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This message was delivered October 5, 1998 in Riga, Latvia, at a Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church conference titled "Gender Theology: Questions, Problems, Perspectives." At the time, as well as serving as Sr. Pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd (now called Clearnote Church, Bloomington), I was Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
Latvia had won her liberty from the Soviet Union late in 1991 and the Latvian church was facing very hard times, financially. The Lutheran World Federation was promising to help, but there were strings: before they made any financial commitment, they required the Latvians to hold a conference that openly explored the question of wether or not women could exercise authority over men as church officers. The Latvians were resistant to the idea, but needing the money, they agreed to hold the conference.
The Clarity and Simplicity of Scripture's Order of Creation
October 5, 1998
Riga, Latvia
It is a great joy to be here with you and to think of how impossible this time together would have been just a few years ago. How good it is to be able to cross borders so freely--without even the necessity of a visa--and to be able to join together in fellowship and worship with you, my brothers and sisters in Christ.
But then too, I am particularly pleased to be able to speak to you on the subject of Biblical manhood and womanhood. Here it may be appropriate to insert some biographical information, but first please allow me to clarify my own vocabulary:
So when I refer to the different positions taken by Christians today concerning what Scripture has to say about manhood and womanhood, I will use these terms:
First, the words 'complementarian' or 'patriarchal' will be used to indicate the Church's historical position which calls for a distinction in roles between men and women in the government of the Church and home; and particularly to the necessity of men holding positions of authority.
Second, the word 'egalitarian' will be used to indicate the position held by feminists today when they call for women to hold leadership positions of authority equally with men.
Now for some personal history: Although today I myself believe in the Church's historical, patriarchal position, it was not always so. Back in 1976 when my wife and I were first married, both of us were committed egalitarians...
When I was first ordained as a Minister of the Word and Sacrament, it was within a presbyterian denomination that, in its constitution, required the ordination of women to all offices--including the pastorate and eldership. Because of this I have worked extensively with women pastors and elders down through the years and I myself have participated in their ordination to ecclesiastical office. Then in 1991, along with my congregation, I departed from one presbyterian denomination and entered another.
The elders and I could no longer allow ourselves to be in fellowship with a denomination which endorsed abortion as "an act of faithfulness before God," winked at infanticide, promoted fornication, perpetually debated the morality of homosexuality, failed to practice any form of church discipline, and, generally speaking, called evil 'good' and good 'evil'.
It was evident to us that our denomination had forsaken the Word of God and, instead, had taken to ordaining to the Ministry of the Word and Sacrament women and men who would say whatever their congregation's itching ears wanted to hear.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:1-4, NIV).
Itching ears have given us gender anarchy and a cult of androgyny within the church today.
As our own congregation grew in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, and devotion to His Word, the Bible, we found ourselves returning to all the old truths which our denomination was abandoning. One area where we saw dramatic change in our community life was this matter of the ordination of women to the pastorate and eldership. Although historically our congregation had been led by both men and women elders, now as our congregation grew, spiritually, women who in the past had often served as elders began to decline election to this position, and at the same time we saw an increase of men who were willing to take on leadership in their homes and in the church.
In a few years, one of the two congregations I served (it was a yoked parish) no longer had any women on its board of elders and this led to our coming under the rebuke of our denomination since we were violating the constitutional requirement that women and men hold office in equal numbers in each local congregation.
After about a year and a half of deliberation within our board of elders, we decided to leave that denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and join another denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America.
This second denomination still honors Scripture and she is a community of believers still confessing what Scripture clearly says: that abortion, infanticide, fornication, and homosexuality are sin. Further, church discipline is still practiced within this ecclesiastical fellowship, the Bible is still honored, and only men are eligible for the offices of pastor and elder.
While I was in the process of transferring my credentials, I was examined by the local presbytery I was seeking to enter within the PCA and was asked the following question: "Do you believe in the ordination of women as pastors and elders?"
I answered, "No; in the past I have ordained women but I repent."
Why did I (and do I) repent of ordaining women to the eldership?
Because the Bible with great clarity and simplicity forbids women to exercise authority over men.
Anyone who intends to love God and His Word will not have an easy time of it. It will often hit him between the eyes, and the love will often become the kind that the devil sours and embitters for him. Hence we need the ability to hold tight and to be devoted to the Word of God.
- Luther's Works, Volume 21; edited by Jaroslav Pelikan; Concordia Publishing House; Saint Louis; "Sermon on Matthew 6:24," p. 191.
The clarity and simplicity of God's commands concerning these matters is devastating to those moderns and postmoderns who try to use Scripture for their own purposes. This is why I have a certain respect for the original feminists such as the late Paul King Jewett of Fuller Theological Seminary who, in his classic work, Man as Male and Female, had the integrity simply to say that the Bible is clear and the Bible is wrong (pp. 118-119). It is also why I respect secular feminists who, having no need to honor Scripture or its Author, put it bluntly as they see it saying: "The Bible is hopelessly patriarchal," by which they mean that because of its patriarchy we must reject Scripture.
Yet many claim the Bible is much more nuanced on these matters than the church, historically, has recognized. They would claim the overwhelming theme of Scripture concerning manhood and womanhood is egalitarianism, and that the texts cited by the Church to prove that women should not hold authority in the Church and home were misinterpreted in the past but now are, through the latest scholarship, finally having their true meaning become clear.
This I deny, remembering G. K. Chesterton's warning:
Nearly all the talk about what is advanced and what is antiquated has become a sort of giggling excitement about fashions. -The Thing, G.K. Chesterton, p. 62.
So what has always been clear is becoming quite confused due to the desire of biblical scholars to appease the political and ideological idols of our culture. And in the process of this appeasement, the reformed doctrine of the perspicuity (clarity) of Scripture no longer seems to apply to even the most basic areas of Scripture's teaching on sexuality.
Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of genius. -William Blake
But whose genius--God's or man's? Are we still willing to walk Christ's straight and narrow path? Is it human genius and creativity we should seek, or Divine Revelation?
To this pastor it seems the choice is not between various hermeneutical systems, but between obedience and disobedience to the Word of God. Further, it seems there are many within the "Household of Faith", the "pillar and foundation of the Truth" (1Timothy 3:15), who with great sophistication are meticulously erroneous here in this area of Christian doctrine.
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong; That is the definition of decadence. -G. K. Chesterton
A bold statement, but can it be proven? Test it and see. Turn with me, please, to the Word of God and let us see there the simplicity with which the Holy Spirit speaks to this issue of the meaning and purpose of sexuality.
God created Adam and Eve "in His Own Image" thereby revealing their essential equality in bearing His image.
Genesis 1:26-28; Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
This is a part of the truth that is the basis of the Apostle Paul's statement concerning the community of saints:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28).
But there are other truths that must be brought forward also in this debate. They are as follows:
First, God created Eve after Adam (order of creation).
For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. (1 Timothy 2:13).
Second, God created Eve for Adam (purpose of creation).
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." (Genesis 2:18-23).
Third, God Created Eve from Adam (his body was used).
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man. (1 Corinthians 11:8).
Fourth, Adam named Eve just as he named the animals.
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." (Genesis 2:19, 22-23).
Fifth, in Adam we all died; not in Eve. Nowhere does Scripture lay the blame for the Fall at Eve's door.
The order of creation establishes timeless principles for the relationships between men and women which we often are reminded of in discussions of biblical manhood and womanhood today, but here is one of those principles which too often is passed over by the Church.
God, walking in the Garden in the cool of the day, inquires of Adam "Where are you?" When Adam responds by explaining that he and Eve found themselves naked and hid, it is notable that God directs His follow-up question again to Adam asking him:
"Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" (Genesis 3:11).
It was Adam, not Eve, who was required to explain the tragic alienation from God they both had suffered, and this despite Eve having been the one deceived, the first one to sin, and the one who enticed her husband to follow her into that sin. This is neither a small or unimportant aspect of the Genesis account: it was Adam whom God first held responsible for the Fall despite Adam being the second sinner in the Garden.
It is because of the sin of Adam--not Eve--that the race of Adam remains under the curse of judgement and death down to this present day.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned-for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. (Romans 5:12-14).
Some years back my father noted that, despite efforts to neuter the language of our Faith, he had yet to hear anyone propose that the Church become a 'he' or Satan become a 'she.' Similarly, it seems ironic that feminists do not object to the essential inequality between the sexes revealed by this portion of the Biblical account of the Fall. Shouldn't Eve be recognized as the leader in the Garden? Shouldn't Eve have been penalized more severely since it was she who took the lead in the sin of the Garden? Aren't we being patronizing when we attribute the cosmic penalties of the Fall to Adam's account?
Perhaps feminists fail to argue the issue because this particular point happens to be one where they rather like the clear meaning of God's Word. There's no question but that the Bible is quite specific on this issue... as the New England Primer (one of the most widely used textbooks in the early history of the United States) succinctly sums it up:
In Adam's fall
We sinned all.
God's Word makes clear that because God made Eve for Adam and placed her under his authority, it was Adam whom God called to account for the Fall. Adam was the patriarch of his home and his race. (This is not to say that Eve escaped personal accountability; in Genesis 3 we read that God also placed Eve under a curse- the punishment that even today brings suffering to all women in childbirth. So too the serpent and his descendents suffer under God's judgment.) Yet it is through Adam alone that death comes to all men, it is because of Adam's sin that all creation groans awaiting its release from the corruption of sin (Romans 8:22,23), and it is in Adam that we all die:
For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
God has named the human race 'adam,' and this name reinforces what the whole account of the creation of Adam and Eve reveals-that the first woman was made after and for the first man and that for all time this structure is to be mirrored in the lives of God's people by their living together under patriarchy, not matriarchy or egalitarian utopianism. Further, this name also makes clear that every woman or man ever to live has been born under the curse of a God-decreed solidarity with the First Adam, our federal head, and that only those who come under the Head of the Second Adam can be saved.
When we leave the Genesis account and move into the New Testament epistles, we see that the Apostle Paul prohibits the exercise of authority over men by women by saying:
I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, for Adam was created first, then Eve. (1 Timothy 2:12a).
Thus Scripture demonstrates that the principles enumerated for us in these first three chapters of the Bible are timeless boundaries for all mankind. We are dealing here, then, with an order of creation which is timeless in it's principles and application.
This is a perfect example of the analogy of faith, Scripture interpreting Scripture.
With this simple statement (I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, for Adam was created first, then Eve [1Timothy 2:12]) Paul explicitly affirms what is implicit throughout God's Word, that the order of creation establishes patriarchy as God's pattern for leadership in human relationships. Addressing the matter of propriety in prayer, the Apostle Paul again emphasizes this order:
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake... (1 Corinthians 11:8,9).
Does this mean that the Bible only says God's 'no' and never God's 'yes' to women?
Not at all. Titus 2 provides a beautiful picture of the positive roles and duties that God has given to older and younger women down through the ages.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, 4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. (Titus 2:3-5).
What is God's loving and perfect 'yes' to women?
-Older women likewise are
-to be reverent in their behavior,
-not malicious gossips
-nor enslaved to much wine,
-teaching what is good, so that they may
-encourage the young women
-to love their husbands,
-to love their children,
-to be sensible,
-workers at home,
-being subject to their own husbands,
-so that the word of God will not be (maligned or) dishonored. (Titus 2:3-5).
Note here that God's reputation is at stake with our obedience to these commands.
How beautiful this Scripture is, and how full of possibilities for those who are not in rebellion against God. Here we have a profoundly simple list of duties which have consumed the lives of Christian women down through the ages, and women who give themselves to these duties hear the words of Proverbs 31:28 repeated by their own loved ones:
Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her (Proverbs 31:28, RSV).
