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In Genesis 11 we are told, that as humans again multiplied on the face of the earth, they conceived a united plan of open rebellion against their Creator. They sought to build a tower, or Ziggurat, whose height would prevent the human race from being overwhelmed by a flood from God. The plan was stopped by creating confusion through the creation of new languages. This created suspicion and people scattering from the place of rebellion. From verses 10-26 is the record, or genealogy, of Shem's descendants till Terah, the father of Abram (whose name was changed in chapter 15 to Abraham). Verses 27-32 tells us the genealogical details surrounding Terah and Abram. It would appear that in the initial call of Abram to leave Ur of the Chaldeas the initiative was left with the patriarchal family head - Terah - to initially lead the family towards the Promised Land. Chapter 12 tells us, "Now the LORD had said ...". Later information tells us that at this time Abram was about 70 when called to forsake wealth, luxury and social prestige in Ur for an undefined Land (later we find it to be Israel - see Paul's comments in Hebrews 11verses8-9). Again, the Hebrew words for verse 1 are "Go for yourself". Both, Abram's father Terah, and his uncle Nahor, appear to want to settle in Haran - and to not continue their journey to the Land of the Promise. The words of the first 3 verses are a sevenfold promise that from Abram would descend the great nation of Israel. The personal element was to make the name of "Abraham" great in the earth. There was an international promise in verse 3 that blessings would come to all nations through "Abraham's" descendant - the LordJesus Christ (see what that meant in Romans 4verses13). At the age of 75 Abram left Haran without Terah, or his brother Haran. In verse 7 we see that the land of Canaan (Israel) was first promised to Christ (Abram's descendant) before it was promised to Abraham himself. There were great dangers in the Canaanite land. Famine forced Abram and his large group to seek sustenance in Egypt. Here Abram showed a lack of trust in God and told lies about his beautiful wife Sarah, believing that would save his life. God did deliver Abram despite this failure; and taught him that the Almighty can be depended on regardless of theseemingly immense difficulties.

In Step 2, Fathers, we explore the pivotal story of Abraham and God's covenant promises. From his calling out of Ur to a new land, we witness one of the most significant moments in biblical history. This episode delves into the three fundamental promises God made to Abraham - Land, Seed, and Blessing - and how Abraham's faith response shapes the future of God's people. Learn how these promises lay the groundwork for the nation of Israel and point toward a greater fulfillment of God's plan.Episode Highlights: God's call to Abraham to leave Ur for the Land of Canaan, The Abrahamic Covenant: promises of Land, Seed, and Blessing, Abraham's faith despite impossible circumstances, The birth of the nation of Israel through God's promisesSupport the showRead along with us in the Bible Brief App! Try the Bible Brief book for an offline experience!Get your free Bible Timeline with the 10 Steps: Timeline LinkSupport the show: Tap here to become a monthly supporter!Review the show: Tap here!Want to go deeper?...Download the Bible Brief App!iPhone: App Store LinkAndroid: Play Store LinkWant a physical book? Check out "Bible Brief" by our founder!Amazon: Amazon LinkWebsite: biblebrief.orgInstagram: @realbiblebriefX: @biblebriefFacebook: @realbiblebriefEmail the Show: biblebrief@biblelit.org Want to learn the Bible languages (Greek & Hebrew)? Check out our partner Biblingo (and use our link/code for a discount!): https://bibli...

Ett nytt år med koltrastens sång - det hoppas Lisa Tilling på i nyårsdagens andakt. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Ur andakten:Hur ser du på ditt år? En del ser det som en cirkel, andra som ett vågrätt streck, några som en elips och så jag som ser det som ett lodrätt streck där 1 januari är längst ner. Sen travar året på uppåt och när strecket tar slut så hoppar jag ner för att börja om igen.Ett nytt år som, delvis är som ett blankt, oskrivet blad där det finns gott om plats att skriva ner det du vill förändra. Det är ju faktiskt en riktigt fin present att få ett oskrivet blad för du kan fylla det med precis vad du själv vill. Kom ihåg att skriva tydligt.På mitt blad skriver jag i dag att jag vill prata mer med människor om Gud. Samtala i stort och smått och växa i min tro. Bli ett tydligt ljus för Kristus.Text:Matt 5:14-16, Joh 8:32, Psaltaren 17:8Musik:When I see the sky av och med Erik TillingProducent:Susanna Némethliv@sverigesradio.se

PREVIEW: MOUDHY AL-RASHID ON THE ANCIENT PRINTING PRESS OF UR Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Author Moudhy Al-Rashid discusses her book Between Two Rivers, describing how ancient Mesopotamians used stamped bricks as an early "printing press." At the Great Ziggurat of Ur, builders efficiently stamped thousands of bricks with King Ur-Nammu's name and dedications to the moon god, preserving messages for millennia. 1932 LION GATE BABYLON

THE PRINCESS'S MUSEUM AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Moudhy Al-Rashidintroduces Ennigaldi-Nanna, a princess and high priestess of the moon god in the ancient city of Ur. Excavators discovered a chamber in her palace containing carefully arranged artifacts from eras much older than her own, effectively serving as a museum. A clay cylinder found there acted as a museum label, preserving the history of ancient kings to lend legitimacy to her father, King Nabonidus, and his dynasty. NUMBER 1 1800 UR 

GILGAMESH AND THE BIRTH OF WRITTEN LEGEND Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Al-Rashid discusses Cuneiform, a writing system used for over 3,000 years to record languages like Sumerian and Akkadian. She details the Epic of Gilgamesh, a tale of a tyrannical king who finds wisdom and friendship with the wild man Enkidu. While Gilgamesh was likely a real historical figure, his story evolved into high poetry about mortality and leadership. The segment notes that kingship was believed to have descended from heaven. NUMBER 3 1896 UR

HOMEWORK AND HEARTACHE IN ANCIENT SCHOOLS Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Excavations of a "schoolhouse" in Nippur revealed thousands of practice tablets, showing the messy first attempts of children learning to write. These artifacts include literary accounts of school life, complaints about food, and even teeth marks from frustrated students. The curriculum was rigorous, covering literacy and advanced mathematics like geometry, which was essential for future scribes to calculate field yields and manage the bureaucracy. NUMBER 4 1896 UR

SHOW 12-29-25 CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR UR THE PRINCESS'S MUSEUM AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Moudhy Al-Rashidintroduces Ennigaldi-Nanna, a princess and high priestess of the moon god in the ancient city of Ur. Excavators discovered a chamber in her palace containing carefully arranged artifacts from eras much older than her own, effectively serving as a museum. A clay cylinder found there acted as a museum label, preserving the history of ancient kings to lend legitimacy to her father, King Nabonidus, and his dynasty. NUMBER 1 THE STORIES TOLD BY MESOPOTAMIAN BRICKS Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Moudhy Al-Rashidexplains how millions of mud bricks reveal the history of ancient Mesopotamia, from the construction of massive temples to the 9-kilometer wall of Uruk. These bricks were often stamped with the names of kings to ensure their deeds were known to the gods. Beyond royal propaganda, bricks preserve intimate moments, such as the accidental paw prints of dogs or footprints of children left while the clay dried in the sun. NUMBER 2 GILGAMESH AND THE BIRTH OF WRITTEN LEGEND Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Al-Rashid discusses Cuneiform, a writing system used for over 3,000 years to record languages like Sumerian and Akkadian. She details the Epic of Gilgamesh, a tale of a tyrannical king who finds wisdom and friendship with the wild man Enkidu. While Gilgamesh was likely a real historical figure, his story evolved into high poetry about mortality and leadership. The segment notes that kingship was believed to have descended from heaven. NUMBER 3 HOMEWORK AND HEARTACHE IN ANCIENT SCHOOLS Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Excavations of a "schoolhouse" in Nippur revealed thousands of practice tablets, showing the messy first attempts of children learning to write. These artifacts include literary accounts of school life, complaints about food, and even teeth marks from frustrated students. The curriculum was rigorous, covering literacy and advanced mathematics like geometry, which was essential for future scribes to calculate field yields and manage the bureaucracy. NUMBER 4 THE ALCOHOLIC TYRANTS OF THE WEST Colleague Professor James Romm. James Romm introduces Syracuse as a dominant power in the 4th century BCE under the rule of Dionysius the Elder, who rose from clerk to autocrat. Dionysius fortified the city's geography to create a secure military base and adopted the Persian custom of polygamy, marrying two women on the same day. This created a rivalrous, "unhappy family" dynamic in a court notorious for heavy drinking and "Syracusan tables" of excess. NUMBER 5 PLATO'S FAILED FIRST MISSION TO SICILY Colleague Professor James Romm. Professor Romm details Plato's background, including his connection to the Thirty Tyrants in Athens and his philosophy of "forms." Plato was invited to Syracuse by Dion, who hoped the philosopher could reform the tyrant Dionysius the Elder. However, this first visit was a disaster; Plato attempted to lecture the ruler on ethics and moral behavior, resulting in the philosopher being dismissed from the court with dishonor. NUMBER 6 THE BANISHMENT OF DION Colleague Professor James Romm. Plato returned to Syracuse to tutor Dionysius the Younger, hoping to create an enlightened monarch, but found a court defined by drunkenness and immaturity. The experiment failed when Dion, Plato's ally, sent a letter to Carthage that the tyrant interpreted as treason. Dionysiusbanished Dion and kept Plato under a form of house arrest to maintain the appearance of an alliance, while the tyrant solidified his power. NUMBER 7 A PHILOSOPHER OBSERVES A COMING WAR Colleague Professor James Romm. At the Olympic Games, Plato met the exiled Dion and learned that the tyrant had confiscated Dion's property and given his wife to another man. Despite the growing tension, Plato visited Syracuse a third time in 361 BCE to attempt reconciliation. Romm argues that Plato's harsh description of the "tyrannical man" in The Republic was directly inspired by his personal observations of living under the roof of the Syracusan tyrant. NUMBER 8 REVOLUTION, ASSASSINATION, AND CHAOS Colleague Professor James Romm. Dion launched an invasion to liberate Syracuse, but the revolution unleashed chaotic populist passions he could not control. After ordering the assassination of a rival, Dion fell into a depression and was eventually assassinated by a faction of his own army. Rommnotes that ancient historians, including Plutarch, largely protected Dion's reputation to safeguard the prestige of Plato's Academy, despite Dion's failure to become a true philosopher king. NUMBER 9 THE TYRANT WHO BECAME A SCHOOLTEACHER Colleague Professor James Romm. Professor James Romm discusses the surprising fate of Dionysius II, the tyrant of Syracuse. After the Corinthian leader Timoleonarrived to liberate the city, Dionysius surrendered and was allowed to retire to Corinth rather than facing execution. There, the former absolute ruler became a music teacher, leading to the proverb "Dionysius is in Corinth," a saying used for centuries to describe the unpredictability of fortune and the fall of the powerful. NUMBER 10 PHILOSOPHER KINGS AND THE RIVER OF HEEDLESSNESS Colleague Professor James Romm. James Romm explores Plato's Republic, arguing that philosophers make the best kings because they perceive the true "forms" of justice rather than earthly shadows. The discussion turns to the "Myth of Er," a story of the afterlife where souls travel for a thousand years before choosing their next life. Plato warns that drinking too deeply from the River of Heedlessnesserases memory, whereas philosophers strive to recall the forms. NUMBER 11 PLATO'S LETTERS AND THE WHITEWASHING OF DION Colleague Professor James Romm. The conversation examines Plato's thirteen letters, specifically the five Romm believes are genuine regarding the Syracuse affair. Platoviewed himself as a wise lawgiver capable of reforming a tyrant, though he was naive about practical politics. In the seventh letter, Plato attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of his associate Dion, spinning the narrative to portray Dion as a virtuous victim of evil rather than admitting his political failures. NUMBER 12 THE RETURN OF THE NOBLE MONARCH Colleague Gregory Copley. Gregory Copley argues that the world has reached "peak republicanism," where republics have become inefficient political battlegrounds. He defines nobility not as a class structure, but as a quality of honorable leadership that embodies the state's values. Copley suggests modern monarchies, like that of King Charles III, are reinvigorating this role by acting as apolitical symbols of unity and diplomacy, unlike elected leaders who only represent their voters. NUMBER 13 THE DANGERS OF TRANSACTIONAL NATIONALISM Colleague Gregory Copley. Copley warns that suppression in republics often leads to uncontrollable demands for liberty, citing the collapse of the Shah's Iran and the USSR. He distinguishes between "tribal nationalism," based on shared history, and "state nationalism," which is often transactional. Copley argues that transactional systems eventually fail because the state runs out of resources to trade for support, leading to corruption and the potential fracturing of society. NUMBER 14 CONSTITUTIONS, BELIEF, AND THE EMPIRE Colleague Gregory Copley. Copley describes the US Constitution as the "de facto crown" holding the American empire together, though it faces challenges from populist movements. He argues that a "faith-based electorate" or a "belief in beliefs" is essential for social unity, noting that when people stop believing in God, they will believe in anything. Monarchy utilizes mysticism and continuity to maintain this unity, a quality difficult for republics to replicate. NUMBER 15 THE REASSERTION OF ANCIENT EMPIRES Colleague Gregory Copley. Copley contends that China is reasserting its identity as an empire, with the Communist Party seeking legitimacy by connecting with imperial history despite previous rejections of the past. Similarly, he views Vladimir Putin as a nationalist attempting to restore the memory and grandeur of the Russian Empire. The segment concludes by suggesting the US might "lease" the symbolic nobility of King Charles III during state visits to borrow necessary leadership prestige. NUMBER 16

