wanted him. Broken. Unsure of his ability. Distrusting self. Doubting his motives. Weak. Vulnerable. Powerless. Tired of failure. But truly loving his Savior. This is where the Lord wanted him, but it took reopening the wound to get him there. And then comes, what I think, are the most powerful words in the entire narrative. Wow, the first time Peter left his nets clear back in Matthew chapter 4 he thought he knew what that meant. But wow, those words mean something entirely new now, don't they? And Peter turns back and he starts to dig. And for the rest of his life, he digs and digs and digs. Now we witnessed Peter in this season of evaluation as he basically fails. But what should he have done? I want to go back to Mark chapter 8. This is the passage where Peter's great confession happens. Jesus asks, "Who do you say that I am?" Peter says, "You are the Christ, the son of the living God." Do you remember what happens next? Three things happen in a row that are so incredibly significant. First, Jesus predicts his death. Peter just gets done with this great confession and here comes the wet blanket. Jesus predicted that he would die. And he did so plainly. Okay Peter, listen. You believe I am the Messiah. Great. Listen to me carefully. There is a period of evaluation ahead of you where you will question this, so I'm telling you in advance. But listen guys, remember, after three days, I will rise again. So do you see what he's doing? He's giving them resources for the day of trouble. Now rather than use those resources, Peter argues the premise. Peter doesn't like this idea of suffering and weakness but Jesus rebukes him. Here's the second thing that happens? This is crazy. Jesus warns against denying Christ in a pressure situation. He's saying, I'm giving you resources so when that period of evaluation hits, you'll be ready. What's his point here? His point is: okay you believe me. You believe I am Christ. Recall that to mind when trials come. Because they will come. And the suffering you are about to endure is worth it. That's a tall order. Man, I have to take up my cross and follow Christ? I have to die? I mean, I believe that Jesus is the Christ, but do I believe it enough to die for him? Here's the third thing that happens. Do you see what he's doing? There are all these resources available to them when suffering thrusts them into a season of evaluation. When your hero dies, that's pretty discouraging. Who could blame the disciples for reevaluating, unless of course what? Unless of course, Jesus told them that after three days, he would rise from the dead! Do you see the point? ## The Main Point Now here's the point of telling that story. This was all set-up so that we could understand what God wants us to do when we find ourselves in a season of evaluation. This season comes either in times of success or tragedy. If we are experiencing success then we evaluate and say, "Wow, this is going great, and it just reinforces our belief, strengthens our pursuit, and on we go." But in times of trial or tragedy, we evaluate and say, "Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree." Peter found himself in a season of evaluation and doubted. He evaluated, doubted, and turned away. He forgot to look back to the promises of God. He forgot to fix his eyes on the promise. God said this would happen. God said that he would rise from the dead. You see Peter was so convinced that suffering should not be part of the equation that he was undone when it happened. No. Suffering is part of the equation. And so is doubt. Doubt will come when we suffer. And in those seasons, God commands us to do certain things. It's during these times that God gives us commands to obey. And they are commands that help us to look past the blisters, past the temporary discomfort, and remind us that there is a reward if we continue to believe, pursue, and serve. I want to give you some examples of these. You should not be surprised that trials come upon you as if something strange is happening. Peter was shocked. Don't be like Peter. Instead, look to what God has promised he is going to do through trials. Look at what God does through trials. But also look past the pain to the outcome. Do you see that? In trials, we tell ourselves, "Maybe all this digging isn't worth it. No! It is worth it!"" These blisters hurt. I don't think there are any diamonds here. Oh, I'm sweaty, my back hurts, and this is just a colossal waste of time. What caused you to start digging in the first place? You had an absolutely sure source. You, for very good reason, were convinced. That reason hasn't changed. Your guide told you that it would be hard and there would be trials and blisters. So don't give up. That's exactly what you should expect. Keep digging. The prize is there. What these commands do is strengthen our hands. They steady us against things that would potentially rock us. I think the most encouraging thing is that even if you have failed and doubted the Lord, none of it is a waste. Jesus says, to Peter, follow me. And what does he do? He's already dug this giant hole. So he just turns around and picks up where he left off. He just keeps digging. ## Practical One of the main points to be made as it relates to this cycle is that this cycle is always happening. And there's a passive and active way in which the cycle happens. If you do nothing, the cycle is happening. - You will believe things that are handed to you. - You will pursue the things that are easy and sound fun. - You will be shaped by the cultural forces that are all around you. - And you will evaluate life based on how you have been shaped. And the scary thing is that it will all be wrong. You will end up loving the world. Let me just make this super practical. Are you following the Lord? Are you obeying the commands to believe, seek, serve commands? - Do you read your Bible every day? Do you have a plan to read your Bible? If you don't, how can you possibly even know what to believe? The entire Christian faith comes out of this book. Nowhere else. Our entire faith assumes this is the source of truth and that all things believed must come from this book. If you aren't reading it, then without question you will default to believing other things that are not true. - Do you pray every day? One of the main ways we pursue God is through prayer. It's the main way we seek him. If you believe this is true then you will seek the God who wrote it. - Do you serve him? People have a thousand reasons why they don't serve in the church and none of them are good ones. - Don't you realize that service to God is not because he needs you, but because he wants to shape you? By serving in the church, you will be molded into the right shape to be an effective tool in his hands. - For me, you want to know the things that have helped me the very most to be an effective minister of the gospel? Sure, going to seminary was great. Bible school was great. Israel was great. But the thing that has helped me the very most is to talk with real people. To walk with real people through suffering. To have to work through differing perspectives. - When you suffer or succeed, what are you remembering? - The cross quadrants are designed to help one another! - The wheel works in community!

