I wanna invite everybody, take your Bible in your hand and hold it up.  Okay, you can put it down. If you don't have a Bible, let me strongly encourage you, this week, get a Bible and plan on bringing it with you over the next 18 weeks. And you say, well, why 18 weeks? Because this is gonna be an 18 week series as we're going through the book of Acts. You see, right now you're going 18 weeks in one book of the Bible. That's a long time. No, it's not. You guys watch like 14 different seasons of Seinfeld on Netflix and nobody gets to season three and is like, this was really long.  That's what wind and fire is gonna be as we journey through the book of Acts. And I want you to have a Bible, number one, because I want you to start a good habit. Digital Bibles are wonderful, but you can't take notes. Reading it on the screens are great, but I want you to be able to write notes.  If you don't have a Bible, steal somebody's Bible and then repent later for it.   Go to a hotel, find a Gideon's Bible. Get yourself a B-I-B-L-E. Because that's the book for you. That's right, that's right. So great. Open it, if you have your Bibles, to Acts chapter one. Brand new series that we're launching this morning. I am very excited about teaching through the book of Acts. I have read the book of Acts almost every single month since college because when I was in Bible college, I had, I was in a Bible college that did not believe that God was still doing much of what we read about in the book of Acts. And so long story bit in the middle of one of my semesters, I sat down, I had a long weekend and I read the book of Acts and it's so awakened my heart with expectation of what God wants to do and will do for a people who are expectant for him that I made a vow to Lord, it's like Lord, I never wanna lose that fire that I feel when I read the book of Acts. And so I'm gonna read the book of Acts every month just to keep my heart calibrated to that because I believe the book of Acts is a blueprint for not only revival, but the church and individual followers of Jesus being used to transform the world.  If I were to lay that out and say, here it is, it would be the book of Acts. It would not be Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. It wouldn't even be the Federalist Papers. It wouldn't be anything necessarily political because all of those things have had their moments. But the book of Acts is how heaven invaded the world by the power of the kingdom of God and through a small group of disciples that followed the God man Jesus and his death, burial and resurrection, how God used them to turn the world upside down to the point that here we are today 2000 years later and what began in Acts chapter one with 120 in an upper room is now 1.6 billion alive at one time and millions more that are already in the throne room of heaven. That, my friend, is a revolution, not just of the external, but a revolution of the heart. And so today I'm gonna introduce to you this series. I'm gonna introduce to you chapter one, the entire book of Acts, I've entitled this message. The day the revolution began. The day the revolution began. And we've subtitled this series, the extraordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the uprising of the church in the book of Acts. Because make no mistake about it, the church of Jesus Christ is a revolutionary army that heaven has sent empowered by love, empowered by the Holy Spirit with the good news that can change people's lives.  And if you look back over the last 2,000 years of church history, you will discover that this pattern that we find in the book of Acts, every single time that pattern is reinvigorated and followed, it produces change. And every single time that the church gets away from the pattern of the book of Acts, we go into decline. So we're going back to the pattern, all right? Let me introduce you to the book of Acts. Number one, you need to know who the author was. The author was a man named Luke. He was, according to Colossians 4, verse 14, where Paul describes Luke. Luke was, he says, our beloved physician. Luke was not Jewish. Luke was a Gentile, probably Greek. And he was a physician. And he was also the travel companion of the apostle Paul. So on all of Paul's missionary journeys around Turkey and Europe and in the Holy land and North Africa and in different places that Paul went bringing the gospel, Paul, or Luke, was his travel companion. Some believe that Luke was also his personal physician, because if you read 2 Corinthians, all the things that Paul went through as an apostle, you need your own physician. He was beaten with rods. He was whipped with Kettinine tails four different times. He was shipwrecked a day and a half, bit by a poisonous snake, imprisoned into dungeons that were rat infested. He was chased down by robbers. He was persecuted by his own countrymen. He was rejected even by the church.  Because Paul went through some things. Paul needed a physician, but more than just being a physician that traveled with him, he was a friend and a companion of Paul's apostolic team. Luke wrote two books. Luke wrote, in fact, two volumes of one story. The first volume was the book of Luke. The second volume is the book of Acts. The first book, the gospel of Luke, is all about how Jesus came and he gave his life to redeem us. The second volume, which is the book of Acts, is all about how Jesus came and empowered us by giving us his spirit. And he wrote both books to a single individual whose name was Theophilus. Oh, excellent Theophilus. This is how he addresses him. Who is Theophilus? Well, Theophilus was a common name. Theophilus means friend of God. And how many know that's a pretty good name? When you're picking out names, names matter. And friend of God is a great name to name your kid. Theo for short. So when I was a youth pastor, I had two studly kids in my youth group. And I mean, they were just athletes, good looking to sharp. One of them's name was Skip and the other was Spike. Names matter. The parents, I asked them, I'm like, why did you pick names of Skip and Spike? Are they short for something? No, Skip and Spike. What was more interesting is they had two dogs, huge dogs, bull mastiffs, that look like horses. And you know what they named their dogs? Abby and Katie. Names matter. Theophilus means the friend of God. And there's a lot of different theories about who Theophilus was and why Luke wrote to Theophilus as he says to give an orderly account of all the things that Jesus both began to do and teach. Some in church history believe that Theophilus was a high priest who was of the family of Anna, or Anas, the high priest. And so he's trying to give him an explanation of Jesus. Others more reputable believe that Theophilus was a very wealthy Jew who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, who was very influential. Others still believe that Theophilus was potentially Paul's lawyer in Rome while Paul was under house arrest. When you get to Acts chapter 28, it ends abruptly with Paul under house arrest awaiting his trial. What we know is that ultimately Paul would be found guilty of insurrection against the Roman government and he would be beheaded because he was a Roman citizen. Unlike Peter, who would be crucified upside down because he was not a Roman citizen, they never would crucify a Roman citizen. Paul being a good Roman citizen from the city of Tarsus was beheaded. But many people believe that Theophilus was either the prosecutor who was trying Paul in the Roman courts. And so Luke, who's trained in rhetoric, or he's trained in law, as well as in medicine, because those all went together, presented a legal briefing to undo a lot of the rumors about who the Christians were. Because in Rome at this time, the Book of Acts is written in around 62 to 65 AD, about 25, 30 years after the resurrection, Christianity is exploding in the Roman Empire, but there are all kinds of rumors about who Christians are and what they believe. They spread rumors and said they're cannibals because they talked about eating the blood and eating the flesh of their savior. So a lot of people in Rome thought Christians are cannibals. They also called Christians atheists. They said, well, how can they call them atheists? They believe in God, we believe in Jesus. The problem was Christians were the only subgroup in the whole Roman Empire that refused to pay homage or worship to the Roman gods. They had a pantheon of gods. Christians would not bow the knee, they would not acknowledge that Nero or that any of the emperors were deities. So they called them atheists. And when Nero actually lit the city of Rome on fire and burned it down, and public opinion went against him, he had to find a scapegoat to blame it on.  