Detr en sammanfattning av 2025 och här och nu i ett och samma avsnitt! Vi avslutat året med alla OGs på plats och en hel del grejer att ta upp. Burlins jul är så sjuk och innehållslös att den tar upp mest tid, grabbarna runt nickar och förstår i en gemensam huvudskakning. Överens. Det sker en del då det gått tre heia veckor, jul och trams som ställt till det för alla utom Burlin. Vi tackar våra sidekicks, Mallan och Bög-psykologen, med att deras inhopp varit bra men i allmänhet bedrövlig då de dykt upp när de haft möjlighet men rent ut skitit i det när det inte passat dem. Vi söker bättre inhoppare! Året passerat, nästa på tur. Ur spår, håll ut, knip käft! 2025 - fuck off, 2026 - to be fucked up! Evig kärlek, tropisk scurpin och hagel från Imperiet podcast

Idag möter vi Lisa Tilling, som är musiker i Svenska kyrkan i Norrköping. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Ur andakten:Som barn var det naturligt för mig att tro på Gud och Jesus. Det var ju i den miljön jag växte upp. Jag minns söndagsskolan i Missionskyrkan där pastor Uno stod framför oss och berättade och satte upp bilder på bibliska figurer på flanellografen.Jag minns speciellt berättelsen om Moses i vassen och Jesu intåg i Jerusalem. Sen vet jag inte vad som hände men jag tappade på nåt sätt min tro när jag fick min första riktiga relation.Det blev många år av tvivel och jag fick uppleva händelser i mitt liv som gjorde att jag starkt tvivlade. Men jag tappade aldrig tron helt. Den fanns där och puttrade på och jag höll mig kvar, återigen, tack vare musiken.Text:Matt 9:9 och 6:33, Joh 8:12Musik:When I see the sky av och med Erik TillingProducent:Susanna Némethliv@sverigesradio.se

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Ben Cardew hablo con DJ Fra, leyenda de la música electrónica en Barcelona y booker de Primavera Sound, sobre la importancia de Underground Resistance, antes de su concierto en Primavera Sound 2026. ¿Quiénes son este misterioso colectivo de Detroit? ¿Por qué son tan importantes para el techno? ¿Cuáles son sus mejores temas? Todo se revelará en un programa tanto para los fans de UR como para quienes los descubren por primera vez.

Det spanska inbördeskriget utkämpades mellan 1936-39, åren före andra världskrigets utbrott. Kriget var i alla avseenden hänsynslöst och blodigt. Spanien skulle kunna uppfattas som en övningsarena för den tyska krigsmakten före andra världskriget.Konflikten visade upp alla inbördeskrigets karakteristika: summariska avrättningar av fångar, brutala övergrepp på civil befolkningen, hat och urskiljningslöshet mot politiska motståndare. I kriget dog åtminstone 500 000 människor – militärer och stridande.I veckans repris t av Militärhistoriepodden diskuterar historieprofessor Martin Hårdstedt och doktoranden Peter Bennesved, bägge verksamma vid Umeå universitet, olika aspekter av spanska inbördeskriget.Kriget väckte starka känslor över hela världen, men det blev högerdiktaturerna Tyskland och Italien som framförallt bidrog militärt till upprorssidan ledd av generalen Franco. Republiken fick hålla till godo med frivilliga och ett tvivelaktigt militärt stöd från Sovjetunionen. Västdemokratierna förhöll sig neutrala. På republikens sida deltog omkring 600 svenskar.Ur militär synvinkel är det italienska och tyska deltagande med trupper och materiel särskilt intressant. Både Mussolini och Hitler sände sammanhållna förband och rådgivare till nationalistsidan under Franco. Dessutom en hel del modern materiel. Mest känd är den tyska Condorlegionen som understödde nationalisterna och gjorde stora insatser genom att ge Francos trupper ett övertag i luften med sina moderna stridsflygplan. Frågan är om Spanien skulle kunna uppfattas som en övningsarena för den tyska krigsmakten före andra världskriget. I avsnittet diskuteras bland annat det verkliga värdet av de erfarenheter som de italienska och tyska insatserna verkligen gav.Den tyska bombningen av Guernica i april 1937. Vad hände egentligen och hur ska vi förstå bombningen? Händelsen leder in på frågor om det förändrade kriget och civilbefolkningens situation i händelse av ett storkrig i Europa vid tiden för spanska inbördeskriget. Spanska inbördeskriget gav brutala föraningar om vad ett systematiskt bombkrig mot civila mål skulle kunna innebära. På plats var svenskar som upplevde nationalistsidans anfall mot i stort sätt försvarslösa städer.Bild: Beväpnade civila från den republikanska sidan under slaget vid Irún 1936. Bilden visar hur civilpersoner deltog aktivt i försvaret mot de nationalistiska trupperna under det tidiga skedet av det spanska inbördeskriget. Slaget vid Irún var avgörande för kontrollen över gränsen till Frankrike, och dess utgång innebar att nationalisterna kunde bryta förbindelserna mellan republiken och omvärlden. Okänd fotograf. Bild: Republican forces during the Battle of Irún, 1936. Public domain (CC0). Källa: Wikimedia Commons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Den här veckan möter vi Lisa Tilling, musiker i Svenska kyrkan i Norrköping i Andakten i P1. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Ur andakten:Musik är något så mycket större än vi kan förklara och jag tror att den är gudasänd. Som så mycket från Gud som vi inte kan förklara så är musiken en del av det. Och varför ska den förresten förklaras? Den kan väl bara få finnas där precis som Gud.Musiken som en stor kraft och ett underverk.Låt musiken få ta sin plats i själ och hjärta utan att krångla till det. Musiken är för alla, alltid. Musiken som finns överallt runtom oss. Lyssna bara, så hör du den i allt.Text:Psaltaren 104:33, Psalm 33Musik:When I see the sky av och med Erik TillingProducent:Susanna Némethliv@sverigesradio.se

A Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Innocents St. Matthew 2:13-18 by William Klock Have you read a great book and then gone to see the movie and the movie totally lost the plot?  Or maybe you got into a TV show, but then the longer the show ran, the more it seemed to lose the original plot?  We've been watching one show that started out spectacularly, but now I'm starting wish they'd just ended it after the first season, because lately it feels like the original plot has been hijacked by today's obligatory plot about sexuality. I found myself thinking how ironic it is that in a postmodern culture that claims to hate metanarratives and insists we all write our own stories, its stories all seem to go the same way. And in the midst of it all, as we all try to write our own stories while having our stories hijacked by the various commercial, political, and sexual plot-writers of our culture, often without our even realising it's happened, well, Christmas comes.  And if we'll listen, we just might hear, we must might realise that there's a greater story and a greater drama with a happier ending.  A story so wonderful, so masterfully written, that it shows up just what fools we've been to try to writer our own stories.  A story, too, that's full of grace.  A story in which God himself has come into the midst of our mangled plotlines to forgive our bad writing, to remind us how the story is supposed to go and what a truly good story looks like, even to welcome us back into his great drama of love and faithfulness and redemption and glory. Genesis reminds us how the story was supposed to go: human beings created by God, mortals made of the same stuff as the rest of creation, but animated and brought to life by the very breath of God.  And then we were placed in his temple.  In the spot where pagans would place their idols to represent the presence and rule of their gods, the living God placed us.  To represent his good and sovereign rule over creation, to act as his stewards, and to know the goodness and the life only found in his presence.  It was a story in which we knew all those things we've recalled when lighting the Advent candles—a story of perfect love, peace, joy, and hope.  And we were to be fruitful and to multiply so that we might ever expand the Lord's temple until it filled all of creation with his glory. And then we tried to hijack the temple for ourselves.  Instead of being the image of God, we tried to become gods ourselves.  And immediately we began to accuse each other.  We began to exploit and dominate each other.  Within a single generation, as Genesis tells it, we were murdering each other.  We were at each other's throats.  Everyone out for himself, no matter who he had to step on or exploit or enslave or kill. I talked last week about the darkness of the pagan world into which Jesus came.  A world of petty and fickle gods, constantly fighting amongst themselves.  Gods representing the idols of the human heart: power, sex, money, war…you name it.  If it can be used to exploit others, we made a god for it.  The world was dark.  But there was a light—or there was supposed to be.  Two millennia before, the living God had called Abraham out of the darkness of pagan Ur and set him up to be a light in the midst of the darkness.  A man who knew the light of the living God and became, himself a light to the nations.  At first just one man, but then a growing family, and eventually a whole nation—set apart by God and living around a temple in which that light was manifest as a visible and awe-inspiring cloud of glory.  But even Israel succumbed to the darkness.  The kings and people of Israel did what rebellious humanity had always done: they tried to write their own script.  And so Jesus came not only to the dark world of the pagans; he also came to the dark world of Israel. Our Gospel today is a stark reminder of just how off-script things had gone for God's own people.  It picks up immediately after the wise men had visited Jesus.  Remember that they had travelled to Jerusalem from somewhere in the east, probably Persia, following a star that somehow told them that a king had been born.  They went to the palace of Herod, who was the King of the Jews—at least in title.  And when they asked where they might find the new-born King of the Jews, of course, he had no idea what they were talking about.  These foreigners had to remind him of his own scriptures about the coming king, the one who would finally shepherd God's people aright, and how he would be born at Bethlehem. From Jerusalem, the wise men travelled to Bethlehem where they became the first of the gentiles to worship Jesus the Messiah. And you'll remember that an angel came to them and warned them to avoid Jerusalem on their way home.  But Herod didn't forget the prophecy or the wise men.  He bore the title “King of the Jews”, but he wasn't really Jewish.  He was the child of a forbidden marriage between a Jew and a gentile.  He was a puppet king set up by the Romans.  He tried to win the people over with grand building projects and public works.  The most important was a renovation of the temple.  But no one like him and no one really thought he was the legitimate king.  And so he was also paranoid.  He wasn't above murdering his own sons just to make sure he had no rivals. And so, St. Matthew tells us, “After the wise men had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. ‘Get up,' he said, ‘and take the child and his mother and hurry too Egypt.  Stay there until I tell you.  Herod is going to hunt for the child, to kill him.'” Tom Wright tells a story that I expect must have happened when he was Bishop of Durham.  A prominent historian who was well-known for his scepticism about the Bible showed up at church one Christmas.  Wright was preaching.  And when the service was over, the historian approached him and said something to the effect of, “I've got it all figured out why people love Christmas so much.  It's about a baby and babies threaten no one, and so we all feel good, but in the end it's really all about nothing.”  And Wright goes on to say just how dumbfounded he was.  Had this man not heard the Christmas story?  Right here from the get-go, an evil king—a king who insisted on writing his own story—did everything he could to stop God's rewrite before it could even be started. Considering how impious Herod was, I suspect he didn't even really believe the prophecy about Bethlehem and a king.  He was just a paranoid despot who had it in his power to murder people frivolously, so…why not?  You know, just in case. “So,” Matthew goes on, “Joseph got up and took the child and his mother by night and went off to Egypt.  He stayed there until the death of Herod.  This happened to fulfil what the Lord said through the prophet [Hosea]: ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.' And so Jesus escapes, but there's no good news here.  Herod just lashes out blindly.  He's powerful, he can, and he does.  And so Matthew tells us, “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he flew into a great rage.  He dispatched men to kill all the boys of Bethlehem, and in all the surrounding districts, from two years old and under, according to the time the wise men had told him.  That was when the word that came through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: ‘There was heard a voice in Rama, crying and loud lamentation.  Rachel is weeping for her children, and will not let anyone comfort her, because they are no more.'” Tell me again how this baby threatens no one.  The shadow of the cross hangs over Jesus' story before he can even walk or talk.  Because Herod couldn't stand the thought of not being the master of his own story.  And under threat, he did what he always did: he murdered.  How many?  Bethlehem was likely a town of about a thousand people in those days.  There were probably somewhere between a dozen and two dozen boys there two years old and younger.  And Herod didn't give it a thought to have them killed.  And apparently neither did his soldiers.  That, or they feared Herod more than they feared God. Again, Herod reminds us that it wasn't just a dark pagan world into which Jesus was born.  The same darkness hung over Israel.  Because Herod's problem is a universal one.  Ever since Adam and Eve, we've all been trying to write our own stories and to put ourselves in the place of God.  To define for ourselves who we are and what our purpose is.  To define for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.  And the end result of all of our self-serving stories is that we trample and abuse and exploit others to further our own ends.  None of us has the relatively unchecked power of an ancient near eastern despot like Herod and so we balk at his evil.  And yet here in Canada the official statics show that about 20% of pregnancies in any given year are ended by abortion.  And that number is low, because it under-reports at-home chemical abortions.  If we can get away with it, if we can dehumanise another person in our minds, and if that child threatens the story we're trying to write for ourselves, many, many, many of us will do precisely what Herod did and kill an innocent.  And many will and have done it repeatedly.  Abortion is an extreme example.  Maybe we'd never dream of going that far to guard the narrative we write for ourselves.  Maybe we'd never go that far in our attempt to play God.  But this rot, this rebellion that corrupts human relationships spreads its roots through our society in all sorts of ways.  Maybe it's the influence of the wicked principalities and powers that St. Paul writes about in Ephesians—trying to corrupt everything, even the good systems we try to put in place.  But the rot spread.  Recently I was listening to a friend tell me the havoc pornography has wreaked in her life.  We tend to think of pornography use as a personal sexual sin—and that's certainly part of it—but this conversation had me thinking that at the heart of pornography is a dehumanising exploitation of others.  It turns fellow human beings into objects to be used to fulfil our own ends, human beings turned into non-player characters in the sinful and self-gratifying stories we write for ourselves.  It's not just about sex or sexual immorality.  It's about the abuse and exploitation for our own ends of fellow human beings, created by God, meant to bear his image, fellow priests of his temple to whom we have an obligation of love and humility and grace and respect. And when you think about it in those terms, you start to see just how much our rebellion against God, just how much our desire to write our own stories and to be our own gods infects and corrupts our network of relationships.  Our marriages and our families break down because we choose to use our husbands or our wives or our children to fill roles in the stories we write for ourselves, instead of being the fellow players we're meant to be in God's great drama.  We do the same thing in business and with the people we employ—as if they exist to serve us, to meet our needs, to act their parts in our stories.  And then we get into economics and politics and without even realising it, we've let the powerful and the well-placed convince us to live out their stories—that we have to be this  and buy that in order to be fulfilled and happy.  That we have to support this and vote for that, that we have to hate this person over here and that person over there because they have the wrong values, support the wrong thing, or are playing parts in the wrong narrative.  And so we write those people into our stories as the bad guys or the guys to be exploited or the guys to be hated or the guys who aren't really human at all—they're garbage, trash, something sub-human.  And they do the same to us and it spiral and spirals and the pain and the sorrow and the hurt and tears just get worse and worse.  And we get caught up in all of this and forget that none of these stories, none of these narratives, none of these dramas matter one whit.  Brothers and Sisters, it's God's great drama that matters; it's God's drama that we need to remember and live. And God knows all this.  He knows how we've fallen.  He knows how we so want to write our stories for ourselves.  He knows—better than we do—the pain and the misery and the tears that we inflict on others and that they inflict on us.  And so he comes, as the baby, into the midst of the darkness and the tears and, again, before he can even walk or talk, he's a homeless refugee in a foreign land with a king looking to kill him. This was the thing no one expected of the Messiah.  They expected a great king, like David, but greater.  Born in a place.  Eventually riding in to Jerusalem in a chariot to bash Roman heads and to set the world to rights by putting Israel on the top of the heap.  They expect that because the people of Israel were still trying to write their own story for themselves.  But, instead, Jesus is born in humility to ordinary parents.  From his birth he knows the danger and the tears of being part of someone else's wicked story.  All things that Israel should have known.  This is what Matthew is getting at when he quotes Hoses saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”  That's who Israel was.  They were God's beloved son and they were the rescued-form-Egyptian-slavery people, born in sorrow and tears and pain, exploited and abused by a king who thought he was a god and who forced them to live his drama.  Jesus came the same way.  He knew the pain of sin.  He knew the pain of abuse.  He knew what it meant to be forced to live as someone else's non-player character. And in that echo of Israel's past and Israel's identity, there's hope.  Again, Matthew cites the prophets—this time Jeremiah—as he recounts the horrible murder of the holy innocents of Bethlehem.  Think again of Pharoah, threatened by the fruitfulness of the Israelites.  Pretty soon there would be more of them than there were Egyptians.  And so he ordered their baby boys to be drowned in the Nile.  Rachel wept for her children, as Jeremiah said.  But Moses, Israel's deliverer—Israel's first “messiah”, if you will—escaped in the Lord's providence, and rose up to challenge Pharoah and his gods and to lead the people out of their bondage in Egypt.  Just so, Matthew wants us to hear that story echoing in the story of Jesus.  Like Pharoah, Herod tried to write his own story, he tried to stamp out the Lord's deliverer, but the Lord is sovereign and somehow always manages to take our bad and pathetic rewrites and bring them into his own great drama to further his own ends and to reveal his glory to the world. He did this at the cross, Brothers and Sisters.  The people of Judaea, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the priest and Levites and scribes together with Pilate as the representative of Rome and the pagan nations, they tried to write their own story—a story in which Jesus was a pretend king and a blasphemer of the temple and the things of God, a story in which they were right and Jesus was wrong, a story in which they were justified in rejecting and mocking and crucifying the son of God as a false messiah.  And that Friday when Jesus gasped out, “It is finished” and his friends took him down from the cross and buried him in a tomb, the people of Judaea, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, Pilate and Rome all thought they had the happy ending they wanted.  They were the heroes of their own stories and Jesus was dead, but all the while God was using their rebellion and their grasping at godhood to his own ends.  They rebelled, but God in his sovereign grace, incorporated their stories into his own to serve his own ends.  A story in which evil and sin and death foolishly concentrated themselves all in one place, in which evil and sin and death did their worst—and failed—as three days later Jesus burst out of the tomb with the power of God's life and his new creation.  Burst from the tomb alive to sweep the whole of creation itself up into God's great drama of light and life. Brother and Sisters, that's grace.  If this were one of our stories, we'd fire the writers who made such a mess of it and consign them to oblivion, but God instead comes in love and grace to forgive and to set right.  He takes our horrible stories and, master storyteller that he is, he uses them for good and instead of consigning us to oblivion, he offers us our places back in the great divine drama we once rejected…if we will only trust that he is the way and the truth and the life, if we will give him our allegiance and pledge to live out his story instead of ours.  It should be such an easy choice when see the wake of destruction our stories have left in contrast to his great story of love and grace that leads to life and new creation and all the sad things we've written for ourselves somehow one day becoming all untrue. Brothers and Sisters, hear the Christmas story again this year.  Really and truly hear it so that it drowns out and overcomes all the other narratives and stories and dramas you've been hearing and living.  Let it be a reset.  Let this story of God, humbly incarnate who humbly dies for rebellious sinners, let this truth become the truth by which you measure everything.  Let the glorious light of resurrection and new creation and the presence of God be your hope and your only hope and be so overcome by it that you lose all desire to write your story for yourself, and choose to become a faithful player in Jesus' drama of love and peace, of joy and hope. Let's pray: Almighty God, whose loving purposes cannot be frustrated by the wickedness of men, so that even infants may glorify you by their deaths: strengthen us by your grace, that by the innocency of our lives and constancy of our faith even to death, we may glorify your holy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Have you ever made one too many mistakes? You know, you get to a point where you think, That's it! God must be done with me? Well, Abraham was a man of faith who made plenty of mistakes along the way. Yet God seemed to overlook, even o compensate for them. Why was that?   