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Mr. Bill Stiles is the Executive Director of Old Savannah City Mission (OSCM) in Savannah, Georgia. Bill has been at OSCM for three years and lives with his wife Connell in a beautiful old Savannah Victorian home. Born in 1947 to Thelma Williamson Stiles and John R. Stiles Jr. at the Old Charity Hospital in Savannah, GA, Bill and his family first resided at 311 East Duffy Street. The next year they moved to Skidaway Road across the marsh from Wormsloe Plantation when Skidaway Road was not even complete and the only way to access the area was on the trolley car by way of Central Avenue. Bill’s first job experience was at the age of 8, when he began cutting grass on Isle of Hope. He is a 1965 graduate of Sol C. Johnson high school and a 1969 graduate of Hampton University, Hampton Virginia with a degree in Bio-Chemistry. Upon graduation, Bill served in the U S Army receiving an honorable discharge in 1972. In 1976, Bill and his wife Connell opened Stiles for Living, Inc., an upscale home furnishings and gift shop at 1310 Abercorn Street in the Victorian District. And in 1979, Bill started Stiles For Living Realty. In 1982, Stiles For Living opened its second location in Oglethorpe Mall, becoming the first African-American business to operate in a regional mall in southeast Georgia. It was through his construction business that he started doing volunteer work at Old Savannah City Mission at the request of his wife who is the Director of Development. Because of his multi-faceted abilities, Bill was later hired as the Director of Operations in 2008. Bill has chaired and served on numerous boards and committees throughout his career. Bill married his college sweetheart, Connell, in the spring of 1972 and through that union they are the proud parents of three (3) sons, William Elliott (31), Byron Adams (27), and Jordan Winston (18). He came to know Christ at an early age and currently attends The Sanctuary of Savannah. Bill credits his marriage to Connell as being the pivotal point that chartered his Christian journey. Together they have established a profound everlasting relationship that is truly grounded in their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Mission was founded through the inspiration of Larry McDaniel, Pastor of The Sanctuary in Savannah, Georgia, after he was invited to preach at the Los Angeles Mission by Reverend Jim Lewis. When Larry would return to preach at The Sanctuary in Savannah, he would tell the congregation about the Los Angeles Mission. The Mission’s ministry was contagious. And soon, members of The Sanctuary were on board to start a Mission in Savannah. Pastor Larry brought members of his church with him to Los Angeles. They caught the vision of Rescue Ministry too. Under Larry’s leadership, the Old Savannah City Mission was established in 1997. In a real sense, this was a daughter mission. Jim encouraged Larry to grow and develop a residential, recovery program patterned after the one at the Los Angeles Mission. Several years after the establishment of the Old Savannah City Mission Pastor McDaniel and the Board of Directors invited Jim Lewis to become the Executive Director of the Mission. Through his leadership the Mission grew and became perhaps the best known and only Five Star Gospel Mission in the Savannah area. While serving as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Mission Reverend Lewis developed UTI, Urban Training Institute. He continued to develop UTI in Savannah. It champions “high standards, strong boundaries and clear direction.” It is a vehicle that advances transformation. It gives formerly homeless drug addicts, alcoholics, ex-offenders and others who feel themselves outcast to become STUDENTS. For those who have little or no self esteem, labels are removed and they are given a new name. This is fundamental to the ministry of the Old Savannah City Mission. No one is called “homeless, guests or clients.” UTI students, staff and volunteers refer to those they serve as “friends and neighbors.” UTI is the “crown jewel” of the Old Savannah City Mission. It transforms students from being a receiver to being a giver. The students are the engine of the entire operation of the Mission. Students are empowered, trusted and held accountable. Jim’s definition of success is when the student excels the teacher— in line with John 14:12, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” Greatest Accomplishment The Georgia Department of Corrections nominated the Old Savannah City Mission’s Urban Training Institute’s Fresh Start Division to receive the Association of Paroling Authorities International’s Community Award. The presentation on May 18, 2010 put some wind under the wings of Savannah’s Five Star Gospel Rescue Mission. Greatest Challenge What is our greatest challenge? “It is the down to earth, nuts and bolts. It is our cash flow problem. It’s funding! The Old Savannah City Mission is privately funded. It receives no public or United Way funds. Because we are a Gospel Rescue Mission we are intentionally politically incorrect. Here at OSCM we walk by faith and not by sight; however our fountain of faith runs low sometimes. We know God never fails, but He does make us nervous. God always comes through. Greatest Joy We delight to see people learn because when they learn God’s Word, they change. I love to teach God’s Word. To see it germinate in someone’s heart and grow ... to see the work of God in someone’s life. My greatest joy is when I see a student “get it.”


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Friday's Pats-Broncos game postponed due to ice issue
by Greg HarderThe Regina Pats announced about 20 minutes before game-time on Friday night that their scheduled WHL meeting with the Swift Current Broncos at the Brandt Centre was being postponed.
The last-minute decision was made due to “an ice-plant issue” which left the ice surface “unplayable.”
The game will be rescheduled at a later date and all tickets from Friday’s contest are redeemable. More ticket information will be released in the future.
Friday’s game would have been the first meeting of the season between the Pats (2-11-2-0) and Broncos (3-10-1-2).
Regina’s next action is a road game on Saturday night against the Winnipeg Ice. That’s followed by six scheduled days off before meeting the Prince Albert Raiders next Saturday at the Brandt Centre.


