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As Reform UK sends its Elon Musk-style Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team into its new councils to assess "wasteful spending", host Patrick Baker takes a trip to Durham to speak to the county council's new deputy leader, the former Brexit activist and GB News broadcaster, Darren Grimes, about what Reform's DOGE plans might mean for the local area. And in Westminster a whole host of copycat DOGEs have started popping up too.  Max Young, news editor of the right-wing political website Guido Fawkes, runs the project 'UK DOGE', highlighting perceived government waste including Foreign Office cooking courses and research into how to feel like a bee. Matthew Simmonds, economics editor of the Spectator Magazine, explains his own project SPAFF (the Spectator Campaign Against Frivolous Funding), and says tax-payer money is being wasted on items such as expensive e-bikes for welfare claimants and research projects with titles like "The Europe that Gay Porn Built". With claims on the right of so-called "woke waste" in universities and research institutes, Clare McNeil, chief executive of Timewise, a non-profit research organisation, argues the independence of the UK's research sector is vital for our economy and democracy. In Durham, Darren Grimes sets out where he believes Reform will find savings and says the budget for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is in the crosshairs of the party's incoming DOGE unit. Mel Metcalf, chair of Durham Pride, explains his concerns over what any cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion would mean for his festival.  Amanda Hopgood, the former Lib Dem leader of Durham council, defends her record in local government and argues Reform have wildly overstated any savings the incoming DOGE unit will be able to make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke 20 ends with Jesusgiving a scathing rebuke to the Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees, elders, andleaders of Israel about their religious hypocrisy. Matthew 23 gives thismessage of “Woes” that Jesus pronounced upon them in greater detail. Now inLuke 21, Jesus notices the poor widow giving her offering of two mites andcompares her sacrificial heart to their greedy and selfish ones. Compared tothe gifts of the rich men, her two copper coins seemed insignificant, but Jesussaid that she gave more than all the others combined.  Now it was thedisciples' turn to ask the questions! Their attention was on the temple infront of them which was a beautiful structure, embellished with many costlydecorations that a poor widow could never give, and the disciples mentionedthis to Jesus. But our Lord was not impressed, and He responds by telling themthat the day would come when the beautiful Jewish temple would be demolished(Luke 21:5-6). Remember Jesus had already announced that the city would bedestroyed in Luke 19:41-44, but now He specifically mentioned the destructionof the temple. Jesus left the templeand went to the Mount of Olives, and it was there that Peter, James, John, and Andrew(Mark 13:3) asked Him three questions: (1) When would the temple be destroyed?(2) What would be the sign of His coming? (3) What would be the sign of the endof the age? (see Mark 13:3-4; Matt. 24:3) The disciples thought that thesethree events would occur at the same time, but Jesus explained thingsdifferently. Actually, the temple would be destroyed first, and then therewould be a long period of time before He would return and establish His kingdomon earth (see Luke 19:11-27). Our Lord's replycomprises what we call "The Mt. Olivet Discourse," the greatestprophetic sermon He ever preached. It is recorded in greater detail in Matthew24-25 and Mark 13, and you will want to compare the three passages. Weespecially need to remember that since Luke wrote with the Gentile reader inmind, he omitted some of the strong Jewish elements of the sermon whileretaining the essential truths that we must consider and apply. We also need to keep inmind that this was a message given to Jews by a Jew about the future of theJewish nation. Though there are definite applications to God's people today,the emphasis is on Jerusalem, the Jews, and the temple. Our Lord was notdiscussing His coming for the church, for that can occur at any time and nosigns need precede it (1 Corinthians 15:51-58; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Webelieve in the “imminent return of Jesus” when we are speaking of the “raptureof the church”.  We read in 1 Corinthians1:22 that: "…the Jews require a sign"; while the church looks for a Savior.In Philippians 3:20-21 we read: “For our citizenship is in heaven, fromwhich we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who willtransform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body,according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things toHimself.” This “Mt. OlivetDiscourse” focuses on a period in God's program called "theTribulation" when God will pour out His wrath on the nations of the world.Many Bible students believe that the Tribulation will begin after the Lordcomes in the air and takes His church to heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11). Timewise, the seven-year tribulation actually begins when the Anti-christ makes hispeace treaty with Israel (Daniel 9:24-27). It will climax with the return ofJesus Christ to the earth, at which time He will defeat His foes and establishHis kingdom (Rev. 19:1-20:6). As we study Luke 21over the next few days, we will find that Jesus answered the disciples'questions by discussing four topics relating to the future of the nation ofIsrael. Today, as believers weshould be looking up and at the same time doing all we can to prepare othersfor the Lord's return!

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How can we ensure that flexibility in the workplace is accessible and fair for everyone? This week, I am thrilled to dive into an enlightening conversation with Claire Campbell, Chief Executive of the award-winning social enterprise Timewise. We explore the pressing issue of making flexible working arrangements more equitable in our post-pandemic world. We also discuss how Claire and Timewise are driving positive change by:  ⭐️ Exploring innovative solutions such as AI software to create intelligent rosters that consider staff preferences and skills.  ⭐️ Highlighting the differences in access to flexibility between office-based, site-based, and shift-based roles.  ⭐️ Implementing fairer flexible working practices across various industries, from the NHS to construction and retail. Claire shares insightful strategies and real-world examples, such as the impact of team-based rostering in the NHS and job-done, knock-off approaches in construction. She also explains the importance of manager support and peer-to-peer learning in fostering a culture that values flexible working. Listen now for some great stories, practical examples, and actionable insights into making flexibility fairer for all employees. About Claire Campbell Claire Campbell is a flexible working and job design expert and Chief Executive of social enterprise Timewise. Over the past few years, Claire has worked extensively with local authorities and the NHS, as well as a wide range of private sector and frontline organisations.  She has overseen many of Timewise's larger consultancy projects and innovation programmes and believes that there are ways of improving flexibility and choice in every role. A former Senior Civil Servant, Claire was an HR Director in two Govt departments where she led on resourcing and talent. She has also previously worked as Director of HR Research and Consulting at the Institute for Employment Studies.  She is passionate about using job design to create fairer, healthier and more flexible organisations.  Claire has a Masters in Occupational Psychology and is a Fellow of the CIPD. Email: Claire.campbell@timewise.co.uk X/Twitter: @clairecampbellj About Timewise Timewise is an award-winning, social enterprise and leading expert on flexible working and job design. Over the last 18 years we have worked with many of the UK's leading employers to improve their approach to flexible working, and with industry bodies and policy makers to undertake research, campaigns and innovative programmes to drive wider change.  Links: Visit Helen's website www.helenbeedham.com. Check out Helen's award-winning business book: The Future of Time: how 're-working' time can help you boost productivity, diversity and wellbeing. Leave a book review on Amazon here. Get in touch about Helen's Time-Intelligent Teams workshops or view/download a flier here. Join her mailing list here. What does freedom at work mean to you? Take my short survey here. Pre-order my new book People Glue: hold on to your best people by setting them free  (out Jan 2026) and become a book supporter to gain exclusive book-related invitations and offers. 

Dr Sarah Dauncey is the Director of Partnership & Insight at Timewise and in this episode we talk about the power of flexible work to drive better outcomes across all roles. We explore Timewise's latest research into #FlexForAll and talk about the need for more research into the potential of jobsharing, as well as the power of jobsharing to transform how leadership is done.  #Timewise #FlexForAll #Jobshare #FlexibleWorkingWorks

Chief People Office Kevin Green discusses how listening and acting on feedback improved Employee Engagement and saved First Bus £10,000,000 per year. Kevin answers the following questions; Tell us about your career in HR? Why do you think HR gets over complicated? What do you mean by measuring HR? Do you have any good stats from First Bus you can share on the impact of your work? How can HR get investment and get their ideas on the agenda? What is the future of HR Kevin? Kevin in his own words I am an experienced business and HR leader . I am currently the Chief People Officer of First Bus the second largest Bus company in the UK with 14,000 employees. First Bus is part FTSE 250 company First Group PLC. I continue to be the Chairman of Timewise and a Non Executive Director of Brookson and FRS in Ireland. A TEDx speaker, commentator and blogger on Jobs, people lead business transformation, leadership and competing with your culture. I am also the proud author of the best selling Competitive People Strategy which was Short listed for the 2020 business book of the year. An HR professional by experience and Qualification. I am a regular contributor to broadcast and print media on the UK labour market.

Emma Jacobs, Work and Careers writer for the Financial Times is an expert on work trends in the UK. Emma and Claire Campbell, the CEO of Timewise discuss Emma's personal working style, reflect on the series and look towards the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

GB2RS News Sunday the 5th of May 2024   The news headlines: RSGB insurance update RSGB Legacy Committee Chair appointed SOS Radio Week is under way   RSGB club insurance, and beacon and repeater insurance, have now been renewed for the year to April 2025. Club insurance certificates can be downloaded from the RSGB website. You will need to log in to obtain your certificate. Beacon and repeater insurance certificates are available for an admin fee of £15 from the RSGB shop. Please allow a couple of days after renewal for your certificate to be dispatched. The RSGB Board is pleased to announce it has approved the appointment of Richard Horton, G4AOJ to the role of Legacy Committee Chair. The RSGB Legacy Fund, thanks to the generosity of donors, has significant financial resources available to encourage and develop amateur radio. The Legacy Committee, which is a sub-Committee of the RSGB Board, considers proposals for grants that can be awarded to projects from the RSGB Legacy Fund. The criteria and application form are available on the RSGB website at rsgb.org/legacy  If you have an interesting idea and would like to submit it for funding, you can contact the new Legacy Chair via legacy.chair@rsgb.org.uk SOS Radio Week is underway. It is an annual event that takes place throughout the month of May to celebrate the work of the volunteers from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Independent Lifeboats and National Coastwatch Stations around the British Isles. Between them, members of these organisations save many lives who are in danger along and around the thousands of miles of coastline and further out to sea. This year is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the RNLI, and SOS Radio Week is being co-branded SOS Radio Week 200 for those operators who are supporting the RNLI during the event. Participants can operate from home, a public location, or a lifeboat or Coastwatch station, with the appropriate authorisation from the station manager. A commemorative certificate is available to all official stations that record their contacts on the website together with awards for the top individual and club, or group, stations on each band from 160m to 70cm. To read more about the event visit sosradioweek.org.uk The next in the series of the popular 145 Alive events, to promote the use of 145MHz FM, is coming up on Saturday the 11th of May, from 1pm to 3pm. The event and the supporting Facebook Group was started by Tim, G5TM and from the start of 2024 has been organised by Mark, M0XIC and John, M0XJA. The last successful event took place in January this year, when over 30 nets operated simultaneously across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern and Southern Ireland. Over 900 QSOs took place, with many amateurs operating portable, mobile or from their club or home QTH. If you would like to take part, and find out more about the event and 145 Alive in general, then join the 145 Alive Facebook Group. Next weekend, the 11th and 12th, lots of amateur radio stations will be taking to the air as part of Mills on the Air Weekend 2024. The event takes place across the UK every May with more than 300 windmills and watermills usually taking part. For more information, to register, and to view a list of registered stations, visit ddars.net/mills.html Advance notice now that International Museums Weekend will be taking place on the third and fourth weekends in June. This year, those weekends are the 15th and 16th, and the 22nd and 23rd of June. Special event stations will be operating from a wide variety of museums from many different countries. To read more about the event, and to register to take part, visit tinyurl.com/IMW2024 And now for details of rallies and events Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club's 40th Annual Radio Rally is taking place today, the 5th of May. The venue is Share Discovery Village, 221 Lisnaskea Road, Lisnaskea, Enniskillen, BT92 0JZ. The event features food and drink, bring and buy, RSGB books, the QSL Bureau, and the usual variety of traders. The doors open at 11 am. Traders are asked to arrive around 9 am. Admission, which includes a ticket for the prize draw, will cost £5 or five Euro. Contact Alan at argault91@gmail.com to arrange a table. Thorpe Camp Hamfest is also taking place today, the 5th of May at Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre, Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, LN4 4PL. The doors open at 9am for buyers and the entrance fee is £5 per person. The event will finish at 1pm. The RetrotechUK event will be held on Sunday the 12th of May. The venue will be Sports Connexion, Leamington Road, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, CV8 3FL. The doors open at 10.30 am with an entry fee of £10. A fee of £25 applies for early-doors entry at 9 am. This is an annual event organised by the British Vintage Wireless Society. There will be almost 200 dealer stalls, clubs and private sellers. Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the wide range of retro equipment. For more information email info@retrotechuk.com and visit retrotechuk.com Dunstable Downs Radio Club would like to remind everyone that its annual boot sale has been postponed until the 30th of June. This is due to the site being used by BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend music festival. Updates will be posted to Dunstable Downs Radio Club's Facebook page and reminder emails will be sent out closer to the time. To add yourself to the list, visit ddrcbootsale.org  and sign up for email reminders. Now the Special Event News Special callsign 9H6HE is in use by the Malta Amateur Radio League to celebrate the swearing-in of Malta's 11th President. Look for activity until the 31st of May on the 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands using SSB, CW and digital modes. QSL via Logbook of the World. Paper QSL cards are not available. The RSGB National Radio Centre will be operating a special event callsign GB2DAY to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the Second World War. The station will be active between the 6th and 9th of June. In addition, volunteers will be hosting the special demonstration station GB1SOE on Saturday the 15th of June. Don't forget that RSGB Members can get free entry to Bletchley Park and the RSGB's National Radio Centre by downloading a voucher from the RSGB website at rsgb.org/bpvoucher Now the DX news Bo, OZ1DJJ is active as OX3LX from Greenland until the 9th of May. In his spare time, he operates FT8, RTTY and CW. The station was spotted recently on the 10 and 12m bands using FT8. QSL via OZ0J. Logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World and Club Log. Tom, NL7RR is active on Wake Island, OC-053, until the 15th of May. Look for KH9/NL7RR to be QRV daily at about 0700UTC on or around 14.200MHz. QSL via Logbook of the World, or direct to Tom's home call. QSOs will also be uploaded to Club Log. Now the contest news Today, the 5th, the UK Microwave Group Low Band Contest runs from 0800 to 1400UTC. Using all modes on 1.3 to 3.4GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also, today, the 5th, the UK Microwave Group Millimetre-wave Contest runs from 0900 to 1700UTC. Using all modes on 24, 47 and 76GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also today, the 5th, the Worked All Britain 7MHz Phone Contest runs from 1000 to 1400UTC. Using SSB on the 40m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and Worked All Britain Square. The ARI International DX Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday the 4th and ends at 1159UTC today, Sunday the 5th of May. Using CW, RTTY and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Italian stations also send their province. The 432MHz to 245GHz Contest started at 1400UTC on Saturday the 4th and ends at 1400UTC today, Sunday the 5th of May. Using all modes on 432MHz to 245GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Today, the 5th, the 10GHz Trophy runs from 0800 to 1400UTC. Using All modes on 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the 7th, the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. Using FM on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on Tuesday the 7th, the 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the 8th, the 432MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 70cm band, the exchange is a report and four-character locator. Also on Wednesday the 8th, the 432MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 70cm band, the exchange is a report and four-character locator. Stations entering the four-hour contest may also enter the two-hour contest. On Thursday the 9th, the 50MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Sunday the 12th, the 70MHz CW Contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using CW on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. UK stations also send their postcode. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Thursday the 2nd of May 2024 What a strange week we had. With the solar flux index in the 167 range, falling to 130, conditions should have been reasonable. But the Kp index hit 4, and even 5.33, on the evening of Friday the 26th of April, which meant propagation on Saturday the 27th was truly dire. Stations taking part in International Marconi Day on the 27th found the 40m band only open to long skip in the morning. This was due to the critical frequency being below 5MHz. The predicted MUF over a 3,000km path fluctuated between 15MHz and 19MHz for the whole day, which meant only 14MHz was open reliably. As a result, QSOs were hard to come by and many stations reported that it was slow going with virtually no signals from outside of Europe. So what happened? Well, it was a combination of factors. The increased Kp index, due to a fast solar wind, took its toll. And we are now moving to a summer ionosphere, where chemical changes make it harder to ionise. This will mean we should see MUFs dropping as the season progresses, at least during the day. Nighttime MUFs will be higher than in winter. So it may be that the glory days of 28MHz F2-layer propagation are on hold until Autumn, with only short-skip Sporadic-E on the 10m band to keep us entertained. F2-layer propagation is still available on the higher HF bands, but it may be patchy. International Marconi Day station GB0CMS in Caister, Norfolk, reported that its 20m signals were picked up by a reverse beacon network skimmer in Utah, despite not working anyone outside of Europe. Meanwhile, on the morning of the 2nd, Laurie, G3UML was quite surprised to work YJ0CA on Vanuatu on the 15m band using SSB. He also worked 3D2CCC on Conway Reef on the 20m band using CW, and JD1BMH in Japan on the 15m band, also using CW. Next week NOAA predicts the solar flux index will be in the 125 range, rising to 175 as the week progresses. Geomagnetic conditions are dependent on coronal mass ejections. We have had eight M-class solar flares in the past three days, and a Kp index of 5 on Thursday the 2nd, which doesn't bode well for next week. So, keep an eye on solarham.com for current conditions and look for the best HF propagation if the Kp index is low for a day or two. And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO The weather pattern remains very unsettled for the whole period with areas of low pressure edging north across the UK from the continent. There will be a risk of thundery weather at times with locally heavy rainfall, which will be good for rain scatter on the Gigahertz bands. Tropo looks to be hard to find as we end the current week dominated by low-pressure systems, but there are signs of high pressure returning after mid-week, but only temporarily. This could produce some Tropo paths, especially across surrounding waters such as the Irish Sea, English Channel and North Sea. The nominal summer season of Sporadic-E propagation is upon us and, from May to early September, daily blogs will be provided on the Propquest.co.uk website highlighting the possible Sporadic-E links to the position of the jet streams shown on the upper air charts. It's well worthwhile getting into the habit of regularly checking the DX clusters and activity maps, since the early season is usually characterised by a complex jet stream pattern with multiple potential locations for Sporadic-E propagation.  Timewise, it eventually settles into a more traditional behaviour with activity often in two phases, one in the morning and the second in late afternoon, early evening. As you listen to this report, the Eta Aquariids meteor shower should be peaking. Unfortunately, the best viewing for the shower, which is part of the debris from Halley's comet, will be in the southern hemisphere. Nevertheless, this is expected to be one of the best showers this century. For those viewing the shower, a waning Moon means that light levels should be low, making for ideal visual sighting. For EME, the Moon will be waning all week with the new Moon around the 8th of May. The Moon will be rising in the sky throughout the week, with zero declination on the 5th of May and peaking at its highest in the sky on Saturday the 11th of May. The lowest additional path loss occurs today and tomorrow, the 5th and 6th, but high Sun noise, with the Moon close to the Sun at new Moon, occurs shortly afterwards. Later in the week, as the Sun 'leaves' the Moon behind, noise levels, at least on the higher bands will fall to around normal. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1161, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: What A Month! 1: It shares its name with a type of musical piece: Forward--Move It!. March. 2: The United States celebrates its birthday during this month. July. 3: Timewise, it's the shortest month. February. 4: It's National Dental Hygiene Month, and with all that candy at month's end, it's a good thing!. October. 5: The U.S. presidential election takes place in this month. November. Round 2. Category: The Name On The Airport 1: What a wonderful world! In 2001 the New Orleans airport was renamed to honor this jazz great's 100th birthday. Louis Armstrong. 2: The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital. Springfield. 3: The airport serving Grand Rapids, Michigan is named for this 38th president. Gerald Ford. 4: The smallest of the 3 major airports serving NYC, it's named for the mayor who oversaw its construction. LaGuardia. 5: A 9-foot statue of this actor graces the terminal building of the Orange County, California airport named for him. John Wayne. Round 3. Category: Ebony And Ivory 1: The white tops of its keys were once made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickle the ivories". a piano. 2: Ancient kings of India used ebony for drinking vessels because it supposedly neutralized this. poison. 3: Most commercial ivory still comes from this continent. Africa. 4: Some of the best ebony is grown in the flat country west of Trincomalee on this "teardrop island". Sri Lanka. 5: Ivory comes not only from elephants but also from hippos, walruses and these small tusked whales. narwhals. Round 4. Category: 4Th And Goal 1: Launched to recapture this city from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople instead. Jerusalem. 2: Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them behave more realistically. a wall. 3: Greek scholars celebrate the fourth of this month as Exelauno Day because exelauno means to do this "forth". March. 4: University of Arizona students know that "The Ave" is Fourth Avenue in this city, fun by day and night. Tucson. 5: The goal of this was to capture the ferocious Erymanthian boar. Hercules' fourth labor. Round 5. Category: 6-Letter Birds 1: This "clock" bird's scientific name is Cuculus canorus. cuckoo. 2: The flightless New Zealand kakapo is the heaviest type of this bird; the macaw is the largest. parrot. 3: Eagles and hawks can also be used in the sport named for this bird. falcon. 4: In New England it's often called a partridge while southerners call it a pheasant. grouse. 5: This diving bird of the auk family is distinguished by its colorful, triangular beak. puffin. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Claire Campbell (CEO) and Amy Butterworth (Consultancy Director) are flying the flag for Flexible Working in the UK through Timewise, a social enterprise working to create stronger and more inclusive workplaces, powered by flexible working. I worked closely with each of them both in my days as the Deputy Director of the London Leadership Academy and as Head of Flexible Working for the NHS. What I love about them is their depth of knowledge of and drive of working for flexible working across the UK. Here we talk about why flexible working matters, how you can approach it as a individual and as a manager, and the impact it can have for all involved. If you want to know more about the work of Timewise, you can do so here - https://timewise.co.uk/ If you are ready to make your own brave choices this year, you can find out more and apply for Awakening Women's Lives here - https://quietthehive.com/courses/awl/

