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“I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.”Talking About Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood with our guest, filmmaker Uwe BollThere are many films filmmaker Uwe Boll could've picked to discuss with us on the show, but the most recent film that's affected him as much as some of his all-time favorites is Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. Before we dig into the film, we talk a bit about Boll's career. Sure, he's made some cinematic video game adaptations that weren't received well by critics, but he's also made some films that satirize modern society, whether in a comedic vein like Postal or a more serious tone like his Rampage films. There's a change in society as to how people react to their buttons being pushed. That's certainly reflected in films of the time. Who knows – some of that may come from the rise of the streaming services. Regardless, it all makes for a fascinating discussion.From there, we jump into Anderson's film. Boll has had some fairly unlikeable protagonists in his films, so we use that as a starting point with Daniel Plainview, the greedy, hateful protagonist of this film. Why is he still likable in some capacity? The film explores greed, capitalism, religion, family, and more. Everything stands out with the film as exemplary, from the performances (Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano are in top form) to Johnny Greenwood's score to Robert Elswit's cinematography. We look at the complex story and ponder that the film got made in the first place. A film that doesn't have dialogue until nearly 15 minutes have passed? How did Anderson sneak it past the studio heads? It's a wonderful conversation with an insightful filmmaker. Tune in!Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel!Film SundriesLearn more about supporting The Next Reel's Movies We Like through your own membership with The Next Reel.Uwe Boll RAW podcastVariety: ‘Uwe Boll Returns With New York City Crime Drama ‘First Shift' (EXCLUSIVE)'Watch this on Apple or Amazon, or find other places at JustWatchScript OptionsTheatrical trailerPoster artworkFlickchartLetterboxd(00:00) - Welcome to Movies We Like • There Will Be Blood with Filmmaker Uwe Boll(02:28) - Meet Uwe Boll(13:16) - Dark Protagonists(19:34) - Depicting the Time(20:07) - Paul Dano(20:50) - Killing the Fake Brother(23:14) - Goosebumps(26:43) - Discomfort in Filmmaking(30:10) - Challenging Films(33:12) - Cinematography(34:16) - Why We Want to Make Movies(37:08) - Today's Challenging System(39:42) - PTA's Films and Frequency(41:00) - Nothing Is Automatic(45:44) - About America(46:34) - Movies For Grown Ups(50:14) - Awards(53:37) - First Shift(01:01:33) - Uwe's Podcast and Films(01:04:06) - Wrap Up

Guest: Jason Nathanson on WGA strike/ Producer Mondo's Guac 2nd place // Postal Workers // Postal Crimes/ Taking Callers // Postal Experiences

Postal employees protest what they call a toxic work environment, a group pushes to "Take Back Cinco de Mayo," and a University of Wisconsin partnership converts manure to jet fuel to fight climate change.

Postal employees protest what they call a toxic work environment, a group pushes to "Take Back Cinco de Mayo," and a University of Wisconsin partnership converts manure to jet fuel to fight climate change.

Avren Keating flies from Oakland to scenic Lafayette to record in studio with me, and record a cover of John Postal with guest Dana Williamson. At the top of the show, check out an important announcement about exciting things happening with the pod!!   Episode edited and mixed by Avren Keating!

JAGUAR LAND ROVER ANNOUNCEMENTSJaguarl Landrover announced that henceforth it would be “brand house” JLR. Many words and an abstract teaser image were used to describe Jaguar's future. You can learn more form Autocar here.FORMER FORD BOSS JOINS ASTON MARTINFormer Ford of Europe chairman, Steven Armstrong has joined Aston Martin as part of its latest recovery strategy. Autocar has more here.INEOS TO BUILD SMALL ELECTRIC OFF-ROADERIneos is going to expand its model line beyond the Grenadier with a small, electric off-roader being engineered by Magna and expected in 2026. There's more information here.ASTON MARTIN AND MCLAREN MUST SELL EVSChanges in US Emission rules from 2032 mean that small volume manufacturers will be subject to the same fleet CO2 targets as other manufacturers. Find out more here.EU MOTORIST GIVEN £11,000 ULEZ FINEForeign-registered cars, even if compliant, will be fined on entry to the London ULEZ. Postal delays in sending out penalty notices abroad and then processing by hire and lease firms mean that appeal periods have passed. Find out more about more from The Guardian.DEVON AND CORNWALL POLICE DRONEDevon and Cornwall Police has unveiled it's using a drone to monitor for unsafe driving. More here from the BBC.GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL TO INSTALL 1,000 CHARGING POINTSGloucestershire Council is getting serious about on-street charging with plans to install 1,000 on-street points across the county. Find out more here.

Professor Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments in the case of a postal worker who refused to work on Sundays and his request for a religious accomodation. Professor Harold Krent of the Chicago-Kent College of Law discusses the Supreme Court refusing to shield Halkbank from criminal charges. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our new episode we welcome Vince and Mike from Running with Scissors. Masterminds of the most controversial FPS series ever - Postal! Postal 4 just has been released for the PlayStation 4 and 5, while Postal 2 still has a huge and highly active fan base all around the globe... Enjoy some awesome insights and stories. Interview starts at minute 28:05

This edition features stories on the Air Force adding a new career field to its enlisted corps, the two-week long Falcon Air Meet exercise in Jordan, holiday mailing deadline for overseas bases, RAF Lakenheath welcoming Weisbaden's high school football team from Germany to compete in the Division I playoffs, Air Traffic Controllers practicing emergency evacuation procedures at Davis-Monthan Air Base, Airmen receiving quality training at a lower cost using a C-130 simulator at Moody Air Force Base, and the Afghan Air Force training its first female pilots since the fall of the Taliban. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

AP correspondent Walter Ratliff has this week's Religion Roundup.

