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American Remakes of British TV Showsby IMDb-Editors | last updated - 24 Nov 2017
Some of the best US TV shows started life in the UK. Check out a selection of British shows that were adapted for American audiences, with mixed results. – Michael Rosser
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"House of Cards" (UK)
The political drama ran for four episodes in 1990, winning the late Ian Richardson a Best Actor BAFTA for his role as the manipulative Francis Urquhart. It was followed by two subsequent four-part series, "To Play the King" and "The Final Cut."
"House of Cards" (US)
Netflix made its first foray into original programming with the political drama. Among its numerous awards are Golden Globes for lead actor Kevin Spacey as the cunning Francis Underwood, and actress Robin Wright.
"Skins" (UK)
This teen drama caused controversy when it launched in 2007 for its frank depiction of the lives of these racy youngsters. Running for 61 episodes across seven seasons, it launched the careers of actors including Dev Patel (Lion), Kaya Scodelario (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), and Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road), who had previously been seen in About a Boy.
"Skins" (US)
MTV's 2011 remake was canceled after 10 episodes as a result of falling ratings. Like the British original, the show portrayed minors indulging in a hedonistic lifestyle, sparking a call from the Parents Television Council to launch a federal investigation into the show. Several advertisers withdrew support in the wake of the scandal.
"The Office" (UK)
This groundbreaking comedy was a sleeper hit when it launched in 2001, only generating an audience when the first series was repeated. Running for just 14 episodes, it is now regarded as one of the best British sitcoms in television history and launched the careers of Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman ("Sherlock"), and Stephen Merchant (Logan) among others.
"The Office" (US)
Arguably the most successful adaptation of a British show, this comedy ran for 188 episodes from 2005 to 2013. Steve Carell played office boss Michael Scott for seven seasons before stepping down, and the show ran for a further two years before drawing to a close.
"Steptoe and Son" (UK)
This classic sitcom about a man and his elderly father who run a junk yard ran for 57 episodes from 1962 to 1974, comprising eight seasons and two Christmas specials. It spawned two films, Steptoe and Son, and Steptoe and Son Ride Again.
"Sanford and Son" (US)
Considered as classic in the US as the original is in the UK, this 1970s sitcom starred Red Foxx as a cantankerous junk dealer and Demond Wilson as his frustrated son. The show ran for six seasons, comprising 135 episodes, from 1972 to 1977.
"Shameless" (UK)
This working-class comedy-drama won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 2005, and ran for 139 episodes from 2004 to 2013. It also provided an early role for X-Men star James McAvoy.
"Shameless" (US)
William H. Macey and Emily Rossum star in this dysfunctional family drama, set in Chicago. It debuted in 2011 and was renewed for a ninth season.
"The Thick of It" (UK)
This political satire was notable for foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, played by Peter Capaldi ("Doctor Who"). It ran for 24 episodes, across four seasons from 2005-2012, and spawned 2009 film, In the Loop.
"Veep" (US)
Armando Iannucci, creator of "The Thick of It," turned to HBO after a remake of his British show – also titled "The Thick of It" – failed to make it beyond pilot stage. "Veep," starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, has picked up 17 Primetime Emmy Awards since its debut in 2012. Iannucci stepped down as showrunner after four seasons.
"Broadchurch" (UK)
This murder-mystery proved watercooler TV throughout its three seasons, beginning in 2013 and concluding in April 2017. The crime drama starred David Tennant and Olivia Colman.
"Gracepoint" (US)
David Tennant starred in this US remake, his stressed character changing names from D.I. Alec Hardy to Detective Emmett Carver. But the crime drama, which began with the same premise of a young boy found dead on an idyllic beach, lasted just one season of 10 episodes in 2014.
"Life on Mars" (UK)
This original crime drama saw a present-day car accident mysteriously send a detective back to the 1970s. Starring John Simm and Philip Glenister, the series ran for two seasons and sparked 1980s-set spin-off "Ashes to Ashes."
"Life on Mars" (US)
Characters Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt were taken on by Jason O'Mara and Harvey Keitel for the 2008 US remake. But falling ratings meant the show went no further than one season of 17 episodes, and ended with a radically different conclusion to the UK version.
"Fawlty Towers" (UK)
This comedy classic starred John Cleese as perpetually frustrated hotel owner Basil Fawlty. It lasted just 12 episodes, the first season broadcast in 1975 and the second in 1979, but it remains the gold standard of slapstick sitcom.
"Amanda's" (US)
After a failed pilot titled "Snavely," starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, a second "Fawlty Towers" remake was attempted in 1983 with another future Golden Girl, Bea Arthur, in the lead. It lasted just 10 episodes.
"Payne" (US)
A third remake of Basil Fawlty's antics was attempted in 1999, with John Larroquette as the put-upon Royal Payne. It also starred Julie Benz, who would later find success in TV drama including "Angel" and "Dexter." Just eight episodes of "Payne" made it to air.
"Porridge" (UK)
Another classic comedy of the 1970s, Ronnie Barker starred as veteran convict 'Fletch' alongside new fish Godber, played by Richard Beckinsale (father of Kate Beckinsale). It ran for three seasons, comprising 20 episodes, from 1974 to 1977, and moved to the big screen with Porridge (aka Doing Time).
"On the Rocks" (US)
Rick Hurst starred as old con Cleaver, incurred in Alamesa minimum security prison, who takes a newcomer under his wing. It lasted just one season of 24 episodes from 1975 to 1976. Hurst would go on to play Cletus in "The Dukes of Hazzard" and took a starring role in another short-lived remake – "Fawlty Towers" adaptation "Amanda's."
"Cracker" (UK)
Robbie Coltrane played criminal psychologist Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, in this gritty drama that ran for three series from 1993 to 1995. A Hong Kong-set special followed in 1996, and a further two-hour drama aired in 2006.
"Cracker" (US)
Robert Pastorelli took on the role of criminal psychologist Gerry 'Fitz' Fitzgerald in this remake, in which the original 'cracker' Robbie Coltrane appeared as a villain for one episode. The series, which ran for one season of 16 episodes from 1997 to 1998, also starred a young Josh Hartnett and – in the first episode, as seen here – Mariska Hargitay, who would go on to star in more than 400 episodes of "Law and Order: SVU."
"Absolutely Fabulous" (UK)
Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley played the now iconic characters of Edina and Patsy in this comedy of excess. Incredibly, there were less than 40 episodes made across its 20 years on screen from 1992 to 2012. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie was released in 2016.
"Ab Fab" (US)
Although the British version was known in the U.S., FOX commissioned a pilot based on "Absolutely Fabulous" in 2009, starring Kathryn Hahn ("Transparent"), Kristen Johnston ("3rd Rock from the Sun"), and Zosia Mamet ("Girls"). Despite the talented cast, the show never made it to series.
"Prime Suspect" (UK)
Helen Mirren starred as Jane Tennison in this police drama, and followed her rise through the ranks whilst tackling institutionalised sexism and personal demons. Just 15 episodes were made from 1991 to 2006, and a prequel – "Prime Suspect 1973" – aired in March 2017.
"Prime Suspect" (US)
Maria Bello took on the lead role, renamed Jane Timoney, for this New York-set remake. Broadcast in 2011, it lasted just one season of 13 episodes.
"This Life" (UK)
This critically acclaimed drama centered on five twentysomething law graduates embarking upon their careers while sharing a house in London. It ran for two seasons in 1997 and 1997, and included future "Walking Dead" star Andrew Lincoln. One notable aspect was its Britpop soundtrack, assembled by a then-unknown Ricky Gervais.
"First Years" (US)
Ken Marino and Samantha Mathis were among the ensemble cast of this remake that moved the story from London to San Francisco. Just three of the nine episodes produced were broadcast.
"Being Human" (UK)
The story of a werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost who share a house ran for five seasons and 37 episodes, airing from 2008 to 2013. Among the cast was Aidan Turner before he set off on An Unexpected Journey with The Hobbit.
"Being Human" (US)
This US remake of the fantasy drama relocated the action to Boston, and ran for four seasons from 2011 to 2014. The vampire character was renamed Aidan, a nod to the actor who played the role in the UK version.

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Maybe you have too many expectations about what "this" or "awakening" or "enlightenment" is. Your brain/mind can seem to "come back" and "claim" an experience; however you perceive
and label such an apparent happening is this too. There is nothing that is not this. That's what an "ah ha" moment means, and why it's so amusing. What you are looking for is everything, just the way it is. It is occluded by its omnipresence. It's so simple, your mind can't possibly believe it's so obvious.