sensors package¶
Overview¶
Sensors act as an interface between the environment and the vehicles intelligence modules. This module acts as a simulation of real world sensors, by taking in in formation from the vehicle and the maps module about the environment around the vehicle. The currently implemented sensors include BasicVisual, GPS and Speed. BasicVisual provides information about the objects present in the field of view of the vehicle This can be thought of as LIDAR or RADAR readings, or simply as the surroundings as seen by a driver through the windshield or the rear view mirrors. GPS provides the coordinates of the vehicle and Speed provides the speedometer reading of the vehicle. These sensor readings are used by the vehicles internal modules to localize the vehicle and to take a decision based on the inferences. To understand the effect of sensor failures/malfunctions, these sensors can be configured to provide noisy readings to the vehicle.
sensors.sensor module¶
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class
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
BasicVisual
¶ Simulates the capability of a human visual system.
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static
get_intersection_traffic
(car, tg)¶ Used to ‘peep and look’ at turnings. Essentially used only in right of way rules to see if there is a car coming into the intersection from another road. Refer to the implementation docs for details on how this function works, and what the dict keys mean.
Note
Currently this seems to be used at all time instants so often returns dict with keys from [1,8] or [0,7] which is probably when it is called when on turn roads. Don’t panic!!
Parameters: - car (object) – vehicle object
- tg (object) – Traffic Graph object
Returns: with keys as [1,3,5,7] and values as list of vehicle objects
Return type: dict
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static
get_traffic_signal_state
(car)¶ Shows the traffic signals that are visible to a human driver.
Currently included in BasicVisual as driver can ‘see’ the traffic signal. Later should be included in communication module.
Parameters: car (object) – vehicle object Returns: [color, time remaining] , if there is no signal, returns [None, None] Return type: list
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static
get_visible_cars
(car, tg)¶ Shows cars that are visible to a human driver. Similar to what a driver can see (directly or via the mirrors, side or rear).
Note
Instead of passing a car, pass only the attributes as a message or via a bus in the future.
Parameters: - car (object) – Vehicle object
- tg (object) – Traffic Graph object
Returns: with keys as [‘front’, ‘back’, ‘left’, ‘right’] and values as a list of vehicle objects
Return type: dict
-
static
-
class
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
GPS
¶ Simulates a GPS device.
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static
get_position
(x, y)¶ Shows the GPS coordinates of vehicle.
Parameters: - x (float) – x coordinate of vehicle
- y (float) – y coordinate of vehicle
Returns: [x, y] of the vehicle
Return type: list
-
static
-
class
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
LaneCenterSensor
¶ Simulates a sensor that gives offset from the lane center.
Note
Implementation might have to change for curved roads/roadstring ds in the future.
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static
get_lane_center_dtheta
(car)¶ Takes in the car object and returns the difference between the heading of the road/lane and the heading of the vehicle.
Parameters: car (object) – vehicle object Returns: angle in radians Return type: float
-
static
get_lane_center_dy
(car)¶ Takes in car object and returns the displacement from the lane center.
Note
Calculates distance from left edge of road and subtracts lane number * lane width.
Parameters: car (object) – vehicle object Returns: distance from center of lane Return type: float
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static
offset_direction
(car)¶ Deprecated. When lane center was calculated using distance from center of road, this method was used to check if the car is to the left of the road center or to the right.
Note
Not using this currently.
Parameters: car (object) – car Returns: 0 or 1 or -1 Return type: int
-
static
-
class
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
PositionBasedVelocityEstimator
¶ Estimates the vehicle speed based on its position.
Note
Not implemented currently. returning the speed directly. Will be implemented a fusion of speed sensor and position based velocity estimator.
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class
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
VehicleSpeedSensor
(car=None)¶ Simulates a speed sensor.
Note
Will be implemented with noisy version of speed and sensor fusion using GPS data.
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car
¶ object – Vehicle object
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read_speed
()¶ Shows the speed of vehicle.
Returns: speed Return type: float
-
-
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
get_adj_polygon_from_point
(x, y, theta, width, distance, direction, lane_width)¶ Returns a polygon with lane_width away from (x, y) along theta angle in given direction with sizes distance x width.
Parameters: - x (float) – x coordinate
- y (float) – y coordinate
- theta (float) – angle in radians
- width (float) – width of the bounding box
- distance (float) – length of the bounding box
- direction (str) – ‘left’ or ‘right’
- lane_width (float) – to check lane_width distance away = finding in the adjacent lane
Returns: shapely Polygon object
Return type: object
-
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
get_car_bounding_box
(car)¶ Returns the bounding box (not axis aligned; generic one) of the vehicle.
Parameters: car (object) – vehicle object Returns: shapely Polygon object Return type: object
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core.lib.sensors.sensor.
get_car_bounding_box_adj
(car, lane_width, direction)¶ Returns a bounding box of the area in the adjacent lane of the vehicle determined by the input args.
Parameters: - car (object) – vehicle object
- lane_width (float) –
- direction (str) – ‘left’ or ‘right’
Returns: shapely Polygon object
Return type: object
-
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
get_car_bounding_box_back
(car)¶ Returns the bounding box (not axis aligned; generic one) of the area in the back vehicle (determined by safe dist).
Parameters: car (object) – vehicle object Returns: shapely Polygon object Return type: object
-
core.lib.sensors.sensor.
get_car_bounding_box_front
(car)¶ Returns the bounding box (not axis aligned; generic one) of the area in the front vehicle (determined by safe dist).
Parameters: car (object) – vehicle object Returns: shapely Polygon object Return type: object
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core.lib.sensors.sensor.
get_polygon_from_point
(x, y, theta, width, front_distance, back_distance)¶ Returns a polygon around a point in a given heading angle with given dimensions. Front_distance and back_distance are determined by the heading angle to figure out which one is front or back.
Parameters: - x (float) – x coordinate
- y (float) – y coordinate
- theta (float) – heading angle in radians
- width (float) – width of the bounding box
- front_distance (float) – distance from the point to the end of the front of the box (ahead of the point)
- back_distance (float) – distance from the point to the end of the back of the box (behind the point)
Returns: shapely Polygon object
Return type: object
sensors.sensor_factory module¶
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class
core.lib.sensors.sensor_factory.
SensorFactory
¶ Factory class to build sensors of various type.
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static
build_sensor
(type)¶ Parameters: type (str) – should be a valid sensor type among the following implemented Returns: returns an instantiation of the mentioned sensor Return type: object Note
Currently only includes the following sensors.
- ‘gps’
- ‘lane_center’
- ‘speed’
- ‘basic_visual’
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static


