Podcasts about Sam Shoemaker

SAM SHOEMAKER, BERNARD SMITH & THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. The Montyman and Chris S. explore the historical context and influential figures in Alcoholics Anonymous, particularly focusing on Sam Shoemaker and his contributions to the spiritual foundation of the fellowship. The hosts discuss the evolution of the Grapevine, its significance in the recovery community, and the importance of maintaining a spiritual climate for growth. They also reflect on the roles of Bernard Smith and Clarence Snyder in shaping AA's history, emphasizing the need for selflessness and service in recovery. #higherpower #aa #na #alcoholicsanonymous #recovery #recovered #alcoholic #twelvesteps #wedorecover #narcoticsanonymous #addiction #bigbook

It's time to talk MEMPHIS TIGERS! This week, we feature Sam Shoemaker from Memphis Rivals to discuss all things Tigers.

Today we sit down with the highly creative Sam Shoemaker to chat about Reishi Bonsai, mycelial boats, cultivating stinkhorns and so many other interesting projects he's up to. Get curious, tune in and shroom in. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on August 21, 2024 and contacted via email.www.mushroomrevival.comWe are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA Organic and Vegan mushroom supplements. We are transparent with our lab results, and use actual fruiting bodies aka mushrooms! We provide our supplements in tincture, capsule, powder, and delicious gummy form. Energy (Cordyceps): Need a little pick-me-up before a workout or when you're picking up your kids from school? The Energy Cordyceps is the mushy match for you.Focus (Lion's Mane):  Needing a little more focus in your daily life? Lion's Mane is known to be the mushroom for the brain and may support cognitive function.Calm (Reishi): Looking for some tranquility and zen in your life? Reishi will bring you into the zen state of mind you've been searching for.Daily 10 (Mushroom Mix): It's like having 10 bodyguard mushrooms fighting off all those bad guys. This is a good place to start as it contains all of the daily mushies you need. Not sure where to begin? Take our mushroom quiz here.Use code ‘PODTREAT' for a 30% discount.

Article from GV 1963 a clergyman that witnessed the expansion and miracle of Alcoholics Anonymous growth factor leaving behind the medical field of doctors scratching there head. They did what no man can do, ask God for constructive words in the 12 steps to utilize them in solving the problem of alcoholism. A estimate 3,000,000 so far so good and 15,000,000 recycling and 300,000,000 influence by its format. To God be the GLORY. Sam Shoemaker explains his amazing story. In print and in voice. Enjoy. - Fernando Commando --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fernando-m-de-oca/support

Sid K teaches us a great lesson on the early, flying blind, pioneer period of Alcoholics Anonymous.  This covers the years from 1935 through 1939.   You may choose to go to YouTube to watch this one as there is a corresponding slide show that gives visuals to this lesson.  The link to the Reco12 YouTube channel is here:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHToLwCJhBB1Qqs10Ontzg Resources from this episode:Sid K's email address:  AAHistoryNerd@gmail.comBack to Basics – Wally P - https://amzn.to/3tuzbZ4Dick B Books - https://amzn.to/3UZ6eA9Came to Believe Recovery - https://amzn.to/3Od5KEfWhat is the Oxford Group? - https://amzn.to/3gcHeGHNot-God: A History of AA - https://amzn.to/3gcHeGHDr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers:  https://amzn.to/3EzwdbQSoul Surgery by HA Walter:  https://amzn.to/3AfwgHyBooks by Sam Shoemaker:  https://amzn.to/3GjoBvlFor Sinners Only by AJ Russell:  https://amzn.to/3hMlMZyEight Points of the Oxford Group:  https://amzn.to/3TB9bpnAnne Smith's Journal:  https://amzn.to/3tvlsBhGlenn F Chesnut Books:  https://amzn.to/3g92dKEI Was a Pagan by Kitchen:  https://amzn.to/3twa7AHPass it On Bill W Letter:  https://amzn.to/3O7OjVEBig Book of AA:  https://amzn.to/3LfdSCH  Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addiction of all kinds and the similarities of recovery from all afflictions and addictions, and gaining and sharing tools and hope from others who are trudging this road. We are an open meeting for ALL, no matter your life experiences, faith traditions, nationality, or background.  Reco12 is a self-supporting service and we appreciate your help in keeping it that way. We gratefully accept contributions to help cover the costs of the Zoom platform, podcast platform, web hosting, and administrative costs. To contribute, you can go to https://www.reco12.com/support  or you can use PayPal or Venmo at @Reco-Twelve . When you contribute, please specify the meeting number. This is meeting number 129.To join our private Facebook group or our WhatsApp group and now, even on Instagram and YouTube, to ask and answer questions there:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/291099645261990 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Hl9ZZsTMvIZ0mPkNeErLThe AnyQuestion App: Stop searching.... start asking.Ask a question, and get video answers from Experts in Health & Wellness, Sports, and more!Support the showPrivate Facebook GroupWhatsApp Community GroupInstagram PageDonationsYouTube ChannelReco12 WebsiteEmail: reco12pod@gmail.com

Father Bill shares an important writing by Rev. Sam Shoemaker. He is the Oxford Group leader Bill Wilson credits with teaching him no fewer than ten of the twelve Steps. Titled, “What the Church Has to Learn from Alcoholics Anonymous,” Fr. Bill reads the complete article. It's also available in written form through the Step Study. Show Notes: Link to Sam Shoemaker's “What the Church Has to Learn from Alcoholics Anonymous” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fatherbillw/support

