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Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) is a Christian ministry at Wake Forest for the convinced and unconvinced, the burned out and the bored, the cynical and the spiritual.
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Holistic approach to eCommerce & entrepreneurship. A podcast in which we cover topics with radical transparency to help you achieve mastery and excellence in your craft.
Founded in 1964, Wingert-Jones started as a labor of love between two instrument salesmen with a passion for grand, high-end band music. Merrill Jones started small, attending the 1964 Mid-West National Band Clinic with just one piece: Emperata Overture by Claude T. Smith. From those humble beginnings, Wingert-Jones has grown into a nationally known publisher. Merrill Jones and George Wingert met as traveling instrument salesmen in the Midwest and became good friends with a number of connect ...
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Postcards from the Edge | 2 - Hosea's Story | Hosea 3:1-5 | Rev. John Bourgeois
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Does God love you like Hosea loves his wife? Yes! Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach that we have been sold like slaves on the auction block of sin, but when all seemed lost, God sent Jesus Christ to buy us at the cost of his own life. We are his.
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Twice Hanged: The Life and Crimes of Bennie Swim
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Episode 163: In New Brunswick, in the fall of 1922 a convicted double murderer named Bennie Swim was hanged for the murder of the woman he loved, his first cousin Olive and her husband, Harvey Trenholm. Bennie didn’t die the first time, so the authorities hanged him again. Co-host: Carol Browne Promo: Murderish Sources: The Ballad of Benny Swim (or…
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Postcards from the Edge | 3 - Amos's Judgement | Amos 5:4-15, 18-27
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Do you want justice to roll down? Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach that yes, we all yearn for justice on a deep level, but we find in the Bible that we ourselves are the perpetrators of injustice. The Christian is the one who’s injustice has been forgiven, and who works alongside Jesus for justice in this world.…
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#58 Martyn Cook - 1% Secrets, High-Level Masterminds, and 14+ Years of Experience Building Digital Businesses
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In this episode, Deividas talks with Martyn Cook - Co-founder of Noobru (nootropics brand), entrepreneur, and marketers for 14+ years. Martyn's list of achievements includes: Building multiple 7-figure eCommerce brands from scratch since 2007, co-founding high-level digital entrepreneurship and board of advisors mastermind, co-founding a successful…
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Death on the 505: The Shooting of Sammy Yatim
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Episode 162: In July of 2013, on a busy summer night in downtown Toronto, police received several calls about a man on a streetcar brandishing a knife and threatening passengers and the transit operator. After an encounter with police lasting only 50 seconds, 18-year-old Sammy Yatim had been shot nine times and later died from his wounds. As videos…
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#57 Jure Knehtl - Localized Scaling: How to Grow a Brand From 0 to $2.1M/mo in 1 Year
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In this podcast, Jure Knehtl is back to talk about crushing it in eCommerce, scaling brands in Eastern Europe by going after low-hanging fruit first, and gives an overall update on the state of eCommerce marketing. He talks on all things localization, scaling brands in smaller countries, and how he and his team managed to grow one of their eCommerc…
Episode 161 - On a warm July day in 1986, 11-year-old Alison Parrott was lured from her Toronto home by a man on the phone claiming to be a sports photographer who wanted to take photos of the young athlete. Two boys discovered Alison’s body in a heavily wooded section of Kings Mill Park two days later. She had been bound, raped and strangled to de…
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Postcards from the Edge | 1 - Jonah’s Story | Jonah 3:1-10 | Rev. John Bourgeois
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Are we too numb? Do we have hearts that get angry at evil and long for good? Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach about the reality of a deep evil in our world, and the reality of a Good that is more just, deep, and splendid than we would dare imagine.
Episode 160 - Elena Tchoudakova was a beautiful, outgoing and vibrant 23-year-old Russian woman attending Interior Design at Toronto’s Ryerson University. In January of 1995 Elena was discovered in her apartment, she’d been brutally beaten to death and left in her bathub. There were a number of suspects with means and motive but only one with oppor…
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#56 Kris Sugatan - 3 Biggest Lessons From 2020: The Highs and Lows of Managing and Scaling Businesses
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In this podcast, Deividas and Kris recap on 2020, open up about their mistakes, and talk high-stake decision-making processes when scaling eCommerce businesses. Kris shares her top 3 biggest lessons on management and talks about growing from 25 team members to 80+ in less than a year.By sugatan.io
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AWAY GAME: Cult of Revolution: The Posse
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Episode 159: In the early 1980s near the small town of Rulo, Nebraska a white-supremacist cult leader named Michael Wayne Ryan and his band of followers took over a local farm essentially stealing it from the property owner. They burglarized nearby businesses and residences to fund their survival after the upcoming battle of Armageddon prophesied i…
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#55 Bostjan Belingar - 80/20 Rule in Life and Email Marketing
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In this podcast, Deividas speaks with Bostjan Belingar - Slovenian email marketing agency owner with over 60-70 employees and 50+ clients. Bostjan shares his life lessons on growth, personal development, and applying the 80/20 rule to his life and career as an agency owner. They discuss the psychology behind growth, talk about career and personal g…
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The Girl in Saskatoon: Who Murdered Alexandra Wiwcharuk?
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Episode 158 - Twenty-three-year-old nurse and former beauty queen, Alexandra Wiwrachuk, thought the warm spring night in 1962 would be perfect for a walk down by the river before her midnight shift at Saskatoon’s City Hospital. Alexandra did not show up for work that night, and it was not until thirteen days later that children stumbled upon her br…
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#54 John Hagan - eCommerce Mental Models and The Road to $100M
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John Hagan, the Sugatan veteran, is back on the podcast for the third time to catch up with Deividas on all things eCommerce marketing, scaling up, Black Friday results, and more. The two discuss everything from scaling eCommerce businesses to mental models needed to reach $100M. Deividas and John share their results with Black Friday, what they're…
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The Ideal Maternity Home: Butterbox Babies
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Episode 157 - From the late 1920s until after the Second World War, Lila and William Young ran the Ideal Maternity Home and Sanitarium for Unwed Mothers at East Chester, Nova Scotia. The pair have been referred to as ‘baby farmers’ who sold healthy newborns to wealthy couples with the means to pay and left the less viable to die of starvation. Esti…
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#53 Arnas Jacevičius - $10M+ From Black Friday and Balancing Mental Health With High-Performance eCommerce Marketing
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In this episode of Black Friday Cyber Monday post-mortem, Deividas and Arnas discuss generating $10M on Black Friday, mental health, and balancing life with high-performance eCommerce marketing. Listen on for a personal take on self-development and practical eCommerce Black Friday Facebook ads strategies.…
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Canadian Boogeyman – Dangerous Offender, Thomas Svekla
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Episode 156 - In 2006, Thomas George Svekla, 38, a man who’d been in and out of trouble since 16, became the focus of a murder investigation lead by the Project KARE task force. Svekla was a suspect in as many as twelve murders. He was only ever charged with two slayings, that of Theresa Innes and Rachel Quinney, but was designated a dangerous offe…
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#52 Emanuele Maragno & Daniel Bidmon - $5M Black Friday Secrets: Automation Rules, Ads, Offers, Mistakes & What To Do In 2021
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Welcome to the first episode of Black Friday Cyber Monday post-mortem. A podcast series where Deividas will be bringing on other marketers and entrepreneurs in the eCommerce space to talk about their BFCM results and marketing strategies. In this episode, Deividas is joined by 2 guests for the first time - Emanuele Maragno and Daniel Bidmon who dis…
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#51 Deividas - 2020 insights, recap, and lessons on growth
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In this solo podcast, Deividas recaps his past few months and Black Friday lessons, gives an insight into future podcast guests, and shares some lessons learned on growth. Everything from personal development to lessons learned from important business decisions, Deividas gives his thoughts and first-hand experience on navigating through it all. How…
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Christmas 2020: Santa Claus, Ghost Stories and Krampus, the Christmas Cryptid
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Episode 155: The holidays can be a notoriously hard time for people who either miss loved ones or have a hard time being around them so much. For those reasons, we take a break from all the murder and mayhem and try to bring you a little holiday cheer with a bit of a dark edge. This year, for our fourth Christmas, themed episode, we learn about the…
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Dirty Dr. Stewart: The Murder of Gordon Kralt
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Episode 154 - Twenty-three year old Gordon Adrian Kralt had been the caretaker for a Bible camp on Vancouver Island when he went missing on Halloween in 1970. Gordon was found two weeks later, he had been brutally slain. Tracking down Gordie’s killer uncovered a career psychopath who was believed to have killed before. Co-host: Carol Browne Written…
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#50 Alexis Bourgeois - Behind the Scenes Of Influencer Marketing From Global Mass Media Company to Sugatan
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In this podcast, Alexis Bourgeois peels back the curtain on the industry-standard practices she learned doing influencer marketing for global mass companies and her insights shifting to Sugatan. She shares the biggest takeaways working at Condé Nast, things that are going to be helping her throughout her whole career, and what she's focusing on in …
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Serial Killer: The Life and Crimes of Charles Eli Kembo
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Episode 153 - Between 2002 and 2005, Charles Eli Kembo, a refugee from Malawi, murdered four people, his business partner, Arden Samuel, his stepdaughter, Rita Yeung, his girlfriend, Sui Yin Ma, and his wife, Margaret Kembo, whose body has never been found. He set up elaborate schemes to steal their identities, set up false bank accounts, insurance…
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#49 Brian Swichkow - The Multidimensional Art of Storytelling, Brand Playing and Marketing As a Game
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In this episode of the Sugatan Effect, Deividas is joined by Brian Swichkow - a recovering growth-hacker, and now can be best described as somewhere in between an entrepreneur, storyteller, and artist. He discusses the art of multidimensional storytelling, marketing, and playing. Listen on for a whole new perspective on telling stories to grow your…
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Bloody Lies: The Crimes of Dr. John Schneeberger
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Episode 152: In November of 1992, a twenty-four-year-old woman came forward to Kipling, Saskatchewan RCMP, accusing a respected local doctor, John Schneeberger, of sexual assault. After years of ridicule from other Kipling residents who refused to believe her claims, the young woman finally found some justice. When the truth saw the light, it uncov…
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#48 Maxwell Hertan - Working Once A Week While Managing 200+ Clients
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In this episode of the Sugatan Effect, Deividas is joined by Maxwell Hertan - entrepreneur and founder of Megaphone marketing, a digital agency he started 7 years ago that now consists of 60+ members. Though nowadays, Max only works once a week while his agency manages 200+ clients. Listen on to learn how Max got comfortable with letting go of cont…
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Bathtub Girls - The Murder of Linda Anderson
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Episode 151 - On January at 10:30 p.m., a 911 operator took a call from a seemingly distraught sixteen-year-old girl. When Peel Police arrived at the Mississauga, Ontario home two teenage girls, Sandra, 16, and Beth, 15, led them upstairs to the bathroom where their mother, Linda Andersen, 43, lie face down, deceased in the tub. For almost a year t…
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Living Upside Down | 12 - A Firm Foundation | Matthew 7:24-29 | Rev. John Bourgeois
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Is your life built on a weak foundation? Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach that most of us have built our life on a foundation that will crack, but that Jesus offers himself as a foundation that will bring us ultimate security.
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#47 Simon Phillips - From $200K in Debt to 7 Figures Profit in Under 3 years Scaling eCommerce Businesses
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A highly anticipated guest - Simon Philips, co-founder, and chief strategic officer of Glass Elephant, joins today's podcast to discuss his rollercoaster of a life, growing eCommerce businesses, and how he went from being $200K in debt to generating 7 figures in profit in under 3 years. Simon goes in-detail about his journey and talks about it all …
Episode 150: Beginning at 7:19 pm Atlantic Daylight Time, on the evening of October 4, 1967, an airline pilot reported seeing an unidentified flying object heading east over Southern Quebec. About 30 minutes later, calls began coming into local authorities reporting strange lights in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. …
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Living Upside Down | 11 - The Upside Down Way | Matthew 7:13-23 | Dakota Lee
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Are you following Jesus in the Kingdom of God, or are you serving Satan’s empire? Hear Dakota Lee preach that there are only two ways to live, and that Jesus is calling us into his kingdom, free of charge.
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#46 Deividas - Scaling Secrets Behind Growing $30M-$100M and the Future of the Sugatan Effect Podcast
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In this podcast, Deividas is alone again and gives an update of what he's been up to in the past 2 months. He shares insights from life-changing experiences, eCommerce business scaling secrets, and how he plans to give away more value with these extraordinary guests. This is just the start. Here's what you can expect from the Sugatan Effect in the …
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Remembrance Day 2020 – Canada’s Flying Ace, Billy Bishop
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Episode 149: William Avery (Billy) Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, on February 8, 1894. When the First World War broke out, as with many young men of his day, Billy was off to Europe to do his part. By the end of the war, Bishop claimed he had survived more than 170 air battles and said he had shot down seventy-two German aircraft. This num…
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Living Upside Down | 10 - Upside Down Judgement | Matthew 7:1-14
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Would you throw a birthday party for prostitutes, or would you silently condemn them and go on with your day?Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach that Jesus does not judge those who are on the bottom of society, but the judgers. Life with Jesus does not mean keeping the immoral out, but welcoming everyone as He has welcomed you.…
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Three’s Complicated – The Murder of Christina Cline
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Episode 148 - In November of 2011, a man out for a walk discovered 27-year-old Cristina Kathleen Cline’s body just off the trail in a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia park. The number of wounds and blood at the scene indicated a brutal and violent attack. It would take Dartmouth police more than a year of intense investigation before they could arrest and ch…
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Living Upside Down | 9 - Upside Down Treasure | Matthew 6:18-34 | Rev. John Bourgeois
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W.H. Auden says, “If the moths don’t get you, the wolves will.” Are you feeling anxious?Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach that all of us are anxious about our treasure — something the moths or wolves can destroy. Our life in the Kingdom of God is a treasure that no one can touch.
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Halloween 2020 – Spiritualism in Canada: Seances, Mediums and Spirits, Oh My!
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Episode 147: Canada has a long history of folks who have attempted to communicate with the dead - a practice is known as Spiritualism. Some of these have claimed that they can connect directly with those on the other side. Here we will give a bit of history, tell some of their stories and give a how-to primer for entertainment purposes only. We do …
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Quick Takes, Ep. 7 | How Can Christians Politically Engage with a 2 Party System? | John Bourgeois
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As 2020 presidential election approaches, hear Rev. John Bourgeois frame voting as an act of love for your neighbor.
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Living Upside Down | 8 - Holiness or Hypocrisy? | Matthew 6:1-18 | Rev. Jonah Hooper
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What (figurative) masks do you wear? Hear Rev. Jonah Hooper preach that there’s a difference between holiness and hypocrisy, and that Jesus calls us to take off our masks and follow him into holiness.
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#45 Deividas - 3 eCommerce Needle Movers to Scale eCom Business Past $3M Monthly Revenue
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This podcast is different from others. In this 17-minute, action-packed podcast, Deividas shares the results of the 2-3 week research project he was working on with consultants and research & consumer marketers. Here's what he covers: the 3 biggest needle movers he found to scale eCommerce businesses past the $3M monthly revenue cap, copywriting ti…
Ride along with 25 year veteran Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt, from Global News, on her award winning podcast Crime Beat as she takes you through some of Canada’s most high-profile criminal cases. Real People, Real Crimes, Real Journalism. Each episode takes you deep inside cases she has worked to give you detail you didn't hear on the news. Season 3 i…
Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and…
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Living Upside Down | 7 - Enemy Love | Matthew 5:38-48 | Matt Williams
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Who are our enemies, and how are we to treat them? Hear Matt Williams preach that our love is not reserved just for our friends, but is to be poured out on our enemies. We can do that when Jesus pours his love out to us.
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Lust, Greed and Anger: The Slaying of Gang Yuan
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Episode 145: This episode contains disturbing and graphic details of the 2015 murder of Chinese millionaire, Gang Yuan, in West Vancouver at the hands of his soft-spoken cousin Li Zhao. The crime’s unthinkable and twisted aftermath is horrendous. Sources: Pre-Trial Voire Dire R. v Zhao, 2020 BCSC 1322 (CanLII), BC v. Chil…
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Living Upside Down | 6 - Neighbor Love | Matthew 5:21-30
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Jesus’ teaching on murder and adultery is difficult — it can feel crushing. Hear John Bourgeois preach that Jesus isn’t close to good people, but the poor in spirit. And that Jesus didn’t come just to not murder and not adulterize you, but to give you life and love.
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Quick Takes, Ep. 6 | The Father and the Older Brother | Rev. John Bourgeois
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Does God just want me to obey him? Hear John Bourgeois explain that the obedient are often those who are farthest from God.
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Perseverance, Prosecution & Peace: The Murder of Paula Gallant
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Episode 144: On the evening of December 27, 2005, in my home province of Nova Scotia, Jason McCrae, husband of a beloved educator, artist, sister and mother named Paula Anne Gallant, reported her missing. Paula failed to return to her home in Timberlea after a shopping trip to nearby Halifax. The next day, Paula’s body was found locked in the trunk…
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Living Upside Down | 5 - Upside Down Authority | Matthew 5:17-20
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What role does the Bible have in your life?Hear Rev. John Bourgeois preach that entrusting yourself to Jesus means that we have to entrust ourselves completely to the Bible. That might sound constraining, but it’s a whole new way of being human.
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#44 Deividas & Kris - BFCM: Masterplan How to Generate 45% of Your Yearly Revenue in 3 Months
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This is another Deividas & Kris podcast in which they discuss a highly anticipated topic... Black Friday Cyber Monday. They talk all things eCommerce ad buying strategies, how to prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday day-by-day, the exact marketing channels and platforms used (and how), and more. Watch out for the email marketing approach Deivi…
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Quick Takes, Ep. 5 | The Father’s Love for Younger Brothers | Rev. John Bourgeois
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After all I’ve done, how can I know that God loves me?Hear Rev. John Bourgeois explain God’s love for his people through the lens of a famous Bible story.
