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It's Tuesday, April 1st, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Kevin Swanson Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000 The death count resulting from a major earthquake centered in Myanmar has topped 2,000, reports The Guardian. The quake which registered 7.7 on the Richter scale, affected the areas of Mandalay and Sagaing. (Look at a shake map of Myanmar that shows the areas most affected by the earthquake.) Rescue efforts in the area of Sagaing have been hampered by the nation's military, as that area has the reputation of resisting the junta since the coup of 2021. The major Christianized areas of Myanmar include the Chin State in the northwest and the Karen State in the southeast. The earthquake affected the center of the country. Help Samaritan's Purse pay for Myanmar field hospital Franklin Graham announced that the Samaritan's Purse DC-8 jet departed Greensboro, North Carolina just yesterday, heading for Myanmar with medical supplies and a fully-equipped field hospital, complete with doctors and nurses. You can make a donation to this emergency medical response through a special link in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com. 1,000 dead in Gaza from recent Israeli attacks War is heating up in the Middle East. Al Jazeera reports 80 deaths in Gaza in the past 24 hours, and 1,000 deaths since the ceasefire broke two weeks ago. On Sunday, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to intensify attacks on Hamas until Israeli hostages are released. U.S. deployed B-2 Bombers, two air craft carriers to Middle East The United States has deployed a quarter of its B-2 Bomber fleet to the Middle East, based on the island of Diego Garcia, just south of the nation of Iran. Also, the two aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and the U.S.S. Harry S Truman, have been moved into the Persian Gulf area, for a more significant military buildup. Trump threatened military action if Iran doesn't stop nuclear program President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Iran demanding a settlement on the nation's nuclear program. He threatened military action, but has received no response in two months. Trump told NBC News that "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before." Iran's skyrocketing inflation and severe water shortages Iran's internal pressures are rising as well. First, inflation remains at a staggering 40%. The Iranian rial, their currency, has lost significant value — crossing the 1,000,000 rial-to-dollar threshold recently. And second, because rainfall decreased by 25% last year, Iran's major dams are only at 6% capacity. The National Council of Resistance in Iran issued a recent report that summarizes the Iranian situation this way: “The sharp increase in water shortages, poverty, inflation, and systemic corruption has turned Iran into a powder keg, with officials scrambling to prevent an explosion that seems all but inevitable.” Trump's tornado of tariffs This is the big tariff week for the Trump Administration. What is called “reciprocal tariffs” are on schedule to take effect tomorrow, probably affecting India and Brazil most heavily - due to their tariff imbalances. In addition to the reciprocal tariffs, auto import duties of 25% will kick in on Thursday — mostly affecting Mexico with $20 billion in tariffs, Japan with $10 billion in tariffs, South Korea with $9 billion in tariffs, Canada with $8 billion in tariffs, and Germany with $6 billion. Plus, about half of the cars sold in the U.S. will be subjected to the 25% tariff. Let's keep in mind these general principles from the Proverbs. “Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though they join forces, none will go unpunished. … When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” That's Proverbs 16:5 and 7. Governor DeSantis wants to eliminate Florida's property tax Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis indicated on X that he would support an initiative to eliminate property tax in his state. He noted that “taxing land/property is the more oppressive and ineffective form of taxation.” Both Pennsylvania and Florida are considering the elimination of this onerous taxing of the American people. States with the lowest property tax are Louisiana, Hawaii, Alabama, Delaware, and West Virginia. The states with the highest property tax rates are New Jersey, New Hampshire, Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Declining Catholic population Catholics are losing ground – fast -- in America. In 1980, Catholics represented 29% of the U.S. population. In 2024, Pew Research's recent survey found only 19% of Americans self-identified as Catholics. That's a 24% decline in 17 years. For every 10 people joining the Catholic Church, 84 are leaving. Mainline liberal Protestants have seen bigger drop By contrast, Protestants have declined by 19% over the last 17 years. Evangelicals have dropped from 26% to 23% of the population. That's only a 12% drop. Not surprisingly, mainline liberal Protestant denominations have seen a 39% drop in 17 years. 50% of parents support adult children Savings.com reports that half of U.S. parents support their adult children at an average of $1,474 per month. Interestingly, 40% of those same parents say they plan to cut off funds to their freeloading adult children within two years. Gold up, stocks down Gold continues on its upward surge, topping $3,120 per ounce on Monday. Meanwhile, stocks dipped again. The Nasdaq Composite scraping 17,000, about 3,000 points off of a February 19th high, reports the Associated Press. Disney's woke Snow White bombing at box office And finally, Disney is still losing big money on its woke projects. The new release of Snow White featured advocacy of girl power and socialism, not to mention computer-generated dwarves. Not surprisingly, it saw a 66% drop off from the first to the second week, marking this film in the “weak performer” category. The $270 million film pulled in just $67 million at the box office over two weekends. Let's remember the lesson from 1 Samuel 12:25. It says, “If you do not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you.” And that's The Worldview on this Tuesday, April 1st, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. 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Paul McAlary ‘The Kitchen Whisperer” discusses a caller's kitchen design. He and Gina review changes to the peninsula and vent issues, suggesting solutions like removing drywall and using furring strips. Paul explains the benefits of 42-inch cabinets over 30-inch ones, estimating a cost savings of $5,000. They discuss the durability of stained versus painted cabinets, recommending stained for longevity. Paul also advises on countertop materials, favoring quartz for its durability and resistance to heat. He suggests using a lighting system to adjust cabinet colors. Paul emphasizes the importance of proper design for kitchen functionality and value.
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In this episode, WXVU Sports Director David Szczepanski and Dominic Richetti discussed Villanova's coaching search, including an in-depth breakdown of the top candidates. They also previewed Villanova vs. Boston College in the First Round of the WBIT. You can listen to tonight's game on WXVU at 7pm. *You can vote on future poll questions on Twitter/X @WXVUDavidS. Also, you can follow @wxvu.sports on Instagram to stay up to date with our sports broadcasting coverage here on WXVU. Thank you for listening! Go Cats!
Pam Teufel, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Main Line Health, discusses the impact of investing in the "pipeline program" to enhance customer relations and improve the quality of care. She also explores the benefits of a hybrid work environment and how a strong onboarding system lays the foundation for future growth and success.