After a short summer break, Noah and Vivian return with a new episode of JPEG2000 discussing glitch art projects God Observer by Godmin and Myfi by Aimee Rubensteen AKA Cookie Tree and Dr. Josh Eisenberg AKA  Dr. Slurp. After discussing God Observer in Episode 5, Vivian and Noah have Godmin on this episode to discuss her work more in depth. The piece JPEG2000 collected is titled  ∧⨆∃⨏⊷⋭⋌∉≃⋀≰⨑⨗◯ #1000356 which is part of the God Observer collection, which is a part of the larger Heaven Computer art project. God Observer posits "if we could look into an telescope, what if we could observe God, and what would it look like?" The work is made via video glitching, where the video is turned into audio, and turned back into video through a process called data sonification. On the Heaven Computer website, there is a section called God Remixer, where your God Observer piece can be edited. The God Remixer was inspired by FITS Liberator, a software program for processing and editing astronomical science data to reproduce images of the universe. The conversation is interrupted by a call from Noah in the future on a walk, where he sees amanitas mushrooms, reminding him of a piece titled Amanitas & The Sublime by artist Madeline Cass. Noah and Vivian collect the work and hear from the artist, who creates the works by scanning objects and digitally collaging things Noah and Vivian pivot and discuss a project called Myfi Studio, who sent a piece to the JPEG2000 wallet. Myfi is a project that is comprised of 106 hours of glitch video art with combinatorially arranged music about mycelium network that has a message for you. The piece JPEG2000 received a piece titled Bumping Tock in the Woods. To explain mycelium communication networks, Vivian has friend Sam Shoemaker on to explain. Sam is an artist and mycologist, who utilizes mushrooms in his art practice. Myfi posits that there is conceptually similarity between the mycelium network and the ethereum blockchain network. Noah and Vivian complain about various things during the Rose and Thorn portion of the episode. Vivian's rose was recently meeting Noah for the first time while traveling to New York earlier this month. Noah gave Vivian $2 bills as a birthday present. Noah's rose is that the first season of the chicken camera is closed. JPEG2000 is brought to you by Context.app, the best way to keep up with what's happening in web3. Context recently created mint.fun, a way to see what NFTs are currently minting and what projects are trending. This episode of JPEG2000 is sponsored by Dirt.fyi, a daily(ish) free newsletter about digital pop culture and entertainment. Subscribe today ;) JPEG2000 is hosted by gorgeous genius, Vivian Fu and Marcel's father, Noah Kalina. The podcast is edited and engineered by international playboy Paul O'Mara. The music for JPEG2000 is by podcast bff Yuri. Don't forget to check out context.app!!!!!! It's very fun and cool!!!!! 

Today on Mushroom Hour we are excited to interview mushroom cultivation artist Sam Shoemaker. Sam is an interdisciplinary artist and mycologist based in Los Angeles, California. Sam's recent artistic work stems from an ongoing collaboration with rare, native, and medicinal fungi. After receiving his MFA from Yale University in 2020, Sam founded the urban mushroom farm Myco Myco from his underground laboratory in Los Angeles. His obsession with mushrooms led Sam to some unconventional cultivation projects. These projects produced interesting results which led him to ask questions about how mushrooms can be used and when nobody seemed to be able to answer his questions he just kept going - doing more experiments, taking the science as far as he could, and trying things for himself. Approaching mycology through the lens of an artist, Sam explores the tremendous amount of creative opportunity surrounding mycology right now. His aim is simple and beautiful: making mycology accessible to all and encouraging people to embrace the unknowable!    TOPICS COVERED:   Grandma's Artistic Influence   An Obsession with Mushrooms is Born   Mushrooms and Modern Art   Replacing Single-Use Plastics in Cultivation   Mushroom Chia Pets   Blending Boundaries of Art and Science   Public Reception to Sam's Artwork   Practicality of Substrates from Waste Streams   Myco Myco Mushroom Farm   Advice for Making Mushroom Cultivation into a Living   Changes in Mycophile Culture as Mushrooms Go Mainstream   Future of Mushroom Cultivation   Leading with Reciprocity   Future Educational Projects   EPISODE RESOURCES:   Sam Shoemaker Website: https://www.samkshoemaker.com/   Sam Shoemaker IG: https://www.instagram.com/samkshoemaker/   Myco Myco Farm Website: https://mycomyco.farm/   Myco Myco Farm IG: https://www.instagram.com/mycomycofarm/   Candace Lin: http://ghebaly.com/work/candicelin/   Ganoderma (genus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma   Fomitopsis (genus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomitopsis   Marasmius plicatulus (species): https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Marasmius_plicatulus.html   

Artist, Mycologist & general funghi Sam Shoemaker stops in to chat shrooms with Annie on this incendiary episode of Empath. Sam also picked this weeks opening cover song

Sam Shoemaker, Jordan Ghioni and James Gerde come on the podcast to talk about their new cult in Seattle, Unemployed. Unemployed Insta: @cultleaderjordan @imstillunemployed @gerdegotit @samxshoemaker NAST Insta: @nastpodcast

