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This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:14 - 07:38)‘We Exist to Hold the Government Accountable': The Message from the Media at the White House Correspondents' Dinner – But Where Has That Accountability Been?Part II (07:38 - 09:42)Sheila's on the Loose: Kangaroo Escapes in Alabama, Makes Its Way to the I-85 Before Its Apprehension – Yes, You Read That CorrectlyPart III (09:42 - 11:32)Why Do Most Popes Die in Office Rather Than Retiring or Resigning from Their Position? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart IV (11:32 - 15:38)How Do I Know That I Am a Real Christian? Is the Desire for Assurance of My Salvation Sinful? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 12-Year-Old Listener of The BriefingPart V (15:38 - 26:32)Is Baptism a Sacrament or an Ordinance? When is a Profession of Faith, Especially for Children or Teenagers Credible for Baptism and Church Membership? Should I Baptize My Father? If a Person is Baptized as an Unbeliever But Becomes a Believer, Should He or She be Baptized Again? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.
Meet Mickael, a half Japanese, half Philippino vlogger, who makes content about life in Japan in Tagalog. He sits down with us to share his story of growing up hafu in Japan, before rediscovering his roots in the Philippines.Follow Mickael on social media:https://www.tiktok.com/@mikasan__https://www.youtube.com/@mikasan_https://www.instagram.com/mickaelshimizu_https://www.facebook.com/mikasaninosaka/Follow us on our social media:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2158416https://www.youtube.com/@unpackingjapanshortshttps://www.instagram.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.tiktok.com/@unpackingjapanhttps://www.x.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.facebook.com/unpackingjapanSubscribe for more in-depth discussions about life in Japan! Interested in working at a global e-commerce company in Osaka? Our parent company ZenGroup is hiring! To learn more, check out https://careers.zen.group/en/youtube.com/@unpackingjapan
Meet Justin, a foreigner who has been studying the ancient art of shigin for more than 10 years, after accidentally discovering it one day while living in the Japanese countryside. He sits down with us to share his story of moving to Japan and falling in love with this beautiful, yet incredibly difficult, traditional art form.Follow Justinhttps://youtube.com/@theshigingaijin1985 https://www.instagram.com/shigin_gaijin/https://www.x.com/shigin_gaijinhttps://youtube.com@Orthodox_In_Japan Follow us on our social media:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2158416https://www.youtube.com/@unpackingjapanshortshttps://www.instagram.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.tiktok.com/@unpackingjapanhttps://www.x.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.facebook.com/unpackingjapanSubscribe for more in-depth discussions about life in Japan! Interested in working at a global e-commerce company in Osaka? Our parent company ZenGroup is hiring! To learn more, check out https://careers.zen.group/en/youtube.com/@unpackingjapan
Meet Joe Allam, a British filmmaker and a photographer who was fascinated by Japan so much that he decided to move to Osaka and restart his entire life in Japan.Follow Joe Allam:https://joeallam.co.uk/about/https://www.youtube.com/AllamJoehttps://www.instagram.com/joeallamhttp://facebook.com/JoeAllamLtdhttp://twitter.com/joeallamFollow us on our social media:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2158416https://www.youtube.com/@unpackingjapanshortshttps://www.instagram.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.tiktok.com/@unpackingjapanhttps://www.x.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.facebook.com/unpackingjapanSubscribe for more in-depth discussions about life in Japan! Interested in working at a global e-commerce company in Osaka? Our parent company ZenGroup is hiring! To learn more, check out https://careers.zen.group/en/youtube.com/@unpackingjapan
Join us today with Felicity, a filmmaker who explores topics of identity in here documentaries. We explore the recent social climate in Japan in regards to progressive topics such as multiculturalism and queer awareness. Follow Felicity's work:https://www.instagram.com/wherenextjapanhttps://www.wherenextjapan.comFollow us on our social media:https://www.youtube.com/@unpackingjapanhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2158416https://www.instagram.com/@unpacking_japanhttps://www.tiktok.com/@unpackingjapanhttps://www.x.com/unpacking_japanhttps://www.facebook.com/unpackingjapanSubscribe for more in-depth discussions about life in Japan! Interested in working at a global e-commerce company in Osaka? Our parent company ZenGroup is hiring! To learn more, check out https://careers.zen.group/en/youtube.com/@unpackingjapan
A mixtape drawing together contributions from friends around the world, including folks running independent record labels, record producers, poets, community radio producers, musicians and others. All these tracks were recorded directly, drawn from community radio producers and collected directly from the artists, or through direct communication with some independent record labels. All the works were pulled together with the intention of sharing a mix that can point in a tiny way to the depth of different artistic and activist voices from around the world who have Palestine in their hearts. This mix was originally broadcast on Radio AlHara on Sunday, Feb. 16, 7am-11am eastern time, 2-6pm Palestine time, live on radioalhara.net Thank you for listening. - Stefan Christoff 01. Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller @beat_keller - Yarkent 02. Shalabi Quintet - Artists Against Apartheid (Montréal Session) - 01 Artists Against Apartheid, Montréal Session – Part I, excerpt (released by @aosmosis) 03. 2/5BZ - MENi TENKS (2002) 03. Ana Quiroga @ana_quiroga - We Exist, We Resist [fabric Originals] 04. Notnef Greco - Sirens Off the Clock 05. Pelada @pelada420 - Cerdo 06. Pelada - Pilas 07. Badawi - A Better Place (reprise) 08. Midland @midland - Drift In The Algorithm 09. Adriaan de Roover - Nudge forward 10. Aidan Baker & Stefan Christoff - Januar Part I (released by @time-released-sound) 11. Amirali @amirali_ofc - Nemesis 12. Andy Aquarius @andyaquarius - Kyrie 13. anthéne @anthene - Lightbox 14. ate & NOWA ZIEMIA @nowa-ziemia - Substrate A 15. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - Speaking at a National Demonstration For Palestine (English language, recorded in Ireland) - 13.01.24 16. Sana Moussa and Naseem Alatrash - duet clip 17. Sabr from Gaza (Arabic language, thank you to Ewa Jasiewicz for the audio) 18. Charbel Haber @charbel-haber - We Spend Our Days In The Fog Of Your Nightmares 19. Zoë Mc Pherson @zoemcpherson - Chaos 20. Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Engines 21. DC BLOB - Untitled (practice recording excerpt) 22. Evitceles @evitceles - Ethereal Force 23. Dali de Saint Paul + Maxwell Sterling - 2 24. Demetrio Cecchitelli @cecchitellidemetrio - Oxygen 25. Budapest Blacklights - Forma Nera (via @moonvillain) 26. Fifths - Long gone 27. Grim Beverage - A Point in Space 28. Leon Louder @leonlouder - Mockingbird 29. Leo singing in Mexico City at ObreraCentro 30. Lighter - Acid Release 31. Lucille Cornelius & Michel Banabila @michel-banabila - The People United Will Never Be Defeated 32. M01E - So Many, So Little- - DOWNER - why we hide behind a screen 叹 (excerpt) 33. Matteo Uggeri - ...for Mother and Father 34. Melodies In My Head - I World 35. Mireya Bayancela Ordonez (poetry reading in Spanish and French) 36. Badawi - Al-Aziz (Dhikr Wave Mix) 37. Enrico Coniglio @enricoconiglio - Waterfront (excerpt) The accompanying image is a film photo snap taken by Rickie Leach at a Palestine solidarity protest in London.
In this episode of 365 Amplified, Stephanie Diaz De Leon, Nicholas Garton, Omar Waheed and Rob Chappell dive into recent news and updates in Madison and beyond. Topics include: Madison's Budget Updates: Highlights from the city council meeting, including the restored funding for the Police Oversight Office and the Imagination Center at Reindahl Park. Art in the Community: Showcasing local art exhibits like Henry Oben's “We Exist” and a collaborative show by Latina artists Isis Macias and Jessica Gutierrez, aimed at creating welcoming spaces for Latino communities. Serious Allegations Against Alder Charles Myadze: Covering Gloria Reyes's recent allegations of domestic violence during their past relationship. This sensitive story addresses domestic abuse within public office and its complexities. Music and Cultural Commentary: The team shares their favorite albums of the year and reflects on the evolving role of music in today's culture. Stay informed on these impactful stories, and join us as we amplify the voices and stories that matter to our community. It's NewsMatch season! Every donation in support of local nonprofit media is TRIPLED from now until the end of the year. Click here to donate! Stories discussed: Longtime Madison leader Gloria Reyes accuses Alder Charles Myadze of abuse during "volatile" relationship City probe revises findings: “Troubling” behavior by Alder Charles Myadze not deemed harassment For anyone experiencing domestic violence, resources are available: National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788 Domestic Abuse Intervention Services: 608-251-4445 or text 608-420-4638 UNIDOS Against Domestic Violence: 800-510-9195
Send us a textIn this captivating episode, host Tiffany Rossdale sits down with JJ Walsh of the Seek Sustainable Japan podcast and filmmaker Felicity Tillack for an eye-opening discussion on the creation of the docuseries We Exist. This documentary series sheds light on the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals living in Japan, with a special focus on those in rural areas who face unique social challenges. Tiffany and Felicity reveal their mission to give voice to these often-overlooked communities, discussing the powerful stories that inspired them and the journey they undertook to bring these narratives to the screen.Tiffany, a long-time advocate for LGBTQ+ issues in Japan, shares how her role as a podcast host and activist naturally evolved into filmmaking. We Exist was born from her desire to amplify the stories of LGBTQ+ individuals whose experiences are rarely featured in mainstream media. Felicity, an accomplished director based in Kyoto, brings her creative vision and passion for diversity to the project, and together, they discuss how their collaboration has strengthened the docuseries' reach and impact. JJ Walsh adds her unique perspective as an advocate for sustainable living, exploring how building inclusivity and empathy is a crucial part of a sustainable society.The conversation delves into the current Kickstarter campaign for We Exist, which seeks support to complete a second episode focused on family within the LGBTQ+ community in Japan. Tiffany and Felicity discuss how crowdfunding has rallied supporters and allies who want to see these stories told. From screenings in Kyoto to potential international festivals, We Exist is sparking conversations and awareness in ways that resonate deeply with audiences. JJ also touches on how the series aligns with sustainability by promoting acceptance and social harmony, both essential for resilient communities.As they share their vision for future episodes, Tiffany and Felicity invite listeners to become part of this important movement. This is more than just a documentary—it's a call to action for unity, inclusion, and understanding.Seek Sustainable Japan: YouTube PageWe Exist Japan: Episode 2 Kickstarter Campaign Support the showBreakfast With Tiffany Show Official Facebook Page ~ https://www.facebook.com/breakfastwithtiffanyshow Tiffany's Instagram Account ~ https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyrossdaleofficial/ For coaching sessions & programs with Tiffany, check out her official page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com Breakfast With Tiffany Show Youtube Channel ~ https://bit.ly/3vIVzhE Breakfast With Tiffany Show Official Page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com/podcast For questions, requests, collaborations and comments, feel free to reach us via our e-mail ~ breakfastwithtiffanyshow@outlook.com SUBSCRIBE and SUPPORT us here ~ https://www.buzzsprout.com/1187534/supporters/new
In this episode of the Brain & Life podcast, author Tanita Allen joins Dr. Katy Peters to discuss her experience with Huntington's Disease and how it inspired her to write her book We Exist. Tanita shares about the rocky diagnosis process, how she manages day-to-day symptoms, and why she was called to share her story in a book. Dr. Peters is then joined by Dr. Katie Moore, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Associate Director of the Neurology Residency Program at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Moore explains what Huntington's Disease is, dispels some diagnostic myths, and what patients and caregivers can look forward to in the future. We invite you to participate in our listener survey! By participating in the brief survey, you will have the opportunity to enter your name and email address for a chance to win one of five $100 Amazon gift cards. Additional Resources We Exist by Tanita Allen What is Huntington's Disease? Promising Therapies May Help Huntington's Disease Huntington's Disease Society of America Other Brain & Life Episodes on this Topic Rare Thoughts on a Rarer Neurologic Condition We Are Brave Together with Jessica Patay Author, Speaker Jackie Stebbins on Rebuilding Her Life After Autoimmune Encephalitis We want to hear from you! Have a question or want to hear a topic featured on the Brain & Life Podcast? · Record a voicemail at 612-928-6206 · Email us at BLpodcast@brainandlife.org Social Media: Guests: Tanita Allen @tanitaallen234; Dr. Katie Moore @dukeneurores Hosts: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea; Dr. Katy Peters @KatyPetersMDPhD
