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Acts 19 and this passage dealing with the riot runs from verses 21 through verse 41. And it's very much just a narrative. And Lord willing, we'll get at least a good running start and maybe even all the way through. There's not a lot of doctrine here. This is one of those passages that is in stark contrast to our passage tonight in Galatians which is just deep theology. And this is very kind of simple historical narrative dealing with an incident that occurred in the city of Ephesus. And we'll endeavor however to allow the Holy Spirit to teach spiritual truth even through this historical event.
Now the history of Christianity has taught us well many things. But one thing the history of Christianity has taught us is that the church thrives best when it is persecuted. When the church creates issues in the world, it then begins to thrive in the purest sense. The persecuted church confronts the world and grows and has effect. A bold church is an effective church. And a bold church is a persecuted church. So persecution and effectiveness to some degree go together.
I'm always a little bit shaky when churches receive awards from either civil government or state government or national government. Because I always feel there's got to be something wrong. I was noting the other night a particular church that received a great award from the local community for rendering such marvelous service to the community. That would never happen in the book of Acts. Now I'm not saying that we're to be anti-social, or anti-community relations, but there needs to be a sense in which the church is the conscience of the community. Not the comforter of the community.
And in the book of Acts, the church grew when it was persecuted. When the church becomes the friend of the system, then it gets into trouble. When the church begins to play sociological or political games, then it gets into trouble. Now we're going to see something of this repeated lesson in the book of Acts here in the 19th chapter. Now we find ourselves in the city of Ephesus with the Apostle Paul. He has been there for nearly three years. This is his third missionary journey. He was of course originally one of the pastors of the church of Antioch after his conversion and some itinerant ministry near his home.
He arrived at Antioch and along with Barnabas and three other fellows became one of the pastors of the church in Antioch. From that point, God separated him and Barnabas to begin missionary tours. And so he and Barnabas took one, then he and Silas took one and so forth. This is the third of those missionary journeys. And as he arrives at Ephesus, God has already done a marvelous work. We find that the groundwork had been laid by some friends that he had left there namely Aquila and Priscilla. That Apollos, that great orator, that polished man also had laid some groundwork. And now Paul arrives and great things happen.
In Versus one to seven of chapter 19, the church was really born. It was really founded. It was established as 12 disciples of John the Baptist were brought to Jesus Christ. And a nucleus of believers began. And we saw then in our last several studies that Paul went in verse 8 into the synagogue and he began to teach there for three months. And there were some who were hardened, but there were some who believed. The Jews had been evangelized. As a result of this tremendous teaching that Paul was doing, verse 10 says "that all that dwell in Asia heard the Word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks."
So Ephesus had a church established, it became a beachhead for evangelism that extended to the entire Roman province of Asia Minor. Great things had been accomplished. Now the whole thing can be summed up in the statement of verse 20. "So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed." Now that was really the key to everything. The Word of God was the dominating force at that point in Ephesus. And believe me this is a historical pattern when there was great blessing in any place it was through the Word of God. You have in Acts 12:24 this statement. "But the Word of God grew and multiplied." You have it back in chapter 6 also in the book of Acts. Again, "where there was great victory," it says in verse 7. "And the Word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. Wherever the word of God dominates results occur."
And there's always going to be flack because the system which is operated by Satan cannot tolerate the unadulterated presentation of the pure word. So that the prevailing of the Word has two results. Progress for the gospel and persecution from Satan, always. Always. And this is the way we ought to expect things to happen. Now as we come to chapter 19 of the book of Acts, we find that this tremendous pattern had happened in Ephesus. First of all there was persecution. We saw it. Satan started out by verse 9 just having people speak evil about Christianity. Then all of a sudden he brought along these exorcists. And they tried to mimic what Paul was doing and confused the issue.
And so forth. And now as we come to this horsing from verse 21 on, "Satan really musters all of his powers and he creates a riot that surges through the entire city of Ephesus. In an effort to counteract the work of the Apostle Paul and the Christians." And so what we're coming to then is a very predictable thing. In the history of the church, the word prevails, progress occurs, that is people get saved and Satan begins to find that he has to oppose. And so we see persecution. Satan always opposes the progress of the Gospel, always.
In Jerusalem for example, Satan sent the opposition of organized religion, didn't he? Judaism. In Damascus, it was the same. In Antioch it was the opposition of personal prejudice and envy. In Lystra, it was the opposition of ignorant paganism. Among the Judaizers, it was the opposition of ceremonial legalism. In Philippi, it was the opposition of angry sorcery. In Thessalonica, it was the opposition of political revolution. In Athens it was the opposition of cultured Hedonism. In Corinth it was the opposite of philosophical skepticism.
And in Ephesus here, it is the opposition basically of a pseudo-religious materialism. And I'll define that as we go. But first of all it was the opposition here in Ephesus of verbal slander, verse 9. "And then of Satanic infiltration." verse 13 where Satan tried to slide into the Christian community and just become one of them. But thirdly and we're going to see this, the real riot comes when sort of a pseudo religious materialism comes to the form.
I suppose we could say in the case of Ephesus that there were three approaches of Satan. Hardness, hypocrisy and hatred. And those were his three particular angles of opposition for the gospel. So whenever the Word prevails, Satan is aggressively set against the Word. And here in Ephesus we find beginning in verse 21 that the vent of the people, that their anger is based upon their desire for material gain. In otherwords, Christianity was affecting their business. That's kind of exciting. Christianity was an economic problem in the first place.
And this is nothing new. Christianity and economics have mixed a lot. Simon mixed Christianity with economics; he wanted to buy the power of the Holy Spirit. So it's nothing new. Remember the medium girl in Acts 16 and "Paul cast a demon out of her" and why did her owners get upset? Because they were making a living off her. So again, Christianity upset somebody's economics. It should.
There are some ways that people make livings that Christianity should upset. That's part of it. Alright, let's, before we get into the riot, look at verse 21. Because Verses 21 and 22 are kind of a little note on Paul and the riot doesn't start until verse 23. So we'll have a little bit of peace before we hit the maelstrom that comes in 23. Verse 21. "After these things were ended, that is after the triumph over magic." Remember all the people came and burned the magic books and everything. "And after the Gospel was firmly established, Paul purposed in the spirit, in his spirit, in his own mind literally. When he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying 'after I have been there, I must also see Rome.'"
Now Paul always was making plans. Paul was a master strategist. Here he says now I'm going to go through Macedonia and Achaia, then I'm going to Jerusalem and after that I must also see Rome. Paul sets this firmly in his mind. After he sees the church at Ephesus is established, after he sees that these people bring all their magical books and burn them. He has been there for nearly three years teaching. He knows they know enough. There are elders there of quality enough to lead the church. The Christians are grown up, they're mature. The work has matured. Churches have been established throughout Asia Minor. We mentioned last time that we think that at least all seven churches have the book of Revelation possibly could have been founded during this three year period while Paul was in Ephesus.
And so there's a great work, the whole province has heard of the Gospel. There are people established in churches and other places. Everything is great and it's in good shape and he says; "Now I think I can leave." Two and half years or so has passed. And he says, "I'm going to go to Macedonia and Achaia, then back to Jerusalem" because Macedonia and Achaia would be west from there. Back across that little sea, back west again. Then he would have to go east to Jerusalem, then back west again to Rome.
This is his plan. You say, well what's he want to do all that for? Why does he want to go to Macedonia and Achaia? Well let's start there. That's a most interesting point. Why does he want to go in verse 21 to Macedonia and Achaia? Why does he want to go west? He's just been there. He established all those churches there, like Corinth and Philippi and Thessalonica and Berea. That's over there, why go back there? Well here's the reason. He wanted to go there and then to Jerusalem.
The church of Jerusalem was very poor. And Paul wanted to take a love offering from his churches as a gift to the church at Jerusalem. The reason he wanted to go to Macedonia and Achaia was to collect his offering. And I think that's kind of an exciting reason, really if you want to know. In several places in Corinthians he alludes to this offering just to maybe I can point out one or two of them. Chapter 9, verse 1 "is touching the administering to the saints that is superfluous for me to write you for I know the readiness of your mind for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia and Achaia."
