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Why are Canadian judges called Your Worship? Worship is an honorific prefix for mayors, justices of the peace, peace commissioners, and magistrates in present or former Commonwealth realms. In spoken address, these officials are addressed as Your Worship or referred to as His Worship, Her Worship, or Their Worship. Are Canadian judges called your honor? It can be intimidating, but knowing what to expect can help. Provincial Court judges are addressed as ‘Your Honour' inside the courtroom. (Outside court, they are addressed as Judge, followed by their surname, for example, Judge Smith.) https://legalknowledgebase.com/why-are-canadian-judges-called-your-worship A ‘broken' system: Canadians can't afford lawyers... View Article

Is your worship empty, fruitless, pointless and worthless? True worship is pleasing to God and comes from the heart. In this message from Pastor Jeff Schreve, you will be able to determine if your worship is worthless or well pleasing to Jesus. "What Would Jesus Say about Your Worship?" is part of the 6-MESSAGE series THE HEART OF WORSHIP.

Is your worship empty, fruitless, pointless and worthless? True worship is pleasing to God and comes from the heart. In this message from Pastor Jeff Schreve, you will be able to determine if your worship is worthless or well pleasing to Jesus. "What Would Jesus Say about Your Worship?" is part of the 6-MESSAGE series THE HEART OF WORSHIP.

In this episode of the Grand Parade's ongoing series of municipal issues explainer, I sit down with mayor Mike Savage to find out what the mayor does. This conversation bounces around from the fiscal challenges facing the city, some practical advice for running a good meeting and an answer to the question: Does Mike find it weird that people call him "Your Worship?"

Karl Jirgens, Professor Emeritus, former English Department Head and former Chair of the Creative Writing Program (University of Windsor), is author of three books of fiction and two scholarly books (Coach House, Mercury, ECW and The Porcupine's Quill Presses). He edited two books (on painter Jack Bush, and poet Christopher Dewdney), plus the “Collaborations” issue of Open Letter magazine with Beatriz Hausner. His scholarly and creative works are published globally. Jirgens edited and published Rampike, an international journal of art, writing, and theory from 1979 to 2016, now digitally archived (free) on the University of Windsor Leddy Library scholars' portal. Rampike contributors have been ground-breaking artists, writers, and theorists, including nominees and winners of awards such as the Booker, Commonwealth, Orange, Pulitzer, Dublin Impac, Giller, Trillium, Writer's Trust, and Governor General's Award, among other prizes. Jirgens serves on the Editorial Board of ellipse magazine. He is a long-time practitioner and grand-master (8th Degree Black Belt) of the martial art of Tae Kwon Do. He recently had a chapbook published by Above Ground Press featuring three stories, titled, Eco Blues: A Tale in 3 Parts, and it has recently been announced that his work will be featured in the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry, published by Biblioasis. His short fiction collection, The Razor's Edge, was recently released by The Porcupine's Quill Press in 2022. Karl lives in Windsor, Ontario.(https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/rampike/about.html)https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2022/02/new-from-aboveground-press-eco-blues.html?fbclid=IwAR1sY-1Pyr6EPUGSV1aqK2XqBK5RpZpOfcKYeP6Dwi_K69FzQWk-p2oBnjAhttps://porcupinesquill.ca//bookinfo6.php?index=369About Gas of Tank: A Canadian Law Enforcement Odyssey 1979 – 2019:Todd Ternovan believed in keeping things simple: Marrying his college sweetheart, studying Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University, spending his professional life as a daycare teacher. It was a tidy plan. Except for one thing: Man plans and the gods laugh.To fund his life and education in Toronto, Todd worked a part-time job—as a corrections officer at the infamous Don Jail.Although he spent a few years working with kids, Todd's experience in corrections propelled him into a 33-year career within Canadian law enforcement.Small-town policing isn't just rescuing cats from trees and performing wellness checks. The concession roads and rural routes of southwestern Ontario are home to some incredibly kind, resilient people, and scene to some strange, tragic and heinous events. Todd dealt with them all, from the naked machete-wielding man who claimed to be Jesus Christ, to armed American fugitives, decades-old sexual assaults, harrowing traffic accidents, violent home invasions, and even a year spent “Uncle Charlie” (undercover) investigating drug traffickers.The title comes from a phrase uttered by a motorcycle gang member who demonstrated his disdain for police by pulling a “wheelie” on his motorcycle following a traffic stop. The biker was charged with stunt driving. In his defense in court, the biker said, in a thick French accent: “It was not possible for me to a pull a ‘wheelie,' Your Worship. I had a full gas of tank!”“Gas of Tank” embodies, for Todd, all the surreal, upside-down, unbelievable, description-defying experiences police face daily.Written by Matt St AmandFreelance writer: Writer / Videographer. Father and husband with a slowly improving track record. Fan of Ultraman (Hayata series), Aphex Twin and

Praising God is our means of perseverance and deliverance from our enemies which is also a reason He is simply worthy of it. God is Worthy of Your Worship.

A new MP3 sermon from Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God is Worthy of Your Worship (the Lord is Worthy to be Praised) Speaker: Grant Van Leuven Broadcaster: Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 5/1/2022 Bible: 2 Samuel 22:4; Revelation 4:11 Length: 28 min.

In today's episode, staff pastors Ian, Johny, & Jenny take a detour from our Worship. Love. Life. series to share stories about how the mission and vision of Epicenter have affected their lives and faith.To share YOUR Worship. Love. Life. story with us, send us an email at beabuilder@yourepicenter.com

Everybody give your ears to Australia's youngest majors in history and finest Asian Australian leaders in all the land - Madame Jasmine Nguyen & Your Worship, Anthony Tran! At 23 and 24 years old, Anthony Tran (Mayor of Maribyrnong) and Jasmine Nguyen (Mayor of Brimbank) are breaking through the bamboo ceiling, paving a new road for young Asian Australians to speak up a little louder and stand a little taller in the political sphere. In a space that is traditionally regarded as "scary" and taboo, Anthony and Jasmine prove that being politically active is really approachable and just all about making tangible differences in our society. In this episode, we cover everything from their journey into politics to how they really are just normal 20 something year olds still navigating the realms of dating and clubbing. Get ready for roasts, loads of inspo & help us uncover whether we've elected a fkboi as a mayor or not

• This Series: In the Bible, HOPE is not a wish, a dream, or a Lottery Ticket. The hope we have in Christ is tied to God's promise and God's faithfulness. Therefore, hope is a promise that will be fulfilled by a promise-keeping God. Because of this, believers in Jesus Christ approach life, disappointments, uncertainty, and the future differently than those who don't have the hope found in Christ.   • This Week: The Thrill of HOPE leads us to worship. What is the one gift Jesus wants from you that only you can give? Your Worship. Key Phrase: “We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” Matthew 2:2

