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Key Bible Verse: "(Jesus) said to (Peter) the third time, 'Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep. " John 21

(3:44) Bible Study: Acts 2:36-41 What does Jesus want the people to repent from? What do we need to repent from? John 20:11-18 The importance of oral tradition in the Gospels. (22:58) Break 1 (26:10) Letters: Was Jesus really a carpenter? How do you reconcile thou shalt not kill and the ability to bare arms? Father answers these and other questions. Send him a letter at simon@relevantradio.com (34:20) Break 2 (34:57) Word of the Day Gardener (37:51) Phones: Paul - My wife is Lutheran and she was reading Revelation 21: 1-4, why need no heaven Michelle - After the resurrection, Jesus waits for the disciples fishing and they caught nothing. Then they find Jesus with breakfast, and asks 'Simon, do you love me more than these' What are THESE? Karen - When Mary and other Mary go to Jesus tomb, who was the 'other Mary'? Ted - If a Cardinal is over 80, could he be elected Pope?

We live in an increasingly self-focused society, which only exacerbates the loneliness that plagues modern life. According to my guest Sah D'Simone, we are not meant to be alone; it is side by side with others where true wisdom flourishes.  He's here to tell us why connection is a fundamental piece of a deep spiritual practice, and how to connect with others authentically. Sah D'Simone is a spiritual revolutionary, mystic, artist, award-winning filmmaker, and bestselling author. He is well-known for hosting the top-rated Spiritually Sassy Show podcast and creating the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method™. His trauma-informed approach is informed by his grassroots work in orphanages, homeless shelters, and rehab centers in Indonesia, Nepal, India, and the US. Sah uses his method to support Cedars Sinai Hospital as a member of their Spiritual Care Chaplain intern team. In this interview, Sah draws on his insights and tools to introduce a new way to transform the way we relate to others by releasing an “us vs. them” mindset, cultivating radical compassion, and creatively transforming our struggles into opportunities for awakening. In this way, we can deepen our friendships, build community, and heal the world.

Simon Delaney sits down with Anton ahead of the release of his new book 'Watching Over You.'Simon was a regular fixture on stage and screen for years and speaks with Anton on his decision to make the switch to writing after all the years of acting experience behind him.From Richard Linklater to Michael Gambon, find out who Simon was really starstruck by.Hit 'Listen' to hear this great chat.

"In today's teaching, 'Lead Us Not Into Temptation,' Dr. Corral helps us understand what Jesus meant when He said, 'Simon, Satan hath desired you to sift you like wheat.' Does the Word teach us about stages of temptation? How does the believer arm themselves to guard against lusts and temptation? Find out in today's teaching."

"And the Lord said, 'Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.'" (Luke 22:31-32)

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Episode Notes Nick Rehak of Rabbit Hole Podcasts joins Rob as the team try and figure out who is 'Simon'.

Adriaan en Simon spreken over: een vertaalfout / 4 mei / theater na de Dam / kun je geld verdienen met een podcast / het inspreken van je eigen audioboek / Gerrit Achterberg / Artis & zelfcensuur / bonus: de ongefilterde 4 mei-toespraak van Adriaan Storytel sponsort van deze aflevering. Maak gebruik van het aanbod voor luisteraars van de podcast om Storytel 30 dagen gratis te proberen. Ga naar: www.story.tel/vandisOp Storytel zijn vrijwel alle boeken van Adriaan, door hemzelf voorgelezen, te beluisteren: ‘De kolonie mept terug' / ‘Stadsliefde' / ‘Naar zachtheid en een warm omhelzen' / ‘Klifi' / ‘In het buitengebied' / ‘Zilver' / ‘Vijf vrolijke verhalen' / ‘Tikkop' / ‘Nathan Sid' / ‘Ik kom terug' / ‘Familieziek' / ‘Een barbaar in China' / ‘De wandelaar' / ‘Adje doet heel druk'Simon tipte ‘Dubbelspel' van Frank Martinus Arion. Adriaan laat een fragment horen van zijn favoriete voorleesboek ‘Alleen op de wereld'.Nieuwsgierig? Ga naar: www.story.tel/vandis en probeer het gratis uit!Het poëtisch intermezzo is gewijd aan ‘De werkster' van Gerrit Achterberg en aan Lidy van Marissing (winnaar van De Sybren Poletprijs) met het gedicht ‘hoe de koetsier'.Het gedicht van Van Marissing is te vinden op de onvolprezen website Neerlandistiek: https://neerlandistiek.nl/2024/04/lidy-van-marissing-verhoudingen/Wil je een vraag stellen of reageren? Mail het aan: vandis@atlascontact.nlEen optreden van Adriaan bijwonen? Data, tijden, kaartverkoop: https://www.adriaanvandis.nl/agenda/Van Dis Ongefilterd wordt gemaakt door Adriaan van Dis, Simon Dikker Hupkes, Bart Jeroen Kiers en Sten Govers (van Thinium Audioboekproducties). Volg de uitgeverij op Instagram: @atlascontactWebsite: www.atlascontact.nl© 2024 Atlas Contact | Adriaan van Dis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors, Jeff Dewing speaks to Simon Alexander Ong. Simon is an international Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author of Energize and Award Winning Life Coach. Through his coaching Simon helps leaders, entrepreneurs, organisations and celebrities to transcend perceived limitations and experience extraordinary transformations through the power of insight, perspective and energy management.Simon shares his career journey, candidly explaining that he began by running someone else's race. He started a career in finance as that felt like what society expected him to do. Alongside his job he discovered he had a natural passion for helping people in their day-to-day lives; a passion which ultimately led him to becoming a professional coach. His success led to TV work and the publication of his book. Simon reflects that ‘when you pursue the path that lights you up, that brings you joy you begin to open opportunities that weren't there before.'Simon argues that energy management, not time management, is the key to productivity, and that there are four dimensions of energy: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Mental energy is about your mindset, emotional energy is about how you relate to yourself and others, and spiritual energy is about meaning and purpose. Simon explains that if you are energy rich, even if you are time poor, you are going to get far more done in those hours and days than others might in months or years. Energy gives you the momentum to be truly productive. Simon discusses the impact of surrounding yourself with positive energy and inspiration: ‘the fastest way to make meaningful progress in any area of your life is literally to design an environment around you that makes it impossible not to succeed'. He goes on to describe how you can achieve this and enhance your workflow. Simon shared the story of the Energise cocktail, created at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair to compliment his book. You can see the cocktail being mixed here.  Hosted by Jeff Dewing Watch the podcast on YouTube Discover Cloudfm GroupWebsite  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  LinkedIn

Yesterday, Leo Varadkar shocked the nation with his resignation as Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael.He said: ‘I don't feel I am the best person for that job anymore' But who is the right person for the job? What qualities would you like to see in a new leader? Andrea Gilligan was joined by Eoghan Gallagher, President of Young Fine Gael, Adrian Cummins, CEO of the Restaurants Association, Peter Dooley, Dublin Renters Union and others to discuss...

Gethsemane is the greatest display of the perfect humanity of Jesus in the Bible, it also offers opportunities to ponder the excellencies and perfection of his character. - SERMON TRANSCRIPT - One sacred day, God spoke to Moses from the flames of the burning bush. "Take off your shoes, for the ground on which you are standing is holy ground." What does this mean? Since God is everywhere, all at once, holy ground means that God was about to be uniquely revealed, revealed in an extraordinary way, and Moses's knowledge of God was going to be greatly increased by this encounter. "Draw near to listen. Draw near to fall on the ground in fear and wonder in worship and adoration." If that's true at the burning bush, then how much more true is it when we come to Gethsemane? Gethsemane is the greatest display of the perfect humanity of Jesus Christ in the Bible. It contains almost incomprehensible mysteries, but also tremendous opportunities to ponder the excellencies of Christ, His glories, the perfection of His character, His courage, His obedience, His trust in His father, His willingness to suffer for us, His love for us, His reversal of the disobedience of Adam, also His frailty and His weakness, His mortality, His emotions. All of this is on display. We will spend eternity in heaven, I believe, pondering these themes and others that flow through this account. This morning, we're going to spend just a little while on them. My desire, my goals with this sermon is first and foremost to exalt Jesus Christ our Savior, based on the words of this account, that we may worship Him with all of our hearts for what He did for us at the cross. Secondly, that we would understand more accurately the humanity of Jesus, His emotions, His submission, His mortality and frailty, His temptations, and yet His sinlessness. Thirdly, that we would understand the power of prayer in facing temptations, in strengthening us to do the will of our Father. Fourthly, to motivate us to trust in Christ's finished work on the cross, more than ever before. Fifthly, to help us understand the proper use of our own will, that we would learn to imitate Jesus Christ every day in saying, "Not my will, but yours be done," no matter what the cost. And sixth, to feel intensely personally, if you are a Christian, to feel intensely personally Christ's love for you. For you. In Galatians 2:20, Paul gives us permission to do this, to say, "Christ loved me and died for me. He gave Himself for me." It is right for us as Christians to say both Christ loved me and gave Himself for me, and Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, that multitude greater than anyone could count, from every tribe, language, people, and nation.[Revelation 7]. But in Galatians 2:20, “Jesus loved me and He drank my cup for me.” Here we're going to walk through all of these themes, and I don't know what the Holy Spirit's going to do in your heart as we walk through, probably a little different than He'll do in mine. But if those things will be achieved in you, then I will have preached for the glory of God in Christ. Let's walk first through the facts of Gethsemane. I. The Facts of Gethsemane All His life, Jesus lived under the shadow of the cross. B.B. Warfield, the great Presbyterian theologian, said the prospect of His suffering was a perpetual Gethsemane to Him. He said, in Luke 12:50, "I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed” or straitened, like in a straitjacket, "I am until it is completed." There is clear evidence in the Gospel. This is very important for us to understand. Jesus knew exactly what was going to happen to Him. In Mark 9:31, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days, He will rise." There's no doubt about this at all. He said it again and again. As Jesus comes to Gethsemane on that faithful night, the time had come for Him to face the cross straight on, and make a final decision about what He was going to do. The Lord's supper is over. They have finished the Passover meal. They have sung a hymn. They've crossed the Kidron Valley into the garden of Gethsemane. Verse 32, "They went to a place called Gethsemane." What is Gethsemane? It was a private garden on the Mount of Olives, probably walled off, owned by some rich friend of Jesus, who allowed Jesus and His disciples to frequent the place. It was outside of Jerusalem, across the Kidron Valley from the city, away from the maddening crowd of millions of pilgrims that had come from all over the settled world for the Passover feast. The word Gethsemane itself means “oil press”, probably included a physical press for making olive oil from the harvest of olives on the mount, and the crushing of those olives produced a reddish, viscous, precious fluid, olive oil, to flow into containers for sale or for use. But this also could stand somewhat of a spiritual metaphor for the crushing pressure, spiritual pressure, that Jesus would experience there, so intense that by the end of the time there, His blood was flowing like sweat, like great drops of blood dropping from His face. Why did Jesus go to Gethsemane? It was a place, a regular place of retirement and prayer, a refuge for Him and His disciples. It was commonly used by Jesus and His disciples. Therefore Judas, who had left by then to betray Him that very night, would know exactly where Jesus was going that night. It was His habit to go there. He made it His habit, because in part He wanted to make it easy for Judas to find Him that night and betray Him. This is evidence, clear evidence of His willingness to lay down His life for us. He was never a victim trapped by external circumstances He didn't foresee or couldn't control. It's not the case. John 10:18, Jesus said, “No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down freely of my own accord." It's vital to understand that. Jesus comes to Gethsemane for all those reasons, and He gives a command to His disciples, and He separates away from them. Look at verse 32-33, "Jesus said to His disciples, 'Sit here while I pray.' Then He took Peter, James, and John along with Him.” Luke tells us that Jesus separated from His disciples by a distance of a stone's throw, maybe 100, 150 feet, but He also took His closest disciples with Him. They were His best friends in the world, His closest friends, and He wanted to be with them at that point, Peter, James, and John. These are the same three, of course, that had viewed Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. It's amazing that these three saw Him at His most glorious, His most radiantly glorious in the days of His incarnation on Earth, and also would see Him at His most humbled and abased here in the garden of Gethsemane, eyewitnesses of both. He went there, Jesus did, He separated Himself so that He could pray. Jesus' understanding of prayer is infinitely greater than ours, clearly greater than Peter, James, and John's that night. Jesus knew it was only by prayer that He would be able to get through the cross, so He went there to pray. We see the awesome and the overpowering emotional distress that comes upon Jesus. First of all, it's stated in the accounts. Verse 33, “He began to be deeply distressed and troubled.” In Matthew 26:37, “He began to be sorrowful and troubled.” It's not only stated in the accounts, but Jesus says it about Himself. Look at verse 34, "'My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,' He said to them." "Jesus knew it was only by prayer that He would be able to get through the cross, so He went there to pray." These overpowering emotions, there are two words, we're going to save one of the words for later, but He says He's “sorrowful”. The root word has to do with grief, sadness of an overwhelming nature, usually associated with death. Then “troubles”. It refers to a distracted or anxious state of mind or soul, like someone consumed with anxiety about an impending event. His statement says, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow," as though He's surrounded by it. He's walled in by grief. There's no escape from it except by His own death, right there in the garden. "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow, even to the point of death," He says. I don't think this was just a phrase or a metaphor. I think it was literally true. I think He was literally close to dying in the garden of Gethsemane. So the Father has to dispatch an angel to strengthen Him. Luke 22:43, "An angel from Heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him." What an amazing moment that was. Aa amazing picture of His frailty, the frailty of the Son of God in His humanity. This angel that was dispatched from Heaven, was created by Jesus, and yet at that moment, Jesus is so much weaker than the angel. It says in Luke's account, Luke 22:44, "And being in anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground." This is literally true. We look at that, it's not just an analogy, but it's drops of blood. I would think then that what happened was His blood pressure spiked there in the garden of Gethsemane, the internal pressure so great that it seemed like the capillaries just under the skin burst, they couldn't handle the pressure, and the blood came out of the pores. I mean, not a little, a lot, and it's flowing down His face and dripping to the ground there in the garden of Gethsemane, great drops of blood. It seems quite likely that, had Jesus not been physically strengthened at that moment, He might've died right there in the garden. Then Jesus prays. Look at verse 35-36, "Going a little farther, He fell to the ground, and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from Him. "Abba Father,” He said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will." His physical position, He's on His face, He's prostrate, totally weak, helpless, submissive to God, as low as He can be. As Joseph Hart put in a 1759 hymn, "Come you sinners, poor and needy. View Him groveling in the garden, low your maker prostrate lies." And then the request is, “If it's possible, Abba Father," He said, "Everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me." For any parent of a child, this prayer must be the most heartrending you can possibly imagine. “Abba" means “daddy”. He's reduced to speaking like a little child. I can scarcely imagine what this must have done to His heavenly Father, who's the most perfect, compassionate being there could ever be, whose heart goes out to those that suffer, but especially His Son, whom He loved with a perfect love, with a love so complete that we can't even imagine how great that love would be. How much would Jesus's prayer rip the heart of a loving heavenly Father? "Daddy, you can do anything. If it's possible, take this cup from me." What loving father wouldn't do everything he could to alleviate the suffering, this kind of suffering from a child? But Jesus is also probing the limits of the sovereignty of God within the scope of His plan, “If it's possible.” Later, that same evening in Matthew's account, when Peter draws his sword to rescue Him from the cross, He tells him to put his sword away, and says, "How then would the Scripture be fulfilled that says it must happen in this way?" No, it isn't possible. Once it is written, once it is written, and God has made His commitment and signed it in the blood of millions of sacrificial animals, over centuries of history, and specific careful promises laid out in the prophets, there was no other way. What is this cup? How do we understand the cup? In Scripture, the cup in prophetic language frequently represents the judgments of God, the righteous judgments of God on a sinner or on sinful people or sinful nations. It's a regular pattern, the word “cup”. The most potent example of this word cup is in Revelation 14, "God's wrath and judgment poured out on the damned." Revelation 14:10-11, "He too will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb, and the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. There is no rest, day or night." That's the cup. That's your cup and my cup set before Jesus there in Gethsemane. It's Hell. It's the wrath of God poured out on sinners. Jesus is staring into the cup of the wrath of God, and understandably in His humanity, shrinking back in horror. The wrath of God is terrifying, God is a consuming fire. The wrath of God is His omnipotence focused like a white-hot laser beam on the destruction of His enemies. Jesus is shrinking back from that, from drinking the cup of God's wrath in our place. We could also imagine He's shrinking back from being our sin bearer. We don't understand the purity of the person of Christ. We're just so used to sin. 2 Corinthians 5:21 said, "God made Him, Jesus, who had no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." It's like having tons of raw sewage poured on a perfectly pure being, spiritual sewage. In the atonement, then Jesus, the only perfectly holy man that has ever lived, would become sin for us. He would bear the defiling sins of all of His people from every generation of history, all the filth and corruption, all the lust and murder, all the covetousness and greed, all of that poured onto Jesus as our substitute. Then we see the submission of Jesus. Verse 36, "Yet not what I will, but what you will." This is the centerpiece of this magnificent moment. This is the center of it. "Not what I will, but what you will." This is the greatest act of submission and courage in the history of the human race. More on this in a moment. Then we have the admonishment of the sleeping disciples, verse 37-38, "He returned to His disciples and found them sleeping. 'Simon,' He said to Peter, 'are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.'" Matthew tells us Jesus said this to all three of them, but Mark focuses specifically on Peter. By contrast with Jesus, we have the weakness and the unbelief, really, of the disciples exposed here. Jesus specifically warns them of falling into temptation, not merely being tempted, but being ensnared and overcome by it. That's what it means to fall into temptation. He tells them that the remedy is to watch and pray. He also marvels at their weakness that they're not able to watch and pray with Him for even one hour. Peter in particular should have been getting ready for the most intense spiritual struggle of his life, but instead he's giving in to the weakness of the flesh. That famous expression, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” That was Peter. Amazing also, isn't it, the shepherd heart of Jesus, to break off His intense prayer to His father, which He knew better than any of us, how much He needed, breaks that off to go back and check on His disciples, make sure they're praying, make sure they're getting ready for what they're about to face, to reason with them, to pray, and watch and pray. Then in verse 39, we have Jesus' second prayer, "Once more, He went away and prayed the same thing." Matthew gives a little more detail. "My father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done." It's an evolution of the conversation that He's having with His father on this issue of the cup. Then He goes back, and we have the disciples' second failure, verse 40, "When He came back, He again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to Him." Luke tells us in Luke 22:45, "When He rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow." Then we have Jesus' final prayer. It's assumed in Mark and openly stated in Matthew 26:44, "So He left them and went away once more, and prayed the third time, saying the same thing." Finally the end of the account, verses 41-43, "Returning the third time, He said to them, 'Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough. The hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go. Here comes my betrayer.' Just as He was speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, appeared. With him was a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priest, the teacher of the law, and the elders." Jesus has effectively faced His final temptation there in the garden and conquered it, and now He rises from His moment of greatest weakness, and goes forth mightily to conquer sin and death with unflinching courage. II. The Mysteries of Gethesemane Those are the facts of Gethsemane. Now let's talk about the mysteries of Gethsemane. A. W. Tozer said, "If you've never faced mystery in your study of God, I doubt whether you've ever heard a single word from God at all." We will not plumb the depths of Gethsemane here. The issue has to do with Jesus' incarnation, the theological mystery of the incarnation. The incarnation of Jesus Christ is perhaps the most profound mystery in the Bible. How can Jesus be both fully God and fully man? Many over the centuries have questioned this, and sought to deny one or the other. Dualistic philosophies and theologies like the Gnostics early on, and the Docetists, deny the humanity of Christ, saying He only seemed to be human. Gethsemane is a powerful antidote to this heresy. Jesus' humanity is on full display here, especially in His weakness, His frailty, His wavering, His fear, shrinking back, and to some mysterious degree, His limited knowledge. The fact that Jesus in His incarnation can learn things. We’ll get to more of that in a moment. Jesus's emotional life is real and full and perfect. He fully displays the reality of His title, Man of Sorrows. How then can Christ be both omnipotent deity and this weak humanity? How do we understand and explain His stunning fear of death? Lots of people face death more courageously, overtly courageously than this. It's not that rare a story. Soldiers that are willing just to die, so that others may live. That actually is not all that rare. Socrates famously took the cup of hemlock, knowing it was his own death in that cup, unflinchingly drank it to the bottom and died. But Jesus seems different, just a quantum level difference. Martin Luther said, "No man ever feared death like this man." How can we understand this? How can the infinite creator of all things visible and invisible need help from an angel? How can He need strengthening? How can He shrink back like this from death? So, clearly the answers to all these questions is a mystery, but it shows clearly the humanity of Christ. We get to verse 33, and here I want to show you something that, unless you have the KJV, you won't see. The King James Version is the only version that translates the Greek word in the simplest way, the most direct way. "Now, when Christ entered Gethsemane, He knew exactly what was going to happen to Him factually." Factually. He knew He would most certainly die on the cross as a ransom for sinners. But apparently, it seems, there was a dimension of knowing that was withheld from Him by His father until this moment. Why do I say that? There's a shocking word in the KJV translation of verse 33, which accurately translates. It's not a mistranslation, it’s a good translation. "And He taketh with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy." Sore amazed. The word “amazed” stops us in our tracks. The word “sore” just means extremely, like overwhelmed with amazement. So in some mysterious way, Jesus was amazed at Gethsemane. The same word is used of a crowd reaction to Jesus's ministry, or to the apostles healing of the lame beggar in Acts 3. It is frequently translated in those places, “astonished.” It implies some sense of wonder or surprise. Something is hitting Jesus here that He didn't see coming, and hence He is sore amazed. How does that apply to Jesus at Gethsemane? I believe that when Jesus began to pray, the Father revealed to Him in an immeasurably more vivid way, to His soul, to His mind and His soul, what it would actually be like to drink the cup of His wrath on the cross as our substitute. Drinking the cup of God's wrath poured full strength on Him. The revelation occurred within Jesus's mind and soul, and knocked Him to the ground. This kind of showing or display language was essential to Jesus' role and His daily ministry, actually. In John 5:20, Jesus said, "The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. Yes, to your amazement, He will show Him even greater things than these." More in general in the Scripture, this is a regular pattern, that the prophets were shown spiritual visions and realities in the spiritual realm. They had visions and dimensions like Ezekiel, of wheels within wheels and all that. This is prophetic vision. This is common, actually. But Jesus says He openly got His marching orders from the Father daily. He doesn't say any word except what the Father has told Him to say. He doesn't do anything except what the Father is doing. The Father shows the Son what He's doing. What did He show Him in Gethsemane? He showed Him the cup. "Father, what are we doing next?" "Well, today I'm going to kill you. Kill you for the sins of the world. That's what we're doing next, and this is what it'll be like." It's akin to the difference between seeing an old black and white photo of the Grand Canyon and seeing like an IMAX movie or a virtual reality helicopter tour through the ravine itself. It's just a whole different level of impression made to the mind. As Christ began to pray, God turned up the intensity in Christ's mind of what it would actually be like to drink the cup of His wrath, to absorb the lightning of His indignation, to go through Hell in our place as our substitute, and it knocked Him to the ground, it increased His blood pressure so it spiked, He starts bleeding out of His pores. Why did He do it? Why did the Father do this? I think He did it, I believe, to give Christ the ability to make a more informed choice of whether He would do it or not, whether He would go through with their plan. He refrained from doing it earlier, because look what happened to Him. I mean, the human body can only stand so much strain. It would've been too great for Him to bear. I think, in effect, some infinitely mysterious conversation went on between the Father and the Son. The Father shows the Son the cup, and then the Father says, "Son, this is what the cup of my wrath will be like for you to drink." Jesus answered, "Father, is it possible for me to save my people without drinking that terrifying cup?" The Father. "Son, no. There is no other way. Will you do it anyway?" And now comes what I've called the most heroic moment in human history. "If it is not possible to save my people any other way than drinking that cup, may your will be done." If you ever don't feel loved by God, think about that moment. Think about that. That's your cup He drank, mine too. At that moment, Christ put His own will completely under the will of the Father. At that moment, as I said, He overturned the wretched choice made by the first Adam, that he had made in the Garden of Eden. All the wretched choices that the sons and daughters of Adam have made since by their willful sinning, that's yours and mine, all the bad choices we have made, He overturned all of that. Here, Christ showed the proper use of human will, and that is to do the will of God. So, bow your head and worship all generations of Christians. This is the most perfect act of obedience ever. We also have the mystery of Jesus' prayer. Is His will somehow different than the Father's? Are they at cross-purposes? Some have wondered if the wrestling Jesus displayed in Gethsemane, "If it is possible, take this cup from me," was indicative that His will was somehow against the cross, as though He's battling within Himself, as though He and the Father disagreed about this. In general, we just as Christians have to treat Gethsemane like holy ground, and limit your speculation, and don't go too far. Jesus has said plainly in John 10:30, "I and the Father are one." No doubt about that. He wasn't against the Father's will. He loved the Father's will. Isaiah 53:10 says, "It was the Lord's will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer. And though the Lord makes His life a guilt offering, He will see His offspring and prolong His days. The will of the Lord will prosper in His hand." It's so beautiful. It's like the Father wrote a magnificent concerto, and Jesus the soloist played it to perfection. He made it beautiful. The will of the Lord prospers. No, they're not at cross-purposes, not at all. It just shows that the cost to Jesus, and indeed to the Father, was infinitely high, and the Father was willing to pay it. He did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to this for us all. III. The Glories of Gethsemane Finally, the glories of Gethsemane. We've said, the free will of Jesus, properly on display. Jesus went to the cross of His own free will. He was not coerced, He was not forced. Therefore, for those that talk often about free will, this is free will. This is what free will looks like. He had no sin nature holding Him back, no corruption. He was free, and He used it perfectly to do the will of God. That's what it's for. That's what free will is for, to do the will of God. Because the Father has a will, too. Our will is patterned after the fact that the Father has a will. Jesus taught us that the best use of human will is to find its joy and its delight and its fruitfulness in the will of God. He taught us that. From this moment in time on, Jesus will only be able to escape the cross by a direct application of His supernatural power, His wonder-working power, to get out of it. Physical forces will come on Him at the end of this account and seize Him, and the only way He'll be able to get out of it is by using His power. And He could do it, but He was not going to do it. This is His last moment of freedom, and He gave it up willingly. Therefore, we need to understand the significance of this choice theologically, Romans 3:26. Some have blasphemously, I don't even want to say these words, but blasphemously called the idea of substitutionary atonement Heavenly child abuse, as the Father's crushing His son in some way. Rather, in Gethsemane we have God the Father revealing to the Son as much as He possibly could do, what it would be like to drink the cup, and asking Jesus to make a choice, and He did. Therefore, it was of His own free will that He did it. "Not my will, but yours be done." This removes any charge of injustice against the Father concerning substitutionary atonement. Romans 3:25, "God put Jesus forward as a propitiation by His blood to be received by faith." Propitiation is the one who removes the wrath of God by drinking the cup. Romans 3:26, "He did it to demonstrate His justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus." It is a perfect display of justice, not injustice. Why? Because in part of this transaction that we've been describing here. The willingness of Jesus to do it removes any charge of injustice. We see also the obedience of Jesus versus the disobedience of Adam. I've mentioned it, but the clear parallel is set up in Romans 5:19, "Just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man, the many will be made righteous." That's staggering. You know what that means? By Jesus's obedience, He makes you righteous, if you're a Christian. What that means is He makes you obedient, positionally obedient. You are seen by God in Christ at the moment of your conversion to be as obedient as Jesus. How about that? That is our imputed righteousness. It's staggering. This is the righteousness given to you as a gift. God sees you as obedient as Jesus was there in Gethsemane, as a gift. What is that act of obedience? It's His willingness to die on the cross. Philippians 2:8, "Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross." Then Hebrews 5:8-9, "Although He was a son, He learned obedience." What a staggering phrase that is. "He learned obedience from what He suffered, and once made perfect or qualified, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him." Wow. Adam used his free will to rebel against God, and we all died in that. The second Adam, Jesus, uses His free will to make a right choice, and we all live and are seen righteous in that. That's our salvation. "Adam used his free will to rebel against God, and we all died in that. The second Adam, Jesus, uses His free will to make a right choice, and we all live and are seen righteous in that. That's our salvation." Finally, we see the perfect love of Jesus, first for God, and then for His people. In Gethsemane, we see Jesus loving God and us sinners more than He loved Himself. It was the revulsion of the thing that caused Him to shrink back, but it was love, first and foremost love for God, and secondly love for us, that caused Him to deny Himself, first vertically, John 14:31, "The world must learn that I love the Father, and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me to do." Think about that. "The world must know and learn that I love my Father, and they'll know that when they see me go to the cross." Secondly, love for us. John 15:13-14, "Greater love has no one than this, that he laid down his life for his friends. You are my friends." We see that courage of Jesus, that love that drives out fear. Many people have willingly laid down their lives to save others. It occasionally happens, very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man, someone might possibly dare to die. So, the Congressional Medal of Honor is given to people that were willing to lay down their lives in the battlefield. It happens. But nothing ever in history has been like this incredible moment of courage. IV. Applications of Gethsemane Come to Christ. Trust in Jesus. There is a cup of wrath, of righteous, just wrath, poured out from God on sinners. Either Jesus will drink that cup in your place, or you'll drink it for all eternity. Those are the choices. There's no other option. You can be in denial that there is such a cup, but there is a cup of God's wrath against sin. Jesus is offering in the gospel to drink yours for you. Trust in Him, repent of sin, turn away from wickedness, and turn to Christ in faith, and let Him save you. If you're already a Christian, worship Christ for what He did for you. Thank Him for what He did for you. I don't know how you're made up. I cry basically at one thing, for the most part. It's always the same. It's Christ's love for me as a sinner. It just melts me. I melt every time, and this melts me. This text probably melts me more than any other text. I almost can't talk about it in everyday life without choking up. I never stop thinking about this, my savior drinking my cup. I want to take and sharpen this and apply it on the matter of Christian contentment. When I was studying Christian contentment, I wrote one statement that people who have read the book that I wrote said is the most convicting in the whole book, and that is this: "Has Christ crucified and resurrected done enough for you to be happy today? Or does He have to be a little more?" Let's take it in the language of Gethsemane. Is it enough for Jesus to drink your cup and that's it, so you don't have to drink it and you'll spend the eternity in Heaven? Or does He have to do some more beyond that? I'm not minimizing the things you would pray for. For the healing of somebody that you love and you want to see them heal. I'm not minimizing that. I'm just asking you to put it in perspective, Him drinking your cup for you is the greatest act of love and gift that could ever be. Keep in mind, Romans 8 said He did not spare His own son. God's not holding anything back because He's stingy. He has given the greatest thing He could ever give, His beloved, His perfect son, shattered on the cross. It should be enough, it should be enough for you to be happy. What about obedience? What about free will? This is how you should use your free will the rest of your lives. What do you say? Just choose to say to God, no matter how difficult it is, "Not my will but yours be done." Close with me in prayer. Father, thank you for this infinitely deep text. We'll never be able to finish it, to plumb the depths of it, to understand it. I pray that you would take its lessons and burn them into our hearts. Help us to be overwhelmed with thankfulness, with gratitude. Help us to be overwhelmed with love for Jesus. Help us to want to imitate Him and to use our wills the way He used His. Help us to understand that, oh Lord. And God, I pray that no-one that's here today would leave this place still under the wrath of God, but they would just simply transfer that, the sin and the wrath, onto Jesus by faith, by simple faith, and trust in Him that they would know the full and perfect forgiveness of God. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Some years ago, I took my second trip on behalf of a youth ministry to South Africa. On the first trip, I remember how very lost I felt when I got to the airport. I'd been on an airplane for 18 wonderful hours. I got there late at night, I had no car, no directions. I didn't know anything about anywhere in the nation of South Africa. Well, I'm glad to report to you that someone met me there at the airport. They didn't just leave me saying, "Hey, listen, if you can get out to where we are we'll take care of you once you get there." That's a good thing. They'd have never seen me. I went as far as I could go, and they met me there. I know someone who does that for people all the time. And if you understand how He works, well you might just be willing to risk the trip. I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Why Failure Doesn't Have to Be Final." Now, our word for today from the Word of God is found in John 21, and I'll begin reading at verse 15. Let me put this in context: Jesus has risen from the dead. Not long before, Peter had said to Him, "Lord, I will follow you to prison and to the death." You remember that Jesus said, "No, you'll betray Me three times." And sure enough he did. He denied the Lord three times. He even said, "I never knew Him." What an embarrassment now. He's about to face the Lord, knowing he has failed Him. Well, Jesus meets Peter as he's out on a fishing trip. It looks like Peter's about to go back to that same old mediocrity. He's returning to fishing, it appears, but Jesus says, "I want to meet you privately." And you can imagine Peter. I don't know, maybe he thinks, "Oh-oh. Are we going to talk about that night?" Here's what Jesus said, "When they finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of John, do you truly love Me more than these?' 'Yes, Lord, he said, You know that I love You.' Jesus said, 'Feed my lambs.' Again Jesus said, 'Simon, son of John, do you truly love me?' He answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.' Jesus said, 'Take care of my sheep.' The third time He said to him, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, 'Do you love me?' But he said, 'Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.'" Now, with the backdrop of a major failure, all Jesus wants to know is, "Peter, do you love me?" Maybe you have failed Him recently. Do you know what He wants to know? "Do you love me?" Now, there are two very different love words used here. Phileo, which is a friendship kind of love, and agapao which is "I will love you, no strings attached." The first two times Jesus says, "Do you love me, no strings attached?" Peter says, "Yes, Lord, I phileo - I friendship love you." Finally Jesus says, "Okay, Peter, do you phileo - do you friendship love me?" And Peter says, "I do love you." Do you know what's interesting here? Jesus meets Peter where he is. He wants to do the same with you. He says, "Let's start with the little love that you have - let's start with the little faith that you have. You can get back to Me. You can begin again." And one day Peter will die for Christ. But right now He's just got that little, but growing love. So, would you bring Jesus the little love you have, but would you bring Him all you have? You can begin again. You don't have to get all the way there, because Jesus...He's the Savior who's waiting to meet you where you are.

