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In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary.
The beautiful anonymity and soft innocence of a young girl in Nazareth would be stripped by an angelic visitation. Who could ever envision the global veneration soon to commence? This Holy Virgin of Martini's masterpiece cannot be Mary's vision. The gilded, enthroned Mother of God, Blessed Virgin, Theotokos, Panagia. Millenia of adoration blurs the humanity of such a terrifying moment in the life of a child.
The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."
Gabriel's praise for her resounds the Earth this Advent Season. Martini paints the words spouting from Gabriel's mouth, invading Mary's space. Her shoulder shrug speaks to Luke's revelations of her humanity. The Gospel record exposes her vulnerability and reluctance to embrace such a startling event.
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
"Highly favored" does not resound in Mary's spirit. This unwelcome heavenly visitor penetrated her space and would soon reveal more shocking news. God Himself would be taking something from her — never to be restored.
But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end."
Gabriel perceives her fright and consoles the delicate flower. Soon to be deflowered, the son in her womb would be seen as Divine. Favored? Could it be? Mother to a King? That surely cannot repay. Though an eternal honor, we see again the text reveals her humanity. This Holy Mother of a frightening realization whose virginity would be taken by no natural means. As the story goes, but her concerns are far more biological and sexual.
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?"
The label of scorn and humiliation today was a badge of honor and purity then.
The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail."
Even more improbable then than it seems now. This Virgin Mother fragile youth. What would Joseph say? What about mother and father, Anne and Joachim? Their scorn and shame at such an evident lie? For who can believe such madness? However, Mother Mary's miracle is what follows. How can she resign herself to such an unbelievable tale?
"I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May your word to me be fulfilled." Then the angel left her.
Whether Martini's version, Luke's version, or ours — this divinely human moment suggests something more terrifyingly unbelievable awaits. Who is this son of a virgin? What kind of God/man or man/God could spring forth? Advent speaks to these paradoxes of faith in doubt. From that moment of annunciation to our Season of Advent, Mary's fearful expectation might become ours.
What kind of God does this, taking what is most precious from an innocent, young child? Thrusting her into maternity — of no normal means to rear a King? This God who risks the safety of a child?
Mary's questions and resignation inspire hope and fear of such a puzzling One.
So we nervously wait.
Michael D. Bobo has written as Christian Literature Examiner for Examiner.com and has contributed to Burnside Writers Collective, Emergent Village Voice and theOOZE.com. He is delighted to serve as curator of Daily Burnsider and Poetry Editor for Burnside Writers.
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Almost two years ago, HMC Architects delivered renderings for a new Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital that inspired widespread hope and enthusiasm for a top-of-the-line healthcare facility in Willowbrook. Today, those plans are no longer just pictures on a drawing board. With the Board of Supervisors' vote awarding $165 million to the Inpatient Tower Project at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center, contractor Hensel Phelps now begins construction of the new 120-bed hospital.
"After today, the shovel goes in the ground and the building commences for a cutting edge healthcare facility," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Roughly 194,000 square feet of the existing six-story tower will be renovated to build the new hospital. A new 25,000-square-foot ancillary building will be constructed adjacent to the hospital and will house a cafeteria and administrative offices. In addition, the project includes new equipment, renovation and seismic upgrades to the existing central plant that will serve both the Inpatient Tower and the Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center on the MLK Campus.
In an effort to optimize energy efficiency, the Department of Public Works will work with Hensel Phelps to include sustainable design features. The new buildings will be designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification standards.
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As the UK armed forces look to shape the concept of Future Force 2020, with the Royal Air Force reducing to a manpower level of around 35,000 personnel, newly appointed Air Chief Marshal Andrew Pulford said that one of his main quests was to understand the role that synthetic world could play in preparing his force for its next challenge. As the newly appointed Chief of the Air Staff, he presented the keynote air power speech on the second day of the DSEI defense exposition, held from September 9 to 12 at London's ExCel center.
"If I fly less in training, how do I surge up to achieve and deliver full capacity for operations?" he asked. Pulford hinted at the limitations that were going to hit the RAF in terms of how the force physically trained. He highlighted the advanced nature of the Hawk T2 and the representative feel that it gave of front line aircraft. However, he did not mention that the success of the UK Military Flight Training System (UKMFTS) for fixed-wing training had not been mirrored yet by similar improvements on the rotary side, where there is still an urgent need for a "glass cockpit" equipped training helicopter to alleviate conversions still being done at squadron level.
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One of Pulford's key messages was that he no longer saw the RAF "as a separate uniformed element" supported by others, and seemed to indicate an increase in the trend toward inter-meshing political, industrial and civilian contributions in all their forms "to get the full benefit of the collective effort."
Perhaps surprisingly, he seemed to espouse the development of the contracting of aircraft and support: "Industry could own boxes in a hangar and every six months download software to update the system." He explained that the RAF could then operate to a schedule of what was needed, where, and for how long. Perhaps this was more playing devil's advocate; as he said that he was aware how much he needed to look at all options going forward to maintain the RAF's capability.
On the subject of remotely piloted vehicles, he said it was necessary to understand the strengths and weaknesses of all air vehicles. "What is clear is that autonomous is coming – I will let the studies and requirements drive where we go."
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New Zealand building consents rose 1.9 per cent in February as an increased intentions to build retirement village units made up for a fall in new housing permits.
The number of consents rose to a seasonally adjusted 1,592 from 1,563 in January,according to Statistics New Zealand. Stripping out new apartment permits, which are typically lumpy from month to month, consents fell 3.6 per cent to 1,451.
Of the 142 apartment consents issued last month, 98 were for retirement village units. That comes as village operators, including Ryman Healthcare and Summerset Group, accelerate their new developments in anticipation of the ageing baby boomer generation which is starting to enter retirement age.
"Housing consents maintained their upward trend in February, consistent with our view that construction will boost economic growth over the next two years, largely but not totally due to post-quake building needs," Westpac Banking economist Michael Gordon said in a note. "Total residential building consents rose 1.9 per cent in February, broadly in line with our expectation, and led by a rebound in apartment consents from sub-par to around average levels."
Construction is seen by economists as the central point of growth for New Zealand's economy in the coming years, with a $30 billion-plus programme to rebuild Christchurch and a housing market in Auckland that is heating up.
Today's figures showed a slowing down in the pace of earthquake-related consents in Canterbury, with $35 million of new work permitted, down from $28 million in January. Of that, $26 million was for 55 residential dwellings, and $9 million for non-residential work. Since the Sept. 10, 20010 quake, almost 3,900 consents worth $888 million have been issued.
