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Pauta Fura-Fila!A mando de uma de nossas apoiadoras, Arthur Marchetto, Cecilia Garcia Marcon, Anna Raissa e Igor Oliveira Neves se reúnem primeiro para apontar o dedo uns pros outros e definir qual a obsessão que cada um tem e, depois, comentar sobre as próprias experiências. É que claro que não pode faltar um último bloco em que eles julgam as obsessões alheias mais populares.VEM ASSISTIR A LIVE COM TRADUTORA, SÁBADO 20h---Links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apoie o 30:MIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Confira nossa vitrine na Amazon!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Siga a gente nas redes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Já apoia? Acesse suas recompensas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Confira todos os títulos do clube!

Estudo  do Livro Obsessão e Desobsessão - CEASA - Centro Espírita Abel Sebastião de Almeida - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Hoje voltamos a um tema que me diz muito, a perturbação Obsessivo-compulsiva, para conhecer uma história, mas sobretudo para entender como podemos usar as “nossas pancadas” a nosso favor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode of the Guns Podcast, host Brent Wheat and "celebrated" co-host Roy Huntington break down three powerful, universal lessons from the world of master cabinet making that can instantly transform your shooting performance. Often overlooked by those chasing 'high-speed, low-drag' tactics, these foundational principles focus on respect for the craft, the value of deliberate repetition, and the critical importance of obsessing over the basics. Drawing parallels between high-end furniture building and firearms proficiency, Roy explains why slowing down, focusing on the fundamentals, and adopting a 'point and confirm' mindset—inspired by Japanese industrial safety standards—can prevent dangerous mistakes and elevate your skills. Whether you are a beginner or a veteran marksman, this episode offers a Zen-like approach to shooting that prioritizes long-term improvement over quick fixes. Key Takeaways ·         Respect the craft: Shooting is an art and skill that deserves the same level of care as high-end furniture making. ·         Repetition builds perfection: Don't just burn through ammo; use every shot as a deliberate, purposeful practice session. ·         Obsess over the basics: Professionalism comes from mastering fundamental sight alignment, stance, and trigger control, not from complex tricks. ·         Practice deliberate, slow shooting to diagnose accuracy issues before moving to speed. ·         Safety check: Even mundane tasks benefit from a formal 'safety brief' or checklist to prevent catastrophic human error. Support by Ruger The Guns Podcast US is supported by Ruger Firearms. Ruger has been trusted for generations to deliver rugged, reliable firearms built in America. From hunting rifles to everyday carry handguns, Ruger sets the standard for durability and performance. -- Have a topic idea or a guest you'd like to see in a future episode? Let us know in the comments or email editor@gunspodcast.us  

Miguel Sousa Tavares mostra-se preocupado com a polémica em torno da Inteligência Artificial, entende que estamos perante uma batalha planetária que ninguém quer parar e, se pudesse, travaria os avanços da investigação cientifica: "Por mim, parava, chega. Já temos carros, aviões e internet suficiente boa e não quero viver 100 anos". No podcast, não faltam criticas ao ministro Paulo Rangel, "tem uma obsessão contra os socialistas" e uma leitura sobre as eleições que a AfD venceu na Alemanha: Foram os mais jovens quem mais votou na extrema-direita, "Partimos do principio que os povos gostar de viver em democracia e se calhar não". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

O filme Obsession (2025), dirigido por Curry Barker, é um thriller psicológico e de terror sobrenatural que mistura romance sombrio com suspense intenso. A trama gira em torno de um jovem romântico que, ao recorrer a um misterioso ritual para conquistar sua paixão, desencadeia forças sinistras que transformam desejo em pesadelo.Premissa: Um romântico incurável, desesperado para conquistar o coração de sua paixão de longa data, recorre ao lendário “One Wish Willow” — uma árvore mística que concede um único desejo.Virada sombria: O pedido funciona, mas logo ele descobre que cada desejo tem um preço terrível. O amor que parecia perfeito se transforma em uma obsessão sufocante, marcada por manipulação, paranoia e eventos sobrenaturais.Clima: O filme combina terror psicológico e horror sobrenatural, criando uma atmosfera sufocante onde realidade e ilusão se confundem.Conflito central: O protagonista precisa enfrentar não apenas as consequências de seu desejo, mas também forças ocultas que parecem controlar sua mente e sua vida.Diretor e roteirista: Curry BarkerElenco principal: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper TomlinsonDuração: 1h49minGêneros: Romance sombrio, suspense psicológico, terror sobrenaturalRecepção: Avaliação de 7,8/10 no IMDb, com mais de 355 mil votos, além de 10 vitórias e 13 indicações em festivaisPIX: canalfilmesegames@gmail.comSiga o Filmes e Games:Instagram: filmesegames Facebook: filmesegames Twitter: filmesegamesSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5KfJKthIntro - 0:00 Obsesión - 5:46O que é "Obsessão"? - 9:29Notas dos agregadores - 16:06Bilheteria - 16:49Tirando o bode da sala - 19:52Relembrando o filme - 35:37Notas do Filmes e Games - 56:20Momento Locadora - 1:00:54Revelação do FGcast #444 - 1:57:02Dicas do FGcast #445 - 2:07:56

Estudo  do Livro Obsessão e Desobsessão - CEASA - Centro Espírita Abel Sebastião de Almeida - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Join me as I talk about two main things that perfectionists are often obsessed about. They fixate on these two things quite often. Are you exhausted from constantly feeling “almost there, but never enough” in your walk with God? In this broadcast, I expose two hidden patterns that quietly drive Christian perfectionism—and how they wear […]

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Neste vídeo, vamos refletir sobre uma questão delicada e muito presente na vida de muita gente: até onde a injustiça social realmente interfere na nossa prosperidade, e onde começa a nossa responsabilidade pessoal?É inegável que existem desigualdades, falta de oportunidades, contextos familiares difíceis, limitações econômicas e estruturas sociais que tornam alguns caminhos muito mais pesados para determinadas pessoas. Ignorar isso seria simplificar demais a realidade.Mas também existe outro lado dessa conversa: em alguns momentos, podemos transformar dificuldades reais em uma explicação para tudo, deixando de perceber aquilo que ainda depende de nós — nossas escolhas, preparo, estratégia, disciplina, inteligência, capacidade de adaptação e disposição para agir.A proposta deste vídeo não é culpar quem enfrenta dificuldades, nem negar a existência da injustiça social. É buscar um ponto de equilíbrio entre reconhecer os obstáculos externos e assumir responsabilidade sobre aquilo que ainda podemos construir.Vamos conversar sobre prosperidade, esforço, oportunidades, mentalidade, posicionamento e sobre o perigo de entregar completamente o próprio destino às circunstâncias.Nem tudo depende de nós.Mas também nem tudo está fora das nossas mãos.A pergunta central é:até onde o mundo define a sua vida, e a partir de onde começa a sua parte?#InjustiçaSocial #Prosperidade #ResponsabilidadePessoal #Desigualdade #Autoconhecimento #DesenvolvimentoPessoal #Mentalidade #Escolhas #Crescimento #Reflexão---------------------------------------------------