Looking at this list helps us understand how the Apostle Paul could boil down these positive callings even further, stating:
Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty (1 Timothy 2:15, RSV).
God be praised, I am surrounded by such women. My mother, mother-in-law, wife, and the women of our congregation are seeking to honor God by following these simple commands. (Incidentally, one indication of the Biblical commitments of these women is their fertility; my mother-in-law has ten children, my mother eight, my wife five, and the average family in our congregation has around five.)
It's clear some will not be satisfied by the above Biblical summaries, but note well that in both passages the Apostle Paul wrote these words, and only these words. If a man were to think our culture requires something different-something more substantial-he would be helped by studying the cultures Paul was addressing and realizing they are not much different from our own.
Allow me, then, to ask this question: Is sexual differentiation part of God's good creation; did God make it and call it good? Discussing 1Timothy 2:13 with Dr. Gordon Fee when I was a seminary student, I asked him one-on-one, "What does Paul mean when he says, 'For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve'?"
He responded, "Oh, Paul was just being rabbinical there."
So the argument simply is not one based on Scripture-no matter how loudly this claim is made by feminists wanting to wrap themselves in the credibility of a high view of Scripture. May God grant us all repentance whenever we depart from His Truth.
*Calvin on Acts 4:19,20:
But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard." (Acts 4:19,20)
Let us remember to whom they made this answer. For this council did undoubtedly represent the Church; yet, because they abuse their authority, the apostles say they are not to be obeyed... The apostles further make clear that obedience offered to evil and unfaithful pastors, even though they exercise lawful authority in the Church, is contrary to God.
Whatever title then men may hold, they are to be listened to only on the condition that they do not lead us away from obeying God. So we must examine all their traditions by the rule of the Word of God. We must obey princes and others who are in authority, but only in so far as they do not deny to God His rightful authority as the supreme King, Father, and Lord. If such limits are to be observed in civil government, they ought to be of still greater importance in the spiritual government of the Church. ...whenever men (or women) become so proud that they shake off the yoke of God and desire to lay their own yoke upon us... let us recall the sacred authority of God, which blows away the vain smoke of all human excellency.
-Calvin's Commentary on Acts 4.
Make no mistake about it: the Western World will invade your nation and church with its egalitarian ideology and will seek to force your submission to that ideology.
There is one other matter I would like to mention before closing. Within the evangelical church of the United States it is often said that those holding to complementarian (or patriarchal) convictions ought graciously to allow for their own subjectivity and fallibility by carefully acknowledging, publicly, that their own understanding of Scripture on this matter may, in fact, be wrong.
Despite the irenic tone of this proposal it assumes that this is an area in which God's Revelation is lacking in clarity, and while I am ready to admit that I am unable to see the clarity of the Word of God on a number of doctrinal matters which the Church has been debating for many centuries, this is one aspect of the doctrine of Scripture which is most decidedly not lacking in clarity. Consequently I am unwilling to grant as a virtue the doubting of oneself by those holding the only Biblical position on this matter. No.
Rather, here we must contend for the Faith once delivered. And considering our duty, I am reminded of a statement made by Solzhenitsyn immediately prior to his departure from the US in 1994:
Back in the study, I asked Solzhenitsyn about his relations with the West. He knew that things had gone wrong, but had no intention of making any apologies.
"Instead of secluding myself here and writing The Big Wheel, I suppose I could have spent time making myself likable to the West," he said. "The only problem is that I would have had to drop my way of life and my work. And, yes, it is true, when I fought the dragon of Communist power I fought it at the highest pitch of expression. The people in the West were not accustomed to this tone of voice. In the West, one must have a balanced, calm, soft voice; one ought to make sure to doubt oneself, to suggest that one may, of course, be completely wrong. But I didn't have the time to busy myself with this. This was not my main goal."
-The New Yorker, February 14, 1994, p. 74.
Will we be faithful to our Lord honoring His Word in this matter, or rather bow the knee to Baal?
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point. - (widely attributed to Martin Luther, but the closest parallel lacks the specific wording above)
It is my firm conviction that feminism is an evil like communism-equally destructive to the souls of men and, therefore, equally in need of forthright and bold opposition from Godly men who are willing to spend their lives honoring God and opposing this wickedness with every fiber of their being. And I sincerely hope that the men and women fighting this great evil in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ are not paralyzed by the fear of men, and that they never give in to doubt as they guard this part of the "good deposit."
May God protect us from Satan's lies and may He raise up more faithful shepherds to call His flock back to obedience in these matters so that our homes and families and the Church of Jesus Christ may again reflect the marriage of Christ and His Bride, the Church, with all purity, beauty, and love.
In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Amen.
That was awesome. God bless you. You hit the nail on the head - there is no way to soft-touch the plain teaching of Scripture on male headship. The problem with its detractors is not hermeneutical or intellectual, but rather, ethical. They are unwilling to bow their heart to Christ in this matter. We should not expect a meek response from those who wish to erase the image of God by blurring sexual and ecumenical distinctions between man and woman.
Thanks for these edifying words.
Great article, it makes me homesick for Riga, my wife's home.
Would like to add, we need a Biblical assessment of the comon acceptance of woman working outside the home.
Great article. I read it aloud with my wife by my side. We agreed with all points except your indication or fruit of obedience women enjoyed who were obedient to complementarianism. My wife is a very godly and submissive women, a living example of Proverbs 31, and a dear treasure I'll ever be thankful for. However, she has fertility problems which are medical conditions and not a result of any lack of faithfulness on her part or mine at all. We've been blessed with a miracle child who against all odds was born. I say all this because I saw my wife's head drop in discouragement and frustration when she heard your 'indication' of fertility statement. I even recently spoke to an elder this last weekend at A sister fellowship, who in getting to know about me, when I said we had one 9 yr old son, replied after a brief pause, "oh,one..." as though there must be a problem there. There are other justified reasons for not being fertile, and to assume its due to a lack of biblical spirituality, without qualification, is a not helpful. Other than that we applaud your speech. How are things in Latvia now 14 yrs later?
