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Some of life's greatest joys and greatest heartaches center around the relationship between parent and child. Every person on the planet is impacted by their own parents or the results of their parenting. What does God's word have to teach us about parenting? Do you need healing in your life for the way you were parented? Join us for an in-depth series with real-time tools, tips, and life hacks on parenting from 101 -301. We will address topics on parenting through divorce, parenting through crisis, parenting through rebellion, and parenting when they are supposed to be grown up by now. This is your time to spend some time on what God wants to heal in your life when it comes to ‘parenting' or how you were ‘parented.'

If you're looking for a sermon series that isn't afraid to tackle some hot topics, look no further than "Click Bait"! This series is based on Proverbs 6:16-19, which lists the six things the Lord hates, including lying tongues, hands that shed innocent blood, and feet that run to do evil.In today's world, it's all too easy to fall prey to click bait and sensational headlines that lead us down a path of division, anger, and misinformation. But as Christians, we're called to something higher. We're called to be truth-tellers and peacemakers, to seek justice and love mercy, and to stand up for the marginalized and oppressed.Join us for this series as we explore what it means to be people of integrity in a world of click bait. Drawing on the wisdom of Proverbs and the teachings of Jesus, we'll look at hot topics like fake news, cancel culture, and social media addiction. We'll also discuss practical ways to build healthy relationships, navigate conflict, and engage with the world around us in a way that honors God and reflects his love. This is your time!

If you're looking for a sermon series that isn't afraid to tackle some hot topics, look no further than "Click Bait"! This series is based on Proverbs 6:16-19, which lists the seven things the Lord hates, including lying tongues, hands that shed innocent blood, and feet that run to do evil.In today's world, it's all too easy to fall prey to click bait and sensational headlines that lead us down a path of division, anger, and misinformation. But as Christians, we're called to something higher. We're called to be truth-tellers and peacemakers, to seek justice and love mercy, and to stand up for the marginalized and oppressed.Join us for this series as we explore what it means to be people of integrity in a world of click bait. Drawing on the wisdom of Proverbs and the teachings of Jesus, we'll look at hot topics like fake news, cancel culture, and social media addiction. We'll also discuss practical ways to build healthy relationships, navigate conflict, and engage with the world around us in a way that honors God and reflects his love. This is your time!

Happy Mothers Day!! Celebrate the day with a powerful message that focuses in on the following topics in our parenting series:- Resilient Parenting- Failure of Nerve- Failure of HeartSome of life's greatest joys and greatest heartaches center around the relationship between parent and child. Every person on the planet is impacted by their own parents or the results of their parenting.What does God's word have to teach us about parenting? Do you need healing in your life for the way you were parented?Join us for an in-depth series with real-time tools, tips, and life hacks on parenting from 101 -301. We will address topics on parenting through divorce, parenting through crisis, parenting through rebellion, and parenting when they are supposed to be grown up by now. This is your time to spend some time on what God wants to heal in your life when it comes to ‘parenting' or how you were ‘parented.'Social Media: @Generationscc⛪️ Visit Generations Christian Church : ⛪️ 1540 Little Rd Trinity, Fl 34655

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. I'm happy to be talking with Johnny Scott, the lead pastor of Generations Church in Trinity, Florida. Ever wonder what a self-sustainable church might look like? Curious about how to use business as ministry? Listen in as Johnny Scott shares how churches can use holy-owned businesses to reach their […]

Johnny Scott shared his testimony of redemption after being incarcerated and facing a 30-year prison sentence to having a culinary career and a full-service catering business, The Mission Kitchen.Chef Johnny was born in South Carolina and developed a fascination with cooking at an early age. Later, Johnny was facing a possible 30-year prison sentence. During his time of incarceration, he learned how to cook, and upon his release he received his degree from the Culinary Institute of Savannah in Savannah, Georgia and became a chef. He then continued his education at the Art Institute of Tennessee in Nashville. Today, Johnny has become a man of faith, a husband, a father of three, a business owner, an author, and an inspiration to others.

Silver Quintette - "Sinner's Crossroads" [0:00:00] Holy City Travelers - "Hold My Hand" - Hold My Hand [0:03:34] Spiritual Chords - "Do You Know Him" [0:08:03] Friendly Gospel Singers - "He's Sweet I Know" [0:15:57] Gospel Supremes - "Do Right" [0:16:11] Rev. Tim Goode - "Won't It Be A Time" - A Fighting Hero [0:19:26] Brotherhood Singers of Columbia, S.C. - "Time" [0:22:49] Raymond Rasberry Singers - "As Long As I Live" [0:26:38] Johnny Scott and the Gospel Stars - "Nothings Gonna Stop Me" [0:29:33] Exciting Harris Brothers - "Standing In The Need of Prayer" [0:37:02] Fantastic Reel Brothers - "Savior Don't Pass Me By" [0:40:17] Ivory Lucas - "Thank You Lord" [0:43:23] Silver Trumpets of S.C. - "The Same God" [0:46:52] McDonald Sisters - "One Day Soon" [0:50:30] Swan Silvertones - "Keep Me Praying On" [0:53:31] - "Highway to Heaven" [0:59:36] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112603

Recapping night one of the World 100 week at Eldora, including prelim wins for Tim McCreadie and Johnny Scott, plus where Brandon Overton and Kyle Larson finished, and heat race lineups for tonight. We've also got details on Bobby Pierce being disqualified for tonight's 51st World 100, news from the World of Outlaws, and we preview the Tuscarora 50 at Port Royal Speedway.

