Okay, the recording is on. Good morning and welcome everyone to BC310, a course on church and ministry administration. This is our second week in this course and we're going to start getting into more and more details on ministry administration. Alright, may I request somebody to please pray with the class and then we will get started. Who would like to pray this morning? Jay, may I ask maybe Avni, would you like to pray with the class and then we'll start please? Good morning pastor, thank you. Let's pray. Father God, we are so thankful to you for a new morning that has come into our lives as your mercies are renewed every morning. Thank you for fresh mercies and this time we commit everything into your hands thanking you for your blessings, for your provision, for your word that we are going to receive for the knowledge that you own impart through our pastor. We thank you for your presence amidst us and thank you for everything that you're equipping us with so that we are prepared to spread your kingdom around above Father and do the work that you want us to do above Father. We are indeed inspired by the power of your Holy Spirit above Father and continue to hold us and guide us in all the ways. Bless pastor, resolve the students and bless each and every one of us to learn in its fullness and use it for your glory and for your kingdom expansion. We ask this prayer in the precious and matchless name of Jesus, our Saviour, Amen. Amen. Thank you. Good morning once again, welcome everybody. So we're going to just quickly review what we did last week and then move forward from there. So as we go along, lecture by lecture, I will keep sharing the PDFs and usually what I do is I kind of update the content as we go along just based on our interactions and also some developments that happen. So that's why I haven't given you the full notes so it gives me the flexibility to keep updating content. I also shared one recommended reading book. There are many books of course that you could read but this has been the particular book that I shared, the Church Leaders MBA by Mark Smith and David Wright. It's a dated book meaning it was written in 2012 but it was an interesting way, it was put together. It brings in the thoughts of many leaders on various aspects of church administration. So it's a nice compilation of articles. So you can read it if you are interested. I'm not going to... The exams won't be based on content in that book, it will be just based on the course that we do cover that we covered in the course in the lectures but it's for your own benefit but a lot of it you will find that there are common ideas that are discussed and shared in the lectures. So see you, welcome to take time to read it if you can. Yeah, so let's get started. I'm just going to quickly share last week's notes and then we will go forward from there. So last week we got started in talking about the importance of good administration and like we mentioned last week, one of the common struggles people have is coming to terms with the fact that even though we are doing spiritual ministry, whatever that's a local church or any other kind of ministry, which is spiritual and depending on God and depending on the word of God and depending on the Holy Spirit, though we are doing spiritual ministry, we absolutely need good organization and administration. So many people find it difficult to bring these two together. In their minds it's like ministry is everything spiritual. Just organization, administration is very fleshly and worldly and carnal and human and so they tend to just leave it out. But hopefully from what we did last week as we just kind of journeyed through Scripture, the Old Testament and also the New Testament, we can see clearly that ministry truly is spiritual but God himself is a God who wants or who desires good organization and administration that both come from God, right? The spiritual and the practical God anoints and blesses both and we will see some more on that today. And then we also talked about a practical, from a practical perspective, why is administration organization important? What are some common excuses that we might hear from people and this can come even from pastors and Christian leaders and church people who are not very open to organization and administration and so we need to be prepared to give them a sufficient answer. So today hopefully we'll see how far we go. We can do chapter two and three if possible but today I want us to think about what are the objectives of good administration in a local church or any kind of Christian ministry, whether you're doing a youth ministry or a music ministry or a children ministry there's so many different kinds of Christian ministries we can be involved in. All of these ministries like we said need the backing of good organization and good administration. But we should be clear in our minds of what is the purpose of this organization and administration what are the objectives that we are trying to achieve. So we want to kind of do that we will of course start from a spiritual, from a biblical perspective and then come into the practical side. So when we say administration or organization we're talking about all the activities that support the spiritual ministry. That support and undergird the spiritual ministry. Of course Christian ministry is a spiritual ministry we are ministering the word, it may be worship, prayer, caring for people, equipping believers so many so many things spiritually but the objective behind it the objective of the administration is to really support and undergird it so that the spiritual ministry can happen effectively and meaningfully. And just to reiterate, we covered some of this last week but just to reiterate that and I want you to think about this that as far as the church is concerned administration is a spiritual ministry it is a ministry to the Lord and His people. You see, it's a slight change in our perspective a change in our thinking that the person who is doing administrative work organization work many times we don't look at that as a spiritual ministry we think, yeah, He's just doing some natural work but I want us to change our thinking because it's in the Bible and we will look at the same scriptures because it's in the Bible that administration doing that kind of organization providing leadership, structure, vision, motivation all those things that go into administrative type of work is a God ordained function it is a God anointed function and therefore it is a ministry to God from God and for the people so we've got to look at that and we've got to respect people who are doing administrative work organization work with the same kind of respect that we give to somebody who is a preacher who is a worship leader who is doing spiritual ministry of course we respect them all we say they are anointed they are gifted, etc but we need to have that same perspective for people who are doing administrative work organization work now why do we say that? we go back to some of the same scriptures we saw last week and I will just reference them in Romans 12 okay maybe let's just read it a second time somebody can read that Romans 12 well I'll turn to it in my Bible also if you have your Bible you can turn to it as well could somebody read it again I know Avi read it last week but it's good for us to do it again Romans 12 somebody could read verses 6 through 8 please Romans 12 6 through 8 go ahead Romans 12 6 through 8 before I say before I say through the grace given unto me every man that is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think verse 6 you can jump to verse 6 having the giving and the gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith or the ministry let us wait on the ministry and he that teaches on teaching or he that exotted on exotition and he that let him do it with simplicity and he that rulers with diligence and he that show mercy with cheerfulness let love be without thank you so Romans 12 6 through 8 I want to focus on two words the word ministry in verse 7 whoever does ministry let him do it let him focus on that what is the word ministry it simply means service it is a word that is connected to what we refer to what deacons would do right so any kind of serving they could be serving administratively organizationally any kind of ministry again there is the other word leading you are standing in front you are providing leadership and leadership has not only spiritual side to it but it has all the practical organizational side to it so both these in the context of Romans 12 are gifts that have been given to people from God and they are expressions of the grace of God put on people's lives and they are functions that people have in the body so you think about this administration or leadership is a gift, a grace and a function that God has put in the body and therefore it is a ministry unto the Lord it should be it is a spiritual ministry same thing Romans 16 verse 1 and 2 we read about Phoebe if you turn the few pages down to Romans 16 Phoebe we read about her last week she was a servant she was a deacon a minister of the Lord and she was handling verse 2 says Romans 16 2 she was handling some business related things it is most likely some organizational administrative type of work and she is referred to as a servant of the church a spiritual ministry 1 Corinthians 12 28 remember that we saw two keywords there helps and administrations helps and administrations 1 Corinthians 12 28 Paul talks about apostles prophets, teachers workers of miracles, gifts of healings and in that same verse he goes on to talk about helps, administrations, diversities of tongues so helps again it is just service anything that somebody does to support what is being done or assist what is being done helps, administrations and the literal meaning of that word is a steership or a helmsman as they would call it somebody who is in charge of guiding where the ship goes so that is an administrator he is guiding where the ship goes he is a helmsman and you could translate it into modern context as a government somebody is taking care of the governance leadership was a guide as an organizer so all that comes under that whole administrations and again it is all put together in the same verse along with apostles prophets and teachers and so on and finally in 1st Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 to 13 as Paul is talking to writing Timothy about how to take, organize a local church he clearly identifies 2 sets or 2 categories of ministries, bishops and deacons deacons are those who from the context we see in the book of Acts are people who are supporting the spiritual ministry in the church and so if you look at the requirements for deacons they are just about the same as those who are bishops or spiritual ministry the requirements are just about the same except that he doesn't tell deacons to be apt to teach but otherwise what is required of them is to say here again you see that a spiritual elder and a person who is doing practical work in the church both are ordained by God appointed by God and the requirements of their lives are almost the same so we went through these scriptures for one reason to emphasize and to put in our minds that we should not look down on people who are doing administrative organizational type work we would say back end type of work