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Interview by Kris PetersWith their new album A Sonication, Germany-based metal band OBSCURA launch the second of their trilogy concept. The group's second (seventh overall) album for Nuclear Blast pivots on many fronts. Advanced, elegant yet refreshing, A Sonication sums up past endeavors effortlessly as it gazes with purpose and conviction into the future. OBSCURA are fan-renowned and critically acclaimed for challenging and then expanding upon norms.From Retribution (2004) through A Valediction (2021), the band flourished and made significant progress in a musical genre unprepared for a creative shot of German invention. A Sonication spearheads OBSCURA into a new era of extreme metal.Guitarist/vocalist Steffen Kummerer founded Obscura in 2002. Early on, he set out to improve, redefine, and push forward. Under his self-label creation, the Bavarian released debut album Retribution (2004), followed by heavy touring throughout Europe. Word quickly spread that a brand-new band from the south of Germany was on the rise. Buzz lead to a deal with U.S.-based Relapse Records. The first record out was Cosmogenesis. In Europe, Metal Hammer Germany awarded the album 6/7 while in the U.S. Cosmogenesis hit the Billboard charts at #71. The cross-continental praise and fevered momentum landed OBSCURA on high-profile tours in Europe, North America, and Japan.When follow-up Omnivium arrived in 2011, they upped their chart success, received more accolades from publications like Terrorizer, Rock Hard, and Decibel and had another massive round-world tour cycle, while enhancing and making progress on their clever brutality. OBSCURA further developed their sound on Akróasis (2016). Moored by jaw-dropping tracks like Sermon of the Seven Suns, Ode to the Sun, and the title track, Akróasis elevated OBSCURA to the highest levels of international renown.OBSCURA's most significant accomplishment was, however, just around the corner. The final part of a tetralogy, Diluvium (2018), fiercely pursued OBSCURA's multi-album transformation into musical innovators and metal powerhouses. Music videos for the title track, Emergent Evolution and Mortification of the Vulgar Sun, in concert with a substantial interest in virtuosic, forward-thinking metal, posited OBSCURA in the good graces (yet again) of the worldwide press in addition to rocketing up, for the very first time, the official album charts in Germany. The Germans also topped out at #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart with Diluvium.A turning point in the career of the Germans manifested with the first release for the biggest independent metal label on the planet, Nuclear Blast Records. A Valediction granted the band worldwide success, topping their previous albums in a heartbeat, and saw the band climbing higher chart positions worldwide. With epic opening track Forsaken, technical-through the roof Solaris and the catchy, melodic and yet accessible title track, A Valediction established the group as an outstanding and energetic live act, to be proved by their first tour to cover South- and Central America, aside from touring relentlessly throughout Europe, North America and Asia.With the February 7 release date of A Sonication looming, HEAVY sat down with Steffen Kummerer to find out more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heavy-music-interviews--2687660/support.
The combination of bitter cold air and relatively warm river water acted on the S.S. Schenechtady's brittle welded-steel plates like boiling water poured into a cold Mason jar. The results were similar, but on a massive scale. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1606c.schenectady-cracked-ship-396.html)
Four U-boats in London
On the Balearic isle of Ibiza the summer season is beginning to wind down. The legions of leisure seekers won't officially dwindle until mid-October, when many of the island's restaurants head off on their half-year hiatus. Moored in Ibiza Town, Monocle correspondent Liam Aldous has been tucking into the changing face of the port city's food scene, which is seeing a growing number of restaurants turn into perennial offerings – a development that's pleasing residents just as much as the tourists.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A boat owner's told the podcast how he was left stranded after vandals stole his generator and damaged the vessel.Philip Tucker had moored the boat on the River Medway in Maidstone to visit a nearby beer festival.He's calling for more patrols in the area to improve safety and has been speaking to reporter Elli Hodgson.Also on today's podcast, figures seen by KentOnline show more than 3,500 children in Kent are living temporary accommodation.Dartford has the highest rate as one in every 58 youngsters doesn't have a permanent home according to data compiled by Shelter. Hear from Deborah Garvie from the charity.We've learnt today that Sheppey's going to get a new banking hub after a number of branches there closed.HSBC, Barclays, Halifax and Natwest have all gone in Sheerness with TSB also due shut. The town wasn't initially recommended for a hub but is among 15 areas to get one.A Tunbridge Wells mum has told the podcast that new "Teen Accounts" being introduced on Instagram don't do enough to protect children.The social media platform's confirmed profiles will limit who can contact young people and what content they see. We've also got reaction from a Medway based social media consultant.The boss of a Dover gym is blaming parking chaos in the town for losing more than a third of his members in just four months.Darren Fuller owns a facility in Elizabeth Street and says customers have been left with nowhere to leave their cars.And, on the website today you can see pictures of a stunning property in Tunbridge Wells that's gone on the market.Dunorlan House has five bedrooms, a leisure complex, cinema room and views over a house.
Moored at Gillingham Pier, there's a boat which has an astonishing history: the paddle steamer the Medway Queen. In the 1920s and 30s she transported thousands of holidaymakers from the Medway towns for day trips to resorts like Sheerness and Margate, Clacton and Southend. But when the Second World War came she was transformed into a minesweeper, and then in 1940 crisscrossed the Channel to Dunkirk seven times in seven days, saving over 7000 Allied troops, becoming one of the stars of the flotilla of Little Ships.In this episode we talk to Alan Cook, whose grandfather was the captain on those perilous Dunkirk crossings, and meet the inspirational volunteers of the Medway Queen Preservation Society, who from the 1980s have worked tirelessly to turn the wreck she had become into the gloriously renovated boat we can visit today. And during the celebrations on the actual day of her 100th birthday we hear from Admiral Lord West and ask, Will the Medway Queen ever be able to head back into open waters under her own steam?Find out how you can visit this historic, heroic paddle steamer at https://www.medwayqueen.co.uk/With thanks to the City of Rochester Society for supporting this podcast. Find out more about their work at city-of-rochester.org.ukWe Did it Medway is presented by Rob Flood and Philip Dodd. It is produced and edited by Suze Cooper of Big Tent Media, with assistance from Emily Crosby Media.The We Did It Medway music is written and performed by Chris Weller (Staggered Ray), Rob Shepherd (Singing Loins) and Vicky Price (Ashen Keys) with lyrics by Philip Dodd. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
PREVIEW: #BOEING: #ISS: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re the troubled Boeing and its troublesome Starliner space capsule now moored at the ISS - and when will it return to Earth? More tonight on Boeing and Starliner. 1930
A philosopher has the unique challenge of expressing that which is beyond us through the limitations of language. For many, this is done through a series of logical arguments; for the Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi 莊子 the Way of Nature, called Tao 道 is best approached in another way, through the powerful, poetic language of metaphor. Zhuangzi sets the tone through the marvelous image of the mythological Peng 大鵬 bird which rises beyond the limits of our understanding. Yet, we will see, even the lofty Peng can affect our lives. Transcript: https://ancientworld.website/b/mythosandlogos/view_post.php?id=7 Mythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.” Support the channel by subscribing, liking, and commenting to join the conversation! Support the channel financially through your generous Patreon donation: patreon.com/mythosandlogos This channel is a collection of thoughts of one person on the important stories that we humans have shared with each other. I believe that, in respectfully approaching storytelling traditions, we can find timeless wisdom and beauty that apply to modern life. I do my best to find and share that wisdom. I encourage you to share your thoughts and stories as well. The stories presented here have all been freely shared by their original tellers. I encourage you to study each story directly and consult traditional sources whenever possible. 00:00 Introduction 00:21 Zhuang Zhou from the National Folk Museum of Korea 00:33 Chinese Landscape from the Cleveland Museum of Art 01:03 Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1, translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English 01:23 Zuangzi in front of Waterfalls 02:08 Journey Through Darkness 03:13 The Land is So Rich in Beauty by Fu Baoshi & Guan Shanyue 03:35 Dapeng from the Kyōaka Hyaku-Monogatar, 19th century Japan. Image upscaled via use of artificial intelligence. 04:51 Universal Harmony 05:08 Chinese Trading Junk, Moored in the River of Guangzhou by Robert James Elliott 05:54 Zhuangzi, Chapter 1, “Free & Easy Wandering,” translated by Burton Watson 07:30 Difference In Perspective 07:45 Qing Dynasty Zhuangzi from National Museum of China 08:32 The Monk Zhidun Admiring a Horse by Ren Yi 10:01 Conclusion: Free & Easy Wandering Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Amanda has returned from her travels and she and Brooke have lots of books, happenings, and grievances to catch up on. Brooke is also feeling unmoored by many things at the moment, so she and Amanda workshop a few ways to work through some friction & clutter that has everything feeling unsettled.Amanda then shares a joy-sparker that came in handy in the days leading up to her travels, and Brooke shares a favor she recommends doing for your future self to save some coin.Visit www.goodenoughish.com for links to everything mentioned on the show.Support the podcast: Good Enough-ish on PatreonSnag Some Merch: goodenoughish.com/shopJoin the Good Enough-ish™ conversation in our private FB group: Good Enough-ish private Facebook groupIf you like this episode, please take a moment to share a positive review on Apple Podcasts, and share with others who may enjoy Good Enough-ish!We'll be back each week with new topics, stories, tips, and personal experiences, as well as some good old friendly banter and lots of laughter. Don't forget to find us on Instagram @goodenough.ish, or contact us with your episode ideas, questions, and comments.
.AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports on Migration-Britain-Barges.
(A Moving Balance - a book by Ajahn Sucitto) Practice with keeping the front centre of the body open, as if the skin boundary is feeling and reading the movement through space. Mind opens, drops some of its congestion. Thought patterns can be ventilated. Most important is to remain open and moored to a firm centre.
(Cittaviveka) Practice with keeping the front centre of the body open, as if the skin boundary is feeling and reading the movement through space. Mind opens, drops some of its congestion. Thought patterns can be ventilated. Most important is to remain open and moored to a firm centre.
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: dharma talks and meditation instruction
(A Moving Balance - a book by Ajahn Sucitto) Practice with keeping the front centre of the body open, as if the skin boundary is feeling and reading the movement through space. Mind opens, drops some of its congestion. Thought patterns can be ventilated. Most important is to remain open and moored to a firm centre.
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: dharma talks and meditation instruction
(Cittaviveka) Practice with keeping the front centre of the body open, as if the skin boundary is feeling and reading the movement through space. Mind opens, drops some of its congestion. Thought patterns can be ventilated. Most important is to remain open and moored to a firm centre.
