Podcast appearances and mentions of Joseph Solomon

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week's conversation comes in two parts. Like it's geographical spread, northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere, think of this two part discussion as a way of engaging both hemispheres of your brain--the creative and the analytic. My guest is fellow Stanford alum and founder of The Jazz & Democracy Project® (J&D) (https://www.jazzdemocracy.com), Wesley “Dr. Wes” J. Watkins. After several years working in the education sector, Dr. Wes launched the program in November 2009 at Rosa Parks Elementary School, located in San Francisco's historic Fillmore District. J&D is a music integrated curriculum that utilizes jazz as a metaphor to bring democracy to life, enrich the study and teaching of history, government, civics and culture, and inspire youth to become active, positive contributors to their communities. He first proposed the curriculum as part of his undergraduate honors program at Stanford's School of Education and later conducted research for his undergraduate honors thesis at Oxford University where he engaged and learned from music educators at both local elementary schools and world renowned secondary institutions. Now based in Sydney, Australia, J&D has traveled to countries all over the world and, in these times of global social transition, Dr. Wes anticipates continued opportunities to feature and further innovate using tools that will leave lasting impact on the ways that youth and educators approach building and living in their communities and beyond. Where to find Wesley? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleywatkins/) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/JazzDemocracy) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jazzdemocracy/) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@JazzDemocracy) Who's Wesley listening to? Joseph Solomon (https://www.youtube.com/@whatisjoedoing) Other topics of interest: Activist Oakland, CA (https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-history-of-resistance-to-racism) Northern Beaches, Sydney Lifestyle (https://content.knightfrank.com/research/2789/documents/en/northern-beaches-lifestyle-guide-2024-10795.pdf) United States Studies Center (https://www.ussc.edu.au/about/mission-and-history) Crikey! or Kriky! (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/crikey#google_vignette) Flat White vs Latte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_white) Geechi Taylor (https://www.geechitaylor.com/#!/HOME) Find Rachelle Farrell, Meshell N'Degeocello, on J&D (https://www.jazzdemocracy.com/interviews.html) Ledisi (https://www.ledisi.com) Christian McBride (https://www.christianmcbride.com) Betty Carter + Ray Charles (https://youtu.be/1IM3weosOTY?si=PXNlcx1a5UetHPAN) Episode 47 featuring Wynton Marsalis (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/wynton-marsalis) Jazz for Young People @ Lincoln Center (https://jazz.org/education/school-programs/jazz-for-young-people/) Check out the Chris Botti SF Show (https://youtu.be/j9cNsLPXWnA?si=rmoX7ljb9EO4a1y5) About Robert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McFerrin), Bobby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin) and Madison (https://www.madisonmcferrin.com) McFerrin Special Guest: Wesley J. Watkins.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week's conversation comes in two parts. Like it's geographical spread, northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere, think of this two part discussion as a way of engaging both hemispheres of your brain--the creative and the analytic. My guest is fellow Stanford alum and founder of The Jazz & Democracy Project® (J&D) (https://www.jazzdemocracy.com), Wesley “Dr. Wes” J. Watkins. After several years working in the education sector, Dr. Wes launched the program in November 2009 at Rosa Parks Elementary School, located in San Francisco's historic Fillmore District. J&D is a music integrated curriculum that utilizes jazz as a metaphor to bring democracy to life, enrich the study and teaching of history, government, civics and culture, and inspire youth to become active, positive contributors to their communities. He first proposed the curriculum as part of his undergraduate honors program at Stanford's School of Education and later conducted research for his undergraduate honors thesis at Oxford University where he engaged and learned from music educators at both local elementary schools and world renowned secondary institutions. Now based in Sydney, Australia, J&D has traveled to countries all over the world and, in these times of global social transition, Dr. Wes anticipates continued opportunities to feature and further innovate using tools that will leave lasting impact on the ways that youth and educators approach building and living in their communities and beyond. Where to find Wesley? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleywatkins/) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/JazzDemocracy) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jazzdemocracy/) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@JazzDemocracy) Who's Wesley listening to? Joseph Solomon (https://www.youtube.com/@whatisjoedoing) Other topics of interest: Activist Oakland, CA (https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-history-of-resistance-to-racism) Northern Beaches, Sydney Lifestyle (https://content.knightfrank.com/research/2789/documents/en/northern-beaches-lifestyle-guide-2024-10795.pdf) United States Studies Center (https://www.ussc.edu.au/about/mission-and-history) Crikey! or Kriky! (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/crikey#google_vignette) Flat White vs Latte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_white) Geechi Taylor (https://www.geechitaylor.com/#!/HOME) Find Rachelle Farrell, Meshell N'Degeocello, on J&D (https://www.jazzdemocracy.com/interviews.html) Ledisi (https://www.ledisi.com) Christian McBride (https://www.christianmcbride.com) Betty Carter + Ray Charles (https://youtu.be/1IM3weosOTY?si=PXNlcx1a5UetHPAN) Episode 47 featuring Wynton Marsalis (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/wynton-marsalis) Jazz for Young People @ Lincoln Center (https://jazz.org/education/school-programs/jazz-for-young-people/) Check out the Chris Botti SF Show (https://youtu.be/j9cNsLPXWnA?si=rmoX7ljb9EO4a1y5) About Robert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McFerrin), Bobby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin) and Madison (https://www.madisonmcferrin.com) McFerrin Special Guest: Wesley J. Watkins.

Programa #636 - Plan de Inmersiones 00,05'24” — Especial dedicado a la memoria de Juan Ivars Perelló, con la participación de Juan Torras (Presidente de HDSES), Antonio Badías (Teniente de Navío RA), Julio Mas (Dr Biología Marina) y José Angel Sanz (Director de Océano Alfa). 00,37'38” — Buceo Racional, espacio dedicado a la reflexión y el análisis al por menor, de la actividad del buceo, presentado y dirigido por José Coronel “Gualdrapa”. 00,58'25” — Los libros de ROBINSON, una sección dedicada a las lecturas que nos devuelven al mar, desde el océano de tinta y los barcos de papel de la Librería Náutica ROBINSON, dirigido por Juan Melgar. 01,18'33” — Buceo con Ciencia, la sección divulgativa de Posidonia Ecosports, el buceo con biólogos, que nos presenta la Dra. en Biología Marina, Mercedes Varela. Con una nueva entrega, en honor a Juan Ivars, de Una Historia en el Fondo del Mar, extraída de su libro “Historia del Buceo, su desarrollo en España, el repasito a los viejos programas ya emitidos y la agenda de propuestas para tu tiempo en superficie, hasta una nueva inmersión en las ondas, nos daremos, una semana más por buceados. La foto de la semana es una doble exposición en un sentido homenaje a la memoria del Maestro del Buceo, Juan Ivars Perelló, Alférez de Navío (R), en una imagen alusiva a su formación como buzo clásico, en la que aparece también, Antonio Badías, Teniente de Navío (RA), en una demostración de la HDSES. Cortesía de su autor, Xavier Safont. ¿Listos para saltar al agua? Repaso del equipo propio y del compañero, un Ok y al fondo. Sonaron en este programa: 00,00'09” — David Arkenston - Papillon - Sintonía 00,05'24” — Nine Inch Nails & Health - Isn't Everyone 00,37'38” — The New Raemon & McEnroe - Malasombra 00,58'25” — Alondra Bentley - La corriente 01,18'33” — Alex North - 2001 A Space Odyssey Theme song 01,37'50” — Avalon Jazz Band - La Mer (Beyond the Sea) 01,39'00” — New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta - Ravel- Tzigane, M. 76 01,50'18” — Joseph Solomon - godspeed 01,54'28” — Xeno & Oaklander - Magic of the Manifold 02,58'07” — Hay Peores - Bajo El Mar (Cover de Under The Sea de La Sirenita) Sintonía

Joseph Solomon, was previously known as a Christian artist and influencer. He has expressed that he's recently burly found himself in a place where he doesn't identify as a Christian. Ezekiel spends time to discuss with Joseph about their relationship, where he is and how he feels about certain important issues surrounding faith and life.

Welcome to an exciting episode of our podcast series! In this edition, we explore a mix of captivating topics and sounds that will grab your attention and spark your interest. From Durand Bernarr's soulful melodies to Joseph Solomon's heartfelt reflections, get ready to be moved by the power of music as we uncover the depth of human emotion and experience. But wait, there's more! We'll also dive into engaging discussions on spirituality, wellness, and self-discovery, featuring insights from experts and thought leaders. So grab a seat, get comfortable, and join us on a journey of exploration and inspiration. It's time to open your mind and discover new perspectives. Welcome to an unforgettable episode of our podcast! Now playing on iheartradio and all major platforms!!! #ExcitingPodcast #CaptivatingContent #SoulfulMelodies #HeartfeltReflections #PowerOfMusic #EngagingDiscussions #SpiritualityJourney #WellnessInspiration #SelfDiscovery #OpenYourMind

Howie welcomes Methuen City Councilor D. J. Beauregard to the show to discuss the indictment against former police chief Joseph Solomon. Allegedly, Solomon was involved in shady activities, and he's now being charged with fraud and corruption. Then, Dark Brandon is back. He was supposed to be giving remarks about John McCain...and then...

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     This week three films about evil within ourselves, others, buildings, and lack of capitalist society's demanded productivity.     Anton has a serious lack of motivation. All he does is sit at home, smoke the devil's weed with his friends Mick and Pnub, and fantasize about Molly, the literal girl next door. But, as they say, idle hands are the devil's playground and soon a killing spree rocks his sleepy town. Will Anton be able to save the day, get the girl, and not be arrested for truancy at the Halloween Dance? Obvs. The most late 90s of late 90s teen comedies... Idle Hands.     Mima is trying to make a career move from j-pop idol group member to serious full-time actress. Soon Mima learns what that move will cost. An enraged fan stalks her, someone else is writing detailed posts about her daily life and private thoughts, the production company demands a taxing and traumatic filming experience, and without her old support system she beings to fell excessive amounts of impostor syndrome. Can Mima find herself or is she just a thing to be replaced? Satoshi Kon's directorial debut, Perfect Blue.     Still grieving, Sophia rents a house in the middle of nowhere. There she convinces an alcoholic occultist, Joseph Solomon, to spend months leading her through a trying ritual to summon her guardian angel to ask for a favor- contacting her deceased child. Does Sophia have the wherewithal to endure this test of physical and spiritual fortitude? Can Joseph hold himself together long enough to see her through? A Dark Song.     Poet Rose Elliot bought a rare book. It details three witches who secretly control the world. One of which just happens to live in the same building as Rose. Writing to her brother for help, but being unwilling to wait for the requested backup to arrive, Rose begins following the book's clues to find the witch's lair. Meanwhile, her brother, Mark, in Rome might be closer than he expects to a witch of his own. The second of Dario Argento's Three Mothers Trilogy, Inferno.     All that and Halloween Ends.     Join us, won't we?   Episode 280- Knocking on Devon's Door

With the recent events in urban Christian circuits, a viral video of former believer Joseph Solomon sends Keith into a tailspin.

