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Grab a drink of your choice, whether a martini or a hot tea, and enjoy the show with people from different areas of Arts & Entertainment. From novelists to comics and music to painting, it's time to be inspired! Supported by fans at Patreon.com/amberunmasked.
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I started this podcast because I was tired of being stereotyped as lazy, triggered and entitled. I wanted to give voice to a different kind of millennial and invite us to write a new story - one of a generation willing to challenge the status quo, embrace nuance and paradox, and reject PC-culture. This podcast isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions. How can we reinvent ourselves and the narratives we’ve been expected to inherit? How can we take ownership over the ...
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Our High Priest Sacrificed Himself for Us
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Scripture also teaches that Christ, as our High Priest, sacrificed Himself to God for the propitiation of our crimes, which were laid on Him.--Paul declared that Christ, out of love, gave Himself for us as an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.--No Old Testament lamb ever -gave itself- up as a sacrifice, but God's Lamb gave Hi…
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The Scriptures clearly teach that Jesus was murdered by an evil people out of a rabid rage and rebellion against Him.--Jesus foretold the acts of those wicked men. He repeatedly told His disciples that He must be betrayed into the hands of evil men, and brutally slain by them.--When Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave, that pushed Israel's wicked r…
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Sometimes we read a short text in Scripture that we've never paid attention to before, and it fairly jumps out at us---Such was the case in Matthew 27-2, where the arrest of Jesus is described- -and when they had bound Him, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate.---We know how Christ was cruelly crucified, nailed to a cross, torture…
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Scripture teaches that God Himself rejoices over saving us---It was foretold that God would rejoice to save His people. The prophet Zephaniah recorded God's joyous singing over His saved people- -The LORD has taken away thy judgments, He hath cast out thine enemy. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty- He will save, He will rejoice over t…
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The saints are also joined together with Christ in persecutions and sufferings in this life. Christ promised that we would be persecuted.--But Christ also linked that persecution with our eternal life to come at the end- His teaching on this matter tracks well with Paul's exhortation, that if we suffer with Christ, we will also be glorified with Hi…
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Paul explains in Romans 8 the union of Christ and His people in suffering, death, and glory- -since we suffer with Christ, we will also be glorified together with Christ.---Because we have been united with Christ as God's sons, we share with Christ in His humanity, as does Christ with us. We are all brethren with Christ in the royal family of God--…
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We look to many people to rescue us from danger and trouble. Firemen, policemen, EMT medics, doctors, or just a kind and strong passerby.--But they are not always able to save the people who cry out to them for help. In our community, we have heard just this week of a poor woman whose car was swept off the highway by high waters, submerged upside d…
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In Romans 8, Paul taught that those who belong to Christ are not of the flesh, but of the Spirit, which dwells in each of us.--If Christ is therefore in us, our bodies are still dead, subject to the corruption of sin and death, but our spirits are alive, because Christ's righteousness has been imputed to us---And if we are led by the Spirit of God,…
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This Easter Sunday, we especially celebrate the resurrection of Christ. It is a most glorious thing- It brings joy to all believers---But there was a time when the prospect of our salvation was a sad thing. That was true before salvation had been accomplished, and before the purpose and consequences of Christ's death dawned upon the disciples.--Jes…
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The disciples asked Christ, who will be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven-- They were always jockeying for the best positions, sometimes to the point of embarrassment---They did this because they viewed the kingdom in terms of earthly kingdoms, where there were positions of power and prestige close to the king. How do we get into those slots in…
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Paul makes clear in Galatians how we become sons of God- by being joined to Christ by faith, baptized into Christ by the Holy Ghost, put into union with Christ.--There has always been an infinite love between God the Father and Christ the Son, as equal persons of the Godhead, loving and delighting in each other.--Being in Christ, we now partake of …
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When Mary Magdalene finally recognized Christ at the tomb on that resurrection Sunday morning, He disclosed to her a great truth- that His heavenly Father is also Father to His redeemed people---After His resurrection, Christ made explicit what He had previously mentioned during His ministry- that all people who trust in Jesus are the children of G…
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Christ described how He has many things to say to His people, but they were not able to bear them at that time.--His disciples couldn't accept the death of Christ- They wanted a physical kingdom instead of a justifying sacrifice.--They were prejudiced against the non-Jewish people, thinking that Israel was God's only chosen people, and not understa…
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Christ tells us that the Comforter will reprove the world. This is speaking of the Holy Ghost's convicting power in the lost, either directly, or mostly through God's Word, often preached by believers.--Jesus tells us that the Comforter reproves the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. Every man is a sinner, but righteousness is require…
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Christ reiterates the coming persecution of His people. The cause is, that the wicked have not known Christ or the Father.--Christ explains that He didn't tell His disciples these things earlier, because He was then with them. But now He is dying, and ascending to glory, so they will be without His personal, tangible, physical presence and comfort …