Michial! Can't you see that Tim wasn't talking about fertility problems, but about a whole generation of churchgoers who don't believe God when He says that children are blessings? You and your wife know that when you don't conceive, you groan and cry out to the Lord for mercy. But the target of the statement are those whose greatest fear is that something unexpected and terrible (conception) could happen in bed.
You should have understood this and explained it to your wife instead of leaving the burden of it on her. You still should.
Please do not tell me David what I should have understood and explained to my wife. We did talk about it David. I'm not attacking the post or Poster, merely stating the statement Iam referring to would be more helpful with qualification.
Sorry I meant Daniel, not David
Dear Michial,
I hear you. Our oldest two were born healthy after normal pregnancies and then, one after the other, we suffered the loss of four children to miscarriage, one of them at four months. We have held to the biblical view of marriage and children that is joyfully proclaimed on this blog since before we were married. Tim preached our wedding ceremony with specific reference to raising up a godly seed. Just before my wedding, another engaged friend of ours sat with me at an evening worship service and, indicating the long empty pew we shared, said to me, "Just think: some day each of us will fill up one of these." At the time I smiled hopefully even as I was a bit shocked at his presumption. Who knows what God will do?
Ten years later I ran into him at a conference we both attended. He said to me, "So how many children do you have now?" *Inward cringe* "Two." And I hastened to explain our situation. He now has about half a pew of kids and may make it to the aisle long before the decade is out.
My wife and I are homeschoolers. All our homeschool friends have 5 or more children. All the events and fun outings are always accompanied by that feeling of being not what everyone else is, bracing for that awkward pause you mentioned. "Two? Youngest is six?...Oh." I am a pastor. Most of my friends have 5 or more children. We attend ClearNote church when in Bloomington and see there a church stuffed to the rafters with children. Some of the students I taught while in Bloomington have grown up, gotten married and now have larger families than I do and, boy, are they still growing!
As I read your comment, I understand you are likely very happy with all this, as are we. Happy for them. The fruit of the womb is a reward and children are a blessing. Absolutely. But you know what we struggle with when she checks facebook and sees a friend having child number (?). One or two parts [happy for friends] with a dash of [why not us].
But hang with me for another minute or so...
Back to the conference with my friend with more than half a pew of kids. He is sympathetic and, whether from real exasperation or just from that sympathy, he begins to hint at the burden of having many children. He doesn't complain but it's a lot of work. My reaction immediately is to say to myself, "This man is almost complaining about what I'd give anything to have. How dare he complain to me about God's blessing!" And there is where my internal monologue stopped because I really love the man and know that he loves his family and doesn't mean anythng by it. But here's the thing...I said I'd give anything for God's blessing.
Do I not have it?
Let him have the glory of many children. Let me bear the reproach of having few. Our Father is behind both outcomes. Medical conditions are the discipline of the Lord, are they not? (Not every discipline is the response to misbehavior.) Every effect of discipline is God's love to His child. God's discipline is remedial sometimes and sometimes preventative. But always, even when His reasons are hidden, my Father disciplines me for my good.
Articles like this that boldly tie His blessing to fruitful wombs; all those facebook photos of newborns; and all those raised eyebrows at homeschool gatherings, General Assemblies, and ClearNote conferences are not people being misguided or judgmental. They are instruments in the Father's hand for my sanctification. If to become or stay humble I must be humbled until death, I will endure it by faith in my Father who knows best. And I am coming around to embrace these trials as so many sweet testimonies of God's patient but relentless Fatherhood. Nothing is too painful if it brings me the sanctification without which I will not see the Lord. God knows, not I, how I'd have been corrupted by these gifts I want. God alone knows what He's preparing for my wife and I--why we need this limitation.
All that to say this: I know it hurts you, my dear brother. But it's not the hurt of a misguided pastor. It's the hurt that the Father deals out to us as He prepares from these light, momentary afflictions, an eternal weight of glory. Generally speaking, God rewards a faithful people with a lot of children. Individually, we all must be formed according to our soul's need and the Father's purpose.
By the way, since this was not have been clear from what I wrote, our difficulties carrying children to term also have a known medical condition underlying them and our doctors are surprised that we ever had any healthy children. So, really, I sympathize with you.
Andrew I appreciate your heart. We are truly blessed with our son.we neither feel disciplined for not having more, not do we covet others who do, but we see us equally blessed in Christ regardless the size of our family. The Lord opens and closes the womb. We rejoice in all these glorious truths about biblical sexuality that brother Bayly expresses while also rejoicing the that His gracious and loving sovereignty reigns over how many children we have. Whether one or ten it is a blessing from The Lord. The Lord bless you and keep you and yours.
In His sufficiency,
Pastor Tim, what was the outcome of the Lithuanian Lutheran conference on biblical sexuality?
"So how many children do you have now?" *Inward cringe* "Two."
Andrew, from what you related just above these words, your correct answer is "six," spoken in humility, not with cringing.
When our Lord's mother was (perhaps) only a few days pregnant with Jesus, her Aunt Elizabeth hailed her as "the mother of my Lord." Every commentator or teacher I can remember makes a point of the word "Lord," (rightly so, of course). I can't recall any who make a point of the word "mother."
I'd guess that's because they all commit some sort of weird anachronistic misperception of Mary, considering her as she first encounters Elizabeth after the Annunciation as they consider her after the Nativity.