God has granted repentance to us that leads to life. Sure it’s a life ever after, but it’s a life that begins now. It’s a life that has had very real, tangible, physical, life-altering ramifications disciples. Why do people accept Christ, accept a life that gives them persecutions? Moves them from their homes? We know from the Bible that Peter has a mother-in-law. Is Peter still married? Is he a widower? Why has he left his life, his family, his job as a fisherman, and why is he now currently in a Roman soldier’s house telling him about Jesus? Because Peter has received repentance that leads to life. The same repentance that has come to Gentiles, like you and me? Have you received that repentance that leads to life?

In this episode, the guys talk about a passage of Scripture that is often misunderstood: 2 Peter 1:1-12. Is Peter teaching pietism in this text? We consider the gospel, as well as the saint/sinner reality, and how those things relate to our pursuit of piety. The post Dazed and Confused: Does 2 Peter 1:1-12 Teach Pietism? appeared first on Theocast - Reformed Theology.

On Episode 299 we discuss... → "We don't know jack about this boy" → Why did we not get a backstory on this critical character? → The weakest link → How much magical talent did Peter have? → "If there is a way to survive, he will find it" → Adaptable, resourceful, and competent? → Is Peter the best evidence that we sort too soon? → Why did Peter choose Percy to be his human? → The silver hand: a gift and a burden → Forever "Wormtail" after his first betrayal → Peter and Snape - the worst roommates EVER → Mercy is better than revenge

In this episode we talk about all the news the media is not covering like Tik Tok banning ugly people and Kanye West being exposed for lying about T-Swizzle. We also dive deep into some conspiracy theories such as: Are favorite colors a myth? Is Peter lying to his Instagram followers? And are participation points ruining the workforce? And as always: Stay jolly, stay lit, and STAY HOME. Available every Wednesday wherever you listen to podcasts Video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdK5VbGBUQU5FfYVrMQ5puA Full listing of availability here: https://stephandpeter.weebly.com/podcast.html Follow @shitgotmefired on Instagram and Twitter for more!

Is this Bachelor season the Darkest Timeline? Or can any show this stupid really be considered “dark” if it’s only exposing the shallowness underneath? For observations like this and more, check out this episode the the Bingchlor! Melanie and Jacob break down the pre-hometown and hometown dates and try to figure out where it all went wrong. Other questions like: Why does Peter like crazy? How does it feel to stomp grapes in winter? Who would be a good bachelorette? Is Peter good at basketball? (Answer to that last one is no.) It’s pretty good stuff. Endnotes: For me, this NakeyJakey video hits home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4mueJ9wHs

This week we have a combo special where we discuss episode 9 and 10 of The Bachelor. Is Peter finding himself caught in an unfortunate reality or an ideal fantasy??

Welcome (back) to Bachelor Gaytion! This week we break down Peter's three remaining relationships. Can Madison and him overcome their differences? Is Peter's abandoned jet ski still in the water? Will Peter marry someone he can't communicate with? Tune in as we recap the chaos of fanta$y $uite week!

Are the Burnfords worth the pet loyalty? Did Chance deserve everything he got? Is Peter the BEST human? This week, we hop up on the garbage cans, over the fence, through the Sierras, and through a muddy trainyard with the cats vs. dogs vehicle, Homeward Bound! This week's panel: Hosts: Robert Speewack (@rob_speewack) & Kris Pepper Hambrick (@pepperedkris) Defense: Evan Christopher (@notchris_evans) Roasters: Kacie Rahm (@kacierahm) Keep up with 24 Flames Per Second & Partyfish Media: Join our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/24flamespod Email: 24flamespod@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/24flamespod Twitter: www.twitter.com/24flamespod Instagram: www.instagram.com/24flamespod Partyfish Facebook: facebook.com/partyfishmedia Partyfish Insta: instagram.com/partyfishmedia A big thank you to our Patrons that keep our roasters toasting: Kevin Conner, Timothy Duryea, Kwesi Phillips, Rob Joynes, Will Paulson, Kacie Rahm, & Brian Toews. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/24flamespod/support

Melissa, Jeremiah, and Renae peek into Peter Pilot's third Bachelor episode and ask the important questions: is Alayah being fake? Is Peter ever going to find love? and who is this Pete Rose fellow after all?

Episode 4! In Pedals & Thorns, we discuss the tragic death of Bachelorette contestant Tyler G. Then, former Bachelor Colton is writing a book! Will we read it? We get into his controversial past, and debate if his book will contain anything that will be damaging to his brand. To end, we get closer to determining the reason for the rift between the Rodgers family Next we recap episode 3 including: -Champagnegate ends, and the torch is passed to Alayah. -Victoria P is Clark Kent. Is Peter equipped to handle what she reveals? -Demi’s Extreme Fight Club -Tammy was robbed! Alayah and Sydney steal the show, but who really won the match? -Alayah reminds Sydney of a girl... that she... once knew... -Jed’s impact on this season. -Was Peter right in throwing Sydney under the bus? -Peter’s Pool Hoodie -The ripple effects of Sydney vs Alayah -Victoria P drops a bombshell. -Justice for Jasmine and Alexa. (Sorry for the inconsistent audio! Working out the kinks) As always, presented by @dayonespodcast Follow on ig: Captainsavearosepod --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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On episode 58 of the PC Update, now these two would be a force as friends. Brad is feeling suffocated by his lies. Is Peter truly his father's son? This episode covers GH episodes from October 7th - 11th. *Music provided by Scott Holmes (song name - Electronic Vibes).

Saint Peter’s Basilica is one of the premier sites of Christianity. It’s said to mark the location where Simon Peter—one of Jesus’s most important followers—was killed and buried. It is now the heart of the Roman Catholic Church. But is the story true? Is Peter really buried here? What would have brought a small-time Galilean fisherman all the way here, to the capital of the Roman Empire? We’ll find out in the next few minutes!

Thesis- What was the purpose of the Day of Pentecost-----FULFILLMENT OF JESUS PROMISE -v. 1-4--- - -Pentecost- , penta - 50-- 50 days after Christ resurrection-- - Tied to Old Testament - Leviticus 23-4-7-- - Promise of Spirit --- Luke 24-49- Acts 1-4-5,8- John 16-7-13-- - Holy Spirit coming as evident to all --- heard --sound--- saw --appeared--.-- - Key- They were filled with Spirit----CONSEQUENCES OF SPIRIT ON APOSTLES -v. 5-11--- - All were amazed at spiritual Galileans-- - All heard in their own language----WHAT DOES SPIRIT COMING MEAN- -v. 12-13--- - Many questions- -What's going on--,-- -Is Peter drunk--, -Are they crazy---- - Answer- John 16-14-15. Spirit declares Christ-- and what he did, who he is. John 15-26-27.----CONCLUSION- The coming of the Holy Spirit is to declare, glorify and magnify Christ- not to make available supernatural acts for man to glorify himself.

