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In 2012, D.A. Carson published his book, The Intolerance of Tolerance. Around the time his book released, he spoke on the subject at a conference I attended; I remember thinking that his book was timely and potentially prophetic, but none of us could have fully appreciated the gravity of what was coming. The following quote from Carsons book illustrates exactly what I mean: Neither the old tolerance nor the new is an intellectual position; rather, each is a social response. The old tolerance is the willingness to put up with, allow, or endure people and ideas with whom we disagree; in its purest form, the new tolerance is the social commitment to treat all ideas and people as equally right, save for those people who disagree with this view of tolerance. Advocates of the new tolerance sacrifice wisdom and principle in support of just one supreme good: upholding their view of tolerance. So those who uphold and practice the older tolerance, enmeshed as they inevitably are in some value system, are written off as intolerant. Thus banished, they no longer deserve a place at the table.[1] I would suggest that the older tolerance allowed space to disagree charitably with those who did not share your point of view. Not only are those of the older tolerance banished from a place at the table. Today, we find ourselves in a very interesting state of affairs in that if your ideology does not line up with that of the loudest and most vocal of ideological voices regarding sex, identity, what it means to be human, and what must be tolerated, you will be diagnosed with a certain phobia and placed into the category of mental illness. So, before we get into Ephesians this morning, I thought it would be fun it first define the word Phobia and then consider some phobias that do actually exist to better appreciate Ephesians 5:11-14. So, what is a phobia? According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), a phobia is a intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Furthermore, NIH affirms that, Although adults with phobias may realize that these fears are irrational, even thinking about facing the feared object or situation brings on severe anxiety symptoms. According to Wikipedia, a phobia is, an anxiety disorder, defined by an irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation. The definition that Merriam-Webster still provides for phobia is, an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation. So, permit me to list a few common phobias and then share with you some other phobias that are not as common. Acrophobia: An intense fear of heights. Claustrophobia: An intense fear of confined spaces. Arachnophobia: An intense fear of spiders. Entomophobia: An intense fear of insects. Here is a list of phobias that you may not have heard of before: Arachibutyrophobia: An intense fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Nomophobia: An intense fear of being without your mobile phone. Plutophobia: An intense fear of money. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (a 36-letter word): An intense fear of long words. Taking a stance against something is not necessarily due to a phobia but possibly a moral conviction. A legitimate question that must be answered is from what standard does your moral conviction come? Does it come from culture, or does it come from something that transcends culture? For the Christian, our moral standard is not culture but the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ as our cornerstone. Here is how the apostle Paul explained what standard we use to judge what is good or evil, it is Ephesians 2:19-22, So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of Gods household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Jesus, who is the King of kings and Lord of lords and serves as the cornerstone of His Church, gave those who make up His Church this command, Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age (Matt. 28:19-20). The prophets and the apostles are the foundation of Jesus Church, and it is the prophets and the apostles whose teachings make up the Bible as the Word of God. The Bible is, ...inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17). If we are going follow Jesus and live as though the Bible is the Word of God, we will be labeled by those still in darkness as phobic and intolerant. As a people who, were once darkness, but now... light in the Lord we live for what God loves and we stand against what God hates. Listen, if we are going to try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord (v. 10), we will be compelled to live counter-cultural in a world that calls evil good, and good evil. As children of light we belong to the God who condemns any culture that calls evil good, and good evil: Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight (Isa. 5:20)! We Expose the Darkness by Not Participating in It Now we come to Ephesians 5:11 where we are commanded to avoid all participation in the useless deeds of darkness. What does that mean? The NIV translates verse 11 this way: Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. The NKJV gets closer to the heart of what Paul is communicating: And have no fellowshipwith the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. The word used for participate (synkoinōneō) does not mean fellowship in the Greek, but it does mean share. It is a Greek word that is also used in Philippians 4:14, Nevertheless, you have done well to share [synkoinōneō] with me in my difficulty. To share in something is to have fellowship with it. What are the useless deeds of darkness? Well, they include but are not limited to sexual immorality, impurity, greed, filthiness, foolish talk, and vulgar joking. The useless deeds of darkness is what we were once slaves to before we were made alive with Christ when we, lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath (Eph. 2:3). The useless deeds of darkness is what the apostle John described in 1 John 2:16, For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. You may recall how the holiness of God is used to the third degree unlike any other attribute of God mentioned in the Bible. Day and night the seraphim do not cease to call out to one another, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come (Rev. 4:8). I pointed out how this is a literary devise used in the ancient languages to emphasis a very important point. There is another literary devise I told you about when we began this series in Ephesians, which comes in the form of repeated words or phrases; one such phrase that is repeated over and over again in Ephesians are the phrases in Christ, in the Lord, in Christ Jesus, and in Him; collectively they are used about 33 times. If you are a Christian, your identity and life is in Christ. Pauls description of the Christian as being in Christ is a phrase that is equivalent to remaining in Jesus; here is what Jesus said about remaining in Him: I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me (John 15:1-4). Sinclair Ferguson said this about what it means to be in the Lord: To be in the Lord is to belong to a new world, to inhabit a new kingdom in which we become new men and women. In this new kingdom, new powers are at work in us the powers of the Spirit of the crucified, risen, ascended, reigning and returning Christ. Once we were in the darkness. Worse, the darkness was in us we were darkness. Now we have been drawn into the light, illuminated by Christ the Light of the world. More, we have been invaded and transformed by Christ the Light. In the Lord we are light![2] So, if we are now children of light because of our redemption and union with Jesus, why in the world would we want to have fellowship with or share in the useless deeds of darkness? Not only are we not to participate in the useless deeds of darkness but we are to expose them. What does Paul mean that we are to expose the useless deeds of darkness? Well, it is clear Paul is not telling us to avoid the world, for that would go against the way he lived his life and much of what is written in the both the Old Testament and New Testament. The design and plan for Gods people was always to be on mission by entering into the darkness as His instrument to light up the darkness. Israel was saved from Egypt to be Gods kingdom of priests to be His light in a dark world: Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exod. 19:5-6). Israels great failure was that they repeatedly and continually and habitually as a nation, participated in the fruitless deeds of darkness when by their mere existence should have exposed the emptiness and uselessness of sin. Israels problem was a heart problem only Jesus is able to fix. Jesus is Gods Yes to the promise of Deuteronomy 30:6, The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live. Jesus is Gods answer to Ezekiel 36:26, Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. You, Christian, are the recipient of such promises through and in Jesus, so why would you even want to have fellowship, share, and remain in the fruitless deeds of darkness that rob you of the kind of life you were designed to have in God? Not only are the deeds of darkness fruitless, but the wrath of a holy God is set against such deeds! This is why Paul wrote concerning those who continue to practice sexual immorality, impurity, and greed (5:3), for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret (v. 12). Our Life in Christ Exposes the Uselessness of the Deeds of Darkness The only hope for lost humanity is Jesus! He is the only solution for our sin problem. Only through the life of Jesus and the death that He died for sinners can the spiritually dead be raised to new life. Sinclair Ferguson is spot on in his description of what happened when the Christian was saved from the wrath of God: We have been invaded and transformed by Christ the Light. Now as those who are alive with Christ, we carry the light of Jesus into the darkness of the world, this is why Jesus said, You are the light of the world.... Your light must shine before people in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven (Matt. 5:14, 16). So what happens when light invades a dark room? It exposes what is in the room. One of two things will happen when light exposes what is in the darkness, it will anger those who love the darkness, or it will reveal a better way to those tired and wearied by the darkness. To expose the darkness in the context of Ephesians is to contrast the living against the dead. It is not picket signs on the corner, bumper stickers, or hats that protest the darkness. It is what happens when light pierces the darkness of sins domain. The light of Christ displayed in and through His people reveals to those in the darkness that there is a better way because Jesus is the only way to experience the kind of redemption of our souls and the forgiveness of all our sins that will grant us true salvation and freedom (1:7).Many will reject Christ as the only remedy for our salvation as intolerant and they will run to the darkness, but there will be some whose sin will be exposed by the light of Christ, and they will run to Him for the life only He can give. This is the point Paul makes in verse 13, But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. I think the New Living Translation translates this verse in less confusing way: But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, for the light makes everything visible. Legislation and laws are good only in that it helps to suppress the evil we humans are capable of, but it can never fix the evil we are capable of. If you are darkness, you will yield the useless fruits of darkness to one degree or another. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can remedy the dark heart of humanity! The gospel of Jesus Christ alone, is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Rom. 1:16). Christian, you are living proof that the same power that raised Jesus from the grave is still possible today! You serve as a reminder everywhere you go that either the wrath of God can be avoided through Jesus, or the wrath of God is coming upon those who reject Him (see 2 Cor. 2:14-16). We who were asleep and dead in our sins, are only alive because the light of Christ has shown upon us. It is here in verse 14 that Paul quotes what was most likely an early church hymn composed on the basis of Isaiah 60:1-2 and Christ as the fulfillment of its promise: Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you. Here is what Isaiah 60:1-2 promises: Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you And His glory will appear upon you. Here is another one for those who reject Jesus as God! Only Yahweh has the power to redeem and raise the dead, yet Jesus has done in your life what only God is capable of doing. We who were once dead, heard the voice of Christ, and we arose to follow Him and now we live! We who once enjoyed the darkness, delight in walking in light as those who now belong to the One who said, I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life (John 8:12). Pursing Jesus is the only way to fight against our own sin and the temptation to participate in the useless deeds of darkness. Amen. [1] D.A. Carson, The Intolerance of Tolerance (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; 2012), 98. [2] Sinclair B. Ferguson, Lets Study: Ephesians (East Peoria, IL: The Banner of Truth Trust; 2021), 132.