Description: Father Bill shares his experience in starting Two Way Prayer groups. The episode includes a small-group model that has proved successful along with reflections from several Two Way Prayer group members. Cautions are also included. Show Notes: · A suggested format for conducting a Zoom or in-person meeting is on the Two Way Prayer website: here https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f50b318fe914e1b2aa32bfb/t/6037ae010ba7235be05479cc/1614261761891/starting-zoom.pdf · An interesting article on the origins of small groups crediting Sam Shoemaker for his pioneering work is here: https://www.smallgroups.com/articles/2014/pioneers-of-small-group-movement.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fatherbillw/support

We are seeing a burgeoning interest in all things fungi, from consumption to materials-making, mushroom cultivation, fungal ecology and myco-remediation, particularly because fungi bear and represent resiliency, adaptability, and the potential to transform and utilize life as it is. Fungi possess the unique ability to decompose and recompose life itself. This episode reveals interdisciplinary artist and mycologist Sam Shoemaker's venture into urban mushroom cultivation, and how his art has been informed by and become an exploratory collaboration with fungi. He speaks with our host Carry Kim. *Sam Shoemaker [http://www.samkshoemaker.com/] is an interdisciplinary artist and mycologist based in Los Angeles, California. After receiving his MFA in sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2020, Sam started the urban mushroom farm Myco Myco. Sam's current work focuses on sustainable food for Los Angeles, experiments in biomaterial sculptural fabrication, and the cultivation of rare native and non native fungi. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: https://socal350.org/contribute-to-socal-350-climate-action/ Interview by Carry Kim Intro by Jessica Aldridge Engineer: Blake Lampkin Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 93 Image: Courtesy Sam Shoemaker

Tesko, RIP Kenny and Trap Jesus are producers. [We make jokes and talk about human music] Sponsors: The Weekly Download: Learn from ill.Gates in his private weekly group lessons and get access to over 220 more episodes in the archive for only $20 per month! https://www.thehumanmusicpodcast.com/producerdojo Guest Practices: Learn from Seth Drake at the Approach Institute, the BEST engineer we know. First class is free! https://www.thehumanmusicpodcast.com/theapproach Gvngaroo Records Music Distribution: Unlimited Uploads for Under $10 https://www.thehumanmusicpodcast.com/gvngaroo-records This week we speak to rapper Sam Shoemaker about how he's been able to find success gaining fans on Spotify as an independent artist, and RIP Kenny had a lot of great tips and insight too: 1:15 - RIP Kenny's Top 3 Spotify Growth Secrets 9:00 - What Kinds of Songs Work For The Streaming Market? 16:48 - How Do You Become Someone's Favorite Artist? 29:31 - Do You Need To Learn Online Marketing To Succeed In Music? 38:59 - What Kinds Of Music Ads Are The Most Effective For Gaining Fans? 46:29 - How Do You Get Started Running Facebook and Instagram Ads? 54:42 - Behind the Scenes on Sam Shoemaker's Music. 1:01:57 - How Much Do You Need To Invest In Your Artist Carrer? 1:10:19 - How To Use Facebook Ads To Their Fullest Potential. 1:18:00 - When Should You Start Marketing Your Music? 1:22:42 - Sam Shoemaker and Trap Jesus Have Another Single Out! PLEASE EMAIL QUESTIONS TO: thehumanmusicpodcast@gmail.com www.thehumanmusicpodcast.com Want 125+ HQ samples to level up your production today? This free mega pack contains High Quality Basses, FX, Percussion, and more which will instantly bring new character and depth to your tracks! https://freemegapack.thehumanmusicpodcast.com/squeeze-page1596945017974

Given at Calvary St George's Episcopal Church in Feb 2020 as part of their Sam Shoemaker Lecture series. For more info, please visit https://www.calvarystgeorges.org/calstg-academy/.

The Rev. John Zahl’s lecture from The Feast of Sam Shoemaker 2020. Join us and discover how the good news of Alcoholics Anonymous is for everyone! 

The Rev. Sam Owen’s lecture from The Feast of Sam Shoemaker 2020. Join us and discover how the good news of Alcoholics Anonymous is for everyone! 

