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Dean has appeared on numerous international and national television and radio programs including ABC's "The View," MSNBC, "The Joy Behar Show," The PBS special "Stand up: Muslim Comics Come of Age," CNN's "American Morning" and "The Situation Room," MSNBC, PBS' "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," HD's "Dan Rather Reports," NPR, Fox News Radio, ABC's "20/20," Al Jazeera's "Min Washington," MBC's "Good Morning Ya Arab," "Democracy Now with Amy Goodman," just to name a few.
In addition to being co-executive producer of the NY Arab-American Comedy festival, Dean also serves as the Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival.
He also co-created the comedy show "Stand up for Peace" along with Jewish comic Scott Blakeman which they perform at colleges across the country in support of peace in the Middle East and fostering understanding between Arab and Jewish-Americans. (www.standupforpeace.com) He is also the co-creator of the current national comedy tour "Arabs Gone Wild" with Maysoon Zayid and Aron Kader.
David: Hello funny guy. How are you?
Dean: I'm fine but busy as usual. I'm working on a new one man show entitled "Dean Obeidallah for President" and working crazily on editing a documentary I'm co-directing with my friend Negin Farsad entitled: "The Muslims Are Coming!" (www.muslimsarecoming.com)
David: The Arab Comedy Festival, what was your inspiration to start it?
Dean: I co-created the Festival in 2003 with my friend Maysoon Zayid. We started the festival 2 years after 9/11 because we wanted to do something positive for our community to counter all the negative media about Arabs that followed 9/11. We also wanted to create a showcase for talented Arab-American comedians, playwrights, and actors/actresses.
David: What is your goal for the festival?
Dean: Our goal has always been twofold: Showcase talented Arab-Americans in the hopes that they would be cast in TV and film projects as well as to share our culture through comedy with people outside our community.
David: What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about Arabs?
Dean: There are many – often intertwined with misconceptions about Muslims. In fact, a big percentage of Americans think Arab and Muslim mean the same thing when one (Arab) is an ethnicity and the other (Muslim) is a religion. Our festival has showcased Arabs of all faiths: Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and even atheists.
The hope is that when people see the diverse cast they will better understand how truly diverse our community is here in the US.
David: What is the ultimate message you want to convey through your talent?
Dean: I tend to perform a lot of political comedy so my message depends on the issue. It can range from US political issues to countering anti-Muslim or anti-Arab sentiment – but still it must be funny or it's not a comedy show, just a speech.
David: After 911 the Arab world has been under fire. There was a lot of speculation that President Bush had some involvement and awareness about the attack before it happen. What do you think?
Dean: I highly doubt President Bush had any involvement because in US history has shown is that people in government scandals tend to make mistakes or people leak info and it gets discovered. Just look at big scandals in US politics through the years from Watergate to Iran-Contra scandal to Abu Gharib prisoner abuses. In time, we find it out. My biggest issue has been that neither President Bush nor his officials have ever been called to answer questions about the lead up to the war in Iraq and was evidence fabricated to get Americans to support the war.
David: What are some things you want to emphasize about the Arab culture and the Arab world?
Dean: There are too many things about Arab culture and the Arab world to list. The one thing as a comedian I would like people in the West to become aware of is that Arabs are very funny and have a great sense of humor. Americans never see an Arab being funny, they usually just see them as scary figures.
David: What are some of the qualities you associate with Arabs?
Dean: Hospitality, generosity and kindness are the ones to come to mind when I first think of my trips to my Arab world.
David: What made you decide to stop law and do comedy?
Dean: I realized that I was much more of a creative person that I thought – the law is not very creative. I found it suffocating in fact. I enjoy comedy because it allows me to write jokes and talk about subjects I care about.
David: What are your plans for the future?
Dean: Finishing the documentary I'm co-directing and my one-man show. Those are my immediate goals. Other projects will of course come up after these – they always do which is why it feels at times I'm on a treadmill running at full speed.
David: Thank you for your time. Any last words to all the readers?
Dean: Hope you check out the documentary when its done and hope to see you at one of my shows.
David: You can follow Dean on twitter @deanofcomedy and check out his website www.deanofcomedy.com


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Ignorance Is Futile Exclusive:
I've yet to see the question asked: with increasing computer power and quality of techniques why aren't 'we' getting better at sustainable economics? Where is our age of prosperity? Increased computational power shouldn't mean decreased prosperity for all… unless it's being used to deliberately plunder the masses.
When we look at all the figures, from where the debt economy has been going for years, to the way the specific meltdown occurred and was carried out, to what's looming on the horizon, how isn't this deliberate?
This trend has been accelerating almost directly in line with accelerating technological change and the ever increasing collective power of the computers of those at the commanding heights.
Not even boosts in personal productivity from cell phones has managed to allow the populace to try and keep pace with the growing plutocrat oligarchs:
This is simple, and complex.
Simple Answer:
The economic war has been underway for many years, but until more recently it was a slow crawling menace. Until the mid-2000's it was more of a scheme to cheat the masses, to keep us undermined yet just happy enough to not really notice the gradual decline. However, over the past few decades it has increased at an alarming rate, incidentally in line with computational increase. Until about 5 years ago it was mostly a plundering of the nation, and right about when that was finished, and when we were all unwittingly at our weakest ever, and when the technology was in place to pull it off, and with a new level of motivation never seen before, the plutocrats went for the jugular of the masses directly and then furthered their cause by instituting TARP "bailouts".
This came as a one-two punch:
(1) They triggered the sea of debt into a tsunami by imploding the Property Price Index (engineered housing bubble), which directly plundered the 'wealth' of those who bought into the con.
(2) Oil price gauging. Completely manufactured fuel price hikes. Virtually everything we use is made from petroleum distillates & derivatives, and is then transported using petroleum based fuels. Triple the price of fuel, by design considering the actual cost and production of oil had never changed, and spike the prices of almost literally everything we all take for granted.