So it rose to a persecution level and now Paul has been arrested and many believe that Luke was actually writing to this prosecutor presenting a legal argument for who Jesus really was. That's the gospel of Luke and how the church began and what their goal was. That's the book of Acts. I think the most likely case is what Irenaeus, who's one of the early church fathers believed about theopolis, is that theopolis was a very wealthy benefactor from the city of Antioch who helped finance and support Paul on his missionary journey. He was a benefactor who financed him from Antioch where Paul had spent much time and was financing the expansion of the gospel and the reproduction of New Testament letters that would ultimately become half of the Bible that you and I have today. And so as a gift or as an explanation, he's writing to this man theopolis. Whoever he is, he's writing with a very specific intention and the intention is to give an explanation of the expansion of this seemingly unsung group of followers of a Nazarene and how that church and how that message called the gospel grew and expanded from Jerusalem all the way to the ends of the earth and ultimately even into the emperor's home in the city of Rome, the most powerful city in the world. He wants to give an explanation. The book of Acts is 28 chapters that covers about 30 years. A lot of people read the book of Acts and go, wow, what a week that was. Now, it was 28 to 30 years. And here's one little nugget that you'll notice about the book of Acts. If you skip ahead to the end of the book, which I know a lot of you do when you read books because you wanna see how it ends, what you will find out is that in the book of Acts there is no amen at the end of the book. Most of the New Testament epistles that you read end with an amen, which is a Hebrew word that means let it be, that's it, it's done. But there's no amen at the book of Acts in Acts chapter 28. Why is there no amen? It's because it's still being written. Not literally in the sense that it's included in our Bible but the Holy Spirit did through the church, beginning 2000 years ago in Jerusalem, is still happening across the face of the earth. You and I are still living in what God started at the very beginning of the book of Acts. It's still happening. When's it gonna be done? When Jesus returns? How many know that's gonna be a good day? I can't wait to get to heaven and hear the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey used to say. So give me the rest of the story of what God did. And when you really think about what has happened with just 11 disciples because Judas hung himself, who met together with Jesus in Jerusalem and what has come of that, it's nothing short of miraculous. There's no explanation.  That there has to be a supernatural reason for it. And I believe that that should be true in us. It's definitely true in the book of Acts. So let's kick it off. Look with me here at verse number one, Acts chapter one, verse number one. We're gonna read several verses here and then I'm gonna give you some thoughts about how Jesus prepared the church and brought the church to a place of critical mass. Here we go, verse number one. In the first book, Otheophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day that he was taken up after he had given commandments through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs and appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you heard from me for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. So when they had come together to ask him, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said to them, it is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has fixed in his own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes and said, men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. Verse 12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, about a Sabbath's day's journey away. And when they entered, they went up to the upper room where they were staying, Peter, John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas and Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Elpheus and Simon the zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer together with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus and his brothers. So Acts chapter one is the introduction to what Jesus began to do and teach in the first volume, which is the book of Acts and now what we begin to see is in the last few days, last 40 days that Jesus had with his disciples before he ascended, took the throne over the universe, exalted at the right hand of the father, that he spent 40 days preparing the disciples to carry on the mission of Jesus. You see when you read your Bible, if you look at the headline of the book of Acts, this is the Acts of the apostles, but in reality, we could call it the Acts of the Holy Spirit, the Acts of the Holy Spirit through the apostles and everything that we will study in the next several weeks, it's not the wisdom, it's not the strength, it's not the education, it's not the cleverness of human beings that made it happen. It's actually the power of heaven, the wind and the fire of heaven in natural, normal, average, everyday people that made a supernatural difference, but it starts with Jesus preparing and prioritizing for the disciples the things that are going to position them to be ready for when the fire comes. Next week in Acts chapter two, we're gonna talk about God sending fire, the power from heaven, but before he does that, he has to prepare them.  I'm talking like old school where you make a fire. You know that before you strike the match and throw the flame into the fire pit, you've got to prepare the wood and the fuel to receive the flame. And what we see what Jesus doing, he says, for 40 days, Jesus, after his resurrection, met with the disciples and taught them about the things of the kingdom of God. How many think that that's a pretty good Bible college to go to, where Jesus is your instructor? For 40 days after his resurrection, we sometimes in the church have a mentality it's like Jesus rose from the dead and then whoop and the church was like, wow, that was powerful. All right, let's go. That's not at all how it happened. Jesus was raised from the dead. We celebrated that last weekend on Easter or on Resurrection Sunday. And when Jesus was raised from the dead, we need to understand, he was not raised as a spirit. He was raised physically. His physical body was raised back from the dead and then God transformed it into a glorified body which means it had no more sickness, disease. It was not subject to death or weakness and it was not limited to the three dimensions that you and I are familiar with or even the five senses. It's his body plus. It was a human body plus. You and I have a human body but it comes with weakness. You and I have a human body but it gets old and it gets tired.  That's just because of the fallen state of the world that we live in. But the Bible is very clear in 1 Corinthians 15 that Jesus was the first fruits of the resurrection which means if he's first, there's more to come. When Jesus returns, you and I are going to receive a physical glorified body just like Jesus now has and we will live forever and ever and ever in that physical body. So the body you have right now is going to be your body plus. It's just gonna be better, stronger, never getting weak. Your hair's never gonna grow gray. I mean, I'm believing for six pack abs again. Maybe for the first time ever. I don't know, but it's gonna be glorious. Jesus though, it's important for us to know that when Jesus appears and he teaches to the disciples for 40 days, it's Jesus. He made a campfire next to the Sea of Galilee. He cooked a fish breakfast for them. He ate with them. They hugged him. Thomas touched his hands and his feet. So I want you to get this idea that Jesus, he spends 40 days from Passover or shortly after Passover until the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost 10 days before that for 40 days, the disciples are meeting with Jesus and he's teaching them. Can you imagine in your living room all of a sudden resurrected glorified son of a living God walks through the wall and says, all right, take your notepad out and begins to teach you about the kingdom of God. Why did Jesus do that? Because Jesus knew that on the other side of Easter, on the other side of the resurrection, what is needed is a kingdom perspective if we're going to be effective at transforming the kingdoms of men. We can't make disciples of the nations if we are disciples of the nations. We can't transform the world if we're being transformed by the world. And so Jesus zeroed in on the kingdom of God and taught them all things about, not only the kingdom of God someday when he returns and he sets up this earthly kingdom, but he taught them about the spiritual truths and principles of the kingdom of God and how to do ministry, the power of the Holy Spirit. He taught them all kinds of things related to this idea for 40 days. So he would come and teach them and that's it. And then he'd disappear and then he would come back. And then on the last day that he's with them, Jesus takes them up onto the Mount of Olives.  