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Go inside the mind that created the music for the best-known video game about going inside people's minds: Peter McConnell is on CrossFade! WIth Peter, we dissect the music of Ivan Tcherepnin, Peter's late mentor and experimental/avant garde composer of the 20th century, and “Axis: Bold as Love,” the second record from The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Together, we find the little connections between Hendrix's mystical playing and the sonic innovations of Tcherepnin. We also talk to Peter about creating music for LucasArts and Double Fine, writing songs for Jack Black, and the connection between opera and video games. Then we turn to the MinnMax community for fun questions about bands we dream of playing with, how interactive music has changed over Peter's 30-year career, and more! (If you're not a big classical music head, don't worry! Peter makes it all easy to follow along and appreciate.) Follow Peter on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PeterNMcConnell Pre-order Peter's Psychonauts 2 soundtrack at https://skilltreerecords.com/album/2022998/psychonauts-2-original-soundtrack-vol-1 Psychonauts 2 is out now Support MinnMax on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist of our community's favorite music:  https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below… 0:00 - Jimi Hendrix & Ivan Tcherepnin with Peter McConnell 00:59 - Peter's music background 5:31 - Writing music for Jack Black 9:07 - Working themes from Psychonauts 1 into the sequel 15:16 - What Peter learned from Ivan Tcherepnin 24:53 - The Music of Ivan Tcherepnin 25:30 - Flores Musicales : I. Overture - P'tite P'tite 30:57 - Five Songs: I. Do-Mi 41:25 - Five Songs: IV. Queues 46:50 - Flores Musicales: III. Grand Fire Music 49:55 - Santur Live! Overture: The Situation in The Land 52:57 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience's “Axis: Bold as Love” 57:12 - Spanish Castle Magic 1:01:03 - Wait Until Tomorrow 1:04:32 - Little Wing 1:10:03 - If 6 Was 9 1:16:01 - Bold as Love 1:22:36 - Community Questions (writing music for ‘place,' interactive music through the decades, bands we wanna play with & more) 1:45:21 - Fleet Foxes - “The Shrine/An Argument” (suggested by MinnMax supporter Thom Blackburn)

This week, Andy dives into chapter 2 of 1st Peter. He points out that our church is a diverse church - in the same way, the book of 1 Peter is the sort of story written to a diverse collection of churches. What Peter is writing about needs to be a model for us. “Each of us needs to be loved, each of us needs to be forgiven, and the church needs to be a place where we celebrate these things.” fmhouston.com

Episode 120 – Perfectly Quiet – The Intertestamental Period 6 Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: How can a grown man be born again?” Nicodemus asked. “He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time!” “I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus, “that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit. Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again.” The Gospel of John, chapter 3, verses 4 through 7, Good News Translation ******** VK: Hello. I’m Victoria K. Welcome to another episode of Anchored by Truth. Today we are continuing our look at “The Intertestamental Period.” The intertestamental period is the 400 to 450 year period that elapsed between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. It’s a very important period in overall Biblical history but we suspect it’s one of the least studied. I’m in the studio today with RD Fierro, author and Founder Crystal Sea Books. RD, why do you think the intertestamental period receives so little attention even from people who are faithful students of the Bible? RD: Greeting to all the Anchored by Truth listeners. If you are joining us here today for the first time we’d like thank you and invite you to keep checking us out. If you’ve heard Anchored by Truth before, thank you for coming back. We know that your continuing interest in our show marks you as someone who is serious in knowing the Bible. Much of the material that we discuss on Anchored by Truth requires thought and concentration and we know that in today’s hectic world that’s not always easy to come by. VK: Amen. RD: Anyway, I think you’re right that the intertestamental period may be the period of Biblical history that receives the least attention today. The biggest reason it doesn’t is because no books were being added to the canon of scripture during that time – between the testaments. And even for those who accept the Apocrypha as canonical there was still a gap during which no new material was being added to scripture. Because we normally focus our time on scripture itself we tend not to think very much about what happened outside of scripture, especially since we’re talking about events that all occurred over 2,000 years ago. VK: But you believe that those events that happened over 2,000 years ago are still important in our lives today. Why is that? RD: Well, let me answer that question with a question. What is God’s will for every one of his children? VK: That’s an easy one. God wants us all to be holy. 1 Peter 1:16 says “the Scriptures say, ‘You must be holy because I am holy.’” I know a lot of people spend a lot of time wondering what God’s will is for their lives. Usually, they’re thinking about what to study in school, what job to take, or whether to get married. And those are important questions. But, when it comes down to it, the only goal that scripture states for all of our lives is for us to be holy. RD: Very good answer. VK: Thank you. RD: And the next question is how do we go about becoming holy? VK: Well, I suppose two verses spring to mind. The Gospel of Mark, chapter 12 verses 30 and 31 where Jesus says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” RD: Again, that’s a very good answer. And I might add John 4:24. “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” In Mark Jesus is talking to someone who is referred to as a “scribe” or “a teacher of the law” – in other words a religious expert at the time. In Mark 12:28, the scribe has asked Jesus which of the commandments is the most important and, after reminding the scribe that there is only one God, Jesus replies with the commandment to love that God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind. A lot of people today forget about the “mind” part. Then in John 4:24 Jesus in talking with the Samaritan woman at the well Jesus says that we must worship God in “spirit and in truth.” It would be hard to know the truth if we don’t use our minds. The point of all this is that for us to be holy (which is God’s will for all of our lives) we have to use not only our hearts and strength, but also our minds. Well, one of the things we need to be doing with our minds is not only reading scripture but doing our best to understand what we are reading. VK: So, your point is that there are many events that happened over 2,000 years ago that affected, or directly applied to, the content of our current Bibles. Some of those events occurred during the intertestamental period. So, if we don’t have some understanding of those periods historically we are automatically placing limits on our understanding of some parts of scripture. RD: Right. I’m not saying we have to turn everyone into a Bible historian. I’m certainly not. But I am saying that as we progress through our Christian lives, in order to be obedient to Christ’s command to the scribe and the Samaritan woman, we need to grow in our understanding of not only the Bible, but also the times in which the Bible was set. VK: And we need to do that because our times and cultures are quite different from the times and cultures that in which the Bible was written. The Bible tells us not be “unequally yoked” but very, very few modern Bible readers have ever had to put a yoke on themselves or an animal, for that matter. But we at least need to have a basic understanding of how yokes were used in Biblical times for us to see how that commandment should apply in our own lives. RD: Once again, that’s a great illustration. VK: And again, thank you. So, one of the biggest reasons we have undertaken this series on the intertestamental period is to make it a little easier for our listeners, who truly do want to improve their understanding of the Bible, achieve their goal. We’re doing the research and putting the research into a package that they can consume easily and share easily. RD: Exactly right. Back to the verse from 1 Peter where Peter starts off the encouragement part of his letter by reminding his readers of Leviticus 11:44 and Leviticus 19:2. Peter is writing his letter to a widely separated group of believers – believers in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia. Those are regions in modern day Turkey and they cover a lot of territory. Peter intends for his letter to be widely circulated. So, after some introductory comments Peter starts off by reminding his readers that God’s will for their lives, for all our lives, is for them to be holy. This is particularly important to remind them because Peter’s readers are being subjected to a great deal of persecution. VK: Like many believers are today. RD: Like many believers are today - and Peter doesn’t want them to give up their faith. Peter wants them, and us, to persevere. So, he starts off his encouragement by reminding them that God wants them to persistent in their efforts to be holy and he reminds them that the basis for this admonition is because God Himself is holy. VK: But, in reminding his readers of God’s holiness, Peter is actually reminding them that God is on their side. He’s not trying to act as some sort of “conduct policeman.” What Peter is actually reminding his readers, is that God is on their side. God is so much on their side that God wants them to be clearly identified with Him through their lives and behavior. Right? RD: Right. Peter is reminding his readers, and all of us, that God is very well aware of all the temptations and persecutions that come into their lives. But God doesn’t abandon them in those temptations and persecutions. God remains with His people and because God is with His people He knows how tempting it can be for us to give up “fighting the good fight.” VK: There is no more foundational comfort for a Christian than Deuteronomy 4:31 where God tells us that He will never leave us or forsake us. RD: I agree. So, the foundation for God telling His people to “be holy” and to love Him will their hearts, souls, strength, and minds is that His people belong to Him and not to the world or the forces of the world. This, not coincidentally, is a lesson that we can see clearly from God’s supernatural preservation of His people during the 450 years of the intertestamental period. VK: I like how you brought our discussion back to the intertestamental period we’ve been talking about. RD: Thank you. I try. VK: What you’re saying is that the Jews in Palestine during the intertestamental period would have had every reason to be discouraged. They had just endured decades of exile from their homeland. Even after the exile ended and some returned home, they returned home to an impoverished and desolate set of cities, towns, and fields. Even back in their homeland they were surrounded by hostile actors who would happily have destroyed them if they could. When Nehemiah arrived to lead an effort to restore the walls of Jerusalem, the workers were constantly harassed. They were threatened so much they had to keep their weapons with them at all times. And even after they rebuilt the walls and the temple, neither had the grandeur they had known formally. The truth was it would have been very easy for the Jews of that time to give up and leave or at least give up what made them distinctive – their faith. But they didn’t give up their faith. And neither should we during times of trial. RD: Exactly. But while the Jews had not given up their faith during the intertestamental period, as Jesus exchange with Nicodemus in our opening scripture illustrates errors had crept into the Jews understanding and practice of their faith. This was also illustrated by the exchange Jesus had with the Sadducees that we talked about in our last episode of Anchored by Truth. VK: Last time we discussed the incident where the Sadducees tried to trick Jesus with the woman-married-to-seven-brothers question that is related in Matthew, chapter 22, verses 25 through 28 and in Mark, chapter 12 and Luke, chapter 20. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection so they had developed this trick question about a woman who was married to 7 different brothers in accordance with the Jewish requirement that a younger brother marry the widow of an older brother. The Sadducees tried to illustrate that believing in the resurrection created questions that were impossible to answer - like whose wife the widow would be after the resurrection. RD: Right. But, of course, the Sadducees couldn’t trick Jesus. Instead Jesus pointed out that their own scriptures proved that the resurrection was real by quoting the scripture that described Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush. So, both the exchange with the Sadducees and Jesus’ exchange with Nicodemus showed that, even though the Jews had preserved their faith during the intertestamental period, errors had crept into their understanding of the content of their faith. In the case of the Sadducees they had begun to deny a fundamental doctrine of their faith – that there was life after death and that the life after death would be physical not merely spiritual. VK: And we don’t really know why the Sadducees had come to reject the doctrine of the resurrection do we? RD: Not precisely, no. But I think we can make some informed speculation. Let’s remember that the Sadducees and the Pharisees were kind of like political parties that had arisen during the intertestamental period. For over 200 years during the intertestamental period Palestine had been ruled by one group of Greeks or another. The Greeks actively promoted their language, culture, and ideas in the territories they controlled. This process was called “Hellenization.” Well, one of the ideas that pervaded Greek philosophy was the idea that the immaterial part of human beings, the spirit or soul, was far superior to the fleshly part. The Greeks largely thought of the spirit as good and the body as evil. So, to the Greeks the spirit needed to be liberated from the body and for some they thought of death as accomplishing this liberation. VK: The notion that the spirit is good but the body is evil is completely foreign to the Christian faith, isn’t it. When God had finished His creative activity on the 6th day he pronounced everything He had created “very good.” So, this pronouncement included both man’s body and spirit. Christianity and Judaism regard human beings as body-spirit unities with both parts having been originally created good. Right? RD: Right. And the Christian hope of resurrection is a physical resurrection just as Jesus was physically resurrected after he had been in the tomb. Jesus walked around, interacted with His disciples, ate and cooked food, and invited Thomas to touch His body to cure his doubts. The Christian faith believes in a physical resurrection though not in bodies that have been corrupted by sin, but in glorified, physical bodies like the one Jesus obviously possessed after He walked out of the tomb. Well, during the intertestamental period the Sadducees may have been heavily influenced by the Greeks ideas that were circulating in Palestine as a result of the Hellenization. The Sadducees as a party seemed to have been much more willing to embrace the process of Hellenization than the Pharisees like Nicodemus. VK: The Pharisees seem to have been the party within Israel that resisted Hellenization. The Pharisees seemed to have been far more interested in preserving their original culture and religion. As such, the Pharisees embraced the entire body of what we call the Old Testament as scripture whereas the Sadducees only believed that the first five books of the Old Testament were authoritative. So, after the intertestamental period when Jesus was conducting His earthly ministry the Pharisees did believe in the resurrection. But based on the exchange between Nicodemus and Jesus apparently some errors had crept into their understanding also. It’s just that their errors were different from the errors of the Sadducees. RD: Yes. The Sadducees were wrong about the existence of life after death, especially physical life. Since they didn’t believe in the resurrection at all they had no interest or questions in how such a resurrection could be accomplished. The Pharisees, such as Nicodemus, did believe in the resurrection but apparently even a Pharisee as knowledgeable as Nicodemus had questions. In particular, Nicodemus seems to have wondered about the means by which the resurrection would be achieved. Nicodemus seemed to have a good understanding of the ends but not the means. So, wisely, he brought his questions to Jesus because as Nicodemus acknowledged at the beginning of their interview Nicodemus knew Jesus had come from God. VK: So, we get some great lessons from this exchange between Jesus and Nicodemus. First, we learn that even people who are respected leaders and mature in their faith can still have questions and that’s ok. It’s okay to have questions and when we do it makes sense to go find people we think can help us find answers. We also learn that God is willing to provide us with teachers if we are sincere in wanting to grow in our understanding. Throughout church history there have been skilled teachers and preachers who have thought carefully about matters that are of concern to all of us. Thankfully, they have left behind an abundance of resources that are available to us today. So, even though we can’t go physically to Jesus we can go to a source of revelation more complete than Nicodemus had. Nicodemus had ready access to the Old Testament but we have ready access to both the Old and the New Testaments. RD: Those are both valuable observations. But we get learn even more when we contrast Jesus’ exchange with Nicodemus and His exchange with the Sadducees. VK: Like what? RD: Nicodemus was an honest questioner. He had some sincere questions about certain things that were part of his faith. But when Nicodemus approached Jesus he made no attempt to trick Jesus. The Sadducees did attempt to trick Jesus. The Sadducees had just as much information about Jesus as Nicodemus did, but rather than availing themselves of the opportunity to learn from him they attempted to defend their flawed understanding. They tried to trick Jesus with their supposedly-impossible-question. They probably used that question regularly in their debates with the Pharisees about whether the resurrection was real. It probably worked with the Pharisees but it didn’t work with Jesus. So, a lesson we learn when we compare the two encounters is that we need to recognize opportunities to learn from skilled and knowledgeable believers when they arrive. And we need to be honest about our questions and open to their teaching. VK: But we do need to be discerning about who we accept as teachers. We need to be sure that people we look to for help in growing in our faith are people who are solidly grounded in the understanding of the Bible. We need to be sure their desire is to elevate the Bible rather than their own ideas. RD: Yes. That’s a good caveat to keep in mind. Another lesson we pick up when we compare Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus as opposed to his encounter with the tricky Sadducees is to see how Jesus responded. With the Sadducees Jesus first corrected their misunderstanding but then he added what I would characterize as a mild rebuke. But he didn’t go any further. But with Nicodemus, who was both open and teachable, Jesus went beyond just trying to answer a question or explain a basic point regarding the content of his faith. VK: Well in John’s account of the encounter John doesn’t really record Nicodemus asking Jesus a question before Jesus told him that he had to be born again. RD: That’s true. So, we’re not sure whether there was a preliminary discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus before Jesus told Nicodemus that he had to be born again. As a reporter John tends to focus on the material which is most relevant to John’s basic purpose of demonstrating that Jesus is the son of God. So, it’s possible that Nicodemus asked a question which John didn’t bother reporting or it’s possible that Jesus already knew what Nicodemus wanted to ask. VK: Jesus was a prophet, after all. In fact, Jesus was the greatest prophet of all time. He constantly displayed the ability to know things about the people he was talking to without having been told. The encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well comes to mind. RD: Exactly. Nicodemus may have asked a question or the two may have had an initial discussion which John doesn’t bother to report or Jesus may have just known what was bothering Nicodemus. It’s quite possible that Nicodemus, a Pharisee who believed in the resurrection – and who had had lots of debates through the years with the Sadducees on the resurrection – just wanted to be sure he understood the subject of life after death clearly. A lot of people today have similar questions. At any rate, Jesus did not just go about addressing the basic question he went on to provide Nicodemus with additional information – likely information Nicodemus didn’t even know he needed but which has been a cornerstone of the Christian faith. VK: You’re thinking of John 3:16 – possibly the most well-known verse out of the entire Bible. “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.” (King James Version with slight edits) RD: Right. In response to Nicodemus’ honest question or question Jesus proceeds to give us one of the most famous expositions in the Bible. Jesus assures Nicodemus that not only is the resurrection real but that he was face-to-face with the instrument by which God would accomplish resurrection for everyone who believed. Jesus goes on in his discussion to a verse (18) which is less well-known but just as important. “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son.” (New Living Translation) Jesus ratifies that there will be a resurrection but notes that the resurrection will include a separation between the believers and unbelievers. I’m sure that must have been both comforting and distressing to Nicodemus. VK: Comforting because it reassured Nicodemus of the security of his individual destination. After years, or perhaps decades, of being told by the Sadducees that there was no such thing as the resurrection Nicodemus would have been comforted to know that he had been right all along. But he would have been distressed to know that many of his colleagues and perhaps friends were in eternal danger because he knew they did not believe that Jesus had been sent from God the way he did. I think that’s a sentiment many of us today would share. RD: Exactly. And so this goes back to the reason it’s a good idea for us to have some understanding of what life was like in Israel while Jesus was performing His earthly ministry. Debates had raged for decades on questions that are basic and essential to our faith. It can help us immensely to not see Nicodemus and the others Jesus encountered, pro or con, as real people with lives and histories just like ours. They had concerns just like we do and we share many of those concerns 2,000 years later – like how to help our friends avoid eternal judgment. Improving our understanding of scripture and how Jesus ministered during his life is invaluable to helping our friends. VK: Amen. This sounds like a great time for a prayer. Jesus’ ministry while He was on this earth was all about saving those who are lost spiritually. The need for doing that continues today. So, today let’s listen to a prayer for our nation – knowing that God continues to want to provide His light to any and all who are genuinely open to receiving answers to sincere questions: ---- PRAYER FOR THE NATION (MARCUS). We hope you’ll be with us next time and we hope you’ll take some time to encourage some friends to tune in too, or listen to the podcast version of this show. If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not famous but our Boss is!” (Bible Quote from the New International Version) Daniel, chapter 8, verses 5 through 8 and 20 and 21, New International Version

Peter Vekselman is a seasoned investor and has been a leader in the real estate industry for over 30 years. He has successfully done over 3,600 deals. Today, he leads a team of real estate professionals who continue to close deals across the country. What you'll learn about in this episode: How Peter accidentally stumbled into real estate by encountering the book Deals on Wheels by Lonnie Scruggs How Peter transitioned from mobile homes to real estate, and how his earliest experiences as a real estate investor cost him everything Where Peter found his tenacity in real estate investing, and how he used credit cards to dig himself out of the hole he was in over the course of three years Why Peter lost millions in the 2008 market crash, and why having trusted mentors could've helped him avoid his two biggest career losses Why the key thing Peter learned from his losses was how to control his attitude and mindset, and what steps he takes to mitigate risk and protect himself financially Why Peter and his team focus on fix-and-flips and quick-turn wholesale, and why Peter's number one piece of advice is to “figure out your why” Why Peter believes the most important component in success is learning to align yourself with successful people, and why refusing to quit is vital Peter shares details about his “partner-driven” business model and how it has enabled his business growth What Peter's business offers their deal partners: coaching and mentoring, generating leads, providing technology, and assuming all liability How to learn more about Peter, his partner-driven model, and how to apply to become a partner yourself   Resources: Website: www.partnerdriven.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/petervekselman/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/134168170624583 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/petervekselman Twitter: @petervekselmann Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

It's not always obvious how a shopping center or mall can engage consumers and pull in foot traffic, but today's client has ideas. Peter Tonstad is the CEO of Placewise, a company that works with malls and other types of shopping centers to attract customers, benefit tenants, and bridge online and offline gaps. Listen in to hear what Peter has to say about what should be done differently post-pandemic, how malls can successfully engage shoppers, and what smaller strip centers can do to build foot traffic. Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode: ✔ How Peter got started with Placewise ✔ What Placewise's typical clients are like ✔ What needs to be done differently post-COVID ✔ The different dynamics in the evolution of shopping centers ✔ How malls and large shopping centers attract customers back ✔ Bridging the gap between online and offline ✔ Ways that malls can measure their success in engaging shoppers ✔ How smaller strip centers can create footfall ✔ What Peter does to coach clients to create focus areas for clients ✔ Why clients want to work with Placewise ✔ In-store experiences that Peter likes ✔ What's going to be important for shopping centers to embrace ✔ The future of malls and shopping centers ✔ Fun things to do in Norway Resources: Peter Tonstad QUOTES: “Yes, footfall is challenged by e-commerce, and it's also challenged by let's say overrepresentation of physical retail in general.” “I think the key is: malls serve as community offerings.” “It's more complex technically to serve a shopping center.”

