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Send a message to the showIn remembrance of Holly, on the 31st anniversary of her disappearance.Holly's abduction and murder remain unresolved.  .. .. .. Thirty years ago today, 10-year-old Holly Piirainen was enjoying a lazy summer day with her family at their vacation cottage in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. What should have been an innocent visit with a litter of puppies nearby turned into a decades-long nightmare for her family.Holly disappeared. The only trace of her was one red sneaker.  She would be found two and a half months later in the nearby town of Brimfield, in the next county over.As we revisit the details of Holly's case, there are a great many mysteries still. I speak to journalist and former editor of Grafton News, Holly's hometown paper, Rich Price about his journey into the intricate details of her disappearance, the potential suspects in her abduction and murder, and his relationship with the Piirainen family members. In our exploration of Holly's case, we take a moment to appreciate the distinctive beauty of Massachusetts and New England. I share details about local landmarks in the areas relative to Holly's case.Please share any information you have, overheard, or may have remembered,Your help is needed to solve her caseCall 413-505-5993or the State Police Unresolved Cases Unit at 855-627-6583OR  text the word SOLVE to 274637Reach the Hampden District Attorney in Springfield, Mass at HampdenDA.comListen: Holly's Been Takena podcast about Holly Piirainen's disappearance and murder, by Rich PriceSite developed by investigators to help solve Holly's case:HelpHolly.comVisit CrimeoftheTruestKind.comCrime of the Truest KindCreated, written, and hosted by Anngelle Wood Support the Show.Follow Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | Threads | YouTube For show notes & source information at CrimeoftheTruestKind.comThis podcast has minimal profanity but from time to time you get one or some curse words. This isn't for kids.Become a patron: Patreon.com/crimeofthetruestkindMusic included in episodes from Joe "onlyone" Kowalski, Dug McCormack's Math Ghosts. and Shredding by Andrew King

 It's a family affair.by senorlongo. Listen to the ► Podcast at Connected.CHAPTER 9I played in our last basketball game before Thanksgiving on Tuesday evening. Most of our games were against other Division III schools, but this one was a tune up for perennial powerhouse Boston College which, unfortunately, was Steffi's favorite college team. I played well but we got our asses kicked. What else would anyone expect against an ACC team? Steffi was there for me when I walked out of the locker room. “I thought you played so well, Rob, but their guys were so huge.”“It's okay, I never thought we'd have a chance against them. On the positive side they'll be the best team we face all year and we lost by less than 20 so maybe we'll be good later when the games really count. We'll see.”We packed the car that evening and went to bed, something I looked forward to with greater enthusiasm now that Steffi was with me all the time. My last class ended at eleven on Wednesday morning. I returned to the house to fill a cooler with Cokes and some ice. My next stop was the high school. It was really funny, but now that Steffi was eighteen she was able to write and sign her own excuse notes. This one went: “Please excuse Steffi Goldwasser at noon today for a family trip. (Signed) Steffi Goldwasser.” I found the whole idea nothing less than incredible as I walked into the office and asked for her. I had to show my ID which I thought was odd since she was an adult in the eyes of the law. One of the secretaries asked if I was THE Rob Kerwood. I assured her that I was and asked what we should do once Steffi and I married. “Just come in and tell us, that's all. We'll make the adjustment right here on our computers.” I thanked them as Steffi entered. We left less than a minute later.“I'm excited, Rob. I can't wait to meet your mother and thank her.”“Thank her,” I asked as I buckled my seat belt.“Yes; for you and for her advice about hating. I just hope she likes me.”“I think she will. She likes sincere honest people, and I'd say that's you to a ‘T.'” I turned on the CD player and listened to Swan Lake as I turned onto Alewife Brook Parkway on our way to the Mass Pike. I had driven roughly an hour when I pulled off onto US 84 toward Hartford and New York City. A few minutes later I pulled off in Sturbridge. There was an old-time candy store there that my mom just loved. We picked out an assortment of goodies for her and for ourselves, as well. I paid with my charge card and we returned to the car. I allowed Steffi to drive because the traffic was and would be pretty light for a while. I had never seen her drive and I didn't want to put her into a bad situation that she couldn't handle. After a while I realized that she was just as good as me; careful and cautious, but not afraid. More important–she didn't drive too fast for the conditions. There were a lot of trucks on the road today that required special care. I relaxed and closed my eyes, resting for more than a half hour. We pulled off into a rest stop to use the facilities. I bought her a late lunch and we were back on the road in minutes.Traffic got really heavy outside Hartford and slowed to a crawl. I could see flashing blue lights way off in the distance; great, an accident. I knew now that we'd be late. Handing Steffi my phone I asked her to phone my mom and tell her we'd likely be late. “Hi, Ms. Kerwood, it's Steffi, Rob's fiancé. Yes, it's nice to speak to you, too. Rob wants you to know that we're stuck in a huge traffic jam outside Hartford. I don't think we've moved a half mile in the last thirty minutes. Hold on a sec, please. What, Rob? Oh, okay; Ms. Kerwood, Rob suggests we get a pizza when we get there since we have no idea when it'll be. Would that be okay with you? All right; I'll tell him. See you soon; bye.”Steffi ended the call and turned to me, “Your mom says we should call when we get off 95 in New Rochelle. Is that right?” I nodded as I changed lanes to get around a huge tractor trailer, one with tandem trailers, so I could see what was happening up ahead. “Okay, she says she'll order your favorite and have it delivered. She sounded really nice.”“That's a good sign.” We crept forward until we reached the crash scene. I could see what happened immediately. Some idiot had tried to cross the median and pulled out in front of a big rig that was doing 65 miles per hour and was unable to stop. I told Steffi to look away. The guy's head was at an angle through the broken window that showed immediately that he was dead. I felt badly for his family and for the poor truck driver that would have to live the rest of his life knowing that he had killed someone, even if it wasn't his fault. We learned later on the internet that the car driver had been on the phone at the time of the accident. What a shame.The rest of the trip was uneventful. We passed the time singing old standards and oldies from the fifties and sixties. We got some interesting looks from cars we passed or who passed us, but we had a really good time. It was just past seven when we reached New Rochelle. Steffi called Mom again; we'd be there in about twenty minutes.If Steffi was shocked when she saw where I had lived she hid it well. I parked behind the building in the slot reserved for our apartment. In all her years there my mother had never owned a car or even learned to drive. I learned in school and had to ask my buddy Jimmy if one of his parents would take me for the test.We walked up the rickety back stairs to the second floor and turned left. I told her to knock at 2D. Mom opened the door and they stood there for a moment sizing each other up before I gently pushed Steffi forward. “Mom; this is Steffi, the woman who's captured my heart. Steff, this is obviously my mother.”“Hi, Ms. Kerwood; it a real pleasure to meet you and I also want to thank you.”“It's nice to meet you, too Steffi, but why are you thanking me?” We sat in the living room, Steffi and me on the new couch.“New furniture, eh?”“Yes, Rob; go ahead Steffi.” I listened as Steffi recounted the misadventure with her father, how she left home rather than give me up, and how we came to live together. I rubbed her back as she spoke. I wanted her to know that I was there for her. She had just finished when the doorbell rang. I jumped up to pay for the pizza. We moved into the kitchen, sitting at the old enameled steel table with all its chips and cracks. It was old when I was a baby and it hadn't improved with age. I had just split up the pie and distributed the pieces when Steffi spoke again.“I also want to thank you for doing such a great job with Rob. He's the most unselfish and giving person I've ever met.”“Thank you, Steffi. It wasn't always easy, although Rob was usually a pleasure to deal with.” The conversation went on for hours until Mom excused herself to bed. “Oh; I assume you'll make love while you're here so I'd like to know if you're noisy.”“Um; Rob's not,” Steffi replied and even I had to laugh.“Okay, I have some earplugs. The neighbors will just have to make do. I hope being in a twin bed will be okay. I don't have anything bigger.”“It'll be fine, Ms. Kerwood.”“That's something we'll have to change. I can't have my future daughter-in-law calling me anything so formal.”“Can I call you Mom?”“You'd better!” They hugged and we were a family. We waited until Mom had cleared the bathroom before starting our shower. It was a bit of a struggle fitting into the tub but that just meant I'd constantly be in touch with Steffi's glorious body. We dried each other as was our habit and went into bed. I lay on my back while Steffi crawled on top of me. I became hard in a millisecond. Steffi kissed me and, wasting no time, pulled me into her warm wet cunt.Sitting up she rocked on my cock, driving her hard clit against me forcefully. Maybe it was the circumstances, but we both came quickly and, more importantly, silently. Steffi giggled as she turned around and cleaned my cock with her mouth, sucking up her juices and any residual semen. She straddled my leg, threw her arm over my body and kissed me good night. I pulled the blanket up over our naked bodies and we went to sleep. Tomorrow would be a long day.We had agreed that we would sleep naked, as usual, but keep a set of “pajamas” by the side of the bed, essentially a tee shirt and gym shorts. Fortunately, hers were pink so I doubted I'd make a mistake. We were up early and dressed, but not before Mom had put the coffee on. Steffi volunteered to help with the dinner which was interesting since she could barely make toast or boil water. None the less Mom took the time to teach her. I could hear them talking and joking about the turkey as Steffi made the stuffing under Mom's direction. She stuffed the bird and placed the bacon on top. Mom always did that to make it moist, besides we all know everything's better with bacon.I settled in after a light lunch to take in the football game. The turkey was done around 4:30; it has always been my job to get it out of the oven. I carefully placed several towels on the Formica surface and lifted the roasting pan up and out. Once I was done I couldn't resist taking a piece of the bacon, now crisp and mostly stuck to the turkey's skin. I pulled up a long strip and placed one end into my mouth before tapping Steffi on the shoulder. She turned and laughed. Mom heard her, turned and laughed, too. “You'd better humor him Steffi or else he'll keep it up all night.”Steffi took the hint and took the other end into her mouth. Together we bit our way up the strip, stopping only when our lips met.“You know, all you had to do was ask.”“Okay, I'm asking.” Steffi rolled her eyes, but threw her arms around my neck and kissed me madly for several minutes. She broke it with a pat on my backside. “Just let me know when you're getting another piece. I enjoyed it almost as much as I enjoyed you.”Dinner was served around six. As usual, I had carved the turkey and, as usual, it was a small one; suitable for such a small family grouping. We all sat at the table, but now the old table was covered with a plastic table cloth. I began the blessing: “I usually have many reasons to be thankful; my health, my singing ability, my success, and, of course, my mother. Now I have something else that dwarfs the others. I have the love of the most beautiful woman I have ever known. Steffi, you have made me the luckiest man on the planet.” From there I moved into a traditional blessing, thanking God for our food, health, and family. Then we dug in. I was pleased to see that Steffi wasn't holding back. It showed me that she felt comfortable with my mother. They chatted like old buddies throughout the meal. Too soon it was over, although I did, again as usual, eat way too much. We cleaned up and retired to the living room for some TV. Steffi snuggled up next to me, pulling my arm around her. I glanced at my mother, noticing she looked on with approval.About an hour later we had dessert. We always had the same things; pumpkin pie for Mom (I hated pumpkin) and chocolate cream for me. Mom showed Steffi how to whip the cream and make sure it didn't turn into butter. I ate too much pie, but so did Steffi having a slice of each and giving her approval to both. We cleaned up while Mom showered in preparation for tomorrow's work. She worked in a big department store and tomorrow was “Black Friday,” a day when all the employees would be busy from opening to closing. It would have been nice to sleep in, especially with Steffi, but we were going to the high school for the basketball practice. All the recent graduates would show and scrimmage against the varsity.We showered and climbed naked into bed. Steffi slithered over my body. We kissed briefly and I asked her, “So, how was your day?”“Wonderful, Rob; I love your mother. She has such strength and she accepted me so easily. I was afraid she wouldn't like me; too young, Jewish, not good enough for her son, I don't know; any reason, but she's been so nice.” I smiled. I was really happy for both of us.“So, now that you're happy and stuffed with food; .”“Simple; I want to be stuffed with you. I can be the turkey and you can be the stuffing; or the stuffer for my stuffee.”“Lame, but I still love you. Roll onto your side. I want to try something new.” I moved her to my side facing away from me. Pulling her leg back over mine, opened her cunt to me. I pushed forward to rub her clit with my cock's tip. Soon Steffi was moaning continuously as she turned on. I pulled back and thrust forward, sliding into her hot wet tightness. Steffi's moans were louder; more insistent, more demanding. I rubbed her swollen nipple with my other hand; her moaning became louder.I pushed into her hard, driving her forward, but holding her back with my strength. I reached around to tickle her clit, finding it hard and swollen in her desire and her need as I continued to pound her sensitive cunt. I brushed it gently, but she gripped my hand, forcing it firmly into her sex. “Harder, Rob,” she begged. I pinched it as I would her nipple and she exploded. Unfortunately, she forgot where she was and screamed in her passion then clamped her hand over her mouth as I laughed and laughed, still pumping her cunt hard. I had barely finished laughing when I grunted almost as loudly, signaling the onset of my orgasm. Over and over I sprayed her cunt with my rich sperm-laden juice. Exhausted, I began to withdraw until she stopped me, holding me within her body. “Let's sleep like this,” she whispered.“You've got to be kidding. If I stay in you I'll be hard the entire time. That means I'll be moving and neither one of us will get any sleep. It's a nice idea, but not tonight. We have to get up early.” I pulled out, turned her around, kissed her and told her I loved her while she pulled up the blanket. We slept soundly in each other's arms.Mom laughed when she saw us the following morning. “That must have been a really good one, Steffi. I think you could have been heard blocks away.” Then she laughed again and hugged the red-faced Steffi and kissed her.I kissed her once Mom had turned away. She looked up at me and whispered, “I'm so embarrassed, Rob.”Mom heard her and replied, “No reason to be embarrassed, Steffi. Most women would kill for an orgasm like that. I know I would.” We settled down to breakfast and showered quickly before driving the short distance to the high school. I introduced Steffi to the coach and went to dress while she ambled to the bleachers. Practice was fun, but not as much as I thought it would be.We returned to the apartment where I carved the rest of the turkey in preparation for tonight's dinner. I placed the carcass in a really big pot with about six quarts of water. Steffi washed and sliced about a pound of carrots and a bunch of celery. However, I wouldn't let her do the onions. Most people cry when they slice onions, but I seem to be mostly immune. All these went into the pot along with some salt and pepper. I covered it and let it come to a boil, before turning the flame down to let it simmer.I'd been making this soup since I was in seventh grade when I thought it was a waste to throw out so much food. We were in a much better situation financially now that I was working, but I still loved the soup. We'd have soup and turkey sandwiches for dinner tonight. I'd take Mom and Steffi out to eat tomorrow. I had something special planned.Steffi asked me what we would do while the soup simmered. “Nothing; we just wait until I decide to remove all the bones,” I replied. She nodded silently and turned to walk down the hallway. She returned a few minutes later with a large bath towel which she spread on the carpet. “What?”“Simple; we can fill the time with some fucking; right here on the floor.”“Uh; you know, we have a nice bed right in there?”“Sure, but I'm feeling a bit kinky this morning, especially after watching you sweat this morning. I'll bet your cock has an interesting taste, so?” I chuckled. Life would never be dull with Steffi around. I stood and held my arms out. She jumped into an embrace, her arms running under and around mine as her hands clasped my head and pulled it down to meet her slightly open lips. Our mouths met, warm and moist, as her tongue snaked around mine, tickling my gums and palate.One hand left my head, searching my crotch for my engorging organ. She found it in seconds and her groping motion only encouraged its growth. My hands on her back pulled her to my body, freeing her hands to open my belt and jeans. They slid immediately to my ankles. My boxers followed and an instant later Steffi pushed my sweatshirt and tee shirt over my head. I stood now totally naked in front of her. Steffi stood back admiring her prize then came forward again, but instead of kissing me she dropped to her knees and took my cock into her hand, my balls into the other.“You know, Rob these are really beautiful. I love the shape of the head. It reminds me of a medieval monk; like one of those who used to spend their lives copying manuscripts. I also wonder why it's so spongy when the rest is so hard. I've also noticed the skin. It's loose so when you fuck me it seems to stay still while the part underneath moves back and forth. All in all it's like a beautiful mystery, but I love it; everything about it. Now let me show you.”Her tongue out, she slowly licked all around the monk's head; her eyes glued onto mine. I could see the pleasure in her eyes, the knowledge that she was giving me infinite pleasure with her tongue as she would later no doubt with other parts; her tits and her cunt. She was so giving; so loving; so wonderful. No wonder I loved her so much. Looking down I saw her engulf my organ, swallowing the entire eight inches before bottoming out against my pubic hair. My legs grew weak and I tottered against the couch before falling to the floor. Steffi continued working me over, running her tongue up and down the ultra-sensitive underside of my shaft. Suddenly, she pulled back and moved her head a bit lower. She kissed my scrotum and sucked each testicle slowly into her mouth. She rolled them around with her tongue and gently allowed each one to pop out from between her lips.She moved me onto the towel and began the most sensuous striptease, slowly removing her sweater, jeans, bra and panties. She turned around and shook her ass in my face. I reached up and pulled her down to me. Her body met mine; we spoke at the very same instant, “I love you.” We pulled each other close then we became one as she sank down on me. Her face showed me her utter contentment as we met. I held her ass as we found a rhythm, one that would make the feeling last. You'd think that fucking every day would become boring, but no; Steffi and I managed to find new ways to excite each other; to show each other our love. Steffi had a great imagination and there was little she wouldn't do to help me. Today she rotated her tight cunt around in circles, flexing her Kegel muscles as she went. It was the closest to Heaven I've ever been. I reached up to massage her clit, but she stopped me. “Later, darling; this one's for you; all for you.” She fell to my chest and kissed me again. It was more than I could take. I made one strong thrust as I emptied my balls into her. I held Steffi so tightly as I regained my breath.“What am I going to do with you? One of these days you're going to get me into such trouble.”“Maybe, but just think of the fun we'll have.” She waited for perhaps a minute before continuing, “Rob, can I ask you a question?”“What is this; déjà vu?”“Maybe, but I'm going to ask you something else this time. What