Jeremy Dys, Senior Counsel of First Liberty Institute, discussed a case involving a former employee of the United States Postal Service who was not allowed to receive a religious accommodation so that he would not have to work on Sunday. Oral arguments were held before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 19, 2023, The organization's website is firstliberty.org.

On this episode, Lindsay Nicolet talks with Hannah Daniel about the Tennessee governor's Order of Protection proposal. They also discuss several important Supreme Court developments including the religious postal worker case and the abortion pill ContentTennessean: SBC public policy president, a Covenant parent, backs Lee's gun law proposalExplainer: Tennessee governor's Order of Protection proposalGroff v. DeJoy: Religious postal worker caseRundown of oral arguments Abortion pill at the Supreme Court Connect with us on Twitter@ERLC@LeatherwoodTN@LindsNicolet@hannahedaniel SponsorsRacial unity | If we, as Southern Baptists, can be willing to listen and have good conversations about race, we will see fruit that will draw us closer together. That's why we believe that A Conversation with Pastor Jon Nelson will be a helpful resource for you and your congregation. Watch this NEW video at ERLC.com/racialunity and listen as Jon candidly shares his thoughts on how we can meaningfully partner together on this work within our churches and communities. Again that link is ERLC.com/racialunityEmail updates | Now that 2023 is fully underway, we want to make sure you are kept up to date about the important work we are doing on behalf of Southern Baptists. Whether it's our 2023 Public Policy Agenda or another ultrasound machine placement, we want to make sure you know how we are serving our churches and acting as missionaries to the public square. As we move forward in 2023, know that first in our hearts and at the top of our minds are our churches. And we are taking those next steps with a Mark 10:44 mindset: to be a servant of all. The best way to learn more is by joining us at ERLC.com/updates. Signing up for email updates allows you to hear directly from us about our work and ways we are serving you on the issues that matter most to Southern Baptists. You'll learn about our work on your behalf in our nation's capital, about exciting new partnerships with our state conventions and the ways we are working across the convention with our sister entities. Become an email subscriber at ERLC.com/updates.

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund put out its weakest medium-term projection for global economic growth since 1990. This had one listener wondering: How accurate are the IMF's predictions? We'll get into it and answer more of your questions, like why the U.S. Postal Service still delivers six days a week and what is the carbon footprint of space travel. Plus, we'll explain why the Federal Reserve is losing billions every week. Here’s everything we talked about today: “The IMF’s 5-year growth forecast is its weakest since 1990” from Quartz “IMF Forecasts: Process, Quality, and Country Perspectives” from the International Monetary Fund “Economic Forecasting Is Really Difficult. Just Ask the IMF” from Bloomberg “The U.S. Postal Service and Six-Day Delivery: History, Issues, and Current Legislation” from the Congressional Research Service “Six-days-a-week mail delivery saved; Biden signs Postal bill” from AP News “Formerly a cash cow, the Fed is now losing ‘about $2 billion a week’” from Marketplace “What if the Federal Reserve books losses because of its quantitative easing?” from the Brookings Institution “The pollution caused by rocket launches” from the BBC “How the billionaire space race could be one giant leap for pollution” from The Guardian “Fact check: Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard rocket launch didn’t emit carbon” from USA Today “Make Me Smart” has been nominated for a Webby Award! We are honored, but we can't win without your support. You can vote for “Make Me Smart” until Thursday by going to marketplace.org/votemms.

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund put out its weakest medium-term projection for global economic growth since 1990. This had one listener wondering: How accurate are the IMF's predictions? We'll get into it and answer more of your questions, like why the U.S. Postal Service still delivers six days a week and what is the carbon footprint of space travel. Plus, we'll explain why the Federal Reserve is losing billions every week. Here’s everything we talked about today: “The IMF’s 5-year growth forecast is its weakest since 1990” from Quartz “IMF Forecasts: Process, Quality, and Country Perspectives” from the International Monetary Fund “Economic Forecasting Is Really Difficult. Just Ask the IMF” from Bloomberg “The U.S. Postal Service and Six-Day Delivery: History, Issues, and Current Legislation” from the Congressional Research Service “Six-days-a-week mail delivery saved; Biden signs Postal bill” from AP News “Formerly a cash cow, the Fed is now losing ‘about $2 billion a week’” from Marketplace “What if the Federal Reserve books losses because of its quantitative easing?” from the Brookings Institution “The pollution caused by rocket launches” from the BBC “How the billionaire space race could be one giant leap for pollution” from The Guardian “Fact check: Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard rocket launch didn’t emit carbon” from USA Today “Make Me Smart” has been nominated for a Webby Award! We are honored, but we can't win without your support. You can vote for “Make Me Smart” until Thursday by going to marketplace.org/votemms.