In 2012, D.A. Carson published his book, The Intolerance of Tolerance. Around the time his book released, he spoke on the subject at a conference I attended; I remember thinking that his book was timely and potentially prophetic, but none of us could have fully appreciated the gravity of what was coming. The following quote from Carsons book illustrates exactly what I mean: Neither the old tolerance nor the new is an intellectual position; rather, each is a social response. The old tolerance is the willingness to put up with, allow, or endure people and ideas with whom we disagree; in its purest form, the new tolerance is the social commitment to treat all ideas and people as equally right, save for those people who disagree with this view of tolerance. Advocates of the new tolerance sacrifice wisdom and principle in support of just one supreme good: upholding their view of tolerance. So those who uphold and practice the older tolerance, enmeshed as they inevitably are in some value system, are written off as intolerant. Thus banished, they no longer deserve a place at the table.[1] I would suggest that the older tolerance allowed space to disagree charitably with those who did not share your point of view. Not only are those of the older tolerance banished from a place at the table. Today, we find ourselves in a very interesting state of affairs in that if your ideology does not line up with that of the loudest and most vocal of ideological voices regarding sex, identity, what it means to be human, and what must be tolerated, you will be diagnosed with a certain phobia and placed into the category of mental illness. So, before we get into Ephesians this morning, I thought it would be fun it first define the word Phobia and then consider some phobias that do actually exist to better appreciate Ephesians 5:11-14. So, what is a phobia? According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), a phobia is a intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Furthermore, NIH affirms that, Although adults with phobias may realize that these fears are irrational, even thinking about facing the feared object or situation brings on severe anxiety symptoms. According to Wikipedia, a phobia is, an anxiety disorder, defined by an irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation. The definition that Merriam-Webster still provides for phobia is, an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation. So, permit me to list a few common phobias and then share with you some other phobias that are not as common. Acrophobia: An intense fear of heights. Claustrophobia: An intense fear of confined spaces. Arachnophobia: An intense fear of spiders. Entomophobia: An intense fear of insects. Here is a list of phobias that you may not have heard of before: Arachibutyrophobia: An intense fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Nomophobia: An intense fear of being without your mobile phone. Plutophobia: An intense fear of money. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (a 36-letter word): An intense fear of long words. Taking a stance against something is not necessarily due to a phobia but possibly a moral conviction. A legitimate question that must be answered is from what standard does your moral conviction come? Does it come from culture, or does it come from something that transcends culture? For the Christian, our moral standard is not culture but the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ as our cornerstone. Here is how the apostle Paul explained what standard we use to judge what is good or evil, it is Ephesians 2:19-22, So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of Gods household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Jesus, who is the King of kings and Lord of lords and serves as the cornerstone of His Church, gave those who make up His Church this command, Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age (Matt. 28:19-20). The prophets and the apostles are the foundation of Jesus Church, and it is the prophets and the apostles whose teachings make up the Bible as the Word of God. The Bible is, ...inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17). If we are going follow Jesus and live as though the Bible is the Word of God, we will be labeled by those still in darkness as phobic and intolerant. As a people who, were once darkness, but now... light in the Lord we live for what God loves and we stand against what God hates. Listen, if we are going to try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord (v. 10), we will be compelled to live counter-cultural in a world that calls evil good, and good evil. As children of light we belong to the God who condemns any culture that calls evil good, and good evil: Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight (Isa. 5:20)! We Expose the Darkness by Not Participating in It Now we come to Ephesians 5:11 where we are commanded to avoid all participation in the useless deeds of darkness. What does that mean? The NIV translates verse 11 this way: Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. The NKJV gets closer to the heart of what Paul is communicating: And have no fellowshipwith the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. The word used for participate (synkoinōneō) does not mean fellowship in the Greek, but it does mean share. It is a Greek word that is also used in Philippians 4:14, Nevertheless, you have done well to share [synkoinōneō] with me in my difficulty. To share in something is to have fellowship with it. What are the useless deeds of darkness? Well, they include but are not limited to sexual immorality, impurity, greed, filthiness, foolish talk, and vulgar joking. The useless deeds of darkness is what we were once slaves to before we were made alive with Christ when we, lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath (Eph. 2:3). The useless deeds of darkness is what the apostle John described in 1 John 2:16, For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. You may recall how the holiness of God is used to the third degree unlike any other attribute of God mentioned in the Bible. Day and night the seraphim do not cease to call out to one another, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come (Rev. 4:8). I pointed out how this is a literary devise used in the ancient languages to emphasis a very important point. There is another literary devise I told you about when we began this series in Ephesians, which comes in the form of repeated words or phrases; one such phrase that is repeated over and over again in Ephesians are the phrases in Christ, in the Lord, in Christ Jesus, and in Him; collectively they are used about 33 times. If you are a Christian, your identity and life is in Christ. Pauls description of the Christian as being in Christ is a phrase that is equivalent to remaining in Jesus; here is what Jesus said about remaining in Him: I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me (John 15:1-4). Sinclair Ferguson said this about what it means to be in the Lord: To be in the Lord is to belong to a new world, to inhabit a new kingdom in which we become new men and women. In this new kingdom, new powers are at work in us the powers of the Spirit of the crucified, risen, ascended, reigning and returning Christ. Once we were in the darkness. Worse, the darkness was in us we were darkness. Now we have been drawn into the light, illuminated by Christ the Light of the world. More, we have been invaded and transformed by Christ the Light. In the Lord we are light![2] So, if we are now children of light because of our redemption and union with Jesus, why in the world would we want to have fellowship with or share in the useless deeds of darkness? Not only are we not to participate in the useless deeds of darkness but we are to expose them. What does Paul mean that we are to expose the useless deeds of darkness? Well, it is clear Paul is not telling us to avoid the world, for that would go against the way he lived his life and much of what is written in the both the Old Testament and New Testament. The design and plan for Gods people was always to be on mission by entering into the darkness as His instrument to light up the darkness. Israel was saved from Egypt to be Gods kingdom of priests to be His light in a dark world: Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exod. 19:5-6). Israels great failure was that they repeatedly and continually and habitually as a nation, participated in the fruitless deeds of darkness when by their mere existence should have exposed the emptiness and uselessness of sin. Israels problem was a heart problem only Jesus is able to fix. Jesus is Gods Yes to the promise of Deuteronomy 30:6, The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live. Jesus is Gods answer to Ezekiel 36:26, Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. You, Christian, are the recipient of such promises through and in Jesus, so why would you even want to have fellowship, share, and remain in the fruitless deeds of darkness that rob you of the kind of life you were designed to have in God? Not only are the deeds of darkness fruitless, but the wrath of a holy God is set against such deeds! This is why Paul wrote concerning those who continue to practice sexual immorality, impurity, and greed (5:3), for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret (v. 12). Our Life in Christ Exposes the Uselessness of the Deeds of Darkness The only hope for lost humanity is Jesus! He is the only solution for our sin problem. Only through the life of Jesus and the death that He died for sinners can the spiritually dead be raised to new life. Sinclair Ferguson is spot on in his description of what happened when the Christian was saved from the wrath of God: We have been invaded and transformed by Christ the Light. Now as those who are alive with Christ, we carry the light of Jesus into the darkness of the world, this is why Jesus said, You are the light of the world.... Your light must shine before people in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven (Matt. 5:14, 16). So what happens when light invades a dark room? It exposes what is in the room. One of two things will happen when light exposes what is in the darkness, it will anger those who love the darkness, or it will reveal a better way to those tired and wearied by the darkness. To expose the darkness in the context of Ephesians is to contrast the living against the dead. It is not picket signs on the corner, bumper stickers, or hats that protest the darkness. It is what happens when light pierces the darkness of sins domain. The light of Christ displayed in and through His people reveals to those in the darkness that there is a better way because Jesus is the only way to experience the kind of redemption of our souls and the forgiveness of all our sins that will grant us true salvation and freedom (1:7).Many will reject Christ as the only remedy for our salvation as intolerant and they will run to the darkness, but there will be some whose sin will be exposed by the light of Christ, and they will run to Him for the life only He can give. This is the point Paul makes in verse 13, But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. I think the New Living Translation translates this verse in less confusing way: But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, for the light makes everything visible. Legislation and laws are good only in that it helps to suppress the evil we humans are capable of, but it can never fix the evil we are capable of. If you are darkness, you will yield the useless fruits of darkness to one degree or another. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can remedy the dark heart of humanity! The gospel of Jesus Christ alone, is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Rom. 1:16). Christian, you are living proof that the same power that raised Jesus from the grave is still possible today! You serve as a reminder everywhere you go that either the wrath of God can be avoided through Jesus, or the wrath of God is coming upon those who reject Him (see 2 Cor. 2:14-16). We who were asleep and dead in our sins, are only alive because the light of Christ has shown upon us. It is here in verse 14 that Paul quotes what was most likely an early church hymn composed on the basis of Isaiah 60:1-2 and Christ as the fulfillment of its promise: Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you. Here is what Isaiah 60:1-2 promises: Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you And His glory will appear upon you. Here is another one for those who reject Jesus as God! Only Yahweh has the power to redeem and raise the dead, yet Jesus has done in your life what only God is capable of doing. We who were once dead, heard the voice of Christ, and we arose to follow Him and now we live! We who once enjoyed the darkness, delight in walking in light as those who now belong to the One who said, I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life (John 8:12). Pursing Jesus is the only way to fight against our own sin and the temptation to participate in the useless deeds of darkness. Amen. [1] D.A. Carson, The Intolerance of Tolerance (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; 2012), 98. [2] Sinclair B. Ferguson, Lets Study: Ephesians (East Peoria, IL: The Banner of Truth Trust; 2021), 132.

På svenska kallas det ”det glada 20-talet”, på engelska ”the roaring twenties”, på franska ”les années folles” och på tyska ”der goldener Zwanziger”. 1920-talet signalerar ett tygellöst, galet, skränigt decennium med jazz, dans och sexuell frigörelse.1920-talet var ett decennium som präglades av ekonomisk, social, teknisk och kulturell dynamik. Tankar om demokrati och jämställdhet slår igenom, och samtidigt utmanas av starka motkrafter. Vår nutid går att se som en kontinuitet av 1920-talets betydande händelser. Trots att det var närmare hundra år sedan, har decenniets effekter fortsatt att påverka vår värld på många sätt.I detta avsnitt samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med Klas-Göran Karlsson, professor emeritus i historia vid Lunds universitet, samt Kim Salomon, professor emeritus i historia vid Lunds universitet. De är aktuella med boken 1920-talet – En spegel för vår tid.1920-talets mode var djärvt och innovativt. Kvinnor bar korta kjolar och klippte sitt hår kort, vilket var en stor förändring från de mer konservativa klädstilarna från tidigare decennier. Stilen var ofta extravagant och färgstark, med en stark betoning på individualitet och självuttryck. Dessa modetrender har fortsatt att påverka modeindustrin till denna dag.Kvinnlig rösträtt infördes i USA 1920 och i Sverige 1921. Årtiondet gav upphov till en ny generation av "moderna kvinnor" som utmanade traditionella sociala normer och kämpade för större jämställdhet. Kvinnor blev mer oberoende och mindre bundna till hemsysslorna.1920-talet var även en tid av stora teknologiska innovationer. Massproduktionen av bilar började på allvar, vilket förändrade människors levnadsvanor samt associerades med frihet och modernitet. Dessutom blev flyget en symbol för framtiden, med Charles Lindberghs flygning över Atlanten 1927. Vi såg starten av radio i Sverige och Danmark 1925, och 1926 visades världens första TV i Storbritannien. Dessa framsteg bidrog till att forma en ny tids- och rumsuppfattning.1920-talet är också känd som "jazzåldern". Jazzmusiken, med dess lekfulla och improviserade stil, blev mycket populär och hade en stor inverkan på kulturen. Det var en tid av fest och firande, och jazzmusiken blev en symbol för denna känsla av frihet och spontanitet. Jazzens inflytande sträckte sig över alla aspekter av kulturen, från musik och dans till mode och konst.Trots all denna framsteg och förändring mötte 1920-talet också betydande motstånd och kritik. Många människor var oroliga för de snabba förändringarna i samhället och det ökande inflytandet av modern teknologi. Dessutom fanns det starka invändningar mot den ökande jämställdheten och kvinnors växande självständighet. Dessa invändningar ledde till en backlash mot modernismen och bidrog till att forma de sociala och politiska konflikterna under de kommande decennierna.1920-talet var en period av ekonomisk tillväxt och välstånd. Massproduktion och ökad konsumtion bidrog till att stimulera ekonomin och skapa jobb. Denna period av ekonomisk tillväxt ledde dock till en börskrasch i USA 1929, vilket markerade slutet på det glada 20-talet och början på den stora depressionen.Bild: Dans, Västergötalands museum, fotograf Per Adolf Larsson, Digitaltmuseum, Public Domain.Musik: Wa-Da-Da (Ev'rybody's Doin' It Now) - Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang, 1927, Internet Archive, Public Domain.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When I met my next guest for the first time after getting to know her on social media, I felt like I'd known her forever. Akruti Babaria is the founder of Kulture Khazana which is dedicated to sharing Indian culture with children through educational and play activities. Her story began in 2018 after the birth of her son, Ayaan. When Akruti realized that the diverse places she has lived in had no sign of her culture or community, she decided to do something about itNow through Kulture Khazana, Akruti shares with children around the US all the things she wanted to teach Ayaan about South Asian culture and all of its beautiful treasures.. She makes incredible Indian toys and Diwali gifts as well as games, puzzles and online story albums.  Kulture. She is a natural storyteller so she has storytimes that explain traditional Indian festivals like  Holi and Navratri.  Thanks to Akruti, Kulture Khazana is now the first Indian cultural toy brand founded in target.com and nordstrom.com, and it's going to be launching with another big brand.As a mother of two little girls who is trying to share our culture as much as possible . I could not recommend checking out Kulture Khazana more. Akruti really is one of the good ones.  What we talked about:Going full force for Holi: Akruti talks about the upcoming launch at Macy + her new products that make Holi safe and fun + her most popular product (02:52) The Story of Kulture Khazana:  Akruti shares her original journey to normalize Indian culture through stories  + the challenge of COVID + the diversity of products and sensory experiences in Kulture Khazana Personal Highlights: Akruti shares her pride in talking to her son's school for Diwali + her new school district campaign to expand South Asian culture to all classrooms. (19:31)Lessons from Akruti's Journey:  People are willing to help +  Not letting “no” ruin your larger purpose is the key to peace of mind  (23:27)Growing up Brown in School: Akruti opens up about being treated differently for being Indian + how it became the impetus to help Indian girls find their voice (27:18) Women in Indian Culture:   Challenging the subservient view of women in traditional Indian stories. (34:15)What Next? Akruti gives the lowdown on her upcoming projects (39:08) Rapid fire questions (40:10) Connect with Akruti:Kulture KhazanaLinkedinInstagram Let's Connect:Instagram This podcast is produced by Ginni Media

In this compelling episode of Nomad Futurist, hosts Nabeel Mahmood and Phillip Koblence welcome Shannon Hulbert, the CEO of Opus Interactive and a member of the Yurok Tribe. With over twenty years of experience in data centers, cloud, utilities, and advocating for digital inclusion, Hulbert offers a unique blend of professional expertise and personal background. Raised in a rural village on the Yurok Tribe reservation in Northern California—a place largely untouched by modern conveniences like electricity, telephone, or internet—she brings a distinctive perspective to the tech industry.During the episode, Hulbert shares insightful reflections on her early industry experiences, particularly noting the absence of utility companies at data center conferences and the rampant energy consumption:“Coming from an energy efficiency company as a Native American who has grown up with sustainability at the core of who [I am], to coming into the data center industry, at some of those early conferences, it was like, where are the utility companies? Like we're burning through energy here and there's so much opportunity for efficiency.”Hulbert explains how conversations and her drive help her keep up with the constantly evolving technology sector:“I'm just really passionate about innovation. So nothing else in the history of mankind is happening as quickly as what we're building right now in data centers and the cloud, the introduction of AI is here and that's huge."One notable trend Hulbert highlights seeing in her career was the migration towards sustainable, efficient power solutions, which has consequently shifted focus towards IT:“Now, nothing happens at the business level unless IT is involved and so it becomes very important to make sure that we have sustainable IT. Because for companies that have corporate social responsibility initiatives, this becomes one of the only ways that they're now able to show that they're doing their best where there's no longer brick and mortar.”This episode not only showcases Hulbert's unique insights as a representative of the Native American community but also serves as an inspiration for those navigating their career paths in telecommunications. Connect with Shannon Hulbert on LinkedIn to stay updated about her ongoing journey.BONUS: As promised during the Podcast interview, you can listen to Shannon Hulbert's electronic music here.