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Welcome to "The Power Of God's Whisper Podcast," where we explore how to listen and respond to God's voice. I'm your host, Matthew Adams, and today we're focusing on Luke 7:40: "Jesus answered his thoughts. 'Simon,' he said to the Pharisee, 'I have something to say to you.'" In this episode, we'll discuss how God speaks to us through stories, metaphors, and illustrations, and learn from Jesus' interaction with Simon the Pharisee. Let's dive into three detailed points to consider as we seek to recognize and understand the messages God shares through stories.In Luke 7, Jesus used a story to challenge Simon the Pharisee's perspective on a sinful woman. This method of communication allowed Jesus to share a powerful message that could penetrate Simon's heart. Like Simon, we too can learn valuable lessons from the stories and metaphors that God uses to speak to us.Point 1: God speaks through stories God often communicates with us through stories, metaphors, and illustrations, as they can pierce the barriers of our hearts and provide new insights. By paying attention to the stories in our lives, we can discern the messages that God is trying to share with us.Point 2: Stories provide new perspectives Stories can give us a radically new perspective on situations and help us understand things differently. Like Jesus' story for Simon, we can find fresh insights and understanding if we're open to seeing things from a new angle.Point 3: Embrace the challenges in God's stories God's stories can be challenging, but accepting these challenges can lead to significant growth and transformation in our lives. By recognizing and embracing the messages in the stories God shares with us, we can experience meaningful change.Conclusion: As we listen for God's voice, it's important to remember that He often speaks through stories, metaphors, and illustrations. By paying attention to the stories around us and being open to new perspectives, we can gain a deeper understanding and wisdom.Call to Action: This week, take some time to reflect on the stories in your life and consider what messages God might be trying to share with you. Embrace the challenges and lessons that come from these stories, and allow them to reshape your understanding and perspective. Share what you learn with others, and together, grow closer to God.Thank you for joining us on "The Power Of God's Whisper Podcast." If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with others and subscribe for more discussions on hearing and responding to God's voice. Until next time, may you listen closely to the stories God shares and experience the transformative power of His whisper.Let's Pray…Jesus, feel free to challenge me like You challenged Simon. I'm open to change. I invite You to reshape my perspective, even if it stretches me out of my comfort zone.My Reasons To Believe is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to My Reasons To Believe at myr2b.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to "The Power Of God's Whisper Podcast," where we explore how to listen and respond to God's voice. I'm your host, Matthew Adams, and today we're focusing on Luke 7:40: "Jesus answered his thoughts. 'Simon,' he said to the Pharisee, 'I have something to say to you.'" In this episode, we'll discuss how God speaks to us through stories, metaphors, and illustrations, and learn from Jesus' interaction with Simon the Pharisee. Let's dive into three detailed points to consider as we seek to recognize and understand the messages God shares through stories.In Luke 7, Jesus used a story to challenge Simon the Pharisee's perspective on a sinful woman. This method of communication allowed Jesus to share a powerful message that could penetrate Simon's heart. Like Simon, we too can learn valuable lessons from the stories and metaphors that God uses to speak to us.Point 1: God speaks through stories God often communicates with us through stories, metaphors, and illustrations, as they can pierce the barriers of our hearts and provide new insights. By paying attention to the stories in our lives, we can discern the messages that God is trying to share with us.Point 2: Stories provide new perspectives Stories can give us a radically new perspective on situations and help us understand things differently. Like Jesus' story for Simon, we can find fresh insights and understanding if we're open to seeing things from a new angle.Point 3: Embrace the challenges in God's stories God's stories can be challenging, but accepting these challenges can lead to significant growth and transformation in our lives. By recognizing and embracing the messages in the stories God shares with us, we can experience meaningful change.Conclusion: As we listen for God's voice, it's important to remember that He often speaks through stories, metaphors, and illustrations. By paying attention to the stories around us and being open to new perspectives, we can gain a deeper understanding and wisdom.Call to Action: This week, take some time to reflect on the stories in your life and consider what messages God might be trying to share with you. Embrace the challenges and lessons that come from these stories, and allow them to reshape your understanding and perspective. Share what you learn with others, and together, grow closer to God.Thank you for joining us on "The Power Of God's Whisper Podcast." If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with others and subscribe for more discussions on hearing and responding to God's voice. Until next time, may you listen closely to the stories God shares and experience the transformative power of His whisper.Let's Pray…Jesus, feel free to challenge me like You challenged Simon. I'm open to change. I invite You to reshape my perspective, even if it stretches me out of my comfort zone.My Reasons To Believe is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Power Of God's Whisper at myr2b.substack.com/subscribe

On Today's episodes I have a full debrief with the most talked about player ever seen on 'Australian Survivor. It is 'King George' from the latest season of ‘Heroes vs villains!' We first were introduced to 'George Mladenov' on 'Brains vs Brawn' two years ago but nothing could have prepared us for what he had in store for us this year. More Conflict! More strategy! more awkward conversations! (this time on the beach) and one epic Tribal Council that broke the internet! 'George' polarised his audience but also made this season what it was.... and I know 'liz' has won (congratulations) but I think 'George' is the real series-winner from 'Heroes VS Villains' and I am very excited to talk to him today. We will talk about George's ability to read people game and if he managed to manipulate and control his fellow players. George will discuss his pregame preparation and if he and 'Hayley' did get together to plan out the season?  I'll ask about the impact 'George's' game had on the others and where his friendship with 'Simon,' 'Shonee' and 'Liz' has landed. I will also unpack that epic tribal-council and find out if 'George' thinks he went too far... and if he felt he was antagonising 'Simon.'  Plus we will some exclusives on the whole series including some behind the scenes secrets which I am sure you will love.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get ready, because we have the 'Swiss army knife of humans, Gary Wilson back for some more entertaining conversation! He was our first guest on the show, and I vividly remember the excitement I felt in June 2020 as I sat down with him to record the first of many episodes. We joked back then that he would return for episode 500 (while mocking our own sarcasm), but lo and behold, we are now on episode 549, and Gary is once again gracing us with his presence. For those who need a quick reminder, Gary is a former member of Victoria Police's Special Operations Group, bomb squad, and a bodyguard for various celebrities, including Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, and the royal family. He is also known by many names, such as '007,' 'Flipper,' 'Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up,' and 'Simon the likable.' Not only is he a formidable human with an impressive set of skills and stories, but he also has an infectious personality that can light up a room and make people laugh within seconds (although he occasionally gets me in trouble in workshops like a mischievous school kid). In this episode, we'll hear more tales from Gary about how he navigates his colorful life, manages himself and his mind, and keeps himself going. Additionally, I've asked him the question that's been on everybody's lips: "Hey Flipper, how on earth did you manage to snag yourself a Victoria's Secret model to marry?" It's another fantastic story that I can't wait to share with you! TIFFANEE COOK Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/rollwiththepunches/ Website: www.rollwiththepunches.com.au LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/tiffaneecook/ Facebook:  www.facebook.com/rollwiththepunchespodcast/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/rollwiththepunches_podcast/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiffaneeandcoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Think you don't have anything to offer in the place of service in the church? Think again. Donna brings us a 'Simon says' message today on how and where we can practically serve

After our series of episodes with tech leaders from the Silicon Valley, this week we hear from Peter Whalley -  entrepreneur, visionary and leader from the thriving IT sector right here in our own backyard.The Good, the Bad, or the ‘What-the!'Simon shares two experiences of receiving feedback and mentoring around something he feels vulnerable about – and how one experience paralysed future performance while the other validated, challenged and empowered him. Worth the TimeAn oldie but a goodie. We discuss one of the first business books that Simon ever read – Maverick by Riccardo Semmler, who inherited a struggling manufacturing business in Brazil. Words of Authenticity: This week we have pulled an extract from an e-book we wrote (and will publish soon) on Leading Change.During change, people tend to overestimate what they are leaving behind and underestimate what they are gainingSimon and Kirralea discuss why change efforts tend to struggle (and often fail) and provide a few tips on how to approach change better. Our Guest Our guest is Peter Whalley, Managing Director of Plus Software and VisionAI Head of APAC of Computer Vision.Peter has a great story to tell and he shares it in an engaging and captivating way. We discuss the roller coaster journey he embarked on, starting as a young and uncertain adult in South Africa. That journey brought him to Australia, initially on behalf of head office, to bring a struggling IT business into line.After beginning a transformational change process with two of the senior leaders in Australia, they bought the organisation from the South African owners and took it to new levels of success.Peter discusses:The personal changes he needed to make when he discovered his default leadership styles didn't always land as intended in an Australian contextHis approach to engaging people, inside and outside the company, in a change to the fundamental way the business operated – a change that was essential to the ongoing survival of the organisation but that was also a radical departure from the traditional modelThe imposter syndrome he struggled with as young leader in his first board room environmentYou can connect to Peter via LinkedIn here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbwhalley/)Unpacking the interviewSimon and Kirralea discuss the key messages that emerged from the discussion with Peter and share some of their experiences working with those dynamics in organisatio******************************************************Want to check out how Authentic your organisation is? Take our free online Authentimeter Assessment tool hereYou can find full shownotes for this episode and more here Visit our website The Real Learning ExperienceFollow us on instagram or Linked InGot a question for the Podcast? You can drop us a voice message via instagram or email us at: authenticity@reallearning.com.auThanks to our Podcasting producer, Josh at Deadset Podcasting for all his work behind the scenes. Thanks for listening!