Wherein the narrator, bouncing back from a string of bad sales days, has to figure some way around his bloodfeud with a mail carrier. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail ebay: https://www.ebay.com/str/viewfromthebar

Listen to the April edition of The Postal Record. Browse the digital issue here. 

Listen to the March edition of The Postal Record. Browse the digital issue here. 

David Spottiswood, co-founder of Hurricane, and Cyril McGrane, Director International Trade at An Post, discuss An Post's experiences in implementing HS codes for inbound and outbound international parcels. Why data is king in cross-border e-commerce delivery Governments no longer ignore cross-border e-commerce Ireland was an early adopter of cross-border data obligations How An Post approached changes to security and data, while trying to meet delivery service level obligations Working with the regulator, Customs, and global trading partners How C2C transactions differ to B2B or B2C international shipments Why posts have to help customers in lodging international parcels An Post's investment in facilities in Ireland Building infrastructure with An Post's retail post office counters Handling data before the parcel arrives in Ireland Airlines requiring data about shipments before accepting them Building systems to support outbound parcels and inbound international parcels Postal operators don't want parcels to come back! Impact on customer experience ICS2 An Post's international cooperation with other postal operators Non-compliance is no longer an option  

In this episode, we discuss the controversial hypothesis that UFOs don't come from outer space but hail from an alternate dimension. We'll take you on a journey through strange sightings, and unexplained phenomena, and share our take on what could be going on here. Is it aliens or something even weirder?Next, we'll investigate post offices located in bizarre places. From underwater to mountaintops, and more. The most hilarious and absurd locations for post offices worldwide and we'll attempt to explain why on earth they decided to set up shop there.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

During this week's episode of NAPS Chat, NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore joins Bob Levi to discuss the recently concluded NAPS legislative conference in Washington, DC. Chuck and Bob discuss how conference attendees assessed the different elements of the 2023 NAPS Legislative Training Seminar, congressional engagement, and how NAPS fared on Capitol Hill. 

MikeJ and Pedro welcome Alena to the 20th anniversary of POSTAL 2's release PODCAST! Tad from PlaytestTV didn't show up, so we had Bozo the clown on instead! Music by A Fall to Break "Going POSTAL"

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1997's Rare classic, GoldenEye 007. We set the game in its time before getting down to brass tacks, including comparing the experience to the film. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: First full mission (three levels) Issues covered: the license, a bit about the film and the film series, 1997 in games, the flourishing of the first person shooter, late in a console cycle, disparity between PC FPSes and console FPSes, Rare with a lot of games and a lot of further game studios, missing the original controller, remapping shenanigans, threading the needle on a film adaptation, filling in gaps in the license, choosing your exciting set piece, wide level design, the triple cut, Hong Kong cinema, cinematic choices, contrasting with later cinematic games, how many mechanics will you incorporate, chasing this game, choosing different presentation, showing death the character death, an era of accessibility needs recognition, at last listening to our hate mail. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Nintendo, Fatal Frame, PlayStation, Pierce Brosnan, Nintendo 64, Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Alan Cumming, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig, Skyfall, Diablo, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Fallout, Quake, SW: Jedi Knight: DF2, Blood, Outlaws, Turok, Shadow Warrior, Hexen II, Raven Software, 3D Realms, GT Interactive, Duke Nuke'em, Postal, Curse of Monkey Island, Age of Empires, The Last Express, Final Fantasy VII, Colony Wars, Wing Commander: Prophecy, Riven, MYST, XvT, Interstate '76, Mario Kart 64, OddWorld, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Diddy Kong Racing, The Stamp brothers, NES, Slalom, Wizards and Warriors, Battletoads, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark, Microsoft, Viva Pinata, Banjo Kazooie (series), Donkey Kong Country, Silicon Graphics, Timesplitters, Free Radical, John Romero, Majora's Mask, Minish Cap, Metroid Fusion, The Fugitive, Harrison Ford, Mission: Impossible, John Woo, Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face Off, Metal Gear Solid, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Alpha Protocol, Telltale Games, IO Interactive, Machine Games, Colin "The Shots," Devil May Cry, Dark Souls, Celeste, Luke Harris, Tetris 64, Starfighter/JSF, 343 Industries, Kingdom Hearts (series), Republic Commando, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: More GoldenEye 007 Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

I hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend! Lately I've been thinking about this simple equation: Marketing = Experience + Revenue (credit: Drew Brucker) I just love the simplicity of it. Something you can explain to a 7-year-old. I brought back Kyle Lacy (CMO at Jellyfish) to talk about creativity, testing new ideas, brand vs. demand, giving your team the space to be creative, and more. Kyle is also an advisor to startups including Demandwell and Postal.io. Prior, Kyle was the CMO at Lessonly (got acquired by Seismic). Kyle has led teams at Seismic, OpenView, Salesforce, and ExactTarget. Check out our past podcast episodes: Ep. 31 - “Kyle Lacy, CMO at Lessonly, Talks About The Power of Irrational Ideas and Golden Llamas” Ep. 91 - on marketing planning (this is when Kyle was leading marketing at Seismic) Jellyfish has 209 people, Series C funding ($114.5M total) and a quick description: Jellyfish helps engineering leaders translate and maximize the business impact of their teams. In this episode we cover: What does “creative” mean to you; How do you know if an idea is worth testing; Why a great experience is the only thing that makes us relevant as marketers - it's our job; How do you separate brand + demand efforts effectively (HINT: if 75% of the effort goes to Demand, that allows your team to be more creative); How do you handle the creative experience on the Demand side; How do you give your team the space to be creative; What are 1-2 top creative marketing plays you're running at Jellyfish. You can find Kyle on LinkedIn >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylelacy/  Check out Jellyfish >> https://jellyfish.co/ For more content, subscribe to Modern Startup Marketing on Apple or Spotify or wherever you like to listen, and don't forget to leave a review! And whenever you're ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: 1. Startup marketing strategy, execution and advising (25+ happy clients and mentees) >> www.furmanovmarketing.com 2. Sign up to get my monthly newsletter where I'm sharing playbooks and insights and cracking some jokes that will make you smile guaranteed >> https://share.hsforms.com/1cP1V40x7RGes5gHk1XNgNw47lba 3. Sponsor my Top 5% podcast and get startup founders, marketers and VCs hearing about your brand >> https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-furmanov You can also find me hanging out on LinkedIn every single week: www.linkedin.com/in/annafurmanov --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-furmanov/message