Moments of peace are great, but they aren't especially "this". They are this in yet another guise. Doubt, resistance, fear - this in an egoic guise. However, when "this" is "realised", there seems to be less resistance, doubt and fear - but this isn't "let's make a deal". There are no guarantees about what the quality of life will be, in the story that seems to unfold, if wholeness is apprehended. The only guarantee is that whatever it is that seems to be happening, thought, or felt is this. EVERYTHING is what the seeker searches for. You can stop looking. THIS IS IT!
I've always liked the analogy of nonduality as a film; the characters have interesting lives, but cannot change what happens; and yet they are light itself; what we truly are is likened to the light that makes the projections possible. Well, let's play with that. What if the characters unravel reality and hop off the screen, no longer slave to the film and script? That's explored in Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo. The characters that remain argue about who is the most important character. One bumbles on, and exits in a fluster; he's not due until the third reel. The ego and its imagination loves the idea that it has absolute freedom. Enjoy.


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I haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey. I kept hearing about it, and seeing people reading it on the bus, but I wasn't sure what it was until I finally got curious and looked into it. Okay, so it's a book about kinky bondage sex-play. And I don't believe I'm in its target demographic.
I do like chicken, however, and so I am in the target demographic for this hilarious parody, Fifty Shades of Chicken. No one's managed to confirm who's reading it, but it sure sounds like Picard himself, Patrick Stewart. The video oscillates between naughty, weird, and… well, it's actually kind of just naughty and weird.
Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey? Know anyone who has? Is it just trash, or is there a decent book in there? Am I ever going to find the time to read the third book in His Dark Materials? (Spoiler: I am.)
Talk sex, bondage, chicken, or video games, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, and a wonderful weekend.
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A Trend Analysis, 1993 to 2003
Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education have completed a series of studies on public attitudes toward higher education, beginning with two relatively small-scale surveys in 1993 and 1998. In 2000, we published a much more extensive study entitled Great Expectations: How the Public and ParentsWhite, African American, and HispanicView Higher Education. Great Expectations painted a rather rosy picture of public attitudes toward higher education. Many Americans thought that higher education was extremely important and was generally doing a good job. Although people were clearly worried about its high cost, most Americans felt that the task of providing a higher education to the next generation was difficult but doable. Seventy-five percent of parents of high school students, for example, said that it was certain or very likely that their oldest child would attend college, and the vast majority (93%) of those who expected their child to go to college said that they would find a way to work out the costs.
In Great Expectations, we concluded that for most Americans, higher education is a public policy success story. We also said that this positive outlook was rather fragile, and we speculated that an economic downturn could upset the apple cart, especially if access to higher education seemed threatened. We were particularly concerned about the situation for African Americans and Hispanics. Great Expectations had found that African American and Hispanic high school parentsseemingly more so than white parentsattached a great deal of importance to higher education as a way for their children to become successful, and we were worried that if an economic downturn makes access to higher education more difficult for minority groups, then the dashed hopes that follow could be especially disheartening.
The country has, in fact, experienced tough economic times in the years since we wrote those words. Many state governments are in a state of economic crisis, and public higher education is competing with other services (such as K12, highways, and prisons) for scarce public resources. The tough times have taken their toll on higher education in terms of cutbacks and sharp increases in tuition and fees.
To examine some of the impacts of these changes on public attitudes, we have recently completed another small-scale survey. The survey included 16 substantive questions, all of which had been used in our previous studies; it was conducted in October 2003 and included 801 adult respondents. We also called several of our respondents back for more in-depth discussions of the views they had expressed in the surveys.
Public opinion on higher education has remained relatively stable. This is not surprising, since there is often a lag between objective changes and public opinion, particularly when it comes to subjects that are not at the top of the publics agenda. But there are some signs that public attitudes toward higher education have become more troubled, especially for those groups most affected, including parents of high school students, African Americans, and Hispanics. In this memo we will review both the areas of stability and also some of the statistically significant changes over time.
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Buck Showalter did an excellent job of guiding the Baltimore Orioles back into the playoffs. Bob Melvin had an equally fine effort with the Oakland Athletics.
So who should be the AL Manager of the Year? Both of them, Detroit skipper Jim Leyland said.
``Not to put the cart before the horse, but I hope that Buck Showalter and Bob Melvin are co-Managers of the Year this year,'' Leyland said before Detroit tried for a three-game sweep at Oakland in the ALDS on Tuesday night. ``I think if there's a year there should be two guys getting the award, this is the year.''
The award, chosen by voters from the Baseball Writers' Association of America, will be announced next month.
Melvin, in his first full season with Oakland, managed the A's to a 94-68 record. The surprising Athletics returned to the playoffs for the first time in six years. His erased a 13-game AL West deficit - including five games over the final nine - and overtook two-time reigning AL champion Texas on the season's final day.
The A's became the first team in major league history to win the division or pennant after trailing by five or more games with fewer than 10 to go.
Showalter, meanwhile, helped the Orioles end 14 straight losing seasons and four consecutive last-place finishes. They won 93 games to earn a wild-card berth and beat the two-time defending AL champion Rangers in a one-game playoff to advance to the division series against New York.
The Yankees and Orioles are tied one game apiece. Game 3 is Wednesday in New York.
BIRDS ON A BUS: Baltimore manager Buck Showalter was given an unexpected reminder of what it was like to travel in his minor league days.
The Orioles rode the bus to New York.
The alternate plans were needed when Baltimore's train stalled because of electrical problems along the line early Tuesday morning after beating the Yankee 3-2, tying their AL division series at one game each.
``The way I understand it, I think the train ahead of us, I think it was the Yankees, clipped something,'' Showalter said. ``Finally we just got on a bus, and it was about a 2 1/2-hour bus ride from there to the hotel here in New York.''
The Orioles arrived at 9 a.m. about three hours after the Yankees returned - also by bus. Both teams began their journeys shortly after 1 a.m.
This wasn't Baltimore's first brush with transportation problems. Less than two weeks ago, the Orioles team plane had smoke in the forward galley and had to be diverted.
FIRST PITCHES, FRANK-LY SPEAKING: Frank Robinson and Frank Howard - a pair of men with strong connections to Washington baseball - will be throwing out the ceremonial first pitches for Games 3 and 4 of the Nationals' NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Robinson was the first manager of the Nationals, guiding them through their initial two seasons in the nation's capital, 2005 and 2006, after having spent four seasons with them when the club was the Montreal Expos. The Hall of Famer get the honor before Wednesday's game, the first baseball postseason contest in Washington since 1933.
``It's cool. It'll be fun to get to talk to him and kind of poke at each other a little bit,'' said Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond, who was drafted by the Expos in 2004 and switched his uniform from No. 6 to Robinson's old No. 20 before this season as a tribute.
``When he signed up here, he had this in mind. He wanted to start something, and he did,'' Desmond added. ``He's got a stamp on this organization forever and I'm forever indebted to him, and I think D.C. will be also.''
Howard will throw out the first pitch Thursday. He played for the Washington Senators from 1965-71, hitting 44 or more homers in three consecutive seasons during that span.
A PRINCE, INDEED: Wherever, however, the Tigers found the money to pay slugger Prince Fielder's hefty salary for nearly the next decade, Jim Leyland has no idea.
And the Detroit manager doesn't much care - Leyland is writing him into the lineup each day now. Fielder is doing his thing to get Detroit back to a second straight AL championship series.
Still, hearing that $214 million, nine-year number caught Leyland's attention, all right.
``The first thing I thought was that we found a whole bunch of money in a short period of time, because we couldn't even sign a relief pitcher for a million dollars about a week before that,'' Leyland said Tuesday before Game 3 in Oakland. ``So, evidently we sold a lot of Little Caesars in a short period of time. And I'm damn glad we did. But it was amazing.''
Tigers owner Mike Ilitch is the Little Caesars pizza mogul.
With Fielder as the cleanup hitter following Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera in the No. 3 spot, the Tigers have one of the most feared middle-of-the-order tandems out there.
It's a big risk to pitch around both of them, too.
``It's not an easy task,'' A's manager Bob Melvin said. ``You look at the numbers and they both have knocked in over a hundred runs and both of them hit 30-plus homers, so somebody is pitching to them. ... There are times you can't pitch around those guys and you have to go after them.''
THAT WAS FAST: If there was any sort of silver lining to be found for the Nationals after they lost Game 2 of their NLDS against St. Louis by a 12-4 score, perhaps it was the opportunity to get to see several relievers.
Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia lasted only two innings - the lefty was replaced on the roster Tuesday because he has a strained rotator cuff and inflammation in his throwing shoulder - so St. Louis needed five members of the bullpen to get through the game.