The timing of these 2 events is what to focus on. The fuel crisis was ratcheted up right in line with the increasingly looming 'pop' of the housing bubble, which squeezed everyone, especially the poor and the newly damned.
Complex Analysis:
Not only has the global economy imploded rather dramatically, all the hard numbers point towards an inevitable total collapse, especially in the USA. The Federal Reserve and EU Bank are both privately owned institutions, and there's no debating this fact. The Federal Reserve in particular was at the heart of the US economic meltdown, which brought the rest of the world with it. These institutions are literally at the helm of each federal economy, and aren't subject to being audited. They're above each government, just the same as your local city government is subject to the state government, and the state to the federal government.
The global banking scheme is seemingly leading the world into a post-apocalyptic nightmare. How is this possible? Today we have increasingly powerful computers of all different sizes, yet the more powerful our computing hardware and software becomes the faster we're falling into the abyss, instead of rising to an economic utopia. Computers clearly aren't helping the system maintain a balanced budget sheet, while when you look at the graphs it appears they're helping the elitist plutocracy to plunder the nations. Ask yourself how in the face of everything that's happened in the past few year, billionaires increased in numbers and profits at a record rate in 2009 (Link 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
What a trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills:
Many people put all of the blame of our current woes on the housing bubble, but a more realistic view is that that crisis only sped up the inevitable. The massive spending associated with bailouts and stimulation merely put off even longer the inevitable. The longer this inevitable is put off the harder the crash will be. Just look at the numbers. Spending got us into the mess, so in response they spend and loan even more. Like it's going out of style… literally.
It wasn't originally designed to implode, despite that being how it looks today, but it's always been designed to leech away the self-reliable wealth of those with less. The less you have the more it hurts you… is and always has been the purpose of the privately owned Federal Reserve bank. The mechanism responsible is inflation.
When the value of the dollar is deliberately reduced every year it creates a situation where you have to set up your surplus finances in ways that will hedge against the inflationary dollar devaluation. During 'normal' times, you could invest your money into your home or other property and as the value of the dollar goes down the value of the property would go up. This is just the opposite with automobiles which helps explain why social engineering has us all obsessing with dumping all of our money into our cars that are worth $10,000 less the day you drive it off the lot. Everybody's primary financial concerns should be in how to position their earnings against inflation, not new spinner rims.
Now what happened with the housing meltdown is the big trend that makes it hard to believe that the design wasn't to rob almost literally all of the populace, as normally the best thing the little guy can do is invest in his property so that he can fight off inflation. All those years most people thought their house was somehow naturally going up in value, in reality the dollar was going down in value and the markets knew it. Except now the value of our homes has plummeted, it's unsafe to even invest in property, endless millions refinanced their homes and now owe more than the property is worth, and some 60% of US national assets have been absorbed by the Federal Reserve and the Big 6 banking cartel that are the majority stock holders in the "Fed".
The other catalyst of the economic downturn was the fuel price crisis. It served as the 1-2 punch to the entire global economy. In the graph above you can see that the more fuel consumption went down the more the price went up. This is the opposite of how the market works, proving massive manipulation. What's important about is it happened directly parallel to the housing collapse, which made its effects substantially worse than if it occurred in 1999. Assuming it was deliberate, what does this tell you about the titans of Wall Street and their disdain for the global populace?
That graph shows that neither oil production nor inventory had ever changed in ways to justify the spike in prices. On the contrary, inventories went up while consumption was down while mass scale price gouging like never before was in full effect. The answer for how this happened was market speculation. The big banks and hedge funds in effect 'all' got together and continuously bet in large scale that oil prices would go up, and sure enough that's what happened. The costs of everything went up, people were broke, major institutions absorbed by the government & banks, the property markets crashed, and now the inevitable collapse is out in the open for everyone to see.
Note that during the peak of the oil crisis Obama actually went on the record saying that 'fuel' prices should be artificially increased so that people would use less fossil fuels. Now he didn't say to raise oil prices in that particular quote, but inherently that is the overall goal of Cap'N Trade type policies, and we all had a devastating test run during the artificial fuel crisis. Can anyone say they were glad the test run of Cap & Trade happened?
Obama's Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a Federal Reserve agent, being the former president of the New York branch Federal Reserve Bank. Other Federal Reserve agents in the Obama Administration include Paul Volker, Christina Romer, Alan Blinder, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.
As with 9/11, Bush ignored all of the warnings of the looming 'economic 9/11'. His Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, a key player in the economic meltdown. Goldman has embraced the world of AI, with sophisticated AI supercomputers that utilize learning algorithms to conduct "high frequency trading" that allows them to literally cheat at the stock trading game, and in all likelihood conduct operations such as artificially raising global fuel prices. Goldman Sachs agents in the Obama's inner circle include Gary Gensler, John Corzine, Rahm Emanuel, Mark Patterson, Neel Kashkari, Reuben Jeffery III and apparently even Elana Kagen.
During the economic disaster, Goldman executives cheered their results, emails went on to show. All throughout the crisis, Sachs reaped billions of dollars in record profits while the rest of the world economy has floundered. In July of 2010 Sachs was fined the record amount of $550 million by the SEC for their role in the Subprime fiasco. The same day their stocks actually went up 5% as those in the game know how much evil they had committed, and were relieved at only having to pay a mere $550 million. Days after the settlement, Sach's put aside $9 billion for employee bonuses.
Sachs was Obama second largest campaign contributor, funneling him $994,795, 7 times what Enron famously gave to Bush. His other top contributors included Google, Harvard, University of California, Microsoft, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Stanford, IBM, Morgan Stanley, BP and General Electric.