“We should have a budget for our time, our energy, and our finances. When people talk about budgeting, most of them consider only finances. But according to my experience, even our energy has to be budgeted. I know how much strength I have. Every day I can use only a certain amount of strength. Timewise, every week and every day we should set aside some time for the Lord. In budgeting your finances, you should offer up what you have in excess according to the prosperity that the Lord has provided you (Acts 11:29; 1 Cor. 16:2).” (Witness Lee, Messages Given to the Working Saints, pp. 390-392, Living Stream Ministry) This week we conclude the series titled, "Living for Jesus a Life that is Simple," with speaking from brother Andrew Yu on four practical points concerning our living. This is part three of message one from a conference hosted by the church in New York City in November 2015. The original message was spoken with side-by-side English to Chinese translation which was edited out for brevity, thereby affecting the cadence of the speaking. You can find the unedited version and a copy of the letter read during this message at: https://livingtohim.com/2016/02/conference-in-new-york-with-andrew-yu-november-2015/

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How can employers in all sectors of the UK economy get the best out of their workers, retain experienced staff, improve productivity and increase profits at the same time? The principles of "Job Design" seem to promise all of these benefits. It's a process of work innovation which focuses on people, their skills, their knowledge and how they interact with each other and technology, in every workplace, in every sector of the economy. Proponents claim it gives workers a voice in their workplace, allows them to balance their work and home lives, stops burnout and could get more of the economically inactive back in employment. But what evidence is there that it works - and how difficult would it be to implement changes in the workplace? Presenter: Pauline Mason Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham Contributors: Patricia Findlay, Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research. Kate Bennett, Labour ward coordinator at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Damian Grimshaw, Professor of Employment Studies, King's College London, and former head of research at the International Labour Organisation. Dame Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor, University of Cambridge and a director of the Productivity Institute. Rachel London, Deputy Chief People Officer at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Jenna Brimble. Midwife in the continuity of care team at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Heejung Chung, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent. Emma Stewart, Flexible working consultant and co-founder, Timewise. Dr Charlotte Gascoine independent researcher and consultant on flexible and part-time working Paul Dennett, Mayor of the City of Salford Jim Liptrot, Managing director, Howorth Air Tech. Stacey Bridge, Financial accounting assistant, Howorth Air Tech.

The law on flexible working changed this week. New rules should make it easier for employees to argue for a flexible working arrangement. It's the culmination of years of hard work and campaigning for more family friendly workplaces. Anita speaks to the Minister for Small Business, Kevin Hollinrake, and Amy Butterworth from the flexible working consultancy Timewise. Dr Gladys McGarey, cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical practice at a time when women couldn't even own their own bank accounts. She's now 102 years old and still practicing as a doctor. She started medical school just before the Second World War, married a fellow doctor, Bill and together they practised medicine and had six children. Dr Gladys joins Nuala to talk about her new book, The Well-Lived Life. The mother whose daughters were murdered, and their photographs then shared on a police WhatsApp group, speaks to Nuala from the launch of a new organisation designed to help stamp out misogyny, sexism and racism in the police. Mina Smallman has become an activist since the death of her daughters in 2020, and she wants to see change. The Irish singer-songwriter Roisin Murphy first rose to fame in the 90s as one half of the electronic pop duo Moloko. She has gone on to have a successful solo career and has a new album out soon. She joins Anita live in the studio to talk about her music and creating this latest album. As the film Barbie opens in cinemas today, Set Decorator Katie Spencer and Production Designer Sarah Greenwood discuss how they created Barbieland in a real life space, the invasion of everything pink, and how they approached the film having never played with Barbies themselves. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lottie Garton

The law on flexible working changes today. This should make it easier for employees to argue for a flexible working arrangement. It's the culmination of years of hard work and campaigning for more family friendly workplaces. Anita speaks to the Minister for Small Business, Kevin Hollinrake, and Amy Butterworth from the flexible working consultancy Timewise. An investigation by BBC Newsnight and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has uncovered a row over controversial research about the impact of abortion on the mental health of women. An independent panel resigned from the British Journal of Psychiatry after their recommendation to withdraw the research, which is still being used in US legal cases about abortion access, was not followed. Newsnight's Science Correspondent Kate Lamble joins Anita to discuss what has happened. The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off today in New Zealand and Australia. It's set to be the largest ever, both in terms of viewing figures and the number of fixtures. But the tournament starts against a backdrop of uncertainty. This morning came the news of a shooting which left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand. And off-pitch there have been frustrations around pay and treatment of the women's teams. Kathryn Batte, Women's Football Correspondent for the Daily Mail talks to Anita. The Irish singer-songwriter Roisin Murphy first rose to fame in the 1990s as one half of the electronic pop duo Moloko, with hits such as Sing it Back and The Time is Now. She has gone on to have a successful solo career with award-nominated albums including Hairless Toys and Róisín Machine. Her upcoming album ‘Hit Parade' is produced in collaboration with electronic music auteur DJ Koze and is due for release in early September. She joins Anita live in the studio to talk about her music and to perform her single 'Fader' with James McCredie on guitar. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Bob Nettles and Duncant Hannant

How can employers in all sectors of the UK economy get the best out of their workers, retain experienced staff, improve productivity and increase profits at the same time? The principles of "Job Design" seem to promise all of these benefits. It's a process of work innovation which focuses on people, their skills, their knowledge and how they interact with each other and technology, in every workplace, in every sector of the economy. Proponents claim it gives workers a voice in their workplace, allows them to balance their work and home lives, stops burnout and could get more of the economically inactive back in employment. But what evidence is there that it works - and how difficult would it be to implement changes in the workplace? Presenter: Pauline Mason Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham Contributors: Patricia Findlay, Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research. Kate Bennett, Labour ward coordinator at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Damian Grimshaw, Professor of Employment Studies, King's College London, and former head of research at the International Labour Organisation. Dame Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor, University of Cambridge and a director of the Productivity Institute. Rachel London, Deputy Chief People Officer at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Jenna Brimble. Midwife in the continuity of care team at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Heejung Chung, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent. Emma Stewart, Flexible working consultant and co-founder, Timewise. Dr Charlotte Gascoine independent researcher and consultant on flexible and part-time working Paul Dennett, Mayor of the City of Salford Jim Liptrot, Managing director, Howorth Air Tech. Stacey Bridge, Financial accounting assistant, Howorth Air Tech.

In the studio today, Paul is joined by Emma Stewart, MBE, Co-Founder at TimeWise. Emma is a social entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience working with people, policymakers and businesses to tackle inequalities, improve the world of work and deliver tangible social impact.Emma is passionate about inspiring social change and contributes to numerous government task forces, reports and initiatives, and is a regular media commentator on how to shape better, fairer labour markets and raise family living standards.The episode was designed as a follow-on to episodes 104 and 111, which focused on whether a 4-day working week was possible in construction and how to get a better work-life balance.In today's conversation, Emma explains how TimeWise is changing the world of work through flexible working. We discuss the recent report “Making Construction a Great Place to Work” and the follow-on report “One Year On” and discuss how flexible working can improve the sector and all our lives.Your free OTB downloadsAs promised at the top of the show - I've shared a link to two of the two free downloads below: A Bill of Quantities TemplateA Vesting Certificate Template--Want to connect with Paul?Paul is on Linkedin here and would love to talk. You can also connect with Paul at paul@c-link.com or through, C-Link. C-Link is software built by Quantity Surveyors for Main Contractors. We save 600 hours of Quantity Surveying time per project in automation. We can make your QS' so much more efficient.Book a demo to learn more by clicking here.Support the showWant to connect with Paul?Paul is on Linkedin here and would love to talk. You can also connect with Paul at paul@c-link.com.To learn more about C-Link, Watch the Video, or book a demo by clicking here.

