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What is the #exevangelical movement? Well as far as Religionandpolitics.org is concerned, "It's an activist movement full of individuals trying to reshape the political and moral narrative surrounding evangelicalism by subverting its claims to moral and patriotic authority." In that statement alone it doesn't sound too bad. However, one of the leading voices in the movement, Chris Stroop, has said, "When Christian nationalists are in power and perpetrating horrors, we should oppose their dominionism not with a different reading of the Bible, but with a robust defense of pluralism and secularism" So, this guy's idea of fighting against what the culture calls "evangelicalism" is to come at it with secularism. Which is innately against God and a biblical worldview. This movement claims to fight against racism, homophobia, and misogyny, which we also hate. Yet, the way they do so is to say that God isn't real and you shouldn't be Christian. That's not the correct way to come at these very real issues. The reality of evil in the world does not negate the necessity of a Creator. Join us as we venture into this topic that has shipwrecked many people's faith. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thingsyoudonthearinchurch/support

In this episode, Hall welcomes Christian Czernich, CEO/Founder/Managing Partner at Round2 Capital Partners.  Round2 Capital Partners is a financing partner for European scale-ups with digital and sustainable business models. In the scale-up phase, outstanding entrepreneurs manage to transform their business from a successful venture into a real company. Round2 offers the innovative funding instruments and insights needed to master this transformation process. Founded in 2017, Round2 has pioneered revenue-based finance in Europe: a flexible, non-dilutive funding instrument. When Christian together with Jan started to develop revenue-based finance in Europe back in 2015, Christian was driven by the vision to find better ways of backing great entrepreneurs than by diluting ownership through equity. Also, neither bank loans nor traditional rigid venture debt loans were a viable solution for funding asset-light and digital business models. Instead – he thought – by linking the funding to revenue one can offer a non-dilutive, yet at the same time highly flexible and simple funding instrument and thus solve the problem. Round2 was born. Before founding Round2, Christian was working almost 15 years in European investment banking and Private Equity out of Vienna and Munich. He was responsible for more than 30 cross-border equity transactions with transaction sizes up to EUR 600m in various sectors and has built a leading Vienna-based investment boutique. Christian developed his passion for entrepreneur-led young technology companies when working on his Ph.D. thesis at the Stockholm School of Economics and at Stanford University. In his research, he worked with close to 100 Founders of high-technology spin-offs from Swedish Corporations. His research won the Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management for the worldwide best research paper of a Ph.D. student in his field. Besides entrepreneurship, Christian has a passion for education. During the last 20 years he has been educating hundreds of students on topics in finance, strategy and entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm University, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business at the Bachelor, Master and Executive level. This passion also led to the establishment of the Round2 Lab. An Austrian national, Christian lives in Stockholm and Vienna with his Swedish wife and their three sons. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Master in Business and Finance (with distinction) from Innsbruck University. Christian discusses his investment thesis, advises startups and investors, and shares how he sees the industry evolving. You can visit Round2 Capital Partners at , and via LinkedIn at . Christian can be contacted via email at , and via LinkedIn at Music courtesy of

When Christian apologists allow fear to creep in as their motivation, two equally-dangerous outcomes may result. Here’s why it’s a problem, and how to avoid it. Specifically in this episode, you'll learn: What the Bible says about what should motivate our apologetics. Why fear is so dangerous to the Christian apologist. Why every Christian needs to be ready to "give a defense" of the Christian message. What should be motivating our apologetics (instead of fear). Joel also takes some questions and comments from viewers. To watch the next episode live, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Don’t miss this installment of “Late Night Apologetics.” Follow us! http://facebook.com/thethinkinstitute http://twitter.com/thinkinst http://parler.com/profile/ThinkInstitute http://mewe.com/i/thinkinstitute http://gab.com/thinkinstitute Support the Think Institute: Visit the Settecases’ giving page at https://give.cru.org/1018841 Get the full show notes at https://thethink.institute/podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-think-podcast/message

0:50 Christian is not a fan of Ryans mustache and old timey pipe combination. 8:35 Pipe smoking old man Ryan regales us with stories from his youth. 18:40 Ryans Dad looks like Howie Mandel. 20:28 When Christian pictures Ryan naked he pictures Christian Bale from The Machinist. 24:48 The forth week of finding out which states "Starter States". 33:24 a guy tries to sell Christian rocks in New Mexico and a guy tries to sell Ryan crack. 1:05:48 We learn about Freaknik in Atlanta.

Christian Emeka Okoye, was born on August 16, 1961 in Enugu, Nigeria, as a member of the Igbo ethnic group. Growing up, Okoye mainly played soccer, while also competing as a sprinter and thrower on his high school track and field team. When Christian arrived in the U.S. at the age of 21, he joined the track and field squad at California’s Azusa Pacific University. Okoye excelled athletically, winning 7 college titles in shot put, hammer throw, and discus. Despite having attained marks more than sufficient to qualify, Christian was left off the 1984 Nigerian Olympic team. Frustrated, he turned his attention to football, though after observing his first actual football game, Okoye had noted that it was “boring”. Christian didn’t enjoy the roughness of football, nor had he picked a football up until the ripe age of 23, but with encouragement from friends, he committed himself to the sport.

BRP 241 - CHRISTIAN MONIQUE https://soundcloud.com/destorted Christian Monique is a DJ and producer born in Venice, Italy. The passion for the music came from his father and older brother. When Christian was 8 years old, his older brother bought two turntables "Technics" with a mixer, and Christian learned how to use everything alone while his brother was at work. The biggest influences of Christian Monique are Hernan Cattaneo, Nick Warren, Sasha, John Digweed and Marcelo Vasami for their unique and original styles. His sound is progressive house, dark progressive and progressive trance. He has more than 10 years of DJ-ing experience in Italy. In 2017, he has played at the Tropi Trance Bar in Sant Antoni, Ibiza. In 2018, Christian has played at a big event in his town called, "Notte Bianca". The same year, he has played by the first time in Budapest (Hungary) at the Akvarium Klub with Guy Mantzur. Christian appeared on labels such as Bonzai Progressive, Black Hole Recordings, Pure Trance, Balkan Connection, Balkan Connection South America, White Soho, Massive Harmony Records, DAR Label, Stellar Fountain, 3rd Avenue, Transpecta, Vesta Records and many more. His music has the support of great artists such as Nick Warren, Hernan Cattaneo, Armin Van Buuren, Adriatique, Above & Beyond, Guy J, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Solarstone, Nick Muir, Agoria, Airwave, Ruben De Ronde, Don Diablo, Joris Voorn, Petar Dundov, Mariano Mellino, Aly & Fila, Gai Barone, Chris Fortier, Denis A, Tim Penner and many more. Christian Monique, is actually host on three radio shows. Since January 2018, every 3rd Friday goes on air ìSeventeenî on Frisky Radio. Since January 2019, every 4th Saturday of the month, "Upside Down" is broadcast on Progressive Beats. The third and newest one, Hyperion, goes on air on Proton Radio every 2nd Tuesday of the month, since August 2020. Nowadays, he is composing new productions and remixes for several record labels. tracklist Tom Bro - Perceptions (Original Mix) - Antima Records Waxman (CA) - Sideshow (ALMA (AR) Remix) - Droid9 Erso - Alabasta (Original Mix) - Vesta Records Roman Kandel - Mahasim (Original Mix) - Deepwibe Underground Dylan Deck & Ali Maher - Past Motion (Ed Steele 3AM Remix) - Another Life Music Matheus Castro & Pedrada - Dawn Temptations (Original Mix) - Transensations Records Diego Poblets - Escape (Original Mix) - Reeload Nohak - Omega (Original Mix) - Infinite Depth Sergio Avila - Shadow (Original Mix) - Droid9 South America

CHURCH OFFLINEAccording to Eternity News, the Barna research group reports that 32 per cent of “practising Christians” in the United states have stopped attending church online during the COVID-induced lockdown. They note that a small number of these people may be attending church physically but add “we can, for the most part, confidently interpret this group as those who have dropped out of church for the time being.”HAGIA SOPHIATurkish President Erdoğan has invited Pope Francis to the former Byzantine-era church, Hagia Sophia, after the government was given the go-ahead to convert it into a functioning mosque. News of Erdoğan's decision to invite a number of special guests to the Hagia reopening comes as officials warn that the historic Christian mosaics and iconography that adorn the walls will be covered up by curtains during times of Islamic prayer. Premier Christian News reports that the move to convert the building to a mosque was condemned by the heads of the Greek Orthodox Church along with many senior clergy across the globe. FOOD OR FAITHOpen Doors UK and Ireland told Premier Christian News that it has been "inundated" with reports of Christians worldwide who are being asked to renounce their faith in exchange for emergency Covid-19 aid. Christians from countries including Bangladesh, India, Sudan and Malaysia, say they are facing an ultimatum. A pastor in Western Sudan is quoted as saying, “When Christian converts do ask for help from their Muslim community, they are told they have to give up Christianity if they want to be helped. It is a tragedy."

CHURCH OFFLINEAccording to Eternity News, the Barna research group reports that 32 per cent of “practising Christians” in the United states have stopped attending church online during the COVID-induced lockdown. They note that a small number of these people may be attending church physically but add “we can, for the most part, confidently interpret this group as those who have dropped out of church for the time being.”HAGIA SOPHIATurkish President Erdoğan has invited Pope Francis to the former Byzantine-era church, Hagia Sophia, after the government was given the go-ahead to convert it into a functioning mosque. News of Erdoğan's decision to invite a number of special guests to the Hagia reopening comes as officials warn that the historic Christian mosaics and iconography that adorn the walls will be covered up by curtains during times of Islamic prayer. Premier Christian News reports that the move to convert the building to a mosque was condemned by the heads of the Greek Orthodox Church along with many senior clergy across the globe. FOOD OR FAITHOpen Doors UK and Ireland told Premier Christian News that it has been "inundated" with reports of Christians worldwide who are being asked to renounce their faith in exchange for emergency Covid-19 aid. Christians from countries including Bangladesh, India, Sudan and Malaysia, say they are facing an ultimatum. A pastor in Western Sudan is quoted as saying, “When Christian converts do ask for help from their Muslim community, they are told they have to give up Christianity if they want to be helped. It is a tragedy."