r this message is available Introduction James 5 We are in our penultimate study of the book of James. One more to go after this. We end the book of James next week on Easter Sunday. Now if you were with us last time, we looked at the beginning of this concluding paragraph of James. James is concluding his letter with a call for prayer. Why? Because in a letter that is all about giving us evidences of faith, he closes with the greatest evidence. He closes with the slam dunk. What is it? It is prayer. There is no greater evidence. And that's not just homiletical hype. It's just a fact. Suppose a man's boat is sinking at sea. That man needs a power outside of himself, an outside entity like the coast guard to come save him. What would be the evidence of that? He would get on the radio and call for help. That would be the irrefutable evidence of the location of his greatest source of hope. And so James concludes his letter by saying, you want to know how to tell if you have faith in God? You want to know where your true hope lies. Do you trust in self-repair? Do you trust in your ability to bail water faster than it is coming in? Do you trust in your dingy of self-effort? Or do you trust in the life-saving power of the God of the Universe? The evidence that you trust in God will be prayer. Prayer, prayer, prayer. So last week, James said: If you are suffering, here's what I want you to do: pray. If you are rejoicing, here's what I want you to do: pray. If you are physically sick or spiritually weak, here's what I want you to do: pray. And last week we closed with the first half of verse 16. The exhortation was to pray. Now today what James is going to do is inspire us that this is not just a spiritual exercise without a point. There can be tremendous power in prayer. “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” And today we are going to see what it is that makes prayer powerful. Now to instruct us, he gives us an example. Now here's what we are going to do. Let's first just tell tell the story that James is referencing. Then at the very end, we'll re-read James and I think the application will just drop right in place. So the story of Elijah and the 450 prophets of Baal comes from 1 Kings 17-18. A little background. When we open up chapter 17, it's been about one hundred years since the united monarchy. The kingdom is now divided between Israel in the North and Judah in the South. Ahab is King along with his lovely wife, Jezebel. Ahab and Jezebel, together, were on a campaign to try to and make Israel religiously tolerant. They have torn down many of the altars to YHWH. They have replaced them with idols to Baal who was a great rain god, a storm god. And Baal worship and Ashera worship was horribly immoral on so many levels. And of course God is not happy about this. God wants to turn the hearts of his people back to him. So what does God do? Well, God's leading prophet at the time is Elijah. So the Lord sends his prophet Elijah to Ahab and Jezebel and in verse 1 we read, 1 Kings 17 Now why does God cause a drought? Because it's God's way of challenging the slick and shiny new god Baal that had become so popular. Baal is the god of the storm, the god of rain. So really he's saying, “Go ahead and pray for rain. Pray to Baal all you want. Pray it up. We'll see who's the Lord of the storm.” Because god is God, Elijah says, you can pray all day long and it will do ZERO because Baal does not give rain. YHWH does. And YHWH, BECAUSE HE IS REAL, has decreed ZERO rain until I give the word. Now if you know anything about the climate of Israel you know that a drought of that magnitude never happens. Israel is a desert climate and there have always been droughts but it always rains some. I pulled the weather data for Israel for the last hundred years. The least amount of rain they ever received in the last 100 years was 7 inches (by comparison we get about 12 here).So here we are told in the text that they would receive neither dew nor rain unless Elijah spoke the word. That would truly be a miracle. Israel is sitting right off the Mediteranian sea. You have this monster body of water and all that moisture just right there. Your going to get some rain. And yet ZERO. NADA. And they wait. So the rest of chapter 17 is Elijah along with the rest of Israel suffering this out. This where you get to story of Elijah being fed by the ravens and staying with the Widow and raising her son and all that. 1 Kings 18 Three years. This is way serious. So Elijah is sent to Ahab to put an an end to all this. God is going to send rain and demonstrate that he is the God of the storm, not Baal. Now watch how this interaction goes down between Elijah and Ahab. A time is arranged for the two of them to meet and we read in verse 17: Ahab sees Elijah and sticks out his bony finger. You! You troubler of Israel. Elijah says, “Ha you think I'm the problem?!” No sir. You are the problem. You have drug the name of YHWH through the mud. You have scorned his commands. You have worshiped other Gods. And you think I'm the problem? You're abandonment of God has caused this drought, not me. I am just the messenger. I am the Postal worker handing you a letter. Now if you pause for a second, what you have here are two interpretations of the same event. We both agree there is no rain. Why? Ahab's interpretation is, it's because of Elijah. Elijah's interpretation is it's because of Ahab. Whose right? Let's setup a little experiment which both parties agree would be ultimately conclusive. So here's what Elijah suggests. The question that is being asked is this, “Who controls the weather?” That is not a trivia question. They are all suffering. Deeply suffering. Animals are dying. People are dying. Crops are dying. This is not an inconsequential moment. It's not a question