As you would know I am obsessed with Australian Survivor and I am doing the exit interview chats for 'Hero's vs Villains.' So this episode we will be talking to the latest booted castaways from Week 4 First up we have 'Jordie Hansen' who no secret is one of my favourite contestants in both seasons I have watched with him in in. 'Jordie' reentered the 'Australian Survivor' universe with a nick name firmly slated as 'The Joker.' Beautifully selected as a 'villain' and 100% a fan favourite for many 'Survivor' enthusiasts.   We will talk massive Idol fails and whether you can ever play two sides successfully? We will discuss Pieces to camera and if they actually mean anything to how your game is going? I really want to know if 'Simon' can pop out from his current 'Deputy Dewey' Role as any second in charge wanting to be in charge? 'Jordie' will also share who he thinks could win and if he would ever return to the Australian format again? We then have 'Benjamin Law' who is another journalist, but he is also known for his popular writing on TV shows, novels and theatre. I think of him as an 'LGBTI' activist and his name being attached this this show was very exciting to me. We will find out why he thinks people thought he was shifty? We will discuss making the fake Idol and if he could have used his Idol clue as a different advantage.      Benjamin will also reveal why he probably won't return to show and who will most likely stand in his way. Plus 'Benjamin' and 'Jordie' will breakdown the 4th week of the series on 'Network Ten' which will give you some exclusives on what actually went down during their epic time on the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's podcast I have ‘Fraser' who was booted from 'Australian Survivor' this week after a very hectic Tribal Council. 'Fraser' was totally doing well in my mind - minding his p's and q's! When somehow he got caught in the crossfire of 'George' vs 'Simon.' Which saw 'Fraser' "Blindsided" and sent home.  This week has been pretty crazy in Survivor world. First JLP lost his mind building hype for this week's episodes and then the media started signing off on it too and now fans hav been saying it was best Tribal Council ever in 'Survivor' history…….. and I tend to agree with them. So we have a lot to discuss. I will find out if he thinks 'George' was right to send him home instead of Jordie? Does he think 'Simon' should have used his Idol for 'Stevie?' We will get his answer on the fairness of that secret challenge for immunity. Plus we will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of the third week of 'Australian Survivor' which you can catch-up on 'Ten Play' now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First up we have 'Anjali Rao' who is know as an international journalist, TV personality and former ‘housewife' on the 'Real Housewives of Melbourne.' We will find out what makes 'Anjali' a villain and why producer mysteriously buried her former role on housewives during the promotion of the 2023 series.  I will also ask if she has permanently swapped journalism for reality?  Plus 'Anjali' will breakdown the 1st episode which will give you some exclusives on what actually went down during her bonkers time on the show.   ************************************************************************************************ We then have 'Michael Warren' who is another journalist who also joined Anjali on the Villain tribe.  We will find out how super fan Michael feels about his time on the show and if he felt audience connected with his character correctly.  Stick around for his breakdown on the tribal council as we discuss if 'George's' dramatic take downed actually did throw him off. I honestly think this will still divide Survivor fans and I will leave this for you to interpret his retelling of the situation.  ************************************************************************************************ Then finally 'Mimi' will unpack her episode which will see us discuss if 'Simon' really does have an idol? What her biggest mistakes were? If in fact her midnight cookie crushing was responsible for her being booted. I genuinely think these chats are a great companion to the show… so feel free to follow me this season of 'Australian Survivor' on 'Network Ten.' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Church Planted In Adversity --- 1 Thes 1-1, Acts 17-1-10--1. Introduction--a. Plans for first half of 2023.--b. Paul's customary salutation.--c. Peek to the past. Acts 17-1-10---2. Christ's Grace - He Sends Out His Workers to Thessalonica--a. He overrules Paul's original plan. Acts 15-36-41--b. He calls Silas and Timothy to His service. Acts 15-40, 16-1-3--c. He directs Paul to Macedonia. Acts 16-11-12, 17-1--In our service to Christ,-Hold our criticisms, exercise more faith in Christ.---3. Christ's Peace - He Sends Out His Word to Thessalonica--a. He sends light through the gospel. Acts 17-1-3--b. He overcomes darkness through His Spirit. Acts 17-4-9--In our service to Christ,-Conquer our fears, exercise more faith in Christ.---And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. -Matt 28-20--'Simon, Simon--Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.-But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail'.-Luke 22-31-32--For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, -with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. -1 Thes 4-16----4. Christ's Grace and Peace - He Has Sent His Workers and Word to You--a. He has been gracious to you.--b. He has not wronged you.--Believe Jesus Christ,-He is a good God, He is a good Man.

Roso & Dan catch up with Alison Lee ahead of the upcoming NZ Cup.

What's your policy on offering discounts? Do you have a discount marketing strategy. In this episode of the Nauti Nerds marketing podcast Tom talks us through when you should and shouldn't be offering discounts to customers. A discount is a tricky thing. Do it too often, and people won't really value you. Don't do it enough, and they'll go somewhere else, that's cheaper. So that's why you probably need to have a discount marketing strategy in place. Particularly when you're on actual one to one calls with customers and they're asking you what kind of 'deal' you can do. Tom tells us a story of one such conversation he had with a customer who was angling for a discount. And the statement 'Simon' made that led to the most frequent use of our laughter sound effect yet!   New to the Nauti Nerds marketing podcast? You can catch all previous episodes here. Please do click whichever button your favourite app uses to keep you updated with new episodes, whether that's subscribe or follow! The Nauti Nerds is a Nautilus Marketing podcast. Like what you've heard?  Leave us a review! Just click here to be taken to your favourite platform to leave us a rating! The Nauti Nerds podcast is part of the Podknows Podcasting Network.

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''Simon and Garfunkel, I'm sick of the two of ye, put that bloody hose away'' [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2022/05/11121250/SSTSTM_1105.mp3"][/audio] It's Wednesday. You know what Wednesday means? It means it's time to Say Stuff That Suits The Music! Dave plays the tracks and Dermot says whatever comes into his head. This week we hear about BMW's new car, the pharmacy that now hosts it's own Jazz Band and there are some big stars singing about pressure washers. You just have to love Dermot's mind! Click Play above to hear the full sketch

Mills and Swoon 60 Second Love Story no 3 'The Yellow Dress' by Penelope la Maréhttps://www.tale-teller.club/love-storiessearch all episodes herehttps://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/stories-of-romance-tale-teller-club-me_jPsLiCpG/#mills_and_swoon #60secondshorts #series #challenge #writers #writerschallenge #writerscommunity #authors #writing #wordsmith #penelopelamaré #romance #romancewriter #romantic, #faith, #love, #lovers, #romance, #lovestories, #attraction, #free, #freestories, #teacupshorts, #relationships, #taletellerclub, #taleteller, #books, #taletellerbookclub, #freepodcasts, #lovepods, #lighthearted, #storiesoflove, #marriage, #books, #tale-teller, #tale #teller#club, #readaloud, #talkingbooks, #famousbooks, #classics #ardour, #passion, #jealousy, attraction, free, free-stories, heartbreak, broken-#hearts, #sex, #sexuality, #millsandswoon, #60secondshorts. #sexscenes, #erotica, #literature,#rosecoloured #romance #lovestory #classics #free #freelibrary #freebooks #free_audiobooks #publicdomain #talkingbooks #taletellerclub #lovers #poetry #prose #shortstories #lovers #taleoflove #brokenhearts #findlove #passion #passionate #passionateembrace #steamy #search #best-love-stories#remote_entertainment #jealousy #passion #rosecoloured #romance #lovestory #classics #talkingbook #freeaudiobook #free #freelibrary #freebooks #free_audiobooks #publicdomain #talkingbooks #taletellerclub #spotifylovepods #immersivestories #virtual_library #24hourbooks #taletellerbookclub #loversbooksMary had shed a million tears. But broken bones and black eyes would be a thing of the past now her brutish husband was dead.Today though, her fears were fading away with Simon's final words, a sympathetic eulogy from a brother-in-law who had supported her through those years of abuse.The wake was a somber affair of black suits and mumbles of regret. Tight-lipped family members who had never asked the truth. Then, Mary descended the stairs in a bright yellow summer dress, a flamboyant hat, new shoes that said she was free, and a suitcase filled with hopes and dreams.'Simon,' she said, 'are you ready my darling?'There was a hush then gasps around the room as Mary and her brother-in-law kissed, a glorious kiss that marked the end of an era and a new beginning.© 2022 Tale Teller Club / Penelope la Maré

Mills and Swoon 60 Second Love Story no 3 'The Yellow Dress' by Penelope la Maréhttps://www.tale-teller.club/love-storiessearch all episodes herehttps://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/stories-of-romance-tale-teller-club-me_jPsLiCpG/#mills_and_swoon #60secondshorts #series #challenge #writers #writerschallenge #writerscommunity #authors #writing #wordsmith #penelopelamaré #romance #romancewriter #romantic, #faith, #love, #lovers, #romance, #lovestories, #attraction, #free, #freestories, #teacupshorts, #relationships, #taletellerclub, #taleteller, #books, #taletellerbookclub, #freepodcasts, #lovepods, #lighthearted, #storiesoflove, #marriage, #books, #tale-teller, #tale #teller#club, #readaloud, #talkingbooks, #famousbooks, #classics #ardour, #passion, #jealousy, attraction, free, free-stories, heartbreak, broken-#hearts, #sex, #sexuality, #millsandswoon, #60secondshorts. #sexscenes, #erotica, #literature,#rosecoloured #romance #lovestory #classics #free #freelibrary #freebooks #free_audiobooks #publicdomain #talkingbooks #taletellerclub #lovers #poetry #prose #shortstories #lovers #taleoflove #brokenhearts #findlove #passion #passionate #passionateembrace #steamy #search #best-love-stories#remote_entertainment #jealousy #passion #rosecoloured #romance #lovestory #classics #talkingbook #freeaudiobook #free #freelibrary #freebooks #free_audiobooks #publicdomain #talkingbooks #taletellerclub #spotifylovepods #immersivestories #virtual_library #24hourbooks #taletellerbookclub #loversbooksMary had shed a million tears. But broken bones and black eyes would be a thing of the past now her brutish husband was dead.Today though, her fears were fading away with Simon's final words, a sympathetic eulogy from a brother-in-law who had supported her through those years of abuse.The wake was a somber affair of black suits and mumbles of regret. Tight-lipped family members who had never asked the truth. Then, Mary descended the stairs in a bright yellow summer dress, a flamboyant hat, new shoes that said she was free, and a suitcase filled with hopes and dreams.'Simon,' she said, 'are you ready my darling?'There was a hush then gasps around the room as Mary and her brother-in-law kissed, a glorious kiss that marked the end of an era and a new beginning.© 2022 Tale Teller Club / Penelope la Maré

TODAY: If Simon too so long to change his mind and mature, we can not be in a rush either. We are not in charge of our growth. Unlearning is painful and ‘crisis' usually triggers change and growth. There will be many ‘beliefs' we need to deconstruct, but the process will lead to a better and more beautiful perspective of who Jesus ‘really' is. If your journey doesn't include humility, you are doing it wrong. If it doesn't look like ‘Love', then it isn't something you want in your beliefs. This Easter series will look a perspectives of different characters and how they processed the words of Christ and His influence in their lives. Watch today's ‘edited' message on YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/4rck7XWDEVA or LISTEN to it on our PODCAST https://anchor.fm/michael-zenker ***Love what you are hearing? Donate today and help keep this going: · Hope Fellowship: https://hopefellowshipycc.com/donate/ · Growing In Grace Canada: https://square.link/u/QcTAIu0c For MORE good news: · Michael Zenker's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelZenker · Hope Fellowship, Your Community Church Website: www.hopefellowshipycc.com · Hope Fellowship FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/hopefellowshipycc · Still Growing In Grace - YouTube Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfv-9uArQHIzcebDIyS8F3nj2MF_FV-H · Still Growing In Grace FACEBOOKpage: https://www.facebook.com/growingingraceministriescanada · Still Growing In Grace Website: https://growingingrace.ca/

True Crime Personality and Psychology True Crime Psychology and Personality is a podcast that profiles criminal personalities, discusses personality disorders, and examines real life events from a scientifically informed perspective.   Want more mental health content? Check out our other Podcasts: Mental Health // Demystified with Dr. Tracey Marks  Healthy // Toxic Cluster B: A Look At Narcissism, Antisocial, Borderline, and Histrionic Disorders Here, Now, Together with Rou Reynolds   Links for Dr. Grande Dr. Grande on YouTube Produced by Ars Longa Media Learn more at arslonga.media. Produced by: Christopher Breitigan. Executive Producer: Patrick C. Beeman, MD Legal Stuff The information presented in this podcast is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only and is not professional advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phil Donlon recently joined host Elias in the cave! You can catch Phil on 'Power Book IV Force' on Starz Sunday nights as Simon McDougal! We talk about how he got into acting, his role as Simon, and meeting Al Pacino in Chicago during the Premiere of his film "Two Bits" to give him a copy of the play "Al Pacino, Al Pacino" which Phil wrote and directed for his college directing project & so much more! You can watch this interview on YouTube https://youtu.be/RL4uL4JCGus Have a question? Email us  themccpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Social Media for the latest show updates  www.twitter.com/themccpodcast www.instagram.com/themccpodcast www.facebook.com/themancavechroniclespodcast www.themccpodcast.com       

Cyberpunk might be the best it's going to get this week. Forbidden West is getting the buzz you expect. Baldurs Gate 3 is a 2023 game like it or not. More No Man's Sky updates! No rude words in Wordle. Lost Ark hits some Steam records. Legacy of The Sith seems neat! Dear Martha! Scott played Mutant Football League, Super Metroid, Link to the Past, and Advance Wars 1 and 2, and a LOT of Wargroove. Beau and Jon played Lost Ark. :)

Cyberpunk might be the best it's going to get this week. Forbidden West is getting the buzz you expect. Baldurs Gate 3 is a 2023 game like it or not. More No Man's Sky updates! No rude words in Wordle. Lost Ark hits some Steam records. Legacy of The Sith seems neat! Dear Martha! Scott played Mutant Football League, Super Metroid, Link to the Past, and Advance Wars 1 and 2, and a LOT of Wargroove. Beau and Jon played Lost Ark. :)

Alun R facilitates the second of 4 sessions of his own supernatural thriller game, Against the Dark Conspiracy. This session was organsied as part of The Gauntlet RPG Community's monthly calendar of games (www.gauntlet-rpg.com) and continues to extend the shared Vampire Conspiracy that it hosts. This series includes the playtest of the 'Occult Intelligence/Cult' background for the game, and the 'Librarain' specialism ... We learn a little more about the history the team members share and their relationships clarify on two separate road trips to Moravia where, as far back as you care to look, the first son of the Throndal dynasty is always named 'Simon'. There's a legal firm with a partner that Anton believes is a blood mage and Mia finds the firm's data system is 'hardened' and has a secure link to the parking garage next door. Meanwhile, Dylan's charm gets the team a plan of the building and its relationship to the extensive disused mine tunnels beneath the town. Finally, Timothy stakes out the building ... and has a bad feeling about the 8th floor ...

