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Jesus asks more questions of us than are asked of him, for the questions Jesus asks lead to life. Bishop Paul Donison begins his new series with Christ's question to Peter: "Who do you say than I am?" When we discover who Jesus is, we learn also how God pursues us with his love, and how greatly we shall be changed by his life.

Ps Louis shared from Matthew 21, the story of the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, and highlighted several parallels that are so relevant for us as a church. There are questions asked of the crowd, questions that each of us needs to answer in our hearts. Questions about who we believe deep down in our hearts Jesus truly is. Jesus asked the question to Peter: ‘Who am I? How would you answer this question?

O melhor jogador de todos os tempos da última semana!  Vamo variar o tema um pouquinho e falar de futebol, essa paixão nacional que dá ao brasileiro médio alegrias e tristezas, comemorações e sobretudo decepções... Muitas decepções... E como nesse podcast nós somos movidos pelo espírito de porco vamos focar em decepções e relembrar jogadores - desses mais recentes que nós aqui chegamos a acompanhar - que foram grandes promessas mas acabaram dando em nada, dos mais variados jeitos e pelos mais variados motivos. Faltou alguém na nossa lista? Pois então entra agora no nosso grupo de Telegram clicando aqui, e fala pra gente quem deveria estar aqui!! Entra também no no nosso Instagram, por que não?? Nesse episódio: K9, o prometido de 2010; Peter Who e a escola para celebridades; O que custa dizer que sou bom? Reconhecendo um mau jogador pelo nome; Nomes que criam expectativas; Qual o limite do futebol? O gol contra mais bonito de todos os tempos; Orifícios recheados de penas e gravetos; Quem é a ave? A praga do pau inquieto; O museu de Sinop; Algo não cheira bem no Santos; Um capoeirista com nome de fantoche; O clube mais rico do Brasil O gato japoronga; Basílio, craque da galera; O poeta Jardel; Porões empoeirados do futebol; A embaixadinha do Século; O quase-Romário brasileiro; Emboscada alemã; Copa João Havelange de '93? Craques do brasileirão; O Neymar é foda? Onde está Uílson? Vários dibres no Pato Donald; Robozão vs. Homem-Estalinho; Quem se curva ao imperador da Turquia? Alex abandonado na estradinha; 7 a 1 foi pouco; Paim melhor que Cristiano Ronaldo? A maior contratação do Manchester; Focas, lulas e outras promessas da base; ...e muito mas muito mais!!! Host: Scheid, o CEO. Bancada: Farinhaki, Punk Willians, Central, Roqueiro Caio[?] e General Maciel.

The Gospels record a simple question Jesus asked of Peter: Who do you say I am? As is often the case, Jesus's questions tell us more than they inquire of us.Join Dream City Omaha as Pastor Dobie Weasel shows how God prepares us for our tomorrows by asking us questions of us today and how, to be ready for our tomorrows, we need divine revelation. This divine revelation enables us to trust who He is when we cannot understand what He does.

Who wrote it: Peter Who it was written to: The Elect Exiles

In Mark 8:29, Jesus asks Peter: “Who do you say that I am?” Who do you say that Jesus is? Is Jesus your friend? Is He your comforter? Or is Jesus someone who seems far away and distant? Jesus cares about what we think and how our experiences have shaped our understanding of who He is. Sometimes the pain or the brokenness of our stories can alter the way we see Jesus… and He isn't offended by that. That doesn't cause Him to walk away. Peter and the disciples didn't fully understand who Jesus was either. Just as He didn't give them on them, Jesus is committed to us. He meets us right where we are, acknowledges how we feel, and envelops us with His compassion. His continued compassion is what brings us clarity. ----- I'd love to connect with you on Instagram ⁠@carlycommunicates⁠. If there is ever any way that I can link arms with you in ministry though speaking or worship leading, let me know at https://carlycommunicates.com/contact/⁠. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carly-bartlett/support

Who was Peter-- Who was he writing to-- And what is the book of Second Peter all about-- Those three questions are what Guest Preacher Tim Weeks explores as he introduces his series on this epistle. While it may seem that Peter is writing to Christians who lived 2,000 years ago, we see that his letter is very relevant to us today.

