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Parang fiesta ang handang pagsasaluhan! Naka-ready na ang mga paputok at ang mga baryang ihahagis for good luck. Naisulat na rin ang mga resolution. Iyan ang mga bagay that we associate with and get excited about for the New Year.All Rights Reserved, CBN Asia Inc.https://www.cbnasia.com/giveSupport the show

İlk ve ikinci bölümde Pakrat Estukyan ve Zakarya Mildanoğlu ile iki önemli kaybımızı, Nazar Büyüm ve Başepiskopos Karekin Bekçiyan'ı anıyoruz. Ayrıca Estukyan ile gündemdeki gelişmeleri de değerlendiriyoruz. Son bölümde ise Norayr Daduryan ile Batı Ermenicesi - Doğu Ermenicesi farkları üzerine geçtiğimiz programlarda başladığımız sohbete kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz.  

İlk ve ikinci bölümde Pakrat Estukyan ve Zakarya Mildanoğlu ile iki önemli kaybımızı, Nazar Büyüm ve Başepiskopos Karekin Bekçiyan'ı anıyoruz. Ayrıca Estukyan ile gündemdeki gelişmeleri de değerlendiriyoruz. Son bölümde ise Norayr Daduryan ile Batı Ermenicesi - Doğu Ermenicesi farkları üzerine geçtiğimiz programlarda başladığımız sohbete kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. 

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Dr Sarbar Napakhi arrived in Australia in 1992. With his medical background, when he arrived in Australia, he did three years of residency in medical surgical and emergency. Dr Napakhi also worked as a general practitioner until 1997 when he started his training in Anatomical Pathology. He received his Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia at the end of 2002 and started working at Southern IML (intravascular malignant lymphomatosis) Pathology as a consultant pathologist in 2003. Dr Napakhy is currently Head of Department in Anatomical Pathology at Wollongong University. His areas of interests include urology, lymphoma, head and neck and gastrointestinal Pathology. He re-joined the Pathology Department at Southern IML Pathology in 2016. - Dr. Serbar Nepaxî di sala 1990 de li zanîngeha Selahedîn li Hewlêrê xwendina xwe ya blind kuta kir. Wî di sala 1992 e, koçî Australya kir û sê salan di warên bijîşkî, neştergerî û pizîşkiya awarte de perwerde dît. Dr Nepaxî herweha heta sala 1997 doktorê giştî bû dema wî dest bi perwerdeya patolojiya anatomîk kir wate Lêkolîna li ser nixweşiyên di laş de. Ew di dawiya sala 2002 de Fellowship to the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia bi dest xist. Dr Nepaxî niha serokê Anatomical Pathology li Nexweşxaneya Wollongong, ku ji hêla Southern.IML Pathology ve tê xizmetkirin. Taybetîmendiya Dr Nepaxî di van beşan de ye, urology/mîzdanikê, lîmfoma, nexweşiyên serî û stû, zik û rovî/gastrointestinal.

Bakit nga ba binansagang "Pagong" si Snooky Serna noong 80s, sa kasagsagan ng kasikatan niya? Sino sa mga baguhang artista ngayon ang napagsalitaan niya dahil hindi professional? Iyan at marami pang kwento, alamin sa episode na ito. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Kailan ka mag-aasawa? Mahirap tumanda na walang pamilya.” Iyan ang madalas na  naririnig ni Aya mula sa mga taong gusto siyang kumustahin at tila nagpapahiwatig ng malasakit.All Rights Reserved, CBN Asia Inc.https://www.cbnasia.com/giveSupport the Show.

Is Australia's great multicultural experiment over? That's what two experts on immigration and international relations have asked in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra. They have called for a new understanding of net migration and the role of international students - if the project is to be saved. - Tapos na ba ang malawak na multikultura na eksperimento ng Australia? Iyan ang itinanong ng dalawang eksperto sa migrasyon at pandaigdigang relasyon nang sila'y nagsalita sa harap ng National Press Club sa Canberra. Nanawagan sila para sa isang bagong pag-unawa sa net migration at ang papel ng mga international student - kung ang proyekto ay nais na isasalba.

“Ay, senior — paunahin na sa pila!” Iyan ang sambit ng mga med tech sa clinic nang makita si Norang tinutulak ang kanyang inang naka-wheelchair. Ang sarap naman, aniya, nakangiti pa ang mga taong nagpauna sa kanila.All Rights Reserved, CBN Asia Inc.https://www.cbnasia.com/giveSupport the Show.

Life and love advice. Iyan ang ibabahagi ng ating surprise guest for this Mother's Day episode! A new mom, a psychologist and podcast host of ‘Share Ko Lang', Dr. Anna Tuazon.  Ano nga bang dapat gawin kapag nakasalubong ang ex? Paano mag ‘go with the flow' sa isang family reunion? Nagagamit kaya niya ang mga life hacks sa pagiging mommy ngayon?  All these and more sharing, dito lang sa Surprise Guest with Pia Arcangel!

Mabuting Balita l Marso 30, 2024 – Sabado Santo Ebanghelyo:  Marcos 16:1-17 Pagkatapos ng araw sa unang pahinga, Si Maria Magdalena at si Mariang Ina ni Jaime  at si Salome ay bumili ng mga pabango, upang pumunta at pahiran si Hesus at dumating sila sa libingan kinamagahan ng unang araw ng San linggo, pinag uusapan nila ay Sinong magpapagulong at aalis sa malaking bato sa bukana ng libingan. Ay Sino nga? Sino? Ngunit pagtingin nilay nakita nilay naigulong na ang bato at napakalaking nga non. Kaya pumasok sila sa libingan at nakita nila ang isang binatang naka puti at naka upo sa kanan. At nagtaka sila, Ngunit sinabi niya sa kanila. Huwag kayong matakot. Diba si Hesus na taga-Nazaret na ipinako sa krus ang Hinahanap ninyo, binuhay siya at wala siya rito. Iyan ang lugar. Kung saan Siya inilagay, ngunit humayao kayo at sabihin sa mga alagad niya at pati kay Pedro na mauuna siya sa inyo sa galilia, doon nyo siya matatagpuan gaya ng sinabi niya sa inyo” Agad silang lumabas at tumakas mula sa libingan. Inalihan sila ng takot at sindak at wala silang sinabi kaninuman. Takot na takot nga sila.   Pagninilay: Makailang beses ko na ring narinig sa mga speakers sa recollection o retreat na kapag daw nanlalamig na tayo sa ating relasyon sa Diyos at maging sa ating bokasyon, kailangang bumalik tayo sa ating Galilee. Bakit sa Galilee? Anong meron doon? Sa ating Mabuting Balita ngayon, narinig natin na nagpunta ang tatlong babae sa libingan ni Hesus upang pahiran ang katawan nito ng pabango, pero laking gulat nila nang wala na roon ang katawan ni Hesus. Bagkus isang binatang nakaputi ang nakita nila na nagsabing nabuhay syang muli at mauuna na sa Galilee. Sa Galilee nya unang tinawag ang kanyang mga alagad at sa Galilee muli niya silang kakatagpuin matapos siyang mabuhay namang muli. Kapanalig, ano ang ipinahihiwatig nito sa atin, at sa ating pananampalataya? Sa palagay ko, kung nanghihina o lumalamig na ang ating relasyon sa Diyos o sa ating bokasyon, balikan natin yung unang tagpo at pagkakataon na naramdaman nating tinatawag tayo ng Panginoon. Alalahanin natin ang galak na dulot nito sa ating mga puso. Baka kasi sa dami na ating pinagkakaabalahan natabunan na ang galak ng masalimuot na karanasan natin sa buhay. Kahit sa mga mag-asawa, kapag nanlalamig na kayo sa isa't-isa, balikan nyo rin yung unang sulyap nyo sa inyong napangasawa, sariwain nyo yung kilig na dulot nito sa puso nyo. Ano'ng nakita mo sa kanya na nagpatibok sa iyong puso? Nandiyan pa ba? Baka natabunan lang. Reclaim it!

ANO ANG SIGNS NG BURNOUT SA TRABAHO AT PAANO HARAPIN ITO?Iyan ang aalamin natin kasama ang Life and Financial Coach na si Coach Migs Flores!  ⭐️ lifecoachmigs.com #finance101 #primepinoy #tiktokskwela #learnontiktok #eduwow #migsflores

Mabuting Balita l Pebrero 15, 2024 - – Huwebes pagkaraan ng Miyerkules ng Abo                    San Claudio de la Colombiere Ebanghelyo: Lk 9, 22-25  Sinabi ni Hesus sa kanyang mga alagad: “Kailangang magtiis ng marami ang Anak ng Tao. Itatakwil nga siya ng mga Matatanda ng bayan, ng mga Punong-pari at ng mga guro ng Batas. Papatayin siya at muling babangon sa ikatlong-araw.” “Kung may gustong sumunod sa akin, itakwil ang kanyang sarili at kunin ang kanyang krus araw-araw para sumunod sa akin. Sapagkat ang naghahangad na magligtas ng kanyang sarili ay mawawalan nito, at ang mawawalan nito alang-alang sa akin ay siyang makapagliligtas nito. Ano ang pakinabang ng tao tubuin man niya ang buong daigdig at mawawala naman o mapapahamak ang kanyang sarili?”      Pagninilay: Bilang isang kristiyano at tagasunod ni Kristo, hindi malayo na makakaranas tayo ng kapighatian, kalungkutan o pagdurusa, anuman ang ating katayuan sa buhay. It's a given, ‘ika nga. Pero ang mahalaga, sa kabila ng mga pagsubok ay magkaroon tayo ng positive outlook sa bawat sandali ng ating buhay. Kung meron tayong positive attitude, we will always be grateful for everything. Dahil ang lahat ng bagay ay biyaya. Kahit ang negatibong pangyayari sa buhay natin ay puwedeng maging paraan upang matamo natin ang isang masayang kaganapan. Ito ay isang bagay na napakagandang pagnilayan lalo na ngayong panahon ng kuwaresma. Minsan ay ibinubunton natin sa Diyos ang sisi pag merong di magandang nangyayari sa buhay natin. Pero isipin natin na hindi tayo bibigyan ng Panginoon ng mga pasaning di natin kayang dalhin. Meron isang kuwento tungkol sa isang lalaki na nag complain sa Diyos dahil ‘di na niya makayanan ang mga dinadalang problema sa buhay. Nag asked siya kay Lord kung pwedeng palitan ng magaan ang krus na pinapasan niya sa buhay. Pinagbigyan naman siya ni Lord at dinala siya sa isang silid na puno ng mga crosses na iba't iba ang sizes at weight. Pinapili siya ng krus na sa palagay niya ay kaya niyang pasanin. Pumili ang lalaki ng isang krus na katamtaman ang laki at kaya ang bigat nang ipinatong niya ito sa balikat. Napangiti ang Panginoon nang makita ang krus na pinili at nagwika: Ang pinili mong krus ay di nag-iba. Iyan din ang krus na dinadala mo sa ngayon, na akala mo ay napakabigat at di mo kayang pasanin. Kapanalig, mabigat ba ang pasanin mo sa buhay, ang problemang hinaharap mo? Tawag ka lang sa Panginoong Hesus, higpitan mo lamang ang kapit sa kanya at tutulungan ka niya. Hindi ka niya bibitawan. Dahil si Hesus ay lagi nating katuwang sa anumang pasanin sa buhay. Sabi nga ng aming founder na si Blessed James Alberione, “by ourselves we can do nothing, but with God, we can do everything.”    

 Mabuting Balita l Enero 1, 2024 – Lunes l Dakilang Kapistahan ni Maria, Ina ng Diyo's Pandaidigang Araw ng Panalangin Ebanghelyo: Lucas 2:16-21 Nagmamadaling pumunta ang mga pastol sa Bethlehem at natagpuan nila si Maria at si Jose at ang sanggol na nakahiga sa sabsaban. Pagkakita rito, pinatotohanan nila ang pahayag na binigkas sa kanila tungkol sa batang ito. Namangha rin ang mga nakarinig sa mga sinasabi ng pastol sa kanila. Iningatan naman ni Maria ang mga ito at pinagnilay-nilay sa kanyang puso. Umuwi ang mga pastol na niluluwalhati at pinupuri ang Diyos dahil nakita nila ang lahat ng kanilang narinig ayon sa ipinasabi sa kanila. Pagsapit ng ikawalong araw, kailangan nang tuliin ang bata; noon siya pinangalanang Hesus, ang itinawag sa kanya ng anghel bago pa siya ipinaglihi.     Pagninilay:  Mga kapanalig, sa Araw ng Pasko, nakatuon ang ating pagdiriwang kay Hesus, ang Salita ng Diyos na nagkatawang-tao.  Sa araw na ito, si Maria naman bilang Ina ng Diyos, ang sentro ng ating pagdiriwang.  Kung tinuturing natin si Hesus bilang Anak ng Diyos, marapat lamang na ituring din natin si Maria/ bilang Ina ng Diyos.  Hindi nagmumula kay Maria ang pagka-Diyos ni Hesus.  Diyos na si Hesus, bago pa man likhain ang sanlibutan.  At nang ipinadala Siya ng Diyos Ama sa daigdig, nabuo ang Kanyang pagiging tao/ sa sinapupunan ni Maria.  Si Maria ay hindi lamang Ina ni Hesus at Ina ng Diyos; siya rin ay Ina nating lahat/ dahil tayo'y mga miyembro ng buhay na Katawan ni Kristo, ang Santa Iglesya. Bukod pa rito, habang nakabayubay at naghihingalo si Hesus sa krus, ibinigay Niya sa atin ang kanyang Inang si Maria, na maging ating ina, sa pamamagitan ni Apostol San Juan.  Sa sulat ni Apostol San Pablo sa mga taga-Galacia, ipinaunawa niya sa atin na mismong ang Diyos Ama, ang nagkaloob sa atin ng Espiritu Santo, upang makatawag tayo sa Kanya ng “Abba! Ama!”  Ang Espiritu Santo din, ang nagbibigay sa atin ng kapangyarihang/ tumawag kay Maria bilang Ina.  Hindi natin maipagkakaila, na may mga taong kumukwestyon sa taguri natin kay Maria/ bilang ina ng Diyos.  Anila, walang sinuman ang maaaring m ag-angkin na pinanggalingan ng Diyos, dahil Siya ay Alpha at Omega, na ibig sabihin, walang simula at walang katapusan.  Pero, nang mag desisyon ang Diyos na magkatawang tao, pinili Niya ang isang babae na maging Ina, sa katauhan ng ating mahal na Inang si Maria.  Ito ang narinig natin sa Ikalawang pagbasa ngayon, mula sa sulat sa mga taga Galacia chapter 4:4: “Ngunit nang sumapit ang takdang panahon, isinugo ng Diyos ang kanyang Anak.  Isinilang Siya ng isang babae at namuhay sa ilalim ng Kautusan.”  Dahil nananalig tayong mga Katoliko Kristyano na si Hesus ay Diyos, at si Maria ang Kanyang ina, marapat lamang na tawagin natin siyang Ina ng Diyos. Iyan ang dahilan ng Kapistahang ipinagdiriwang natin ngayon, at ito ang sentro ng misteryo/ na ipinagdiriwang natin ngayong kapaskuhan.   Mga kapanalig, sa unang araw ng Bagong Taon, kay gandang paalala sa atin na mayroon tayong Ina na gumagabay sa atin.  Si Maria/ ang patuloy na magdadala sa atin sa kanyang anak na si Hesus; at si Maria ang magbubuklod sa atin bilang mga magkakapatid, sa iisang nagmamahal na Ama.  Manalangin tayo:  Panginoon, kilalanin nawa ng sanlibutan si Maria, bilang Ina/ na maglalapit sa amin Sa'yo at sa isa't isa, tungo sa tunay na diwa ng kapayapaan, pagkakaisa at pagtutulungan.  Amen.  

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It's that time of the month again when we read your colorful comments on our Facebook posts. Nabasa ko ba ang comment mo? Makinig para malaman. We read your reactions to the posts: "Is OT a measure of hardwork or inefficiency?" "Bakit halos lahat ng salitang nagtatapos sa -ot negative ang kahulugan? Halimbawa: Bantot, harot, bansot, panot, kulangot, bugnot, atbp." "Kung freshmen ang tawag sa 1st year, sophomore sa 2nd year, junior sa 3rd year, senior sa 4th year, ano ang tawag sa 5th year?" Iyan at marami pang iba sa first award-winning conservative podcast in the Philippines! You can help SUPPORT THIS PODCAST by buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thejayarugashow or through GCASH: 09204848046 You can also be a patron of The Jay Aruga Show podcast by joining us at https://www.patreon.com/thejayarugashow Exclusive contents are available for patrons of the show. Sign up for The Jay Aruga Show Newsletter where we can write to each other. -- http://TheJayArugaShow.com Join the conversation further in our Discord server here -- https://discord.gg/uTye7DdrdQ Subscribe to The Jay Aruga Show Youtube Channel -- https://bit.ly/3ijo5kp Episode Music: 'Vaikuntha' by Spacebar, "Bayaw" and "Throw Pillow" by Sando --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thejayarugashow/message

“What's  important now is that she knows that we love her or that she can feel that, 'di ba? And I think that feeling never goes away for patients with dementia.” Paano nga ba natin ipadadama sa ating mga kaanak na unti-unting nawawala ang alaala ang ating pagmamahal at suporta sa kanila? Iyan ang pinag-usapan ni Doc Anna kasama ang grief, loss and transition coach na si Cathy Sanchez-Babao sa episode na ito ng #ShareKoLang.

“What's  important now is that she knows that we love her or that she can feel that, 'di ba? And I think that feeling never goes away for patients with dementia.” Paano nga ba natin ipadadama sa ating mga kaanak na unti-unting nawawala ang alaala ang ating pagmamahal at suporta sa kanila? Iyan ang pinag-usapan ni Doc Anna kasama ang grief, loss and transition coach na si Cathy Sanchez-Babao sa episode na ito ng #ShareKoLang.