The one who made the biggest impression? Trevor Rosenthal.
He struck out three batters in the ninth, topping 100 mph.
``Rosenthal came in throwing 101 last night. That's absolute `fuego,''' Washington's Bryce Harper said. ``If you guys want to step in the box, you guys can go ahead.''
Said Adam LaRoche: ``A mop-up guy that throws 100? We were saying: `Where do they get these guys? You're kidding me.'''


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It's rare to encounter a body of work as wholly original as Dietmar Busse's extraordinary series, Fauna and Flora. An amalgamation of photography and painting, the pieces in the series manifest a beauty that occasionally veers into dark, dreamlike realms.
Busse, 46, grew up as an only child on a small farm in Northern Germany and traveled widely in Europe and Morocco as a teenager before settling in Madrid, where he became interested in photography.
"Making art for me is like being on the road, except that the [artistic] journey is an inward one," he recently told TIME. The work in Fauna and Flora, meanwhile, mirrors that travelers' sensibility, emerging from a process Busse describes — like a road trip — as "full of surprises and spontaneous decisions."
In 1991 Busse relocated to New York, working initially as a studio assistant. By 1995 he was receiving commissions as a fashion photographer for magazines like Paper, Interview and Visionaire and portraiture for the New York Times Magazine, Harpers Bazaar and more.
He soon became disillusioned, however, with the constraints imposed when working for others.
"I had always secretly hoped to become an artist," he says, "so I attempted to free myself from any outside demands."
He withdrew from the world of commissioned photography to pursue his artist's vocation. In 2006 he began inviting people he found visually interesting — people in art and fashion, for the most part — to visit his Manhattan apartment, converted into a little studio, to have their portraits taken for a project he calls Visitors. The result: an impressive portfolio of black and white portraits.
"I like having people over, rather than going on location. The sitter enters my world, and that way it is so much easier for me to get to know them and for them to relax."
The one exception to this comfortable, intimate approach has been annual visits to his native village in Germany where, for years, Busse has photographed residents, animals, landscapes and, until recently, his stepfather, Fiddy, a constant companion on those month-long explorations of his homeland.
"My father was very good with the local people and always made sure that I had access to anywhere and anyone I wanted. We were like little kids, up to no good and we had so much fun."
In March 2012 Fiddy was diagnosed with cancer; he died within a month of the diagnosis. Busse spent almost the entire year with his mom — driving, shooting and continuing the project in Fiddy's honor.
"He came into our lives when I was ten years old," Busse says of his stepfather, "and rescued me and my mother from an impossible situation. He was like an angel to us. We miss him terribly."
Today Busse remains very much in the analog world, shooting film and making his own darkroom prints — a hands-on process that helped release him from the constraints of traditional picture-making.
"About six years ago," he recalls, "I made a 'mistake' in the darkroom and double-exposed some paper. I pursued these double and triple exposures, mixing images from my homeland with portraits of people in New York. I liked bringing these two worlds together."
Busse began painting (with photographic developer) on his prints. The resulting images so artfully meld the otherwise quite distinct media that they appear to coalesce — creating, in a sense, a new medium.
"There are all kinds of variables when you draw on the prints before they are fixed, and it's a relief not to worry about spots or imperfect exposures anymore. I embrace the 'accidents', the unforeseen, the spontaneous. I never quite know where things will lead me: it's like an expedition into unknown territory. There is a lot more freedom there, and that is more reflective of who I am as a person than trying for a perfect print."
With no formal art training, Busse was long intimidated by the idea of painting. But in the last few years he began extending his experimentation even further, applying photographic retouching colors and inks to his prints.
"Having a strong foundation in photography," he says, "somehow gives me the courage to explore. The photograph serves as the foundation for the painting, capturing something about a person's energy and spirit the way only photography can. The painting starts where photography can not go." It is these co-mingled pieces that comprise Fauna and Flora.
"I did not set out to [focus on those concepts]. These were just the images I found myself making — and it made sense, for fauna and flora are what I grew up with, and what I relate to."
Two years ago Busse's friend, the collector Scott Newkirk, commissioned him to make a portrait and also requested that Busse integrate his painting process into the images. "I was insecure about the drawings so I did forty pieces in three days, [thinking] he would maybe like two or three and buy them. I hung all forty up together and it was a completely new way for me to look at my work."
Newkirk ended up with a 20-piece installation, and Busse with a new methodology. "With twenty variants on two images, there is repetition of the same image throughout the installation as well as a uniqueness about each piece. The installation becomes one big story and the viewer is invited to go on a journey and explore."
Busse is currently working on another installation, Soldier, Soldier, which combines many of his experimental processes.
"I don't feel like I have completely resolved it, but [the series] is on my studio wall right now. I'm just looking at it before I make the next move.
Dietmar Busse is a German photographer based in New York.
Phil Bicker is a senior photo editor at TIME and TIME.com.


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Seventh graders at Cornerstone Christian launched Hello Kitty into space. For science. Yes, science!
The coolest bit is that after her space flight Kitty-chan was recovered 47.5 miles from the launch site. The onboard GPS and a loud beeper help locate the cat. One small step for cartoon felines, indeed.
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A Raiders defense that had prided itself on preventing big plays was overwhelmed by them Sunday in a 42-32 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday at O.co Coliseum.
Tampa Bay rookie running back Doug Martin, born in Oakland and raised in Stockton, rushed for 265 yards on 21 carries including touchdown runs of 34, 67, 70 and 1-yard.
Martin's last touchdown put the Bucs up by the final margin with 1:49 to play. It was the second-most yards given up to the Raiders, behind Shawn Alexander's 35-carry, 266-yard effort in 2001.
Quarterback Josh Freeman added touchdown passes of 25 yards to Vincent Jackson and 4 yards to Mike Williams, both against cornerback Michael Huff.
Jackson also caught a 64-yard pass against Huff preceding his touchdown as the Bucs improved to 4-4.
The Raiders, down 28-10 at the end of the third quarter, closed to within 35-32 on Carson Palmer's 13-yard pass to Marcel Reece and a two-point conversion pass to Juron Criner with 3:51 left.
The Raiders, 3-5, got the ball back with 2:42 to play, but Palmer's overthrown pass was intercepted by Ahmad Black and gave the ball back to the Bucs deep in Oakland territory and set up Martin's game-clinching touchdown.
Oakland played without running back Darren McFadden after he left with a leg injury in the second quarter. McFadden went to the hospital for X-rays, which were negative, and there was no word on his prognosis.
Running back Mike Goodson, who took over for McFadden, also failed to finish with an ankle injury.
Passing on virtually every down to get the Raiders back in the game, Palmer threw touchdown passes of 25 yards to Rod Streater, 4 and 1 yards to tight end Brandon Myers, and the score to Reece.
Palmer completed 39 of 61 passes for 414 yards and had three interceptions to go along with the four touchdowns. He received some boos after a final interception with the Raiders down by 10 with less than two minutes to play.


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Army Pfc. Oscar Hernandez has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.
Hernandez is the son of Moraima Hernandez of Lehigh Acres. He is a 2012 graduate of Lehigh Senior High School in Lehigh Acres.


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It all comes down to tonight. More than a month after the SEC Championship and more than two months after their first meeting in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the LSU Tigersand Alabama Crimson Tide finally get their rematch. Now, before we get into the "if Alabama wins" mess and the possibility of a split National Championship, we want you to predict the score of the BCS title game for a shot at winning a $50 gift card to Cotton Patch Café.
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While the first meeting between these two teams turned into a defensive slugfest, don't necessarily assume the same thing will happen this time around. Both teams have shown they have potent offenses that are capable of moving the ball. Additionally, coaches from both teams have hinted this week that they are prepared to take more chances on offense than they did the first time around. That said, points will still be at a premium and both teams will need to capitalize on any scoring opportunities they get. Alabama will need to keep the game close early, as LSU has outscored its opponents by an astounding 267-61 in the second halves of games this season. Look for LSU to make at least one big play in the return game, and it will be important to see how the Crimson Tide responds. While Oklahoma State fans (and anyone else who didn't want to see a rematch in the title game) can only sit back and wonder what might have been, the BCS title game should still prove to be an exciting matchup that, like the first game, could go down to the final play.


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One of the most powerful and wonderful presentations of the worthy Lamb, the Son of God, is given in Revelation, chapter 1. And as we come to the study of the Word of God this morning I would like to invite you to open your Bible to Revelation, chapter 1; and I want to share with you the first vision of the Lord Jesus Christ given in this great revelation. Beginning in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 9, we read:
"I, John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the Word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, 'I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last': and, what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden lampstands; and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girded about the breasts with a golden girdle. His head and His hair were white like wool, and white as snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire; and His feet like fine bronze, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice like the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in its strength."
