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Evangelism & GenerosityActs 2:41Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.  Evangelism is proclaiming and living the good news of salvation found through Christ aloneActs 2:42They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Proskartereō - being dedicated to some activity despite difficulty Ephesians 5:25Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.The church is people Ekklesia - out-calling, a called-out congregationActs 2:43Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.   Acts 2:45They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.  Generosity is living a life that matches the giving nature of God by outrageously and joyfully giving of our time our treasures and our talents to help bring heaven to earth Acts 2:46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.Evangelism and generosity go hand in handGenerosity is an attitude of love that flows from our hearts into the actions of our life. Mother Teresa“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”Without generosity the Gospel is grounded.The greatest enemy to Generosity in your life is fear.Generosity is living a life that matches the giving nature of GodJohn 3:16For God so loved the world, that He gave his only SonYou look like God when you are generous. Ephesians 5:1-2Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.Matthew 10:7As you go, proclaim this message:‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.'  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give. Proverbs 11:25Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.#1 Be Generous With Your Time Ephesians 5:15-16 Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.#2 Be Generous With Encouragement Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death.“Power of the tongue” = under the direction, or control of. ENCOURAGE“to put courage in”… “to lift the spirit”Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.#3 Be Generous With HonorRomans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. #4 Be Generous With Your ForgivenessEphesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.The key to forgiveness is not forgive and forget it's forgive and remember. John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.#5 Be Generous With Your AssistanceMartin Luther - “A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.”#6 Be Generous With Your Stories1 Peter 3:15 Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you haveAnna Grace TaylorYour story could be the key that unlocks someone else's prison. Don't be afraid to share it.#7 Be Generous With Your MoneyLuke 12:32Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.John 10:10My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

Daily Prayer: Sunday Morning In the name of the Father,and of the Son,and of theHoly Spirit. Amen. Morning invocation of the lightGlory be to God who has shown us the light!Lead me from darkness to light,Lead me from sadness to joy,Lead me from death to immortality.Glory be to God who has shown us the light! Psalm 62God, you are my God, for you I long;for you my soul is thirsting.My body pines for youlike a dry, weary land without water.So I gaze on you in the sanctuaryto see your strength and your glory.For your love is better than life,my lips will speak your praise.So I will bless you all my life,in your name I will lift up my hands.My soul shall be filled as with a banquet,my mouth shall praise you with joy.On my bed I remember you.On you I muse through the nightfor you have been my help;in the shadow of your wings I rejoice.My soul clings to you;your right hand holds me fast.Glory be.Scripture ReadingRev 7:10-12"Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!' And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, 'Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! AmenPause for silent prayerCanticle of Zechariah (Benedictus)"May that morning star which never sets, Christ our light,find us aflame with charity until the world is enlightenedwith love.' (St. Bede)Gospel Reading:Lk 1:68-79He has raised up for us a mighty saviour,born of the house of his servant David.Through his holy prophets he promised of oldthat he would save us from our enemies,from the hands of all who hate us.He promised to show mercy to our fathersand to remember his holy covenant.This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:to set us free from the hands of our enemies,free to worship him without fear,holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most Highfor you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,to give his people knowledge of salvationby forgiving them their sins.In the tender compassion of our Godthe dawn from on high shall break upon us,to shine on those who dwell in darknessand the shadow of death,and to guide our feet on the road of peace.Glory be. InvocationsWe welcome you, Lord, with joy and praise:Let us rise with you to the light of Easter.Help us to see your goodness in all creatures:Open our hearts to your love in the world.We pray for all Christian communities:Deepen their faith in unity and love. The Lord's Prayer Easter PrayerLord our God, by the resurrection of your Son,you have forever illumined the world.Through the power of your Spirit,grant that those who still sit in darknessand in the shadow of death,may be born anew,and that your light may shine on themfor ever and ever. Amen. Concluding prayerFather of mercy,your love embraces everyoneand through the resurrection of your Sonyou call us all into your wonderful light.Dispel our darknessand make us a people with one heart and one voice,forever singing your praise,in Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. Amen. BlessingMay Christ our Lord, by the power of his resurrectionhave mercy on us and save us. Amen.

