Howdy, radiate. Hey, we just want to acknowledge both here and at Portage because Portage is live simulcast this morning. So can we just take a moment and just say hello to our family that are at the Portage campus. And we love you guys. So glad you're joining via video.  So that's April in Michigan, right? That can happen in June. I think it might. I don't know. It's kind of one of those springs. Don't rebuke me. All right, so this is week number two of our Red Hot series. So today we're talking about Bible doctrine, theology, anything about the church in particular. Those are the questions that we're answering today. And to remind everybody next weekend is our third and final week of Red Hot. We've gotten hundreds and hundreds of questions. We can only get through so many in a particular service. So we're doing our very best. We're hoping after the series is over to go back and do something called Red Hot Rewind where we'll take some of your questions, put them on social media and see how many of your questions we can get answered. So stay tuned. Next week is wild card round, which means anything about anything goes. And we've already gotten a few of those in. Questions like what about marijuana? Will the Lions ever win a Super Bowl? Things like that. So next weekend should be wild and crazy. So this morning, Bible, theology, the church, and we've already begun to get several of your questions in. I haven't seen any of them. I have no lifeline, no call a friend, no multiple choice, just me and my trusty ESV. So let's see what kind of questions we get this morning. I have a really deep theological question that is pertinent to our faith. Dinosaurs, yay or nah? Pastor John Z from Portage, what are you doing? He's teleprompting himself over here. So dinosaurs, you know, sometimes people who are skeptics of the Bible, like to use dinosaurs as like the trump card. It's like you're having a great conversation about Jesus, history, theology, the Bible and they go, oh yeah, what about dinosaurs? They throw that down. I'm like, I've never been a big fan of Barney, but I know a little bit about the Bible. And here's the reality is on day number six. I think it's day number six, God created the beasts of the field. That's probably included dinosaurs as well. Not a whole lot written about dinosaurs because dinosaurs is a name that we came up with for large lizards that we discovered in the geological formations that were fossilized. It means giant lizard. So if you're looking for your Bible to say God created the dinosaurs, you're not going to find it, but God did create all the beasts of the field. Job chapter 41 talks about large animals. He calls it behemoth. He says it has a tail like a cedar and it has huge legs and it's a giant animal that God created. He's the apex of all of God's creation. Job 41 talks about Leviathan, talks about a great sea creature that has scales on the front and the backside that when it moves throughout the water, it actually leaves a wake that reflects the sun. It looks like fire. It's a massive animal. And those may be references to large animals like dinosaurs. They were in the original creation. Many of them, many of the species may have died out. What most people don't know is about 80% of what are classified as dinosaurs were actually the size of a large dog or a sheep. It's only some of the larger ones like the Tyrannosaurus rex and Brontosaurus and different dinosaurs that you grew up coloring on your little coloring sheets in school that are the larger, more dynamic ones. And many of them may have died out in the flood. If there, when there was a flood that was global in a scale, obviously Noah's not gonna be taking on Tyrannosaurus rex on to the Ark. Many of those would have died out and that would explain why the cataclysmic nature of the fossil formations as we find them of like large dinosaurs that were in the act of attacking, eating, giving birth, it would have been cataclysmic. They were locked in sand and soil formations. And then obviously we have many species of lizards and things that probably are connected to those dinosaur species. So it's not a difficult one. Dinosaurs were created when everything else was created and like many other animal species and kinds, many of them went extinct for multiple different reasons. So there you go, deal with that. All right, here we go. All my dinosaur peeps were happy with that one. Okay, this is from Portage and it says, second Corinthians talks about the third heaven. What is that? What is the third heaven? The reference that he's talking to is second Corinthians. I think it's in chapter 10-ish or 11, 11 or 12. Paul talks about, I know a man whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know, who went up into the third heaven and saw things that we're not supposed to even talk about that are too glorious for words. And when he's making reference to, I know a man, he's probably talking about himself. It's probably in reference to when he was stoned in the book of Acts in Leicester and Derby and he was dragged out outside the city, he was stoned.  That happened to the apostle Paul and he was left for dead and probably either was dead or very close to death and then was brought back to life. He lived through that or he was resurrected. And this is probably the instance that he is talking about. The heavens, when it talks about a third heaven, the first heaven is the atmosphere of the earth. Second heaven is talking about outer space, it's talking about the galaxies, the stars, the moons. That's a reference to the second heaven. Third heaven is talking about the dimension where God dwells, a spiritual dimension and that's the third heaven. So when Paul says, I know a man who, whether I was in the body or out of the body, I can't tell you, but I ascended or I found myself in a third heaven.  So if you ever see a book in a bookstore where somebody says, I went to heaven, I don't know.  No, you just ate too much pizza. You didn't go to heaven. But there is a third heaven, it's where God dwells. That's what that's referring to. Let's take our next question. Does God ever hear the prayers of the unsaved? John 9, verse 31 says, we know that God does not listen to sinners. Does God only listen to the prayers of the saved? Well, if God did not listen to the prayers of sinners, you could not be saved because that's how a sinner becomes saved is you call upon the name of the Lord. Let's just go ahead and turn there real quick. John chapter nine, verse 31, and let's look at it quickly in its context. In verse number 31, or verse 30, it says, the man answered, why this is an amazing thing? You do not know where he comes from and yet he opens his eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. Now, Jesus didn't say God doesn't listen to sinners. This man said God did not listen to sinners.  Everybody who was outside of the Commonwealth of Israel was referred to as a sinner, but that was an assumption that Jews made that actually limited them and their ability to fulfill the mandate or the vocation that God had for the nation of Israel, which was go to all the people that were far away from God. They were taking pride in the fact that they had the law, the prophets, the temple, and they wanted to get rid of all the other people out of Israel to kind of have a holy land. So that was the point of this conversation, but the reality is God hears the prayers of sinners. Number one, he hears when sinners call upon his name because it says, those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, saved. So obviously God hears that prayer. There's another instance in the book of Acts about a man named Cornelius. Cornelius was a centurion, which meant he was over 100 soldiers in the Roman army. He's stationed in occupied Palestinian land or Palestine. That's what Rome called it, Israel. And it says that he would offer alms to the poor. He would give money to the temple. He was a Godfair. He believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but he was not a Christian. And an angel actually spoke to Cornelius and said that your prayers have come up before God as a sweet smelling aroma. So this is an unsaved man. So obviously God hears the prayers of the saints. Now there's a different, or the prayers of sinners. Now there's a difference between God responding to the SOS cry of a sinner and actually responding to the prayer of faith of a believer. And you and I, we pray as Christians in faith because we know that Jesus has said whatever you ask in my name, the Father will do it for you. We can have confidence that if we ask anything according to God's will for our lives, he will answer us. The fervent, effectual prayer of a righteous man, James 5, is very effective. So God hears the prayers. God hears the cries of sinners and those who are not saved. And obviously he's working in their life to draw them to a point of salvation. But that's a different kind of prayer than the prayers of the saints that