Have you ever thought of starting your own construction company, or of launching a new division of your current company? Either way, it's a giant leap full of opportunity, and risk.  In this week's podcast episode, I talk with Peter Worhunsky, the President & CEO of Live Oak. We explore the move to start his own company. Peter shares how he maintains healthy relationships with his business partners. How he navigated the decision to start a business with his family. How he made the transition from employee to owner. The importance of a thorough business plan, and how that plan has changed since the launch of the company. How to seize opportunities, balancing ego and humility. We also cover how to manage the physical and emotional stresses of launching a business.  Those who are thinking about starting a business or launching a new division of a company will find this episode insightful. Take the time to listen to this episode!  Discussion Points: 0:00 Introduction 3:04 Why Peter started his own company 3:51 The process Peter went through to get to starting his own company  6:40 Approaching people to become business partners 7:34 Things Peter looked for in business partners  9:36 Retaining talent as a CEO  11:21 Discussing beginning the business with your family 12:48 Crossing from being an employee to a business owner  13:35 Immediate obstacles upon launching the business  14:18 What Peter learned in the financial aspect of the business 15:50 Benefits of a business plan 17:01 Significant changes from the initial start of the company to where it is now  18:15 Being hyper opportunistic while eyeing the long-term goals22:03 Risk management  24:38 Obstacles that Peter didn't anticipate 26:23 What Peter would do differently if he were to go back  27:55 Understanding the difference between a plan and reality 29:35 What COVID taught Peter and how he'll apply it to a non-COVID environment30:40 Balancing ego and humility 32:41 Peter's focus on growing his business33:57 Maintaining healthy relationships with business partners34:32 Managing one's self and the stresses that come with business35:24 What to do to keep the long game in mind 36:30 Respect for people in the construction space About the Guest:  Peter Worhunsky is a construction industry veteran with over twenty years of field and office experience. He grew up around construction, watching his grandfather and father run a construction company. In 2019, with his partners, he launched Live Oak and serves as the company's President and CEO.  Resources:  Do Your Project Executives Need to Become Better Leaders? Book a 10-minute call with Eric Anderton (https://10minutes.youcanbook.me/)  Books mentioned in this episode:  Born of This Land (Autobiography of Chung Ju-jung, Founder of Hyundai): https://www.amazon.com/Born-this-land-life-story/dp/B07YNZF25Z/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=born+of+this+land&qid=1621619465&s=books&sr=1-1 Connect with me on LinkedIn. For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to the Construction Genius: A Leadership Master-Class Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Thank you for tuning in! 

With his death being imminent and the danger of false teachers looming, the Apostle Peter writes his second and final letter to fellow believers in Asia Minor. Today we look at the what and the why of this letter. Why did the Apostle Peter feel the need to write this letter? And what was it that he felt he needed to share with them before his death? What Peter had to share with the recipients of this letter then is still relevant and significant to believers reading this letter today.

(Acts 4:1-12;   Ps.118:1-2,4,22-27;   Jn.21:1-14)   “Jesus is ‘the stone rejected by you the builders which has become the cornerstone.'”   What Peter has proclaimed to the people, he now proclaims even more boldly to their leaders: “There is no other name in the whole world given to men by which we are to be saved.”  Jesus, whom they crucified, is the Messiah.  And the same quote Jesus offered the Pharisees after making it clear to them they would lose dominion over God's vineyard – over His people, over His Church – Peter invokes before the high-priestly class today… for here standing before them is the new authority on earth.   And so, here the Church is gathered, under Peter and the apostles.  This day of preaching in Jesus' name by the power of the Holy Spirit has brought about five thousand children to God, and there shall be no stopping the power of the Word which goes forth to draw in all believers.  On the Church goes “proclaiming the resurrection of the dead in the person of Jesus.” Our gospel today is the perfect parallel to our first reading, and reveals just from where the power of the apostles' preaching comes.  First, it shows Peter as the clear leader.  He says among the seven – the number of fullness – disciples assembled: “I am going out to fish.”  And they reply: “We will join you.”  All night they toil in vain.  Why?  Because they lack the cornerstone who comes to them in the morning.  (Notice in our first reading Peter and John are put in jail for the night to await their trial in the morning. But, ironically, this night is less of a prison than the one spent toiling in vain on the sea… for this day they have been most fruitful; for by this time they have been anointed by the Spirit.) In the morning Jesus stands upon the shore and instructs them where to cast their net, much as He did when first He called His fishermen apostles.  And like that morning, their catch is overwhelming.  John cries, “It is the Lord!” and Peter jumps into the water to swim to His Jesus as the others tow the net and fish behind him.  Once all have come to land, it is Peter who goes “aboard and haul[s] ashore the net loaded with sizable fish” and drops it at the Lord's feet.  But it is the single fish Jesus has prepared which is most important, with which they must begin their feast.  For Jesus is that fish Himself, the cornerstone upon whom the tallest of buildings stands.  And see how He feeds them as at the Eucharistic table: “Jesus came over, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.”  Here the Bread of Life is distributed to those who shall impart it to all others. One hundred and fifty-three (the number of Hail Marys in a full Rosary, pre-Mysteries of Light) fish are gathered by the disciples in a net beyond the point of breaking.  Five thousand men are drawn into the fold by Peter and John's fearless speaking.  God's Church is here built up on the cornerstone that is Jesus; and so we exclaim with our psalmist today: “O Lord, grant salvation!  O Lord, grant prosperity!  Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; we bless you from the house of the Lord.  The Lord is God, and He has given us light.”  Amen.  ******* O LORD, by the resurrection of your Son and the power of the Holy Spirit upon His apostles may your Church be filled to overflowing with believing souls. YHWH, the stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone of your Church, and we are built upon Him and upon the Rock He has set in place as the first of His apostles.  From the hands of the leaders of the Jews divine power has been wrested, for now Peter is your high priest and John your scribe.  Now only in the Name of Jesus is salvation to be won, and all who come to Him and eat at His table enter into your House. This is the day you, LORD, have made.  Let us rejoice in the blessings now upon us in your Son.  For now we are raised from the dead; now we share in His glory… now we know your merciful love and are given strength to do your work in this world. On the flesh of your Son let us feed, O LORD; His Body let us be.  Led by Peter may we come to Him who waits for us upon the shore – in the morning light let us praise your glory!

(Acts 4:1-12;   Ps.118:1-2,4,22-27;   Jn.21:1-14)   “Jesus is ‘the stone rejected by you the builders which has become the cornerstone.'”   What Peter has proclaimed to the people, he now proclaims even more boldly to their leaders: “There is no other name in the whole world given to men by which we are to be saved.”  Jesus, whom they crucified, is the Messiah.  And the same quote Jesus offered the Pharisees after making it clear to them they would lose dominion over God's vineyard – over His people, over His Church – Peter invokes before the high-priestly class today… for here standing before them is the new authority on earth.   And so, here the Church is gathered, under Peter and the apostles.  This day of preaching in Jesus' name by the power of the Holy Spirit has brought about five thousand children to God, and there shall be no stopping the power of the Word which goes forth to draw in all believers.  On the Church goes “proclaiming the resurrection of the dead in the person of Jesus.” Our gospel today is the perfect parallel to our first reading, and reveals just from where the power of the apostles' preaching comes.  First, it shows Peter as the clear leader.  He says among the seven – the number of fullness – disciples assembled: “I am going out to fish.”  And they reply: “We will join you.”  All night they toil in vain.  Why?  Because they lack the cornerstone who comes to them in the morning.  (Notice in our first reading Peter and John are put in jail for the night to await their trial in the morning. But, ironically, this night is less of a prison than the one spent toiling in vain on the sea… for this day they have been most fruitful; for by this time they have been anointed by the Spirit.) In the morning Jesus stands upon the shore and instructs them where to cast their net, much as He did when first He called His fishermen apostles.  And like that morning, their catch is overwhelming.  John cries, “It is the Lord!” and Peter jumps into the water to swim to His Jesus as the others tow the net and fish behind him.  Once all have come to land, it is Peter who goes “aboard and haul[s] ashore the net loaded with sizable fish” and drops it at the Lord's feet.  But it is the single fish Jesus has prepared which is most important, with which they must begin their feast.  For Jesus is that fish Himself, the cornerstone upon whom the tallest of buildings stands.  And see how He feeds them as at the Eucharistic table: “Jesus came over, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.”  Here the Bread of Life is distributed to those who shall impart it to all others. One hundred and fifty-three (the number of Hail Marys in a full Rosary, pre-Mysteries of Light) fish are gathered by the disciples in a net beyond the point of breaking.  Five thousand men are drawn into the fold by Peter and John's fearless speaking.  God's Church is here built up on the cornerstone that is Jesus; and so we exclaim with our psalmist today: “O Lord, grant salvation!  O Lord, grant prosperity!  Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; we bless you from the house of the Lord.  The Lord is God, and He has given us light.”  Amen.  ******* O LORD, by the resurrection of your Son and the power of the Holy Spirit upon His apostles may your Church be filled to overflowing with believing souls. YHWH, the stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone of your Church, and we are built upon Him and upon the Rock He has set in place as the first of His apostles.  From the hands of the leaders of the Jews divine power has been wrested, for now Peter is your high priest and John your scribe.  Now only in the Name of Jesus is salvation to be won, and all who come to Him and eat at His table enter into your House. This is the day you, LORD, have made.  Let us rejoice in the blessings now upon us in your Son.  For now we are raised from the dead; now we share in His glory… now we know your merciful love and are given strength to do your work in this world. On the flesh of your Son let us feed, O LORD; His Body let us be.  Led by Peter may we come to Him who waits for us upon the shore – in the morning light let us praise your glory!

(Acts 3:11-26;   Ps.8:2,5-9;   Lk.24:35-48)   “In His name, penance for the remission of sins is to be preached to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”   And so Peter begins the preaching at the temple: “When God raised up His servant, He sent Him to you first to bless you by turning you from your evil ways,” he announces clearly to the Jews, those first to hear of the Savior, Jesus.  And again he speaks boldly and repeatedly of their sin: “You disowned the Holy and Just One…  You put to death the Author of life,” for it is absolutely essential that they recognize their guilt if they are to find their salvation.  How can they repent of what they do not see?  How can “a season of refreshment be granted” through Jesus if they do not know that they are despoiled?  And brothers and sisters, it is certainly no different for us.  We must recognize our own complicity in the Lord's death or we shall have no place with Him in life.  Hear the message of His apostle: “Reform your lives!  Turn to God, that your sins may be wiped away!”  If you have nothing to reform, how are you a hearer of the Good News?  And if your repentance falls short of knowing the blood of Christ upon your hands, how ineffective it will be. “All the prophets… have announced the events of these days.”  “God has brought to fulfillment by this means what He announced long ago: that His Messiah would suffer.”  What Peter proclaims, Jesus confirms in His own teaching to the disciples, “It is written that the Messiah must suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,” as “He opened their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures.”  What must be has been, and now is – Jesus has died and risen.  “Look at my hands and my feet; it is really I,” He says to His incredulous apostles.  And so in “flesh and bones” the Truth has become known, and this same flesh we eat each day. The disciples same “sheer joy and wonder” we should share, brothers and sisters.  For what is theirs is ours, too.  Though “out of ignorance” we crucified Him, in grace we now know Him.  And so should we not cry out, “O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth!”  Should His blessed care for this sinful man not make us incredulous with joy?  For though man is guilty of the Lord's own death, yet He has “made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.”  How little we deserve the Messiah, now glorified in heaven, to be with us; but oh how generous He is.  No “power or holiness of our own” has brought us to life – it is His forgiveness that has made us whole.    ******* O LORD, let us proclaim the Name of your risen Son to all men. YHWH, how wonderful is the Name of your Son throughout all the earth, for by it all men are healed – all are raised up from their sin and made whole again.  With what wonder we should look upon Him risen from the dead; and with what faith we should believe in Him. O LORD, in the Name of Jesus let penance for the remission of sins be preached to all nations.  Beginning at Jerusalem and going forth to the ends of the earth, let it be known that the Messiah has suffered and died and been raised on the third day.  May all souls be taught by the apostles you send forth – may we come to understanding of the Scriptures and turn from our sin. O let us all rejoice in the newness of life He brings! the season of refreshment upon us in His Name.  O LORD, let us reform our lives and turn to you that with Him whom you have glorified we might be one.

(Acts 3:11-26;   Ps.8:2,5-9;   Lk.24:35-48)   “In His name, penance for the remission of sins is to be preached to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”   And so Peter begins the preaching at the temple: “When God raised up His servant, He sent Him to you first to bless you by turning you from your evil ways,” he announces clearly to the Jews, those first to hear of the Savior, Jesus.  And again he speaks boldly and repeatedly of their sin: “You disowned the Holy and Just One…  You put to death the Author of life,” for it is absolutely essential that they recognize their guilt if they are to find their salvation.  How can they repent of what they do not see?  How can “a season of refreshment be granted” through Jesus if they do not know that they are despoiled?  And brothers and sisters, it is certainly no different for us.  We must recognize our own complicity in the Lord's death or we shall have no place with Him in life.  Hear the message of His apostle: “Reform your lives!  Turn to God, that your sins may be wiped away!”  If you have nothing to reform, how are you a hearer of the Good News?  And if your repentance falls short of knowing the blood of Christ upon your hands, how ineffective it will be. “All the prophets… have announced the events of these days.”  “God has brought to fulfillment by this means what He announced long ago: that His Messiah would suffer.”  What Peter proclaims, Jesus confirms in His own teaching to the disciples, “It is written that the Messiah must suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,” as “He opened their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures.”  What must be has been, and now is – Jesus has died and risen.  “Look at my hands and my feet; it is really I,” He says to His incredulous apostles.  And so in “flesh and bones” the Truth has become known, and this same flesh we eat each day. The disciples same “sheer joy and wonder” we should share, brothers and sisters.  For what is theirs is ours, too.  Though “out of ignorance” we crucified Him, in grace we now know Him.  And so should we not cry out, “O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth!”  Should His blessed care for this sinful man not make us incredulous with joy?  For though man is guilty of the Lord's own death, yet He has “made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.”  How little we deserve the Messiah, now glorified in heaven, to be with us; but oh how generous He is.  No “power or holiness of our own” has brought us to life – it is His forgiveness that has made us whole.    ******* O LORD, let us proclaim the Name of your risen Son to all men. YHWH, how wonderful is the Name of your Son throughout all the earth, for by it all men are healed – all are raised up from their sin and made whole again.  With what wonder we should look upon Him risen from the dead; and with what faith we should believe in Him. O LORD, in the Name of Jesus let penance for the remission of sins be preached to all nations.  Beginning at Jerusalem and going forth to the ends of the earth, let it be known that the Messiah has suffered and died and been raised on the third day.  May all souls be taught by the apostles you send forth – may we come to understanding of the Scriptures and turn from our sin. O let us all rejoice in the newness of life He brings! the season of refreshment upon us in His Name.  O LORD, let us reform our lives and turn to you that with Him whom you have glorified we might be one.

Jesus is risen and alive forevermore – Luke 24:1-12 David Larmour What the women found at the tomb (vs1 to 9) The reaction of the disciples (vs10 & 11) What Peter found at the tomb (vs12) The post Jesus is risen and alive forevermore – Luke 24:1-12 appeared first on Welbeck Road Evangelical Church.

Guest: Peter Kim, SVP of Sales at Relativity In this episode, we cover: What Peter's nine-month stint at ride-sharing company Scoop Technologies taught him about the importance for sales leaders to have 'personal passion.' (7:02) ... Peter's experience working as a sales leader at LinkedIn during the company's early stages. (11:50) ... The Skill vs. Potential Scale: How Peter evaluates new talent when building a team. (16:52) ... 'The experiential game film': Why Peter looks at a person's past experiences with adversity to gauge potential. (23:46) ... How Peter's current company, Relativity, is streamlining the collection, processing and review of legal evidence. (26:37) ... Methods for building a productive and people-centric sales culture as a leader. (32:07) ... The importance for leaders to establish 'first principles' before making decisions. (37:57) ... Embracing vulnerability to become a more authentic leader. (43:15) ... How Peter defines grit. (47:32)

This week, you’re going to hear a conversation I had with Peter Watson.Peter is the co-founder of Distract, one of the fastest-growing and best-known marketing agencies in the Midlands.But he’s also so much more than that. He’s a prolific founder and investor, currently sitting on six businesses, and invested in a bunch more.He’s the biggest advocate and holder of Bitcoin I know. And he has some really interesting views into the economics of the world we live in right now.In the next hour, you’re going to learn:1. Why university is the best place to be if you want to start a business2. How to save and invest your finances in such a way to protect yourself in the next economic downturn 3. Why it’s the duty of honest business owners to call out bullshit when we see it online 4. What Peter thinks of the Budget that was announced by Rishi Sunak on WednesdayAnd so much more.Follow Peter WatsonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pwatto/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjwattoFollow Sean SpoonerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spoonersean/Twitter: https://twitter.com/spoonerseanJoin My Newsletter: https://seanspooner.co.uk/emailPatter: https://patter.co.uk/Make sure that you're subscribed to Life and Lessons on whatever platform you use for podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, host Nalin talks with Peter from Top Tale, about the marketing strategy and learnings from the re-launch campaign for this game. What can creators learn from listening to their audience and the consequences of spreading too thin when it comes to trying to cover each and every social channel and marketing strategy. This is a great episode for all of those creators thinking about re-launching their own campaigns!   We discuss:   [1:40]: How Peter has gone from being an engineer working with HP Inc. to designing a card game; and what Top Tale is all about. [07:15]: What is Top Tale storytelling component? And how it played a significant role in the marketing strategy pre-launch.  [13:30]: How Peter created his campaign video and how he adjusted the edition according to the data from the first round of ads. [17:50]: Re-launching a campaign is always a challenge. The secret is in listening to the audience and making the necessary adjustments. [23:05]: How Top Tale will evolve outside of Kickstarter with volumes and spin-off games, revolving around the same topic of “getting to know your fellow human”. [28:21]: Peter’s business strategy to eventually create a big games brand. [29:54]: What Peter would do differently in marketing. Trying too many things at the same time doesn’t work as one might expect it to. So It’s a great learning experience to know what works best for this project and where he should invest his resources in the future.  [36:25]: Which manufacturer did Peter work with. [37:25]: Where can people get a copy of Top Tale.   Thanks for listening to the Board Game Marketing Podcast! Top Tale Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/topthat/top-tale-tell-epic-tales-to-win-the-top-tale Top Tale Website: https://www.yubnubgames.com/ Top Tale on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yubnubgames/ Top Tale on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yubnubgames Top Tale on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YubNubGames   For more information on how to market your game, be sure to check out the Meeple Marketing Blog.  

Peter Swain the CEO at Magic on Tap, sits down with us at #Clockedin. He is a marketing machine having worked with some of the top companies in the world including Apple, Microsoft, Breaking Bad and more. He is one of the most genuine and kindhearted people too.Peter is a data strategist and always looking for ways to innovate and think creatively. He is In the early 90's Peter was at a trade show when he was handed a bright yellow flier talking about this new technology ... the world wide web. At that moment the trajectory of my life was cemented in place.From that moment over 25 years ago he has been active in the digital space and involved in over 1,200 digital projects for some of the most impactful companies on the planet. He had the privilege to work with everyone from passionate entrepreneurs to Fortune 50 companies and global charities to governments.After starting and exiting 4 companies he is now living his ideal life .... helping individuals and companies that deserve to scale find the success that they deserve. Digital is an accelerant and it can make or break any mission.