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The Comforter will teach us all things, and bring to remembrance the things that Christ said. The Comforter will, as it were, take His place when Christ ascends to glory, and continue to teach and to bring to mind the things that Jesus had told them during His ministry.--Christ warned us, that the world will hate us, because it hated Him first. Tha…
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Christ promised us that He will pray that the Father give us -another Comforter,- Who is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth. Christ promises He will not leave us comfortless, and we will know the Comforter because He will dwell in us.--So the comfort we have in the Holy Ghost is, first, that He dwells in us, giving us life, and sustaining that lif…
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Jesus Promised His People the Spirit of Life
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Jesus called the Holy Ghost our Comforter, Whom the Father would send in Christ's name after He rose from the grave and ascended to Heaven.--Jesus promised us that the Holy Ghost within us would help us to reply to our persecutors, and that indeed, it would be the Spirit speaking through and for us, to defend the honor and right of our Savior.--Jes…
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Everyone longs for a comforter in times of trouble. Not just words, but someone to come along beside us, and help carry the load with us, or at least to understand and sympathize with our trouble.--The great irony of the suffering and sacrifice of our Lord Jesus is this- in order to comfort us by saving us, it was necessary that Christ have no man …
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How wonderful it is to be gathered together around the Lord's Table to remember how He died to save us, especially after missing out last Lord's Day---Some false religions claim that this table forgives sins and is a propitiatory sacrifice. That is the blasphemy of the Catholic mass, that somehow Christ left some of our sins unforgiven when He died…
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In John 10, Christ Himself explained why most people do not believe in Him. It wasn't enough for them to see His glorious miracles, nor that He Himself had preached the Gospel to them. They still did not believe in Him.--So Christ explained it to them- -You do not believe, because you are not my sheep.---Many false preachers today are sure that Jes…
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The gift of faith is given to us by God, by the powerful working of the Holy Ghost in all the Lord's people. Lost men are naturally helpless to believe the Gospel under their own steam, and yet in each of our believing hearts, there was first a powerful work of the Holy Ghost to convert us---A large part of the miracle power of God in our salvation…
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Without regeneration, the natural man is at enmity with God. But the work of the Spirit makes us alive to God, and works obedience in us, and faith to trust in Christ and His Gospel unto salvation.--Paul specifically describes the limits of what natural, sinful men can do or know. The only way men can know the things that God has given to us is by …
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As Christ explained to Nicodemus, spiritually dead lost people cannot see the kingdom of God unless they are first born again by the power of the Holy Ghost. In fact, it takes a miracle from God for people to believe the Gospel---Just as God worked a powerful work in the hearts of the people of Nineveh to bring them to believe His word and cry out …
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In Jonah's story, the power of God to save Jonah from the sea is obvious to us. But the power of God to save Nineveh is often missed.--Those people were exceedingly wicked and violent. They started wars, and plundered and murdered entire nations.--But God delivered Nineveh from divine judgment by a powerful working in their hearts, to hear Jonah's …
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Jonah gives us a striking example of thanksgiving and praise in time of great distress.--He ran from God's commandment to prophesy to Nineveh, and took flight on the sea. God stirred up a great tempest against the boat, and the sailors were finally forced to throw Jonah overboard due to God's wrath against him for his disobedience.--God prepared a …
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Hebrews 13 warns believers not to trust in strange doctrines and rituals with sacrifices and meats, such as the old Jewish religion under the Mosaic law. Rather, believers must be established in God's grace, His Gospel, our salvation through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus.--Those who have been preoccupied with animal sacrifices, physical rituals, …
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God has provided His people with offerings and spiritual sacrifices and gifts of worship and praise and obedience to Him, and has expressed His delight in receiving them from His people.--None of these offerings are for sin - only the sacrifice made by Christ of His Own body and blood were made for our sin. There are no other sin offerings, and the…
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Roman Catholic clerics blasphemously claim that their so-called priests -bring Christ down from His throne, and place Him upon our altar to be offered up again for the sins of man. The priest speaks, and lo, Christ the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest's command.---But Hebrews makes it clear- any sacrifice …
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The Bible nowhere teaches a concept of a liturgical priesthood in the church- Nowhere is a priest appointed to offer sacrifices for sin other than Christ---Apostles, prophets, pastors, elders - none are ever authorized to represent Christ's body and blood before God for the forgiveness of sin.--Christ alone has already presented His body and blood …
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After an incredibly meaningful and successful five years, I’ve decided to end the podcast. Thank you for all of your support, time, and trust. I’m off to begin a new chapter, and I’ll hope you’ll continue to follow along. To stay in touch, subscribe for free at anyakaats.substack.com. Song featured: “A Better Son/Daughter” by Rilo Kiley Sign up for…
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#140 Catalyzing Wider Organisms of Belonging with Ian MacKenzie