"Show up because it's what you do, not because of what you might get out of it." ⁠— Trap JesusTrap Jesus (@whatwouldtrapjesusdo) is a producer, engineer, songwriter and DJ involved with iStandard and BounceGvng. He’s also a sensei and mentor at Producer Dojo, and along with being the Dojo’s resident Reason expert, he’s curated several cyphers and recently guest-presented one of The Weekly Downloads (#148) on industry etiquette.As Trap Jesus, he’s preaching Psychedelic Psalms from the Backwoods Bible through the Grimy Gospel EP in collaboration with Sam Shoemaker. As Luke Rain, he’s swinging big katanas and dropping heavy bass across electronic genres. You can hear his track “Katanas” on ill.Gates Presents: The Class of 808, Volume 3.In our conversation, we talk about speeding up your production workflow with timers, the necessity of reframing your focus as a producer, how industry events have been a game-changer for his life and career, and much more. Selected Links Connect with Trap Jesus: trapjes.us / Instagram / Soundcloud Connect with Luke Rain: lukerainmusic.com / Twitter / Instagram / Soundcloud Full disclosure: This list includes some affiliate links. If you purchase something through those links, you won't pay anything extra, but I'll get a small commission or discount which helps me make music and keep this podcast going. Thank you for supporting me and Beats and Risers! iStandard Producer Dojo / Music and Cyphers LEVIT∆TE Immerses His Audience in an Audio/Visual Universe - Producer Dojo Blog ASCAP and the ASCAP Experience (formerly ASCAP Expo) Splice Summer Meltdown BounceGvng Beats Grind & Life Podcast with Syren (#117 with Trap Jesus) The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield Carlos Santana's Facebook post on the elixir for total happiness Reason Serum Omnisphere Brauer Motion - Waves Fabfilter Pro-Q - email podcast@beatsandrisers.com for a 10% off coupon toward FabFilter plugins/bundles Akai MPK Mini mkII MIDI controller Music Referenced Producer Dojo Cyphers curated by Trap Jesus: #11: Off the Grid and #13: Timer Beats Only "The Time is Nigh" by Trap Jesus "Spell My Name" by Trap Jesus "I'm Eel" by ill.Gates, which inspired Producer Dojo Cypher #8: Say My Name Subscribe Join the TVSKLIST for updates via email Subscribe to Beats and Risers Show Notes On music being a part of his life at an early age [2:03] How Trap Jesus started producing music by chance [3:26] Trap Jesus explains how Luke Rain became his artist name [4:41] In looking for a change of pace, Trap Jesus discovers iStandard events, and explains how they helped him renew his focus on production [6:15] The interaction that sparked the Trap Jesus name, and what happened before he adopted the moniker [7:39] What happened when Trap Jesus played beats that were well received, but weren't trap? [9:54] How both names became part of Trap Jesus's artist identity [11:11] After feeling stuck one night, Trap Jesus finds out about Producer Dojo and elaborates on how the Dojo changed his life [13:28] What are the Producer Dojo Cyphers and how do they operate? [16:45] On curating the Off the Grid [20:28] and Timer Beats Only [21:42] Cyphers How to work faster through timer beats [20:52] Does the perfect snare exist? [23:34] Why is it important to set reasonable expectations as a producer? [25:54] Trap Jesus explains how he starts his composition process with timer beats [27:25] How does Trap Jesus make a beat in 30 minutes? [30:39] Feeling stuck when you make a beat? Here's why Trap Jesus suggests taking a break and focusing on the business side of your music [35:34] Trap Jesus breaks down how he made "Spell My Name" for the Producer Dojo Cypher #8: Say My Name [37:06] Imagine a pottery class. Would the class graded on quality or the class graded on quantity have the better pots by the end of the class? [42:29] On the importance of showing up, setting perfectionism aside, and making music no matter what [44:49] Why leaving your hometown for music industry events and networking can be a career game-changer [45:47] How should you think about networking in music? (Hint: it's not about business cards.) [49:17] Trap Jesus explains how and why he started producing in Reason [64:12] Trap Jesus's message for listeners: Believe in yourself and follow your joy [74:04] The 808 What book has had the most impact on Trap Jesus' production or creativity? [51:08] If Trap Jesus had to give a TED Talk on anything, but it couldn't be about music, what would it be about? (TVSKER's note: Luke's answer here is super important not just for producers, but in anyone's life.) [54:22] What is Trap Jesus's favourite key and tempo to produce in? [59:54] If Trap Jesus could collaborate with any artist, who would he collab with? [60:46] The two VST instruments and three VST effects Trap Jesus would choose to make a track from. [61:31] How does Trap Jesus know whether a song needs to be finished or whether it's time to throw in the towel? [67:51] In the past six months, what has Trap Jesus purchased for $100 or less that has had the greatest impact on his music production? [70:36] What would Trap Jesus tell himself if he could go back in time and speak to himself while he was in his first six months of producing music? [72:01] People Mentioned ill.Gates J Hatch Don Di Napoli Cizz Cardiak Flatline LEViT∆TE Amadeus Gary Leon Spiderhound Bassnectar Vaedynn Timbaland Sound Oracle Egomi Dantian Steven Pressfield Pharrell Budo Find out more at http://beatsandrisers.com

A little of the story of why I burned all my secular music as a teen, and how I have learned to tell that story now. Mostly, how I have learned to interpret this phase of my life in terms of some truth offered by Sam Shoemaker.

