Crossing the Jordan

I was blessed to give a talk to a group of students preparing to receive Confirmation. To be clothed with God's love to replace our shame. To be enslaved to our fear to be transformed by love.

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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Artwork by Yongsung Kim

A.M.W. - Always More Wednesday. Our last episode in our main series of Salvation was on No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church. Another misunderstanding within this context is the meaning of the word "anathema" that is used by the Church throughout history and in ecumenical councils - this episode is to clear this up! Here is Jimmy Akin's article that we read through - https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/anathema.

Books: Salvation What Every Catholic Should Know - https://www.amazon.com/Salvation-What-Every-Catholic-Should/dp/1733522182/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DFPU5HYUDN57&keywords=salvation+what+every+catholic+should+know&qid=1584448774&s=books&sprefix=salvation+what+%2Caps%2C170&sr=1-1 s

Drama of Salvation by Jimmy Akin - https://www.amazon.com/Drama-Salvation-Rescues-Delivers-Eternal/dp/1941663125/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PMI0WA4M0MOY&keywords=the+drama+of+salvation+jimmy+akin&qid=1584448744&sprefix=drama+of+salvat%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1

Church Father's: https://www.churchfathers.org/purgatory; https://www.churchfathers.org/reward-and-merit; https://www.churchfathers.org/salvation-outside-the-church

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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In this episode, we point out contradictions and hypocrisy seen in our culture today. Not judging hearts or intentions, but highlighting evil ideologies that infect humanity. We show how the very same injustices that we rightly condemn throughout the world and history, we do the exact opposite by celebrating, promoting, and expanding the exact same principal applied to the unborn in abortion. We go through Ukraine War, Leaders and Responses to Overturning of Roe, Yard and Car Signs, Abuse/Dehumanization, History of Slavery and Nazism.

Abortion not a constitutional right - https://prolifereplies.liveaction.org/abortion-is-a-constitutional-right/

Proposal 3 Episodes: 10 Reasons to Vote No Even if You Support Abortion - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000579779299; Anti-Women/Parents - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000581249627

Support MI Women and Children: https://supportmiwomenandchildren.org/?gf_protect_submission=1

Older episodes on abortion:

Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113690

Part 3: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113692

Part 4: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113691

Part 5: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490194143

What Do 9/11 & Abortion Have in Common: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000535008446

As a follow-up from our episode on 10 Reasons to VOTE NO On Proposal 3 Even If You Support Abortion (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000579779299), today we cover a few more facts about this Proposal 3: i) not for women, but for the abortion industry and to protect $, doctors, politicians ii) dehumanizes women, iii) Planned Parenthood's annual report, iv) most extreme bill not just in country but in the world only behind North Korea and China with abortion on demand at any time and for any reason, v) tearing apart parents and children and the devastating emotional consequences to children, vi) not a constitutional right, vii) 34 current laws that will be affected.

Abortion is not a constitutional right: Not constitutional right: https://prolifereplies.liveaction.org/abortion-is-a-constitutional-right/

Analysis of Planned Parenthood's Annual Report: • https://www.liveaction.org/news/planned-parenthood-abortions-highest-ever/?_hsmi=226333933&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8iRREosX6mpejKKzSyC50kJbF7WduGsQiZaL_Cu8vmnmvtDpPrtNmcJLbLulFb-F8XkzNR-kUgOpYH_UTlNekDMGzB7w

Ballot text - https://email-mg.flocknote.com/c/eJw9jkuOwyAQBU9jdkbQID4LFrPJPRq7GTODDQo4iXL6eDYjvVWVVHoUpDFKGWO8YGuwUoHVLAcQAMJLAyCdENxCVMKAsyKtPgJOWqRSl9-jDuJL3dkWvLae0DmKUmNMzqKMUaeFSHuvvGUlbGO0PqmvCW7XuprPPj-pjxk47viuBz77X-2S__U55UL9Iu1eW-155HqoiKXUMeg1eFsTu4dIuGwH_ly_dsyFfz_6yWk9P8eXRhc