Hi, I'm Beverley Joy of Simply Story Poetry. I wrote this poem while staying in the picturesque seaside town of Mandarah in Western Australia. This poem compares protective love to that of a small boat tied to a mooring. Early one evening, Darren parked their motorhome beside a small boat harbour to stay for the night. Grace walked down to the pier. The wind was getting stronger. Grace was feeling nervous about sleeping off the beaten track, as she often was. She was afraid someone would come along and bang on the side of their motorhome in the middle of the night or a branch would fall from the tree overhead. Throughout their travels, Darren continued to gently reassure her that they would be safe. Beverley Joy. You can read my poems at Simply Story Poetry on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and at simplystorypoetry.com. May love rock you to sleep. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simply-story-poetry/message
They did it - the team are among the COSMOS! But what can they learn about the man of the moon? What dangers lie ahead? And what kind of tales will our heroes tell? Find out this week on… SEASON QUEST! The COSMOS season of Season Quest has been written and will be run by Troy J Malcolm. Episodes are released weekly on Fridays' (8am in NZ) wherever podcasts can be found, and on the SPLITelevision Productions YouTube channel soon after. Follow the @SeasonQuestPod page on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so that you can keep up to date with our adventures! Plus be sure to use #SeasonQuestPod in your posts if you want to chat with us, share some fanart, or show your support because we would love to interact with our listeners! STARRING: Charlie Leeming as Mary December Lucy Jones as Chef Hands Tom Collins as Sprigs Gently Troy J Malcolm as Dungeon Master & NPC's CREATOR/PRODUCER: Lucy Jones WRITER: Troy J Malcolm SOUND RECORDISTS: Lucy Jones EDITORS: Lucy Jones & Tom Collins LOGO/BANNER ART: Emii Wilson MUSIC: “Chasing The Dragon” by Joel Cummins EQUIPMENT: Lucy Jones & Troy J Malcolm STUDIO: SPLITelevision Productions
They did it - the team are among the COSMOS! But what can they learn about the man of the moon? What dangers lie ahead? And what kind of tales will our heroes tell? Find out this week on... SEASON QUEST!The COSMOS season of Season Quest has been written and will be run by Troy J Malcolm. Episodes are released weekly on Fridays' (8am in NZ) wherever podcasts can be found, and on the SPLITelevision Productions YouTube channel soon after.Follow the @SeasonQuestPod page on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so that you can keep up to date with our adventures! Plus be sure to use #SeasonQuestPod in your posts if you want to chat with us, share some fanart, or show your support because we would love to interact with our listeners!STARRING: Charlie Leeming as Mary December Lucy Jones as Chef Hands Tom Collins as Sprigs Gently Troy J Malcolm as Dungeon Master & NPC's CREATOR/PRODUCER: Lucy JonesWRITER: Troy J MalcolmSOUND RECORDISTS: Lucy JonesEDITORS: Lucy Jones & Tom CollinsLOGO/BANNER ART: Emii WilsonMUSIC: "Chasing The Dragon" by Joel CumminsEQUIPMENT: Lucy Jones & Troy J MalcolmSTUDIO: SPLITelevision Productions
Moored in the River Thames, the HMS Belfast is an important part of the Imperial War Museums and a brilliant learning resource for those who visit. But for veteran Ron Yardley, it was his home for two years while he served in the Korean War.In this episode of our Korean War miniseries, Ron joins James aboard the Belfast to talk about his experiences and memories of those unforgettable years. Remembering the much sought after rum rations, the benefits of a good hammock, and honouring those who lost their lives - Ron offers a profound insight into the real life reverberations this conflict had on those involved.For more Warfare content, subscribe to our Warfare Wednesday newsletter here. If you'd like to learn even more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today! To download, go to Android or Apple store. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Prof. Juni begins by charting humanity's ignominious tradition of attributing malice onto those of us whose maladies we fail to understand. Even after prejudice toward the physically disabled began to wane, this ignoble tendency remained steadfast when we confronted illnesses with no blatant physical cause, and especially when we saw people behaving “irrationality. Moored in the legends of the archetypal Eve whose defiance of G-d's anti-apple injunction was “necessarily” caused by an unholy alliance with the evil snake, we consequently burned “nefarious” witches, performed gruesome exorcisms on hapless victims who “obviously” consorted (implicitly or explicitly) with the devil, shamed those of “poor moral character,” lambasted depressives, disparaged the anxious, and humiliated non-achievers as lazy-good-for-nothings. Juni contextualizes this phenomenon, arguing that “blaming the victim” has been the prevalent response to injustice for millennia across all cultures. This stance serves a defensive psychological function: if we were to accept the presence of unexplained causes of maladies which are beyond the control of victims, then it would engender massive anxiety among all of us lest we, too, might become victims. Far better to see victims as sinners, incompetents, or of “bad character” – thus assuring ourselves immunity from such travails. Focusing on stammering and stuttering, the discussant agree that verbal dysfluency evinces an inhibition of verbal expression which the speaker desperately attempts to battle. Juni elaborates traditional Freudian theory which anchors such dysfluencies in symbolic expressions of underlying sexual and aggressive inhibitive responses. The notion here is that the ego is inhibiting free verbal expression to avoid the likelihood that inappropriate sexual and aggressive content would burst forth from the repressed unconscious of individuals who suffered childhood traumatic experiences. Modern day psychoneurologists have succeeded, for the most part, in discrediting these hypothesized dynamics, pointing to spurious neurological inhibitions and recursive activation loops as the likely underlying causes. Rabbi Kivelevitz highlights the significant self-esteem and self-efficacy deficits which become intrinsic in individuals with speech dysfluency, referencing both prominent historical figures (such as Joe Biden and King Arthur) as well as examples from his own constituents whom he counsels. Capitalizing on cultural humor as the gateway to prejudice, Juni illustrates the pejorative demeaning stereotypes of dysfluent individuals which pervade the biases of even the kindest and interpersonally sensitive among us. R. Kivelevitz stresses that notwithstanding the current medical understanding of dysfluency as a physiological and conditioned behavioral disorder, counseling is an absolute requirement for sufferers of this malady due to pervasive social censure and self-debasing tendencies. Prof. Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published ground-breaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. He studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Dr. Juni is a board member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in cutting-edge research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psychodynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed the NYU Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 article (many are available online): Journal of Forensic Psychology; Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma; International Review of Victimology; The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; International Forum of Psychoanalysis; Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Psychophysiology; Psychology and Human Development; Journal of Sex Research; Journal of Psychology and Judaism; Contemporary Family Therapy; American Journal on Addictions; Journal of Criminal Psychology; Mental Health, Religion, and Culture. As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT. Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiur in Tshuvos and Poskim. Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America. Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.com This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.
Prof. Juni begins by charting humanity's ignominious tradition of attributing malice onto those of us whose maladies we fail to understand. Even after prejudice toward the physically disabled began to wane, this ignoble tendency remained steadfast when we confronted illnesses with no blatant physical cause, and especially when we saw people behaving “irrationality. Moored in the legends of the archetypal Eve whose defiance of G-d's anti-apple injunction was “necessarily” caused by an unholy alliance with the evil snake, we consequently burned “nefarious” witches, performed gruesome exorcisms on hapless victims who “obviously” consorted (implicitly or explicitly) with the devil, shamed those of “poor moral character,” lambasted depressives, disparaged the anxious, and humiliated non-achievers as lazy-good-for-nothings. Juni contextualizes this phenomenon, arguing that “blaming the victim” has been the prevalent response to injustice for millennia across all cultures. This stance serves a defensive psychological function: if we were to accept the presence of unexplained causes of maladies which are beyond the control of victims, then it would engender massive anxiety among all of us lest we, too, might become victims. Far better to see victims as sinners, incompetents, or of “bad character” – thus assuring ourselves immunity from such travails. Focusing on stammering and stuttering, the discussant agree that verbal dysfluency evinces an inhibition of verbal expression which the speaker desperately attempts to battle. Juni elaborates traditional Freudian theory which anchors such dysfluencies in symbolic expressions of underlying sexual and aggressive inhibitive responses. The notion here is that the ego is inhibiting free verbal expression to avoid the likelihood that inappropriate sexual and aggressive content would burst forth from the repressed unconscious of individuals who suffered childhood traumatic experiences. Modern day psychoneurologists have succeeded, for the most part, in discrediting these hypothesized dynamics, pointing to spurious neurological inhibitions and recursive activation loops as the likely underlying causes. Rabbi Kivelevitz highlights the significant self-esteem and self-efficacy deficits which become intrinsic in individuals with speech dysfluency, referencing both prominent historical figures (such as Joe Biden and King Arthur) as well as examples from his own constituents whom he counsels. Capitalizing on cultural humor as the gateway to prejudice, Juni illustrates the pejorative demeaning stereotypes of dysfluent individuals which pervade the biases of even the kindest and interpersonally sensitive among us. R. Kivelevitz stresses that notwithstanding the current medical understanding of dysfluency as a physiological and conditioned behavioral disorder, counseling is an absolute requirement for sufferers of this malady due to pervasive social censure and self-debasing tendencies. He studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Dr. Juni is a board member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in cutting-edge research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psychodynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 article (many are available online): Journal of Forensic Psychology; Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma; International Review of Victimology; The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; International Forum of Psychoanalysis; Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Psychophysiology; Psychology and Human Development; Journal of Sex Research; Journal of Psychology and Judaism; Contemporary Family Therapy; American Journal on Addictions; Journal of Criminal Psychology; Mental Health, Religion, and Culture. Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America.
Un pétrolier géant ancré dans la Mer Rouge au large des côtes du Yémen depuis 1976 pourrait se briser et libérer une partie de sa cargaison de 1,1 million de barrils de pétrôle. Traduction: An oil supertanker that has been moored in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen since 1976 could break apart and unleash part or all of its 1.1 million barrels of oil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Un pétrolier géant ancré dans la Mer Rouge au large des côtes du Yémen depuis 1976 pourrait se briser et libérer une partie de sa cargaison de 1,1 million de barrils de pétrôle.Traduction:An oil supertanker that has been moored in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen since 1976 could break apart and unleash part or all of its 1.1 million barrels of oil. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
[Warning: this is a long post, and probably not of interest to everyone, but you never know. Also it's probably one to read rather than listen to, but some prefer the audio, so I've given you the choice.]As regular readers of my stuff will know, I'm of the view that a society should be designed around direct democracy and very low levels of land value tax (LVT), what Milton Friedman called “the least bad tax”. I may dream of Ancapistan, a land of no government, but the reality is that taxation of some kind, even if it be voluntary, is inevitable. There has never been a civilisation without taxation.Ideally, land value tax would replace ALL other taxes. However, if you offered me LVT in the UK and all other taxes, income tax especially, slashed to 10, 15 or even 20%, I'd bite your hand off. My friends in the countryside hate the idea, and I get angry messages about it, but the reality is that it is the owners of prime city centre real estate, the likes of the Crown, the Grosvenor Estate, major institutions and so on, who would bear the brunt, not ordinary homeowners or someone with 10 acres of field with no planning permission. (In my book Daylight Robbery, I argue for location value tax - it's the same as land value tax, but I use the word “location” because the location of the land - ie city centres - is more important than the actual amount of land).In any case, LVT is not going to happen here in the UK. Introducing a major new tax is too big an undertaking. It's easier for politicians to raise and lower the taxes they already impose, and tinker round the edges of the existing system. LVT would be a whopping vote-loser in a nation whose primary concept of wealth is the value of their house. Just explaining it, never mind getting it across the line, is hard enough. (If you want an explainer, by the way, there is one here and another here). Anyway this is all pre-amble, and I'm not here today to discuss the merits - or lack thereof - of LVT. For the purposes of this blog, just take my word that LVT keeps the relationship between ruler and citizen, between governor and governed, in healthy, transparent check. With LVT you would pay fewer taxes and lower levels of tax - ie less tax overall.So I've been trying to come up with a politically possible means by whichLVT can be implemented and shown in practice to workBeautiful housing can be made affordable to ordinary people without collapsing the housing market or having to reform the fiat money systemCorporations, particularly crony capitalist building companies, planners, regulators and government are kept out of it, and people can be left to their own ingenious devicesAnd, by George, I think I've got it.Here's my idea. I stress: it is just an idea I am working through so there are bound to be flaws. I'd be grateful for any comments, pointers, thoughts, statistics, data, and so on.Water Location Value TaxSummary:Today's unaffordable housing is a consequence of both our system of planning and our system of money. They have conspired. But wholesale reform to either as good as politically impossible. With Britain's over-leverage to housing, the financial repercussions of markedly lower house prices are politically intolerable. Instead we propose to bypass the housing market altogether with an initiative to re-populate the underused rivers, keys, docks and canals of Britain with houseboats, barges and floating homes. Local authorities and the land registry will determine who “owns” the water and the land beside it (most water is nationally owned). That which is not needed for transportation (eg the middle of rivers) will be parcelled off into small plots to be sold to individual owners – not corporate entities – on which they can then build or buy, then moor floating homes and other edifices. An annual Water Tax will then be levied along the lines of Henry George's Single Tax (land value tax), based on the rental value of the plot, payable to the local authority and to the body in charge of the waterway, usually the Canal River Trust.20 housing ministers since 1999The unaffordability of housing has been for twenty years or more one of the biggest issues in the country. As if to illustrate the priority this problem is being given in Whitehall, we have this:In fact, we have had two more, since Esther McVey and this chart: Christopher Pincher Stuart Andrew and Steward Andrew. I make that 20 different housing ministers since Hilary Armstrong in 1999. It's not what you would describe as evidence of a long-term strategy.It seems absurd that we should have any crisis at all. A house does not cost a lot of money to build. In China it has long been the case that a 3D printer can build a home in a day for about £3,000. Here in the UK you can buy a flatpack 3-bed house, which takes 6-7 hours to erect, yours for £24,000. The interior of one of architect, Renato Vidal's 3-bed, flat-packed homes, £24,000. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of land. Little more than 4% of the land in England and Wales is built on, even less in Scotland. This was the finding of the National Ecosystem Assessment in 2011: just 1.1% of rural and urban land in England and Wales has domestic property on it, another 1% has commercial property and 2% is roads. The rest – around 95% - is not built on. You could, in theory, double the housing stock of England and Wales, using little more than 1% of land. (It is more complicated than that but you take my point).How on earth have we got into the situation that in 21st century Britain almost an entire generation is “priced out”? Underlying cause of high house prices number one – money supplyBetween 1997 and 2007 the population grew by 5%, yet the housing stock grew by 10%. If house prices were a simple function of supply and demand, they would have fallen slightly over the period. Instead, they tripled.Mortgage lending over the same period went up by 370%. It was the increased supply of money, which caused house prices to rise. Money supply increased at a rate of roughly 11.5% per annum in the 40 years between 1971 and 2011. Some 40% of it went into residential and commercial property. Roughly speaking, house price inflation mirrored money supply growth. The Bank of England has a remit to curb inflation, but it does not include house prices or money supply growth in its standard measures, and so house price inflation went unchecked. If interest rates had reflected 11.5% annual money supply growth, house price inflation would have been stopped in its tracks. Underlying cause number two – planningPlanning laws are the second part of the problem. The newly created money poured into a market which had limited ability to expand.The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, passed by Clement Attlee's Labour Government, became the foundation of modern town and country planning in the UK, followed by new statutes in 1990 and 2004. It was founded on the laudable aim “that all the land of the country is used in the best interests of the whole people”. What happened, however, was that it became difficult to get permission to build anything, so the act had the effect of reinforcing the monopoly of the landowner. Today, just 6,000 or so landowners (the Crown, large institutions and a few rich families) own more than 70% of UK land. Most people do not have the time and resources to navigate planning laws, so house building has become the preserve of a few large corporations. An acre of rural land worth £10,000 becomes an acre of land worth as much as £1m once it has planning permission. This is an expensive and utterly needless cost of government, and it goes a long way to explain why house prices are so much higher than build prices. The act led to huge concentrations of both people and capital in areas that were already built up – especially London – and brought vast, unearned wealth to those who owned at the expense of those who didn't. Our most beautiful domestic architecture was predominantly built in the 18th and 19th century, before planning laws. The more planning there is, the uglier buildings seem to get. This is causation not correlation: it is inevitable when the final say on creative decisions is in the hands of planners. Imagine Van Gogh needing regulatory approval on a painting. Here are some nice houses built before planning laws.Why this housing crisis is unsolvableTo solve the crisis requires two things: money reform and planning reform. Both are such huge undertakings with such opposing vested interests as to be almost unachievable. As a nation, Britain is over-leveraged to housing. Too many people have too much money tied up in their house. The economic risks of significantly lower prices are high. What party standing for lower house prices would even get elected? Homeowners are more likely to vote than renters. The house price crash of 1989-94 was a major factor in making the Tories unelectable for half a generation. No party wants such a fate. A land value tax, along the lines of the Single Tax suggested by Henry George, would go a long way to resolving many of the housing market's distortions, but there is as little chance of that as there is of money and planning reform. Politicians promising new taxes when there is no national emergency tend not to be popular. Margaret Thatcher's Community Charge is one of many examples.There is an impossible deadlock. We must seek a solution elsewhere. In his 2009 essay, The Education of a Libertarian, tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel argued that political change cannot be achieved through political activism. Instead, one must “find an escape from politics in all its forms”, he says, and “focus on technologies that create a new space for freedom”. The Internet, for example, was one such “new space” albeit a virtual one. In the future sea steading or outer space might be. “The mode for escape,” he says “must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country.”It might be that there is an “undiscovered country” that exists in the middle of every major city of the UK: on its water.The most valuable real estate in the worldThere is a piece of prime Central London real estate, bigger than Hyde Park and better located. It is undeveloped - 150 years ago Londoners were making more use of it than they are today. Yet it could create all sorts of possibilities for people, not least billions of pounds worth of business, as well as lighten London's chronic congestion and housing problems. The River Thames.I lived for many years on a barge, docked on the Isle of Dogs. How it used to frustrate me, as we drove up the river, that this enormous resource, the Thames, was barely used. A few party, pleasure and tour boats, some barges carrying freight, HMS Belfast, the Thames Clippers, a couple of floating restaurant-bars and the occasional mooring for houseboats. That's pretty much it. Plenty of office and apartment blocks have been built along each side (what a missed opportunity to produce something beautiful that was), but in front of them, from Teddington Lock to the Isle of Dogs and beyond, there is mile upon mile of unused bank wall, foreshore and river with hardly any activity. Here is Canaletto's Greenwich Hospital painted on the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs in around 1750. It is a haven of activity: boats ferrying people about, delivering goods, industry, commerce - as well as people living in boats moored on the river. It was bustling. Here is that same view today. There is nothing going on.This is the view from either side of Vauxhall Bridge. I took these pictures during the rush hour a couple of years back. Plenty is happening on either side, but on the river itself there is nothing going on. We cross the Thames, we walk along the side of it, we look at it, occasionally we take boat trips on it, but we don't actually use it. The River Thames used to be the lifeblood of London and we have lost touch with it. The story is the same in so many cities across the country. Each one has its water: its docks, its quays, its rivers, its canals. Almost invariably the banks have been developed in some way – the docks of Liverpool, Cardiff, Salford or Birmingham, for example - but the water itself just sits there, looking on – idly ignored. Canary Wharf is another example – even there, so much of the quay water goes almost unused. The waterways of Britain have become a relative economic desert.There should be houseboats, barges, floating structures, shops, restaurants, workplaces, offices, cinemas, theatres, small craft ferrying people in between. The possibilities are enormous. Of course there are ecological and aesthetic concerns, but these can be addressed. In London especially, but elsewhere too, there are safety issues with the tide and currents, but these are challenges which can easily be overcome by entrepreneurs, engineers and inventors between them. They managed 200 years ago. Take a leaf out of Venice's book, take a leaf out of Amsterdam's book, out of Seattle or Vancouver's book. But the mayor cannot just shout “everyone in a boat”. How then to develop our water? How to do it well? And why has it not happened before?Without clear ownership capital will not be investedOne of the barriers to development has been lack of clear ownership. On the non-tidal Thames (from Teddington Lock to the source in Oxfordshire), for example, there are riparian rights. The owner of the bank has ownership of the bed to the middle of the river. However, the middle of the river must be left clear for craft to pass and the Environment Agency limits what can and can't be done. (Can any lawyer readers confirm this?)On the tidal Thames, however – which stretches from Teddington Lock to the Estuary - these riparian rights are less clear. The Port Of London Authority (PLA) inherited ownership of the riverbed and the foreshore from the City of London in 1907. The bank and one boat width immediately next to it are owned by somebody else. Often there is a dispute over ownership of the wall alongside the river. Many moorings - Reed Wharf by Tower Bridge, Nine Elms in Vauxhall, St Mary's Church in Battersea, for example - have been there for decades, yet they are all constantly in and out of legal disputes over ownership. Much of the problem is that ownership was never registered and recorded in the same way that “normal” land was. Water moves.When ownership is not clear, capital is less likely to be risked. Things then fall into disrepair. Take a look at the mooring by St Mary's Church in Battersea if you want to see the depths of disrepair to which boats on an unmaintained mooring can sink (literally). This could be such a beautiful mooring. The spot is glorious (though not as nice as it was before they built those horrible glass fronted apartment blocks next to it).The disrepair gives rise to nimby-ism. Riverside properties don't want their view of the river spoiled by grotty old boats. When they have control of the access point on the bank to the water, they have control of what can or can't happen. Moored boats, complain those who live on the river, even if lived on for many years, have fewer rights than squatters. They can be moved on with little notice or permission. The waters of Britain are, for the most part, nationally owned, under the stewardship of the Canal River Trust. The Environment Agency also has a role. In the case of the tidal Thames, the Port of London Authority is the body responsible. These bodies made certain decisions about how the waterways were to be used – no residential development on the Thames was one. But these decisions were taken without any kind of public vote. All three would vehemently defend this charge, but they have proved barriers to rather than facilitators of progress. None are popular with those who live on boats. Our goal is to sell small plots of water – on docks, canals, rivers, wherever there is ample space – to private (not corporate) owners. The owner, not the public body, will then have the say as to what they moor there. The solutionHow ironic that a land value tax could be the answer.The local authority, together with the land registry, should parcel up each area of water, foreshore and bank in its jurisdiction into plots, with a register of who owns what. Most of the water is nationally owned, but there may be some disputes over ownership of access points and banks. These will be resolved in due course, as I'll explain.Each plot that is nationally owned should then be put up for auction with a 125-year lease, some for domestic use, some for commercial. The proceeds of the sale go to the local authority and the body in charge of the water on a 70:30 basis. We want to encourage individual owners. We want to discourage property speculators, landlords and corporate developers. So there will a maximum size to each plot and no body may buy more than one - at this stage. Buyers of domestic plots may be individuals or families – but no corporations. Against every plot a tax is then levied, which should be a proportion – likely 10% - of the annual rental value of that plot. That percentage rate is agreed in advance and, probably, fixed for the duration of the lease. Thus everyone will know where they stand. No chains are allowed in the commercial plots. Small businesses only.Every year for 125 years the lessee will pay, say, 10% of the rental value of the plot. If he/she doesn't want to pay the tax, they sell the plot to someone who is happy to. Rental values can be assessed every three years - but they are pretty easy to determine. You just look at what nearby plots are renting for.This tax revenue, as with the sale money, is shared 70:30 between the local authority and the body in charge of the waterway in that area, usually the Canal River Trust, thereby providing an income stream for both. The Authority then has an obligation to spend or invest that tax revenue maintaining and improving the waterways, in consultation with those who live on them. The lure of the tax and the sale revenue should encourage the compliance of both in the scheme, but the order should come from above - from central government.The administration of the tax should settle many issues surrounding ownership. In many cases it should force disputes to be settled. The obligation to pay tax will force many owners, either to make use of the plot - to develop it in some way (a way that is ecologically and aesthetically agreeable, of course) - or to sell it to someone who will. Once ownership is clear, and development possible, capital will follow.With individual families and small businesses developing floating properties according to their own needs and wants – self-build essentially – we are guiding development along the lines of a Schumacherian, “small is beautiful” ethos. The large building corporations (not to mention the regulators who approved their projects), who between them have between brought Britain its bland and characterless architecture of the last 70 years, will not be involved in any way. There will be certain craft specifications (usually a limit on size), but the main say will lie with the creator not the regulator. We do not want not homogenisation, but individuality and character. Individuals developing their own places to live and work will have a far greater incentive to create something unique and beautiful than a planner looking to tick boxes. Houses – and boats and barges – can be bought and sold for much closer to their build costs, a far cry from the astronomical prices paid elsewhere. It is unlikely banks will lend recklessly, if at all, thus will we keep “excess money creation” out of this market. The obligation to pay tax should deter speculators and land-bankers. Beautiful floating edifices can be built, homes, places of work and entertainment, water commerce can flourish once again, congestion elsewhere can ease. Fantastic communities can flourish - boating communities are as close-knit and happy as you get. Thus do we create a thriving new opportunity in the middle of our cities at a low cost to entrants. A market-based policy to alleviate the UK's housing shortage. 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Hall of Fame Coach Rocky Moore joins Sauce on a special edition of the BHB Podcast to talk about. Knowledge and Experience CIF Championship teams at Muir Biggest regrets as a player How the game has evovled Top 3 skills a player needs today Thanks for Watching! I know I've been gone for a looonnnggg time, but that was because my computer had been broken and it is up and running again! Know I will be on my usual schedule, which means uploading weekly. NEWS------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We know have our own Podcast! It's on Podcast for iPhone and Soundcloud for android Make sure to Subscribe! Podcast Username: @BHBTrilogy What We do here at B.H.B Trilogy ------------------------------------------------------ We love to have fun and just go out of the box [Insert motivational quote here]
The combination of bitter cold air and relatively warm river water acted on the S.S. Schenechtady's brittle welded-steel plates like boiling water poured into a cold Mason jar. The results were similar, but on a massive scale. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1606c.schenectady-cracked-ship-396.html)
Moored on the Thames, HMS Belfast has become a permanent fixture in the landscape of London, but since her initial launch over 80 years ago she has seen action at D-Day and during the Korean War. In this episode, James speaks to Robert Rumble, lead curator for HMS Belfast, about the ship and, in particular, her service in the Arctic Convoys during the Second World War. Listen to find out about HMS Belfast's contribution to the Battle of the North Cape, the people on board and the strange (and sad!) story of Olga the reindeer.For more, subscribe to our Warfare Wednesday newsletter here. If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today!To download the History Hit app, go to Android or Apple store. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Moored gondolas in Venice reimagined by Guyda Armstrong. "This re-imagined sound is centred on an object from Venice's past, a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy printed in the city by Wendolin of Spira in 1477. It begins with present-day sounds which could have been heard at the time of the book's making half a millennium ago, and then moves into the present day and to another city, with field recordings of the place where it now lives, deep in the climate-controlled stacks of the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library. The original field recording of the gondolas was made on the Grand Canal, just outside the windows of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana's rare books reading room." "Books (and not just Venetian books) are made in water as part of their paper-making process, and this is a particularly watery book, which has seen significant water damage in its long life. Subterranean and watery sounds tie the piece together, as it moves from the splashing of the canals of Venice, into the ambient sounds of the underground library book stacks, and up through the back stairs of the building as the book is taken to the photography studio. "We capture various other noises along the way: the winding of the moveable shelves to access the book; the hum of the server fans and climate conditioning units; the intermittent beeps and thuds of the door alarms and studio equipment. Sounds from the original field recording are slowed down and resampled to provide a constant sonic undertow. The book itself can be heard as its pages are turned and photographed, and the piece closes at the end of its brief trip up into the world, as we switch off the equipment and prepare to return it to the depths."