This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book Why is there suffering? by Bethany Sollereder.Download the transcript for this episode here.Meet our GuestThe Rev Dr George AthasGeorge is Director of Research and Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at Moore Theological College in Sydney.Featured MusicMichael Levyis a composer for the lyre. His music is a blend of some original ancient melodies and some of his own creations. His arrangements for solo lyre are based on reconstructions of some of the incredibly rare, actual surviving written music of antiquity. We played two of these reconstructions in our episode, with permission: Ma Tovu and Kandel's Hora. You can find out more about Michael's work, and listen to more of his music at ancientlyre.com.Yamma Ensemble is an Israeli world music group who have a beautiful love of the Hebrew language and ancient instruments. We played parts of their live recordings of Psalm 104 (see below) and also a track featuring the ancient Shofar, based on the Mi'mekomcha, a Jewish prayer. All music used with permission. Links Here's a basic timeline of Jerusalem that might be helpful to get your bearings. Watch Alexander, the 2004 biopic we reference at the top of the ep. Though, to be honest, it really wasn't very good. Get the Oxford Classical Dictionary here. Read a little more about George Athas's upcoming book Bridging The Testaments (Zondervan Academic) in this article he wrote for Eternity News. Read George's PhD thesis, The Tel Dan Inscription (Sheffield Academic Press) which focused on the amazing 1993 discovery in Galilee of an inscription mentioning the dynasty of king David (of David and Goliath fame) - it's likely the first mention of David outside the Bible.  Here's an interesting New York Times article about Jewish communities in Myanmar and India who claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Find out more about the archaeological evidence we have for the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple ('the first temple') by the Babylonians in 586 BC. Take a look at the Cyrus Cylinder, housed in the British Museum, which features an inscription mentioning how wonderful the Persian King Cyrus is, of course, but also that he allowed certain subjugated peoples - like the Jews - to return to their homelands and restore their own temples. So, what's The Talmud? Here's an introduction. The Jewish Virtual Library has a heap of maps from this period, so you can see stretch of the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Hellenistic World and the Herodian Kingdom. You might like to check out the 1998 documentary In The Footsteps of Alexander to get a good overview of Alexander The Great. Get to know more about Ben Sira. This YouTube discovery - a Maccadean/Hamilton mash up - made Producer Kaley's day. Read more from Josephus on The Jewish War and Antiochus IV Ephiphanes persecution of the Jewish people. Meet the High Priest Simon (also called 'Simon the Just')  Then, meet Antipater, the Roman-friendly governor of Judaea and founder of the Herodian Dynasty (father of Herod The Great) And then, of course, there's Herod I The Great, who was later made King of Judaea by the Romans. Take a look at Herod's Temple, the 'Second Temple'.And also, this article about the engineering feat of the temple and those massive foundation stones. Josephus records:  Herod announced, "I know the Jews will greet my death with wild rejoicings; but I can be mourned on other people's account and make sure of a magnificent funeral if you will do as I tell you. These men under guard — as soon as I die, kill them all…." Salome disobeyed, and released the prisoners when Herod died, Josephus added. Herod died a very painful death, and his symptoms were recorded in detail. Read this article for more gross details after Jan Hirschmann, professor of medicine at the University of Washington, in Seattle, analysed his symptoms and gave her own diagnosis in 2002 (article from The New Scientist) Who wrote Ecclesiastes? Read this analysis from Zondervan Academic and John Walton. This is a really indepth article on the challenges in dating the Book of Daniel, from The Gospel Coalition. Here's the verse in the Book of Jude that references the apocryphal text 1 Enoch. Here's what John Dickson said about that reference in the episode: "This isn't necessarily because Jude thought 1 Enoch was Old Testament Scripture - it wasn't! - but he did think it made an excellent theological point - about the coming judgment of God - and so it was worth citing with approval. " Here are some readings from the so-called 'intertestamental texts':  From the Book of 1 Maccabees:1Mac. 4:30-43   When he saw that their army was strong, he prayed, saying, “Blessed are you, O Savior of Israel, who crushed the attack of the mighty warrior by the hand of your servant David, and gave the camp of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan son of Saul, and of the man who carried his armor. 31 Hem in this army by the hand of your people Israel, and let them be ashamed of their troops and their cavalry. 32 Fill them with cowardice; melt the boldness of their strength; let them tremble in their destruction. 33 Strike them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all who know your name praise you with hymns.”1Mac. 4:34   Then both sides attacked, and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men; they fell in action.a 35 When Lysias saw the rout of his troops and observed the boldness that inspired those of Judas, and how ready they were either to live or to die nobly, he withdrew to Antioch and enlisted mercenaries in order to invade Judea again with an even larger army.Cleansing and Dedication of the Temple1Mac. 4:36   Then Judas and his brothers said, “See, our enemies are crushed; let us go up to cleanse the sanctuary and dedicate it.” 37 So all the army assembled and went up to Mount Zion. 38 There they saw the sanctuary desolate, the altar profaned, and the gates burned. In the courts they saw bushes sprung up as in a thicket, or as on one of the mountains. They saw also the chambers of the priests in ruins. 39 Then they tore their clothes and mourned with great lamentation; they sprinkled themselves with ashes 40 and fell face down on the ground. And when the signal was given with the trumpets, they cried out to Heaven.1Mac. 4:41   Then Judas detailed men to fight against those in the citadel until he had cleansed the sanctuary. 42 He chose blameless priests devoted to the law, 43 and they cleansed the sanctuary and removed the defiled stones to an unclean place. From the Book of 1 Enoch:1Enoch 1:1-10 - The word of blessing of Enoch, as he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be present in the day of distress, when all the enemies are removed, and the righteous will be saved. 2 And he took up his parable and said: “Enoch is a righteous person, to whom a vision from God was opened to him, having the vision of the Holy one and of the heaven. It was shown to me, and I heard the holy messengers, and as I heard from them everything and understood I saw, but I was not considering the present generation, but I speak to one being distant. 3 and concerning the present elect I said, and concerning them I raised my parable: My great holy one will go forth from his habitation, 4 and the God of eternity will walk upon the earth, upon Mount Sinai and he will appear from his camp, and he will appear in the power of his might from the heaven of heavens. 5 And all will be afraid and the Watchers will believe, and they will sing hidden things to all the heights of the [earth]. And all the heights of the earth will shake, and trembling will take hold of them and great fear up to the ends of the earth. 6 And the mountain will be shaken and will fall and will be scattered, and the high and lofty mountains will be brought low, to be passed, and they will melt as wax before a fire in flame. 7 And the earth will be torn asunder (into) a split crevice, and all that is on the earth will be destroyed, and judgment will be upon all. 8 And with the righteous he will make peace, and upon the elect will be preservation and peace, and mercy will be given to them, and all will be of God, and he will give approval to them and he will bless all, and he will take hold of all, and he will help me, and light will appear to them and upon them he will make peace. 9 He comes with his myriads and with his holy ones, to make judgment against all, and he will destroy all the ungodly, and convict all flesh about all works of their ungodliness which they in an ungodly way committed and the harsh words which they have spoken. From Ben SiraBen Sira 2:1-18. My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing. 2 Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be impetuous in time of calamity.3 Cling to him and do not depart, so that your last days may be prosperous.4 Accept whatever befalls you, and in times of humiliation be patient.5 For gold is tested in the fire, and those found acceptable, in the furnace of humiliation. 6 Trust in him, and he will help you; make your ways straight, and hope in him.7 You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; do not stray, or else you may fall.8 You who fear the Lord, trust in him, and your reward will not be lost.9 You who fear the Lord, hope for good things, for lasting joy and mercy. 10 Consider the generations of old and see: has anyone trusted in the Lord and been disappointed? Or has anyone persevered in the fear of the Lord and been forsaken? Or has anyone called upon him and been neglected?11 For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of distress.12 Woe to timid hearts and to slack hands, and to the sinner who walks a double path!13 Woe to the fainthearted who have no trust! Therefore they will have no shelter.14 Woe to you who have lost your nerve! What will you do when the Lord's reckoning comes?15 Those who fear the Lord do not disobey his words, and those who love him keep his ways.16 Those who fear the Lord seek to please him, and those who love him are filled with his law.17 Those who fear the Lord prepare their hearts, and humble themselves before him.18 Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, but not into the hands of mortals; for equal to his majesty is his mercy, and equal to his name are his works. From the Dead Sea Scrolls, the so called Messianic Apocalypse which was discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran (scrolls were scattered across eleven caves at the site). Though fragmentary, the passage powerfully expresses the Jewish hope for a Messiah, an eternal kingdom and the healings and good news promised centuries earlier by the prophet Isaiah:"… the earth will listen to his anointed one (mashiach /messiah) [and all] that is in them will not turn away from the precepts of the holy ones … For he [the Lord] will honour the pious upon the upon the throne of an eternal kingdom, freeing prisoners, giving sight to the blind, straightening out the twis[ted.] … And the Lord will perform marvellous acts such as have not existed, just as he sa[id,] [for] he will heal the badly wounded and will make the dead live, he will proclaim good news to the poor." 4Q521. OK... now, who are the Essenes?  The Sadducees? The Pharisees? The Zealots? Read again Luke 4:16 - 21:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.  And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 18  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captivesand recovering of sight to the blind,to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19  to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

Welcome to Jack Kirby Month 2021 Celebration on Kirby's Kids! We have a jam packed month of "King" sized goodness planned! In this episode Angus feels the love and reviews Young Romance with a special emphasis on a historical overview of 'Simon and Kirby's Romance Comics'. Young Romance https://www.comixology.com/Young-Romance-Simon-Kirby-1940-1950-1/digital-comic/44999 Please join us for our additional reads to celebrate Jack and his comics legacy: Black Magic - August 11th https://www.comixology.com/Black-Magic-1973-1975-1/digital-comic/839724 Two-Gun Kid - August 14th https://www.comixology.com/Two-Gun-Kid-1948-1977-60/digital-comic/582675 Not Brand Echh - August 18th https://www.comixology.com/Not-Brand-Echh-1967-1969-7/digital-comic/605310 Kudos Kirby - Machine Man Issue 5 - August 21st https://www.comixology.com/Machine-Man-by-Kirby-Ditko-The-Complete-Collection/digital-comic/405687 Destroyer Duck - August 25th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StltOEhtx0I The Kirby Roundtable Takes On The Demon - August 28th https://www.comixology.com/The-Demon-by-Jack-Kirby/digital-comic/582106 https://www.comixology.com/Demon-Knights-2011-2013-Vol-1-Seven-Against-the-Dark/digital-comic/56798 Leave a message via the anchor app at Kirby's Kids. www.anchor.fm/kirbyskids Join the Community Discussions https://mewe.com/join/kirbyskids Please join us down on the Comics Reading Trail in 2021 https://kirbyskidspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/holiday-special-kirbys-kids-giving.html Intro and Outro segments from 'NEW GODS ft. Jack Kirby' by Akira The Don https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/track/new-gods-ft-jack-kirby For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

We're joined by the amazing Chris Roberts from I Saw it on Linden Street (http://lscep.com/) and become #SewerBrosForLife! We discuss moms embarrassing their proud boys at orgies, we talk about the real hero of the story (we stan Stanley), and we create the sensational phenomenon - "Sewer Posing!" Grab your cup of effluvium and start charging your glowing purple rod! We're covering 'Simon, King of the Witches'! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

De pride-month is nog niet voorbij, dus we praten weer over genoeg verschillende YA-boekentips die queer van aard zijn. We bespreken de tips van onze luisteraars die hun queer-boeken aan ons vertelden, en we bespreken de Simonverse, oftewel het universum van Becky Albertalli. Wat voor invloed had haar boek ''Simon vs de verwachtingen van de rest van de wereld'', de film ''Love, Simon'' en de serie ''Love, Victor''? We vertellen je de verschillen tussen het boek en de film en praten spoilervrij over de serie die op Disney+ staat en waarvan het tweede seizoen nu verschijnt. Mocht je boeken tegenkomen in deze podcast die je graag zou willen kopen, doe dat bij voorkeur lokaal! Dit kan via je boekhandel, of via Bazarow waarin je de boekhandel steunt en ook deze podcast (geheel vrijwillig). Een kleine bijdrage ontvangen we als je via deze link bestelt: Bestellen bij Bazarow De vraag voor de volgende aflevering is als volgt: Wat is jouw favoriete YA-thriller? Laat het ons weten! Dit kan via social media onder @holdmybookpodcast, of je kan ons mailen via holdmybookpodcast@gmail.com . Jouw tips nemen we graag mee in de volgende aflevering! Volg ons via: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/HoldMyBookPodcast Twitter:https://twitter.com/hold_book Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/holdmybookpodcast/ Muziek: Life of a dog & Mystical Sting (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License

"Seething Simon" is a piece of flash fiction by British writer, Gary Gordon. The story is based on the doll, 'SIMON', created by Gillydollvintage (purchased by Gary as a gift for HorrorBabble).   Narrated by Ian Gordon Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill

In this months podcast I chat with actor Joe Grossi. Joe talks about his time playing Hopkins, the ever faithful but cheeky butler to Lady Fox-Custard in the Children's BBC series 'Simon and The Witch'. Which aired in 1987 and 1988 with multiple repeats after right up to the early 2000's.

The worlds of offshore sailing and unbridled adventure meet head to head in this month's edition of Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast, as the two time Olympic gold medallist talks face to face with legendary American Whitbread skipper and off the grid sailing expedition pioneer Skip Novak.Today, Novak is known throughout the sailing world as the go to man for sailing led polar exploration. For over three decades he has been running his famous "Pelagic' exploration yachts and is a man with much to say about his career exploring at high latitude, a passion that first came to him while racing around the planet in his first of four Whitbread Round the World Yacht Races."Not many people know this but as navigator I used to 'tweak' the course every now and again, saying 'we need to head up ten' only to see these places and come a little bit closer to get a view, something you wouldn't do today, but I loved to see these mountainous places coming up out of the mist and fog, and blowing like hell, and there was wildlife, seals jumping all over the place, and penguins, and I thought 'I have to go there one day, I have to see these places, and step on shore'".That first Whitbread adventure took place in 1977, as the navigator onboard second place finisher 'King's Legend', but perhaps his most famous Whitbread entry was also one of the race's more unusual.By 1985 British pop sensations Duran Duran were widely acknowledged as one of the decade's biggest super groups. A platinum album, world wide tours, Rolling Stone magazine covers, Grammy Awards, number ones either side of the Atlantic, the band had become a global phenomenon.However, their meteoric rise to stardom had totally passed by a busy Skip Novak, but the global success of Simon Le Bon and his band were about to impact heavily on Novak's sailing career. Having unsuccessfully trawled the boardrooms of corporate America for sponsorship, Novak's Whitbread future looked uncertain, but a phone call from the eighties pop ensemble very quickly changed everything. It's an amusing tale, a story of how Novak was soon skippering the most famous band of the eighties around the world in a seventy seven foot maxi the band christened 'Drum'."We stuck (the hull) in the water and towed it across to Cowes, and we were all down below, Simon (Le Bon) came down for this of course, and we were all down below and somebody said 'Simon, what are we gonna call this thing, what are we gonna name it Simon', and he banged on the hull, and the whole hull reverberated like this and he said 'Let's call it Drum' and that's how that happened." Duran Duran front man Simon Le Bon makes a guest appearance in Part 1 of this podcast, talking to Robertson about the band's exploits onboard 'Drum'. Before the Whitbread itself had even started, Novak, Le Bon and the crew had already taken an unwelcome visit to the front pages of the world's tabloid press, following a catastrophic capsize in the 1985 edition of the Fastnet Race. Novak's eloquent and dramatic account of the incident is typical of his laid back but descriptive style, "I got out as the water was pouring in through the hatch, I was like a salmon trying to swim upstream, the deck was coming down on top of me, I grabbed the rail and it went 'bang', like a coffin had shut!". The tales that follow are as amusing as they are compelling, and leave the listener pondering on whether such an oddball pairing of financial backing and sporting endeavour could ever possibly be beaten.

The bros talk about Simon organising a Black Lives Matter Protest, writing songs for his upcoming show and John's friend wanking in a car. Become a patreon for exclusive video episodes and other goodies: patreon.com/loveyabropod! Follow the podcast on twitter @LoveYaBroPod and the bros @RealSimonDavid @dr_the_evidence

Dear Stefan:What are your thoughts about the relationship between stories, reality and virtue? More specifically, I know that it is all right to write stories and to enjoy them, however, I am curious to how far an author should go to represent what they think of reality. (e.g.: taxation is theft, slavery is wrong, China is a communist hellhole etc.) Moreover, what is the point where a piece of fiction becomes a warped, corrupting influence that spreads misery and negativity instead of enjoyment and hope? I know these topics are abstract, but I feel like discussing them would be important for what my next step in life is and I would love to talk with you on this issue.I am something of an author myself, which is why I ask these questions, but I am also concerned if I am doing a 'Simon the Boxer' repetition of the past by pondering these issues and by writing stories.▶️ Donate Now: www.freedomain.com/donate▶️ Sign Up For Our Newsletter: www.fdrurl.com/newsletterYour support is essential to Freedomain, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: www.freedomain.com/donate▶️ 1. Donate: www.freedomain.com/donate▶️ 2. Newsletter Sign-Up: www.fdrurl.com/newsletter▶️ 3. Subscribe to the Freedomain Podcast: www.fdrpodcasts.com▶️ 4. Follow Freedomain on Alternative Platforms:Video:🔴 DLive Livestream: https://dlive.tv/freedomain🔴 Bitchute: https://bitchute.com/freedomainradio🔴 LBRY: https://open.lbry.com/@freedomain:b🔴 Streamanity: https://fdrurl.com/streamanity🔴 Locals: https://freedomain.locals.com🔴 Brighteon: https://brighteon.com/channels/freedomain🔴 DailyMotion: https://dailymotion.com/FreedomainRadio🔴 Parler: https://parler.com/profile/stefanmolyneux🔴 Minds: https://minds.com/stefanmolyneux🔴 Steemit: https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux🔴 Gab: https://gab.ai/stefanmolyneux🔴 Facebook: https://facebook.com/stefan.molyneux🔴 Instagram: https://instagram.com/stefanmolyneux🔴 PocketNet: https://pocketnet.app/freedomain🔴 MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/freedomain🔴 Twetch: https://www.fdrurl.com/twetch🔴 Thinkspot: https://www.fdrurl.com/thinkspot🔴 Flote: https://flote.app/freedomain🔴 Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/stefanfreedomainAmazon Affiliate Links▶️ US: https://www.fdrurl.com/Amazon▶️ Canada: https://www.fdrurl.com/AmazonCanada▶️ UK: https://www.fdrurl.com/AmazonUK

Tuve el grato placer de ser participe del estreno en Venezuela del disco 'Racines', Raíces en español, del grupo francés liderizado por el percusionista y baterista Marlon Simon. Miembro de una familia dedicada a la música, Marlon nos presento un trabajo bien logrado, de una singular fusión de música francesa y venezolana, montada sobre una base de Jazz Latino, interpretada por una banda de músicos franceses a quienes este excepcional músico tuvo la oportunidad de enseñarles lo mas relevante de este estilo de Jazz.

In this BEST OF edition of The Simon Time Trivia Show, we have four rounds from four past "Are You Smarter Than Simon?" episodes, featuring quizzes about Disney afternoon television, Disney villains, professional wrestling and more!

Running Time: 3 Hours 45 Minutes Hosted by Don Tony NOTE FROM DT: AEW Double Or Nothing PPV Recap airs LIVE SATURDAY 05/23/2020 immediately following the PPV. CLICK HERE to tune in LIVE. Topics discussed: WWE Smackdown Recap (The now ‘traded to Smackdown’ AJ Styles vs Nakamura, Otis/Mandy vs Dolph/Sonya, Jeff Hardy vs Sheamus, Charlotte vs Bailey)... AEW Double Or Nothing PPV Predictions... RIP Hana Kimura (22)... Seth Rollins addresses Jim Cornette's insensitive remarks towards Becky Lynch's pregnancy... Artistic tribute to Shad Gaspard sparks a TV Series idea from DT: "Bright Side Of The Ring"... Undertaker and Michelle McCool comment on Shad Gaspard... A confusing #1 Contenders Match scheduled for Raw... Happy Anniversary Cody!... Ratings: AEW + NXT (5/20), Dark Side Of The Ring: Owen Hart and FOX' Labor Of Love (feat Matt Striker)... Asuka may be MVP of WWE TV during Covid. Is Sonya DeVille #2?... As DT predicted, WWE now lists John 4.14 as 'Injured'... 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What is the best Pixar movie of all time? With the release of Onward and March Madness around the corner, we're doing the Best Pixar Movie Bracket to pick our favorite from 'Toy Story' to 'Toy Story 4'. Also, the Harrison Ford dog movie doesn't have a dog. And the Harrison Ford franchise movie doesn't have Steven Spielberg. SKIP TO... WHAT WE'RE WATCHING Love is Blind 01:36 Pete Davidson: Alive from New York 04:19 Horse Girl 06:23 YAY OR NAY NEWS 'Call of the Wild' motion capture dog 09:34 'Love, Simon' series moves to Hulu 14:06 Netflix adds Top 10 feature 18:58 Spielberg leaves 'Indiana Jones 5' 22:34 TOPIC OF THE WEEK Best Pixar Movie Bracket 26:13 PICKS FOR THE WEEK Invisible Man 01:05:03 McMillion$ 01:05:32 Cheer 01:06:53 This week's references... This article on 'A Dog's Purpose' abuse claims - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/a-dogs-purpose-abuse-video-scandal.html This Instagram post from Hilary Duff - https://www.instagram.com/p/B9IaC36pec0/ If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

A woman is dead after exposing a man on Facebook Live. And, Disney Plus says LGBT love story 'Love, Simon' is not "family-friendly" while refusing to recognize their other fairytales have questionable storylines, too. We're not here for it. Send us questions, comments, and business inquiries, to hereforitpod@gmail.com We’re on Patreon! Join the #HereForItHive at www.patreon.com/HereForItPod Merch! https://hereforitshop.com/ Social Studies – My OB/GYN Said Sexual Health – Casuals, Submissives, and Power Bottoms Follow us on social media @HereForItPod and hereforitpod.com www.instagram.com/hereforitpod www.twitter.com/hereforitpod www.facebook.com/hereforitpod Don't forget to leave us a comment or review on Apple Podcasts! Search our name in the Podcasts app, click the Reviews tab, click Write A Review. http://apple.co/2y6zmMi

Concierto 'Gracias Tío Simon' con Patricia Vlieg, Cheo Hurtado e invitados especiales. Homenaje muy sentido y mejor interpretado, en el cual los músicos hicieron gala de su virtuosismo, así como la compenetración con el repertorio, interpretando mayoritariamente composiciones del músico venezolano Simon Diaz, destacando entonces el buen gusto y la hermandad latinoamericana.

Simon (of the Armenian tale 'Simon, The Friend of Snakes') is definitely a friend of the snakes, and being such he gets a wonderful reward indeed! Help keep The Folktale Project going by becoming a supporter! Find out how at https://www.folktaleproject.com/support. 

Jordin talks about why the book or movie is better for the book 'Simon vs. The Homosapien's agenda', mostly known as, 'Love, Simon.' She also gives a summary on the book and introduces two songs from the movie 'Love, Simon'.

We are rebroadcasting Episode.20 from the second season of Keeping It Queer to understand our myths better. On this episode of Keeping it Queer, author Devdutt Pattanaik joins Navin to have an in-depth discussion about: How he was first introduced to Indian mythology. How people don't read enough history before interpreting religion. How India's greatest monk wrote the best book on erotica. How he was exposed to all kinds of cultures as a child in the Pre-Hindutva era. In the Culture Vulture segment, Farhad and Navin take an in-depth at the new film 'Love, Simon' and the issues surrounding it. You can talk to Devdutt at @devduttmyth Follow Navin on Twitter @houseofnoronha You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthews"22.When they were together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 'The Son of man is going to be delivered into the power of men; 23.they will put him to death, and on the third day he will be raised up again.' And a great sadness came over them. 24.When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel came to Peter and said, 'Does your master not pay the half-shekel?' 25.'Yes,' he replied, and went into the house. But before he could speak, Jesus said, 'Simon, what is your opinion? From whom do earthly kings take toll or tribute? From their sons or from foreigners?' 26.And when he replied, 'From foreigners,' Jesus said, 'Well then, the sons are exempt. 27.However, so that we shall not be the downfall of others, go to the lake and cast a hook; take the first fish that rises, open its mouth and there you will find a shekel; take it and give it to them for me and for yourself.'" "22.Yendo un día juntos por Galilea, les dijo Jesús: «El Hijo del hombre va a ser entregado en manos de los hombres; 23.le matarán, y al tercer día resucitará.» Y se entristecieron mucho. 24.Cuando entraron en Cafarnaúm, se acercaron a Pedro los que cobraban el didracma y le dijeron: «¿No paga vuestro Maestro el didracma?» 25.Dice él: «Sí.» Y cuando llegó a casa, se anticipó Jesús a decirle: «¿Qué te parece, Simón?; los reyes de la tierra, ¿de quién cobran tasas o tributo, de sus hijos o de los extraños?» 26.Al contestar él: «De los extraños», Jesús le dijo: «Por tanto, libres están los hijos. 27.Sin embargo, para que no les sirvamos de escándalo, vete al mar, echa el anzuelo, y el primer pez que salga, cógelo, ábrele la boca y encontrarás un estáter. Tómalo y dáselo por mí y por ti.»" Palabra del Señorhttps://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/la-biblia-de-jerusalen/mateo/17/

"So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?' He said to Him, 'Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.' He said to him, 'Tend My lambs.' He said to him again a second time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love Me?' He said to Him, 'Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.' He said to him, 'Shepherd My sheep.' He said to him the third time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love Me?' Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, 'Do you love Me?' And he said to Him, 'Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.' Jesus said to him, 'Tend My sheep.'" (John 21:15-17) Encoded in a seemingly simple story about Jesus asking the Apostle Peter if he loves Him are several deeper truths about love, spiritual maturity and the Kingdom. In this 20-Minute Bible Study, we unlock and explore these truths.

My guest today is Ellie Gibson, one half of the Scummy Mummies Podcast/comedy team, an award winning videogame journalist and coming to TVs near you as the videogame expert in Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit. We talk about the dual impact of Jet Set Willy and Band Aid's Feed The World, the bizarre interview process for her first gaming job, an unforgettable press trip for the videogame Black which involved James Bond's stunt double and a ring of fire, why it really should be about ethics in Vietnamese Journalism, the history of Eurogamer, Dave 'The Animal' Perry, and why you shouldn't say the word Joypad on TV. 'Simon, sidestep to your left!' iTunes HERE - SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEW RSS HERE Fruit Mystery http://taxiderby.tumblr.com/mystery Games discussed: Jet Set Willy, Fruit Mystery, Tomb Raider, Super Mario Kart, GTA, Candy Crush, New Zealand Story, WipeOut, Rockstar Ate My Hamster, The Suffering, Sky Odyssey, Pokemon Go Cover design: Craig Stevenson - http://onedinosaurandhisballoon.blogspot.co.uk Music: Samuel Baker - http://soundcloud.com/furoshiki

In this second message in a series we look at the life of Simon Peter. We will see his initial encounter with Jesus where Jesus changes his name from Simon to Peter. 'Simon' speaks of his old nature, characterized by his faults and failures while 'Peter' refers to who God had called him to be. If we're going to fulfill the plan of God for our lives, we must focus on who God says that we are, instead of seeing ourselves according to our human flesh.

"Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?' Simon Peter answered him, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my lambs.'" Seeing the Risen Lord, Peter was invited to share in the work and ministry of Jesus. We, too, are called to be missionary disciples.

Jorge Lendeborg Jr. joins Amanda and Dino to discuss his work on 'Love, Simon' and 'Bumblebee'. Produced by David Janove.

Episode 8: Michael B. Jordan "desegregating" Hollywood? Moviepass receiving a Razby (apparently not a Razzie)? Okay, maybe we had already been hitting the bottle of bubbly hard when we recorded this New Year's episode. But check it out anyway to hear these black hipsters' faves of 2018, and hopes for 2019. Like the music? Up-and-coming artist T|Y|K created a new track for us. Head to Soundcloud to listen to more of the artist's work. (Pssst....that Black Hipster theme song is coming soon!)

Simon Bridges gets a little funky and NZ Politics Museum opens.

On this episode of Keeping it Queer, author Devdutt Pattanaik joins Navin to have an in-depth discussion about: How he was first introduced to Indian mythology. How people don't read enough history before interpreting religion. How India's greatest monk wrote the best book on erotica. How he was exposed to all kinds of cultures as a child in the Pre-Hindutva era. In the Culture Vulture segment, Farhad and Navin take an in-depth at the new film 'Love, Simon' and the issues surrounding it. You can talk to Devdutt at @devduttmyth Follow Navin on Twitter @houseofnoronha You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

The last two M8S are back with life updates, harsh truths about the latest 'Riverdale' episode, and in true #twentygayteen style, gush about the need for everyone to watch 'Queer Eye' and 'Love, Simon'. Like, seriously. Go watch them. CONTENT WARNING: Some Strong Language. Listen at your own discretion.Your M8S: Josh (@abangpinoy) | Anastasia (@anastasiamowen)FOLLOW us on Twitter @GR8M8SPodcast | On Instagram @gr8m8spodcast | Got Questions? Use #GR8M8SPodcast | FIND us at gr8m8spodcast.wixsite.com/heym8 | LISTEN to us on almost everything! Just search 'GR8 M8S Podcast'. Leave us a rate and review on iTunes, and share us to your friends! Thank you for the love!Music: "american boi" by rob smyles. Go support rob smyles at robsmyles.bandcamp.com

Olha o Não Me Critica dessa cinema tá do jeito que a gente gosta: falando de cinema. E falando de cinema como amamos, um cinema inclusivo e que dá abertura a debates mil, importantes para a sociedade e para melhorar a forma como vemos o outro e lidamos com terceiros, além de contribuir com uma migalhinha para um mundo melhor. Vez por outra trazemos o cinema pra dentro do programa, sabemos que sempre é muito bem aceito e que temas relevantes como o dessa semana as vezes se confundem com o que precisamos dizer. Na quinta passada estreou 'Com Amor, Simon' e a essa altura dificilmente você não assistiu ou não ouviu falar da produção. O filme é uma adaptação de um best seller em todo mundo sobre um tema que não pode parar de ser falado, principalmente para o público onde originalmente o filme/livro é destinado: os jovens gays. Simon é um menino de 17 anos saindo do armário, pra si e para o mundo, e essa semana Thiago Arzakom, Francisco Carbone e Anna Paula Monsores vão debater esse filme e esse processo, que cada vez mais jovem passa por esse momento na vida. Como foi para cada um dos nossos integrantes essa saída, e como o mundo mudou e isso hoje é muito mais comum, sempre mais cedo. Então se você curte esse combo NMC + cinema, esse é um episódio gravado pra você. Agora, se além disso você ainda curte ouvir sobre comportamento, sociedade, temas LGBTQs, confissões de nossos rebatedores e muita diversão, carinho, emoção e bom humor da nossa família, então o programa dessa semana é pra todos nós. Essa alegria não nos falta nunca, mas quando a gente pode trazer também informação junto ao nosso entretenimento, aí fica imbatível. Já sabe né... só curtir, compartilhar, e pra ouvir, dar o play e não nos criticar. Acesse nosso site: naomecritica.com.br e acompanhe: Terça-feira: Nosso teaser do episódio inédito de quarta-feira, diretamente em nosso facebook.com/naomecritica Quarta-feira: Episódio inédito Quinta-feira: As estreias nos cinemas com Francisco Carbone na #ColunaDoFrank além da coluna também YouTube Sexta-feira: Coluna de Laura Vidaurreta com #LeitoresEmSerie Estamos no Facebook: facebook.com/naomecritica Sabe o Twitter e o Instagram? Estamos lá também no @naomecritica Além do iTunes (para quem tem Apple) Ah, o nosso programa pode ser ouvido na íntegra lá no YouTube! No nosso canal: youtube.com/naomecritica =D

The GHR Gang is back at it again! This week, apart from the usual banter, Brim fails an april fools joke, we talk about upcoming events, and Steven Ogg aka 'Simon' from The Walking Dead, and 'Trevor' from GTA V stops by for a chat about life, performance, and some crazy questions! Enjoy!

The GHR Gang is back at it again! This week, apart from the usual banter, Brim fails an april fools joke, we talk about upcoming events, and Steven Ogg aka 'Simon' from The Walking Dead, and 'Trevor' from GTA V stops by for a chat about life, performance, and some crazy questions! Enjoy!

On this episode, we’re heading back to the Pacific Rim to find out what happens in Giant Robots vs Kaiju, round 2! Listen in to hear our thoughts on ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ as well as what's been happening in and around the world of film in our Movie News segment. TIME INDEX 0:00 - Intros 2:24 - MOVIE NEWS: X-Men movie release dates pushed back; Celebrities provide free screenings of 'Love, Simon'; Simon Pegg talks about performance of new Star Trek films.  24:24 - Review: PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING 41:45 - Spoilers: PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING 56:18 - Plugs & Outro You can listen to all of our movie reviews and special episodes on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and on our website: www.moviebearspodcast.com      

Charlie, Jess, Daniel and Chris discuss the week's films, look at the impact of 'Love, Simon', the first film ever released by a major Hollywood studio with a queer main character, and discuss the filmography of Steven Spielberg to celebrate the release of 'Ready Player One' and Chris' article ranking all 31 of his movies.Reviews▸ Ready Player One (1:12)▸ Early Man (6:58)▸ Love, Simon (13:00)▸ Blockers (22:27)▸ A Wrinkle In Time (30:00)▸ The Other Side Of Hope (36:47)▸ The Death Of Stalin (38:37)▸ Paul, Apostle Of Christ (45:02)▸ Sherlock Gnomes (46:19)Trailers▸ Deadpool 2 (49:51)▸ Can You Ever Forgive Me? (54:14)▸ Under The Silver Lake (57:28)News▸ If you’ve been checking in with the website over the past week, then you may have had a chance to read Chris' gigantic ranking of the entire filmography of Steven Spielberg. In the lead-up to the release of ‘Ready Player One’, he spent the past six months working on this retrospective, going through all of the director's 31 films in chronological order. Now that this behemoth is up and out there in the world, we count down our favourites and discuss what makes Spielberg arguably the greatest director of our times. (1:02:12)You can read Chris' countdown of the Spielberg biography here.Comps▸ Win one of five double passes to see 'Walking Out' in cinemas▸ Win one of ten double passes to see 'Have You Seen The Listers?' in cinemas▸ Win one of five copies of 'Ferdinand' on Blu-rayStay Up-To-Datefacebook.com/maketheswitchAUtwitter.com/maketheswitchAUinstagram.com/maketheswitchAUmaketheswitchAU.tumblr.comThe hoststwitter.com/Charlie_Davidtwitter.com/MissJess_SWITCHtwitter.com/DanielLammintwitter.com/ChrisCEdwardsNext week's episode▸ Reviews of 'A Quiet Place', 'Walking Out' and 'Pop Aye'▸ Daniel delves into Alice's world with interviews from ACMI's new exhibition WonderlandFor more episodeswww.SWITCHCast.com.auEnjoy the episode?We'd love if you took a minute to vote for us in the Australian Podcast Awards!

In this episode of the "Rymie" pop culture roundup podcast, Ryan Alkire (@TheRealRyAlk) and Armin Mahramzadeh (@ArminMahram) discuss 'Love, Simon', 'Queer Eye', and whether they are "Into It or Over It" on 'Avengers: Infinity War'.

In our season 1 finale, Thom & Elliott discuss the murder of trans woman of colour Naomi, Marlon Bundo, the movie 'Love, Simon', the history of Oscar Wilde, and Doug Ford. Special guest Jezebel Bardot talks the Toronto drag scene, her origins, influences, and winning Miss El Convento Rico. See you in season 2! 

After a week of binging film after film at the #SXSWFilm Festival in Austin, Texas, Brad, Jim, and Will are joined by special guest Matthew Goad of YouTube’s ‘Cocktail Moment’ and thirtysomethingdigital to discuss some of their favorite experiences from the festival. Plus, the young adult rom-com ‘Love, Simon’ has been setting Gay Twitter™ on fire after its premiere this weekend. Is this charming LGBTQ romantic comedy the film our community has been waiting for? Or is it simply more of the same, dressed up in gay trappings? We’re going live RIGHT NOW to discuss these very topics, and we’d love for you to click the link and join us! #LoveSimon TIME INDEX 0:00 - Intros w/special guest Matthew Goad 4:39 - Highlights of SXSW Film 2018 55:56 - Review: LOVE, SIMON 1:08:18 - Spoilers: LOVE, SIMON 1:24:02 - Plugs & Outro Catch our hunky guest Matthew's fun and informative 'Cocktail Moments' on YouTube channel Thirty Something Video channel.  You can listen to all of our movie reviews for FREE! on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, or on our website: www.moviebearspodcast.com  

Charlie, Jess, Daniel and Brent discuss the week's films, look at the dangers of criticism and backlashes for films before audiences have even seen them, and ask whether Australia would benefit from an in-cinema film subscription service.Reviews▸ Pacific Rim Uprising▸ Peter Rabbit▸ Mary Magdalene▸ The Endless▸ The Divine Order▸ Buena Vista Social Club: Adios▸ Earth: One Amazing DayTrailers▸ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald▸ Eighth GradeNews▸ In the lead-up to its release, social media was awash with people damning Steven Spielberg’s upcoming ‘Ready Player One’ before anyone has even seen it, only for it to receive glowing reviews after its premiere. This practice of ripping a film to pieces en masse based on even just its existence is becoming an even more prevalent trend, in some cases affecting the success of the film on release. So why on earth are we proclaiming a film the antichrist before anyone on the planet has seen the damn thing?▸ Most of us have Netflix, and some of us might even luxuriate in the divine presence of Stan. It’s safe to say that subscription services are on the rise, and have revolutionised the home entertainment market. So what about the out-of-home market? Founded in 2011, Moviepass is a service in the U.S. that lets you see one film a day in the cinema for a mere $9.95 per month - that’s basically less than a single ticket! With a similar service to supposedly launch in the UK, is it time Australia followed suit, and would you sign up for it?Competitions▸ Win one of five copies of 'Paddington 2' on Blu-ray▸ Win one of five copies of 'Duckman' The Complete Series▸ Win one of five copies of 'Murder On The Orient Express' on Blu-rayStay Up-To-Datefacebook.com/maketheswitchAUtwitter.com/maketheswitchAUinstagram.com/maketheswitchAUmaketheswitchAU.tumblr.comThe hoststwitter.com/Charlie_Davidtwitter.com/MissJess_SWITCHtwitter.com/DanielLammintwitter.com/BrentCDavidsonNext week's episode▸ Reviews of 'Ready Player One', 'The Death Of Stalin', 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Love, Simon', 'Blockers', 'Early Man' and 'The Other Side Of Hope'For more episodeswww.SWITCHCast.com.auEnjoy the episode?We'd love if you took a minute to vote for us in the Australian Podcast Awards!

0:00 - Hello, we have March Madness 2:20 - "Tomb Raider" review 13:00 - "Thoroughbreds" review 20:45 - "I Can Only Imagine" review (Snider) 26:25 - "Love, Simon" review (Snider) 34:10 - This week's DVDs, including a giveaway of "Downsizing" 36:00 - What'd You Watch? ("LEGO DC Superheroes: The Flash" and "The Plague Dogs") 41:55 - Recap and good day   REVIEWS:  Tomb Raider: C+ 4/10 Thoroughbreds: B+ 7/10 I Can Only Imagine: B- n/a Love, Simon: B n/a

In this episode of the ScreenFellas Podcast Ozzy and Carlos: - Review 'Tomb Raider' (15:40) - Review 'Love, Simon' (34:08) - Discuss the season finale of 'This Is Us' Season 2 (53:21) Thanks for the Download and be sure to subscribe! Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/screenfellas-podcast/id1118568554?mt=2 Subscribe on Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Izfcfjzpk6vp5423sdskadxdysa?t=ScreenFellas_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=91364&refid=stpr Subscribe on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/screenfellas Subscribe on YouTube: YouTube.com/ScreenFellas Check screenfellas.com for written reviews and articles! Social Media: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScreenFellas - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/screenfellas - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/screenfellas/ Follow the team: - Carlos: https://twitter.com/Chiri456 - Ozzy: https://twitter.com/CastroOzzy - Jesse: https://twitter.com/ColonelSwink - Zack: https://twitter.com/zack_marron - Enrique: https://twitter.com/cboga635 - Eli: https://twitter.com/XeyonMusic Brought to you by: Audible - For your free audio book go to audibletrial.com/screenfellas Music: Enrique Chiriboga and XEYON

Hello and welcome to this here episode of News & Reviews. It's a jam packed episode this week with a bunch of trailers coming out including Avengers Infinity War and Fantastic Beasts 2. Alongside this we have our regular review section, this week we tackle the upcoming teen rom com 'Love, Simon', Lynne Ramsey's brutal and brilliant 'You Were Never Really Here', British comedy 'Walk Like A Panther' and 'Mom and Dad'. Find us at Dinosaur Man Nerdcast on Facebook or @DinosaurMan15 on Twitter. Like what you're hearing? Subscribe to the podcast to ensure you get all the episodes as they're released and give us a rating in the process. Why not tell a friend about the podcast, get them to tell 4 more friends, and those friends to tell 4 more each, it's not a pyramid scheme, honestly.

Jay, Luke, Dion, and Dave get together in the car once again to discuss topics they are almost definitely unqualified to talk about. Can stupid people ever stop being stupid? Did Mr Bean try to help people? Are time travellers living among us? All of that, and more! **CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR: 'Paddington', 'The Founder', 'You Were Never Really Here', 'We Are Your Friends', 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Love, Simon'**

Matt and Mike review 'Tomb Raider' and 'Love, Simon' and also discuss the film lineup of the upcoming Atlanta Film Festival as we eagerly await Emma's much anticipated return next week.

This week we are joined by two guests  — Martha's roommate Zach and MJ's brother Marc — to chat about 'Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda,' A.K.A. the book that inspired the movie 'Love, Simon.'Then, inspired by Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, we talk about books we wish we had growing up, including The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman, and The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chobosky.And as always, we close the show with recommendations: Zach, Martha's roommate, recommends the Netflix show The Words Most Extraordinary Homes. "The show is perfect because one: it is British. There are two British co-hosts and they are just lovely people, because they are absolutely the most genuine. They just go around and look at beautiful homes and talk about the architecture. It's so simple and so perfect." Marc recommends Bravo's reality TV show Vanderpump Rules. "It is pop culture junk food. It's an awful, awful show. But you see yourself in it, in a strange way." He also recommends Scaachi Cole's essay on Buzzfeed “'Vanderpump Rules' Is The Worst Show On TV That You Should Be Watching." "It's super, super funny read, and it's just a super well written essay." Martha recommends Vince Staple's Go Fund Me project "Get Off My D*ck or Fund My Lifestyle," which was a response to critics saying that Vince Staples raps over low quality robot beats. "I love the song first of all and I love him. But it made me think about the larger cultural conversation about people's critiques about black art, and how a lot of people who write online, or talk about hip hop, don't get it." MJ recommends "I wore Adidas tracksuits for week like Armie Hammer," a first person story where Elle writer Estelle Tang, well, wore Adidas tracksuits for a week like Armie Hammer. "The story she wrote is phenomenal, it's so funny. It's just this really great hilarious article about someone doing this ridiculous stunt." Also mentioned on this podcast: our interview with Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone and Alim Kheraj's article for GQ "The Bright Future of Queer Literature Is the Young-Adult Novel." And be sure to check out MJ's review of Love, Simon here.Next week, we're reading A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle. We hope you'll join us. If you're looking for more books coverage, be sure to follow MashReads on Facebook and Twitter.

In Adieu God? gaat Tijs van den Brink in gesprek met kerkverlaters. Zij zijn christelijk opgevoed en gingen vroeger naar de kerk. Wat is daarvan over? Rik verliet de kerk rond zijn zestiende. Hij keerde terug na de geboorte van zijn eerste kind. ‘Ik heb belijdenis gedaan, omdat we ons kind graag wilden laten dopen. Daar stond ik achter. Waarom zou ik niet hardop zeggen wat ik in mijn hart voelde?’ In huize Felderhof werd elke avond voor de maaltijd gebeden. Ook als Riks kinderen vriendjes hadden meegenomen. ‘Dan fluisterde mijn zoon: straks gaat mijn vader bidden, doe je ogen maar dicht, of houdt ze open, dan kun je zien hoe dat gaat.’ Rik gaat in Nederland niet graag naar de kerk. ‘Ik heb moeite met mensen die alles zeker weten. Alsof ze elke dag met God praten. Daar krijg ik kippenvel van.’ In Tanzania, waar hij een groot deel van het jaar woont, is hij wel betrokken bij de kerk. ‘In Afrika wordt diep vanuit het hart gezongen.’ Vorig jaar verscheen zijn kinderbijbel 'Simon, de buurjongen van Jezus', dat hij samen met Cees Baan schreef. Waarom vindt hij het belangrijk dat kinderen de Bijbelverhalen kennen? Waarom wil hij dit boek zelfs in Swahili en Frans laten vertalen? Schuilt er stiekem toch een zendeling in Felderhof? Hij vertelt het aan Tijs in deze nieuwe aflevering van Adieu God?.