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SHILOH A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1997 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 7.5 Alternative Scale: *** out of ****
United States, 1997 U.S. Release Date: 5/97 (wide) Running Length: 1:33 MPAA Classification: PG (Mild violence) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Cast: Blake Heron, Michael Moriarty, Scott Wilson, Ann Dowd, J. Madison Wright, Rod Steiger, Bonnie Bartlett Director: Dale Rosenbloom Producers: Zane W. Levitt and Dale Rosenbloom Screenplay: Dale Rosenbloom based on the novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Cinematography: Frank Byers Music: Joel Goldsmith U.S. Distributor: Legacy Releasing
Perhaps Disney should take a lesson from writer/director Dale Rosenbloom regarding how to make a family film. SHILOH, Rosenbloom's first foray into the field of family entertainment, easily outclasses any live-action movie the Mouseketeers have released in the last three or four years. Here are some Disney staples that SHILOH has managed to avoid: plastic characters, ogre-like adults afflicted with terminal stupidity, moronic humor, pointless action sequences, and a nauseating overdose of cuteness.
Rosenbloom has remembered something that Disney has forgotten: the key to fashioning good family entertainment is to make the movie enjoyable to everyone in the family, not just the five and six-year olds. Any adult who has suffered through the likes of 101 DALMATIANS (live action), JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE, and THAT DARN CAT! will appreciate what Rosenbloom has wrought with this low-key, thoughtful motion picture. He takes the time and effort to develop real, imperfect characters rather than recycling familiar types.
I have never been a big fan of "animal in danger" tales, but SHILOH is far better than most. Not only does it show the animal, a one-year old beagle, being abused (although not graphically), but it doesn't turn the dog into some sort of living cartoon character. Likewise, the young protagonist, 11 year old Marty Preston (Blake Heron), doesn't have all the answers and isn't constantly outsmarting his parents. And the film's villain, Judd Travers (Scott Wilson), isn't just inherently evil -- there's a legitimate reason why he's so nasty, as Marty comes to find out during the movie's second half.
SHILOH takes place in the tiny town of Friendly, West Virginia. It's a lazy summer and Marty is wandering around town looking for odd jobs to earn a little cash. On his way home one day, he encounters a beagle with a cut over its eye. It follows him, and Marty, a loner by nature, develops an immediate attachment to the injured animal. He even gives it a name -- Shiloh -- after the bridge where he encountered it. His father (Michael Moriarty) recognizes Shiloh as the new hunting dog of the reclusive Judd Travers, and Marty reluctantly agrees to return it, even though he suspects Judd of mistreating the animal. Several days later, Shiloh again runs away from Judd, and this time, when the dog seeks him out, Marty decides not to tell his parents. So, with the help of his friend Samantha (J. Madison Wright), he hides the beagle in a fort and sneaks food to it every night. But it's only a matter of time before someone else learns his secret.
The strength of SHILOH is that it approaches its subject matter intelligently. There are no easy answers to Marty's dilemma -- the Law is on Judd's side, but the boy believes his position is morally defensible. At one point, when his father accuses him of not doing the right thing, Marty's response is a simple question: "What's right?" Later, the kindhearted town doctor (played by Rod Steiger) tells him that if he wants to keep Shiloh, he may be forced to fight for the dog.
The adults in SHILOH are not one-dimensional. Marty's dad, despite being somewhat domineering and old-fashioned, understands his son's affection for Shiloh, and, to a degree, is willing to support him. Likewise, Mrs. Preston (Ann Dowd) is developed into more than a sympathetic maternal figure lurking in the background. Everyone, from a veteran like Rod Steiger to a newcomer like Blake Heron, gives a heartfelt and believable performance.
SHILOH, which is adapted from a Newberry Award winning book, fits nicely into the class of better animal-related family films, joining the ranks of LASSIE and BLACK BEAUTY. And, while the primary target audience is undeniably children, few adults who sit through this motion picture will wish they had done otherwise. SHILOH represents something that's all too rare at theaters these days: a pleasant surprise.
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC A film review by Frank Maloney Copyright 1991 Frank Maloney
The French-language film CYRANO DE BERGERAC stars France's most popular actor, Gerard Depardieu. It is a handsome, affecting version of this nineteenth century warhorse, a verse play by Edmund Rostand.
Americans mostly, I assume, know Cyrano through the interpretations of Jose Ferrer (also called CYRANO DE BERGERAC) and Steve Martin (ROXANNE). Martin's pastiche of the source material is a pretty good vehicle for him, but not necessarily for the story or for his Cyrano-esque character, but especially not for his Roxanne played most ineptly by Daryl Hannah. Jose Ferrer's 1950s film, on the other extreme, is extremely stagy in its concept and execution, which is to say it looks and sounds like a filmed stage play, and Ferrer's delivery is smooth, polished, Shakespearean, and fluid--a gentleman's Cyrano.
The best quality that Depardieu brings to Cyrano is his roughness, his lack of smoothness, polish, and Shakespearean (or Comedie Francaise) delivery. Depardieu reminds us that Cyrano, despite his aristocratic lineage is a Gascon, practically a foreigner in Seventeenth-Century Paris, impecunious, a poet, and a soldier. His Cyrano has more in common with the pit than with the precieux in the boxes or sitting on the stage itself. This Cyrano is a populist rogue, a thief and a roughneck, a very angry man who makes us understand why he is so ready to fight. In fact, Depardieu's impassioned, angry, noble, and principled Cyrano reminded me most of that wonderful poet and scalawag Francois Villon (whose best-known poem is probably the ballade in "Le Testament" with the refrain "Mais ou son les neiges d'antan" or "Where are the snows of yesterday").
CYRANO is filled with wonderful scenes of great detail, texture, and brilliance. The opening sequence takes us into a primitive theater and down into the pit, a place so abandoned to its own chaos that bears would blush to be seen there. It is there we first meet Cyrano, who causes a glorious uproar that results in a duel with a precieu, a kind of literary dandy of the day. During the duel, Cyrano promises to extemporize a ballade and to finish his opponent with the last couplet.
I have not seen a costume flick that so evoked the nitty-gritty of early modern life since THE THREE/FOUR MUSKETEERS movies of Richard Lester. This Paris not only glitters, it stinks. War is not only brave charges, it's slowly starving to death in siege, it's dying in a suicide charge ordered by a supercilious and vengeful officer. The production values and the research behind them alone recommend the movie.
I regret I am not sufficiently familiar with the French cinema to know any of the actors in CYRANO except for Depardieu. I can tell you Depardieu has not been better since LA RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE and that his performance totally redeems his reputation from an extremely objectionable and hateful movie he appeared in four or so years ago, which I think was released in this country as MENAGE A TROIS. I can praise the actor who played Roxanne, but I cannot tell you her name, alas. As is the often the case in the best French movies, this one is densely populated with wonderful character actors, all of whom are worthy of praise, but who will remain anonymous masters of their craft for this poster.
And now a word about the subtitles. They are a verse translation by the English writer Anthony Burgess (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, ENDERBY, etc.). At first, when a rhymed couplet appeared on the bottom of the screen I was a little distracted. But I quickly acclimated and forgot about them. CYRANO is a wordy play and movie, scenes consist of wonderful speeches more than action. The subtitles are, in fact, admirably succinct and easily encompassed without losing sight of the screen area above them.
This CYRANO works hard at not being a filmed play. The result is sumptuous, detailed, and lively camera work.
Allow me to recommend this CYRANO as the best ever filmed.
-- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
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I'll in an age is but got more Monday.
Most wonderful show is keeping up with the Joneses.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 281 of Keeping Up With Joneses.
I'm joined today by my glorious resplendent, beautiful wife.
[LAUGHTER]
Agee Jones, how the heck are you?
I'm good.

- Does it?
- Mm-hmm, oh good.

- Look at that.
- Look at the little fancy, the one there.
- I got like a fancy hair wrap thing
that's supposed to curl my hair while I wear it.
- Just remind people, when did you get it
and who got it for you?
- I got it for Mother's Day.
- That's really, you're welcome.
- And I did try it one night and I slept with it in
and it worked great that day.
like it, I mean, while I cut the curls for a couple of hours,
which is about all my hair will do.
- Yeah, it does not discourage you,
but it does seem like a fool's errand.
Like I know you love wearing it,
but the curls maybe last 15 minutes.
- No, no, no, no, it lasted a couple of hours the last time.
So it did, you didn't see me, I went out.
So I'm gonna wear it right up until like right before the wedding,
and then I'm gonna take it down.
- Yeah, well, we should probably talk about the wedding
in our weekly update.
Yeah, we're going to a wedding.
- We're going to a wedding.
We finally decided to tie the knot,
having lived together.
- And that's not funny.
- No, we are not getting married
'cause we already are married.
That was a joke everybody, don't write in.
Our good friend Kate is getting married to Miss David today.
And we're all very excited about that.
- So excited, so excited.
- That's not really a weekly update
'cause that's a future thing.
We don't tend to talk about future events.
- Well, it's a future in that it's guest today
but later a couple of hours.
- Give me a weekly update,
'cause you had an interesting week.
- I did, I went away by myself to the beach.
- You did?
- Yeah. - Sunny Florida.
- Sunny Florida.
- How was that?
- It was wonderful, like, so wonderful.