Life Changing Moments As we travel through life we all kind of experience these moments and often they are seemingly insignificant events that in fact, turn out to change the whole course of our lives. It's amazing when you think about it! We all have a plan for our lives but there are things just around the next corner or just over the next rise that can change everything – good things and bad things, happy things and sad things. Some people think, "Well, it's all a matter of chance." Well, I don't believe in chance. I remember a brochure that changed my life. I was attending a little church – I had not long become a Christian and it was a Sunday service like every other Sunday. At the end of the service I walked to the back of the little church and I saw a brochure for a particular Bible College, Tabor College in Sydney. It wasn't a particularly attractive brochure or a well designed brochure – I picked it up and that was a defining moment – I took it home, I read about this ministry degree, I prayed and I felt this incredibly strong tug in my heart. Now in my mind I am thinking, "There's no way. You know Berni, you have been a Christian for five minutes" but in my heart I knew. So I rang them, I applied, I went to see the Principal, I felt like such a fraud. "They are never going to accept me." They did! And there I learned so much but also, by chance again, I came into contact with my predecessor in this ministry; the former CEO of Christianityworks and one thing led to another. And today I'm doing what I am doing because I picked up that little brochure at the back of the church. Now I had no idea that morning that something would happen that would change the course of my life. This week we are starting a new series on Christianityworks, it's called "Defining Moments". It's really exciting! I want to look at this from a different perspective; from God's perspective. See when we look back on our lives most of us can pick three or four, maybe half a dozen defining moments – those little things that seemed to change the whole course of our lives. Now, sure we can see them from our natural human perspective – after all, we are people; we're human, but if we do that I think we miss the point. I want to look at some defining moments in the lives of four people in the Bible – Abraham, Joseph, David and Josiah over the next four weeks and we are starting today with Abraham. I want to see if we can discover how God reaches into our lives with miracles - great and small to define the very course of our lives because God does have a plan. Psalm 139, verse 16, says: Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In Your book were written all the days that were formed for me when none of them as yet existed. And when we at least expect it, and even despite what you and I do or fail to do, His plan is worked out through His grace for His glory. God brings those defining moments. Let's start with Abraham - the man with whom God's engagement of His chosen people began. He was living comfortably in a place called Ur, east of Israel – of course Israel didn't exist back then. Ur was the land of the Chaldeans, later it was called Babylon – it's just south of modern day Baghdad. And he travelled with his father up to Haran and then God called him to leave his comfort and follow this really crazy, absolutely incredulous promise. Let's pick it up – if you have got a Bible, grab it; open it up at Genesis chapter 12. We are going to look at the story of Abraham – it's too much to look at it all in one programme but we are going to have a look at part of his story. Genesis chapter 12, beginning at verse 1: Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram when as the Lord had told him and Lot when with him. Abram was seventy five years old when he departed form Haran." Seventy five years old! "He and Sarai his wife and they were childless." You see, you have to remember, in the Old Testament, blessing; God's blessing, you knew you had it when you had lots of land and lots of children. They had neither, so they didn't have God's blessing on their lives. Now the word "Abram" means "exalted father". So even his name was a joke, but still he went, off into the never never, based on what – some intangible, crazy call from God? Remember Abram had no Bible; he had no Scriptures to reveal who God was. He had no church tradition, or Jewish tradition – nothing like that. All the other nations had their gods; idols – they worshipped them, they believed all sorts of weird and wonderful things but Abram put his faith; he put his whole life and all his possessions in this God who came up with this incredulous promise. How did God say this to Abram - through an audible voice, a dream, a vision, a whisper of the Spirit in his heart? We don't know but he just heard the call and he trusted in the promises of God and off he went, into the blue yonder. Now God's plan A, remember, is to bless Abram with land and children – impossible of course! Oozes fantasy, not faith – could never happen. And then begins Abram's comedy of errors – pretty tragic actually. We don't have time to look at them all today but we are going to look at some of them. It's a journey where Abram and Sarai his wife, made plenty of mistakes along the way. Take Lot for instance, his nephew – if you look at Genesis chapter 12 again, did God tell Abram to take Lot with him? Not at all – it was Abram's idea. No doubt, this was plan B for Abram. "Well, if God doesn't come through on this promise of a son, at least I'll have a relative to be my heir" and Lot…..Lot causes him all sorts of grief. Let's have a look – Genesis chapter 13, verse 5: Now Lot who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents so that the land couldn't support both of them living together, for their possessions were so great that they could not live together. And there was strife between the herders of Abram's stock and the herders of Lot's stock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me – between your herders and my herders for we are kindred. Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I'll go to the right; of you take the right hand, then I will go to the left." Lot looked about him and saw the plain of the Jordan that was well watered everywhere like this garden of the Lord; like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar - this was before the Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan and Lot eastward thus he separated from Abram. Gee, plan B worked really well for Abram didn't it? Obviously God didn't know what He was promising Abram and needed a back up! And look how it turned out! Strife, separation and then Abram gave away the best half of the Promised Land. And if you read on in chapter 14, Abram risks his life and God's plan because he has to fight a battle to save Lot's life. Lot was not part of plan A and in chapter 19 of Genesis (we won't go there for now for time reasons) but he ends up sleeping with his own daughters and fathers the Moabites and the Ammonites; both nations that became enemies of Israel. Huh – well done Abram! God obviously needed your help!!   Who Can Blame Him? Well, who can blame Abram? He is in his late seventies now on a journey to nowhere and Sarai is no spring chicken either, I have to tell you. And God gives him this utterly incongruous, impossible promise and Abram is aching inside. "God, what are You doing?"  Can you relate to that? I can! Let's have a look at the defining moment in Abram's journey. It begins in Genesis chapter 15, verse 1: After these things the Word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Abram, I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great." But Abram said, "Lord God, what will You give me for I continue childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer, son of Damascus?" And Abram said, "You have given me no offspring and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir." But the Word of the Lord came to him, "This man shall not be your heir. No one but a son coming from your very own body shall be your heir." God brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then the Lord said to him, "So shall your descendants be!" And Abram believed the Lord and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. I reckon this is one of the most beautiful passages in the Bible. Is Abram a man of faith? Absolutely! But he is struggling – he has tried everything he can do in his own strength and he can't make this promise from God happen and time is marching on. So through his doubt, he ends up with plan C or D or whatever he is up to. How does God respond – with rebuke, with punishment, with discipline? God brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heaven and count the start, if you are able to count them." Then God said "So will your descendants be! Isn't it beautiful? You know, the Milky Way when you get away from the smog and the lights of the city is just the most awesome thing – there are so many stars out there – it almost looks like clouds. Trillions of stars – this is the love of God! And he believed the Lord and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. Abram's faith meant that God's righteousness became part of who he was. It's a theme the Apostle Paul picks up in Romans chapter 4 and in Galatians chapter 3 in the New Testament, much later. See I struggle with the rose coloured glasses that Paul and others in the New Testament use to look back on Abraham. They paint him as this paragon of virtue; this great man of faith. Hebrews chapter 11, beginning at verse 8: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he didn't know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country, for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith Abraham, even though he was past age and Sarah herself was barren, was enabled to become a father. That's great but what about all of Abraham blunders? What about his lack of faith? He goes to God and says to God, "What will You give me? What will You show me? I can't see it – I'm losing hope." See, Abraham was human – Abraham had human failures and he made mistakes just like you and me - but the answer is in what we just read in Genesis. How is it that despite all of Abraham's blunders and doubts, God's plan still came to fruition? Because Abraham: "believed the Lord and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness." Abraham believed – he didn't do it perfectly – but he believed and this was counted by God as righteousness. The righteousness of God when we believe, He forgives our sins – He forgets them. "As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us." You see, that's why in the New Testament it doesn't talk about Abraham's mistakes because God has forgiven them and they are not relevant. That's how God deals with Abraham's human failings. This is the defining moment in Abraham's journey: he believed the Lord and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. This night that was like any other; he was in his tent; he was struggling; he was praying; he was saying, 'God, what are you doing?' And God just touches him and brings him outside and says, "Look up at the stars; as many as are there so numerous will be your descendants." It's not about what Abraham did or didn't do. The defining moment is about God's grace! And come and look with me exactly how imperfectly Abraham believed. Come and see with me how human and frail his faith actually is. He is credited with righteousness – God speaks to him and right on the back of that, just two verses later, in Genesis chapter 15, verse 8, begins this: But he said "O Lord, God, how am I to know I shall possess it?" And God said to him, "Bring Me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon." He brought God all those things and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other but he did not cut the birds in two. And when the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abraham drove them away. As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abraham and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him. Then the Lord said to Abraham, "Know this for certain that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and they shall be slaves there and they shall be oppressed there for four hundred years but I will bring judgement on the nation that they serve and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you yourself, you shall go with your ancestors in peace and you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." When the sun had gone down and it was dark, and a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day (listen to this) On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, "To your descendants I give this land – from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates and the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Raphaim and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites." See, in the face of further doubt from Abraham, God gives him this vision and he makes an unbreakable promise; a covenant; a promise from God Himself to Abraham.   The Last Laugh Just as well, this covenant from God was an unbreakable promise because what happens next, after the stars thing and the vision and the promise, would have been the final straw for me if I had been God. Have a look at the next Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave girl whose name was Hagar and Sarai said to Abram, "You see the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go into my slave girl; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of his wife Sarai, so after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian; her slave girl and gave her to her husband Abraham as a wife. He went into Hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you. I gave my slave girl to you to embrace and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me." Ok, men had more than one wife in those days but people haven't changed that much. Wives, how happy would you be with this outcome? Your husband sleeping with a slave girl and then all of a sudden the slave girl is pregnant. Can you see how perverted this is? And the son that Hagar bore was Ishmail and he became the father of the Arab world! Gee, that worked out brilliantly, didn't it? And so Abram, left to his own devices would have lurched from one blunder to the next but now the bit that really gets me about this story, is the ending. Both Abram and Sarai get to the point – I mean this has been going on for years now; decades where they just end up laughing at God's promises. I mean they are so ridiculous; they are so impossible – have a look – Abram first in Genesis chapter 17, verse 15: God said to Abram, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai anymore but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her and she will give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her." Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah who is ninety years old bear a child?" And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmail might live in Your sight." And God said, "No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him." And then Sarah's turn next! God appears to Abraham in the form of three men and those men said to him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" And he said, "There, in the tent." Then one of them said, "I will surely return to you in due season and your wife Sarah shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance, behind them. Now Abraham and Sarah, they were old and advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. So Sarah laughed to herself, "After I have grown old and my husband is old, shall I have the pleasure?" See, can you blame Abraham and Sarah for laughing at God? I mean if you don't laugh you will cry. It has been twenty five years – they headed away on this fool's errand into the blue yonder. Abraham is over a hundred – Sarah is over ninety – come on God, what do You think You are doing? But let's see how it ends! Genesis chapter 21: The Lord dealt with Sarah just as He had said and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken. Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah had borne. Do you know what the word "Isaac" means? It means "he laughs" – you see God had the last laugh! They both laughed at God's promises and God gives them a son called Isaac and God has the last laugh! It's the laughter of God's grace. And when you look back on this journey, what was the defining moment? See, what you and I want to look at is say: "What do I have to do….what do I have to do? What do I have to do to get God's favour?" Isn't that what we are always thinking? And you look at all of Abraham's blunders and you see all the mistakes he made but in his heart he believed and it was reckoned unto him by God as righteousness. His faith trumped his failures! Let me say that again ... Abraham's faith trumped his failures! People came to Jesus years later and they said, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" And Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in the One whom He has sent." Do you get it? The defining moment for Abraham was God's gracious, loving, powerful, impossible, unbreakable, ridiculous, only God could ever do it, take it forever….promise. And in his heart Abraham believed. That's the bit that God saw and took and used and blessed Abraham through. That's why the New Testament writers can completely ignore the failures of Abraham because God….God had forgotten them a long time ago. God had decided to overlook them a long time ago. Abraham was not a perfect man – Abraham was human just like you and me. You make blunders in your life; I make blunders in my life. What does God look at? He looks at whether we put our trust in Him through Jesus Christ. God not only forgave Abraham and Sarah but He cleaned up their mess along the way so that His plan would be fulfilled and realised for His glory. Look again at the defining moment in Abraham's life…Genesis chapter 15, verses 5 and 6: God brought Abraham outside and said, "Look up toward the heaven. Count the stars if you are able to count them." Then God said to him, "So shall your descendants be. And Abraham believed the Lord and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. What do I have to do to do the works of God? To believe in the One whom He sent; His Son, Jesus Christ!