John has an incredible vision; and what he sees is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ, the Alpha and the Omega; and he sees Christ in this vision moving among seven golden lampstands. They represent the seven churches in verse 11. The seven stars in His hand, according to verse 20, are the seven ministers of those churches. So what do you see here? You see Christ moving among His churches. And the seven churches of Asia Minor listed here, to which letters are written in chapters 2 and 3, are representative of all kinds of churches throughout all of church history. And here you have a picture of the Lord moving among His churches, moving among His people, caring for the church which He purchased with His own precious blood; and that hasn't changed.
I believe the Lord is as alive and active in His church today as He was then; and the vision that John has is not just a vision for that place and that time, but a vision for all the time of the church. That Christ is ever alive and moving in His church; and you notice in verse 13 that He is garmented down to the foot, girded with a golden girdle. If you look closely at that, you will find that that could be the garb of a prophet. It could be the garb of a priest. It could be the garb of a king. And is it not fitting that He, indeed, is King, and Prophet, and Priest? Moving in His church as the sovereign, moving in His church as the One who speaks from God, and who takes the people to God. In verse 14, we see His head and His hair as white as wool, as white as snow, indicating His absolute and utter pure holiness. And so the holy Son of God, perfect King, Priest, Prophet, moves in His church. And as He moves in His church, it says in verse 14, "His eyes were like a flame of fire." That is a penetrating gaze. As He moves in the church, His eyes are searching out its strengths and weaknesses. His eyes are penetrating behind what appears on the surface to affirm and ascertain what is really going on.
Oh, what a marvelous thing it is to know that Christ is alive in His church; that this is not our work, it's His work. That it is not determined by our cleverness or left to our devices to figure out what is being done right or what should be done; but Christ is alive in His church; and He searches with a penetrating gaze; and "His feet are like fine bronze as if they burned in a furnace, and His voice like the sound of many waters." And these are the feet of judgment and the voice of judgment. When He finds that in the church which displeases Him, He comes in judgment. He speaks in judgment to that church.
You say, "Why are you reading that?" Because I think it's a good place to start today, to remember this: that we are the church that Christ is building, right? We are the lampstand that Christ is caring for. We are the light, as it were, that Christ is trimming; and He does so with a penetrating gaze. And He seeks to find that which in us is not right and to bring against that the thunder of His own voice, the strength of His own chastening judgment; because He seeks to refine us. And if we resist the refining, then He will remove His blessing. And one of the mixed passages of all Scripture is Revelation 2 and 3, where you find some churches who are commended, but most who are condemned; for the Lord did not find there what He sought to find.
Grace Church stands, in a sense, in Revelation 1; and Christ moves through this church; and I believe he commends and condemns. I believe He searches out and blesses. I believe He searches out and chastens, as He discovers things that are according to His will and things that are not. And so it is my prayer that, as I stand in these days and share with you the thoughts of my own heart, and I'm just sharing my heart, but I really believe that, as I'm doing this, I stand in, in a place where Christ would stand. I stand in His behalf to tell you what His searching eyes wish to see, and see sometimes and do not see other times. Now, I'm not under some illusion that I am an anointed prophet of God, distinct from any other. I just believe that the Spirit of God has brought us to this time in our church, and the Spirit of God has prompted us to this particular series. When I started to talk about the anatomy of a church five weeks ago, I, I really didn't know why I was doing it. I just felt compelled to do it. Worse than that, I had no idea what I was going to say. I wrote down a little outline, and I'm still working off that same outline, and asking the Spirit of God to enable me to, as it were, be the instrument of Christ as the church is searched out to try to help us to see what it is that He sees.
And you've responded so well that I know it's of the Spirit. I know it's of God what we've talked about. I've seen it in your response. I have received more mail from the last few sermons than any other I've ever preached, I think; and the, and the mail ranges the gamut. I received two letters that I can think of, more than that yesterday, maybe five or so, but two of them kind of were interesting. One of them said, "I wish this were a black church, so I could stand up and yell, 'Preach it, brother! Preach it!'" And that's all right. You know, I, I've been in a black church where they stand up and yell, "Blow your trumpet," and, you know, I mean that's, that'll get you revved up if you're not revved up to start with. I mean, all the way from that kind of response. I also saw a letter yesterday, and a dear person said, "I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed," and signed it "A Repentant One," having faced the reality of coming very short of what God wanted His church to be. I don't know where you are in the, in the line from standing up and yelling, "Preach it, brother," to feeling quietly ashamed; but I, I've seen God touch our hearts, and mine, as well, through this. And so I want to return this morning to our thoughts about the anatomy of a church and let Christ penetrate our church a little more deeply and, and reveal to us things that we need to see.
Now, we've already talked about the skeleton. We've talked about if we are like a body, if we are using the analogy of a body. And we're like a body; we have to have a skeleton. And we, we talked about those skeletal things: a high view of God, the absolute priority of Scripture, doctrinal clarity, personal holiness, and the idea of spiritual authority. And then we moved into the internal systems: the flowing through of the life principles. Like in a body, the body is dependent for life on the flowing through of those systems. So we are dependent on certain spiritual attitudes; and those attitudes have to flow through the body. And we've been suggesting to you the attitudes that are most critical. We've talked about obedience, which seems to me to be a rather supremely important attitude. The attitude of humility, of love, unity, service, joy, peace, thankfulness, self-discipline, accountability; and I think last time we ended with forgiveness.
Now, all of these are attitudes that must be cultivated in God's people; and when the Lord moves through His church, I believe those are the things He looks for. To see a people who have an attitude of love, an attitude of peace, an attitude of discipline, an attitude of obedience, of, of service, of joy, of thankfulness, of peace; all of those things. Searching out behind the exterior to see what's in the heart, for the Lord searches the heart. And that's eleven of them we've already talked about; and I'm going to give you the remaining five this morning; and I want to wrap them up this morning, so I'm going to try to get through five of them. Number twelve in my list— not that that matters—is dependence. Dependence. If you wanted to put it in negative terms, it would be the attitude of insufficiency or the sense that you are not sufficient, so that there is in you a basic dependence; and this doesn't come easy to capable people. It doesn't come easy to effective, God-blessed churches like ours. See, our church is sort of well-oiled, in a sense. I mean the, the machinery moves. Things get done. We have competent people. We have hardworking people. We have creative people. We have a past program development that says, "Man, we're doing it," see. And, and we can get to the point where we lose the sense of insufficiency. We lose the sense of dependence, because we've figured out how to do it; and what you're really doing, if you're not careful, is eliminating God. And you come to the point in your ministry where, by virtue of the strength of your workforce and your creative people and the program that's already in place, you just say goodbye to God and take off.
And maybe it isn't so easy to do that if you happen to be a little band of believers behind the Iron Curtain that are living every day in the fear of death with absolutely no resources at all. But for us who have so much, who so very much have been blessed by God, like Israel of old as we mentioned, who having come into the land and inherited a land we really didn't work for, and partaken from wells we didn't dig, we forget God; and we just move out in a flurry of activity and great ideas and bright hopes and challenging thoughts. I guess what I'm saying, people, is that we really don't want to do anything ever that we don't believe is God's perfect purpose for us, and so we must maintain an attitude of dependence. Dependence.
And we could talk about it from a lot of angles. In the Psalm that I read this morning, Psalm 19, David says, "Keep me back from presumptuous sins." It's so easy to just blast ahead without really being dependent on God, without searching for the heart of God and the mind of God. You could sit in a meeting and decide to do this or decide to do that. And where's the prayer? And where is the patience? And where is the enduring communion with God, until the heart is not only free to do it, but has the sense of doing the work of God? I've always, throughout all my ministry, been fearful that I would do something God wasn't a part of. I always want to be sure that I'm just going along at the same pace in the same direction with the same goal that He has, because Christ is building His church, and I don't want to compete with Him. That's a loser. But we can so easily run into presumptuous sins. Great idea and off we go.
