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Send us Fan MailDaniël 3:17-18 Ons het ons God vir wie ons dien. Hy het die mag om ons te red uit die brandende oond, en Hy sal ons ook red uit u mag. Selfs as Hy dit nie doen nie, moet u weet dat ons u god nie sal dien nie, die goue beeld wat u laat oprig het, nie sal aanbid nie.” In tye van uiterse teëspoed moet ons elkeen besluit: Sal ek aanhou om op God te vertrou ... of moet ek maar opgee? En, laat ons dit duidelik stel, dis een van die moeilikste besluite wat jy ooit sal moet neem. Die skrywer, ‘n opregte gelowige, John White, vertel hoe hy, sy vrou en baba seuntjie, van die VSA na Bolivia moes vlieg. Hy moes, as gevolg van ander verpligtinge, ‘n later vlug haal. Hy het 'n nare voorgevoel gehad dat sy gesin tydens die vlug as gevolg van ‘n vliegtuigongeluk gaan sterf; maar hy het dit nie met sy vrou bespreek nie. Nadat sy gesin opgestyg het, het hy gevoelens van vrees, skaamte, skuld en naarheid ervaar. Bewend het hy gebid. En God het hom geantwoord deur te vra: Wat is fout? Kan jy my nie vertrou nie? Ja, ek sal U vertrou as U hulle veilig aan my teruggee.En as ek hulle nie teruggee nie, sal jy ophou om my te vertrou? Kan jy hulle nie aan my toevertrou in die dood sowel as die lewe nie?In geloof het White geantwoord: Ek sal u wil doen; wat dit vir my, of vir hulle, ook al mag kos. Ek sal U vertrou. Hulle vliegtuig het inderdaad neergestort en almal aan boord is dood. Maar sy vrou het ook 'n ongerustheid in haar hart gehad en besluit om haar vlug te onderbreek. Sy was nie op die laaste been van die vlug aan boord toe die tragedie plaasgevind het nie. Na die tyd het John gesê: Ek sou getreur het indien hulle dood was. Maar ek sou nie spyt gewees het oor my besluit om ten volle op Christus te vertrou nie.Kyk wat Sadrag, Mesag en Abednego vir koning Nebukadnesar gesê het:Daniël 3:17-18 Ons het ons God vir wie ons dien. Hy het die mag om ons te red uit die brandende oond, en Hy sal ons ook red uit u mag. Selfs as Hy dit nie doen nie, moet u weet dat ons u god nie sal dien nie, die goue beeld wat u laat oprig het, nie sal aanbid nie.My vriend, vertrou op God .. in jou donkerste uur; selfs al hang die uitkoms in die weegskaal; selfs al gebeur die ergste. Vertrou op God. Dis Sy Woord. Vars ... vir jou ... vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

NamRA het vandag die opeenhoping van vragmotors by die Katima Mulilo-grenspos aangespreek. Die probleem het ontstaan nadat die nuwe geoutomatiseerde stelsel vir doeanedata, of ASYCUDA, in gebruik geneem is. Dit hanteer vragmanifeste en doeaneverklarings, tesame met rekeningkundige, transito- en opskortingsprosedures. Volgens NamRA-kommissaris Sam Shivute was konnektiwiteit 'n kwessie, maar ook werknemers wat deeglik opgelei moet wees. Hy sê digitalisering kan lei tot werkverliese, maar NamRA het meer werkers nodig.