In other words, here he makes reference to Macedonia and Achaia. He goes on to talk about their giving all the way down in this. They didn't even give sparingly and so forth and so forth. He makes a note of this particular thing of their gift elsewhere in Corinthians as well. At the end of the book of Romans, I think its verse, let's see, 25 and 26 of chapter 15. "But now I go under Jerusalem to minister under the saints for it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints who are at Jerusalem."
So Paul went to Macedonia and Achaia to gather an offering and then to take it to the poor saints in Jerusalem. And you say, well why did he want to do that? Well one, because they had a need. And I think it's important for us to recognize that Paul was teaching the lesson of the unity of the body. That a church in one place is greatly responsible for a body of believers in another place. They were one body and Paul was emphasizing the unity of the church. And I think secondly Paul wanted to teach the practical lessons of love. That love gets right down to the simplicity of giving your money for the sake of somebody else. That's the most practical lesson of love, giving, self-sacrifice.
So Paul did do that. We don't know all of the details here in Acts, but he did go to Macedonia and Achaia, he collected the offering, finally over in chapter 21, verse 17 I think it is he arrives in Jerusalem. So he did do that. His plan did come to fruition. The Lord allowed that plan to take place. Now back to verse 21. He says, "After that, I must also see Rome." Now just keep this in mind. Paul was a strategist and he wanted to reach as far as he could reach with the gospel. And Paul's plan was this. To plant the gospel in key cities on a line from Antioch to Rome.
And if you follow the ministry of Paul, he just stops all the way along at key points on the great road from Antioch to Rome. And he's planting the churches in the key centers. And from there they spread to the province. If Paul could knock off the capital of the province, he felt he had a running start on the province. And so he wants to go one step further to reach Rome. And incidentally that wasn't the end of it either as you'll see in a minute. Now after he had planted the church in Ephesus, he realized that the line of witness would then begin to spread from Ephesus. And so he would go to Rome, plant the witness there, there was already a church there, but perhaps he could enhance the witness. And then it would begin to spread.
And then as all these centers began to spread, they would sort of cross-pollinate and the whole area would be saturated with the Gospel. And he believed in the process of reproduction of evangelism by reproduction. Where you would win some people to Christ, establish a church, that church would grow, send out others to establish other churches and by multiplication you would conquer an area. Not by the superficial sweep and so this was his plan. Now when he got to Rome, that was only a step on the way to somewhere else.
You say where was he going from there? Well in Romans 15:24 he says, "Whenever I take my journey into Spain," and then it says here in the authorized, not in the best manuscripts, "I will come to you." Next line "for I trust to see you in my journey." In otherwords, he writes the Romans and says, I'm coming to stop off on my way to Spain. Say why is he going to Spain? Simple, it was there. Why do they climb a mountain? It's there. People need to hear about the Lord. And Spain was a great place. I mean there was some great men there. Rome had moved in and conquered Spain as it was. Seneca was there, the great mind of the Romans, and Paul could see that conquering Spain would be fantastic. And that was just another line from Rome.
So he could go all the way from Jerusalem, Antioch and straight out as far as he could go to reach Spain with the Gospel. This was in his mind to do. He was a strategist planning his conquests. He writes to the Romans in chapter 1 verse 13 of Romans. "I would not have you ignorant brother in the off times I purpose to come unto you but was prevented thus far that I might have some fruit among you even as among other Gentiles. I am better to the Greeks, to the Barbarians, to the wise, to the unwise so much as in me as I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also."
So he wanted to go to Rome. After he had taken care of the needs of the saints in Jerusalem. Incidentally there's a great break kind of and keep it in your mind. Right here in the book of Acts. Because from here on, the whole goal in the mind of Paul is Rome. And finally at the end of Acts, he gets there. But he doesn't get there in the way that he thought he would get there. But he gets there. From here on out, his sights are set on Rome. And he's going to make it. And man is it an exciting trip getting there.
Verse 22. "So he sent into Macedonia two" these are advanced men. He's going to Macedonia. So he sends in two of those administered unto him. Timothy and Erastus. We all know who Timothy is. He had been at Corinth. He had come back to Ephesus and now Paul sends him to Macedonia to let him know he's coming. Pave the way, get things set up for him. And Erastus and we don't know who he is. Maybe the same one as mentioned in Romans 16:23 but that was a fairly common name. So we really don't know.
But he himself stayed in Asia for a season. So he stayed. He sent these two advanced guys out to get things ready for his coming to Macedonia to make the collection and do some preaching. But he stayed. You say well why did he stay? Well I think it's clear why he stayed. He wrote the Corinthians. And he said this, 1 Corinthians 16:8. "I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost." Why? "For a great door and effectual has opened unto me. And there are many adversaries." Now if Timothy come, see that he may be with you without fear. So he was writing to Corinth and saying from Ephesus, he wrote this. "I'm going to send Timothy, you receive him. I'm staying because a great door and effectual has opened unto me and there are many adversaries."
So he wasn't done yet there. He realized God had some more for him to do. So he had a great door and he also had many adversaries. Well the adversary comes to the fore, beginning then in verse 23 as we see the riot. Now in your outline you'll see we pulled out three simple thoughts here. The causes of the riot, the characteristics of the riot and the calming of the riots. The causes, the characteristics and the calming of the riots. Now let me just say this. The real cause of the riots was Satan's antagonism to the prevailing of the Word. Okay? That's just the general truth that's sort of pervades everything. verse 20.
"For the Word grew and prevailed and Satan got uptight and started this riot." That's the real behind the scenes reason for the riot. But as we look at these verses, there were some sort of superficial reasons, some superficial causes that actually brought this thing to pass. Look at verse 23. And here we'll start with the causes of the riot. "At the same time," this is when Paul is staying in Asia Minor or Ephesus, "there arose no small stir about that Way." And what have we said about the term "the Way" or "that Way?" That was a reference to what? Christianity.
Jesus had said, "I am the Way." And Peter had said, "neither is there salvation any other, there's none other name under heaven." So Christianity got the name of the Way. And so here there was no small stir over Christianity. They were really uptight about the Christian message. And things have moved. I mean Paul had been preaching, people had been getting converted, the church was growing, the whole of Asia Minor was just dominated by the message of the Gospel. It was like having an early Jerusalem, when the leaders came and said, "You have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine." And they got all uptight and started to persecute him.
Well they had filled Asia Minor with their doctrine. The gospel was sweeping over Asia Minor. God was doing some exciting things and the people got upset. Satan stirring them up. It's kind of exciting to see that that's what the Gospel should always do. The church should always create no small stir. Whenever I hear that there's some flack flying around about the church of Jesus Christ somewhere I get excited about that. Because we should be the adject into the community if our adjectation is in the area of godliness.
Now this riot incidentally will provide for you any of you that are studying sociology and mob psychology. It will provide for you some great insights into the typical approach of mob psychology. As well as giving you some insight into how Satan operates. So the basic cause of the riot then was Christianity's tremendous spread. And the mighty use of the Word of God. But there were some specific causes. Let's look at verse 24 and meet a man by the name of Demetrius. That's a very common name. There's another Demetrius or so in the Bible. We don't know if it's the same as this one.
"For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines for Artemus" or Diana if you will, the Greek is Artemus "brought no small gain into the craftsman." Now here we meet this guy Demetrius. Now very likely Demetrius is a big wheel in the guild of silversmiths. Many of you have studied any kind of world history or ancient history you know that there were such things as guilds in Europe. Where people who were artisans of the same craft would ban together just like unions today, perhaps less sophisticated, but just as powerful in the community at which they existed.
And so all of these people would ban together for common profit. It maybe that Demetrius was the head of the guild of silversmiths or maybe he was just a leader by very nature. But nevertheless, he kind of steps to the front. He was the guy who made silver shrines for Artemus and brought no small gain unto the craftsmen. In otherwords, probably what he did was contract out the rest of these silversmiths to make these shrines. Now this was big business, believe me. His name appears also as I mentioned other places 3 John I think it's verse 12, but we have no idea whether it was the same one. If it was the same one, he was later converted, which is certainly possible; we're not denying that.