and neither should you because each one of us will be required to do this kind of work especially when you are starting a ministry you would probably writing the accounts you would probably be doing a lot of documentation or reporting organizing, administering and you would be wondering hey I would love to use this time to go and pray or I would love to use all this time to study the Bible of course praying is important studying the Bible is important the necessity if you have to do it don't feel bad it is something God has put in the church and you are doing it for the glory of God until such time somebody else can take up that role you do it and do it heartily to achieve it as unto the Lord so let me just pause you before I go forward to see if there are any thoughts or comments from anybody in the class any questions, any thoughts, any comments let's go forward now we start talking about all the practical stuff so administration you know people generally look at it and it's nice for us to think about it a little bit it's an art it's a science it's also spiritual guilt it's an art because some people seem to naturally have those traits and characteristics and also maybe sometimes because of the way they have been nurtured and taught and trained and so on they have these skills that are needed to work with people to be sensitive to people's needs and so on they have some that innate sense of responsibility they feel very responsible for people, for things for having things put in place so that comes under this whole category of art usually art is something that's innate it comes out of the person and so I'm not saying this cannot be acquired but you find people naturally to them to be very responsible to work with people well to understand people well to be able to organize it seems to come naturally but then administration is also a science meaning you can learn it you know there are skills that we can learn we can learn how to how to organize we can learn how to plan how to establish process put up a budget review performance evaluate data how to analyze and make decisions these are things that can be developed all of us can learn you know so hopefully in this course as we go through this some of these things will be you know some of these skills and of course as we said from a spiritual perspective God anoints God empowers He inspires He gives us idea, He guides us He gives us wisdom He gives us solutions to problems we may face as we go along and all of that so there's the spiritual anointing the gifting that comes from God so we need to look at it from all three perspectives we need to be very good at wonderful develop those gifts make an effort to learn develop the skills you need if things are new and you've never done them before it's okay you can always learn how to do it and at the same time we look to God and say God I know you can anoint me you can empower me you can give me ideas, you can give me wisdom and so we're constantly looking to God in this area and I can just looking back on my own personal journey I can definitely say God that God from time and time again would inspire ideas would inspire strategies there are times when I needed to know how to handle situation in the ministry he would pray, he would give wisdom and then I would be able to you know, carry it out and it would be a good solution so it's just we need to learn to look to God even as we organize and administer the ministry and the area of work God has given to us look to God, pray and he will definitely inspire ideas and wisdom and guide us in this whole process so we're not doing this on our own just for a little clarity sake you know traditionally traditionally but in general management schools or so on there is a distinction between leadership management and administration so leadership typically is involved with vision and strategy influence, organization looking at the organization as a whole management typically is in the operation, the running of a unit or a small department or we could say an area of ministry a specific administration is kind of getting down to a lower level of the actual scheduling the executing, the accountability the teams, the performance all of those kinds of things so we understand the distinction and we are aware of it but in this course for our purposes we are just going to club them all together so I'm not going to address them in three separate distinct categories but there are different things we'll talk about for example, talk about performance reviews or we will talk about motivating people or talk about having a vision strategy all of these things we will be interchangeable for the purpose of this course but then when your organization becomes very big and maybe you have several people maybe even hundreds of people then of course you will break it down into these three distinct areas of work you will have leaders, you will have managers under them or people are doing more of a management type role and then you will have people are doing more of an administrative type of role but in this course we are just going to be interchangeable to keep things a little fluid and not to worry too much about the distinctions okay so let's get in here now we're coming down to the ministry side of it what are the objectives from a Christian ministry point of view okay what should a good administration a good organization actually be doing or accomplishing I like to capture it in this little graphic here so what we are trying to do is we are trying to develop or what we must be doing in a good organization in a good administration we must be developing people okay because ultimately it's people who are doing the work so we have to make sure that whatever organization we put together and whatever structure we have and all of that it is building people up it's developing people bringing out their developing their skills helping them learn helping them grow helping them become better we're developing people and then you're also establishing systems we will explain we'll get into the details of this as we go along different functioning units you're establishing systems that comprise this entire organization you're putting in place and within those systems there are lots of processes happening every day and so you want to make these processes very efficient you want to fine tune the process and then you also want to allocate resources which is money, time people of course you have people already there you have to allocate money and make sure that money is being spent properly not wasted and so on so when you have all of this together you're developing people you're putting systems processes and resources together for what purpose to put them together so that there is alignment there is efficiency and this productivity in the activities of the ministry which are aligned to the goals vision of the ministry so that's what the whole purpose behind the organization is the whole purpose behind the administration so if you say why are you thinking of having a good organization why are you thinking of having good administration it's for this purpose that we have the people, the systems resources all put together and keep them aligned keep them efficient, keep them productive so that they can serve the overall vision and goals of the ministry you know the ministry could be a local church it could be any other kind of Christian ministry you're doing but this is the reason behind us wanting to have a good organization and good administration okay so this our motivation and of course the vision and the goals of the ministry are served well then what happens God is glorified and people are blessed lives are blessed, lives are touched that's the ultimate outcome of having this good administration and functioning so we are assuming of course that there is a vision for the ministry so this is very important we will talk about it in our next chapter that the vision of that local church or that Christian ministry is clear they have a clear overall vision and they have identified goals that they're going to pursue and of course these things could be refined as time progresses and in many cases they will be refined because the world around us is dynamic it's changing it's the needs around us are changing while the vision may remain the same the goals that they pursue that are pursued time to time could be refined and modified it's okay but as those goals are refined and modified everything else that is backing up the activities that are backing up the pursuit of those goals should also come into alignment and should be fine tuned to become efficient and productive towards achieving those goals so the organization itself is not static it's not like you know okay I put everything in place once and it's going to serve well for the rest of time not necessarily so because while the vision of the organization may remain constant the goals the way that vision is expressed in real life can be dynamic and change and therefore the organization must adapt must be fine tuned maybe new systems maybe need to be put in place so that everything stays aligned there is efficiency and productivity towards those goals let me just maybe cover a little bit more and then pause for some questions so when we're talking about organization and administration there are three broad categories of skills that we need and that doesn't mean the pastor has to have all this obviously not but it means that we need to assemble the right kind of people to make sure this happens so we need people's skills we need to develop and nurture and motivate and care for people so that they are able to give their best day to day you know in Christian ministry can be one of those ministries sadly where the highest burnout rate happens because in Christian ministry what happens is people tend to just give sacrificially I mean give of themselves their time, their energy they just sacrifice they don't think about giving of themselves they don't pause to think about I'm doing this for God I'm doing this for people, it's true but then they don't and we will talk about this later that we need to care for the people because as people we need to be renewed ourselves otherwise we will drain ourselves of the emotional, spiritual energies that we need and so sadly both people who are serving God and the leaders who are leading the people they only think in terms of sacrifice sacrifice, give you know just give just give you're doing this for God you know go the extra mile sacrifice and we keep on giving and we don't pause to think that I need to be renewed I need to be refreshed I need to be developed I need to be cared for I need to learn some new skills whatever you know we don't pause to think about that and so what happens there's a high rate of burnout and this especially happens in Christian ministry either they burn out or the life is just cut short sooner than it should be because of overwork and so on so part of the organization administration is you know we should be careful with people who are working in the organization we need to take good care of them the second part is having to do with organizational skills or conceptual that is you need to be able to envision what is the right system what is the right process that I need to have in my organization what is this thing done so example Sunday morning you're having a