It's time for a stiff glass of bottom shelf whiskey and a pack of Marlboro Reds. Parade of Bad Guys came to the studio for a set of their drunken Americana. Moored by Ben Breiding's baritone, the band evokes the precise moment when a party might be going on too long - when everything becomes either monumentally fun or horrifyingly miserable. These five songs run the gamut from sneaky sentimentality (“Panhandle”) to palpable anger (“Run Away My Darling”), all while acting as a showcase for Tyler McFarlane (Electric Guitar), Andrew Keck (Bass), and Alan Schwaderer (Piano). Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/treasurevalleypodcast/support
We must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it” (Hebrews 2:1). What we have heard is the Word of God. The Word spoken to us by God through His prophets, apostles, and evangelists. We must pay closer attention to it. For if we do not, if we are not tethered to it, if the Word of God is not on our minds and in our hearts, if the Word of God is not our anchor holding us fast . . . then we will drift away from it and float aimlessly away God and each other. Moored to the Word of God, we have access to a love that never fails and a life with God and each other that never ends. ---------Visit our website: https://www.trinitysheboygan.org/Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A Learn more here: https://www.onelicense.net/Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=Q3DGFDL4C44VY)
Today we have episode 5 of our Iconic Ships mini-series in which a curator of a historic ship makes a case for their ship being iconic, or a historian takes a ship from history but which sadly no longer survives and make a case for that ship being iconic. Today we have none other than HMS Belfast. Moored today just upstream of Tower Bridge, Belfast is a true icon of the London skyline and Thames riverscape.A Royal Navy 'Town Class' Light Cruiser, Belfast was launched in 1938; she played a crucial role in blockading Germany at the start of the war, operating from Scapa Flow in Orkney; became part of a naval strike force base in Rosyth; took part in the Battle of the North Cape in 1943, in which the German battleship Scharnhorst was tracked down and sunk; took part in the operation against Germany's last surviving capital ship, the Tirpitz; and she is is one of only three remaining vessels from the bombardment fleet which supported the Normandy landings on DDay in June 1944. The case for Belfast being 'iconic' is made by Robert Rumble, lead curator of HMS Belfast at London's Imperial War Museum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The marine sector is worried the 20 foreign superyachts moored here will sail to Australia, which lets vessels in from New Zealand without quarantine. The Marine Industry Association is in talks with government officials to set up a trans-Tasman sea travel bubble for cruising and superyachts. Its chief executive Peter Busfield told reporter Amy Williams some companies servicing superyachts have folded due to the lack of business.
The marine sector is worried the 20 foreign superyachts moored here will sail to Australia, which lets vessels in from New Zealand without quarantine. The Marine Industry Association is in talks with government officials to set up a trans-Tasman sea travel bubble for cruising and superyachts. Its chief executive Peter Busfield told reporter Amy Williams some companies servicing superyachts have folded due to the lack of business.
Hank Ingram joined us to talk about his namesake whiskey and the unique aging technique it employs. Nashville entrepreneur, Hank Ingram, is the founder of Brown Water Spirits and their line of O.H. Ingram River Aged Whiskey. As the name implies, this whiskey was river-aged inside a floating rickhouse. This rickhouse is a large barge moored to the banks of the Mississippi River, benefiting from the riverside’s temperature variations, humidity, and the constant motion of the river. While some may be skeptical of non-traditional aging techniques (including ourselves), this is hardly a shortcut in the aging process. Hank has patiently waited and released straight whiskey (2-4 years old) which has been enhanced by river aging. We were honored to be the first people outside of Brown Water Spirits to taste the new Straight Rye Whiskey, which had not released at the time of recording. We think you’ll be impressed with these whiskies and, as their distribution grows, you should check them out. We appreciate everyone who has taken the time to give us feedback on our podcast. If you enjoy our content, consider giving us a 5 star rating on your podcast app, leave us a review, or tell a fellow bourbon lover about our show. Follow us @BourbonLens on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please email us at TheBourbonLens@Gmail.com. Visit our website BourbonLens.com to check out our blog posts, or even purchase your own Bourbon Lens tasting glass or t-shirt. Cheers, Scott, Michael & JakeBourbon Lens About the Brand: O.H. Ingram River Aged Whiskey is aged inside a barge on a first-of-its-kind floating rickhouse. Moored on the riverbank of Ballard Country (Wickliffe, KY) we utilize the climate of the Mississippi River along with its drastic rise and fall to provoke a unique interaction between wood and spirit that is unlike any other. The temperature swings, humidity, and constant cadence of the flowing water keeps our whiskey working. This unique process provides a unique interaction between wood and spirit – we call it barrel aged and river raised! About the Whiskey: River Aged Straight Whiskey: The first release in the River Aged Series. Vital Stats: Mash Bill – 96 proof, blend of 95% rye, 5% barley whiskey and 36% rye, 4% barley, 60% corn bourbon. Aged 3 years in new charred oak barrels. Available in select markets for ~$80/750ml. Appearance: Warm amber. Medium viscosity and a gentle swirl ends in clear, fine legs. Nose: Right off I got the strong scent of baking spices, predominantly cinnamon. The throat-soothing allure of honey and meringue with a bit of acid from an orange peel Palate: Buttery mouthfeel, tastes kind of rummy, may be the way the sugar shows up. The slow build heat mellows into a smooth taste with distinct spice. River Aged Straight Rye: Just released in December 2020 Currently available in Middle and East Tennessee with additional markets coming as inventories are available. About the Founder Hank Ingram: Hank Ingram comes from a long line of entrepreneurs who for more than five generations have built businesses with the river at their core. Beginning in the mid-1800s, his great-great-great-grandfather Orrin Henry Ingram founded the Empire Lumber Company. Hank’s great-grandfather brought the family to Nashville where he founded the Ingram Barge Company in 1946. Ingram Industries — the marine logistics, book production and distribution company Hank is the latest in his family tree to bring a great idea to the river’s edge. With an intimate knowledge of the river and a penchant for a bourbon nightcap, he developed the idea for the unique river ageing process while in business school. After the idea won first place in a pitch competition in 2015, Hank founded Brown Water Spirits shortly thereafter to bring the idea to life. Hank previously served as Director of Corporate Partnerships for Nashville Soccer Club and held various positions within Ingram Industries and its subsidiaries. Hank is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and received his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He is an active volunteer in a number of Nashville organizations and serves on boards for the Boy Scouts of Middle Tennessee and the Nashville Symphony. In his spare time, Hank enjoys golf, guitar and cycling. And of course, a neat glass of bourbon. Links: Learn more at IngramWhiskey.com WhiskyAdvocate.com Feature Tennessean.com Feature Discussed in the Nashville Scene Style Blueprint on Ingram River Aged Whiskey
John and Sapphire journey along the river Ia with their new friend Dedjerba, arriving at the city Ntia. Timmy Vilgiate played the part of John, Eurycleo, and several miscellaneous sailors and crowd members, Michael Merriam played the part of Dedjerba, Sophia Doss played the part of Sapphire, and Nicholas Kline played the part of Telemakso. Rivers of the Mind is written, produced, and scored by Timmy Vilgiate. Sound effects were provided by Freesound.org, including "a little bit drunk" by carmsie, "crowd cheering" by soundsexciting, "crowd cheer 2" by adam n, "water dam on teterev river" by gerainsan, "italy venice square day amb with live music" by yoh, "noises and music in the alleys of venice" by michel, "lakesup-park-summerafternoorfrontlr" by mitchell sounds, "gentle creek in rainforest with cicadas" by flood mix, "waterfall" by straget, "footsteps on a dock" by mmaruska, "footsteps wood 01" by anthousai, "footsteps shoes hollow wood platform" by kyles, "footsteps on wood" by mydo1, "Moored sailboat interior in strong breeze." by August Sandberg, "strumming sounds" by gobby 12, "tie the boat" by laurent, and "plastic creek 01" by dheming.
The combination of bitter cold air and relatively warm river water acted on the S.S. Schenechtady's brittle welded-steel plates like boiling water poured into a cold Mason jar. The results were similar, but on a massive scale. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1942) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1606c.schenectady-cracked-ship-396.html)
***Explicit*** This week on Boat Fight, the crew attempts to perform their first show on the high seas. Produced in association with Radiohaver.com
为你读英语美文 · 古诗词合辑鲁迅曾说过：我国文学具有三类，意美以感心，音美以感耳，形美以感目。中国古典诗词，既有意境之美，读起来郎朗上口，又有音律之美。在形式上，格律统一，又具有形美。集“三美”于一身。我们精选6首古诗词和名家翻译，为你读英语美文节目组“四美” 潇雨，Sally，娇娇，DD为你双语古诗词。希望站在双语的角度，我们能更充分地领略古诗词之美。多读，多背古诗词，你的内心会变得更丰盈，你的气质也将优雅如兰。雨霖铃Bells Ringing in the Rain作：柳永 译：许渊冲 播：潇雨 寒蝉凄切Cicadas chill and drearily shrill. 对长亭晚We stand face to face at an evening hour 骤雨初歇Before the pavilion, after a sudden shower. 都门帐饮无绪Can I care for drinking before we part? At the city gate 方留恋处Where we're lingering late, 兰舟催发But the boat is waiting for me to depart. 执手相看泪眼Hand in hand, we gaze at each other's tearful eyes 竟无语凝噎And burst into sobs with words congealed on our lips. 念去去千里烟波I'll go my way, far, far awayOn miles and miles of misty waves where sail the ships. 暮霭沉沉楚天阔 Evening clouds hang low in boundless Southern skies. 多情自古伤离别 Parting lovers would grieve as of old. 更那堪冷落清秋节How could I stand this clear autumn day so cold! 今宵酒醒何处Where shall I be found at day's early break From wine awake? 杨柳岸Moored by a riverbank planted with willow trees 晓风残月Beneath the waning moon and in the morning breeze. 此去经年I'll be gone for a year. 应是良辰好景虚设In vain would good times and fine scenes appear! 便纵有千种风情However gallant I am on my part, 更与何人说To whom can I lay bare my heart? 渔歌子A Fisherman's Song作：张志和 播：Sally西塞山前白鹭飞，In front of western hills white egrets fly up and down.桃花流水鳜鱼肥。Over peach-mirrored stream, where perches are full grown.青箬笠，In a broad-brimmed blue hat绿蓑衣，And green straw cloak, I'd fain斜风细雨不须归。Go fishing careless of the slanting wind and rain. 03忆江南，江南好Dreaming of the Southern Shore作：白居易 播：Sally江南好，Fair Southern shore风景旧曾谙。With scenes I adore.日出江花红胜火，At sunrise riverside flowers redder than fire,春来江水绿如蓝。In spring green waves grow as blue as sapphire,能不忆江南？Which I can't but admire. 04枉凝眉Hope Betrayed 作：曹雪芹 译：David Hawkes 播：娇娇 一个是阆苑仙葩，One was a flower from paradise,一个是美玉无瑕，One a pure jade without spot or stain.若说没奇缘，If each of the other one was not intended,今生偏又遇着他；Then why in this life did they meet again?若说有奇缘，And yet if fate had meant them for each other,如何心事终虚化?why was their earthly meeting all in vain?一个枉自嗟呀，In vain were all his anxious fears一个空劳牵挂。All, insubstantial, doomed to pass一个是水中月，As moonlight mirrored in the water一个是镜中花。Or flowers reflected in a glass.想眼中能有多少泪珠儿。How many tears from those poor eyes could flow,怎经得秋流到冬尽，春流到夏！Which every season rained upon her woe? 05《如梦令》（其一）Tune: “Like A Dream”作：李清照 译：赵彦春 播：DD 常记溪亭日暮，The dusk at the river arbor I often recall. 沉醉不知归路。Blind-drunk, our way back we remembered not at all! 兴尽晚回舟，Having had much fun, we paddled homebound 误入藕花深处。And strayed into lotus flowers profound. 争渡，Tried to get through, 争渡，Tried to get through, 惊起一滩鸥鹭。So startled, all egrets from the shoal flew. 06 《如梦令》（其二）Tune: “Like A Dream”作：李清照 译：许渊冲 播：DD 昨夜雨疏风骤，Last night the wind blew hard and rain was fine. 浓睡不消残酒。Sound sleep did not dispel the aftertaste of wine. 试问卷帘人，I ask the maid rolling up the screen. 却道海棠依旧。"The same crabapple tree," she says, "was seen." 知否？"But don't you know, 知否？O don't you know, 应是绿肥红瘦。The red should languish and the green must grow."