Steve DeWitt God, Why Am I Hurting? - Part B Study Guide for Spiritual Exiles, 1 Peter 1:6-8 Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 1:6-8 Visit the series page: Exiles: A study in 1 Peter Donate to Support The Journey Sermon Transcript for Spiritual Exiles, 1 Peter 1:6-8 Sermon Series: Spiritual ExilesMessage: God Why Am I Hurting? Airdate: 9/10-9/11/26Programs: 2354 23552014, what a year around this place. I mean, it was something else. And just on the surface to go from two campuses to four campuses all in one year, a remarkable, remarkable, thing that God has done. We give him glory for it, and, we want 2015 to be another year of, faithful ministry here, and thank you for your part in that. I really mean that.This is our weekend of the annual meeting, and that's partly why we made this video. It's a it's a year or it's a a weekend where our members, we have our annual meeting, and so it's kind of a year to look back, a time to look back on the on the past year. It also means that, because our meeting is between this service and the next, I know this is gonna be disappointing. The sermon's a little shorter. Little shorter.So appropriate, that I'm speaking on trials in this sermon. And I'm gonna get right into it because our time is fleeting. First Peter one verses six through seven, I've entitled this message, God, why am I hurting? That resonate resonate here today? Are you in a time in your life maybe where you are hurting, where there is a trial maybe that is a pain in your life right now, you might say, no.Not really. Just wait. K? Just wait. It's coming.Life in a broken world brings sorrows to us in all kinds of directions and in ways that we cannot anticipate. That day is most certainly coming. And Peter is writing this letter to a group of geographical exiles in the first century sent from Rome, living in Asia Minor, but they are they are spiritual exiles as well. They are suffering in a community that looks at their Christian faith, looks at their rejection of the immorality around them. They look down at them, and they are feeling alienated.They are feeling ostracized, and they are suffering in many different ways. And so Peter writes this letter to them to encourage them, and it is perhaps more than the only one maybe competing with the book would be the book of Job of, delivering to us, giving to us a theology of Christian suffering. How do I handle it? How should I look at it when God sovereignly brings pain into my life? First Peter is a very honest letter.It looks pain in the face and gives an answer. Did you know Christianity has an answer to suffering that the other religions of the world, the other philosophies struggle to provide in ways that we'll get into? So maybe you're here today and you're in pain, and you're thinking this is the sermon for me. Maybe you're here today and you're not in pain, but that day is coming. I want to prepare all of us to suffer so that when we are the ones experiencing that pain, we have a kind of grid.We have a kind of understanding that is ready to embrace the trials that come. I also wanna note that Christianity is based on suffering. I mean, our entire faith is built upon the suffering savior who came into this world, God steps into our pain in the person of Jesus, incarnates into this world, lives amongst us, experiences all of the weaknesses, all of the sufferings that we experience, and then suffered himself dying on the cross bearing the guilt and shame for all of our sins. Our savior was a suffering savior. We can say it that Christianity is is built on suffering.Now that doesn't sound so good. It doesn't look great on a billboard. You know, we're not gonna put up a billboard that says, Bethel Church, come suffer with us. Right? Because many people, they don't wanna hear that, and they want a faith that doesn't include any suffering, and yet it inevitably comes.Are we ready for that? Are you ready for that in your life? So our text is verses, six and seven, First Peter one. Please listen as I read. “In this, you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”This passage is Peter's first salvo of teaching on suffering. It's gonna continue through the letter. So this isn't everything that he has to say about it. There's much more to come. Notice that he begins with the the little phrase there, in this, you rejoice.You wouldn't expect a passage on suffering to have a and to begin with a word of joy, and he's referring there to what he's just talked about regarding our living hope. Our hope is living because our hope is in a living savior. And so because of that, we are we rejoice in this salvation, this new birth that God has given to us. Notice that joy and pain can coexist. We typically think, you know, when I am in pain, then I'm not joyous.Right? Or when I'm in joyous, I don't have any pain. And yet these two come together, indeed, they have to come together in a Christian theology of suffering because there is going to be ongoing problems and pain in life. There are gonna be ups and downs, and yet our Christian joy is not based upon our circumstances. It is grounded and based upon something that is enduring.Even Jesus himself, Hebrews, “who for the joy set before him endured the cross and despised its shame.” So don't see the these as enemies. These actually can be friends, joy, and pain. We'll get into more of that later. But in this passage, Peter gives four certainties in the midst of suffering.Four certainties that a Christian can hold on to, trust, and believe in even when life is hurting. So let's get into these now. Notice the first one is that our trials as Christians are temporary. They are temporary. The text now, “though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.”Peter's first point here is chronological. He is pointing something out that is obviously true. Now it doesn't seem that way to us when we are in the midst of pain. When we are hurting, what do we often think about the pain that we're feeling? We say things like this.This is never going to change. This is never gonna be fixed. I will always feel this way. This pain will never go away. That's how it seems to us.Right? Peter says, yes. It will. Yes. It will.Chronologically speaking, our sufferings and our trials and our pains are very small in duration when compared to the future that the Christian confidently expects, this eternal life that we have. Our lives are fleeting. Our days are numbered. They're short. Eternity is long.Peter points that out. He says, you know what now? For a little while, it's just a little while. It's temporary. You're not always going to feel this way.It's not always going to be this way. A day of change is coming. Chapter five verse 10, he writes, and after you have suffered a little while, there he says it again, “the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.” Peter's wanting us to realize that that this trial that I am in is finite. Eternity is unending.My trial is temporary. Eternity is forever. And when I look at things from that grand perspective, it helps me put it into proper perspective. When I obsess about my trials, I think it's always going to be this way. Do you ever get sort of melodramatic about things?Right? Oh, it's never gonna be better. My life is over. You know, teenage girl says that when who knows what happened to her. Right?And she's, oh, you know. And we look at her and we say that is so immature. Peter says when we look at our trials like it's always going to be that way, we're looking immaturely. We're not seeing things from the grand perspective. Our trials are temporary.Someday, the present pain of our life will be over. Someday, Jesus himself is going to confirm, establish, comfort, minister. Someday, we are going to look back at our trials, and we are going to agree with God regarding them. Can you believe that? Now you might be in a trial right now going, I will never say that this was okay.I will never agree with this. Someday, God, I believe, is going to give us understanding regarding why this happened and why that happened and why that happened. I talked with a man after first service today. He's losing his job. He has thirty days.He was talking to somebody about this and that person said to him, I haven't been to church since Vietnam. But in light of the way you're responding to this, I might give it another chance. He always had tears in his eyes after first service to this point that I'm making. He goes, oh, these three years have been so hard, but maybe I see why God's doing it. Don't Don't you think heaven is going to be that kind of an experience where God goes, see when that happened right there?I did this with that with that person's life, and then this was the fruit of it. And we're gonna be going, I had no idea. And when we see it in the big picture, don't you think we will go, you know, God, you are infinitely wise. I now agree with that. And if I was you, I would have brought that into my life.Praise be to God. Okay? Heaven will be that I think. For a Christian, realize friends, for a Christian, this life that we're in right now, this is as bad as it gets. Our lives right now are the worst experience that we are ever going to have.Why? Because eternity is going to be bliss, heaven, and joy. So this is as bad as it gets for the Christian. For the unbeliever, it's the opposite. This is as good as it gets.Life in this broken world with all of its pain and all of its uncertainty is far better than what lies ahead for the unbeliever. But for us, this is as bad as it gets. This is temporary pain. That helps, doesn't it? Indeed, it does.Secondly, Peter points out that trials are painful. Trials are painful. Though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials. That's a pretty good word to describe what pain feels like. Right?It's grievous to us. And do I really need a lot of proof text on this one? Just to prove to you that trials are painful, that we feel within us when we are in a trial. And by trial here, I it's it's all of it, the various trials that he talks about. It can be physical.It can be emotional. It can be relational. It can be marital. It can be financial. It can be political.It can be injustice. It can be emotional worry, fear, misery, depression, and I mean, the things that the things that can create pain in us are incredibly varied, aren't they? All of them, we feel very personally when we experience them. I also find over time in my life that not only are the trials varied, but my ability to handle them is varied. There are things that when I was younger wouldn't have bothered me, now they bother me, like birthdays.There are things that when I was young bothered me, but now from a perspective of maturity doesn't bother me anymore. Right? It's so varied. It's so changing. But over all of that, we certainly can say the trials are painful.We would rather not be in them. Amen? Okay. That'd be my preference. A trouble free life.No more trials. I mean, that'd be like heaven, wouldn't it? Oh, wait. It is heaven. Are you with me?Okay. Alright. Third, reality and certainty with trials. And this now gets into kind of the nub of what Peter is wanting us to see is that trials are revealing and trials are refining. Again, the text, “so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”What is one of the biggest things that we wanna know when we are in the midst of a trial? We search for why. Right? Why is this happening? Why am I feeling this?Why am I sorrowing like I am? Why am I so depressed about this? And atheism comes along and gives what answer? Nothing. Secular humanism comes along and gives what answer?Nothing. Agnosticism comes along and gives what answer? E. Evolutionary theory comes along and gives what answer to our pain? Nothing.Christianity comes along, and it's got a purpose statement. Right there, you see it. So that. Why do I go through the troubles that I do? Why do I go through these things?Is there some reason behind it? And indeed, there is. In fact, you see, previously, he says, if necessary about our trials. If necessary what do you mean if necessary? That seems to indicate somebody is determining whether I ought to go through this or not.Is there a sovereign somebody that is sovereignly guiding and directing in the details of my life and determining whether this is good or not, necessary or not. Indeed, that is Christianity, that there is a sovereign God who doesn't simply, like the agnostics teach, live out there in the extended world and hope the best for us, but rather he is sovereignly over every single detail of our life. There's nothing that will ever happen to the Christian that we that that God did not sovereignly bring to us. Now by that, it doesn't mean that God endorses evil. And someday, we will never endorse evil either.We'll never look at the Holocaust and say, yeah. Great. But God uses evil, and God uses these things to accomplish his purposes. That's what Joseph said in Genesis, right, to his brothers. “You intended it for evil.God intended it for good.” That's the the the wonder of the mystery of God that he can, in the complexities of the universe, use even evil for his divine good and sovereign purposes. And so we see then that in Christian in a Christian theology of suffering, there is a purpose to it. And I think that alone is one of the great certainties that we have to cling to, that this is not random. This is not chaos.This is not Satan winning. Rather, this is something that God is sovereignly guiding and directing. There is a purpose behind it. Sometimes that doesn't make sense to us when the kind and godly young man dies or when the righteous suffer and the unrighteous prosper. Do you ever feel that way?Maybe you feel about that way about yourself. I'm I'm busting my butt. I'm trying to be a good employee, student, wife, husband, parent, whatever. And here I am. I'm dying on the vine, and you look at your neighbor who they're immoral, they profane God's name, and they just smile all the time.And you're like, that doesn't seem fair to me. As the hymn says, it is our God who does each day what he deems best. We trust that pain has a purpose and that God is behind it. The same faith that can believe in Jesus and trust my entire eternity to the truthfulness that Jesus did bear my guilt as he died on the cross is the same faith that now as a Christian in the midst of my suffering appropriates the promises of God and believes that this trial is as well under the sovereign hand of God and that he is doing something with it. We say, well, what is that something?Pastor Steve, could you please help? Notice what Peter says. What purpose do they serve? “So that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire.” What Peter does here is he anticipates maybe people sort of getting lost in his theology, and he gives a very clear illustration that they could all understand and we can all understand here as well.He brings up gold. Now ancient people were interested in gold. Why? It was the most precious commodity that they had. I mean, today, if you listen to the radio and different things, you see these advertisements.The stock market's uncertain. Buy gold. Right? And they show gold bars and people smiling because they have gold bars, and they encourage you to buy gold. It's the only lasting value in the world.That's the way that they viewed it in the first century. It was their most precious commodity. It was the most long lasting thing that they had, gold. So if you've ever seen, King Tut's tomb or pictures of the jewelry and the gold at King Tut's tomb, then you know that the ancient world, they were really good with gold. I mean, they had figured out how to take gold out of the mountain and turn it into something very beautiful, incredibly beautiful, and intricate.So how do they do it? Well, like today, what they would do is they would mine the gold, and then they would heat it. Right? They would heat up that gold with fires in a furnace. They would heat it up and heat it up and heat it up.And gold reaches a point where it melts. And as it gets hotter, the hotter it gets, the more the impurities of the gold rise to the surface. And so the ancients would heat up that gold and they would heat up that gold and the impurities. In other words, everything that was not gold would rise to the top, and then they would just skim off the top. And by doing that, the gold then, the karat of the gold, and by that, I mean k a r a t.Not to confuse some of you that are thinking about lunch right now. Carat, the the purity of the gold, and the value then would would increase. Okay? And they all got how that worked, and I hope that maybe, you get how that works as well. Because Peter is drawing an analogy here.Do you see it? The analogy is that fire reveals the gold and fire refines the gold. It reveals what is actually gold and separates the impurities and by doing that it refines it. And what he's saying here is that our faith is like gold and our trials are like fire. Fire reveals the genuine gold, and trials reveal the genuine faith.Should I say that again? Fire reveals the genuine gold. Trials reveal the genuine faith within us. Now you don't have to be around the church very long to see this in action. If you're around a church, some family or some individual is gonna suddenly find themselves in a trial, a fiery trial, as Peter calls it elsewhere.And you can watch how this works. And sometimes it's beautiful. Right? Because here you have sort of generic family a, and you didn't know them that well. You didn't know that much about them, but you hear about the trial.And out of that trial, you see a family that is turning to God in ways that you had never seen before. They're wanting the church to be in prayer for them. They're seeking spiritual, counsel and help. They're turning to God in the midst of their trial. They're trusting in things that they they don't know how it's gonna work out, but our trust is in God.And please, won't you pray for us? And you see in that trial a faith that you had never seen before. And it's a beautiful thing to see that. The genuineness of their faith is being revealed by the trial. In a sense, they didn't know what was in them.They didn't realize what they had, that saving faith in them, now showing its true color, its true karat in the midst of a fiery trial. At the same time, you don't have to be around the church very long to have generic family b in the church who comes under a similar trial. And they are unprepared for it. Their faith is has no, bandwidth for it. In that trial, all of a sudden, they are overwhelmed.Or they feel like, wait. This is not what I signed up for. They're like kinda like bandwagon Christians. They sort of join the church. They get on the Christianity bandwagon, and then paint then life hurts.And they're like, I need a different bandwagon. And off they go in a 100 different directions forsaking what they profess to be true in their life. What has the trial done for them? The trial has revealed that their faith was not genuine. The heat of the trial has done that.It is our response to trials that says so much. And by the way, this doesn't mean that we're like super Christians. And like from now on here at Bethel Church, if you ever have a trial, you must be like, my faith is being revealed and I love it. You know, it's not like that at all. There is room in this for normal human concern and worry and fear and the battling of fear and faith and all of that.So it's not like we're all walking around on some great spiritual plane somehow. But in the essence of it, there is an endurance that faith, genuine faith has that comes through the trial different, better, refined, revealed in ways that previously had been unknown. Trials are also great purifiers. Great purifiers. I read a little bit this week in preparation for this that modern gold refining, they heat up the gold to 3,000 degrees.That's hot, isn't it? And I got thinking to myself, what if you could interview the gold while it's being heated up, while it's coming under this kind of temperature? What might the gold be saying as it's getting hot? I see statements like this: “This is hot! This hurts! This stinks! Get me out of here! Why is this happening? Why do I get this and silver gets off easy? Please stop this right now. The guy in charge of this doesn't love me.” But what does the goldsmith know? The goldsmith knows that the only way for that gold to be purified is by heat. Now I stand before you a man who wished that wasn't true.I mean, wouldn't it be great if if the way that our faith could be built and we could grow spiritually would be for God to lavish us with every desire of our hearts? And for there never to be a single problem the rest of our life that we would just be rich and happy and fat and, you know, healthy and eat what we want and have all these. I mean, wouldn't it be great if that was the way that our faith was built? Amen. You're not sure if you want to amen that or not.I think that would be fantastic. That's not the way that it works, is it? In fact, what happens to people who get everything they want? What do we call children like that? Brats.That's what we call them. The surest way to raise a brat is to give that kid everything he wants all the time. And spiritually, there's a lot of immature Christians running around wanting that same kind of an experience. That's immaturity. How do we grow friends?It's through pain. And you'd better be ready for it. And again, this doesn't look great on the church billboards. Come to Bethel Church and suffer along with us. But that's the Bible.And that's the experience of Jesus who, by the way, we're told to do what? Take up our cross and follow him. Is there room in your understanding of your Christian faith that when trials come into your life, it doesn't mean that God doesn't love you? Now that's easy to say when you're not in a trial. But Thursday of this week, you might be.Are you ready to embrace that trial? Does your faith in God have a bandwidth that can bear that? Peter says your faith is more valuable than gold. Gold was the most valuable thing that they had in that day. Peter says your faith trumps it.Why? Because gold perishes. Gold perishes. But our faith will last forever. Not because of us, but because of that persevering, preserving work of God in our life.When the heat is turned up on us, we wanna say stop. God's answer is this. You may not realize it, but your faith is far more valuable than your comfort. I am going to reveal it and refine it. This will be a short term pain, but it will be a long term gain.Are you ready? You know, as a pastor, our elders, our pastors, we often are called into those moments of pain. I did two funerals yesterday morning. Two very wonderful godly men in our church, Peter Hammer and Merle McCluskey, both families suffering loss. Dear, dear brothers in the Lord, these kinds of things happen.They heard me preach sermons like this all the time, and now they're dead. They their sojourn is over. Are you ready? Are you ready, or are just hoping it doesn't happen or that Jesus comes back before it happens? Now with that said, I don't think we should intentionally bring trouble to ourselves.So don't leave the service today and be like, you know what? Trials refine my faith. I want trials in my life and run your car into a guardrail or a light pole or something like that. K? There's enough pain in this world we don't need to add to it.It also doesn't mean that we should be trying to refine our other people's faith and say, you know what? He needs to grow. Especially you married couples. I don't want you thinking that way. Life has enough fiery trials all by itself.So what should we be thinking when we're in a trial? I've got some questions. When the heat is up, when the heat in life is coming up, what should I ask? Here's a few. Am I looking at this from a temporal or eternal perspective?Obsess over the problem, and it will be overwhelming. Pull back from it and see it from the grand perspective of the gospel and the story of God, now I have it in perspective. Do I do I realize that trials are necessary at times and are for my good? This is one of the things that I, in my difficult times in my life, I try to bring to bear the thought in my heart, this is good for me. And that's hard at times.Right? Because I got this other part of me going, no, it isn't. And then I've got my faith part going, yes. It is. No.It isn't. Yes. It is. No. It is.Yes. You lay in bed at night. You can't sleep because this is going on. Right? But faith refuses to give up the belief that there is a sovereign God and that these light and momentary trials are achieving for us a glory that far outweighs them all.Romans eight. I'm sorry. Second Corinthians four. Is my perspective shaped by confidence in God's sovereign and good plan for my life? Do you think God loves you or only when things are good and going the way you want?Do you believe he loves you? Friend, he does. He sent Jesus. Right? That is Romans eight.“If God didn't spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will we not also along with him graciously give us all things?” How can we doubt the love of God for us? He sent his son for us. Do I want to grow spiritually more than I want to live comfortably? How many people could honestly say, yes, I want to grow spiritually more than to have a comfortable life?Is faith refinement a personal goal? Do I aspire to a high karat content? I think those are all very helpful, and maybe we'll get those up on the web in case you would like those. They come right from the text. Now look at the end result here, and we have our fourth certainty in the text.Let me read it again. “So that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” The fourth certainty is that purified faith has a goal in mind. If my goal is to grow spiritually, I have another goal in that, and it's an eternal perspective where I believe that this trial that I am going through is going to bring honor to God and also is going to bring commendation and honor to me. And this was my aha moment in my studies here because whenever you see it may result in praise and glory and honor, you just assume that this is talking about God.Right? Because there's so many passages in the Bible that say that. Philippians two, for example, “every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” And so you can look at that and say, well, who is the honor going to? It must be going to God.And indeed, in the end, all honor does go to God. But the text doesn't say that the honor here goes to God. It just says when it comes. It comes when Jesus is revealed. It comes at the end of time.And I think what Peter is doing here is he is including both. There is in my trouble and in my pain. Why do I want to respond in a God honoring way? Because I want God to be honored in this trial. And that is a very good motive for the Christian enduring suffering that Jesus may be honored in my life. I want him to be glorified in all things.Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen? Alright.So that we got down, especially at a church that is an all about him church. We got that down. But notice also that there is this reward that is also taught in Scripture that I receive. This commentation that I receive from Jesus in honor as he commends, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”Or a cup of cold water extended my name shall not be forgotten. And a host of other passages that teach us that as we honor the Lord in the ups and the downs of life, that we are putting our treasure in heaven as another example and that Jesus will reward us. Can that be motivating? I think so. I think so.In fact, to illustrate this, I'd like to return to the illustration that Peter is using, how both honors can happen, God and us. Let's go back to gold a second and to talk about gold used in in artwork. You know, back in the first century, they were doing what man has done for centuries, millennia, and that is use gold in art. Beautiful gold in, for example, jewelry. If you've, been to the museums in Chicago, there are displays there of ancient gold jewelry.And to this day, people pay to have tickets, and they go and they stand in front of the display, and they marvel at the intricate, jewelry and the and the craftsmanship of that those beautiful pieces of art. They stand there, and they're like, wow. And the wife's like, you ought to get me one of those. And, you know, these you just kinda stand there, and you admire the craftsmanship. You admire the artistic ability.You you admire the the art and the worth of that. Wow. That is just so absolutely beautiful. And so gold has itself a kind of I'm sorry. Art has its own kind of praise as we admire the art itself.But there is this other kind of honor that art produces, and that is honor for the maker of the art. So that it's not just the Messiah, it is Handel's Messiah. And it's just not the Fifth, it is Beethoven's fifth. And with great pieces of art, the art is valued and treasured, but then the real honor is for the amazing ability of the person who crafted it in the first place. And so how does that apply to what God is doing in the midst of my pain and my sorrow?As I realize that everything that comes into my life is from the sovereign hand of God, as I appropriate that faith, the same faith that trusted in Jesus for my eternity, I now trust him for this trial that I'm experiencing. And I remain faithful to the Lord. I try with the the strength that God provides to obey or to be steadfast or whatever I need to do in that trial. As I do that, God is shaping and forming in me in the story of my life a kind of artistic beauty. And the people around you see that, and they admire it.And they're like, isn't it beautiful and wonderful what that family is doing in response to that trial in their life? Isn't it great and wonderful what that man is doing as he prepares to lose his job by faith in Jesus, believing God is sovereign over it? And a host of other things as we admire and see that we are we're like the gallery of God. Our lives are a kind of masterpiece, a kind of artistic expression of the amazing power of God, but for our own honor as well. We hang in the gallery of God and people and angels and God himself admiring the beauty of what our lives live by faith in times of trouble, what that is, so that we as the art and God is the maker of the art, both receive honor and praise.And one motivating factor when I am in a time of trouble is I don't want to lose that reward. I don't want to lose that commendation from God. “Well done, good and faithful servant.” I don't wanna lose the opportunity to bring honor to him. By the way, I live by faith even when life hurts.So that at the end then of all of our troubles and all of our pains, there is God and there is us. His artwork, his masterpieces, honored and honored. Little h honor to us, big h honor to God. Paintings and painters, symphonies and composers, sinners and savior may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Much more on suffering in First Peter.We're just getting going. I'm gonna ask you, just to join me for a word of prayer. Would you stand with me, please, as we conclude our service together?* This transcript was generated using AI transcription technology and reviewed for accuracy but may contain errors. Please refer to the original audio for precise wording.

Steve DeWitt God, Why Am I Hurting? - Part A Study Guide for Spiritual Exiles, 1 Peter 1:6-8 Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 1:6-8 Visit the series page: Exiles: A study in 1 Peter Donate to Support The Journey Sermon Transcript for Spiritual Exiles, 1 Peter 1:6-8 Sermon Series: Spiritual ExilesMessage: God Why Am I Hurting? Airdate: 9/10-9/11/26Programs: 2354 23552014, what a year around this place. I mean, it was something else. And just on the surface to go from two campuses to four campuses all in one year, a remarkable, remarkable, thing that God has done. We give him glory for it, and, we want 2015 to be another year of, faithful ministry here, and thank you for your part in that. I really mean that.This is our weekend of the annual meeting, and that's partly why we made this video. It's a it's a year or it's a a weekend where our members, we have our annual meeting, and so it's kind of a year to look back, a time to look back on the on the past year. It also means that, because our meeting is between this service and the next, I know this is gonna be disappointing. The sermon's a little shorter. Little shorter.So appropriate, that I'm speaking on trials in this sermon. And I'm gonna get right into it because our time is fleeting. First Peter one verses six through seven, I've entitled this message, God, why am I hurting? That resonate resonate here today? Are you in a time in your life maybe where you are hurting, where there is a trial maybe that is a pain in your life right now, you might say, no.Not really. Just wait. K? Just wait. It's coming.Life in a broken world brings sorrows to us in all kinds of directions and in ways that we cannot anticipate. That day is most certainly coming. And Peter is writing this letter to a group of geographical exiles in the first century sent from Rome, living in Asia Minor, but they are they are spiritual exiles as well. They are suffering in a community that looks at their Christian faith, looks at their rejection of the immorality around them. They look down at them, and they are feeling alienated.They are feeling ostracized, and they are suffering in many different ways. And so Peter writes this letter to them to encourage them, and it is perhaps more than the only one maybe competing with the book would be the book of Job of, delivering to us, giving to us a theology of Christian suffering. How do I handle it? How should I look at it when God sovereignly brings pain into my life? First Peter is a very honest letter.It looks pain in the face and gives an answer. Did you know Christianity has an answer to suffering that the other religions of the world, the other philosophies struggle to provide in ways that we'll get into? So maybe you're here today and you're in pain, and you're thinking this is the sermon for me. Maybe you're here today and you're not in pain, but that day is coming. I want to prepare all of us to suffer so that when we are the ones experiencing that pain, we have a kind of grid.We have a kind of understanding that is ready to embrace the trials that come. I also wanna note that Christianity is based on suffering. I mean, our entire faith is built upon the suffering savior who came into this world, God steps into our pain in the person of Jesus, incarnates into this world, lives amongst us, experiences all of the weaknesses, all of the sufferings that we experience, and then suffered himself dying on the cross bearing the guilt and shame for all of our sins. Our savior was a suffering savior. We can say it that Christianity is is built on suffering.Now that doesn't sound so good. It doesn't look great on a billboard. You know, we're not gonna put up a billboard that says, Bethel Church, come suffer with us. Right? Because many people, they don't wanna hear that, and they want a faith that doesn't include any suffering, and yet it inevitably comes.Are we ready for that? Are you ready for that in your life? So our text is verses, six and seven, First Peter one. Please listen as I read. “In this, you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”This passage is Peter's first salvo of teaching on suffering. It's gonna continue through the letter. So this isn't everything that he has to say about it. There's much more to come. Notice that he begins with the the little phrase there, in this, you rejoice.You wouldn't expect a passage on suffering to have a and to begin with a word of joy, and he's referring there to what he's just talked about regarding our living hope. Our hope is living because our hope is in a living savior. And so because of that, we are we rejoice in this salvation, this new birth that God has given to us. Notice that joy and pain can coexist. We typically think, you know, when I am in pain, then I'm not joyous.Right? Or when I'm in joyous, I don't have any pain. And yet these two come together, indeed, they have to come together in a Christian theology of suffering because there is going to be ongoing problems and pain in life. There are gonna be ups and downs, and yet our Christian joy is not based upon our circumstances. It is grounded and based upon something that is enduring.Even Jesus himself, Hebrews, “who for the joy set before him endured the cross and despised its shame.” So don't see the these as enemies. These actually can be friends, joy, and pain. We'll get into more of that later. But in this passage, Peter gives four certainties in the midst of suffering.Four certainties that a Christian can hold on to, trust, and believe in even when life is hurting. So let's get into these now. Notice the first one is that our trials as Christians are temporary. They are temporary. The text now, “though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.”Peter's first point here is chronological. He is pointing something out that is obviously true. Now it doesn't seem that way to us when we are in the midst of pain. When we are hurting, what do we often think about the pain that we're feeling? We say things like this.This is never going to change. This is never gonna be fixed. I will always feel this way. This pain will never go away. That's how it seems to us.Right? Peter says, yes. It will. Yes. It will.Chronologically speaking, our sufferings and our trials and our pains are very small in duration when compared to the future that the Christian confidently expects, this eternal life that we have. Our lives are fleeting. Our days are numbered. They're short. Eternity is long.Peter points that out. He says, you know what now? For a little while, it's just a little while. It's temporary. You're not always going to feel this way.It's not always going to be this way. A day of change is coming. Chapter five verse 10, he writes, and after you have suffered a little while, there he says it again, “the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.” Peter's wanting us to realize that that this trial that I am in is finite. Eternity is unending.My trial is temporary. Eternity is forever. And when I look at things from that grand perspective, it helps me put it into proper perspective. When I obsess about my trials, I think it's always going to be this way. Do you ever get sort of melodramatic about things?Right? Oh, it's never gonna be better. My life is over. You know, teenage girl says that when who knows what happened to her. Right?And she's, oh, you know. And we look at her and we say that is so immature. Peter says when we look at our trials like it's always going to be that way, we're looking immaturely. We're not seeing things from the grand perspective. Our trials are temporary.Someday, the present pain of our life will be over. Someday, Jesus himself is going to confirm, establish, comfort, minister. Someday, we are going to look back at our trials, and we are going to agree with God regarding them. Can you believe that? Now you might be in a trial right now going, I will never say that this was okay.I will never agree with this. Someday, God, I believe, is going to give us understanding regarding why this happened and why that happened and why that happened. I talked with a man after first service today. He's losing his job. He has thirty days.He was talking to somebody about this and that person said to him, I haven't been to church since Vietnam. But in light of the way you're responding to this, I might give it another chance. He always had tears in his eyes after first service to this point that I'm making. He goes, oh, these three years have been so hard, but maybe I see why God's doing it. Don't Don't you think heaven is going to be that kind of an experience where God goes, see when that happened right there?I did this with that with that person's life, and then this was the fruit of it. And we're gonna be going, I had no idea. And when we see it in the big picture, don't you think we will go, you know, God, you are infinitely wise. I now agree with that. And if I was you, I would have brought that into my life.Praise be to God. Okay? Heaven will be that I think. For a Christian, realize friends, for a Christian, this life that we're in right now, this is as bad as it gets. Our lives right now are the worst experience that we are ever going to have.Why? Because eternity is going to be bliss, heaven, and joy. So this is as bad as it gets for the Christian. For the unbeliever, it's the opposite. This is as good as it gets.Life in this broken world with all of its pain and all of its uncertainty is far better than what lies ahead for the unbeliever. But for us, this is as bad as it gets. This is temporary pain. That helps, doesn't it? Indeed, it does.Secondly, Peter points out that trials are painful. Trials are painful. Though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials. That's a pretty good word to describe what pain feels like. Right?It's grievous to us. And do I really need a lot of proof text on this one? Just to prove to you that trials are painful, that we feel within us when we are in a trial. And by trial here, I it's it's all of it, the various trials that he talks about. It can be physical.It can be emotional. It can be relational. It can be marital. It can be financial. It can be political.It can be injustice. It can be emotional worry, fear, misery, depression, and I mean, the things that the things that can create pain in us are incredibly varied, aren't they? All of them, we feel very personally when we experience them. I also find over time in my life that not only are the trials varied, but my ability to handle them is varied. There are things that when I was younger wouldn't have bothered me, now they bother me, like birthdays.There are things that when I was young bothered me, but now from a perspective of maturity doesn't bother me anymore. Right? It's so varied. It's so changing. But over all of that, we certainly can say the trials are painful.We would rather not be in them. Amen? Okay. That'd be my preference. A trouble free life.No more trials. I mean, that'd be like heaven, wouldn't it? Oh, wait. It is heaven. Are you with me?Okay. Alright. Third, reality and certainty with trials. And this now gets into kind of the nub of what Peter is wanting us to see is that trials are revealing and trials are refining. Again, the text, “so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”What is one of the biggest things that we wanna know when we are in the midst of a trial? We search for why. Right? Why is this happening? Why am I feeling this?Why am I sorrowing like I am? Why am I so depressed about this? And atheism comes along and gives what answer? Nothing. Secular humanism comes along and gives what answer?Nothing. Agnosticism comes along and gives what answer? E. Evolutionary theory comes along and gives what answer to our pain? Nothing.Christianity comes along, and it's got a purpose statement. Right there, you see it. So that. Why do I go through the troubles that I do? Why do I go through these things?Is there some reason behind it? And indeed, there is. In fact, you see, previously, he says, if necessary about our trials. If necessary what do you mean if necessary? That seems to indicate somebody is determining whether I ought to go through this or not.Is there a sovereign somebody that is sovereignly guiding and directing in the details of my life and determining whether this is good or not, necessary or not. Indeed, that is Christianity, that there is a sovereign God who doesn't simply, like the agnostics teach, live out there in the extended world and hope the best for us, but rather he is sovereignly over every single detail of our life. There's nothing that will ever happen to the Christian that we that that God did not sovereignly bring to us. Now by that, it doesn't mean that God endorses evil. And someday, we will never endorse evil either.We'll never look at the Holocaust and say, yeah. Great. But God uses evil, and God uses these things to accomplish his purposes. That's what Joseph said in Genesis, right, to his brothers. “You intended it for evil.God intended it for good.” That's the the the wonder of the mystery of God that he can, in the complexities of the universe, use even evil for his divine good and sovereign purposes. And so we see then that in Christian in a Christian theology of suffering, there is a purpose to it. And I think that alone is one of the great certainties that we have to cling to, that this is not random. This is not chaos.This is not Satan winning. Rather, this is something that God is sovereignly guiding and directing. There is a purpose behind it. Sometimes that doesn't make sense to us when the kind and godly young man dies or when the righteous suffer and the unrighteous prosper. Do you ever feel that way?Maybe you feel about that way about yourself. I'm I'm busting my butt. I'm trying to be a good employee, student, wife, husband, parent, whatever. And here I am. I'm dying on the vine, and you look at your neighbor who they're immoral, they profane God's name, and they just smile all the time.And you're like, that doesn't seem fair to me. As the hymn says, it is our God who does each day what he deems best. We trust that pain has a purpose and that God is behind it. The same faith that can believe in Jesus and trust my entire eternity to the truthfulness that Jesus did bear my guilt as he died on the cross is the same faith that now as a Christian in the midst of my suffering appropriates the promises of God and believes that this trial is as well under the sovereign hand of God and that he is doing something with it. We say, well, what is that something?Pastor Steve, could you please help? Notice what Peter says. What purpose do they serve? “So that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire.” What Peter does here is he anticipates maybe people sort of getting lost in his theology, and he gives a very clear illustration that they could all understand and we can all understand here as well.He brings up gold. Now ancient people were interested in gold. Why? It was the most precious commodity that they had. I mean, today, if you listen to the radio and different things, you see these advertisements.The stock market's uncertain. Buy gold. Right? And they show gold bars and people smiling because they have gold bars, and they encourage you to buy gold. It's the only lasting value in the world.That's the way that they viewed it in the first century. It was their most precious commodity. It was the most long lasting thing that they had, gold. So if you've ever seen, King Tut's tomb or pictures of the jewelry and the gold at King Tut's tomb, then you know that the ancient world, they were really good with gold. I mean, they had figured out how to take gold out of the mountain and turn it into something very beautiful, incredibly beautiful, and intricate.So how do they do it? Well, like today, what they would do is they would mine the gold, and then they would heat it. Right? They would heat up that gold with fires in a furnace. They would heat it up and heat it up and heat it up.And gold reaches a point where it melts. And as it gets hotter, the hotter it gets, the more the impurities of the gold rise to the surface. And so the ancients would heat up that gold and they would heat up that gold and the impurities. In other words, everything that was not gold would rise to the top, and then they would just skim off the top. And by doing that, the gold then, the karat of the gold, and by that, I mean k a r a t.Not to confuse some of you that are thinking about lunch right now. Carat, the the purity of the gold, and the value then would would increase. Okay? And they all got how that worked, and I hope that maybe, you get how that works as well. Because Peter is drawing an analogy here.Do you see it? The analogy is that fire reveals the gold and fire refines the gold. It reveals what is actually gold and separates the impurities and by doing that it refines it. And what he's saying here is that our faith is like gold and our trials are like fire. Fire reveals the genuine gold, and trials reveal the genuine faith.Should I say that again? Fire reveals the genuine gold. Trials reveal the genuine faith within us. Now you don't have to be around the church very long to see this in action. If you're around a church, some family or some individual is gonna suddenly find themselves in a trial, a fiery trial, as Peter calls it elsewhere.And you can watch how this works. And sometimes it's beautiful. Right? Because here you have sort of generic family a, and you didn't know them that well. You didn't know that much about them, but you hear about the trial.And out of that trial, you see a family that is turning to God in ways that you had never seen before. They're wanting the church to be in prayer for them. They're seeking spiritual, counsel and help. They're turning to God in the midst of their trial. They're trusting in things that they they don't know how it's gonna work out, but our trust is in God.And please, won't you pray for us? And you see in that trial a faith that you had never seen before. And it's a beautiful thing to see that. The genuineness of their faith is being revealed by the trial. In a sense, they didn't know what was in them.They didn't realize what they had, that saving faith in them, now showing its true color, its true karat in the midst of a fiery trial. At the same time, you don't have to be around the church very long to have generic family b in the church who comes under a similar trial. And they are unprepared for it. Their faith is has no, bandwidth for it. In that trial, all of a sudden, they are overwhelmed.Or they feel like, wait. This is not what I signed up for. They're like kinda like bandwagon Christians. They sort of join the church. They get on the Christianity bandwagon, and then paint then life hurts.And they're like, I need a different bandwagon. And off they go in a 100 different directions forsaking what they profess to be true in their life. What has the trial done for them? The trial has revealed that their faith was not genuine. The heat of the trial has done that.It is our response to trials that says so much. And by the way, this doesn't mean that we're like super Christians. And like from now on here at Bethel Church, if you ever have a trial, you must be like, my faith is being revealed and I love it. You know, it's not like that at all. There is room in this for normal human concern and worry and fear and the battling of fear and faith and all of that.So it's not like we're all walking around on some great spiritual plane somehow. But in the essence of it, there is an endurance that faith, genuine faith has that comes through the trial different, better, refined, revealed in ways that previously had been unknown. Trials are also great purifiers. Great purifiers. I read a little bit this week in preparation for this that modern gold refining, they heat up the gold to 3,000 degrees.That's hot, isn't it? And I got thinking to myself, what if you could interview the gold while it's being heated up, while it's coming under this kind of temperature? What might the gold be saying as it's getting hot? I see statements like this: “This is hot! This hurts! This stinks! Get me out of here! Why is this happening? Why do I get this and silver gets off easy? Please stop this right now. The guy in charge of this doesn't love me.” But what does the goldsmith know? The goldsmith knows that the only way for that gold to be purified is by heat. Now I stand before you a man who wished that wasn't true.I mean, wouldn't it be great if if the way that our faith could be built and we could grow spiritually would be for God to lavish us with every desire of our hearts? And for there never to be a single problem the rest of our life that we would just be rich and happy and fat and, you know, healthy and eat what we want and have all these. I mean, wouldn't it be great if that was the way that our faith was built? Amen. You're not sure if you want to amen that or not.I think that would be fantastic. That's not the way that it works, is it? In fact, what happens to people who get everything they want? What do we call children like that? Brats.That's what we call them. The surest way to raise a brat is to give that kid everything he wants all the time. And spiritually, there's a lot of immature Christians running around wanting that same kind of an experience. That's immaturity. How do we grow friends?It's through pain. And you'd better be ready for it. And again, this doesn't look great on the church billboards. Come to Bethel Church and suffer along with us. But that's the Bible.And that's the experience of Jesus who, by the way, we're told to do what? Take up our cross and follow him. Is there room in your understanding of your Christian faith that when trials come into your life, it doesn't mean that God doesn't love you? Now that's easy to say when you're not in a trial. But Thursday of this week, you might be.Are you ready to embrace that trial? Does your faith in God have a bandwidth that can bear that? Peter says your faith is more valuable than gold. Gold was the most valuable thing that they had in that day. Peter says your faith trumps it.Why? Because gold perishes. Gold perishes. But our faith will last forever. Not because of us, but because of that persevering, preserving work of God in our life.When the heat is turned up on us, we wanna say stop. God's answer is this. You may not realize it, but your faith is far more valuable than your comfort. I am going to reveal it and refine it. This will be a short term pain, but it will be a long term gain.Are you ready? You know, as a pastor, our elders, our pastors, we often are called into those moments of pain. I did two funerals yesterday morning. Two very wonderful godly men in our church, Peter Hammer and Merle McCluskey, both families suffering loss. Dear, dear brothers in the Lord, these kinds of things happen.They heard me preach sermons like this all the time, and now they're dead. They their sojourn is over. Are you ready? Are you ready, or are just hoping it doesn't happen or that Jesus comes back before it happens? Now with that said, I don't think we should intentionally bring trouble to ourselves.So don't leave the service today and be like, you know what? Trials refine my faith. I want trials in my life and run your car into a guardrail or a light pole or something like that. K? There's enough pain in this world we don't need to add to it.It also doesn't mean that we should be trying to refine our other people's faith and say, you know what? He needs to grow. Especially you married couples. I don't want you thinking that way. Life has enough fiery trials all by itself.So what should we be thinking when we're in a trial? I've got some questions. When the heat is up, when the heat in life is coming up, what should I ask? Here's a few. Am I looking at this from a temporal or eternal perspective?Obsess over the problem, and it will be overwhelming. Pull back from it and see it from the grand perspective of the gospel and the story of God, now I have it in perspective. Do I do I realize that trials are necessary at times and are for my good? This is one of the things that I, in my difficult times in my life, I try to bring to bear the thought in my heart, this is good for me. And that's hard at times.Right? Because I got this other part of me going, no, it isn't. And then I've got my faith part going, yes. It is. No.It isn't. Yes. It is. No. It is.Yes. You lay in bed at night. You can't sleep because this is going on. Right? But faith refuses to give up the belief that there is a sovereign God and that these light and momentary trials are achieving for us a glory that far outweighs them all.Romans eight. I'm sorry. Second Corinthians four. Is my perspective shaped by confidence in God's sovereign and good plan for my life? Do you think God loves you or only when things are good and going the way you want?Do you believe he loves you? Friend, he does. He sent Jesus. Right? That is Romans eight.“If God didn't spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will we not also along with him graciously give us all things?” How can we doubt the love of God for us? He sent his son for us. Do I want to grow spiritually more than I want to live comfortably? How many people could honestly say, yes, I want to grow spiritually more than to have a comfortable life?Is faith refinement a personal goal? Do I aspire to a high karat content? I think those are all very helpful, and maybe we'll get those up on the web in case you would like those. They come right from the text. Now look at the end result here, and we have our fourth certainty in the text.Let me read it again. “So that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” The fourth certainty is that purified faith has a goal in mind. If my goal is to grow spiritually, I have another goal in that, and it's an eternal perspective where I believe that this trial that I am going through is going to bring honor to God and also is going to bring commendation and honor to me. And this was my aha moment in my studies here because whenever you see it may result in praise and glory and honor, you just assume that this is talking about God.Right? Because there's so many passages in the Bible that say that. Philippians two, for example, “every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” And so you can look at that and say, well, who is the honor going to? It must be going to God.And indeed, in the end, all honor does go to God. But the text doesn't say that the honor here goes to God. It just says when it comes. It comes when Jesus is revealed. It comes at the end of time.And I think what Peter is doing here is he is including both. There is in my trouble and in my pain. Why do I want to respond in a God honoring way? Because I want God to be honored in this trial. And that is a very good motive for the Christian enduring suffering that Jesus may be honored in my life. I want him to be glorified in all things.Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen? Alright.So that we got down, especially at a church that is an all about him church. We got that down. But notice also that there is this reward that is also taught in Scripture that I receive. This commentation that I receive from Jesus in honor as he commends, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”Or a cup of cold water extended my name shall not be forgotten. And a host of other passages that teach us that as we honor the Lord in the ups and the downs of life, that we are putting our treasure in heaven as another example and that Jesus will reward us. Can that be motivating? I think so. I think so.In fact, to illustrate this, I'd like to return to the illustration that Peter is using, how both honors can happen, God and us. Let's go back to gold a second and to talk about gold used in in artwork. You know, back in the first century, they were doing what man has done for centuries, millennia, and that is use gold in art. Beautiful gold in, for example, jewelry. If you've, been to the museums in Chicago, there are displays there of ancient gold jewelry.And to this day, people pay to have tickets, and they go and they stand in front of the display, and they marvel at the intricate, jewelry and the and the craftsmanship of that those beautiful pieces of art. They stand there, and they're like, wow. And the wife's like, you ought to get me one of those. And, you know, these you just kinda stand there, and you admire the craftsmanship. You admire the artistic ability.You you admire the the art and the worth of that. Wow. That is just so absolutely beautiful. And so gold has itself a kind of I'm sorry. Art has its own kind of praise as we admire the art itself.But there is this other kind of honor that art produces, and that is honor for the maker of the art. So that it's not just the Messiah, it is Handel's Messiah. And it's just not the Fifth, it is Beethoven's fifth. And with great pieces of art, the art is valued and treasured, but then the real honor is for the amazing ability of the person who crafted it in the first place. And so how does that apply to what God is doing in the midst of my pain and my sorrow?As I realize that everything that comes into my life is from the sovereign hand of God, as I appropriate that faith, the same faith that trusted in Jesus for my eternity, I now trust him for this trial that I'm experiencing. And I remain faithful to the Lord. I try with the the strength that God provides to obey or to be steadfast or whatever I need to do in that trial. As I do that, God is shaping and forming in me in the story of my life a kind of artistic beauty. And the people around you see that, and they admire it.And they're like, isn't it beautiful and wonderful what that family is doing in response to that trial in their life? Isn't it great and wonderful what that man is doing as he prepares to lose his job by faith in Jesus, believing God is sovereign over it? And a host of other things as we admire and see that we are we're like the gallery of God. Our lives are a kind of masterpiece, a kind of artistic expression of the amazing power of God, but for our own honor as well. We hang in the gallery of God and people and angels and God himself admiring the beauty of what our lives live by faith in times of trouble, what that is, so that we as the art and God is the maker of the art, both receive honor and praise.And one motivating factor when I am in a time of trouble is I don't want to lose that reward. I don't want to lose that commendation from God. “Well done, good and faithful servant.” I don't wanna lose the opportunity to bring honor to him. By the way, I live by faith even when life hurts.So that at the end then of all of our troubles and all of our pains, there is God and there is us. His artwork, his masterpieces, honored and honored. Little h honor to us, big h honor to God. Paintings and painters, symphonies and composers, sinners and savior may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Much more on suffering in First Peter.We're just getting going. I'm gonna ask you, just to join me for a word of prayer. Would you stand with me, please, as we conclude our service together?* This transcript was generated using AI transcription technology and reviewed for accuracy but may contain errors. Please refer to the original audio for precise wording.

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Dr. Killeen shares one of John Wooden's most enduring leadership lessons: championships are built on mastering the smallest details. From teaching players how to properly put on their socks and tie their shoes to prevent blisters, Wooden understood that excellence starts with the fundamentals long before game day. In this episode, Dr. Killeen explores how that same mindset applies in dentistry. Whether it's clinical precision, sterilization protocols, treatment planning conversations, or the materials and techniques you use every day, the little things add up to exceptional patient care. Learn why revisiting the basics may be the biggest step you can take toward building a championship practice.

A vida nem sempre acontece como desejamos. Existem momentos de perdas, mudanças, conflitos, incertezas e desafios que podem abalar profundamente a nossa energia e o nosso equilíbrio interior.Nesta palestra, inspirada no ensinamento de Jesus sobre a casa edificada sobre a rocha, vamos refletir sobre como construir uma base espiritual forte o suficiente para atravessar as tempestades da vida sem perder completamente a nossa paz, a nossa fé e a nossa vibração.Manter uma energia positiva não significa negar os problemas, fugir da dor ou acreditar que uma vibração elevada impedirá todas as dificuldades. Significa desenvolver estrutura interior, consciência e força espiritual para enfrentar aquilo que precisa ser vivido sem permitir que as circunstâncias determinem completamente o nosso estado interior.A rocha representa essa base firme: aquilo que permanece quando tudo ao redor parece instável.Nesta reflexão, vamos falar sobre como:manter a vibração elevada mesmo em períodos difíceis;não entregar nossa energia às circunstâncias externas;fortalecer a fé e a estabilidade emocional;compreender as adversidades como parte do processo de crescimento;permanecer firme quando as tempestades chegam.Que esta mensagem ajude você a recordar que a tempestade pode chegar, mas uma vida verdadeiramente edificada sobre a rocha pode permanecer de pé.Se esta reflexão fizer sentido para você, compartilhe com alguém que esteja precisando de força neste momento.

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This week, we have one of our incredible clients, Dana, on the podcast! Dana shares her honest thoughts and feelings of her experience getting support with the Find Food Freedom® dietitian team as her wedding day approaches! She has been using her health insurance benefits to get FREE 1:1 virtual counseling sessions. Today we discuss how her relationships with food and her body have changed drastically in 7 months of working with our team!Resources Mentioned in Today's Episode:Body Image with Bri: https://www.instagram.com/bodyimagewithbri/ Victoria Garrick Browne: https://www.instagram.com/victoriagarrickbrowne/ ALL things Find Food Freedom®:Get your Insurance Benefits Checked: ⁠https://bit.ly/FFFinsurance⁠  Instagram: ⁠@find.food.freedom ⁠TikTok: ⁠@findfoodfreedom ⁠Website:⁠https://find-foodfreedom.com/ ⁠Join the FFF Monthly Membership here: ⁠https://findfoodfreedommembership.com⁠ and use the code 'IWANTFOODFREEDOM' for 3 months completely FREE!

Uma ouvinte, mãe de uma menina de 7 anos, questiona-se sobre a exposição mediática dos alunos com 20 valores e sobre uma competição entre crianças que já sente instalada na escola primáriaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Paula MacKenzie took over as CEO in 2022, PizzaExpress had been through seven CEOs in eleven years, a billion-pound debt restructuring, 73 restaurant closures, and a pandemic that decimated the casual dining sector. Four years on, she has refurbished three quarters of the estate, grown a loyalty app to four million members, and is targeting 1,000 restaurants worldwide by 2030. In this episode, Sir Richard Harpin, the host of the Business Leader podcast, delves into the numbers, the decisions, and the leadership thinking behind the business turnaround — including why profits fell even as revenue rose, what a refurbishment actually does to a restaurant's economics, and how MacKenzie is expanding PizzaExpress into new formats and new markets.They also cover her career journey — from Ernst & Young auditor to Diageo, GSK, Innocent Drinks and eleven years at KFC — what it takes to go cross-functional and make yourself the obvious CEO candidate, and the leadership lessons she has taken from four years running one of Britain's most scrutinised businesses. And, her advice to the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.In this episode:What PizzaExpress actually looked like when MacKenzie walked in — and the one thing the business needed mostWhy she changed much of the leadership team in her first months, and what a CEO transition coach told her before she even startedHow the loyalty app grew to four million membersThe refurbishment programme — and why underinvested restaurants are delivering 5–10% revenue upliftsThe 1,000 restaurant target — and the new formats, franchise markets and US ambitions behind itHer four-stage playbook for any new CEO: arrive, assimilate, articulate, accelerateWhy she believes you cannot overcommunicate — and how she mystery shops her own restaurantsSubscribe to the Business Leader Podcast for weekly entrepreneur stories from founders and CEOs who've built and scaled great businesses. Join the Business Leader community for coaching, peer to peer forums and exclusive learning events. Sign up to our free weekly newsletter at businessleader.co.uk/newsletters.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No episódio 99 do Papo com Profa. Mila Cabral, uma reflexão necessária: em que momento cuidar da saúde virou uma obsessão por performance? Falamos sobre uso irracional de medicamentos e suplementos, hormônios, dietas extremas, excesso de exercícios, canetas emagrecedoras clandestinas, desinformação e a busca incessante pelo corpo e pela produtividade perfeitos. Entre ciência e vida real, fica uma pergunta: estamos realmente cuidando da saúde ou apenas tentando performar saúde para o mundo?

Neste episódio, Paulo, Thiago, Domica, Arthur e Chuvisco, falam de Homem aranha um novo dia, além de Vazamentos de GTA VI, GTA 6, Rockstar, Take Two fabricando outra pandemia, GTA Online, ganhando dinheiro com videogame, Janja tentando derrubar o Discord, banimento de redes sociais, Homem Aranha Um Novo Dia, Spider Man Brand New Day, MCU, Marvel, Justiceiro, Punisher, O Justiceiro, O Tentáculo, Hulk, X-Men, Vingadores Doomsday, Obsessão, Obsession, GPS das estrelas, aviões supersônicos, Super TrunfoTodos os links do godmode agora estão organizados aqui - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/godmode.podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Se for mandar email reclamando - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠contato@godmodepodcast.com⁠⁠⁠

Neste vídeo, vamos refletir sobre aqueles momentos em que a vida apresenta situações que parecem grandes demais, difíceis demais ou até impossíveis de superar.Há fases em que não conseguimos mudar imediatamente o que está acontecendo do lado de fora. E é justamente nesses momentos que a nossa postura interior se torna decisiva. Como reagimos? Onde colocamos nossa atenção? Alimentamos o medo ou fortalecemos a confiança? Nos entregamos ao desespero ou buscamos uma posição interna mais firme?A imagem de Davi diante de Golias representa muito bem esse tipo de experiência: quando aquilo que está à nossa frente parece muito maior do que os recursos que acreditamos possuir. Mas nem sempre vencer significa ter mais força. Muitas vezes, significa ter clareza, coragem, fé, estratégia e presença.Neste conteúdo, vamos falar sobre como atravessar situações difíceis sem permitir que elas dominem completamente o nosso estado interior. Sobre como manter a dignidade emocional, sustentar a esperança e continuar caminhando mesmo quando ainda não conseguimos enxergar a solução.O impossível pode nos assustar, mas também pode revelar capacidades que permaneciam adormecidas enquanto tudo estava confortável.Quando tudo diz que é impossível, qual posição você escolhe ocupar por dentro?Talvez seja justamente essa posição que comece a transformar o caminho.

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Every owner has that one thing they obsess over when it comes to their horse. Alex and Jillian share their personal equine obsessions, from grooming habits to horse care quirks to tack collections. Connect with Jillian and Alex via email: mynewhorse@equinenetwork.comBrought to you by My New Horse.

Body obsession can hide behind "health" and "discipline" - and for many women, it becomes a quiet idol that steals peace, joy, and even faith. Dr. Brooke Sheehan and Allie unpack the difference between honoring your body and trying to control it, revealing the subtle way toxic wellness culture pulls believers into overwhelm. Brooke shares how she went from completely ignoring her body to obsessing over every metric, every supplement, and every detail in her search for a health utopia. Together, she and Allie show why this isn't just a mindset issue - it's a spiritual one. When wellness becomes a way to manage fear, image, or control, it can slowly replace trust in God with trust in performance. You'll discover: Why "idol" can mean far more than statues or obvious false gods The biblical difference between the flesh and the body, including the Greek words sarx and soma How self-objectification shows up in mirrors, selfies, social media, and body shame Why excessive tracking, optimization, and constant wellness advice can actually increase anxiety Practical next steps for breaking free, including repentance, gratitude, and listening for what your body is trying to tell you Allie also vulnerably shares her own story of body shame, disordered eating, and the freedom that came through prayer, repentance, and renewing her mind. She reads from Romans 1 to show how easily a culture can exchange worship of the Creator for obsession with the created, and Dr. Brooke connects that warning directly to the way we treat our bodies today. Dr. Brooke Sheehan is a health and body image educator known for helping women untangle the relationships among wellness, faith, and body stewardship. She is the creator of Talk to Me Body, the voice of your body anchored in scripture, a 63-card set designed to help listeners approach their bodies with curiosity, gratitude, and biblical wisdom. If you've felt trapped by body thoughts, food guilt, endless self-improvement, or the pressure to optimize every part of your health, this conversation offers a clear path back to peace. Essential listening for anyone ready to quiet the noise, stop worshiping appearance, and step into freedom. Dr. Brook Sheehan Connect with Us Free guide: "5 Keys to Walking In Your Worth." wonderfullymade.org Allie's Books Social Media Reset: A 30-Day Guided Journey to Unplug, Reconnect with God, and Reclaim Your JoyWonderfully Made: Discover the Identity, Love, and Worth You Were Created For Social Media @wonderfullymade_org @alliemariesmithTikTok Resources Life Coaching for Teen GirlsSocial Media Reset CourseWonderfully Made Young Women's Course  

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Multi-year guarantee annuities (MYGAs) might be the most overlooked "bond alternative" in your retirement plan. In this episode, you'll hear a Wall Street bond veteran break down why MYGAs behave like annuity bonds, how he personally uses them, and why guarantees—not hope—should be paying your bills.    In this episode, The Annuity Man discussed:  Background in Wall Street bond management What MYGAs are and how they compare to CDs and bonds Personal portfolio strategy using MYGAs as "annuity bonds" Tax deferral, rollovers, and legacy considerations with MYGAs Why guarantees matter more than categories in retirement planning Distinction between MYGAs and indexed/variable annuities   Key Takeaways:  Multi-year guarantee annuities function like the annuity industry's version of CDs, offering a fixed rate for a specific term with no fluctuation in account value. Treating MYGAs as "annuity bonds" can provide bond-like coupons and high-quality guarantees without market volatility. Tax-deferred growth and non-taxable rollovers between MYGAs allow interest to compound over long periods, creating a powerful accumulation engine. Investment decisions should focus less on product labels and more on the strength of contractual guarantees and the financial quality of the issuing company. Indexed and variable annuities do not qualify as "annuity bonds" because their returns are not guaranteed and rely on hypothetical or projected performance.   "Stop with obsessing over the category. Obsess over the guarantees." —  Stan The Annuity Man   Connect with The Annuity Man:  Website: http://theannuityman.com/  Email: Stan@TheAnnuityMan.com  Book: Owner's Manuals: https://www.stantheannuityman.com/how-do-annuities-work YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCXKKxvVslbeGAlEc5sra2g  Get a Quote Today: https://www.stantheannuityman.com/annuity-calculator

Durante uma década foi criativo de publicidade em várias agências. Depois quis mudar de rumo, estudou representação em Madrid e, aos 35 anos, estreou-se como ator na popular série “Conta-me como Foi”, na RTP. Desde aí, tem feito um sem fim de papéis na televisão, no teatro e cinema. Após um ano emocionalmente duro em que acompanhou de perto o fim de vida dos pais, Filipe Vargas revela ter superado a fase com ajuda médica e da sua rede de amigos. Atualmente o ator e criador do podcast “E a tua semana como correu?” revela-se preocupado com o rumo sombrio do mundo. “A perda do sentimento de comunidade é o grande drama da nossa atualidade. O egoísmo, a obsessão com o dinheiro, a falta de informação e de empatia, desumaniza-nos. O povo desunido vai sempre ser vencido.” Republicamos este episódio, um das conversas mais ouvidas da última temporada do podcast “A Beleza das Pequenas Coisas”, de Bernardo MendonçaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nesta edição, Cleber Facchi (@cleberfacchi), Renan Guerra (@_renanguerra) e Nik Silva (@niksilva) conversam sobre o line-up do Coala Festival 2026, evento que conta com nomes como Maria Bethânia, Emicida, João Gomes, Criolo e outras atrações.Apoie a gente: https://apoia.se/podcastvfsmNão Paro De Ouvir➜ Kelela https://tinyurl.com/2s3wbmrd➜ Bruno Berle https://tinyurl.com/2n99hrcm➜ Ivana Wonder https://tinyurl.com/4m6axar7➜ Ana Be https://tinyurl.com/d52pfa7b➜ L'Rain https://tinyurl.com/3anav23y➜ Gilla Band https://tinyurl.com/3nhmcwk6➜ Sharp Pins https://tinyurl.com/mdzr3b7t➜ Haruomi Hosono https://tinyurl.com/bfbajydd➜ Clementaum https://tinyurl.com/yc52dnfj➜ Maurício Pereira https://tinyurl.com/pzkes3pe➜ Jack White https://tinyurl.com/3u62dsyr➜ Xiu Xiu https://tinyurl.com/3zny6x9c➜ Ebbb https://tinyurl.com/3du5d78u➜ Tenório https://tinyurl.com/5n7hn44w➜ Chat Pile https://tinyurl.com/5daad27w➜ Cornelius https://tinyurl.com/3nrf9cyn➜ Dahi https://tinyurl.com/2f3yaj9e➜ Dinner Party https://tinyurl.com/5ehw6yn2➜ Ibeyi https://tinyurl.com/yh9khntwVocê Precisa Ouvir Isso➜ Tuca: a cantora lésbica exilada da história, de Renato Gonçalves ➜ Supercordas https://tinyurl.com/56442z7w➜ Obsessão (VOD)➜ A Lenda de Vox Machina (Prime Video)Playlist Seleção VFSM: https://bit.ly/3ETG7oEContato: sobremusicavamosfalar@gmail.com

1️⃣ Lawns are everywhere and most of us invest a lot of effort in mowing them. The surprisingly fascinating history of grass and how it got into our front yards. 2️⃣ One sport. Two names. Why Americans say “soccer” - and why the British used to say it, too.sources:https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/why-we-mow-lawnshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyexj7dggpohttp://www.commutethepodcast.comFollow Commute:Instagram - instagram.com/commutethepodcast/Twitter - @PodcastCommuteFacebook - facebook.com/commutethepodcast

Um episódio com mil assuntos vindos da cabeça de uma aquariana: comento sobre Marietta Baderna, filme Obsessão, ter hobbies nas férias, romper com psicólogo por posicionamento político e mais! -

Na live de hoje do Mundo Freak, vamos mergulhar em uma pauta que mistura ufologia brasileira, obsessão sobrenatural, magia de amarração e pânico provocado por creepypasta da vida real.Abrimos o programa com a Operação Prato, uma das investigações ufológicas mais famosas da história do Brasil, realizada pela FAB no Pará após uma onda de relatos envolvendo luzes estranhas, ataques atribuídos ao chamado Chupa-Chupa e fenômenos que continuam alimentando o imaginário da região até hoje.A pauta também passa pelos novos relatos de Colares, quase cinquenta anos depois da operação original, com histórias de esferas luminosas sobre rios, luzes que acompanham embarcações, objetos que parecem mergulhar nas águas e testemunhos que mantêm vivo o mistério no litoral paraense.Depois, a conversa segue para Obsessão (Obsession), filme de terror sobrenatural sobre um jovem que usa um objeto ocultista para fazer sua melhor amiga se apaixonar por ele, apenas para transformar esse desejo em uma espiral de dependência, obsessão e violência.Na sequência, entramos no tema da magia de amarração, discutindo suas origens antigas, sua presença em tradições populares, as formas como ela é interpretada hoje e por que continua sendo uma das práticas mais conhecidas, controversas e exploradas do ocultismo contemporâneo.E ainda tem espaço para uma história que parece saída de uma creepypasta: o caso do homem preso após assustar moradores vestido como o Creeper, de Olhos Famintos, em Pernambuco, reacendendo comparações com outros surtos coletivos alimentados por medo, viralização e redes sociais.Mais do que uma coletânea de assuntos estranhos, essa live também costura um ponto em comum entre todos eles: o modo como o medo, a crença, a imaginação e a circulação digital transformam relatos em experiências coletivas poderosas.Se você gosta de Operação Prato, ufologia brasileira, terror sobrenatural, ocultismo, magia popular, creepypastas, casos bizarros e debates sobre o estranho no mundo real, essa live é para você.▶ Cola na live e participa no chat: qual desses temas te pega mais, Colares, amarração, Obsessão ou o Creeper de Pernambuco?Apoie o Mundo Freak: Financiamento Coletivo na APOIA.se | Crowdfunding Pontual e MensalRafael Jacauna Autor (Instagram): Rafael Jacaúna | Escritor/Autor (@rafaeljacaunaautor) • Instagram profileLynda MD: Home - Lynda MDAnuncie com a Paratopia: Paratopia Podcast & Storytelling (@paratopiapodcast) • Instagram profileEdição: G. R. Machado (@instadogrmachado) • Instagram profile#MundoFreak#LiveMundoFreak#OperaçãoPrato#Colares#UfologiaBrasileira#ChupaChupa#Obsessão#AmarraçãoAmorosa#OlhosFamintos#Creepypasta

Em 05 de novembro de 2001, um jovem médico foi encontrado morto num parque da Pensilvânia, dias depois de terminar um relacionamento conturbado. A principal suspeita fugiu para o Canadá antes de ser presa e, meses depois, revelou que estava grávida dele. O que começou como uma investigação de homicídio se transformaria numa das batalhas judiciais mais devastadoras já registradas entre dois países. #605

Welcome back to the Before the Echo Podcast!This week we're diving into something that might ruffle a few feathers...Everything I Ignore That Most Public Land Hunters Obsess Over.There are countless things hunters spend hours worrying about—moon phases, scent control, weather apps, access routes, trail cameras, and more. But after years of chasing mature bucks on public land, I've learned that not everything deserves your time and attention.In this episode, I break down:The hunting trends I intentionally ignore.Why simplifying your approach can make you a more consistent hunter.What I choose to focus on instead.How overthinking can actually hurt your success in the woods.Whether you're a new hunter or have decades of experience, I hope this episode challenges you to think differently and spend more time focusing on what truly matters.I'd love to hear what YOU think. What is something most hunters obsess over that you don't? Let me know in the comments!

Do you find yourself stressed out trying to "prep" for vacation, worrying about what you eat when you are on it, or trying to "make up" for what you ate afterwards? If yes, this episode is for you. We discuss how to navigate eating surrounding vacation and not have it be something that detracts from your experience. Let's connect: Mallory's Instagram & Tiktok Free Community Food Noise Quiz Work With Me Submit Podcast Requests

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What happens when two veterans decide to build a gym that feels more like a mindset movement than a fitness center?In this episode of Living The Red Life, Trevor and Samantha Pellerin share how they transformed an abandoned building into Psychotic Iron Athletic Club, one of the fastest-growing gyms in New Mexico. Drawing from military service, law enforcement, entrepreneurship, bodybuilding, and personal adversity, they reveal the mindset, discipline, and relentless execution required to build a business that members describe as therapy.From PTSD and personal struggles to creating a five-star fitness community, Trevor and Samantha explain why success starts in the mind, how they built a powerful brand through experience-driven design, and why they're now preparing to expand nationwide through franchising.This conversation explores fitness entrepreneurship, gym business growth, mindset development, leadership, personal transformation, and building a brand people genuinely believe in.Key Takeaways• Success begins with mindset long before business growth or physical transformation.• Creating a unique customer experience can outperform larger competitors.• Building a business around passion creates stronger long-term commitment.• Community and relationships drive member retention more than equipment alone.• Taking calculated risks is essential for building a meaningful legacy.Notable Quotes• "This is where people come to fight their demons."• "If you're not going to do it, no one's going to do it for you."• "The whole purpose of you being there is to build a better you."• "Every membership we get gets poured directly back into our facility."• "This isn't a paycheck. This is passion and drive."Connect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

⁠Jurandir Filho⁠, ⁠Rogério Montanare⁠, ⁠Thiago Siqueira⁠ e ⁠Fernanda Schmölz⁠ conversam sobre como muitos youtubers estão conquistando Hollywood. Durante décadas, assistir a vídeos era um ritual controlado por poucas empresas. A televisão decidia o que seria exibido, os cinemas escolhiam quais histórias mereciam espaço e os grandes estúdios definiam quem teria chance de criar. Para entrar nesse mundo, era preciso dinheiro, contatos e, muitas vezes, sorte. Então surgiu o YouTube. No começo, parecia apenas um site de vídeos engraçados, memes e gravações caseiras em baixa qualidade. Mas, sem que muita gente percebesse, ele estava mudando completamente a relação das pessoas com entretenimento, informação e criatividade.Talvez uma das maiores mudanças tenha sido o fato de que Hollywood passou a observar o YouTube em busca de novos talentos. Durante décadas, cineastas precisavam entrar em festivais, estudar em escolas tradicionais ou trabalhar anos na indústria até receber alguma oportunidade. Hoje, um vídeo viral pode mudar completamente a vida de alguém. O YouTube se tornou uma gigantesca vitrine de diretores, roteiristas, atores, animadores e artistas visuais.Foi aí que sugiram David F. Sandberg ("Annabelle", "Shazam!"), Neill Blomkamp ("Distrito 9"), Fede Álvarez ("A Morte do Demônio") e os recentes Kane Parsons ("Backrooms") e Curry Barker ("Obsessão"). Como eles conseguiram?|| ASSINE O SALA VIP DO RAPADURACAST- Escute um podcast EXCLUSIVO do RapaduraCast toda semana! http://patreon.com/rapaduracast

In this episode of the Ecomm Breakthrough Podcast, host Josh Hadley shares five strategies he would prioritize when launching a new e-commerce brand today. Drawing from over a decade of experience scaling his own brand to eight figures, Josh covers: building recurring revenue models for compounding growth, identifying products with TikTok Shop viral potential, securing favorable manufacturer payment terms to optimize cash flow, prioritizing TikTok Shop as the primary sales channel over Amazon or Shopify, and developing a mission-driven brand that commands trust and premium pricing. The episode delivers actionable insights for entrepreneurs seeking scalable, sustainable e-commerce success.Bullet Points:Importance of recurring revenue models for sustainable growth in e-commerce.Strategies for identifying products with viral potential on TikTok Shop.Building strong relationships with manufacturers to secure favorable payment terms.Prioritizing TikTok Shop as the primary sales channel for new products.Developing a mission-driven brand that fosters trust and allows for premium pricing.The impact of subscription or membership models on customer lifetime value.Leveraging TikTok Shop's unique algorithm for effective product-market fit testing.Utilizing pre-orders as a cash flow strategy to fund production.The shift in e-commerce dynamics away from traditional platforms like Amazon.Creating a cohesive brand narrative to enhance customer loyalty and brand value.Timestamps:00:00:54 Recurring Revenue is KeyThe importance of building a brand with a recurring revenue model, like consumables or subscriptions, for compounding growth.00:07:55 Viral Products on TikTok ShopFocus on finding or creating products that have viral potential on TikTok Shop to unlock success across all sales channels.00:09:57 Strong Manufacturer RelationshipsPrioritize building relationships with manufacturers to secure favorable payment terms, creating a negative cash conversion cycle for infinite scalability.00:14:10 Prioritizing TikTok Shop FirstLaunch new products on TikTok Shop first, as success there proves viability and drives traffic to other channels like Shopify and Amazon.00:17:08 Building a Mission-Driven BrandFocus on creating a true brand with a mission and values to build customer trust and command premium pricing.00:19:28 Recap of the Five StrategiesA summary of the five key focus areas: recurring revenue, TikTok virality, manufacturer terms, TikTok Shop first, and mission-driven branding.Links and Mentions:Business Models & Revenue"Reoccurring Revenue": "00:01:54""Reoccurring Revenue": "00:19:28"Products & Tools"Intake Breathing": "00:04:04"E-commerce Platforms & Sales Channels"TikTok Shop": "00:08:56""Sales Channels": "00:19:28""Viral Products on TikTok": "00:19:28"Supplier & Manufacturer Relationships"Manufacturer Relationships": "00:09:57""Manufacturer Relationships": "00:19:28"Business Strategies"Pre-orders": "00:12:09"Branding & Mission"Brand Mission": "00:17:08""Brand Purpose": "00:19:28"Transcript:Josh Hadley 00:00:00  I'm going to share with you the five things I would focus on if I had to start a brand new e-commerce brand from scratch today. Welcome to the Ecomm Breakthrough Podcast, I'm Josh Hadley. I've scaled my own ecommerce brand from 0 to 8 figures, and I'm actively building towards nine figures in sales. This podcast is where I document that journey and share the systems, the strategies, and the lessons learned in real time so that you can learn what actually matters and scale your own business. My name is Josh Hadley. First and foremost, I am a man of faith. I'm a husband to a beautiful wife and the father of four children. I've been selling you the e-commerce space for over a decade, doing over $20 million in annual revenue and selling multi-millionaire on Amazon, TikTok, shop and Shopify. And I am also the host of the number one business strategy podcast Ecomm Breakthrough. Today, I want to share with you the five things that I would really focus on if I had to start a brand new eCommerce brand from scratch.Josh Hadley 00:00:54  And this is honestly coming from a point of identifying like the weaknesses within my own brand things I would wish I could change if I, you know, could have any dream or wish in the world. But also, after having run my own e-commerce brand for the past ten years and having pivoted that brand a whole number of times, and we've pivoted the brand multiple times in order to keep it afloat. And with all of that experience, here are the top five things that I would be actively working on if I had to start a new brand from scratch. So number one, the holy grail of all things I would be looking for in any new e-commerce brand is do they have reoccurring revenue? Okay, that could be two different things. I could have a consumable item and it could be like a razor blade as an example, right. For shaving if I needed. That's why Harry's Razors, All Dollar Shave Club, etc. like we're all very familiar with them because they are able to spend a lot of money up front to go acquire a customer because they know the lifetime value of a customer, because they know that customer is going to come back and reorder the cartridges to refill their razor blades on their razors, etc. that is the holy grail of e-commerce.Josh Hadley 00:02:06  And so it's the same thing with supplements, right? That's why there's the supplement space is heavily crowded, but there's so much opportunity because if you get it right, you now have a compounding vehicle. And this is the biggest mindset shift that I've had to go through. When I first started in e-commerce, I was excited whenever I got that first sale, even on Etsy, right? And on Shopify, you hear the catching sound and you love that sound and you're just like, yes, I got a new customer. And yes, it gives you a good boost of dopamine. However, I'm getting really tired at this stage of my career in just being so front end acquisition heavy, and that's one of the most disappointing things. If I were to look back over the past decade, is I have not compounded my growth. We have sold millions, millions of customers have purchased our products. That's great. Sounds impressive. However, I wish that those millions of customers would have compounded over the past decade.Josh Hadley 00:03:07  But instead we were so front end acquisition heavy and focused that yes, we could go generate a sell for a new product on Amazon. But then what? Every day we start at zero. Every month I start at zero. And that is one of the biggest challenges in business if you want. It's all about having the right money model that sits behind your brand, and that is ultimately the biggest e-commerce brands that are able to scale more quickly and rapidly have either a consumable product that customers need to come back and repurchase, whether it be a supplement, whether it be, you know, maybe you're selling soda or its candy food, or it's even something like we talked about the refillable cartridges, which, by the way, here's a new brand that I was actually very, very impressed with. They took this and they said, hey, how do we how do we invent reoccurring revenue into a business where, more often than not, it's just kind of like one time purchases. So this is coming into it's called intake breathing.Josh Hadley 00:04:04  And what they have are these nas...

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