Veteran professional organizer and TV host Peter Walsh joins us to uncover the deeper meaning behind our clutter and share tips to help you create comfort and joy at home during these challenging times. Peter starred in the popular organization and design series Clean Sweep with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) on Discovery’s TLC Network. The series produced over 120 episodes and has run almost continuously since 2003. He is the author of six best-selling books on the subject of organizing including How to Organize (Just About) Everything; It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, and Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? His new book is Let It Go, Downsizing Your Way to A Richer, Happier Life. Peter was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show where he was dubbed the “Get Your Life Organized Guy” which led to his own series, Extreme Clutter with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) on OWN. We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show. While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast. Join The Spark Joy Club today! (https://www.patreon.com/sparkjoy) In this episode, you’ll enjoy: How Peter got his start-you’ll never believe what he WASN’T interested in doing in the beginning How it all came together for Peter and organizational design became his great passion The importance of humor and empathy in working with people who are experiencing guilt and shame over clutter Peter’s take on why we accumulate so much-the hope of chasing a dream life through acquiring more and more “stuff” How Peter shocks his clients with his plan for discarding 70-80% of their stuff-but they find he was on the money! What Peter thinks of Marie Kondo. Peter and Marie on the Rachel Ray Show (https://www.rachaelrayshow.com/tips/22724_two_world_renowned_organizers_marie_kondo_and_peter_walsh_share_their_top_tips) Stories about what often gets edited from reality organizing shows. To go behind the scenes of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo check out: Ep 67 | Review of Netflix's "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" (https://www.sparkjoypodcast.com/episode-67-review-of-tidying-up-with-marie-kondo) Ep 68 | Behind the Scenes: Netflix's "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" with Tricia Fidler and Jane Grodem (https://www.sparkjoypodcast.com/ep-68-behind-the-scenes-netflix-tidying-up-marie-kondo-tricia-fidler-jane-grodem) Suggestions on how to manage the uncertainty of life during the pandemic Peter’s annual challenge on his YouTube channel. Peter Walsh's 31 Days to Get Organized (https://www.youtube.com/user/PeterWalshOrganizer/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=8) How to play Trash Bag Tango! (https://www.oprah.com/own-oprahshow/a-10-minute-declutter-exercise-known-as-the-trash-bag-tango-video) Peter’s great ideas for turning family organizing into learning games while we are staying home The importance of a schedule and maintaining a sense of routine while social distancing and staying at home Peter’s own experience surviving the coronavirus Favorite organizing tip: “Retreat into quiet at least 5 minutes a day. Although it may not seem to be a tidying tip, it will help you center yourself and to give you the space to step back into the busy world. Also, take a media break!” What is sparking the most joy for Peter: “We are seeing what is happening in the world could be a massive reset button. Staying connected with those we love and getting back in touch with those people who are most significant in our lives.” How to get in touch with Peter: Peter Walsh Design (http://www.peterwalshdesign.com) Peter’s Books (http://www.peterwalshdesign.com/my-books-dvd/) Extreme Clutter with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) Clean Sweep with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) Peter’s very active FaceBook community (https://www.facebook.com/PeterWalsh) Peter's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7pBDyC68uihwKtEpjaZOrw) Gems: “I’ve discovered over nearly 20 years of doing this that we are all human and all in the same boat. We all go off the rails occasionally!” “At the end of the day, you are stronger than your stuff.” “Stuff is associated with happiness. People buy things thinking that they are buying happiness but they are really buying a shadow of happiness. Instead of buying a product, we are buying a promise.” “What is the vision you have from the life you want? Does the stuff you own help you get what you want from this room?” “If you don’t respect your space, if you overload it, it’s the same as dishonoring as person, you are dishonoring your space. You will never be happy in that space.” “Stuff is a distraction. Issues around clutter are about loss and trauma and neglect and abandonment.” “The issue is really, ‘How do I deal with the fear and the anxiety we are all facing at the moment.’ And, people are looking to organizing as a way of feeling some control.” You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home (https://www.theserenehome.com/) You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy (https://fortheloveoftidy.com/) Special Guest: Peter Walsh.

Nate read an article recently about cruise ships that had been sent to a scrap yard in India. Nate contacted Peter Knego, an ocean liner historian and journalist, to get more information about the history of the cruising industry and how ships are made, used and scrapped. Show Notes:0:00 Intro to Peter Knego1:32 Developing an interest in cruise ships7:15 "The only way to cross" ships as international transportation9:52 Ships were pride of a country, showing craftsmanship16:13 Ship engines: coal, oil, steam19:15 Greeks and shipping21:50 Art and architectural elements25:20 Quality of mid-century talent, design and craftsmanship33:00 Fire and ships36:07 Old ships and scrap materials39:15 Appreciating the cruise ship experience42:25 Dismantling cruise ships45:30 How dismantling affects environment50:26 How do scrap yards buy the ships54:50 Collecting valuables from ships56:43 What Peter does with the valuables1:00:30 Covid and cruise ships1:09:18 Where to find Peter's work and articles1:14:00 Slide show of Peter's home Midshipcentury.comGoogle Peter Knego to find his articles

What Peter says in Acts 2:38 has become a controversial declaration in the religious world. What does it mean that Peter would say to repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins? I think the discussion about baptism has…

There are so many things to appreciate when it comes to rural living. Joining me on the show today is someone who has taken in those wonders first hand, Peter Kinnaird! Peter is a long time Managing Director and Marketing Director within the car manufacturing industry and made the move to greener pastures, now residing comfortably in the English countryside. In this episode, we dive into his background within the vehicle industry, having worked at many notable companies such as, ‘British Leyland’ , ‘BMW’, ‘Alfa Romeo’ and Landrover, the contrast of his life now having disconnected from the hustle and bustle of city life, as well as the many benefits that living close to nature has brought both of us. To hear more, tune in to Episode 12 of Flowerhood!Some Questions I Ask:Where did you grow up as a child? (4:53)What were your holidays like living in England? (9:02)What did you do after you left school? (13:03)What is one of the business techniques you’ve carried over from your more difficult days in the car industry? (18:00)When did you move towards the English countryside? (21:59)When did you buy, Moat Farm? (29:19)Do you ever think about the contrast of your Essex upbringing to the life you have now in the countryside? (36:11)What do you love about where you’re living currently? (45:50)Does Worcestershire sauce really originate in Worcestershire? (52:00)In This Episode You Will Learn:The relationship England has had historically with France and Spain (10:44)Some background on ‘British Leyland’ & what Peter learned from his tenure at the company (14:13)What Peter’s transition to ‘BMW’ was like after working for ‘British Leyland’ (19:00)Peter’s take on the architectural and aesthetic aspects of rural England (24:16)Peter’s proximity to the farm connected to J.R.R. Tolkein (26:16)How rural living detaches us from materialism (39:54)Resources:The Only Way is EssexDovecote Barn on AirBNBDents Glove FactoryThe Archers - Radio Show - BBCThe Good Life - TV Show - BBCLet’s Connect!WebsiteFacebook Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On today’s Equipping  You in Grace show, Dave and Laura Whitman discuss how lament helps Christians address the hurts of the past with hope in the Lord, responding to painful memories when they come up, how the local church and hurting people, along with her devotional, A Painful Past Healing and Moving Forward (P&R, 2020). What you’ll hear in this episode How Christians not only heal from but move forward from painful memories. How the people of God should address painful memories when they come up and what to do when we repeat them repeatedly. How having a clear and biblical understanding of Jesus helps Christians to address their past. How understanding lament helps Christians not only address the hurts of the past but with hope in the Lord. What Peter’s betrayal and eventual restoration teaches Christians about responding to the events of their lives. How Christians should help those facing deep pain in their past with the goodness of God. How the local church should help Christians address the hurts of the past. About the Guest Lauren Whitman (MA, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a staff counselor at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) and the assistant editor of CCEF's Journal of Biblical Counseling. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback. Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping  You in Grace show, Dave and Laura Whitman discuss how lament helps Christians address the hurts of the past with hope in the Lord, responding to painful memories when they come up, how the local church and hurting people, along with her devotional, A Painful Past Healing and Moving Forward (P&R, 2020). What you’ll hear in this episode How Christians not only heal from but move forward from painful memories. How the people of God should address painful memories when they come up and what to do when we repeat them repeatedly. How having a clear and biblical understanding of Jesus helps Christians to address their past. How understanding lament helps Christians not only address the hurts of the past but with hope in the Lord. What Peter’s betrayal and eventual restoration teaches Christians about responding to the events of their lives. How Christians should help those facing deep pain in their past with the goodness of God. How the local church should help Christians address the hurts of the past. About the Guest Lauren Whitman (MA, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a staff counselor at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) and the assistant editor of CCEF's Journal of Biblical Counseling. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback. Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

What Peter saw… Jesus Christ in the flesh! What “fishing of men” means. .

Nero burned Rome in July of A.D. 64. Shortly thereafter, persecution broke out against Christians. The Apostle Peter wrote to a scattered group of Christians to encourage them and to instruct them on how to live in incredibly difficult times. What Peter wrote to these Christians is relevant to us today, more than 2,000 years later.

This week's subject might be tough for lots of folks. People who have issues surrounding death might want to skip this episode. Because we, teZa and Carter Lord look compassionately deep inside the really hard letting-go involved with death, both by the person "doing the dying" and the loved ones who are left behind to grieve. During this time of Covid, death is on everyone's mind more than usual. Today's episode we discuss the recent passing of Carter's dear friend from his early school days, who had cancer. What Peter demonstrated to all who knew him, was the grace of acceptance, especially in the most intensely difficult time of all: facing one's own final days on Earth. LIfe is hard, there's no easy way through or out of it. But here we offer hope based on our own experiences: that acceptance of a Divine Source of Inspiration -- a Higher Power (whatever name you call it doesn't matter), some form of sacredness -- is essential in order for we mere human mortals to make sense out of the often overwhelming incongruities of life on Earth. Without accepting the Sacred in our everyday mundane existence, life is not only harder, but it's often chaotic, depressing and fraught with fears and confusion. Many people substitute politics for religion for this very reason, to try and make sense out of the incongruous Mystery of Life. This episode starts with a conversation about physical death, but ends with an odd "right hand turn" into what's defined as the end of civility, the so-called "death" of respect that appears to be very real in today's ultra-divisive atmosphere here in the United States. This podcast suggests that people start talking more about our culture's loss of respect. We offer how we can all participate in helping our culture heal: by recognizing that disrespect is what's really happening, and by this awareness allay and hopefully reverse this horribly destructive trend. We need to have more private conversations about how to end disrespect. We must start being more civil and therefore more compassionate, by recognizing the need for people to accept each other's differences. This trend begins with discussing this tender subject, right here. Civility can become a new national pasttime, right up there with celebrity-watching and waiting for organized sports to fully resume. We end with remarking how ZLORD podcast's first guest (she's appearing for the third time in the next episode), Dr. Dorothy Israel, is the "very picture of civility." We hope by bringing this remarkable person's oral history to listeners that more people have an inside view of how almost 100 years of living as a Black woman (she's 94!) resulted in such a loving and kind person as Deeh is, even after having faced a lifetime of racial challenges just as any other Black person living in America today has. We hope you'll share with your friends the in-depth and profoundly important subjects we approach here on ZLORD. And please do send us a note if you have any comments or suggestions. zlordpodcast@gmail.com

Acts 10:36-48August 23, 202036 The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)— 37 you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed. 38 You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. 39 We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross. 40 God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. 42 And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead. 43 Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. 45 All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered, 47 “Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?” 48 And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.“Gentiles Hear Good News”What is the Good News?Good News > Gospel > God Spel (Old English) > Euangelion (Greek)The Gospel According to Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John- Eyewitness Accounts of the Good NewsThe Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Mark 1:1-3)The Gospel of the Grace of God (Acts 20:24)The Gospel of the Kingdom (Matthew 4:23)The Gospel of Peace (Ephesians 6:15)An Eternal Gospel (Revelation 14:6)The Essential Elements of the Good NewsJesus Christ is Lord (John 10:30)Jesus Christ Died for the Forgiveness of our Sins (1 Corinthians 15:3, Romans 5:8)Jesus Christ was Resurrected and has Victory over Death (1 Corinthians 15:4, Acts 2:24)Salvation by Grace through Faith (Ephesians 2:8-9)Salvation Brings Freedom from Condemnation (Romans 8:1-2)Salvation Brings Eternal Life and Security (Romans 8:37-28)Salvation Brings Equipping for Good Works (Ephesians 2:10)Anything Else is Not Truly Good News(Galatians 1:6-8)The Gospel in Peter’s WordsWhat Peter’s words say about Jesus:-His Divinity (Verse 36) -His Power (Verse 38) -His Good Work (Verse 38) -His Sacrifice (Verse 39)-His Resurrection (Verse 40)-His Eternal Nature (Verse 41)-His Divine Appointment (Verse 42)What Peter’s words mean to us:-Through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins (Verse 43)-Salvation and the Holy Spirit are received without our work (Verses 44-46)-Our work is in response to God’s (Verses 47-48)An Analogy – Adrift on a Stormy Sea

First Things First - is the second message of the new sermon series - Upon This Rock. The first chapter of 1 Peter is very much about getting our thinking right and focusing on what really matters. What Peter expounds to believers in 64 AD is still so relevant in 2020 AD - who we are; where we are from; what is waiting for us; why there are trials and challenges; how we should live and conduct our lives.Is it your desire to be a walking, talking letter sent from God to people looking for answers? This message will assist you on that journey.For more information about our current services, please visit onechurch.uk/church-onlineThis week's service playlist is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdAX496mloQs0V72p67gaoJlBnFKVjrzk

Peter Peng is the founder and CEO of Jetson, the Shopify of voice commerce. It is voice-first marketplace technology that adds true commerce capabilities to voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Home by enabling multi-step conversations, which allow you to explore a menu or catalog, customize products, and transact them in a natural and unconstrained way. Jetson also enables businesses of any size to easily sell products and services through voice interfaces using Jetson's end to end platform. Jetson is the only voice commerce platform today that has full on turn-key capabilities. Peter has worked at a number of IoT startups, and led the 2014 Google Glass integration into a smart lock platform and as well as the Alexa integration into the same platform. Peter has a passion for taking companies to the next level with artificial intelligence. Connect with Peter Peng Jetson Invest in Jetson with Microventures Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Some of the Topics Covered by Peter Peng in this Episode What is Jetson? How COVID-19 has re-invigorated the Jetson team Why Peter created Jetson Why they started with food ordering and what other industries they have since moved into Figuring out their target customers and creating different types of accounts Where Peter got direction and guidance as he started Jetson The process of getting pre-revenue funding and getting investors through regulation crowdfunding and MicroVentures How Peter views growth and customer acquisition for Jetson Why Peter focuses on being product- and brand-centric Peter's advice for successful sales What's next for Jetson The story behind Jetson's logo How Peter sees the future of AI A typical day for Peter How Peter finds a work-life balance and why it's so important to him Peter's book recommendations What Peter would have done differently looking back Links from the Episode Brandable Square Shopify Delivery.com Amazon Pay Cognitive Code MicroVentures Good to Great, Jim Collins Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore Traction, Gino Wickman

What Peter learned from his Football Morning in America chat with Panthers coach Matt Rhule, and what we can expect from Carolina this season?Will Ryan Fitzpatrick be the Week 1 starting QB for the Dolphins? How long should they wait to bring in Tua Tagovailoa?PFT Live Draft: Teammates You'd Want as your NFL BodyguardAmid talk that Vince McMahon could buy back the XFL, is there a future for the spring league after all?

Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days. As we continue our journey in the gospel of John, I want us to peer into a MISTAKE MOMENT of Peter and what we learn about Jesus. Sometimes, just like Peter, we get things right! Sometimes, just like Peter, we most definitely get things wrong. What Peter will come to discover is God’s amazing truth: You can’t “work your way” into God’s grace and you can't “behave your way” out of it. Jesus shows us that God is a God of CORRECTION, not CONDEMNATION.

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Since I’ve stepped into the role of Producer of this podcast, in addition to being the host, we’ve been working on consistently delivering quality content, and on releasing previously unreleased episodes. In doing so, it’s allowed me to revisit some of our previous guests like Peter Lin who is a jazz musician and trombone player who I interviewed in 2018.    Recently I caught up with Peter, two years after our first interview. Artists and musicians have been amongst the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and I wanted to know how Peter was dealing with it.   I learned that Peter released a second album in 2019 and has started a new company, Yardbird Entertainment. He had lots of great advice and tips for musicians who are trying to get through these tough times.   Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   The difference between performing live vs. doing remote, online performances How the Internet can offer new opportunities for musicians to reach the larger global community How some musicians have earned money by performing on a live stream with a link to Venmo or PayPal to donate What relief funds and government assistance there is for musicians The different ways that musicians have been trying to earn money The Facebook group, the COVID-19 musicians support group- a resource to apply for unemployment, and find out about grants Resources where musicians can apply for relief The importance of staying at home and protecting those who are most vulnerable and realizing who has been hardest hit What Peter has been working on since the last time he was on Talking Taiwan on 2018 The release of Peter’s second album New Age Old Ways in 2019 and the comic book that accompanies it Peter’s YouTube series Jazz Biz 101 by Yardbird Entertainment Peter’s remote video production company, Yardbird Entertainment Creating mobile live stream How clubs can widen their reach by broadcasting on the Internet How people can support artists and musicians in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic   Related Links:   The Lintet’s website and social media   Peter Lin's Website : www.lintet.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/thelintet Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_lintet YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9oIrd0KQlvLqov1ivTkSA   Yardbird Entertainment’s website and social media   Yardbird Entertainment Website : www.yardbirdent.com Y.E.'s Facebook: www.facebook.com/yardbirdentertainment Y.E.'s Instagram: www.instagram.com/yardbirdentertainment Y.E.'s YouTube (Jazz Biz 101 + Y.E. Remote Music Video Productions): www.youtube.com/c/yardbirdentertainment   Jazz Exchange Relief Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dz5cng-the-jazz-exchange-relief-fund   Louis Armstrong Foundation Musicians Emergency Fund: https://louisarmstrongfoundation.org/emergency-fund-for-jazz-musicians-form/   Peter Lin's Digital Album + Comic Book "New Age Old Ways" + First Album "With Respect": https://peterlin.bandcamp.com/   Places to stream Peter Lin's Music:   Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/2zQlHyPGf6ydi4CBrLXP4r Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peter-lin/1402841452 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Respect-Peter-Lin/dp/B07F1TPSQC Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Peter_Lin_New_Age_Old_Ways?id=Bhdnqosid74unyfczxi5grktxoq&PCamRefID=LFV_857c0eb8a48e4637a911c4fb39769d32 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thelintet   Kelly Lin's Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SketchBites   Peter Lin's Remote Rendition of Taiwanese Classic "Wife": https://youtu.be/Brja_6rq1T4 https://www.facebook.com/peterlinmusic/videos/10157450798753335/   NYC's Covid-19 Musician Resource Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nycmusicianscovid19/   Chris Do's "The Futur" YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSkoolRocks   Pat Flynn’s website Smart Passive Income: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/