Where's Your Worship? Self, Stuff, or Savior

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Good morning, and welcome again to Mosaic, good to see you this morning. If you're new, I just want to introduce myself, my name is Shane. I am one of the pastors here at Mosaic, and we are so glad to have you with us. We mentioned this earlier. But we would love to connect with you, if you would like to connect with us, the best way to start that off is just to fill that little connection card out in your worship guide. You can either drop that in the little white offering box at the back of the room on your way out this morning. Or if you turn that in at the Welcome Center, we have a little gift there that we'd love to give to you, to thank you for being with us today.Last week, we finished up our sermon series, Jesus in Genesis season two, we looked at the life of Abraham and Sarah all the way up to the birth of Isaac, and Lord willing, we're going to come back to that series, probably do a couple more seasons, to finish out the book of Genesis someday. But today we're switching gears, we're starting up season two of another popular sermon series, Balm Psalms, that is one that we went through together last summer. The Psalms are something that we as Christians should be really visiting on a daily basis. That's how important the Psalms are.The Psalms remind us that God created emotion, and language and music and poetry and song, that his word is not just for our heads and our hands, it's for our hearts as well. When we have a true encounter with God, we should feel something. We should feel this kind of pressure building up inside us, begging to be released and to do something, to say something, to express God's worth his glory. One of the most satisfying ways to do that is through song, through singing to him and worship the God you are awesome, and you alone are worthy to be praised.How many of you, you can't wait to come to church on Sunday, because you just love to sing to the Lord? Like one of my hopes for us as a church, and one of the things I hope we grow in during the series is that we would become a church that loves to sing and loves to sing loud, on key, off key, it doesn't matter. Unless you're on the praise team, then it matters a lot. But for the rest of us, just sing because God is worthy of our praise, and it is right for us to praise him. So with all that being said, it should come as no surprise that right in the middle of our Bibles, we have this huge collection of poetry and songs that we call the Psalms. Music is powerful. We know that music, it speaks and it connects with our minds in a way that moves our hearts. It stirs in our hearts, and actually moves our hands to action.Today is Independence Day. I was thinking earlier this week of like, think of the courage that it would have taken for those small American colonies to say they were going to stand up to the strongest, most powerful empire on earth. A three pence tea tax. Like, "Are you kidding us?" "No, you can find your tea in the harbor and we will see you on the battlefield." I've been living here for eight years. That's still the only word I can say with a Boston accent. But the point is, you don't mess with people's caffeinated beverages. That's the first point. But secondly, if that wasn't enough, music actually played a pretty crucial role in the Revolutionary War.The colonies they composed entire song books that were meant to inspire courage and people to stand up to the British crown, and one of the most popular songs of this era, it was a song called Chester, it was actually written not too far from here. William Billings wrote it for the 1770 song book called The New-England Psalm-Singer, that's an interesting title. But listen to these lyrics. This is what he wrote. "The tyrants shake their iron rod and slavery clank her galling chains, we fear them not, we trust in God. New England's God forever reigns. The foe comes on with hearty stride, our troops advanced with martial noise, their veterans flee before our youth and generals yield to beardless boys."That's like some savage right there and you hear that and you're like, "Yep, sign me up. Give me a musket, I'm ready to fight." Billings just ended King George whole career right there. Jump ahead to the American Civil War. Again, one of the most famous songs from the union during that time period is one we're probably a little bit more familiar with the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Most of us know the first verse, Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He's trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He's loose the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword, his truth is marching on." It's a picture of God's judgment coming down on the injustices that were happening.One of my favorite lines, though, actually comes in one of the later verses, and it goes like this. "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, is truth is marching on." You hear that and your heart is like, "Yeah, that is a cause worth fighting for. That is a cause even worth dying for." And historically, more people died for that cause than in any other war in U.S. history.America's bloodiest, deadliest war, it was fought because young men in the Union they caught a courageous vision that if Jesus had died to make them holy, then they had a duty to fight and to even die to make men free, and hundreds of 1000s of them did just that. To put it in perspective, more men died at the Battle of Gettysburg alone than in the entire Revolutionary War combined. I bring that up because today we are looking at Psalm 29. And Psalm 29 is not a calm, relaxing, meditative, like turn it on and do some yoga type song. Psalm 29 is 150 beats per minute, put your headphones on, the pre workouts kicking in, you're going to the gym, you're going to set some PRS today. That's what we're listening to when we read Psalm 29.It should get us pumped up, it should get us fired up and inspired, it should fill us with courage to do something, to fight the good fight of faith and to fight the spiritual war that is around us. I like to imagine like, perhaps this is one of the songs that the military choirs of Israel sung as they marched into battle, or perhaps this is one of the songs that Paul and Silas sung in their prison cell after they've been beaten and arrested for preaching the gospel, even better, here's how I want to set this up, just entertain me for a moment.I like to imagine King David stepping up to the microphone like an ancient rap battle. And he's facing off against the prophets of Baal. He's about to just melt their faces, dropping truth about his God, Yahweh. That's how I'm picturing it. I'm just going to stand up here and try to be the best hype man that I can, if that makes any sense. So, we're going to look at Psalm 29. As is a Psalm of David, if you have your Bibles you can open up or you can follow along on the screen as well. Psalm 29 beginning in verse one. "Ascribe to the Lord O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord the glory and strength, ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name, worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.The voice of the Lord is over the waters. The God of glory thunders, the Lord over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf and Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forest bare and in his temple all cry, "Glory." The Lord sits enthroned over the flood, the Lord sits enthroned as King forever. May the Lord give strength to his people, and may the Lord bless his people with peace."This is the reading of God's holy word for us this morning, would you please join me in prayer over today's sermon. God you are awesome in power, you are sovereign over your creation. Your wisdom and understanding are pure, your judgment is perfect, and in contrast, we are weak. We're often ignorant and foolish, and worse than that, we are rebels against your authority Lord, and we're deserving of your judgment. God I pray today that your grace would teach our hearts to fear and that by your grace, our fears would be relieved in our Lord Jesus Christ, that you are enthroned above all, and you've made a way to show us mercy, to bless your people with peace and strength, and we thank you for this. We thank you for your word. We pray that you'd write these truths of your word upon our hearts today, we pray this in Jesus Christ name. Amen.Three points in today's sermon, point number one, we're going to talking about idol worship. Point number two, idol worship. See what I did there. Point number three, we're talking about ideal worship. Starting with idol worship. At first glance, Psalm 29 looks like a pretty straightforward Psalm. It's actually one of the more controversial Psalm in all of scripture. Controversial because a while back, some critical biblical scholars actually accused Psalm 29 of being plagiarized. They saw that some of the language used in the Psalm especially verses three and nine, three through nine, was similar. It's kind of reminiscent of some of the same language that the Canaanites would use when they would worship their god Baal.And throughout most of Israel's history, they were surrounded by the land of Canaan, and they were surrounded by the religion and the culture and the idolatrous practices of the Canaanites. And they were constantly faced with this temptation to be conformed to that culture, and to practice their idolatry, and you see them struggling with that over and over in the Old Testament. The Canaanites, they believed in several gods, but two of their more prominent gods were Yam and Baal. Yam was the god of the sea, the sea represented the chaos of the untamed, uncivilized world, and Yam had an adversary named Hadad, who's also called Baal. Baal was the god of storms and rain, and he represented order and fertility and prosperity.So, when the storms would form over the Mediterranean Sea, and they would move inland over the land of Canaan, the Canaanites believed that when these storms came that it was literally Baal riding on the clouds, the thunder was the sound of his voice. So, scholars would look at these beliefs, and then they would look at Psalm 29. They see, like verse three, that the voice of the Lord is over the waters and the God of glory thunders, and they would make a connection, that kind of sound similar to Ball, and so they would conclude, obviously, David just took a Canaanite song, and he swapped the names out with Yahweh.The problem with this is that there's no actual concrete evidence that this was the case, these scholars, they're just purely speculating on this. So what seems more likely, is that David is writing this Psalm, but he's also intentionally alluding to the beliefs of the Canaanites that they had about their god, Baal in order to put them in the context of the Psalm about Yahweh and do two things. On the one hand, he is exposing Baal as a fraud, and he is expressing the superiority of Yahweh, the God of Israel as the one true God. In other words, David says he's writing music, and he's doing apologetics at the same time.So, let's look at how he does this. We'll walk through these verses together. David starts off in verse one. He says, "Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength, ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name, and worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness." He uses this phrase over and over, ascribe to the Lord, recognize, acknowledge and attribute to Yahweh, what is true of his being that he alone possesses power and glory. But look at who David is addressing this to, it's not merely to human beings, he's addressing this to the heavenly beings. Who are these heavenly beings? Angels, but also Satan, demons and the false gods of Canaan, all must ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name, because Yahweh is sovereign, not only over the earth, but over the heavenly realms as well.Now you contrast this to Baal, who even in the Canaanite beliefs, was not sovereign, he wasn't holy, he wasn't righteous, his power was limited, and much like us as human beings, he was a god who was locked in this endless struggle warring against the other gods. As we move through these verses, we're going to see David over and over showing the supremacy of the God of Israel. But we're also going to notice that what is being said here of Yahweh in the Old Testament, is also true of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. So when you look at Jesus in the New Testament, the heavenly beings, the angels worship, and even the demons tremble at the sound of his voice, they were subject to his command.Likewise, when Christ returns, Philippians, chapter two tells us that when Christ returns, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess in heaven and on earth, and under the earth, that Jesus Christ is Lord, and Paul there is quoting from the prophet Isaiah, directly that Jesus Christ is Lord. He is Yahweh. He is the God of glory. So, every tongue will confess this. So David sets the stage that the God of Israel is supreme, and then he follows this introduction, and he has a perfect number of seven declarations and they all begin with this phrase, the voice of the Lord.So let's look at these seven declarations together. Number one, it comes from verse three, says, the voice of the Lord is over the waters, the God of glory thunders the Lord over many waters. The gods of Canaan were finite, they were fickle, they were imperfect, oftentimes petty, and they're always fighting and at war against one another. Now in contrast, what we see is that Yahweh is perfect, he has no rival, he has no equal, he is unmatched in power, and in glory. In the ancient world, the sea, it represented chaos, it represented all of those things that fell outside of the control of human beings and of human civilization.It was something that we as people, as human beings struggled against, but was something that even Baal himself had to struggle against. In other words, everything that is outside of our control, and outside of even the heavenly beings control is not in any way outside of the control of Yahweh. That he is sovereign over the many waters, he is providentially commanding the forces of nature, both to bring about his blessing and his judgment. So now when we turn to the New Testament, this is why in the book of revelations, we