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In Dubai, Sri Lankan businessman Mohamed Farouqand and German engineer Heinz Mebus meet with as many as three Iranian officials, presenting them with an offer to sell Iran the expertise and materials needed to develop a nuclear weapons program. Both Farouqand and Mebus are connected to A. Q. Khan, the head of Pakistan's nuclear program who also operates a network of nuclear manufacturers and suppliers located in more than 30 countries. According to two Western diplomats interviewed by the Washington Post in 2005, the offer lays out a five-step plan which would begin with the provision of technical drawings for Pakistani centrifuges. In phase two of the plan, the network would supply Iran with a starter kit of one or two centrifuges. This would be followed by the sale of as many as 2,000 centrifuges, which could then be used to enrich uranium. In the final phases of the plan, Iran would be provided with auxiliary items for the centrifuges and enrichment process as well as reconversion and casting equipment for building the core of a bomb. It is not known whether or not the Iranians accept this particular deal; however, at some point the Iranians do eventually obtain centrifuge parts from Khan (see March 10, 2005). [Washington Post, 2/27/2005]
Entity Tags: Heinz Mebus, Mohamed Farouqand, Abdul Qadeer Khan
Timeline Tags: US confrontation with Iran, A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
Soon after people involved in the A. Q. Khan nuclear proliferation ring start to meet with Iranian representatives (see 1987 and 1987), Israeli intelligence becomes aware of these contacts. Authors Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark will comment that the Israeli intelligence community studies "the Pakistan-Iran nuclear pact since its inception in 1987." One of the key elements in the Israeli effort is Unit 8200, an intelligence component of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which will crack the encryption used in communications between Pakistan and Iran at some point in the next few years. The intercepts suggest that Pakistan may have given the Iranians what Levy and Scott-Clark will call "a nuclear weapons factory." Future IDF chief Moshe Ya'alon will say of the period in the mid-90s: "Pakistan was broke. Khan was flying around the world alongside his military escort. Our people overheard him dealing and many of these deals came back to Iran, to whom he was offering KRL stock." [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 256]
Entity Tags: Abdul Qadeer Khan, Unit 8200, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel Defense Forces
Timeline Tags: A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan sells uranium enrichment equipment to Iran for $3 million in cash. Sri Lankan businessman Bukhary Syed Abu Tahir, Khan's key associate, arranges for two containers containing used centrifuge units to be delivered from Pakistan to Iran via an Iranian-owned merchant ship. [BBC, 2/12/2004; Associated Press, 2/20/2004; Washington Times, 9/9/2004]
Entity Tags: Abdul Qadeer Khan, Bukhary Sayed Abu Tahir
Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan supplies Iran with blueprints for an advanced P2 centrifuge, used to produce weapons-grade uranium. Iran already has some technology for centrifuges and spare parts provided by Khan in the 1980s (see 1987), but discovers that what it has is out of date. The new, German-designed P2 centrifuges are better than the earlier P1 versions, as they have rotors made from specialty steel and are more reliable. Khan also makes other deliveries of nuclear weapons technology to Iran around this time (see 1994). [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 256]
Entity Tags: Abdul Qadeer Khan, Iran
Selig Harrison. [Source: Publicity photo]Selig Harrison, a long-time regional expert working at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, says, "the CIA still has close links with the ISI." Harrison is said to have "extensive contact with the CIA and political leaders in South Asia." He also claims that the US worked with Pakistan to create the Taliban. [Times of India, 3/7/2001] Similarly, in 2000, Ahmed Rashid, longtime regional correspondent for the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph, called the US "Pakistan's closest ally, with deep links to [Pakistan's] military and the ISI." Rashid agrees with Harrison that the US had a role in the creation of the Taliban. [Center for Public Integrity, 9/13/2001]
Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Taliban, Pakistan Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Selig Harrison
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
In an interview with a Pakistani satellite channel, Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan denies allegations that he was involved in selling nuclear secrets or equipment to Iran. "I am being accused for nothing, I never visited Iran, I don't know any Iranian, nor do I know any Iranian scientist," he says. "I will be targeted naturally because I made the nuclear bomb, I made the missile." [Guardian, 1/31/2004]
Entity Tags: Abdul Qadeer Khan
A. Q. Khan confesses on television. [Source: CBC]After A. Q. Khan's nuclear proliferation network was caught selling nuclear technology to Libya, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is put in a difficult spot over how to deal with Khan. Khan is so popular in Pakistan that Musharraf would face considerable political fallout if Khan is declared a traitor or seriously punished. Khan is placed under house arrest in Pakistan. Then, on February 4, 2004, he apologizes in a carefully staged speech broadcast on Pakistani television. He says that he accepts full responsibility for all nuclear proliferation activities. He insists that neither the Pakistani government nor the Pakistani military was aware or involved in his nuclear network in any way. He asks for forgiveness. "It pains me to realize this, that my entire lifetime of providing foolproof national security to my nation could have been placed in serious jeopardy on account of my activities, which were based in good faith, but on errors of judgment related to unauthorized proliferation activities." Pakistani journalist and regional expert Ahmed Rashid will later comment, "Most experts accepted that Khan could not have carried out his business without the military's support." But US government officials immediately accept Khan's apology and say that they believe Pakistan's military had not supported his business. [Rashid, 2008, pp. 289]
Entity Tags: Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Ahmed Rashid
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) begins investigating a 1987 meeting (see 1987) where two associates of A. Q. Khan presented Iranian officials with an offer to sell Iran nuclear technology and materials. [Washington Post, 2/27/2005]
Entity Tags: Abdul Qadeer Khan, International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran hands over documents from a 1987 meeting in Dubai (see 1987) to a International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation (see November 2004). During the 1987 meeting, associates of A. Q. Khan presented Iranian officials with an offer to sell Iran the technology and materials to build a nuclear bomb. However, the IAEA does not uncover any evidence suggesting that the equipment was used in anything other than Iran's civilian nuclear energy program. The violations are technical and based only on the fact that Iran failed to report the program. Despite its recent findings, the IAEA investigation claims it still lacks a clear understanding of Iran's nuclear program. [Washington Post, 2/27/2005]
Entity Tags: International Atomic Energy Agency, Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistan Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says that the now pardoned A. Q. Khan was involved in black market nuclear arms deals and that he gave the Iranians centrifuge parts. "[Khan] had given centrifuges to Iran in his individual capacity and the government of Pakistan had nothing to do with this," Ahmed tells reporters. Despite these acknowledgments, Ahmed says Pakistan "will not hand over [Khan] to any other country." The Pakistani government insists that it had no knowledge of Khan's activities, but numerous experts have questioned these claims noting that it would have been impossible for him to keep his activities secret. [BBC, 3/10/2005; CNN, 3/10/2005]
Entity Tags: Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Abdul Qadeer Khan
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A Better Redeemer
A Better Redeemer
© C. O. Bishop 8/7/17 THCF 8/13/17
Hebrews 9:11-28
Last time, we saw that Jesus is our Mercy Seat…our atonement…and that the Throne of Grace is His throne: that the Mercy Seat covers all of our sins, and, in fact, all of the sins of the human race from beginning to end.
Finally, we saw that, today, we are invited to approach His throne with confidence, knowing that our standing with Him was made perfect at the Cross. We have entered into this relationship by faith, and we are to continue to walk by faith.
Now the writer is making even more powerful statements concerning the Person of Christ
Jesus is Better than the Old Testament Sacrifices.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
This is an astounding statement: Jesus, in contrast to every priest of the Temple who ever lived, has accomplished what those priests could only dream of:
- In the first place, the Temple into which He entered was not the Old Testament structure, nor did He enter into its priesthood at all.
- Secondly, the sacrifice He brought was not the blood of animals which were in no way connected to our guilt. Those animals served as a temporary substitute for the sinner, down through all the ages. God ordained the Law of the Substitute, in Genesis chapter 3. The animals in the garden, whose blood covered the sins of Adam and Eve, were substituted for the fallen pair. All the sacrificial animals, under the Law, served as substitutes; but only until the chosen Lamb of God appeared. There was a substitute involved in every sacrifice for sins, because the Law of Sin and Death demanded the death of the sinner. Jesus took the place of (substituted himself for) every human who ever lived, when he went to the Cross. He is our substitute… and there is no substitute for him.
- He has provided a permanent, eternal redemption for us. In this particular passage, the Greek word for "redemption" is "lutruosin". It carries the idea of being "set free."
There are three words used in Greek, to complete the concept that we call "Redemption:"
- Agorazo: to be "bought in the market (the agora)"
- Exagorazo: to be "bought out of the market…taken off the market, not be re-sold", and
- Lutroō: to be set free.