Hi, and Merry Christmas! I have plenty of information to share this time. I hope you are not too distracted while listening to all this! Would you like to see more people find the Daily Bible Reading Podcast? If so, here is a quick way you can really make a difference: Some time ago I made a channel for the DBRP on YouTube which is linked here in the episode notes. Please, even if you never intend to listen to an episode on YouTube, please click the link to subscribe to that channel. The more people that are subscribed, the higher our channel will appear in search results. At the beginning of 2019, I hope to be able to make Youtube playlists of episodes a month at a time, so that it becomes easier for people to actually listen to the DBRP using that platform. Youtube is the second most popular Internet search engine. So please help some people who are searching to discover the DBRP. Just click the link above and click to subscribe to our channel. Currently, there are only 8 people subscribed. The DBRP got off to a rough start in 2018. This was due to my not observing how the new update to the Apple podcast app ruined the way the many episodes of the DBRP were being displayed. People--- including my son, David, were having difficulty finding the next episode they wanted to listen to. This is important because, around half of our audience are listening on Apple devices and primarily using the podcast app. So we lost many listeners at the first of the year. To address the problem, I have taken three categories from the DBRP podcast and moved them to two different new podcasts. This makes it so that menus and search results are less cluttered. So here’s how it will work for next year: If you want to listen to the NLT podcast series, starting on January 1st, use our first web site, which is dailybiblereading.info. You will find complete information about listening apps and how to subscribe in the ReadMe PDF file linked at the top of the site. New episodes of the NLT will be released every day. Links for everything I am talking about right now are given in the episode notes. If you want to listen to the GNT podcast series, those are no longer being released daily at the first site, but at the new one: dailygntbiblereading.info. Every day a new GNT episode will be released to all the podcast apps and will be available at that website. Complete information about listening apps and how to subscribe are found in the ReadMe PDF file linked at the top of the site. If you enjoyed the JoySightings series of podcasts, I have moved those to a new location: joysightings.info. See podcast subscription information at that site. The Joysightings.info site also is host to the DayStarters series. The Joysightings podcasts are for sharing Parables of all kinds, but especially those of Safed the Sage. The DayStarters podcasts are GNT NT readings which were prepared for our daughter Hannah, so that she could start homeschooling days for Ava and Joel by listening to grampa read and pray. The readings are just the NT portion from the GNT readings, and they do not cover the more difficult readings in the New Testament. See the table of contents for both the DayStarter and JoySightings podcasts at joysightings.info. Again I ask for your help! If you are an Apple device user and are still using the native Apple podcast app to listen to the original DBRP (not the newer GNT podcast), please tell me if you are more easily finding your episodes now. If there are problems, please send me a screenshot and tell me the difficulties you are having. In looking forward to the new year, I never encourage people to listen to my podcasts for two years in a row. If you’ve listened to me for one year, it is time to find a different voice. But this year I have something new to suggest to you! I am releasing a new 100% audio reading plan for the YouVersion Bible app called Read To Me Daily. This will be almost like listening to one of my podcasts--- almost, but not quite. You’ll only hear my voice for the first 3 minutes reading the devotional introduction. But after you play the audio on the devotional page, then the YouVersion app will automatically play the default audio recordings for the two OT portions and one NT portion in whatever version you are using. This obviously won’t work for Bibles which don’t have recordings. The translations I recommend using for this plan are the NLT, GNT and NIV. For those who have read the NLT and GNT recently, I suggest following the NIV this next year. Just to let you know: That’s the version I plan to read in 2019. One thing I like about this new RTMD YouVersion reading plan is the flexibility and the ease of use. Some people will choose to read on their own without activating the audio on days when that is convenient for them, but listen to the readings on days when they are commuting to work. Or, someone might listen one week to the readings in the GNT, and next week use the NIV recordings. Some people who delve deeper might choose to listen to some daily readings twice, perhaps once in the ESV and once in the NLT. Everything will be easy to do using just one app, the YouVersion Bible app. This Read To Me Daily reading plan will follow the same Digging Deeper Daily reading calendar as the DBRP. So on any day you might want to, you could jump to listening to your day number in one of the DBRP podcasts. The reason I recommend using the NLT, GNT, or NIV for the RTMD plan is because those three translations are easier to understand in audio form. This plan will be released in 4 semesters to cover the whole year. Please help me spread the word about the new RTMD plan. I will release an audio invitation soon. Please share it with your friends. Let me shift the topic back to the podcasts now: Recently I was talking to a man who has a ministry to the elderly in our town. It seems to me that the Amazon Alexa devices are the easiest way for elderly people to listen to the DBRP. I have already registered an Alexa skill for the DBRP, and I am applying for an Alexa skill for the Daily GNT Bible Reading podcast as well. Alexa devices like the Echo Dot start at just $29, but to use it, the person also needs to have a Wifi connection. By the last week of December, I will have new information in the ReadMe PDF file linked at the top of our websites that will tell you how to get things set up for using Alexa devices. Once you initiate the podcast on the Alexa device for your elderly friend, they can listen any time they want by saying, “Alexa, play the next episode of Daily Bible Reading Podcast.” The initial idea for the Daily Bible Reading Podcast was to leave the recordings as a legacy for our grandkids. So far none of our grandkids have made it through a whole year’s worth. They currently range in ages from 16 down to 3, so there is still hope that they will listen to grampa someday. With the help of our podcast publisher, the DBRP is able to be subscribed to in almost any podcast aggregator app (and there are many), plus Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, GooglePodcasts, iTunes and Apple podcasts, Facebook, YouTube, and soon in Pandora. I dropped the subscription to the dedicated Android and Apple podcast app, but I see that at least the Android app is still available in the Play Store. On my tablet, I noticed that the Android app is still working just fine. So for some of you, that may still be a hassle-free and advertising free way to listen. I still recommend the Podbean aggregator app for both Android and Apple devices, but it does show advertising while the podcast plays. There are two more apps from YouVersion (also publishing under the name LifeChurch) that I want to tell you about. The first is Bible Lens. This app makes it easy to put Bible verses with any pictures that you have in your mobile phone or tablet. You are given multiple ways to creatively format the verses, and the output is more artistic than is possible using the verse-image feature that is available inside the YouVersion Bible app. (You see the Image option whenever you highlight a verse.) The second terrific app from LifeChurch is Bible app for kids. This app is a very engaging way for kids from about 4-8 to listen to and watch Bible stories. The interface is like a game, and your kids will be able to navigate through and play the stories they want themselves. One of my spiritual fathers, Richard Burson, gave me Sam Shoemaker’s book, Extraordinary Living for Ordinary Man. In that book was Shoemaker’s poem, “I stand by the door.” I will read that poem at the end. [I have edited the poem, and it was already slightly modified by the one who posted it at the website I link to the episode notes.] But here I give just the first lines: I stand by the door.I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out,The door is the most important door in the world—It is the door through which people walk when they find God. Not just a few times I have been tempted to be envious of people who have such wonderful ministries to overflowing audiences or who are invited to lead organizations. Somehow, no one has ever chosen me for anything like that. This poem has encouraged me, because it seems like to me that God has called me to take my place near the door Shoemaker talks about. And truthfully, it has surprised me that God gave me an audience through my podcast. And guess what! We find now that ‘the door’ has moved. At the time Shoemaker wrote, the door might have been to a church or an organization like the one Sam Shoemaker founded, where people might come and find answers. Now the door is more often via YouTube, or Stitcher, Facebook, or the app called Whatsapp. God is still calling many people to come to Jesus. So many people are spiritually hungry and searching for answers. Please join me in standing near the door! Before I read the poem to close this podcast, I want to remind you to follow the link at the top of the episode notes to go to YouTube and subscribe to that channel. Let’s pray that this will help some find ‘the door’.   I stand by the door.I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out,The door is the most important door in the world—It is the door through which people walk when they find God.There’s no use my going way inside, and staying there,When so many are still outside, and they, as much as I,Crave to know where the door is.And all that so many ever findIs only the wall where a door ought to be.They creep along the wall like those who are blind.With outstretched, groping hands,Feeling for a door, knowing there must be a door,Yet they never find it . . .So I stand by the door.The most tremendous thing in the worldIs for people to find that door—the door to God.The most important thing any one can doIs to take hold of one of those blind, groping hands,And put it on the latch—the latch that only clicksAnd opens to one’s own touch.People die outside that door, as starving beggars dieOn cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter—Die for want of what is within their grasp.[While others//They live,] on the other side of [the door//it]—live because they have found it.Nothing else matters compared to helping [those on the outside//them] find it [too],And open it, and walk in, and find Him . . .So I stand by the door.Go in, great saints, go all the way in—Go way down into the cavernous cellars,And way up into the spacious attics—In a vast, roomy house, this house where God is.Go into the deepest of hidden casements,Of withdrawal, of silence, of sainthood.Some must inhabit those inner rooms,And know the depths and heights of God,And call outside to the rest of us how wonderful it is.Sometimes I take a deeper look in,Sometimes venture a little farther;But my place seems closer to the opening . . .So I stand by the door.The people too far in do not see how near [some others//these] areTo leaving— [those far-in ones being] preoccupied with the wonder of it all.Somebody must watch for those who have entered the door,But would like to run away. So for them, too,I stand by the door.I admire the people who go way in.But I wish they would not forget how it wasBefore they got in. Then they would be able to helpThe people who have not even found the door,Or the people who want to run away again from God.You can go in too deeply, and stay in too long,And forget the people outside the door.As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place,Near enough to God to hear Him, and know He is there,But not so far from people as not to hear them,And remember they are there too.Where [are they]? Outside the door—Thousands of them, millions of them.But—more important for me—One of them, two of them, ten of them,Whose hands I am intended to put on the latch,So I shall stand by the door and waitFor those who seek it.‘I had rather be a door-keeper . . .’So I stand by the door.