These people are textbook "Disaster Capitalists", those whose portfolios are stacked to reap profits and success in their goals via the mass scale suffering of others. It's no secret that BushCo. was a regime of disaster capitalists, but ObamaCo. is too. Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton have made public statements condoning the capitalization of crisis. The notorious Henry Kissinger said the economic crisis was a "great opportunity" for Obama to create a "new world order."
Disaster capitalists are amongst the greatest threat to the world, as having people set up to reap profits ranging from millions to trillions sets a precedent of why would they prevent the crisis, especially if there are agendas that transcend money. "Problem Reaction Solution" is the mechanism to our undoing.
Between the agents from the Federal Reserve many of the key players in the economic meltdown are all accounted for. On top of everything above, Larry Summers, under Bill Clinton, played a key role in repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, which was set up after the first Great Depression to prevent it from happening again. He also helped deregulate derivatives, for which there is now a one quadrillion dollar bubble. After the modern collapse had already begun, Obama made him a top level adviser.
The Federal Reserve was the centerpiece of the housing bubble, as well as in serving as the vehicle to enable Congress to commit runaway spending that involves endless wars and the AGI Manhattan Project. In the meltdown aftermath, Obama moved immediately to hand the bankster monolith even more power, and the Congress banished Ron Paul's legislation that would have given the Congress for the first time the ability to audit the Federal Reserve to bring to light their deeds.
These players are amongst those at the forefront of setting up a total plutocracy. In a plutocracy the wealthy rule everything, as described by an infamous leaked Citigroup memo.
The mentality of the classical elitist must be discussed. They tend to be Social Darwinists, who apply Darwinist theory to sociology. In their view it's their divine role to dominate those beneath them, at the top of the food chain as the fittest to survive. This class of elites are their own social group, much like how most ordinary people identify themselves with race, political party, music scene, and so on. This social group adherence transcends the everyday social group affiliations the rest of us know, and elitist propaganda has us all wanting to identify with them to subconsciously justify their types of actions.
So we're in the middle of a collapse that by all measures looks deliberate, that was caused by private stock holders, who made unfathomable amounts of cash on the ways up and down, and were handed trillions of unaccountable dollars in "bailout" money in the aftermath. Despite all of this, there's still this push for a near-trillion dollar military budget (in the US alone), along with a global government based on a multi-trillions dollar global carbon tax, and even a mandatory "health care" obscenity that might cost trillions overall, yet somehow we're not to come to the conclusion that there's a total economic world war being waged against us?
Of course, to propose there's a deliberate war, there has to be a "why" they would do it. The simple answers of "greed" or "power" are lackluster to address the scale we're enduring. They believe they'll become "gods" with indefinite lifespans of hundreds or even thousands of years, and to speed up the process they're carrying out a full scale 21st Century Manhattan Project: The AGI Manhattan Project.

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Levin has maintained communication with many of the criminals he has interviewed. He has testified in criminal and civil court cases, consulted with prosecution and defense attorneys, and assisted police in apprehending violent predators. In addition, he has appeared frequently on news and talk shows and is often consulted by the media.
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Katy Perry and John Mayer are...dealing with each other.
So far there have been a few sightings, all at night time. And one morning after which is just an extension of the evening anyway. Until they're seen on an outing together when the sun is out then, I hope that's all it is, and what it should have just been with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher: action, nothing more.
Yesterday, in the day time, Katy was with her friends at Raging Waters. God I love water parks. SO MUCH. And here's some advice if you've never been - though this might offend the prudes, and Duana - be careful about your tampon. It's almost better if it comes out. Because the alternative...is worse.
While Katy spent time with her people, John was over at a beach house party in Malibu. Is it too much to hope that the conversation went something like this?
J: Will you come with me to a Malibu party this afternoon?
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Hey, thanx for letting us 'locals' know about Steamboat Lake! Looks a whole lot better than our Lake Dillon here. By any chance, did the rangers you met mention anything about summer kiting there?
Also, my Lake Dillon update - The north (Dillon) side SUCKS. The blizzards we've been having have left this side of the lake mostly clear ice. I was out there today - won't bother again unless we get some snow coverage. The south end (Farmers Corners) has MUCH better coverage. Just wanted to get this out there for anyone coming up here this weekend.
What doesn't suck though, the skiing and boarding have been incredible (at Copper Mountain).


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Becoming a Messenger
Messenger cards which certify the information required by Article
III of the SBC Constitution and SBC By-Law 8 can be obtained by
any church from the state convention with which they are affiliated,
or from their local association.
Members interested in becoming messengers should contact their
pastors for information on the appropriate process of approval applicable
in their church.
III from the SBC Constitution
III. Membership: The Convention shall consist of messengers
who are members of missionary Baptist churches cooperating with
the Convention as follows:
One (1) messenger from each church which: (1) Is in friendly
cooperation with the Convention and sympathetic with its purposes
and work. Among churches not in cooperation with the Convention
are churches which act to affirm, approve, or endorse homosexual
behavior. And, (2) Has been a bona fide contributor to
the Convention's work during the fiscal year preceding.
2. One (1) additional messenger from each such church for every
two hundred and fifty (250) members; or for each $250.00 paid
to the work of the Convention during the fiscal year preceding
the annual meeting.
The messengers shall be appointed and certified by the churches
to the Convention, but no church may appoint more than ten (10).
4. Each messenger shall be a member of the church by which he
is appointed.
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Baptist Convention as a messenger to the Southern Baptist
Convention shall be registered as a messenger to the Convention
upon presentation of proper credentials. Credentials shall
be presented by each messenger, in person, at the Convention
registration desk and shall be in the following form:
completed and signed Southern Baptist Convention registration
card, certifying the messenger's election in accordance
with Article III. Membership, of the Constitution of the
Southern Baptist Convention; but if the messenger does not
have the messenger registration card,
letter from the messenger's church, signed by the clerk
or moderator of the church, certifying the messenger's election
in accordance with Article III. Membership, of the Constitution
of the Southern Baptist Convention; or
telegram from the messenger's church certifying the messenger's
election in accordance with Article III. Membership, of
the Constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention.
registered in accordance with this section shall constitute
the Convention.
president of the Convention, in consultation with the vice
presidents, shall appoint, at least thirty (30) days before
the annual session, a Credentials Committee to serve at
the forthcoming sessions of the Convention. This committee
shall review and rule upon any questions which may arise
in registration concerning the credentials of messengers.
Any such ruling may be appealed to the Convention during
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first session of the Southern Baptist Convention for the
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reviewing questions concerning messenger credentials. The
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Everyday Brownies
I was craving chocolate. Just chocolate. Okay … WAS is probably the wrong choice of words because I crave chocolate everyday.
And these easy Everyday Brownies from my friend Kamran's new book Hand Made Baking were … p-e-r-f-e-c-t. < That was me singing btw.
So decadent and fudgy!
I love brownies because the ingredients are simple and you don't have to mess with your mixer to make them. And truth be told, when I'm craving chocolate in a pinch, I will break out a brownie mix to quickly satisfy my craving. But these brownies. Oh my gosh, they are insanely chocolatey and totally worth making my craving wait an extra few minutes for their decadence.
They call for dark brown sugar in addition to the white sugar. Sweet!
And the chocolate. Oh, the chocolate. Cocoa plus chunks of chopped dark chocolate get mixed in before baking.
And in no time, you end up with these sinfully sweet squares to enjoy.
Everyday Brownies
1 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 1/3 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs, cold
3/4 cup all purpose flour
5 oz roughly chopped dark chocolate cacao (54-70 percent cacao)
- Position rack in upper third of the oven.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper leaving an overhang on each side.
- In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over low heat. Mix in both sugars, the cocoa powder and salt with a silicone spatula or wooden spoon.
- The mixture should be lukewarm before adding the eggs. If not, set aside to cool slightly. To test, a clean finger should be able to comfortable stay in the mixture without getting burned.
- Vigorously stir in the vanilla and eggs. Once the batter appears shiny and the eggs are blended in well, add the flour and mix just until the flour has disappeared.
- Briskly stir in the chopped chocolate and spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 38-43 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center emerges slightly moist with batter.
- Allow brownies to cool in the pan placed on a wire rack. Life the parchment paper and transfer brownies to a cutting board and cut into 16 equal squares.
Recipe from Handmade Baking 2014, shared with permission from Chronicle Books.
Want more?
Here's a little peek.
I started out wanting to make this Everyday Chocolate Cake.
I mean if I could take a bite out of a book, I would eat the heck out of that cover.
But, then I wanted to make these Chocolate Snickerdoodles.
And then these Heartbreak Chocolate Truffle Cookies were calling to me.
They're still calling to me… Screaming!
But there's lots of other non-chocolate yumminess inside too.
Check out Hand Made Baking sometime if you want to satisfy your sweet tooth… or visit Kamran's Blog, The Sophisticated Gourmet for more goodies.


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|*February 2 - 8
|Ethnicity and Discipleship
Read for This Week's Study:
|Matt. 15:21-28; Luke 7:1-11; John 1:3; Acts 10:28, 34, 35; 11:25-30.
Memory Text:
|"I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22, NRSV).
|Jim felt called to take the gospel
to a foreign country. Upon arrival, he discovered that the people had a test
for foreigners to earn the right to stay among them. The foreigner had to
swallow, and not regurgitate, a potion. If the person failed the test, he
or she had to leave immediately; otherwise, they could be eaten by the tribe.
Jim watched the tribe prepare the potion of milk, human saliva, blood, chewed-up
herbs, and other herbal concoctions. It looked and smelled sickening. All
he could do was prayand drink. To everyone's amazement (especially
his own), Jim drank it and held it down, earning the right to remain.
Making disciples might require us to do strange things: eat or drink strange mixtures, and be all things to all people so we can win some. This is the call and challenge of discipleship, especially as the gospel goes around the world and into cultures sometimes radically different from our own.
This Week at a Glance:
|What other examples do we have of Jesus ministering to others besides Jews? Who were the God-fearers and what can we learn from them about discipleship? What can we learn today from the Antioch model of discipleship?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, February 9.
|February 3
Disciples Among the Samaritans
Look up the following texts. What can we learn from them about God's attitude toward all races and people? John 1:3; Acts 10:28, 34, 35; 17:26-28; Heb. 2:9.
Scripture is clear: Not only did Christ create all humanity, He died for all humanity as well, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin. The universality of Christ's death, the fact that His death was for every human being, should be more than enough to show us how repugnant prejudice is to God.
It is no wonder, then, that when Jesus was here, He ministered not just to the Jews but to non-Jews, as well. Though Paul is understood to be the apostle to the Gentiles, Jesus was already witnessing to them when here in the flesh.
Read Luke 17:11-16 and John 4:39-42. What is going on here? What message should we take away from these texts?
Last week's lesson showed that the woman at the well left her water pots and went to invite the villagers to meet Jesus after He had told her everything she ever did. She even introduced the possibility of His being the Messiah. Scripture says that many of the villagers believed because of the woman's testimony. When they met Jesus, they persuaded Him to stay, presumably to teach them.
The story of the ten lepers (Luke 17:11-16) also speaks to Jesus' work for Samaritans. The tenth leper, who returned to give thanks, was a Samaritan. By praising God in a loud voice, He showed his gratefulness for what Jesus had done for him. Jesus told this Samaritan that his faith had made him well. The Greek word used for this healing denotes the idea of being saved. This implies that the Samaritan's faith had saved him not only physically but spiritually. Jesus also called the Samaritan a foreigner. Despite knowing him to be a Samaritan and a foreigner, Jesus did not discriminate against him but rewarded his faith. These encounters show that Jesus did not conform to the prejudices of His time.
|It is one thing to say we should not harbor prejudice against anyone; it is another, actually, to be free of these poisonous emotions. What practical steps can you take to help break the bonds of prejudice in your own heart?
|February 4
The God-Fearers
In the first century, some Gentiles were called God-fearers. They nominally accepted Judaism, made gifts to synagogues, and attended Sabbath services. They did not, however, submit to proselyte baptism or adopt all the rabbinic regulations. One such God-fearer was the centurion of Luke 7:1-11.
Read Luke 7:1-11. From these texts, what can we learn about the faith and character of this Gentile disciple?
For Jesus, the faith of this centurion "was an earnest of the work which the gospel was to accomplish among the Gentiles. With joy He looked forward to the gathering of souls from all nations to His kingdom."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 317.
Acts 10 mentions another Roman official. Cornelius was a devout God-fearer and a centurion. He was generous to the needy and prayed earnestly to God. God sent an angel to inform him of the acceptance of his gifts and prayers, and sent him in search of Peter. Peter went to his home, contrary to Jewish scruples, and was even reprimanded for it. But God told him not to call common or unclean those, like Cornelius, whom He had cleansed.
As Peter preached to Cornelius's assembled household (Acts 10:44-46), the Holy Spirit interrupted him with the Gentile Pentecost, to the amazement of his Jewish companions.
Read Acts 11:1-3. What was the reaction of the Jewish followers of Jesus? What makes that reaction so shocking to us today? What message can we take away from their actions?
Here they were, themselves followers of Jesus, yet not understanding the fullness of the gospel. How careful we should be not to allow any cultural, educational, or social influences contrary to the principles of Christ to hinder us from living to the fullest the profession we claim for ourselves.
|February 5
The Canaanite
At one point in His ministry, Jesus withdrew to the regions of Tyre and Sidon. He had to, in a sense, get out of town because things were getting tense with the leaders. In this Gentile territory He entered a house but did not want anyone to know it (Mark 7:24). Yet a Canaanite woman soon found Him.
Read Matthew 15:21-28 and answer the following questions:
1. Why did the woman call Jesus by a Messianic name, "Son of David"? What did that imply concerning her knowledge of Jesus?
2. How did His disciples react to her, and why was that typical of them?
3. What kind of appeal did she make? How helpless is she?
4. What things happened that should have discouraged her but did not?
Despite coming from a despised nation that had a long history of enmity with Israel, despite being ignored at first by Jesus, despite the attitude of the disciples, even despite Christ's own words to her at first, she knew that Jesus was her only hope. Perhaps it was a tenacity born out of desperation. Who knows? But in the end, we are all just as dependent upon Christ, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Jesus also has a powerful lesson for His own disciples. Christ's purpose was to teach them about the need to work for non-Jews, and this He did by acting out the contrast between the usual attitudes and His own. These twelve had a lot to learn about what it meant to be disciples.
|Look again at this woman. What can we learn from her attitudes, actions, words, and faith that can make us better disciples?
|February 6
Philip and the Ethiopian Official
One of the most fascinating stories about discipleship is found in Acts 8:26-40. It is the story of Philip and the eunuch.
Read the whole story (Acts 8:26-40) and answer the following questions:
1. What indications show us that this man already had some knowledge of truth, and was a seeker after truth?
2. What role did the Scriptures play in his becoming a disciple?
3. What did Philip say was necessary in order for him to be ready for baptism?
4. What can we learn about discipleship from the role of Philip in this story? What characteristics did Philip show that made him such an effective witness for the Lord?
In this story, providence played a powerful role, did it not? After obeying the angel, Philip met the eunuch on the road. Interesting, too, that Philip was to go from Jerusalem to Gaza (what symbolism do you see there?). The Ethiopian was, apparently, another God-fearer. He also just happened to be reading the Bible, and not only the Scripture but Isaiah, and not only Isaiah but the greatest Messianic prophecy in all the Bible, chapter 53. This chapter, of course, depicts Christ's substitutionary death for us. Then, after Philip explained to him the meaning of the Scripture, they came to a certain water, and the eunuch wanted to be baptized. Everything fell right into place.
|Read Acts 8:39. The eunuch went on his way rejoicing, surely about His newfound discovery of Jesus' dying for His sins. We say that faith is not feeling, and that we need to maintain faith even when we feel bad. At the same time, why should we, as disciples who have been forgiven our sins through the death of Jesus, always have a place in our heart for rejoicing, regardless of our immediate circumstances?
|February 7
The Antioch Church
The persecution that followed the stoning of Stephen and the preconversion activities of Saul of Tarsus took the gospel to many lands. Among the places it went was Syrian Antioch, where the first organized presentation of the gospel for Gentiles occurred. Luke says that the Lord was with this initiative and that "a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord" (Acts 11:21, NIV). So phenomenal was the growth that the Jerusalem leaders sent Barnabas to assist them.
Upon his arrival, Barnabas secured the help of Saul of Tarsus for this discipleship mission. This had a positive effect on the church. It not only caused the church to grow but also gave it a sense of social concern, stewardship, and mission.
Read Acts 11:25-30. What were the issues? How did the church respond? What lessons can we take away from this account for our mission today?
Notice, too, that when Paul and Barnabas got to Antioch, they taught much people for a year. What should that tell us about the importance of teaching in the question of discipleship?