"There was also a drop in consents in the Canterbury region, although a closer look shows that new building is now clearly gravitating towards Christchurch City and away from the outer regions," Gordon said.
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Beloved by millions the world over, actor and comedian Robin Williams didn't show his audience that he was a man in pain.
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"It's very important that we learn something from this," Cooperman said. "Depression and drug addiction occur in the lives of very talented people, as well as everyday people. And depression is not something to be brushed aside. If it's untreated, it can have very serious consequences."
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, major depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. In 2012, about 16 million adults ages 18 or older reported at least one major depressive episode in the past year. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports more than 90 percent of people who commit suicide have been diagnosed with mental illness, and that roughly 30,000 people a year take their own lives.
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Dr. Jeremy Barowsky, addiction specialist at Greenwich Hospital, agreed Williams' death could provoke discussion about mental illness and suicide prevention.
"It's terrible on the one hand, but it does call attention to the fact we don't always know when people are suffering," said Barowsky, a staff psychiatrist at Greenwich Hospital. He said Williams was "someone who, on paper, had no need to be depressed. But we don't exist in a vacuum."
Barowsky said people can turn to many resources if they or a loved one are suffering from depression, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The alliance provides information on local chapters and support groups at its website, nami.org. People shouldn't hesitate to reach out if a loved one is depressed and/or exhibiting suicidal behavior, Barowsky said. "You should be very concerned when you see dramatic changes in people's behavior," he said.
Symptoms can include insomnia, irritability and talking frequently about suicide. Experts said, with ongoing treatment, people living with mental illness and suicidal thoughts can be helped.
"Maybe we can use (Williams' death) as a moment to say `Look, there are treatment options available,'" Cooperman said.
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Let's return to 1 John chapter 2...1 John chapter 2. We're actually looking at a text that is verse 3 through verse 6, a very important text, one that deals with the issue...How do you know you're a Christian? Comparing the imposters, the false claimants to Christianity with the real thing.
The question of who is a Christian and who is not is a huge question...it's a huge question. If you ask the general public, the general population, they would define a Christian as anybody who believes in the Christian religion. Somebody with a little more insight might say anybody who believes in Jesus. And then it would narrow down as you talk to people who understand more about what the Bible teaches. It would seem that the question can be simply answered, who is a Christian?, the people who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the people who believe that He is God, that He is the Savior, who repent from their sin and ask Him to save them by grace through faith alone which He is able to do because He has paid the price for their sin on the cross and risen from the dead is affirmation of that. Anybody who believes that and comes before the Lord and asks for salvation is a Christian, anyone else is not. And on the surface it seems that simple.
The issue becomes difficult because the outward behavior of people can be hypocritical. Somebody may be acting like a Christian who isn't one. And then on the other hand, somebody who is one may for a time demonstrate a kind of behavior that would make one wonder if that were true. Furthermore, as remarkable as it sounds, people who actually are Christians may not be sure they are. And so what we're talking about in this discussion is not just how do you know whether somebody else is a real Christian, as opposed to an imposter or hypocrite or somebody who is deceived, but how do I know that I'm a Christian? By what criteria?
Well, for the most part in the Christian world that we live in, if you were baptized as an infant, if you were confirmed at the age of 12, if you were certainly baptized as an adult, if you made a public confession of faith in Christ, if you prayed a prayer, if you went forward, if you signed a card, if you say you're a Christian, that's all it takes. Scripture is very clear, however, that what happens in terms of a superficial moment in time that may look like belief may not in fact be the real thing. Jesus, you remember, gave a parable about soils and He said there were people who received the gospel and their hearts were like stony ground, rock bed somewhere down under the surface and the seed of the gospel went in and they responded and there was a reaction and a plant grew up, but it had no root because there was rock underneath and so the roots couldn't go down and find any water to survive and when the sun came out it scorched the plant and it died. Those are the people who receive the gospel with joy but are very short lived and when there's any difficulty, any tribulation, any pressure, there's no life there. It becomes manifest in that situation. There were other people who received the gospel but they never really dealt with the love of riches and the love of sin in their lives which Jesus characterized as weeds and they choked out the life of that good seed. And there are people, even John says it in chapter 2 and verse 19, that went out from us, they were here for a while, they stayed for a while but eventually they went out but they were not really of us. If they had been of us they would have remained with us. But they went out in order that it might be shown that they are not all of us.
There are going to be people who have a brief response, people who have a bit of a more prolonged response, but in the end, under the pressure, under the deceitfulness of riches, under the cares of this world, under the influences of sin, they're going to leave. There are those people like Demas who actually stayed around long enough to follow Paul and be engaged in some ministry with Paul and eventually he left and Paul said he left because he loved the present world. And John says if you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. So sometimes it's hard to tell who's a Christian. You might think someone is but given enough time and enough pressure and enough exposure to the things of the world, you're going to find out that they disappear. So it's not easy to tell on the part of other people. And in all honesty, even Christian people struggle to be assured of their salvation. There's an entire segment of the Christian world that struggles with that because they have been told you can lose your salvation. And you can go from being saved to being unsaved, from being headed to heaven to being headed to hell. You can go from having eternal life to then having eternal death. And the fear of that and how do you get to that place and when do you slide down and trip the hammer where you're now out of the saved zone is enough to frighten any thinking person. Many people are taught that. But even people who believe that salvation is forever sometimes struggle with whether or not they have that eternal salvation. As I pointed out last time, the matter of assurance is not a minor issue, it's a major issue. If you didn't get the message from last Sunday night, get it on tape and listen carefully to it. This is a major issue so that we can have that assurance in our own lives, as well as be able to help other people to know their true spiritual condition.
If you listen to the contemporary evangelical attitude, they would say anybody who prays a prayer and makes a commitment to Jesus Christ should just forget the issue of whether or not they're truly saved and just accept the fact that they are and enjoy their assurance. So people are told you're saved and if you don't think you are, you're doubting the Word of God and so they are then told that they should be assured, they then profess that assurance. It becomes embedded in their minds and it may well be a deception. The conscience is where you experience real assurance or you don't. Paul says in Romans 2, the conscience either accuses you or excuses you. It isn't what somebody says to you, it isn't because of some external act. It's what's going on in your heart that is the source of your assurance.