为你读英语美文 · 古诗词合辑鲁迅曾说过：我国文学具有三类，意美以感心，音美以感耳，形美以感目。中国古典诗词，既有意境之美，读起来郎朗上口，又有音律之美。在形式上，格律统一，又具有形美。集“三美”于一身。我们精选6首古诗词和名家翻译，为你读英语美文节目组“四美” 潇雨，Sally，娇娇，DD为你双语古诗词。希望站在双语的角度，我们能更充分地领略古诗词之美。多读，多背古诗词，你的内心会变得更丰盈，你的气质也将优雅如兰。雨霖铃Bells Ringing in the Rain作：柳永 译：许渊冲 播：潇雨 寒蝉凄切Cicadas chill and drearily shrill. 对长亭晚We stand face to face at an evening hour 骤雨初歇Before the pavilion, after a sudden shower. 都门帐饮无绪Can I care for drinking before we part? At the city gate 方留恋处Where we're lingering late, 兰舟催发But the boat is waiting for me to depart. 执手相看泪眼Hand in hand, we gaze at each other's tearful eyes 竟无语凝噎And burst into sobs with words congealed on our lips. 念去去千里烟波I'll go my way, far, far awayOn miles and miles of misty waves where sail the ships. 暮霭沉沉楚天阔 Evening clouds hang low in boundless Southern skies. 多情自古伤离别 Parting lovers would grieve as of old. 更那堪冷落清秋节How could I stand this clear autumn day so cold! 今宵酒醒何处Where shall I be found at day's early break From wine awake? 杨柳岸Moored by a riverbank planted with willow trees 晓风残月Beneath the waning moon and in the morning breeze. 此去经年I'll be gone for a year. 应是良辰好景虚设In vain would good times and fine scenes appear! 便纵有千种风情However gallant I am on my part, 更与何人说To whom can I lay bare my heart? 渔歌子A Fisherman's Song作：张志和 播：Sally西塞山前白鹭飞，In front of western hills white egrets fly up and down.桃花流水鳜鱼肥。Over peach-mirrored stream, where perches are full grown.青箬笠，In a broad-brimmed blue hat绿蓑衣，And green straw cloak, I'd fain斜风细雨不须归。Go fishing careless of the slanting wind and rain. 03忆江南，江南好Dreaming of the Southern Shore作：白居易 播：Sally江南好，Fair Southern shore风景旧曾谙。With scenes I adore.日出江花红胜火，At sunrise riverside flowers redder than fire,春来江水绿如蓝。In spring green waves grow as blue as sapphire,能不忆江南？Which I can't but admire. 04枉凝眉Hope Betrayed 作：曹雪芹 译：David Hawkes 播：娇娇 一个是阆苑仙葩，One was a flower from paradise,一个是美玉无瑕，One a pure jade without spot or stain.若说没奇缘，If each of the other one was not intended,今生偏又遇着他；Then why in this life did they meet again?若说有奇缘，And yet if fate had meant them for each other,如何心事终虚化?why was their earthly meeting all in vain?一个枉自嗟呀，In vain were all his anxious fears一个空劳牵挂。All, insubstantial, doomed to pass一个是水中月，As moonlight mirrored in the water一个是镜中花。Or flowers reflected in a glass.想眼中能有多少泪珠儿。How many tears from those poor eyes could flow,怎经得秋流到冬尽，春流到夏！Which every season rained upon her woe? 05《如梦令》（其一）Tune: “Like A Dream”作：李清照 译：赵彦春 播：DD 常记溪亭日暮，The dusk at the river arbor I often recall. 沉醉不知归路。Blind-drunk, our way back we remembered not at all! 兴尽晚回舟，Having had much fun, we paddled homebound 误入藕花深处。And strayed into lotus flowers profound. 争渡，Tried to get through, 争渡，Tried to get through, 惊起一滩鸥鹭。So startled, all egrets from the shoal flew. 06 《如梦令》（其二）Tune: “Like A Dream”作：李清照 译：许渊冲 播：DD 昨夜雨疏风骤，Last night the wind blew hard and rain was fine. 浓睡不消残酒。Sound sleep did not dispel the aftertaste of wine. 试问卷帘人，I ask the maid rolling up the screen. 却道海棠依旧。"The same crabapple tree," she says, "was seen." 知否？"But don't you know, 知否？O don't you know, 应是绿肥红瘦。The red should languish and the green must grow."
Moored off Yemen’s Red Sea Coast is a rusting oil tanker, with a million barrels of crude aboard. It has been described as a 'floating bomb'. After going without maintenance for the duration of Yemen’s four-year civil war, the UN says it is now at risk of exploding, potentially unleashing an environmental catastrophe on an historic scale. But, with 80 million dollars’ worth of oil involved, Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government have disagreed on what is to be done.
Rat from The Wind in the Willows may have said “there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”, but at this floating tiny home on the Murray River in South Australia you don't need to cast off the bowlines or pop on a captain's hat. You have all the ambience, all the views, of a stay on a houseboat without having to navigate your way down river. Moored permanently in a small harbour at Murray Bridge in the Adelaide Hills, The Cube Murray River takes everything you think you know about shipping container conversions and tiny homes and floats it – underneath the dappled light of the willows that drape themselves over the river bank.
In this episode we discuss the hot mess the Alabama Senate race has turned into, reminding ourselves of the Barnhardt Axiom and wondering why this doesn't happen more often. It's all of a piece and elements of the Roy Moore story overlap with Weinstein, Spacey, Netflix, Amazon, traditional media, Ted Kennedy and the kingdom of Satan in all sorts of direct and indirect ways. Remember to keep your focus on the Divine Throne -- it's the only "game" that matters! Feedback: please send your questions and comments to podcast@barnhardt.biz The Barnhardt Podcast is produced by SuperNerd Media; if you found this episode to be of value you can share some value to back to SuperNerd at the SuperNerd Media website. You can also follow SuperNerd Media on Twitter and Facebook.
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【点击微信右上角+号---添加朋友---公众号---搜索“为你读英语美文”---关注后查看原文，垫乐，参与书写《雨霖铃》赠书活动】【第207 期】主播：潇雨坐标：湖南马嵬兵变后，杨贵妃缢死，在平定叛乱之后，玄宗北还，一路戚雨沥沥，风雨吹打皇銮的金铃上，玄宗因悼念杨贵妃而作《雨淋铃曲》, 后来成为词牌《雨霖铃》。在众多的作品中，属柳永篇最为有名。柳永多作慢词，长于铺叙，此词表现了柳永离京南下时长亭送别的情景。今天，我们为你读的是双语版《雨霖铃》，英语译文来自著名翻译家-许渊冲。雨霖铃Bells Ringing in the Rain作：柳永 | 译：许渊冲寒蝉凄切Cicadas chill and drearily shrill,对长亭晚We stand face to face at an evening hour 骤雨初歇Before the pavilion, after a sudden shower. 都门帐饮无绪Can I care for drinking before we part? At the city gate方留恋处Where we're lingering late,兰舟催发But the boat is waiting for me to depart.执手相看泪眼Hand in hand, we gaze at each other's tearful eyes 竟无语凝噎And burst into sobs with words congealed on our lips. 念去去千里烟波I'll go my way, far, far awayOn miles and miles of misty waves where sail the ships.暮霭沉沉楚天阔 Evening clouds hang low in boundless Southern skies. 多情自古伤离别 Parting lovers would grieve as of old. 更那堪冷落清秋节How could I stand this clear autumn day so cold! 今宵酒醒何处Where shall I be found at day's early break From wine awake? 杨柳岸Moored by a riverbank planted with willow trees 晓风残月Beneath the waning moon and in the morning breeze. 此去经年I'll be gone for a year. 应是良辰好景虚设In vain would good times and fine scenes appear! 便纵有千种风情However gallant I am on my part, 更与何人说To whom can I lay bare my heart? 【译者简介】 许渊冲，生于江西南昌。从事文学翻译长达六十余年，译作涵盖中、英、法等语种，翻译集中在中国古诗英译，形成韵体译诗的方法与理论，被誉为“诗译英法唯一人” ，北京大学教授，翻译家。2014年8月2日许渊冲荣获国际翻译界最高奖项之一的“北极光”杰出文学翻译奖 ，系首位获此殊荣亚洲翻译家。【关于垫乐】最开始，我们选用了其他音乐，但文乐一致不符，我们暂时搁置了做好的版本。就在上周末，永清到国家大剧院听了《红楼梦》经典选段作品音乐会，《枉凝眉》的乐曲便一直萦绕心头。《枉凝眉》中写道：“一个是阆苑仙葩，一个是美玉无瑕。若说没奇缘，今生偏又遇着他； 若说有奇缘，如何心事终虚化？” 宝玉与黛玉的“爱情”终究如镜花水月一样不能成为现实。其中的遗憾和情愁，恰好和《雨霖铃》中的：“多情自古伤离别，更那堪冷落清秋节”一致。配上乐曲以后，永清和潇雨一致惊叹：文乐神之契合。于是，便有了你听到的这版《雨霖铃》。【主播介绍】潇雨：才不是没有故事的女同学主播：潇雨 , 制作 | 编辑: 永清图片源于网络文字，音乐版权归作者或版权方所有【更新频率】由于我们都是业余在做节目，为了保证每期精品，每周三推出一期新节目，其他时间可能会复推老节目，会推出活动，也会更新福利节目哦。微信公众号：为你读英语美文官方新浪微博：@为你读英语美文
【点击微信右上角+号---添加朋友---公众号---搜索“为你读英语美文”---关注后查看原文，垫乐，参与书写《雨霖铃》赠书活动】【第207 期】主播：潇雨坐标：湖南马嵬兵变后，杨贵妃缢死，在平定叛乱之后，玄宗北还，一路戚雨沥沥，风雨吹打皇銮的金铃上，玄宗因悼念杨贵妃而作《雨淋铃曲》, 后来成为词牌《雨霖铃》。在众多的作品中，属柳永篇最为有名。柳永多作慢词，长于铺叙，此词表现了柳永离京南下时长亭送别的情景。今天，我们为你读的是双语版《雨霖铃》，英语译文来自著名翻译家-许渊冲。雨霖铃Bells Ringing in the Rain作：柳永 | 译：许渊冲寒蝉凄切Cicadas chill and drearily shrill,对长亭晚We stand face to face at an evening hour 骤雨初歇Before the pavilion, after a sudden shower. 都门帐饮无绪Can I care for drinking before we part? At the city gate方留恋处Where we're lingering late,兰舟催发But the boat is waiting for me to depart.执手相看泪眼Hand in hand, we gaze at each other's tearful eyes 竟无语凝噎And burst into sobs with words congealed on our lips. 念去去千里烟波I'll go my way, far, far awayOn miles and miles of misty waves where sail the ships.暮霭沉沉楚天阔 Evening clouds hang low in boundless Southern skies. 多情自古伤离别 Parting lovers would grieve as of old. 更那堪冷落清秋节How could I stand this clear autumn day so cold! 今宵酒醒何处Where shall I be found at day's early break From wine awake? 杨柳岸Moored by a riverbank planted with willow trees 晓风残月Beneath the waning moon and in the morning breeze. 此去经年I'll be gone for a year. 应是良辰好景虚设In vain would good times and fine scenes appear! 便纵有千种风情However gallant I am on my part, 更与何人说To whom can I lay bare my heart? 【译者简介】 许渊冲，生于江西南昌。从事文学翻译长达六十余年，译作涵盖中、英、法等语种，翻译集中在中国古诗英译，形成韵体译诗的方法与理论，被誉为“诗译英法唯一人” ，北京大学教授，翻译家。2014年8月2日许渊冲荣获国际翻译界最高奖项之一的“北极光”杰出文学翻译奖 ，系首位获此殊荣亚洲翻译家。【关于垫乐】最开始，我们选用了其他音乐，但文乐一致不符，我们暂时搁置了做好的版本。就在上周末，永清到国家大剧院听了《红楼梦》经典选段作品音乐会，《枉凝眉》的乐曲便一直萦绕心头。《枉凝眉》中写道：“一个是阆苑仙葩，一个是美玉无瑕。若说没奇缘，今生偏又遇着他； 若说有奇缘，如何心事终虚化？” 宝玉与黛玉的“爱情”终究如镜花水月一样不能成为现实。其中的遗憾和情愁，恰好和《雨霖铃》中的：“多情自古伤离别，更那堪冷落清秋节”一致。配上乐曲以后，永清和潇雨一致惊叹：文乐神之契合。于是，便有了你听到的这版《雨霖铃》。【主播介绍】潇雨：才不是没有故事的女同学主播：潇雨 , 制作 | 编辑: 永清图片源于网络文字，音乐版权归作者或版权方所有【更新频率】由于我们都是业余在做节目，为了保证每期精品，每周三推出一期新节目，其他时间可能会复推老节目，会推出活动，也会更新福利节目哦。微信公众号：为你读英语美文官方新浪微博：@为你读英语美文
The Good Wife Marathon Diarist Kim is back to discuss the un-Moored return of Project Greenlight, and whether a fourth season a decade in the making is off to a first-rate start. Tara shared a You're The Worst Tiny Triumph that is kind of the best before Liv weighed in on two weeks of Face Off and we all bid Under The Dome its overdue (but still dumb) farewell. We went around the dial with Playing House, Colbert's first week, a true-crime show that's actually decent, a pilot that isn't, another Star Wars ad, and the lameness of Good Wife S06 before Tara oppo-researched the hell out of Buntsy's sitcom preferences as she tried to get a Veep episode into the Canon. Ugly cars won, Johnny Depp lost, and Game Time fell into a K-hole. Don't put this episode of Extra Hot Great in turnaround: listen now! GUESTS
The Good Wife Marathon Diarist Kim is back to discuss the un-Moored return of Project Greenlight, and whether a fourth season a decade in the making is off to a first-rate start. Tara shared a You're The Worst Tiny Triumph that is kind of the best before Liv weighed in on two weeks of Face Off and we all bid Under The Dome its overdue (but still dumb) farewell. We went around the dial with Playing House, Colbert's first week, a true-crime show that's actually decent, a pilot that isn't, another Star Wars ad, and the lameness of Good Wife S06 before Tara oppo-researched the hell out of Buntsy's sitcom preferences as she tried to get a Veep episode into the Canon. Ugly cars won, Johnny Depp lost, and Game Time fell into a K-hole. Don't put this episode of Extra Hot Great in turnaround: listen now!Special Guest: Kim Reed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
To call this field recording would be crediting the situation with more adventure than it deserves. At five in the morning, with a hangover starting to percolate, the ideal conditions are surely to just roll over, hit record and go back to sleep and that is pretty much what happened here. End of disclaimer. Boats, whether out at sea or in harbour, have a particular vocabulary of sounds. On the water, they are masked by the white noise of the ocean, in which as many sailors have reported you can hear almost any sound imaginable. Moored up, where things are quieter, the water laps and slaps the hull while the wind plays aeolian harp on the mast. That rigging sound is often a chorus of tapping lines against masts, but this particular boat a cruising yacht with a Bermuda rig, moored at Yarmouth after a days sailing had an unusually musical voice, sounding clear notes as the wind passed through its structure. At sea this was a contented hum, but at night it felt much more ominous. The tones in this piece were recorded in one of the sleeping cabins in the stern, a little resonant box. Of course, there has been some processing mainly to remove the snoring of sailors.