So, the whole meaning of the concept of Biblical Redemption begins with the "bad news": the fact that we have been sold into sin: so that is where God had to go to rescue us—to the slave-market of sin. That is where Jesus went as our redeemer. We have been bought out of that market-place, never to be sold again. And, finally: we have been set free. He bought us for the purpose of setting us free.
Now: with that in mind, consider the importance of verse twelve: it says that Jesus, at the cost of his own life-blood, being tortured to death by the barbaric people for whom He died, has bought eternal redemption for us. It says we have been eternally bought out of the marketplace of sin, to be eternally set free. It simply cannot be stated in stronger terms! Your position in Christ cannot be more secure than it already is. You have been eternally set free. Read verses 13 and 14:
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Whatever effect the Old Testament sacrifices had upon the believer, the effect of the sacrifice of Christ is far superior: His death and burial and resurrection brings eternal redemption. Notice, too, that it says that he did all this "through the Eternal Spirit:" He lived a sinless life by the Holy Spirit, and he sacrificed Himself by the Holy Spirit. His whole life was lived out in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the result is that we are permanently bought out from our former slavery to sin, and have been permanently set free to serve God.
The Mediator of the New Testament…the New Covenant
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Notice the tenses, here: he sacrificed himself (past tense), and because of that, He is (present tense) our High Priest—the Mediator between God and Man. Bear in mind that a mediator is always a "go-between" of some sort. God says in 1st Timothy 2:5 that "…there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." In this specific case (the mediator between God and Man), the mediator is the priest; the one who represents God before men and Man before God. So Jesus is identified clearly as the High Priest of the New Covenant.
This serves as a reminder that, in the truest sense, the New Testament did not begin with Matthew chapter one. Jesus himself said, "…this is the New Covenant in my Blood…." So, the real beginning point of Jesus's ministry as the Mediator of the New Covenant, (in spite of what we refer to as his "high Priestly prayer", in John 17—and that is what it was) was the sacrifice he brought as the High Priest: his death at the Cross. He appeared in the real tabernacle with that sacrifice, once for all, and consummated his eternal position at the right hand of God the Father.
So, when our Bibles start the New Testament with the four Gospels, it is only because the Gospels introduce the New Testament. It actually began with the crucifixion, and really got rolling at the day of Pentecost, 50 days later. The Church-age is the beginning of the New Testament. The full New Covenant as promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34, will be ushered in after the Lord's return.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
These are perplexing things to read, unless you remember that every blood-sacrifice in the Old Testament was, in one form or another, a picture (or pre-figuring) of Christ and His one sacrifice that was to come. Some are more clearly stated than others. But the closing comment on that passage is this key statement: …without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
This is a clear explanation of what was wrong with Cain's offering, in Genesis chapter four by the way. I have heard several preachers make the statement that "there was nothing wrong with Cain's sacrifice—it was his heart attitude that was wrong." They were pretty adamant about it, too, saying that to claim otherwise was to insert doctrine that just wasn't there.
Well—sorry, but this passage says that the non-blood character of the sacrifice was what was wrong…that, apart from the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. No forgiveness! And, if we skip ahead to Hebrews 11:4, the same writer clearly states that "by faith, Abel brought a more excellent sacrifice…" It does not say, "God liked Abel's attitude better": it says the sacrifice was better.
Abel obeyed by faith, and brought the blood sacrifice about which he had apparently learned through Adam's testimony. (Remember, God attempted to reason with Cain, and effectively reminded him that he, Cain, also knew what the problem was, and that if he obeyed, he too would be accepted. But Cain chose to rebel…and we know the result.)
A Better Sacrifice
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
The logic, here, is that while it was necessary for "all things to be purged with blood", here on earth, it was even more necessary in the heavenly tabernacle. But, as the heavenly tabernacle is infinitely superior to the Earthly one, so the sacrifice also had to be infinitely superior. And it was! The Sacrifice which Jesus brought was eternally ordained by God (see Revelation 13:8…Jesus is "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the Earth.") Jesus is "Plan A", and there is no "Plan B!"
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
I have a hard time picturing this, because, honestly, I realize that I have no idea what the presence of God is like beyond the very limited descriptions in God's Word. Perhaps someone might say I lack imagination; but, in this particular case that is a good thing. God says (1st Corinthians 2:9) "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." In another passage we are told that we are to cast down "…imagination and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God." It seems to me that if God is silent on a subject, then we ought to be silent, too; but there are many books available today giving glowing, detailed description of heaven, and the throne room, the angelic hosts, etc. It leaves me to wonder about the real source of such things.
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Jesus made a once-for-all sacrifice, to take away the sins of the World (John 1:29), and we look for his second coming; not hoping that we may be good enough, or that our works will be sufficient, but knowing that He was "good enough": knowing that His one sacrifice is eternally sufficient.
Some churches teach that, through the Eucharist, Jesus is continually suffering for the sins of the World. This passage flatly states that to be the worst form of falsehood. That teaching denies the truth of God's Word, and relegates Jesus to a continual "victim of God's Wrath", rather than the valiant and victorious Lord of Hosts, Lion of Judah, and conquering Lamb of God that he truly is. He voluntarily stepped forward to be our savior, and his Sacrificial work was completed once for all, at the Cross.
This is how we know that Jesus is not physically (or mystically) in the Eucharist…that the bread and the cup are only representative of His body and blood, and are emblems of how we have been born again.
They are not the means of salvation, nor are they in any way effective to put us in a right standing before God. They are strictly a reminder of how we entered into a right standing with a Holy God, and of who we are as a result. Living in a world that is antagonistic toward the Creator, it is easy to forget who we are in Him, and struggle along in our flesh, instead of trusting Him day by day, allowing Him to live through us.
This has been a fairly persistent false teaching, and many otherwise sound apologists have been snared by it, because it is an attractive idea. I enjoy the writings of C.S. Lewis, but in his early book "Mere Christianity", he states that one becomes a Christian by taking communion. That is absolutely false. I hope that C. S. Lewis later realized his error, but I still have that book, and there have been millions of copies sold over the years.
One becomes a Christian by coming as a guilty sinner, and placing one's personal trust in Jesus's blood as full payment for one's own personal sin. His literal blood at the Cross is what paid for sin, not the commemorative ritual. We enter in by placing our faith in his real shed blood: his real death, his real burial, and His real resurrection. We commemorate that reality in the Lord's Supper.
By the way, this is also an important passage in refuting all teachings of "reincarnation:" do you see it? (Hebrews 9:27) It says we are appointed to die once…and after that the judgment. That rules out "coming back for seconds", so to speak. You get one life, here on earth: no "do-overs".
Jesus also had one life—and it was given to him specifically for the purpose of going to the cross in the place of the whole human race, to provide the way for us to have eternal life.
So how do we respond? What do we do with all this information? Is it just "fun stuff to know and tell?" Or is there a practical response involved? What kind of response is Jesus looking for?
Let's go back to verse 14:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
There is your "Purpose clause" for all that we just read. Jesus did everything for the Glory of God, and in so doing, He freed us from Sin– so that we could do the same.
He finished His work in order that we might be eternally set free from sin and so that we can join Him in glorifying the Father through service. In John 14:21, we see that the mark of one who loves Jesus Christ is that they obey Him, through faith…and the result is that God, in the person of Christ, engages in a continuing love-relationship with the believer, and deliberately makes Himself known to the believer, in an ongoing, living experience, as that person continues to serve the living God.
We frequently quote Ephesians 2:8, 9, in regards to how we are saved. But we seldom quote Ephesians 2:10, which suggests why we are saved:
- We are his workmanship
- Created in Christ Jesus
- Unto good works, which God has before ordained
- That we should walk in them.
If you have trusted in Jesus as your savior, then you have been born again; and your new nature is created in the righteousness and holiness of God. (Ephesians 4:24) Because of that, you are free to serve Him. God has things for you to do! Don't miss out on the opportunity! We only get one life, and it is our one opportunity to serve the King.
Lord Jesus, stir our hearts to serve you. Change the way we see life. Help us see it as our one chance to walk with you and to work with you. Strengthen and encourage our hearts to follow you. Draw us along as your flock, and teach us your way.
Our High Priest (Part 1)
Our High Priest (Part 1)
© C. O. Bishop 3/21/17 THCF 4/2/17
Hebrews 4:9-16
We spoke last time about the rest that God offers: we saw a serious warning to professing believers that they recognize what is being offered and not fail to enter the salvation-rest through unbelief. We also saw that the rest has two parts…one part is a gift, offered to unbelievers on the sole condition of faith. When a person chooses to believe that Jesus's blood is full payment for his or her sins, specifically, then they become a believer in Jesus, and that "salvation-rest" is given as a gift: they are no longer under the curse of God's Law. This is a positional truth. Since the believers are now "in Christ", their new position frees them from the law of sin and death.