1. God forgives ALL our sins (Matthew 26:28, Acts 13:38) and remembers them no more (Hebrews 8:12, 10:17). Our sins are not just “covered” by the blood of bulls and goats nor the blood of Jesus; they are carried and done away, deleted, removed with by the Lamb of God (John 1:29). In terms of justification, it is just as if we never committed those sins. 2. God promises to never be angry with us again (Isaiah 54:8-9) Unlike the obsolete covenant of Law, the New Covenant is an everlasting covenant of Love and Peace (Isaiah 54:10, 55:3). God will never stop being good to you! (Jeremiah 32:40) Let that sink in... 3. God qualifies us (Colossians 1:12). It is no longer about what we DO (Law covenant) or who we are related to (Covenant with Abraham). In the new, it’s all about JESUS and what He has DONE for us. 4. God promises to be with us (Ezekiel 37:27), takes a hold of us and never lets go (Philippians 3:12, Jude 24). In the old, God’s presence came and went, but in the new He has promised to never leave nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5) Your security is not based on what you do but on what He has done and is now doing in you. So now you can be confident that He who began a good work in you will complete it (Philippians 1:6). Nothing can separate you from His love (Romans 8:39). 5. God blesses us with Christ’s perfect righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21). Righteousness is not something to earn, rather something to receive, and in Him we already have it! Romans 5:17) 6. God gives us the Holy Spirit to teach us all things and guide us to all truth (John 14:26, 16:13). We no longer need priests to mediate for us, for we can all know the Lord (Jeremiah 31:34). What Peter said is true, we are His royal priests (1 Peter 2:9). 7. God is for us and not against us (Romans 8:31). God justifies us and there is now no more condemnation (Romans 8:1). When we sin, Jesus doesn’t judge us, he defends us and empowers us to go and sin no more (1 John 2:1, Titus 2:12). He abundantly supplies all our needs so that we might enjoy life to the full (John 10:10, Philippians 4:19). 8. God empowers us to overcome the enemy (1 John 5:4). We have his delegated authority over demons and disease (Mark 16:17). Living under His divine protection and grace we are destined to reign in life (Romans 5:17). 9. God offers us His rest (Hebrews 4:10-11). Under the Old Covenant it was do, do, do, but under the New Covenant it’s done, done ,done. 10. God gives us eternal life (Romans 6:23). Because Christ lives, we can truly live! He din’t give us a “better” life, He gave us His very own life! We don't have an upgraded version of our past life, we have the life of Christ. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/upriseyourlife/support

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Peter Lin, is a trombone player, leader of the jazz band, The Lintet, and music teacher. He is a man who wears a lot of different hats! In March of 2018, Peter spoke with me about his career as a professional musician, the difference between being a bandleader versus a sideman, and how he met jazz legend Slide Hampton. We also talked about the Lintet’s first upcoming album, and the connection between Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, and The Lintet- all of which incidentally are not related to me.   Peter shared why he describes jazz as democratic, and a barometer of the United States’ social climate. In his first album, The Lintet introduces Taiwanese music to jazz listeners and jazz music to the Taiwanese.   Two years later, we’ve invited Peter back on to Talking Taiwan to let us know what he’s been up to, how he’s been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, and to share some advice for how musicians can get through these tough times. Our follow up interview is coming up on the next episode of Talking Taiwan.   Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   How Peter got started playing the trombone How he decided to become a professional musician Where the band’s name The Lintet came from What Peter does as a bandleader How jazz has historically reflected the social climate and race relations in the U.S. How The Lintet incorporates Taiwanese and Chinese songs done in jazz style at his performances and on their first album The twofold purpose The Lintet’s album to introduce Taiwanese to jazz music and to introduce jazz listeners to Taiwanese and Chinese music Peter’s observation that more Taiwanese people are becoming interested in jazz     Here’s the sound clip from one of the Lintet’s 2018 Lunar New Year performances. It’s a rendition of a classic Teresa Teng song:     Related Links:   Peter Lin’s Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/peterlinmusic   The Lintet’s first album, With Respect: https://peterlin.bandcamp.com/album/with-respect   The Lintet’s website: www.lintet.com

Debbie talks with Peter Corbett, a retired CEO who moved to Brooklyn from DC, sold his tech company to J. Walter Thompson (part of WPP), and completely changed his life. Peter was a young guy in his 20s when Debbie knew him back in DC's tech heyday. He was well known in DC’s tech community as the founder and CEO of iStrategy Labs as well as the convener of popular tech meetups. iStrategy Labs was one of the first digital marketing agencies, known for its creativity in bridging online and offline. The company won lots of awards and grew to have dozens of Fortune 500 clients. But after almost ten years of running the company Peter moved to New York to open an office there. Shortly after, he realized he’d had enough of the CEO life - it wasn’t who he really was. He sold the company for tens of millions of dollars and began living a completely different life. Now, at age 39, he is a Zen hospice practitioner volunteering at a hospital in Brooklyn as well as continuing his training. He also mentors entrepreneurs. Together they talk about how he found this new path, how meditation plays a crucial role for him and why he thinks it’s so important to contemplate mortality. This is not a Coronavirus episode, per se. But the virus - and the pain it’s causing for so many people - is hovering in the background. They talk about a bunch of things, including white privilege and what that means to him.It was a pleasure for Debbie to reconnect with an old friend.  What was talked about:What Peter does now: serving the sick and dying as a Zen hospice volunteer plus advising entrepreneursMoving to NYC to find anonymityRealizing he wanted to change his life as he deepened his Zen practiceHis profound realizations around being white and the privilege that gave himWhat a spiritual caregiver does and why he chose that pathIs the older generation more disposable?Coming to terms with your own mortalityWhy you should meditate Mentioned in episode:About Peter iStrategy LabsA Founder Moves On (Peter on why he sold his company)Peter's newsletter on Zen, Work and LifeNew York Zen Center for Contemplative Care where Peter is studyingHeadspaceCalmWeCroak (an app to find happiness by contemplating your death five times a day) Support this podcast:Leave a review on iTunes: it means so much!Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or Spotify Credits:Host: Debbie WeilProducer: Julie-Roxane KrikorianPodcast websiteMusic by Manuel Senfft Connect with us:Email: thegapyearpodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @debbieweilInsta: @debbieweilDebbie and Sam's blog: Gap Year After Sixty

(Acts 2:42-47;   Ps.118:1-4,13-15,22-24;   1Pt.1:3-9;   Jn.20:19-31)   “Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”   Jesus comes to the disciples, repeatedly appearing to them after His Resurrection, to make certain there is absolutely no doubt in them: “Do not be unbelieving, but believe.”  He invites them even to put their fingers in His hands and their hands into His side.  To Thomas He speaks, yes, but them all He teaches.  For He is commissioning them to go forth in His name in word and sacrament to bring forth life to souls who are dying, to preach the salvation from sin by His resurrection from the dead.  “Peace be with you,” He says to His Twelve.  “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”  And so He breathes on them the Holy Spirit, giving them power even to forgive men's sins.  Now, those to whom they shall proclaim that God “in His great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” will not have had the benefit of seeing the Lord.  And so, how can one expect them to believe just by the word of another if the speaker of that word is not completely convinced of its truth?  Their witness, their commitment, must extend even to the grave – as it shall – if it is to go beyond the grave. And the strength of the apostles' witness and the fruit it has borne – which, in turn, becomes a faithful witness unto others – is greatly evident in our reading from Acts.  Here we are told the first disciples “devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.”  Sharing all in common, their lives were centered on daily prayer and the Eucharistic meal, the feast of thanksgiving.  And “with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the people,” they lived their lives in truth, they lived their lives in faith.  What Peter ascribes to the disciples of Christ we find in these: “Although you have not seen Him you love Him; even though you do not see Him now… you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”  How effective his and the other apostles' witness has been. Brothers and sisters, “His mercy endures forever.”  The apostles' words reach down to us this day and the sacraments of their hands are still in our midst.  And so “the joyful shout of victory in the tents of the just” we too should know.  We too should sing, “My strength and my courage is the Lord, and He has been my savior.”  Though the Church has been made to suffer persecution and been dispersed to the ends of the earth, this is but to bring the Word forth, and through all suffering to make it perfect within us.  For ultimately the kingdom is not in this place; heaven we cannot completely see.  Only faith will lead us to the Lord's risen presence. Written, read & chanted, and produced by James Kurt. Music: "What Do You Think?/Open, No Horizon" (first part) from All One, sixth album of Songs for Children of Light, by James Kurt. ******* O LORD, let us make our home in the nail marks of your hands and the wound in your side that we might rise to new life.  YHWH, how great is your mercy toward us!  How great the wonders that come upon us through your Son, our Lord.  For He reveals your ineffable presence to us, taking from us all hardness of heart come from doubt and sin that our eyes might be opened to your glory, that we might enter into your joy. He has been rejected that we might be accepted.  His hands and feet and side have been pierced and He has died that we might rise with Him from the grave.  All our sin He would take from us, and so He leaves this power with His apostles and with the descendents of His apostles, who, though they have not seen Him yet have His Spirit breathing upon them to accomplish His merciful will in our midst, to reveal your merciful love to us, O LORD and God. O let us fall at His feet!  Let us proclaim His divinity.  Let us join as one in prayer and in the breaking of the Bread in His Name.  O LORD, let us be your blessed disciples and so know your salvation of our souls.  Alleluia!

(Acts 2:42-47;   Ps.118:1-4,13-15,22-24;   1Pt.1:3-9;   Jn.20:19-31)   “Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”   Jesus comes to the disciples, repeatedly appearing to them after His Resurrection, to make certain there is absolutely no doubt in them: “Do not be unbelieving, but believe.”  He invites them even to put their fingers in His hands and their hands into His side.  To Thomas He speaks, yes, but them all He teaches.  For He is commissioning them to go forth in His name in word and sacrament to bring forth life to souls who are dying, to preach the salvation from sin by His resurrection from the dead.  “Peace be with you,” He says to His Twelve.  “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”  And so He breathes on them the Holy Spirit, giving them power even to forgive men's sins.  Now, those to whom they shall proclaim that God “in His great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” will not have had the benefit of seeing the Lord.  And so, how can one expect them to believe just by the word of another if the speaker of that word is not completely convinced of its truth?  Their witness, their commitment, must extend even to the grave – as it shall – if it is to go beyond the grave. And the strength of the apostles' witness and the fruit it has borne – which, in turn, becomes a faithful witness unto others – is greatly evident in our reading from Acts.  Here we are told the first disciples “devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.”  Sharing all in common, their lives were centered on daily prayer and the Eucharistic meal, the feast of thanksgiving.  And “with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the people,” they lived their lives in truth, they lived their lives in faith.  What Peter ascribes to the disciples of Christ we find in these: “Although you have not seen Him you love Him; even though you do not see Him now… you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”  How effective his and the other apostles' witness has been. Brothers and sisters, “His mercy endures forever.”  The apostles' words reach down to us this day and the sacraments of their hands are still in our midst.  And so “the joyful shout of victory in the tents of the just” we too should know.  We too should sing, “My strength and my courage is the Lord, and He has been my savior.”  Though the Church has been made to suffer persecution and been dispersed to the ends of the earth, this is but to bring the Word forth, and through all suffering to make it perfect within us.  For ultimately the kingdom is not in this place; heaven we cannot completely see.  Only faith will lead us to the Lord's risen presence. Written, read & chanted, and produced by James Kurt. Music: "What Do You Think?/Open, No Horizon" (first part) from All One, sixth album of Songs for Children of Light, by James Kurt. ******* O LORD, let us make our home in the nail marks of your hands and the wound in your side that we might rise to new life.  YHWH, how great is your mercy toward us!  How great the wonders that come upon us through your Son, our Lord.  For He reveals your ineffable presence to us, taking from us all hardness of heart come from doubt and sin that our eyes might be opened to your glory, that we might enter into your joy. He has been rejected that we might be accepted.  His hands and feet and side have been pierced and He has died that we might rise with Him from the grave.  All our sin He would take from us, and so He leaves this power with His apostles and with the descendents of His apostles, who, though they have not seen Him yet have His Spirit breathing upon them to accomplish His merciful will in our midst, to reveal your merciful love to us, O LORD and God. O let us fall at His feet!  Let us proclaim His divinity.  Let us join as one in prayer and in the breaking of the Bread in His Name.  O LORD, let us be your blessed disciples and so know your salvation of our souls.  Alleluia!

Veteran professional organizer and TV host Peter Walsh joins us to uncover the deeper meaning behind our clutter and share tips to help you create comfort and joy at home during these challenging times. Peter starred in the popular organization and design series Clean Sweep with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) on Discovery’s TLC Network. The series produced over 120 episodes and has run almost continuously since 2003. He is the author of six best-selling books on the subject of organizing including How to Organize (Just About) Everything; It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, and Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? His new book is Let It Go, Downsizing Your Way to A Richer, Happier Life. Peter was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show where he was dubbed the “Get Your Life Organized Guy” which led to his own series, Extreme Clutter with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) on OWN. We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show. While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast. Join The Spark Joy Club today! (https://www.patreon.com/sparkjoy) In this episode, you’ll enjoy: How Peter got his start-you’ll never believe what he WASN’T interested in doing in the beginning How it all came together for Peter and organizational design became his great passion The importance of humor and empathy in working with people who are experiencing guilt and shame over clutter Peter’s take on why we accumulate so much-the hope of chasing a dream life through acquiring more and more “stuff” How Peter shocks his clients with his plan for discarding 70-80% of their stuff-but they find he was on the money! What Peter thinks of Marie Kondo. Peter and Marie on the Rachel Ray Show (https://www.rachaelrayshow.com/tips/22724_two_world_renowned_organizers_marie_kondo_and_peter_walsh_share_their_top_tips) Stories about what often gets edited from reality organizing shows. To go behind the scenes of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo check out: Ep 67 | Review of Netflix's "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" (https://www.sparkjoypodcast.com/episode-67-review-of-tidying-up-with-marie-kondo) Ep 68 | Behind the Scenes: Netflix's "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" with Tricia Fidler and Jane Grodem (https://www.sparkjoypodcast.com/ep-68-behind-the-scenes-netflix-tidying-up-marie-kondo-tricia-fidler-jane-grodem) Suggestions on how to manage the uncertainty of life during the pandemic Peter’s annual challenge on his YouTube channel. Peter Walsh's 31 Days to Get Organized (https://www.youtube.com/user/PeterWalshOrganizer/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=8) How to play Trash Bag Tango! (https://www.oprah.com/own-oprahshow/a-10-minute-declutter-exercise-known-as-the-trash-bag-tango-video) Peter’s great ideas for turning family organizing into learning games while we are staying home The importance of a schedule and maintaining a sense of routine while social distancing and staying at home Peter’s own experience surviving the coronavirus Favorite organizing tip: “Retreat into quiet at least 5 minutes a day. Although it may not seem to be a tidying tip, it will help you center yourself and to give you the space to step back into the busy world. Also, take a media break!” What is sparking the most joy for Peter: “We are seeing what is happening in the world could be a massive reset button. Staying connected with those we love and getting back in touch with those people who are most significant in our lives.” How to get in touch with Peter: Peter Walsh Design (http://www.peterwalshdesign.com) Peter’s Books (http://www.peterwalshdesign.com/my-books-dvd/) Extreme Clutter with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) Clean Sweep with Peter Walsh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5v4zheIl9qNHftk5NnD5FyQZVws866E) Peter’s very active FaceBook community (https://www.facebook.com/PeterWalsh) Peter's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7pBDyC68uihwKtEpjaZOrw) Gems: “I’ve discovered over nearly 20 years of doing this that we are all human and all in the same boat. We all go off the rails occasionally!” “At the end of the day, you are stronger than your stuff.” “Stuff is associated with happiness. People buy things thinking that they are buying happiness but they are really buying a shadow of happiness. Instead of buying a product, we are buying a promise.” “What is the vision you have from the life you want? Does the stuff you own help you get what you want from this room?” “If you don’t respect your space, if you overload it, it’s the same as dishonoring as person, you are dishonoring your space. You will never be happy in that space.” “Stuff is a distraction. Issues around clutter are about loss and trauma and neglect and abandonment.” “The issue is really, ‘How do I deal with the fear and the anxiety we are all facing at the moment.’ And, people are looking to organizing as a way of feeling some control.” You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home (https://www.theserenehome.com/) You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy (https://fortheloveoftidy.com/) Special Guest: Peter Walsh.

Peter Croft is an absolute legend in climbing. We talked about ‘The Shadow’ in Squamish and how his ascent became a climbing game, lessons from spending time alone, experimenting with burning fat for fuel, how he trains for big solos and linkups, some of his most memorable climbs, long johns vs. lycra, and the magic of inspiration.  Support on Patreon:patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing  Show Notes:  http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/peter-croft   Nuggets:  2:39 – Morning person, taking more rest days, learning about resting from John Bachar, and linking up The Nose and Half Dome in a day  6:59 – “Climbing is a process.”  7:51 – “Peter Croft is my spirit animal.”  8:43 – The friendly introvert, the honesty that comes from spending time alone, doing vs. sharing, and why Peter prefers smaller more intimate groups  14:33 – Shadow games, Peter’s onsight of ‘The Shadow’, and the power of inspiration    18:05 – The video of Jesse Huey climbing ‘The Shadow’, “There’s no place in the world I’d rather be than right here and right now”, and Peter’s transition from Squamish to CA  19:29 – So many new crags, early FAs up in Squamish, and Peter the fun hog  21:18 – Escaping to Leavenworth, a little bit of heaven, and increasing competitiveness in Squamish  24:39 – Soloing up and down Castle Rock, Peter’s Squamish circuit, and how down climbing improved his crack climbing  28:15 – Why Peter hasn’t spent much time projecting  30:51 – Peter’s progression, climbing his first 3-4 5.13s first try, and training by soloing tons of 5.10s and 5.11s  32:21 – Peter’s current training and fingerboarding, current projects, and working on weaknesses   34:15 – Soloing ‘The Rostrum’ and ‘Astroman’ in a day, preparation, and how Peter thinks about training for big solos (“Fitness shouldn’t be a factor.”)  36:08 – Soloing ‘ROTC Crack’ in Leavenworth, testing  fat for fuel, traversing the Stuart Range with a single water bottle and a banana, and the handgun story (“This is how I die.”)  43:44 – Fat for fuel, Peter’s thoughts on (super) high-carb diets, bonking from too much sugar, and “if in doubt, go with less.”  45:55 – The ‘University Wall’  48:03 – Alex Honnold’s free solo of ‘University Wall’, and why Peter never considered doing it himself  49:11 – Why Peter moved to California and why he stayed  51:29 – Exploring the Sierras, ridge traversing, and what makes The Hulk “wonderfully peculiar”.  54:20 – The ‘The Venturi Effect’, and the best stemming corner Peter has ever climbed  55:09 – The gripping free soloing story Peter told on the Enormocast (linked in show notes), and why Peter has survived while so many legendary soloists have died  1:01:41 – Adventure, reading ‘I Chose to Climb’ by Chris Bonington, how Peter got into climbing, and why he never got sucked in to big expedition climbing  1:04:26 – More of the Enormocast free-soloing story, polypropylene long johns, and climbing wet 5.8 friction scoops on his knees  1:09:45 – Tights vs. long johns, an egocentric era, why Peter never wore bright colored lycra, and wearing long johns on rainy days  1:15:00 – Advice Peter would have for himself when he was young (warming up, taking rest days, and picking goals more carefully while being spontaneous) and inspiration as a superpower  1:17:29 – Stumbling on inspiration, and onsighting a hard roof crack after failing on a 5.11   1:19:32 – How inspiration can raise the ceiling from 100% to 150%  1:21:03 – Rare is special, how aesthetics speak to Peter, and the benefits of traveling  1:22:57 – What Peter hopes his 80-year-old self would say to him, health scare, and why climbing for Peter is so much more than just the climbing  1:25:13 – Why Peter is so grateful for his friends, community, the growth of the climbing community in Bishop, and being surrounded by good energy  1:26:56 – Why the increased popularity of Bishop has been a good thing  1:27:57 – Writing, telling stories, and Peter’s current writing project  1:29:51 – Peter’s thoughts on writing a book  1:32:05 – Meeting Alan Watts at Smith Rock in 1981, the one-arm pull-up show, and not putting labels on different types of climbing  1:35:56 – What’s next for Peter, and his thoughts on bouldering as an impact sport  1:38:16 – Feeling like a kid in a candy store, gratitude for finding climbing, and having “the thing”  1:39:46 – Peter’s final thoughts for younger climbers, why he recommends traveling a lot, and the old Greek lady with the baby goats  1:42:04 – Peter’s upcoming trips, flow state with writing, and writing advice from John Long  

Is your business succeeding or failing? Somewhere in between? If you’re struggling to answer that question, Peter Christian’s debut book can help. In What About the Vermin Problem?, Christian shares the good, bad, and ugly business practices that he’s witnessed over his long career as a consultant and leader for companies like Crayola®️. We cover a lot of ground in this week’s episode, including: [00:21] The most important policies and procedures to have in place from the beginning of your company [00:50] The main difference, from Christian’s perspective, between a startup and an established company [02:50] The number one systems implementation issue companies face [04:30] What makes information systems difficult and how the right disciplines can protect you from pain. [06:30] How consultants help you understand readiness for new initiatives and projects [08:00] Understanding business tools versus personal needs and how the human element matters for good optimizations [09:23] Mitigating risk by knowing what we don’t want or need to do in our work [12:10] How Christian helped one foodservice company save 15 million dollars on a new facility by optimizing the existing resources [19:10] The danger of using people to solve systems problems and what to do instead [23:30] How thinking about sunsetting products or services is critical to your planning process [27:14] Communicating differences of opinion in a way that makes your business stronger [29:51] Where the title, What About the Vermin Problem?, came from and how it relates to good communication [32:20] What it means when you continually don’t get what you want at the end of a project (Perhaps the most important part of the whole conversation). [34:04] Peter and Renia go wayyy deep and nerdy on the importance and power of strategic planning. [37:50] Why consultants can be dangerous if you don’t know where you’re going [40:54] Anticipating industry changes and evolutions that require adaptation [43:28] What Peter learned from leading production at Crayola®️ about forecasting for future circumstances [48:00] The danger of growth and holding large amounts of inventory [50:40] Where to begin, when you don’t know what you don’t know [52:54] What the best consultants do, that isn’t so common [57:45] Peter’s hopes for what you will learn by reading this book   How to connect with Peter Christian  Read more on Peter’s Blog Connect with Peter on LinkedIn

"This Is My Son…Listen to Him!” Exodus 24:12-18 & Matthew 17:1-9   This Sunday is the last for the season of Epiphany and it points to the Transfiguration of Jesus. Jesus is seen on the mountaintop as the glorious, reigning Son of God.  Up till now the disciples had only seen Jesus as a human that God was with. Now they are seeing him in his glory as the Son of God. They hear the affirmation of his glory from the Father saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”  The Father’s voice was pointing them to the One worthy of all their attention. What Peter and the other disciples were beginning to learn is the gospel. That Jesus is God come down to man in order to bring us to God. This sermon’s focus is how loving the gospel is listening to Jesus. It is easy for us to become distracted by other people and things and miss the glory of Jesus. Peter was distracted by the presence of Moses and Elijah, two men God used to reveal himself to his people. But now Jesus, the one to whom the Law and the Prophets point, the one who will replace the law, is in front of them. And God has to tell them to "Listen to him!”  We need to listen to him everyday all day. Don’t be distracted by the Moses’ and Elijah’s of our day. They’re only men, but Jesus is the Son!   Listening to the Son, with whom the Father is well pleased, is what gets you through this life. Listen to him, because he is greater than Moses. Listen to him because he is the mediator of a better covenant. Listen to him because his blood speaks better things than Able’s. Listen to him because in him God dwells with us. And as we listen to him, the Father’s pleasure with him, is the pleasure the Father has with us.   