Hi, and Merry Christmas! I have plenty of information to share this time. I hope you are not too distracted while listening to all this! Would you like to see more people find the Daily Bible Reading Podcast? If so, here is a quick way you can really make a difference: Some time ago I made a channel for the DBRP on YouTube which is linked here in the episode notes. Please, even if you never intend to listen to an episode on YouTube, please click the link to subscribe to that channel. The more people that are subscribed, the higher our channel will appear in search results. At the beginning of 2019, I hope to be able to make Youtube playlists of episodes a month at a time, so that it becomes easier for people to actually listen to the DBRP using that platform. Youtube is the second most popular Internet search engine. So please help some people who are searching to discover the DBRP. Just click the link above and click to subscribe to our channel. Currently, there are only 8 people subscribed. The DBRP got off to a rough start in 2018. This was due to my not observing how the new update to the Apple podcast app ruined the way the many episodes of the DBRP were being displayed. People--- including my son, David, were having difficulty finding the next episode they wanted to listen to. This is important because, around half of our audience are listening on Apple devices and primarily using the podcast app. So we lost many listeners at the first of the year. To address the problem, I have taken three categories from the DBRP podcast and moved them to two different new podcasts. This makes it so that menus and search results are less cluttered. So here’s how it will work for next year: If you want to listen to the NLT podcast series, starting on January 1st, use our first web site, which is dailybiblereading.info. You will find complete information about listening apps and how to subscribe in the ReadMe PDF file linked at the top of the site. New episodes of the NLT will be released every day. Links for everything I am talking about right now are given in the episode notes. If you want to listen to the GNT podcast series, those are no longer being released daily at the first site, but at the new one: dailygntbiblereading.info. Every day a new GNT episode will be released to all the podcast apps and will be available at that website. Complete information about listening apps and how to subscribe are found in the ReadMe PDF file linked at the top of the site. If you enjoyed the JoySightings series of podcasts, I have moved those to a new location: joysightings.info. See podcast subscription information at that site. The Joysightings.info site also is host to the DayStarters series. The Joysightings podcasts are for sharing Parables of all kinds, but especially those of Safed the Sage. The DayStarters podcasts are GNT NT readings which were prepared for our daughter Hannah, so that she could start homeschooling days for Ava and Joel by listening to grampa read and pray. The readings are just the NT portion from the GNT readings, and they do not cover the more difficult readings in the New Testament. See the table of contents for both the DayStarter and JoySightings podcasts at joysightings.info. Again I ask for your help! If you are an Apple device user and are still using the native Apple podcast app to listen to the original DBRP (not the newer GNT podcast), please tell me if you are more easily finding your episodes now. If there are problems, please send me a screenshot and tell me the difficulties you are having. In looking forward to the new year, I never encourage people to listen to my podcasts for two years in a row. If you’ve listened to me for one year, it is time to find a different voice. But this year I have something new to suggest to you! I am releasing a new 100% audio reading plan for the YouVersion Bible app called Read To Me Daily. This will be almost like listening to one of my podcasts--- almost, but not quite. You’ll only hear my voice for the first 3 minutes reading the devotional introduction. But after you play the audio on the devotional page, then the YouVersion app will automatically play the default audio recordings for the two OT portions and one NT portion in whatever version you are using. This obviously won’t work for Bibles which don’t have recordings. The translations I recommend using for this plan are the NLT, GNT and NIV. For those who have read the NLT and GNT recently, I suggest following the NIV this next year. Just to let you know: That’s the version I plan to read in 2019. One thing I like about this new RTMD YouVersion reading plan is the flexibility and the ease of use. Some people will choose to read on their own without activating the audio on days when that is convenient for them, but listen to the readings on days when they are commuting to work. Or, someone might listen one week to the readings in the GNT, and next week use the NIV recordings. Some people who delve deeper might choose to listen to some daily readings twice, perhaps once in the ESV and once in the NLT. Everything will be easy to do using just one app, the YouVersion Bible app. This Read To Me Daily reading plan will follow the same Digging Deeper Daily reading calendar as the DBRP. So on any day you might want to, you could jump to listening to your day number in one of the DBRP podcasts. The reason I recommend using the NLT, GNT, or NIV for the RTMD plan is because those three translations are easier to understand in audio form. This plan will be released in 4 semesters to cover the whole year. Please help me spread the word about the new RTMD plan. I will release an audio invitation soon. Please share it with your friends. Let me shift the topic back to the podcasts now: Recently I was talking to a man who has a ministry to the elderly in our town. It seems to me that the Amazon Alexa devices are the easiest way for elderly people to listen to the DBRP. I have already registered an Alexa skill for the DBRP, and I am applying for an Alexa skill for the Daily GNT Bible Reading podcast as well. Alexa devices like the Echo Dot start at just $29, but to use it, the person also needs to have a Wifi connection. By the last week of December, I will have new information in the ReadMe PDF file linked at the top of our websites that will tell you how to get things set up for using Alexa devices. Once you initiate the podcast on the Alexa