But, the rest has a second part: the second part is conditional upon continuing, day by day, in an ongoing relationship with Christ on the basis of faith. It is a relational rest, and is available only to the believers, and only as they continually choose to enter into His rest, by faith.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
The writer concludes that neither the Sabbath-day rest nor the Canaan rest were the actual fulfillment of the rest offered by Christ. Notice that he says that this specific rest remains "for the people of God"—believers. What is the "rest", then? And why is it offered after faith has come? If salvation itself is not the "rest", in this case, then what are we talking about?
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
What rest? How do we labor to enter into rest? It is actually pretty difficult, in some ways, to accomplish what is being taught, here, because it goes against our flesh. We all want to believe that we can do something to earn a right standing with God. Even though we know we were saved by Grace through Faith, we still want to think that, at some level, we "deserve" God's Grace. But the word "deserve" means to "have earned"…if you can earn God's favor, it is no longer Grace but wages.
So, he says that "he who has entered into rest has ceased from his own works." It requires constant attention for us to break the cycle of legalism, by which we hope to impress God with our behavior. We have to learn to submit ourselves daily to God, to allow Him to live through us. The result is that we quit worrying about whether we are "doing enough". We simply do what He calls us to do.
How does this bring about "rest?" For one thing, I quit wondering whether I am really saved. Having placed my faith in Jesus' completed work, there is nothing for me to add, nor can it be diminished. Jesus said "it is finished!" And it is! But we need to consider who He really is!
Who are we dealing with?
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
It is odd that this verse begins with the word "for"—it would seem to indicate that we are to labor to enter into His rest, because God's Word is alive, etc. It certainly says that all these things are true of the Written and the Living Word. Remember that it is truly God's Word, not Man's. (1st Thessalonians 2:13)
The issue is that, regardless of what we say we are doing, and why…the Lord knows our hearts. He knows our real motives. We may fool others, and we certainly often fool ourselves, but we don't fool God. He says that the Word of God is alive and powerful. (The old English word "quick" means "alive", not "fast on its feet.") Incidentally, the word translated "powerful", is the Greek energes, which is usually translated "effectual"—accomplishing something. The Greek word looks like "energize", and it is tempting to grab that English word as a meaning, but that is not what it means. It means that Jesus, the Living Word, is alive and still working today. And…He sees things as they really are.
He further says that the Word is sharper than any two-edged sword…it can be used for a weapon or for surgery, apparently, as he says it separates between soul and spirit, as well as joints and marrow. However, there are only two words in the New Testament that are translated "sword"—this one is the Greek word "machaira", which comes from the verb "to fight", and means, specifically, a fighting weapon. I am not sure why this specific picture is drawn for us. Perhaps it underscores that this is the believer's offensive weapon, but that it can be used in discipline against us, as well. Bear in mind that it is two-edged: whenever we think it is applying to others, it is also applied to our own lives, at one level or another. Every honest preacher knows that every sermon applies to himself.
I don't know whether you have ever noticed, but inside any bone there is a substance called "marrow", which has a vital part in our survival, as that is where blood cells are made. But, in a cooked soup-bone, for instance, we can see that at the end of each bone, approaching the joint, there is a transition between marrow and bone, where it seems to be a mixture of the two, and it is hard to tell which is which. God says He can see the difference, and can separate the two.
In similar manner, though we may have a hard time explaining the specific differences between soul and spirit (some people even denying that one or the other exists), God not only recognizes both but is completely clear on the differences. It is only from God's Word that we even know for sure that a spirit and a soul are definitely two different things, and that a human is a three-part being, having Body, Soul and Spirit. God is clear on all of it. He knows what our real position is, and is never in doubt.
He meets us with compassion, but no human has ever "pulled a fast one" on God. We have never succeeded in "pulling the wool over the eyes" of God. It is tragic that we even try. But, if you think about this regularly, and use it as a measuring-stick against your thoughts and motives, it may help you to set aside self-effort, and enter into His rest.
Nothing I can do can add to my salvation or my security in Christ. And nothing can detract from it. It does take labor to enter into the rest offered to believers, because our flesh constantly wants to doubt it. The labor we exert, then, as members of Christ, is only an effort to be His hands, feet, heart, and voice, here on Earth. We are already part of Him…we serve because we are a part of him, not to become part of him.
He knows our hearts completely, understands our weaknesses and conflicts of interest and is completely tender toward us…which is a good thing, because he is also our High Priest!
Jesus is Our Great High Priest
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
The phrase, "Great" High Priest is not a reference to Jesus being "great" at the job, though He certainly is. It means that He is high, and lifted up, far above all the other high priests of the history of Judaism…just as He is called the Great Shepherd, because He is the Master Shepherd, and high above all the human shepherds of the history of the flock of God. Remember that because the human shepherds have human failings, and, in some cases, have abdicated their responsibilities, God has declared that He is taking over the job (Ezekiel 34). It hasn't happened yet, in its final fulfilment, but I personally believe that the final fulfilment is coming soon.
The High Priests of the time during which Jesus served in his earthly ministry (Annas and Caiaphas) were completely corrupt, and were his worst enemies. Though we don't know their identities, the priests at the time when this book was written were the last to claim that title, as the temple was destroyed about five years later. Jesus is the Great High Priest, today and forever.
I have no doubt that there will be some sort of priesthood during the tribulation period, but it will be very brief, and will be cut short by the Antichrist. So the priesthood of Jesus is really the only one left. He is not only "our" great high priest; He is THE Great High Priest, for all eternity. His sacrifice stands forever, and his intercession for us is continual. The writer tells us that in light of this fact—the eternal priesthood of Christ—we are to hold fast to our profession.
This does not say we should hold on to Christ, or hold on to salvation, but to maintain a life that honors Him…our profession—our testimony. Since OUR high Priest (in contrast to that of the Jews at that time) has passed into heaven, and is not in danger of dying, now (as theirs was), nor is he corruptible, or vacillating, let us press on! Let us live lives that honor Jesus…adjusting our priorities to match His. We are secure in Him, and we can live in that security. We can walk confidently in the reality of His presence and His continuing ministry on our behalf.
Remember: this was written before the destruction of the temple (which happened in A.D. 70), but not much before…maybe four or five years. So, the system of faith within which they had grown up (which was God-ordained; not man-made) was about to be literally destroyed. Perhaps some historians know what happened to the priesthood of that day. Perhaps some even survived the destruction…perhaps none did. But the temple and all of its trappings were gone for good.
The Hebrew believers to whom this epistle was written did not know what was about to happen. The writer, here, was warning them of the need to make a full transition from Law to Grace; from the human-built temple to "a Temple made without hands." Part of that transition means recognizing that Jesus is the replacement for every aspect of what they were about to lose. In fact, he had already replaced them all, but they, the Jewish believers, simply had not yet seen it.
The Gentile believers had never experienced any of the things written here. They were new to all of it. And, in spite of the fact that I have been a believer more than two thirds of my life, I am still nearly completely ignorant of the inner workings of Judaism. I cannot know it from the inside, because I am not one of them. The writers of the whole New Testament were primarily (if not exclusively) Jews; but this epistle makes a special outreach to the Jews who already had embraced Jesus as their Savior Messiah, but who were still living within Judaism. He is telling them that it is high time that they all step all the way into Christ. Not to become Gentiles, in any way, but to transfer their loyalties and dependencies to the Risen Christ.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
We should keep in mind that Aaron, the first high priest over Israel, was not born a priest: he was Moses' younger brother. He was reared as a Hebrew slave, after Moses was taken up to be reared by Pharaoh's daughter. He knew what it was like to grow up under the thumb of the Egyptians. He knew what slavery was like, and what hard work was like. He had travelled in the desert, as had all the other children of Israel who escaped under Moses. He knew the taste of manna in the morning, and quails in the evening. He had drunk water from the rock as they all had done. He had seen the judgment of God upon the disobedient. He had looked to the blood of the covenant for salvation. He could completely relate to all the experience of the Jews at that time. But he sinned and failed Israel in many ways. And, finally, he died.
There was never again a High Priest like Aaron, who had grown up under the exact same life as the rest of the Jews. The later priests all grew up in the home of a priest, and had lived a separate life…a somewhat privileged life. Consider, then, that the "great high priest" that Aaron was, even with his flaws, could never have been repeated, until Jesus stepped into that role. Why? Because he did live out the life of a poor, ordinary Jewish man, and yet is the High Priest.