Dr Iyan Offor is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University conducting interdisciplinary, theoretical research focusing on global animal law, environmental justice, intersectionality, posthumanism and law in the Anthropocene. Iyan is passionate about delivering legal education and research that will lead to the improvement of protections for animals and the environment in law. Iyan teaches international environmental law and human rights, legal theory, legal research, and constitutional law. He will also be creating a new course on animals in environmental law. His new book, "Global Animal Law From The Margins", is published by Routledge. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “who matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We discuss: 00:00 Clips 01:22 Welcome - Josh Gellers (previous Sentientism guest) 03:00 Iyan's Intro - Socio-legal scholar. Animals, nature and the law - and how those interact with society - Improving educational options re: animal law: PhDs, masters projects, programmes, talks - "...that appetite for learning about animals, the environment and the law that's already there - [but] in many places there's not space" - Research: "How law can be used as a tool to try and improve animals lives... the core of what I'm trying to do" - New book: "Global Animal Law From The Margins" - Globallaw's multi-scale focus vs. #internationallaw (just the international level) - Feminist, queer & postcolonial perspectives on the animal question - "It ends up being a bit wacky... the international trading system... taking this forward-looking ethical approach... not the most natural bed-fellows but I think in the end it works"  06:58 What's Real? - An #atheist household in a very religious community (highlands of Scotland) and wider family - #bornagain #christian grand-parents "a healthy dose of trying to convert us... my parents weren't to thrilled about that but we were well prepared." - "I couldn't bring my #harrypotter books into the house because magic was seen as sinful and against god's will... it didn't make a lot of sense to me." - Christian cartoons and religion at school "There was a feeling of it being forced on us" - "I can see as quite problematic the ways in which children at school were expected to engage in Christian custom" - Exchange year in Singapore, multiculturalism, secularism re: separation of state and religion - Coming to understand grand-parents' turn to religion "they needed their faith" - "I identify as part of the queer community... growing up in that very small, rural and christian environment... growing up closeted... has been interesting" - Parents "gave us the information & gave us the freedom to make our own choice... that's an incredible privilege to have that freedom..." - "I don't practice or follow a religion... it's never felt like a gap in my life" 34:18 What and Who Matters? 01:11:39 A Better World? 01:28:19 Follow Iyan - https://twitter.com/IyanOffor - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iyan-offor/ - https://www.bcu.ac.uk/law/about-us/meet-our-staff/iyan-offor - Global Animal Law From The Margins “the e-book is reasonably priced” ...and much more. Full show notes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"I'm a Sentientist" wall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this simple form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on FaceBook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Come join us there!

Mga Kaaway at Pananampalatayana Binigay ng Diyos Pagsikapan ninyong mamuhay nang nararapat ayon sa Magandang Balita ni Cristo . . . Huwag kayong matakot sa inyong mga kaaway . . . Dahil ipinagkaloob niya sa inyo, hindi lamang ang manalig sa kanya, kundi ang magtiis din naman alang-alang kay Cristo. (Filipos 1:27-29, MBBTAG) Sinabi ni Pablo sa mga taga-Filipos na ang pamumuhay nang nararapat ayon sa ebanghelyo ni Cristo ay nangangahulugan ng kawalan ng takot sa harap ng mga kaaway. Pagkatapos ay ibinigay niya ang lohika ng kawalan ng takot na ito. Ito ang lohika nito: Binigyan ka ng Diyos ng dalawang regalo, hindi lang isa — ang pananampalataya at pagtitiis. Iyan ang sinasabi sa talata 29: “Dahil ipinagkaloob niya sa inyo, hindi lamang ang manalig sa kanya, kundi ang magtiis din naman alang-alang kay Cristo.” Ipinagkaloob sa iyo na manampalataya, at ipinagkaloob sa iyo na magtiis. Ito ang ibig sabihin sa kontekstong ito: Ang iyong pananampalataya sa harap ng pagtitiis, at ang iyong pagtitiis, ay parehong kaloob ng Diyos. Nang sinabi ni Pablo na huwag silang matakot sa kanilang mga kaaway, may dalawang dahilan sa kanyang isipan kung bakit hindi nila kailangang matakot: Ang isang dahilan ay ang kaaway nila'y nasa kamay ng Diyos. Ang kanilang pagsalungat ay kaloob ng Diyos. Pinamamahalaan Niya ito. Yan ang unang punto ng talata 29. At ang isa pang dahilan para di matakot ay dahil ang kanilang kawalan ng takot, ibig sabihin, ang kanilang pananampalataya, ay nasa kamay din ng Diyos. Isa rin itong kaloob. Yan ang isa pang punto ng talata 29. Kaya ang lohika ng kawalan ng takot sa harap ng paghihirap ay ang dobleng katotohanang ito: Ang iyong paghihirap at ang iyong pananampalataya sa harap ng paghihirap ay parehong regalo ng Diyos. Bakit tinatawag itong pamumuhay na “nararapat ayon Magandang Balita ni Cristo”? Dahil ang ebanghelyo ang magandang balita na ang dugo ng covenant ni Cristo ay walang kamali-maling nakamit, para sa lahat ng Kanyang mga anak, ang dakilang gawain ng Diyos na bigyan tayo ng pananampalataya't pamamahala sa ating mga kaaway — laging para sa ating walang-hanggang kabutihan. Yan ang tiniyak ng ebanghelyo. Kaya naman ang mamuhay sa ganoong paraan ay nagpapakita ng kapangyarihan at kabutihan ng ebanghelyo. Samakatuwid, huwag kang matakot. Hindi maaaring gumawa ang iyong mga kalaban ng higit pa sa ipinagkaloob ng Diyos. At ipagkakaloob Niya ang lahat ng pananampalatayang kailangan mo. Ang mga pangakong ito ay binili ng dugo at tinatakan ng selyo ng Diyos. Ang mga ito ay mga pangako ng ebanghelyo. Devotional excerpted from “The Logic of Fearlessness” This article was translated by Joshene Bersales and was originally written by John Piper of Desiring God. To read the original version, click https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/god-given-foes-and-god-given-faith Joshene Bersales considers Joshua her Bible hero, and strives to have faith that can make the sun stand still. She graduated with an AB Literature (English) degree from Ateneo de Manila University. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Joshene loves theater, traveling, and tea. You can find her on IG (@joshenebersales) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/joshenebersales/). John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Providence.

Napakinggan mo ba ang SOGIE dialogue natin with a pro-SOGIE advocate, Michael Pastor, sa P.I. Podcast? Ito ang aming debrief ng dialogue na 'yun. Sasamahan tayo ni MON REYES of Not So Secular podcast para sa masayang diskusyunang ito. Dito sa episode ay pinagusapan namin kung paano ako naghanda sa dialogue, ano ang aking thoughts in hindsight, at mga payo kung paano tayo makakapag-simula ng productive dialogue sa mga kaibigan nating SOGIE Bill advocate. Iyan at marami pang iba in this week's THE JAY ARUGA SHOW. You can listen to the SOGIE Bill dialogue in P.I. Podcast by clicking the link here. You can catch Mon Reyes at FEAST BELLEVUE every Sunday. Listen to Mon at Not So Secular podcast on Spotify or any of your favorite podcast platform. Mon is also part of The Bible Nerds Podcast which you can listen to by clicking here. In this podcast, he is joined by fellow Bible nerds, Bo Sanchez, Mike Vinas, Bene Sanchez, and Tisha Caro. You can help SUPPORT THIS PODCAST by buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thejayarugashow or through GCASH: 09204848046 You can also be a patron of The Jay Aruga Show podcast by joining us at https://www.patreon.com/thejayarugashow Exclusive contents are available for patrons of the show. Sign up for The Jay Aruga Show Newsletter where you will have direct access to behind the scenes stuff, more detailed stories about an episode, and where we can write to each other as well. -> http://TheJayArugaShow.com Subscribe to The Jay Aruga Show Youtube Channel --> https://bit.ly/3ijo5kp Episode Music: 'Vaikuntha' by Spacebar, "Bayaw" and "Throw Pillow" by Sando --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thejayarugashow/message

Mabuting Balita l Setyembre 21, 2023 – Huwebes | Ika-24 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon Kapistahan ni San Mateo, apostol at ebanghelista #MabutingBalita #DaughtersOfStPaulPhilippines #PaulinesPH  Ebanghelyo: Mateo 9:9-13 Sa paglalakad ni Hesus, nakita niya ang isang lalaking nagngangalang Mateo na nakaupo sa singilan ng buwis at sinabi niya rito: “Sumunod ka sa akin.” At tumayo si Mateo at sinundan s'ya. At habang nasa hapag si Hesus sa bahay ni Mateo, maraming taga-singil ng buwis at iba pang makasalanan ang lumapit at nakisalo kay Hesus at sa kanyang mga alagad. Nang makita ito ng mga Pariseo, tinanong nila ang kanyang mga alagad: “Bakit kumaking kasama ng mga makasalanan at maninigil ng buwis ang inyong guro?” Nang marinig ito ni Hesus, sinabi niya: “Hindi ang malulusog ang nangangailangan ng doktor kundi ang mga may sakit! Sige, matutunan sana ninyo ang kahulugan ng ‘Awa ang gusto ko, hindi handog.' Hindi ako pumarito para tawagin ang mabubuti kundi ang mga makasalanan.”  Pagninilay: Bakit makasalanan si Mateo sa paningin ng mga Pariseo? Kasi isa siyang maniningil ng buwis o tax collector. Siya ang kumukuha ng buwis sa kanyang kapwa hudyo upang ibigay sa Imperyong Romano. Kaya naman itinuturing siyang taksil sa paningin nila at sakim dahil sa komisyon na kanyang nakukuha. Ito ang buhay ni Mateo bago tawagin ni Kristo, kinamumuhian dahil isang makasalanan. Pero mga kapanalig, ang bawat tao ay may kakayahang magbago katulad ni Mateo, kung tatanggapin natin ang paanyaya ni Kristo "Halika, sumunod ka sa akin…" akong bahala sa iyo. Naalala ko bago ako pumasok sa seminaryo, katulad ako ni Mateo. Saan nga lang ba ako natagpuan at pinulot ng Diyos? Sa isang lugar na malayo at hindi kilala, galing sa magulo at mahirap na pamilya, isang mahina, may kapintasan at nabubuhay sa kasalanan. Hinusgahan din ng ibang tao: "Hindi makakapari iyan, kasi hiwalay ang mga magulang, at hindi iyan tatagal, kasi walang pang paaral ang kanyang nanay." Kung si Mateo nililibak at nilalayuan dahil makasalanan, ako naman hinusgahan dahil sa magulang at mga kakulangan. Sabi ni Archbishop Jose Palma sa kanyang homiliya nung mag ordain siya ng anim na bagong pari: "We are not worthy, but God makes us worthy of this gift not because of the qualities one possesses, but because God qualifies us." Gaano man kaliit ang tingin natin sa sarili dahil sa ating pinagmulan, kahinaan at kasalanan, meron tayong Diyos na may malaking puso na lumilingap upang hindi tayo bumitaw sa pinili nating buhay. “Huwag kayong susuko, hindi ko kayo pababayaan!” Iyan ang pangako ng Panginoon. "Don't judge the book if it's not over." Huwag nating husgahan ang libro hangga't hindi pa natin nababasa ng kumpleto. Hangga't nabubuhay tayo, ang Panginoon hindi nauubusan ng magagandang plano. Huwag tayong susuko at mawawalan ng pag-asa anuman ang masamang sabihin ng iba. Tingnan nating halimbawa ang paru-paro, mula sa pagiging uod o caterpillar hanggang maging ganap ng butterfly. Hindi man maganda ang ating simula at nagawa, pero kay Kristo napapatawad ito at naitatama. Maganda yung sinabi ni Hesus sa Mabuting Balita: "Habag ang ibig ko at hindi hain sapagkat naparito ako upang tawagin ang mga makasalanan hindi ang mga banal." Amen. - Fr. Eduardo Regore Jr. – Diocese of Daet

Kung Bakit May Katawan Ka Sapagkat binili na kayo sa isang halaga. Kaya't gamitin ninyo ang inyong katawan upang maparangalan ang Diyos. (1 Corinto 6:20, MBBTAG) Hindi basta-basta lang nilikha ng Diyos ang pisikal-materyal na sansinukob. May layunin Siya, at ito'y upang dagdagan ang mga paraan kung paano ilalabas at ipapakita ang Kanyang kaluwalhatian. “Ang kaluwalhatian ng Diyos ay ipinapahayag ng kalangitan! Ang ginawa ng kanyang kamay, ipinapakita ng kalawakan!” (Awit 19:1). Ang ating katawan ay pasok sa parehong kategorya ng mga pisikal na bagay na nilikha ng Diyos para sa dahilang ito. Hindi Siya aatras sa Kanyang plano na luwalhatiin ang Kanyang sarili sa pamamagitan ng mga tao at katawan ng tao.  Bakit nagpapakahirap ang Diyos na dumihan ang Kanyang mga kamay para sa ating nabubulok na laman na puno ng bahid ng kasalanan, para gawin itong katawang muling mabubuhay at bihisan ito ng kaluwalhatian at kawalang-kamatayan? Sagot: Dahil binayaran ng Kanyang Anak ang presyo ng kamatayan upang matupad ang layunin ng Ama para sa materyal na sansinukob–na Siya'y luwalhatiin nito, pati sa ating mga katawan, magpakailanman.   Iyan ang sinasabi ng teksto: “Binili na kayo sa isang halaga [ang kamatayan ng Kanyang Anak]. Kaya't gamitin ninyo ang inyong katawan upang maparangalan ang Diyos.” Hindi ipagwawalang-bahala o ikahihiya ng Diyos ang ginawa ng Kanyang Anak. Igagalang ng Diyos ang gawain ng Kanyang Anak sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay muli ng buhay sa ating mga katawan, at gagamitin natin ang ating mga ito upang luwalhatiin Siya magpakailanman.  Ito ang dahilan kung bakit may katawan ka ngayon. At ito ang dahilan kung bakit ito'y bubuhaying muli upang maging katulad ng maluwalhating katawan ni Cristo. Devotional excerpted from Future Grace, page 373 This article was translated by Joshene Bersales and was originally written by John Piper of Desiring God. To read the original version, click https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/why-you-have-a-body Joshene Bersales considers Joshua her Bible hero, and strives to have faith that can make the sun stand still. She graduated with an AB Literature (English) degree from Ateneo de Manila University. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Joshene loves theater, traveling, and tea. You can find her on IG (@joshenebersales) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/joshenebersales/). John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Providence.

It's THE COMMENT SECTION once again! Nabasa ko ba ang comment mo? Makinig para malaman! This week, ang mga posts na binasahan natin comments include these: "Medyo tumatanda ka na kung ang choice mo ng pambahay ay puting t-shirt na plain." "Si Ultraman ang superhero na madaling ma-lowbatt. Ilang minutong labanan lang kumikislap-kislap na 'yung ilaw sa dibdib niya. Kung ako sa halimaw na kalaban niya, ilag ilag lang ako hanggang sa tuluyan nang ma-drain ang batt ni Ultraman. Hindi naman siguro mahirap gawin 'yun." "Bakit 'pag may karga kang baby, hindi mo maiwasang sumayaw? Subukan niyo." Iyan at marami pang iba in this week's THE JAY ARUGA SHOW. Siyempre, aawardan din natin ang Basher of the Month. Sino kaya ang mapapatawan natin ng prestihiyosong parangal na ito? You can help SUPPORT THIS PODCAST by buying me a coffee at ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thejayarugashow⁠ or through GCASH: 09204848046 Sign up for The Jay Aruga Show Newsletter where you will have direct access to behind the scenes stuff, more detailed stories about an episode, and where we can write to each other as well. -> ⁠http://TheJayArugaShow.com⁠ Subscribe to The Jay Aruga Show Youtube Channel --> ⁠https://bit.ly/3ijo5kp --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thejayarugashow/message

Hello everyone!!  Thank you to everyone tuning in whether you're a returning listener or a first-timer, we are happy to have you. This was a very fun insightful episode where Angie, Marsha, and Staph discuss about BTS. If you are a consistent listener of the Naked Podcast then you know that Angie is always talking about BTS. So, we decided to get Naked about that with our second guest for this season, Iyan. In this episode, Angie was explaining all about the popular K-Pop group and the work that they are doing all around the world. We definitely enjoyed having Iyan on this episode as he shared his experiences with BTS and how he discovered them. As always, thank you so much for your support. Virtual hugs to everyone listening, and Let's get Naked with it!!! Get connected with us: The Naked Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thenakedpodcast Instagram: @the.naked.podcast Iyan's instagram: iyangidiosakue It's important for us to be there for our viewers, so we provided some helpful links. Suicide prevention hotline: 988 Here are some links if you are interested in therapy. https://www.betterhelp.com/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/florida?category=florida-blue https://therapyforblackgirls.com/ https://therapyforblackmen.org

Dahil sa pananampalataya, handang ihandog ni Abraham ang kaisa-isa niyang anak na si Isaac nang subukin siya ng Dios. (Hebreo 11:17, ASND) Para sa marami sa inyo ngayon — at para sa ibang darating na ang panahon — ang pagsunod ay parang katapusan ng isang panaginip. Pakiramdam ninyo, kung gagawin ninyo ang sinasabi ng Salita ng Diyos o ng Espiritu ng Diyos na gawin ninyo, gagawin kayo miserable nito, at walang paraan na magagawa itong mabuti ng Diyos. Siguro ang utos o tawag ng Diyos na naririnig mo ngayon ay manatiling may asawa o wala, manatili sa iyong trabaho o umalis na, magpabawtismo, magsalita sa trabaho tungkol kay Cristo, tumangging i-kompromiso ang iyong pamantayan ng katapatan, harapin ang isang taong nasa kasalanan, makipagsapalaran sa bagong bokasyon, maging misyonero. At sa nakikita ng iyong limitadong pag-iisip, terible ang posibilidad ng paggawa nito — para itong pagkawala ni Isaac, ang tanging anak na puwedeng maging tagapagmana mo. Isinaalang-alang mo ang bawat anggulo ayon sa batayan ng tao, at imposibleng maging mabuti ang resulta nito. Ngayon alam mo na kung ano ang naramdaman ni Abraham. Nasa Biblia ang kuwentong ito para sa iyo. Hangad mo ba ang Diyos at ang Kanyang daan at mga pangako nang higit pa sa anumang bagay, at naniniwala ka ba na kaya at igagalang Niya ang iyong pananampalataya at pagsunod, na hindi Siya mahihiyang tawaging Diyos mo, at gagamitin Niya ang lahat ng Kanyang karunungan at kapangyarihan at pagmamahal para gawing daan ng buhay at kagalakan ang daan ng pagsunod? Iyan ang krisis na kinakaharap mo ngayon: Hinahangad mo ba Siya? Magtitiwala ka ba sa Kanya? Ito ang salita ng Diyos sa iyo: Karapat-dapat ang Diyos at kaya Niyang gawin ang lahat. Devotional excerpted from “The Hope of Exiles on the Earth” This article was translated by Joshene Bersales and was originally written by John Piper of Desiring God. To read the original version, click https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-obedience-feels-impossible Joshene Bersales considers Joshua her Bible hero, and strives to have faith that can make the sun stand still. She graduated with an AB Literature (English) degree from Ateneo de Manila University. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Joshene loves theater, traveling, and tea. You can find her on IG (@joshenebersales) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/joshenebersales/). John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Providence.