device for your elderly friend, they can listen any time they want by saying, “Alexa, play the next episode of Daily Bible Reading Podcast.” The initial idea for the Daily Bible Reading Podcast was to leave the recordings as a legacy for our grandkids. So far none of our grandkids have made it through a whole year’s worth. They currently range in ages from 16 down to 3, so there is still hope that they will listen to grampa someday. With the help of our podcast publisher, the DBRP is able to be subscribed to in almost any podcast aggregator app (and there are many), plus Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, GooglePodcasts, iTunes and Apple podcasts, Facebook, YouTube, and soon in Pandora. I dropped the subscription to the dedicated Android and Apple podcast app, but I see that at least the Android app is still available in the Play Store. On my tablet, I noticed that the Android app is still working just fine. So for some of you, that may still be a hassle-free and advertising free way to listen. I still recommend the Podbean aggregator app for both Android and Apple devices, but it does show advertising while the podcast plays. There are two more apps from YouVersion (also publishing under the name LifeChurch) that I want to tell you about. The first is Bible Lens. This app makes it easy to put Bible verses with any pictures that you have in your mobile phone or tablet. You are given multiple ways to creatively format the verses, and the output is more artistic than is possible using the verse-image feature that is available inside the YouVersion Bible app. (You see the Image option whenever you highlight a verse.) The second terrific app from LifeChurch is Bible app for kids. This app is a very engaging way for kids from about 4-8 to listen to and watch Bible stories. The interface is like a game, and your kids will be able to navigate through and play the stories they want themselves. One of my spiritual fathers, Richard Burson, gave me Sam Shoemaker’s book, Extraordinary Living for Ordinary Man. In that book was Shoemaker’s poem, “I stand by the door.” I will read that poem at the end. [I have edited the poem, and it was already slightly modified by the one who posted it at the website I link to the episode notes.] But here I give just the first lines: I stand by the door.I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out,The door is the most important door in the world—It is the door through which people walk when they find God. Not just a few times I have been tempted to be envious of people who have such wonderful ministries to overflowing audiences or who are invited to lead organizations. Somehow, no one has ever chosen me for anything like that. This poem has encouraged me, because it seems like to me that God has called me to take my place near the door Shoemaker talks about. And truthfully, it has surprised me that God gave me an audience through my podcast. And guess what! We find now that ‘the door’ has moved. At the time Shoemaker wrote, the door might have been to a church or an organization like the one Sam Shoemaker founded, where people might come and find answers. Now the door is more often via YouTube, or Stitcher, Facebook, or the app called Whatsapp. God is still calling many people to come to Jesus. So many people are spiritually hungry and searching for answers. Please join me in standing near the door! Before I read the poem to close this podcast, I want to remind you to follow the link at the top of the episode notes to go to YouTube and subscribe to that channel. Let’s pray that this will help some find ‘the door’.   I stand by the door.I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out,The door is the most important door in the world—It is the door through which people walk when they find God.There’s no use my going way inside, and staying there,When so many are still outside, and they, as much as I,Crave to know where the door is.And all that so many ever findIs only the wall where a door ought to be.They creep along the wall like those who are blind.With outstretched, groping hands,Feeling for a door, knowing there must be a door,Yet they never find it . . .So I stand by the door.The most tremendous thing in the worldIs for people to find that door—the door to God.The most important thing any one can doIs to take hold of one of those blind, groping hands,And put it on the latch—the latch that only clicksAnd opens to one’s own touch.People die outside that door, as starving beggars dieOn cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter—Die for want of what is within their grasp.[While others//They live,] on the other side of [the door//it]—live because they have found it.Nothing else matters compared to helping [those on the outside//them] find it [too],And open it, and walk in, and find Him . . .So I stand by the door.Go in, great saints, go all the way in—Go way down into the cavernous cellars,And way up into the spacious attics—In a vast, roomy house, this house where God is.Go into the deepest of hidden casements,Of withdrawal, of silence, of sainthood.Some must inhabit those inner rooms,And know the depths and heights of God,And call outside to the rest of us how wonderful it is.Sometimes I take a deeper look in,Sometimes venture a little farther;But my place seems closer to the opening . . .So I stand by the door.The people too far in do not see how near [some others//these] areTo leaving— [those far-in ones being] preoccupied with the wonder of it all.Somebody must watch for those who have entered the door,But would like to run away. So for them, too,I stand by the door.I admire the people who go way in.But I wish they would not forget how it wasBefore they got in. Then they would be able to helpThe people who have not even found the door,Or the people who want to run away again from God.You can go in too deeply, and stay in too long,And forget the people outside the door.As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place,Near enough to God to hear Him, and know He is there,But not so far from people as not to hear them,And remember they are there too.Where [are they]? Outside the door—Thousands of them, millions of them.But—more important for me—One of them, two of them, ten of them,Whose hands I am intended to put on the latch,So I shall stand by the door and waitFor those who seek it.‘I had rather be a door-keeper . . .’So I stand by the door.