Then you're gonna be my witnesses. And then all of a sudden they watch Jesus lift off. If you've ever seen a space shuttle launch, it's pretty awesome to watch it just go up and the burners just go up. They're standing there with Jesus. And then all of a sudden he begins to, reee, I mean take off. Can you imagine what that must have been like? You're just watching Jesus go up into the clouds, seeing sunlight come through the holes in his feet. Just watching him go. It's like, whoa. And then there's two angels staying there going, men of Galilee, why are you gazing into the heavens? Well, because I'm watching Jesus fly. And I think that's worth watching. Anybody else? I mean, it's not like you go, all right, see you later, Jesus, all right, boys, let's go. No, I mean, I'm like, wow, how did he do that? But the angels were literally drawing their attention away saying it's time. It's time, and I want you to remember this. The same way that Jesus left is the same way that he's coming back. He's coming back. He reminded them of all things Jesus had said that he is coming back. But in the meantime, he's called them to do and to carry on the work of the ministry. In the gospels, what we see is Jesus, the son of God in a physical body, doing the ministry of the father and setting a pattern for the disciples. It was training them, goes to the cross, dies for the sins of the world. Now what we see in the book of Acts is Jesus is handing the baton to them and he's saying what I did and how I taught you and how I showed you, now you go and do the stuff. It's very reminiscent of Elijah and Elisha. Elijah was a prophet, Elisha was his protege. He said, follow me, but there came a day when Elijah was taken up in a chariot of fire, but he told Elisha, if you're there when I'm taking up, you can have a double portion anointing. And so when Elijah was taken up, he dropped his mantle and Elisha took it up and what the Bible records is that Elisha did twice as many miracles as Elijah ever did. This is their Elisha moment, where they are there when Jesus is taken up and now what we're about to see is that after 40 days with Jesus where he's prioritized certain things, a pattern for them, he's about to drop the match of the Holy Spirit onto the church and ignite a revolution that will not be quenched, will not be stopped, will not be slowed down until Jesus returns. And church, you and I are a part of that. So let me give you the four things that I believe in this chapter. Jesus prioritizes for the disciples that are necessary for the church to reach a state of critical mass. You can see these four priorities, by the way, in any move of God throughout history of the church. You can see it in the Reformation under Martin Luther and John Calvin. You can see it in the anti-Nicene fathers in the first three centuries of the church. You can see it in the Moravian Revival. You can see it in the Pentecostal Charismatic outpourings of the Holy Spirit. You can see it in the holiness movements of the Methodists. You can see it everywhere because whenever these priorities are set back in place, like dried kindling in a fire pit, it always leads to an empowerment of the Holy Spirit and the church returning back to its original call. And make no mistake about it, this is our call. As we're going back through the book of Acts, church, as your pastor, I don't want you to just get information. I want there to be an eye-opening revelation that we go, this is what I'm called to. I'm supposed to live like this. Think like this. And as we see that, what I don't want to happen is you to be, I've missed the mark, I can't start. No, I'm just, I'm too entrenched. No, I want it to literally turn over the soil of our heart and go, oh, I was created for so much more. God wants to do so much more through me. And I want our faith level to just skyrocket in the day and age that we live in. So here's the four priorities that brought critical mass to the church. Number one, Jesus said this. Here's the priority that they were to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit. I want, Jesus said, I want you to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit. Verse four and five in Acts one, here it says, and while they were staying with them or he was staying with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you've heard from me for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Jesus knew that the same Holy Spirit power that fueled his ministry was required and necessary to fuel the mission of the church. And Jesus says, don't leave Jerusalem until you receive the power of the Holy Spirit. You know, we can have a tendency to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. You know, the first four books, the gospels that tell us everything about Jesus's life. And we can be tempted, or maybe it's our default setting to think, well, of course, Jesus healed the sick. Of course, Jesus cast out demons. Of course, Jesus was able to discern and answer supernaturally questions that were meant to be traps because of course, Jesus did all that because Jesus was God and because he's God, and of course he's gonna do those kinds of things, but I can't do those things because I'm not God. Well, you're right, you and I are not God and that's a good thing. It's a good thing we're not good. It's a good thing I'm not God because I would react a lot differently than my merciful, long-suffering, patient father does. So everybody just wipe your brow and go, I'm so glad Pastor Lee's not God. But here's the reality, is that if we believe that Jesus did those things because he was God, then we're missing really the point, one of the major points of Jesus's life in ministry.  How did Jesus heal the sick? How did Jesus set people free who were oppressed by the devil? He did it because of the anointing of who, of the Holy Spirit. When did that happen? Matthew chapter four, Jesus at the beginning of his earthly ministry goes to the Jordan River. John, his cousin baptizes him, not because Jesus needed to have his sins washed away, but because he was stepping into priestly ministry. This was a mikvah, this was a cleansing and a washing and a ceremonial purification before a priest began ministry. And when that happened, the heavens opened up, the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus. And the father said, this is my beloved son and whom I am well pleased. Jesus goes into the wilderness and tempted for 40 days. When he comes out of the wilderness, he goes to his hometown synagogue. He opens a scroll of Isaiah chapter 60 and he reads these words. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me. How did Jesus do what he did? Did he do it because he's God? No, Jesus could have done it because he was God, but Philippians two says that Jesus actually set aside certain attributes that he had as God for a period of time in order to show us a prototype of what can happen when a human being fully yielded and empowered by the Holy Spirit can do. So Jesus operated under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Why is that important? Because that means if Jesus did it under the power of the Holy Spirit and he told the disciples to wait for that same power, that means Jesus' expectation was that we were gonna receive the same anointing that he had and we would be able to do the very same stuff that he did, that you could heal the sick, that you could cast out demons, that you could operate in discernment and wisdom and knowledge. It's Matthew, or it's Mark chapter 16. These signs shall follow those who believe. And listen, we only raise our levels of expectation up to the level of our knowledge and belief. So if we don't think that God wants that for us, then we'll never strive for that or we'll never grow in that. But Jesus is wanting to prepare them and one of the priorities was, I want you to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit because you're gonna need it. D. L. Moody, who was a great revivalist, said this. He said, there is no use in running before you are sent. There is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this anointing, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him is losing time after all. We need the power of the Holy Spirit. Second priority that Jesus said in place, and I gotta move quickly, is he prioritized them mobilizing the church to reach the ends of the earth. In verse eight, he says, you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. So that's the first part. And then you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world. What was the power for? The power was to be mobilized to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. This is what Jesus commissioned the church to do. I want you to go and preach the gospel. Matthew 28, verse 18. I want you to go and make disciples of all nations. But before you go, you're gonna need the Holy Spirit. But once you get the Holy Spirit, the point is to mobilize you and to get you moving. Cause Jesus