Writer and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris shares her intimate memoir, Mainline Mama, about the formidable challenge of raising a family separated by prison walls and how we can fight back against a broken Byzantine system. Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was “grown.” Within a year she was pregnant, and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a “mainline mama,” a parent facing the impossible task of raising a child — while still growing up herself — with an incarcerated partner. Keeonna recalls her harrowing journey in Mainline Mama, from learning to overcome the exhausting difficulties of navigating the carceral system in the United States, to transforming herself into an advocate for other women like her — the predominantly Black and brown women left behind to pick up the pieces of their families and fractured lives. She offers inspiration and solace, showing how to create moments of beauty, humanity, and love in a place designed to break spirits. Mainline Mama is about creating self-love and community — crucial acts of radical resistance against a prison industrial complex that is designed to dehumanize and to separate and shut away incarcerated individuals and their loved ones from the world. Keeonna Harris is a writer, storyteller, mother of five, and prison abolitionist. She is a Ph.D. Candidate at Arizona State University finishing her dissertation Everybody Survived but Nobody Survived: Black Feminism, Motherhood, and Mass Incarceration. Her memoir, Mainline Mama draws from her experiences as a Black woman, teen mother, and twenty years of raising children with an incarcerated partner and building community in the borderlands of the prison. Jodi-Ann Burey (she/her) is a writer and critic who works at the intersections of race, culture, and health equity. Her debut book, Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work disrupts traditional narratives about racism at work and is forthcoming in 2025 with Flatiron Books. Buy the Book Mainline Mama Elliott Bay Book Company
Flying Scotsman DOES have a main line future – we speak to the National Railway Museum about plans for the world-famous locomotiveWhere now for HS2? The Public Accounts Committee asks what benefits can be “salvaged” from the project and we speak to former project Chairman Allan Cooke CBEAnd… Does the Royal Train have a future after all?In this episode:(00:00) Intro(00:47) Flying Scotsman's main line future(18:58) HS2 PAC report(41:04) Rail fares increase(45:34) Thanks to Supporters, Super Thanks and Members(47:18) Railway News Round-Up(47:24) Royal Train future(48:16) AI ticket barriers for the Underground?(49:40) Steamology Class 60 project(50:35) Bluebell Railway & Network Rail collaboration(52:35) Railway 200 Inspiration train(53:34) Avon Valley Railway Bounce Back appeal(55:34) The Quiz(01:01:13) East Midlands Railway celebrates World Book DayMembership: If you want to see even more from Green Signals, including exclusive content, become a member and support the channel further too.YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/@GreenSignals/joinPatreon -https://www.patreon.com/GreenSignalsGreen Signals: Website -http://www.greensignals.orgMerchandise - http://greensignals.etsy.comNewsletter -http://www.greensignals.org/#mailing-listFollow: X (Twitter) -https://twitter.com/greensignallers LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-signals-productions-ltdInstagram -https://instagram.com/greensignallersCredits:Presenters - Nigel Harris (@railnigel on X) & Richard Bowker CBE (@SRichardBowker). General Manager: Stef Foster (@stefatrail)
Pam Teufel, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Main Line Health, discusses the impact of investing in the "pipeline program" to enhance customer relations and improve the quality of care. She also explores the benefits of a hybrid work environment and how a strong onboarding system lays the foundation for future growth and success.
Paul McAlary critiques Tim's kitchen design, advising against using 54 inch wall cabinets and suggesting alternatives like 36-inch cabinets with 12-inch or 15-inch upper cabinets and 3-inch molding. He recommends reducing cabinet height to 8.5 feet for standard sizes, which could save significant costs. Paul also suggests repositioning the stove and oven for better layout, using a wider hood than the cooktop, and considering a built-in microwave. He emphasizes the importance of symmetry and proper cabinet configuration. The conversation highlights the potential cost savings and design improvements by opting for standard cabinet sizes and avoiding custom options.
Shane and I talk about our particular understandings of Christianity and how they differ. I think Shane's understanding of Christianity is an example of Mainline Christianity. According to Google's AI Overview, Mainline denominations beliefs are ... "Mainline denominations emphasize the Bible's concept of justice. They tend to be more accepting of gender and sexuality than more conservative Protestant churches. They tend to de-emphasize evangelism and have more flexible standards." Shane, Will
I've wanted for a long time to understand how a DHT works, and how a P2P network is able to establish connections in a resilient, scalable, and decentralized way. So diving into it on the show and having to explain it, seemed the easy way to force me to figure it out. With the help of a fantastic article from the Pubky team, let's make sense of the censorship resistance of P2P networks. Check out the original article Mainline DHT — Censorship-Resistance Explained by Severin Alexander Bühler. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdht6zs9) Host Links Guy on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839) Check out our awesome sponsors! Fold: The best way to buy, use, and earn #Bitcoin on everything you do! Sats back on your debit card, gift cards, auto-buys, round-ups, you name it. Fold is the true bitcoiner's banking. Get 20K sats for FREE using referral code bitcoinaudible.com/fold Ready for best-in-class self custody? Get the Jade here and use discount code 'GUY' to get 10% off (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/jade) Trying to BUY BITCOIN? River, secure, trusted, bitcoin only, lightning enabled, simple. (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/river) Bitcoin Games! Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from the Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) Bitcoin Custodial Multisig Want to get into Bitcoin but not ready for self custody? Use custodial multisig for the best way to distribute trust across multiple institutions and even jurisdictions! Check out OnRamp. (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/onramp) Education & HomeSchooling Get the lesson in real economics that you never got in school, and teach your kids the truth, not the statist insanity that is Keynesianism. Liberty Classroom is the invaluable resource you are looking for! (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/Liberty)
Is a Virgin Trains comeback on the West Coast Main Lineabout to be crushed?And the Department for Transport strongly objects to a swarm of other open access applications in a letter to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) setting out its concerns.And… Richard samples Transport for Wales' Premier Dining…In this episode:(00:00) Intro(00:50) Virgin Trains comeback to be crushed?(25:47) Shamit Gaiger West Coast Partnership Developmentpreview(31:27) RIA/RBD news(35:04) Railway 200 update(37:14) Transport for Wales Premier Dining(45:08) Thanks to Super Thanks and Members(46:47) Railway News Round-Up(46:51) Wabtec plans to close Doncaster site(48:39) Transport for London economic benefits(49:28) Car crashes onto railway at Salford(50:40) Network Rail trials departure board changes at King'sCross(52:56) Hydrogen powered Class 08 shunter unveiled at SevernValley Railway(55:45) The Quiz(59:55) Heritage Railway Association Annual AwardsMembership: If you want to see even more from Green Signals, including exclusive content, become a member and support the channel further too.YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/@GreenSignals/joinPatreon -https://www.patreon.com/GreenSignalsGreen Signals: Website -http://www.greensignals.org Newsletter -http://www.greensignals.org/#mailing-listFollow: X (Twitter) -https://twitter.com/greensignallers LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-signals-productions-ltd Instagram -https://instagram.com/greensignallersCredits:Photos & video - NASA, Southern Railway, Parliament.tv,Telerail, Network Rail, RAIB, Edward FeePresenters - Nigel Harris (@railnigel on X) & Richard Bowker CBE (@SRichardBowker). General Manager: Stef Foster (@stefatrail)
Claudia has lots of doorways and lots of congestion in her present plan. Paul suggests reconfiguring the layout and closing and moving doorways to create a more attractive and functional space. The present plans by the architect calls for banquet seating which doesn't really work in Claudia's space. It also calls for a stackable washer and dryer which will not fit into the space once the cabinetry is installed. Replacing the stackable unit would mean removing al the cabinetry and countertops in the room. Once the doorways are configured the new way, many of these and other problems are resolved.
