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Applying God's Word to all areas of life. Tune into "Theology Applied." Each day of the week we have at least one different piece of content. Monday through Friday we have Daily Truth - a short form teaching excerpts from Pastor Joel's preaching at Covenant Bible Church. Tuesdays at 2PM CT we release our interview show Theology Applied. Saturday Mornings we release Questions - a single question excerpt from our Monday YouTube Live Stream. Sunday Afternoons we release the Sermon from Covenant ...
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Welcome to "What Matters Most with Matt Popovits," a daily radio broadcast of new and old sermons from St Mark Houston and MPM. Matt serves as pastor of St. Mark Houston, in Houston, Texas and is the founder of Matt Popovits Ministries. He's also the host of "Make It Simple," available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays. It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking. If it’s news you’re after, backing John is the combined power of the Newstalk ZB and New Zealand Herald news teams. Meaning when it comes to covering breaking news – you will not beat local radio. With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also ...
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Pagan meditation seeks to suppress the analytical side of the mind and focus on the feelings and of the heart, while Christian meditation is so rational, it can actually cause us to regularly contend with our hearts. Christians don't follow (or listen) to their hearts, we preach to our hearts.By Joel Webbon
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Forget about it. That’s pretty much the message the Government is getting today from the owner of the Marsden Point oil refinery. That’s the Marsden Point oil refinery that doesn’t do any refining these days because, as you’ll remember, it was shut down in April last year by its private owner which, back then, was known as Refining NZ. These days i…
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Pagan meditation seeks to suppress the analytical side of the mind and focus on the feelings and of the heart, while Christian meditation is so rational, it can actually cause us to regularly contend with our hearts. This sermon was preached at Covenant Bible Church on Sunday, November 26th, 2023.*If you live in the Austin area, Pastor Joel just st…
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I hope just as much as the next person that good things do come from our new Government, but what it’s planning to do to our smokefree laws is just unforgiveable. You’ll remember that, last year, the Labour Government passed one of the toughest laws in the world to try and reduce smoking rates in New Zealand. Which would have meant that anyone born…
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A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers. And, lastl…
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This episode, which is co-hosted with Michael Nishimura, features a conversation with Dr. Diane C. Fujino, the author of Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Reverend Michael Yasutake (University of Washington Press, 2020). The book traces the activism of two siblings who charted their own paths for…
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Sarah E. Stoller, Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain (MIT Press, 2023) is the first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century--and how the concepts of "family-friendly" work culture and "work-life balance" came to be. Since the 1980s, families across the developed West hav…
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Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast – performed to a useful end for payment, and actually more common than malign spellcasting – has been overlooked. In Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic i…
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If the mayor or any councillors at the Christchurch City Council are reading this, it's probably going to make you feel a bit uncomfortable. Because, if you think you’re going to get away with letting the chief executive carry the can for the shambles that has obviously been going on under your watch, you’re going to have to think again. Especially…
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How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature--how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, la…
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Forget about the Commonwealth Games. We need to start campaigning to get another global sporting event in Canterbury. Can I take you back to Monday March 20. So just over eight months ago. It was the Monday after that brilliant weekend when we had two days of the SailGP yacht racing on Lyttelton Harbour. Remember that? The weather was spectacular. …
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Nik Kershaw exploded onto the UK pop scene in 1984 as a solo artist. Recording a string of global hit singles – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’, and his biggest hit, ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’. Nik will be part of the wonderful line up at Selwyn Sounds in March, and joined John MacDonald to talk about the concert, and his car…
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It appears Christopher Luxon’s tight lid on things could be about to blow, with all this talk about who is and who isn’t going to be Deputy Prime Minister in the new government. If I was National’s deputy leader Nicola Willis, I’d be finding it hard to keep the smile on the dial. But she’s managing it so far, from what I’ve seen of her on TV outsid…
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Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Harris is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members. Using a microhistorical approach, Dr. Harris covers …
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I bet Dawn Baxendale is feeling like a new woman today. Because, as we now know, she is about to be the ex-chief executive of the Christchurch City Council. And God help the next person who takes over. Because what an outfit that place is. Don’t get me wrong. There are lots of good people there. People doing the day-in, day-out stuff that local cou…
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Satan's chief ministry with unbelievers is primarily a ministry of deception, but his chief ministry with believers is primarily a ministry of doubt and despair.This sermon was preached at Covenant Bible Church on Sunday, November 19th, 2023.*If you live in the Austin area, Pastor Joel just started planting a brand new church called Covenant Bible …
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I have never negotiated a merger. And I have never negotiated an acquisition. But I still think I could teach our incoming Prime Minister a thing or two. Because here we are into another week of coalition talks between National, ACT and NZ First and, after all the to-ing and fro-ing from the Cordis Hotel in Auckland, we still don’t have a new Gover…
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Scripture: John 6:27 Sermon Series: How to Adult Adulthood doesn’t come with an instruction manual. Through trial and error and the example of others, we’re largely left to just figure it out. Some days we are hitting our stride and other days, well, we are making a mess of things. Through it all, we find ourselves in a culture that offers increasi…
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Episode 456: K. C. Moser was a preacher in the churches of Christ in the twentieth century (1920s-70s). He wrote several articles, pamphlets, as well as a couple books. In this episode, I take a brief look at his book The Gist of Romans with an eye to his other book The Way of Salvation. What can we possibly learn from this “ultra-Calvinist” (as on…
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Kimberley Ens Manning's book The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China (Cornell UP, 2023) explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties—specifically family ties—played in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and af…
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Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls. While the international community has developed an impressive edifice of human rights law, these laws are not equally recognized or enforced by all countries. Sex Trafficking and Human Right…
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Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24 1 Corinthians 16:2 Sermon Series: More Than Enough In this short series, we’ll examine the Biblical call to generosity and God’s promise of contentment. We’ll learn about managing what God has given us in a way that maximizes our impact and increases our peace. At St. Mark Houston we believe that life is a gift from God a…
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The leadership structure at the Christchurch City Council is falling apart. And it had mayor Phil Mauger in a real tizz at the start of yesterday’s council meeting. This was when he announced that they had to kick people out and go into closed meeting straight away because there was something urgent they needed to discuss about chief executive Dawn…
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David calls himself a “sojourner” because he recognizes that he is radically distinct from the many who surround him. There are many distinctions between the people of God and the people of this world, but here David chooses to name only one: Sight (or understanding). David refers to himself as a stranger because he possesses the gift of sight in a…
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Scripture: Hebrews 13:5-8, Matthew 7:7-10 Sermon Series: More Than Enough In this short series, we’ll examine the Biblical call to generosity and God’s promise of contentment. We’ll learn about managing what God has given us in a way that maximizes our impact and increases our peace. At St. Mark Houston we believe that life is a gift from God and t…
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