are praying in response to God's will, God's word in the name of Jesus. That is a privilege. It has legal authoritative right and God responds to those prayers in a uniquely different way. So there you go. Richland, is it possible to lose your faith? If so, how does it happen? And how do we know if we have? Losing your faith. I think what this person's talking about is losing your salvation. So a lot of people have lost their faith and not all faith is equal. But when we talk about our salvation, there are really two schools of thought within Christian theology. You've got team John Calvin, you've got team Jacob Arminius. Calvinism, Arminianism. Calvinism in a nutshell says that once you're saved, you're always saved, nothing you can do about it. Arminianism says that you can start off in faith and believe in Jesus and be saved, but you can forfeit or become disqualified in your faith. Somebody asked, is radiant a Calvinist church or is it an Arminian church? We're a Bible church and I'm a Jesus believer. I don't, I'm not following John Calvin and I'm not following Jacob Arminius, I'm following Jesus. And I think John Calvin and Jacob Arminius would say the same thing. But if you're asking me which viewpoint I think is closer, I would say that I'm a Calvinian. I think that there's some, both of them grabbed ahold of some truth that we needed in the body of Christ. So let me just say this, here's a balanced approach.  If you truly have been born again saved, repented of your sin, made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, there's nothing that can separate you from the love of God. You don't just one day, oh, I sinned one too many times. It's not like you get a punch card from heaven. You know, of 10 free sins before you have to re-up your salvation. And you accidentally got your 10th punch, didn't renew your card. Now you're driving around with a suspended salvation license. That's not how it works. And all of a sudden you show up to heaven and say, I prayed that prayer. And he's like, yeah, you sinned 11 times. We gave you 10, that last one was really big. And so sorry to the fire you go. That's not how salvation works. That's not the heart of the father. On the other hand, the other extreme is kind of the once saved, always saved view where it's like, you can say a prayer and say, Jesus come into my heart when you're five years old, live like the devil, do whatever you want to and you keep pulling out your identity card saying, well, I'm a Christian, I prayed the prayer. Now Jesus said, if you're truly a Christian, you're going to have fruit that proves that. There's gonna be a change in your life. There's gonna be transformation in your life. We talk a lot about having faith, but the thing that precedes faith is repentance. We need to repent from dead works, have faith towards God. Those two work together kind of like two pedals on a bike. And so I would say you can't lose your salvation. Is it possible though, for somebody who has at one time believed in Jesus, really had a sincere relationship with God to swerve from the faith and actually be far away from God and be under the penalty of eternal judgment. I believe the answer is yes. I believe that there were many people in the Bible started off following Jesus, started off in the church. Paul talks about Deimos. He says in one of his letters, he mentions Deimos, who's part of his apostolic team. In another letter, he says that Deimos has loved the world more than things of God and he has departed for the world. Second Peter talks about it, says, it would be better for those who were enlightened knew the truth through Jesus Christ, but yet have now walked away from that. It would have been better for them had they never known the truth to have known it and then walked away. And here's the reality is if you get to that extreme where you've rejected Christ, and unfortunately I know some people in this situation that were pastors, they were sincere believers. I can't judge their hearts. Somebody on the Calvinist side would say, well, they were never saved in the first place. It seemed like they were saved. It seemed like they, if you had asked them, it seemed like they prayed, received Jesus, believed the Bible, were trying to help other people do the same thing, but now they have swerved away from Jesus and now they believe all kinds of crazy stuff. They believe there is no God. They believe the universe is an energy that we're all reincarnated and we should worship the mountains and they are not following Jesus. This is why the Bible says, number one, examine yourself to make sure that you're in the faith. It also says don't swerve away from the truth. I believe though if you get to that point, it is you have kicked against the convicting work of the Holy Spirit over and over and over and over and over again. And exhausted it until finally God says, have it your way. And here's maybe a controversial statement. I believe that when somebody has sincerely become, what in theological terms we call an apostate, which means they were in the faith, they're no longer, I don't think there's any way for them to find repentance and come back. So this isn't like, I got, see, because I grew up in a church that, when it was real little that taught, every time you sin, you lost your salvation. Well, I was getting saved every Sunday. It was like, pastor, give the altar call. It's like, are you kidding me? I needed this on Monday. And I was scared that somehow my sin had separated from me from God.  They don't affect your salvation. It is a cognizant decision to reject Christ. I think it's rare, but I think it's possible and it has happened. Okay, let's take the next question. Is the existence of hell a closed-handed issue that all Christians must accept? What does hell tell us about God's character? Wow, that's a great question. That's on live stream.  Pardon the pun.   Other people believe it's a spiritual dimension. That is a separation from God. There's a large spectrum of opinions in theological circles about what hell is. And here's what I believe the Bible teaches. I believe that the Bible teaches that there is a heaven and there is a hell. Every human being will live forever. You are not eternal, meaning that you... God is the only eternal being. He has a beginning, or he has no beginning and he has no end, he just is. Human beings are immortal, which means once you're created, you live forever.  And God's desire is that every single human being would be saved, would be forgiven, and would spend eternity with him in heaven.  His name is Jesus. In his holiness, sin cannot dwell in the presence of God because God's presence would actually destroy sin. And in God's justice, the soul that sins must be vindicated. So if you reject God's avenue, his substitute, which is his son who died on the cross as an atonement for your sins, then every man who refuses that will stand before God and have to give an account for their own sin.  So the image that we have of God taking people angry and throwing them into the flames of fire and them screaming out no, give me one more chance is a misnomer.   God desires that all should repent and come into salvation. But ultimately, because God created human beings as free will entities and they found themselves into a position of rebellion where not just rebellion but self-glorification, God in his justice is not going to allow human beings to shake their fist in his face and say, no, I don't deserve this when in reality we do, we all deserve hell. But God in his grace and his mercy has made a way for us. But in the end, there's going to be nobody who stands in God's presence and says, oh, oh, oh, I need a second chance. No, no, no, God says, sorry, too late. It's like this, it's going to be if we live our whole life saying I don't want your will, I want my will. Not your will, my will, God, my will, my will. And I know you, I don't believe in Jesus, I don't believe in you, I reject the claims. Really it's in our self-deception. We will end up on judgment day with God graciously in a way saying, have it your way. This isn't my will, but in order for God to change somebody's will, he would have to superimpose his will on them and say, no, no, no, no, no, no. In the end, if we've lived a life saying not your will but mine, God in the end will say have it your way.  Hell is something that we should not glory in. Hell is not something that we should lightly banter around and say, well, that person obviously went to hell. You don't know that. That's between God and that individual. People ask the question, what about people who've never heard the gospel before? Well, I don't think there's an easy answer to that. I'm not ashamed of saying I don't know the answer to that, but here's what I do know. I know that God is good. I know that gracious, God wants people to go to heaven way more than we want them to go to heaven. And I have to trust God that he's all wise, he's all merciful, he's all gracious, and he wants as many people to go to heaven, spend eternity with him and his new created heaven and earth that possibly can be there.  