see a picture of Jesus sitting on a throne in heaven, and all around his throne, we're told he's surrounded by a sea.But unlike a sea of chaos, we're told that it's a sea of glass, that the waves are stilled, they're calmed under his rule and authority. Jesus gave his disciples a glimpse of this authority when he walked on the water, when he calmed the sea and his disciples they marveled that even the wind and the waves obeyed the voice of Jesus. That's the first declaration. Declaration two and three comes from verse four, says the voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty, power and majesty. Majesty has to do with ... The majestic, it's talking about a King in power, it depicts a King who is able to accomplish his will, more specifically the language used in Psalm 29. It's describing a King who is undefeatable, unstoppable in battle.The Canaanites, they believe that Baal was the God who brought rain and fertility to their land. But in order for him to do this, he first had to go to battle against another god named Mot, who is the god of death. And if Baal lost that battle, then the Canaanites would face a season of drought. So what we see here is that unlike Baal, Yahweh is a King who does not lose his battles, that nothing in on heaven or on earth can thwart his purposes, and Jesus proved this to us, that he is the one who went out and faced death himself, he died as our majestic King with a crown of thorns on his head, but then he rose in victory, to show that death could not hold him, that the grave could not defeat him.In his parting words, on the cross, Jesus said, "It is finished, the battle is now won, victory is secure." Nothing can change that. Declaration four, we see in verse five and six. Says, "The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon, he makes Lebanon to skip like a calf and Sirion like a young wild ox." What we're seeing here, there's a geographic progression unfolding in the text, and the picture that it's giving us is that there's this massive, violent storm that has formed over the Mediterranean, and now it is moving inland over Lebanonites, moving inland over the land of Canaan, and it's showing us that God is not only sovereign over the chaos at sea, he's also sovereign over the order of human civilization. He's sovereign over the kingdoms of man, even the kingdom of Canaan.The Canaanites, they took great pride in the fact that they built their homes and they built temples to Baal up in the mountains, and they built them out of these great cedars of Lebanon, and David points to these temples. He points to the cedars. He says the very voice of the Lord shatters them to pieces. It even shakes the mountain, the foundation that their source of pride was built on, and Jesus did the same thing. Jesus humbled everybody he came in contact with. He shattered the pride of the rebellious and the self righteous alike and showed them that if they were building on any foundation other than him they were building on sand.This is what Jesus said in Matthew chapter seven at the end of the Sermon on the Mount. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell and the floods came and the wind blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand, the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell, and great was the fall of it.The last three declarations come in verses seven, eight and nine. Verse seven says the voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire, the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, the voice shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forest bare and in his temple, all cry, "Glory." And now we see that the storm has moved even further inland. And as it is, it's consuming like a fire. It's stripping the forest bare, and it's showing us a stern warning of Yahweh's judgment, that he is a righteous judge, and that he will ultimately expose what is unseen, and bring down judgment on what is unholy.Verse nine says, he makes the deer give birth. When I first read that I think that's like a nice comforting picture in the midst of all of this other language and I started looking into this phrase, and I learned that what it's actually describing is describing this phenomenon which would happen occasionally during incredibly violent storms, where pregnant animals would be so frightened that they would actually give birth prematurely. It's showing us God is going to expose everything, and he's going to bring perfect justice to creation. So if I were to summarize all this and put this into my own words, this is how I would say, that the voice of the Lord is sovereign over both heaven and earth.He has the power to perfectly accomplish his will. He will shatter our idols and pride, has authority to judge his creation and the ability to reveal what is hidden so that nothing will escape his justice. That's the big idea. Almost, nothing will escape his justice except for what? Except for who? Except for those that we see in verse nine, who have found refuge in his temple. The climax in verse nine it shows us that outside of God's temple, yeah, the voice of the Lord is causing creation to tremble in fear at his righteous judgment. But inside the temple, there's peace. Inside the temple there's safety, that the people of God have been sheltered by his mercy and they cry out, "Glory."Psalm 29, it shows us that God is just and he will not allow sin off the hook. But he is also merciful. He has provided a way for sinners to be saved. For Israel, this was the temple, the sacrificial system. For us, Jesus is our sacrifice. Jesus is our temple. Jesus is the refuge that shelters us from the storm of God's wrath. We see this again, when David concludes in verses 10 and 11. He tells us this, that the Lord sits in enthroned over the flood. We're going to talk about what that means. The Lord sits enthroned as King forever, may the Lord give strength to his people, may the Lord bless his people with peace. That word for flood there, there's only one other place in all of scripture where that word is used. And it's used to refer to the flood of Noah. That is what David is drawing to mind.Because, again, the flood was a story of God's judgment, but it was also a story of God's salvation. That outside of the ark, God's wrath, it rained down in this cleansing judgment. Inside the ark, there was peace, that Noah and his family were preserved. Now, when we turn to the New Testament, the New Testament tells us that the story of the flood that David is alluding to and bringing to mind here, it is a story of what was, but it's also a story of what is and it's a story of what is to come. This is what I mean, that as it was in the days of Noah, we're told it will be when Christ returns. I get this from Matthew chapter 24. Jesus teaching his disciples about his return, this is what he says.Matthew 24, verse 36, "But concerning that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven nor the Son, but the father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark. And they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. And two men will be in the field and one will be taken and one left, two women will be grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one left, therefore stay awake, for you don't know what day your Lord is coming.But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what part of the night that thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore, you also must be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect and when he does, what we see is that those who are in Christ, just as those who were in the ark, those who are in Christ will be saved, that those who are not will be swept away, taken away for judgment. The flood is a picture of what is to come.But then, New Testament tells us it's also a picture of what is true right now, and this comes from First Peter chapter three, beginning in verse 18. Peter writes this, he says, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey when God's patients waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight persons were brought safely through water, baptism, which corresponds to this now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into the heavens and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities and powers having been subjected to him."Now, first of all, this is one of the most confusing passages in all of scripture, and we're going to have to save a lot of that for like another sermon on another day. But the big idea here is clear that just as Jesus is our refuge, our temple, Jesus is the true ark, and baptism is a picture of this salvation that he's referring to. He says, "It's not that we're saved by the physical act of baptism, it's not the removal of dirt from the body, but an appeal to God for good conscience." And this is why Jesus commands that every Christian should be baptized, the baptism is an outward action, it's a picture that symbolizes and shows forth that proclaims an inward reality that we have appealed to God's mercy, and we have been saved by grace through faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That Jesus is our refuge, Jesus is our salvation.And so what this means is that in Christ, you were saved. The moment that you repented of your sin and put your faith in Christ, you were saved. We call that justification, but also in Christ, you are being saved by the power of the Holy Spirit, you have been saved from the penalty of sin, you are being saved from the power of sin in your life. We call this sanctification. And in Christ, you will be saved. Eventually, from the very presence of sin all together and for all of attorney we call this glorification, that we will be raised, resurrected with Christ, to inherit a new heaven and new earth where sin, sorrow, death and decay will be no more. And what the New Testament tells us to do is in light of this, this is why we must run to Christ for refuse, for salvation, without delay right now.Peter brings this up again in his second letter, Second Peter chapter three, verse nine. And he tells us this, "The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promises, some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all of these things are dust to be dissolved." What sort of people are you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming day of God?Because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolve and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn. But according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. When we rightly understand God's awesome power and his holiness and when we personally experience God's saving love and mercy, the only rational response is for us to cast down our idols, and to turn to the one true God. We must repent of our idol worship, but that in of itself is not enough. Point two is we must also repent of our idol worship, our vain worship, our, at times, hypocritical worship.Psalm 29, verses one and two say, "Ascribe to the Lord O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord, glory and strength, ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name, worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness." And this last phrase here in verse two, it's not referring to God's holiness, although God is holy, it's talking about, we need to worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. It's about how we worship God, it's the idea that we need to worship the right God, and we need to worship him in the right way.One of the very first stories in scripture was the story of two brothers, Cain and Abel, who were on their way to worship the Lord. In Genesis 4 says, "Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain, a worker of the ground." In the course of time, Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and the fat portions. The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering, he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at your door. His desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it."Pastor Jan preached a really great sermon on this in our first Jesus in Genesis season one series, I think it was maybe the fourth sermon in that series, you should go check that out. But the big ideas that Cain came to God, and he came to give him what he thought he needed to do, what was required of him in order to appease God, in order to keep God off his back. Abel, we're told, gave his gift in faith, he gave his first and he gave his best because he trusted God, he loved God, he had a genuine desire to worship God. And a lot of people, they come to God and they want to come to God like Cain, they want to come and they want to ask, "Okay, what's the bare minimum that I need to do to stay on your good side? Or how far away can I go and tiptoe out into sin before I get on your bad side?"And really, that's the same mindset the Canaanites brought to their god, Baal. Baal didn't love them. He didn't care for them. There was not a relationship there. He was just this force that they needed to appease for things to go well with them, and when we try to worship God like that, it shows that we really don't know him. We've probably heard this illustration before. When you watch a great movie, when you eat in amazing restaurant, like you can't help but to sing its praises. You want to tell your friends about it, you want to tell everybody what a great experience you had, you want to open up the app and smash the five star review, why would it be any differently with God, when you truly experience God, worship, it comes naturally. You can't but help it giving God the glory that he is due becomes our delight when we know who he truly is.And so the question for us is that how we come to God and worship? Is that how we are approaching God? If not, the lesson ... actually, the warning here is that you might not be worshipping idols, but your worship might be idol. Your Worship might be in vain. It might be hypocritical. Matthew 15, Jesus quoted the prophet Isaiah to rebuke the Pharisees. And he said, "You hypocrites." Well, did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said, "These people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me." In vain do they worship me in idleness, teaching his doctrine, the commandments of man.And Jesus takes a very hard stance against the Pharisees, and this kind of worship, you got to wonder like, "Why is he so serious about this?" He's serious, because