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Ian MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who’s been tracking the global emergence of imaginal culture for the past 15 years. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, Ian has amplified the voices of visionaries, artists and activists who have been working toward planetary system change. He is the co-director of The Village of Lov…
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The devil specializes in twisting and perverting God's Word, as he seeks to overthrow the Gospel, and destroy the exclusivity of Christ's finished work to save us.--No perversion is more wide-spread and destructive than that of the Roman Catholic false religion. They appoint priests other than Christ, who sacrifice the Mass, which blasphemes the Lo…
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There remain false priests, and blasphemous sacrifices, that Christ has done away with. There are still many who defy Christ, when He has told us that all of the other sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin have been done away with.--The only sacrifice is Christ upon the cross, and the only priest is Christ before the throne of Heaven for us---If an…
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Where sins are forgiven by the sacrifice of Christ, there can be no more offering for sin- The sin offering cannot be repeated, because it is finished---The consequence for us is astounding- being made perfect by Christ's sacrifice, and having our High Priest in the Holiest place, where He sprinkled His Own blood for our sins, we are commanded to e…
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God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.--In Hebrews 10-18, the writer completes his argument and ties it all up with a neat bow. He calls as his final witness the testimony of the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament.--The Holy Ghost is witness to the fact that Christ perfects…
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Horror author V. Castro joins the show to discuss her novel, The Haunting of Alejandra among many of the topics that inspired it like La Llorona, mother, depression, trauma, and intergenerational curses. Support this show at Patreon.com/amberunmasked AmberUnmasked.com CatDetectiveCases.com VCastroStories.com Theme Music Published By: Mike Genato Mu…
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Hebrews 10 informs us that the reason Christ sat down, is because by His one sacrifice for our sin, He has forever perfected all those that He sanctified---All those who are sanctified by the sacrifice of Jesus by the will of God, are thereby made perfect forever. Those who were, by the will of God, given to Christ to be saved, He has saved by sanc…
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Hebrews next provides another contrast between the priesthoods of Aaron and Christ- Aaron's sacrificial work never ceased, because the same old animal sacrifices could never take away our sin.--In all the detailed depictions of tabernacle and temple furnishings, there weren't any chairs at all---But there is a chair in glory, a throne in fact, wher…
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The writer of Hebrews describes the logical outcome of God's will being delighted in by Christ, and His fulfilling of it.--Hebrews has already described how Christ's blood purges the consciences of His people. The redemption of our transgressions is by means of His death, so that we receive the promised everlasting life.--Christ has appeared in hea…
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The ultimate expression of Christ's joy in His redeeming work at Calvary is expressed in Hebrews 12-2, where we are exhorted to look unto Jesus, -the author and finisher of our faith- Who for the joy set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame- and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God----All of our faith in the Gospel is wr…
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Christ communicates to us His delight to do God's will, and the joy that He has in it. Christ prays that we will enter into His joy---We are to be a joyous, obedient band of brothers with Christ, our prince and our kinsman redeemer, knit together in joy, love, faith and courage. The purpose is that, in the end, all the joyous things Christ promised…
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God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.--Christ communicates to us His delight to do God's will, and the joy that He has in it. Christ prays that we will enter into His joy---Just before He died for us, Jesus told us of the Father's love for Christ and for all who trust i…
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God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.--Christ had said to God in olden times, -I delight to do Thy will----Very early in Christ's ministry, He exhibited a particular, zealous delight to do God's will, when He cleansed the temple, upset the money changers' table, and let…
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Christ had said to God in olden times, -I delight to do Thy will----That is, Christ delighted to come in human flesh, to sacrifice Himself, to take away our sin, and to shut down the animal sacrifices that God took no delight in.--Christ Himself expressed His desire to do God's will during His earthly ministry. Indeed, Jesus told His disciples that…
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#139 A Holistic and Intuitive Approach to Life and Ecology with Peter May
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Peter May is an alchemist, a Grammy award-winning musician, a tree whisperer, a firefighter (and firemaker), an athlete, an architect, and an all around fascinating human being. Peter and I discuss how his love of ecology first developed as a kid living outside Detroit on Lake St. Clair, and how this passion later influenced almost every aspect of …
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#138 Taking Advantage of Everything That Makes Life Worth Living with Sarah Jones
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Sarah Jones and her husband Michael are fourth generation potato farmers in Hooper, CO. Their farm, Jones Farms Organics, is paving the way in the San Luis Valley (the nation’s second largest fresh potato growing region in the U.S.) for regenerative and sustainable farming practices. In addition to helping manage day to day operations at the farm, …
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This episode comes with Trigger Warnings for childhood sexual abuse, domestic abuse, incarceration, and trauma survivorship. Tracey Heisler is now an advocate for children in the foster care system. Her life 20 years ago was much different. In 2003, her eldest daughter disclosed that her own father had been molesting her. Tracey wrote a memoir on t…
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