What Peter wrote here is not archaic or inapplicable to today's culture. Rather, it is God's will for all women at all times- whether we go back 3,800 years to the time of Abraham- 2,000 years to the time of Christ- Or last week.

“The breath is the carrier of consciousness.” If anyone has mastered their mind, it's extreme athlete Wim Hof.Wim Hof got his nickname “The Iceman” by breaking a number of records related to cold exposure. His feats include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in shorts, running a half marathon above the Arctic Circle on his bare feet, and standing in a container while covered with ice cubes for more than 112 minutes. He developed the Wim Hof Method: a natural path to an optimal state of body and mind.He says that our brains have the power to guarantee us happiness, strength, and health. We can actually regulate our mind and the autonomous nervous system by breathing and being present.I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Poland along several other top entrepreneurs and business owners to experience a week with Wim Hof that I will never forget.As a group, we participated in several different exercises. Some involved meditation and breathing and others involved enduring intense cold and ice water challenges.On this trip, we all learned about the importance of brotherhood. Some of the physical challenges would have been unbearable if we were going at it alone. We all had each other to encourage, to motivate, and to push.We've all been in a place, where we think, "I can't do this anymore."That's a mindset roadblock that we were taught to overcome. Often in the midst of being uncomfortable, our minds and bodies panic. Our top priority is becoming comfortable again. But this is not often the correct way to deal with stress or pain.The mind is powerful, and if you teach it to avoid pain, then you'll never reach your full potential.If anyone has mastered the art of being uncomfortable while releasing stress, it's Wim Hof. He gave all us an experience we will never forget.How deep breathing practices create spiritual experiences in the body and mind (0:45)What Aubrey learned on the trip (2:52)What Steve learned on the trip (5:23)What Humble learned on the trip (6:53)What Mike learned on the trip (11:49)What Jesse learned on the trip (15:19)What Marq learned on the trip (20:59)What Matt (Cesar) learned on the trip (24:20)What Enahm learned on the trip (27:00)What Nick learned on the trip (33:30)Why Mike walked across America (37:14)What Taylor learned on the trip (40:18)What Mitch learned on the trip (41:28)What Matthew learned on the trip (43:45)What Peter learned on the trip (52:05)What Dalton learned on the trip (53:35)What Wim learned on the trip (55:23)Aubrey’s thoughts on the power of breathwork (57:30)Matthew’s thoughts on leadership (1:01:18)Plus much more...Wim Hof EpisodeSteve Weatherford EpisodeHumble the Poet EpisodeMike Posner EpisodeAubrey Marcus EpisodeMatthew Hussey EpisodeJesse Itzler EpisodeNick Symmonds EpisodeMatthew Hussey EpisodeWim Hof appWim Hof InstagramSteve Weatherford InstagramHumble the Poet InstagramMike Posner InstagramAubrey Marcus InstagramMatthew Hussey InstagramJesse Itzler InstagramMarq Brown InstagramNick Symmonds InstagramTaylor Jenson InstagramMitch Matthews InstagramEnahm Hof InstagramMatthew Hussey InstagramDalton Misner InstagramIf you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/910 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

“Solve an issue, solve a problem, make money, and make it on your own.” On this episode of Everyday M&A, we hear from Peter Burns III, a serial entrepreneur who has started over 100 companies as well as founded the first college of entrepreneurship in the US. Peter shares with us: How a college course he took in 1977 sparked a lifelong career in starting companies What Peter’s process is for starting a company The business opportunities Peter is most excited about today Creative funding strategies you can use today for your business Everyday M and A is proudly hosted by the business law firm of Thorsen Legal. Our team of corporate lawyers have decades of experience representing companies of all sizes, from small startups to large multinational corporations.

Rejecting the Screen goes ISO with Peter Vecsey, one of the most famous and influential NBA columnists of all-time, a Hall of Famer, and a former analyst on Inside the NBA. Hosts Noah Coslov & Adam Stanco sit down with the former New York Post, New York Daily News, and USA Today writer as he reveals incredible personal details about his experiences with Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Larry Bird, Dr. J, and Charles Barkley. Plus, he tells stories about the NBA guys who wanted to fight him, how he hid a Rucker legend from drug dealers, and what really happened with some of his most famous scoops. And he gives his thoughts on how today's game is reported on, specifically James Harden and the Houston Rockets. Please subscribe to the podcast, rate, review and share with your friends! Rejecting the Screen is part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Follow Noah on Twitter @NoahCoslov and Adam @NaismithLives -- What Charles Barkley's first day on Inside the NBA was like (1:25) Peter's relationship with Larry Bird and what Bird revealed to him (9:15) Whether Peter's legendary book will ever get written (12:30) How Peter's perspective has changed on stories he thought he knew (14:45) What Michael Jordan would think of what Peter has written about him (15:50) Peter's remarkable in-person interview with Jordan when he playing baseball (17:30) How he balanced his friendships with players and his reporting (22:10) The inside story of Jeff Van Gundy quitting on the Knicks (24:55) The real story behind Peter getting the Phil Jackson story wrong (28:40) Peter knew Drazen Petrovic was not going to return to the Nets (32:10) How Spencer Haywood almost beat up Peter (37:20) The day Pat Riley wanted to fight Peter (39:20) Peter's famous postgame interview with Karl Malone after the 1997 NBA Finals (41:30) Peter isn't impressed with the current New York media (45:00) Why Peter has no respect for Woj's reporting (46:30) The inside scoop on how James Harden is running the Rockets (48:55) Why he told Mark Jackson not to hire Brian Scalabrine (51:20) Hiding Earl "The Goat" Manigault in his apartment to hide from drug dealers (52:30) Why no one would show up for a reunion dinner with New York media (55:50) Peter wants to do a reunion show with Barkley (56:30) Why other media members were resentful of the relationships Peter had (57:45) Developing relationships with P.J. Carlesimo & Latrell Sprewell after the choking story (1:01:00) Going after a job in the NBA (1:04:30) How Peter believes he could have made ESPN shows better (1:04:45) What Peter's first lesson on breaking a story would be if he taught a class (1:07:30) Peter speculates on something going on between NBC and OJ during "The Chase" (1:08:50) Who he'd want to reject the screen & go ISO in a must-win situation (1:10:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The keys you want!; Who determines you are a church?; Thomas Paine and 1 Samuel 8; Does God hear you?; "Come out" of what?; Evidence you are in commerce; Merchant law and Admiralty; Biblical take on "blame"; Existential threats; Global warming; Seeking salvation in vaccination; Today's new Christianity, new Christ, and new Religion; Moses' burning bush; "woke" is a joke; Pharoah's dream interpretation; What Peter knew; 2 Cor 6 - Becoming safe in a world lacking reason; Some truths hurt; Laying down your life daily; Paul and working together; Christ took the kingdom from the Pharisees; Ministry in Christ/Paul time; Who is Paul's "we"?; Communion; Following Christ; Intersectionality; Rights and God; Can you GO to Church?; Do you own your Car? House? Labor?; Who are "unbelievers"?; Boys in the girl's locker room; Social Security bankrupt?; Your only salvation; Wedding garments; Where's your Daily Ministration?; Can you save yourself?; Who are the "called out"?; Paul's minister school; Charity = sacrifice = offerings = love; Modern Church says OK to covet; Extending USA PATRIOT act; What Corinthians were doing that Modern Christians are not; Making covenants with their gods; Nicolaitans; No way to excuse covetous practices; Seeking the system of God; Key difference between God's government and the world; Paul's lists; Yoked by righteousness.

Immediately after graduating from college, I began working for an independent advisory firm where I studied to become a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder (CFA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP®). I was learning so much on a daily basis that I began taking detailed notes to absorb and retain the information. Over time, bullet points turned to sentences and sentences turned to paragraphs. In 2010, I launched an e-newsletter with the goal of educating people about investing and financial planning. That initial email went out to 34 people. Today, my e-newsletter has over 3,000 subscribers. My writing platform expanded when I began regularly contributing to Forbes in 2016 and The Wall Street Journal in 2017. In 2018, I signed a book deal with Wiley & Sons to write a book about turning career success into financial success. Today I’m the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Plancorp, which manages over $4 billion of client assets as of December 31, 2018. I’m also the Co-Chief Investment Officer of a digital advisor called BrightPlan that emphasizes financial planning and is the first digital advisor to be a certified fiduciary by the Centre For Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX). What You Will Learn: How getting Nike stock from his grandmother at just 12 years old piqued Peter’s interest in investing and where that led him What Peter does to help people invest and plan for retirement as they juggle busy professional lives Why having a financial advisor is like having a professional lawnmower and the importance of hiring the right people The market’s volatility and how to plan for market corrections (they aren’t as bad as you think!) Variations in investing and markets across the states and strategies for investment during recessions Peter’s forecast for the future in investing and advice for keeping a positive mindset The meaning of wealth to Peter and his “why” for investing, building wealth, and helping others Additional Resources from Peter Lazaroff: Assessment: www.smartmoneyquiz.com Website: www.peterlazaroff.com Company Website: www.plancorp.com Email: info@peterlazaroff.com Additional Resources from Gary Wilson: My Investment Services Bronze Membership: https://edu.myinvestmentservices.com/bronze-level-membership My Investment Services Silver Membership: https://edu.myinvestmentservices.com/silver-level-membership

Kristin Skinner and Peter Merholz, co-writers of Org Design for Design Orgs, are teaching a full day workshop at the DesignOps Summit this year. On this episode of the Rosenfeld Review, they discuss the career milestones that brought them to the realization that there was a book to be written about the challenges they faced when coordinating and managing across teams. What Peter’s reading: Uday Gajendar’s “Rise of the Meta Designer” in Interactions Magazine https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3338285 What’s inspiring Kristin lately: Scott Berkun’s work http://scottberkun.com More about the workshop: As the move to establish in-house design teams accelerates, it turns out there’s very little common wisdom on what makes for a successful design organization. In their full day workshop at the DesignOps Summit on October 25 in New York City, Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner will draw from their groundbreaking book Org Design for Design Orgs, and address this lacuna by shining a light on the unsung activities of actually running a design team, the organizational and operational challenges and considerations, and what works and what doesn’t.

A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC May 19, 2019, the fifth Sunday of Easter. “Questions Along The Way” series.                                                 Texts:  Acts 11:1-18, (John 13:31-35)                                                 This Spring season has been such a gift for me this year.  The birdsong, the breeze, the growing green, the waves of flowers, have all been like medicine for my weary spirit.  Perhaps you know what I mean.  Those of you who follow me on FaceBook may have seen the pictures of flowers in my yard…medicine!  Such beautiful diversity of color and texture in the garden… Diversity in a garden is beautiful and desirable and takes some work and planning but is fairly straight-forward to achieve. Diversity in human community is also beautiful and desirable… and makes everything harder.  Creating a healthy and just diverse human community is decidedly NOT straight-forward to achieve.   Today we read of an extraordinary moment in the early church as it tried to figure out how to live as a community according to the Way of Jesus:  The story opens with Peter being challenged by the Jewish Christians in Judea because they’ve heard that Peter shared the gospel with Gentiles and baptized them!  You see, the United Methodist Church is not the first community of Jesus followers to struggle with issues of diversity and to have conflict over who is “in” and who is “out.”  In the earliest days of the church, there were great disputes about who could be included in the church’s ranks; one main issue was whether to be a member of The Way, one needed to be circumcised—that is, either a born Jew or a Jewish convert.  Prejudice on this point was as virulent as any prejudice we are familiar with today.    Peter defends his actions by sharing a vision he had received while still in Joppa and recounting what happened as a result. Peter’s vision is odd (as visions often are) and came to Peter while he was praying and distracted by hunger. At that moment “something like a large sheet” descends from heaven (a sign that the vision is from God). The sheet holds all kinds of animals—in fact, the list is a conventional classification of creatures for the literature of the time—“four-footed creatures and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.” A voice from heaven urges Peter to kill and eat up!  Peter protests, citing his interpretation and practice of orthodoxy—“I’ve never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.”  And the voice gives a correction, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.” This animal-laden sheet appearance, the voice, the protest by Peter, and the corrective repeat three times.   One of our Foundry folk (Lorrea Stallard) has given me a new shorthand for Peter’s vision encounter: it’s “bed, bath, and the great beyond!”  But what is going on here?  It is important to remember that, like Jesus, Peter and all the original twelve apostles were observant Jews.  There were very strict rules about food—what was “kosher” and what was considered “unclean.”  Peter reacts to the animals on the sheet as if all were unclean—though that’s not the case. Some of the animals listed would have been OK to eat according to the food laws.  So there’s something “off” about Peter’s perception or interpretation of either the religious law or of what he was seeing displayed on the sheet.  What Peter thought was the right thing to do was corrected not once, but three times.  Peter was puzzled. //   Now another vision occurred the day before Peter’s—received by one Cornelius of Caesarea, a Gentile.  Cornelius is described as a devout man who “gave alms generously to the people and prayed constantly to God” (Acts 10:2). The message he received in his vision was to send for Peter. Cornelius dispatches some from his household to fetch Peter from Joppa. These are the messengers who appear as Peter is trying to make sense of his “bed, bath, and the great beyond” vision.  And what Peter recounts to his up-in-arms colleagues in Judea, is that when the messengers from Caesarea arrived, “the Spirit told me to go with them and not to make a distinction between them and us.”  Once he arrived in the home of Cornelius he shared the good news of Jesus Christ, the news of peace and power and healing and release from oppression and new life and forgiveness (Acts 10:34-43).  And then, he reports, “the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.”  Acts 10:45 records, “The circumcised believers who had come with Peter (to Caesarea) were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles…” Astounded. God’s grace, God’s Spirit, God’s love was not reserved only for them. God’s gifts were shared with those who were different from them.  Astounding.   This story contains one of the most important tenets of our faith:  The good news of Jesus Christ is for ALL…the Holy Spirit is a gift for ALL…the saving love and power of God is for ALL.  Followers of the Way of Jesus are called from the very beginning “not to make a distinction between ‘them’ and ‘us,’” to cross boundaries in order to share the love, mercy, and justice of God with everyone.    This story marks a turning point for the early church, a new way of understanding what God is doing.  For it becomes clear that God, in Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit has expanded the saving territory beyond the boundary of the “chosen people” the Jews and truly beyond any boundary!  Peter, seeing that the Holy Spirit was received by the Gentiles he met in Caesarea, says this astonishing thing:  “If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?”    And this gets us to our question for today:  Are we obstacles or instruments?  God is always trying to draw the circle wider, to do something new in us, to expand hearts and minds, to bring reconciliation and justice, to tear down the walls of division.  And we can so easily get in the way; wittingly or not, we can hinder what God is up to.  Any of the persons in the story might have been an obstacle to God’s movement.  Cornelius could have been an obstacle to his household receiving the good news of God’s love in Jesus and receiving the Holy Spirit—if he had ignored or rejected the message he received in prayer.  The messengers could have been obstacles by not agreeing to relay the invitation to Peter.  Peter could have been an obstacle by refusing to receive the correction to his limited and likely erroneous perception of the religious law or by refusing to go to Caesarea.  Peter’s companions could have been obstacles if they had tried to keep those in Cornelius’ home from being baptized.  But all along the way, these folks allow God to work in and through them; they are like what the 14th century mystic poet, Hafiz, describes when he says, “I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through.”  They are not obstacles, but instruments, open to Spirit to move through and move them to embrace, include, and love.  I think of the prayer of St. Francis that begins, “Make me an instrument of your peace…”   In the story, there is a moment of truth: will the “apostles and the believers who were in Judea”—those who hadn’t had a personal experience of these Gentiles—will they be obstacles to what God is up to, holding fast to the old rule, clinging to the well-known requirements as gatekeepers of their tribe?  Or will they be instruments, allowing the breath of Christ to move through them and open their minds and hearts to the expanded community God is offering?  The story makes it sound so easy!  Peter and the others tell the story…and those in Judea who are opposed to this radical shift in “the way we’ve always done it” are silenced in their objections and give praise to God.   We know it’s not so easy, though. Letting go of the familiar and comfortable is never easy. Letting go of what has given us a sense of order and identity is never easy.  And the call of God to “make no distinctions between ‘us’ and ‘them,’” while beautiful and powerful, isn’t easy either.  To make no distinction between “them” and “us” is not to erase the real differences that exist in the human family.  Human beings come from different places, have different strengths and weaknesses, and have different cultural, racial, political, theological, and sexual and gender identities.  We communicate in very different ways, we have different love languages and priorities and perspectives and preferences—from music to food to art to sports team loyalties…  This is the way it is.  And to be Christian doesn’t mean that we are to ignore these diversities or to try to make everyone the same.  Far from it.  A community in which everyone looks, thinks, acts, and reacts the same way would be a boring fiction—and might describe the goal of some human political factions, clubs, or even church communities.  But that isn’t what authentic Christian community is—and it is not the way God created the creation.  To make no distinction between “them” and “us” in the church means that we recognize that, regardless of who a person is, where they come from, how they act or think or love—that person is a child of God, that person has received (or has the capacity to receive) the Holy Spirit, that person is a fellow member WITH US of the Body of Christ.  That is not easy—not ever—and especially not in these polarized and anxious days in which we live.  It’s one reason why so many Christians and churches find themselves being obstacles instead of instruments of God’s grace and love.   Right now at Foundry and across the United Methodist Church, we are grappling with all of this—really at every level.  Here at Foundry we are committed to practice healthy relationships with one another, to extend grace and compassion, to be accountable with each other, to do justice, to be humble, to listen, to honor the beautiful diversity within our community and to try to remove obstacles that get in the way of greater diversity and creation of true beloved community.  We are engaged directly and meaningfully in all the conversations happening locally and nationally to create a church that is fully inclusive of LGBTQ persons.  I hope you read last month’s Forge piece that shared the resolution by the Board—to more deeply and intentionally address issues and opportunities to strengthen our practices for racial equity and justice.  And this next issue will share an excerpt from and link to an essay I wrote for The Circuit Rider online journal that reflects on what I see as the opportunities God is giving us right now as a denomination.  I believe God is calling us to repent of an unjust past—related to everything from race to colonial practices to gender inequity to exclusion of LGBTQ folks.  And I also believe God is calling us to reset for a revitalized, faithful, dynamic, fully inclusive, anti-racist, anti-colonial future that draws upon the best of our Wesleyan tradition.    The challenge for us is that to practice the Way of Jesus is to love like Jesus.   Jesus knows how to love the beautifully diverse human family.  We continue to struggle to get it quite right.  But we can choose to be open, to be responsive to God’s movement in our lives, to be instruments through which Christ’s breath can create something new, something beautiful.  By God’s grace, we might be like those in Judea whose concern and anxiety was turned to praise for the surprising, amazing grace of God that melts away the walls that divide people into clean and unclean, praise for the love of God that is poured out on all so that abundant life might be a possibility.  Who are we to hinder God??  Today I invite you to consider where you might be— intentionally or not—hindering God…where you need to get out of the way… and where you are being invited to be an instrument of God’s peace, hope, compassion, justice, and love in the world…   We are at a turning point in our communal life as the United Methodist Church and at Foundry as a result. Will you be an obstacle or an instrument for God’s leading?        

