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I'm sorry that this episode came out late. That's why it's extra long...and we have our first show guest!! Due to the release of a certain book, I had to cancel the recording that was scheduled for last week to this week. We then digressed about talk shows and reined back to talking about the book...including the competition on Adam Knits! (already over) So, you know what book we are talking about, right? ;-) (And on my own personal side note: I so want to have THIS!) I ranted on about spoilers on the internet...and Ms. B ranted about people sneezing on her in the cinema.
Talking about cinema...we might go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show here in Munich....at least we talked about it. And I plugged the Katia & KylieMac Podcast yet again.
I also started to talk about Damknit Podcast. She's doing this survey and so you should go and DO IT! And then I did some shameless self-advertising about the interview in gave (in German) to Brigitte.de and Sueddeutsche Zeitung Jetzt...and we discussed whether knitting is only for grandmas?
Germans have to learn to knit/crochet in school (don't know whether they're still doing it now) and Ms. B got really excited because this means her boys will have to learn to knit. It's important, isn't it?! Cashyie talked about ballroom dancing at her work place and I want to learn!!!!
We digressed a bit into talking about Brooklyn Tweed's Noro Scarf.
What's on or off the needles?
- Ms. B still pretty much has the same stuff on the needles:
- Super Secret Project (The Phallic Knit)
- Montego Bay Scarf
- Vista Mare (Billy Reid Socks), one down, one to go (and she'll get the pattern out!)...and we digressed by talking on copyright issues on knitting patterns
- She's also sewing little project bags!
- I, Elemm also still has pretty much the same projects:
- Vinnland is coming along nicely with heel-flap
- Charlie Brown Blues --> Heading to the frog pond, but they will be re-started
- Super Secret Project....is an FO...but I can't reveal anything until October
- Ruffly
- Cashyie:
- Cast on for a new scarf
- Periodic Table Knit (too good for Mankittens)
German terms with Elemm:
- Zephyr Jaegerspun
- der Pullover / der Pulli = Sweater, Pullover
- die Veste = vest
- die Strickjacke = cardigan
- die Jacke = jacket
- der Pullunder = slipover
- die Socke(n) = sock(s)
- Highlight -->*Scheiße = shit*
- Highlight -->*Arschloch = asshole*
Ms. B and Elemm had their first dyeing experiences!! Ms. B tried it before I did. Cashyie recognises the competitive streak between me and Ms. B. And for your information, I used more or less this Kettle Dye Tutorial, you can read about it HERE.
Ms. B starts dealing yarns and other goodies. She also received this HUMONGOUS package from Cauchy09. Apart from that, Ms. B also re-started sewing again. She made these extremely cute project bags!
- Benediktbeuern Textile Market (22nd-23rd September 2007): Biggest textile market in Germany. Meet the Wollmeise in person! Fondle her gorgeous yarns before making the purchase. There will be a sock-workshop with Yarnissima, the designer of Digitessa! The Knitters Uncensored Team will be there and we all will be having a PJ-Knit-Party! All places are filled! You can find the list HERE. We will talk about how to get there soon.
- Join our Uncensored Knitters Group on Ravelry!
- Go and listen to a new podcast: PassioKnits.
- Toilet Drop & Stitch Marker Contest Winner: Congratulations to Alala! Contact us and so we can get your toilet drop and stitch markers out to you!
Or leave us a comment here on the blog! Or contact us over at our group on Ravelry. You can send Ms. B or me (Elemm) a message over at Ravelry, too!
We also have our first show guest! Please welcome: Christine from the Pointy Sticks Podcast! Find out why she hasn't been podcasting. Go visit her photography website: FreshPhotography and her other site! She's trying to start a sock for her trip (which she actually started later after the recording - and she's knitting with Opal).
Music for this week:
"Places People Hide Their Money" by Ridel High (lead singer is Kevin Ridel, who was in a band with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and Ms. B's Rock Star Husband back in their hey-days, and is now in the band AMRadio)...and remember to substitute the word "money" with "yarn" ;-)
Hope you enjoyed this extra long episode! Until the next episode....Keep knitting!


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I want you to open your Bible again now to the twenty seventh chapter of Matthew. And for our time this morning I want just to refer to three verses, a brief but wonderful and rich passage, one that frankly is overlooked. I don't know in my life that I've ever heard anyone speak or teach or preach on this particular portion. And at first, to read it, it appears to have somewhat limited importance. But the longer you look at it and the more you consider its truths, the more you find the richness and the reward of the thing which initially seems limited. And yet in the hands of the Spirit of God becomes almost unlimited.
I want us to look at verses 54 through 56. Let me read them to you. "Now, when the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, or guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. And many women were there beholding afar off who followed Jesus from Galilee ministering unto Him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children."
Now, as I said, at first it doesn't seem like a whole lot. But the longer you look at it, the more it begins to yield its riches.
As we examine these three verses, I want you to see in them and in corollary verses to them, four responses to the death of Christ that are here given to us. They demonstrate for us the kind of responses we can see even today. There is the response, first of all, of saving faith; the response of shallow conviction; the response of sympathetic loyalty and the response of selfish fear. And each of those four responses, two of them responses of unbelievers, two of them responses of believers, are parallel to responses today that men and women have to the cross of Christ. So it is not just an historical narrative. It is an historical narrative with strong and practical application to our own time. And I believe that becomes manifest as we examine the text.
First of all, let's look at the best response that an unbeliever could ever have and that's the response of saving faith. We find that illustrated to us by the centurion and certain of the soldiers mentioned in verse 54. It says, "Now when the centurion and they that were with him guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly saying, Truly this was the Son of God."
Now the centurion is the first focus of our attention. He is not just another Roman soldier. As a centurion, he is a commander over a hundred men, as his name might indicate. We know century to be an indicator of one hundred in number. So he would be a commander over one hundred men. A man of some significance in the ranks of Roman soldiers. But he is not even just another centurion, of which there were many. He is a centurion who has been given a very unique responsibility because it tells us here that he and they that were with him, that would be the Roman soldiers under his command, were guarding Jesus. So this is a very particular Roman centurion and a group of soldiers whose responsibility it was to guard Jesus. We assume that this responsibility began when the trial began before Pilate early that very morning on Friday. So they have been in charge of Jesus for quite a few hours by now.
And the centurion has become very much aware of the issues surrounding Jesus. It may well have been that he not only heard all the cries of the Jews and their accusations, but well may as well have heard the conversation privately between Jesus and Pilate relative to Jesus' kingship. He has been a party to everything that's gone on because it's been his to care for the prisoner.
These, then, are the very men who have nailed Jesus to the cross. They are the very men who have pressed a crown of thorns into His brow, hit Him in the head with reeds, slapped Him, spit on Him, punched Him, mocked Him, thrown a robe over His open wounds that had been opened by the scourging ripped...which ripped and tore His flesh. They are the very men who gambled for His garments in an amazing display of indifference. Frankly, they are ignorant. They are uninformed. They are untaught. They are, at least from a Judaistic viewpoint, irreligious. They are pagans. They are part of the scene not because they have anything against Jesus, they don't even know Jesus. They're part of the scene because theyas Roman soldiershave to do what their commander tells them and Pilate or somebody under him has put them in charge of the prisoner.
To them, Jesus is nothing but some bizarre character who claims to be king, for that is the accusation of the Romans. And any of them looking at Him could tell that He was anything but a king. You have to remember that by the time Jesus arrived at Pilate's doorstep early on Friday morning, He had already been through the whole night of mockery before the Jewish leaders in which He was given a mock trial and after which He was slapped in the face, punched in the face so that His face was disfigured, puffy, blue and black, bruised. He was anything but carrying the visage and demeanor of a king.
He was dressed as a very common man. In fact, Herod had put a robe on Him as king to mock His claim to kingship. Furthermore, Jesus was utterly silent, didn't sound like a king. He didn't pontificate, didn't pull rank, didn't advocate His role as king, didn't call for those to come and rescue Him who might have done that. Where were His followers? He was silent. They may have concluded that He was mentally deranged because He took so much abuse and said absolutely nothing. When He did speak to Pilate, He spoke of a kingdom that was not of this world, which sounds like someone who has some kind of delusions of grandeur and really doesn't know who he is or where he is.