I remember when I was in seminary, in Talbot Seminary, everybody had to preach in those days, twice in chapel. We have more students now; and I don't think everybody has to. But everybody did; and when we preached, the whole faculty sat on the platform behind us. And they had 8 1/2 by 17 criticism sheets; and the whole time you're preaching, they were filling them out, which was a good exercise for them, because it kept them awake during the more boring sermons, I think. But they would sit there, and you'd hear the paper shuffle; and if you were ten minutes in, and the guy was already flipping his paper over, you knew you were really in hot water, right? But you did your best to preach. And I was assigned 2 Samuel, chapter 7; and 2 Samuel, chapter 7, I've never forgotten it. I mean, I wanted that sermon down so pat when I preached that thing that I memorized every single thing in it, even my pauses. I think my breathing I had figured out. I was really going to be careful on that one, and I got into the chapter, and David looks at his palace. He says, "I've got this beautiful palace." He looks at the house of God. God was living in a tent in those days, you know, tabernacle. He says, "It is not fitting that God should dwell in a tent while I dwell in this massive palace," he says. "I will build a house for God. Commendable, huh? Very commendable. And so he goes to Nathan the prophet, and he says, "Nathan, this is my desire," and Nathan says, "Commendable. Go, do whatever's in your heart, David, a great idea." And God put down the big hook and yanked Nathan over and said, "Nathan, you didn't check in. Who told you to tell him that? He will never build My house, for he is a man of bloody hands." It was Solomon who would build the house; but when God took away something, He put something in its place; and He gave to David a wonderful promise.
So I preached on the sin of presuming on God, of venturing into good things that God isn't interested in. It was really a life-changing experience for me, because that message has stuck in my mind through the years. It's an incidental footnote, however, that, as I was leaving, Dr. Feinberg handed me his criticism sheet. He was the dean. Folded over, and I had felt so good about that message, because it spoke to my heart; and I opened it up; and he hadn't bothered to check off anything. He just wrote across the front, "You missed the entire point of the passage." That was a bad day, a very bad day and a very good lesson. He thought I should've preached on the kingdom promise. It was a choice. I knew the passage promised the kingdom, but I felt my own heart needed to hear about presumption; because I tend to be that kind of person who runs really fast in a new direction, and maybe has great ideas or great vision for what could be done; and I need to back up to the point of dependence, sense an insufficiency that drives me to seek the heart and mind of God. All you got to do is start something by yourself that God isn't in and just get out on that limb and watch it get sawed off a few times. It helps to cure you. What I'm really talking about is prayer. The church must have a spirit of dependence. People, look, we haven't arrived. I mean I, we walk. We got all this stuff. We come here. It's all for us ready to go, all these wonderful programs and ministries; and we can get the idea that we just don't need to depend on God anymore. But it can be gone that fast. There must be a sustained dependence.
Look with me for a moment at John 14, just to touch this concept of dependence from another angle. In John 14, you know the situation I'm sure, in John 14. The Lord is leaving. It's the upper room, the last discourse of our Lord with His disciples, and He's promising them all kinds of wonderful things because they're really afraid. They have depended on Him for everything, everything. They have followed him for three years. He made food that fed them. He caught fish so they could pay their taxes. He told them everything they needed to know about the kingdom, about God, about man, about sin, about righteousness. They were utterly dependent on Him and now He was going away, and they were troubled. They were deeply troubled because they had awakened to their dependence. They needed Him desperately. I mean even when He was there, they floundered rather constantly, didn't they? And so they knew their dependence.
And when He announced to them that He was going away, it was panic time. Really panic time. But in the midst of that, He makes a promise to them that is so marvelous. It's in verse 13 and 14 of John 14. "And whatever you shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask anything in My name, I'll do it." You can't get a better promise than that, can you? Anything we want to ask in His name, He'll do it. You say, "Well, does it mean, then, anything you ask?" Well, no, anything you ask in His name. You say, "Well, what does that mean? Stick on the end of your prayer, 'In Jesus' name, amen,' and God has to do it? Some people think that. That isn't what it means. In the Old Testament, God said, "My name is, 'I Am That I Am.'" In other words, "My name is all that I am," and the name of Christ is all that He is, so you ask anything consistent with who Jesus is and what His work is and what His will is and what His desire is and what His plan is and what His purpose is, and He'll do it. It doesn't mean you can ask for anything and slam down on the end of your prayer and get it. It means that, when you ask consistently with His will and His purpose, then He will do it.
And so we need to learn, as believers, to live in a life of constant dependency, the prayer of which is, "Oh, Lord, whatever is in Your will to do, do it. Do it." So there's no bitterness if it doesn't come off, if it doesn't get done, if it doesn't happen. If we're dependent on Him to energize it and bring it to pass only if it's in line with His perfect will. And, you see, this is the way the Father is glorified; because then the Father is doing what the Father wants to do for His own glory; and then the ministry that's being carried on is the ministry of God in the name of the Son.
And, beloved, that is what I want in this church. I don't want the ministry of clever men. I don't want the ministry of creative people. We want the ministry of the Spirit of God in the name of the Son of God for the glory of God Himself, don't we? And I'm talking to you just in a general perspective sense; but there needs to be in our hearts a sense of insufficiency to know what to do and how best to do it that drives us to dependency on God, where in the midst of our prayers we call out for that which Jesus wants done.
So important, it's the heart of the disciples' prayer in Matthew 6, frankly, where when they came to Jesus and said, "Teach us to pray," He said, "Pray like this. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by Your name." In other words, glorious be Your name. Holy be Your name. Set apart be Your name. Unique be Your name. In other words, Lord, all we really want is for You to be glorified, for Your name to be exalted, for all that You are and all that You will and all that You desire, to come to pass. Then, "Thy kingdom come": You do Your work Your way in Your kingdom. "Thy will be [What?] done on earth, as it is in Heaven." And so that prayer begins not with give us, give us, give us, but: "Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done." And until we've gotten that perspective in place, we have no right to ask for anything. And so we are taught, I believe there, to pray in a dependent way, in a sense of insufficiency that cries out for God to do His work in His way. That's always been our desire here. That's always been our goal, is that Christ would be building His church, and that we would just be being part of that. And I worry sometimes that we get so program-oriented, we get so good at what we do, we get so far down the line with our plans, that prayer has no part except when the disaster hits. It's after the fact. Oops, get us out of this one, Lord; and we probably wouldn't be in it if we'd have asked.
I don't know about you, but I don't want anything for me that God doesn't want for me. Do you? Nothing, and so I think there has to be an attitude of dependence—and, bless God, there has been—and I only encourage you that there be that attitude more and more. We have depended on God. We have depended on His Word. We have depended on prayer. But we need more. I think maybe we're caught up in this sort of milieu of contemporary Christianity where we work a whole lot and pray very little. There's nothing more wonderful than having spent time in prayer, to enter into something and sense that tremendous freedom that comes to the heart that knows it's walking down a path side by side with the Savior whose will is being expressed. That's why I said that, because, you know, it doesn't always happen this way; but when I started this series, I didn't really know where the Lord was going to take us. I don't even know yet what I'm going to say till I say it. But I've had the sense of the companionship of Jesus Christ step by step through this whole thing; because I really believe in my heart that, as I sought Him as to what our church needed for this time, and what He wanted to do in our fellowship for these days, He took me this way. And this is the expression of His heart to us; and so this is Him moving, if you will, through the candlesticks. Dependence. We do a lot of things well, not so well we want to do them in the flesh, right?
Let me give you another attitude that needs to be in the church. Flexibility. Flexibility. I'm not going to talk a long time about this, but it's important: Flexibility. That is, we need to be able to change. Somebody wrote a book, said the seven last words of the church, "We've never done it that way before." And that's really true. Some people have substituted what Jesus said in Matthew 15. You remember? He confronted the Pharisees and scribes. They came to Him. They confronted Him, and they said, "Why do Your disciples violate the commandments of men by not washing their hands?" They were eating, you know, without going through, not, not physically cleansing, washing, but ceremonial ritual. And he says, "Why do your disciples violate the commandment of men or the tradition of man, the tradition of the elders?" He says. And Jesus says, "Why do your traditions violate the commandments of God?" Now, let me tell you. We've all had experience. Churches can get piled high with tradition that becomes a block wall to what the Word of God says to do, right? Happens all the time: "Well, we, we certainly can't do that in our church. We, we have this tradition, see." Churches can have an organization that's totally unbiblical. They can have a style of ministry that's utterly unbiblical. And when you try to introduce the thing that God wants under the divine mandate of a commandment from God Himself, it runs right into the stone wall of tradition. And so there must be in the attitude of the church flexibility. Now, if you've been in Grace very long, you've got to be flexible. I mean we just keep changing. People say, "How, how is your church organized? Could you send us an organizational chart?" We get letters like that all the time. That's really a joke. It would have to be a sixteen-millimeter film. Would have to be moving, just like this, it never stops. We can't box it and capture it, because God works through people; and they ebb and flow, and they're strong and weak and committed and less committed; and more people pile in somewhere. We got to do something about it; and so there's a changing, constant kind of organic function that I think is so wonderful; because it never lets us just stop and administrate. You can't ever just sit down and crank out the papers. It's always people; and it's always picking up this and strengthening this and changing that and, and that's wonderful; because we're never confused, hopefully, the difference between routine and reality. We don't want to be confused about that. I mean we don't want to substitute false for the true just because we've always done it that way.
My wife had an old aunt who passed away not long ago, or distant relative, I guess, not really an aunt. But anyway, we used to go see her around the holiday season, take her little cookies and things. And so the last time we went to see her, it was Christmas season. And she said, "Well, John." (She goes to the Methodist church.) She said, "Do you have a Christmas Eve service?" I said, "No, we don't have a Christmas Eve service." She says, "You don't?" I said, "No, we don't. We just encourage everybody to go home and, and be with their family and talk about the meaning of Christmas and the birth of the Lord; but we don't have a service." She said, "Oh, too bad." She was very sad. She said, "You know, at our church, we've always had a Christmas Eve service." I said, "Really?" She: "Oh, yes." I said, "Do you go?" She said, "Oh, no one goes, but we've always had a Christmas Eve service." "No one goes?" I said. She closed the conversation by saying, "Oh, well, it's, it's just too bad that you don't have a Christmas Eve service."
Boy, I'll tell you, we are creatures of habit. You know that? It's both good and bad. You get good habits, it's a good thing you're a creature of habit. You get bad habits. They're tough to break, aren't they? You get a whole collection of people together who basically are created with the habitual tendencies, and they get locked into a certain way to do things, and you try to move them, and it's amazing how resistant they are to that. But sometimes you just have to change things so people don't get confused between routine and reality. So there needs to be a little ebb and flow, a little change, a little flexibility. We all have to be that way; and when you link that up with the prior point that we made initiating the message on dependence, we have to be flexible, because we depend on God, and God may be doing different things. It grieves my heart when a young pastor goes into a church, and he's got a great desire to teach the Word and the, apply the Word, and he runs into a stone wall of tradition, and people won't let him move. They, "Well, we'll really have problems if we try to do that, because we've got this deal over here. Boy, if they, those people'll get very upset." But, but, but why are you letting the traditions of men stand in the way of the commandments of God?
You see, that's what's so wonderful about this church. When, when we started years ago to discover the Word of God, we said, "Hey, that's in the Bible. We got to change that. We got to change that. We have to change. We got to get in line with this." And Grace Church has always been that way. It's so wonderful. Sometimes we send out young men, and they come back bruised and bleeding in six months saying, "I've been smashing myself against this wall of tradition. I don't know if it'll ever change." But we have to be flexible.
It comes down to personal life, too. I always think about Acts 16, and Paul was a kind of a go-get-'em guy, right? I don't think he ever sat down. He just kept moving all the time. And he'd finished his ministry in Galatia and Phrygia—that's modern-day Turkey area—and he decided that we're going to go to Asia, south, down into Asia, great place. Boy, a significant place, the seven churches of Asia Minor over there, that area. And he started to go there, and the Bible says in Acts 16:6 to 10 that the Holy Spirit prevented him. Now, I don't know how the Holy Spirit did it, but somehow put up a big roadblock. Said, "Nope, that's not it, Paul." What do you think Paul did? Go back at home, at home and just sort of say, "Well, they, they don't want my ministry. There's no openings in the Asia ministry." No, he said, "All right, we can't go. We've already been to east. We can't go south. Let's go north. Bithynia, guys. Here we go. Let's go to Bithynia." Holy Spirit: whammo, "Can't go there." "Oh, well, let's see, we already been east, can't go south, can't go north. West, we're going west." Pssssssht, ocean. So he goes to sleep, and he must have gone to sleep probably praying about where God wanted him to go, because in the middle of the night, he had a vision. And there was a man of Macedonia saying, "Come over and [What?] help us." And he went, and the gospel became more than a Middle Eastern sect. It touched the world. Flexibility. Flexibility.
Marty Wolf's one of our elders. I wrote about this in my book on God's will, and I remember when he was going to go to, he had a burden to reach Jewish people, being Jewish himself. And his burden was to go to France and reach them in Paris. And this was his great goal. And so he got involved with the Bible Christian Union Mission serving in France. And, boy, it was exciting. He did all his training and got all his preparation. We put up a plaque in the church. It was my dad's church, and said, "Marty Wolf, France." And the day came when he went to Canada. That's where he went. French-speaking Jews also live in Montreal. God had a different place. Flexibility. That's how it is in serving Christ; and the church needs that flexibility, that sense of dependence, that sense of flexibility that says, "God, we depend on the way You lead us, and we flex when You do." That's so important. Let me just encourage you, when things in the church shift and change and move, just pray with us that God's taken us that direction and be flexible to move with that very important attitude.
Let me give you another one: Growth. Attitude of growth. Attitude of growth. I guess maybe this is as important as anything, that we have the, flowing through us, the desire to grow, the desire to grow, to be in the process of growing. First Peter 2:2 sums it up as, "Babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may [What?] grow." Now, that analogy is marvelous, because it says this. It's not like milk of the Word as opposed to meat. That's a different analogy, 1 Corinthians 3. What he's saying there, as in the say, Peter is saying, "In the same way babies desire milk, you must desire the Word to grow." Now, how much does a baby desire milk? Had a baby around lately? Kick, scream, holler, tantrums till you get that deal in there, right? I mean, basically, babies only care about two things. Give them milk and deal with the consequences. That's the beginning, the end of the whole business. It's that single-minded devotion, see. It's that consuming desire for one thing that Peter's driving at. How strong is your desire for the Word? Can you take it or leave it? Are you a little bored with what's going on this morning? Are you looking at your watch, saying, "I got to get out of this place. The sun's shining for the first time in five days." I mean, do you really hunger for the Word? Is it some kind of a, an exercise in, in tyranny, that you have to open the Bible to read it? Or is there something magnetic about it that draws your heart? Do you really sense you're growing? I mean that's so important.
Now, we all don't have the same capacities to grow. But whatever the capacity that we do have is, we need to grow to that extent. And we grow by feeding on the Word of God. You know, we have a wonderful ministry in our church for some of the folks who are mentally disabled, and some of them are good friends of mine, excellent, good friends. In fact, I think I see Rodney down here in the second row. Rodney's my good friend, aren't you? Right, well, I remember when Rodney was baptized. Do you remember when you were baptized, Rodney? That's been a little while back. And so he said, "Yeah," he said, "I want to be baptized; and I want to be baptized because," he said, "John baptizes everybody else who has Jesus in his heart, and I have Jesus in my heart. I want to be baptized." So I said to Greg Barshaw, "Great." So we were over in the side over here, and I said, "Now, Rodney, I just want to be sure about this." He probably doesn't remember this. I said, "Rodney, just, because you're going to come out, and you're going to give your testimony." I said, "Now, you just tell me. Who is Jesus Christ?" He wrinkled up his nose and says, "You mean you don't even know that?" I said, "What a silly question. Of course, I know that. I'm the preacher. I'm the minister." And he was baptized, and he gave his testimony of his love for the Lord. And, afterwards, I, I had a opportunity to get him a Bible, because his other Bible was all beaten up. And he told me he wanted a Bible with big numbers, because he could see the number I was talking about, and he could see the number of the verses and so forth, and people helped him. A few weeks after that—I don't know if you remember this, either—you came up to the front, and you said, you said, "Sit down." You said, "Sit down after the service." So I said, "Okay." So I sat on the steps, and he said, "I have a surprise for you." And he recited the 23rd Psalm, and that blessed my heart.
You know, we have all different abilities, but the Spirit of God works in the heart, doesn't He, to bring us to love His Word and to grow at the, at the pace that we can grow. And I guess the thing that would put the most fear in my heart would be if the church ever stopped growing. I mean if people just said, "Well, I've had enough. I've had theology all I can take. I've had so much exposition. I, I really, I, I know more than I care to know. I mean I can't even find places for the tapes. I got them in the garage. I got in the trunk. I, and I, I can't even find anybody to give them to, because everybody's got them. I mean, I really don't need to know any more. I, I just, I'm going to fold up my tent and steal away into the night."