And let me just say this real quickly. If you are a Christian and you are offended at that, then you better have a life justified by your actions in reaching people with the gospel that is far louder than your debate about God's ability to be just in judgment. Because if we believe there's right and wrong, we need to go and do something about it. We need to be giving to missions. We need to be witnessing.  If you're looking for it, Revelation 21, Luke chapter 16 talks about it. Second Peter talks about Tarotaris, talks about how the Old Testament, the word is Sheol, talks about the grave or the Netherworld. Okay, let's go on to another one. Livestream. Is tithing supposed to be on gross or net? Or does that not matter? And is it just the attitude of the heart that matters? Thank you, Livestream. It's a Livestream question. So the issue of tithing or giving God, the principle of giving God not as a law, but as a principle, giving God your first fruits, the first tenth, tithe means tenth, honoring God with the tithe, that principle is all throughout the scriptures. Is that on the net or on the gross or is it really all to do about the heart attitude? Let me answer, because there's two questions. Number one, has everything to do with the heart? Has everything to do with the heart? Because it's possible to give and not love, but it's impossible to love and not give. And so you can give and have a bad attitude. Has anybody ever done that before? You ever given a gift at one of your family parties and you could really care less about the person, but you were afraid they were gonna have a gift for you? So you stopped at Walgreens on the way there and bought a gift superset and a box of cologne for $15? No, just me? Okay, sorry. So it definitely is an issue of the heart. Primarily, the reason God asks us to give is because of the heart. God knows our human tendency towards idolizing things and becoming materialistic. The antidote to that in his wisdom is giving, it's generosity. The other part of it is tithing. Okay, so tithing is just one principle of giving. There's offerings, there's alms for the poor, there's all kinds of different aspects of giving. Tithing is a foundation, it's the baseline. God says, I want you to start here. I want you to honor me with the first tenth. This is not a suggestion, this is a principle. You find it in Genesis, you find it all the way through the scripture where God calls his people honor him with the first tenth. Is it on the gross or on the net? Let me ask you a question. Which one of those do you want blessed?  So it's a rhetorical question because I know you all want it on the gross. But here's the reality. Here's why I think giving on the gross is significant spiritually. It's because if I give net, the first thing that I give to is the government. And after the government gets theirs, then I give to God. And I want God to have my first fruits. I want him to have the first tenth. And so I give on the gross because that is giving before the government gets their share. Now I'm fine with being a taxpayer. I don't want to pay exorbitant taxes but we're to pay taxes and we do that. But you know what? If I'm more committed to giving my taxes to the government than I am giving my tide to the Lord than I'm more tied to the things of this world than I am the things of the kingdom. And I want my heart to be tethered to the things of the kingdom. And so it's not a law. Again, listen, we're not under the law. I don't tithe because I want to maintain a relationship with God. Tithing is an overflow of my relationship with God because I'm recognizing my paycheck is not my provider. The government is not my provider. My hands aren't the things that prosper and provide for me. God is my provider. And I want his supernatural blessing on my finances so that I can be a blessing to the world around me. Does that make sense? All right, great question. Why have churches become so casual? Example, lights, entertaining, music, cafes, shops, et cetera. Is any of this for God has the world influenced Sunday morning services? Yeah, that's a great question. Thanks, Tasha. Well, you would be surprised that in every generation, the things that you think are traditional when they were introduced were not traditional. They were modern. For example, I've had people say, well, I don't like the music. It's not sacred, it's not reverent. I think we need a pipe organ. Well, do you know that when the pipe organ was introduced to the church, it was called the instrument of Satan? And people argued in the medieval period when they began to put pianos and organs into the church that it was instruments of Satan, it was hellish. Do you know that for a good portion of Catholic history, women were not allowed to be singers or canticles? It could only be young boy and boys' choirs. And it was because women weren't allowed to speak at church. At least that was their interpretation of it. So that was traditional. And now we have women singing in church. Do you know that hymns, many of the hymns that people think, well, those are holy songs. No, what a lot of leaders like John Wesley did was they took bar songs and they changed the words to scripture. So they were bar songs. So just imagine Bon Jovi living on a prayer, changing the words and singing those in church. That's in your hymn books. See, it's just been a couple hundred years. And now because we've done it for a couple hundred years, we tend to make traditions out of things and attach holiness to tradition. And Jesus said this to the Pharisees. He says, you make the word of God of no effect because of your traditions. Now there's nothing wrong with traditions until we worship them. So lights, the reason why we use lights is because if you look at the tabernacle in the Old Testament, remember Moses goes up on a mountain, God shows him his presence, says, here's the blueprint. I want you to make the tabernacle. Is going to be the place where I live and dwell among my people. It had three compartments. It had art and tapestries on the walls. It was coated in gold and silver. The priests garments had diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds on them. They actually had lights. They were called lampstands. They had a smoke machine. It was called the altar of incense. They had bread and they had a baptismal or a a baptistry that was made out of bronze. It estimated to build Solomon's temple cost $14 billion in modern terminology. So before you get mad at me on our building programs, if I ever show up with a $14 billion one, now we're just getting biblical. Lights, smoke, shop, somebody asked me one time, why did Jesus turn over the tables in the temple if he, you know, because they were selling things in the temple and we shouldn't have a bookstore or a cafe. That is not apples and oranges. The reason why Jesus turned over the tables in the temple is because there were money changers. And money changers were this. Jesus's answer, and I think it's in Matthew or Mark 11, was he says, number one, they were set up in the outer courts which was the outer courts for the Gentiles. It was so lost people could come and worship God and they didn't have room because they'd set up tables. And the other reason why is in order for you to worship God in the Old Testament, you had to buy sacrifices in the temple. You had to buy pigeons. You had to buy different wheat offerings and different things. So what the religious leaders did was they set up their own currency and their own pigeons and said, no, to worship God, you have to buy our pigeons. And by the way, you can buy a pigeon out there and it's $14. You can buy a pigeon in here and it's $1,400. And you are poor and you want to worship God but the religious leaders were putting a barrier between you and your ability to worship God. And so they created money changing where you had to get their currency. They had 100% inflation on the currency. Jesus was not irritated that they were giving people resources to grow spiritually or selling coffee so that they were awake during worship. Jesus was irritated because the religious leaders were putting a blockade between the average person and Gentiles in the presence of God. Now, let me answer that question this way. The reason why we have lights and modern music and video is so that we do not create a barrier between people who have no idea about our religious traditions and have never sung our hymns and don't know the Bible and we live in a world where they need to grow and buy books and drink coffee. We want to actually draw people closer to the presence of God, not create barriers. It's completely opposite, it's not the same. So, there you go. How do we know that Christianity is the one true religion? That's a great question. Who wants to answer that? Anybody want to come up? How do we know that Christianity is