Dreaming, planning, preparing for the future—it’s in our nature to map out where we’d like our lives to go. But in the midst of our dreaming, it’s important to take a step back and ask God, “What do You want for my life?” Because He might have a different—and better—answer for us. When Christian music artist Jaci Velasquez was pregnant with her son Zealand, she knew he’d have a ministry of his own one day. But when Jaci discovered Zealand had autism, she wondered how he’d ever spread God’s love if he couldn’t communicate. Over time, Jaci learned to shift her perspective from “Why me?” to “Why not me?” and she began to see how God can use anyone or anything for good. Worship pastor Andy Harrison was raised in a Christian home, but never really felt connected to God. After attending a youth camp and a Planetshakers conference, Andy was struck by how passionate the people around him were, and he wanted to discover this Jesus that had everyone so shaken up. Today Andy’s a mentor to youth and shows them how to be strong in faith while growing up, and how, even when we don’t know where to turn, we can find everything we need in Jesus. Links, Products and Resources Mentioned: Sarah Young Jesus Calling Podcast Jesus Calling books Jesus Calling devotional Gary Sinise Foundation Jaci Velasquez When God Rescripts Your Life: Seeing Value, Beauty, and Purpose When Life is Interrupted book IEP—Individualized Educational Program Autism Spectrum Disorder Autism Spectrum Disorder - pervasive developmental delay   Andy Harrison Jesus Over Everything album Jesus Over Everything: Notes for the Next Generation of Planetshakers book Planetshakers Youth Ministry Planetshakers Music Planetshakers Conference BibleGateway.com (Psalms 139 & Matthew 6:33)   Jay and Katherine Wolf   Interview Quotes: “I stopped asking the question, ‘Why me?’ And I started asking the most important question, which was ‘Why not me?’” - Jaci Velasquez “Sometimes what He wants for our lives and what He wants for our families looks different than what we had pictured.” - Jaci Velasquez “We have to continuously dive into what God is trying to show us.” - Jaci Velasquez “He forgives you sooner than you forgive yourself. So why do we continue putting ourselves on the cross? “ - Jaci Velasquez “Listen for His interpretation. Our dreams and God's calling are not always the same thing.” - Jaci Velasquez “[Growing up] I knew a lot of things about God, but I didn't know Him for myself.“ - Andy Harrison “I'm really passionate about seeing young people encounter Jesus, because that was the season in my life where I came to know Him, and I want to see other young people come to know Him, too.” - Andy Harrison “Everything that we need is found in Jesus.” - Andy Harrison   ________________________ Enjoy these videos on Jesus Calling YouTube channel: Audio podcast: https://bit.ly/2uCnNM0  Original Series video podcast: https://bit.ly/2WzFY0O  ________________________    Connect with Jesus Calling Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Jesus Calling Website

For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.

For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.

When Christian musicians and others walk away from the faith, we don't recognize the thing they are walking away from. A close examination of Christian musician, Jonathan Steingard's testimony of apostasy from the faith finds that he wasn't taught the Bible. The analysis is helpful to better understand the typical vacuous arguments held up against the faith. The problem of evil is not a problem for the biblical Christian, but it remains a problem for every atheist, every materialist, every eastern religionist, and every person who cannot believe in one, true and living, sovereign God over heaven and earth.

200419 Easter 2 Drive in Service audio200419 Easter 2 Order of ServiceSermon Manuscript:When Jesus rose from the dead on Easter morning he appeared to several disciples in different places, as you yourself can read about in the last chapters of the Gospels. Our Gospel reading today tells us what happened on the evening of Easter Day as well as a week later with Thomas. On the evening of Easter Day his disciples were in lockdown in an upper room of a house, fearing the Jews. Locked doors are no problem for Jesus with his glorified body. He appeared, showed them his hands and his feet, and said, “Peace be with you.” That is what is meant when we say, “God bless you.” When we say, “God bless you,” we are saying, “May God make it so that things go well for you today.” So when Jesus said, “Peace be with you,” he was saying, “Let your hearts be at rest, for things are set right. Look at my hands and my feet. Although I died in agony with big fat nails stuck through my limbs, I am dead no longer. I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”These are kind and generous words to these disciples who have not been very faithful or admirable. Jesus does not say, “What’s wrong with you?” or “Shame on you.” He says, “Everything is going to be fine. The bloody cross has made it so—just look at my hands and my feet. I did this for you—for your blessing.”Then we have some words that are very important for understanding the nature of the Gospel ministry and the Christian Church that is created by that ministry. If you want to know who Christians are and what they do, then this is one of the best places to go. Jesus said, “Just as the Father has sent me, I am also sending you.” After saying this he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whenever you forgive people’s sins, they are forgiven. Whenever you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”Jesus says he is sending the apostles. The word “apostle” means “one who is sent.” Jesus was sent from the Father to do and make known the Father’s will, so also these apostles were sent out by Jesus. When the apostles went out they did not preach their own will, their own ideas. They were sent out with a particular mission. They were to forgive the sins of those who repent. They were to bind the sins of those who do not repent. In this way the will of the Father that is accomplished in the Son finds its home in the hearts of those who believe by the power of the Holy Spirit. The will of the Father is that we should be set free from our slavery to sin, death, and the devil and become his beloved children by being baptized into Christ his only Son.You and I and all Christians are creations of this Gospel ministry that was set in motion by Jesus’s sending of the apostles. The lineage of our Christian faith passes through the generations all the way back to these apostles. There is a genealogy. For these apostles went out and preached. Some of those who heard them believed. From among those who heard and believed, God raised up fathers and mothers who taught their children, witnesses and martyrs who prevailed against the devil’s and the world’s attacks, pastors and teachers who preached the Word. They corrected, rebuked, and encouraged with great patience and careful instruction. Through these people, who made known the will of our Triune God, some more people heard and believed. So on and so forth, it has gone down through the ages until this very day. Christians are made through the preaching of the Gospel. The Gospel is not just preached through preachers, or pastors, but by all who make known the will of God toward us poor, miserable sinners. When Christian fathers and mothers preach to their children, their words are certainly not less efficacious than a pastor’s preaching—so long as they are not making things up out of their own head, but are faithfully making known the will of God that is given to us in the Scriptures, that has its fulfillment in the great, saving deeds of our Lord Jesus Christ. As long as folks speak of the words and deeds of our great God and Savior, then that Word will go to work in those who hear it.There is no greater kindness that we can do for our children than to bring them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord. There is no greater kindness that we can do for all the people we love, than to speak to them about the wages of sin being death, but the gift of God being eternal life in Christ Jesus. Even if we were able to make our children into the smartest, most honorable, most glorious people on earth by training them and sending them to the right schools, and so on, what difference does all that make if they are not trained in the righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus Christ that enables us to escape death and hell? Hell is plump full of people who were glorious and happy in this life, but who had no regard for the preaching of Christ’s disciples. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but to lose his soul?” Jesus asks. The Gospel ministry that all Christians participate in is the salt of the earth that preserves it from rotting and decaying. The devil would like nothing more than that all people are corrupted and rot, both while they live as well as eternally in the grave and in hell. Christ’s resurrection from the dead, that all Christians believe in, and therefore receive, is what fights against his foul delight in all that is putrid and gross. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in him will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in him will never die. Such a believer in Christ passes through the door of death and enters into eternal life with God.So if the Gospel ministry belongs to all Christians, then what about pastors? How do pastors fit in with all of this if Christians already have the preaching of the Gospel? This question has troubled the Lutheran Church for 200 years. This is unfortunate for a couple of reasons. First, when something is controversial among Christians it is only natural for people to assume that the matter is unclear in the Bible. If something is unclear, then it doesn’t seem like a worthy topic to spend a person’s time on—unless that happens to be a hobby of theirs. It makes it seem unimportant. Second, when something is controversial you end up getting a huge body of literature about it. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry writes a book about it, and so it becomes a massive task to sort out what all these people say and don’t say. This makes the task seem impossible. The result of all this? People don’t talk about it. That’s unfortunate, because who pastors are and what they do  isn’t as unclear as people think it is. There is also a lot of practical importance in understanding what God is doing through the Gospel ministry in general and what pastors do in particular. So although I certainly won’t get into the ins and outs of the 200 year old debate with you, I’d still like to speak with you about it.A Bible passage that I think is especially helpful in understanding what pastors are is Ephesians chapter 4. There Paul speaks about how when Christ ascended into heaven he gave gifts to his dear Christian disciples. Paul says, “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” Paul lists the gifts that Jesus gave: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. What is the nature of these gifts? What do they do? How are they helpful? We heard that in our Gospel reading today. They have the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. They forgive the sins of those who are sorry for their sins, and they tell those who are not sorry for their sins that they are not forgiven. This Gospel ministry is something that all people can and should do, whenever the opportunity arises, but Christ also gives us the gift of pastors to help us. So how should we regard pastors? They are gifts of God.Now I am sensitive to how this probably sounds. It sounds like the pastor is saying that he’s a gift of God—what a proud thing to say about himself! But that is not how I see it. When I consider myself I see many sins and weaknesses that not only hamper me personally, but even hamper my work as a pastor. So I do not see Michael Holmen as the gift of God to you, I see the fact that you have a pastor to preach, teach, and administer the Sacraments to you as the gift from God that is given for your benefit. In this way, also, the apostles were gifts of God to the people to whom they were sent. They were a light shining in a dark place—not because of some outstanding quality they had as Peter, Bartholomew, or Matthias, but with the Gospel of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ that they were given to make known. Through them God spoke, and when and where it pleased the Holy Spirit, people where converted to faith in Christ. Likewise, through your pastor God speaks (so long as he speaks according to the Scriptures and not according to his own thoughts). When and where it pleases the Holy Spirit, people are converted to faith in Christ.This is not said to glorify apostles or pastors. Apostles and pastors should regard themselves as unworthy servants, and when they start to think more of themselves than they ought, then trouble is at hand, as the Gospels clearly show us. What I’ve said is not meant to glorify apostles and pastors, but to glory the grace of God. I can give thanks to God also, for I am just as much a beneficiary of his grace as you are: I have been blessed with someone who baptized me. I’ve been blessed by someone who catechized me. I’ve been blessed with wonderful teachers in the seminary who opened up the Scriptures for me. I’ve been blessed with pastors who have given the Sacrament of the Altar to me. Without these gifts that have come to me through the various men who have been pastors in my life, where would my faith be? Would I repent of my sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? I am dependent upon the same Gospel that I have been tasked with delivering to you. It is still necessary that the Gospel ministry continue to expose my sin, make me fear God, and take refuge in the cross of Jesus Christ. So it is also with you. I have not been your only pastor. By sending you the gift of pastors, ministers of the Gospel, Jesus has given you the Holy Spirit and made you heirs of eternal life. This is not in opposition to the good Gospel work that has been given to you through Christian fathers, mothers, siblings, friends, and so on. It is not in opposition to these gifts, but a gift on top of other gifts. It is similar to the gifts of God’s forgiveness. Baptism forgives sins. The Lord’s Supper forgives sin. These things are not in opposition to each other. They are both directed towards the same thing. So it is also with all who testify to the saving power of Jesus’s blood. The more gifts there are in this regard the better. The more people there are testifying to Jesus the Savior, the more Satan’s evil designs of death and corruption are smashed and destroyed. Thank God for the gifts God has given to you. Thank God for your Christian spouses, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, fellow congregation members, and pastors that God has given to you through the years. They have done more good for you than you are aware of. They come from God, and it is good to give him thanks for them, for our Gospel reading today shows us that it is through the preaching of the Gospel that sinners are saved from what they deserve for their sins. Do your part, and thereby become this gift of God to others, by telling people the truth about life. Make them fear God as sinners who have offended him, then tell them the good news that Jesus has atoned for sinners by his holy precious blood and his innocent suffering and death. In this way Satan is beat down under our feet. But where the Word of the Gospel is not at work, there you have the devil’s kingdom, and he will surely take his prey. We are not playing games here. Therefore, do your part! The Lord will help you. Just ask him.