of who controls the rain. It's a question of whose God can bring us salvation? Which God is real? Which God has power? Which God cares? Let's setup an experiment to see. Now everyone is here knowing this is a contest. And Elijah confronts them before the contest starts. How long will you go limping between two opinions? Here's what Elijah is saying: There are only two positions, Israel. You can't logically stay neutral. Either the claim of YHWH is true or the claim of YHWH is false. "Either YHWH is the one and only God or he is not. Which is it? Either there is one god or many. You are either for God or against him. You either believe his claims or you don't. Decide. To be neutral, to not take a stand, is delusional. To stand in the swmapy middle is to get the benefit of neither and to get the scorn of both. You can't limp between two opinions. C.S. Lewis once said, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” Choose. Elijah is really pressing on this point. And apparently the logic silences the people. They see they are in checkmate. We can't say we believe in YHWH because if we believe in YHWH, then we need to do what YHWH says and YHWH says we are supposed to destroy the Baals and we like the Baals. So they stay silent. The nation of Israel has become comfortable with a logical inconsistency. They have come to the point where they have said, “No, YHWH, he's a great God. We like YHWH. We will totally sacrifice to him. We also like Baal. We also like Asherah." And Elijah forces them to this uncomfortable point, "If you say you love YHWH then you must hate Baal and Asherah. There is no other option.” They have no answer. Elijah takes their silence as permission to proceed with the showdown. So for starters that's not very good odds. Don't forget there's also 400 prophets of Asherah present. So we have 850:1. Not good odds. But this is the pattern of God. God goes out of the way to create these sorts of moments. He loves when the weak things of the world shame the wise. So now we get the rules. Here's the contest rules. Here's how we compare in a fair and equitable way. In other words, we both get an altar. We both get wood. We both get a bull. But neither of us gets fire. The God who provides the fire is the real God. Who can deny that this would be the great evidence of which God is real? I mean, that would pretty much seal the deal, right? Who could deny it? You guys are many. You should be able to do this a bit quicker than me. You guys go first. After four hours of screaming and wailing they are answered with silence. Nothing. And so Elijah interjects and begins to help them interpret the silence. He says, maybe the problem is your lack earnestness and sincerity. I think you need to turn up the volume. And so Elijah who has a PhD in sarcasm, begins to mock them. And I imagine Elijah's sarcasm really just screwing down their resolve. Mockery has a way of shoveling coal into the engine that protects our pride. And they work themselves into a frothing, foaming mess. What a graphic picture. And how sad! The gushing blood of self-destruction. This is the graphic end of all idol worship, self-destruction. It could be the worship of money, sex, power, image, acceptance, whatever…. You give and you give and you give yourself to your god and the price becomes steeper and steeper and so you give more and more. You give your sweat your tears, you give your blood, you give your life, you sacrifice everything and because it is no god at all, it will not answer you and will not deliver you and will not satisfy you. And you lay on the ground panting and dying and without life. Look at the scene. Here they are after the full day is spent and still thirsty. They are cut open and dying. The sun is out baking their exhausted frames. And there is nothing. Why? Lack of sincerity? Lack of zeal? No. It's because Baal isn't real. At the end of the day, is not this the only question that matters? What's real? Sincerity apart from truth equals destruction. So just silence. Blood all over the ground. Bodies passed out from exhaustion. Panting weak frames. No attention. No response. No answer. Just deafening silence. So Elijah steps forward. Have you had enough? Man, that's a statement. You see this altar you ordered to be tore down, Ahab. That was a mistake. Perhaps you have abandoned the very thing that could have saved you? Your discernment of what has worth is a bit off, Ahab. And you can imagine Elijah, the sole prophet surrounded by thousands of people. And the sound of those stones clanking one against another. So let's just consider the odds: You have 850 prophets versus 1 You have dry wood versus soaked wood. You have a dry bull versus soaked bull. And no trench of water versus full trench of water. Elijah is in this incredible position of weakness and honestly foolishness. Why? You want to know why? So God can flex. God's gonna flex. It's a statement, "I want to show you just how in control of this whole thing I am. I want to demonstrate that nothing that happens is accidental. I want to demonstrate that at my word creation leaps into obedience. God loves weakness. He loves to use weak. Who among us feels weak right now? Who feels drug down by life? Who feels like a failure and absolutely unable to do anything for God's kingdom. Well then you are perfect material. That's exactly who God loves to use. The Prayer It's now Elijah's turn. All eyes were on him. I'm sure the Baal worshipers are licking their jobs. There are some people sharpening their spears. And I'm sure Elijah is thinking, “I hope this works.” The other prophets danced. They screamed. It was a frenzy. There was potions and screaming and cutting. It would have been chaos to watch. By contrast. One prophet. And Elijah does no ritual. He just talks conversationally