But, you know, there needs to be that ongoing hunger to grow, doesn't it? I just pray God we never lose that attitude. You know, Peter said it in another way in his second epistle, chapter 3, verse 18. "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." We're not just learning facts in a book. We're growing in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We're not getting to know facts. We're getting to know Him, right? You see, when you're born into the family of God, 1 John 2:13 says you're a little baby, and you know the Father: da-da, goo-goo, basic. And then you become a spiritual young man, the Word of God dwells in you. You're strong. You overcome the wicked one, but it doesn't end there. First you know God in a simple way. Then you know doctrine, and then it says you become a spiritual father who knows Him who is from the beginning. We're not learning to know doctrine. We're learning to know God; and the more you know God, the more the fellowship is enriching.
Listen, think of the most wonderful person in the whole wide world, the most wonderful person you ever met, and think how great it would be to just have that relationship grow and grow and grow; and then compare that with knowing the infinite Holy God of the universe in a growing relationship, growing. Feed on the Word. Do you have a hunger for it? Do you meditate on it? Do its truths run around in your mind? Is it your daily food? Can you say with Job that you love the Word of God more than your necessary food?
We ought to be growing, and you say, "Well, I've been here a long time. I know so much." Well, if you've gotten to the point where you think you know a lot, you're just at the point where you really don't know what you ought to know; and that is that you don't know enough. Oh, you may have enough facts; but are you telling me you know God as well as you'd like to get to know Him? See, when I study a passage I always look for what I can find out about God's character in there, so I can know Him better; growth.
Let me give you two more attitudes: Faithfulness, faithfulness. Boy, you know, there are an awful lot of Christians that are sort of spiritual sprinters. Choooooo, they're done. They sign up, blast off, boomp, it's all over. They're looking for spiritual retirement, and what God is looking for is marathoners, long-range people, distance runners. "Moreover, brethren," 1 Corinthians 4:2 says, "it is required in stewards, that a man be found [What?] faithful." Something to be said for endurance, for long-term spiritual commitment: I love it when older people say to me, "You know, oh, you know, could you slow down, because I have trouble getting all my notes down." And somebody said to me recently, is in their 80s. I just love that. Eighty-year-old taking notes? Still excited, still faithful to the Word of God, the truth of God, the life of God, the church of God, the ministry; I mean, they haven't bailed out.
And there are those people who teach year after year after year, who disciple year after year after year, who make long-range commitments and follow through. Though, they're the real stalwarts of the faith; because, you see, what they do is not based on an emotional appeal. It is not based upon immediate response. It is based upon character, and character has that enduring quality. There, there are lots of people who come to Grace Church whenever they can, and who might even do something whenever they can; but they usually can't because they have other things. And then there are those who just faithfully move on. Oh, how we need the spirit of faithfulness. The mark of real character is enduring commitment, enduring commitment. Look at 2 Timothy. Let me just kind of use Paul, who, of course, is a model. And in 2 Timothy 4, verse 6, he says, "For I am now ready to be offered [and he knew he was going to be a sacrifice] and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course; I have kept the faith." Boy what a, what a great statement. He, you know what he's saying? "God, I can die now. I'm done. I'm done. It's over. I've carried it out. I've finished the course. I've fought the fight. I've kept the faith."
Oh, you know, that's so wonderful. I guess it's kind of sad when you see a saint grow old and indifferent, or one that belongs to Christ get old and bitter; and sometimes you even see preachers or teachers or whatever Christian workers. They get old, and they get kind of sour and kind of bitter and sort of self-centered and whatever; and you just wonder what went wrong. But where you have that sweet grace of growing old in a life of faithful service is such a beautiful thing. Such a beautiful spirit: Faithfulness, faithfulness.
You have a responsibility, and you're there, you fulfill it; and when the Lord's people meet, you're there. You know, we've always said if everybody that says they go to Grace Church actually came here, it would be amazing. It would be amazing. I mean, I meet people like that all the time. I mean all the time, no matter where. If I go to the market with my wife, I push the cart, she buys the stuff. Somebody'll come down the aisle and say, "Oh, I know you. You're John MacArthur. I go to your church." "Oh, do you? Well, how wonderful. Uh, I haven't seen you there." "Oh, well, well, I come. Yeah, I come." "Oh, do you really? Were you there Sunday?" "Oh, no, I wasn't there Sunday. No, oh, it's been a while. Oh, we love it." "Oh, good, good." That's kind of, kind of sad, you know? Makes me feel a little bit badly. Or I hear, "Well, when we go, we always go to Grace. We enjoy it." Faithfulness. Faithfulness. Just being there to worship consistently, to serve consistently, to pray consistently, all these things; and it's such a distracted society where we're all ripped umpteen directions. It's hard to keep the priorities.
A last, wish I could say more about that one. Time's gone. A last attitude is hope. Hope. Oh, what a great word, hope. It means security for the future. It means we don't fear death. It means we actually look forward to what's ahead of us in life and death. In fact, I love the expressions in Romans 12:12, "Rejoicing in hope." Hey, death holds no fear for us. I mean, we have a, a funeral service around here and it's a celebration. And we rejoice and we praise God because one we love has passed from this vale of tears into the place where all tears are forever dried. Place of disease to a place where there's no more disease. A place of death to a place where there is no death; a place of limitation, to a place of unbounded realization. We live in hope. We've been learning that in Romans 8. We are saved in hope. We are saved in hope, and we look forward to eternity, to being like Christ. We look forward to the fulfillment of the promise of Romans 8 that we'll have a redeemed body to go with our redeemed soul, and we'll be in the image of Jesus Christ. We live in hope. Oh, people, we've got to have a hopeful attitude. And what that says to us practically is this. We don't get too bound up in what's going on here, right? I mean we get the picture when Jesus said, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, thieves break through and steal: [Matthew 6:19 to 21] but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust doth not corrupt nor thieves break through and steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
So if our heart's up there hoping in eternity, our treasure's going to be up there; and everything else is going to go with it. I hope you're not living for the time. I hope you're not living for the temporal. I hope you're not living for the passing. Listen people, we should be living in hope, and hope means that we are far greater in our commitment to invest in forever than we are in time. And so our energies and our thoughts and our prayers and our dreams and our visions and our money and all that we possess is only held as a means to invest in an eternal reality. We live in hope. We live in the light of eternity. It's a wonderful day as we look into that future.
Yesterday, I went to the hospital. Jack Coleman—who was our choir director, warm and gentle and loving, wonderful man—was having heart failure. And I went into the room and we prayed with he and Sarah, and he said, "Three days ago, I almost died." And he said, "I, I knew I had just a few breaths left, and, and I'm still here." And Sarah said, "You know when he, when he was just about dying three days ago, he kept saying, 'And I hit him with a right, and I hit him with a left, and I hit him with a right. I hit him with a left.'" And she said, "I don't know what he was doing. It's not like him to box, you know?" So she said to him after he came out of it, she said, "What were you doing?" she says. He said, "I was hitting the devil, and I knocked him out." See, he had the idea the devil was trying to take him early, and he had a few things yet to do. And he said to me, he said, "I wrote you a letter, and I wanted to be sure that I could write you that letter and send you a picture." Well, I mean that's probably one of a lot of little things that he didn't quite yet get done; and so he wasn't ready to say, "I finished my course. I kept the faith. I'm done. Take me out of here." So he in his mind thought he was having a boxing match with the devil who was trying to check him out early. Now, I don't know all the spiritual ramifications of that, or if, in fact, that was true; but that's the way he perceived it. But we rejoiced together, and we prayed together, because if he goes to be with the Lord, that is the ultimate promotion. That's hope: Would you like to live in this world without that? Then bless God for our hope, huh? And if we have that hope, John says it is a purifying hope. First John 3:3, "He that hath this hope in himself purifies himself."
Listen, if you really live for eternity, it's going to change dramatically the way you exist in time. It really is. Oh, attitudes flowing through the church will make it what Christ wants it to be. Let's bow.
Our Father, we thank You that You again have given us such a clear Word. You've called us to obedience, and humility, and love, and unity, and service, and joy, and peace, and thankfulness, self-discipline, accountability. You've called us to forgiveness, dependence, flexibility, growth, faithfulness, hope. And, Lord, this, so that we may be Your church magnifying, glorifying, praising Your name; and so that You may bless us in response; move through us, oh, Christ, and trim the lamp. Search us out. See where we are weak, and bring the loving hand of chastening to us to conform us to Your holy purpose. Be our priest, and prophet, and king, our example of pure holiness, and may we be a church in which You are glorified.
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BILLERICA -- Five days from now, their friend Tommy Glavine will become a bronzed baseball god, immortalized on a plaque that will hang in a hall echoing with Ruths, Cobbs, Musials and Mathewsons.