Alok Jha and Andrew Luck-Baker continue to follow the scientists on the ongoing Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013. Ice, the oceans and climate change are the themes this week as one of the expedition scientists makes a troubling finding. Moored in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctic, the expedition's oceanographer Erik van Sibble discovers a stunning difference in the nature of the water beneath the sea ice. Although it is a preliminary finding, the consequences for the motions of the world's oceans and climate change could be dramatic. With thanks to AAE volunteer scientist Terry Gostlow for sound recording assistance.
This DJmix by Flamen was recorded@Iboat, wonderful Club, build on a big renoved trawler, Moored in front of the Submarine base in Bordeaux City. Flamen has played first a DJset, like a warm-up but people who came was already very excited. It's the reason why this DJmix isn't very long but very Bouncy, between Deep and minimal techno music. The name of the Party was "Minimal Fanatics@Iboat" with DJ Linyo and Dreego, friends and active partisans of the minimal & hip-hop DJ music in Bordeaux. Then Flamen played live (soon available on his soundcloud) and the party finished with a crazy and eclectic DJset of Linyo, acclamed by the public. Enjoy this first part of Crazy Night. Best regards, the Giraphone Team 01-Dplay - Klick Klack (Original Mix) - Mild Pitch 02-Zhenya K - 42Ghz (Dee Mares remix) - Giraphone Records 03-Robag Wruhme - Bortonkk (Original Mix) - Boxer Recordings 04-Butane - A Rave Mistake (2012 Mix) - alphahouse 05-Hobo - Junebug (Original Mix) - Minus 06-Seuil - Jomone (Original Mix) - Circus Company 07-Heartthrob - Odyssey (Original Mix) - Hot Creations 08-Billy Dalessandro - Take It Down (Gaiser Takes It Down Remix) - Resopal Schallware 09-Billy Dalessandro - Zoe - (Original Mix) - Thoughtless Music 10-Ambivalent - Rumors (Original Mix) - Minus 11-Tom Dazing - Circumstances (Original Mix) - Coincidence Records Forthcoming : VAs, EPs by Corvum, Joe Demateis, Zhenya K, Flamen...
The Strong Anchor in the Storm Wednesday, May 21, 2003, a date that probably isn't all that important to you, but on that day, a massive earthquake hit Algeria. That earthquake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and killed over 1000 people. 150 miles away there was a yacht anchored in Porto Petro Bay in Majorca, Spain, and it was hit by the violent aftershocks of that earthquake. The yacht was buffeted fiercely by the waves as were 10 other yachts that were moored nearby. Now all 10 of those yachts were ripped from their mooring and crashed into one another and into the rocks of the harbor, totally destroying each one, but that one yacht's anchor held firm for two hours as it was being lashed by the waves. Moored by a new kind of anchor and cable system, the strongest anchor ever designed for a private yacht, and because of the special design and strength of that anchoring system, the yacht and everyone on board was saved from death. Now, it is very common for us as Christians to use language like the storms of life to talk about things we're going through. We go through storms of life. That kind of thing and, frankly, Scripture supports that kind of language. Ephesians 4:14 uses this kind of language. Talks about immature people in that particular context, whose hearts are not rooted in sound doctrine, saying that they're tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching. James 1:6 uses similar language of those who doubt God's promises, "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because those who doubt are like a wave of the sea blown and tossed by the wind." And such people should not think they'll receive anything from God, they're double-minded, unstable in all their ways. Now, in our text this morning, in Hebrews 6:13-20, God is laboring to give each believer in Jesus Christ, a sense of the strength of our anchoring system in Jesus, that we have an anchor that holds within the veil. That's the burden of this text; and as we face incredible trials that assault our faith, our anchor is going to hold us close to Christ. Now, God has made us astonishing promises that if we believe in Jesus Christ, who was crucified for sin, that if we believe in Him, He will forgive us all of our sins, and that He will protect us in all of the storms of life. He'll guide us through our lives. He'll guide us even through death, and He will welcome us into Heaven. And then at the end of the world, He has promised that He will raise our rotted corpses up from the grave and He will give us gloriously perfect resurrection bodies and that we will live in a perfect new world called the new Heavens and the new Earth and we will live there forever and ever. What incredible promises are lavished on the believer in Jesus Christ! But we have not received those promises, not all of them yet. The fulfillment is yet to come. And now our faith is being assaulted, buffeted by the waves of trials and temptations. We're assaulted by lust, by a guilty conscience, by the accusations of the evil one. We're assaulted by illness and pain, struggles of many kinds. God wants us to know that our souls are firmly anchored to Him through Jesus Christ and that He's not going to lose us. Through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, and by the strength of His ongoing priestly ministry for us behind the veil... We're going to learn more about that in the next chapter, but through the ministry of Jesus Christ, that which has finished and that which is ongoing, we are securely tied to God Almighty. And even beyond that, you may be feeling like you're like your life is on that yacht, that one that didn't drift away and that you're buffeted, and smashed by all kinds of things right now, maybe like you've hit your head on a bulkhead, because of the convulsing waves, you see the blood is running down into your eyes perhaps, metaphorically speaking. Maybe you're going through the worst trial of your life, maybe it's just average, but you're wondering when those kinds of trials are come. So often we live a lot of our lives waiting for the other shoe to drop. You hear about things that are going on in brothers' and sisters' lives. You know that God doesn't love you any more than He loves them. And we can live in fear in that way, of trials that God will feel are necessary but hasn't come yet. God Wants His People to Be Filled With Hope God wants us to be filled with hope every day, filled with a radiant bright, strong hope in Jesus Christ. God is greatly glorified by hope. When we are filled with hope, He's glorified by that, when His children are buoyant. I get a picture of buoyancy of hope. And what is hope? I was just talking to Matthew before I came up here. How would you define hope when we're talking about that? And I wanted to make a distinction between sources of hope and the thing itself, and then the effects of hope. What is hope itself? And we're going to talk about that today, but I believe it's an attitude or disposition of the human soul of the heart. God loves hope, He loves it. And you are here today, I think, to have an infusion strengthening your hope. You're here to be fed today by the word of God so that when you walk out of here, you're hopefully stronger than when you walked in. That's my desire, because that's God's desire in the text. And in order to achieve that, God is going to give you a series of encouragements to hope in the text. He wants you to know that the anchor of your soul will almost certainly hold firmly, it will not fail you until at last, you are in the safe haven of heaven itself. I. Central Lesson: Only by Faith and Patience Do We Inherit the Promise So let's start with the central lesson. The central lesson I think of the whole book, but even locally as we've been looking recently at Hebrews, is this: Only by faith and patience do we inherit what is promised. Okay, the overall, the context here, the overall context of the Book of Hebrews, we've seen a number of times, I believe this letter was written to a local church, it was made up of Jewish believers in Christ, those Jewish believers in Christ were under tremendous pressure. The pressure was coming I think from their friends and neighbors, and relatives, and political and religious leaders that were pressing on them toward one end. And the pressure was for them to give up their claim to be Christians and just return to Old Covenant Judaism. Just give up on Jesus, turn their backs on Jesus and go back to the way things used to be. And the author is writing a strong word of exhortation, that they would not do that. And he goes about his work by showing the great majesty of Jesus Christ, the superiority of Jesus Christ to everything as Creator of the universe, as the One superior to all of the prophets of the Old Testament, as the One who in fact fills up the message of all of the prophets, the One who is superior over every angel, infinitely greater than any angel, the One who's superior to Moses himself who was just a servant in God's house but Jesus is a Son over God's house. Superior to Aaron, superior to Joshua, superior to all of these heroes of the Old Covenant, each one of them having a specific role in redemptive history. Joshua leading the people of God into the Promised Land. Jesus is a better Joshua, leads us into a better, a more permanent Promised Land. Aaron a high priest chosen from among man to offer gifts and sacrifices, Jesus a greater high priest in the order of Melchizedek. We'll go there next chapter. So we're seeing the greatness of Jesus Christ, and the greatness of the covenant that He brings. And how can you turn your back on Jesus and go back to a Christ-less Judaism, how can you do that? And the immediate context: Hebrews 6:11-12 says, "We want each of you to show the same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised." So that's the context. Only by faith and patience do you inherit the promise. So the Christian life is presented as a marathon race, and we must keep running that race. We'll get to that image in Chapter 12, but we must lay aside every hindrance and run with endurance, this race that's marked out in front of us. We have to keep running this race, we can't quit in the middle of it. To run for a while and fall out of the race is unacceptable, it really proves you weren't genuinely running the true race of faith. And so the author is warning these people against spiritual laziness. "We do not want you to become lazy," he says. The word lazy, the same word we saw in the Greek translation of the book of Proverbs to refer to the sluggard, that individual can't even lift up his hand out of the dish, who's laying in the bed, going from side to side, is making excuses, "There's a lion out in the streets," or "I'll be trampled down if I try to do anything today," this kind of thing. The sluggard, one of my favorite or least favorite individuals in Proverbs. It never fails to bring a smile and conviction at the same time. But we're not to be sluggards, we're not to be lazy in our Christian lives. They had become lazy listeners, they were listening to good apostolic teaching, the faithful exposition of the Word. But they were lazy listeners, they were just sipping at milk, they didn't want to go deeper, they didn't want to chew on the meat of the Word. Still less, do they want to obey those things that they had learned. They had become lazy. Hebrews 5:11, "About this we have much to say, but it's hard to explain because you've become in effect lazy listeners, dull of listening." This is devastating because faith comes by hearing, doesn't it? And we've got to keep hearing, keep listening to the Holy Spirit as He speaks out of the Word. We've got to keep listening to God talking to us, so that our faith will be strong and will not fail. And so it says in Hebrews 3, "So as the Holy Spirit says Today, if you hear His voice, don't harden your hearts," you got to keep listening, keep hearing the Holy spirit speak. So the author speaks about imitating people. The heroes of the faith he's going to lay out in Hebrews 11. We got to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. And especially in view here, one of the central figures of the Old Testament heroes of faith is Abraham. We're going to talk about Abraham today, but this individual, this father in faith, Abraham our father in faith, and he's going to be laid out before us as an example of somebody who received promises, and by faith in patience inherited those promises. So the author speaks in verse 11 of making your hope sure, that hope is a character trait of the heart. It's a joyful expectation of a blessing that hasn't come yet, but you think it's going to come. That's what hope is, both secular and spiritual. It's just an expectation that the future is bright, something good is coming. I'll talk more about that in a minute. But that's the character trait, and hope is a precious commodity of the soul, and in order to make your hope sure means to get the thing you're hoping for. It takes diligence then, it takes zeal, it takes earnestness; and these precious traits of soul are very much in the author's view right here, been thinking about this, how much Satan labors to get Job to stop believing in God, but curse God. That's what it's all about, it's Job's heart and what Job is feeling and thinking and believing about God, that's what the whole thing's about. He's trying to get Job to stop trusting God and to curse Him to His face. And that's the same thing in Luke 22, "Simon, Simon, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat; but I prayed for you Simon, that your faith may not fail." The battle's for your faith, it's for your heart, that you'll keep trusting and keep hoping, that's what's going on in your life right now. That's what the temptations are all about, that's what any trials you're going, it's all about that, that your faith may be strong, that's what Jesus is praying for you. II. God’s Goal: Our Strong Encouragement to Hope That's what I think Hebrews 6:13-20 is all about too. And so God's goal here is our strong encouragement to hope. Look at verse 18. We're going to go through it carefully and systematically but let's get to the point. And the point is "God did this so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie," we'll talk all about that. "We... " We Christians, "We who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be... " And here's the point, "greatly encouraged." That's the NIV's translation. That's the point, the author wants you, God wants you greatly encouraged today. ESV gives us, "strong encouragement." KJV says, "strong consolation." That's the goal in verse 18. I think it's the goal of the whole letter. In Hebrews 13:22, he tells us why he wrote the letter. "Brothers. I urge you to bear with this word of exhortation." Same Greek word. "For I've written you only a short letter... " A 13-chapter letter? What letter writers they were back then. They didn't do the Twitter thing. It was a 13-chapter letter. "Much to say." He thinks, "Look, I'm just going to shorten it to this brief letter now, just keep it short." The letter of Hebrews. But it's the Greek word is paraklesis, paraklesis. It's a rich, beautiful full word. It's related to Jesus' word for the Counselor or Comforter. Paraclete. Sometimes it comes over by transliteration in English, paraclete, paraklesis, one called alongside to help. But that word "help" is too pale a word for me, He does more than just help. He is the Sovereign God, the third person of the Trinity in your life, the Paraclete, but sometimes the Paraclete rebukes, sometimes He consoles, sometimes He exhorts, sometimes He encourages. All of that is within the pale of this word paraklesis, He does whatever is necessary to keep you running your marathon race, whatever it takes to keep you running this long-distance race. And in Verse 18, the author intensifies the word. He adds the adjective "strong," or translated mighty or powerful or effective consolation or exhortation. And in this passage, the author is saying that God gives us two unchangeable things in which is impossible, it is impossible for God to lie, and through that, you get this strong consolation or strong encouragement. What are those two unchangeable things? His promise and His oath. Those are the two things He gives us: The promise and the oath. They're unchangeable, unbreakable, and they're the basis of this confident hope that we have. Combine effect then of these things should give us a strong encouragement to persevere in the Christian life. Friends, this is effective medicine, but it only if you take it. You have to take the medicine to have the effects of these words, you take it by faith. God is giving you words here, He's giving you words, and the words have to be like food, have to be chewed up and swallowed and digested to give the benefit to the body. So you have to work over these things. So we're working over words. That's what preaching is, that's what teaching is, that's what Bible study is. We're going over the words, and we're working over this meat and trying to take it in, so we get stronger. This is the food that God has given us. Meditating on God’s Promises Fosters Hope And by meditating on these verses, we can have with the author, what God wants to give us, a strong encouragement to hope during the Christian race of faith. So what is this hope? A hope just itself is a disposition of the human heart. It's a positive force in the heart, an optimism, let's say, a confidence, an assurance, it always has to do with good things in the future. Hope always has to do with good things in the future. Romans 8 says, "Who hopes for what he already has?" You're not hoping for present things, stuff you already have. You can be thankful for present things, but you don't hope for them, you already have them. So you don't need to hope for what... So it has to do with what you don't have yet, and it has to do with good things. You use the word dread for things that are coming in the future that you don't want, or other such things. So this is good things coming in the future and your hope is based on your certainty of whether those good things will come or not. I think in everyday life, hope functions somewhat like a... There's a picture of buoyancy in my heart right here, a sense of, you just can't get this individual down, Satan trying to shove you down and you just keep popping up to the surface. I remember swimming in a strange Salt Lake in the Pakistan, in the mountains of Pakistan, one of the most other-worldly experiences I've ever had in my life, and I just couldn't submerge. I remember going down and popping right back up again, I just couldn't get down in this water. It was really interesting, I was floating kind of really high up in this lake and looking at these mountains, it was amazing. I remember a darker time in my life, when I was a sophomore in college, and I went out sailing on a very windy day and I had a life preserver on but it wasn't tied. It was just kind of hanging on my neck. Very windy day and the sailboat capsized, and I got thrown from the sailboat, and actually the centerboard for the sailboat got thrown even further, and I went swimming after the centerboard, almost killed myself. Literally almost killed myself. So I went out and got that centerboard and turned and the sailboat had been blown away from me. It was in the middle of Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire and I started swimming with one arm, but it was, I wasn't even keeping up with the boat. And here's this life preserver just kind of floating around my neck, just floating there, not doing me any good at all, and I lived, praise God, that's not the point of the sermon. But anyway, I did survive. It was tough, I almost drowned. Somebody pulled me dead weight out of the lake into a motorboat. But I think this is where Christians are, where we don't tie the promises of God around us and have the buoy us up and lift us up, and so we threaten to sink because you're not clinging to the promises of God. So I think of hope in terms of a buoyancy. It's more than just mere optimism, but it is that of the future. So, I think in everyday life, just secular, sacred, whatever human life, there are three types of hope. All of them have to do with future things, good things in the future that you don't have yet. There's short-term hope. There's long-term hope and there's eternal or... Yeah, eternal hope I guess we'll call it that. Short-term hope is: Things are looking really good for the rest of the day. Okay, you're going out to your favorite restaurant with some friends afterwards, you looking forward to that, it's going to be a good time, you're excited, whenever this pastor will finally get done with this, you're going to go out and have a good time and you'll be free at last to go and enjoy sometimes. Look, that's all fine. Well, most of that is fine, but you know what I mean. The expectation that the next day or so is going to be good. Short-term hope. Long-term hope is that the rest of your life looks good to you. You like your life. You like what's going on in your life. You're anticipating that good things are going to happen in the future, that it's going to be a fruitful life, a good life. This is the kind of hope that's very common on a new couple's wedding day as they walk out of the church, they get in the car and they drive off to their honeymoon. They're filled with hope, long-term hope, they're going to have a wonderful life together, they're going to enjoy their married life together. It's going to be a fruitful time. That's the long-term hope, they're anticipating good things for the rest of their life. Then there's eternal hope. It has to do with life after death, has to do with death itself and what will happen when you die, and if you have a hope that is eternal, that after you die, that there is a place called Heaven and that you'll be welcomed there and received there and it's going to be glorious and wonderful, and you just can't wait to be there. That's eternal hope. I think the gospel offers all three to Christians, based on far better things than non-Christian people have. I think all three are worthwhile. I think counselors should be and really are working to giving people hope. And the Bible says that people without Jesus are without hope and without God in the world. They may look forward to what's going on the rest of the day, but the future looks dim to them. They're depressed, they've seen bad things happen. Perhaps that marriage didn't work out, perhaps that business venture failed, they've seen enough of life and now they're just depressed and beaten down. I think even about what I saw in Haiti recently, when we went there, and you look at these people living in these tent cities. And I think if I'm living there, what does my long-term hope look like? The political situation there's terrible. The economic future is bleak. The greatest hope that any of them have is to just get out of there and go live with some relatives in Miami, or New York, nobody wants to be there, they want to get out, etcetera. It's just so bleak. I think it's just beautiful, isn't it? How the Gospel can come and minister hope in all three areas, but especially eternal hope; and when you have eternal hope, then it's easier to have life hope. And when you have those two then today can fit into that overall plan of God. I don't think any Christian should ever allow himself or herself to be hopeless. That is not the mark of a Christian. You should feed your hope, and this text shows you how to do it, it feeds on the promises of God. Hope is of the essence of faith as it says in Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen." And that hope in Hebrews 11, those people were looking forward, they were looking ahead to a city with foundations whose builder and maker is God. That's eternal hope, and because of that, they live their lives in that kind of expectancy. Moses said No to the flesh pots of Egypt and said, "I'm going to live a certain kind of way because I'm looking forward to the city with foundations. I want to live a holy life because of it." And hope is necessary because God isn't going to give it to you in this life. You don't get the centerpiece of our faith now, you don't. You'll die, you'll die. If Jesus doesn't return in our generation, you will die not having had the central hope of your life fulfilled, but you'll die happy, you'll have fed your hope your whole life as saying, "I never expected to get it in this world. It was for this very thing that Jesus brought me to this point and I'm looking forward." You can die happy, and people around you who aren't Christians, who are without hope, without God in the world, will think you a marvel. How is it you can die so happily? It's because of the hope I have in Jesus. III. How God Gives Us Strong Encouragement to Hope That's what the author wants to give you. How does he do it, what does he do, what buoyant things does he put around our necks and around our bodies and around our heads to lift us up so we don't drown? I think he does six things. And I want to just go through them relatively quickly here, but there's six things here that just give us a strong encouragement to hope. First, the promise of God, second the oath of God, third the character of God, fourth the example of Abraham, fifth the fulfillment in Jesus, and then, ultimate fulfillment in heaven. So first, the promise of God, and we start right away in verse 13, when God made His promise to Abraham, focuses right away on the promise. Verse 14 it tells us what that promise is, literally this: "Surely blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you." That's a literalistic translation. KJV has it. Others just say, "I will surely bless you," but it's literally "Surely blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you." The way I kind of read it that way is, blessing I will bless you: I've already blessed you, I'm going to ultimately bless you. And multiplying I will multiply: I've already begun to multiply, you I'm going to multiply you even more. Now this promise was made in Genesis 22, on Mount Moriah, where Abraham had obeyed an incredibly difficult command God had given him to take his son, his only son, Isaac, whom he loved and offer him as a sacrifice. And Abraham by faith obeyed and went, he went up the mountain, he was just about to kill his son, and the angel of the Lord stopped him and said this incredible thing, "Now, I know that you fear God because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." And then he said this, "I swear by myself, declares the Lord, That because you have done this, and you have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed Me." Now, the promise is a source of hope. How is that? Well, God made His promise to Abraham and it was a source of Abraham's hope. Now, a promise is a pledge of a good thing to be given in the future. Also, like hope, promises have to do with the future; and so one individual makes a promise to the other, "I will surely do this for you, this is a promise I will make for you." Perhaps the most significant promise you make to another person is the wedding vow itself. You're promising certain things in your wedding vows, a promise a man and woman make to each other concerning future blessings that they'll most certainly do for one another. They will love and cherish each other, they'll share their worldly goods together, they'll care for each other in good times and bad, forsaking all others, they will cling to that one person till death parts you. These are the promises that they make to each other. Parents make many promises to their children, "I promise I'll take you to the State Fair next weekend if you get an A on that test." Something like that or "I'll take you out for ice cream." Or "When you graduate from high school, I'll give you a new car." Amazing how good our children's memories are of those promises. It's incredible, deep multi-faceted promises, and they remember them all, the codices and the fine print, they remember all of those promises. The commands, not so much I found. But the promises absolutely. God fills the pages of Scripture with more promises I think that we can possibly count. Some have tried to count them. One Canadian school teacher, name of Mr. Storms, Everett Storms from Kitchener, Ontario, read through the Bible. On his 27th time of reading through the Bible in his life, he decided he was going to pursue the promises through the whole Bible. He came up with almost 8000 promises, same list that Herbert Lockyer gives us, about 8000 promises from God to us in the pages of Scripture. Promises that God gave related to the Jewish world, to the Gentile world, connected with creation, promises connected to the coming of Jesus Christ which our young people studied so beautifully in Disciple Now, what a great time of studying the promises of God. But God has fulfilled His promises in bringing Jesus, beautiful promises for the individual, Christian promises for local churches, the church as a whole. Promise is connected to prayer, promise is connected to marriage or parenting, so many rich promises of God scattered throughout the Bible, like so many gems. 2 Peter 1:4 calls them the very great and precious promises of God. Charles Spurgeon likened them to checks that God had signed and had given to you. He wrote a whole book in which he draws out a lot of these promises. "Faith's Checkbook," he calls it, "Faith's Checkbook." And so God's handed you all these checks. Have you ever gone through the junk drawer? Do you guys have a junk drawer like we do where you put a lot of stuff? And you find a check... Maybe that's never happened to you. Why am I telling you this story? At any rate, there's a check, it's never been submitted to the bank, there it is. Maybe past its time, but the fact is it's got a date on it, it's got an endorse... A certain amount, and you bring it to the bank and you give the check to the cashier; and after the procedures they follow, they want to see that it's endorsed, the date, and it has to clear, and then you get the money. And so it is with the promises of God, Charles Spurgeon tells us. You have to endorse it with your own faith, you have to take it into yourself by endorsing it by faith. You have to bring it to the cashier, you have to bring it to God, the one with the money. Present it to Him in prayer, He has to check the date and He may tell you not yet but so you wait patiently as Abraham did, you have to wait on that, the time of the clearance of that check, or the date when God will give you that good thing. You wait patiently for what is promised. It's very much like a check. The Ultimate Promise of God Now there are 8000 promises, but I tell you there is one promise in the Bible, one central overarching promise in Jesus to us as sinners. It's called salvation in a big picture. The promise of salvation. I will save you from everything that sin has done to you, to your relationships, to the universe you live in. I will bring you into a world where sin will be no more, I will do that for you, I will save you. And He sent His Son Jesus who shed His blood to pay for the penalty of our sins that we would be forgiven and He was raised to life on the third day to give us a pattern. He is the first fruit of resurrection and so here is the promise. Capital P. Resurrected souls in resurrected bodies living in resurrected fellowship with other such people, in a resurrected universe, the new Heavens and new Earth. That's the promise. All the other smaller promises fit into and serve that larger overarching promise, that's the ultimate promise that God gives you, and that promise is extended here, many descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. He says. He said, "I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." That's feeding that main central promise of salvation through Jesus Christ. The ultimate promise to Abraham then he would be heir of the world, Romans 4:13, "It is not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith." Jesus is the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham; and through Jesus, we gentiles have become heirs to the promise of Abraham, we have become heirs through Abraham. We are by faith sons and daughters of Abraham, isn't that beautiful? Galatians 3 says, "You are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ, if you belong to Christ then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise." Oh how sweet is that. And the promise there is that big overarching promise of salvation. So this passage... Look at verse 17, this passage calls us heirs. Look at Verse 17, "Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, He confirmed it with an oath." So we are the heirs of the promise here. And so we have this promise as a ground for our, a ground for our hope. God’s Oath Secondly, we have the oath of God. Verse 13, "When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself." "I swear by myself," He said. The reason for the oath is given in verse 16, "Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument," or all churning or disputing, or talking back, that's literally what it is, puts an end to that. I think that's metaphorically for the spiritual aspect of our hearts, we talk back to the promise of God, don't we? We murmur against it, we argue against it. We think it might not happen. We think it's not going to come true, we struggle with it. And so, this oath was meant to put an end to all argument. An end to all disputing. Doubt murmurs, doubt talks back. Doubt argues with God. God meant to put an end to that. And so, He confirms this with an oath, "I swear by myself." And the reason God swore by Himself, the author tells us, is there was no one around greater that He should swear by. There's no one... God has studied the universe and there is no one greater than Himself. He knows that by a long shot, by an infinite shot, He is infinitely greater. There is no one greater than God, there's no one even like God, or even close to God in infinite majesty and power, and so He swore by Himself. Why did He do it? Look at Verse 17 and 18, "Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, He confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that by two unchangeable things, the promise and the oath, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged." That's why He gives us a promise and an oath. So the bottom line is, God is laboring for our assurance, our confidence, our faith, our hope. So, He does these two things, He makes a promise and He confirms it with an oath. Thirdly, we see the character of God. Now, the key to all of this, is the character of God. Liars make and break promises all the time, don't they? We have that experience. Liars swear oaths on stacks of Bibles. And as I've said before, recently, my confidence doesn't go up if you add another two Bibles on top of the stack, does it, yours? I think the taller it is, the lower my confidence is. Is that how many Bibles you need to convince the people who know you that you're telling the truth? "Just let your Yes be Yes," said Jesus, "And let your No be No." But God helping us in our weakness here, swears by Himself. And so what kind of being is it, that's making us these promises? Well, look at the character of God, our hope is based on three particular attributes of God, God's truthfulness, His omnipotence, His power and His immutability, His unchanging nature. So truthfulness, power and His unchanging nature, these are the attributes of God that give us confidence when we come to the promises of God. The Character of God First, His truth: If God were a liar, we would have every good reason to doubt His keeping of His promise. But Verse 18 says it's impossible for God to lie. The Omnipotence of God Secondly, if God were not omnipotent, if He were not all-powerful, we would have good reason to doubt His promise. As a matter of fact, I've heard that kind of murmuring about God in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. Is it the case that God is not powerful enough to prevent these kinds of things? We could say concerning the promise. Well, He meant well, He really did, but He just couldn't bring it about. But this is the God of the universe who sustains all things by His powerful word, everything exists to serve Him and He exerts power on it at every moment to keep the universe going. There is nothing He cannot do. So God's omnipotence, He can most certainly keep this promise. The Unchangeableness and Faithfulness of God Thirdly, God's immutability. We could say, "Look, God certainly meant it at the time, He wasn't lying, He really had every good intention to keep His promise and He certainly has all power to keep it, but now He has changed His mind. But the author gives us twice in verse 17, he talks about the unchanging nature of His purpose. God will not change His mind. And verse 18, these are two unchangeable things. God Himself cannot change this purpose. It says in Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever." That's immutability language. He never changes. James 1:17 speaks of the Father of the heavenly lights, who doesn't change like shifting shadows. Unlike us, humans who speak frivolous words and make spurious promises that, number one, we never intended to keep to begin with, because we're liars. Or number two, we meant to keep, but we couldn't. We lacked resources or circumstances overcame us, or we died or something happens, and we could not carry it through. Or number three, we meant to keep them and we had opportunities but we have now changed our mind, and things seem differently to us now than when we originally made the promise. None of that will happen with God. God keeps His promises, so therefore you can have a good hope based on the character of God. Abraham’s Example of Faith and Patience Fourth, look at Abraham's example of faith and patience. Verse 15. "And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised." You're not going to get it today, probably. You might if you die, but God tests our faith by not giving us the thing He has promised. He makes us wait and wait and wait. And so Abraham teaches us how to wait patiently. He waited 25 years for that boy, for Isaac to be born. 25 years he waited. Romans 4:19-21 tells us how he waited, it says, "Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but he was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God because he was fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised." That's how we wait, we wait on God knowing fully that God can do this, we don't waver or flicker, we just have confidence that God has power to do what He has promised for us. But this promise goes well beyond the birth of Isaac, doesn't it? He made this promise long after Isaac was born. "Blessing I will bless you, multiplying I will multiply you," I've only begun to bless you, Abraham, I've got far greater blessings than this to give you, Abraham. I want to multiply you far more than this one boy, Abraham. I want to give you lavish things. And so, these promises, this is ringing in his ears, even as he's dying, even as he lays his head one last time on his pillow, he's still filled with faith and with hope, because the promises were for the future anyway, he's looking ahead to a city with foundations whose builder and maker is God. He's going to inherit the Promised Land, it's just going to be an eternal inheritance, not the one under Joshua but an eternal one. The new Heavens and the new Earth. And we all are heirs with him, amen? We're going to get it too. The meek will inherit the earth, it's going to be ours. So Abraham gives us an example of how to wait patiently for God. The Life, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus: Fulfillment of the Promise Fifth, the life, death and resurrection, ascension of Jesus. He is the fulfillment of the promise. Look at verse 19-20, "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain where Jesus who went before us has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." God here feeds our hope by pointing to Jesus, the author of our faith, the protector of our faith. He is the focus of our hope. Isn't He what you want, dear Christian brother or sister? Isn't Jesus what you want? Oh, just give me Jesus, I want to see Jesus, I want to be with Him, I want to hear His voice, I want to feel His embrace, I want to walk with Him in the world He's made, whatever it looks like will be fine with me. It's perfect, it's wonderful, but it's Jesus I want, and I want to see that city radiating with His glory. Don't you want to see that? I want Jesus. And so we focus on Jesus, the one who shed His blood on the cross, the one who went behind the curtain, behind the veil, and ministers now as a High Priest. He is there on our behalf, He is the anchor that holds within the veil, and no hurricane is going to pull you away from Jesus. You'll not drift away, you'll not turn away, you will not fall away because Jesus has hold of you and will not let you go. So the ultimate source of our hope is meditating on heaven. Think much about heaven, think much about the future, expect trouble here on Earth, expect pain and suffering, expect God to purify your faith and bring trials in your life, expect it all, He's perfecting you for heaven, and set your hope fully on that grace to be given you when He returns. Die in hope, please, I plead with you die in hope. Filled with hope. Be a witness to your children, be a witness to your grandchildren, be a witness to the medical professionals that are caring for you. Die in hope. In order to do that, feed your hope today, feed it today. IV. Application: Let God Feed Your Hope! Maybe you came here today, you don't have any hope. You are what we've already described, without hope and without God in the world. You're not a Christian. Maybe even consciously you know, "I'm not a Christian." Or maybe you feel that I've been playing a game and I don't think I'm a Christian. The gospel is calling out to you, the gospel stands to give you a real living hope today in Jesus. He's the one who shed His blood for you, He's the one that was raised to life on the third day, He wants to give you hope. Trust in Him and all your sins will be forgiven. Justification by faith apart from works, just put your trust in Him. And then can I urge you, feed your hope, dear Christian friend, feed it with the word of God. Go back to the promises, work over the... All we've been doing since I got up here is just working verse by verse, phrase by phrase, that's all we're looking at. Feed on the promises. Understand that God has sworn by Himself, He will certainly forgive all your sins, He will certainly protect you and filter your temptations while on Earth. He will certainly enable you to be fruitful while you live, He will certainly bring you through death, He will certainly welcome you into heaven, when you are absent from the body and present with the Lord, and He will certainly raise that body of yours in newness of life, made like Jesus' resurrection body, and He will certainly do it, not just for you, but for a multitude greater than anyone could count, from every tribe, and language, and people, and nation, they will certainly be there too. Millions of them. And we're going to be in a resurrected world, it's going to be purified by fire and made new and made beautiful and radiant, with the glory of God, and we will walk in resurrection bodies in fellowship with Jesus and with the saints. We're going to be there, friends. your faith, God will certainly keep His promises, and know that your anchor is going to hold within the veil, it's going to hold. Romans Chapter 8, "I'm convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to" sever your line to your anchor. It cannot be severed, it cannot. Why is He behind the veil? He is your High Priest, He's entered behind the veil. Because it's not time for you to see Him yet, you need faith. And so your anchor's holding behind the veil, and sometimes God will be invisible, incognito to you, you'll wonder where is God in all of this. The anchor's holding within the veil because Jesus is there ministering, invisible. Trust in Him. Though you do not see Him, you love Him. Though you do not see Him, know that He will never let you go. Close with me in prayer.
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