Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and today is a very special day. I am once again collaborating with one of my favorite YouTubers, maybe my favorite YouTuber, Nikki Gets Fit. I know a lot of my subscribers, my followers, my friends love Nikki as much as I do. We have collaborated on a video in the past where we shared our favorite sweet and salty snacks. So I'll link that video down below for you. I will also link Nikki's channel and Nikki's Instagram.   And today's collab is a little bit different than our last one. We are focused on fall-inspired protein recipes. We're going to have a savory recipe and a sweet recipe, carrying on the whole savory sweet vibe from our last collaboration.  My recipes will be on my recipe website. As always, I will put my website at the top of the description box and again, I'll link all of Nikki's social media accounts for you so that you can head on over, follow her and grab her amazing recipes as well. Also down in the description box, you will find nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized macros and calories. Highly recommend, this is how I've lost and maintained 140 pound weight loss. If you're new to my channel, if you came over from Nikki's, I do count calories and macros and then WW as well to lose and maintain 140 pounds. So I do have quite a large recipe arsenal on my website so definitely check that out as well as nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and I have a free Facebook group. We would love to have you. It's very amazing, very supportive. We have just under 30,000 members so we'd love to have you come and join us there as well. And a big special welcome if you came over from Nikki's channel. I hope you subscribe, make sure you follow me on Instagram and join my Facebook group so that we can become fabulous friends. So let's go ahead and head into the kitchen for my savory and my sweet fall inspired protein packed recipes. For the sweet pumpkin fall inspired protein packed dessert recipe, we're making white chocolate pumpkin protein blondies. I cannot wait for these so let me show you what you'll need. So I'm actually going to use the Kodiak protein flour. Unfortunately, this is no longer available. They discontinued this several months ago. I have no idea why it's a bit of a bummer. You can see I'm almost out. I will down in the description box list out how you make your own protein flour. You can make it at home, super, super easy. So I'll put everything down in the description box for you. I will be doing that as soon as I'm out of this one which it looks like after today's recipe I may be out of my protein flour. Speaking of protein, you're going to need protein powder, vanilla protein powder and this is from Motivate. Now I love Motivate everything. If you follow me, you know that Motivate is one of my favorite supplements. Their protein powder is amazing, amazing for baking and it is super affordable. So again, this is the vanilla. It's 100 calories per serving with 20 grams of protein. Now I do have a 20% off discount code for Motivate. I'll link it down below for you and I'll also list out some of my favorite things from the Motivate website so you can add those to your cart as well. They do have a vanilla protein and a chocolate. I'm using Lakonto, granulated as my sweetener. I also have a 15% off discount code for Lakonto. That will be down below. You'll need non-fat plain Greek yogurt, pumpkin puree. These are white chocolate chips from Lilly's. Nut butter of your choice. I thought this would pair perfectly with this recipe. This is from another one of my favorite brands, Clean Simple Eats. Actually that's my favorite protein powder for shakes is Clean Simple Eats. I usually have some of their powder every day and they make nut butter as well. And this is their pumpkin spice with pecans nut butter. This is a 10 out of 10. It is so, so good. So I'm going to use this in place of just plain almond butter.  So to get started on our blondies, I have my half of a cup plus three tablespoons of protein flour and then half of a cup of the Motivate vanilla protein powder. Three tablespoons of Lakonto granulated pumpkin pie spice and half of a teaspoon of baking soda. This is a full teaspoon, so I'm going to do half and then mix that together to combine the dry ingredients. Then we're going to add our one cup of canned pumpkin and one half of a cup of non-fat plain Greek yogurt and then stir to fully combine. And then we're going to add two tablespoons of our Clean Simple Eats pumpkin spice nut butter and then go ahead and mix that in. Be mindful not to over-mix because the protein powder will make your blondies gummy if you over-mix, so just fold in the nut butter. Go ahead and add in most of the white chocolate chips, reserve a little bit for the top and then lightly fold those in. Spray a baking dish with some non-stick cooking spray and then add your brownie mix and press it into place. And then lastly, we're just going to sprinkle the white chocolate chips that we reserved right on top. It's going into 350 degree oven for about 20 to 25 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean. So our blondies are out of the oven. Wow, look how good these look. My house gives all the fall vibes, it smells amazing in here. I will go ahead and put points, calories, macros and serving size here on the screen for you. So for my sweet fall snack, what I'm going to be doing is apple cinnamon rolls using two ingredient dough. I have apples that we just recently picked from apple picking, these are honey crisp and I'm so excited to do some baking with them. And cinnamon rolls are one of my favorite desserts or just foods in general. So I'm super excited to make these. They're going to be a little higher in protein because we are doing two ingredient dough using non-fat Greek yogurt and then to that I'm also going to make it a little bit differently this time and I'm going to add some protein powder. So this is just the protein powder I'm using. It's the brand Bloom and I'm using the flavor vanilla. So I'm just going to use a scoop of that and then I'm going to take out some of the flour from the normal two ingredient dough that I make. So instead of doing one and a third cup I'm just going to do one cup of flour with a scoop of protein powder. Then I'm going to add a teaspoon of baking powder like normal and then a cup of non-fat Greek yogurt. So I'm going to make the dough using that and then the filling is going to be just apple cinnamon. So I'm going to go ahead and chop up these apples and I'm going to cook them up on the stove right now. I'm going to cook them in a tablespoon of butter and then I'm going to add some cinnamon and sugar. If you want to use a brown sugar replacement you definitely can but I actually prefer to use this which is kind of a brown sugar replacement I guess. It's just organic brown coconut sugar. It is one point for a teaspoon and for this recipe I'm going to be using about three tablespoons. So I'm going to go ahead and get started with the filling so I can sit to cool and then I'll make the dough and assemble the cinnamon rolls. So as you can see I left the skin of the apples on. I just prefer it that way. You can definitely peel them if you'd rather do that but I have the tablespoon of butter melted. Then I added the apples in and three tablespoons of the brown coconut sugar. I also added a teaspoon of cinnamon and then I just mix that up until it's cooked usually about five to seven minutes. Then I'm just making the two ingredient dough so I start with a cup of all-purpose flour, a scoop of vanilla protein powder, a teaspoon of baking powder and then a little bit of cinnamon. I did about a half teaspoon. I just mix that to form a dough then I flatten it out. I just used a little bit of extra flour so that it was easier to roll. And I was a little impatient with the filling. I should have waited just a little bit longer for it to be more cool but I just spread it out on the cinnamon roll dough and wrap it up. It started to melt the dough a little bit so just let it cool a little bit longer. Okay, I can't make these cinnamon rolls and not take a bite. So I'm going to go ahead, I'm just going to eat directly out of the pan like this. I'm going to go ahead and cut one of these. Oh my gosh, it's got the perfect crisp to the dough. Here is a bite of it. Adam's going to freak out when he has one of these. So this batch made six cinnamon rolls and each cinnamon roll is six points on WWW and you can see they're a pretty big size for six points. They've got a good amount of apple in the middle. It doesn't have as many swirls as a normal cinnamon roll because there's so much in the middle but it's perfect because it adds enough juiciness and flavor and it's so good. So if you don't want to add the protein powder you can just do regular two ingredient dough with the flour but I also recommend adding some type of like cinnamon or vanilla or something to the dough which is just kind of sweeten it up a little bit. But this is it, six points for these. Each one has 10 grams of protein and that is it. Thank you for joining me for today's video in collaboration with my good friend Nikki gets fit here on YouTube. As I mentioned in the beginning I will link my recipe website, all of Nikki's social media accounts. Definitely subscribe to her YouTube channel follow her on Instagram. And again, if you're new from Nikki's channel a big, big welcome and make sure that you follow me as well. I'd love to have you join my amazing supportive community. If you enjoyed today's video give it a big thumbs up, subscribe, turn your bell on and don't forget to check out that description box for everything I shared with you today. Nikki's account, my account and thank you so much for watching. Welcome new friends from Nikki's channel and I will see you in the next one. Bye.