Our monthly short-takes episode for November 2024 with sustainability focused consultants Tove & Joy 00:00 Welcome00:30 No Snow Mt.Fuji02:00 Climate Change Gov03:00 Fabric KK B Corp06:25 WE EXIST docu-series08:40 Gender-Focused Investing11:00 Allies for Diversity13:20 BentonHomestead on CNBC14:40 CapGemini IT event16:00 Tomoko Koyama Meterologist17:41 Yuko Nakahata SustainaSeed19:24 Same-Sex Marriage Legal20:00 Sustainable Miyajima Tour Project21:55 Wild Deer & Tourism23:09 Musubi-Kiln Sustainable Biz24:15 Good English Copy Value24:45 Vegan Osaka 25:50 Toothpaste Packaging28:28 Organic Fertilizer Experiment30:00 Enjoy Autumn colors, fruit, veggies== Upcoming Events & Talk Links === Nov 9 to 30 REI Refugee Empowerment International Walkathon Event: https://rei-npo.org/en/event/stride-of-hope-walking-challenge/= Dec 5 BCCJ Event on Gender Focused Investments: https://bccjapan.com/events/unlocking-japans-potential-with-gender-focused-investment/= CapGemini IT company event: https://www.capgemini.com/about-us/= Sustainaseed: https://en.sustainaseed.net/= Musubi Kiln: https://musubikiln.com/= Benton Homestead get a mention on CNBC @bentonhomestead @CNBC https://bentonhomestead.com/pressWatch the CNBC episode here: https://youtu.be/1F637H2yUlo?si=xvKT48MHI2DNZdtU= Order your vegan cheeses and meat alternatives at VEGAN OSAKAhttps://www.veganosaka.com/en/collections/vegan-cheesesWatch the video version of this talk here on YouTube
Felicity Tillack is a filmmaker based in Kyoto Japan now working on a documentary series about inclusion and diversity of the LGBTQ+ community in Japan. Tiffany Rossdale produces and stars in this documentary-series titled WE EXIST a focus on LGBTQ+ lifestyles and issues in Japan.Please Support the film "We Exist" via kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wexistjapan/we-exist-japan-episode-2-lgbtq-documentary?ref=project_linkWatch the live talk with Felicity and Tiffany on YouTube Support Casey Bean original singer-songwriter who provides the BGM for this podcast - find all of Casey Bean's wonderful tunes on BandCamp
Send us a textIn this special episode of the Breakfast with Tiffany Show, Tiffany Rossdale sits down with Australian filmmaker Felicity Tillack, whose latest documentary, We Exist, shines a spotlight on the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals in rural Japan. Living in Kyoto, Felicity brings a unique perspective to this underrepresented community, exploring what it means to be queer in areas where being out isn't just uncommon, but can feel isolating and even dangerous. Together, Tiffany and Felicity unpack the inspiration behind the documentary, the challenges of making it, and the powerful stories it captures.The conversation dives deep into the heart of Felicity's personal journey. She shares a pivotal experience from her time teaching in a small Japanese town, where an elderly woman's casual, dismissive remark about a famous gay celebrity deeply affected her. This moment planted the seed for We Exist, and Felicity explains how it became a driving force in her mission to give rural LGBTQ+ people a platform to tell their own stories. These voices, often unheard in larger media discussions, highlight the unique struggles faced by queer individuals living outside Japan's urban centers.Tiffany, who played a vital role as the host and producer on the documentary, shares her own reflections on what drew her to the project. She discusses how her background, both as a transgender woman and an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, made her passionate about helping Felicity bring these stories to life. The pair recount their journey to connect—starting with an online filmmaker's group and leading to a creative partnership that brought We Exist to fruition despite the hurdles of the pandemic.With humor, warmth, and vulnerability, Tiffany and Felicity chat about the process of making an indie film, from long nights of editing to navigating the complexities of funding a grassroots project. Their bond, forged through a shared dedication to telling authentic, powerful stories, shines through as they reflect on how the film has impacted their own views on identity, acceptance, and community. The episode captures a beautiful mix of personal stories, creative challenges, and hope for a more inclusive future for LGBTQ+ individuals everywhere.Whether you're passionate about indie filmmaking, curious about LGBTQ+ life in Japan, or simply enjoy hearing heartfelt conversations, this episode of Breakfast with Tiffany Show offers an intimate, thought-provoking listen you won't want to miss.We Exist Documentary Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RZEMqvJ_8MFelicity Tillack's Website (Where Next Japan): https://www.wherenextjapan.com/Support the showBreakfast With Tiffany Show Official Facebook Page ~ https://www.facebook.com/breakfastwithtiffanyshow Tiffany's Instagram Account ~ https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyrossdaleofficial/ For coaching sessions & programs with Tiffany, check out her official page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com Breakfast With Tiffany Show Youtube Channel ~ https://bit.ly/3vIVzhE Breakfast With Tiffany Show Official Page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com/podcast For questions, requests, collaborations and comments, feel free to reach us via our e-mail ~ breakfastwithtiffanyshow@outlook.com
It Happened To Me: A Rare Disease and Medical Challenges Podcast
In this episode of It Happened To Me, hosts Cathy and Beth are joined by Tanita Allen, a resilient advocate for Huntington's Disease (HD) and the author of the touching memoir, We Exist. Tanita shares her personal journey with HD, from her initial symptoms and challenging diagnostic process to her current role as a self-advocate and member of The HD Community Advisory Board. Tanita discusses the complexities of living with HD, a condition often described as a combination of Parkinson's, ALS, and Alzheimer's. She offers insight into the importance of genetic testing, the impact of environmental factors on her early onset, and the emotional journey of being the first in her family to be diagnosed with this rare genetic condition. Additionally, Tanita shares her five key strategies for maintaining a hopeful disposition in the face of medical challenges. Tanita Allen is a dedicated advocate for Huntington's Disease and the author of *We Exist*, a memoir documenting her journey with HD. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Affairs and is a certified paralegal. Tanita's advocacy work is enriched by her extensive experience in customer service and sales. She is a member of The HD Community Advisory Board and has been featured in Forbes, where she discussed the significance of self-advocacy and collaboration. Key Discussion Points: Understanding Huntington's Disease (HD): Tanita describes HD as a trifecta of Parkinson's, ALS, and Alzheimer's. She shares her experiences with the hallmark symptoms and discusses the prevalence of HD in the population. Diagnostic Journey: Tanita opens up about the challenges she faced in receiving a diagnosis, particularly the added complexity of being a Black woman. She details her experience with genetic testing, including the significance of CAG repeats in the HTT gene and how her results correlated with her early onset of symptoms. Emotional Impact and Family Dynamics: Tanita reflects on how she processed her diagnosis and the emotional toll it took, especially as the first person in her family to be diagnosed with HD. She also shares the story of another family member who was later diagnosed. Five Strategies for Hope: Tanita outlines the five key strategies she discusses in her book for maintaining a hopeful outlook:Embracing Change and Adapting Learning from Difficult Moments The Power of Community Celebrating Milestones Making Self-Care a Priority Advice for Others: Tanita offers parting advice for those facing medical challenges, emphasizing the importance of self-care, community support, and staying hopeful. Please check out Tanita's book, “We Exist”. You can order a copy directly from her website, tanitaallen.com. Also check out her Forbes article, “Why Self-Advocacy Can Help You Become An Invaluable Collaborator”. Stay tuned for the next new episode of “It Happened To Me”! In the meantime, you can listen to our previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, streaming on the website, or any other podcast player by searching, “It Happened To Me”. “It Happened To Me” is created and hosted by Cathy Gildenhorn and Beth Glassman. DNA Today's Kira Dineen is our executive producer and marketing lead. Amanda Andreoli is our associate producer. Ashlyn Enokian is our graphic designer. See what else we are up to on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and our website, ItHappenedToMePod.com. Questions/inquiries can be sent to ItHappenedToMePod@gmail.com.
In this episode, Mario, Jamie, and Etiana discuss Mind Shift #7: NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING. This is from the book Mind Shift by Erwin McManus. If you haven't purchased the book you can do so HERE. No One Knows What They Are Doing has some amazing insights on doing things, starting things, even though we are scared. We never will learn if we don't start. Fear will creep in anytime we start something new. Maybe it's a new challenge. a new venture, a new business, a new goal. We learned that a friend of ours said, Do It Scared. This is a great quote for us to move forward with and remember as we launch into new ventures. Do It Scared! We Got This! We EXIST for more, we're here to OFFER more, don't EVER give up, every single one of us is Made4More.
To follow Tanita Allen, please visit her website: https://tanitaallen.com/ Here is the link to purchase a copy of Tanita Allen's book: We Exist
We Exist to Bring Glory to God - We Are Series - 1 Corinthians 10:13 - Jason Polk
In the fourth episode of My Refugee Story, we chat with Obada Otabashi, a Syrian entrepreneur and founder of ‘We Exist'. Obada arrived in Belgium in 2015 after a long and difficult journey. Explore how his mother's timeless recipes coupled with his entrepreneurial streak led him to create ‘We Exist' – a unique restaurant, catering company and hub for newcomers seeking employment opportunities. HOSTOur podcast's host, Maeve Patterson, has worked with UNHCR since December 2015. She served as the head of communications in Brussels and is now based in London.ADDITIONAL MATERIALWe Exist: https://weexist.be/ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unhcr_belgium/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHCR.BETwitter NL: https://twitter.com/UNHCRBelgieTwitter FR: https://twitter.com/UNHCRBelgiqueMUSIC CREDITSBeat Mekanik - Just a Taste
We ExistStand Alone Sermon SeriesSpeaker: Alex Stanisel | January 10th, 2024The REVEAL GatheringWe exist to REVEAL Jesus Christ in Word, Worship, and Community
We ExistStand Alone Sermon SeriesSpeaker: Alex Stanisel | January 10th, 2024The REVEAL GatheringWe exist to REVEAL Jesus Christ in Word, Worship, and Community
On November 21, Pranshu who is a 16-year old queer child, died of suicide in Ujjain. The school going child was a self taught makeup artist, with nearly 17,000 followers on Instagram. Pranshu posted a reel dressed in a sari, which went viral during Diwali, getting more than 4000 comments, most of which were homophobic in nature. Last year, another class 10 student, Aarvey Malhotra died of suicide. His mother, Aarti Malhotra has alleged that Aarvey was bullied mercilessly in school on account of his sexuality, and that his school authorities were not responsive to their complaints and failed to protect him. In the recent past, there have been many conversations about protection of children in the social media space. Whistleblowers of Meta have alleged that Meta knew its products were harming children, particularly young girls but did not do enough to protect them. In October, many US states filed a lawsuit arguing that Meta has contributed to a youth mental health crisis. What is missing in these discussions are the experiences of queer children. Suno India's Menaka Rao spoke to Rohin Bhatt, a queer rights lawyer and activist and a bioethicist to understand what kind of legal and policy framework can help protect queer children, but also help create a safe space online. References 'My Child Did Nothing Wrong,' Mother of Queer Artist Who Died By Suicide in MP “The school has killed me”: Arvey Malhotra's mother recalls his suicide note and elaborates on the bullying that led to her son's death; awaits justice even after 4 months - Times of India Congress Is Pushing An Online Safety Bill Supported By Anti-LGBTQ Groups https://twitter.com/BhattRohin/status/1729734070261658026/photo/1 Yes, We Exist (@yesweexistindia) • Instagram photos and videos Filmmaker Onir says his movie script on gay soldier has been rejected by defence ministry: 'I won't demean anybody'. National and Delhi Commissions for Protection of Child Rights on opposing sides on adoption by same-sex couples – The Leaflet Kerala HC asks government to take appropriate action against ‘NGO' that calls queerness “wokeism” and “rainbow mafia” – The LeafletSee sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.