Scripture: Genesis 16, 21Title: Does God Hear Me? Does God See Me?Heavy credit: See below for bibliography“In Genesis, God sees, hears, knows and understands.” -JWBottom Line: When I take matters in my own hands and make a mess of things, God hears my cry, sees my misery and meets me there with revealing hope.Discussion questions for group and personal study:We encourage you to use our sermons and discussion questions to gather with some friends and talk about the passage together. Pray and ask God to guide you. He is faithful. Questions? Email us at info@GraceToday.netFind our sermons, podcasts, discussion questions and notes at https://www.gracetoday.net/podcastGoal: The goal isn't to ask every question. The goal is to encourage people to engage the scriptures together.CHAPTER 16 Questions, CSB Life Connections Bible (LCB):OPEN: Growing up, who was the main decision maker in your family?CONSIDER (vv. 1-2): What do you find most surprising about Sarai's words? What do you think drove Sarai to this course of action? CONSIDER (vv. 3-6): In your opinion, who is to blame for this situation? What problems are evident in Abram's family? What could have been done to resolve this conflict?CONSIDER (vv. 7-16): Where did Hagar find comfort or confidence in the angel's words? APPLY: What have you been praying about for a long time? Where can you find encouragement and support to stay on the right path until your prayers are answered?FOR GROUPS (vv. 13-14): Pass a mirror around the group as an object lesson. Encourage group members to hold the mirror and contemplate the God Who Sees.Opening:Bottom Line: God hears my cries and sees my misery. When I realize this, he will open my eyes leading me to see my hopeful future in Christ.Even as the constraints of the pandemic era have begun to lift, the current pressures felt by working moms have yet to alleviate.In a recent Barna survey, working mothers shared with Barna that they are feeling overwhelmed, navigating workplace shifts and desiring time to prioritize self-care, findings we'll take a closer look at in this article.Working mothers are twice as likely to feel overwhelmed as working fathers coming out of the pandemic.1. Working Mothers Are More Likely Than Working Fathers to Feel OverwhelmedWith moms historically having shouldered the burden of domestic responsibilities and care of children and loved ones—a pattern that COVID exasperated—it comes as no surprise that employed mothers are feeling overwhelmed, even forgotten.2. Mothers' Shift to Work-from-Home Dynamic Was More Drastic than Fathers'While many mothers left the workforce during the COVID-19 crisis, the ones who are currently employed—whether they stayed through the pandemic or are among the percentage of women reentering the workforce—continue to navigate changes in their work environments and work expectations. Barna's data surrounding these shifts hint at a lower level of satisfaction in working mothers' relationships both within and outside work, as well as lower satisfaction with their job in general, when compared to working fathers.3. Working Mothers Desire Time to Prioritize Reflection & Self-CareWorking mothers, more than working women without children in the home, tell Barna they could achieve better work-life balance if they “had more quiet time to regain perspective” (30% vs. 19%) They are also more likely than all other women to say better work-life balance could be achieved if they had “more opportunities to exercise” (30% vs. 18% working women without children in the home, 15% all other women).…Amid a season of transition, overwhelm and a struggle to balance personal and professional responsibilities, working mothers could benefit from the support of their community, including local church congregations. Yet pastors and congregants may not know how to best rally around working mothers in this time—or even be aware that they need to. Indeed, one in five Christian working moms (22% vs. 11% of working dads) says they are not attending church right now.Story: https://www.barna.com/research/challenges-working-moms/He is the God who sees/hears.Trusting yourself vs. Trusting God, the Promise KeeperTrusting the Flesh vs. Trusting the Spirit of GodFlesh vs. FaithEgypt (Land of Self-reliance) vs. Promise Land (Land of Resting Faith)God is our rescuer/promise-keeper/Hero—God / Angel of the LordHe hears/seesHe shows up aware because he caresHe brings hope, despite consequences**Salvation isn't fixing the flesh. Salvation is crucifying the flesh. We are called to come and die to self-reliance. Leave Egypt and enter the Promise Land.Outline based largely on Kent HughesI. Human Chaos (1-6)A. Scheming (1-2)B. Fall! (3-4)Sarai's action parallel to Eve'sAbram listened to his wife (2)Sarai took Hagar (3a) just as Eve took the fruit (3:6a)Sarai gave Hagar to her husband (3b) just as Eve gave the fruit to hers (3:6b)And in both cases the man willingly and knowingly partookFree-fall! “God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption” Galatians 6:7-8C. Chaos (5-6)Logically Sarai was wrong to place all the blame on Abram…it was her ideaBut actually she was right. He was the patriarch. He was the head of the house. God had spoken to him, not to her. He should never have allowed the situation. Abram was truly responsible for the “wrong” (lit. violence) she was suffering.Abram should have taken responsibility here.Abram should have affirmed his love for her here.Abram should have sought the wisdom of God in prayer.Instead, he capitulated to familiar Mesopotamian ways.He allowed Sarai to demote Hagar from wife/concubine back to slave.Sarai mistreated Hagar causing her to flee. Hagar = run awayNone of these three were honorable in how they handled things.Abram was the worst. He didn't really care for either of these women.Neither woman had compassion for the other. Sarai was the worst.Both women were victims. Hagar the greatest.This all started when people failed to trust God's word. (Trust in God)Instead they tried to take matters into their own hands. (Self-reliance/trust in self)II. Divine Intervention (7-16)A. Divine Discovery (7-9)Hagar fled scared.The Angel of the Lord found her—a stranger; God himself.This Angel knew everything. Saw, heard, knew……understood…authoritative “Return to your mistress and submit to her”Why? Because of the future…B. Divine Revelation (10-12) - God initiated this.Out of 6 promises in the OT for descendants, Hagar is the only woman to receive such a promise.God honored Hagar with many descendants. Fruit of the Abrahamic covenant.IshmaelYou will have a sonYou will name him Ishmael because the Lord has heard (Ishmael - God has heard)He will be nomadic Bedouin He will be in perpetual conflict with others around him (Sound like Arabs?)Ishmael's promise is part of the Abrahamic covenant—not it's ownAbram's and Sarai's shortcut would impact our world for millennia causing oceans of blood. Sin has consequences. When we take matters into our own hands and get out in front of God, this is what tends to happen:We mess things up; troubleWe sin and sin has consequencesWe blame each otherWe divide or move away from each otherWe hurt and hurt each other (and ourselves)We damage the future and miss out on some of the blessingsWe grieve God and quench his SpiritC. Hagar's Response (13-16) - As a result of God seeing her, she sees God and…She named God and that place“the God who sees me.” “the well of the living one who sees me”She worshiped God. Instead of reveling in the good news God gave, she revels in God himself.She believed and trusted God. This led to her submission and obedience.She obeyed God. She returned and submitted to Sarai.She came to understand that God hearsGod seesGod knows my situationGod understands what I'm going throughTherefore, she trusts, obeys and worships God in the midst of her difficult circumstances.ConclusionThe consequences of taking matters into our own hands can be tragic and devastating. We cannot change the past.However, God's mercy and grace leads to forgiveness when we confess our sins and move forward by grace through faith in Him.Perhaps you find yourself in the wilderness right now. Perhaps you feel abandoned, alone, and abused.God hears.God sees.God knows.God understands.God reveals, guides and provides if you'll look to him and rest in his protection and provision. He is faithful.Jen Wilkins shared these thoughts as she wrapped up her thoughts on this chapter:Paul calls us to, “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.”(‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:14-16‬ ‭NIV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/111/php.2.14-16.NIV)The Lord reminds us in the Psalms, “He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.” (‭‭Psalms‬ ‭147:4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ https://psalm.bible/psalm-147-4)“And each of you—we—are one of those stars as we shine like stars in the sky of this dark world as we hold firmly to the word of life. And then we will be able to boast on the day of Christ that we did not run or labor in vain.” —JWPrayOther notes:Outline Bible - Genesis 16:VIII. THE COMPROMISE BY ABRAM (16:1-16)A. The rationale for his compromise (16:1-3)1. The problem (16:1): Sarai is still unable to bear a son.2. The plan (16:1-3): Sarai convinces Abram to marry Hagar, her servant, in order to have a son through her.B. The results of his compromise (16:4-16)1. Hagar's marriage to Abram (16:4): After Hagar conceives, she begins to look down upon Sarai.2. Hagar's mistreatment by Sarai (16:5-6): After suffering harsh treatment from the frustrated Sarai, Hagar flees into the desert.3. Hagar's meeting with the Lord (16:7-14)a. The Lord advises her (16:7-9): The angel of the Lord comes to her by a well and tells her, "Return to [Sarai] and submit to her authority.b. The Lord assures her (16:10-14): The angel of the Lord tells Hagar that she will have innumerable descendants through her unborn son, who will be called Ishmael ("God hears").4. Hagar's mothering of Ishmael (16:15-16): She gives birth to Ishmael when Abram is eighty-six years old.Notes from Jen Wilkin's message on Gen 12-16We should ask ourselves two questions every time we study scripture:What is true about God here? (Knowledge of God), andWhat is true about me in light of what is true about God? (Knowledge of self).Gen 16Hagar was a female, Egyptian slave!Remember, Egypt is the archetype of self-reliance.Sarai— taking matters into her own hands.This was a legal way to produce a legal heir using your maidservant to bear a child. But it's illegal in God's legal system.Abraham listens to Sarai instead of God. (Reminds me of Eden)How much say did Hagar really have in this plan? She's a victim, though not blameless.There's a lot of blame shifting going on here by Sarai and others. (Like in Eden)Sarai was physically (not just verbally) harsh with Hagar. “Mistreats” (NIV) in v. 6*Why this extreme reaction?Because up to this point, Sarai knew that her barrenness could have been because of Abram instead of her. But now that Hagar is pregnant, she realizes it's because of her.So she bears the full reproach/shame/scorn of a culture that said that the only thing a woman is good for is bearing children. Her world crashes.16:8 God is gently drawing Hagar in…Hagar is extremely vulnerable now. She's safer with Abram and Sarai even.Plus God gives her assurances about her and Ishmael's future.“There are no minor characters in the Story of God” -JWApparently, Abram (and maybe Sarai) believed Hagar's story as seen in that Abram names her son Ishmael instead of coming up with his own as was his right and role.“And God said…” “and it was so” (pattern)—Story of self-reliance vs. Sovereignty of God—Trust in me vs. Trust in TheeMy other notesIn previous chapters, Abram listened to God and exercised faith. But here he listened to his wife instead of God and revealed his unbelief.Both Abram and Sarai tried to help God's promise happen instead of resting in that promise and waiting on God to work in his perfect timing. For Isaac came 13 years later when Ishmael could live on his own. (No father going forward was devestating)Sarai blames God for her barren condition. This is actually true as God is sovereign. (Rom 8:28 applies here) But she hints he's not good in doing so which is not true.Hagar is quite the victim here. And yet when empowered does harm back.God does not acknowledge Hagar as Abram's wife even though this was a legal path to getting a legal heir. She is still a slave in God's eyes.First mention of the Angel of the Lord. Theophany? Christophany?“When God spoke to Abram, he was identified the second time as the angel of the Lord (22:1,15).”Ishmael — God will hear. (11)Hagar — flight, run away (LCB study notes)“GO TO MY SLAVE. Sarai knew of the Sumerian custom of using a concubine to obtain a male heir in the case of a wife's barrenness. A concubine did not have the same rights as the wife.” (LCB study notes)“Childlessness was a great burden to women, for it was seen as a lack of blessing from the Lord. Hagar's pregnancy placed her in a more favored position.” Ibid“16:12 WILD DONKEY. A promise of Ishmael's eventual nomadic lifestyle. EVERYONE'S HAND WILL BE AGAINST HIM. Points to the hostility between the de-scendants of Isaac (the Israelites) and Ishmael (the Ishmaelites).”Practical lesson: “Whenever we run ahead of God, there is trouble. The flesh loves to ‘help' God, but true faith is shown in patience (Is 28:16). We cannot mix faith and flesh, law and grace, promise and self-effort.” BKCReferences/Bibliography:“Preaching the Word” Genesis Commentary, Kent Hughes“The Bible Knowledge Commentary” by Walvoord, Zuck (BKC)“the Bible Exposition Commentary” by Warren Wiersbe (BEC)Genesis 12-16 Message by Jen Wilkin from her Genesis studyOutline Bible, D WillmingtonLife Connection Bible, Lyman Coleman, study notesNIV Study Bible (NIVSB)ESV Study Bible

“Carrion my wayward sonYou'll be a feast when you are doneLay your weary head to restDon't you cry no more”–Turns out this song is about eating the rotting corpse of your dead child. Man, Kansas is fucking dark. The Carrion Crawler is probably the grossest creature we've learned about so far. This Putrid Party Monster will haunt your dreams and make you rethink your feelings about bugs. And it doesn't even matter if you liked or disliked bugs. If you thought beetles were cool before, now you're gonna think they're disgusting. If you already hated grubs, we'll you're gonna live in a nightmare world after this. Why does Wizards of the Coast do this to us? You probably don't even have to listen to the episode to figure out if Kyle and Alex think the Carrion Crawler is a friend or fiend, but you might as well give the episode a listen anyway. We're sorry.

Description: One day after the LAPD beat up Rodney King, an Ice Cube concert went down in history as one of the most violent shows ever held at First Avenue. Hosted by Jay Smooth, we ask rap experts and former First Ave staffers about gangsta rap, security, and the uneasy relationship between the Minnesota music industry and Black hip-hop artists. This is the sixth episode of The Current Rewind's "10 Pivotal Days at First Avenue" season. If you missed the first five episodes, catch up below. • April 3, 1970 (The day it all began)• Nov. 28-29, 1979 (The days that told the future)• Sept. 27, 1982 (Bad Brains/Sweet Taste of Afrika/Hüsker Dü)• Aug. 3, 1983 (The birth of "Purple Rain")• Oct. 22, 1990 (Sonic Youth/Cows/Babes in Toyland) Transcript of The Current Rewind season 2, episode 6: "March 4, 1991" Anne O'Connor: We're talking about almost 30 years ago, but my memory of this was like, you opened up the gate at the horse races, and everybody was off to it. [Ice Cube, "The Bomb," with the lyrics: "With the L, the E, the N, the C, the HThe M, the O, the B, the greatLyrics that make the beat swing and I gotchaIt's the hip-hopper that don't like coppers." Hard cut.] Anne O'Connor: And it was just like an explosion, and it was non-stop all night long. ["The Bomb" picks up where it left off, running through these lyrics: "And if you try to upset the pot, sonYou get kicked in the chest like a shotgunI make the beats, I make the breaksI make the rhymes that make you shakeMake you findIce Cube never caught in the middleI make stuff that kick you in the a** a little." Hard cut.] Anne O'Connor: We just went from one fight to the next fight to the next fight. There was no breathing time. There was no downtime. It was just, "What emergency is there to go and deal with next?" [Ice Cube's "The Bomb" returns with a sample of spoken audio and several voices singing, "The bomb"] Cecilia Johnson VO: Gangsta rap was the most controversial music of the '90s – praised as an expression of Black America's righteous anger, reviled for its misogyny and depictions of violence. Taking cues from Schooly D and Ice-T, Los Angeles group N.W.A popularized the genre with their album Straight Outta Compton. Their most talented rhymer, Ice Cube, left the group to go solo in 1990. In early 1991, he brought his show to Minneapolis's First Avenue, for one of its most memorable nights ever. ["Hive Sound" by Icetep] Cecilia Johnson VO: [over theme] I'm Cecilia Johnson. This is The Current Rewind, the show putting music's unsung stories on the map. For our second season, we're looking back at one of the Twin Cities' – and the country's – greatest live venues through a series of pivotal nights. We're bringing on guest hosts for several episodes. In this one, Jay Smooth – the New York hip-hop radio legend and cultural commentator – joins us to tell the story of one of the most infamous shows in First Avenue's history. I do want to warn you: This episode contains explicit accounts of racism and violence. [rewind sound effect] Jay Smooth VO: Way back in 1991, I founded New York's longest-running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad. It was a pivotal time for hip-hop music, when it was still just beginning to cross all sorts of cultural boundaries. And the other love of my musical life back then was the Black Minneapolis Sound, as defined by Prince and his many collaborators – who, in their own way, were on a similar path of bringing Black music into spaces where it hadn't necessarily been all that welcome. So, as a devoted student of Prince and hip-hop who came of age in that era, the First Avenue club and its relationship with Black music, and hip-hop, specifically, has always been an object of fascination for me. And though it was primarily defined as a rock club, First Avenue did host a number of high-profile hip-hop shows in the '80s and early '90s, according to someone who saw a lot of them. Tim Wilson: Timothy Wilson, Urban Lights Music owner. Jay Smooth VO: Tim's record store, Urban Lights, is a community hub in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul. Tim Wilson: I remember seeing Run-D.M.C. I remember they had Jam Master Jay kind of suspended in the air, swinging back and forth, and they couldn't jump around on the stage, because the records were skipping and stuff like that, but they still made it through. I remember going to KRS-One; the sound crashed and he literally had one of his people beat box, and he continued to perform. [Tim laughs] Jay Smooth VO: On top of the big names from out of state, Minnesotan hip-hop acts the Micranots and the I.R.M. Crew sometimes performed in First Ave's smaller room, the 7th Street Entry. Still, it would take a while for the club's overall attitude to change, from what sound engineer Randy Hawkins, in Chris Riemenschneider's book First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom, called, quote, "anti-rap." The non-white population of Minneapolis grew nearly 70 percent during the '80s. But hip-hop took longer to bloom in the Twin Cities than on the coasts, partly because the success of Prince, the Time, and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis made funk the sound du jour there in the '80s. One of First Avenue's most successful dance nights was More Funk, every Thursday with the club's longtime DJ Roy Freedom. Prince and Jimmy Jam would sometimes bring test pressings for the occasion. Tim Wilson also DJ'ed there. Tim Wilson: You know, it was disco, funk, rap, kind of all mixed up into one hodgepodge. It was just a little bit of hip-hop at the time, because rap just hadn't really – hadn't really captured the imagination of the world, let's say it like that. It wasn't the Wall Street darling that it is today. So it was a record here, a record there, but it was just a lot of Minneapolis Sound stuff. Of course you would get a lot of Prince and people like André Cymone, the Girls, Ta Mara & the Seen, Alexander O'Neal. Dan Corrigan: More Funk with Roy Freedom? We used to call it More Fights with Roy Freedom – ha! Jay Smooth VO: Dan Corrigan has been First Avenue's official photographer since 1995. These clips are from a 2003 interview he did with Pete Scholtes of City Pages. Dan Corrigan: There was one night, there was the biggest fight I've ever seen down there. It was just crazy. It started on the dance floor and kind of went around the right and spilled all the way out to the entryway. Jay Smooth VO: That brawl took place in 1990, during More Funk's fifth anniversary. Randy Hawkins told our writer Michaelangelo Matos about that night. Randy Hawkins: The fifth anniversary of [More] Funk night it was a similar situation of losing control of the club. There was a few times where it was like, "We've lost control of this." Jay Smooth VO: Now, this kind of thing didn't happen very often. One reason for that is First Avenue's security system. Sabrina Keith: There's, like, a light switch at various locations throughout the club, like emergency buttons you press if something goes wrong. Jay Smooth VO: Sabrina Keith was a bartender, stagehand, and superglue employee of First Ave, working on and off from 1988 to 2004. Sabrina Keith: And you flip the switch, and let's see, upstairs, a central light goes on. It's, like, a siren light – a red siren light. And then, I think, at the front door there might be one, as well. And then, you look over to the side of the stage, and there's many lights of many different colors, and hopefully just one of them will be spinning, and that would be – that gives you an idea of where the trouble is. And actually, just the other day, me and another old employee were talking and can remember pretty much where all the trouble lights are. It's really disturbing. [laughs] I shouldn't know that green means pool tables, which means it's by where the current coat check is and no more pool tables. Jay Smooth VO: The origin of the so-called "trouble lights" is still fresh in Richard Luka's mind. He had been recruited to work security in 1975, when the club was still called Uncle Sam's. You may remember him from the Ramones and Pat Benatar episode earlier this season. Richard spoke with our producer, Cecilia, and First Ave's longtime general manager Steve McClellan. Richard Luka: The reason for that light was that in March of 1977, I was working alone. We'd purged a lot of people out of there at that time. Uh, there was all this new staff. They really didn't know anything, and I was all alone at the front door with the cashier, and a bike gang came to the door. The Iron Cross from northern Minnesota. And I had to card these guys, and I thought, "Oh my god, I can't – what am I gonna do here?" And I just – there was, like, six of them. I just said well, I guess I'm letting them in. And it turns out a few more came in, so we had like nine bikers in there who took their coats off. They were flying their colors in there. Steve McClellan: What show was it? Richard Luka: No, this was like a Saturday night in 1977, and I remember one of our regular customers, a guy named Tiger. He was Black, and he had a shaved head and these guys surrounded him. They were rubbing his head, saying, "I wish I had a watermelon," and I was like, "Oh my god, this is gonna get out of hand." And at the end of the night, they were just rude and belligerent to people. And [Tiger] came up and he said, "What on earth did you let them in here for?" I go like, "I was gonna get the s*** beat out of me. It's like I'm up here all alone." And they said, "Okay, we're putting a light in." So they installed this light, and a year later, the bike gang came back, but we had hired all new staff. [Steve and Richard laugh] We had some bigger people there, and I hit that light and people were right there, and these guys, they threw their jackets off and they were ready to go, and the police showed up. So that is what can happen at the front door. You never knew what was gonna show up there. Steve McClellan: Oh, the first light that he's talking about, my brother Kevin installed. When did we put in the different colors? So if it was the game room, it would go off green, and when it was – Richard Luka: It was, like, 1983, I'm gonna say. Steve McClellan: Yeah, that much later. The first one was '77, '78. And that was sufficient, and then we had to do a system that people wouldn't go to the front door. They would go to the game area, the upstairs, or bar five. So we had like a six-light sequence that would go off. Jay Smooth VO: Along with the trouble lights, the seriousness of First Ave's security earned it a reputation in town, according to Tim Wilson. Tim Wilson: People go through the usual First Avenue bulls*** when you go to First Avenue. You know, they look at your license and turn it upside down and flip it and flop it, pat you down, and you walk in. It was always one of those things like, oh man, don't go to First Avenue with a fake ID. Don't try to sneak in First Avenue. Their security doesn't play. And it's still the same thing. People get turned away. Sabrina Keith: One point that as always made kind of clear at First Avenue was, we're not bouncers. And we don't ever want to be called bouncers. We are security. We're just trying to make things better. We don't want to bounce you. We don't want to be mean to you. We don't want to beat you up. We just want you to have fun, and I've never understood why people go out and don't have fun. It's like, "Why are you starting stuff? You paid however much money to get in here, so have fun." Whether you kick them out or whether you put them back, it's up to how they act. I mean, I had one kid come up to me five years after the fact saying, "Oh my god, it's you," and I'm like, what are you talking about. "You kicked me out of Nine Inch Nails." I'm like, "OK." [laughs] I'm glad that was a great memory for you. [Sabrina and Michaelangelo laugh] Jay Smooth VO: The club's security staff have long been trained to de-escalate situations, according to a longtime staffer. Anne O'Connor: My name is Anne O'Connor. I worked at First Avenue for two different time periods in the 1990s. [pause] I mean, de-escalation can work in any setting. It really can. You have to keep your head. My strategy was always to get in between the people who were really upset, because they almost would never go after me. And so that would at least create some space. When people are hot-headed, a lot of times all they really need is to step back for a second and say, "Wait a minute, do I really want to do this?" And that's the kind of thing that we would say. [Ice-T's "Body Count" starts fading up] Anne O'Connor: And sometimes that didn't work at all. [Anne laughs] [Ice-T's "Body Count" plays for about 20 seconds] Jay Smooth VO: In February of 1991, First Avenue hosted one of its occasional rap shows: Ice-T, the revolutionary Los Angeles MC with sharp storytelling and a steely voice. That show was one of two he'd perform in Minnesota that year; he also came through St. Paul's Harriet Island on the Lollapalooza tour. And each time, Ice-T didn't just rap – he sang with an all-Black metal band called Body Count. Sabrina Keith told Michaelangelo about hanging out with that group. Sabrina Keith: It was just fun, because it was Ice-T, and he was doing metal, which, like, with Body Count, there's just not a lot of Black artists doing that. And we had Blake working at the club, who's basically the exact same thing, just not, you know, Ice-T. And so it's fun, it's novel and just a bunch of big guys, and they had really cool merch, and they wanted like our First Avenue jackets because we were all wearing them and I think it was cold then too. Michaelangelo Matos: February. Sabrina Keith: Yup, that's cold. [laughs] Jay Smooth VO: Ice-T and Body Count would see more than their share of controversy a year later, in 1992, when they released the song "Cop Killer." But in 1991, there was no more controversial figure in rap, or in music, than Ice Cube. He'd been the primary lyricist for N.W.A, who had debuted in 1989 with the iconic album Straight Outta Compton. Soon afterward, the FBI sent a letter to N.W.A's record label to complain about the lyrics of songs such as "Eff Tha Police" – lyrics that had mostly been written by Ice Cube, who was only 20 years old. But Cube felt like he wasn't getting his fair share of royalties, so in 1990, he and his friend and producer Sir Jinx went to New York to collaborate with the hottest producers of the time, The Bomb Squad. The Bomb Squad, featuring Hank Shocklee, Chuck D, and Eric Sadler, were Public Enemy's sample-heavy production team. With their help, Ice Cube finished his first solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, and released it in May of 1990. He followed it with the Kill at Will EP in December. No rapper was hotter right then, as Tim Wilson recalls. Tim Wilson: That was good Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, one of my top five albums of all time. He left N.W.A, got politically conscious, and then there was just the whole thing with the group and the break-up, and then he went out east and hung out with Chuck D and Public Enemy, and they produced that album, and it was just – it was the hot album at that particular time. That particular album bridged gangsta rap and politically conscious material all into one project. You know, he was gassed up and ready to go. Jay Smooth VO: Ice Cube didn't lead a lifestyle as violent as his lyrics would suggest – like a lot of rappers, he'd rhyme in character. But some of his fans did carry the things he rapped about carrying, as John Smith, who would join the First Avenue staff in 1993 and is still a DJ and bartender at the club, would discover. DJ Smitty: First Avenue started using metal detectors. When you saw the metal detectors, it wasn't, "Oh, this is a new thing they're doing." It's like, "Oh, Ice Cube is coming." And then earlier that week, before the show, I was at Northern Lights Records, and I overheard some clerks talking about how they had overheard some kids talking about trying to stash some guns in First Avenue before the Ice Cube show, so that they would circumvent the metal detectors. Those were the people who first made it apparent to me that this was not gonna be business as usual. The record stores, I guess, were getting phone calls and whatnot – because we weren't a Ticketmaster club, [so] if you wanted to buy tickets for a First Avenue show, you had to go someplace and buy them. I think the Ice Cube crowd was a crowd that didn't necessarily know where to buy our tickets. So it was kind of that, where we realized, "This isn't just gonna be shiny happy hipsters going to a rap show. This is gonna be real." Jay Smooth VO: Anne O'Connor worked roaming security that night. Anne O'Connor: As the staff, we would get together and talk about what we were gonna do. And then what ended up happening is we hired in a bunch of extra additional security people. For about a week before the shows, we had metal detectors at the door so that people couldn't bring guns of knives or anything in and stash them in the club, so that they could use them during the shows themselves. You know, these were guys who, their show was about raising people's anger about some really unfair situations, about calling out some things that were really wrong, and so people had a tendency to get pissed. So we knew that, and we had to be ready for that. And the Ice-T show, I feel like we managed to do that without huge problems. We didn't have huge problems that night. When you put together people with loud music, lots of drinking and lots of young people dancing – body contact – you're really just setting a stage for some conflict. There's gonna be some conflict sometime. Jay Smooth VO: Ice Cube's March 4 appearance was, in fact, two shows – an all-ages in the late afternoon and an ID-only show at night. This was a regular occurrence at the club throughout the '90s. Sabrina Keith: I know for the first show, I did coat-check, so it was pretty mellow. Everybody thought the kids' show was gonna be bad, and it just was not. Jay Smooth VO: There was one issue during the all-ages show: Somebody threw a bottle over the upstairs balcony, where alcohol was allowed. When Ice Cube finished the first show, the club took two hours to change over. Sabrina Keith: You have to clean up and kind of reset everything to start the night fresh. I think they bought us pizza, and we just kind of hung out and waited. Jay Smooth VO: Rod Smith was bar-backing that night – running liquor from storage to the bars. Rod Smith: The attendance at the all-ages show was healthy, but nowhere near sold out. At the ID show, attendance was sold out-plus. I believe you've encountered the phenomenon where somebody in the office would panic about ticket sales and just start slamming comps out indiscriminately. A ton of comps had gone out, and then a ton of people paid, so attendance [laughs] was way over the top. DJ Smitty: We got there for the ID show. We walk in. First thing we figured out pretty quick was, we weren't gonna get any help, because anything with a counter, whether it was a bar or whether it was coat-check – they were busy. It was packed. It was full, and there were people yelling. There were people who were not happy with the order that they were being helped. There were people who were not happy with the prices. There were just a lot of not happy people. It was wet outside, and it was hot in there, which made it hot and wet – like a cave. The walls were sweating. The men's room had an inch of water going on, on the floor. There was a bad vibe. Jay Smooth VO: Our sources couldn't pick out one specific point where the fights started. But according to Anne, once they started, they didn't stop. Anne O'Connor: It was just bam-bam-bam. It was just non-stop, so you didn't really have time to stop and think, "Wow, this is really overwhelming; I don't know if I can do it." You just did it. The place was packed. There were so many people there. So if you were – if you couldn't get to the trouble light, that's one thing, but also if the trouble light was already going, you'd have a fight five feet away from you. Well, five feet in a packed room could be – it's a lot of feet to get to, sometimes – [laughs] you know – to get through the bodies and get to the actual fight, you're not always gonna make it. Rod Smith: These melees would just randomly break out. The outside security people that First Avenue hired did an outstanding job, because they were really aware of what was going on mood-wise in the club, and as soon as something broke out, they would start heading toward it. But, again, the problem being there was a certain amount of distance in the Mainroom, and when the club is that packed, you can't move that quickly. They were moving pretty quickly, though. So these fights were being stopped, for the most part, like, pretty quickly after they started. But they didn't really stop. I'd say they continued pretty much through the night. DJ Smitty: As a customer, I knew about the trouble lights, and I'd seen them go off in the past. I had never seen all of them go off at the same time. Rod Smith: I believe there were 27 all told, and there were incidents that didn't even prompt the trouble light, because nobody could get to a trouble light, because the club was that packed. Jay Smooth VO: Randy Hawkins worked the barricade in front of the stage for both shows. Randy Hawkins: There was three of us – four of us all in the barricade, and we had to stay there. Unless the situation was right in front of you on the floor, of which there were many, we did what we could from inside the barricade, but mostly the roaming security of people on the dance floor dealt with that stuff. And so it was like, it turned into a pretty serious us-against-them scenario, and like as far as security vs. the audience, which, you never want to get in that situation. But every time a door got opened, there'd be three people trying to bum-rush the show. But every time like a side door or anything got opened to let someone in, you had to have security at each one, basically just to defend the castle. It was kind of the same way with the barricade and every bar – just people trying to take everything they could take. Yeah. There was all sorts of, just grab whatever booze you could grab. Rod Smith: I encountered bartenders and bar backs crying back by the coolers, and that happened multiple times. The bar backs, because they'd been sucker-punched, and the bartender, because people kept I mean, there was some real ballers there, and they tipped really well, but then these wannabes would come along and steal the big tips that somebody else had just left. And it was so busy that it was impossible for the bartenders to really keep track of what was happening with their tips. Anne O'Connor: You know, we called the cops several times. We carted several people out to the cops. When you are in a fight at First Avenue, what ends up happening is you get surrounded by staff. Michaelangelo Matos: Quickly. Anne O'Connor: Quickly. And so, you know like, there's nowhere to go. Jay Smooth VO: But the cops weren't particularly soothing that night, or any other. In fact, just the night before, on March 3, 1991, a Los Angeles motorist named Rodney King was pulled over and beaten mercilessly by the LAPD. A man with a camcorder filmed the incident and sent it to a local TV news show. The Rodney King video wasn't yet national news when Ice Cube played First Avenue – that would be in a few days still. But for most people at the show, police brutality wasn't just something they heard about in rap songs – chances were, many of Ice Cube's fans knew someone it had happened to, if they hadn't experienced it personally. Anne O'Connor: What I would say is that there were a lot of valid reasons for being upset, and this was a place for them to have that upset, and sometimes that upset meant that they wanted to hurt someone. And so I'm not justifying the behavior or excusing it, but I'm just saying it was not a big surprise. When I say nobody got seriously hurt, I mean like broken bones or injuries that . . . Michaelangelo Matos: Hospital injuries. Anne O'Connor: Hospital injuries. It was a rough night. It was a rough scene. It was a very violent show, so I don't want to underplay that. Jay Smooth VO: Urban Lights owner Tim Wilson was in the audience that night – and he remembers seeing an opening group that included a rapper who would top the pop charts four years later. Tim Wilson: I remember a group called WC and the MAAD Circle, which was one of Ice Cube's groups – Dub-C who still tours with Cube. And Coolio was actually part of the group at that time. Crazy Toones was the DJ, which was Dub-C's brother. I remember they kept having sound problems. And they kept telling the sound guy, like, "Man you better fix this or we're gonna have a problem." And they would keep rapping, keep doing their thing, and then they would warn him again, and then the sound never changed. I think they warned him a third time. And honestly, what I remember is them jumping off the stage, breezing past us, and I remember – I never understood why First Ave set their soundboard – they had those steps that go down, and then they set their soundboard where, unfortunately, the way he kind of got jumped on, he ended up down in the crevice at the bottom of the stairs and where the soundboard started. And they were kicking him and hitting him until they got pulled off and back onto the stage. They just kind of shot past us and jumped on him. Then they jumped back onstage, and they kept rapping, and the sound man wiped the blood off his face and he just kept going. Jay Smooth VO: DJ Smitty, who couldn't get into the Sonic Youth concert last episode, did make it in the door for Ice Cube. He says the mood perked up when the headliner took the stage. DJ Smitty: People never talk about the fact [that] that was a great show. Ice Cube – I'd go see him again in a heartbeat. One of the best hip-hop shows I've ever seen. But a friend of mine did get close enough to the stage to see the set list and came back and said, "We're going. We're two songs away from the encore. Let's get out of here." And as we left, I had to hold the door open because they were stretchering someone out. [Ice Cube ft. Chuck D, "Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) - Remix"] Rod Smith: Management lost control of the club, too. Everybody lost control of the club. Steve McClellan: All I know is it was hateful because you couldn't – you got 1,500 people in the room. You could have 50 security staff. You don't stand a chance. There was so many people ready to quit after some of these shows. Jay Smooth VO: Anne O'Connor was one of them. Anne O'Connor: I put my notice in shortly after the Ice Cube show. I remember thinking, that is the violence that I don't need to be a part of. And I love the club, I loved the people I worked with, it was a lot of fun, but that wasn't fun for me. Rod Smith: A lot of people were really bummed out. I had quit smoking eight months earlier, and I started again that night. The mood overall was, "We got through it." A few people were traumatized. Anne O'Connor: We were worn out. And it was hard. And I remember everyone feeling pretty rough at that point. It was pretty rough. Jay Smooth VO: The show also got First Avenue in trouble with the city, not for the first time. Steve McClellan: I had too many incidents where the police wouldn't respond when I would book gangsta rap. I used to go to monthly downtown – what do they call them? – downtown association meetings or something. Where I'd go and I'd sit, and when you went to these meetings, and if you were a nightclub, the fire department was there to tell you exactly what you do to keep your license. The police department would be there monthly and tell you exactly what you needed to do to keep your license. They were more like – "This meeting isn't to ask questions. We're the city and you're gonna do what we tell you." Jay Smooth VO: Despite the complaints about gangsta rap, the next First Ave show that'd see similar violence was a 1995 appearance by a singer-songwriter whose politics could not have been further removed from Ice Cube's. Randy Hawkins: There's a country singer – oh my god, what's his name? Outlaw country singer. David Allan Coe. At the time, that was show two that had as many problems as Ice Cube. That David Allan Coe show, I think it wasn't as well attended. I got probably there was probably 800 people there, and so I don't think we ever really lost control of it, but it was definitely getting there. I came in the next day and everybody was just, like, shell-shocked: "You will not believe what we were dealing with last night." Jay Smooth VO: Chris Riemenschneider, author and longtime music reporter at the Star Tribune, suggests that the Ice Cube show is remembered as a turning point. Chris Riemenschneider: The biggest myth about that show – well, I don't know if it's a myth, but I mean, supposedly that show was – hip-hop was not booked at the venue for many years after that show, because it got so ugly. And they generalized over, "Well, hip-hop audiences are bad news." Jay Smooth VO: When we asked Steve McClellan and LeeAnn Weimar whether First Avenue avoided hip-hop after Ice Cube, Steve said that he still booked rappers through agents he trusted. Steve McClellan: There was a lot of drug dealers that were trying to bring me shows, because they had connections with the agent, and they wanted to bring in a lot of these hip-hop acts. LeeAnn Weimar: Or they had beepers. Remember, they had beepers. Steve McClellan: I called them the beeper phone promoters. In the '90s, I stopped dealing with beeper phone promoters that had plenty of cash but no trust from me. Jay Smooth VO: Steve returned to this point several times throughout the interview, insisting that if there was a lapse in hip-hop shows, it was only because he didn't want to work with so-called "beeper phone promoters." Whatever the case, First Avenue generally avoided hip-hop until the late '90s, according to Chris Riemenschneider. Chris Riemenschneider: It really wasn't until Rhymesayers and Atmosphere came along and started packing the place that they started giving hip-hop a good chance there again. Jay Smooth VO: Nationally, hip-hop had been ebbing into the mainstream for years. In Minnesota, indie rap label Rhymesayers capitalized on that shift. In the late '90s, they started throwing Soundset Wednesdays, a series of hip-hop dance nights at First Avenue, and their audiences trended whiter and whiter. At the same time, First Avenue opened the gates to touring acts such as OutKast, Eminem, Public Enemy, and the Black Eyed Peas. ["Hive Sound" by Icetep fades up and plays for a few seconds] Cecilia Johnson VO: Ok, so this episode was a whopper. And I think the material of this episode is still so relevant today. At this point, I want to bring up an article that rocked Minnesota music in 2016. Like, I still remember, the day that it came out, reading it at my desk. It's the Twin Cities Daily Planet's piece "Whitest hip hop scene you've ever heard of," written by Kayla Steinberg, and it speaks directly to the aftershocks of the Ice Cube show. I'm just gonna read a few somewhat abridged sentences: Quote, "When out-of-state and mainstream media and fans refer to Twin Cities hip hop, Rhymesayers Entertainment is often their point of reference. The common faces of Rhymesayers include Brother Ali, an albino Muslim rapper who identifies as white, and Atmosphere, a duo of racially ambiguous, arguably white-passing, hip hop artists. However, to Toki Wright, a Black North Minneapolis rapper, these are just a couple faces of the Twin Cities hip hop scene. "I think the face of Twin Cities hip hop is a 14-year-old kid on the Northside of Minneapolis in his bedroom, making beats or writing rhymes," he said. "The face of Twin Cities hip hop is Lexii Alijai recording with Kehlani and the local press turning a blind eye to it. That's Twin Cities hip