In this episode, Iyan Karthikeyan and Ayali director Muthu Kumar talked about the film "Ayali," women's empowerment, and challenges that women deal with in society. Support our fact check initiatives - https://youturn.in/support-us For fact check and other special articles, visit our website at https://youturn.in We are also available in English at https://en.youturn.in Android App - http://bit.ly/3obVUnA Allow us to reach you through Social Media: Twitter - http://bit.ly/2Y4Vox2 Facebook - http://bit.ly/3iFvp8N Instagram - http://bit.ly/2MjqEpi #Youturn #TamilFacts #Ayali #IyanKarthikeyan

[EXTENDED INTERVIEW] May love-hate relationship ka ba sa iyong biyenan? Pakiramdam mo ba ay nanghihimasok na sila minsan sa pribado ninyong buhay? Paano nga ba makakasundo ang biyenan? Iyan ang pag-uusapan ni Dr. Anna Tuazon at ng vlogger sa likod ng Mommy Diaries PH na si Ciara Magallanes.

[EXTENDED INTERVIEW] May love-hate relationship ka ba sa iyong biyenan? Pakiramdam mo ba ay nanghihimasok na sila minsan sa pribado ninyong buhay? Paano nga ba makakasundo ang biyenan? Iyan ang pag-uusapan ni Dr. Anna Tuazon at ng vlogger sa likod ng Mommy Diaries PH na si Ciara Magallanes.

May love-hate relationship ka ba sa iyong biyenan? Pakiramdam mo ba ay nanghihimasok na sila minsan sa pribado ninyong buhay? Paano nga ba makakasundo ang biyenan? Iyan ang pag-uusapan ni Dr. Anna Tuazon at ng vlogger sa likod ng Mommy Diaries PH na si Ciara Magallanes. Panoorin ang video.

May love-hate relationship ka ba sa iyong biyenan? Pakiramdam mo ba ay nanghihimasok na sila minsan sa pribado ninyong buhay? Paano nga ba makakasundo ang biyenan? Iyan ang pag-uusapan ni Dr. Anna Tuazon at ng vlogger sa likod ng Mommy Diaries PH na si Ciara Magallanes. Panoorin ang video.

Iyan Karthikeyan and Dr. Devi talked about the effects of pseudoscience in this episode. On how influencers deceive the general public with medical terms. Support our fact check initiatives - https://youturn.in/support-us For fact check and other special articles, visit our website at https://youturn.in We are also available in English at https://en.youturn.in Android App - http://bit.ly/3obVUnA Allow us to reach you through Social Media: Twitter - http://bit.ly/2Y4Vox2 Facebook - http://bit.ly/3iFvp8N Instagram - http://bit.ly/2MjqEpi #Youturn #TamilFacts

Sa episode na to tatalakayin natin ang pinakarecent na batas na ipinatutupad sa bansa. Iyan nga ang SIM Registration Law. Gaano nga ba ito makakatulong sa bansa at sa mga end - users/ subscribers? Makinig at matuto sa bagong episode ng Discussions with Drexraptor Podcast If you have questions and inquiries, feel free to message in the following socials: IG: @drexraptor FB: Rex John B. Abello Tiktok: @drexraptor

This Episode consists of Iyan Karthikeyan and Kavitha's informative points on Tamilnadu government scheme for NGO's for the development of rural community and government schools. Support our fact check initiatives - https://youturn.in/support-us For fact check and other special articles, visit our website at https://youturn.in We are also available in English at https://en.youturn.in Android App - http://bit.ly/3obVUnA Allow us to reach you through Social Media: Twitter - http://bit.ly/2Y4Vox2 Facebook - http://bit.ly/3iFvp8N Instagram - http://bit.ly/2MjqEpi #Youturn #TamilFacts

Göksal Serdar'ın hazırlayıp sunduğu Yapı, Yalıtım ve Enerji programına Kavis Yapı Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Rafet Maniş ve Kavis Yapı Proje Sorumlusu Mimar Aşiyan Ayyıldız konuk oldu.

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Old proverbs are a basic social principle in every nation, which has a special place in Kurdish culture. Old proverbs are cultural, passed down from generation to generation. Old proverbs are words that convey a story, an approach, or a view in a short sentence that always stays in a person's mind that a person can easily tell other people. Guney Ozdemir is a poet and a hobbyist who collects old kurdish proverbs and reads them on his social media platforms. - Gotinên pêşiyan di nav her neteweyê de hîmekî bingehîn yê civakî ne, ku di kultûra kurdan de cihekî xwe yê taybet heye. Gotinên pêşiyan kultûrî ne, ji bavûkalan derbase nifşan dibin û di bingeha xwe de gelek caran hatine guhertin. Gotinên pêşiyan, ew gotinên ku çîrokekê, nêzîkatiyekê, yan dîtinekê bi hevokeke kurt tîne zimên ku tim di hişê mirov de dimîne û mirov bi hêsanî bikaribe ji kesên din re bêje. Em derbarê gotinên pêşiyan bi helbestvan û gotinvanê gotinên pêsiyan mamoste Guney Ozdemir re dixafin.

Binigyan ng puting kasuotan ang bawat isa sa kanila, at sinabi sa kanilang magpahinga nang kaunti pang panahon, hanggang sa mabuo ang bilang ng kanilang mga kapatid at kapwa mga lingkod, na papatayin ding tulad nila. (Revelation 6:11) Sa loob ng halos tatlong daang taon, lumago ang Kristiyanismo sa lupang basa ng dugo ng mga inuusig. Hanggang kay Emperor Trajan (around AD 98), pinapayagan pero hindi legal ang persecution. Mula kay Trajan hanggang kay Decius (around AD 250), naging legal ang persecution. Mula kay Decius, na kinamumuhian ang mga Kristiyano at kinatatakutan ang kanilang epekto sa kanyang mga reporma, hanggang sa unang edict of toleration (o utos ng pagpaparaya) noong 311, hindi lang legal ang persecution kundi laganap din. Inilarawan ng isang manunulat ang sitwasyon sa ikatlong period na ito: Kumalat ang takot sa lahat ng dako ng mga kongregasyon; at napakalaki ng bilang ng mga lapsi [o mga taong tumalikod sa kanilang pananampalataya nang pinagbantaan]. Gayunman, walang kakulangan ng mga nanatiling matatag, at nagpakamartir kesa bumigay; at, sa pagkalat at pagtindi ng persecution, lalong naging masigasig ang mga Kristiyano at lumakas nang lumakas ang kanilang kapangyarihan ng paglaban. Kaya, sa loob ng tatlong daang taon, ang pagiging Kristiyano ay paglalagay sa panganib ng iyong buhay at mga pag-aari at pamilya. Ito'y pagsubok sa kung ano ang mas mahal mo. At ang sukdulan ng pagsubok na iyon ay ang pagiging martir. At sa itaas na pagiging martir na iyon ay isang soberanong Diyos na nagsabing may itinalagang bilang ng mga martir. May espesyal na papel silang gagampanan sa pagtatanim at pagbibigay ng kapangyarihan ng simbahan. May espesyal na papel silang gagampanan sa pagsasara ng bibig ni Satanas, na palaging sinasabing ang mga anak ng Diyos ay naglilingkod lang sa Kanya dahil mas bumubuti ang buhay nila. Iyan ang punto ng Job 1:9–11. Hindi aksidente ang pagiging martir. Hindi nagulat ang Diyos dito. Hindi ito di-inaasahan. At hindi ito isang strategic na pagkatalo para sa layunin ni Cristo. Maaaring mukha itong pagkatalo. Pero bahagi ito ng plano ng langit na walang human strategist ang puwedeng makaisip o makapagdisenyo. At ang planong ito ay magtatagumpay para sa lahat ng nagtitiis hanggang wakas sa pamamagitan ng pananampalataya sa all-sufficient grace ng Diyos.

Assalamu'alaikum! Welcome to our final episode of season 3 for 2021. Join us in this episode, hosted by the Brother Siddique with guest speakers Brother Iyan, a born Muslim, and Brother Mikhael, a convert since 2020, who share their personal reflections for the year, alongside their experiences with Converts Central over the past few months. Brother Iyan brings us through his initial understanding of Converts and how it has changed through Converts Central from the perspective of a born Muslim, with Brother Mikhael sharing with us his personal struggles as a Convert prior to joining Converts Central as well as how it has benefitted him upon joining the community. Brother Siddique, Iyan and Mikhael also share with us some of their personal reflections for the year, and we will be running through some updates for Converts Central in the upcoming year.  

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Statistics show that over 380 new websites are created every minute in the United States alone. Studies further show that only about %2 of all websites are accessible. This phenomena is called “the accessibility gap” and the gap grows larger in number every minute of every day.   In this interview, taken from a webinar conducted on March 30, 2021 Mike interviews Curtis Chong, a longtime expert on assistive technology who happens to be blind as well as having a deep knowledge of the challenges persons with disabilities face in using the internet. Curtis will share his own stories and observations as well as challenging all of us to rethink how we create and construct websites in order to include the %20+ of persons with disabilities who today are left out of the opportunities the internet offers to most of us. About our Guest: Curtis Chong was born in Hawaii and lived there for twenty years. Because he was born prematurely (weighing in at only two-and-a-half pounds), he was placed in an incubator. Unfortunately, at that time, the incubator delivered too much oxygen, causing his retinas to be irreparably damaged.   For more than four decades, he has worked to improve the ability of blind people to use computers and other technologies. Since 1969, he has been active in the National Federation of the Blind, promoting civil rights and improved services for blind people in Hawaii, California, Minnesota, Maryland, Iowa, New Mexico, and now in Colorado.   Before entering the field of work with the blind, Curtis spent more than 20 years working in information technology. He programmed his first mainframe computer in 1972, at a time when computers did not talk to the blind. As a designer/consultant at American Express Financial Services (now Ameriprise), he provided technical support for mainframe database and communications software, maintaining systems for sighted coworkers within the company. From 1997-2002, Curtis worked as the Director of Technology for the National Federation of the Blind, supporting internal information technology for the Federation and its external programs to improve nonvisual access technology for the blind in several different areas. He then spent fifteen years in Iowa and New Mexico as a nonvisual access technology specialist in work with the blind.   From October 1998 through April 1999, Curtis served as a member of the Electronic Information and Technology Access Advisory Committee of the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; this group prepared the preliminary standards which were later used by the Access Board to implement Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Curtis also served on a second Access Board committee, appointed ten years later, which developed updated technical standards for Section 508; these standards have been incorporated into published federal rules.   Today, Curtis Chong has retired from paid employment. Nevertheless, he continues his work to help blind people to live the lives they want regardless of their blindness. He continues to volunteer as a nonvisual access consultant for the National Federation of the Blind. In this capacity, in 2019, he and his colleagues in the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado worked to pass a law which enables people with disabilities in Colorado who cannot fill out the printed mail ballot without help to mark their ballots online using the assistive technology with which they are most familiar. About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:22 Hi, this is Michael Hingson, your host for Unstoppable Mindset. In the past, you've heard me talk some about accessiBe, the company I work for as Chief Vision Officer. accessiBe is a company that helps make websites much more usable both through its artificial intelligence solution, as well as other remediation efforts. That is to say what it does is it makes websites more accessible for persons with disabilities who otherwise can't use them. Because most people don't put in the appropriate technologies that would make their websites usable by all people. The gap grows wider every day, every minute in the United States alone, more than 380 new websites are created. less than 2% of those websites include all the tools to make them or at least even some of the tools to make those websites usable and accessible. In March of this year, we conducted a webinar called the Accessibility Gap. And actually this is the first webinar in a series. My guest on the webinar is Curtis Chung, who's a longtime accessibility technology leader for blind people in the National Federation of the Blind and throughout the world. Curtis's highly recognized for all of his knowledge, and the skills and the efforts that he brings to make the world an inclusive place. I thought it would be interesting for us to just go through and listen to that webinar today. I hope you'll find it interesting and instructive. And I hope it'll give you some thought about what you can do to make your website accessible. So sit back, relax and enjoy the Accessibility Gap Part One.   Michael Hingson  03:03 I'm Michael Hingson. I'm the Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. And I'm really glad you came by. Glad you're here. And we'll we'll have high hopes some interesting things to talk about. But I'd first like to introduce Curtis Chong, I should say that I am the Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe, which means I get to be out in front of a lot of things, which has its pluses and it's minuses, but it's a lot of fun. But with me today is somebody I've known forever. And the thing about both of us is we've been dealing with technology since the 1970. So I don't want to hear any comments from anyone about being too old or older than dirt, because experience counts for a lot. That's right, Curtis. So I'd like you to meet Curtis Chong.   Curtis Chong  03:51 Yes, I've known Michael since 1974. And we've both been involved in one fashion or another in efforts to enhance Braille and speech technology that was at the beginning. And then to go forward now to try to interweave all of that into mainstream, the mainstream world since everybody else is now using technology, and it is no longer in the back rooms, hiding behind a secure door that nobody else can get through. So that's my background.   Michael Hingson  04:19 And I've been dealing with assistive technology in official capacities ever since working with Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation of the Blind to develop the original Kurzweil Reading Machine, which also set the tone for consumer involvement in a lot of different areas dealing with technology. And I want to start by saying that today, we are not here to sell you any products. We are here however, to give you a takeaway, and if you want to call it such to sell you want a concept, which is what we're calling the accessibility gap. So what is this thing that you've registered to hear about called the accessibility gap? It's really the same sort of thing that we see as blind people, and that persons with disabilities in general, tend to encounter and that is that there is a major gulf between what we as so called persons with disabilities encounter, and what the rest of the world has access to. And that golf is that we don't get the same access to things that others do. And today, we're going to talk about the internet, specifically, in the World Wide Web, because there is a major gap between what most people get online and on the net, or however they get there. And what we tend to get blind people. And I'm going to talk about blind people, mainly here, but in one way or another, this translates across to any disability. But we'll deal with blindness today, if that's all right, mainly because Curtis and I are blind. And we know more about that than anything else, at least I think we do. And so we're going to talk about the world in those terms to a degree but the concepts go across the board. So we get no access, really, to graphics, from the outset of what people do when they create a website, we don't get access to a lot of the content because the website developers, that is the people who make website, building software, and so on, don't have any kind of accessibility automatically, or mandated wise built into what they do. So people nowadays are creating websites at an incredible rate. I think the last number I heard was something like over 380 websites per minute, which translates into something like 500,000 websites a day. And that's a lot of websites. And the problem is that the number of people who can make those websites accessible, that is who have the technical knowledge is very limited. And their knowledge and their expertise really goes to all aspects of the whole accessibility issue. That is some are better at it than others. But nevertheless, there aren't that many of them. And the result is that we don't have a lot of have access to many different kinds of things. People are creating websites at this incredible rate, because they're easy. We got website builders, CMS technologies, they're just a lot of things, people can easily create WordPress sites and so on. That's a very fast and somewhat automated process. And we don't get access to that stuff, which is part of the issue that we all face, in the world. Right, Curtis? Sir?   Curtis Chong  08:05 Well, I would, I would clarify that, at least in my mind, it's not that we don't have any access to all the websites that are out there, it's that we are more likely than not to run into difficulty with either all of it, depending on how the pages are put up, or parts of it. And sometimes the parts that are not accessible, are trivial. And they don't matter in terms of the task that I as a blind person interested in performing. And at other times, the tasks that I want to perform is vital to my completion of something. So for example, if I'm going to an employer's website and file filling in or submitting a job application or resume, I might get all the way through uploading all of my content to the site. But then there's a button that says Submit. And that little little teeny weeny button that says Submit could be one that you cannot activate with the keyboard. And it is not because these people that the people who are making websites deliberately set out to hate let's put a barrier get those blind people, we don't want them, we just just keep them off of our website. No, that's not how it is at all. A lot of these things that get in our way, are what I would call unintentional barriers, for the most part, which are created be caused because they're using the latest development tool, or they're trying to be fancy, and they're doing something and nobody finds out that it doesn't work until a real life a blind person or person with disability tries to do something and all of a sudden, oh my gosh, we have a problem. And of course, given a low number of blind people, I mean, it's a significant chunk of the population when you think about it in one way, but we're a pretty small group. And so we're not going to touch as a population Every single one of the websites accessible or inaccessible, that are out there, until we do it, and then all of a sudden it becomes becomes an issue. So I don't get the feeling, you know that the web is overwhelmingly barred from me, what I get the feeling of is, I don't know, for absolute sure. Whether the next website I want to access and you know, most of you, you, as a as a blind person, if you're out there looking, let's say for articles about a certain topic, this is where you might visit 1020 or 30 websites in the course of a half an hour, because you're reading different articles about a topic in which you are interested, then you're going to notice, or wonder how many of those 30 sites are sufficiently well put together, that we can at least glean what we want out of them? Or kick our way through the parts that don't work and get the essential stuff that we want? We don't put it?   Michael Hingson  10:56 Yeah, yeah, you put it you put it very well as muscling through   Curtis Chong  10:59 muscling through. Yes, that's exactly what we wind up.   Michael Hingson  11:01 And that's exactly right. And the problem is that even if we can muscle through and get some content and get some information, what we don't know is what we don't know. That is to say, there are many times on a website for us as blind people where information is, is is given. But it's done in a way that we don't tend to see it or there are menus, or there are other elements that aren't accessible. So the problem is that it comes down to the fact that most people don't know what to do to make the website world available to us. And we were not in an ideal situation. That is if we were really dealing with a truly ideal world. The people who create the tools that develop websites would need to and would have to provide access automatically as part of that, they would have to build that in so that there was no way that you could create a website without it being fully accessible to all. And that's not what happens. Well,   Curtis Chong  12:15 I mean, I submit, Michael, that the problem also exists with our access technology with our shirt, right? It's not, it's because right now, the fundamental underpinning of the whole access arena for the blind has been the ability to take text or to find text or to do something with it. And to send it off to a speech system, or to send it off to a Braille device, or both. The whole infrastructure of screen access technology, a 99% of it is focused on this concept of grab the text and render that what the screen reader software is incapable of doing. For the most part, I mean, yeah, you hear about things like Jaws with the picture smart. And you hear about jaws and other NVDA with the OCR. OCR means optical character recognition where you can read the print. But the intelligence in the screen reader is not like a person who, you know, if I hire a human being who I think of as smart, competent, literate and articulate, you know, somebody and I used to do this a lot more than I do now, to read what's on the screen, to me, that person can look at the picture and say, This is a picture of an Edsel with a license plate number that at that at that, ah, okay, so they make some human judgments. But the screen readers are incapable of doing that right now, also. So I want to emphasize that point as well. It's a balancing act, actually.   Michael Hingson  13:41 So there's a lot that goes into it. And look, this goes across other disabilities as well, in terms of issues that we all face, if you happen to be a person with epilepsy, and you go to a website, where there are blinking things that are trying to attract your attention to parts of those sites, those can cause seizures. Or if you're a low vision person, and you don't have some of the technology that ideally would be great for you to have, you may not be able to change the contrast of the text and or change the font sizes. And those are issues that website developers also need to to deal with because it isn't necessarily automatically done in some other way. So there's just a lot of access that that needs to be done. And then   Curtis Chong  14:32 there is the dimension. The another contributor the accessibility gap is the proficiency with which the technology is used by the blind or otherwise disabled individual. Person. Yeah, because in the world of the blind in order to use a lot of this stuff, there are a lot of you know, mouse people just take their pointer and find an icon or something and they click on it. They have to memorize things but mostly they don't have to memorize things like what's the keyboard command? Go to the top of the screen? What's the keyboard command to go to the bottom? How do I activate a link. And that is something that is intrinsic with our not just the technology, but the training programs that we rely on as blind people to learn the very specific techniques that we use non visually that are not taught anywhere else. So that's a contributing factor too.   Michael Hingson  15:27 The problem is that ultimately, what it comes down to is that, for us to be able to fully deal with access and access technology today, we have to be pretty technically savvy, compared to most people that use the web. And that's not even dealing with some of the other issues that contribute to the graph to the gap, the cost. So if I go off and create a simple website, I can go to like Shopify or somewhere maybe on Amazon and create a site, maybe it'll cost 20 bucks, maybe it'll cost 100 bucks. There's nothing that makes that site accessible. So then how do I get it to be accessible? Well, I've got to have to find somebody who knows, assuming I'm even aware enough to think about access. But typically, most people want to get their sites up, they want to start selling products, and so on. And so the bottom line is, they don't know about accessibility anyway.   Curtis Chong  16:21 And the irony here is, the simpler in design the site is the less Elysee is the less complicated development tool, the higher the likelihood that it will actually work out of the box with little extra effort. On our part, right, more complicated ones, the ones that use the slides that you know, change at random are the ones that have layers of software between the actual you know, where the developer doesn't know anything about old texts, for example, for graphics, those are the ones that will cause us trouble. So that there is sophisticated the worst that becomes   Michael Hingson  16:55 accurate there. But the problem is that the the building tools are encouraging a lot more of those complexities, menus, slides, tables, graphs, other things that that tend to be a problem. And so they're making the inclusion of a lot of those elements in a website, a lot easier to bring about, which then goes off and tends to make the sites less inclusive. Yeah. And so how do you deal with that? Well, you eventually have one of two options. Well, one of three options, you just ignore it. Another option is you realize, oh, maybe there are other people out here who aren't able to access my website, I've heard about this whole access thing.   Curtis Chong  17:39 And I know about you, as in the purveyor of the site, and not   Michael Hingson  17:42 The purveyor of the site. Right? Okay. All right. And and the third is that you as the purveyor of the site, suddenly get a letter saying, we're going to sue you, because your website's not accessible. And unfortunately, that's happening all too often,   Curtis Chong  17:55 too, how are we the end users, the ones who ultimately get hurt or helped by what they do, dealing with it, because it's not as if we're living in a universe where nothing gets done, or we don't have, you know, some some of the enterprising forward, you know, blind people who are just trying to get by living their lives normally, if they have enough motivation, and if the confidence in themselves has not been bred out of them, will make a determination how much more effort do I want to invest in this in order to get what I want? Because, you know, that's a lot of what happens, you know, you remember when we used to live in the world of only print, right? Where nothing was accessible in print. There were some who couldn't handle that. And there were others who had strategies in place to figure out what to do with the print involving the use of a person that you hired or more than one person. Now, do I want to go back to that? Absolutely not, we don't write we want access to the technology, because it's so intrinsic to our lives. Now. You can't even visit your doctor without going online. You can't shop for necessities these days, half the time without getting online or file a complaint or apply for a job, right? So the need to get at this digital infrastructure is, is a lot more significant, and a lot more pervasive now. Because you can't live your life, you know, without getting online without using email. Our society looks askance at people who don't have access to the web. And a lot of opportunities are denied to a chunk of the population who doesn't have access to the web, because so many companies just offer it. So we have to accept that as a reality in order to go on to the next part that I know you want to talk about, which is how do we get across this gap? To try to get as close as we can to something that enables us to do what we need to do Online just like everybody else, because I submit to that. It's not just that people with disabilities who have this problem. Sure it's economically disadvantaged people, people who live in areas where you don't have the internet, people without Wi Fi, you know, all this other kind of stuff. But we're   Michael Hingson  20:15 people who, yeah, or people who grew up without the Internet. And now they're thrust into this. Yeah, we look at seniors who are in a position where they have to start using smartphones and computers and do all this stuff online, and a number of them don't know how to do it, and are having to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. And so how do we how does how does all that get fixed? Well, the answer is that in the traditional sense of the word, the developers, the people who create the websites, the people who create the tools that create the websites, that whole environment, tries to make access as easy as possible for all of these people. And there are a lot of books and training tools and other kinds of things that most people can have access to. Now, there are going to be the Luddites that resist but but people are oftentimes able to find ways to get access to some of that stuff. And whether they like it or not, they will learn enough to get by and there again, we get left out of that to a large degree as people who happen to have disabilities, and especially blind people, because the material is just not made available. So we get back to what you just said, we really are need to talk about next is, so how in the world, do we start to close that gap? What are the what are the various ways that we deal with making the internet more accessible and narrow that gap?   Curtis Chong  21:56 Well, there I don't think the answer is one. I mean, there is no one, right? Single Answer, there is a multiple, you know, for example, not even referring to technology itself, if we could get it so that every single training program that teaches you how to develop the web, would mandate that you have to pass a component dealing with accessibility, that would be one way. It's not the only way. But it would be a step. If we could make our screen reading technology more sophisticated and able to use a, you know, at one time, when we used to deal with remember the 24 lines by 80 characters, text only screens, and we were even wrangling then about how do we give that information? Because it's more than just the letters and the words, it's what's highlighted. Where's the little pointer? How do you convey all of that information to the end user? So there's we got pictures? Yeah, yeah, then we got crap, which contain text sometimes, right? And we got data representations, which visually are much more convenient. You know, like, especially now with the pandemic, you get tons of these graphs that show the trends of how many people have died over the last six months, how many people are getting better over the last six months, all that kind of stuff, our data visualizations, which are bad enough in and of themselves, but it's worse, when the people who put them up, don't even label the links that bring them up to tell you which data visualization you're going to get. Right. So   Michael Hingson  23:26 it's true that you can do some things with screen readers that is specific assistive technology. But what do we do? And I And again, I am also agreeing with you that there is not one answer. But I think there are several answers that come up to one overall solution, which is awareness and desire. But what are some of the ways that the the world of people who create and are involved in addressing the issue of having internet websites available? What are the ways that they can deal with the gap? Well, I can think of a couple I can think of a few. One is going back to something that you said, but taking it a step further. Because even if you get trainers to be required to pass a component, that doesn't mean that they will build accessibility into it. And it also may mean that when they go to someone's website to build it, they'll say, you know, here's what we can do. But we've got to use special expertise to put an access in. So that's going to cost more money. And then somebody says, Well, I can't afford to pay more money. So I think that the solution to that is that access has to be mandated right out of the box everywhere, with website development tools, with all of the technology that is involved with the Internet. Having said that, that's not working very well. For us, because it isn't happening. It isn't happening very fast. But it's still the ultimate way that we want to do it. So what we have in the meanwhile, are the people that you're talking about who get trained. And some of them do a better job than others. I think there's been even some studies lately that show that even among the coding environment, they don't necessarily always get it all that well. And so a lot of accessibility issues get left out. But that's still a solution. And if we had it as a partial, it is a partial solution, one component of this, it's a component. Yeah. And you're absolutely right. So we have we have those folks. And it would be great if we could get 100 times as many of those folks as we have today. But even then, the problem with that partial solution is, once you go in, and you make a website accessible, you have another problem, which is, what if I, as the website owner, go in and change something. So I'm a restaurant and I go in, and I put up a new menu tomorrow, over what's there today, or I want to change some other things. And typically, I have the resources to do that easily. Because the tools allow for that. And hopefully, when I hired you, as a coder, you helped make sure that I could do things to my website that I need to do. But still then when you get to access, and there's nothing that mandates that that access continue, suddenly, what you as the coder created goes out of compliance. And so it's it's not a scalable solution. But it is a partial solution.   Curtis Chong  26:42 Well, you know, I had a, I have a, I live in a place that supposed to be for people who are 55 and older. And when they first started getting everybody online, they would put the restaurant menus up as a part of the body of the email, which were great. Until one day, somebody discovered they could do a screen print of what would otherwise be an accessible document. And they would paste that in the email. And then if you were a blind person, you would find if you were lucky, the graphic would be spoken. So you know there was a graphic there. But otherwise your screen would it would indicate that there was nothing there. And you you you were left wondering what what's going on with the menu, you know,   Michael Hingson  27:30 and I went the other way I start I'm living in the Spring Valley Lake area of Victorville. And so we have a country club, and they have a restaurant. And they started with screenshots. And they send also texts every day with a screenshot of the menu. And I said, you know, this isn't working for some of us, and got them to change. So that now, they still send the message with a screenshot. But they also email the menus every day in text format, because there's no other way for me to read them. But But the bottom line is either way you go, people have to alter what they would normally do to make it possible for us to get access to it. And the coders can't keep up with that stuff. Because it would drive so many people out of business, if you had to keep somebody on constant retainer to fix access issues as they emerge because you've made changes in the site. So it's just not going to be a good end all solution. And you know, so where are we headed with that? Well, the bottom line is we need a solution that's more scalable, and that can enhance what the coders do. Or that can can do a lot of the work that the experts already do that could be automated, and then they could do the stuff that an automated solution can't do. And the reality is that artificial intelligence is with us everywhere we go. And there's no reason not to take advantage of artificial intelligence.   Curtis Chong  29:08 Yeah, there's a lot of reasons why you don't want to take advantage of artificial Intel. Yeah, because it's in its infancy now   Michael Hingson  29:13 it is in its infancy. But But But by the same token, it's there and it isn't just artificial intelligence on the web. The fact is, we have artificial intelligence all around us. And, and like it or not, we are using it even if it's in its infancy, and it's going to emerge and evolve. But by not using it and not taking advantage of the capabilities that are in existence today. We're leaving out a potential component that can enhance what we do.   Curtis Chong  29:43 See, I subscribe to the School of Technology has to earn our trust in order for it to be truly of benefit to people. Because if I have spent my all of my working life finding out what's wrong with a part of the technology that I was responsible for supporting. And after you fix the problems day after day after day after day, you know, my team used to make which were all sighted people, except for me. And we used to make jokes about how well gosh, I'm sorry, Mr. President, but we can't fire the missiles today, because the mainframe just crashed, you know, right. And this is not something that AI is going to eliminate, it might reduce it. But remember, AI is created initially by fallible human beings who do make mistakes. So anybody who says to Me AI is going to be a tremendously successful fix to any kind of a problem. I gotta tell you, I am willing to look at it. I will explain it right. That's true. But I'm not willing to go around and say to people, don't worry, AI is going to solve real problems. But because all that's happened is it's, it's no. Well, here's the point, people will muck it up. Yeah. Because of the way it's implemented. Right? Well, that's because that's what we do. As the   Michael Hingson  31:05 conceptually speaking AI can be in and a part of an enhancement or a part of solution. Yeah. And that's all I'm saying. I'm not saying that it's going to be the end all solution. It hasn't progressed that far. I suppose we could say if Ray Kurzweil is correct about the singularity, which by the way, is now moved from what the late 2020s to 2045. But if he's correct about the singularity, and we all get chips implanted in us, so that we interact with computers and so on, and so you marry the two, maybe that will fix it. But we're not there yet. No, and, and so we still deal with human fallibility. But AI is something that exists more today than it did five years ago, or 10 years ago, and it will be improved over the next 10 years or 15 years. And the fact is that it does exist, and okay, ought to be explored as being a part of where we go as we do. We can close together,   Curtis Chong  32:06 Michael, let's talk about what AI can do today. Okay. I mean, I'm, you know, what some of those things are. So why give me some concrete examples of what an AI intervention? And we're, you know, let's focus on web accessibility. So what would AI? If, let's just assume that there's no problems that it's all working? Great. So well, basically? Yeah, let's talk about some of the things that AI can do. Because I want to I am interested in knowing what the state should AI is, right now.   Michael Hingson  32:37 So So ai, ai certainly can analyze a lot of things. So let's take a website. And I love to use my website as as an example. And you've been there and you've seen it, there are components on the website, that were not all tagged appropriately when the website was updated last August, one of which is a menu. And what shows up to my screen reader into your screener is something that says it's a pop up, but we can't access it easily. We can muscle through and do a lot of convolutions to finally get it to show up. But AI can recognize that that's supposed to be a menu can look at what's in that menu. And it can provide a representation of that menu that I can then access   Curtis Chong  33:31 That assumes, I mean, isn't there a basic assumption that is assumed, which is to say that the elements of the menu themselves are readable? text so that it does well? What happens if the elements of the menu are pure pictures?   Michael Hingson  33:48 Okay, and so then the answer, so then the answer is, and you're right. So then the answer is, if the pictures are differentiable, AI can tell the difference from one picture to another. How well it verbalizes those pictures is something that is going to be one of the one of the ways that AI will improve. So let me talk about pictures. And again, I'll pick on my web site, oh,   Curtis Chong  34:13 no, no, no, let's back up a little because I want to be positive about what I'm talking about. With the menu expansion. If the elements are text readable, and the AI can detect it, here's a collapse menu in here, the practice of it, AI, what you're saying is then it can help. First of all, enable the blind person to experiment work and track the menu using fairly simple keyboard commands. That's one and number two, the AI can read the elements of that menu with certain broad assumptions being operable, which I've already you know, which I highlighted earlier. So that's a plus for a Yeah, okay,   Michael Hingson  34:49 so let's go back to your menu with the pictures. So that's what I was getting to that. Actually, I was using a picture on my website, because there are a couple of pictures on the site. Let's say those were in a menu As opposed to and let's say they represented different things, and the pictures were distinctly different enough that they they would not be identified the same AI can today make a stab at identifying those pictures? Will it be correct? Maybe. And again, using the the picture that you know I was going to talk about which isn't in a menu, but let's pretend it was. There is a picture that shows me with my guide dog from being in the World Trade Center on September 11. Roselle. And the correct description of that picture is Michael hingson, hugging Roselle. But the AI recognizes it to the point of saying, man in black suit jacket, hugging yellow Labrador Retriever. So is that incorrect? It's not. It's correct, as far as it goes. And AI doesn't yet have the sophistication without paying a lot of money to be able to do full facial recognition. And someone in some of those services exists. As we know, the police are taking advantage of some of those, but it's not a cheap thing. And it's not an easy thing. But their AI is getting to the point where even facial recognition is possible. I'll be it expensive. And if there were a number of those pictures on the menu, and AI had the ability to do more, more accurate image recognition to put the right words with each of those images, then it would fully be able to verbalize that the way you would want it to be verbalized. And I would want it to be verbalized today, it might not verbalize it exactly the way we want. But distinctive images can potentially be described. But that's evolving. And we know that.   Curtis Chong  36:50 Right. But so so there's basic guidance that would need to be available to the the owner of the webs of a website that has never heard of people disability exactly right from the people supplying, you know, he, himself, herself itself themselves are developing the AI solution, or they're piggybacking on somebody else's AI solution. And now you get into a judgment call how much of the AI works for this particular thing? Versus what do we need to shore up with some human intervention? Right?   Michael Hingson  37:24 And the reality is, that's why none of these are full solutions and of themselves. Yeah, and you're bringing up the basic point, which is that really, when we're talking about this, there are there are things that an AI oriented solution can do. And there are things that that a coder can do. And the reality is that we need to recognize collectively, that both can enhance a website. Not only design, but a website interaction positively for persons with disabilities, the word working together,   Curtis Chong  38:04  I agree with you? Yeah, it can. It can. Yeah, and there are a lot of factors that can part is how many things can make it so that it can't   Michael Hingson  38:13 Well, and and what will change something so that when it does, then somebody comes along and and does something that that breaks it again. You know, I was interviewed on a on a podcast recently. And the the podcast operator mentioned a website called pod bean pod ba n calm and he said, I went to that site. He's a blind guy. Well, it's Jonathan mosun. I'm numb. Some people may have heard of him anyway, he. He said, I went to pod bean. And I saw that accessiBe was on the front page. And this, he said, that looks really great. I liked it. And that was very, very pleasurable to go there. But then I went to pricing page. And it didn't do that is  accessiBe, which is the product that he saw, didn't do anything for me on that page. He said, so I was very disappointed. Well, as it turns out, After some investigation, they had done nothing on that page that the people who deal with POD bean had done nothing on that page to create accessibility. So there was an AI solution. And I don't know whether there was other coding that went along with it on the homepage. But it wasn't even on the pricing page. Why that's that's a good mystery. But but the reality is, if if people don't work at bringing the accessibility, using all the tools that are available to him to a website, then we're back where we started. And that's why the can is is absolutely the right way to put it.   Curtis Chong  39:43 it can do it. And I think that it would be fair to say that any solution that offers a 100% guarantee that something is going to happen, needs to be looked at askance so that we can make sure You know, I don't care who the website owner is some effort has to be ongoing, I think, even if they adopt an AI solution or an overlay solution, and they're paying somebody money, or if they're hiring a accessibility consultant, the reality is that most website owners are going to be what I call reactionary, which is to say, number one, I think we all agree they wouldn't think about accessibility period. That's one, unless somebody approaches them and says, one, either, I have a partial solution that can help you. Or number two, I use your site and the things that you're doing don't work if they never hear either of those messages, right? Neither one of those messages, the concept of accessibility in today's world isn't going to happen. Now, sometimes that won't be a problem. Why? Because maybe it's a simple website, and all everything just comes up hunky dory. Or other times, it's very complicated and something doesn't work. And so there's this part of AI implementation and expert consultant implementation that involves the human factor, which I am a big fan of not forgetting. Because, right, if it's done wrong, she compete. Here's what AI does. And here's what all technology does, they magnify both the positives, and the negatives curve. So, you know, when AI, or the computers do something wrong, they do it 1000 times wrong. And when they do it, right, they do it 1000 times, right. And so the effect positive or negative makes the seesaw swing more significantly in the right or the wrong direction, depending upon, you know,   Michael Hingson  41:44 as she says it does with the programmers as well. Yeah. And it's, it's really very frustrating, because if you screw it up, you're really screw it up. And yeah, it's very frustrating. But But the bottom line is, you know, and I'm moving us along a little bit. I know you only have about you and I are both ready to go. And I really want to leave some time for questions. But I believe that, that AI can be part of a solution. And coders can be part of a solution. And we need to, to both sides need to address the issue of not only do we have to work together and should work together, but each side needs to embrace the concept that working together enhances our chances of having a more accessible process. And, and especially on the AI side, when when people think oh, if I just put this AI solution in, it's gonna fix everything. We know that doesn't happen. And one of the things that companies do need to do when they're implementing, or providing an AI type solution is they need to be able to address the issue of so what's left to do, and they should interact with the website owner, to tell them what's left to do, and why it's important to do it. Because that's part of the educational process. For them learning why accessibility is important. And reminding them that in reality, 20% of all persons in the United States in the world have a disability, and you really don't want to leave those people out, because 20% More of your market share would be a wonderful thing.   Curtis Chong  43:24 Right? And in theory, a website could use both approaches, and should don't. I mean, she could, I could conceive of a scenario where AI takes care of a lot of the routine stuff, and it gets smarter over time. And you know, as we hope, AI will. And there if there's really some in depth, you know, for example, I don't think AI can solve a CAPTCHA, you know, the dreaded visual CAPTCHA that we're, you know, some a lot of us complain about, and wish there was a different way. Right, so, so there's things that AI need needs help with, and that's fine. I'm not in the I'm not in the group that says AI is all bad, and all of that, but I am in the group that says if you neglect the human element, if you neglect the ongoing, you know, I've done the work now, can I stop? And the answer is no, you cannot.   Michael Hingson  44:16 No, you cannot stop and I agree with you. I absolutely agree with you. And so that's what I'm saying though, that one of the things that that people it's human nature, right? Oh, I got this in and that's gonna fix it. No, it doesn't. But I think that the AI solution can also look at the rest of the website and say, here's what I did. But here's what I don't yet know how to do. And so these are the things Mr. or Miss or Mrs. website owner. You still have as issues that would make your website better and and then find or be helps to find people who can deal with those issues.   Curtis Chong  44:58 The I'm thinking that when a end user touches a website that is supported by whatever AI or whatever accessibility is there that we the end users need to have some clear way of knowing, number one, that it's there. And number two, who is the purveyor of it? And number three, if I find that it's getting in my way, how do I make it go away? And those threes and Enyo, and that's a sort of a sacrilege thing to say, for people who are backing AI. But the you know, since we all agree that AI is still on the road, to getting better, there's got to be a clear   Michael Hingson  45:36 well, and is on the road of getting better to Yes, it's but yeah, but But yes, the road to Hong Kong, or Morocco. But, but but the issue is that I would rather it not be how do you make it go away? Although I can understand that, I would rather be how do we immediately get it fixed. And but if we can't, we do have a have to have a way to get around it. But I hope more often than not, it's the website owner has a mechanism on the website to be able to report issues. And that's a great discussion to have. But that will allow for immediate resolution of a problem. And so there has to be a lot more response to consumer issues and needs. And we all in this industry need to make sure that we provide better mechanisms for the response.   Curtis Chong  46:33 See, and there's there's the rub, I mean, sure, you know, the people who provide accessibility services, whether it's an AI solution, or whether it's some other solution, they get paid by the person who organization that is owning managing the website, we the end users aren't paying the consultants, we're not paying the over directly, we're we're paying their customers. And so the overlay company will or the consultants company sees the customer, not the end user as the revenue generator for them, which is unfortunate. Yeah, but that's that that is the reality. That is that is the reality. And I am I am fully supportive of having adequate channels of problem solving that enable the end users who aren't, you know, contributing a nickel to this effort, except by buying whatever it is the customer has to offer.   Michael Hingson  47:25 But that's how the customers have Yeah, get money to pay for it. So yeah, we are, we are the ultimate cause I use the example this morning. of let's say, you're a manufacturer of cat food. So who's your customer, your customer is the person who buys the cat food. But the reality is, if the ultimate customer doesn't like the taste of that food, you can sell all you want, but it's not going to go very well. Because you know, so we're all customers, and we need to be recognized as being part of the customer. And, and consumer base both. Yeah, that's really important. You know, what I'd like to do if you don't mind, we've got about 10 minutes.   Curtis Chong  48:03 Nope, no problem.   Michael Hingson  48:04 Let's let's open this to questions. Iyan, you're there. We're going to let you manipulate that if you would. But we'd like to, to have people raise their hands or Iyan, if you want to unmute people, however you want to do it. And let's let's see if we can get some questions. Or I suppose people can type in the chat box if they want.   Iyan  48:26 We actually have a question from Mary Ellen. Yes. I hope I pronounced it well.   Michael Hingson  48:33 You did a pretty good job.   Curtis Chong  48:34 You did a great job there Iyan. Perfect.   Iyan  48:37 Thanks. And I hope I think you already answered the question, but I will read it anyway. So Mary says My issue is that AI is not ready for primetime, but it is being oversold. Also, who controls the process? If an ignorant owner of a website hires a company that provide AI, and it doesn't work very well, how does the consumer get responsive customer service? If this overlay technology was sold to an person or to the access technology provider, it seems that the lines of accountability would be much more clearly defined?   