Alexandra Kaval is a certified Christian coach for high impact women who crave more. She formerly worked in the corporate sector in HR talent development. Just four years ago she made the leap to go out on her own and build a coaching practice that would empower women with intentional Christ-centered support for their life and careers. It's difficult to know where to focus when you start out building a business or pursuing a dream, especially if you are doing it on your own. The list of to-dos is overwhelming and it's difficult to gain traction as a one-woman operation. When Christian coach Alexandra Kaval left a well-paying HR job in corporate America and started her coaching business, fear threatened to topple it all. Whether it was a fear of not being able to do it perfectly or of what people would think of her decision to leave safe and comfortable for a personal passion, she learned to lean into the discomfort and ask God for His help along the way.   In the last few years, she has not only survived the transition but also thrived in her pursuit of a career serving Christian women in an authentic and meaningful way. In this episode, I hope you'll listen for nuggets of wisdom about: How much we can benefit by digging in to the hard stuff in life & how the culture of “busy” tempts us to ignore it instead New disciplines worth implementing, especially right now How to re-focus worry and fear to a mindset of love and service What to do with discouragement and doubt when it shows up, and Why you ought to give your dream a sabbath every week. You'll find the show notes and all the ways to connect with Alexandra, here: http://www.merrittonsa.com/podcast/148 NEXT STEPS: If you're new to the Devoted Dreamers Podcast or just trying to figure out what's next after you've heard this one, check out my 30 Days of Prayer series or one of these recent episodes: Episode 146 – When You Lose Everything but Still Have a Dream with Stephanie May Wilson – released 3/25/2020 Episode 147 – How to Get Past Your Mindset to Share Your Dream, a Strategy Session with Ashley Johnson – released 4/1/2020 GET MORE INVOLVED...BECOME A DEVOTED DREAMERS PATRON Listener support makes this show possible! Click here to learn more about how you can get involved!  GET CONNECTED WITH THE COMMUNITY: Find your tribe in the Devoted Dreamers Insiders Facebook Group where you can connect with other like-minded women in pursuit of their God-shaped dreams. Leave your review of the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or Stitcher Subscribe on Apple Podcasts * Subscribe on Android

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For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors.In this episode I’m speaking with Dan Jones, author of Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era. Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friar

"I know that His command is everlasting life." Jn 12: 50 When Christian faith becomes unpopular, how do you respond? Doesn't a sweeping rejection of God argue something 'wrong' with God? If 'all the world' rejects Him, shouldn't you reject Him too? Oh, get ready! Here in his final farewell to the 'critic s', Jesus sets the record straight on all that.  Message by Pastor Rod Schorr, Calvary Chapel Old Towne, Orange, CA From his series: The Gospel of John: Truth for a World in the Grip of a Lie

In this episode we catch up with Ojo Taylor, formerly of the Christian punk band Undercover. Join us as we discuss pretty much everything from sin and ethics, to whether America can still be the bulwark of stability it has been in the past. Along the way Ojo questions whether Christians should be promoting a God that requires a blood sacrifice in order to forgive....and other hot button topics. Go Beyond the Pale with Ojo Taylor! Episode Index: 1:13- “(Intro) Steve & Tammy discuss how to love people radically even when its hard 21:47- Talk with Ojo Taylor begins 22:22- When your country goes off the rails 32:28- How Ojo’s friends have reacted to his “de-conversion” 37:06- Evolving beyond the “Volcano god” 40:01- Should we fear or embrace “secularisation?” 53: 30- Ethics & Sin 1:07:19- Some hope for America 1:16:32- When Christian musicians lose their prophetic voice

Here’s a word about the Great Commission and full-orbed discipleship. We’ve certainly deepened our understanding of the Lord’s command over time -- it’s not a command to merely go, but to make disciples as we go; it’s not a command about discipling geo-political states, but the myriad people-groups that make up the world -- things like that. But Darrow Miller takes another step forward. He talks about discipling whole nations. It’s not that we’re to disciple people out of every people group, though we are, but there’s more to it. Disciple-making spreads as new disciples are made; it spreads throughout entire cultures. Beyond that, disciple-making is not merely about evangelism, teaching doctrine, and teaching to obey, it’s also about inculcating a thorough-going biblical worldview in the hearts and minds of Jesus’ disciples. We can apply these principles to numerous life-situations, not the least of which is missions and relief. Missionaries and relief workers have a heart for God and people; they work hard at spreading the gospel and helping others. However, by way of example, sometimes they adopt less than biblical worldviews to help impoverished persons. Evolution says there’s nothing more than the physical world and the limited resources it contains. When Christian relief workers blame a lack of resources for generational poverty and sometimes write whole countries off, they buy into such a worldview. They buy into the same worldview as those calling for population control or the Elon Musk’s of the world desperately seeking a way to move to Mars when our planet is used up. Others adopt a Marxist approach to aid rooted in wealth redistribution or Critical Theory. Woke Culture has slipped into the church as calls for a re-ordering of the social structure reverberate throughout the evangelical world. Then there are those missionaries who want to save souls and merely feed the hungry along the way. They give them fish, a good thing, but they’re not interested in training them to catch fish. Why bother with such when Jesus is coming soon? Certainly, we recognize dispensational underpinnings here. At the same time, there’s a sense in which, at a worldview level, a sort of neo-animistic understanding has taken hold. If evolution says ultimate reality is only physical, animism says that ultimate reality is only spiritual. An animistic influence is at work when we downplay the importance of this world’s connection to the kingdom and focus solely on Heaven. God’s word presents a different vision. Contra evolution, God has given us resources of which we’re unaware at the present time. He’s also given us minds for creativity and innovation. Subduing the earth takes on new meaning in light of that reality, particularly when it’s connected to the Great Commission. Contra Marxism, that reality also militates against evil redistribution and/or revolution schemes that contradict biblical principles including the goodness and necessity of work; biblical justice as opposed to so-called social justice; as well as compassion and mercy to name a few. Contra animism, this world and its people are important to God, the kingdom is to be brought to bear in the here and now, and certain cultural goods will last into eternity. Therefore, as Miller says, our goal is nothing short of a radical reorientation of a person’s life. As this reorientation spreads, whole cultures are discipled. I would describe it as the creation of a kingdom citizen who has kingdom understanding and kingdom goals and engages in, to borrow another word from Miller, kingdomizing activities. We’re talking about people who take seriously the words of our Lord when He taught us to pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” Join Christi and Paul as they discuss these issues and more on True Worldview.

When Christian and I first started out, we were relying on his single income as an electrician. By staying out of debt and focusing on doing anything we could do to earn extra money, it allowed us to build our homestead piece-by-piece. Regardless of where you’re at financially, it’s possible to get into the homestead game. Before you begin on your journey there’s some key things you should know. First and foremost, it’s going to take a serious amount of discipline along with rock solid intent. Second, there’s no right or wrong way to do this. Listen today to find out how Christian and I managed to make our dream a reality and learn some tips and tricks so you can do the same.Some highlights from the episode: Why staying out of debt is key for success Why you should buy everything used DIY everything you can If you're ready to begin this homesteading journey, head to http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/grow to access my full library of resources to guide you down the path.

