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12 Months Mot 3 Months Warranty 59000 Miles fsh 3 Door White Alloys Air Con , 12 months MOT, Full service history, White, 4 owners, 5.9 % APR Low Rate Finance Available, £6,495
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15in x 6.5J 7 - Arm Design Alloy Wheels with 205/55 R15 Tyres and Locking Wheel Bolts, Concert Radio/Single CD Player with MP3, Electric Front Windows, Manual Air Conditioning, Thatcham Category 1 Alarm
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|Body style
|Engine size
|1598 cc
|Fuel type
|Number of doors
|Number of seats
|Gearbox type
|CO2 emissions
|99 g/km
|Insurance group
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (miles)
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|Standard manufacturer's warranty (years)
|2 years
|Standard paintwork guarantee
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Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|64.2 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|83.1 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|74.3 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
|10.5 seconds
|Top speed
|118 mph
|Engine power
|104 bhp
|Engine torque
|184.40 lbs/ft
|1416 mm
|Height inclusive of roof rails
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|3954 mm
|2469 mm
|1906 mm
|Width including mirrors
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|Fuel tank capacity
|45 litres
|Minimum kerb weight
|1140 kg
|Interior features
|Exterior features
|Concert Radio/Single CD Player with MP3
|Electrically Operated Door Mirrors
|Manual Air Conditioning
|15in x 6.5J 7 - Arm Design Alloy Wheels with 205/55 R15 Tyres and Locking Wheel Bolts
|Split Folding Rear Seats
|Heated Rear Windscreen
|Sports Steering Wheel
|6 Speakers
|Electric Front Windows
|Height Adjustable Seats for Driver and Front Passenger
|Steering Wheel Adjustment Reach and Height
|Upholstery - Zeitgeist Cloth
|Drivers Airbag
|Passengers Airbag with De - Activation
|Traction Control (ASR)
|Power - Assisted Steering
|Tyre Repair Kit
|Electronic Stability Programme (ESP)
|Front Side and Head Airbags
|Anti Lock Brake System (ABS)
|Head Restraints Front and Rear
|Centre Rear Seat Belt
|Remote Central Locking with Two Foldaway Keys
|Electronic Brake - Force Distribution (EBD)
|Electronic Differential Lock (EDL)
|Thatcham Category 1 Alarm
|ISOFIX Child Seat Preparation for Rear Seats
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As I mentioned to you last Lord's Day we want to spend a few Sunday nights talking about back to basics. And we began last time by talking about the basic matter of growing spiritually. We talked about what spiritual growth is not. We talked a little bit about the Scriptures that call us to grow spiritually. And I left for this evening what we'll call a definition of spiritual growth. What is it to grow spiritually and to just reduce it to the simplest possible definition?
To grow spiritually means to experience the decreasing frequency of the pattern of sin and the increasing frequency of the pattern of holiness, which moves a believer more and more to be like Christ. It is the decreasing frequency of the pattern of sin and the increasing frequency of the pattern of holiness that moves a believer more and more to be like Jesus Christ. All of us who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ desire to grow spiritually. We desire to be more like Christ. We desire, as Peter said, to grow in grace into the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. We desire, as John said, to not be spiritual children nor spiritual young men but spiritual fathers who have come to a deep knowledge of God. We desire, as Paul said, to go from one level of glory to the next, even being changed by the Holy Spirit into the very image of Christ. Because we are alive in Christ we grow. Now, there are some things in our lives that we do in the power of the spirit to enhance and increase that growth and I want to share with you what I believe to be those things, which are critical to the matter of spiritual growth. Nothing is sadder than a believer whose growth is retarded in any way, whose growth is hindered, whose growth is limited. We want to grow as rapidly as we can into the fullness of the stature of Christ, individually, as well as collectively. Now, what is it in our lives that contributes to our spiritual growth? What is it that makes us grow? Well let me give you a concept and then we're gonna work around that concept. I believe the key to spiritual growth is focusing on the glory of the Lord. I mentioned a moment ago the statement that Paul made in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 and let me just try to touch base briefly with it again. Paul says, "As we behold the glory of the Lord we begin to be moved from one level of glory to another and changed into his image by the Holy Spirit." So somehow spiritual growth is linked to beholding the glory of the Lord. Spiritual growth is linked to a consciousness of glorifying God, living a life to his glory in every dimension. And that's the real key that I want you to hang onto. Last week we talked a little bit about the importance of glorifying God. We mentioned in Romans 1 that the heathen basically are characterized as those who refused to give God glory, Romans tells us. Believers, on the other hand, are those who, in the present and the future, will be to the praise of the glory of God. We have been saved to give God glory. We have vowed the need to Jesus Christ so the glory of God the Father. "Missionaries and preachers go out," according to Romans 1:5 and 3 John 7, "for the sake of the name or for the glory of the one whose name they bear." So we are called then to live to the glory of God. And when we focus on God's glory the spirit of God moves us from one level of glory to the next, more and more to be conformed to Christ. The question then that comes...and that was just a review of last week...the question then that comes is how can I practically live to the glory of God so that my growth increases? How can I do that? And I want to give you over the next couple of Sundays a very clear and simple pattern to follow. The Bible is very explicit about this. If focusing on the glory, that is the perfection and wonder of the person of Christ, is crucial to our spiritual growth, then we'll know specifically how to do that.
Let's start where I think the beginning really is. You will live to the glory of the Lord...this is very simple...when you begin to aim your life at that purpose. Okay? That's point number one. You will not live to the glory of the Lord by accident, you will begin to live to the glory of the when you determine that that's the focus of your life. First Corinthians 10:31 is a starting point for us tonight as we consider this great truth. And in 1 Corinthians 10:31 it says this, "Whether then you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." Did you get that? First Corinthians 10:31, "Whatever you do...and he draws out the most mundane thing imaginable; eating and drinking, the most basic thing; eating and drinking, the most routine thing; eating and drinking, the most ...can I say...non-spiritual thing; eating and drinking. And says, "That or whatever else you do, you do all to the glory of God." That becomes then the focus of life. That becomes the objective of everything that we do. Does it glorify God? Will it bring honor to His name? Will it bring glory to His name? Will it be well pleasing in His sight and give Him pleasure?
Even Jesus said in John 8:50, and this is a very important statement, "I seek not my own glory." Jesus sought the glory of the one who sent him. And, thereby, gave us an example. "He, in his incarnation," according to Philippians 2:9-11, "was exalted after the incarnation but in the incarnation," we see in verses 4 and following, "he humbled himself and restricted the prerogatives of deity, in order that he might do all that he could possibly do, even in his humiliation, to give glory to God." He was a servant whose total concern was the glory of God. Jesus then provides for us the example of perfect obedience and perfect commitment to God's glory. Hypocrites seek to steal the glory from God. They may say they desire to serve God but they desire to steal his glory like those in Matthew 6 who, wanting to appear spiritual and parade their supposed spiritually, in effect, were taking glory to themselves rather than giving glory to God. You have to aim your life at that. Whatever you do from the most mundane thing upward.