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast! Episode 7: 2024 Year in Review Air Date: 2025-01-29 Patreon Early Access: 2025-01-22 Join Dave, Pat, Peter, Nick & Dan as we go over a TON of Saturn happenings from 2024! Follow us on our social media sites: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlaySegaSaturn Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/playsegasaturn Website: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/ Buy our merch at: https://segasaturnshiro.threadless.com/ Buy issue#1 of SHIRO Magazine: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/shiro-magazine/ Support us on our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/shiromediagroup Join our Discord to discuss translation patches, Saturn obscurities, and all things SEGA Saturn!: https://discord.gg/SSJuThN
0:08 – On Day 1, President Trump signed an executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. The order would affect any children born in the U.S. for whom neither parent has permanent immigration status. Immigrants' rights advocates say this order is blatantly unconstitutional, violating the 14th Amendment. Two major lawsuits were immediately filed in response, one by a group of state Attorneys General and the other by civil rights groups. Aarti Kohli of Asian Law Caucus joins us to talk about the rights groups' lawsuit and the history of Asian and Pacific Islander communities standing on the forefront of defending immigrants' rights in the U.S. 0:33 – Giselle Garcia, a volunteer with NorCal Resist, explains what to do when you see ICE in your community and explains your rights in interacting with immigration agents. Alameda County, San Francisco, and Sacramento all have emergency rapid response phone hotlines that members of the public can call to confirm ICE's presence and seek emergency legal help. 0:45 – Aja Arnold of independent Atlanta news outlet Mainline talks about the new podcast, “The Process is the Punishment,” covering the ATL 61, the 61 defendants indicted and swept up in a broad police crackdown against activism to save the Weelaunee Forest and prevent a police megalopolis from being built in the city. The activists are facing charges under Georgia RICO laws, which observers say is a tactic meant to quell free speech. The post How to prepare to respond to immigration raids in Northern California; plus, civil rights groups sue to save birthright citizenship appeared first on KPFA.
Join Josh and Alex as they rank all of the mainline Final Fantasy games and this direct spinoffs in the crossover episode with Let's Mosey! Next month's game will be Mass Effect Andromeda! Don't forget to share your thoughts on Twitter @Pod_Win or by emailing us at play2winpod@gmail.com. Music courtesy of Lost July
Mainline churches claim to represent Christ's love and justice, yet too many continue to perpetuate exclusion, prejudice, and discrimination under the guise of tradition. How long will we remain silent while these institutions fail to live up to the very values they profess? If you've ever felt marginalised or belittled within the church, it's time we demand accountability and challenge the status quo. We need to come together to form an advocacy group that exposes these injustices and pushes for real, meaningful change. It's time for action! #ChurchReform #MainlineChurches #FaithAndJustice #ReligiousPrejudice #InclusiveChristianity #AdvocacyForChange #ChurchAccountability #BreakingTradition #LoveAndJustice #EqualityInFaith #ChristianUnity #ChallengingBias #FaithInAction #SpiritualJustice #CommunityChange #brendonnaicker #christiancommunity #biblicalprinciples
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What's wrong with the current approach to discipleship? Lutheran pastor and author Zach Zehnder talks about what's wrong with the current approach to discipleship and what it's like to plant a church in a mainline denomination. Plus, Carey and Zach discuss the challenges of being an entrepreneurial pastor and how these innovative church leaders know when it's time to leave their clergy positions.
In the latest episode of the JBP, the room starts with their reactions to the internet drama and leaked messages surrounding Papoose & Remy Ma (25:40) before saluting TDE for their 11th annual Christmas toy drive & concert (56:40). In new music, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg release their 16-track album ‘Missionary' (1:04:32), QueenzFlip shares why he thinks there is an attack on Hip-Hop (1:17:53), and Netflix announces Mariah Carey will kick off the NFL game on Christmas Day (1:51:00. Also, what's wrong with the NBA (1:54:20), the aftermath of Luigi Mangione's arrest (1:59:25), making wome say things in the bedroom (2:20:15), and more! Become a Patron of The Joe Budden Podcast for additional bonus episodes and visual content for all things JBP! Join our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/joebudden Sleeper Picks: Ice | Kevin Gates - “KISS THE RING” Parks | Fat Joe (feat. Tuggawar) - “Bad Man” Ish | Amaria - “Finer Things” Melyssa | Mellina Tey - “Obsession” Emanny | Isaiah Falls & Sasha Keable - “NIGHT OFF” QueenzFlip | Kes - “Cocoa Tea”
This week friend of the show Meghan Cosgrove stopped by to interview me in our ongoing series about previously incarcerated people who have used education to find a pathway to success. Long time listeners have heard pieces of my story, but I've seldom stopped to dig deep into what happened to me and why my life went the way it went. We talk about prison education, addiction, religious trauma, heroin injection versus snorting, bank robbery, free will, teaching in prison, and lots more. FYI, the 1963 Impala I talk about rolling at the end was actually a 1967 (my dad remembered)Support the show
Ghislaine Maxwell and her lawyers and family have crowed about getting her out of the SHU and into general population. Well, the BOP has now granted them their wish. Ghislaine Maxwell is now sharing a dorm with other inmates and is free to mingle with them. She is also allowed to receive visitors now as well.(commercial at 10:33)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/06/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-solitary-confinement-two-years-torture/
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2 - Does Scott Presler need his own desk dedicated to him at the New York Times? Scott joins us for his new weekly segment where he gives a rundown of what he has been up to in the past week and what is on the near horizon for him as he continues his fight for Republicans. How does he feel about the bill coming to the state house floor that would allow for the impeachment of County Commissioners. Weekly registration number updates. 215 - Money Melody! 220 - Winner! 240 - We have the numbers on where students' political allegiances lie on the main line. Your calls. We take a listen to the Scott Presler Christmas song by The Earl of Tacony. 250 - Lightning Round!