Send us Fan MailGalasiërs 6:2-3 Dra mekaar se laste, en gee op dié manier uitvoering aan die wet van Christus. As iemand hom verbeel hy is iets en hy is niks, bedrieg hy homself. Party mense kan so ongelooflik frustrerend wees, nè? Hoekom kan hulle nie my standpunt insien nie? Hoekom verstaan hulle dit nie? Wat is fout met hulle? Ek wil jou sê dat as jy só aanhou, jy 'n bitter en verwronge mens gaan wees.Voordat ek tot bekering gekom het, was my gunsteling gesegde altyd: Dis so moeilik om soos 'n arend te sweef wanneer jy tussen die hoenders woon.Dit klink nogal skerp, nè? Maar as jy 'n bietjie dieper delf, loop dit oor van skynheiligheid, veral as iemand wat sê dat hy ‘n Christen is, dit sê. Hoekom? Omdat dit gaan oor 'n gevoel van meerderwaardigheid, 'n minagting van ander, 'n blaamverskuiwende houding - dinge wat Jesus dikwels bestraf het.Selfs toe ek uiteindelik my lewe aan Hom gegee het, was dit steeds 'n reis van baie jare om werklik van daardie afbrekende houding ontslae te raak.Maar God is baie duidelik hieroor. Jy kan nie so arrogant wees en tog beweer dat jy sy liefde ken nie. Ja, my liewe mens, hierdie by die hoenders woon-houding vernietig die wêreld waarin ons leef.Wat is die oplossing? Wel, hier staan dit in:Galasiërs 6:2-3 Dra mekaar se laste, en gee op dié manier uitvoering aan die wet van Christus. As iemand hom verbeel hy is iets en hy is niks, bedrieg hy homself.Nederigheid is die teenoorgestelde van selfvoldane arrogansie, nie waar nie? Trouens, ek en jy lyk vir hierdie wêreld soos Jesus wanneer ons onsself verneder om hulle met hul probleme te help; of wanneer ons ons vyande liefhet; of wanneer ons ingryp om hulle wonde te verbind.En as julle dink julle is te belangrik om dit te doen, flous julle net julleself.Dis God se Woord. Vars ... vir jou ... vandag.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I’m currently teaching my second round of Gnostic Insights to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, also known as OLLI, at Southern Oregon University, and we’re going through step by step this concept of Gnosticism that I share with you here at Gnostic Insights and on the Gnostic Reformation. So I’m going to back up with you and take a deep dive into the scriptures of the Tripartite Tractate that we use as the basis here for the Gnosticism that I share with you. Today we’re going to talk about how the Aeons of the Fullness of God were generated. And the reason we talk about the Aeons so much is because we are downstream from the Aeons. We are representatives of all of the traits of the Aeons—we second-order powers, and we humans in particular, since I am a human talking to other humans here. So everything I say about the Aeons and how they relate to the Father and how they relate to the Son and to each other, we have that nature inside of us as well, because it is a flowing stream of consciousness that begins at the Father, passes through the Son, passes through the totalities and into the Aeons, and then down into us. So let’s review this basic Gnostic wisdom here. The instant the all became self-aware, the all fell out of their unthinking, blissful union as one, and arranged themselves into what’s called the Fullness. “Each one of the Aeons is a name, that is, each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names.” By this point in the Tripartite Tractate, the Son comes to be referred to as the Father, because the Son is the Father of the third glory, that is, the Aeons of the Fullness. We see here that the Son, although a singular monad, is still a unity of many Aeons. The Son becomes knowable through the innumerable properties and names of the Aeons. What does it mean by names? I think that these names are the first appearance of what we would come to call ego. These disparate identities include names like flower, tree, dog, human, even parts of living bodies who themselves are alive, like kidney cells. They’re not names like my name or like Frank or George. They are not those types of identities. These are functional identities. The Aeons then arrange themselves into a hierarchy of, “minds of minds, which are found to be words of words, elders of elders, degrees of degrees, which are exalted above one another. Each one of those who give glory has his place and his exaltation and his dwelling and his rest, which consists of the glory which he brings forth.” Now, the hierarchy of the Fullness prefigures the fractal patterns of our universe. Minds over minds, words over words, superiors over superiors, as Thomason’s translation puts it, refers to the personalities and how they relate to one another. Elders of elders and degrees of degrees refers to the manner by which things are sorted, stacked, and ordered—first, second, third, superior, inferior, and so on. Each with its own place, exaltation, dwelling, and rest reflects the fact that each self-aware entity has its own unique place in the grand scheme, its own personal expression or exaltation, a location different than its neighbors, thus possessing its very own point of view. So it’s not about hierarchies of men the way humans tend to think of it. It’s not about, well—look at the hierarchy of government or the hierarchy of the Catholic church. It’s not about the peons at the bottom, and then you come a little higher into the elders, and then you have the priests, and then you have the cardinals, and bishops, and the pope. That isn’t the kind of hierarchy we’re talking about. It’s the way that our bodies go together, for example. Our cells are smaller than our organs. Our organs are smaller than the organism. They stack upward, and part of the Gnostic gospel is the higher the fewer precept. You hear that a lot in Gnosticism, the higher the fewer. That simply refers to how a hierarchy stacks, like a pyramid. There’s more objects at the bottom and fewer as you go up and up until you culminate in one. So that is what it means to be the hierarchy of the Fullness. The Fullnesses at the bottom are more akin to the cells in our bodies, and then as you go up and up the pyramid, you finally arrive at the organism. The Aeons sorted themselves into the Hierarchy of God “It is he, the Father, who gave root impulses to the Aeons, since there are places on the path which leads toward him, as toward his school of behavior. He has extended to them faith in and prayer to him whom they do not see, and a firm hope in him of whom they do not concede, and a fruitful love which looks toward to that which it does not see, and an acceptable understanding of the eternal mind, and a blessing which is riches and freedom, and a wisdom of the one who desires the glory of the Father for his thought.” The originating Father continually emanates a holy spirit out through the Son that entices its generations to seek out their source. The Tripartite Tractate says, “It is by virtue of his will that the Father, the one who is exalted, is known, that is, by virtue of the spirit which breathes in the Totalities, and it gives them an idea of seeking after the unknown one, just as one is drawn by a pleasant aroma to search for the thing from which the aroma arises, since the aroma of the Father surpasses these ordinary ones, for his sweetness leaves the Aeons in ineffable pleasure, and it gives them their idea of mingling with him, who wants them to know him in a united way, and to assist one another in the spirit which is sown within them.” And remember, all of this applies to us humans as well. This is the way we are to seek the Father, the way we are to relate to each other. It is said that although the Father put an unquenchable thirst to align themselves with the one into the minds of the Fullness, he did not reveal to them the Father’s ineffable nature and the impossibility of reuniting with him and surviving to tell the tale. This was doubtless to keep alive the hope of reunification with the Father as a motive for continually giving glory. Now all of this has been from Tripartite Tractate verse 75. “The Aeons of the Fullness sat in perfect equilibrium in their hierarchy of ranks, stations, and names. They were a congress of one accord,” meaning they agreed on everything and they cooperated together to bring about a single dream of paradise. You could note one difference between the ALL and the Fullness is that while the ALL sings their songs in blissful union, the Fullness sings their songs in perfectly tuned, multi-toned harmony. In addition to their identities, “the Aeons of the Fullness were all given wisdom,” which is the ability to reason with logic and prudence. You see, by the way, they weren’t given emotion, which is the ability to get passionate about things whether or not it’s reasonable or logical. So we are to follow the path of logic and prudence. Prudence means knowing to do the right thing at the right time. “They were given a thirst to seek after the originating consciousness of their creator and a desire to align themselves with the Father’s will through the process of giving glory.” And they were all creative geniuses, able to dream up a fully functioning mental paradise where whatever they willed in the Father’s name happily happened. This dream of paradise is our foretaste of heaven shared by cultures around the world. The hierarchy of the Fullness of God sits as One and dreams of Paradise The generation of the Aeons was not a one-and-done deal. And by the way, generation used in this sense of the word, it’s not generation like I am one generation and my parents were a different generation. It’s not that kind of generation. It means to generate, to create, to emit. The generation of the Aeons was not a one-and-done deal. After their initial emanation out of the ALL, the Aeons continued to generate more and more Aeons through various combinations of Aeons giving glory. The pattern by which these younger Aeons were generated was the same as the manner by which the original Aeons of the Aeons were generated as an exchange of love and admiration passed between the Father and the Fullnesses. The Aeons of the Aeons praised the Father together and together they received the Father’s reflected glory. You see, these Aeons of the Aeons, what we are calling the ALL, did not have self-identity. They were all for one and one for all. You can remember it that way. This exchange of praise from the Aeons and reflected glory from the Father resulted in the generation of new aeonic emanations. As we have already noted, the exchange of admirations and glory between the Father and son was like, “the multitude of some who kiss one another with a good insatiable thought. The kiss being a unity, although it involves many kisses.” And like all fractals, this pattern replicated itself throughout the generations that followed. These kisses first formed the generation of the ALL. Then the ALL, also known as the Totalities of the ALL, procreated, “innumerable Aeons also in an uncountable way. They too beget by the properties and dispositions in which it exists. For these comprise its association, which they form toward one another and toward those who have come forth from them, toward the Son, for whose glory they exist. As a result, just as they were brought forth in glory for the Father, so too, in order to appear perfect, they appeared acting by giving glory. Since each one of them individually does not exist so as to give glory in a unitary way to him whom he loves. The fruit of the third glory, however, consists of honors of the will of each one of the Aeons and each one of those properties.” This is saying that the entire system of the Aeons has a love and longing for the perfect, complete discovery of the Father, and that the Father, “grants that he be conceived of in such a way as to be sought for while keeping to himself his unsearchable primordial being.” So this is why we have a desire to seek after the Father, you see. We aren’t ever going to reach the Father. We’re not going to plug back into the Father in a mindless, self-effacing way, the way that, for example, Hindus or Buddhists might think. We will retain our identities because, as you are about to find out, the Aeons of the Aeons gave birth to Aeons who had self-identity. The Tripartite Tractate goes on to say that the Father, “gave root impulses to the Aeons since there are places on the path which leads towards him as towards a school of behavior. He has extended to them faith in and prayer to him whom they do not see and a firm hope in him of whom they do not conceive and a fruitful love which looks toward that which it does not see and an acceptable understanding of the eternal mind and a blessing which is riches and freedom and wisdom of the one who desires the glory of the Father for his thought. “They have begotten for he has knowledge and wisdom and the Totalities knew that it is from knowledge and wisdom that they have come forth. They would have brought forth a seeming honor, the Father is the one who is the Totalities, if the Aeons had risen up to give honor individually. Therefore, in the Song of glorification and in the power of the unity of him from whom they have come, they were drawn into a mingling and a combination and a unity with one another. They offered glory worthy of the Father from the pleromatic congregation, which is a single representation, although many, because it was brought forth as a glory for the Single One and because they came forth toward the one who is himself the Totalities.” This verse describes how the Aeons mingle and combine with one another to give glory to the Father. All possible combinations of Aeons are needed in order to express the complexity of the otherwise ineffable Father. Each and every Aeon combined and recombined and the glory they gave the Father was returned to them as additional Aeons, earning their designation as the Fullness of God. “Those of that place are ineffable and innumerable in the system, which is both the manner and the size, the joy, the gladness of the unbegotten, the unnamed, the unnameable, the inconceivable, invisible one. It is the Fullness of paternity so that his abundance is a begetting of the Aeons of the Aeons. They were forever in thought for the Father was like a thought and a place for them.” In their desire to give glory to the Father, that is to align their wills with the Father’s will, Aeons of the Fullness were required to follow these three simple rules. They were to only, give glory to the Father, not to the Fullnesses. Aeons were to remain aligned with the Son and not shift their focus to the Fullness as a whole. give glory to the Father, not to individual Aeons. Aeons were to remain always mindful of the Father and not to give glory to themselves and their talented neighbors as individuals. give glory to the Father to the best of their own ability. Each Aeon was to give glory from its own location in the hierarchy. They were not to sidle up next to an Aeon who appeared closer to the Father in order to borrow that Aeon’s station to give better glory. Rather, the individual was to develop its own voice and talents through the process of giving glory to the Father.These rules come from the Tripartite Tractate, verse 74. By following these rules, the Aeons kept their focus on the Father and their motivations pure. While this may be a description of Aeons and how they think and feel, it is also a description of us, because we are the fruit of the Aeons. So every characteristic that the Aeons possess, we also possess. In other words, we are supposed to give glory out of where we are, who we are. We’re not supposed to adopt the gnosis of a master or a leader or a pope or a priest or a person in a workshop that you’ve run across on the internet. We have our own wisdom. We are to look inward for the gnosis that we bring to the table, and we give unique glory from our point of view. The final Aeon that was produced as an emanation of the Pleroma of the Fullness arose by all of the Aeons giving glory together. The Fullness thus produced a final Aeon whom the Tripartite Tractate calls by the name Logos. Because Logos was produced through the entirety of the Pleroma giving glory as one, this Aeon possessed within itself all of the characteristics of the entire Pleroma. Logos was not the equivalent of the Pleroma, though. Rather, Logos contained within itself a fractal iteration of all the other Aeons. Because of this, Logos in his entirety resembled a model representation of the hierarchy of God, a fractal level down from the Aeons. That’s why in my illustration of the Fullness, I depict a large pyramid of golden orbs, those being the Aeons, topped by a smaller pyramid resembling the entirety of the Pleroma. That smaller pyramid on top is Logos. The aeons name themselves and sort themselves into a hierarchy. Logos crowns the Fullness. And, like Logos, we also carry fractals of the Fullness of God within our Selfs, and that’s Self with a big S, Self, to contrast it with the ego. The ego is our designation, it’s our address, it’s our duties, places, positions, things we do in the world. Ego is what relates to others around us. Ego is what brings us the things we need to sustain our bodies. But our big S Self is the fractal of the Fullness of God within each one of us, and within each part of ourselves. It’s within each one of our cells. The way we have DNA, we also have the fractals of the Fullness of God. And these are the fractal consciousness that has come down to us. People sometimes say to me, oh, this is all so complicated. But hey, if you’ve read the Nag Hammadi or any other Gnostic traditions, you will find out that this is way simpler than those are. It isn’t complicated as long as you remember and realize that our consciousness is a direct emanation from the Father above, passing through these various stations, that’s all. And each time consciousness passes through one of these stations below it, it branches out. It keeps branching out into a more tangible form, until it reaches us down here in this material world. It’s the same consciousness as the Father we carry within us, the Fullness of God. And as long as you remember where you come from, and you remember that this world we live in is temporary, and the death and destruction and disappointment that we experience down here is a result of the fall away from the Fullness, then we have hope. We have that fragrance of the Father drifting us back upward for reuniting with our parents in the Fullness of God. So I’m just describing this all to you, but it’s not like you really have to know it. It’s nothing you need to memorize. All you need to know is that you come from above, that you are loved, that you carry the very consciousness of the Great Father, the God above all gods within you, and the love and joy and sweetness of the Father. And then if we live our lives down here as the Aeons do, all will be good, not governed by ego, but governed by that One Self that we carry within us, the love, the consciousness, the sharing, the simple golden rule of reaching out to our neighbors with love, information, and assistance for the betterment of all. And that none of us can do it on our own, because we’re just one small fragment way downstream from the Fullness and the Father. God bless us all, and onward and upward! 