did not create the church to be a stagnant institutionalized monument to himself, but a Holy Spirit-empowered catalytic movement that would reach the farthest corners and the unreached people of the earth until he returned. See the power of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, it's not for us, it's for the world. Now, I can pick on my church family, not you, but I grew up Pentecostal, Pentecostal Charismatic. And we love the work of the Holy Spirit. This is a Charismatic church. You know, I grew up and we talked about the power of the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues, gift of prophecy, healing, you know, all those kinds of things. But very often, one of the criticisms I have of the Pentecostal Charismatic movement as a whole is that we oftentimes looked at the power of the Holy Spirit as for us. For us to enjoy and us to be entertained by. Go to a conference and you know, it's like people are falling down when they're getting prayed for and man, I really felt the Lord. I got the goosebumps and it was amazing and I got a word for myself and it was amazing. And listen, we get to enjoy that, but that's not the point. If we're not careful, we can turn the Charismatic gifts into a Charismatic carnival. How many have seen those carnivals that come to town? They set up in the mall parking lot, you know? Got a little Kearney guys running around there. They got machines you would never put anybody you love on, but because you've had two elephant ears and one of those long hot dogs wrapped in corn or whatever they are, you know, you get on that thing and and you know, you're trying to hit the top of it and you're throwing, trying to get the stuffed animal for your first day.  And those carnivals come to town, they set up, everybody has a good time.   There's nothing lasting there. Listen, the church is not meant to be self-centered. It is meant to be a compass that's pointed outward, filled with the Holy Spirit, to the North, to the South, the East and the West. And as we go, the Bible says in Mark chapter 16, it says, God will confirm the preaching of the message with signs and wonders following. I'm about to say something that's gonna rock your world and then I'm gonna miss the last two points because I don't have time. But one of the reasons why we don't see more signs and wonders in the American culture is because there is a direct correlation to our lack of going. We've taken Jesus from being our personal Lord and Savior to now Jesus becoming our private Lord and Savior. And we keep him to ourself. And God says, I will confirm the message with signs and wonders. But I'm not just gonna give you signs and wonders so that you can stand there and wonder. If we start preaching the gospel more in our culture, one on one and boldly proclaiming it and being unashamed about the name of Jesus and being motivated by what motivated Jesus and being a mobilized mission movement. I'll tell you what's gonna happen.  You can go to third world nations where they don't have lights, they don't have buildings. They got lawn chairs and tarps and they are persecuted but they are preaching the gospel. And you know what God's doing? Miracle upon miracle upon miracle upon miracle. It's because God's not interested in entertaining us. He's interested in empowering us for mission. And just for the sake of being consistent, point number three is Jesus prioritized anticipating his return to rule and to reign. And number four, he prioritized them staying united in prayer. Look at verse 14, after Jesus did all these things, it says, and all these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer together with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus and his brothers. What was their response as Jesus takes off? As he said, wait for the power, go into all the world and know that I'm coming back. What was their response? Their response was, let's go to prayer. Let's go to prayer. Jesus said, wait, how long did they wait? How long did they pray? 10 days! Can you imagine a 10 day prayer meeting? I think we need one of those. 10 day prayer meeting! And did you notice who's at the prayer meeting? It's his brothers, the same brothers that didn't believe in him until the resurrection. You've got James and Jude who would both write two books in the New Testament. During Jesus' earthly ministry, these two brothers did not believe Jesus was the Messiah. Can you imagine, by the way, you're growing up with Jesus as your older brother? Mom and dad all the time looking at you going, why can't you be more like your brother, Jesus? Well, he's God, mom! Sinless, I mean, something in the hearts of these two brothers, half brothers, resisted believing in Jesus. But after he was raised from the dead, now we see them in the upper room. And what are they doing? Praying together with the mother of Jesus Mary Mary Magdalene, the other women who supported him and the 11 and some of the 70, there's about 120 of them. What were they doing? They were positioning themselves to receive the wind and the fire of heaven. And when that spark, when that match head was ignited and thrown on the day of Pentecost onto the church, in that upper room, it ignited an inferno. A move of God on the earth that would totally transform and change society, people's hearts, overthrow the Roman Empire and take the good news of God's salvation to the ends of the earth. You and I are here today because of what happened in Acts chapter one and how they gave themselves to these priorities. Why is that important? Because here's our default setting. Our default setting, instead of having a kingdom focus is to actually be shaped in our mentality by the world. Our default setting is not to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit and depend on God's power, it's to trust in our own strength, our own ability, our own intellect or the ins and outs and the wisdom keys of this world. Our default setting is not to go to the ends of the earth but it's to live our life focused on me and my needs and my wants. Our default setting is not to go to prayer but it's to become divided, distracted and discouraged. That's what the devil wants. If the devil can keep the church divided between themselves, distracted from prayer by everything else that the world has to offer, he will get us discouraged and now we become like wet wood that cannot hold the flame. But when we come back and we say, Jesus, your priorities are my priorities. God, I want a kingdom perspective. I need the power of the Holy Spirit. I'm called to be a witness to the world. I'm anticipating your return and I'm gonna live my life committed to the place of prayer, united together. I'll tell you what happens. You can begin the countdown. 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two. Acts chapter two requires an Acts chapter one preparation. Would you stand with me all over the room? I don't know about you, but I want an Acts two outpouring which requires an Acts chapter one response in me. And I want that for you. I want that for our families. Listen, I believe all of my heart as we look at the darkness in the world today. I'm convinced that darkness only exists because there's an absence of light. Darkness is not a force. Darkness is not an energy source. It's a void. Did you get that? Darkness is a void that has to flee whenever light is introduced. Church, the darkness is not stronger than the light in you. The darkness of hell on the earth, the darkness on our generation, the darkness that wants to encroach on our families, the darkness that we see all over the landscape of the earth. It has no power beyond the power of us as the church allowing it to. But as soon as we recognize we are the light of the earth, we are the light of the world. And we begin to say God light the flame with Holy Spirit, fire and wind in my heart once again. I'll tell you what, you're gonna begin to see the darkness dissipate. Demons have to flee at the name of Jesus. We saw this morning people getting baptized and there's testimonies of Jesus coming and pushing back the darkness and transforming in our lives and saving them and healing them and changing things in their lives. And that might be true in your life. It's one life at a time and it's one church in a moment and it's one generation in a city that can change everything. I want that level of faith and expectation to fill us today.  Holy Spirit, we need you. Jesus, we love you. Father, we adore you. And we wanna serve faithfully to you. Lord, we have been appointed one life, one moment in human history in which we are the stewards of this time. We are the stewards of this message. And I pray, Lord, that you would kindle inside of our hearts a flame, a fervent love for Jesus. And in the places of our life, maybe where we've grown dull and distracted and complacent, Lord, would you fan into flame, our passion and our love for you all over again, Jesus. Blow the wind of heaven and fan into flame the power of your spirit.