I didn't talk to anybody.
I only spent words on ordering coffee or ordering tacos.
And that's about it.
I just, for three days, didn't talk to anybody
and just had some great time with the alert
of my favorite little church in Seaside
and walked around and rested.
- It was really interesting watching you unplug
because the whole goal was that you were going away
to just get some time on your own so much
you need rest and recuperation.
- Yes.
And so you're very adamant, no, I'm having time to myself.
But Sunday we should drive down.
And I got lots of texts that don't really have much content, but they feel like they're
just for connection.
They worry.
Well, like, babe, again, like I said, I've not spent time away from you.
Yeah.
It was just funny, though, that the contrast between the babe, joining to know, and they'll
be all flying, and we talk to envy.
in my head, I'm like, "You have a six hour drive ahead of yourself. There ain't no way
you're noggin' text me." So you're like, "Hi, wish you were here to rub my neck. Hey,
just stop in Starbucks. Hey, just give me an update. Hey, what's going on?"
Well, I thought you would want connection. That's fine. I'll remember that next time.
No, no, no, no. My point was that there wasn't one connection. My point was the contrast between
your adiments that you were going to be offline. Yeah. And then the next day you left. You can't
come back for the sugar right here. That's right. I will, I kept texting you that day. It did feel
so weird to be by myself. And then by the time I got to Monday,
Oh, I didn't hear from you. You didn't hear from me all day.
Monday. In fact, you texted me Monday night and said,
are you still alive?
I just texted you because I was like, I'm not sure what the expectations are.
Like, I think I heard that you don't want anything, but like, yeah.
But anyway, you had a great time. I did. I totally unplugged.
And I am like, wow, yeah, I am an introvert and I do need introvert time.
So and you went from that experience to a house full of 14 people within about three days.
Yeah.
So on the Wednesday, all of our small group leaders and staff from the school of supernatural life
joined me down in Florida, like half an hour from where I was.
Yeah.
And so then we did our end of year retreat.
Um, so I went from no spending, no words, not having to talk to anyone to living in a house with 14
people. I mean, thankfully people that I love, but like, yeah, you know, it was, it was a big,
it was a big culture shock or a big shock for me to begin with. I was like, I don't know if I could
do this, you know, but anyway. Well, thank you to the SSL staff who kind of rehabilitated you so
that when you came home to a husband and three children who hadn't seen you in a week,
your relational circuits were all online. And they were so sweet, they ran down the stairs and
cuddled me when I arrived. Yeah, what about me? Well, you didn't run down the stairs and cuddled me when I arrived.
That's because I was already downstairs. That's true. And I was a sweaty mess because I was trying to tell you the house for your arrival.
And you did a great job. That's all I wanted to hear.
You had chaos. No, I didn't have chaos. Kids were great.  You did. But you also had a tick bite.
Did it take about that was weird like what I didn't know what a tick was till I moved here
Do they have ticks in Canada? I never heard of them until I moved here either, but they must have them right
I mean, it's cold. I'd never heard of somebody having a tick I'd never heard nor did I know what a tick was and I'd hear
About people and you know, we've been camping and we never encountered them blah blah blah blah blah
But I think because we've done a lot of yard work
I mean, I guess that's the only place I would have got it from but yeah
I woke up, we did yard work on the weekend, didn't notice anything.
Monday morning I woke up and I knew there was a problem when I couldn't get my left foot
into my left shoe.
And I was like, wait, what?
And I looked down at my foot and my foot was completely swollen.
And as the day went on, both of my legs were super swollen.
I was like, what is going on?
So obviously I hit up WebMD and then I checked my blood sugar and I checked my blood pressure
and everything's fine.
And I'm like, what is this?
So I go to work and not really thinking about it.
My feet are really, really tingling.
I don't know if this is so odd.
And at one point I reach back and I scratch my back
and I feel what I think must be a skin tag.
And so I just yank it off,
which you shouldn't do to a skin tag.
I didn't check web MDs for skin decks, I.
(laughing)
- I've cut off skin tags with scissors
and I'm pretty sure not to do that either.
(laughing)
- Sorry.
- Yeah, do not take medical advice from this podcast.
- You don't wanna follow what we do.
I pull off what I think is the skin tech and I realize it's a very much a life tick with a little yellow dot on the back.
It was so moving still moving.
And so I put it in a ziplock bag.
Good job.
Yes. Well, we learned that from your right.
Yeah, because it's a website called tick check.com where you can send your tick off to see if it's carrying any diseases.
But the next couple, I almost went to urgent care that day because my legs continue to swell up.
Yeah. All night. And so again, I realized I just came home, hung upside down on our like inversion
table to get my heart below my legs as I was supposed to do, and then slept with my legs propped up.
And the reason I couldn't go to tick check, the reason I couldn't go to physician surgeon care
is there was no one to watch the kids. And by the time I picked up Abi who could watch the kids,
it was closed. Tuesday was much the same, but then also my hands
swallow up and I'm like, what is going on? So at this point, I booked on a problem with my GP,
went to see her on Wednesday and she was like, yeah, I'm going to start you on a broad spectrum
antibiotic. Well, we figure out if that disease, if that tick is carrying any diseases.
So don't know that yet. Feel fine today, except for in unrelated news, my back went out, which is
why I'm not a church this morning.
-That's right.
Except there are no actual official bridesmaids,
but I get to do bridesmaidy stuff.
-Right.
-I don't know how we got on to talking about the tick
when all I wanted to do was wax lyrical about the Tesla.
-We'll go back to the Tesla.
Tesla's in ticks.
We could call this episode Tesla and ticks.
-I'm convinced that short of the money side of things,
I am Tesla's target audience.
Like, I don't have $130,000.
- Short of the fact that you can't afford one.
Sure, the Target audience.
Great, I think they want people
that can pay for them actually.
I think you're really not the Target audience.
- I love it.
Like I love it so much.
It feels like the first time I used a Mac from a PC.
Like a lot of people don't know I was a PC nerd
before I was a Mac evangelist.
But just everything about it is beautiful
and well thought out and crafted with intention.
And so you walk up to it and it opens the passenger's
or another kind of driver's door for you.
If the kids all get in through their doors,
as soon as you get into the car
and put your foot on the brake,
it closes all the doors 'cause it knows you're ready to go.
And then obviously I've been driving
with it on autopilot the whole time.
- I mean, obviously.
- And I realize it's a much better driver than me.
- I'm gonna just sit on a TV but that's all.
- With one caveat.
- Oh dear.
Like I would say 90% of the time it does a great job.
And then 10% of the time it's a combination between
a drunk driver, a teenage driver, and an old person driver.
We're just randomly, it will forget where it is
or what it is doing.
So maybe it's not much better.
- Well, that sounds like you.
(laughing)
- Maybe it's not much better driver than me.
But I love it.
And it's only getting smarter and only getting better
like with the AI of driving.
But I, it makes driving so much more of an enjoyable experience.
That's because you're not driving.
That's great.
Yeah.
I love it.
I feel somewhat more confident having you driving the kids around in the Tesla than
in anything else.
Oh, absolutely.
It was also the top rated, you know, five star for safety.
So I fully agree with that.
But I think part of my problem is when I'm driving, I lose focus and I'm uninterested
and I get distracted really easily.
is in the Tesla, it's doing much of the heavy lifting for you.
Yeah.
It just prompts you periodically to say, are you still awake?
Are you still there?
And it's amazing.
Yeah.
It's absolutely amazing.
It parks itself.
I want to clarify.
I still want Sienna minivan.
Or just-Hush
now.
OK.

Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
We won't drive it, so-It
will park itself.
The kids love it.
There's tons of room.
Yeah.
It's just that $130,000 that is the problem.
- It's the minor, 130,000 dollars.
- Yeah, but anyway, I'm loving it, absolutely loving it.
And why have it as a friend is out of town
and said, do you want to have my Tesla while I'm out of town?
And I'm like, yes, yes, I absolutely do.
So I've been loving it.
- So great.
- Our main topic.
- Well, hang on, I thought, I thought for a second,
like I've had a couple of people ask me recently
what's going on with the adoption stuff.
- Yes, let's talk about that.
- And so I thought it might be good for like, you know,
just the regular listeners to do a little bit of an update.
And it's kind of a non-update.
- Well, it will explain
why there hasn't been much of a conversation
about the adoption.
- Yeah.
So we are still waiting to be matched.
We're still waiting to be batched.
(laughs)
We're still waiting to be matched with a mom.
So we have seen several situations go through
with two very large agencies.
But again, often people are asking for homes
where there's no other kids yet or homes that are non-religious or whatever the thing is.
So it's sort of a niche market that's going to want their child adopted into a family
where three other kids already exist.
I don't remember how many pitching this to me.
So maybe it was the story I came up with.
Okay.
But was, "Hey, you have to do all this work and that's the hard part."

That's how it felt when they were explaining it to us.
And sure enough, we did lots of work, but it's over a year since we started all the paperwork.
And I think my idea was, well, you know, because they said, yeah, you tend to get matched within, was it 18 months?
Well, they said that, like, our main person, she said there are averages around seven months,
but it's, she said it can be as much as 14 to 18 months. But she said, she said from the time that you go live,
like all of your stuff goes live, which we didn't do that to the beginning of November.
And I think that's important for me to remember, because otherwise I'm like, "What?"
You know, I thought this was...
Yeah.
It would go way faster. So every day we...
Check the website and see how things are going and then just praying.
But one of the most common things I have is people ask me how the adoption is going
and then they apologize for asking me. I'm like, "No, you are welcome to ask us."
Yeah, we don't know.
Anytime you want.
You know, we tend to live very public lives,
especially in this space.
So we're happy for people to ask us about it.
And we really love the interest.
- Yeah.
So we're just waiting and hoping and it was God's idea.
And so we have, you know, some confidence
that it'll be in all the right timing.

