I Can Do with Benjamin Lee

In my most recent sermon, I began with a passage from Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, verses 1-9. The preacher begins by saying, "There is a time for everything."

Those are challenging words to hear, yet necessary. In life, there will be difficult days to face. How we navigate them will make all the difference.

Faith will be required!

I had a great conversation with Dr. Mick Smith. Mick, has a Ph.D and is an author, consultant, and is also a voice talent.

With over 4,000 books in his personal library, Mick knows a lot about history!

Mick also has a podcast called The Doctor of Digital. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-doctor-of-digital-gmick-smith-phd/id1545085984

In this episode, we discussed the following:

You can also find his book called "The Burning of America" on Amazon. https://a.co/d/0yoXN0Q Below is a description of it.

This fictional account exposes the dark underbelly of the custody industry in American villages. Children are treated like footballs and are simply kicked from place to place, parental rights are routinely violated, often with one parent who is considered no more than a paycheck, and the custody enterprise of judges, lawyers, and counselors profit from the displacement and misery of children. The novel punches hard in the gut and does not let up until the untimely and tragic climax. Paul Theus is a respectable middle-class professor until his peaceful world is shattered as we find out from the first line: "No parent prepares for a child to be taken." Beware of strangers and watch out for the big bad wolf kids are told but what if a family unit is smoldered from within by a mother? Paul found the note that his wife was leaving for awhile tucked in a book about the Jon Bonet Ramsey child murder. The Bohemian mother Anne Theus inflames the threat posed by the idea that it takes the village court to raise a child. Do the courts really act in the best interest of the children? Parents plan for their children's home, school, clothes, food, and happiness but once the Theus' five-year daughter is kidnapped we are barraged by conflict for over three years until the terminal end. Is the terminal ending tragic or the only possible resolution to the conflict? You decide.

Jessie B. Gruca is a Boston Qualifying runner who is on a journey to complete a marathon in all 50 states began to visit friends and travel. Since beginning she has completed 24

You can find her on Instagram @running.with.roses.

Her linktree is linktr.ee/running.with.roses

I Can Do...So Can You!

In this Episode, I'm somehow talking about Candy Corn in a Candy Corn T-Shirt (which is really nice by the way)!

I tell the story of me not eating Candy Corn and others who are trying to persuade me to eat the Halloween/Fall Treat.

Are you one of the COTC or are you against Candy Corn?

If you want to join in on the fun in this great debate, you can follow my Facebook page dedicated to me against Candy Corn called Ben's Candy Corn Page!

⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551027944186⁠

It's easy to become complacent and to rest on the accomplishment of the past.

But to get better, we have to keep challenging ourselves.

Our goals need to scare us.

In this episode, we look turn to God's word to consider what it has to say about deceit.

It can be easy to deceive ourselves.

Have you been deceiving yourself?

I recently read a newsletter from Huel which caught my attention on the importance of habits and consistency.

I share these thoughts in this episode.

Habits and Systems are key when it comes to winning in nutrition and fitness.

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There is so much to learn from the Kings recored in the Old Testament.

In this episode, we consider a few from 2 Chronicles 25-26.

We learn how God is able to help and to bring down.

We will learn a valuable lesson about pride, the power of God, and how we should view ourselves.

King David found himself in a very challenging situation in 1 Kings 30:1-6. Yet we see how he was able to navigate it.

It was not through his own strength, but rather God's. He encouraged himself in the Lord.

This podcast looks at how we can do exactly that!