Welcome to a special episode of Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors – a panel discussion with innovative business leaders. Today, Jeff Dewing is joined by Nicola Smith who is Interim CEO at Timewise, an organisation championing flexible working and equality in the workplace.  Simone Roche MBE is founder of Northern Power Women, a community spanning all sectors, genders and socio-economic groups that is dedicated to accelerating gender equality and social mobility. And Sheila Callaham is a co-founder, Executive Director, and Board Chair for Age Equity Alliance who are committed to helping businesses, organisations, and communities ensure Age Equity in the workplace through education, training, and process evaluation.There's no denying that Covid changed the way we all work, forcing many businesses to adopt remote working in a way they may not have done otherwise. But now the pandemic has passed, what legacy is left on the way we operate as businesses and employees. The culture of work has shifted, and employees considering roles are much more focussed on the flexibility around work than they were previously. The panel discuss how businesses need to adapt to be more accommodating, supportive and flexible in order to continue to attract talent and sustain growth.  Furthermore, flexible working isn't only about location. It's about how you work, when you work and what's expected of you. Nicola argues that so long as there are clear and reasonable expectations with buy-in from all stakeholders then often the logistics of how or when work is done shouldn't be a consideration. Not all roles can be fully flexible. The panel discuss how businesses can avoid a two-tier workforce emerging, creating separation between the flexible and non-flexible workers. Some work may be time or location specific. How do you avoid those staff feeling like they're missing out on a more flexible role? Sheila suggests that companies can compensate for that through the policies and programmes and benefits that they offer. Watch the podcast on YouTube Hosted by Jeff DewingDiscover Cloudfm GroupWebsite  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  LinkedIn

Rachael Watts was seven years old when Russell Bishop abducted, attacked and sexually assaulted her in 1990. It is a crime that should never have happened, as back in 1987, Russell Bishop had been charged with the murders of two nine-year-olds, Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway. But police were unable to secure a conviction when a series of prosecution blunders meant evidence and testimonies failed to stand up in court. Bishop was able to walk free and three years later he abducted and attacked Rachael. Miraculously she survived and it was her testimony which finally meant Bishop was convicted and put behind bars, despite him protesting his innocence. Dr Rosemary Coogan has been selected as an astronaut by the European Space Agency, becoming the first British woman to join their astronaut corps. She joins us in her first in-depth BBC interview to discuss the tough selection process, upcoming training and hopes for her first mission. A cross-party coalition has launched a campaign to abolish the 11 plus entry exams. One of the members of the campaign is Jackie Malton, known for her success in the Met Police, and for being the real-life inspiration for the character DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. Despite getting two masters degrees and a doctorate, she still feels ashamed about failing her 11 plus. 600,000 people in the UK are actively seeking part-time jobs, most of them women – but just twelve percent of jobs advertised in the UK currently offer part-time hours. We discuss with co-founder of Timewise, Emma Stewart MBE, and working mum Shaline Manhertz. Why is social media obsessed with nurseries and toys in neutral, muted colours? We speak to Hayley DeRoche who coined the term ‘sad beige clothes for sad beige children', and journalist Martha Alexander.

Today is day two of an international conference held here in the UK to prevent sexual violence in conflict and Emma Barnett will be talking to Lord Ahmad, who's the Prime Minister's special Envoy on this issue. It's ten years since the conference began and Woman's Hour will be looking at what progress has been made to date as well as hearing the testimony of Lejla Damon who was born after her mother was raped in the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. Adopted by a British couple, she is now a campaigner raising awareness about rape as a weapon of war and the fallout for victims. 600,000 people in the UK are actively seeking jobs with part-time hours, most of them women – but just twelve percent of jobs advertised in the UK currently offer part-time hours. Those that do are mostly for low paid jobs. That's according to new research from social enterprise & flexible working experts Timewise. Emma will be speaking to the co-founder of Timewise, Emma Stewart MBE about the impact this is having on both living standards and businesses as well as hearing from one highly successful working mum who's desperate for more part time work whilst recovering from bone cancer, but has found it impossible to find anything that reflects her impressive skillset. Sisters Sophie and Scarlett Rickard have brought the suffragette story to life in a new graphic novel called No Surrender. Based on the 1911 novel by the real life suffragette Constance Maud, they hope to make it accessible to a modern audience in a time when protest, and modes of protest, are being debated more than ever in the UK. They tell Emma about their creative process, being women in the world of comics, and living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Today is the second in a series of four movement and writing prompt meditations that follow along with this Lunation. The movement practice is a flowing balance practice that will culminate with seated meditation and writing prompts. So put on something comfortable, put in your earbuds, and get out your writing from last week plus blank pages, and your pen.This is a meditation at the first quarter moon, a point in time where the light reflected appears as a half sphere in the night sky. Timewise, we are halfway between the new moon and the full moon. My next two podcasts will be posted as this one has, just before the primary phase of the full moon, and then I will send it out as a link via my regular Songs of Forgiveness newsletter. Please subscribe to get those posts right in your inbox. If you are already subscribed, you have my gratitude. As these special episodes for the lunation are posted, the previous one goes behind the paywall. If you get behind in listening, not to worry, a monthly subscription of just $8 can get you the whole month of them. That is quite a deal. Sign up and follow along for the next lunation or any lunation of your choosing for that matter. Find the dates of the upcoming primary phases back at the show notes.October 9 - Full MoonOctober 17 - 3rd Quarter Moon This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tinalaurellee.substack.com/subscribe

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Key learning points1.Changing attitudes to part-time and flexible working2.How part-time workers could contribute just as much as full-time workers3.Tips for how you can make the shift to part-time work Today on the Risky Mix podcast we're delighted to be rejoined by Rebekah Bostan, Director of Research and Insight at InsTech. Through sharing her learnings as a 14-year award-winning flexible worker, Rebekah will take us through the advantages that part-time work arrangements can offer both employees and businesses and will also challenge the stereotypes that surround this type of work, before providing some tips on how to ask your employer for a part-time role.Rebekah begins by sharing how she looked to pursue part-time work after starting her family relatively young. It was the early-2000s, so part-time and flexible work options were quite rare, but as she was looking to balance childcare with caring for her partner with a disability, she was determined. She made a bold request and with a bit of help from lady luck, was successful in securing a part-time role. Rebekah tells us that this set-up not only allowed her to balance household responsibilities but also to do other things – she helped rebuild her local community centre and became a board member in local organisations.Discussing attitudes to flexible work, Rebekah explains how throughout her career she encountered a wealth of ‘superfluous' reasons for why part-time would never work, and yet during the pandemic, flexible working has proved completely possible. People have had no choice but to juggle work with caring requirements and social distancing necessitated work-from-home arrangements. But there is a long way to go for changing perceptions on part-work. She tells us of its ‘gendered nature' as mostly women work part-time; often it's seen as going down a ‘mummy career track'. Rebekah says you are still perceived as contributing less if not working a five-day week. Yet having experienced both full and part-time roles, Rebekah tells us that part-time workers are some of the ‘most structured, efficient, organised people because they have narrow time to do the work'. Working five days a week, she argues, can leave the door open for unproductive tasks and procrastination.Rebekah also shares with us her ‘formula' for how to ask your employer for part-time work:1.Recognise the business before yourself. It's not just about what you need - you have the right to ask for part-time work, but you don't have the right to be granted it – your employer isn't obliged to make changes unless it's a medical adjustment. So you need to think about how you going part-time would benefit the business too.2.All teams have their limits – think about what consequences your move to part-time will have on your managers and team members. Lots of teams are often overstretched and exhausted – so a request could be viewed as additional pressure - how will you counter this?3.Recognise the role of manager discretion. Take time to figure out what your managers are worried about. Eg, is it cost, delivery timelines, or headcount? This can help you form a counterargument.4.Triage your role. Get your work tasks down on paper, and sort them into three circles): a.The ‘core' tasks – high-value stuff that's important to your manager or next job – the things you can't compromise on and you will keep. b.‘Low-value tasks' – can these be automated, or even stopped?  c.The ‘delegation' tasks – these should be sold as a golden opportunity to the people doing them – how can these grow your team's skills?5.Treat it like you are building a business case!Rebekah also recommends looking at the charity Timewise (https://timewise.co.uk).