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Ghislaine Maxwell and her lawyers and family have crowed about getting her out of the SHU and into general population. Well, the BOP has now granted them their wish. Ghislaine Maxwell is now sharing a dorm with other inmates and is free to mingle with them. She is also allowed to receive visitors now as well. (commercial at 10:07)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/06/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-solitary-confinement-two-years-torture/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
Except in the Cross of Jesus Galatians 6:1-18 by William Klock Everyone who knows me, I think, knows that I am no fan of Sportzball—of any kind. That goes for Sportzpuck, too. I have poor depth perception, so I've always been absolutely no good in any sport that involves flying or otherwise fast-moving objects. I joined the swim team instead and—to this day—thorough enjoy it. As a kid my favourite was to swim in the medley relay swimming backstroke. I was really good at that it was fun to contribute that effort to a relay team. You might not think it, but even on the swim team, as much as it might seem like everyone's competing individually—except for the handful of relay events—even on the swim team, we all had to pull our own weight, we all had to look out for each other to win. I struggled with backstroke for a long time, but in high school one of the upperclassmen who would go on to the US Olympic team, not only encouraged me, but took me aside and worked with me to better my stroke. Because that's what you do when you're on a team. But here's the thing. We all know this. It's a no-brainer. A team won't win if it doesn't work together, if people don't show up, if everyone doesn't pull his own weight. It's a no-brainer in sports. But then there's the church. In the average church about twenty per cent do eighty per cent of the work. Compare the membership to average Sunday attendance and in the average church there's a significant difference between those two numbers. I've been in churches where average Sunday attendance was less than a third of the actual membership. And, it's been my experience, that instead of coming alongside to help each other when we see problems, too many of us stand on the sidelines and complain amongst ourselves. We've seen a version of this in Galatians. The team was being pulled apart: Jewish believers here, gentile believers there. They were, as Paul puts it, biting and devouring each other and on the verge of blowing the whole thing up, when they should have been bearing with each other in love. We're supposed to be focused on Jesus and walking by the Spirit, but all too often we end up focused on ourselves and walking according to the flesh. So as we come to Chapter 6, the closing chapter of Paul's letter, he's made his arguments, but before he sums it up in closing, he visits a couple of relevant points about the unity of the church and what life—what teamwork—in a church characterised by the fruit of the Spirit looks like. So, first, Galatians 6:1-5. Brothers [and Sisters], if someone is found out in some trespass, then you—the spiritual ones—should set such a person right, in a spirit of gentleness. Watch out for yourselves: you too may be tested. Carry each other's burdens; that's the way to fulfil the Messiah's law. For if you think you're something when you're not, you deceive yourself. Every one of you should test your own work, and then you will have a reason to boast of yourself, not of somebody else. Each of you, you see, will have to carry your own load. This is what it looks like to build a community around the fruit of the Spirit instead of the works of the flesh. This is what it looks like to live in love and humility, instead of rivalry and jealousy. Stuff will go wrong. We may be walking by the Spirit, but we're not perfect. And Paul says that when that happens, we need to set each other right in a spirit of gentleness. You who are spiritual, he writes. He might be saying that this is what spiritually mature believers do, but I really think he's writing this as a rebuke to the Galatians. They think they're spiritual, but instead of dealing with each other in gentleness, instead of setting each other right, they're biting and devouring each other. I really don't think this is Paul's instruction to the spiritually mature; it's his instruction to everyone to whom Jesus has given his Spirit—and that's all of us—everyone who is in Jesus the Messiah. Brothers and Sisters, when Paul, in Chapter 5, says to walk by the Spirit, I think out tendency is to picture ourselves walking—each of us alone, each of us doing our own thing in line with the Spirit—but Paul's point here is that we don't do this as individuals. The Spirit joins us into Jesus' one body and we walk by the Spirit together, as a community. That means helping each other when we struggle or fall or stray. And helping means being gentle in the sense that the end goal is restoration and the wholeness and unity of the community. Remember, we follow Jesus who, as Paul put it earlier, “loved me and gave himself for me”. We ought to feel the same way towards each other. It's easy to become prideful. It's easy to look down on a brother or a sister who stumbles—as if it could never happen to us—so Paul warns: Watch out. Someday you might be tested. Instead, we need to be carrying each other's burdens. And now he comes back full circle to this whole debate about the place of the law. He says that it's as we bear with each other in love, gentleness, and humility, it's in this that we actually fulfil the law. We can never fulfil the law through circumcision or diet or keeping the Sabbath, but by being this community that bears and that lives out the fruit of the Spirit—for each other and for the world. Then, on the other side of the scale, Paul stresses our work, our vocation within this community. He's been warning about these circumcision people who want to “boast” in their circumcision. What he's getting at is that when persecution comes, they'll point out that they're circumcised and can therefore claim the Jewish exemption from pagan worship. Paul says, no! God's given you gospel work to do and he's given you his Spirit to make it possible. “Boast” in that. When your neighbours or the civic officials come to arrest you for being anti-social or anti-patriotic or anti-religious appeal not to your circumcision, but to the gospel, to the kingdom work you and your brothers and sisters have done. In other words, be the “on earth as in heaven” people Jesus and the Spirit have made you and leave the pagans nothing bad to say about you. Don't glorify your flesh; let God be glorified. And with that in mind he tells them—and us—to get to work. Carry your load. In other words, do the work of the kingdom that God has called and equipped you to do. Don't sit around waiting for that committed twenty per cent to do it; do what God has called you to do. Is there something that needs to be done? Are you equipped to do it? Then don't complain about it. Go do it. Visit that brother or sister in hospital. Mop the kitchen floor. Find an opportunity to talk to your neighbour or your co-worker or your grandchild about Jesus and the gospel. “Each of you,” Paul writes, “have to carry your own [part of] the load.” And then, speaking of the loads we each bear within this Messiah community, Paul writes in verse 6: If someone is being taught the word, they should share with the teacher all the good things they have. Don't be misled; God is not mocked. What you sow is what you'll reap. Yes: if you sow in the field of your flesh you will harvest decay from your flesh, but if you sow in the field of the Spirit you will harvest eternal life from the Spirit. So speaking of everyone doing their part of the work… I'm always impressed by Paul's ability to talk about money without mentioning money. But here it is. There is one job in the church that needs to be paid and I suspect this is Paul's way of saying to the Galatians, “If you'd been doing this, you probably would have avoided the situation you're in.” Brothers and Sisters, those who preach and teach in the church need material support so that they can devote themselves to their work. We see this in Acts. There were a lot of things that needed to be done in the Jerusalem church. Good things. Godly things. But the apostles realised that they needed to devote themselves to preaching and to prayer, so they appointed deacons to do those other things. And this means a lot coming from Paul. Paul supported himself making tents. He didn't take money for himself from the churches he served, and yet he's always clear that that's not the norm. He knew that the ministry of the word is absolutely essential to the church and he knew that it's time-consuming work and the church needs to do its best to make sure those who preach and teach actually have to time to minister the word well. Brothers and Sisters, you want to see revival? Revival is always preceded—whether we look at the history of Israel or the history of the church—revival is always preceded by a passion for the teaching and preaching of God's word—by preachers who are passionate