Full amendment: https://email-mg.flocknote.com/c/eJw9jrFuxCAQRL_GdEawyy24oLgm_4ENxCQYrAPnTvf1IU2kmWZG8zTBSiJEIloE81ZLBK1YsiAAxCIJQBohuIYVBYHRIvplBTcpEXPdvkvtgW_1YLslaUDdDPkQFW4KF9Tam6huYiw1Ect27_1sE94n-BhqOF9tfobWZ-DucO9a3LP90Ub5T59jyqGN5HzUs7bUUy0Yr5zdEYof7j28Oj99ZA-7BrftxX2Ne4dLmX_-tIsHf_0C-IJHgQ

Analysis: https://email-mg.flocknote.com/c/eJw9jrtuxSAQBb_GdEaw6wAuKNLkP9Y8YhIM1l2cq-Tr4zSRTjUjjU7y2hhEY8yqRPRWI9hFFA8KQK3aAGinlLSwoTLgrMpx3YCmReXaw2frI8nQD7F70It12mZag9XgcohoVXLJ4ssWMS-i-n2Mkyd8neDtHuN88fxMPGaQdNBPb_Tkv9ot_-tzLjXxTc5HPzuXUXpDalS_ubA8YxYPvyUKe6OP-9VBpcr3L75kitcv3vZEmQ

Sign-up for Bishop Boyea's FightLikeHeaven Campaign by texting "FightLikeHeaven" to 84576.

Support MI Women and Children: https://supportmiwomenandchildren.org/?gf_protect_submission=1

Older episodes on abortion:

Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113690

Part 3: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113692

Part 4: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113691

Part 5: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490194143

What Do 9/11 & Abortion Have in Common: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000535008446

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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This episode is to break down each point from the "Why I'm Pro-Life" elevator pitch.

1. Pro-science - overwhelming science consensus that a distinct human organism begins at conception. Alive, growing, human, you and I matter.

2. Social justice begins in the womb - every living human being is entitled to fundamental rights, and the most fundamental right is life itself. Being a burden on someone, whether a true burden or a perceived burden, is never justification for killing them. This turns into strong against the weak, and it kills the victim rather than addressing the social issue.

3. Against violence - act of extreme violence against the most vulnerable (dismembered, burned, induced heart attack, and discarded).

4. Against racism - abortion is the fruit of what began in the 1930's by Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood that taught sterilization of minorities and disabled people because they were the "weeds of the earth."

5. Pro-woman - abortion degrades women, treats their fertility as a defect, and enables men to abuse and abandon them at their most vulnerable (One of the main issues for repeated abuse, rape, human trafficking). Abortion never empowers women, it only empowers the men who wish to exploit them.

6. Pro-family and motherhood – makes a mother and child enemies instead of the natural bond of love.

7. It's objectively wrong and it's cowardly and immoral for me to remain silent. Why aren’t you pro-life?

Extra points:

1. Pro-health care - All doctors sign the Hippocratic oath to do no intentional harm, and healthcare is to improve or sustain life. In abortion, they endanger the health and traumatize the life of mother and deliberately kill a child.

2. Pro-justice and just laws - all laws are to protect and enhance lives.

3. Religion - was MLK making a merely religious argument?

Biologist poll on when does life begin: https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/life-begins-at-fertilization-96-of-liberal-pro-choice-and-non-religious-biologists-agree/

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Trimester Abortion explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFZDhM5Gwhk

Pew Research Article on Stats on Abortion: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/

The silent scream videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6zvTVPKg3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEZGzvoASW4

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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Here's an easy one-minute elevator pitch for you to memorize on why you are pro-life. Very powerful and important to have. Check out the following episode that goes into the details behind each point below for you to know. Here is the elevator pitch for you to memorize and/or tailor:

1. Pro-science - overwhelming science consensus that a distinct human organism begins at conception. Alive, growing, human, you and I matter.

2. Social justice begins in the womb - every living human being is entitled to fundamental rights, and the most fundamental right is life itself. Being a burden on someone, whether a true burden or a perceived burden, is never justification for killing them. This turns into strong against the weak, and it kills the victim rather than addressing the social issue.

3. Against violence - act of extreme violence against the most vulnerable (dismembered, burned, induced heart attack, and discarded).

4. Against racism - abortion is the fruit of what began in the 1930's by Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood that taught sterilization of minorities and disabled people because they were the "weeds of the earth."

5. Pro-woman - abortion degrades women, treats their fertility as a defect, and enables men to abuse and abandon them at their most vulnerable (One of the main issues for repeated abuse, rape, human trafficking). Abortion never empowers women, it only empowers the men who wish to exploit them.

