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Brie shares her extraordinary journey from the brink of suicide through years of New Age spirituality to finding authentic freedom in Christ. Her raw testimony reveals the deceptive nature of alternative spiritual practices while highlighting the transformative power of encountering Jesus.

• Growing up without faith and finding identity in partying, drugs, and promiscuity
• Planning suicide at 17 before experiencing an unexpected spiritual intervention
• Pursuing metaphysical teachings that convinced her she was "god"
• Living in a California commune with people who believed they weren't from Earth
• Working on "Murder Mountain" while unaware of the dangers around her
• Building a 20,000-follower Instagram platform offering tarot readings and psychic services
• Finding Jesus after being arrested and receiving a Bible in jail
• Learning to relinquish New Age practices despite financial dependence on them
• Breaking free from pornography addiction through understanding her identity as God's daughter
• Meeting her husband Victor and witnessing his dramatic conversion
• Discovering the truth about Romans 7 and freedom from sin

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Akeem Ambrose is the elementary P.E. teacher and athletic director at Crawford Adventist Academy in Toronto, Ontario. In this conversation he explores the transformative power of sports in Adventist education. Akeem shares the origin story and vision behind the Ontario Adventist Sports Association, and challenges the traditional hierarchy of learning by championing the gym as a space where A-grade character is built. He speaks candidly about the life lessons students gain through sports, namely discipline, perseverance, and goal-setting, while also highlighting the struggles Adventist schools face in embracing modern opportunities, including athletic scholarships and extracurricular expansion. More than competition, Akeem sees sports as a culture of community, relationships, and worship, a space where students can honour God, connect with peers, and show non-Christian students the heart of faith through sports. Plus, don’t miss his latest creative project: Mr. Ambrose, a brand-new animated YouTube series that brings faith-based storytelling to life from the very gym where so much of this journey begins.

Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy — The Nations: Part 1 — The Rulers of the Gentiles

Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the second quarter of 2025 called Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy. We are studying the lesson for week 4 called The Nations: Part 1.    

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Kahn welcomes Jade and Adriana Wales, the indie/folk duo ONE GLORY on the podcast. They come from the beautiful Gold Coast of Australia.

In this episode, they open up about their heartfelt track, "Glimmer of Hope,"

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God’s dealings with Israel provide rich insights into His dealings with the New Testament church. In fact, in many ways, the nation of Israel served to foreshadow the errors of the church. Far from being able to claim any kind of superiority to ancient Israel, Christians have been, and still are, very much susceptible to the same temptations.

Read Matthew 20:25–28. What error did Jesus warn His disciples to avoid in establishing the work of the Christian church?

Israel asked for a human king, a request that led to the moral downfall of the nation. The kings became progressively more wicked until God allowed the Babylonians to take His people captive as a matter of course correction.

Something similar happened in the history of the Christian church. Even though they were not to structure themselves like a Gentile nation, when Constantine came to power and professed to be a Christian, believers were relieved—persecution was now ended! That in itself was a blessing, but then it occurred to the church that they might be able to leverage the power of the emperor to their own advantage.

Several major disputes broke out among Christians in the fourth century, and when the church found itself incapable of resolving them, it allowed the emperor to intervene. Gradually the bishop of Rome rose in prominence, where he had once been one senior bishop among equals. The church allowed the state to intervene in the religious matters, and once the state had a foot in the door, things went from bad to worse.

Like Israel of old, many of the darkest chapters in Christian history are the direct result of the church compromising with the world. Where Israel turned to idol worship and her kings were corrupted by their appetite for power—to the point of offering children to idols—the church gradually adopted many of the means and methods of a pagan empire to the point that many faithful believers were martyred because they were perceived as threats to the church-state institution.

In your own culture, your own society, what are the ways in which these same temptations can jeopardize the integrity of our faith?