service every Sunday almost every Sunday new people come to church they come and visit the Sunday service now I'm talking about a local church now as an example okay, new people come now what are you going to do with them how are you going to follow up with them how are you going to invite them back how are you going to just find out who they are and see if they are interested in exploring more about the local church you know so you got to think okay what can I do well first of all you need to identify who are the new people any Sunday morning how will you identify them then you need to be able to connect with them so what are ways that you can connect with them and then new people come to the Sunday service if you think you're an example you have a church of 200-300 people sitting there or maybe more and even if 10 new people come in how are you going to spot those new people how are you going to connect with them how are you going to make them feel welcome and how are you going to give them an opportunity to connect with at least one person in the congregation how are you going to be able to follow up with them if they are interested in coming back or see if they have a need that the church could be of some help too right and how are you going to follow up with that so somebody has to think through on this conceptually that means first they got to think through okay you know this is the place where we are working with these are the kind of people so this is what they'll be comfortable with and then they need to put in a process to address this area of welcoming new people and following up with them connecting them so it starts off with a very conceptual how are you going to conceptualize a solution for this how are you going to put it in place and then follow up and make sure that it's working fine and then the refinement changes if it's not working always why it's not working and refine it okay so you continue to review and improve this so I'm just giving one example but like this in a local church or in any kind of ministry there are lots of areas that we need to look at and come up with a solution put something in place to address that particular need that needs to be addressed then lastly in terms of organization we need execution skills which is a technical skill that means you need to put the right people to do this this has to be the allocation of time and money and then you need to analyze whether it's actually happening in many cases you can look at numbers and then you think about how you can improve the outcome this is a little bit of technical skill and in allocating things you may use technology you may use different kinds of solutions to address the need and so on so you need the right kind of people with the right kind of skills so in administration you're doing all of this not necessarily you but you're bringing people together who can address these various areas of skills that are needed to make the administration, organization become very good okay let me pause here and see if everybody's are we all together any questions so far any thoughts, any questions hello pastor, this is Charles hey Charles, how are you doing doing well at the stage we are in it is the stage of listening and paying attention and trying to process these things and seeing them trying to look forward to see how these things can be applied so we might have fewer questions thank you okay okay, understand that Larry please good morning sir I've been nothing here because it's it's kind of different, it feels different because I worked in somewhere for about nine years as administrator and the times when there were consistent burnout but you were in between the continuity of the work and your context of being faithful to the work many contexts of because it's a spiritual work it always had this connotation of God does not take your rest or God does not go on breaks and you felt that you were burning out and you needed to refresh but it always seemed that that gap that you lived in those moments very crucial to the organization so it's always like, well let's say it's a place for most pastors where their staffs have to find a way to live life and at the same time work to work that they are supposed to work so is it a theme of how do I say something I'm also trying to ask a question from a pastor perspective how do you balance those kind of moments okay, very good so here's what we do at APC so what we tell all our staff including myself starting from me all of us we have to work 40 hours a week minimum and you're not expected to work more than that I mean if you work more than what working more than that so everybody's expected to work minimum 40 hours a week that means every 7 days you work 40 hours how you do the 40 hours is up to you right and now for those of us who are pastors Sundays would be a work day because we may do 2 services sometimes more then Saturdays would be a full day so our day off would be a Monday or some other day of the week so basically we say all our staff each person works 40 hours you take whatever day you want off during the week just keep your team and keep others informed so they know how to coordinate with you so that way if and secondly if you work more than 40 hours any week so example in blocks of 4 because 4 is half a day of work so if you work more than 40 hours a week any week you are requested to take the extra hours off immediately the next week or as soon as you want so it is accumulated towards you so example if I work 48 hours this week because out of necessity I needed to work more then that 8 hours extra is credited to my account it is all tracked in our system it is credited there and I can take the 8 hours off from work anytime so I could take a day off from work the next week we call it compensatory off because you have worked more last week you can take it off and in addition to that every staff is given these public holidays and they are given my numbers may be a little off now but I think 5 or 6 days of sick leave 15 days of vacation leave and if you work beyond 2 years then you are given 20 days of vacation leave so every staff is given that and now it is up to basically we are encouraging them every calendar year take these days off so basically what we have already put in place is a system where people are encouraged to rest so you are working you are doing Christian ministry but you are important you are only expected to work 40 hours a week if you work more than that take the time to rest so we are and sometimes I tell my staff, I tell people if I see them working, I say hey take a break, go sometimes I force them to take a break and it is what Jesus did in Mark 6 when he saw his disciples working a lot in Mark 6 and I am just looking at verse 31 he told his disciples come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while so he saw that his disciples were very busy and he told them to rest even the Lord Jesus did that for his own team so I think if he put these things in place then people understand that they are important and then we give a lot of other things benefits like for every staff 10,000 rupees are to spend on their own education every year so they can do any course of course related to work any course is related to their work and they can get reimbursed 10,000 rupees every year they can attend any bible college course for free so every semester they can take up to two courses for free and be considered as part of their work hours any staff can attend any week in school and that will also be considered as part of their work hours so it's all part of what we are saying is look your development is also important spiritual and practical development is important so it becomes part of that then every month we have a staff meeting where we do a little bit of training so one hour of training all the staff attend and the training could be on some practical things communication planning, strategizing, execution all these different practical topics everybody attend all the staff so this is kind of telling them that look you as a person are important you growing and developing yourself is important so I think if we in the organization if we build it into we want to run the organization then they will automatically people understand the importance of you know renewing themselves whether physically practically or developing themselves you know by learning new skills and so on and they will realize that it's not just about sacrifice and work and work and work all the time but they need to be taking care of themselves so we will get into all these details as we go forward I'm sorry for the long answer to your question but I hope Yes sir I think what you are trying to say if I understand is that it boils down to policy and systems and there are the administrative structures that's put in place for both staff and the ministries Yes Yes Okay we have time for one more question before the break Sri Kumar, I see your hand raised please go ahead Thank you master I just want clarification on one thing like as many especially I don't know what other country but especially India we don't take this management thing as a spiritual as you know in the beginning as we were discussing so in that case when you are ministering in a church and you are serving in a church and your pastor does not give much value to these things and when you know the truth so in that case how we will implement these things because the pastor is not at all the pastor is more focusing on the spiritual thing not on this area so in that case how we will be able to handle the things or how we can survive there hmm Interesting question hmm how what would you do in a situation like that I will share my thoughts and maybe others on the class may have other ideas I mean if possible I am not saying this will always work but if possible it's nice to have a conversation with the pastor and all in one area so you can always use one example so in one area where there is a need in that church ministry in that one area you can say pastor why don't you know the goal is to help the pastor see the value of organization and good administration and to help him understand that this is of God it's not against God it's not against the work of the spirit but it is from the Holy Spirit so of course we can show him you know share if it's possible share from the word and then give an example like a demo in one area in this one area let us organize let us plan well you know assign one or two people see how it goes and if he sees how sees the result of good organization in one area of ministry then he is likely to buy into that idea right and he sees that look there is prayer happening of course we are praying we are doing spiritual ministry but it is being backed up by good administration and if he can see it then he is most likely to say if it works in one area then it can work in all the other areas so that is one thing that I would try if possible as a way to introduce now I will just open it up to others in the class they may have other ideas so if anybody would like to respond to Shri Kumar's question with some other ideas so Christopher another question we will pick it up right after this anybody has any other ideas for Shri Kumar his question is if the pastor is only focused on spiritual ministry not interested in administration how can you introduce it to the pastor so