6. Pro-family and motherhood – makes a mother and child enemies instead of the natural bond of love.

7. It's objectively wrong and it's cowardly and immoral for me to remain silent. Why aren’t you pro-life?

Extra points:

1. Pro-health care - All doctors sign the Hippocratic oath to do no intentional harm, and healthcare is to improve or sustain life. In abortion, they endanger the health and traumatize the life of mother and deliberately kill a child.

2. Pro-justice and just laws - all laws are to protect and enhance lives.

3. Religion - was MLK making a merely religious argument?

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

Available on iTunes, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Player FM, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Stitcher.

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The ballot for the 2022 General Election in Michigan includes one of the most radical and extreme bills ever proposed in the United States and even in the world! Under Proposal 3, it will propose passing a State Constitutional Amendment known deceptively as the Reproductive Rights for All amendment. This proposal will: 1. remove parental consent and notification to parents for minors (for abortion as well as creates provisions to get sterilization and hormone therapy); 2. remove informed medical consent laws; 3. remove laws that require abortion facilities to be licensed and inspected by the State of Michigan; 4. removes laws that prosecute anyone who injures or kills a woman during an abortion; 5. revoke conscience rights of medical professionals who choose not to participate in abortions; 6. allow abortion up to the day of birth, including partial birth abortions; 7. remove 24-hour waiting period (period of counseling before abortion); 8. allow taxpayer funded abortion; 9. premature babies, babies with health problem, or babies born alive can legally be denied extraordinary health care; 10. Murdering the most vulnerable is everywhere and always wrong, and this amendment is to expand and increase that reality in Michigan.

Ballot text - https://email-mg.flocknote.com/c/eJw9jkuOwyAQBU9jdkbQID4LFrPJPRq7GTODDQo4iXL6eDYjvVWVVHoUpDFKGWO8YGuwUoHVLAcQAMJLAyCdENxCVMKAsyKtPgJOWqRSl9-jDuJL3dkWvLae0DmKUmNMzqKMUaeFSHuvvGUlbGO0PqmvCW7XuprPPj-pjxk47viuBz77X-2S__U55UL9Iu1eW-155HqoiKXUMeg1eFsTu4dIuGwH_ly_dsyFfz_6yWk9P8eXRhc

Full amendment: https://email-mg.flocknote.com/c/eJw9jrFuxCAQRL_GdEawyy24oLgm_4ENxCQYrAPnTvf1IU2kmWZG8zTBSiJEIloE81ZLBK1YsiAAxCIJQBohuIYVBYHRIvplBTcpEXPdvkvtgW_1YLslaUDdDPkQFW4KF9Tam6huYiw1Ect27_1sE94n-BhqOF9tfobWZ-DucO9a3LP90Ub5T59jyqGN5HzUs7bUUy0Yr5zdEYof7j28Oj99ZA-7BrftxX2Ne4dLmX_-tIsHf_0C-IJHgQ

Analysis of Amendment: https://email-mg.flocknote.com/c/eJw9jrtuxSAQBb_GdEaw6wAuKNLkP9Y8YhIM1l2cq-Tr4zSRTjUjjU7y2hhEY8yqRPRWI9hFFA8KQK3aAGinlLSwoTLgrMpx3YCmReXaw2frI8nQD7F70It12mZag9XgcohoVXLJ4ssWMS-i-n2Mkyd8neDtHuN88fxMPGaQdNBPb_Tkv9ot_-tzLjXxTc5HPzuXUXpDalS_ubA8YxYPvyUKe6OP-9VBpcr3L75kitcv3vZEmQ

Bishop Boyea's letter: https://www.dioceseoflansing.org/news/read-fight-heaven-bishop-boyeas-response-proposal-3

Sign-up for Bishop Boyea's FightLikeHeaven Campaign by texting "FightLikeHeaven" to 84576.

Support MI Women and Children: https://supportmiwomenandchildren.org/?gf_protect_submission=1

Analysis of Planned Parenthood's latest annual report - https://cpkky04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/ON+113/cpKKY04/VWzQkH5k1HWpW7rKNtx3jGgzwW7xsyK94Q3bgSN6WXHZm2-TkQV1-WJV7CgXRzW7yb-j24hZ9gSW7Vhd5j61h4dBW1P01VJ5LsNngMBn-zNjCXZ0W7cN4Mc9lbk2rW4jkTkb1vR6LsW10wCQk9bYwq6W5pw8-V4jgw3xN8KKNXzkM3wdW4lZ9vh5hB4ywW7QD8ZY5K1qdjW7HJdTn1CkNnDN6YVsxPsG8LxW8WrzVX3lTrJGW55drKm48VPG6W56n77S4Lb0QHMmFV4fRw0MnW446hZS1krSxhW1RQNxD58LqyPW90HHTS1jzpFyW1Q0JD55PLCjQW6bQH2p4z09_b34sg1

Older episodes on abortion:

Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113690

Part 3: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113692

Part 4: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490113691

Part 5: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000490194143

What Do 9/11 & Abortion Have in Common: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crossing-the-jordan/id1439022559?i=1000535008446

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Questions? Reach out to me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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In this episode we talk about the dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church and how the Church Herself understands that. We cover why there is no salvation outside the Church - because there's no salvation outside of Jesus and the Church is His Body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. We discuss how God has bound Himself to the sacraments, but is not bound by the sacraments. We discuss how those outside the membership of the Church may be saved, in imperfect union with Jesus and the Church, the anointing we see in non-Catholic circles. We also talk about being a formal member does not mean you are saved - you can be sacramentalized and go to hell. Jesus founded one Church, and it's there that we are united, and united in the truth. He never will put us in a place where we have to forsake one to obtain the other between truth and unity. God objectively wants every single person to be Catholic.

Here are the series on the topics mentioned throughout:

Baptism - Series 12

Eucharist - Series 10 and 11, and many Always More Wednesday episodes

You can lose your salvation - Episode 18.17

Penance and Mortification - Episode 18.20

Conscience - 18.12

Pope and Authority - Series 6 and 7 and many Always More Wednesday episodes

Books: Salvation What Every Catholic Should Know - https://www.amazon.com/Salvation-What-Every-Catholic-Should/dp/1733522182/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DFPU5HYUDN57&keywords=salvation+what+every+catholic+should+know&qid=1584448774&s=books&sprefix=salvation+what+%2Caps%2C170&sr=1-1 s

Drama of Salvation by Jimmy Akin - https://www.amazon.com/Drama-Salvation-Rescues-Delivers-Eternal/dp/1941663125/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PMI0WA4M0MOY&keywords=the+drama+of+salvation+jimmy+akin&qid=1584448744&sprefix=drama+of+salvat%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1

Church Father's: https://www.churchfathers.org/purgatory; https://www.churchfathers.org/reward-and-merit; https://www.churchfathers.org/salvation-outside-the-church

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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On the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi on Saturday June 18, 2022 I was blessed to be invited to give a talk at St. Alfred's Catholic Church in Taylor, MI on the Eucharist. I brought my recorder... but didn't hit record!! So, I figured I'd give my talk again here for the podcast - it's a bit longer than the live talk I gave as I have more time and able to bring out a few extra details. Here is the live recording if you'd like to watch it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CvIPMtJZGk&t=1s - first 55 minutes is praise & worship, then my talk, then adoration and benediction at end. Enjoy!

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

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A.M.W.: Always More Wednesday. In this episode, we revisit and draw out a few more details of the last two episodes on Salvation - "Will Those Who Are Saved Be Few?" and "The Father Did NOT Abandon Or Pour Out His Wrath on Jesus." We revisit briefly the ideas of universalism and predestination, and Jesus' and the New Testament's response. We also revisit how precisely in the midst of the crucifixion, the Father and Jesus were in intimate union - God was always with Jesus, God is always in us in Jesus and because of that we have nothing to fear.

"Did Christ Become Sin?" by Brant Pitre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cC1WHHuJM

"Undone" by Fr. Patrick - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-mustard-seeds/id1202613672?i=1000557272226

Check out the podcast website here: https://sites.google.com/view/crossingthejordan/welcome. On the website you can find episodes/topics that you want to hear, find recommended resources to grow in your faith, submit questions/request, and/or subscribe to the podcast to receive emails with direct links to your preferred podcast platform. If you'd like to reach out for a prayer request, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]. God bless you all abundantly!

Available on iTunes, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Player FM, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Stitcher.

Artwork by Yongsung Kim