Christian Jackson, 23 years old, has lost 25 pounds since starting CrossFit in May! He is a full time seminary student at DTS, runs a non-profit he started called WHY NOT, and has a full-time job. Even with all he has going on he has found time to train for the BCS Classic which will be his first competition. When Christian started CrossFit he thought it was going to come easy to him since he played college football. Pretty quickly he realized how challenging it is and now he is determined to get better. You will be inspired by his story. Enjoy!

Have you ever wondered if raised beds were the answer to your garden issues? When Christian and I started our first garden on our homestead, we began with a traditional in-ground garden. After a somewhat comical mistake involving manure, we quickly had a yard growing in our garden. Certainly not an ideal situation. Though a temporary solution worked for a while, we discovered a deeper issue as a result of previous pesticide use. Enter raised beds. Listen today to find out if raised beds are the right solution for your homestead. Some key highlights from today's episode: • How I poisoned my first garden • How deep mulch saved my garden • Why raised beds can heat the soil faster • The benefits of a timed drip system Click here to access your very own raised bed guide! https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/raisedbedguideFor complimentary access to my full library of resources for homesteaders like you, head to http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/grow

When Christian singer Michael W. Smith encountered a passport issue that kept him from boarding a plane to South Africa, he was pretty down. But then God used Michael's experience for something incredible. Listen as host Jenny Rose Spaudo shares about his unexpected but divine appointment.

When Christian refuse to obey Christ, they look like everything but Christians. Please listen to the sermon entitled -Hope- The response to Your Salvation,- by Pastor Jamie Hawkins.

When Christian remembers things, many of his nerve cells work together, organised in neuronal networks. Even while he is asleep, his brain sorts out what he has experienced during the day, thus reinforcing his memories. Part three of the series "Your Brain" explains how our memory works. The film clarifies that there are different ways to "store memories" in the brain, and explains the difference between short-term and long-term memory. During the process of remembering, our brain can change the interpretation of past events in a way that can lead to "false" memories. (Online-Signatur Medienzentren: 4985035)

Jerry and Christian shout out a special thanks to Brawley, CA for an amazing show. Jesus is NOT onboard. He bombed. Then, Jerry reveals he got dumped two weeks ago! He says it's the first time it's happened without him doing something wrong. Jesus and Christian play social media detectives to piece together the timeline. The Wannabes disagree on the wisdom of rebound sex. When Christian asks if the guys believe in karma, Jesus reveals that he believes he is cursed. He never sleeps and can't enjoy being happy. Well shit, that took a dark turn. All this, plus a bad set helps Jerry realize he can't make gay jokes in 2018. Christian wonders if he secretly loves Trump. -- BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: The American Wannabes made the cut for the NoHo Comedy Fest podcast lineup! Get ready for our first live show! Details soon. COME SEE AN AMERICAN WANNABES STAND-UP SHOW: Jerry and Jesus headline Clearwater Casino in Seattle, WA, March 27! THE UNDEPORTABLES Tour starts April 6, 2018 in San Antonio, TX at the Empire Theatre. Tickets are NOW ON SALE via Ticketmaster. Click here to book! Follow/DM @ComedianJerryG, @JesusComic89, or any of the guys on Facebook for tickets and info on upcoming dates. --- Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play or your favorite podcast app! American Wannabes is a weekly Latino comedy podcast featuring comics Jerry Garcia, Jesus Sepulveda and Christian Zaragoza.

EP17: Christian Militello Shares How Building Company Culture Increases Bottom Line SUMMARY: In this episode of DYB, Steve Interviews Christian Militello; Owner and Operator of Militello Painting & Pressure Washing.   Since his youth, Christian has always taken after his grandfather in handyman work. When Christian decided that college wasn't his desired path, he ended up leaving to begin painting and pressure-washing for a friend.   After-hours, Christian built up a client base large enough to quit his job, growing Millitello Painting & Pressure Washing up until today.   Enjoy this episode as we dive into Christian's background, Company Culture, and implementation of the DYB System.   -- WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: -How has Christian created an exceptional company culture at Militello Painting? -How has the implementation of the DYB system significantly helped Chrisitan's hiring process? -What tools and systems does Christian use to help streamline his business?   -- QUOTES: "Some shifts for us were to be more structured. Having a repetitive system, and starting from basics." "Go with your Gut." "Stay top of mind." "When guys would start complaining about someone else, instead ask 'what can you do to help this person?' Immediately nip the negativity in the bud." "Really your company culture comes from yourself."   -- HIGHLIGHTS: 4:54 What was Christian's biggest challenge when starting the business? 9:04 What was the biggest paradigm shift for Christian in running the business? 13:39 Which DYB system led to the greatest results for Militello Painting? 16:17 How does Christian get most of his leads? 19:00 How does Christian instill a great company culture? 33:22 Christian leaves the listeners with parting advice.   -- LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The DYB App   DYB 11 Interview Questions   Traction - Gino Wickman   E-Myth -  Michael Gerber   Go-Giver - Bob Burg   The 10x Rule - Grant Cardone   YouCanBookMe   Acuity Scheduling   Zapier   PEP Estimating Software   Responsabid   Pipeline Deals   Allclients CRM   Group.me   Basecamp 2   Wunderlist   Grasshopper   Hubdock   TSheets   ReviewBuzz ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES: Join DYB DYB System PDF EP01 9 Steps to Doubling Your Business Part 1 52 Blog Post Ideas PDF YouCanBookMe VIDEO Pre-qualifying Questions PDF Video Testimonial Checklist PDF 3 Steps To Get Leads From FB PDF 11 Interview Questions PDF 9 Ways To Get HOA Work PDF Connect with Christian Militello on Facebook here Connect with Steve on Facebook here Thank you very much for joining us today! If you received value, would you take a quick few seconds and leave us a review on iTunes, please?

We’ve got a special guest in studio this week as we’re joined by comedian Matt Light. And, there is a ton of stuff to talk about this week, including: Our guest Matt Light mixes wrestling with comedy. The best of both worlds. Larry has a foam finger – but not the finger you’re thinking… We are 1 degree of separation from Honky Tonk Man at this very moment. RVD has a comedy (?) show? So, RAW 25 happened last night. We’ve got plenty of thoughts. When Christian is compared to Marty Jannetty. We’re sharing some thoughts about the RAW 25 venue split and how WE thought it should have been done. The APA segments of RAW 25 made the night for most of us. Royal Rumble is this weekend. And, Dolph Ziggler is favored to win? Our guest Matt Light is calling it now – Dolph Ziggler comes out at #30 – – – to Daniel Bryan’s theme music. Sorg is waiting for Jason Jordan to snap. Mad Mike is waiting for a Shield break-up turn by Jordan, and Matt Light is just calling for him to get his future endeavored letter. Why did they not have Jerry Springer on RAW 25 with a “You are not the father!” spot with Kurt Angle and Jason Jordan. We’re takling about who we want to win the Royal Rumble this year and who we think will win. Mainstream Matt is calling for an Elias Money In The Bank win – so we can have an MITB guitar case! Nia Jax v. Asuka can be this generation’s Andre v. Hogan. Will AJ Styles v. Sami and KO match be the comedy match for Royal Rumble? Science: Shane McMahon cannot win a Royal Rumble match because he goes to the top rope too much. Will we see Karma for the Women’s Royal Rumble? We found some Friend of the Show folks by searching their names on the WWE Network. This week’s Big Question: What is the future of 205 LIVE? Abeyance is the new 205 LIVE champion! Woooooooo! NXT Takeover is coming up soon. We’re sharing some thoughts. What did YOU learn in wrestling this week? Fan of the show, Brandon Mynatt, will be a participant in the 2018 Special Olympics as part of the Team Missouri Bowling Team. (Donate at: http://give.somo.org/site/TR?px=1073149&fr_id=1190&pg=persona) Follow our stable on Twitter: Matt Light (@mattlightcomedy), Larry (@MutilatorLarry), Mad Mike (@MadMike4883) and Sorg (@Sorgatron) If you are in Pittsburgh, you got to go to Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) and get their food! (sliceonbroadway.com) You can support the show at Patreon.com/wrestlingmayhemshow! Go to wrestlingmayhemshow.com for more entertainment! Remember to LIKE and FOLLOW us on Facebook for updates and video.

We’ve got a special guest in studio this week as we’re joined by comedian Matt Light. And, there is a ton of stuff to talk about this week, including: Our guest Matt Light mixes wrestling with comedy. The best of both worlds. Larry has a foam finger – but not the finger you’re thinking… We are 1 degree of separation from Honky Tonk Man at this very moment. RVD has a comedy (?) show? So, RAW 25 happened last night. We’ve got plenty of thoughts. When Christian is compared to Marty Jannetty. We’re sharing some thoughts about the RAW 25 venue split and how WE thought it should have been done. The APA segments of RAW 25 made the night for most of us. Royal Rumble is this weekend. And, Dolph Ziggler is favored to win? Our guest Matt Light is calling it now – Dolph Ziggler comes out at #30 – – – to Daniel Bryan’s theme music. Sorg is waiting for Jason Jordan to snap. Mad Mike is waiting for a Shield break-up turn by Jordan, and Matt Light is just calling for him to get his future endeavored letter. Why did they not have Jerry Springer on RAW 25 with a “You are not the father!” spot with Kurt Angle and Jason Jordan. We’re takling about who we want to win the Royal Rumble this year and who we think will win. Mainstream Matt is calling for an Elias Money In The Bank win – so we can have an MITB guitar case! Nia Jax v. Asuka can be this generation’s Andre v. Hogan. Will AJ Styles v. Sami and KO match be the comedy match for Royal Rumble? Science: Shane McMahon cannot win a Royal Rumble match because he goes to the top rope too much. Will we see Karma for the Women’s Royal Rumble? We found some Friend of the Show folks by searching their names on the WWE Network. This week’s Big Question: What is the future of 205 LIVE? Abeyance is the new 205 LIVE champion! Woooooooo! NXT Takeover is coming up soon. We’re sharing some thoughts. What did YOU learn in wrestling this week? Fan of the show, Brandon Mynatt, will be a participant in the 2018 Special Olympics as part of the Team Missouri Bowling Team. (Donate at: http://give.somo.org/site/TR?px=1073149&fr_id=1190&pg=persona) Follow our stable on Twitter: Matt Light (@mattlightcomedy), Larry (@MutilatorLarry), Mad Mike (@MadMike4883) and Sorg (@Sorgatron) If you are in Pittsburgh, you got to go to Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) and get their food! (sliceonbroadway.com) You can support the show at Patreon.com/wrestlingmayhemshow! Go to wrestlingmayhemshow.com for more entertainment! Remember to LIKE and FOLLOW us on Facebook for updates and video.