that he will do it in the church or ministry with other ideas go ahead Roshan Roshan go ahead I feel what as you said pastor I mean showing to the pastors from the scriptures from the word of God our administration is actually stewardship not just about the revelations that God gives us but also you know how to handle things I believe it's I mean it would be so nice to open up those things that in the scriptures show them examples of Bezalayel and Hulayab how God gave them wisdom and knowledge and understanding what God had given to Moses so basically the pastor has to I feel has to come to that understanding through the scriptures I think that will be that will be the key thing that will just open up the pastor and then the other like you know just so the other things just comes in good good good thank you for sharing Charles do you have some thoughts for the response to Shrikumas question yes I am looking at when our brother was sharing the one who has been sharing and I was looking at the scholarly work also need this to be involved yes Jesus is good so he would do things because he is good he has all the scholarly work it requires but we look at other people so you would talk to the pastor and you look at the person like Paul he used his scholarly work to do the spiritual part so there are other people like Peter who didn't study and did the spiritual work but there are others that have done the scholarly work in the current dispensation the spiritual might not work as a single unit so the pastor would be to understand that the part of the administration thing will involve also some other things of studying deep studying deep working together in partnership with the Holy Spirit but also the scholarly work is also needed thank you thank you so what Charles is saying is that given the times in which we are living in we need to in the pastor should understand that we need to bring both in together the spiritual and the scholarly aspect of things last Kennedy did you have your hand raised or yeah I don't have my contribution am I audible am I audible yes you are audible yeah I think my contribution towards Shep Kumar's idea is that you take advantage of the small groups they have small groups in the church then try and benchmark what things where people are agreeable thank you so perhaps I know I have the smaller groups try and share ideas and you know see what's happening and that they can present it to the pastor okay we'll pause here I see comments there from Tarun which is gift him a relevant book to read which I think is a good thing to do you know sometimes that's a nice way a very gentle way of introducing him to the importance of church administration a book that combines scripture with these practical things about administration yeah Roshan says tell him to join this course and that's an option I don't know how he'll do it okay so what we're going to do is we're going to go for a break thank you all for sharing your thoughts it's nice to hear from everybody and learn from each other we'll go for a break, we'll come back I know we have to take Christopher's question and there's also who's Kennedy says we'll talk about privacy so we will see what that's about so we have two questions which we will pick up right after the break back in 10 minutes, see you soon thank you


Throughout my life I've increasingly found that reading Scripture in public isn't just about feeding our own spirits and minds, but about rehearsing the mighty acts of God for God's glory. So let's think together about Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 1. And first, let's have some tea. For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. My father once told me to my surprise that his favourite book of the Bible was Ecclesiastes I've never met anyone else who's said that, but I think looking back on my father's life I understand why it was. And indeed this passage, Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1-8, was hanging up as a little picture beside my father's desk because my mother, knowing it was important to him, had done needlepoint, had stitched it together into a beautiful little coloured picture to everything there is a season, a time for every matter, every purpose under heaven. The passage goes on, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted, and so on and so on. I think the reason this meant what it did to my father came from his reflection on the way his life had worked out. He lost two uncles in the Great War, the First World War. My grandfather's brother and brother-in-law were both killed in the 1914-18 war. Then my father growing up through the 20s and 30s was kind of inured to the fact there might well be another war and when it showed up in 1939 he signed up and by 1940 he was a prisoner of war and at the age of, in his early 20s, he found himself as a guest of Adolf Hitler being moved around Europe, Austria, Germany, Poland. Even with minimal food, if any, and often in bad conditions and thirsty as well as hungry and cold and tired and particularly the sense of not knowing whether there would ever be a future of the thought that he had imagined when he was growing up. And then after the end of the war when he was astonishingly released and came back home about literally half the body weight that he had been before and within a year or two he had married my mother and first my sister and then I came along. But times were hard, there was still food rationing and the work that he was doing in a small family business was very hard and not guaranteed to make very much money but verses like this kept him going and I think this was rooted in his experiences during the war that he had learned through the worship in the camps, through the singing of the Psalms, through the teaching that he'd received from some clergy who were in the camps, he had learned that actually we are not given to understand the great sweep of God's purposes. It's been easy for people of my generation to imagine, oh well, through the 50s and 60s, things are getting better, the world is getting more prosperous, the Western world is a happy place, we have all kinds of stuff going on and we can put the bad times behind us. Well, I think in the 21st century we have learned that that ain't necessarily so and the old book of Ecclesiastes has a lot to teach us about the gritty wisdom of saying, yes, there is a time for this, there is a time for that. Our task is to be faithful, not to try to understand everything from the beginning to the end because if we do that we'll either go mad or we'll become very arrogant and imagine that we have the key to it all, which we probably don't. One of my father's hobbies was making and mending clocks. And I think this was closely tied to this passage. There is a time for this, a time for that. My father had clocks which were set so that there was a little bell that would ring, whether it was time for lunch or whatever it was. And he kind of took pleasure in the fact that there was a time, there was a time for this and a time for that. And I see in that with great gratitude, a sense of wisdom, not the wisdom which understands everything, but the wisdom which says, God understands it all and we simply have to be faithful and patient and follow where he leads. So may God give you faith and patience to know that there is a time for every purpose of God, to wait for God's time, to take it when it arrives, to be grateful and faithful without necessarily understanding where it's all going. Amen. How is this passage speaking to you? Let us know in the comments. Like and subscribe or check out our other videos.


This is stock number 9C25A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Pacifica headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2019 Chrysler Pacifica Limited. This vehicle has the award-winning 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 motor and from this HD video you will be able to tell that this van is like new all the way around. Luxury white pearl coat is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the van with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person. This one comes with the 20 inch painted alloy rims, Falcon ZX tires. These are 24550R20 tires and they had just about all the tread left. Very low miles on this van. You can see it has the LED running lights, the projector lamp, head lamps, the LED fog lamps, no dense dings, scuffs or scrapes on this front bumper. Absolutely perfect. Passengers side fender, no denser dings on that and the passenger side, excuse me, passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that. As you go down this side of the van you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the van, hear the van and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. See it has a third row skylight as well as the hideaway roof rails and once again down this side I didn't see any dense or dings. Very very clean down that side. This back rim is an excellent condition as well, no scuffs or scrapes and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Going down this side and to the back rear bumpers in excellent condition as well. This one has the S appearance group which gives you those painted black 20 inch rims. You also get the grayed out Chrysler emblem and the grayed out limited badge. It says a power lift gate on it. Back storage area is very clean. This here is the piece for the Stoen vac system so this is actually the hose for that vacuum and it has power third row fold down seats so to stow them just go like that and they'll fold down and then they'll fold into the floor. Gotta take that out first but they'll go down like so. It's all automated and then if it senses that's there's something in there it'll actually stop and go back so that doesn't crush anything. Kind of a neat system.  Just like so.  You can really see that pearl coat in the paint there. If you got your HD videos capabilities on it. Down this side just as clean as a passenger side no dents or dings. This back rim no scuster scrapes for full disclosure. You can really see the pearl coat right there and it does have the capitalist fuel fill. If you've never used that it's pretty nice stuff. Never get gas on your hands again and down this side very very clean no dents no dings has built in directional signals blind spot monitoring heated mirrors you get the enter and go system power sliding side doors second row heated quad seating no rips or tears in the seats they got the gray piping or tubing on it and to get to the third row it is kind of fold up like so you can see that the back carpeting is very clean and those third row seats no rips or tears on them don't even know if they've ever been saddened actually. 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at plus 126 to make the playoffs. I think that they are a pretty good bet. My wind total projections factor in the fact they're facing hands city twice. And they haven't been at 9.7. That is the highest among the teams not projected to win their division right ahead of Miami and Cleveland. So firmly in the wildcard hunt, plus money here, plus 126, I think this is the best market to get the chargers at. I think they should be a team that puts up a lot of wins this year and should be in contention for a wildcard spot, even though I don't expect them to be a true contender to push the cheese in the West.


Hi guys, welcome to another vlogmas video today. We are going to be decorating my room as you can see my room is a little It's not too messy also before I get comments Why do I have a microwave and refrigerator in my room? It's because when I was at university I lived in a dorm and we got this stuff. We don't have anywhere else to put it so it lives here It's just how it is it's actually really convenient especially when we have hurricane season because normally my family like comes over If there's a hurricane and stuff and we have extra space to put things and we can also cook Like different microwavable foods in this microwave as well as the one in my kitchen So it's actually really convenient to have but that is why I have that I just want to explain that before this video officially starts room is complete I absolutely love how it turned out this year. It looks the same almost every year But I just thought I would show you guys the 2020 version So on this wall we have like just pictures of memories and I actually destroyed this on accident So I now have two little decor pieces This was a little mistletoe and this was attached to it, but it broke off So I just made another cute little decoration. We also have the big bow. That's like my favorite bow We've had that bow for a long long time coming over to my bed. This is what it looks like I took this pillow from our living room I should get new like garland stuff to put on the sides like a greenery But I just don't know guys like at this rate. It looks fine. I kind of like the way it looks It's like this every year. So I'm just gonna leave it. This is my favorite part of my room This is my little mini Christmas tree I literally just shove it in my closet get it out every year a couple of ornaments fall off But then I just put them back on I got all of this stuff I think from Target really convenient easy simple. This is one my little favorite ornaments here I have a little Starbucks bag and then I have a little bow here Obviously the little star I put the clock here just because I thought it complimented the room really well This I got from an old co-worker for my birthday So I just decided I'd put it on the tree of my body lotion over there This is my favorite lotion if you're wondering you can get on Amazon is by the Weston Hotels It smells so good. The scent is white tea alloy Allo, whatever you want to say, but it's so nice smells so good And it brings back like such good memories from when I did like dance competitions and stuff my little peep I love peeps. They're so cute. And this is a Christmas themed one I really like this because normally peeps are associated with Easter and this one's a Christmas themed one So I just put him there chilling out and then we have my candle I think that was for my cousin from my birthday and the little tree skirts also for my cousin So all of the tree toppers also for my cousin again. I've already addressed this situation So I'm not gonna go into it yoga mat always lives here. This is my pajamas That is the list of secret Santa pairs that I have so I will not be showing that my hello sign That is so random. Honestly, I I guess I had nowhere else to put it or whatever But I thought it was really cute. So it's just there. This is also another one of my favorite things I actually just got done dusting. I don't know if you saw on the other clips, but it was like super dusty I should just talk to you guys like this dusting is my least favorite like chore. So every time I Update my room decor. I tend to dust just cuz you know, keep everything fresh and it just I don't know I've kind of just set that for myself because I hate dusting It's my least favorite out of all the chores. I'd rather do dishes laundry vacuum Anything but dust but I did dust for you guys today and half for myself. So this is my little tray Those are my grandparents. They have passed away I always keep this here because I really like it the photo in the frame actually came with the tray because this this whole this set the picture and the Tray was my grandma's so I don't know It's just really nice to have here and it matches really well at this little teddy bear. These are just earrings I like to keep them for easy access. So if I'm like going somewhere, I'll just like throw them on I have my little Christmas tree. This is from snow village. It's like a collection that you can get it Like I don't know like Hallmark. We have a big collection, but we don't have any place to put it at our old house It was so pretty. I don't know if I could try to find a picture. Yeah, it's really cute little town But I stole one of the trees because I like it as decor. This is a little bell I don't know if you guys remember when we went on the polar express It's not really focusing and wants to focus on that picture But this is my polar express bell if you haven't seen that video I'll link it down below, but that was such a fun time with my family and stuff We all went on this polar express a little adventure on a train and we all got bells So I decided since it was Christmas time to just put the little bell out so it's easier to be seen This is my perfume. I only really wear this on like special occasions and stuff But it smells so good. It's tobacco vanilla by Tom Ford. You can get it on Amazon. It's like kind of expensive That's another reason why I just like I'll only use it for like special occasions my little teddy bears here This is a little selenite crystal ball I know it's super random, but I love this like the look of that like I just think it's really pretty and I got it from a youtuber. I follow manda 31409 She like sells crystals sometimes and stuff. So I got that and it honestly looks like a little snowball So I just kept it there. It always lives there. Um coming down here. It's not too exciting I just keep the stuff here so I can have some decor I hate the stuff because this is the stuff that gets really Dusty and stuff. This is all my jewelry pieces like my most commonly worn jewelry I just keep it here. So it's not like all messy and This is a perfume. I don't even know if it's still good or not. Honestly, I just keep it for decor It was a juicy couture and had this like hot pink bow I love that color hot pink, but it just really didn't match here. So I took it off This is just a random trinket with like more jewelry pieces and stuff guys who remembers the eye dog And when I was cleaning I broke off the tail. So that's super sad But I don't know I just keep it here again because it matches I begged for that for a long long time a long time ago back there It's just like memory stuff like cards and like like invitations to like weddings and I don't know just memorabilia But I love that because it like keeps everything organized and tucked away. This is my favorite candle Um, I got this for my birthday three years ago. The scent is harvest pumpkin and I absolutely love that It's like smells like fall. I don't know the best way to describe it It's just it's fall and a candle and I absolutely love it. Um, this is my fake Cartier stuff Honestly, I'm debating on getting rid of this So let me know if you would want to like do a giveaway with this or like if anyone wants to buy this and like is watching this video Contact me on instagram. I never wear this that bracelet.  Um, I got it in a package with a crystal and then this is my little an sign I don't know. I just I thought it was cute and then the last little cubby hole We have the little box that my perfume came in this old-fashioned perfume thing this Little fake topiary thing that I got from Target And then that little a that I think I got from anthropology I think I forgot to dust the sides of these things which really sucks I'm not gonna do that and then I think this is the last like part Um in my room, which is this mirror looks good because I just dusted it and it's all looking brand new Uh, this is where I take a lot of my photos and stuff I'm actually gonna start setting up my camera because I'm gonna film my favorite christmas ornaments video I've been wanting to do this video for quite a while now probably since last year So, I mean might as well get on that today is saturday So might as well be productive in the youtube world. I don't know. I think I say this every time But if you guys are wondering what camera I use I use the canon 70d There's a lot more updated cameras these days, but I got this one in 2015 This is what the lens looks like. It's a sigma 1.4. This is the really old version of this lens I got it off of ebay from a pawn shop. I think or some like camera shop I don't know. I got it for a pretty good price. It's kind of old, but it still does the job All right, and then this is the new microphone I think I've already shown you guys when I like unboxed it and stuff But it's the road video mic pro. Here's a little tripod. I actually have two tripods They're both kind of broken which is interesting, but again, they get the job done right So I'm thinking I'm gonna eat something and then start filming Okay, so I totally failed showing you guys the food But it was just my chicken little meal from fit life, which you've seen a million times I think um, so I just had lunch had a little shake as well And now we are going to be filming my Christmas ornaments video that I've been wanting to film for a while Even turned on the fairy lights almost never turn these on because I feel like the batteries are running out Anyway, but I just wanted to put some more Christmas cheer in the video And yeah, so I guess we are going to get to filming. Okay, so I just got done Filming my video and now I'm just going to be editing probably the rest of the day I just got done watching like some of adeline and sierra's vlogs lord diy I love watching their vlogmas vlogs I honestly like think it would be like super fun like hang out with them Like I don't know if they like me or not, but you know, I like watching their videos So that's all that matters. My goal is to edit three videos today like vlogs and stuff Um, I don't know if that's gonna be possible But I really need to I have tomorrow also to edit and stuff But I just want to get like a lot of editing done and stuff Because obviously you guys know I work Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. I don't edit or film those days really I really want to do a work week in my life like to share like what I do Because a lot of you guys are curious about that. So I'm still thinking and tossing that around in my head Like what should I show? What should I not show and stuff? Um, just because you know, I don't know I love to keep like work and personal life like separate. So yeah, I'm still debating on that But right now I'm just going to edit my videos And try to get as far as I can before dinner I've successfully edited and almost uploaded two videos. I have one more to go That was like my goal for today to just get everything under control So I just have one more to do and then I'm gonna eat probably and then maybe after dinner I'll do like the thumbnails and description box and stuff and if you didn't already know I do have an affiliate With two buddy two buddies an amazing company that helps you optimize your videos So check it out if you have your own channel or whatever. My link is in the description box. This is not sponsored at all I'm just mentioning it to you. Um, but yeah, I'm going to finish up I have one more video to edit and get on youtube and then I'm going to eat. Yes I love it when I'm like super productive and I'm like on top of everything. It's the best feeling in the world Also, I got a package. So I'm so excited to open it. I don't even know what it is It's some package from amazon. We'll see we'll do that after I edit this video This one shouldn't take too long, which I'm happy about. It's my unboxing video Okay, so we have officially finished the third video of the day. I'm so happy Goals are met. Well, not completely because I want to I want to get them all scheduled I'll have the tags the description box all done Um, but I can do that after dinner and it doesn't take a long time to do that Okay, so I'm actually going to do the opposite with this box because This is a present from my aunt most likely. So I'm going to be wrapping this I'll probably wrap it tomorrow just so we can like have some content. Um, but yes I thought that it was something else, but it's clearly not. Um, it's from my aunt to me I hope I'm not doing anything bad to it by tipping it up like this But I don't want to show any addresses. So I will probably end up wrapping this tomorrow I'm glad that my mom texted me and reminded me that aunt wendy was getting me something or else I would have just torn in this box.  So what I have here is my egg whites celery There's only two more shortbread cookies in here as you oh, whoa I just dropped it in this little box. So I just brought the box in and then I have some triskets I love triskets, especially the garden herb or the Garlic, there's like a roasted garlic. That's really really good. Okay. So I got the three videos I wanted to get done all done.  So if you guys enjoyed this, make sure you give it a thumbs up Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys in and I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye


This is the new 2022 Hyundai Accent, which I just got done reviewing, and so I will leave a link, of course, to this particular review at the end of this video, but as you guys may or may not already know, I recently got done reviewing the new Mitsubishi Mirage, which is also a subcompact and very similar in many ways to the new Hyundai Accent. For example, they both come with America's Best Warranty, being 5 years, 60,000 miles bumper to bumper, 10 year, 100,000 miles on the powertrain. They both, of course, are subcompacts, and they both offer an incredible value as well, but that is not what this video is about. This is going to be highlighting the 10 key differences between both the 2022 Hyundai Accent and the new Mitsubishi Mirage, and so in this video, I will be doing a countdown working my way from 10 all the way to 1 with a clear winner at the end. So let me know what you guys think in the comments section below at the end of this video, which one you would pick, and having said that, what do you guys say, let's just go ahead and get started with number 10 on my list. Alright, and so to start out this comparison here, I'm going to start with the price comparison because this may be the most important comparison when you're comparing these two very affordable subcompact cars, and so to start with the Hyundai Accent, that is going to be priced at $17,670 for that bottom trim level being the SE, and by the way, that price does include the destination charge, so I did want to include that because it is going to be on the window sticker, so you might as well. Then taking a look at the Mitsubishi Mirage, that one is going to start at $16,290 for the G4ES, G4 being the sedan version because the Mirage actually does offer both a hatchback and sedan form where the Accent only offers the sedan, but again, that does include the destination charge, so Mitsubishi Mirage is going to be less expensive between these two, putting us at a score of one to nothing, Mirage is in the lead. So next comparison, I wanted to compare the power differences between these two, and so the Hyundai Accent is going to come with a 1.6 liter naturally aspirated inline 4 cylinder, putting out 120 horsepower at 6,300 rpm, 113 pound-feet of torque, coming in at approximately 4,800 rpm, 0 to 60 time for the Accent comes in at 8.5 seconds, which is plenty respectable for a subcompact. But then taking a look at the Mitsubishi Mirage, powering that little beast is a 1.2 liter naturally aspirated inline 4 cylinder, 76 horsepower at 6,000 rpm, 74 pound-feet of torque coming in at 4,000 rpm, coming in at a pretty substantial difference there, 0 to 60 time coming in at 10.6 seconds. That's a pretty big difference, 2 seconds slower to 60, and so a lot of people ask me why is this so important, it might not be important quite honestly if you're just doing strictly city driving, but if you're like me and you constantly have to merge onto the highway through very short on-ramps here in Pennsylvania, you're going to need a little quicker acceleration time in my personal opinion, so I will say the Hyundai Accent is going to win this one, putting us at a score of 1 to 1, we are all tied up. Next on my comparison list and in another one, a lot of people are going to be looking at is the MPG numbers, and so when it comes to the Hyundai Accent, miles per gallon come in at 33 in the city, 41 on the highway, plenty respectable there, Mr. Bishi Mirage comes in at 36 in the city, 43 on the highway, so Mirage is going to be more fuel efficient not only in the city but on the highway as well, and by the way both of these take regular unleaded fuel sets, the cheapest gas when you go to the gas station, so it's going to be helpful as well, but overall Mirage is going to win that comparison, putting us at a score of 2 to 1, Mirage is back in the lead. So next comparison on my list is going to be the rear legroom comparison, Hyundai Accent comes in at 33.5 inches, for reference I mean even 6 feet tall, this is me sitting behind my own driving position here in the Accent, then on the other hand Mr. Bishi Mirage is going to come in at 34.2 inches again, me sitting behind my own driving position, both of them on camera look pretty much the same to be honest, but that Mirage does give you a little bit more rear legroom, so got to give this one yet again to the Mirage 3 to 1, Mirage is in the lead. Next on the comparison here is going to be the tech and this is always a big one for me, I'm definitely a big tech guy, both come with analog gauges and plenty of charging ports, the Hyundai Accent gives you a 5 inch color touchscreen display for the SE trim level actually that I'm showing you guys right now, and then a 7 inch color touchscreen display for the SEL Unlimited so the 2 trim levels above that, Android Auto Apple CarPlay then is only going to come on the 7 inch color touchscreen display for the Hyundai Accent, so the top 2 trim levels there, then when you're taking a look at the Mirage there is actually a 7 inch color touchscreen display that comes standard for all trim levels across the board and so I actually had the bottom trim level here in the Mirage in this video, the bottom trim level for both vehicles so it's a good comparison, but I did like seeing that, I didn't expect that and actually Android Auto Apple CarPlay comes standard on all trim levels as well with the Mirage, so that is definitely a good thing and for that reason Mirage is going to take the tech advantage in this comparison, putting us at a score of 4 to 1, Mirage is in the lead. And so next on my list is going to be the safety comparison, a very important one of course because of course you want to be completely safe when you're driving in these cars, but Hyundai Accent is actually going to be an IIHS top safety pick if you were to go with the limited trim level only, forward collision avoidance assist also comes with that LED headlights for the very top trim level only being that limited trim level, but then taking a look at the Mirage it is not an IIHS top safety pick and I'll explain why in a second here, but also comes with forward collision avoidance assist also gives you LED headlights on that top trim level being the SE trim for the Mirage, but the reason being the reason the Mirage wasn't a top safety pick is because of the small overlap front driver side crash test score which was a marginal according to IIHS. So for that reason it wasn't able to do that. So the Hyundai Accent is going to take the win because of that when it comes to safety, putting us at a score of 4 to 2, Mirage is still in the lead. So next on my comparison is going to be the braking differences here. And so this one is actually pretty substantial. And so front disc rear drum brakes for the SE trim level that I was actually driving in this particular video, four wheel disc brakes though coming with the SEL and limited. So I do like that that's offered producing a 60 to 0 stopping distance coming in at 119 feet. So if you have to come to a quick stop on the highway, that is actually not too bad of a number right there. Very respectable. Then taking a look at the Mirage front disc rear drum brakes for all trim levels across the board. There's no four wheel disc brakes offered with the Mirage. Unfortunately, 60 to 0 stopping distance coming in at 127 feet. And I strictly remember driving the Mirage and thinking it had one of the softest braking feels I've driven in quite a while. So definitely not a good feel to the braking in my personal opinion. You have to really stop on it to make it come to a quicker stop. And maybe it's because of those front disc rear drums. But anyways, all in all, the Hyundai Accent is going to take the braking comparison, putting us at a score of 4 to 3, Mirage still in the lead. And so next comparison, let's go ahead and take a look at this sound system. So it's going to be a little bit of a difference here. So I want to mention it. Hyundai Accent comes with four speakers for the SE trim and then six speakers for the SEL and limited trim levels. And so having said that, I always test out the sound systems in every review that I do. So let me pause real quick and let me play that clip of the four speaker sound system that we had in our SE trim here. But so then moving on to the Mitsubishi Mirage here, when it comes to the speakers, four speakers will come standard on every single trim level across the board. So yet again, let me let you guys take a quick listen to that sound system. So overall, since I did test four speakers in both of those cars, they weren't really all that great to be honest. But I will say the Hyundai Accent does offer a six speaker sound system. And I remember testing that in the 2021 Accent review that I did. But the Mirage does not, unfortunately. So I got to give this one yet again to the Accent, putting us at a score of four to four, it is all tied up with two comparisons left to go. And so next comparison, I wanted to have a little bit of fun with this one. To be quite honest, it surprised me. And so I had to put it on the list. This is the fun one. This is going to be the exhaust note. And so I know it's not going to be a big deal to everyone, but you got to listen. So I do, of course, always do an exhaust clip. So let me play these two back to back and listen and tell me which one you guys think is the better exhaust note in the comment section below. Let's do this. And so in my personal opinion, after hearing those two, I think the Mirage has a much deeper exhaust note. It almost kind of sounded like maybe a non-modified Lancer evolution or something from back in the day. It sounded wonderful. So this might be a little bit subjective, but not really. I think you guys would agree with me. And the Mirage is going to take the exhaust note comparison, putting us at a score of five to four. Mirage is in the lead with one comparison left to go. And so for our final comparison, I wanted to put the two side by side for interior quality. And so Hyundai Accent is going to give you a leather wrapped shift boot. It's going to give you four charging ports, including two 12-volt power outlets, USB port, auxiliary port as well, also an overhead sunglass holder. You do get some nice silver accents found around the air vents and also for the door handles on the interior as well. Then taking a look in the Mirage, there is no shift boot, unfortunately. It kind of looked like the automatic stick shifter from my old Infinity G35. Two charging ports, then being a 12-volt power outlet, USB charging port, no aux port, unfortunately. No sunglass holder and then for the door handles and around the vents and all the accent pieces were actually just going to be matte black accents. So pretty much like the rest of the vehicle. So because of that, because the accent does offer a good bit more when it comes to interior quality, I'm going to have to give that one to the Hyundai. Actually, putting this at a five to five tie at the end of this comparison. So I could keep going with these. For example, the Mirage offers a manual transmission where the accent does not. However, the accent does give you three years of free maintenance. You don't have to pay for the oil changes, the tire rotations for the first three years for 36,000 miles Mirage does not. Accent is built in Korea, Mirage is built in Japan. There's so many differences between these two. And so in the end, it does really come down to personal preference. And I think this may be the very first comparison video and I've done a good bit of them at this point. That's actually ended in a tie. So help me out, you guys. Let me know what subcompact you would choose in the comments section below. I want you guys to debate it out in the comments because I always read your comments and I truly want to find out what everyone else does think between these two. And so both have nice features and it honestly just comes down to what you're actually looking for in a subcompact. And so that is about it for this one, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me as social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before it actually gets to YouTube. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button. If you're into new car reviews, that is what we do here on this channel. After all, do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.