Now this was a fairly common trade. And it's interesting that in many of the archaeological discoveries around Ephesus, there is evidence of such a trade as silversmith. The only interesting thing is that we can't find any of these shrines made in silver. We can find them made of terracotta; you know that's clay, earthen stuff. We can find them made out of other types of things. But we can't find any silver ones. And what historians have concluded is the fact that when conquering people came in through the centuries and found anything in silver, they melted it down because of its value. And so all of the silver artifacts are long gone.
But we do have evidence that such a silversmith guilds did exist or unions. Now he was probably a wealthy and an influential man. The temple of Diana was big business, a monstrous place, 420 feet by 250 feet. A huge place. And hundreds of people preached to eunuchs, temple worshippers, priestesses, prostitutes, the whole thing, all worshipping up there. And this temple also was a treasure house for gold and silver. So it was a very, very, very, wealthy place. A very famous place, people from all over the world came there. In fact there were a whole multiple of pillars. And these pillars were donated by princes and rulers from all over the world.
So it was a very, very famous place. And periodically during the year it had a string of pilgrims making an influx into the city. So tourist traffic in the worship of Artemus was really big business. And the silversmiths made their living by selling these little shrines to the tourists. And to the people making pilgrimages to the city of Ephesus to worship at the shrine of Artemus. Now the best we can tell was that these were little models of the temple or else little statues of Artemus. Now this was an interesting thing.
The fact that in history past, clear back into the Old Testament, people always had household gods. You could look up all kinds of Old Testament passages that would talk about that. Well it was so in the day of Paul. Those people who worship these various gods got little miniatures of these gods and they sometimes put them in their house, sometimes they stuck them on their chariots. People still do that. Still see people with little gods, little idols stuck on their dashboards. So that's nothing new. They did that even in a time of the New Testament. And so these silversmiths were really in big business. Because Ephesus had at a period in the month of May a thing called the Artimesian games, where people from all over the known world converged on the city of Ephesus.
And some historians believe that that time of the year and that those Artimisians games were going on right at the time of this riot. So that this would be a time when the masses of people were swarming the city of Ephesus and these people were making their living at the very highest level of the year off their silver shrines and silver statues of the goddess Artemus. And all these people would be buying their household gods. The Romans called them pinates.
And these were typical household gods. Read Genesis 31:19 or 1 Samuel 19:13. Jose at 3, 4 and you'll read about such gods even in the Old Testament. Verse 25. "So Demetrius called together all these guys who were making a money off of making shrines." Verse 25 he "called them together with the workman of like occupation and said, 'sirs you know that by this craft we have our wealth.'" He says, "Guys, we make our living off of making these little shrines."
And as I said, this was probably according to some chronologists, the month of May and it was a big time and this was really the place that was filled with worshippers and this was the time of making big money. And what happened was the gospel had hit him right in the money bag. The gospel was fouling up their business. Because people were accepting the truth of Christ and turning from idols. Bad business. You know you ever thought wouldn't it be exciting if the church if Grace Community Church had such an affect on this community that we put all that kind of illicit stuff out of business?
Can you imagine all of the bars and all of that kind of stuff protesting that we were messing up their business by winning people to Christ. Alleluia. Well that's exactly what was happening here. It was becoming an economic problem because Christianity was having such a tremendous spread of power in Ephesus and surrounding areas. So the Gospel hit him in the money bag. Verse 26. "Moreover you see and hear that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia." This is Demetrius talking. "This Paul" you could get a little disdain in that. "Hath persuaded and turned away many people. Saying that they are no gods which are made with hands."
Can you believe the depth of Paganism that believes that you take a pile of silver and form it into a God? He says, "do you realize that all over Asia Minor, Paul has made people to believe that these gods were making art legit? Do you know what that's doing to our business?" The Christian preachers were denying the existence of gods made with hands. And many people were persuaded they were right. So Demetrius confessed that the apostolic preaching was successful. What a testimony. Do you know one of the reasons God put this whole account in here? I had to ask myself that.
Why does God take up all this 20 verses to tell us about a riot? One of the reasons is because it's exciting to see the successes of Christianity put in the mouths of the pagans, do you see? It isn't just us that's claiming God's power. The pagans are admitting it. Do you see how important that kind of apologetic is? It's one reason why it's here. And another thing, the reason the spirit puts it here is because the rioters are so frustrated because there's nothing they can really do because there's no-one to blame and there's nothing evil that Christians have done.
So again, God lets the pagans state the case that Christianity is successful, God is turning people from idols and secondly there's nothing you can criticize him for. That's why the whole account's here. And as you'll see in a minute, they all get together and riot like crazy, but they don't know what to do. You know it's exciting to see the success of Christianity. You say how did it come about? What brought the success? I'll tell you. What brought the success first of all was one man totally committed to Jesus Christ. Do you believe that one man totally committed to Jesus Christ can make a difference in a province? In a state, in a country?
This man did. Paul. One man committed to Jesus Christ came into one city and turned a province on its ear. One man. But you know what that one man spent his time doing? Night and day, praying and teaching with tears the Word of God. And what an effect he had. So it was first of all the success that came by the presence of one man dedicated. But secondly it was the success that came by the presence of a purified church. You know when those people who believe, Verses 17 to 19 of chapter 19. "When they believe, they who believe" verse 18 says, "confessed and showed their deed or revealed their secrets and burned their magic books." And so forth and so on. And when the church got purified, man things began to happen. It's in response to the purity of the church that verse 20 is written.
"So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed." The success of the gospel was dependent upon one dedicated man and a purified church. And that's why we sang this morning, Purify My Heart. Because therein lies the key to success. The victories were victories of a positive ministry, I love this. They didn't go around blasting Artemus. They didn't have marches against the Temple of Artemus. They didn't carry posters around down with Artemus of the Ephesians. They didn't land blast that, all they did was preach a positive message and the negative took care of itself.
That's all. People who become temples of the Holy Spirit don't need temples of Artemus. There was no demonstration against idolatry, there was just salvation and the new forced out the old. I read a little deal that was kind of interesting the other day. I don't often read stuff like this. But I got to reading about a scrub oak tree. And I read about a scrub oak tree for some strange reason. Now I know why. During the wintertime all the trees lose their leaves except the scrub oak. And it has these crummy little leaves and the wind blows like mad and it keeps blowing through autumn and it blows through winter and this scrub oak still has its leaves.
The scrub oak loses its leaves in springtime. You know how? Because new leaves push off the old ones. I thought boy, that is really an act illustration of what happened here in Ephesus. It wasn't some great big tempest that blew off the worship of Diana; it wasn't some attack on that. It was the growth of new life in the church that just automatically pushed out the old see. And the issue took care of itself.
And that which the outside tempest could never accomplish, inside life did. People if you want to change the community for Jesus Christ, don't protest against a community. Just live a holy life and start leading people to Jesus Christ. And the end result is the community won't be able to handle you. Always thought about this particular pastor who used to march on the city hall all the time. What a waste. You get a whole bunch of people to march on the city hall for what reason? Where everybody say, oh, there's that nut marching down to city hall again.
The power of a new life if you got time to march in the city hall, use that time to win some people to Christ. And one by one you begin to affect your community. So we're not interested in marching anywhere. We're just interested in winning people to Jesus Christ and pushing off the old by the new life that comes. God help us to create issues, not by creating issues, but by being what we are.
Verse 27. And here we come to the specific causes. He really gets very, very clear now about what his gripe is. "So that not only this our craft is in danger to be said it not." Stop there. First problem we've got men, we're getting it in the pocketbook. This is the materialistic cause. Demetrius appeals to their pocketbooks. He says in verse 25 "we make our wealth by this craft." In otherwords, we make our livelihood; we earn our living by this.
He's saying we can't tolerate Christianity because receipts are off. But can you believe the crassness of the human mind. Eternal souls are at stake and they're worried about their moneybag. The sickness of the human soul. I always think of the same scripture and you probably already thought of it and you beat me to it. Listen to Mark 8:36. "For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, lose his own soul? Profit him anything. Doesn't profit him anything. But here was the world getting uptight because they were losing out on the receipts. Luke 16:13, the Bible says, "you can't serve God and money." And many a man believe me beloved, many a man is in hell because he loved money more than he loved God. And I can name one. Judas.