Here's the point: newly pregnant Mary is hailed with the title "mother." And so is any pregnant woman: a mother. And in all those cases, the man who impregnated her is a father. By express Scriptural warrant, Andrew, you are the father of six children, though for His own purposes (on which you ponder) our Father in heaven (actually, I have many fathers in heaven, as do you) has withheld your seeing four of them in this world.
And, while I'm on this rant, I'll add that when I am asked this question, or when I report details of my family in, say, a conference bulletin where I am speaking, I always say something like "I have four daughters," even though one of them died at the age of nine 15 years ago. Why should I number my children as three, simply because that's the number of them who are walking around right now?
Our Lord's comment about God being the God of the living, not the dead, has constantly comforted me with respect to parents and grandparents, a brother, his wife and daughter, and also one of my own daughters, who died in the faith. So did Jesus. And with these same things in His word, I comfort those in my flock whose children depart the womb for the next world, bypassing this one.
Praise be to God I am now a grandfather, though I shall not see the grandchild (Lord willing) until it departs my daughter's womb sometime next March.
Dear Fr. Bill,
I stand corrected. I have seven children.
(uncringing and thankful)I have one. And what a blessing!


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Everything Everywhere was given the green light by Ofcom yesterday to launch a super fast 4G mobile network as early as 11 September, using its existing 1,800MHz network.
As part of the European Commission's competitive assessment of the merger of Orange and T-Mobile in March 2010 Everything Everywhere was required to dispose of part of its 1,800MHz spectrum.
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Dave Dyson, chief executive of Three UK, said: "Acquiring this spectrum will more than double the capacity available to customers on our network. We have seen a huge growth in data consumption with average mobile handset customer usage now more than 1.1GB per month.
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Family of Oscar Grant celebrates victory, Mehserle to face murder charge
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The defense had called numerous witnesses over the course of the three-week hearing, including Mehserle's fellow officers who were with him on the Fruitvale BART platform on Jan. 1 when Oscar Grant was murdered. The testimony of the BART officers did not help Mehserle's case, as they were continually contradicted by the evidence from multiple videos shot by BART passengers that night. Prosecutor David Stein was very thorough in his questioning and cross examination, exposing the numerous lies of the BART police officers.
In the courtroom at the conclusion of the hearing today, family and friends waited anxiously to hear what the judge might say. When Judge Clay announced his decision, they broke out in tears of joy, amazed that rare justice for a police murder might actually be realized. While family and friends know that this is just a first step towards achieving justice for Oscar Grant, they were relieved, elated and a little bit giddy that the efforts of defense attorney Michael Rains failed to have the initial murder charge reduced or dropped.
Gathered in the park were Sister Beatrice of the Nation of Islam; Yolanda Turner, mother of Nigel and Jacky Bryson; Tracy Cooper, mother of Michael Greer; Rosemary Mesa, mother of Sophina Mesa and grandmother of Oscar Grant's daughter, Tatiana; Zaporia Smith, mother of J2 Codwell; Diana Marks, godmother of Oscar Grant; Jack Bryson, father of Nigel and Jacky Bryson; and Jacky Bryson, who, along with the other sons named here, was with Oscar Grant on the night the BART police accosted the group and murdered Oscar Grant. They expressed gratitude for Judge Clay, Prosecutor Stein and numerous supporters who are fighting along with the family for justice.
For video, audio and written reports related to the Mehserle preliminary hearing at the Alameda County Courthouse, see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/24/18597663.php.
Dave Id is a journalist and activist who has thoroughly documented the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement with vision, sensitivity and consummate expertise in prolific postings at www.indybay.org.
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what a shame. this officer made a mistake and the racist blacks are out to hang him. i sure miss the old days.↓
Sandra Decker
I am so thankful that the BART cop will be tried for the murder of Oscar Grant. Let this send a message to all cops that like the nurder of Idryss Stelly at the SF Metreon when 9 cops fired over 4 dozen bullets into a young black man who was an honor student. He was unarmed and they knew it. He was having a psychological break down and the uneducated cops killed him for it. Then SF Mayor Brown had ordered all SF cops to have 40 hrs. of psychoglogical training but these 9 cops did not have theirs yet. Idryss may still be alive today if they had.
May justice be served and the BART cop get his death sentence.
Rev. Sandra Decker↓
And it's people like prop187 who make me sick to my stomach. It's racist people like that greatens the atrophy of this society.↓
In the "old days" sick perverse murderous men were allowed to destroy human life at will, a gift (life) they did not give but also could not understand for they have no souls. The "old days" will come only when they do it will only be you and your kind prop187 that will be there for it, enduring the same egregious acts committed against others. As disgusting as you are prop187 and those like you, I hope that people are praying for you because you need it.↓


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Sharing, salvations mark students' World Cup witness
Dane Van Ryckeghem (far right), a student at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, leads fellow volunteers in a prayer for two Brazilian young women in a community on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa students Amanda Fenton (left) and Dane Van Ryckeghem share Christ with the help of their Brazilian Baptist partner, Larissa Freire (right), in front of Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã Stadium before the Argentina vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina match on June 15. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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During evangelistic outreach in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, Virginia Tech student Jordan O'Donnell (second from right), shares his faith at a local styling salon. O'Donnell and teammates Robert Winslett (right), a student at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), and Brazilian Baptist Larissa Freire (third from right) were part of a student mission project related to the World Cup. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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Using the T-shirt of student volunteer Grant Gilliam as a visual, Brazilian Baptist Bianca Brandao explains the meaning of the Bible verse John 3:16 to a soccer fan before a World Cup match at Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã Stadium. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (BP) -- Jordan O'Donnell is in a hurry. The 21-year-old Virginia Tech senior weaves his way through the sea of raucous
(soccer) fans jamming Rio's streets. But O'Donnell isn't headed to the match of the day, Ecuador vs. France. Instead, he's hustling against the crowd, bound for a nearby church to get Bibles for a group of teenage boys with whom he's just shared the Gospel.