about proclaiming it and by people who are desperately hungry to hear it. And that same history shows that when the church is at its lowest, there is a famine of the word. Many of us left Mainline churches that were preaching heresy and people wonder how it happened. Brothers and Sisters, it happened because the expositional preaching and the confidence in the inspired word of God that were our heritage, gifted to us by the Reformation, were lost. As John Stott once said, “Sermonettes make Christianettes”. It happens in theology liberal churches. It happens in sacramentalist churches. It happens anywhere the glory of God's word has been eclipsed by other priorities. Poorly taught people who don't know their Bibles are prey to heresy and immaturity and that's precisely what's happened. It's what happened in Galatia. And so Paul warns them that they need to support the ministry of men in their churches to give the word of God its due, so that they preach it faithfully and powerfully, so that the churches will grow in the Spirit, know the truth, and recognise error when they see it. And Paul is then clear: If you think you can do without serious Bible teaching in your church and still steer your way through the false teachers and heresies of the day unscathed, you are fooling yourself. God is not mocked. He has spoken. He has given his word because he loves us, because he wants us to know him, because he wants us to know his promises and his faithfulness so that we can live in hope, so that we can each go out to proclaim the gospel faithfully and so that the church can be what he wants it to be. Brothers and Sisters, faithful Christians should have a natural hunger for that word and to hear it proclaimed fully and faithfully. Our forebearers back in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, after a millennium-long famine of the word, were eager to hear it. They'd listen to an hour-long sermon Sunday morning, then come back in the afternoon to hear another two or sometimes three preachers proclaim the word—not pop-psychology, not self-help, not sermons where a verse is just a springboard for the preacher to jump into his own ideas, but to hear God's word explained and applied. Because they were hungry to hear God speak. Paul says: You reap what you sow. There are exceptions. Sometimes you pay a preacher and he turns out to be useless and there are some underpaid preachers who are brilliant, but as a general rule—and one borne out in the history of the church—if you don't take preaching seriously and if you don't invest your church's resources in good preaching, you will end up with a shallow and half-baked pulpit ministry, a famine of the word, and ultimately all sorts of false teaching and heresy. And still talking about money—again without actually using the word—Paul carries on in verses 9 and 10 with this image of sowing and reaping. Don't lose your enthusiasm for doing good. At the proper time you'll bring the harvest in, if you don't give up. So then, while we have the chance, let's do good to everyone and particularly to the household of the faith. If we have crucified the flesh and its works and have put on Jesus and are bearing the fruit of the Spirit, good works should naturally follow, but I think Paul has something more specific in mind here, because I can't see any reason he would be concerned that we'd lose our enthusiasm—literally he writes don't weary—of bearing the fruit of the Spirit. What we are prone to losing our enthusiasm for is the sort of works that we do to build up the church or to carry the gospel and the kingdom to the community around us. That can get very tiring sometimes—especially when you give and give or work and work and nothing seems to come of it or no one seems to appreciate it. I think that's what Paul has in mind. There was a culture of benefaction in the ancient world. Wealthy people would often try to outdo each other in gifts and investments in their towns and cities. They did it for selfish reasons. They wanted to make names for themselves. And I think given that context, Paul's idea here is that Christians need not only to be benefactors within their own churches and supporting their own ministries, but that Christians should also be known as benefactors in their own communities—not for their own sakes, but in order to make the name of Jesus known and as a natural outflowing of the grace of the gospel. We witness God's generosity with us by being generous to others. It's one of the ways we lift the veil on God's new creation. The pagans will accuse Christians falsely in all sorts of ways. Don't weasel out of it by trying to be Jews, exempt from pagan worship. Instead, use your generosity to display the love and grace of mercy of the gospel. And that then brings Paul full circle, back to this issue of circumcision and torah. In verse 11 he gives us a sense of just how passionately he feels about all of this. Letters were normally dictated to a scribe, but here Paul takes the pen in his own hand and writes, Look at the large-size letters I'm writing to you in my own hand. This is personal. Papyrus was expensive and maybe he wanted to stress how important this all was by showing how willing he was to use more of it. Maybe he wanted someone to be able to hold the page up and for the congregation to be able to read it for themselves at a distance. Whatever the case, he comes back to the main issue and stresses how vital it is to their lives as a Christians and as a church. He writes: It's the people who want to make a fine showing in the flesh who are trying to force you into getting circumcised—for this purpose only, that they may avoid persecution for the Messiah's cross. You see, even the circumcised ones don't keep the law; rather, they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh. The circumcision people are afraid. As long as the church was just Jews everything was fine, but now these formerly pagan gentiles have heard the good news about Jesus and have believed and when they did, they stopped going to the temples, they stopped making offerings to the gods, they smashed their home altars and threw out their household gods, they've stopped offering that pinch of incense to Caesar that he demanded. In doing that, these gentiles converts have angered their friends, families, neighbours, and the civic authorities and so they claimed the exemption that Caesar had granted to the Jews. Except these gentile Jesus-believers, they weren't Jews. They weren't circumcised, they weren't fussy about what they ate, they didn't even keep the Sabbath. And so now the Jews were mad. And they were afraid: What if the authorities revoke our special status and force us to worship pagan gods? That's what all this talk about a show in the flesh and boasting is all about. They wanted to avoid being persecuted for the sake of Jesus and the gospel by putting on a show—a sham of being Jewish. But that sham meant denying the power of the cross. That sham meant denying that in Jesus, God's new world has been born. And so Paul goes on in verses 14 to 16: As for me, God forbid that I should boast—except in the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. Circumcision, you see, is nothing; neither is uncircumcision. What matters is new creation. Peace and mercy on everyone who lines up by that standard—yes, on God's Israel. Brothers and Sisters, the cross should be our everything. It was for Paul. When the authorities came for these circumcision people, they were going to “boast”—meaning they were going to appeal to their circumcision, to being under the law. But Paul's saying, when they come for me, God forbid that I should boast in anything other than the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. Think of Philippians 3, where Paul lists all the things he had a right to boast in. If anyone had been faithful to the law, he had. And yet there he swept it all aside as trash because of the Messiah, knowing him, gaining him, being found in him, knowing him and his power, and sharing in the companionship of his sufferings. For Paul, to be persecuted for the sake of Jesus was confirmation of his union with and of his life in the Messiah. Jesus had swept him off his feet and given him a new identity and called him into this cross-shaped life that was the fulfilment of Israel's hope and at the same time the overturning of all his earlier expectations and aspirations. This is what Paul means when he says that he has been crucified to the world. Everything about who he had been as a Jew, a Pharisee, none of it mattered anymore. His old self was dead and buried—crucified with Jesus the Messiah who had fulfilled it all and then launched God's new world. That new life, that new world, Jesus and the Spirit—that's all that mattered to Paul anymore. The cross of Jesus fulfilled and changed everything. And so he sums up everything he's written so far: Circumcision and uncircumcision are nothing—they don't matter—because Jesus has inaugurated God's new creation. Think of Paul's statement in 2 Corinthians 5:17, where he says that if anyone is in the Messiah…new creation! New creation. He just blurts it out. If you're in Jesus the Messiah. If you have trusted him and given him your allegiance. New