Good afternoon pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with pastor David unfiltered today pastor We I had the privilege of going with you to a meeting and And it was cool to see you ministering to senior pastors and and one gentleman came to me was sharing Something interesting how he was speaking about satellite churches and how there was a satellite church planted in some other state and you know people were Receiving it and and go in there and sort of thinking about that and so I was telling you about it and and I really appreciated your response and so I wanted to see if I can get your feedback on your opinion on or The pros and cons if there are any pros and two satellite churches satellite churches Some of those who are listening right now may not be aware of the term or be Be aware of what a satellite church is a satellite church as the term is generally used today speaks of a church that is That is meeting for church services on a location But a different location from where the church that is holding the live meeting Is actually holding the meeting and in other words? It would be me here. We'll say in Chino Broadcasting my services to another state or another city so what they have is they have will say a an Auditorium, maybe even children's ministry. They'll have all the trappings of a of a church That people would normally attend, you know building structure, you know worship everything except for the teaching the teaching is Going to be a feed that comes from we'll say this this location to that state or that city and so everything is as a As an average church would be on a Sunday children's care Usher's and things of that nature, but the difference would be that when the actual teaching took place It would be not a pastor on a platform behind a podium Teaching through the Bible, but it will be just a screen like you're watching a TV Program and so you watch the screen you receive the teaching and then you go home and so There are a number of churches that are not not not millions to my knowledge but a number that are doing that where the pastor has a Well-known reputation people appreciate his teaching ministry and so he may broadcast his Message his church service To another location So they have all the trappings and then the teaching is on the screen now How do I feel about that? Well, I can tell you I don't agree with it on a personal level I do see see reasons why I I know that for example Because we broadcast our messages on online and over the air and all That there are some who were from our church who have now moved To other states who are still calling themselves members of this fellowship because where they're at There's not a church that they have yet, you know Gotten involved in so they still watch us online As they adjust to the new life they have in the new location. I understand that There are others who are perhaps in behind bars or in other countries because we have International viewers watching our services. So I get the the value of Using the technology and I think it's a good thing to do and we're able to reach into many homes in many countries Including Saudi Arabia and other countries through the use of technology, but is that to replace? being involved in having membership in serving in and Getting acquainted with not only the fellow servants and elders and Leaders but also to be aware of the senior pastor who is there on campus Who actually has a presence that is experienced by the people who call that a home church? And so I Don't agree with some of that. I personally don't think that that that's the way to go I think that as a as a pastor with a vision for other cities or the places that I should train up and send out People who've been trained in the ministry arts of pastoring and shepherding because who's given these people? Who are attending this distant location church who's giving them communion, you know It's a pastor. They're serving praying over ministering who's baptizing them is is the pastor there you know You know, but you know giving messages and and baptizing new converts, you know And who's performing funerals there the person on the screen who's performing weddings there How involved can this pastor who's in another state different location? How can he truly be involved in the practical realities of? Church life and so on the one hand I see the value of it In that if there is no other fellowship that you can go to you're out in Samaria or perhaps incarcerated Or I have limited abilities to to move and to go to places I see the legitimacy of that the way I see the legit legitimacy of Radio ministry and and other forms of getting the word out But when it comes to something called a satellite church, I Personally do not Regard those I don't hold that hold them in high esteem and I know it's Calvary Chapel because I was I was on What was called the CCOF the Calvary Chapel Outreach Fellowship Board for a number of number of years with Pastor Chuck Prior to him going home. We handled these kinds of questions and the question is is do we do we? recognize a satellite church as a Calvary Chapel Ministry put it on the directory because it's a Calvary Chapel Ministry and I didn't believe we should and neither did Pastor Chuck Pastor Chuck said no, I don't see that as an actual Church in the in the traditional sense to To recognize it as a Calvary Chapel Outreach Fellowship No, he said I I won't do that because I don't recognize The legitimacy of that and I'm the same way, you know in today's message that you gave to That you gave to the other pastors was talking about equipping them from the work of service Mending their nets, right? And there's there's a personal aspect when when a senior pastor is shepherding the church There's that personal Need that has to be there. How can there really be an effect of mending the nets or? Preparing for the work of ministries for via satellite It's just I just don't believe John I just don't believe that the person who is doing that kind of ministry is actually What you would call it a shepherd in the truest sense of the word I I don't want to call their shepherding heart into question so much as to say that one of the things that that a shepherd does is is like I was sharing today is to Experience life with the sheep and there's just no way that's happening on a screen any more than if somebody is watching a television program any more than that person who's being Broadcast is having relationship of that person watching a relationship as much goes much deeper as you know Then just watching somebody talk relationship as as aspects of it That you actually have real-life experiences you spend time with them you get to know them or at least They're available should you need to and so I think that that's a negative plus Some of these guys are putting their quote-unquote church Services in the backyard of other guys that have been plowing that field and working that field and and they're losing members of their fellowship because of the excitement and enthusiasm and and all that goes along with this person who's Satellite broadcasting. I think it does a disservice to the body of Christ, but there is such a Carnality within the body of Christ today an entertainment orientation That I'm not surprised when somebody who thinks that they're very important Starts broadcasting their material so others can benefit from the importance of them and their ministry Honestly, I'll say that with an honest way is harsh as it sounds. It's true I I shared at a pastor's conference a few years ago in another state and Stated there, you know instead of your ministry being so important. Why don't you train somebody else up? So they can take the gifts God gave to them and exercise them and minister You just aren't that important your message isn't that unique and that necessary Turns out that a pastor who was at this particular conference had the largest Satellite ministry in his state, right and he he didn't appreciate what was said, but it's true it was true then it's true now train up pastors and Set them free to do the work of ministry You are not that important well pastor, thank you so much for sharing that in and Because it seems like it's shifting towards an entertainment. So it is for me And so may we always That's why we're so appreciative that we have a shepherd such as you at our church who it's it's personal. It's relational I'll send you a picture The only if it's signed Well, thank you pastor David for sharing with this and and church family We do want to invite you to come to church on Sunday at 8 30 and 10 45 as pastor David's taken us through the book of Mark and And excited for you guys to come and invite a friend be a great time And then after our second service, we're having our our Israel meeting informational meeting with bill for liano from inspired travel be out here after second service to answer any questions No registration needed. Just come on out and join us and and we look forward to having you there. So pastor Thank you again for your time. Okay. Thank you guys for tuning in. God bless you


Family Theater presents Anne Blythe and Edmund Gwynne. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents One Horse Carousel starring Edmund Gwynne. And now here is your hostess, Anne Blythe. Thank you, Tony LaFranco. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world, Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama One Horse Carousel starring Edmund Gwynne as Ben. An ancient philosophy taught that all life is a series of cycles. The philosophy was wrong. But many things of this life are in cycles. In human relations, for instance, the children learn how to live and work. The adults do live and work. And the old people. Well, there are some who only sit and remember, but there are others who complete the cycle. They try to help the children learn. This is a story about one of those unofficial teachers. A man who sat each day in the village square sharing with the children of the township his wisdom and perhaps too freely the fruits of his imagination. Could I have done the things I've done and been the places I've been without it? Not so. Now a man must learn kindness first. Ah, it's the kindness that lives. To everybody? To every living thing. If you'd make your mark in this world and with God I know because he's a friend of mine. God's a friend of yours, Grandfather. I am from the day I was born. You must know everybody in the whole world, Uncle Ben. He even knows the Prime Minister and the King. The King. Well... The King would no sooner think of going to sea without Ben Bean than he would of washing his face without water. You've really been presented to the King, Uncle Ben. Tell her about when you were presented to the King, Grandfather. Oh, King. Oh, please. Well, I didn't know the story. It was such a great demand. Perhaps I better save it for a bigger audience, eh? Only two of you here now. Perhaps if there were a dozen. Oh, oh, please. Oh, well, all right. The first time I was presented to the King. It was right after I saved the flagship during the War of the Ems. The War of the Ems? It was not too well known that war. Well, they took me to the palace to be decorated. I wish you'd been there. Oh, it was a sight to gladden the heart it was. The ladies in their finery and the men in their spangles and gold braid catching the light of a thousand candles as they danced in the Great Hall. That's where the ceremony took place. Oh, I remember the look of it as I walked in behind the Guard of Honor. I looked over the room and announced my name. Musicians stopped playing, the people stopped dancing, and they all turned to look at me. Oh, I was something to see as I walked the length of the Great Hall to stand at the foot of the platform. He