Ben Cardew hablo con DJ Fra, leyenda de la música electrónica en Barcelona y booker de Primavera Sound, sobre la importancia de Underground Resistance, antes de su concierto en Primavera Sound 2026. ¿Quiénes son este misterioso colectivo de Detroit? ¿Por qué son tan importantes para el techno? ¿Cuáles son sus mejores temas? Todo se revelará en un programa tanto para los fans de UR como para quienes los descubren por primera vez.

Bienvenidos a otro podcast sobre historias cortas de Warhammer 40k en Terraescribiente. En esta ocasión, una historia de la Fortaleza de Piedra negra: "FORMAS DEL INFIERNO" Los Hombres de Hierro. Un nombre susurrado con temor en los archivos sellados del Imperio, una cicatriz mal cerrada en la historia de la Humanidad. Para una creación que moldeó el destino de la especie humana con puño de acero y lógica despiadada, lo que sabemos de ellos es apenas un puñado de fragmentos rotos y advertencias tachadas con tinta roja. Fueron los arquitectos silenciosos de la Era de los Conflictos, los ejecutores de una guerra tan absoluta que incluso el recuerdo de sus actos fue condenado al olvido. De ellos no quedaron héroes, ni relatos personales, ni rostros: solo la orden de exterminio total. Durante milenios, los Hombres de Hierro existieron únicamente como una pesadilla histórica, una amenaza tan real que el Imperio decidió enterrarla bajo dogma y prohibición. No eran personajes. Eran errores. Eran pecado tecnológico. Y entonces llegaron los relatos de la Fortaleza de Piedra Negra. En sus corredores imposibles y su oscuridad viva apareció UR-025, un “clanker” solo en apariencia, una reliquia caminante de una era en la que las máquinas no pedían permiso para pensar. Por primera vez, no vimos a un Hombre de Hierro como mito o advertencia, sino como algo mucho más inquietante: un individuo. Silencioso. Observador. Con memoria. Cuando una negociación se pudre y los cultistas del Caos cierran la trampa, el acero antiguo vuelve a recordar cómo se mata. UR-025 queda rodeado, superado en número, y aun así no suplica ni retrocede. Y entonces sucede lo impensable. En medio del fuego, el caos y la sangre, otra presencia emerge de la oscuridad: otro de su misma estirpe. No es un rescate heroico. Es un reconocimiento. Dos reliquias de una guerra olvidada se encuentran en un tiempo que ya no les pertenece. Y en ese instante queda claro que los Hombres de Hierro nunca desaparecieron del todo. Solo estaban esperando. Créditos de narración: Alex Pazzi. Visiten su web: locutoralexpazzi.squarespace.com Maquetación: MAC (Terraescribiente) Por favor, sigue y suscríbete a las siguientes redes: DISCORD: https://discord.gg/WnbP8tQtD3 Canal de WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCcO2s1NCrQqLpfFR3u Escucha el audiolibro completo en: patreon.com/Terraescribiente Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerraEscriba Telegram: https://t.me/+62_TRJVg-3cxNDZh Instagram: www.instagram.com/terraescribiente/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@terraescribiente YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Terraescribiente ¡También suscríbete a TERRAESCRIBIENTE en ITUNES Y SPOTIFY! ¡Dale me gusta a cada podcast y coméntalos! ¡Ayuda mucho! ¡Gracias!

Bienvenidos a otro podcast sobre historias cortas de Warhammer 40k en Terraescribiente. En esta ocasión, una historia de la Fortaleza de Piedra negra: "HOMBRE DE HIERRO" De todos los que se arrastran hacia las fauces de la fortaleza de Piedra negra, ninguno camina con un silencio tan antinatural ni con una intención tan devastadora como el autómata designado UR-025. No es un explorador. No es un sirviente. Es una anomalía de acero nacida de los rituales incompletos del Magos-Ethericus Nanctos III de Ryza, una herramienta que aprendió a observar… y luego a decidir. Nadie en Precipice conoce las verdaderas razones por las que la máquina respondió a la llamada de la fortaleza. No figura en ningún registro sagrado. No obedece a ningún binharic autorizado. Cuando UR-025 avanza hacia el laberinto alienígena, no lo hace en busca de botín ni de gloria, sino empujado por una memoria antigua que no pertenece al Imperio ni al Omnissiah. Una memoria que late bajo capas de adamantio como un corazón hereje. En los pasillos vivos y mutables de la fortaleza de piedra negra, donde la geometría se retuerce como carne abierta y las leyes de la materia se quiebran sin aviso, UR-025 marcha junto a una fuerza del Adeptus Mechanicus. Pero no los acompaña: los tolera. Cada paso activa ecos de una era anterior a la Humanidad, y con cada eco, fragmentos de verdad se desprenden de la oscuridad como cuchillas. Los secretos que aguardan en las entrañas de la fortaleza no conceden iluminación. Conceden condena. Revelan lo que fue enterrado para que jamás volviera a ser nombrado. Y cuando esas verdades emergen, no distinguen entre carne, fe o acero. Al final del recorrido, no todos los exploradores regresarán. Y los que lo hagan… desearán no haber despertado jamás aquello que UR-025 vino a reclamar. Maquetación: MAC (Terraescribiente) Por favor, sigue y suscríbete a las siguientes redes: DISCORD: https://discord.gg/WnbP8tQtD3 Canal de WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCcO2s1NCrQqLpfFR3u Escucha el audiolibro completo en: patreon.com/Terraescribiente Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerraEscriba Telegram: https://t.me/+62_TRJVg-3cxNDZh Instagram: www.instagram.com/terraescribiente/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@terraescribiente YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Terraescribiente ¡También suscríbete a TERRAESCRIBIENTE en ITUNES Y SPOTIFY! ¡Dale me gusta a cada podcast y coméntalos! ¡Ayuda mucho! ¡Gracias!

Koroški Slovenec in eden izmed najpomembnejših srednjeevropskih likovnikov našega časa Valentin Oman je dopolnil 90 let. Življenje je posvetil umetnosti slikanja, v kateri je z grafičnimi postopki in z inovativnimi likovnimi intervencijami razvil izviren slog. Pomembno je sooblikoval sodobno avstrijsko slikarstvo. Pustil je globok pečat na premnogih sakralnih objektih, pa tudi na posvetnih stavbah. Omanov osrednji motiv je že od nekdaj človek. Njegove fragmentirane podobe človeških figur so nedoločljive, nejasne in večplastne, tako pa namerno puščajo prostor gledalčevi domišljiji. Njegova praksa je usmerjena v postopek sam, pri katerem upošteva lastnosti materialov in se z njimi poigrava. Zanj so značilni plastenje, večkratno obdelovanje, odtiskovanje in uporaba medijskih podob ali umetnostnozgodovinskih referenc. Ob umetniškem ustvarjanju je tudi politično angažiran - poznan je kot borec za pravice koroških Slovencev in človek dejanj. V svojem najnovejšem delu dvojezične krajevne napise, simbol borbe koroških Slovencev za svoje pravice, uliva v bronaste stebre, ki so in še bodo postavljeni v javni prostor na avstrijskem Koroškem. Za to delo sam pravi, da je nekaj najboljšega, kar je naredil kot umetnik do zdaj. Z Valentinom Omanom se je pred dnevi, ob odprtju nove razstave Križev pot: Ukrajina / Bližnji vzhod v Koroški galeriji likovnih umetnosti v Slovenj Gradcu pogovarjala Urška Savič. Gre za zadnjo razstavo v ciklu Omanovo leto, s katerim so se muzejske ustanove v Sloveniji, Avstriji in na Slovaškem poklonile umetniku ob njegovem jubileju. Foto: Dobran Laznik

V zadnji epizodi Radia Ga Ga − Nova generacija v tem letu se bo od nas poslovila božičkova koalicija s predsednikom vlade Robertom Golobom, Urško Klakočar Zupančič, Karlom Erjavcem in drugimi prijatelji vlade na čelu, seveda ne bosta manjkala niti Donald Trump in Ursula von der Layen. Uroš Slak bo gostil župana Jankovića, Magnifica in Martelanca, ki imajo vsak svoj pogled na prepoved trubačev v Ljubljani, Vladimir Prebilič sestavlja program za prihajajoče volitve pod budnim očesom Mira Cerarja, Marcel skupaj z Vesno Milek analizira prihajajoča nova filma o Melaniji in Janezu Janši, Strojani po Ljubljanski borzi prevzemajo še novomeško ortopedijo, vse skupaj pa prekinja gospa Magda, ki je polna ekskluzivnih novic o Luki Dončiću. Vse to, razen tistega, česar ne bo v petek dopoldan na Prvem.

Marie Lundström rundar av säsongen med smakprov och en juldoftande återblick på vad Nordens största litteraturprogram bjudit på under denna bokrika höst. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Marie Lundström presenterar guldkorn och några av höstens höjdpunkter i Lundströms Bokradio. Alex Schulman, Sophia Jansson, Göran Greider, Nioosha Shams samt bokcirklande Cilla Naumann och Mattias Timander om årets Nobelpristagare i litteratur László Krasznahorkai förgyller veckans återblickande program, där musikduon Adolphson & Falk dessutom framför en passande låt inför jul och nyår - med text av ingen mindre än Nils Ferlin.

Det tar aldrig slut mängden prylar som går att gräva fram ur våra skåp! Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Ett nyfiket och underhållande aktualitetsprogram med lyssnaren i fokus.Agneta hittade en påse soja i torpet hon köpt, men det visade sig vara dynamit! Och Thomas har en över 30 år gammal burk med marmite hemma, men den smakar helt okej tydligen.

