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Season 4 Podcast 75 “The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 7: The Sermon on the Mount Pt VII “The Strait and Narrow Path.” We offer a weekly podcast, Monday thru Friday. Each Friday we discuss the New Testament, King James’ Version. We are now on Matthew Chapter 7, the end of the Sermon on the Mount.  The final chapter contains the following concepts. 1.     Judging Others (Matthew 7:1-5) 2...

Season 4 Podcast 74 “The Law of Liberty.”  Freedom and agency are gifts of God governed by law.  Liberty is a creation of man which is made possible only when the laws of man are in perfect balance with the laws of God.  Language cannot preserve liberty.  Language may help us to celebrate liberty, but only divine law can help us to create liberty. Only commitment to truth can preserve, protect, an...

Season 4 Podcast 73 “Tragedy.”  As a good soldier prepares for the assault of the enemy, we must prepare for the assault of tragedy. Tragedy does not define our nature.  Tragedy reveals our nature and defines the weaknesses in our armor against evil, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against sp...

Season 4 Podcast 72 “Pt II, The Second Beast.”  In Chapter 13 of Revelation, John mentions two beasts.  Many have attempted to identify the beasts. It is not my purpose to determine what John saw or what he specifically referred to. My purpose is to use my literary license to employ the beasts metaphorically, as I would any other literary allusion regardless of the source, to illustrate what is ha...

Season 4 Podcast 71 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XII, Pt XLIII (43), “Expelled From Eden, Pt III”  This session is from Book XII, Pt XLIII (43) of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Podcast 71 is entitled “Expelled from Eden, Pt III.”  In the prologue to Book XII, Milton writes. The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain,...

Season 4 Podcast 70 “The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 7: The Sermon on the Mount Pt VI “The Golden Rule.” We offer a weekly podcast, Monday thru Friday. Each Friday we discuss the New Testament, King James’ Version. We are now on Matthew Chapter 7, the end of the Sermon on the Mount.  The final chapter contains the following concepts. 1.     Judging Others (Matthew 7:1-5) 2.     Prayer...

Season 4 Podcast 69 “Pt I The First Beast.”  In Chapter 13 of Revelation, John mentions two beasts.  Many have attempted to identify the beasts. It is not my purpose to determine what John saw or what he specifically referred to. I am not qualified and shall leave that to others. My purpose is to use my literary license to employ the beasts metaphorically, as I would any other literary allusion re...

Season 4 Podcast 68 The First Amendment, The Six Pillars of Freedom If any one of the six pillars of freedom stated as law in the First Amendment falls, then freedom as we know it will fall.  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assem...

Season 4 Podcast 67 Self-Reliance Concept 10 Solitude  I have selected Ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non-Confo...

Season 4 Podcast 66 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XII, Pt XLII, “Expelled From Eden, Pt II”  This session is from Book XII, Pt XLII (42) of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Podcast 66 is entitled “Expelled from Eden, Pt II.”  In the prologue to Book XII, Milton writes. The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that...

Season 4 Podcast 65 “The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 7: The Sermon on the Mount Pt V “Prayer.” We offer a weekly podcast, Monday thru Friday. Each Friday we discuss the New Testament, King James’ Version. We are now on Matthew Chapter 7.  It contains eight concepts. 1.     Judging Others 2.     Prayer 3.     The Golden Rule 4.     The Strait and Narrow Path 5.     False Prophets In la...

Season 4 Podcast 64 Self-Reliance Concept 9 God  I have selected twelve concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non-Conformi...

Season 4 Podcast 63 Self-Reliance Concept 8 Character  I have selected ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non-Confo...

Season 4 Podcast 62 Self-Reliance Concept 7 Self-Reliance I have selected ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5: Non-Con...

Season 4 Podcast 61 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XII, Pt XLI, “Expelled From Eden, Pt I”  In the prologue to Book XI, Milton writes. The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall; his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascention;...

Season 4 Podcast 60 “The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 7: The Sermon on the Mount Pt IV “Judging Others.” We offer a weekly podcast, Monday thru Friday. Each Friday we discuss the New Testament, King James’ Version. We are now on Matthew Chapter 7.  In last week’s podcast, Podcast 55, we analyzed the final concepts 4 – 12 of the Lord’s Prayer. In this podcast, Number 60, we shall contin...

Season 4 Podcast 59 Self-Reliance Concept 6 To Thine Own Self Be True I have selected ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concep...

Season 4 Podcast 58 Self-Reliance Concept 5 Non-Conformist I have selected ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non-C...

Season 4 Podcast 57 Self-Reliance Concept 4 Faith in Self I have selected ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non-Co...

Season 4 Podcast 56 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XI, Pt XLI, “The Intercession, Pt V”  In the prologue to Book XI, Milton writes. The Son of God presents to his Father the prayers of our first parents now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a band of Cherubim to dispossess them; but first to reveal to Adam f...

Season 4 Podcast 55 “The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 6: The Sermon on the Mount Pt III, The Lord’s Prayer B.” We offer a weekly podcast, Monday thru Friday. Each Friday we discuss the New Testament, King James’ Version. We are now on Matthew Chapter 6.  In last week’s podcast, Podcast 50, we analyzed concepts 1 – 3 of the Lord’s Prayer. In this podcast, Number 55, we shall analyze con...

Season 4 Podcast 54 Self Reliance, Concept 3, Truth I have selected ten concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non-Conformi...

Season 4 Podcast 53 Self-Reliance Concept 2 False Charity I have selected twelve concepts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Each concept expands the virtues and variations of Self-Reliance or warns of the vices of the ways we forfeit Self Reliance: ·      Concept 1: Blind Obedience ·      Concept 2: False Charity ·      Concept 3: Truth ·      Concept 4: Faith  ·      Concept 5:  Non...

Season 4 Podcast 52 Self-Reliance Concept 1 Blind Obedience At the heart of our democratic republic is the principle of self-reliance. If we do not require self-reliance from our citizens we soon lose our freedom and liberty. Any move toward a democratic republic produces an increase in self-reliance; any move toward totalitarianism produces a decrease in self-reliance. It has company. It is all i...

Season 4 Podcast 51 Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk XI, Pt XL, “The Intersession, Pt IV”  In the prologue to Book XI, Milton writes. The Son of God presents to his Father the prayers of our first parents now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a band of Cherubim to dispossess them; but first to reveal to Adam f...