This week's episode looks at "Ticket to Ride", the making of the Beatles' second film, and the influence of Bob Dylan on the Beatles' work and lives. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "The Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Beatles. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them, but the ones I specifically referred to while writing this episode were: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For material on the making of the film, I referred to Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh, a book which is in part a lengthy set of conversations between Soderbergh and Richard Lester. Sadly the only way to legally get the original mix of "Ticket to Ride" is this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but the 1987 remix is widely available on the CD issue of the Help! soundtrack. The film is available on DVD. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript When we last looked at the Beatles, they had just achieved their American success, and had appeared in their first film, A Hard Day's Night. Today, we're going to look at the massive artistic growth that happened to them between late 1964 and mid 1965, the making of their second film, Help!, the influence, both artistic and personal, of Bob Dylan on the group, and their introduction both to studio experimentation and to cannabis. We're going to look at "Ticket to Ride": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Ticket to Ride"] 1964 was a tremendously busy year for the Beatles. After they'd finished making A Hard Day's Night, but even before it was released, they had gone on yet another tour, playing Denmark, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand, though without Ringo for much of the tour -- Ringo had to have his tonsils removed, and so for the first eight shows of the tour he was replaced by session drummer Jimmy Nicol, the former drummer with Colin Hicks and his Cabin Boys, who had played on several cheap soundalike records of Beatles songs. Nicol was a competent drummer, though very different in style from Ringo, and he found his temporary moment of celebrity hugely upsetting -- he later described it as the worst thing to ever happen to him, and ended up declaring bankruptcy only nine months after touring with the group. Nicol is now a recluse, and hasn't spoken to anyone about his time with the Beatles in more than thirty years. After Ringo returned to the group and the film came out they went back into the studio, only two months after the release of their third album, to start work on their fourth. They recorded four songs in two sessions before departing on their first full US tour. Those songs included two cover versions -- a version of "Mr. Moonlight" by Doctor Feelgood and the Interns that appeared on the album, and a version of Little Willie John's "Leave My Kitten Alone" that didn't see release until 1995 -- and two originals written mostly or entirely by John Lennon, "Baby's In Black", and "I'm a Loser": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I'm a Loser"] "I'm a Loser" was an early sign of an influence that had particularly changed Lennon's attitude to songwriting -- that of Bob Dylan. Dylan had been on the group's radar for some time -- Paul McCartney in the Anthology book seems to have a confused memory of seeing Madhouse on Castle Street, the TV play Dylan had appeared in in January 1963 -- but early 1964 had seen him rise in prominence to the point that he was a major star, not just an obscure folk singer. And Lennon had paid particular attention to what he was doing with his lyrics. We've already seen that Lennon had been writing surreal poetry for years, but at this point in his life he still thought of his songwriting and his poetry as separate. As he would later put it "I had a sort of professional songwriter's attitude to writing pop songs; we would turn out a certain style of song for a single, and we would do a certain style of thing for this and the other thing. I'd have a separate songwriting John Lennon who wrote songs for the meat market, and I didn't consider them (the lyrics or anything) to have any depth at all." This shouldn't be taken as Lennon saying that the early Beatles songs were lacking in quality, or that he didn't take the work seriously, but that it wasn't about self-expression. He was trying to do the best work he could as a craftsman. Listening to Dylan had showed him that it was possible instead to treat pop songwriting as art, in the sense Lennon understood the term -- as a means of personal expression that could also allow for experimentation and playing games. "I'm a Loser" is a first tentative step towards that, with Lennon for one of the first times consciously writing about his own emotions -- though careful to wrap those feelings both in a conventional love song structure and in a thick layer of distancing irony, to avoid making himself vulnerable -- and the stylistic influence of Dylan is very noticeable, as much in the instrumentation as in the lyrics. While several early Beatles singles had featured Lennon playing harmonica, he had been playing a chromatic harmonica, a type of harmonica that's mostly used for playing single-note melodies, because it allows the player to access every single note, but which is not very good for bending notes or playing chords. If you've heard someone playing the harmonica as a single-note melody instrument with few or no chords, whether Stevie Wonder, Larry Adler, or Max Geldray, the chances are they were playing a chromatic harmonica. On "I'm a Loser", though, Lennon plays a diatonic harmonica -- an instrument that he would refer to as a "harp" rather than a harmonica, because he associated it with the blues, where it's often referred to as a harp. Diatonic harmonicas are the instrument of choice for blues players because they allow more note-bending, and it's easier to play a full chord on them -- the downside, that you have a smaller selection of notes available, is less important in the blues, which tends towards harmonic minimalism. Diatonic harmonicas are the ones you're likely to hear on country, blues, and folk recordings -- they're the instrument played by people like Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Charlie McCoy, and Bob Dylan. Lennon had played a diatonic before, on "I Should Have Known Better", another song which shows Dylan's influence in the performance, though not in the lyrics. In both cases he is imitating Dylan's style, which tends to be full of chordal phrases rather than single-note melody. What's interesting about “I'm a Loser” though is contrasting John's harmonica solo with George's guitar solo which follows immediately after: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I'm a Loser"] That's a pure Carl Perkins solo, and the group would, in their choices of cover versions for the next few months, move away somewhat from the soul and girl-group influences that dominated the covers on their first two albums, and towards country and rockabilly -- they would still cover Larry Williams, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry, but there were no more covers of contemporary Black artists, and instead there were cover versions of Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, and Buck Owens, and Harrison switched from the Rickenbacker that had been his main instrument on A Hard Day's Night to playing a Gretsch -- the brand of guitar that Chet Atkins and Eddie Cochrane played.  The consensus among commentators -- with which, for once, I agree -- seems to be that this was also because of the influence of Dylan. The argument is that the Beatles heard Dylan's music as a form of country music, and it inspired them to go back to their other country-oriented influences. And this makes a lot of sense -- it was only fifteen years earlier, at the same time as they replaced "race" with "rhythm and blues", that Billboard magazine chose to rename their folk chart to the country and western chart -- as Tyler Mahan Coe puts it, "after years of trying to figure out what to call their “poor Black people music” and “poor white people music” charts". And Dylan had been as influenced by Hank Williams as by Woody Guthrie. In short what the Beatles, especially Lennon, heard in Dylan seems to have been three things -- a reminder of the rockabilly and skiffle influences that had been their first love before they'd discovered R&B and soul, permission to write honestly about one's own experiences, and an acknowledgement that such writing could include surrealistic wordplay. Fundamentally, Dylan, as much as being a direct influence, seems to have given the group a kind of permission -- to have shown them that there was room in the commercial sphere in which they were now operating for them to venture into musical and lyrical areas that had always appealed to them. But of course, that was not the only influence that Dylan had on the group, as anyone who has ever read anything at all about their first full US tour knows. That tour saw them playing huge venues like the Hollywood Bowl -- a show which later made up a big part of their only official live album, which was finally released in 1977: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Things We Said Today (live at the Hollywood Bowl 1964)"] It was nine days into the tour, on the twenty-eighth of August 1964, that they met Bob Dylan for the first time. The meeting with Dylan is usually called the first time the Beatles ever smoked cannabis -- and that's true, at least if you're talking about them as a group. Lennon had tried it around 1960, and both Lennon and Harrison had tried it at a show at the Southport Floral Hall in early 1962, but neither had properly understood what they were smoking, and had both already been drunk before smoking it. According to a later interview with Harrison, that had led to the two of them madly dancing the Twist in their dressing room, shouting "This stuff isn't doing anything!" But it was at this meeting that Paul and Ringo first smoked it, and it also seems to have been taken by Lennon and Harrison as their "real" first time, possibly partly because being introduced to cannabis by Bob Dylan in a New York hotel sounds a lot cooler than being introduced to it by your support band's drummer in Southport, possibly because it was the first time that they had all smoked it together as a group, but mostly because this was the time when it became a regular part of the group's life. Oddly, it happened because of a misheard lyric. Dylan had loved "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and had misheard "I can't hide" as "I get high", and thus just assumed that the British band were already familiar with cannabis. The drug had a profound effect on them -- McCartney later recalled being convinced he had discovered the meaning of life, writing it down on a bit of paper, and getting their roadie Mal Evans to hold the paper for safekeeping. The next morning, when he looked at the paper, he found it merely said "there are seven levels". Lennon, on the other hand, mostly remembered Dylan playing them his latest demos and telling them to listen to the words, but Lennon characteristically being unable to concentrate on the lyrics because in his stoned state he was overwhelmed by the rhythm and general sound of the music. From this point on, the use of cannabis became a major part of the group's life, and it would soon have a profound effect on their lifestyles, their songwriting, the production on their records, and every other aspect of their career. The Beatle on whom it seems to have had the strongest and most immediate effect was Lennon, possibly because he was the one who was coping least well with success and most needed something to take his mind off things. Lennon had always been susceptible to extremes of mood -- it's likely that he would these days be diagnosed as bipolar, and we've already seen how as soon as he'd started writing personally, he'd written "I'm a Loser". He was feeling trapped in suburbia, unsuited for his role as a husband and father, unhappy about his weight, and just generally miserable. Cannabis seemed, at least at first, to offer a temporary escape from that. All the group spent much of the next couple of years stoned, but Lennon probably more than any of them, and he was the one whose writing it seemed to affect most profoundly. On the group's return from the US, they carried on working on the next album, and on a non-album single designed to be released simultaneously with it. "I Feel Fine" is a major milestone in the group's career in a number of ways. The most obvious is the opening -- a brief bit of feedback which Lennon would always later claim to be the first deliberate use of the technique on a record: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Feel Fine"] Feedback had, up until this point, been something that musicians generally tried to avoid -- an unwanted sound that could wreck a performance. But among guitarists in London, especially, it was becoming the fashionable sound to incorporate, in a carefully controlled manner, in order to make sounds that nobody had heard before. Jeff Beck, Dave Davies, and Pete Townshend would all argue about which of them was the first to use the technique, but all were using it on stage by the time the Beatles recorded "I Feel Fine". But the Beatles were, if not the first to deliberately use feedback on a record (as I've said in the past, there is no such thing as a