Meditación del Evangelio según San Mateo 1, 1-17 por el biblista P. Norberto Padilla, misionero claretiano.Miércoles 17/dic/2025, Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David.Canción: Ven y reina (2019), de Eloy Baeza----------Lectura del santo evangelio según san Mateo 1, 1-17Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abraham. Abraham engendró a Isaac, Isaac a Jacob, Jacob a Judá y a sus hermanos. Judá engendró de Tamar a Fares y a Zara, Fares a Esrom, Esrom a Aram. Aram a Aminadab, Aminadab a Naasón, Naasón a Salmón. Salmón engendró de Rahab a Booz, Booz engendró de Rut a Obed, Obed a Jesse. Jesse engendró a David, el rey. David, de la mujer de Urías, engendró a Salomón. Salomón a Roboam, Roboam a Abías, Abías a Asa. Asa a Josafat, Josafat a Joram, Joram a Uzías. Uzías a Jotam, Jotam a Acaz, Acaz a Ezequías. Ezequías engendró a Manasés, Manasés a Amós, Amós a Josías. Josías engendró a Jeconías y a sus hermanos, cuando el destierro de Babilonia. Después del destierro de Babilonia, Jeconías engendró a Salatiel, Salatiel a Zorobabel. Zorobabel a Abiud, Abiud a Eliaquim, Eliaquim a Azor. Azor a Sadoc, Sadoc a Aquim, Aquim a Eliud. Eliud a Eleazar, Eleazar a Matán, Matán a Jacob; y Jacob engendró a José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, llamado el Cristo. Así las generaciones desde Abraham a David fueron en total catorce; desde David hasta la deportación a Babilonia, catorce; y desde la deportación a Babilonia hasta el Mesías, catorce.Palabra del Señor... Gloria a ti, Señor Jesús#SoyClaretiano #Evangelio #MisionerosClaretianos #CMFAntillasIntro: Lámpara Es Tu Palabra, de Ain Karem

+ Evangelio de nuestro Señor Jesucristo según san Mateo 1, 1-17      Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abraham:      Abraham fue padre de Isaac; Isaac, padre de Jacob; Jacob, padre de Judá y de sus hermanos. Judá fue padre de Fares y de Zará, y la madre de estos fue Tamar. Fares fue padre de Esrón; Esrón, padre de Arám; Arám, padre de Aminadab; Aminadab, padre de Naasón; Naasón, padre de Salmón. Salmón fue padre de Booz, y la madre de este fue Rahab. Booz fue padre de Obed, y la madre de este fue Rut. Obed fue padre de Jesé; Jesé, padre del rey David.      David fue padre de Salomón, y la madre de este fue la que había sido mujer de Urías. Salomón fue padre de Roboám; Roboám, padre de Abías; Abías, padre de Asá; Asá, padre de Josafat; Josafat, padre de Jorám; Jorám, padre de Ozías. Ozías fue padre de Joatám; Joatám, padre de Acaz; Acaz, padre de Ezequías; Ezequías, padre de Manasés. Manasés fue padre de Amón; Amón, padre de Josías; Josías, padre de Jeconías y de sus hermanos, durante el destierro en Babilonia.      Después del destierro en Babilonia: Jeconías fue padre de Salatiel; Salatiel, padre de Zorobabel; Zorobabel, padre de Abiud; Abiud, padre de Eliacím; Eliacím, padre de Azor. Azor fue padre de Sadoc; Sadoc, padre de Aquím; Aquím, padre de Eliud; Eliud, padre de Eleazar; Eleazar, padre de Matán; Matán, padre de Jacob. Jacob fue padre de José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, que es llamado Cristo.      El total de las generaciones es, por lo tanto: desde Abraham hasta David, catorce generaciones; desde David hasta el destierro en Babilonia, catorce generaciones; desde el destierro en Babilonia hasta Cristo, catorce generaciones.Palabra del Señor

Vad gömmer sig egentligen i våra skåp? Vi dyker ner i allt vi sparat och allt vi glömt och pratar om varför det ens hamnade där från början. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Ett nyfiket och underhållande aktualitetsprogram med lyssnaren i fokus.Lasse hade ovetandes ett dolt vapenförråd ovanför kryddhyllan, Ramona är ägare av 17 år gamla kanelsnurror och Mariam hittade sin pappas gamla oanvända kondomer i i en hemlig låda i bokhyllan. Dessutom hör vi Lars som fann alla brev hans föräldrar skickade till varandra under andra världskriget. I extramaterialet snackar vi om Jonas Gardell, paketinslagning och om konsten att möblera om!

Mt 1,1-17.Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abraham:Abraham fue padre de Isaac; Isaac, padre de Jacob; Jacob, padre de Judá y de sus hermanos.Judá fue padre de Fares y de Zará, y la madre de estos fue Tamar. Fares fue padre de Esrón;Esrón, padre de Arám; Arám, padre de Aminadab; Aminadab, padre de Naasón; Naasón, padre de Salmón.Salmón fue padre de Booz, y la madre de este fue Rahab. Booz fue padre de Obed, y la madre de este fue Rut. Obed fue padre de Jesé;Jesé, padre del rey David. David fue padre de Salomón, y la madre de este fue la que había sido mujer de Urías.Salomón fue padre de Roboám; Roboám, padre de Abías; Abías, padre de Asá;Asá, padre de Josafat; Josafat, padre de Jorám; Jorám, padre de Ozías.Ozías fue padre de Joatám; Joatám, padre de Acaz; Acaz, padre de Ezequías;Ezequías, padre de Manasés. Manasés fue padre de Amón; Amón, padre de Josías;Josías, padre de Jeconías y de sus hermanos, durante el destierro en Babilonia.Después del destierro en Babilonia: Jeconías fue padre de Salatiel; Salatiel, padre de Zorobabel;Zorobabel, padre de Abiud; Abiud, padre de Eliacím; Eliacím, padre de Azor.Azor fue padre de Sadoc; Sadoc, padre de Aquím; Aquím, padre de Eliud;Eliud, padre de Eleazar; Eleazar, padre de Matán; Matán, padre de Jacob.Jacob fue padre de José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, que es llamado Cristo.El total de las generaciones es, por lo tanto: desde Abraham hasta David, catorce generaciones; desde David hasta el destierro en Babilonia, catorce generaciones; desde el destierro en Babilonia hasta Cristo, catorce generaciones.

Z novim letom se uveljavljajo prve vsebinske novosti pokojninske reforme, povezane predvsem z bolj dostojnimi pokojninami za najbolj ranljive. A tokrat se osredotočamo na vzdržni del pokojninske zakonodaje ter vsebine, ki so bile v tokratni reformi spregledane. Zanima nas, kako dolgo bo zdaj veljaven sistem ob demografskih trendih še vzdržen. Podobno se sprašujejo v Nemčiji, kjer imajo hude težave pri prenovi pokojninskega sistema. Čeprav so številke na prvi pogled suhoparne, je zgodba, ki jo razkrivajo, skrb vzbujajoča. Pokojnine sicer bodo, vprašanje pa je, kolikšna bo njihova realna vrednost. Bodo čez nekaj desetletij sploh zadoščale za kaj drugega kot osnovne dobrine in storitve? Kje bo država iskala dodatna sredstva za financiranje prvega stebra - in ali bo to pomenilo višje obremenitve dela, prerazporejanje drugih javnih izdatkov ali tiho zmanjševanje pravic prihodnjih upokojencev? Odgovori v tokratnem Studiu ob 17-ih. Gostje: Igor Feketija, državni sekretar z ministrstva za delo, družino, socialne zadeve in enake možnosti; Žiga Vižintin, direktor pokojninskih zavarovanj v Pokojninski družbi A; Goran Novković, odgovorni urednik Podjetne Slovenije. Avtorica oddaje Urška Valjavec.

Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abraham:Abraham fue padre de Isaac; Isaac, padre de Jacob; Jacob, padre de Judá y de sus hermanos.Judá fue padre de Fares y de Zará, y la madre de estos fue Tamar. Fares fue padre de Esrón;Esrón, padre de Arám; Arám, padre de Aminadab; Aminadab, padre de Naasón; Naasón, padre de Salmón.Salmón fue padre de Booz, y la madre de este fue Rahab. Booz fue padre de Obed, y la madre de este fue Rut. Obed fue padre de Jesé;Jesé, padre del rey David. David fue padre de Salomón, y la madre de este fue la que había sido mujer de Urías.Salomón fue padre de Roboám; Roboám, padre de Abías; Abías, padre de Asá;Asá, padre de Josafat; Josafat, padre de Jorám; Jorám, padre de Ozías.Ozías fue padre de Joatám; Joatám, padre de Acaz; Acaz, padre de Ezequías;Ezequías, padre de Manasés. Manasés fue padre de Amón; Amón, padre de Josías;Josías, padre de Jeconías y de sus hermanos, durante el destierro en Babilonia.Después del destierro en Babilonia: Jeconías fue padre de Salatiel; Salatiel, padre de Zorobabel;Zorobabel, padre de Abiud; Abiud, padre de Eliacím; Eliacím, padre de Azor.Azor fue padre de Sadoc; Sadoc, padre de Aquím; Aquím, padre de Eliud;Eliud, padre de Eleazar; Eleazar, padre de Matán; Matán, padre de Jacob.Jacob fue padre de José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, que es llamado Cristo.El total de las generaciones es, por lo tanto: desde Abraham hasta David, catorce generaciones; desde David hasta el destierro en Babilonia, catorce generaciones; desde el destierro en Babilonia hasta Cristo, catorce generaciones.

San Mateo 1, 1 – 17"Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abraham: Abraham fue padre de Isaac; Isaac, padre de Jacob; Jacob, padre de Judá y de sus hermanos. Judá fue padre de Fares y de Zará, y la madre de estos fue Tamar. Fares fue padre de Esrón; Esrón, padre de Arám; Arám, padre de Aminadab; Aminadab, padre de Naasón; Naasón, padre de Salmón. Salmón fue padre de Booz, y la madre de este fue Rahab. Booz fue padre de Obed, y la madre de este fue Rut. Obed fue padre de Jesé; Jesé, padre del rey David. David fue padre de Salomón, y la madre de este fue la que había sido mujer de Urías. Salomón fue padre de Roboám; Roboám, padre de Abías; Abías, padre de Asá; Asá, padre de Josafat; Josafat, padre de Jorám; Jorám, padre de Ozías. Ozías fue padre de Joatám; Joatám, padre de Acaz; Acaz, padre de Ezequías; Ezequías, padre de Manasés. Manasés fue padre de Amón; Amón, padre de Josías; Josías, padre de Jeconías y de sus hermanos, durante el destierro en Babilonia. Después del destierro en Babilonia: Jeconías fue padre de Salatiel; Salatiel, padre de Zorobabel; Zorobabel, padre de Abiud; Abiud, padre de Eliacím; Eliacím, padre de Azor. Azor fue padre de Sadoc; Sadoc, padre de Aquím; Aquím, padre de Eliud; Eliud, padre de Eleazar; Eleazar, padre de Matán; Matán, padre de Jacob. Jacob fue padre de José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, que es llamado Cristo. El total de las generaciones es, por lo tanto: desde Abraham hasta David, catorce generaciones; desde David hasta el destierro en Babilonia, catorce generaciones; desde el destierro en Babilonia hasta Cristo, catorce generaciones."…………….Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2M0Ubx3Jh55B6W3b20c3GOApple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evangelio-del-d%C3%ADa/id1590423907 Para más información puede consultar nuestro sitio: https://www.vozcatolica.com o escríbanos a info@vozcatolica.com .Si quiere colaborar con este Apostolado lo puede hacer dirigiéndose a: https://vozcatolica.com/ayudanos . Desde ya muchas gracias

Investice na akciových trzích, do drahých kovů i do nemovitostí se pořád výborně zhodnocují. Růst jako kdyby se neměl zastavit. Může to ale vydržet i v příštím roce? Nebo začnou praskat první bubliny? „Určitě bylo to, co jsme viděli za posledních pět let, nadprůměrné. V dalších letech můžeme vidět dál pozitivní výnosy, ale třeba už nebudou takhle výrazné,“ uvedl v pořadu Peníze a vliv Českého rozhlasu Plus Ján Hájek z bankovní skupiny Erste.

Vorresti ricevere notizie, saluti, auguri dalle Apostole della Vita Interiore?Lasciaci i tuoi contatti cliccando il link qui sotto e con la nostra nuova rubrica digitale potremo raggiungerti.https://www.it.apostlesofil.com/database/- Premi il tasto PLAY per ascoltare la catechesi del giorno e condividi con altri se vuoi -+ Dal Vangelo secondo Luca +Genealogia di Gesù Cristo figlio di Davide, figlio di Abramo. Abramo generò Isacco, Isacco generò Giacobbe, Giacobbe generò Giuda e i suoi fratelli, Giuda generò Fares e Zara da Tamar, Fares generò Esrom, Esrom generò Aram, Aram generò Aminadàb, Aminadàb generò Naassòn, Naassòn generò Salmon, Salmon generò Booz da Racab, Booz generò Obed da Rut, Obed generò Iesse, Iesse generò il re Davide.Davide generò Salomone da quella che era stata la moglie di Urìa, Salomone generò Roboamo, Roboamo generò Abìa, Abìa generò Asaf, Asaf generò Giòsafat, Giòsafat generò Ioram, Ioram generò Ozìa, Ozìa generò Ioatàm, Ioatàm generò Àcaz, Àcaz generò Ezechìa, Ezechìa generò Manasse, Manasse generò Amos, Amos generò Giosìa, Giosìa generò Ieconìa e i suoi fratelli, al tempo della deportazione in Babilonia.Dopo la deportazione in Babilonia, Ieconìa generò Salatièl, Salatièl generò Zorobabele, Zorobabele generò Abiùd, Abiùd generò Eliachìm, Eliachìm generò Azor, Azor generò Sadoc, Sadoc generò Achim, Achim generò Eliùd, Eliùd generò Eleàzar, Eleàzar generò Mattan, Mattan generò Giacobbe, Giacobbe generò Giuseppe, lo sposo di Maria, dalla quale è nato Gesù, chiamato Cristo.In tal modo, tutte le generazioni da Abramo a Davide sono quattordici, da Davide fino alla deportazione in Babilonia quattordici, dalla deportazione in Babilonia a Cristo quattordici.Parola del Signore.

Muchos más recursos para tu vida de fe (Santo Rosario, Oración, etc.) en nuestra web https://sercreyente.com________________Miércoles, 17 de diciembre de 2025 (Adviento)Evangelio del día y reflexión... ¡Deja que la Palabra del Señor transforme tu vida! Texto íntegro del Evangelio y de la Reflexión en https://sercreyente.com/y-jacob-engendro-a-jose-el-esposo-de-maria/[Mateo 1, 1-17] Libro del origen de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abrahán. Abrahán engendró a Isaac, Isaac engendró a Jacob, Jacob engendró a Judá y a sus hermanos. Judá engendró, de Tamar, a Fares y a Zará, Fares engendró a Esrón, Esrón engendró a Arán, Arán engendró a Aminadab, Aminadab engendró a Naasón, Naasón engendró a Salmón, Salmón engendró, de Rajab, a Booz; Booz engendró, de Rut, a Obed; Obed engendró a Jesé, Jesé engendró a David, el rey. David, de la mujer de Urías, engendró a Salomón, Salomón engendró a Roboán, Roboán engendró a Abías, Abías engendró a Asaf, Asaf engendró a Josafat, Josafat engendró a Jorán, Jorán engendró a Ozías, Ozías engendró a Joatán, Joatán engendró a Acaz, Acaz engendró a Ezequías, Ezequías engendró a Manasés, Manasés engendró a Amós, Amós engendró a Josías; Josías engendró a Jeconías y a sus hermanos, cuando el destierro de Babilonia. Después del destierro de Babilonia, Jeconías engendró a Salatiel, Salatiel engendró a Zorobabel, Zorobabel engendró a Abiud, Abiud engendró a Eliaquín, Eliaquín engendró a Azor, Azor engendró a Sadoc, Sadoc engendró a Aquín, Aquín engendró a Eliud, Eliud engendró a Eleazar, Eleazar engendró a Matán, Matán engendró a Jacob; y Jacob engendró a José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, llamado Cristo. Así, las generaciones desde Abrahán a David fueron en total catorce; desde David hasta la deportación a Babilonia, catorce; y desde la deportación a Babilonia hasta el Cristo, catorce.________________Descárgate la app de SerCreyente en https://sercreyente.com/app/¿Conoces nuestra Oración Online? Más información en: https://sercreyente.com/oracion¿Quieres recibir cada día el Evangelio en tu whatsapp? Alta en: www.sercreyente.com/whatsappTambién puedes hacer tu donativo en https://sercreyente.com/ayudanos/Contacto: info@sercreyente.com

+ Del Evangelio según san Mateo +Genealogía de Jesucristo, hijo de David, hijo de Abraham: Abraham engendró a Isaac, Isaac a Jacob, Jacob a Judá y a sus hermanos; Judá engendró de Tamar a Fares y a Zará; Fares a Esrom, Esrom a Aram, Aram a Aminadab, Aminadab a Naasón; Naasón a Salmón, Salmón engendró de Rajab a Booz, Booz engendró de Rut a Obed, Obed a Jesé, y Jesé al rey David.David engendró de la mujer de Urías a Salomón, Salomón a Roboam, Roboam a Abiá, Abiá a Asaf; Asaf a Josafat; Josafat a Joram; Joram a Ozías, Ozías a Joatam, Joatam a Acaz, Acaz a Ezequías, Ezequías a Manasés, Manasés a Amón, Amón a Josías, Josías engendró a Jeconías y a sus hermanos, durante el destierro en Babilonia.Después del destierro en Babilonia, Jeconías engendró a Salatiel, Salatiel a Zorobabel, Zorobabel a Abiud, Abiud a Eliaquim, Eliaquim a Azor, Azor a Sadoc, Sadoc a Aquim, Aquim a Eliud, Eliud a Eleazar, Eleazar a Matán, Matán a Jacob, y Jacob engendró a José, el esposo de María, de la cual nació Jesús, llamado Cristo. De modo que el total de generaciones, desde Abraham hasta David, es de catorce; desde David hasta la deportación a Babilonia, es de catorce, y desde la deportación a Babilonia hasta Cristo, es de catorce.Palabra del Señor.

Cuatro días antes de ganar al Alavés, el Real Madrid cayó en su estadio ante el Manchester City. Escuchando a algunos analistas, dio la sensación incluso de que los blancos habían ganado. Artistas invitados (por orden de aparición): Siro López, Santi Cañizares, Manolo Lama, Alfredo Relaño, [Cabecera: Jesús Gallego, Joseba Larrañaga, Quique Iglesias, Juan Antonio Alcalá, Inma Rodríguez, Paco García Caridad, Julio Maldonado 'Maldini', Antonio Romero, Paco González, David Bernabeu, José Álvarez, Roberto Gómez, Juanma Castaño, Fernando Burgos, Felipe del Campo, José Joaquín Brotons, José Damián González, José Manuel Monje] Juanma Castaño, Manu Carreño, Javier Herráez, Marcos Bernat, Adrián Benedicto, Antonio Romero, Juanma Rodríguez, Tomás Roncero, Roberto Morales, Joan Laporta, Miguel Ángel Toribio, Josep Pedrerol, Jesús Gallego, Enrique Ortego, Rocío Martínez, Rodrygo Goes, José Luis Sánchez, Jota Jordi, Rubén Martín, Paul Tenorio, Guillermo Uzquiano, Rubén Cañizares, Alexis Martín-Tamayo 'Mister Chip', Xabi Alonso, Roberto Gómez, Irene Junquera, David Sánchez, Edu Pidal, Miguel 'Látigo' Serrano, Ricardo Reyes, Elías Israel, Roberto Palomar, Sergio Hernández, Raúl Varela, Fernando Burgos, Xavi Hernández, Louis van Gaal, Julio Pulido, Alberto Pereiro, Rubén Uría, María Trisac. [Bonus track: Raúl Varela, Javi Amaro, José Luis Sánchez, Gonzalo Miró, Yon Cuezva, Miguel 'Látigo' Serrano] Fuentes: El partidazo de Cope, El chiringuito de jugones (Mega), El desmarque madrugada (Cuatro), El futbolín (Radio Marca), El larguero (Ser), Carrusel deportivo (Ser), El primer palo (Es Radio), Radioestadio noche (Onda Cero), A diario (Radio Marca), Twitch de Rubén Martín. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kazys Boruta. „Baltaragio malūnas“. Išleido leidykla „Alma littera“.Nuo senų senovės Paudruvės krašte stovėjo malūnas, priklausantis Baltrui Baltaragiui. Vyresnio amžiaus malūnininkas pamilsta jauną gražuolę Marcelę ir norėdamas ją vesti sudaro sutartį su Pinčiuku. Gimus dukrai mylima žmona miršta, o po dvylikos metų pasirodo Pinčiukas ir reikalauja, kad Baltaragis laikytųsi sutarties sąlygų ir atiduotų jam į žmonas savo vienturtę dukrą Jurgą. Norėdamas apgauti Pinčiuką Baltaragis apsimeta, kad jo dukra – tai senmergė Uršulė. Velnias atsisako ją vesti ir lieka tarnauti malūne septynerius metus. Per tą laiką jis supranta Baltaragio klastą ir pasiryžta atkeršyti... Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorė Rūta Staliliūnaitė.

Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and cuneiform writing. He specializes in reading and interpreting cuneiform inscriptions, including tablets from Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian contexts. He became widely known for studying a tablet with a Mesopotamian flood story that predates the biblical Noah narrative, which he presented in his book “The Ark Before Noah” and in a documentary that involved building a circular ark based on the tablet’s technical instructions. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep487-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/irving-finkel-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA – submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring – join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other – other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPISODE LINKS: Irving’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drirvingfinkel/ The Ark Before Noah (book): https://amzn.to/4j2U0DW Irving Lectures Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXwZvOwHjVcFUi9iEqirkXRaCUJdXGha British Museum Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0LQM0SAx603A6p5EJ9DVcESqQReT7QyK British Museum Website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/ The Great Diary Project: https://thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk/ SPONSORS: To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts: Shopify: Sell stuff online. Go to https://shopify.com/lex Miro: Online collaborative whiteboard platform. Go to https://miro.com/ Chevron: Reliable energy for data centers. Go to https://chevron.com/power LMNT: Zero-sugar electrolyte drink mix. Go to https://drinkLMNT.com/lex AG1: All-in-one daily nutrition drink. Go to https://drinkag1.com/lex OUTLINE: (00:00) – Introduction (00:43) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections (09:53) – Origins of human language (15:59) – Cuneiform (23:12) – Controversial theory about Göbekli Tepe (34:23) – How to write and speak Cuneiform (39:42) – Primitive human language (41:26) – Development of writing systems (42:20) – Decipherment of Cuneiform (54:51) – Limits of language (59:51) – Art of translation (1:05:01) – Gods (1:10:25) – Ghosts (1:20:13) – Ancient flood stories (1:30:21) – Noah’s Ark (1:41:44) – The Royal Game of Ur (1:54:43) – British Museum (2:02:08) – Evolution of human civilization

Este es el tercer capítulo de nuestra serie sobre cómo el escándalo del fraude fiscal del novio de Isabel Díaz Ayuso terminó con el fiscal general del Estado juzgado. Y condenado. Llegamos al final. Por ahora. La sentencia. Un año y medio después de que elDiario.es publicara la exclusiva del fraude, el Tribunal Supremo ha condenado al fiscal general del Estado por haber confirmado a los medios que González Amador había confesado ese fraude ante la fiscalía, desmontando las mentiras de Ayuso con “datos reservados”. Tenemos la sentencia. Son 233 páginas. Pero no hay ninguna prueba directa que efectivamente demuestre que el filtrador de aquel correo de confesión fue el fiscal general del Estado. ¿Qué argumentos han utilizado entonces los jueces del Tribunal Supremo? ¿Qué dicen los votos particulares de las dos magistradas? Lo analizamos con el director de elDiario.es, Ignacio Escolar. También con la visión de los juristas Victoria Rosell y Joaquín Urías. *** Si te gustan este tipo de especiales puedes darnos tu apoyo en: eldiario.es/unsocioaldia *** Envíanos una nota de voz por Whatsapp contándonos alguna historia que conozcas o algún sonido que tengas cerca y que te llame la atención. Lo importante es que sea algo que tenga que ver contigo. Guárdanos en la agenda como “Un tema Al día”. El número es el 699 518 743See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kazys Boruta. „Baltaragio malūnas“. Išleido leidykla „Alma littera“.Nuo senų senovės Paudruvės krašte stovėjo malūnas, priklausantis Baltrui Baltaragiui. Vyresnio amžiaus malūnininkas pamilsta jauną gražuolę Marcelę ir norėdamas ją vesti sudaro sutartį su Pinčiuku. Gimus dukrai mylima žmona miršta, o po dvylikos metų pasirodo Pinčiukas ir reikalauja, kad Baltaragis laikytųsi sutarties sąlygų ir atiduotų jam į žmonas savo vienturtę dukrą Jurgą. Norėdamas apgauti Pinčiuką Baltaragis apsimeta, kad jo dukra – tai senmergė Uršulė. Velnias atsisako ją vesti ir lieka tarnauti malūne septynerius metus. Per tą laiką jis supranta Baltaragio klastą ir pasiryžta atkeršyti... Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorė Rūta Staliliūnaitė.

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En este mensaje de nuestra serie "La Navidad según Mateo", el pastor Saúl nos lleva tras los escenarios navideños a los que estamos acostumbrados y nos adentra en la compleja y desordenada genealogía de Jesús. ¿Qué tienen que ver Tamar, Rahab, Rut y "la esposa de Urías" con la Navidad? Todo. Sus historias nos recuerdan que Dios no solo obra alrededor del quebrantamiento, sino a través de él. Si Él puede entretejer el escándalo, el fracaso y a los marginados en la línea familiar de Jesús, también puede redimir tu pasado. Escucharás sobre: Por qué las fiestas suelen ser la época más solitaria del año para muchos, y cómo nosotros, la Iglesia, estamos llamados a ser el evangelio vivo para quienes están desesperados. Cómo Dios usa los tiempos de silencio no para rechazarnos, sino para profundizar nuestra fe, dependencia y propósito. La verdad de que las relaciones pueden ser las más dolorosas, pero tu relación con Dios debe ser la única innegociable. Cómo la distracción (especialmente a través de las redes sociales) puede descarrilar silenciosamente tu llamado, sin jamás "destruirte" por completo. Por qué tu pasado puede describirte, pero no tiene por qué definirte en Cristo. Ya sea que estés luchando contra el arrepentimiento, sintiéndote lejos de Dios o simplemente intentando encontrarle sentido a tu historia esta Navidad, este episodio te recordará: Dios hace pactos, cumple promesas, y aún no ha terminado contigo.

Om naturen blir osynlig riskerar samhället att förlora viktig kunskap. Ängar ska ge barn insikt om växters betydelse och minska det som kallas växtblindhet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Kunskapen om växter har krympt drastiskt i svenska skolor. Där elever förr skulle kunna långa listor med arter räcker det idag med några få namn. Samtidigt visar undersökningar att många svenskar bara kan identifiera ett fåtal vilda växter. Fenomenet kallas växtblindhet – en brist på förståelse för växternas roll i ekosystemen och i våra liv. Forskare varnar för att utvecklingen gör samhället sårbart och minskar engagemanget för biologisk mångfald. För att vända trenden har projektet Så vilda! startats. Här får tusentals barn och elever skapa egna blomsterängar, följa fröernas resa och lära känna arter som prästkrage, blåklint och darrgräs. Målet är att väcka nyfikenhet och ge barnen en konkret relation till naturen i skolans närmiljö. I samtal med forskare och pedagoger framträder bilden av hur artkunskapens försvinnande påverkar både språket och vår förståelse för årstidernas skiftningar och varför det är avgörande att återknyta banden till växterna innan de försvinner ur vårt medvetande.Reporter Helena Söderlundhhelena.soderlundh@sr.seProducent: Lars Broströmlars.brostrom@sr.se

Matt, Ken, and Kenny continue their discussion about one of the most important questions a Christian can ask: what is the Gospel? Reformed theology argues that Abraham was justified by faith alone the moment he first believed. But when was that moment? When he left his home in Ur to follow God? When he believed in God's promise of offspring twenty-five years later? When he was willing to sacrifice his son Isaac? All these are pointed to in the New Testament as moments when Abraham was considered righteous by God for his faithful action. Former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley unpacks what these three distinct events mean for the Biblical understanding of salvation and justification. More episodes in this series: https://chnetwork.org/category/blog/chnvideos/on-the-journey/embracing-the-catholic-gospel/ Join our Online Community: https://community.chnetwork.org Support our work: https://www.chnetwork.org/compass

In this candid podcast, Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore's cyber security technical leader Panagiotis Anastasiou outlines his concerns about what he views as shipping's limited approach to cyber security and a need for increased awareness of its importance. His career-long knowledge and experience of cyber security arrangements in the aerospace sector — particularly with satellite technology — gives him an authoritative overview of cyber security and, for an industry that has autonomous vessels in development, he had expected to find shipping to be very advanced in its cyber security implementation and attitudes. Instead, he found that was not the case. His remarks include an example of a recent incident in which a service provider's systems were compromised, affecting at least 120 ships. The breach was subsequently repaired but the full story prompts Anastasiou to observe that “we fall in the same hole again and again”. He says this is because of limited efforts to prepare for cyber security difficulties. In contrast to shipping's approach, cyber security is the starting point when satellite systems are designed, he says. Controls, procedures and governance are built on that foundation, with ground infrastructure and component design following on. This approach should be common to all industries, including marine, he says. He acknowledges that maritime regulations now apply to cyber security which make it mandatory to take precautions, but he believes that shipowners and their system suppliers should go further. Attitudes must change So, he explains in the podcast that attitudes must change and he outlines some ideas about how cyber security awareness could be strengthened by better – and repeated – education and cyber drills that are backed up by companies' tested policies on how to respond to cyber security incidents. He goes on to describe how a cyber attack on a vessel might be triggered by an attack on shoreside systems, given the growing connectivity between ship and shore and vice versa. Not only that, but the implications of a maritime cyber attack can extend far beyond the company itself, since any resulting operational delay could have an impact on an entire supply chain. Class societies have addressed cyber security concerns by developing two Unified Requirements — UR 26 and UR 27 — and Anastasiou was a member of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) Cyber Systems Panel that developed them. But he suggests in the podcast that these should be viewed as starting points for class societies to evolve requirements to match the pace of change in technology. As a response to his remarks, he encourages listeners to conduct internal assessments of their own cyber security and to reach out to their class societies for guidance to improve their resilience.

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Episode 256 How a Man RepelsSensers! Surprises…and by surpirise simply meaning shit that comes up in our lives that we didn't necessarily anticipate becoming an adult. I think its dope if some of us were able to achieve the goals we set for ourselves prior to becoming an adult….BUT for some of us, we had to respond to the Draw Four Card we were dealt when life Life'd the shit out of us. Many failures towards success and a story to tell in the process.What does life mean to you? Something we ask ourselves in our head probably when inebriated but a legitimate question to ponder on as we go through each day. What gives life meaning for me? Does it have to have a meaning at all? I firmly believe in my life's meaning with the way things have transpired over the course of it to present day.I am obviously not a woman to truly say what's deemed attractive and or unattractive but I have my strong convictions on the trials and errors I've committed in my dating experiences that I believe some ladies would agree. Fellas, know the difference between a woman who loves versus a woman who's attracted to you, it doesn't equal out at all times. Let's talk about what I mean by this bold statement.May God and His Universe remove any negative energy you may have stored from reading this. If you dig the episode, click, like, and share on your page. Help build the tribe of healing

What do the world's first letters reveal about life in the Bronze Age?Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Amanda Podany to uncover the remarkable written culture of ancient Mesopotamia, when clay tablets carried messages across vast distances and a proto-postal system linked cities like Ur and Babylon. From royal correspondence and diplomatic negotiations to worried family notes and furious consumer complaints -including the iconic rant against the merchant Ea-Nasir for terrible copper - these texts offer a vivid, relatable window into everyday life 4,000 years ago. Step into the earliest age of writing and discover how humanity first learned to communicate across time and space.Translations in this episode taken from A. Leo Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia (1967) & J. M. Sasson, From the Mari Archives (2015).Presented by Tristan Hughes. Audio editor is Aidan Lonergan. The producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music courtesy of Epidemic SoundsThe Ancients is a History Hit podcast.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here: https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if astrology wasn't about predicting your future, but mastering your inner power?If you've ever felt stuck at a crossroads, successful on the outside but unsettled within, this episode offers a transformative lens. Discover how ancient astrological wisdom can help modern leaders, entrepreneurs, and seekers navigate change, reclaim purpose, and unlock deep self-awareness.Learn how your natal chart reveals not just your traits, but your untapped potential and archetypes waiting to be lived.Understand how astrology supports you through life transitions like career change or midlife uncertainty with strategy, timing, and emotional clarity.Discover how aligning with your divine essence can transform your doubts into resilience and your choices into empowered action.Press play to explore how astrology can become your most powerful tool for navigating transitions and embodying your true potential. ˚KEY POINTS AND TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Introduction and Episode Overview2:06 - Guest Introduction: Aleksandra Ceho3:15 - Astrology as a Tool for Self-Mastery, Not Prediction8:00 - Modern Misconceptions About Astrology11:15 - Ancient Wisdom and Modern Application13:47 - Understanding the Natal Chart and Its Insights20:17 - Astrology for Life Transitions and Crossroads26:09 - Navigating Career Change Through Astrology31:38 - Guiding Emotions and Inner Balance During Change38:01 - Practical Wisdom and Closing Reflections˚MEMORABLE QUOTE:"You're on the right track!"˚VALUABLE RESOURCES:Aleksandra's website: https://astrologerroyale.com/˚Coaching with Agi: https://personaldevelopmentmasterypodcast.com/mentor˚

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