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Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I’m currently teaching my second round of Gnostic Insights to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, also known as OLLI, at Southern Oregon University, and we’re going through step by step this concept of Gnosticism that I share with you here at Gnostic Insights and on the Gnostic Reformation. So I’m going to back up with you and take a deep dive into the scriptures of the Tripartite Tractate that we use as the basis here for the Gnosticism that I share with you. Today we’re going to talk about how the Aeons of the Fullness of God were generated. And the reason we talk about the Aeons so much is because we are downstream from the Aeons. We are representatives of all of the traits of the Aeons—we second-order powers, and we humans in particular, since I am a human talking to other humans here. So everything I say about the Aeons and how they relate to the Father and how they relate to the Son and to each other, we have that nature inside of us as well, because it is a flowing stream of consciousness that begins at the Father, passes through the Son, passes through the totalities and into the Aeons, and then down into us. So let’s review this basic Gnostic wisdom here. The instant the all became self-aware, the all fell out of their unthinking, blissful union as one, and arranged themselves into what’s called the Fullness. “Each one of the Aeons is a name, that is, each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names.” By this point in the Tripartite Tractate, the Son comes to be referred to as the Father, because the Son is the Father of the third glory, that is, the Aeons of the Fullness. We see here that the Son, although a singular monad, is still a unity of many Aeons. The Son becomes knowable through the innumerable properties and names of the Aeons. What does it mean by names? I think that these names are the first appearance of what we would come to call ego. These disparate identities include names like flower, tree, dog, human, even parts of living bodies who themselves are alive, like kidney cells. They’re not names like my name or like Frank or George. They are not those types of identities. These are functional identities. The Aeons then arrange themselves into a hierarchy of, “minds of minds, which are found to be words of words, elders of elders, degrees of degrees, which are exalted above one another. Each one of those who give glory has his place and his exaltation and his dwelling and his rest, which consists of the glory which he brings forth.” Now, the hierarchy of the Fullness prefigures the fractal patterns of our universe. Minds over minds, words over words, superiors over superiors, as Thomason’s translation puts it, refers to the personalities and how they relate to one another. Elders of elders and degrees of degrees refers to the manner by which things are sorted, stacked, and ordered—first, second, third, superior, inferior, and so on. Each with its own place, exaltation, dwelling, and rest reflects the fact that each self-aware entity has its own unique place in the grand scheme, its own personal expression or exaltation, a location different than its neighbors, thus possessing its very own point of view. So it’s not about hierarchies of men the way humans tend to think of it. It’s not about, well—look at the hierarchy of government or the hierarchy of the Catholic church. It’s not about the peons at the bottom, and then you come a little higher into the elders, and then you have the priests, and then you have the cardinals, and bishops, and the pope. That isn’t the kind of hierarchy we’re talking about. It’s the way that our bodies go together, for example. Our cells are smaller than our organs. Our organs are smaller than the organism. They stack upward, and part of the Gnostic gospel is the higher the fewer precept. You hear that a lot in Gnosticism, the higher the fewer. That simply refers to how a hierarchy stacks, like a pyramid. There’s more objects at the bottom and fewer as you go up and up until you culminate in one. So that is what it means to be the hierarchy of the Fullness. The Fullnesses at the bottom are more akin to the cells in our bodies, and then as you go up and up the pyramid, you finally arrive at the organism. The Aeons sorted themselves into the Hierarchy of God “It is he, the Father, who gave root impulses to the Aeons, since there are places on the path which leads toward him, as toward his school of behavior. He has extended to them faith in and prayer to him whom they do not see, and a firm hope in him of whom they do not concede, and a fruitful love which looks toward to that which it does not see, and an acceptable understanding of the eternal mind, and a blessing which is riches and freedom, and a wisdom of the one who desires the glory of the Father for his thought.” The originating Father continually emanates a holy spirit out through the Son that entices its generations to seek out their source. The Tripartite Tractate says, “It is by virtue of his will that the Father, the one who is exalted, is known, that is, by virtue of the spirit which breathes in the Totalities, and it gives them an idea of seeking after the unknown one, just as one is drawn by a pleasant aroma to search for the thing from which the aroma arises, since the aroma of the Father surpasses these ordinary ones, for his sweetness leaves the Aeons in ineffable pleasure, and it gives them their idea of mingling with him, who wants them to know him in a united way, and to assist one another in the spirit which is sown within them.” And remember, all of this applies to us humans as well. This is the way we are to seek the Father, the way we are to relate to each other. It is said that although the Father put an unquenchable thirst to align themselves with the one into the minds of the Fullness, he did not reveal to them the Father’s ineffable nature and the impossibility of reuniting with him and surviving to tell the tale. This was doubtless to keep alive the hope of reunification with the Father as a motive for continually giving glory. Now all of this has been from Tripartite Tractate verse 75. “The Aeons of the Fullness sat in perfect equilibrium in their hierarchy of ranks, stations, and names. They were a congress of one accord,” meaning they agreed on everything and they cooperated together to bring about a single dream of paradise. You could note one difference between the ALL and the Fullness is that while the ALL sings their songs in blissful union, the Fullness sings their songs in perfectly tuned, multi-toned harmony. In addition to their identities, “the Aeons of the Fullness were all given wisdom,” which is the ability to reason with logic and prudence. You see, by the way, they weren’t given emotion, which is the ability to get passionate about things whether or not it’s reasonable or logical. So we are to follow the path of logic and prudence. Prudence means knowing to do the right thing at the right time. “They were given a thirst to seek after the originating consciousness of their creator and a desire to align themselves with the Father’s will through the process of giving glory.” And they were all creative geniuses, able to dream up a fully functioning mental paradise where whatever they willed in the Father’s name happily happened. This dream of paradise is our foretaste of heaven shared by cultures around the world. The hierarchy of the Fullness of God sits as One and dreams of Paradise The generation of the Aeons was not a one-and-done deal. And by the way, generation used in this sense of the word, it’s not generation like I am one generation and my parents were a different generation. It’s not that kind of generation. It means to generate, to create, to emit. The generation of the Aeons was not a one-and-done deal. After their initial emanation out of the ALL, the Aeons continued to generate more and more Aeons through various combinations of Aeons giving glory. The pattern by which these younger Aeons were generated was the same as the manner by which the original Aeons of the Aeons were generated as an exchange of love and admiration passed between the Father and the Fullnesses. The Aeons of the Aeons praised the Father together and together they received the Father’s reflected glory. You see, these Aeons of the Aeons, what we are calling the ALL, did not have self-identity. They were all for one and one for all. You can remember it that way. This exchange of praise from the Aeons and reflected glory from the Father resulted in the generation of new aeonic emanations. As we have already noted, the exchange of admirations and glory between the Father and son was like, “the multitude of some who kiss one another with a good insatiable thought. The kiss being a unity, although it involves many kisses.” And like all fractals, this pattern replicated itself throughout the generations that followed. These kisses first formed the generation of the ALL. Then the ALL, also known as the Totalities of the ALL, procreated, “innumerable Aeons also in an uncountable way. They too beget by the properties and dispositions in which it exists. For these comprise its association, which they form toward one another and toward those who have come forth from them, toward the Son, for whose glory they exist. As a result, just as they were brought forth in glory for the Father, so too, in order to appear perfect, they appeared acting by giving glory. Since each one of them individually does not exist so as to give glory in a unitary way to him whom he loves. The fruit of the third glory, however, consists of honors of the will of each one of the Aeons and each one of those properties.” This is saying that the entire system of the Aeons has a love and longing for the perfect, complete discovery of the Father, and that the Father, “grants that he be conceived of in such a way as to be sought for while keeping to himself his unsearchable primordial being.” So this is why we have a desire to seek after the Father, you see. We aren’t ever going to reach the Father. We’re not going to plug back into the Father in a mindless, self-effacing way, the way that, for example, Hindus or Buddhists might think. We will retain our identities because, as you are about to find out, the Aeons of the Aeons gave birth to Aeons who had self-identity. The Tripartite Tractate goes on to say that the Father, “gave root impulses to the Aeons since there are places on the path which leads towards him as towards a school of behavior. He has extended to them faith in and prayer to him whom they do not see and a firm hope in him of whom they do not conceive and a fruitful love which looks toward that which it does not see and an acceptable understanding of the eternal mind and a blessing which is riches and freedom and wisdom of the one who desires the glory of the Father for his thought. “They have begotten for he has knowledge and wisdom and the Totalities knew that it is from knowledge and wisdom that they have come forth. They would have brought forth a seeming honor, the Father is the one who is the Totalities, if the Aeons had risen up to give honor individually. Therefore, in the Song of glorification and in the power of the unity of him from whom they have come, they were drawn into a mingling and a combination and a unity with one another. They offered glory worthy of the Father from the pleromatic congregation, which is a single representation, although many, because it was brought forth as a glory for the Single One and because they came forth toward the one who is himself the Totalities.” This verse describes how the Aeons mingle and combine with one another to give glory to the Father. All possible combinations of Aeons are needed in order to express the complexity of the otherwise ineffable Father. Each and every Aeon combined and recombined and the glory they gave the Father was returned to them as additional Aeons, earning their designation as the Fullness of God. “Those of that place are ineffable and innumerable in the system, which is both the manner and the size, the joy, the gladness of the unbegotten, the unnamed, the unnameable, the inconceivable, invisible one. It is the Fullness of paternity so that his abundance is a begetting of the Aeons of the Aeons. They were forever in thought for the Father was like a thought and a place for them.” In their desire to give glory to the Father, that is to align their wills with the Father’s will, Aeons of the Fullness were required to follow these three simple rules. They were to only, give glory to the Father, not to the Fullnesses. Aeons were to remain aligned with the Son and not shift their focus to the Fullness as a whole. give glory to the Father, not to individual Aeons. Aeons were to remain always mindful of the Father and not to give glory to themselves and their talented neighbors as individuals. give glory to the Father to the best of their own ability. Each Aeon was to give glory from its own location in the hierarchy. They were not to sidle up next to an Aeon who appeared closer to the Father in order to borrow that Aeon’s station to give better glory. Rather, the individual was to develop its own voice and talents through the process of giving glory to the Father.These rules come from the Tripartite Tractate, verse 74. By following these rules, the Aeons kept their focus on the Father and their motivations pure. While this may be a description of Aeons and how they think and feel, it is also a description of us, because we are the fruit of the Aeons. So every characteristic that the Aeons possess, we also possess. In other words, we are supposed to give glory out of where we are, who we are. We’re not supposed to adopt the gnosis of a master or a leader or a pope or a priest or a person in a workshop that you’ve run across on the internet. We have our own wisdom. We are to look inward for the gnosis that we bring to the table, and we give unique glory from our point of view. The final Aeon that was produced as an emanation of the Pleroma of the Fullness arose by all of the Aeons giving glory together. The Fullness thus produced a final Aeon whom the Tripartite Tractate calls by the name Logos. Because Logos was produced through the entirety of the Pleroma giving glory as one, this Aeon possessed within itself all of the characteristics of the entire Pleroma. Logos was not the equivalent of the Pleroma, though. Rather, Logos contained within itself a fractal iteration of all the other Aeons. Because of this, Logos in his entirety resembled a model representation of the hierarchy of God, a fractal level down from the Aeons. That’s why in my illustration of the Fullness, I depict a large pyramid of golden orbs, those being the Aeons, topped by a smaller pyramid resembling the entirety of the Pleroma. That smaller pyramid on top is Logos. The aeons name themselves and sort themselves into a hierarchy. Logos crowns the Fullness. And, like Logos, we also carry fractals of the Fullness of God within our Selfs, and that’s Self with a big S, Self, to contrast it with the ego. The ego is our designation, it’s our address, it’s our duties, places, positions, things we do in the world. Ego is what relates to others around us. Ego is what brings us the things we need to sustain our bodies. But our big S Self is the fractal of the Fullness of God within each one of us, and within each part of ourselves. It’s within each one of our cells. The way we have DNA, we also have the fractals of the Fullness of God. And these are the fractal consciousness that has come down to us. People sometimes say to me, oh, this is all so complicated. But hey, if you’ve read the Nag Hammadi or any other Gnostic traditions, you will find out that this is way simpler than those are. It isn’t complicated as long as you remember and realize that our consciousness is a direct emanation from the Father above, passing through these various stations, that’s all. And each time consciousness passes through one of these stations below it, it branches out. It keeps branching out into a more tangible form, until it reaches us down here in this material world. It’s the same consciousness as the Father we carry within us, the Fullness of God. And as long as you remember where you come from, and you remember that this world we live in is temporary, and the death and destruction and disappointment that we experience down here is a result of the fall away from the Fullness, then we have hope. We have that fragrance of the Father drifting us back upward for reuniting with our parents in the Fullness of God. So I’m just describing this all to you, but it’s not like you really have to know it. It’s nothing you need to memorize. All you need to know is that you come from above, that you are loved, that you carry the very consciousness of the Great Father, the God above all gods within you, and the love and joy and sweetness of the Father. And then if we live our lives down here as the Aeons do, all will be good, not governed by ego, but governed by that One Self that we carry within us, the love, the consciousness, the sharing, the simple golden rule of reaching out to our neighbors with love, information, and assistance for the betterment of all. And that none of us can do it on our own, because we’re just one small fragment way downstream from the Fullness and the Father. God bless us all, and onward and upward! 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Send us Fan MailJohannes 8:31-34 Toe sê Jesus vir die Jode wat in Hom glo: “As julle aan my woorde getrou bly, is julle waarlik my dissipels; en julle sal die waarheid ken, en die waarheid sal julle vrymaak.”Hulle het Hom geantwoord: “Ons is die nageslag van Abraham en was nog nooit iemand se slawe nie. Hoe kan jy sê: ‘Julle sal vry word'?”Jesus sê toe vir hulle: “Dít verseker Ek julle: Elkeen wat sonde doen, is 'n slaaf van die sonde.” Selfs die magtigste mense in die wêreld kan slawe van hul eie bose begeertes en van hul verkeerde motiewe wees. En dieselfde geld vir gewone mense soos ek en jy.J. Edgar Hoover, die eerste Direkteur van die FBI, het vir byna vyf dekades geweldige mag uitgeoefen. Maar onder sy rustige uiterlike het daar 'n diep onsekerheid en begeerte na mag gelê. Hy was obsessief oor sy openbare beeld. Hy het geheime lêers oor politici, aktiviste en selfs presidente gehou en dit gebruik om deur vrees en intimidasie sy posisie te beskerm.Hy het ander mense verdoem en vervolg vir hulle morele mislukkings, terwyl hy geweier het om sy eie verborge demone te konfronteer. Hy kon 'n nalatenskap van hervorming en integriteit nagelaat het. Maar, in plaas daarvan, het hy gesterf met ‘n nare reputasie van mag in die vorm van intimidasie, geheimhouding en vrees.Sonde verslaaf ons; of ons dit wil weet of nie. Ons dink nie aan onsself as slawe nie, maar dit verander nie die feit dat ons wel slawe is nie.Johannes 8:31-34 Toe sê Jesus vir die Jode wat in Hom glo: "As julle aan my woorde getrou bly, is julle waarlik my dissipels; en julle sal die waarheid ken, en die waarheid sal julle vrymaak."Hulle het Hom geantwoord: "Ons is die nageslag van Abraham en was nog nooit iemand se slawe nie. Hoe kan jy sê “Julle sal vry word'?"Jesus sê toe vir hulle: "Dit verseker Ek julle: Elkeen wat sonde doen, is 'n slaaf van die sonde.”Kom ons wees eerlik. Sonde maak ons slawe. Dit is ‘n feit; Jesus sê self so. Maar Jesus het gekom om ons vry te maak; om jou vry te maak. Dis God se Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