In December 2023, director Roma Liberov released a new concert film "We Exist!". The film features Russian musicians who left Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. - В декабре 2023 года режиссер Рома Либеров представил фильм-концерт «Мы есть!». В нем приняли участие группа «Би-2», «Ногу свело!», лидер «Машины времени» Андрей Макаревич, Noize MC и многие другие музыканты, уехавшие из России после начала полномасштабного вторжения в Украину.
DID U GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE NEW RO-SHOW. DID YA, HUH? DID YA? .... Well, you do now, because Maddie and Christina are peeing their pants waiting for Rowoon's new show "Destined with You" to come out on August 23. This CHINGU CHAT is mainly about that, sprinkled in with Maddie and Christina's thoughts on King the Land, See you in my 19th Life, Hidden Love, and Jungkook. *whoops* ..... We missed you guys!!!! Before the fall season kicks off, we just wanted to post a little something to say "HI, WE'RE HERE. WE EXIST." Hope you enjoy this little CHINGU CHAT! .... Thank you for listening to YA GIRL MADDIE!!! Follow Maddie on Instagram bc she has a bunch of fun over there: https://www.instagram.com/yagirlmaddie_pod/ ..... Support YA GIRL MADDIE on Patreon: www.patreon.com/yagirlmaddiepod?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maddie-bowser6/message
The Laney College Speech and Leaders club's We Exist event serves as the backdrop for the desk, with various guest.
April 30th, 2023 Pastor Caleb Sargent Southern Hills Church You are Loved | In “You are Loved,” we learn about God's love for us | To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://www.southernhillslv.com/give | We Exist to Make Disciples For Jesus Christ. This is the vision of Southern Hills Church, led by Pastor Josh Teis and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Stay Connected | Website: https://www.southernhillslv.com | Southern Hills Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/southernhillslv | Southern Hills Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southernhillslv/ | Josh Teis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuateis/ | Scripture References: Luke 15:11-32 |
April 16th, 2023Pastor Josh TeisSouthern Hills Church You are Seen In “You are seen,” we learn how Jesus expresses God's desire for a relationship with you. #sunday #sermon #advice #LasVegas #Jesus #God To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://www.southernhillslv.com/give We Exist to Make Disciples For Jesus Christ. This is the vision of Southern Hills Church, led by Pastor Josh Teis and based in Las Vegas, Nevada.——Stay Connected Website: https://www.southernhillslv.comSouthern Hills Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/southernhillslvSouthern Hills Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southernhillslv/Josh Teis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuateis/Scripture References: Luke 15:1-7
April 9th, 2023 Pastor Josh Teis Southern Hills Church The Greatest Rescue Story#sunday #sermon #advice #LasVegas #Jesus #God To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://www.southernhillslv.com/give We Exist to Make Disciples For Jesus Christ. This is the vision of Southern Hills Church, led by Pastor Josh Teis and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. —— Stay Connected Website: https://www.southernhillslv.com Southern Hills Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/southernhillslv Southern Hills Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southernhil... Josh Teis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuateis/ Scripture References: 2 Corinthians 5:17
"The key to holiness and wholeness is to surrender ourselves completely to Him, over and over again." Our new mission statement reads, "We Exist to Awaken the Broken to a Life of Wholeness Found in Jesus." Pastor Kelli, teaching from Mark 6 and 7, helps us define "the broken," and those definitions may surprise you! Check out her full message here.
This week, we're looking at books and pop culture picks that feature characters living their truths, no matter how hard others deny it. Plus, the Broads talk book banning, people-watching while invisible, and billionaires' midlife crises. And we say GAY. A lot. Check out all current and past picks at our Bookshop.org store. Listen to "We Exist," the song from Arcade Fire that inspired this week's theme. Get a Broad's book: Order Dig Me Out by our own Amy Lee Lillard now! _____Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 112: We ExistNovels:Amy: Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr Erin: Ocean State, Stewart O'Nan Other Books:Amy: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, Maggie O'Farrell (Memoir)Erin: Binge: 60 Stories to Make Your Brain Feel Different, Douglas Coupland (Short stories)Pop Culture: Amy: Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max)Erin: Anatomy of a Scandal (Netflix)_____Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life! Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!
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I sit down with Tina Butler and Simoné Sanders of TABPHE CC(Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education) to discuss the organization's origin story in the mid-90s, their goal of filling voids experienced by community members through events, mentorship and outreach programs, transitioning their community coverage from higher education to school-aged children, the evolution of their annual events including this year's Juneteenth Celebration, and the background of their motto "We Exist to Assist" in episode 160.
#014 - Today we talk to Ari Takata-Vasquez, the Executive Director of the Oakland Indie Alliance (“OIA”). OIA is a member-lead nonprofit organization made up of and operated by 400+ local independent business owners who have united to preserve Oakland's variety, energy, and social fabric.Its motto is “We Exist to Keep Oakland Local and Independent”.OIA supports local businesses in 4 key ways:1 Camaraderie: at the heart of the small business community is connection. OIA creates the space for indie owners to connect and share resources.2 Marketing: Their #KeepitOakland Campaign brings awareness to our amazing local small business so residents can support them.3 Advocacy: OIA works closely with BIDs, the City of Oakland, and other nonprofits.4 Fundraising: OIA works with partners and community donations to provide direct aid to our small business community with our initiatives such as the Repair Fund, Covid-19 Fund and the Parklet Program.Be sure to listen to the entire interview to learn about the #KeepitOakland Campaign.
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Hon har alltid velat bli entreprenör. Anna Volby tröttnade på att kvinnor inom tech hamnar i skymundan på arbetsmarknaden, och idén till We Exist föddes. Med en vinnande idé i bagaget ville hon hitta rätt partner att göra entreprenörsresan med. Jag får tips på hur man raggar upp den perfekta partnern och vad man bör avhandla innan man ”hoppar i säng”. Vi pratar om platsannonser som får kvinnor att söka och hur vi kvinnor kanske inte alltid lyfter varandra. Anna berättar om varför hon beskriver sig som en studsboll i ett garnnystan och ögonblicket i hennes karriär då hon drog ur sladden.
Hon har alltid velat bli entreprenör. Anna Volby tröttnade på att kvinnor inom tech hamnar i skymundan på arbetsmarknaden, och idén till We Exist föddes. Med en vinnande idé i bagaget ville hon hitta rätt partner att göra entreprenörsresan med. Jag får tips på hur man raggar upp den perfekta partnern och vad man bör avhandla innan man ”hoppar i säng”. Vi pratar om platsannonser som får kvinnor att söka och hur vi kvinnor kanske inte alltid lyfter varandra. Anna berättar om varför hon beskriver sig som en studsboll i ett garnnystan och ögonblicket i hennes karriär då hon drog ur sladden. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The girls are BACK after a brief Nick's Birthday sabbatical and we FINALLY address the rumors... YES we are female hackers. YES it is both dangerous and rewarding. YES we wear a tight fitting turtleneck that creates a uniboob. WE EXIST!!!! This week, we're joined by return guest RIVER PAGE (@river_is_nice) to discuss the news of the moment, and of some moments we missed. First, we finally review Blue Bannisters and wind up shitting on it way more than we expected to. Then: are we embarrassed to be gay? Do gay guys have any political interests other than making sure everyone wants to fuck them? Lastly, we recap Astroworld and get to the ninth circle of the Satanic panic theories swirling around it. It's DELISH! Follow the girls on Twitter @VLRTUALBOY and @YOURE2BASIC. Bring back my pig on Patreon. Follow River @river_is_nice and subscribe to his amazing Substack.
Pastor John Perez talks about: SOLI DEO GLORIA! 7/8/21 We Exist to bring Glory to God Alone! Job, shows us a way to live a life that honors and glorifies the Lord. We are taught, it's not about what you do… it's about who you do it for… so whatever you do… Listen Now!We pray this message was a blessing to your life.Thanks for your support!www.CorderoReno.comTo reach and build people through this ministry we need your financial support. If you have been edified, please contribute to this ministry so that the Word of God continues to transform and build lives.GIVING HAS NEVER BEEN SO EASY!You can now go to OUR WEBSITE https://www.corderoreno.com/donations It's easy to give!If you have any questions, please let us know. Please help us to spread the word!Support the show (https://www.corderoreno.com/donations)
Victimes collatérales des sanctions imposées au régime de Bachar el-Assad où des contrôles financiers dans le cadre des lois antiterroristes, les associations d’aide à la population civile syrienne se retrouvent souvent bloquées dans leurs actions: fermetures de comptes, rejets de transferts d’argent ou refus de prêts pour développer des coopérations, etc. Souvent, la seule mention du mot «Syrie» suffit pour créer la suspicion dans les établissements bancaires. Ce que Joseph Daher nomme les «sanctions invisibles», dans un rapport réalisé pour l'organisation Impact en collaboration avec We Exist, un regroupement d'ONG syriennes.
We noticed this week that yes, some in the media ACTUALLY remember the past before 2016! Like, how totally racist the Tea Party rallies were! And we are only going to mention the never Trumper white guys when we do so in the context of Democrats, activist women and women of color. Because it's time to point out that WE EXIST, too. More at http://ProLeftPod.com!Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)REVIEW US ON APPLE PODCASTS - http://review.proleftpod.comSUPPORT OUR SHOW - http://support.proleftpod.comBUY PROLEFTPOD MERCH - http://merch.proleftpod.comCONTACT US:MAILING ADDRESS - Make checks payable to:The Professional Left PodcastPO Box 9133Springfield IL 62791-9133EMAIL ADDRESSESPodcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.comEmail for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.comSUPPORT OUR WORK:PayPal: http://paypal.proleftpod.comGoFundMe: http://gofundme.proleftpod.comPatreon: http://patreon.proleftpod.comBuy Us A Coffee: http://coffee.proleftpod.comShop Our Merch Store: http://merch.proleftpod.comLink To All the Ways You Can Support Us: http://support.proleftpod.comSOCIAL & MEDIA:YouTube: http://youtube.proleftpod.comTwitter:@ProLeftPodcast - https://twitter.com/proleftpodcastDriftglass (@Mr_Electrico) - https://twitter.com/mr_electrico@BlueGal - https://twitter.com/bluegalFacebook:ProLeftPodcast - http://facebook.proleftpod.comBlueGal.Fran - http://facebookfran.proleftpod.comInternet Kitty of The Week - http://ikotw.proleftpod.comOriginal Flickr IKOTW Gallery - http://flickr.proleftpod.comBlogs:Driftglass' - http://driftglass.proleftpod.comBlue Gal's - http://bluegal.proleftpod.comFran's - http://fran.proleftpod.comPodcast Archive: http://archive.proleftpod.comPodcast RSS Feed: http://rss.proleftpod.comObamacare, Election 2020, Democratic Congress, Democratic Senate, Democratic White House, Democratic Party, politics, progressive, #GOP, media, Joe Biden, Democratic Congress, #TheLeftRemembers, #BothSidesDont, #BurnTheLifeboats, #CornfieldResistance, #GoPostalUnions!, #GoPostalUnionsSupport theSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)
Please join us by listening to the We Exist podcast where we talk to Nolufefe Abegail Tobo about what it means to be a single mother raising a girl child in the 21st century. We had a Q & A session where we asked her about her childhood, her take on raising a child and and the challenges she might have faced while raising me! We hope that this podcast can help motivate single mothers who feel like giving up on themselves and their child. It is not easy but always trust and believe that process. It takes a village ! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/confidence7/support
What Makes Naples Community Church a Good Neighbor...We Exist to Connect People to a Vibrant FaithNaples Community Church is called to be a people of uncommon character, a fellowship of loved people striving to live God’s love in Christ. Our mission—building on our identity, our core values, and our location—is to fashion a church that excels in its faithful proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, its love of children, its openness and acceptance of people, its depth of fellowship, and its service to the community.We are Intentionally RedemptiveSince Jesus Christ will not cast out those whom the Father has given him, we will live to affirm the mercy and forgiveness of God in Christ and the promise of newness of life.We are Distinctively LocalSince ministry begins in one’s own household, we will live to serve those in our midst; in our church, in our community, and in our world wherever we are called out to minister.We are Purposefully IndependentSince we are stewards of grace we assume full responsibility for our choices, positions, decisions, and actions, even while affirming our unity, accountability, and common mission with the whole church.We are Thoroughly AcceptingSince God so loved the world so do we, and we therefore endeavor to be characterized by warmth in our relationships, humor in our disagreements, winsomeness in our welcoming, and openness in our biblical, doctrinal, and practical inquiries. We’re a church where outliers find a home!To learn more about Naples Community Church, go to: https://www.naplescommunitychurch.org/Naples Community Church849 7TH AVENUE S,NAPLES, FL 34102(239) 213-1325Support the show (https://goodneighborpodcast.com)
Trash and litter is a huge problem in the world we live in. No matter how much we avoid this issue, but it will always affect us in the long run. There are many ways to solve this problem, it starts with changing your mindset about how you see trash. It starts with educating yourself and the people around you and doing something about it. Join us in the We Exist podcast as we share our stories on the impact trash has and what you can start changing your ways of doing things. Its development without losing authenticity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/confidence7/support
We spoke to Karam, communication officer of Mawjoudin. We talked about the work the organization does in Tunisia, the increased visibility of Tunisia in recent years surrounding queer activism, the importance of not relying solely on western media to gain understanding of in-country issues faced by the LGBTQI+ community, and more. From Karam: “WHO ARE WE? MAWJOUDIN WE EXIST is an officially registered not-for-profit NGO that is based in Tunisia, and works towards achieving equality, human rights, bodily rights and sexual rights for the LGBTQI+ community and other marginalized groups and individuals through advocacy, documentation, capacity building, awareness-raising, safe spaces and…
This is the introduction episode of We Exist podcast. A brief history of how a passion project was birthed and what it took to come alive. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/confidence7/support
At RYNO, our motto is “We Exist to Grow Your Business...PERIOD”. Part of that is finding strategic partnerships that help us achieve that goal for our clients, so we’re super excited to announce our new partnership with Schedule Engine. We had an insightful discussion with Ray, Head of Sales, and Austin, CEO of Schedule Engine about how and why their company started and why it’s such an incredible tool for service companies of all sizes.