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you'll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!On today's show, we're chatting with David, the founder of Honeymoon Antiques and new owner of the Sturbridge Show. David's business Honeymoon Antiques has been a New York City fashion and design staple since1997. And he has some really fun stories to share with us about his year's in the industry and how the vintage scene has changed.  In 2022, David purchased the storied Sturbridge Show, which happens three times each year in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, the Monday before Brimfield. Sturbridge Show is a unique offeirng of antique & vintage clothing, textiles, quilts, workwear, and jewelry spanning the Victorian era to the 1990s.  This fall, David brought the Sturbridge Show to New York City for the first time, and it's returning for it's spring city show this weekend – if you're listening to this live – March 14th-16th.  We had a blast with all of David's stories in this one, so let's get right into it! DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE: [4:50] David's decision to open his first store in New York in the 1990s.  [12:36] What the East Village vintage clothing scene was like in the 90s.  [19:13] David's transition into becoming the promoter of the Sturbridge Show. [ 24:39] About the Sturbridge Show and Brimfield Antique Market in Massachusetts. [30:18] The Sturbridge Show comes to NYC!  [37:26] When the people you buy clothing from bring you magic and good luck! EPISODE MENTIONS:  Honeymoon Antiques The Sturbridge Show Sturbridge Show dates Beads of Paradise in NYC Retro101 / Cherry Bomb Vintage in St. Louis Retro 101 on Pre-Loved Podcast New York Magazine excerpt from 1999 Margiela Couture 2024 show Brimfield Antiques Show Maria Niforos Susan Simon Antique Textiles Jane Lury's Labors of Love Orlando Vintage Mitchell Palm Springs Style4Vintage Buzz Vintage  Tea Street Vintage Superette Vintage Birds and Skyline 22 Print Studio Metropolis Vintage in Albany Eveliina Vintage Anastasia's Star Closet Western Gifts No Kill Magazine Story  All the NYC Vintage Dealers @clawmoney LET'S CONNECT: 

That's right, in the name of scrupulous research and purely out of devotion for developing the content of our podcast, Bootie and Bossy made the sacrifice and went to the famous Rhinebeck Sheep & Wool Festival in New York. So we have seen and experienced Rhinebeck's wonders, and we are Rhinebeck virgins no more! We met the knitting celebrities--Andrea Mowry, Adella and Jimmy Colvin, Aimee Gille, and many others--oh my! But what was most inspiring was seeing so many people gathered in one place all wearing their handmade garb and eating cider donuts. We have found our people. It was like walking into a yarn store where all of the mannikins had come to life and wanted to tell you about what they were wearing--like the person we saw wearing a tutu they fashioned out of a fleece crowned by a bodice they knit themselves. As they said, "I wanted to wear something special for Rhinebeck." We say, objective achieved! "Take the risk."--Adella Colvin of LolaBean Yarn, Co. We would add, "Knit who you are." And with the sweater weather coming on, we share a favorite family recipe for a fabulous fall soup--Portuguese Bean Soup, which meets all of our criteria--one pot, a big crowd pleaser, and it gets better everyday (an especially good thing because it makes A LOT). And where did we get this recipe? Ironically from a place where you will probably never have the occasion to wear a sweater--the island of Kauai in Hawaii, the wettest place on earth. We learn after some hasty research on the Google that Waimea Canyon gets 440 plus inches of rain a year, whereas Sturbridge, Mass gets 42 inches and Seattle a mere 38 inches a year. There, we did it: the only time in history where Sturbridge and Kauai will ever be compared for anything. But who would have thought that Sturbridge is wetter than Seattle? These are the kinds of profound revelations and small surprises we offer in this episode. It's those small miracles that light each day with the sparkle of wonder--we are so glad we took the risk in making our podcast, and we hope you will continue to take a risk in listening! Thank you!! For show notes including pictures of our adventures, go to Bootieandbossy.com

Max and Aaron talk about this year's retreat at Sturbridge Village, MA. They go over the best and worst of their predictions from previous retreats, and what predictions they make for the future.

Holly Kristen Piirainen, kidnapped and murdered 30 Years, and the case remains unsolved. Today's case takes us back to the summer of August 5th, 1993, in Sturbridge, Mass. 10-year-old Holly Piiranian is on a family vacation visiting her grandmother when she was abducted in the middle of the day. Holly Kristen Piirainen was a 10-year-old American murder victim from Grafton, Massachusetts. She was a typical young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. She went with her brother to visit some puppies walking down South Shore Drive in Sturbridge to the intersection of Allen Road Her brother returned to the cottage, but Holly had disappeared. All that was found was a shoe of hers by the side of the road. Months later on October 23rd, her remains were found by hunters in a wooded area in the nearby town of Brimfield. Anyone with information about Holly's murder is asked to e-mail Thomas.w.sullivan3@massmail.state.ma.us or call the Hampden County State Police Detective Unit at 413-505-5993. People are also welcome to text information to “CRIMES” (274637) with the subject line “SOLVE Holly Piirainen.” A $40,000 reward is being offered for information leading directly to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible. Sources: ABC News GO, Masslive.com, WCLB, Telegram & Gazette, Boston Globe https://youtu.be/67wf8hvLPyw?si=UMqZFNHZ285hKICO https://youtu.be/RU3S0coGffc?si=j7xpajn2HQq9acdc https://youtu.be/UvSc1HMGd38?si=-jaWRGdO4ogN5tVt https://youtu.be/kZfmw0a9_yU?si=3ydh9U9O9wkg6E2J https://youtu.be/RJlkuouLLrY?si=DXUulL7RB3YZZGwT https://thisweekinworcester.com/holly-piiaranens-family-still-looks-for-clues-26-years-after-her-disappearance-death/ https://www.telegram.com/news/20180802/25-years-after-holly-piirainen-slaying-family-continues-to-push-for-resolution https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/08/25th_anniversary_of_holly_piir.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/10/21/family-holly-piirainen-hosts-tip-campaign-anniversary-her-disappearance/DnhH2V8bunjWOd9basLxlI/story.html  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's podcast, Jason Knott joins us again from his home office in Sturbridge, MA, where he now serves as data solutions architect & evangelist, Data by D-Tools. It was only 10 episodes ago that Jason came on to discuss his newly created role at D-Tools, where he works with a special team to define and deliver industry analytics and insights. Well, some of those results are now included in a very thorough 2023 Midyear Market Health Report. We wanted to discuss those findings in detail, but also share our guest's new perspective on the recent CEDIA Expo show now that he's not moderating a hundred panels on the smart stage or trying to meet with exhibitors in his former role as an industry magazine editor.Today's episode of Residential Tech Talks is brought to you Nice, a global manufacturer of smart home, security, and building automation solutions. Nice is bringing together 30 years of innovation with award-winning products from ELAN, SpeakerCraft, and Panamax, to create a holistic ecosystem for builders, integrators, and consumers. Learn more about how you can create One Home with One Solution at go.niceforyou.com/rtt.

Boston Public Schools gives students a warm welcome back to class, Sturbridge police raise the alarm on counterfeit bills, and Hurricane Lee barrels toward the Caribbean. Five minutes of news to keep you in "The Loop."

Thirty years ago today, 10-year-old Holly Piirainen was enjoying a lazy summer day with her family at their vacation cottage in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. What should have been an innocent visit with a litter of puppies nearby turned into a decades-long nightmare for her family. Holly disappeared. The only trace of her was one red sneaker.  She would be found two and a half months later in the nearby town of Brimfield, in the next county over. As we revisit the details of Holly's case, there are a great many mysteries still. I speak to journalist and former editor of Grafton News, Holly's hometown paper, Rich Price about his journey into the intricate details of her disappearance, the potential suspects in her abduction and murder, and his relationship with the Piirainen family members.  In our exploration of Holly's case, we take a moment to appreciate the distinctive beauty of Massachusetts and New England. I share details about local landmarks in the areas relative to Holly's case.Please share any information you have, overheard, or may have remembered: Call: 413-426-3507. Your call will go directly to Trooper Tom Sullivan, the Hampden County District Attorney's homicide investigator assigned to the Holly Piirainen case. Online: Fill out this online form there that will go directly to Trooper Tom Sullivan.Mail: Send a letter, anonymous or not, to PO Box 15327, Springfield, MA 01115All information will go to Trooper Tom Sullivan.Listen: Holly's Been Takena podcast about Holly Piirainen's disappearance and murder, by Rich PriceThe site was developed by investigators to help solve Holly's case: HelpHolly.com Visit CrimeoftheTruestKind.comCrime of the Truest KindCreated, written, and hosted by Anngelle Wood more updates comingSupport the showFor show notes and source information, please visit CrimeoftheTruestKind.com Music included in this episode by Joe "onlyone" Kowalski and Andrew King

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"Often times these fumes are highly flammable. The buildup of these fumes inside the car followed by the attempt to light the cigarette appears to have caused an explosion resulting in the injuries to the female and the damage to the vehicle and surrounding vehicles." Sturbridge Police wrote in a statement.

Truest Kind Headlines: Alissa Turney, Nancy Hanson of Newton, Mass, Elijah Lewis, Merrimack, NH case update, Humanizing the Women of Gilgo Beach - two of whom are from New England - Shannan Gilbert, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman (Scarborough, Maine), Amber Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes (Norwalk, Connecticut), Valerie Mack, and Jessica Taylor - PLUS the status of unknown and  unsolved missing person and murder cases in Massachusetts.   Gilgo Beach: I am taken with this story. The more I learn, the worse it feels. The brutality these women experienced, it is unimaginable. Let me be clear, no one deserves this. Not someone addicted, not someone whose kids were taken away, not someone experiencing mental health issues, not someone involved in sex work. Thousands of women everyday are trafficked into this lifestyle. But this is not about the phenomenon of sex work. This is about these women. And how men target and abuse and mutilate and kill people like them that they decide no one cares about. It simply is not true.Like Chance The Rapper sings, “ Everybody's somebody's everything, Nobody's nothing.”Resources from this episode:For support, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting thehotline.org or text  LOVEIS to 22522.New England Baby Safe Haven LawsNational Safe Haven AllianceMauraMurrayMissing.org - Families of the Missing and Murdered Demand Action from New Hampshire Attorney GeneralJoin us at the New Hampshire Attorney General's office at 33 Capitol Street in Concord, NH on August 15, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Families, advocates, and supporters are welcome to attend.There are a great many unsolved missing person and murder cases in Massachusetts. many we need a status on, to include:Andy Puglisi, Lawrence Deanna Cremin, SomervilleMelanie Melanson, Woburn Charline Rosemond, EverettKarina Holmer, BostonKya Donovan, EverettPaul Christian, LowellBrittany Tee, BrookfieldShariyah Heyward Hyde ParkBruce Crowley, ProvincetownAdam Wacholder, FalmouthHolly Piirainen, Sturbridge - the 30 year anniversary of Holly's murder is on August 5, please think of her and her family.More updates coming. I am going on vacation. Catch you in August.Crime of the Truest Kindcrimeofthetrustkind.comFollow @crimeofthetruestkindEmail Anngelle at crimeofthetruestkind@gmail.comThank you for listening. Support the showFor show notes and source information, please visit CrimeoftheTruestKind.comMusic included in this episode by Joe "onlyone" Kowalski and Andrew King

Here we have on Adam Spencer, Medford Police Officer who is representing the City of Medford in the Battle of the Badge Boxing event in Sturbridge, Ma this Friday. Adam is a very funny, energetic, and passionate person.This episode had a lot fo laughs. This is a solid listen!

KJ, Meredith, and Whiskey are REALLY excited to talk about witches. So excited that EVERYONE has something to share in this week's mythology section. In other news, Dean and Ruby have finally met, Sam drives an irreparable wedge between himself and his brother, and KJ weighs the pros and cons of selling their soul for witchcraft. CW Episode Description: Sam and Dean travel to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and discover a coven of witches that has killed two people. Ruby warns the brothers to stay away as the demon controlling these witches is very powerful and will surely kill them. Ignoring her plea, Sam and Dean go in after the coven and confront the head witch, who reveals Ruby's past.Linktree including sign up sheet to be on the podcast and our Discord server: https://linktr.ee/SupernaturalOpinionsPodcastFor more KJ Spn-verse content check out KJ's other podcast Wayward Parents! Follow @waywardparents on twitter for updates and listen wherever you listen to podcastsGuest social medias:Meredith (tiktok, instagram and Tumblr): shaedsofdeianeiraWhiskey: deans.67chevy on instagram and deans67chevy on tiktok

On this week's podcast, Jason Knott joins us from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to discuss the surprising news last week that he will be leaving his long-time post as editor in chief of CE Pro magazine to join D-Tools, the provider of business management software for electronic systems integrators. In the newly created role of data solutions architect and evangelist, our guest today will work with a special team at D-Tools to define and deliver industry analytics and insights. Jason is a friend of Jeremy's since they both got started in the residential tech industry back in 2000.Today's episode of Residential Tech Talks is brought to you Nice, a global manufacturer of smart home, security, and building automation solutions. Nice is bringing together 30 years of innovation with award-winning products from ELAN, SpeakerCraft, and Panamax, to create a holistic ecosystem for builders, integrators, and consumers. Learn more about how you can create One Home with One Solution at go.niceforyou.com/rtt.

This is the unsolved murder of 10-year-old Holly Piirainen, who would be abducted and murdered during a week-long summer vacation at her grandparent's home in Sturbridge, MA. In August of 1993, she was taken from the small rural community while she was waiting near a neighbour's home to see the puppies she was promised. Only one of Holly's shoes would be found by the side of a road - but no sign of Holly. There would be a massive search launched to try and find the little girl - and 79 days later, a group of hunters would discover her body left in the woods. We're coming up on the 30th anniversary of Holly's murder, and the monster who did this to her still has not been caught However, just this past week there was an update from this case provided to the public that could spark renewed interest and new leads. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call state police at 413-505-5946 or 1-855-MA-SOLVE (1-855-627-6583), or by texting the word "Solve" to 274637. I'll also have these details in my show notes. Follow me here:► Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/serialnapper► Twitter - https://twitter.com/serial_napper► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/Sources:https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/da-to-release-new-details-in-1993-killing-of-10-year-old-mass-girl/2960667/ https://www.helpholly.com/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/investigators-link-dead-mass-man-to-site-where-body-of-10-year-old-holly-piirainen-was-found/https://www.youtube.com/@wwlp   Support the show

I'm always intrigued by new ways of thinking and of looking at ourselves. Today we get an excellent dose of that. Internal Family Systems (IFS) has been around awhile, but in the last five years, I've heard more of my friends who are therapists mention it. I'm excited to have finally sat down with Will Halpin, LICSW, MPH to dive a little deeper and learn more. I'm impressed at how much value we squeezed into this episode. The conversation touches on:Why its called Internal Family SystemsWhat makes IFS different than other therapy modalitiesWhat removing constraints for optimal functioning looks likeThe analogy of an orchestra and your role as the conductorThe importance of selfThe eight Cs that makeup selfThe importance of getting curious about your responsesA little on protectors and exiles What IFS therapy looks like, both in a therapy session and when you are working through some of it on your own Will Halpin is a psychotherapist and public health social worker with over 20 years of experience working in community health center settings and in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts. Earlier in his career, he developed programs and a comprehensive curriculum with the Boston Public Health Commission to train providers on best practices in working with people struggling with crystal meth abuse and dependence. Most of his clinical experience has been working within the LGBTQAI+ population, and specifically complex/developmental trauma and substance abuse. He has trained in a variety of treatment modalities to offer a variety of options when working with survivors of trauma, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He is currently training in neurofeedback to offer it as an additional treatment for trauma survivors at his private practice in Sturbridge, Ma. He also enjoys training new therapists who are learning IFS. When he is not at work, you can find him in the mountains, in a lake, or in the woods. Enjoying whatever outdoor recreation is available in that particular season. Enter our Giveaway to celebrate our 1 year Anniversary!https://bit.ly/TGSGiveaway1YRConnect with Will - WillHalpin.com Learn more about IFS - IFS-Institute.comBooks:Self Therapy by Jay EarleyYou Are the One You've Been Waiting For - Dr. Richard SchwartzWe'd love to connect more with you.Grab your copy of our Self-Care Coloring Pages & get added to our mailing list. https://ColoringPages.TheGritShow.comFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/The.Grit.Show/Our Website has more information about us, all of our episodes, and all the transcripts:TheGritShow.com Are you ready to take that next step in your self-care journey? Get your Color of Grit Adult Coloring Book here - book -

Beautiful handmade glass ornaments are glistening this Christmas over at the Sandwich Glass Museum! The "Glassblower's Christmas" event at the museum on Cape Cod is a fun way to learn all about the historic art of glassblowing while celebrating the season. Andrew Snell, Retail Manager at the Museum, talks with Nichole about this family-friendly Christmas experience. || This Christmas, you can step back in time by heading out to Central Massachusetts. "Christmas by Candlelight" is back at Old Sturbridge Village, and Communications Director Christine Freitas has all the details on what the beautifully decorated Village has to offer for those who come to celebrate (hint: there's cocoa!). || The holidays can be a very difficult time for people in recovery. Dr. Ximena Sanchez-Samper from Charles River Recovery in Weston shares advice and insight for those working hard to stay sober this season.

“I believe the world is a better place if there is more theatre in it. There is only more theatre in it if there are more people making it. So, I do everything I can to help inspire, educate people to make more theatre. Does that mean I can produce every show? Unfortunately not.”  What's in this episode? Get a sneek peak into the brand new musical The Griswold's Family Vacation! What exactly is producing? How do you pick a city to do an out of town tryout?  How does the industry treat multi-hyphenates? How are multi-hyphenates like small businesses? How does Ken commit to being an accessible producer? How Hal Prince inspired Ken by saying one simple thing.  What is successful producing?  Joy the Musical! “In the business world, if you invent a product – you are the creator of that thing. You are an artist. You just designed the thing – you made it out of nothing. And then you have to raise the money for it. So, you're producing it yourself. All those people that go on Shark Tank, they are raising the money, they are doing the things. No one says, “Ugh, how dare you!” No, that's what they do. That's what Sara Blakely had to do for Spanx, that's what Mark Zuckerberg had to do for Facebook – all of it. They create something and then they raise it – but in our industry people roll their eyes.” Ken Davenport (Producer) is a two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer whose credits include A Beautiful Noise, Once On This Island (Tony Award), The Play that Goes Wrong, Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), Deaf West Theatre's Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It's Only a Play starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Tony Award), The Visit (Tony nomination) as well the Off-Broadway productions of Altar Boyz, The Awesome 80s Prom and many more. Davenport's productions have been produced internationally in over 25 countries around the world. He was the Executive Producer for North America for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group and is the Theatrical Consultant for Primary Wave Music Publishing. His blog has been featured in every major publication around the world, from the New York Times to Vanity Fair. He conceived the best-selling boardgame Be A Broadway Star (available on Amazon) and he is an avid golfer. Ken is a Massachusetts native, raised in Sturbridge, MA, who grew up going to shows at the Colonial Theatre. He dedicates his career to his late father, Dr. Kenny Dipchand Hasija, an Indian immigrant who always dreamed about going into the theater but encouraged his son to do so instead. Other productions in development include Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation, Joy and The Ten. www.kendavenport.com Instagram: @kendavenportbway Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was summer of 1993 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Sturbridge is a quaint community of around 7,800 people, located on the state's border with Connecticut, and it consists of mostly summer-homes. One afternoon, however, the tranquility of the area was shattered when a little girl failed to return to her grandparents' summer cottage.SPONSORS - Rocket Money: Thank you to Rocket Money for sponsoring this episode! It's time to fight back against scammy subscriptions with Rocket Money. On average, people save $750. Save today at http://rocketmoney.com/morbidologySuspect: Hey Prime Members, listen to the Amazon Music exclusive podcast, SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow, in the Amazon Music App. Download the app today: http://www.amazon.com/SUS_us_pfd_AA_110122.PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/morbidologyAudio Credit:Evening of Chaos - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Empty Reflections - ErikMMusic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgq4SPKHlyIA Mothers Sacrifice - OurMusicBox - https://ourmusicbox.com/Dark Tranquility - Anno Domini Beats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mBav72Ak

On This Episode we review Bazada Games 2 NEW games and Riddle Room's bonus puzzles in their game Imaginasium of Intrigue. Also we touch on the TERPECA Awards from Top Escape Room Project ------------------------------------------- We will have our 1st giveaway from Escape The Pike in Sturbridge, MA on an upcoming podcast. Stay tuned for more details. ------------------------------------------- Dom & Phil enjoy escape rooms. We have done over 300 escape rooms at over 100 companies in 9 states.  We started in February of 2018 in Florida. We have done rooms in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, & Connecticut. Check out our website https://diuescapecrue.com/ Check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/diuescapecrue Check out our Twitter page https://twitter.com/DIUERR60

On this episode we review Abomination: The Legacy of Dr. Frankenstein at Panic Room Stamford in Stamford, CT (We recorded this episode at the end of the summer) --------------------------------------------------------- We are looking for a great way to give away 2 FREE passes to Escape the  Pike in Sturbridge, MA.  If you have an idea please send us a message on our Facebook page. --------------------------------------------------------- Dom & Phil enjoy escape rooms. We have done 310 escape rooms at 110 companies in 9 states.  We started in February of 2018 in Florida. We have done rooms in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, & Connecticut. Click Here to Grab Some SWAG!!!!  Check out our website https://diuescapecrue.com/ Check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/diuescapecrue Check out our Twitter page https://twitter.com/DIUERR60

This episode is our review of Mysitfied in Mystic, CT --------------------------------------------------------- We are looking for a great way to give away 2 FREE passes to Escape the  Pike in Sturbridge, MA.  If you have an idea please send us a message on our Facebook page. --------------------------------------------------------- Dom & Phil enjoy escape rooms. We have done 310 escape rooms at 110 companies in 9 states.  We started in February of 2018 in Florida. We have done rooms in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, & Connecticut. Click Here to Grab Some SWAG!!!!  Check out our website https://diuescapecrue.com/ Check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/diuescapecrue Check out our Twitter page https://twitter.com/DIUERR60

171. Packing my bags for a trip out East -gonna shake it up at the New England Shake-UP #7 in Sturbridge but before I leave, I'm spending some quality time with YOU in the Motorbilly Studios broadcasting 3 big hours of hi-octane ROCKIN' BILLY music! Expect some fine raging rockers from Boston PLUS  big bold batch of vintage boppers, jivers & strollers on DJ Del Villarreal's "Go Kat, GO!" NEW cuts to unpack from THE ROCKATS, MARCEL BONTEMPI, LUCKY JONES, EL CAMINO, THE KUSTOM KINGS, JANE ROSE, MARCEL RIESCO and MORE! Plenty of the classic juice you crave from CARL PERKINS, ELVIS PRESLEY, EDDIE COCHRAN, BOB LUMAN, GENE VINCENT, DAVE "DIDDLE" DAY, THE COUNTRY DUDES & others... for the finest rockabilly sounds from ANY decade recent or past, it's gotta be "Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show!" -good to the last BOP!™

169. Whole lotta SHAKIN' going on here! Shake it UP with our special on-air guest BECK RUSTIC -we're talking all about the 2022 New England Shake-Up and featuring music from all the amazing acts on the bill! Which bands will be on stage? Who will be the special guest speakers? What kind of unique vendors will there be? Where can you get the best BBQ in Sturbridge, MA? Enjoy the informative chat with the organizer behind the 7th annual Shake-Up and hear tracks from SO MANY of the rockin bands that will be in Massachusetts next week! Get ready for your East Coast rockin trip with the Aztec Werewolf™ tonight on "Go Kat, GO! The Rock-A-Billy Show!"  -make with the SHAKE, baby! 

We are so fancy from Texas to Massachusetts - join us as we break down our trip to the Pintastic Expo in Sturbridge, MA. We saw friends, played some Toy Story, lost IDs, went to a cheese party, saw John Borg sing some Rush.....and we answered the question, did Lauren get a lobster roll? https://pintasticnewengland.com/ Pintastic YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1hsYk9HhlG9AxvS2IgaUkA)

August 3rd, 2022. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #548 – Tonight we scoped out some of the bands playing Milltown Hot Rod Rock N Roll Weekend in Sturbridge, MA with tracks from Thee Benevolent Tarots, The Unomfortables, Sourpunch, Sasquatch and the Sickabillys, The Hellbound Hitmen, The Memphis Morticians, Jesse Ray Carter Band, Diablogato, and more tunes about … Continue reading Tommy Unit LIVE!! #548 – Milltown Hot Rod Rock'n'Roll Weekend! →

August 3rd, 2022. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #548 – Tonight we scoped out some of the bands playing Milltown Hot Rod Rock N Roll Weekend in Sturbridge, MA with tracks from Thee Benevolent Tarots, The Unomfortables, Sourpunch, Sasquatch and the Sickabillys, The Hellbound Hitmen, The Memphis Morticians, Jesse Ray Carter Band, Diablogato, and more tunes about … Continue reading Tommy Unit LIVE!! #548 – Milltown Hot Rod Rock’n’Roll Weekend! →

Safe to say, the crew had the show on lock today! Bo's Impossible Question of the Day may have had people puzzled, but it still received a key-ring's worth of answers. Our Associate Caller of the Day, Corey, from Store 2797 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, locked in some good responses along with a shoutout to his Team Lead. Stores 1400 and 2811 from Market 21 in Athens, Georgia, also received props from their Market Manager, Rob. They've been low-key crushing it with Back to School inventory. On the flipside, we high-key celebrated awesome anniversaries in Milestone Minute! Congratulations to Jeanette from Store 3210 in Springfield, Illinois, on hitting 40 years, Juanita from Club 4794 in Lakeland, Florida, reaching 30 years and Daniel at Store 5276 in Palatine, Illinois, for 20 years with the company. You may be wondering, what's the key to solving Bo's riddles? Well, the answers are only discussed behind closed doors, but just tune in to the show and maybe you'll get a handle on them!