hop." Enquote. Later in the article, Black rapper MaLLy talks about his experience at the Rhymesayers 20th anniversary show in 2015. The way he remembers it, many audience members went from supportive, when white artist Brother Ali rapped his song "Dear Black Son," to apathetic when Toki Wright and I Self Devine, both Black rappers, proclaimed messages such as "eff the police" and "kill white supremacy" on stage. Some things haven't changed between '91 and now, but First Avenue [itself] has undergone a monumental shift, in the way they operate, what causes they stand for, and whose names are at the top. It's all covered in our next episode, which is about Election Day in 2004: the day First Avenue declared bankruptcy. This episode of The Current Rewind was hosted by the one and only Jay Smooth and me, Cecilia Johnson. It was produced by me and Jesse Wiza and scripted by our head writer, Michaelangelo Matos. Marisa Morseth is our research assistant, and Jay Gabler is our editor. Our theme music is the song "Hive Sound" by Icetep. This episode was mixed by Johnny Vince Evans. And I wanna give a super special thank-you to Rick Carlson, Shelby Sachs, David Safar, Pete Scholtes, and Chris Wilbourn for additional support. If you want to check out a transcript of this episode or any other one, you can go to TheCurrent.org/rewind. And if you feel so moved, you can go ahead and rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or tell a friend that it's out there. If you want to share any thoughts, feedback, or First Avenue stories, our inbox is open. You can just send an email to rewind@thecurrent.org. The Current Rewind is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. It is a production of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current. The Current Rewind goes to First Avenue

A gut-wrenchingly cringey show this week. Our boys must endure a truly ridiculous song featuring lazy metaphors, spoken word sections and the most Nice Guy shit you've ever heard!Like Bastard Like Son LyricsVERSETwo figures sit aloneAt a table playing chessIn the space far outside the worldOne of the menHas a burn across his chestAnd thus our tale unfurlsThe man in whiteShook his head‘Worst game I’ve ever seen’As the man in blackIn one fell swoopTook the white man’s queen‘I’ll get her back’Said the white manAs he banged his fist on the table‘Of course you can’said the black man‘That is, if you’re ableFor two times now I’ve taken your queen’He leant back in his chair‘Why don’t you just forget her?’At this the white man stood up andKnocked the chess board off it’s standHe gazed in awe at his right handWhere a burn mark was growingThe man in black begun to laugh‘My virus has begun to graftTo the external tools of your craftYour weakness my son is showing’‘What have you done to me?’Through gritted teethThe white man cried in pain‘I’ve done to you what’s done to meMy son, you cry in vain’The white man fell to the floorHand to his throbbing breastYou cannot begin to comprehendThe pain now in his chest‘You see, I’ve got this virus’The man in black began‘And before it inevitably kills me,I thought I’d go out with a bang.It’s a mix of bitterness,Jealousy, selfishness and hate.Of cynicism, maliceAnd that vengeful twist of fate.Know that your heart and my diseaseHave easily become oneI’m glad that I’m the one to say…You’re going to hell my sonNo matter how you fearYou’re going to hell my sonYour time is nearly here’’Stop that now!’‘You are condemned’‘I’m not like you!’‘To hell my friendYou’re going to hell my son’‘Enough! I am my own man!And I am not your son!’‘Haha Oh really?Erin, Diana, Emma, JoanaYour opinions, your minionsYour cold hearted deeds!YOU’RE FURTHER ALONG THAN ME!Further along than me!You’re going to hell my sonYou’re going to hell my sonOh you can try, but when you dieYou’re going to hell my son’The man in whiteClosed his eyesHe felt his world slipping awayHe only held on long enoughTo hear the black man say‘You’re going to hell my sonNo matter how you wishYou’re going to hell my sonSoon you will be finished’And then the world was blackUntil the voices of everyone the white man loved reached himHe body was bathed in a white hot light that pierced the darknessAnd slowly he was pulled back from the brink of oblivionWhen the man in white came to, the man in black was goneEither chased away or destroyed by the lightHe walked over to the chessboardAnd saw that the man in back had taken all of his pieces, leaving only white‘Hmm’As the white man turned to leave,he heard the sound of a thick liquid being disturbedHe lifted his shoe to his faceHis sole wa-BLACK!!!Be sure to Follow My Songs Suck on FacebookCheck out Your Man Alex Smith! on Facebook, Bandcamp, Spotify & iTunesCheck out James's other podcast Unfeatured Articles! on Facebook & iTunesAnd check out the other great podcasts from That's Not Canon Productionswww.thatsnotcanonproductions.com

Joe Foley | Active FatherhoodProud father, and podcast host of "No Sitting On The Sidelines Dad Podcast," Joe Foley reveals himself.Joe talked about the beauty of living in New England, and his love affair with the New England Patriots. Also, he talked about how fandom was different before 2001 as compared to after. Joe also reveals:-- The thrill of the latest Super Bowl-- His first time going to a baseball game at Fenway Park-- Walking through the audio journal-turned-podcast journey-- The pain of divorce along with being a father to his sonYou can follow Joe on the following social media platforms:Website Home - No Sitting On The Sideline Dad PodastFacebook Group - No Sitting On The Sideline Dad PodcastTwitter Page - @nsosdadpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brought to you by -Conscious Spirit-Coaching- A ONE-on-ONE Service of SHAMANIC direction, guidance, personal support & inspiration to eventually induce undeniable first-hand spiritual & multidimensional experiences on a consciously aware level. Learn More @ www.OpenandClear.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - lesson 311 �¢�?�?I judge all things as I would have them be.�¢�?�? Judgement was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. He will relieve you of the agony of all the judgements you have made against yourself, and re-establish peace of mind by giving you God�¢�?�?s Judgement of His Son. �¢�?�?Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgement of the SonYou love.We do not know him, and we cannot judge.And so we letYour Love decide what he whomYou created asYour Son must be.�¢�?�? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please Like Us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/openclear/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Deep thoughts on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.OpenandClear.com

Brought to you by -Conscious Spirit-Coaching- A ONE-on-ONE Service of SHAMANIC direction, guidance, personal support & inspiration to eventually induce undeniable first-hand spiritual & multidimensional experiences on a consciously aware level. Learn More @ www.OpenandClear.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The HD version of this program and many others, are available by generous donors, like yourself @: www.OpenandClear.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - lesson 280 â??What limits can I lay upon Godâ??s Son?â?? Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left Its Fatherâ??s Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love? â??Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. Father, I lay no limits on the SonYou love, andYou created limitless.The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well.â?? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READ All LESSONS HERE: https://acim.org/Lessons/toc.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please Like Us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/openclear/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Deep thoughts on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.OpenandClear.com