to God. And here is what he prays: Next comes the most explicit purpose statement in all the story. We'll come back to it but just read it for now. So that's the prayer. The prayer is TWO SENTENCES. I just love that. TWO SENTENCES. The prophets of Baal have been at it for FOUR HOURS and Elijah prays TWO SENTENCES. And now it's just quiet. Now, I want you to think about what everyone at this point is likely expecting. Why did they setup this contest? They are wanting what? They are wanting rain. And so they said, “He who answers by fire is the true God.” So what do you think they were expecting? Or to say it another way, in what form do you think they expected the fire to come? Lighting, right. I think they would have expected the clouds to slowly build. Okay the clouds are rolling in. They are getting thicker and thicker. That's what everyone wants. We want the gods to break the drought. Now let's just say the clouds start rolling in. Everyone gets excited, “One of them is answering.” **But the question is, “Which God is causing this to happen?** That's the great question, right? Whose the God of the rain?” And so the lighting is going to answer. Strike the altar of Baal. He's God. Strike the altar of Elijah, YHWH'S God. That's what everybody is expecting. Who knows, maybe even Elijah is expecting this. But God wants it to be totally clear. I don't want this to be a guessing game or maybe that this is some rando accidental stray lighting bolt. After Elijah's two sentence prayer out of the CLEAR BLUE SKY… The bull. The wood. The water. The stones — even the stones. Consumed in a flash. You can kind of imagine the shock, the surprise, the terror. Can you imagine the freakin scene? You have all these prophets and their knees turn to jelly and they fall with their face in the sand. Just zoom out and observe the the dual: Over here you have the side of Baal. You have the prophets pealing their faces off the dirt with mouths wide open. They have blood dripping down their arms. You have the altar with this giant bull and the blood is dried on his fur and his tongue is just hanging out of his mouth and there are flies just buzzing around. That's Baal. And then you have the side of YHWH. And there's just a smoldering hole in the earth where the soaked animal, on the soaked wood on the soaked stones once stood. And there's one man, Elijah, with fire in his eyes. Dang. That would leave an impression. Now what was the purpose of this whole deal? We said we'd come back to verse 37: There are two purposes for this miracle. Purpose #1. YHWH is God. YHWH is not an idea. YHWH is not folk tradition or a memory. YHWH is not a figurehead of some religion. YHWH is not something that exists only in the imagination. YHWH is not a cultural expression of a particular people group. YHWH is not a force. He's not a symbol. YHWH is GOD — the living, active, fire-sending, sin-hating, idolatry-destroying, prayer-hearing, personal God. “when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, The LORD, he is God” Purpose #1 accomplished. There was a second purpose. Purpose #2 was that “that this people may know that you have turned their hearts back.” Cause the people of Israel to know that God did it. Let's make a really clear distinction between what they did and what God did. Here's what they did. Their hearts ran after the Baals and Asheroths. Their hearts betrayed God. Their hearts Spurned God. Their hearts Belittled God. Their hearts loved other things more than God. Their hearts had Devalued God. That's what they did And here's what God did. God intervened. He showed his power. He flexed. He turned them back. God saved. God rescued. God did it. That's the point of the story. Hang on to that as we come back to James. Now the prophets of Baal are rounded up an executed. Even though it is not explicitly stated in the text, my guess is that this was a pre-agreed upon arrangement. The prophets of the losing god die. Whose doing the seizing? Elijah was by himself, remember? Answer: the people whose hearts have been turned back! Part of repentance is destroying whatever God you had been worshiping. Now God had promised that their would be rain that day. And now we can almost taste it. God said it would rain. But just because God says something is ABSOLUTELY going to happen, doesn't mean vehicles aren't necessary to make it happen. I can decide to go to Costco, but I need a vehicle. Right? God says it will rain. He chooses to do it through the vehicle of Elijah's prayer. Think about it: the OMNIPOTENT power of God is like a passenger who rides the vehicle of Elijah's prayer. So here is Elijah, a normal man, a common man, a man with a nature like ours and it's his prayer which becomes the vehicle that carries the power of the RAIN CREATING God of the universe. What? What a privilege. He's dead serious. He's desperate. He's fervent. And he prays. Now why do you think he got up and had his messenger look? Because he thought his first prayer worked. And it didn't. So what did he do? He prayed again. And why do you think he sent his messenger a second time? Because he thought, surely, now God will answer. It's time. It's past time. But it didn't. So he prayed a third. Nothing. A fourth. Nothing. A fifth. Nothing. A sixth. Nothing. But then finally it happened. Okay, so that's the story. We needed to do all that work (and it wasn't really work; that was fun!). We did that review so we could apply our text today. So let's go back to the book of James: Now what is James' point here? James wants us to pray? You suffering? Pray. You joyful? Pray. You sick spiritually or physically? Pray. That's what I want you to do. Now because we are weak humans, we need encouragement. Have you ever felt like your prayers were ineffective? Have you ever felt like your prayers were