Acts 13:1-3 reveals more about the makeup of the early church. We know that Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew; Saul, of course, came from Tarsus, another city that was not part of Israel proper. Manaen was either a good friend or foster-brother of Herod Antipas. Simeon was called Niger, the Latin word for "black." Lucius hailed from Cyrene in North Africa. This means that the leadership of the church was ethnically diverse, with some of the leaders not being Jews at all.
These leaders took their discipleship seriously. They worshiped the Lord with fasting and prayer. It was to this church, one that took discipleship seriously, that the Spirit revealed God's will for missions. Saul and Barnabas were commissioned and consecrated to take the gospel to the ends of the earth in fulfillment of Acts 1:8.
Thus we see in these texts mission, teaching, consecration, and dedication of both Jew and Gentile, as the cornerstones of discipleship.
The needs of others present the church with great opportunities for service and witness. No doubt there are a great many needs around you. How well have you taken advantage of these needs to serve others and to witness to them about Jesus?
|February 8
Further Study:
|Read The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 626, 627, 1021-1025;
Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages,
pp. 315-318,
"He [the Centurion] had not seen the Saviour, but the reports he heard had inspired him with faith. Notwithstanding the formalism of the Jews, this Roman was convinced that their religion was superior to his own. Already he had broken through the barriers of national prejudice and hatred that separated the conquerors from the conquered people. He had manifested respect for the service of God, and had shown kindness to the Jews as His worshipers. In the teaching of Christ, as it had been reported to him, he found that which met the need of the soul. All that was spiritual within him responded to the Saviour's words."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 315.
Discussion Questions:
| Look more closely at the Antioch model. What things could
your local church learn from this model that could make it a more effective
witness for Christ?
As a church, the Adventists are very good at getting people to join, as our growing numbers of baptisms prove. We are, though, struggling with the question of discipleship, the question of what to do with these people after we baptize them. As we know, far too many who join soon leave. What are your own thoughts on this problem? What has been your experience with being discipled after you were baptized and joined the church? What do you wish might have been done differently with you? What do you think your local church could do, must do, to disciple new members better? Be prepared to talk about this issue in your Sabbath School class.
The eunuch was reading Isaiah 53. Go over the chapter and review what it tells us about the death of Jesus on our behalf. What does the text tell us that Jesus did for us? What hope does it offer? Why is it so important to keep His death for us at the forefront of all our witnessing? Why is it so important that we keep the Cross at the front and center of all our discipling, as well?
|I N S I D E Story
|Are You Sure?
by HOMER TRECARTIN
Raquel's parents are church planters for their denomination in Brazil. Their first church plant has 10,000 members, and their second numbered 2,000 when Raquel moved to the United States to study.
Raquel missed home and yearned to hear her native Portuguese. She met a Brazilian Adventist couple who befriended her and invited her to church. She went once, but she loved her own church.
A year later the Adventist couple told Raquel that they were planting a new church and invited her to visit. Raquel went and felt drawn to this I group. She began studying the Bible and shared what she was learning with her parents.
Raquel's worried mother pleaded, "Those Adventists are a cult. They will brainwash you." Raquel explained that no one was brainwashing her, she was just studying the Bible. But her mother worried even more.
Then her brother came to visit. Raquel knew that her parents had sent him to "straighten her out," but she was glad to have family nearby. David insisted that they attend their family church on Sunday, and Raquel agreed-provided David attended the Adventist church with her on Sabbath. David thought he would see how this cult was misleading her.
Three months later David and Raquel were still attending the Adventist church on Sabbath and their family's church on Sunday. David studied the Bible, too, trying to prove Raquel wrong. When Raquel decided to be baptized, David asked her, "Are you sure you want to do this? You know what it is going to do to Mother and Father."
"Yes, David," Raquel replied. "It will break their hearts, but I have to follow Jesus."
She noticed tears on David's cheeks. Then David said, "Raquel, I want to be baptized with you."
When they told their parents the news, their 'mother cried. But their father said simply, "Be faithful to what you believe God wants you to do."
Raquel's parents came to the United States for her wedding. They visited the Adventist church with their children. It seemed strange to them, but they saw the deep love Raquel and David have for Jesus. They still attend the church they planted in Brazil, but they are studying the things Raquel and David are sharing with them.
Your mission offerings help plant new churches such as the one Raquel and David attend.
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Lol, i was already getting lazy from part 10-12 xD;; sorry for the crappy art and my non-readable handwriting. Still getting used to this tablet orz
Its not crappy this is pretty good!
hey your art is better than mine i can't draw worth sh*t plus i like it it really cute and i like how fuzzy they look :3
what tablet do you use? its great work by the way!


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Marlboro man? Casteen to join cigarette company board
Outgoing UVA president John Casteen has been elected to the board of directors of Altria Group, better known under its prior name, Philip Morris Companies Inc. and the maker of such well-known tobacco products as Marlboro cigarettes and Skoal.
"With his broad public and private sector experience, I know he will make significant contributions," the CEO said in a company release. Casteen's contributions couldn't save the last big company board he served. Casteen was among the final team raking in a cool $220,000 annually for their services–- only to watch, stunned and saddened, as Wachovia collapsed in 2008.
At Altria, which in 2007 announced a pledge of $20 million to the UVA medical center and $5 million to the undergraduate commerce school, Casteen will be making $240,000 a year.
At Altria, Casteen will find himself among familiar faces, as he'll be serving alongside former UVA rector Thomas Farrell, but putting Casteen on board required a change in the company by-laws, which were amended for his appointment to allow the board to grow from nine to ten members.
In recent years, some shareholders and regulators have grown concerned that running large American companies has become an entitlement to riches, and some legislators have even suggested limiting corporate pay. Such concerns don't seem to be resonating at Altria, where despite a stock price that has fallen from over $70 two years ago to just $20 today, CEO Michael Szymanczyk, who earns a $1.3 million salary and a $3 million bonus, was last month awarded $5 million worth of company stock.
Altria stock fell about one percent in the early hours of the trading day after news of Casteen's appointment was announced.
Clarification: The description of the Altria stock price as falling over two years omitted an important fact initially unknown to the reporter: Altria spun off a subsidiary into a major separate company, Philip Morris International, on March 28, 2008. Taken together, the value of the two companies has not fallen but has actually remained about the same.
–updated at 11:28am with additional details
–updated Wednesday, February 24 at 12:16pm with clarification
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Sorry guys, but you can pull up dozens of web sites with conflicting reports about how many deaths can be attributed to cancer and obesity each year.
The questions remains the same.... would people condemn Casteen if he was elected to the Board of Directors at Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream?
Feel free to replace "Ben & Jerry's" with the name of any other corporation that manufactures and distributes the foods that are causing this obesity in America.
hes making more money then you! and id do it in a heartbeat i know that. i hope they use peta members for testing. when did making money and self determination become so deplorable? its the pussification of america, cville leads the way.
WOW. This really says it all. Where is the integrity and upstanding moral character that he supposedly has as a great leader. Disgraceful.
Heh Pres. Gotta match
Casteen is not the only prominent Virginian on the board, other members include former Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, retired Washington and Lee University President Robert E.R. Huntley and Thomas F. Farrell II, chairman, president and chief executive offices of Dominion Resources Inc.
Maybe, these esteemed statesmen and academics plan to end tobacco use for the good of society--you think ? I'm sure they would tell you they are doing this for the good of our children and grandchildren, and only with men of integrity guiding these huge corporations can we improve the lot of the common man, and make sure that the elections they can now buy, are bought with the intent to better the " public good ".
Funny how it seems all the people that push for marajuana legalization are against the personal choice to smoke tobacco.
I think we'd all agree that smoking is a right and a choice, even if it is known to damage one's health. But, the question is, do you want to be a smoker or a pusher, the role Casteen and his fellow board members have chosen.
quote: "All about the benjamins Baybay!!!"
Welcome to America, version 2010.
What was he suppose to do? Go to work at Seven-Eleven for $8 an hour? Flip burgers at Burger King for $7.50 an hour? Pack up and move into a nursing home as a patient?
Or if he was like a large segment of the population in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, he could transfer his assets to family members (so as to become "poor"), and then go on welfare and food stamps. Yeah, that's the ticket! Then people would really have a reason to whine and moan! :)
I care, hopefully leaders of this stature would spend the little time they have left pushing something other than tobacco.
G bag again I was emotionally moved when I saw you had qouted me a second time. Well let's see I do like ice cream and with proper exercise and diet it should be ok. Ciggy's not so much they are bad for my skin, they stink, they are like $5 a pack ohh yea and they kill ya I think it's like eleven minutes off your life for every ciggy so. If Casteen went to work for B&J I would respect him a lot more but only if he created a uniquely UVA flavor like Hoos mint chocolate chip or maybe Hoos peanut butter and chocolate. To the rest of you thanks for caring I am glad somebody does. Yea most folks just want the loot don't care what they have to do to get it. Casteen has revealed himself with this move. God money Ill do anything for you... Bow down before the one you serve your going to get what you deserve... Think Ill head down to Chaps now Im hungry for Ice cream for some reason.
quote: "I am sure Mr Casteen could find work that pays well and does not cause cancer."
Obesity causes more disease and death in this country than cancer does. Would you object if Casteen was elected to the Board of Directors at Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream?
Obesity causes more disease and death in this country than cancer does. Would you object if Casteen was elected to the Board of Directors at Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream?
Smoking is responsible for about 400,000 deaths a year in the U.S. Estimates of mortality attributable to obesity vary and some are greatly inflated, but 100,000 might be a generous estimate.
Come on folks, who gives a hoot. I'm sure you all work for the most morally respectable businesses in the nation and money has absolutely no bearing on your decisions in life. Gimme a break...
Sorry guys, but you can pull up dozens of web sites with conflicting reports about how many deaths can be attributed to cancer and obesity each year.
Gasbag, people know how many deaths are attributable to cancer each year. It's reported as an underlying cause of death and then death counts for "malignant neoplasms" are published by the National Center for Health Statistics. The word that you want is "smoking." And having published peer-reviewed papers on methods to estimate smoking-attributable mortality, I can tell you with some confidence that approximately 400,000 deaths each year in the U.S. are attributable to smoking.
I always new he had great integrity. Maybe he can help spread cancer across the nation instead of just here at home. Go Hoos!
Quote: "hes making more money then you! and id do it in a heartbeat i know that. i hope they use peta members for testing. when did making money and self determination become so deplorable? its the pussification of america, cville leads the way."
I wonder if they'd use guys like pete for testing. If they paid him enough money, he'd probably do it in a "heartbeat" cuz he ain't no cville pussy!
West Berk;
Your logic is stunning. How could anyone assail such a quickness of wit and command of the facts...
I don't know where you obtained your statistics (a link or reference would be nice) but there are a few modifications I would like to apply to your argument (if you could call it that). Obesity in this country has reached epidemic proportions, but are you asserting that every case of morbid obesity is directly caused by the consumption on Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia? It would appear that there are many opportunities for (causes of) obesity in this country; a largely sedentary population strung out on heavily processed foods (in particular the ubiquitious high fructose corn syrup), aggressive advertising by and convenience of fast food, and a food industrial complex that shuns locally produced foods and prizes the commodification of foodstuffs, from grains to dairy and meat products.
However, smoking IS the number one cause of lung cancer, and big contributing factor to a number of others that I've previously made reference to in an above post. And smoking cessation has been shown to greatly reduce those risks to health. So, to answer your question regarding whether I would hold Mr Casteen in the same contempt if he would to sign on with a couple of old hippies selling ice cream, the answer is no.