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=3009 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2999 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2995 0

On this episode we talk to Zach, Owner of CrossFit Sturbridge about his journey into CrossFit and also about his vision for CrossFit Sturbridge. Zach is working hard on building an amazing tribe there and shares his insights with us. Want to learn how to build your own tribe or strengthen your Affiliate? Reach out to us below https://Fit-Filliate.as.me/SolutionsNotProblems Use coupon code PODCAST for free one hour coaching call Reach out if you have a great story to tell about your Affiliate. We love to highlight all that is amazing in the affiliate world. Use this link to book in https://fit-filliate.as.me/podcast You can find us on Instagram @fitfilliate & @fitfilliatepodcast #gymowner #crossfitaffiliates #crossfitaffiliateowner #Leadershipcoach #businesscoaches #businessownerlife #leadershipcoaching #leadershipskills #businesscoaching #executivecoaching #crossfit #crossfitpodcast

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2989 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2985 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2977 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2971 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2961 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2945 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2941 0

On this episode we interview Dave the owner of Mind Factory Escape Games in Bridgeport, CT ------------------------------------------- We will have our 1st giveaway from Escape The Pike in Sturbridge, MA on an upcoming podcast. Stay tuned for more details. ------------------------------------------- DIU Podcast Network had added another podcast called "The Rusty Razor Podcast" hosted by Designated Dave. You can get this podcast on all platforms and also video by going to their YouTube page. ------------------------------------------- Dom & Phil enjoy escape rooms. We have done 275 escape rooms at 100 companies in 9 states.  We started in February of 2018 in Florida. We have done rooms in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, & Connecticut. Check out our website https://diuescapecrue.com/ Check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/diuescapecrue Check out our Twitter page https://twitter.com/DIUERR60 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------  

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2932 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2923 0

***NEW***NEW: Online Healing RoomsWe have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.orgGraham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and morehttp://www.ministryschool.netRECEIVE OUR FREE AUDIO TEACHING OFFERhttp://www.gjm.org/offerNEW TO GRAHAM JONES MINISTRIES? Click here: http://www.gjm.orgLEARN HOW TO FOLLOW JESUS? CLICK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-zS6JdNJcTO GIVE ONLINE:  CLICK HERE:http://www.gjm.org/giveMINISTRY SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN – Join us in person or online Details at http://www.ministryschool.netOriginally from England, Evangelist Graham Jones divides his time between ministry in Europe and the USA. Graham’s heart is and passion is revival and seeing the presence and power of God released back into the church. Graham speaks in churches, conferences, universities and businesses in many different countries each year. He brings a breath of fresh air and passion to God’s people as he encourages them to come back to simple supernatural Christianity.Website: http://www.gjm.orgChurches http://www.gjm.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/grahamjonesGJMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/revgrahamjonesYouTube: http://www.gjm.org/youtubePodcast: http://www.gjm.org/podcastOnline ministry school, word of knowledge, Healing,Word of Faith, Prophetic, Graham Jones, hearing God's voice, healing, New England, Sturbridge, New Canaan, ministry school, ministry training, https://gjm.org/?feed=rss2&p=2920 0

***NEW*** NEW: Online Healing Rooms We have recently opened an online healing rooms. This is a support group for those believing for healing.  See our website for details.  http://www.gjm.org Graham has a new online course “The Goodness Course”. Learn about the transformational power of God's goodness. The Course contains 12 video/audio lessons, notes and more http://www.ministryschool.net RECEIVE […]

On this episode we continue our Long Island road trip to Just Escape in Massapequa, NY ------------------------------------------- We will have our 1st giveaway from Escape The Pike in Sturbridge, MA on an upcoming podcast. Stay tuned for more details. ------------------------------------------- DIU Podcast Network had added another podcast called "The Rusty Razor Podcast" hosted by Designated Dave. You can get this podcast on all platforms and also video by going to their YouTube page. ------------------------------------------- Dom & Phil enjoy escape rooms. We have done 273 escape rooms at 100 companies in 9 states.  We started in February of 2018 in Florida. We have done rooms in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, & Connecticut. Check out our website https://diuescapecrue.com/ Check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/diuescapecrue Check out our Twitter page https://twitter.com/DIUERR60

Audio Transcript:This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.All right. Well, I guess that's a sign from God that there's no time limit on this sermon. Praise God. If you're new, welcome, and we're so glad that you came early today. The 15 minutes early to the service, it felt like a sacrificed, didn't it? A little bit? Good. Good. That's the whole point. We should just keep doing that every single week, just incrementally change the time. We have coffee in the back. We brought coffee back in. So enjoy. I don't think we have any announcements other than God is good all the time.So let's pray. Heavenly father, we thank you so much that you are a God who loves us. And we do understand that we live in a fallen, sinful world. We have a fallen flesh that seeks satisfaction in sin. We rebel against you. We have that nature. And then we also live in a fallen world. The world is against the church. And on top of that, we have an enemy, Satan and his army of demons, vying for our souls and opposing the work of God. Therefore, we shouldn't be surprised that we lose vision of you, Jesus.Our vision gets cluttered. I pray today, remove that clutter. Jesus, in the same way that you entered the temple with a whip and zeal for the house, we pray, make us a people who are zealous with a holy zeal to cleanse our temple of sin, our personal bodies and souls to ruthlessly fight sin and to also oppose sin in the church when it creeps in or anything that gets added onto the pure gospel of Jesus Christ. Holy spirit, we welcome you into this place. We pray that you lead us, that you equip us.I pray that you today comfort the afflicted and also afflict the comfortable and continue to build your church here in the city. And Lord, we thank you for the privilege of getting to work with you. You don't need us, but we need the invitation. We need the work because that's what shapes us into the image of God and that's what keeps us close to you. And I pray, Lord, make us a church that is as zealous as you are about the church. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.The title of the sermon today is Cleansing the Clutter. This is our Love Jesus Simple series. This is our DNA. It's to refocus us on who we are, our identity, and given our identity, what we do, our activity. And then with our activity, what's the vision? Where are we going? And we talk about love. That we are given the great commandment to love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. We're given the great commission that we are to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, son, the holy spirit, and teaching them to do everything that Jesus taught us.And we have the great compassion where Jesus says that we are to care for the least of these of the world so love. By Jesus, we talked about the living word of God as attested to in the written word of God, the second person of the Trinity that reveals God to us and that reconciles us to God. So we focused on Jesus. And today we're talking about simplicity, to simplify, to get rid of anything that gets in the way of the most important, of the most essential. So we can be a church that majors in the majors.I drive a 2007 Highlander, and I do that on purpose because I can park. It's got three row seating. I've got four kids. I can park it in tight spots. But also, it's old and I don't care if it gets dinged up. It's tremendous. I am not attached to my car at all. Therefore, we have never had it detailed, ever. Ever not once. And then we started looking around, there's crayons from 1980. It's just nasty. I look around and I'm like, "You know what? This is one of the reasons probably why we hate driving this thing."So I took it to a detailing place. My wife took it to a detailing place in Allston. I don't even know the name of it, but I love their little motto: it's a spa for your car. So I went there and they got it detailed and I couldn't recognize the car. It was pristine. And for some reason, I think it started driving better. I don't know if there's a connection, but you know that connection when it's clean and you want to be in that car. So there's something that happens when our houses get cluttered.People are fascinated with hoarders, people that just keep getting... And we watch shows about it. There's a whole movement about deep cluttering and simplifying, focusing on the essentials, living in little homes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So this is why we do this on an annual basis because in the church, there is a tendency for things to get cluttered. Question. If you're new to Mosaic, I have multiple introductions in the introduction. This is my second introduction.Question. How much of your waking hours are spent looking at man-made things? Of your waking hours, how much percentage of that are you looking at man-made things? I'm talking about your apartment. I'm talking about the brick and mortar around us, the asphalt around us. I'm talking about the mediocre transportation. I'm talking about Storrow Drive. My brother and I and my dad were stuck in Storrow Drive traffic yesterday. And my dad looks around and he's like, "This is why I hate cities."He lives in Jamestown, Rhode Island, on the ocean. He's like, "I hate this." I was like, "Imagine living here 12 years." And then, you know what he says? "But there's also a lot of benefits to the city." He does this thing to encourage me, like keep living here. This as important. But just think about how much of your waking hours is man-made things. And on top of that, you're at work. You're staring at a screen all day. And then when you come home, you got your phone. You don't even go to the bathroom without your phone. You're just staring at man-made things all the time. Plus, we're surrounded by unbelievers.Most of us, the only time that we relate with Christians, fellowship with Christians is when we go to church or a community group. So there is so much to be discouraged about because everything manmade is sinful. And on top of that, we're surrounded by people who don't know God. Yes, cities are tremendous because there's so much more of the image of God per square foot and there's also more of the human flesh depravity, the reprobate nature per square foot. Not to mention the demonic oppression when there are so many concentrated souls and Satan is vying for these.So during the week, we lose focus. We lose sight of what's most important. And this is why Sunday morning is so important. This is why community group is so important. This is how I feel about Sunday mornings: I feel like I'm your tour guide. And I pull up and I've got this massive, massive van. I'm like, "Hey, get in. Get in." And I drive you to the mountains. I take my machete and I'm like, "You know what? Grab a machete too because this sermon is going to be hard work."And we're just climbing the mountain with machetes, climbing, climbing. And then you're tired. I'm like, "Have some more coffee, have some more water, caffeine, holy spirit hydration. Let's go." And we're slugging away, machete after machete after machete. And then finally you begin to see a little clear and then finally you get to the top. And I just point you, look to the cross, look to calvary, look to the glory of God. And that fills your soul and you're encouraged. And then we go back down the mountain and we drive you back into the mission that is the mission of God here in the city.And you're like, "Ah, I got to do it all again." Yes. And that's why church is so important. So everything we do at Mosaic is very calculated. It's like a good coach managing the energy of the team, the momentum of the team. It's like a good CEO, who knows the data, who knows the resources at hand and how to strategically invest for the maximum benefit of the organization and everybody. And it's like a good general who knows the soldiers and knows the mission and cares for the soldiers and actually gets off his high horse and says, "I am on the mission here with you. We are on the front lines."I shared the gospel with I think it was a random guy on the street just by saying hi. I said hi to him. He said, "What?" I was like, "I just wanted to say hi." And he's like, "Everything is messed up," and that's not the word he used. He says, "Everything's messed up." I was like, "I know. I know. Politics is messed up and the economy's messed up, everything." And he's like, "Everyone asleep." I was like, "I know. I know. I'm trying to wake them up. I'm trying to wake them up." He said, "To what?" I said, "The true reality." He said, "You know the secret?" I said, "Oh yeah." So he told me he's going to come to church today. So I'm extra pumped. So hopefully he does show up.But this is why we're here. We have zeal for God. We have zeal for God's people and we have zeal for God's house. And we have zeal for the mission of God. This is why the sermon is so important. And I pray that we never lose sight of that. Today, we're in John 2:13-25. Jesus Christ the context is. And the beginning of chapter two, he begins his ministry because mom asked him to. He's at a wedding and they ran out of wine. And that was a major full pot.And Jesus is like, "I know it's a major full pot. You got any water?" They had 180 gallons of water. And he made the most delicious wine that they had ever tasted, not boxed wine, not wine with an animal on it. That's when you know that's not good wine. He made the best wine that they had ever tasted. That was awesome. People know his glory. And the very next thing he does is he enters the temple and he starts cleansing it. So that's our text today in John 2:13.The Passover of the Jews was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons and the money changer sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away. Do not make my father's house a house of trade." His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."So the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?" And Jesus answered them, "Destroy the temple and in three days, I will raise it up." The Jews then said, "It has taken 46 years to build this temple and will you raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When, therefore, he was raised from the dead. His disciples remembered that he had said this. They believed the scripture, the word that Jesus had spoken.Now, when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them because he knew all people. He needed one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. This is the reading of God, totally and authoritative word. May you write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Two points to frame up our time. First, Jesus is consumed with zeal for God's house. And second, are you consumed with zeal for God's house?Point one begins with Jesus Christ going to Jerusalem at the Passover feast. Now, you got to remember the importance of the Passover feast. What was the Passover feast celebrating? It was celebrating the fact that God led through Moses the people of Israel out of Egypt, after captivity, bondage, oppression for four centuries. And how did God lead them out? Sign after sign, after sign, after sign. And Pharaoh kept hardening his heart, hardening his heart. And then finally God said, "The only way to get you out is through death. The only way to give you life and freedom is through death."God sent the angel of death. The angel of death was going to pass through. And every firstborn in every single household will die, the first son will die, unless the doorframe is painted with the blood of the lamb. Now, whoever believed... This is cookie. This is crazy. They didn't even have the sacrificial system yet. But God was saying your sin, Israel, your sin, Egyptians, your sin deserves death. And the only way to save you is a substitute, a sinless substitute. Someone must die in your place if you are to live.So the Passover feast was for them to remember God's grace. God, you saved me because someone died for me. God, I'm celebrating your love and remembering your wrath for my sin. And all the Passover feast was, it was a big, thank you. God, thank you, thank you, thank you for saving me, for saving us. So we gather annually to do that. And we see in Jerusalem, in the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons and he could see the money changer the sitting there. The animals were sacrifice.Deuteronomy, the people of God were told you need to raise the animal yourself. The animal has to grow up with you, grow up with your family. It has to basically be a pet. And then you got to take this animal and you got to take it with you to the temple, however far it takes, however much work it takes. And you need to feel the emotional pain of this animal, the one you knew dying in your place. We have emotional attachments to animals. We do. That's what God was doing. I want you to take your beloved.It's hard to even say, like you're beloved, your dog, your cat. That's what God was doing. But then the religious people realized, okay, that doesn't make practical sense for people to bring the animals. Let's make it a little easier. And you know what? This might solve our funding issue. People aren't tithing as they should be. We've got buildings to build. We've got capital campaigns. We've got staff salaries to pay.So you know what? Let's sell the sacrificial animals at the temple. Let's tell them there. Let's just offer it as a service, just to make it a little more convenient for those whom it's hard to go to worship. And then the people would come and they're like, "Oh, I can buy an animal. Tremendous." And the people that couldn't buy the animal because of price gouging, it's like when you go into the Red Sox, a hotdog is like $80.They got you in there. You're in. You're in. That's it. It's supply and demand. Now, you're in. Okay. Here's the price. So the poor people couldn't do that. So the poor people are bringing their own animals. They're bringing the pigeon. And then the people are like, okay, that adds another layer of difficulty. We've got to solve that problem to continue our streams of income.So they said, we're going to have inspectors. We're going to inspect the animal. Oh, your lamb, it's got a blemish on it. What blemish? There's no blemish. There's a blemish. It's a lemon. You brought a lemon. Well, we have another vehicle that we can sell you. Well, we'll buy this one. You can trade it in for that one. We'll give you 20 bucks for your little lemon lamb. And then we're going to sell you one for a hundred. And the person doesn't have a choice because it's the religious inspectors.It's the first used car dealership right there at the temple. And then on top of that, they would take the little lemon lamb, they would take that lamb and then sell it to the next person. Tremendous income stream. And they're like, you know what? This is great. Let's keep doing this. And then they're like, why are we using Roman currency? Whoever controls the currency, controls everything. So let's create our own currency.They create their own temple currency. They're like we're done with the fiat dollar. We're going to use Bitcoin. That's what we're going to do in the temple. We got our own temple coin. That's what we're going to do. And obviously, when you get there with the money, I'm sorry, your money's not accepted here. So you can trade it in. Obviously, there's a little fee on top, the Coinbase fee of whatever percentage it is. That's what's going on.So they're making money left and right off of whom? Off of people that want to show up to the temple and say thank you to God, to know more about God. So you got extortion and you got corruption. And it's all run by the people who are tasked with the job of telling people that God wants to forgive their sins. So John 2:15, what does Jesus do? Making a whip of cords. And I want to pause here for a second to show how premeditated this was. This wasn't Jesus hot headed, seeing something he doesn't like and going and tossing tables and causing chaos.He deliberately, methodically sits there, prayerfully making a whip, a whip of cords. And he drove them all out with a temple them, the people with the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. Does this Jesus have a place in your theology of God? Because if this Jesus isn't in your theology of God, you don't know God. I understand that some people naturally are not wired to loving this Jesus I am.I love this Jesus. This is my favorite Jesus. This Jesus, when he comes back in Revelation with a sword coming out of his mouth, with a huge tattoo down his leg that said, "Lord of lord and king of kings." I love that Jesus, because that Jesus Christ kill me. And if you can kill me, I'm going to follow you. That's that's how I'm wired. But you need the savage Jesus in your theology. This is the start of his ministry.What did he do for the first three decades of his life? He was a builder. He worked with his dad and he was builder. He built things. So I see, like, he swung a hammer. There were no power tools back then. So if you build stuff, you're yoked. This is yoked Jesus showing up at the temple. Well, how do I know he's yoked? Because he doesn't need two hands to turn over tables. He's got a whip in one hand and he's tossing tables with the other hand. And what is he doing? Jesus Christ, yoked carpenter, cage fighting Jesus. This Jesus is declaring war against the establishment.He's declaring war against the priest and against the temple religious system. He's declaring war against every single person who's getting in the way of people meeting God, people in authority who are getting in the way of people meeting God. That's what sparks his zeal and he makes a whip. And what does he say in verse 16? He told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away. Do