With the recent events in urban Christian circuits, a viral video of former believer Joseph Solomon sends Keith into a tailspin.

With the recent events in urban Christian circuits, a viral video of former believer Joseph Solomon sends Keith into a tailspin.

Damon and Damo are joined by LT. Joseph Soloman II. The trio begin the episode by honoring the legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They discuss how they believe that MLK would want us to celebrate his holiday. They discuss Lt. Solomon's life before, during, and his plans after his career in the Navy. From his fitness journey to being one of two black Sailors in dive school, to not always feeling like “himself” in the Wardroom, and understanding and adapting to change by not attaching yourself to any role. As fellow “Cerealphiles,” Lt. Solomon and Damo have a quick conversation about top 5 cereals. Lt. Solomon discusses his fitness transformation and his approach to helping other people shed weight both physically and mentally. They also discuss Joseph's podcast, ‘Just Keep Livin.' Be sure to check that podcast out as well. These and more topics discussed on this episode of ‘PTSF.' Remember to follow the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and subscribe on YouTube.    Link to all Social Media and Youtube: https://linktr.ee/Ptsfpodcast   Please send all questions to: ptsfpodcast@gmail.com   Get ‘Permission To Speak Freely Merchandise' here: https://ptsfmerch.bigcartel.com/   Links for Lt. Joseph Solomon II:   Social Media:   Personal & Business IG: https://www.instagram.com/kingsolo_1983/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/joseph.solomoon Website: www.mbstransformfit.com   Just Keep Livin' Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/just_keep_livin_podcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/JustKeepLivinPodcast Website: www.justkeeplivinpodcast.com     Damo's Book Suggestion:    The Body Keeps the Score (by. Bessel Van Der Kok, M. D.) https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score     Movie Reviewed (Television Series):    Band of Brothers Ep.2: Day of Days https://www.hbo.com/band-of-brothers/episodes/2-day-of-days     Intro Music Produced by: Lim0   Logo Artwork/Design by: Natashya Vince

