Christian Men at Work Podcast Dave Hilgendorf

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The Why of It All
Alan Watts What do you desire?

For more info contact luke@gravityjack.com Luke Richey began coding software at the age of 14, a foundation upon which he has built a life dedicated to businesses that bring society and technology into the future. His broad understanding of the industry, paired with a passion for both integrity and optimization within the business domain, led him to create many successful startups.  
 
 
 
In 2009, after selling his business to a gaming company, he co-founded Gravity Jack with a vision to advance mobile-based augmented reality. With a strong patent portfolio, dedicated research team and a top-tier client roster, Gravity Jack was quickly established as a leader in the industry. 
 
 
 
On March 16, 2019, following multiple supernatural encounters with the Lord, Luke surrendered his heart to Jesus Christ. Transformed and fully submitted to his Savior, Luke saw God work many miracles in his life, including the restoration of his health, his marriage, his family and his finances. The impact of his spiritual transformation and new reliance on Christ was so evident to those around him that revival broke out throughout his extended family. 
 
The founders of Gravity Jack, Luke and Jen Richey, are passionate followers of Jesus who are on a mission to help spread the gospel to the 50% of the population that does not have the Bible translated in their heart language by using AI and an AR game. Automatic translation engines like Google Translate only support the top 100 languages (ChatGPT supports 95) and the likelihood of these tech giants supporting any more languages is close to none. This is due to smaller linguistic communities lacking the critical mass of users needed to justify a profitable investment, and they often lack the necessary large datasets for effective AI training. Consequently, corporations claiming to be global connectors are disregarding the economic, intellectual and social potential of half the world's population. 
 
Gravity Jack is aiming to leverage the appeal of the gaming industry and the dedication of its market to bring the other 50% of the world onto the international economic stage that otherwise would never see, hear or read much of anything in their native language. Gravity Jack has a unique opportunity to do something that has not been done before. 
 
The company is currently developing an original augmented reality video game, WarTribe of Binyamin, which creates a multi-world war game with active and passive multiplayer role-playing, featuring revolutionary and patented augmented reality elements and geo ownership while simultaneously economically uplifting people in poverty. The video game bundles AR, AI and play-to-earn into one dynamic mobile app – all while generating what is poised to be the most robust translation service available on the marketplace.
 
Ken Barun, Senior Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was recently announced as one of the newest members to the Board of Directors at Gravity Jack. Ken is a distinguished leader with extensive corporate and philanthropic experience, including his role as President/CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities Worldwide and Director of Projects and Policy on the White House staff to First Lady, Nancy Reagan. His commitment to making a positive impact is evident in his founding of the charity, and his dedication to charitable work and corporate social responsibility reflects his passion for making a difference in the world.

Get and Give Feedback
Surveys from Lowe’s to just about everywhere online
Why? Because it’s so important to not just work efficiently but to make sure you’re pursuing the right objective and in the right manner
I manage projects and critical aspect of my job is defining early and accurately what my customer or stakeholder needs and wants as project deliverables
Making assumptions or rushing to the execution phase are two big errors which lead to poor results and damaged business relationships
On this topic I recommend recent episode of the Emotionally Healthy Podcast called The Life Changing Skill of Clarifying expectations”
This is what emotionally mature individuals do, and one of the axioms on that podcast is that you can’t be spiritually mature unless you’re emotionally mature
Asking for feedback
Talking too loud
Too harsh in a meeting
Give feedback (solicited and unsolicited)
I've worked where we receive emails from managers asking me to give feedback to their direct reports soon after working with them.  I try to always give that feedback and to make it meaningful not just vanilla and predictable
How is very important
" Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." - James 4:10
"Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." - Proverbs 12:1
So provide feedback through surveys when you can as a gift to others, but also seek feedback about yourself and never be afraid to face the music of truth when it comes to our behavior and how our behavior is received by others.

An overused phrase is to give 110% effort.
What does that mean when we think of living out our faith through our work
Well, I can't spell that out in a cookie cutter fashion that applies to everyone in all circumstances, but I know it when I see it
This morning I saw it.
I’ll use a different name, Bob. Bob took my biometrics, all good except high blood pressure . I told him I had a lot of stress. He went on for about 10 minutes sharing with me his philosophy. Like extending your arm holding glass of water. Water is like stress. Talk to yourself, love yourself, if you hold
Onto feelings and tell yourself you’re feeling something like sadness it helps no one.
It certainly doesn’t help you and it also doesn’t affect the person who you’re thinking about.
I thanked him and gave him a hug when I left. On my way back to my desk I was light in my feet. When I grabbed my coffee I saw someone who asked me how
My morning was. I said I had gotten the biometrics and he asked what they did . I told him that the worker had given me some great tips on managing stress. My friend asked me what they were so I shared and he then told me a story about a 90
Yr old woman who was his neighbor across the street. She used to say to him if something isn’t going to matter in 100 years
Then don’t worry about it.
I share this story with you for two reasons. One is I hope you benefit front the advice related to worry and stress because at some level I know we all need that advice.  Specifically I want to talk about the advice to love yourself. There was a time when I would have embraced that advice without a faith or biblical context, ie I was all about myself and my goals and was not humbly seeking Gods will. There was also a time in my life when I would reacted
To that advice in knee jerk, holier than though fashion, ie I would have said “that’s wrong I should not love myself, I should be humble and repentant”.
I believe I’m at a place now where I’m closer to the truth than either of those previous versions of myself.
Loving yourself is a command found in both the Old Testament and New Testament, the Torah and the Apostolic Scriptures.
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord" - Lev 19:18
Jesus quoted this in 3 of the 4 Gospels, saying this was the 2nd greatest commandment.
Paul quoted this in the book of Galatians and Romans, and James quoted it as well.;
In fact, I don't know this for sure, but this could be the most quoted command in the Bible.
This command shows that God wants us to love our neighbor, but it also shows He wants us to love ourselves, and you can argue, it shows that we cannot love our neighbor if we don't first love ourselves.
My second reason for sharing this story is to provide an example of what giving 110% might look like in your work, though at the same time I think it would be better to think of this as 110% relative to what is the norm, but should be the normal behavior for those of us who are believers
My third reason is to encourage you to pass along something good that you year, as I did with my friend when I was getting coffee, and be ready to shut up and let the person share their thoughts once you've brought up something of moral significance.

Phil 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things"
During my self-help days, I often heard "You are what you think about all day long"
or as it says in proverbs 23:7 "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he"
What should we think about, or focus on, in this life?
Our highest priority should be the unseen holy, set apart things, namely God and the things of God. The word for holy spirit or set apart in Hebrew is Kadosh
Col 3:2 says "Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth."
Joshua 1:8 says "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night"
Psalm 119:97 "Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day"
I used to think that when the Bible talked about meditating, or thinking, about His Word all day long, it didn’t literally mean all day, but now I’m not so sure. I’m finding the more I focus on God the more I’m truly living.
In the Torah it encourages us to think about His word throughout our day
In Deut 6:6-9 says "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."
Number 15:39-41says "And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, 40 and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God. 41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
Lesser in value than the set apart kadosh things that are unseen but still having great value are those things that are seen but also set apart. What we experience with our 5 senses. You could say our natural reality.
Traditions in Judaism include saying prayers the moment you wake, when you walk to the bathroom, etc
By doing so we are making our natural world set apart or kadosh, not totally of course, since we are in a fallen world.
Gnosticism was a set of beliefs focused on knowledge and considered things natural to be avoided.
I believe by coming to earth and taking on flesh, in addition to the important work of providing the necessary sinless sacrifice, Jesus also demonstrated the importance of us living in our natural reality.
Also God wanted the tabernacle and then the temple to be made by human hands, and for us to it holy, even though they were types of the temple in the unseen realm.
There a number of Songs with the theme “this is not my home” or "this world is not my home" which capture this idea. I've also heard of the hotel analogy.  Our life here is like staying in a hotel room but our true home will come after our death.
That hotel room still has a purpose for us and is to be used and appreciated.
If you want to go deeper on the concept of the unseen realm check out the book "The unseen realm" by Michael Heiser who died last last year. Also the Naked Truth podcast.
So what are lesser thoughts or things we should avoid focusing on?
Things of this world that do not honor God, that Satan has twisted and perverted. This can include things we might consider wholesome and good and G rated, but if focus on them too much, relying on them or making an idol of them, they become unholy and forbidden.
There is another category of things to avoid, in my opinion even worse than the things of this wo