Celebrating the Most Generous Nation on Earth

We’ve just come off of Thanksgiving and Giving Tuesday – let’s stop for a second and celebrate one of the greatest things about the greatest nation on the planet – yes, the generosity of Americans and America. We are the most giving and generous nation on earth. Let’s celebrate it and build upon it – embracing generosity fully as one of the key aspects of our national identity. Here is a link to the article mentioned in today’s episode.

https://www.axios.com/2022/03/09/america-charitable-giving-stats-ukraine

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Today’s episode features part 2 of an interview with Pastor Shmuel Aweida of Beit Eliyahu in Haifa, Israel. Pastor Shmuel gives us unique insights as a pastor of a Messianic Congregation in Israel and as a father of two soldiers fighting the war against Hamas. Here is a link to Pastor Shmuel’s congregation’s website – you can write encouraging emails to them and even make donations directly to them per our interview - https://en.beiteliyahu.org/

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Today’s episode features part 1 of an interview with Pastor Shmuel Aweida of Beit Eliyahu in Haifa, Israel. Pastor Shmuel gives us unique insights as a pastor of a Messianic Congregation in Israel and a father of two soldiers fighting the war against Hamas. Here is a link to Pastor Shmuel’s congregation’s website – you can write encouraging emails to them and even make donations directly to them per our interview - https://en.beiteliyahu.org/

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Today’s episode features part 2 of an interview with Ray Pritz. Ray lives just outside of Jerusalem. Ray moved to Israel fifty years ago, one month before the Yom Kippur War started. Ray works for the Bible Society in Israel. Ray and his wife have three daughters, all of whom were born and raised in Israel. We believe you will enjoy and benefit from the insights Ray shares with us today.

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Israel From the Inside – Part 1

Today’s episode features part 1 of an interview with Ray Pritz. Ray lives just outside of Jerusalem. Ray moved to Israel fifty years ago, one month before the Yom Kippur War started. Ray works for the Bible Society in Israel. Ray his and his wife’s three daughters were all born and raised in Israel. We believe you will enjoy and benefit from Ray's insights today.

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More is Better? Let’s Reject Greed and the Mindless Pursuit of Prosperity

Our consistent tendency, as human beings is to take good things, and turn them into bad things by making them main things. It’s really easy to begin pursuing wealth and prosperity as if it’s the main point of life. On today’s episode, we’ll take an intentional look at our greed and materialism and offer a better approach.

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I Want to Live Forever – the Foolishness of Pursuing Longevity

Our consistent tendency, as human beings is to take good things, and turn them into bad things by making them main things. It’s really easy to begin pursuing longevity as if it’s the main point of life. On today’s episode, we’ll take an intentional look at our obsession with longevity and offer a better approach.

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Episode 63: People and Peoples

Feel like quitting or running away today? The circumstances seem insurmountable? Not worth continuing to push on? DON’T QUIT! Stay. Persevere. There are so many benefits practically and even supernaturally to staying in what we’ve committed to that’s good and staying active in pursuing what we’ve been working toward that’s good. Hey, the feelings and temptations nudging us to want to quit are strong and universal to all of us – let today’s episode be a source of strength for you, encouraging you to keep going – pay the price of perseverance today so you don’t pay the higher price of the opportunity cost of quitting.

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The goal of today’s episode is to help you take your unexpected trials and tragedies and 1) put them in the right perspective, 2) avoid being completely defeated by them, and 3) even thrive in spite of them.

We must know, remember and regularly remind ourselves about unexpected trials and tragedies:

1. We’re not immune to them

2. We’re not defined by them

3. We’re not going to have to endure them forever

4. We’re not alone in them

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