Delivered From Captivity (9) (Audio) David Eells - 11/14/21 Religion Kills Adriana Santoro - 2019 I dreamed what seemed like the end of the world. (God's judgments upon the wicked will bring the world as we've known it to an end.) I was standing on the ledge of a building holding hands with people who were all lined up along this ledge watching the destruction of earth. (A ledge of a building represents the narrow Way on which we enter the kingdom of Heaven and also the cleft of the Rock where the saints are hidden in Christ and have a safety in the passover from judgment.) I had a supernatural gift of vision, where I could pretty much see things telescopically. (Representing a gift of seeing and discerning spiritual things.) My sight drew me into a church building, where I could see people being strangled and killed. (The apostate church strangles the new life of Christ that is born in the saints by feeding them false doctrines.) The person killing all these people was wearing a white blanket over themselves; slitting people's throats and choking them one by one. When the person lifted up their garment, it was revealed to be Mother Mary. (Jesus referred to the Pharisees of His day as whited sepulchers full of dead men's bones because they appeared Holy on the outside but there was only death in them and their teachings. Religion has killed many people over the centuries especially the Catholic Church both physically and spiritually.) Then I woke up and was physically praying, 'Our Father'. (The 'Our Father' prayer is what Jesus taught His disciples to pray. It represents a more personal relationship with our Heavenly Father under the New Covenant.)   Holding a Form of Godliness  Marie Kelton - 9/30/21 (David's notes in red) I had dream of a black girl that was being taught by an older black lady. The black girl thought she was learning truth. (The black people in this dream represent the corporate bodies of the religious apostate leadership and their disciples. They walk in darkness and are submitted to darkness.)   The scene changed, and the black lady was wearing a dark, aqua-blue dress. She was wearing a lot of jewelry and looked like an African goddess. I knew in the dream that the young girl was dressed the same. (The apostate church leadership is ruled by the spirit of Jezebel and they teach their proselytes to believe and walk just as they walk, in rebellion to the Word and truth.) I heard chanting and it reminded me of witchcraft. (The Bible says in 1 Sa. 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah…) As I was waking up I heard this scripture, 2 Ti. 3:5  Holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away. (2 Ti. 3:1-7 But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power therefore. From these also turn away. 6 For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, 7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.)    Legalism Trying to Get Into David's House Winnie Osegueda- 8/20/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamt that me and Chuc had a bed in David's home that we slept on. It had burgundy or red bedding on it. It was like all of local UBM lived in David's house. (That would be the "house of David", meaning David and all of his spiritual seed.) I was taking a nap on the bed after the morning prayer meeting and a sister got on the bed and said that her and another sister like to take naps in this room, and that she specifically liked to take naps on the bed I was on. She specifically wanted to be on the right side, which was the side I was sleeping on. She was adamant that I move. I told her that me and Chuc sleep there. (In the world its people jokey for position and compete with one another “but the Lord says in Mat 23:11  But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.) It felt like we were having bit of a debate about it when David walked in and said, “I have the fire of the Lord going if y'all need to burn anything up.” (Representing the burning of the wood, hay, and stubble of the selfish life.)  He said it in a very kind, soft-spoken voice. I almost didn't hear him (This reminds me of the "still small voice" of God when He is convicting us and speaking to us).  I did, in fact, feel convicted about having any sort of debate and I invited this sister back to my place, which was in David's house, so we could further discuss the matter.  There was a pretty white door in David's house with glass in the top of the door where you could peek through, and the sister stood on her tippy-toes so she could see the fire he spoke of and what everyone was doing.  We passed through this door and went (by way of the fire) back to my place, which was still in David's house. We passed Chuc holding Zoé while she was napping, and we went into my kitchen. It was very nice with very light colored wood and a lot of pink decor. In real life I wouldn't do that, but in the dream it was beautiful and bright in there as well.  The sister and I sat down to talk and I told her it was a very large bed and we could just nap together; that there was room for the both of us. She seemed very content and agreed. (Everyone can enter the sabbath rest from our own works together.) Suddenly, there was a knock at the door we had in the kitchen, and there were these very young, red-headed, Orthodox Jewish boys. (Be careful to not be influenced by the law for this brings us to immaturity and under a curse as Paul said.) They had to be 8 or 9 years old. I could see through the door and, at first, they appeared to have beards and I said, "Oh, it's Jesus!" But then I realized, very quickly, that it wasn't and I was like "Uh, no it's not!” (Some think this is the Way of Jesus but it separates from Christ and His grace. Gal 5:1-4  For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.  2  Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.  3  Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.  4  Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.) The beards I thought I saw on their faces were no longer there. (I believe these people could represent different sects of Christianity who are under law to religions, confused, and do not have the real Jesus).  Behind the young boys were adults and other Jewish children as well. (They will bring with them more immature fruit) I remember  an overweight woman with dark wavy hair to her ears, and a dated hairstyle. She also had a large, black rolling suitcase.  I opened the door and I realized they were probably there to talk to us about their religion. I was sorry I had opened the door without letting David know first, because I could see the hesitancy on his face, however, he said to let them in. I invited them inside and we all went past the kitchen (To feed them a spiritually healthy diet of Biblical doctrine.) and into the living room area and sat on the sofas that were there.  A woman with long, dusty blonde, very light brown hair, who was part of our body here at UBM, got her guitar and began to sing a song about when the Messiah was born. I think I remember her saying the 17th, but I do not remember the month or year.  (I looked up the number 17 and I read the following: In the Bible the number 17 symbolizes "overcoming the enemy" and "complete victory." God overcame the sins of rebellious humans when he began to flood the earth through rain on the 17th of the second Hebrew month. Noah's ark and its eight passengers rested on the mountains of Ararat on the 17th of the seventh month (right in the middle of God's annual Holy period known as the Feast of Tabernacles). (First mentioned Joseph was 17 and was preserved through adverse circumstances.) Jesus Christ gained a complete victory over death and the grave when God resurrected him near sunset on Nisan 17 (Saturday, April 8, 30 A.D.) (I have heard this is so.) Once the group of Jewish people heard the song, they were immediately offended and got up and left the house. They did not want to hear about the real Messiah.  (This is the test that will weed out those who trust in their own works.)  I remember my friend, India, sitting next to me and said, “Wow, straight to the point!”, in regards to the woman singing about Jesus and who He is. (When I thought on this later, I thought about how we do not have time to sugar coat the truth and we have to be straightforward and honest about the God that we serve.)  After the visitors left, about a minute later, they knocked on the door of another area of David's house where Brandy and Amber were. For some reason they thought it was an entirely different household, but it was just another area of David's house. (Legalists will try many doors to invade for Satan is behind this test.) When Brandy opened the door, the overweight lady with the dark hair said she didn't know if this house was the house that she was just at or not, but she was looking for Marie. (In Hebrew Baby Names the meaning of the name Marie is: rebellion; bitter.). (The legalists, who put people under their own law, will capture the bitter and rebellious for they do not belong in David's house.)  Brandy told them it was still the same house, but if they were interested, we had some books they could read. (They were the UBM books). One was called "Secrets of the Temple,” (This is where David shows the real house to the apostate house.) and they seemed very interested and looked at the stash of books we had laid out on the ground in front of the house. In real life, I don't think David has a book called "Secrets of the Temple," but in the dream he did. (The revelation of the temple or house of God is a revelation of what His people are supposed to look like and do which is in all of our books. It is obvious that most of the Church do not know what the Church is supposed to look like or do. Eze 43:10-12  Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.  11  And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; (This the revelation that the Word of God gives so that the people know how to behave themselves in the house of God. 1Ti 3:15  but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.)    Continuing verse 11, and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.  12  This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. If a people keep God's Word they shall dwell on Mount Zion, the Bride.) I knew the book was about the spiritual temple, but I do not believe they understood that yet. Nevertheless, they took the book and seemed interested in reading it. Then I woke up.  I asked the Lord for a couple of verses for this dream by faith at random and opened the Bible to, Oba 1:19 (in context 17-21) But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble,(The true doctrine from Mount Zion will destroy the spiritual red heads who do not obey the law of the house and are offended with truth.) and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it. 19 And they of the South shall possess the mount of Esau, and they of the lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin'shall possess Gilead. 20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites,'shall possess even unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South. 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's. (Our enemies will all be conquered!!) The other verse I received was, Mat 7:24-25, Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock (The rock is the Word of the Lord and a place of safety.): 25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon the rock. (All trials will be overcome by those who keep God's Word.)   They Worship Another Jesus Alenna Timoshchuk - 7/9/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed my husband and I were in a forest (The forest represents our individual wilderness experiences that the Lord takes us through to burn up the wood, hay and stubble of our old fleshly lives.)  We were talking about going to visit Michael at local UBM.  I was thinking how they were right across the forest from us and that it wasn't a big distance. (Michael means, ‘Who is like God?'. He represents our like-minded brethren who also have the mind of Christ and are also walking in their wilderness by faith.) I wondered why we hadn't been able to visit them yet when we were so close to them. (The time for all the elect of God to be gathered together to be discipled by Jesus in the Man-child ministries for the 7 year tribulation period hasn't come quite yet but it is quickly approaching.) Then I saw Michael just like I've seen him during our UBM outreach meetings. But this time he was sitting there looking sorrowful; thinking of the people that he loved that had fallen away. I thought, this must be a difficult time right now and the Lord will tell us when it is the right time to go there. (Father is just as grieved as we are over our loved ones who have fallen away from the faith. He will grant us household salvation through grace and faith and the Body of Christ will be unified during the coming Great Revival that He has planned through His judgments that are soon to come upon the whole earth. These hardships are meant to cause true repentance in His elect to reconcile them back to Himself and to us.) The scene changed and I was in a historical setting, standing on a dirt road. I saw posters of different Jesus' lined up along the side of the dirt road. Each one had a different title. (As we will see, this dirt road represents the dirty path or walk of the apostate churches who worship another Jesus and whose foundations are built on the sand. Mat. 7:26-27 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.)  The ones I remember were: “Jesus of Nazareth”, “Jesus of the Jews”, “Jesus of the Edomites”, “Jesus of the Civil War”, “and “Jesus of the Christians”. (I had never heard the term Edomites, but it sounded familiar, so I looked it up and saw that those are Esau's descendants. I realized that the people of Nazareth did not accept Jesus and he couldn't do many miracles there. The Jews, for the most part, didn't accept him either. Esau was jealous and factious towards his chosen brother Jacob and couldn't repent, and many Christians today worship their own Jesus whom they've created in their own images. So these Jesus posters represent people making up their own Jesus to fit their own ideals and agendas.) (2 Co. 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him.  These are all factions and heresies that have divided the Body of Christ for 2000 years. 2 Pe. 2:1-3 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.)  As I walked further down the dirt road, I saw many couples standing in a straight line. Each one represented a different generation or historical time period. All of these couples were very wealthy and powerful in the time period they represented. The two time periods I remember are; The Civil War and today's Christians. (These wealthy couples represent corporate bodies throughout history of the apostate church leadership who are wealthy because they fleece the sheep and make merchandise of them. They are coupled with the spirit of Anti-Christ who is their spiritual husband because they are in agreement. Amos 3:3 Shall two walk together, except they have agreed? They are daughters of the Mother Harlot Church.) Then, in my dream, I woke up. My husband, David (Representing Jesus, our Heavenly Husband) and I were getting ready for a wedding and I started telling him about the dream. I told him that I thought that maybe it was a warning for us to not create our own Jesus like all of the generations had done before us. (The Bride of Christ is chosen because she only desires what is pleasing to the Holy Spirit like the parable of Hegai in Esther. Est. 2:15-16 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her. 16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal...)  …After the wedding when we got to my mom's house, there was a man standing in the front door window. He had a black hood on and was trying to scare me. I laughed and said, “You can't scare me” and I walked into the house. When I walked in, I realized this man was really small and only half of my height. He was so mad that his trick didn't work and he couldn't scare me; but I just dismissed him and looked passed him, looking for my husband or parents; but they were all asleep. (When the Marriage feast begins we will take the true Gospel to the rest of God's elect that are in bondage in the Mother Churches house.) (This represents the enemy trying to distract and put fear in us, but he actually has no power and is much smaller than he makes himself seem. We need to dismiss his attempts at distraction and just focus on our husband [Jesus] and parents/father [Heavenly Father]).   Apostate Churches Try to Seduce the Children (1)  Alenna Timoshchuk - 6/24/21 (David's notes in red) In this dream, it was evening, and I was standing in the driveway of a lady's house. (Alenna represents the Bride in this dream.) She had five children (5 means grace) and was asking me to teach them. (This lady represents the Church. Her five children represent the little sister who were saved by grace through faith out of apostasy to follow the Bride as in the Song of Solomon 8:8 and Psalm 45.)  I was a little unsure at first if I was up to the task but she didn't want anyone else teaching them and kept asking me. So I agreed. (The corporate body of the Bride is made up of men and women who are entrusted with teaching the children of grace; God's elect, because she is the first fruits that has come to maturity and come out of the Babylonish church system and is now qualified to share the true gospel with those who are also coming out of the apostate church. Jesus taught and trusted the first fruits disciples who John the Baptist called the Bride.) She gave me a wad of cash and in my dream. The amount was $100, but, looking back to my dream, it was actually one hundred, 1 dollar bills. (100 represents those who have given their life to follow Jesus 100% like those first disciples.) She told me she'd also have an assistant for me. The assistant was a guy I used to date off and on before I met my husband. So we all got into a school bus and I put the cash in the glove box. (As we will see, this assistant represents the apostate leadership who've climbed up another way and have captured many of God's elect in their heresies and false doctrines. John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.  Song 5:7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; (Representing their legalistic religious trap.) The keepers of the walls took away my mantle (or “Veil” meaning submission to the husband, Jesus.) from me.) I got behind the wheel and started driving the school bus. We were heading to my parents house (which in the dream was also my house where I lived). (Driving the bus of people means guiding many to the Fathers house which represents the original church gospel which we've heard from the beginning.) My assistant doubted my capabilities of driving such a big school bus but I was doing great! (Just as Judas doubted Jesus' capabilities and ended up betraying Him to the religious leaders of their day.) Even though it was dark outside, (The darkness is driving people to know about God.) I was able to maneuver it on small roads with really sharp turns, while keeping a good pace. It even surprised me how well I was able to drive this bus (I'm not exactly a good driver in reality and normally would be terrified to drive such a big vehicle).  Then the scene changed and I was sitting in my parents front yard, by the driveway, and I was actually waiting for my assistant to drive up with all of the children. It was cold outside and I had a fire going to keep me warm. It was taking them a very long time to get to the house so I texted him saying, “Make sure you just bring them here, we will teach them at my house.” (As we will see, the assistant or false leadership has kidnapped the children and kept them from the original house where the true gospel is being preached. Mat 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.) I got cold waiting for them so I went inside into the kitchen. My mom was sitting at the table, so I sat down and talked to her while I waited. (The kitchen is where the spiritual food is prepared. The Mothers of modern Christianity need constant education. Some will come along and some will fight truth all the way like the Sanhedrin did.) Then the scene changed and I woke up (in my dream) and it was 5:30 in the morning. I realized I fell asleep waiting for them to come to my house and was confused as to why he didn't bring the children. (Mat 24:45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47 Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath.) I drove to my old church that I used to go to and found out that he had, instead, brought all of the children there. My sister informed me that he made a great program for all of the children and even got their parents involved and that they all had a great time. (The sister represents our brethren who are still blinded and veiled by legalism and religious spirits. Psalm 58:3-4 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear.) There were way more children than the ones the lady had and she wasn't there, but her children were. (Many are called but few are chosen.) In my dream I was able to see how that night had went and my assistant mostly just played games with all of the children and the parents and didn't actually teach them anything. (That is par for their course.) I was so furious that he had decided not to listen to me and took the children himself to teach, when he was only supposed to be an assistant. (2 Pe. 2:1-3 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.) I also started worrying about the money I had left in the glove box of the bus. The lady had trusted me and paid me, but I was robbed of the chance to do what she'd asked of me. I wondered how I could get that money to give back to her because I didn't complete what she'd asked and I didn't want her to think I just stole it without doing what she'd paid me to do. (The devil, has stolen what God intended for the Body of Christ. The secular and Church DS are thieves. All that came before the Man-child Jesus were thieves as it is today. Joh 10:8  All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9  I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. 10 The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. But God is sovereign over His plans for His Church and He will restore all that the enemy has stolen from us and will make all things right but this is not something we can bring to pass in our own strength. Joel 2:23-27 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month . 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of Jehovah your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put to shame. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else; and my people shall never be put to shame.) Then I woke up.   Apostate Churches Try to Seduce the Children (2)  Claire Pienaar - 5/29/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was at a bush school with some of the moms from the homeschool group I occasionally attend. A fair amount of the women that were present profess some kind of Christianity. (Some people think that they're in a wilderness already, hence the “bush school” but as we'll see in the dream, they're nowhere near a wilderness. They're still caught up in mindless Egypt/Babylon apostate religion).  