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Luister hier na die klankopname of op die potgooi-platform van jou keuse of lees die blog-inskrywing hier onder. . . Naleef-gedagte: …in-wording (onder konstruksie) Deon se gesels oor die Hebreeuse woord, die kern van Israel se geloof, die Shema (Deut 6) ,en die postuur van luister, het my laat dink aan die luisteryke “Heilige familie kerk” (La Sagrada Familia) in Barcelona. Die bouwerk aan hierdie indrukwekkende Katedraal, ontwerp deur die Spaanse Argitek Antoni Gaudí, het in 1882 begin. Hulle beplan om na 144 jaar in Junie 2026 die bouwerk klaar te maak — 100 jaar na Gaudi se dood! Met Gaudi se dood in 1926 was die bouwerk maar ongeveer 20% ver. N.a.v kritiek oor die lang bouproses het hy blykbaar opgemerk “My client is not in a hurry.” Na sy dood was daar 'n Spaanse burgeroolog in 1936 en Gaudi se oorspronklike planne en modelle is vernietig en 'n hele paar argitekte ná hom moes namens Gaudi die planne en modelle rekonstrueer. Hoewel die bouery al vir jare voortduur ,en nog nie klaar is nie, is die Katedraal al lankal in gebruik. Die Pous het die gebou geheilig en as 'n UNESCO erfenisgebied verklaar. Selfs al word daar beplan om in Junie vanjaar die buitekant van die argitek-wonder te voltooi, word daar beweer dat die die afronding met standbeelde, lig en kuns eers in 2034 voltooi sal wees. Hierdie bou-proses, wat na 'n ewigheid voel, en die postuur van luister – 'n openheid om te hoor en te leer ge-hoor-saam leef – het my laat wonder: Kinders raak soms goed kwyt of vang onbesonne dinge aan…en ons glimlag en dink “Siestog, hulle is nog net kinders, hulle leer nog, hulle is nog in wording.” Ons maak spasie vir hierdie wording se vrae, wonder en foute. Ons moedig dit selfs aan. Maar is groot-mense regtig afgehandel, wanneer ons so vol kritiek, ‘n foutlose perfektheid van mekaar verwag? Of, veroorsaak die plooilose kunsmatige intillegensie dat ons só min genade met onsself het: “Ek moes van beter geweet het! Hoe kon ek so dom wees? Teen die tyd behoort ek mos te weet, in beheer te wees…Die wêreld, die kerk, my werk en my mense verwag dit immers van my!” Dan bestaan daar natuurlik ook die afgehandeldes: Klaar gedink, klaar besluit – selfversekerde ék-weet-mense. Dalk steek hierdie afgehandeldheid maar kop uit by elkeen van ons. Dalk hét ons nie ruimte vir leer, groei, verander…of selfs die moontlikheid dat ek nog altyd verkeerd was oor 'n saak, 'n persoon of gebeure nie. Afgehandeldes verwag natuurlik ook afgehandeldheid by ander! Dit maak nogal die lewe, 'n beroep en 'n verhouding spanningsvol as jy moet voorgee dat jy perfek, afgerond, kant-en-klaar is. Veral as jy voor jou siel weet “Ek weet nie. Ek is nie in beheer nie. Ek sukkel met dit, daai en die ander…” Ek en jy is, wanneer ons eerlik kan wees met onsself, soos Gaudi se meesterwerk: onafgehandeld – vir ewig in-wording. Hoe anders sal jou lewensbenadering en verhoudings lyk wanneer jy hierdie “in-wording” genade ook dáár kan uitleef: Jy vra dalk meer vrae as wat jy stellings maak; Jy haal die juk van perfektheid se angs van jou skouers af en word oral bekend as 'n ewige student; In plaas van kritiek en verwerp, sien jy “Siestog, hy leer nog, hy groei nog, hy ontdek nog…” en dan nie op 'n beterweterige manier nie, maar op ‘n ek-is-ook-nog-in-wording manier. Wat help kla en skel en self-marteling oor onafgehandeldheid? Dit is soos om na 100 jaar die meesterlike katedraal af te breek omdat dit nou nog nie klaar is nie. Dis tog absurd! Om 'n onafgehandelde verder af te breek, maak tog geen sin nie. ‘n Beter benadering is dalk eerder “Hoe word ek deel van die in-wording storie van God met jou? In-wording beteken nie, in onbruik nie. In-wording beteken nie, minder heilig of indrukwekkend nie. In-wording beteken nie, laat staan maar soos dit is nie. Paulus skryf vir die gemeente in Korinte, ‘n gemeente wat nog duidelik in-wording is. Hy sluit 'n lang gesprek oor die sluier-van-ons-gebrokenheid af met die mooi woorde in 2 Kor 3:18 “Ons almal weerspieël die heerlikheid van die Here, want die sluier is van ons gesig af weggeneem. Ons word al meer verander om aan die beeld van Christus gelyk te word. Die heerlikheid wat van ons uitstraal, neem steeds toe. Dit doen die Here wat die Gees is.” Die woorde “Ons word al meer verander” se tydsgleuf is tot in die oneindigheid…m.a.w dit beteken letterlik “vir-ewig-in-wording” en so ook die woorde “die heerlikheid van ons uitstraal neem steeds toe”. Ek is nog nie klaar nie, jy is nog nie klaar nie, die kerk is nog nie klaar nie…ons is vir ewig nog in wording en die argitek-bouer is die Here, wat die Gees is en die manier hoe die Gees primêr in die Bybel werk is deur mense. Mag ons al meer met die genade leef van “My client is not in a hurry.” omdat ons vertrou dat 'n meesterstuk soms langer as 'n ewigheid neem. Na-leef teks: “Ons almal weerspieël die heerlikheid van die Here, want die sluier is van ons gesig af weggeneem. Ons word al meer verander om aan die beeld van Christus gelyk te word. Die heerlikheid wat van ons uitstraal, neem steeds toe. Dit doen die Here wat die Gees is.” 2 Korintiërs 3:18 Na-leef vrae Waar in jou lewe is jy nog in wording? Wat gaan jou help om jou kind-wees, jou openheid vir wording, te onthou? Wat gaan jou help om ruimte te maak vir ander se ewige wording?

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Ons praat oor die filosofiese idee van Idealisme - die idee dat alles gemaak is uit Gees; Veral soos uitgelê deur Bernardo KastrupBernardo Kastrup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_KastrupBernando onderhoud: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/128-bernardo-kastrup-materialism-is-complete-nonsense/id1458675168?i=1000734885883Hoofstukke:00:00; Dualisme Probleem: Gees en Materie22:47; Inleiding tot Idealisme30:23; Dieper kyk mbv Vergelykings 45:28; Kwantum Veld Teorie en Idealisme48:07; Kritiek55:56; Weer Kwantum

Send us a textJesaja 41:17 Die hulpeloses en die armes soek water, maar daar is nie; hulle versmag van dors. Maar Ek, die Here, sal hulle gebede verhoor, Ek, die God van Israel, sal hulle nie verlaat nie. Het jy al ooit uitgedor en afgemat gevoel? Jy weet waarvan ek praat, nè? Daardie gevoel dat die vreugde, die afwagting, die lewenslus wat jy eens vir die lewe gehad het, heeltemal verdamp het. Dis net – weg! Jou gees binne in jou is dor, kurkdroog, bros. Ek dink ons was almal al op 'n stadium daar. Wat het gebeur? Wat het verkeerd geloop? Hoe gaan ek dit oorleef?Die Namib is een van die droogste woestyne ter wêreld. Dit is ‘n sanderige strook van sowat 2 000 kilometer langs die Atlantiese kus. Dit strek vanaf die suidweste van Angola in die noorde, tot die noordweste van Suid-Afrika in die suide.  Tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog het Henno Martin, ‘n Duitse geoloog en avonturier saam met sy vriend Hermann Korn na die Namib gevlug om internering te vermy. Hulle het in 'n afgeleë kloof skuiling gesoek waar hul water vinnig opgeraak het.Hulle het aan hallusinasies begin ly en was besig om van die dors te sterf. Martin het later onthou hoe hulle met gekraakte lippe en blase op hul voete, gekniel en gebid het. Skielik het dit begin reën. 'n Woestyn-stortreënbui het hulle houers gevul, hulle liggame herstel en hulle lewens gered.Kan jy jou hulle vreugde voorstel? Jy kan hulle net in die reën sien dans.Jesaja 41:17 Die hulpeloses en die armes soek water, maar daar is nie; hulle versmag van dors. Maar Ek, die Here, sal hulle gebede verhoor, Ek, die God van Israel, sal hulle nie verlaat nie.Wanneer jy eendag (miskien selfs vandag) jouself in jou eie woestyn bevind, is daar net een ding wat jy moet doen. Bid. Stort jou hart voor God uit. Voor Hom wat jou so liefhet dat Hy sy enigste Seun, Jesus, gestuur het om vir jou te ly en te sterf.Selfs op die droogste plek op aarde ... stuur God steeds sy reën. Dis hoe jy die swaarkry oorleef; maar weet jy, dis hoe jy nie net sal oorleef nie, maar hoe jy sal floreer!Want dis God se Woord. Vars ... vir jou ... vandag.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Send us a textMatteus 6:33 Nee, beywer julle allereers vir die koninkryk van God en vir die wil van God, dan sal Hy julle ook al hierdie dinge gee. Sê my, wat is die belangrikste ding in jou gedagtes wanneer ons hierdie nuwe jaar aanpak? Waarop het jy jou visier gestel? Wat wil jy bereik? Wat is die belangrikste probleem in jou lewe wat opgelos moet word? Watter verhouding moet gekoester word? Wat is die nommer een ding waaraan jy ter voorbereiding van hierdie nuwe jaar, dink?Dis ‘n goeie ding om ‘n lys van jou prioriteite op te stel, maar wees versigtig om nie die verkeerde dinge te prioritiseer nie. Ja, my vriend, met verkeerde prioriteite is die lewe geneig om ‘n ander koers in te slaan en voor jy jou oë uitvee, het jy so dramaties afgedwaal dat jy jouself in 'n wildernis bevind. ‘n Maalkolk waarin jy nooit gedink het jy sou beland nie.Ek was in my jonger jare so gefokus op die bou van my IT-maatskappy en ek het so hard daaraan gewerk om die hoogste sport in my loopbaan te bereik, dat dit my gesin vernietig het. Die ergste was dat ek myself wysgemaak het dat ek dit vir húlle gedoen het. Dis my grootste verwyt.... Jy kan oënskynlik goeie prioriteite hê, maar indien dit nie die regtes is nie; sal dit jou lewe vernietig.In die konteks van die vervulling van fisiese behoeftes; soos om kos op die tafel te sit en 'n dak oor jou kop te kry, het Jesus die volgende gesê in:Matteus 6:33 Nee, beywer julle allereers vir die koninkryk van God en vir die wil van God, dan sal Hy julle ook al hierdie dinge gee.Na my verskriklike ervaring, het ek besluit om Jesus te gehoorsaam; om Hom aan die stuur van my lewe te plaas – iets wat ek met my hele hart gedoen het. Ek het dit nie aldag perfek reggekry nie, maar ek het daagliks daarvoor gebid.Selfs in tye toe ek nie genoeg geld gehad het om kos op my tafel te sit of 'n dak oor my kop te verseker nie, het God getrou gebly aan sy Woord en vir my deur ander gelowiges voorsien. Wanneer jy God eerste stel en leef soos Hy wil hê jy moet leef, voorsien Hy in al jou ander behoeftes. Hy doen dit, want Hy hou sy belofte aan jou!Dis Sy Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Selfs met ʼn fase 4-kankerdiagnose weier hy om sy roeping neer te lê, en miljoene mense pluk die vrugte daarvan.

Send us a textMatteus 24:35 Selfs al sou die hemel en die aarde ophou bestaan, sal my woorde nog vir altyd vas bly staan.” (NLV) Mense praat al eeue lank oor die ondergang van die Christendom. Dit was egter net wensdenkery van hulle kant af. En terwyl kerkbywoning in sommige denominasies afgeneem het, is dit in ander weer aan die toeneem.Voltaire, die agtiende-eeuse Franse filosoof, skrywer en kritikus het die Christendom gehaat en dikwels teen Christene en die Bybel geskryf. In 1776 het hy ‘n voorspelling gemaak, wat as volg lui: ‘n Honderd jaar ná my tyd sal daar nie 'n Bybel op aarde wees nie; behalwe een wat deur 'n versamelaar van interessante ou geskrifte bewaar word.CrossExamined.org bied sterk historiese bewyse dat slegs vyftig jaar na sy dood, is die einste huis waarin hy eens gewoon en geskryf het, deur die Evangeliese Vereniging van Genève as 'n pakhuis vir Bybels en Evangelisasie-traktate gebruik. Dis nogal ironies, nè? Die drukpers wat hy eens gebruik het om sy eie werke te druk, is toe eerder gebruik om Bybels te druk.Natuurlik het die priesters en familiehoofde van daardie tyd ook probeer om Jesus stil te maak. Hy is bespot en gehaat deur die godsdienstige establishment. Hulle het nie gehou van wat Hy gesê het nie. Wat was sy reaksie?Matteus 24:35 Selfs al sou die hemel en die aarde ophou bestaan, sal my woorde nog vir altyd vas bly staan.” (NLV)Die vuur wat Jesus in sy hart gehad het om vir my en vir jou te red; om ons 'n lewe te gee wat die moeite werd is om te leef en om ons die ewigheid saam met Hom te laat deurbring ... kan nie uitgedoof raak nie. Dit brand helder in hierdie huidige duisternis en sy Lig, sy warmte, sy liefde is vir jou. Natuurlik is daar diegene wat God se Woord bespot en wat hulle wat Jesus volg, haat, maar hulle sal nooit seëvier nie.Selfs al sou die hemel en die aarde ophou bestaan, sal my woorde nog vir altyd vas bly staan.” (NLV)Jesus is die Woord van God. Vars ... vir jou ... vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Send us a text1 Korintiërs 2:9 Maar soos daar geskrywe staan: “Wat die oog nie gesien en die oor nie gehoor het nie,” en wat in die hart van 'n mens nie opgekom het nie, dit het God gereed gemaak vir dié wat Hom liefhet. Dit is glad nie snaaks om deur tye te gaan waar jy in 'n groef van ontevredenheid vasgevang voel nie. Ek het beslis al so gevoel. Wat dit so verwarrend maak, is dat jy nie heeltemal jou vinger op enige één ding kan plaas, wat die oorsaak van hierdie baie algemene kwaal kan wees nie.Ek het onlangs 'n artikel deur Penny Timms gelees wat duidelikheid gegee het oor wat in die lewens van so baie mense aangaan, en ek haal aan:Dis daardie gevoel dat die lewe net nie heeltemal so goed is, soos jy gedink het dit nou sou wees nie. Dit is beslis nie ‘n geestesongesteldheid van kliniese depressie of angs nie. Dis net ‘n matheid, wat die sielkundiges ‘languishing'noem, om 'n toestand van vreugdelose stagnasie, leegheid en lae tevredenheid te beskryf. Ek wonder of dit dalk bekend klink? Selfs net 'n bietjie? Dit is heeltemal te algemeen in die samelewing; en my vermoede is dat dit dikwels daarop neerkom dat ons so kop-onderstebo deur die lewe loop en net daarop fokus om te oorleef, dat ons die groter prentjie uit die oog verloor.1 Korintiërs 2:9 Maar soos daar geskrywe staan: “Wat die oog nie gesien en die oor nie gehoor het nie,” en wat in die hart van 'n mens nie opgekom het nie, dit het God gereed gemaak vir dié wat Hom liefhet.Neem ‘n tree terug; maak jou oë toe, haal diep asem en geniet net die begrip van daardie ewige werklikheid wat op jou wag. Dit maak nie saak wat op die oomblik in jou lewe aangaan nie; dit maak nie saak hoe jy voel nie, selfs al is jy besig om weg te kwyn; as jy God liefhet, verbeel jou net die wonder, die skoonheid, die heerlikheid van dít wat Hy vir alle ewigheid vir jou in gedagte het.Dis Sy Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Amerikaanse verdedigingminister Pete Hegseth het Dinsdag diversiteitsinisiatiewe afgekraak wat volgens hom tot dekades van verval in die weermag gelei het, en aan 'n seldsame byeenkoms van bevelvoerders gesê het dat hulle moet bedank as hulle nie sy agenda ondersteun nie. Hegseth en president Donald Trump het by 'n geleentheid in Quantico, Virginia, gepraat met generaals en admirale wat van reg oor die wêreld saamgeroep is. Hegseth het sy ontslag van vlagbeamptes verdedig. Dit het ingesluit die top Amerikaanse generaal, wat swart is, en die top vloot-admiraal, wat 'n vrou is. Hy het ook te velde getrek teen oorgewig weermaglede, insluitend generaals.