first anything, and there are debatable examples where feedback may be deliberate going back to the 1930s and some records by Bob Wills), certainly the most prominent artists to do so up to that point, and also the first to make it a major, prominent feature of a hit record in this manner. If they hadn't done it, someone else undoubtedly would, but they were the first to capture the sound that was becoming so popular in the London clubs, and as so often in their career they were able to capture something that was at the cutting edge of the underground culture and turn it into something that would be accepted by millions. "I Feel Fine" was important to the Beatles in another way, though, in that it was the first Beatles original to be based entirely around a guitar riff, and this was if anything a more important departure from their earlier records than the feedback was. Up to this point, while the Beatles had used riffs in covers like "Twist and Shout", their originals had avoided them -- the rhythm guitar had tended to go for strummed chords, while the lead guitar was usually reserved for solos and interjections. Rather than sustaining a riff through the whole record, George Harrison would tend to play answer phrases to the vocal melody, somewhat in the same manner as a backing vocalist. This time, though, Lennon wrote an entire song around a riff -- one he had based on an R&B record from a few years earlier that he particularly loved, "Watch Your Step" by Bobby Parker: [Excerpt: Bobby Parker, "Watch Your Step"] Parker's record had, in turn, been inspired by two others -- the influence of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" is very obvious, but Parker had based the riff on one that Dizzy Gillespie had used in "Manteca", a classic early Afro-Cuban jazz record from 1947: [Excerpt: Dizzy Gillespie, "Manteca"] Parker had played that riff on his guitar, varied it, and come up with what may be the most influential guitar riff of all time, one lifted not only by the Beatles (on both "I Feel Fine" and, in a modified form, "Day Tripper") but Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, the Allman Brothers Band, and many, many others: [Excerpt: Bobby Parker, "Watch Your Step"] Lennon took that riff and based a new song around it -- and it's important to note here that "I Feel Fine" *is* a new song. Both songs share the same riff and twelve-bar blues structure, but Lennon's lyric and melody are totally different, and the record has a different feel. There's a blurry line between plagiarism and homage, and to my mind "I Feel Fine" stays on the right side of that line, although it's a difficult issue because the Beatles were so much more successful than the unknown Parker. Part of the reason "I Feel Fine" could be the Beatles' first single based around a riff was it was recorded on a four-track machine, EMI having finally upgraded their equipment, which meant that the Beatles could record the instrumental and vocal tracks separately. This allowed Lennon and Harrison to hold down the tricky riff in unison, something Lennon couldn't do while also singing the melody -- it's noticeable that when they performed this song live, Lennon usually strummed the chords on a semi-acoustic guitar rather than doubling the riff as he does on the record. It's also worth listening to what Ringo's doing on the drums on the track. One of the more annoying myths about the Beatles is the claim made by a lot of people that Starr was in some way not a good drummer. While there has been some pushback on this, even to the extent that there is now a contrarian counterconsensus that says he was the best drummer in the world at the time, the general public still thinks of him as having been not particularly good. One listen to the part Starr played on "I Feel Fine" -- or indeed a close listen to any of his drum parts -- should get rid of that idea. While George and John are basically duplicating Parker's riff, Ringo picks up on the Parker record's similarity to "What'd I Say" and plays essentially the same part that Ray Charles' drummer had: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Feel Fine (isolated drum part)"] There are copies of that posted on YouTube, and almost all of them have comments from people claiming that the drumming in question must be a session drummer, because Starr couldn't play that well.  Several of the Beatles' singles for the next two years would feature a heavy guitar riff as their main instrumental hook. Indeed, it seems like late 1964 is a point where things start to change a little for the Beatles in how they conceptualise singles and albums. Up to this point, they seem to have just written every song as a potential single, then chosen the ones they thought of as the most commercial as singles and stuck the rest out as album tracks. But from autumn 1964 through early 1966 there seems, at least on Lennon's part, to be a divide in how he looked at songs. The songs he brought in that became singles were almost uniformly guitar-driven heavy rockers with a strong riff. Meanwhile, the songs recorded for albums were almost all based on strummed acoustic guitars, usually ballads or at most mid-tempo, and often with meditative lyrics. He clearly seems to have been thinking in terms of commercial singles and less commercial album tracks, even if he didn't quite articulate it that way.  I specify Lennon here, because there doesn't seem to be a comparable split in McCartney's writing -- partly because McCartney didn't really start writing riff-based songs until Lennon dropped the idea in late 1966. McCartney instead seems to start expanding his palette of genres -- while Lennon seems to be in two modes for about an eighteen-month period, and not really to venture out of either the bluesy riff-rocker or the country-flavoured folk rock mode, McCartney starts becoming the stylistic magpie he would become in the later period of the group's career. The B-side to the single, "She's a Woman" is, like the A-side, blues-based, but here it's McCartney in Little Richard mode. The most interesting aspect to it, though, is the rhythm guitar part -- off-beat stabs which sound very much like the group continuing to try to incorporate ska into their work: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "She's a Woman"] The single went to number one, of course, as all the group's singles in this period did. Beatles For Sale, the album that came out of these sessions, is generally regarded as one of the group's weaker efforts, possibly because of the relatively large number of cover versions, but also because of its air of bleakness. From the autumnal cover photo to the laid-back acoustic feel of much of the album, to the depressing nature of Lennon's contributions to the songwriting -- "No Reply", "I'm a Loser", "Baby's in Black", and "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" all being a far cry from "I Feel Fine" – it's not a fun album by any means. I've always had a soft spot for the album myself, but it's clearly the work of people who were very tired, depressed, and overworked. And they were working hard -- in the four months after the end of their American tour on the twentieth of September, they recorded most of Beatles For Sale and the accompanying single, played forty-eight gigs, made TV appearances on Shindig, Scene at 6:30, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Ready Steady Go, and Top of the Pops, radio appearances on Top Gear and Saturday Club, and sundry interviews. On top of that John also made an appearance on Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's show "Not Only... But Also", performing versions of some of his poetry with Moore and Norman Rossington, who had co-starred in A Hard Day's Night: [Excerpt: John Lennon, Dudley Moore and Norman Rossington, "All Abord Speeching"] They did get a month off from mid-January 1965 through mid-February, but then it was back to work on a new film and accompanying soundtrack album. The group's second film, Help!, is generally regarded with rather less fondness than A Hard Day's Night, and it's certainly the case that some aspects of the film have not dated at all well -- in particular the way that several characters are played by white actors in brownface doing very unconvincing Indian accents, and the less than respectful attitude to Hindu religious beliefs, are things which will make any modern viewer with the slightest sensitivity to such issues cringe terribly.  But those aren't the aspects of the film which most of its critics pick up on -- rather they tend to focus only on the things that the Beatles themselves criticise about the film, mostly that the group spent most of the filming stoned out of their minds, and the performances are thus a lot less focused than those in A Hard Day's Night, and also that the script -- written this time by Richard Lester's regular collaborator Charles Wood, from a story by Marc Behm, rather than by Alun Owen -- is also a little unfocused. All these are fair criticisms as far as they go, but it's also the case that Help! is not a film that is best done justice by being viewed on a small screen on one's own, as most of its critics have viewed it most of the time. Help! is part of a whole subgenre of films which were popular in the 1960s but largely aren't made today -- the loose, chaotic, adventure comedy in which a nominal plot is just an excuse for a series of comedy sketches strung together with spectacular visuals. The genre encompasses everything from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World to Casino Royale to The Pink Panther, and all of these films are meant to be seen on a big screen which allows the audience to appreciate their visual inventiveness, and in a communal audience which is laughing along with them. And when seen in that light, Help! is actually a remarkably entertaining example of the type. Yes, it doesn't hold together as well as A Hard Day's Night, and it doesn't resolve so much as just stop, but structurally it's remarkably close to the films of the Marx Brothers, especially their Paramount films, and it's odd that the Marx comparisons get made about A Hard Day's Night, a slice-of-life film inspired by the French New Wave, and not about the screwball comedy that ends in a confused chase sequence. There is one thing that is worth noting about Help! that is often obscured -- part of the reason for its globetrotting nature was because of the levels of taxation in Britain at the time. For top earners, like the Beatles were, the marginal rate of income tax was as high as ninety-five percent in the mid-sixties. Many of us would think this was a reasonable rate for people who were earning many, many times in a year what most people would earn in a lifetime, but it's also worth noting that the Beatles'  success had so far lasted only two years, and that a pop act who was successful for five years was remarkably long-lived -- in the British pop industry only Cliff Richard and the Shadows had had a successful career as chart artists for longer than that, and even they were doing much less well in 1965 than they had been in 1963. In retrospect, of course, we know that the Beatles would continue to sell millions of records a year for more than sixty years, but that was not something any of them could possibly have imagined at the time, and we're still in a period where Paul McCartney could talk about going into writing musicals once the Beatles fad passed, and Ringo could still imagine himself as the owner of a hairdresser's. So it's not completely unreasonable of them to want to keep as much of their money as they could, while they could, and so while McCartney will always talk in interviews about how many of the scenes in the film were inspired by a wishlist from the group -- "We've never been skiing", "We've never been to the Bahamas" -- and there might even be some truth to that, it's also the case that the Bahamas were as known for their lax tax regime as for their undoubted charm as a tourist destination, and these journeys were not solely about giving the group a chance to have fun. But of course, before making the film itself, the group had to record songs for its soundtrack, and so on February the sixteenth they went into the studio to record four songs, including the next single, "Ticket to Ride": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Ticket to Ride"] While "Ticket to Ride" is mostly -- or possibly solely -- John's song, the record is very much Paul's record. For most of 1964, McCartney hadn't really been pulling his weight in the songwriting department when compared to John -- the handful of songs he had written had included some exceptional ones, but for the most part he hadn't written much, and John had been the more productive member of their partnership, writing almost all of the A Hard Day's Night album, most of the better tracks on Beatles For Sale, and the non-album single "I Feel Fine".  But now, John was sinking into one of his periodic bouts of depression -- he was still writing strong material, and would produce some of the best songs of his career in 1965, but he was unfocused and unhappy, and it was showing in his slowed productivity -- while McCartney was energised by living in London, the cultural capital of the world at that point in time, and having a famous girlfriend who was exposing him to vast areas of culture he had never been aware of before.  