I was walking with one of the moms and she kept on wanting to gossip about another mother. I did not know at the time whether to answer the questions she had, or to keep quiet. Eventually I answered the question, “Why is she so private?” by stating, “She's ashamed of her previous marriage and does not like people knowing she is divorced”. (Isa. 50:1-2 Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver?) (This question about the person is fictitious in the natural, so God is revealing something to us here, based on the questioner's response). The questioner, instead of having a solemn, heartfelt response, was elated! She broke into the biggest smile and said, “Well honey, we've all got a back story and we're all less holy than we want others to know! I'm also like that!” (Misery loves company because it gives people a false premise and opportunity to justify their sins in their own minds. 2 Co. 10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.) She was glorying in her sin and it was detestable to me. I knew I needed to go find the other woman she was asking about and warn her. However, when I got to her, she seemed to have already “confessed” to the others in the group and they were all commiserating and almost celebrating, instead of standing in faith for complete healing and deliverance. (Spiritually, this shows us that many Christians will stand by and watch their Christian friends sin, and continue to sin, and fall into temptation, and they excuse it or celebrate it because the false grace movement has destroyed all sense of humility and repentance and obedience in the apostate Harlot institutional church). Then they said to me, “You can go now. We'll look after your kids”. (Again we see, just as in Alenna's dream above, that the apostates are always trying to abscond with our fruit and destroy Christ in us with their false doctrines.) I said, “No, I think I'll keep my children with me. (The Bride will not trust their spiritual children to Babylon but will see to their cleansing.)  We need to shower and clean up anyway”. While I was in the bathroom washing my children in the shower, and bathing myself, and getting dressed again, one of the non-Christian women was trying to spy on us through the keyhole of the door. I was not surprised, but a little irritated. This particular woman has many quirks and these were very pronounced in the dream. (The Bride is constantly cleaning up, burning up the flesh, making sure the fruit is clean and pure because, that's all that counts when it comes to bearing the fruit of Christ in the Kingdom 30, 60 and 100 fold). Once we were dressed, or so I thought, I could not find my blue jeans. This woman had somehow stolen my jeans and I had to walk out in my underwear.  I found my jeans in the next room, where she pretended to not know anything about my dilemma but was giggling at me. (The world, the imposter and apostate Christians try to take our heavenly walk away from us; they try to make us look foolish and laugh at our trust in God for ALL things. Woe to them). I was about ready to leave when two things happened: First of all, this bush school turned into a church, but this church had 2 tents. One tent was a second-hand store. Putting on Christ is not putting on the works of second hand religion.) All the homeschool moms went in there and raved about it, but I could not understand what all the fuss was about. It was so dusty, dirty, and the stuff was pure trash. I noticed many half-open packets of disposable diapers everywhere, like there had been a baby boom and people had misjudged the sizes of their babies when buying the diapers (This shows a lack of discernment about fruit.) (Many Christians are deceived about what fruit is and they believe that they are mature in Christ because they stepped over the line many years ago, but they ended up settling down on a pew in a dead church and they never grew up spiritually because they were never fed more than the milk of the Word. In Song of Solomon the Shulamite, or perfected one, was told to look beside the shepherd's tents in order to find where her beloved fed His flock. Song 1:7-8 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest thy flock , Where thou makest it to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions? 8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents.) Second of all, The women said to me, “You can go feed everyone in the other big tent now. There's food ready”. I walked in and saw queues and queues of people snaking all around the massive tent. They all stood with styrofoam food cartons waiting to be filled. (There are many people in the modern day churches that are starving for the truth of the Gospel.) Some people had already eaten, and the food cartons were empty, and they were sitting at plastic chairs and tables. I finally focused on where the food was coming from. It was coming from women with red, curly hair and big black men who were supposed to be serving up the food, but they seemed to have run out of the pumpkin mash that they were serving. (Red, curly hair represents the apostate woman church who is in submission to sin and confusion. The black men represent those who walk in darkness overseeing the distribution of the false doctrine food of manipulation, rebellion and witchcraft represented by the pumpkin mash.) It did not look like they had anything more to serve to the masses other than nuts covered in chocolates. We have a funny name for this treat in South Africa, we call it “deer droppings” because it looks quite similar. I thought to myself, “Why are they calling this food? This won't fill them up; if anything, it'll cause them diarrhea if they eat too much of it." (While some might actually recognize the good food that the Bride has to share, they will not accept it because it's much harder to digest than the sludgy pumpkin mash or sugary treats that they're being served by the rebellious, Jezebel church leaders.) (Heb. 5:11-14 ...we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. 12 For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. 14 But solid food is for full grown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.) I really wanted to leave this place. The homeschool women were now behaving more and more like zombies, mindlessly standing in line for the food and I could not handle it any longer. Then I woke up. (This represents a spiritual zombification or reprobation due to rebellion against the Word of God.) I asked Father for a word by faith at random for this dream and received, Romans 6:15 (in context 15-16) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?  (This is exactly how I felt in my dream.)   Putting Away the Old Man and Cleaning up Our Doctrine Alenna Timoshchuk – 6/7/2021 (David Dengler's notes in green) (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was in my old church building and I was going to marry my ex-boyfriend (someone I used to date off and on a lot before I met my husband, David, and truly came to the Lord). (The old church building represents the Harlot apostate Church system of Babylonish religion that we are commanded to come out of and the ex-boyfriend represents 'another Jesus' that the apostate Christians want to ‘marry' everyone to instead of Jesus, the son of David, our true Husband.)  I was wearing a white dress but it didn't look like a wedding dress. It looked more like a night gown; very plain and simple. (The white dress represents the lukos garments. They are white but not as bright as the lampros garments that the Bride wears. It is a night gown because those in apostasy are still in darkness. When we are still in the apostate church system we are under legalism and self works. We are being prepared to marry another Jesus and only have a star glory at best. (2 Co. 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him.  1Co.15:41-45 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.)  There were very few people in the church, which is unusual for Russian weddings. I looked out and saw my family on one of the pews and his family in another and then just some random people that I recognized but didn't understand why they were there. I thought, "They must not realize that this isn't just another church service but my wedding ceremony.” (Our little sister who is trapped in religion and legalism thinks that she is having a real wedding and marriage but she is just as deceived as her brethren that are trapped with her.) As I was waiting to walk down the aisle, I wondered where my husband David was. It was as if he didn't exist in my dream but I felt like he did. (David is the true husband, Christ the King) (The elect of God will begin to realize that they are worshipping a false Jesus by His grace and will reject apostasy.) I wondered why my family was allowing this marriage to another man to happen.  I don't know what transpired next but my brother Peter exclaimed “Praise God!” Because someone told him that we wouldn't be getting married after all. I didn't know why it was suddenly cancelled. (Peter is the stone, a piece of the larger Rock, which is Jesus, on which the Church is built: Mat. 16:18 And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. A cancelled wedding represents not getting unequally ‘yoked' to the world, the old man or a false Jesus.) (Jesus is the Rock that followed the Israelites through the wilderness. He is returning in His Man-child ministries to once again lead His people into His Marriage Feast or the 7 year wilderness tribulation period.) The next thing I knew, the whole congregation was praying fervently. (Representing the Great revival that is coming to the Body of Christ as a result of the tribulation judgments that begin at the House of God.) I was distracted at first, standing in the back of the church facing the entry doors. I then turned around, noticing the prayers, and saw, at the front, that men were in a group on the right side washing each other's feet and women were in a group on the left also washing each other's feet. (This was strange because the women usually go to a separate, private, room for that). (Washing feet represents cleansing your ‘walk' in the Lord. Also, feet represent the spreading of the Gospel, so to clean them is to get your doctrine correct and remove that which makes it muddy or unclear.)  (Eze. 34:17-24  And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19 And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. (The unclean walk of the leaders leavens the followers.) 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep (Much flesh) and the lean sheep. 21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David (Man-child ministers); he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.) I went forward to where my mom and sister Maria were kneeling at a pew. (Maria means: of the sea. Bodies of water often represent corporate bodies or large groups of people.) My mom said “Alenna, if you haven't, you should go up to wash feet.” I had already made up my mind to go up before she said it and went. I knelt down on the ground, awaiting my turn, and started praying. (The mom and the sister here are representative of receiving a fresh revelation brought to the elect of God in apostasy that they need to clean up their walk by returning to the Word which they heard from the beginning. 1 John 2:7-8 Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard. 8 Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.) Everyone was praying in the spirit but it was like they were all singing. (1Co.14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.  I joined in and at times I was worried my prayer wouldn't harmonize with theirs and when I thought that, I felt myself trying to harmonize and I would go off key. (Harmonizing is to be with the Spirit not with men.)(Harmonizing is learning to ‘flow' with the Spirit, as in speaking in tongues: singing in tongues. It's good to study 1Corinthians 14. It is a good teaching of spiritual gifts, their uses, and using them within and building up the Church.)   The pool was like one of those small kids pools where they washed feet. (We must become as a little child to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.) When it was freed up and I went and put my feet in to get them washed, but no one was at the pool to wash my feet. (In our Russian community we always washed feet before communion, someone would wash your feet and then you wash the next persons feet so that every one has a chance to wash someone's feet and get theirs washed by someone).  I decided since no one would wash my feet, I would wash my own. So I washed my feet and my hands and kinda jumped up and just rejoiced but also feeling that I was being judged for doing so. (Those who are trapped in apostate religion will recognize that their pharisaical leadership are not capable of cleaning up their lives or their walk so they will begin to search the scriptures for themselves and renew their own minds with the Word of God and begin receiving the mind of Christ to bear fruit 30, 60 and 100 fold but then their spirit does not agree with the leadership.) (Washing ones own feet represents cleaning up our doctrine by studying the Word on our own. Feeling like being judged by others is a feeling of condemnation. Others may try to come against or condemn us for correcting our doctrine, which now may not align with theirs.)    Getting on Mount Zion by God's Grace Winnie Osegueda - 10/11/21 (David's notes in red) This morning at the morning prayer meeting, I was listening to David and Eve speak about being lackadaisical, as well as not knowing the Lord fully for yourself and just learning from others, but not having your own revelation. (This wasn't verbatim, but that's what I gathered from the conversation). As I lay in bed, I repented to the Lord for any slackness in my life in diligently seeking Him and allowing the enemy to discourage me, as well as any other ways I've offended Him, and then I fell asleep for just a few minutes and had the following dream: I dreamed I was walking through a city at night with a group of people and it was particularly dark outside. The only people from the group that I remembered were Zoé, my husband Chuc, and Joseph Solomon. (Who is a singer and a poet in real life.) (As we will see, Joseph represents the Man-child who are wrongfully accused by the Harlot as Joseph was. Solomon also was a Man-child who was anointed Man-child to build the Temple of God, which is His people. These came out of Babylonish bondage to be Man-childs just like Zerubbabel whose name means “Born from Babylon” and built the Kingdom.) As we were walking through the streets, we stopped in front of a retail store on our left with windows that were a bit yellowed and dingy looking. (The store on the left represents the buying and selling that the Word rebukes identifying Babylonish religion.)  The windows looked more like house windows than retail store windows. (Their vision out of their house and their doctrines are Babylon.)  The windows were also four pane windows, so it looked like it had a cross in the middle of it, and this stood out to me. The dinginess of the windows reminded me of our old house that we used to live in because the windows there were also a bit worn and yellowed. (As we will see, this store represents where Father does His initial work in our lives. He is weak to the weak and gives people grace to enter the Kingdom here on earth even though our mother is Babylon. We must enter the kingdom with humble beginnings and from there we receive the grace and strength to climb Mount Zion.) Zoé (meaning God's life) was looking intently through the left side window we were standing in front of, and when I looked, I could see a large mountain in the distance reflected in the glass of the window. (We see through a mirror dimly at first. 1Co. 13:12, For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.) The mountain resembled the Rocky Mountains as its peak was white with snow. (The top of Mount Zion represents sanctification or Holiness.) Zoé continued to stare intently through the window and at the mountain and I asked her what she was seeing. She never answered me, but as I looked through the window, at the mountain with her, I wondered if the mountain was about to shake. I felt like it would. (Heb. 12:26-27  …Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27 And this word , Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. The shaking is to shake out apostates who do not belong in the Bride and we have been seeing this.) (I wondered if these mountains represented apostate religion, but Chuc believes the one high mountain with the snow at the top represents Mount Zion and we were just viewing it from a distance and not being on it). (The one mountain with the snow at its peak is Mount Zion and the surrounding mountains are the kingdoms of men so this range of mountains represents both and God is about to shake them all. Once we become disciples of Christ we must get out of the city which represents Babylon and Babylonish religion, and its doctrines the we are in bondage to, and accompany Joseph Solomon to the top of Mount Zion. Moses the Man-child was to bring Israel out of Egypt and to the "Mountain of God”.  This is where we have a passover from the judgments and where the Bride and the Man-child have overcome to have the authority to rule and reign with Christ. Isa 68:15-16  ...The mountain of Bashan is a mountain of many peaks. (Representing apostate religious kingdoms) 16 Why do you look with envy, you mountains of many peaks, At the mountain God has desired as His dwelling? (Mount Zion) Indeed, the LORD will dwell there forever.) Then our group went inside this store, and when Joseph Solomon walked through the door, he walked in singing very loudly and he took a huge step, kind of like when someone does a lunge exercise. (The Man-child's job is to go to Egypt/Babylon and bring the people out of bondage to Mount Zion. Like Jesus who went to the apostate sheepfold and called his people out to follow Him through the door which is Christ, the Word of God; the real good news of the gospel that sets us free from bondage to religion and legalism.) There was a man in the store that we hadn't seen initially because he was hunched over doing work, so we did not see him from the window. (The Father is hidden in Babylon doing a work of revelation to prepare the righteous to come out.). When we walked in, he stood up and greeted us. He was behind a counter on the right from the entrance. We turned around to speak to him after we walked in. (This man represents the Father whom we were estranged to until we come out of the fold through the Door which is Christ who died to reconcile us to God.) This man was wearing glasses and sky blue coveralls like what mechanics wear. (Our Father wearing glasses represents that He is far sighted seeing the end from the beginning; He sees us as a finished product. His sky blue mechanics coveralls represent His heavenly work in our hearts and lives.) He said to me, "Wow, I haven't seen him in a while," referring to Joseph Solomon. I understood that Joseph Solomon used to work at this store previously. (Meaning the Man-child like Moses left Egypt/Babylon to go through the wilderness to purify them of all its vestiges and was now returning many years later to bring his brethren out.)  The man also said he hadn't seen Joseph Solomon this content in a while. (He has fully entered into the rest through faith gained in his wilderness experience. He is sanctified of the old life.) (In real life this young man had a religious view of the Lord and the Bible, and though I believe he had some good wisdom to share, there were some parts that were lacking such as the view of the spiritual gifts, among other things, which is possibly what contributed to his depression, and ultimately his unbelief. Seeing Jesus in full is what saves us). (The anointing breaks the yoke.) I said to the man, "Oh, he used to work here (meaning Babylon/Egypt), right?" And then I told the man that Joseph Solomon now had talents, great gifts, and a lot of potential. (Our Father sees the end from the beginning in all of His elect and we are to see others that way as well. God uses everything that we are ordained to go through in our lives for His ultimate purposes that we may bear much fruit.) The man then approached Joseph Solomon and at this point Joseph's clothes changed. (The anointing came on him to walk in the steps of Jesus whose first teaching was in Isa. 61:1-4 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified. 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.) He was very kind to Joseph and asked him how he was doing. He asked him if he could touch his hair, and Joseph said, “Yes”. So the man put his right hand through Joseph's short, bleached blonde hair, and asked him in a kind, playful, but serious way, "What did you do to your hair?” (Our hair which represents our submission and our obedience to His Word. Blonde hair represents submission to the Son/Sun. Our Father desires obedience above sacrifice.) I woke up with the following scripture song playing in my mind: Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee. (As I was thinking about the dream, I realized the Lord was not only speaking about Joseph Solomon, but He was speaking to me as well. Although I have not departed from the faith, the Lord is magnifying this point to me about not viewing the Lord in His fullness, and only seeing him through a certain lens which prevents me from growing. It's no different than viewing the Lord through the eyes of religion, but there is so much more that He has for us if we would allow Him to show us. Chuc has said to me previously that I had understanding (knowledge), but I needed to have my own revelation of these things in my life. He says he sees the Lord working this out in me, and I know the Lord has been. This is also a reason the enemy had previously been able to come into my life in the form of depression at times, and the young man in my dream had battled that as well. I am also praying for him because it is clear to me that the Lord loves this young man, and He loves me as well.)  I asked the Lord for a verse about this dream and received: Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; (representing being on top of Mount Zion.) though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.   After I woke up from my dream, I turned over to see Chuc reading the following verses in the Bible app on his phone and saw: Romans 5:18-21  So then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the free gift came unto all men to justification of life. 19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous. 20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.   Select LanguageAfrikaansAlbanianAmharicArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanCebuanoChichewaChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CorsicanCroatianCzechDanishDutchEsperantoEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchFrisianGalicianGeorgianGermanGreekGujaratiHaitian CreoleHausaHawaiianHebrewHindiHmongHungarianIcelandicIgboIndonesianIrishItalianJapaneseJavaneseKannadaKazakhKhmerKinyarwandaKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)KyrgyzLaoLatinLatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalagasyMalayMalayalamMalteseMaoriMarathiMongolianMyanmar (Burmese)NepaliNorwegianOdia (Oriya)PashtoPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSamoanScots GaelicSerbianSesothoShonaSindhiSinhalaSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSundaneseSwahiliSwedishTajikTamilTatarTeluguThaiTurkishTurkmenUkrainianUrduUyghurUzbekVietnameseWelshXhosaYiddishYorubaZulu Powered by Translate Printer-friendly version