FINALLY! You guys can finally be told what albums you can listen to from 2023 based off of our expert opinions. Sign up for My Podcast Reviews today using our link! https://mypodcastreviews.com/?ref=podwoodforecast Listen to the show on whatever platform you prefer! Just go to this link: https://anchor.fm/podwoodforecast Check out our sosh meeds! https://www.facebook.com/podwoodforecast/ https://www.instagram.com/podwoodforecast/ Subscribe to Clifford's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ImCliffordToday/ Follow our band Sherwood Forest! https://www.facebook.com/musicofsherwood/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/2U9eals0CKSoRQ7UTv0uQl?si=WUZxyR_yTxSL1qRLV1O9Uw [00:00:00] – Intro [00:04:08] – Our Podcast Spotify Wrapped 2023 [00:17:20] – Housekeeping [00:20:29] – Our Favorite Albums 2023/Honorable mentions [00:38:03] – Ghost of Vroom 3 - Ghost of Vroom [00:44:13] – Isn't It Now? - Animal Collective [00:49:47] – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You - Caroline Polachek [00:57:11] – Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling - Slaughter Beach, Dog [01:01:54] – i/o - Peter Gabriel [01:12:11] – This Stupid World - Yo La Tengo [01:17:34] – Again - The Ongoing Concept [01:25:56] – But Here We Are - Foo Fighters [01:37:18] – Yes, and... - '68 [01:45:49] – Jenny From Thebes - The Mountain Goats [01:58:39] – Home Enough For Now - Benjamin Daniel [02:07:43] – Javelin - Sufjan Stevens [02:17:52] – Live At Bush Hall - Black Country, New Road [02:29:54] – This Is Why - Paramore [02:41:25] – O Monolith - Squid [02:49:16] – Movie Of the Week - Shakey Graves [03:06:10] – HELL MODE - Jeff Rosenstock [03:14:37] – USA - Petey [03:31:57] – The Window - Ratboys [03:18:58] – Can't Wake Up - Shakey Graves (again) [03:44:33] – Reflecting back on 2023 [04:03:15] – Clifford's recommendation [04:15:14] – In our next episode... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podwoodforecast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podwoodforecast/support

接班”百会特别号“，2024年的月度节目 KYCG 继续用每期60分钟不停歇的好音乐，带你回到经典调频广播年代。 曲目单： (00:00) Animal Collective - Isn't It Now? (Moor Mother Collage) (03:48) Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff - Magg Tekki (07:21) Škvíry & Spoje - 12/2 (13:07) Masatomo Yoshizawa, XTAL - Parallel (17:41) BALTHVS - Mango Season (20:08) Marlov Barrios - Metaverso (feat. Ishto Juevez) (24:50) Jorge Iván Martín, Arema Arega, Frank Santiuste - El Dinero (Instrumental) (28:02) Blockhead - Mississippi (feat. Aesop Rock) (31:55) unkle G - Looking For A Shining Star (37:57) Ego Ella May - Take It Easy (Miles' Song) (41:00) Perry - Presh-ah (feat. Venna) (43:40) Oso Leone - Surfin' (46:51) Mocky - Just a Little Lovin' (49:43) Cultura Profetica - Ilegal (Instrumental) (54:41) Sebb Junior, Muhsinah - Special (Original Mix) → 选曲/撰稿/配音/制作/包装：方舟 → 题图作者：Sašo Tušar, 来自 Unsplash → 题图版式：六花 → 私信/合作联络： 微博/网易云/小宇宙/汽水儿 @线性方舟 → 《周末变奏》WX听友群敲门群主：aharddaysnight

Seth's Favorite albums of 2023: 30. Difficult Messages - Wolf Eyes 29. Jarak Qaribak - Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood 28. Heavy Heavy - Young Fathers 27. Space Heavy - King Krule 26. Me Charma De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua - Ana Frango Elétrico 25. Smalltown Stardust - King Tuff 24. Safe to Run - Esther Rose 23. I Killed Your Dog - L'Rain 22. Young Hearts - Benny Sings 21. And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs - Islands 20. Praise A Lord Who Chews But Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) - Yves Tumor 19. 10,000 gecs - 100 gecs 18. Cousin - Wilco 17. Five Easy Hotdogs - Mac DeMarco 16. trip9love...??? - Tirzah 15. Javelin - Sufjan Stevens 14. V - Unknown Mortal Orchestra 13. I Inside The Old Year Dying - PJ Harvey 12. With A Hammer - Yaeji 11. Miracle-Level - Deerhoof 10. Robed in Rareness - Shabazz Palaces 9. My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross - ANOHNI and the Johnsons 8. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski 7. New Blue Sun - André 3000 6. POSITIVE VIOLENCE - BBBBBBB 5. Reflections - Sufjan Stevens 4. Nothing for Me, Please - Dean Johnson 3. Post-American - MSPAINT 2. Norm - Andy Shauf 1. SCARING THE HOES - JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown   Scott's Favorite albums of 2023: 10. Everyone's Crushed - Water From Your Eyes 9. Love in Exile - Arooj Aftab / Vijay Iyer / Shahzad Ismaily 8. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski 7. i've seen a way - Mandy, Indiana 6. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? - Kara Jackson 5. softscars - Yuele 4. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross - ANOHNI and the Johnsons 3. Isn't It Now? - Animal Collective 2. Javelin - Sufjan Stevens 1. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You - Caroline Polachek

Your hosts this episode: Patrique OptimalAudio The podcast is back to give their annual year end kudos (and dismissals)! This episode they cover their honorable mentions from the past year before they get to their big 10, as well as discussing the 2023's disappointments, surprises, and down right awful. Your hosts cover it all from Hip Hop, R&B, and Jazz (thank you Andre3000), as well as going off the beaten path for a bit to discuss some of their favorite movies and books they consumed this past year as well. They also discuss what a great year 2023 was for Rap despite what the popular critical narrative spouted by some notable figures and journalists in the industry would tell you and analyze why such is even being posited in the first place. Intro Music: Junclassic - "Borrowed Time (Instrumental)" Outro Music: Kankick - "Stagnated Pace" Edited / Produced by: Kittenpuke Find us on RYM through our provided Profile names! 0:00 - Intro 10:40 - The Narrative on Rap "Dying" / "Let's Start Here" by Lil Yachty 25:20 - "Snot or Not" by Homixide Gang 26:03 - "King of the Graveyard" by Sematary 26:27 - "10,000 Gecs" by 100 Gecs 28:56 - Jack Harlow: Movie Star 32:53 - "For All the Dogs: Scary Hours Edition" by Drake 43:09 - "Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering " by Open Mike Eagle 45:41 - "Almighty So 2" Not Coming Out 46:12 - Playboi Carti Rollout Singles 56:02 - "AR EP" by Addison Rae 56:59 - "Quest for Fire" by Skrillex 57:58 - "New Blue Sun" by Andre 3000 1:08:44 - Lil B 2023 Releases 1:11:12 - The Bear (TV Show) 1:23:25 - The Curse (TV Show) 1:15:03 - Reservation Dogs (TV Show) 1:16:15 - Barbie & Oppenheimer (Movies) 1:22:04 - "The Undertow" by Jeff Sharlet (Book) 1:25:27 - "Raw Dog" by Jamie Loftus (Book) 1:27:17 - Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie) 1:46:59 - "Life After Neph" by RXK Nephew & Harry Fraud 1:58:41 - "Ways of Knowing" by Navy Blue 2:01:02 - "Choppers & Bricks" by Gucci Mane & B.G. 2:03:22 - "The Great Escape" by Larry June & The Alchemist 2:06:57 - "Gospel Overture" by Dazegxd & Mon 2:10:08 - "Quazel" by Zelooperz & Quadie Diesel 2:14:56 - "Glorious Game" by Black Thought & El Michels Affair 2:16:19 - "Black Ops ZRV1" by Moh Baretta 2:19:36 - "Sex Money Drugs" by Lucki 2:20:52 - "This is Why" by Paramore 2:22:25 - "A Great Chaos" by Ken Carson 2:28:42 - Ayoolii & the Milwaukee Rap / Bounce Scene 2:32:35 - "Utopia" by Travis Scott 2:33:20 - "Duwap So Based" by Duwap Kaine 2:34:34 - "Utopia" Part 2 2:37:16 - "What We Didn't Have" by Summrs 2:38:40 - "Took the Biggest Risk" by Glokk40spaz 2:39:46 - "Isn't It Now?" by Animal Collective 2:41:44 - "Fast 5" by 454 & Surf Gang 2:42:14 - "Summer's Mine" by Baby Face Ray 2:42:47 - Kynlary and Jovan 2023 Releases 2:44:04 - Osquinn 2023 Releases 2:45:26 - "Watch the Head" by Milieu 2:46:47 - "Gag Order" by Kesha 2:47:34 - "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" by Lana Del Rey 2:48:24 - "BB/ANG3L" by Tinashe 2:53:11 - "I Thought I Lost You" by Mars Kumari 2:59:57 - Thanks & Outro

I might be insane releasing this episode two days before Christmas but the reality is that, in a lot of people's minds, the year 'ends' with Christmas and that weird week afterwards leading up to New Year's Eve doesn't really exist with a particular time and space so still focusing on things that happened that year during that week is like uh why are you bothering the year's over just move on with your life. Plus from my general experience ph5 is a huge hit at family parties so I wanted to help you all out. This is the last episode of the year, talking about my favourite top ten records of 2023. We won't be back in action until the end of January so make sure you get your 'phill' of ph5 while you can. Sorry I had to. For all the cowards who don't want to listen to ~3 hours of me talking to myself to determine my favourite records of the year, I've listed the full list for you below. Roast me drag me praise me please just engage with me!! See you next year.25. Jesus Piece - ....So Unknown24. 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs23. George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya22. Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?21. MSPAINT - Post-American20. Jpegmafia & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes19. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium18. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy17. Boldy James - Indiana Jones16. James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities15. Jerome's Dream - The Grey In Between14. Naomi Sharon - Obsidian13. Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams I Am Beside You12. Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current11. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us10. yeule - softscars9. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips8. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory7. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You6. Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Pt 1: The Clandestine Gate5. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit4. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps3. Tim Hecker - No Highs2. Jane Remover - Census Designated1. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun

After delving into and ranking Animal Collective's discography back in July, Nikki and Chris are already returning to the experimental indie poppers to discuss their new album, 'Isn't It Now?' Keep listening to the end to find out where they'd rank it amongst the existing albums. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackbandtshirt/message

Esta semana, dedicamos una nueva sesión de Rebelión Sónica a la banda de la neopsicodelia y el pop experimental estadounidense Animal Collective, especialmente enfocándonos en su nuevo disco, “Isn't It Now?”. Lanzado por el sello Domino el 29 de septiembre, en este duodécimo trabajo en estudio, el grupo llega con su formación de cuarteto con Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin y Geologist. Además, es el segundo álbum de la banda tras “Time Skiffs” de 2022, luego de un receso seis años. El álbum fue co-producido y mezclado por el ganador del Grammy Russell Elevado, quien ha trabajado con artistas como D'Angelo, The Roots y Kamasi Washington. De acuerdo a la discográfica, la estructura de Animal Collective ha sido durante mucho tiempo la de un patio de recreo, un espacio abierto para hacer ejercicio y disfrutar de nuevas nociones e influencias, para decir '¿Por qué no?'” (…). “Tal vez eso signifique permitir que Panda Bear se concentre más en tocar la batería -continúa Domino- o alentar a Deakin a profundizar más en su forma de tocar el piano. O tal vez le está dando espacio para florecer al creciente interés de Avey Tare y Geologist en la música del Renacimiento (canto llano, organillo, polifonía dorada)”. La etiqueta concluye que “esos impulsos están en el centro mismo de “Isn't It Now?”, el segundo álbum de Animal Collective en muchos años y un hito sorprendente en su alegremente tortuoso viaje”. En la parte final del programa, viajamos al pasado en el catálogo del grupo, para escucharlos con música de su celebrado disco de 2009, “Merriweather Post Pavilion”.

Welcome to the kbbreview podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is episode four of season five.So how's business with you at the moment? That's a hard question to answer isn't it? There are so many variables and uncertainties that being definitive and forecasting even a short way into the future is really, really tricky.A couple of episodes ago, we were at the KBSA Conference asking retailers there that very question - here's the link to that one if you haven't heard itNow it's the turn of bathrooms as we also recently went to the Bathroom Manufacturers Association conference at Carden Park near Crewe.So we asked that very simple question to some leading suppliers - how's business?One of the biggest indicators of the current health of the market is how robust the supply chain is - through 2020 to 2022 it was, according to a straw poll of the conference audience, everything from shambolic to terrible. There's no question it was one of the issues that defined the covid period so we've also got some highlights from that, including some really insightful retailer views from Ripples managing director Paul Crow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To prep for the making of their new album, Animal Collective holed up in a rented cabin just southwest of Nashville for a month-long stay back in 2019.  They ended up with a dizzying amount of songs that they all agreed on — in fact, they wrote enough for at least two albums. The first, Time Skiffs, was released in 2022, and they waited for just the right time to unleash Isn't It Now?, which dropped on Domino a few weeks ago. Clocking in at 64 minutes, the album is their longest yet, a place where they could sonically stretch out and spread out into their own. Two decades and 12 studio albums into Animal Collective's far-out career, Isn't It Now? is a jewel in their crown. Of the nine tracks, “Stride Rite” is an elegant standout.  Revisit Animal Collective live on MBE in 2016, hosted by the late KCRW DJ Eric J Lawrence. 