the one true religion? Well, you and I are living in a time where we want everybody to be right. And so, we have major world religions. We have Islam, we have Christianity, we have Judaism, which are the big three, monotheistic religions. In addition to that, you have over a billion Hindus in India, in Asia, Buddhism, and various different animistic philosophies and Taoism and Confucianism, which is a philosophy that are all throughout the world. How do you know that Christianity is the one true religion? Well, let's start philosophically here. A lot of people make this assumption and you might even see the coexist bumper stickers where it's like all religions basically teach the same thing. Well, let me just answer that by saying absolutely, no they don't. All religions do not teach the same thing. There might be similar elements that are found across the board in faiths and philosophies, but not all religions on the major tenets of what we would call religious tenets, they do not teach the same things. Islam and Christianity do not teach the same things. For example, you will never find the term love of God in the Quran, it does not exist. Because they don't believe that God loves humanity and they don't believe you can have a personal relationship with Allah. They believe that Allah is the all sovereign creator and judge, but there's no way to have a relationship. Christianity teaches God is, where all other religions basically are systems, if you wanna have a picture of a ladder, where humanity, by their best efforts, build a ladder and make their way up to heaven in order to have a relationship or be right with God by their good efforts. It's man pursuing a right relationship with God. Christianity is unique in that it is a story about God who enters into his creation, experiences are suffering, climbs down his own ladder out of heaven in pursuit of us. And instead of us by our good merits, gaining a relationship with God through our best efforts, Christianity is all about God's finished efforts that make it possible for us to freely be restored back to him and it's all because of love. So how do you know that Christianity is the one true religion? Well, number one, somebody has to be wrong and somebody has to be right. If all religions don't teach the same thing, then obviously some are wrong and some are right. Hinduism, for example, teaches reincarnation and karma. And so when you go to India and you see a beggar on the road who comes up to your car and is missing an arm, odds are the family actually cut the arm off to make him a better beggar because in being a better beggar, he's actually paying his karma so that he comes back in the next existence on earth as a better, higher form. So think about that. So in India, there is no welfare. And the reason why is because if you give welfare or charity to the poor, you're actually hurting them in their process of reincarnation, not helping them. So that's the polar opposite of Christianity. Judaism is the foundation upon which Christianity was built on. So all religions don't teach the same thing. Number one, number two, somebody's gotta be right and somebody's gotta be wrong. How do you determine that? Well, if you're looking for empirical evidence, you're not gonna be able to scientifically prove in the laboratory Christianity versus other religions, but there's other forms of knowledge. And here's what I would say is I believe that the gospels specifically are the most reliable documents about the emergence of Christianity in Jesus. And the apex of the gospels talk about the claims of Christ who he claimed to be, he claimed to be God, he claimed to be man. He said that I'm gonna die for the sins of the world. And then the apex of it is he's validated that in the resurrection. Now I don't have enough time to go into it, but I think that there's abundant evidence that the resurrection truly took place. It's recorded in secular history and it actually has changed the course of history. The disciples were murdered for something that if they were purporting a lie would have backed down upon, but they didn't. They were willing to give their lives. And there's no other explanation for the proliferation of Christianity. Other interesting thing about Christianity versus other religions is all other religions become very static in their power centers. So like Hinduism is in India. Buddhism is in Asia. Taoism is in China and on and on and on. But Christianity has an ever expanding global influence. It started in Jerusalem. It then was shifted to Europe. Has been in the United States and the West. And now the majority of Christians globally are below the equator and east in the eastern hemisphere of the globe in Africa and in Asia. So it's not a cultural, it's not a culturally static power center. It's actually spread globally. And I think here's the reality. A lot of people say, well, I like Jesus, but I don't believe he was God. I like his principles, but I don't believe he rose from the dead. C.S. Lewis said this. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, if he wasn't God, if all of the things that he claimed about himself are not true, then we should dispel and totally do away with everything that he taught because he was either a liar or he was a lunatic or we have to come to the conclusion that he was Lord, that there was something very unique about him, that he taught what he taught, backed it up with a sinless life that was recorded in the gospels, affirmed by secular history, and then a band of uneducated Galileans were willing to go to the grave, died to terrible deaths in the process of preaching this gospel in order to sustain the gospel message. And 2,000 years later, after having every attempt by the most powerful empires in the world to extinguish Christianity and the Bible off the face of the earth, it's actually the most influential. Jesus is the most influential character and Christianity is the most influential frame of reference in worldview that the world has ever seen and there's no natural explanation for it. Even Bart Ehrman, who is a New Testament scholar and an atheist has just released a new book called The Miracle of Christianity because there is no logical natural explanation for it except Jesus Christ was God, he died on the cross for the sins of the world, God raised him from the dead and it has forever changed human history and therefore Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. And I don't know of any other religion that has that much historical backup, a leader that has made that claim and has also that global influence like Christianity. So we're on firm footing that Jesus is Lord and Christianity is true. And of course, that's just a nugget. And these are awesome questions and we need to all be students of the word. Let's all stand up together if you would here and over at Portage as well. God wants us to be students of the word and God's not afraid of our questions. You might wonder, it's like, how do you learn this stuff? Well, you have to read, you have to go to the word, you've got to be a student of it and the reason why it's so important for us to be students of this is because there's nothing that matters as much as this and God's not intimidated by our questions. You have questions, God has answers. If you have philosophical questions, you will never hear me say, oh, just have blind faith. No, you need to have faith and you need to have blind faith relationally but intellectually God's not afraid of you digging deep. In fact, he's inviting you. God's not intimidated by your questions because God's got the answers and the answer may be, I don't know yet but at least we ask the questions. And I truly do believe, you might say, well, do you truly believe that there was a man named Jesus who was God, who was sent from heaven to the earth, who entered into history in our human suffering, died upon a Roman cross at the bequest of Jewish leaders and on the third day, literally, physically, rose again from the dead and that he ascended into heaven and he seated at the right hand of God. The Father, do you really believe he's coming back to make all things that are wrong right and establishes kingdom on earth? And here's my answer, I believe it to the bone. And not only do I believe it, but I believe it's the only answer for a broken and a fallen and a sinful world and broken and sinful human beings.     Let me pray for you. And now I'm gonna invite our campus pastors to come up and close the service. Lord, today would you meet us? Would you speak to our hearts? Would you stir a hunger for righteousness in your word on the inside of us? Lord, we don't wanna be red hot in our arrogance and our pride that we just know so much, but Lord, we wanna be red hot in our love and our pursuit after you, our first love. God, we wanna run to your word like a love letter from heaven.  Bless us, draw us, influence us to be light and salt in our culture and our generation. In Jesus' name, amen.