Welcome back! This week we discuss Joseph Solomon's departure from Christianity and explore the idea of doubt and deconstructing our faith. How do we reconcile the questions of faith we struggle with, and the points of contention that we often come across? Buckle up for a ride because this is an extra long one! Joseph Solomon podcast episode - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zQjRwplLBBxbZDazT7Fzm?si=71f38c94775b443f Joseph Solomon YouTube video - When Your Theology Fails you w/ Joseph Solomon - YouTube Faves mentioned: Tiwa Savage: Somebody's son

Joseph Solomon ( @Joseph Solomon ) recently posted about how he has "left the faith." This...sparked quite a lot of thoughts I had already been having. I wanted to share. But I also wanna share some of his other content. Especially this Instagram Live... Link: https://www.instagram.com/tv/COjt_7IAAfO/?utm_medium=copy_link "Why I Haven't Made Christian Teaching Videos:" https://youtu.be/zctE4uM29-A #JosephSolomon #PIATour #Christianity Also feel free to contact me and/or check out my other platforms! For Coaching: Details here (https://deezy2blessed.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/awakening-and-then-empowering-the-gifted%f0%9f%92%aa%f0%9f%8f%be%f0%9f%98%bc%f0%9f%93%b6%f0%9f%92%ab/) Email me! Deezy2Blessed@iCloud.Com Podcast: Anchor.fm/CandidConcepts Me and Heidi Priebe's Live Streams: Facebook.com/SPAsigmapq Blog Site: Deezy2Blessed.WordPress.Com Business Facebook: Denzel Mensah (https://www.facebook.com/DenzelMensah94/) Personal Facebook: Deezy Mensah (https://www.facebook.com/Deezy2Cold) Twitter: @Deezy2_Blessed (https://twitter.com/Deezy2_Blessed) Instagram: @Deezy2Blessed Snap Chat: Deezy2Blessed --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Tony Lee updates the audience on his "Dad Bod to God Bod" operation then he shares new music from Lou Val, Aha Gazelle, and Lecrae. Also, he shares his thoughts on Joseph Solomon, those who wrestle with faith, extending grace, etc. Tune in!!

As we hit the middle of our week on honesty, today we’re going to explore how being truly honest, or living fully known, is critical to experiencing fullness of life. There may be nothing more terrifying to me than being fully known, but I also know there is nothing more liberating than being my full self with those closest to me. May God replace fear with faith today as we experience his grace and love right now. Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 8:3, and today's worship is You Know Me by Joseph Solomon. ________ Do you ever feel like life just happens to you?  Instead of choosing the things that fill your day, does life always somehow sweep you up into its endless flow of expectations and obligations?   If so, there’s a better way! It’s called a Rule of Life, and Craig Denison has written a new book about creating your own Rule of Life called Living Intentionally. We’d love to put a copy in your hands to say thanks for your donation to help more people experience God the first 15 minutes of their day. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!   _____ First15 is a daily devotional written and recorded by Craig Denison. If you would like to learn more about the First15 app, books, blogs, videos and our other resources, please visit first15.org. You can always reach out to us on our contact page on the website. 

Tiler Peck: Instagram and Twitter @tilerpeckMeghan and Harry: check out their new podcast on Spotify “Archewell Audio”Donald Miller: Instagram @donaldmiller, https://storybrand.com Ted Dekker: teddekker.comNatalie Reed: @natkat56Esther Abrami: https://www.estherabrami.com/Drew Alexander Forde: @thatviolakidTerrian Bass Woods: https://www.iamterrian.com/Joseph Solomon: @whatisjoedoing andhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF-MldtDn4EW8-DlQqPD_gKylie Flavell: https://www.kylieflavell.com/

After a chat on Notre Dame as a school and their impact on the city of South Bend, the usual topics kick off with music here (10:38). A deep dive on the amazing "Lions, Bengals, and Bears" single by Wale (18:18). The guys jam out to Joseph Solomon (31:25). American Privilege x Allen Stone (34:35). Tank dropped a nice EP(36:00). Low x Lenny Kravitz (38:21). Anime kicks off right here(41:23)! The guys wrap up their thoughts on "Beastars' season 1 (43:15). The guys ponder the accuracy of manga to anime (54:00). "The Future Diary" wrap -up conversation (1:09:24). All-time favorite anime light discussion, and "Erased" live-action vs. anime (1:17:31). Kezo's thoughts on "The Wind Rises" (1:26:26). Short chat on "Eyeshield 21" (1:36:35). Gaming chat is right here with Ghost of Tsushima Legends and more (1:43:20). The BONUS CONTENT begins here (1:57:30).

The new format is rocking heavy in this episode - we finally got into the swing of it and tings is moving, fam. We kicked off with an unintentional promo for THC beverages and all things cannabis (shouts Tweed, Houseplant, Mollo - holla!), before Notion delivered some FIRE WhatD'YaReckon? questions, and then moved into our top songs and projects of the week. We talked about artists like Joseph Solomon, Polo G, DigDat, K-Trap, Future x Lil Uzi Vert, Masego x Don Toliver, Russ x Ab-Soul, 2Chainz x Kanye West x Brent Faiyaz, 11:11, SiR, Haviah Mighty, Jai Paul, Vivian Green x Ghostface, Phonte x Vic Mensa x Sherman's Showcase, Thundercat x Ty Dolla $ign x Lil' B, and Loski x Stormzy. Bless up! ARTISTS: Contact info@illnotestudios.com for the production/mixing/mastering opportunity. Theme tune produced by Notion. Purchase beats: notionbeats.com Follow the team everywhere: @TheMovementFam @CeeFor @Notionbaby @iDahnJohnson

Today's episode is a conversation with Joseph Solomon. Joseph is a senior public servant who took two and a half years out from his career to care for his three children. He has a lot of wisdom about fatherhood and parenting, and I'm delighted to share it with you.

"Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. An unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man" - Toni MorrisonI have a conversation with Joseph Solomon about the world changing, how this new world has changed us, and how we want to return the favor and change the world!

On this episode Monet discussed some of the encouraging and controversial history around the Hymn 'Come tho Fount of Every Blessing' by Robert Robinson. Make sure you subscribe to our channel! Also follow us on social media @ hymnpartial Listen to Joseph Solomon's version of the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9BnUEmtdCA music by Dyalla Swain http://soundcloud.com/dyallas

Jason and Connor discuss the Prodigal Son and how they see themselves in both of the sons.Luke 15: 11-32The Prodigal SonRacial Justice Resources:Pass the Mic Podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2dXyFuBuXJALB5jPSJtOetLatasha Morrisonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGOcC2fNPQ&t=258shttps://bethebridge.com/Joseph Solomon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16g-2y2TF98&t=91sEveryday Thinking Man Podcasthttps://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2020-05-27/07bbd71c89d8d7b142e1baabcb35ed8c.m4aContact us at: amazedandperplexed@gmail.comMusic by: Heavensensehttps://soundcloud.com/hvnsense

“For me, I believe that Black lives matter. That’s what I said. Anyone with a functioning brain understands that all lives matter. Anybody. But right now there is a portion of our community that is frustrated, and they are suffering, and they are hurting. So, as an empathetic Christian I’m gonna go and say I agree with the statement Black lives do matter. But I was glad some people disagreed with me, because I kept saying, do Black lives matter yes or no? yes but…I’m like there is no but. We disagree. Those are the same type of people that would have interrupted Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus would have been like, blessed are the poor…no Jesus blessed are all people. Since when does highlighting one issue disparage another? Are we not secure enough to be able to sit here and go issue by issue and talk about one without disparaging another? Of course all lives matter, but it’s okay to say Black lives matter. What’s wrong with you? This is not rocket science. All lives matter. No kidding. That’s why Black lives matter, because until all lives matter equally, we need to focus on this.” -Carl Lentz, 2016   This is the most important episode I will ever release. I hope you approach it with an open heart.   Just recently: George Floyd was murdered by a police officer while three other police officers stood by and did nothing. Breonna Taylor was in her home in the middle of the night when police broke in, unannounced, and shot her to death. Ahmaud Arbery was out for a run when two men chased him and shot him to death. Christian Cooper was bird watching in Central Park when a woman threatened to call the police and say that an African American man was threatening her life. He was not.   It doesn’t stop there. The following Black men and women have been murdered by police: Philando Castile Atatiana Jefferson Eric Reason Natasha McKenna Botham Jean Walter Scott Bettie Jones Tamir Rice Michael Brown Dominique Clayton Eric Garner Trayvon Martin  Tanisha Anderson Sandra Bland Freddie Gray   THESE ARE JUST THE NAMES WE KNOW. Do you know how hard it is to find a full list of Black people who have been murdered at the hands of police brutality?    Here’s a brief history of the Black lives lost in our country over the past few years along with the #Blacklivesmatter gaining momentum:   ·      2013: #Blacklivesmatter first appears on twitter ·      7/17/14: Eric Garner dies in NY after being arrested ·      8/9/14: Michael Brown is killed during an encounter with police officer in Ferguson, MO. ·      11/22/14: Tamir Rice is killed by police in Cleveland while playing with a toy gun ·      11/24/14: Announcement that there will be no indictment in Michael Brown case ·      4/19/15: Freddie Gray dies in Baltimore while in police custody ·      6/17/15: Charleston church shooting kills 9 people ·      7/13/15: Sandra Bland is found hung in Texas jail cell   STATS ·      99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with crime. ·      Unarmed Black people were killed by police at 5x the rate of unarmed white people in 2015. ·      Police killed at least 104 unarmed Black people in 2015— nearly 2x a week. ·      1 in 3 young Black men will be incarcerated in their life (compared to 1 in 17 white men). ·      13TH DOC: “The film’s premise is that while the 13th Amendment to the Constitution eliminated slavery and involuntary servitude, it in effect had an unintentional loophole that asserted “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”” ·      Black people make up 6.5% of the American population but make up 40.2% of the prison population. ·      Our prison population went from less than 200k in 1970 to 2.3m today. This is what we refer to when we talk about mass incarceration.   THERE ARE PROVEN STRATEGIES that significantly reduce police killings, but very few Police Departments have adopted them. These are: Requirements that officers use all means other than shooting (decreases death by 25%) Requires all use of force be reported (decreases death by 25%) Bans chokeholds + strangleholds (decreases death by 22%) Has use of force continuum (decreases death by 19%) Requires de-escalation (decreases death by 15%) Duty to intervene if another officer uses excessive force (decreases death by 9%) Restricts shooting at moving vehicles (decreases death by 8%) Requires warning before shooting (decreases death by 5%) *You can call your local representatives and demand these 8 things be instituted with your local law enforcement. Want to learn more? Click here: https://8cantwait.org   WHY DO BLACK LIVES MATTER? My Personal Reckoning: 2016 ·      I didn’t realize my own white privilege for a long time. I felt better than the other white people when it came to bias and racism because I grew up in a broken home filled with drugs, addiction, affairs, and even lived in a town where I was a minority. The reality is I have loved Black culture for most of my life, but I have done very little to be an advocate for justice for my Black brothers and sisters. I’m so sorry for this. ·      I received a DM from a Black woman who encouraged me to diversify who I was interviewing on The Refined Woman. Almost all of my collaborations and interviews for the first few years of The Refined Woman were with white women. I was a white girl blogger. ·      In 2016 I also wrote an All Lives Matter blog post that fortunately never went live. I didn’t understand what it meant that Black Lives Matter. As a Christian I assumed didn’t all lives matter? Thank God I have a team, and thank God I didn’t go live with that painful article. I was very, very wrong.    Black Lives Matter, and here’s why:   Jesus was a 1st Century Palestinian Jewish man. He had brown skin and was hated by the religious, and beaten and killed by law enforcement. If he was alive today in America, he’d be a minority immigrant who probably wouldn’t step foot inside white evangelical churches except to flip over tables. The Western Evangelical Church in America has become a religion for rich, advantaged, and privileged white people—which is the exact opposite of the roots of Christianity and the life of Jesus. Jesus hung out with the oppressed people of society, those ostracized, those who didn’t feel safe in the church—those who were judged and cast off. He fought for justice, restored dignity and humanity from the woman at the well, woman caught in adultery, to touching people with contagious diseases and engaging with people outside of the Jewish law which would have made him unclean in Jewish circles. But he didn’t care, because He was on a mission to do God’s work.   Friend, if you are a follower of Jesus and do not have a heart for justice, racial reconciliation and to see the systemic walls, pillars, and foundations of racism in our country to be dismantled, you are out of alignment with the heart of God.   Who does Jesus care about?   -       Prodigal Son returns: the jealous brother instead of the father rejoicing over the return + safety of his son. But don’t I matter—OF COURSE YOU MATTER, BUT YOUR BROTHER WAS LOST + NOW IS FOUND.    -       Luke 15: Jesus leaves the 99 to go after the one sheep. He cares about the individual.   It’s time to get back in touch with the heart of Jesus. Do all lives matter? YES. But until Black lives matter—we better go after that. Jesus went after the one.   What can you do?    #1: Acknowledge If we don’t heal our past, it will follow us. And ours is HAUNTING US. -Kat Harris   1.     Until we acknowledge the experience of what it means to be a Black person in America there is no chance at healing. 2.     When someone dies, you show up. 3.     “I don’t know the full story.” You don’t have to. 4.     “People are just reposting for attention…not for the right reasons.” You don’t know their hearts. And so what? Does that mean you get to stay silent? 5.     Here’s what’s true: in 1619 was when the first wave of Black people were kidnapped from Africa to become slaves in Jamestown. July 4th isn’t a celebration of independence for Black people. They weren’t free when those freedom bells rang. America was built on the backs of terrorism and genocide and slavery of Black people, people of color and indigenous people. 6.     If we don’t heal our past, it will follow us. And ours is HAUNTING US. 7.     We have to look back before we can move forward. 8.     One of the first things we can do is acknowledge our white privilege. What is white privilege and how do you know if you have it? Go through these statements.   #2: Get Curious I STARTED NOTICING + GETTING CURIOUS: ·      Why did I have so few Black friends? ·      Why were there some Black people and people of color at my church but none on staff or leadership or in the decision-making rooms? ·      I changed churches because I wanted to be a part of a community with women in leadership, then I noticed almost every week at church I could count on one hand the number of Black people at my church…why? ·      Why were influential Black Christian people like Lecrae + Andre Henry leaving the church? ·      How come at my favorite salad place every single person in line buying was white and all the people working in the buffet are Black? ·      How come the expensive gym I had a membership to had mostly white members, and yet almost every single one of the people working there from front desk to maintenance are Black? ·      This started making me very uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to do—so I’d talk with my friends about it…but really I didn’t do much about it. I deeply regret this. #3: PRAY + REPENT: ·      When have you been complicit, silent, and chosen ignorance out of comfort and convenience? Write it down, say it out loud, pray, and repent. ·      Psalm 13 is great to walk through lament. ·      Psalm 51 is great to walk through repentance. #4: ACTIVATE: ·      Sign petitions for racial justice. change.org is a great start for this! ·      Talk with friends and family. ·      When you see racism, call it out. ·      Post on your platforms. ·      Call your local representatives and demand justice. ·      Support Black-owned businesses. ·      Donate to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. ·      Go to https://www.grassrootslaw.org to find out how you can support policing and justice in America. ·      Read this: 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack    #5: ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT: ·      Equal Justice Initiative (Bryan Stevenson) ·      Be the Bridge (Latasha Morrison) and her wonderful resource page, “Where Do I Start?” ·      WhereChangeStarted.com has a great anti-racism starter kit ·      The Innocence Project ·      To help pay bail for protestors in NYC, money can be Venmo’ed to @bailoutnycmay.  ·      City-specific bailouts. ·      ACLU ·      NAACP ·      UNCF   #6: READ: “Stop asking us to give you books. Stop asking us to do research. Listen y’all were able to do mathematic equations through some Black women and then your own stuff and to be able to go to the moon, and put a flag in it and dance around and do the west coast strut. How in the world can you go from the earth to the moon and you can’t do research on the racial history that we need to fight in this country. I don’t want to be traumatized by teaching you history. I want you to grow up in your spiritual maturity, and grow up in your faith, and go on the sanctifying journey of overriding the patriotic way that we’ve learned history in America.” - Pastor Eric Mason   1.     White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 2.     So You Want to Take About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 3.     The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh 4.     We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates 5.     How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 6.     I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 7.     Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 8.     Woke Church by Eric Mason 9.     The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 10.  Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman 11.  Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass 12.  Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving 13.  Ghetto by Mitchell Duneier 14.  More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson 15.  Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi 16.  A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King Jr. 17.  Prejudice and Racism by James M. Jones 18.  Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji 19.  Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson 20.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 21.  All About Love by Bell Hooks 22.  Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim 23.  Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 24.  Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon 25.  There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald 26.  Paradise by Toni Morrison 27.  Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe 28.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 29.  The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 30.  The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper 31.  The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann 32.  Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Dr. Soong-Chan Rah 33.  Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith 34.  Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 35.  The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein 36.  Human(Kind) by Ashlee Eiland 37.  A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan 38.  Kindred by Octavia E. Butler 39.  Beloved by Toni Morrison 40.  White Teeth by Zadie Smith 41.  Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer 42.  Detours: The Unpredictable Path to Your Destiny by Tony Evans 43.  Unashamed by Lecrae 44.  Believe Bigger by Marshawn Evans Daniels   ARTICLE + WEBSITES 1.     Code Switch: Race in Your Face 2.     White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh 3.     NYTimes An Antiracist Reading List compiled by Ibram X. Kendi 4.     Goodgooodgood.co Anti-racism resources compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein 5.     Buzzfeed’s An Essential Reading Guide for Fighting Racism by Arianna Rebolini 6.     1619 Project (NY Times) – an article series on the history and legacy of slavery in America (also a podcast below). There is a book project in the works to expand on what they’ve started. 7.     The America We Need (NY Times) – a NYT Opinion series that touches on justice in the midst of the pandemic. 8.     “Walking While Black” by Garnette Cadogan   WATCH: 1.     Pastor Eric Mason: Don’t Lose Heart: Why It’s Worth It to Fight for Racial Harmony Even When We Don’t See Progress 2.     Pastor Carl Lentz: I said, “Black Lives Matter” 3.     Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s talk on White Fragility at the University of Washington 4.     How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time, TEDtalk, Baratunde Thurston  5.     How Racism Makes Us Sick, TEDtalk, David R. Williams  6.     Racial Reconciliation, Latasha Morrison’s sermon, National Community Church  7.     The Privilege Walk   8.     Jon Tyson and David Bailey, class, race, reconciliation, and the Kingdom of God   9.     Becoming Brave: Reconciliation Rooted in Prayer – “why do we need the church?” by Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil     Movies to watch on Netflix: 1.     13th 2.     American Son 3.     Dear White People 4.     See You Yesterday 5.     When They See Us   Movies to watch on Hulu: 1.     If Beale Street Could Talk 2.     The Hate U Give   Movies to rent: 1.     Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 2.     Clemency 3.     Fruitvale Station 4.     I am Not Your Negro 5.     Just Mercy 6.     Selma 7.     The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 8.     BlacKkKlansman 9.     Burden 10.  The Color of Fear   Listen to these podcasts: 1.     NPR’s Code Switch 2.     Season 2 of In the Dark 3.     Hope & Hard Pills with Andre Henry 4.     Her with Amena Brown 5.     Truth’s Table Podcast 6.     Fights and Feelings with Joseph Solomon 7.     Anti-Racism with Andre Henry on The Liturgists 8.     Pod Save the People 9.     1619 Project Podcast 10.  Scene on Radio’s “Seeing White” 11.  Why Tho   The Refined Collective episodes on race: 1.     Anxiety, Race, and Healing Community with Nikia Phoenix 2.     I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness with Austin Channing Brown 3.     Why Being a ‘Good Person’ Prevents You From Being Better with Jeana Marinelli   People to follow: 1.     @austinchanning 2.     @theconsciouskid 3.     @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends 4.     @theandrehenry 5.     @colorofchange 6.     @rachel.cargle 7.     @ibramxk 8.     @mspackyetti 9.     @blklivesmatter 10.  @osopepatrisse 11.  @reformlajails 12.  @akilahh 13.  @showingupforracialjustice 14.  @tyalexander 15.  @tiffanybluhm 16.  @natashaannmiller 17.  @thefaithfeast 18.  @louisa.wells 19.  @abigaileernisse 20.  @jessicamalatyrivera 21.  @thegreatunlearn 22.  @laylafsaad 23.  @luvvie 24.  @pastorgabbycwilkes 25.  @elevateny 26.  @pastoremase 27.  @lecrae 28.  @whatisjoedoing 29.  @sarahjakesroberts 30.  @bishopjakes 31.  @devonfranklin 32.  @iammiketodd 33.  @amenabee 34.  @shaunking   You don’t have to read all 44 books in one day. You don’t have to start a non-profit. BUT YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. I have not read every single one of these resources, but am making my way through them one by one. I am with you on the journey.   What are you committed to? How are you going to ensure that you are no longer silent? It’s time for white people to do something.   We are co-creators with God; it’s time to get to work.