- Yeah.
- Is when that doesn't happen.
I just go, okay, good.
Yeah, we're following you.
You led us into this.
- Yeah.
like, wouldn't it be great if we got matched in the summer?
Cause then we could be there and go with you for the birth and everything.
I'm like, it would be great.
It might not happen.
Yeah.
You know, um, so we're just sort of waiting.
It is funny how we've kind of modified our life though.
Like as soon as we went live with, we were adopting and you signed up with
all these agencies, we kind of made all these plans tentative with adoption.
Like I remember going away for your 50th going, okay, well, we're going to do
this, but we might have to cancel last minute.
And now I'm just like, we're just gonna live life as normal.
Yeah.
And I'm sure if it happens, it happens.
Yeah, because I mean, in reflection, I think we didn't do a bunch of like our little family
weekend away, things that we would normally have done that are super life to us.
Because we were afraid, well, you know, what if we basically book this, pay the money for
whatever and can't go?
Right.
Um, and of course, none of that hasn't happened.
And we could have actually had those moments.
So I think we have to just keep doing normal life and then,
and keep praying and keep being open and keep waiting and,
but probably not put everything on hold.
- There you go.
So that's our adoption update.
Good to do a main topic?
- Yes, let's do a main topic
'cause I got a wedding to get to.
- All right, our main topic this week
comes from a question that was sent in a couple of weeks ago
by an anonymous listener.
- Hello anonymous.
- And she asks us,
As I was listening to your teaching about baptism, my question of baptism of the Holy Spirit surfaced
all over again. I grew up in a more conservative tradition and I was baptized in the name of the
Father of the Son of the Holy Spirit. I see evidence of the Holy Spirit in my life daily and I hear
his voice for me and by grace as prophetic words for others. However, I have not experienced the
the more charismatic expressions of the Holy Spirit personally, things like tongues, visions,
healing, etc. I want to, and I do pray to, I feel fully saved and assured of a glorious
eternity through Jesus, and once saved always saved like Alan, but I feel like I'm missing
something. So the question is baptism of the Holy Spirit connected to water baptism? If
you see evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life, do you still need baptism of the Holy
disparate. How does one go about that? It is still such a nebulous concept to me. Thanks
for any thoughts on this. I think the first thing I want to say is it was a really nebulous
concept to me too. So when I read your question anonymous, I go back, I don't know, 20 years
plus, so I remember having exactly the same questions. And because you, you asked some
great questions in there. But because you ask a bunch of them, I'm going to slightly change your
question and then add some more to it. So I want to rephrase your question as, what is the baptism
of the Holy Spirit? Well, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is actually something the Bible is really
clear about. Yeah. Like if you, if you read the Gospels in all four Gospels, which is interesting,
John the Baptist talks about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. So in Matthew, Mark and Luke,
He basically says a variation of the same thing where he's contrasting his ministry with Jesus'
ministry. So it's that famous line of like, "I baptize with water, but one who's more powerful than me."
- Baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire. - Exactly, right. And I'll put the verses
to anything I say, verse-wise, I'll put links to in the show notes. So that's Matthew Mark,
and look, in John's gospel, we actually find out how John knew that. And he says this in John 1,
verse 33, he said, "I would not have known him, i.e. the person who does these things, except that the
one who sent me to baptize with water told me the man on whom you see the spirit come down and remain
is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit." So, like it is a biblical term, baptism, the Holy
Spirit. I don't know how I missed it my whole life. Like I'd never heard of that. And you might
have heard my story. I went to a church in Scotland. I was in my early to mid 20s.
And the past of there, I think this was probably the first time I ever heard anybody talk about
baptism in the Holy Spirit. He said, hey, if anybody hasn't been baptized in the Holy Spirit,
come forward for prayer. And the friends I'd gone with were all like really eager for me to go
forward. But I was super confused because A, I had been baptized in water. B, I knew I had the
the Holy Spirit and see, I'd never heard the phrase baptized,
no, Holy Spirit before.
So I remember arguing with them and like,
I have been baptized and I have the Holy Spirit.
And, you know, it was confusing to me.
So when you ask the question, like, you know,
what is the baptism of Holy Spirit?
Is it the same as water baptism, et cetera?
I totally get that.
But let me, let me step back for a second and talk about
because, because anonymous, when you ask that question,
you said a similar thing to me, which is basically like,
I know I have the Holy Spirit and actually I can see the Holy Spirit at work.
So like, do I need baptism of the Holy Spirit?
And to be clear, all Christians do have the Holy Spirit.
You can't get saved without the Holy Spirit.
Right.
Right.
That would be the confusing thing.
Like Jesus is really clear about that.
Like in John 3, he says this, this is, remember Nicodemus comes to him and he's like, what do you mean being born again?
Like, how does that happen?
And Jesus says this, I tell the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he's
born of water and the spirit. Flash gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives birth to spirit.
You should not be surprised at my saying you must be born again. So Jesus is basically saying
that unless you're born naturally of flesh and born spiritually of the spirit, you can't get into
heaven. So we're literally born again and the Holy Spirit comes and lives in us. But
Whether you're aware of it or not.
Whether you're aware of it or not.
Yes.
But there's a big difference between being born of the spirit
and being baptized with Holy Spirit.
Yeah.
And I don't know what kind of,
well, no, you did say in your question,
you said you grew up in a conservative tradition.
And here's the thing, conservative evangelicals,
which sounds like your background, certainly my background,
would argue that receiving and being filled with the Holy Spirit
are the same thing.
But I would argue from scripture and my own personal experience that there are actually two separate events.
Like one happens when we get saved, like we receive the Holy Spirit at that point.
And to be clear, every Christian, just like you said, AJ, has the Holy Spirit.
The other, being baptized in the Holy Spirit or being filled with the Holy Spirit, happens subsequently.
Now, to further complicate this, only a little bit, there is nothing to stop the two happening simultaneously.
Right.  And I'm using filled with the Holy Spirit being baptized with the Holy Spirit,
being baptized in the Holy Spirit as all. The same. Exactly. Even that though, I had found confusing.
Like I'm like, Oh, I know I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. I don't know if I'm baptized with
the Holy Spirit. And for me, the stumbling part was tongues. Well, we're going to get to tongues
in a second. It is interesting to know that right now my cute wife has turned her headphones
upside down, and is wearing them as a headphone beard.
I did good.  It was
sitting on top of this braid thing and I feel like somebody's crushing my head.
Well, you look very cute. Well, thanks. Well, time out for a second. Let's just be very,
very, very clear, all Christians have the Holy Spirit.
Yes.
Like you can't be saved without the Holy Spirit.
Yes.
Only some have been baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Yes.
Though all can be and should be.
Yes.
Right.
Well, do we want to shut on people?
You would you do want to be?
Well, yes.
And I what I love about anonymous, you're asking this question going, you know,
I think I already have the Holy Spirit because, you know, I hear his voice daily
and I can brops.
I yeah, but I'm also aware that there's some lack in my life.
and I want this.
I can relate to that.
I can totally relate to that.
Let me, before I kind of breeze on though and answer those bigger questions of like,
well, how do you and what does it look like and how does tongues fit into this?
I want to, I think the teacher in me wants to demonstrate clearly from scripture the
difference between being born of the spirit and being filled with the spirit.
Do it.
All right.
Well, demonstrate it.
Your great example is Jesus.
He's a great example of many things.
Right.
He was quite literally born of the spirit.
Right.
You remember when the angel comes to Mary and he said, Hey, you're going to have a child.
And she's like, I can this be?
I'm a virgin.
Look one verse 35.
The angel answered the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will
overshadow you.
So the Holy one to be born will be called the son of God.
So we know that the house she gets pregnant is through the Holy spirit.
Jesus is literally born of the Holy spirit.
But what's interesting, and we kind of talked about this already, is when Jesus goes to get baptized by John,
in Matthew chapter three, he gets baptized and the Holy Spirit descends upon him.
Right?
So my question is, why would he need to receive the Holy Spirit when he already has the Holy Spirit?
Right.
Right.
He was born of the Spirit.
Why did the Holy Spirit needed to send upon him and settle on him as Matthew 16 says?
After his baptism, as Jesus came out of the water, the heavens were open, then he saw the spirit of God
descend like a dove and settling on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved son,
and I'm fully pleased with him." Why? Because I think, you know, this is a great example of Jesus
being born of the Holy Spirit, but also being anointed with, filled with, receiving the Holy Spirit.
And I would say he's receiving the Holy Spirit like there was a time he was without it, but it is a
subsequent revisiting of the Holy Spirit on Jesus' life.
Yes.
Same thing with the disciples, right?
The disciples are with Jesus.
It's interesting to know at what point did they get saved.
But interestingly, in John 20, verse 19, it, this is when Jesus
has been resurrected and all the disciples are freaking out.
Right.
This is preceding acts to that's called foreshadowing, by the way, John 20.
Jesus come and stood among them. All the doors are locked for fear of the Jews.
Jesus stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."
And after he said this, he showed them his hands and his side and the disciples
were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
Verse 21, again, Jesus said, "Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."
And with that, he breathed on them and he said,
"Receive the Holy Spirit."
Yeah.
So they received the Holy Spirit in John 20.
Right?
I think it's fair to say they're Christians at that point.
Right?
They believe that Jesus is the risen Lord.
- I think that spirit is saying.
- Yeah.
- If they understand He's paid the price for their sin,
and according to scripture, they receive the Holy Spirit.
Well, you know where I'm going,
'cause I already mentioned it,
if you flip over to Acts two, the day of Pentecost,
the disciples are sitting there,
and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit comes in
in a new way, and they're filled with the Holy Spirit.
And so we know the story about that,
verse four of Acts two says,
"All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit,
and began to speak in other tongues as the Holy Spirit enabled them.
Yeah.
So same parent as Jesus.
They're born again and they received the Holy Spirit.
Yet they are also filled with the Holy Spirit.
Yeah.
You got time for one more?
Really good.
Yeah, sure.
All right.
Acts 8, a couple of interested ones in Acts 8.
For time, I'm just going to talk about the one in Acts 8.
This is believers who are in Samaria.
It says this, "Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there.
And when the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did,
They all paid close attention to what he said. With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many,
and many paralytics and cripples were healed. So there was great joy in that city. Verse 12,
they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,
they were baptized both men and women. So this is a great revival happening in the city in Samaria,
where Philip preaches, people believe they get baptized and they give their lives to Jesus, right?
He's preaching the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ.
And these people are baptized.
Yeah, but in Acts four acts, eight verse 14, it says this, when the apostles and Jerusalem heard
that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
And when they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,
because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them.
They'd simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received a Holy Spirit.
Similar pattern.
Again, these people who've responded to the gospel of Jesus Christ who believe
who were baptized, they are subsequently prayed for the Holy Spirit.
It says they received the Holy Spirit.
And that's really my experience.
I got saved when I was seven, but I didn't meet the Holy Spirit until I was 24.
And again, I couldn't have been saved without the leading of the Holy Spirit.
let the quickening of my heart, without responding to that.
And I knew of the Holy Spirit, but when I was 24 and got baptized in the Holy Spirit,
everything in my life changed.
Yeah.
Which leads us to one of the questions anonymous is kind of asking,
which is, how do I know I've been baptized with the Holy Spirit?
And the most common answer to that, the ones that Pentecostal's whole two is...
Tongues.
[Laughs]
Although that's not the only evidence of being baptized with the Holy Spirit.
It's not. It's a good answer. And I quite like the answer, but you're quite right,
because out of the five times in the book of Acts where it mentions baptism, the Holy Spirit,
only three of them refer to speaking in tongues as the sign. There are other signs that accompany
the baptism. Yes. Right. So biblically, I want to say you want to be careful in stating that it
has to be tongues. And here's why. For me, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit, but it was
probably six or seven months later that I spoke in tongues. And for me, it was a couple of years
later. Right. So you got baptized in the Holy Spirit and for a couple of years, you didn't speak
in tongues. What happened in between that time? Well, I mean, I was prophesying. I could hear the
word really clearly. And I could feel the Holy Spirit on me. I got healed. I prayed for others
for healing and they got healed but I didn't speak in tongues.
Right.

