Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book How to Get What You Want by Dr. Orison Swett Marden, published in 1917...
Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the essay As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, published in 1903...
Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1914...
Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the Sermon on The Immortal Life, delivered by Theodore Parker on September 20th, 1846...
Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast is the first episode of what will be an ongoing series, where we share motivational works that have been adapted from classic books, essays, and speeches, in order to make them more inspirational and enjoyable to contemporary...
Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Power of Truth by William George Jordan, published in 1902...
To his Excellency, Theophilus. Many attempts have been already made to draw up an account of those events which have reached their conclusion among us, 2 Just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterwards became bearers of the message. 3 And, therefore, I also, since I have investigated all these events with great care...
About that time an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole Empire. 2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was Governor of Syria. 3 And everyone went to his own town to be registered. 4 Among others Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, the town of David,...
In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was Governor of Judea, Herod Ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip Ruler of the territory comprising Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias Ruler of Abilene, 2 And when Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, a command from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, while he was in the...
On returning from the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was led by the power of the Spirit through the wilderness for forty days, tempted by the devil. ((Read commentary on this verse from the Gospel of Luke and its relationship to the Lord's Prayer at: Lead Us Not Into Temptation Meaning.)) 2 All that time he ate nothing; and, when it...
Once, when the people were pressing round Jesus as the listened to God's message, he happened to be standing by the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats close to the shore. 2 The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets. 3 So, getting into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, Jesus asked him...
One Sabbath Jesus was walking through cornfields, and his disciples were picking the ears of wheat, and rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. 2 "Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees. 3 Jesus' answer was: "Have not you read even of what David did, when he was hungry, he...
When Jesus had brought to a conclusion all that he had to say to the people, he entered Capernaum. 2 A captain in the Roman army had a slave whom he valued, and who was seriously ill, almost at the point of death. 3 And, hearing about Jesus, he sent some Jewish councilors to him, with the request that he would come and...
Shortly afterwards, Jesus went on a journey through the towns and villages, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God. With him went the twelve, 2 As well as some women who had been cured of wicked spirits and of infirmities. They were Mary, known as Mary Magdalene (from whom seven demons had been expelled), 3 And Joanna (the wife of Herod's steward,...
Jesus called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, as well as to cure diseases. 2 He sent them out as his messengers, to proclaim the kingdom of God, and to work cures. 3 "Do not," he said to them, "take anything for your journey; not even a staff, or a bag, or bread, or any silver, or...
After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit. 2 "The harvest," he said, "is abundant, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest. 3 Now, go....
One day Jesus was at a certain place praying, and, when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him: "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." 2 "When you pray," Jesus answered, "say: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 3 Give...
Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees. 2 There is nothing, however covered up, which will not be uncovered, nor anything kept secret which will not become known. 3 Hence all that...
Just at that time some people had come to tell Jesus about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. 2 "Do you suppose," replied Jesus, "that, because these Galileans have suffered in this way, they were worse sinners than any other Galileans? 3 No, I tell you; but, unless you repent, you will all perish as they...
On one occasion, as Jesus was going on a Sabbath into the house of one of the leading Pharisees to dine, they were watching him closely. 2 There he saw before him a man who was suffering from dropsy. 3 "Is it allowable," said Jesus, addressing the teachers of the law and the Pharisees, "to work a cure on the Sabbath, or is...
The tax-gatherers and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to him; 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law found fault. "This man always welcomes sinners, and takes meals with them!" they complained. 3 So Jesus told them this parable: 4 "Who among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave...
Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused by him of wasting his estate. 2 So the master called him and said: "What is this that I hear about you? Give in your accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.'" 3 "What am I to do,' the steward asked himself,...
The Ysaan Institute closed in 2015, with it's members moving on to pursue other development projects within Thailand....
The Lord's Prayer for Daily Life The Lord's Prayer for Daily Life was published in 2008 and is a modern meditation on the Lord's Prayer. In exploring the Lord's Prayer, the book takes you below the surface meaning of Jesus's words and his larger teachings to discover fresh interpretations of the metaphors and parables contained in the Gospels. The book's thought-provoking commentary is supported by...
The Lord's Prayer for Daily Life Henry David Thoreau, tucked away in his Walden cabin, famously said that most of us lead lives of quiet desperation. That was in 1845. Today, things are not so quiet in the United States. Anxiety and depression are regular rites of passage from which millions never graduate. Civility meanwhile has long been dropped from our national discourse. It's...
Our Father Who Art In Heaven | Meaning The Lord's Prayer begins with an idea that seems easy enough to understand. Jesus wants to establish God as our heavenly Father, and we as his children. What we often fail to notice though is what Jesus doesn't say. Yet what he leaves out is just as important. What Jesus doesn't say is that we should...
Hallowed Be Thy Name | Meaning Jesus establishes God as a heavenly father figure, but that's not enough for most of us. Without a name, he seems lost in abstraction. Try as we might, we simply can't bring him into view. There is only the vague presence of someone hovering around us—like the adult of a Charlie Brown Peanuts Special, always outside the frame,...
Thy Kingdom Come | Meaning With the second line of The Lord's Prayer, we arrive at the heart of the matter: God's kingdom. To understand how Jesus views his Father's kingdom, we first need to do something that will seem strange. We must take all discussion of "Heaven" off the table. There will be no talk about heaven with a capital "H," the place...
Thy Will Be Done | Meaning In the Book of Luke, there is a curious statement about God. Luke quotes the prophet Isaiah as saying that through Christ (the Lord) all mankind shall see the "salvation of God". ((Every chasm shall be filled, every mountain and hill shall be leveled; the winding ways shall be straightened; the rough roads made smooth, 6 And all...
On Earth As It Is In Heaven | Meaning In the last two chapters on the Lord's Prayer, we've established that our entrance into the kingdom of heaven depends on our sense of wonder; our ability to think and love; our patience; and our acceptance of will as a matter of choice — a choice shared equally with God, the Father. We've also learned...