Send us a textPsalm 27:10 Selfs al sou my pa en ma my verlaat, die Here sal my styf vashou. (NLV) 'n Baie slegte ding wat met jou kan gebeur, is as iemand op wie jy staatmaak, jou in die steek laat. Daar is baie mense in hierdie wêreld wat deur hul ouers versaak is. Ons sien ook soms hoe baie intieme verhoudings verbreek word, waar die een party, op pad na groener weivelde, sy sielsgenoot weggooi. Om verwerp te word, is 'n verskriklike ding. Jy kan selfs omring wees deur mense wat oënskynlik goeie voornemens het en steeds heeltemal alleen voel.Josephine Bakhita is in 1869 in Soedan gebore. Sy is as kind ontvoer en as ‘n slaaf verkoop. Verlate en geskei van haar gesin, het sy geweldige lyding verduur. Sy is toe later op ‘n wonderbaarlike wyse, deur 'n goeie, godvresende familie gered.Dit is waar sy Christus ontmoet het en sy het die res van haar lewe daaraan gewy om ander te dien. Op een of ander manier het God haar pyn gedurende daardie traumatiese jare in ‘n kragtige getuienis van vergifnis, veerkragtigheid en onwrikbare geloof omskep.Psalm 27:10 Selfs al sou my pa en ma my verlaat, die Here sal my styf vashou. (NLV)Dawid het meer as 3 000 jaar gelede hierdie Psalm geskryf. Hy het, deur die lewensgevaarlike tye waarin hy baie gely het, eerstehands geweet dat God altyd daar sal wees vir hom.Dit is moeilik om enigiets meer desperaat of gevaarliks voor te stel as 'n kind wat deur sy ouers verlaat word. Tog, soos in Josephine se geval, het God die manier om sulke verskriklike omstandighede te neem en dit ten goede te laat uitwerk.Dit was soortgelyk aan die ervaring wat ek deurgemaak het toe my eerste vrou my meer as 30 jaar gelede vir 'n ander man verlaat het. En ek kan getuig, dat toe ek my in daardie verskriklike tyd tot God gewend het, het Hy wonderlike dinge gedoen – Hy doen steeds wonderwerke. Hy kan slegte dinge in goeie dinge verander.Selfs al verlaat ander mense jou; sal God jou altyd styf vashou.Dit is Sy Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Selfs presidente is onderworpe aan die ergernisse van die verkeer in New York, soos die Franse president Emmanuel Macron laat Maandag uitgevind het toe 'n polisiebeampte in die stad hom verhoed het om die straat oor te steek weens Amerikaanse president Donald Trump se motorkade. Macron het Trump van die sypaadjie af gebel en oor sy penarie gelag, volgens 'n video op sosiale media. 'n Polisieman kan dan gehoor word hoe hy Macron om verskoning vra.

Magda en Erhard het 'n goeie show beplan, julle, regtig, goeie waarde vir geld, hulle sal dalk selfs genomineer kan word vir 'n prys of so… Maar die ou man vergeet heeltyd waar hy moet inkom en arme Magda moet net vure doodslaan. Selfs die dans is maar louwarm. (Klem op Louw) So eerlikwaar, die begin is effens flou, maar die middel is regtig… oukei-erig. En die einde sal jou met stof tot nadenke los. Hopelik. Magda en Erhard gesels oor die kuns van die lewe, die verskillende fases van oudword – baie jare wat ons in prentjies kan opsom. Hoe ons almal met die verfpot in die hand staan… vandat ons buite die lyne inkleur, totdat die kwas uiteindelik opdroog en ons nie meer kan dink aan prentjies om te teken nie. Maar ten minste kan ons die wat daar is nog bewonder…

God is groter as die nag in jou lewe en uiteindelik sal die dag weer seëvier.

Tim Acker, portefeuljebestuurder by Allan Gray, gesels oor die risiko om 'n premie vir optimisme te betaal. Volg RSG Geldsake op Twitter

"Hoe ek vir God in my werksake ken gaan bepaal hoe ek my werk vir God aanpak. Ek ken nie vir God op 'n afstand soos 'n baas of slawedrywer nie. Ook nie as verskoning om agteroor te sit nie. Eerder as die een wat sorg vir my en besorg is oor my. Selfs in my alledaagse take. Natuurlik is dit vir myself ook, maar al die spanning daaroor kom my nie toe nie."

GROOTfm 90.5 kollegas maak hart oop oor antwoord op gebed of selfs nie... Charonike Nel se ma is onlangs aan kanker oorlede. Elrica Smith leef met 'n unieke veltoestand. Anneke Hudd moes haar kind aan die dood afstaan. Anel Kruger deel meer oor haar kankerreis. Elsamé Nel het haar broer as kind verloor, en haar gesin het onder die trauma geswig.

Send us a text1 Petrus 1:19 Inteendeel, julle is losgekoop met die kosbare bloed van Christus, die Lam wat vlekloos en sonder liggaamsgebrek is. Die lewe is kosbaar. Die waarde van 'n enkele menslike lewe is onberekenbaar … tog sal die bose mense in hierdie wêreld nie skuldig voel oor die honderde duisende lewens wat hulle vir selfs die kleinste persoonlike gewin, vernietig nie.Ek het anderdag met 'n dokter gesels wat al meer as 35 jaar na pasiënte omsien. Dikwels moes hy slegte nuus, soos 'n terminale kankerdiagnose, aan 'n pasiënt oordra, wat tot op daardie stadium heeltemal gesond voorgekom het. Dit is baie moeilik.Ons beleef dat ‘n mens se lewe kosbaar is in die oë van goeie mense, maar goedkoop vir diegene wat boos is. Is dit nie hoe dit deesdae werk nie?As jy die historiese verslag van die lewe en kruisiging van Jesus lees, sien jy hoe beide goed en kwaad op dieselfde tyd plaasvind. Jesus het net goed gedoen – Hy het siekes genees, die armes en die gemarginaliseerdes liefgehad – maar omdat die godsdiensleiers destyds so bedreig gevoel het daardeur, het hulle saamgesweer om Hom dood te maak.Selfs toe al het God 'n plan gehad, 'n doel gehad vir jou en my lewens.1 Petrus 1:19 Inteendeel, julle is losgekoop met die kosbare bloed van Christus, die Lam wat vlekloos en sonder liggaamsgebrek is.Ja, hulle het Jesus vermoor. Maar deur sy dood en uiteindelike opstanding het God self die prys betaal wat sy geregtigheid vir ons rebellie en sonde vereis het. En asof dit nie genoeg was nie, het Hy vir ons 'n splinternuwe lewe gegee. ‘n Bose menslike motief; teenoor 'n ewige Goddelike doel.Die lewe is kosbaar. Jóú lewe is kosbaar. Dit is omdat ... jy losgekoop is met die kosbare bloed van Christus,Dit is God se Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Send us a textJohannes 15:12-13 Dit is my opdrag: Julle moet mekaar liefhê soos Ek julle liefhet. Niemand het groter liefde as dit nie: dat hy sy lewe vir sy vriende aflê. Die meeste van ons kom seker daagliks met 'n hele paar mense in aanraking. By die werk, by die huis, wanneer ons openbare vervoer gebruik, op die paaie, in die winkelsentrum... Selfs wanneer jy alleen is, dink jy beslis aan ander mense. So, wat dink jy oor hulle? Hoe behandel jy hulle? En hoe gereeld wonder jy oor hoe jy hulle beïnvloed het? Vir die meeste van ons sal die antwoord wees: Ag nou ja, ek dink nie so dikwels aan hulle nie, en my invloed is seker maar betekenisloos.Jy voel goed wanneer mense jou goed behandel. Maar, wanneer hulle jou sleg behandel, wek dit allerhande negatiewe emosies en reaksies. So, ons dink baie beslis oor hoe hulle óns behandel, maar nie so dikwels oor hoe ons húlle behandel nie. Dis maar hoe dit gaan...Laat ek jou vra, dink gou net aan die laaste drie mense met wie jy gister of vandag kontak mee gehad het; hoe het jy hulle behandel? Hoe dink jy het jy hulle laat voel? Hoe dink jy voel hulle oor jou as mens? Wat dink hulle as húlle aan jou dink?Ek weet, ek vra vandag baie vrae ... maar moenie verskonings maak nie! Want weet jy, dit is die tipe vrae wat ons onsself móét afvra, nie net ná die tyd nie, maar in die aanloop tot ons interaksie met ander persone. Hier is hoe Jesus oor hierdie verhouding met jou medemens voel:Johannes 15:12-13 Dit is my opdrag: Julle moet mekaar liefhê soos Ek julle liefhet. Niemand het groter liefde as dit nie: dat hy sy lewe vir sy vriende aflê.Die kern van die saak? Behandel ander asof Jesus vir hulle gesterf het ... want Hy hét vir hulle gesterf.Dit is God se Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

DRAAI VANDAG TERUG NA DIE HERE!Ons leef in ‘n tyd van die groot afval (apostasy). Al hoe meer hoor mens selfs van predikante wat hul geloof prysgee en ‘n ander pad inslaan. "Die Here beweeg altyd vorentoe… as jy nie by Hom bly nie, val jy terug!”Ek worstel soms met die hardheid van mense se harte in ons gemeenskap. Vir 25 jaar het ons die Woord van die Here met eerlikheid en egtheid bedien—op elke moontlike manier, vanuit gebroke kruike. Ons sien vrug, daar is sukses, maar steeds bly so baie mense koud en ongevoelig teenoor die geloof. Dit bly ‘n diepe hartseer en ‘n roepe tot aanhou bid en werk.Ek word egter bemoedig deur die Woord, wat my herinner dat hierdie teenstand niks nuuts is nie. Selfs die Volmaakte Een, Jesus die Heilige, is deur mense verwerp. As hulle Hom, die Lig van die wêreld, nie wou aanvaar nie, hoe veel meer sal ons weerstand ervaar? Tog weet ek: Sy Woord keer nooit leeg terug nie.Kom ons kyk na die redes wat die mense aangevoer het, hoekom hulle nie glo nie, en selfs die wat eens geglo het, afvallig geword het. Die Woord geeLIG!