not answered in the way you hoped. You ever prayed once, twice, three, four, five times and felt like your prayers did nothing. Well James is here to inspire us and to remind us of the power of prayer. And you are asking the question, what do I need to do to make my prayers effective? James has an answer. I think this point comes as one of the greatest points of encouragement. It's the same sort of encouragement a weekend golfer receives when he watches a PGA tour pro shank his drive straight into the pond. Okay, you are human. There's a sort of sick delight that comes from that. It's not actually encouraging to watch top-notch excellence all day long because none of us can relate. That's not me. They are amazing. They can play the piano so fast I can't see their fingers and they never make a mistake. Those basketball players are freaks of nature. That Musk guy can build a company that shoots rockets into space, while also managing a boring company and a solar company and a car company and a battery company. Wow. I can't do that. I barely know how to change the battery in my smoke alarm. We look at excellence and we say, “I know that none of this is attainable for me.” I don't have the genetics. I don't have the money, the educational advantages, the connections, the skills. I wasn't dealt that deck of cards. It doesn't matter how much I train, how much I dedicate myself. I'm too far behind. I could never be that. They are amazing. I am a loser. But here we have this man, Elijah, and the first thing we are told is that the man Elijah had a nature just like you and I. There was absolutely nothing exceptional about Elijah. Here's what Elijah was. He was human. If you are human you have everything necessary to experience the same world shaping power of prayer as Elijah experienced. Folks, that is encouraging. Elijah's prayer accomplished much. We see this clearly in the text. He prayed fervently that it would not rain… We see it. Face between his knees. Once, twice, three four five times. What is the place of fervency? Clearly, fervency is important. Do you remember the story of the persistent neighbor. The story is of a man who comes to his neighbor at night asking for break. And the guy's in the middle of his sleep and he's all warm in his blankets and he says, "Dude, go back home." But he keeps asking. And eventually, he gives in, not because he's a friend but because he's annoyed and wants to sleep. Jesus commends persistence. He loves fervency. Why? It's not that Jesus wants to be annoyed. He can't be annoyed. The reason fervency honors the Lord is because it's a confident assertion of where help really lies.It's the great indicator that a “no” from God does not mean, “God has abandoned me, turn to other sources of help.” When we continue to pray we proclaim, “Nothing else can help me. I have nowhere else to turn. It's the great proclamation.” The cry of a child to his parents, however annoying and disrespectful it may be, does say one thing loud and clear. You and you alone can help. I'm not going to go randomly ask some stranger on the sidewalk. I'm asking you mom, because I know you care. You want to know why kids at foster homes don't cry? Because they've learned that these care workers won't help me. It's pointless to cry. My persistence does nothing. My fervency is ignored. Persistent prayer is an indicator of faith. Persistent prayer is trust in the love of caring father. It's an indicator of faith. But persistent prayer by itself is not enough. Do you see the fervency of the Baal worshippers. They were fervent. They got nothing. Fervency must be coupled with righteousness. The effective prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much. I want to rescue this term from what I'm guessing you think it means. We use this term so improperly. We would describe a man as righteous and in doing so what comes to mind is law-abiding, a man who does good works, a man who abstains from evil. Its almost a synonym for moral. Disabuse your mind of that. That is not how the Bible uses the word. Righteous means, RIGHT WITH GOD. If you are righteous you are right with God and if you are unrighteous you are NOT RIGHT WITH GOD. That's all the word means. So when we talk about being someone who is self-righteous, what we are saying is that this person is trying to get right with God by themselves. They are trying to make themselves right with God by their good works, by their performance, by their effort. The Bible says there is only one kind of righteous person. The only way to be righteous is to receive a righteousness that is not your own. The only way to be righteous is to let someone else make you righteous. You don't work yourself into a froth like the Baal worshipers to make yourself acceptable to God. God said to Elijah, I am going to perform this great wonder so that they may know that they will know who I am and that I turned their hearts back to me. In Elijah's day, that's righteousness. Acknowledge what God has done. The sacrifice has been accepted. He is God. Today is Palm Sunday where we acknowledge Jesus Christ, the sacrifice, riding into Jerusalem to be nailed to a tree. What are we looking at here? God the father is saying, "I am going to perform this great wonder so that they may know that they will know who I am and that I turned their hearts back to me." We are approaching Easter where God breaks jaws of death. We approach Easter where resurrection life is realized through this great wonder of the cross. We come to Easter to receive a gift of life that is not achieved through the frothy foamy self-righteousness. Receive that gift and your prayer becomes a vehicle for the God of the universe. The prayer of that man, that man who has received a righteousness not his own, that prayer of that man is effective.