We’ve got a special guest in studio this week as we’re joined by comedian Matt Light. And, there is a ton of stuff to talk about this week, including: Our guest Matt Light mixes wrestling with comedy. The best of both worlds. Larry has a foam finger – but not the finger you’re thinking… We are 1 degree of separation from Honky Tonk Man at this very moment. RVD has a comedy (?) show? So, RAW 25 happened last night. We’ve got plenty of thoughts. When Christian is compared to Marty Jannetty. We’re sharing some thoughts about the RAW 25 venue split and how WE thought it should have been done. The APA segments of RAW 25 made the night for most of us. Royal Rumble is this weekend. And, Dolph Ziggler is favored to win? Our guest Matt Light is calling it now – Dolph Ziggler comes out at #30 – – – to Daniel Bryan’s theme music. Sorg is waiting for Jason Jordan to snap. Mad Mike is waiting for a Shield break-up turn by Jordan, and Matt Light is just calling for him to get his future endeavored letter. Why did they not have Jerry Springer on RAW 25 with a “You are not the father!” spot with Kurt Angle and Jason Jordan. We’re takling about who we want to win the Royal Rumble this year and who we think will win. Mainstream Matt is calling for an Elias Money In The Bank win – so we can have an MITB guitar case! Nia Jax v. Asuka can be this generation’s Andre v. Hogan. Will AJ Styles v. Sami and KO match be the comedy match for Royal Rumble? Science: Shane McMahon cannot win a Royal Rumble match because he goes to the top rope too much. Will we see Karma for the Women’s Royal Rumble? We found some Friend of the Show folks by searching their names on the WWE Network. This week’s Big Question: What is the future of 205 LIVE? Abeyance is the new 205 LIVE champion! Woooooooo! NXT Takeover is coming up soon. We’re sharing some thoughts. What did YOU learn in wrestling this week? Fan of the show, Brandon Mynatt, will be a participant in the 2018 Special Olympics as part of the Team Missouri Bowling Team. (Donate at: http://give.somo.org/site/TR?px=1073149&fr_id=1190&pg=persona) Follow our stable on Twitter: Matt Light (@mattlightcomedy), Larry (@MutilatorLarry), Mad Mike (@MadMike4883) and Sorg (@Sorgatron) If you are in Pittsburgh, you got to go to Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) and get their food! (sliceonbroadway.com) You can support the show at Patreon.com/wrestlingmayhemshow! Go to wrestlingmayhemshow.com for more entertainment! Remember to LIKE and FOLLOW us on Facebook for updates and video.

When Christian, of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, learned how to be saved, he immediately ran towards the narrow gate shouting, “Life! Life! Eternal Life!” Are you doing this? Have you ever? Jesus said, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” Will the decisions that you make today save, or unsave, your soul? Welcome message by Sister Michelle

When Christian, of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, learned how to be saved, he immediately ran towards the narrow gate shouting, “Life! Life! Eternal Life!” Are you doing this? Have you ever? Jesus said, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” Will the decisions that you make today save, or unsave, your soul? Welcome message by Sister Michelle

Cierra Seay is an entrepreneur running multiple business and the host of The College Dropout Podcast”.  She believes there are many roads to success and we don’t need to be limited by a traditional path.    Cierra is also the mother to two little boys, Christian and Caleb.  When Christian was just 1 year old, Cierra unexpectedly lost her mother and grandmother, the two most significant women in her life.  Of course, this shook her to her core.   For about a year and a half after these losses, she told everyone, “I’m fine.”  And then she found herself not fine at all.    Listen in to hear Cierra share about her loss & grief, how she coped, and how she has come out stronger on the other side of grief.  She also shares what she learned from her mother and grandmother and how she is living these lessons and passing them along to her boys.    Links Mentioned: Podcast: The College Dropout Podcast Book: Greatness Is Upon You Cierra on Facebook Cierra on Instagram  

We are going to suffer in this life. No one comes through unscathed. The Bible offers an extremely realistic and hopeful view of suffering. When Christian community is genuine there is a power to lift even the heaviest burdens.