Jesus has experienced all that the Jews of that time experienced, and did not sin. He lived under the hand of God the Father, though he, along with the whole nation of Israel, was subject to Rome. He was tested in every way, and still honored God with every breath he took, every decision He made…every Word He spoke. So, when I am tired, discouraged, or feeling under attack, and in pain, and want to give up, I frequently remember how tired He must have become during his ministry on earth, being exposed to every sort of hardship, and deprivation. His friends abandoned Him. His enemies sought to kill Him. But He pressed on, in faith and obedience. He is our Great High Priest! And, unlike Aaron, the prototype High Priest, he cannot die, leaving us to start fresh with another, lesser priest. He is alive forever—immortal: and forever unchanging: immutable. He is incorruptible, and holy. He is compassionate and wise.
So where does all this leave us? These things are all true…we see them in God's Word, and not in just a few remote, obscure passages…these are all major doctrinal themes: The lostness of man apart from God; the Deity of Christ; the Holiness of God in the Person of Christ; the efficacy of the Blood of Jesus at Calvary, the preaching of the Cross, Salvation by Grace through Faith, and the eternal priesthood of Jesus, the Messiah. So, where does that leave us?
The Conclusion is in Verse 16
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
On the basis of all those truths, the writer encourages his readers to draw near to the throne of Grace in full assurance that the High Priest is a friend, a companion, who truly, completely understands and accepts us, and is not secretly condemning us as hopeless sinners. He died to clear the way for us to approach God freely, and now calls us to do just that.
The review of these eternal truths leaves us with an open invitation…in fact, a standing command…to enter into the throne room of God on a regular basis. In fact, to make it our dwelling, as the Psalmist suggests (Psalm 15:1): "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?"
We are invited to enter that tabernacle, and to abide there. Psalm 91:1 says, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty." And that is where we are to approach the Throne of Grace, to obtain mercy, and find grace, to help in time of need.
God invites us to change our priorities. To read the Gospels and see the priorities of Jesus. To adopt His priorities as our own. He invites us to enter into His rest, and abide under His shadow.
Lord Jesus, teach our hearts to abide in you, to rest in you, and to live under the constant awareness of your intercession on our behalf. Let us serve beside you, as priests in the Body of Christ. Make us your hands and feet, reaching to the lost world. Make us a blessing to those around us.


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Wilton Youth Football scoreboard: Sept. 21-22
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Wilton Youth Football teams had the following results in action from the weekend of Sept. 21-22:
Fourth grade
Wilton White 13, Darien White 6
On Saturday, Wilton White beat a very big Darien White team, 13-6. The boys played as a team and won as a team. They had great blocking from their offensive line and beautiful penetration from their defensive line. The Warriors are off to a great start with a record of 2-1.
In the first half, the Warriors saw great running from Eli Ackerman, A.J. Preisano and Hakan LeFevre. Although the Warriors went three-and-out on their first possession, the defense was brilliant. Michael Munrow, Jack Lynch, Kieran O'Neill and Michael Breen didn't allow Darien any positive yardage and forced Darien to punt.
On the next series, Tyler Hough and Ackerman ran hard but Wilton turned the ball over on downs. Max Mercado came up big on the next defensive series, making a big tackle to force Darien to turn the ball over. On the next offensive series, the Warriors scored on an impressive drive. Hough, Ackerman and Preisano grounded out yards before quarterback Kevin Hyzy hit his brother Craig on a beautiful 30-yard play that put the Warriors in the red zone. After Munrow got positive yards and Ackerman made a beautiful catch, Hyzy hit his brother Craig again, this time for a touchdown to put the Warriors up 6-0. Hyzy snuck the ball in for the extra point, putting the Warriors up 7-0.
Right before halftime, the Warriors stood their ground on defense as LeFevre, Mercado and Nevin Belanger made beautiful tackles to keep Darien off the board. But it was Kevin Hyzy who made a touchdown-saving tackle at midfield that sent the Warriors into halftime up 7-0.
In the second half, the Warriors came out quickly and scored with great running by Dillon Mannix and a 30-yard touchdown run by Ackerman on a great block by Alex Elia that put the Warriors up 13-0. The defense was impressive as Ethan Jackson came up big with a tackle and Lynch once again made his presence known with a huge hit that set Darien back and forcing them to turn the ball over on downs. At the start of the fourth quarter, Darien was moving the ball to score but Belanger came up big with a touchdown-saving tackle in Darien territory.
On the next series, the defensive line of Declan Healy, Billy Bonnist and Ryan Jackson shut down Darien and gave Wilton another chance at the end zone. George DiRocco, always a presence on defense with several tackles throughout the game, ran hard on offense as well and gave the Warriors a huge first down with a 25-yard run with help from a block from Jackson Rivas, to help run time off the clock.
But the Warriors couldn't score again allowing Darien to take the ball over. Ben Pond, Joe Schiavone and Phillip Avallone provided the Warriors with a great tackles before Darien threw a completed pass for a touchdown as time expired. Andrew Pellicano was sidelined with a hurt wrist but hopes to be back in action this weekend as the Warriors take on Fairfield Black.
Wilton Blue 20, Ridgefield Black 6
Max Silva led another dominating defensive performance by Wilton Blue en route to a 20 -6 victory over Ridgefield Black at Fujitani Field. Silva participated in more than 10 jarring, yet perfectly executed 'heads-up' tackles to stymie Ridgefield.
Wilton rolled to a 20-0 lead midway through the second quarter on a 30-yard TD run by Mike Longo, a two-point conversion by Sean Wiseman, a well-executed nine-yard reverse touchdown run by Shane Taubin, and a 13-yard scamper by fullback Ben Calabrese. Tremendous downfield blocks by Eddie Keller and Mike Longo helped open the way for two of the touchdowns. Also seeing carries were William Ryan and Sean Wiseman with multiple runs of 15-yards or more apiece, as well as Eddie Keller, Grant Masterson and Luke Pagano-Walley.
Connor Robertson was tremendous on defense with multiple tackles for a loss and center Chris McCann was flawless with the QB/center exchange.
Fifth grade
Wilton Blue 6, New Canaan Black 6
Wilton Blue squad traveled to New Canaan Saturday to face New Canaan Black, a team that they had shared several tight battles with over the past three years. Once again, this match-up proved to be a hard-fought nail-biter.
Wilton got off to a great start, holding New Canaan without a first down and jumping ahead quickly when Wooder Thoby sprinted 43 yards for a TD and a 6-0 lead. On Wilton's next possession, Will Jarvie, Ryan Sorbo and Kyle Burns led the Red offense on a 15-play drive but came up a yard short on fourth down inside the New Canaan five-yard line.
New Canaan had the first good scoring opportunity in the second half after a long drive, but could not connect on a short fourth-and-goal pass. Wilton committed a turnover to give the ball back to the Rams, who converted a long fourth-down pass to get close and punched it in to tie the score at 6-6. The conversion attempt failed.
As the fourth quarter wound down, neither team could hold onto the ball. Wilton fumbled again, but John Stanley recorded his second interception of the day to fend off another New Canaan charge. The teams each turned the ball over yet again in the final minute, and the game ended in a 6-6 tie, a fitting result in a game where both teams gave their all and performed valiantly.
For Wilton, the defense shone bright, spending most of the second half in the shadows of their goal line, due to turnovers. Despite giving up one score, the defense held time and time again, led by the sideline-to-sideline tackling of the linebacker corps, Kiel Polito, Thoby, Max Mannino, Sorbo and E.J. Fasano, and the pass defense of the safeties, Stanley, Sorbo, Mannino, Nick Mancuso, Antonio Goosman, Max Rothkopf and William Shain.
Wilton White 24, Westport South 7
Blake Pagano-Walley took the opening hand-off from Everett Andersen 70 yards for a TD. Westport's first possession was met by tackles for losses from Sean Sullivan, Michael Coffey and Austin Cameron. On Wilton's next offensive play Matt Gulbin, Jack Hall, Charlie Hastings and Jack Tinnen all sealed their blocks and Sean Sullivan was able to turn the corner for a 55-yard TD run.
After Josh White recovered a Westport fumble, Trevor Martines burst outside for a 15-yard gain. That was followed by a hard-earned first down run by Quinn Wiseman. This drive was capped off by an 18-yard run with a dive into the end zone by Davis Cote.
Wilton was able to use multiple second-half backfield combos with runs from Ryan Johnson, Ashton Argento and Brendan Sullivan. Westport would not go away quietly. Aidan Shannon had to make a TD-saving tackle after a 31-yard gain on a third-and-17 pass play. After a couple of Wilton penalties, Evan Kauh , Brian Cipri and Chip Husle made a big stop on the four-yard line on an inside run. Westport was able to move the pile just enough on a fourth down QB keeper to get to 18-7.
Wilton got back to their first-half ways when Sean Sullivan took a broken play and turned it into another Wilton 70-yard TD run. Wilton's defense finished strong with a sack and a forced fumble by Jimmy McKiernan securing the victory.
Sixth grade
Wilton Blue 12, Ridgefield Black 6
Despite being outweighed by undefeated Ridgefield Black's massive offensive and defensive lines, and overcoming adversity, Wilton Blue went up to Ridgefield's Tiger Hollow on Sunday and came away with an old-fashioned 12-6 victory, using smash-mouth offense and ferocious defense to subdue the Tigers.
The Tigers learned on their first play from scrimmage that the Warriors had come to play, as Austin Andersen and Dominick Polito lit up the ball carrier. A muffed snap and gang tackle for loss forced the Tigers to punt from their own 22.
After moving into Tiger territory, Warrior quarterback Ryan Healy powered his way to the Ridgefield 30 where an illegal helmet-to-helmet tackle tacked on 15 penalty yards, but more seriously knocked Healy out of the game for the duration. Without their starting quarterback, the Warrior drive began to stall, but on fourth and eleven, the offensive line of Jack DiRocco, Erik Lebek, Polito, Jack Lenz, Sean Purdy, Jack Savarese and Noah Levi provided great blocks for Kyle Hyzy who converted the first down to the Tiger two. Two plays later, Hyzy punched in from the one foot line to put the Warriors up 6-0. The point after was no good.
Noah Levi and the defensive line including Ryan Kauffman and Nishant Wangneo took over on the next series. Levi made a great tackle for loss on fourth and five giving the ball back to the offense on the Warrior 37. Hyzy wasted no time on the ensuing possession, when following blocks by Andersen and Kauffman, he squirted through a hole, bounced back across the field and streaked 63 yards to make it 12-0. Again the point after kick was missed.
The rest of the game was mostly a see-saw battle in the middle of the field. Ridgefield earned just three first downs on the day, but broke one long running play for a score to make the game seem closer than it was. Jimmy O'Brien, Jack DiRocco, Jack Savarese, Noah Levi, Austin Andersen, Stephen Tuin and Dominick Polito all had highlight reel type tackles on defense during the game.
On offense, Hyzy, Andersen, O'Brien, Nico Kouvaris and Cooper Heinemann all pitched in admirably at quarterback in place of the injured Healy.
Wilton is now 2-0 on the season and will host Darien Blue next Sunday at Wilton's Fujitani Field.
Wilton White 14, Westport South 0
It was a total team effort in which Wilton White played great in all phases of the game. Drew Herlyn had a terrific game with smart and hard-hitting play on both sides of the ball. Herlyn continues to play the fullback position exceptionally well.
Wilton's defense continued to dominate and did not allow Westport a first down all game. Defensive linemen Jonny Wu, Ethan Masek and Micheal DiCostanzo all made outstanding backfield tackles to cause Westport to lose yardage. Jonny Wu also contributed with the longest punt of the game. Jacob Robb and Aaron Kleeman were the anchors of the defensive line and both had terrific games, stuffing Westport's runners at the line of scrimmage. Unable to run, Westport tried to go the pass game but linebacker Dean DiNanno was there with a huge interception that he nearly converted into a pick-six.
Running back Conner Drake had a solid day running the ball and put Wilton on the board first with an exciting 50-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Matthew King did not miss a beat coming back from his absence at center. Joey Bohacs again was terrific on the offensive line and his solid play was essential to the team's success. Offensive lineman Tyler Daher did a fabulous job.
As a result of excellent offensive line play, quarterback Zach Pozzi threw some nice passes and contributed with a 25-yard touchdown run behind lead blocks from Herlyn and Travis Longo. Wingback Travis Longo scored an extra point with a great end-zone catch. End Andrew Calabrese continued to be a force at receiver, racking up several catches including an extra point. Thomas Costello ran the ball well and made an outstanding catch during the game. Running back Dean DiNanno piled up yards with good overall play.
Seventh grade
Wilton Blue 6, New Canaan Black 0
Quarterback Kyle Phillips hit wide receiver Matt Graham streaking down the middle of the field for a 40-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter Saturday night at Fujitani Field. That was all Wilton needed to secure a win New Canaan Black.
Wilton's grit and hustle on the offensive and defensive lines and ends made the difference in this game. Despite being significantly overmatched in height and weight linemen and ends Jake Stein, Jack Ferguson, Max Colburn, Ethan Masek, Jonathan Wu, Dylan Kennedy, Tyler Daher, Joey Seaman and Liam Sullivan controlled the game. This group was responsible for keeping New Canaan off Phillips in order to make his throw to Graham in the second quarter and making stops on defense. Stein and Wu had important sacks during the night to stop a driving New Canaan team. When New Canaan ran on the outside Wilton's linebackers Tyler Previte, Dean DiNanno, Reilly Bingaman, Phillips and Graham were up for the task taking down New Canaan's hard charging running backs. At safety Thomas Costello, Andrew Luciano and Chase Connolly deflected away dangerous passes. Wilton's defense only gave up three New Canaan earned first downs all night.
On offense running backs DiNanno and Luciano ran the ball hard picking up key first downs to keep drives alive, particularly behind very good wing back blocking from Connor Wright, Costello, Connolly and Bingaman when the play ran on the outside. DiNanno and Luciano both ran over New Canaan linebackers and safeties to gain the extra yard or two when the first down was within reach. Bulldozer fullback Previte carried New Canaan players on his back for extra yards and made a nifty one-handed catch in the fourth quarter.
Eighth grade
Darien Blue 12, Wilton Blue 7
The Wilton eight grade blue football team had their hands full on Sunday pairing up against a tough Darien blue team.
Both teams came out strong on defense and the battle in the trenches left the first quarter deadlocked at 0-0. However, Darien got on the board first in the second quarter after a 40-yard pas play took them down to the 8-yard line. Despite a couple strong red zone defensive plays by Wilton, Darien punched it in on a third-and-five play to take the early lead. They missed the two point conversion and led 6-0 heading into halftime.
Darien came out firing on all cylinders to start the third quarter and took the opening possession 70 yards down the field to cap off their second touchdown and took the lead 12-0 lead after missing their second two point conversion. Things were looking bleak for the Warriors as Darien started to control the line of scrimmage with their big strong offensive and defensive lineman. However, Wilton got a spark from a great 40-yard pass play from Brian Calabrese to Justin Quinn and the Warriors were back in business.
They continued to drive the ball down inside the 10-yard line behind strong running from Chris Colbert, Joe Murtha, Sam Wright and Alex Acosta-Rua. They were poised to punch it in the end zone but unfortunately had a couple tough penalty calls that backed them up and they failed on a fourth-down pass play and ended up turning the ball back to Darien.
Wilton finally got on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter as Chris Colbert had strong five-yard run around the left side of the offensive line, diving for the goal line to help Wilton close the gap to 12-6. Liam Ganey booted in the extra point and Wilton trailed 12-7 with six minutes remaining in the game. Unfortunately, that's as close as they got as Wilton couldn't stop Darien's strong running game and Darien ran out the clock to lock down the win.


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Distilled: October 2000
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The Best Documentaries Currently Streaming on HBO
These titles are stranger than fiction.
HBO has for years cultivated the production of world-class documentaries, and they've only gotten better with time. From true-crime to social justice to exposés, the premium cable channel has produced some of the most culturally relevant nonfiction of the 21st century, as well as hoarding a collection of outstanding features not under the HBO Documentaries banner. And now, with HBO Max, subscribers can find even more documentaries available (though not all HBO Max titles are available on the cable-based service, HBO Go). Below, you'll find the best HBO has to offer.
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A Dangerous Son (2018)
Liz Garbus is one of the most prolific, proficient, and versatile documentary filmmakers working today. With this important and deeply concerning feature, which is difficult to watch at moments, she tackles the ever-timely issue of children with severe emotional and mental illness while separately profiling three struggling families. Providing an alternative focus regarding the increasing problem of school violence (contrasting against the greater prevalence of gun-control-focused docs), Garbus's emotional, character-driven film works as an alarming expose and another accomplishment in dramatic nonfiction storytelling for the director.
Andre the Giant (2018)
Andre the Giant was great, in so many ways. The towering professional wrestler, also known for starring in The Princess Bride and being an all-around pop culture icon, was an easily lovable figure in his lifetime, and he fortunately continues his appeal in this biographical sports documentary. Not that he's simply given an exalting profile, but Jason Hehir is certainly in awe of his subject and paints an adoring portrait with few warts on display. The film covers Andre the myth, Andre the legend, Andre the ladies man, and, yep, Andre the flatulent. It showcases him as a champion and a tragic human being. Even if you're not a wrestling fan, you'll appreciate and enjoy Andre the Giant.