Judas. Matthew 26:15 says about Judas these words. Sad words but truer of many more than just Judas. And he said unto them, "what will you give me and I will deliver him unto you and a bargain with him for 30 pieces of silver. And from that time he sought to betray Him." Yes, hell is filled with people who love money more than they love God. And so he appeals to their pocketbooks. Secondly he appeals to their piety. And this is sort of temper their crassness. Verse 27. "But also" he says, "that the temple of the great Goddess Artemus should be despised." Stop right there.
Now he starts appealing to their piety. For the real issue was the first one. Here comes the pseudo religious thing. Our god is being defamed. And I suppose that made him feel a little less crass for their reaction to Christianity. They could at least feel a sort of a religious issue. And they needed to defend their goddess. And I'm telling you that was some temple. It was a big deal. 220 years in building, finishing off everything, it was unbelievable place. Constantly being embellished one of the seven wonders of the world. This was their goddess. And they're saying our goddess is being defamed. These Christians are challenging the majesty of Artemus.
So he appeals to their pocketbook and their piety and thirdly he appeals to their patriotism. Verse 27, he says this. "And her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the world worshipith." This interesting comment. The goddess that was there, was venerated by the world. The whole civilized world within certain reasonable bounds was knowledgeable about Artemus. It had been built by the gifts from many rulers and the worldwide influence.
And so what he's saying Demetrius is saying this is a question of our own reputation in the world. Ephesus stands in the world in the place it stands because of this temple. This is our claim to fame. This is us before the world. Ephesus is Artemus. And if you believe in Ephesus, then you've got to stand for Artemus. In otherwords, the world is going to look down on us if something happens to our goddess, we'll have lost our stature in the world. So he appeals to patriotism, reputation. A good patriot wouldn't want to see the religion that had made the city fall aside.
So their trade was in danger, their religion was in danger and their reputation in the world was in danger. Oh I like that. Christianity hit them economically, religiously and politically and socially. Isn't that tremendous? Boy that's what Christianity ought to do. It ought to affect the system economically, it ought to throw some kinds of businesses right out. Just by the power that it generates in changing lives. And it ought to affect things religiously. It ought to just destroy false religion. And it ought to affect things politically and socially.
Oh I just pray Lord that we can have so affect our state, our city, our country as this church did. Well the speech caused a riot. So there are the causes. Let's look at the characteristics of the riot. Verse 28. "And when they heard these things" you know the first thing about mob psychology. You've got to have a catalyst, right? You've got to have a Demetrius. Got to have some guy that gets up there and whips everybody into a frenzy. And so Demetrius was the tool.
And verse 28, "And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath." This is really kind of funny. Luke has a terrific sense of humor. You'll see it here. "They were so mad they cried out great is Artemus of the Ephesians." They just started yelling. "Fired on by the incendiary speech, they ran into the open street and started invoking their goddess." The literal Greek here is "great Artemus of the Ephesians." They started yelling to their God, do something.
They were mad, that's the first characteristic friends, the first characteristic of the riot is anger. And incidentally that's typical of a rioting mob. They're mad. They're angry. You know you may have seen some riots where you get just as injured by being a part of the riot as being the object thereafter. Because it's indiscriminate. It's just anger run wild. So they were angry. Typical of a riot. Then the world does get angry with Christianity. So you need to expect that.
You want to make some people angry, who need to be made angry over Christianity. Think of Acts 7:54. Remember Stephen? Preached a wonderful message from my standpoint. Loved it. From the standpoint of the unbelieving people in town, they hated it. It says when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth. They ground their teeth at him. They were so mad. And they grabbed stones and killed him.
It happened again in the 16th chapter of Acts. The frustration of sinners when confronted with a gospel the multitude rose up Acts 16:22, "together against them and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded to beat them." Did you see this? They just started ripping their clothes, they were furious. And they started yelling at the lectors, "beat them, beat them." They laid many stripes on them, they threw them in a jail and slapped them in stocks.
And the world gets mad. Gets angry with Christianity. Sometimes people say I was so worried because I shared Christ and they got upset. Good. It's very good. As long as they got upset about Christ and not about you. In Acts 21:27, "when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews were of Asia when they saw him in the temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him." It wasn't to ordain him, believe me.
Verse 28 said, "crying out men of Israel, help. Get them. This is the man that teaches all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place and has brought Greeks into the temple that polluted the holy place." And they were mad boy. And verse 31 says, "they went about to kill him." No Christianity makes people mad. Because people don't like to be confronted with the sinfulness of their sin. And they don't like to have to face the fact that their entire way of life and their entire system is wrong.
And so in their fury, they start screaming the name of their goddess. That will remind you of the first kings where those guys were trying to get to Baal and they started hollering up to Baal and cutting themselves and tearing their clothes and saying, Baal, maybe he's on a vacation. Oh, you better yell a little louder. I think he's sleeping. See. Jeremiah 50:38 is an interesting verse. It says, "They are mad over their idols." These people just lost their cool, they were in a frenzy screaming, rioting, yelling the name of their goddess. You know that's what happened, that kind of anger is what happened at the death of Christ. That the people were so infuriated because they started screaming and yelling. "Crucify Him; crucify Him, away with Him, away with Him." And they turned into the frenzied mob. And the truth only angered them. Paul had tried every way that he could to get the truth across or at least allow them to concede something.
No. So the first characteristic of a mob is anger. The second one is confusion. And I want you to see this. This is interesting. Verse 29. So there they all are screaming their heads off, "Great Artemus of the Ephesians." And the whole city was filled with confusion. That's the second characteristic of a mob. They don't know what to do. Melee, chaos, disorder. So in their confusion, they grab two guys by the name of Gaius and Aristarchus. Men of Macedonia Paul's fellow travelers and rushed with one according to theater.
Well this theater was an interesting thing. That still exists today in Ephesus. The ruins of it still exist and it could hold anywhere from 25 to 30,000 people. So it was quite a place. It was hued out of the side of a hill. We don't know much about Gaius, he could be the same, well he is the same one mentioned in chapter 20, verse 4. Gaius of Derbe. We don't know because there are several of that name in Scripture. We don't know which ones they are. So we don't know whether we know much about him or not. But Aristarcus who was a man of Macedonia, incidentally the best manuscripts would make men of Macedonia man of Macedonia, referring to Artistarcus.
Since Gaius has said in chapter 20, verse 4 to be from Derbe and Derbe was where? In Galatia. So Macedonia would be the assignment given to Aristarchus. He was a native of Thessalonica, he was a converted Jew. And he shared many things with Paul. In fact he was in prison in Rome with Paul. So he was really a beloved companion. So they grabbed these two guys, soon ___ fellow travelers, fellow companions and they haul them off into the theater.
And this beautiful place excavated now and visible would have been able to hold easily 30,000 people. And that's a low estimate. So there is the frenzied mob filling the theater and they got these two guys standing in the middle of them. Now watch verse 30. "When Paul would have entered in under the people, the disciples permitted him not." I like his courage, don't you? Paul's first reaction was I'm going over to that theater. And that's good.
John Wesley who is very experienced with angry mobs advised his early Methodist associates with this statement. "Always look a mob in the face." Now that was Paul's thought. So Paul figured, well I'll go down there, I'll just stand there and I'll take care of that mob. Well he had, he'd seen so many victories in the power of God that he wasn't afraid of anything. Nothing. But some Christians restrained him. You say, well why did they do that? Well his life was in danger. You say, well couldn't God take care of that? Yes, but I think there's an interesting principle here. And I don't know all the ramifications of this, but I thought of this.
Sometimes reason is better than foolish faith. Right? I mean the old story, well God's going to protect me anyways, so I'll lay down in the fast lane of the freeway. See. Now there's a certain sense in which you got to use your head. Let me put it this way. It is faith, it is faith to be in danger and believe God will deliver you. It is presumption to put yourself in danger and then expect God to deliver you. If the danger comes around you, believe God will take care of you. But there's no sense in being stupid about it.
And that's presuming on God. That's what Satan tried to get Jesus to do. He said, dive off the temple, right? And the Bible said, the angels will lift you up. He says, wait a minute, that would be to tempt God. "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." Why? That would be presumed on God. It's one thing to be in danger and believe God will get you out, it's something else to presume on God and go jumping into danger.
And so the other Christians use their heads and said, No Paul, there's no sense in going over there. You're going to get it. They'll kill you. So the disciples restrained him, verse 30. Well verse 31. The same message came from another source. Certain of the chief of Asia, Asiarcs they were called who were his friends. Apparently Paul had made some friends of the Asiarcs and that would be because he was a Roman citizen. Sent unto him besieging him that he would not venture into the theaters. So here came these political wheels, the Asiarcs, just a word about them.
Each province had assigned guys from the Roman government. In otherwords, the province was the Roman province and so the Romans would send in some guys to kind of run the province. They had really two responsibilities. They were to promote the worship of Rome or allegiance to Rome and the worship of the emperor. They were Roman PR men. They were to get those people to subscribe to Rome and worship the emperor. Now they were named by whatever province they were in. If they were in Galatia, they were called Galatarcs. If they were in Syria, they were called Syriarcs. If they were in Macedonia, they were called Macedoniarcs. If they were in Asia, they were called Asiarcs. And so that's what it says there when it says Chief of Asia.
They were the Asiarcs. These were guys that were assigned to Asia Minor to keep the peace to make sure the people kept their allegiance to Rome and worshipped the emperor. Now emperor worship was a very broad and general thing. These guys also presided over the games. And that's one of the reasons we believe that this was the month of May and the Artimisian games were going on because they were all there in Ephesus.
And they would normally probably be stationed all around Asia Minor. They were all there. And they knew that this was a possible volatile situation. And in order to keep the peace and keep everything calm and intact, they said, Paul don't go in there. And apparently they had had some dealings with Paul before. They were his friend. That doesn't mean they were bosom buddies, but they were acquaintances. They knew Paul personally. And so because Paul was a Roman citizen, they desired to protect him.
He was a Roman citizen and this was basically a kind of a pagan area though it was now ruled by Rome. And so they were protecting Paul on the basis probably of his Roman citizenship. And they sure didn't want more trouble. They saw what was going on with the mob and they just wanted to let it all die down. And if Paul went in there, they'd really have something going.
Alright, so they besought him not to. So they got the word from the Christians and the non-Christians not to go. That seems to me then it's pretty evident that God was behind that. Verse 32. "Some therefore cried one thing and some another." Now is that a mob? Everybody yelling their whole heads off and saying what they want. "For the assembly was in confusion." And here's Luke's sense of humor. "And the greater part knew not for what reason they would come together." They had no idea what was even going on.
They're all screaming, oh, I guess we all yell, oh great, Artemus of the Ephesians. Is that what we're supposed to be doing? And they're all yelling and everybody's screaming and it's a confused thing and nobody is even aware of what's going on. They don't even know what they're doing. Typical, typical mob. Interesting thing, the word cried there is in the imperfect tense. It indicates a continuous confusion. This confusion went on and on and they had no idea what they were doing. A typical riot scene.
You know can you imagine what a mob did in those days? I thought about that as I was reading this. I thought what do you do if you were in a mob? You don't have any matches. So you can't burn anything. And there's no windows. So you can't break anything. So you just stand in the theater and keep screaming. Being in a mob in those days would really be, there's no cars, so you can't overturn them.
I mean and there's no pen so you can't write on the walls. What are you going to do? There's no spray cans, you're, all you can do is stand there and scream. So they just stood around getting frustrated. You say, well that would get old. Well it did get old. So a mob has two characteristics. Anger and confusion. The third one is closed mindedness. Have you ever noticed that about a mob? Closed mindedness.
Look at verse 33. "And they drew Alexander out of the multitude." Alexander who we don't know, but Alexander somebody. The Jews putting him forward. "The Jews shoved up Alexander." Probably on the stage in the theater. "And Alexander beckoned with a hand and would have made his defense under the people. But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice for about the space of two hours cried 'great Artemus of the Ephesians.'" They didn't want to hear one word out of the mouth of Alexander.
So they just started screaming and they kept it up for two hours. Can you imagine the frustration just standing there screaming for two hours? Now we don't know who Alexander was. He may have been a Christian Jew. And the Jews may have shoved him forward. See the Jews knew they were under pressure. Because everybody assumed that Christianity was a sect of Judaism, right? And so they were afraid. So maybe they shoved this Christian Jew Alexander up there so they were going to lay the blame on this Christian Jew and try to say it isn't Jews, it's Christian Jews that are messing up the place.
Or maybe he was a Jew. Not a Christian. Who just was pushed up there to tell everybody that the Jews had nothing to do with this. We don't know whether he was a Christian Jew or a non-Christian Jew he was apparently put up there by the Jews to defend them somehow. But nobody would listen to him. So immediately when he started opening his mouth, they started screaming for two hours. Completely out of control. Well if you let him go for two hours, it's a pretty good chance of kind of running out of gas. Right?
So the third point we come to is the calming of the riot. There was one sharp guy there who handled the situation. Verse 35 and we'll go through this quickly. "And when the town clerk" which is probably not a good designation for this guy, he was the chief citizen of the town, he was the chairman of the town assembly, the town council, he was the secretary of the town council. He was the guy who called the convening of the town meetings which occurred three times a month. He was the very important citizen. He finally quieted the people after two hours of standing in the middle of that place screaming their heads off.
It wouldn't have been too difficult. He said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there that knowith not that the city of Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana?" And that the image which fell down from Jupiter. See this big, black, ugly image of Diana that they assumed had fallen from Jupiter; it probably was some sort of a meteorite. But nevertheless, the tradition had said it came down from Jupiter. And he says, don't you realize that there is in this city the worship of the great goddess Diana who came from heaven?
Now he's smart man. He knows that the Romans are going to hold him responsible for all the trouble. Because he's in charge of the town. He's like the mayor. And he knows that the Romans could impose a fine on that city or the Romans could take away their right to free government because they were a free city like Athens was. And they could really be in trouble. So he jumps up and he says, "don't you all know that this city is the worshipper" literally in the Greek, the temple warden of the great goddess Artemus.
And look at verse 36. Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against. In other words, if Artemus came from heaven from Jupiter, and if we are the great temple warden of this great goddess, then nothing can be done against them. You ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly. Why nothing can affect our great goddess, a whole lot of these little preachers roaming around and be like shooting a peashooter at the empire state building. This is big time stuff. They're not going to affect us. So he fires out a whole lot of nice glossy platitudes about the greatness of their god. And that nothing could ever change that.
The goddess power was undeniable and secure. Relax he says, calm down. Verse 37. "For you have brought here these men who are neither robbers of temples, they have implundered the shrine of Diana or Artemus." And they're not blasphemers of your goddess. They haven't blasphemed your goddess. Isn't that a beautiful thing? You know the Holy Spirit put this whole story in here for no other reason than just to have a pagan say verse 37.
That Christians don't steal and don't blaspheme other gods in this case. These Christians were like Jesus said they were, as wise as serpents and as what? Harmless as doves. What a testimony in the mouth of a pagan. These Christians do not rob temples; they do not blaspheme our goddess. They do not commit sacrilege. They do not commit thievery. And so the pagans give a testimony to Christian's quality of life character. So here he says nothing's going to happen why these people can't affect our great goddess, they haven't done anything to hurt us? Verse 38. "Wherefore if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against any man, the law is open, court's in session, there are deputies, there are judges, let them accuse one another." In other words, if it's a legal issue, take it to court.
If it's a legal issue, take it to court. Due process of law. Verse 39. "But if you inquire anything concerning other matters." In otherwords, if it isn't legal, if it's a social matter, "it shall be determined in a lawful assembly." And as I said, the city assembled three times a month. And so the town clerk says, "Look, if it's a social issue, let's bring it to the assembly when the assembly convenes. Not a riot." You say, well why was he so concerned about the riot? Verse 40. "For we are in danger to be called and questioned for this day's uproar."