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W.R.O.W. Albany, New York. Johnny Teller. This is Frank Harmon, Johnny, a tri-western life here in Hartford. Hi, Frankie. Where have you been, anyway? Oh, I just got back from Lake Tahoe out on the West Coast. Well, it's no wonder Jack Price couldn't get hold of you. Price, in your office down in Corpus Christi? That's right. He called and told me he'd been trying to get you on the phone for several days. Oh, well, I'm sorry. He has a problem, a pretty big one. When he couldn't reach you, he sent it on. He sent her on to us. It? Her? What is it? Both. So come on over here, will you? There's no time to waste. Oh, what's it all about? Well, all I can tell you is... Well, somehow, you've got to prevent a murder. CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Teller. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Teller to the New England Office of Tri-Western Life Insurance Company. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the unworthy kin matter. After the Lake Tahoe mess, I was ready for a nice long rest. But a job's a job. So expense account, I don't want a dollar ten for a cab back to Frank Harmon's office at Tri-Western in a big new building on the square. Glad you finally got back here, Johnny. Hiya, Frankie. Sit down. I'll get right to the point. Okay. Try to give you the whole story before she gets here. Oh, she. Name is Jean Unworthy. Unworthy. That's right. That's a funny one. Well, our little problem isn't very funny. Now listen. I'm listening. About four, maybe five years ago up in Hipsilanti, Michigan, a prominent businessman was killed by a guy named Eric Bean. Oh, you're telling me. It was a ruthless, pointless, wanton murder, simply because the victim refused to give him a few bucks. And the defense tried to get Bean out of it on grounds of temporary insanity. That's right. But instead, they sent him up to the Michigan State Prison, gave him life with no chance of parole. Oh, yeah, I remember. It just happens I was in on that case. Oh, of course. Of course you were. Well, all right then. Well, I didn't play a very important part in it. I have to admit, but I was there. And you were there during his trial? From the first to the last gavel. Yeah. And you know what Eric Bean did when the judge pronounced sentence on him. Yeah, that's right. Because it could be that Bean thought his remarks were partly aimed at me. I mean, let's talk about getting even with him. All right, sure. Sure, I'll go up here lousy, stinking presence. Order! Order in the court! But if you think you can keep me in it, you're crazy. Order! Order! Because I'm going to get out. I do.  Yeah, Frankie, it was the typical thread of a tough criminal to get out someday and get even with everybody. By killing them? That's what he said. Including you? Well, I told you I really didn't have too much to do with the case. So there's no real reason for Bean to hold a grudge against me. Was there any real reason for the murder? Well, no. But listen, you know how little those courtroom threats usually mean? Well, then you're not at all worried over the fact that Eric Bean escaped seven or eight days ago. Oh? Well? No, not particularly. Well, you should be, Johnny, along with the rest of the people who were involved in that affair. Oh, Frankie, I told you. Johnny, in the past five days, Bean has killed four of the people he promised to kill. No kidding. And the police have no idea where he is or when he'll strike again. And another one of his intended victims is Mr. Albert K. Unworthy, who's now living down in Corpus Christi, Texas. And he's insured by our company for over half a million dollars. Well? Yeah. That reminds me of a tip I've been meaning to give you. Whenever you buy Pepsi Cola, get an extra carton. This is the secret of effortless entertaining. You know by now that as the parties go, so goes the Pepsi. So face reality. And be ready for any number of thirsts by making sure there's always plenty of the light refreshment on hand. People go for Pepsi because it refreshes without filling and does it in such a good tasting way. Come to think of it, why not buy a case of Pepsi? Then maybe there'll be enough for you to have some, too. Be sociable, look smart. And now act two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Right now, Johnny, when Jack Price wasn't able to reach you, he dumped the whole thing in my lap, including the old man's daughter, Jean. She arrived here in Hartford early this morning, came in here and demanded that you be appointed a bodyguard for her father. Oh, now listen, Frank. I found her at her hotel right after I got in touch with you. She's probably on her way over here to see you right now. Hey, look, Frank, I'm an investigator. Not a person, buddy, buddy. Are you forgetting Eric Bean may have you high on his list, too? So what? So what?  Oh, I see. What? Put two of Eric Bean's intended victims together. Give him a wide-open chance to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and he's almost bound to show. Yes, so the cops who've been standing by pick him up along with our two buddies. And the company has done a great public service. Who read? No, that wasn't what I was thinking of at all. Frank, I couldn't go down there to Corpus Christi right away anyway. Why not? First thing tomorrow morning, I have an appointment in New York with an attorney for a deposition in that Lake Tahoe case I just wound up. So you lose a few hours.  But when such an important client's involved, Johnny? Well, there's nothing but a lot of trouble with an A number one chance of getting shot in the back. But don't you see? No, no, Frank, I'm sorry. If Unworthy wants protection, let him call in the police. They have a very good force there in Corpus Christi. Johnny. And when this dame, this daughter gets here, well, simply tell her I don't want the case. And I mean it, Frank. That's final. That is unequivocally and irrevocably an absolute. Mr. Harmon? Miss Unworthy. Oh, please come in. Thank you. Tess, come in and meet Mr. Johnny Dollar. Hi, Johnny. Suddenly, I changed my mind. Even as that whole office suddenly seemed to change, and take on a strange and wonderful glow. She was, so help me, one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen. Tall, but not too tall. With honey-colored hair and a complexion that, and a figure that kind of twinkle in those baby blue eyes that, oh, what's the use? The right word simply arts, not to describe this one. Well, uh, sit down, please, Miss Unworthy. Thank you, Frank, but I told you this morning to please call me Jean. Yes, of course, I forgot. That goes for you too, Johnny Dollar. Oh, sure, Jean, I, uh, sure. Can you leave with me right away, Johnny? I mean for Corpus Christi. I hope you told him how urgent this is, Frankie. Well, yes, I did.  Well, now, Jean. Yes? Well, I, that is I. Yes? Johnny? I have to be in New York first thing in the morning to see an attorney. Oh, that's just fine then. Because I have an early morning date in New York with Madam Algomarino before I go on back home. Oh? You know who she is? Oh, well, sure, I've heard of her, but I never thought anybody in the world actually had enough money to buy those clothes, those gowns that she designs. Oh, now you're kidding me, aren't you? But I just love having your thing. Oodles and oodles of them. So we'll go down to New York tonight. I'll be staying at the pier. So you stay at the pier, and we'll have a ball. We'll really do the town. Oh, I just love New York. Well, now, I... But tomorrow morning, while I'm getting some dresses and things, you can see your lawyer and then we'll take off for Corpus Christi together. But come on, Han, we'll have to hurry if we want to make the four o'clock plane to New York. Well, I... And, Frank, dear, thanks so much for finding Johnny. I feel better. I feel that Daddy's safer already. Expense account item 22150 for a cab and plane tickets to New York for the two of us. With this charmer in tow, well, believe me, it wasn't easy, but I realize that with an important assignment on my hands, I better play it safe and behave myself. So, down in New York, item 3 is 950 for a taxi to the pier, where I dropped her off, then to the Gotham, where I got my cell phone. That evening, the tab for cocktails and dinner at the pavillon, no less, came to $58. And I was pretty impressed by the Mededee's immediate recognition of her and his disappointment at the smallness of the bill she'd run up. Oh, and the tips, by the way, came to $14 more. Then the evening really got underway via the nightclub route, and I mean only the most expensive nightclubs were again she was recognized by all the Mededee's. And the total bill, by the time I dropped her off at the pier shortly after 4 AM, only $130, including tips and taxis, of course. I hoped my deposition the next morning in the attorney's office made some sense because I was bushed. But then, after leaving him on the way back to my hotel, I picked up a newspaper, and I nearly blew my top. Item 5, 6, whatever it is, $0.85 for a call to Frank Harmon back in Hyford. Now, now, Johnny. And it was you who gave that story to the wire services about my going down to Corpus Christi to save the life of dear old Albert Unworthy. But, Johnny, you yourself suggested it might help to flush out this killer? Oh, yeah, sure. Make it easy for him. Get two of us in one trip. Thank you very much. Item 7, 287, 50 plane fare tips and incidentals for the flight to Corpus Christi. By the time we got there, well, I don't know. I don't know how to say it. But, well, that genie is not only the most beautiful, the most charming. Well, put it this way. By the time that flight was over, if Jean had said, come on, Johnny, let's get married, I think I might have taken a leap without one single thought about the consequences. And after we landed and she stepped into a phone booth to call and make sure her father was still all right, well, I was almost annoyed at the sudden appearance of an old pal of mine, Doug Johnstone, kid brother of Jack who dramatizes these radio cases of mine. How'd I know you were coming down here with Johnny? It's all over the paper. Yeah, I was afraid of that. Oh? Yeah, but how are you anyway, Doug? Oh, I couldn't be better. Hey, boy, you certainly pick them, don't you? What do you mean?  Oh, yeah. What do you know about her father, Doug? Well, I kind of thought you might want a little help while you're down here. You know, I came to meet you. Oh. Yeah, now, uh, here's what we ought to do. You, uh, put her in a taxi. Her home isn't far from here. Then you and I'll run on down to my office and talk a while, and I'll drive you out to their place later. Well, now, wait, Doug. I think that's a very good idea. Oh, Jeannie, yeah. This is an old friend of mine, Doug Johnstone. Hi, Doug. I've always looked forward to meeting you. Well, how nice. In my eye, I'm meeting more good-looking men these days. Johnny, Doug's right. It'll give me a chance to kind of freshen up and prepare the royal welcome for you here in Corpus Christi. All right? Well, I, uh, kind of hate to have you. So you go ahead with Doug, and I'll see you at the house later. Taxi. Huh? OK, Doug. Let's go. OK, now, Doug, as you were saying, as I was saying, well, sit down. Make yourself comfortable first, Johnstone. Thanks. Well? Well, Johnny, the old man unworthy is loaded, all right? Despite this gorgeous daughter of his trying to spend it all, but when she turns on the charm. Oh, you are telling me. Oh, he's a sucker for a good-looking gal, isn't she, Jeannie? Oh, now, Mr. Johnstone, sorry. Oh, sure. Jean is different. The point is, the point is, though, that there may be something in the rumor that her old man is getting a mite fed up with some of her ex-husband. Johnny, John, hand me the phone, will you? What's the matter, you think I don't make a good secretary? Oh, this here's Mr. Douglas D. Johnstone's office. Johnny, help, quick. Jean. Party every weekday is no small accomplishment. Ask any housewife who's faced the perils of just one house party with fear and trepidation. But Art Linkletters have been at it so long that he never worries today about tomorrow's house party. And yet they always come out slick, smooth, and hilarious. Art's enthusiasm is part of the reason why. The way he lets his guests take the bit in their teeth is another. So you never know where the fund's going to lead once it starts. Listen Monday through Friday on CBS Radio.  Doug Johnstone and I tore out to the house. And yeah, Mr. Albert K. Unworthy was dead all right. Three neat, clean bullet holes in his temple. His daughter, Jean, was a wreck. One sleeve of a dress was torn. There was a red weld on her cheek where she'd apparently been struck by the killer. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Poor and noisy. It was so terrible. So awful, so terrible. OK, now, honey, just try to take it easy and remember exactly what happened. Why did it have to happen to him? It was so good. So wonderful to me ever since the day that he adopted me and now he's so tiny. Now who else was in here, Jean? Were you in here with your father alone? Yes. Yes, Johnny, I don't know where the servants are. Daddy must have let them take the day off. This man, that horrible-looking man came in. Can you tell me what he looked like? Well, I don't know. I saw him only a few seconds. He was short. And he was heavy, heavy set.  Yeah, yeah. Go on, Jean. Strange pale. His face was almost gray. After seven years in that place.   Oh, Johnny. And his height, his weight, have any idea? Oh, I don't know. He was maybe five feet seven or eight. And he was heavy, maybe 180 pounds or something. He was stocky. You asked me if it fits the newspaper description of Eric Bean almost to a T, John. Had you ever seen Eric Bean before, Jean? No, no, Johnny.  And he came rushing in here with that gun.  And then he... And then he... And I guess I passed out. Ready soon. Oh, Johnny, please help me. Yes, sure, sure. You want to call the police, Doug? Sure. Doug not only called the police, but the family doctor. And after Jean had given the police all the information she could, the doctor gave her a mile sedative in the center of Tibet. By that time, Jean's personal maid had come in. So after assuring her, we'd do everything we could. Johnny. Johnny, dear, don't you see? Now, you may be in danger from... Oh, dear. I guess whatever the doctor gave me, I... I can't stay awake. We'd come back, dear. Come back. On the way back to Doug's office, neither of us said a word. Not until we got inside and he closed the door. And even then, we sat there quietly for a minute. Well, um...  Uh, no. Well, thanks. You have one. No. You, uh... No? N-Nothing, uh, I just... Johnny, you're thinking the same thing I am. Yeah, Doug, I guess I am. Mind if I use your phone? My call was to the police. Not there in Corpus Christi, but the Nipselite Mission. I am 8-4-40. I got hold of Sergeant Tim Brower, the man who'd originally arrested Harry Bean, who now again was working on the case. Well, I... I expect I ought to keep an eye out for him. Well, you'd be away down on this list. Like, maybe Mr. Albert Unworthy and, uh... Like Unworthy and really set him up. Just crazy enough to set himself a very obvious little pattern in these four new murders. Yeah, what kind of a pattern, Sergeant? All the people are set in. Okay, Sergeant. And if she prosecuted Mr. Frederick Wallin. Okay, Sergeant, that's all I need to know. Well, Johnny? Yeah, well, I...  Her foster father? Oh, yeah, she told us that herself, uh, adopted. There was no real blood bond between them. So, I... I suppose it's no wonder she was taking him for all she could. And when she found he was gonna pull back on the reins. I'm afraid her description of Bean is what stopped me. Too perfect. I mean, when a man suddenly barges in, knocks her down. And fires. And fires. Yeah. Three bullets into a skull. But when she said he was going to kill him, and we heard only two shots. Only two, Doug. Yeah. Johnny, you want me to go along with you? Just, uh... Let me use your car. Sure. You mean you found the murderer, Johnny? Yeah, Jeannie. And all the proof I need. Oh, thank goodness. And did you kill him when you found him? Kill? Yes. Him? What? Only one more thing I'd like to know. Yes. Well, what is it, Johnny? What you did with the gun. Oh. Well? It's out in the little fish pond. I found the library when... Johnny, not a chance for me. Not a chance. I learned about women from her. Following Harry Bean's pattern, the police in Michigan were able to pick him up in less than two weeks before he could kill again. The expense account, the total, call it $500 even. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Constipation is something people don't talk about much. But it can be a problem for anyone. Even doctors. And when constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend. Well, a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say... A laxative should be effective, gentle, close to natural acting. A medicine that can be used with complete confidence. Now, X-Lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years because pleasant tasting chocolate at X-Lax is effective. Overnight, it helps you toward your normal regularity. X-Lax is so gentle. So close to natural acting, there's no upset. That's why many doctors and millions of people use X-Lax with complete confidence. X-Lax, the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently. Overnight. Now, here's our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week, the what goes matter is just what it sounds like, a real puzzler. So, Jonas, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Dick Crenna, Frank Gerstle, Russell Thorson, Stacey Harris, James McCallion, Bill James, and Gus Bayes. This is John Wall speaking. 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After losing a friend and a teammate to suicide last month, the Brainerd Boys soccer team has created a non-profit organization to bring awareness to mental health. Sarah Winkelman joins us live in the Brainerd studio with more. Sarah? Yeah, Dennis. Just days after losing their friend, these group of teenagers took it upon themselves to create positive change in Brainerd through an organization first known as Smiles for Jake, but what is now known as the Lighthouse Project. People don't look to a lighthouse when they know where they're going. They're going to look to the lighthouse when they have no idea where to turn or what to look for. The Lighthouse Project is a way to get local teens talking about mental health and more importantly provide resources. This can never happen again. We need to change how we're treating each other and why did this happen and hopefully prevent it from ever happening again. After the team, community and family members suffered a devastating loss. Just pure shock. There's no way you can really prepare for that and just you can't be ready for that. But now the teens are hoping to better prepare Brainerd and educate the community about mental health. If one of my friends is suffering depression, I don't know what to do, I don't know how to talk to him.  