The Talented Mr. Tibbs is bringing what's fresh, dope & positive in music, news & culture. Start this 2 hour experience with Coalition Kingdom Djs Certified Priority List, 10-Min Takeover Mix & a music review. The second hour you'll be introduced to R&B laced like you've never heard before. Spotlighting new music from Tasan, Evan Ford, Joseph Solomon, Eris Ford and many more. Show Playlist: Slide - 1K PSON No Ceilings - WANDE Rachet Friends - CHRIS ELIJAH Faith & Patience - NOBIGDYL. R4P (Intro) - STARRINGO Set Me Free - LECRAE The Tibbs 10-Min Takeover Mix A Dollar Short - AJ MCQUEEN Open Road - PAUL RUSSELL We Got Joy - BELEAF Take Me back - TAELOR GRAY Blessed - JERED SANDERS Awakening Moments Presented by Juda Juda Something Something - NATALIE LAUREN Gold - JOSEPH SOLOMON MIC BREAK Signs - David & Tamala Mann MIC BREAK Joy In The Morning - EVAN FORD HER - ISAAC CARREE MIC BREAK Show Me Love - ERIS FORD R&B - JAYLON AYSHAUN In My Bag - ITSTAYLORMADE MIC BREAK Jaja - TASAN Favor - JORDAN ARMSTRONG You Know - EVAN & ERIS So Good - JPAUL SINGS MIC BREAK Deep - CHARLENE NASH Loved By You - NINA SIMS MIC BREAK Loved On Me - IZZE

I'm back in the White room for episode 57. I have to say to my boy THREE thank you so much for opening up your establishment to my podcast! My life is surrounded by My Wife, my Production Company, Church and Work. In order for me to gain access to the next generation I have to first speak to the kids that i have witness grow up at my job! Jordan Sennett a graduate of Waltrip High School started a youtube channel where he details his dreads journey, becoming a DEVOUT CHRISTIAN and Creativity! He sites that having the incite of others helps the creative process and that making sure that you doing it for the right cause is essential in your journey! On this podcast, we talk about What people should take (6:02), Creativity comes from Experiences (12:16), What Songs on your mind!? (37:05)for Jordan Gold by Joseph Solomon and for me Jadakiss We Gonna Make It and Boss U Up by Damaria, We have (insert number of days left) days left... (40:05) and more! Most importantly they tells us Whats Next!? This episode is dedicated to my son! I love you John Ross Dike II bka Baby D rest in paradise/Heaven; when I see you again I would have served my purpose! Sit back, relax and enjoy Episode 57 of the Whats Next!? podcast a production of Still Visionary, Inc. Follow Jordan Sennett http://www.instagram.com/jryaan http://www.twitter.com/jryaans http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwiyIPepm30c36xZMTyBhcQ Peace and Blessings!! John Ross I http://www.stillvisionary.com (VISIT!) http://stillvisionaryinc@gmail.com (EMAIL!) http://www.facebook.com/Stillvisionaryinc (LIKE!) http://www.twitter.com/johnrossdike; http://www.twitter.com/still_visionary http://www.instagram.com/johnrossdike; (FOLLOW!) http://www.instagram.com/still_visionary (FOLLOW!) http://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ross-dike-0a6a75173 (CONNECT!) http://still-visionary.tumblr.com

It's time for us to shine brightly... We've come to the end of Season 2. In the midst of the slowdown, let us slow down and take advantage of the time God is giving us to spend with Him.

We'll friends, we have come to the end of the road... (JK) I'll drop one or two more episodes. But, technically this would have been the final episode. Can you believe it?! We are already here. Whew! It's been an adventurous ride up this mountain with the hope you've learned to know God better and learn yourself through His perspective. This episode is one final charge for you to keep going and not look back. And if you do, the only reason would be to recognize how far you've journeyed.

In this episode, Ray discusses why it's important for us to wait. He performed a spoken word piece with the title "Worth the Wait" -originally written and performed Joseph Solomon (@whatisjoedoing)- at his church last December. Video on Youtube: youtu.be/NoPKzMcMDlg Socials: Instagram: www.instagram.com/rayopk/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/ray.opk Twitter: twitter.com/RayOpk Snapchat: @rayopk Original version by (@whatisjoedoing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DibVL5TQs LIKE ON FACEBOOK: Joe's page www.facebook.com/whatisjoedoing / chaseGodtv : www.facebook.com/ChaseGodtv FOLLOW ON TWITTER : Joe - @whatisjoedoing / chaseGodtv - @chaseGod Other versions youtu.be/3C9N82cvY0k

Do you know the saying, "pride comes before the fall?" Well, it's actually a scripture verse from Proverbs 16:18. God's been tapping on our shoulders of allowing Him to be vindicator and judge—and kicking condemnation (from pride) to the curb.

Happy BHM! Listen as Tony Lee shares new music from Alex Isley, Royce Da 5'9", Joseph Solomon, D. Smoke + more. Also, he unfolds the legacy of "MOVE", the black liberation group based out of Philadelphia, PA. Tune in!

Disclaimer: We do not own the right to the song sung. In this episode, we sit down with Solomon Headen and discuss allowing ourselves to be spirit-led. When God says, “Shift,” how do you respond?

We will be a resilient people. Self-aware people. We will be a person willing to acknowledge their discomfort and process through it. We shall no longer push it aside as if it’s unimportant or justified. In this episode we discuss being present, feeling what you feel, and moving forward to do the internal work to become the best version of ourselves God intended for us to be.