Acknowledging that we are nature and reflecting on what that means. The poem in this episode is called "We Exist"
On this ep, Ex and Lando (finally) get back in the waters of existence and discuss Ex’s book We Exist and the impact it can have in our lives. Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
Een naam als We Exist, dat trekt de aandacht. Obada trok niet enkel mijn aandacht met de naam van deze organisatie, maar ook met de tagline "By Syrians, For Everybody" en de vele gerechten van de Syrische keuken die deze organisatie op tafel zet. 1 maal per maand in een restaurant in Brussel, maar ook op feesten, bij mensen thuis of op allerlei evenementen. Een gesprek wat bij momenten emotioneel was als het over de vlucht uit syrie ging, maar waarin ook ruimte was voor de passie van Obada voor de Syrische keuken. Verhelderend, menselijk, en als hij praat klinken alle gerechten verleidelijk lekker. Meer informatie over We Exist kun je vinden via hun website: http://www.weexist.be of op hun facebook en instagram pagina. Overeten is een podcast voor nieuwsgierige eters en drinkers. Elke aflevering ga ik op zoek naar culinaire kennis, leuke verhalen en gastronomische avonturen in de hoop meer te weten... over eten. Bekijk de website voor meer fotos en een blik achter de schermen, schrijf je in voor onze nieuwsbrief. Je kan ook de facebook pagina liken of me volgen op instagram!
In this episode Ex concludes the book We Exist by reading Appendix A: "The Root Association Method." Thank you for listening, enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
Ellie and Alia talked about the show Ramy, read and answered a question from a wonderful listener, and talked about the experience of podcasting in the past year and how it has affected us. It’s been a great year and we look forward to more of them with you all!
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
--{ "First You Till the Soil.... Revolution, Fabian Style, Slow, Persuasive, Incremental, Then Uncompromising Raised Clenched Fist, None too Gentle, So Now the State Provides, go Enjoy, dance and Splurge, In Stuporous State You'll be Issued Fate in Latest Purge." © Alan Watt }-- We're into a New Chapter of Our History - The Cold War; Our Taxes into the War Industry - The World Bank Lends to All Countries - The Ruling Oligarchy is Beyond the Deep State - China, Model State - GATT - Iraq, Kuwait, the Bush Family; Story about Throwing Babies from Incubators - Syria, Iran - The Phase We're in Now is the New Soviet System - Soviet is Rule by Councils (NGOs, Foundations) - Social Warriors - The Young Joiners are Used - Groups Aimed at Youth are Run by Very Old People - Yellow Vests in France - Britain's Eco-Warriors; Police Joining in with Protestors - Goal is Scientific, Socialist Control; Compulsory Sterilization, Permits to have Children - The Illuminati - World Revolutionary Party Members Came Over from Germany to Help Lincoln Fight the South in the Civil War - Ideas of Right and Wrong Come from Philosophy - Lenin, We Shall Win by Slogans - Climate Change, Veganism - The Club of Rome - Private Organizations Using the United Nations - U.N., World Government - Arnold Toynbee - Will and Ariel Durant - CIA and the Funding of Communes - Jim Jones - The Study of Cults - Taxes, Austerity - We're Living Through a Plan and The Plan has Chapters - E.U. and Farmers; Butter Mountains - The E.U. was Never Meant to be Democratic - Bertrand Russell - H.G. Wells - Will Durant Quote on Religion and Civilization - A Presentation of History that Makes the Rise of Tyrants seem Inevitable - Trotskyism, Perpetual Revolution - Protest Movements that have Totally Disappeared - We are the Problem Now because We Exist and We Consume - 20th Century Art; All Beauty Must Be Destroyed; Atonal Music - Julian Huxley, Dethrone Humans from their Pedestal - Dehumanization - Abortion - Euthanasia - Life is Cheap Now; We're Knocked Off that Pedestal - Washington State to Legalize Human Composting; Organic Reduction; Liquid Cremation - We are the Business - Soylent Green - Biodegradable Burial Pod Turns Your Body into a Tree - You Find Out Your Real Purpose in Life is to Supply Nutrients to a Tree - Britain to Implement Opt-Out Organ Donation - Pig Brains Kept Alive Outside Body - Extinction Rebellion in Britain - Social Warriors for Veganism - Attacking Farmers - Funded, Organized, Massive NGO Armies - Agenda 21 - David Attenborough says We're Running Out of Time to Save Planet and Calls for Urgent Action to Tackle Global Warming - 2013, Attenborough says Humans are a Plague on Earth, Limit Population - Jonathan Porritt - Population Matters - Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb - U.N.'s Eco Green Clubs in Schools - The Green Party was Initially Called the Ecology Party - Extinction Rebellion Leaders; Jet-setters - Green Giants - The Eco Power List - U.N. Environment's List of Accredited Organizations - Tax-Free Foundations Owned by Biggest Corporations - Porritt, Green Party - Zuckerberg calls for Internet Regulation - Julian Assange - Fear and then Terror Used on the Public - Notre Dame Cathedral Acoustics, Photos - Geoengineering - Destruction of Good Music - No More News; Aldous Huxley, Infotainment. *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Apr. 21, 2019 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)
In this episode Ex reads Chapter One of We Exist: "...of Cycles & Stages." Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
In this episode Ex reads Chapter One of We Exist: "...of Cycles & Stages." Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
Dr. Gerald ThompsonIts A Good Time To Die John 12:24Move 1It’s a Good Time to Die to SelfMove 2:It’s a GoodTime to Die for SomethingMove 3A. We Live in the Spirit of AttachmentB. We Exist in a Season byDetachmentC. We Increase in a Space with ReattachmentMove 4It’s a Good Time to Die with our SaviorSupport the show (https://carolinachurch.org/giving/)
In this episode, Ex reads the Copyright, Disclaimer and Preface of his book We Exist. Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
In this episode Ex reads the section "Imagine" from his book We Exist. Enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
In this episode Ex reads the first half of the "About the Author" section in his book We Exist. Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
In this episode Ex reads the second half of the "About the Author" section in his book We Exist. Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
In this episode Ex reads the "Acknowledgments & Introduction" sections in his book We Exist. Enjoy :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tocreate/message
Hola que tal! Un cordial y calurosos saludo, a pesar de la gélida temperatura reinante en esta ciudad! Es un gran placer estar con ustedes. Hoy en la represa cibernética, con Leonora Chapman, Paloma Martínez, Leonardo Gimeno y mi persona, les presentamos El Castor Cibernético o Canadá en las Américas Café de este viernes primero de febrero en vivo y en directo por Facebook Live, Youtube y en nuestro sitio rcinet.ca Escuche ES_Entrevue_2-20190201-WIS20 (Betto) NUESTRAS INVITADAS ESTA SEMANA Yesenia Fuentes (izq.) y Laurence Sabourin del Colectivo Danza Descalza. Hoy nos acompañan en el estudio Yesenia Fuentes y Laurence Sabourin, dos de las 3 instigadoras y principales miembros del Colectivo Danza Descalza. Un espacio colaborativo de investigación y de creación en danza contemporánea que se inspira de las danzas afrocolombianas,entre otras. https://www.facebook.com/DanzaDescalza325/videos/1167163136794621/ El público está cordialmente invitado! Todos los que deseen desafiar el invierno e ir a bailar con todos los otros y las otras participantes de Danza Descalza, todos los martes a las 19:30 a las 21:30. Hay músicos y música en vivo y en directo! La cita es en el 5445 Gaspé, Estudio 325 LA MÚSICA La música de nuestro programa de este fin de semana estará a cargo del grupo rock quebequense, de Montreal, Arcade Fire. Comenzamos el programa con el tema After Life. Continuamos con We Exist y terminamos con Reflektor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC30BYR3CUk LOS TEMAS QUE DESTACAMOS ESTA SEMANA Leonora Chapman no habla de un estudio sobre algo de se asemeja a la epilepsia. El Dr. Tellez-Zenteno es un especialista en neurología, epilepsia y electroencefalografía formado en México y Canadá y profesor de medicina en la universidad de Saskatchewan. “La crisis epiléptica es una actividad anormal del cerebro mientras que en el caso de la crisis no epiléptica esa actividad no existe. En la mayoría de los casos tiene un origen sicológico y los pacientes tienen una experiencia anterior que es la que provoca las crisis no epilépticas”. Más de 70,000 pacientes canadienses, 2,000 en la provincia de Saskatchewan, sufren un trastorno que se parece en todos los aspectos a la epilepsia, pero que, según un neurólogo canadiense, en la mayoría de los casos sería de origen psicológico. No solo eso. Casi la mitad de ellos serían diagnosticados erróneamente y no recibirían el tratamiento adecuado, lo que puede provocar daños a veces irreversibles. Paloma Martínez nos habla del regreso a Canadá de la gripe H1N1. Kaelynn Angel Hansen. (Foto enviada por Katelyn Hansen a CBC News) El 8 de diciembre, una niña de 2 años que no recibió las vacunas adecuadas, murió de gripe H1N1 en el Royal University Hospital de Saskatoon, en la provincia de Saskatchewan. Hoy, muchos se preguntan si su muerte podría haberse evitado. Kaelynn Angel Hansen fue la primera niña en edad preescolar víctima de la epidemia esta temporada en Saskatchewan. Desde su fallecimiento, el mismo virus ha provocado la muerte de otros dos niños menores de cinco años no vacunados, según las autoridades de salud pública de la provincia. Según su último informe, hasta el momento un total de seis muertes relacionadas con la gripe han sido declaradas esta temporada invernal. Leonardo Gimeno se interesó esta semana a la privacidad de los usuarios de Facebook. (iStockPhoto.com / chris-mueller) Un especialista en internet decía hace ya un buen tiempo que para evitar problemas de privacidad, es mejor no estar conectado a ninguna red social. TechCrunch publicó esta semana un estudio en el cual se informa que Facebook utilizó al menos tres compañías para llegar a personas entre 13 y 35 años, ofreciendo un servicio que originalmente denominó “Facebook Research” en el 2016. A mediados del 2018, el programa fue rebautizado como el “proyecto Atlas”. El gran escándalo de Facebook que dejó al descubierto esta plataforma y su accionar para con la...