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.Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, I'm one of the pastors here along with pastor Shane and pastor Andy. If you're new or visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the connection card and the worship guide if you fill it out legibly. Just toss it on the white box in the back or leave it at the welcome center. And if you give it to them at the welcome center, they'll give you a gift in return to say thanks for coming out. Also, we have two quick announcements. January 16th, 1:00 PM, we have a baptism seminar. So if you have not been baptized and you want to know more about what baptism is, please do attend the class. Let us know that you're coming, so we know how much food to order for lunch. And then also January 23rd, the following Sunday, we have a membership class right after the second service at 1:00 PM.And the membership class is where we talk about the identity, the vision, the history of Mosaic. And we talk about what it means to be a member of a church, a committed covenant member, which every faithful Christian should be a member of a church somewhere. But since you're here, you should be a member here. With that said would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word. Heavenly Father, we thank you for a new year, a fresh start. We thank you that you have sustained us to this point. We thank you that you are a God who promises that when we cast our burdens upon you, our anxieties, our stress, our worries, you do sustain us. And you've sustained us till this moment. We thank you for that. We pray a special prayer of blessing upon this church, upon every member and attender. That you keep us close to you in this season. That you'll give us the resolve, the power of the holy spirit, a zeal to deepen our devotion to you. To fight the good fight of faith to be ever more devoted to Jesus Christ.It's a new year, but nothing's really changed. Lord, you're still on the throne. You're still sovereign. Your plans are still coming to fruition on a daily basis. And Satan is still with his whole legion of demons, trying to thwart your plans and to take as many people with him, as many souls with him. So you've called us to this place to fight the good fight. To help transfer as many people from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of the beloved son, the kingdom of light. We pray Holy Spirit, that you today from the Holy Scriptures, encourage our hearts. Help us know that Satan is real, that the adversary is real. He's come to steal, kill, destroy. He's the accuser, he's the liar. And he does everything he can to thwart us from living lives of usefulness to you. So I pray Lord, make us faithful servants of the living God, men and women of the living God. Sons and daughters of the living God. Serving you faithfully. And bless our time, the Holy Scriptures right now. And we pray all this in Christ holy name. Amen.We're continuing our sermon series through 2 Corinthians that we're calling prodigal church season two. We have a few more sermons, a few more chapters. Lord willing we'll finish it this month, or if not the beginning of February. And then we'll start a new sermon series that'll take us through Easter. Welcome to 2022, Happy New Year everyone. Happy New Year. Thank you. Thank you. 2022. It's like 2021 plus one. It's like 2020 plus two. And I pray that it's not like 2020 2.0. I pray that. But even if it is, I say this because last year I was like, "2020 is over. It's 2021, everything's different." No it wasn't. So what I'm saying is Jesus is still king. Don't worry about it. It's all going to be good. Just stay faithful to the Lord.We hear things like, "New year, new me." It's not true. I'm still the same guy. You're the same person. Same me, same you, same world. We've been hearing a lot of talk along the lines of what in the world is going on? I'll tell you, you can never make true sense of what is going on unless you know a couple things. First of all, that God is real. He exists. And so does Satan. Satan exists. God exists. Angels exists. Satan exists. Demons exists. God has human servants, His children. Adopted children. Well Satan has human servants as well. And he uses them. Often they are unwitting, unintentional servants. And regardless of religious belief, worldview opinion, there's a great battle raging in the spiritual realm that has real consequences in the physical world. Satan is a supernatural enemy and his job objective is to lie, to accuse, to steal, to kill, to destroy. He has a true power. Although it is limited. It's still dangerous.He's called the ruler of this world in John 12:31. In 2 Corinthians 4:4 says this, "In their case, in the case of those who don't follow Jesus Christ. In their case, the god of this world," small G, "has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." Meaning it doesn't matter how intelligent you are and it doesn't matter how high your IQ. It doesn't matter how well educated you are. There's a part of your mind that is blinded by Satan until the very moment that you cry out to God and say, "God, please give me eyes to see that God is real." And when you repent of our sins. How does Satan operate? With a certain spiritual hypnosis. A mass formation psychosis, where everybody just is following this narrative that there is no God. Which is the most absurd thing to believe.Though opposite of God, Satan, is nowhere near equal. He's not omniscient, he's not omnipresent, he's not omnipotent. So praise be to God that if you're a Christian, you are covered by the power of God. Two things to note here before we get into the text is if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, before you became a follower of Christ you were a follower of Satan. This is Ephesians 2:1-3. And you, he's talking to Christians, "You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world. Following the prince of the power of the air, Satan. The spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh. Carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind."And even if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you can still be tempted by Satan. You can still be influenced by Satan. He can still take the sins in your life and he can exacerbate them as if he takes his fingers, demonic finger and presses them in on your sin. That's why 1 Peter 5:8 says, "Be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour." He's not talking about unbelievers. He already owns them. He's talking about believers that Satan seeks to devour Christians to make them absolutely useless to the things of God. And even pastors, even elders can be caught in the snare of Satan. This is a warning to myself. I'm preaching to myself, pastor Shane and pastor Andy. Satan seeks to take us out. That's why ministry is such difficult anguishing work because of demonic warfare.1 Timothy 3:7, "Moreover he, the pastor, must be well thought of by outsiders so that he may not fall into disgrace, into the snare of the devil." So even if you're a Christian, Satan will tempt, lie, accuse and seek to cool your devotion to Jesus Christ. Because the battle for the soul starts with the mind. Creeps into the heart and then takes over the body. Lies for the mind, misguided affections in the heart. And pleasure, misguided, wrongful, sinful pleasure in the body.Today we're in 2 Corinthians 11: 1-15, I'll read the text and then we'll jump right in. "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me. For I feel a divine jealousy for you since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure Virgin to Christ. But I'm afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super apostles. Even if I'm unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed in every way we have made this plain to you in all things. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge? I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied by need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do. And what I do, I will continue to do in order to undermine the claim of those who like to claim that in their boasted mission, they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.So it is no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds." This is the reading of God's holy, inerrant, infallible, authoritative word. May you write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Seven points, and we'll talk about how to avoid serving Satan. First, don't be deceived by his cunning. Second, don't be let us stray from devotion to Christ. Three, don't proclaim another Jesus. Fourth, don't receive a different spirit. Fifth, don't accept a different gospel. Six, don't malign faithful ministers of the gospel. And seven, don't disguise yourself in righteousness.How to avoid serving Satan point one, don't be deceived by his cunning. And this, he begins in verse 1. He says, "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me." And by foolishness, what he's doing is he finished chapter 10 talking about how the false teachers, the super apostles as he calls them, they were boasting in their credentials. They were boasting in how much they know of scripture. They were boasting in their oratory skills. And St. Paul knows that the only way to really counter this attack, where they were trying to undermine Paul's ministry with their own boasting is he's going to boast, but he's not going to boast in his credentials though he could have. He studied under Gamaliel, which is better than getting a Harvard PhD in theology. He could have boasted in his knowledge of script.He boasts in other things. He boasts in how the Lord has worked in his heart. So he is actually boasting in the Lord. He's boasting about the work that God did in his heart. So he begins verse 2 with a boast, "For I feel a divine jealousy for you, for the church in Corinth. Since I be betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure Virgin to Christ." Paul is about to boast and he's like, "All right, I'm going to boast. But I'm not going to boast about my educat.... I'm going to boast about my love for the church. I'm going to boast about my zeal, my jealousy for the church." What an interesting word to use. Because jealousy is a sin, right? Thou shalt not envy. That's a commandment. Don't do it. Don't envy. Meaning there's a sinful jealousy, a sinful envy, which is selfish. I want things for me.And there's a godly, he calls a divine jealousy. For you, I want the best thing for you. And I want the best thing for God. And he views himself, not just as a pastor, as an apostle. He views himself as the father of a bride. He views the church as the bride of Jesus Christ. And he views Christians that became Christians under his ministry as those that he has betrothed to Jesus. He's saying, "You're engaged to Jesus Christ." And at the second coming that's when we're going to have the wedding feast where a bride of Christ, the church, us, will be married to Christ, we'll become one. So he views himself as the father of the bride. And his job is to present the church as a pure virgin to Christ. And he toils for the church's purity. Paul is ready to do anything to protect the church's purity.And he sees that they're flirting with spiritual and faith, they're flirting with the Satan, with the devil. Flirting with Satan. I understand his heart here because I have four daughters. And my oldest is 13. And I look at them, I'm like, "Oh, I got a teenager in my house. That's crazy." But I view this. I dream of the wedding day of all four finally get out of the house. I'm just kidding, I love them. But I dream about that day, where it's like, all right, I'm going to walk each one down the aisle, and then I'm going to turn around and officiate the wedding. That's my dream. So my preparation right now for them as I disciple, as I raise, as I parent my daughters, is to prepare them as a bride of Christ. Clearly I want them to love Christ, to be devoted to Christ. And one day maybe a bride.But St. Paul says, "You, the bride of Christ, you're flirting with a bad boyfriend. You're engaged to Jesus. And you're flirting with some demonic teaching." Verse three. "I'm afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ." Satan deceived Eve with his cunning, Eve was Adams wife. Adam did not protect Eve from the cunning of Satan. The cunning, what is the cunning? It's plausible lies. On the surface level they make sense until you start digging deeper and they're never consistent. He says, "Cunning. Satan is cunning." You know Satan is the second smartest being in the universe. And he became Satan only because he thought he was first. He a created being, created by God thought he was smarter than God.And unfortunately he's a lot of people today. They just think they're smarter than God. They think they're smarter than God's holy scriptures. Oh, smart people don't believe in Satan. Well, if that's what you believe, you've already been deceived. Satan's smarter than you are. If you don't believe he exists, you've been deceived. If you don't believe he's smarter than you, you've been deceived. I used to have to make the case for the existence of Satan. And then 2020 happened and 2021 happened. I'm like, "All right, everyone knows there's evil out there. There's a cabal of demonic forces out there trying to destroy absolutely everything and everyone." If you don't believe that, the burden of proof is on you. You got to make the case for what... How do you explain all the evil in the world? All the lies, all of the coordinated deception in the world. How can you anticipate Satan's attacks if you don't think he's even real?Genesis 3:1, look at Satan's attack as he comes to Eve. "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree and the garden? Did God actually say.'" Satan is so cunning he convinced Eve that God, the creator of everything, God the creator of Adam and Eve is a liar. That's his greatest lie. Is he hoodwinked people to believe that God is the one who's lying. In the Corinthian church Satan convinced the Corinthian Christians through the false teachers, that Paul was the cunning one. That Paul who planted the church, shared the gospel, these people became Christians because of his ministry. That Paul is the liar. And this, by the way is the same technique that he uses in places like Boston.Satan did the same with the church in Boston historically speaking. He came in here, a place where the revival started. He convinced people that the church is the one propagating the lies. He convinced people that God is the liar. That holy scripture is a book of myths. Satan to Eve. He convinced that God's liar, Satan to Boston he convinced us that God is a lie. Not us, our neighbors. Did God actually speak through Paul? That's what the false teachers asked. Did Jesus really appear? Why would we listen to him? Don't listen to Paul. Listen to us.Watch our YouTube channel. Don't forget to like and hit the subscribe button and comment below and share it with your friends. Subscribe to our newsletter, buy our books. Don't listen to them. Don't read this book, read our book. That's how it works. How do you prevent yourself from being deceived, from having your thoughts led astray by Satan? You have to know God's word. You have to know God's word. And here just a challenge. If you're not a Christian and you don't believe in Satan, I challenge you, read this whole thing. 1,189 chapters, read every single word. Four chapters a day, 20 minutes a day. You can get through within a year. Read this thing and see if Satan doesn't exist. And I will tell... I guarantee you, you will feel Satan's clammy hands pulling you away from even reading this book.You will get up, Genesis you might make your way through. Exodus is fun. You'll get to Numbers and you're like... Skip Numbers, okay, you can skip Numbers. Just keep going. Just like, okay, just keep going. I'm telling you, there will be demonic warfare on you getting you to read anything else. For Christians you got to read the word. With my daughter we did a devotional on new year's, and this is what we said, "2022 read, listen, do. 2022 read, listen, do." You got to read the word. You got to listen to God's voice. And then you got to do what it says. Prayerfully read, listen to the holy spirit, obey God's word as if he had just shown up and told you, spoken to you. Timewise, my challenge to you dear Christians. For every hour that you watch Netflix, every single hour, you got to counter it with an hour of Bible reading.And even if you're like, "That's not realistic." Why not? Why? Hold on. Why is that unrealistic? You can sit there and veg out. Watching these shows most likely written by pagans, godless pagans, just bringing a worldview into your living room, into your mind. That has nothing to do with... You got to counter. You got to counter. And even on busy days, this is what I'll say. On busy days, for as much time as you spend grooming yourself, showering, taking a bath, preparing yourself to go out in public, spend as much time washing yourself with the water of the word as Ephesians 5 says. I call it taking a Bible bath. Every day, just take Bible, just get into the word. If you don't have time, a Psalm, a Proverb, a chapter from the New Testament and watch how the Lord will transform your life. Second, don't be led astray from devotion to Christ. And this is really the key verse in verse three. Once Satan gets your mind, then he begins to attack your devotion. Your love for God. This is verse three, "But I'm afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts," he gets your thoughts, "will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ."Deception in the mind always leads the loss of devotion to Christ in the heart, which ultimately leads to a desertion of Christ. I've never seen someone pulled away from Christ, from the Bible with lies like a book they read or a podcast that sowed doubt into their heart. I've never seen someone do that where they begin to believe the Bible less, but love Jesus more. I've never seen that in my whole life. Lies from Satan always pull your heart away from Jesus. Satan does everything in his power to keep people from getting saved, everything in his power. But once God does save a person, Satan immediately changes his strategy to pull Christians away from a sincere and pure devotion to Jesus Christ. Literally here in the Greek, the word for sincere is the word for simplicity from the simplicity and purity which is in Christ.Another translation just combines the two and says from the simplicity that is in Christ. See following Jesus Christ there's a simplicity to it. That God exists. He sent us His word through His son Jesus Christ. Confirm everything through His life, His death, His burial, His resurrection. It's all true. And if you take God's word, if you repent of your sin, you follow Jesus Christ. You take God's word. You apply it to your life on a daily basis. Everything in your life begins to flourish. When you love God above all else, your marriage gets better. Your relationship with friends get better, with family gets better, parenting gets better. Everything gets better when your heart is connected to the heart of God. It's very simple. Satan complicates everything because Satan can't create. Satan can't create, he counterfeits and he complicates.The further you get from God, the more complicated life gets. Maybe not initially, but after a while, everything just gets a lot more complicated. The true Christian life is always a simple life of loving Jesus Christ and loving people and honoring God. Thomas à Kempis says, "By two wings, man is lifted from the things of earth, simplicity and purity." What is the Christian life? It's sincere and pure devotion to Jesus Christ, a daily abiding with Christ. It's a companionship with Christ. That Christ is always with you. His presence is always accessible to you. It's a powerful word, fellowship. You can have fellowship with the God of the universe anywhere you are. 1 Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful by whom you were called." Called into what? "Into the fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord." So dear Christian be on guard against anything and everything that pulls you away from this sincere and pure devotion to Jesus Christ.The word tells us whatever you do, whether food or drink, do everything to the glory of God. Well, here's the test for how do you know that you're doing everything to the glory of God. That whatever you do to the glory of God deepens your devotion for Christ. Your love for Jesus Christ. Jesus is alive. He isn't just for Sunday mornings. He's for every single moment. To live is Christ and to die is, again, nothing matters more than this fellowship with Christ. If you don't like the direction your life is sailing, well, you got to write the fellowship of your life. The fellowship with Christ. And watch everything change.Three is don't proclaim another Jesus. In verse four, "For if anyone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed." Why are so many church buildings in Boston empty? They're empty. They're empty of life because they're empty of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we go to some of these buildings and we're like, "Hey, would you sell your building to us?" And they find out who we are and that we actually believe in the Bible, just like the people who started those churches believe in the Bible. And then they're like, "Nah, we'd rather sell to a real estate developer."Christians got here in Boston, in New England, in the United States, we got here, churches got here because Christians readily put up with heresy. Usually what a lot of people don't understand is heresy isn't just outright denial of scripture. That's not how heresy begins. Heresy takes a doctrine of Christianity and it just mixes it with human philosophy. And it always has to do with the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus was a tremendous moral teacher. Is that true? Yes. Jesus was only a moral teacher. That's not true. Jesus Christ came back from the dead spiritually speaking. Is that true? Yeah. But he also came back from the dead physically speaking. He literally came back from the dead. Denying that truth is to deny Christ. No heretical teaching ever presents a Jesus Christ that stands up, a historical Jesus of history and scripture. The Jesus who transformed the world like no one else.In these heretical churches and these churches that reject Jesus, they never preach to Jesus that calls people to a repentance of sin. It's always, Jesus loves you. And He has a plan for you and just keep coming and everything's going to be fine. No, Jesus began his ministry literally with two words, He says, "Repent and believe, the kingdom of God is here. Repent and believe, repent." That's the first word that He ever utters as he begins his ministry. So when you listen to teachers, be they spiritual teachers, or actually any person in authority over you, be a professor, be it a government official, whoever it is, you always got to ask the following. Does this person love Jesus?Does this person love the true Jesus Christ of Holy Scripture and of history? If so, there's fruit bearing with repentance that they are children of God. If they do not love Jesus Christ, these people are children of Satan. This is how I look at politicians. This is how I look at just anyone in authority. If you don't love Jesus Christ, you're a child of Satan. There's only two categories. Children of God, adopted into his family through repentance and faith. Or you're a child of Satan. It's a cold hard fact if you're a child of Satan. And the reason why we tell you this, and the reason why Jesus tells you this, is so that you don't stay a child of Satan. Because being a child of God is so much better here now and in the future.This isn't my teaching this is teaching of Christ. In John 8:42-45, Jesus said to them, to the Pharisees who thought... They claim that God is their father. "If Gog were your father, you would love me for I came from God and I'm here. I came not of my own accord, but He sent me, why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father, the devil. And your will is to do your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me." The true Jesus Christ preaches things like this. To awaken people and call people to repentance so that they are transformed from being children of Satan to children of God. By God's grace.Four is don't receive a different spirit. He continues here. For someone comes and proclaims another Jesus, then the one will be proclaimed. Or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received. The spirit here he's talking about is usually false teachers. They do come with a spiritual power. The fact that there is a spiritual power is not defining proof that this person is from God. Because Satan has demons as well and Satan can do all kinds of work, spiritual work, because Satan is in the spiritual realm as well. So 1 John tells us, "Hey, be careful. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world by this, the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, the one who was against Christ. Which you heard was coming now is in the world already." The spirit of the antichrist is in the world already. "Little children you are from God and have overcome them for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world therefore they speak from the world and the world listens to them. We are from God and whoever knows God listens to us. Whether whoever is not from God does not listen to us by this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error." Even if there is spiritual work in a church and in a denomination, what have you. You need to ask, "What do they believe about Jesus? Or what do they teach about Jesus Christ? Does it line up with Holy Scripture?And then also you got to look at the fruit of the ministry. Only the Holy Spirit can bear fruit of the spirit and this is Galatians 5. You can tell that someone's filled with the Holy Spirit if they have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Five is don't accept a different gospel. So he says, "Don't proclaim another Jesus, receive a different spirit." And he continues, "Or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough." The gospel of Jesus Christ is that God created everything we rebelled against him. God didn't leave us in our sins, he sends Jesus Christ who lives the perfect life that we were supposed to live. Fulfills all of God's commandments on our behalf.And then He is crucified. And on the cross, He doesn't just bear the physical anguish of crucifixion. He also bears the wrath of God and the onslaught of Satan. And He does all of that to bear the curse, pay the penalty for our sins. And then He dies and He's buried. On the third day He rises triumphantly in victory over Satan's sin and death. And the very second He does all that. So that at the very second that any human being asks for forgiveness, asks for pardon, asks for, "God, please forgive me of my sin." That's what we're repentance, that God please forgive me of ever everything I've done. At that very moment you're saved by grace through faith. And all of your sins are forgiven in past present and future. Your eternity is secure. You're sealed with the Holy Spirit and power to do his work.What can you do to be saved? There's nothing you can do. There's no work. There's no gift that you can give. There's nothing you can do or say, all you can do is cry out to God. And this is where false teachers come in. They view this as an opportunity and they say, "No. You have to do something to get saved." And they begin to add works and manmade philosophy usually works this way. They add works to the gospel and they say, "Oh, hey, you're a Christian. Then why aren't you voting like us? Why aren't you marching with us? Why aren't you obeying like we are? Why aren't you a good person as defined by us?" My response is always, "Are you a Christian?" They said, "No, but I know what a good Christian should be." "Well, how do you know?" And usually they grow up and go into Catholic church or church once in a while.Most people just think this is how you're made right with God. You just have to be a good person. And a lot of churches teach that. And then after a while, people are like, "Well, I am a good person." So they stop going to church. And that's why those churches that stop preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ lose the power of God because the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for anyone who believes. Adding any work to the truth that salvation is free. It's by free grace through faith alone is demonic. Also one of the things that's going just a lot of people talking about this online and people are talking about the deconstruction of Christianity. I'm deconstructing my faith. I'm deconstructing the faith that was taught unto me and the Christianity that was taught. And then I'm going to reconstruct it.What usually happens as I've been watching this little thing going on is they stop at the deconstruction. Okay, deconstruct my faith and then there's no devotion of Christ. And then you leave the faith. Usually what I say about for the most part, scripture says, "They went out from us because they were not of us." What scripture teaches is you can't do that if you're a real Christian. Once you become a child of God, God is a good father and he doesn't lose a child. Once you become a child of God, you can't deconstruct your being a child of God. I have four daughters. If one of my daughters, God forbid, if they ever come to me, I remember Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone. He divorced his parents after he became millionaire. He divorced his parents, terrible story.If one of my daughter ever came to and said, "Okay, I'm divorcing myself from this family." God forbid. "I'm getting rid of the last name." I would say, "You can get rid of the last name, but you can't deconstruct your face. Because you look just like me." Every single one of them. You have a new nature as a Christian. You're a new creation. You can't deconstruct that nature. And that whole idea of deconstructing Christian it's demonic. And it's never, okay, I'm going to deconstruct the wrong parts of my faith by looking at scripture. That's not called deconstruct that's called reformation. We believe in that, not deconstruction. Galatians 1:6-9 Paul says, "I'm astonished that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel."Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preach to you, let him be accursed. It's a powerful word. That's in the precatory prayer. Let this person be cursed. What are you saying is if someone comes to you and preaches a false gospel, even if it's an angel, you say to that angel, "God damn you. May you be accursed." As we have said before so now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you receive, let him be accursed. And then point six is don't malign faithful ministers of the gospel. And here St. Paul, he speaks directly to these people who've been undermining his ministry.Verse five, "Indeed I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super apostles." So these false teachers had to come in. St. Paul had already left the church in Corinth. And they said, "Okay, Paul left. He's an apostle. Well now where are the apostles? And we're actually better than Paul because we're better speakers than Paul with better credentials than Paul and our speaking fees are higher than Paul's. Which means that we're a lot better than he is." And St. Paul heard all of this and using sarcasm, his words drip with sarcasm here. He doesn't just call them apostle, he calls them super apostles. Because they irrigated themselves over him. Verse six, "Even if I'm unskilled in speaking, I'm not so in knowledge. Indeed in every way we have made this plain to you and all things."They accused him of not having oratory skills according to Greco-Roman rhetoric. St. Paul, obviously he was trained in all of this, but he intentionally did not use the artificial synthetic stylized standards of Greco-Roman rhetoric because he didn't come to give a speech. He came to preach about the knowledge of God. That's what he said. "I might be unskilled in the speaking, not in knowledge because I know God and I know his word." And that's why he made this plain. That's what preaching is supposed to be. Preaching is supposed to be revelation, sharing of the knowledge of God. This is who God is. This is what God says. Spoken plainly, simply so people can understand. But on fire because you're devoted to Christ. Here at Mosaic, we as pastors and everyone that preaches, we take this seriously. We work hard to present the sermon, the word as skillfully as possible. But the power's not in the skilled dear friend, the power is not a skill. The power is in the Holy Spirit stirring your heart and stirring your devotion to the Lord.I say this to myself. When I listen to a sermon, my job isn't to judge the skill level, my job is to receive the blessing that is the knowledge of God. And be on guard. Make sure there's no heresy, the content. My job is to focus on the content, not the skill. The skill... You work hard, but once in a while you wake up and you have four daughters and one of them gets sick or something. That stuff. Focus on the content. That's what St. Paul he here says. And these people came in and they begin to accuse St. Paul because they're servants of Satan. Sometimes Satan accuses with lies. Sometimes with the truth but more often with lies. These super apostles became proxy accusers.And this is usually how it works. They heard something that he said, a point of disagreement, a point of confusion. They interpret as suspiciously as possible. No benefit of the doubt. Motives are questioned and speculations are issued. And these super apostles couldn't argue with Paul on the basis of scripture. So they begin to make personal attacks, ad hominem attacks on him. Verse seven, "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge." St. Paul came and he preached the gospel for free. Why? Because he wanted to lower every single barrier for absolutely everyone to know the gospel. I want everyone to hear the gospel. I want everyone to know the gospel. This is why we don't charge admission at Mosaic. Some churches honestly do. They sell tickets.We don't do any of that. If someone wants to give to the Lord and the Lord's work tremendous, but it's free. It's free because someone else paid for it. Paul did the same thing. He preached free of charge. And here's what the super apostles, the fake teachers, false teacher, they came in and they actually accused him that because he was speaking for free, that his message was subpar to their message. Because in the Greco-Roman world, the greatest speakers had the heftiest honorariums, the heftiest fees. Just like today, if you're a person of status and you're invited to speak at a conference or something like that, or at a school, at a college, at a company, there's an honorarium, there's a fee. And I remember I found out about this for the first time I was in college and they invited Bill Clinton to come speak.And I'll never forget his speech. His speech was... His whole was no one's going to monopoly on the truth, which sounded nice at the time. And then upon reflection, I realized that he himself was trying to monopolize the truth. And in his attempt to monopolize the truth, he charged the school $200,000 to speak for 45 minutes. Those are speaking fees. And this is what the false teachers did. And they accused St. Paul of presenting a gospel that's really not worth paying for because he wasn't charging money. Obviously they were. And one of the lessons here is sometimes there's some people you just can't win with. If St. Paul came in and he charged for the speaking of the gospel, he'd be accused of profiteering. Oh, he's got the wrong motives. And he doesn't charge. And now they accuse him of being a hack.If your whole goal in life is to please everybody, you'll never succeed and you always be a little saddened because unfortunately there's a category of people that are just haters. Haters going to hate. And it is what it is. And St. Paul knew that and he responds to them. Verse eight, "I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you." He didn't rob them, hyperbolic language meaning they gave money to the ministry of the church, of the gospel where they were. And then St. Paul came in and he said, "Hey, in Corinth there's a need, would you give there?" And they did give. "And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I will refrain from burdening you in any way as the truth of Christ is in me. This boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia and why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do."I'll pause here for just a second. What he's saying here is wherever I go, I'm going to boast about the way God worked in Corinth through Paul. But then also about His love for the church. He's said, "I love the Corinth so much. I want so many people come to faith. I didn't take any money. I'm boasting in my love for the bride of Christ. I'm going to tell everyone. I know everyone that would listen so that they would be inspired to sacrifice in a similar way to love the church of Jesus Christ in a similar way." Because He says, "I love you. God knows I do." In the verse 12, "What am I doing, I will continue to do in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boast admission they work on the same terms as we do."He's saying, "These super apostles who are questioning my motives, I'm preaching the gospel because I love God and I love people. They're preaching the gospel for money. Check their motives, follow the money and then you realize who's faithful to Lord and who's not." The super apostles are motivated to preach for self-gain. Paul was preaching for the gain of the Corinthians. Point seven is don't disguise yourself in righteousness. This is 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. This is where Paul takes his gloves off. "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder for even Satan disguised himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, their end will correspond to their deeds. These self-made super apostles with no calling or authority from God." Paul says, "They weren't sent by God. They were sent by Satan. Satan disguises himself as an angel.He disguises himself as an angel. An angel of light. And he works through human servants who also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. So two lessons here. Number one, be careful when someone comes to you and they look outwardly righteous. Don't be fooled by an outward righteousness unless it's confirmed from their life. That's number one. Number two, you, me, don't pretend to be more righteous than you really are. May this be the year where you and I, we're truly honest before God. Real before God. God, this is who I am. This is where I lack righteousness. True with your brothers and sisters. In your community groups and brothers and sisters you're walking with. "Pray for me, I am working on being more righteous in this area of my life." Don't masquerade. That's the easy way. But when you masquerade in righteousness and you do that over and over and over for a long time, after a while, you might become a servant of Satan.Satan is scary. Satan comes not often as a roaring lion, not physically. He doesn't reveal himself. Because if he came as he truly is, we'd be grossed out. He's too ugly, grotesque, repulsive, nauseating. He never says, "Good morning, everyone. I'm Satan, and I'm here to ruin your life. I'm going to lie. Everything I'm going to say to you is a lie. I just want to kill you. And I want to steal your joy. I want to steal your satisfaction. I want to steal your health. And ultimately I want to take you to hell. There's a lake of fire and sulfur for all of eternity I want you to burn with me. I'm going anyway so I want more people to keep me company." He doesn't do that. He comes and he says, "Good morning. I'm your friend. I want the best for you. I want you to be so happy.God doesn't want you to be as happy as I want you to be. God is the killjoy, I'm not. Don't follow his rules, they're burdensome. Forget the rules, follow me. I've got something so alluring, so exciting, so fulfilling. You can't afford to miss it." And then he pulls you into his kingdom and your life falls apart. And you end up an eternity apart from God. Thanks be to God that Jesus Christ came and He gave us a way to resist Satan by the power of the gospel through the holy spirit. James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil." Meaning Satan is resistible. "Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded." Thanks to be Jesus Christ the great conqueror of Satan.Colossians 2:13-15, "When you who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him having forgiven us all our trespass by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with His legal demands. This He set side nailing to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in Him. We await the second coming of Jesus Christ when He will have final and absolute victory over Satan and will throw them to the lake of fire and sulfur and there he'll be tormented day after day forever and ever. And in the meantime, we are to fight the good fight of faith for pure devotion to Jesus Christ." I challenge you to read Ephesians 6:10-18, meditate on that. Today and this week, Ephesians 6:10-18 memorize it, memorize it. Very easy. It's not even that big of a text. Ephesians 6:10-18 will equip you like nothing else to stand firm in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