Is life really just vanity and a chasing after wind, as the author of Ecclesiastes puts it? Or are we chosen, chosen for something that is, as Sam Shoemaker used to put it, fun?

In this Whispercast, Rick Enloe and Dave Hillis consider how Leadership Foundations has operationalized the vision that took root in Sam Shoemaker and Reid Carpenter over 50 years ago. Using church history, the LF story, and our new evaluation tools, they set up our next full length podcast with Patricia Talton, President and CEO of the Northwest Leadership Foundation. Listen here and send in any questions you would like answered to info@leadershipfoundations.org.

Story Behind Song 5:00 am Birdall by Sam Shoemaker: Nate Shoemaker, one of the Shoemaker Brothers band that is extremely popular in Southern California, discusses the story behind the sond 5:00 am Birdcall, written by Sam Shoemaker, on their album Reflections. The song was inspired by their shoestring road trip in 2009 all around the countrry booking shows via their iphones, staying up late, having fun but also experiencing tough times. Each Shoemaker Brother can play multiple instruments, such as guitar, piano, drums, bass, violin, and during a concert they are constantly switching roles, which brings freshness to each song that range from folk type ballads to high energy rock, from an Irish-Celtic type of sound to soul searching songs that paint a lilting picture of pain and hope. Sam, who served as a Marine in Iraq and participated in the massive Fallujah Campaign, in some ways is a de facto leader but the band actually comes as close to a true democracy that one can find. When sitting down to chat with all four Shoemaker Brothers, a feeling that all of them basically know what all the others are thinking or are about to say comes across. Loyal fans and musicians love the band and their gigs are well attended throughout Southern California. The Brothers draw large crowds at all the major venues and are booked and re-booked constantly. They have played Whiskey A Go Go, The Roxy, Canyon Club, World Fest, Camarillo Festival, Oak's Music Nights. They have also opened for major acts like Little Feet, Loggins and Messina, Los Lobos, Canned Heat, all this in one short year. For an unknown band just arrived in Los Angeles this kind of progress in such a short time is phenomenal.

Bill W. Rev. Sam Shoemaker, Fr. Ed Dowling etc

One of Bill W's spiritual advisors during the early years of AA.