Oh, the Nintendo Switch. We've been talking about this bad boy for the last six years and people can't stop making wacky gadgets for it and we're still trying to find solutions to make this thing even better. I still love my Satisfy Grip. This is not a sponsor but nothing beats it. It is the most comfortable way to play. I'm not talking about this grip today though because I've talked about it to death on this channel. I will be looking at a bunch of other things including this Nitro Deck which a ton of people wanted me to look at because it's kind of a replacement for the Satisfy Grip I suppose. It turns it into a Steam Deck almost. So how about we try and build the ultimate Nintendo Switch? And what better way than probably the best Nintendo Switch controller I have ever used? Then the world's tiniest Nintendo Switch dock and I want to finally take a look at the Pokemon printer that'll print your Nintendo Switch screenshots. All of this should ultimately make the best Nintendo Switch you've ever seen. Oh, like, comment and hair flip on that subscribe button. Wow, when's the last time I did that? Yeah, but if you have the ultimate Nintendo Switch, you're gonna need an ultimate Switch game to play on it. This episode is sponsored by Sonic Superstars. The new Sonic Superstars game is actually surprisingly fun. I played it on Twitch and had a great time. Delia experience. It feels like classic Sonic in the way that it controls, but the looks have been refreshed and it's so much brighter and poppier now. There's so many paths I can see that I could be taking. These levels look really big and dynamic. Every level and world and act is completely different as the more you go along, the crazier things get. Also, these guys add so much variety into the gameplay.  Yes! And you can go back to the world map at any time and replay previous levels with the new chaos emerald abilities that you have. Oh, in the boss battles, they're pretty tough.  Just give me that one ring back, I'll be fine. Give me that one ring back, I'll be fine. I'm gonna dance that one ring. I like that everyone is like, there's a different way to beat each boss. And that's before I even mentioned that you can play this game with four of you. I mean, this is first four players Sonic ever. You can play as Sonic, Amy, Taylor's and Knuckles. And then there's a battle mode where you can play with any of you. Which one am I? I came first! There'll be links down below if you want to check it out. I really appreciate Sonic Superstars for sponsoring the video. I'm gonna ironically leave very slowly. All right, I'm gonna start with the Nitro Deck. This thing is really cool. I've already been using it now for a couple of weeks, I would say. So this is the Crick-Crickid... Crackhead? The Cricket? I don't know how to pronounce this company's name, CRKD. So you take your switch, you slide it down on here like this. And just like that boom bam baby, you got a steam deck. I do love the way it makes the switch look. You know, it tricks my brain into thinking that this thing can run bigger and better games than it actually can. Like I feel like I have the Switch 2 or the Switch Pro already. These sticks, by the way, are hole-sensing sticks that you can switch out. I think this is something I don't really do or consider doing, but I just took this off and I can click it back on. But the hole-sensing sticks are a big thing now. Essentially, it means you shouldn't get any kind of stick drift at any point, which is an advantage to a lot of people. This light-up button down here, which is always on and burning my retinas, apparently you can turn it off.  It acts as the home button, so you can go home whenever you want. Then on the back, you got four programmable back buttons. You can put anything you want, you can map it. I believe it can also do turbo. And then you have a little kickstand. If you're sewing client to kickstand it, it reminds me of the original Nintendo Switch kickstand, because it's flimsy little and only does a weird angle. And then there's two charge points on the back yet. Well, one, technically. One charges it if you want to play while it's in this thing. And then another one where you can plug it straight into the dock and use it as a controller. So it's empty, looks a bit weird. Because it plugs in via USB down the bottom here, you get this super low latency gameplay and none of that blue toothness going on.  Oh, yeah, whatever. I don't know what it's called. Now, the biggest thing I haven't talked about and I've saved till last is comfortability. If you're comparing it to just using the Switch with Joy-Cons, yeah, it's quite a bit more comfortable. There's more meat to hold on to and there are grooves on the back you can wrap your fingers around. But playing it for even an hour in bed, my hands do start to go numb. They go numb and tingly even while using this thing. I don't find it super comfortable. And I got to be honest, I have been looking forward to making this video so that I can stop using this. I know that sounds really mean. I love the back buttons. I do love the way the sticks feel. But at the end of the day, this is just so much more comfortable. They have nailed the design here. The difference is the way that the satisfied grip handles shoot outwards like down. It just makes my hands sit in a way where they just get flow or they get blood flow or something while I play. The grips are better. The angle is better. I don't feel like I'm trying to squeeze in. I'm just, I'm relaxed out. Also, this new Zen grip has slots for two games to take with me on the go, which I did kind of miss when I was switched to this for a while. Also, this doesn't have HD rumble or NFC. So kind of losing features. You're gaining some, but also losing some. The only thing that doesn't have the back buttons, but other than that, I don't really need all the fancy technology and plugging something into USB that's just draining more battery. All in all, I don't think you have to rush out and grab this thing, but it was a fun experience. I like it. It's worth the money. I'm not going to use it. All right. Next, this little guy. For some reason, Nintendo made their own themed micro SD cards, but Nintendo thought that the little gold logo of the Triforce meant that they could charge an extra $50 for this. Other than that, you just plug and play. It's really not too bad. All right. I really have been super excited to talk about this 8-bit dual ultimate Bluetooth controller. It also has a 2.4 gigabyte receiver. I love the pro controller. There is nothing wrong with it. It is perfect. The Bob Wolf from Wolfen actually recommended this guy to me. So I thought I would check it out and I love it. It comes with this charging dock, which was a nice surprise. It's very stylish. It charges up the controller when you plug it in. So the charging dock plugs straight in by USB-C to USB-A. These go together now. You can pick up this controller and you can just start using it on the switch now. You don't have to go through and connect it and hold down buttons and everything, and it is so nice. The way it works is in the base here, there's one of those 8-bit dongle things that usually you would plug in your switch and have it sticking out the side, and you could connect third-party controllers. This is so cool. This is game-changing for me. This is hands down. The only controller I'm going to use now, I mean it, changed everything for me. Let's talk about the actual controller. It feels like a pro controller, but somehow more quality. Just the weight to it and the texture of it. We have two back panels. So you get that advantage if you want to map anything to these. The only things I'm losing, and I am losing a little bit, NFC reader, no one uses that anyway. And then the HD rumble. It does have really nice rumble and you can control what level of rumble you want, but you don't get that HD rumble. Let's be honest people, Nintendo doesn't use HD rumble anymore anyway, and when they do, I didn't really even notice. I'm not worried about it. It's changed my switch. I can't recommend it enough. Not a sponsor. I'll have Amazon affiliate links down below I guess. I always forget to do that. But yeah, I just love this. It's so cool. I talked a lot about plugging this thing into the dock, but this big old guy, I don't know about you guys, but my TV, it blocks the bottom left corner of the TV. Pideous. Get it out of here, you're saying. This is the tiniest Nintendo Switch dock I've ever seen. It's made by Ganky, who are a retro-pictable company that have made a ton of Switch products and third party