We celebrate Women's History month with the families of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the “Six Triple Eight”, join Street Soldiers Radio to share the stories of the all-female battalion of the Women's Army Corps. The 6888th had 855 predominately all Black women, both enlisted and officers, and was led by Major Charity… The post Street Soldiers Radio: 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion appeared first on Alive and Free.

Bex is visiting the Postal Museum in London to find out all about the history of the mail service and take a ride on Mail Rail! Plus, with the help of Georgia, we're making our own stamps.Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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During this week's episode of NAPS Chat, Frank Albergo, president of the Postal Police Officers Association, joins Bob Levi to discuss the postal crime wave and how to reduce it. The escalation in postal-related crime, including assaults on USPS personnel, mail theft and mail fraud, concurrent with the 2020 USPS operational change to limit the law enforcement authority of postal police to the perimeter of USPS-occupied property, raises questions about the agency's commitment to employee safety and mail security. Postal police are the uniformed members of the Postal Inspection Service, the nation's oldest law enforcement entity.

MikeJ, Pedro and Matt talk all about POSTAL 4 for PS5 and 4 which released TODAY! GO PICK IT UP NOW! Music by A Fall To Break "Go POSTAL"

We kick things off by talking about PAX East (which Steph and Pat are attending) and Midwest Gaming Classic (which Stoy is attending) this month! After that we talk about Lance Reddick, Final Fantasy XVI's upcoming runtime, and are $70 Nintendo games worth the price tag? Steph plays Tchia, Pat plays Bayonetta Origins and Romancelvania, and Stoy plays the original Resident Evil 4 and spoils the hell out of the Forspoken ending. Here's what's coming out this week: Postal 4: No Regerts (PS4, PS5) 3/21 Tchia (PC, PS4, PS5) 3/21 The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution ( PC, PS2VR) 3/21 Not for Broadcast (PS4, PS5, XB, XBX) 3/23 Omen of Sorrow (PS5, NS) 3/23 Rakuen (NS) 3/23 Atelier Rysa 3: Alchemist of the End & The Secret Key (PC, PS4, PS5, NS) 3/24 Resident Evil 4 Remake (PC, PS4, PS5, XBX) 3/24 We are part of the Boss Rush Network, a network of like minded podcasts and content creators. Follow them on bossrush.net, Twitter, and Discord. We have a room in the Discord, so come say hi!  Where can you follow us?: Anchor  Facebook  Twitter Instagram YouTube Patreon Website Help us grow by leaving reviews and ratings on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Reason.

A lot happened in ADGA land this past week and Danielle and Jon are here to help you navigate the postal ballots that were voted on or to be voted on.  They both give their opinions on the matters at hand to help make the ballots more palatable.  Afterwards, the crew starts part 1 of marketing kids and goats successfully.  Ringside website http://www.dairygoatpodcast.com we have merch!!http://dairgoatpodcast.com/merchThis week's episode was sponsored by The Gray Goatuse code RINGSIDE10 at checkout to get 10% off your orderhttp://www.graygoatbbq.com

MPost is a digital addressing solution that turns the mobile phone number to an official postal address. Less than 1% of Africa's population have an address either postal or can identify a physical address. This shuts out the rest of population from government and private services such as eCommerce, loans from financial institutions.    For more information, visit www.mpost.co.ke    If you have the next big idea, apply to the Expert Dojo Accelerator: www.expertdojo.com  

Mindaugas Cerpickis, Managing Economist at Copenhagen Economics, discusses the state of the European postal sector, including declining letter volumes, growing parcel volumes, competition in the last mile, sustainability, and more Postal sector in Europe is expanding in terms of revenue and headcount Growth in total carbon emissions Larger, heavier parcels in the delivery stream Is e-commerce better for the environment than in-store shopping? The irrational behaviour of consumers when shopping online How regulations affect CO2 emissions Transition from letters to parcels What failure to adapt means for the bottom line Competition and market share in parcels Parcel pricing and the ability for postal operators to be competitive Network design and cost-efficiency of parcel delivery Increase in State aid during the pandemic, and complexities of State aid Accelerated letter volume decline Letter pricing, reducing costs in letter delivery (leading to alternative delivery models), and State aid Getting approval for changing letter delivery models Emerging trends that will impact the postal sector in coming years Green transition of the postal sector Role of postal regulators and policy makers in helping posts reduce emissions  

  In this week's episode, host Bob Siegel talks about the Biden administration's excuses for their late response to an Ohio train wreck and their blame-casting toward Former President Donald Trump. Other News! -A report confirming the ineffectiveness of COVID mask mandates! -A lawsuit headed for the Supreme Court regarding the rights of postal workers […]

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In this episode, we learn all about a network of local organizations that help connect the Postal Service with large and small business mailers. This network is called the Postal Customer Council® (PCC®). Join us as we learn more about what PCCs are and how they help extend the Postal Services' efforts into local communities with Lindsey Taylor, the Postal Services' Director of Industry Engagement & Outreach. We'll also dive into some of the great things PCCs have done and how they are essential to the Postal Services' success moving forward!

During this week's episode of NAPS Chat, leading members of the California Postal Legislative Coalition join Bob to discuss a variety of issues that impact active and retired postal employees. The participants include: Marilyn Walton, Mary DiGoia and Kathryn Rahming of NAPS, Ron Jones of the NALC, Garry Davis of the APWU, and Clarice Golden on UPMA. The CA Postal Legislative Coalition is a 25-year old alliance of union and management organizations representing the interests of CA postal employees and retirees.

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How much can you save at Costco vs traditional supermarkets? You may be surprised! Clark also has an important warning issued by the USPS concerning how you mail cards and packages. Clark shares tips for more secure mailing & bill pay - and tells you the one thing you should NEVER carry with you because if it's stolen, YOU could end up in jail.  Clark's TV Grocery Study: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Holiday Postal Alert: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: CNET-Costco Shoppers: Here's How Much You Actually Save Compared to a Grocery Store 4 Things To Know About the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Overhaul The Best International Phone Plans Actual Cash Value vs. Replacement Cost Value Coverage Lifehacker: Avoid Using Blue Mailboxes During the Holidays, USPS Warns Do Not Give Your Social Security Number at These Places Welcome to Clark's Christmas Kids 2022 Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices