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Dr. R. Carlton Wynne speaks at the Reformed Forum Annual Theology Conference, held at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois on September 27, 2025. Dr. Wynne explores how the vast portion of the Old Testament covering the monarchy and prophetic periods (approximately 417 chapters) points to Jesus Christ. Dr. Wynne first establishes the central, Christ-centered scope of all Scripture, affirming that everything in the Old Testament looks forward to and finds its fulfillment in Christ's person and work, including his death and resurrection. The address then moves beyond viewing Christ merely as being prefigured in the Old Testament through "scale models" or "macro typology." Instead, it seeks a deeper sense in which the pre-incarnate Christ's power and heavenly kingdom principles were actively revealed through the history of Israel's kings and prophets, positioning these figures and institutions as intrusions of heavenly glory mediated by Christ himself. Chapter Markers 00:00 - Introduction: Reformed Forum Conference and Speaker/Topic Introduction 00:23 - Welcome and Scope of the Address (Monarchy and Prophets) 03:19 - Speaker's Three Goals for the Address 03:56 - The Gospel is First and Foremost About Jesus Christ 04:36 - Question 1: What exactly do we mean by Christ being in the Old Testament? * 05:44 - Christ's "Crash Course in Old Testament Hermeneutics" (Luke 24) 08:16 - Moving Beyond Mere Prediction: Was Christ's Power and Glory Revealed Before His Incarnation? 08:41 - The View of Macro Typology (Graeme Goldsworthy) 14:36 - Goal 2: Interpreting the Old Testament with Reformed Voices (Vos, Murray, Owen) 21:40 - Goal 3 (Main Topic): The Monarchy and Prophets as Intrusions of the Heavenly Kingdom 23:25 - The Davidic Covenant and the Kingdom's Typological Rest 25:27 - Israel's Demand for a King: Mistaking the Shadow for the Substance 28:25 - God's Design for the Davidic King (Insights from Proverbs) 30:17 - The Great Example: King David and the Heavenly King 35:23 - Jesus Christ as the Exalted King of all Flesh 36:48 - The Prophets' Role: Calling the Monarchy to its Christ-Centered Design 38:52 - The Suffering of the Prophets as a Type of Christ 41:26 - Conclusion: Christ is the Source, Foundation, and Substance of Every Blessing 42:28 - Christ, Our High Priest and King of Kings 43:54 - Final Exhortation and Benediction 44:30 - Closing Remarks

Pastor Jeremy continues his trek through Matthew—this week, Mary’s husband Joseph is surprisingly similar to Joseph in Genesis. Then there’s John the Baptist and a big question—why did he need to baptize Jesus? Enjoy.

Have you ever felt pressured to compromise your faith to fit in? In this episode, Christine Caine unpacks the powerful story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from Daniel 3—a story of courage, conviction, and the unmistakable presence of God in life's fiery trials. Christine challenges listeners to recognize the modern idols we're tempted to bow to and to live with the kind of unshakable faith that says, “Even if God doesn't…” This message will inspire you to stand firm, stay faithful, and trust that God is with you in the fire. ✨ You'll discover:● How to recognize the “modern idols” that compete for your worship.● Why courage and conviction are essential in a culture of compromise.● How to trust God's presence when the heat is on. Get your free Episode Reflection Guide → http://bit.ly/4gx1ZYk + + + + SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/ChristineCaineSubscribeORDER Christine's newest book, Don't Look Back → https://linktr.ee/christinecaine ORDER Christine's new devotional, "You're Not Finished Yet" → https://linktr.ee/christinecaine For more great stuff, check out:LISTEN to Christine Caine's Life and Leadership Podcast→ https://linktr.ee/christinecaineDONATE to Equip & Empower Ministries: https://linktr.ee/christinecaine Follow Christine on social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChristineCaine/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theChristineCaine/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCaine Christine Caine is a speaker, activist, and bestselling author who awakens people everywhere to discover their God-given purpose and live transformed lives for Jesus. Alongside her husband, Nick, she founded A21, a global anti-human trafficking organization that prevents exploitation, recovers victims, and empowers survivors. She also launched Propel Women, an initiative equipping women worldwide to follow Jesus wholeheartedly and live confidently in their calling. Through Equip & Empower, Christine activates people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. Christine is the author of more than a dozen books and Bible studies, and she holds a Master's Degree in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. For over 30 years, she and Nick have faithfully served the global Church. You can tune into her weekly Equip & Empower and Life & Leadership podcasts for practical insights and encouragement, always pointing to the hope found in Jesus. Christine and Nick live with their daughters, Catherine and Sophia. To learn more about Christine and her resources, visit http://www.christinecaine.com.

Episode 203: Sam Demma — Inspiring Youth, Redefining Success, and Being Someone's Taco In this episode of Passion Pod, we sit down with Sam Demma, a world-traveling Canadian youth keynote speaker who has delivered hundreds of speeches to inspire and empower young people across the globe. Sam is the author of the self-help book Empty Your Backpack, a must-read for young adults looking to unlock their potential, and he's just released his first children's book, Be Someone's Taco. Join us as Sam shares his most memorable moments on stage, the life lessons he's learned from speaking to diverse audiences, and how his perspective on life and success has evolved over the last few years. We dive into why success looks different for everyone, the importance of self-discovery, and the power of making a positive impact—no matter your age. Tune in for heartfelt stories, practical advice, and a fresh take on what it means to live a life full of purpose and passion.

Fearless Agent Coach & Founder Bob Loeffler shares his insights on How to create Raving Fans with Customer Service Secrets and how it's making his Fearless Agent Coaching Students rich! Fearless Agent Coaching is the Highest Results Producing Real Estate Sales Training and Coaching Program in the Industry and we can prove it will work for you if it's a good fit! Call us today at 480-385-8810 to see if it may be  good fit for you! Telephone Prospecting for Realtors means Cold Calling, Door knocking, Calling for Sale By Owners, Calling Expired Listings, Calling your Sphere of Influence, Farming, Holding Open Houses, but Fearless Agent Coaching Students di all of these completely differently and get massively better results! Find out how! Listen in each week as Bob gives an overview and explains the big ideas behind making big money as a Fearless Agent! If you are earning less selling real estate than you wish you were, and you're open to the idea of having some help, We are here for you! You will never again be in a money making situation with a Buyer, Seller or Investor and not have the right words! You will be very confident! You will be a Fearless Agent! Call Bob anytime for more information about Fearless Agent Coaching for Agents, Fearless Agent Recruiting Training for Broker/Owners, or hiring Bob as a Speaker for your next Event! Call today 480-385-8810 - or go to https://fearlessagent.com Telephone Prospecting for Realtors means Cold Calling, Door knocking, Calling for Sale By Owners, Calling Expired Listings, Calling your Sphere of Influence, Farming, Holding Open Houses, Spin Selling, but Fearless Agent Coaching Students do all of these completely differently and get massively better results! Find out how! Are You an Owner of a Real Estate Company - need help Recruiting Producing Agents - Call today! 480-385-8810 and go to FearlessAgentRecruiting.com and watch our Recruiting Video Real Estate Coaching training Real estate training real estate coaching real estate speaker real estate coach real estate sales sales training realtor realtor training realtor coach realtor coaching realtor sales coaching realtor recruiting real estate agent real estate broker realtor prospecting real estate prospecting prospecting for listings calling expired listings calling for sale by owners realtor success Best Realtor Coach Best Real Estate Coach Spin SellingSupport the show: https://fearlessagent.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do event hosts actually look for when they book speakers? I sat down with 10 powerhouse event hosts who not only curate stages, but often speak on them too, and asked exactly that. In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain to bring you their top 10 tips. These aren't just theories; they're what […] The post 226: 10 Insider Tips from Event Hosts on What Makes a Speaker Stand Out appeared first on Laylee Emadi | Coach for Creative Educators.

A new MP3 sermon from Albert Mohler | The Briefing is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Monday, November 3, 2025 Subtitle: Cultural Commentaries Speaker: Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Broadcaster: Albert Mohler | The Briefing Event: Current Events Date: 11/3/2025 Length: 26 min.

Neurodivergent Marketing is a real-talk conversation with Myriam Martinez for neurodivergent entrepreneurs who want marketing that fits their nervous system. We unpack why masking turns marketing into performance and how overload and pace create the real friction. We name the trust breakers (pain-poking, fake "live" webinars, countdown panic) and offer humane swaps: "signpost" instead of lead magnet, "people who clicked" instead of conversions, and publishing prices, totals, and time needs before any call. Expect consent-led sales calls, boundaries as care, and Neurodivergent strengths—detail, patterning, honesty, creativity—as positioning superpowers so people can choose with bodily safety, time, and agency. The outcome: a sustainable, sovereign, and humane way to market. In this episode we discussed: How many of us discover neurodivergence through our families and feel relief naming it. Why masking in life makes "performing" in marketing extra exhausting. That overload and pace are the core friction—not a mindset issue. How old marketing norms (pain-poking, fake "live" webinars, countdown panic) violate trust. Reframing jargon into human words: "lead magnet" → "signpost," "conversions" → "people who clicked." Why transparency matters: publish prices, totals, and time needs before any call. How ND strengths—detail, patterning, honesty, creativity—become positioning superpowers. That buyers need bodily safety, time, and agency to choose. Why consent-led sales calls beat scripts and simulation. Boundaries as care: limited meetings, clear hours, recovery time after stimulation. Embracing your wiring (not fixing it) reduces anxiety and increases sustainability. A hopeful future: a rising generation that won't tolerate manipulation and leads with sovereignty. Watch this episode on YouTube -- Speaker 0: miriam, it's good to have you back. welcome to the humane marketing podcast. Speaker 1: sarah, i'm so happy to be back on your podcast. Speaker 0: back in my house. right? we just yes. it's just like having a conversation in my house. yes. Speaker 1: yes. exactly. Speaker 0: yeah. so you've been on the show before, but this time we decided to talk about neurodivergent marketing, which is something that i'm super excited about and especially to talk about it with you, um, because you went through this own little transformation and awakening or how would you call it? yeah. Speaker 1: i mean, it's an awakening or rediscovery, you know, in a way of who i am, who i really am at my core, and how that impacts everything that i do. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. because we, uh, worked together a few years back. and back then, it was very much focused on women and well-being, the work that you were doing. and so tell us a little bit how that has changed over the most recent months, year. Speaker 1: yeah. so like most adults, it started with my kids' diagnoses of adhd and becoming more curious about it. you know, i'm a therapist, so i i'm i always understood the diagnosis. you know, i understood it in that way, maybe, like, in a more removed way. but once it was in my home, you know, and i was really living with it, i obviously became much more curious about it. you know? and then it turns out that, you know, my husband is adhd, and it's like, oh, look at them. they're like two peas in a pod. you know? um, and so i started doing more training around this because i wanted to be more supportive for people around this. and quickly, i started to see some traits, you know, show up for me. and for me, it's a really interesting cross between autism and adhd, which there's a term that's floating around out there called adhd. and that's not a diagnosis. right? but it just reflects that there's this cross between these two worlds sometimes. and, you know, we're learning all the time about neurodivergence, you know, and how it shows up and it's so different for everybody. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. thanks for sharing your story. and it kinda went very similarly for me. like for the longest time, we, you know, didn't know, uh, what my son was experiencing. and for i first thought, well, introvert like, back in the days, we just talked about introverts, extroverts. yep. and then all of a sudden this term hsp came up and i discovered, oh, i'm a highly sensitive person. and so i thought, oh, that's probably what he is as well. and and and then, you know, as it kept as we kept discovering more and, you know, thank god we have so much information out there now and youtube videos and all of that. it's it's so helpful. i don't know. well, i guess that's a big reason why back in the days it wasn't discovered. right? i'm pretty sure my dad is autistic, but how would he have known if if there wasn't that much content out there and diagnosis? and and so, yeah, learning it about my son that he's on the spectrum and then pretty sure my husband is too. and and so just, yeah, finding out more and more and and then working with clients who have adhd or, um, you know, our hsps, neurodivergency. and so i think i couldn't think of a better person than you to have this conversation around marketing because that's really what we worked on together as well. and, like, just i remember your expression of frustration around this thing that we call marketing and and how it just, like, your brain was, like, going against it and you're like, no. Speaker 1: in all the ways. yeah. i could not process it. Speaker 0: yeah. exactly. so if we if you maybe think back to that time, but then also just to generalize, what do you think like, why is marketing the old way of marketing? right? why is that so counterintuitive for, uh, people on the neurodivergent spectrum? why do they react like you did? whereas, like, i just don't get it. why would we do this like that? Speaker 1: right. right. no. exactly. um, it's it's multilayered. right? because when we're talking about neurodivergence, we're talking about a variety of different disorders and diagnoses. right? so that could include autism, adhd, dyslexia, dyscalculia, which is, you know, having a hard time with numbers or number concepts, dyspraxia, which is having a lot of uncoordination in your body, right, tourette's. i mean, there's such a list that falls under neurodivergence. so when we talk about these generals, i wanna make sure that i put that disclaimer out there that it's not necessarily applicable to everybody under that umbrella. but that in general, really what it comes down to is sensory overload. like, it's just too much. it's too and and then pace. it's too fast. it's too fast moving. we can't process. i mean, which which is how i started this conversation. right? i was like, i can't process this. it was too much. it was too much. you know? and what's hard when you are experiencing neurodivergence, but you don't know that that's what's happening is that you're comparing yourself to the neurotypical world, which is looking at you like, what's the big deal? yeah. i don't understand what your problem is. Speaker 0: mhmm. Speaker 1: right? and so i really struggled with my self esteem around my business, for myself. like, can i even do this? because i can't do these things. i'm having a hard time. it's you know? and then you have people telling you it's a mindset issue. you know? and it's like, no. i literally can't understand this concept. right? so it's so much of it is that sensory piece, like i said, and just it's too fast and short deadlines and pressure. and it's just not something that works with the neurodivergent nervous system. we're much more sensitive than that. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. and what i experience also from, you know, when i hear back from clients is is this authenticity piece. so as we know, uh, there's a lot of masking that needs to happen for or not needs to, but is happening for neurodivergent peoples in order to fit in. right? Speaker 1: it's part of survival. Speaker 0: and yeah. exactly. and so and so it almost seems like, well, they have to wear this mask all the time to survive, to fit in. and so they are kind of, like, revolting against having to wear this mask as well in the marketing field and in the business field. it's just, like, so exhausting to to do that. Speaker 1: it's so exhausting. yeah. absolutely. and and i do think that it it's it's 10 times more exhausting when you don't know what's going on. you know? so a lot of the work that i do with adults, right, is help them see that they are probably under this umbrella. right? and we start looking at some of their behaviors, right, and their patterns. and then quickly together, we can identify, oh, yeah. it looks like maybe you're adhd or it looks like maybe you fall under autism or, you know, whatever it is. or maybe there's more than one thing going on, you know, adhd with dyslexia. right? dyscalculia is something that's, you know, relatively new in terms of, um, of a term that's used out there. right? and for me personally, i mean, i think i i'm a i i might have cried when i heard that term. you know? it was like, oh, right. so it's not that i'm dumb. it's not that i'm not a, quote, unquote, math person. like, my brain literally has a hard time processing numbers and number concepts just like a dyslexic can't see letters in the right form. it's the same. Speaker 0: yeah. and here we are, you know, in marketing, keep telling people to not the numbers so much, but the the content i'm thinking of, like, keep creating all this content. well, you know, uh, if you have dyslexia, writing and reading is definitely not part of the things that you enjoy doing. and so, again, if you compare yourself to the neurotypical people, you're you start to think, well, what's wrong with me? how can i how can how come i can't do this? Speaker 1: that's right. and then that really interferes. right? you can see how then that really starts to interfere. yeah. 100%. and for me, in marketing, there's always a lot of talk about budget. Speaker 0: mhmm. Speaker 1: yeah. and then just the word sends my nervous system into a state, you know. and if you start talking to me about budgets or asking me or start talk throwing any kind of numbers at me in any way, my brain will just completely shut down. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. yeah. Speaker 1: it just won't it just won't let it in, and you'll probably see a really blank look come across my face. Speaker 0: yeah. but just or or even, like, conversion rates. right? how does that make you feel? Speaker 1: so scary. so scary. Speaker 0: yeah. it's all these metrics, like the the linear linear and kind of like Speaker 1: yeah. that's really, really Speaker 0: masculine way of of doing marketing was all based on on numbers and conversions and Speaker 1: right. Speaker 0: yeah. roi is another one of those terms. you're like, uh. Speaker 1: yeah. Speaker 0: yeah. totally. and if Speaker 1: i hadn't discovered this, i i might have given up. i might have just said, i guess this isn't for me. Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: or or i guess i'm just i can't do it or i'm not good at it. Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: right? Speaker 0: so so let's turn it around then. like yes. what kind of, you know, strengths do neurodivergent people have and can bring to this idea of business building and and marketing and and connecting and communicating, really, because that's what we're talking about. Speaker 1: yeah. i know. i love this part. this part gets me really excited, you know. but i think that, you know, again, a little mini disclaimer is that sometimes the strengths are, like, they're double edged swords. sometimes they also create stress. you know? so for example, one thing that, um, neurodivergence bring is a lot of, um, focus on detail. Speaker 0: mhmm. yeah. Speaker 1: right? and pattern recognition. Speaker 0: mhmm. Speaker 1: and being able to take that information and then create a concept. you know? um, and that's amazing. that's an amazing skill, you know, when it's applied well. and and then we might focus too much on a detail. right? or go Speaker 0: down a little bit. to procrastination as well because it needs to be perfect into every detail. Speaker 1: yeah. and, you know, i wanna i wanna separate those two things because perfectionism is more under the category of anxiety. mhmm. right? and so when we're dealing with, um, neurodivergence, we we are also experiencing things like anxiety. so it becomes much more challenging, right, when we're dealing with these multiple layers at the same time. you know? but i do think that if we can keep looking at the at what the strengths are in this, you know, like, really deep focus. right? directness and honesty. you know? we don't really like small talk or anything that's not deep, essentially. right? and we'd have a hard time not being honest. Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: you know? it really becomes a moral dilemma. and so that's those are things that i think are really beautiful about, um, people under the narrow neurodivergent umbrella. right? there's also the creativity Speaker 0: mhmm. Speaker 1: and out of the box thinking. Speaker 0: yeah. very much so. mhmm. and i think that's what you really played into it. right? it's like because you have that creative part of yourself and you've figured out how do i bring that to my marketing. i remember back in the days when you used to follow, you know, the these, um, kind of templates of creating canva visuals. yeah. it just all looks the same. let's be honest. right? Speaker 1: yeah. yeah. Speaker 0: and then all of a sudden you started to bring in your art and, you know, more of your pictures and you could tell, wow, she's really having fun with this. and that's the that's the creative side. um, yeah. so much Speaker 1: so for me, i have to change some of the terms. right? and and it kinda maybe speaks to, like, how we market to neurodivergent folk. you know? because if you use the word conversion rate, then my heart rate goes up, and i'm gonna have a shutdown. right? but if you say, how many people, right, or this many people clicked on your site, and then this is what happened after that, then i got it. i can totally follow that pattern. right? so it's again, sometimes the wording, sometimes, uh, too much of a relationship to mathematical concepts or overwhelm, overload. right? that kind of a thing. Speaker 0: basically, concepts that society accepted as being marketing concepts and ideas. Speaker 1: mhmm. Speaker 0: and that you are like, who said that was a concept? like, explain it to me what that means in in, like, full sentences. Speaker 1: yeah. which is very much a lot in the autism range. yeah. you know, like, we really want to know the detail. how did we get there? i really wanna understand the the process. right. right. and then i can really integrate the information. Speaker 0: right. yeah. i get it. yeah. yeah. what i noticed myself doing a lot, um, on the blog is taking some of these old paradigm terms, uh, from marketing, like lead magnet. right? most people have heard of lead magnets. but what does that even mean? like, it's such a weird kind of term where we're sucking people in with a magnet. and so turning that into signposts where we are guiding people to to make a a buying decision, for example, or to come into our world. but i find that i need to use the old word and then juxtaposition it to the new words so that, you know, i can help make that that journey over the bridge, like, to to help people understand, yeah, this is maybe what you've heard, but it doesn't feel good. and so here's an alternative. here's a different word for it. Speaker 1: mhmm. mhmm. Speaker 0: so, uh, i i hear from you that that's helpful. right? like, coming up with new language around marketing that what and then prompts our nervous system as well. Speaker 1: that's right. and so much of the self care is, like, being able to notice that something does create agitation for you. right? and rather than question it or put yourself down for it, it's like, okay. it's just that my nervous system is not liking this for some reason. let's see what what i can do about that. right? Speaker 0: right. Speaker 1: yeah. Speaker 0: yeah. like, what other things that you have experienced in in business? like, let's think about sales, for example, uh, where you feel like there's been a certain norm. again, these norms. right? that, uh, neurodivergent people are like, i don't get these norms. like but there are some kind of norms. like, let's take a a sales call, uh, that feels very scripted, uh, where you are on the call and you you can cut you've like, what my son always says, he's like, feels like we're in a simulation. not necessarily in a sales call, but i'm sure he would say that if the person just kinda goes blah blah blah through the sales script. and you're like, is he even talking to me? like, is this is this for real? like yeah. Speaker 1: do you Speaker 0: have any other kind of business concept things that you feel like, yeah, that's just not for neurodivergent people. Speaker 1: oh, yeah. i mean, let's start with the scarcity countdowns. Speaker 0: uh, yeah. yeah. Speaker 1: right? what my body does with that is it shuts down. Speaker 0: creates so much anxiety. right? Speaker 1: yeah. absolutely. you know? and for some people, it it it will work, so to speak, you know, quote, unquote. it will create such stress in someone that they'll that they'll buy the the coaching package or, you know, whatever it is. but that's kinda icky. right? and it's the opposite of humane marketing. so that those kinds of things, you know, are not for the neurodivergent. i don't think they're for anybody, but that's my personal opinion. you know? yeah. Speaker 0: my opinion too. Speaker 1: that's why we're here. yeah. right? Speaker 0: another example that comes to mind i don't know if that is still happening, uh, out there. but back in the days, they would have these webinars, huge webinars with tons of people only in the chat. and then they would pretend it's live where it's actually not live. and i would, like, wanted to scream and say, Speaker 1: can't you Speaker 0: guys see that it's not live? like, we know. we're not stupid. we're we know this is not live. yeah. and and yeah. like, i i really just think the bs, uh, meter for neurodivergent people is is, you know, on a different level. Speaker 1: tolerance for it. Speaker 0: zero tolerance for Speaker 1: for and we can smell it from a mile away. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. you know? and there's that transparency and truth telling. right? Speaker 1: yeah. 100%. Speaker 0: 100%. Speaker 1: and so i think that for, uh, neurodivergent folks, like, when they're in business and they're trying to, you know, work on their marketing and their sales, everything about their business just needs to feel safe, you know, in their body. and if it feels a little icky or if it's there's something there, it's like it's really an an invitation to pause and check out what that might be about because you might be going down the path that is not gonna work for you. Speaker 0: yeah. mhmm. like, right now, we were talking about from the marketing perspective, and then there's also from the buying perspective. and that's what you were addressing. it's like, how do i want to buy? how that how does it how should it feel in my body, uh, to to want to buy something and make a, you know, a a buying decision? i think what we're addressing is obviously the healed neurodivergent person. and what i'm seeing out there is is kind of this manipulation of the not of the non healed neurodivergent people where there's even more stress applied. and you you kind of mentioned that as well. right? and so they're buying out of anxiety. Speaker 1: that's right. Speaker 0: um, but then if you are the healed neurodivergent person, how how is that an integrity with what you're actually selling? right? yeah. Speaker 1: uh, to be honest, i don't even know what that means because neurodivergence is not something you heal or fix. Speaker 0: true. um, i guess it's just knowing having looked at it. like, would you say that someone who knows so whether it's an official diagnosis or just, you know, having looked at it more deeply, are they more able to deal with this anxiety because they Speaker 1: i mean, it's very it's often very relieving for people. i mean, especially for the adults i work with. right? because most of us have grown up thinking that we're we're not smart or not good enough or, you know, we're dumb at math or, you know, whatever it is. like, all these stories because you were not operating in the same way as other people. so oftentimes, when i work with clients and we move into this looks like a possible diagnosis for you, there's a lot of relief. there's a lot of like, oh, is that why that was so hard? or is that why i couldn't read? or is that why math is hard? or is that why socializing exhausts me? or, you know, whatever it is, it's like it becomes like this unraveling. right? and there's a lot of, you know, there's emotion to that. there's grief and, you know, that kind of a thing. but, you know, once you really embrace, like, this is who i am and you learn to work with your particular flavor, right, of neurodivergence, i i think that you can be very successful at just about anything. i don't, you know, i don't see why i should stand in your way. Speaker 0: and i guess that's what i meant by healed. you know? you just, like, learn who you truly are. and i think that's when you start to say no even more to the things that are not aligned with you. where before, like, what i'm seeing with my son, it's like, well, the pressure from the neuro normal side of the world is so hard that, you know, there's there's more push to know to just have to do what everybody else is doing, and then the anxiety, of course, goes up. and so if if i take this to the marketing thing, it's like, if you have not yet figured out truly who you are and and, you know, really stand with with that, then there's a big risk that you are feeling this anxiety every time you're being sold to or have to market. mhmm. so i guess that's where that pivot is. it's like, no. i'm not taking it anymore. i'm doing marketing my way, or i'm not buying from people who are trying to manipulate me and, you know, push me into scarcity and stuff thing things like that. Speaker 1: absolutely. manipulate me in any way. you know? i mean, one of the things that in general is kinda scary about the coaching world specifically is that it's it's so much based on pain point marketing, you know, and tapping into people's anxiety or stress or whatever it is that's going on and offering some kind of quick fix. Speaker 0: you know? Speaker 1: and it's like it's so unethical when it's so wrong because that's not the way human beings work. Speaker 0: no. yeah. totally. Speaker 1: no? yeah. Speaker 0: yeah. talking about this this coaching world, um, and and these pain points, that's another one of these words that need a a reframe. right? Speaker 1: absolutely. Speaker 0: because, yeah, that's what the old marketing is based on. it's like, let's make the pain points so bad. uh, you know, let's make you feel so shitty that you have to buy my solution. yeah. Speaker 1: it's like it's like it's like pouncing on a little innocent animal or something. you know, that's how how it feels for me. yeah. you know? yeah. no. absolutely not. terrible. Speaker 0: another thing is the the pricing, uh, discussion. yeah. and i think there is also this really need for transparency. can you speak to that? Speaker 1: 100%. that is absolutely necessary. you know, it's kinda what i was saying before even for myself. it's like, i want to know all of the data. Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: and i want to know that, like, for myself on my own terms so that i can process it on my own. right? so if somebody doesn't have any pricing on their website, i will likely not work with them. Speaker 0: mhmm. yeah. Speaker 1: because i need that information upfront. otherwise, i will feel a little anxiety maybe, you know, about the possibility that if i get on a call with you, you might do some of these unethical things or things that just don't work for me and my body. right? like, now you're gonna talk about pricing, and now i have to do it right now, and i'm gonna get all anxious and Speaker 0: no. yeah. Speaker 1: i'm i'm very clear about that part. so, yes, for i think for neurodivergent folks, we want we want all of the information, as much information as you can give us, and then we can make our decision. Speaker 0: yeah. and give me time to make this. Speaker 1: need time. that's right. i don't need pressure. none of that will work. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. yeah. Speaker 1: none of that will work. Speaker 0: yeah. in in a way, to me, neurodivergent people are, like, super smart, very conscious human beings. and the old way of marketing is taking people for stupid, really. it's like, oh, i can, you know, trick and sleaze you and you will never notice what i'm doing. and neurodivergent people are like, no, i'm not having this at all. Speaker 1: yeah. yeah. yeah. that book is awesome. it's a superpower. Speaker 0: yeah, it really is. and in a way, you know, there's to me, there's no surprise that we're seeing more and more neurodivergency because we're really heading into this time of of of sovereignty of each individual being very, very individual, very authentic and very sovereign and and like showing up with that sovereignty and and, yeah, being able to make our own decisions, not just for buying stuff, but for for everything. and i think that's a very yeah. it's a beautiful vision of the world to to think of humans like that. Speaker 1: mhmm. no. i agree. meeting each other on that place. right? Speaker 0: yeah, exactly. and having sales conversations in that kind of, um, yeah, with with that basis is a completely different thing than, like i, uh, mentioned before where, you know, i just read a script and don't even care, you know, if we've talked before or whatever. so right. it's just Speaker 1: or i look at you like dollar signs. Speaker 0: oh, yeah. yeah. that's another one. right? Speaker 1: and it's like, i i can't i can't do that. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. Speaker 1: i just, like, i physically can't do that. i have to look at you as a person, you know, and and just show you what i have and then give you that agency, you know, to decide whether this is the right fit for you. Speaker 0: yeah. mhmm. yeah. sovereignty, agency, beautiful words. Speaker 1: mhmm. yes. yeah. so no pressure, you know, from me. Speaker 0: yeah. what about, you know, other boundaries that you have learned to set for yourself as an entrepreneur, as a marketer, maybe, but but just, yeah, finding that inner peace and being being able to keep showing up without anxiety? Speaker 1: yeah. well, i mean, i think that it could kinda goes back to what i was saying before. right? that to me, the word that comes up is embrace. right? it's not fixed. it's embrace. embrace that this is how your nervous system is wired. right? this is how you were born, and this is how you operate in the world. right? because when we resist, right, it creates tension and stress and anxiety. and i know that's not easy and it takes time, but i think that that's, you know, step one is accept that this is who you are. right? except that, you know, for me, it's like, oh, i don't really want a lot of loud noises or i have to be careful about how much time i spend in group environments or, you know, how much time am i spending in front of my computer or how much time am i spending outside. it's like all of these things around my sensory stuff, my particular version of it and what that looks like for me. but i think that having a lot of boundaries is really important because we need so much more time to recover yeah. of things. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. Speaker 1: mhmm. and giving yourself permission to do that. this this is literally a physical thing that is happening to you. and if you push your body past that, that typically doesn't go well. creates more stress. you know? Speaker 0: exactly. it's creating that spaciousness, uh, for you to be human because you are, yeah, a unique human being who has unique needs. yeah. and that's the whole Speaker 1: and you yeah. and you are the only one that can decide, like, what your level of care needs to be. yeah. you're the only one convinced by that. you know? what are your office hours? when do you respond? you know? what are your boundaries with people in your business? what are your boundaries with yourself? Speaker 0: yeah. it actually starts with yourself because otherwise, you're not walking your dog. Speaker 1: right? exactly. exactly. but i think that's the best way that we can, you know, take care of ourselves. and and sometimes we have to, you know, kinda like what your son was saying, it's really hard because sometimes we have to explain these things to people. you know? like, because somebody might look at me and go, but what's the big deal about another evening meeting this week? Speaker 0: yeah. i get that all the time. Speaker 1: yeah. and it's like, well, basically, my head feels like it's gonna explode. Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: so that's a no for me. Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: right? in my body, i do not feel the capacity, the energy at all to do it. yeah. and i will pay a consequence for that. i might, like, be out for a couple days just laying laying around, staring at a wall or something. mhmm. mhmm. just to recover. like, less of, uh, decreasing my stimulation just to be able to recover from overdoing, overstimulating myself. yeah. Speaker 0: let's wrap up with something like positive, a positive outlook on how yeah. the world would look differently if we had all this humane marketing led by neurodivergent people. Speaker 1: that sounds great. businesses according Speaker 0: to the new rules by neurodivergent people. that would not feel look like. Speaker 1: uh, that just makes my heart sore, you know, just to imagine that, you know, because if sensitive people around the world right? and if if our skill set of thinking things through slowing down, you know, really taking the time to make a decision, you know, an informed decision that's rooted in, like, how it feels for you, like, my goodness. the the the possibilities are endless of how the world could change. Speaker 0: it's so different. right? Speaker 1: and i do think that, you know, what gives me hope, you know, in the present is that this next generation of kids and young people have all of this information at their disposal. so my hope, right, is that this generation can grow up not feeling like they're dumb or like there's something wrong with them, that they'll just own that as part of who they are from the very beginning. right? which is the opposite of what i see with so many adults. Speaker 0: you know? Speaker 1: so many of the adults i work with, and we're talking ceos. we're talking big people that are like, oh my goodness. is this what's been going on all this time? you know? but they grew up feeling less than or feeling like they had to mask or feeling like they had to work 10 times harder than everybody else, you know, push themselves. you know? that's just thing. and and they're really feeling the consequence of that Speaker 0: yeah. Speaker 1: in their bodies, in their lives. Speaker 0: mhmm. Speaker 1: so that's one thing that gives me hope, you know, is that this new generation, it's like, wow. you guys have all of that in your little hands. that's amazing. Speaker 0: yeah. and, also, like, they're just not having it. they're like they look at us, see what we created, and they're like, i'm not having that, that, that. Speaker 1: so why would i do that? Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. like you said, that that gives us lots of hope. yeah. Speaker 1: because there's much more permission. Speaker 0: yeah. yeah. well, i think we need to continue this conversation in episode two around just kinda like today, we talked a lot about marketing. maybe we can just talk about entrepreneurship for neurodivergent people because there's a lot of, um, people out there who are, you know, really bringing these new concepts, new ideas. and i think it'd be interesting to continue the conversation. Speaker 1: i think it's actually a really important conversation to have. Speaker 0: yeah. well, for now, why don't you share with people how you work with them, where they can find you, and all of that? Speaker 1: yeah. so, you know, i work both with individuals and groups and organizations. right? so with individuals, it's about, you know, understanding their neurodivergency and if there's any, you know, obstacles related to that, like feeling less than, feeling not good enough, feeling like you have to over perform, you know, whatever the behavior is that, um, interferes, we really look at that and address that so that people can live with, you know, ideally less stress and just feeling better in general about life, you know. and with groups and organizations, i really love to bring in the inclusion component of having neurodivergent folk in your organization because one in four people falls under the neurodivergent umbrella. that's a lot of people. yeah. right? so if you're looking at your organization and and it's hard because it shows up as communication issues a lot of the time or, you know, things that look like performance issues in in an organizational environment when really this person is just struggling with some kind of neurodivergence. and when that's addressed, then they can go they can become a peak performer employee just like everybody else. yeah. yeah. people can find me on my website. they can look for me on linkedin. i'm also on instagram. you know? so and please and Speaker 0: your website is myriammartinezcocoaching.com. correct? Speaker 1: it is. yes. thank you. mhmm. and, yeah, please don't hesitate to reach out around any anything related to neurodivergent. Speaker 0: wonderful. well, to be continued. yeah. thanks so much for, yeah, sharing this. it was amazing. Speaker 1: thank you, sarah.

Jason talks to the Speaker of the MN House, Rep. Lisa Demuth, who's thrown her hat into the ring to run for Governor. What's her pitch to Minnesota voters? Plus, local elections are tomorrow, are you planning to participate?

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Sieve Needed - Examine Me, O Lord And Prove Me Subtitle: According to Promise Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 11/2/2025 Bible: Psalm 26:2 Length: 2 min.

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Key Points1. Introduction to Trail Life•Trail Life is a Christian outdoor adventure program aimed at guiding boys to become godly men.•The organization encourages skills development, leadership, and outdoor experiences.2. The Problem•Children today are increasingly disconnected from nature and real-life social interactions, often spending excessive time on screens.•This trend leads to skill gaps in socialization and conflict resolution among boys, who may also lack exposure to Christian values.3. Role of Fathers•Active fatherly involvement significantly improves the chances that boys will grow into well-adjusted men.•Statistics indicate that boys with engaged fathers are more likely to become productive members of society and, if raised in a Christian environment, are more likely to follow Christ.4. Trail Life's Mission•The mission of Trail Life is to inspire boys to lead with integrity, serve others, and enjoy outdoor adventures while being grounded in Christian faith.•The program emphasizes character development through experiential learning.5. Community and Volunteerism•The episode encourages dads and community members to get involved, either as leaders or participants, to foster a supportive environment for boys.•Volunteers in Trail Life play a crucial role in mentoring and guiding the next generation.6. Activities and Engagement•Trail Life offers various activities such as camping, fishing, archery, and biblical studies.•The program is designed to cater to different age groups, progressively building skills and confidence.7. Call to Action•Listeners are encouraged to explore Trail Life as an option for their sons, whether they are Christian or not, emphasizing that all are welcome.•Community members are invited to volunteer, pray for the organization, and support local troops through involvement.ConclusionThe Strong Dads Podcast episode presents a compelling case for the Trail Life program as a vital resource for nurturing young boys into responsible, faith-driven men. Through community involvement and mentorship, families can work together to address the challenges faced by today's youth while fostering strong, godly values.rocksolidfamilies.orgSupport the show#Rocksolidfamilies,#familytherapy,#marriagecounseling,#parenting,#faithbasedcounseling,#counseling,#Strongdads,#coaching,#lifecoach,#lifecoaching,#marriagecoaching,#marriageandfamily,#control,#security,#respect,#affection,#love,#purpose,#faith,#mastersofdisaster,#storms,#disasterrelief,#tornados,#hurricanes,#floods

Every one of us is living in a story but do we understand the story God is telling? From creation to fall, promise to redemption, mission to restoration, Scripture reveals one sweeping narrative that makes sense of our lives and our world. This week's message traces that story through the life of one of the best known characters in the Bible – David. David is not primarily an example to follow but an expectation of the Messiah – the Son of David. This message will help you see how the Son of David is a title of hope, victory, worship and grace. Learn how you can experience what the Descendent of David purchased. Subscribe for More: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdBjWoX3iFFfi7rhni6iUxQ?sub_confirmation=1 Learn More on Our Website: https://www.calvary-church.com Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calvarychurchpennsylvania and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calvarychurchpennsylvania #calvary #church #christian #sermon #message #souderton #quakertown #pennsylvania

Guest speaker Jonathan Reasoner shares a powerful message on God's heart for missions and the call for every believer to take part in His global work. Drawing from Scripture and personal experience, he encourages us to trust God's leading and live on mission wherever we are. Learn more about Maple Plain Community Church at mapleplaincc.org.

Are you struggling to find enough hours in the day, or feeling burned out no matter how hard you try to keep up? In this episode of the Quiet and Strong Podcast, host David Hall sits down with special guest Michelle Niemeyer, an integrative nutrition health coach and former attorney, to explore the “art of bending time” and shifting your mindset for greater health, happiness, and productivity.You'll discover why maximizing focus—and moving beyond multitasking—is crucial for getting more done and finding fulfillment. Michelle Niemeyer shares how connecting your work and your true self can spark motivation, reveal your strengths, and shield you from burnout. Learn actionable strategies for increasing clarity, building habits, managing distractions, and understanding what truly lights you up.If you want to boost your productivity without sacrificing what matters most—and cultivate a life that feels strong and meaningful—this episode is for you. Tune in to embrace your introverted strengths, master your time, and be strong.Episode Link: QuietandStrong.com/248Michelle Niemeyer teaches people how to master The Art of Bending Time, making the magic happen in their lives. Michelle's journey to burnout and back during a 30-year legal career led to a powerful discovery: when we connect the dots between who we are and how we spend our time, the impact of our time multiplies. The result is greater health, happiness, and productivity.Connect with Michelle: LinkedIn | Facebook | WebsiteText “clarity” to 33777 for free resources and to join her community.Send us a text- - -Contact the Host of the Quiet and Strong Podcast:David Hall Author, Speaker, Educator, Podcaster quietandstrong.comGobio.link/quietandstrongdavid [at] quietandstrong.com NOTE: This post may contain affiliate links. I may earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no extra cost to you. Take the FREE Personality Assessment: Typefinder Personality Assessment Follow David on your favorite social platform:Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube Get David's book:Minding Your Time: Time Management, Productivity, and Success, Especially for Introverts Get Quiet & Strong Merchandise