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. Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, I'm one of the pastors here along with pastor Shane and pastor Andy. If you're new or visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the connection card and the worship guide if you fill it out legibly. Just toss it on the white box in the back or leave it at the welcome center. And if you give it to them at the welcome center, they'll give you a gift in return to say thanks for coming out. Also, we have two quick announcements. January 16th, 1:00 PM, we have a baptism seminar. So if you have not been baptized and you want to know more about what baptism is, please do attend the class. Let us know that you're coming, so we know how much food to order for lunch. And then also January 23rd, the following Sunday, we have a membership class right after the second service at 1:00 PM. And the membership class is where we talk about the identity, the vision, the history of Mosaic. And we talk about what it means to be a member of a church, a committed covenant member, which every faithful Christian should be a member of a church somewhere. But since you're here, you should be a member here. With that said would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word. Heavenly Father, we thank you for a new year, a fresh start. We thank you that you have sustained us to this point. We thank you that you are a God who promises that when we cast our burdens upon you, our anxieties, our stress, our worries, you do sustain us. And you've sustained us till this moment. We thank you for that. We pray a special prayer of blessing upon this church, upon every member and attender. That you keep us close to you in this season. That you'll give us the resolve, the power of the holy spirit, a zeal to deepen our devotion to you. To fight the good fight of faith to be ever more devoted to Jesus Christ. It's a new year, but nothing's really changed. Lord, you're still on the throne. You're still sovereign. Your plans are still coming to fruition on a daily basis. And Satan is still with his whole legion of demons, trying to thwart your plans and to take as many people with him, as many souls with him. So you've called us to this place to fight the good fight. To help transfer as many people from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of the beloved son, the kingdom of light. We pray Holy Spirit, that you today from the Holy Scriptures, encourage our hearts. Help us know that Satan is real, that the adversary is real. He's come to steal, kill, destroy. He's the accuser, he's the liar. And he does everything he can to thwart us from living lives of usefulness to you. So I pray Lord, make us faithful servants of the living God, men and women of the living God. Sons and daughters of the living God. Serving you faithfully. And bless our time, the Holy Scriptures right now. And we pray all this in Christ holy name. Amen. We're continuing our sermon series through 2 Corinthians that we're calling prodigal church season two. We have a few more sermons, a few more chapters. Lord willing we'll finish it this month, or if not the beginning of February. And then we'll start a new sermon series that'll take us through Easter. Welcome to 2022, Happy New Year everyone. Happy New Year. Thank you. Thank you. 2022. It's like 2021 plus one. It's like 2020 plus two. And I pray that it's not like 2020 2.0. I pray that. But even if it is, I say this because last year I was like, "2020 is over. It's 2021, everything's different." No it wasn't. So what I'm saying is Jesus is still king. Don't worry about it. It's all going to be good. Just stay faithful to the Lord. We hear things like, "New year, new me." It's not true. I'm still the same guy. You're the same person. Same me, same you, same world. We've been hearing a lot of talk along the lines of what in the world is going on? I'll tell you, you can never make true sense of what is going on unless you know a couple things. First of all, that God is real. He exists. And so does Satan. Satan exists. God exists. Angels exists. Satan exists. Demons exists. God has human servants, His children. Adopted children. Well Satan has human servants as well. And he uses them. Often they are unwitting, unintentional servants. And regardless of religious belief, worldview opinion, there's a great battle raging in the spiritual realm that has real consequences in the physical world. Satan is a supernatural enemy and his job objective is to lie, to accuse, to steal, to kill, to destroy. He has a true power. Although it is limited. It's still dangerous. He's called the ruler of this world in John 12:31. In 2 Corinthians 4:4 says this, "In their case, in the case of those who don't follow Jesus Christ. In their case, the god of this world," small G, "has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." Meaning it doesn't matter how intelligent you are and it doesn't matter how high your IQ. It doesn't matter how well educated you are. There's a part of your mind that is blinded by Satan until the very moment that you cry out to God and say, "God, please give me eyes to see that God is real." And when you repent of our sins. How does Satan operate? With a certain spiritual hypnosis. A mass formation psychosis, where everybody just is following this narrative that there is no God. Which is the most absurd thing to believe. Though opposite of God, Satan, is nowhere near equal. He's not omniscient, he's not omnipresent, he's not omnipotent. So praise be to God that if you're a Christian, you are covered by the power of God. Two things to note here before we get into the text is if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, before you became a follower of Christ you were a follower of Satan. This is Ephesians 2:1-3. And you, he's talking to Christians, "You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world. Following the prince of the power of the air, Satan. The spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh. Carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind." And even if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you can still be tempted by Satan. You can still be influenced by Satan. He can still take the sins in your life and he can exacerbate them as if he takes his fingers, demonic finger and presses them in on your sin. That's why 1 Peter 5:8 says, "Be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour." He's not talking about unbelievers. He already owns them. He's talking about believers that Satan seeks to devour Christians to make them absolutely useless to the things of God. And even pastors, even elders can be caught in the snare of Satan. This is a warning to myself. I'm preaching to myself, pastor Shane and pastor Andy. Satan seeks to take us out. That's why ministry is such difficult anguishing work because of demonic warfare. 1 Timothy 3:7, "Moreover he, the pastor, must be well thought of by outsiders so that he may not fall into disgrace, into the snare of the devil." So even if you're a Christian, Satan will tempt, lie, accuse and seek to cool your devotion to Jesus Christ. Because the battle for the soul starts with the mind. Creeps into the heart and then takes over the body. Lies for the mind, misguided affections in the heart. And pleasure, misguided, wrongful, sinful pleasure in the body. Today we're in 2 Corinthians 11: 1-15, I'll read the text and then we'll jump right in. "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me. For I feel a divine jealousy for you since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure Virgin to Christ. But I'm afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super apostles. Even if I'm unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed in every way we have made this plain to you in all things. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge? I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied by need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do. And what I do, I will continue to do in order to undermine the claim of those who like to claim that in their boasted mission, they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds." This is the reading of God's holy, inerrant, infallible, authoritative word. May you write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Seven points, and we'll talk about how to avoid serving Satan. First, don't be deceived by his cunning. Second, don't be let us stray from devotion to Christ. Three, don't proclaim another Jesus. Fourth, don't receive a different spirit. Fifth, don't accept a different gospel. Six, don't malign faithful ministers of the gospel. And seven, don't disguise yourself in righteousness. How to avoid serving Satan point one, don't be deceived by his cunning. And this, he begins in verse 1. He says, "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me." And by foolishness, what he's doing is he finished chapter 10 talking about how the false teachers, the super apostles as he calls them, they were boasting in their credentials. They were boasting in how much they know of scripture. They were boasting in their oratory skills. And St. Paul knows that the only way to really counter this attack, where they were trying to undermine Paul's ministry with their own boasting is he's going to boast, but he's not going to boast in his credentials though he could have. He studied under Gamaliel, which is better than getting a Harvard PhD in theology. He could have boasted in his knowledge of script. He boasts in other things. He boasts in how the Lord has worked in his heart. So he is actually boasting in the Lord. He's boasting about the work that God did in his heart. So he begins verse 2 with a boast, "For I feel a divine jealousy for you, for the church in Corinth. Since I be betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure Virgin to Christ." Paul is about to boast and he's like, "All right, I'm going to boast. But I'm not going to boast about my educat.... I'm going to boast about my love for the church. I'm going to boast about my zeal, my jealousy for the church." What an interesting word to use. Because jealousy is a sin, right? Thou shalt not envy. That's a commandment. Don't do it. Don't envy. Meaning there's a sinful jealousy, a sinful envy, which is selfish. I want things for me. And there's a godly, he calls a divine jealousy. For you, I want the best thing for you. And I want the best thing for God. And he views himself, not just as a pastor, as an apostle. He views himself as the father of a bride. He views the church as the bride of Jesus Christ. And he views Christians that became Christians under his ministry as those that he has betrothed to Jesus. He's saying, "You're engaged to Jesus Christ." And at the second coming that's when we're going to have the wedding feast where a bride of Christ, the church, us, will be married to Christ, we'll become one. So he views himself as the father of the bride. And his job is to present the church as a pure virgin to Christ. And he toils for the church's purity. Paul is ready to do anything to protect the church's purity. And he sees that they're flirting with spiritual and faith, they're flirting with the Satan, with the devil. Flirting with Satan. I understand his heart here because I have four daughters. And my oldest is 13. And I look at them, I'm like, "Oh, I got a teenager in my house. That's crazy." But I view this. I dream of the wedding day of all four finally get out of the house. I'm just kidding, I love them. But I dream about that day, where it's like, all right, I'm going to walk each one down the aisle, and then I'm going to turn around and officiate the wedding. That's my dream. So my preparation right now for them as I disciple, as I raise, as I parent my daughters, is to prepare them as a bride of Christ. Clearly I want them to love Christ, to be devoted to Christ. And one day maybe a bride. But St. Paul says, "You, the bride of Christ, you're flirting with a bad boyfriend. You're engaged to Jesus. And you're flirting with some demonic teaching." Verse three. "I'm afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ." Satan deceived Eve with his cunning, Eve was Adams wife. Adam did not protect Eve from the cunning of Satan. The cunning, what is the cunning? It's plausible lies. On the surface level they make sense until you start digging deeper and they're never consistent. He says, "Cunning. Satan is cunning." You know Satan is the second smartest being in the universe. And he became Satan only because he thought he was first. He a created being, created by God thought he was smarter than God. And unfortunately he's a lot of people today. They just think they're smarter than God. They think they're smarter than God's holy scriptures. Oh, smart people don't believe in Satan. Well, if that's what you believe, you've already been deceived. Satan's smarter than you are. If you don't believe he exists, you've been deceived. If you don't believe he's smarter than you, you've been deceived. I used to have to make the case for the existence of Satan. And then 2020 happened and 2021 happened. I'm like, "All right, everyone knows there's evil out there. There's a cabal of demonic forces out there trying to destroy absolutely everything and everyone." If you don't believe that, the burden of proof is on you. You got to make the case for what... How do you explain all the evil in the world? All the lies, all of the coordinated deception in the world. How can you anticipate Satan's attacks if you don't think he's even real? Genesis 3:1, look at Satan's attack as he comes to Eve. "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree and the garden? Did God actually say.'" Satan is so cunning he convinced Eve that God, the creator of everything, God the creator of Adam and Eve is a liar. That's his greatest lie. Is he hoodwinked people to believe that God is the one who's lying. In the Corinthian church Satan convinced the Corinthian Christians through the false teachers, that Paul was the cunning one. That Paul who planted the church, shared the gospel, these people became Christians because of his ministry. That Paul is the liar. And this, by the way is the same technique that he uses in places like Boston. Satan did the same with the church in Boston historically speaking. He came in here, a place where the revival started. He convinced people that the church is the one propagating the lies. He convinced people that God is the liar. That holy scripture is a book of myths. Satan to Eve. He convinced that God's liar, Satan to Boston he convinced us that God is a lie. Not us, our neighbors. Did God actually speak through Paul? That's what the false teachers asked. Did Jesus really appear? Why would we listen to him? Don't listen to Paul. Listen to us. Watch our YouTube channel. Don't forget to like and hit the subscribe button and comment below and share it with your friends. Subscribe to our newsletter, buy our books. Don't listen to them. Don't read this book, read our book. That's how it works. How do you prevent yourself from being deceived, from having your thoughts led astray by Satan? You have to know God's word. You have to know God's word. And here just a challenge. If you're not a Christian and you don't believe in Satan, I challenge you, read this whole thing. 1,189 chapters, read every single word. Four chapters a day, 20 minutes a day. You can get through within a year. Read this thing and see if Satan doesn't exist. And I will tell... I guarantee you, you will feel Satan's clammy hands pulling you away from even reading this book. You will get up, Genesis you might make your way through. Exodus is fun. You'll get to Numbers and you're like... Skip Numbers, okay, you can skip Numbers. Just keep going. Just like, okay, just keep going. I'm telling you, there will be demonic warfare on you getting you to read anything else. For Christians you got to read the word. With my daughter we did a devotional on new year's, and this is what we said, "2022 read, listen, do. 2022 read, listen, do." You got to read the word. You got to listen to God's voice. And then you got to do what it says. Prayerfully read, listen to the holy spirit, obey God's word as if he had just shown up and told you, spoken to you. Timewise, my challenge to you dear Christians. For every hour that you watch Netflix, every single hour, you got to counter it with an hour of Bible reading. And even if you're like, "That's not realistic." Why not? Why? Hold on. Why is that unrealistic? You can sit there and veg out. Watching these shows most likely written by pagans, godless pagans, just bringing a worldview into your living room, into your mind. That has nothing to do with... You got to counter. You got to counter. And even on busy days, this is what I'll say. On busy days, for as much time as you spend grooming yourself, showering, taking a bath, preparing yourself to go out in public, spend as much time washing yourself with the water of the word as Ephesians 5 says. I call it taking a Bible bath. Every day, just take Bible, just get into the word. If you don't have time, a Psalm, a Proverb, a chapter from the New Testament and watch how the Lord will transform your life. Second, don't be led astray from devotion to Christ. And this is really the key verse in verse three. Once Satan gets your mind, then he begins to attack your devotion. Your love for God. This is verse three, "But I'm afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts," he gets your thoughts, "will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ." Deception in the mind always leads the loss of devotion to Christ in the heart, which ultimately leads to a desertion of Christ. I've never seen someone pulled away from Christ, from the Bible with lies like a book they read or a podcast that sowed doubt into their heart. I've never seen someone do that where they begin to believe the Bible less, but love Jesus more. I've never seen that in my whole life. Lies from Satan always pull your heart away from Jesus. Satan does everything in his power to keep people from getting saved, everything in his power. But once God does save a person, Satan immediately changes his strategy to pull Christians away from a sincere and pure devotion to Jesus Christ. Literally here in the Greek, the word for sincere is the word for simplicity from the simplicity and purity which is in Christ. Another translation just combines the two and says from the simplicity that is in Christ. See following Jesus Christ there's a simplicity to it. That God exists. He sent us His word through His son Jesus Christ. Confirm everything through His life, His death, His burial, His resurrection. It's all true. And if you take God's word, if you repent of your sin, you follow Jesus Christ. You take God's word. You apply it to your life on a daily basis. Everything in your life begins to flourish. When you love God above all else, your marriage gets better. Your relationship with friends get better, with family gets better, parenting gets better. Everything gets better when your heart is connected to the heart of God. It's very simple. Satan complicates everything because Satan can't create. Satan can't create, he counterfeits and he complicates. The further you get from God, the more complicated life gets. Maybe not initially, but after a while, everything just gets a lot more complicated. The true Christian life is always a simple life of loving Jesus Christ and loving people and honoring God. Thomas à Kempis says, "By two wings, man is lifted from the things of earth, simplicity and purity." What is the Christian life? It's sincere and pure devotion to Jesus Christ, a daily abiding with Christ. It's a companionship with Christ. That Christ is always with you. His presence is always accessible to you. It's a powerful word, fellowship. You can have fellowship with the God of the universe anywhere you are. 1 Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful by whom you were called." Called into what? "Into the fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord." So dear Christian be on guard against anything and everything that pulls you away from this sincere and pure devotion to Jesus Christ. The word tells us whatever you do, whether food or drink, do everything to the glory of God. Well, here's the test for how do you know that you're doing everything to the glory of God. That whatever you do to the glory of God deepens your devotion for Christ. Your love for Jesus Christ. Jesus is alive. He isn't just for Sunday mornings. He's for every single moment. To live is Christ and to die is, again, nothing matters more than this fellowship with Christ. If you don't like the direction your life is sailing, well, you got to write the fellowship of your life. The fellowship with Christ. And watch everything change. Three is don't proclaim another Jesus. In verse four, "For if anyone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed." Why are so many church buildings in Boston empty? They're empty. They're empty of life because they're empty of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we go to some of these buildings and we're like, "Hey, would you sell your building to us?" And they find out who we are and that we actually believe in the Bible, just like the people who started those churches believe in the Bible. And then they're like, "Nah, we'd rather sell to a real estate developer." Christians got here in Boston, in New England, in the United States, we got here, churches got here because Christians readily put up with heresy. Usually what a lot of people don't understand is heresy isn't just outright denial of scripture. That's not how heresy begins. Heresy takes a doctrine of Christianity and it just mixes it with human philosophy. And it always has to do with the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus was a tremendous moral teacher. Is that true? Yes. Jesus was only a moral teacher. That's not true. Jesus Christ came back from the dead spiritually speaking. Is that true? Yeah. But he also came back from the dead physically speaking. He literally came back from the dead. Denying that truth is to deny Christ. No heretical teaching ever presents a Jesus Christ that stands up, a historical Jesus of history and scripture. The Jesus who transformed the world like no one else. In these heretical churches and these churches that reject Jesus, they never preach to Jesus that calls people to a repentance of sin. It's always, Jesus loves you. And He has a plan for you and just keep coming and everything's going to be fine. No, Jesus began his ministry literally with two words, He says, "Repent and believe, the kingdom of God is here. Repent and believe, repent." That's the first word that He ever utters as he begins his ministry. So when you listen to teachers, be they spiritual teachers, or actually any person in authority over you, be a professor, be it a government official, whoever it is, you always got to ask the following. Does this person love Jesus? Does this person love the true Jesus Christ of Holy Scripture and of history? If so, there's fruit bearing with repentance that they are children of God. If they do not love Jesus Christ, these people are children of Satan. This is how I look at politicians. This is how I look at just anyone in authority. If you don't love Jesus Christ, you're a child of Satan. There's only two categories. Children of God, adopted into his family through repentance and faith. Or you're a child of Satan. It's a cold hard fact if you're a child of Satan. And the reason why we tell you this, and the reason why Jesus tells you this, is so that you don't stay a child of Satan. Because being a child of God is so much better here now and in the future. This isn't my teaching this is teaching of Christ. In John 8:42-45, Jesus said to them, to the Pharisees who thought... They claim that God is their father. "If Gog were your father, you would love me for I came from God and I'm here. I came not of my own accord, but He sent me, why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father, the devil. And your will is to do your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me." The true Jesus Christ preaches things like this. To awaken people and call people to repentance so that they are transformed from being children of Satan to children of God. By God's grace. Four is don't receive a different spirit. He continues here. For someone comes and proclaims another Jesus, then the one will be proclaimed. Or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received. The spirit here he's talking about is usually false teachers. They do come with a spiritual power. The fact that there is a spiritual power is not defining proof that this person is from God. Because Satan has demons as well and Satan can do all kinds of work, spiritual work, because Satan is in the spiritual realm as well. So 1 John tells us, "Hey, be careful. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world by this, the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, the one who was against Christ. Which you heard was coming now is in the world already." The spirit of the antichrist is in the world already. "Little children you are from God and have overcome them for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world therefore they speak from the world and the world listens to them. We are from God and whoever knows God listens to us. Whether whoever is not from God does not listen to us by this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error." Even if there is spiritual work in a church and in a denomination, what have you. You need to ask, "What do they believe about Jesus? Or what do they teach about Jesus Christ? Does it line up with Holy Scripture? And then also you got to look at the fruit of the ministry. Only the Holy Spirit can bear fruit of the spirit and this is Galatians 5. You can tell that someone's filled with the Holy Spirit if they have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Five is don't accept a different gospel. So he says, "Don't proclaim another Jesus, receive a different spirit." And he continues, "Or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough." The gospel of Jesus Christ is that God created everything we rebelled against him. God didn't leave us in our sins, he sends Jesus Christ who lives the perfect life that we were supposed to live. Fulfills all of God's commandments on our behalf. And then He is crucified. And on the cross, He doesn't just bear the physical anguish of crucifixion. He also bears the wrath of God and the onslaught of Satan. And He does all of that to bear the curse, pay the penalty for our sins. And then He dies and He's buried. On the third day He rises triumphantly in victory over Satan's sin and death. And the very second He does all that. So that at the very second that any human being asks for forgiveness, asks for pardon, asks for, "God, please forgive me of my sin." That's what we're repentance, that God please forgive me of ever everything I've done. At that very moment you're saved by grace through faith. And all of your sins are forgiven in past present and future. Your eternity is secure. You're sealed with the Holy Spirit and power to do his work. What can you do to be saved? There's nothing you can do. There's no work. There's no gift that you can give. There's nothing you can do or say, all you can do is cry out to God. And this is where false teachers come in. They view this as an opportunity and they say, "No. You have to do something to get saved." And they begin to add works and manmade philosophy usually works this way. They add works to the gospel and they say, "Oh, hey, you're a Christian. Then why aren't you voting like us? Why aren't you marching with us? Why aren't you obeying like we are? Why aren't you a good person as defined by us?" My response is always, "Are you a Christian?" They said, "No, but I know what a good Christian should be." "Well, how do you know?" And usually they grow up and go into Catholic church or church once in a while. Most people just think this is how you're made right with God. You just have to be a good person. And a lot of churches teach that. And then after a while, people are like, "Well, I am a good person." So they stop going to church. And that's why those churches that stop preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ lose the power of God because the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for anyone who believes. Adding any work to the truth that salvation is free. It's by free grace through faith alone is demonic. Also one of the things that's going just a lot of people talking about this online and people are talking about the deconstruction of Christianity. I'm deconstructing my faith. I'm deconstructing the faith that was taught unto me and the Christianity that was taught. And then I'm going to reconstruct it. What usually happens as I've been watching this little thing going on is they stop at the deconstruction. Okay, deconstruct my faith and then there's no devotion of Christ. And then you leave the faith. Usually what I say about for the most part, scripture says, "They went out from us because they were not of us." What scripture teaches is you can't do that if you're a real Christian. Once you become a child of God, God is a good father and he doesn't lose a child. Once you become a child of God, you can't deconstruct your being a child of God. I have four daughters. If one of my daughters, God forbid, if they ever come to me, I remember Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone. He divorced his parents after he became millionaire. He divorced his parents, terrible story. If one of my daughter ever came to and said, "Okay, I'm divorcing myself from this family." God forbid. "I'm getting rid of the last name." I would say, "You can get rid of the last name, but you can't deconstruct your face. Because you look just like me." Every single one of them. You have a new nature as a Christian. You're a new creation. You can't deconstruct that nature. And that whole idea of deconstructing Christian it's demonic. And it's never, okay, I'm going to deconstruct the wrong parts of my faith by looking at scripture. That's not called deconstruct that's called reformation. We believe in that, not deconstruction. Galatians 1:6-9 Paul says, "I'm astonished that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel." Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preach to you, let him be accursed. It's a powerful word. That's in the precatory prayer. Let this person be cursed. What are you saying is if someone comes to you and preaches a false gospel, even if it's an angel, you say to that angel, "God damn you. May you be accursed." As we have said before so now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you receive, let him be accursed. And then point six is don't malign faithful ministers of the gospel. And here St. Paul, he speaks directly to these people who've been undermining his ministry. Verse five, "Indeed I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super apostles." So these false teachers had to come in. St. Paul had already left the church in Corinth. And they said, "Okay, Paul left. He's an apostle. Well now where are the apostles? And we're actually better than Paul because we're better speakers than Paul with better credentials than Paul and our speaking fees are higher than Paul's. Which means that we're a lot better than he is." And St. Paul heard all of this and using sarcasm, his words drip with sarcasm here. He doesn't just call them apostle, he calls them super apostles. Because they irrigated themselves over him. Verse six, "Even if I'm unskilled in speaking, I'm not so in knowledge. Indeed in every way we have made this plain to you and all things." They accused him of not having oratory skills according to Greco-Roman rhetoric. St. Paul, obviously he was trained in all of this, but he intentionally did not use the artificial synthetic stylized standards of Greco-Roman rhetoric because he didn't come to give a speech. He came to preach about the knowledge of God. That's what he said. "I might be unskilled in the speaking, not in knowledge because I know God and I know his word." And that's why he made this plain. That's what preaching is supposed to be. Preaching is supposed to be revelation, sharing of the knowledge of God. This is who God is. This is what God says. Spoken plainly, simply so people can understand. But on fire because you're devoted to Christ. Here at Mosaic, we as pastors and everyone that preaches, we take this seriously. We work hard to present the sermon, the word as skillfully as possible. But the power's not in the skilled dear friend, the power is not a skill. The power is in the Holy Spirit stirring your heart and stirring your devotion to the Lord. I say this to myself. When I listen to a sermon, my job isn't to judge the skill level, my job is to receive the blessing that is the knowledge of God. And be on guard. Make sure there's no heresy, the content. My job is to focus on the content, not the skill. The skill... You work hard, but once in a while you wake up and you have four daughters and one of them gets sick or something. That stuff. Focus on the content. That's what St. Paul he here says. And these people came in and they begin to accuse St. Paul because they're servants of Satan. Sometimes Satan accuses with lies. Sometimes with the truth but more often with lies. These super apostles became proxy accusers. And this is usually how it works. They heard something that he said, a point of disagreement, a point of confusion. They interpret as suspiciously as possible. No benefit of the doubt. Motives are questioned and speculations are issued. And these super apostles couldn't argue with Paul on the basis of scripture. So they begin to make personal attacks, ad hominem attacks on him. Verse seven, "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge." St. Paul came and he preached the gospel for free. Why? Because he wanted to lower every single barrier for absolutely everyone to know the gospel. I want everyone to hear the gospel. I want everyone to know the gospel. This is why we don't charge admission at Mosaic. Some churches honestly do. They sell tickets. We don't do any of that. If someone wants to give to the Lord and the Lord's work tremendous, but it's free. It's free because someone else paid for it. Paul did the same thing. He preached free of charge. And here's what the super apostles, the fake teachers, false teacher, they came in and they actually accused him that because he was speaking for free, that his message was subpar to their message. Because in the Greco-Roman world, the greatest speakers had the heftiest honorariums, the heftiest fees. Just like today, if you're a person of status and you're invited to speak at a conference or something like that, or at a school, at a college, at a company, there's an honorarium, there's a fee. And I remember I found out about this for the first time I was in college and they invited Bill Clinton to come speak. And I'll never forget his speech. His speech was... His whole was no one's going to monopoly on the truth, which sounded nice at the time. And then upon reflection, I realized that he himself was trying to monopolize the truth. And in his attempt to monopolize the truth, he charged the school $200,000 to speak for 45 minutes. Those are speaking fees. And this is what the false teachers did. And they accused St. Paul of presenting a gospel that's really not worth paying for because he wasn't charging money. Obviously they were. And one of the lessons here is sometimes there's some people you just can't win with. If St. Paul came in and he charged for the speaking of the gospel, he'd be accused of profiteering. Oh, he's got the wrong motives. And he doesn't charge. And now they accuse him of being a hack. If your whole goal in life is to please everybody, you'll never succeed and you always be a little saddened because unfortunately there's a category of people that are just haters. Haters going to hate. And it is what it is. And St. Paul knew that and he responds to them. Verse eight, "I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you." He didn't rob them, hyperbolic language meaning they gave money to the ministry of the church, of the gospel where they were. And then St. Paul came in and he said, "Hey, in Corinth there's a need, would you give there?" And they did give. "And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I will refrain from burdening you in any way as the truth of Christ is in me. This boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia and why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do." I'll pause here for just a second. What he's saying here is wherever I go, I'm going to boast about the way God worked in Corinth through Paul. But then also about His love for the church. He's said, "I love the Corinth so much. I want so many people come to faith. I didn't take any money. I'm boasting in my love for the bride of Christ. I'm going to tell everyone. I know everyone that would listen so that they would be inspired to sacrifice in a similar way to love the church of Jesus Christ in a similar way." Because He says, "I love you. God knows I do." In the verse 12, "What am I doing, I will continue to do in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boast admission they work on the same terms as we do." He's saying, "These super apostles who are questioning my motives, I'm preaching the gospel because I love God and I love people. They're preaching the gospel for money. Check their motives, follow the money and then you realize who's faithful to Lord and who's not." The super apostles are motivated to preach for self-gain. Paul was preaching for the gain of the Corinthians. Point seven is don't disguise yourself in righteousness. This is 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. This is where Paul takes his gloves off. "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder for even Satan disguised himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, their end will correspond to their deeds. These self-made super apostles with no calling or authority from God." Paul says, "They weren't sent by God. They were sent by Satan. Satan disguises himself as an angel. He disguises himself as an angel. An angel of light. And he works through human servants who also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. So two lessons here. Number one, be careful when someone comes to you and they look outwardly righteous. Don't be fooled by an outward righteousness unless it's confirmed from their life. That's number one. Number two, you, me, don't pretend to be more righteous than you really are. May this be the year where you and I, we're truly honest before God. Real before God. God, this is who I am. This is where I lack righteousness. True with your brothers and sisters. In your community groups and brothers and sisters you're walking with. "Pray for me, I am working on being more righteous in this area of my life." Don't masquerade. That's the easy way. But when you masquerade in righteousness and you do that over and over and over for a long time, after a while, you might become a servant of Satan. Satan is scary. Satan comes not often as a roaring lion, not physically. He doesn't reveal himself. Because if he came as he truly is, we'd be grossed out. He's too ugly, grotesque, repulsive, nauseating. He never says, "Good morning, everyone. I'm Satan, and I'm here to ruin your life. I'm going to lie. Everything I'm going to say to you is a lie. I just want to kill you. And I want to steal your joy. I want to steal your satisfaction. I want to steal your health. And ultimately I want to take you to hell. There's a lake of fire and sulfur for all of eternity I want you to burn with me. I'm going anyway so I want more people to keep me company." He doesn't do that. He comes and he says, "Good morning. I'm your friend. I want the best for you. I want you to be so happy. God doesn't want you to be as happy as I want you to be. God is the killjoy, I'm not. Don't follow his rules, they're burdensome. Forget the rules, follow me. I've got something so alluring, so exciting, so fulfilling. You can't afford to miss it." And then he pulls you into his kingdom and your life falls apart. And you end up an eternity apart from God. Thanks be to God that Jesus Christ came and He gave us a way to resist Satan by the power of the gospel through the holy spirit. James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil." Meaning Satan is resistible. "Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded." Thanks to be Jesus Christ the great conqueror of Satan. Colossians 2:13-15, "When you who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him having forgiven us all our trespass by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with His legal demands. This He set side nailing to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in Him. We await the second coming of Jesus Christ when He will have final and absolute victory over Satan and will throw them to the lake of fire and sulfur and there he'll be tormented day after day forever and ever. And in the meantime, we are to fight the good fight of faith for pure devotion to Jesus Christ." I challenge you to read Ephesians 6:10-18, meditate on that. Today and this week, Ephesians 6:10-18 memorize it, memorize it. Very easy. It's not even that big of a text. Ephesians 6:10-18 will equip you like nothing else to stand firm in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Last weekend Rose Ayling-Ellis and her partner Giovanni Pernice danced part of their routine on Strictly with a silent section in tribute to the deaf community. Rose thanked her partner by saying "I feel very thankful for your determination to make this dance the most positive, happy dance, it can be, because you know that being deaf, there's nothing wrong, it's such a joy to be deaf". Rose, who normally stars in Eastenders, is one of many female deaf actors to grace our screens. Sophie Leigh Stone was the first deaf actress to win a place at RADA and to take part in Doctor Who. Gabriella Leon plays Jade Lovall in Casualty. Even Eternals - the latest Marvel movie - stars Lauren Ridloff as the deaf superhero Makkari. So what effect is this increased visibility of deaf women having on the deaf community? Emma is joined by Camilla Arnold, a friend of Rose Ayling-Ellis and the BBC's first deaf series producer and Teresa Waldron, the managing director of Deaf-initely Women, a charity supporting deaf women in Derby. Former netball England International and England head coach Tracey Neville MBE is supporting a new campaign - ‘Coach the Coaches' - to encourage young women from deprived areas to use sport to help improve their metal health AND their career opportunities. The campaign aims to give 16-24 year olds the skills needed to become coaches. We ask the Former England Netball head coach why she wanted to support the campaign. The Bank of England has warned against women working from home and that not returning to the office will result in ‘two track' career development. We discuss this with the Resolution Foundation's Research Director Lindsay Judge and Emma Stewart MBE, Co-Founder of Timewise, a flexible working consultancy. Angela Merkel is stepping down as German chancellor after 16 years in power, bringing to an end a political career that has spanned more than three decades. Back in 1991, when Angela was Minister for Women, the photographer Herlinde Koelbl began a study called ‘Traces of Power', using Angela as one of her photographic subjects. This event took place across a thirty year period, and the results are now displayed in a new book ‘Angela Merkel: Portraits 1991-2021'. Eating Well with Dementia is a new community written recipe book from West Yorkshire. Inspired by the work of their local dementia cafe and cooking group, the book was developed by Young Dementia Leeds, a community service supporting people living with early onset dementia and their families. Emma Barnett speaks to Liz Menacer, Service Manager at Young Dementia Leeds and Diana Harris-Smith whose late husband was diagnosed with early onset dementia in 2016. They explore the role of food, memory and dementia. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Camilla Arnold Interviewed Guest: Teresa Waldron Interviewed Guest: Tracey Neville Interviewed Guest: Lindsay Judge Interviewed Guest: Emma Stewart Interviewed Guest: Herlinde Koelbl Interviewed Guest: Liz Menacer Interviewed Guest: Diana Harris-Smith