This is Mises weekends with your host Jeff Dice Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back once again to Mises weekends show. I'm your host Jeff dice We're very happy and pleased to be joined this morning inauguration day Friday I might add by John Tammany a name. I'm sure many of you know, but if you don't know You really ought to be reading and following him John is the editor of real clear markets He also writes quite a bit on political economy for Forbes magazine. He is a senior fellow at reason He also wrote a book a couple years that regularly put out That we carry in our own bookstore called popular economics with the Rolling Stones Downton Abbey and LeBron James can teach you about Economics and I think it was an attempt to bring home some of these theoretical concepts To real-world action and with that we welcome John Tammany. How are you doing today John? I'm great Thank you for having me on Jeff. Well, it is inauguration day I've seen you have written a fair bit about both Trump and some of his cabinet picks Give us your overarching thoughts. What do you what do you think of Trump pro and con? What I like about Trump is probably what many do He is not like other politicians. I like that he kind of says what's on his mind At the same time, I'm terrified by him Trade is the purpose of our work to import is the reason that we get up and go to work every day Trump wants to limit our ability He's bought into this falsehood that's confused thinkers for years that Somehow imports are what hurt us when in fact imports are the reward for all of our work It also terrifies me that he thinks you can devalue your way to prosperity Um, devaluation is the biggest enemy prosperity is ever known simply because it's the biggest enemy of investment And so I like the change. I don't like politicians in general, but it terrifies me He could really be bad if he gives into his worst instincts Do you think there's a difference fundamentally between his vision or view of global trade in markets and what? Hilary's might have been um Yes, I Legitimately do now I base this on the fact that her husband was a free trader and I feel like she ultimately would have been Guided by some of his logic I think Hilary moved against free trade simply because she thought it was politically expedient I think in Trump's case when you look at his commentary and you look at his commentary going back to the 80s We're talking about someone still living in the 1980s Who back then felt that Japan was the biggest threat to the United States and thanks China is today I would make the argument that if Japan and China didn't exist We'd have to invent them so good of both those countries been for US economic growth. So it concerns me I think Hilary would have been more moderate had she been all been elected That's not that's not me giving a preference to her, but I think on trade. She would have been better Well, there's also the the areas of nationalism and of course war and peace and as you well know one knock on Libertarians is that we're so focused on trade and economics and GDP and you know We'd sell our grandmothers for a few more Points of prosperity. Do you think Trump is less likely maybe to set the world on fire than Hilary would have been? You know, that's an interesting point. He says interesting things about North Korea as in that's China's problem and I tend to agree with that He tends to say that the rest of the world particularly the rich world needs to take on Or foot the bill for more of its defense. I think that is ultimately a peaceful concept I don't think the world is made more peaceful when the US is its policeman But you hit on something that's important to me that I'm preaching to the choir and saying it to you Guys like us love economic growth and free trade simply because we think that is the cheapest and best foreign policy mankind ever conceived and so when people criticize us for our love of Open trade and open markets. They miss why we think it's so important because we love peace more than anyone Yeah, it's interesting though that they also don't see tariffs and trade sanctions as acts of war and they don't see domestic aggression Citizens in the form of what I would argue aggression the form of regulations and taxes. They don't see that as as acts of war Amongst our friends on the left Yeah, I love how you put that. I think you're so right and and again between What we know is that when people are when individuals are trading with one another War becomes very expensive. It becomes costly because they're not serving one another's needs To bring in someone who's known for being of the left Joseph P. Kennedy always said to his son John war is bad for business and it is it staggers me that in economics profession Almost to a man and woman would say that that the World War two ended the Great Depression that war stimulates one of me Mises put that so well in his book liberalism That in fact war is the ultimate Depressive concept and but I love how you expand it to beyond the shooting Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you recall a few years ago the earthquakes in Japan Caused Honda dealerships across the United States to be short on both automobiles and parts for about six months So the idea that we're ever gonna have another war with Japan is a non starter But John, I'd love to turn to your articles in real clear markets a couple days called No, Mr. President like the dollar is not too strong and and I got to tell you I love this article because there's even a lot of good folks on the free market side I might throw out Larry Kudlow who talks a lot about King dollar Explain to us with you know this fetish this enduring fetish for exports over imports Why do so many of us believe this all I can think is that people still believe after all this time That when people are buying from you You're prosperous. Well, okay, that's true, but Really, why do we get up in the morning every day? Why do we work for dollars? We're working for all the things we don't have our goal from The day we start working to long after we retire is to import that's that is the source of our prosperity What we can command and return for our toil Yet somehow economists have turned that on its head and doesn't surprise me. I think it's a ridiculous profession economists believe that Imports actually hurt us and exports are what strengthen us. What an odd thing Well, but you get in in the article you get into how devaluing the dollar Simply devalues the the power of of average people's wages Okay, let me ask you this you talk about measuring in yardsticks and how these things don't really matter Would you agree with when Rothbard says we don't care about the money supply per se? Do you think that's correct? Oh? Absolutely how arrogant for us to presume what the money supply should be I think Mises put it it brilliantly in the theory of money and credit He said no and I paraphrase lightly no nation or individual need ever worry about having too little money And his point was if you're productive of a country's productive or an individual's productive Money supply is always going to find that individual Beverly Hills and Greenwich and Manhattan never have a money supply problem Because there's lots of productive people in those places And so you never worry about money what you worry about is This measure because that's all it is is it stable? Because how awful if you're working for money and per Mises once again, you're not working for money You're working for what money can be exchanged for How cruel if suddenly that ticket that you're working for is Devalued because that's the sole reason you're working to get what you don't have to import if they're devaluing the currency They're defeating the sole purpose of your work because suddenly the dollars you exchange your toil for by less Well, do you think that stability in and of itself is a goal in other words if a currency is volatile relative to other Currencies are relative to the goods people want to buy that that means that Workers have a harder time knowing what they're going to be able to afford and it means business owners have a harder time knowing they're You know budgeting their future costs. So is a is a rapidly or widely fluctuating currency. Is that a bad thing in and of itself? Of course, it's a bad thing because it deprives money of its sole purpose Bringing Adam Smith into the conversation the sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods I would just add to it the other sole use of money is to facilitate investment What are investors buying when they commit capital to new ideas? They're buying dollar or currency income streams in the future Well, so if the currency is volatile or if it's constantly being devalued you've reduced a great deal of incentive to Commit resources to the future or to delay your consumption of resources. So stability is essential I'll point out here my views are evolving historically I've said the best way to do this markets happened up on gold long ago is a great way to measure value of currency I'm still for a gold standard given the choice between what we have now a floating currency and in gold I think Mises got this right too in the theory of money and credit that if governments didn't create money obviously market Actors would create money very quickly because it facilitates trade among producers I'm guessing JP Morgan Walmart and Visa would do a much better job of creating stable money that we'd all want to earn in Exchange with then does the US Treasury? Well, if stability is good and wild fluctuations are bad isn't slow erosion bad too in other words the feds what you know the Fed has an expressed policy of You know about 2% inflation targeting per year. Isn't that crazy too if we think about it properly? Oh, it's completely nutty because I don't have to tell you that if your goal is 2% inflation What you're trying you're going to do is double the price lever or devalue the dollar by name the percentage over 36 years The only thing I would say about the Fed is the Fed doesn't view inflation in the way that you and I do You and I view inflation as a devalue of the unit of account in our case the dollar Where it where it just it is devalued the Fed views inflation as too much economic growth Which is really strange because if you look throughout global economic history