With the series lost, Australia panicked. Needing inspiration, they turned to ‘Taylor'. But not the one everyone was expecting. Mark Taylor - the brilliant young opener and future captain - was most people's choice. So, when the team for the 5th test was leaked, Taylor's phone rang off the hook, unaware of a call-up which in reality had never happened! The Taylor in question was a New South Wales back-up spinner, Peter Taylor. Peter Who? Well, exactly. This is the search for a man who has gone down in Aussie sporting folklore. Anyone know where he is?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Failure  - Peter Who is Your One? – Week 3  “FOR THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK AND SAVE THOSE WHO ARE LOST” LUKE 19:10 NLT   “JESUS CAME AND TOLD HIS DISCIPLES, ‘I HAVE BEEN GIVEN ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH. THEREFORE, GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. TEACH THESE NEW DISCIPLES TO OBEY ALL THE COMMANDS I HAVE GIVEN YOU. AND BE SURE OF THIS: I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.” MATTHEW 28:18-20 NLT   FAILURE DOESN’T DISCRIMINATE   TODAY’S GRACE TRIUMPHS OVER YESTERDAY’S FAILURES   “THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, ALL OF YOU WILL BE MADE TO STUMBLE BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT, FOR IT IS WRITTEN: I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED.” MARK 14:27   “BUT AFTER I HAVE BEEN RAISED, I WILL GO BEFORE YOU TO GALILEE. PETER SAID TO HIM, ‘EVEN IF ALL ARE MADE TO STUMBLE, YET I WILL NOT BE.” MARK 14:28-29   “JESUS SAID TO HIM(PETER), ‘ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU THAT TODAY, EVEN THIS NIGHT, “BUT HE SPOKE MORE VEHEMENTLY, ‘IF I HAVE TO DIE WITH YOU, I WILL NOT DENY YOU!’ AND THEY ALL SAID LIKEWISE.” MARK 14:31   “THEN SIMON PETER, WHO HAD A SWORD, DREW IT AND STRUCK THE HIGH PRIEST’S SERVANT, CUTTING OFF HIS RIGHT EAR…” JOHN   “AND SIMON PETER FOLLOWED JESUS, AND SO DID ANOTHER DISCIPLE. NOW THAT DISCIPLE WAS KNOWN TO THE HIGH PRIEST, AND WENT WITH JESUS INTO THE COURTYARD OF THE HIGH PRIEST. BUT PETER STOOD AT THE DOOR OUTSIDE. THEN THE OTHER DISCIPLE, WHO WAS KNOWN TO THE HIGH PRIEST, WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO HER WHO KEPT THE DOOR, AND BROUGHT PETER IN. THEN THE SERVANT GIRL WHO KEPT THE DOOR SAID TO PETER, ‘YOU ARE NOT ALSO ONE OF THIS MAN’S DISCIPLES, ARE YOU?” HE SAID, “I AM NOT.” ” JOHN 18:15   “NOW THE SERVANTS AND OFFICERS WHO HAD MADE A FIRE OF COALS STOOD THERE, FOR IT WAS COLD, AND THEY WARMED THEMSELVES. AND PETER STOOD WITH THEM AND WARMED HIMSELF…THEREFORE THEY SAID TO HIM, “YOU ARE NOT ALSO ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES, ARE YOU?” HE DENIED IT AND SAID, “I AM NOT!” JOHN 18:18,25     “ONE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE HIGH PRIEST, A RELATIVE OF HIM WHOSE EAR PETER CUT OFF, SAID, ‘DID I NOT SEE YOU IN THE GARDEN WITH HIM?” JOHN 18:26   “PETER THEN DENIED AGAIN; AND IMMEDIATELY A ROOSTER CROWED.” JOHN 18:27     “THE LORD TURNED AND LOOKED AT PETER. THEN PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HOW HE HAD SAID TO HIM, “BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS, YOU WILL DENY ME THREE TIMES.” SO PETER WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY.” LUKE 22:61-62 NIV   “BUT WHEN THE MORNING HAD NOW COME, JESUS STOOD ON THE SHORE; YET THE DISCIPLES DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS JESUS. THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, ‘CHILDREN, HAVE YOU ANY FOOD?” THEY ANSWERED HIM, “NO.” JOHN 21:4-5   “AND HE SAID TO THEM, “CAST THE NET ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOAT, AND YOU WILL FIND SOME. SO THEY CAST, AND NOW THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DRAW IT IN BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE OF FISH.” JOHN 21:6   “THEN THE DISCIPLE JESUS LOVED SAID TO PETER, ‘IT’S THE LORD!” WHEN SIMON PETER HEARD THAT IT WAS THE LORD, HE PUT ON HIS TUNIC (FOR HE HAD STRIPPED FOR WORK), JUMPED INTO THE WATER, AND HEADED TO SHORE. THE OTHERS STAYED WITH THE BOAT AND PULLED THE LOADED NET TO THE SHORE, FOR THEY WERE ONLY ABOUT A HUNDRED YARDS FROM SHORE…” JOHN 21:7 NLT   “WHEN THEY GOT THERE, THEY FOUND BREAKFAST WAITING FOR THEM – FISH COOKING OVER A CHARCOAL FIRE…” JOHN 21:9 NLT   HE KNOWS WHO YOU ARE HE WANTS YOU TO BE HEALED HE WANTS A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU   “THE SERVANTS AND OFFICERS WHO HAD MADE A FIRE OF COALS STOOD THERE…THEREFORE THEY SAID TO HIM, “YOU ARE NOT ALSO ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES, ARE YOU?” HE DENIED IT AND SAID, “I AM NOT!” JOHN 18:18,25   YOUR PAST FAILURES DO NOT DEFINE YOUR FUTURE   “SIMON(PETER) SON OF JOHN, DO YOU LOVE ME MORE THAN THESE?”   “YES LORD,” PETER REPLIED, “YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.” THEN FEED MY LAMBS,” JESUS TOLD HIM. JESUS REPEATED THE QUESTION: “SIMON (PETER) SON OF JOHN, DO YOU LOVE ME?” “YES, LORD,” PETER SAID, “YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU. “THEN TAKE CARE OF MY SHEEP,” JESUS SAID. A THRID TIME HE ASKED HIM, “SIMON SON OF JOHN, DO YOU LOVE ME?” PETER WAS HURT THAT JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION A THRID TIME. HE SAID, “LORD YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.” JESUS SAID, “THEN FEED MY SHEEP.” JOHN 21:15-17 NLT   REVEAL   “SEARCH ME, GOD, AND KNOW MY ANXIOUS THOUGHTS; AND SEE IF THERE IS ANY HURTFUL WAY IN ME…” PSALMS 139:23-24 NASB   REPENT   “FOR EVERYONE HAS SINNED; WE ALL FALL SHORT OF GOD’S GLORIOUS STANDARD. YET GOD, IN HIS GRACE, FREELY MAKES US RIGHT IN HIS SIGHT.” ROMANS 3:23-24   REJOICE   “I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN THIS: TO HEAR THAT MY CHILDREN ARE WALKING IN TRUTH.” 3 JOHN 1:4 CSB                

On the July 8, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including The Wolfman, Peter Pan, Movie Theaters, Film Festivals, Halloween Kills, Ready Player Two, and Hamilton.   In The News: Chris: Leigh Whannell to direct WolfmanPeter: What take do you want? HT: Disney’s Live-Action ‘Peter Pan’ Remake Casts Jude Law as Hot Captain HookPeter: Who is your favorite cinematic Hook? Chris: AMC, Regal, and Cinemark Are Suing New Jersey to Open Theaters SoonerPeter: But should they allow churches to reopen? Chris: Christopher Nolan Hesitant to Delay ‘Tenet’ Further Because He Wants to Show Faith in Movie Theaters Peter: Hearing this, do we really think this date will stick? HT: Austin’s Fantastic Fest Film Festival Has Officially Been Canceled for 2020Peter: When do you think film festivals will return? Mention: Venice Film Festival Still Happening in September with Fewer Selections, Outdoor Venues & More The Telluride Film Festival Will Happen This Year Despite the Pandemic: “Our World Needs the Light of Cinema” Toronto International Film Festival Refuses to Postpone, Considering Digital Options Sundance 2021 Planning Online Component and Screenings Outside of Utah Chris: Halloween Kills Moves to 2021Peter: What did you think of the teaser trailer? Mention: other horror release date changes HT: ‘Ready Player Two’ Sequel Novel Will Ply Readers With More ’80s References This NovemberPeter: What do you think this could be about? Peter: Who will/should direct the movie? Chris (og Ben): The Disney+ Version of ‘Hamilton’ is Not Eligible for OscarsPeter: What awards can it still be eligible for then? Mention: ‘Hamilton’ on Disney+ Resulted in Over Half a Million App Downloads Over the Weekend   Other Articles Mentioned:   All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

Produced by Jeffrey Crecelius, Wayne Hall, Preston Frazier and Bill Govier Peter Banks I hope you heard Mark’s tribute to Neil Peart who very sadly died recently - I put the audio of his video introduction into the YMP feed. I’m not qualified to comment on Rush or Neil Peart so I’m grateful to Mark for letting me use his words which I’m sure come from us all after the unexpected and tragic news. You may have been expecting the second part of our Trevor Horn episode this week but when we had the chance to talk to prog rock violin legend, David Cross about his collaboration with Peter Banks, we couldn’t miss the opportunity. So we will return to Dollar and Trevor Horn next week. Later in this episode, you’ll hear that great interview which covers not only the newly-released Crossover album but also David’s recollections of Peter and of the early London prog rock scene, where he played with his own bands and, of course, King Crimson. How did Crossover come about?What impression did David have of Peter?Who else is on this album? Listen to the episode and let us know what you think! If you would like to support the Yes Music Podcast financially and also have access to exclusive activity and opportunities, there is a special page you can use to sign up and 2019 is the time to join us: Become a Patron! Show notes and links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzEzlaRHevY YMP Patrons: Producers: Jeffrey Crecelius Preston Frazier Bill Govier and Wayne Hall Patrons: Aaron SteelmanDave OwenMark James LangPaul TomeiJoost MaglevDavid HeydenMartin KjellbergPaul WilsonBob MartilottaLindMichael O'ConnorPeter HearndenBrian SullivanDavid PannellMiguel FalcãoLobate ScarpChris BandiniDavid WatkinsonNeal KaforeyRachel HadawayCraig EstenesDemPaul HailesMark 'Zarkol' BaggsDoug CurranRobert NasirFergus CubbageScott ColomboFred BarringerScott Smith Geoff BailieSimon Barrow Geoffrey MasonStephen LambeGuy R DeRomeSteve DillHenrik AntonssonSteve PerryHogne Bø PettersenSteve RodeIanNBSteve ScottJamie McQuinnSteven RoehrKen FullerTerence Sadler Michael Handerhan Tim StannardJimTodd DudleyJohn CowanTony HandleyJohn HoldenJoseph CottrellJohn ParryKeith HoisingtonJohn ThomsonWilliam Hayes Barry Gorsky Robert and David Please subscribe! If you are still listening to the podcast on the website, please consider subscribing so you don’t risk missing anything: Subscribe on AndroidListen on Stitcher Theme music The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert - I put it together from the following two creative commons sources: thanvannispen and archive.org

1 Peter 4 (NIV 1984) Who is Peter? Who is the book written to? We need to be done with sin. Your love can be deep enough. 

Look, if you think you can’t change your mind, scripture makes two things clear: first, yes you can…you can change your mind, yes with God’s grace we have the capacity to change our minds, and second: the faithful God-fearing thing to do is to not be the one to exclude someone from the table because in the words of apostle Peter: Who are you to hinder God?

This episode features a conversation between Peter Van Valkenburgh - Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin - and Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. Peter and Muneeb discuss Coin Center’s mission and recent work, Facebook’s Libra Coin, the case for a true electronic cash, and more. 0:00:50 Peter's bio 0:01:09 Peter: "[Coin Center] was my first big job out of law school." 0:02:58 Muneeb: "You're OG now. When did Blockstack start sponsoring Coin Center?" 0:03:18 Peter: "Coin Center got its start in 2014. We got some really generous runway from a couple of donors who are just individuals who wanted to see a more adult advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on this stuff." 0:04:56 Peter: "Coin Center is supposed to be an independent digital civil lIberties organization that goes and represents the underlying open technologies to Congress or to regulators." 0:06:08 Muneeb: "I simply say [the people at Coin Center]... actually understand this technology and they understand the regulations and the law, which is a rare combination. And they can be the right bridge between this technology and the various regulators or lawmakers." 0:06:29 Peter: "I think that's right. A lot of what we do I often think of as translation." 0:07:13 Peter: "More often than not we're explaining the law to lawyers in this space." 0:08:51 Peter: "There's no company - and all previous financial regulations - almost all - rely on finding a regulated entity and obligating that regulated entity to achieve the policy result that government wants." 0:09:37 Peter: "In the Bitcoin case, who's the issuer of the Bitcoin security?" 0:09:52 Peter: "Who in the Zcash space should be obligated for money laundering compliance?" 0:11:38 Muneeb: "One of my working theories is that Satoshi Nakamoto - whoever that person or group of individuals were - not only understood computer science, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and game theory, they actually knew securities regulation as well and that's why we don't know who is Satoshi Nakamoto." 0:12:42 Peter: "The policy objective that securities law seek to address are correcting the asymmetric information between issuers who are promising things to investors and the investors who've paid money to the investors." 0:13:51 Peter: "There are still the potential for information asymmetries. And I've sort of gotten into this debate with Angela Walch before about whether there's information asymmetries between software developers and the users of a software." 0:15:35 Muneeb: "Speaking of securities regulation I should just make a note here: we have a public filing with the SEC." 0:16:13 Peter: "From my perspective [Blockstack] has taken a really responsible and conservative approach to securities law compliance." 0:17:06 Peter: "I'm not a huge fan of the way we do investor protection in this country because it's very permissioned and it also excludes a lot of investors from participating." 0:18:58 Muneeb: "We actually had you host our Blockstack Summit in Berlin, and you interviewed Edward Snowden there. How was that experience? And has he been more active in the space? Or was that a one off thing?" 0:19:32 Peter: "That experience was awesome - it's still probably one of the craziest things I've ever done." 0:22:36 Peter: "I do think [Edward Snowden] has been quasi-active in the Zcash development community." 0:24:43 Peter: "He's worked on something really cool with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is if you have an old cell phone and want to turn it into an alarm system." 0:26:16 Muneeb: "Have you checked out any of the latest stuff that's been built on Blockstack?" 0:26:24 Peter: "I have a real interest in Graphite, which is the Google Docs type app." 0:27:05 Peter: "We've been looking for a long time for some sort of non-Google "Can't Be Evil" alternative to Google Docs." 0:29:29 Peter: "Network effects are a bitch, to put it a somewhat grotesque way. If you're talking about a communication system or a system where people pay each other, the systems that succeeded are not the ones that were best architected." 0:29:55 Peter: "Just look at all the attempts and failures at doing encrypted email." 0:30:16 Peter: "You're just going to default to the one everyone's on, even if it's not great for privacy." 0:32:32 Muneeb: "We're super excited to have [Neal Stephenson] at the 2019 Summit in San Francisco. I think Naval Ravikant is going to have a fireside chat." 0:33:40 Peter: "The Diamond Age describes Zcash." 0:36:01 Muneeb: "Coming back to this idea of decentralized applications - one model I have in my mind was when Linux was starting." 0:38:51 Peter: "Maybe decentralized apps will have their best success early on in those sort of niche enterprise / highly technical persons use-cases." 0:40:16 Peter: "Good luck getting a bunch of lawyers even to this day to group edit a Google Doc, let alone use Graphite." 0:40:24 Muneeb: "I think we knew that Linux won the server wars when even Microsoft started using Linux in their data centers." 0:40:32 Peter: "[Microsoft] has done a total 180, probably because they saw the writing on the wall as far as their consumer software business." 0:40:56 Muneeb: "What do you think of Facebook Libra?" 0:41:05 Peter: "I have a lot of thoughts about Facebook Libra. I should be careful about what I say because I don't want to be unfair." 0:41:30 Peter: "It's a really complicated system they're building that is still nonetheless permissioned. It's a permissioned blockchain." 0:42:29 Peter: "[Libra] is not an open blockchain. It's not a blockchain where anyone can add transactions to the ledger and independently verify the transactions." 0:43:15 Peter: "With Bitcoin, there's a lot of regulations that don't apply because it would be nonsensical to apply them because there isn't a centralized intermediary who you can trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:32 Peter: "With Libra, that's not true at all. There are identified parties who you could trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:56 Peter: "Even if you're an individual, you're not allowed to transact or interact economically with someone on the SDN list, like everyone in Iran." 0:44:42 Peter: "The Libra association is going to be this group of identified persons, which are really just corporations, including Facebook, Visa, and Mastercard. Whose laws are they going to comply with with respect to sanctions?" 0:45:21 Peter: "[Libra's] not censorship resistant cash. It's not really a cryptocurrency. It's just another payment rail. Why build it in such a complicated way?" 0:45:43 Peter: "Another thought is the whole reserve thing. So aside from being permissioned vs permissionless, Lbra is going to be asset-backed." 0:46:36 Peter: "If you are a company that has assets in a reserve, and people are trading - effectively - a pro-rata share of the value of those assets? That sounds like a security to me." 0:47:16 Peter: "And yet, I don't think there's plans to register Libra as a security because, frankly, if you did, it would be very useless as a currency, because it would only be allowed to be traded on securities exchanges." 0:48:09 Peter: "I've never seen such a rapid and aggressive response from members of Congress to a new tech project." 0:49:28 Muneeb: "Do you think the reaction from Washington is linked with some of the antitrust stuff as well?" 0:50:07 Peter: "Maybe they thought, 'This is us proving that we're investing in being less powerful'? Kind of like how they talk about WhatsApp a lot now." 0:51:03 Peter: "People in Congress ... are gonna say, 'This is Facebook, who some of us are already talking about anti-trust issues, and now they want to become the global reserve currency for all payments everywhere?" 0:51:40 Peter: "If any company is going to build a payments tool, they should build cryptocurrencies. I'm just disappointed they didn't basically fork Bitcoin or integrate it." 0:52:13 Muneeb: "That's what they say in the whitepaper, 'We're giving ourselves five years to figure out how to build an open system, but in the meanwhile - because of scalability - the only way to scale to a billion users is to use a closed system." 0:52:54 Peter: "I've heard a lot of people say that Move, the smart contract language [Facebook's] architected, is apparently extremely elegant." 0:53:17 Muneeb: "The motivation for Move is very similar to the smart contract language that we launched yesterday, Clarity." 0:54:38 Peter: "God knows that Solidity has had this particular issue where it's hard to know exactly what you just wrote in a smart contract until you launch it on Mainnet and someone breaks it in the DAO hack example." 0:55:44 Muneeb: "Ethereum is very interesting. They have a large community and kind of started everyone in the industry in a certain direction from a technology perspective. And I believe that most of those things were wrong." 0:57:05 Peter: "Maybe the network effects are just age-based, but it could also be this willingness to push stuff out there maybe before it's fully manicured or even fully compliant with the law." 0:57:51 Peter: "I should disclose that I'm a member of the Zcash Foundation's Board of Directors." 1:00:00 Muneeb: "I swear we're not doing this on purpose, but every decision we make ends up being the exact opposite of Ethereum." 1:04:13 Muneeb: "What's the biggest project you're spending your time on these days?" 1:05:50 Peter: "We were faced around a year and a half ago with, 'What's going to be a big issue in a year or two years? What do we need to start laying the groundwork on from a policy perspective now in order to have good policy outcomes later?'" 1:07:12 Peter: "Bitcoin, I think, ultimately needs to change and be more private and a lot of the privacy coins that we now see were originally proposed as amendments to the Bitcoin protocol." 1:08:38 Peter: "Any of the very public blockchains will ultimately need to find ways to obscure that transaction graph because, otherwise, we're gonna just be giving totalitarian states the best tool for mass surveillance that anyone's ever developed." 1:08:52 Peter: "So, with that in mind, we said 'What are the policy issues here?' And the big ones are anti money laundering law." 1:09:18 Peter: "Bank robbers use getaway cars. Even terrorists use encrypted messaging. This is just a reality, but that doesn't mean we should ban automobiles and encryption." 1:10:06 Peter: "We use the term 'electronic cash' because it's really like cash then. You can send it from one person to another, no one is in between, it's censorship resistant, and it doesn't leave a record." 1:10:23 Peter: "What if we get some sort of overbearing, overzealous response from policy makers that says we can't have these things anymore?" 1:11:51 Peter: "Most people have written about First Amendment issues here: ... if you're writing in computer code... it's still speech." 1:12:44 Peter: "What I don't think is a well enough explored area are the Fourth Amendment issues. The Fourth Amendment in the US says you need a warrant if you're a law enforcement and want to search somebody." 1:13:43 Peter: "Banks have been reporting our entire transaction history to governments whenever they ask, without a warrant, since 1970." 1:14:12 Peter: "The reason why that's constitutional in this context is because people willingingly hand over those records to banks during the regular course of business. ... You lose your reasonable expectation of privacy because your sharing it with a third-party." 1:15:09 Peter: "There's no reason for a developer to have all that private information about the users of their software. There's definitely a reason for a bank to have a bunch of information about the users of the bank." 1:15:48 Peter: "From a constitutional law standpoint... the only reason why it's okay for banks to bulk collect, surveil their users, and report that to government without a warrant, is that they have a reasonable business purpose to collect that information." 1:16:03 Peter: "There's no reasonable business purpose for an open source software developer to collect information about the users of their software - it just doesn't make sense." 1:16:29 Peter: "If it's interesting to your audience, I highly recommend you pick up our report. It's explained much more carefully and you don't need to be a lawyer or to have gone to law school to understand it." 1:17:33 Muneeb: "Where can people find you?" 1:17:37 Peter: "All our work at Coin Center is made public and made available at CoinCenter.org. And we rely on donations from people who are just excited about the technology and want to see good advocacy in DC." 1:18:18 Muneeb: "Blockstack is a supporter and we've been extremely happy with our involvement with Coin Center. They've been super helpful whenever we need them." 1:18:29 Muneeb: "Goodbyes." Peter Van Valkenburgh http://twitter.com/valkenburgh Muneeb Ali http://twitter.com/muneeb Zach Valenti http://twitter.com/zachvalenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jesus poses a key question to Peter: "Who do you say that I am?" We are faced with the same question. What will our answer be?

There is a movie, Schindlers List, which is about Oskar Schindler-a doctor-and his endeavors to try to save the lives of as many of the Jews as he can-to prevent extermination. If he would have had space for more [Jews who were trying to escape], he would have taken more. Tomorrow, our country remembers Dr. King and his teachings, his life, his battle for equal rights for all races, how he sought to combat poverty, and we reflect upon those higher values we have as human beings. Were talking this morning in our series about prejudice, about discrimination, about exploitation, and how we need to oppose such things. This is one of those messages that is a little bit heavy, but its something that needs to be said and something that needs to be spoken and addressed because this is a spiritual matter. This is a part of the Gospel. I know some Christians, not us, but there are some Christians who will say, We need to just focus on telling people about Jesus. Let other organizations, activist groups and so forth take care of those concerns. But, this is a part of the Gospel. This is part of what Jesus came to bring an end to, so it is very much a part of the churchs responsibility to address those concerns. Turn in your Bibles this morning to the Book of Luke 4. Jesus is about to begin the onset of His earthly ministry. He has just gone through the 40 days of temptation in the wilderness, and now the time has come for Him to begin His ministry. He finds Himself in His hometown in a synagogue in Nazareth. Hes going to read from the scroll, from the prophet Isaiah. Were going to find that Scripture together in Verse 17 (page 1018 of pew Bibles). The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it is written: The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me… The word Christ or Messiah means anointed one, so it was understood by the Jews that this is a Messianic prophesy. These are the acts of the Messiah. This is what the Messiah will do when He comes. …He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the prisoners… I dont believe here Hes talking about people who have done dastardly deeds. I dont think Hes talking here about sending people who (should be out of the public) into the public. Hes not talking about sending murderers free and rapists free. I believe Hes talking about those who have been imprisoned wrongly or those who are imprisoned of spirit. …recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lords favor. Then He stops right there, mid-verse, because the rest of the verse in Isaiah says, …and to proclaim the vengeance of our God, but He had not come for vengeance. He had not come for wrath. He had come to dispense grace and mercy. He stops right there. Then He rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and He began by saying to them, Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. In other words, I am the fulfillment of this Scripture. I am the Messiah. Of course, that didnt go over well. The text will go on to tell us that they tried to kill Him for saying those words. [He was] not reading from Isaiah, but attributing Isaiahs prophesy to Himself as the Messiah. This is a purpose statement; this is a mission statement. He says, Heres what Ive come to do. Notice, He doesnt say, Ive come for the kings; Ive come for the elite-the religious elite; Ive come to minister to the wealthy. Who was the target audience of Jesus? He said, Ive come to the poor, the imprisoned, the blind, and the oppressed. My goodness, if I didnt know any better, Id think that might be the speech of a civil rights leader, dont you [agree]? Does it sound like civil rights and human rights were important to the Lord Jesus? Absolutely. Thats what He read in His mission statement of why He had come. If its important to Jesus, its important to His church. Were going to talk about that this morning. He would live a life where He would break down racial barriers and gender barriers and proclaim the love of God for all people. Brooke is coming to sing about that invitation right now. Lets listen to Come Onto Me. You did a great job, but theyre really clapping because they want to hear more teaching. Thats why theyre clapping. Theyre excited, Oh! We get to hear more teaching! She did a great job! Lets open our Bibles up to Galatians 2. The series were on is called Hand me Another Clinker Brick. In case you dont know what that is, a clinker brick looks something like this (Pastor holds up a brick with a defect to show the congregation). The brick is otherwise fine, but its been damaged. Either its been manufactured [incorrectly] or somebody has dropped it, so this clinker brick has a defect. Builders would cast it aside because it was not good enough for the project. Just like clinker bricks, you and I have defects. We have areas where we have been wounded or hurt. We have attitudes and habits, behaviors that are not right, and theyre not pleasing to God. God says to get rid of those things. He doesnt want us to keep those things in our lives. At the same time, we know that until the day we die, were going to be clinker bricks. Were going to have flaws and problems, so we know in spite of those things, God uses us. He has a place for us in His kingdom; He has a place for us in His church. In fact, architects began to see the value of clinker bricks and sometimes would design a wall entirely consisting of clinker bricks. Sometimes [they would] design a whole building made [up of clinker bricks]. When theyre put together with all their defects and flaws, they make a beautiful aesthetic building. God can take us and, in spite of our weaknesses, use us to build a church that brings glory to His name. So our pattern is that we find a clinker brick in Scripture-we find a clinker brick in the history of the church-that maybe youre not aware of, and then we make application to our own lives and how God can use us in that topic. So this morning, were talking about Opposing Oppression. Were talking about the mission of Dr. King-and others like him-who sought to end discrimination and prejudice in the name of the Lord. In Galatians 2, we find a conflict that we would not imagine we would see. The conflict is between Peter and Paul, two brothers, two leaders, two men who love and respect each other but yet, there was a conflict. There was hypocrisy, and that hypocrisy had to be dealt with. There was prejudice, and that prejudice had to be removed. Verse 11 (of Galatians 2, page 1152 of pew Bibles) says, When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James… Now, let me clarify this: James was the leader and one of the Apostles of the church in Jerusalem. When he says, ….men came from James, he is not saying there are emissaries. Hes not saying that these men represent the views or opinions of James; hes simply saying theyre from Jerusalem. They were Jewish believers. They were of the party of circumcision. It says that Peter used to eat with the Gentiles. Gentiles were anyone who wasnt a Jew. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles… The word in the Greek means to hold yourself aloof. More than just pulling back, he was treating his Gentile brothers in a condescending manner, as inferior to him because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. Does that sound familiar to you? Do you ever remember Peter in a time of pressure taking the easy way out? Do you remember Peter, in a time of pressure, looking for self-preservation in his own interests instead of standing up for what was right? Remember that? I do. He denied Jesus three times when Jesus was about to be crucified. He said he never knew Him. So, Peter struggled in this area. Peter is a clinker brick. Remember we said that were painting a portrait right now. It doesnt look like much right now, but by the time Im through with it, its going to look like something. In fact, this painting might look so good by the time were done that you might want this in your home. You laugh, but Im as serious as a heart attack because youre going to see this picture become something desirable when were all through. There was darkness in Peters soul. Peter was acting in a discriminatory manner against his Gentile brothers. He pulled away from them when he should have stood with them. Peter knows better. Keep your place here in Galatians, and turn quickly to the Book of Acts 10. [Well have] a little history lesson. Im going to touch on this really quickly. Up to this point, the Gospel was contained within the Jewish community. Peter was a Jew, James, John, Paul-all of them Jews. The message was spread in Jerusalem, but it was basically spread to the Jews. One day, God calls Peter to minister to a man named Cornelius who is a Gentile. At first, he resists the vision, but when he finds out its from God, he goes. He preaches to Cornelius. Cornelius and his household are safe. They receive Christ; they are baptized; they receive the Holy Spirit. Peter comes back home, but instead of getting a heros welcome, hes greeted with hostility from the Jewish brothers. They confront Peter in Verse 3 (page 1090 of pew Bibles). You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them. Whats the matter with you? Peter tells them the story. He said, God has a heart for the Gentiles. Weve been called to reach the Gentiles. They too received the Holy Spirit, just as we did. They seemed to relax; they seemed to be okay with the story, but thats not the end of it. In Acts 15, Paul and Barnabas have been ministering to Gentiles all over the region. When they get back to their home base-which is Antioch, thats the place where Christians were first called Christians, the church in Antioch which is in Syria-theyre confronted with the same problem. In says in Verse 1 [of Acts 15, page 1094), Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved. So [in other words], You Gentiles-who are wanting to come into the church, you have to get snipped, or you arent coming in. This was not good news if you were a male Gentile of age. This was not good news. You have to go through this hoop. You have to get circumcised; you have to obey the Law of Moses, or you dont get in. In other words, its Jesus Christ plus this-your religious acts. These people were called the Judaizers. There are still Judaizers today. They live in our city. There are still the people that say Jesus isnt enough; Its Jesus Christ plus this; Jesus Christ plus church membership; Jesus Christ plus good works; Jesus Christ plus this hoop that you jump through. If you werent baptized as an infant or confirmed as a child, youre not getting into the Kingdom of Heaven. We add to the righteousness of Christ, and we dont need to do that. When Jesus says, It is finished, He declared It is done, that His bloodshed-His life-was enough to atone for sin. There is nothing you need to add to it and nothing you can take away from it. Paul was one of the Jesus Christ plus nothing school of salvation. There are things we do because we are believers, but we dont do those things to become believers. The only thing we do to be saved is believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and fall upon the mercy and grace of a holy and loving God. [We] confess our sins, receive Him into our heart and life, and then He-through the Holy Spirit-begins to change our lives and change our acts and attitudes. So there are confrontation and conflict because Paul takes issue with their words. They decide, Lets let the big dogs settle it. Lets go to Jerusalem. Lets talk to Peter, James and John, the closest Apostles to the Lord. Lets see what they think about this issue of the Gentiles coming into the church. So, thats what they do. They meet, they gather in whats called the Jerusalem council-the first council in the history of the church. The Apostles are there; the elders of the church are there. Peter is there and [so are] James and John. Paul and Barnabas are there to make their case. The Jewish Christians, a certain sect of them called the Judaizers, are there to make their case. Verse 5 [of Acts 15], Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses. Thats what we believe. Basically they wanted to turn Christianity into a sect of Judaism. You can have Jesus-thats fine, but you still have to keep the law. You still have to be circumcised. The Apostles and elders met to consider this question and went to discuss it. In Verse 7, After much discussion, Peter… Who is it? Who? Peter. …got up and addressed them: Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the Gospel and believe. Thats a reference back to Acts 10 and Cornelius. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He purified their hearts by faith. God is not a discriminating God. He loves us all the same, Peter says. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are. So, Peter takes a stand and says, They are part of the church. They are one of us, and they came by the same way we came-by faith, not by works. Shortly after that, God calls Paul-it was called the Macedonian Call in Acts 16, and Paul begins to speak in places like Galatia. What were reading about in Galatians 2 happens after what we just read in Acts 15. What Paul is basically saying to Peter is Peter, you know better. Peter, youre the one that God sent to Cornelius. You started the conversion of Gentiles. Peter, you know better. Youre the one who stood up at the council in Jerusalem and gave the speech that said were all equal. Were all brothers. Peter! Paul says, Youre being a hypocrite. Thats what he told him. He said, Youre being a hypocrite. Youre showing prejudice. Youre showing favor against these Gentile brothers and for these Jewish brothers; and, Peter, thats wrong! Was Peter a good man? He was a good man. Peter was a clinker brick. There are some things in his spirit that werent right. Before you or I can get up on a soap box, we have to look in our lives to see is there prejudice in us? Is there prejudice? Sometimes, we can be blinded to our own prejudice. It comes in many different shapes, sizes and forms. The first thing you have to do before you speak up is you have to look inside. Thats what I had to do, look inside my life. You have to look inside your life before you can speak. I want to tell you about a man named Bartolom