Police Minister, Kit Malthouse, talks to Woman's Hour about violence towards women in the light of Sabina Nessa's murder. We talk to him about the funding and strategies that were promised to how the police will act at Friday's evening vigil for Sabina. We speak to Professor Adam Balen, a consultant in reproductive Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, about why he thinks it's a good idea to have special messages in contraceptive packages advising people not to leave it too late if they want a baby. We discuss flexible working and how it really works in practice. At the moment when you've lasted 26 weeks in your job you have the right to request flexible working, but now there are government plans to let you make that request from day one. We speak to Emma Stewart from Timewise who wants those plans to go even further and to Leanne Skelton who runs a nursery and worries that more flexibility will be a logistical nightmare. And we speak to two women who love gaming, but say there's some alarming and worrying abuse towards women and non-white gamers. They are Shay Thompson, a gaming journalist and presenter as well as Cassie Hughes who's the co-founder of Black Twitch UK.

Bishop & Taylor are re-joined by Emma Stewart of Timewise (previously heard in episode 42)  to discuss the results of the Build UK-sponsored study into flexible working on construction sites.

“We should have a budget for our time, our energy, and our finances...even our energy has to be budgeted….Timewise, every week and every day we should set aside some time for the Lord." (Witness Lee, Messages Given to the Working Saints, Chapter 8. Living Stream Ministry). In this episode, we continue the series entitled “Miraculously Normal Living,” with excerpts taken from a time of fellowship in the summer of 2008 in Southern California. In this episode, Brother Benson speaks on the importance of having a normal living by budgeting our time, our energy, and our finances. The book referenced in the speaking can be found here: https://www.livingstream.com/en/christian-practice/13009001-messages-given-to-the-working-saints.html The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2008/06/various-co-workers-anaheim-june-2008/

Ce sont deux romans qui racontent l'amour, ses douceurs et ses fracas que nous présente Christophe Henning ce matin. Deux premiers romans qui décryptent le couple dans tout ce qu'il y a de plus ordinaire mais aussi dans la différence, l'opposition, l'incompréhension.  Madeleine Meteyer est l'auteure du roman "La première faute" publié au éditions JC Lattès, un premier roman puissant et universel qui raconte les troubles d'un couple, d'une famille. Salomé Baudino nous plonge dans l’histoire d’amour contrariée d’un couple hautement attachant, tout en se moquant avec malice et intelligence des travers de notre époque avec son roman "Le syndrome des coeurs brisés" aux éditions de l'Observatoire.   "La première faute" de Madeleine Meteyer   Quand ils se rencontrent à l’université, ils ont la vingtaine. Valentine croit à la tradition, François au progrès, mais ils tombent amoureux. Les années passent et avec elles arrivent le premier emploi, le premier appartement, le premier enfant, le mariage. Dix ans plus tard, François est devenu grand reporter, Valentine est éditorialiste. Ils ont trois enfants et tout de la famille idéale. Pourtant, quelque chose dissone. Peu à peu, sous le vernis des apparences, se révèlent les secrets et les fautes enfouis. Roman puissant et troublant, La Première Faute restitue l’érosion d’un couple, des petites lâchetés aux grandes compromissions. Il dissèque la famille et le mariage, explore la folie ordinaire et l’amour, qui consume autant qu’il sauve.     "Le syndrome des coeurs brisés" de Salomé Baudino De nos jours, un logiciel bouleverse les mœurs du monde moderne : le programme informatique TimeWise propose à ses utilisateurs de connaître la date exacte de la fin de leur histoire d’amour. Victor et Lola forment un jeune couple idéaliste, fous amoureux l’un de l’autre. Par envie pour l’un, par moquerie pour l’autre, ils y ont recours. Avant de découvrir, stupéfaits, qu’il ne leur reste que deux mois avant de se séparer. Quelle est la meilleure façon de vivre les derniers jours d’une histoire d’amour ? Salomé Baudino nous plonge dans l’histoire d’amour contrariée d’un couple hautement attachant, tout en se moquant avec malice et intelligence des travers de notre époque.    

Joining us on our WorkL Happiness Podcast this week is Emma Stewart MBE. Emma is the co-founder of Timewise; a flexible working consultancy driven by the motive that “anybody should have the flexibility at work without having to compromise their careers.”Emma speaks about how early life experiences forged a passion for tackling issues of gender inequality and the resilience this instilled at a young age. Her infectious positive, ‘can do’ attitude pervades her whole career where she uses personal experience to advise taking opportunities and putting yourself in the frame. Tune in for and inspiring listen and career insights applicable to any age and stage!

"WFH" – businesses have had to swiftly embrace it over the past year, but many still have a long way to go in terms of establishing a healthy flexible-working practice. Emma Stewart MBE joins us this episode, the Co-founder of Timewise, a flexible-working consultancy aiming to tackle the lack of quality part-time jobs. Speaking to Louise Winmill, Senior Partner at Portland, the conversation covers how and when to broach the topic of remote-working with employers, what flexibility looks like for frontline workers, 'hybrid bias', and the need to move flexible-working negotiations from the employment market to the recruitment market.

The main aim of SARD is to help improve the NHS, Britain's public health service. Healthcare and IT are ever-changing and we are interested in the ways that we can help it evolve with the growing population. SARD created a podcast because there's constant change, growth even, in our industry and we want to shout about it – this podcast is essentially our proverbial mountaintop and we're here to share all that's going on. 

Hello! In the last year we've seen huge, unplanned changes in how lots of people go about their jobs. We’re asking what it means for the future of flexible working. Jane Van Zyl from Working Families talks about how to give people more control over where, when and how much they work. Karen Mattison from Timewise explains why it makes sense for employers. Then Eero Vaara tells us what we can learn from Finland's flexible working culture.Plus chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on cold water swimming, mindful eating and how to look after our guts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bishop & Taylor discuss flexible working with Emma Stewart, Chief Executive of Timewise, and how it might help to improve the construction industry.