Pete Deer
Wonder who would live longer? A guy who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day (or even a half a pack) or a guy who eats a cone of ice cream every day?
Sorry Gassy, they ain't quite the same.
I nearly had a death from second hand obesity on a DC Metro train one morning. I jumped to the side before the lady fell on me though.
" Casteen has been familiar with Altria and Mike Szymanczyk, its chairman and chief executive officer, since February 2007, when Philip Morris USA committed $25 million to the University. About $20 million of that gift was donated toward Medical School research and projects, including a smoking cessation program, according to a University press release.
Overall, Casteen has a large amount of respect for Altria's management and the direction the company has taken with Szymanczyk, he said in an e-mail.
ââ?¬Å?This is a company committed to change and innovation," he said. ââ?¬Å?It is also a company with deep roots in Virginia. I am honored to join the Altria board and to have the opportunity to become part of the company's future."
reported at the in today's Cavalier Daily
Well, the respect I had for Mr. Casteen just went right out the window!
you all forget he has to buy a house now. UVA put him and his family up this whole time. He needs money to make that mortgage payment. What an awesome feeling to get paid for doing "nothing".
One more disappointment... I never thought he was a very good president
Casteen is chasin' that money, money, yeaaah-yeaaah
I wonder what the common thread between higher education and cigarettes and snuff would be? Ohh Yea Cha CHING $$$$$$!!! Classy move Casteen. All about the benjamins Baybay!!!
He learned a lot at UVA. Make money.
I love the statement he'll make "significant contributions." Go cancer! Beat people.
Three ex-wives and expensive tastes.
We have to think that Mr. Casteen really believes in what he is doing. This is the academic equivalent of a politician becoming a lobbyist. I think we can expect to see a decrease in tobacco use restrictions on many campuses in future.
Hey, Clown:
If you are referencing any of the above comments with regard to a double standard for legalizing ganja but not supporting tobbaco companies, I would like you to highlight the statement that supports that veiw. The FACT is that tobacco, when ingested or inhaled, can and will cause lung cancer, heart attacks, high blood pressure, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease, just to name a few. Marijuana does not (http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/15/10/1829.full). In FACT, there is a considerble amount of literature available today that shows medical cannabis can be of significant benefit for nausea with chemotherapy, wasting syndrome in HIV and pain control in patients with chronic pain issues. There are no such studies supporting tobacco in that fashion. And the FACT that Mr. Casteen has accepted such a position with a patently sociopathic corporation (as well as all of the other notables of acedemia and politics from our grand commonwealth) merely demonstrates the degree of mendacity and greed to which they will eagerly lower themselves to in the pursuit of power and money. If somebody wants to smoke a cigarette, or dip some Skoal or do a bong hit, that's their business. But they have a right to know what that substance will do them. The tobacco lobby, with their long history of lies, propaganda and obfuscation, feel a bit differently about that. John Casteen, in taking this position, merely exposes himself, not as an academic in search of the truth, but as a mere shill for a large, politically powerful industry, with all the cash and perks that position can bring him.
Pete Deer
I am a member of the UVa community and I am disappointed.
From CLEAN coal at UVA to tobacco for the world. He is and was a great leader.
Thanks for qouting me gasbag I am touched. In response I would like first to say that I am a big fan of your commentary. Second I am sure Mr Casteen could find work that pays well and does not cause cancer. Thirdly I would have so much more respect for the guy if he had taken a job that did not spread cancer and disease. Even if it was digging ditches would'nt that be more respectable as well as improving the lives of others as opposed to peddling poison?
If that company offered you bunch of hypocrites 240k a year I am pretty sure you would take it. If you would not I can say without doubt you are an idiot.
Worry about yourself or start shelling out money to the people you are trying to push your phoney morals on.
Gasbag, smoking causes about 440k deaths/year (not all are cancer) in the US. Obesity kills about 300k/yr.
Scary, just heard on chn29 news-"Philip Morris, a major research partner with the University of Virginia"--isn't this what they call the revolving door ?
Does John Casteen smoke ? Would think, that would be a requirement for this job.
Man y'all stop pickin on JC he's a good ol' boy. Me n' him was outside the Ridge Mini Mart just the other day sharin a pack a Luckies and a couple tall boys, and scratchin lottery tickets together.
Man gotta make a living don't he? What's he gonna do be a English Professor? That don't pay nothin.
gasbag - moderate use of ice cream is not a detriment to your health. conversely, 2nd hand smoke can cause major health issues , even if you dont smoke. Moderate smokers are at even greater risk.
Let me know if you hear of a death from second hand obesity.
these two dont compare. if casteen really needed the money, he has other ways of making 240k. he does not have to do it here.
Oops, time to eat crow...
Sorry Berk...I would appear the amazing Gasbag should have been the target of my ire. I humbly apologize old boy.
Pete Deer


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Contact: Jerry Horn, Priests for Life, 540-220-0095
ATLANTA, April 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- The racist slurs hurled by radio host Don Imus are reprehensible and certainly warrant the outrage that has followed. The fact that certain black men use similar or identical words when talking about black women is not a defense for Mr. Imus's epithets, only further evidence of the debasing of American culture.
The Imus scandal highlights a deeper and broader problem in our country, the disrespect we have for each other. The murders of my father, the Rev. A.D. King, and my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, were born of this disrespect. So were the deaths of 48 million babies by abortion. When we regard certain people as lesser than ourselves, the value of life is cheapened.
To me, it's as offensive to call an unborn baby a "blob of tissue" as it is to call a black woman a "ho." The disrespect to humanity is the same. My outrage is the same.
Yes, Don Imus's apologies are necessary. But I demand the same from every public figure who has ever said that babies in the womb are not persons.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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