products in general. And they're good. They're good stuff. Everything they make is good. It's so small. It's like the size of my eyeball. So you get your Switch, you plug it in here, you plug it into the dock, and you plug that in the wall. There's a HDMI here, and you put that in your TV. So you can hide all of this behind your TV. So no one needs to see it. Not that there's anything wrong really with the Switch dock, but if that's what you're going for, I'm still worried about long-term use of any dock that's not Nintendo's official dock, just because when the Switch came out initially, every dock seemed to be frying the console. But surely six years in, with them still selling things like this and coming from a company like Ganky, I'm not really worried about it. I'm hesitant, but I'm not worried. This audio is going to sound terrible, because I wasn't planning on saying anything on camera right now, but this works surprisingly great. I don't know why I expected the video quality to be horrible, but it's just a dock. It's just a mini dock. I still don't trust it, but it's pretty good. All right, I'm actually really excited for this. But what if you could take your digital screenshots and make them physical memories? I mean, that's pretty ultimate. And that's what this does. It's a little expensive. I think it was $120. Here's the printer. Nice, little cute. And then this one, it comes with this, where you can slot the printer into it. And now it's a Pikachu printer. Oh, wait, it's blue and red. Oh, that's so cute. They matched Pokemon for it. Let's try and set this up. When you use the printer for the first time, be sure to fully charge the battery. It's micro USB? I don't know who uses USB micro in 2023, but it's on charge. We've got to put the film in, so it goes like this or like that. Yeah, there we go. All right. Locked and loaded. Yellow on it. I don't know what that means, but it went yellow. Remove the black film cover that is automatically rejected. But that didn't happen. I'm going to skip that step for now. Got to download an app in stacks.  Good, good, good. It's connected. How's the switch part of it all work? I took a really nice photo today of me, Kim and Darla. And this was the first thing that came up. So maybe we could do a test. Okay, print. If there's no film in the printer, please load it back and try again. Maybe because it was off when I did it the first time. There we go. All right, spat it out. So it has to be on. Never used one of these before. Leave me alone. All right. So it's spattered out. Oh my God. There is nothing on this though. Did I do it wrong? Oh no, it's developing. Look at that. Just amazed by your printer. Oh, there's a different app for it. Instax for Nintendo switch. Let's open that bad boy. Switch direct print. Easily print Nintendo switch game. All right. So it's like the same bit different. Change the app design of your choice. Okay, we'll do Pokemon snap. Oh, now it's all it's all Pokemon. Well, cool. So I loaded up Pokemon snap earlier. All right, here we go. Here he is. Save to system. Okay. So at the end, you can save to system. There he is. Edit and share. Send to smartphone. Only this one. All right. Scan one. Boom. Scan two. Transfer the image. Okay. There we go. There he is. Oh, it's nice.  All right. So now we can do filters. This auto one does a really good job at boosting the color and making it look a lot sharper. So for now, we're just going to print the boy. Easy as that. This one came out looking really nice. While that one sits, I actually remember I should have some Animal Crossing screenshots of when I proposed to Kim in the game. Yeah. So that was me proposing to Kim and Animal Crossing. Now we'd already actually gotten married at this point. But if you remember the video, you remember the video. So I'm going to print this one out for Kim. See if we can do it a little easier this time. One and two. Okay. We'll do the auto filter because that's a really good job. And then we'll just print that out. And I'll give that to Kim. Here's my Animal Crossing one. All right. Pretty easy now. Oh, frame print. You can pick a frame. Oh, look. All these Animal Crossing ones. Oh, there's actually so many. This is ultimate. This is sick. For these, you have to have the picture on your phone already. All right. So let's change the filter to something Mario. All right. This one makes a lot of sense. And then go camera us at Mario World and then drag it up a little if I can. Okay. All right. So yeah, I love all of these accessories. I do think each of these offer something very unique and improve the switch in many ways. And don't get me wrong. I know I was kind of harsh on the Nitro Deck. I'm very biased to the satisfied grip, but I do think it's more comfortable. And that's all that matters for me. But for features, and if you just want to completely transform your switch, the Nitro Deck is great. And I'm not saying don't buy it. For me, the must have would be the satisfied grip, which is not technically part of the video. Other than that would be this controller. I think this has changed the controller game for me on switch. I love it so much. It is so nice and so handy. But what do you guys think? Do you use any of this stuff? Which thing was your favorite thing? Are you going to grab any or all of it? Let me know in the comments down below. I love making videos like this. I had a lot of fun today. So like, comment here, flip on the subscribe button. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Thank you so much for allowing me to play with gadgets for a living.


from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2018.  What's good to have you back here on theCUBE as we continue our day three coverage of AWS re-invent. This is our seventh year at this show, by the way. And it was just a little itty bitty thing some seven years ago. It's going to almost 40,000 plus this year. I think most of them are still here enjoying day three. Rebecca Knight with John Walls are now joined by Dan Potter, who is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Attunity. Dan, good to see you. Great to be back at theCUBE.  I am a CUBE alum. Yes, I am. And Rebecca, last year, two Bostonians. So again, I'll try to interject what I can. Right, right, right. You don't speak our language. We can translate. It's all right, Danny. It's okay. We were saying before we got started here, you go to a lot of shows, right? And so everyone has its own personality. It has its own rhythm, its own vibe. I mean, how would you characterize what you're seeing here, especially here we are day three, and it's still alive and thriving? It is absolutely overwhelming. This is my third every year it grows, but I just seem to spend my days going from hotel to hotel, to try to hit the sessions you want to. I feel like I'm always in an Uber. It's just so big. And the keynotes, there are so many new solutions that they're rolling out.  Yeah. So what keeps you coming back? I mean, is it the chance to see so many customers in one place? Is it to hear the dizzying number of announcements from Andy Jassy? So I loved Andy's presentation. And the keynote this morning was great. For us, all of our customers are moving to the cloud. I mean, Amazon really is the pioneer of people and their transformation to the cloud. And the success that customers are having with the Amazon platform is just astounding. And to see over the last few years how organizations have overcome some of the technical barriers, some of the perceptual, the regulatory barriers, they're all gone now. And this wave of movement to Amazon, and to Google, and to Azure, it's real, and it's happening, and it's only accelerating. So it's exciting for us. We're a vendor of data integration solutions. So we help customers move their data into the cloud. And it's been great business for us, but it's been really fun connecting with our customers who we've gone through multi-year journeys with them as they're moving to the cloud. So it's fun to see the success that they're having now with all the new technologies in the Amazon stack. It's great. So I want to ask you about the trends in the marketplace, what you're seeing, what you're hearing. As you said, the security, the regulatory, the concerns are pretty much gone now. They are. They've had this aha moment. The cloud is where I want to be. Yes. So what else are you seeing? Well, things continue to change. So if you look over the last few years, if you look at what's happening, all of those barriers are removed, but the technology stack, it's still very much in motion in a positive way. New products