In this episode, we're thrilled to host Animal Collective, the iconic indie-psych band hailing from Baltimore. With over two decades of captivating audiences, their unique blend of indie rock and freak folk has left an indelible mark on the music world. After a five-year hiatus, the band made a triumphant return with "Time Skiffs" last year, and now they've followed it up with the highly acclaimed "Isn't It Now." In today's episode, we sit down with band member Avey Tare to explore the making of this new record. We delve into Avey Tare's eclectic musical upbringing, which significantly contributes to the band's diverse influences. Additionally, we discuss the intricate logistics of touring with four solo musicians and the band's future touring plans. Animal Collective: Instagram / SpotifyPurchase 'Isn't It Now?' here.Thanks again to Avey Tare and Animal Collective for their time. We also want to give a special shout out to Lucy from Domino Recordings for her help with this episode.You can help follow and support here: TSIY Insta / TSIY FB / TSIY TikTok / TSIY Youtube / TSIY Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the Bonefish Boys are joined by Animal Collective's very own Josh Dibb, aka Deakin! We discuss Isn't It Now? , (5:50) mental health, psychedelic therapy, playing piano, Crestone, the Vegas Sphere, and Halloween movie favs. We also answer some fan-submitted questions. instagram.com/bonefishpod

Stop pretending you have any background knowledge of Israel, we know you're lying. "Isn't It Now?" by Animal Collective is my AOTYSF. Also, "Stop Making Sense" definitely is the best concert film of all time. Subscribe, like, comment, or whatever.    MERCH: http://rfat.bigcartel.com RFAT Audio Podcast Network: http://linktr.ee/rfataudio Everything Else: http://linktr.ee/rfat   "I RFAT, YOU RFAT, WE RFAT"  #ifeelliketuesday #rfat

Today Jake and Ryley are once again powering through some short(er)-form reviews of recent releases that deserve your time, but that we haven't been able to dedicate a full video towards. Join us as we dig into Oneohtrix Point Never's confounding but intriguing AGAIN, Animal Collective's full-on jam band evolution with ISN'T IT NOW, Yeule's shoegaze evolution with SOFTSCARS, and plenty more! Let us know what you think of these albums, and what you've been listening to, in the comments on YouTube! 0:00 Yeule - Softscars 17:23 Earl Sweatshirt & the Alchemist - Voir Dire 33:07 Animal Collective - Isn't It Now? 49:20 Oneohtrix Point Never - Again 1:08:16 Code Orange - The Above 1:20:32 Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

Sorry for the wait. September was just a lot to take in. Also I'm sick. After a tepid spring and summer release-wise, last month was absolutely bananas. Sooo much great new music. Narrowing down the list of records I wanted to talk about from September was extremely challenging, but as your willing and gracious host I must do what has to be done to serve the show. Albums discussed below!Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?Anjimile - The KingArmand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test StripsDoja Cat - ScarlettOlivia Rodrigo - GUTSOneohtrix Point Never - AgainSarah Mary Chadwick - Messages to GodTaking Meds - Dial M For MedsTomb Mold - The Enduring Spirityeule - softscars

The best albums out now include singer Jorja Smith's soaring but solitary full-length Falling or Flying, an inspired, messy affair from Cherry Glazerr, Becky G's ode to Mexican Regional and more.Featured Albums: 1. Jorja Smith — Falling or FlyingFeatured Songs: "Try Me," "Little Things," "Falling or Flying," "Backwards," "She Feels"2. Cherry Glazerr — I Don't Want You AnymoreFeatured Songs: "Bad Habit," "Touched You With My Chaos," "I Don't Want You Anymore"3. Becky G — ESQUINASFeatured Songs: "2NDO CHANCE (feat. Ivan Cornejo)," "CHANEL (feat. Peso Pluma)," "CUIDADITO (feat. Chiquis)," "QUERIDO ABUELO"4. Blonde Redhead — Sit Down For DinnerFeatured Songs: "Before," "Sit Down For Dinner Pt. 1," "Kiss Her Kiss Her"5. Wilco — CousinFeatured Songs: "Infinite Surprise," "Levee," "Ten Dead," "Sunlight Ends"Lightning Round: Jlin — PerspectiveLydia Loveless — Nothing's Gonna Stand In My Way Again (Released Sept. 22)MJ Nebreda — Arepa MixtapeMolly Burch — DaydreamerOther notable releases for Sept. 29:Addison Grace — Diving LessonsAnimal Collective — Isn't It Now?Armand Hammer — We Buy Diabetic Test StripsCode Orange — The AboveEd Sheeran — Autumn VariationsDessa — Bury The Ledehemlocke springs — going... going... GONE!Maxo — Debbie's SonOneohtrix Point Never — Again

Steven and Ian begin today's episode by reflecting on the news that John Darnielle and Lin-Manuel Miranda are apparently friends and consult each other on songwriting. They also tiptoe around their mixed feelings on both artists, while pointing out that they might be more alike than people want to admit. As if this wasn't enough to alienate part of the Indiecast audience, Steven and Ian also did a short Sportscast on the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce (8:22).After that, the guys get into a discussion about new albums by two big legacy acts, Wilco and Animal Collective. Their latest records, Cousin (for Wilco) and Isn't It Now? (Animal Collective), are worthy efforts. But is it possible for even great bands to wear out their audiences? How many new albums is "enough"? Steven and Ian get into a deep conversation about legacy bands and how we as listeners respond to them (18:39).Then they segue into a discussion about two bands who are even older: The Replacements and Talking Heads (33:34). Both bands are having a moment right now due to seminal work from the mid-'80s being re-released, the remixed album Tim and the refurbished concert film Stop Making Sense. Steven wonders: Does Ian like or care about either band? How relevant are they as influences on contemporary music?In Recommendation Corner (53:28), Ian talks up the Brooklyn emo band Good Looking Friends while Steven recommends the Chicago indie band Slow Pulp and the heartland rock singer-songwriter Jerry David DeCicca.New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 157 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at indiecastmailbag@gmail.com, and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Bonefish boys discuss the newest (and longest) Animal Collective record Isn't It Now?  including how it compares to its predecessor Time Skiffs. They also talk about other notable "follow-up" albums, and how that signifier affects music's reception. instagram.com/bonefishpod

The Bonefish boys preview the forthcoming Animal Collective album Isn't It Now?  by listening to live bootlegs of the new songs. They also share their respective experiences at the LA and NYC Panda Bear & Sonic Boom shows. Unofficial new songs compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qEcx2UWRSc&t=3410sInstagram: @bonefishpod

What does having a call on your life look like? The simple answer to this question is to follow our discussion with Kimberly Kelly. Kim had a candid and transparent conversation with us today. All of You and none of meKim ask Christ to empty her off herself and fill her up with all of HimThat was not one of the prayers Kim prayed She had to completely surrender to ChristWhen God reveals you to youKim asked God to show her who she was He revealed her flaws and brokenness in herShe had to face the woman in the mirrorDo not be a hearer, but be a doer of His wordForgiveness is key in Kim's walkShe was tested through forgiveness journey with her ex husbandNo matter what people do we must forgive them 70*7Ministering to her son while going through trialsKim's son was young when he saw her going through divorceHe remembers all of itNow that he is older he ask more questionsWe are the stewarts of our children's heartFacebook: Kimberly MarieIG: supreme_13_08The way to salvation:Hear: Romans 10:17Believe: Hebrews 11:6Repent: Acts 17:30-31Confess: Matthew 10:32Be Baptized: Mark 16:15-16Be faithful unto death: Revelation 2:10Support the showSocial Media/Follow Us: Website:https://www.calledbygodpodcast.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbg.podcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalledbyGodPodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@calledbygodpodcast

Great music playlists, curated with a specific purpose in mind, can help you get to know yourself better. You can use music consciously and powerfully for healing, resurrecting dreams, awakening confidence and accessing your creative core. Transcript / Show Notes:I'm Kimberly Cain. Welcome to the Naked Vibes Show. In this episode, I'll discuss the value of music playlists for self-discovery and living a more adventurous life - getting back to your core Self. If you're new to the show, you'll find it's a blend of music and personal development because I love both and I know we all learn better when we're able to relax our minds and have some fun in the mix. Some episodes of the show contain provocative conversations with musicians for stimulating your core creativity and inspiring you into greater levels of energy, conscious productivity and joy. And other episodes are what I call Tune Your Vibes, where I deliver some ideas and inspiration, and often some fun exercises to help you shift gears when you're stuck, to enlarge your world by helping you see from more angles than you might have otherwise considered, and to help you recognize how amazing you are - to see how much the addition of your particular energy at work in the world matters in the grand scheme of things. And there's always music involved. This is one of those episodes. This show is sponsored by RockItU & Rhythmic Movement Meditations. The Tools You Need For Clarity, Confidence, & Focus...So You Can Enjoy Greater Levels of Energy & Passion To Do the Things You Love. Get them here. Start Rockin' It Now. 2:23 - I've was just listening to a playlist that swings from “No Quarter” (because a friend mentioned that song the other day and I hadn't heard it in a while - awesome) to “Nina Cried Power” from Hozier (featuring the amazing Mavis Staples), to Midland with “Drinking Problem”, to a new one from Norwegian singer Sigrid, “It Gets Dark”, London Grammar's “Missing”, which has some cool, interesting lyrics, and onto “Black Hole Sun” from Soundgarden. I wish I could play all of those for you…but, copyright issues. So, I have to stick to playing my own music and the music of those I know who have given me permission. But, I have other ways of getting those lists to you, so you can access them on your own. When I was a rock 'n roll DJ, I loved it, but I was constrained by corporate playlists. Now, I can mix up whatever I want to fit the mood I'm in or create the one I want to be in. Stick around and I'll tell you how you can access some very cool, curated playlists later in the show. 3:30 - Music is the most mysterious, amazing, rapid form of healing. It has these energetic properties that are so powerful and unique and it touches us in places and ways where nothing else can. It travels across great distances and through time and gives us complete connection to one another, to the natural world and to the Divine. I love hearing stories about the way it transforms people. As I mentioned in Episode 29, I'll be getting back to bringing you conversations with musicians to take you deeper into their creative processes and inspire you to dive into your own, so you can continue to get to know yourself better and better. Making yourself your own best friend has immeasurable benefits. I've always enjoyed personal growth and have delved into a lot of methods of self-discovery. It's interesting how it has a way of deepening my compassion for others. As I understand more about myself, I understand more about you. And I grow to care for you even more. We're human and we go through many of the same joys and pains, even though they come wrapped in different packages. I'm hearing a common thread from people in regard to their feelings about life on this side of the pandemic. A lot of people have experienced, and are still experiencing, a great deal of hardship in a lot of different areas. I've experienced my own and even though it can feel very isolating - ...

Great music playlists, curated with a specific purpose in mind, can help you get to know yourself better. You can use music consciously and powerfully for healing, resurrecting dreams, awakening confidence and accessing your creative core. Transcript / Show Notes:I'm Kimberly Cain. Welcome to the Naked Vibes Show. In this episode, I'll discuss the value of music playlists for self-discovery and living a more adventurous life - getting back to your core Self. If you're new to the show, you'll find it's a blend of music and personal development because I love both and I know we all learn better when we're able to relax our minds and have some fun in the mix. Some episodes of the show contain provocative conversations with musicians for stimulating your core creativity and inspiring you into greater levels of energy, conscious productivity and joy. And other episodes are what I call Tune Your Vibes, where I deliver some ideas and inspiration, and often some fun exercises to help you shift gears when you're stuck, to enlarge your world by helping you see from more angles than you might have otherwise considered, and to help you recognize how amazing you are - to see how much the addition of your particular energy at work in the world matters in the grand scheme of things. And there's always music involved. This is one of those episodes. This show is sponsored by RockItU & Rhythmic Movement Meditations. The Tools You Need For Clarity, Confidence, & Focus...So You Can Enjoy Greater Levels of Energy & Passion To Do the Things You Love. Get them here. Start Rockin' It Now. 2:23 - I've was just listening to a playlist that swings from “No Quarter” (because a friend mentioned that song the other day and I hadn't heard it in a while - awesome) to “Nina Cried Power” from Hozier (featuring the amazing Mavis Staples), to Midland with “Drinking Problem”, to a new one from Norwegian singer Sigrid, “It Gets Dark”, London Grammar's “Missing”, which has some cool, interesting lyrics, and onto “Black Hole Sun” from Soundgarden. I wish I could play all of those for you…but, copyright issues. So, I have to stick to playing my own music and the music of those I know who have given me permission. But, I have other ways of getting those lists to you, so you can access them on your own. When I was a rock 'n roll DJ, I loved it, but I was constrained by corporate playlists. Now, I can mix up whatever I want to fit the mood I'm in or create the one I want to be in. Stick around and I'll tell you how you can access some very cool, curated playlists later in the show. 3:30 - Music is the most mysterious, amazing, rapid form of healing. It has these energetic properties that are so powerful and unique and it touches us in places and ways where nothing else can. It travels across great distances and through time and gives us complete connection to one another, to the natural world and to the Divine. I love hearing stories about the way it transforms people. As I mentioned in Episode 29, I'll be getting back to bringing you conversations with musicians to take you deeper into their creative processes and inspire you to dive into your own, so you can continue to get to know yourself better and better. Making yourself your own best friend has immeasurable benefits. I've always enjoyed personal growth and have delved into a lot of methods of self-discovery. It's interesting how it has a way of deepening my compassion for others. As I understand more about myself, I understand more about you. And I grow to care for you even more. We're human and we go through many of the same joys and pains, even though they come wrapped in different packages. I'm hearing a common thread from people in regard to their feelings about life on this side of the pandemic. A lot of people have experienced, and are still experiencing, a great deal of hardship in a lot of different areas. I've experienced my own and even though it can feel very isolating - ...

https://youtu.be/1ZVbnWx_rDg Mustard Seed FaithWe all want to see God move in our lives- or at least we SHOULD. I don't want to just know the Bible stories- I want to experience the Bible stories in my life. not historical- right now-I want to see healings. I want to see deliverance. I want to see mountains moved. BIG STUFFMatthew 17:14-20 READLove this story- Guy has a son who is epileptic- goes to the disciples to have his son healed, they don't have what it takes, so he Goes to Jesus. Jesus is indignant, heals the boy and then tells his followers that if they would have had faith the size of a mustard seed- they could have done itNow a mustard seed is only 1-2mm across. It's a very small seed- and Jesus uses this seed as an example of what kind of faith these people should have had to be able to see this boy healedIn my life, I have heard people say before “they didn't have enough faith” or “they didn't believe enough” or “ their faith wasn't strong enough” to get healed, or delivered or whateverThat's demonic abusive language to use on someone who didn't see God movePuts the onus on the individual and not on God and we were never intended to be in that placeMatthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief;” not “your amount of faith”The problem with these disciples was not that they didn't have enough faith- it was that they had no- faith- they didn't believe in God- they didn't believe God or Jesus- no mustardAnd so Jesus challenges them- and says you have NO belief but if you ONLY Had ANY amount of belief in God- you would see AMAZING THINGS- just a small amountLets read the whole verse- Matt 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.This is Bible faith- just believing God. The tiniest amount-not a huge amount, just a tiny amount.Think about Abraham- God told Abraham that he would be the father of many nations, but he was old and his wife was past child rearing age- Seems pretty impossible doesn't it?Romans 4:18-20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,Romans 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”Abraham believed God- He didn't waver- against hope- That's that ‘Mustard seed faith” I'm talking about. Its not a huge faith- its just a little bit of faith that says “I'm gonna believe God'Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.God wants us to have faith- He wants us to believe in him- He doesn't want us to doubtJames 1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.And if we want to see God move- we have to have Faith in him. (Faith is not what you can see)And I get it- sometimes we don't put our faith in God because we think we're doing God a favor- if we don't believe him, and he doesn't move we don't make him look badListen- God can take care of himself- he does not need you helping him out by not believing himJesus said- John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. Here's what happens when you have mustard seed faith- Mustard seed faith Cast out demonsThis story is a story about a boy who has epilepsy-I always have to clarify this- everything isn't a demon- sometimes its just medicalBut sometimes it IS a demon- Jesus healed blind people of their blindness because they were blind- it wasn't a demon of blindness that was upon them- they were just blind.In THIS story They didn't have the faith of a mustard seed- so they couldn't cast out the demonThey said “why could we not cast it out' Jesus said “because of your unbelief”SO- T...

Welcome to Live Your Luxe Life. Thank you for joining me for another episode.Have you been using your gratitude journal that we committed to doing together in Episode 2? Let's continue to reflect on our daily lives in our gratitude journals.Steve Jobs lived his life being innovative and a leader in his industry. Are you living your life or business as a leader? Join this week's episode as we discuss this.Dyson has created another new cool invention called Dyson Zone. Are you ready for it and will you use it? Join our Premium Member Community for ad-free episodes, Ask Me Anything, and bonus episodes: https://premium.liveyourluxelife.com/"Ask Me Anything" for Premium MembersSubscribe To Our Newsletter: Subscribe HereShop Merch: https://liveyourluxelife.com/shop/Visit our website: https://liveyourluxelife.comFollow us on social media:TwitterInstagramFacebook________________________________________________________________Key Points - TranscriptInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower "Steve Jobs". If there is someone you can look at that created his own path and created products that people love to purchase it's Steve Jobs. Imagine making products that no one else could Imagine. You can do this in your lifetime as well don't let yourself down if this is your dream Today I want to share with you a new tech device that should be coming out soon from a company that has been an innovative leader of products. We spend so much time protecting ourselves as much as possible from pollutants. Air purifying systems help remove dust, pollen, mold, and bacteria from the air.Most people have air purifying systems in their homes. I have a couple that I use. I notice the difference with my allergies and how much cleaner my air smells and feels. The level of dust in my home has definitely decreased. But what happens when you leave your home and go outside. Well, you don't have any control over that. Many Asian countries have worn masks for years. I remember when I used to live in Japan as a child people wearing masks were the norm. There was nothing strange about itNow one of my favorite brands has created a state of the art portable air filtration system called Zone which are headphonesDyson is a much loved product that I believe is worth the prices they charge. I love their vacuum cleaners and other home products. Their products also come with great warranties which I've had to use before and they have no problem sending replacement parts or referring you to a local repair shop for repairs. They spent 6 years since 2016 developing this product. At first, I thought they created this due to covid but this was obviously well in the works way before 2019. They went through at least 500 prototypes to create this product. How amazing is that? It's a 2 stage purifying system so you can breathe air wherever you go.The filter is built into the headphones through the headphones and then to the mouthpiece. How cool is that!!But now Imagine walking around town or in the store looking completely unapproachable because you have something covering your ears and your mouth. The two things that allow us to communicate.I don't know if I need something else to make myself look unapproachable. Who am I fooling....I definitely need this in my life. Dyson if you are listening, I would love to review this product!! I love new tech gadgets. They say it's the biggest speaker driver available in headphonesThey state this will give you Pure clean sound of music without hearing distractions around you. Honestly as weird as this may look I would definitely give it a try. It's very futuristic. I don't think even The Jetsons saw this coming. My question to Dyson is why is it that I don't see that you can take phone calls with this? Is there no microphone built in? It seems like it would have been so easy to incorporate so that they don't have to come out with a version 2.0 causing everyone to purchase another one to upgrade. They tested this on many different head sizes and shapes to get the best fit and comfort levelThe headphones are Dyson first premium audio technology which includes a noise-canceling featureThe purified air system does not touch your face but it still provides purified air to your nose and mouth. It's supposed to be very comfortable and nonconstraining or stiff.Because it doesn't touch your face, I assume it's Not a covid mask alternative. Your mouth is still open to the air around you. So, you breathing out doesn't stop your germs from spreading. Obviously, this is not the use case for this product. From what I see It's just to bring fresh air inside your lungs and body like a home air purifier would do. I'm still doing research and awaiting more information from Dyson on this product including pricing. Most of their products average around $400 to $500 dollars. If their other products are an example I can say this product will not be cheap but and that's what we already expect from Dyson right?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Playlist: Rebecca Dawn, Bvitae - ReprogramGhost Factory - Have You Heard of Arson?Solomon & Lang - MonsterDA'AT - Low CultureDRI HIEV - Layman's AweStill Depths - Hey (Hey Hey)Dead Pixel - Thrill Of The Killbear|horse - MammalShawbrooke, JSNBSHP - DenouementCrooked Spies - Full Moon RisingForbidden Dimension - HauntedPunch Drunk Cabaret - We're All in for It Now!Septembryo - Friend Don't Lie (Stranger Things)

This is the only day guaranteed though it's not guaranteed to last a full 24 hours. Just Now...Now is all we have... probably will be the title of my next Morning Song. If I not around to write it, maybe you will. Don't get wrong, I want to live and I plan on being around tomorrow, gonna do all I can to survive another day. But my "this is It Now" attitude improves the quality of my life. I'm a person who needs "now or never" in order to thrive. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joe-fuller/support

Lyrics & Vocal Christina Universe CitizenInspired by: Bucky Fuller's Synergetics 986.830 Music My Co-Writer “RETRO”Any day come what may Someone in the world  is bound to  say There is the long and the short of itThe right and the terribly wrong of itNow and then of itThe best and worst of itBut we never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleThere is the up of it and the deeply down of itThe go around it getting in and out of itThe soundless and the noise of itThe woe begone beckoningThe life and death of itOh what the heck of itBut we never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleWe never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleIs it because we have to construct realities to please the status quo way to goCan we realize the static sphere, quasi sphere does not existSo where does this leave our intellectFeeling this a wayFeeling that old wayFeeling lost and found on any given daySlap happy or tear dropping sadlyGetting over the hurdlesStepping into an even  tighter girdleWearing another goofy maskDutifully performing the master's tasksBut we never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleWe never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleWhat about the timeless-sizeless symmetric polyhedraThe six positive and six negative cosmic degrees of freedomThe potential force vectorsFor adequately coping with all the conditionsEssential to maintaining the individual integrity The min-max primitive structural pre subdivision of Universe.  We gotta talk and sing about the structural inter-self-stabilized eventsEvents of Universe  The event patterning self stabilizes systemic thoughts anticipatory realitySystemic thoughts anticipatory realitySelf stabilizing systemic thoughts anticipatory realityVisit my website: sagesynergeticage.com/

TranscriptNow I don't really watch much TV because I try to create more content for folks like you on this channel but lately I have been binge watching this Bling Empire on Netflix.Basically its a show about rich asians in LA - think Crazy Rich Asians reality tv showWhy would i be I watch this? Well I grew up frugal and I was just curious on what rich people do with their money. Best practices etc.I also tend to watch shows that have a finite endings there were just 6 episodes so I can get to something more productive. Movies... I love them cause they are done. Except marvel movies which there are like 30-40 of them but they are good so anyway2a) Stay till the end because I am going to be giving away free book on QRPs which is going to allow you to unlock your retirement funds to invest in hard assets such as real estate.1b) I'm going to show you the______ 2b) At the end we will be giving you access to the______ so you can ______Topic: Netflix's Bling Empire takeaways1) Best practices1a) Parties - net worth equals net worth - 1b) good food, paid venues and at home parties, birthday/baby parties1c) caviar - I have to try that - very different from my Ready made food from Don Quiote which you can watch a video about that in my channel4) There was a point in the show where a couple of the guys were tracking down the parent of another on of their friends and I think they need to go to Tennessee or something.4a) Freedom to go when ever they wanted - time freedom!4b) A couple times the use of private jets were shown. Jets are cool but on another level they are the only thing that can compress time. And TIME is our most important resource.CTAMID: a) Before I go on please do me a favor and like/comment/questionb) Help us work up the Youtube Algorithm to reach more people and grow our community by liking this video or even better commenting or asking questions which I will go in later and try to respond.3) Cars/Clothes3a) I don't get it... high brand clothing - Hermes3b) everyone has their Style - I like things that are simple and don't have to worry about3c) Cars did not seem to be a big emphasis when they did flash them on the screen. Sure there was a bentley here and there but it did not seem to get as much recognition and a designer brand dress or shirt.That said I am working on a future video where I dissect buying or leasing cars. Hint buying used cars are the way to go but I'll break it down. So if you want to hear it please like here and it will give me the motivation to get that video out to you soon. I am currently in the middle of the negotiation for my next ride and I'm not going to lie... its really fun. It's not where near the high stakes of negotiating for 20M+ apartment buildings which are the foundation of my investing portfolio.The last takeaway from Bling empire 2) Blissful carefree - despite the obvious petty drama2a) perhaps abundance mindset2b) I work with a lot of people trying to accumulate their first 250k heck 1M and they have this white knuckle mentality - 5 dollar Simple Passive Cashflow Latte - http://simplepassivecashflow.com/the-...2c) Recently I was working with a Student on how they were very close to financial freedom and we were talking about them lightning up. Spending a little bit more even thought this is what you never hear!!!Spending money on dumb things is difficult for me still but I am trying to work on it. You never know when you time up here is over and you can't take any of your money or streams of passive income with you.Maybe we should be more like the folks on BECTA Before I let you know how to get this video's bonus/easter egg/giveaway…. if you like this go to the SPC podcast and go to SimplePassiveCashflow.com subscribe and click the like button - I really appreciate itNow for that free bonus/easter egg - see the link in the commentsIf you are a high net worth Passive Investor and using a 401k or Self directed IRA? You are doing it all wrong! Check out SimplePassiveCashflow.com/qrp which avoids UDFI and UBIT tax and claim the free book there.What is it that you recently spend money on that was a little impractical? Lets get a dialogue. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Iggy has spent a lot of time outside entreating fifth graders to jump out of trees while hooked to ropes or scaring the crap out of them by hiking in woods at night under the guise of environmental education.  After ratcheting up the intensity she progressed to instructing personal growth oriented canoe/backpacking and dogsled/ski expeditions in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.  Doing this work with teens and adults made her realize that as the age of the participants increased it was her job to make sure the sophistication and impact of conversation topics kept pace.  Along the way she earned a Master's Degree in Experiential Education and a teaching license in English Language Arts while completing training on topics like: conflict resolution, restorative justice and mental health first aid mixed with technical wilderness travel and safety skills.  Iggy cultivates masterminds and brings together leaders so they can be more awesome in their work, sport or life. Topics discussed in this episode: Leadership PrincipleTake an active role, make change happenMake your voice matter in your own lifeDon't Practice CrapConstantly learnKey HabitKeep things that matter in the forefront of your mindPut it on your calendar - schedule itNow what?Try new thingsIntentional introspection - be clear with yourself of what you want, where you want to goCapture it in whatever way matters to youAsk yourself:If you can't find a role model - you're on your own pathWhat skills do I needIf it's scary - it's probably rightResources mentioned in this episode:  (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary ResultsAtomic HabitsQuestions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in LifeThe Big Stretch: 90 Days to Expand Your Dreams, Crush Your Goals, and Create Your Own SuccessWhere to find Iggy:Website:  WSL Leadership | AboutInstagram: @wslleadershipLinkedIn:  Iggy Perillo - LinkedInPodcast: https://www.wslleadership.com/podcast Mastermind info:  WSL Leadership | MastermindsGet involved!Do want to be part of a community that practices, encourages and supports being Intentionally Optimistic? Join me over in the Intentional Optimists Facebook GroupGrab your FREE:Andrea's Favorite Planning & Productivity tools“Ultimate DISC communication Cheat Sheet”Get your own DISC Assessment, and don't forget the 10% discount (code "PODCAST"Noom: A Mindful Way to Eat Learn how to intentionally challenge your mindset in order to take control of your health.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AndreaJohnson)

IntroductionWe are in the story of amazing love, the greatest story ever told. So turn with me today to John chapter 3.The book of John as you will recall begins with this dramatic introduction to the person of Jesus Christ. We are introduced to him as creator of the universe; the creator of matter with all its complexity, power, design (all of it); all things were made by him and for him and through him. The opening verses introduce us to this omnipotent power!Then we are told in verse 14 that this limitless, boundless, immeasurable WORD became flesh and dwelt among us. And given the resume of verses 1-5 we’d expect a pretty dramatic entry.Maybe parting the Atlantic Ocean? Maybe splitting the sun in half? But instead Jesus’ debut miracle is turning water to wine. The miracle wow factor here is relatively low. This is really not that big of a deal.Now why this type of beginning? What we discover is that what impressed the followers of Jesus was not the miracles; people weren’t attracted to Jesus in the same way people are attracted to Houdini. They weren’t just following him because of his bag of cool tricks. They were following him because of what he claimed. And the miracles Jesus performed in his ministry authenticated those claims.The claims of Jesus in the Bible are simultaneously attractive and offensive. Compelling and reprehensible, so intriguing and repugnant.Today we come to see one of those claims. It’s bold. It’s startling. It’s offensive and yet so intriguing. And here it claims if you want to see God, you must be born again.So today we are just going to ask four simple questions around that claim. Two ‘what’ questions, a ‘why’ question and a ‘how’ question.This question is going to be answered via a story that records a midnight conversation between Jesus and a man named Nicodemus.Let’s read it:What Does it Mean to Be Born Again?So we are introduced to this man Nicodemus. Putting together John 7 and John 19, we discover that he was a member of the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin was a council of the most powerful ruling religious elite.They would preside over official judicial matters that came up to them from lower courts. So this would have been like the Jewish Supreme court. The Chamber of Hewn stone is where they met. This is a room built into the side of the temple structure itself. And it would be laid out with two groups of 35, kind of like afc west vs nfc east (you knew I’d sneak it in somewhere). And presiding over these two halves would be the high priest.The fact that Nicodemus was part of this group tells us a couple of things about him right off the bat. First of all he must have been aged. In a society that respected age, you are not going to be part of a ruling counsel like this without significant experience. So he was older and wiser than most.Secondly he was smart. An argument can even be made that not only was Nicodemus a part of this prestigious religious counsel but that he held an extremely high post, perhaps even the highest post second to that of the high priest himself. In verse 10 Jesus does not address him as a teacher in Israel but as THE teacher in Israel. What does it take to acquire a seat like that? In our modern terms, he’s got a PhD from an Ivy League School, he graduated top of his class from the Naval Academy, he’s got the titles. He’s got the accolades. The framed degrees on the wall. He’s got the letters after the name. When it comes to the Scriptures, Nicodemus was the doctor to whom they all looked.Now we are told that Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night. That’s not just a passing detail. It’s obviously got significance. It’s referenced in John 19 when Nicodemus shows up again, “Nicodemus, the one who came to Jesus by night.”What are we to make of that detail? Now I’ve heard a lot of tellings of this that make Nicodemus out to be this guy who has a secret curiosity about Jesus and sneaks off, under the cover of darkness, in the middle of the night in his own PRIVATE pursuit of truth.Certainly, the cover of darkness is a feature here, but read the text closely. He doesn’t say, “Jesus, you and I know that the Senhedrin is a rotting swamp that needs to be drained. I’m part of that swamp and I’m ready to get out. Can you help me?”What’s his opening line? Rabbi, WE know you are a teacher from God. WE. He’s speaking on behalf of the Sanhedrin. And yes, they asked him to do it at night so that their corporate identity might not be tainted by association with this guy they don’t know.There are a couple features of the text that support this:The way Jesus responds to him is not how you’d expect Jesus to respond to an individual in genuine pursuit of truth. Are you a teacher of Israel and you don’t understand these things?Keep in mind the chronology. This is just weeks or months into Jesus’ arrival on the scene. The Pharisees and Sadducees are just learning about him. They are curious. They are in fact finding mode. They have not formed an opinion of this man. They haven’t put out an official statement on Jesus yet and they’d like to get to know him behind closed doors.Jesus, we see you have this miracle working ability and you are attracting quite a bit of attention. We’d like to get you involved." And perhaps they anticipate this to be flattering to Jesus. After all, he’s just 30 years old. When ever has a 30-year-old been approached by the Sanhedrin? Most 30 year old men are groveling, powdering themselves in the dust of the rabbis feet. But here they approach Jesus. They certainly at this point do not despise him.All they know is that there is this man Jesus and he is starting to do miracles. We only have the water to wine miracle recorded by John chapter 3 but clearly there have been more because Nicodemus says, “We know you are from God because no one can do the signs (plural) you do unless he is from God.”“Jesus, we think you could help us and we could help you.”The point is: Nicodemus is NOT seeking.Why is that significant? Because what we have here is not a man who is broken and has come to the end of himself. We don’t have here a man who has just lost his marriage, his business has gone bankrupt, his kids hate him. We don’t have a man here in total despair, strung out on a bottle who has thrown up his hands and said, “Where else can I turn? I give up.”We have here a proud teacher of Israel coming to Jesus on HIS TERMS. He comes to Jesus thinking he can control him, work out some sort of trade deal. Jesus can sense this and it explains why Jesus responds the way he does. It feels like a non-sequitur. Conversationally, it’s an abrupt right turn.Nicodemus, like all of us, wants to set up criteria by which we assess Jesus. He says, “I will look through my eyes of education and evaluate you. I will look through my eyes of experience and evaluate you.”"Nicodemus comes as the TEACHER of ISRAEL, and it’s on that basis he believes he is qualified to assess Jesus. But Jesus challenges that in a serious way. What makes you think that you are qualified to assess me based on your status as TEACHER of Israel? That qualifies you to do nothing in God’s economy. You think you know God? Impossible. Unless you are born again, you can’t even see the kingdom of God much less be part of it. You don’t have the tools to even see truth. The prerequisite for spiritual sight is being born again and you haven’t been. Therefore you are blind.Now look how Nicodemus responds.Nicodemus appears to be cynical, sarcastic, perhaps even slightly mocking in tone. Born again? Pffh. What is that supposed to mean? What do you want me to do…shrink back down to a baby and re-enter my mother’s womb? Of course that’s not what he thought Jesus was saying, but it was his way of maintaining his dignity, mocking the idea rather than pressing in and trying to understand.And then Jesus goes into dead serious mode. Truly, truly. He’s putting his reputation on the line. He’s putting himself under an oath. No I’m not joking, you must be born again. I insist on that language.Okay, well what in the world does that mean? He gives us this additional explanation, unless a man is born of water and of Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Whatever being BORN AGAIN means, it has to do with the concept of the Spirit and the concept of Water.Spirit and WaterThe way to understand Jesus’ meaning here is simply to turn to the OT. Jesus is going to say, “You are a teacher of Israel and you don’t understand these things?” The implication is that as a teacher of the OT you should be able to look in the OT and discover what is meant by being born of water and of the Spirit.This is surprisingly easy to do. When you read the OT you are constantly confronted with these pictures of what will happen when the Spirit is poured out like water upon mankind. It’s a metaphor the prophets use over and over again. They speak about the Spirit as if it was contained in this jar and then God takes that jar and pours out his Spirit like water. And the effect is this new life that just springs up out of the ground so significant, it could be compared to new birth.Do you see the image? When the Spirit comes, all of the sudden new life springs out of the ground! Now, I’m not going to go through the other examples, but trust me this language is everywhere in the OT, verses just like this. Here are just a few examples.So to be born again is to have the life-giving Spirit of God poured into you. This Life-GIVING EFFECT is so tremendous that the best way to describe it is literally being reborn.He says you can’t watch it happen physically, but you’ll know it when you see its effects. And he gives this analogy of wind. You can’t see the wind, but you can see the effects of the wind.I can watch grass sway, clouds move, windmills turn. And in a similar way, I can’t see the Spirit of God being poured out on a person but I can certainly watch a person who was spiritually blind receive spiritual sight.Nicodemus, you must be born again.So that’s what it is. What’s being born again? It’s being given the Spirit of God so you can see. That’s the what question. Now why? Why do we need to be born again?Well we’ve already been given a huge part of the answer. Because if we aren’t born again, we will never see the kingdom of heaven, much less enter it. Without being born again, without being given spiritual sight – kingdom sight, we cannot have eternal life.What must be emphasized here is that this is an ABSOLUTE requirement. It is like saying, “In order to live on Mars, you must have oxygen.” Ah naw, that applies to most people but it doesn’t apply to me. No, it’s a MUST. There are no exceptions.Jesus uses the strongest possible language. You must be born again. There are not alternate ways in which a person can achieve that spiritual enlightenment. You MUST be born again. You Nicodemus. You, the one who is not seeking me. You, the one who is not emotionally broken. You, the one wearing clean clothes. You, the one who is respected in society. You, the Ivy League graduate. You, the bourgeois, the upper crust, living in balconied, breezy, paneled houses. You, the person at the top.You have to be born again.And so must all of us. Yes, assembled here are those who are respected in the community, those who write articles and are published authors, those who are doctors and lawyers, those who are PhD’s, those who are part of business think tanks, who live in offices of Ivy, who are rational thinking individuals, whose needs are met, who are monogamous, heterosexual, who run a business with ethical practices, who are pillars of morality in the communityThe message of the new birth is not a call to more morality and moral structure; it’s a challenge to it. I don’t care how smart, moral, or sophisticated you are, “You must be born again.”Jesus looks at all of us and says, “Don’t come to me on your TERMS.” Everyone who comes to me must start at equal footing, ground zero, like a helpless baby. You have to start at day one. You need a new birthday. Nothing you have done counts.Jesus does not come to Nicodemus and say, “Nicodemus, I’m so proud of you. You’ve come this far. Now let me help you up the rest of the way.” No. He says, “Start the game over. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. You have to go back to day one as a newborn child.”And by the way, this is good news for those of you who think you’ve messed your life up so bad that it’s too late. You look at the guy or gal who was raised with all sorts of privilege. They had great parents that loved them, went to the best schools, married with kids, stayed out of trouble, have a great job. And you say to yourself, “Look at me.” I got pregnant in my teens. I dropped out of school. I’ve smoked and drank and chewed everything that could be and now I’m in the middle of my life and I’m used up, messed up, jacked up. It’s too late for me.Jesus says, when it comes to God, all must be born again. You are all on equal footing. All enter the kingdom the exact same way, as a baby stripped of all your accomplishments. You come naked and stripped and needy. You come that way or you don’t come at all.Do you recognize what he’s doing? He’s taking away your excuse. He’s taking away your self-defense mechanism, the defense mechanism you use to say that this born-again stuff doesn’t apply to me. No it applies to everyone.Why is this necessary? Why is it so universal? There’s a very good reason.In verse 6 he says, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.You need a different organ of sight. It doesn’t matter how many degrees you have, how many people love you, how much money you have. That’s all flesh. That can’t help you see the kingdom. You can polish your binoculars all you want and you’ll never see radio waves. You can only see the kingdom through Spiritual eyes. And in order to get Spiritual eyes, you need to be born again.It’s a shock. And the shock is beginning to set in a bit on Nicodemus. You can hear it in his voice.How can it be that my degrees and education and influence and position don’t matter? How can that be?Nicodemus is frankly incredulous. Jesus sees his questioning, bewildered, confused, befuddled, suspicious eyes and says to him.What does he mean here? I think understanding this is where the passage opens up. Look at verse 11. He speaks in the plural. We speak of what we know. Who is ‘we’? Most likely him and John the baptist. We bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.What did John the Baptist testify? This is the Messiah. This is the Son of God. John testified that he saw the Spirit descend on him and God speak from heaven, “This is my son in whom I am well pleased.” John testified, “This is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” That’s the claim.Now we know, by repeated reference in the text that the Pharisees did not receive that testimony. They did not believe that Jesus was from God.SOBack up to the opening lines of John chapter 3. Suddenly this interchange makes all the sense in the world. “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Now if you’re just reading along, at first blush that sounds so respectful. Great teacher, clearly God must be with you because you are doing all these signs.But it’s incredibly evil. There are some painfully absent titles that ought to be there. That is most certainly NOT who Jesus claims to be. This is Messiah. This is the Word-Messiah whose sandal you are not fit to untie. This is not merely a great teacher. God is not merely with Jesus. God is Jesus.So many of us approach Jesus this same way. Jesus, oh yes, I very much respect this rabbi. But he’s not a rabbi. He’s God.And that is why Jesus stops the conversation dead in it’s tracks and says, “Nicodemus, you must be born again.” You’re coming at me on your TERMS. Start over. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. You must be born again.The Passive Nature of itNow one thing to note here is the passive nature of the metaphor. You must be born again. Being born is something that happens to you, not something you do to yourself.Who actually brings about a birth? The baby? Has anybody gone and gotten born? You don’t go and get born. Birth happens to you; the baby doesn’t do a thing. It’s all the mother. The mother is screaming and crying and bleeding all over the place. She’s wailing in agony.The baby is brought into this world through the mother’s labor, pain and suffering. The mother is the one who has to lug that thing around for 9 months and has her bladder compressed and her back aches and her hormones are all out of whack. The mother suffers, groans, weeps and labors.You could even argue, the baby does not want to be born. The baby wants to stay in the mother’s womb. That baby loves the temperature, he’s fed perfectly, it’s cozy. The baby is forced to be born.And there is an implication here. The thing you need most, Nicodemus, you can’t do. You can’t make yourself a Christian. You can’t have this experience or get this spiritual sight. You can’t force yourself into this. You can’t say, “I’m going to go get me some of that Christian power. I’m going to make my life better by becoming a Christian.”You can’t do it.It is true that you cannot do anything. But you can believe something. I can’t fly to NYC. But I can believe that this plane can get me there and walk into it. If you want God to give you that spiritual birth, you must believe something. Look at the emphasis on the word ‘believe’ here.Do you see the emphasis here? It is by believing that Jesus is the Son of God, God come in the flesh, that we are born again. Being born again, begins by believing a claim. That claim ‘believed’ means being given the Spirit. Being given the Spirit means you can see the kingdom of God. It means being transformed so that you can see your need. It means being given grace to humble oneself and repent and receive forgiveness of sin.How do I become born again? We must believe. And to illustrate the kind of belief required for entrance into the kingdom of heaven, he uses this analogy.He says, “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.” He’s taking this obscure story out of Numbers 21 in which the children of Israel are in the wilderness and they start complaining about this loathsome manna and God sends a bunch of snakes and they are bitten. It’s like the ultimate story to pull out when your kids are complaining about the broccoli salad.The children of Israel are all lying about, they’re dying. It looks like they’re all going to be wiped out, shaking with convulsions, high fevers, their veins are full of poison.God says to Moses, I will give them a cure. “Make a serpent out of bronze and put it up on a stick so all who look at it will be healed.” That’s what he does. It really is a weird story; but the picture is so perfect (which is why of course he uses it).Think about it, if you are bitten by a brightly colored pit-viper and you are writing in pain, what do you believe can save you? In those days they didn’t have anti-venom kits. If you were bitten by a pit viper it’s game over. It’s just a matter of time.Now if I’m Moses and I tell you, listen, what you need to do is look at this little snake around a pole; that will heal you. You’d say, “You are crazy.” The problem here is a venom problem. I can see the problem. There’s a chemical reaction happening between the venom and my muscles. That venom is slowly paralyzing me. It’s going to soon paralyze my heart and I’ll be dead. Looking on your little stick is not going to fix that chemical problem.And yet, Moses said, I know that to your mind, it makes no sense, but it’s the only way. The phrase that Numbers 21 uses is that they were to look to, or look upon this pole. It’s the idea of casting your entire faith, your entire trust, your entire hope for cure upon God. It’s a total admission of inability and a plea for help.Now Jesus says, in the same way that Moses asked the children of Israel to cast their hopes to God in that moment of certain death, to abandon on their normal ways of understanding how healing happens, to completely put their trust for salvation in what that pole represented, in God alone, Jesus is asking them to do the same.If you want to be born again, you have to believe that Jesus is the only way. There are not multiple ways to God, many good teachers and Jesus is one. No, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father except through him.And if you don’t believe you will perish. Whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. You will die with the poison of sin coursing through your veins. You will die in your sins which is another way of saying, you will die refusing to believe the reality that Jesus is God. I refuse to submit to God. God says, “You want to push me out of your life? If you push me away, then you also push away everything to do with me.” Hell is described as outer darkness, nothingness, the complete absence of the presence of God. Men who hate the light will get what they want. They will end up in absolute, complete, utter, eternal darkness.But it doesn’t have to be that way. When we look to Jesus and believe that he is God, that he is our only hope, when we believe on him in this way, the most amazing thing happens. The Spirit of God is poured out on us and we are reborn.Let me give you an example of the type of radical difference between being born again and not being born again.If you had an apple orchard and you say, “Next year I want to get peaches from it. I’m tired of apples; I want peaches.” Fine. What would you do? Well you could say, “I’m going to water and fertilize it far better than I did last year. I’m going to prune it.” But you’re just going to get bigger apples. You’re not going to get peaches like that.In other words, if you want new fruit, you have to have a new root.You have to be completely replanted. That’s the kind of change that happens when we are born again. We are given a new heart that loves new things. That is able to stop loving self and start loving God and others. Without this new birth you can’t do that. You love yourself too much. You need a new life. The root of you, the heart of you needs completely remade. That’s why Jeremiah 31 when talking about the new covenant says, “I will take out of you a heart of stone and give to you a heart of flesh.” The part of you that is the center of your life, your heart, needs to be transplanted. You need a foreign heart given to you. You must be born again.Here’s the best way I can describe what this is like for those who have not experienced it. Have you ever had a moment in your life where you convinced you were right. And you had all these reasons why you were absolutely correct. And man, they were good reasons. The logic was tight. You felt fortified. You felt secure.But then something happens, and finally your entire perspective shifts, and you say, “You know what, I’m actually wrong.” And you look back at that moment and you think, “How could I have deceived myself like that? How could I be using my rational faculties, have all these really good arguments, and yet come to totally wrong conclusions?”You see the problem with trying to evaluate Jesus on your own terms is not that your brain doesn’t work. The brain works just fine. The problem is your heart doesn’t work. Your heart won’t allow your brain to come to the right conclusions. You need a new heart. That’s why you need to be born again.It’s not reform; it’s not even transformation. It’s a starting over at the spiritual DNA level of who you are. And when that new perspective is given to you, light floods into your heart and you are given new meaning, new purpose like you’ve never had before. It’s an unbelievable experience. It’s like the whole world makes sense. It’s an epiphany on steroids!How do you know if someone is really born again? If the evidence of wind is shaking grass, what is the evidence of the Spirit of God in a person? Look at what he says here. This is so amazing.He says, “Listen, Nicodemus the reason you came to me and said, Rabbi, you are a great teacher” is because you were afraid to acknowledge me as Lord. You were trying to flatter me but you insulted me. You were scared, because you know that as Lord, I search the heart and what would be in that heart would be evil. You can disagree with a teacher. You cannot disagree with an absolute sovereign, all-knowing, holy, perfect, all powerful LORD.Many are too proud to come into the light so that the pornography addiction can be seen. Many are too proud to come into the light so that the substance abuse can be seen. Many don’t want their anger exposed, their jealousy exposed, their insecurities exposed, their greediness, their discontent, their spending habits, their lack of generosity, their eating habits. There’s minimizing, there’s deflecting, there’s blaming, there’s defensiveness. There’s a fear of the light and a love of darkness.The evidence of someone not born again is hiding. Listen, believe on Jesus Christ and you can be saved from all that. He will pour his Spirit on you, you will be born again, you will be forgiven and accepted. And your response will be exactly opposite.Here’s what I love the most. Look at the evidence of someone who is born again. They come into the light so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.Listen closely to the distinction. The one who is not born again hates the person of Jesus, hates the light because his deeds are evil; the other loves the person of Jesus, loves the light not because his deeds are righteous, but because he longs to show that his righteous deeds have been done through God. He wants to give God glory.One of the great evidences of a Christian is that he or she is so excited to show everyone that whatever great thing has just happened in me, to me, through me, is God. Look at God. He’s so amazing! Do you want that?Call to Repentance.You must be born again. There is no exception in the room. All of you must be born again if you want to see the kingdom of God.And perhaps today is the day. Perhaps you are ready to believe that Jesus is God, you are ready to believe on him, to look on Jesus, the one lifted up upon a pole, as dying man bit by the serpent of sin, your only hope, to look at him not as a great rabbi, but as Lord, God Messiah, and fling yourself face down and say, God I need you. I come to you as a baby, naked, stripped of all my self-righteousness, stripped of everything I’m proud of. All my righteousness as filthy rags.Pour out your Spirit on me. Pour it out. Pour life into me. Give me eyes to see.Here’s how you become a Christian. Here’s what you must do. I want to give you words to begin a prayer to God; You must mean it and you need to finish it:Jesus, I believe that you are God. That what is said in this book is history and is true. I believe that you came into the world, because you love me. I believe that you are offering me complete freedom from all my sin and eternal life. But I have resisted that life because I have loved the darkness because my deeds are evil.Now all those things that you have been hiding from God, all those things that you have been scared to drag out into the light, drag them out right now and just confess them to God. Ask him to forgive you.Be specific. Tell him of everything. No secrets. No partial confessions. No half truths. All of it. You can have the courage to do this because there is grace and forgiveness waiting for you.If you confess your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.Repent of your self rule. Repent of your insistence that you are right, that you are king.Say, Jesus I allow you to be now who you have claimed to be this whole time, Lord of my life. I want to serve you as my king and Lord and master and Savior.BenedictionNow if you have done this, I want you to let me know, because the next step is baptism for you, publicly declaring that Jesus is LORD of your life, that you have a new KING, a new LORD and a new MASTER.

Hello !! Here is a quick clip from todays clarity episode ..  The link to the entire show is below ... It is one of the most important episodes in my journey so far ... and contains a glimpse of the power that connection the suffering to healing can have ..  It really can be that in our most extreme moments of suffering ... we are that much closer to healing .. transcending or evolving from that old vibration .. and firmly allowing our place at a new table ... where the Universe responds to you differently ..   It NOW matches your new frequency ... which matches your new belief system ... which matches your new perspective ... which sometimes ...  Is based on believing before we see it ... This is where the most powerful evolution can be found ...  LINK TO THE FULL STORY BELOW  !!  MUCH LOVE TODAY !!     Likeattractslike11.com  FULL EPISODE HERE !!!   https://youtu.be/lHkeBToi9-I *If you believe that you are going through a Conscious or Spiritual Awakening consider subscribing to the Podcast :) I upload episodes and perspective finding interviews just about every day!  *Hello!!  I help people re connect with their higher conscious self by allowing a deeper understanding and perspective on the mind and the story it tells… Thank you so much for being a part of the show !! If you would like to support the Like Attracts Like podcast join our PATREON Community by clicking here !! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22969209

In this week's FMF, Bob discusses one of the challenges he had in the early days of his company with the delegation of authority … the process of transferring responsibility for a task to another employee. When working in a small company, finding the time to properly offload an aspect of the business to another person, and more importantly trusting that aspect to another person can sometimes be nerve wracking! There are many excuses for it, like: “It takes too long to train them. It’s quicker to just do it myself.” As the company has grown over the 20 years of it's history, Bob has grown personally too in becoming a better delegator. Simply put, without delegation you will never be able to make the organization possible. Bob further explains what he has learned about delegation through the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) which he has adopted at North County Property Group. Here are the simple steps:Make a list of all the things you do with your time, tasks if you will Put each of those tasks in one of four quadrants: Love to do it / Great at itLike to do it / Good at itDon’t like it / but Good at itDon’t like it / Not Good at itNow look at the last two quadrants and delegate those things you don’t like and aren’t good at If you follow this simple exercise, once per calendar quarter, you will allow you yourself as a leader to have the energy for all of those things you are great at and love to do. And there is a bonus .... productivity will go up throughout the entire company, you will have a better culture, and you will no longer be a bottleneck. TGIF, keep the faith, and we will catch you next Friday!This episode is always available for listening, sharing, or download at Property Management Brainstorm. Subscribe to Property Management Brainstorm on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, TunedIn, iHeart Radio and YouTube.

Welcome back to the Oasis Podcast Support the Oasis Podcast Network at patreon.com/oasispod Follow on Twitter and Facebook @oasispodcast and Instagram @OasisPod, plus the new podcast @1001AlbumsPod Today's guest is Richard Bowes @rbmusicwriter - buy his book Some Might Say - The Definitive Story of Oasis - https://thisdayinmusicbooks.com/books/some-might-say-the-definitive-history-of-oasis/ Email oasispod@gmail.com 0:00 Liam intro and Vision - Shine On 0:24 News - Noel on the Matt Morgan podcast 3:37 Oasis - Mucky Fingers, then Mucky Fingers reversed and slowed down, then Oasis - Can Y'see It Now  10:35 News- Death of Q Magazine 21:45 Oasis Collaborations 21:51 Paul Weller - I Walk On Gilded Splinters 24:47 Cher - I Walk On Gilded Splinters 26:56   Paul Weller - One x One 30:06   Paul Weller - Echoes Round The Sun 32:01   Paul Weller - The Attic 33:15   Paul Weller - Books 35:36   Paul Weller - Crossing Over 37:57 North Mississippi All Stars - Polaris 40:23 Smokin Mojo Filters - Come Together 43:00 Oasis - Coming On Strong, Noel acoustic Coming On Strong, Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun 47:10 Beck - Devil's Haircut (NG Remix) 49:58 Ocean Colour Scene - Day Tripper (feat Liam & Noel) 52:53 Lemonheads - Purple Parallellogram 55:44 Smaller - Is 58:00 Seahorses - Love Me & LEave Me 1:00:33 Echo & The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever 1:02:30 The Verve - Come On 1:05:23 Goldie - Temper Temper 1:07:36 Travis - All I Wanna Do Is Rock 1:09:21 Unkle - Knock On Effect 1:11:52 Liam Gallagher & Steve Cradock - Carnation 1:14:26 To Be Someone (The Jam, then NG) 1:17:42 Help (Claire Martin, then NG) 1:20:14 Chemical Bros - Let Forever Be 1:23:35 Tailgunner - Crazy Horse 1:27:37 Proud Mary - Very Best Friend 1:30:13 Delilah Why - Undercover 1:31:56 Steve Marriott Tribute Concert - Here Comes The Nice 1:33:40 Cornershop - Spectral Morning 1:35:28  Cornershop - Lessons Learned From Rocky I-II 1:37:47 Death In Vegas - Scorpio Rising 1:39:42 The Who feat. NG  - Won't Get Fooled Again 1:40:36 NG - Teotihuacan 1:41:56 Ian Brown - Keep What Ya Got 1:45:41 The Prodigy - Shoot Down 1:48:37 Ricky Gervais - Freelove Freeway 1:51:40 The Stands - Some Weekend Night 1:56:27 Interview preview with Andy McCluskey from OMD, coming to 1001 Albums Podcast soon 1:59:45 JC ending and Patreon thanks 2:00::40 Unkle - Knock On Effect 2:01:12 Oasis - Stay Young