How does an impoverished student come up with the capital that's needed to create an innovative product and to market it to millions of people? For TrackR's Christian Smith and his business partner, the solution was crowdfunding. When Christian set a modest goal of $20,000 on Indiegogo back in 2009, this goal was exceeded by well over 6,000%, raising nearly $1.4 million in capital. Found out how he did it in this week's episode of Australia's #1 marketing show ... The post 212 – A crowdfunding success story – like 6,816% over target success story with Trackr founder Christian Smith appeared first on Small Business Big Marketing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Planetary Prince of Urantia (741.1) 66:0.1 THE advent of a Lanonandek Son on an average world signifies that will, the ability to choose the path of eternal survival, has developed in the mind of primitive man. But on Urantia the Planetary Prince arrived almost half a million years after the appearance of human will. (741.2) 66:0.2 About five hundred thousand years ago and concurrent with the appearance of the six colored or Sangik races, Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, arrived on Urantia. There were almost one-half billion primitive human beings on earth at the time of the Prince’s arrival, and they were well scattered over Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Prince’s headquarters, established in Mesopotamia, was at about the center of world population. 1. Prince Caligastia (741.3) 66:1.1 Caligastia was a Lanonandek Son, number 9,344 of the secondary order. He was experienced in the administration of the affairs of the local universe in general and, during later ages, with the management of the local system of Satania in particular. (741.4) 66:1.2 Prior to the reign of Lucifer in Satania, Caligastia had been attached to the council of the Life Carrier advisers on Jerusem. Lucifer elevated Caligastia to a position on his personal staff, and he acceptably filled five successive assignments of honor and trust. (741.5) 66:1.3 Caligastia very early sought a commission as Planetary Prince, but repeatedly, when his request came up for approval in the constellation councils, it would fail to receive the assent of the Constellation Fathers. Caligastia seemed especially desirous of being sent as planetary ruler to a decimal or life-modification world. His petition had several times been disapproved before he was finally assigned to Urantia. (741.6) 66:1.4 Caligastia went forth from Jerusem to his trust of world dominion with an enviable record of loyalty and devotion to the welfare of the universe of his origin and sojourn, notwithstanding a certain characteristic restlessness coupled with a tendency to disagree with the established order in certain minor matters. (741.7) 66:1.5 I was present on Jerusem when the brilliant Caligastia departed from the system capital. No prince of the planets ever embarked upon a career of world rulership with a richer preparatory experience or with better prospects than did Caligastia on that eventful day one-half million years ago. One thing is certain: As I executed my assignment of putting the narrative of that event on the broadcasts of the local universe, I never for one moment entertained even in the slightest degree any idea that this noble Lanonandek would so shortly betray his sacred trust of planetary custody and so horribly stain the fair name of his exalted order of universe sonship. I really regarded Urantia as being among the five or six most fortunate planets in all Satania in that it was to have such an experienced, brilliant, and original mind at the helm of world affairs. I did not then comprehend that Caligastia was insidiously falling in love with himself; I did not then so fully understand the subtleties of personality pride. 2. The Prince’s Staff (742.1) 66:2.1 The Planetary Prince of Urantia was not sent out on his mission alone but was accompanied by the usual corps of assistants and administrative helpers. (742.2) 66:2.2 At the head of this group was Daligastia, the associate-assistant of the Planetary Prince. Daligastia was also a secondary Lanonandek Son, being number 319,407 of that order. He ranked as an assistant at the time of his assignment as Caligastia’s associate. (742.3) 66:2.3 The planetary staff included a large number of angelic co-operators and a host of other celestial beings assigned to advance the interests and promote the welfare of the human races. But from your standpoint the most interesting group of all were the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff — sometimes referred to as the Caligastia one hundred. (742.4) 66:2.4 These one hundred rematerialized members of the Prince’s staff were chosen by Caligastia from over 785,000 ascendant citizens of Jerusem who volunteered for embarkation on the Urantia adventure. Each one of the chosen one hundred was from a different planet, and none of them were from Urantia. (742.5) 66:2.5 These Jerusemite volunteers were brought by seraphic transport direct from the system capital to Urantia, and upon arrival they were held enseraphimed until they could be provided with personality forms of the dual nature of special planetary service, literal bodies consisting of flesh and blood but also attuned to the life circuits of the system. (742.6) 66:2.6 Sometime before the arrival of these one hundred Jerusem citizens, the two supervising Life Carriers resident on Urantia, having previously perfected their plans, petitioned Jerusem and Edentia for permission to transplant the life plasm of one hundred selected survivors of the Andon and Fonta stock into the material bodies to be projected for the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff. The request was granted on Jerusem and approved on Edentia. (742.7) 66:2.7 Accordingly, fifty males and fifty females of the Andon and Fonta posterity, representing the survival of the best strains of that unique race, were chosen by the Life Carriers. With one or two exceptions these Andonite contributors to the advancement of the race were strangers to one another. They were assembled from widely separated places by co-ordinated Thought Adjuster direction and seraphic guidance at the threshold of the planetary headquarters of the Prince. Here the one hundred human subjects were given into the hands of the highly skilled volunteer commission from Avalon, who directed the material extraction of a portion of the life plasm of these Andon descendants. This living material was then transferred to the material bodies constructed for the use of the one hundred Jerusemite members of the Prince’s staff. Meantime, these newly arrived citizens of the system capital were held in the sleep of seraphic transport. (742.8) 66:2.8 These transactions, together with the literal creation of special bodies for the Caligastia one hundred, gave origin to numerous legends, many of which subsequently became confused with the later traditions concerning the planetary installation of Adam and Eve. (743.1) 66:2.9 The entire transaction of repersonalization, from the time of the arrival of the seraphic transports bearing the one hundred Jerusem volunteers until they became conscious, threefold beings of the realm, consumed exactly ten days. 3. Dalamatia — The City of the Prince (743.2) 66:3.1 The headquarters of the Planetary Prince was situated in the Persian Gulf region of those days, in the district corresponding to later Mesopotamia. (743.3) 66:3.2 The climate and landscape in the Mesopotamia of those times were in every way favorable to the undertakings of the Prince’s staff and their assistants, very different from conditions which have sometimes since prevailed. It was necessary to have such a favoring climate as a part of the natural environment designed to induce primitive Urantians to make certain initial advances in culture and civilization. The one great task of those ages was to transform man from a hunter to a herder, with the hope that later on he would evolve into a peace-loving, home-abiding farmer. (743.4) 66:3.3 The headquarters of the Planetary Prince on Urantia was typical of such stations on a young and developing sphere. The nucleus of the Prince’s settlement was a very simple but beautiful city, enclosed within a wall forty feet high. This world center of culture was named Dalamatia in honor of Daligastia. (743.5) 66:3.4 The city was laid out in ten subdivisions with the headquarters mansions of the ten councils of the corporeal staff situated at the centers of these subdivisions. Centermost in the city was the temple of the unseen Father. The administrative headquarters of the Prince and his associates was arranged in twelve chambers immediately grouped about the temple itself. (743.6) 66:3.5 The buildings of Dalamatia were all one story except the council headquarters, which were two stories, and the central temple of the Father of all, which was small but three stories in height. (743.7) 66:3.6 The city represented the best practices of those early days in building material — brick. Very little stone or wood was used. Home building and village architecture among the surrounding peoples were greatly improved by the Dalamatian example. (743.8) 66:3.7 Near the Prince’s headquarters there dwelt all colors and strata of human beings. And it was from these near-by tribes that the first students of the Prince’s schools were recruited. Although these early schools of Dalamatia were crude, they provided all that could be done for the men and women of that primitive age. (743.9) 66:3.8 The Prince’s corporeal staff continuously gathered about them the superior individuals of the surrounding tribes and, after training and inspiring these students, sent them back as teachers and leaders of their respective peoples. 4. Early Days of the One Hundred (743.10) 66:4.1 The arrival of the Prince’s staff created a profound impression. While it required almost a thousand years for the news to spread abroad, those tribes near the Mesopotamian headquarters were tremendously influenced by the teachings and conduct of the one hundred new sojourners on Urantia. And much of your subsequent mythology grew out of the garbled legends of these early days when these members of the Prince’s staff were repersonalized on Urantia as supermen. (744.1) 66:4.2 The serious obstacle to the good influence of such extraplanetary teachers is the tendency of mortals to regard them as gods, but aside from the technique of their appearance on earth the Caligastia one hundred — fifty men and fifty women — did not resort to supernatural methods nor superhuman manipulations. (744.2) 66:4.3 But the corporeal staff were nonetheless superhuman. They began their mission on Urantia as extraordinary threefold beings: (744.3) 66:4.4 1. They were corporeal and relatively human, for they embodied the actual life plasm of one of the human races, the Andonic life plasm of Urantia. (744.4) 66:4.5 These one hundred members of the Prince’s staff were divided equally as to sex and in accordance with their previous mortal status. Each person of this group was capable of becoming coparental to some new order of physical being, but they had been carefully instructed to resort to parenthood only under certain conditions. It is customary for the corporeal staff of a Planetary Prince to procreate their successors sometime prior to retiring from special planetary service. Usually this is at, or shortly after, the time of the arrival of the Planetary Adam and Eve. (744.5) 66:4.6 These special beings therefore had little or no idea as to what type of material creature would be produced by their sexual union. And they never did know; before the time for such a step in the prosecution of their world work the entire regime was upset by rebellion, and those who later functioned in the parental role had been isolated from the life currents of the system. (744.6) 66:4.7 In skin color and language these materialized members of Caligastia’s staff followed the Andonic race. They partook of food as did the mortals of the realm with this difference: The re-created bodies of this group were fully satisfied by a nonflesh diet. This was one of the considerations which determined their residence in a warm region abounding in fruits and nuts. The practice of subsisting on a nonflesh diet dates from the times of the Caligastia one hundred, for this custom spread near and far to affect the eating habits of many surrounding tribes, groups of origin in the once exclusively meat-eating evolutionary races. (744.7) 66:4.8 2. The one hundred were material but superhuman beings, having been reconstituted on Urantia as unique men and women of a high and special order. (744.8) 66:4.9 This group, while enjoying provisional citizenship on Jerusem, were as yet unfused with their Thought Adjusters; and when they volunteered and were accepted for planetary service in liaison with the descending orders of sonship, their Adjusters were detached. But these Jerusemites were superhuman beings — they possessed souls of ascendant growth. During the mortal life in the flesh the soul is of embryonic estate; it is born (resurrected) in the morontia life and experiences growth through the successive morontia worlds. And the souls of the Caligastia one hundred had thus expanded through the progressive experiences of the seven mansion worlds to citizenship status on Jerusem. (744.9) 66:4.10 In conformity to their instructions the staff did not engage in sexual reproduction, but they did painstakingly study their personal constitutions, and they carefully explored every imaginable phase of intellectual (mind) and morontia (soul) liaison. And it was during the thirty-third year of their sojourn in Dalamatia, long before the wall was completed, that number two and number seven of the Danite group accidentally discovered a phenomenon attendant upon the liaison of their morontia selves (supposedly nonsexual and nonmaterial); and the result of this adventure proved to be the first of the primary midway creatures. This new being was wholly visible to the planetary staff and to their celestial associates but was not visible to the men and women of the various human tribes. Upon authority of the Planetary Prince the entire corporeal staff undertook the production of similar beings, and all were successful, following the instructions of the pioneer Danite