I say that "Ticket to Ride" is written by John, but there is some slight dispute about who contributed what to the writing. John's statement was that the song was all him, and that Paul's main contribution was the drum pattern that Ringo plays. Paul, on the other hand, claims that the song is about a sixty-forty split, with John being the sixty. McCartney's evidence for that is the strong vocal harmony he sings -- usually, if there's a two-part harmony like that on a Beatles song, it came about because Lennon and McCartney were in the same room together while writing it, and singing the part together as they were writing. He also talks about how when writing it they were discussing Ryde in the Isle of Wight, where McCartney's cousin ran a pub. I can certainly see it being the case that McCartney co-wrote the song, but I can also easily see the musicianly McCartney feeling the need to harmonise what would otherwise have been a monotonous melody, and adding the harmonies during the recording stage.  Either way, though, the song is primarily John's in the writing, but the arrangement is primarily McCartney's work -- and while Lennon would later claim that McCartney would always pay less attention to Lennon's songs than to McCartney's own, in this middle period of the group's career most of their truly astounding work comes when  Lennon brings in the song but McCartney experiments with the arrangement and production. Over and over again we see McCartney taking control of a Lennon song in the studio and bringing out aspects of it that its composer either had not considered or had not had the musical vocabulary or patience to realise on his own. Indeed one can see this as part of the dynamic that eventually led to the group breaking up. Lennon would bring in a half-formed idea and have the whole group work on it, especially McCartney, and turn it into the best version of itself it could be, but this would then seem like McCartney trying to take over. McCartney, meanwhile, with his greater musical facility, would increasingly not bother asking for the input of the group's other members, even when that input would have turned a mediocre song into a good one or a good one into a great one.  But at this point in their careers, at least, the collaboration brought out the best in both Lennon and McCartney -- though one must wonder what Harrison and Starr felt about having their parts dictated to them or simply replaced. In the case of "Ticket to Ride", one can trace the evolution of McCartney's drum pattern idea over a period of a few months. He was clearly fascinated by Hal Blaine's drum intro to "Be My Baby": [Excerpt: The Ronettes, "Be My Baby"] and came up with a variation of it for his own song "What You're Doing", possibly the most interesting song on Beatles For Sale on a pure production level, the guitar part for which, owing a lot to the Searchers, is also clearly a pointer to the sound on “Ticket to Ride”: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "What You're Doing"] "Ticket to Ride"s drum part is a more complex variation on that slightly broken pattern, as you can hear if you listen to the isolated drum part: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Ticket to Ride (isolated drums)"] Interestingly, Ringo doesn't keep that precise pattern up all the way through in the studio recording of the song, though he does in subsequent live versions. Instead, from the third verse onwards he shifts to a more straightforward backbeat of the kind he would more normally play: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Ticket to Ride (isolated drums)"] The mono mix of "Ticket to Ride", which is how most listeners of the time encountered it, shows much more than the stereo mix just what the group, and particularly Paul, were trying to do.  It's a bass-heavy track, sluggish and thundering. It's also a song that sounds *obsessed*. For the first six bars of the verse, and the whole intro, the song stays on a single chord, A, only changing on the word "away", right before the chorus: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Ticket to Ride"] This obsession with one chord was possibly inspired by soul music, and in particular by "Dancing in the Street", which similarly stays on one chord for a long time: [Excerpt: Martha and the Vandellas, "Dancing in the Street"] We'll be looking more at how soul music was increasingly doing away with chord progressions in favour of keeping to an extended groove on a single chord when we next look at James Brown in a few weeks' time. But in its single-chord focus and its broken drum beat, "Ticket to Ride" is very much a precursor of what the group would do a little over a year later, when they recorded "Tomorrow Never Knows". Of course, it was also around this time that the group discovered Indian music for the first time. There are scenes in the film Help! which feature musicians playing Indian instruments, and George Harrison became fascinated by the sound of the sitar and bought one, and we'll be seeing the repercussions of that for much of the next year. But it's interesting to note that a lot of the elements that make Indian classical music so distinctive to ears used to Western popular music -- the lack of harmonic movement, the modal melodies, the use of percussion not to keep a steady beat but in melodic interplay with the string instruments -- were all already present in songs like "Ticket to Ride", albeit far less obviously and in a way that still fit very much into pop song conventions. The Beatles grew immensely as musicians from their exposure to Indian music, but it's also the case that Indian music appealed to them precisely because it was an extension of the tastes they already had. Unlike when recording Beatles For Sale, the group clearly had enough original material to fill out an album, even if they ended up not doing so and including two mediocre cover versions on the album -- the last time that would happen during the group's time together. The B-sides of the two singles, John's "Yes It Is" and Paul's "I'm Down", both remained only available on the singles, even though the previous film soundtrack had included the B-sides of both its singles. Not only that, but they recorded two Lennon/McCartney songs that would remain unreleased until more than thirty years later. "If You've Got Troubles" was left unreleased for good reason -- a song written for Ringo to sing, it's probably the single worst Lennon/McCartney song ever attempted by the group, with little or nothing to redeem it. McCartney's "That Means a Lot" is more interesting. It's clearly an attempt by McCartney to write a "Ticket to Ride" part two, with a similar riff and feel: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "That Means a Lot"] It even has a sped-up repurposing of the hook line at the end, just as "Ticket to Ride" does, with "Can't you see?" taking the place of "My baby don't care": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "That Means a Lot"] The group spent a couple of sessions on that track, but seem to have given up on it. While it's far from the best thing they did, it's not worthless or unreleasable, and one suspects that they ended up thinking that the track couldn't go on the same album as "Ticket to Ride" because the two songs were just too close. Instead, they ended up giving the song to P.J. Proby, the American singer who had been brought over by Jack Good for the About The Beatles show, and who had built something of a career for himself in the UK with a string of minor hits. Lennon said "we found we just couldn't sing it. In fact, we made a hash of it, so we thought we'd better give it to someone who could do it well". And Proby *could* have done it well -- but whether he did or not is something you can judge for yourself: [Excerpt: P.J. Proby, "That Means a Lot"] Somehow, Proby's version of the song made the top thirty. When the group started filming "Help!", the film was still going under the working title "Eight Arms to Hold You", which absolutely nobody involved liked -- the title was even included on the label of some copies of "Ticket to Ride", but Lennon and McCartney particularly disliked the idea of writing a song to that title. Some have suggested that the plan was to use McCartney's "Eight Days a Week", an album track from Beatles For Sale that had been released as an American single, as a title track, but it seems unlikely that anyone would have considered that -- United Artists wanted something they could put out on a soundtrack album, and the song had already been out for many months. Instead, at almost the last minute, it was decided to name the film "Help!". This was actually close to the very first working title for the film, which had been "Help, Help". According to Lester, "the lawyer said it had already been registered and you mustn't use it so we had Beatles Two and then Eight Arms to Hold You". The only film I've been able to discover with the title "Help, Help", though, is a silent film from 1912, which I don't imagine would have caused much problem in this case.  However, after the group insisted that they couldn't possibly write a song called "Eight Arms to Hold You", Lester realised that if he put an exclamation mark after the word "help", that turned it into a different title. After getting legal approval he announced that the title of the new film was going to be "Help!", and that same day John came up with a song to that title: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Help!"] Lennon later said that the song had started out as a slow, intense, ballad, and he had been persuaded to speed it up in the studio somewhat against his will. The song being performed as an upbeat pop song possibly made it harder for the public to see what was obvious to Lennon himself, that the song itself was a cry for help from someone going through a mental health crisis. Despite the title not being his, the sentiments certainly were, and for the first time there was barely even the fig-leaf of romantic love to disguise this. The song's lyrics certainly could be interpreted as being the singer wanting help from a romantic partner, but they don't actually specify this, which is not something that could be said about any of the group's other originals up to this point. The soundtrack album for Help! is also notable in other ways. George Harrison writes two songs on the album, when he'd only written one in total for the first four albums. From this point on he would be a major songwriting presence in the group. It also contains the most obvious Dylan homage yet, with Lennon impersonating Dylan's vocal style on "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", recorded three days after "Ticket to Ride": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"]  "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was notable in another way as well -- it was the first time that a musician other than the Beatles or George Martin was called in to work on a Beatles record (other than Andy White on the "Love Me Do" session, which was not something the Beatles chose or approved of). The flute player Johnny Scott overdubbed two tracks of flute at the end of the recording: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"] That was a sign of things to come, because in June, once filming had completed, the group went into the studio to continue recording for the non-soundtrack side of the soundtrack album. This was the height of the group's success and embrace by the establishment -- two days earlier it had been announced that they were all to be awarded MBEs -- and it's also the point at which McCartney's new creative growth as a songwriter really became apparent. They recorded three songs on the same day -- his Little Richard soundalike "I'm Down", which ended up being used as the B-side for "Help!", an acoustic country song called "I've Just Seen a Face", and finally a song whose melody had come to him in a dream many months earlier. McCartney had been so impressed by the melody he'd dreamed that he'd been unable to believe it was original to him, and had spent a long time playing it to other people to see if they recognised it. When they didn't, he eventually changed the lyrics from his original jokey "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs" to something more appropriate, and titled it "Yesterday": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Yesterday (Anthology 2 early take)"] "Yesterday" was released as a Beatles track, on a Beatles album, but it had absolutely no involvement from John, George, and Ringo -- nobody could figure out how to adapt the song to a guitars/bass/drums format. Instead George Martin scored it for a string quartet, with some assistance from McCartney who, worried that strings would end up meaning something Mantovani-like, insisted that the score be kept as simple as possible, and played with almost no vibrato. The result was a Beatles track that featured five people, but only one Beatle: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Yesterday"] The group's next album would see all the band members appearing on every track, and no musicians brought in from outside the group and their organisation, but the genie was now out of the bottle -- the label "The Beatles" on a record no longer meant that it featured John, Paul, George, and Ringo, but just that at least one of them was on the track and the others had agreed it could go out under their name. This would lead to immense changes in the way the group worked, and we'll be seeing how that played out throughout the rest of the 1960s.