The Sky’s the Limit Space enthusiast, doctor, and serial entrepreneur Peter Diamandis on abundance, exponential technologies, and why the world is better than you think. Ever since he was a child, Peter Diamandis has been looking up, literally and figuratively. Captivated by the lunar landing in 1969, he’s spent much of his life pushing the boundaries of space exploration through his various companies. And as a proponent of the concepts of exponential technologies and abundance, he has a refreshingly optimistic outlook on the future. “I believe that we're heading towards a world where we can uplift every man, woman, and child on this planet,” he says. And as the founder of more than 20 companies in the fields of longevity, space, venture capital, and education—perhaps most famously the XPRIZE—Diamandis is doing his best to advance the world he envisions. “I’ve always followed my passion,” he says. “And at the end of the day, that’s really the world that I feel extraordinarily lucky to live in, one where I am doing what I want to do.” Exploring Medicine and Space Born in New York to Greek immigrant parents who both worked in medicine, Diamandis felt obligated to become a doctor just like his father. But as a child of the 1960s who was fascinated with the Apollo program, he also felt compelled to explore space. So, he did both. After getting accepted into Harvard Medical School, Diamandis co-founded the International Space University, which today has graduated more than 4,600 students from over 105 countries, and started International Microspace, a rocket company that was later acquired by CTA Incorporated. Even after he obtained his medical degree, instead of practicing medicine, Diamandis continued building businesses, many in the area of space. He founded XPRIZE, a global contest whose winners include a team that developed the first non-governmental manned spacecraft; and Zero-G, which has helped people like Stephen Hawking, Buzz Aldrin, and Martha Stewart experience weightlessness in a modified Boeing 727 that performs aerobatic maneuvers at 32,000 feet (if you fancy a ride, the Zero-G Experience starts at $5,400 per person). While Diamandis has worked hard to get here, he’s having a lot of fun too. “I've always been a 9-year-old kid pursuing my dreams,” he says. Turning Science Fiction Into Fact Looking at Diamandis’ long list of companies is a bit like reading synopses of science fiction novels. Space Adventures sends private citizens to the International Space Station to live and work alongside astronauts. Human Longevity seeks to extend the human lifespan through genomic and phenotypic data. And XPRIZE hosts multimillion-dollar global competitions to solve humanity’s most challenging problems. There are some truly out-of-this-world inventions that have emerged from XPRIZE competitions that are worth noting here. To make space travel possible for private citizens, Mojave Aerospace Ventures designed a privately financed manned spaceship with technology that was licensed by Richard Branson for Virgin Galactic. To provide clean water to the underprivileged, the Skysource/Skywater Alliance invented an energy-efficient device that gleans water from thin air. To make healthcare more accessible, Team DMI created a device that can run hundreds of lab tests on one drop of blood, alerting the user within minutes if they have a cold, the flu, or even Ebola. Diamandis says that XPRIZE helps address just one of his many passions: “How do I empower entrepreneurs to really go big and change the world?” On Emerging Technologies and Abundance Watch the evening news or read the newspaper, and the world seems pretty bleak. But Diamandis believes we have good reason to be hopeful. One of his most popular contributions is his concept of abundance, which he’s given a TED talk and written a book about. It’s the idea that technology is transforming scarce resources into abundant ones, quickly closing the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Google, for example, has given the general public access to a storehouse of knowledge that history’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists could never have imagined. Further, exponential technologies—such as artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and virtual reality—have made it easier than ever to produce solutions at scale, solutions that, previously, only governments and massive corporations were capable of producing. “Energy is a perfect example,” Diamandis says. Humans went from killing whales to get oil for lamps, to mining mountains for coal, to drilling the ocean floor for oil. Meanwhile, the sun bathes the earth in more energy than we could use in a year. An exponential entrepreneur, therefore, would find a way to use technology to efficiently harness the sun’s energy and distribute it to the masses. Through the lens of abundance, Diamandis sees an opportunity for entrepreneurs to change the world, so much so that he created an exclusive community, Abundance Digital, that aims to do just that. He hosts monthly webinars and provides courses to inspire its roughly 3,000 members to think bigger, teaching them that “the world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.” Because of exponential technologies, Diamandis envisions a future where AI makes education and healthcare effectively free and available to all, where self-driving electric cars make using a car service cheaper than owning a vehicle—a future where nothing is truly scarce. Finding Your Massively Transformative Purpose Though Diamandis keeps his eyes to the sky, that doesn’t mean he has his head in the clouds. He acknowledges that every new venture carries the potential for failure. When asked if he ever has doubts when starting a new business, he says, “Of course, I mean, I'm not insane. But it doesn't slow me down.” That’s because, though he recognizes entrepreneurship’s inherent difficulties, he draws strength from his unshakeable sense of purpose. Diamandis recommends beginning every entrepreneurial journey with determining your “Massively Transformative Purpose,” or MTP. This is what keeps you going when the going gets tough; it’s the thing that, even if you do not succeed, grants you the satisfaction of knowing that your time was spent improving humanity. “People have to understand why they're building their business,” he says. “If you're just trying to build a business to make money, I view that as sort of an empty pursuit, and when it gets hard, you don't have the emotional energy to push through and succeed.” So what are Diamandis’ MTPs? He has a few: opening up space exploration to more people, extending the healthy human lifespan, and inspiring entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest problems. For an advanced entrepreneur, having three MTPs is fine, but Diamandis recommends beginners start with just one. On Hiring a Team and Finding a Co-Founder Behind every great entrepreneur is a great team, and Diamandis is no exception. He has a roughly 12-person “strike force” that works with him across all of his ventures. Each team member has been carefully selected. “I don't suffer assholes or fools,” says Diamandis, whose rigorous hiring process is proof of that. To fill a position, he’ll sometimes run a global contest. The winners advance to a 60- or 90-day trial period, after which, the entire team has to vote them in, meaning there must be 100 percent acceptance. “One person who's out of whack can send the whole thing careening,” he explains. “So it's really important that we operate as a team.” While he uses the Kolbe test, which assesses conative skills, Diamandis doesn’t rely heavily on testing to make his choices, preferring to use the team interview process as a major determiner. Ultimately, though, his hiring decisions boil down to one simple metric: He needs to genuinely like the candidate. “If when we're in the meeting and that person is talking, if I'm, in the back of my mind, saying, ‘I wish this guy would shut up,’ that's not a good situation. On the other hand, if we're in a meeting and I'm saying, ‘Listen, I haven't heard from you. I really want to hear your thoughts,’ that's a good situation. So I need to respect them and want to hear what they have to say.” Those same likeability and respect factors go into his selecting a co-founder or CEO. For every company Diamandis has started, he picked a co-founder or two to help him get it off the ground. Now that he has more than 20 companies, for some of them, he may step back and serve as founder and chairman and then either promote a co-founder to CEO or hire one to run the company. Moving Forward Not one to rest on his laurels, Diamandis has his hands on many projects, including a new book he’s working on with Tony Robbins. “I'm doing a lot,” he admits, “but it's all driven by passion.” As for work-life balance, for him, it doesn’t exist. “It's more about work-life integration,” he explains. “I am ‘on’ 24/7. I have two 7-year-old boys; I do my best to prioritize them, but there have been…too many days away, and so there is, for sure, the trade of time.” That trade-off is a familiar one for any entrepreneur trying to make a difference, big or small. “I know some of the more successful Silicon Valley gazillionaires,” says Diamandis, “and it's brutal sometimes. But at the end of the day, it's living a life of meaning and a life of where you get to choose how you spend your time and the dent you want to leave on this planet.” 4 Lessons Every Visionary Founder Can Learn From Peter Diamandis It’s one thing to want to build a lifestyle business, one whose sole purpose is to make enough money to support the way you live, but it’s quite another to want to build a business that changes the world. If you fall in the latter camp, here’s what you can take away from our talk with Peter Diamandis: Be true to yourself. “The most important thing you need to do as a founder of a company is know that you love what you're doing, and you're not doing it for your parents, for your friends, for your teacher, out of obligation. … You’re doing it because it is what you love doing.” Know your MTP.   “What's your massively transformative purpose? What is it that keeps you going? Who do you want to be a hero to?” Think big(gest). “I teach that the world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. If you want to become a billionaire, help a billion people.” Harness exponential technologies to help people at scale. “As an entrepreneur, you can choose to work hard 40 hours a week…and impact a hundred people, or you can work those same hours and impact a million people. It's your choice. The tools we have to impact the world are extraordinary.” Key Takeaways How Peter grew up wanting to be an astronaut, went to medical school, and managed to merge his passion for space with his knowledge of medicine. The 20+ companies he’s started, including Space Adventures, Zero-G, and XPRIZE Peter’s advice for founders The new book he’s working on with Tony Robbins How he curates an amazing team, including his rigorous vetting process How technology is taking what used to be scarce and making it abundant How he’s inspiring entrepreneurs to think bigger and change the world through his exclusive Abundance Digital community On using your “massively transformative purpose” (MTP) to drive your business forward What Peter’s MTPs are The sacrifices he’s had to make to get where he is today

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario www.knowgrowshow.ca The One Thing Has regret made lunch meat of you? Make it your launch pad. The Passage Mark 14:27-31; 66-72 Discussion Questions Know What are some of your favourite sounds from childhood? Grow Have you ever known someone who has regret in their life that they cannot seem to move on from? What has been your advice to them? Luke's account says that when the rooster crowed, Jesus turned and looked straight at Peter (Luke 22:61). Why do you think Mark omits this detail from his account? Was it two rooster crows (Mark 14:72) or one rooster crow (Luke 22:60, John 18:27)? Does this give us cause to doubt the reliability of scripture? Why or why not? Peter fixated on the first statement of Mark 14:27 ([1] You will all fall away) and missed the other statements ([2] After I have risen [3] I will go ahead of you into Galilee). Why was it so vital that Peter listen to all three? How might things have gone differently if he had? Do you more naturally focus on your sin (the Mess), the gospel (the Method) or the God's purpose for your life (the Mission)? What is something you can do to embrace all three? Read Luke 21:31-32. What did Dan mean when he said: “That regret that caused us such shame is now re-purposed for God's glory. What Peter learned in that place of darkness is now part of his toolbox”? Show Take time this week to respond to God. Allow Him to reveal to you any unresolved regrets you have. If there's a regret that you have kept quiet and hidden, but it's eating you up inside, confess them fully to God (and to a trusted friend or even set up a time with Dan even) and receive His grace and trust Him for the gift of a new start in Him.

Peter Atwater is a man who is fascinated by why people do what they do. His iterative and impressive path in the financial world eventually led him to studying confidence, specifically the role confidence plays in the choices that we make and the behavioral parallels that cross politics, social action and the markets – presently and historically. By looking at these these factors, Peter has been able to predict much of what’s going on in our society today – from business, financial, political and personal perspectives. In this Elevate with Robert Glazer episode, you’ll hear Robert and Peter discuss some very interesting topics, including why Peter looks at books, music, architecture and food when researching confidence-levels and how we’re experiencing a 1960’s-esque “rhyme” today. Tune in to this Elevate with Robert Glazer episode with Peter Atwater to learn: What happens in our minds when confidence falls What the “me-here-now” concept is, how it affects our decision-making and why companies need to understand this How architecture gives us a peek into extreme peaks and valleys of confidence What Peter sees on the horizon for companies of the future Peter’s predictions for political and business environments, social media and global warming

Peter Mehit is the Owner and Chief Operating Officer of Custom Business Planning and Solutions. After a successful career in the Fortune 100, he has helped over 2,500 clients start, grow and expand their businesses and has written business plans that have raised over $160 million. He is also the co-author of Killer Business Plan, a book that can help you choose the business that is right for you. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The reason Peter stepped away from Fortune 100 and what he decided to do instead How Peter’s life completely changed after he said “no” to his boss Why small businesses are so important and how Peter helps them succeed One of the obstacles to success in today’s day and age and Peter’s technique to overcome this Examples of simple systems that can help you make the most out of each day What a good, usable business plan looks like along with the most important question you need to answer to guide your plan The types of businesses investors are interested in How to get your business running when you’re really good at the vision end, but less experienced in running the actual business Why it’s essential that you actually write a business plan before you get started The reason you can’t lie to yourself about what your strengths and weakness are What Peter thinks is the most critical skill a business owner needs to master in order to be successful today Reasons it’s essential to be self-educated to succeed in business today The most influential lesson Peter ever learned from a mentor and how to get the most out of your relationship with a mentor How knowing what you want will get you exactly what you need from your mentor Why paying for something makes you more committed to it Ways to contact Peter: Phone: 800-741-8444 Email: pmehit@custombps.com

The main point of this account is that Cornelius got saved. God saved a Gentile who personally trusted the Jewish Messiah, and that Gentile didn-t have to become a Jew. What Peter emphasized in 10-34 is that God shows no favoritism-no partiality or prejudice. Joe applies this truth in two ways-first, to Christians personally- second, to the church corporately.

Peter Lovenheim is an author and journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Parade, Moment Magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications. His five previous books include In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the First Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize, and Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf, a first-hand attempt to understand the food chain. Lovenheim holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and in law from Cornell Law School. He teaches narrative non-fiction at The Writers Center in Bethesda, MD and splits his time between his hometown of Rochester, NY, and Washington, DC. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The attachment effect and its elements including how a knowledge of attachment can help managers and owners The hunger we all have that drives the interest in attachment and how that stems from the nature vs nurture debate What drives attachment from birth and how the quality of early attachment helps shape who we become The types of attachments people can come out of childhood having Why a person’s attachment style shows up a lot in the workplace and different ways of measuring attachment in adults Why it’s advantageous for managers to know their employees’ attachment styles Traits that different attachment styles bring to the workplace as well as what mix of styles is best to have in a business What Peter found in his observations while observing different attachment styles in a real business The attachment style that is best suited for a management position Advice on how to best manage employees with insecure attachments and ways people with different attachment styles can help each other All the areas of your life your attachment style can manifest itself Ways to contact Peter: Website: peterlovenheim.com

Consider this episode a cross between an ask me anything (AMA) and a show-and-tell. Peter discusses his fasting experiment in great detail and answers questions from listeners and readers. We discuss: Why Peter did a one-week fast and the rationale for front- and back-ending it with a week-long ketogenic diet [6:30]; What Peter’s typical diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, and supplementation looks like [11:00]; What labs (e.g., glucose, ketones, lipids, inflammation and oxidation markers, thyroid- and sex hormones) Peter checked for the experiment [22:00]; Peter’s results after a week on a ketogenic diet [29:30]; Peter’s results after a week on a water-only fast [48:45]; Peter’s results after a week on a ketogenic diet following a week of fasting [58:30]; Peter’s “Top 6” surprises from the fasting experiment [1:08:30]; Different fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) protocols [1:29:20]; What is the optimal protocol, frequency, and duration for fasting? [1:33:00]; How to break a fast without GI distress? [1:38:00]; “Am I breaking the fast if…?” [1:41:30]; and More. Learn more at www.PeterAttiaMD.com Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Today we have Peter Ballerstedt who has a Phd in forage production and utilization. He’s also an expert in ruminant nutrition (this means cows, sheep, bison, etc.) He travels around the US and world giving lectures on the necessity and benefits of animal agriculture, for the health of our environment and human nutrition. I love him because he presents facts that go against the mainstream narrative and the animal rights propaganda that is absolutely rampant and taking over the conversation. He’s one of the only voices we have, so appreciate him and listen to his wise words. You may have noticed I skipped a week putting out episodes - I had to prep for our upcoming film tour and make the Shawn Baker and Ted Naiman videos - check them out on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies It’s the last days of the Food Lies film Indiegogo campaign - please pre-order the film. It’s the only way to be sure to be able to get it and share it with family and friends. It could take months to get to Netflix or never even make it there. Who knows. Just know you’ll likely get the film  3 months in advance if you pre-order now on Indiegogo before the campaign ends on August 10th.  http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post I really appreciate all the support so far, we can’t do it without you all. Let’s hear what the leader of the Ruminant Revolution has to say.   Show notes What Peter does for a living - forage agronomist Eating beef is not only good for you, it is in fact good for the environment as well. All cows spend the majority of their life on pasture The facts around animal agriculture are skewed and basically the opposite of what the mainstream narrative has led us to believe We’re removed from the entire process of raising animals Very small and well-funded minority of animal rights activists with the loudest voices They claim the majority of the land is used for animal agriculture. The truth is there’s 4 times as much rangeland we can use for cows or other ruminants that can’t be used for crops The vegan rope starts unraveling Wildly exaggerated claims of environmental impact if we ate less meat Let’s look at insulinemia and diabetes Animal agriculture more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation based on a flawed and retracted study Cows aren't alchemists. The CO2 containing compounds they release came from the grass they are which got it's CO2 from the atmosphere. They’re finding it harder and harder to try to claim eating meat is bad for you so they’re trying harder and harder to claim it’s bad for the environment Don’t feel guilty if you’re eating some or all animal products in your diet and restoring your health If you haven't heard of Mikhaila Peterson http://mikhailapeterson.com here’s an articel https://www.healthline.com/health-news/meat-only-diet-eased-autoimmune-disease-symptoms#7 Jordan Peterson talks about his carnivore diet on Joe Rogan’s podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGikB-54Lwk We talk about soil health The role of ruminants in reducing agriculture's carbon footprint in North America http://www.jswconline.org/content/71/2/156.short Climate change and CO2 How the carbon cycle actually works with grasses and grazing cows CO2 helps plants to grow faster The great horse manure crisis of 1894 https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/ plant protein and micronutrient content is far less than animal equivalent Study with oysters, beans, and corn tortillas showing zinc absorption https://www.researchgate.net/publication/22684528_Studies_on_the_bioavailability_of_zinc_in_man_II_Absorption_of_zinc_from_inorganic_sources We can study the diet and outcomes of animals and make lots of conclusions, but can’t do that for humans “Our animals have never been healthier, and humans have never been sicker” Modern societies are dependent on ruminant animals. We need to meet the growing need for animal protein with the growing population. For an ancient food to cause a modern disease is ludicrous The danger of nitrates and nitrites has been debunked Omega 3 and Omega 6 What’s going on with this carnivore thing? All plant diets = healthy hero. All meat diet = insane person who’s going to die “Diet for a Small Planet” and “Population Bomb” Lab grown meat How’d the margarine experiment go? Can you really replicate all the intricacies of meat? It's not just a protein matrix. Do we trust the makers to even get the ratios of fat/protein correct? Ruminants are part of the lifecycle of grasslands and soil health, we shouldn’t exclude them. Essential for watersheds, carbon cycle - what’s their replacement? We shouldn't put a big portion of our food supply into the hands of one company that gets the patent or a few big companies Where are the nutrients going to come from? They’re starting from a false nutritional premise What about other wealth generation from cows, especially in developing countries What about the energy it would take to cool and produce all this lab grown meat? Same thing that’s going on in the healthcare system - we’re making a medication for each disease instead of treating the root problem Eating beef is beneficial to you and the environment Buy the animal products you can afford to feed yourself and your family and don’t let the other side and their fear-mongering influence you.   Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien Movement: http://SapienMovement.com   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/