We're at Mediatech Africa 2017 for this edition of the TalkCentral podcast. Show regulars Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are joined by "Mr Mediatech" Simon Robinson to chat about the event, as well as all the week's biggest technology news. On the podcast this week, the US$20 4G phone, and why it's potentially a very big deal. Also this week, Vodacom's impressive first-quarter financial results and Openserve slashes wholesale ADSL and fibre prices. Plus, are you brave enough to be one of the first to hitch a ride on Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy? Regardt's pick this week is Mozilla's Project Common Voice, while Simon has again chosen BlackTrax (on display at Mediatech) and Duncan's pick is Justice Malala's Burning Platform podcast on CliffCentral. Stream or download the podcast to find out who's been chosen as winner and loser of the week. Podcast website

TechCentral — We're at Mediatech Africa 2017 for this edition of the TalkCentral podcast. Show regulars Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are joined by "Mr Mediatech" Simon Robinson to chat about the event, as well as all the week's biggest technology news. On the podcast this week, the US$20 4G phone, and why it's potentially a very big deal. Also this week, Vodacom's impressive first-quarter financial results and Openserve slashes wholesale ADSL and fibre prices. Plus, are you brave enough to be one of the first to hitch a ride on Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy? Regardt's pick this week is Mozilla's Project Common Voice, while Simon has again chosen BlackTrax (on display at Mediatech) and Duncan's pick is Justice Malala's Burning Platform podcast on CliffCentral. Stream or download the podcast to find out who's been chosen as winner and loser of the week.

This week Neil Jones, James Pearce and Joe Rimmer are joined by author Simon Hughes, who discusses his new book 'Ring of Fire: Liverpool into the 21st century - the players' stories'Simon offers his insight into the book's interviewees, in particular Gerard Houllier, whose Anfield legacy is discussed at length. The Frenchman is the most successful Liverpool manager of the last 25 years, but is he remembered as fondly as he perhaps should be? Also discussed are Michael Owen and Fernando Torres, idolised for a spell before leaving under clouds. Time to forgive and forget, or is that too idealistic a viewpoint?Well worth a listen, this one. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Learning Science for Better Learning: Carnegie Mellon University's "Simon Initiative"   Dr. Marsha Lovett Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational InnovationCarnegie Mellon University   Many students today receive a 19th-century education that is developed without the benefit of contemporary evidence-based research, Carnegie Mellon University's Dr. Marsha Lovett asserts. At Carnegie Science Center's next Café Sci, She'll discuss how a combination of education-based research plus innovations in educational technology can improve students' learning outcomes while further advancing our scientific understanding of how learning works. Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Initiative focuses on leveraging these opportunities and making a difference for local and global learners. The Simon Initiative focuses on the learner and how to improve learning. Dr. Lovett is co-coordinator of The Simon Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and the director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation. Her remarks will present recent results, tools, and examples of how educational theories are being applied. Dr. Lovett has published more than 50 research papers and two books, Thinking with Data and How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. The latter is ranked third on The Chronicle's "Top 10 Books on Teaching" and has been translated into several languages. She has developed several innovative, educational technologies to promote student learning, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard. Dr. Lovett earned her doctorate in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, and her bachelor's degree, also in psychology, is from Princeton University.   Recorded Monday, May 4th, 2015 at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Who's that calling in on the teen line? Why, it's none other than Nick Delehanty, our esteemed guest for this week! Yes, we're back after a four month hiatus. If you didn't notice the hiatus it's because we've been releasing backlogged recordings on a bi-weekly basis, but no more. We are now back to a regular, weekly release schedule, so let's get cozy, shall we? Nick is here to help us discuss both parts of "Luck Be A Lady", in which Jesse is bound and determined to cinch poor Becky to his hip for life. In other news, Joey may have won $100k and we learn more about the series 'Simon and Simon' than anyone would care to know in a lifetime. If you have to ask if Nick is great then you clearly haven't met Nick. He's great! Stick around for his carnie stories and find out why children may or may not be a good idea for you. XOXO

http://youtu.be/kVs3mSmDRJI This week we have an extended podcast as we interview independent film maker & director Martin Gooch. Martin first came to our attention with his wonderfully sweet & charming award winning movie 'The Search for Simon', which tells the story of David, a man who is searching for his younger brother Simon, who disappeared without a trace and has never been seen since. 30 years after his disappearance, David is still looking, and the search for Simon has become his life's obsession. In the podcast we discuss Search for Simon, his earlier award winning movie 'Death' (aka 'After Death'), and some of his upcoming projects. These include a movie adaptation of award winning novelist Robert Rankin's book 'Alice On Mars', and an adaptation of fantasy novelist legend Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy book 'Deathtrap Dungeon'. Martin also directed the BAFTA award winning and EMMY nominated Spooks interactive (BBC/Kudos) and was a two time BBC New Director of... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Take your sexy self down to the pool and let's get soaked !! Lots of new beats that I've been grooving along to, plus a few older classics thrown in for good measure. Track Listing: 001 - DJ Bolt Intro 002 - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) - Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz 003 - Changing (Klingande Remix) - Sigma ft. Paloma Faith 004 - What to Do Now (Rivaz Remix) - Robbie Rivera 005 - How Soon Vs Hold Me (Simon Coxs Lift Off Bootleg) - D.O.N.s Vs David Guetta 006 - Secrets (Danny Verde Reconstruction Dub) - Mary Lambert (feat B.o.B) 007 - Booty (Funk3d Club Mix) - Jennifer Lopez Ft Iggy Azalea & Pitbull 008 - Not Enough (Toy Armada and DJ GRIND Club Mix) - John LePage (feat Niki Haris) 009 - Love Come Home (Andy Sikorski Global Club Remix) - Kristine W 010 - Summer (Funk3d Pop Club Mix) - Calvin Harris 011 - Disco Love (Wideboys Club Mix) - The Saturdays 012 - Gasoline And Matches (Dave Aude Remix) - LeAnn Rimes and Rob Thomas 013 - I Need You (Digital Dog Remix) - LeAnn Rimes 014 - Really Don't Care (Digital Dog Club Mix) - Demi Lovato 015 - Lullaby (Adam Turner Remix) - Professor Green ft. Tori Kelly 016 - Can't Hold Us (Crazibiza v Wawa Remix) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 017 - The Feelin (Original Mix) - Rio Dela Duna & Block & Crown 018 - Earthquake (Mr. Pit Remix) - Venom One ft. Jonathan Mendelsohn 019 - Angel (Dave Aude Club Mix) - Ono 020 - Rock The Disco (Original Mix) - Tradelove 021 - I Like The Way You Move (Dj Viduta & Dj Dimixer Remix) - Bodyrockers 022 - Smash The Disco (Original Mix) - Simon Doty & DJ Dan 023 - Light Years Away (Extended Remix) - Tiesto ft. DBX 024 - Knock You Out (Victor Dinaire and Bissen Remix) - Bingo Players 025 - Bass In Me (Victor Dinaire & Bissen Remix) - Chron 026 - Can't Stop Drinking About You (Extended Mix) - Otto Knows, Bebe Rexha 027 - Tonight (Yinon Yahel Mashuo) - Yinon Yahel ft, Emmi 028 - Ghost (The Thin Red Men Club Mix) - Ella Henderson 029 - The Rhythm of the Night (2014 Jrmx Club) - Simon from Deep Divas vs. Corona ft. JRMX

Invaders Presents Invasion radio show! Best EDM radio show with biggest Electro/progressive tracks in the world Send us also your Original/Mashup/Bootleg/Remix via mail: invadersmusic@live.it or via demodrop.com/invaders we listen all tracks and we'll promote on our radio show!! Tracklist 01. Giann Riesse & Invaders - Earthquake (Original Mix) 02. Fred Bexx - Trumba (Original Mix) 03. Nicky Romero & Nervo vs. Blasterjaxx - Like Echo (Simon Hartmann & Phil Finlay Edit) 04. Hardwell vs. Chardy & Kronic - Everybody Is In The Place To Jump (Simon Hartmann & Phil Finlay Edit) 05. Makj & Lil Jon Vs The Chainsmokers - Let's Get Fucked #Selfie (Invaders Mashup) 06. Stadiumx Taylr Renee - Howl at the Moon (Roondabit acoustic intro edit) 07. Hardwell & Makj vs Merzo vs Daft Punk - Harder Countdown (Invaders Mashup)

Invaders Presents Invasion radio show! Best EDM radio show with biggest Electro/progressive tracks in the world Send us also your Original/Mashup/Bootleg/Remix via mail: invadersmusic@live.it or via demodrop.com/invaders we listen all tracks and we'll promote on our radio show!! 01. Afrojack ft. Wrabel - Ten Feet Tall (Simon Hartmann & Phil Finlay Acoustic Edit) 02. Axwell - I Found You (The Decksaver Remix) 03. Shermanology, Amba Shepherd vs Hardwell - We Are In The Place (Luca Buassi Mashup) 04. Moti & DVBBS - This is Dirty (Original Mix) 05. Giann Riesse & Invaders - Earthquake (Original Mix) 06. Fatboy Slim Vs Showtek Hardwell - Spaceman Booyah Rave Repeat (Samuel R Edit) 07. Hardwell Vs Krewella Vs Oasis - Alive Wonderwall (Vory Mashup) 08. TJR & Vinai - Bounce Generation (Original Mix) 09. Da Brozz vs Ice MC feat. Alexia - Think About The Baby (Maudizio Mash-Up)

We'll admit it, losing the GMA this year hit us hard. People take loss in different ways and we decided to imagine it was a happier time. Say three years ago when people actually liked us enough to give us awards. Or send in letters. One person who still likes us is Paul Kercal, our Super-Special Guest for this week's episode. He cheered us up by doing some amazing drawings on his numerous tablets, which we'll be uploading to the website soon. It was also interesting to hear how he first met Simon, which may have been the first 'first meeting of Simon' story that could actually be broadcast on the radio. But how did Ann first meet Ste? The truth (as imagined by Simon) will be heard in this episode. There's also a birthday shout-out to Friend of the Show Leigh Alexander who will also be attending our Videogame Karaoke that is happening this Thursday at 9pm in Nottingham (as long as you're reading this before the event has started). It all adds up to another excellent episode of One Life Left! Well, apart from losing the GMAs again. That bit really sucked. Links: http://www.londonexpo.com/ https://twitter.com/Kercal http://kercal.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/events/286532451447022/ http://gamecity2012.sched.org/event/352cecd4037888edcc2e43f37fc83433#.UHxIpMXA-h0 Tracklist: 1. Zeropass - Bound to Nothing http://chipmusic.org/zeropass/music/bound-to-nothing  2. The VIRUS Empire - Proximity Defense http://chipmusic.org/the+virus+empire/music/proximity-defense 3. skyhaunt - Ghost Night Festival http://chipmusic.org/skyhaunt/music/ghost-night-festival  4. Les Incoiffables - Mayuko Takata http://chipmusic.org/les+incoiffables/music/mayuko-takata

Rundgren Radio TR's Musical Camp Counselor Series special guests Pete Fornatale and Chris Andersen! Pete couldn't make the show last week but he'll be there tonight! Chris Andersen will also be calling in to give us some exclusive scoop and talk about his years and years of working with Todd Rundgren in the studio and on the road. Guest Host tonight is David Jurman. Pete Fornatale is a New York radio fixture for over 40 years, Pete is one of the architects of progressive FM. The award-winning broadcaster is also author of 'Back to the Garden' and 'Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends,' and he can be heard every Saturday on WFUV radio’s Mixed Bag. Chris Andersen is the President - Producer - Production manager at Nevessa Production Woodstock. Chris has also been a House Sound Mixer, Studio Engineer at Alchemedia Productions, Sound System Engineer, Studio Engineer at Bearsville Sound Studios, and Owner and Chief Engineer at Caledonia Productions.

Hello, welcome to - NO DON'T TOUCH THAT - to One Life Left, Europe's only - THAT'S MY EMAIL ACCOUNT STOP READING IT - videogame radio sho - LEAVE ANN ALONE -- radio show broadcasting on -- SIMON JUST... Oh. The End.That's right. Goaded by a google (is that our collective noun? Email in please) of One Life Left listeners addressing things to the team 'and Simon', OLL's firey co-presenter is off the rails in OLL #58. And as much as it SOUNDS like the team are generally fractious and flirtatious here the issue came to the fore in the five minutes before the show started. See, Ste asked Simon to watch his levels. As in the levels on the desk which measure how loudly he's going off the rails.Which means Simon spends the whole show shouting and interrupting and watching his levels, Ste spends the whole show stumbling through half-finished anecdotes all the time feeling he's picking his way down rainbow road and only delaying the moment he plumments, and Ann bats her eyelids a little, smiles so sweetly and considers the ways she could murder a man.Still, Levelator's hopefully flattened the thing out a bit which means if you can pick your way through the mumbling and amateurish form you'll find Craig 'The Rage''s best poem ever, Taliah, Derek, plenty of letters, the four entries to OLL's PixelH8 competition and much, much more.Most important thing to remember this week: it's the One Life Left Christmas Party on Saturday so do try and make it -- details on the Facebook but essentially The Blue Posts on Rupert St, Soho, London from 1pm to until we pass out. That's it. See you in a week for the very last OLL of 2007 (festively broadcastable events not withstanding).Join our Facebook Group for reasons discussed in this episode by clicking here, or identify yourself as a fan to others on that same slightly-too-ubiquitous-for-comfort-now site by clicking here. Our MySpace is here (poor old MySpace: once it seemed like the world would be theirs, but now it is the new Friendster, which makes Friendster the new actually-meeting-people, which is just so over). The OLL forum is here and if you want to email us you can do so at this address.