Kathy and Johnny are part of a powerful training team at Kimberly (Wisconsin) High School. They train student leaders to help their classmates cope with difficult life issues, including substance use, depression, and suicidal thoughts. One of the most powerful techniques they train the student leaders to use is showing compassion through the use of empathy. Breaking through the isolation and desperation by being present and available are key factors in getting people the help they need. If you need help with substance use or mental health issues, help is available. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Kenosha County can be reached at 262-652-3606 or namikenoshacounty@gmail.com. To contact the Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse, call 262-658-8166 or email them at info@hopecouncil.org. Learn more about the agency's services at hopecouncil.org.

Johnny Scott, Guest Speaker, concludes the series "A Weary World Rejoices" with "Road Map To A Perfect Ending."

We had the honor to connect with Johnny Scott, a member since 2019, and chat a little about what brought him into the brotherhood and what our 3 pillars mean to him.

Can you imagine a cookout with Jesus? It happened. John 21 describes an awesome lakeside fish fry with Jesus. If you could 'cookout' with Jesus, what would He have to say to you? Find out in this podcast form Memorial Day weekend 2020 Teaching at Generations Christian Church.

Defining Moments Sermon Series | Pontius PilateMost of our days just fade into our memories.Simply said: we forget what actually happened. We forget who we were with or what we ate as went to that one place we can’t remember the name of.There are moments, however, that define our future. We can all look back at one conversation that altered our course. These defining moments are conversations we cling to or run from. They can be good or bad. They stand out in perfect detail in our memories.Do you need a defining moment? A conversation that moves you from where you are now to where you want to be? Jesus had some incredible conversations with people just like us. They forever changed the course of their lives in just one moment for the better.One conversation can change everything. Are you ready for a defining moment?This is Your Time.

Defining Moments Sermon Series Most of our days just fade into our memories.Simply said: we forget what actually happened. We forget who we were with or what we ate as went to that one place we can’t remember the name of.There are moments, however, that define our future. We can all look back at one conversation that altered our course. These defining moments are conversations we cling to or run from. They can be good or bad. They stand out in perfect detail in our memories.Do you need a defining moment? A conversation that moves you from where you are now to where you want to be? Jesus had some incredible conversations with people just like us. They forever changed the course of their lives in just one moment for the better.One conversation can change everything. Are you ready for a defining moment?This is Your Time.Links Website | https://generationscc.comSermons | https://generationscc.com/watch/Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/generationscc/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/generationscc/Twitter | https://twitter.com/generationsccPastor Johnny's Blog | http://www.generationscc.com/johnnysblog

How do we react in the storm of the Corona Virus? We just happen to have an incredible road map to follow in Mark chapter 4. We look at how the apostles face a storm with Jesus. We have developed children's material to walk beside our regular weekly teachings during this season. Kids can have as much, and even more, fear than adults know during trying times like this. For children resources that parallel this teaching go here: If you are looking for some tools to online community or resources:https://generationscc.com/GKIDSRESOURCES/Field guid for reaching your neighbors:https://generationscc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Be-A-Neighbor-Be-The-Church.pdf

What makes Jesus Mad? The most biting language found in all the Bible would be the words Jesus spoke to religious leaders of the day.

We couldn't wait until Sunday to have church! Jesus actually had a direct message to the church and it just happened to fit right into the sermon series we have been working on "What Made Jesus Mad". Chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation describe Jesus giving direct correction to 7 real churches and all of that applies to us today. We were encouraged, put on task, focused and blessed to have a few moments as a church! If you are looking for how we are going to respond as a local extension of the Bride of Christ then please get on board by listening to this all church bulletin!

Jesus doesn't avoid hard conversations or topics. He goes right at them with love. A perfect love that we can still experience today. This message from our weekend service teaching time looks at an incident when Jesus brings healing to a man. It can be found in John chapter 5.American Psychiatric Association- Addiction is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence. Almost 21 million Americans have at least one addiction, yet only 10% of them receive treatment.Drug overdose deaths have more than tripled since 1990.More than 90% of people who have an addiction started to drink alcohol or use drugs before they were 18 years old.· Sex 42.7% Of internet users view pornography· The National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity estimated that of Americans up to 24 million people have a sexual addiction· Around 1 in 20 people met the criteria for food addiction. – Huff Post

Mental Health issues are very real in our culture today. Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.Statistics on Metal Health1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year1 in 6 kids experience mental health disorder each year50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by 14, and 75% by age 24Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34 Suicide rate in the U.S. has increased by 31% since 2001This message from our "Love Handles" Series looks at Job's life to find some answers from God on big questions like "why bad things happen to good people".

Where is Jesus at right now . . . LITERALLY? Many people don't know actually. This message takes a deep dive into the evidence to truly find where Jesus is at.

On our journey of trying to find where Jesus is at, where He has been and where we can anticipate Him to be next we are led to the scene of His resurrection. John 20 records this and we look into the clues to find where Jesus really is.

This is a non traditional look at the incredible thought that God would leave Heaven where it makes sense for Him to be, and come and be found in a container like humanity. It is mind blowing. So we get crazy thinking about that in some zany ways.

What an incredible weekend and story to look at in Luke 15. This is a message of clarity around the heart of the gospel that during our special Bring A Friend Weekend.

In this new series: Finding Jesus, we are looking to separate what is faith, fact and fiction. Jesus isn't lost or hiding but people still say the have 'found Him'. What do they mean and how can we get to the raw, unadulterated version of who He really is? Who is the real historical person of Jesus and how does He impact you today! The very first words ever recorded are strategically important to His whole life. They will resonate with you today as well. This Is Your Time to Find Jesus!

In this new series: Finding Jesus, we are looking to separate what is faith, fact and fiction. Jesus isn't lost or hiding but people still say the have 'found Him'. What do they mean and how can we get to the raw, unadulterated version of who He really is? Who is the real historical person of Jesus and how does He impact you today! In tis message we take a macro look at the rhythm in the life of Jesus. What did He do in the cracks? When He wasn't teaching or healing what happened? The very last words ever spoken by Jesus need a close look. They will resonate with you today as well. This Is Your Time to Find Jesus!

Jeremiah 31:31-34 Gives this incredible prediction that reaches 600 years into the future. During one of the darkest chapters of Israel's history God shows His plan to restore Israel and make a new plan for community. This message explores the details of that plan and looks at how it impacts us today!

God cares about the big stuff in our lives. He actually wants to engage us in our pursuits, dreams and most likely is the one who put your dreams deep inside of you. It all starts with the promise He makes and the fidelity he demands from us. How does that relationship get set up and work? We look at one of the first (but not the first) relationship covenant He made with Abram.

Genesis chapter 3 records the saddest moment in mankind history. Yet wrapped up in this moment also comes a great foreshadow of the hope that is to come- Jesus:We have been diminishing the consequences of our sin for 6,000 years, it’s just an apple, it’s not impacting me that bad or others, We have all been trying to fill the void of paradise lost with:Ourselves- Satan “You can be God”Others –“I get what I need from my spouse/others”· Things God has given us: food; sex We learn about Satan's tactics:Strategy of Satan: 1) disguised himself/eve wasn’t disturbed2) Questioned God’s word: Did God REALLY say EVERY tree? Satan adds to and takes away from God’s word/she started to talk like Satan /God/added touch/ 3) Denied God’s word, you WONT die Substitute You will be LIKE GOD

Part Two of our Conversation with Johnny Scott.

We Sit Down with the Legendary Johnny Scott to hears some of his crazy stories from back in the day.

This is your time is a new series at Generations Christian Church during our weekend teaching times. We will be looking into God's word to see keys that help us seize the opportunity that is currently in front of us. What are the things we have to know and live? In this series opener we find the first important step on the journey.

Many people can quote John 3:16 but few can tell you the story of what's happening when this one important quote from Jesus happens! He was talking late at night with one guy from the ruling Jewish leader council. Take a deeper dive into the broader context of what Jesus was saying and how it was being understood (misunderstood)!This is your time to DIVE DEEPER!

There are two major things in this “Title” to Marks Gospel.First Thing: Jesus is the ONLY good news. He is the Ultimate Good News. Mark is telling all of Rome, a conquering nation like none the world has seen before, that he has found some good news that makes all of their attempts at good news look like child’s play.The Second Thing: Jesus, unlike all the conquering generals of the day and emperors who claimed to be ‘divine’ REALLY is the SON of God. Mark will quickly go about proving these bold statements.Technically, these are very dangerous things to say. They were politically dangerous in Mark’s time and have things really changed in our time? Socially politically danger is something we know more about than real life-threatening persecution. Regardless, anything we hold above Christ, our life or social standing, can become an idol.So again, I would ask the important question, “have we tamed Jesus?” The best antidote or medicine is to survey who Jesus is REALLY and compare that reality of who Christ is with our made-up versions.If we are looking at the Gospel this week; and I do want to be a voice that warns you to have your filter up out there, people are painting pictures of Jesus. Are they true? Real? We looked at some things that Jesus did, or pictures of Jesus, in a rant this weekend on stage. What are some other BOLD things that Jesus would say?I want to point you to some BOLD Statements from Jesus.Here are 7 I am statements that Jesus gives us to help us truly know who He is and what He is REALLY LIKE!Take some time this week to read the stories around how Jesus describes Himself, His agenda, what He offers and how He really intends to treat you if you follow Him.Deeper Dive Reading List:I am the Bread of Life John 6:35I am the Light of the World John 8:12I am the Door of the Sheep. John 10:7I am the Good Shepherd John 10:11I am the Resurrection and the Life John 11:25I am the Way, Truth, and The Life. John 14:6I am the Vine John 15:5

There are two major things in this “Title” to Marks Gospel.First Thing: Jesus is the ONLY good news. He is the Ultimate Good News. Mark is telling all of Rome, a conquering nation like none the world has seen before, that he has found some good news that makes all of their attempts at good news look like child’s play.The Second Thing: Jesus, unlike all the conquering generals of the day and emperors who claimed to be ‘divine’ REALLY is the SON of God. Mark will quickly go about proving these bold statements.Technically, these are very dangerous things to say. They were politically dangerous in Mark’s time and have things really changed in our time? Socially politically danger is something we know more about than real life-threatening persecution. Regardless, anything we hold above Christ, our life or social standing, can become an idol.So again, I would ask the important question, “have we tamed Jesus?” The best antidote or medicine is to survey who Jesus is REALLY and compare that reality of who Christ is with our made-up versions.If we are looking at the Gospel this week; and I do want to be a voice that warns you to have your filter up out there, people are painting pictures of Jesus. Are they true? Real? We looked at some things that Jesus did, or pictures of Jesus, in a rant this weekend on stage. What are some other BOLD things that Jesus would say?I want to point you to some BOLD Statements from Jesus.Here are 7 I am statements that Jesus gives us to help us truly know who He is and what He is REALLY LIKE!Take some time this week to read the stories around how Jesus describes Himself, His agenda, what He offers and how He really intends to treat you if you follow Him.Deeper Dive Reading List:I am the Bread of Life John 6:35I am the Light of the World John 8:12I am the Door of the Sheep. John 10:7I am the Good Shepherd John 10:11I am the Resurrection and the Life John 11:25I am the Way, Truth, and The Life. John 14:6I am the Vine John 15:5

Deeper DiveThe idea of "The Good Life" was unfathomable in the truest sense of the word. Most people couldn't think of (fathom) what The Good Life would even look like. The reality of the Kingdom that Jesus was ushering in was a truth they were not ready for. We all had to see it play out. For most, of the first who heard of The Good Life He offered, life wasn’t good. It just wasn’t. They were under oppressive rulers. They had no bright future. Hopelessness. That may even be true for you. This Is Your Time. Jesus came promising the good life. It was a sight to take in no doubt. The tumultuous social barriers He was destroying brought the crowds no doubt. He said the most awkward things to the people in charge. The important people who ran the religion of the day pretty much had to take it on the chin as Jesus tore down their fake towers of outward perfection. There is no greater moment of table turning than Matthew 5:20. Jesus came promising a new and better kind of life. Many people had given up on eternal life. How could they compete? The harshest things Jesus ever said were to a specific group of people that are mentioned in this Core 52 Text today. There are six things that Jesus goes on to in chapter 5 to discuss in a deeper way. This is all a part of Jesus telling people what the Kingdom of Heaven is like and how they need to react and respond to participate in the kingdom of Heaven. It’s clear that Jesus isn’t changing the law, he is in fact helping people understand the that laws in the Old Testament express the will of God. God’s will never changes and Jesus is the living proof of ‘how to live the law perfectly’. Jesus lets us know right away that obedience to the law starts on the inside first. Our hearts matter. The topics that Jesus covers are: Anger, Lust, Divorce, Oaths, Retaliation, and Loving Enemies. As we look at The Good Life we will pull a few more texts in that help us truly find a way to The Good Life the way God intends. Here are the Deeper Dive Verses to Look at this week:Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desiresPsalm 40:8 I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”Proverbs 21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart-- the unplowed field of the wicked--produce sin.Romans 10:4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.Romans 8:3-5 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Matthew 18:3-4 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.Now Look these up yourself:Judges 15-16Luke Link to Barna Research from weekend sermon:https://www.barna.com/research/christ...Read Core 52 Text Chapter 19

Deeper DiveMy Father-In-Law recently led his small group through a long book study of what Heaven is REALLY like. Over the past couple of years Dad and I have had many conversations from Ezekiel, Isaiah and John’s Revelation of Heaven on the Island of Patmos. It’s crazy how accurate of a view we really have. It seems like God wants us to have a clear goal, view and idea of just how awesome Heaven is going to be. The boos is called “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn!The enemy is going to try and get our eyes off the thing we are running towards. The enemy will try to get us to chase other things and forget about the prize that Jesus has called us to concentrate on. We have to ask ourselves: What are we waiting on REALLY? Chances are that some other ‘lesser’ thing has been put in front of us to strive for.Since our Perception of Heaven Matters so greatly we need to do some work to tune up our knowledge of what Heaven will really be like!These two steps will help us keep the goal of Heaven as our true anchor in life.Extended Deeper Dive Reading this week:Read all of John's Revelation"Heaven" By Randy AlcornDeeper Dive Memory Work:Galatians 6:8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.Philippians 3:13-14 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.1 Peter 1:3-6 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.

Deeper DiveThe Teaching series we are in is "These Things I Leave You: Prayer"So if we are looking at the Son of God teaching us how to pray in the New Testament this week I think it would be a good idea to look at two of the most famous prayers recited during the times of Christ. What tradition was Jesus adding to? What had people prayed most commonly before?Weekly Reading/Memory WorkNumbers 6:24-26“‘“The Lord bless you and keep you;25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;26 the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.Romans 8:26-27 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.Other Comments from Christ on Prayer for reflections this week:Matthew 7:7-11; 9:38; 117:20-21; 18:19-20; 21:21-22; 26:41Luke 18:1,7John 14:13-14; 15:7,16; 16:23-24Links to things mentioned in the message:News Week Article by David Garrison I referenced at beginning of this week’s sermonhttps://www.newsweek.com/christianity...30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World Prayer Guide (Mentioned in Opening Illustration this week)https://www.30daysprayer.com/resource...Recommended Book on Prayer: Beth Moore Praying God’s Word

Deeper Dive Communion: Jesus is a Foodie. Ever go to a nice place with someone and they order chicken strips? I’m not talking about McDonalds but more like a nice steak or seafood place I always ask them if they want crayons for their placemat (IN JOKING!!) There is something to be said for a refined pallet. The ministry of Jesus is all about Food. Have you ever had a meal with someone when there was conflict? Doesn’t go well. You just aren’t hungry right? Ever had a meal with dear friends and you stay forever, people are putting up chairs and the laughing doesn’t stop, the sharing. Jesus ate all the way through his ministry. There is actually a book about it. Eats with Sinners by Arron ChambersReaching Hungry People Like Jesus DidThink of His life and ministry for a minute: Jesus: first miracle at a celebration.Jesus goes to Zacchaeus houseJesus feeds 5,000Jesus (God meats with mosses and sets the entire Jesus makes our bodies to NEED food. We are wrapped around food. Spiritually. Physically, emotionally, There is a book about the beginning of Israel as a people and how all their connection to God is wrapped up in banquets.The Feasts of the Lord Howard RosenthanlDeeper Dive Weekly Bible Reading PlanExodus 12-13Matthew 26:26-28Luke 22:14-201 Corinthians 11:24-25Extended Reading:The Feasts of the Lord Howard RosenthanlEats with Sinners by Arron ChambersReaching Hungry People Like Jesus DidPoint of ReferenceI mentioned two other books this weekend in the messages. One was a church leadership book I am reading this week called “Canoeing in the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger from Fuller Theological Seminary in CA.: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. I also mentioned another book that shaped my ideology on worship services over twenty years ago when much of North America was involved in the ‘worship relevancy wars’ that shaped many of our churches in the Restoration Movement today.Sally Morganthaler -‘Worship Evangelism”Weekly ChallengeHave a communion meal this week with some fellow believers and intentionally talk about Jesus the whole meal. Practice remembering Him during your meal. Talk about his ministry on earth in the gospels. Then talk about what He is doing now. Give everyone a chance to testify to what God is doing in their life RIGHT NOW. This embodies the idea of 1 Corinthians 11:26 more than anything! Every person around the table, lifting up a cup and “proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Deeper Dive. - Jesus is a Foodie. Ever go to a nice place with someone and they order chicken strips? I’m not talking about McDonalds but more like a nice steak or seafood place I always ask them if they want crayons for their placemat (IN JOKING!!) There is something to be said for a refined pallet. The ministry of Jesus is all about Food. Have you ever had a meal with someone when there was conflict? Doesn’t go well. You just aren’t hungry right? Ever had a meal with dear friends and you stay forever, people are putting up chairs and the laughing doesn’t stop, the sharing. Jesus ate all the way through his ministry. There is actually a book about it. Eats with Sinners by Arron ChambersReaching Hungry People Like Jesus DidThink of His life and ministry for a minute: Jesus: first miracle at a celebration.Jesus goes to Zacchaeus houseJesus feeds 5,000Jesus (God meats with mosses and sets the entire Jesus makes our bodies to NEED food. We are wrapped around food. Spiritually. Physically, emotionally, There is a book about the beginning of Israel as a people and how all their connection to God is wrapped up in banquets.The Feasts of the Lord Howard RosenthanlDeeper Dive Weekly Bible Reading PlanExodus 12-13Matthew 26:26-28Luke 22:14-201 Corinthians 11:24-25 Extended Reading:The Feasts of the Lord Howard RosenthanlEats with Sinners by Arron ChambersReaching Hungry People Like Jesus DidPoint of ReferenceI mentioned two other books this weekend in the messages. One was a church leadership book I am reading this week called “Canoeing in the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger from Fuller Theological Seminary in CA.: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. I also mentioned another book that shaped my ideology on worship services over twenty years ago when much of North America was involved in the ‘worship relevancy wars’ that shaped many of our churches in the Restoration Movement today.Sally Morganthaler -‘Worship Evangelism” Weekly ChallengeHave a communion meal this week with some fellow believers and intentionally talk about Jesus the whole meal. Practice remembering Him during your meal. Talk about his ministry on earth in the gospels. Then talk about what He is doing now. Give everyone a chance to testify to what God is doing in their life RIGHT NOW. This embodies the idea of 1 Corinthians 11:26 more than anything! Every person around the table, lifting up a cup and “proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Deeper DiveThe Teaching series we are in is "These Things I Leave You: Prayer"So if we are looking at the Son of God teaching us how to pray in the New Testament this week I think it would be a good idea to look at two of the most famous prayers recited during the times of Christ. What tradition was Jesus adding to? What had people prayed most commonly before?Weekly Reading/Memory WorkNumbers 6:24-26“‘“The Lord bless you and keep you;25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;26 the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.Romans 8:26-27 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.Other Comments from Christ on Prayer for reflections this week:Matthew 7:7-11; 9:38; 117:20-21; 18:19-20; 21:21-22; 26:41Luke 18:1,7John 14:13-14; 15:7,16; 16:23-24Links to things mentioned in the message:News Week Article by David Garrison I referenced at beginning of this week’s sermonhttps://www.newsweek.com/christianity...30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World Prayer Guide (Mentioned in Opening Illustration this week)https://www.30daysprayer.com/resource...Recommended Book on Prayer: Beth Moore Praying God’s Word