pair. Thus did the Prince’s staff eventually bring into being the original corps of 50,000 primary midwayers. (745.1) 66:4.11 These mid-type creatures were of great service in carrying on the affairs of the world’s headquarters. They were invisible to human beings, but the primitive sojourners at Dalamatia were taught about these unseen semispirits, and for ages they constituted the sum total of the spirit world to these evolving mortals. (745.2) 66:4.12 3. The Caligastia one hundred were personally immortal, or undying. There circulated through their material forms the antidotal complements of the life currents of the system; and had they not lost contact with the life circuits through rebellion, they would have lived on indefinitely until the arrival of a subsequent Son of God, or until their sometime later release to resume the interrupted journey to Havona and Paradise. (745.3) 66:4.13 These antidotal complements of the Satania life currents were derived from the fruit of the tree of life, a shrub of Edentia which was sent to Urantia by the Most Highs of Norlatiadek at the time of Caligastia’s arrival. In the days of Dalamatia this tree grew in the central courtyard of the temple of the unseen Father, and it was the fruit of the tree of life that enabled the material and otherwise mortal beings of the Prince’s staff to live on indefinitely as long as they had access to it. (745.4) 66:4.14 While of no value to the evolutionary races, this supersustenance was quite sufficient to confer continuous life upon the Caligastia one hundred and also upon the one hundred modified Andonites who were associated with them. (745.5) 66:4.15 It should be explained in this connection that, at the time the one hundred Andonites contributed their human germ plasm to the members of the Prince’s staff, the Life Carriers introduced into their mortal bodies the complement of the system circuits; and thus were they enabled to live on concurrently with the staff, century after century, in defiance of physical death. (745.6) 66:4.16 Eventually the one hundred Andonites were made aware of their contribution to the new forms of their superiors, and these same one hundred children of the Andon tribes were kept at headquarters as the personal attendants of the Prince’s corporeal staff. 5. Organization of the One Hundred (745.7) 66:5.1 The one hundred were organized for service in ten autonomous councils of ten members each. When two or more of these ten councils met in joint session, such liaison gatherings were presided over by Daligastia. These ten groups were constituted as follows: (745.8) 66:5.2 1. The council on food and material welfare. This group was presided over by Ang. Food, water, clothes, and the material advancement of the human species were fostered by this able corps. They taught well digging, spring control, and irrigation. They taught those from the higher altitudes and from the north improved methods of treating skins for use as clothing, and weaving was later introduced by the teachers of art and science. (746.1) 66:5.3 Great advances were made in methods of food storage. Food was preserved by cooking, drying, and smoking; it thus became the earliest property. Man was taught to provide for the hazards of famine, which periodically decimated the world. (746.2) 66:5.4 2. The board of animal domestication and utilization. This council was dedicated to the task of selecting and breeding those animals best adapted to help human beings in bearing burdens and transporting themselves, to supply food, and later on to be of service in the cultivation of the soil. This able corps was directed by Bon. (746.3) 66:5.5 Several types of useful animals, now extinct, were tamed, together with some that have continued as domesticated animals to the present day. Man had long lived with the dog, and the blue man had already been successful in taming the elephant. The cow was so improved by careful breeding as to become a valuable source of food; butter and cheese became common articles of human diet. Men were taught to use oxen for burden bearing, but the horse was not domesticated until a later date. The members of this corps first taught men to use the wheel for the facilitation of traction. (746.4) 66:5.6 It was in these days that carrier pigeons were first used, being taken on long journeys for the purpose of sending messages or calls for help. Bon’s group were successful in training the great fandors as passenger birds, but they became extinct more than thirty thousand years ago. (746.5) 66:5.7 3. The advisers regarding the conquest of predatory animals. It was not enough that early man should try to domesticate certain animals, but he must also learn how to protect himself from destruction by the remainder of the hostile animal world. This group was captained by Dan. (746.6) 66:5.8 The purpose of an ancient city wall was to protect against ferocious beasts as well as to prevent surprise attacks by hostile humans. Those living without the walls and in the forest were dependent on tree dwellings, stone huts, and the maintenance of night fires. It was therefore very natural that these teachers should devote much time to instructing their pupils in the improvement of human dwellings. By employing improved techniques and by the use of traps, great progress was made in animal subjugation. (746.7) 66:5.9 4. The faculty on dissemination and conservation of knowledge. This group organized and directed the purely educational endeavors of those early ages. It was presided over by Fad. The educational methods of Fad consisted in supervision of employment accompanied by instruction in improved methods of labor. Fad formulated the first alphabet and introduced a writing system. This alphabet contained twenty-five characters. For writing material these early peoples utilized tree barks, clay tablets, stone slabs, a form of parchment made of hammered hides, and a crude form of paperlike material made from wasps’ nests. The Dalamatia library, destroyed soon after the Caligastia disaffection, comprised more than two million separate records and was known as the “house of Fad.” (746.8) 66:5.10 The blue man was partial to alphabet writing and made the greatest progress along such lines. The red man preferred pictorial writing, while the yellow races drifted into the use of symbols for words and ideas, much like those they now employ. But the alphabet and much more was subsequently lost to the world during the confusion attendant upon rebellion. The Caligastia defection destroyed the hope of the world for a universal language, at least for untold ages. (747.1) 66:5.11 5. The commission on industry and trade. This council was employed in fostering industry within the tribes and in promoting trade between the various peace groups. Its leader was Nod. Every form of primitive manufacture was encouraged by this corps. They contributed directly to the elevation of standards of living by providing many new commodities to attract the fancy of primitive men. They greatly expanded the trade in the improved salt produced by the council on science and art. (747.2) 66:5.12 It was among these enlightened groups educated in the Dalamatia schools that the first commercial credit was practiced. From a central exchange of credits they secured tokens which were accepted in lieu of the actual objects of barter. The world did not improve upon these business methods for hundreds of thousands of years. (747.3) 66:5.13 6. The college of revealed religion. This body was slow in functioning. Urantia civilization was literally forged out between the anvil of necessity and the hammers of fear. But this group had made considerable progress in their attempt to substitute Creator fear for creature fear (ghost worship) before their labors were interrupted by the later confusion attendant upon the secession upheaval. The head of this council was Hap. (747.4) 66:5.14 None of the Prince’s staff would present revelation to complicate evolution; they presented revelation only as the climax of their exhaustion of the forces of evolution. But Hap did yield to the desire of the inhabitants of the city for the establishment of a form of religious service. His group provided the Dalamatians with the seven chants of worship and also gave them the daily praise-phrase and eventually taught them “the Father’s prayer,” which was: (747.5) 66:5.15 “Father of all, whose Son we honor, look down upon us with favor. Deliver us from the fear of all save you. Make us a pleasure to our divine teachers and forever put truth on our lips. Deliver us from violence and anger; give us respect for our elders and that which belongs to our neighbors. Give us this season green pastures and fruitful flocks to gladden our hearts. We pray for the hastening of the coming of the promised uplifter, and we would do your will on this world as others do on worlds beyond.” (747.6) 66:5.16 Although the Prince’s staff were limited to natural means and ordinary methods of race improvement, they held out the promise of the Adamic gift of a new race as the goal of subsequent evolutionary growth upon the attainment of the height of biologic development. (747.7) 66:5.17 7. The guardians of health and life. This council was concerned with the introduction of sanitation and the promotion of primitive hygiene and was led by Lut. (747.8) 66:5.18 Its members taught much that was lost during the confusion of subsequent ages, never to be rediscovered until the twentieth century. They taught mankind that cooking, boiling and roasting, was a means of avoiding sickness; also that such cooking greatly reduced infant mortality and facilitated early weaning. (747.9) 66:5.19 Many of the early teachings of Lut’s guardians of health persisted among the tribes of earth on down to the days of Moses, even though they became much garbled and were greatly changed. (748.1) 66:5.20 The great obstacle in the way of promoting hygiene among these ignorant peoples consisted in the fact that the real causes of many diseases were too small to be seen by the naked eye, and also because they all held fire in superstitious regard. It required thousands of years to persuade them to burn refuse. In the meantime they were urged to bury their decaying rubbish. The great sanitary advance of this epoch came from the dissemination of knowledge regarding the health-giving and disease-destroying properties of sunlight. (748.2) 66:5.21 Before the Prince’s arrival, bathing had been an exclusively religious ceremonial. It was indeed difficult to persuade primitive men to wash their bodies as a health practice. Lut finally induced the religious teachers to include cleansing with water as a part of the purification ceremonies to be practiced in connection with the noontime devotions, once a week, in the worship of the Father of all. (748.3) 66:5.22 These guardians of health also sought to introduce handshaking in substitution for saliva exchange or blood drinking as a seal of personal friendship and as a token of group loyalty. But when out from under the compelling pressure of the teachings of their superior leaders, these primitive peoples were not slow in reverting to their former health-destroying and disease-breeding practices of ignorance and superstition. (748.4) 66:5.23 8. The planetary council on art and science. This corps did much to improve the industrial technique of early man and to elevate his concepts of beauty. Their leader was Mek. (748.5) 66:5.24 Art and science were at a low ebb throughout the world, but the rudiments of physics and chemistry were taught the Dalamatians. Pottery was advanced, decorative arts were all improved, and the ideals of human beauty were greatly enhanced. But music made little progress until after the arrival of the violet race. (748.6) 66:5.25 These primitive men would not consent to experiment with steam power, notwithstanding the repeated urgings of their teachers; never could they overcome their great fear of the explosive power of confined steam. They were, however, finally persuaded to work with metals and fire, although a piece of red-hot metal was a terrorizing object to early man. (748.7) 66:5.26 Mek did a great deal to advance the culture of the Andonites and to improve the art of the blue man. A blend of the blue man with the Andon stock produced an artistically gifted type, and many of them became master sculptors. They did not work in stone or marble, but their works of clay, hardened by baking, adorned the gardens of Dalamatia. (748.8) 66:5.27 Great progress was made in the home arts, most of which were lost in the long and dark ages of rebellion, never to be rediscovered until modern times. (748.9) 66:5.28 9. The governors of advanced tribal relations. This was the group intrusted with the work of bringing human society up to the level of statehood. Their chief was Tut. (748.10) 66:5.29 These leaders contributed much to bringing about intertribal marriages. They fostered courtship and marriage after due deliberation and full opportunity to become acquainted. The purely military war dances were refined and made to serve valuable social ends. Many competitive games were introduced, but these ancient folk were a serious people; little humor graced these early tribes. Few of these practices survived the subsequent disintegration of planetary insurrection. (749.1) 66:5.30 Tut and his associates labored to promote group associations of a peaceful nature, to regulate and humanize warfare, to co-ordinate intertribal relations, and to improve tribal governments. In the vicinity of Dalamatia there developed a more advanced culture, and these improved social relations were very helpful in influencing more remote tribes. But the pattern of civilization prevailing at the Prince’s headquarters was quite different from the barbaric society evolving elsewhere, just as the twentieth-century society of Capetown, South Africa, is totally unlike the crude culture of the diminutive Bushmen to the north. (749.2) 66:5.31 10. The supreme court of tribal co-ordination and racial co-operation. This supreme council was directed by Van and was the court of appeals for all of the other nine special commissions charged with the supervision of human affairs. This council was one of wide function, being intrusted with all matters of earthly concern which were not specifically assigned to the other groups. This selected corps had been approved by the Constellation Fathers of Edentia before they were authorized to assume the functions of the supreme court of Urantia. 6. The Prince’s Reign (749.3) 66:6.1 The degree of a world’s culture is measured by the social heritage of its native beings, and the rate of cultural expansion is wholly determined by the ability of its inhabitants to comprehend new and advanced ideas. (749.4) 66:6.2 Slavery to tradition produces stability and co-operation by sentimentally linking the past with the present, but it likewise stifles initiative and enslaves the creative powers of the personality. The whole world was caught in the stalemate of tradition-bound mores when the Caligastia one hundred arrived and began the proclamation of the new gospel of individual initiative within the social groups of that day. But this beneficent rule was so soon interrupted that the races never have been wholly liberated from the slavery of custom; fashion still unduly dominates Urantia. (749.5) 66:6.3 The Caligastia one hundred — graduates of the Satania mansion worlds — well knew the arts and culture of Jerusem, but such knowledge is nearly valueless on a barbaric planet populated by primitive humans. These wise beings knew better than to undertake the sudden transformation, or the en masse uplifting, of the primitive races of that day. They well understood the slow evolution of the human species, and they wisely refrained from any radical attempts at modifying man’s mode of life on earth. (749.6) 66:6.4 Each of the ten planetary commissions set about slowly and naturally to advance the interests intrusted to them. Their plan consisted in attracting the best minds of the surrounding tribes and, after training them, sending them back to their people as emissaries of social uplift. (749.7) 66:6.5 Foreign emissaries were never sent to a race except upon the specific request of that people. Those who labored for the uplift and advancement of a given tribe or race were always natives of that tribe or race. The one hundred would not attempt to impose the habits and mores of even a superior race upon another tribe. Always they patiently worked to uplift and advance the time-tried mores of each race. The simple folk of Urantia brought their social customs to Dalamatia, not to exchange them for new and better practices, but to have them uplifted by contact with a higher culture and by association with superior minds. The process was slow but very effectual. (750.1) 66:6.6 The Dalamatia teachers sought to add conscious social selection to the purely natural selection of biologic evolution. They did not derange human society, but they did markedly accelerate its normal and natural evolution. Their motive was progression by evolution and not revolution by revelation. The human race had spent ages in acquiring the little religion and morals it had, and these supermen knew better than to rob mankind of these few advances by the confusion and dismay which always result when enlightened and superior beings undertake to uplift the backward races by overteaching and overenlightenment. (750.2) 66:6.7 When Christian missionaries go into the heart of Africa, where sons and daughters are supposed to remain under the control and direction of their parents throughout the lifetime of the parents, they only bring about confusion and the breakdown of all authority when they seek, in a single generation, to supplant this practice by teaching that these children should be free from all parental restraint after they have attained the age of twenty-one. 7. Life in Dalamatia (750.3) 66:7.1 The Prince’s headquarters, though exquisitely beautiful and designed to awe the primitive men of that age, was altogether modest. The buildings were not especially large as it was the motive of these imported teachers to encourage the eventual development of agriculture through the introduction of animal husbandry. The land provision within the city walls was sufficient to provide for pasturage and gardening for the support of a population of about twenty thousand. (750.4) 66:7.2 The interiors of the central temple of worship and the ten council mansions of the supervising groups of supermen were indeed beautiful works of art. And while the residential buildings were models of neatness and cleanliness, everything was very simple and altogether primitive in comparison with later-day developments. At this headquarters of culture no methods were employed which did not naturally belong on Urantia. (750.5) 66:7.3 The Prince’s corporeal staff presided over simple and exemplary abodes which they maintained as homes designed to inspire and favorably impress the student observers sojourning at the world’s social center and educational headquarters. (750.6) 66:7.4 The definite order of family life and the living of one family together in one residence of comparatively settled location date from these times of Dalamatia and were chiefly due to the example and teachings of the one hundred and their pupils. The home as a social unit never became a success until the supermen and superwomen of Dalamatia led mankind to love and plan for their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s children. Savage man loves his child, but civilized man loves also his grandchild. (750.7) 66:7.5 The Prince’s staff lived together as fathers and mothers. True, they had no children of their own, but the fifty pattern homes of Dalamatia never sheltered less than five hundred adopted little ones assembled from the superior families of the Andonic and Sangik races; many of these children were orphans. They were favored with the discipline and training of these superparents; and then, after three years in the schools of the Prince (they entered from thirteen to fifteen), they were eligible for marriage and ready to receive their commissions as emissaries of the Prince to the needy tribes of their respective races. (751.1) 66:7.6 Fad sponsored the Dalamatia plan of teaching that was carried out as an industrial school in which the pupils learned by doing, and through which they worked their way by the daily performance of useful tasks. This plan of education did not ignore thinking and feeling in the development of character; but it gave first place to manual training. The instruction was individual and collective. The pupils were taught by both men and women and by the two acting conjointly. One half of this group instruction was by sexes; the other half was coeducational. Students were taught manual dexterity as individuals and were socialized in groups or classes. They were trained to fraternize with younger groups, older groups, and adults, as well as to do teamwork with those of their own ages. They were also familiarized with such associations as family groups, play squads, and school classes. (751.2) 66:7.7 Among the later students trained in Mesopotamia for work with their respective races were Andonites from the highlands of western India together with representatives of the red men and the blue men; still later a small number of the yellow race were also received. (751.3) 66:7.8 Hap presented the early races with a moral law. This code was known as “The Father’s Way” and consisted of the following seven commands: (751.4) 66:7.9 1. You shall not fear nor serve any God but the Father of all. (751.5) 66:7.10 2. You shall not disobey the Father’s Son, the world’s ruler, nor show disrespect to his superhuman associates. (751.6) 66:7.11 3. You shall not speak a lie when called before the judges of the people. (751.7) 66:7.12 4. You shall not kill men, women, or children. (751.8) 66:7.13 5. You shall not steal your neighbor’s goods or cattle. (751.9) 66:7.14 6. You shall not touch your friend’s wife. (751.10) 66:7.15 7. You shall not show disrespect to your parents or to the elders of the tribe. (751.11) 66:7.16 This was the law of Dalamatia for almost three hundred thousand years. And many of the stones on which this law was inscribed now lie beneath the waters off the shores of Mesopotamia and Persia. It became the custom to hold one of these commands in mind for each day of the week, using it for salutations and mealtime thanksgiving. (751.12) 66:7.17 The time measurement of these days was the lunar month, this period being reckoned as twenty-eight days. That, with the exception of day and night, was the only time reckoning known to the early peoples. The seven-day week was introduced by the Dalamatia teachers and grew out of the fact that seven was one fourth of twenty-eight. The significance of the number seven in the superuniverse undoubtedly afforded them opportunity to introduce a spiritual reminder into the common reckoning of time. But there is no natural origin for the weekly period. (751.13) 66:7.18 The country around the city was quite well settled within a radius of one hundred miles. Immediately surrounding the city, hundreds of graduates of the Prince’s schools engaged in animal husbandry and otherwise carried out the instruction they had received from his staff and their numerous human helpers. A few engaged in agriculture and horticulture. (751.14) 66:7.19 Mankind was not consigned to agricultural toil as the penalty of supposed sin. “In the sweat of your face shall you eat the fruit of the fields” was not a sentence of punishment pronounced because of man’s participation in the follies of the Lucifer rebellion under the leadership of the traitorous Caligastia. The cultivation of the soil is inherent in the establishment of an advancing civilization on the evolutionary worlds, and this injunction was the center of all teaching of the Planetary Prince and his staff throughout the three hundred thousand years which intervened between their arrival on Urantia and those tragic days when Caligastia threw in his lot with the rebel Lucifer. Work with the soil is not a curse; rather is it the highest blessing to all who are thus permitted to enjoy the most human of all human activities. (752.1) 66:7.20 At the outbreak of the rebellion, Dalamatia had a resident population of almost six thousand. This number includes the regular students but does not embrace the visitors and observers, who always numbered more than one thousand. But you can have little or no concept of the marvelous progress of those faraway times; practically all of the wonderful human gains of those days were wiped out by the horrible confusion and abject spiritual darkness which followed the Caligastia catastrophe of deception and sedition. 8. Misfortunes of Caligastia (752.2) 66:8.1 In looking back over the long career of Caligastia, we find only one outstanding feature of his conduct that might have challenged attention; he was ultraindividualistic. He was inclined to take sides with almost every party of protest, and he was usually sympathetic with those who gave mild expression to implied criticism. We detect the early appearance of this tendency to be restless under authority, to mildly resent all forms of supervision. While slightly resentful of senior counsel and somewhat restive under superior authority, nonetheless, whenever a test had come, he had always proved loyal to the universe rulers and obedient to the mandates of the Constellation Fathers. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his shameful betrayal of Urantia. (752.3) 66:8.2 It should be noted that both Lucifer and Caligastia had been patiently instructed and lovingly warned respecting their critical tendencies and the subtle development of their pride of self and its associated exaggeration of the feeling of self-importance. But all of these attempts to help had been misconstrued as unwarranted criticism and as unjustified interference with personal liberties. Both Caligastia and Lucifer judged their friendly advisers as being actuated by the very reprehensible motives which were beginning to dominate their own distorted thinking and misguided planning. They judged their unselfish advisers by their own evolving selfishness. (752.4) 66:8.3 From the arrival of Prince Caligastia, planetary civilization progressed in a fairly normal manner for almost three hundred thousand years. Aside from being a life-modification sphere and therefore subject to numerous irregularities and unusual episodes of evolutionary fluctuation, Urantia progressed very satisfactorily in its planetary career up to the times of the Lucifer rebellion and the concurrent Caligastia betrayal. All subsequent history has been definitely modified by this catastrophic blunder as well as by the later failure of Adam and Eve to fulfill their planetary mission. (752.5) 66:8.4 The Prince of Urantia went into darkness at the time of the Lucifer rebellion, thus precipitating the long confusion of the planet. He was subsequently deprived of sovereign authority by the co-ordinate action of the constellation rulers and other universe authorities. He shared the inevitable vicissitudes of isolated Urantia down to the time of Adam’s sojourn on the planet and contributed something to the miscarriage of the plan to uplift the mortal races through the infusion of the lifeblood of the new violet race — the descendants of Adam and Eve. (753.1) 66:8.5 The power of the fallen Prince to disturb human affairs was enormously curtailed by the mortal incarnation of Machiventa Melchizedek in the days of Abraham; and subsequently, during the life of Michael in the flesh, this traitorous Prince was finally shorn of all authority on Urantia. (753.2) 66:8.6 The doctrine of a personal devil on Urantia, though it had some foundation in the planetary presence of the traitorous and iniquitous Caligastia, was nevertheless wholly fictitious in its teachings that such a “devil” could influence the normal human mind against its free and natural choosing. Even before Michael’s bestowal on Urantia, neither Caligastia nor Daligastia was ever able to oppress mortals or to coerce any normal individual into doing anything against the human will. The free will of man is supreme in moral affairs; even the indwelling Thought Adjuster refuses to compel man to think a single thought or to perform a single act against the choosing of man’s own will. (753.3) 66:8.7 And now this rebel of the realm, shorn of all power to harm his former subjects, awaits the final adjudication, by the Uversa Ancients of Days, of all who participated in the Lucifer rebellion. (753.4) 66:8.8 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]