Send us a textLukas 12:6,7 “Word vyf mossies nie vir twee sent verkoop nie? Tog word nie een van hulle deur God vergeet nie. Selfs die hare op julle kop is almal getel. Moenie bang wees nie. Julle is meer werd as baie mossies.” Het iemand jou al tot die dood toe verveel deur vir jou iets in soveel detail te vertel dat jy kon slange vang? Op 'n stadium … het jy totaal alle belangstelling verloor.Sommige mense het baie lang asems, nie waar nie? En kom ons wees eerlik: ons het baie van ons eie dinge om te doen; ons eie eindelose lysies om te hanteer, sonder om na hulle sinnelose gebabbel te luister.Nouja, dink jy nie dat God ook baie besig moet wees nie? Kyk net na al die dinge in die wêreld wat Hy moet doen! Dink jy dat Hy in die klein dingetjies van jóú lewe sal belangstel? Dit kan tog nie van Hom verwag word nie! Dit sal nogal hartseer wees, want die dinge wat in ons lewens aangaan, maak regtig vir ons saak. Al daardie detail – ons verhoudings, ons gevoelens, ons finansies, ons gesondheid, ons families, ons vriende, ons probleme – al daardie goed, is die goed waaruit ons lewens bestaan.Wat sê jy… is dit belangrik vir God, of nie? Maar Jesus kom en beantwoord daardie vraag duidelik en eenvoudig in taal wat ek en jy kan verstaan...Lukas 12:6,7 “Word vyf mossies nie vir twee sent verkoop nie? Tog word nie een van hulle deur God vergeet nie. Selfs die hare op julle kop is almal getel. Moenie bang wees nie. Julle is meer werd as baie mossies.”Weet jy hoeveel hare jy op jou kop het? Nee, maar God weet. Met ander woorde, Hy weet alles van jou, elke klein detail, elke stukkie inligting wat ander mense as onbenullig sal beskou.Hoekom? Want Hy het jou liewer as wat jy ooit kan weet.Dit is God se Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Send us a textSefanja 3:17 Die Here jou God is by jou, Hy, die krygsman wat red. Hy is vol vreugde oor jou, Hy is stil-tevrede in sy liefde. Hy jubel en juig oor jou: Of dit nou reg of verkeerd is, mense doen slegte dinge aan ons. Of dit reg of verkeerd is, slegte goed gebeur. Reg of verkeerd (en, kom ons erken dit, meer verkeerd as reg) ons reageer nie altyd so goed nie, of hoe?Die druk van die alledaagse lewe neem toe. Of jy nou besig, besig, besig... of eensaam is, daardie druk veroorsaak dikwels dat ons meer verkeerd as reg optree.Hoekom is dit? Hoekom bring druk die ergste in ons na vore? Ek is nie seker of ek daardie vraag kan beantwoord nie, maar wat ek wel weet, is dat wanneer ons probeer om die druk op ons eie te hanteer, dit die verkeerde reaksie ontlok.So, hier is goeie nuus. Selfs wanneer jy jammerlik misluk het, selfs wanneer jy verkeerd opgetree het, wil God deel van jou lewe wees.Sefanja 3:17 Die Here jou God is by jou, Hy, die krygsman wat red. Hy is vol vreugde oor jou, Hy is stil-tevrede in sy liefde. Hy jubel en juig oor jou. God is net hier in ons midde, tussen al ons probleme, net hier te midde van ons mislukkings … is Hy magtig om te red. Trouens, Hy smag daarna om jou te red, Hy sál jou red; ja, meer nog, Hy sal in blydskap oor jou jubel.Dink daaroor na. God juig oor jou, Hy jubel oor jou, nie net met sang nie, maar met luide sang … oor jóú!Maar weet jy watter begrip in hierdie versie het my regtig geraak? Hy is stil-tevrede in sy liefde. Te midde van al daardie onstuimigheid, ten midde van jou berou oor jou mislukkings, sal sy liefde 'n balsem vir jou gees wees; sy liefde sal jou stilmaak en vrede gee.Moet nooit vergeet nie, die Here jou God woon in jou!Dis sy Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Why Are You Still Single? Exploring Relationship Struggles | No Pills Podcast Ep52In this episode of the No Pills Podcast, we dive deep into the tough questions of why you might still be single, exploring issues like self-sabotage, unrealistic expectations, societal pressures, and toxic relationships. Join us for insightful conversations on how faith, independence, and personality traits shape our relationships and dating journeys. Tune in for practical advice and Christian wisdom on navigating the dating world!➤ Support Go Stand and Preach https://www.gostandandpreach.org/donateYou Can Also Follow Me on: ➤TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gostandandpreach ➤Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gostandandpreach ➤Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gostandandpreach/ ➤Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-pillz-with-gordon-mcghee/id1707970107?i=1000662278399➤Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq6QGWTkCFe2skOb7x2Yb?si=66c65281dd644537 00:00 Introduction to the No Pills Podcast00:05 Confessions and Cheating Stories00:33 Welcome and Podcast Overview01:25 Why Are You Single?03:24 Preference for Independence05:59 Promiscuity and Its Consequences06:15 Cheating and Toxic Relationships12:33 Pregnancy and Dating15:23 Self-Sabotage in Relationships19:21 High Standards and Unrealistic Expectations20:31 Unrealistic Expectations in Dating21:18 The Reality of High Income Expectations24:28 Societal and Cultural Pressures26:02 Conservative Upbringing and Relationship Fears27:18 Personality Traits and Self-Esteem Issues30:51 Timing, Circumstances, and Geographic Challenges33:53 Modern Dating vs. Traditional Values39:25 Final Thoughts and Self-ReflectionContact No Pillz: Tweet us @nopillzpodcast Email: nopillzpodcast@gmail.com YouTube: @nopillzpodcast Insta: @nopillzpodcast Thanks for listening & keep podcasting!

What would your ten your old self say about your life now? Would they be disapointed you're not a dancer or a pilot? Also let's discuss the most dissapointing movie sequels of all time, what one law we think the entire world should abide by, and how do we help active kids not burnout. (The Victory Couch is hosted by Rick and Julie Rando). Show notes: Connect with us on Instagram @thevictorycouch, Facebook, victorycouchpodcast@gmail.com, or www.thevictorycouch.com Want a new Victory Couch sticker for your water bottle, laptop, guitar case, etc.? Send us a message and we'll mail you one. SUBSCRIBE to The Victory Couch e-mail list by visiting https://www.thevictorycouch.com/ and click SUBSCRIBE at the top of your screen. Leave us a voice message through Spotify for Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thevictorycouch/message In your opinion which movie has the most disappointing sequal or prequel of all time? Rolling Stones article https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/worst-movie-sequels-1235041301/ Major League 2 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110442/ Cars 2 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216475/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Revitalized https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28793122/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk The Parent Trap II https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091721/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Home Alone 3, 4, 5 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091721/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329200/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4303200/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Son of The Mask https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362165/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk A Good Day to Die Hard https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606378/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk How would your 10 year old self react to what you're doing today? How do we ensure our kids stay involved and do things they love without burning out? If there's one law or rule that everyone in the world was required to follow what would it be? Couch crumb: parenting fail (Red Ribbon Week related), construction/parking Prop your feet up: free vacuum cleaning at Sheetz https://sheetz.com/, friend shopping for a DeLorean https://delorean.com/, teen sharing school report without being prompted Marie from Aristocats https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065421/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Harry Potter https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241527/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Jakob kom met hierdie pyngedagte : Alles is teen my. En hy sê dit nie ligtelik nie. In sy lewe het baie dinge gebeur wat tot hierdie uitspraak gelei het. Wat Jakob in sy lewe eerste stel, word laaste deur God geplaas en andersom. Wat vir Jakob die dierbaarste in sy lewe is, word die verste van hom weggeskeur. Is alles teen ons? Dit bring ons by die uitspraak van Paulus in Romeine 8. Die apostel Paulus leer ons dat niks teen ons is nie, maar alles ten goede meewerk. In groot kontras met Jakob stel Paulus dat alles, nie net voorspoed en vreugde nie, maar alles ten goede meewerk. Nie net die geboorte nie, maar ook die sterwe, ook die oop graf, ook die gebroke lewensideaal wat aan skerwe aan jou voete lê. Is die apostel Paulus nie werklikheidsvreemd nie. Ken hy swaar. Beslis, hy ken vervolging, tronkstraf, geseling, marteling, bespotting, veragting, maar desondanks stel Paulus dat alles ten goede meewerk. Dit gebeur dat ons in tye van hartseer en swaar soos Jakob kan voel alles is teen ons, daar is waaroms in die lewe, waarom so, waarom het dit gebeur. Hierdie waaroms kan egter nie opweeg teen die grootste waarom van alle eeue nie. Dit is die waarom aan die kruis, ‘n waarom wat al ons waaroms omvat. : “My God, my God, waarom het U my verlaat.”   https://youtube.com/live/44n1dwPZ6lw 