are being introduced, like today, if you look at the announcement of a managed Kafka service. So one of the big trends we see is the move for real-time analytics. And to empower real-time analytics, you need real-time data movement infrastructure, and Kafka is becoming an integral part of our customer's data integration fabric. So that trend to real-time analytics and having services like Kafka now on the Amazon platform, really important. So it's... And you've got a Hadoop play, right? I mean, so you're working with Hadoop, you're working with Kafka, as you point out, yeah. Well, Hadoop's a great example of some of the changes that have happened over the last few years. Five years ago, it was all Hadoop. And then all of a sudden, the data lake strategy was Hadoop and S3. And now it's Hadoop S3 and it's Snowflake. You know, there's so many different technologies that are really purpose to solve very particular pain points. This is the excitement for customers to be able to have this array of different technologies and done right if they have an architecture that supports them in moving that data where and when it's needed in whatever timeframe and structuring that information so it's analytics ready, that's the value. And that's some of the real innovations that you've seen over the last few years as this has all started to mature. Yeah, well, I mean, take me through the data decision, if you will. What am I going to leave on prem? What am I going to move into the public cloud? Because, you know, as the volume of data grows, we're talking about trillions of processes within a, you know, within seconds. Yep. You know, that's a big nut to crack for a lot of people. What do I leave put in my legacy system? What do I move over? How reliable is it? What's the latency factor here? How do I make sure everybody gets to it who needs to get to it if it's over here and over here? Exactly. So take us through that. So there are two big use cases that we see. One is analytics workloads. The cloud is a perfect place for analytics. It allows you to create a very large data lake, bring in all kinds of heterogeneous data, bring it together, perform real-time transformation and deliver analytics ready data to a wide variety of different business users and use cases. So the cloud is really well-purposed fit for analytics. If you look at all of the innovations that you've seen this week, a lot in AI and machine learning, a lot in real-time analytics. I mean, this is the elasticity of the cloud and the storage capabilities and the cost benefits of being able to store lots of information and to be able to run different processes, analytic processes, when you need those scaled up and scaled down, perfect fit for analytics. So that one is an absolute no-brainer. We see a lot of people, this is the first choice. The first choice for them is they're moving their analytic processes. The second one we see is customers who have core transactional systems, like mainframe systems. You see this a lot in finance, big banks, insurance companies. These are 20-year-old boxes. I don't want to leave the mainframe, right? Not only are they not leaving the mainframe, but they continue to invest in the mainframe and the mainframe is optimized for those transaction processing systems. But what they're not optimized for is how do I build new customer-facing, web-based applications, mobile applications? And the cloud is the perfect environment to do that. So the way that we marry those two things together and the big trend here is this is where real-time synchronization of data comes in. Every time there's an update on that mainframe system, we can move that change data to the cloud in real-time. So if you're a bank and you want to provide a web-based interface, let me check my account balance. I need a real-time view, but you don't want to write that application against the mainframe. It's too expensive. The processing of a mainframe is too expensive. So if I can replicate that data into the cloud and I've got this whole modern array of tools in the cloud and I can take modern approaches like microservices architectures so I can have different optimized, smaller databases that are purpose for different types of mobile apps that's the other trend that we're seeing. So that's kind of bridging that legacy gap and your question of what data do I leave on-prem and what do I move to the cloud? Those core transaction processing systems they may never move to the cloud or in our lifetime we may not see those. All their databases, other applications are lift and shift movement to the cloud. So things that are a more modern architecture we're seeing a lot of lift and shift directly to the cloud but it's going to be a mix for some time. So I understand you have a new launch of attunity for data lakes and AWS. Tell our viewers a little more about that. So this is exciting. So I'll step back for a moment. We provide real-time data integration and we move that change to data from on-prem into the cloud. Moving the data is the first step and it's an absolute requirement but what really needs to happen in order to get the value from your data lake and cloud you need to be able to not just move the data but shape that data and make it purpose fit and analytics ready. So if a use case is analytics and I want to be able to shape this data into a data mark or I want to create an operational data store for real-time reporting or I'm a data scientist I need a historic data store on a subset of information. Those are the analytic ready data sets that need to be created and we're doing that end-to-end data pipeline. So real-time data movement, shaping that data, making it analytics ready and fully automating that process. So it's a streaming data pipeline process that is really leveraging the best of your core transactional systems, mainframe, SAP, Oracle, legacy apps, files and moving that to the cloud in real-time so you can take advantage of all the wonderful capabilities on the Amazon platform. So we've been talking a lot about the changes in the data integration space and sort of what we're seeing. What are your biggest challenges and biggest opportunities as you're looking to 2019? So the biggest challenge is that there's a lot of moving parts. If you look at, again, you look at the last five years and how many things have changed. As an enterprise architect, they must scratch their head every morning and say, what else is going to change? I thought we had this figured out. But that's, so it's a challenge for us because there's a lot of different targets to support. Different clouds, multi-cloud, multiple technologies. But that's also the opportunity. The opportunity here is that for us to play that role and to help customers move data where and when they need it to whatever technology we're completely agnostic. So if a new technology comes up like a snowflake, great cloud data warehouse built on top of S3, we've seen a lot of customer interest in that and that's been recent. In the last two years out of nowhere, but very large enterprise customers has said, I want to jump on snowflakes. So for them to very quickly say, all right, now I'm going to point my data in addition to Hadoop on-prem, I'm going to point it into the Amazon cloud, load it into snowflake, automatically build out that data warehouse for me and let's get real value. That's the opportunity and the excitement for us. It's never stale. There's always lots of work to do and the types of impact that it's having on our customers. Again, it's really transformative to watch them go from the traditional monolithic, slow traditional warehousing processes to more dynamic, real-time spinning up data marts for business users very, very quickly so business users can have better insights faster, make better decisions quicker. That has the impact that these organizations have been looking for and that's why they're investing so much in the cloud so they can have that business impact and we're really starting to see that. It's almost good news, bad news, right? The good news is things will always change. The bad news is things will always change. Absolutely, but that's what makes it fun. Every year you come here and it's just, there's a buzz. There's always something exciting and there's been some great announcements over the last few days and including ours and it's been fun. Right Dan, thanks for being with us. Happy to be here. Good to have you once again on theCUBE. Thanks for having me. See you soon, I hope down the road. I hope. Dan Potter joining us here on theCUBE, back with more from AWS re-invent after a short break.


Hi. Good morning. Again, I'm Kari Konoski. I'm the Vice President of Development and Public Affairs for the Kidney Cancer Association. And I just want to welcome you all here again to thank all of our speakers and for Stanford for hosting this meeting for us. Every year we very much look forward to this meeting, and we have a wonderful turnout here. Just a few things in the beginning to let you know. We are videotaping the meeting again, so it will be available on our website a couple weeks following the meeting. So if there's anything that you missed, don't worry about trying to take down all those notes. You can go back and watch any of the sessions again. So I'm just going to talk a little bit about what the association is and how we can help you for those of you that might not be familiar with us. So the Kidney Cancer Association, we are an international nonprofit organization made up of patients, family members, friends, doctors, nurses, researchers, other healthcare professionals all working together to find a cure for this disease. This year we're celebrating our 25th anniversary. It was founded in 1990 by Eugene Schoenfeld. He was a PhD who worked at the Northwestern Middle School of Journalism when he was diagnosed. At that time there were none of these therapies that we have available. There were no patient networks, no real internet for people to get on and learn about their disease. So Gene went to his doctor and when his doctor said, you know, I'm sorry there's nothing we can do for you, enjoy the time with your family, he wasn't going to accept that. And so he quit his job and his wife and he started the Kidney Cancer Association with his doctor and a few other patients in Chicago sitting around his kitchen table and he started getting things out there on the internet in the very very early days trying to bring patients together. He was a big advocate on fast-track approval for for many of these therapies and while Gene unfortunately passed away from this from his diagnosis I think he would be very excited to see where we are today with this disease. As was mentioned earlier, we do have eight therapies approved now for kidney cancer. A few new drugs that are very close for approval and we're excited that some of these may within the next year be approved for kidney cancer patients. This small organization that started around Gene's kitchen table now consists of over 90,000 patients around the globe. It's our mission to reduce the incidents of and suffering and mortality caused by kidney cancer through innovative and collaborative education and research. So our mission again is in three areas education advocacy and research. In terms of education we do patient education meetings so larger regional conferences such as this one around the US each year. We have over 100 small patient support group meetings so if you know if there's not something in someone's area and they're looking to connect with other kidney cancer patients we can help you get something started in your area. For the larger meetings we do try to videotape them so that if someone is unable to attend the meeting or as I mentioned you do attend and it kind of goes over your head some of those some of the things you're learning that you can go back online and and rewatch some of the video and then we do have a series of webinars that our nurse advisory board has put together. Right now they are mostly consisting of what the therapies that are approved currently are and how you can manage some of those toxicities that come with them and really kind of learn the difference between these different therapies. We also support physician education we do two international symposia each year one in the US in the fall so we'll be in Miami in November and a European conference each spring next year will be in Barcelona. These meetings bring in anywhere from 300 to 600 physicians from across the globe and it's really a forum for doctors and nurses and researchers to get together and talk about the research that they're working on. We have a lot of lively debate which sometimes is really great because there are so many therapies approved now but there's you know a lot of talk is what's the best order for these or should be looking in a new direction so these meetings are also videotaped and I would encourage you to go online and watch some of those talks. Our website we really see as our number one resource so I would encourage you to spend some time on there we're always looking for feedback every couple of years we do try to revise it but we make sure that we have news articles out there of what the latest therapies are ways for you to connect with other patients print materials that you can order and we also have a live chat you can see in the bottom right now it says leave a message but we usually have someone online so if you are looking on the website and having trouble finding something or you know reading something on the website and have some questions that somebody can can talk to you in a live live chat and answer your questions right there. Our primary publication we have kidney cancer is also available on our website you can order a hard copy you can read an eBook online you can download it on Amazon if you have Kindle we do have it available in 13 languages now which is very exciting every time we're in a different city in Europe for our medical education meeting we do try to get that translated so it's a great resource for patients especially when you're first diagnosed because it's very comprehensive from you know surgery to the different therapies our nurse advisory board updates this usually on an annual basis so we will have a new new version coming out hopefully at the end of the year and hopefully with some some new approved therapies in there. We are also on social media so if you haven't if you are online and haven't joined one of our online communities we have over 90,000 patients now on our Facebook group just go to Facebook kidney cancer association as well as Twitter I mentioned you can see that the videos are all on our YouTube channel and we do have a patient community on the Inspire website which is very new it's growing quickly and it's really an opportunity for patients to communicate with each other one-on-one. Clinical trials are also a really important part of our mission that we do try to encourage patients to participate in clinical trials to learn how they can be a benefit to you while we're so fortunate to have so many approved therapies sometimes they don't work for every patient and none of these is yet the cure and the only way that we'll get to that point is by continuing to participate in clinical trials so we work with emerging med and with clinical trials dot gov and those are two services that can help match you to a clinical trial that might be right for you. So just a few ways on how you can help us as I mentioned we do support group meetings throughout throughout the US so if you're interested in one start a support group meeting in your area also starting a fundraiser this is an area that has really grown for us I think a lot of it too with the increase in social media has been an opportunity for patients in their families to tell their stories to get out there and you know do local walks and runs and raise money for kidney cancer do a dinner event with your friends and not only raising funds but really spreading awareness for this disease and share your story you know you all have unique stories for this disease that a lot of people haven't heard about until it hit someone close to them so we do encourage you to not be afraid to share your story. Go on to our website and sign up for our e-news letter we put that out monthly where we'll feature events the patients have done for us you know if there's a new therapy if there's some something in the news we'll feature those out there if there's interest in clinical trial accrual we'll tell you how you can can participate in the clinical trial and then I would also encourage you to make a donation you can do by mailing us a check making an online contribution and we really you know can't do what we do without all of your support so again thank you and as I mentioned please visit our website can be cancer.org if you haven't we've got ways to contact us phone email and we're always happy to help you in any way that we can so I hope that you enjoy the meeting today I will be outside throughout the day so if you have any other questions about the organization I'd be happy to speak with you thank you


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I'm okay with him taking the sack and not trying to force things like that But he also needs to just throw away the ball. There's times where I think he easily avoided if you just decide to throw it away Sanders Kind of Murray look at that run Jesus But if there's one positive though, is that Jalen Reaver's in a ball? Once hit him on a deep 55-yard pass and just missed them just missed regard like a 75-yard touchdown pass like Matt regard was like right there Once just barely overthrown him. Like I said, that's just no having no preseason That's gonna be kind of hard for rookies and them to You know to get in sync So it's probably gonna take the Eagles a couple games probably Yeah, Paul will have some probably available for personals a little later tonight. 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But if anybody else experiences anything like that, let me know Last box guys John Brown and Lonnie Johnson Jr Yeah, I don't know if we'll have any hobby bank because I know we sold out a lot of those But if not, we'll have choice though at least Let me look out look at the website too. All right you guys and there you go That was the break so no crazy huge auto here a huge rookie neon prism green so Hey Chance to potentially get some nice stuff in the next ten boxes So check it out guys. I don't know what the prediction be earned, but go ramps Never never never that other team But I can also see it being a high scoring game But a super low scoring game because I think both defenses are pretty strong. I don't see a blowout for either one of those teams I think it's gonna be close High scoring a little scorn so you go here the autographs guys. I guess Garner Minch was pretty good There you go guys appreciate it. Jasper's case race calm