For O'Donnell and a team of 10 Southern Baptist college students, this is the last day of street evangelism near Rio's Maracanã soccer stadium. It's been a focal point for outreach as the students partnered with Brazilian Baptists and IMB missionaries to spread the Gospel during the FIFA World Cup, June 12-July 13. But after two weeks of sharing their faith nearly non-stop, it's time for the students to head home.
That's why O'Donnell doesn't want to miss this last opportunity. He figures he's got about five minutes before the teens get bored with waiting and leave, and with two of them expressing genuine interest in Christ, he's practically sprinting to the church.
O'Donnell runs ahead of his two ministry partners, Bekah Gordon and Gloria Reese, who struggle to keep up with his rushed pace. Gordon is co-leading the student mission team and recently served as a North American Mission Board semester missionary at Auburn University at Montgomery (Alabama); Reese, 17, lives in Rio and is the daughter of IMB missionaries Eric and Ramona Reese.
Just minutes earlier, the three of them met the teens in front of their school a few blocks from the stadium. O'Donnell shared his testimony and asked the boys if they wanted to live for God. They looked uncertain. One admitted he wants to live for himself; another said he doesn't know who God is.
As Reese translated between English and Portuguese, Gordon told the boys the easiest way to know God was by reading His Word. "If you're looking for God, look in the Bible," she explained, asking each of the four teens if they had access to a Bible. Two did not but said they'd like one. That sent O'Donnell running.
By the time Gordon and Reese reach the street where the church is located, O'Donnell is already making his way back with the Bibles. It's been more than five minutes, and the trio hurries to where they left the teens. They're relieved to see the boys are still waiting. O'Donnell puts the Portuguese Bibles into the teens' hands. "Read this and ask questions," he tells them. "It changed my life."
The American students have had dozens of these kinds of conversations during their time in Rio. Overall, they estimate they've led more than 100 people to faith in Jesus Christ, simultaneously connecting new believers with local churches where they can be discipled. Many more have heard the Gospel, some for the first time.
It hasn't been easy. Since the games began, police barricades have moved the students (and anyone else without World Cup tickets) farther and farther from the gates of Maracanã Stadium, making it harder to connect with fans. And, they aren't the only faith group in town trying to engage people in conversation -- Jehovah's Witnesses man literature stands on street corners around the stadium.
Working together
But the students haven't done it alone. They're part of a massive evangelism effort spearheaded by Brazilian Baptists, who've enlisted more than 1,800 national volunteers to serve in World Cup-related ministries across the country. More than 300 are stationed in Rio alone.
At the heart of that effort is Igreja Batista Missionária do Maracanã (Maracanã Missionary Baptist Church), which sits about 250 yards from the Maracanã Stadium.
"This is a way of reaching the whole world, because here at Maracanã you have the whole world converging," Alexandre Silva, the church's pastor, says.
Because of the numerous short-term missions teams he's helped host -- Brazilians, Argentines, Americans and others -- Silva says the multi-national effort reminds him of the day of Pentecost, with so many different languages being spoken on the church grounds.
"We've been praying for this for the last four years, that God would use us, that God would bless this effort," he says. "Our role is to be a blessing and a base to help others."
Helping churches
But the U.S. students' evangelism efforts don't stop when the soccer does. During days when there are no World Cup games scheduled in Rio, the students split into smaller teams to serve with local Brazilian Baptist churches. Some were sent to churches inside Rio's slums, known as
The experience was overwhelming for Amanda Fenton and Lee Dymond, who spent five days sharing the Gospel door-to-door in a favela nicknamed Floresta. Fenton, 20, is a junior at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. She says the smell hit her first: marijuana mixed with the stench of human waste running through open sewers. Then there were the drug deals and the guns -- lots of guns.
"We'd walk around and see 12-year-olds twirling pistols on their hands," she says. "They would be yelling, 'Crack for $10!' (in the currency of Brazilian
), or whatever drug they were selling."
The team was warned to avoid contact with the dealers, but Fenton admits it was hard not to stare. Dymond, who led the student team and serves as campus minister at Auburn University at Montgomery (Alabama), took it a step further. He felt compelled to pray with a group of drug dealers selling crack right outside the church. Dymond says it was like living out Acts 20:24, where Paul describes his life as worthless in comparison with Christ's charge to spread the Gospel.
"I was nervous. There were nine guys there, and most of them had guns," he recalls. "I prayed that God would keep them safe long enough to hear the Gospel, and that Jesus would chase after them."
Police rarely venture into the favelas, and only when heavily armed. Fenton says the church was a sort of safe haven at the heart of Floresta, but even then there was risk. The week before, eight people were killed in a shootout with police near the church.
Despite the danger, Fenton said she never once felt unsafe. IMB missionary Eric Reese, who has extensive experience working in Rio's favelas, obtained permission from the gang that runs Floresta for the students to work there, assuring gang leaders in a letter that the students weren't drug spies.
Though she'd never seen that level of poverty, Fenton said the believers at the small Brazilian Baptist church in Floresta inspired her.
"We take it for granted that I can just flip a switch for power (electricity)," she says. "These people are living in deplorable conditions and yet they're happy; they're finding joy in Christ.
"At the end, all the church members were giving us a big bear hug," she adds. "They were so grateful that we were there. I was bawling. That touched my heart."
Whatever impact her team made, Fenton believes it's miniscule compared to the effect Floresta's believers had on the students themselves.
"I'm not dealing with drug dealers (back home like these believers are here), and yet they have this devout faith that this community is going to turn around. How can I not take the little things in my life and put them into God's hands?" Fenton says.
Dymond echoes her sentiments.
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Tiger Woods has played just nine holes of competitive golf since the Masters, was forced to pull out of the Players Championship, did not play in the U.S. Open and now looks doubtful for the British Open on July 14-17. He did not rule out playing in the tournament he has won three times, but it is looking increasingly unlikely that his injured left knew and left Achilles' tendon will be healthy enough to tee off at Royal St. George's.