Creation! God has begun to set us and to set his world to rights and that's what we need to line up with. God's given us his Spirit to get us there. Like a compass, the Spirit draws the line on the map and that line ends in our resurrection and the restoration of all things. But, Brothers and Sisters, you've got to walk that line by the Spirit. Don't stray left or right. Don't let the flesh back. Walk by the Spirit, because God's new creation is all that matters. So peace and mercy, Paul says, to everyone who lines up by that standard—yes, he says, on God's Israel. Again, he stresses, circumcision isn't the answer. You can't go back to the old Israel of the torah. The way forward, is in Jesus and the Spirit—those who are in the Messiah, who walk by the Spirit, they're God's Israel, they are now God's people. And then finally, verses 17 and 18: For the rest, let nobody make trouble for me. You see, I carry the marks of Jesus on my body. The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be with your spirit, my brothers [and sisters]. Amen. They wanted to mark out their flesh with circumcision. Far more important for Paul were the marks of persecution that he bore on his body for the sake of the Lord Jesus. He wrote earlier of each of us bearing our own loads. This was his. Eventually it may have been the load borne by some of those Christians in Galatia when persecution came. Paul likens those marks to the branding of a slave. Those cuts and bruises and broken bones marked him out as belonging to Jesus as assuredly as his baptism did. He belonged to Jesus and he would serve Jesus to death and one day he would be raised to new life in God's new creation and there those marks will be badges of glory. And so Paul closes: Grace to you. The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. Because nothing else matters. May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with your spirit—not your flesh he stresses even as he writes the last words, not your flesh, but with your spirit. It's interesting the way Paul puts it: “your” is plural but “spirit” is singular as if to stress again the importance of the life of the Spirit as the cornerstone of these little communities of Jesus-followers. If you are in Jesus the Messiah, walk by the Spirit. Give no quarter to the flesh. Don't be afraid of the Jews or the pagans. Just be faithful to Jesus. Walk the path the Spirit has set for you and he will not only lead you to God's new creation, but along the way he will make you a witness of that new creation to the world. Brothers and Sisters, that's it. Cut through all the issues with torah and circumcision and the problems between Jews and gentiles that we see in Galatians, cut through all that and at the heart of it all is Paul's firm belief that the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah was the turning point in the history of the world—of the history of whole cosmos. I was talking with the woman cutting my hair this week and she asked me, “It's been a long time. When will they write a New New Testament?” I said they won't. Because there's no need. Because Jesus, once and for all changed everything. It won't happen again because it can't happen again. It's done. We're just waiting—and working towards—the fulfilment of what he started. I don't think she really understood. And I think a big reason for that—and a big reason why so many people out there (and sometimes even in the church!) don't understand is because we're often so bad at living as new creation people. Our problems aren't the problems of the Galatians, but the results are often the same. In our disunity we undermine the unity that Jesus established for his church, for his family. Some Christians even use the Lord's Supper, which Jesus gave to bring us together, some use it as a means of emphasising our divisions and of excluding fellow Jesus-followers. Instead of walking by the Spirit, we have our contemporary ways of using our freedom in Jesus as a base of operations for the flesh. Like the Galatians we, too, often allow our fear to undermine our gospel witness. Out of fear of opposition or in hopes of winning over the pagans of our own day, we water down and compromise the gospel or we weave into it the secular philosophies of our own day. We end up proclaiming a message without any power because we've stripped it of the offense of the cross, of Jesus, of the life of the Spirit, of God's new creation. This is epitomised by the website of a local church I was looking at recently. They stripped out any references to A.D.—anno domini, the year of our Lord—replacing them with C.E., the “common era”—I guess, lest the world be offended by the announcement that Jesus is Lord and that he has changed history and the world. Brothers and Sisters, we need to take a lesson from Paul. We need to keep Jesus at the centre of who we are. Jesus defined everything for Paul. Jesus called him in the first place. Jesus' cross defined who Paul became and it shaped the good news he proclaimed. Jesus was the fulfilment of everything that had come before and the one who had set his people free from sin and death. Jesus is the Son whose being sent defines even what we mean by the word “God”. And it's now Jesus' Spirit who has caused God's new creation to be born in us so that we can live as renewed human beings and so that we can live as the beachhead, the advance guard of that new creation as it breaks into the old. Jesus' death and resurrection marked the end of the old world and the birth of the new. Jesus is the one “who loved me and gave himself for me.” And, Friends, if we are to be faithful, we will be a church with this Jesus at our centre—not just in our theology, but also in our teaching and preaching and in our shared life together. We have been called by love. May we be a church shaped by love and that does everything it can to live by love—the love shown to us by Jesus. Let's pray again our Collect: Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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A recent study from Harvard and Montana Tech University has proposed that crypto-terrestrials may author much of the UFO phenomenon. These entities are unidentified inhabitants of earth, living in the ocean, deep underground, or in mountains and volcanoes. Be them more human-like, non-human primates, or reptiles, the mythos of such creatures pre-dates civilization. The fringes of science today are becoming more open to what otherwise would be considered delusional ufology or complete fiction. What the scientists, ‘believers', and even ‘skeptics' tend to overlook, however, is the immense archetypical pantheon comprising the whole of the UFO phenomenon, particularly as it relates to the serpent deity as the eternal predator. The recent former study was announced just a few days after archeologists discovered on the Colombia-Venezuela border a massive collection of art depicting giant serpents, giant centipedes, larger-than-life-animals, and ten meter-tall (32 feet) human-like figures. Found alongside were geometric engravings, grids, and dots, lending credibility to the idea that plant medicine allowed humans access to entirely new visual realms. Mainline academia has known, as these archeologists believe, that large serpents are not just random, they are part of a tradition that spans the world. China has the White Snake demon who lives under water, and the Lung Dragons; the Hopi have a famous snake dance to encourage rainfall; in India there is the seven-headed Naga, not unlike the Biblical Revelation Beast with seven heads; the Mesoamerican cultures have Quetzalcoatl; in Greek myth are Medusa and the Gorgons, and the Hydra, and Apollo defeats a serpent called Python living in the earth; in Norse myth is Jormungand; Japan has the Yamato no Orochi; Russia has the fire serpent; Korea has Eopsin; Mesopotamia has Ningishzida and Mushussu; and the Bible also has Leviathan from Job, and the Genesis serpent. Serpents are universal symbols of fertility, creativity, and rebirth, but also of - by default - temptation of flesh, poison, and death. Hence why the Egyptian guardian of youth was a cobra named Wadjet and the Australian creator was a Rainbow Snake. As for health, the serpent caduceus and Asclepius Wand are still in use today. The serpent is also directly associated with water, fire (salamanders), air (dragons), and earth. In Egypt it brings down Ra's sun barge, which crashes as a flying disc, and is then recovered later - this is the dying god motif and background for Roswell mythology. Is it possible that just as we live alongside less developed tribes today, we could ourselves live next to more developed civilizations that go largely unnoticed? Could we develop technology, like a cargo cult, based on what we perceive to see in the skies, oceans, mountains, etc?-FULL ARCHIVE & RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-secret-teachings Twitter: https://twitter.com/TST___Radio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesecretteachings WEBSITE (BOOKS, RESUBSCRIBE for early & ad-free show access): http://thesecretteachings.info or http://tstradio.infoPaypal: rdgable@yahoo.com CashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.