And so, because of all of this ridiculous claim to being a king, they decided to play a game with Him and they mocked Him as a wouldbe king. These uninformed ignorant pagans had no idea who they were dealing with. Probably because of their specific assignment to Jesus under Pilate, they may have been attached to Pilate which meant that they weren't even from Jerusalem, but rather from Caesarea the seaport city on the coast, some 60 miles away which was the Roman garrison for the Roman occupation of Israel. If that were the case and Jesus' ministry was dominantly in Galilee and around Jerusalem, they may never have seen Jesus and knew very little about Him, if anything.
But, they've been a part of what's been going on. The centurion knows the Jews hate Him. He has heard them scream "Crucify Him, Crucify Him, we will have not this man to reign over us." They have seen Pilate try to do everything he could affirming the innocence of Jesus a half a dozen times to no avail. They know the Jews have accused Jesus of claiming to be the Son of God, claiming to be a king, therefore being a threat to Rome, being a threat to Judaism. But to them it seems ludicrous, ridiculous, stupid that a beaten, battered, pathetic, crucified mocked man hanging on a cross covered by flies and blood could be anything more than just a common criminal, a fake, an impostor, a nobody. And so they just sit there and guard Jesus.
However, something begins to happen that changes what they think. In verse 54 it says, "When the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, or guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and those things that were done." Now we'll stop there at that point.
I mean, when it went instantly dark like midnight at noon and the sun failed, and when the earthquake came and the earthquake shook the earth and split the ground and the rocks split open and the graves split open and the veil in the temple was ripped from top to bottom, they knew something was happening that was out of the ordinary. And so, Matthew says when they saw the earthquake...and literally, present participle...those things that are occurring. When they were right in the vortex of this phenomena that was going on all around them, it says then in verse 54, "They feared greatly." And the word there is phobeo or phobeo from which we get the word "phobia" which has to do with a terror. They entered into a sheer terror, a state of panic which causes the heart to beat rapidly and sweat to pour out and a terrible anxiety to come over the individual who is in the midst of that kind of terror. They were very, very afraid.
The word is the same word used in Matthew 14:27 for the fear experienced by the disciples in the boat on the Sea of Galilee during the storm when they saw Jesus walking on the water. It is the same word used to speak of the sheer terror the disciples felt on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17 verses 6 and 7, where Jesus pulls back His human flesh and the glory of God is made visible to them and they fall on their faces on the ground and are in a state of absolute panic. It is a strong word.
And the context here and the circumstance here implies that this is not simply a human fear. It is not just being afraid of an earthquake or being afraid of a darkness. It is the idea that inherent within their fear is a spiritual awe, a reverential...a reverential terror. There's something more than just the physical, something more than just the human fear. And all of a sudden, they come to the conclusion that this is not just another criminal, not just a rebel, a deluded deranged man, a fake and an impostor. The phenomena is overwhelming to them.
The centurion has heard Jesus speak whenas infrequently as He spokeHe spoke. He has heard His words on the cross, profound words which have penetrated his heart. He has seen all of this amazing miraculous phenomena taking place. And he knows that something has gone very wrong and the whole of the universe is convulsing in response to what is going on.
The fear indicates the sense of sin. It is that reverential fear that comes to one who knows that he may be under the judgment of God. And though they were pagans, that no doubt penetrated their hearts. It was more than a human fear.
And so, the awareness of their sin in doing what they did to this man, the sense of guiltwhat have we done, what's going on, something is very wrongleads them to one other step. And fearing greatly, they said, and the centurionthe other gospel records tell usarticulated this, but it wasn't just him, it was other of the soldiers as well, he said, "Truly, this was God's Son."
First, the fear indicates the sin. Then the confessionmay I be so bold as to suggestindicates the salvation. The fear indicates the sin, the confession indicates the salvation. If their fear was only a human fear, they would have cried for help or they would have run. But it wasn't only a human fear. It was awe in the sense that men reserve awe for God, for deity. In fact, in Mark 15:39, Mark who gives us his view of the same scene, says that it was immediately after the centurion heard Jesus say "It is finished. Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit," it was immediately after that that he said, "Truly, this was God's Son." So it wasn't only the phenomena, but it was those final words of Jesus that just drove the truth into his heart. And he uses the word "truly" to make it very, very clear that he has no equivocation in his mind. He isn't saying, "Maybe it's the Son of God...possibly it's the Son of God." He is saying without equivocation and without contradiction, "This was God's Son." No doubt in his mind.
And I believe, I really do believe in my heart, that he is affirming the divine Sonship of Jesus. Jesus had just said, "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit," and he says momentarily after that, "Truly, this was God's Son." Jesus in His final words is claiming to be God's Son and he affirms that it is so.
How does he know that? The phenomena going on around him, the demeanor of Jesus, the graciousness of His spirit on the cross, the silence when rebuked, the sense of being on a divine mission which He has finished. But more than that. Do you know why he knew this was God's Son? The only way anybody can ever know that, by the Holy Spirit. In Matthew chapter 16, Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus said to him, "Flesh and blood has not revealed that unto you but My Father in heaven has." Peter knew Jesus to be the Son of the living God because the Holy Spirit told him that. That is a sovereignly revealed truth. In 1 Corinthians 12 it says, "No man can say, Jesus is Lord, but by...whom?...the Holy Spirit," 1 Corinthians 12:1. That isn't something you conclude in your own mind as a human being. I believe what you have here is a product of the work of the Spirit of God just like you have it in Matthew 16. I believe the Spirit of God had taken this openhearted centurion and a few of the other soldiers who were there in that scene and began through the work of Christ on the cross and through His attitude and His words and the phenomena all around to bring them to an affirmation of faith that only comes from the mind of God to the mind of man.
Further, Luke 23:47 said that the centurion also said, "Certainly this was a righteous man." It's as if he builds to a crescendo. Certainly this was a righteous man. Why does he say certainly? Because again he's affirming the truthfulness of it, it's without contradiction. And hadn't Pilate said, "This is a righteous man" in Matthew 27:24? And hadn't Pilate's wife said it in verse 19, "Don't have anything to do with this righteous man?" And here comes the centurion whose heard all that and says, "Certainly this is a righteous man." And then goes one step further, "Yes, truly, this was God's Son."
And Luke 23:47 says he also glorified God. There's no question about what God he's referring to. Scripture would not leave that open to guessing. He glorified the one true God, affirmed the absolute righteousness of Jesus Christ and then declared Him to be God's Son. Now that kind of faith is saving faith. If the thief on the cross by simply saying, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom," can receive a guarantee of eternal salvation, certainly this man could with this kind of faith. So I don't have any question in my mind but that he was redeemed. He was saved at the foot of the cross.
Now some have wanted to argue this, based upon linguistics. And I don't want to get too deep in this but let me just digress a moment. This is what we call in the Greek, an anarthrus(?) construction. That is, the phrase "the Son of God" has no articles in it, no definite article THE. The Son of the God, meaning the only God. All it says is, "God's Son," theos huios, the Son of God, God's Son.
And some say, "Well, if there's no articles, it should read `a son of a god.' So what this pagan centurion is simply saying is`Hey, this must be a son of a god.'" In other words, in all the plethora of Roman deities, this is no doubt some offspring or emanation from one of the myriad of deities.
I don't think that's the intent of the text at all. Let me show you why. The soldier is using this title in reference to what the Jews have been accusing Jesus of. And if you go back to 26...chapter 26 verse 63, the Jewish accusation comes forth there, "I adjure thee, says the high priest, by the living God that Thou tell us whether Thou be the Christ, the Son of God."
Now the Jews only believed in one God. And they are accusing Jesus of claiming to be the only Son of the only God. Which is to them absolutely blasphemous. And this Roman is only responding to that Jewish accusation by saying, "Truly, He was indeed exactly who He claimed to be."
Now in John 19:7, the Jews accuse Jesus, you remember John 19, Pilate brings Jesus back out and says, "Look, here He is, isn't this enough? He's been beaten and battered and bruised and humiliated and so forth, He's a pathetic figure, isn't this enough?" And they scream, "Crucify Him, crucify Him, crucify Him." The thirst for blood is amazing. And they finally say why, "He made Himself God's Son." And they used the very same Greek construction that the centurion uses...God's Son. It is anarthrus, it doesn't have the article.
In Matthew 26:63, when the question was asked by Caiaphas, "Are You really the Son of God?" it is with the article. But when the Jews accuse Him in front of Pilate's court, they drop the articles and use the phrase a different way. Instead of saying the Son of the only God or the Son of the God, they just say God's Son which says the same thing. And so if in one place they use the article and in another place they don't to refer to the same thing, then we conclude that either way it refers to the same thing, obviously. Whether they use the articles or don't, they have in mind that He is blasphemous claiming to be the Son of God.