not make my father's house the house of trade." Jesus, what is motivating you emotionally to do this thing that might bring you to the brink of death.The priesthood has the Roman soldiers at their disposal. They can whack you in a second. Jesus, you're risking everything to do what? What are you motivated by? He's motivated by a love for his father's house. This is my father's house. This is where God, the father, is worshiped, where the children of God gather. This is my house. When I go to my dad's house, I take off my shoes. But the only thing I do diff... Well, I take off my shoes in my house because my wife does the same thing.But at my dad's house, I walk in and I open the fridge. What do we got? What are we eating? It's my too. Is it my house? No, but it is my house. My mom never said, :Make yourself at home." She already knows. Jesus walks into his house. He doesn't take the whip and go to someone else's house. This is my house. This is my house. So we need to clean it out, clean and declutter this house. The main issue is he says, "Why did you make my father's house, a house of trade?" If you want to do the business side and selling the animals, do it outside. Don't do it in the court of Gentiles. That's where they were doing.So in the temple, there's the holy of holies. And there was a place where the men of Israel could enter. And then there was a court of the Gentiles. The court of the Gentiles couldn't go into where they were doing the sacrifices. This is as close to God as they could come. They didn't see how graphic the sacrificial system is. They didn't see it. That wasn't emblazed on their hearts so they understand the gravity of what's going on, that this animal was dying for you.These people want to go to pray. They want to go connect with God. And they find themselves in the midst of bizarre, animals bellowing and bleeding, selling. It's like the New York Stock Exchange on a Friday after noon. You're trying to pray and all that people see is business. And what does that communicate to people that do not know God? What that communicates is these people don't care about God. The people in charge don't care about God. Why should I care about God?If the people in charge have a transactional relationship with God. I give God money, he forgives me of sins. That's what we're doing here. You want your sins atoned for, forgiven? We'll take your money. That's it. Your sins are forgiven. Kind of what the Catholic church did before the reformation. It was the same thing, transaction, business. We're going to build buildings and we're going to fill up the coffers. And then we're going to fill up our own bank accounts. It was the same, same thing, people getting in the way of people worshiping God.So Jesus, in verse 17, his disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." Zeal for your house will consume me. And probably they remembered these words after the resurrection, from the deeper vantage point of everything they had seen. And what this is, is a quote from Psalm 69:9, "For zeal for your house has consumed me. And the reproaches of those who reproach, you have fallen on me."Now, initially, this was written by David. David is saying he felt a reproach. He suffered reproach because of his zeal for the house of God. Now, it's fascinating, it's both from the Hebrew, Psalm 69, and the sub teigen, which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament. This is where you got to get your machete ready just for a little bit. We're still swinging. What's important there in the grammar is that tense is in the past tense. For zeal for your house has consumed me. That's a past tense.John turns the past tense into a future. He says, zeal for your house will consume you. It will consume you. Why is that important? Because John is treating the Psalm as a messianic prophecy of the ministry of Jesus. This is the Messiah. This is the prophet who was promised that will come and he will speak God's word to God's people. He's the priest that will come and atone for the sins of God's people. He is the king. He's the anointed one who will force people to submit to his rule.Psalm 69 is one of the six Psalms most often referred to in the New Testament, and Jesus quotes this multiple times, twice in the book of John. John 15:23-25, Jesus starts talking about the fact that people hate him. Whoever hates me hates my father also. And if I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my father. But the word that is written in the law must be fulfilled. They hated me without cause."This isn't they disliked me. This is they despised me. And then John 19:28, Jesus on the cross, "After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said, to fulfill the scripture, 'I thirst." And the jar full of sour wine stood there. So they put a sponge full of the sour wine on the hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit of prophecy, again, written in Psalm 69, fulfilled in Christ.What happened to king David happened much more to an infinite degree more to David's great descendant, the Messiah, Jesus Christ. David wanted to build the temple. He loved the place of God, the worship of God. He loved it. He suffered a reproach for it. Jesus Christ loved it and suffered reproach for it. But ultimately, it wasn't the temple that he really cared about. It was the presence of God that people were thwarted of entering.And then Jesus Christ ultimately to destroy that temple allows the temple of his body to be destroyed as fulfillment of the temple and replacement of rights and sacrifice. And what's so resoundingly clear from this text is that Jesus Christ was opposed. There was outright hostility from the religious people. And then at the end of the text, we see people, "Oh, we like Jesus. He's awesome."And Jesus, it says, did not entrust himself to them because he knew what was in them. He knew how fickle people were. So you've got hostility from the representatives of God and superficial loyalty from everyone else, which is just a sugar coated hostility. And yes, in our culture, that hostility crowd is growing. You tip people's holy cows and see how zealous they become. The holy cows of gender, sexual identity. How things should be set up in the church. You tip holy cows, you tell people that what they do in their house...I'm not coming into your house to clean it. I'm not doing that. I'm making a whip, but I am proclaiming God's word. And when you hear God's word and are offended by it, that's the point to awaken you. That's the point. I don't go into your house with a whip and I pray, dear friend, return the favor. Do not come to our house with your own whip, trying to change Jesus, change God, change God's word. You know why?Because if we allow you or someone to do that, hypothetically, it's not anyone sitting here. Hypothetically, if we allow you to come in and change God, change God's word, change how God told us to do things, then Jesus is going to come with a whip. And who is he going to start with? Me. Me. So I don't want to do that. I don't want to mess with Jesus. I want to snuggle with Jesus like the apostle John. I want that. Don't kill me, please. Thanks. That's the Jesus that I want.So I want to stay in his good graces. That's what's going on. So on the one side, people are growing in hostility to God. So to those people who are like, "Yeah, Jesus got a whip." So that's what we preach. And then to the other people, there's just a superficial loyalty, "I love Jesus." And I see this with a lot of young people. You show up to church and I already know why you're here. You're here because you want to marry someone. Tremendous.So don't fake it. Don't fake being a Christian. Don't fake it. Don't ruin someone else's life. And if you're faking it, you're not going to discern if the other person is actually solid Christian. So that's what I'm saying. Like the superficial loyalty, Jesus rejected that as well. And you know what happens? As soon as Christianity gets difficult, the profession of faith just disappears. It's just gone.And you need to be ready right now. You need to say in your heart, "Okay. If the Taliban knocks on my door and says right now, 'Bring out your daughters to me just because you're a Christian." What are you going to do? Are you ready to suffer for the faith. That's a decision you've got to make now. And Jesus Christ said, "Take up your cross and follow me daily." Meaning there will be a price to pay.Jesus comes and he starts with his own. John 1:11, "He came to his own and his own did not receive him. They were convinced they were loving God by hating the son of God." And that's an important word. The religious elites crucified Jesus thinking they were loving God. The things humans can get away with when they think they are doing God's will. Stalin went to seminary. Stalin was a trained pastor. He thought he was doing what's best for humanity.Be careful that in the name of something you call good, that you don't create barriers for people to meet God. And that's a word to us, to Christians. I've seen this. I grew up in a church like this. I grew up in a church I didn't want to go to. There were barriers there. Do you think boy bands were cool? Then, they were never cool. But before boy bands took off here, they took off in my Russian church.We had four dudes show up that can't sing, but they got slicked back here. I was one of the boys. We did that one time. Dennis, remember that? We did that one time. And then I looked back and I cringe. No wonder my friends didn't want to go to that church. They didn't preach the word. They didn't explain that this is real, that Christianity impacts every single day. How real this truly is.Because we were paying attention to the color of the carpet. That's what we talked about at member's meeting, not saving people, not bringing people to church and seeing people meet Jesus. Not once did I see someone who's an unbeliever show up and say, "You know what? I have no Christian background and I want to become a Christian." I didn't see that once. And I couldn't take my friends to church because they didn't speak Russian.So that's what I'm saying. Christians have this tendency to add stuff to church that keeps people away from seeing the point. And the point is that you are a sinner, that God's wrath is upon you, you deserve Jesus whip and ultimately his sword. But Jesus Christ came and he was consumed with zeal so much so that the one that came with the whip allowed himself to be whipped, allowed himself to be scorched, tied to a pole, shirt taken off. Roman brutal machines of death whipped him with a cat o' nine tails and at the end of every single one of those strands was a rock or a piece of bone to get his back and flesh, to get pulled.So he allows it so that you don't have to, so you don't have to bear his wrath, so you don't have to bear his sword of judgment. That's the point. And Jesus came and he said, that's it. That's what I'm trying to say. I am your only hope to salvation. And that's why the people who are closest to him and heard the message closest to him, most of them hated him.A lot of us think, people, if they just knew how great Jesus was, they'd love him. This is a lie. This is a lie. And that's why people are like, "Oh, don't read that text. Don't read that text." When people really understood who Jesus was, the few, the select, the chosen, they became Christians. Everybody else despised him. They wanted to kill him outright. Why? Why would people hate Jesus?Because the same Jesus who tenderly says, "Come onto me all of you are burdened and heavy laden and I will give you rest." The same Jesus made a whip of cords, drove people out of the temple, scattered and upset, their animals, overturned their tables, scattered all their money. And how does that make you feel? That's an important question. If you really understand, how does that make you? Did Jesus hurt their feelings? Yeah.Wasn't there another way, Jesus? Could you not have like sat down with them and had a conversation, give them a little therapy, brokered a little deal. And like, hey, you guys are doing this wrong. Let me point you to God's word. Do a little Bible study. No, it's not what he does. Because that's not enough to awaken them. What they needed was someone to come in and to hit them where it hurts most, in the pocket book and the ego.And to know that they don't care about the thing that he cares about most. And if they don't care about the thing that he cares about most, they will suffer consequence. So what did he care about most? In John 2:17, his disciples remembered that it was written zeal for your house will consume me. The word zeal comes from the word deboil, like boiling water. That's inside. It's boiling. His blood is boiling.And obviously, there's lots of examples in scripture of unholy zeal. Like when Peter who just woke up from sleep and watching Jesus get arrested, he's like, "Ah, I'm zealous. I'm going to chop off this guy's head," and only gets the ear. And then Jesus is like, "What are you doing?" That's unholy zeal. And St. Paul says there's people that have zeal not according to knowledge, but Jesus' zeal was holy.There was nothing wicked about it. His zeal is as holy as his love and his gentleness and his grace. His zeal was his love. He was zealous because he was so loving. Zeal is love made angry because the thing you love, the one you love is being hurt. That's what's going on here. Jesus loves God. He loves the house of God. And he sees that what these people are doing is pulling people away from God.And one of the ways that they were trying to pull people away from God was trying to make it easier, trying to make the church more palatable, God more palatable. Okay. You don't have to raise the animal. We'll do it for you. We'll make it more efficient. We'll make it more timely, more convenient. What better convenience than to sell the sacrificial animals there? A one-stop-shop worship.They took the pain out of worship. They took the pain out of worship. They began to encourage lazy worship, loveless worship, sacrificeless worship, and they catered to their consumer mentality. You come in, you pay, you receive, and creating a customer mentality. And then customers. Well, the customer is always right. If it's a business, if church is primarily a business, the customer is always right.A lot of churches do that. The customer is always right. So that's what we're going to preach. You know how many people you can attract with a message like that? Joel Osteen fills a football stadium primarily because he has nice hair and a beautiful smile and a wonderful jawline and he serves ice cream. He just gives people ice cream. That's all he does. Pay me I give you ice cream. Pay me I gave you...He looked at the church and he's like, "I can offer you ice cream for your soul." You go there, you're uplifted, you're encouraged. Everything is awesome. Wonderful. He doesn't call me to do any of this. This is tremendous. You show up here and I say, "Grab your machete. We're going to war. This is what we do." We pull you to work. You show up, you have a pulse, we tell you about Jesus and we'll give you a job.That's what we do. Because that's the best thing for you. I grew up painting with my dad, who likes painting if your house looks bad. Don't get mad. Tremendous. I was six years old. He's like, "You want to work with me tomorrow?" I said, "Tremendous." I show up to work and I'm working. Was I good? No, I was terrible. He didn't need me there. I needed to be there more than he needed me to be there.I needed the service. I needed to learn how to work hard. I needed to learn how to sacrifice. And that's why God gave us sacrificial systems. That's why, when God says, "I want to forgive your sins. And also, take up a cross and follow me." And that's why God does talk about wrath. He talks about for every instance of God's love and mercy and grace in holy scripture, there's three instances of his wrath and damnation and hell.Why does he do that? So when he saves people, they understand what they're saved from. So they're motivated to give all of their life, all of their zeal to save those who are not yet Christians. And here, these people didn't care about it. John 2:18, the Jews said to him, "What sign do you give us for showing these things?" And what's fascinating is their demand betrays them. It betrays the fact that they know that he's not a kook, that he's not just a revolutionary.They feel his authority and they saw it in his eyes. And what they're saying is not, "Oh, teach us how to change the worship. Teach us what we're doing wrong." No, they didn't care about that. They cared that he was tipping their holy cow of authority. And that's why he's like, "You want to sign? Here's the sign, destroy this temple. And in three days, I'll raise it up." Obviously, he's not talking about destroying the temple. that's what they used in order to arrest him after and those are the insults that were hurled at him as he's hanging on the cross. And he's not talking about this temple, he's talking about destroy this temple. That's the sign that...A lot of people are like, "I believe in God. If there was a sign from God." There is a sign from God. A guy lived, a guy died, and a guy came back from the dead. That's the sign. And that's the sign that everybody gets. God is an all equal opportunity sign giver. Everybody gets the same sign. Tremendous. But you've got to believe in it. You got to understand why he's on the cross. You got to understand what he did for us.What's fascinating is the same zeal with which he started his ministry, that was the same zeal with which he did his ministry. Him cleansing the temple was just a sign of everything else that's coming. Everything he taught. The Jews had 618 laws. This is what you got to obey in order to be made right with God. And Jesus is like you can't be made right with God unless you believe in me. And then the 618, let's just condense it. Let's put it in a shot glass, distill, two commands. Love God and love people. Tremendous. Go do it.They want to sit around and have Bible studies instead of doing the stuff that is in the Bible. So Jesus starts his ministry by cleansing the temple, cleanses the people of God, and ends his ministry doing the same thing. And this is what a lot of Christians owner of Stan. This action, what Jesus did is so important to our theology. He does it twice. He does it at the beginning of his ministry, in John 2, and then he does it at the end of the ministry. And Matthew, Mark, and Luke all have that second one.And the context says in Matthew 21, Jesus enters Jerusalem on the holy week, enters in the holy week as the king. Everyone's screaming out, "Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna." And then as a king, he enters the temple again to do the same thing. And that's Matthew 21:12-17. Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the money changers and seats of those who sold pigeons.And he said to them, "It is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them. And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, 'Hosanna to the son of God,' they were indignant. And they said to him, 'Do you hear what these are saying?' And Jesus said to them, 'Yes. Have you never read, out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise.' And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there." He did the same thing. This time, he adds, you've made my house a house of prayer.You've made a den of robbers. He calls it my house, and this is my house. I'm in my house. And you made it a den of robbers. And here he quotes Jeremiah 7, where God tells Jeremiah, go into the temple and preach the sermon. And in that sermon, Jeremiah accuses his contemporary as bringing into the temple all of their sins. So it's not even just about the sacrificial system. It's about the fact that you don't use it.The sacrificial system, the whole point of it was raise a little lamb, care for it, love it, walk it all the way down to the temple and watch it's throat slit for your sins so that you go home and you remember the bleeding of that sheep that you loved and that's to motivate you to live a sinless life, a holy life, a life of zeal toward God. So Jeremiah says to these people in verse eight, "Behold, you trusted deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear false, make offerings to Baal and go after other gods that you have not known. And then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name and say, 'We are delivered,' only to go on doing all these abominations.""Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it," declares the Lord. What they were doing, but this is what's happening in so many American churches today, so so many. You go in and you're like, "Oh, Jesus is the new sacrificial system? Tremendous. I'm going to sin all week. I'm going to live a godless life." Zeal for sin instead of a zeal for the savior. And then you come in on a Sunday, oh yeah, I committed adultery. Okay. Let's repent of that. I stole. Let's repent of that. I worshiped other idols. Okay. I swore falsely, let's repent.I murdered someone. Jesus said, if you hate someone in your heart, that's tantamount to murder, meaning they didn't care about Gods will at all. They just used God. So Jesus quotes these words to these people, den of robbers. And he inflamed their zeal. And that's what got him killed. Ultimately, his zeal did consume him. Ultimately, he did die for us. Jesus was zealous for God. And they were zealous for self power, money, status, positions. And the same battle raging in their hearts is raging in every single heart today.Jesus wants to cleanse your heart of sin. He wants to enter your life with not a whip. Right now, in this life, while you're alive, he wants to enter your heart with mercy and love and grace and forgive you, cleanse you with his blood. This is the beauty. Jesus wants to cleanse you with his blood, not his whip. The whip comes later. But if you bow your knees to Jesus Christ, if you repent of sin in this life, while you're alive, everything is forgiven.You talk about great business models. You could talk about great deals, you could talk about streams of income, all that. This is the greatest deal in the history of the universe. All of your sins are forgiven. So repent. But once you do, you need to know, he expects something from you. He expects you to live zealously for him. And this is point two, Jesus is consumed with zeal. Oh, wow. Point two is going to be really fast. That's why I needed the timer. Dangerous.Okay. Are you consumed with zeal for God's house? When you see this Jesus with a whip, how does that make you feel? It should make you feel that, hey, I don't know if I'm as zealous as he is for God's house, for God. And we're all zealous for something. And you just follow your time, talent, treasure, where your skills are used, where your time is used, where your treasure is used, where it goes naturally, that's what you're most zealous about.And we need to ask ourselves, are we zealous for God? Are we zealous for God's temple? And God's temple obviously is in Jerusalem. Now, God's temple is the church universal, lived out in the church local. And again, I have this conversation all the time. People are like, "I'm a Christian, I'm part of the universal church." That's like me going to you and saying, "Are you a human being?" And they say, "Yeah, I'm part of the human race."Do you have a body? If not, you're Casper the Friendly Ghost. Same thing. Are you a Christian? Are you part of the universal church? Are you part of the local church? If you're not a part of a local church, you're probably not alive. That was the love sermon or the Jesus sermon. I don't know. I preach the same thing every week. Are you zealous for God's work. Are you zealous to please God?Are you zealous to declutter your own soul and life of sin? And your answer, I want you to look at the data. I want you to look at the evidence. If you say I'm zealous for God, look at the data. Where does your time naturally go? Where does your money naturally go? Where do you thoughts naturally go? Look at the data. Study yourself. Show me the receipts that you are zealous. And also, is there anything better to consume your life than zeal for God's house? Is there anything better?If you know me personally, when I get zealous about something, I get zealous. So when I talk about God's word, I am... If I'm not sweating profusely, like I'm at a workout, I'm a CrossFit right now, then I'm not even trying. No. When I get zealous about something, I go all in. I went vegan one time. I dropped like 40 pounds. I was yellow by the end of that. And after that, I started powerlifting. Go completely. I get zealous.I became an amateur boxer just for fun. I get zealous. And the whole time with all of my different whatever, I'm zealous for the church of God. I love the church. I love this church. I love it. I love the scriptures. I love the church. I want to give all of myself to it. And I remember reading J.I. Packer, Knowing God. And he has this section about the zeal of God. If you know God, you have to be zealous for God.And this little section, it's chapter 17 of Knowing God, it changed my life. He says zeal and religion of Christianity is a burning desire to please God, to do his will, to advance his glory in the world in every possible way. It is the desire which no man feels by nature, which the spirit puts in the heart of every believer when he is converted, by which some believers feel so much more strongly than others that they alone deserve to be called zealous men.In religion, Christianity is preeminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he's earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough going, whole-hearted, fervent in spirit. He only sees one thing, cares for one thing. He lives for one thing. He's swallowed up by one thing, and that one thing is to please God, whether he lives or whether he dies, whether he has health or whether he has sickness, whether he is rich, whether he is poor, whether he pleases man or whether he gives offense, whether he's thought wise or whether he is thought foolish, whether he gets blame or whether he gets praise, whether he gets honor, whether he gets shamed.For all this, the zealous man cares nothing at all. He burns for one thing, and that one thing is to please God, to advance God's glory. If he is consumed in the very burning, he cares not for it. He's content. He feels like that, like a lamp. He is made to burn. And if consumed in burning, he has done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach, work, give money, he will cry inside and pray.If he can not fight in the valley with Joshua, he will do the work with Moses and Aaron on the hill. And if he is cutoff from working himself, he will give the Lord no rest till help is raised up from another quarter. And the work is done. This is what I mean when I speak of zeal and religion. May God make us men and women of zeal. And that's going to absolutely ever change the world.Revelation 3:15, 16, 19. "I know your works. You're neither cold nor hot. I would that you were either cold or hot. So because you were lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth." Those are the words of Jesus. "Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline. So be zealous and repent." Titus 2:11-14, "For the grace of God," that's our salvation, "Has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and live self-controlled upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope.""The appearing of the glory of our great God and savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for God's work." And then practically, how does this work? As a church, we focus all of our attention on three things. And those three things are meant to fire up your zeal to the Lord.It's not the only things that we do, but this is where we focus our energy: on our worship services, on our community groups, and our service teams. Acts 2, that's what the early church did. At my house, I live with five females. They're wonderful. They're my favorite roommates. We do three things in my house. We worship God. We talk about God all the time. We read scripture. We pray. We talk about God all the time. My daughter, Milan, is four. She was visiting her aunt and her aunt said, "Do you love God?" She said, "Yeah." And her aunt said, "Why?"And we're expecting, "Oh, he made me. He gives me good stuff. He feeds me." She's like, "Because he told me to." Oh man, that's good. That's good. Love because he's God. That's tremendous. That's great theology. So we love each other. We love each other. We worship God. We love each other. We fellowship and we serve each other. That's every good family. Worship. God, tell each other that you love each other, spend time together, and then serve each other.That's what we do. We worship God. We fellowship in community groups. And if you aren't in one, join one. And then we serve on a weekly basis. And why do we do this? We do this to fire up our faith. And at the center of all of that is the holy scriptures. Jesus Christ, after his resurrection, with the disciples walking the road to Emmaus, he just gave him a Bible study and their hearts burned that they were fired up for the mission of God.So everything we do in our worship service, community groups, and service teams, we do with scripture at the center. So if you're like, "I am so zealous for God right now. I am so pumped." Now we're descending down the mountain and we're about to get back in the van and drive back into the city. I am so pumped. What can you do? Well, I've got a job for you. I've got jobs. And I've got a slide with jobs.Oh, this is what we need. We need help. In operations, we need 10 greeting team members, 12 tear down team members, which is tear down in setup is tremendous if you like working out and you pay money for that. You can just get rid of your membership and come to church. Six security team members, six special events team members. So all of this. Production is a little harder because for production, portfolios are required.So if you've got a photography, video, you need skills. Sorry. We believe God's perfect. So everything we try to do here, we try to do with excellence. So if you stink, don't sign up there. And then mini Mosaic, we need to nursery assistants, prayer. Crucial. We need three prayer team members and two intercessory prayer team members, in particular, men. This is requested. Why? And you're like, is that misogynistic that we want particularly men for the team? We want everybody. But right now the team is carried by women.Gentlemen, sign up. Tremendous. You're welcome. So that's that. So if you'd like to sign up, tremendous, brookline.mosaicboston.com/serve, or you can go to the app. Conclusion. I had conversation this week with a girl from the church that got a job and she's working at this job. It's a brand new job in a city. One of the things that they do and one of the benefits that they include is they want to motivate their people.One of the services that they had included, they invited this guy in, who was a guy who's like he created a business for himself, like gathering people in his living room, like people are working, company execs, and he would all force them to cook together. They cook a meal together. So everyone's on the same plane. The guards go down. They all eat the meal together. They sit around on a circle and the guy asked one question.And the reason why they do this and the reason why it's so effective is because apparently they found out that companies where people are thankful to be there are so much more successful. And this is the one question that they ask and they talk about, who is the person in your life that you have never thought to say thank you to? I heard that and I was like aaah. I'm getting goosebumps now.That's so powerful. Who's the one person in your life that you never thought to say thank you? And I knew right away. I knew exactly, second grade Mrs. Wodziak, little Polish lady. And I was still in ESL at that time. And I will never forget, it's Christmas time and we had to bring gifts. We had to do the Santa swamp thing. You had to bring a gift and then one of the other kids gets your gift and you get one of their gifts. It was tremendous. And I brought the gift. I don't remember what I brought. And I saw the biggest box under the tree.Because all the kids got to sit there for like weeks looking at all these presents. And they scoped out the biggest one and it came up and I held it up. It was weighty. I was like, this is the one. And I stole it. Second grade. So obviously, on the day of getting the gifts, some kid is not going to have a gift. The day comes and finally they're like, it's the last person. The last person has no gift. There's no present for the little kid. I'm sitting there with my two gifts. Peace to Jenna at second grade.And then Mrs. Wodziak pulls out a present from under her desk, same size. And the kid opens up. It was the same thing that I stole, 64 crayons. You remember those boxes? Same thing to this kid. I'm like, obviously she knew I stole it. She knew. And she gave me mercy. And then in secondary, we took a field trip to Sturbridge village and all the kids had money. I didn't know we were supposed to bring money. Also, my immigrant parents were like, "Money for what? You're lucky we feed you." So then we get to Sturbridge and all the kids are buying stuff and they bought yo-yosAnd I was like, oh, man, I wish I got a yo-yo. I was scoping out one to steal. And then Mrs. Wodziak comes up to me with a green yo-yo. And I never said thank you. I think she was a believer. She's the one that taught me in one fell swoop about mercy. You don't get what you deserve. And grace. You got what you didn't deserve. That's a powerful question. And I want you to ask that question. What's the one person that you've never thought to say thank you? I want you to say thank you to them if they were alive.I want to pause right now and say thank you to the members of this church and everyone who serves, gives time, talent, treasure for zeal. You're zealous for God. So thank you. Praise God for you. And I'll just end with this. The reason why that question is so powerful, because I've been thinking about that all week. I'm like, why is that so powerful? I know. I know. Because there's one that most people who are alive have never said thank you to. You've never even said thank you. God, thank you.Thank you for giving me life and God, thank you for dying on the cross for my sins, not giving me the wrath that I deserve, and then giving me love and mercy and grace that I don't deserve. God, thank you. So in terms of love, Jesus, simple, and simplicity, that's what we're going to focus on, worshiping God. So let's worship him together. Heavenly father, we do come to you and we just say thank you.We thank you that you're a great God and a holy God. And we thank you, Jesus, that though we deserve the whip, you took it for us. We deserve the cross, you took it for us. We deserve the wrath of God, you took it for us in order to forgive us and give us mercy and then also give us grace. And make us the people who are motivated with gratitude, with thanksgiving, and zealous for you, zealous for your house, zealous for your people, and zealous for the mission of God. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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