Hola que tal! Un cordial y calurosos saludo, a pesar de la gélida temperatura reinante en esta ciudad! Es un gran placer estar con ustedes. Hoy en la represa cibernética, con Leonora Chapman, Paloma Martínez, Leonardo Gimeno y mi persona, les presentamos El Castor Cibernético o Canadá en las Américas Café de este viernes primero de febrero en vivo y en directo por Facebook Live, Youtube y en nuestro sitio rcinet.ca Escuche ES_Entrevue_2-20190201-WIS20 (Betto) NUESTRAS INVITADAS ESTA SEMANA Yesenia Fuentes (izq.) y Laurence Sabourin del Colectivo Danza Descalza. Hoy nos acompañan en el estudio Yesenia Fuentes y Laurence Sabourin, dos de las 3 instigadoras y principales miembros del Colectivo Danza Descalza. Un espacio colaborativo de investigación y de creación en danza contemporánea que se inspira de las danzas afrocolombianas,entre otras. https://www.facebook.com/DanzaDescalza325/videos/1167163136794621/ El público está cordialmente invitado! Todos los que deseen desafiar el invierno e ir a bailar con todos los otros y las otras participantes de Danza Descalza, todos los martes a las 19:30 a las 21:30. Hay músicos y música en vivo y en directo! La cita es en el 5445 Gaspé, Estudio 325 LA MÚSICA La música de nuestro programa de este fin de semana estará a cargo del grupo rock quebequense, de Montreal, Arcade Fire. Comenzamos el programa con el tema After Life. Continuamos con We Exist y terminamos con Reflektor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC30BYR3CUk LOS TEMAS QUE DESTACAMOS ESTA SEMANA Leonora Chapman no habla de un estudio sobre algo de se asemeja a la epilepsia. El Dr. Tellez-Zenteno es un especialista en neurología, epilepsia y electroencefalografía formado en México y Canadá y profesor de medicina en la universidad de Saskatchewan. “La crisis epiléptica es una actividad anormal del cerebro mientras que en el caso de la crisis no epiléptica esa actividad no existe. En la mayoría de los casos tiene un origen sicológico y los pacientes tienen una experiencia anterior que es la que provoca las crisis no epilépticas”. Más de 70,000 pacientes canadienses, 2,000 en la provincia de Saskatchewan, sufren un trastorno que se parece en todos los aspectos a la epilepsia, pero que, según un neurólogo canadiense, en la mayoría de los casos sería de origen psicológico. No solo eso. Casi la mitad de ellos serían diagnosticados erróneamente y no recibirían el tratamiento adecuado, lo que puede provocar daños a veces irreversibles. Paloma Martínez nos habla del regreso a Canadá de la gripe H1N1. Kaelynn Angel Hansen. (Foto enviada por Katelyn Hansen a CBC News) El 8 de diciembre, una niña de 2 años que no recibió las vacunas adecuadas, murió de gripe H1N1 en el Royal University Hospital de Saskatoon, en la provincia de Saskatchewan. Hoy, muchos se preguntan si su muerte podría haberse evitado. Kaelynn Angel Hansen fue la primera niña en edad preescolar víctima de la epidemia esta temporada en Saskatchewan. Desde su fallecimiento, el mismo virus ha provocado la muerte de otros dos niños menores de cinco años no vacunados, según las autoridades de salud pública de la provincia. Según su último informe, hasta el momento un total de seis muertes relacionadas con la gripe han sido declaradas esta temporada invernal. Leonardo Gimeno se interesó esta semana a la privacidad de los usuarios de Facebook. (iStockPhoto.com / chris-mueller) Un especialista en internet decía hace ya un buen tiempo que para evitar problemas de privacidad, es mejor no estar conectado a ninguna red social. TechCrunch publicó esta semana un estudio en el cual se informa que Facebook utilizó al menos tres compañías para llegar a personas entre 13 y 35 años, ofreciendo un servicio que originalmente denominó “Facebook Research” en el 2016. A mediados del 2018, el programa fue rebautizado como el “proyecto Atlas”. El gran escándalo de Facebook que dejó al descubierto esta plataforma y su accionar para con la...
This is the Monday Morning After Show (MAS) where we listen and respond to your comments and questions! We just got back from a trip from Chicago and we have a lot to catch up on. Cam is reconsidering casual sex, KarenLee chats about her experience with anal, and we chat about what it's like to visit your elderly grandparents. Thank you to all who called into our hotline (YES)-TEXT-MOM, or (937) 839-8666. If you’d like to participate, just leave us a voicemail or text! Thank you for all the love over the past 150+ episodes. If you'd like to support the show, consider funding our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/sextalkwithmymom. We'd be very grateful! If you'd like to check out the anal article that KarenLee was talking about, you can see it here: https://bit.ly/2P3twTE. If you want to watch the awesome documentary about being non-binary, called We Exist, you can peep it here: https://amzn.to/2MWTQkA Get close with us on social at: Facebook/Instagram - @SexTalkWithMyMom Twitter - @SexTalkPodcast Website - www.SexTalkWithMyMom.com With love, KarenLee and Cam
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With the advent of a strong and expanding ‘New Zealand Trade and Industrial Waters Forum’ which Tara was very much involved in - having over 2000 members is an organisation and science and knowledge exchange extending over 5 countries. It is designed to bring about affirmative action and change in NZ in mitigating the effects of industry in turning our water into a more sustainable resource.We Exist on a Living Breathing Water Planet Water in New Zealand - As a water scientist Tara states that when we look at our planet from space we see it’s blue and that is because we are essentially a water planet that gives us life - emphasising that there is no other planet in our solar system or that we have found beyond - that is covered in liquid water making earth - unique - and 70% of the earth’s oxygen comes from plankton in our oceans and the necessity to keep our oceans safe. i.e. from acidification. He also is a zoologist and botanist and acknowledges that our planet is a vast superorganism.That if we take a basket ball and dip it in water - the thickness of the wetness is the depth of our atmospheric membrane that envelops our planet. - That humans live in a very narrow gas band when it comes to living a normal life.Adroit use of technology as tools to monitor water quality As a scientist he is able to use lasers to measure turbidity and the content of solids in water and also UV spectrophotometry to determine the chemical constituents and the composition of waste water. With remote stations situated all over NZ monitoring the industry and rivers and monitoring processes within industries to see how water changes form when it is piped into an industry to when it goes out. This technology is an economic driver for industry that wants to use less water or that they want to use water more efficiently as there are increasing costs involved in utilisation.He says that as a scientist who studies the data, the main interest in water in NZ is based around it being an economic driver - and that the neo liberal expedient of the last 30 years has cause so many ecological problems as a result of businesses not factoring the environmental consequences of the extraction economy - one where short term economic gain causes huge expense to mitigate and rectify. That once science in universities was the hotbed of new breakthroughs of inventions and curiosity. This has decreased markedly.New Zealand’s Capacity as an Intellectual Driver of Innovation.NZ was once a world leader in innovation and in many ways it still is, however it’s a struggle for a start up company here and many of our inventions end up being bought out by overseas companies flush with funds and so the country as a whole misses out on many unique opportunities. Especially around intellectual property IP.The good work that NZ water scientists do is on analysing the composition of wastewater and the automatic methods of controlling the treatment of it - is truly world beating - being at the top of their game and winning awards and medals for it.These scientists have some of the best systems of sorting out - cleaning, rejuvenating, rebuilding or preventing pollution to rivers - anywhere in the world. Do these methods get used in NZ? - and Tara demurs - not very often - but they are used overseas quite a lot. He laments that recently our country has become an economic grocery shop for overseas corporations - when what he wants is a good caring country that will healthily educate his children.Political Indifference of the PastTara mentions that once upon a time (sound familiar) politics changed and government and local government decisions were generational based on 50 years and beyond - that looked well ahead - now many decisions at a national level are based around election cycles, votes and to keeping the status quo in power. Which he states is a failure in our system of governance Water - H2O - NZ’s Abundant Water Rich Produce New Zealand is a water rich country, and that is to our economic advantage as our main assets arise from water. Because it is abundant, clean (mostly) it is free, and accessible as a food producer - dairy cows are made of water, vegetables, fruit, wine, mutton and beef are made of water, and timber via trees, that all come from a water footprint - we are fortunate that we have easy and good access to water. We are effective at packaging water into many various forms and selling it overseas and so as an economy - are a water nation. Whereas some countries are steel and iron countries, producing automobiles, electronics and machine tools, whilst other countries produce oil or minerals mined out of the ground. So NZ is very dependent on water, clean fresh water and we need to be conscious of this fact.The NZ Economy Dairy = $13.6 Billion - BUT Tourism = $34.7 Billion Though dairy is our biggest exporter at 13.6 billion dollars per annum, he says we are fooled because our biggest earner is tourism $34.7 billion that involves the whole beauty of our country - it may be a little amorphous as is not about money going to one smallish sector of the society it covers a wide ranging area spread - taxi drivers, bus drivers, hotel workers, cooks and chefs and waiters, airlines, small shops marketing people - it’s a permeated product so it is harder to assess, exactly what tourism earns - however treasury has done their sums - yet Tara asks why are we trashing all the rivers in our country, ruining our fishing spots - destroying lakes and making places where people can no longer swim and others - can no longer wade - for an export earner that is worth less than half of showing off the rest of the country to everybody else. Whilst that is only one industry - as there are other industries that use our water too.Dairy has made strides to clean up its actTara admits that strides have been made to clean up the rivers from dairying and that they are not the only ones that pollute - Cities pollute - Hamilton pollutes the Waikato river, Kinleith pulp and paper mill pollutes the river - even geothermal energy pollutes the Waikato river. Listen to the arsenic story - and the need for better technologies. Lack of Accountability A milk order of $50 million was sent back to NZ from China being a baby formula incident, due to contamination by water. Others also have suffered the same fate. Listen Our National Body is letting NZ down because there are ‘no country wide’ standards. ListenRegional Councils could do far better regarding water. For example - there was a business here in NZ, that wanted to pump pollutants into a river and the Regional Council said - you can’t do that! - that’s our river! We like our river. As we all know that once pollutants are in a river it affects the whole river down stream - so instead of building a wastewater treatment plant and treat their polluted water - (that upon complying with certain standards they could then pump that water into the river). This business went ahead and just built a cheap 94 metre pipeline over the fence/ border to the other Regional Council who did not care what was put in the river or not - so they off loaded their responsibility at the same time polluting the river and getting away with it. Because the two different Regional Councils had different regulations.Rivers being equated to living entities especially within Maoridom. He talks about the spiritualisation of rivers as having the same rights as a human - such as the Whanganui - but we did not take this further due to other issues to be addressed. https://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights He talks about some frustrations around going to extremes in spiritualisation of such water and products - listen. These matters need addressing through better education.Tara then tells of certain inequalities and distortions around lack of integrity with regard to water and the fact that the Regional Council are uncoordinated across NZ, and most are election driven. He gives examples that need to be urgently addressed and in a good number of cases explains how ‘the law is an ass.’ So if you are a water person, an activist and someone who cares - this insightful interview needs your attention.The NZ Trade and Industrial Waters ForumThe NZ Trade and Industrial Waters Forum, which Tara was very much involved - with over 2000 members is an organisation and ‘science and knowledge exchange’ extending over 5 countries and growing - which is designed to bring about affirmative change in NZ with mitigating the effects of industry by turning our water into a more sustainable resource. He talks about the cowboy system …Councils requiring the ‘know how’ as well as having ethics embedded throughout the council business. Many people, though essentially very good humans, are voted onto a local Council but, for example - when it comes to building a $40 million wastewater treatment plant - they are not equipped educationally with the rigour and skills to decide on the viability of such a treatment plant.In years gone by - all Councils actually had their own in-house expertise such as engineers to be able to take care of such situations. Councils had wastewater engineers, structural and civil engineers, it had a planning department - however, sometime ago the NZ Government asked Councils to become more cost effective and so all these ‘experts’ were ‘let go’ - but then afterwards the Council’s realised that they needed such expertise - however the fired experts in many cases had by now become ‘consultants’ and there are instances where when they were once saving Council ratepayers money, they then in a number of cases were now able to ‘capitalise on their situation’ and things got out of hand. Listen There is a story about how a NZ Council - lost the plot for its ratepayers - listen to this one … Listen also to how Wanaka Council in the South Island shows how successful a Council can be. Check out the peer review process - one is in relation to IPENZ - Institute Professional Engineers of NZ. One of the downsides of their processes that hampers peer reviews is that you are not allowed to use hindsight. Listen - so if they have already built say 5 waste water plants and they don’t work - that’s irrelevant because it is assumed that everybody will learn from their past mistakes.Also you can not question the data - so if the information to build the plant is supplied to the consultant and it’s given to the peer reviewer and they look at it and the peer reviewer says - this information is rubbish - this information is not what is going into that plant … and they say … Oh yeah, but this … - and they then say no no, that’s not the question - if that data is the right data is that the right design? And they go yeah but it’s not the right data - no no that is not the question, if that data is given to you is that the right design and they go … w-e-l-l … yes and they go TICK - right - and that’s the right plant then - but that is not the case, because the data is rubbish. Listen To the OAR - the Operational Assessment Process - checks and balances. There is no system like this in NZ. It needs to come here.This very needed interview covers.Water bottling in NZ and plastic bottlesThe Green Party and that they are a consensus party There is power in the people - we have just forgotten itRivers and streams - that the water clarity is such that a river is: walkable, wade-able and swim-able but don’t put your head under the water … That in relations to this, there is some very deceptive spin by the previous administration In Tim’s younger life he was able to swim and drink in the stream that flowed through the back of his family farm. Not any more.Farmers and good riparian rights - challenges of farmers to fence off drains as being far too expensive for the average farmer. This is an issue that has huge costs involved.Change of consciousness needed to understand our relationship with the land and a living ecologyPurpose of our Nation To be born - grow in health - and be able to live your life freely - that Gutted bio security at our borders, lacks cash and needs to be reinforced and grown. Community involvement Engagement of people Get around the table create the dialogue and start the change I asked him the question about 1080 - his reply - that it’s a can of worms. GlythosateGlyphosate in NZ Water? https://www.greenparty.org.uk/.../green-party-meps-peed... I omitted to ask him about Glyphosate in the waterways as on the 13 of May 2016 a group of 48 Members of the European Parliament (MEP) took part in a symbolic urine test ahead of the European Parliament vote to oppose the EU Commission’s proposal to relicense the controversial toxic substance until 2031.The inspiration behind what was labelled the #MEPee test was the results of a recent study in Germany which found that 99.6% of people tested were found to have glyphosate residue in their urine.The results reveal that every MEP tested has been found to have glyphosate traces in their urine, with the average concentration being 1.73ng/ml. That level is more than 17 times the safe limit for drinking water. The lowest level found among the group was 0.17ng/ml, almost double the safe level. If this being the case, that means that glyphosate molecules are suspended in the human body and humans a walking time bombs. Because we are an experiment in motion. In a previous GreenplanetFM.com interview with Dr Meriel Watts, by Lisa Er this is what was said.NZ’s Government Department NIWA, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, tested the water of Auckland harbour and were very concerned at the level of glyphosate in the water - Yet the National Government of the day was ignoring the aquatic environment.https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-meriel-watts-our-food-is-denatured-through-chemical-use-nz The fluoride question came up too, as GreenplanetFM.com is an activist program and if you wish to listen to two noted overseas health professionals this interview is an ear-opener. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/professor-paul-connett-dr-bill-hirzy-the-danger-of-fluoride In Conclusion There were many other questions that I needed ask to drill down further - however that will have to await to another time. This interview I trust will be listened to by not only to the layperson, but scientists in general and local and regional body councillors as we now work together to not only pull the strings of community together, but as a nation cooperate and collaborate together so as to regenerate and renew our commitment to a clean, green New Zealand. A country that is not only a moral force for good, but also that we are a living example of a mature, independent nation, being a fair and honest player on the world stage. An interview from a courageous scientist that will bring home to you the imperative of more transparent Governance. 1) Industrial Waters email - tara@nztiwf.org.nz The New Zealand Trade and Industrial Waters Forum 2) Here is the link for the New Zealand Trade and Industrial waters Forum group on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4484284 3) The link for the industrial waters conference 2018 - http://www.confer.co.nz/iw2018/ there is a lot of what we do here and contacts for the committee. Note: These scientists are basically a technical organisation. They don't really have a social media presence yet - and admit they are not public friendly - but are scientist friendly. :) Meanwhile as we all slept last night in our crew quarters all around our majestic planet - spaceship earth - whilst turning on her axis continued on her predestined path onwards in our galactic journey that some are saying is to a grand destination that we know not of. Yes, that is right, as the 7.5 billion crew share breath that the ship automatically and in many ways magically provides - we are also becoming aware that our water supply has to be venerated - in that our ship has also supplied us with fresh water for eons and it has only recently that we have forgotten its importance and the urgency now is to cherish these transparent, life giving - liquid molecules that constitute up to 70% of our body. Yes, this is all food for thought as we realise that we are more than we have ever dreamed possible, due to certain crew coming into the understanding that the purpose for existence is to awaken and find out the purpose for existence - this time is now. Dear crew the long sleep is now over …
Its Grammy week, and were talking with Jason Baum, producer of the Grammy-nominated music video for We Exist by Arcade Fire. Plus, we talk about Paul McCartneys bromance with Kanye West, and Fleur & Manus foray into comedy.
Music video steadicam operator and producer Ari Robbins (aka the Steadi Jew) joins the podcast to talk about the commitment to pain that is steadicam operation, that Coachella shot in the Arcade Fire "We Exist" video, and how everyone asks him about Russian Ark.
Welcome to episode 42 of Transition Transmission, a by and for transgender podcast. In this weeks episode we talk the trans news involving Arcade Fire's latest music video entitled ' WE EXIST ' featuring Andrew Garfield. We fawn over Carmen Carrera and a new ad campaign from Life Ball 2014. We also think Melissa Ede should totally go to Mars! And we wonder how shows like TransAmerica will affect everyone. We also talk about lots of other stuff, and ramble on a bit about nothing sometimes. So, join the Transgender Trio for the latest installment as we try and give you the answers you don't even know the questions to. www.transitiontransmission.com@TransgenderTrio
TRIGGER WARNING! Matt and Brett and special guest Jordan D. White are diving into easily the heaviest comic book that’s ever been read on this show. Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ polarizing, controversial ode to H.P. Lovecraft is discussed, and things get serious. So, in all seriousness, here’s a legit trigger warning for sexual abuse and violence, because it’s impossible to discuss this heavy work of horror without addressing those topics head-on. Brett even read up on criticism of Neonomicon and Alan Moore’s general handling of sexual violence in his work. Here’s what he read, just in case you want more information and context. Basebenzi, On Alan Moore comicbookGRRRL, Comic Review: Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows Gail Simone, SOMEONE ASKED… Rich Johnston, Rape, He Wrote Klint Finley, On Race and Sexual Violence in the Works of Alan Moore Tim Callahan, The Great Alan Moore Reread: Neonomicon Also… Ninja Turtle Update! Remember in episode #112 when Brett claimed that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles once appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show? Brett uploaded his old VHS recording to YouTube and you can watch it in its entirety right now! Jordan D. White is an editor for Marvel Comics, specifically the Deadpool titles. You can follow him on Twitter @cracksh0t and check out his own ode to Lovecraft, Scapie Stories, on his website, wax-work.com! You can purchase Neonomicon on Amazon or Comixology. Music: “We Exist” by Arcade Fire "Jordan D. White / Neonomicon #1-4 (2010-2011)" originally appeared at http://mattandbrettlovecomics.com/podcast/2014/neonomicon.html
Questa settimana tutti i Casualz sono in studio, e la puntata si trasforma in un salotto affollato di contenuti ed ospiti! Apre Alberto P con una mezz'oretta di speciale su Threesome - Atto II°: ci fa sentire le band che suoneranno il sabato al TPO e raggiunge al telefono René Battistello di Sherwood.it, la realtà ospite che per la serata si unirà a Radio Kairos e a Radio Città Del Capo. Serena P ha tanta voglia di andare a Berlino, e lo fa parlandoci di “Oh Boy”, film in bianco e nero di Jan Ole Gerster. Presente anche la nostra esperta del sesso Dott.ssa Cavalca, che illustra le tecniche migliori su come strappare un limone nel bagno della discoteca. Green Everywhere è in collegamento con Elisa di Nosadella Due per parlare di “Un passo avanti… Ritratto di una provincia sostenibile”, ciclo di laboratori tetrali a cura dell’artista Kyla Davis sui temi del vivere sostenibile, verde urbano e giustizia socio-ambientale. E infine Madame! Torna con noi questa settimana ed è di nuovo in cucina per i suoi consigli per trionfare: la rete per tenere divise le verdure in pentola e l’oro come guarnizione per i piatti. In chiusura Il Lucillino: settimanale di avventure, riflessioni e perle di saggezza asiatica a cura di Lucilla. Il tutto guarnito dalla musica: Arcade Fire – We Exist; Get Well Soon – Oh Boy; Justin Timberlake – Sexyback; Daughter - Youth (Allen Farben Remix); Slow Magic – Corvette Cassette
sermon transcript Introduction Meditation on the Biblical Support of the Proposed Vision Statement Ordinarily at this point, I say, "Turn in your Bibles to...” and then we turn to a text, but this morning we have an unusual task before us. And many of you have this blue sheet, and if you didn't get one, please pick one up as you leave today. This morning, I felt led by the Lord and encouraged also by the Ministry staff to preach through the scriptural support for a proposed vision statement for our church. God’s Self-Revelation: A Theme Throughout Scripture Now, there was a time, and it's important for us to realize this and meditate on it, often there was a time when nothing existed but God. It's good to think about that, isn't it? A time when nothing existed but God himself, and there was therefore no light, except one light. Because the scripture reveals that the unchanging God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. So there was a time that there was a spiritual light, namely God Himself, but there was no vision yet of that light because there were no created beings. And so God ordained that there be created beings, and His first word of creation was, "Let there be light," and implied in that was an audience, vision, that there would be light receptors, those that could take in the light, meditate, think about it, reflect it, understand it. So when He said, "Let there be light," He was anticipating that there would be some that would come along who would see that light, rejoice in it, delight in it, but it came from Himself. It was his own light. He was the light, even that physical light that was created came from His word, "Let there be light." And as you trace this right through to the end of scripture which Eric read for us earlier, there's going to come a day that there will be a new Jerusalem, a new heaven, new earth, isn't that glorious? And there's going to be a city there which is transparent with streets of gold that are transparent, and I've thought often about that. What is transparent gold? Have you ever seen it? But there's just this transparence to the Eternal City, isn't there? And what is it for? Well, it's because the only light in that city will be the glory of God, and Jesus Christ is the lamp of that glory. And so it's going to be a radiant, glorious place. And therefore we could say from the very beginning of creation right through to the new creation, the glory of God, the light of God's self-revelation unifies the whole Bible. It is the grand theme of the Bible, the glory of God. And so as we think about who we're called to be as a church, what are we called to be and to do, we could do no higher than to zero in on the issue of God's glory and find out what we are to be in relation to the glory of God. Now, what is a vision statement? Well, it's certainly not scripture. That's at a lower level. It's a human organization of doctrines, but I think it's reasonable to assume that the Word of God is not merely those texts that we immediately find, but those things that can be logically deduced and reasoned from them - like the Trinity, for example. And so I think it's reasonable to have a statement like this that organizes and pulls together this great theme of the glory of God and what we're called to be. And so the statement runs like this, "We exist to delight in, display, and declare the glory of God equipping His people to spread that delight to all nations through Jesus Christ." And so this morning, I just proposed to unpack it and show how each one of these phrases has a scriptural support, a back-up. A Purposeful Vision Statement Derived from Scripture Now, many Fortune 500 companies, Forbes companies, have vision statements, and they organize their year of business around that vision. But there's a vast difference between the vision statement of IBM or Ford Motor Company, and by the way, Ford has talked about how they got away from their vision originally. Now they're going to get back to the original vision. You've seen those ads. And so there's a sense of what the vision of Ford Company is. Well, I think there's a similarity to what a local church's vision is, but it's very different, too, isn't it? Because ultimately, the vision is passively received. We just simply see what is and what is? Well, it's the glory of God. And we see it, we receive it, we take it in, and we are absorbed by it. And so we have to take our vision statement also somewhat passively. We have to receive from scripture what God is saying that we should be as a people, as a church. And it makes sense because the tabernacle, for example, when the time came to build the tabernacle, it didn't come up out of the imagination of Moses, did it? But God called Moses up onto a mount, and he showed him a pattern of what the tabernacle should be. Many people don't know that, but basically, God gave Moses a vision of the tabernacle. There was a pattern, and he said in Exodus 25:9, "make this tabernacle and its furnishings exactly like the pattern I show you." And so also the church must make everything we do, all of the furnishings of First Durham should come exactly like the pattern that he has shown us. So all I'm making it now is a point that we must passively receive this vision from God. He is the light, the light comes out from him, and we see it, and we rejoice in it, that's all. And also when the time came for the building of the physical temple, not the tent, the tabernacle that moved from place to place, but now they were established in the promised land, and there would be a place that all Israel would come to worship. And David had it in his heart that he would build a temple for the glory of God, and when the time came to build that temple, this is what David said to his son, Solomon. 