Michael Hingson  49:13 Well, you know, there, it's a multi part question in a way, and I'm sure Curtis has some things that he wants to say about it. But what I will say is, I don't I'm not agreeing that AI isn't already ready for primetime. In some ways. I think that what is an issue, however, is that it's an emerging and evolving thing. But the reality is over if you really want to get technical, so is coding, right? Yes. Right. There are some there are some research studies that show that coding is only about 16% successful today, that there are so many errors with the coders in the world that they're not really any different in the process. And so, it is a problem across the board, and so on. really talking about one and not talking about the other is is not a good thing. If you if you get technical, none of them are ready for primetime, but it is what we have. And there are things that AI can do. And a lot of times that we're finding that when people say AI doesn't do what, what they say it does, it isn't even an AI issue. So that that becomes a different part of the process. So   Curtis Chong  50:23 But my point is, the end user doesn't really need to know, but the need to know is where do I go for help? Exactly. Like, that's when somebody says that they have this great thing, and I go to try it, and it doesn't work, but I gotta get some   Michael Hingson  50:34 Exactly Right.   Curtis Chong  50:35 And and as we all know, getting help in this day and age, I don't care whether you're blind or not. Just try calling Comcast, for example. Yeah, really understand exactly what I'm talking about   Michael Hingson  50:45 spectrum.   Curtis Chong  50:46 Spectrum. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  50:47 But but you know, the, but the issue is that if if Elmo Schwartz, he gets around, I met him a long time ago, and I use him and he is really skilled. If Elmo Schwartz goes and makes a website accessible. And there's a problem on that site. And I encountered as a consumer, I don't know about Elmo Schwartz. It's it's a problem across the board. And it's something that we do need to address. So I'm not really ready to say that AI is oversold male or Yellen as much as I think that some people think it is. Because I think that things are being said that art. But I think that also what we need to do is to make is to advocate on all sides of this, for there to be better ways for we as consumers to get help.   Curtis Chong  51:37 I remember once Ray Kurzweil told me that he thought one day that computers would develop self awareness. And I said, Ray, do you really want this? Think about history, about oppressed minorities.   Michael Hingson  51:49 But now he has got the singularity. So   Curtis Chong  51:51 which we are the computer. We're the computer. Okay, next person?   Michael Hingson  51:55 Who's got another question.   Iyan  51:58 So don't have any questions yet. And so we found what anyone wants to ask something, feel free to write in the chat.   Michael Hingson  52:05 This is your time. Yeah, we are. Right now. We've got about what five minutes or so by,   Curtis Chong  52:15 then I gotta run, I have incurred this thing about accessibility, I got to go fight for voting accessibility in the next hour. So   Michael Hingson  52:23 anyone else have any questions that you want to ask?   Iyan  52:30 And so a question that was asked here are ways to to bridge the gap?   Michael Hingson  52:38 Well, the ways are, that, that there are a number of solutions. And the first thing that needs to happen is that everyone needs to recognize the value of all of the different aspects that we've talked with here and talked about here,   Curtis Chong  52:52 ways to bridge the gap, there's mult, I think we've talked about every single thing that must happen. Like proper training of users, proper training of developers to incorporate accessibility, those things really ought to happen. enhancement of AI technology so that it can help pick solve those parts of x, the accessibility barrier that it can solve, and greater awareness on the part of the people who put up websites that accessibility needs to be something that they put in their thinking, not at the end, after they've done all the work should be at the beginning. Everybody says over and over again, if you build accessibility, and it'll be cheaper to do in the long run. And that's true with ramps. It's equally true with this stuff. But so often, right now, I don't care how you don't see people thinking about accessibility until somebody kicks them or yells at them or does something. The first day of a project is I never the word accessibility never pops up. If we don't fix that, in the end, then we're still going to be winding up patching, patching patching, which is what a lot of us are doing.   Michael Hingson  54:00 We built a house, we built a house in 2016, where we live. And the house was designed to be accessible. But when the house was built, and we moved in Alexa stop, when we moved in, the builder did not put ramp my wife, by the way, who uses a wheelchair, the builder did not put ramps at the front door and the back door of the house. And he said, well, but there are rules about being in in flood zones and water could come up, all of which were totally wrong. And we had spent six months with this guy, but we still had to put our own Ramson by the time all was said and done. He should have done it. But the bottom line is that he wasn't thinking about this in an accessible and an enlightened, accessible way. It happens and it's something that we're always going to face until the world recognizes that it's time to be inclusive.   Curtis Chong  54:58 And then we'll never have the disability that the accessibility is attempting to address, which is another thing that we could, we could hope for maybe I'm not sure on wishing to have artificial eyes, but I can in the long run, maybe. So I want to thank you for putting this on. This has been a stimulating discussion for me.   Michael Hingson  55:17 it's been fun. And I think that we will try to do more of these in the future. If any of you have topics that you want us to discuss or that you want to promote in terms of stimulating topics, feel free to email me It's Michael H AI, at excessive v.com Am I ch AE l ahi, at accessible calm. And I want this to be the first in a series of these discussions. And we want to have more opportunity for you to be the people who tell us what you want to hear about. So again, I'd like to thank you and Curtis, I really appreciate you being here. And being a part of this. I think we got some great things accomplished today.   Michael Hingson  56:01 Thank you very much. I appreciate the time. And this was fun. Thank you.   Michael Hingson  56:05 Y'all take care. And please watch out for the next one and tell us what you want. Thanks very much, everyone.   Michael Hingson  56:13 Well, I hope you found that webinar helpful and useful. And I hope that it will give you some thought about encouraging others to make their websites accessible. And if you have a website, I hope you'll work harder to make it more inclusive as well. Lots of us would really love access to the internet, and all of the facets that are available through it, you can help make that possible. I'm Michael Hingson. Thanks for listening. 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Is wisdom obtained simply by attending church? Is wisdom a one-time "purchase?" In this series we discover what the Word of God tell us about seeking, obtaining, and maintaining life-long wisdom.   Wise Living Series Travis Miller  January 20, 2019   Come Visit Us!! Or join us online at LivingFaithMinistries.church     Episode Transcript English   Travis Miller: [00:00:15] I must speak for a little while this afternoon, I'm going to share some stories, I'm going to look at some verses of scripture, they'll be put up on the screen and my whole intention, my entire goal and direction in speaking this short while this afternoon is to inspire each and every one in the sound of my voice to have a conversation with God. In conclusion prayer in her own way, in her own fashion, in her own words, is to have a conversation with God, that is exactly what I am attempting to do. There you go. Cat's out of the bag. That's what I am trying to do in sharing this talk. This speech, this sermon, whatever you want to call it, so that we would respond to God. [00:01:07][51.9] Travis Miller: [00:01:09] As you might expect, is pastor of this congregation, I am in the people business. I've been in ministry now for more than 30 years. I've been around church and around congregations for more than 50 years and over all those years and all those experiences. I've observed some things, quite frankly, that trouble me. I've seen some things and reflected on some things that, to me, seem out of place with following Jesus Christ. [00:01:46][36.2] Travis Miller: [00:01:48] Here's the deal, I've wondered how in the world good people end up in bad situations. I, over the years, in the course of time in various congregations, I've traveled and ministered in 40 different states and God knows how many different churches as part of our ministry and I've seen this and that and the other, and you know what I come across? What about this young lady who's kind and compassionate and friendly, but she's often in a bad relationship? What about that? What about the faithful family that even serves in some ministry in the church, but they seem to regularly be in financial trouble? What about that? What about the friendly, interesting couple whose children, unfortunately, are giving them regular grief? Or what about the couple who found Jesus long ago? They seemed to really love Jesus, but they fight and argue like complete enemies. I'm bothered by the good young man who seemed to not be able to keep anything related to a decent job. I am concerned about a sincere person who is in lack of personal control that brings ongoing health issues. Am I the only one who is ever wondered about such things? [00:03:13][85.5] [00:03:20] Three or four years ago, I learned of the ridiculous tragedy of a long time friend. Fact he was a friend for 20 plus years. An enjoyable person, a helpful, fun, pleasant, churchgoing man. Not only churchgoing, but church involved, he served and ministered to others. But a few years ago, unexpectedly, my wife and I received a call from his wife. She discovered that the man had maintained a mistress in another state for seven, eight, 10 years. He destroyed his marriage. Devastated his children and rocked the faith of those he'd influenced. It makes me ask how? How does that happen? How does a nice person do something so foolish? I'm aware of another good man. An older man, a man who spent his entire life serving congregations. A man who planted churches and pastored churches, who then went on to help others plant churches and pastored churches. A good person, a righteous man. One of his adult children started business, the business started getting a little bit of success and the child decided, You know what, I want to expand the business, I want to add other locations, and so he went to the bank, but the bank wouldn't give a business loan. And so the good dad, the righteous dad, the ministry dad. Emptied out his 401k. Gave all the money to the child. There were struggles in the business, and the child was convinced things are ready to turn, the tipping point is really very close. Just a little more capital and the business will go over the edge, and really over the hump, and it'll go from there. And so dad, the faithful man, the righteous man. Mortgaged his home, gave the money to the child. And the business went belly up. Retirement money gone. Bank foreclosed the house, the righteous man, the faithful man, the ministry man lost everything. How does a good person? Makes such tragic mistakes. I mean, really, anybody who hangs around a church and ministry long enough, you hear sermons about how God wants to bless lives and how God heals people and how God changes families and how God blesses finances. But still, if you observe, you get engaged, you watch and figure what's happening. There are examples of people who hear the messages but aren't experiencing what's being preached and taught. Why is that? [00:07:04][223.7] Travis Miller: [00:07:07] Actually, if we become students of the Bible, the word of God, there are similar stories in here. Sometimes we think in the Bible, well, the stories in the Bible are like this. We get stories about wicked people who live wicked lives. Well, that's true. Well, there's story about righteous people who have righteous lives. That's also true. But today, I want to point out that in this book, we also find stories of good people who did foolish things and it cost them dearly. Right in this book, There are battles lost. There are lives ended, there are families ruined by good people acting foolishly. There are murders and adulteries. There are kingdoms lost. There are friendships ended in this book by decent humans who are acting ignorantly. There are hopes vanished and promises extinguished and health wasted in fortunes forfeited and relationships terminated. These are Bible stories that happened at the hands of good people who were living poorly. Why do these things happen? [00:08:23][76.5] Travis Miller: [00:08:26] In the Book of Job Chapter nine in verse four, he made a helpful observation for this discussion. Today in Job nine, from the Bible, says God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered? Well, clearly, God is wise and God is mighty, that's plain and simple, Joe declares it. But after declaring that truth, Job then asked who has hardened himself against him against God and prospered? Who's hardened himself against God? And still prospered? [00:09:14][48.1] Travis Miller: [00:09:18] Nearly every spring, and it's coming up again in April, May. My wife wants me to take her to Skagit County and see the beautiful tulip fields. Sometimes we visit, you've been there, you know this, you visit and boots are absolutely needed. There's not just mud there's lots of mud. Fabulous Pacific Northwest rain, note, I said fabulous. Soaks those tulip fields, making them muddy and soft. But there are other times we have visited those fields when the rains have ended and the fields are different. Fields are crusty. I've been there when the surface is hardened and even cracking, it's so hard, yet when you walk on it, you can tell it's a crusty surface, but there's moisture underneath, but the surface is hard and dry. The soil is gone from moist and muddy to crusty and hard. And you know what? We know this that doesn't happen immediately. First, the rain dwindles, there's fewer days of rain and then there's fewer inches of rain. It's not as severe, less rain, less mud, slowly but certainly, then no rain and then more crusty hardened soil. Job asks the question, who has hardened himself against God and prospered? It's a rhetorical question. Listen, good people live poorly when we allow our lives to harden toward God like those tulip fields. Soil lives don't harden immediately. Would you hear the preacher today? It's not overnight that we go from muddy, saturated, spiritually soaked people into hard, cracked and crusty hardened ones toward God? Oh no, my friend. But over a period of time. Choices are made. Often times not intentionally, but accidentally good people, people who have an experience with God get hardened toward God, we minimize God. Sometimes we de-emphasize God. And sometimes it's not just ignoring God, but we forget about God. We go on our daily duties and our things, and we don't even consider, Hey, I might want to talk to God about this distancing from God. It happens when we don't make the connection between eternity and our present reality times. We become crusty because we compartmentalize God and the spiritual rain diminishes, because there are some areas of my life I don't want God raining on. I don't want God messing with. I don't want him investing in challenging and changing that area of my life. We don't need him. We think for some things, dryness comes when we keep God at arm's length. We hold God to a comfortable distance. And as we make these small incremental decisions, they accumulate until there is faulty, hard crusty, cracking soil in our approach, in our determination and our response to God. And when we get to that place where we are hardened toward God, hear this preacher and that ancient preacher Joe from years ago, we cannot expect God's prosperity and God's success when we have put him out of areas of our life. Good people know failure when they allow their lives to harden against God. [00:13:44][266.9] Travis Miller: [00:13:49] How's a good person make tragic mistakes? It bothers me. I believe that good people foolishly fall. When we mistake our righteousness for wisdom. Good people. Foolishly fall. When we mistake our righteousness for wisdom. You see, righteousness, that explains the believers standing with God. It describes his view of our lives when we are in right relationship with him. According to scripture, living in the New Testament Covenant, we enjoy rightness with God when we apply the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to our lives. We enjoy rightness with God when we repent, when there's sorrow for walking the wrong direction, and we turn toward Jesus Christ is rightness with God. When we are baptized in the name of Jesus to wash away our faults and failures, there's rightness with God. When we receive the gift of his Holy Spirit, part of him dwelling within us, and that New Testament new birth experience makes us righteous in God's sight. It brings us in the right relationship with him, and that's a wonderful and miraculous and amazing thing that we could never accomplish on our own. But righteousness is not the same as wisdom. [00:15:49][119.4] Travis Miller: [00:15:53] Wise living is earthly wise, living is a human experience. In the great book on Wisdom, Proverbs Chapter one and verse number seven. Solomon writes, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. Fear of the law, the respective God entering into a right relationship with him, that's the beginning of knowledge, that's the start. But hear me, it doesn't say all knowledge is now yours. It doesn't say all wisdom is now yours. It doesn't say you've completed the package and you've got all of God's brains. It doesn't say that it says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. And it also says fools despise wisdom and instruction, I think it's interesting that it doesn't say wicked people despise wisdom. It doesn't say sinners, despise wisdom. It doesn't make that differentiation, it says. In other words, I can be a good person, I could fear the Lord yet still live foolishly in this world. Proverbs Chapter two, notice these verses, beginning at verse number six. For the Lord grants wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He grants a treasure of common sense. Man, there you go. The treasure of common sense. He grants that to the honest. He's a shield to those who walk with integrity. He guards the powers of the just and protects those who are faithful to him. Verse nine, then in other words, afterwards, after these things have happened, then you'll understand what is right just and fair, and you will find the right way to go, for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe. Hear me today, according to scripture, wisdom follows honesty and integrity and faithfulness. We are told that wisdom comes with the salvation package. We don't get baptized in the name of Jesus and come up out of there full of wisdom and understanding. It's not the way it works. Wisdom for living is separate from righteousness with God. Come on, think about it, folks. I can be compassionate and kind, and it's not the same as being thoughtful and thorough. I could be loving, and it's not the same as being discerning. I can be funny, and it's not the same as being perceptive kind. People aren't always knowledgeable. Pleasant folks aren't always rational. Sweet folks aren't always sensible folks. [00:19:22][209.7] Travis Miller: [00:19:23] Righteousness, explains the believers standing with God. Wise living is a human experience. I want us to get in in our hearts and our understanding and our knowledge today. Sometimes we mistake, alright standing with God, with wise living on the Earth, and when we do, good people fall into foolish outcomes. What's the alternative? Preacher, Surely you haven't just shared all this information to scare the bejesus out of all of us? There's got to be a solution? Indeed, I need to make us aware of the deception, and the error in the faults, that would cause us to crash. But I happily proclaim that there are elements of scripture, very clear and very direct, to help ordinary humans as you and I. There is a better way we can experience God's prospering, we can know God's success, not just on Sundays in a house full of worshiping disciples, but we can know success in our career choices. We can know success in our marriages and families. We can know success as we go into this world, in our financial decisions. We can know success in our retirement. We can know success in our careers, if we do what the scripture points us to do. [00:20:57][94.0] [00:21:00] A few weeks ago from this pulpit, I spoke about the Ark of the Covenant. In particular, David's efforts to return the ark to Jerusalem, perhaps you recall that the Ark of the Covenant represented God's presence. It wasn't all of God's presence in a gold box, but it it signified the centrality. And when he visited his people, it was from the centrality of that box. And so, David's trying to bring the box back to the Israel, to the city, and we talked about how, that while it was in the House of Abinidab, God blessed that household because of the Ark. So David had one failed attempt to return the ark. Then he got it right, and he led the people to transfer the ark back to Jerusalem. And so we pick up at that same story again, if you'll look with me in first Chronicles 16 and verse number one. The Bible says they brought the Ark of God and set it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for us. Then they burnt offerings, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. They brought it back, put it in the Tabernacle, in the tent in the town where they were living. Verse number seven of the Bible says, on that day, David first delivered this Psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren to thank the Lord. Now this entire song runs to verse 35. I'm not going to read it all right now. I encourage you to read it in its entirety. It's a wonderful song, but I want us to notice something right near the beginning of the song David had sung after the Ark was back in town. All give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him. Sing songs to him. Talk of all his wondrous works. Glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord. Look at verse 11, seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face evermore. Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face evermore. [00:23:40][159.6] Travis Miller: [00:23:47] Over the recent holidays. Our family took an adventure, went down to Safeco Field or T-Mobile Field now. We went to that enchanted Christmas thing. Where the whole infield was created into this big old maze of incredible Christmas lights. And in the maze, there were hidden, Santas nine reindeer. So as you walk into the maze, every participant is given this little card with all the names of the nine reindeer and there's little scratch off places. When you find a reindeer, you could go over to the table with all the five year olds and scratch off your gold coin that you found that reindeer. Some in our party were more jazzed about finding all nine than others. We went round and round in that crazy maze seeking nine reindeer. I'm sorry to confess, among six average Americans, we were not able to find them all. Some little five year old kid found them all in five minutes, probably, but adults were lacking. I think we found 7 maybe. But after that, it was over. The seeking was finished. We found all the reindeer we were going to find, everybody with me seeking, it was a one time event. Seek, find, it's over. And so I'm challenged when David writes, and so says to the children of Israel, seek the Lord and his presence and his strength, seek him ever more. And I begin to struggle. That seems kind of strange to me because the arc wasn't lost any more. The presence of God wasn't somewhere else any more. It was no longer in a barn in Abinidabs house. The ark was in town. It was in a tabernacle made by David. It was in a tent, the ark, if you will, while David was talking, was right over there! David Seeking, had to be different than us looking for reindeer in a ball park. I want to know, why does a king call his people to seek the Lord when the presence of God is right in the tent? Obviously, it's right there! Why does David challenge all of Israel to seek what is obvious? His meaning of seek, if we look in other translations, it says study God. It says search for the Lord. It says, look to the Lord. Study God. Inquire of God. Look to the Lord, in modern day in practical terms. I submit to this congregation, david was saying this, we sought the ark. We searched for the presence of God. We brought it back home and we set it up in a tent. And there it is. And now, as he's singing and as he's rejoicing us, he says to the children of Israel, Now hear me as often as you can, as regularly as you would go to the tent, seek what is obvious! Get into that tabernacle! Saturate yourself in the presence of God! Have you found God's presence? Absolutely, they had. Did they know where he was? Certainly they did. David was saying, Now visit the ark. I want you to notice in that passage, he said, seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face ever more, seek his face ever more. Seek his presence, continually pursue his presence day and night, frequent the power of God always. Why? Why did David feel that way? Why was the presence of God so important as David challenged the people of Israel? [00:28:46][299.3] [00:28:47] I'll take you back to the book of Job once again. Job said, God is wise in heart. And mighty in strength. God is wise. And Mighty. You get to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul and an apostle by the name of Jude had this to say, in first Timothy 1:17. Now to the King Eternal, immortal, invisible. To God, who alone is wise be honor and glory, forever and ever amen. Jude, in the last sentences of the book, in the letter that he wrote Verse 25, he says, to God our savior, who alone is wise the glory and majesty, dominion and power now and forever. I believe with all of my heart that David called for a continual and lifetime pursuit of God's presence. Because David knew there is a difference between rightness with God and wisdom in living. David knew, I want to be in the presence of God because he alone is wise. David understood the presence of God brings more than a right relationship for humanity. The presence of God also brings wisdom for a living. I preach this afternoon there's a difference between finding God and learning from God. There's a difference between an experience with God and the goose bumps on a prayer meeting, and there is a prospering and a successful life with God. We don't constantly pray and turn to God because we've lost him. We're not on our knees because our relationship is in question, rather, we constantly seek the obvious because we want his wisdom for living day to day. Finding God the first time that makes my soul right with him, but seeking God all the time that makes our lives successful here and now. [00:31:31][163.6] [00:31:37] Well, I preach today, you know what, we keep going back to that obvious tent because God alone is why we seek the obvious, because we want his wisdom in our day to day living and we seek the obvious because you know what, I want to maximize success. And I want to minimize foolishness. That's why we seek the obvious. 21 days of prayer, preacher? Why are you doing that? Did you lose God? You don't know where he is? Is your relationship in trouble? Oh no, my friend, we seek the obvious because we want to maximize our success and we want to minimize our foolishness. We want to do that as individuals. We want to do that as families. We want to do that as a congregation. Well, you have pre-service prayer for 30 minutes, Don did a great job leading prayer today. Evan did a great job last week. Why do you do that, preacher? We're going to pray at the end of church anyway. Why are you praying at the beginning at church? What's going on? You're so carnal? You're so sinful? No, my friend, we seek the obvious because we want to maximize success and we want to minimize foolishness, right here right now on this Earth, as individuals and families and as a congregation. My God preacher, you're getting all stinking wound up, sweats running down your little bald head. What's the big deal man? We saw you last weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Preacher, you were having a Holy Ghost rally, tearing it up, enjoying the presence of God. What are you doing back here again this week? Why in the world do you come in two weeks in a row? You've got three services last week, you're good till June man. Why are you back again this week? Why are you so wound up tight about the things you've got to tell? I'll tell you why, it's not because I've lost him. It's not because I have sinned during the week. I'll tell you why, because I recognize he alone is wise, and I recognize I want to maximize God's prosperity in my life, and I want to minimize the foolishness and the life failures and the crash and burn. I want to have God's favor in my life. I want his wisdom. So I follow the King David Song, Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face everyone. For his wisdom. For his strengths. Always. Always. [00:35:03][206.9] Travis Miller: [00:35:09] What are you getting at preacher? I'm getting at here and now. I hope to have provoked to prayer, those in this room who are weighing things in their lives. I hope to provoke in this room those that are making college choices and career choices that they would decide, I will seek the Lord and his strengths forever more in this decision. For those in this room that are making decisions about their family, the school their kids attend, or where they're going to go to school, or maybe your children are entering kindergarten for the first time. I preach to parents, you know what? Those decisions, those steps, those outcomes. We need to seek the Lord in his strength and seek his face ever more. I preach to those who are considering a new relationship or perhaps the status of a current relationship. We need to seek the Lord and his strength. The reason many good people end up in lousy relationships is because we falsely think God doesn't care about that. Hear me today, the church is the bride of Christ. He cares about our relationships as much as that. You considering a home purchase, are you considering a major financial decision? Are you doing something in retirement or in career? Listen, I plead. I preach in faith. We ought to seek the Lord and the only wise God always, in all things I preach, for every one who's already involved in serving in ministry and to those who would become involved in serving in ministry, whether that's in Children's Ministry, Student Ministry, Music Ministry, Guest Services Ministry, whatever the ministry, music and students and all of those things, faith group leadership and all the roles in Faith Group. I pray for a congregation that'll saturate those ministries in the power and presence of Almighty God. I pray for our men and women who must have a saturating anointing of God. I preach this afternoon about decisions, lives, choices that are bathed in God's presence. I Pray for men and women that will recognize and realize, anytime any human decides, I don't need God in that area of my life, we're making a choice. We're saying my wisdom is greater than his. In the Old Testament and new, they were convinced. Those who walked in the steps and pathways with Jesus Christ. Their conviction, their knowledge, their understanding was, He alone is wise. Of course, if I've never found him, I've not known of forgiveness of my sins, I've not been baptized or filled with his spirit. That's the starting place. It's got to begin right there. And hear me today, this holy savior did not die on the cross, suffer that pain, humiliation and ridicule, raise himself from the dead, so you and I could have a one time hit of godly power. That is not what this holy book is all about. But even before the outpouring of the spirit. There is a man named David, got all jazzed about a God experience, And in that moment of God moving on him, as he penned his song, he said, these people got to know. The ark is home, it's in a tent right there, it's obvious. These people got to know it's not the end. It's the beginning. These people got to know, you need to be in a tent. Little decisions add up and become big decisions. You need to be in that tent. Why do you change your schedule? Why do you work around an afternoon service on a Sunday? Why do you organize your life so you can participate in a faith group and get together with other believers? Let me tell you why I need to be in that tent. I mean, look at that gold box. I need to be around when his presence settles in. I got a few degrees, I got decades of experience, but I don't have the wisdom I need to go a step farther. I need to be in that tent. If anybody in this house feels a little bit like I do, would you join me in the presence of God? Would you? Even where you're at? Raise your hands? Would you come up around this front area and kneel? Would you close your eyes? Would you open your voice? Whatever is spurring you and challenging you right now? Come on somebody. Do you want to be in that tent? Are there men and women, and moms and dads, and husbands and wives that'll declare, "You know what"? I am not going into the future on my own, of my own energy, my own defense and my own understanding. No. I want to seek the presence and the power and the anointing of God. All the days of my life. I don't want to end up in a foolish tale here. I want the prosperity of the all knowing and only wise God In me. [00:35:09][0.0] [2041.3]   Episode Transcript Spanish   Travis Miller: [00:00:21] Debo hablar un rato esta tarde, voy a compartir algunas historias, voy a mirar algunos versículos de las Escrituras, se pondrán en la pantalla y toda mi intención, todo mi objetivo y dirección al hablar este corto mientras que esta tarde es inspirar a todos y cada uno en el sonido de mi voz tener una conversación con Dios. En conclusión, la oración a su manera, a su manera, en sus propias palabras, es tener una conversación con Dios, eso es exactamente lo que intento hacer. Ahí lo tienes. El gato salió de la bolsa. Eso es lo que intento hacer al compartir esta charla. Este discurso, este sermón, como quiera llamarlo, para que respondamos a Dios. [00:01:07][45.6] Travis Miller: [00:01:09] Como era de esperar, es pastor de esta congregación, estoy en el negocio de las personas. Llevo más de 30 años en el ministerio. He estado en la iglesia y en las congregaciones durante más de 50 años y durante todos esos años y todas esas experiencias. He observado algunas cosas, francamente, que me preocupan. He visto algunas cosas y he reflexionado sobre algunas cosas que, para mí, parecen fuera de lugar al seguir a Jesucristo. [00:01:46][36.4] Travis Miller: [00:01:48] Este es el asunto, me he preguntado cómo en el mundo las personas buenas terminan en malas situaciones. Yo, a lo largo de los años, en el transcurso del tiempo en varias congregaciones, he viajado y ministrado en 40 estados diferentes y Dios sabe cuántas iglesias diferentes forman parte de nuestro ministerio y he visto esto y aquello y lo otro, y ¿sabes con qué me encuentro? ¿Qué hay de esta joven que es amable, compasiva y amigable, pero que a menudo tiene una mala relación? ¿Qué pasa con eso? ¿Qué pasa con la familia fiel que incluso sirve en algún ministerio en la iglesia, pero parece que tienen problemas financieros regularmente? ¿Qué pasa con eso? ¿Qué hay de la pareja amistosa e interesante cuyos hijos, desafortunadamente, les están causando dolor regularmente? ¿O qué hay de la pareja que encontró a Jesús hace mucho tiempo? Parecía que realmente amaban a Jesús, pero pelean y discuten como enemigos completos. Me molesta el buen joven que parecía no poder conservar nada relacionado con un trabajo decente. Me preocupa una persona sincera que carece de control personal que trae problemas de salud continuos. ¿Soy el único que se ha preguntado sobre esas cosas? [00:03:13][85.5] Travis Miller: [00:03:20] Hace tres o cuatro años, me enteré de la ridícula tragedia de un viejo amigo. De hecho, fue amigo durante más de 20 años. Una persona agradable, un hombre servicial, divertido, agradable, que va a la iglesia. No solo fue a la iglesia, sino que también participó en la iglesia, sirvió y ministró a los demás. Pero hace unos años, inesperadamente, mi esposa y yo recibimos una llamada de su esposa. Descubrió que el hombre había mantenido a una amante en otro estado durante siete, ocho, 10 años. Destruyó su matrimonio. Devastó a sus hijos y sacudió la fe de aquellos a quienes había influenciado. ¿Me hace preguntar cómo? ¿Cómo ocurre eso? ¿Cómo hace una buena persona algo tan tonto? Conozco a otro buen hombre. Un hombre mayor, un hombre que pasó toda su vida sirviendo a las congregaciones. Un hombre que plantó iglesias y pastoreó iglesias, que luego pasó a ayudar a otros a plantar iglesias y pastorear iglesias. Una buena persona, un hombre justo. Uno de sus hijos adultos comenzó un negocio, el negocio comenzó a tener un poco de éxito y el niño decidió: ¿Sabes qué? Quiero expandir el negocio, quiero agregar otras ubicaciones, así que fue al banco, pero el banco no le dio un préstamo comercial. Y así el buen padre, el padre justo, el padre del ministerio. Vació sus 401 mil. Le di todo el dinero a la niña. Hubo dificultades en el negocio, y el niño estaba convencido de que las cosas están listas para cambiar, el punto de inflexión está muy cerca. Solo un poco más de capital y el negocio se irá al límite, y se irá desde allí. Y así papá, el hombre fiel, el hombre justo. Hipotecó su casa, le dio el dinero al niño. Y el negocio se echó a perder. Se acabó el dinero de jubilación. Bank embargó la casa, el hombre justo, el hombre fiel, el hombre del ministerio lo perdió todo. ¿Cómo funciona una buena persona? Comete errores tan trágicos. Quiero decir, en realidad, cualquiera que esté en una iglesia y un ministerio el tiempo suficiente, escucha sermones sobre cómo Dios quiere bendecir vidas y cómo Dios sana a las personas y cómo Dios cambia de familia y cómo Dios bendice las finanzas. Pero aun así, si observas, te comprometes, observas y te das cuenta de lo que está sucediendo. Hay ejemplos de personas que escuchan los mensajes pero no experimentan lo que se predica y se enseña. ¿Por qué es eso? [00:07:04][224.0] Travis Miller: [00:07:07] En realidad, si nos convertimos en estudiantes de la Biblia, la palabra de Dios, hay historias similares aquí. A veces pensamos en la Biblia, bueno, las historias de la Biblia son así. Recibimos historias sobre personas malvadas que viven vidas malvadas. Bueno, es cierto. Bueno, hay una historia sobre personas rectas que tienen vidas rectas. Eso también es cierto. Pero hoy quiero señalar que en este libro también encontramos historias de personas buenas que hicieron cosas tontas y les costó caro. Justo en este libro, hay batallas perdidas. Hay vidas acabadas, familias arruinadas por gente buena que actúa tontamente. Hay asesinatos y adulterios. Hay reinos perdidos. Hay amistades terminadas en este libro por humanos decentes que actúan de manera ignorante. Se desvanecen las esperanzas y las promesas se extinguen y la salud se desperdicia en fortunas perdidas y las relaciones terminadas. Estas son historias bíblicas que sucedieron a manos de buenas personas que vivían mal. ¿Por qué suceden estas cosas? [00:08:23][76.6] Travis Miller: [00:08:26] En el capítulo nueve del libro de Job, en el versículo cuatro, hizo una observación útil para esta discusión. Hoy en Job nueve, de la Biblia, dice que Dios es sabio de corazón y poderoso en fuerza. ¿Quién se ha endurecido contra él y ha prosperado? Bueno, claramente, Dios es sabio y Dios es poderoso, eso es claro y simple, dice Joe. Pero después de declarar esa verdad, Job preguntó quién se había endurecido contra él contra Dios y prosperó. ¿Quién se ha endurecido contra Dios? ¿Y aún prosperó? [00:09:14][48.3] Travis Miller: [00:09:18] Casi todas las primaveras, y vuelve a aparecer en abril, mayo. Mi esposa quiere que la lleve al condado de Skagit y vea los hermosos campos de tulipanes. A veces visitamos, has estado allí, lo sabes, visitas y las botas son absolutamente necesarias. No solo hay barro, hay mucho barro. Lluvia fabulosa del noroeste del Pacífico, nota, dije fabulosa. Empapa esos campos de tulipanes, haciéndolos fangosos y suaves. Pero hay otras veces que hemos visitado esos campos cuando las lluvias han terminado y los campos son diferentes. Los campos están crujientes. He estado ahí cuando la superficie se endurece e incluso se agrieta, es muy dura, pero cuando caminas sobre ella, puedes ver que es una superficie crujiente, pero hay humedad por debajo, pero la superficie es dura y seca. El suelo ha pasado de húmedo y fangoso a crujiente y duro. ¿Y sabes qué? Sabemos que esto no ocurre de inmediato. Primero, la lluvia disminuye, hay menos días de lluvia y luego hay menos pulgadas de lluvia. No es tan severa, menos lluvia, menos barro, lenta pero segura, luego no llueve y luego tierra más endurecida y crujiente. Job hace la pregunta: ¿quién se ha endurecido contra Dios y ha prosperado? Es una pregunta retórica. Escucha, las personas buenas viven mal cuando permitimos que nuestras vidas se endurezcan hacia Dios como esos campos de tulipanes. Las vidas del suelo no se endurecen de inmediato. ¿Escucharías hoy al predicador? ¿No es de la noche a la mañana que pasamos de personas embarradas, saturadas y empapadas espiritualmente a personas duras, agrietadas y endurecidas hacia Dios? Oh no, amigo mío. Pero durante un período de tiempo. Se toman decisiones. A menudo, no intencionalmente, sino accidentalmente, las personas buenas, las personas que tienen una experiencia con Dios se endurecen hacia Dios, minimizamos a Dios. A veces le quitamos importancia a Dios. Y a veces no se trata solo de ignorar a Dios, sino que nos olvidamos de Dios. Llevamos a cabo nuestras tareas diarias y nuestras cosas, y ni siquiera consideramos: Oye, tal vez quiera hablar con Dios sobre este distanciamiento de Dios. Ocurre cuando no hacemos la conexión entre la eternidad y nuestros tiempos de realidad actuales. Nos volvemos crudos porque compartimentamos a Dios y la lluvia espiritual disminuye, porque hay algunas áreas de mi vida en las que no quiero que Dios llueva. No quiero que Dios se meta con él. No quiero que invierta en desafiar y cambiar esa área de mi vida. No lo necesitamos. Pensamos que, para algunas cosas, la sequedad llega cuando mantenemos a Dios con los brazos extendidos. Mantenemos a Dios a una distancia cómoda. Y a medida que tomamos estas pequeñas decisiones graduales, se acumulan hasta que hay un suelo defectuoso, duro, crujiente y agrietado en nuestro enfoque, en nuestra determinación y en nuestra respuesta a Dios. Y cuando llegamos a ese lugar en el que estamos endurecidos hacia Dios, escuchamos a este predicador y a ese predicador antiguo Joe de hace años, no podemos esperar la prosperidad de Dios y el éxito de Dios cuando lo hemos sacado de áreas de nuestra vida. Las personas buenas conocen el fracaso cuando permiten que sus vidas se endurezcan contra Dios. [00:13:44][266.7] Travis Miller: [00:13:49] ¿Cómo es que una buena persona comete errores trágicos? Me molesta. Creo que la gente buena cae tontamente. Cuando confundimos nuestra justicia con sabiduría. Buenas personas. Caen tontamente. Cuando confundimos nuestra justicia con sabiduría. Verás, justicia, eso explica que los creyentes estén con Dios. Describe su visión de nuestras vidas cuando estamos en una relación correcta con él. Según las escrituras, viviendo en el pacto del Nuevo Testamento, disfrutamos de la rectitud con Dios cuando aplicamos el sacrificio de Jesucristo a nuestras vidas. Disfrutamos de la rectitud con Dios cuando nos arrepentimos, cuando sentimos pena por caminar en la dirección equivocada, y nos volvemos hacia Jesucristo es la rectitud con Dios. Cuando nos bautizamos en el nombre de Jesús para lavar nuestras faltas y fracasos, hay rectitud en Dios. Cuando recibimos el don de su Espíritu Santo, parte de él mora dentro de nosotros, y esa experiencia del nuevo nacimiento en el Nuevo Testamento nos hace justos a los ojos de Dios. Nos lleva a la relación correcta con él, y eso es algo maravilloso, milagroso y sorprendente que nunca podríamos lograr por nuestra cuenta. Pero la rectitud no es lo mismo que la sabiduría. [00:15:49][119.3] Travis Miller: [00:15:53] La vida sabia es sabia terrenal, la vida es una experiencia humana. En el gran libro sobre Sabiduría, Proverbios capítulo uno y versículo número siete. Salomón escribe que el temor del Señor es el principio del conocimiento. Pero los tontos desprecian la sabiduría y la instrucción. El miedo a la ley, a que el Dios respectivo entre en una relación correcta con él, ese es el comienzo del conocimiento, ese es el comienzo. Pero escúchame, no dice que ahora todo el conocimiento sea tuyo. No dice que toda la sabiduría sea tuya ahora. No dice que hayas completado el paquete y que tengas todo el cerebro de Dios. No dice que diga que el temor del Señor es el principio del conocimiento. Y también dice que los tontos desprecian la sabiduría y la instrucción, creo que es interesante que no diga que los malvados desprecian la sabiduría. No dice pecadores, desprecian la sabiduría. No hace esa diferencia, dice. En otras palabras, puedo ser una buena persona, podría temer al Señor y aun así vivir tontamente en este mundo. Proverbios Capítulo dos, observe estos versículos, comenzando en el versículo número seis. Porque el Señor concede sabiduría. De su boca salen el conocimiento y la comprensión. Concede un tesoro de sentido común. Tío, ahí lo tienes. El tesoro del sentido común. Se lo concede a los honestos. Es un escudo para aquellos que caminan con integridad. Protege los poderes de los justos y protege a los que le son fieles. Versículo nueve, en otras palabras, después, después de que hayan sucedido estas cosas, entonces entenderás lo que es correcto, justo y justo, y encontrarás el camino correcto a seguir, porque la sabiduría entrará en tu corazón y el conocimiento te llenará de gozo. Las decisiones sabias te vigilarán. La comprensión lo mantendrá a salvo. Escúchame hoy, según las Escrituras, la sabiduría sigue a la honestidad, la integridad y la fidelidad. Se nos dice que la sabiduría viene con el paquete de salvación. No nos bautizamos en el nombre de Jesús y salimos de allí llenos de sabiduría y comprensión. No es la forma en que funciona. La sabiduría para vivir está separada de la justicia con Dios. Vamos, piénsalo, amigos. Puedo ser compasivo y amable, y no es lo mismo que ser considerado y minucioso. Podría ser cariñosa, y no es lo mismo que ser exigente. Puedo ser gracioso, y no es lo mismo que ser amable y perspicaz. La gente no siempre está bien informada. La gente agradable no siempre es racional. La gente dulce no siempre es sensata. [00:19:22][209.7] Travis