At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019)
The harrowing, tragic, and infuriating story of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the USA Gymnastics national team and Michigan State University lasted so long and affected so many people that it's virtually impossible to capture the full scope of it in a feature-length film. Dr. Larry Nassar is formally accused of assaulting at least 250 people during his time as an athletic trainer for both the women's national team and at Michigan State, though it's possible the true number will never be known. Director Erin Lee Carr finds a wide range of victims willing to share their story on film, which helps illuminate the depths of Nassar's manipulation, his brazenness, and the myriad institutional authorities who failed to protect children despite warnings and official complaints about this highly regarded trainer's behavior.
Baltimore Rising (2017)
In the wake of Freddie Gray's 2015 death after an arrest, Baltimore erupted with protests against police and the crippling inequality that grips much of the country. This HBO original documentary chronicles what has become a scene repeated in cities and towns throughout America: an incident of police violence becomes public, the official response lacks sufficient remedy or urgency, and the result exposes deeper issues of rising inequality and an indifferent ruling class. Each story has a unique human element, but one of the many sad features of Baltimore Rising is that it could happen anywhere in the United States, at any time.
Beware the Slenderman (2016)
In 2014, a pair of 12-year-old girls were charged as adults with attempted homicide after stabbing a friend in what they said was an attempt to prove the existence of a mysterious creature named Slender Man. Irene Taylor Brodsky's gripping documentary details their crime, now known as the Slender Man stabbing, a near-fatal tragedy that almost took an innocent schoolgirl's life. The helmer deftly mixes interviews, interrogation footage, and reenactments to raise a serious moral question -- should children be held accountable for adult crimes? -- and craft a cautionary tale about the internet's power to warp impressionable minds.
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
With this punchy documentary, filmmaker Michael Moore took expert aim at America's unceasing cultural obsession with guns. Nearly two decades later, with mass shootings showing few signs of slowing down and substantial gun legislation perpetually frozen by political gridlock, the movie's dire warnings are perhaps even more potent and painful. At the same time, Bowling for Columbine, which won Moore an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, is often riotously funny, packed with cleverly edited montages, sharply framed interviews, and stunt-like moments laced with darkly ironic humor. As a prankster and a polemicist, Moore was in fighting form here.
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
Documentaries about journalists can be challenging because it's difficult to make the bracing, impactful words on the page sing in a way that conveys the urgency and wit of the writer. Too often, directors are reduced to recruiting actors to read the prose of famous pieces over grainy photos. Thankfully, Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, a twin portrait of New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill, is packed with enough interviews and archival footage to work around that problem, diving into anecdotes and memories that evoke a now lost era of ink-stained journalism.
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
More than a decade before he altered the course of a criminal investigation thanks to 2015's Robert Durst docuseries The Jinx, director Andrew Jarecki dug into the home videos of another family facing life-altering criminal charges. When the patriarch of the Friedman family, Arthur, and one of his three sons, Jesse, get accused of abusing students of their computer class, the family decides to take videos to chronicle the ordeal, never intending to have them viewed by the public. Jarecki's access to these videos -- obtained thanks to another son, David, who went on to become a popular party clown and was the subject of another Jarecki project -- creates a remarkably intimate portrait of a family torn apart, uncertain of the truth, losing trust in each other, and facing the prospect of total destruction. While both Arthur and Jesse eventually confess, the end of the film will leave you feeling less certain than ever about what actually transpired.
Cries From Syria (2017)
The Syrian Civil War has wrought years of destruction, spurred a global refugee crisis, and totally destabilized a nation containing some of the oldest relics of human civilization. Director Evgeny Afineevsky got on the ground level of the conflict for this documentary, featuring videos shot on phones by those caught in the middle of the war, and highlighting interviews with children and other refugees displaced by the fighting. Like all features on Syria's recent history, it's a heartbreaking look at a generation-defining war, one that gives voice to those most deeply affected by it.
David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017)
The man, the legend, the iconoclast who helped define a generation of post-war music didn't tell many people in his final years that he was battling terminal illness. But he had a laser-like focus apparent in his surprise last album, Blackstar, and this documentary adds a new dimension to pop culture's ultimate chameleon.
Diego Maradona (2019)
Oscar-winning documentarian Kapadia's work tends to focus on tragic genius, a theme that continues in his examination of perhaps the greatest soccer player ever to live. Diego Maradona's sublime left foot was matched only by his penchant for cocaine, partying, and eating, which somehow didn't totally destroy his career but has contributed to a string of high-profile failures in his post-playing days. Unlike Kapadia's previous subjects -- Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna and singer Amy Winehouse -- Maradona is still alive and kicking, part of the reason the story is largely restricted to the number 10's trophy-winning days at Napoli, where he fell into a life dominated by addiction and organized crime. That limited scope is slightly to the film's detriment, but the inclusion of previously unreleased (and in some cases, newly discovered) footage makes Maradona an achievement in documentary filmmaking that fits perfectly in the trajectory of Kapadia's work.
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018)
It's hard to believe that more than 40 years after his death, there's still room for another film on Elvis -- a two-part, three-and-a-half-hour documentary at that. It's an excellent look at the evolution of his music career. Instead of the conventional talking-head approach, this doc opts for voiceovers, playing interviewees' words over tons of archival footage of the King, letting him remain in focus. Among those whose recollections and commentary make up the biographical oral history are Priscilla Presley, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Petty, whose recent passing makes for bittersweet inclusion.
F for Fake (1973)*
Orson Welles hosts viewers through a twisty tale of fakes and frauds and fabrications, and it plays like a cinematic magic show. Instead of sleight of hand, the Citizen Kane director uses sleight of editing, offering up a loose and demanding nonlinear narrative involving art forger Elmyr de Hory, hoax author Clifford Irving, and Welles' beautiful assistant -- used as a distraction, of course -- actress Oja Kodar. Plus, Welles himself as a self-admitted charlatan. Like most movies about the art of illusion, this one begs to be seen multiple times.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
Director Alex Gibney, who's focused his attention on Enron, Lance Armstrong, the Catholic Church, and various other deceivers of the public, perhaps made his biggest documentary splash with his Scientology exposé. Aided by celebrity ex-Scientologists like Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis, Going Clear depicts a cruel, vindictive, and profit-focused cult that owes its remarkable success at least in part to attracting high-profile adherents and intimidating those who attempt to leave. While it doesn't necessarily set out to change minds -- at least, not those of Scientologists -- the detail with which it describes the structure and methodology of the religion's leadership offers a revelatory look at a notoriously secretive group.
Grey Gardens (1975)*
Thank goodness the Beales existed in a time before modern reality television. And thank goodness they were captured through the lens of brothers Albert and David Maysles. Big Edie and Little Edie are the sort of documentary characters who all but leap off the screen. Their story, of high-class mother and daughter socialites living in a literally and metaphorically crumbling mansion, is the epitome of the stranger-than-fiction idea. It's also a vehicle through which we get to meet two wonderfully kooky ladies who are fascinating beyond belief (and the aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis).
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)*
The first of Barbara Kopple's two Oscar-winning documentaries on striking workers (the other being American Dream), this riveting film transports us to Kentucky coal-miner country during a major labor dispute in the 1970s. It immerses us in the community and the culture and the issues of that time, with the director alternating between phantom observer and engaged participant. One thing that's not acknowledged, let alone appreciated enough, with the film is that it's also a kind of nonfiction musical, the soundtrack punctuating what is already a powerful piece of American folk cinema.
Hoop Dreams (1994)
One of the rare docs to be nominated for an editing Oscar, Steve James' crowd-pleasing sports film follows two African-American teens through their high school basketball careers. It's a product of perfect luck and superb storytelling, a combination that makes for a highly entertaining and affecting feature that also carries a lot of social significance. For nearly three hours, we become completely invested in the lives of William Gates and Arthur Agee, concerned with nothing other than what happens to these two boys.
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter (2019)
Broken up into two parts -- the prosecution and the defense -- this documentary walks through the highly publicized trial of Michelle Carter, on trial for encouraging her long-distance boyfriend over text messages to kill himself in 2014. Carter was an easy villain: She represented everything that society hates and fears about teenage girls, a "manipulative" and "crazy" petite, blonde white girl with cartoonishly expressive drawn-on eyebrows. While I Love You, Now Die acknowledges as much, it also upends the assumptions a casual follower of the case might have harbored. Carter had met her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, only a handful of times over their two-year relationship that existed primary over text messages and Gchats; Roy was incredibly depressed, and Carter, prescribed SSRIs herself, was a horribly lonely person convinced she was helping Roy by badgering him to take his own life. The binary presentation leaves a few gaps that could have been plugged up, but at its core, I Love You, Now Die is a thoroughly modern and messy story about teenagers, technology, mental health, and our justice system that's ill-prepared to juggle it all.
The Iceman Tapes (1992; 2001; 2003)
True-crime's popularity may have exploded in recent years, but from the early days of HBO came what remains one of the most eerie up-close-and-personal documentaries about the most notorious hitman in American history. This three-part interview sits down with Richard Kuklinski, the Gambino mafia's killer who murdered over 100 people and managed to keep his life a secret from his family. If you're interested in psychology, watching Kuklinski detail his crimes with indifference feels like a direct line to sociopathic behavior with chilling results.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
Documentarian Alex Gibney has trained his eye on plenty of organizations and people who have in some way deceived the public. He's investigated Enron, Lance Armstrong, and Scientology, to name a few. Now he turns his attention to one of the greatest scams in recent memory: Theranos, perpetrated by wunderkind entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes. The Inventor gives an enraging overview of Holmes' rise as the 19-year-old Stanford dropout selling investors on the idea that she'd simplify blood testing. That is, before it all came tumbling down, putting lives at risk in the process. Gibney describes in no uncertain terms how she shielded herself from criticism with Yoda-style jargon and powerful allies like Henry Kissinger. Holmes is a fascinating and somewhat inscrutable subject, and Gibney's piece makes a compelling companion to everything else that's been written about her house of cards
The Jinx: The Life and Times of Robert Durst (2015)
If you didn't watch The Jinx when it aired in 2015, you almost certainly heard about it. This was the docuseries about Robert Durst, scion of the famous New York City real estate development family, a man who seems to bring death to the people closest to him. Hence the title: The Jinx. He must be jinxed! The fact that Durst agreed to extensive interviews about his troubled life would have been enough to make The Jinx a compelling series, but when Durst was arrested on first-degree murder charges a day before the finale aired it became front-page news. You'll never get the words Durst muttered to himself in the bathroom out of your head.
Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck (2015)
Of all the Kurt Cobain documentaries out there, this one is by far the most affecting. With full support from Cobain's family, including his widow, Courtney Love, and their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, the film shares a lot of remarkable material for fans. And it's not your average biography: Director Brett Morgen uses animation inspired by Cobain's own artwork and superb sound design to create an experience for the viewer, instead of being just another place to hear about the life of the iconic Nirvana frontman.
Leaving Neverland (2019)
This HBO original documentary is disturbing and explosive, focusing on the stories of two men who say Michael Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were children. By shifting focus away from the King of Pop and onto the alleged victims (Jackson was never convicted of assault or abuse during his lifetime), documentarian Dan Reed shows the immense star power Jackson wielded to influence not just the boys, but their entire families. Both victims describe their abuse in clinical detail, which makes for a queasy watch, but a worthwhile one as pop culture continues its long reckoning with the heroes it elevates and celebrates.
Life According to Sam (2013)
Rarely do we encounter documentary characters as courageous and insightful about their own lives as Sam Berns. We first meet Sam, who has progeria, at age 13, which is the usual life expectancy for someone with the disorder. We follow him over the course of a couple years while also watching his mother, co-founder of the Progeria Research Foundation, implementing a trial treatment for Sam and a number of other kids from different parts of the world. It's an incredibly inspiring and hopeful documentary thanks to the optimism of its subjects, and the charm and maturity of Sam in particular.
The Loving Story (2011)
In 1965, Hope Ryden began documenting the ongoing story of Mildred and Richard Loving, whose mixed-race marriage triggered a landmark civil rights case (and is the subject of the 2016 feature film Loving). Nancy Buirski formed a historical film around footage from the trial's archived materials, including Grey Villet's LIFE magazine photographs of the couple and audio from the Supreme Court proceedings. The result fully immerses viewers in the time and lives of its subjects.
McMillion$ (2020)
Some of the best documentary stories are the ones that feel so outrageous that they couldn't possibly be real. McMillion$ is a solid example of this type of truth that is absolutely stranger than fiction. The six-episode docuseries shines a light on the Monopoly game McDonald's ran for over a decade, from 1989 to 2001, and the baffling scam that coincided with the seemingly innocent contest. As the story unfolds, the stylized series introduces a quirky group of crime-fighters and criminals -- and the mob, let's not forget about the mob -- all orbiting around a $24-million dollar case of fraud that eluded law enforcement for years. McMillion$ explores the crime from every angle, showing just how one man got away with selling off the game's winning tickets to family, friends, and neighbors, while also shining a light on the bad decisions a little bit of greed can inspire.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
In the years since the systemic child abuse rampant in the Catholic Church started coming to light, there's been a flood of stories that finally found their way to the larger public. Alex Gibney takes as his subject a particularly disturbing chapter from the Church's recent history: Four deaf men attempt to expose the priest who abused them while they were attending Wisconsin's St. John's School for the Deaf. The testimony of the men -- voiced by Jamey Sheridan, Chris Cooper, Ethan Hawke, and John Slattery -- further centers attention on the victims, a welcome break from examinations that focus on the Church, the Pope, and the centuries of tradition and power that surround them.
Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
Mommy Dead and Dearest tells the unnerving story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard, a mother and daughter caught in a dysfunctional relationship that ultimately led to the mother's death. Throughout their life together, Dee Dee apparently suffered from Munchausen by proxy, claiming that Gypsy had a variety of chronic conditions and handicaps that required a wheelchair and rendered her with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. Except: Gypsy was actually a healthy adult. Director Erin Lee Carr untangles the truth of what happened leading up to and following Dee Dee's murder, painstakingly tracking the years of abuse and how Gypsy fought back.
The Paradise Lost trilogy (1996, 2000, 2011)
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), about a horrendous triple-homicide case involving little boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the ensuing trial of the then-teenage suspects, is a pinnacle achievement in courtroom-focused true-crime documentary. Today the documentary is primarily revered for how it eventually helped free three clearly innocent men. But it's not a great film because of its impact. It's a great film because of its comprehensive documentation of a compelling story, which inspired viewers to actively participate in what happened next. All three installments deserve your time.
Salesman (1968)*
In this vintage piece of Americana, the Maysles brothers, with Charlotte Zwerin, capture the world of door-to-door Bible peddlers as if they're an endangered species. The filmmakers might as well have been documenting bygone traditions of the Inuit or the conservation of the last mountain gorillas in the Congo. The Maysles' best films concern ends of eras, marking turning points in cultural history large and small, and this one is a biggie, representing not just the death of the salesman, but the resonating question of whether God was dead. Neither actually went totally extinct, but this film still documents dinosaurs of a sort, performers of a now-rare art form.
Spielberg (2017)
Susan Lacy had an easy task in directing a documentary about Steven Spielberg; fans would have flocked to the simplest of efforts. But Lacy made something that exceeds basic expectations of a celebrity profile. Spielberg is a two-and-a-half hour study of the director behind classics like Jaws and E.T. and Schindler's List, going deep on the individual productions and his critical and mainstream appreciation, in addition to a straight biography. The only thing you need beyond this documentary for an understanding of Spielberg's life's work is to watch all his movies.
The War Room (1993)*
The majority of political campaign films concentrate on the candidates, in part because they're a bigger draw. But this documentary from Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker (who'd worked on a kind of short precursor 30 years earlier, titled Campaign Manager) created movie stars out of James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, turning them into an unlikely attraction for audiences. It might not have been so popular a film if Bill Clinton hadn't become president, but either way, it'd still be a riveting look inside the workings of a fully charged political machine.
When the Levees Broke (2006)
Spike Lee channeled all his creative and political force into this massive masterpiece, a four-part documentary that chronicles the systemic failures and human tragedy that made Hurricane Katrina one of the worst disasters of contemporary America. With eyewitness accounts of what it was like to live through the storm and its aftermath, When the Levees Broke indicts just about every Bush-era response to the hurricane, and shows the devastating degree to which a natural disaster became a manmade disaster that left one of America's richest cultural centers changed forever.
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018)
Director Judd Apatow is often criticized for letting his comedies run long, including banter-filled scenes and discursive plot-lines that push his tales of reluctant adulthood pass the two-hour mark. So, it's understandable if you're weary of The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, his 270 minute tribute to his friend and mentor Garry Shandling, the late star and creator of HBO's ground-breaking showbiz satire The Larry Sanders Show, which Apatow worked on as a writer and producer. But don't let the runtime scare you off: Zen Diaries is an intimate, revealing look at Shandling's creative process, career, and his eccentric manner of moving through the world. Its length gives Apatow the room to dig deeper than your average documentary about a comedian, and it never overstays its welcome.
4 Little Girls (1997)
Spike Lee's heartbreaking nonfiction film recalls the events of September 15, 1963, when Klansmen detonated a bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls. Piercing the violent streak against black Americans during the civil rights movement, empathizing with the families who suffered the greatest loss imaginable, and nailing an interview with George Wallace -- the segregationist governor of Alabama at the time of the attack -- whose atonement for fueling racist ideology can barely breach his cantankerous shell, 4 Little Girls is a masterpiece that needs to be seen and remembered.