This week on MakingChips, Peter Claus talks about the whirlwind of leadership he experiences in his manufacturing job. Peter is the CNC supervisor at HFW Industries in Buffalo, New York where he has worked for over 20 years. He is also one of this year’s IMTS Rock Stars. Peter shares his passion for manufacturing, how he has grown in his company and how he deals with the challenges of being a leader. Connect with us:www.MakingChips.com/contact Finding and following your passion Peter Claus seemed destined to work in the manufacturing field. While on a track to pursue an engineering degree in college, Peter had the opportunity to operate a lathe. It was a pivotal moment that led him to change directions and pursue a manufacturing career. He started at HFW in 1994 running a lathe machine. HFW specializes in hardfacing and thermal spray coatings. Listen as Peter talks about how his passion for manufacturing and how it has led to his success during this interview. Are you hungry enough to grow? As HFW expanded and grew, more opportunities for leadership were presented to Peter. One contributing factor to Peter’s success is his constant hunger to learn and grow. He found a passion in manufacturing and he pursued it, increasing in education and company responsibility. He has always been interested in learning the different facets of manufacturing which has led to a breadth of experience. His hunger ultimately led him to where he is now as the CNC supervisor at HFW and one of this year’s IMTS Rock Stars. 2 Keys to Surviving the Whirlwind of Leadership With increased responsibility comes the inevitable whirlwind of leadership. Every leader will experience the effects of the whirlwind while juggling the daily demands of the job. Even the best plans and intentions can be derailed when unforeseen issues arise. Peter talks about the challenges of his supervisory role. Leading well requires prioritizing daily objectives while remaining flexible to handle issues as they arise. He gives 2 keys to surviving the whirlwind of leadership that he applies at HFW. Peter’s insight is encouraging and practical for any manufacturing leader. Taking advantage of all the IMTS has to offer What can a manufacturing leader do to escape the whirlwind of leadership? One great way to recharge is by attending IMTS. During this conversation, Peter shares how he plans to take advantage of IMTS this year. In addition to doing research on specific machines and spending time in the cutting pavilion, he plans to leverage the week as a vacation, bringing his wife and enjoying some of the great Chicago food. Peter encourages manufacturing leaders to experience IMTS and dream about the potential of taking your company to the next level. Here’s The Good Stuff! Emotional intelligence prevents you from overreacting or escalating issues that arise in business Manufacturing News: Being a conscious capitalist, caring for your employees and being fair Introduction of Peter Clause, CNC supervisor at HFW Industries and one of this years IMTS Rock Stars HFW does thermal coatings and hard face welding As a supervisor, Peter is required to deal with both machine and people issues How HFW is trying to overcome the workforce problem What Peter is excited about at IMTS this year and what he plans to research while he’s there The key to Peter’s success in the manufacturing industry Make your plans to be at the IMTS Grand Concourse stage each day at noon to see Jim and Jason Tools & Takeaways http://IMTS.com This Week’s Superstar Guest Peter Claus HFW Industries Connect With MakingChips www.MakingChips.com On Facebook On LinkedIn On Instagram On Twitter On YouTube Subscribe to Making Chips on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or Spotify

Peter Troob is the co-Founder and CIO of Troob Capital Management, an opportunistic investor and family office with particular expertise in distressed situations. Prior to starting TCM in 2002, Peter spent six years focusing on distressed debt investing at Contrarian Capital and Everest Capital.  He started his career as an investment banker, and after his tenure in self-proclaimed purgatory, he co-authored the entertaining book ‘Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle.” Our conversation begins with life as an investment banking analyst, and turns to competing with large distressed funds, the frothy high yield market, trickery in the CDS market, high yield ETFs, idiosyncratic opportunities, diversifying family assets, managing teams, and learning from the dinner table.   Learn More Discuss the show and Read the transcript Join Ted's mailing list at CapitalAllocatorsPodcast.com Write a review on iTunes Follow Ted on twitter at @tseides For more episodes go to CapitalAllocatorsPodcast.com/Podcast   Show Notes 2:09 – Start of his career 3:02 – Peter's book Monkey Business 3:47 – The life of an investment banker 4:22 – Decision to leave the bank 4:50 – His experience at a hedge fund 5:27 – Some of his early mistakes 6:15 – The dynamics of distressed debt investing 8:05 – The appropriate size for a distressed fund 11:28 – What should your expectations be if you invest in a large fund 13:12 – Short credit thesis 18:00 – Impact of private equity owned companies on defaults 19:49 – Shenanigans we are seeing in the CDS market 24:36 – Concerns about high yield ETFs 26:42 – Investing family capital 29:16 – Sourcing idiosyncratic deals 32:49 – What Peter has learned about managing a team 35:43 – Hiring millennials 36:22 – Lessons from investing mistakes 43:05 – What is it like working with family 45:58 – Closing questions             49:56 - Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Courage isn't about being fearless. Courage is about feeling the fear but ‘saddling up anyway.' When Peter Conti bought his first duplex, he admits that he was shaking. But Peter knew that he had to make a change to life the life he wanted, to be free from the humiliation of a boss who reprimanded him for drinking coffee meant for ‘customers only.' Peter was highly motivated to leave his job as a mechanic and become a multifamily real estate investor, and that deep desire for financial freedom propelled him to take action. Peter went from auto mechanic to self-made millionaire in just over three years, using creative financing to invest in both residential and commercial real estate. He started small, buying a duplex, a couple of 4-units, and a 12- and 24-unit before working his way up to shopping centers and 300-unit complexes. He has mentored thousands of investors all over the world and supported many more through his books on multifamily and commercial real estate investing. Today, Peter sits down with me to describe the moment he decided to take charge of his own financial destiny. He walks us through that first investment in a duplex and the meeting at Chucky E. Cheese that inspired him to invest in a mentor. Peter offers advice around mitigating risk via exit clauses and acquiring property through seller financing or the use of a master lease. Listen in to understand Peter's unique approach to recovering from a serious motorcycle accident and what he learned in the process that applies to multifamily investing specifically—and life in general! Key Takeaways The turning point that propelled Peter into action Working as auto mechanic in Denver Fingers numb from cold, reprimanded for coffee Made decision to be in charge of own financial destiny Peter's first investment in a duplex Found real estate agent Took advantage of 5% down for investors through HUD How Peter got over the hump to make his next investment Meeting with life insurance agent, realized ‘spinning wheels' Invested $5K in training with mentor Peter's advice around mitigating risk Attach ‘Addendum A' to contract (fully assignable) Ask for 10 business days once documents provided Allows to make offer first, then do due diligence Peter's guidance around seller financing Target motivated sellers, C class properties Ask seller if willing to carry some of financing Set meeting to build rapport, share track record Peter's approach to getting started in commercial real estate Start with apartment buildings (4-, 6- or 10-unit) Consider using master lease to acquire property What Peter learned in recovering from his motorcycle accident Hiking Appalachian Trail gave time to reflect Enjoy every moment to fullest, appreciate process Break big projects into chunks What's next for Peter Learning to play piano Support wife in startup Limited one-on-one coaching Peter's top advice for aspiring real estate investors It's not about wealth, it's about freedom Find way to enjoy journey How Peter wants to be remembered Fully present for friends and family Playful, fun and encouraging Connect with Peter Peter's Website Free Copy of Peter's Book Resources Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit by Peter Conti Making Big Money Investing in Real Estate: Without Tenants, Banks, or Rehab Projects by Peter Conti and David Finkel Commercial Real Estate Investing for Dummies by Peter Conti and Peter Harris Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 1 Simple Strategy to Escape the 9 to 5 by Peter Conti Michael's Coaching Program Michael's Products Michael's Syndicated Deal Analyzer Michael's Deal Maker Mastermind Financial Freedom Summit Partner with Michael Invest with Michael Michael's Course Free eBook: The Secret to Raising Money to Buy Your First Apartment Building Review the Podcast on iTunes

Get funky like a monkey for a look at WCW Prime from March 11, 1996! - The ridiculousness of the Doomsday cage match at Uncensored but did the heels actually accomplish their goal? - Finding the perfect gimmick for John Tenta in WCW - The Berlyn gimmick and Alex Wright: a victim of circumstance and oversized egos - Why Men at Work and the Barrio Brothers should have joined forces - The impossible situation of The Renegade - Sting's new role: NASCAR interviewer? - Critiquing Dave Taylor’s gear - The alternate universe where The Gambler is the WCW World Television champion Plus: - Spicing up the bowling commercial - How NOT to tell a deaf person that the fire alarm is going off - What Peter did in his last ever - There are many men named Manny Fernandez and why is Dusty Rhodes concerned about one of them? Email: Greetingsfromallentown@gmail.com www.twitter.com/GFAllentownPod Facebook.com/GreetingsFromAllentown Placetobenation.com/amazon

Peter Kortenhoeven is co-founder and creative director of Pillow’s Willow VR Studios, a game developer that focuses on virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. He’s been an animator, lead animator and art director for several gaming companies, and then founded Pillow’s Willow in 2016. Episode Highlights: How Peter manages being a creative artist while building a profitable business Why Peter feels what he's doing as an artist and entrepreneur is important and significant What Peter loves most about his work How a tough biker guy transformed into a child when he played a VR computer game How Peter takes care of his health as a busy entrepreneur Why Peter thinks having a great product is the key to having a successful company Don't Miss a Thing Get every episode automatically! Resources Mentioned Pillow’s Willow website Pillow's Willow Twitter and Facebook pages Peter's LinkedIn page Share the Value If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. That would help a lot to spread the word and get more exposure for the podcast. Ask Questions or Provide Feedback To ask questions, request episode topics or provide feedback, email me at DrOrma@DrOrma.com Connect With Me Follow @drsteveorma [fb_button]   Additional Resources Online coaching for entrepreneurs.

Today's Passage Luke 5:1-11 Jesus had already begun teaching.  He didn’t need Disciples, but raising up men to carry forward the mission was part of His Calling.  Jesus was looking for a few good men. The men Jesus picked were men who were pre-Believers; your average common man.  The Disciples were men who were hungry for Truth, hungry for someone powerful to lead them.  Peter’s brother Andrew was seeking someone real; he had been a Disciple of John the Baptists’ first.  These men were all a semi- spiritual bunch, as they were all Jews, who had a working understanding of the Law of Moses and the Prophets.  These men had their own political views, many of them were spoiling for a fight, and they believed Jesus would be the one to be able to bring the fight to Rome.   Peter was a man just trying to make it, just trying to provide for his family.  He was a scrapper, an opinionated man who never minced words.  He was loyal to his band of brothers, and he was willing to fight. (He nearly split a man’s skull in the Garden of Gethsemane.)  That’s the type of man Peter was, but when Jesus first met Peter, Peter was having a rough day…   What Peter Saw… Peter saw his physical failure Peter saw his nets were empty.  He had worked hard all night. Hard work doesn’t always translate to profit, or even breaking-even.  There will be times when hard work is fruitless. Peter saw there was no provision. Peter saw that his family would go hungry. Peter saw holes in his nets. Peter saw his own exhaustion, discouragement.   Peter saw his spiritual failure. Peter saw he was a sinner.  When in the presence of the Holy, we usually feel unworthy, we oftentimes feel dirty.  Sin struggles to stand before God. What we see in ourselves & what God sees are oftentimes two different things.   What Jesus Saw Jesus saw Peter was Obedient.  Peter was willing to obey a stranger’s request, despite long odds, despite the potential of embarrassment, despite the potential of renewed loss, despite having to start over with cleaning the nets.  Peter had to swallow his professional pride & allow a carpenter tell him how to fish. Jesus saw that Peter was Humble. He fell to his knees before Jesus.   Jesus saw that Peter Worked Hard.  Peter had worked hard all night long.  Jesus didn’t hire a bum, all of the men Jesus recruited had jobs.   Jesus saw that Peter was Resilient.  He didn’t give up.   Jesus saw that Peter was Willing to Follow. Peter understood who Jesus was, even though his knowledge of Jesus was progressively revealed over the course of three years.  His brother Andrew’s assessment was that he believed Jesus was the Messiah.  Working on his brother’s assessment, Peter was fully convinced, but not fully informed, on what this Messiah’s plans and intents were.  Peter was willing to follow Jesus based on what 1) Jesus taught and 2) based on what Peter caught.   What is God Saying to You?  What is God Asking you to do? God isasking you to Follow Him. God is asking you to put Him as the priority of your life.  Jesus never asked them to leave everything, and the Disciples didn’tleave everything; they just temporarily left their stuff behind.  If they had left everything then they would have left their community; they didn’t.  They would have left their families; they didn’t.  They would have left their livelihoods; they didn’t (they returned to their boats and their nets, they never sold them).  “Leaving everything” is defined by the American reader as “sacrificial and permanent”.  In this particular instance it was neither.  Now, that’s not to say that Following Christ is not without its sacrifices.  Jesus sets the bar pretty high, and many people choose to notfulfill Christ’s commands.     Jesus didn’t take the men away from their families.  They didgo on some business trips together, but the ministry tours were brief.  His closest Disciples were Peter & Andrew, James and John, all of whom lived in Capernaum.   Where did Jesus set up his headquarters?  Capernaum.  So, these men did not leave their jobs, or their families, for three years straight.  They certainly came and went, but they did not turn their backs on their families. Just like Peter, Jesus is looking for your willingnessto make the hard call, to make the hard decision.   God may be saying to you that… Your Definition of Success can change quickly. Jesus brought total success to Peter’s total failure.  What Peter had dreamedabout had become a realitythrough Jesus. Peter’s success was amazing, but it was not fulfilling; rather, followingthe man who displayed such power and command of the elements was morefulfilling.  Friends, success in this world will only take us so far.  A lot of the time, as men, once we accomplish something or defeat something that was once considered our mountain, we begin looking for another mountain.  That’s why a lot of men who retire find another job within six months, because they’re bored, and many retired men start dying if they do nothing.  A man never really retires, he simply shifts gears and shifts focus.  A man may slow down, but he never quits.   Sometimes that drives our ladies nuts, but it’s the way it is. What is God asking youto do?  God has called you too Friend, just like Peter.  Despite your weariness of work & perhaps some temporary set-backs, despite your lack of worldly success & despite your freshly-cleaned fishing nets, Jesus has called you, because He sees something in you that you don’t currently see in yourself.  Jesus called Peter when he was at his worst: discouraged, weary, exhausted.  Does that describe your life right now?  Answer the call of Christ, and begin finding fulfillment.

On this episode of Outperform, you’ll hear Bob Glazer and Financial Insyghts founder, Peter Atwater, discuss some fascinating topics, including why Peter looks at books, music, architecture and food when researching confidence-levels in the markets and why he recommends that you should buy Adele and sell Pharrell. Show Notes Tune in to this Outperform podcast episode with Peter Atwater to learn: What happens in our minds when confidence falls What the “me-here-now” concept is, how it affects our decision-making and why companies need to understand this How architecture gives us a peek into extreme peaks and valleys of confidence What Peter sees on the horizon for companies of the future Peter’s predictions for political and business environments, social media and global warming Key traits businesses will need to have to survive and outperform in future business environments   Hear more Outperform podcast episodes at http://www.accelerationpartners.com/resource-center/our-podcasts/.   

Emotional courage is one of the key strengths that effective leaders must have. That is from Peter Bregman, my guest on this episode of Masters of Leadership. Peter is one of those people you meet in life who blows you away with both his competence and his depth of insight. He is eager to learn and eager to pass on what he learns, and in this episode does a great job of explaining why emotional courage is such an important characteristic for leaders. You will hear what it takes to truly connect with the people around you, why being willing to feel anything is what enables you to accomplish anything, and the importance of killing distractions in order to get the important things done. The mindset you bring to what you care about is the foundation of connecting with the people around you What do you truly care about in life? Knowing the answer to that question is foundational to everything you do. But going a step further, understanding the mindset that you bring to those things that you care the most about, is key to truly connecting with people. Peter Bregman says it is this passion and the mindset behind it that enables you to not only truly care about the most important things in your life, but also the people that are related to those things and the accomplishment of them. Don't miss this conversation, Peter shares a wealth of insight from his research and writing that you won't hear anywhere else. When you don’t act, it’s usually because there’s something you don’t want to feel. But if you’re willing to feel anything, you can do anything When it comes to developing emotional courage, certain mindsets have to be in place in order to make headway. Peter Bregman says one of those things is the willingness to feel anything. He points out that when we don't act it is usually because we are afraid of what we will feel if we do take the action in question. But if you have already resolved that you are willing to feel anything you have to feel in order to accomplish the things that you care about most, then you will press through the difficult emotions with courage and ultimately reach your goal. If you are like me, his words resonate with you deeply because you know that they are true. Take the time to listen to what Peter has to share. It is 22 minutes well spent. If everyone on your team is moving toward multiple priorities, you can’t productively move forward together In today's world, most people allow themselves to take on too many things that they consider priorities and dilute their ability to care as deeply as they need to care about the things that truly matter. When this happens in the context of a team there is no way the organization can move toward the most important things on their radar because the members of the team are focusing on a myriad of things. In this conversation, Peter Bregman highlights the importance of getting everyone on the same page and headed in the same direction. It's the only thing that will enable us to get big things done through effective collaboration. Emotional courage is required in order to choose to shut off distractions and do what is truly important to you Peter Bregman doubts that there has ever been a time in the history of the world when distractions were so prevalent. He notes that in order for us to have our conversation, he had to turn off a number of notifications so that we would not be interrupted. That is just one example of the kinds of things we battle to maintain focus and productivity in the digital age. Peter says it requires emotional courage to make the decision to shut off the distractions and do what is truly important. We have to ignore the feeling of insecurity that arises when we consider that we might miss an important email or not be the first to respond to an issue. It's not easy, which is why it requires courage. Find out how Peter describes emotional courage and the way leaders can facilitate it within their teams, on this episode. Outline of This Episode [1:35] Peter’s definition of leadership: When you are moving in a direction that is different than everybody around you [3:38] Why Peter works to help leaders become more powerful and courageous [8:05] Peter’s advice for those who are leading while trying to move to the next level [11:33] What Peter has learned about the importance of focus and avoiding distraction [14:51] Tips or tools to block out distractions [18:48] What do you care most about and how do you address that care with your greatest competency? [19:30] Peter’s tip for becoming a master of leadership: practice and take risks Resources & People Mentioned Peter Bregman - CEO of Bregman Partners The Bregman Leadership Podcast BOOK: 4 Seconds: All The Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits With Ones That Really Work BOOK: 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get The Right Things Done Stakeholder Centered Coaching Boomerang email tool BOOK: Deep Work The Marshall Goldsmith Group Connect with Erica Erica@cotentialgroup.com Linkedin.com/in/ericadhawan Twitter.com/edhawan Facebook.com/ericadhawan

The PEI Green Party has experienced unprecedented success over recent years, and on this episode of On the Record, Off Script Mark speaks with the party's leader to learn more about what's happening behind the scenes in the party.In the 2015 general election, Peter earned the party its first seat. In late November of 2017, Green candidate Hannah Bell won the by-election in Charlottetown-Parkdale to earn the party its second seat. Bevan-Baker has been Islanders top choice for Premier in CRA's quarterly opinion polling for the last three quarters and is the only party leader on the Island to experience growing public support over the past year.Some of the things we explore during our conversation:What Peter learned over the ten elections he competed in before he was elected;How he approached getting things done as a caucus of one;How his party will tackle the upcoming general election, perhaps the first election in Canada where a Green Party has a shot at becoming the government; andWe unpack what happened when Peter was removed from the PEI House of Assembly for saying a word that starts with the letter F on it’s final day of sitting before the holidays.Share this episode using the shortlink: http://www.springtide.ngo/pbb See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If we are children of God, shouldn’t we behave like it? Peter seems to think so. In 1 Peter 2:9-12, we will hear Peter reminding his readers that they have a remarkable new identity in Christ Because of their faith in Christ, they have been changed and given new responsibilities within the Kingdom of God. They have been hand-picked by God, made His priests, set apart as His people and given the responsibility of proclaiming the greatness of the One who called them out of darkness into his marvelous light. What Peter has in mind here is a change in behavior. Their status before God has changed, because they have been declared righteous by Him because of the sacrificial death of His own Son. Now, they were to live like who there were. But the danger they faced was one that is common to all believers: To fail to recognize their new identity and to fall back into the the familiar patterns of their life before Christ. So, Peter is going to go out of his way to ensure that they understand exactly who they are and how that should impact their daily lives. Living like a Christian won’t be easy. Not everyone will appreciate the change that has taken place in our lives. But when we live like who we are, the world can’t ignore it. And some will be attracted to Christ because of it.     