Alex and Dustin go into full details on Avengers: Endgame. Our thoughts, likes and dislikes, as well as what it means for the MCU going forward. Spoilers for the movie Avengers: Endgame. - (0:37) Endgame Box Office info - (2:52) Our tweet length review of Endgame - (5:45) What is our Rating of Endgame? ---- - (10:40) Warning you are now entering the Spoiler Zone ---- - (13:15) Likes and dislikes - (40:40) Overall thoughts on Endgame - (46:30) General Questions - (49:00) What is up with the timeline yo? - (53:53) Is Peter's whole class go with him in the SNAP - (55:38) Alex's Soap box on movie Trailers - (1:00:00) Character arcs and reflections: Iron Man, Captain America and Black Widow - (1:14:41) Do you need to see the whole MCU before Endgame? - (1:18:02) Now seeing Endgame, how do we rank Infinity War? - (1:20:33) When did Dust look at his watch? - (1:21:46) Who we thought would be the first avenger we would see in the movie? - (1:22:54) Guardian of the Galaxy 3 thoughts - (1:24:24) RIP Stan Lee

Is Peter a fan of Grahams comedy?  We find out.

On episode 25, Sam went to a party and got felt up in the face. Is Peter a cross between Spinelli, and dare I say... Nathan? And Nina made the announcement of a lifetime, said no one. This episode covers GH episodes from February 11th - 15th. *Music provided by Scott Holmes (song name - Electronic Vibes)

Is Peter hatching in the shed? Is there a polar bear on the island — er, ship? Enjoy the first episode of the new year, complete with discussion toward the future of Tommyknockin and a BRAND NEW CONTEST. #WokePeterdactyl #VoteHowardTheDuck @CharleyMacorn

The Black Cat is the star of this latest chapter in the PS4 Spider-Man game. The Crawlspace crew reviews this DLC and if it's worth the extra purchase. Ashley, the biggest Black Cat fan I know, is on this episode. Highlights of the episode include:*Review of the storyline*What part took the most time to complete?*Is Peter going to be a father? If you would like to listen to this episode please become a patreon member. The  link is right here to sign up and support the Crawlspace. https://www.patreon.com/crawlspace    

Is Peter strong or weak? This and more. And he's totally strong.

Arriving at last at the gates of Flenmoor, the party has to find its way to the next step of the Stag's quest. But the city is larger than most of them are used to, and getting around on crowded streets can be a perilous thing, especially in a city like Flenmoor. Where is the library? Who's that skulking in the alley? Is Peter really that cold-hearted? Find out now in this week's episode! ----- Thanks for sharing our story; we really appreciate your support and hope you enjoy what we've put together. We're having fun sharing our adventure with you each week, and we'll only get better with time! If you like what you hear, please take the time to leave us a review on iTunes, since that bumps us up in the ratings and lets others join in the fun. For quick updates on a more real-time basis, follow us on Twitter (@stackodice), where we'd love to hear from you. Or if you want to share a question or idea with us, drop us a line at stack.o.dice@gmail.com. Our thanks for the week: We're having fun getting to know an amazing group of friends on Twitter. Your comments, DM discussions, and thoughtful questions are helping us to improve each week. Keep up the conversation! Zowie! Thank you, Battlebards, for offering a great collection of sounds for use in podcasts. Thanks for making it possible to add extra depth to our games! We used some Creative Commons sound effects and music in this show. For the sake of attribution, we list them here. The following were taken from freesound.org, a fantastic resource for free royalty-free sound effects. Sound effects that fall under the Attribution license: Man oof.wav is a copyright of xtrgamr We also used our first batch of Battlebards sound effects. If you like what you hear, check them out at battlebards.com. If you sign up for a Prime account, be sure to use our special code, stack, and you'll get a 20% discount on everything you buy from them. Here are the sound effects we used in this episode: Large City - City of Trade in Day, by Olivier Girardot Mace Deflected by Wood Shield, by Pablo Betancourt Breaking - Simple Mace Sundered, by Pablo Betancourt Shortbow Arrow Hits Chainmail, by Jean-Baptiste And now, on with the show-- we're excited to tell a story with you.

Is Peter de Villiers making progress in Zimbabwe? The answer to that and many other questions are provided by the @rugby365com team. Eugene Eloff met up with the former Springbok coach, De Villiers, in Zimbabwe and brings us first-hand news. We also have our Welsh friend Illtud W Dafydd on call from Cardiff to talk about the reports of South African teams' mass exodus to Europe, the European Champions and Challenge Cup finals. Dafydd tells us that the Pro14 is desperate to get on par with other European competitions and looking at expanding into new markets. He also speaks about the value of SA teams in the competition. You simply don't want to miss this one!

Swordplay - Ep. 7 - 2 Peter 3 - What previous letter does Peter refer to? (v.1) - Does Peter have any specific word or commandment in mind? (v.2) - What “last days” is Peter talking about? (v.3) - How does the flood escape their notice? (v.5) - What’s the difference between earth and world? (v.5-6) - How did God flood the kosmos? (v.6) - Does “present” heavens and earth imply a past heavens and earth?(v.7) - Is this the same day of judgement of 2:9 (v.7)? If so, how are they kept under punishment until that day? (2:9) - Is Peter teaching an atemporal nature of God? (v.8) - Can God predestine if doesn’t want any to perish? (v.9) - What are the “elements” to be destroyed? (v.10) - How do we hasten the day of God? (v.12) - Original language “destroy?” (v.10-12) - How does the “promise” relate to 1:4; 3:4, and 3:9? (v.13) - Does new earth mean that our planet will still exist, like after the flood? (v.13) - Original language “found?” (v.10, 14) - Any idea of Peter and Paul’s common audience? (v.15) - How do some distort the Scriptures? Intentional? (v.16) - Can the Christian fall away? (v.17) - How do you grow in grace and knowledge? (v.18) - What is the day of eternity? (v.18) view our website: swordplay.cast.rocks search "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts or Google Play. "Like" us or write a review feel free to re-post to social media send questions and comments to: swordplaypodcast@gmail.com

Part Three of Three My marathon conversation with Peter Gray concludes with an exploration of Peter's vision for the future. It's a bold vision, but he describes the observations that led him to believe it will become a reality for more and more children and families in the coming years. The future is self-directed education. The Three Phases: 1. Discovery, learning about the world, the self and how the two fit together 2. Career Exploration, community/professional immersion, apprenticeship opportunities 3. Credentialing For Specialized Work, the Praxis idea of a better credential than the college degree Other Questions: -Does Peter have hope for government adoption of self-directed education? Publicly supported options? -How does education change? Considering the massive school bureaucracy. -Are unschoolers finding professional satisfaction? -How do schools like Sudbury help with career exploration? -Is Peter familiar with the mission of Praxis? Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College, and author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. Peter serves on the Organizing team for the Alliance of Self-Directed-Education. He also runs a blog on Psychology Today called Freedom to Learn, where he regularly explains and promotes self-directed education from a variety of angles. Related Shows: [PODCAST] #504: Unenclosed Children and Self-Directed Learning – With Kerry McDonald [PODCAST] #378: An Introduction To Self-Directed Learning and Living For Teens (with Nick Hazelton) [PODCAST] #511: James Davis – Forced Learning Is Too Dangerous [PODCAST] #513: Building Self Directed Learning Communities (With Diane Murphy) Related Series: The Creative Pursuit (2016) Please Support School Sucks We do cool things! Thanks to your support. School Sucks is one of the longest running liberty-minded podcasts on the web, and the only one completely devoted to the issue of education (versus public school and college). Your support keeps the show going and growing, which keeps us at the top of the options for education podcasts and leads to new people discovering our work. Please help us continue to spread this important message further! Thanks for visiting this page. Before you do anything, please bookmark and use this link for your Amazon shopping: Shop With Us One-Time Donation Options: Paypal/Venmo; Donate DASH Donate ETHEREUM Donate LITECOIN Donate BITCOIN Donate BITCOIN CASH Donate ZCASH Recurring Options: Support Us On PATREON Help incentivize our production! Pledge $1 per content item and access dozens of Patron only audios and videos. Join the A/V Club If you're looking for more School Sucks content, the A/V Club option grants you access to a bonus content section with 400+ hours of exclusive audio and video. If you are a regular consumer of our media, please consider making a monthly commitment by selecting the best option for you... A/V Club - Basic Access - $8.00/Month A/V Club - "Advanced" Access - $12.00/Month Sigma Sigma Pi - "Privileged" Access - $16.00/Month   Crypto Addresses: DASH; XcZfPP6GZGVo9VKViNBVJZja5JVxZDB229 ETHEREUM; 0x3c5504CE3401C028832173506fa30BD4db4b7D35 LITECOIN; LKNp24f5wwvZ2QzeDbvxXgBxyVwi1yXnu2 BITCOIN; 1KhwY836cfSGCK5aaGFv8Q7PHMgghFJn1U BITCOIN CASH 1AmqLVxjw3Lp9KT5ckfvsqfN2Hn3B1hCWS ZCASH; t1by1ZGJ63LoLSjXy27ooJtipf4wMr7qbu4

There’s not a pastor alive, who is in his right mind, who wants to take on the topic of women’s clothing or how they dress. It is a mine field littered with devastatingly dangerous traps that could spell disaster for even the most well-meaning pastor. But in the opening verses of 1 Peter 3, Peter is going to voluntarily run right into mine-infested territory willingly giving advice on women’s hair, clothing and jewelry. And, as if that wasn’t enough, he’s going to call them to submit to their husbands – even if their husband is an unbeliever. Is Peter nuts? Has he lost his mind? Or is he some kind of chauvinistic, gender-biased bigot who has it out for women? We have to keep in mind that Peter has just finished talking to believing slaves, those who had come to faith in Christ, but still found themselves living in the same miserable conditions they were in before salvation. And the women to whom Peter was writing we in a similar situation, many of them having come to faith in Christ, apart from their husbands. This was a cultural taboo in Peter’s day. Women were expected to practice the faith of their husbands. They were not allowed to have their own opinion about religious matters. But Peter is calling these women, who had become believers, to live out their newfound faith in such a way that they would be visible, tangible witnesses to their unbelieving spouses. For Peter, it was about a change in behavior based on a change in their standing before God.   

Covering Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad. Is Peter still driven mad by Discovery? Does Anne-Marie still love it? And why didn't they use the Bee Gees original ffs? Answers in this latest blast of madness from the orgs. DS9 service is resumed on Thursday as they cover Blaze Of Glory & Empok Nor.… Read more →

Michael & Isaac recap the three remaining guys meeting the Lindsay family. Is Peter going home? Will Bryan's attacking from the family matter? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael & Isaac recap all four of the hometown dates of Eric, Bryan, Peter and Dean. Is Eric gaining momentum? Is Peter still in the lead? Did Dean's family impact Rachel's decision? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeremie woke up and someone pissed on his cornflakes. Bryde wants to fantasize and negotiate the logistics of a 4 way camping trip with her “french Canadian boyfriend”, Jeremie and his Girlfriend Bekah. Then we sit down with @tieduptee to talk about her obsession with ropes, knots, and suspension. What is Shibari? Da F**k is mocojute? Is Peter a good name for your penis? All this and more on this weeks TMO. Music:  Sorrey - My Fault Rich Aucoin - Brian Wilson Is A.L.i.V.E Eddie Drennon & the BBS Unlimited - Get Down, Do the Latin Hustle (Nick Bike Edit)   Shout out to @Sp00nfed for the post work   Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Make love to us on Twitter

One of the major challenges of our age is that there are a lot of words everyone uses as if we're all talking about the same thing but actually mean entirely different things. Case in point: "capitalism" gets thrown around a lot but it means something totally different to the Chicago School of Economists, Behavioral Economists, the Austrian School of Economics and to Adam Smith. Today, Hunter interviews Peter Schiff one of the most prominent voices in the libertarian movement, a word that has so many different meanings that it's hard to criticize as a whole. We can, however, look at what one man believes in this interview. What and how does Peter Schiff think? Well, I've got to say that I don't think that Peter Schiff's worldview makes much sense either internally, with what we know about human thinking, the historical record or what Adam Smith and America's Founding Fathers taught. In short, I don't think the cargo cult Peter Schiff is proposing will deliver prosperity for humanity. It will, however, deliver prosperity for him. In any evolutionary system, parasitism will emerge as a strategy and the same is true in human societies. You can create a following peddling a plausible-sounding worldview and then extract both money and political power from your followers. Usually, people think of this behavior only in terms of religion but, in fact, you can do it any arena. It applies to self-help. It applies to financial advice. It applies to political promises that gain you power but are so out of touch with reality that they have no chance of delivering your followers prosperity. So, let's look at what I took away from this. Firstly, there's where Peter and I agree. Wall Street has severe problems. It has lost touch with capitalism and confused self-interest with short-term greed that will line the pockets of bankers while destabilizing society as a whole. And I'm quite sure that Peter can help his followers make money by shorting the market. However, in that sense, he is little different from the people he criticizes. He profits while potentially destroying the system that allows him to profit. America's Founding Fathers believed in checks and balances. Nowhere is this laid out more clearly than in Federalist Paper 51 where James Madison writes "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." The key lies in setting the ambitions of men against each other. You make people compete and check each other's behavior. In the same way, the free market is not about a free for all. As Adam Smith, Capitalism's Founding Father wrote, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” And one of the things that merchants of drugs or ideas like Peter will do if left to their own devices is peddle things that enrich themselves while harming the people to whom they sell. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. As I mention in this podcast, one of the reasons why the FDA was given increased powers was because of the case of Eben Byers. At the time, one of many patent/quack medicines was Radithor. It was water filled with radium. People drank radioactive water which was marketed as "Perpetual Sunshine." Eben Byers' doctor prescribed it to him (in part because he was getting kickbacks) and Eben Byers ended up becoming riddled with cancer and with holes forming in his skull. He became so radioactive that he had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin. As The Wall Street Journal titled an article about his death ""The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off." Now, Peter Schiff had never heard of this story. As far as I can tell, he never bothered to try and understand why the FDA or any other government bureaucracy was founded. As I explained to him, I understand that too much government regulation is a problem. That's why I brought Luigi Zingales on to talk about A Capitalism for the People. It's also why I'm such a huge fan of Hernando DeSoto's Other Path. However, I don't know that no government regulation is the answer because that is simply removing the checks and balances. Further on in Federalist 51, James Madison pretty much nails it: "The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." It's hard to top that. Checks and balances and checks on that. So, if Peter Schiff believes the FDA has grown too large and wants to figure out how to check it, then I think that's a great conversation to have. Instead though, when I tried to engage Peter in a conversation about what was the proper role of government–or what was the baby and what was the bathwater–he said, "There is no baby!" He doesn't understand why the FDA was founded and he just wants to throw it all out. How to describe such a man? Well, he's certainly not very wise and if he's not very wise then maybe he's a fool. Structuring a society is a complicated and fascinating challenge. You have to recognize (as the Founding Fathers of both the American representative democracy and capitalism did) that whatever holes you leave someone is going to come in and try and exploit them. There is a hole in American public life that has been counteracted by the failures of the educational system and the media and people will come in and try and exploit the hopes and fears of the general public with plausible-sounding ideologies that potentially destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs: our society. While Peter repeatedly tries to blame America's government for the problems of the American people, in a democracy both power and responsibility ultimately rest with the people. The fault, dear friends, lies not in our Senators, but in ourselves. And there are many holes and problems with Peter's thinking. If he can't even spot the problems in his own thinking what makes him think that he can understand all the intricacies of modern medicine? Arrogance. Peter overestimates his own intelligence. I used to do that too but I've come to realize that I'm not that smart. Modern society is complex and that is fantastic. There are people who sit around all day trying to cure diseases that I haven't even heard of. And there are people whose job is to check the claims of all those people. That's the FDA. Ambition counteracting ambition. It's all very Founding Fathers-y. As someone who has spent the last twelve years doing a pretty deep dive of the neuroscience, psychology, culture, economics and political science, I can tell you that evaluating everyone's claims is a lot of work and I can tell you that there are a lot of people who put themselves forward as authorities on these things who clearly haven't read most of the things they claim to be authorities on. My ambition is to counteract their ambition. I want to lay out the material clearly enough so that you can decide for yourself what to believe. I don't have the time to also go through all the research on what drugs are safe, the science of climate change, vaccinations, nutritional information, what car to buy and on and on. I need to rely on others for that. Some of that will be done by the free market and some of that will be done by the government, but, frankly, I'd rather have it done by both. I'd rather have the ambition of one counteracting the ambition of the other. Removing one source of accountability when you don't even understand why it was put in in the first place is dumb. Can we just say it? Peter's ideas are dumb. They may make him money. They may make you money in the short-term. But if society collapses you're fucked. The end of the world as we know it isn't fun. It's hell on earth. Markets and societies are held together by trust and responsible citizens use their voice to try and create a society with increasing levels of trust. They don't profit by spreading mistrust. There are problems with government and with Wall Street and we should be respectfully challenging the thinking of everyone to try and make those institutions work better. Peter isn't doing that. But he can always change his mind. I hope he will. As of our interview though, I find his thinking to be little different than that of the Wall Street investors he rails against. It's clear on the failings in the thinking of others and very unclear on its own failings and it is an ideology that narrow-mindedly serves his interests at the larger expense of society. Is Peter malicious? I don't think so. He does, however, strike me as oblivious. That can always change. We're all oblivious to many things but there is a chasm of difference between people who mostly seem interested in promoting their own view like Peter and those (like Yascha Mounk in episode 228) who are interested in serving the people by constantly trying to find the flaws in their own thinking. You'll make your own decision. I can just pull back the curtain and help you see what's behind all the jargon and rhetoric. Peter Schiff doesn't think in terms of checks and balances. He thinks in terms of throwing out whatever's in the bath because he thinks there is no baby. In my reading of Adam Smith, Peter Smith is not a capitalist. He doesn't believe in the free market. He believes in anarchy. To which I say: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." The people must control the government and to do that they must be well-informed and that means recognizing false prophets who profit from their false doctrine. What is Peter Schiff? Well, I'll leave that up to you to decide. Are the beliefs he's promoting as solutions to America's problems going to make things better or worse? And to really answer that question, you need to read widely. You need to manage your own feelings about the government and the market. And you need to recognize that institutions develop to solve problems and that when those institutions become problematic, you'd better first understand why they were invented before you simply throw them out.

This week Corinne shares the harrowing tale of how she and her fellow Survivor: Gabon castaways viciously murdered an innocent turtle in cold blood. Max's fellow White Collar tribemate Tyler Frederickson sits in and looks pretty. Topics covered include which Kaoh Rong castaway is a fancy boy? Does (possibly) the best bounty hunter in Southeastern Michigan do yoga? Is Nick a douche? Has Debbie killed a man? Is Peter more Pete than Pete? And who would Corinne rather endure: Alecia or Sugar. Also, Max and Corinne take your calls on the #SurvivorATF hotline (607-AT-FIXIN). At the end of the day, it's a great episode. For a chance to win a visit from Max and Corinne to your Survivor viewing party tweet a video of 60 seconds or less showing off where you watch and explaining why you should host the hosts of Survivor With All The Fixins. Make sure to use the hashtag #SurvivorATF and to tag @fymaxwell and @CORINSANITY. More details can be found on the Survivor With All The Fixins Facebook page!

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