Let me just give you a little bit of a personal testimony at that point. My life began to change toward a more rapid experience of spiritual growth when I began to understand this principle, so that this principle becomes an over arching sort of grid through which everything passes. That is, will it glorify God? Will it bring honor to God? Will it exalt Jesus Christ? And I continually ask myself that question almost subliminally day after day, hour after hour, no matter what I do. Now let's get more specific. You say, "Alright, I have to aim my life at God's glory. I have to live for God's glory, not my own but his. How do I do that? How do I do that?" Let me give you some practical hints. And these are things that have flowed out of the Scripture to me but flowed also through my own experience and my own life.
First of all it involves preferring Him and His Kingdom above all else. That's the practical out working of it. It involves preferring Him and His Kingdom above all else. Nothing is as important to you as the Kingdom of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Nothing. Not any agenda of your own, not any possession of your own, not any plan of your own, not any program of your own, not any talent of your own, not anything is as important to you as that which belongs to Christ. In Exodus there's a very interesting illustration that I would draw to your attention. Chapter 32 verse 25, just listen. "Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control or Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies. . .you remember the golden calf and the whole terrible orgy that went with it?...and Moses saw they were out of control, Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the Lord come to me. If you're for the Lord come to me." "And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him." They said, "We'll stand with you." "And he said to them. . .and listen to this. . .thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, every man of you put his sword on his thigh. Strap on your sword and go back and forth from gate to gate and the camp and kill every man; his brother and every man; his friend, and every man; his neighbor." Now whoa...whoa. ..whoa here. That is an absolutely mind boggling assignment. "You for men then I'm telling you strap on your sword and go through that camp and kill everybody who's your brother, your friend and your neighbor. Wipe them out."
Now folks I would say that those Levites standing there were at a crisis point as to whose glory they really preferred. You see an idol had been made, a false image of the true God. An order of worship had been conducted, a false kind of worship toward a false image of the true God. God's name had been dishonored and an idol had been glorified in the place of God and God said, "I will not give my glory to another." And the price of doing that is always very high. And so God says to these Levites, "Do you stand for me then kill everybody you care about. Kill your brother, kill your friend and kill your neighbor." Now we'll find out whether these guys care more about the glory of God or something else.
Verse 28 says, "So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed and about 3,000 men of the people fell that day." Those Levites, consumed with honoring God took their swords and slaughtered 3,000 of their brothers; their friends and their neighbors who you can believe for sure did not die willingly. They did it. You say, "Why would they do that?" Because they preferred to honor their God no matter what he asked them to do. And that's how you live life if you live to the glory of God. It may be that no such thing will ever occur in this generation where God would ever even ask anything like that. It only happened once. But that attitude of commitment has stood in my mind as a monumental testimony to the fact that when the Lord said, "Are you on my side?" and they said, "yes," they were serious. Some of you might say, "I prefer God above everything," but you wouldn't give up your car, your house, your vacation, or part of your savings, your bank account, your time, your energy, let alone strap on a sword and kill the people you love the most if God asked. But then again there are those who prefer God's honor above everything, absolutely everything. That's what it is to live to the glory of God, whatever the price, whatever the price. The examples of such dedication are replete in biblical history and in the history of God's redeemed people. There have always been those who would give willingly whatever it was that God asked them to give. No price was too high. To put it in simple terms, to do that gives testimony of the fact that you love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. You say, "I wanna grow." All right, you're gonna grow when you learn that you have to focus on glorifying God and glorifying Christ. You're going to glorify God and Christ when you begin to do everything you do, even mundane things, routine things every day to His glory. When you aim your life at that that's going to mean that you prefer his glory above everything, no matter what the cost or what the price. Whatever glorifies Him, whatever honors Him.
Let me take it a step further. Aiming your life at glorifying God, not only involves preferring Him and His Kingdom above all else, but secondly it involves being content to do His will at any cost and we've hinted at that. Now let me expand that. Not only the idea that you prefer His glory but that you will literally be content with whatever he asks. Now you're really aiming your life at His glory. Whatever He asks you're content to do it. In Hebrews chapter 11, you remember verse 38? Talks about "Men of whom the world was not worthy; men who were faithful martyrs because of their unwavering, uncompromised faith in God." It talks about those. . .in verse 35, "Women receiving back their dead by resurrection, others tortured, not accepting their release, in order that they might attain a better resurrection. Others experienced mockings, scourgings, chains, imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with a sword, they went about in sheepskins, goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground." The heroes of faith, the unnamed heroes. Back in through the chapter you'll find those that are named, these tremendous heroes of faith who were literally willing to pay any price. They lived to the glory of God, whatever it cost, whatever it cost.
In John chapter 12 Jesus says, "Now my soul has become troubled; what shall I say, "Father save Me from this hour?" But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father glorify thy name." In other words, glorify your name through my death, Jesus was saying. He was content to do the will of God no matter what the cost. The heroes of faith were content to do the will of God no matter what cost. Paul was on his way to Jerusalem and kept being reminded that he would die and he only wanted to finish the ministry Christ had given him and his life was not dear to himself. Isaiah called for the remnant in the fires to glorify God. I love the...so many illustrations of this but I love the testimony and you know this testimony well. In Daniel chapter 3 in verse 15, you remember the story about the king Nebuchadnezzar who threw the young Hebrews into the furnace? He says in verse 15, "If you will not worship you will be immediately cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire." And then he says, "What God is there who can deliver you out of my hands?" Wow. What egotism, what failure to recognize a true God? Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this." We don't need to answer you. Pretty brash. And then they say, "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king." They said two things: "He is able to get us out of the fire and he will deliver us from your hand." And then they said, "And even if he does not...implying let us be delivered from the fire... "Let it be known to you, O King, we are not going to serve your Gods or worship the golden image that you set up." Now that's uncompromising. I mean when...you say, "Boy I agree with that. That's wonderful. That's my spirit." Yeah but you're not standing on the edge of a fire. It's a whole different thing. But that's being content to do God's will no matter what the cost, no matter what the price. They said to Daniel, "This is the kings decree, you can't pray." He prayed. He knew the consequence but he wouldn't compromise. It's a simple thing folks. You start out living to the glory of God when you aim your life. You're never gonna hit what you're not shooting at. Some point in your life you come to grips with the fact that I live to the glory of God and that means I prefer Him and His Kingdom above everything no matter what it is he asks me to do and no matter how much it might cost me personally. I'll do his will. And then I think there's another indicator of the life of one who aims at the glory of God and that is this; if you're really aiming your life at the glory of God you will suffer when he suffers. Okay? You will suffer when he suffers. You will be, to use a biblical term, zealous, zealous. It's a compound affection. It's a mixture of love and a mixture of hate. You love what is right and you hate what threatens right. You love God and you hate what threatens His name or desecrates His truth.
Do you remember the words of our Lord to the church at Ephesus in the Ephesians letter of Revelation chapter 2, verse 2? "I know your deeds, your toil and perseverance." And then I love this line, "You cannot endure evil men." Is that true about you? If you're aiming at the glory of God you'll find it impossible to endure evil men. Let me take you back to Psalm 69 and see I can't explain this even more. In Psalm 69 we have a wonderful statement made by David fulfilled in the messiah, ultimately. Psalm 69:9, the psalmist says this, "For zeal...that is that mixture of love and hate. You love what you love and you hate what threatens what you love. If you love God you hate what threatens God. "For zeal for thy house has consumed me." And here it is, this is the statement, "And the reproaches of those who reproach Thee have fallen on me." Think about that. "The reproaches of those who reproach Thee have fallen on me." Well what do you mean by that? The psalmist means when Your name is dishonored I feel the pain. When your name is dishonored I feel the pain. When You are slighted I feel the hurt. What an intimate identification with the glory of God. Right? When God is dishonored do you feel the pain? Does it twist something in your stomach; does it wrench something in your heart to see God dishonored? To see Christ dishonored? Are you like Henry Martin who runs out of the pagan temple, "I cannot endure existence of Jesus is continually to be dishonored." Do you understand that kind of mentality, that kind of emotion? If you've aimed your life at the glory of God you understand it. That prophecy comes back in the 2nd chapter of John. And we find here, in a sense, it's ultimate fulfillment. When Jesus went into the temple in John 2:14, "He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves and the money changers seated." The word seated is an interesting word; it means they've set up permanent shop there. "He made a scourge of cords; a whip, drove them all out of the temple." That must have been an incredible scene because you know they didn't just stand up and leave. "He drove them out, and the sheep and the oxen. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables." That ought to give you an image of the strength and the power of Jesus Christ, even in his human presence. "To those who were selling the doves he said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a house of merchandise," and get this, "And the disciples remembered that it was written zeal for Thy house will consume Me." And the messiah became the living reality of the very heart of David back in Psalm 69 and began to feel the pain of God being dishonored. He was so righteously indigent that when he saw the House of God and the name of God, thereby, being dishonored he made a whip and cleaned it up because the pain of God was the pain of Christ. "And beloved when you begin to live to the glory of God the pain of God becomes your pain. And you cannot bear the reproach that falls on the Lord and falls on you." Are you in pain when God is dishonored? When someone uses the name of God in vain does that pain you somehow? Does that cause you to cringe? How do you live to the glory of God? By focusing at that. What does that mean? That means you prefer him and his Kingdom above everything and it doesn't matter what the price is and whatever hurts him hurts you deeply because you're so identified with his glory and his exaltation. And you're like those saints in the Book of Revelation who are under the altar crying out, "How long, O Lord, how long, O Lord, will you allow this to go on? When will you avenge yourself?" Even John in Revelation, as he eats the little book, which speaks of the things being revealed to him, he finds it both sweet and bitter, bitter because the judgment will fall on the Ungodly, sweet because Christ who has been humiliated will be exalted. You long for the exaltation of Christ, you love for the exaltation of God, you feel the pain when God is dishonored. And then there's one other thought under this first point of aiming at the glory of God and that is this; I believe you can look at your life and you can know you're aiming your life at the glory of God...follow this thought...when you are content to be outdone by others who do what you do better as long as he is glorified. Did you grab that? You're content to be outdone by others who do what you do better than you do it as long as he's glorified. That's the only issue with you. When I look at the church and I look at the ministry and I see rivalry and jealousy and all that kind of thing that tells me that people aren't living to the glory of God; they're living to the exaltation of self. Because if we were all living to the glory of God then I would be thrilled when God blessed you, no matter what was going on with me. There's no sense of competition there. Can I fully rejoice in what God does through you?
Look at Philippians chapter 1. Perhaps this is at least one illustration of the thought. One writer said, "Let my candle go out as long as the son of righteousness can rise with healing in his beams." That's the idea. Do you remember this wonderful insight into the heart of Paul? In verse 12 he says, "I want you to know brethren... Philippians 1... that my circumstances have turned out for the great purpose of the gospel, so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else, and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear." He says, "You know, me being in prison here has really benefited the gospel." How Paul? "Well, first of all I'm having a tremendous time evangelizing the whole praetorian guard and everyone else around here. And then beyond that most of the brethren who are still out running loose preaching are trusting God with far more courage to speak his word without fear because they've seen that my imprisonment hasn't stopped my ministry. And they're just going boldly to preach Christ, assuming that if God wants them to have a jail ministry they'll have jail ministry from the inside." "So," he says, it's all turned out for the furtherance of the gospel. I'm evangelizing here and other folks are more bold because they can see that even being in jail is a place of ministry." And then he turns the corner in verse 15 and says this, "Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife." What do you mean by that Paul? Well, some are preaching Christ but it's an envious thing. They envy my success, my blessing. They sort of strive against me. Verse 17, "They proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives and they think to cause me distress in my imprisonment." That's unthinkable. This faithful Godly saint is in prison and you mean to tell me there are some people out there preaching Christ envious of Paul, preaching Christ sort of anti-Paul mentality, preaching Christ and saying evil things about Paul because they seek to raise their own star a little higher and out of impure motives they want to cause distress to Paul? Unthinkable but it's true. They must have been saying things like, "Well, you know, Paul's in jail because he blew his ministry. The Lord shelved him. The Lord had to put him away. He's lost touch with the ministry. He's old, he's out of date." Maybe some of them even said, "Well, maybe he sinned a great sin and we don't know it." And out of selfish ambition and impure motive and envy and strife they were pushing themselves up as the new breed of preachers for everyone to admire and honor and acclaim. Not all of them were like that.
Verse 15 he said, "Some preach Christ out of goodwill toward me, implied. Some do it out of love. They know that I'm appointed for the defense of the gospel and they know I'm here just because of that and nothing else. But there are others, those selfish impure ones, who want to tell people that I'm in prison because my ministry's done and I'm no longer the one to look to and they're the new breed and they're the new heroes." And then I just am floored by verse 18, "What then... as if to say, so what? "Only that in every way, whether in pretense...and that's those phonies with the ambition who are saying terrible things about the faithful apostle. "Or in truth...and those are the good ones, the ones who love him, "but either way, whether in pretense or in truth Christ is proclaimed...and this is just marvelous..."and in this I what? There's the character of a man right there. There's the character of a man revealed. "In this I rejoice, yes, and I will rejoice." What do you rejoice about Paul? Christ is preached who cares who gets the credit. Right? Who cares? Christ is preached. That's an incredible attitude. And the reason he could say that was because of the way he lived in verse 21, "For to me to live is, what?" Not Paul, Christ...Christ...Christ...Christ. Here was a man content to be outdone by others, accepting criticism animosity, envy, strife and saying, "As long as Christ is preached it's alright." Put yourself in that situation. You've been the hero of everybody; you're the spiritual Father, grandfather, uncle of almost everybody that's a Christian in the Gentile world. Every time you came into town the people fell at your feet, as it were, to hear what you said. You were God's anointed apostle. They would listen to you all night long and even if somebody fell out of the window and died they'd want to hurry up and have a resurrection so they could get back to the Bible study, back to the message. And when you left for the last time they would hold you by the neck and weep and kiss you and cry because they might not see your face again. That's how he was beloved. That's how he was adored. And, yet, that man suffered so deeply. At one point he said, "I have no one who is faithful, who stands by me." When he faced his trials, it says in 2 Timothy 4, "No one stood to defend me, no one, no one." On one occasion he said, "I have only one person that's really faithful, I'll send him, Timothy. The rest have all forsaken me." And here he finally winds up in prison and they're saying about him, "Yeah, just what we told you see Lord had to put him on a shelf. He's finished." He says, "That's okay. As long as Christ is preached." Can you rejoice in someone else's success spiritually? You young men that are preparing for the ministry you better deal with this issue now because it'll destroy you if you don't. I remember hearing about two churches that had a contest to see who could have the biggest Sunday school and I remember that the pastor who lost got sick, began to throw up and had to be put to bed. Competition, competition because men are viewing their own ambition rather than the glory of God.
So if we're going to grow spiritually we have to gaze at the glory of God. If we're gonna fix our attention on the glory of God that means these are the things that we concentrate on; one, we prefer his Kingdom above all else, we're content to do his will, no matter what the cost, we suffer when he suffers, and we are willing to be outdone in what we do as long as he receives the glory.
Let me give you a second thought here. The first one was four sub points. Second one, there is a second way you aim your life at glorifying God, a second way you glorify God. First, by focusing your life on it, secondly...hold on to this thought...by confessing sin, by confessing sin. Let me take you to a Scripture, back in Joshua chapter 7. We're just going to look at this one thought. In Joshua chapter 7...I want you to notice this tremendous, tremendous insight. The Children of Israel had come to Ai and their progress in entering the Promised Land; they were soundly defeated there. There was a reason they were defeated. They were defeated because of disobedience. A man named Achan, and obviously his family were in cahoots with him, had disobeyed God and violated what God said. They had stolen booge from Jericho. They had buried it in the ground, and as a result of that, they were in a severe situation of judgment from God. We come to this passage, verse 19, Joshua confronts Achan and he says to him, verse 19, "My son I implore you...watch this one, "give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give praise to him and tell me now what you have done? Do not hide it from me." So Achan answered Joshua and said, "Truly I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I did." And then he describes it. And what happened, verse 25? "They got all his family and all of his animals and all of his belongings and brought them out to the valley of Achor and they stoned him with stones and they burned it all with fire. And they raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger." So what's going on here? Go back to verse 19, "Give glory to the God of Israel and confess your sin." Give glory to the God of Israel and confess your sin; that's the essence.
Let me tell you something. This is a great truth that's often missed. We're called to confess our sin to give glory to God. You say, "What does that mean?" Think with this one. God has a right to holy reaction against your sin. True? God has a right to be angry with your sin. God has a right to chasten you for your sin because God, as a holy God, cannot tolerate evil. So when you confess your sin and you acknowledge your sin and you affirm that you are guilty and you have sinned against the Lord then when God chastens you he is free from any accusation of being unjust. Therefore, you give glory to Him because you set it up for God to react in holy anger against evil and people will say, "Indeed he is a holy God who did what was right." When you deny sin and you will not acknowledge sin and you will not confess and then comes the disaster, perhaps some might accuse God of being unjust, but not if you have subscribed yourself to the guilt of that sin.
Confessing sin, Beloved, involves accepting the responsibility for my sin so that when God chastens me I have no thought nor does anyone else that he might be unfair or unjust. But that he has every right to a holy reaction. Look at Adam. What is Adam's sin? Who did Adam blame? You remember who he blamed? Didn't blame Eve. Genesis 3:12, listen to what he said, "The woman you gave me... who did he blame? God. He said, "I went to sleep. I didn't even know what a woman was. I woke up; I'm married. You could have picked any woman. You made her. The woman you gave me." Who did he blame? God. People blame others, blame circumstances, blame Satan, blame demons. It starts with little kids. Little kid mouthing off to his parents, acting terrible. You hear a mother say, "Oh, well, he's tired." He's not tired; he's rotten, he's depraved, he's fallen. It's amazing how the rod of correction can make a tired kid not tired anymore. Works just as well as a nap, maybe better. You want to acknowledge full responsibility of your sin so that you free God to do whatever he wishes to do in reaction to your sin and not be thought to be unjust, but to be known as a holy God and that gives him glory. Do you see? So when you confess sin you are freeing God from any accusation of evil when he reacts. Let me give you one illustration of this. 1 Samuel; this is so graphic. 1 Samuel chapter 4, and I'm going to go through this rapidly so follow very closely. "Israel, verse 1, went out to meet the Philistians in battle and camped beside Ebenezer while the Philistians camped at Aphek. The Philistines drew up in battle array to meet Israel. When the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines killed four thousand men on the battlefield. When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines?" That's a pretty sound defeat. You lose four thousand men. They said, "We know what the problem is, let's take ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that it may come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies." You know what? God isn't here, we gotta go get God. God was symbolized, at least his presence was symbolized, by the little box known as the ark of the covenant; little box with the poles running through it and the cherubim. They said, "We have to go get God. God's up in Shiloh, of course, we can't win. We have to get God." You could see how far they had sunk in their perception of God and in their attention to God. "So the people sent to Shiloh, and from there they carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas . . . two total losers... were there with ark of the covenant of God." Now follow this. They'd just lost four thousand men, they go get the ark, they bring this little box into the camp and it says the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp. All Israel shouted with a great shout so that the earth resounded." The whole place began to echo with this tremendous, thunderous roar from the People of Israel. "God is here. God is here. We are invincible," that was the idea. "Philistines heard the noise of shout, they said, "What is the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean? Then they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp." And from the Philistine's viewpoint that was just an idol, that was their deity and now their deity is there. "The Philistines were afraid, they said, "God has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. Woe to use! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness." Now their panic is starting to set in. They've heard about the power of what they assumed to be the gods of the Israelites.
"Take courage and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews, as they have been slaves to you. Therefore, be men and fight." And some guy somewhere stands up and gives that pep talk. So they fought and Israel was defeated. Is that amazing? "And every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, there fell of Israel...listen...thirty thousand foot soldiers and the ark of God was taken; and the two of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas died." That said, "Wait a minute. There was less of a disaster before God arrived. What's going on? God is not a utilitarian genie. You don't rub your little magic lamp, say, "God pop out and give me three wishes." They had paid no attention to God. They had not lived in light of the law of God. They didn't just bring God in and make God do whatever they wanted him to do. They may have believed but they didn't experience any positive confession-kind of theology at all. They thought this is victory, this is victory. Listen, they not only were defeated, they not only lost thirty thousand foot soldier, but the Philistines took the ark away. That's kind of hard on their theology.
Now if you think that's a problem for the Israelites you haven't heard anything yet. The major problem is not with the Philistines because while the Israelites don't have God, the Philistines do. I would guess that maybe a problem worse than not having God would be having God on your hands in a pagan situation. So the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Chapter 5 verse 1 says, "The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon." Dagon was half fish, half man; that was their deity. So they say, "Well this is the Israelites deity." They thought this little box was the deity of the Israelites. They were into this polytheism kind of stuff. "So we'll just put their God in the temple with our God and then we can worship both of them and we'll have their God's power and our God's power." So they did that. "The Ashdodites arose early in the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord." They come in the morning and here's this fish/man God dumped over bowing down to this little box with the angels on it. And I'm sure they had a discussion about how that happened, localized earthquake or something. They didn't know what happened so they put Dagon back up in his place again. Must have been a wind or something. "Came back the next morning Dagon has fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord again, verse 4, this time his head and the palms of his hands were cut off and there was only a stump." Do you know what happened? "The priests of Dagon and all the rest of the people never entered Dagon's house in Ashdod again." Why? Who wants to worship a loser? I mean if your deity can't even defend himself against the deity next door forget it. Forget it. And God was angry with the way he was being treated because he was forced to share his glory with that stupid fish God; a mermaid in reverse with a man's torso and fish head. And so he punished them. Verse 6, "The hand of the Lord is heavy on the Ashdodites. He ravaged them and smote them with tumors...tumors...cancers...tumors of some kind? Well some translation says hemorrhoids. That's really a poor translation. It does, doesn't it? Some of you have that in your Bible. I can tell by the smirk on your face. But, here, all these people in this society are smitten with tumors. "And the minute Ashdod, verse 7, saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god." They had a committee meeting and decided they ought to get rid of this thing, which you wouldn't have to be Phi Beta Kappa to figure out. "So they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, verse 8, and said, "What are we going to do with this?" They said, "Let's send it to Gath." Do you remember a very large person from Gath? His name was Goliath, another Philistine city. Take it to Gath, which was no solution at all if you lived in Gath. "It came about that after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city with very great confusion. He smote the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them. So they sent the ark to Ekron, another Philistine city. And it happened as the ark came to Ekron the Ekronites cried out, "They brought the ark of the God of Israel around to us, to kill us and our people." Now the whole country is in panic. "So they sent, therefore, and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people, for there was a deadly confusion throughout the city; the hand of God was heavy there." It might well be that that was plague expressed in the word confusion. "And the men who didn't die were smitten with tumors and the cry of the city went up to heaven." Some men died and some got tumors. It was a plague, incredible plague. Now what are you going to do with this? You say, "Where's all this going?" Just keep reading. Watch this. Verse 1 chapter 6, "The ark of the Lord had been in the country of the Philistines seven months." Seven months? "And they called all these people together; priests and diviners, "What are we going to do with the ark? Tell us how we send it to its place. We don't wanna just send it back. We're afraid to go near the thing. How are we gonna do this?" And they said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel...now look at this...do not send it empty, but you shall surely return to Him a what? A guilt offering or a sin offering, which is a recognition that what has happened to you is due to your sin." In other words, don't curse that deity, recognize that he is reacting to your violation of him then you'll be healed. That's wisdom. Those guys had their head screwed on that day. "They said, "Well what are we gonna send? What is a guilt offering?
Look at this in verse 4, "Five golden tumors and five golden mice." What in the world is that? "According to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords." Well the idea here is that they gave what was called votive offerings. In ancient times when a body was diseased or a plague came, in order to placate the deity that they assumed brought the plague or could heal the plague, they would make a clay or wooden image of the diseased member of the body or of the animal, or whatever it was, and offer that to the deity so that the deity would recognize that they saw that situation as directly reflective of their sin and they wanted to placate that deity. They had had, obviously, a plague that caused great amount of death. It was carried by mice, a black death bubonic-kind of plague. And the ones, it says, who hadn't died were given these tumors. So they made golden tumors. A votive offering could be made out of wood or clay, terracotta. In this case they made it out of gold. They could have made it out of any substance but they were made out gold to emphasize they wanted to make a serious offering to this God. And while it was a pagan offering, the point was they recognized that He had a right to react the way He reacted because they had violated Him.
By the way, I went to the little room in the museum at Corinth, where the God Esculapius, who is related to shewers and healings, was worshipped. And there's a little room the curator took me to that's locked to the public, in which there are literally thousands of little replicas of all the human parts, organs, limbs, everything, that were collected in ancient times, that were offered as votive offerings to acknowledge to a deity that whatever problem they were having in their body was a reflection of their sin against that deity. So this is a pagan custom. So verse 5 says, "Make likeness of your tumors, likeness of the mice that ravage your land," and look at this, look at this, "and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land." Isn't that amazing? They recognized that they needed to glorify God, even the God of Israel, not their God, by acknowledging that their problem was due to their sin, which exonerated God from being thought of as unkind or unfair. I don't know if you've ever thought about that in your whole life. But when you confess your sin you give glory to God because you free Him to chasten in any way He chooses and never be thought to be unfair because you have acknowledged your sin against Him and that such a chastening is a righteous response to that sin.
Nehemiah did it. He vindicated God's righteousness in chapter 9 verse 33 when he said, "Thou art just in all thou has brought on us. Thou art just in all thou has brought on us." Confession is to acknowledge my sin and that gives glory to God. It frees him to chasten me. Let me go a step further. It gives glory to Him too because when He forgives me I can praise him. Right? If I don't acknowledge my sin then I can't acknowledge his forgiveness. If I don't accept my guilt then the fact that he removes that guilt in Christ means nothing. Confess your sin. Confess your sin. And that frees God to put his glory on display in vengeance. It frees God to put his glory on display in forgiveness. You glorify God by aiming your life at that and by confessing your sin. So much more to say about that but our time is gone.
Let's bow together in prayer. Father, we desire to give you glory. We desire to aim our life at that purpose. We would desire that all we do, say would honor you. We want, Lord, to esteem Your Kingdom and Your cause above all else. We want to be content to do Your will, whatever the cost. We want to suffer when Your name is dishonored. We want to be content to be outdone by others who do what we do better than we do it if You're glorified. And, Lord, we want to confess our sin to you, honestly, forthrightly, that in that confession You may be glorified when You chasten and glorified when You graciously, mercifully forgive. And we thank You that You do not always chasten us. You do not always bring vengeance on us but you are so gracious and so kind. Lord we ask that you would cause us all to seek to grow more like Christ. To see a decreasing frequency of the pattern of sin and an increasing frequency of the pattern of holiness that conforms us more and more to the Savior as we focus our lives on Him. We pray in his wonderful name. Amen.
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- Businessman Christian Stadil believes companies must care about more than just money
- "Sustainability should be treated as a business strategy," says expert
- Outdoor clothing company Patagonia is seen as a leader in "CSR 3.0"
- Stadil believes corporate social responsibility helps attract talented employees
Can you do business well by doing good?
"Yes," says Christian Stadil, owner of Denmark based Thornico Group -- a group of more than 100 companies spanning food, technology, shipping, sports fashion, real estate and financing -- and author of the Danish book "Company Karma."
"I usually say Company Karma is CSR 3.0 on steroids," he says. "We have to think in a way that unites long-term business strategy with a concern for the world we are living in. Every action we take has a consequence."
Although businesses have talked of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for years, some are taking it a new level, which they are calling CSR 3.0. It goes beyond the often basic image-building of traditional CSR and aims to create real, sustainable value for everyone, while holding the business accountable.
Stadil is among a small group of corporate pioneers, molding his business to make a difference -- while still making a profit. And, according to a number of leaders and management experts, Company Karma -- or Corporate Social Responsibility 3.0 -- is the way of the future.
"Companies are no longer making as much money as they possibly can at any means," says Kellie McElhaney, founding director of the Center for Responsible Business at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. "It is now squarely about how companies make their money and how is it contributing to sustainability."
Stadil's companies are grounded in what he calls the "four-time win" -- a goal to create value not just for the company, employees, partners and customers -- but also for the world.
The change involves everything from running "CSR Karma" and charity projects around the world, to making offices more sustainable and energy efficient, and working with governments to create change. As an example, Stadil and the city of Rotterdam are completing Europe's largest "green wall" of climbing plants in a car park in Rotterdam in an effort to improve the local environment.
Ultimately, he says the change must run all the way through the value chain; from production to processing, from suppliers to employee fulfillment in the workplace, and so on.
"It's a difficult change but we are making our way," he says.
An innovator and leading thinker in business management, Stadil and his team are famous for turning faltering sports label Hummel into a global brand worn by stars like Jennifer Lopez, Jon Bon Jovi, Pink and Paris Hilton.
Hummel's "Change the World through Sports" project has sponsored football teams and matches in Sierra Leone between former child soldiers, and between women in Kabul. "In Afghanistan, girls could be killed for playing soccer," Stadil says, "Imagine girls playing soccer in a stadium where the Taliban used to execute people."
Making a difference is more than worthwhile, he says, but it should also pay off.
"I refuse to acknowledge making money as the only thing of value, but just like a body needs blood to function, a company needs money to function," says Stadil. "The question is, what does it do with the money? We expand, but we also give back. Companies need to gain value from making a difference, whether that is economically, socially, innovatively or from positive marketing."
McElhaney, who is also author of the book "Just Good Business," agrees. "Sustainability should be treated as a business strategy that can make a profit for the company, otherwise it will not last," she says. "It's not easy stuff, but it should be seen as a need to do, not a nice to do."
Both agree that successful CSR should be rooted in the core competencies of the company.
"Do it smartly and strategically with good CSR strategy," says McElhaney. "Bad CSR is KFC handing out pink buckets of chicken with the Susan Komen breast cancer foundation."
Another key is to make change sexy, says Stadil. "At some point people get fed up hearing about green, so we have to think about how we can make these things cool. If consumers don't think it's cool, it won't work. Social engagement has to start from the bottom up."
"The drive will come from enlightened leaders," says McElhaney. "Look to companies like Patagonia and Levi's who are really doing it," she says, noting the world's largest retailer, Walmart, as another frontrunner credited with making significant changes to its supply chain.
Outdoor-clothing company Patagonia's new Common Threads Initiative works with customers to repair, re-use, re-sell and recycle used Patagonia products. Over the past 20 years, the company says it has given more than $40 million to environmental causes and pioneered the use of organic cotton and fleece from recycled soda bottles.
"We are only scratching at the heels of guys like Patagonia," Stadil says, "but this kind of change is an ongoing process."
To him, Company Karma is also an important consideration in attracting the talent of tomorrow. "The new Y generation wants to be proud of the product and the company they work for," he says. "They have turned Maslow's pyramid of needs around and see self-realization as the most important thing."
In addition to that, Stadil says the disappearance of traditional value and identity streams like family, rituals, tradition, and religion, is creating an opportunity for companies. "All those things are losing influence, and we can provide some of that value and identity to our employees."
So, what does the future of Company Karma or CSR 3.0 look like?
Young people are already there, says Stadil. "A few days ago, I was a judge at Ben and Jerry's social entrepreneurship competition, 'Join Our Core,' and the innovative ideas young people have on social entrepreneurship and sustainability are amazing."
"I am significantly confident that in my daughter's lifetime, 80% or more companies will do this," says McElhaney. "It will be taken for granted."


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RJ Rockers Flight Room brewpub is open at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport's Concourse B. The cozy, contemporary restaurant is part of a revamp of the airport's concession and retail offerings.
RJ Rockers has continued to ascend the craft beer industry since leaving food behind almost 12 years ago.
But a new joint-venture at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport will once again put the downtown-based brewer back on the radar for lovers of tasty pub fare. Taking flight Wednesday is a 48-seat eatery within GSP's Concourse B called RJ Rockers Flight Room.
The cozy, contemporary restaurant is part of a revamp of the airport's concession and retail offerings under its three-part $125 million main terminal renovation, called Project WINGSPAN. The project includes a similar grill featuring the Greenville-based Thomas Creek Brewery that will serve passengers on Concourse A.
"We are so excited about this," GSP spokeswoman Rosylin Weston said. "It's an opportunity for us to deliver back to our customers something that they've asked for over the last few years — more food options."
RJ Rockers got its start as a brewpub in 1997 in downtown.
In 2002, the company's founder Mark Johnsen decided to step away from food in order to focus solely on brewing beer. He sold his stake in the restaurant he opened on Morgan Square to the owners of Delaney's Irish Pub.
Johnsen and his partners, John Bauknight, Nick Wildrick, and the company's President Henry Depew, are still concentrating on growing the beer business.
The Flight Room will be operated by GSP's contractor MSE Branded Foods, based in Gainesville, Ga. It will feature a selection of RJ Rockers beers on tap and a menu of sandwiches, wraps, breakfast dishes and other affordable choices.
A large clock made of RJ Rockers beer bottles hangs on the restaurant's wall. Accent walls depicting enlarged aerial photographs give diners a bird's-eye-view of GSP.
The space captures the eatery's aeronautical surroundings, but its bright paint scheme, exposed brick and brushed metal furnishings give it a refined edge. The delicious aroma of fresh food travels the expanse of the concourse, enticing customers to stop in and refuel.
"This is great," said Johnsen, an 11-year U.S. Army veteran who fought in Desert Storm, fell in love with beer while stationed in Germany, and then learned the craft of brewing while with the National Guard in Idaho.
"I can't tell you how many times I've been to a major airport and visited places like this based on local craft beers," Johnsen said "It's very cool and very humbling. It feels like we've come full circle."
Depew said it is an honor because the eatery will give visitors a taste of Spartanburg. As those visitors travel on to their destinations, RJ Rockers and Spartanburg will be able to reach an audience not just in the U.S., but across the world.
"Tourism is still a huge piece of the pie," he said. "It's nice to be (ambassadors for Spartanburg). We're very excited to have our name on (the restaurant)."
Ed Jones, vice president of finance for MSE Branded Foods, said his company was chosen by GSP after bidding on the project. The company worked with RJ Rockers and local chef William Cribb to develop menu items that would reflect the company's history.