1 Chronicles 28:19, he said, "'All this,' David said, 'I have in writing from the hand of the Lord upon me, and he gave me understanding in all the details of the plan.'" Isn't that amazing? Did you know that God was an architect? That he gave David plans of the temple in writing? 1 Chronicles 28:19, look it up. And so it says in scripture that God is the architect and the builder of our faith. He is an architect, and so he gives us the plan. He gives us the vision statement. He tells us what we are to be, not the other way around. We receive it passively, and we delight in it, we rejoice in it. But you know something, both the tabernacle and the temple were themselves just dim reflections of an Eternal City of God, right? The one that Abram was waiting for. He just saw it at a distance, and he confessed on this earth that he was just an alien and a stranger. And it says of that city in Hebrews 11:10, Abraham was "looking for a city which has foundations whose architect and builder is God." Now, in this world, God is building that city. It's a spiritual city. It is eternal, and he's building it step by step according to his plan, according to his pattern, by his ways. We don't come to God and say, "You know, I have a... I have an idea for the west wing of the temple. I think it would look good if we did it this way or that." We don't do that. Instead we receive from Him what He is doing, what He is building, and what is he building? He's building the church of Jesus Christ. And He has plans for that church, just like He has plans... He had plans for the tabernacle in the wilderness and for the temple of Solomon. So he also has plans, certainly He does, for the eternal city of God. Now, this vision statement is merely to be, I think, a distilling of what God is calling, not just First Baptist, to be, but really any church. Not every church needs to put it in this kind of language, but this is really what we are for. We do in fact exist to delight in, to display, and to declare the glory of God and to equip his people to spread that delight to all nations through Jesus Christ. “We exist to …” We Exist With a Purpose Let's look at the first phrase, "We exist to... " Let's just stop there. What does that tell you? "We exist to..." There's a reason we're here. There's a purpose behind First Baptist Durham. There's a purpose behind any local church. We're here for a reason. It makes sense. God is a purposeful being. He doesn't do anything for no reason. He doesn't waste his time. There is a purpose for this church. "We exist to... " And even before that, we simply exist at His word. We exist because He said so. We exist because He created us. Revelation 4:11 puts it this way, "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power." Why? Well, You created all things and by Your will or for Your pleasure, they were created and have their being. You were created for the pleasure of God. You were created for the glory of God. You were created to reveal God's glory. You were created also to enjoy it. You were created for that purpose, you individually, so also we collectively as a church. And so we were created for a purpose, and we must live up to that purpose. Is there a purpose to the church? Absolutely. Ephesians 3:10,11 put it this way, "His intent," "His intent," that's purpose, His purpose, "His intent was that now through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms according to His eternal purpose, which He accomplished in Christ Jesus, our Lord." We are to be putting the wisdom of God on display. That's what the church is for. We're getting ahead of ourselves, but I'm just telling you, we're here for a purpose. We were created for a reason. We exist, too. And I'll tell you, ever since we began thinking about a vision statement, that's really clarified some things for me, hasn't it? We exist to do what? To be what? It begins to start to weed things out. Why are we here? What are we doing? We exist for a reason. Well, what do we exist to do? What do we exist to be? “delight in … the glory of God” God is Our First Delight Well, first of all, we exist to delight in the glory of God. Well, what does this mean? Well, delight means to love, to rejoice in it, to celebrate it, to enjoy it. And I think what you really love, what you really enjoy, what you build your world around, that is your treasure, right? Where your treasure is, there your heart will be. Turn it around. What your heart is on, that's your true treasure. Well, God should be our treasure, God himself, and that doesn't happen lightly, does it? Naturally, do we enjoy God? Well, we already went through Romans 3 and says “there is no one who seeks God” naturally. We don't naturally enjoy God, therefore we need a heart transformation so that we really can delight in the glory of God. We can really be changed so that we do delight in it. Jesus spoke of the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin, those that were in opposition to Him. He said, "These people worship Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." That's the essence of hypocrisy. You come into the church, and you speak the words, you say the things you're supposed to say, but your heart is not in it. That's not why we're here. We exist to delight in the glory of God, to really enjoy it, and that means first and foremost delighting in God Himself. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." Have you seen that verse before? Did you ever think of it that, if I delight in the Lord, he'll give me what I want, right? I've got a list of things that I have in mind, right? And if I delight in the Lord, and I do that delighting thing, then he will give me those five or six things I really want. It's kind of like Christmas time, right? Alright, I'll give you the delight, but you give me the desires of my heart. That's not what it's saying. If you delight in the Lord, what will be the desires of your heart? God and His things, right? That's what that verse means. So delight yourself in God and your heart will change, is what it means. You'll start delighting in new things. So we delight in God Himself, but more than that, we delight in God's glory. What does that mean? It's the outward radiant manifestation of God. We're excited that God doesn't keep himself a secret. The best kept secret in the universe is God. No! He's not in the business of keeping Himself a secret. The heavens declare the glory of God. He's into self-declaration, self-glorification because He is God, and good thing because you get saved as a result, right? If God kept Himself secret, you wouldn't get saved because we call on the name of the Lord to be saved, right? So we're glad that God has a reputation around the world. He's well known. Look at Rahab, what saved Rahab? God's reputation saved Rahab. We've heard about what you did when you took your people out, God, through the Red Sea. We heard about that, and so we trembled. And I would like to be on your side. I would like to be saved. We are Saved by God’s Reputation God's reputation saves people, and so we delight in God's name. We delight in His reputation. Look at the next verse, Isaiah 26:8-9. "Yes, Lord... " Oh, aren't those two great words? Oh, that we learn to just say that. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord, whatever you want. Yes, Lord, that's what we want. "Yes Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you. Your name and renown are the desires of our heart." What is he saying there? "Your name and your fame." Isn't renowned, fame? He's renowned. Your famousness is what we want. We want You to be widely known, God, and we delight when You are. It's an exciting thing when an unreached people group comes to faith in Christ, isn't it? That's a delightful thing. And we delight in God displaying His glory. We're excited about it. I'm excited about it. We delight in that, and not only that, but we delight in the way that God has gotten his glory out. He's done it through certain channels, do you know that? We Delight in How the Physical World Displays the Glory of God He's gotten His glory out, first of all, through physical creation. We need the rain, don't we? Praise God for that. I guess we were in drought conditions, and so it's a drizzly rainy day. Isn't it good to be inside, nice and warm, protected. But we delight in the physical creation as it manifests God to us. We don't look at the physical world the way a pagan does. We don't worship created things rather than the Creator, rather we use the created things to worship the Creator, and so we delight in them. Psalm 104:24 and following says, "How many are your works, O Lord? In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures… May the glory of the Lord endure forever. May the Lord be glad in His works." That's coming from the heart of the psalmist. I hope your glory lasts forever, God, and I hope you're glad in the things you've made. And so we delight in the glory of God as revealed through creation. We Delight in the Glory Presented in God’s Word Secondly, we delight in the glory of God as revealed more clearly in the written word, in the Bible. I've found that this is a real key spiritual test. The Word of God is a challenge, isn't it? Sometimes it says more than we want to hear. Does that say anything about the Word, or does it say something about what we want to hear? We must delight in the revelation of God off the pages of this Book, and not the God of our own fabrication - an idol, really. But the God as He has revealed Himself in this Book, God as revealed in scripture. We don't come to God and say, "God, I like to think of you as... " That doesn't mean anything. It says a lot about you, but it doesn't say anything about God. Rather, we say, "God, you tell me who You are, and I'll worship You." And he has. He's revealed Himself in His Word in His written Word, and we're to delight in that. We're to enjoy the Word of God. It should be a pleasure to have the Word just unfolded to us. Jeremiah put it this way, in Jeremiah 15:16, "When Your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty." If you bear the name of God, you will delight in His Words. You'll enjoy them. That's your pleasure. That's what you live for. You want to hear the Words of God. Why? Not so much because it's an exciting thing to go through grammar and syntax and all that. Why? Because God is revealed up off the words of these pages, right? "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. The whole earth is full of His glory." And you say, "Amen. Oh, that I could have been there with Isaiah to see it." That's what the words do. And so we delight in the Word of God as it reveals God's glory to us. We Delight in Christ, Our Savior And then third, and most clearly, we delight in the Living Word Jesus Christ, because He is God's highest revelation of Himself. Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us. "Don't you know me, Phillip, after I've been with you all this time? Anyone who's seen me has…" what? "…seen the Father." Wow. Isn't that exciting? You look at Jesus, you see the Father. "I and the Father are one," said Jesus, Hebrews 1:3, put it this way, "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word." 2 Corinthians 4:6, "For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness... '" That's Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light." The God who said, "'Let there be light,'" "…made His light shine in our hearts... " That's salvation. "…made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God... " Where? "In the face of Christ." And so as we see Christ plainly, we see God, and He is the highest revelation. So we delight in the glory of God as revealed in nature, in the scripture, and in His Son Jesus Christ. The Result? Worship! And as a result of that, we're going to worship, aren't we? We're just going to worship. We're going to see the God of the universe, and we are going to worship Him, inside. In a minute, we're going to declare, okay? But first we have to delight. If you don't delight first, but declare, you're a hypocrite. You've got to delight first, and then comes the declaration, the praise. And so we worship by the Spirit of God. Psalm 43:3,4 - my kids and I were talking about this as we drove in - it's a beautiful text. It says, "Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me, let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell." Send out your word God, and they're going to bring me home. I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me. They're going to bring me home. Okay? To what end? Then will I go to the altar of God to God, my joy and my delight, I will praise you with the harp O God. And so, worship comes from this experience of the revelation of God. “display … the glory of God” Oaks of Righteousness Secondly, we exist to display the glory of God. Okay, we delight in it at first, but now we're going to display it. How are we going to do that? Well, we're going to put out lights, you see. We're going to put out - but it's not our light, is it? It's God's light, it's His glory. And so, we are going to be transformed. Our lives are going to be changed, transformed lives, putting God's glory on display. Isaiah 61:3 puts it this way, "They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord…" Why? “…for the display of His splendor." We're going to put God's splendor on display if we are oaks of righteousness. Salvation is a Display of God’s Glory Alright, well, how is God's glory put on display in us? Number one, by saving sinners like you and me. Isn't that wonderful? Look what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Timothy 1:15-17, "Christ, Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst." Isn't that a hopeful Verse? You may have come today feeling, you're the worst of sinners. There's no hope for you. There is hope. Why? Because the logic works this way, if God could save Saul of Tarsus, he can save you. He was full of murderous threats against the Lord's disciples and boom, God saved him. And why, Paul, why did God save you? "But for that very reason, I was shown mercy so that…" why? "…in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe." Isn't that incredible? God took Paul, saved him and then put him on display. Say, Hey look, if He can save me, He can save you. And so, that's how it works with us. You can say the same thing, Hey, if he can save me, he can save you. If you're humble enough, you can put it this way, if He can save me, He'll surely save you. Because I'm the worst of sinners, and he saved me. That's about what Paul is saying. And he finishes up, "Now under the king, eternally mortal, invisible to the only God be glory and honor forever and ever." That's how it works, because I get saved, I just proclaim His glory. I'm excited about it. So our salvation puts God's glory on display. Imitating God’s Holiness is a Display of God’s Glory Secondly, God's glory is put on display, because he doesn't leave you as the worst of sinners. He doesn't leave you there, he's going to sanctify you, he's going to move you on. You're not going to be at the same place after 30 years of being a Christian that you were when you started. You're going to grow to be like Jesus more and more. He's going to transform you from sinfulness to holiness. 1 Peter 1:15-16, "just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: 'Be holy because I am holy.'" What does holiness mean? Separation, separation from sin and evil, separation from this world. And as we live that kind of life, we're going to put God's holiness on display. People are going to say, What is it with you? First Durham, you're a holy church, why are you like this? Why are you separated from the world, why do you hate the things we love? Why? Because that's the way God is. And so, we put God's holiness on display. And not just His holiness, but all his communicable attributes, all those things that he gives to us, like His love and His mercy, and His patience and His justice, and His hatred of sin, and all of those things we put on display. It says in Ephesians 5:1, "Be imitators of God, therefore his dearly loved children and live a life of love." We Are Made Anew into the Light of the World And so, we put God's love on display, ultimately we put all of those attributes of God on display and how? By good works by leading a good life. It says in Matthew 5:14-16, "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden, neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl." That doesn't make any sense. Why would you do that? "Instead, they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father who's in heaven." That's how it works. He puts himself on display through you by transforming you and your good deed show it. When we do a health fair and people take their time and they come in Saturday, and they're there to serve as Jesus did, to minister to people's physical and spiritual needs, we're putting God on display aren't we? We're saying, “This is the God we love, this is the God we worship.” I'm putting Him on display. “declare the glory of God” Imitating Holiness Alone Cannot Bring People to Salvation Well, when I originally - when we originally - worked on this statement that all it said is delighted and display, and we included evangelism and display, but it's not good enough, is it? We need to be even clearer, so I added a phrase, and I think we all saw the validity to adding the phrase not only to delight in and to display, but to declare the glory of God. Why is that? Let me tell you something, I don't mean to be insulting, but nobody's going to get saved by watching your life. Do you realize that? I'm not, again, I'm not trying to be insulting. I think you are seeking to live like Jesus as much as you can, and you're reading your little “What Would Jesus Do?” bracelet and all the time, you're trying as best you can to be like Jesus. Praise God for that, but is that going to save anybody? Is anybody going to get saved that way? No. What has God ordained that is the power of salvation for people, the Gospel, the words of the Gospel, the word of life, an imperishable word. And so, we must verbally declare God's glory in the gospel of Christ so that others may be saved. We Exist to Verbally Declare the Glory of God We declare the glory of God's name. Isaiah 12:4-5, "Give thanks to the Lord, calling his name, make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that His name is exalted. Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world." We proclaim the glory of God's name. We speak it. Jesus said to one of his disciples in Luke 9:60, but "…you go and proclaim the kingdom of God," go talk about it. Speak about the kingdom of God, that God is king and he rules. We also, when we come together here on Sundays, we declare the praises of God to each other, we speak the praise of God, we sing it, we speak it, we talk it to each other, not just on Sundays, but all week long. We speak the praises of God to each other for mutual edification. But we do more than that. We speak the praises of God to non-Christians so that they may be saved. Romans 1:16 says, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it, the gospel is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes." And so, Romans 10, faith comes from what? "…from hearing." Not from seeing, not from watching your life, from hearing the gospel. And so, we exist verbally to declare the glory of God. We're going to especially declare the glory of God in portraying Jesus Christ and him crucified. Galatians 3:1, "…before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified." Colossians 1:28, "We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ." Well, that's what we do, and that's what we are. “equipping His people” Declarations are Not Enough; We Must Equip Each Other We exist for this reason, we exist to delight in and to display by our lives and to declare with our mouths the glory of God, but that's not enough. We have to reach out to others and say, What can I do for you? How can I equip you so that you can finish your life purpose too? It's not enough for us individually to do those three things, we have to equip God's people to do the same. You see how it works? And so, we are seeking to equip God. What does equip mean? Well, it means give them everything they need for growing in Godliness and fruitfulness. Recognize God is the True Equipper First of all, we have to recognize that the true equipper is God alone, God himself. Look at Hebrews 13:20-21, "May the God of peace, moving ahead, equip you with everything good for doing His will. And may he work in us, what is pleasing to Him through Jesus Christ in whom be glory for ever and ever." May God equip you for doing everything good. May he do that equipping work. Who's the equipper? It is God. Alright, what is the tool he uses to do the equipping? The word of God, the scripture. "All scripture is God-breathed," right? And, "is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness," why? "So that the man of God may be," what? "…thoroughly equipped for every good work." And so, God does the equipping through the word, but He also does it through the church, as we minister spiritual gifts to each other. Now we speak the Word, we take the word and we speak it to newborn infants, we're going to see people coming to Christ, aren't we? I look forward to that. I'm excited. It's already happened last week, two people received Christ, pray for them. We're excited, they're newborns and as newborn babies, what should they be yearning for? What should they be craving? How can we equip them? The pure milk of the word. Right? Give them the word. Alright, what about the older, more mature, wiser Christians, what do they need? The word, maybe not milk now, maybe the meat of the word, but still the word. "But grow in grace, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever." We need the word as we grow in grace in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. So God uses the scripture, and we have to take responsibility for each other's lives. The Church’s Role in Equipping You know, we're just so individual, aren't we? Do you know anybody here in this church? I mean, really? Are we a body together, the way we need to be? We need to watch over one another in brotherly love. We need to equip each other. You know, you look around and each one of you are going to go out through these doors into warfare, aren't you? You're going to go out into battle, you're going to be battling temptation, you're going to be battling problems in the world. If you're preaching the gospel, you're going to be battling persecution, and you need help, you need equipping, don't you? Because you're going to get worn down. And we're to be that for each other. We're supposed to protect each other from sin. "See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful unbelieving heart," Hebrews 3, "that turns away from the living God, but encourage one another daily as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." We need to protect each other from sin, and so, therefore we have to equip each other, say, brother, sister, I see this going on in your life, let me help you fight that battle with you, so that you're not alone. And then positively, I want to help you do all those good works that God intended for you to do. "Let us consider how we may provoke one another toward love and good deeds, not neglecting, meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day approaching." So we're negatively going to help each other, equip each other to fight the battle of sin, positively equip each other to be maximally fruitful for Jesus Christ. And all of this is done, I believe, as we spoke for a long time in Sunday evenings, through spiritual gifts, as the body of Christ does its work, it grows up as each part does its work. We're going to equip each other for full maturity in Christ. Well, it's a specific kind of equipping though, that we have in mind, we're equipping people to complete the great commission. It says, to spread that delight to all nations. What delight? Well, delight in the glory of God, that's getting saved, right? "The light of the knowledge of the glory of God …in face of Christ," boom, glory of God. “to spread that delight to all nations” The Great Commission And so, we want to spread the delight of God's glory to all nations. Brothers and sisters, God's vision is worldwide, isn't it? And so should ours be. We are and should be a worldwide church. We should have a vision for the world. God has to some degree brought the world right to our doorstep, hasn't he? And not only just the international students that come, and that's true, but we are the fourth fastest growing metro region in the US. He's bringing people, they're pouring in, and we've got a world of ministry opportunities, intercity, right nearby us folks, we're accountable. And medical community, those people need the Lord, they need Christ. Day after day, they're working with sickness and death, they need Christ. And college students, whether they're internationals or not, they come here for a little while. They should come here to have their lives transformed because some of them came to first Durham, right? So we exist for a world of opportunities, our vision should be worldwide. It says in Isaiah 66:19, "they will proclaim my glory among the nations." Psalm 96:2-3, "Sing to the Lord, praise His name, proclaim His salvation day after day, declare His glory among the nations." Christ's final orders to us. His final marching orders, we're the great commission. "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me, therefore, go and make disciples of all nations." What's a disciple? Somebody fully equipped to do their work, a fully mature follower of Jesus Christ. Make disciples, not converts. Make fully mature followers of Christ, teaching them to obey everything I've commanded them. Baptizing them in name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything. And surely, I am with you always to the very end of the age. So God's vision is worldwide, and so should ours be. Helping the Work of Other Christians One of the reasons that we put in here that we exist to equip God's people and not just church members, is that our vision should be to help Christians finish their work, whether they're members of our church or not. And so, there are some brothers and sisters, Southern Baptists and non-Southern Baptists that are on the front lines. They're ministering, aren't they? They're taking the gospel to unreached people groups. We should care about that. We should be involved in it. We should be involved financially. I'm not going to read the Philippians quote, but basically in Philippians 4, Paul says, “Thank you for sharing financially in my ministry. Thank you for equipping me to do what I needed to do by sharing financially.” And so, by giving to the cooperative program, by giving to other missionaries, by being generous and sacrificial, we are equipping them to take the delight to the ends of the earth, and we also equip them through prayer. 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2, Paul says, "Finally, brothers, Pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored just as it was with you. And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has faith." In other words, please pray that when I preach the Gospel, there will be fruit. And if you pray and take shares with me, take part in that, you are investing yourself in my ministry through prayer. We need to be doing that and we are, that's exciting. We need to continue to do that. “through Jesus Christ.” Everything We are and Hope to Be is Only Through Jesus Christ And the final phrase is in many ways the most important, through Jesus Christ. Now, obviously, the Glory of God includes Jesus Christ, but it's good to say it directly, openly through Jesus Christ, our existence, our vision and achievements come through Jesus Christ alone. Amen. It's only through Christ that we could even hope to do these things. Look at Hebrews 13:20-21 again. We already saw it once, but look at it again. "May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead, our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, may He, the God of peace, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and look at this, may he work in us, what is pleasing to Him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever." Isn't that wonderful? May he work this vision statement, and it's true, the scriptures we looked at, May he work it into us through Jesus Christ. And Jesus put it this way, I am the vine and you are the branches. Apart from me, you can do nothing, but if you're in me, you will do what? Bear much fruit. So it's all through Jesus Christ. Now, this has been a little bit unusual morning, I prefer to just choose a text and move through it, but instead, we've gone across in a kind of a systematic theology way to what God could and I think is calling a local church to be. We exist to means we were created for a purpose, and so we must live up to that purpose. We exist to delight in the glory of God, speaks of a transformed heart, which delights in God Himself in His name, in his physical creation, in His word, and in His Son, how all of those revealed His glory. We exist to display the glory of God by having transformed lives, putting sin to death through holiness, putting his attributes, love and mercy and justice on display by our good deeds, and to declare the glory of God, to speak the words of the gospel to our neighbors so that they may be saved. And we exist to equip God's people, to give them everything they need, to be disciplers, to disciple each other, to watch over one another in brotherly love, to help each other on the way, and not just us, but all of God's people as they complete their missionary work through prayer, through financial giving, to spread that delight to all nations. We should have a nation, a worldwide vision for what God can do through our church, and all of this done only through Jesus Christ.
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