What's up everybody? Jason here for jasperyscasebreak.com 2023, Top's Chrome, Jumbo, eight box case break precincts number 10, just sold out guys. And then again, eight boxes per case, 12 packs per box, all card ship, and three Chrome models per box. And let's see that little stamp right there. Let's just notify the shipping sorting team that everything is shipping. Maybe they're experimenting with tacos and if they get a good response and they sell well, then maybe they're gonna introduce another kind of food. Maybe they'll do the pizza refractor next or the burger refractor. I wouldn't mind a pizza, but I don't know, we'll find out. There has to have been a reason behind it. Unless a designer, the creator of that, just a Top's Chrome, maybe the person that was creating the set just decided to do it for himself and approve it for himself. And Top's is like, cool, that sounds fun. I actually just ate a little meatball reggathoni from Mickey's right now. So today for dinner, got a garlic bread on the side. My wife had the basil portolini, basil with the sun-dried tomato tortellini. It's pretty good. First time trying it there. All right, we're just like all the other ones guys will do. Oops, four boxes now, four boxes later, especially on release day and chromed out. It could probably end up being my last Chrome bread. By the time I finish this, it'll be close to 10 and then if I wanted to stay and break the double header, it'd be like an extra hour and a half, so. We'll save that for the other guy, whoever that may be. So yeah, guys, I guess earlier people asked if we were gonna have a stream tomorrow. Possibly no, unless someone is willing to cover like Chris or something like that that is able to potentially, but most likely no, it looks like, I guess Rex asked that question earlier. And Nick said most likely no. So again, traveling from the national stuff like that, obviously, like Nick, Joe, and then so. I think Joe actually took an extra day off too, so he probably won't be back till Monday. So that's why we're not having a stream tomorrow. So, guys, if you wanna blame someone, you can blame him. But back to the normal, probably Monday as soon as then. That's it, no more nationals to the next year, right? So should be back to normal. Also, guys, look out too. I mean, obviously, I personally haven't been on the Fanatics app for the last few days because I've been busy breaking here, but we're gonna start being more frequently live on Fanatics and kind of potentially shutting down IG for a little bit while we try to grow the Fanatics channel. Now, I think the plan was to still have YouTube as normal for the meantime, so I guess that I think some of us that break on IG are gonna be breaking a little bit more on Fanatics and look for more of the two-man crew type of deal. I don't know how many more times you'll see me and Joe live together anymore. On the Fanatics app, although it has been fun, but I think you might be seeing more like Joe and Michael or me and Michael and Teddy's gonna make his debut over there too at some point. And Chris and Michael, Chris and Teddy or whatever the case may be, I'm not sure, but so look out for that. So the YouTube schedule's just gonna be normal in the sense that it'll be daily, but might be different breakers on different days soon. So like if Joe's breaking the Fanatics app, you might have Chris cover over here or Michael or me even depending. I'm gonna have a chat with the crew on Tuesday before I go live anywhere and figure that out. I was talking a little bit earlier. John, what's up? Got the team in number 11, awesome man. Well, that's most likely not gonna break tonight, but thank you though for grabbing it. You secured your spot and most likely break another day.  It's the only reason why I say that. It goes down to like a few left, maybe. This will pretty much be our last break here. Figure two number 10. Well, the only reason why I say that, John, for one, I mean, this break was stuck at one and two left for like hours. No one wanted to take the last few teams. So that was the case, but you know, we're pretty much ending our night tonight at 10 o'clock Pacific. So that's like in about 15 minutes. This is gonna take me like 40. So pretty much brings us to the end. So for that reason, also as well. But do not worry though.  A couple of the crew here is flying back from the national today, tomorrow. So I think for that reason, we probably won't have a live stream because Joe's usually on on Sundays, but I believe he's not flying back till like tomorrow night or Monday morning. So I think for that reason, we probably won't have a stream tomorrow. If we did, it would definitely break tomorrow, but I think the only reason why I'm saying Monday is because I don't know if we have someone to cover that shift. So we might be dark tomorrow, but back to normal Monday though. Somebody will be breaking here Monday though. So I think that's the only reason why I'm kind of saying Monday too, just because of that reason. But who knows, maybe somebody does come in tomorrow, okay, I don't know. But I'm sure we'll make an announcement on the website though, if someone doesn't come in. But yeah, thank you though, man. Don't worry, it'll break pretty quick. I just think it's a little late tonight for the most part. I think a lot of people are pretty much done for the night. But no problem man, good luck as well. Good luck in that break. Oh wait, I wasn't supposed to be ripping all of the boxes, but oh well, I guess I ripped most of them. For sure man, for sure. Good luck, have fun man, have fun. All right, let's just go through those first six I guess. We'll just save two boxes for later. Yeah, I know PJ, I got two concentrating on just explaining to people what's going on and what. I ripped like six boxes. All right, so let's go through the six and then we'll go with the next last two. All right, here we go. Josh Jum, that's 15 now.  I think he hit a triple, Homer and a single. I think he was four for five. Nice, good to see that. I actually personally know how many stolen bases he has but that wouldn't surprise me. Obviously just the Royals are just as a whole team this year, just not too good but good to see him still doing well. 221 out of 4.99, Cody Bellinger. Is he gonna stay in Chicago? I think Rex said today they pulled. Pulled him out of the trade conversation. Cried over to 1.99. And Miguel Cabrera, I think last time playing in Miami today. Had a nice little ovation. I think it was Villain's Swelling Night too. On a night now for the Detroit Tigers, Richard Miller, Aranda, for the Reyes Pink, Jared Young, Adley, little hyper, Will Benson. The Fenton Bensons, Freddie Freeman ultraviolets. Dodge is Brad Newman. That's a little case hit. I wanna say some of those base ones. The colored ones go for a lot but base ones going for like 50 to 75 for Freddie Freeman last time I checked. So not too shabby there, hopefully a lot more, buddy. Todd Stevenson. And Brian Servin to 1.50, out of blue. Anderson Espinosa to 1.50 for the Padres. Chad Boer, there you go. On the board, negative medals in there for the Atlanta Braves, big dog Rob. Our two boxes down. And Graham Ashcraft for the Cincinnati Reds, David Duffy to 1.89. Ian Hap, Yanard Diaz, Dermas Garcia. So Carl, how you doing, buddy? Bo Beshet to 1.50. Our next box, Marc Gapel to 4.99 for the Phillies. And then Corbin Carroll right there for Rob. And then Sean with the Phillies, Wolfie. Hipraid football? Yeah, that would be quick. I could do something like that. Yeah, hipraid football is a lot closer actually. Hipraid football, if we could sell those four spots, I can cancel the second to last filler and put back five and then just the one filler. So technically, if I put five spots back in, it's nine full spots plus that filler on the website. That one is going to be a really, really nice one. The hipraid Emerald other one, the baseball one, that one's still a little ways to go. That one I would have to probably put back like potentially like 18 spots. That one's kind of slowed down a little bit. But the football one I think would be really nice and I can squeeze in that because that's something really quick. So I mean, if that's something you're interested in, tomorrow I'll finish this in the next like 20 minutes. I have just enough time to do that if you guys want. So let me know if you're thinking about that. We're not that far off. And who knows, maybe some other people joined in too. Yeah, but let me know. If you want me to put some spots back in so we don't waste any more time, if that's the case.  