Introduction: America - The Debtor Nation It's a delight to be able to open up Romans 13 again. And as we come to Romans 13:8, we come to the issue of debt. America in ways unimaginable to our forefathers, has become a debtor nation. I looked up on a website called the National Debt Clock, clicked into the national debt of the Federal government, and I'm not going to read all of the digits, but it's $8.3 trillion that our federal government's in debt. It's kind of hard to hear them talking about fiscal responsibility, isn't it? And they took the population of the US and divided out and I now know what my personal responsibility is. It's $28,000. "Well, Federal government, I don't have it," and probably you don't either because that's your responsibility as well, $28,000. That's staggering. Closer to home, though, is the issue of personal debt. Whether through home or college education or car loans or credit cards. Many, many American people are facing a staggering burden of debt which is greatly affecting the way they live their lives every day, greatly affecting their marriages, greatly affecting their plans for the future. 75,000 people each day in the United States apply for a Visa or a Mastercard. Every day, 75,000 new ones. Randy Alcorn, in a book that we were reading in our home fellowship, reports that one man in America with an income of only $27,000 a year, owns more than 800 credit cards, and his monthly line of credit is $9 million. I would urge him not to use it. $9 million a month he can spend. The American Credit Counselors Association estimates that the average credit cardholder in the US owes $13,000 to credit card companies, $13,000 in personal debt. Well, in verse eight of Romans 13, Paul gives a simple statement. It says, "Owe no one anything except to love each other, for the one who loves has fulfilled the law." Now today we're going to discuss the issue of debt, godly debts, ungodly debt, how a Christian discharges his debts. And I think that some of us are going to find few topics as relevant as this one. For some, it's going to be a painful topic because you're in the category of facing a burden of debt and you don't know what to do about it. Perhaps God's word this morning will give you the way out. Now the context of Romans 13:8-10 is Paul's teaching on the Christian life. We saw in the Book of Romans, we have 11 chapters of solid doctrine on how it is that sinners are made right with the holy and perfect God. It is the Gospel, Romans 1-11, more depth than any of us can handle in a thousand lifetimes. But then in Romans 12-16, the Apostle Paul is taking that deep doctrine and applying it to our everyday lives. It's answering the question, "How then shall we live?" And we've seen it going through verse after verse, Romans 12:1, 2, talking about how we are to present our lives as living sacrifices holy and pleasing to God. That's our spiritual active worship. Talks then about spiritual gifts and how we are to use them to build up the body of Christ. He talks about how Christians should relate to those inside the body of Christ and those outside the body of Christ. Over the last three weeks of preaching in Romans, we saw it in Romans 13 how a Christian should relate to the government, and we began to touch on some of those issues. Now the issue of government was a bit of a digression in the flow of Paul's thought. I. What a Christian Does Owe Now he makes what I think is somewhat of a clever transition back to the everyday life through the Christian and dealing with the issue of love within the body of Christ, and he does it on... The connecting point is the issue of debt. If you look at verse seven, talking again about government, he says, "Give everyone what you owe him." So there's that issue of owing or debt. "Give everyone what you owe him. If you owe taxes, pay taxes. If revenue, then revenue. If respect, then respect. If honor, then honor." And then the NIV gives us in verse eight, "Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law." So we see a transition now back into those more common issues of love and the way that we deal with one another in the body of Christ. The transition, the bridge, is the issue of debt of what it is we owe. So that's the context. We owe Christ our lives! Now what does a Christian owe? That's an important question to ask. Let's begin with our lives, which we owe to Christ. We owe everything to Jesus Christ, we who are Christians. We owe it all. As the hymn says, "Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe." And that is true. Everything in our lives, we owe to Christ. At one point in our Lord's life and ministry, he was at the home of Simon, a Pharisee, and a notorious woman in that community came in and washed Jesus' feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. An incredible encounter happens then between Jesus and Simon. They're in Luke 7. Says there "When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of a woman she is, that she is a sinner.' Jesus answered him, [that is to say he answered Simon's thoughts] 'Simon, I have something to tell you.' 'Tell me, teacher,' he said. 'Two men owed money to a certain money lender. One owed him 500 denarii, the other 50. Neither of them have the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now, which of them will love him more?' Simon replied, 'I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.' 'You have judged correctly,' Jesus said. Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, 'Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman from the time I entered has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet and therefore I tell you her many sins have been forgiven for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little, loves little.'" This is a debt of love that we owe to Christ. There should be a sense of every moment of the day that Christ's love constrains us to follow him, to give him everything he commands of us. We owe him everything. He shed his blood on the cross under the wrath of God that we might have eternal life. And what Jesus is saying there is that these displays of love by this woman are appropriate given her sense of the freedom of her debt. She owed a lot and Jesus paid it, and now the rest of her life, she has this sense that she owes Christ everything. We see it in the parable of the 10,000 talents in which the dead is set up at an infinitely, a measuredly high level. We owe 10,000 talents, 750,000 pounds of gold. You can never pay it. Jesus paid it all. We see it in the Lord's prayer, "Forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors. Christ came to pay our debts. He came to pay it off, and so he has at the cross. At the moment that Jesus died in John's gospel, he says the incredible words, "It is finished." In the Greek word, tetelestai, it was written across a bill once the bill had been paid, somewhat like being stamped paid in full. And Jesus paid in full for our sins. Our debts are cancelled. Paul’s Obligation to Christ Now Paul the Apostle had a sense of an ongoing obligation or debt to Christ. In Romans 12, or Romans 8:12 though 14, it says, "So then, brothers, we are debtors." Romans 8:12, "not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh, for if we live according to the flesh, if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live, for all who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God." We are debtors. We owe Christ everything, but we don't owe the flesh anything. And another place, in 1 Corinthians 6, the apostle Paul says, "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God. You are not your own. You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." There's a sense in which we were on the auction block. We were slaves and Christ bought us with a price. We are His bond slaves. We are His, for He purchased us. And therefore there is the sense of constant obligation. We owe Christ everything, our bodies, our souls, our time, our gifts and talents, everything. It's on this very basis that he urges in Romans 12:1, "Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship." It's on the basis of what we have received from Christ. We owe him everything. Also there's a sense in which the ongoing stuff of our lives that we are stewards of, they really belong to God, and on judgement day he's going to want all of them back. They're his. So he has loaned them to us and we owe those things back to him and he will ask an accounting. Every matter of stewardship underscores this sense of debt that all we have goes back to God. What do we owe to other Christians? Well, we owe them love. That's what this passage says. Because of all that Christ has done for us, we owe other Christians a debt of love. We owe our love to other Christians Look at what it says in verse eight. "Owe nothing. Owe no one anything except to love each other, for the one who loves has fulfilled the law." So there's this sense of continuing debt to one another. We owe each other love, and it's a debt we'll never cease paying. It exists as long as we live in this world. Paul says that if we love one another, we have fulfilled the law of God. Look at verse 9, the commandments. "Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet, and whatever other commandment there may be are summed up in this one rule: Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbor and therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." Now let me say if you look at those commandments, they are essentially negative, and Paul even underscores the harm aspect, murder and adultery and stealing and lying. These harm another. But I say to you we've been raised to a higher level. It's not enough for us just not to harm our neighbor. We are to be actually laying down our lives for our neighbors. And so the call of love is actually a higher call, and therefore, all of these negative commands that Paul lists here are included in it, but so much more. Look what Jesus did. You look at the parable of the Good Samaritan and how there was an outflow and outpouring of resources to somebody who needed it. Now Christ put us under this debt of obligation to other Christians when He ministered to us the way He did. Think about the foot washing in John 13:14. He says then, "If I then, your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet." Now that word "ought" is a sense of obligation. We owe each other this. We owe each other love. Now, of course, John gets very specific about the nature of how we discharge this debt, in 1 John 3, it says, "This is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down His life for us and we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongues but in action and in truth." So this is the way we discharge our debt of love, self-sacrificial giving to meet a need of another person. Now this debt of love is comprehensive. It's comprehensive in time. There'll never be a point in your Christian life where you say, "That's it. I've fulfilled my debt of love. I don't need to love anymore. The Lord sent an angel to tell me I'm free from the responsibility of loving other people the rest of my life. I've done enough." It's comprehensive in time. The rest of your time here on Earth, you will have this debt of love. It's also comprehensive in scope. Basically anything you have belongs to God, and he may call on you to give it even up to your life for the cause of the gospel, for the cause of your brothers and sisters in Christ. We especially owe forgiveness, don't we? We especially owe forgiveness. In Matthew 18, Christ teaching on forgiveness mentioned a moment ago, Christ says the fact that the king forgave the servant, put the servant under a different kind of debt, a moral obligation to forgive the debt of his other servant. And when he wouldn't do it, the king hauled that sorry guy back into court, may mess with your ideas of justification, I'm not preaching on Matthew 18 right now, but I'm just telling you what it says, he hauled that guy back in court and this is what he said, "'You wicked servant. I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' In anger, his master threw him into jail until he should pay back all he owed." This is what we owe to each other. We owe a debt of love, of service, and of forgiveness to other Christians. What do we owe to non-Christians? Well, friends, we owe them the gospel. We owe them the gospel. Take a minute and look back, Romans chapter one. By my calculation, this I think is my 100th sermon in Romans, triple digits. Some of you have been here for most of them. I was here for all of them, but way back when, at the beginning of this whole series in Romans, we started with Romans 1 and in 14, Romans 1:14, there Paul talks about his debt. He says, "I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome, for I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, first for the Jew, and then for the gentile." The debt of carrying the gospel to the lost Paul there in Romans 1:14 is talking about a debt, an obligation he has both to the wise and the foolish, the Greeks and non-Greeks, to everybody, an obligation to preach the gospel, to share the gospel of Christ. Now how did he discharge it? Well, by preaching faithfully to everyone that God providentially brought across his path. We are not obligated personally to preach the gospel to six billion people. We cannot discharge that debt. But we are obligated to make an effort to share the gospel with those that are providentially in our lives. Martyn Lloyd-Jones talked about this obligation, the sense of duty that we have to share the gospel, and he gave a beautiful illustration. He talked about a man that he knew that was suffering from a painful and crippling arthritic illness. And he did everything he could to try to alleviate his pain and to get some kind of healing or cure from this illness. He would sit in mineral baths and go to spas and try different therapies, but nothing worked until he read of a physician on the continent. I don't remember in what European country, but had developed a special therapy for people who are suffering exactly his kind of illness. He went over there. The man looked at him and said, "I know exactly what your problem is." He prescribed him some medication and some therapy. Within three or four months, he was completely healed. Some time later, he met another person who was suffering from the exact same illness, the same symptoms, everything. He had a sense of obligation to share with him the information of what had healed him. We owe the gospel. As Jesus said in Matthew 10, "Freely you have received. Freely give." You are trusting in the cross of Christ for the forgiveness of all your sins. It's been given to you as a gift. You owe it to non-Christians to share it with them as well. II. What a Christian Ought Not Owe Alright. Well we've talked about what Christians owe. What ought we not to owe? Now I was warned this morning, you're going to be treading on some toes. Look, I hope I'm not treading on anybody's toes, but I'd be happy if Romans 13:8 tread on your toes. I don't mind that. The scripture is here to help us. It's here to bring us to conviction. And I think that this is an area of weakness for Americans today. I think it's an area of trouble. Debt Crisis in America We are in a debt crisis in America. Listen to this, Ron Blue, Crown Ministries in a survey that they had access to, said more than half of the Americans they surveyed, listen, had no plans to get out of debt before they died. That's staggering. They just have accepted the debt they have and are making no plans to get out of it. Sears some time ago started the Discover card. They expected, and their prediction was not that people would use the Discover card in place of Visa and Mastercard, but rather that they just lay the Discover card on top of Visa and Mastercard and go into greater debt. They were absolutely right. The one thing they were wrong about was the amount of increased indebtedness Americans would tolerate. They were way low. They thought it would be something like $35 billion nationwide. It's proved to be three or four times that amount. A financial goal of many families is simply to earn as much as they spend. That's a goal, to get to the point where money in equals money out. Well we already said it's a goal of federal government does not reach. Last year, in fiscal year 2005, the government spent $319 billion more than it took in. Every day, $2 million more in debt or $2 billion. I'm sorry. The problem for the federal government is significant, but for most Americans, their personal problem is even more pressing. It's immediate. It's in their face every day. Now some time ago, I was reading about a sugar plantation in the Philippines that went around to the neighboring villages and gave to illiterate poor people $150 in a debt-free loan. They could do anything they want with. But why did the plantation do this? Well, it's called debt bondage. Those people would blow it perhaps even in a month or less on things that didn't matter, or maybe even things they needed, but in any case, they now owed $150. To you or me, that's not much, but to them it was an astronomical amount. They were then working on the plantation the rest of their lives. They couldn't get out of it. They could never save enough money to pay off the debt. Well, when I graduated from college, I got five applications for credit cards in the mail. My alma mater, I guess, sold my name to the companies. And so immediately I'm getting these very flattering letters; Now that you have achieved this high level of achievement etcetera. And they're willing to offer me a credit card. They want me to work on the Chase Manhattan plantation the rest of my life. You know one thing I found in my research is you know what credit card companies call people like us who desire and actually do pay off credit cards every month and never pay a late fee? They call us deadbeats. Can you believe that? I thought a deadbeat was somebody that didn't pay alimony or child support. Alright. But I'm a deadbeat if I don't pay the plantation owner what I owe him namely the 18% or 21% every year. We're called deadbeats. That's an odd way. Now you can declare bankruptcy. They've loosened up the laws on that. It was in the past. It's like in the Scripture, if you're in debt, you get thrown in prison and you can't get out because you can't make any money from prison. And so it was a big problem, I thought it was unjust, a dead end. And so now they have lenient bankruptcy laws that enable people just to declare a bankruptcy. I watched on one of these talk shows, a guy who had six times his annual salary in discretionary debt. Six times, and they asked him how did you get to that point? He said at a certain point, it didn't matter. So buy another dog, another couch, another whatever. It didn't matter because they're already way more than they could ever pay off. It's a whole mentality there. Well, this is a major problem. Randy Alcorn said this, if all American evangelical Christians were out of debt, literally hundreds of millions of dollars would be freed up for God's kingdom. Our families would be stronger, because financial pressures caused by indebtedness are major factors in more than half of divorces. There's also the issue of our weakness. What does it look like to a non-Christian world when Christians don't pay their debts? It's a shameful thing. The nature and history of debt Well, what is the nature and history of debt? Well, Randy Alcorn said this, "Credit is a grant to pay later for what's received now. Interest is the fee that the creditor receives when the debtor pays for this grant. Whenever a person goes into debt, he obtains money he hasn't earned. In exchange for the money or possessions he presently receives, he mortgages [listen] his future time, energies and assets." That's what it is. Now there was a time that to go into debt was considered a privilege. It wouldn't be extended to the majority of people but just to a certain few. But nowadays that privileges almost seem to be a right, that somehow we are owed the right to go into debt. But there was a time that you had to be wealthy really to even do this. Why do credit card statements that show that you owe $500 allow you to pay $35? Think about it. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out. They want to collect on you, so that you will not be a deadbeat. They want you to pay money to Chase. Well, there's a problem, a spiritual problem going on here, isn't there? This revolving debt feeds a monster called materialism, idolatry. Basically, the way it works is we see something we want, our covetousness kicks in. In the past, it would have stopped there, because we didn't have the money for it, but now we can go into debt and actually obtain it, and so we feed the monster of discontent. We're not satisfied with what God's provided for us. Perhaps you see maybe some trendy clothes or hot new sound system for the car, no way you have enough money this month but maybe you will in the future, you hope. And so you plunk down the plastic. The debt mentality: six key assumptions (from Randy Alcorn) Well, Randy Alcorn said there's six key assumptions with this debt mentality. First is we need more than God has provided for us. What we have now is not enough, we need more. Secondly, God doesn't seem to know best what our needs are. So we kind of take over from God and say, "Actually, I need this as well." Thirdly that God has failed to provide for our needs and forces us to take matters into our own hands. Fourth, if God doesn't come through the way that we think He should, we can find another way. We'll be creative, create a financing to get the thing we think we need. Fifth, just because today's income is sufficient to make our debt payments, we are assuming that tomorrow's will be as well. And finally, we are assuming that our circumstances won't change, that our health will be good, that we'll keep our present job, we'll keep our present or have a greater salary that God will not call us to leave that job for a lower salary or to give more money to Christian work. Making lots of assumptions about the future. James chapter, 4 deals with all of this presuming on the future. James 4:13 and following, it says, "Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we'll go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money,' but you don't even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You're a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.' As it is you boast and brag and all such boasting is evil." I think that there's a boasting element in credit card debt, a sense in which, definitely, in the future, you'll have enough to pay this debt off. How to translate Romans 13:8 Now, if you look at verse 8 there are different ways to translate it. KJV gives us, "Owe no man anything, but to love another." NAS follows the same, "Owe nothing to anyone." ESV, "Owe no one anything," and RSV the same thing, "Owe no one anything." The NIV gives us more of an interpretive translation which says, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another." The literal Greek translation is basically don't owe anybody anything, that's the simple translation. That's why four of those English translations go with that way. And in that way some Christians believe it is sinful and wrong to ever incur any kind of debt at all. Well, I think that's not true, and I think the Bible can prove that. There's actually a lot of borrowing and lending that goes on in the Bible. A great deal. For example, in Deuteronomy 15, it says, "If there is a poor man among you in any of the towns of the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your poor brother. Rather be open-handed and freely lend him whatever he needs." Christ says in Luke 6, "If you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners expecting to be repaid in full, but love your enemies, do good to them and lend to them, without expecting to get anything back, then your award will be great and you will be sons of the most high, because He is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked." If borrowing and lending is always evil, why did Christ use that kind of language? And even more significant is the parable of the talents, the five talents, two talent and one talent. Remember the man with the one talent who didn't do anything with it? Went off and hid it in the ground because he thought his master's a hard man. Do you remember what the master said to him, he said, "So you knew that harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed. Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would have received it back with interest." Again, why would Jesus use that kind of language if borrowing even in the involvement of interest were always sinful? So not all borrowing is bad. There is some borrowing that maybe Christians may need to do. Randy Alcorn lists some things like borrowing to start a small business, perhaps borrowing to get a college education, or a home that you'll live in. But you know Alcorn in his book is always cautious about all debt. If you borrow $200,000 or $180,000 for a $200,000-home, put down $20,000 for the home, 7.25% interest rate, you will buy that home for $442,000. That's about two and a quarter times as much. We just assume that it's okay to do it just because we can do it. What Alcorn is saying we're not here long. God's resources are precious, be very careful about going into debt. Alcorn gives a series of consequences of debt. First of all, debt lingers, the new boat is fun for a while, but after a while when its engine needs repair and the kids don't want to water ski anymore, it's sitting in the garage and you're still paying on that boat. Debt causes worry and stress, there's a great deal of anxiety. As a matter of fact, it's one of the top three reasons for divorce in America today. Debt causes a denial of reality. Alcorn puts it this way, we drive our bank-financed cars running on credit card gas to open a department store charge account, so we can fill our savings and loan-funded homes with installment-purchased furniture. We're living a lie and we're hawking the future to pay for it. It's deceptive. We are not at that level and we shouldn't be living at that level. He also gives us a big issue and that is the debt ties up resources and makes him unavailable for the kingdom of God. Do you realize how many, literally, millions and millions of dollars would be released if Christians were not in any credit card debt and gave that money to kingdom work could be incredible? III. How a Christian Discharges His Debts Well, as we look at this problem of debt, what can we do about it? First of all, let's go back to how a Christian should discharge their debts. Let's go back to the foundation and back to our relationship with Christ. One of the big problems with looking at the sense of our indebtedness to Christ is that we'll misunderstand salvation. John Piper in his book, Future Grace, said salvation is not a mortgage. What is a mortgage? Well, you get the home and then you make installment payments or you make payments for the rest of your life, and if you don't keep up with the payments, the home will be repossessed from you, taken from you. Some people look on it this way, you're given salvation, but you got to keep cranking out the good works to pay for it, your good works do not pay for Christ's blood. You should not look at it this way. We are not debtors in that sense, we are children of God, we're adopted in his family, and so therefore, we can't pay off what Jesus did for us. You shouldn't look on your good works that way. Still less is salvation. Like a lay-away plan where you don't even get the thing until the end of your life. If you made enough payments like a Christmas saving plan, then you can go buy it. That is wrong, I believe that's kind of the way the Catholic system looks at it, which I grew up in. It's held back from you and you're making installment payments and then at the end, you get it. It's neither one of those, it's a free gift of grace, grace doesn't cause debt, it pays debts. And so Jesus has paid it all and we are free from debt. So don't discharge your debt that way. Understand grace and the gift of salvation. Concerning your debt to others, let me say it a practical physical level, don't accept a mentality of indebtedness. Don't think that I can just go into debt all the time. Don't think that it's okay to borrow if there's something you don't have. I was convicted by this. I actually looked around in my office and saw a number of things that I have had for months that I borrowed from brothers and sisters in Christ. I started getting them back to them, like I borrowed a CD from Eric. He was very gracious, he said, "I hadn't even noticed it was missing." I said, "I hadn't even noticed I still had it." So I praise God for you, Eric and for your gentle spirit with me. I got that CD back. If you're going to borrow something, use it and get it back. I think borrowing can be a good thing. I think we ought to loan each other expensive equipment that you'll only need once a year, rather than buying it new from Lowe's. I think we should be borrowing from each other and don't expect to get it back in pristine condition, it's gonna get used. This stuff is meant to be used for the Kingdom of God. So I think that kind of indebtedness is fine. Concerning your loans, pay them off on time. If you can, accelerate your payments. Sometimes people say, "Well, if your interest rate is lower than something you could get back from it, it's not... " Don't think like that, because the debt you owe is a real actual burden in your life, and when you're free from it, it can change things in immeasurable ways. Have a mentality of wanting to pay off as quickly as possible. I think it says something to churches, don't go in debt for building programs. Be very careful about that, be wise about it. So many churches, I know sink down when they overreach themselves concerning building programs, be very, very cautious about that. And if you are already in debt up to your nose, Randy Alcorn's book, Money, Possessions, and Eternity gives something like 12 steps on how to get out of debt. If you want to ask me more about that, some of the specific things that he says, I think it might be beneficial for you. There's no reason for you to be laboring under this in 10, 15 years. You need to start taking steps to get out from under it, beginning with repentance in a whole new way of thinking. Now, as we come to the time of the Lord's supper, I think it's an incredible opportunity for us to think about what Jesus did for us on the cross. Isn't it a beautiful thing that Jesus' blood shed on the cross is sufficient for all of our debts? I love to meditate on this, as we come to the table, we think about the bread, we think about the wine, how it represents Jesus' body and His blood, shed on the cross for us, given for our sins. The Lord's supper was established for Christians. For those that have trusted in Christ, have testified to that by water baptism, if you are a Christian, you have testified by baptism, have trusted in Christ, you are welcome at the table. If not, I want to urge you to consider coming to Christ for the payment of all of your debts. Jesus Christ's blood is sufficient for all of our debts. Come to Him and believe in him. Now, as we come to the Lord's supper, I'm going to close here in prayer. I want you to be in an attitude of prayer, be ready to receive the Lord's supper. If there's any sin in your life, it might even be credit card debt or anything related to what I've been preaching about, then confess it to God, and allow his blood shed for you to be sufficient for your forgiveness. Come with me in prayer.