Our audiobook this week is FIND HER by New York Times Bestselling Author Tessa Bailey! Narrated by Stephanie Rose & CJ Mission When Hope scores front row tickets to see her favorite band, she never expects the lead singer, Johnny Scott, to stop singing halfway through his first song and ask for her name. And she definitely never expects him to request her presence backstage after the show. Johnny has forgotten why he loves music. Thankfully the rock gods have sent him a beautiful muse who breathes new life into his world with one word, one touch. He’s never met anyone like Hope and he’s not letting her go. But when Johnny wakes up alone after the best night of his life, he has no idea how to find a missing Hope. Did he dream her? His heart refuses to believe it and he’ll tear the town apart to prove she—and their love—is real. FIX HER UP by Tessa Bailey: Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2yTFj18 Paperback: https://amzn.to/2E7Oqzi Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2Rz601V Amazon CA: https://amzn.to/2JHefG B&N: https://bit.ly/2Dn9G3F iTunes: https://apple.co/2SJgTzw Kobo: https://bit.ly/2qw64DW Sephora gift card + Box of Signed Books Giveaway!!: http://readmeromance.com/books/findhertb/ His Risk to Take (99 cents): https://amzn.to/2MXuYui The Major’s Welcome Home (free!): https://amzn.to/2IS2DAz Disturbing His Peace (Kindle Unlimited!): https://amzn.to/2N0tyiO Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker: https://amzn.to/31GqImn Pretty Human by Ruby Dixon: https://amzn.to/2ZxXcxi Follow Read Me Romance on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/readmeromance/?hl=en Join Read Me Romance Headquarters on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1681258945313004/ Find Alexa Riley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authoralexariley/ Find Tessa Bailey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessabaileyisanauthor/ Podcast Credits Read Me Romance Theme Song by L.B. Ballard https://m.facebook.com/lbballardmusic/ Podcast Production by Lola

The topic of this week’s message is as Deep as our God Himself is. It really is a study on who He is and How we works. So this week’s Deeper Dive is super full and reminds me of the largest captivating rabbit hole of all time. If you choose to jump in and follow the path of studying how the Spirit of God equips you personally you will find riches and depth unspeakable! This weeks Reading:Matthew 25:14-30This passage will put a story to help us understand the accountability around the gifts we have been given. We can choose to bury them or invest them. Only invested talents become true spiritual gifts.John 17:20-23Imagine Jesus praying for you in the most personal way. This is a great example of His earnestness for you to understand your place in this world. He actually prays for you to be able to experience unity now in your reality. We were on His mind. See it for yourself.3 places that Paul lists our spiritual gifts:• Romans 12:6-8• 1 Corinthians 12:4-10,28• Ephesians 4:11The Compiled List of 16 gifts referred to:Teaching; Ministering; Administration; Evangelist; Pastor; Exhortation; Giving; Mercy; Faith; Discerning; Spirits; Apostle; Prophecy; Miracles; Healing; Tongues; Interpretation of TonguesRecommended Spiritual Gifts Assessments Tests:https://gifts.churchgrowth.org/servehttps://gifts.churchgrowth.org/spiritual-gifts-survey/

Mickey Pittman is the Executive Pastor of Discipleship at GCC! Mick and Kat have a heart for mentoring and everything that Jesus said when we were commanded to 'go into all the world'. This is why we are all excited about the mission of GCC- 'Connecting People To Christ'. Get to know Mickey and learn more about how This is your time!

Jeff Walling has been a big blessing to GCC! As a special guest speaker and constant encourager we are always happy to have a weekend with Jeff. Jeff has invited all of us to a few events and programs at Pepperdine University and we wanted to drop those links in here.

Ryan has a big announcement in his video and a new chapter with lots of work to do! Hear Ryan's heart for connecting people to Christ. This episode of Pastor in a cart getting coffee will help you see how this is your time to worship, serve and grow.

Seth Ulrich Special guest in this Episode of Pastor In A Cart Getting Coffee talking about his ministry journey and staff life at GCC. Learn more about Seth and how you can help him! This is Your time to connect!

Tm Foot is a worship leader's LEADER, Church coach and all around nice bloke . . . I think it's okay to say that? Tim is a unique blend of encouraging coach and insightful guru for the church leader. Tim has been around GCC before my time as Sr. Pastor as a consultant and continues to make trips to Tampa from Colorado to sit in and stay out late. Tim works for the Slingshot Group which is a church leader placement group. Check them out! He is hosting a brand new show called, "We put people in their place". It is brilliant!!!! https://slingshotgroup.org/slingshotplaced/ If you are a church leader you are going to want to subscribe. I just did!https://slingshotgroup.org

Special guest Justyn Smith talks in this episode about next generation ministry and his road to the GCC team! Justyn has had lots of experience in leading effective and impactful ministries all over the country. Author of "If Disney ran your children's ministry". Get to know Justyn more and find out how you can connect to service, growing and serving in this episode of Pastor In A Cart Getting Coffee.

Patrick guest rides on this episode of Pastor In A Cart Getting Coffee and we talk Sports at GCC!

Charles is a special guest worship leader often at GCC and we LOVE him and his ministry! Get to know him better and support his great ministry.Insta: https://www.instagram.com/charleskingofficial/

Mark Moore is the Special guest in this episode of Pastor in a cart getting coffee. Mark has been a guest speaker at GCC and the author of our 2019 Sermon Series "Core 52" which is available in devotional book form now on amazon. Mark has a heart for the church and pastors and has been a big blessing here at GCC.

Ben Ford Special Guest on Pastor In A Cart Getting Coffee with Johnny Scott. We talk Notre Dame Football and farm living in Indiana.

Nima Nasser hails from O town. Nima has a back ground at Disney where he got the nick name Nemo. Now he goes by Nemo or Nima. I think you can decide. We talk family life, student ministry, growing up FL style and his abnormal path to ministry at GCC.

Our audiobook this week is FIND HER by New York Times Bestselling Author Tessa Bailey! Narrated by Stephanie Rose & CJ Mission When Hope scores front row tickets to see her favorite band, she never expects the lead singer, Johnny Scott, to stop singing halfway through his first song and ask for her name. And she definitely never expects him to request her presence backstage after the show. Johnny has forgotten why he loves music. Thankfully the rock gods have sent him a beautiful muse who breathes new life into his world with one word, one touch. He’s never met anyone like Hope and he’s not letting her go. But when Johnny wakes up alone after the best night of his life, he has no idea how to find a missing Hope. Did he dream her? His heart refuses to believe it and he’ll tear the town apart to prove she—and their love—is real. FIX HER UP by Tessa Bailey: Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2yTFj18 Paperback: https://amzn.to/2E7Oqzi Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2Rz601V Amazon CA: https://amzn.to/2JHefG B&N: https://bit.ly/2Dn9G3F iTunes: https://apple.co/2SJgTzw Kobo: https://bit.ly/2qw64DW Sephora gift card + Box of Signed Books Giveaway!!: http://readmeromance.com/books/findhertb/ His Risk to Take (99 cents): https://amzn.to/2MXuYui The Major’s Welcome Home (free!): https://amzn.to/2IS2DAz Disturbing His Peace (Kindle Unlimited!): https://amzn.to/2N0tyiO Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker: https://amzn.to/31GqImn Pretty Human by Ruby Dixon: https://amzn.to/2ZxXcxi Follow Read Me Romance on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/readmeromance/?hl=en Join Read Me Romance Headquarters on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1681258945313004/ Find Alexa Riley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authoralexariley/ Find Tessa Bailey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessabaileyisanauthor/ Podcast CreditsRead Me Romance Theme Song by L.B. Ballard https://m.facebook.com/lbballardmusic/Podcast Production by Lola

Chef Johnny Scott loves to teach young people the importance of developing workforce skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, and overcoming the shame of their past. Johnny honed his cooking skills working by his mother’s side in the kitchen; preparing food for fellow inmates in jail; and while touring the globe with his Air Force wife. In addition to running his Mission Kitchen catering business, Johnny can be found helping at-risk youth at the DC Juvenile Detention Center, The DC Dream Center, and The Boys Probation House in Fairfax County, as well as teaching healthy cooking classes at the USO Warrior and Family Center at Fort Belvoir. Join us as Johnny shares highlights and lessons learned from a life serving delicious food to others.