Here's what you do. With inspiration from a beloved friend and guidance from his family. We've been trying to keep really close to Jake's family just because this is where it started and we want to make sure that what we're doing, they agree with because that's our base, that's our foundation. As they reminisce old memories of their friend and teammate, I knew that this would be kind of my way to get through it because I knew that instead of kind of just sitting around and crying and like feeling sorry, I knew I could change it so that we'd never have to go through this again and that was kind of my driving factor. And even though it's a big goal, these teens are ready to make a difference. It's a big step, but it's good to be at the foundation of it. I just hope that one day when we walk down these hallways, everyone's smiling at each other. We know that we have each other's backs no matter what group you come from and what clique you come from. In order to create a brighter future for the community. Hopefully we're changing the culture and brainered and hopefully preventing this from ever happening again. Now with most of the founding members currently being juniors at brainered high school, they do have a plan in place to get younger members involved to keep the lighthouse project going in the community well after they graduate. Dennis? Alright, thank you very much Sarah for that live report from our brainered studio tonight. The group plans to get mental health screenings into the schools by the fall and they will hold their first fundraiser as a family fun night on May 4th at the Ascension Health Sports Center in Brainert. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The whole world is aging, and the developed countries are leading the way. For most of human history, the elderly comprised only a tiny fraction of the population, never more than three or four percent in any country at any time. Today in the developed world, they comprise 15 percent, and that share is headed for 25 percent by the middle of the century. And that's just the average. In Japan and some of the fast-aging countries of continental Europe, the elder share of the population will be shooting past 35 percent. Now, there are two forces behind the aging of the population. The first force is falling fertility. People are having fewer babies, and this reduces the relative number of young in the population. Every developed country today has a fertility rate that's at or below the so-called 2.1 replacement rate needed to maintain a stable population from one generation to the next. And most developed countries are far below it. Overall, in the European Union, the fertility rate is about 1.5 or 1.6. In Mediterranean Europe, in Italy and in Spain and central and eastern Europe, the fertility rate is between 1.2 and 1.3, as it also is in Japan. So the first force is falling fertility. At the other end of the life cycle, the second force is rising longevity. Worldwide life expectancy has risen by about 25 years since the 1950s, which is a greater gain over the past half-century than humanity had achieved over the previous 5,000 years. The developed countries, life expectancy since the 1950s, has risen from the mid to upper 60s to the mid to upper 70s. In a couple of countries, including Japan and Italy, it's now past age 80. The aging of the population is about as certain as social science comes to assure prediction about the future. Not the precise numbers, of course, but the overall direction and magnitude of the trend. The decline in fertility is the result of deep-seated long-term social and economic forces from rising affluence to rising educational attainment, particularly the educational attainment of women, to the availability of effective contraception and abortion. Few people believe these trends are going to be reversed anytime soon, and perhaps more to the point, even if they were, even if fertility doubled from one year to the next, it would have a negligible effect on the relevant indicators, on the ratio of working-age adults to elders or the elder share of the population for the next 20 to 25 years, and not a major effect for the next 30. As for longevity, the official projections that I cited and which demographers around the world use, the UN projection scenario, actually assumes, despite the potential of biomedicine to increase human longevity, actually assumes a dramatic slowdown in the historical rate of improvement. So if anything, the risk there, if risk is the right word to use about the possibility of longer life spans, but the risk there is on the upside, not the downside.


be happy to answer any questions you have. Are there any questions? As you said at the beginning of the presentation, the growth of the elderly population in China will be more significant in the future. Could you tell us why it is more significant as developed countries have aging populations as well? Thank you for your question. That's a very good question. What makes the growth of elderly population in China significant is the speed of the growth. In most of the European countries, like France, they have taken centuries to double their elderly population. But China only needed 25 years to do the same. So that's why we think that the growth of the elderly population in China is significant. Does that answer your question? Yes, thank you. So would anyone else like to raise another question? As far as I see, many Chinese people believe in filial piety. They take good care of their parents at home by themselves. So can you tell us why there will be a surge in demand for elderly surfaces in the future? Interesting question. You're right. In the past century, elderly care services were mainly provided by individual households, which means Chinese people were taking care of their own parents. This was possible because most of the couples have more than one child. But the family structure changed after all these years. The new family structure will be four to one structure, which means there are four grandparents, two parents, and one child. This the only child in the family won't be able to take care of his or her grandparents and parents at the same time in the future. So that's why we believe that there will be such demand for elderly surfaces in the near future. Did I answer your questions? Yes, that's fine.


All right, brother. So first off down in Baltimore crabs are huge Since you got to spend a lot of time down there.  There was a couple of places that we would go to there's a place called costas It's kind of outside the city a lot of guys would go to get some good crabs there So it was definitely something I tried out when I first got there and then as I was there for a lot longer There was some other good food in the city that we like They're just kind of tough to eat Like they take a long time to crack and actually get yeah the crab meat and then like an hour goes by And you're not full right and like you got cuts on your hands. Yeah There was a I think one of the first times it took my wife She didn't like cracking the crabs and so I was like the whole day I was cracking the crabs and then she was taking the meat. So I was like Cracking crabs for her and me and I was over it. I was like, I didn't even eat I was like this is done. We're never doing this again Be in a huge history buff. Have you been able to locate a Confidential black book of some of the wildest conspiracies out there. I haven't The thing that I've been on like kind of lately with some history I was kind of like collecting like rare items from you know, I you know, my grandfather served in World War two My dad was in the military in Vietnam My friends and stuff like that so that are in the military that have served So I'm actually in the process of collecting things from them whether it's uniforms My grandfather passed away, but he had a purple he has a purple heart in my house and making a having a room Where it's gonna be all dedicated to you know whether artifacts that I buy from like those war periods like all the way back to the Revolutionary War and Then current stuff from like family members I think we're gonna have a pretty cool collection when it's all said and done that I can put together So hopefully put some photos up so people can check that out on social media whenever I get it done Did Neil Armstrong land on the moon? I would say a 100% right I could be wrong we When I was looking in Baltimore, we went down to NASA in Houston and we walked through the room where the Mission control was when they when they launched and land on the moon I'm not gonna name the player, but he was like so he was talking to one of the astronauts I just said I got back from the International Space Station He was like so okay did did we really land on the moon or there's all things and we just started dying laughing and we're like are you really gonna and the guy was like, you know We landed on the moon, you know, but it was so funny. He was so genuine like okay Hey, I just I gotta ask this question Did we really was that staged and they actually not thought it was really funny and that was a cool experience So that I'm I've been starting to be like, you know the history and space like I'm kind of Maybe all over the board with stuff that I like, but I'm definitely My son's really into science right now and planets So I feel like my hobbies are kind of the stuff that my kids are getting into too You guys got a chance to take some nice photos at Yankee Stadium brought your family out there And it was nice that when you announced that you're coming back to the Yankees You posted the one photo of all you guys on the mound that looked like there's a special moment for you guys Yeah, it's always nice You know the kid my kids are so young right now that try to take as many photos of them at the baseball field as you can The two all-star games. I've been to they're so young like My wife's like you need to make a couple more so they actually like remember them Just keep playing. Yeah, you keep playing keep playing So but those are those are cool memories like getting on the field and son's four now so he knows what's going on and He loves coming to the field and he always asked me. Hey, can I come to the ball ball field with you today? And I'm like, I mean I mean you can yeah, but you can't like I mean daddy's got stuff to do at the field He's like why'd you say you're lucky, you know, I'm like, so I'm looking forward to like when he's a little bit older Like bringing him in and even my daughters too, you know I feel like in baseball we always in Baltimore show Walter That was one cool thing that he did there was a lot of daughters there And he had a whole day in the clubhouse where it was just bringing daughters in the field day That's pretty cool because the girls get left out You know Obviously, it's tough because it's just it's an all-male environment in the club house and stuff But it's still nice when you can bring your daughter in there, too And it's not always You got your daughter the pink glove, right? Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome to see. Yeah, I got her that glove I got my son one last year and my daughter was playing with it all the time and I have another have a newborn daughter So I got to get her one next to seven we'll have the glove but yeah, she likes it She she's into she's into the baseball and she's only two but My wife has some funny videos of her coming to the game. She knows I'm coming in the game and stuff like that We're on TV. So it's cool. I try to keep her involved and You know, I come from a family of all boys.  So always keep her involved So when did the Dominican side come into the Britain family or your like family tree? So We I grew up in Southern California. So When I was younger, I just remember going and seeing we called her mama ultra and she was the one that we'd go down She didn't speak very good English We go down to her house and she'd make us authentic Dominican food and that Dominican side is fascinating How well is your Spanish? It's awful awful. Yeah, that's the hardest part is that I don't speak Spanish So I feel like if I did it'd be easier to explain, you know, how my mom's Dominican and I always thought that'd be pretty cool You know, and I think now it is Just important if you can learn another language, man, you're just so far ahead of the game So, you know a thing or two about the Dominican recipes. What's your go-to? My favorite is like is Moro. So M-O-R-O rice, so it's like a rice and bean mixed together You know, you throw some green all the chopped up green olives in there Like pollo gasado is really good, too But like mom ultra she would she would make a lot when we come there I think she makes them like oxtail and some that and not then you're getting into some like cow tongue stuff that like Like I drew the line there, you know, but my aunt Used to make rice and beans So good some chicken in there, but the pollo gasado too Rice and beans would be my go-to which is obviously a staple over there You had tweeted out big news about the name. I was like back and forth Spelt it with an age spelt it with a K like a K's officially. It's all my birth certificate, right? So all my legal documents with a K driver's license K. It just had been it had been something that I Can blame my parents but And it was just like yeah, you know, we wanted the new to be an age the birth certificate kind of got messed up and just never went to change it, you know and Long story short the the Yankees when they were they sent me my contract over this year They had my name with an age wife being an attorney.  Well, I guess I'll tell him and I called Scott Boris and Hey name of my contract strong and he was like, oh, yeah, you know same thing. He's like, okay We'll make sure we change it one thing led to another like why are you going by an age? You know, I was like the stage name. I don't know like I figured it was a slow free agent market at that time and I was right because That tweet took off more than I ever thought I would for just saying that I was changing one letter of my name It was funny. There's some of the responses I got were great. Actually, there were so many Zaks that You know tweeted at me and commented on that saying that they go through the same stuff all the time You know or even other names too. I thought it was funny like it's not It's a universal problem where people are just like whatever You know, there's always like trolls on any social media But for the most part I would say the interaction with fans on the social media if you do it the right way Is really rewarding you can reach people in other countries, you know Those fans might not be able to travel to see you play or ask you questions. I always find the interaction is pretty positive I think it's it's a great tool to get your message out with where social media stands today in baseball What would you like to see more of it's a good question? I think eventually there's gonna be way more technology in the game, right? because If you know if I'm watching Football if I'm watching basketball if I'm watching hockey or whatever soccer, you know It's always cool done like what are the players thinking? What are they talking about here?  They're mic'ing up an outfield or something like that I think that kind of thing I think fans are interested in that you're interested in that and anything to make the game more interactive for the younger generation of kids because Everything's easy access is so easy, you know, you want as much access as you can get you can interact with fans doing something That's completely non-baseball related Whether it's online gaming or anything like that. I think There's a lot of cool ways to interact with fans nowadays So we're pretty fortunate to play in like this area of where you have that and it'll be crazy You know when my kids when I'm long done playing and it'll be interesting to see how the game is and what The next generation of kids has to deal with from like a social media standpoint. Yeah, it'll be it'll be nuts


Well, perhaps I could go back to the telecom event last year in Dubai. We did have a session on the changing landscape of standardization and one of the key areas for discussion was the impact of convergence on the standardization landscape. Now one of the key components of that is the fact that the demarcation lines between the standards development organizations is blurring and which prompts the need for strengthening collaboration and cooperation among and between organizations in the future. As far as the issues are concerned, there are many cloud computing, smart grid, intelligent transportation systems, M2M, or machine-to-machine are all issues that require enhanced collaboration and cooperation between organizations in the future. So having an opportunity to discuss these kinds of issues such as that telecom 2013 in Bangkok would be very helpful. First the telecom event in Dubai, we had a global standard symposium organized just prior to the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly which was being held the following month and at that symposium we had the opportunity to look at the issue of enhanced collaboration and cooperation among standards development organizations and it was very constructive to have many of the major players involved in the standardization world represented on a panel on collaboration which I had the privilege of moderating. We had for example the director of IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the ISO was represented, IEC was represented and we all have I think a general consensus view that enhanced collaboration is absolutely necessary in the future to deal with these areas of common interest and common concern. Well I think open stand is a term coined by the Internet community but the concept of open standards has been around for quite some time. That's really premised on the need for global solutions to standardization, the need for mutual respect among organizations and certainly this is a key area for enhanced collaboration. So I think in the future these kinds of principles will be first and foremost in establishing the relationships that are necessary for strengthening collaboration in the future. Well I think to explain the value of the telecom event perhaps we could take a few steps back and look at the as I mentioned before the global standards symposium and its results, the WTSA and the outcomes which among other things agreed that a new review committee would be necessary to be established to look at among other things the whole area of enhanced cooperation and collaboration for the future. Now the first meeting of that review committee will take place just prior to TSAG in June on the 3rd of June and it will establish the framework for discussions as to how collaboration can be strengthened in the future. Now from my perspective as TSAG Chairman in order to ensure there's no overlap between the discussions that take place at TSAG and in the review committee one area that I think is very important is to ensure that the discussions in the review committee take place at a macro level to look at such things as the need for memorandum of understanding among standards bodies in the future. TSAG will look at the issue from a micro perspective that is referencing standards from one organization to another looking at existing procedures such as the collaboration guidelines between ITUT and IETF. All of this discussion can be moved forward to telecom 2013 and I would look forward to the opportunity at telecom to continue these discussions given the fact that it will be represented by high level persons from the industry who will be able to take advantage of their perspectives in order to try to reach agreement on how we should proceed in the future. Now I understand that a meeting of Chief Technology Officers is being organized in conjunction with telecom and in addition the second meeting of the review committee will take place as well in Bangkok. So with all these events taking place I'm sure we can have a very beneficial and helpful discussion on how we can move forward in this extremely important area.