he knows where this leads, it leads to sin. And ultimately, it leads to death. Like Cain, when our heart is not properly in the right place, giving glory to God in worship, sin is right there, crouching at the door, waiting for that opportunity to pounce. Jesus in the book of Revelation, he rebuked the church of Laodicea, for this kind of idol, hypocritical, half hearted worship.In verse 15, chapter three, he says, "I know your works, you're neither cold nor hot. With that you are either cold or hot, so because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth." It's not just a problem for individuals. He's talking to an entire church here, and we see what a slippery and dangerous slope this is. It becomes clear just a few verses later in verse 20, where Jesus continues, and he says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone would hear my voice and open the door, I'll come in and eat with him and he, with me." But what's going on here?That lukewarm worship and affection has now resulted in a church that has effectively excommunicated Jesus. He's locked outside the door. They won't let him in. Do you think that this happens today? Like what would it look like for a church to lock Jesus out? It looks like a church that sneers at his lordship, a church that scoffs at the authority of his word. A church that defiantly rejects his teaching on morality and repentance and sin in laughs makes a mockery of his cross, and this is where idol worship leads.Second Timothy three, he warned his disciple Timothy that these days would come. Said, "Understand this Timothy. Then in the last days, there will come times of difficulty, for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God." Look at verse five, "Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power."I pray that we would never be a church that settles for merely having the appearance of godliness. I pray that we would be a church that is content with nothing less than Jesus Christ. We must not give in to the worship of false idols, we must also not give into the idleness of false worship. Point three is, we must instead pursue ideal worship. David says, "Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness." What is ideal worship look like? Jesus answers this in John chapter four. He's having a conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well, and in their conversation, she brings up the topic of, "How are we to worship God and Samaritans do it this way, and the Jews do it that way?"He gives her an answer, and this is what he says. Verse 23, says, "Listen, the hour is coming and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." Three things that I want to cover here real quick at the end, that what we see like ideal worshipers worship in spirit, ideal worshipers worship in truth, and ideal worshipers worship incarnate, and I'll explain what I mean by that. But first and foremost, he says, "You got to worship in spirit." So what does it mean to worship in spirit?Just one chapter earlier, Jesus was having a conversation about the spirit with a man named Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a religious teacher and he told him, "Nicodemus, if you want to see the kingdom of God, you need to be born again." And Nicodemus is baffled by this and says, "Jesus, how can I be born a second time? I don't understand." Jesus replies, and this is what he tells him in John three, verse six through eight, he says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marble that I said to you, you must be born again, the wind blows where it wishes and you hear it sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who's born of the Spirit."I read that I'm like, I don't think that would have been a very satisfying answer for Nicodemus, it kind of sounds like Jesus is just trolling him right here. But what he wants him to understand is listen, just as the wind comes and goes as it pleases, the Spirit gives life to whomever he wills, according to God's good purpose, we can't control that any more than we can control the wind. So worshiping in Spirit, starts by recognizing God's sovereignty over everything, even our salvation.Now, at the same time, Jesus is trying to compel a response in Nicodemus, he's not expecting him to be completely passive. He wants them to do something, and so, there's a mystery, there's a tension here that we need to embrace. That we cannot cause ourselves to be born again any more than we caused our own physical birth. Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit sovereignly regenerates hearts, and he does this through the proclamation of the gospel. But when we hear the gospel, we also have a responsibility to respond. That by our own free choice, we must respond in repentance.I had a professor in seminary that compared it to the sails on a ship. Sails actually can't move the ship, they have no power in and of themselves to do that. They can't cause the wind to blow. But when the wind does blow, they need to be up in proper position in order to be filled, in order for that ship to move, and it's not a perfect illustration. But in order for us to worship in Spirit, God must act on our behalf, and we must respond in repentance and faith, approach him with humility. It's about coming to the Lord, not on the basis of who we are, what we've done, or what we could do for him, but on the basis of what he has done for us through Jesus Christ.David put it like this in Psalm 51. He says, "Oh, Lord, open my lips, I need you to open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise, for you will not delight in sacrifice or I would give it, you will not be pleased with a burnt offering, the sacrifices of God or a broken Spirit, a broken and contrite heart, Oh, God, you will not despise." When you do come with that dependence, that humility, we need to worship in Spirit, we also need to worship in truth. Isaiah 66, "Thus says the Lord. The Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool, what is the house that you build for me? What is the place of my rest? All these things my hand is made, and so these things came to be." Declares the Lord.But this is the one to whom I will look, he who is humble, and contrite and spirit and trembles at my word, a true worship requires that we would tremble at the word of the Lord. It requires a submission and an obedience to God's word. Jesus put it like this in John 10:27. He says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." My sheep hear my voice, and they don't just go off and do as they will. They hear my voice, I know them, and they follow Me. The Canaanites came up with all kinds of perverse ways to worship their gods, they practice temple prostitution, even child sacrifice at time. And in contrast, God's people need to worship in God's way, and they need to worship in Godly ways, according to his truth in scripture.Just one practical example. There's a lot of songs, modern worship songs out there today, that we're probably never going to sing here at Mosaic. Because there's a lot of songs out there that are rich in production quality, and sadly bankrupt when it comes to biblical truth. The words that we sing about God, the words that we sing to God, those words matter. But this needs to go well beyond just the words that we sing. This has to do with the life that we live, when we hear Jesus voice, we need to submit to it, we need to follow him. What that means more practically, is that when we're reading this book, or reading scripture, and we come across something that offends us, it's not because the scripture is out of line, it's either we haven't understood it, or else we are out of line. And we need to bring our lives into alignment with God's word.And we do that, because we trust that Jesus is our shepherd, that his word is not only always right, but his word is always beautiful and good. First John five, one through three says that this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. Jesus told his disciples in John 14 that if you love me, you will keep my commandments. So, ideal worshipers worship in spirit, ideal worshipers worship in truth and finally, ideal worshipers worship incarnate.Romans 12, one says, "I appeal to you therefore brothers by the mercies of God." Paul says, "In light of everything that I've just written to you about God's, his justice and his amazing mercy and grace. Because of that, therefore, you have to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds." True worship is not something that we can compartmentalize to the songs that we sing on a Sunday morning, it needs to be incarnate. What I mean is, it needs to take on flesh, it needs to permeate our daily lives in a transformative way.This is going to take strength, this is going to take courage. I think this is why David prays for this at the end of Psalm 29. He says, "May the Lord give strength to his people, and may the Lord bless his people with peace, to truly live our lives, to give our lives as living sacrifices to God, this is going to take a supernatural courage to not be conformed to the patterns of this world." Just to illustrate this, there's a photograph that's gone viral, you've probably seen it making the rounds online, a photo from Nazi Germany.You see in the photo, a crowd of people, and at first glance, you see everyone hailing, Hitler doing the Nazi salute. But then you look a little bit closer around, if you can see it there, but there's a guy in the middle and he's just standing there like, "No, I'm not on board with this." You can look into this guy, he actually, from what I understand, was arrested because of his resistance, his rebellion to some of the Nazi laws. His rebellion against them costed him dearly. He faced a lot of hardship in his life because he refused to be conformed to the pattern of that age.I bring this up because this is a good picture for us to contemplate. That takes guts, that takes courage. And more often than not, to give God the glory that he deserves, is going to require the strength and the courage to defiantly refuse to give that glory to anyone, or to anything else. Be it Baal, Satan, sin, government, culture, even our own selves, no matter the circumstances, no matter the social pressures, no matter the consequences we face or the convenience that compromise might bring, true worship, courageous worship says no to the idols, it says no to the idleness and it does so in order to say yes to the Lord.This is the kind of worship that got Abel killed. This is the kind of worship that got Daniel thrown to the lions. It got Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego thrown to the fiery furnace, that got the apostles martyred for their faith, and this is the kind of uncompromising worship that got Jesus Christ nailed to a cross. See, Jesus is the true ultimate ideal picture of what it looks like to worship the Lord, to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourself.He is our strength, he is our peace, he is the reason that we don't need to fear living our lives, giving our lives as living sacrifices, because we know he was willing to give his life as a dying sacrifice for us, he faced Satan, sin and death, he defeated them through his death and resurrection, the battle has already been won. So when we're tired, when we're weary, when we are discouraged and afraid, Jesus is our Battle Hymn, Jesus is what gives us the courage to say, "Wherever you call me to go, I will go, whatever you tell me to do, I will do, whatever you tell me to say, I will say, because you alone are God, you alone are mighty to save, and you alone are worthy of all praise."We're going to transition right now into time of communion, and communion is a time where we remember Christ and we remember his sacrifice that made this possible. As you came in, hopefully you were able to grab one of these, if not, feel free to just go in the back and grab one or better just raise your hand, one of the ushers will bring one to you. And you can go ahead and open these up. Inside, the bread, it represents Jesus body that was broken. The cup represents his blood that was poured out for our forgiveness, so that we could be saved from the storm of God's righteous judgment toward our sin.If you are here today, and you're not a Christian, we'd ask you to refrain from this part of the service, it's not going to do anything for you, there's nothing magical about this. And if you're a Christian who is living in unrepentant sin, we would ask you to refrain as well. Scripture warns us not to partake of communion in an idol, in an unrepentant manner. But better yet, repent right now, put your faith in Jesus Christ, and if you've done that today, we would welcome you to take communion, and we're going to take communion together right now.So Lord Jesus on the night that he was betrayed, he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it. He said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, he took the cup after supper saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." Amen.Would you please stand, we're going to spend some time in prayer, and we're going to spend some time worshiping and singing to the Lord together. God, you are awesome, you are holy, you are perfect in every way. God, we marvel at your power, we tremble before the cross of your Son, Jesus Christ. In his cross, we see the righteous requirements of your perfect justice unfold display. We also see your tender heart of mercy, your tremendous love for us. We thank you for Jesus, we thank you for the forgiveness that we have in his name, we thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit, we thank you that we have peace through his victory over Satan, sin and death. You alone are good, you alone are God, you alone are worthy of all praise.Jesus, you are the name that is above every name, and we know that the day will come, when every knee will bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that you are Lord to the glory of God the Father, and Lord, we thank you that even now we can praise you, even now we can give you the glory due your name, that by the power of the Holy Spirit, we can stand before your throne together singing your praise and know that you are here, that you hear us, that you delight in our worship. And so God we come as your children, purchased through the bloody of your Son, Jesus Christ, to thank you and to worship you together. It's in his name we pray. Amen.