But I'll stay and do that though if it's a little after just because that's quick. All right, Carrie Carpenter. All right, next box. Stefanik, Angels, and Akunya, Refractor for the Brace. Give you 40 bucks right there potentially. All right, awesome. So let me do this then, how about this? Let me put back five spots. And like I said, we just gotta do that filler for sure and then the five spots for sure. And then we can do that after this. And that should be a pretty sweet way down the night. There you go, I put the five spots back in. The website's been a little laggy though, just to be honest. So it may look like I didn't put anything back in on the front page, but when you click into it, it actually updates faster. So don't be fooled. There is five spots back in there again. It's just been acting a little weirdly. Like really slow the last couple nights. It's like not updating fast enough. Louis Ortiz, Rizzo. Alrighty. Two boxes here and then two more to rip after. Bryce Johnson for the Giants. Michael Stapleton. Just the website's a little slow right now. So when you look at it, it only says there's four left, but then like it hasn't, it doesn't update fast enough. If you get what I'm saying, like the website has been really slow lately. So anytime I have to like repost spots back in or spot sell, it takes a minute or two for it to actually fully upload. It still says we have one in stock though. So it may have looked like someone took it, but it just didn't update for the first time it took the four. You know, so there's still one left technically. But hey, if somebody wants to grab it, they can. But it just looks like, now it looks like there's only five. But you just took four, you know?  Nice Abbey Ruchman right there to 125. That's sweet. But regardless of that, we do need to do that one filler though. So obviously for customers, hey, I know it's a pricey break. And if you're watching, listening, if you've been wanting to get into that, the full spots are not pretty much gone. So the filler is the way for you to potentially get a spot for a smaller fraction of the price. Jonathan Aranda, and that could break tonight. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. He got Vargas, Allen Smith, Nick Dugba, which I believe is the brother of Jackson. It's a $2.99. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Nolan Jones, nice little purple color match for the Colorado Rockies to 250. Two, $3.99. Yoshida, Tommy Henry, just for Morrell. Nice Adley Ruchman. Billingsley with the Orioles.  Take that. Pohlholz Refractor. The Stewie Ruiz for the Athletics. All right, so it looks like the VIP and the Pack Fuller sold out, perfect. So we'll do that after this, and then that'll pretty much end our night.  Hello, those Sam Adams commercials. All right, here we go, guys. Last two boxes here. All right, Encarnacion, Hunter Green. Wow, and another Adley Ruchman. I love it when it's doubles like this, right? This time, a refractor auto to $4.99. They're always giving us doubles of other players. Might as well take two Adleys in the same break. There you go. We'll take those dupes. A little engorment and nice Mark Vientos to $2.99 for the Mets. John Getty. Ryan Nelson. Tommy Bax. All right, here we go. Last box, guys, good luck. Beau Naylor for the Guardians. Jacob, down one. Tyler Stephenson, gold. Wave for Cincinnati Reds. Connor Cappell for the A's. All right, hopefully there's a nice number of cards here at the end. I feel like since we hit a base in a refractor, there should be a nice color in here.  Cal Mitchell. All right, we got a Jess Chisholm to $1.99. And there you go, guys. All righty, folks, and there you go, guys. That was the break. Let's do a quick little recap for you guys. So of course, like I said, Cal Mitchell. Got Cappell for the Oglenays. Devel Naylor for the Guardians. Vientos for the Mets. Connaughts Young for the Marlins. Henry for the Diamondbacks. Nolan Jones' color matched their purple for the Colorado Rockies. Cannon, Smith and Njigba for the Pirates. Aranda for the Rays. Johnson for the Giants. Defantik for the Angels. Impal for the Phillies. Garcia for the A's. Again, Yanardias for the Houston Astros. Ashcraft for the Cincinnati Reds. Espinosa for the Padres. Serban for the Rockies. Benson for the Guardians. Young for the Coveys. And we got Miguel Cabrera. A little relic there. We got a Brian Kredler for Detroit. And we got Steele for the Cubs. Carpenter for the Tune of the 50. We're there for the Tigers. But we got a really nice Adley Dutchman. We got a Freddie Freeman and Adley and Refractor Adley. So there you go, folks. Thank you guys so much. Again, another three Jumbo cases were posted today. And the next one is already down to like eight or seven left. So definitely get that done for another day. Appreciate it, guys. JaspysCaseBricks.com.


All right, so actually guys there was a hit I'm only making this video just in case people think that Because I didn't announce it to the twins. It's not gonna go to the twins obviously, but yes, there actually was a hit I guess I missed this Bucston. I don't know why I didn't think of this as a twin hit, but duh. He is a twin Thanks, Stephen in the chat or Grizzly be sorry. I should say So Byron Bucston right there again, that is numbered six out of 30 which again Twins part of the round in our block six goes to Nancy So there you go. Let's start about that guys But yeah, this was a pretty nice box one more box remaining and then we can get the full case done to see what's hiding in there guys So one more box guys. Thank you.


Shortly, I'll return with a new book and video series. Here's some details about the series, the book, and an event. In a few weeks, I'll release a four-part video series called The Things We Make. It's about the most powerful problem-solving method we humans have brought to bear on our planet, the engineering method. It's universal across cultures and throughout history, no society has survived without some form of the engineering method, and yet it's unknown or invisible to most people. So, in the video series, I reveal the engineering method by telling the stories that highlight the creativity of engineers. Here's some of the things I discuss. A mysterious ruin in southeastern Turkey created from huge, intricately carved stones, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge, 5,000 years before the first pyramid, which highlights that for millennia, humans have used the engineering method to solve problems. From there, I examine the stunning cathedrals built in the Middle Ages, revealing how they were constructed by people who knew no math, could not read, drew no blueprints, and knew no science as we think of it today. I examine the magnetron of a microwave oven to see its roots in World War II radar and highlight its forgotten history. You could buy a microwave oven in 1946. To understand the true relationship between engineering and science, I look at the steam engine, and it's descended the steam turbine, and I don't neglect the 21st century. We learn how engineer Francis Arnold, winner of the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 2018, used the engineering method to create enzymes used industrially. This video series has a companion book that comes out on March 21st. There is a Zoom book launch event on March 30th at 1 p.m. Central Time for those who pre-order a copy. Here's the link. I'll put it in the notes for the video, and I'll tweet it. I'll discuss the book a bit. It's writing and origin. I'll answer your questions. I note, though, that I'm always available to answer questions. I have been since I posted my first video. Send me an email, billatengineerguy.com, or a text, use WhatsApp if you're outside the U.S. Over the past few years, most texts have asked if I'm alive, which I have dutifully answered in the affirmative. So enjoy the video series and the book, and if you are so inclined, participate in the book launch. I'm Bill Hammack, the engineer guy.