During a press conference for this week's AT&T National, Woods said he had not hit any golf balls since his injury. Woods initially hurt himself at the Masters.
"Probably in retrospect it was a borderline call whether I should have played the Players," Woods said at the press conference. "I pushed it too hard and hurt myself. Now this time around, it's different. I'm setting no timetable."
Historically, Woods has done well at the British Open, although he's never won at Royal St. George's. In 2003, the last time the course hosted the Open Championship, Woods finished in a tie for fourth, two strokes behind winner Ben Curtis. Woods currently has 14 major championships, four short of Jack Nicklaus' all-time record.


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The 2014 edition includes almost 3500 monographs which are legally enforced by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. Where a pharmacopoeial monograph exists, medicinal products sold or supplied in the UK must comply with the relevant monograph. All monographs and requirements of the European Pharmacopoeia are also reproduced in the BP.
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Every now and then it's useful to step back and review the deep inroads of exchange-traded funds in U.S. markets. For instance: Five of the 10 most heavily traded securities in the U.S. are exchange-traded funds, including the number one.
Measuring by average daily turnover volume, as opposed to raw share count, NYSE Arca data show the number one security is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), which had a consolidated turnover worth nearly $346 billion last month.
That's well ahead of Apple's (AAPL) $226 billion. Numbers three and four: the iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (IWM), at $68 billion, and the PowerShares QQQ (QQQ), at $44.7 billion. Google (GOOG) rounds out the top five at nearly $47 billion.
As exchange-traded funds and other investing vehicles have ballooned in number, the task of figuring out what works well and what doesn't has only gotten harder. Barrons.com's Focus on Funds looks under the hood of ETFs, mutual funds and hedge funds for overlooked values, actionable ideas and the latest pitfalls for fund investors. The blog is written by Brendan Conway, Barron's funds blogger and columnist. Brendan holds degrees from Harvard and NYU and most recently reported on stocks and the options market for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
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The fight took place entirely on the feet, including at the end when Mein began pounding on Cyborg with elbows to the face. Although Cyborg didn't go down, he wasn't defending himself, and the referee made the right call to step in and stop the fight.
Mein said afterward that he considered it the biggest win of his professional MMA career.
"Very, very satisfying -- I'm happy that I finished the fight. That's what I'm going for every time and it came true," Mein said. "He was kicking me hard and my legs were sore so I stayed in the pocked and just kept picking away. I hit him with a nice body shot, that hurt him, and then the elbows to finish him."
Mein is only 21 years old and already has a 23-7 professional MMA record. He's already good and only going to get better.
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The Tennessee Titans selected Alabama guard Chance Warmack with the 10th overall pick. Considered one of the best guard prospects in years, it was a minor surprise that Jonathan Cooper went ahead of Warmack, but the Titans end up with a major upgrade to their interior line. He will pair with Andy Levitre to form one of the top guard duos in the league.
SB Nation's Titans blog Music City Miracles seems pretty happy with the pick. Here's the take from Jimmy Morris:
We have been asking for years for the Titans to upgrade the interior of the offensive line. They have finally done that. Fernando Velasco has solidified the center position. They signed Andy Levitre to play one guard, and now they have drafted the best player in the draft in Chance Warmack. He is a starter from day one, and he gives them the mauler they have wanted inside.
They are giving Jake Locker everything he needs to succeed. Now it is on him to take it to the next level.
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Orlando T.V. station WFTV received complaints about a parking lot, where cars did more than parking.
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WFTV has a helicopter and captured video of the lot owner and another employee joy-riding in the car.
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Eddie Glover is wanted on a Missouri parole violation warrant for statutory rape and statutory sodomy.
The original offense occurred in Jackson County, MO, in 1997 and involved the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl.
Glover's last known address was in the downtown area of Kansas City, MO, but his current location is unknown.
He has violated his parole by failing to report to his parole officer and fled from the Kansas City Community Release Center.
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Despite the fact that it snowed in New York this week, the red carpet was full of summer vibes. Winter coats returned on the East Coast, and in Hollywood, short hemlines and light colors flourished for a bevy of parties, premieres, and award shows.
On Tuesday, Chloë Grace Moretz attended the opening night celebration of The Library in New York in an ecru lace frock with a black yolk from the Carven Pre-Fall '14 lineup. The same night, another one of our favorite A-list teens, Kiernan Shipka, stepped out in a white, yellow, and gray patterned Preen dress for Jimmy Choo's Choo.08 launch party in L.A.
With the premiere tour for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 officially underway, Emma Stone spent a lot of time on the red carpet this week. She stuck to a similar color palette for her Berlin appearances on Tuesday, choosing a light blue Erdem Fall '14 frock dotted with red beading for the photo call and a Chanel Pre-Fall '14 dress with a pale lavender skirt and red-striped bodice for the premiere that evening.
In case you were missing all that awards season glamour, Sunday's MTV Movie Awards brought it back with a summery twist. Ellie Goulding walked the red carpet in a white Emporio Armani dress with cutouts on the sides, while Lupita Nyong'o opted for a gray Chanel Fall '14 dress speckled with colorful geometrics. Rihanna strayed from the red-carpet norm, turning up in a beige corseted bodysuit and a pink silk robe from Ulyana Sergeenko's Spring '14 Haute Couture that took the leg-baring trend to a new level. Your move, Angelina.
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Charter fleets generally provide all the tackle you'll need. Talk to them ahead of time to be sure they'll have what you want to fish with. If you book a hotel package that includes fishing with the hotel's fleet, you may not be able to speak to your captain ahead of time. In that case, you can bring the tackle you prefer or settle for what they have, which will likely be adequate but not always in the best shape.
For the best experience, make sure they provide or you bring:
Rods: Short stand-up-style rods, 30-pound to 50-pound.