Introduction When I was growing up we used to visit my grandmother's house. I still remember aspects of that house, but one thing I have in mind are some coasters that were on her end tables. They were made of acrylics or some kind of plastic and inside there were these purple wild flowers. I don't know if what they were Pansies or whatever but I remember year after year I would go and there they'd be. And they were always the same. Just like just about everything in my grandmother's house always the same and nothing ever changed and that was... There was a good feeling about that but I remember picking these plastic encrusted flowers and just looking at them and being amazed and actually feeling almost kind of a little sad like they were trapped and I'd like to help them to escape. I think that it's possible that some people look at salvation that way. That it is somehow a thing or object that you obtain at a certain point in your life. It never changes, it's just there. You prayed the prayer, and that's it forever and no one can take it away from you and if you give it on Judgment Day they'll let you in there. And that's it. It's just this static thing. But I believe that Scripture portrays salvation as a living dynamic thing that has opened up, has been brought to life within our hearts and souls. It's alive and it must grow and it must bear fruit. It's not like that coaster in my grandmother's house of flower encrusted in plastic. The purpose of this sermon today, is to help you understand two dynamic forces that are given by God to you. One could say these are dispositions of the soul that are given by God to you to help you grow up in your salvation for the rest of your life. And I fear that when we read through Romans we're always thinking about the unsaved person, how they come to faith originally in Christ and we forget that we're not done being saved and that universal statements are being made here in Romans 10 about how that happens and they apply to us today. And there are two I want to focus on in particular one in verse 17, and there it says, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing through the word of Christ." and then earlier but logically later verse 13, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Now, many Christians I think perhaps even most Christians think of these verses as applying to the lost person and how it is they get saved in that same kind of static way of thinking. But I'm saying to you today, it's my argument today, that you need these verses. You yourself if you're a Christian, you need to hear the Word of Christ, you'll need to hear the Word of Christ the rest of your life. And secondly, you need to call on the name of the Lord, the rest of your life to be saved. That's what I'm arguing for today. I. The Various Parts of Salvation Let's first begin by talking about the various parts of salvation. I still get into difficulty when I talk about the fact that we're not done being saved and that we're still... We have to work out our salvation with fear and trembling and people are troubled by this. They think maybe it's some holdover from my Catholic days where we're kind of through works righteousness, we have to earn... It isn't anything of the sort. Salvation is bigger than justification. Justification is the beginning of the Christian life, but there's more to it than that. Now, Christ's mission when he came into the world was to save us from sin. I mean completely. Everything that sin had done to us and to this world. Matthew 1:21 the angel said to Joseph, "You will give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." And that means in my way of reading and understanding everything that sin has done to me. And I want that salvation. I want to be completely saved not just from sin's penalty but I want to be saved from sin's power, from sin's persuasion. I want to be saved from sin's presence itself, amen. I want to be done with it forever and I'd like to see what God's going to do in the new Heaven and new Earth when he frees us forever from the groaning that this created world is under because of sin. Don't you want to see that? I yearn to see a full salvation. I want to be totally saved. Therefore, salvation has certain time aspects even for the individual. There is a past aspect, there is a present aspect, there is a future aspect of salvation and this can be supported biblically. We have been saved if we're Christians. It says in Ephesians 2:8, "For it is by grace you have been saved through faith." so we can speak that way. There's also a present and ongoing salvation. The Bible speaks in this way, the message of the cross, 1 Corinthians 1:18, "The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to we who are being saved it is the power of God." Does not a Christian say every day, "I need the power of the cross today." So there's an ongoing saving work going on in our life. And salvation is future. We will be saved and in that in two senses, we'll be saved from this day until the day of our death or the day the Lord returns we will be progressively being saved and we're going to be saved on that great and final day, called The Judgment Day. There's two aspects of the future salvation. I find this in Romans 5:9-10, "Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him." There Paul differentiates between justification and salvation. We have been justified, but we still have yet got to be saved on the day of wrath when God will reveal his wrath. I want to be saved on that, don't you? And we will be saved. Verse 10 of Romans 5 says, "For if when we were God's enemies we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more having been reconciled shall we be saved by his life." There's something about the ongoing life of Christ that keeps saving us. I want to understand that today. I want to know how Christ's ongoing resurrected life is at work in my life saving me. And so there is past, present and future. Therefore salvation has a beginning, it makes progress and it has an ultimate end. The beginning of salvation is justification where God by faith in his Word alone declares you not guilty of all your sins forever: Past, present and future. You are righteous in his sight. That's just the beginning though. Then there's sanctification, which you are in an ongoing way being made more and more like Jesus and that's the work of God in you, for the rest of your life to be made more and more like Jesus, sanctification. And then there's glorification in which you will be made glorious in Jesus. "Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their father." That's the completed end of salvation. That's the whole thing. What resources has God made available for this ongoing work of salvation in our souls? Now, the question I want to ask today is, what resources has God made available for this ongoing work of salvation in our souls? And I believe verse 17 and verse 13 give us two key postures of the Christian soul. Hearing and calling. We are going to be hearing from Jesus the rest of our lives and our faith must have that hearing in order to be alive and flourishing and healthy and fruitful. You must continually be hearing the word of Christ to be healthy as a Christian. And secondly, you must be continually calling on the name of the Lord in order that this saving work be continuing in your life. II. Faith is Sustained and Grows by Hearing (verse 17) Now, let's look at verse 17 first, this idea that faith is sustained and it grows by hearing. Look again at verse 17, it says in the ESV translation, some of you use that version but others are good translations but I like this one. It says, "Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ." Therefore faith's beginning, faith's genesis in your soul came when you heard the gospel, the word of truth. When you heard the Gospel explained that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. I mean the things we just sang about it really, for the most part, the Apostles Creed just the life of Jesus set to music there and we just sang it. He was born of the Virgin Mary, he lived a sinless life, he did great miracles, incredible teachings, he suffered and died on the cross under Pontius Pilate, and the Jews who gave him over to it. His blood shed on the cross was a substitute for us. He died under the wrath of God for our sins. He was buried on the third day God raised him from the dead, seen by many witnesses, ascended to heaven and he's there now. That's the story of Jesus, that's the Gospel of Jesus. Now, what happens is when an evangelist, a pastor, just a witness, a coworker shares these things in the heart of somebody who is about to be saved, about to be justified, what happens is as they're hearing this Word of Christ, faith comes in in the heart. It has its genesis. It is spoken into existence into your heart by Almighty God. Just like God spoke into darkness and said, "Let there be light," and there was light. So when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation God spoke the light of his glory into your heart. 2 Corinthians 4:6, "For God who said, let light shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." That's what happened when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Faith was created inside you, and then on the basis of that, God justified you. He gave you Christ's righteousness, all your sins forgiven and that's permanent, nothing can ever take it. It's more permanent than that purple flower was encrusted in plastic. More permanent than that, more set, nothing will ever change it. That is permanent but that's not the end of it. That's not the end of your faith. Basically God called something to life that wasn't alive before and like all living things your faith needs food. Now, that's what I'm saying today. Your faith needs nourishment in order to thrive, in order to survive. And what I'm saying to you is that the word of Christ is that nourishment. It's the word of Christ that is the food of faith. Now, every living thing on earth needs food to survive, that's just part of the way it is. Plants are able to make their own food by photosynthesis, are able to take light and with water and oxygen, carbon dioxide, some nitrates and things from the soil, able to make its own food. And that's the beginning of what biologists call the food chain. Animals either eat the plants or other animals, everything needs to feed to survive. God made it that way. And as a matter of fact, God is given credit in scripture for feeding every living thing, what it needs to survive. I love Psalm 104, and there the psalmist celebrates the wide range of diverse life that God has created, everything from the whale to the lion to the hyrax which I had to look up. It's a rock Badger and it lives way up in some rocky ledge in Africa somewhere and eats Moss. Aren't you glad you're not a hyrax. Aren't you glad you have something better to eat than moss? But that's what they eat. And God made them that way. And it says in Psalm 104, "These all," all these created beings, "These all look to you to give them their food at the proper time. When you give it to them they gather it up. When you open your hand, you satisfy the desires of every living thing." so there's God opening up his hand and feeding literally trillions of living entities in this world every day. We don't imagine how much power God has. God is feeding living things every day. Now, what I'm saying to you is just as that works physically, it's also at work spiritually. Your faith needs food. You need to feed, it needs to feed and if it doesn't it will grow weak. And the food of faith is the word of Christ, the food of faith is the Bible, it's the Word of God as we read it here. Now Martin Luther knew this and Martin Luther has a beautiful image. It's one of my favorites concerning Bible study. I love this image and Luther talked about his daily personal Bible study this is what he said, "For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year." Now, if you've ever tried to read through the Bible once in a year you realize what an incredible achievement it is to read through twice in the year. We know that George Muller did it 100 times. So he read through it twice a year for 50 years. Luther did the same. He read through the Bible twice every year, this is what he said, "If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree, and every word a little branch. I have shaken every one of those branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. I study my Bible like I gather apples. First, I shake the whole tree that the ripest may fall." Those are the easy things. The first thought you kind of shake the whole tree and three or four fall down and that's the easy thoughts right away. "Then I shake each limb and when I have shaken each limb I shake each branch and then I shake every twig then I look under every leaf. I searched the Bible as a whole, like shaking the whole tree then I shake every limb, I study book after book, then I shake every branch, giving attention to the chapters then I shake every twig or a careful study of the paragraphs and sentences and even the individual words and their meanings." What is he looking for? He's looking for food for his faith. Now out of that he will preach and teach and write his tracks and do all this stuff but first and foremost he is an individual man before God. He needs communion with Jesus today. And so do you. And the way that God has given us food for our faith is the word of God. The goal of our reading in this case is not so we can serve or evangelize better or so we can do different other things, it so that we can be alive with Jesus today. We can have lively fellowship with our risen Savior today. That's the purpose of this kind of Bible reading. Now, let me ask you a question, is your faith weak? Is it waning? Is it anemic? Unable to meet the challenges that you're facing in your Christian life? Then feed, feed, feed on the Word of God. Feed on the Bible. Have you forgotten the beauties of Heaven? Have you forgotten the purity of God's holy eyes, that he cannot even look at sin? Have you forgotten the blessedness of having God say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." over certain aspects of your service to Him? Have you've forgotten what it'll feel like to have him say that? Have you forgotten the value of souls that are perishing around you every day? Have you forgotten the power of prayer, to heal the sick, and to move the hands of presidents and prime ministers? Have you forgotten the reality of the invisible spiritual world, with its devils and its angels, that's around you, at all times? Have you've forgotten that it's there, and of God who sits on His throne? Have you forgotten the perfection of God's holy law? Have you forgotten that God if you are a Christian has written his law in your heart and he is moving you by the Spirit to fulfill it, have you forgotten that? Have you forgotten the history of godly men and women who went before us and who lived their lives out for examples for us? Have you forgotten the warning inherent in the flood of Noah, in the fire and brimstone that God poured down on Sodom and Gomorrah, and the 10 plagues that he poured down on Egypt, and the way that most of that first generation of Israelites died in the desert and never enter the Promised Land? Have you forgotten the warnings inherent in those stories? Have you forgotten God? Have you forgotten his sovereign power and his great goodness to us in Christ? Have you forgotten Christ, that he shed his blood on the cross to pay for your sin? Have you forgotten these things? Is your faith weak? Is it anemic? Is your grasp on these realities slipping? Then you need to feed on the Word of God, you need to feed on the Bible. Read the Bible every day. I was reading one of John Piper’s daily devotions and he had a section on this that was just so perfect and I thought it was just timely that I came across it a couple weeks ago as I was preparing this message. This is what Piper wrote, "Faith feeds on the word of God without it, without a steady diet it gets weaker and weaker. If you are dissatisfied with your Christian courage and joy and purity of heart then check the way your feeding your faith. Compare the way you eat. Now listen, suppose that you start the day with a glass of orange juice. It's good and good for you. Takes you maybe five minutes to drink if you read the newspaper at the same time and then you go off to work or to school. You don't eat another thing until the next morning where you sit down and have another glass of juice. And so you go on drinking one glass of orange juice every day until you drop. That's the way a lot of Christians try to survive as believers. They feed their faith with five minutes of food in the morning or evening and then they don't eat again until 24 hours later. Some even skip one or two mornings and don't give their faith anything to eat for days. Now, the effect of starving your faith is the faith starves. It's not hard to understand and when faith is starving it is getting weaker and not able to do much. It has a hard time trusting God and worshipping and rejoicing and resisting sin. It gasps and stumbles." Is that happening to you? Do you have a hard time joining in the worship here because your faith is weak? Do you have a hard time doing any of the good works that God has ordained for you to do? Do you have a hard time resisting any temptation at all? Could it be your faith is weak. Now, we live surrounded every moment by great threats to our faith. Our faith needs protection. The clear example of this happened the night before Jesus was crucified, when Jesus warned His disciples and specifically Simon Peter he said, "'Simon, Simon, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you Simon that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.' But he replied, 'Lord, I'm ready to go with you to prison and death.' And Jesus answered, 'I tell you Peter, before the rooster crows today you will deny three times that you know me.'" Now, there's a lot in there but first of all the basic idea is without sustenance, without sustaining ministry by God the Father, through the intercession, the prayer of God the Son, Peter's faith would fail. And Jesus doesn't want that to happen. And so he prays for Peter that his faith won't fail and it won't because Peter's going to turn back and he's going to strengthen his brothers. But that's not all Jesus does he doesn't just pray to the Father about Peter, he tells Peter about it and has this conversation and gives him a prediction, the Word of Christ. And when Peter fell that night, when he denied the Lord three times and when the rooster crows, you know what happened then it says in Matthew 26, "Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him and he went outside and wept bitterly." What recovered Peter's faith? It was the word of Christ. Does your faith need recovery today? Do you need to get back to hearing from Jesus again then remember what Jesus has said to you. Our faith is threatened, it is threatened by the Devil. 1st Peter 5 it says, "He prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Resist him standing firm in the faith because you know your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of sufferings." The devil and his angels have your faith in their cross hairs. They want to destroy it if they can and so they have created a world system that entices you away from a life of faith, away from pleasing Jesus, your faith is therefore threatened. You need to hear Christ speak today, don't you? You need to hear him and the way you hear is by the Word of God. We hear by the Word of God. III. Calling on the Name of the Lord Every Day (verse 13) The second thing that I want to say to you is that not only do you need to hear every day from Jesus by hearing the Word of God, you need to call on the name of the Lord, look at verse 13. There it says, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Now I've already told you salvation is bigger than just justification. So what I am arguing for today is you need to keep on calling on the name of the Lord to be saved. If you want to work out your salvation with fear and trembling like it says in Philippians, the essence of that is going to be an ongoing calling on the name of the Lord. Now, remember what we meant by that, first of all, the name of the Lord represents his character as revealed in his word, it represents his mighty acts in history the way he's made a name for himself, it represents his promises all the things he's promised to do and more than anything, all of it is represented in His Son, Jesus Christ our Savior. And so when you call on Jesus' name for salvation, you're calling on him to be for you, a sinner everything he's revealed himself to be in his character, in his mighty actions, in his great promises, "Save me from sin Jesus." and he does. Now we tend to think of that as the sinner's prayer, right? You pray that prayer after the Gospel presentation, do you want to receive Jesus today as your Savior? And so you say yes. And so the sinner comes forward, maybe at the service or just bows with the evangelist right there and they pray the sinner's prayer. Are they calling on the name of the Lord? Well, if it's a genuine prayer that's exactly what they're doing. They're calling on Jesus to save them from their sins but is that the last time they need to do it? I contend no. I think that's just the first of more times than you can count that that soul will call on the name of the Lord. They'll be doing it the rest of their lives. Now, I came across this marvelous thought here and it was Charles Spurgeon was preaching a sermon on Psalm 50:15. The verse is written right in your outline there. Take a minute and look at it. Psalm 50:15 Charles Spurgeon called it Robinson Crusoe's text. You know the story of Robinson Crusoe, he was shipwrecked and had a helper with him named Friday eventually and he had a whole story there. Well, it's got some strong Christian themes in it. And this verse Psalm 50:15, which is printed in your outline it says this, "Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and you shall glorify me." That's Robinson Crusoe's text. Well, Spurgeon... Charles Spurgeon was preaching a sermon on this and this is what he said, "Robinson Crusoe has been wrecked. He has left on the desert island all alone, his case is a very, very pitiable one. He goes to his bed and he is smitten with fever. The fever lasts upon him long and he has no one to wait upon him, none even bring him a drink of cold water. He is ready to perish. He had been accustomed to sin, he had all the vices of a sailor. But his hard case brought him to think. He opens a Bible which he found in a sea chest and he lights upon this passage, "Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me." That night he prayed for the first time in his life and ever after there was in him a hope in God, which marked the birth of a heavenly life." Now, Spurgeon then applied this whole concept powerfully to us in prayer, this is what he said, "God and the praying man take shares…First here is your share, 'Call upon me in the day of trouble.' Secondly, here's God's share, 'I will deliver thee.' Again you take a share for you shall be delivered. And then again it is the Lord's turn, 'And thou shalt glorify me.' Here is a compact, a covenant that God enters into with you who pray to him and whom he helps. He says, 'You shall have the deliverance but I must have the glory...' Here is a delightful partnership. We obtain that which we so greatly need and all that God getteth is the glory which is due unto his name." Now, I think that God wants great glory and so he brings us through a whole lifetime of testing and troubles and difficulties and he wants us to call on his name, call on his name in every one of them so that he delivers us again and again and he gets the glory and we get the joy of salvation. What is the Day of Trouble? Now what is the day of trouble? Says, "Call on me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you." What day of trouble do you face? Are you in trouble? You know whether you feel like you are or not Christian you are in trouble. You're in great trouble because you're still in this world. And Jesus said in John 16:33, "In this world you will have trouble but take heart I have overcome the world." so this world in Jesus' mind, this world equates to trouble, the day of trouble. Now the trouble comes first and foremost, the threat to your soul of your own sin. The great trouble you face is Judgment Day. And you know that you've heard the Gospel you've come to believe that you can't survive Judgment Day without Jesus and so you call on the name of the Lord and he saves you from that day of trouble. But there's more trouble for you isn't there? The fact is, you've got a journey to walk, miles and miles through enemy territory and Jesus knew that and so the night before he was crucified in John 17, he prayed for his disciples what we call the "high priestly prayer" and he's praying for them because they're in trouble. Listen to what he says. "I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world." Do you see how Jesus thinks, I'm leaving this dangerous place but they are still here. "They are still in the world and I am coming to you. Holy Father protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost." That's the danger, lost. "None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that the Scripture would be fulfilled." and then Jesus said, "I have given them your word and the world has hated them for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world even as I am not of it." Now what would you think of a parent that left a child of age two or three in the median strip of a super highway and drove off? You'd think that's a terrible parent. Why? Because a parent is responsible to protect their children from danger, right? Do you think Jesus doesn't know that? Do you think he doesn't know that these, his believers must be protected? But we are in grave danger, friends. It's like we're in a fire zone in a war, and so we are. And so Jesus prays for us constantly because we're still in danger. He wants to protect our faith to keep it alive, to keep it strong and vibrant. And so he prays for us. But we are in danger for the rest of our lives because the Devil is trying to lead us into sin, trying to attack our faith and so he entices us. And it happens in a lot of different ways. I think we have to call on the name of the Lord in every situation so that we can grow in grace in the knowledge of Christ. For example, perhaps a man has a habit of looking at internet pornography. In the former generations these deadly images would have been reserved for just one section, a CD section of the big city. And you had to intentionally go there to see it but that's not the case anymore. Through the miracle of modern technology to bring it right to your workstation, right to your home. Sometimes without you asking for it at all, brings it right to you. And Jesus told us the deadly danger of lust, he said in Matthew 5, "I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye cause you to sin gouge it out and throw it away. It's better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Jesus says the danger of lust, it's hell. And so therefore we have to stand and fight. Well, what happens if these temptations come? Call on me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you and you shall glorify me. Call on the name of the Lord, everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved at the day of testing, the moment of temptation. He is faithful to make a way of escape. Ask him for it. Say, "Jesus, save me." Or perhaps a person's overcome by selfishness and materialism, when they look at the record of their expenditures on the credit card statement they find that most of the stuff they buy is for themselves, for their own pleasure and they say, "This isn't right." They want to live differently, they want to use their money more for the kingdom of God but they're still tempted. They still think that the more stuff I have the happier I'll be. "Save me Jesus, save me from that whole way of thinking. Give me a different way of looking at money." Or perhaps another person is struggling with depression and loneliness. Maybe they don't have anyone in their home. They live alone, maybe they're elderly, maybe they feel like their life is wasted, there's nothing going on for them, there's no purpose. Nobody really ever visits or calls. And so the devil starts to whisper depression and dark thoughts even of death into their minds. And when it's starting to get dark like that you've got to call on the name of the Lord. Give me joy Lord, give me purpose. Maybe I can't do as much as I used to do, but make me a prayer warrior for missions, give me a purpose helping to stand against this inky darkness of depression. Or maybe somebody's getting lazy in their quiet times. They've not even been sipping on their little glass of orange juice not for weeks even. They want to make a new start, they set their alarm earlier than they've been getting up the alarm rings and immediately the battle starts. The flesh does not want to get up and there's that diabolical snooze button. Oh, that wicked snooze button and it's pulling on you saying, "You don't want to get up, come on your body needs sleep." No your body needs God, your soul needs God but you're at the point of battle and you don't even realize how much is hanging in the balance at that moment and you say, "Jesus, help me. Get me out of bed." and he does. Call on me in the day of trouble and I will rescue you. Maybe somebody's got a habit of anger toward somebody in their family. Maybe toward a spouse, a husband or wife, maybe toward a child. The moment of temptation comes, they just want to erupt. No, call on me in the day of trouble and I'll deliver you. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Saved from what? Saved from sin. You don't sin at that moment instead you have a sweet and a gentle answer because Jesus has stepped in and has saved you at that time. Maybe somebody else is weak in evangelism. And the Lord's laid an office mate on their heart and say, "I want you to witness to them, invite them to church, talk to them about Jesus." And so lunch time comes and that conversation is college football, weather, current events and there's a prompting inside, "Say something, something about me." and the beads of sweat start to form on the forehead and you're saying, "I can't do it, it costs too much." You call on the name of Lord. I would advise quietly inwardly at that moment. But you call on the name of the Lord and you say, "Jesus save me from my weakness and my lack of love. Let me say something for you today." Maybe the Lord is calling on you to get involved in a ministry or to stay up late at night to pray for somebody who's got cancer or to give sacrificially to the Durham Rescue Mission or to start a ministry get involved in some way and all of those things or any of them take a level of sacrifice that your flesh isn't ready to make. Call on me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you and you will rescue me. The Deadly Habit of Self-Reliance Friends, we are too self-reliant we look inward, for the resources for our lives. I was looking at a pamphlet the American Psychological Association put out on raising positive kids in a negative world. You're wondering why I was reading it. Well, not because I needed advice from the American Psychological Association, but just to find out what it is they're saying. And they said If you want your kids to be positive in a negative world, they have to have friends and be a friend. That's profound [laughter]. They need to take charge of their behavior and actions. It says look on the bright side, set new goals and make a plan to reach them and the key to it all, believe in yourself and in what you can do. Have you ever had that before? Believe in yourself. What am I supposed to believe about myself that's going to help me? I know what I am, I've been proving it for years. I want to believe in the Lord. We are far too self-reliant. We Americans, we love the picture of the self-reliant one. The mountain man who goes out back in the 1800s and for months on end just with him and his trusty horse and his rifle and his knowledge, he can be out there in the wilderness with wild Indians and he can hunt his own game and he can do it all himself, he doesn't need you. We like that. There's something attractive about that man, the Daniel Boone figure. You can go out for months and months or even the rags to riches self-made man who can do all of these things or self-made woman. We like the story of success of what you can do for yourself. The scripture says salvation is the opposite. As a matter of fact it says you have to be weaned off of your self reliance. You have to learn somehow to stop depending on yourself. A profound passage in this is 2 Corinthians 1:8-10, don't turn there but just listen. The Apostle Paul had reached this point in his life, he had been brought through a severe trial and this is what he writes about it. "We do not want you to be uninformed brothers about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure far beyond our ability to endure so that we despaired even of life, indeed in our hearts we felt the sentence of death, but this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God who raises the dead." Did you hear that? Paul says this trouble happened in my life to teach me to stop relying on myself. Well, if the Apostle Paul, one of the godliest men that ever lived, needed that so do you and I. We need to learn how to stop relying on ourselves. Call on me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you and you will honor and glorify me. By application it's really pretty straightforward. Frankly this is just application section of another sermon on these two verses. It's all application. Read the Bible every day, feed on it. Feed on it every day, take in the scripture, take in the word of God. Memorize it, meditate on it, feed on it. Are you sipping orange juice a couple of five minutes, a little devotion lit? It's not going to be enough. You need more of the word. Make a commitment to read through the Bible. Get a pattern, a program, get a note book take some notes and then call on me in the day of trouble. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord. What I'd urge you to do is make a habit of praying through everything you're facing in your day. And get friends to pray for you in weak areas. Get somebody to hold you accountable if you're struggling with some of the things I've mentioned in my message here. Say, "I am a struggling. Will you pray for me? Will you pray for me?" Call on the Lord. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Close with me in prayer.