Lot of people just passively drag through life nowadays. Our culture fosters toxic passivity and that is a problem. If you are here, you probably want something better. If so, listen to the solution in this episode. (00:01) Richard Explains Why He Stopped Face-to-face Counselling & Why He Got Back to It Now (04:04) Importance of Personal Sense of Right and Wrong (08:34) Passivity is a Consequence of Not Having Any Moral Philosophy (13:12) We Are Trained to Be Seen Through Robot's Eyes (17:58) The Connection Between Healthy Boundaries and Moral Philosophy (20:06) Does Porn Have Any Useful Function? (25:32) Does Porn Destroy True Love? (26:35) The Ancients Knew That Overindulgence Didn't Lead to Anything Good Morally (28:40) Are Those Who Make Pornography Sexually Autistic? (30:35) Isn't Labelling a Person With Toxic Passivity Problematic? (31:59) Does General Population Find PTSD Ridiculous? (35:12) Toxic Passivity and Solutions to It (37:27) How to Deal With Friends Who Don't Recognize One's PTSD? (38:53) Is Toxic Passivity Rooted in Learned Helplessness? (41:45) Emotional Flashback is a Commonly Misunderstood Term (44:39) Ruminating is an Emotional Flashback (49:39) Talking About the Weezer and the Foo Fighters Concert (52:46) Tips on Being Articulate (55:12) Goodbye

Podcast: Removing the Confusion from Your TradingIn this video: 00:26 – Trading Confusion and how to overcome it00:55 – Confusion to Clarity02:00 – Knowing what to look for02:50 – Feedback from new clients03:59 – Pick the charts and time frames that suit youI'm going to try and help you remove the confusion from your trading. Let's talk about that and more right now.Hi, traders. It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 349.Trading Confusion and how to overcome itNow, I want to talk about trading confusion, and I believe it's very, very common and I know that because when someone joins our course, I send them an email and find out all about their trading history, so we know how to best help them. And then after a week, I ask them how they're going with the course and what they're liking, what they're finding difficult, and then the same after a few weeks, same after a month, six months, et cetera. So, we get some really good feedback from people about what stage of their trading career and the stage of their journey that they're at.Confusion to ClarityBut what I find is that confusion is a big part of what people have before they come to us. And after they join us, clarity and an understanding of the market is a big part of what they gain out of joining the course and a well-proven strategy.So, I want to expand on that because the confusion is a big problem. You need to understand when are you trading? When are you looking at your charts? At the close of a candle is a very easy thing to do. You probably just heard my charts just alert behind me here. It is now 11 o'clock here Friday morning, so it's 5:00PM Thursday New York time. So, as soon as I finish this video, I'm going to be looking at the daily charts. In fact, I've already had a quick look to see what's happening, and posting for our clients' specific trades based on the daily charts. I know that right now I need to look at the daily charts because the candle on the daily candle was closed.At the same time I can look at the one hour, the four hour, the six hour, the eight hour and the 12 hour charts all at the same time. And so I have clarity of when to trade.Knowing what to look forI then have clarity because I know what I'm looking for. Now a little bit like riding a bicycle. Once you can do it, you can do it and you can always do it and you can get back on the bike and you know what to do. But when you're starting, there's a lot of confusion going on and it's very, very difficult because you've got to pedal and steer and look out for cars and other bikes, et cetera, and it's quite difficult to put it all together. But once someone's showing you how to do it and once you've mastered it, it becomes relatively easy.And trading's not too dissimilar in that once you have clarity and understanding of what you're looking for, what pattern you're looking for, what the set up looks like, knowing which currency pairs you're favouring, which timeframe charts you're favouring, all those type of things, it becomes a lot easier. And just wanted to a pick up on that.Feedback from new clientsHad some feedback forms here from clients. Just wanted to read a few from people who had joined us recently. Feedback from Sarah who said, I learned more in the last week since I've joined in the past six months of trying to trade by myself. There's another one here from Kenneth. Loved the live trading rooms. They're fantastic. I love the examples and really helps cement how to use the system. I love the emphasis on risk management.Another one here from Derek who said, I think the content is really well covered. Love how your indicators tie into your method and the indicators incorporate into your trading strategy. Another one here from Peter. The templates are connected to help me understand w...

It's not just the finale on our Unexpected Lessons from Unlikely Ladies series, it's our semester finale as this is our last #podcast for the summer! This week we dive into lessons from Mary and Martha. Except this Mary is Jesus' mother, not Martha's sister. #gotcha We explore how Mary had to correct Jesus as a mother and what that must have been like for her; we also see how Jesus later had to correct Martha, but not for what you think it was for. Make sure you listen in as we wrap up another amazing year of podcasting and diving into God's word. Thanks for being loyal supporters and listeners of the Be-Cast! We couldn't keep doing this without you!BE IN THE WORD:Mary: corrected Jesus like a momEvery year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. (Luke 2:41-52)Martha: she wasn't corrected for her "doing," she was corrected for her attitude during itNow as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42)BE EDUCATED:1. Surprising Facts We’ve Overlooked About Martha2. Martha: All the Women of the BibleBE DOERS, NOT JUST HEARERS:1. Can you completely relate to Mary as a mother in this story?2. Can you imagine getting on to Jesus? And yet, how often do we look at Him and say, “what are you doing? Why have you treated us this way?”3. How often do we not understand what Jesus/God is saying to us? 4. What should we treasure more than we question? For more resources, make sure to visit our website.You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Join our Be Together Community! It’s a private Facebook group where we gather regularly to encourage,

This episode is for our fellow creatives that struggle balancing work and creativity. How do we stay balanced? How do we feed our creative side? Tune in and listen as we die into the plight of being a creative. The music used in this segment does not belong to ITNOW podcast.

Cassie and Ginny both moved to new homes this week and they are both excited and thrilled with the new changes as it lifts them to a higher frequency to create MORE. http://loaradionetwork.com/manifest-It-Now

Not yesterday.  Not tomorrow.  Not later.  It NOW.  The time that you are in is NOW this moment.  What you choose in this moment will create the rest of your life...so what's it going to be. Join me, Dr. Wendy Dearborne as I talk about The Choice Is Now and our new prosperity series starting in October.

Not yesterday.  Not tomorrow.  Not later.  It NOW.  The time that you are in is NOW this moment.  What you choose in this moment will create the rest of your life...so what's it going to be. Join me, Dr. Wendy Dearborne as I talk about The Choice Is Now and our new prosperity series starting in October.

--{ Enough of U.N. Talks -- Put Jack Back in the Box: "The United Nations has Become a Bore, Seems to have Forgotten its Primary Chore, A Place for Nations to Settle Dispute, It Now is in Tatters of Disrepute, Directing Armies of NGOs, Picking Sides with Friend or Foes, Abolishing Cultures by Law or Force, Directing Child Sex of Course, With its NATO Wing it Bombs from Skies, Countries that Refuse to Standardize, Redistributes Wealth, A Communist Plank, Forced Carbon Taxes, Fattens World Bank, For this Behemoth, Nobody Voted, On the Wealth of Nations, It's Bloody and Bloated" © Alan Watt }-- Destruction of Cultures to Conquer Nations - Heterosexuality is Not the Norm to be Taught to Schoolchildren - Use of Terminology to Create Confusion and Shame - UN and Promotion of Intergenerational Sex - More People Living Alone in Britain - Investigation into Jimmy Savile - Aerial Drones over US - Surveillance Altering Behaviour, Training into Obedience - Public-Private Partnership of Gov. Agencies and NGOs - Ugandan Gang Defrauded Britain's Welfare State out of Four Million Pounds - Hacking the Brain - Special Rights Leaves the Rest with No Rights. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Nov. 2, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

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Dr. Ahern, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology is the author of Snap Out of It NOW!, a guide for those who feel out of synch with their true essence. She outlines how to break free from the prison of past conditioning, how to feel and experience life fully, and how to create the life you have always wanted. Change your negative thought patterns by SNAPPING OUT OF IT!

News, a Featured Performance, a guest Gear Review, we tweak The Stupid Knob, we've got a Crosstalk segment and Viewer Mail! News: The New Digidesign MBox 2 Pro Mathematicians Solve the ‘Cocktail Party Problem' Massey Plugins are now all Mac Intel compatible! Universal Binary version of VSTi Host Tri-Tone Digital Pluggo 3.6 Beta Test Featured Performance:: A few shows back we mentioned an exciting contest (still in progress) that gives you the opportunity to remix the original tracks from Peter Gabriel's Shock The Monkey. Not to mention that the winner receives a free SSL Duende! Ian Baird, one of our creative listeners, is in the top 20 for his remix in the competition. If you or any of your friends do not have an entry in the competition and you'd like to help out Ian by voting for him, click here to do so now! Gear Review: Dave Criddle, co-host of the Home Recording Odyssey podcast with Andrew Brierly, has done a guest gear review for us. Dave takes a closer look at Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2. The Stupid Knob: This one involves Clay Aiken of American Idol fame. Sometimes they just write themselves. Crosstalk: Chuck Berry Turns 80 Years Old On October 18th And Is Still Touring! Weird Al Sticks It To The Man! Viewer Mail: From Andrew Shaap: Download the Charles Dye Ring Tone From Kris Busby: http://Olga.net TheRecordingProject.com From Andrew in Ottawa: Pictures from Andrew in Ottawa of the Randy Bachman (of Bachman Turner Overdrive) gig he recently worked. Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: Who was the first female over the age of 50 to have a chart topping record? A: Cher with Believe in March 1999! Congratulations to Richard Crosser for being the first one to get us the correct answer. He takes home a copy of Guitar & Drum Trainer courtesy of Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Honorable mention goes out to David "SpoonZ" Spooner from down under and Patrick Abbas, who also mentioned he loved the vocal-booth-in-a-trash-can solution from last week. The New Weird Al Release Is Almost Here! Straight Outta Lynwood The New Album – In Stores September 26! Pre-order It Now! Visit Weird Al's web site and get the first song off the album free! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic vst weird al bob seeger old time rock and roll straight outta lynwood don't donwload this song xpand massey plugins pluggo colo rtone phase tone valve tone ssl duende home recording odyssey guitar rig clay aiken chuck berry pink flyod dark side of the moon james blunt charles dye randy bachman bachman turner overdrive apogee olga led zeppelin cher

News: News, a new Cat Box submission, a Gear Review and a bucket of fantastic Viewer Mail! The Musician's CoolerAl is interviewed by Jammin' Dave Jackson over at the MusiciansCooler.com! Bob Dylan promotes iTunes! There must be sound all over it. Mac OS 10.4.7 Tiger is now officially supported for Pro Tools LE 7.1 and Pro Tools HD 7.2. PSN has been chosen as a front page feature over at ThePodLounge.com! The Cat Box: This week we're featuring a rough mix sent in to us by Timothy Lee. He's a drummer and producer with his own project studio. You can see more about him at TimothyCLee.com. This tune is called My Time. It was recorded with Digital Performer in Tim's temporary studio in his house while his new studio space is under construction. It written by a bass player/singer pal of his who decided to finally record some original songs that have been sitting around for awhile. Here are some pictures of the setup Tim used while recording this song. Gear Review: Thanks to Shane Hendricks for asking me to take a look at the new PianoTEQ VST plugin. It's presented as the first truly modeled piano. About $310.00 US. Download a free 45-day trial version for PC and Mac (Power PC only, Intel version coming). The free version has a few notes at the top and bottom ranges of the keyboard disabled. Viewer Mail: Dave Criddle, co-host of the Home Recording Odyssey podcast. Rodger Willis got the Reflexion Filter! Christopher Markus shares his solution for those who think they can sing but really can’t. Now they can with the Sing Like A Pro Rainjet! Answer To Last Week's Trivia Question: Q: What is the most played song on jukeboxes across the United States? A: According to the Amusement & Music Operators Association, Patsy Cline's 1962 hit, "Crazy" is the most played song on jukeboxes across the United States. It's followed by "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger and "Hound Dog" / "Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis Presley. Congratulations to Dave Swift, who was the first person to correctly answer and takes home a free copy of Guitar and Drum Trainer from Ryan Smith over at RenegadeMinds.com. Honorable mention goes out to Heath McConnell of Violet Sun Studios who also answered correctly, but wasn't quite fast enough to beat Dave, and Bill Camarata. The New Weird Al Release Is Almost Here! Straight Outta Lynwood The New Album – In Stores September 26! Pre-order It Now! Visit Weird Al's web site and get the first song off the album free! See you next week! Tags: music recording studio home studio project studio mixing protools plugin digidesign frappr creative commons digidesign guitar and drum trainer ssl solid state logic ssl vst studio projects dave jackson school of podcasting weird al musicians cooler bob dylan the podlounge pianoteq reflexion filter patsy cline bob seeger old time rock and roll hound dog don't be cruel straight outta lynwood don't donwload this song