Just honest dialogue and going deeper.

“Honestly, you’ll never get to the point where you feel like you’re prepared until you truly give everything over to God and (just like the song lyrics) allow God to come in and then have His way in whatever manner He would like to—kneel down and surrender to whatever God has for your life and allow Him to take you hand and hand. Be obedient. Move Forward”—Reggie Pate

In Today’s episode, we discuss the importance of being in the presence of the Lord as He helps us identify the areas we’ve been assigned to overcome for us, our future and our legacy. What we do now helps prepare our children tomorrow and their children following.

Get back into position. There are things passed down through the bloodline. BUT WE are to arise as the generational curse breakers to cut them off at the root. First, we must sit still long enough to identify them and process through the discomfort with the Lord. In today’s episode, we sit down with Francine Ott to discuss the importance of being vulnerable by no longer hiding and embracing being seen.

Prayer is a form of communication. It’s a two-way connection right to the ears of Father God. Unfortunately, we do not sit still long enough to listen to His response. In today’s episode, we sit down with Gabrielle Nuna Hicks (Gabby) to discuss the importance of Prayer.

Based on a poem by Joseph Solomon titled "Blackface". We talk about how different cultures are used, appropriated and accessorised.

Dr. White discusses the importance of focusing on our physical, emotional and spiritual health. She also mentions The Spoken Word artists, Preston Perry and Joseph Solomon. The artists at the Poets in Autumn tour have shared messages on physical, emotional and spiritual health. Share how you focus on your physical, emotional and spiritual health? E-mail us your questions and feedback at drwhite@a5familyconnections.com Follow Dr. White on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram under Dr. Michele White. That’s Michele with one “L” Follow A5 Family Connections on Instagram at @a5familyconnections Follow A5 Family Connections on Facebook under A5 Family Connections Theme music for Growing Together in Christ was composed by Alexia White, daughter of Dr. White This episode of Growing Together in Christ was edited by Melvin Frederick and Kim Johnson. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/GrowTogetherinChrist/support

"You don't need any more information, you need application. You need an encounter, a deeper revelation like Moses on the mountain of Sinai. He knew God's ways..."

“Ungodly expectations lead to disappointment.” In the midst of the uncertainty, God is in the details. He wants to take us deeper, but are we willing to take the first step?

The second-year Democrat discusses the city's uncertain financial picture, restoring school sports, declining passenger traffic at T.F. Green and more.

Po odcinku "Lechistanu" o Żydach sefardyjskich, nadchodzi czas na opowieść o aszkenazyjskich. Adam Balcer i Paweł Sulik opowiadają, który rabin z Krakowa był rabinem w Kairze, kto wydrukował pierwszą w Polsce książkę po hebrajsku, kto wśród Żydów upowszechniał nauki Kopernika, a także skąd wzięły się nazwy "Lechistan" i "Galicja".

Full Station Listing: wadeoradio.com/stations Podcast Feed: http://wadeoradio.com/podcast/     Welcome to the all new Wade-O Radio Show, where each week we give you the latest and greatest Christian Hip Hop Music, news and culture.   Today’s show is dedicated to Gotham Shem Jean,  the 26 year old accountant, worship leader and black man who was killed in his own home by an off duty Dallas police officer.   Tune in as we discuss his case, plus sit down with Jackie Hill-Perry to discuss her new book Gay Girl, Good God and Sexism in Christian Hip Hop community   Plus, we have new music from Paris & Jerry Manna, Fedel, Koryn Hawthorne and KB     PLAYLIST   Hour #1 - In The Lab   “Long Live the Champions” - KB   Mic Break: Strength is Made Perfect in our Weaknesses   “I Ain’t Done” - Andy Mineo“ “Won’t He Do It” - Koryn Hawthorne “Nothing Above You” - Eshon Burgundy   Mic Break: Remembering 9/11   “Parachute” - Aaron Cole feat. nobigdyl. “Drowning” - Wande   A Word From Our Sponsors   “Way Up” - Bizzle feat. Sevin   Mic Break: Gotham Jean Murder Pt. 1   “Let It Rise (Live)” - Gotham Shem Jean “Fashion Joe” - Gawvi feat. KB New Joint of the Week: “Depressed” - Fedel   Mic Break: Gotham Jean Murder Pt. 2   “Can’t Believe” - Da’ T.R.U.T.H. feat. Eric Greene “Praying Hands Remix” - Ty Brasel feat. Trip Lee   A Word From Our Sponsors                                                             Hour #2 - In The Lab   “Didn’t I” - Lecrae & Andy Mineo   Interview: Jackie Hill Perry on JGivens coming out   “Better” - Jackie Hill-Perry feat. J Givens & Natalie Lauren “Enemies” - nobigdyl. “Tomorrow Will Come“ - Cass   Interview: Jackie Hill Perry On Female Christian Rappers   “No Ways Tired” - Jackie Hill-Perry feat. Joseph Solomon     A Word From Our Sponsors   “Of Course” - Derek Minor feat Byron Junae     Interview: Jackie Hill Perry on Christians and Homosexuality   “Lamentations” - Jackie Hill-Perry feat. Latifah Alattas “Hook Shot” - DJ DB405 feat. 1K Phew “Favor“ - Jor’dan Armstrong   Interview: Jackie Hill Perry on making “Fallen Away”   “Fallen Away” - Jackie Hill-Perry feat. Natalie Lauren     Hour #3 – In The Lab   “Even Louder” - Steven Malcolm feat. Leeland                                                                                                                 “Wayz Down” - BrvndonP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “Baited” - Flame feat. Fedel                                                                                                                             "No Chains” - KB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            “Clout” - Jor’dan Armstrong                                                                                                                                            “Kawasaki”  - Jor’dan Armstrong                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              “Radiate” - Parris Chariz & Jerry Manna feat. Ty Brasel                                                                                                                        “TEAM” - Andy Mineo & Wordsplayed feat. BEAM                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             “Different” - Jered Sanders feat. Beleaf, Eris Ford & Mission “Right Back” - Jor’dan Armstrong feat. Bizzle     A Word From Our Sponsors                                                                                                        “Wait On You (Paid In Full Mash-Up)” - Deraj                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “All The Waves” -  SSTEDI                                                                                                                                   “Down” - Bizzle feat. Joey Vantes                                                                                                                        “All I Had” - KJ-52 feat. Datin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “Chun Lee” - Kai                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “That Fire” - Angie Rose                                                                                                                   Angie Rose - That Fire (m3)                                                                                                                                                                                                                           “Coming In Hot” - Lecrae & Andy Mineo                                                                                                                                                                                                          "You Can't Stop Me (Mash-up)” - Andy Mineo                                                                                                                   “Monster (Automobiles Mash-up)” - KB                                                                                                                           “Preach” - S.O.                                                                                                                                           “Glow” - WhutUpRG                                                                                                                                               Thought of the Week: Remembering Botham Jean   A Word From Our Sponsors

Joseph Solomon joins the Tara Granahan Show to discuss the cuts the Warwick school department has to make.

Joseph Solomon joins the Tara Granahan Show to discuss the cuts the Warwick school department has to make.

In this episode Frank had to talk about porn to his students. It was a rough night….. Just Kidding! It was actually a pretty amazing night for FUSE. Frank also talks about one of the best games he has played in recent months. Check out the sponsor Give Central! http://givecentral.org Join the mailing list and follow me on social media! Go to http://FrankGil.me Get Frank’s TV Show Theme Song Trivia - http://bit.ly/2oCa0ld Podcast Network - https://podcast.downloadyouthministry.com Simon Says Intro Video: Episode 1 - https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/simon-says-intro-video-episode-1Bad Joke of the Day - http://bit.ly/2EWAf0LFrank’s Camp - http://fuse.campShape It Up - https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/shape-it-up-playdoh-gameSpoken Word Video by Joseph Solomon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTeRTpyiw0Super Sexy Pack - http://bit.ly/2GPz2ouGod, Guys, & Girls - http://bit.ly/2ou9tCC All the resources Frank has at DYM - http://bit.ly/FRANKDYM

In this episode Frank had to talk about porn to his students. It was a rough night….. Just Kidding! It was actually a pretty amazing night for FUSE. Frank also talks about one of the best games he has played in recent months. Check out the sponsor Give Central! http://givecentral.org Join the mailing list and follow me on social media! Go to http://FrankGil.me Get Frank’s TV Show Theme Song Trivia - http://bit.ly/2oCa0ld Podcast Network - https://podcast.downloadyouthministry.com Simon Says Intro Video: Episode 1 - https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/simon-says-intro-video-episode-1 Bad Joke of the Day - http://bit.ly/2EWAf0L Frank’s Camp - http://fuse.camp Shape It Up - https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/shape-it-up-playdoh-game Spoken Word Video by Joseph Solomon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTeRTpyiw0 Super Sexy Pack - http://bit.ly/2GPz2ou God, Guys, & Girls - http://bit.ly/2ou9tCC All the resources Frank has at DYM - http://bit.ly/FRANKDYM

In this episode Frank had to talk about porn to his students. It was a rough night….. Just Kidding! It was actually a pretty amazing night for FUSE. Frank also talks about one of the best games he has played in recent months. Check out the sponsor Give Central! http://givecentral.org Join the mailing list and follow me on social media! Go to http://FrankGil.me Get Frank’s TV Show Theme Song Trivia - http://bit.ly/2oCa0ld Podcast Network - https://podcast.downloadyouthministry.com Simon Says Intro Video: Episode 1 - https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/simon-says-intro-video-episode-1Bad Joke of the Day - http://bit.ly/2EWAf0LFrank’s Camp - http://fuse.campShape It Up - https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/shape-it-up-playdoh-gameSpoken Word Video by Joseph Solomon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTeRTpyiw0Super Sexy Pack - http://bit.ly/2GPz2ouGod, Guys, & Girls - http://bit.ly/2ou9tCC All the resources Frank has at DYM - http://bit.ly/FRANKDYM

Hey Beautiful Souls, If you haven’t had a chance to check out our latest episodes, please do so. This week in two parts we talk beating winter dryness, honor legends who have passed on, recognize excellence, and reflect on a Joseph Solomon video about the humanity of women, and about what that means for women and men.

Rep. Joseph Solomon from RI’s 22 district is today’s guest. He talks about how he worked at the RI General Assembly for 6 years before running for office in 2014 and that the economy was one of the main issues that drove him to run for office, because he wanted to bring new ideas to the table. He believes we need to get involved to change things and make a difference, and that everyone can get involved at some level, specially the Portuguese-American community. He also believes that exchanging information with Portugal can be beneficial to the state of Rhode Island.