The heroes are looking into the old supers that are springing up and talking nonsense.  Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer)  Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

Teeth portal in the sewer? Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer)  Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

Prison riot at the prison! Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer)  Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

Happy holidays from the baddest hombres you ever done met! The villains celebrate the season with some big Christmas prizes! Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Silicon Artist (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

There are some guests, and some progress in the investigation. Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

Generation Justice is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Teens are Chance (Mathew - @MatthewMMorris), Fiona (Maddie - @PunslingerMaddy), and Death Boy (Marc @Laughwithmarc)  Made possible from support from:  Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

The group is free from the grip of Jackson King and her stooge, Twisted Arrow. But now they have to get out of the trouble they find themself in down in the jungle  Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Silicon Artist (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

Clarity Belle is an audio drama taking place in the SHU universe.    Narrator – Eddie Fisher @The_Next_LVL Clarity Belle – Paige Lavoie @MrsPaigeLavoie  Kira – Ali @Aluminum_Iodide Megagauss – Maddie @PunslingerMaddy Albedo – Matthew Morris @Matthewmmorris Adrenaline – Alex Cater @Happypuke Static – Lorelai Iron justice - Johnny Scott @SolventBubbles Robattler - Cody @codedude3 Doctor – Shannon Cater @_puppyfish News Caster - Teddy Yudain @tsyclops Reporter - Liam Webster   Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Matthew, Tony, Dale, Nicole, and Jack

The crew is giving the community something to celebrate.  Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

The group tries to come up with a name for Stephen. Raggie is not really helping much.  Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Silicon Artist (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

Gemeration Justice is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Teens are Chance (Mathew - @MatthewMMorris), Fiona (Maddie - @PunslingerMaddy), and Death Boy (Marc @Laughwithmarc)  Made possible from support from: Cody, Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

WIth two heroes in the shadow world, and a magical mystery man on the lose, what will the crew do? Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

It's spooktober and Robo's spook program has kicked in.  Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Silicon Artist (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

Query investigates, and Obscurity is making friends. Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

The crew tries t rob the New Paragons. Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

Riot grrl returns to  . . .well, riot. Amberville heroes is a FATE based real play podcast. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley, Maddie, Mathew, Tony, Dale

Seems like the crew is going to work things out.  Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)  Made possible with support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

Magic is complicated and the gang needs help. If they can find anyone that will return a phone call.  This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley

There is a shake up in the crew. Or two. Or five. Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)  Made possible with support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ash

The hoods have come to take Gravity girl away. But that wont happen without a fight. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashley

Future Knox wants what she came for, but present Knox is not so keen on giving up what is his. And if he can't have it, no one can. Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)  Made possible with support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashl

Wolf Cop is the new force in town, and she ain't taking no guff! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashle

Its time to start doing the time, for doing the crime. And that means working off their debt. Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)   Made possible with support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

Maximus Man has been slain, and the world of heroes is stunned. It't time to morn. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashle

Who is Jackson King and what does she want? Will our favorite evil doers be able to get out of the clink? Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)   Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

The crew is out to help a farmer on a little problem. No big deals. This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

Iron Justice has come to stop the group after the death of Maximus Man. Iron Justice? Pffft. What can he do? Seems like a pushover.  Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)   Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

The Evangelist sends some of his followers to stop the heroes. Who are they, and what tricks do they have up their sleeves? This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will Merritt, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

The crew has found Maxamus man! Now what? Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)   Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Will Merritt, Brett Lairscey, Ashleh

Oh snap! Splinter and Blister are causing trouble.  Amberville Heroes is a real play FATE powered superhero podcast. Comic books for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Marc Thomas, Will Merritt, Brett Lairscey

After all that work and research the gang finally knows the perfect way to get at Maxamus man! Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide)   Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Marc Thomas, Will Merritt, Brett Lairscey

The group needs help, so they call in everyone they can think of! Sorry for the potato quality of this weeks episode. Next one sounds way better.  Amberville Heroes is a real play FATE powered superhero podcast. Comic books for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Heroes are Obscurity (Shannon - @_puppyfish), Grav-Gal (James - @darthmoblo), Quiry (Jake - @jaehighfive) and Wayfair (Sofie - @wendigogodancer) Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Marc Thomas, Will Merritt, Brett Lairscey

The gang explore the world under the ocean. They have a whale of a time! Villain Underground is a real play super powered FATE podcast. Super Villain comics for your ears! This game's mustard is Alex (@happypuke), and Villians are Knox (Cody - @codedude3), Golden Arrow (Phil - @canada_phillip), Robonobo (Will - @rollwill_), and Deadeye (Ali - @aluminum_Iodide). Follow SHU on SHU @SHUPodcast.   Made possible from support from: Johnny Scott, Philip Canada, Marc Thomas, Will Merritt, Brett Lairscey

Time to catch up with some of our favourite new releases and reissues of recent weeks, dear listener. We have the new single from Swedish exoticists Joe Davolaz (featuring vocals from Kumisolo), a track from former Auteurs front man Luke … Continue reading →

Kurt and Jake talk big events with Johnny Scott, Program Director with CIY (Christ in Youth). Want to join in the conversation? Follow Kurt or Jake on Twitter to see when the next LIVE Show is (Friday’s at 12:00 EST/9:00 PST.) You can head over here to watch it LIVE. Have a question or two you want to ask?? Send in your questions to symshow@gmail.com See you soon.

Kurt and Jake talk big events with Johnny Scott, Program Director with CIY (Christ in Youth). Want to join in the conversation? Follow Kurt or Jake on Twitter to see when the next LIVE Show is (Friday’s at 12:00 EST/9:00 PST.) You can head over here to watch it LIVE. Have a question or two you want to ask?? Send in your questions to symshow@gmail.com See you soon.

Sometimes in Youth Ministry… things don’t go according to plan. In this episode (Episode 16) – we saw this first hand. Originally, the plan was to have Johnny Scott, from CIY, join us. Unfortunately, technology wasn’t our friend, and so – on the fly – we changed things up. We asked our LIVE audience to send in their questions – and they did. Kurt shared about his recent vacation and shared some valuable examples of important it is to ‘disconnect’ at times. This led into a great discussion (between Jake and Kurt as well as in the LIVE chat) about answering the question “What does it take to shut off your Youth Pastor mind.” We discovered that there are almost two answers to this question. 1. Can you/should you really turn off your ‘youth pastor’ mind. 2. Do you ever want to? Another discovery that he experienced while on vacation was asking the question “What things are there in Youth Ministry that we shouldn’t let people see ‘behind the curtain.’” There was more talk and excitement for the upcoming Simply Youth Ministry Conference. In this discussion, there was sharing of their favorite Conference moments, resources that they use and who would win in a match; Rambo, The Terminator, Andy Brazelton or Kami Gilmour. You’ll have to watch to see who they think would win. Want to join in the conversation? Follow Kurt or Jake on Twitter to see when the next LIVE Show is (Friday’s at 12:00 EST/9:00 PST.) You can head over here to watch it LIVE. Have a question or two you want to ask?? Send in your questions to symshow@gmail.com See you soon..

Sometimes in Youth Ministry… things don’t go according to plan. In this episode (Episode 16) – we saw this first hand. Originally, the plan was to have Johnny Scott, from CIY, join us. Unfortunately, technology wasn’t our friend, and so – on the fly – we changed things up. We asked our LIVE audience to send in their questions – and they did. Kurt shared about his recent vacation and shared some valuable examples of important it is to ‘disconnect’ at times. This led into a great discussion (between Jake and Kurt as well as in the LIVE chat) about answering the question “What does it take to shut off your Youth Pastor mind.” We discovered that there are almost two answers to this question. 1. Can you/should you really turn off your ‘youth pastor’ mind. 2. Do you ever want to? Another discovery that he experienced while on vacation was asking the question “What things are there in Youth Ministry that we shouldn’t let people see ‘behind the curtain.’” There was more talk and excitement for the upcoming Simply Youth Ministry Conference. In this discussion, there was sharing of their favorite Conference moments, resources that they use and who would win in a match; Rambo, The Terminator, Andy Brazelton or Kami Gilmour. You’ll have to watch to see who they think would win. Want to join in the conversation? Follow Kurt or Jake on Twitter to see when the next LIVE Show is (Friday’s at 12:00 EST/9:00 PST.) You can head over here to watch it LIVE. Have a question or two you want to ask?? Send in your questions to symshow@gmail.com See you soon..