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In this episode, we discuss layouts with no mainline. One, if any yards, and minimal staging. Can you create a fun, operational layout that will stand the test of time? We discuss how a smaller layout can be more nimble, or accommodating to operators of any skill level. No clearing up for the express, no Train orders to decipher, no dispatcher to boss you around the railroad.Greg Dahl, Dan Dossa, and Thomas Gasior MMR discuss these ideas and more.This episode is sponsored by the David Hamilton Geography Bender and more. Plus the usual outtakes at the end.
Tuesday Tools On Purpose: Ownership Preservation Series: Legal Strategies for Safeguarding Your Business Part 6: Liens Join BOP Business Coach Patrice Miles and Samy Diab from Diab Law Firm, PLLC, as they discuss "Ownership Preservation Series: Legal Strategies for Safeguarding Your Business - Part 6: Liens" on the latest Tuesday Tools On Purpose podcast! Learn how to protect your business assets with effective lien strategies! Contact information: Patrice Miles Business Coach, Business On Purpose patrice@mybusinessonpurpose.com Discovery Call: https://bit.ly/patricediscovery Samy Diab Diab Law Firm, PLLC Direct Line: 713 588- 1657 Main Line: (281) 560- 4913 samy@diablawfirm.com https://diablawfirm.com/ Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos? Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on. Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE➡️ http://bit.ly/healthybusiness1 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1
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Whether it's the principle of things of the principal of Upper Merion High School, this murder/kidnapping case has got everyone whipped into an absolute frenzy - and so many questions still remain unanswered! Where are Sue's children? Who would senselessly murder an innocent English teacher? And maybe most importantly, who would ever hire a staff like this to work at a high school? Tune in and listen to part 2 of this mystery, which in many ways still has us baffled.
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Main Line Murders /// Part 2 /// 792 Part 2 of 2www.TrueCrimeGarage.comThe Main Line Murders is the largest and longest running murder investigation ever conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police. On June 25th, 1979 the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinsert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a motel parking lot. Her two children Michael and Karen have not been seen since June 22, 1979. They were just ten and eleven years old, respectively. The two children were last seen playing in front of their mother's house. Why did the family of three leave their home late that Friday night? Where were they going and why? This is a murder mystery with too many unanswered questions. Beer of the Week - Wishing Star by Highland Brewing Garage Grade - 4 and a half bottle caps out of 5 Listen to - The Burden: Empire on Blood on Apple podcast or wherever you listen to True Crime Garage. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-burden-empire-on-blood-video/id1761419077Please Like, Subscribe, Follow and leave a kick ass 5 ⭐️ review for True Crime Garage. Tall cans in the air!!!
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Main Line Murders /// Part 1 /// 791 Part 1 of 2www.TrueCrimeGarage.comThe Main Line Murders is the largest and longest running murder investigation ever conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police. On June 25th, 1979 the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinsert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a motel parking lot. Her two children Michael and Karen have not been seen since June 22, 1979. They were just ten and eleven years old, respectively. The two children were last seen playing in front of their mother's house. Why did the family of three leave their home late that Friday night? Where were they going and why? This is a murder mystery with too many unanswered questions. Beer of the Week - Wishing Star by Highland Brewing Garage Grade - 4 and a half bottle caps out of 5 Listen to - The Burden: Empire on Blood on Apple podcast or wherever you listen to True Crime Garage. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-burden-empire-on-blood-video/id1761419077 Please Like, Subscribe, Follow and leave a kick ass 5 ⭐️ review for True Crime Garage. Tall cans in the air!!!
Tuesday Tools On Purpose: Ownership Preservation Series: Legal Strategies for Safeguarding Your Business Part 3: Protecting the Corporate Form with Proper Bookkeeping Join BOP Business Coach Patrice Miles and Samy Diab from Diab Law Firm, PLLC, as they discuss "Ownership Preservation Series: Legal Strategies for Safeguarding Your Business - Part 3: Protecting the Corporate Form with Proper Bookkeeping" on the latest Tuesday Tools On Purpose podcast! Learn how to avoid legal risks by keeping your personal and business finances separate! Protect your business with smart bookkeeping strategies. Contact information: Patrice Miles Business Coach, Business On Purpose patrice@mybusinessonpurpose.com Discovery Call: https://bit.ly/patricediscovery Samy Diab Diab Law Firm, PLLC Direct Line: 713 588- 1657 Main Line: (281) 560- 4913 samy@diablawfirm.com https://diablawfirm.com/ Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos? Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on. Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE➡️ http://bit.ly/healthybusiness1 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1
Join BOP Business Coach Patrice Miles and Samy Diab from Diab Law Firm, PLLC, as they discuss "Ownership Preservation Series: Legal Strategies for Safeguarding Your Business - Part 2: Securing Your Business with Spousal Consent" on the latest Tuesday Tools On Purpose podcast! Learn how to protect your business from potential legal risks in the event of a divorce and secure your company's future with the right legal strategies. Contact information: Patrice Miles Business Coach, Business On Purpose patrice@mybusinessonpurpose.com Discovery Call: https://bit.ly/patricediscovery Samy Diab Diab Law Firm, PLLC Direct Line: 713 588- 1657 Main Line: (281) 560- 4913 samy@diablawfirm.com https://diablawfirm.com/ Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos? Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on. Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE➡️ http://bit.ly/healthybusiness1 SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1
"Until now you have not asked for anything in My Name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."- John 16:24 You may say My Name at the end of your prayers, throughout your prayers, but you don't feel It. Up until now, It's just been a word to you. Up until now, you've asked for nothing in My Name. You know what that means? All of these Graces, all of these Mercies that I am raining down upon you constantly, you will see them now. Feel Me now. “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” - Bob Marley ********************************* That's the cure for anxiety-- knowing where to place your Faith. Not out here. There is no out here. Put it on (t)His Feeling, that's always here when you turn to It. Place it in the Silence that never changes. They're like different facets on this Christ diamond-- Silence, Stillness, Love, Faith, Charity, Gratitude, Surrender. "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything." Don't start any task today without (t)His prayer. There's nothing here but this prayer. I love you, Nik nikki@curlynikki.com Please support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ▶▶ Cash App $NikWalton __________________________________________ LINKS Surrender Novena #1 (All nine days in one place!) Surrender Novena #2 (All nine days in one place!) Jesus on the Mainline, Krishna Das Surrender Novena Day 4 - Father Ruotolo Dolindo "You see evil growing instead of weakening? Do not worry. Close your eyes and say to me with faith: "Thy will be done, You take care of it". I say to you that I will take care of it, and that I will intervene as does a doctor and I will accomplish miracles when they are needed. Do you see that the sick person is getting worse? Do not be upset, but close your eyes and say "You take care of it". I say to you that I will take care of it, and that there is no medicine more powerful than my loving intervention. By my love, I promise this to you. O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times) Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus. Amen" "The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: 'These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself. The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity, and held safe in an everlasting belief." II Henri Nouwen "Once you find peace within yourself, you can find peace in the world. If you have equality within yourself, you will see equality in all lives. If you have purity in yourself, you will see purity in all lives. If you have love in yourself, you will see love in all lives. Whatever is in your heart is what you will see in the faces of others. When you look at them, you will see only your own reflection. Whatever fault you see in them really lies within you. When vou look at others, you only see your own reflection, not what is truly there. So correct yourself, and then you will see all lives as one. This is what Jesus (AS), Moses (AS), and Muhammad (Sal.) told us." -Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Questions of Life-Answers of Wisdom, Volume One, pp. 181-182 "There is no greater fortune than peace. There is no greater force than peace." -Ramana Maharshi.