Missions: God's Glory on Display from Genesis to Revelation - Day 72 - "Jesus Worthy of Your Worship"

Missions: God's Glory on Display from Genesis to Revelation - Day 72 - "Jesus Worthy of Your Worship"

(00:00-09:20): Brian reacted to the death of Luis Palau and discussed Morgan Lee's Christianity Today article, “Died: Luis Palau, Who Preached the Gospel from Portland to Latin America and Beyond.” He also commented on Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny's CNN article, “Biden directs states to open vaccinations to all adults by May 1.” (09:20-27:29): Dr. Kelly Flanagan, Founder of Artisan Clinical Associates and the Author of  “Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life,” joined Brian to chat about his new book, “True Companions: A Book for Everyone About the Relationships That See Us Through.” Learn more about Kelly and his books at drkellyflanagan.com (27:29-36:48): Brian shared his thoughts on Jeff Mingee's Gospel Coalition article, “The Dangers of Doomscrolling.”   (36:48-45:41): Brian discussed Michael Gryboski's Christian Post article, “Shane Claiborne urges churches to remove US flag from altars or add flags of other 195 countries,” and Darin C. Smith's Off The Grid News article, “Pro And Con: Should Churches Display The American Flag In The Sanctuary?” (45:41-54:54): Brian unpacked Scott Sauls' blog post, “When Faith Feels Like Defeat.” (54:54-1:03:52): Brian commented on Trevin Wax's Gospel Coalition article, “The War for Your Worship.”   (1:03:52-1:12:43): Brian shared his thoughts on John C Maxwell's Twitter video about leadership and how “People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before you turn on the light switch, before you turn on the power, before you get things set in place for worship, what is the condition of your heart? Preparing for worship goes beyond the worship set. The kind of worship He is seeking runs deeper than what we think we are bringing. So before the service begins...“How is Your Worship?” | Listen to this Edition of #BeforeTheWorshipBegins @BranonDempsey

Pastor Rodney sets the Theme for 2021:  As Unto The LordScripture: Colossians 3:23  And whatever you do, do it with Zest and Gusto, as to the Lord and not to men,1.  Your Service:  Romans 12:9-11 NKJ & NLT2.   Your Giving: 2 Corth 9:1-8 NLT3.   Your Worship: 2 Sam. 6:14-15  

Your Worship is personal. Only you can get there. It's personal for you. Your Worship.