By the way, the very same phrase, "God's Son," just the two words without the article, is used by the disciples in Matthew 14:33 when they say to Jesus, "Truly, Theou Huios You are," truly God's Son You are. And we know what they meant. They didn't mean, "Truly, You are a son of a god." They meant God's Son.
And the same phrase, and here's the capper, the same phrase, the same two words without an article is used by Jesus Himself in Matthew 27:43 where He claims God's Son, I am. And do you know when He was born in Luke 1:35, the angels used the same phrase. They called Him, "Huios Theou," God's Son.
Now obviously, then, the phrase God's Son means exactly what we have always assumed throughout all history that it meant, the Son of God. The absence of an article doesn't mean you can translate it a son of a god, and make this pagan Roman soldier be saying nothing more than He must be offshoot of some deity somewhere. He knew exactly what he was saying. He was saying what he heard the Jews said...say. The centurion then glorifying God, affirming that Jesus is a righteous man and then calling Him the Son of God is revealing the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart, bringing him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I find myself in absolute agreement with the Lutheran commentator Lenski who said, "This Gentile called Longinus(?) in tradition comes to faith beneath the dead Savior's cross."
You say, "Well, why do you go through all of that to prove that?" I'll tell you why...I'll tell...it's so very important, friends. Do you understand this? Do you understand the grace of God? Do you understand the mercy of God? Do you understand the love of God? If you want to understand it, then understand this, Jesus Christ in the process of being crucified, redeemed His crucifiers. Do you understand that? That's important to understand. You want to understand the grace of God? Then understand that...that Jesus in grace and love redeemed the men who put Him on the cross. I mean, that says it. So that when He said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do," what did the Father do? He forgave them. That prayer was no unanswered. It was answered in the very moment of His death. It's nice to know Jesus gets His prayers answered because I know He prays for us.
And so, I see in their fear a recognition of sin, but I see in their confession a recognition of salvation. And I see in that an absolutely astounding reality that Christ and God and the Holy Spirit come together to demonstrate grace in a way that is absolutely beyond understanding, to redeem the crucifiers of the Son of God themselves. And so when somebody comes along and says, "Well, I'm too evil, the Lord will never forgive me." Guess again.
And isn't this the best fulfillment you would ever find in Scripture of John 12:32? Because in John 12:32, Christ said, "If I be lifted up, I will...what?...I'll draw all men to Myself." And there He was lifted up on the cross, and indeed He drew a thief from one side and a group of soldiers from His feet to Himself. O, great love of God, unspeakable grace of God that He won the very soldiers that killed Him on that cross.
Suddart(?) Kennedy who wrote so many beautiful pictures of Jesus Christ in poetry, lived from 1883 on till 1929, wrote a very lovely look at the soldiers around the cross. Listen to his words. "And sitting down they watched Him there, the soldiers did; there while they played with dice, He made His sacrifice and died upon the cross to rid God's world of sin. He was a gambler, too, my Christ; He took His life and threw it for a world redeemed and e'er His agony was done before the westering sun went down, crowning that day with crimson crown, He knew that He had won." Isn't that marvelous? He knew that He had won. Why? Because the sun didn't go down before He had won the very soldiers that took His life. That's the power of the cross.
So, the first and the best response that a pagan could ever have would be the response of saving faith. Would you agree to that? And the centurion sets the standard for that.
There's a second response, that's the response I like to think of as shallow conviction...the response of shallow conviction. And would you indulge me for a moment to draw you over to the twentythird chapter of Luke? We have to look there to see this. Matthew doesn't comment on it, Luke does. Luke, looking at the very same scene, reporting the very same attitude of the centurion, in verse 47 the centurion saw what was done, glorified God, said certainly this was a righteous man...just after he heard, "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit."
And then verse 48, and the shallow conviction is illustrated by the crowd. "And all the people that came together to that sight," in other words, all the mob and the crowd that were there, "beholding the things which were done," they saw the same things, the darkness, the earthquake, the rocks splitting, the graves opening, the veil of the temple ripped. I mean, they knew things were happening there that couldn't be explained humanly. They knew something very wrong was going on and they knew it was them, believe me. I mean, they would see that phenomena and they would hear the words of Christ and see the marvel of His personhood as He's on the cross and they would begin to remember that He raised Lazarus from the dead and they would remember that He banished disease from Palestine during His ministry and they would remember His powerful cleansing of the temple and His profound teaching while He was there. They would remember all there was about Jesus that led them on Monday to hail Him as Messiah. It would all come back and they would see all of this going around and their understanding of the Old Testament would tell them that God was judging and they would feel guilt, and they would feel sin and they know something is wrong. We know that because it says, "Beholding the things which were done, they beat on their chests."
Now what is this? This is a sign combining terror, remorse and guilt. They begin to pound on their chests uncontrollably. "Oh, woe is us." I mean, they are overwhelmed with a sense of guilt and responsibility. The conduct of Jesus, His obvious innocence, the fact that they could never pin anything on Him, that He did claim to be the Son of God, but after all, He raised the dead and healed the sick, His cries on the cross, all of it, along with the phenomena drew them to a place of absolutely overwhelming guilt. And they pounded on their breasts. That was a sign of their grief, a sign of their guilt and remorse and selfaccusation and despair.
And it still goes on today. There are people who see the cross and they understand that Jesus is there because of their sins, He's bearing their sins. They feel bad about that. They feel sad about that. The cross can be overwhelmingly penetrating, even to an unbelieving heart.
A few weeks ago when I was preaching on the cross, I don't know if you know that, but people were carried out of the service, had fainted and had to be carried out. I mean, the story of the cross, the power of the cross of Christ's bearing the sins of every man on the cross could reach deep into the heart of men. Well, if it was happening maybe in a message somewhere, imagine if you were there and you knew that He was there because you screamed for His blood. And then all of this stuff begins to happen around you and there's an overwhelming terror that grips your heart and says you maybe have violated holy God. And fear reigns supreme and overpowers every other thought in your mind.
But what is so shocking about verse 48, it says they smote their chests and returned. The word return tells volumes. They went home. There's no salvation, there's just conviction. But they went home and it passed. Like the people who come and hear the message today and they feel conviction and maybe they shed tears and there's anxiety in their heart and their heart begins to beat and the sweat comes out on their head. And they know they're sinners and they're rejecting Jesus Christ and they're on their way to hell, but they go home and it passes. They turn on the television, they stick a sandwich in their face and watch a football game. It's gone. Back to life as usual.
That's what these people did. Shallow conviction. They felt sad. They felt sorry. They even felt guilty. They knew God was expressing disfavor and they knew they were the object of His disfavor. But it passed. After all, at three o'clock the light came back and there weren't anymore aftershocks. And everything went back to normal. It passed.
But I have to take you to Acts 2 for a moment because there's a sequel to this. On the day of Pentecost, a few weeks later, the same crowd is in Jerusalem and the crowd is all gathered to hear Peter. And no doubt there were many in that crowd who were there at the foot of the cross, who beat all over their breasts on their way back home. And things had sort of cooled all down. But now Peter stands up to preach, and I mean, he really lays it out. And he indicts them for killing Christ. He tells about the resurrection, how Christ raised...how God raised Christ from the dead. And so in verse 36 he sums up his sermon and he says, "The same Jesus whom you crucified, God has made Lord and Messiah."
In other words, he says you have crucified the Messiah. You are at odds with God. Terrorizing thought. And Peter, a powerful Holy Spirit inspired preacher, so verse 37, "When they heard this they were pricked in their heart and they said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles, Men and brethren, what do we do?" Being pricked in the heart is like beating on the chest, they were stabbed. I mean, it was as if a great blade just went right into their hearts. They were pained deeply because of the recognition that they had killed their own Messiah. What do we do? What do we do? And Peter says, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." And verse 40 says he kept on testifying and exhorting, "Save yourself from this crooked generation. And they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day there were added unto them about 3,000 souls."
Listen, some of those three thousand were, no doubt, some of the folks that beat their chests on the cross scene. And I thank God that some of them came back here and when they were confronted again and felt conviction, they came all the way to salvation. That's wonderful, isn't it?
But, that certainly didn't happen to all of them. Now we go back to Matthew 27 again. And all it tells us there is they beat their chests...or rather in Luke 23:48, they beat their chests and went home. Shallow conviction.