Sexual liaisons, despicable behavior, greed and dirty secrets abound at a Pennsylvanian high school, eventually resulting in a tragic set of murders and an enduring mystery. Sources: Echoes in the Darkness by Joseph Wambaugh Engaged to Murder by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel The Main Line Murder by Denise Noe - Crimelibrary.org Engaged to Murder: https://www.amazon.com/Engaged-Murder-Loretta-Schwartz-Nobel/dp/0515098396 The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.newspapers.com/image/174922771/?match=1&terms=stephanie%20hunsberger CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/02/pennsylvania.reinert.murders.police/index.html Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/karen-reinert DPIC: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/evidence-surfaces-in-reinert-case Philadelphia Daily News: https://www.newspapers.com/image/187215764/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE4NzIxNTc2NCwiaWF0IjoxNzIyMjE5ODMxLCJleHAiOjE3MjIzMDYyMzF9.ivD-oOQMEqYHTbyPKSx1dJlCZ_CFMOh3Ms-nAIatSnE Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8150150/susan-reinert Philadelphia Daily News: https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news/69717937/ The National Registry of Exonerations: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3645 This Week's Episode Brought to You By: MasterClass - Learn from the best to be your best - 15% off an annual membership https://masterclass.com/lovemurder Athena Club - Get started with Athena Club today by shopping in-store at Target nationwide - Use code LOVEMURDER at checkout for a free Gentle Body Scrub with your purchase of a Razor Kit https://www.athenaclub.com/ EarnIn - Download EarnIn today in the Google play or Apple app store! When you download the EarnIn app type in Love Murder under PODCAST when you sign up – it'll really help the show. https://app.earnin.com/ Shopify - The Platform Commerce is Built On - $1 per month trial https://shopify.com/lovemurder Find LOVE MURDER online: Website: lovemurder.love Instagram: @lovemurderpod Twitter: @lovemurderpod Facebook: LoveMrdrPod TikTok: @LoveMurderPod Patreon: /LoveMurderPod Credits: Love Murder is hosted by Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette, researched and written by Jessie Pray, produced by Nathaniel Whittemore and edited by Kyle Barbour-Hoffman
Summary Tim and Liz Coolis Jenkins discuss her book, Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women's Humanity from Evangelicalism, and her journey unpacking the toxic aspects of conservative evangelicalism. She explores the concept of patriarchy and how it manifests in imbalanced power dynamics and restricts women's agency. Takeaways Patriarchy is any structure or system that involves imbalanced power between genders, particularly men and women. Patriarchy restricts women's agency and discourages them from embracing their full humanity. The concept of patriarchy is often disguised as complementarianism in conservative evangelical contexts. The biblical mandates used to justify patriarchal norms are often based on American cultural norms rather than biblical principles. Mainline churches, despite their traditional appearance, often have more progressive and inclusive theology compared to white evangelical churches. Patriarchy is deeply ingrained in both the church and broader society, but it is not impossible to dismantle. Valuing characteristics traditionally associated with femininity, such as empathy and collaboration, is essential for building more inclusive and equitable spaces. Honest conversations, diverse perspectives, and a reevaluation of traditional interpretations of scripture are necessary for challenging and changing patriarchal systems. The intersection of patriarchy and the church requires a critical examination of leadership structures and a commitment to empowering women and other marginalized groups. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 03:01 Unpacking the Toxicity of Conservative Evangelicalism 10:02 Challenging Patriarchy and Reclaiming Women's Humanity 14:35 Examining Biblical Interpretations and Cultural Norms 24:21 Merging Contemporary Vibes with Deep Theology 26:26 Effective Ways to Fight the Patriarchy 28:12 Initiating Conversations with Women in the Congregation 29:33 The Need for Women in Leadership 31:11 Reflecting the Diversity of the Body of Christ 33:27 Challenging Traditional Leadership Models 39:19 Perceptions of Church Diversity 41:21 Sharing Power and Embracing Feminine Characteristics 46:45 The Sin of Empathy 48:19 Conclusion Liz's Website | lizcooledgejenkins.com Liz on Instagram | @lizcoolj _______________________________ Come to the LIVE EVENT in Austin, TX | Democracy at Risk REGISTER TO VOTE If you'd like to support our work, you can DONATE here! Get Tickets to Beer Camp (PROMO: TNEHOBBIT) Follow Us On Instagram @thenewevangelicals Subscribe On YouTube @thenewevangelicals The New Evangelicals exists to support those who are tired of how evangelical church has been done before and want to see an authentic faith lived out with Jesus at the center. We are committed to building a caring community that emulates the ways of Jesus by reclaiming the evangelical tradition and embracing values that build a better way forward. If you've been marginalized by your faith, you are welcome here. We've built an empathetic and inclusive space that encourages authentic conversations, connections and faith. Whether you consider yourself a Christian, an exvangelical, someone who's questioning your faith, or someone who's left the faith entirely, you are welcome here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices