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In episode 502 of The Reformed Brotherhood, Tony and Jesse begin what promises to be a multi-part deep dive into the Parable of the Good Samaritan — one of the most culturally embedded and theologically rich stories Jesus ever told. But before a single character hits the Jericho road, the hosts ground listeners in something easily overlooked: the charged context in which this parable is told. A lawyer — trained, confident, adversarial — steps forward not to learn but to test. What follows is a masterclass in how Jesus turns the law back on those who wield it as a weapon. This episode covers Luke 10:21–36, explores the covenant of works and covenant of grace, the noetic effects of sin, and why the Good Samaritan is far more than a lesson in being a helpful neighbor. Buckle up. Key Takeaways The lawyer's question is self-contradictory from the start. Asking "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" smuggles a works-righteousness assumption into the very grammar of the question. Inheritance by definition is received, not earned. Jesus does not give the lawyer a new paradigm — He reorients him to the true one. The covenant of grace is not a New Testament innovation. It runs through every Old Testament covenant administration. The lawyer should have already known this. "Do this and you will live" is not a Pelagian concession. Christ is holding out the law's own terms — perfect, total, unrelenting obedience — not to suggest it is achievable, but to expose its impossibility and drive the lawyer (and us) to the only alternative: mercy. "Desiring to justify himself" is more complex than it first appears. Tony argues that the desire to fulfill the covenant of works is not inherently wicked — it is the misguided belief that one can which is the problem. This distinction creates room for reading Christ's response as genuinely merciful instruction, not merely rebuke. The noetic effects of sin mean accurate theology can be deployed in service of self. The lawyer knows the right answers and still uses them to avoid repentance. Correct doctrine alone does not save. The fundamental human problem is not ignorance — it is the will's bondage and the heart's self-love. The parable is primarily Christological, not merely ethical. Jesus is the Good Samaritan. The story is not first about mercy ministry; it is about who binds up our wounds when we are left for dead on the road, unable to save ourselves. The priest and the Levite are not exonerated by their ritual obligations. Considerable ink has been spilled trying to justify their passing by on grounds of Levitical purity concerns. The parable refuses that exit. Everyone in the story — and everyone listening — already knows what the right thing to do was. Key Concepts The Covenant of Works Is Not a Black Box One of the more quietly important arguments Tony makes in this episode is that the covenant of works was never meant to be mysterious or inaccessible. When Jesus responds to the lawyer's question by asking, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" — He does so with a visible assumption: there is a clear, knowable answer, and the lawyer should be able to give it. And he does. Love God completely, love your neighbor as yourself. The covenant of works was always coherent and comprehensible. The problem has never been that its demands were obscure. The problem is that no one — save the Mediator — has ever kept them. Jesus is not introducing a new ethical framework. He is forcing the lawyer to confront a standard he has always known and has never met. The Lawyer as a Warning to Reformed Christians Jesse closes the episode's first movement with a pointed and personal application that cuts across theological self-satisfaction. The lawyer is not a caricature of ignorance — he is a portrait of someone with accurate, affirmed theological knowledge who instinctively deploys it in the service of self-justification the moment he senses conviction. Jesse names this directly as a danger particularly acute in Reformed circles, where doctrinal precision can become a subtle mechanism of self-defense rather than an occasion for repentance. The Reformation's great recovery of grace must not become a new form of the very disease it diagnosed. Knowing the right words about total depravity, the covenant of grace, and the mediator does not exempt anyone from the need to actually be humbled by them. Theology is not armor against repentance — it is, rightly received, the road toward it. Context Is Not Just Setup — It Is Part of the Lesson Tony and Jesse both emphasize that Luke 10:21–24 is not merely throat-clearing before the real content begins. The theological statement embedded there — that the Father has hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children, that no one knows the Son except the Father or the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him — is the hermeneutical key to everything that follows. The lawyer approaches Jesus as one rabbi testing another. But Luke has already told his readers that this is not a conversation between equals debating interpretive options. It is the Lawgiver being questioned by someone who does not recognize Him. The parable that follows is not just an answer to a legal question. It is a revelation — the kind that only happens when the Son chooses to give it. Memorable Quotes You do not want to pit the law against the one who has given the law, the one whose character is represented in the law — because you're always going to get owned, and you'll get owned before you realize you've just gotten owned on multiple levels. - Jesse Schwamb Jesus is trying to sort of reorient them back to the true paradigm of grace that is present under all of the Old Covenant administrations. It's not so much a matter of developing a new framework and imposing it on this guy. It's really trying to say, 'Listen — think about this for a second. Think about the fact that, yes, you know you have to love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, your whole mind, and you have to love your neighbor as yourself. You've answered correctly. If you can do those things, you will live.' — with the subtext: and of course you cannot possibly do those things. - Tony Arsenal The fundamental human problem is not primarily ignorance, but the will's bondage and the heart's self-love. It's a problem no amount of correct discipline or doctrine alone can fix apart from some kind of regenerating grace — which is exactly what Jesus is going to illustrate for us in the mercy he's about to display in this parable. - Jesse Schwamb Full Transcript Tony Arsenal: [00:00:00] This parable is not primarily about us figuring out how to do mercy ministry. Like, that's important. It's probably an outcome of this. It's probably something for us to think about. But really, this is actually Christ saying, like, "Hold on a second here, dude." Like, "Let's just think about this." Do you need someone who is going to tell you to pick yourself up off your bootstraps and cross to the other side of the street and leave you to your own devices? Or do you need someone who's gonna throw you on their donkey, who's gonna bind up your wounds, who's gonna pay the innkeeper, and is gonna pledge to pay everything that is owed for your salvation? Right? That's not too on the nose here, I think. Welcome to episode 502 of The Reformed Brotherhood. I'm [00:01:00] Jesse  And I'm Tony, and this is the podcast with ears to hear. Hey, brother.  Jesse Schwamb: Hey, brother. Well, we've got a big one to talk about on this episode. We're marching further and further into all of the glorious parables Jesus told as part of His teaching. And as you and I kind of joked before we began, I mean, what did you call it? Did you say this is, uh, the big daddy?  Tony Arsenal: It's the big daddy, one of the big daddy parables.  Jesse Schwamb: It's one of the big daddy parables. Now, this one is probably second maybe only to the prodigal son. Yeah But in terms of its ubiquity and its kind of just common knowledge in culture, this one ranks right up there. And before I reveal what it is, which you may already know, I was thinking how so many times we look at the Beatitudes as expression of a master class in Jesus teaching the law, and I think that's true. But as I was reading and thinking about this particular parable, I thought, "I don't know. I think this one is, uh, right up there," because [00:02:00] this is like law on law. It's double law. Yeah It's law coming back at the law giver who's trying to use the law to test Jesus, and then Jesus tests him with the law that He himself gave His people. It's... I'm already getting too excited- ... and we've got something to do before we get there. But we're talking about the parable of the Good Samaritan. And so I can't imagine, can I just make a prediction up front? I, you know where I'm going with this, and probably everybody else does. Uh, this is gonna be like two conversations-  Tony Arsenal: At least ...  Jesse Schwamb: probably.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah, at least two.  Jesse Schwamb: Is that fair? Because I realize we, of course, wanna get to the parable itself, and oh, my goodness, how much ink has been spilled. Even going back to, like, if you read, like, Augustine or, like, the early church, like the Patristics, the Church Fathers, there are so much that could be said, and maybe some stuff that just shouldn't be said about all the allegorical potential intent here about these characters. But [00:03:00] there's so much amazing stuff that happens in the opening of this, that's not just the setup, but it is its own lesson, and I'm real excited actually to talk about that with you before we even get into, like, all the good stuff that everybody expects that you wanna talk about. So we're gonna do it all. Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Jesse Schwamb: We're gonna do it all, but it'll take time.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah. I'm interested to see if we're even on the same page about where to start reading, 'cause I, I think we might not be, and that's gonna be fun. So we'll, we'll let it fly and see what happens. It'll be our own little, uh, podcast game.  Jesse Schwamb: But, uh, I think- Well, I mean, we're gonna be in Luke chapter 10, but I guess to your point, we should be starting in Luke chapter one to get to this. Yeah.  Tony Arsenal: Exactly. But  Jesse Schwamb: we, we do have to back up quite a bit, and I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah. But I, apparently we're just gonna play that on the fly and see where we go.  Affirmations Denials Segment Jesse Schwamb: But of course, the Reformers had their five solos. Chalcedon had its, what, seven withouts. We've got opinions, and we're just as confident about ours, so of course it's time for affirmations, denials, where we affirm something that we think is good or awesome or [00:04:00] we wanna recommend, and we deny, again, something that is not so great or maybe just plain annoying. So before we talk about the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Tony, what do you got for us on this episode? Are you affirming with something, or are you gonna come in with a denial?  Tony Arsenal: Well, I've got two affirmations. That's fine. One is just- I will allow it ... a declaration of joy, and one is, like, a real affirmation. I, I just can't... It would be remiss of me not to share with our podcasting family that my son August and my daughter Adeline, uh, joined the visible church today as- Hear, hear ... uh, non-communicant members. Uh, Augie and Addie were baptized on the 16th of August of 2026, uh, into the visible church, into the name of Jesus Christ. Uh, was, it was just a great service. Um, it's funny because I've been- been talking with Augie. One of the thing with toddlers when you're doing something big like this is you kinda have to talk about it and practice and rehearse, rehearse it and, and get them ready for it. And up until maybe, like, I don't know, three days [00:05:00] ago, every time it would come up he would be saying, "I don't wanna be baptized. I don't wanna be baptized." And, um, you know, I, I, I, you know, I don't wanna force him to do something, but also, like, I make him eat vegetables. But, um- ... he, I, I think it was nerves, and I think something clicked in his head and all of a sudden he was very excited to be baptized. So, um, it was great. We've been talking about, you know, what baptism is, God's promise to you that if you trust him he'll save you. And so today he- Right ... he was like, "God's gonna make a promise to me to save me." So he was very excited. Nice. And he did a great job just standing quietly and listening to the pastor talk. Uh, and Addie was, was, was just a beautiful little girl, and she, um, she loved it as well. So that's just a bonus affirmation. I don't know that I could get through a podcast without gushing over that.  Glorify App and Devotionals Tony Arsenal: Uh, but the, the affirmation I have, uh, this is an, an app that I think some of our listeners may have heard of. Um, some may roll their eyes at it, to be honest with you. Um, I stumbled on this because, uh, you have an Oura Ring, don't you, Jesse? Jesse Schwamb: I do.  Tony Arsenal: You [00:06:00] do, yeah. So for those who don't know, an Oura Ring is like a little wearable ring that's like a, almost like a fitness tracker, but it tracks biometrics, pulse rate, temperature, all these different things, sleep. Um, there's a startup, uh, that has been doing a GoFundMe or a funding kind of thing for, uh, what they're calling like a Christian version of an Oura Ring. So it does a lot of the same things, sleep tracking, basic biometric tracking. Hmm. But it also has like alerts built in, and it's tied into an app that they use for devotionals. So it'll, it'll remind you to pray. It'll remind you, you know, bring you to an app to do a devotion. But the app it uses is a standalone app that I looked up, and it's called Glorify. Have you ever heard of this app before this evening? I have heard of  Jesse Schwamb: this, yeah.  Tony Arsenal: So Glorify is just a small devotional app. Uh, it's not much different than you would expect based on the name. It is connected to this, uh, to this Glorify ring, which again is, is sort of like an Oura Ring tied into this app. But this app basically is, is [00:07:00] designed to help you complete short daily devotional exercises, and they're usually very brief. They're based on a very brief, um, a very brief passage of scripture. Today's passage, uh, c- there's a quote. So today's quote is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It says, "True love does not consist in finding the perfect person, but in faithfully loving an imperfect one." Not sure why this devotional app is using a romance, uh, quote from Bonhoeffer of all people. But that was today's. Um, and the passage is Proverbs 5:15-17. So it's a, it's a devotional based on two verses, which is fine. So you read the passage. There's a very brief devotional on that passage, and then sort of a guided prayer, and they have both premium and free models. The premium model includes like you can listen to the devotional, you can listen to the prayer. Um, but just for example, today's prayer, it, it's very simple. "Loving Father, thank you for, uh, thank you because you're faithful and unchanging. In a world [00:08:00] marked by broken promises, disposable relationships, you remain the same. Teach me to reflect that faithfulness in my relationships. Help me to love with perseverance, grace, and commitment following the example of Christ. Protect marriages, strengthen families, restore what needs healing. May every relationship be marked by respect, truth, and genuine love. Shape in me a heart of integrity that honors you in both the small and significant choices of life. In Jesus' name, amen." So I think what I love about this, and this, I mentioned last week that there was, this is kind of like, sort of like the fluffy evangelical devotions. Like- Right ... there's not a ton of like solid doctrinal meat- But like, it's still nourishing. And sometimes we need a little bit of help. Sometimes we don't know what to pray, we don't know what to read, we're not sure. Sometimes in, I think in our Reformed circles, we feel like if we're not reading large portions of scripture and reading deep theological treaties or long, complex devotionals, that we're really not doing anything, and that's just not the [00:09:00] truth. So I've been using this in addition to other devotional studies I'm doing. I don't do it every day. I mean, there's some like streak functionality, kinda like habit tracking type stuff that's built into it. Um, but it's nice. It's nice to be able to pick it up, read a very short scripture, a brief devotional thought, and then have some guided prayer. I know one of the reasons I don't pray as often as I ought to is because I struggle to know what and how to pray. So even having some written prayers, I mean, this is why the Psalms are good, things like the Valley of Visions are good. Um, having some pre-written prayers that you genuinely pray but you're not having to come up with in the moment can really help. Right. So the app is called Glorify. I know it's available on iPhone. I'm not sure about Android. I'm sure it probably is. I'm sure they wanna have a pretty broad ecosystem. Um, and, and it's good. Again, it's, it's not anything fancy. It's not anything like super technical. Uh, and as I kind of alluded, like some of it's a little weird. Um, I, I didn't read the proverb. I think maybe the proverb is about romantic relationships, why they're, why they're tying in that, um, Bonhoeffer quote in, in the prayer. [00:10:00] But, um, even that, like it's pretty innocuous. And the quotes, like you don't have to read the quotes. It's not like you have to have to do that. Um, you could jump in, just read the scripture or just read the devotion and just do the prayer and you would be fine. So check it out. It's called Glorify, available on iPhone for sure. I'm pretty sure it's on, on Android. And maybe it's something you add daily, you know, this kinda thing like you do when you're on the bus or you're waiting at the grocery store, something quick you can do when you might be wasting that time just sorta sitting around or scrolling Twitter. Again, Twitter's fine. You can use your leisure time as you see fit. But if you wanna fill it with something like this, something that is more spiritual, then this would be a good option to just add a little bit of, uh, a little bit of nourishment to your diet where you might not otherwise be getting it  Jesse Schwamb: I have no proof of this, but I just keep saying it anyway. It might be that we're living in the golden age of really great- ... daily worship resources. Like, something to actually cultivate, not just, like, a devotional nugget, but something that actually leads you into a pattern and a habit of [00:11:00]worship, giving your attentive focus on Jesus. And I love that. So, uh, uh, 'cause I was just thinking, like, I was trying to look back on some of our past affirmations here. We've talked about the book Walking in Faith. I just gave everybody Awake My Soul last week. You're coming in with the Glorify app. I- we've talked about Dwell, if not recently, we've talked about that for some time. It's like a great Bible reading app, and there's lots and lots of new features, by the way, coming out on that- Yeah that are fantastic. And then, yes, all these other great prayers. I, I see, like, these books on prayer, like, actually, I'm sorry, like, prayer books, I guess, as, like, a great way to kinda... It's like a jumper for your car. You know what I mean? Like, just gets you started. What a, what a lovely thing to come into a place and have a launching pad. And I've been using a lot of Into His Presence, which is a collection of Puritan prayers, sometimes because, for instance, this just happened, where I wanted to pray for someone who was just going through a rough time, a good friend of mine. And I went to that place to kinda start and frame, knowing that I was gonna sit down with him and pray, how I might be able to do that well and [00:12:00] effectively. And these things are just, like, really phenomenal resources. It's just an amazing time to have all these things at our disposal. So that's another great option. It's, it's really more about, like you and I have talked about, Tony, like, whatever gets us into that pattern, whatever gets us, like, authentically experiencing under our own volition, coming in the discipline of sitting before God in daily worship with that expression being pretty broad in its representation- Yeah is to really include something of devotional time in the scriptures, memorization, metabolation, metabolizing. Metabolation, I'm just gonna make that up as, like- ... what happens when you, when you take the scripture and metabolize it into your own life. Meditating on it and, you know, again, maybe looking through the confessions and creeds that have shaped our distilled understanding of what the scripture teaches so that we're enhancing and edifying our mind. We're also engaging the heart, and then we're engaging God and ourselves in communication with Him through prayer. I'm all for anything [00:13:00] that gets us into those rhythms, reminds us of the importance of them, and like we talked about last week, makes it so that when we think about what it means to be married to Christ, so to speak, it's not just about whipping out some kind of marriage certificate to prove that, but that we actually have a frame and a behavioral pattern that fits a married person, that- Yeah how they act, how they think, how they behave, how they communicate, they're never too far away from their lovely spouse in some way or another. And so I think that these tools are great ways to get us exactly into that kind of mindset and practice.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah, absolutely. And like I said, like, I think- In our Reformed circles, we can, you know, we, we tend to be maybe a little eggheaded, and we, we tend to be a little more intellectual and, and a little more, I don't know, studious. And there's nothing wrong with that. Um, but I think sometimes it can breed a sort of, uh, elitism and arrogance. Sure. Uh, this is a perfectly valid devotional tool. Yes. Mm-hmm. And, and I think, [00:14:00] you know, kinda like the old adage, like, well, what's the best translation of scripture? Well, whichever one you're gonna read. Exactly. Like, what's the best devotional tool? Whichever one you're gonna use, whichever one's actually gonna bring you into the Word, uh, on a, on a regular basis. Um, and again, like, two verses of the scripture is two verses of the scripture that you might- Right ... not have other spent time, otherwise spent time reading. And it really is short enough, and it saves your progress. Like, you can do, you can do the quote in the morning, and then you can check the scripture on the way to the, you know, the word work, on a stoplight or whatever. Um, if you have the, the paid subscription, you can listen to this stuff, you know, on the, the bus or whatever. Um, so check it out. Glorify app, they have a ring they're making. It's in funding, I guess, if you wanna check it out, you can check that out too. I am neither affirming nor denying whatever this Glory ring is, Glorify ring. But, um, but yeah, the app is great. The, the app is free, and it's, it's worth even just checking out and adding once in a while to your day  Jesse Schwamb: The glory ring or the glorify ring sounds like almost too Tolkien, even for me  Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah. It's the one ring to rule all of your devotions. [00:15:00] Uh, and in the, and in the morning bind them. Jesse, save me from the trail I was about to go on, and, and I was gonna speak in the language of Mordor, I think, on accident. Uh, save us from this. What are you affirming or denying?  Jesse Schwamb: That's  Tony Arsenal: beautiful. Please tell me it's the language of Mordor. Elvish AI and Music Pick Jesse Schwamb: Uh, no, but can I just say at the risk of really taking us really far afield so early on, which is not necessarily off-brand for us, I have done this... I, I don't know if I should be ashamed by this or I should be excited by this. But- ... um, the Elvish tongue in the Tolkien universe-  Tony Arsenal: Oh, no. ...  Jesse Schwamb: is like, there's several... If you're super nerdy, you'll know there's like several different kind of iterations or formulas of it, and there's no, like, official language like Klingon, but there ha- it has been studied, and basically, like, it's kind of like the Eugene Peterson of the language. Like, there's, like, just kind of a dynamic equivalent or an expression of words. Anyway, all that to say- ... there's several languages that, uh, Microsoft Copilot will just not [00:16:00] translate because it says, like, "This one, this language doesn't actually exist. There's not enough for me to do anything." Let me tell you something. Tolkien Elvish is not one of those languages, and I actually built an agent, because I have a coworker who can, uh, who can appreciate all this stuff, that takes a text, translates it into this kind of academic high-level Elvish from Tolkien, and then translates it back to English. That makes anything you're saying way better and far more poetic and just absolutely amazing. So if you wanna have some fun, go and do that with whatever your favorite AI model is. Anyway, that's free of charge. Real quick, my affirmation is more music. It just turns out I've found this band, and I've been listening to them a lot. The band's name is Thronebreaker, which is just a phenomenal name, I think, for any group. Uh, it's amazing. Uh, th- this is... I'm gonna read you their description from Spotify. It just says, "Thronebreaker is Christian metalcore built for the bruised, the doubting, and the ones still fighting their way home." And what I've really been [00:17:00] loving about them is it is kind of like Wolves at the Gate adjacent. It's really lovely music. It is melodic, so it's, there's not just that there's that kind of hard edge, but that is present in it. But, uh, the music is really lovely and beautiful, and in part that's because they're going through this, like, drip of releasing music where they're taking, like, old hymns or maybe songs if you're of a certain age like I am of kind of childhood Sunday school- And they're taking the lyrics, not the melody, and they're reimagining them. So they have two versions of Jesus Loves Me that they just released. They have the old We're Gonna Cross, a song called Glory to the King Most High. These songs are just saturated with gospel. Like, they're just all power, all encouragement, and all authority represented in Jesus Christ. They're incredible, and I've j- where I've, what I've been really blessed by is these two versions of Jesus Love Me are just fantastic. Like, they're orchestral. There is a children's kind of chorus at one point, and it got me [00:18:00] singing that song again, and really, maybe to what you were saying before, Tony, like sitting in those three words, which are really phenomenal words to hear. And so I have been surprised at how moved I've been by what really I, I first understood, of course, as a children's song with simple truth that seems, you know, depending on how long you've known some part of the gospel, obvious. And yet I found them all new again, and a, a really lovely way of just sitting in the truth of God in music that I didn't expect to find. So if you're interested in any of that or maybe just curious of what it would sound like if a Christian metalcore band took Jesus Loves Me and turned it into their genre, then honestly you should just go check out Throne Breaker. I mean, you pretty much have to at this point.  Tony Arsenal: I, I don't ever have anything to add to your musical affirmations or denials, 'cause I, I just don't. What I do have to add is that Throne Breaker actually sounds like some sort of really [00:19:00] amazing, like, mace-type weapon in Lord of the Rings. Yes.  Jesse Schwamb: Yes,  Tony Arsenal: it does. Or like a big hammer that a dwarf carries. And I would also like to say that if you ask Google Gemini to translate something into Tolkien English, it not only will do it, it will tell you how to pronounce it.  Google Elf: A ava aini Ilai amel i trona se.  Tony Arsenal: What do you think that was, Jesse?  Jesse Schwamb: No idea.  Tony Arsenal: First of all, that was elevated Quenya, a Quenya. Yes.  Jesse Schwamb: Yes, that's  Tony Arsenal: the one. Classic Quenya.  Jesse Schwamb: Yes.  Google Elf: A leta Ilai amel aima.  Tony Arsenal: I would be willing to bet... Actually, let's do this.  Jesse Schwamb: Ugh.  Tony Arsenal: Uh, we don't give out prizes very often. Uh, I will say to anyone who can tell me what that is, the first person that emails, uh, or, or goes into the Telegram chat, we'll do this. We'll be professional podcasters and drive people to one of our channels. Here we  Jesse Schwamb: go.  Tony Arsenal: The first person who goes to our telephone, our Telegram chat and tells me what that [00:20:00] means, what that, uh, Elvish means, will get a Reformed Brotherhood T-shirt.  Jesse Schwamb: Oh, that is big.  Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Jesse Schwamb: That-  Tony Arsenal: So I'm gonna, I'm gonna play it one more time.  Jesse Schwamb: Okay, here we go. Everybody listen. Every- All right, pull over. Stop your vehicles. Here we go.  Google Elf: A leta Ilai amel aima.  Tony Arsenal: There it is, everybody.  Jesse Schwamb: I'm not being a cry- I have a guess, but I, I, I wanna try to win the T-shirt, so I'm gonna- Yes ... wi- withhold. All right. Uh, yeah, that's, that's super fun. Did it, um... Did you also translate it back into English from that  Tony Arsenal: just to see- No, I'll do that later, 'cause that would give away the, that would  Jesse Schwamb: give away the prize. Yeah, it's, it's... We'll have to save that for next week, because that, that is the fun. It creates, like, what I was doing to, to have fun with this coworker is take very technical, like, work-related emails, and I would send it through. It would go through that iterative process, and I actually loved how it, it was talking. Like, it wa- this was an email about risk, and it, it gave, like, these beautiful grand metaphors that didn't sound corny or cheesy. That's the beautiful thing. That's amazing. It [00:21:00] was like true Elvish. Like, you were just like, "I wish I spoke that way all the time about, about risk." And it, like I said, it wasn't just like... You could, you could obviously throw something in and be like, "Make this Shakespearean," or, you know, "Make this, you know, sound like, you know, Milton." This is way better. This is way better, because it's not, like, actually trying to manipulate what you're saying. It's takes, like, the dynamic equivalent of what you said, then translates it back with way more kind of poetic infrastructure while maintaining, like, the essential meaning that you have. I'm, I'm selling this too hard. Everybody just has to go out and try it. So, all right, you know what's at stake here, but here's how you have to win this. If you want a chance, if you want a chance at winning this, you gotta go to t.me/reformedbrotherhood, t.me/reformedbrotherhood, and that link will take you to the Telegram app and our little corner of it, and you're gonna find there's a bunch of chats there. You gotta go to the affirmations or denials chat, and then you gotta put in what is the translation of what Tony just played.[00:22:00] I just love... Isn't it amazing, though, that, like, y- as you discovered, there's more than one version of Elvish available? Yeah. And they do differentiate between the various kinds. This is a big deal. I learned there are actually scholars who have, like, again, filled in kind of like the details of the language- Oh, yeah taking as a basis what Tolkien had there. Yeah. So I think that this is the best. We couldn't have conceived of this if we'd actually tried and planned for it, so-  Tony Arsenal: It's true ...  Jesse Schwamb: it's just better that it all happened in, in real time. It's true. And, and speaking of which, I think now we get to have the fun of figuring out, uh, where in Luke chapter 10 are we gonna begin? Or should we just start in Luke 1 and just let's see how far we can get reading  Tony Arsenal: in this- I could have, I could have Google Gemini read it in elevated Kenya, Quenya I did try to get it to put it in Sindarin, and it wouldn't do it for some reason. I'm not sure. Maybe this anti-Sindarin bias in Gemini,  Jesse Schwamb: man. Disappointing.  Tony Arsenal: It's disappointing.  Jesse Schwamb: Dis- disappointing. So let's kick off some Good Samaritan talk, which again, I think is gonna take us [00:23:00] through maybe in the next couple of conversations, in part because, like I said, we're not even gonna start at, uh, verse 25 because there is so much more that needs to be said, I think, before that. Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah. I, I think actually the proper place to start this, and I, I'm guessing Jesse probably, whether he was there or not, he probably figured out where I was going, uh, over the course of the last 20 minutes or whatever. Um, I actually think the proper place to start, at least one of the proper places to start, is in verse 21. Yeah. Um, and I- we'll talk about why that is. And I'll... I'm gonna read here, um, 21, uh, through the end of the parable. Uh, and this is Jesus talking. He says in this, uh... Well, it, this is, um... Yes, uh, I'll just read it here. "In the same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 'I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will. All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one who knows who the Son is except... No, no one knows who the Son is [00:24:00] except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Himself.'" Then turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see and did not see it, and hear what you hear and did not hear it." And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this and you will live." But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and he saw him and passed on the other side. So likewise a Levite, [00:25:00] when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take good care of him. Whatever you, whatever more you spend I will repay you when I come back.' Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" And he said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "You go and do likewise."  Jesse Schwamb: I think you're right, of course, to back us up into verse 21 because I don't want to keep saying it's always a setup, but Jesus is certainly giving us like the right context in which... Well, Luke of course is the author here and as he's explaining the teaching of Jesus, he does so well to start out with some irony that we don't realize is gonna be ironic until we get to the, to verse 25 [00:26:00] when we realize who's testing Jesus, who's setting this all up. So this idea that the Holy Spirit, everybody rejoicing in the Holy Spirit and the knowledge and the wisdom, the intelligence that's revealed through the Holy Spirit to all of these lesser people and in particular here emblematic the infants That here we have kings and rulers, and in this case, this beloved scholar of the law, who all have this adventure in missing the point. They think, in fact, they're looking for the one who is to set them free, and they can't even see that it's Him who is before him. And yet, incidentally, God has already revealed all these things to the lowest, to the ones who are the most humble, the meek, the mild, the down and outs, the ones who are weak by the view of everybody else. And so it's amazing that if we just kinda, again, like blow past it into, like, just all the characters, we don't see that the teaching starts actually well above this, that even everything we're about to understand, that unfolds in our lives, ev- every spiritual incarnation and insight that we have [00:27:00] first starts with God himself in his revealing it to us both in his general revelation, but of course, in the specific revelation of his teaching. So I like that you started us there, because I, I'm with you. That's where this whole thing launches off, right?  Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Parables Reveal and Conceal Tony Arsenal: Yeah, and as we come into when we very, like very start of this, uh, series, the, the parable series, Jesus sort of embeds a theology of parables into this introduction, right? Or I should say Luke does. But this, uh, this is written a- as though all of this is occurring as sort of one event. Right. And likely it was, right? So sometimes, uh, in the Gospels, events are kind of, like, moved next to each other for thematic reasons. It's possible that that's the case. It seems like this may have actually just been one, one teaching, and I'll, I'll talk about why that is in a second here. Um, but at the very least, this is placed next to each other in the Gospel almost as, like a, "Here's the theology of parables. Now, here's actually that happening in real [00:28:00] time."  Jesse Schwamb: Yes.  Tony Arsenal: And then also, like, a parable kinda demonstrating it, right? So the theology of the parable here is that there are many prophets, kings who desire to see what it is that, that, uh, uh, the disciples are seeing, right? And all things have been handed over to the Father or to, to the Son, by the Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father. No one who knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal, right? So the, the theology of parables here presented in Luke is that the parable itself is being used as a way to reveal the Father and the Son to those whom the Son chooses to reveal it to. The Lawyer as the Fool Tony Arsenal: And that leaves us with this lawyer, um, sort of playing, playing the fool in almost like a dramatic sense, right? In a lot of drama, there's kind of like the fool character who's sort of like the foil or the idiot of the thing who's, who's unaware and is almost like made an example of, right? Um, I, I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but there's often a character in a play who's like, uh, it's [00:29:00] almost like the opposite of the everyman, right? The everyman in a, in a play- Right ... or in a movie is sort of like the outsider who things gets explained to, and he's sort of the proxy for, for the audience. Um, I think like, um, Hawkeye in Avengers is kind of the everyman. He's sort of just like this regular dude swept up in this thing, and oftentimes he's the one that, uh, the big characters are explaining things to. And really what that is is the big characters are explaining that to the audience through this proxy. There's also this concept of the fool in a lot of these plays or movies who's sort of like the dummy, the idiot of the play, who things are explained to, and it's still a way to explain it to the audience, but the character doesn't get it. And so that's kind of, kind of the role that this lawyer is playing in this, this narrative here. He, he steps forward. He's like, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answers his question, and then in this like sort of like stunning moment of, like unawareness, he's trying to justify himself. He says, "Well, who is my neighbor?"[00:30:00] As though that's a question that needed to be asked, right? I think, like, we sort of think of it as like, "Oh, yeah, that's a valid question." I actually don't think it is. Like, it's pretty obvious, in the Old Testament at least, who your neighbor is. It's the people who live immediately with you. It's the other people of Israel. It's the people in your immediate concentric circles, the people you have direct access to. Um, and so then Jesus explains it through this parable, and whether or not he gets it at the end, I guess is maybe a little bit unclear. We can talk about that as we get there. But at least in the beginning, he's portrayed as this sort of, like, fool who doesn't understand what Jesus is saying, and then this parable is taught. So it's this theology of, um, revelation to those whom it is intended to, and further obscuring from those it's intended not to, not to illuminate, which is identical. Uh, maybe it's a different flavor of the same thing, but it's the same thing as what Matthew had and what Jesus taught- Right ... in Matthew with the parables. Jesse Schwamb: Right. It definitely is, again, illustrating, again, God's divine prerogative. I think you really have to do a lot of theological gymnastics [00:31:00] to try to work yourself out of a place here that says, like, "Well, this, this knowledge is accessible to all people."  Tony Arsenal: Right.  Jesse Schwamb: That if somehow we just work hard enough, study hard enough, come even before God with the right attitude or do the right things, that somehow all this will be made plain to us, and that's certainly not the truth here. In fact, again, the ironic setup is you have this lawyer asking this question, which creates this strange contrast because here's a man trained in the law, and he approaches the very wisdom of God to test him while the little children already perceive what this fool cannot. So it's irony upon irony, and then I, I like what you're saying. I think, and we'll get to this to anticipate a bit, I'm reading this as he's hoping that the answer to whom is my neighbor, just like he- he's received the affirmative from Jesus saying, "Yes, you understand. Go and do these things. This is life," and we'll get to all of what that means, I think, as well in terms of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace. But I think he's hoping that the definition of neighbor is gonna mean that he has [00:32:00] already accomplished the thing then, so that if there's somehow- Yeah ... he could just set the right boundaries. He could say, "Ah, yeah, I'm already good then, Jesus. I already, already did all that stuff." So- It's wild to me that it, it all starts with, of course, like some kind of scribal specialist in the Torah, of course, likely some kind of Pharisee by theological alignment. And as I'm looking at the notes here, what I find particularly stunning as we start this out is that Luke, of course, is able to speak several times in this parable to the intent. And so he says right away with great kind of fanfare and description that the intent here from this scribal Torah person was to test or to tempt, which is the same verb used of Satan's temptation of Christ and of Israel's testing of God in Deuteronomy 6, which of course Jesus is gonna quote here later on. So it's not, of course, like sincere inquiry, like you're saying. It, it is like adversarial probing. It is like really profound setup. It is dripping with like [00:33:00] ulterior motive. It's seeking to expose Jesus as either like heterodox or as diminishing the law's demands. And I think we've talked about this before, so Tony, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure in one of the previous parables we talked about sometimes how these get set up with this kind of weird like oxymoronic setting. Inherit Eternal Life Debate Jesse Schwamb: So like this question of se- uh, uh, itself, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?  Tony Arsenal: Yeah.  Jesse Schwamb: It's like more than just theologically revealing. Biblically it's self-contradictory, 'cause of course like we talked about inheritance, I think actually when we went through the, the parable of the prodigal. By definition, that's received, of course, on the ba- basis of relationship or promise. It's not earned by performance. And if the inheritance comes by a law, it no longer comes by promise, right? I think that's like Galatians. So the lawyer's question already portray- portrays like some kind of weird works righteous paradigm. E- even if you think he's really after trying to understand the true intent of God's heart [00:34:00] behind the law, he is assuming at least in this question that eternal life is some kind of wage that he can earn rather than a gift to be received by grace through faith. And that's a fundamental error that the entire subsequent exchange, including the parable, is designed to expose. It's both, like you're saying, Tony, he has not learned yet what it means to be in the kingdom of God. He's outside of that, and so he's trying... Now Jesus is bringing in this corrective action, as it were, set up in a story, but he's gonna turn the law on him, which, which I don't wanna get too excited about that yet. But he's... But essentially, here we have somebody who's the expert in the law trying to leverage the law by way of force against the one who he does not understand has all leverage and authority over him, and is in fact the law giver himself So he's gonna, Jesus is gonna drive him to see his own ability to keep the law that he claims to honor, and that's more than just brilliant. This is what the law does. You do not wanna pit the law against the one who has given the law, the [00:35:00] one whose character is represented in the law, because you're always going to get owned, and you'll get owned before you realize you've just gotten owned on multiple levels, and I think that's what basically unfolds here. Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah, I, I have a little bit of a different take on the, the word inherit here. Um, I don't think what you're saying is wrong, um, but I think there's a little different flavor here, and actually, I, I think it, it still sort of propels us forward to the conversation we have to have, um, about the law and the gospel and the covenant of works, the covenant of grace. The, the Greek that lays under this word is, uh, it's a compound word of the word for, like, lot or portion and the word for law. And so, so the, this force of the word is more along the lines of, like, what shall I do to have a legal right to eternal life? Like- Right ... inherit, I think we hear inherit, and we think of, like, um, like what you get when someone dies, and so, like, obviously there's nothing you do to earn it, and that's certainly an element of the way this [00:36:00] word is used in some instances. I think reading this and kind of how, how the rest of the text plays out, this lawyer is coming forward and he's like, "What do I need to do to have a rightful legal claim to eternal life?" Right? We might even be able, and this is where it comes into the covenant of grace, covenant of works k- kind of paradigm. We might even be able to say that what this lawyer or this person comes forward to ask Jesus is, how do I gain, how do I gain the benefits of the covenant of works, right?  Jesse Schwamb: Right.  Tony Arsenal: Yep. That's language that was developed later that's not, not, like, biblical language in terms of, like, the actual language within the text, but that's the force of what he's saying. What must I do to be a rightful legal... Uh, what must I do to have a rightful legal claim on all of the blessings of the covenant of works, is really the question that's here. And so Jesus' answer is so instructive- Right ... 'cause what he says is, "Well, what's written in the law?" Like, he, he basically says, like, "Well, you should be able to tell me, teacher- Exactly of [00:37:00] the law, like, what, what needs to happen there." And there's an assumption on Christ's part that, like, there is an answer. I think sometimes, sometimes we, we, uh, we make an error in thinking that the covenant of works was never attainable, that it's somehow this, like, um, it's almost like a black box. Like, nobody could know what we have to do to, like, obtain eternal life. That's absolutely not the assumption Jesus makes. Jesus not only knows that there's an answer, it's such a straightforward answer that he expects this scribe to be able to answer it, right? And the scribe can, right? The scribe says, "Well, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, your mind, your strength, and your neighbor as yourself," right? The summary of the law. Just good old classic Westminster larger, shorter catechism. Where's the law summarily comprehended? Summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments. And then, then again, I don't know the questions exactly, but then it also, like, says, like, "Where does Christ summarize this?" Well, you should love the Lord your God, and you should love your [00:38:00] neighbor as yourself, right? Covenant Works and Grace Tony Arsenal: So the, the lawyer comes forward and says, "What do I need to do to have a legal right to all of the blessings of the covenant of works?" Christ says, "Well, what do you think?" He says, "Well, you obey the entirety of the law." And he says, "You've answered correctly. Do this. Obey the entirety of the law and you will live." So the parable itself doesn't necessarily speak to this law, gospel, covenant of works, covenant of grace paradigm. The, the parable is used to show that not only does this lawyer know what is required of him, but that he won't do it.  Jesse Schwamb: Right.  Tony Arsenal: And I think that's really key, because even in the parable, within the parable itself, there are these figures that know what they should do, right? I, I think, um, we'll get into it, but there's a lot of ink spilled on almost like, um, explaining [00:39:00] why the priest and the Phar- phar- and the, the Levite almost like did the right thing by going to the other side of the room, and it points to like, well, their priestly and Levitical responsibilities, if they touch a dead body, like they can't do those things, and those things are so important. Like, there's a lot of ink spilled trying to almost explain why what they did is right, when the point of the parable is that actually we all know what the right thing to do in that sense was. And even the most righteous people in the mind of the hearers, the Levites and the priests, the most righteous people, even they don't do what they're supposed to do. Jesse Schwamb: Right.  Tony Arsenal: This, this paradigm, this gospel law paradigm, law gospel paradigm, this covenant of works, covenant of grace paradigm, is so baked into the very like fabric of, of human thought that it's just there. And Christ takes this time to point out to this lawyer, like, "You know what's expected of you." And so that's why the phrase desiring to justify himself is so key [00:40:00] here. I actually think that the, the, the I don't wanna go so far as to say, like, that this person was regenerated in the midst of this conversation, 'cause I don't know that. But I actually think that there's a forward movement of this lawyer as he interacts with Christ that is optimistic. I'm optimistic about it, right? Right. He starts out trying to test Jesus, then he star- then he moves to having a desire to justify himself. I think we hear that, we read that, desiring to justify himself, we automatically think that that's a negative thing. But if we think about justifying himself in terms of what he's talking about, how do I fulfill the obligations of the covenant of works, that's not a bad thing to wanna do. Right. It's not bad to wanna obey God's law and to lay claim to His promises. It's a misguided notion of something we can't accomplish, but in itself, desiring to justify himself is to desire to fulfill the obligations of the covenant of works. That's not necessarily a bad thing. And so I think this is a merciful, a merciful [00:41:00] teaching on Christ's part. He's trying to instruct this guy to say, "Look, you can't do it. And even if you could do it, you wouldn't do it. So let's, let's talk about mercy instead and what that looks like." And that's where we get to kind of the end of the, uh, the end of the parable.  Jesse Schwamb: And again, we have to remember that we know that the intent here is actually to test or try Jesus, so He's certainly being merciful by using this opportunity not to just put him on blast, but to actually provide true instruction. And of course, like, that was, to some degree, this turning the question back would've been, like, a rabbinic pedagogical technique, but theologically, this is what floors me, is from the jump, Jesus refuses to let this man treat Him merely as one more voice among competing rabbis. Yeah. Instead, He holds that lawyer to the standard of God's own revealed word by, like you said, asking not just what does it say, but how do you read it? Mm-hmm. He's pressing not just for, like, some kind of recitation, but for the lawyer's own understanding and application, and Jesus is gonna hold him [00:42:00] accountable to his own hermeneutic. So by, by the time we get the answer, we know as readers, and all those present would've understood, he already knows the right answer, and he's not ignorant to God's requirements. He already summarizes the whole moral law correctly, encompassing both tables of the Decalogue. And so I think that does lead us then to this statement that we probably should spend a little time on, like, do this and you will live, like you introduced for us. Like, what does that even mean? Because i- it's not, like, in my view It's not like a Pelagian or Arminian concession that law keeping actually saves. I mean, it is the covenant of works principle stated truly inexorably that the law as law does promise life to perfect obedience. But that's the exact problem. I, I like what you said that it's not as if we can't understand what it would be to comprehend or contemplate this perfect law and what it means to fall under the covenant of works. It's just that he also presents for us at the same time this covenant of grace in which life is [00:43:00] granted freely through faith in the mediator who alone fulfills all of these laws' demands. So it's wild in this back and forth that's happening here where it's... I don't even know if it's fair to say this is like the most incredible subtext ever. I'm imagining trying to process this in real time and realizing everything that's being said, not just listening to what's being said and like the technical answers going back and forth. But I think like you said, that the Spirit even here is at work, I would like to believe, in the life and at the heart and the mind of this lawyer who's bringing forward this question with nefarious intent first to test and to undermine, and then is being drawn in almost inexorably into this debate to more profound understanding about a covenant based on works that cannot be accomplished, uh, in perfect obedience except through the mediator who organizes and distributes liberally this covenant of grace to his children for whom he has accomplished at least passively and then actively in his obedience in life and death. And so Jesus' reply is, I [00:44:00] think, thus a very genuine like if that functions to expose an impossibility. I, I don't think he's teaching salvation by works here, of course. He is holding out the law's own terms so that the lawyer and everybody else listening, and even us as well, can discover through this narrative which is about to happen the impossibility of self-produced righteousness, which again is what this gentleman is theologically all about. He's trying to justify himself. And that is precisely the pedagogical strategy like Paul uses later when he systemizes all of this by saying that the law was our guardian or school master until Christ came in order that we might be justified by faith. I think- Yeah ... and it's only because God is good to us and we might sit in some of this teaching, I think this is all in play. So, so I ask you, like, have I gone too far with all this? Like, how much do you think in the real time was being processed? And maybe that's a horrible question to ask because we know the Spirit does this work of illumination and enlightenment, and we're on the other [00:45:00] side of this and have this time to sit and to kind of parse and to really kind of just be pickled in all of this. But there's so much happening here, right?  Tony Arsenal: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, maybe I'll answer the question a, a little bit of a different way. I think, um- We often can think about Old Testament religion, if we wanna kinda call it that. We think about Old Testament religion as though it was totally uniform and, um, entirely legalistic. Right. Uh, my- the, the listener is gonna panic a little bit when I say this, so please don't freak out, but I, I think N.T. Wright, uh, and some of the new perspective on Paul stuff is a, a little bit helpful in this, in that it gives us a foil to sorta push against. Yes. The new perspective on Paul is this idea that, um- Paul was not saying that Judaism was legalistic and Christianity is a grace-based religion, right? He, m- [00:46:00] um, N- NPP is not, is saying, um, Paul was not correcting New or Old Testament religion. And where they go wrong is that they say that Paul actually retains this concept of covenantal faithfulness, covenantal nomism fidelity. Uh, where I think, where I think they're right is that this idea that, like, the Old Testament religion is entirely legalistic and Paul was just sort of correcting that, I think that's way too simplistic. And the reason I say that is that the Mosaic Covenant for, you know, w- and predominantly this podcast is coming from a sort of Westminster Confession of Faith Presbyterian perspective, give or take, right? The, the broad Reformed tradition would say that the, the Mosaic, uh, covenant, the Davidic Covenant, all of the covenants of the Old Testament, and we can break them up in all sorts of different ways, but all of the covenants of the Old Testament, [00:47:00] um, with maybe the exception of the Noahic Covenant, and there's some debate about that, all of those are They're not just, like, supporting structures for the covenant of grace, but they actually are the covenant of grace in various administrations. If that's true, and of course we believe that it is, if that's true, then the people of those covenants understood that on some level. Right. Right? So to think that, like, people under the administration of the covenant of grace somehow thought that they were operating under a legalistic framework doesn't make any sense. Jesse Schwamb: Yeah,  Tony Arsenal: that's true. So, so where I think that applies here is I think this person coming forward, it's not as though the concept of the covenant of grace... Again, that's language that we would develop later, but the concept that God graciously saves His people by the counsel of His own will, apart from their works of righteousness, apart from their meritorious effort, that God [00:48:00] simply extends His grace and conveys the cov- the blessings of the covenant of works to those who trust in the mediator, those who trust in the one to come, the, the forthcoming serpent-crushing seed, right, if you wanna use- Right language from Genesis 3. The, the idea that God simply graciously conveys the blessings of the covenant of works to those people Um, that's not something that's alien to the Old Testament, right? It's not alien to the, even to the Mosaic economy. The most law-based of all of the Old Testament, um, covenants, even that starts with the concept that these people are God's people who he redeemed out of Egypt, right? Right. The redemption out of Egypt comes before the giving of the law, and the giving of the law is a result of the redemption out of Egypt. So to think that this lawyer comes forward, and again, this had been sort of corrupted and distorted and had become a very works-based, uh, [00:49:00] meritorious-based understanding. But the idea that this framework of a covenant of grace is totally alien to this guy just doesn't, it just doesn't, I think it doesn't play. And so I think rather than us read this as I think sometimes we do, of Christ as kind of like giving this guy, trying to give this guy an entirely new paradigm, or like the rich young ruler is very much a parallel kind of situation. We read this, this guy comes forward, he's like, "What do I gotta do to earn eternal life?" Christ is like, kinda basically says like, "Well, you dum-dum, you can't. And I'm gonna demonstrate for you that you can't by- Right ... taking sort of like this situation that you can't possibly believe that you fulfilled and telling you to fulfill it." That's the outcome of this. We'll get to that when we get to the end of the parable. Um, he's not trying to give them a new paradigm. He's trying, in my opinion, he's trying to sort of reorient them back to the true paradigm of grace that is present under all of the Old Covenant administrations. So it's not so much a matter of like [00:50:00] developing a new framework and impli- like imposing this new framework on this guy. It's really trying to say like, "Listen- Think about this for a second, dude. Think about this, right? Think about the fact that, yes, you know you have to love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, your whole mind, and you have to love your neighbor as yourself, right? You've answered correctly. If you can do those things, you will live. With the subtext, which I think is what you're getting at, the subtext of, like, and of course you cannot possibly do those things. Right. Right. So what's the alternative, my friend? The alternative is not justifying yourself by somehow identifying who the person is that you have to love the most. The, the, the, um, the... Well, we'll get this when we get to the parable itself, but the, the alternative is... This will be interesting, 'cause I'm not sure that we... I don't know where you are on this, but, um, the alternative is that there's someone out there who shows us mercy. [00:51:00] Right. There's someone out there who takes care of our need despite our total inability to do so. Jesse Schwamb: That's right.  Tony Arsenal: That's the alternative to the covenant of works, is the covenant of grace. I m- maybe I'm, like, hinting at it too much, so I'll just say it. Like, Jesus is the Good Samaritan, right? Like, there's something for us to learn about our own justification here and our own- Right ... like, um, our own need to be merciful, to treat people as our neighbors. But just like we talked about when we talked about, like, what does the least of these mean, this parable, uh, I'm totally, like, burying the lede for next, next week, but that's fine. This parable is not primarily about us figuring out how to do mercy ministry. Right. Like, that's important. It's probably an outcome of this. It's probably something for us to think about. But really, this is actually Christ saying, like, "Hold on a second here, dude." Like, "Let's just think about this." Do you need someone who is going to tell you to pick yourself up off your bootstraps and cross to the other side of the street and leave you to [00:52:00] your own devices? Or do you need someone who's gonna throw you on their donkey, who's gonna bind up your wounds, who's gonna pay the innkeeper, and is gonna pledge to play- pay everything that is owed for your salvation? Right? That's not too on the nose here, I think. Right. And, and I really look forward to, like, unpacking that, although maybe we don't need to now, but I think, like, this parable is so much more about how salvation works than it is about, like, what it means to have a good neighbor and to be a good neighbor. I think we get bogged down in that, and I just am really excited to talk more about, like, what I think this parable actually gets at.  Jesse Schwamb: I agree, and it's happening in the contex

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Mír grinn na hAoine ag caint inniu ar Pharáidí na Féil' Pádraig, míoltóga agus gradam Jessie Buckley.

Join us today as we welcome back Dave Crawford, co-creator of Animal Help Now.org (AHNOW.org) and Pet Help And Rescue.org (PHAR.org). Dave gives us the latest update on the rebuilding of his home after the tragic Marshall Fire of Colorado in 2021. We discuss how to plan ahead for your pet in the case of a disaster with the Pet Help and Rescue app (PHAR.ORG). Dave also tells us about the Animal Help Now app and the many species of wildlife this device is helping worldwide. Join Catherine Greenleaf, a certified wildlife rehabilitator with 25 years of experience rescuing and rehabilitating injured wildlife, for twice-monthly discussions about restoring native habitat and helping the birds in your backyard. Send your questions about birds and native gardening to birdhuggerpodcast@gmail.com. (PG-13) St. Dymphna Press, LLC.

COMMENTAIRE DE L'EVANGILE DU JOUR Saint Matthieu 1, 1-17Généalogie de Jésus, Christ, fils de David, fils d'Abraham. Abraham engendra Isaac, Isaac engendra Jacob, Jacob engendra Juda et ses frères, Juda, de son union avec Thamar, engendra Pharès et Zara, Pharès engendra Esrom, Esrom engendra Aram, Aram engendra Aminadab, Aminadab engendra Naassone, Naassone engendra Salmone, Salmone, de son union avec Rahab, engendra Booz, Booz, de son union avec Ruth, engendra Jobed, Jobed engendra Jessé, Jessé engendra le roi David. David, de son union avec la femme d'Ourias, engendra Salomon, Salomon engendra Roboam, Roboam engendra Abia, Abia engendra Asa, Asa engendra Josaphat, Josaphat engendra Joram, Joram engendra Ozias, Ozias engendra Joatham, Joatham engendra Acaz, Acaz engendra Ézékias, Ézékias engendra Manassé, Manassé engendra Amone, Amone engendra Josias, Josias engendra Jékonias et ses frères à l'époque de l'exil à Babylone. Après l'exil à Babylone, Jékonias engendra Salathiel, Salathiel engendra Zorobabel, Zorobabel engendra Abioud, Abioud engendra Éliakim, Éliakim engendra Azor, Azor engendra Sadok, Sadok engendra Akim, Akim engendra Élioud, Élioud engendra Éléazar, Éléazar engendra Mattane, Mattane engendra Jacob, Jacob engendra Joseph, l'époux de Marie, de laquelle fut engendré Jésus, que l'on appelle Christ. Le nombre total des générations est donc : depuis Abraham jusqu'à David, quatorze générations ; depuis David jusqu'à l'exil à Babylone, quatorze générations ; depuis l'exil à Babylone jusqu'au Christ, quatorze générations.

Voici l'Évangile du mercredi 17 décembre 2025 :« Jésus, fils de David, fils d'Abraham » (Mt 1, 1-17)Généalogie de Jésus, Christ, fils de David, fils d'Abraham. Abraham engendra Isaac, Isaac engendra Jacob, Jacob engendra Juda et ses frères, Juda, de son union avec Thamar, engendra Pharès et Zara, Pharès engendra Esrom, Esrom engendra Aram, Aram engendra Aminadab, Aminadab engendra Naassone, Naassone engendra Salmone, Salmone, de son union avec Rahab, engendra Booz, Booz, de son union avec Ruth, engendra Jobed, Jobed engendra Jessé, Jessé engendra le roi David. David, de son union avec la femme d'Ourias, engendra Salomon, Salomon engendra Roboam, Roboam engendra Abia, Abia engendra Asa, Asa engendra Josaphat, Josaphat engendra Joram, Joram engendra Ozias, Ozias engendra Joatham, Joatham engendra Acaz, Acaz engendra Ézékias, Ézékias engendra Manassé, Manassé engendra Amone, Amone engendra Josias, Josias engendra Jékonias et ses frères à l'époque de l'exil à Babylone. Après l'exil à Babylone, Jékonias engendra Salathiel, Salathiel engendra Zorobabel, Zorobabel engendra Abioud, Abioud engendra Éliakim, Éliakim engendra Azor, Azor engendra Sadok, Sadok engendra Akim, Akim engendra Élioud, Élioud engendra Éléazar, Éléazar engendra Mattane, Mattane engendra Jacob, Jacob engendra Joseph, l'époux de Marie, de laquelle fut engendré Jésus, que l'on appelle Christ. Le nombre total des générations est donc : depuis Abraham jusqu'à David, quatorze générations ; depuis David jusqu'à l'exil à Babylone, quatorze générations ; depuis l'exil à Babylone jusqu'au Christ, quatorze générations. Cet enregistrement est proposé bénévolement pour répandre la Parole de Dieu

Ceolchoirm an Pharóiste 2025 ar siúl ar an gCéadaoin nuair a bheidh ceol, amhráin, filíocht agus rince ar an stáite i Halla na Feothanaí.

Thug coiste atá bunaithe i bParóiste Ghaoth Dobhair eolas do Choiste Cheantar Bardais na nGleanntach inné, ar phlean comhtháite atá idir lámha acu don Pharóiste. I measc na n-ábhar a mbeidh siad ag díriú air sa phlean, tá an teanga agus cultúr, An Óige, Seirbhisí agus Infrastruchtúr chomh maith le cúrsaí fiontair.

Ar an gclár seo , labhraíomar le Donna Ní Ghallchobhair ó Lárchomhairle Pharóiste Ghleann Cholm Cille ag labhairt linn faoi thogra muintir na háite chun stádas ‘Pobal Spéire Dorcha' a bhaint amach.

 Trump dropped new tariff rates on imports from most U.S. trade partners to 10% for 90 days to allow trade negotiations with those countries, while raising the tariffs imposed on imports from China to 125% “effective immediately”.The EGP dipped against the USD during trading yesterday, setting a new post-float low as the greenback changed hands for EGP 51.72-51.75.The Sovereign Fund of Egypt (SFE) will begin restructuring five military-owned companies ahead of their planned listing. The firms are filling station operator Wataneya, bottled water company Safi, food manufacturer Silo Foods, fuel retailer Chill Out, and the National Roads Company. The offerings will take place between this year and 2026.Egypt is planning on issuing USD2 bn in sukuk in 2025 through multiple offerings.Some 29 French companies discussed plans to invest in the local manufacturing and transport sectors during a meeting with Industry and Transport Minister.Egypt is preparing to receive a Moroccan government delegation in the coming weeks to continue talks on resolving a trade imbalance between the two countries.Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly revealed that Egypt has begun taking preemptive measures to address the global trade war, including hedging the purchase of some strategic commodities, most notably wheat. The government has decided not to renew oil price hedging contracts, which expired at the end of last March and covered 35% of the contracts, in light of the sharp decline in oil prices below USD60 per barrel. Egypt's trade deficit declined by 0.58% YoY in January, recording USD3.42 billion, compared to USD3.44 billion in January 2024.Prime Minister Madbouly set the date for offering state-owned assets in downtown Cairo next June.Two new projects with investments estimated at approximately USD58 million within the scope of the Chinese-owned "TEDA-Egypt" industrial zone in the Suez Canal Economic Zone were founded yesterday, in the home appliances and food industries' sectors.QNBE (FV: EGP70.00, OW) recorded healthy results where 1Q25 net profit post-minority interest recorded EGP7,186 million (+14% q/q, +2% y/y). The stock is currently trading at 2025 multiples of P/B of 0.6x and P/E of 2.4x.Banque du Caire proposed capital increase received the approval of the EGX's listing committee. The bank will increase its issued and paid-in capital by EGP1.5 bn to EGP20.5 bn through issuing 750 mn new shares with a nominal value of EGP2 per share.PHDC (FV: EGP8.97, OW) Board approved a EGP1.3 billion loan for its subsidiary to finance the construction of 200 hotel rooms in Hacienda White on the North Coast. In addition, the EGM approved a EGP40.0 million capital decrease through retiring treasury shares.EKHO will pay out cash dividend of USD0.035 per share on its 2024 earnings after its general assembly approved the move. The assembly also approved the distribution of USD14.1 mn in bonus shares.PHAR stated in an EGX release that the record date for its 2024 dividend of EGP3.0/share is 17th of April, 2025. It added that the dividend will be distributed on two installments, the first one is EGP1.5/share with a distribution date of 24th of April, 2025 and the second one is EGP1.5/share with a distribution date of 15th of September, 2025. 

Egypt will continue to rely on a flexible exchange rate regime as a first line of defense against global shocks, central bank Deputy Governor Ramy Aboul Naga said. Aboul Naga signaled that the central bank will cut interest rates when it's convinced inflation won't pick up again.The EGP continued to weaken against the USD in trading yesterday, slipping to fresh lows and ending the day at a selling price of around EGP 51.44-51.47 at public and private banks, marking the second consecutive day of an exodus of foreign investors from the local debt market.Egypt and France inked a strategic partnership agreement that will focus on areas including railway industry localization, technical and vocational training, AI, cybersecurity, and green hydrogen, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said in a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron.Thailand's Hi-Tech Apparel began construction on its USD 20 mn sportswear factory in the Qantara West Industrial Zone. The factory will have an annual production capacity of 6 million garments, which will be exported to markets including those in the Americas and Europe. It is expected to kick off production early next year.Energy giant Chevron will start surveying operations for the east Mediterranean seabed the upcoming summer, in preparation for the gas pipeline connecting the two countries, according to a statement from the Cypriot government.Net foreign reserves rose to USD 47.8 bn at the end of March 2025, marking a USD 363 mn increase from February, according to data from the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE).Egypt's population growth dropped to historic low in 1Q 2025, coming in at 1.3%, down from 1.4% during the same period last year and 1.6% for the quarter in 2023, according to a statement from the Health Ministry.Egypt signed nine financing agreements with the French Development Agency (AFD), totaling EUR262.3 million, as loans and grants, according to the Middle East News Agency.Hossam Heiba, Chair of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, said that ambitious targets have been set for the coming years, including attracting USD60 billion in foreign direct investment, raising the value of exports to USD145 billion, and working to achieve a private sector contribution of up to 65% of total investments by 2030.Foreign investors' net sales of treasuries in the secondary market amounted to approximately EGP26.34 billion, equivalent to c.USD511 million, since the beginning of this week, according to data from the Egyptian Stock Exchange.Egypt has reached an agreement with Germany to lease the gasification vessel "Energius Power" to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments for a period of five years, at USD80 million annually. The vessel's capacity is 500 million cubic feet of gas per day, and it is expected to arrive at the Sokhna port by next June.Al Arabiya revealed new details about Egypt's negotiations with foreign oil companies regarding the proposed increase in the purchase price of natural gas. A government official explained that the purchase price will rise from approximately USD2.7 per million British thermal units to more than USD4, and more than USD8 in deep offshore concession areas.EFID's general assembly approved distributing cash dividends of EGP1.14/share for FY24, to be distributed on two equal installments. This implies a payout ratio of 49% and dividend yield of 4.2%PHAR stated in an EGX release that the subscription coverage of the IPO second stage is 1.28x. The Company added that the allocation for subscribing shareholders in the second phase will be approximately 75.30%. HRHO is currently preparing 7 Gulf IPOs, 2 IPOs in Egypt and around 10 M&A transactions.

In this episode, we dive into the explosive new discovery shaking the foundation of everything we thought we knew about ancient Egypt. Scientists and researchers are now uncovering what appears to be a vast underground city beneath the Giza Plateau—stretching thousands of feet below the surface. Is this the lost civilization long spoken about in myths and legends? Why have these structures remained hidden for so long? And more importantly… who built them? We connect the dots between ancient texts, modern-day tech like ground-penetrating radar, and decades of suppressed research. From the possibility of non-human involvement to the theory that Egypt's pyramids are far older than mainstream history admits—this one's a deep dive into the secrets buried beneath the sands of time.

Ag plé na pleananna atá a ndéanamh do Pharáid Lá Fhéile Pádraig na bliana seo agus an dóigh a dtig le daoine páirt a ghlacadh i gceiliúradh na bliana seo agus labhair sí faoi Éigse Uladh na bliana seo.

هل تعلمون من هو Phar lap فار لاب أو حصان العجائب الأسترالي؟ وما علاقته بكأس ملبورن للخيول؟ وما قصة توزيع رفاته على متاحف مختلفة؟

This is my Summer 2024 update. In this audio newsletter, I update you on my business, my podcast, my family, and what I've been listening to, reading, watching, and playing.     Business update My eBook is done, and I narrated the audiobook version. I'm adding both to my online store this month.  I will offer five other lead magnets this Fall.  Plus, I'm starting an email newsletter.   The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast (my business podcast) Several of my Series will continue throughout the Fall.  Episode 300 should drop in October. Subscribe for all future episodes.     The Perrysburg Podcast (my local podcast) Episode 56 comes out August 16, 2024.  It's about coffee.     Family update Kraig started his last year of high school.  Derrick heads back to college this month.  Nathan is looking forward to several fantasy football drafts.  I've been knocking out projects, traveling, and spending time with family this summer.  I also slept in a few times, went swimming, and ate ice cream.     What have I been listening to, reading, watching, and playing?   This is my favorite part.  I talked about Sia, audiobooks, podcasts I, and what Kraig and I are reading.  Although I watched some of the Olympics, I only talked about TV Series we have watched this summer.  We didn't play many board games this summer.   Thank you for listening to episode 291 of The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast!   To read the FULL show notes, visit https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com/podcast.  Select episode 291.   Subscribe to or follow The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast to get each new episode delivered to your podcast player and YouTube every time a new one comes out!     Apple Podcasts   https://apple.co/42yqXOG  Spotify  https://spoti.fi/3qAk3uY  Amazon/Audible  https://adbl.co/43tM45P YouTube https://bit.ly/43Rnrjt   Links The University of Toledo College of Pharmacy https://www.utoledo.edu/pharmacy/  The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 271 about My 2024 Vision Board The Collective RX Podcast with Dr. Julie Doan (Apple Podcasts Link) TV Series Mentioned: Survivor, The Amazing Race, Young Sheldon, and Modern Family First Solar Golden Dog Farm (Vermont) https://goldendogfarm.com/products/golden-retriever-experience  Publishing in Doses https://www.publishingindoses.com/ I'm teaching a Podcasting 101 Class at The 577 Foundation Sept 12, 2024   The Perrysburg Podcast (my other podcast) Coffee Quest 419 https://visittoledo.org/coffee-quest-419/  The School of Podcasting with host Dave Jackson NPR Up First Podcast (Apple Podcasts Link)  I Guess I'm a Dad Now by Cory Jenks (audiobook) Day Trading Attention by Gary V (amazon.com link)  The Blood Sugar Solution by Mark Hyman MD Biker Tales by Michael E. Murray If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on my Face?  My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda Ticket to Ride board game (The Swiss map is my favorite!) ❤️   Previous Updates Episode 279 Spring 2024 Update Episode 264 Winter 2024 Update  Episode 252 Fall 2023 Update Episode 238 Summer 2023 Update Episode 217 Spring 2023 Update Episode 200 Winter 2023 Update Episode 186 Fall 2022 Update   Kim's websites and social media links: ✅Business website https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com ✅The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com/podcast ✅Pronounce Drug Names Like a Pro © Online Course https://www.kimnewlove.com  ✅A Behind-the-scenes look at The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast © Online Course https://www.kimnewlove.com  ✅LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimnewlove ✅Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kim.newlove.96 ✅Twitter https://twitter.com/KimNewloveVO ✅Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kimnewlovevo/ ✅YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA3UyhNBi9CCqIMP8t1wRZQ ✅ACX (Audiobook Narrator Profile) https://www.acx.com/narrator?p=A10FSORRTANJ4Z ✅Start a podcast with the same coach who helped me get started (Dave Jackson from The School of Podcasting)! **Affiliate Link - NEW 9-8-23**      Thank you for listening to episode 291 of The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast.  If you know someone who would like this episode, please share it with them!

Beidh Coirmcheoil ar bun i Halla na Feothanaí tráthnóna Déardaoín ar mhaithe leis an bParóiste.

Mac Dara Mac Donncha; Droch scéal ó na Déise. Tommy Ó Deargáin;Buaiteoir ag Fleadh Cheoil na h-Éireann.Dáithí Ó Sé;Féile Rós Thráilí. Galf i nDún Séann le 100 bliain-Tuairisc ó Joe Ó Muircheartaigh. An t-athair Eoghan Ó Cadhla;Coirmcheoil an Pharóiste. Sibéal Ní Sheaghdha agus Éimhín Dalby;Aistear na nGael.

In this episode, Dr. Charles Burger, the medical director of the Pulmonary Vascular Center at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, discusses the importance of patient registries, specifically the Pulmonary Hypertension Association's PHA Registry (PHAR) for pulmonary hypertension. This registry collects clinical information and surveys from patients to understand their characteristics, treatment options, and outcomes. The PHAR registry also provides opportunities for research on topics like social determinants of health and newly diagnosed patients. @CharlesBurgerMD @MayoClinic @PHAssociation Learn more about pulmonary hypertension trials at www.phaware.global/clinicaltrials. Follow us on social @phaware Engage for a cure: www.phaware.global/donate #phaware Share your story: info@phaware.com #phawareMD 

Today on the radio show 1 - Smoko chat. Cocaine sharks. 4 - Why do dogs sniff other dogs butts? 8:27 - Gandhi Quotes. 11:45 - Deep dive on Phar lap.  15:45 - Bungy jump chat. 21 - When did you dodge your final destination? 24 - A proposal went wrong in MMA octagon at live event. 28 - Westie Lee's awkward chat at his daughter's daycare. 32:52 - Dog farts in sleep apnea machine. 38 - Who wants to be on the radio? 41:56 - Random advice that still holds weight. 44:26 - What's your seagull number? 48:52 - Late mail. 51:44 - Last drinks. Get in touch with us: https://linktr.ee/therockdriveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the JHLT Digital Media Editors explore two studies from the June issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Digital Media Editor Van-Khue Ton, MD, a transplant cardiologist from Massachusetts General Hospital, hosts this episode.   First, Dr. Ton and Digital Media Editor Marty Tam, MD, interview their first guests, first author Matthew Carey, MD, MBA, and senior author Justin Fried, MD, both of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, on their study “Aortic Root Thrombosis in patients with HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device support.”   This retrospective study of all patients receiving a HeartMate 3 LVAD at a single center between November 2014 and August 2020. The study evaluated findings related to patients with aortic root thrombosis, classified as having at least 1 echocardiogram or contrast-enhanced CT scan with thrombus. In the population of 197 patients, 19 had aortic root thrombus, which was ultimately associated with an increased risk of developing significant aortic regurgitation during the study period.   Drs. Carey and Fried discuss whether aortic valve opening is associated with increased risk of aortic root thrombus, how to balance the bleeding-thrombosis scale in patients, and how the study fits in the context of prior generations of LVAD.   Next, Dr. Ton joins and Digital Media Editor Erika Lease, MD, FCCP, to interview, Jacqueline DesJardin, MD, a Fellow in the department of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. DesJardin is first author on the study “Investigating the “sex paradox” in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Results from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry (PHAR).”   PHAR is a multicenter US-based registry of patients with PAH, and this study analyzed 1,891 patients from the registry, 1,425 (75%) of whom were female. At baseline, compared to men, women had worse functional status and worse hemodynamics. Women were more likely to be on triple therapy or parenteral prostacyclin therapies at baseline. Interestingly, women had better survival than men, even after adjusting for numerous variables.   In the discussion, Dr. DesJardin explains what collider stratification bias is, and how it may illuminate the complex epidemiological system that creates this disparity. She shares the three potential causal models posed in the study, and considers how the study might be followed up.   Follow along at www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt.   Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.    

Rav Shlomo Kluger pointed out something amazing which took place during Yetziat Mitzrayim . When Moshe Rabbeinu came to warn Phar aoh about Makat Arbeh , Pharaoh was willing to let the adult Jews go. He only refused to let their children go. After Makat Choshech , Phar aoh called to Moshe and said he would let the adults and children go. He only refused to let them take their animals with them. Which means that the entire Makat Bechorot , the final makah , was only necessary for the animals of the Jewish people to be able to leave. Regarding Makat Bechorot , it says that Hashem Himself came down into Mitzrayim . אני ולא מלאך. אני ולא שליח... . And He was the One who hardened Pharaoh's heart to refuse to let the animals go in the first place. Why would Hashem go to all these lengths, to first hold Pharaoh back from letting the animals go, and then personally coming to rescue them with Makat Bechorot ? The Rabbi answered, Hashem knew in the future, when the time would come for Mashiach to arrive, the Yetzer Hara was going to try and convince that generation that they are unworthy of Mashiach , so that they don't hope for him to come. The Yetzer Hara would say to them, “Your generation is not nearly as great as the previous generations, and all the more so not as great as the generation that left Mitzrayim . Maybe they were worthy of Hashem's miracles, but you definitely are not.” To fight this Yetzer Hara , Hashem prepared the greatest yeshua . He made all the miracles of Makat Bechorot , just to redeem the animals, so that the final generation can say, if Hashem was willing to go into the tuma of Mitzrayim just for the animals, and do all those wonders and miracles, how much more so will He be willing to do them for us. Furthermore, the final generation may not be as great as the previous generations, but the deeds they do, and efforts they make amidst the tests and impurities of the world that surrounds them, makes their efforts so much more valuable and beloved to Hashem. One deed done with self-sacrifice, during such a difficult time to accomplish it, is inestimable. At times, Hashem shows us how much He appreciates those efforts. I read a story that was told by a mashgiach , who was once called to verify a certain kashrut issue regarding wine that was produced in Russia. He flew there with his assistant, and during that winter month that they were called, it was nearly 30 degrees below zero. They rented a fairly new car, and had to drive seven hours to reach their destination. After traveling for about two hours, the engine suddenly stopped running. They figured out that the intense cold outside froze the gas. They decided to dress warmly and find help by foot. They found a convenience store and asked the old lady behind the counter for help. She told them she would get them a car, and within ten minutes a big truck came along, and the driver appeared to be a gentile. His eyes were red from drinking vodka. There was only room for one passenger, and so the mashgiach went. He was afraid to listen to anything this driver would want to listen to, and so he put on his own Hebrew music. Amazingly, the driver heard the words and said he recognized the language. The mashgiach was flabbergasted. He asked the driver how he knew the language. The driver replied that his elderly mother spoke to him in Hebrew. The mashgiach asked if he could meet her, and being that she was in the neighborhood, the driver took him there. The woman told the mashgiach she was a Holocaust survivor and managed to escape with her son, who was then a baby. Her husband and daughter did not survive. The mashgiach asked her why she never remarried. The old woman said, “Because there are no Jews here and I would only marry a Jew.” The mashgiach was amazed at her raising her child alone in a foreign country, coping by herself for decades. The mashgiach then connected her son with a rabbi from a neighboring community, who eventually brought him close to Torah and mitzvot. By the time his mother passed away, her son was fully religious. He gave her a Jewish burial and, at the funeral, stood by her grave with a minyan and said, יתגדל ויתקדש שמיה רבה Look what Hashem did for this woman who sacrificed so much to avoid marrying a non-Jew. He brought a mashgiach from across the world and stopped his car in the neighborhood that she lived in so that he would get her son to be religious and raise her neshama in Gan Eden . Every deed we do is precious and Hashem will most definitely perform great miracles for the final generation that will even outshine the ones He did in Mitzrayim. And b'ezrat Hashem, we hope that day will come very soon.

Bhí cruinniú poiblí sa Chrannóg i nGaoth Dobhair aréir mar chuid dona hiarrachtaí atá ar bun Plean Comhtháite a chur ar bun do pharóiste Ghaoth Dobhair. Lorgaíodh smaointí agus tuairimí an phobail maidir le forbairt eacnamaíoch, shóisialta, agus chultúrtha an cheantair ag an chruinniú aréir.

Bhí ana bhailiú i mBaile Bhúirne an deireadh seachtaine seo agus comóradh á dhéanamh ar Naomh Gobnait Naomh Pátrún an Pharóiste.

Craoladh beo ó Thig Kruger i nDún Chaoín. Dé Domhnaigh Lá le Gobnait Naomh Pátrún an Pharóiste seo agus tá go leor imeachtaí beartaithe acu ina h-onóir.

There are many kinds of medical professionals who are legally prevented from delivering care for which they are trained. Jeff Singer describes how pharmacists could be allowed to step up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pet evacuation and disaster relief are topics that are near and dear to my heart.  The new Pet Help and Rescue App (PHaR) is an answer to many of our prayers.  It is going to change the face of planning for animals in disasters, something that is often forgotten when these things happen. App co-founder Dave Crawford lived through the Marshall Wildfire in 2021, but his home and an estimated 1,000 neighboring pets did not.  He went door to door looking for animals and was able to save one dog, Chief.  Following the fire, Dave joined fellow animal lovers in coming up with a plan to save animals in future disasters.  Through generous funding and many many hours of hard work, they dreamed up this new neighborhood planning app for pet evacuation and disaster relief. SHOW NOTES: https://ForAnimalsForEarth.com/show/77 PET HELP & RESCUE APP: https://www.PHaR.org/ EPISODE 76 WITH DAVE: ⁠https://ForAnimalsForEarth.com/show/76 CONTACT BRANDY: hello@ForAnimalsForEarth.com

Tá Matt Mac Carthaigh a déanamh cúrsa tréadach fé láthair ionnas go mbeidh sé ábalta bheith cabhrú le h-obair an Pharóiste. Beifear a braith air dhaoine dá leithéidí ins na blianta beaga seo romhain de réir mar ata laghdú teacht air líon na sagart.

Rabbenu Yona writes that the tenth test of Avraham is in this week's parasha Chayeh Sarah . Avraham was promised that he would be given the Land of Israel and then, when all he needed was just a burial plot for his wife, he couldn't find one, until he had to pay an exorbitant amount of money for it. Avraham acted as the prince of Hashem that he was known to be and paid all of the money with ease. He did not question Hashem and thus, once again, passed his test. It is the way of great people to be happy to show their love of Hashem and serve Him, in the face of potential questions. In general, there are different attitudes in emunah that people have when confronted with challenge. One attitude is to complain and ask Hashem why it is so hard and why everyone else seems to always get what they want and he doesn't. A second attitude is to bear the difficulty and understand that he is supposed to accept it with emunah. The person works on himself until he is able to continue on without complaint. A third attitude is to be excited that he has an opportunity to show Hashem how much he believes in Him and how much he loves Him. This person actually enjoys serving Hashem with difficulty because of his great love for Him. When Avraham Avinu was in pain from his brit milah but was still yearning for guests, Hashem made the angels that were coming appear to be people. Rav Shmuel Birnbaum asked why didn't Hashem just cool down the heat, which would have enabled regular people to start going out again [since Hashem earlier raised the heat to prevent people from going out and coming to Avraham's tent in order to allow Avraham to rest after his brit milah ]. Furthermore, Avraham was running to take care of his guests. It would have made it much easier for him if the temperature would have been cooler. The Rabbi answered, Hashem knew how much Avraham loved serving Him with chesed and the harder the challenge would be, the happier Avraham would be to do it. Like if a man loves hiking and he would be told there is a very difficult hike on a mountaintop, he would be so excited to go do it. When Yosef HaTzaddik was thrown into jail after overcoming one of the most difficult nisyonot in history, he didn't need to hold himself back from complaining, he didn't think, “Is this fair? I served Hashem the greatest way possible and now this happens to me?” He was happy to show even more love to Hashem by serving Him under duress, specifically after he did such a heroic act. When he asked the Sar HaMashkim and Sar HaOfim why they were sad one day, it's because everyone in the jail was always happy because of Yosef's influence on them, who was in a constant state of joy all the time. The moment he came out of prison after twelve years, Phar aoh immediately saw a spirit of G-d in him. Someone in jail for twelve years should have been in a state of depression. But not Yosef. The goal in emunah is to reach a level where we don't have to fight with ourselves to be able to serve Hashem when it is hard, but rather to be excited to do it. During the First World War, the Chofetz Chaim once spent Shabbat in a field in the middle of nowhere in order not to violate Shabbat. He said later how happy he was that entire Shabbat to be able to keep it in such a difficult circumstance. Our greats looked at challenges as opportunities to serve Hashem with true love. That is the highest level. And as we mentioned previously, the more times a person does serve Hashem when it is hard, the more he'll come to love Him and the more he loves Him, the easier it will be to serve Him during those challenging situations. Shabbat Shalom

Tá bratacha ar foluain ar fuaid Pharóiste Chíll na Martra agus a bhfoireann peile tabhairt fé chluiche ceannais idirmheánach an chontae de Domhnaigh.

Beidh Malachaí agus buion lúthchleasaithe ó Dhún Chaoin a rith leath mharatón an Daingin amáireach agus iad a bailiú airgid ar le Páirc Spraoí an Pharóiste.

Beidh Coirmcheoil an Pharóiste ar bun i Halla na Feothanaí istoiche amáireach. Iarracht atá anseo airgead a bhailiú chun obair dheisiúcháin a dhéanamh air shéipéil an pharóiste.

Dara Ó Cinnéide; Cluiche ceannais peile na mban. Catherine Foley;Saothar nua filíochta. An t-athair Eoghan Ó Cadhla;Coirmcheoil an Pharóiste.Johnny Mac Uidhir;Cupaí páipéir. Eddie Hutch; Regatta an Daingin

Episode 243: I will discuss Phar-Mor Drug Stores in The Chicagoland area and my tribute to actor Paul Reubens a.k.a Pee Wee Herman. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pete-kastanes/message

Episode 243: I will discuss Phar-Mor Drug Stores in The Chicagoland area and my tribute to actor Paul Reubens a.k.a Pee Wee Herman. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pete-kastanes/message

Deontas 171,000 euro fachta ag Iontaobhas Bhréanainn le athchóiriú a dhéanamh ar Halla na Measarachta sa Daingean. Sagart Paróiste an Daingin thar a bheith gnóthach le na Pharóiste fhéin chomh maith le h-Abha na Scail, An Com agus Ínse chomh maith.

Deir an t-athair Eoghan Ó Cadhla go ndein an Eaglais botún nuair a dúnadh na séipéil le linn na Paindéime.

An t-athair Eoghan Ó Cadhla;Aifrinntí speisialta sa Pharóiste.Micheál Ó Ceallaigh;An Bhriotáin. Nóra Maria Ní Mhurchú; Spaisteoireacht fén aer i bhforbairt an linbh. Dónal Ó Gréacháin;Bád chlós an Daingin

This week we talk about review scores, more movie nonsense and a special Seger's Storytime Corner!If you enjoy the episode, click the subscribe button and follow the link tree below to follow us on all our socials!https://linktr.ee/forthegeeksIntro song credit: Phar.MC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bhí an fiantas, an scléip is an bhitsíocht ag baint le Séamus Ó Beaglaioch a deir an Dr. Pádraig Ó hÉalaí. Thug sé leis buanna dearfacha a mhuintire. Laoch ab ea é i bParóiste Múrach.

Dr. Pádraig Ó hÉalaí;Séamus Ó Beaglaoich laoch Pharóiste Múrach.Dr. Caoimhín Ó Flannúra;Cuótaí éisc. Darach Ó Murchú; Garraíodóireacht. Paddy Ó Fiannachta;Fonn air 40% do thréadlianna a ngnónna dhíol.

Lá le Caitlín i bParóiste Fionntrá. Craoladh beo ó Ionad Pobail Chaitlín Naofa. Muintir an Pharóiste tagtha le chéile do dhinnéar na Nollag.

Nochtfar dealbh don Athair Peadar Ó Laoghaire i gCaisleán Uí Liatháin i gCorcaigh de Domhnaigh. Thug an t-athair Peadar breis is deich mbliana fichead ina shagart sa Pharóiste.

Get ready to hear about the most scandalous retail pharmacy chain of all time that was Phar-Mor. We hear about companies and financial misconduct frequently–stories of cooked books and misappropriated funds are hardly rare, but often leave us questioning–how do companies manage to pull these off, and more importantly how do they get past trained professionals, auditors and investors? In this episode, our featured guest Professor Kelly Richmond Pope of DePaul University, a forensic accounting expert with a specialty in corporate crime, will explain how an accident exposed a $1 billion fraud and took down one of the nation's largest retail chains. Listen now to Episode 48 on The Great Fail. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Jerry for today's study, the gospel of Matthew, chapter 15. Every day Jerry walks us through a chapter of the New Testament, and gives us some helpful insights and applications along the way. Grab your Bible and get ready to take your daily Bible reading to another level with The New Testament Daily with Jerry Dirmann. Find out more about the ministry of Solid Lives at https://www.solidlives.com/Support the ministry of Solid Lives at https://solidlives.com/give/

An scéal is deireanaí ón Úcráin, Ceannairí G7 ag caint le Uachtarán na hÚcráine faoi ola na Rúise agus an Pharáid mhíleata i Moscó inniu.

Anne Ghesquière reçoit dans Métamorphose "Coaching Cohérence Cardiaque", Stéphanie Noncent, formatrice, conférencière en neurosciences appliquées et experte du sujet, auteure d'un livre paru chez Eyrolles “Défi 30 jours de cohérence cardiaque”. La cohérence cardiaque permet de réguler et de moduler le rythme de notre cœur afin de mieux gérer notre stress et d'atteindre un état interne optimal, aussi bien au niveau physiologique qu'émotionnel. Épisode #5 : Renforcer sa confiance en soiNous avons tous au quotidien besoin de développer notre confiance en nous et en les autres. En état de cohérence cardiaque, nous atteignons un alignement parfait entre le cœur, le cerveau et le corps. Et quoi de mieux que d'être parfaitement alignés pour développer sa confiance en soi et en les autres ? Stéphanie, à travers cette 5e séance de cohérence cardiaque nous aide à développer cet état de confiance. Les fréquences sonores réalisées par Anthony Doux associées aux suggestions hypnotiques de Valérie Pharès vont venir renforcer davantage notre état de confiance.Petite variante pour cette séance du jour : les suggestions hypnotiques ont été adaptées selon si vous êtes une femme ou un homme. Ainsi, deux séances quasi identiques vous sont proposées, la première destinée aux femmes et la seconde juste après, destinée aux hommes.Belle séance à tous !"Avec la cohérence cardiaque nous développons autant nos capacités d'action que nos capacités de ressource puisque nous allons muscler à la fois le système nerveux sympathique et le système nerveux parasympathique."Retrouvez le livre de Stéphanie Noncent aux Editions Eyrolles : Défi 30 jours de Cohérence Cardiaque « 3 FOIS 5 MINUTES PAR JOUR Pour découvrir tous les incroyables trésors de votre cœur et rééquilibrer votre santé globale vers un mieux-être durable », son site : https://www.opteamind.com et ses précédents podcasts dans Métamorphose :#10 Méditation - Stéphanie Noncent : Cohérence cardiaque et paix intérieure #222 Stéphanie Noncent : Défi cohérence cardiaque !Rappelons que 50% de tes droits d'auteurs sont reversés à Rêves, l'association qui réalise les rêves des enfants très gravement malades.Soutenez notre podcast en rejoignant dès maintenant la Tribu Métamorphose : http://www.patreon.com/metamorphoseRetrouvez Métamorphose, le podcast qui éveille la conscience sur Apple Podcast / Google Podcasts /Spotify/ Deezer /YouTube / SoundCloud/ CastBox/ TuneIn.Suivez l'actualité des épisodes Métamorphose Podcast sur Instagram, découvrez l'invité de la semaine et gagnez des surprises ;-)https://www.instagram.com/metamorphosepodcast/Bonne écoutePhoto DR Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Anne Ghesquière reçoit dans Métamorphose "Coaching Cohérence Cardiaque", Stéphanie Noncent, formatrice, conférencière en neurosciences appliquées et experte du sujet, auteure d'un livre paru chez Eyrolles “Défi 30 jours de cohérence cardiaque”. La cohérence cardiaque permet de réguler et de moduler le rythme de notre cœur afin de mieux gérer notre stress et d'atteindre un état interne optimal, aussi bien au niveau physiologique qu'émotionnel. Épisode #2 : Réguler ses émotionsDans ce deuxième épisode, Stéphanie nous propose d'apprendre à réguler nos émotions afin d'atteindre, à tout moment, un état de détente et de calme intérieur. La cohérence du cœur associée à des fréquences sonores spécifiques, au bien-être, ainsi que des suggestions hypnotiques confèrent à cette séance une efficacité accrue, afin de ressentir encore plus en profondeur un sentiment de calme et de paix intérieur. Cette séance a été réalisée en collaboration avec Anthony Doux et Valérie Pharès. Beau voyage au centre de votre cœur !"Lorsque nous sommes en cohérence cardiaque, nous équilibrons notre système nerveux autonome"Retrouvez le livre de Stéphanie Noncent aux Editions Eyrolles : Défi 30 jours de Cohérence Cardiaque « 3 FOIS 5 MINUTES PAR JOUR Pour découvrir tous les incroyables trésors de votre cœur et rééquilibrer votre santé globale vers un mieux-être durable », son site : https://www.opteamind.com et ses précédents podcasts dans Métamorphose :#10 Méditation - Stéphanie Noncent : Cohérence cardiaque et paix intérieure #222 Stéphanie Noncent : Défi cohérence cardiaque !Rappelons que 50% de tes droits d'auteurs sont reversés à Rêves, l'association qui réalise les rêves des enfants très gravement malades.Soutenez notre podcast en rejoignant dès maintenant la Tribu Métamorphose : http://www.patreon.com/metamorphoseRetrouvez Métamorphose, le podcast qui éveille la conscience sur Apple Podcast / Google Podcasts /Spotify/ Deezer /YouTube / SoundCloud/ CastBox/ TuneIn.Suivez l'actualité des épisodes Métamorphose Podcast sur Instagram, découvrez l'invité de la semaine et gagnez des surprises ;-)https://www.instagram.com/metamorphosepodcast/Bonne écoutePhoto DR Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.