[Peter Shallard](http://www.petershallard.com/about/) is the founder and CEO of [Commit Action](https://www.commitaction.com/). Known as the shrink for entrepreneurs, Peter started as a psychotherapist working with people who had mental health problems before he directed his focus towards working with business people. His passion is working with for-profit businesses that aim to make a positive impact. Listen as Peter shares his thoughts about setting goals, the importance of accountability, and the urgency in achieving it. **What You'll Learn:** - How Peter became the shrink for entrepreneurs through his practice as a psychotherapist - What his clients mainly talk to him about (ex. business partnerships) - Peter's advice for those who are working with partners - How Commit Action came about - What Commit Action can do for your business and your personal goals and how it gives you accountability - The coach sets milestones based on your timeframe and you will have weekly rituals to track your development - How accountability coaches help you achieve your goals through a sense of urgency - What Peter, Nick and Ari do that complements each other - How the key is to NOT be consumed with just business - Peter's top three pieces of advice to be more effective: - Stack many layers of accountability in your life - Break down your goals into the smallest possible steps - Deadlines are really important ------- [Get the FREE Optimize, Automate, Outsource Blueprint here.](%20https:/go.lessdoing.com/blueprint?utm_campaign=blueprint-ari&utm_medium=link&utm_source=podcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lessdoing/message

This is a very special episode. Not only is this the very first episode of Ancestral Health Radio with our very first guest... Today's fireside chat is with Rewild Portland's very own Peter Michael Bauer.  Peter has been a huge inspiration on my own path toward rewilding, as I'm sure he will be to you. I hope to have Peter on future episodes of Ancestral Health Radio to discuss more of the topics you'll hear in today's show. In today's episode, you'll learn... Why Peter re-released his old-new book Rewild or Die, The barriers that keep many of us from taking our rewilding practice to the next level, What "rewilding havens" are, and... Much, much more. Episode Breakdown James's personal thoughts on Urban Scout's re-release of Rewild or Die Peter explains the origins of his online alias Urban Scout The moment that led Peter to put Urban Scout away for good Peter offers a great online resource for all-things rewilding Peter shares his struggle with finding a tribe and the birth of Rewild Portland Peter tells us how "all roads lead to rewilding" Peter defines the word rewilding and its myriad of implications Peter examines the differences between anarchy and anarcho-primitivism Peter talks about his theme for the 2017 Rewilding Conference ("Restoration to what...?") The problem with talking about the linear progression of our species We discuss different avenues that lead to rewilding (paleo, anarchism, etc.) Peter breaks down the word civilization and what that means to him "Cultural blinders" Peter describes how civilization is similar to a forest fire "Rewilding havens", "hoop culture", and how they work together Peter speaks about social justice and the barriers that prevent many people from taking their rewilding practice to the next level Peter talks about how to bring rewilding to a macro/mirco level Peter's personal thoughts on the paleo community What Peter wants you to glean from Urban Scout's re-release of Rewild or Die What Peter wants to see in the rewilding community's future The differences between Peter now and Urban Scout then

Commonly people will say, "There is a logical contradiction between our freedom and the predetermination of what we are going to do." Consider the account of Peter and his denial of Christ. The account contains free will, determinism and the realization of guilt. Luke 22:34,60-62 tells us, " Jesus replied, ‘I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me’ . . .But Peter said, ‘Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!’ At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, ‘Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.’ And he went outside and wept bitterly.” What Peter did was preordained and he was obviously free and responsible. Explore the types of ethical theories. Consider that typologically-pure theories are rare! The Teleological concerns the ends or is a purpose-based ethics. The ends justify the means. For Ethical Egoism, I ought to act in such a way as to maximize my own happiness, pleasure, or well-being and minimize my own pain or suffering. Hedonism is short-term and focuses on maximizing pleasure. Drug use, especially opiates, is a kind of ultimate expression of hedonism. There has never been a thoughtful promoter of Hedonism because the hedonist would be doing drugs instead of writing a book about it. It is often thought of as "Epicurean Delights," or pure and deep pleasures. However, Epicurus was not hedonistic!!! Consider that maximization of pleasure and minimization of pain makes a kind of peaceful life that is preferred. It is ok to forgo pleasure, or even experience pain, for the sake of long-term pleasure. At its best, pleasure is a capacity to sense actual goodness, so its pursuit is actually the pursuit of the truly "good". In Psychological Egoism, human beings always do choose to act in order to maximize their own self-interest. This theory is worth knowing, but it is not an ethical theory. It is impossible to verify or falsify. Evolutionary psychology ultimately leads to a form of this theory. "Creatures act to maximize the long-term survival of their genes."

Peter Gahan leads the leading organisation on leadership in Australia, the Centre for Workplace Leadership.  He's also go a firm eye on the future, to support research, turning it in practice, for effective leadership to support work which is changing so quickly all around us.   In this chat, we cover: – The future of work (it's closer than you think) – What Peter thinks about leadership, including a simple and understandable definition of leadership to help us improve. – Some of the disruptive things in business impacting, and impacted by, leadership - like corporate democracy and modern performance reviews   You can hear more of Peter at the National Safety Convention – get your tickets here.   Let’s get to know each other! Connect with Safety on Tap on LinkedIn, or me Andrew Barrett.  If Facebook is more your thing, check out @safetyontap If you want to get in touch with me, send me an email! andrew@safetyontap.com  

If you ever feel like you're being squeezed, short on time, short on attention, and short on the bandwidth you need to make smart decisions, then do we have the show for you! Today we'll be talking with Peter Bregman, best-selling author 18 Minutes: Find our Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, and his latest award-winning book Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want! Today we'll talk about stopping the clock and finding the time to make smart decisions, how to take steps forward, and how to take the time to assess the situation, without taking so long the ship goes down. We'll also talk about Ted Talks, Ditching the Need to be Perfect, returning iPads, when a missing Rabbi's a good thing, why an experience is better than a performance, why it's so important to keep from being in Sea Kayaker magazine and why getting flipped upside, pinned, and spun out in the grand-canyon can actually help you relax. Questions and Topics Include: How going through the “worst” can open you up and relax you. Why it's useful to visualize failure (as well as success!) Why life isn't about making things perfect What the difference is between performance and experience. What the importance is of four seconds and what it means to us. The importance of hitting the pause button before and after an event. Why Warren Buffet may make all of his wealth in 2-4 decisions a year. What's our sweet spot, and why it's so important to find. What the importance is of our sweet spot and why we need to find it. Why it's not necessary to try and be liked to everyone, but why we should try and have compassion for everyone. What happened with Peter's Ted Talk. How Peter learned to ditch the idea of being perfect. Why the world doesn't reward perfection, it rewards productivity (and why productivity is the enemy of perfection). Why the combination of confidence and humility is so important and should be cultivated. Why questioning your own assumptions can be a great thing What the difference between confidence and arrogance is. How to begin cultivating a sense of confidence in yourself. What Peter's meditation practice is, and why it's so important. Why even a short meditation will help you stay grounded and in a special place. What the importance of a breath is. Why the most present moment in meditation is the moment you realize you're not being very present. What's the importance of being present What's the importance of knowing the outcome of what you're going for What's the big picture goal of Four Seconds? We are not the people we are sometimes pretending to be. How it can help us to show up more as the person we are, rather than someone we're pretending to be. Why fighting a parking ticket may not be the answer. And why arguing never works Why listening may be the answer Why there's so much evidence that if you're willing to give, it comes back to you. Why you should tune into the the upcoming Bregman Leadership Podcast! Discover How Four Seconds Is All The Time You Need to Change Habits & Get Results! Learn How to Be Present, Mindful, Intelligent & Successful, By Using Time To Your Advantage! Business | Career | Spirituality | Success | Meditation | Health | Self-Help

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, all to make it work to your advantage. The New York Times has called him "a public relations all-star who knows everything about new media and then some," while Investor's Business Daily has labeled him "crazy, but effective." He founded Help A Reporter Out (HARO) in 2010 from his apartment before selling it to Vocus. Peter is the also founder of ShankMinds: Business Masterminds, a series of small business entrepreneurial-style masterminds in over 25 cities worldwide. Additionally, Peter is also the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc., a boutique Social Media, Marketing and PR Strategy firm located in New York City, with clients worldwide.   What you’ll learn about in this episode: Innovation through exploration Why you need to hold your ground with clients and force them to trust your expertise How to get your customers to tell your story for you Peter’s book “Zombie Loyalists” Peter’s company The Geek Factory How agencies can make customer service attractive for their clients Why rewarding someone for being your 10,000th follower is an insult to the rest of your followers Why everything you create has to have value for someone How to create invested customers with the way you respond through email How Peter carves out time in his schedule for everything Peter’s preferred methods for professional development What Peter’s agency of the future would look like How Peter helped his employees with professional development The things that get in the way of corporations hearing their customers Things agencies can do right now to implement the ideas from this episode Ways to Contact Peter Shankman: Book: "Zombie Loyalists" Twitter: @petershankman We’re proud to announce that Hubspot is now the presenting sponsor of the Build A Better Agency podcast! Many thanks to them for their support!

In this 23-minute podcast, our new Superintendent of the Bainbridge Island School District, Peter Bang-Knudsen, responds to questions about his personal background -- such as his discovery of his passion for helping kids -- and his forwarding-looking goals and vision for our public schools, teachers and students. Our elected School Board conducted a national search and chose Peter, who graduated from Bainbridge High School, has children in our schools, knows our community well, and has been serving as Assistant Superintendent since 2010. He was hired by our much-admired outgoing Superintendent Faith Chapel, who found Peter in a leadership role in the Bellevue school district. Faith is retiring after a long career in education and about 8 years service to BISD as superintendent. Peter officially takes on his new role on July 1st. In this conversation recorded on June 23rd, he responds to questions about: Experiences during this transition period How his interest in education arose Examples of early formative experiences in public education His professional career path Examples of his responsibilities as Assistant Superintendent in recent years His support for ongoing collaboration with our four other local government units (City, Fire, Parks and Library) His views on emerging policy issues and practical concerns His thoughts on the right balance in a small district between special options programs and more widely shared curriculum and approaches His views on the most important measures of success for our public schools What Peter's message might have been if he had spoken at the recent commencement for graduating seniors Credits: BCB host, audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters

Today we are talking again (listen to part one here) to Peter Lehrman, Founder and CEO of Axial. Axial helps companies plan, grow, or exit by connecting business owners to buyers, leaders, investors and advisors. Imagine, you’re in the city that never sleeps. It’s your first time being a CEO. You’ve got a growing family. You’ve founded a company that has a really large purpose. How do you manage being a founder of a company and lead a growing family? Peter Lehrman, CEO of Axial, provides some great insight into how to lead a company - and a family. Topics covered in this episode: The three ways he manages being a father and a founder. How you can use mindfulness. What Peter loves about being a leader, especially in the company he founded. His secret sauce for being a leader AND founder. What a mattress has to do with success.

In chapter five, after the apostles had been locked up for preaching about Jesus, and after the angel of the Lord had released them during the night and had told them, "Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life”, they went right back to the temple to again teach (or preach) to the people. The high priest had them brought back to stand once more before the Council and he said, "We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man's blood upon us." Now, does this sound at all familiar to you? Doesn’t this go on today? Aren’t we told not to speak the name of Jesus? Christians are one of the only groups today that are discriminated against, and it’s perfectly fine with most of the world. What Peter and the other apostles said to the high priest and the Council should be an encouragement to us. They said, "We must obey God rather than men. 30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross. 31He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him." Friends, they got the courage to do this from the same Holy Spirit that is in every believer today. Don’t be afraid to speak the name of Jesus and tell what He has done in your life and what He wants to do in the lives of every person alive. Be bold. Be strong. Do not obey those who would tell you to shut up. We answer to a higher authority. We answer to Almighty God! Your thoughts?

If you ever feel like you're being squeezed, short on time, short on attention, and short on the bandwidth you need to make smart decisions, then do we have the show for you! Today we'll be talking with Peter Bregman, best-selling author 18 Minutes: Find our Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, and his latest award-winning book Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want! Today we'll talk about stopping the clock and finding the time to make smart decisions, how to take steps forward, and how to take the time to assess the situation, without taking so long the ship goes down. We'll also talk about Ted Talks, Ditching the Need to be Perfect, returning iPads, when a missing Rabbi's a good thing, why an experience is better than a performance, why it's so important to keep from being in Sea Kayaker magazine and why getting flipped upside, pinned, and spun out in the grand-canyon can actually help you relax. Questions and Topics Include: How going through the “worst” can open you up and relax you. Why it's useful to visualize failure (as well as success!) Why life isn't about making things perfect What the difference is between performance and experience. What the importance is of four seconds and what it means to us. The importance of hitting the pause button before and after an event. Why Warren Buffet may make all of his wealth in 2-4 decisions a year. What's our sweet spot, and why it's so important to find. What the importance is of our sweet spot and why we need to find it. Why it's not necessary to try and be liked to everyone, but why we should try and have compassion for everyone. What happened with Peter's Ted Talk. How Peter learned to ditch the idea of being perfect. Why the world doesn't reward perfection, it rewards productivity (and why productivity is the enemy of perfection). Why the combination of confidence and humility is so important and should be cultivated. Why questioning your own assumptions can be a great thing What the difference between confidence and arrogance is. How to begin cultivating a sense of confidence in yourself. What Peter's meditation practice is, and why it's so important. Why even a short meditation will help you stay grounded and in a special place. What the importance of a breath is. Why the most present moment in meditation is the moment you realize you're not being very present. What's the importance of being present What's the importance of knowing the outcome of what you're going for What's the big picture goal of Four Seconds? We are not the people we are sometimes pretending to be. How it can help us to show up more as the person we are, rather than someone we're pretending to be. Why fighting a parking ticket may not be the answer. And why arguing never works Why listening may be the answer Why there's so much evidence that if you're willing to give, it comes back to you. Why you should tune into the the upcoming Bregman Leadership Podcast! Discover How Four Seconds Is All The Time You Need to Change Habits & Get Results! Learn How to Be Present, Mindful, Intelligent & Successful, By Using Time To Your Advantage! Business | Career | Spirituality | Success | Meditation | Health | Self-Help For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com  

The disciples were never at their lowest. Yet our friend, Peter, was never at his finest. As you will hear in this PODCAST, Peter made a declaration the reverberations of which have echoed down through the two thousand years of church history. This was HUGE. What Peter said and where he said it are mind-blowing in their impact upon our world and in our lives. This might just be my very favorite passage in all of the Gospels. Perhaps after hearing this, it will be yours too. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. Enjoy! And may God richly bless you as you listen.

We know that learning more about another language and culture is at the heart of success in international business, and also that Britain is way behind the rest of the world.Business English, Business Chinese, Business German.. In today's interview, you will meet Peter Rodway. He's a co-founder of Specialist Language Courses, an education consultancy and training provider for companies all over the world. Specialist Language Courses focus on bringing language skills to the companies that need them, and in our surprising interview you'll hear more about: How teaching English in Asia got Peter to the job as director of his own company Who in your company decides that it's time to teach you a language Why your company loves you if they are teaching you a language What Peter thinks is the biggest barrier to language learning - and how to fix it What intercultural intelligence means in business (and how it shows with English, German and Japanese people) And most importantly: What are Peter's tips for becoming more employable through your language skills! Take Action Want to show your boss why you or your team should learn a language? Then please take the initiative and revisit your CV. Putting languages on top of the CV can make a difference to your confidence, your interview and particularly the way your boss sees you so get the news out there. Update your CV today, and show us where you're putting those impressive skills!

Matthew 14:22-33; What are you trusting God to do in your life that if He doesn't come through, you're through? It's a challenge to our faith and trust in the Savior when we find ourselves up against it. What Peter did that night should be an encouragement to all of us to risk something for God and trust Him to come thru for us.

Ken Harding 11/11/12 Key Verses: Acts 2:41-42 - NIV “Those who accepted his message were baptised… They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and…” The apostles' teaching is: 1. Grounded in the Old Testament scriptures. Peter quotes: Joel 2, (verse 17 – 21), Psalm 16, (verse 25 – 28) Stephen quotes: Amos and Isaiah in Acts 7. Philip quotes Isaiah 53 in Acts 8. Paul quotes several OT writers in Acts 13. James quotes Amos in Acts 15. 2. A continuation of the teachings of our Lord. Acts 1:1- 7. What Dr Luke began in the Gospel he continues in the book of Acts. (see Luke 24:25-27, 44-49) We may add that every teaching of the Lord Jesus in the four Gospels is restated or expanded in the Epistles. 3. In harmony with all the scriptures. (The New is in the Old contained, The Old is by the New explained) To establish a doctrine/teaching we need to take in the whole Word of God. The Trinity is seen in Genesis, Isaiah, the gospels, the Acts and the Epistles. Jesus explained in all the scriptures the things about Himself, Lk 24:27 Jesus said search the Scriptures for they testify of ME, Jn 5:39 The prophecies, types and foreshadows in the OT are fulfilled in the NT. 4. Consistent with each other, e.g. Peter, Paul and John. Peter was the first to preach the Gospel to the Jews and to the Gentiles. This Gospel was about the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. It involved repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. It brought forgiveness of sins and peace with God. It was followed by water baptism for those who believed. What Peter and John preached in Acts 4 and Acts 8 Paul preached later. Paul received by divine revelation the same Gospel, Gal. 1 & 2 This was confirmed by Peter, Gal.2:7-9 This is clearly set out by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 and in Romans. 5. Based on the Gospel of the grace of God. John the Baptist preached repentance and pointed to Jesus. Jesus preached repentance and faith in Him. Peter, John, Stephen, Philip and Paul all preached repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus. There was no other Name, no other way. John 14:6, Acts 4:12 It confirmed the Cross, the shed Blood, the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus as essential for our salvation. It demonstrated that all have sinned and are lost and that the Gospel is our only hope. It tells us that Jesus died for the sin of all and that all may believe and be saved. It assures us of the Love of God for all mankind. 6. The foundation of all righteousness. It reveals the righteousness of God which comes by faith. This is applied to all who believe in Jesus. It teaches us to deny ungodliness and live holy lives. It is consistent with the teaching of the Old Testament. 7. The embodiment of all truth. Jesus Himself is the embodiment of Truth. The apostles based all their teaching on their experience of Christ. John, 1 John 1:1- 5, Peter, 2 Peter 1:16-21, Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. God gave divine revelation to Peter (Acts 10) and to Paul, (Eph. 3:1-6) The truth of the Gospel. The truth of the Church which is His Body. The Truth of the Local Church. The truth of future events in the plan and purposes of God. The truth of our eternal hope. The truth of eternal condemnation for all who reject Christ.

Our text is not a long one, but like other short verses in the bible, it contains much. It offers in insight into how God works and how a life can be transformed by His work. This was Peter’s first introduction to Jesus. Prior to this, we have no indication that Jesus and Simon Peter had ever met. The bible paints a picture of Peter as a colorful character who could be brash and profane at times. This meeting with Jesus began a great transformation in Peter’s life. It was not instantaneous, but a steady process. In this first meeting Jesus spoke great things into Peter’s life and set a foundation that Peter continued to rely upon for the rest of his days. God speaks into our lives too. We must listen to and heed the words that He is speaking. He stated, “Thou art Simon.” Jesus had never met Peter, but He knew him and knew him to the core. He knew him to be the quick-tempered, impetuous bold person that he was. What Peter was at that time did not worry Jesus. God has to start somewhere with us. Until we let God get to the real us, we cannot begin to make progress. God knows the real us, but He as to get through layers of protection that we put up in order to get there. After he cut to the core, Jesus says “But you shall be called Cephas.” Jesus promises that there will be a transformation in his life that would make him a new man. Jesus identified who Simon was, and then speaks of what he could become. The same is true of us. God can speak into our lives and shows a vision of what we can become with His divine intervention. When the Lord speaks to us, he does not address us as what we are, but what we can become. We must hear what He has to say and let it move us toward what He wants us to become. Just as Jesus spoke to Simon, He tells us “You are, but you shall be….”