So many people like that today. People like that here this morning. You'll hear the message. You'll listen to the story of the cross. You'll hear about the centurion, the proper response. You'll feel conviction but you'll pass...you'll go away, it will pass. Sad...sad. I hope and pray to God that someday there's a Peter in your life that comes along and preaches a message of conviction that you don't let pass.
Can I have you look at 2 Corinthians chapter 7 for a moment? I just want to pull out a thought here. Paul wrote 1 Corinthians and just blasted the Corinthians because of their sin. The word came back to Paul that they were very sorry about their sin, they had a right response to his letter. They wanted to clean up their church, clean up their lives. And so, in verse 8 he says, in his second epistle, "For though I made you sorry with a letter, I don't repent." I'm not sad I made you sorry, I'm glad I made you sorry.
You say why? Verse 9, "I rejoice not that you were just sorry but that you sorrowed to...what?...to repentance." You didn't just feel emotional sorrow and guilt, you turned around. You were sorry after a godly manner. And verse 10, "For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation." But verse 10 says the sorrow of the world just works death.
You know what happens to people in the world who are just sorrowful all the time? It will kill them...it will kill them. Maybe they'll take their life. Maybe they'll get an illness and die. Maybe they'll become an alcoholic or a drug addict or try to lose themselves in something. But the sorrow of the world is just a despair without relief. Ungodly sorrow leads to nowhere but death. But godly sorrow leads to repentance which leads to what? Salvation. You see, that's the difference between the soldiers and the crowd. The soldiers were sorry. And by the power of the Spirit of God and in answer to the prayer of Jesus, "Father, forgive them," a sovereign prayer on behalf of those soldiers, they were saved. The crowd were sorry but theirs was not a godly sorrow to repentance to salvation. Theirs was an ungodly worldly sorrow to despair.
You see, ungodly sorrow hasn't got repentance, all it's got is resentment. It doesn't repent, it just resents. It resents being caught. It is sorry for itself, not for God. It is sorry for the consequences to itself.
Let me say it a simple way. True godly sorrow hates the sin more than it hates the result of it. I'll tell you where true godly sorrow is, when someone hates the sin because it is a defiance of holy God, not because they feel that it's created some problems in their life. Godly sorrow leads to repentance which leads to salvation. Now that was the centurion not the crowd.
Now back to Matthew 27. And there's a third group, and this is so beautiful. The third response...by the way, the first two were true of unbelievers, the second true (two) are characteristics of believers. The centurion and the soldiers were unbelievers when they came to saving faith. The crowd were unbelievers when they came to shallow conviction. The centurion and the soldiers were changed to believers. The crowd was not.
But the second two, both of them were believers. Now the first of the second two, or the third response, is called sympathetic loyalty. We'll just call that sympathetic loyalty because it's really a good descriptive phrase of what we see. And it is characteristic of these women. They are the illustration. Verse 55, "Many women were there." Stop at that point.
Around the cross of Christ afar off, by the way, Matthew says, and apparently at the beginning of the crucifixion they were afar off. There would be the cross, there would be some space so the people would be kept back from the cross. There would be the soldiers, then the rabble crowd of the Jews passing by along the road. And then somewhere in the distance, these women. They're...they're...they're not way up...way far so that they're not really part of the scene. They're far off and yet they're definitely a part of the recognizable scene of the cross.
Later on, according to John's gospel, they approach the cross and it is then that Jesus speaks to them and says, "Mary, here's John. John, here's Mary," and commits the two to each other for care. So they start off in a distance and they move closer. That's wonderful, too. They become more and more bold and courageous and finally, no doubt, are collected around the foot of the cross itself.
Now here are these women, loving, sympathetic, though their hopes are crushed and their dreams are dead and they can't see beyond tomorrow and Jesus is gone. And they have been watching their Master die. Their loyalties are so deep. Their hearts are so filled with love and sympathy that they are...they're not all led to leave, to flee, to run. They have no fear of the Jews. They have no fear of the Romans. Nothing can overpower their love and their sympathy for Christ.
May I be so bold as to suggest to you that this is one of the most beautiful characteristics of a godly women, sympathetic loyalty? You show me a virtuous godly woman and I'll show you in that woman's life a sympathy and a loyalty that extends beyond that which can be produced in the life of a man, in most cases. Women have a capacity for incredible loyalty and sympathy that men don't have. And we see this in the beauty of these women. They're fearless. They don't even mind the identification with the crucified Christ who has been mocked and scorned and ridiculed. And this by their own people in the society in which they must exist. They are lovely. Their sympathy is magnificent. Their courage is beautiful.
I mean, you ask yourself, where are the disciples? According to John 19 verses 26 and 27, only John was there. The other ten, Judas is doing his thing, the other ten are long gone. They're the big macho guys, right? None of them are around. Just the women and John who seemed to have almost the kind of sympathetic heart that you see usually in a woman, although he was anything but feminine since his nickname was "son of thunder."
Now it is interesting to me, also, to note that Mark links the centurion with the women. Having discussed the centurion he says, "And there were also women," as if to include the centurion with the women. And that's a fair inclusion, I believe. He would include the centurion with the women as over against the unbelieving crowd.
And so, there they are. G. Campbell Morgan writes of them, "Hopeless, disappointed, bereaved and heartbroken, but the love He had erected in those hearts for Himself could not be quenched even by His dying; could not be overcome even though they were disappointed; could not be extinguished even though the light of hope had gone out. And over the sea of their sorrow there was no sighing wind that told of the dawn," end quote. A beautiful way to say there was no hope, no sighing wind to tell of the dawn, to tomorrow for them and yet they were there.
Now look a minute. Many women...we don't know how many...many women. Listen, Jesus' ministry included many women. No one has ever said that women are not a part of the ministry of Christ...many women. We don't know all of them. According to Luke chapter 8 the first three verses we get a little bit of a glimpse. It says Jesus and His ministry in Galilee was preaching and showing the glad tidings of the Kingdom of God, and the Twelve are with Him. And it says they were going throughout every city and village. And then it says not only were the Twelve there, "And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities." So they were women who were healed of demons, women who were healed of illnesses.
For example, Mary called Magdalene out of whom went seven demons. And Joanna, the wife of Chuza who was the serv...the steward of Herod. That's getting pretty close. And Susanna and many others who ministered unto Him of their substance. They provided meals. They gave money. They gave garments. They gave out of their possessions, many women, provisions, resources, finances, hospitality. They attended the disciples and the Savior as they went about in their Galilean ministry.
It says then, in verse 55, they followed Jesus from Galilee. Luke 8 says they worked with Him in Galilee and of course when He left Galilee He came to Jerusalem for Passover and all the families would come. And these women who had attended to Jesus along with their own families came with Jesus. And all the way through Peraea and it was a long journey, you'll remember, all the way to the south across the Jordan, into Jericho and up to Bethany and they finally arrived. All during that time they were there to provide meals, to provide hospitality, to give financial help, to provide provision in any way they could.
And they're a marvelous group. Their service began in Galilee and ended up at the foot of the cross...loyal, sympathetic, unwavering, faithful. And Jesus, says one old writer said was the magnet of their souls. He just drew them and they stuck. He held them to Himself like the sun holds the planets in their orbit. They just never got away.
And they ministered, diakoneo, you get the word "deacon" from it. But originally in the gospels the word had to do with waiting on tables. They served those unique needs of food and sustenance. And that's the core. That's not the perimeter of a woman's service, but that's the heart of it. That's why you read in Paul's letters that the widow who is to be the widow cared for by the church is the one who has made provision for people in need and washed people's feet and shown hospitality and served people. That's the heart of it. The woman's role...its heart is in the home and in the caring to meet spirit...physical needs, as wellof courseas spiritual ministry. We're not limiting that, but that's the heart of it. When you look at Luke 4:39 and Luke 10 verse 40 and you see the same word diakoneo, it has to do with serving tables with providing for physical needs.
You say, "Well, isn't that kind of a demeaning thing?" Not hardly. Listen, do you realize...and you probably haven't thought about it...do you realize that these women while all the disciples are hiding among the olive trees somewhere or in a cave, do you realize that these women are the original eye witnesses to the death of Jesus Christ and do you realize before any man ever saw the risen Christ, a woman did? And not just any woman, but one of these women. Therefore, in the early church the primary sources for the reality of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ would be these loyally sympathetic women. Do you think they would have a special place of love and recognition in the early church? I hope to tell you.