On Monday, Peterborough's city council sat for the last meeting of 2020 and voted to approve the budget documents drafted by city staff with amendments. Peterborough Currents has been covering these deliberations for the past month and in this episode, co-publishers Ayesha Barmania and Will Pearson go over the highlights of this meeting so you can hear what happened. Episode transcript Ayesha 0:00 Hey – Ayesha here, before we get into the podcast, I wanted to let you know about something that we're trying at Peterborough Currents. As we look ahead into 2021, things are still uncertain and 2020 has been a heck of a year for Will and I to try and start a business. And the one thing that we're realizing is that to become a sustainable operation, we need the financial support from our audience. And that's why we're asking folks to support our work for 2021 by becoming monthly sustainers. If you head over to peterboroughcurrents.ca/supportus you can sign up to support our work. It really means a lot to us if you'd consider contributing. And thank you! Ayesha 0:45 Hello you're listening to Peterborough Currents. I'm Ayesha Barmania. This is the final episode of our Budget Week Podcast and to help me wrap up our coverage of the 2021 Budget deliberations, I'm here again with Currents' co-publisher Will Pearson. Will Pearson 0:55 Hello. Ayesha 0:56 And so today, Will and in this episode, we're going to go over some of the highlights of the City Council meeting on Monday when council voted to approve the budget documents which we've been going into over this series. And before we get into some of the clips we want to play, I just want to say that this was the last City Council meeting of the year, and the budget was just one item on a pretty long agenda and pretty much all of the amendments to the document had been proposed, debated and voted on during the Finance Committee meeting at the end of November, which we covered in episode 5. But there was one thing added at this council meeting but there were also 27 citizen delegations that spoke to council about the budget. And to kick us off, Will, there was one in particular you wanted to talk about. Will Pearson 1:36 Yeah, so I want to bring up a delegation that was delivered by Reverend Brad Smith from St. John's Anglican Church on Hunter Street. St. John's runs the One Roof Community Center, which is a meal program and a drop in center for people that are marginalized or homeless in Peterborough. And funding for the One Roof Community Center was always kind of baked into the homelessness budget all along. But it only came up at this last city council meeting because throughout November, there were some negotiations going on about what the service agreement would look like in 2021. And basically what was going on in those negotiations was One Roof was trying to secure some extra municipal funding to make up for a drop in the fundraising that it's been able to do because of the pandemic. Currently, the City funds One Roof, but with $208,000 a year and the expectation is that they'll deliver one meal per day, One Roof has been able to fundraise and through its own resources deliver two meals a day as well as additional activities, social supports, and like a community center. And so when One Roof was trying to get more funding so that during the pandemic who could continue to offer that enhanced service, it seems like the city wasn't interested in increasing its support. And so the recommendation was to hold it steady at $208,000. Despite the fact that there is no increased need, especially for food programs, right now, during the pandemic. Rev. Bradley Smith 2:58 The issue of food and security is not going away. In fact, as we've already seen, in the last six months, the number of community members accessing the meal program at One Roof is increasing as people's financial resources are hit hard by the pandemic. If the city is going to issue a request for proposals for a meal program, it must do so seriously, including a credible amount of funding. Will Pearson 3:23 So that was Brad Smith from St. John's One Roof had asked for $450,000. So more than double the funding of 2020. They kind of lowered their bid to $375,000 when the city balked at that, but then the city kind of held firm at $208,000. So Reverend Smith, on Monday night, told city council that he signed the agreement, even though he didn't feel like it was the best thing for the community. Rev. Bradley Smith 3:54 When I was informed that our first and revised proposals would not be accepted and that the City would accept a new one year agreement. I felt compelled to accept the terms. With less than two months left in the current agreement, there wasn't sufficient time to rebuild One Roof Community Centers model without the City as a partner. So this was the only way to keep the program alive. Otherwise, all of the community members who rely on us for meals would be left with nothing from the first January. Will Pearson 4:23 So Smith was there on Monday night to ask council to reconsider, perhaps up to $375,000 for example. But yeah, city council didn't accept that suggestion from Reverend Smith. So the result is that there's only going to be there's going to continue to be just one meal a day – it's going to be takeout it's not gonna be a sit down meal (sit down meals aren't possible due to the pandemic right now anyway, but presumably, hopefully sometime in 2021 they would be). Yeah, and there's not going to be social activities unless the church can find more fundraising resources. It's too bad. I think that the community center is a really important hub for some people in the community, for socializing, and for just being included in the community. So I really hope that the church is able to find those fundraising dollars to be able to continue to offer that community space to folks. Ayesha 5:18 Yeah, absolutely. Will Pearson 5:19 So the other thing that I noticed in the delegations on Monday night was that there were a lot of youth speaking. Can you tell me about what the youth were at City Hall to talk about? Ayesha 5:28 Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So a good chunk of the delegations at the meeting were students from local high schools, particularly grade 11 and 12 [students], from Thomas A Stewart Secondary School and Adam Scott. And some of them spoke to housing, but the majority of them spoke to climate change and wanting to see some more of an investment particularly in climate mitigation projects from Council. So I have a little montage of some of what they had to say. Jasmine Barnes 5:55 Imagine a world filled with empty bellies and diseases sweeping everyone on the streets; storms occurring as frequent snow falling on a cold winter's day;, sea levels rising and rising, flooding cities, like a braking dam on a river slowly but dangerously; boiling hot days, forcing people to evacuate their homes; deadly heat waves occurring without warning, crops will be dwindling, resulting in 100 more million people to be forced into poverty; water is now something that is prized as we are, we have very little. This is where our future is heading. You have the power to make a difference by putting the City's money into climate change action. Please choose where your money goes wisely. As I know, nobody wants this to be our future. Thank you. Gabriel Trozzi Stamou 6:44 My name is Gabriel Trozzi Stamou, I'm here to speak on the need for new funding towards climate action as COVID-19 has highlighted the importance for building back better. Currently, there is no money allocated for such new climate mitigation efforts, but rather for things that seek to deal with the effects when they happen, such as flood mitigation, water management, during drought and so on, which are no doubt important, but they don't reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As global temperature averages are set to rise higher than the worst scenario, two degree increase, youth like myself, will be disproportionately affected by this. I am asking that the council show it is serious about reducing emissions in our city before finalizing the budget. Juliette Arbrioux 7:30 Your Worship and councillors, thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Juliette Arbrioux. I'm a grade 11 student from Adam Scott. And I'm here today to speak on the lack of money being spent on climate mitigation in Peterborough. I'm not talking about the millions of dollars spent on climate related action that for the better part would have happened anyway. I'm speaking on the lack of new commitments the city has yet to put in place and the mindset there is facing this crisis. Peterborough has a Climate Action Plan that involves projects that focus specifically to help combat the climate crisis. This is where we need to be investing the better part of our money. We need to make it a priority, or at least a bigger importance than a proposed arena that I've heard more talk about than climate action. Katryna Jacobs 8:18 My name is Katryna Jacobs, a grade 11 Indigenous student from Thomas A Stewar. In a city that prides itself on its efforts to incorporate indigenous culture on a regular basis. I would have expected more climate funds in the 2021 budget. Reconciliation and climate related issues are often seen as separate and under federal jurisdiction. However, this should not stop Peterborough from making advanced advancements within the community. I hope to see funding towards new climate mitigation efforts within the budget, something that is not currently represented. Thank you for your time. Ayesha 8:55 Those were clips from four of the nine students who spoke on Monday. That was Jasmine Barnes, Gabriel Trozzi Stamou, Juliette Arbrioux and Katryna Jacobs, from TASSS and Adam Scott Secondary. And in a few of the presentations there were specific references to Peterborough's Climate Change Action Plan and particularly on climate mitigation projects. We did a whole episode on the Climate Change Action Plan and what's included in there, so if you'd like to know more about that I'd recommend checking out our roundup of climate projects on our website or the podcast episode where I interview Michael Papadacos. But all of these students who spoke to climate change essentially called on council for greater investment in projects that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly. Another citizen spoke on climate change later in the evening and that was Trisha Clarkson from the Peterborough Alliance on Climate Action. That group had written a letter with four climate mitigation projects that they wanted to see in 2021 – three of which are referenced in the budget documents and those have to do with traffic signal synchronization, anti-idling bylaws, and the installation of electric vehicle charging stations for City vehicles. Here's a bit of