Well-meaning people.

You know, then they'd say just say this.
Shoot a photo on the.

- You know, you were a couple of years,
I was a couple of months.
I'm convinced that I could have spoken in tongues
way earlier, it's just I didn't know how,
I didn't even know what it was.
I wasn't even sure if I believed in it.
But here's why I would still say that tongues
is an evidence of baptism of the Holy Spirit.
- Oh, it is.
- Is that I could have, I just didn't know how to.
- Yeah, I think that was the same thing for me.
I didn't know how to either.
And I think, again, when some people were helpfully saying,
well, just say this, like, this is my tongue, say this,
that to me didn't feel like authentic or integrous.
And you know, like, I was just like, like, you know--
- You're like, I feel more of your passion for me
to speak in tongues than the Holy Spirit's empowerment
right now. - Yeah, and I also felt like,
guys, I, you know, pretty good.
Like, I do know I'm baptized in the Holy Spirit.
So I'm okay to wait.
And actually I didn't start speaking in tongues
until I was at a meeting where Mary Audrey Raycroft
was doing this women's meeting.
And she asked, you know, does anybody want to come up?
And she said, we're not going to surround you,
start yelling at you in tongues, whatever.
And I'm like, oh, so this is everybody else's
common experience too.
- It was my experience.
- Yeah.
And so there was like six or seven of us that came up.
And when she came over, she just like,
would lightly, was praying for me.
And she said, "A.J., you love to sing,
"just sing whatever you hear."
And I was like, "Okay."
And she's like, "And if it doesn't make sense,
"don't try and make it make sense right now."
She says, "Or just start singing about how much you love him
"and see what happens."
And so I just started singing,
and I ended up singing in tongues.
And that's how I started speaking in tongues.
- Doesn't surprise me that you started
with singing in tongues before you moved to speaking in tongues.
- Yeah, well, there you go.
- Yeah, I was the reverse.
Maybe we should do an episode on tongues.
- Well, that's my only tongue stories.
It might be a short episode.
- All right, well, how do you know?
I knew even before I spoke in tongues,
I can describe my life pre-bapses
in the Holy Spirit and post-bapses below.
- Yeah, for sure.
- So it was a defining mark in my life.
And so I would encourage everybody who's listening
that one of the ways, like you'll know,
like you won't be in doubt.
And if you are in doubt,
it might be that you haven't been baptized
in the Holy Spirit.
Is that a fair way to say that?
- Well, I don't know 'cause I would say I,
because I was told that tongues was the only way to know,
I would say I was in doubt,
and I absolutely was baptized in the Holy Spirit
based on all the other evidences.
So it sort of depends on what you've been told as well,
I think.
Yeah.
And also your culture.
Yeah.
I just know for me it was a stark contrast.
Yeah.
Like I knew I had the Holy Spirit before and then I started living like I did.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
Well, I mean, probably the big question everybody's asking is, well, if I am in or
even I want to be doubly sure.
Did you say "ammit"?
Yeah.
I'm, it's my southern.
It's that southern.
That's like, so I'm going to wear a Scottish word, "ammit".
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be in a posture of receiving and ask the Holy Spirit to come because he wants to come.
Yeah, because, biblically, there's no set way. No. Like in both Jesus' case and disciples in Acts
2, the Holy Spirit fell on people sovereignly. Yes. Right? The Holy Spirit descended, the heavens
poured, it's sent upon Jesus in Acts 2. It was, you know, wild. In my case, and in what you're
describing, and in others in the Bible, you can receive prayer for it. Yeah. But here's what I
I would say then we can touch on this already often the exuberance of others who've received the Holy Spirit and
Possibly in their immaturity. There's a tremendous pressure
To receive the the bad for the Holy Spirit where people are like do you feel it? Okay now try speaking tongues?

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much
more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

Absolutely.
And you're not going to get a counterfeit, you're not going to get a demon if you do
this. And I thought, babe, it would be fun if we prayed for people to receive baptism,
the Holy Spirit via the podcast right now.
All right.
Let's do that.
So I'm going to let AJ pray for you in a second, but I'm going to give you some instructions
that AJ started with. Like wherever you are right now, don't do this while driving, like
maybe pull over and but close your eyes.
- Yeah, definitely don't do well driving.
(laughs)
- And if you need something to do,
turn your palms up, just like in a posture
like you're gonna receive.
Close your eyes, breathe just deeply and calmly,
and just get into a posture like God's going to answer
the prayer that age is going to pray,
'cause he's good and he loves you and he's for you.
So, age, pray for everybody right now
to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
All right.
Well, Holy Spirit, right now for each person that's listening,
Lord, I ask that you would come,
or that you would fill them up from the tops of their heads
to the tips of their toes,
or that you would just absolutely saturate
and soak them in your presence,
and that they would feel you with them,
that they would feel you resting on them.
Lord, we breathe you in right now.
take you in. And we know that when we ask you for bread, you don't give us a stone. So we're
asking for the Holy Spirit to come and fill us. And Lord, I pray for those of us who are wondering,
I don't know if I've received the Holy Spirit or not Lord that you would just minister peace to
our heart Lord. I thank you that the foundational presence of God is peace. Yeah. And so Lord,
I just ask that you would increase peace.
And even as, you know, we're praying for you just now, pay attention to what your body's
doing, pay attention to any heat, any tingling, any sensation in your body and focus on that.
Cause that's probably the Holy Spirit at work in your life right now.
And so Lord, we ask that you would baptize everybody who's listening right now in the
Holy Spirit.
You'd fill them up from the soles of their feet to the top of their head completely submerged
with the Holy Spirit, because we know that you father would love to give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask you for him. And Lord, I thank you for the signs that follow, Lord,
those that believe, Lord. And without any pressure, Lord, I ask that you would just impart spiritual
gifts to people who are listening right now. Thank you.
Tongues and prophecy and gifts of healing, gifts of faith. Yeah. That people would have
have a marked difference, Lord, between pre being baptized in the Holy Spirit and being
filled with the Holy Spirit. And the people have the confidence, Lord, that they're not
just born of the spirit, but they're filled with the Holy Spirit. And I ask all these
things in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen.
I think I'd love to encourage you as you're pursuing the Holy Spirit and as you're just
allowing him to fill you one of your best tools for that is learning how to soak and
learning how to just keep in this mode of receiving. And we've done a number of different podcasts
on soaking. We'll try and tag some of those in the notes for you if you're not clear
on what that is. But just for many of us, the hardest thing to do is to stay in a position
of receiving and not analyzing. And often we can stop something before it starts by getting
to in our heads. And so my thought is if you could practice soaking, that's also going
to help you practice receiving. So that was my thought as you were praying.
Yeah. All right. Well, thank you, Anonymous, for that great question. Next week, I think
we're going to talk about speaking in tongues. What is how it happens, what you do with it.
I'm maybe a j's tummy can grumble in tongues too.
I wonder if they're going to hear it on the posca.
It was so loud when you were praying.
I was like, oh my goodness.
It's crazy.
Well, speaking in touch.
Thank you for joining us this week.
If you would like the show notes to this episode, go to Alan and AJ.com/
I was going to say 181/281.
Wow.
So.
And you'll get all the verses that I quoted here and links to the show notes.
One of the things I would love to encourage you to do.
It's one of my favorite things is to be with our students on the School of Supernatural
Life.
An application deadline for the School of Supernatural Life is closing July 15th.
If you are somebody who is hungry for more of what God's doing in your life, if you're
somebody who knows there is more but not quite sure how to get it, if you're somebody who
would love to be practically equipped with things like the bachelor of the holy spirit,
healing the sick, prophesying, boy do we have a treat for you.
It's called the School of Supernatural Life.
It's an eight month school.
You can do it from anywhere in the world or you can move here to Franklin and do it in person on campus.
Both an on campus and an online version of the school that you can participate in.
So, you know, as your life allows, you can make the choice that would best suit you.
And to find out more information about the school, how you apply to get more information
or to even schedule a call with one of our school staff.
If you've got questions, go to gracecenter.us/school.
And if you'd like to become a member of the show and help support the show, head over
to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>But for now, we're off to a wedding and we are praying that you have a great Holy Spirit
fueled week and we'll see you next week.