Millions listened to the 194th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6 and 7, 2024. During the conference, Church leaders — including members of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and other general leaders — emphasized the importance of temples and covenants and encouraged seeking higher joy. This special edition of the Church News podcast features excerpts from every general conference talk, including President Russell M. Nelson's invitation to “Rejoice in the Gift of Priesthood Keys” and his announcement that the Church will build 15 new temples.  The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Host Sarah Jane Weaver, reporter and executive editor for The Church News for a quarter-century, shares a unique view of the stories, events, and most important people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Die buurland se landbou-organisasie, TLU SA sê die 20ste Goliat van Gat-pampoenfees wat op die 16de van die maand op die Pretoria-boeremarkterrein plaasvind, kan moontlik met die grootste pampoen ooit spog. Die huidige rekord word deur Wykus Lamprecht gehou wie se pampoen 890 kilogram geweeg het. TLU SA se voorsitter, Henri Combrink, sê hulle hoop daar is vanjaar ʼn pampoen wat ʼn volle een ton weeg. Hulle het ʼn bykomende prys van 25 000 Suid Afrikaanse rand beskikbaar gestel om kwekers aan te spoor:

Tobie van Heerden, uitvoerende hoof van 10 x Investments gesels oor aftrede. Volg RSG Geldsake op Twitter

JP Breytenbach, direkteur en senior immigrasiekonsultant van Breytenbachs Immigrasiekonsultante gesels oor jou SA burgerskap met twee paspoorte. Volg RSG Geldsake op Twitter

‘n Graad 12-kwalifikasie bly verpligtend vir aanvaarding by Unam. Selfs al behaal 'n leerder topprestasie in graad 11, sal hulle nie by die universiteit aanvaar word nie. Die gewone vlak is 'n vlak 3-kwalifikasie, terwyl die gevorderde vlak 'n vlak 4-kwalifikasie is en toegang vir Unam B-grade is vlak 4. Unam-woordvoerder Simon Namesho het meer.

LW1380 - Art and Your Deeper Self Like most of you, my initial attraction to photography was the fun and challenging pursuit of making a nice picture. Most of us know, however, that our interest in photography is more than just the pursuit of a pretty picture. I've noticed a universal transition from "pretty pictures" to "personally significant pictures." What is that about? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access, terabytes of content, inspiration and ideas that expand daily with new content. Sign up for instant access! You might also be interested in. . . Every Picture Is a Compromise, a series at www.brooksjensenarts.com. and... "How to" tutorials and camera reviews are everywhere on YouTube, but if you're interested in photography and the creative life, you need to know about the incredible resources you can access as a member of LensWork Online.

Carl Roothman, uitvoerende hoof Sanlam Beleggings gesels oor sy agtergrond, loopbaan, die industrie waarin hy is en wat hy doen om te ontspan. Volg RSG Geldsake op Twitter

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Nehemia se storie inspireer vandag nog! Jerusalem se vervalle mure wat in puin le vir 70 jr, word in 52 dae herbou! Vandag dank ek die HERE vir BOUERS in ons gemeenskap. Kinders van die Here wat by Sy naam geroep is, elkeen in sy of haar spesifieke plek en rol, bnesig om te bou. Ons lewe in CHRISTUS skep n positiewe atmosfeer van OPBOUING, bemoediging, en bevestiging. Selfs ons swaarkry, is om ander te bemoedig en te versterk...#Skepmoed #Bou #Bemoediging #Versterking #Opheffing #Opbouing #Hoop #Geloof #Liefde

Op hierdie Vaderdag wil ons 'n bemoedigende gedagte met julle deel oor die belangrikheid om te verstaan waarom valse oordele skadelik kan wees. Selfs in 'n gesin, tussen 'n pa en sy kinders. Valse oordele is dikwels gebaseer op vooroordele, stereotipes, en selfs gerugte. Dit kan lei tot onregverdige behandeling van mense en veroorsaak dat ons nie die ware waarde en potensiaal in ander sien nie. Hierdie VOOROORDELE breek gemeenskappe af en verhinder ware verhoudings en verdraagsaamheid. Ons Vader in die hemel, wat ons as 'n liefdevolle Vader ken, het ons geleer om regverdig en liefdevol te wees teenoor ander. Op hierdie spesiale dag waar ons die Here dank vir ons Vaders, nooi ons julle uit om saam met ons te kom en te leer oor die skadelike gevolge van valse oordele en hoe ons ons verhoudings kan verbeter deur 'n regverdige, liefdevolle en oop hart te hê. Ons gemeentefamilie is 'n gemeenskap van mense wat strewe na 'n dieper begrip van mekaar en liefde vir die Here. Ons sien daarna uit om julle te verwelkom op ons spesiale Vaderdagdiens. Bring gerus familie en vriende saam om saam met ons te wees. Laat ons saam leer en groei in die liefde van ons Hemelse Vader. Mag God se rykste seëninge jou deel wees. Preeknotas: https://hrco.co.za/sermons/the-danger... Hartlike groete, Harvester Gemeente Cederberg #JouGemeente #JouFamilie #Behoort #AlmalWelkom #hartlik #gemaklik #inklusief #Liefdevol #omgee

Our personalities reflect our heavenly or Aeonic inheritance, and that includes both our Self and our originating Egos. It is our Egos that go about this world interfacing with others and collecting memes. Our Egos are all different, whereas our Selfs are all the same. My Ego is only concerned with me, because that is the job of Ego—to take care of and serve the needs of my body. This function of Ego is selfish, but not inherently bad, naughty, or evil; it's the Ego doing its job.

Swaar reënval word in dele van Suid-Afrika voorspel en selfs sneeu in die Drakensberge! Die LUR vir samewerkende regering en tradisionele sake in KwaZulu-Natal, Sihle Zikalala het ramp-bestuurspanne op 'n hoë gereedheidsgrondslag geplaas. Wydverspreide oorstromings is vandag en môre moontlik oor groot dele van die provinsie. ʼn Woordvoerder, Nonala Ndlovu sê die vlak vyf- en nege-waarskuwings kan rampspoed meebring vir gemeenskappe wat in laagliggende gebiede woon.

First and foremost, each of our Selfs is an almost identical fractal of the Fullness of God. But, as is the case with DNA, although our master pattern is identical, not every facet is activated to the same extent in everyone, and the facets that are activated are turned on in different relative strengths. These facets of the Fullness are what we call the Aeons of the Fullness. Each Aeon represents a particular talent, name, function, power, and so forth, of the Son. If you imagine that golden pyramid I use to illustrate the Fullness, our unique personality reflects a slightly different pattern overlaid upon those glowing, golden balls. It's like a stencil overlaid on top of the fractal Fullness—each one of us has a slightly different stencil obscuring the Fullness that allows a unique pattern of lights to show through.

We talk about our week . Then we go over some popular questions we get over our podcast . Then we talk about watching all 9seasons of Seinfeld , did we love it? Do we have a top 3?

In Edible-Alpha® podcast #114, Andy chats with Chaz Self, owner of Grassway Organics in southeastern Wisconsin. This regenerative, certified-organic farm raises 100% grass-based dairy, beef, and poultry; operates a farm store; and hosts Pizza on the Farm.     California-born Chaz grew up passionate about animal welfare but had never set foot on a farm. Then, after moving to Wisconsin as a teen, he became curious about ag and enrolled in a farm management program at a local technical college. Through that, he got a job milking cows at a CAFO and loved it. “It was not the way I chose to farm, but it taught me everything I didn't want to do,” Chaz says. “It opened my eyes to how big the ag world really is.” From there, Chaz and his wife, Megan, worked at a few smaller farms, including in Norway. There, as part of the Worldwide Opportunities for Organic Farms (WWOOF) program, they milked 14 grass-fed cows at a biodynamic farm and fell in love with the sustainable, community-focused agricultural principles. Back in Wisconsin in 2016, they met a ready-to-retire farming couple in New Holstein who wanted to pass on their land and business. Excited about mentorship and succession, Chaz began working for the couple full-time. With an FSA loan, the Selfs bought the business, cows, equipment, store, and inventory—everything but the land and buildings. They also purchased a food truck to make and sell pizzas for extra revenue. After a year in business, the Selfs made an offer on the land but were outbid, forcing them to find a new location. Chaz called up the Yggdrasil Land Foundation, which buys up organic and biodynamic farmland to lease to young farmers. In “a serendipitous moment,” there was land available near East Troy. Fifty-eight semi loads later, Grassway Organics had a new home. With a 30-year contract, the Selfs rent 390 acres, plus 150 acres for forage, from Yggdrasil. They raise Jerseys that produce A2/A2 milk, which has health benefits over conventional A1/A1 milk. And because their milk is raw, their farm store sells only to co-op members in accordance with Wisconsin law. The store also features their grass-fed beef and pastured chicken, turkey, and eggs, as well as local producers' pastured pork and bulk goods. Grassway Organics also operates an e-commerce store and delivers to drop points around the state.   With live music and a casual vibe, Pizza on the Farm is a huge success, accounting for about half of the business's revenue. The weekend events enable the community to gather and learn about regenerative ag while allowing Grassway Organics to support other local producers. They now have 15 employees for pizza nights and used a value-added producer grant (VAPG) to hire marketing help. On the financial side, Andy and Chaz discuss the pros and cons of renting versus owning land, how VAPGs can transform a farm business, and how family farms can benefit local economies and uplift entire communities.  

https://www.2selfs.com/indexDr. Barry Borgerson is the pioneer in developing a comprehensive theory to understand and manage our many hidden mental mechanisms including those that create involuntary habits (auto-behaviors) and automatic thought patterns (auto-contexts) that control "soft" success factors in business. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D. in computer science (and one of his minors in the management of human resources).  He is a long-time expert transformation coach who uses root-cause, mind-level transformation processes based on the first and so far only theory that models the many aspects of automatic human activities that determine the ability to achieve repeated business successes over long time horizons.Dr. Borgerson built his coaching practice upon the assumption that we all operate in two modes – a thinking mode and an automatic mode. Therefore, we all operate as if we have two “selfs” – a thinking-self and an auto-self. He uses the 2Selfs Theory that models the thinking-self, which is where our intentions reside, and the auto-self, which controls our behavior habits (auto-behaviors) and organizational cultures (one form of auto-contexts). This allows systematic techniques to coach you to overcome your certainties associated with culture elements and the discomforts attached to transformational change.