what she had to say. Trisha Clarkson 10:11 These initiatives are a great start on reducing some of the carbon fuel emissions in Peterborough. So on behalf of PACA, we thank you very much for these. However, these initiatives alone will not reduce emissions by 5% annually to meet the IPCC target of 45% by 2030. In order to reach this recommended target, the city has to transition from gas fueled and diesel fuel vehicles to electric city vehicles and e-buses in 2021. E-buses should be purchased in 2021, because it will take one year from the date of purchase to the date of delivery due to the high demand and not enough battery suppliers. So even if the city purchased two e-buses in 2021, they won't be delivered until 2022. That's why they need to be purchased as soon as possible. Ayesha 10:56 So that electric bus proposal was the fourth thing that PACA was looking for. And Clarkson spent much of her time making the case for making that purchase in 2021. But ultimately, council didn't debate the idea and nothing new was added to the budget with regards to climate change. Will Pearson 11:12 But there is the alternative fuel study. Ayesha 11:13 Yeah, the alternative fuel study is being funded for 2021. And there's a couple other projects, like the electric vehicle charging stations for the city fleet that are happening in 2021. So we'll see. So there is some investment being made on that front. Will Pearson 11:31 Yeah, I guess what Clarkson is just getting at though is we kind of know what the alternative fuels study will say. It'll say yes, it's a good thing to transition to electric buses here, so people can do it. And I guess, gonna say we might as well start the investment now. Ayesha 11:44 Yeah, absolutely. Um, and so yeah, like I said, council didn't debate this at all. But there was one thing that they debated and added – what was that, Will? Will Pearson 11:53 Yeah, so really, the big story from the city council meeting is that the budget was basically accepted by city council, in the same form that they approved it when they were sitting as the Finance Committee a few weeks earlier. There was one thing that came up in the discussions though, where a change was made. And that is regarding a capital project on Lansdowne Street, which is kind of like rebuilding Lansdowne Street between Spillsbury and Clonsilla. And this was not funded in 2021. It was something that was approved to be funded and built years ago, I think, like, maybe even five years ago. And it's just been delayed and delayed, and it hasn't received the funds that it needs to get done. And a couple of weeks ago, some members of the public address city council saying they really wanted to see this project get done, because that stretch of Lansdowne is quite dangerous, because cars go quite fast. And I think that by changing the built environment, we might be able to make that stretch of the street a little bit safer. And so and that was brought up again, in delegations from the public on Monday night. And so Councillor Parnell moved for a pre-commitment of money in 2022. So not this budget, but the next budget to start funding this project. Lesley Parnell 13:02 So it's a project that definitely needs to be done, staff have acknowledged that it is a high priority capital project. And we need to just solidify it and give our word to these people that we will have shovels in the ground in 2022, completed at least by 2023. And so that is what I am asking for, please. Will Pearson 13:22 And Councillor Zippel, who is Councillor Parnell's ward mate down in Otonabee Ward agreed, pointing out that this kind of the one of the reasons why this hasn't been built is just the lack of funding in the budget for capital projects. Kim Zippel 13:38 Councillor Parnell mentioned that this has been delayed for many reasons. And one of those reasons is, as Councillor Reil has said, infrastructure funding, and we have had a challenge getting capital dollars into our budget and making that commitment and we continue to see the impacts on our community. Will Pearson 13:59 And so listeners to previous episodes of the Budget Week Podcast know that Councillor Zippel had already moved that the increase in the tax rate be increased by a little bit to fund more capital projects in 2021. So that's something that Zippel is concerned about. And she did something interesting with this motion to pre-commit funds for this project, which is request a recorded vote, which means that there's a record of who votes what, which is not always the case. And she said that the reason she did that is so that when budget week comes next year, she knows who voted in favor of this project, and so she knows what councillor she can go to, again to say presumably we need to raise taxes to build this project because pre-committing the funds, doesn't find the money in 2022. It just commits to spending the money. And so a year from now, city council will need to find how it's going to fund this project. So I thought that was an interesting sort of illustration of Councillor Zippel's priority to build infrastructure and to find funding in the tax base to do that. Not every councillor was on board with pre-committing the money for 2022. Councillor Beamer, for example, said that as a Northcrest councillor, he was more concerned about getting Chemong Road rebuilt than than this stretch of Lansdowne Andrew Beamer 15:20 And so tonight I'm going to be a Northcrest Ward Councillor over the city councilor. And you know, I do have my eye on Chemong Road. Now I know northebd roads tend to be expensive and controversial. So I'm well aware Chemong Road is a big one. And there was another one we won't mention that was also expensive. But Chemong Road does need to get done. And I'll be honest, Councillor Parnell, Councillor Zippel, Councillor Riel and Councillor Vassiliadis, I am just concerned that this will take funds from Chemong Road, because, you know, the north end has been patiently waiting for Chemong Road and there has been some significant road work done in the southend over the past eight years, so. Will Pearson 16:02 And that was something that Councillor Pappas agreed with saying that, considering that the Parkway is looking very unlikely that that will be built anytime soon. Councillor Pappas is also concerned about getting Chemong Road reconstruction built as a sort of North-South corridor. Dean Pappas 16:19 If we're not building the Parkway, we are getting a transportation master plan come in at the end of this year, and dollars to donuts Chemong Road is our north south corridor, it's got to get done. We all know that if you don't vote for the parkway, you've got to vote for Chemong Road. Will Pearson 16:36 And so those two councillors as well as three other councillors voted against this plan, but it did pass six to five. And so that money is pre committed for 2022. And so that project should be able to get underway. But yeah, other than that there weren't any other changes to the budget. So if you have been listening to the budget podcast, you are all caught up. That's not to say that we covered everything that's in the budget. It's a big document, we kind of picked out what we thought was the most important to discuss on this podcast. If there's anything that you're curious to learn more about, reach out to us, we can probably help you to find the answers. Ayesha 17:10 Mm hmm. And the budget is something that cross cuts so much of city life, and it has impacts on all sorts of different things, we're gonna still be referencing this document in our future coverage, even though we're kind of wrapping up our budget week series. So yeah, please reach out. Will Pearson 17:27 This was a fun podcast to make. Ayesha 17:29 Yeah, I learned a lot. Will Pearson 17:31 I feel like I have been following the budget deliberations each year for a couple of years now. I've never covered them as a journalist. And I feel like, man, that document is hard to parse, it's hard to understand. And I feel like every year I get a little bit better at it. I feel like this year, I've learned a lot more about how the city works, how the budget works. I hope that I've translated some of that for our listeners. Yeah, but I think it was a good exercise in civic literacy. Ayesha 18:02 Yeah, I totally agree. It's been really nice to interview a lot of the city officials who don't get into the spotlight very often and just learn about the work that they do, how they do it, and what's kind of motivating them and what's important to them with regards to this one document, and so we're gonna keep up these relationships and keep doing this kind of civic reporting, Will Pearson 18:24 What are you keeping an eye on for next year, Ayesha? Ayesha 18:26 Yeah, I'm really excited to learn more about the climate change action plan, we've got a report coming in 2021, about how we're doing towards reaching the goal of reduced emissions by 2030. So I'm really looking forward to reading that. As well as – so one thing I learned in my conversation with Michael Papadacos about climate change was that the kind of spending for climate change action in 2020, was deferred back in March. And so that never actually got really resolved this year. So there's going to be a report coming in the second quarter of next year about how that money is going to be spent. So I'm looking forward to seeing how that money gets meted out next year. How about you, Will? Will Pearson 19:11 Well, something that I think we should update listeners on is the rapid housing initiative. And that doesn't really affect the municipal budget too much because it's federal money. But there has been an application – or city council approved putting in an application for that project on Monaghan Rd for 10 modular housing units for people in families experiencing homelessness. Ayesha 19:29 Yeah, that also happened at the City Council meeting on Monday, right? Will Pearson 19:32 Yes. Yeah. So I'm keen to see whether that application gets approved. I think that would be a great step forward in providing affordable housing to folks. And yeah, I'm also I'm just very interested in watching how this issue of funding the infrastructure projects that the backlog of infrastructure projects that the city has gets resolved. Ayesha 19:56 Yeah. And I think that's all I think we're going to talk about in this podcast. Maybe we'll do another budget week podcast next year looking at the 2022 budget. Will Pearson 20:04 The next budget will be the last one that this council. Ayesha 20:07 Yes. Yeah, so maybe we'll be back again next year. But thanks so much for listening this year. Music In this episode comes courtesy of the Mayhemingways. Thanks for being with me, Will, on this journey into the budget. Will Pearson 20:18 Thank you as well and have a good holiday to you and all of our listeners. Ayesha 20:22 Thanks. See ya.