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Sphere (1998) 1 1/2 stars out of 4. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Liev Schreiber. Directed by Barry Levinson
Sphere is an adult science fiction movie, which means a lot of jabber in scientific wordspeak that's supposed to impress as well as substitute for laser blasts or bug-eyed monsters.
Sphere is absorbing and suspenseful, but at almost two hours and 20 minutes, the guessing game becomes tedious, especially when it seems the protagonists are repeatedly covering the same plot points.
Ironically, the film's strong point is also its flaw. Director Barry Levinson builds up audience expectations to such a fever level that the payoff is a complete letdown, leaving you to ask, "Is that all there is?"
The screenplay by Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio (Donnie Brasco, Quiz Show), was adapted from a novel by Michael Crichton. The story revolves around a spaceship discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It seems the ship has been resting in the deep for about 300 years.
A team of scientists, played by Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Liev Schreiber, are drafted by the government to investigate.
Unfortunately, every answer they find leads to another riddle. Thus, the questions pile up rapidly - too rapidly at times - while the few explanations devised by the scientists seem feeble and far-fetched.
The characters themselves act illogically and obtuse, especially for scientists.
They don't seem to ask the right questions - or even know them. It's as if their synapses are frequently short-circuited.
Ultimately, you are left to draw your own conclusions, which is a weak device on the part of the filmmakers and frustrating for the audience.
Many loose ends are left dangling while the resolution for other events merely goes unexplained.
The acting as well is inconsistent. There is a lack not only of chemistry, but of communication and teamwork among the leads. It is as if each were involved only in his or her own character without taking the time to relate to the others.
Hoffman, as a psychologist, seems rather dense, while Stone, as a biochemist, goes from cold, scientific logic to near-hysteria and emotional insecurity.
Jackson literally sleeps his way through the film, coming alive in spurts. He fails to get a handle on his character, and it's difficult to discern whether he's apathetic or possessed by an alien presence.
Sphere tries hard to be an intelligent genre piece, but a weak and convoluted storyline only leads to a disappointing experience.
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6 forgers of senior IDs nabbed in Recto
by Erma EderaSix persons allegedly involved in producing fake senior citizens’ cards in the university belt area in Manila were arrested by police on Thursday.
Police identified them as Rizaldy Sayana, Carlo Magno, Carlito Ibarra, Chris Alonzo, Joshua Flores, and Angelica Aranda.
Investigation showed the Manila Police District Special Mayor’s Reaction Team (MPD Smart) and the Bureau of Permits and Licenses Office conducted an entrapment operation against the suspects in an office located along Quezon Boulevard, Santa Cruz, Manila, where they had been producing the fake IDs.
Seized from the suspects were fake IDs, two computer sets and P100 used as marked money.
According to Re Fugoso, Manila Department of Social Welfare director, the department had been receiving fake senior citizens’ IDs especially when they are conducting data gathering activities for the monthly distribution of the senior citizens’ allowances.
Senior citizens are entitled to 20 percent discount on all goods and services provided they present IDs.
The suspects will be facing charges for violating Article 172 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) for falsification of documents and Article 176 of RPC for manufacturing and possession of instrument.


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 It’s the ones closest to you that want to see you fail. Surround yourself with angels. The key to more success is to have a lot of pillows. The key to more success is to get a massage once a week, very important, major key, cloth talk. Learning is cool, but knowing is better, and I know the key to success. The ladies always say Khaled you smell good, I use no cologne. Cocoa butter is the key. The weather is amazing, walk with me through the pathway of more success. Take this journey with me, Lion!
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Unimpressed cat from popular meme lives in Ottawa
by Jonathan LamontThis Ottawa cat is now internet-famous after giving a plate of salad an unimpressed look.
It all started with a picture captured of the cat — named Smudge — at an Ottawa home in June 2018. According to CBC News, which tracked down the cat’s owner Miranda Stillabower, Smudge hopped up on a chair at the dinner table one day.
“I don’t know why he was making that face, but it’s the best thing he’s ever done,” Stillabower told CBC News. She explained that Smudge typically eats dinner at her table and he gets upset if he doesn’t have a chair. That night, someone got up from dinner and Smudge took the seat.
Stillabower thought the picture of Smudge was funny, so she posted it on her Tumblr blog. It sat there for a few months until it eventually caught on. Over time, it gained new life when someone paired it with a screengrab of an angry woman from the Real Housewives reality TV series.
Stillabower suggests the original photo became popular because Smudge looks so dissatisfied with the salad, while the pairing forms a sort of argumentative setup.
Since then, Smudge has gained over 1 million followers on Instagram (you can find him at smudge_lord).
As for how Smudge feels about the newfound fame, Stillabower says he’s “just a cat.”
“He has no idea he’s famous. He goes about his daily life and it’s normal, then you go online and he’s everywhere. That’s when it starts to be crazy.”
Next time you see Smudge in a meme on social media, just remember that he’s closer to home than you think.
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Silver jubilee celebration of Rajabari Junior College begins in Demow
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DEMOW: Preparation is on to celebrate the silver jubilee of Rajabari Junior College in Desang Rajabari near Demow. The three-day silver jubilee celebration will begin on December 20. A magazine titled Aarjasiyan will be published and for that, the alumni have been urged to submit their writings by November 27.
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