12th & Delaware (2010)
Most of this film from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp) takes place inside a Florida pro-life clinic located across the street from an abortion provider, where it quietly observes women who have gone to the wrong corner of the titular intersection by mistake and are being dissuaded from having the procedure. If there's any bias from the filmmakers, it doesn't show through the doc's respectful and balanced examination of both sides of a divisive issue. What is on screen, however, is not always so civil. This is a culture war movie, and the battles get ugly.
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The aim of the new Amos Rex museum, just inaugurated in Helsinki, was to offer an immersive experience, and was achieved thanks to 135 Epson projectors.
Epson leaves its mark in Finland, at the Amos Rex art museum, just inaugurated in the center of Helsinki, where several digital installations are projected by 118 high-brightness Epson projectors, while another 17 projectors are used for information and signage purposes.
The main use of Epson 3LCD projectors is the construction of the immersive digital installations curated by teamLab, an interdisciplinary artistic collective consisting of 500 components among programmers, engineers, computer graphics animation experts, mathematicians and architects, whose aim is "to explore a new relationship between human beings and the world through art."
The Amos Rex museum has been designed to create flexible structures that can adapt to the ever-changing needs of contemporary art. The choice of the Epson brand for video projection was taken due to the high brightness and color rendering of the 3LCD laser models, together with the flexibility of the installation, with the possibility of mounting the projectors in any position. The Epson projectors used include models with 3LCD laser light source, native 4K and ultra-short optics.
"The exhibition is a remarkable example of how Epson video projectors can be used to offer the public a truly engaging experience, which we are certain will help the museum strengthen the status of Helsinki as a European city of culture" – said Neil Colquhoun, Executive Director of the Professional Displays sector of Epson Europe.
"The teamLab exhibition is extraordinarily complex as regards the technical side" – concluded Kai Kartio, director of the Amos Rex museum. "Epson's 3LCD laser projectors are the most suitable to meet this challenge thanks to their brightness, contrast and color reproduction features."
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Black Mirror fans looking forward to the three new episodes that will be premiering on Netflix in a few months time from June 5th, 2019 onwards. Are sure to enjoy three new trailers released by Netflix, offering a glimpse at what you can expect from each of the three storylines. The Black Mirror sci-fi anthology series explores a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide. This cult-favourite series has won six Emmys, including two for Outstanding TV Movie ("USS Callister" and "San Junipero").
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Good relationships reduce burnout in organizations. When you know and enjoy the people you work with and burnout is non-existent, there's something to look forward to each day when you arrive at work. Otherwise it can be stressful.
Real friendships at work that go further than the day-to-day back and forth of business communication are why many key leaders and professionals love their work. We need community. We need positive friendship-based relationships with other people in our organizations.
But when that is absent, it's a killer. And sadly, we live in a climate where far too many professionals spend their time looking over their shoulders. Everyone is watching their job, trying to be politically correct. Stress prevails and relationships are shallow. Some people even refrain from establishing much by way of relationships because they know they could be let go at any time. This is especially so in far too many corporate settings.
A friendship-based relationship is one that doesn't have large pressure to it. It is one that cares for who you are as a person versus who you are as an employee, a peer, a boss or what you are or are not doing within the organization.
Friendships are what truly make us live and give us joy. Where there is no room for friendships, there will be a less than fulfilling situation that creates a prime environment for job burnout.
Tension filled, stressful relationships may be the worst of all business experiences. In the list of priority actions to avoid burnout, dealing with the people stuff is at the top.


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Before Hootie and the Blowfish, there was grunge.
After Hootie and the Blowfish, there was, well, everything else.
Now, I wouldn't dare suggest the South Carolina porch-rockers and their gargantuan debut LP, 1994's "Cracked Rear View," to have single-handedly loosened America's grip on crunchy alternative rock, greased the zeitgeist for Hanson's similarly jangly "MMMbop" a few years later, and ushered in the late '90s bubblegum-pop outburst that would, in turn, inform the distribution of popular music for the next 20 years.
No, I would never say that.
I am happy to report, however, that Hootie's monster reunion tour, which gleefully jammed for two hours at Camden's BB&T Pavilion Sunday night, was a heaping scoop of nostalgia melting down the arms of its longtime fans, many of whom had dug out their old Birkenstocks and baseball caps just in time to belt along to "Let Her Cry" and "Only Wanna Be With You."
For those who have (almost certainly) lost track, Hootie and The Blowfish announced its hiatus in 2008 after several far-less-successful follow ups to "Cracked Rear View" — a rare "double diamond"-certified album, having sold more than 20 million copies (no album released this century has achieved such a feat).
Around this time, famed frontman Darius Rucker began his unlikely ascent to country-rock's lucrative summit, notching six No. 1 hits in the genre and touring under his own name for a decade while the rest of the band branched elsewhere; founding guitarist and drummer Mark Bryan and Jim Sonefeld each went on to release solo albums of their own.
But as "Cracked Rear View" celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer, Hootie has reunited for its first tour in more than a decade and on Sunday laid down nine of the album's 11 tracks for the whooping crowd of 25,000, which seemed to fill every inch of the pavilion's massive lawn.
This show, dubbed the Group Therapy Tour, had all the familiar trappings of a reunion or anniversary set: vintage photo montages blasted on the big screen, pictures of old, hand-drawn Hootie concert posters — presumably from the band's formative gigs around the University of South Carolina campus in the late '80s — and stories of how some of the best-known pop-rock songs of the last three decades came to be.
Rucker, 53 and donning his usual baseball cap and t-shirt, grinned wide as he told the story of the band's down-tempo favorite, "Let Her Cry," which was first performed at a club in Athens, Georgia as an untitled new tune, and was named after the show by a fan who apparently said to Rucker, "if she wants to cry, then let her cry."
As the band performed the tune Sunday and Rucker unleashed his unwavering gravel-drawl, rain poured down over a Waffle House — Hootie's preferred breakfast joint — on the screen that backed the seven-piece touring outfit: Rucker, Bryan, Sonefeld and founding bassist Dean Felber, plus touring percussionist Gary Greene, banjo/fiddle player Garry Murray and longtime keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Peter Holsapple.
Speaking of Holsapple and Athens, the band covered "Losing My Religion" — a tune in which Holsapple played the original acoustic guitar — Sunday night as Rucker shouted out R.E.M. as "a band that made us want to be great."
Hootie's set was a hodge podge of original tunes, cuts from Rucker's solo career — you already know they played his rendition of "Wagon Wheel" — and tribute tunes: a tender try at Tom Waits' "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You," a silly mashup of Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" (blended with "Old Man and Me (When I Get To Heaven), and the best of the bunch, a huge take on "With A Little Help From My Friends" (the Joe Cocker version) that featured opener and fellow '90s stalwart Barenaked Ladies joining Hootie on stage for some extra pop.
It was a fine summer romp, bolstered by Rucker's titanic baritone bellows and Bryan's buoyant solos — plus his very cool t-shirt, which portrayed da Vinci's Vitruvian Man as a guitar player. I need this shirt. It also doesn't hurt that in the band's absence, its singer has continued his immensely successful run in music, performing to crowds of this size on his own.
But is any of this to say Hootie and the Blowfish, emboldened by this tour's success, will release a new album that will touch the commercial or artistic merit of "Cracked Rear View"? Almost certainly no.
Yet if the group is true to its word and does go on to release a new album with a catchy song or two, Hootie can tour forever on the strength of its back catalog. I, for one, would be down to check out another Hootie show in a few years, see what they're working on. But hey, maybe you'd rather keep them in the '90s.
To that difference in opinion, I simply say "you and me, we come from different worlds."
Hootie and the Blowfish's setlist
July 28, 2019 — BB&T Pavilion, Camden, N.J.
- "Hannah Jane"
- "State Your Peace"
- "I Go Blind" (54-40 cover)
- "Sad Caper"
- "Not Even The Trees"
- "With a Little Help From My Friends" (The Beatles cover, with Barenaked Ladies)
- "Hold My Hand"
- "I Will Wait"
- "Let Her Cry"
- "Hey Hey What Can I Do" (Led Zeppelin cover)
- "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" / "Desert Mountain Showdown"
- "I Hope I Don't Fall in Love With You" (Tom Waits cover)
- "Alright" (Darius Rucker song)
- "Running From an Angel"
- "Losing My Religion" (R.E.M. cover)
- "Time"
- "Drowning"
- "Wagon Wheel" (Old Crow Medicine Show cover)
- "Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)" / "Fight the Power" / "Freaks of the Industry" / "Shining Star"
- "Goodbye"
- "Go and Tell Him" (Soup Song)
- "Only Wanna Be With You" / "Get Down on It"
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