"We're so excited about this opportunity," Jones said. "Since 2006, we have had a great relationship with GSP. We think WINGSPAN will be great for flyers and folks here in the community. The idea of bringing local into the airport is something we really love. One of the keys for us is maintaining the standards of RJ Rockers. We're representing ourselves, but we're also representing them."
The airport is in the second phase of Project WINGSPAN, which is expected to be completed by 2016.
New food and retail options will be open soon. Hudson, a travel retailer, also opens Wednesday. Dunkin' Donuts and Flatwood Grill are expected to open later this summer.
"Everything we're doing as part of Project WINGSPAN is to enhance the level of service for people flying in and out of GSP," said Dave Edwards, GSP's president and CEO. "It all ties together."
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Applying Connections
|Introduction | Falling Objects | Problem Reflection | Classroom Practice | Classroom Checklist | Your Journal
In the previous sections, you studied some rich mathematical problems, reflected on student solution processes, explored your own approach to solving a problem, and studied a variety of elements of the Connections Standard.
Now that you are familiar with the Standard and some of its aspects, we'd like you to apply it. Before we look at some students' work, we have a set of problems for you to consider. As you work, think about the mathematical connections you can identify in this activity. How might you help your students make similar connections?
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A Conspiracy of Goodness
There is a small village in the center of France with a unique history. In the midst of World War II, the country was partly occupied and partly "free," meaning the French government, headquartered at Vichy, led by Maréchal Pétain …Read More
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Dr. William Edgar is professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is author of Reasons of the Heart: Recovering Christian Persuasion.


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Aboriginal fire sparks winning book
IT WAS as a teenager carting hay in the bush outside Wagga Wagga that Bill Gammage's lifelong curiosity about the Australian landscape emerged. What initially puzzled him was that certain trees were not growing in the soils that he knew best suited them. ''It led me to all sorts of possibilities.''
One of those possibilities turned out to be the crucial role Aboriginal people and their deft use of fire played in shaping the Australian environment, and for the past 12 years Gammage has devoted most of his working life to his much lauded account, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia, published a year ago.
Last night Gammage, an adjunct professor at the Australian National University, won Australia's richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, part of the Victorian Premier's literary awards, for the book The Age described as ''history of the most readable type … a beautiful and profound piece of writing''. Gammage also won the premier's non-fiction prize, worth $25,000, the same as the other prizes. This year, he also won the PM's $80,000 prize for Australian history.
Gammage told The Age his book's significance lay in the link between the Aboriginal approach to the environment and the Dreaming, and because he had established that approach was applied across the whole country. ''I gave it a spiritual aspect, which scientists aren't into at all. Religious sanction is the most powerful sanction in any society,'' he said. ''That's what kept people at it. They risked their souls if they didn't do it. You can't think of any other imperative. It's hard work, a constant job burning, not burning, deciding what sort of fire. It's a lifetime of learning, which is why we can't do it.
''It was in Tasmania and all over the mainland. While the means of achieving the end might have varied according to the vegetation, the ends were exactly the same.''
Gammage said European settlers could see the benefits of fire to the environment. ''The problem was that they didn't know how to burn. Even the Europeans with the best will in the world who were trying to imitate the Aborigines were setting about destroying it [the environment]. Then when you get the Europeans who have farms [and] … everything that fire will destroy, they changed their regime quickly. You can still see some evidence of Aboriginal fire but basically Australia has been transformed since.''
All the winners except novelist Gillian Mears were at the Regent Theatre to receive their category prizes from the Premier, Ted Baillieu.
Poet John Kinsella said to win a Victorian Premier's prize mattered because ''Melbourne was one of the epicentres of poetry in the world''. He contrasted the awards with the situation in Queensland, where Premier Campbell Newman dumped the equivalent prizes. ''That was an abomination,'' Kinsella said.
Playwright Lally Katz said she was ecstatic to win because, ''in all honesty I was facing financial ruin''. And young-adult writer John Larkin said he had stretched himself as a writer with his winning book.


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That's what a friend of mine used to say when anyone else would just say, "WTF?" He would say, "that makes about as much sense as two dead flies."
And that was my first thought when I watched Michael Voris' video called "Angry Atheists." This video goes on about how he was slandered and called dirty names (I'm betting "batshit" was among them) after he called for a "Catholic Monarchy" to replace Western government. In this video, he claims to be "clarifying" what it is he actually meant. In this video he says:
"Western civilization would be better off if it were a Catholic monarchy. How this comes about I don't know. The point wasn't to publicize a battle plan for overthrowing the secular humanist government. It was to point out that we are already living under a dictatorship. The dictatorship of relativism."
And he complained incessantly about the "sad sack boo birds" who ridiculed this idea using vile, profane words. "Foul-mouthed, Catholic-bashing, invective-filled, hate speech" is what he called it. I guess some people just don't like the idea of giving up democracy for a monarchy… He kept referring to his earlier video, so I looked for it. It was "removed by the user." Apparently he started by censoring the comments. Then closing comments altogether. Then he removed the video (coward).
But, a quick Google search landed the mirrored copy I knew would be there. The atheosphere is dependable in that regard: someone is always ready to make internet faux pas of mad-hater Christians as forever as herpes.
Yipes! That guy truly is batshit!
His complaint begins with how "everyone gets to vote." He points out that there are informed voters and there are "ignorant" voters. But he doesn't really get the distinction right. For Voris, an "informed" voter is one that votes for things Voris agrees with. "Ignorant" voters are those that vote differently. For Voris, they're obviously ignorant if they don't think like he does. And he goes on to say that, if we're going to insist on a voting system, then "only virtuous people" should be allowed to vote. Only Catholics would be considered virtuous to Voris -he makes this clear in his batshit rant.
In 2009, Catholics comprised 22% of the United States population. Voris proposes to have 78% of the population (using 2009 statistics) be ruled by 22%.
Bugs Bunny said it best: "What a maroon!"
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Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez Look Like They're Back Together. Whee.
On-again-off-again-on-again (does it really matter anymore?) couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were recently seen together having a romantic dinner, prompting Jelena fangirls everywhere to start planning their future wedding and photoshopping what their babies might look like.
A source told Us Weekly that the couple looked "happy and in love" as they ate around 1 a.m. at Marble Lane in New York City on Nov. 28.
The restaurant-goer continued to ogle the pair enough to ruin their alone time and commented that they were "giggling, like nothing ever happened."
"When it came time to leave, Justin held her hand and looked very protective of her. It was sweet," said another witness.
What were all these people doing in a restaurant at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday night? We suppose that's why they had so much free time to ponder the relationship status of the Biebs and his lady love, who announced their short-lived split several weeks ago.
Now that the current drama has passed, we can continue our Selena and Justin-free lives. Until the next time they're seen out in public together, of course. (Hey kids, how about staying in and ordering pizza for a change?)


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If you like to read on your Mac, then Apple's WWDC 2013 announcement of iBooks coming to the Mac with OS X Mavericks was a breath of fresh air. Macs have had a great PDF reader — Preview — built in for as long as we've had OS X, but for ePub eBooks, we're left to forge for our own best reading app. There's tons of contenders, but very, very few exceptionally good apps in the category.
Even if you have Mavericks Developer Preview today, though, you still can't get iBooks just yet. If you want to read eBooks on your Mac today, you need another option. And if your Mac can't run Mavericks, or you don't want to upgrade when it comes out, you'll still need something else then.
That's why we've got though every major eBook app for the Mac, tried them out, and put together the very best for you. There's two standout apps, that we really recommend, and then others that fill in other gaps.
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My obsession with HGTV comes and goes. I am so accustomed to seeing repeated episodes of my favorite shows - House Hunters, Design to Sell, Property Virgins, The UnSellables - that I've almost given up on flipping to that channel. Fortunately, another option for design addicts exists: FNL or Fine Living Network. I know. I had never heard of it either.
My resourceful mother has been a devoted viewer of one designer in particular. Sarah Richardson: a design genius hailing from Toronto, Canada. Her team - Design Inc. - is innovative and intuitive, and I have yet to see a room they've done that I haven't liked. No detail is overlooked, whether it's choosing buttons to sew on pillows or fresh flowers for the mantel/table/nightstand/bathroom counter. When this group arrives, they are bound to leave you with a space worthy of being on TV. Here are some rooms from their online portfolio for your viewing pleasure.
The Mothership - the Design Inc. Office.
I don't see any cubicles... or florescent lighting. What is this magical place?
The Family Zone: Kitchens, Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, etc.
Notice her extensive use of soft, neutral colors. You'll often hear Sarah referencing "the colors of water" as her main design inspiration.
It's like a retreat... only you get to sleep there every night.
You can cancel the appointment with your psychiatrist. Schedule a bath instead. These rooms are sure to eliminate any stress or anxiety. Notice all of them have fresh flowers and chandeliers. Love.
The Pigsty.
Sarah Richardson and friends turned a run-down, dirty, smelly real pigsty (that was falling to pieces on a client's extensive property) into this cozy, kid-friendly retreat. Now that's impressive.
You can check out more of her Design Inc. designs here.
Or here for Sarah's House.
And here for Sarah's Cottage.
Yep. Three TV shows. And my mother Tivo's all of them.


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Zed & Zoie have all the details for the Las Vegas Funny Bones Event posted. Las Vegas Funny Bones Benefits Dog 3 Rescues
Here is a little of the info....You can find out how to order your tickets on the blog.
Sunday January 31, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Palms Hotel Las Vegas (interactive map below)
Funny Bones comedy jam boasts an all-star comedy cast emceed by Sammy Shore, Bobby Slatton, and George Wallace and features Pauly Shore, Lance Burton, Terry Fator, Kathleen Dunbar, Pam Matteson, Frankie Scinta, Jeff Hobson, Vinnie Favorito, Dean Napolitano, and Pete Barbutti.
This event benefits the Golden Retreiver Rescue of Southern Nevada, The Las Vegas Weimaraner Rescue and Club, and the Las Vegas Basset Rescue.


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Karl Lagerfeld for Macy's Pictures and Release Date
A First Look at Karl Lagerfeld for Macy's (Updated)
>> Almost seven years after his H&M collaboration, Karl Lagerfeld is back with another one-off mass collection, this time for Macy's. The 45-piece collection, which hits 235 of the 800-plus Macy's stores and Macys.com on Aug. 31, promises to incorporate Lagerfeld's signature style — read: high-collared pieces, as well as edgier, rock'n'roll looks — and run $50 to $170.
The August 2011 issue of Vogue provides a first look at the collection: a $109 dress that Lagerfeld describes as "a coup d'oeil to the dresses I designed for Chloe and the girlish, more romantic mood of the seventies." As for why he decided to work with Macy's on the collection for the past year, Lagerfeld says: "These partnerships are a working holiday from my normal discipline, and I like to think differently."
After Lagerfeld, Macy's will reportedly feature Giambattista Valli in November, and then for Holiday 2011, Lagerfeld will be back along with three other designers for more Macy's exclusives.


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Did you watch "The Cleantech Crash" on 60 Minutes Sunday evening? Correspondent Lesley Stahl reported that the cleantech sector "has suffered a string of expensive tax-funded flops," with the segment particularly focused on Vinod Khosla and his KiOR biofuel company. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested, including $165 million of Khosla's own money, KiOR is still in the red, and its production of green gasoline has faced delays, Stahl reported.
The 60 Minutes segment took a broad strike at biofuels, solar and electric vehicles—reporting that the federal government has spent billions on these technologies without much to show for it. Stahl pointed out that Solyndra, the now bankrupt solar-panel company, alone went through half a billion dollars of taxpayer money to build a factory.
But, as Michael McAdams, president, Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA), points out, "Solyndra has nothing to do with biofuels" and what the 60 Minutes piece did not clarify is that of $38 billion originally targeted for cleantech technologies in the economic recovery bill, the biofuels industry received just $800 million in the form of grants to build pilot plants.
The biofuels industry has received additional funding through the energy title of the Farm Bill, and through the Department of Energy's yearly grants under the biomass program, which runs a total of approximately $200 million annually. But, ABFA reports that biorefineries received just $17 million of these grants last year. The ABFA also acknowledges the Department of Defense Production Act, which has been limited to awarding grants to the biofuel industry of up to a total of $570 million (for Phase 1 and 2. Phase 2 should be awarded in July 2014). Even with this funding, it is small compared to what the government has invested in the oil industry over the years, McAdams says, adding that the biofuels industry is still in its infancy and has made significant advances in less than five years. He also points to a Bloomberg Energy report that the private sector has invested $14.7 billion in the advanced biofuels industry.
Moreover, after reviewing the government's loan guarantees, none of the biofuel companies (with the exception of Abengoa Bioenergy), signed the agreements because the transactions costs were too high, McAdams said. "In some cases, borrowing from a commercial bank would have been cheaper."
The 60 Minutes segment also featured Pin Ni, who heads up China's auto parts company Wanxiang. Ni has purchased several cleantech companies after American investors gave up on them. This is where McAdams feels the 60 Minutes program got it right—an emphasis on the long-term benefits. While Pin Ni acknowledged that cleantech is not currently going well, "China is willing to make a long-term bet on the technology, and spend what it takes to develop the manufacturing."
In answer to Stahl's question about whether American taxpayers have gotten their money's worth on cleantech spending, Pi Ni said, "If you measure them by today's standard, I would say definitely not. . . But if you view this as a step stone to the future, when you get there, when you look back, I would say yes."
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Adventures in the Global Kitchen: Modernist Cuisine main content.
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For some professional chefs, an interest in science and technology has transformed their kitchens into laboratories where centrifuges and freeze dryers are just as useful as pots and pans. In this podcast, Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, co-author of the book, "Modernist Cuisine at Home," discusses ways that home cooks can use common kitchen tools to create astounding flavors.
This "Adventures in the Global Kitchen" event took place at the Museum on October 11, 2012.