There being no cause for which we may give an account of this concourse. Now you know what that is again. That's a statement of a pagan that the Christians have done nothing against the government. Isn't that great? Because Romans 13 says, "Christians are to be subject to the" what? "The powers that be that are ordained of God." And so he says, look, we're going to be in trouble. We're in danger to be called and questioned by Rome because we have no reason for this riot.
Verse 41. "When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly." After several hours of mass confusion, mob hysterics, everybody went home. Listen people. The gospel provokes the world. And it's exciting to see that provocation take place. Now I think the town politician was a good guy politically, he was a sharp guy. Let me close with this very important point. Don't miss it. But listen. The town clerk did a great favor for the Ephesians. He did no favor for the church. Say what do you mean? He stopped the riot. Yes, you know what he did. He agreed and confirmed the superstition of the people, didn't he?
He took Christianity under his patronage. He said, they haven't done anything. What have they done against us? Let's let them be. Listen, the moment the church passed under the protection of the town clerk, they were in more danger than they were when the riot was going on. Did you hear that? The church always is in more danger when it is protected by the system then it is when it has to fight for its existence. Always. The last glimpse of the Ephesian church listen to it with the great pastors they had. Paul and Timothy. Just to name two. The last glimpse of the Ephesian church and the Bible is in these words. "I have this against thee. Thou didst leave thy first love."
And this is what the Lord said. Remember therefore from where thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I'll come unto thee quickly and remove thy lampstand out of its place except though repent. Jesus said, I'm going to come and I'm going to wipe that church out. You know what happened? You go to Ephesus today and you know what you'll find? A squalid, Mohammedan village near where Ephesus was that doesn't name one single Christian in its population. The church always thrives; a riot is no threat to the church. Patronage is. The church always should be the conscious of the community. Whenever we are patronized by the system, we die.
Let's pray. Father, we thank You for the time spent this morning in the Word. We thank You for the knowledge that we have been given concerning these principles and truths that apply to the church. God give us the courage of our convictions, the boldness that the early church had. And the desire above all things to live godly lives in the midst of an ungodly world. And note that whoever would live godly in this present age, shall suffer persecution but may we remember that where the church is persecuted, the church prevails.
We thank You Father for the thrill and the joy of being a part of what you want to do in this world. May we be bold enough to make our lives a rebuke to the system. To make this church stand out that they may affect our world economically, religiously, politically and socially for the glory of Christ. Not by attacking those things, but by being what we are and may our new life push out the old. Give You the praise in Jesus' name, Amen.
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Ofcom has warned that the EU's proposed Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) directive could force new media companies to relocate outside Europe.
The UK media regulator said research it had commissioned from RAND Europe showed the proposals could "significantly increase regulatory costs and uncertainty" for multimedia firms.
The study concluded that smaller businesses in the new media industry would be vulnerable to the effect of the regulations and could move to other locations.
The AVMS directive, due to be implemented next year, would expand current EU broadcasting regulations to all audio-visual services, including content delivered to internet and mobile phone users.
Currently being debated by the European Council and Parliament, it would aim to ensure the protection of minors and prevent other abuses.
However, concerns have been aired that the move would extend regulations to user-generated content such as video blogs. Britain has campaigned against the move, saying new media services should not be included.
Ofcom said it had "expressed serious doubts about the practicability and appropriateness of extending broadcasting regulation to a whole range of new media services which are very different from traditional TV, both in nature and in the manner in which they are consumed."
The organisation said it favoured 'light touch' and self-regulation which would cut costs and uncertainty for firms, and that legislators should clarify which services will come under the new rules.
It also said there was "a compelling case for the complete exclusion from the proposals of the online games industry".
Earlier this month, The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) clarified its position on the directive.
It said: "Under the draft proposal the regulatory principles relating to broadcast content would be extended to cover audio-visual (AV) content made available in any form. AV content as defined in the draft covers moving pictures, whether or not accompanied by sound. Thus, moving materials on websites, including advertisements would be covered.
"Of further concern to publishers is that the Directive in its current form would legalise product placement in TV, as it breaks the principle of separation between editorial and commercial content for broadcast media."


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Dec. 5, 2009
BOSTON, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team turned in a strong performance in their season opener, the Jay Carisella Track and Field Invitational, hosted by Northeastern at the Reggie Lewis Center Saturday.
The Corsairs qualified 14 student-athletes for the New England Division III Championships on their first weekend of action.
Freshman Paul Grafov (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) qualified for both the New England Division III Championships and the ECAC Championships when he ran 400 meters in 50.69 seconds. He was 10th overall and was the top freshman finisher in the event. The Corsairs placed three in the 55 meter hurdles. Junior Nick Deininger (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS) finished fourth in 8.17 seconds, sophomore Brian McArdle (Winchester, MA/Winchester HS) was fifth in 8.18, and junior James Morgan (Stoneham, MA/ Stoneham HS/Assumption) finished eighth in 8.37 seconds. In the triple jump, junior Kevin Markie (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS/Nichols) was third with a jump of 43 feet, five inches, while senior Corey Sleep (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) was sixth in 40 feet, 9 ¾ inches. In the 55 meter dash, sophomore Hymlaire Lamisere (Newton, MA/Newton North HS/Iona) was ninth in 6.69 seconds, freshman Kaylin Miranda (Brighton, MA/O'Bryant HS) was seventh in the long jump at 21 feet, nine inches, sophomore Robert Yarbough (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) was ninth in the shot put at 45 feet, 3 ½ inches, and sophomore Kevin Gilmore (Hanson, MA/Whitman-Hanson Regional HS) ran the 5000 meters in 15:28.89. All qualified for the New England Division III Championships, with freshman Chris Harney (Mansfield, MA/Mansfield HS) just missing after finishing the 1000 meters in 2:38.54
For the women, junior Jermai Harrison qualified for the New England Division III Championships, finishing sixth in the shot put with a throw of 38 feet, four inches. Other qualifiers included sophomore Caitlin McGarigal (Shutesbury, MA/Amherst-Pelham Regional HS) was 11th at 3000 meters in 10:58.19, sophomore Megan Oliveira (Somerset, MA/ Somerset HS) was ninth at 1000 meters in 3:12.61, junior) Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) ran 55 meters in 8.94 seconds, and freshman Jillian Van Ness (Agawam, MA/Agawam HS) ran 55 meters in 7.76 seconds.
"I was really pleased to have 14 people qualify for the New England Division III Championships in our first meet of the season," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "It was great to see three of our guys in the finals of the hurdles with schools like Boston University, Northeastern and New Hampshire when no one else had more than two guys in the finals. It was a very good for the season for both the men and the women."
The Corsairs will return to action at the Harvard Open next Saturday.


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It's been quite a year for the many-tentacled beast covered by the obligatory punning name that is BeerRitz. At least, I think it's a pun - what the hell does BeerRitz even mean? Is it a clash between everyday - beer - and high-falutin' - The Ritz? Is it meant to allude to the chi-chi Mediterranean resort of Biarritz? I've no idea.
Anyway, as I say, it's been quite a year for BeerRitz. Not only has it had a major refurb (lovingly documented by 'Ritz stalwart Ghost Drinker), but we also made the shortlist for the Observer Food Monthly 2013 Awards in the online category (we're right at the bottom of the page). I guess this is technically for the webshop, but we know that a lot of our loyal customers at the walk-in bricks-and-mortar shop in Headingley also voted for us, so thanks to everyone who took the time to vote.
To round off a mammoth year, we've today just had a visit from the roving judge for the Drinks Retailing Awards (basically, the Oscars of drinks retailing, if you can imagine such a thing). We're delighted to announce that we've been shortlisted as a finalist in the Independent Beer Retailing category, along with the incumbent champions Real Ale in Twickenham and Stirchley Wines & Spirits in Birmingham.
Looking through the trophy cabinet, it's interesting to note that we won this very same award back in 2003, and so there would be a very pleasing symmetry to win it again a decade later. Like all significant events, it's hard not to look back and see what has changed in that time. The main thing really is the breweries that have sprung up since then, who we now have close relationships with: Bristol Beer Factory (2004), Thornbridge (2005), Hardknott (2005), BrewDog (2007), Arbor Ales (2007), Buxton (2009), Ilkley (2009), Kernel (2009), Magic Rock (2011), Beavertown (2012) - anyway, you get the general gist of what I'm saying.
The awards are given out at an absurdly decadent event in early February 2014 (like, bottles of whisky on the table decadent) at The Dorchester Hotel in that there London, and in true awards ceremony style, nobody finds out what the results are until the envelope is opened. Watch this space for more info around the time, and thanks again for all of your support over the years. LOVE YOU XXX
(The picture is of me on the morning after the night before, in 2004. And no, I didn't steal the robe)
Thursday, 14 November 2013
What BeerRitz Did Next.
Posted by Zak Avery at 21:58
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Biarritz is on the Atlantic, you fucking amateur.ReplyDeleteReplies
You're right, I'm an amateur in the truest sense of the word, in that I FUCKING LAAHHHVE IT.Delete
It's always cute when The Trade deny they're actually The Trade.Delete
You keep doing that thing you do.
I appear in a book index, have had my face on a tote bag, and have even appeared on someone's birthday card - I think my cover might be well and truly blown.Delete
Biarritz not a very good rugby team though. Not enough Welshmen (Welsh rugby joke there).ReplyDelete
shit! you look young! :)ReplyDelete
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Unique Aston Martin DBS estate for sale
The only estate version ever built of the classic early 1970s Aston Martin DBS is going to be auctioned on May 19 by Bonhams.
With an expected price of £50,000 - £70,000, the DBS estate is relatively affordable by the standards of classic Aston Martins, as most 1960s Astons are now over £100,000.The car was built specially for an unnamed Scottish Laird who wanted it for salmon fishing trips – hence the roof rack for his fishing gear. Perhaps surprisingly the Laird got bored with it and sold it in 1975 to its present owner, who repainted it from red to the classic dark blue metallic that was so popular in the early 1970s.
The conversion was done by a company called FLM in Battersea, South London, who also made a Rover 2000 estate at the time. FLM created bespoke rear side windows for the DBS estate, but the problem with a conversion is always the tailgate, which would be incredibly expensive to design and build as a one-off. FLM solved the problem by using an adapted tailgate from a Hillman Hunter estate, and we have to say, it looks extremely well integrated.
The car appears to have been very well maintained, including a conversion to run on unleaded petrol, and has been featured in a number of magazines over the years. The only negative factor is that it uses the 4.0 litre 6-cylinder engine from the DB6, not the 5.3 litre V8 that became standard in 1972. When the DBS was first introduced the new V8 engine was not yet ready, so early ones had to make to with the smaller engine.
The DBS is part of a long British tradition of fast estates, from the Aston Martin DB5 to the 1980s Jaguar XJS-based Lynx Eventer. Indeed with the Reliant Scimitar GTE of 1970, Britain can claim to have made the first production high performance estate car.


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Cognitive Restructuring Group
We recently received the following update from Kevin Benbow about the positive effects of teaching Cognitive Restructuring in a group format:
About six months ago I came up with the idea to create a group based on the premises of Greenberger and Padesky's "Mind Over Mood." This was a pilot program, and the intention of the group was to solely teach the basics of cognitive restructuring to the participants. This was done via handouts, movie clips, and a power point presentation. The group ran for 12 sessions and we systematically taught all participants to make the connection between situations, moods and automatic thoughts. The BDI* and BAI* were administered prior to beginning group and were also administered at the last session.
It should be noted that in addition to the teaching of CR techniques these clients would also receive individual therapy as well as psychotropic medication if needed.
While I have seen the power and utility of CR before, I was pleasantly surprised to see how group dynamics can be used to reinforce the completion of homework and normalize symptoms of depression and anxiety. Once the basic concepts were taught, we would complete thought records on the white board using actual stressors from the clients' lives. Read more


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Russ Smith scored 23 points and Peyton Siva added 10 points and 10 assists as No. 2 Louisville pulled away from Manhattan for a season-opening 79-51 victory on Sunday.
Chane Behanan had nine rebounds and eight points for the Cardinals. They won their ninth straight season opener and beat the Jaspers in the first meeting between the schools since 2002.
The Cardinals won despite continuing woes with their 3-point shooting. They went 8 for 30, with Smith making 4 of 13.
Siva, the Most Outstanding Player in last season's Big East Conference tournament, matched his career high in assists while recording only his second double-double.
Rhamel Brown had 18 points and 15 rebounds for Manhattan. George Beamon, the Jaspers' top scorer, did not play because of an injured ankle.
No. 4 OHIO STATE 82, ALBANY 60
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Deshaun Thomas scored 13 of his 19 points in a 17-2 run to end the half, leading Ohio State to a victory over Albany.
They were supposed to play on Friday night against Marquette in aboard the USS Yorktown but condensation on the court led to that game being canceled.
Thomas, one of the stars of the Buckeyes' Final Four run last season, hit just one of his first six shots and Ohio State trailed 23-22 late in half. But he asserted himself as the Buckeyes took control.
Aaron Craft had a career-high 20 points to lead the Buckeyes with Lenzelle Smith Jr. adding 18 and LaQuinton Ross 10.
Mike Black had 20 points and Jacob Iati scored 13 for Albany (1-1).
No. 9 SYRACUSE 62, No. 20 SAN DIEGO STATE 49
SAN DIEGO (AP) - C.J. Fair and Michael Carter-Williams each scored 16 points and Syracuse blew past San Diego State on the flight deck of the decommissioned USS Midway.
The Orange (1-0) effectively put it away when Fair made a jumper to make it 17-4 with 11:30 to go in the first half. He had nine points at that point.
Syracuse was just too tall and bulky for the Aztecs (0-1), who couldn't crack the Orange's 2-3 zone.
Of the three games on ships this year, this was the only one that was completed. On Friday night, the Marquette-Ohio State game on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, S.C., was canceled and the Georgetown-Florida game on the USS Bataan in Jacksonville was called off at halftime, both because of condensation on the court.
This game was postponed from Friday night due to the threat of rain.
No. 10 FLORIDA 84, ALABAMA STATE 35
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Kenny Boynton scored 22 points and Florida cruised past Alabama State.
Florida was supposed to begin the season Friday against Georgetown aboard the USS Bataan, but the game was canceled at halftime because there was moisture on the court.
The Gators led Alabama State 47-9 at halftime, the fewest points Florida has allowed in the first half since the implementation of the shot clock.
Boynton shot 8 of 10 and made all four of his 3-point tries. He also had six rebounds and five assists.
Backup guard Bobby Brown led Alabama State (0-2) with 14 points.
No. 11 NORTH CAROLINA 80, FLORIDA ATLANTIC 56
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - James Michael McAdoo had 19 points and 11 rebounds to help North Carolina beat Florida Atlantic.
Reggie Bullock added 16 for the Tar Heels (2-0), who shot 44 percent from both the field and the foul line. Still, North Carolina led by double figures throughout the second half before blowing the game open in the final 7 minutes.
McAdoo entered the season expected to take the lead for UNC after the loss of four NBA first-round draft picks. The sophomore had 26 points and 14 rebounds in the season-opening win against Gardner-Webb, then followed that with an 8-for-17 shooting performance against the Owls (0-1).
Greg Gantt scored 18 points to lead Florida Atlantic, which shot 28 percent and had no other player reach double figures.
The game was an opening-round contest in the Maui Invitational, though it is separate from the tournament rounds in Hawaii.
No. 12 ARIZONA 82, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 73
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Mark Lyons scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half of his debut for Arizona and the Wildcats escaped with a season-opening victory over Charleston Southern.
The senior transfer from Xavier led five Arizona players in double figures. Solomon Hill scored 14, Brandon Ashley and Nick Johnson 12 apiece and Jordin Mayes 10 for the Wildcats.