One of the things which you see in the world around us, the evangelical world around us, is a strong anti-reaction to this kind of teaching. If you in just the normal evangelical realm speak of the fact that many people who think they are Christians may well not be, that is a very unpopular message. Because...and I'll say it the way John Owens said it...there are many in the world who have an ungrounded persuasion of forgiveness. It is...he says...a carnal boldness. It is a real despising of the true gospel. And when conscience accuses them and when God through the conscience convicts them and exposes the fact that they're not true Christians, false assurance rushes to their rescue to exonerate them. That's why John Owens said there are none in the world that deal worse with God than people with a false assurance. They actually turn the grace of God into licentiousness. Let them profess what they will, they're unsaved. They need to know that and those who are truly saved want to know that and to be assured. Those who are not don't want that confrontation. Their false assurance rushes to their rescue.
In 2 Peter chapter 1 Peter talked about precious, magnificent promises. But he says it's really important that you make certain about His calling and choosing you. Make certain. How you going to make certain? Well, he says, look at your life, do you see diligence, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, love? For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ if those things are in your life. But the one who lacks these is blind and short-sighted and can't really discern whether he's been purified from his former sins. So there is a way to take an inventory but you have to be honest about your life. You can't use false assurance to push away the confrontation, or to push away the conviction. Real assurance comes from an honest heart evaluation, then you can enjoy the real thing, not a false notion.
Now this matter of who is a Christian and assurance is, as I've been saying, the theme of this epistle, and we're dealing with a lot of foundational things and once we get this sort of laid down we'll see how John cycles through it in the rest of the epistle. It's important for us to know the foundation. And in the epistle he gives several tests by which you can know you're a true Christian. The doctrinal test is concerning Jesus Christ. Do you believe the truth about Jesus Christ? Another doctrinal test we found in chapter 1, do you recognize your true sinful condition and having you confessed your sin? Now we come to what is essentially a moral or behavioral test in chapter 2 verses 3 through 6. This is the behavioral test. You want to know whether you're a Christian? You start by asking yourself, do you believe the true gospel concerning Christ? Then you ask the second question, do you know and understand that you are a wretched sinner and you don't deny your sin, you confess your sin? And now comes a moral or behavioral test and this one is manifestly visible.
Let's look at verses 3 through 6. "And by this we know that we have come to know Him." How do we know? "If we keep His commandments. The one who says I have come to know Him and doesn't keep His commandments is a liar, the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His Word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him. The one who says he abides in Him, ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked."
Now with those words John sums up this very important behavioral test. First the test is stated...the test is stated in verse 3, "By this we know we've come to know Him if we keep His commandments...if we keep His commandments." Last time I told you there are three elements to assurance. There is an element of assurance in saving faith itself. Then there is the internal witness of the Holy Spirit who witnesses with us that we are the children of God. But here the third and most important verification of your salvation is manifest in your life by obedience...by obedience.
And we could leave it at that and say it's only a question of obedience. But I'm not about to do that because I want you to get a grip on what we're talking about when we talk about this obedience. It's a simple statement. We know that we've come to know Him if we keep His commandments. If we don't keep His commandments, then we know we haven't come to know Him, right?
Now let's talk about the word keep. It stresses the idea of observant, watchful obedience. Actually the word can mean to guard. The idea of guarding His commandments. It's not just the idea that you obey in the most marginal way, you know, just barely above the line beyond disobedience. It's not some desire not to sin, to avoid sin and so you do this. But rather it is this positive attitude toward guarding the commandments, observing that obedience because you revere the commandments. In fact, the Greek scholar Alford(???) says in his lexicon the word means to guard or watch or keep as in the case of some precious thing. That's important. It's in the present subjunctive which means it's continual. There's a continual sense in which you exercise a guardianship of the commandments because you consider them precious. It's the habitual moment-by-moment, day-by-day safeguarding of the Word. And therefore it's an attitude of the spirit rather than an act of letter or law. And by the way, the word commandmentshere is not nomos, it's not the word for law, it's entolewhich is a word looking at an order or an assignment or a precept or a command. And it's not talking about the Law, the Old Testament, it's not talking about the Law of Moses, it's talking about the commandments, the precepts, the orders of Christ. In the great commission Jesus said, "You go out and you preach the gospel, and you baptize and you teach them to observe all things whatsoever Moses has commanded," is that what it says? No, "All things whatsoever I have commanded you." It is the precepts of Christ that are in view here rather than the Law of Moses so that this is not an affirmation of ceremonialism or Judaism. We know, of course, that the precepts, the moral precepts, the spiritual precepts that Christ taught would be consistent with the moral and spiritual law of Moses, but it is the precepts of Christ that are in view. John uses the word nomos, the word for Law, fifteen times in his gospel referring to the Law of Moses. He uses the word entoleat least 14 times referring to the precepts of Christ.
How do you know you're a Christian? Because there is a consistent guardianship of what Jesus taught. There's a consistent devotion to the mind of Christ. First Corinthians 2:16, a consuming desire that Christ's Word be honored, a determination that Christ's Word be guarded not only in my heart but in my conduct. That determination is the continuing experiential verification that a person has truly come to the knowledge of God and Christ. Very different from approaching this thing legalistically saying, "Well, I prayed a prayer and I'm a Christian and I go to church and, you know, I just hope it gets over quick, I don't like long sermons. Not about to come to this church, I'm not going to listen to somebody drone on and on about things. You know, just give me a twenty-minute sermon, a Starbucks and I'm good for the week. I really don't want to get too deep with this deal, I don't want to get carried away, I don't want to be intruding in my life. Just tell me, you know, how I can make more money and tell me how I can be a better leader and a few tidbits about my marriage and I'm good." That's very different from what we're seeing here in this text.
When Jesus Christ is truly Lord and Savior, His authority is gladly embraced. His authority becomes precious. And if He is truly loved there is this guardianship of His truth and His precepts that causes us to love it in our hearts and long to manifest it in our lives. This is the real deal. The knowledge of God that comes by the gospel is not ineffectual, it is not inoperative. It is effectual and operative and obedience flows out of it. Not a legalistic obedience, not a superficial obedience, but an obedience from the heart.
"Well," you say, "who can keep all His commandments to satisfy Him?" Well all His people, all His true people. All of us who are true believers, listen to this, can keep His commandments to His satisfaction. He knows that we are incapable of perfection. That's not what He expects. We can keep His commandments to such a degree that He is satisfied and grants us by the Spirit that assurance that helps us know that we're His. If you just simply characterize in the broad brush the difference between non-believers and believers, I suppose most people would say, "Well the non-believers don't believe in Jesus Christ and the believers do." That's not it. There are plenty, the world is full of non-believers, that is non-converted, unsaved people who do believe in Jesus. You have to go somewhere else. It's just not a matter of the decision.