in Economic growth is the biggest enemy of rising prices mankind has ever known. I cite the original mobile phone was four thousand dollars the original laser printer was seventeen thousand early flat-screen TVs cost twenty five thousand plus Economic growth pushes down the prices of everything the Fed thinks and it's infinite on wisdom that economic growth drives up prices It staggers me that people take those people seriously But even the financial journalism world does Europe you're an economic and financial Journalist are you ever shocked at what you read about the Fed in mainstream financial publications? Jeff I'll one-up you on that that is the reason I write about this stuff I used to work on Wall Street. I'd watch CNBC and read the newspapers and I'd read about how growth causes inflation and All these other non-sensical concepts and I thought I've got to get into this because I grew up in the 1970s I know what inflation is an economist and journalist who Who claim to be experts on this and the people who report on these experts do not have a clue about what inflation is So it made it it that's what got me into the field. I'm in Well, we only have time for one more question So I'll ask you this given the current reality and what most people probably believe about trade about the Fed about the dollar Etc, you know, what are some small things a Trump administration could do either in the Treasury Department or at the Fed itself? We know he's at least spoken to John Allison the former Cato head About a position to make perhaps vice-chair at the Fed, you know, what are what are some? Realistic things that Trump could do conceivably over the next four years that that would would make John Tammany happy Well, this is where people will disagree with me. But I think if you look at history, you don't need a central bank to devalue the currency We were devaluing the dollar long before we had the Fed I think the dollar is a is a treasury concept, which means it's a president concept Presidents get the dollar they want a Reagan and Clinton largely wanted a strong dollar. They got it Bush, Jr Carter Nixon wanted a weak dollar. They got it What Trump could do is just be quiet and tell his Treasury Secretary and those officials to be quiet to stop complaining about China and the value of its currency That quietude would signal to the markets that we believe in the importance of a strong dollar That's that's what I'm that's the most I can hope for in my perfect world They legalize private money because I do think just as market forces bring us Computers socks and shoes of all shapes and sizes. I think market actors would bring us much better more stable money That we would much prefer earn over what the US Treasury issues, but that's an idealistic dream of mine Yeah, but I like the idea that you could legalize competing currencies right alongside The dollar let the Fed keep doing what it's doing let the Treasury keep doing what it's doing But simply allow people to use other forms of payment both in private business and to pay their taxes without putting them in jail for it Absolutely, imagine what that would do that kind of competition I would be very happily earn a Walmart dollar or a visa dollar I think many other others would too well ladies and gentlemen our guest is John Tamney from real clear markets And also a great writer at Forbes I really recommend you check him out. He is that rarest of rarities He is a financial journalist who actually understands economics and and he brings to mind Sort of a modern-day version of Henry Haslett in that sense and that he writes in a very accessible way rather than an academic style John we're so happy that you joined us. We appreciate your time and ladies and gentlemen have a great weekend Subscribe to Mises weekends via iTunes you stitcher and SoundCloud or listen on mises.org and YouTube you


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with the 2020 Panini Donnerous Optic Baseball Choice Edition, one box ram team break number eight with a chance at two Bowman Draft packs, 2009 Bowman Draft packs, which is going to be kind of crazy, but we're going to do the break itself first, make you sweat it out a little bit, there are the teams right there. Oh, and we're giving away break credit at the end too, just as a hey, thanks for filling this tonight. Let's roll it, let's randomize it three and a two, five times for names and teams just for the break one, two, three, four, and five. After five times, we got Nick down to Don, three and a two, five times for the teams one, two, three, four, and five, fifth and final time, the Blue Jays down to the Braves. All right, there's the first half of the list here, there's the second half of the list right there, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We just want to go to the end, so no trade window, let's just print and rip. By the way, the break credit, sorry, is going to be the first three who don't get spots. So this we're giving out, not Bowman Draft, no, Bowman Draft, it's more important. That's what I said right here, right, three, yes, okay. There we go, okay, there you go, cool Josh, nice. All right, next, there's the select box we're going to do next for the next break. All cards will ship here obviously, there's Jalen Davis for the Giants, Matt Arnold to 45, there's Charlie Morton for Tampa Bay to 45, that will be Rich. Here's Nolan Aronato, still Rockies edition to 84. I saw a spring training game with him in Cardinals gear, that was weird. That's for Matt Arnold and the Rocks, here's Willie Calhoun to 84 for Don and the Rangers, here's Joe Palumbo to 88 for Don and the Rangers. Here is Hollow Bobby Bradley, Rated Rookie for Cleveland, Cleveland, this is for you and Whit Merrifield, Hollow for the Royals, that's going to be for Don, your autographs, Sean Murphy, Rated Rookie Auto for Oakland, that's going to be for Jonathan, for Hollywood, 90 out of 99. Ooh, this is nice, Rated Rookie Autograph, there's three here, Kyle Lewis, 94 out of 99, Seattle Mariners, that'll be for Jonathan as well. He's heating up Rated Prospect Autograph, Houston, is that going to also be for Jonathan? No, Matt Lieber with the Astros, but two hits for you out of here, two of the three are going to go to you. The other auto is the Rated Prospect for us, Whitley, there you have it. Now, let's see who's going to win that stuff right there. Good luck, let's grab everyone's names from the team list again from Richard, all the way down to Brandon and everyone in between. Let's roll it, let's randomize it, ten the hard way, hard ten and then we'll line you up with some cool stuff there. One, two, three, four, five, five, there you go. There's five and five more times, I didn't hit again, six, seven, eight, nine and tenth and final time. After ten times, now it's going to be top five right after ten. So spot three, four and five will be a consolation. So from six on down, sorry Brandon, my apologies just outside of the consolation pride just and I guess apologies to Adam, Don and Don, $50 break credit going your way but unfortunately not in that draft break, but congrats to Nick Stover. Wow, he swept the spots. Nick Stover, top two names. That's crazy, sorry Brandon, that's crazy. There you go, well Nick Stover, you are in thanks to optic choice box number eight, I guess we'll write choice eight on there and Don, $100 break credit going your way and Adam, $50 break credit going your way, a little consolation right there. So thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hello and welcome to the 2019 Norville Swedish FIM Speedway Grand Prix. Okay well an update for today practice and qualifying have been cancelled. The FIM jury have decided to cancel both of those which means that we are taking it back to the old school and we're going to do our ballots. So Philip Morris our race director and Mike Bates our FIM jury president are here to draw out the gates. So as per usual all of the numbers will go in to the bag there and we will be drawing out the gates in just a minute for our Swedish Grand Prix giving it a good shake around and time to draw out our first number. Okay Mike's hand is in the bag and the first number out is number 69. Number 69 Jason Doyle is first out the bag there. Okay time for number two. Number two out the bag just getting that number out there is number 66 which is Freddy Lindgren. 66 at Freddy Lindgren there. So so far out Jason Doyle and Freddy Lindgren. Number three out of the bag now and we have got number 88 which is Niels Christian Everson. Jason Doyle, Freddy Lindgren, Niels Christian Everson out the bag. Our fourth out is going to be number 89. Number 89 there is Emil Saifudinov popping that down as we work our way through our draw and next out is 505 number 505 there Robert Lambert. Okay still drawing those numbers for our draw and next out is number 71 Magic Janoski. As we move down our order our next out is 333 which is at Yanis Kalodzi. Next out of the bag and eighth on to the board it is number 30. Number 30 out of the bag and that is Leon Madsen. Okay we're still drawing those numbers out of the bag and next out is number 46. Number 46 out of the bag there and that is Max Frick. Here we go just reordering our numbers Max Frick goes down as number ninth out of the bag. Number tenth to be drawn just now working our way through 692 drawn out Patrick Dudek. Okay just five more to go. Next out of the bag is 222 222 out of the bag Artem Leguta. Okay it's number twelfth to be drawn out of the bag and it is number 55 number 55 there Mati Zeigar. Not many left now. Number 13 out of our bag and on to our draw is number 54 there. Number 54 has been drawn Martin Vashalik. Okay just three more to go 14 out and it is number 16 that has been drawn. Number 16 Oliver Benitez. Okay just two more to go. Just two more. Number 15 out and it is 95 that has been drawn Bartos Marzlik. Number 95 Bartos Marzlik. Last but not least our 16th out is number 85. Number 85 out of our bag there. Number 85 going down for Antonio Lindback. Well that is our draw for the normal Speedway FIM Grand Prix here in Sweden. Tickets will still be available tomorrow so make sure you head online check out all of the information everything that's happening and grab your tickets and hopefully see you tomorrow down here and if you can't be down here then we'll be live local time from 7 p.m.


There you guys Let me take this off here That's that's a pre-made this is a Little power supply this little transformer or plug into This is this you can't see it We do a plug into the mains anyway I've got a special block fused connector block that's I can just shut it into It's there Got the light going on the moment as soon as you lift that up it cuts the power And you can see inside there the fuse and such You can see that down the back there see the fuse yeah You'll need a little light so you've got power. I'll put it back down again though. The other light comes on in the back up Well, I wanted to show you was this little This is the first little power supply built that's a light actually the first power supply built was a high voltage one Which is basically a flyback and a driver This is a little nine volt regulated power supply Power comes in from the mains and the transformer here It comes out about two I think they're two seven volts or two eight volts One coming off each side of the center tap and the way I've been using it is to forget the center tap And just go on there. So I've got like 14 Forget the center tap and I've got the sort of 14 volts both these together It connects on to each side here of this little bridge rectifier It then goes through this smoothing capacitor then comes out the smoothing capacitor Into the regulator lm7809 And then I can I can tap on to it.   I don't know if you can see my coils there Um, I'm taking off I just want to see what this one here look One me and I've taken off this I've taken off this because It would get really warm I mean it would get really warm that I couldn't just leave this thing running I mean this has been running for hours Um And it doesn't get warm I can put my things generally back in there and that's just, you know, slightly above room temperature And the reason why that is is because I've taken this off I took this off and it's made all the difference And there it is Uh, just in case anybody was wondering, you know, if that actually does make a difference when you take it off It does the end reasons on here is to keep these two pieces together because I'm going to use this to one my own turns around But I want to do it so I can take these off and put them on nice and easily And when I've done it I'll just put some tape from here across here To keep this together when I put my My turns under here seven aside Or on this particular flyback This one up here It's six aside Of the center top And you also get a better spark Uh, or a better, uh, this If you put a bit more capacitance on Like there, I'll just press that on It's a little bit, I'll turn it off You see It doesn't like that particularly Oh, can you actually see what I was doing? Probably can't I never put this one on as well There you go You can actually see that sort of heat up and get a bit warmer as I put that on I've got to start it again Anyway, back to the power supply thing Let's just jump right on Can't be wrong, very good on the box Anyway, so there we go So we've got this little one A little transformer there And we've got this little, uh This little, uh, power supply Yeah It works, it's great I've been powering up little amplifiers with it Um, and it's great But I need this one a bit bigger to Just power that thing up there So, so we're going for this This one's a bit bigger This is, uh, MIT transformer As you can see Put the AC Connected the AC mains onto these Doesn't matter which way around they go I checked that there's no continuity between any of these terminals And the case, that's a very good idea to do that And then I gave it I think there's about 18 turns in here 16, 17 turns, maybe I can't honestly remember exactly how much I'm trying to count it There's about three rows of six That's about 18 turns You want to take one? The cardboard's jammed in there just to keep it all nice and tight And it doesn't really homo anything When it's pulling like four amps You can hear it very slightly We have to listen for it You can't have anything else on the background I'm quite happy with that I've got a little bridge rectifier This one's, uh This one's in a, you know, just a chip Basically Two inputs and then the Pluratized outputs Now I've just chucked a couple of these capacitors on there Just to, uh Just to try and clean out some of the ripple Of it, but I'm not even, uh, Checked it, I mean I connected it to that little Jacob's ladle there to that You know, to that up there Uh, SD And it was fine Absolutely fine, the only thing I did find Was the, um The rectifier was getting more But there is a hole in it So you can put it onto a heat sink And I think that's what I'm going to do Um, but I was going to consider Taking this apart again And just using this length here That was one side of the tap And I found another length of this Cable, which is in brown Just the other part of this That came out of a, just a bit of normal Flex from a vacuum cleaner An old vacuum cleaner It was irreparable Or non-economical repair, I should say Everything's repairable But over it's Economic to do that Yeah, so, there we go Just thought I'd share that Very easy, I've been a bit Reluctant to make this one Because it's playing around with the mains Of the volts and You can kill it, obviously And you don't really want to You don't really want to do that You know Because it'll knacker up you doing your next project Hehehe But, yeah So, nice and simple It gives me, I'll tell you what it gives me It gives me 20 volts, it does drop down a bit When it's trying to pull like 3.5-4 amps Pulls down to about 13-14 volts Um I was getting an AC 15 volts By the time I've DCed it, I'm getting like 20 volts Um So, it'd be nice to see what I'll get With A sensor tap And then I can have a plus-minus battery That'll look pretty good I just thought I'd show you the The source transformer here It's connected up To this 240 volt Used This is Core 20 years ago, I think it was I bought that Just for something else Well anyway, so what I'm expecting to see Is about like 7 volts each side So about 14 volts on the meter Still onto AC Just Put that down That gives me power output here I'm going to stick one connected to there One connected to there I'm putting my thumbs On the ends of this I wouldn't normally do that With AC mains I don't think it's scared I just respect The fact that it can kill my ass I'm not ready for that just yet But anyway, so as you can see Look on the meter there The top Reading shows it's 50 hertz And the bottom reading Shows me 14.2 volts Absolutely brilliant That's just exactly what I'd Expect to have it So now I'm just going to Connect that into this little power supply Like I say It's a 9 volt regulated Using the 7809 I just put that in there Pop this I have to put it to the inside So I can Sockets Connect to that side Switch this to DC Negative positive output There we go 9.2 volts Brilliant I don't actually have anything I can really put on Just Straight away If you look at my NM386 amplifier Video that I built I'm using this to power it up with And it works just fine It works just fine, lovely Absolutely lovely I'll put this one on In a tick Just bear with me So what I've done is I've just connected this up This side of course is Polaritized This is coming off Once it's DC And it's polaritized And what I've done is I've sent that Up to Up to the Jacobs ladder So in a second you're going to see this working So yeah I've left these slightly exposed So I can put the meter on And we can have a look at the Voltage And I've just connected This With these wires It doesn't matter about the color coding But they come around the back here Onto the connections here Which are live mains and must always be Keep that in mind This is live mains And it will give you Nothing else A very nasty shock So Let's flip The switch now I'll get a little bit of a blow So we can just get it going in a second And you can't really hear Let me just switch off that supply You can hear a little bit of hum A little bit of hum, but nothing So yeah, that's coming off there I'm going to let me just do a quick More Hammer, negative And you can see that it dips down 12, 13 volts I know probably Disconnecting The load 20 volts On the output Doesn't get warm Doesn't really make any great deal of noise Or there's actually Like I said, this rectifier Does get warm I mean, it's not warm now But if I were to be running that No, it's not warm now But if I were to be running that Like Jacob's ladder for 15 minutes Maybe not as long as 15 minutes But if I were running it 15 minutes And that needs to be Kits and I out I could probably If I had more capacitance On this circuit I could probably get more out of that Jacob's ladder circuit But there you go It shows I'm working and I don't see what else I can do With these transformers But cheers for watching guys And Yeah These voyeurs get very warm Because they're long and they're thin And I'm trying to pull Ampage through them And these These voyeurs are not really I'm not really designed for that They're just hook up leads For a lot lighter So you've just got to bear that in mind If you make stuff like this That your voyeurs There's another reason why I won't get very good output On that Jacob's ladder Because these voyeurs are just not really capable They're just silly little hook up things Something that's even thinner than this thing That's terrible, it's probably got Two strands twisted together And the strands being more neat But anyway, cheers for watching guys Bye


Clear words before we go into the audience. Like I know you wanted to jump in here quickly. Yes. Yeah Yeah, I think that of course the achievements of Europe had been quite impressive and in my view the biggest Achievement was to cut our dependency from Russia on oil and gas Because oil and gas have hijacked our Russian policy something which had been denied by a certain number of member states but I have to say that those member states and you know the one I'm referring to has dramatically changed its its position and it's a huge achievement Which needs to be to be noticed now We there are obviously many issues in the future and The role and the strategic responsibility of Europe is Is going to be a key question for the future of our security need NATO is absolutely crucial and Mr. Putin made it larger But still NATO in itself is not going to be to solve the problems of the security of Europe Meaning that Europeans Need to take more Responsibility not against NATO, but even within NATO But we need to have a strong European pillar without NATO capable capable of dealing with what the French military said to be prepared to a war of high Intensity in Europe and this is going to this war is going to have See change on the perception and the strategic perception of our security But indeed we need to take more Responsibility Europe taking more responsibility. I think it's something that Washington also Is very receptive to as far as it's Constantly in previous years for Europeans to step up to the plate is concerned. That is certainly music to Washington's ears


All right, let's place the full first. There's sound all right Can I please do the house salad? Yeah, you got it and then I do a piece of bread on the bottom and on the top Okay, maybe maybe throw in a piece of meat in the middle with with a bit with some cheese on it Yeah, why not? So cheeseburger. No, I said how salad All right, can I please do the house salad? All right. All right. Let me bring down the volume just a tad So watching this Can I please do the house salad? Yeah, you got it. My impression is that there's a help it with a constant back and forth with just the general feel of the posing of this character that makes sense like you're here and then you kind of look over and back and then look over and back and then Over here and then over again and then just if there's constant back and forth like that type of stuff here to here and And sometimes it's also a bit too in sync alone Like that Just watch out when he says yep, you got it. It's just it's it's right in sync with this Move here and I think What do you could do here's just thinking out loud because I'm I'm just concerned that there's this constant Movement that we never have any type of contrast and still moment It's slightly accentuated now that we're in the spline ear mode What I like is definitely this here that is there's this feeling of Hunch over and then towards the end like this in terms of the confidence It might end up being a bit fast going back here So this could already be instead of that straight and only this lean You could potentially already start to have him lean back. So he's a bit more shoulder up a bit more like hey What do you think and they just has a bit less distance to go back and it's almost a bit of a Less back but more to the right and back adjustments. It's kind of just kind of leaning back a bit more You might also get away with Maybe on that max this almost feels like he's super reclined and that hurts the neck a bit Because then imagine how is he getting up here? That's like it. That's a ginormous ab contraction there so you might also have to Press that elbow down and maybe parts of here that he pushes himself up through his arms as well I would think of the mechanics of this And this wouldn't be clean. I mean you can totally be Leaning over and pushing mostly with this arm getting a bit flustered so that That type of pose is maybe more around here ish and then you get to that because right now you're in this and if I put in onion skinning and We move forward see there's no real difference besides going up with the head and down So imagine that this is more like more like that So there's there's a bit more of a lean and then when you do this Then you have just a slight more of a lean this way so you have a bit more contrast. It's not just the raising of shoulders and the head down But I think what if what's going back what I was wanting to say before There's something about potentially what you could try minimizing the amount of movements through there just a bit more So he's a bit more fidgety a bit more nervous But again, he doesn't want to draw too much attention to himself and he says has little head turns little arm gestures Which offer framing to a fairly high on that arm So I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea Watch out for framing to a fairly high on that arm I mean, it's clear in terms of silhouette. That's the good thing Okay, maybe So maybe what you couldn't do because I don't want to you know, like take everything out I think it might just be you do this And now we'll then reduce that I'll probably go from here Yep, you got it So thinking out a lot. It's a bit of a Tiny changes and bigger changes, but obviously also objective and you can you can let me know what you What you want to keep not slowly up to you obviously so you would keep this But then keep him here It's almost like and also watch out how much we go with the pupils you want to cheat those a bit more towards us Even if you have someone standing here, you know, I'm just going to actually help bring those eyeballs a bit over there But imagine he's here and he's waiting for approval Yep, you got it until it says yet. We got it. So you could have something where he's here And then once he says yet, we got it Then you go back only maybe this much just this So none of that here So that imagine So right, he's here get so maybe this pose like that's that's as far forward as he as he gets from here So you don't go further down further down further down none of that And then so there we go. So once you have this reaction of oh He would already be This far right so then you just had that reaction from here on and just go a bit more to the left And that way again, it will minimize the amount of movement you have from here to here And then we can keep that Watch out in your between is there Well, that's okay. I was looking at the eye line, but okay And then it will be the same thing here. So he is here And that's you know, that's the amount of lean he has and he's he's getting a bit more confidence, right? I'm like actually keep that line Since I'm on on his kidding here and then instead of going all the way back here to avoid this constant back and forth he is here and then That moment of thinking is kind of just within here Maybe maybe this much of a change and it may be mostly in the head less in the body. You can have a bit more of a head turn And then when he comes back You know, he can be slightly back and when you get into this give back to this pose Maybe a bit further out So it's almost also if this is the waiter And he starts off hunched over he gets a bit more confident and it's it's kind of leaning towards the end a bit more Towards the waiter, right? This is your dividing. Whoa. This is me moving this This is the dividing line. I'm gonna be all super messy here. How about this? this is the dividing line of your character and then At the very beginning he's more in this area away From the waiter. He doesn't want confrontation doesn't go too close.  He's also Leaning more let's go with this guy Leaning a bit more Towards the waiter. This looks so messy. I hope that makes sense So when he does that the throw in Then you're you're starting to really lean towards the guy It's almost like he wants to grab his him and bring him close like, okay, listen to me I want to add this this and this See it in that way Imagine how he does this you you you will be still in that lean And it might potentially also help you with The pose potentially it gives a bit more of a nice silhouette But he will be there so that when this happens, it's less of a move Over right from this line To this line. It's more like he is already there But the arm is up and all he does is kind of like plopped down He's already in that lean. He's already that confident and that close to the waiter Who's here and then he can just kind of plop down into huh. Yeah, right and into this I hope that makes sense and then when he's oh, no, no, no, no The solid that's when you go from here to here Into back into the straight and then at the very end You're back into the hunched over the other way. I hope that makes sense But again, we're all suggest subjective But that's my main impression when I was watching this again that there's just a lot of Either from where you are back to the same spot or where you are a bit here And then again in the mid over you just that wavy back and forth Is a bit my concern But of course you can totally overrule and just keep it That's just my thought there. Let me know what you think. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


Alright. So the recording has begun. We will pray and we will get right into today's session. Heavenly Father, we thank You, Lord, for this opportunity to study Your Word. Father, thank You for enlightening us, O God. Father, through the knowledge of Your Word. Father, as we delve deeper into the book of Acts, we pray that, Lord, we would be able to receive everything, Lord, that You want to speak to us by Your Holy Spirit. Father, we commit ourselves into Your hands. We pray that You will guide and lead, O God, this entire time. Father, we also ask Your blessings upon each one of us, Lord, all the students, all the listeners and their families. O God, we pray that, Lord, all of us will experience Your glory in a tangible and in a fresh way, Lord. Thank You, once again, in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. So, yeah, so happy and delighted that each of you has rejoined this class.  And I'm sure you must be enjoying all the different classes that you're having. It's a really rich year, so to speak, every year is. But, you know, this particular year you will be studying from so many books of the Bible, first by verse. So that's a wonderful opportunity and I really encourage you to make complete use of it. And, you know, strengthen your faith and also establish you in God's word. So today, in this course, we are going to look at Acts of the Apostles. I hope you have had a look at the overview of this course. If yes, you could let me know. I had posted the course overview in the Classwork page. Please have a look. Basically, it talks about what we will be using to study this course. We will go with the Bible and generally, you know, when I quote, I quote from the NKJV version. And primarily, we will use a commentary called as Enduring Word written by David Kozik. So you could also refer to this commentary for, you know, some of the insights that I would be sharing during this class. So at the moment, I'm not giving you any notes. We'll see. Like if there are specific subjects where notes may be required, then I would post the notes before the class. Okay. So as far as the assessments are concerned, there are two assessments that you will have one mid semester assessment and a final assessment. And please make sure that you attempt these assessments and also are able to get passing marks and, you know, not just passing marks, but really good marks in your assignments. Okay. Anything else? Any other questions before we start going into the content? Yes, Pastor. I think you asked how we are all doing. Yes. I don't know how you are doing. What are some of the things that have happened over the last, you know, six months or three or four months that we have last met you. Yes. Oh, thanks, Christopher. Thank you for checking about me. Well, yeah. The last three ones have flown by quite quick. I've been, you know, more occupied with the North Church, the church where I serve as an associate pastor. So more engaged with the activities of the North Church because, you know, I recall it wasn't happening. So then it gave us that much more time. So, yeah, that was one area that I was focusing on quite a bit. And apart from that, many other things that are happening in church, as you are aware, we are restarting our mission strips. So across India, that is, this would be for the APC Bangalore congregation. We have just put out those, the list of the mission trips and, you know, working on coordinating these outreaches. And one very exciting thing that recently happened is we had time together with all our outreach pastors from India. So they had come down to Bangalore, they as well as their families.  So it was truly a refreshing and a strengthening time. So this, as far as work is concerned, yeah, otherwise all fine, you know, personally doing well. Thank you so much, Christopher for asking. Yes. And of course, you know, we've been preparing for the Bible College and very excited, very excited about this semester and the year. It'll be a year for you and, you know, as in the semester, the next would make a year, the third year for all of you. So I'm excited as faculty, but I'm excited for you as students. So may the Lord strengthen you as you study his word. Okay, so coming to the subject of Acts of the Apostles, before we delve deep into this book of the Bible, I just wanted your opinion. Like when you think of acts, what is it that comes to you first? Hi, Pastor, I have a one, I think about power, the Holy Spirit. I think about that, that comes up the top of my head. Yeah, so that's why I think about fire, power, the Holy Spirit. Wow, thank you, Disha, fire, power, Holy Spirit. And Subhaji has mentioned in the chat, signs and wonders, of course. Say, I can see your hand raised. Yes, for me, I'll see the book of Acts as the Holy Spirit walking through ordinary men to do extraordinary things. Amen. That's right. So the work of the Holy Spirit through ordinary men doing extraordinary works. Kishan, please go ahead. Yes, for me, ma'am, encouragement and boldness. That's nice. Thank you for sharing that. Louis, what would you like to add? I think I want to question why it was called the Acts of the Apostles. Why not the Acts of the Church? Because basically as I started at the upper room, it was just that the records pointed more to what the apostles did. In hindsight, you hear people like Philip, other people that were highlighted. So maybe if we just question that a bit in the class, I'll come to the conclusion why it was called basically the Acts of the Apostles. So it's what you are saying, it's more of a question, isn't it? Maybe a question, but just on the inside, we've come to accept it as the Acts of the Apostles, but if you read it in context, they highlighted the things the apostles did. They also highlighted that they went to their own company. So that means they had their own groups where they had micro fellowships. So in that sense, we could call it the Acts of the Church. Because basically the apostles were a part of the Church. When Paul writes, he says, with the Church at this place, in this person's house would really shoot the Church. So they were just that combination of both the apostles and the Church at large. The one that was captured was the Church that was pray. Sure, sure. Thank you, Louis. I think I like that. Yes, yes. So I got the essence of what you're saying. So you're saying that it's beyond just the Acts of the Apostles, but there are others who are involved, who are not apostles, and the Holy Spirit worked through them as well, which is why it could have probably been called the Acts of the Church. Now, we will see that it could be called so many other names. Wonderful that Kennedy has mentioned here, the birthing of the Church. Yes, of course, it could have been called the Acts of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit worked through people's lives. So yes, it could have been called so many of those different names. But anyway, it has been named the Acts of the Apostles.  But I request us to keep it very brief, please. Yes, success. Do you want to say something? Okay, I'm not too sure if he's able to hear me. All right, let's just move on to Christopher. Christopher, what would you like to say? Yeah, I'd just like to say that it's actually quite similar to what the other students have mentioned. But I think the key words that come to mind is personal transformation that has taken place, where even though the apostles and other people who actually spent time with Jesus, they still sort of had a lot of doubts. They did not have that sense of living with the Holy Spirit. And because of the Holy Spirit, they were transformed. And that's where I think it makes such a big difference, particularly in the early days of the Church. Yes, true. Thank you, Christopher. Thank you for sharing those thoughts. Good morning. Yes, success. Good morning. Did you have something to share as well? You are talking about the Book of Acts of Apostles. Yes. To me, the Book of Apostles is the Book of Demonstration of Power of God. If we look at the Book of Acts chapter 12, it proves to all the people in the world that God is involved in the life of those who are genuinely seeking. There's a place I love very well that these people, when Peter put hand on the fire, people think the fire is going to bomb, but it proved to them the demonstration of power of God. And that's what every Christian should look onto. Thank you. Thank you. Success, the demonstration of God's mighty power. We have a few more comments here in the chat section. Rose says, Jesus turning over the mission to his followers and start a worldwide spread of the gospel from there on. Also, the demonstration of signs and wonders as the Lord backs up the truth of the gospel, making the unbelievers believe. That's very true. Ashalani miracles and about the witnesses and also how God uses the Apostles and also the good news of Jesus Christ being spread. Abhishek shares, people are turning towards Jesus by the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so the book of Acts is, you know, I could just play out the word acts. It's action packed. So there's so much happening here. There's personal transformation and somebody mentioned there's the power, the fire, the authority of the church, the birth of the church, the work of the Holy Spirit, the work of the believers, the widespread mission of the church being accomplished and people turning to the Lord, which is most exciting about the book of Acts. So in this first session, my intention is to just give us a little bit of background or an overview of the book of Acts. And then, you know, we will begin with chapter one. We will try and go over the, you know, the book chapter by chapter and verse by verse as much as possible. And the plan is to ideally try and fit in two chapters in a week.  But, you know, by the time we finish the book of Acts, we will be able to complete the 28th chapter. So the book of Acts, as many of you have already pointed out, it's more of the acts of the Holy Spirit through God's people, God's people including the apostles as well as the believers. So the work of the Holy Spirit, you could say through the church. Then the book of Acts is the manifestation of God's power that has been handed over to the church. Now we know when Jesus finally completed his mandate here on the earth, he gave us the great commission and he asked us to go and make disciples of all nations. And the great commission began to be fulfilled through the book of Acts or at least that's where we see it unfold. So the ministry that Jesus gave the believers is actually unfolding in the book of Acts. Alright, now the beautiful thing about the book of Acts is that it is like a bridge between the Gospels and the Ephesus. So just think with me, if we had just the Gospels, no book of Acts and then we start off with the book of Romans, there will be so many questions unanswered. We would be wondering who is this Paul and why is he writing to the Romans and how does he know about the Lord Jesus and what is the authority that he carries. And we would have absolutely no idea about how the seed shifted from the Lord Jesus walking with his disciples here on the earth, going through his fiery trial and what happened after that? How is it that you have people like Paul on the scene now? So the book of Acts really is a bridge between the Gospels and the Ephesus. The book of Acts extends over a period of 30 years, so 3 decades. We are going to cover 28 chapters in about 3 months but the time span that we are going to study through is actually spaced over 30 years. So God birthed the church on the day of Pentecost and so many things began to take place over those 30 years. There were many churches, many leaders raised up and so God's work was accomplished in a 90 fashion over 30 years. So the time would be from somewhere around 33 A.D. which is roughly around the time when the Lord Jesus was crucified to about 62, 63 A.D. That's the duration of the book of Acts and this book was written a little later, a little after 62 A.D. and I'll share with you why this book could have been written. So any guesses about who the writer of the book of Acts is? Luke. Okay, excellent. So all of you have 100 points on that correct answer. So Luke is the writer of the book of Acts. A little bit about Luke. Luke, he was a physician. He was a gentile and in the way he wrote an account of the life of Jesus, it helps us see that he is somewhat a historian with all the detailed information that had compiled about the life of Jesus. He's also a Christian teacher, we could say, simply because whatever he wrote, it instilled faith in the Godhead, the Lord Jesus and his works, his teachings, but also the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of the Father. So he was a Christian teacher is also what we could say. So here's the one who has written this book and we would see that the styles of writing both these books is somewhat similar. He is giving an account of the life of Jesus initially and then he gives an account of what unfolds after the ascension on Jesus. Now Luke wrote this book to a man called Theophilus. So you would see that very early on in the book of Acts. Let me quickly read that verse for us. So at chapter one verse one, it says, The former account I made or Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach. So he's writing to an individual called Theophilus and Bible scholars say that Theophilus was probably a man with influence, a man who carried some kind of governmental responsibility. Why was Luke writing to this person? Reason one could be that Theophilus was a believer and Luke wanted him to grow in his faith. So that is why Luke was writing to him. Second reason could be that this governmental authority that Theophilus carried might mean that he had a role to play in the trial of Paul. So I told us that this book was written somewhere around 62-63 AD. So that was the time when Apostle Paul was undergoing a trial and he was soon to be taken before Nero and tried for all the accusations against him. So it's likely that Luke was writing up a defense to prove that Paul is actually innocent. So he might have wanted to first explain about the life of Jesus and then go on to write about how Apostle Paul came to know the Lord Jesus and all the ministry which Apostle Paul did and to just point out to the governing authorities that he did nothing against the law of the land. So that might be another reason why Luke was writing to Theophilus. Now there are people who say that the book of Luke and the book of Acts were sort of in continuation. So when Luke wrote it out on a scroll, it was almost like the scroll of Luke, the book of Luke was followed by the scroll of the book of Acts. So it was probably written in that manner and it was written as a defense for Paul. So this is the second reason. The third reason why the book of Acts was written, people consider this individual Theophilus and say Theophilus, if you translate that term, that word, Theophilus is God and Phyllis refers to lover, lover of God. So it was very symbolic. So Luke was writing to people who loved God and giving a very detailed account of the life of Jesus and the unfolding of God's work in the early church. So these are some of the reasons why this book was written. So success, I can see your hand raised. Did you have a question or did I miss something? So we'll carry on. So now we have an idea about when the book was written, why it could have been written and who it was written to. So Luke, as he begins the book of Acts, he starts with this statement in verse 2. He says, about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven. So Luke is building that bridge. After the death of Jesus, his resurrection, we read about that in the Gospels. Now after the resurrection, what happened? He says about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven. So he also is talking about everything that Jesus did during that period of him spending time with his disciples here on the earth before he goes up into heaven to be with the Father. And from then on, we have the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which is spoken of in Acts chapter 2, which we refer to as the birth of the early church. And then the entire work of the Holy Spirit begins to unfold. Now let's continue to see what else do we find in the book of Acts. So we have an idea now about how this book came to be. Now what are some of the very significant themes that we would find in the book of Acts? So in this book, we would see the work of the Holy Spirit initially through the Apostles. And in the latter portion of the book, it would be more of the work of the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul. So the Apostles of the Lord Jesus are the ones that you see early on in the book but later on it's more through the life of Jesus. And then some portions in between you have an overlap of the Apostles of Jesus as well as Paul then. We see here the moving of the Gospel from Jerusalem to various parts of the region at that time. Okay. Yes, Sir Shri Kumar, you wanted to say something. Thank you, Pastor. I just have one question. I have one question. As you were saying that if you read the book of Acts, so we can see the work of the Apostle Paul. And also with very few incidents we can also see Peter and John and also few other names is highlighted there. So I just want to know that why the Acts is not recorded in the Acts like other disciples like Thomas was there and other disciples was there which is not mentioned. Even Matthias whose name was picked up by the lot in the book of Acts when we read. So even though they were used by God but why the Luke has not mentioned their ministries. Is it a specific reason? I just want to know. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Shri Kumar. Very good question there. So why aren't other Apostles mentioned? Why aren't other leaders, volunteers of the church mentioned? And in fact I was going to say this and I probably will say it again. Other churches are also not mentioned. You have some churches that have the focus like the Church of Jerusalem, the Church of Antioch and then the churches that Paul planted across the region. But we also are aware as we go through the book of Acts that there were many other thriving churches in the region. They are also not mentioned. Now why? Question is why? So I feel there could be two reasons. One as I already told us that this book of Acts was probably written as a defence brief to be given to the officials who were in charge of Paul's trial. So Luke had a focus and that is why you see that initially he is talking about everybody and then it's about Paul, Paul, Paul. Paul said this, Paul did this and more about Paul. So that is why. Second reason is historians say that the books of the Bible, even if you consider the Gospels and the Epistles, they have a certain length. And Acts could be one of the longer books compared to the other New Testament books. It seems like they all limited their writing to the length of the scrolls because it was very difficult to carry heavy scrolls. We know that in those times that's the way they would write and transfer, transmit information. So probably they, Luke would have had to think what should I pick, what should I, and he had to make a decision. So while there are many, many such, you know, a lot of other churches and leaders, he just focused on what we have in the book of Acts. And again, we know that it's by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that the canon of scripture has come together. So we go by this as the word of God, which has, you know, scriptural authority. Every other reading that we find it could be a historical report, it could be a cultural, geographical report. We could look at that as extra biblical information. So I hope that helps Shri Kumar. Any other follow-up questions? Thank you, Pastor. Okay, right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yes, Naidhi. Thank you, Pastor. Following Brother Shri Kumar's question, is it possible we can add a third theory that says in the beginning, he wrote about other disciples because he was in contact with churches of Jerusalem and other disciples. And then when Paul came into the church to start preaching, he traveled with Paul. That's why he had Paul's information and he didn't have other disciples' information. Possible. Yeah. Thank you, Maggie. Possible because we know that he was, Luke was a travel companion to Apostle Paul. So obviously he had more information about Paul as compared to other people. So, yeah. So that also could be one of the reasons. Okay. Great. So it's really good. You know, this is how we are trying to paint a picture and learn and get a background of the book of Acts. And I was saying, you know, in talking about the themes in the book of Acts, I said that initially, the work of the Holy Spirit through the apostles is what is put forward. And in the latter part, it's more about the work of the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul. And then, you know, I said that the book of Acts, geographically, you see the great commission or the pattern of the great commission unfolding through the book of Acts. We know that Jesus said, go into all the world and preach the gospel, make disciples of all nations. So here, as you go from chapter one all the way to chapter 20, you would see that initially a lot of ministry happens in the Church of Jerusalem. And then eventually, ministry is happening in places like Judea, Samaria, and later on, as you see from Acts 13 onwards, when you have Paul in the picture, Barnabas in the picture, the ministry is taken out to regions in Asia Minor and modern day Europe. So as Acts one way it says, you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Of course, they did not reach the ends of the earth, but it was kind of the beginning of taking the word out, taking the gospel out to people who have never heard it. So geographically, we see that the extension of the Kingdom of God or the Church was happening in the book of Acts. So that is also something that we could look at. So I have a small table here which I have taken from, I have the reference as well. I will quickly share the screen with us. Some more things for us to note. Okay, I hope you can all see this. Yeah, and as I just stated, the Great Commission is being fulfilled through God's people. And Acts 1-8, what Jesus promised us, disciples is seen in the book of Acts. And here you would see some of the major personalities who are involved in the work of the gospel in each of these phases. And the regions where the gospel reaches and also the communities that it touches. So initially it's Peter and John who are doing their ministry in Jerusalem and the ethnic group that they witness to is the Jews. And later, it's Greek-speaking Jews, you have people like Philip and Stephen who minister. The regions would be Jerusalem, Samaria and Judea, the audience, the Jews, Samaritans and the Ethiopian Unab. Later you have Paul and Peter who come on scene. The regions that they cover are Damascus, Judea, Antioch, Jerusalem and Asia. You have the audience as Jews, God fearing Gentiles and also other communities, pagans. Paul, the missionary, Europe and Asia minor, the audience being Gentiles and Jews. Paul as a prisoner, very interesting, even when he is a prisoner, ministry is happening through his life. And God's word over his life that he would stand before kings, that he would stand before people of influence that is still taking place when Paul is a prisoner. So he ministers in Judea, in Jerusalem, Caesarea and Rome, Rome being one of the very important cities at that time. God helped Paul take the Gospel even to the influential leaders there. So he is able to minister to the Gentile rulers, the Gentiles and the Jews. So you see how there are different people involved in different parts of the region and they are reaching out to various communities. And this is but a start or a beginning of what God was doing through his people. So we have seen that now. We also, as I said earlier, that there are so many other churches that have not been talked about, so many other men who live in God who have not been talked about. So there are, I mean, it's not included in the Book of Acts, but here is the understanding that a lot more was taking place in these three decades, not just what has been shared with us in the Book of Acts. So that is also something you and I need to bear in mind the way Jesus promised that the believers who are baptized in the Holy Spirit that they would be his witnesses, we know that there were believers who went out and who planted the different churches. So Antioch is one of them. When you study about the Church of Antioch, we do not know who that individual was or who those group of individuals were who planted that church. So it was just some believer, some unnamed, unknown believer who planted the Church of Antioch. And similarly, there would have been so many other churches that were planted. So this period, the 30 years, we need to understand that so much was taking place through the Holy Spirit and the lives of the believers. So the Book of Acts, though it's not mentioned, it's understood that it is definitely a mighty work of God which was unfolding through the early church. Now the Book of Acts is also the work of the early church, the ministry of the early church as we see it. But one additional thing that I want to tell us is that it hasn't stopped. When you read the last chapter of the Book of Acts, which is chapter 28, the ending is very abrupt. Now again, there is much talk about why the ending is abrupt. Paul was in Rome and we don't really know what his trial before Nero looked like. The book ends before that but then many Christians say that it has this abrupt ending but it's probably God telling us that the work of the Holy Spirit through his people has not ended. So you and I today are a continuation of the Book of Acts because what did God introduce himself as? He said, I am the great I am. He is not the great I was. So even today God is at work and God is at work through us and you would find different ministries named as Acts 29. It's simply to signify what God is doing today and the Holy Spirit is still here with us and he is the same Holy Spirit who worked through his apostles and believers in the times of the Book of Acts and he continues to work through us and so the Book of Acts has actually not been completed. The Acts of the believers, the Acts of the church, the Acts of the Holy Spirit which are unfolding here on the face of the earth. So this is like a quick overview with some highlights that we see in the Book of Acts. Now if you just want to look at it from go over the chapters, the Book of Acts and say what exactly was happening. You would find that from chapter one till about chapter eight, it's more of the church of Jerusalem and many of the people from the church of Jerusalem that you would see ministry Peter, John, Philip, Stephen. So these are all the men of God who you see there. But from Acts chapter nine, you have a dramatic entry of a persecutor who is transformed into a child of God and he has a call of God on his life and he is the Apostle Paul. So then you read more about the Apostle Paul from chapter nine onwards. But then there is a little bit of an overlap of the ministry of Peter over there and then you would also read a little bit about the church of Antioch. And eventually when we come to Acts chapter 13, that is the place where you see the Holy Spirit asking Paul and Barnabas to be called particularly for more of a missionary role. And so Paul and Barnabas are sent on their missionary journeys and from then on you see the three missionary journeys of Apostle Paul unfold. So throughout till about the 28th chapter, we just go over the missionary journeys of Apostle Paul. We also see how he plants different churches, how he oversees different churches, how he raises up leaders, how he is accused by the Romans and how he finally is moving from one court to the other and he is being taken up into higher courts till he is brought to Rome where he needs to face Nero and give a defence for himself. So this is how the chapters look and the story, if you will, is seen in all these 20th chapters. So I will pause for a moment. Would you have any questions or any comments to add to what I have just shared? Please feel free to unmute and talk. So if you don't have anything to say, I will quickly share another way of looking at the Book of Acts. So there are layers and layers. You can look at it in so many different ways because so much is happening here. So I will quickly share the screen here. So I just talked about all the 28 chapters and what takes place. This is another way of describing these 28 chapters. So from chapter 1 till chapter 2, the preparation of the Christian mission, then chapter 2 to chapter 8, the mission in Jerusalem, chapter 8 and 9, the mission in Judea and Samaria, chapter 10 to chapter 15, the inauguration of the Gentile mission. So you see there's a shift, right? There's a shift where the gospel is now going beyond the Jewish community. So the Gentile mission begins to unfold and from chapter midway of chapter 15, when the Council of Jerusalem meets, you see more of the mission to the ends of the earth. So the mission of Paul to the ends of the earth. So this is another way of describing what takes place from chapter 1 to chapter 28. And I'm sure you can come up with so many other themes that you find in the Book of Acts. So as you research, you will find people describe it differently each time. But that is the beauty of the Book of Acts. So at this point, let's go ahead and take a break. 10 minutes, we will come back and we will begin with studying chapter 1 of the Book of Acts. All the online students, I request you to don't get off the call. You can simply unmute yourselves and put your camera off and just rejoin the call after 10 minutes. So we will meet at 10 a.m. Thank you.


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