And don't you think the story rang down through those early years about the disciples hiding and the women standing by? And so, when the Apostles stood up to preach about their great courage, there might be some silent women smiling. Don't ever underestimate how the Lord Jesus Christ looks upon the role of a woman, the Lord Jesus gave these dear women the privilege of being the original eye witnesses of the death and resurrection because they proved to be so faithful to Him. In what looks to us so often as a small thing, but in His mind was a great thing because it marked out genuine faithfulness.
And I suppose because of that marvelous character in these women, the Holy Spirit allows us the privilege to meet a few of them in verse 56. First, Mary Magdalene. Now not only does Matthew tell us about them, but the other writers tell us about them, particularly John does. But every time you read about Mary, and she hasn't appeared since Luke 8 where I read earlier that she was with Jesus in Galilee and had cast out of her seven demons. Please don't...please don't mix her up with the woman of sin. She is not to be at all connected with that woman of sin in Luke 7. She was a woman demon possessed. The Lord sovereignly delivered her and redeemed her.
She's always called Mary of Magdalene. Mary...simply means she's a Magdalene, she's from Magdala. Magdala was a little town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee south of Capernaum. Now the reason she is called that is because she has no husband and no children. If she had a husband or children, she would be Mary the wife of, or Mary the mother of as the other two. Would you please notice the second one is Mary the mother of, and the next one is both the mother of and the wife of. She is the mother of Zebedee's children which is another way of saying she is Zebedee's wife.
Now the point here, I believe, is...and this is a beautiful picture...one of these women is noted for her children. Mary the mother of Jamesby the way, that's James the Less or James the little, little James who was an Apostle, she is known as the mother of an Apostle. And the other one isn't even given a name. She is just the mother of the children of Zebedee. So she is a woman known by her husband, the other is a woman known by her children, the other is a woman known by her town which is because she...she has no husband or children.
And the Lord, I think, gives all the categories to women. A woman's dignity can be as a single woman. And there is a marvelous and unique and blessed role for a single woman to play in the provision of God and in fact Mary was the first one to see the risen Christ, Mary Magdalene. There is also, of course, the great commendation of a woman who is a mother and an equally great commendation of a woman who is a wife. That is the singular greatest commendation of woman. She is the mother of, or the wife of...if she indeed is married. And so that we wouldn't slur single ones, Mary Magdalene heads the list. But when it comes to a woman's unique role, it is a role of loyal sympathetic service to Christ as wife and mother, unless specially called to the role of singleness.
Mary, by the way, the mother of James and Joses, or Joseph, as I said is the mother of James the Less. And Mark 14...Mark 15:45 talks about James, the little James so you don't get him mixed up with big James, James the brother of John, the sons of Alphaeus...or the sons of Zebedee, rather. So we find here that this woman is identified as Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses. Now in the other texts, she is called the wife of Cleophas which means she is the mother of James and Joses and the wife of Cleophas. And that is always how the Bible identifies women, as the mother of and the wife of. James the little is also called James the son of Alphaeus. So, Cleophas and Alphaeus may be variations on the same name, the conseq...consonants are the same all through, l, ph, and s. So, it's a real reasonable proximity there in those names indicating they're the same individual.
And further it says, the mother of Zebedee's children, she isn't even named but John tells us her name was Salome. She also is the sister of the mother of Jesus, Mary. So the James and John are His cousins.
So, here's this little group, Mary of Magdala, Mary the wife of Cleophas also known as Alphaeus who's the mother of James and John, and then Salome who is the sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus and the wife of Zebedee and the mother of James and John. And, also, John tells us Mary the mother of Jesus was there.
Well, I just wanted you to know who they were because I think it's worth noting. And I wanted you to know that they're always identified if they're married and if they have children as the wife of and the mother of because that is the distinct and wonderful and beautiful role of a woman. And it is in that role that she provides out of her provision substance for those who labor in the cause of Christ. And God so highly honors that, that God has set these women in a unique place as special witnesses of His death and resurrection.
When God wants to extol the highest virtue of woman, listen to what He says in Psalm 1:13. It goes on, "Praise the Lord, Praise ye the servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord, Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to praised. The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God who dwells on high?" And He goes on talking about the Lord is this, the Lord is this. And when He comes to the last verse, here's how He extols the Lord. "He makes the barren woman to keep house and be a joyful mother of children, praise ye the Lord." That's the sunum bonum. I mean, it isn't He makes the barren woman to have a career and a briefcase. And I'm just being pretty frank but that's not what He said. What He says is He makes her to be a keeper of the house and to bear children.
Now I'm not despairing about folks that God doesn't give children to or that are single or that have a ministry to the Lord. All I'm saying is that's God's highest calling for a woman and that's supported in the way they're identified even in the narrative in the gospel record and by the way through that faithfulness at that level, God has exalted them to be eye witnesses of His Son's death and resurrection.
Now that's what I call sympathetic loyalty. How about you? Is that you? I mean, when the world is hostile toward Christ and they're jeering Christ and mocking Christ and laughing at Christ and scorning Christ, do you just fade away or are you there? Are you there and the whole world around can know that you belong to Jesus Christ? Is your love for Christ and loyalty to Christ so magnetic that you're attached to Jesus Christ no matter what it costs, no matter what anybody says, no matter what hostilities you have to endure, you are unwavering in your commitment? I mean, should there be anything else for those who love Christ?
There is, though, and that's the final point...selfish fear. You say, "Well, you've exhausted all the verses, what verse is this in?" It isn't in any verse. But you want to know something? It speaks so loudly I have to include it.
You say, "But it doesn't say anything about selfish fear. Who's the illustration?" The disciple. "But it doesn't say anything about them." I know, that's what's so amazing. It doesn't say anything about them there because they weren't there. But that says a lot. So somewhere between verse 56 and verse 57 in the white spaces you can put this point. Selfish fear, you can't ignore it...where were these guys?
Now listen, I think Peter would...I really would have thought Peter would be there. You say why Peter? Well, he'd gone out and denied Christ three times, heard the cock crow and the Bible says when he heard the cock crow, he went out and did what? He wept bitterly, poured out his heart, "O God, forgive me." Poured out his heart in weeping. And he went through all the catharsis of cleansing his soul because of his denial. And you have thought, "Boy, when he gets that deal over, he'll be there."
You know something? He went out and wept bitterly then went back in hiding. Macho Peter...see. Where are they? I'll tell you where they are. Matthew chapter 26 verse 56, "Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled." And when they should have been courageous they were cowards. And in Luke 22:31 to 34, Jesus said to them, Peter in particular but all the others, "Satan desires to sift you." You know, they used to take a little sifter and shake it like this...to separate the wheat from the chaff and what He's saying is Satan is going to shake you, shake you loose every way he can. "But I have prayed for you that your faith fail not and when you're converted..." and He goes on.
Did they lose their salvation? No, because the Lord upholds them. But they sure...they sure entered into a terrible time of cowardice. They were in a spiritual struggle. They violated the basic principle of discipleship from Matthew chapter 10, "You're not worthy to be My disciple unless you take up your...what?...cross and follow Me." And that was an indicator of a willingness to die for Me, whatever the cost. If you're going to be My disciples, you have to be willing to give your life. Well, they weren't, boy, when they thought they might lose their life, they were long gone. And Satan was shaking them violently. But Jesus said I prayed for you, your faith won't fail. No matter how violently Satan may shake the believer and he may come to times of doubt and fear, he'll never lose his faith because his faith isn't in his own hands, it's in the hands of Jesus Christ.
Great hope, but how sad. Isn't it sad that they weren't there? Isn't it sad that He died alone with only the women and John? Isn't it pathetic after all He'd done they weren't there? And it still goes on. There are still those of us and times for all of us when we should be standing for Christ in a situation and we aren't. We're gone somewhere. We hide, we fade. The sifting is more than we want to endure, we want to save our reputation or our name or our prestige or our career. We don't want to be named with Jesus Christ.
And so, I guess you need to ask yourself where you are. Saving faithhave you seen the cross and said I want like that centurion to say truly this is God's Son? Or are you like the crowd? You feel the conviction but you're going to go home and it will pass. If you're a believer, are you like the women? Are you there with sympathetic loyalty standing for Jesus Christ whatever the cost, no matter goes on around you? Or are you like the disciples in selfish fear, hiding somewhere so nobody finds out who you really belong to? It's a pretty clear scene, isn't it?
In the thirteenth century, there's a man by the name of Arnolf Van Lowen(?). And he wrote one of the most beautiful and magnificent hymns on the cross that's ever been penned. Some time in the nineteenth century it was translated by James Alexander into English and I want you to listen to it.
O sacred head now wounded with grief and shame way down, now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thy only crown. How art Thou pale with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn? How does that visage languish which once was bright as morn? What Thou, my Lord, has suffered, was all for sinners gain; Mine, mine was the transgression but Thine the deadly pain. Lo, here I fall, my Savior, tis I deserve Thy place. Look on me with Thy favor, vouch safe to me Thy grace. What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest friend, for this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end. O make me Thine forever, and should I fainting be, Lord, let me never never outlive my love to Thee.
O, what a great statement. O make me Thine forever and should I fainting be, Lord, let me never never outlive my love for Thee.
Father, we come to You in this final word of prayer. Our hearts having been drawn to that magnificent scene at the foot of the cross to see there the beauty of response and the ugliness as well, the beauty of a centurion and a few soldiers saved though they crucified the Son of glory. The beauty of women standing there in loyal sympathy, tearstruck without hope, thinking there's no tomorrow and yet held by undying love. O may we be like that centurion, like those women and not like the shallow crowd and the selfish disciples who thinking only of their own despair left the Savior to die alone without those in whom He had made the greatest deposit of personal affection. For Christ's sake, amen.
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Summit County Deputy Andy Crnich was asked to help keep the peace on Feb. 2 between Francisco Chula Torres, 53, from Park City, and a former roommate.
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The driver lost control of the tractor, which drove across the median and into the westbound lanes, before hitting an embankment and rolling onto its side.
The driver sustained serious internal injuries and broken bones. Two other vehicles traveling eastbound were damaged by the wood pieces on the freeway, as the drivers were unable to maneuver the vehicles around them.
While Matthews was en route to the scene, dispatch received several calls that wood pieces had fallen out of a vehicle traveling eastbound on I-80 near the site of the accident.
One caller provided the license plate numbers for the vehicle and trailer. It was located on S.R. 224. The driver, Paul Anthony Butkovich, 62, from Park City, returned to the scene. He was driving a suburban and a trailer loaded with wood, which Butkovich admitted was not secured in the trailer bed.
Five pieces of wood, three to four feet in diameter, and three to four feet long, along with several smaller pieces of wood, had fallen out of his trailer.
Butkovich told deputies he was unaware of the wood falling onto the freeway. He was charged on Feb. 8 with class A misdemeanor reckless endangerment and class B misdemeanor failing to secure a load.
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"One minute of conscious uninterrupted daily positivity has been great for my boys."
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'Humbled' Toronto Mayor Rob Ford vows to keep fighting after winning appeal
Kieron Lang, CTV Toronto
Published Friday, January 25, 2013 6:16AM EST
Last Updated Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:07AM EST
Both humbled and empowered by the appeal court ruling that allows him to keep his job, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford thanked his supporters and vowed to keep serving the city for another "six years."
Ford addressed reporters gathered at city hall Friday, just 90 minutes after the Ontario Divisional Court panel issued their decision on his appeal of a conflict of interest ruling that ordered him out of office.
"We conclude that the application judge erred in finding that Mr. Ford contravened the MCIA (Municipal Conflict of Interest Act). Accordingly, we would allow the appeal," the judges wrote in their decision posted online.
In his first formal public reaction to the ruling, Ford heaped praise and gratitude on his supporters and the courts.
"I have enormous respect for the judicial system and am very thankful for the decision it made today," he said, before thanking his lawyers, family and Toronto residents for their support.
"The people of this city have given me phenomenal support and I want to truly, truly thank them for it," he added, calling his job as mayor an "enormous privilege."
Ford also said his legal battle has been a "very, very humbling experience."
Nevertheless, he was not shy about trumpeting his achievements as mayor.
"In the past two years I've done everything I said I'd do," he said, later boasting that "we are running the city better than any administration ever has."
Ford's current mandate -- which could have been brought to an abrupt end if the appeal had not gone in his favour -- is up in two years, but he made clear he's already thinking beyond that.
"It is my plan to continue fighting for the people of this great city for the next six years," Ford said, optimistic of winning a second term as mayor.
But there's a slim chance he may have to keep fighting this battle, if the lawyer representing the man who launched the conflict-of-interest complaint gets his way.
"The Court has let Rob Ford off on a technicality," Clayton Ruby said in a statement to CTV News following the court's ruling Friday.
"We find that disappointing, particularly since the court found that (my client) Mr. Paul Magder was right on the facts. We believe that there are serious errors of law in the judgement and we will ask the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal to that Court. It must be acknowledged that such appeals are not easy, but this remains an important issue for all citizens."
Appeal allowed
The mayor's legal troubles stem from a report by the city's Integrity Commissioner on $3,150 in donations for his private football foundation, solicited using his then-Toronto city councillor's office letterhead.
It wasn't soliciting the money that got Ford in trouble, however.
Instead, Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland ruled in November that Ford made "substantial and significant errors of law" when he participated in a council debate and vote on a council motion compelling Ford to pay the money back out of his own pocket.
At issue were the municipal rules and the interpretation of whether or not Ford had a 'pecuniary interest' in the result of that vote.
Ford's lawyer Alan Lenczner argued at trial and in appeal that the mayor was an honest politician who made a genuine error of judgment, and should not be found guilty of conflict of interest because he did not benefit personally by his efforts to help disadvantaged youth through the football foundation.
And besides, Lenczner said, city council did not have the power to ask Ford to repay the money anyway.
Clayton Ruby -- the lawyer representing the man who launched the conflict-of-interest complaint, Paul Magder -– countered that Ford deliberately violated rules of municipal office.
Hackland's ruling ordered Ford out of office, but the removal was stayed by Ontario Divisional Court Justice Gladys Pardu who ruled the mayor could stay on the job pending the outcome of his appeal at Divisional Court.
In their decision Friday, Regional Senior Justice Edward Then, Justice Lynne Leitch, and Justice Katherine Swinton wrote that Hackland had erred in his ruling.
Focusing on the question of whether Ford had a financial interest in the donations debate, "In our view, he did not," they said.
"In Decision CC 52.1, City Council ordered Mr. Ford to pay monies to certain donors when he had never received such monies personally. While the application judge called the reimbursement obligation a remedial measure, in our view, this was a penalty imposed on Mr. Ford."
Hackland had ruled that Ford's voting against the motion demanding he pay the money back out of his own pocket constituted a financial interest.
But in their appeal decision, the panel of Divisional Court justices disagreed.
"Given that the imposition of the financial sanction under Decision CC 52.1 was a nullity because Council did not have the jurisdiction to impose such a penalty, Mr. Ford had no pecuniary interest in the matter on which he voted at Council," they wrote.
Analyzing the ruling, Toronto lawyer John Mascarin said Ford "got off on the most arcane technicality."
Friday's ruling notes that the only penalites council could impose on Ford were a reprimand or suspension of pay, and not a demand he personally reimburse the funds.
"Therefore everything that flows from that, including Rob Ford then speaking on it is absolved, or immune, from the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act," Mascarin told CTV News Channel.
Had the court upheld Justice Hackland's ruling, Ford would have had to hand the keys to the mayor's office over to Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday. Council would then have been left to decide whether to appoint a successor or let voters decide in a byelection.
Ford not in the clear
Although Ford can now stay in office, his mandate until the next scheduled election in Oct. 2014 is not guaranteed, as he must now await the conclusion of a forensic audit of his 2010 campaign finances.
If the auditors' report due in February suggests Ford's campaign breached the Municipal Elections Act, he could face non-criminal charges. If he's found guilty, the possible penalties include a fine or removal from office.


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rosie_t_riveter wrote:Yeah, but what's the difference? The two lists are almost (but not quite) the same.
no idea my guess is that new posts includes posts no-one has yet commented on but 'active topics' does not? but really i don't know. i use active topics because of the logout thing on my phone.


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Brave New World
The Revolutions We Missed
Sometimes societies just plod along, oblivious that the world is being reinvented right under their noses. In 2000, one never saw pedestrians bumping into themselves as they glued their noses to iPhones. Thirteen years later, it is almost rare to see anyone on the street who is not stumbling about, networking or texting. Yet most of us are scarcely aware of the collective effect of that odd habit repeating itself millions of times over each day, of millions of books not read, of "hellos" not offered, of brains wired to screens rather than the physical world about them. When cars once drifted into your lane, you assumed a DUI; now their drivers are most likely texting.
Cars, of course, look about the same as they did thirty years ago. But we just assume now that they almost never break down. Up until 1980 I used to see them with hoods up by the side of the road almost every five miles or so. Today, entire notions such as points, plugs, tune-ups, and carburetors have simply quietly passed away for most motorists. The old jalopy with 100,000 miles on it was junk; the new Accord with 150,000 miles has another easy 250,000 to go. The world changes while we snore.
Lazy Money
No wonder, then, most of us are still not quite aware of how vastly different the world of 2013 is from even 2008. Take interest: not long ago most Americans assumed that when they retired, their 5-7% interest rate on passbook savings would provide some sort of income. Not now. There is scarcely a 1% return. In fact, most accounts lose money. The interest is not even matching the rate of inflation. Will we soon be charged by the banks for "protecting" our deposits?
At some unspoken moment, we shrugged and silently accepted Ben Bernanke's world, along with the thousands of ways that his Federal Reserve Board has radically changed our lives. Those at retirement age are not stepping down, not when they have a bad/worse choice of receiving no interest income or putting their life savings in the stock or bond market. Our fathers may have retired at 58; we will be lucky to quit at 70. Is there even such a thing as retirement anymore?
No wonder that unemployed young people are endlessly circling the airport with nowhere to land, given all of us old planes perpetually taxing around on the crowded runways below. To understand the effect of no, or very low, interest, think of the billions of dollars in cash that are silently transferred from those who have saved to those who have no cash. The former receive little or no interest from the banks. The latter take out mortgages or car loans at historically low interest rates.
Did the president ever mention this revolution, among his boilerplate of "millionaires and billionaires," "pay your fair share," and "fat cats"?
Does it really make all that much difference whether you are a doctor at 70 who religiously put away $1,000 a month for thirty years, compounded at the old interest, and planned to retire on the interest income, or a cashless state employee with a defined benefit pension plan? The one might have over $1 million in his savings account, but the other a bigger and less risky monthly payout. Suddenly the old adult advice to our children -- "Save and put your money in the bank to receive interest" -- is what? "Spend it now or borrow as much as you can at cheap interest"?
Them and Us
I think it was around 2009 when an entire new vocabulary entered the American popular lexicon. Where did the 1% versus the 99% come from? From where did the new financial Mason-Dixon line arise -- good below $250,000 in annual family income, very bad above it? When did the 47% -- or is it the 50%? -- pay no federal income taxes?
At some magical point, the rich became not the successful, the skilled, the well-inherited, the lucky, or the hardworking, but "them": the suspect, the damned even, even as the lifestyles of the rich and famous became ever more sought after.
There are not just the rich and poor any more, but now the "good rich" (e.g., athletes, rappers, Hollywood stars, Silicon Valley grandees, Democratic senators, liberal philanthropists, etc.) and the "bad rich" (e.g., oil companies, CEOs, doctors, the Koch brothers, etc.). The correct-thinking nomenklatura and the dutiful apparat versus the kulaks and enemies of the people.
The president in his State of the Union damns the "billionaires with high-powered accountants," as a friendly Facebook pays no state or federal taxes, as a George Soros walks away with $1.2 billion in speculation profits (in three months, no less!) by betting against the Japanese yen, and as a Jesse Jackson, Jr. gets caught stealing from a campaign fund to buy a $43,000 Rolex (was not a $1,000 one enough?). I thought Soros at his age knew when he had made enough money?
We shrug at all this. A president who thunders to the nation that we must be on guard against the "well-off and well-connected" heads south to Palm Beach to meet his $1,000-an-hour golf pro, while Michelle and the family go west to hit the slopes at "downright mean" Aspen, where no one accepts that they've reached a point where they've made enough money, or that there was any time when it was not good to profit.


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As we continue the saga of the Lumia 920 loaded with GDR3 (Windows Phone 8 Build 10484), the forthcoming OS update from Microsoft, this afternoon we can bring you a video of the updated OS being operated.
The video comes directly from the leaker in our forums, xs2k, who was kind enough to provide Windows Phone Central with a copy earlier this morning. The nearly four minute video, mostly silent, shows the OS being manipulated and various features being revealed, confirming the authenticity.
Features in GDR3 + Bittersweet shimmer that are now confirmed include:
- Custom sounds for text, voice mail, e-mail, and reminders (not seen in this build of GDR3)
- Restore over Wi-Fi when you reset your phone
- Huge amount of work on Bluetooth with various vehicles and devices
- Driving Mode
- Screen rotation lock
- 'X' to close out apps in multitasking
- Icon for multitasking apps
- General performance improvements
- 1080P Display support (for new devices)
- Support for new Qualcomm chipsets
We may have more video footage to bring you later today, based on feedback in our forums. Stay tuned...


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Monday, March 14, 2011
Juice for Japan/Before and After
19 comments:
I just love that night stand. I wish I could go shopping with you! I love doing the makeover but I never find good treasures.ReplyDelete
The night stand turned out so pretty.ReplyDelete
oh my gosh I love Madeline's shirt. do they have it in larger sizes?ReplyDelete
LOVE the nightstand.ReplyDelete
I adore this nightstand makeover! Did you use a satin finish? I'm in the process of making over two nightstands for my daughter's room and I'm not sure what finish I should use?ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful day,
What gorgeous before and afters! Love the color of that nightstand.ReplyDelete
Love the color! Is it the number one color of the year, Honeysuckle? It is beautiful! Hope the Juice for Japan was a success!ReplyDelete
Holy cow... we have a lot of children.ReplyDelete
love that goodwill headboard.ReplyDelete
{i bought it from you!}
i gave you a shout out on my blog today.
Pretty nightstand...such a happy color!ReplyDelete
Love this nightstand. Beautiful color and love the handles.. You did a great job!ReplyDelete
What a difference. Love both pieces. And, so sweet of the kids to hold a juice sale for Japan!ReplyDelete
Yay, I'm finally home from my trip and I can actually see the pictures! That nightstand is MINE, people - I am one lucky lady! Thanks Nat, it looks fantastic in person too. :)ReplyDelete
Great color on the nightstand. Lots of great transformations. I'm following along.ReplyDelete
Pretty color on that nightstand. Can you buy those vintage handles anywhere?ReplyDelete
And that's a lot of blond. :)
Love the color of the nightstand. Very pretty. Thanks for sharing. KarieReplyDelete
In love with the color & the contrasting hardware!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2011
that color is brilliant and great! What a transformation!ReplyDelete
Beautiful transformations once again! I can't believe that's the same nightstand and the headboard is so pretty in white!ReplyDelete
Looks like a fun day!


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Minimum Wage Increases to $7.31 an HourMay 31st, 2011 by flanews
Tomorrow 188-thousand of the state's lowest paid workers will get a pay raise. Florida's minimum wage is increasing six cents to $7.31 an hour. As Whitney Ray tells us, business owners say the increase comes at a bad time.
At Barnacle Bills seafood restaurant in Tallahassee, much like eateries throughout the state, shipping costs are up and fewer hungry patrons are coming through the doors…
And starting Wednesday the state is forcing owner Jeff Stilwell to give much of his staff a pay raise.
"A worker will make what they�re worth. Nobody pays someone who is valuable to them minimum wage," said Jeff.
Florida's minimum wage is increasing from 7.25 to 7.31 an hour. Waiters will see their hourly wages increase four cents to 4.29. Jeff has 15 waiters and says they already make good tip money. Raising their pay will leave Jeff with less money to pay the rest of his staff.
"A good server will make quiet a bit of money, a good cook can only make as much money as you can afford to pay them," said Jeff.
188-thousand Floridians work for minimum wage. The increase means an extra 128 dollars a year for those workers. Economists with the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy say the increase isn't much but it will help some.
"It could be the difference between being able to take a child to the doctor or being able to get medication for the child," said Alan Stonecipher, a spokesman with the center.
The increase comes from a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2004 that ties minimum wage to inflation. The state tried to pass a smaller increase, but a Florida Judge ruled it unconstitutional. Governor Rick Scott decided not to challenge the judge's decision. He fears future increases will hurt Florida's job market.
"If it continues to go up and other states have lower minimum wages it would impact our ability to be able to create jobs,� said Scott.
While the minimum wage can go up with inflation, deflation won't bring it down. In the past Florida�s minimum wage has stayed below the federal minimum wage of $7.25� so employers had to pay the higher federal wage. Now that Florida�s wage has increased, employers will have to honor the state�s wage.
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Green-Marl: Intuitive, Efficient and Scalable Graph Analysis
Monday April 15, 2013
3:00 pm
Hassan Chafi (Oracle)
The increasing importance of graph-data based applications is fueling the need for highly efficient and parallel implementations of graph analysis software. In this talk, we describe Green-Marl, a domain-specific language (DSL) for graph analysis. Green-Marl's high level language constructs allow developers to describe their graph analysis algorithms intuitively, while at the same time exposing the data-level parallelism inherent in the algorithms.
We also present our Green-Marl compiler which translates high-level algorithmic description written in Green-Marl into a variety of targets including an efficient C++ implementation by exploiting this exposed data-level parallelism. Furthermore, our Green-Marl compiler applies a set of optimizations that take advantage of the high-level semantic knowledge encoded in the Green-Marl DSL. We also show how we can use the same DSL to target a distributed graph runtime, Giraph, with a very different computational model from that expressible by the DSL.
We demonstrate how graph analysis algorithms can be written very intuitively with Green-Marl through some examples, and our experimental results show that the compiler-generated implementation out of such descriptions performs as well as or better than highly-tuned hand-coded implementations.
Hassan Chafi is Research Manager at Oracle Labs where he currently leads Project Q. His research investigates using domain specific languages (DSLs) to simplify parallel programming. Hassan's PhD thesis work at Stanford focused on building a Domain Specific Language Infrastructure, Delite. His was advised by Dr. Kunle Olukotun. Prior to that, Hassan worked in the area of hardware transactional memory as part of the Transactional Coherence and Consistency (TCC) project at Stanford where he developed a scalable extension to the original TCC protocol.


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NAPILI - The longest-running weekly keiki hula show in the State of Hawaii has been held along the shores of West Maui at the Napili Kai Beach Resort.
In April, the popular Napili Kai Foundation performers will journey across the Pacific to Washington State for a week of onstage cultural exchange beginning April 6 at the fourth annual Aha Mele organized by the Washington State Hawaiian Civic Club at Chief Leschi Schools in Puyallup.
The traveling troupe includes 12 select keiki ages 9-16, three kumu, three musicians and foundation President Lou Ross.
K. Holoaumoku Ralar will serve as kumu hula and manager. Kumu are Kalei Jaramillo and Rance Villarimo. Kincaid Kupahu, Edsel Ralar Sr. and Edsel Ralar Jr. are the musicians.
The Mainland Hawaiian Civic Club connection is Ben Baker.
"The foundation program teaches our keiki the language, songs and dances of Polynesia; and, a trip, like this one, enables them to experience the sharing of their culture with those who may have never experienced it for themselves," foundation Vice President Janice Studwell said.
According to Ralar, "at the Aha Mele that is going to be held, we will have over 1,000 Hawaiians there.
"We will also be performing at three Indian nation schools... In addition, we have been asked to perform for the Elders of the Puyallup Nation.
"This exchange of cultures is such a great opportunity for our members," Ralar added.
As an educational nonprofit, the foundation has incorporated travel into its learning program.
"We used to take a group of about 30 people - 20 keiki and ten chaperones - every three or four years to the Mainland, until the costs became so high, we thought we would never be able to do it again," she said.
Funding the trek to the Pacific Northwest was part of the 2013 foundation experience.
"Unlike the trips of the past that were subsidized entirely by the foundation, raising the funds for this one has been a group effort," Ross commented
"Until now, our keiki members and their families had never been asked to help out financially; but when the plans starting coming together, they rose to the occasion and put on this magnificent golf tournament," she added.
The Kapalua golf tourney raised $11,000.
"What's still needed," Ross advised, "are funds to cover food and entertainment. If anyone would like to sponsor a meal (about $400) or, as a very special treat, an evening at Tillicum Village ($1,000), or just make a donation to be used to partially cover one of those, it would be REALLY appreciated!"
The mission of the 510(c)3 is to perpetuate the cultural legacy of Hawaii through the children of Maui. The 30-35 members, ranging in age from 6-18, perform a live, weekly show every Tuesday.
Higher education scholarships are also awarded to its graduates.
"Donations are sincerely appreciated and may be directed to the Scholarship, Travel, Endowment or Program accounts," Ross said.
For further information, or to make a donation, call Ross at 669-8384 or Kumu Ralar at 276-8047.


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Here is a really healthy, easy veggie appetizer, which looks seriously impressive on a table.
You can use any crunchy vegetables that you have. Things like cabbage, bean sprouts, carrots and so on work really well in this mix. You can also mix it up by using raw vegetables such as cucumbers, turnips and so on.


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Laser Safety and Radiation Safety Training are available online at The Learning Source (UTSA login required).
All personnel who work in a laboratory where radioactive materials are present must complete Radiation Safety Training. Submission of a certificate or a suitable memo from another institution indicating that an equivalent course has previously been taken may substitute for the UTSA course requirement. The Radiation Safety Officer will determine if a course can be substituted. It is the responsibility of radioisotope users to protect non-users through safe work practices.
Ad hoc training sessions are available on request. Contact the Radiation and Laser Safety Coordinator to schedule an ad hoc training session.
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One of my dearest friends is coming to visit tomorrow, and I am thrilled. However, it means that yet again, I have to tell you that I may not be as quick to respond to your e-mail as I usually am. I'm not ignoring you; I just have company.
Although I am still cursing the germs that invaded my body a few days ago (the Saddam Husseins of germs), the timing was good: I will not be sick while Stacey is here, and I managed to write extra posts and schedule them throughout the week.
I just looked for photos of myself with Stacey, and pulled this one off Facebook. Honestly, I am not sure what to say:
This is from last year. We are both laughing and crying.
It's not the emotion that surprises me; I'm welling up now just thinking about how happy I am that she is happy. I'm surprised because this picture was taken almost exactly one year later at another friend's wedding:
(Sorry about misappropriating your body, Glen, but Amy has created a work of art here that simply must be shared at every opportunity.)
Even now, it is hard for me to really be sure that I lost so much weight. I honestly don't comprehend it unless I look at old photos. I really don't feel any different.
We will be sure to take more photos during Stacey's visit. I can't wait to see her.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Desperately Seeking Stacey
One of my dearest friends is coming to visit tomorrow, and I am thrilled. However, it means that yet again, I have to tell you that I may not be as quick to respond to your e-mail as I usually am. I'm not ignoring you; I just have company.
Posted by Megan at 2:38 PM
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- Karen said...
Wow. That's really impressive. You seem to have lost half of yourself in barely a year. Way to go! But, now, stop. You are tiny enough. No more shrinking.
- Megan said...
It actually gets worse. The Saddam Hussein germs peeled four pounds away in the last three days. No, this is not a good thing. I can't afford to buy new clothes in a smaller size.
If anyone in Name of Town Withheld wants to go for burgers tomorrow, I'm game.
- The Coconut Diaries said...
Goodness, that is amazing! You look so much younger!!
- Karen said...
Your Saddam germs invaded me over the weekend, and now I have spent more than 2 days tucked into bed, alternately too ht or too cold. Next time you are this sick, let's skip lunch and send you home - we can catch up when you feel better.
I have to go lie down now. Sigh.
- Anonymous said...
Oh wow, you look fab!


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This short piece of raceway, which terminates in a fitting on the side of this 4-gang surface-mounted box (right), and the surface-mounted receptacle on the left were never designed for a tap. In fact, the existing circuit was originally installed to supply power to a coffee maker. When tested, I found the receptacles were not properly wired and were without an equipment-grounding conductor. This installation violates the requirements of 110.3(B) and 210.7.
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Posted Thursday, September 19, 2013 --- 1:32 p.m.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The late Johnny Carson is coming back to NBC.
The network said Thursday that it is developing a miniseries based on the life of the talk show host, who ruled late-night television as host of the "Tonight" show from 1962 to 1992.
The series will be based on an upcoming biography of Carson by Bill Zehme. It will cover his childhood in Nebraska and his off-screen life as well as the 30 years he spent at the "Tonight" show. The network hasn't cast an actor to play Carson yet.
NBC gave no estimate on when the miniseries might air.
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