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In this week's episode, we take a look at the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire, and consider how ancient history can inspire fantasy novels. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Silent Order series at my Payhip store: SILENT2025 The coupon code is valid through November 10, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 275 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 31st, 2025, and today we're talking about the Praetorian Guard of Ancient Rome and how that can inspire fantasy novels. Also, Happy Halloween (or Happy Protestant Reformation Day, if you prefer). Before we get into all that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. First up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in my Silent Order series at my Payhip store: SILENT2025. And as always, both the coupon code and the links to my store will be in the show notes. This coupon code will be valid through November 10th, 2025. So if you need a new ebook for this fall as we come into winter, we have got you covered. And now for an update on my current writing and publishing projects. As I mentioned last week, Cloak of Worlds is now out and you get it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and at my Payhip store. The initial response has been very strong and very positive, so thank you for that and I'm glad that people are enjoying and reading the book. Now that Cloak of Worlds is done, my next main project is Blade of Shadows, which will be the second book in my Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series. I'm currently 44,000 words into it, which puts me on chapter 9 of 20, though I'll probably have more chapters in the final draft than I will in the first draft. I found people really do tend to prefer shorter punchier, shorter chapters. Anyway, I'm about 44,000 words into it. I think I'll be about 109,000 words, when all is said and done. So hopefully that will be out in November. I'm also 4,500 words into the next Rivah book, which is Wizard-Assassin. It'd originally been entitled Elven-Assassin, but I decided Wizard-Assassin sounded punchier, so we went with that instead. I'm about 4,500 words into that and if all goes well, it will come out in December, which will make it the final book I'll publish in 2025, though hopefully I'll be publishing more books in 2026 before too much longer. In audiobook news, Brad Wills is currently recording Blade of Flames and we've been listening to some proof chapters of it and are very excited about what we're hearing. Hollis McCarthy is starting work on recording Cloak of Embers. That'll be the 10th book in Cloak Mage, and hopefully we will have both of those audiobooks out before the end of the year, if all goes well. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and publishing projects. 00:02:33 Main Topic: Praetorian Guard of the Ancient Roman Empire Now let's move on to our main topic this week, which is the Praetorian Guard of the Ancient Roman Empire, and they were very bad at their jobs, but we'll get into that more very shortly. One of the fascinating (if occasionally depressing) aspects of history is how often institutions end up having the exact opposite outcome of what they were intended to do. The late science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle had something called Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, which once the bureaucracy got large enough, it will inevitably start turning its main focus to perpetuating the bureaucracy rather than carrying out its actual mission. And we can see examples of that time and time again, and no doubt you yourself can think of many examples: schools that make their students dumber, military organizations that fail to defend, hospitals that make people sicker, bureaucracies that exacerbate the problems that they are created to solve, and so forth. This can also apply to social movements as well. My favorite example of this is Prohibition in America. The Temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th century achieved its goal of banning alcohol sales in the United States during the Prohibition period, but the backlash and the consequences made it unpopular. And today, while alcohol is much more heavily restricted than it was at the end of the 19th century, the idea of banning alcohol in the United States is utterly implausible. The Praetorian Guard of Ancient Rome, the personal bodyguards of the Emperor, might be another example of such an institution that utterly failed at its primary goal. For over a thousand years, people have been asking why the Roman Empire fell, and I think that might actually be the wrong question. The better question is why did the Roman Empire last as long as it did, because it sure almost didn't. At the height of its power, the Empire controlled land on three different continents in an area larger than many modern states, and it had to maintain that control without anything resembling modern technology and organization. Think of the difficulties involved in governing a large multi-ethnic state in the 21st Century with modern technology and communications and imagine how much harder it was in the first century AD. Travel was difficult and dangerous even with the Roman road system. The account of St. Paul's shipwreck in the book of Acts must've been an all too common experience in the Roman Empire, given the number of Roman wrecks on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Messages could take weeks to reach their recipients, and there was no division between civilian and military authority. That meant if the Emperors wanted to do anything, they had to use the army to do it because the army was the only pool of skilled men loyal to the state. Since the Empire never really solved the problem of succession and the transfer of power, it didn't take long before ambitious men figured out that the man with the largest army could declare himself Emperor and the Roman Empire actually broke apart into three competing mini empires and almost fell apart entirely in the middle of the 200s AD. So as we can see, there were a lot of reasons the Roman Empire fell apart and the Praetorian Guard, the bodyguard of the emperors, was one of them. The Praetorian Guard certainly wasn't the sole reason the Roman Empire collapsed, but the guard most definitely didn't help. In the last century of the Roman Republic, one of the growing problems was that the armies were less loyal to Rome and more loyal to their general, who made sure they got paid and received grants of land upon discharge. To show their prestige and to guard against the danger of assassination from rivals, generals began collecting personal bodyguards. Since the Roman generals commanded from a tent in a legionary camp called a "praetorium," the general's private guards became called "praetorians." Obviously, the general wanted his best troops as his bodyguards so becoming a praetorian was a privileged position with higher pay and perks. This practice continued as the Roman Republic split apart into civil wars between the ambitious generals of the First and Second Triumvirates. The civil wars of the Roman Republic ended with Octavian, later known as Caesar Augustus, as the last man standing with sole control of what we now think of as the Roman Empire. Augustus is remembered as the first Roman emperor, but the office of Emperor didn't really exist at the time, not the way we think of it now. Rather, Augustus was essentially a military dictator, but after he won, he went to great lengths to conceal his power under cloak of legality by having the Senate invest him with various official powers and offices. In modern terms, it'd be like if the United States was ruled by a military dictator who simultaneously held the offices of President, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, the governorships of the five most populous states, all while claiming to be only the first citizen among equals. Essentially, Augustus invented the powers of the Roman emperor on the fly while being a military dictator and his successors followed suit. Julius Caesar famously pardoned his enemies and went around without a bodyguard to show his courage, which ended up getting him assassinated. Augustus, by contrast, was determined not to repeat that mistake. So after annihilating his enemies, he founded a personal bodyguard in what we know today as the Praetorian Guard. That's a modern term. The praetorians never called themselves the Praetorian Guard, and they always refer to themselves as the praetorian of whichever emperor they happen to be serving like the Praetorians of Augustus or the Praetorians of Claudius and so forth. Augustus seems to have seen some of the potential danger in the institution of the Praetorian Guard, and during his reign, they were scattered around Italy with ones guarding him rotated out every so often. The Praetorians in Italy, when not guarding the Emperor, tended to do odd jobs for the government that needed doing like policing, construction, surveying, settling boundary disputes, and so forth. However, Augustus's successor Tiberius concentrated the Guard in Rome, which made it even more dangerous. It also tied into another problem with the Roman Empire, one that it never quite managed to solve, which was the succession problem. Augustus was a military dictator who assembled a sort of ad hoc legality around his position with various offices and powers. But how would he pass that onto a successor or what if someone else decided they were the proper successor? Augustus had taken his office by force, so why shouldn't anyone else? The Praetorian Guard exacerbated this problem further. Was their loyalty to the office of the Emperor (which was tricky because that office didn't technically exist)? Was it to the man himself or to his heirs? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Praetorian Guard eventually settled on the most practical answer to this question. Their loyalty belonged to whoever paid them the most money. There's a very high chance that Tiberius was murdered by the prefect of the Praetorian Guard, which means that the imperial bodyguard made it only two emperors [repeated for dramatic emphasis] before it started killing them. Tiberius's successor Caligula was famously insane and the Guard eventually got sick of him and participated in his murder. After Caligula's death, the guard declared Claudius as the new Emperor, who repaid them by giving them lavish donatives. That meant the Guard had gone from protecting the emperors to killing ones that didn't like, and then installing new ones. After the Senate turned against Nero and he committed suicide in 69 AD, the Roman Empire had its year of four emperors: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and finally Vespasian, who won the civil war and became the new emperor. Each of the potential claimants had their own praetorians who fought against other praetorians. The original Praetorian Guard of Nero did not cover itself in glory, as their comfortable life in Rome did not make them effective as field soldiers and they lost against the toughened legionaries from the frontier armies who came to fight in the civil war. That said, during the reigns of the Five Good Emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) from 96 to 180 AD, we don't hear much about the Praetorian Guard. The most likely explanation is that these emperors were strong and capable rulers, so the guard had no reason to turn against them, and therefore any potential conspiracies that would've involved the Guard just didn't get off the ground. However, part of the reason the 100s AD were the apex of the Roman Empire is that Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius did not have sons, so they adopted a capable leader as their son and heir, thereby creating continuity of rule. Marcus Aurelius unfortunately had a natural son named Commodus, and after he died, Commodus became Emperor. Commodus was a spectacularly incompetent narcissist, nowadays famously known as the villain from the movie Gladiator. If anything, Gladiator toned down Commodus' brutality, though to be fair to Commodus, he didn't murder his father like the fictional version did in the movie. Commodus was eventually assassinated, and the Praetorian Guard hit its lowest point soon after. Pertinax became Emperor after Commodus, and there was hope he would be a Nerva-type figure, a respected elderly Senator who would adopt a capable heir the way Nerva did with Trajan. However, Commodus had used the Guard as his privileged force of personal thugs, and Pertinax tried to impose discipline upon them. The Guard most definitely did not care for that, so they murdered Pertinax and then auctioned off the title of Emperor to whoever would pay them the most. Soon after Septimius Severus seized control of the Empire and he summarily fired all the Praetorian and put his own veteran legionaries in their place. So the Praetorian Guard, which had been intended to guard the emperors, ended up murdering the Emperor on a regular basis and sometimes choosing a successor and even auctioning off the title of Emperor to the highest bidder. Septimius Severus was a brutal ruler and held the Empire together long enough to die of natural causes. His sons Caracalla and Geta were his successors, and Caracalla murdered Geta before he was assassinated himself by yet another plot from disgruntled praetorians. After that, both the Empire and the Guard declined precipitously. This was the period later historians would call the Crisis of the Third Century, when the Roman Empire fractured into the three competing mini empires I mentioned earlier. A depressing pattern rapidly took hold. The Praetorian Guard or the army would kill an Emperor and proclaim a new one. The Emperor would last until he tried to do something the army didn't like, such as imposing discipline and then the pattern would repeat. The Praetorian Guard was never really reformed, but like so many failed institutions, it gradually became obsolete. Part of the reason was that the Empire was subject to frequent barbarian invasions throughout the 200s. The Emperor was required constantly on the frontiers to supervise the defense with the field armies. The emperors developed a different kind of bodyguard called the "scholae palatinae", a mounted group of soldiers that would accompany him in the field as he moved about the Empire. The constant defensive warfare also resulted in a subtle shift within the Empire. Rome was no longer the center of power within the Empire. The center of power was actually wherever the Emperor happened to be at the moment. The city of Rome itself had become in many ways an expensive vestigial relic of another age. Some of the emperors only visited Rome once. Some of the shorter-lived ones never made it there at all, and the Emperors certainly did not rule from Rome. Because of these changes, the idea of the Praetorian Guard, a permanent bodyguard force based in Rome, had become obsolete. The actual end of the Praetorian Guard came after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, the battle where the Emperor Constantine famously had the vision that led him to convert to Christianity. The Praetorian Guard sided with Constantine's opponent Maxentius, and since Constantine had no use for the Praetorian Guard and indeed would move his capital to the new city of Constantinople, he simply had the Guard disbanded and continued to rely on mounted cavalry units for his personal bodyguard. So the Praetorian Guard, after three centuries of frequent treachery and corruption, had come to an end. Amusingly, while the Guard was gone, the title of "praetorian prefect" remained in use in the Empire for the rest of its history, which came to show just how powerful the commander of the Guard could become. In the end, the Praetorian Guard was yet another example of institution that became a hindrance to the very goals it was founded to advance. This seems to be a curse of any organization, and the only cure is constant vigilance and strong leadership, two qualities, alas, that are all too rare at any age of history. Yet you can definitely see why I say history is the best source of material for fantasy writers. You could get like 20 different novels out of the events I discussed above. So that is it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you all next week.

A new MP3 sermon from Truth For Life - Alistair Begg is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Man on the Middle Cross (Interview) Subtitle: Messages from Truth For Life Speaker: Alistair Begg Broadcaster: Truth For Life - Alistair Begg Event: Radio Broadcast Date: 11/2/2025 Length: 28 min.

This week on Look Forward, we return to discuss the federal shutdown as it surpasses 30 days, SNAP benefits are put in peril by the GOP, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson unintentionally reveals why he is ok with letting 40 million Americans go without food assistance, MTG says Mike Johnson refused to reveal a healthcare plan to other Republicans even in a private meeting, Trump administration begins push to attack Venezuela, Pentagon admits it doesn't know who they are killing on boats in the Caribbean, Maduro says he has captured CIA agents planning a false flag operation inside Venezuela as justification for war, Democrats (and 4 Republicans) vote to end Trump's global tariffs, Graham Platner's progressive campaign hits an odd nazi shaped tattoo snag, Trump administration officials are moving onto military bases, Trump asked the military to restart testing of nuclear weapons, why is the National Guard creating quick reaction forces in every state and territory for dealing with domestic issues?, Zohran Mamdani seems likely to win the mayoral race in NYC this coming week, Trump and Steve Bannon aren't kidding about a third term, Republicans declare that Biden's use of the autopen was illegal (this is nonsense and means nothing from a legal perspective, yet), and much more.Big TopicFederal Shutdown ContinuesSNAP benefits are over starting Oct 31stJudge set to rule on this soonMike Johnson gives up the game on why he's hurting people (VIDEO)Healthcare tax credits due to expire in a monthMTG says that Johnson refuses to share Healthcare plan with GOPNews You NeedAre we about to go to war with Venezuela?Pentagon admits to not knowing who is even on the boatsImportant note hereMilitary is docking ships in Trinidad and TobagoMudaro says he has captured CIA agents trying to pull a false flag operationWhy isn't a Nazi tattoo a deal breaker for some progressives?Senate Democrats (and 4 Republicans) vote to end Trump's tariffsTrump administration members are moving onto military basesTrump has authorized the military to start retesting nuclear weaponsWhy is the National Guard building quick reaction teams for domestic encounters?Mamdani looks to be the next mayor of NYC, MAGA set to lose their already diseased mindsFast Corruption and Faster Screw-UpsTrump keeps talking about running for a third term, he isn't jokingGOP declares Biden's use of the autopen was illegal based on nothing

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved Subtitle: Spurgeon's Prayers Personal Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 11/2/2025 Bible: John 21:20 Length: 8 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The necessity, source, effects, and end of regeneration! Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Bible: John 3:3-5; 1 Peter 1:3 Length: 4 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Give no glory to this rubbish! Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 11/2/2025 Bible: 1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 John 5:21 Length: 2 min.

“Children obey your parents in the Lord…’ Paul quoted God’s command through Moses—which was for all children—including God’s own. A powerful message for everyone—children, parents and anyone who ever had a father—especially a Heavenly One… (Eph. 6:1-3)

A new MP3 sermon from Paramount Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Sheep, Goats and the Hope of Glory Subtitle: Encounter the Gospel Kingdom Speaker: Rush Witt Broadcaster: Paramount Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 10/26/2025 Bible: Matthew 25:31-46 Length: 40 min.

A new MP3 sermon from The Bible Provocateur is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 4 of 4) Speaker: Jonathan Eubanks Broadcaster: The Bible Provocateur Event: Debate Date: 11/1/2025 Length: 31 min.

A new MP3 sermon from The Bible Provocateur is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 3 of 4) Speaker: Jonathan Eubanks Broadcaster: The Bible Provocateur Event: Debate Date: 11/1/2025 Length: 31 min.

A new MP3 sermon from The Bible Provocateur is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 2 of 4) Speaker: Jonathan Eubanks Broadcaster: The Bible Provocateur Event: Debate Date: 11/1/2025 Length: 31 min.

A new MP3 sermon from The Bible Provocateur is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 1of 4) Speaker: Jonathan Eubanks Broadcaster: The Bible Provocateur Event: Debate Date: 11/1/2025 Length: 31 min.

Tuesday, November 1, 2022In the Hot Notes; the DoJ has charged the assailant who attempted to assassinate the Speaker of the House; Officer Harry Dunn and others testify in the Oath Keepers trial; Fascism loses in Brazil as Lula beats Bolsonaro; Senator Chris Murphy wants to investigate Saudi Arabia's role in Musk's Twitter takeover; Trump appeals to block his tax returns from being handed over to the House Ways and Means Committee; the DoJ has filed a statement of interest in the Marc Elias lawsuit against Arizona ballot drop box intimidation; plus Allison and Dana bring you your good news.More from our guest David Rothkopfhttps://twitter.com/djrothkopfAmerican Resistancehttps://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/david-rothkopf/american-resistance/9781541700659/Deep State Radiohttps://thedsrnetwork.com/ Our Donation LinksNational Security Counselors - DonateMSW Media, Blue Wave California Victory Fund | ActBlueWhistleblowerAid.org/beansFederal workers - feel free to email AG at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen. Find Upcoming Actions 50501 Movement, No Kings.org, Indivisible.orgDr. Allison Gill - Substack, BlueSky , TikTok, IG, TwitterDana Goldberg - BlueSky, Twitter, IG, facebook, danagoldberg.comCheck out more from MSW Media - Shows - MSW Media, Cleanup On Aisle 45 pod, The Breakdown | SubstackShare your Good News or Good TroubleMSW Good News and Good TroubleHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?The Daily Beans | SupercastThe Daily Beans & Mueller, She Wrote | PatreonThe Daily Beans | Apple Podcasts Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A new MP3 sermon from Alpha and Omega Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Radio Free Geneva: Reformation Day 2025 Subtitle: The Dividing Line 2025 Speaker: Dr. James White Broadcaster: Alpha and Omega Ministries Event: Podcast Date: 10/31/2025 Length: 63 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: One reason why the church has so little influence over the world Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Bible: Romans 12:2; 1 John 2:15 Length: 2 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Who makes you different from anyone else? Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Bible: 1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 15:10 Length: 3 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Answers in Genesis Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Moved to Worship Subtitle: Answers with Ken Ham Speaker: Ken Ham Broadcaster: Answers in Genesis Ministries Event: Radio Broadcast Date: 10/31/2025 Length: 1 min.

A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Faith Is the Instrumental Cause of Our Purification Subtitle: On The Holy Spirit Speaker: John Owen Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 10/31/2025 Length: 64 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Who makes you different from anyone else? Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Bible: 1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 15:10 Length: 3 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: One reason why the church has so little influence over the world Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: C. H. Spurgeon Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Bible: Romans 12:2; 1 John 2:15 Length: 2 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Pastor Klaas Veldman is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Justice of God Speaker: Martin Luther Broadcaster: Pastor Klaas Veldman Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Bible: Romans 1:17 Length: 5 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Valley Fourth Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Pastor's Connection - Shiphrah & Puah Subtitle: Pastor's Connection Speaker: Joe Pursch Broadcaster: Valley Fourth Church Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Length: 10 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The best of men are only men at their very best Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: J. C. Ryle Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Bible: Matthew 17:5 Length: 1 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Pineville Sovereign Grace Fellowship is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Why Is This Happening To Me? Subtitle: Devotional Speaker: Larry Phillips Broadcaster: Pineville Sovereign Grace Fellowship Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Bible: Psalm 10:1 Length: 12 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel Reformed Fellowship is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: CateLatte: Heidelberg Catechism & Coffee Shot 35 Subtitle: Catechism Breakfast Devotions Speaker: Dr. Chuck Muether Broadcaster: Immanuel Reformed Fellowship Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Length: 2 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: How to Be Ready for the Return Subtitle: Family Worship Speaker: James Hakim Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Bible: Matthew 24:45-51 Length: 13 min.

A new MP3 sermon from FairHavens Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: In EVERYTHING Give Thanks? Subtitle: Strength For Today Speaker: Bob Kirkland Broadcaster: FairHavens Baptist Church Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Length: 6 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: I AM the Way Speaker: Bobby Quick Broadcaster: Grace Baptist Church Event: Devotional Date: 11/2/2025 Length: 36 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Pineville Sovereign Grace Fellowship is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Why Do We Talk About God? Subtitle: Devotional Speaker: Larry Phillips Broadcaster: Pineville Sovereign Grace Fellowship Event: Devotional Date: 11/1/2025 Bible: Psalm 62:7 Length: 16 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Lisburn Free Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Sniper and his Rifle Subtitle: Daily Devotional Speaker: Rev. Roger Higginson Broadcaster: Lisburn Free Presbyterian Church Event: Devotional Date: 10/31/2025 Length: 2 min.

What can we learn from the rise of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani? This week, Vox Media's newest addition Astead Herndon joins Preet Bharara to discuss political coverage in a shifting media landscape, what today's kitchen table issues say about American politics, and the surprising similarities between Mamdani and Trump. Then, Preet answers your questions on whether the Speaker of the House has to swear in new members and whether the president's subordinates are immune from prosecution. In the bonus for Insiders, Preet and Astead chat about the role that age plays in elections for both voters and candidates. Join the CAFE Insider community to stay informed without hysteria, fear-mongering, or rage-baiting. Head to cafe.com/insider to sign up. Thank you for supporting our work. Show notes and a transcript of the episode are available on our website.  You can now watch this episode! Head to CAFE's Youtube channel and subscribe. Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on BlueSky, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices