Faith, Finances and F*Bombs Hartley Wright, Kevin Bartolacci

Hartley and Kevin discuss Caitlin Clark, listener feedback, the promise of a car and receiving a daily allowance versus a lump sum. SHOW NOTES:
On the day this episode was recorded, the Wall Street Journal reported the aforementioned Iowa star-turned-No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft has agreed to an eight-year, $28 million contract with Nike that features a signature shoe, giving Clark the most lucrative shoe deal in women's basketball history.Rookies' salaries in the WNBA™ are determined by their draft position. Caitlin Clark's base salary for her first year in the league is around $76,000. In April 2024, CBS reported that Clark's four-year rookie contract is worth a total of $338,056. She'll be paid $76,535 in 2024, $78,066 in 2025, $85,873 in 2026, and $97,582 in 2027.You can read more here about the highest-paid professional women's basketball players and the disparity between NBA and WNBA salaries. Like the king who stopped paying his son a yearly allowance, God desires to give us day by day all that is sufficient for the day. Every person is in need of God’s unbroken love, companionship, wisdom, and giving. Creating space in each day for God and intentionally spending at least a few minutes within this space to personally interact and listen to God is a great way for these and other spiritual needs to be met. Comment—What do you think?
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Are you a naturally curious person or do you tend to be a know-it-all? After committing a false start, Hartley shares about a favored foreigner of Jesus and Kevin expresses his frustration about the unfavored foreigner of America.
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The story about the Lepers can be read in the Bible, New Testament, Luke 17:11-19Learn more about the Pension Protection Act of 2006.    Learn more about Target Date Funds.  Show Credits:
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How and when and where did you first recognize God's activity in your life? Hartley discusses responding to God; Kevin questions the reasoning behind recent standard adjustments to the target inflation rate and values for basis points.
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Hartley and Kevin discuss tee shirts, federal reserve districts and  prayer as conversation with God.
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As he does in most episodes, Kevin refers to and speaks into activity of The Fed  and discusses the Philadelphia Fed Index in this installment. We encourage any listener to visit this web page for an explanation and understanding of why these are elements of our Finance segments.For those interested, we've included a link to The Lounge Guide to Wearing Underwear as Outerwear.     Show Credits:
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Hartley introduces us to the breath prayer, Kevin anticipates push-back in the upcoming political season.
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adjacent — /ad·​ja·​cent/ adjective                                                                                                                                                                                 not distant: nearby; lying near, close tangent — /ˈtanj(ə)nt/ adjective (of a line or plane) touching, but not intersecting, a curve or curved surfacetangential — /tan-jen-shuhl/ adjective(of a subject or activity) different from or not directly connected with the one you are talking about or doing: a tangential issue Kevin is currently reading: Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being by Sue Varma, MD; published by Avery; 2024; 336 pagesYou can pray a breath prayer into the spaces of your day: when you are waiting, when you are worried and anxious, when you need some sense of God's presence, 'underneath' all other words and thoughts consuming your daily interactions, when you are entering into silence and solitude, and as a way of bringing your mind back to your desire when it begins to wander.   Discovering your Own Breath PrayerSit quietly, reminding yourself you are in God's loving presence. Allow yourself to sit with a particular word or phrase from Scripture if there is one which helps you enter a prayerful, listening stance.Express your true heart to God: "God, what I most want from you right now is... Choose your favorite name or image for God which best captures who God is for you or who you need or want Him to be as you are currently relating to him. (examples: God, Father, Jesus, Creator, Spirit, Breath of life, Lord, Shepherd, Holy One, Prince of Peace, Savior)Combine your name for God with the expression of your heart, capturing your yearning for intimacy, wholeness, or well-being in Christ. Consider variations of your combination until you have a prayer of about 6 to 8 syllables which flows smoothly when spoken aloud; rhythmic enough to be prayed with the inhalation and exhalation of your breathing. Portions of the Breath Prayer exercise are adapted from The Breath of Life: A Simple Way to Pray by Ron DelBene; published by Wipf and Stock; 2005; 110 pages The film “Super Size Me” is a 2004 part documentary film and part health experiment directed by and featuring American indie filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. In the film, he records the effects of a 30-day period of time (Feb. 1 – March 2, 2003) in which he ate only McDonald’s food.A man named Johnny Harris researched why McDonald's™ ice cream machines are consistently broken down and chronicled his findings in this video presentation. You can visit this website to discover if the McDonald's™ ice cream machine near you is currently operational. Comment—What do you think?
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Hartley is put off by a negative emoji, Kevin hints about how the market is likely to perform during this election year, and they discuss where to see tangible proof of God answering prayer.
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Hartley refers to Harvard University's version of a popular Implicit Association Test (IAT). Proponents of the IAT have not shown that it unequivocally measures unconscious racism and have failed to rule out alternative explanations. The IAT has not been shown to correlate with other established measures of prejudice and discrimination or to predict discriminatory behavior. Another criticism of the IAT is that it may measure associations that are picked up from cultural knowledge rather than associations actually residing within a person. The counter-argument is that such associations may indeed arise from the culture, but they can nonetheless influence behavior.A Key Takeaway is missing from the audio in this episode: 4 weeks (28 days) — Hartley's accident was August 5, 2021. He was released from the hospital on September 2, 2021. Hartley's stay in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit was 13 days; he was in an inpatient Rehabilitation hospital for 7 days.  Comment—What do you think?
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