looked down at me and smiled and then the King stepped down and took me by the hand. And that's the way it was with Ben Bean. During the early hours he'd visit with the trades people or anyone who was disposed to stop and talk. He'd have his glass of wine with the innkeeper of the inn and share his views on local politics. But when the shadows reached a certain length and the town clock chimes were answered by dismissal bells from the school up on the hill, he'd say his goodbyes and head for the clock tower in the square. And there he'd spend his afternoons telling stories of high adventure or teaching the gathered children how to make flutes out of reeds from the mill pond or teaching how to change willow switches into willow whistles or bits of rag and string into dolls. Then after a time he'd send the children off to play and make his way toward home. Have you seen my son? Richard! I sent him to play with the rest. It'll be dark before long. He had his coat and the still light enough for a lad to stretch his legs. Let him play a bit, Elizabeth. Childhood's far too short a time. Grandfather, Richard was telling me about the new school master. Why the new school master? What lies between the two would not pass for friendship. No, the children say he's hard. He doesn't like you, Grandfather. Of what I hear the poor man can ask for no one. Should I be different from the rest? You are different from the rest. Will you do something for me? What? Avoid him. The new school master? Now why do you ask me this? Because I love you. Circumstances have a way of changing things. Some can even change our lives by bringing us into contact with the very things we've been warned against. Such a circumstance arose for Ben B early the next afternoon in the village. Saw his grandson coming home from school. He looked up at the clock in the tower and then he hurried after it. Oh, Richard! Wait a bit! Hello, Grandfather. Oh, out of school a bit early, aren't you, boy? Yes, I am. Here. Here you've got streaks on your face. You've been crying. Grandfather? Here. Here. Here. Come on. Here. Let's sit down in the shade. Hmm? Ah! Ah! That's better. Now you tell me what the trouble is. Maybe we can mend it, eh? Mr. Billum, he put me out. Out of school? Now why would he do a thing like that? Well, what did you do? Hmm? Oh, it's all right. You can tell me. I hit him. Huh? I didn't said. Oh. What did he say? Was it something about me? I had to do something? He told such lies? Throne out of school. We'll have to do something about that. Yeah, come along, Richard. Come along. Are we going to fix him, Grandfather? Are we? No, Richard. No, you can't mend wrongs with more wrongs. We're going to ask Mr. Billum to let you back in school. Well, here we are. Well, are we just going to walk right in, Grandfather? Hi. I hope we're not interrupting anything, but this is a very serious matter. When we place the siphon here, by how much have we... Now, what have we here? I'm Ben Bean, Mr. Billum.  Certainly, certainly. Come forward. But don't be shy, Mr. Bean. Come forward. Grandfather? You too, young man. Hello, Uncle Ben. There will be silence in this classroom. Now, Mr. Bean, I presume you want me to take the boy back. He's not a bad boy and he's not like him to strike out at anyone. Richard. I'm sorry, Mr. Billum. On the strength of that little apology, I'm to take him back, eh? All a man can do is apologize. Another of your precepts, Mr. Bean? Precepts? I have this opportunity to face each other, Mr. Bean. I said I was aware of who you are and believe me, I am and of what you are. But how do you think of yourself, Mr. Bean? As a one-horse carousel placed on earth for the amusement and edification of the children? The benevolent old Uncle Ben. A very, very foolish old man. He is not. He is not a foolish old man. Silence. Young lady, I will not be contradicted by the empty-headed daughter of a cobbler. I wish you had a better opinion of me, Mr. Billum. But Richard here... Richard is like the rest of them. He'd rather sit in the square with the rest of them listening to the wise old man who thinks he's an institutional. With his wild tales. Who would have them believe he's teaching them the workings of the universe. The director of the district sent me here to this godforsaken village to teach. Well, I mean to do it alone, Mr. Bean. I don't need the assistance of any benign old wise man in the village square to teach these children how to earn their bread. Not by bread alone does a man live. Ah, and now you would teach me. I think I also have a little lesson. Right here in this Bible you might just read this to the class, Mr. Bean. In this? Yeah, start reading here. Right here. I'd rather recite it if you'd give me the chapter and verse. Read, Mr. Bean. Grandfather? Well, Mr. Bean, don't you like my Bible? It seems a nice Bible, Mr. Billum. Does it? Now that's odd because you see it's a history book. Can you read, Mr. Bean? I never learn to read. Can't even read, class. And this is the man who would compete with me to teach. Who would have you believe he's consulted by admirals and kings? Do you believe him now, daughter of a cobbler? Or you? Or you? And you, great grandson of a foolish old man, do you believe him? Do you think this man would be noticed by a king? Yes. Then make him take you to the king. If you want back in this school, have your grandfather bring a note from his friend, the king. It's the only way you'll ever come back as long as I'm schoolmaster. Ben Bean was not seen near the square that afternoon. The children were there and they waited for him. They waited till the sun was low in the sky, but Ben did not come. He was sitting alone in a borrowed garden for the first time in his life feeling an emptiness of spirit and thinking things he'd never thought before. Uncle Ben? Uncle Ben? Is that you? Why don't you talk to me? Oh, hello, Mary Ann. You didn't come today. We waited for you. Well, I had some things to do. You aren't angry with us?  No, child. I'm not angry with you. That old Mr. Bellum. He's a terrible man. Just terrible. Oh, he only spoke the truth. I know things he said. They were all true. True? I never learned to read and write. I've never seen the king. I've never even been outside this village. Except when I was young and went out with the fishing boats to sea. Never at all? Never at all. I failed you and the others, Mary Ann. I've never done great things. It doesn't matter, Uncle Ben. You could've done those things if you'd wanted to. Right. It's very dark. Come along, dear. I'll walk you home. What are you going to do about Richard, Uncle Ben? I don't know. I just don't know. You'll have to go to the king. That's what Mr. Bellum said. But I couldn't do a thing like that. Just because you've never done a thing, it doesn't mean you can't do it. Bellum had finished its journey through the heavens before sleep came that night. Ben Bean watched it pass that part of sky outlined by his window.  He turned his face to the wall and began a troubled sleep. Read it. Read. Please, Grandfather. Please. I can't. Doesn't even know the king or anyone else important.  Now do you believe him? Do you? Can you believe him? Lord, I know I was wrong, and I'm sorry. But we're old friends, you and I. Please don't let them laugh at me. Show me away, Lord. Show me away. Just because you've never done a thing, it doesn't mean you can't do it. What's that? You were having a dream. You called out. Dream? Right. It's time to be getting up anyway. It'll be sent up before long. Elizabeth. Yes? A man. A man might do a thing he's never done before. With the help of God, I mean. Well, I would think so, but... Then there's something else. May I have your special prayers today? If you want them, but why? Because today, today the boy and I are going to see. Road the first part of the journey with a tanner who was hauling a wagonload of hides to a suburb of the city. Then they walked while the sun moved higher in the heavens and the dew of morning lost itself in the dust of noon. Hold on. Hold on, boy. Let's sit a while. Are you tired again, Grandfather? Well, let's just say I sit better than I walk, eh? Here, here's a place. Yeah. Isn't it far now, is it, Grandfather? No, no, not far. Remember what the tanner said? Just over the hill. Here. Oh, here's something coming. Let's get out to the road. Maybe he'll stop for us, eh? Oh, it's a load of vegetables, Grandfather. It's a wagon, and that's enough for me. Oh, there! Oh! Oh, oh! Oh, what's trouble, old man? Would you be going toward the city, friend? Now, don't you see, Crest? Crest? What might that be? The crest on the side of the wagon. The Royal Enson. Oh? I produce for the tables of the palace you don't stop wagons with this crest. All we want is a ride. The boy and I, we're very, very tired. Ah. Well, I'm not supposed to, but I guess there'd be no harm. Oh, very much obliged, sir. Thank you.   Oh, to sight. Oh, we will. Places aren't they, Grandfather? Aye, and easy to be lost in. Driver, where would the palace be? Oh, right ahead. Now, where'd you like me to let you off? At the door, if you would. At the palace, Gates? At the door! Oh! No, old man, it's sown to me like you said the door. Aye, aye, that's what I said. We've come to see the King. Ah, you've come to see the King, just like that. Well, it's a matter of great importance. Who do you think you'll get past the guards? The guards? Aye, they're there to keep people out. What I mean, old man, is I might get you through if I made the way something older. Oh, we have no money. Boy, have we anything between us? Grandfather, you said you thought God was with us? Aye. Maybe we could ask him to give the man a special blessing. Ah, a special blessing. Here, look! Where are you taking us? Through the back gate. I'll let you off in guard. Now, when you get caught, you'll have to forget how you got in. Oh, and about the bribe. Special blessing. Perhaps I should hold out for two, eh? See anyone, boy? No, Grandfather. Now, if we can find a way to the King, that's the problem. Grandfather? Aye. There's someone. Where? Over there among the roses. Hmm? Oh, ah, a gardener. Oh, could we ask him? Oh, there's a kinship between men of the soil and men of the sea. I might just have a word with him. But I think you'd better wait here. All right. If you see a garden, make yourself small, boy. Good day to you. Eh? Beautiful roses you've got there, friend. Ah, thank you. I see you're pruning the red sevens. That's good. The red seven? Aye. The seven leaf stems with the reddish hue. Oh, yes, yes. They set the plant. You know something about roses? Oh, little. Here. Look at this. It's a blight of some sort. Aye, the knits. I had them on my own roses once. The knits. Aye, they cling to the stems and the underparts of the leaves. I'll tell you how to get rid of them if you need of help. Oh, we need help very much. We? I meant, uh, I and the roses. Wow. Well, I guess we all need help. The good Lord brought me this far and now... Ha! Now I'm lost. Oh, perhaps we might help each other. Is there something I might do for you? Well, it's very kind of you, but I'm afraid it must be the king. Well, he's very fond of his roses. He spends hours right here in this garden. And then you know him? Well? In a manner of speaking, we're very close. Oh. Why don't you tell me your problem? If you tell me, he'll hear it. I promise you that. Aye. Oh, well then, I'll tell you the whole story. Doris, you told her, could you go back and tell the children they aren't true? Well, I could, but the first little ones are grown and have children of their own now. Those already know, but could you right the wrong? Oh, I think I could. Well, you taught no error. No. No, I tried to give them what I knew of the good things. Now, what would