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Be Mindful of Your Worship...BewareSeries: Gospel of Matthew Preacher: Jim MastersSunday MorningDate: 13th October 2019Passage: Matthew 16:1-12

[१]."TERI AARADHANA KARU"-(Your Worship).3gp ///. यूहन्ना 1 --- 1. आदि में* वचन था, और वचन परमेश्‍वर के साथ था, और वचन परमेश्‍वर था। 2. यही आदि में परमेश्‍वर के साथ था। 3. सब कुछ उसी के द्वारा उत्‍पन्‍न हुआ और जो कुछ उत्‍पन्‍न हुआ है, उसमें से कोई भी वस्तु उसके बिना उत्‍पन्‍न न हुई। 4. उसमें जीवन था*; और वह जीवन मनुष्यों की ज्योति था। 5. और ज्योति अंधकार में चमकती है; और अंधकार ने उसे ग्रहण न किया। 6. एक मनुष्य परमेश्‍वर की ओर से भेजा हुआ, जिसका नाम यूहन्ना था। 7. यह गवाही देने आया, कि ज्योति की गवाही दे, ताकि सब उसके द्वारा विश्वास लाएँ। 8. वह आप तो वह ज्योति न था, परन्तु उस ज्योति की गवाही देने के लिये आया था। 9. सच्ची ज्योति जो हर एक मनुष्य को प्रकाशित करती है, जगत में आनेवाली थी। 10. वह जगत में था, और जगत उसके द्वारा उत्‍पन्‍न हुआ, और जगत ने उसे नहीं पहचाना। 11. वह अपने घर में आया और उसके अपनों ने उसे ग्रहण नहीं किया। 12. परन्तु जितनों ने उसे ग्रहण किया, उसने उन्हें परमेश्‍वर के सन्तान होने का अधिकार दिया, अर्थात् उन्हें जो उसके नाम पर विश्वास रखते हैं. 13. वे न तो लहू से, न शरीर की इच्छा से, न मनुष्य की इच्छा से, परन्तु परमेश्‍वर से उत्‍पन्‍न हुए हैं। गलतियाँ जिन्हें प्रभु की वापसी का स्वागत करने के लिए सुधारा जाना है गलतियाँ जिन्हें प्रभु की वापसी का स्वागत करने के लिए सुधारा जाना है. 14.और वचन देहधारी हुआ; और अनुग्रह और सच्चाई से परिपूर्ण होकर हमारे बीच में डेरा किया, और हमने उसकी ऐसी महिमा देखी, जैसी पिता के एकलौते की महिमा। (1 यूह. 4:9)

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Mike Clay--Port Moody, BC mayor--once reenacted a 100-year-old council meeting. We listen to the entertaining characters who popped up, as well as some beautiful music at his council meetings. Plus, why is he called "Your Worship?" City Council Chronicles provides reviews of city council meetings from across the world. Named a "Top 100 Local Government Influencer" in 2016 and 2017 by ELGL.org. Link: https://councilchronicles.com/ Twitter: @michaelkarlik. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/citycouncilchronicles/. Graphic by Ben Wasserman: @benwassetweets. Music credits: News Theme by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Heart of the Beast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100209 Artist: http://incompetech.com/  

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