Miller: [00:19:23] La rectitud, explica la posición de los creyentes con Dios. La vida sabia es una experiencia humana. Quiero que entremos en nuestros corazones y en nuestro entendimiento y conocimiento hoy. A veces nos equivocamos, estando de pie con Dios, con vivir sabiamente en la Tierra, y cuando lo hacemos, las personas buenas caen en resultados necios. ¿Cuál es la alternativa? Predicador, ¿seguramente no has compartido toda esta información para asustarnos a todos? ¿Tiene que haber una solución? De hecho, tengo que hacernos conscientes del engaño, y del error en las fallas, que nos causaría un choque. Pero proclamo con alegría que hay elementos de las Escrituras, muy claros y muy directos, para ayudar a los humanos comunes como tú y yo. Hay una mejor manera en que podemos experimentar la prosperidad de Dios, podemos conocer el éxito de Dios, no solo los domingos en una casa llena de discípulos adoradores, sino que podemos conocer el éxito en nuestras elecciones profesionales. Podemos conocer el éxito en nuestros matrimonios y familias. Podemos conocer el éxito a medida que avanzamos en este mundo, en nuestras decisiones financieras. Podemos conocer el éxito en nuestra jubilación. Podemos conocer el éxito en nuestras carreras, si hacemos lo que las Escrituras nos indican que hagamos. [00:20:57][94.1] Travis Miller: [00:21:00] Hace unas semanas, desde este púlpito, hablé sobre el Arca de la Alianza. En particular, los esfuerzos de David por devolver el arca a Jerusalén, quizás recuerdes que el Arca de la Alianza representaba la presencia de Dios. No todo era la presencia de Dios en una caja de oro, pero significaba la centralidad. Y cuando visitó a su gente, fue por la centralidad de esa caja. Entonces, David está tratando de llevar la caja de vuelta a Israel, a la ciudad, y hablamos de cómo, que mientras estaba en la casa de Abinidab, Dios bendijo a esa casa debido al Arca. Así que David tuvo un intento fallido de devolver el arca. Entonces lo hizo bien y llevó a la gente a transferir el arca de vuelta a Jerusalén. Así que retomamos la misma historia de nuevo, si miran conmigo en la primera Crónicas 16 y el versículo número uno. La Biblia dice que trajeron el Arca de Dios y la pusieron en medio del tabernáculo que David había erigido para nosotros. Luego quemaron ofrendas, ofrecieron holocaustos y ofrendas de paz ante Dios Lo trajeron de vuelta, lo pusieron en el Tabernáculo, en la tienda del pueblo donde vivían. El versículo número siete de la Biblia dice que, en ese día, David entregó este salmo por primera vez en la mano de Asaf y sus hermanos para agradecer al Señor. Ahora, toda esta canción va hasta el versículo 35. No voy a leerlo del todo en este momento. Te animo a que lo leas en su totalidad. Es una canción maravillosa, pero quiero que notemos algo justo al principio de la canción que David había cantado después de que el Arca volviera a la ciudad. Todos dan gracias al Señor, invocan su nombre, dan a conocer sus obras entre los pueblos. Canta para él. Cántale canciones. Hable de todas sus maravillosas obras. Gloria en su santo nombre. Que se regocijen los corazones de los que buscan al Señor. Mira el versículo 11, busca al Señor y su fuerza. Busca su rostro para siempre. Busca al Señor y su fuerza. Busca su rostro para siempre. [00:23:40][159.6] Travis Miller: [00:23:47] Durante las últimas vacaciones. Nuestra familia emprendió una aventura, ahora bajó a Safeco Field o T-Mobile Field. Fuimos a esa fiesta navideña encantada. Donde todo el cuadro interior se creó en este enorme y viejo laberinto de increíbles luces navideñas. Y en el laberinto, había escondidos, nueve renos de Santa Claus. Así que a medida que entras en el laberinto, a cada participante se le da esta pequeña tarjeta con todos los nombres de los nueve renos y hay pequeños lugares para rascar. Cuando encuentres un reno, puedes ir a la mesa con todos los niños de cinco años y rascar la moneda de oro que encontraste ese reno. Algunos en nuestro grupo estaban más entusiasmados por encontrar a los nueve que a otros. Dábamos vueltas y vueltas en ese laberinto loco buscando nueve renos. Lamento confesar que, entre seis estadounidenses promedio, no pudimos encontrarlos a todos. Un niño pequeño de cinco años los encontró todos en cinco minutos, probablemente, pero faltaban adultos. Creo que quizás hemos encontrado 7. Pero después de eso, todo había terminado. La búsqueda había terminado. Encontramos todos los renos que íbamos a encontrar, todos los que estaban conmigo buscándolos, fue un evento único. Busca, encuentra, se acabó. Así que me desafía cuando David escribe, y así les dice a los hijos de Israel: busquen al Señor y su presencia y su fuerza, buscadlo cada vez más. Y empiezo a luchar. Me parece un poco extraño porque el arco ya no se perdió. La presencia de Dios ya no estaba en ningún otro lugar. Ya no estaba en un granero de la casa de Abinidab. El arca estaba en la ciudad. Estaba en un tabernáculo hecho por David. Estaba en una tienda de campaña, el arca, por así decirlo, mientras David hablaba, ¡estaba justo ahí! David Seeking, tenía que ser diferente a nosotros buscando renos en un parque de pelota. Quiero saber, ¿por qué un rey llama a su pueblo a buscar al Señor cuando la presencia de Dios está en la tienda? ¡Obviamente, está justo ahí! ¿Por qué David desafía a todo Israel a buscar lo que es obvio? Su significado de buscar, si miramos en otras traducciones, dice que estudie a Dios. Dice «busca al Señor». Dice: mira al Señor. Estudia a Dios. Pregunte a Dios. Mira al Señor, en la actualidad en términos prácticos. Me someto a esta congregación, David estaba diciendo esto, buscamos el arca. Buscamos la presencia de Dios. Lo trajimos a casa y lo pusimos en una tienda de campaña. Y ahí está. Y ahora, mientras canta y nos regocija, les dice a los hijos de Israel: Ahora escúchenme tan a menudo como puedan, tan regularmente como vayan a la tienda, ¡busquen lo que es obvio! ¡Entra en ese tabernáculo! ¡Sábate en la presencia de Dios! ¿Has encontrado la presencia de Dios? Absolutamente, lo habían hecho. ¿Sabían dónde estaba? Sin duda lo hicieron. David decía: Ahora visita el arca. Quiero que noten en ese pasaje, dijo, busquen al Señor y su fuerza, busquen su rostro cada vez más, busquen su rostro cada vez más. Busca su presencia, persigue continuamente su presencia día y noche, frecuenta el poder de Dios siempre. ¿Por qué? ¿Por qué David se sentía así? ¿Por qué la presencia de Dios era tan importante como David desafió al pueblo de Israel? [00:28:47][299.5] Travis Miller: [00:28:47] Te llevaré de nuevo al libro de Job. Job dijo: Dios es sabio de corazón. Y con una fuerza poderosa. Dios es sabio. Y Mighty. Al llegar al Nuevo Testamento, el apóstol Pablo y un apóstol llamado Judas dijeron esto, en primera Timoteo 1:17. Ahora al Rey Eterno, inmortal, invisible. Para Dios, que solo es sabio sea el honor y la gloria, por los siglos de los siglos. Amén. Judas, en las últimas oraciones del libro, en la carta que escribió el versículo 25, dice, a Dios nuestro salvador, quien solo es sabio la gloria y la majestad, el dominio y el poder ahora y siempre. Creo con todo mi corazón que David llamó a una búsqueda continua y de por vida de la presencia de Dios. Porque David sabía que hay una diferencia entre la rectitud con Dios y la sabiduría en la vida. David sabía que quiero estar en la presencia de Dios porque solo él es sabio. David entendió que la presencia de Dios trae más que una relación correcta para la humanidad. La presencia de Dios también trae sabiduría para ganarse la vida. Predico esta tarde que hay una diferencia entre encontrar a Dios y aprender de Dios. Hay una diferencia entre una experiencia con Dios y la piel de gallina en una reunión de oración, y hay una vida próspera y exitosa con Dios. No oramos constantemente y nos volvemos a Dios porque lo hemos perdido. No estamos de rodillas porque nuestra relación está en duda, más bien, buscamos constantemente lo obvio porque queremos su sabiduría para vivir el día a día. Encontrar a Dios la primera vez que hace que mi alma esté bien con él, pero buscar a Dios todo el tiempo que hace que nuestras vidas sean exitosas aquí y ahora. [00:31:31][163.8] Travis Miller: [00:31:37] Bueno, hoy predico, ¿sabes qué?, seguimos volviendo a esa tienda obvia porque solo Dios es la razón por la que buscamos lo obvio, porque queremos su sabiduría en nuestro día a día y buscamos lo obvio porque sabes qué, quiero maximizar el éxito. Y quiero minimizar las tonterías. Por eso buscamos lo obvio. ¿21 días de oración, predicador? ¿Por qué haces eso? ¿Perdiste a Dios? ¿No sabes dónde está? ¿Su relación está en problemas? Oh no, amigo mío, buscamos lo obvio porque queremos maximizar nuestro éxito y queremos minimizar nuestras tonterías. Queremos hacerlo como individuos. Queremos hacerlo en familia. Queremos hacerlo como congregación. Bueno, tienes oración previa al servicio durante 30 minutos, Don hizo un gran trabajo dirigiendo la oración hoy. Evan hizo un gran trabajo la semana pasada. ¿Por qué lo hace, predicador? Vamos a rezar al final de la iglesia de todos modos. ¿Por qué oras al principio en la iglesia? ¿Qué pasa? ¿Eres tan carnal? ¿Eres tan pecador? No, amigo mío, buscamos lo obvio porque queremos maximizar el éxito y queremos minimizar la estupidez, aquí mismo en este momento en la Tierra, como individuos y familias y como congregación. Mi Dios predicador, te estás volviendo apestoso, con sudores corriendo por tu cabecita calva. ¿Qué es lo importante, hombre? Te vimos el fin de semana pasado, viernes, sábado, domingo, predicador, estabas teniendo una reunión del Espíritu Santo, rompiéndola, disfrutando de la presencia de Dios. ¿Qué vas a hacer aquí de nuevo esta semana? ¿Por qué demonios vienes en dos semanas seguidas? Tuviste tres servicios la semana pasada, estás bien hasta junio, tío. ¿Por qué has vuelto esta semana? ¿Por qué estás tan alterado por las cosas que tienes que contar? Te diré por qué, no es porque lo haya perdido. No es porque haya pecado durante la semana. Te diré por qué, porque reconozco que solo él es sabio, y reconozco que quiero maximizar la prosperidad de Dios en mi vida, y quiero minimizar la estupidez y los fracasos de la vida y el colapso y el incendio. Quiero tener el favor de Dios en mi vida. Quiero su sabiduría. Así que sigo la canción del rey David, Busco al Señor y su fuerza. Busquen su rostro todos. Por su sabiduría. Por sus puntos fuertes. Siempre. Siempre. [00:35:03][206.9] Travis Miller: [00:35:09] ¿Qué le estás diciendo a predicador? Estoy llegando aquí y ahora. Espero haber provocado a la oración, a aquellos en esta sala que están pesando cosas en sus vidas. Espero provocar en esta sala a aquellos que están tomando decisiones de universidad y de carrera que ellos decidirían, buscaré al Señor y sus fortalezas para siempre más en esta decisión. Para aquellos en esta sala que están tomando decisiones sobre su familia, la escuela a la que asisten sus hijos o dónde van a ir a la escuela, o tal vez sus hijos ingresan al jardín de infantes por primera vez. Predico a los padres, ¿sabes qué? Esas decisiones, esos pasos, esos resultados. Tenemos que buscar al Señor en sus fuerzas y buscar su rostro cada vez más. Predico a aquellos que están considerando una nueva relación o quizás el estado de una relación actual. Tenemos que buscar al Señor y su fuerza. La razón por la que muchas personas buenas terminan en malas relaciones es porque creemos falsamente que a Dios no le importa eso. Escúchame hoy, la iglesia es la novia de Cristo. Le importan nuestras relaciones tanto como eso. ¿Está considerando comprar una casa, está considerando tomar una decisión financiera importante? ¿Estás haciendo algo en la jubilación o en tu carrera? Escucha, te lo suplico. Predico con fe. Debemos buscar al Señor y al único Dios sabio siempre, en todas las cosas que predico, para cada uno que ya está involucrado en el servicio en el ministerio y para aquellos que se involucrarían en el servicio en el ministerio, ya sea en el Ministerio de Niños, el Ministerio de Estudiantes, el Ministerio de Música, el Ministerio de Servicios para los Huéspedes, cualquiera que sea el el ministerio, la música y los estudiantes y todas esas cosas, el liderazgo del grupo de fe y todos los roles en Faith Group. Rezo por una congregación que sature esos ministerios en el poder y la presencia de Dios Todopoderoso. Rezo por nuestros hombres y mujeres que deben tener una unción saturadora de Dios. Predico esta tarde sobre decisiones, vidas, elecciones que se bañan en la presencia de Dios. Rezo por hombres y mujeres que reconozcan y se den cuenta de que, cada vez que un ser humano decida, no necesito a Dios en esa área de mi vida, estamos tomando una decisión. Decimos que mi sabiduría es mayor que la suya. En el Antiguo Testamento y en el nuevo, estaban convencidos. Aquellos que caminaron en los pasos y caminos con Jesucristo. Su convicción, su conocimiento, su comprensión era, solo Él es sabio. Por supuesto, si nunca lo he encontrado, no he conocido el perdón de mis pecados, no he sido bautizado ni lleno de su espíritu. Ese es el punto de partida. Tiene que empezar justo ahí. Y escúchame hoy, este santo salvador no murió en la cruz, sufrió ese dolor, humillación y ridículo, resucitó de entre los muertos, para que tú y yo pudiéramos tener un golpe único de poder divino. No se trata de eso este libro sagrado. Pero incluso antes de la efusión del espíritu. Hay un hombre llamado David, que se entusiasmó con una experiencia de Dios, y en ese momento en que Dios se movió sobre él, mientras escribía su canción, dijo, estas personas llegaron a conocerlo. El arca está en casa, está en una tienda de campaña, es obvio. Estas personas deben saber que no es el final. Es el principio. Estas personas deben saber que tienes que estar en una tienda de campaña. Las pequeñas decisiones se suman y se convierten en grandes decisiones. Tienes que estar en esa tienda. ¿Por qué cambias tu horario? ¿Por qué trabajas en torno a un servicio vespertino un domingo? ¿Por qué organizas tu vida para poder participar en un grupo de fe y reunirte con otros creyentes? Déjame decirte por qué tengo que estar en esa tienda. Quiero decir, mira esa caja de oro. Tengo que estar cerca cuando su presencia se asiente. Tengo algunos títulos, tengo décadas de experiencia, pero no tengo la sabiduría necesaria para ir un paso más allá. Tengo que estar en esa tienda. Si alguien en esta casa se siente un poco como yo, ¿te unirías a mí en presencia de Dios? ¿Lo harías? ¿Incluso dónde estás? ¿Levantar las manos? ¿Te acercarías por este frente y te arrodillarías? ¿Cerrarías los ojos? ¿Abrirías la voz? ¿Qué es lo que te está estimulando y desafiando en este momento? Vamos, alguien. ¿Quieres estar en esa tienda? ¿Hay hombres y mujeres, mamás y papás, esposos y esposas que digan: «Sabes qué»? No voy a ir al futuro por mi cuenta, por mi propia energía, por mi propia defensa y por mi propia comprensión. No. Quiero buscar la presencia y el poder y la unción de Dios. Todos los días de mi vida. No quiero acabar en un cuento absurdo aquí. Quiero la prosperidad del Dios omnisciente y único sabio en mí. [00:35:09][0.0] [2036.0]   Episode Transcript in Tagalog   Travis Miller: [00:00:21] Dapat akong magsalita ng ilang sandali ngayong hapon, magbabahagi ako ng ilang mga kuwento, titingnan ko ang ilang mga talata ng banal na kasulatan, ilalagay sila sa screen at ang aking buong intensyon, ang aking buong layunin at direksyon sa pagsasalita ngayong maikling panahon ngayong hapon ay upang pukawin ang bawat isa sa tunog ng aking boses upang magkaroon ng pakikipag-usap sa Diyos. Sa wakas panalangin sa kanyang sariling paraan, sa kanyang sariling paraan, sa kanyang sariling mga salita, ay upang magkaroon ng isang pakikipag-usap sa Diyos, iyon ay eksakto kung ano ang sinusubukan kong gawin. Doon ka pumunta. Cat ay sa labas ng bag. Iyan ang sinusubukan kong gawin sa pagbabahagi ng usapang ito. Ang talumpati na ito, ang pangaral na ito, anuman ang gusto mong tawagin ito, upang kami ay tumugon sa Diyos. [00:01:07][45.8] Travis Miller: [00:01:09] Gaya ng inaasahan mo, ay pastor ng kongregasyong ito, ako ay nasa negosyo ng mga tao. Ako ay nasa ministeryo ngayon ng higit sa 30 taon. Ako'y nasa paligid ng simbahan at sa paligid ng mga kongregasyon ng higit sa 50 taon at sa lahat ng mga taong iyon at lahat ng mga karanasang iyon. Na-obserbahan ko ang ilang mga bagay, medyo lantaran, na problema sa akin. Nakakita ako ng ilang mga bagay at nakalarawan sa ilang mga bagay na, sa akin, ay mukhang wala sa lugar sa pagsunod kay Hesu-Kristo. [00:01:46][36.5] Travis Miller: [00:01:48] Narito ang pakikitungo, naisip ko kung paano sa mundo mabubuting tao end up sa masamang sitwasyon. Ako, sa paglipas ng mga taon, sa paglipas ng panahon sa iba't ibang kongregasyon, naglakbay ako at naglingkod sa 40 iba't ibang mga estado at alam ng Diyos kung gaano karaming iba't ibang mga simbahan bilang bahagi ng aming ministeryo at nakita ko ito at iyon at ang isa pa, at alam mo kung ano ang aking nakikita? Paano ang tungkol sa batang babae na mabait at mahabagin at magiliw, ngunit madalas siyang nasa masamang relasyon? Ano ang tungkol sa na? Paano naman ang tapat na pamilya na naglilingkod sa ilang ministeryo sa simbahan, ngunit tila sila ay regular na nasa problema sa pananalapi? Ano ang tungkol sa na? Paano ang tungkol sa friendly, kagiliw-giliw na mag-asawa na ang mga bata, sa kasamaang-palad, ay nagbibigay sa kanila ng regular na kalungku O paano naman ang mag-asawa na nakatagpo kay Hesus ng matagal na ang nakalipas? Mukhang iniibig nila talaga si Hesus, ngunit nakikipaglaban sila at nagtatalo tulad ng kumpletong mga kaaway. Ako ay bothered sa pamamagitan ng mabuting binata na tila hindi magagawang upang panatilihin ang anumang bagay na may kaugnayan sa isang disenteng trabaho. Nag-aalala ako tungkol sa isang taos-puso na tao na walang personal na kontrol na nagdudulot ng patuloy na mga isyu sa kalusugan. Ako ba ang nag-iisa na kailanman nagtaka tungkol sa gayong mga bagay? [00:03:13][85.6] Travis Miller: [00:03:20] Tatlo o apat na taon na ang nakalilipas, natutunan ko ang katawa-tawa na trahedya ng isang mahabang kaibigan. Katotohanan siya ay isang kaibigan para sa 20 plus taon. Isang kasiya-siyang tao, isang kapaki-pakinabang, masaya, kaaya-aya, taong nagpunta sa simbahan. Hindi lamang ang pagpunta sa simbahan, kundi kasangkot sa simbahan, naglingkod siya at naglingkod sa iba. Ngunit ilang taon na ang nakalilipas, hindi inaasahan, nakatanggap kami ng tawag mula sa kanyang asawa. Natuklasan niya na pinananatili ng lalaki ang isang maybahay sa ibang estado sa loob ng pitong, walong, 10 taon. Nawasak niya ang kanyang kasal. Nawasak ang kanyang mga anak at binato ang pananampalataya ng mga naimpluwensyahan niya. Ito ay gumagawa sa akin magtanong kung paano? Paano iyan nangyari? Paano gumagana ang isang magandang tao ang isang bagay kaya hangal? Alam ko ang isa pang mabuting tao. Isang nakatatandang lalaki, isang lalaking gumugol ng kanyang buong buhay na naglilingkod sa mga kongregasyon. Isang lalaking nagtanim ng mga simbahan at nagpaimbak ng mga simbahan, na pagkatapos ay nagpatuloy upang tulungan ang iba na magtanim ng mga simbahan at mga pastore na simbahan. Ang isang mabuting tao, isang matuwid na tao. Ang isa sa kanyang mga adult na bata ay nagsimula ng negosyo, ang negosyo ay nagsimula sa pagkuha ng isang maliit na bit ng tagumpay at ang bata ay nagpasya, Alam mo kung ano, gusto kong palawakin ang negosyo, gusto kong magdagdag ng iba pang mga lokasyon, at kaya siya nagpunta sa bangko, ngunit ang bangko ay hindi magbibigay ng business loan. At kaya ang mabuting ama, ang matuwid na ama, ang ministeryong ama. Emptied out ang kanyang 401k. Ibinigay ang lahat ng pera sa bata. May mga pakikibaka sa negosyo, at ang bata ay kumbinsido na ang mga bagay ay handa na upang buksan, ang tipping point ay talagang napakalapit. Lamang ng kaunti pa capital at ang negosyo ay pumunta sa ibabaw ng gilid, at talagang sa ibabaw ng umbok, at ito ay pumunta mula doon. At kaya ama, ang tapat na tao, ang matuwid na tao. Mortgaged kanyang bahay, nagbigay ng pera sa bata. At ang negosyo ay nagpunta sa tiyan. Pagreretiro ng pera nawala. Bank foreclosed ang bahay, ang matuwid na tao, ang tapat na tao, ang ministeryo tao nawala ang lahat. Paano gumagana ang isang mabuting tao? Gumagawa ng gayong mga trahedya pagkakamali. Ibig kong sabihin, talaga, kahit sino na nakabitin sa isang simbahan at ministeryo ng sapat na katagalan, naririnig mo ang mga sermon tungkol sa kung paano nais ng Diyos na pagpalain ang mga buhay at kung paano pinapagaling ng Diyos ang mga tao at kung paano binabago ng Diyos ang mga pamilya at kung paano pinagpapala ng Diyos ang mga pananalapi. Ngunit pa rin, kung susundin mo, nakikibahagi ka, pinapanood mo at malaman kung ano ang nangyayari. May mga halimbawa ng mga taong nakarinig ng mga mensahe ngunit hindi nararanasan ang ipinangangaral at itinuro. Bakit iyan? [00:07:04][223.7] Travis Miller: [00:07:07] Sa totoo lang, kung tayo ay maging mga mag-aaral ng Bibliya, ang salita ng Diyos, mayroong katulad na mga kuwento dito. Minsan iniisip natin sa Bibliya, mabuti, ang mga kuwento sa Bibliya ay ganito. Nakukuha natin ang mga kuwento tungkol sa masasamang tao na namumuhay ng masasamang buhay. Well, totoo iyan. Well, may kuwento tungkol sa matuwid na mga tao na may matuwid na buhay. Totoo rin iyan. Ngunit ngayon, gusto kong ituro na sa aklat na ito, nakita rin natin ang mga kuwento ng mabubuting tao na gumawa ng mga hangal na bagay at mahal ang mga ito. Tama sa aklat na ito, May mga labanan nawala. May mga buhay na natapos, may mga pamilya na nasira ng mabubuting tao na kumikilos nang may kamangmangan. May mga pagpatay at pangangalunya. May mga kaharian na nawala. May mga pagkakaibigan na natapos sa aklat na ito ng mga disenteng tao na kumikilos nang walang kamangmangan. May mga pag-asa vanished at pangako extinguished at kalusugan nasayang sa fortunes forfeited at relasyon tinapos. Ang mga ito ay mga kuwento sa Bibliya na nangyari sa kamay ng mabubuting tao na nabubuhay nang hindi maganda. Bakit nangyari ang mga bagay na ito? [00:08:24][76.7] Travis Miller: [00:08:26] Sa Aklat ni Job Kabanata siyam sa berso apat, gumawa siya ng kapaki-pakinabang na pagmamasid para sa talakayang ito. Ngayon sa Job siyam, mula sa Bibliya, sinasabi ng Diyos ay pantas sa puso at makapangyarihan sa lakas. Sinong nagmatigas laban sa kaniya at guminhawa? Well, malinaw, ang Diyos ay matalino at ang Diyos ay makapangyarihan, iyan ay simple at simple, Joe declares ito. Datapuwa't nang maipahayag ang katotohanang iyan, tinanong nga ni Job kung sino ang nagmatigas laban sa kaniya laban sa Dios at guminhawa? Sino ang nagmatigas laban sa Diyos? At pa rin umunlad? [00:09:14][48.4] Travis Miller: [00:09:18] Halos bawat tagsibol, at ito ay darating muli sa buwan ng Abril, Mayo. Nais ng aking asawa na dalhin ko siya sa Skagit County at makita ang magagandang patlang ng tulipan. Minsan binibisita namin, naroroon ka, alam mo ito, binibisita mo at bota ay talagang kailangan. Hindi lang putik ang may maraming putik. Hindi kapani-paniwala Pacific Northwest ulan, tandaan, sinabi ko hindi kapani-paniwala. Ibabad ang mga patlang ng tulipan, ginagawa itong maputik at malambot. Ngunit may iba pang mga oras na binisita namin ang mga patlang na iyon kapag natapos na ang ulan at ang mga bukid ay naiiba. Ang mga patlang ay magaspang. Ako ay doon kapag ang ibabaw ay hardened at kahit crack, ito ay kaya mahirap, ngunit kapag naglalakad ka sa ito, maaari mong sabihin na ito ay isang magaspang ibabaw, ngunit may kahalumigmigan sa ilalim, ngunit ang ibabaw ay mahirap at tuyo. Ang lupa ay nawala mula sa basa-basa at maputik sa magaspang at mahirap. 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