you have the king do with the schoolmaster seems he was unduly harsh? Well, sometimes truth casts a harsh light. You could have been more gentle. Certainly he deserves some punishment. Oh, no. No, I don't believe he does. I think I'd give the man what he wants. He said something to me about wanting to teach in a school in the city. Don't you think he was wrong to treat you the way he did? That might be, but if a man be punished for every mistake, I'd hate to think what would happen to me. We'd best leave vengeance to the law. All right, Ben Bean. I'll give you your letter. You? Yes, sir. You see, Ben, I am the king. But you said you serve him. Every man, everything with life in it has a king, Ben. You and I end these roses, and actually we all serve the same one. Yes, you can come tonight. I'll have the letter for you. Now come. You must teach me how to save these roses from the knits. Someone once said, God gives a degree of wisdom to the old to make up for the failing of old senses. The very young have sharp, quick senses and are therefore blessed with very little wisdom. When Richard was in bed that night, back in his own village, he thought about the things that had come to him through his senses. He added up his twos and twos, and his sum was in the thousands. He remembered going to the palace and the sound of the music from the great hall when the man had let them in. He remembered the smell of the perfume the ladies had been wearing and that pleasant, dusty odor peculiar to thick carpets and heavy drapes. Then there was the feel of the smooth, cool banister that was part of the marble staircase leading to the main hall. And the shock to his ears, when he'd heard his name, shouted into that great room, announcing Mr. Benjamin Bean and his grandson, Master Richard. The music had stopped then and the dancing stopped and all eyes were turned to watch as he and Ben had walked the length of the room to stand before the King. He went down on one knee the way he'd been told that out of the corner of his eye he'd seen the King smile, step down from his rise and help the old man to his feet again. He heard the King call his grandfather by name and then they had talked about some recipe for roses. He didn't remember much about the ride home only that it had been in a palace coach with a royal crest on its side. Richard had gone to sleep on the way back to the village but not before adding up his total. He had seen too much. No one would ever be able to make him believe his grandfather and the King were anything less than old friends. He made a mental note to tell the others and then he went to sleep again. Please, Uncle Ben, tell about the King. Well, I don't know. There's a new one among us. He might want another story. Please, Grandfather. Did you want to see me, Mr. Bellum? I would like a word with you, sir. The King first. Well, if you have no objections, Mr. Bellum. Why, I would like to hear it myself. Oh, that's fine. Well, it was a sight that would have gladdened the heart, it would. And this is a true story.  Oh. I remember the way it was as I walked the full length of the room to stand at the foot of the platform. He looked down at me and smiled. And then the King stepped down and took me by the hand. This is Anne Blythe again. Did you ever stop to think that one of the most perfect, the most beautiful forms of art is prayer? For art, whether it be painting, sculpture, the theater of any of the long established modes of expression, is only one form of man's attempt to reach perfection. Art is an attempt to reach the infinite, the perfect. And that's why I say prayer is the greatest of the art forms. For in prayer, our dialogue is with God. And by it, we create a thing of beauty. We forge a bond between ourselves and God. And when we pray as families, the bond is strengthened by just that much in the name of Him who said, where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am in the midst of them. That's why family theater tells us week after week, the family that prays together stays together.  Family Theater has brought you transcribed The One Horse Carousel starring Edmund Gwynne. Anne Blythe was your hostess. Others in our cast were Vic Perron, Gayan Kelly, Richard Bills, Joyce McCloskey, Lawrence Dubkin, and Tudor Owen. The script was written and directed for Family Theater by Robert Hugo Sullivan, with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman. 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Do you know how does it look like to provide the managed Kubernetes service in a telco? It means managing hundreds, even thousands of Kubernetes clusters across hundreds of locations. What kind of locations? Well, this might look familiar, or even this, but it is also this. As an industry, we are not quite yet there, but the speed with which we are approaching to this scenario is enormous. Hello, everybody. I am Wu Goinich, and since two years, I am running Kubernetes platform team of Deutsche Telekom Technik, a network technology unit of Deutsche Telekom in Germany. My cloud native journey started in mid of 2019 when I was asked to look into providing a Kubernetes platform for a telco workloads. What kind of workloads? Well, it is certainly not what you are expecting in an enterprise unless if you are coming from a telco. We run the service platforms and network functions there. Many of those you are using even right now to participate in the KubeCon, which is the technology which is highly and then very fast proliferating in that space. Can you guess it? I guess you guessed it well. It is a 5G, and this is also what we are building and providing our platform for, because it also requires platform infrastructure to run somewhere. We asked ourselves when we began, how could we provision, maintain and manage Kubernetes clusters, the Kubernetes text at that scale, with a relatively small people of not more than 10 SREs. We looked into what is common in the industry. One of the common and accepted statements is that Kubernetes is mature for production as it is. If this was the true in 2018, it is even more true in 2020, and it is true not only for Kubernetes, but for many other pieces of cloud-native technologies. There are, of course, many advanced solutions and distributions on the market, and each of those is bringing a lot of options and benefits. The question is, what do you need? And we found just enough of what we need for our use case in CNCF. We got inspired by those who did the same or similar thing before us and we decided to follow their path. Fail we made, sale we must, expecting long journey. We gave our project symbolic name, Daschiff, which is a German for the ship, and our small but growing team eagerly airmarked. All the pieces came together in a platform, in the platform, by usage of a combination of cluster API and flux CD. This enabled us to enjoy all the benefits of GitOps as pioneered by VWorks. However, in this case, for a managing Telco and 5G infrastructure at scale and all of that, even on a bare metal. Managing, it's actually not the right term. It is rather self-management, a situation in which infrastructure takes care of itself for most of the time without too much attendance. Our work actually focused on creating a glue for all of this in the form of Git layout that enabled us to cover our multi-site, multi-infrastructure and multi-cluster scenario. This is a foundation on top of which we added all the components which are necessary if you claim to provide a managed service. But if you are in a scenario on premise and in the use case like ours, having a Kubernetes cluster is only one piece of the puzzle. For the other pieces, we had to go cross foundational, if I may. You also need the modern data center networking stack, and that would be more natural for people and for a team who is running Kubernetes platform, but to choose the network stack which is based on the containers. This is what we found in a Sonic out of Open Compute project. They have some extremely super interesting integration and fusion with Kubernetes on their roadmap. Think of it like having all your switches in a data center being a Kubernetes node, forming a big Kubernetes cluster, and the software for those switches running as a cloud native application in the same cluster. The centerpiece of our approach are bare metal Kubernetes clusters, and to manage bare metal in a cloud native way, we turn to Ironic out of Open Infrastructure Foundation. Ironic in combination with Metal Cube is giving a very good way to manage bare metal, and these are all good pieces of software for that function. With this, we have rounded up our approach and we ended up with a platform in which we use only Git and Kubernetes API to manage and provision and manage bare metal servers and ultimately create bare metal Kubernetes clusters with them. And on that platform, we are currently onboarding quite some workloads, 5G core among others. The same setup we can apply on bigger core locations where you have a couple of hundreds of servers, smaller edge locations, but even on the very small far edge locations. There are many benefits due to which we prefer bare metal Kubernetes for a Telco and 5G use case. These are, among others, less overhead, uncomplicated multi-tenancy, easier use of hardware acceleration and direct hardware access in general, and high flexibility and possibility to customize the operating system level. Are we done? Not nearly. We are working with our friends from VWorks and with the Firecracker team on use case for micro-VMs to act as a control plane in our resource-constrained far edge scenario. This could, however, unlock much more and vibrant innovation for the use cases which are way beyond what we are trying to do. It's very, very interesting and very exciting. So this is a story about how we build a platform for cloud-native Telco and 5G. However, it is not less important to work in the community and to help network functions become cloud-native so that they comfortably run on such a platform. Therefore, we are actively engaging in a CNF working group and we see it as a driving force that will enable, ultimately, possibility to test the conformance of cloud-native network functions to universally accepted cloud-native principles and best practices. The main paradigm of software delivery and network function delivery in Telco today is so-called systems integrated approach. It is based on testing and validating all the components which are version-pinned for the internet working a couple of times a year. As much as this systems integrated approach worked well for the past, it is not fit at all for a cloud-native scenario and for a highly dynamic environment. The CNF vendors need to enable CNF operators to validate and test platform and CNF combination on a continuous basis, ideally daily, so that they can assure its availability and the SLA for the cloud-native network functions. This is what we are looking for to see as one of the outcomes of the CNF working group. Finally, we are committed to give back to the community to share our experience, our know-how and also components that we developed on our own. Therefore, we are working with our partners in the WeWorks to create a composable Telco 5G cloud-native platform that others could be able to use and hopefully get inspired to contribute. For more details about that, please visit our GitHub page and feel free to contact me as well. Finally, for the end, this conference would not be a conference without me saying we are hiring and indeed we are hiring for the positions based in Germany. So if you like Kubernetes bare metal networking and if you are good on that, please feel free to contact me. Thank you everybody for listening in and I wish you great rest of the conference. Bye.