In Ephesians 2:2 the unregenerate are called "children of disobedience," Ephesians 2:2. The unregenerate are called children of disobedience. That is it's as if they inherited disobedience as their character from the parents. They literally are the offspring whose defining characteristic is disobedience. On the other hand, 1 Peter 1:14 says the regenerate are obedient children...obedient children. This is characteristic of true believers.
Now you say, "Okay, we are obedient children, but you mean we're obedient enough so that the Lord is satisfied with our obedience and the Spirit of God then can sort of vouch safe to us the reality of our salvation and witness with our spirit that we are the children of God?" That's right. But in order to come to that understanding, and this is important, you have to make a distinction between legal obedience and gracious obedience...legal obedience and gracious obedience. If God was looking for legal absolute conformity to the precepts of Christ, or for that matter to the law of Moses, if God was looking for absolute perfect obedience without a single failure, we're all doomed. That's...that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. It's not the kind of legal obedience measured against the covenant of law by which we're all condemned. We're not talking about that. We're talking about like what I'd like to call for lack of a better term "gracious obedience." And it's related not to the covenant of law but it's related to the covenant of grace which is the New Covenant...the New Covenant. And listen to what I say. Under the New Covenant a loving sincere obedience full of defects is accepted by God. That's gracious obedience. Did you get that? If you're living under Law, if you're living under the Mosaic economy and trying to earn salvation by maintaining obedience to that Law, there's no tolerances. That Law demands an absolute perfect obedience without a single failure. If you break one law, you're dead. That's not what God is asking. That's not what it means if you keep His commandments.
On the other hand, gracious obedience under the terms of the New Covenant means that God accepts our obedience, a loving, sincere obedience though full of defects. How can He do that? Because all the defects have been paid for by the death of His Son. And now by grace God looks at the heart. And when Paul or you or me says, "I don't do the things I want to do, I do the things I don't want to do. O wretched man that I am," that's reality. We all fall short of perfection. But God is not asking a perfect legal obedience. He's simply asking that we do by His grace and under His grace from the heart the best of which we as fallen people are capable. And God looks at the heart...God looks at the heart.
The most important preacher in the early church was Peter, right? The first twelve chapter of Acts, he's the star, he's the preacher. Now you would think if God was going to choose somebody for that most noble of all responsibilities, He would choose the best of the best. And I don't mean just the best speaker, the best with natural giftedness, the best most dynamic personality. But He would choose the holiest instrument. However, if God was looking for a preacher who could conform perfectly to the precepts of Jesus Christ, it wasn't Peter. And the most remarkable occasion in the twenty-first chapter of John is that Jesus comes to Peter, it's after the resurrection, Jesus comes to Galilee. The Lord said, "Go to Galilee and wait for Me."
Well Peter went and decided he, you know, being impatient, not only perhaps impatient with people around him, but being impatient with himself, feeling inadequate, feeling like a failure. After all, he denied the Lord at the crisis moment, feeling horrible about himself, probably feeling that he was unworthy to be a representative of Jesus Christ. And so he's up there in Galilee, Jesus hasn't shown up and so it says that Peter and his buddies went fishing. Peter says, "I'm going fishing." Well he was a leader. Everybody said, "We're going with you." And they went back to their own profession. And so Jesus showed up on the shore. Of course they couldn't catch any fish cause the Lord rerouted them all. They weren't going to succeed at that. And you remember that He made breakfast for them and then He looked at Peter. And do you remember the conversation? He didn't ask him, "Peter, have you disobeyed Me? Peter, have you broken some of My precepts?" He said this, "Peter, do you...what?...do you love Me?" See, He was going for the heart of the issue. He was going for that internal attitude that yields obedience in a gracious context. "Do you love Me, Peter?" Boy, he must have had a lump in his throat the size of a grapefruit. GULP....I love You.
"Peter, do you love Me?"
"Yes, Lord, I love You."
"Peter, do you love Me?" Three times, once for each occasion of betrayal.
Peter said, "Lord, You know what's in me. You don't even have to ask the question, you know I love you."
And in effect, Jesus said, "You're My man. Feed My sheep. That's all I can ask. I can't ask perfection out of fallen people." And what the Lord wants out of us is not a legal obedience, in the sense that we're perfectly subscribing ourselves to the Law of God, or to the precepts of Christ, but rather a heart attitude of obedience. That's that gracious kind of obedience where the Lord looks at the heart. And on the other hand, there are people, you know, who want to conform to all the rules on the outside, like Israel. And their heart is far from God. It's a determination to please Him. It's a determination to guard and protect His Law, not only in the heart but in the conduct.
I told the students on Friday in a message I gave at Chapel at the Master's College that when all is said and done and you're looking at your own heart and you're pursuing holiness, what is the compelling thing? People ask me all the time to whom are you accountable? I'm accountable to a lot of people. You know, people think that you need external accountability to kind of keep your life right. And certainly that's a wonderful thing to have that accountability. But, I mean, I'm accountable to lots of people. I'm accountable to a church, you, to live my life in such a way that doesn't scandalize the gospel. I'm accountable to the elders of this church. I'm accountable to the pastors that work around me and have through the years. I'm accountable to a faculty at The Master's College, The Master's Seminary, students in both places. I'm accountable to friends. I'm accountable to my children and my grandchildren. I'm accountable to my wife who is close enough to know everything there is about my life. I'm accountable to all those people. And that has an impact on me because I don't want to disappoint you, I don't want you to lose confidence in me. I don't want you to be disillusioned about my faithfulness and devotion to the truth and to the Word of God which I've taught through all the years. And I feel that way about everybody around me. But the bottom line for me is simply this. I don't want to disappoint anybody but mostly I don't want to disappoint Jesus Christ. And that's what it means to love the Lord. That's what it means. It's not about sentiment. It's not about emotional feelings induced by certain chords. It's about...it's about being such a guardian of the precepts of Jesus Christ that your heart is compelled toward only doing that which you know pleases Him. That's love for Him.
We obey Him partially, in a sense, whether the command is agreeable or disagreeable. We obey cheerfully knowing that the reason He gave us the commands was because He wanted them to bear fruit in our lives. I'm not reluctant to obey the Lord because He promises to bless if I do, right? And we obey constantly out of love and gratitude to Him. First John 5:2, the last line, "We love God and observe His commandments." That's why we do what we do. We love Him. Sometimes people will say, "Ah, I can't take Grace Church, it's just, you know, too many demands, too many demands, too narrow, too legalistic."
Well, that's a problem, not with us, that's like openly saying, "I guess I don't love the Lord very much because His commandments are grievous." That's quite an admission. Obedience is really connected with love. That's why, listen to this, if you could love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and then your neighbor as yourself, you would fulfill the whole Law, right? People think, "Oh, the Ten Commandments, brutal. Ten Commandments, stringent." Ten Commandments is simply a list of ways you can demonstrate that you love God and your neighbor. You love God so you don't make an idol. You love God so you don't worship anybody else. You love God so you don't take His name in vain. And you love your neighbor so you don't covet what he has, or his wife. And you don't kill, and you don't steal, and you don't commit adultery. That's all about love is what it is. So the test is to say what the psalmist said in Psalm 116:12, "What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits to me? How can I find ways to give my love back to the One who first loved me? Show me how I can do that."
You know, the measure of someone is that they rush into the place where the precepts of Scripture, the precepts of biblical truth, the precepts of Christ, where the commandments of God are continually delineated because the truer one's love for Christ, the stronger the longing is to be obedient. And if you really long to be obedient, then you're eager to know at what point you should be obedient. "Please teach me more of what God requires" should be the attitude. This is not new in 1 John. The gospel of John, John heard it from Jesus. John's gospel chapter 14 verse 15, Jesus said, "If you love Me you'll keep My commandments." That's that simple. Jesus introduced the thought right there. If you love Me, you will keep, you'll guard as a precious treasure My commandments.
Down in verse 21 Jesus continuing to talk in the Upper Room that night said, "He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father and I will love him." What a statement. Do you want to be loved by God and loved by Christ? Love the Lord and the love obviously comes back. Verse 23 Jesus said, "If anyone loves Me he will keep My Word, My Father will love him, will come to him, will make our abode with him." How do you know that Christ lives in someone? Because they obey His commands. They love His commands and that's evidence that He loves them and has changed their hearts. John 15:10, Jesus said it again, "If you keep My commandments you'll abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you'll abide in My love just as I've kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love."
Jesus said, "I do what the Father tells Me to do, that's how I love Him. That's how I show My love to Him." I mean, you can see that in a family, right? What is a child...what is a disobedient child saying to you? "I don't love you...I don't love you." That's what a disobedient child is saying. "I love myself more than I love you," or, "I love my friend more than I love you," or "I love this activity more than I love you, you are not at the top of my love list." Any level of disobedience is manifestly a confession that you love something more than the person who has commanded the obedience. So when your sin manifests itself for that moment in that time, you can say I love my iniquity more than I love my Lord. But that is the exception to the rule so that when it does happen you say, "O wretched man that I am, Lord, please deliver me from this, this is not what I want to do." That's the test stated.
The test is applied...back to 1 John 2...it's applied in verses 4 and 5. Pretty simple. Verse 4, "The one who says I've come to know Him, doesn't keep His commandments is a liar." John is really straightforward. You remember what his nickname was? He and his brother? Boanerges, which being translated means "sons of thunder." You remember when they met some people they didn't like and James and John came to Jesus and said, "Just give us the word, we'll call down fire from heaven and consume them." He was a tough guy. And it wasn't good on that occasion but when it shows up in his epistle, you sometimes think as John as this passive kind of wimpish pale guy lying around on Jesus' shoulder and.... No, he loved Jesus, of course, and he manifested that even in his posture. But when you get to the core of the heart of John, he is very, very confrontive and very straightforward. He says, "If someone says I've come to know Him and doesn't keep His commandments, he's a liar and the truth is not in him," that is saving truth is not in him. It's not what you say...go back to chapter 1 verse 6...if we say we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. You can say you have fellowship, you can say you've come to know Him, both the same, but if you walk in darkness which means you don't keep His commandments, you're a liar. It's a claim to fellowship that has no basis. It's a claim to knowing the Lord that has absolutely no basis. You're just a liar. Strong language and rightly so because so much is at stake, self-deception is obviously damning. Jesus said to Pilate, John 18:37, "You say correctly that I'm a King, for this I've been born, for this I came into the world to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
People who are of the truth, that is people who are in the Kingdom, hear His voice. And He meant that, that they hear it with affirmation, with eagerness, and with obedience. If you say you know Him and you don't keep His commandments, you're a liar and the truth is not in you. Contrast verse 21, "I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie is of the truth." The contrast is the people who are in the Kingdom know the truth and they obey it. In the third chapter and verse 19, again he mentions being of the truth. And that's simply another way to say you're in the Kingdom, you're a part of the people of the truth.
So bottom line. John allows for no real fellowship with God when there's walking in darkness which is disobedience, sinful living. John allows for no knowledge of God where there's no love for the precepts of Christ and heartfelt longing to obey them. Simply said, a claim without a life of obedience is a lie...it's a lie. So John exposes the vain pretense of those people, particularly the ones he was directing this at when he wrote it who thought they ascended to the high knowledge. We talked about that a few weeks ago. They were on a higher level, higher level than the common people, they had reached the ascended knowledge. In fact, they had become so spirit-oriented that they disdained the flesh, they became duelists and said that this knowledge of theirs superceded, transcended all fleshly matters therefore morality and behavior meant nothing to them whatever it was. They were sort of antinomians who under the idea that they had reached the true knowledge had no interest at all in moral conduct.
So easy to say "I know God, I know Jesus, I know the Lord." James in chapter 2 deals with this. He says, "Faith without works is...what?...it's dead." It doesn't exist. Then verse 5, and verse 5 follows along, and verse 4, the test is applied. Verse 5 says the same thing in a positive way. Verse 4 is a negative. "The one who says and doesn't keep is a liar." Verse 5, "Whoever keeps His Word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him." Whoever has that loving heartfelt obedience that guards the Word and longs to obey it, in him the love of God...I love this phrase...has truly been perfected.
What do we mean "the love of God"? Well I think it's best to see it technically as an objective genitive in the Greek, but it's best to see it as the person's love for God...the person's love for God. If a person keeps the Word, in him the love that he claims for God is genuine, is another way to say it. It's the real thing. It's mature. It is truly, it is alethosis the word in verse 5, truly mature, truly the real thing. So that the true love of God is not manifest in sentiment, it's not manifest in a decision, it's not manifest in a mystical experience, it's manifest in obedience, obedience, obedience. And the love that obeys has been perfected. As much as we are capable of perfection, it is perfected in those who are truly in the Kingdom as manifest by their actions.
And then he closes the verse by saying this, "By this we know we are in Him." I wish we had time to take the phrase "in Him" and develop that, that's the heart of Christianity. We are in Christ, that massive important truth.
But let's go on to the third point here, the test stated, the test illustrated, now the test exemplified, verse 6. You're saying to yourself, "Well I...can you sort of give me a model to follow when you're talking about this heart obedience, this consistent devotion, give me a model to follow." So John gives you one, verse 6. "The one who says he abides in Him," which is the same as saying in verse 4, "I've come to know Him," which is the same as saying in chapter 1 verse 6, "We have fellowship with Him," it's all the same. Having fellowship with Him, knowing Him, and abiding in Him, it's all the same. Here's the example. "The one who says he abides in Him ought himself ought to walk in the same manner as He walked." Oh you say you're in the fellowship with God. Oh you say you know Him. Do you? Oh you say you abide in Him.
In other words, literally you're drawing life from Him, like branches in the vine. Remember John 15, the branches that abide. You're literally drawing life from Him, He's the source of your life. You're saying that, are you? You're saying you're a true branch connected to the vine and His life flows through you. Another translation of the word "abide" is remains. So you say this isn't superficial, so you say it's not temporary. You say this is a permanent remaining in Christ. You're the real thing. You're continuing in the faith. You're holding fast and not letting go. You are...to put it in the words of Paul in Colossians 1...you are continuing in the faith firmly established and steadfast and never moved away from the hope of the gospel. You're the real thing, you are abiding. You're not like the disciples in John 6:66 who walked away and said, "We don't want anymore to do with this." You're a real believer, you're not a Judas branch, superficially attached, no life, no fruit, cut off, thrown in the fire. You abide. You're the real thing.
If you say that, then it couldn't be any clearer, you ought to walk in the same manner as He walked. What does that mean? What does that mean? You ought to walk in the same manner as He walked, what do you expect out of me? Christ likeness? I mean, I already know from Philippians that I can't be like Him in this life, but that's the goal I pursue, forgetting the things that are behind, pressing forward to the goal which is ahead, which is the mark which is Christ's likeness, the prize that we're going to receive when we go to heaven. I'm pressing toward that, I'm doing my best. I'm.... But what do you mean we're supposed to walk...daily conduct is the metaphor...what does that mean?
Well I'll show you what it means. It's a term for conduct. But let me take you back to the gospel of John and this will kind of wrap up our look at this and they we'll come to the Lord's table. But John 6:38, verse 38, Jesus' words, wonderful words, "I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me." What is that? That's obedience, isn't it? He said, "I'm only here to do what the Father tells Me to do. Whatever He tells Me to do, that's what I do." John 8 verse 29, "He who sent Me is with Me," Jesus said. "He has not left Me alone..." and then I love this, "for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him." I always do the things that are pleasing to Him. Chapter 10 verse 18, He says, "No one has taken it away from Me," that is His life, "I lay it down on My own initiative, I have authority to lay it down, I have authority to take it up. This commandment I received from My Father." And again He says, "I do what My Father tells Me to do." Chapter 14 of John and verse 31, "But that the world may know that I love the Father and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do." And there are more, those are just a few. I even read one earlier. Jesus obeyed...He obeyed. He obeyed the Father. That's the pattern.
Obviously our obedience isn't going to be perfect, but the example that He set is an example of obedience. His loving obedience is our pattern. So if you say you abide, you say you know Him, you say you're in the fellowship, then it's going to show up. You're going to walk in the light and that's the realm of eternal life and righteousness. You're going to keep His commandments, gracious obedience from the heart with a passion and love for the truth and the Lord of the truth. And you're going to have as your goal Christ's likeness. "To be like Jesus, this is my plea. Just to know Thou art formed fully in Me." That's the cry of the heart.
How do you know you're a Christian? You believe the gospel. You understand you're a sinner. And from the heart your deepest longings are to obey the precepts of Christ and to live the way He lived, to walk the way He walked. Therein lies your assurance and the assurance of your salvation to those around you.
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"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.
It is for that reason, perhaps, that when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom."
Racundra's First Cruise, Arthur Ransome, 1923


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|Dev: NIS
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: NIS America
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|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Aug. 11, 2009
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|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
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|ESRB Rating: Teen
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Last console generation, the PlayStation 2 was king of the JRPG scene. With exclusive series like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Suikoden, if you were a fan of the RPG genre during the PlayStation 2's heyday, you had plenty of options open to you. One such option that went largely unnoticed was Phantom Brave. This title, created by NIS (the same people behind the blockbuster Disgaea series), certainly gained attention from the NIS core fanbase, but didn't go on to much notoriety farther afield. Luckily, it has been ported over to the Wii for a whole new generation of gamers to enjoy.
The story in Phantom Brave revolves around a small girl names Marona. When Marona was five, her parents, along with a travelling soldier named Ash, were killed. However, with her father's dying breath, he cast a spell to heal the travelling soldier and bring him back to the world of the living. But because her father did not have enough strength left in him to complete the incantation, the soldier ended up as a phantom, stuck between the world of the living and the dead. The game picks up several years later. Marona has grown into quite the young woman, and as a "Chroma" with magical powers, she has built quite the business for herself helping the sometimes distrustful locals with their problems. Ash has appointed himself as Marona's protector, and the two of them go off on a job that ends up taking them across many lands in search of an evil power known as Sulfur.
The story in Phantom Brave is multi-faceted, and though it progresses in a very linear fashion. The story has plenty of surprises in store, and it takes a surprisingly dark turn towards the halfway point. The game also has a multitude of characters that are all very interesting and make for plenty of memorable moments. It is clear that much time was taken with the original release's story, and I am happy that this port has done nothing to alter it.
One of the biggest strengths of Phantom Brave: We Meet Again is the changes that have been made since the PlayStation 2 version. Though the core story and battle mechanics have not been altered, this new port of Phantom Brave has updated graphics, an updated menu system, and some additional story elements. This expanded content helps flesh out this port and makes it feel more like a Wii game rather than an old PlayStation 2 port.
The biggest feature is probably the bonus story content. The new bonus mode, entitled "Alternate Marona," is not available through the regular story mode, and it's only playable when you select it through the menu. Interestingly, this mode does not need to be unlocked; it's available right from the start. This is great for fans of the original who want to pick up this title just for the new content, as it allows you to play through the "Alternate Marona" dénouement without needing to play through the entire story mode again just to get to the new content. However, if you have not played Phantom Brave before, you should definitely avoid entering this mode initially, as it will spoil the plot of the entire game.
Another specific area that has been greatly improved since the original is the graphics. The game still uses old-school sprite models for the characters, but the backgrounds have been updated to a higher resolution, and the character animations have been smoothened out for the Wii release. Although a current-gen gamer would probably describe the look of Phantom Brave: We Meet Again as "dated," its style definitely has a sense of "retro cool" about it.


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Shriver Report: Close Wage Gap, Provide Paid Leave to Improve Women's Financial Security
Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress released a joint report yesterday detailing the status of American women living in poverty, suggesting policies that would help millions of women become financially secure, and calling on the United States to "modernize its relationship with women in order not only to strengthen our economy, but also to make it work better for everyone."
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink examines why one-third of all American women - 42 million - and the 28 million children who depend on them, are living on the brink of poverty. The report looks at the wage gap, which currently leaves women earning only 77 cents to a man's dollar, and even less for black and Latina women, and other inequalities that contribute to women's financial insecurity. For example, women make up two-thirds of minimum-wage workers, and they are more likely than men to work in poorly paid "pink-collar" service and caregiving occupations that offer few or no benefits. With women comprising half of the United States workforce and two-thirds of the primary or co-breadwinners in families, their lower earnings affect everyone.
"Leave out the women, and you don't have a full and robust economy," said Maria Shriver in her opening chapter. "Lead with the women, and you do."
Beyond reducing general unemployment and soaring income inequality, the report suggests that the US adopt policies that would specifically help lift women out of poverty. Closing the wage gap would cut the poverty rate in half for women and add half a trillion dollars to the economy. Creating a higher minimum wage, strengthening public programs like food stamps, providing affordable child care, and guaranteeing paid sick and family leave - possibly through the recently introduced Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act) - would also significantly boost women's earning potential and improve the financial security of millions of women and families.
Media Resources: Center for American Progress 1/12/14; The Shriver Report 1/9/14; Feminist Newswire 12/12/13


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Bergeron, Kopitar, Toews voted Selke Trophy finalistsby Staff Writer / Chicago Blackhawks
Members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association submitted ballots for the Selke Trophy at the conclusion of the regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists. The winner will be announced Tuesday, June 24, during the 2014 NHL Awards from Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. The 2014 NHL Awards will be broadcast by NBCSN in the United States and CBC in Canada.
Following are the finalists for the Selke Trophy, in alphabetical order:
Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins
Bergeron led the NHL in face-off wins with 1,015 -- the most by any player in the past seven seasons -- as the Bruins posted the best defensive record in the Eastern Conference and second-best in the League overall (2.08 goals per game). He ranked second in the NHL in plus-minus with a career-high +38 rating and led all Bruins forwards in average ice time playing shorthanded (1:57). Bergeron is a Selke Trophy finalist for the third consecutive season; he captured the award in 2012 and finished runner-up to Toews in 2013.
Anze Kopitar, Los Angeles Kings
Kopitar appeared in all 82 games and logged more ice time (1,712:45) than all NHL forwards except Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby for the club that allowed a League-low average of 2.05 goals per game. He logged the most shorthanded time (164:53) among the League's top 30 scorers, led the Kings and tied for fourth in the NHL in plus-minus with a career-high +34 rating and won 53.3% of his 1,451 face-offs. Kopitar is a Selke Trophy finalist for the first time and becomes the first Kings player in franchise history to garner a Selke nomination.
Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks
Toews placed fifth in the NHL in both face-off wins (884) and percentage (57.2%) in taking 1,544 draws, nearly double the total of the next Blackhawks center. He topped all Chicago forwards in average ice time per game (20:28) and ranked second on the club in takeaways (51) and plus-minus (+26), including a cumulative +7 rating against top Conference rivals Anaheim, Colorado, St. Louis and San Jose. A Selke finalist for the third time in four years, the Blackhawks captain is in quest of a repeat win after capturing the award for the first time in 2012-13.
The trophy was presented in 1977 by the National Hockey League Board of Governors in honor of Frank J. Selke, one of the great architects of Montreal and Toronto championship teams.
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Drew Peterson's third wife feared he would kill her, victim's sister testifies
JOLIET, Ill. – Drew Peterson's former sister-in-law has testified that her sister told her before her 2004 death that she believed Peterson was going to kill her.
Anna Doman's account Friday of what her sister, Kathleen Savio, allegedly told her is the first so-called hearsay testimony given at the former suburban Chicago police officer's murder trial.
Doman testified that Savio told her she was convinced she wouldn't live long enough to see the property settlement in her divorce from Peterson. She says Savio asked her to care for her two sons after her death.
Peterson is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Savio, his third wife. She drowned in the bathtub of her Bolingbrook home.
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Avalanche sign F Patrick Bordeleau to 3-year contract
DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche signed left winger Patrick Bordeleau to a three-year deal on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old enforcer led the team in hits (116) and finished second in penalty minutes (70). He also scored two goals and had three assists in 46 games.
Executive vice president of hockey operations Joe Sakic said Bordeleau brings "toughness" to the lineup. Bordeleau made his NHL debut on Jan. 19 in Minnesota and scored his first goal in Los Angeles on April 11 against the Kings.
Bordeleau played the first half of 2012-13 with Lake Erie of the American Hockey League. He had seven points and 91 penalty minutes in 29 games while skating for the Monsters.


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For the last two years, I've been making these delectable pecans for all our family get-togethers. Any time I serve them at parties, I'm immediately bombarded with requests for the recipe. I have actually caught my aunts and uncles scraping the baking pan in hopes of devouring any remaining morsels. If you're planning any kind of holiday party, you're going to want to serve these.
- 1 egg white
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract (optional)
- 1 pound pecan halves
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Grease one baking sheet.
- In a mixing bowl, whip together the egg white, water and vanilla extract (if desired) until frothy. In a separate bowl, mix together sugar, salt, and cinnamon.
- Add pecans to egg whites, stir to coat the nuts evenly. Remove the nuts, and toss them in the sugar mixture until coated. Spread the nuts out on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake at 250 degrees F (120 degrees C) for 1 hour. Stir every 15 minutes.
This recipe is phenomenal. I'm able to whip them together in minutes, and then it's just a matter of baking time. I've made these a day or so in advance and they taste amazing, but I especially love them hot and fresh out of the oven. I'm thinking next year I will give these as hostess gifts to those who invite us to their parties.
I hope you all Enjoy!
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Memphis Sense of Place: David Dye's Top Five Recording Studios
All week on World Cafe with David Dye, the Sense of Place series is exploring the city of Memphis and its musical heritage. Today, we set the scene with David's Top Five Recording Studios. You can listen to the Sense of Place series on WXPN at 2 p.m. Monday through Friday all this week, or at 7 p.m. on XPN2: Singer-Songwriter Radio.
The history of Memphis music is in the walls of five studios that were there at the beginning of rock and soul music. Four of them are still there at their original addresses. You can tour two of them, Stax and Sun. Three of them are working studios: Sun, Ardent and Royal where contemporary artists still record. Alas one (American) is a parking lot. But pay a visit anyway. Continue reading →


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This weekend Daisy and I held our baby shower at our home and a good time was had by all. The food, the games, and friends and family made it what a baby shower should be: a joyful occasion (the competition to see who could empty a baby bottle of beer fastest didn't hurt either). Of course, we were showered with gifts which is the not-so-subtle point of a baby shower, and some of those gifts were bird-themed. Today I will share with you one of those wonderful gifts, a quilt my mother made for our due-in-November son.
My mom is a long-time quilter and over the years her design and execution have gotten better and better (not that her early efforts were in the least bit shabby). We are thrilled with this gorgeous quilt loaded with fancifully-colored birds and think that little Upopa Epops (Jochen, you'll be sad to learn that Daisy has rejected Willet as a name, though it did make the possible list, and I think it goes without saying that Upopa Epops wasn't even given a fair hearing) will love looking upon it. Wait, looking upon it? Aren't quilts to cuddle up in? Well, yes, most quilts are to cuddle up in but this particular quilt is actually meant to be a wall hanging because the buttons used for the birds' eyes would be a choking hazard. It will look wonderful hanging in the room we are turning from a computer room/guest bedroom into a nursery.
It's great to be a birder with such wonderful family and friends who were so kind as to show at the shower and share in our joy. And even better to have such a talented and caring Mom who can make such a sweet work of art to adorn our walls. Thanks, Mom!
Those are some mean neon partridges! I love it!
That is a wonderful gift. I expect it will become a family heirloom.
That's sad about Willet getting rejected. I'll have to send you another quilt with pictures of Willets but mind you, I have none as I have seen none. Oh man, I hate it when a plan does not come together.
Ooh Willet as a name sounds quite good. I may broach that one with the other half when the time comes.
That's a wicked quilt! Little Upopa Epops is gonna love all those colors.
Does that mean that Dickspiza is still on the list of possible names?
OK, to give credit where credit is due. The quilt is not an original creation. It is from a pattern in a quilting magazine. Here is where I am supposed to name the magazine, but unfortunately, I loaned it to a friend and I can't remember which one it is–the magazine, not the friend and she loaned it to her daughter…Also, I did the piecing and the applique, but my friend Mary Metty did the machine quilting–it was too big for my sewing machine. The quilt was great fun to make, from selecting the colors to finishing the binding. Also, all the bird fabrics came from my stash—I have a LOT of fabric. Made with love for Corey, Daisy and baby Shearwater.
Awesome quilt!
Interesting, Beautiful bird themes. This would be one of the most wonderful baby gifts. Thanks for sharing.
What a lovely quilt, so very Charley-Harperesque. I'm sure little Celithemis eponina will feel very happy as he gazes at it. (are dragonfly name suggestions allowed?)
love the quilt soo pretty great job g'ma love it tons cant wait to see u guys next weekend
Beautiful quilt!
So can you identify all the birds on it?
What a wonderful quilt! All of that beautiful handwork! Great job!
Beautiful quilt Jill. I bet Desi loves looking at it.
Thank you for sharing your baby quilt – I replicated it (from the pictures only) and made one for my niece. It is a little bit different, I hand quilted around the squares and birds and added a bright coloured border. It is lovely, and I just want to say thank you one more time for the inspiration.
hi! love the quilt. my husband is a birder and we would be interested in finding out if your mom does work on the side for quilting. thanks.
First, I want to tell you I think that your quilt is the most beautiful quilt I have ever seen. Just gorgeus!!!
Could you tell me …did you quilt the fabric then add the birds?
Thank you for your time.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C – The Coker men's volleyball team closed out the final day of the Coker Volleyball Tournament going 0-2 on Sunday (Mar. 2). The Cobras dropped matches 3-1 to Sacred Heart University and 3-0 to Pfeiffer University.
The Cobras would drop sets one and two in game one 25-21 and 25-15, respectively, before staging a big comeback to take set three from the Pioneers, 28-26. The Navy and Yellow would continue to apply pressure in the fourth set, but Sacred Heart would weather the storm and take the set 25-20 and capture the match 3-1.
Leading Coker in match one was Artur Cabral with 10 kills, three digs and one service ace. Luke Hansen knocked home nine kills and added six digs for the Cobras. Ricardo Ferrer handed out 27 assists to set the attack, while Devion Whetstone registered two blocks to lead the Cobras defensively.
Match two was controlled by the Falcons as they took the match with set scores of 25-20, 25-22 and 27-25, respectively. The Cobras would make their runs and turn the game into a slugfest, but errors and Pfeiffer's solid hitting would be the deciding factor in the Falcons' 3-0 match sweep.
Hansen and Cabral led Coker offensively in match two with 13 and 12 kills, respectively. Ferrer handed out 26 assists, while Whetstone had four blocks to lead the Navy and Yellow defensively.
Coker will be back on the court next Saturday (Mar. 15) when they host the University of Mount Olive in a non-conference matchup at 4 p.m.
McDonald's Players of the Game – Artur Cabral and Luke Hansen
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Background: I'm studying roots of complex variables (i.e. not homework!), and going through a worked problem from Schaum's Outlines on Complex Variables.
In a worked problem, the following equation is presented and assumed the reader knows trig well enough: $$\cos\frac\theta2 = \pm\sqrt{\frac{(1 + \cos \theta)}{2}}$$
Can someone show me (or just hint) why this equation is true please?