Jacobs Ladder Podcast

S Update on Podcast. I apologize for not consistently publishing weekly. Don't like to use the excuse of being busy because I believe everyone's busy and we make time for what's important to us. I think the biggest reason is I've been struggling a bit with the vision for the podcast. I love doing interviews and I love the topic of faith at work, but haven't felt like the interview possibilities th...

S   I want to talk about Safety in the workplace-I work in manufacturing and  it's good to think about tactics and tools but it's also good to think about the Why behind safety. I work in manufacturing and I've seen this Why of safety addressed in different ways and usually is a tug in our heart strings or playing in our sense of guilt but talking about how your family needs you to come home safe....

S I recently gave a talk at my church and I really enjoyed preparing for that and giving the talk and thought the topic would be a good one for us to discuss on this podcast.   I'll provide a link to the entire talk which was streamed on Youtube and lasts over an hour. I encourage you to check it out since there's a lot more discussion in that than we'll have time for you on this podcast.   My int...

Diff between precision and accuracy, precision is hitting the target every time and accuracy is hitting the right target.  Both important, but precision w'o accuracy is foolish and arguably legalism, diligently following a checklist or set of rules but following the wrong rules.   God made the world based on laws and His way of doing things.  If you don't know His way of doing things, i.e. accurac...

S Speak less and speak more On phone saw ad for an app that gives you daily quotes and it said "how beautiful it is to be silent when you're expected to be enraged " Scriptures  Went On in my morning time to listen to Luke 23 where Jesus answered Pilate's question "Are you the King of the Jews?" with more of a statement than an answer.  Then when Jesus was sent to Herod He didn't respond to Herod'...

S   Got an email from OnePathPublishing with clarification on an issue I raised last week which is that Jesus, or Yahusha, will return on on 1st of Tishri and when He said that we would not know the day or the hour He was referring to the fact that the Feast of Trumpets is on the 1st day of the month, which is defined by when the moon first appears, to be confirmed by 2 priests and so it's impossi...

S   S   Today I want to read 2 articles I received this past week.  In different ways, they hopefully give you reasons to pause and think even more about the fact that we are not living in a normal, business as usual world.  This is certainly intended to make you worry but rather to shock you a bit into a greater sense of urgency of where you are in your walk with God and with living out His plan...

S Israel Bible Center article "What is "holiness" in Hebrew?" by Nicholas Schaser, part of a series called Israel Bible Weekly.  You can find this article through my link as well as by going to IsraelBibleCenter.com and while you're there you can sign up for their emails and maybe sign up for their school they offer.  I've been getting emails from them for about 2 months and find them to be excell...

S   I'd like to challenge and hopefully inspire you to be a creator in your work.   In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 -  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Genesis%201:1&version=ESV   Last week we talked about how God seemed to have something special in mind with the number 22, assigning the numbers of letters in His language, the # of chromosomes in our...

Work   I want to share with you the significance of the #22, and how God considered work to be significant enough to be included in this interesting story of the #22. This was brought to my attention by Isaac from The Assembly of Called Out Believers, from a video called "The HIdden Beauty of Biblical Hebrew - Beginner Intro Class" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u480f0vEbaQ Hebrew is the language...

S See OnePath email on gifts    Subject: What is YOUR service of Calling? The Day You Met the Lord!      The Apostle Paul met the Lord while on the road to Damascus with a blinding light and a voice from heaven. Our Lord Called Paul to serve Him and gave him a Service of Calling. Paul knew his Service of Calling the day of his conversion as he was told directly by the Lord what he had to do. Paul...

S   The Road to Freedom.  I want to discuss a video I saw this past week called the Road to Freedom, which I hope will help you get free from what's been holding you back, and give you some insights into finding your calling and your purpose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LJaVGe5JM   I believe God was speaking to me when I watched this because it seemed to make my last podcast episode make sen...

S I'd like to talk about priorities.  At the beginning of a calendar year we often think about goals and a big part of goals is priorities. I like visual aids. We all learn differently and some of us, many of us, are primarily visual learners, I guess that's why the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words is so well known and why YouTube is the worlds largest search engine   I know this is an a...

S   The power of a name God gives people names in the Bible very intentionally The first man was named Adam, which means from the earth one of the first tasks God gave to Adam was to name the animals God sometimes changes names intentionally Abram to Abraham In the original Hebrew language of the Torah, which is the first five books of our Old Testament, the name Abram literally means "exalted fat...

Q&A: When did you become a Christian? What led you to write this book? In your book, you picked out four characteristics of  tough  guys, which we're going to talk about today, you gave examples of those traits from men in the Bible, lesser known men from present day, as well as from Jesus, and you give tips on how men can apply this trait to their lives.  I like this format since it's similar to...

S Sandwich work prayer Before work begins, at the moment of a need, after work is done  What to pray: Pray things go well, no matter what happens that you would be glorified both by how things go and how I respond (what and how like with performance evaluation) This past week-project-when problems occur: stay positive, take responsibility   E   Our work is generally a performance based culture, an...

S   I want to encourage you today to remember to look beyond the struggle, frustration, and sadness of a particular moment by praying and having a long term vision. In Selah episode 58, I shared about a difficult day I had at my job where I got some negative feedback.  Whether it's at work, at home, in our marriage, with our kids, at church, or another area of our lives, we all have these moments....

S Rob Skiba died on Oct. 15 The report is that he died from Covid-19.  I won't say much about that other than I'm suspicious of foul play because there was so much that he challenged, but I don't have any evidence of that so I'm not claiming that's the case just Made a big impact on me My wife has been searching for truth and challenging the traditions of men in our Christian practices before I di...

S   I want to share something that happened to me at my job in the hope that you can learn from and benefit from it. I won't say exactly when this happened, but at some point during my career, I was asked by my boss for a meeting after a contractor I worked with had asked for a meeting with him.  For some context I had not had this boss for very long, less than year, and actually had not gone thro...

S   From Sep 27   Emerging from Isolation [ 1 min read ★ ]   For where two or three are gathered in my name,  there am I among them— Matthew 18:20 Imagine, for a moment, a man ever isolated, living alone in the mountains, perhaps. Imagine him living a vigorous, adventurous, spiritual life, but lacking community. The knowledge this man would have of God, the knowledge he'd have of himself, would be...

What You'll Hear: 1. Know Your Motivation - saw Rusty Thomas preach on the doctrine of blood guiltiness at Herald Society which was included in the video Babies are Murdered Here https://youtu.be/dxDyfSHEq5g, it revealed that many there didn't have the right motivations, are you there just to be seen or make Youtube videos? 2. Study and Be Ready - watch YouTube videos, know 3 verses from different...

Who's Watching You at work https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4956 "Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; 6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not...

Link to Article: https://fallacyinlogic.com/10-logical-fallacies/ L Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. Proverbs 24:11 - ESV

Sorry for being late in this episode release Lot I could talk about.  Let me provide a few updates since our last  Selah  episode. I gave my testimony at church.  It was not recorded otherwise I might upload it as an episode.  i'm praying I'll have an opportunity to present it again someday and have it recorded and hopefully more polished and with fewer tears. I continue to learn a lot from the Yo...