Well, hello, Radiant Church. Good to be with you. My name is John Zondervan. And whether you're watching us online in your homes in a watch party or in one of our campuses, we just want to say thank you so much for joining us. It is a huge honor for me to fill the pulpit for Pastor Lee. I have been affectionately, I hope, known as the holiday pastor in times past. And now here we have a holiday. And I guess all things are right in the universe. But honestly, so grateful to be sharing. And this is a standalone message. What that means is it's just kind of a one week message. And then next week, Pastor Lee, as you saw, is gonna begin his disciple series. And we are just really excited about that. I believe it is going to be a shaping message for our church in so many ways. So make sure you take advantage of that. It's gonna be super powerful.  Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, General Electric Power Company. I know I say that all the time. That only means something to people who are in Sunday school. But Ephesians chapter four, I'm gonna read a scripture and then we'll pray and we'll kind of set up what we're gonna talk about today. Ephesians 4 verse 29, I'm gonna say it out of the New King James Version. It says, let no corrupt words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification for the hearers and that it might impart grace to the hearers.  And then verse 32 says, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you. Father, in the name of Jesus, we believe that your word is a lamp to our feet. It's a light to our path. You said that the entrance of your word would give light and bring understanding to your people. So we ask, Father, let your word today go forth. Let it be anointed by the Holy Spirit, Father. You said it would accomplish all that you sent it to do and it would not return void. And we stand on that promise in Jesus' name and everyone said, amen. Verse 32, be kind to one another. I don't want you to underline that word kind or circulator, something, cross it out. No, don't do that in your Bibles because we're gonna talk today about kindness. And this scripture in particular is one that I memorized a long time ago out of the New King James Version and I've preached on verse 32 that talks about forgiveness and what that means for us as Christians. But God really brought me recently a few months ago to that word be kind to one another and the idea of kindness. And this happened in the midst of what I can only describe as a massive uptick in hostility. I don't know what other word to use that we're experiencing in our nation and in our world today. And so if you are unaware of that, you must have been locked in an Ikea store for the last six months or something like that and you just got out concentrating. But we're experiencing right now and again, I'm only 46 years young, but in my lifetime, more division, more anger, outrage, hostility and really hate amongst ourselves as people than I can remember at any other time in American history personally. And so I'm just grieved by that if I can just be honest and I just prayed into that. And God, what does it look like for your people to be part of the solution, part of the healing of the wounds that are happening in our nation? And what is our role? And God kept bringing me back to this idea of being kind and of kindness and of what that means for us as Christians today. So I called my message radical kindness because first of all, radical means that it's very different from the usual or the ordinary. And so I wanted to throw that in there because I feel like the reason kindness is kind of overlooked or is minimized is because we don't really think it's a big deal. Like again, I get that it's a fruit of the spirit but let's be honest, it's kind of a weak one. It's like, all right, kindness. And what we've done and what I want to try to kind of shift our paradigm and our view of kindness from is the idea of niceness. Raise your hand if you're nice. Okay, most of us, there's a few in the back there. Okay, so niceness is not a bad thing and it's good to be nice but niceness is not the same thing as kindness but in many ways, especially in our culture, we've done that, we've kind of dumbed down kindness to mean, oh, I'm just gonna be nice and I'm just gonna be courteous and I'm just gonna be not mean to people. And if you're not mean, you're automatically kind. And that's not what biblical kindness looks like. And so I want to kind of erase your memory of what kindness is and reinstall what biblical kindness looks like. Because again, niceness is honestly, let's be honest, it's cosmetic, sometimes it's fake, sometimes it's shallow, sometimes we don't really mean it. How many of you have said nice to see you to someone that you weren't that glad you saw, right? Okay, there's a few honest people in the room. We do that, why?  I mean, it's just easier to be nice but that isn't the same thing as being kind. So I'm trying to think of how I'm going to explain this. And in some ways I blame Blockbuster for ruining what kindness means. I think we have a picture that they can put up. How many of you remember this? Not that, that's still me, this picture. Do you remember that? Raise your hand if you remember that. Okay, anyone under 20 is going, what is that, maybe even 30, I don't know. That is called a VHS tape. And that is what some of us grew up on. And there are people in this world, I know this isn't going to be hard to believe, who were not rewinding their tapes when they would bring them back to Blockbuster. I know of all of the dirty, rotten, scoundrel things that you could do. And so Blockbuster decided, hey, let's have an entire movement of kindness and we'll start with just rewinding videotapes. And so now there are people in the world who would say, you know what? You can think what you want, but I am a kind person because I rewind toy story before I bring it back to Blockbuster. And that's how we think of kindness. Or we think of kindness as just sort of being courteous. Like you hold the door for someone. I held the door for someone at Speedway and it was that awkward distance where I was like, maybe they're too far away. Oh, now I gotta hold the door. Geez, they're really slow. This is taking a long time.  Maybe this is bad.  What if I sneeze on this person right as they're gnawing it? And so, but we can think that's nicest or letting someone into traffic. You know, you're on Gold Road.   And then you're like, hey, thanks. Thanks for your kindness, sir. Right? I remember I let someone into Gold Road and they didn't even acknowledge that I did it. And I was surprised how angry I became. Like I was indignant.  So in my mind, I just went back in time and I didn't let that person in. And I felt better about my entire day at that point. I was like, this is outrageous. Look at the kindness. I just showed you and you just snubbed it that easily. And we think kindness is trite and it's convenient. And I want to present to you that the answer in my estimation to many of the problems that we're facing in our culture and our society and our world can be answered through kindness, through biblical kindness, because it's different than what we think. And it's different than being nice and it's different than being courteous. And the reason I am so adamant about it is for two reasons. Number one is I believe that God is going to use kindness as a powerful, missional tool in the last days for showing the world the love of Jesus Christ. In a world that is so quick to point the finger, so quick to divide, so quick to take sides, so quick to demean and discourage and call people out for what they believe and it's different than what I believe. I believe radical kindness is going to pave the way for the love of God to impact, especially young people in this generation coming up. Romans two four says it is the kindness of God that leads us to repentance. It's not God's anger. It's not his iron fist. It's not his hand of justice. It is the kindness of God. And I believe the kindness of God's people is literally going to change the trajectory of the world and of culture today. And the second reason I want to highlight kindness today is I think and I know that it is going to take courage to be kind in this day and age. To have biblical kindness is not going to be easy and it is going to become increasingly more difficult as we have elections coming up and as we have all of the hostility and the division over race and culture and class, all of those things.  That's not what we do. That's not where we're headed as a culture. It's more you have to be on my side. We're in this together. They're the enemy. They're not right. We are, they're not good. We are, and there's this division. And if you don't take a side or if you try to show compassion or kindness to someone else, it is going to take courage to do that as Christians today. So I believe God's going to use courage in a powerful way or kindness. And I believe God is going to empower us with the courage to be able to do it. And that's why I want to talk about biblical kindness with us today. So if you brought your Bibles, turn to 2 Samuel chapter nine, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 2 Kings, 1 2 Chronicles, I'll give you a moment to find it. And we're going to look at what biblical kindness actually looks like and how it still is so relevant for us today. So I'm going to read the entire chapter so you can follow along. It's going to come up on the screen. In 2 Samuel 9 it says, and David said, is there still anyone left at the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba and they called him to David and the king said to him, are you Ziba? And he said, I am your servant. And the king said, is there not still someone at the house of Saul that I may show the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, there is still a son of Jonathan crippled in his feet. And the king said to him, where is he? And Ziba said to the king, he is in the house of Mekir, the son of Amiel at Lodobar. Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Mekir, the son of Amiel at Lodobar.  And David said, Mephibosheth, and he answered, behold, I am your servant. And David said to him, do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father, Jonathan, and I'll restore to you all the land of Saul, your father, and you shall eat at my table always. And he paid homage and he said, what is your servant that you should show regard for a dead dog, such as I? Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, all that belong to Saul and to all his house I've given to your master's grandson, and you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring him the produce that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth shall always eat at my table. Now Ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants. Then Ziba said to the king, according to all that my Lord, the king commands his servants, so will your servants do. And so Mephibosheth ate at David's table like one of the king's sons. And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micah. And all who lived in Ziba's house became Mephibosheth's servants. So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem and he ate always at the king's table. And he was lame in both feet. I hope that you recognized how many times the word kindness was used in this passage. And I want to give you the biblical definition of kindness. It was opened up by saying what kindness is not, that it's not niceness, it's not trite, it's not courteous, it's something deeper. And the Hebrew word for kindness is the word hessid, C-H-E-S-E-D. And it means this loving kindness, steadfast love, covenant faithfulness. It's used 127 times in the Psalms where God says my hessid, my loving kindness is going to meet you, it's going to surround you, it's going to sustain you. It's not convenient, it's not easy, it's an intentional love, an intentional kindness. You could say, hessid kindness is love in motion. It's love working out what love is in kindness, in hessid kindness. So every time that you read this in 2 Samuel 9 or in the Bible, the word kindness, it's not this weak watered down niceness. It is an intentional steadfast covenant love that God shows his people and his children. And so let me give you a little background here in the story of Mephibosheth. I know these are some crazy names. There's no Daniels and Jakes and Adams in the Bible. It's all Zibbas and Mephibosheth. But raise your hand if you remember David in the Bible. Yes, David and Goliath. Raise your hand if you know that story. Of course you know that story because it is a Sunday school hall of fame, felt board greatness story. Raise your hand if you had felt boards when you were in Sunday school. Come on now, a lot of us. I love it. That's how I learned too. And we all know David and Goliath. We all know some of the insane conquests that David had. But I don't know if there's anyone in scripture who has more mountaintop moments but also more valley moments than David. And so we also know about David and Bathsheba and some decisions that David made that weren't so great. But this story I think is kind of obscure. It doesn't normally show up on the felt boards and your Sunday school teacher didn't probably explain it well. So I wanna give you a little background for this idea of David, King David at the time showing kindness to Mephibosheth. So David is King. He's been ruling and reigning for some time. He's had conquests and he's conquered lands and he's experiencing as is Israel a season of relative peace at this time. So David's not at war. He's not at battle. He's sort of assessing his life and this season that he's in and he has this thought and he says to himself, is there anyone left in the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? So Saul was the first king of Israel. He was not who God wanted. God wanted to be Israel's king but Israel wanted a human king. They wanted a king like all the other nations. So they say we want a king and Saul was tall and he was good looking and he looked like a leader. So they made him king and actually Saul was okay to begin with. He started to become very insecure. He started to fear the people and their opinions and he started to make decisions that were outside of God's will. And so the Bible says God said I am grieved that I made Saul king and I'm going to rise up, raise up another king and it's gonna be that felt board hero, Goliath killer named David. And he's going to be king. Now this should have been very bad news to Saul's son Jonathan because Jonathan would have obviously as Saul's son been next in line for the kingdom and it should have been rightfully his to take but ironically, I mean, they should have been bitter enemies but they had a covenant friendship with each other. One of the most beautiful ones you see in the entire Bible, David and Jonathan were best friends and David loved Jonathan and Jonathan loved David and Jonathan was not bitter or hateful or vengeful because of the reality that David was gonna be king. In fact, it was the exact opposite. However, Saul was not as happy. Saul was upset about it.  In fact, he spent much of his adult life chasing those Psalms you read where David is like, God, why? Why am I in a cave? Why do you hate me?  So Saul did not want David to be king but David and Jonathan formed this beautiful friendship where actually Jonathan was protecting David from his father like telling him, you don't go there and this is where he's gonna be. So it's this crazy like dynamic that's happening between them. But it says that Saul, so this is before David was king. Saul who was king and Jonathan went back out to battle with the Philistines and they were killed in battle and so were two other sons of Saul. The Philistines killed them, cut their heads off, put them on the walls of the city, made a spectacle of them. And this was a terrible day for Saul and for Jonathan, obviously. But it could be considered a providential day for David because he was trying to kill him the whole time, Saul was. So David could have been happy about this. But Mephibosheth is the one who bore the brunt of all that happened. And I wanna just unpack this for you. So Saul and Jonathan. Saul is Jonathan's dad. Jonathan is Mephibosheth's dad. They're out battling.  Mephibosheth is back at the castle, at the palace in Jerusalem. He's only four years old. He doesn't know anything that's going on. He's just doing what four-year-olds do. He's playing with Legos and learning his Jots and Titles and just trying to do what four-year-olds Hebrew boys do. He doesn't know that his dad and his grandfather have been killed, but they have. And I want you to imagine, you may have had a bad day today, but I am going to go out on a limb and say, it's not as bad as what happened to Mephibosheth. In one day, his father and his grandfather are killed. And obviously that's awful. He's four years old. He's going to grow up without his father. But beyond that, Mephibosheth has lost his inheritance. Everything that would have been his because he was Saul's son is now over. The Philistines will come in. They will take all of the land as conquest that Saul once ruled and Saul once reigned over and they will take it for themselves. So everything, all the security, all the inheritance, all the wealth that would have been Mephibosheth is completely erased on that day. And now little does four-year-old Mephibosheth know that there's a death wish on his life. There's a death warrant on his life because conquering kings come in the Philistines and here's the first thing they do. They kill and destroy every single living family member of the kingdom that they just conquered. They take them all out. Like that's number one priority because they don't want some years down the road, somebody who might have a rightful claim to the throne to rise up, get some army with him and possibly siege their kingdom. So Mephibosheth doesn't know it, but he's wanted. He's going to be killed as everyone else in Saul's family will be, so he loses his father. He loses his inheritance. He has a death wish on him. He's four years old. So news gets back. It gets worse. News gets back to the castle that Saul and Jonathan have been killed and so his nurse or his maid or nanny, whoever's taken care of him in her rush to grab him and grab a few things and get out of there before the Philistines come drops Mephibosheth. And he breaks both of his legs and he's crippled. There's no way to set it. There's no way to heal it. He's incapable of providing for himself. He's incapable of sustaining life. This is not a job or you can just a time or you can just get a job as a telemarketer or like they farmed the land. That's what you did.  You were considered worthless and your life had no value. And the Bible says that Mephibosheth was hiding in a place called Lodobar. Lo means no and Dabar means pasture. So literally a place with no pasture, a place with no ability for sustainability, nowhere for him to go to take care of himself.  So he's 24 years old. He does not know anything other than scraping by for an existence and he's hiding because he knows that David is king now and he knows that if he gets found or if the Philistines have found him or if now David finds him, he's gonna be in big trouble. So he's in hiding and he's crippled. And out of the blue in chapter nine, David says, is there anyone left of the house of Saul that I can show kindness, hessed kindness to? And Ziba says, well there is one son of Jonathan Mephibosheth, he's crippled in his feet. He's in Lodobar and David says, go find him and bring him here.  Now let me just tell you, Mephibosheth does not want to be found. He has his, find my iPhone off, he has like no wifi, he is on the download because he is scared.  Let me just go get some better clothes on. He's scared. And they say, no, he wants to see you.  He knows what kings do. Kings do not say, hey, man, come on in here. Let's set up a little place for you.  So even if the guards had said, hey, no, it's cool. David wants to show you kindness. He would not have believed that. How many of you remember Herod? Who said to the wise man, hey, when you find that little baby king, tell me too so I can worship him. And that was not Herod's intention because that's not what kings did. They killed people who could potentially threaten their kingdom or their throne. And so Mephibosheth is literally freaking out. And look at the encounter. Shows up and Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, son of Saul came to David, verse six and fell on his face and he paid homage. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, behold, I'm your servant. He's very scared. That's my scared voice. And then verse seven, listen to the king's reply. And David said to him, do not fear. For I will show you kindness for the sake of your father, Jonathan. First words out of the king's mouth. When Mephibosheth, the crippled man who has been eking out in existence and low to bar comes into his presence, scared, bowing down, paying homage. The very first words were, don't fear. You don't have to be afraid. I'm gonna show you kindness for the sake of your father, Jonathan. And he doesn't stop there. Look what the king says.    That isn't like, hey man, I got a trailer in the back. You can hang there. There's no plumbing and it sucks, but you can have it. That's not what he's saying. He's literally saying, I want you to picture something the size of Texas where he says, this is yours. I'm restoring this to you. It honestly scholars believe could have threatened David at a later date. Like that level of giving or of bestowing upon him was a dangerous move from a military standpoint.  Like you're gonna eat dinner with me.  I want you to picture this. Laphiboshah, living and hiding, scared for his life, crippled, no way to sustain himself. And one moment in the king's presence is told, I'm wiping out your death wish. I'm gonna show you kindness instead. I'm gonna restore your inheritance. And I'm gonna adopt you into my family.  And Ziba, where's Ziba? Ziba, come here.  All of a sudden, everything about his life changed in one instant. I want you to just picture dinner time at King David's house. The bell rings, the pot roast is done, the guests are gathering, and here comes David's family. You got Amnon, who's the, you know, maybe the witty, kind of clever one, and he comes in first. And you got Joab, who's the David's son, the warrior. He's part of the army.  And then comes Absalom. You know, he's the GQ model with Cory Asbury hair and Caleb Culver metabolism. I don't know. I'm sorry. Stop the tape. Absalom, then you got Tamar, his daughter, beautiful, graceful daughter, Tamar.  Hey guys, sorry I'm late. I'm just knocking out a few proverbs. And you have this beautiful family that's gathered around the king's table, important people. And then you hear the clunking of Mephiboshaph coming down the hall, awkwardly, slowly, and taking his place at the king's table, awkward. I'm sure he's just like, why am I here? What is happening? Why is this a real thing? And day after day after day, David said, you will eat with me at my table. And the reason I share this is not so that we can all just go, oh, David, wow, he was great. Super kind of him. It's because all of us are Mephiboshaph. That's why this story is so important and why it's so beautiful, is because we lost relationship with our father when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. We lost our inheritance when sin entered the world. We had a death wish upon us when sin and death and the wages of it took residency in our hearts and in our world. And we were crippled by sin and by fear and by shame. And we came into the king's presence and we had no business being there and we had no merit of our own. And the king looked at you and he looked at me and said, do not fear. I will show you acid kindness. And Mephiboshaph says, why? Who am I? Why did you do this for a dead dog like me? And David literally says it's not because of you and it's not just who you are. It's for the sake of another. It's because of David, your son, your father, or Jonathan, your father that I'm showing you this kindness and the Lord has said to every single one of us, it's not what you've done. It's not your merit. It's not your goodness. I will show you kindness because that's what's in my heart. And when we had nothing to offer and we had nothing to give and we had no reason to experience the love and acid kindness of God, the king of kings said, you're going to be adopted into my family and you're going to eat with me and you're going to dine with me and every day you're going to spend time with the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And that's the beauty of the story of Mephiboshaph. And so I say that to say this and I want to bring it right back to Ephesians 4 verse 32. So be kind to one another. Even as God in Christ has been kind and has forgiven you. The reason this story is so important is because once you've experienced the acid kindness of God, once you've realized that you were crippled and without relationship with God and you were broken by your sin and God has forgiven and restored you, now we go into the world and we don't judge it and we don't say you're the problem, you're the reason we say how can I show the same kindness that God has shown me and my fear is even as Christians we're falling into the trap of division and divisiveness and us against them. Instead of saying God, how can my kindness point people to Jesus, point people to who you are and what you've done in my life. God, help me remember that that was me living in Lodobar, living in a place where there was no goodness, no pastor, no goodness of my own and then you took me and adapted me into your family and what I wanna challenge us as the church is is to say God, what does it look like for me to reciprocate the kindness you've shown to the world around me? That's the challenge for today. That's what Ephesians 4 verse 32 is asking us, can you be kind, not nice, not conveniently un-mean or however we've seen kindness, but no, what does it look like for you, for me, for Christians to take it upon ourselves and say God, I wanna be a difference maker when the whole world is pointing towards darkness, is pointing towards what's wrong, is taking sides and pointing fingers, I wanna be an agent of change, an agent of peace and an agent of kindness and what does that look like? That's what God is asking us as his followers. I wanna give you just a few things to write down that I hope will just sort of bring this home and I'll do it quickly, but if we're going to let God use us to be agents of kindness, we have to first let kindness, hessed, work from the inside out. Galatians 5 talks about the fruit of the spirit. Notice it doesn't say fruits, it's one, fruit of the spirit, joy, patience, peace, love, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control. All of those are characteristics of the spirit of God working in us as we surrender to him. So it's not like, hey, I can have a few of these in my life, but I don't need all of them. It's God, what does surrendering to your Lordship look like in my life and where are the areas where I've operated in my flesh, where I've been moved by my own worldly convictions or what I'm angry about, and how can I partner with the Holy Spirit to let kindness come out from me? The Bible says that out of the abundance of your heart, the mouth speaks. What you have on the inside is what's going to come out. And so it's not kind of like trying to change our moral behavior, it's God. How do I surrender to the spirit of God so that kindness becomes the center, the essence of who I am? You partner, and the best way to bear fruit is to stay connected to the vine. That's what Jesus said in John 15. Stay connected with me, abide with me.  Spend time in the Word with the vine and say, God, work from the inside out. I'm not just trying to change behavior, I'm trying to change my identity, I'm trying to change who I am and find that in you and in nothing else. And you cannot do that apart from time spent with God in Word, in the Word and in prayer. That's it, it's not a magic formula. But work from the inside out, number two, put everything through the truth in love filter. Here's what I mean. I'm not saying that you can't have convictions, I'm not saying that some things are right and some things are wrong or that's not the case we have to agree with everybody or we can never take a stand. I'm not saying any of that. That's not what it means to be kind or to be Christian. But I will say this, Ephesians 4.15 says, but instead speaking the truth in love, we grow up in every way unto him who is the head, Christ Jesus. We can speak the truth, but are we doing it in love as Christians? That's my question to us as the church. You can be right in the kingdom of God and still be wrong. You can speak the truth and still not be reflecting the Father because you're not doing it in love. And so we all have to check our motives. We all have to check our convictions. We are not going to get God's results doing things the world's way. That's what I'm telling you. It is not going to be us against them and nobody's ever been beaten senseless into the kingdom of God. Like I'm gonna show you how right I am. And then they go, okay, oh man, I surrender, fine. You're right. I was kind of wrong. Like it's not gonna work that way. It's gonna be, can you speak the truth? Can you have convictions that are from the Holy Spirit? But can you let him help you communicate it in love? What does that look like? I don't know. It's different for all of us. But I think we all know what speaking without love looks like. I think we all know what it looks like to blast out or to operate from the flesh. And all I'm saying is, and I'm up here speaking to me too, is that God's asking us, can we put everything through the filter of God? I wanna know truth and I believe your truth, but I want to speak love to those I disagree with, to those who may be outside of your covenant, outside of what we would say is a Christian lifestyle. We have to stop looking at people as the enemy or they're who we're fighting against. They're who we're fighting for. They're who we're praying for. So if it's this community or these people or the ones they don't know God, we cannot be thinking, well, it serves them right. Well, hell's really hot. Well, whatever it is, it's no God, break my heart for what breaks yours. Help me see like you do. Help me love like you do. I don't do it well.  The last thing is, can we as Christians, and this is hard, show kindness to those who don't deserve it or who we think don't deserve it? I'm gonna tell you something. People are like, Christianity's for weak people. It's a crutch. It's not, it's hard if you wanna do it the way Jesus told you to. Because he didn't say, hey, love the people who love you and be nice to those who are nice to you. It's a lot easier in my opinion to live like the world does and get together in our little cluster of rightness and yell at the darkness and scream at who's wrong and refuse to forgive. That's easier to do. Now, obviously it's not better, but I'm gonna tell you something. God is looking for Christians who will show kindness, hessed kindness, even to people who don't deserve it. You never look more like Jesus than when you're forgiving someone, especially someone who doesn't deserve it. Jesus on the cross, Father, forgive them. I wanna just read this to you. Just let this sink in in Luke chapter six. It says, Jesus speaking, but I say to you, love your enemies.   If you love those who love you, what benefit is that? He doesn't say, if you love those who love you, hey, you're doing pretty good. You're better than most. It's cool. I know it's hard. You need to say, look, everybody can do that. Even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that? Even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that? Even sinners lend to sinners. He's saying, look, there has to be a difference between how the people of God operate and how people who don't know God operate. And if we think, well, they're not nice to me. Well, they haven't been good to me. And we think that gives us a reason to not show them kindness or love. Jesus is saying, that's how everybody thinks. There is something different about Christians, about those who follow Jesus. And he says, but you love your enemies. Do good, lend, expecting nothing in return and your reward will be great. And you will be sons of the most high. Why? For he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Too often we think of ourselves as, oh, I'm a pretty good person. I have a good heart. It shouldn't be that hard for God to love me. And God says, no, I was kind to you when you had nothing and when you were separated from me. And now the call of the Christian, what listened to me, what I believe can literally change the world. It's for Christians to walk in hesed kindness to the world around us. We use that phrase a lot. It's gonna change the world. Oh man, I had this pizza. It was amazing. It changed my world. And we kind of throw that around. But I wanna present something to you. We're closing in on 9-11. And I think most of us in this room remember where we were when that happened. And one thing that among many that stood out to me was that phrase has been and was used. Like that was the day that the world changed. The world as we knew it changed. And there's something about 19 men who were armed with hate in their hearts, stepping into an arena in an atmosphere. And we say it changed the world. And maybe it did.  What if those people with kindness in their hearts stepped in to the world and said, I'm gonna love you and I'm gonna show you kindness. And I might not agree with everything that you say or everything that you do, but I am going to love because that's what we're called to do. And that's how Jesus said, we know we're his disciples. And that, my friends, is what needs to change the world. Change it, change the world. That's what God's asking us to do. And that's why I wanted to talk about kindness because if I started out by saying, you're gonna change the world by being kind, you'd be like, okay, I already rewind my videos, John. So, but when you look at it the way that God sees biblical kindness, there is so much potential in every single Christian and the enemy wants to rob you of your influence, of your ability to see what kindness can do in the world today and a world that's going increasingly, increasingly dark. You can read 2 Timothy 3 for yourself, but it is a precursor of the times we're living in where we're lovers of ourselves, lovers of money. We have a form of godliness, but we deny it's a power. We're only interested in what affects us. All of those things are the antithesis of what Jesus said is kindness towards other people. We guys stand up with me today. I wanna just be able to close. I just want you to close your eyes and wherever you are and just create some space between you and the Lord. And here's how I prayed about just this ministry moment is I want us to just be transparent with God about where is my heart and relationship to people? Not just people who already love me or I already love, not just people who are already nice to me and I'm nice to them, but what about the people we see on the news, the people we read in the paper, the people on social media who have pushed those buttons and agitated that place in your heart where we're tending to hate them, judge them, be negative towards them. I'm not saying in this moment we have to advocate for everything that's done or support things that aren't godly, but I'm asking us as the church to say, God, I want my heart. I want my heart to be broken for them. I wanna be able to show kindness and love even when it's hard and I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm offering that to you today and maybe there's a moment of repentance that you need to have where you say, God, I'm sorry. Sorry I've judged that people group, that race, the class, that coworker, whatever it is and just release that to the Lord and we're gonna ask for the hesed kindness of God to come into us and to flow through us. And Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the kindness you've shown us, reminded of March 14th, 1999, God, when you allowed me to encounter your love in a way that I never had and, God, I ask you to remind all of us what it looks like to experience the love of God and I ask you to remind all of us about the call to reciprocate, to be kind to one another even as God has been kind to us and Father, I pray that we would no longer scroll through social media, hear the news and allow our hearts to become callous and hard or even hateful towards people that your son died on the cross for and that, God, we would realize we're not wrestling flesh and blood and people but principalities and powers and spirits of darkness and where the enemy is trying to get us to attack, trying to get us to be outraged and to show hate and vitriol, I say, let the hesed kindness of God flow from your people and let it be a groundswell, God, that touches a generation. I pray for young people right now, God, that are angry and hurt and disenfranchised, maybe even by the church that God, your love would encounter them in a way that they say, God, let your kindness lead them to repentance, let your kindness lead them to a place where they see you as you truly are and God, we want to be agents of that change. We want to be carriers of your glory.  We want to be a river, we want to be a conduit that the grace of God can flow through so that people encounter the love of Jesus, God. Encourage us today, Father, we surrender to you and we say we are not enough but if you will fill us, if you will empower us, God, nothing is impossible and we can change the world, God. We love you, we praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name. Amen.


Mark, dros yw'r ddigon, yn y blaen i'r llai, yn gyfnodd i'r gwasanaeth? Yr ysgol yma yn y ddigon, ond rydyn ni'n meddwl am ymddangos. Yn y ddigon, rydyn ni'n meddwl am y dyfodol, ac yn y dyfodol, rydyn ni'n meddwl am y plwysigau. Rydyn ni'n meddwl am y gwaith o gyfnodd, ac roeddwn ni'n meddwl am yr ysgol, You've got to play at the level you know you can. I just felt maybe we're too many, just a little bit off from where they've been in recent weeks. At times we've just a half-year-old shot. That's disappointing because I thought we were better than we showed today, or we are better than we showed today. They've had a lot of opportunities, a lot of shots. Is it difficult to gauge, I guess, what our levels were like in comparison to the opposition you mentioned, we come up against the good side and didn't quite hit those levels ourselves. Is it about trying to find a balance between those two things in a row? Yeah, yeah, you just got to have that realisation when you know you're not in the ascendancy, when momentum's with the opposition, you've got to find a way to just quell that and just take this sting out of the game when those periods happen. I think we had good opportunities certainly in the first half and we just lacked care on the final pass to release our attacking players in good areas. I think just a couple of times we broke and it only needed a simple ball and that's the details of the game that you have to get right, especially if you're playing a good team. Can you put your finger on why we weren't at those levels as you mentioned in the past few weeks? A bit of complacency when we went in front perhaps, I don't know. I don't know if it was complacency, I don't think that was the right thing. You always have to factor in the opposition as well.  You've got to find a different way and a resolve to make sure that the opposition don't take the game away from you and we just lacked a little bit of a resolve today. We just needed to be a little bit more clear minded at times in certain situations, certainly in the key areas of the field where sometimes our decision making wasn't what it needed to be and that put us under more pressure. But we'll pick ourselves up, it's a result that we didn't want clearly but I think we're going to learn a lot from it. It's all that age you learn more from defeats and sometimes wins so we can get them back in work next week and we'll go through it with them and I'm going to get some learnings from it. So yeah, disappointing result performance but we can do better and we know we can.


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Yeah, true That is Luis Castillo did 125 AL West while the Chuck Fujinami When orange Josh Chisholm orange headliners Randy Johnson 16 of 25 the big unit Anthony C Hey, I'll ask congrats buddy. That is sick. Really enjoy that 16 to 25 the big unit That's cool. That's really freaking cool. I love that car dude. I need a Randy Johnson auto I made a list Yeah, headliners Christian Yelich of just random guys that I want autographs of and now Randy Johnson is now going on to that list. Look at how long it is now. Oh my god And Johnson will be on there now. There is it is so so incredibly random of who's on there Johnson now making his way on that list Cory Seeger Michael can Fordo to 300. No, no, right. No No, no, Anthony. That's going to you buddy. That's going to you Appreciate it though estuary Ruiz Corbin Carol rookie There's headliners, Vladdie, Jr. That's pretty cool. Happy left. I love that name by the way No, I know a red now That is a one-soto red Matt Olson one of five That's going to the NL East. Congrats to Scott F Shea Linglers, Luis Castillo green wave dermis Garcia AL West of 99 Nice one there AL West J rod Garrett Mitchell Anthony Volpe headliners mookie Nolan Gorman on that as well. Yeah, so good box got a red and we got ready Johnson Now we got a rose gold Ken Waldechuck to 75 Nice one there for the AL West Boxed in Leo Baguio refractor rookie Gunner Henderson rookie headliners Derek Cabrera and top piece That was a really good box right there Stefano with a spot in Champions League. Thank you Stefano. We're down to four before to go on museum guys breaking next for to go Breaks next it's probably a smart thing to do sleep and then when I wake up That's Benjamin L with a spot and you in museum too. We're down to three three to go everybody. Thank you so much Everybody taking spots in that tonight Really do appreciate it Wow Because he was like he was one of those guys going and it was like he is Especially since we got rope one potentially. He's not gonna make the roster, but you make the case make roster now I don't mind him. He's got injured. He got shot. He got shot in the leg his rookie here Missing time, but he came back to came back Nolan Gorman Wynton Bernard going to the NLS refractor rookie auto congrats on that Anthony Riley green rookie refractor Cade Cavalli rookie Manessus and Christian Yelich I know who is your guys is like we got like someone From legacy Oh Yeah, Josh young Tanner McKee or Tanner Morgan Appreciate that Anthony. Thank you buddy. Ken Griffey, Jr. That thing's freaking cool, dude What a guy Anthony is quite the guy Corey seager Thank you, and I really do appreciate that Anthony that'll be staying with me. I promise you that that'll be staying with me Pete Alonzo to 250 Ryan Bayo and Michael Harris. Yes, that list that has to be has to be on card autographs on that list as well Standards Andrew S with a spot in UEFA Jeffrey P with a spot in the photo mixer Very nice. Thank you, Anthony. I appreciate that man very very much I believe we're down to just two spots now two to go everybody two to go To the odd Jordan Walker Aronato that is gonna be Mookie Betts to 199 a Jermaine Palacios ale central going to Anthony again. Congrats, buddy. Nice one there Jordan Alvarez Max Meyer Pete Alonzo refractor Seah and Robert Cunha Adley Rushman purple low hoppy to 250 headliners pooholts Kodai Senga Masatake Yoshida Refractor trade turn Gabriel Moreno, so worlds fine. It's Mike trout judge and Machado So let me see a moments auto here. See a BGO moments out of those things are freaking cool Let's see what the other spots are down to real quick. We are really making some headway here everybody. We are down to Sold out on both select mixers one to go on the first photo and 17 to go on the second photo mixers So thank you all appreciate that very much. It's freaking awesome. Mill. What up, buddy? Standards on that list are very high Like good for you. Thank you like I bought one no two cards actually True to let anybody on that team evidently Another orange rookie is Gunner Henderson. That is gonna be an orange Nolan Gorman to 25 and a central crats on that Tom So I've had the Keith Keith Hernandez moments auto. That's awesome. The Seinfeld fan in me The fracter of Hoseil to that. Okay, you know what we need to do. We need to both watch all up Seinfeld Each year. Oh, so we could just start making Seinfeld Risk isn't worth the reward there wander to 150 A. Lee's Pooja Nami and Ken Waldechuck. Oh Pro Bowl Tyler Huthley coming here. I think we do now. Is it downtown Anthony now?  They're gonna Seems like he's been in the league since like 2005 dude with how many teams he's played on I guess not Good for Josh Johnson, I suppose We're gonna make money on the bench. True. I applaud that And guys two to go two to go here Museum UA for Champions League. Let's get that sold out. There's two spots remaining That is a headliners Nolan Aronato Corbin Carroll rookie and Francisco Alvarez rookie blue Bob refractor Austin Riley goes a flowers. Let's go Leo McGuire out of 250 blue teal vapor Riley green rookie Oscar Gonzalez. Oh, yeah, we got it on mill. Don't you worry? ooh Randy Johnson we've got a Finest headliners autograph variation orange refractor parallel These congrats on that Going to Josh G Congrats on that one Josh the Sandman orange to 25. Very cool. The Yankee fan of me loves that The old home Cato Marte Josh young and Joey Manessus It was sublime the dirty heads and bone thugs and harmony. I believe They're kind of a green wave John's gonna run So 99 very very very random puts together that bones that bone thugs and harmony is there Yeah, Sean said listen, it's my birthday If you don't want to have to deal with a bot you better do this You know what the problem is Donny they did it and they're still gonna have to deal with the bot. Yeah Oh look who's punning Purple Max Meyer to 250 Gunner Henderson rookie Wilson Contreras Mario does not that old I would say no, but another redemption your finest moments autograph of David Cone for the Yankees Al East again congrats on that must be from the perfect game Very nice Tati's and wander Got him. Got him. Got him. Yeah Going to walk a rookie at three yard game Mazataka Yoshida Oh hoppy Nolan Ryan headliners Marius 29. Yeah, he's not that's not super old Adley Rushman Miguel Vargas refractor rookie. No, he's just not Yeah, that is Simeon Woods Richards into 199 Kodai Senga and Brightman Backup our technical backup is yes. Yes, Shane our technical backups Tyler Huntley, but he's not playing so right now It's Josh Johnson Josh Johnson is in for the Ravens right now Ladei world's finest Miguel Cabrera that is a DL Hall refractor rookie Michael Harris rookie and Nick Prado I guess the Ravens just don't mind their win streak I don't as a Ravens fan. I don't at all headliners Harper. I don't mind at all Donnie That is a blue Gabriel Moreno to 300 Anthony Volpe Spencer Steer refractor Nolan Gorman.  How you doing buddy? Welcome welcome And guys just to to go on UEFA museum Spencer Strider looks like I know is second all day to Kiles Strider and Forrest do kind of look similar now that you say that I can't unsee it Jonathan. It's a very good point 120 I know I saw that Bobby with Justin Fields Raffy Devers. I don't want to be that guy. I don't want to be that guy, but I'm gonna be that guy They were on two screen passes. I'm just saying I'm just saying that's what other people are saying I'm just relaying information I know I'm just I do we need we need Peter Lanza rookie's Pascantino another redemption. It's gonna be finest moments autograph of Albert Pujol Let's go into the NL central very nice Congrats Tom first one of these I've seen that's awesome Seabrock pretty Hawks Ravens Yankees. Yeah, I got a car. I got a very random assortment of my fandoms now Steer DL home Peter Lanza Kinsu Kuroi NL East nice one there on the short print Goldie and Josh Young. It's actually been a pretty good case overall headliners Dave Winfield base and base Yeah, that's cool. The pool all is this sweet. That's very sweet. LaDagne O'Neill cruiser fracter base and base Then wide open there Zika Durand brett Beatty refractor rookie Bale and Michael Harris So we got two finest our two moments autographs in this which is kind of cool. Hope that comes back next year I was such such a six 49ers all day true fair blue Gunnar Henderson to 150 ale East nice one Josh and Louise Castillo to 250 J-Rubb Anthony Volpe Bryce Terang refractor base in Nolan Gorman Green Juan Soto to 99 Headliners Tatsis refractor Simeon Woods Richardson rookie Otto for the twins nice one there Minnesota Congrats all night Wander and Gunner All that have you been here for an Almanac Bobby Chris Bryant Cabrera It's basically our high-end repack that we do Lane puts it together our head of acquisitions Jordan Walker Nolan Arnato Lava Francisco Alvarez to 100 and at least Ronald Acunha and Jordan Alvarez. All right quick recap here guys very solid break We had Simeon Woods Richardson finest moments Albert Pujols Ethan Small finest moments of David Cone Dermis Garcia Jermaine Palacios Witton Bernard Graham Ashcraft Mark Appel Cody Clemens or blue is Alec Burleson a Dermis Garcia to 99 to 99 Dennis Eckersley Carlos Perez to 50 a headliners orange variation parallel is Mariana Rivera and Randy Johnson to 25 I'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the film coming up next is You wait but sell it out