Back in the old neighborhood of Tierneys, Crandalls, McCaffreys and Ameses -- Billerica guys who knew all along that Tommy Glavine kid was special -- they are nevertheless trying to wrap their minds around the immortal Tommy concept.
"I'm in awe," said Ed Tierney, a boyhood friend of Glavine's. "He got to where he wanted to go, and he deserves it."
On Sunday, a firmly grounded son of Fred and Millie Glavine of Treble Cove Road -- and an honor roll student from the Billerica High Class of 1984 -- will be inducted in that most sacred of American sporting shrines, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
His boyhood buddies are never forgotten by Glavine, who is always quick with a text from his home in Georgia. They will be in Cooperstown for a surreal and emotional day.
"I'm sure he's going to be a bunch of nerves and emotions," said Paul Ames, who played hockey and baseball with Glavine at Billerica High. "But I'm sure whatever he says will be great."
Ames still thinks of Glavine in terms of his Billerica days.
"In those days we didn't think about playing pro baseball or pro hockey," said Ames, who was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins and played at UMass Lowell. "It was about playing with your buddies.
"But you still knew Tommy was special back then," added Ames, 49, a production manager for the Boston Globe. "He had that something about him. It doesn't surprise me that he got where he is."
Tierney, 48, now Billerica's highway superintendent, grew up at 73 Treble Cove Road, a few doors down from the Glavines at 89 Treble Cove Road.
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"Millie had a tight leash on him," said Tierney, smiling.
"Whatever the season, we'd be out there playing -- street hockey, Wiffle Ball, football, basketball," said Tierney. "We had older kids playing, but Tom was always the first one picked."
A strike from center
To Scott Crandall, it seems like yesterday he was picking up Tommy in his Trans-Am for their Billerica High baseball games and practices.
Crandall was playing right field on that Tuesday in Rockland 31 years ago -- so he still clearly sees center fielder Glavine, after having pitched nine innings, fielding a single and unleashing a lightning bolt to strike down an already-celebrating Brockton High runner at the plate in the bottom of the 12th inning of the 1983 Eastern Mass. championship game.
"The runner came around third base Bernie Carbo-style (arms in the air)," said Crandall, who never tires of telling the story, laughing each time. "He was so surprised. He didn't slide or anything."
Glavine of course then led off the 13th inning with a single. He scored the eventual winning run on a single by another future big leaguer, Gary DiSarcina.
But that throw from center field remains The Legendary Highlight of the Billerica Years of a baseball god-elect. Glavine, then a junior, was interviewed after that game while licking a strawberry ice cream bar. (Glavine last week said that Brockton game still is in the top five of all games he ever played in.)
Crandall, 48, a senior sales rep for the technology consulting firm Ironside Rational Solutions, remains Glavine's best friend. He remembers a night when Tommy Glavine the fan and Tommy Glavine the big league pitcher came full circle. Crandall was at a Bruins game with Glavine when Ray Bourque, who was not playing that night due to an injury, asked if the Atlanta Braves pitcher could sign an autograph for his son.
When Bourque walked away with Glavine's autograph, Crandall told Glavine, "That puts things in perspective. That was one of your favorite players of all-time, asking you for an autograph."
But quite famously around town, not everybody has always recognized Billerica's own. Around 2 a.m. one morning about 10 years ago, a suspicious policeman pulled Crandall over as he drove through Billerica Center with a two-time Cy Young Award winner as his passenger. They were returning from a benefit.
The officer asked to see Crandall and Glavine's licenses. Crandall figured the officer would immediately recognize Glavine.
He didn't.
"Kind of a long way from home, aren't we, Mr. Glavine?" Crandall, with a laugh, recalled the officer saying as he looked with suspicion at Glavine's Georgia license.
The officer called in Glavine's information to the station. "As if he were a drug lord or something," Crandall said with a laugh.
Crandall can still hear several voices over the cruiser's scanner, imploring the officer, "They're all set!"
"That officer did not live that down for a very long time," said Crandall.
Crandall said the ever-respectful Glavine not once during the exchange said, "Don't you know who I am?"
Hometown kid
There is a little of that little boy from Billerica still in the 48-year-old Glavine. Crandall's 19-year-old son Aaron, who played on a state championship baseball team at Lowell Catholic, sounds prouder to have once hit a walk-off homer against Glavine in Wiffle Ball. "It was me and my dad against him and his sons, and they really wanted to win," recalled Aaron, who was 12 at the time.
When Glavine was home in Billerica last December, this 1984 fourth-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Kings shoveled off a nearby pond so he could join his kids and others from the neighborhood in a hockey game.
Scott Crandall's older brother Dale Jr. treasures an Atlanta Braves cap signed by Glavine several years ago in tribute to his old deck hockey teammates. Glavine for a while continued to play hockey with the old gang after becoming a professional pitcher. "We tried to keep it quiet," said Dale Crandall, 53, a general contractor. "He always wore a padded sleeve on his left arm."
Mike McCaffrey, who played hockey at Billerica High on a line centered by Glavine, can still hear coach Roger Richard's basic instructions: "Get the puck onto Tommy's stick!"
"You'd go dig it out of the corners and get it to Glavs," said McCaffrey. "We called him 'Silk" because he was so smooth."
Back in the early 1990s, as Glavine's major league career was gaining star traction, McCaffrey visited Cooperstown. He remembers being struck by seeing Glavine on the cover of a USA Today Baseball Weekly in a newspaper machine right outside the Hall.
"So I grabbed a couple of copies," said McCaffrey. "I sent him one. I penned something to this effect: 'Glavs, saw you in Cooperstown this week. I hope you're there at the end of your career.'"
Like Jim Bowley, the Little League coach who told Fred and Millie Glavine when Tom was 10 that people would pay to watch their son play someday, McCaffrey sensed way back when that Glavine "was going on to greatness."
"There is a fine line between cockiness and assuredness," said McCaffrey, 49, now the athletic director at Groton-Dunstable. "Tommy always had that assuredness and confidence. ... You just knew he was in control, but he wasn't cocky about it. He just knew his swagger."
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For those of you just tuning in, on Feb 15th I dropped the price of my technothriller novel, The List, from $2.99 to 99 cents on Kindle and Nook.
As of 2/15/2011 7:30pm, The List had sold 592 copies sold on Kindle this month. That had earned me about $1200.
Here were the Amazon rankings prior to changing the price:
#1,078 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#13 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery & Thrillers > Police Procedurals
#14 in Books > Mystery & Thrillers > Police Procedurals
#57 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
Now nine days into the experiment, here are the new numbers:
#123 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#2 in Books > Mystery & Thrillers > Police Procedurals
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery & Thrillers > Police Procedurals
#9 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Action & Adventure
So we've seen a dramatic increase in sales.
But is it enough of an increase?
At $2.99, I was earning $2.03 per download. And I was selling an average of 43 ebooks a day.
At 99 cents, I only earn 35 cents per download. I'm now averaging 205 sales a day.
At $2.99, I made $87 a day.
At 99 cents, I'm making $71 a day.
But in the last few days, The List has been selling stronger, averaging about 250 sales a day. If it can hold that number, or do even better, that's $87 a day--matching what it made at $2.99.
This is curious. At first glance, it seems like price and profit have found an equilibrium.
But there are obvious certain benefits to the 99 cent price point. Because it is now higher on the bestseller lists, it is seen more often. And 99 cents is more of an impulse purchase.
I like this book, and so do readers, and it's logical that the more people I get to read it, the more potential fans I'll make, and those fans will probably so and buy my other, more expensive ebooks.
What I've done here is the equivalent of putting turkey on sale for 19 cents a pound at the grocery store. The sale brings people in, then they buy other items that aren't on sale.
So is it working? Are my other sales going up?
Prior to this price change, I was selling 534 books a day of 14 other fiction titles, not including The List.
After the price change, I've been selling 547 books a day.
So there's a slight raise, which adds up to about $12 a day.
Now, this isn't a perfect experiment. I also launched a new ebook, KILLERS, this week. While I'm not including the KILLERS numbers, it has increased my virtual shelf space, and might be a small factor in slightly higher overall sales.
On the surface, this experiment looks to break even for me monetarily. But I won't know for sure until I get more data.
However, if The List does crack the Top 100, then these numbers could indicate that I'll make more money at 99 cents, both on that ebook and on my backlist, than I did at $2.99.
I've still got a ways to go. Last night, The List was ranked as low as #112. If it can stick around this rank until the weekend (when people buy a lot of books) then I may have a shot at the elusive Top 100. I've hit it three times before, but those were with new releases. The List has been on Kindle for two years.
Wouldn't it be amusing if it hit the bestseller list after two years of sales?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
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