"Pre-pandemic, only 15% of job vacancies were able to reference any form of flexible working in the job vacancy. What we found [post-pandemic] is that the increase has been minimal. It's now 22% of job vacancies in the UK over this year on aggregate are now showing that it's possible to work flexibly from the point of hire." As a recruiter, how do you approach conversations about flexible working with your clients? We spoke to Emma Stewart, Co-founder and CEO of Timewise, UK's leading flexible working consultancy on the latest findings from their Flexible Jobs Index 2020. Timewise has been tracking the jobs market over the past five years looking at how many job vacancies are open to flexible working at the point of hire through their Flexible Jobs Index. In Neil Carberry's latest podcast discussion, Emma talks about: • What flexibility really means? • The shift in flexible working in job vacancies pre-and post- pandemic - based on Timewise's Flexible Jobs Index 2020 report • The role of flexible working in talent attraction and retention • Regional and sectoral trends on how businesses are responding to flexible working • How recruiters can approach conversations with clients on flexible working

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The magic of dance with Shirley Ballas, head judge on BBC series Strictly, Curtis Pritchard, Love Island participant and professional ballroom dancer, and Theresa Buckland, Professor of Dance History at Roehampton University. Vicky Phelan exposed a medical scandal which affected her, and over 200 other Irish women. She found out that cervical smear tests, including hers, were mistakenly given the all clear when they were in fact abnormal. Women didn't get the treatment that might have prevented, or halted cancer. Vicky who is now living with a terminal diagnosis took her case to court and she was awarded 2.5 million Euros in compensation. Her book is called Overcoming: A Memoir. The reality of searching for part time or flexible work. How hard is it to find good jobs that make use of your skills and abilities part-time? We hear from Karen Mattison, Joint CEO of Timewise about their new research. And listener Sarah who is looking for part-time work. The actor Lesley Manville on her role in the BBC's new Sunday night wartime drama World on Fire. In the city of St Louis, Missouri, the number of children who’ve been killed by a gun is rising. Most of them were caught in the cross fire, doing normal things like playing outside their house. Mothers, some who’ve lost a child, marched in the City last weekend to express their anger. Reporter Siobhann Tighe met the organiser, the Reverend Traci Blackmon. Two decades ago, a public health official exposed how contaminated blood and plasma had led to tens of thousands of impoverished villagers and hospital patients being infected with hepatitis and HIV in Henan province, China. Today that story is told in a new production called ‘The King of Hell's Palace’ at The Hampstead Theatre, London. The Chinese whistleblower, Dr Shuping Wang and playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig discuss. British-born Mauritian cook Selina Periampillai describes the diverse cuisine of Mauritius and its neighbouring islands in her first cookbook, The Island Kitchen. She Cooks the Perfect... Tuna Curry. Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Dianne McGregor Edited by Jane Thurlow

Led by Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party was formed in March of this year. In May it took 29 seats in the EU elections, more than any other party and nearly one third of all votes cast. Polls suggest the Brexit Party attracts the support of more men than women. But there are many women among the many voters who still feel strongly that the UK should fulfil the 2016 referendum result and leave with or without a deal. The Brexit party is holding a series of events as part of a national tour. Jane went to an event in Southport. The reality of searching for part time or flexible work. Just how hard is it to find good jobs - that make use of your skills and abilities - part time? We’ll be looking at new research from the flexible working consultancy Timewise, showing just how few advertised jobs there are for part time or flexible work, and asking why. We’ll also be getting advice on how to negotiate if you see your dream job advertised but at full time hours you can’t manage or don’t want - are employers likely to consider a strong candidate on fewer hours? And what can employers do to make part time or flexible work work for them? A few weeks ago we asked our listeners to get in touch and send us a picture that somehow captured them at their best. Not just looking your best, but feeling your best. Today Kelly Ford tells us about a reunion captured on camera. Historian Clare Wright on the overlooked history of the Australian suffragettes and their impact on the campaign for votes for women in Britain. Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Claire Fox Interviewed guest: Karen Mattison Interviewed guest: Sarah Hathaway Interviewed guest; Kelly Ford Interviewed guest: Clare Wright Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

In this episode Fiona, CEO of the Agile Future Forum and Group Director, Sustainability, Responsible Business & Inclusion at Lloyds Banking Group speaks with Karen Mattison MBE, co-founder of Timewise, a national flexible work advocacy and advice organisation as well as Lloyds Banking Group Relationship Director, Robert Carmichael,

Visit GHToverland.com/podcasts for all our Overland Podcasts with comprehensive notes for each episode.We had the privilege of catching up with Team Free Range Dames at the NW Overland Rally in Plain, WA. After a short conversation with Elise, seeing her passion along with her genuine persona, we knew having her and her partner Mercedes on the podcast was something you would find great value in. Enjoy this live interview from our booth at the rally as we learn about their story and the importance of their message.Elise and Mercedes are two women competing in the 2018 Rebelle Rally, the first offroad navigational challenge of its kind in the United States. The course spans over 2,000 km (1,243 miles) from Lake Tahoe to San Diego. Elise will be navigating while Mercedes commands the driving portion in their 2012 Toyota Tacoma (provided by Bomber Products) during this ten day overlanding challenge. Adding to the complexity of the rally, the Rebelle Rally prohibits the use of GPS! Relying 100% on old-school map and compass skills along with dead-reckoning. Keeping with these “back to basics” skills, there will also be no Binoculars, Zoom lenses greater than 200mm or 12x zoom lens capabilities, Personal maps with a scale less than 1:500000, Any Internet enabled device (including iPhones, iPods, etc.), Any two-way radios, Any rally computer that has a TSD mode that corrects or provides information for course corrections, deviations, calculation corrections including: Alfa Elite, Timewise, Rally GDP, TSD Rally Runner, RallyCore XSI, etc.. (we’re unclear if they can stop at the gas station and ask for directions :) we do believe having fun is encouraged. This isn’t a race for speed, but a vehicle-based event that uses navigation skills and driving wits to find hidden checkpoints across the Nevada and California desert (as well as Glamis sand dunes). Rally teams need to find each checkpoint at the right time, in the right distance, while only using maps, compass, and a road book. Our interview with Elise and Mercedes was full of passion, along with an impressive message we feel strongly about supporting. Empowering women and women leaders within the overlanding industry, much like any industry is an equal balance. We welcome and encourage the leadership of women like Elise and Mercedes, along with everyone else as equals.A little about these two awesome women:Elise is a passionate explorer who strongly believes in “making it happen” with a combination of grit and simply taking the first step. Elise is a freelancer specializing in geospatial applications, web development who also helps her husband Josh with his business, Bomber Products. Recently, Elise co-founded Big Sky Overland Rally, the first overlanding event of its kind in Montana.You can follow her travels and adventures on Instagram at @elise.bentMercedes is a Portland Oregon-based freelancer and adventurer who specializes in all things related to vehicular adventure travel. She, along with her husband Andy, run Crankshaft Culture, an automotive website dedicated to “getting out there” (no matter what type of vehicle you own). Mercedes, a dual citizen of the United States and Germany, loves to travel. Her most recent trips include exploring New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and many of the western states.You can follow her travels and adventures on Facebook and Instagram @crankshaftculture and @mercedes_lilienthalSupport Team Free Range DamesGetting these ladies some gas money for the Rebelle Rally will support them with fuel costs, equipment costs like helmets and a terratrip rally computer, along with parts of the entry fee for the overland rally.Website: http://www.teamfreerangedames.comGoFundMe Page: Team Free Range Dames Facebook Page: @teamfreerangedamesInstagram: @teamfreerangedames

Visit GHToverland.com/podcasts for all our Overland Podcasts with comprehensive notes for each episode.We had the privilege of catching up with Team Free Range Dames at the NW Overland Rally in Plain, WA. After a short conversation with Elise, seeing her passion along with her genuine persona, we knew having her and her partner Mercedes on the podcast was something you would find great value in. Enjoy this live interview from our booth at the rally as we learn about their story and the importance of their message.Elise and Mercedes are two women competing in the 2018 Rebelle Rally, the first offroad navigational challenge of its kind in the United States. The course spans over 2,000 km (1,243 miles) from Lake Tahoe to San Diego. Elise will be navigating while Mercedes commands the driving portion in their 2012 Toyota Tacoma (provided by Bomber Products) during this ten day overlanding challenge. Adding to the complexity of the rally, the Rebelle Rally prohibits the use of GPS! Relying 100% on old-school map and compass skills along with dead-reckoning. Keeping with these “back to basics” skills, there will also be no Binoculars, Zoom lenses greater than 200mm or 12x zoom lens capabilities, Personal maps with a scale less than 1:500000, Any Internet enabled device (including iPhones, iPods, etc.), Any two-way radios, Any rally computer that has a TSD mode that corrects or provides information for course corrections, deviations, calculation corrections including: Alfa Elite, Timewise, Rally GDP, TSD Rally Runner, RallyCore XSI, etc.. (we’re unclear if they can stop at the gas station and ask for directions :) we do believe having fun is encouraged. This isn’t a race for speed, but a vehicle-based event that uses navigation skills and driving wits to find hidden checkpoints across the Nevada and California desert (as well as Glamis sand dunes). Rally teams need to find each checkpoint at the right time, in the right distance, while only using maps, compass, and a road book. Our interview with Elise and Mercedes was full of passion, along with an impressive message we feel strongly about supporting. Empowering women and women leaders within the overlanding industry, much like any industry is an equal balance. We welcome and encourage the leadership of women like Elise and Mercedes, along with everyone else as equals.A little about these two awesome women:Elise is a passionate explorer who strongly believes in “making it happen” with a combination of grit and simply taking the first step. Elise is a freelancer specializing in geospatial applications, web development who also helps her husband Josh with his business, Bomber Products. Recently, Elise co-founded Big Sky Overland Rally, the first overlanding event of its kind in Montana.You can follow her travels and adventures on Instagram at @elise.bentMercedes is a Portland Oregon-based freelancer and adventurer who specializes in all things related to vehicular adventure travel. She, along with her husband Andy, run Crankshaft Culture, an automotive website dedicated to “getting out there” (no matter what type of vehicle you own). Mercedes, a dual citizen of the United States and Germany, loves to travel. Her most recent trips include exploring New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and many of the western states.You can follow her travels and adventures on Facebook and Instagram @crankshaftculture and @mercedes_lilienthalSupport Team Free Range DamesGetting these ladies some gas money for the Rebelle Rally will support them with fuel costs, equipment costs like helmets and a terratrip rally computer, along with parts of the entry fee for the overland rally.Website: http://www.teamfreerangedames.comGoFundMe Page: Team Free Range Dames Facebook Page: @teamfreerangedamesInstagram: @teamfreerangedames

In episode four, find out from Karen Mattison of Timewise what men want just as much as women in business but are often too afraid to ask. Discover whether our panellists in Liverpool think one Silicon Valley CEO was right or wrong to dye her blonde hair brown to be, in her words "taken more seriously". And in Ask The Hive, it's all a question of business confidence: Do men really have more of it? Plus all the Northern Power Women news you need.

Ron and Lynn Marcuse, productivity applications   Ron and Lynn Marcuse, also known as RLM Microsystems, are the husband-and-wife team who created many applications for the Atari 8-bit computers, including Weekly Planner, Home Inventory, Data Management System, Diskette Librarian, and Utility Diskette II, which were all released by Atari Program Exchange. Weekly Planner was later reworked and became Timewise, which was released as an Atari product. They also created medical and dental office software for MMG Micro Software.   Thanks to Wade of Inverse ATASCII for his help in research and writing questions for this interview. Wade has reviewed several of the Marcuse applications on his podcast - visitwww.inverseATASII.info for those.   This interview took place on May 14, 2015.   LINKS   Compute! magazine articles by Ron and Lynn   Teaser quotes:   “When what’s his name, the guy who started Atari [Nolan Bushnell] it was more open. In other words, the people there were friendly, it was fun working with them, it was fun writing stuff for them. It was fun flying out there, you know? It was fun. But eventually, it became a business, I think. And then the fun stops.”   “Hey, the damn thing paid for a Porsche and a BMW.”

Timewise, released in 1982 by Atari. It bears a striking resemblance in appearance and usage to APX Weekly Planner (season 1 episode 7). I believe it was developed by RLM Micro Systems (Ronald and Lynn Marcuse) and is likely the natural evolvement of Weekly Planner. … Continue reading →

  This episode features Timewise, originally released in 1982 by Atari.  It bears a striking resemblance in appearance and usage to APX Weekly Planner (episode 7).  I believe it was developed by RLM Micro Systems (Ronald and Lynn Marcuse) and is likely the natural evolvement of Weekly Planner. Podcast: Download Box and Supplement Scans Scan of the … … Continue reading →

Celebrating Women for National Women's History Month. The theme is SMART Women. SMART stands for Spiritual, Motivating, Achievers, Resourceful and Timewise. My special guest tonight is Board Certified Coach Kizzie Jones. Kizzie Jones is A Board Certified Life and Business Coach who was born and raised in the beautiful city of New Orleans. It is there she  developed as a life learner who has had an innate curiosity about people and a deep passion for literature as long as she could remember. She has  the most amazing fourteen-year-old daughter and it is her daughter that Kizzie feels keeps her  grounded, focused and motivated. In 2005, Kizzie's life would forever change when Hurricane Katrina devastated the City of New Orleans. This tragic event would set the stage for the leader, giver and encourager Kizzie is  today.  She has numerous university degrees.  In 2011, Kizzie began attending Robbins Maddanas Center; a Tony Robin’s Coaching School and that same year She simultaneously attended Fielding University’s Evidence Based Coaching Program. In 2011, Kizzie decided to combined her skills, strengths and ten years of sales experience and create Get Socialized Marking Firm.  She has achieve success through strength based methods, appreciative coaching, resonant relationships and constant examination of her emotional intelligence. Her teaching tonight is "Finding Prosperity in your Purpose: How to Make Money Doing What You love!" The truth is, you cannot become rich or achieve any other kind of success in life if you don’t have passion about what you are doing. During this show your will learn how important passion is and what different forms it must take in order to point your life in the right direction.      

Celebrating Women for National Women's History Month. The theme is SMART Women. SMART stands for Spiritual, Motivating, Achievers, Resourceful and Timewise. My special guest tonight is Board Certified Coach Kizzie Jones. Kizzie Jones is A Board Certified Life and Business Coach who was born and raised in the beautiful city of New Orleans. It is there she  developed as a life learner who has had an innate curiosity about people and a deep passion for literature as long as she could remember. She has  the most amazing fourteen-year-old daughter and it is her daughter that Kizzie feels keeps her  grounded, focused and motivated. In 2005, Kizzie's life would forever change when Hurricane Katrina devastated the City of New Orleans. This tragic event would set the stage for the leader, giver and encourager Kizzie is  today.  She has numerous university degrees.  In 2011, Kizzie began attending Robbins Maddanas Center; a Tony Robin's Coaching School and that same year She simultaneously attended Fielding University's Evidence Based Coaching Program. In 2011, Kizzie decided to combined her skills, strengths and ten years of sales experience and create Get Socialized Marking Firm.  She has achieve success through strength based methods, appreciative coaching, resonant relationships and constant examination of her emotional intelligence. Her teaching tonight is "Finding Prosperity in your Purpose: How to Make Money Doing What You love!" The truth is, you cannot become rich or achieve any other kind of success in life if you don't have passion about what you are doing. During this show your will learn how important passion is and what different forms it must take in order to point your life in the right direction.