Arlon Harper scored 20 and Mathiang Muo 16 for Charleston Southern (0-2). Saah Nimley added 11 points and seven assists for the Buccaneers.
Charleston Southern trailed just 59-57 with eight minutes to play. Hill, on the bench much of the game with foul trouble, re-entered the game and sank a 3-pointer that put Arizona up 62-57 and the Wildcats slowly pulled away from there.
No. 19 BAYLOR 78, JACKSON STATE 47
WACO, Texas (AP) - Pierre Jackson had 25 points and seven assists for Baylor, and the Bears rolled to a victory over Jackson State.
Jackson, the senior guard named the preseason Big 12 player of the year, scored the game's first five points - on a free throw, a jumper and a tip-in in the first 3 minutes - and the Bears (2-0) never trailed.
Cory Jefferson added 14 points, seven rebounds and six blocked shots for Baylor. Rico Gathers and Taurean Prince, both freshman post players, had 13 points each. Gathers also had 10 rebounds.
Jeff Stubbs had 15 points to lead Jackson State (0-1).
Before the game, Baylor unveiled a banner for its NCAA regional final appearance last season, when Baylor had a school-record 30 wins.
No. 23 WISCONSIN 87, SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA 47
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Junior Ben Brust had 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Wisconsin scored the first 19 points in a rout of Southeastern Louisiana.
Jared Berggren led the Badgers with 19 points and fellow senior Mike Bruesewitz added 10 in a 13-minute appearance. Bruesewitz cut his lower right leg during practice Oct. 9 and returned Friday.
Redshirt freshman George Marshall, starting at point guard for Wisconsin with junior Josh Gasser out for the season because of a torn knee, hit a 3-pointer 13 seconds into the game to set the tone.
Dre Evans had 13 points for Southeastern Louisiana, which missed its first five shots and committed four turnovers before Todd Nelson's 3-pointer 7:21 into the game.
No. 24 CINCINNATI 80, TENNESSEE-MARTIN 57
CINCINNATI (AP) - Cashmere Wright scored 16 points and Sean Kilpatrick added 14 as No. 24 Cincinnati cruised to a win over Tennessee-Martin.
Eleven different players scored for the Bearcats. Justin Jackson had 11 rebounds and Cincinnati blocked 10 shots.
Titus Rubles, a junior-college transfer making his Bearcats debut, came off the bench to score eight points and grab seven rebounds.
The game drew 5,728. A couple of miles south, the Cincinnati Bengals hosted the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.


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Capitol Chat Six weeks left in California's legislative session and there are still bills to pass. Capital Public Radio's Capitol Bureau Chief Ben Adler joins us for Capitol Chat to explain what lawmakers are doing in these final weeks. Plus, we'll hear about the state's plans for transferring thousands of prisoners who are at risk for getting valley fever.
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Summer Deaflympics Matthew Klotz, a senior at Vista del Lago High School, returned from Bulgaria on Monday night carrying several prize medals in his luggage. The 17-year-old Sierra Marlins swimmer, who suffers from severe hearing loss, competed in the 22nd International Summer Deaflympics in Sofia last week. There, Klotz won America's first swimming gold medal of the week, in addition to another gold and bronze medal, and broke two deaf world records. Today, the Cameron Park resident joins us to talk about his experience at the Deaflympics and his hearing impairment.
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Todd Borg Tahoe Chase is the 11th book in the Owen McKenna series of mystery thrillers based in Lake Tahoe and written by local author Todd Borg. This newest installment, released this month, features a murderer chasing his victim through alpine ski trails. The Tahoe-based writer joins us in studio today to talk about the novel and preview a series of speaking events starting on Saturday in Cameron Park.
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Sound Advice THIS is a free block party on 20th Street in front of the MARRS Building this weekend. If you missed that, the name of the music party is "THIS." In this week's Sound Advice, organizer Clay Nutting joins us in studio with some music from the bands that will be performing this weekend.
Check out Blue Dog Jam host (and Sound Advice contributor) Nick Brunner featured on NPR Music's Heavy Rotation.
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Amateur video of Matthew Klotz winning gold in the 100 meter backstroke


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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Christians rallied Monday to denounce the deadliest attack ever in this country against the religious minority as the death toll from the church bombings the day before climbed to 85.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers outside the historic All Saints Church in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday.
A wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombings, saying they would continue to target non-Muslims until the U.S. stops drone attacks in Pakistan.
The bombings raised new questions about the Pakistani government's push to strike a peace deal with the militants to end a decade-long insurgency that has killed thousands of people.
"What dialogue are we talking about? Peace with those who are killing innocent people," asked the head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, Paul Bhatti, whose brother, a federal minister, was gunned down by an Islamic extremist in 2011.
The death toll reached 85, after seven more of those wounded in Peshawar died overnight, according to the commissioner of Peshawar, Sahibzada Anees.
Protesters blocked roads around the country, burning tires on one of the main roads into the capital, Islamabad, as they demanded government protection.
"Our people have been killed … Nobody seems to bother about us. No one apprehended the killers," said Aqeel Masih, one of the protesters.
Clashes broke out between Christian protesters and Muslims Monday evening, leaving one person dead, in the southern port city of Karachi, according to Police Chief Shahid Hayat. He said police fired tear gas and guns in the air to try to disperse the crowd.
Missionary schools around the country were closed for three days, said Christian leader Nasir Gill.
Churches and other places important to the Christian community in Peshawar have been given extra security, said police official Noor Khan.
Many churches, as well as mosques and other religious institutions, already receive some type of police protection although many Christians say that is too little. A police officer stationed at the church where the suicide bombers attacked was killed.
Christians are a minority in Pakistan, where roughly 96 percent of the country's 180 million people is Muslim. The rest belong to other religions, including Christianity. Christians have often been attacked by Sunni Muslim militants, who view them as enemies of Islam.
Christians often face discrimination as well. They often find it difficult to get access to education or better jobs and are relegated to menial labor jobs such as collecting garbage or cleaning streets.
The U.S. State Department condemned the bombing, and said that the United States "remains concerned about continuing sectarian violence in Pakistan that has brought heartache to Sunnis, Shia, Christians, and members of other communities across the country."
In other violence, a bomb exploded Monday near a police patrol in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing four people, including three policemen, said police officer Abdullah Khan.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack. Baluchistan is home to both Islamic militants and nationalists fighting the government.
Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad in Islamabad, Abdul Sattar in Quetta and Adil Jawad in Karachi contributed to this report.


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Today I'll be posting some of our favorite snowy day activities
before we bundle up to hike up the street to have a snowy play date with our neighbors.
If you have some wooden paint stirring sticks stashed in your painting supplies in the garage/basement
time to go unearth one and throw some white paint on it today.
Directions can be found on my post here.
While you are waiting for paint to dry (or the snow to finish falling)
you can play with the kids in an indoor Oatmeal Box.
Like a sand box but much tastier!
Yes, you'll have some sweeping to do afterwards but
consider it to be a Montessori keeping house lesson.
Or get out your Winter Wonderland box with rice snow
(click on the link to check out mine and get ideas).
You can make an igloo out of Model Magic
or recycle an empty kleenex box/small shoe box into a snowy shelter.
Shoveling this kind of snow is a lot more fun!
mix up a couple of spray bottles with food coloring water and make some rainbows!
Snow men are so much cooler with some Jackson Pollock style tie-die!
Come inside and warm up with some cocoa or better yet, make my favorite
chocolate cake in a mug recipe: Three Minute Chocolate Mug Cake Yummy!
While you're in the kitchen whip up some home-made scented play-doh
make labels for your favorite cold day spices
like Cinnamon Sugar (aka Fairy Dust in our house!)
Time for the kiddos to write and illustrate their own snowy day books with a simple
home-made blank book.
Snuggle up with some of our favorite snowy books like:
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats,
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder,
The Snowy Day (Picture Book) by Anna Millbourne and Elena Temporin,
and Winter by Gerda Muller.
Mini-Saurus and the Frog Princess in their First Snow Together in 2008!
Stay warm and have fun!
Check out my Winter Fun E-Book for even more fun ideas!