Reels: Offshore-style lever-drag reels to match rods. 50-pound reels can be loaded with 50-pound line or 30-pound line. Two-speeds are best if you don't mind the extra weight.
Lines: 30- to 50-pound mono. 80- to 100-pound leaders and hooks should be available on the boat.
Lures: Baja fishing is live-bait fishing. Baits are $3 each in the harbor - tradition dictates you start the day with 10, then make bait on the fishing grounds with sabiki rigs.
Other: Bring your own gimbal belt and stand-up harness, and a scale for setting your drags.


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Inspiring stories, innovative ideas, and important career and life choices made ... all because they didn't leave their faith at the entrance of the office door!
Throughout the next year, hear two dynamic Christian professionals speak about their path to success and how they use their faith as a moral compass to navigate the varied twists and turns in their respective careers.
The cost is $20 per event (discounts available for WLC faculty, staff, and students). All proceeds from the 2013-2014 Christian Leadership Speaker Series benefits scholarship support at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Each event will be held in Wisconsin Lutheran College's Center for Arts and Performance, located at 8815 West Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee. A breakfast buffet and time to network with other Christian professionals will start at 7 a.m. The program, including the keynote speaker, will begin at 7:45 a.m. The event will wrap up around 9 a.m. following another networking opportunity.
February 5, 2014
Raised in a mentally and physically abusive home in Detroit, Michigan, in the 1980s, Kelly Brown will share how personal despair and abandonment led her to lose her faith in God, only to find that losing her faith was part of the journey of her life which has led to her healing and restoration. An award-winning servant leader and entrepreneur, Brown lives each day to ensure others have a positive message of hope and encouragement to know that obstacles can be overcome with the right state-of-mind and faith in God. Be part of this conversation and learn how a relationship with God has helped her rise above the pain and hardship of her past to enjoy her daily life.
Brown is a co-managing partner at the American Deposit Management Company in Milwaukee. In her role, Brown works with both public and private finance managers in their cash management strategies while managing relationships at over 350 banks throughout the United States.
Prior to starting The American Deposit Management Company, Brown was co-founder of First Wisconsin Bank & Trust Company, Brookfield, WI. In her role, Brown led the efforts of building the fastest growing bank in Wisconsin's history, which sold for a premium in 2008.
As Senior Vice-President, Brown was directly involved in the vision, strategic planning, oversight and investment for Treasury Management and Marketing. She cultivated strategic, creative partnerships and alliances with the public and private sector, and was responsible for programmatic vision that guided the bank to drive deposits and customer relationships. In addition, she was responsible for negotiations, and all client and public relations for the bank.
Brown has more than 20 years of experience in senior management and leadership positions in local, regional, and national banks. In her banking career, Brown has worked in several divisions including commercial lending, private banking, retail banking, and treasury management. Along with her executive leadership skills, Brown has a sought after expertise in the management of sales and sales teams in the financial services industry.
Brown graduated Cum Laude with her B.S. in management and M.S. in organizational behavior/leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. She is an adjunct professor at Carroll University in the professional and graduate studies division and Waukesha County Technical College in the management and marketing division. In addition to her classroom instruction, Brown has performed numerous speaking engagements discussing organizational behavior, conflict management, and managing change to groups such as the Independent Physicians Association, Minnesota Treasury Management Association, and the Midwest Business Expo. She is on several local boards and has been active in organizations such as Junior Achievement, Stillwater's, United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) and TEMPO Envision. She was recently named as a trustee for Cardinal Stritch University. Brown was strategic to bringing female leadership events to Milwaukee and has been an outspoken advocate in the advancement of women in business.
Brown is a native of Michigan and has lived in southeast Wisconsin for more than 15 years. She is a concert violinist and has a passion for economics and government. She enjoys spending time with her family on Okauchee Lake, Wisconsin, and enjoys many outdoor activities such as running, fishing, boating, and golf.
October 9, 2013
John Cary has held the position of Executive Director of the MACC Fund since 1982. During his tenure, yearly income has grown from $250,000 to $3,800,000. Prior to coming to the MACC Fund, Cary was the Special Events Manager for Harnischfeger Corporation.
A graduate of Marquette University as a broadcasting major, Cary has continued his involvement with his alma mater. He has served on the Alumni Board and is involved with Marquette High School as well.
A highlight of his involvement with Marquette University came in 1991 when Cary received the Alumnus of the Year Award by the University's College of Speech. In 2004, he received the Spirit of St. Ignatius Award from Marquette High School. In 2006, he received the Alumnus of the Year Award from Marquette University's Alpha Sigma Nu, the national Jesuit honor society. In 2007, John was inducted as a Friend of Basketball in the Wisconsin Basketball Coach's Hall of Fame.
Cary's community activities include serving on the Board of the Weyenburg Library Foundation in Mequon, Wisconsin, as well as a past member of the Board of St. Michael Hospital in Milwaukee. Cary also was Chairman of the $7 million Annual Catholic Stewardship Appeal of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Chapter from 1996-1999.
He and his wife of 34 years, Mary, have six children and two grandchildren. Countless other youngsters over the years, at both the Midwest Children's Cancer Center in Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison, have been grateful for the fatherly guidance and compassion Cary demonstrates each day as the MACC Fund's Executive Director.
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The NAEP writing framework and specifications document guides the item development efforts. Items are written by NAEP item development staff, kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade teachers, and postsecondary teachers around the country. All assessment materials are reviewed by the Writing Standing Committee (see the current committee members), as well as other specialists in writing education and assessment development. The cognitive items are assembled into 25- and 50-minute blocks, each consisting of a single writing prompt. Students are administered either two 25-minute blocks or one 50-minute block. The 50-minute blocks are given at grades 8 and 12 only. The blocks are designed to measure students' abilities in one of three purposes for writing:
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